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Today’s edition of quick hits.
* A lawsuit worth watching closely: “Just after a federal judge in Oregon blocked the Trump administration’s troop deployment to that state, Illinois officials are seeking relief in their state from what they called the administration’s ‘patently unlawful’ deployment.”
* On a related note, ICE agents are making Chicago less safe, not more: “Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.”
* SCOTUS news: “The Supreme Court declined to review Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal, in a rejection that could keep the sex trafficker locked up for another decade if President Donald Trump doesn’t grant her clemency. Monday’s denial, which was the most likely outcome of Maxwell’s petition, follows an appeals court ruling that upheld her 2021 conviction in New York for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors.”
* The latest from Ukraine: “Russia attacked towns and cities across Ukraine before dawn on Sunday in another deadly large-scale missile and drone bombardment that the authorities said was aimed in large part at crippling the nation’s energy grid. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that about 500 Russian attack drones and 50 missiles were launched overnight. Drones continued to swarm Ukrainian skies throughout the morning and early afternoon on Sunday.”
* I wish we knew for sure whether this was actually going to happen: “President Donald Trump said Monday that all medium- and heavy-duty trucks imported into the United States will face a 25% tariff rate starting November 1, a significant escalation of his effort to protect U.S. companies from foreign competition.”
* Important resignations: “Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, appearing to yield to pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.”
* Beach’s name appears likely to come up again: “Gentry Beach, a college friend of the president’s firstborn, has left a trail of confusion abroad as he courts foreign officials and business leaders to lock up investments in mining, oil pipelines and real estate.”
* Noted without comment: “Paramount Skydance announced Monday that it has acquired The Free Press, a digital media outlet founded by Bari Weiss, who has also been named editor-in-chief of CBS News.”
See you tomorrow.