apnews.com/article/ice-... to open national call center to find unaccompanied migrant children. ICE said it has an “immediate need” to establish a 24/7 call center in Nashville, TN capable of handling 6,000 -7,000 daily calls to help law enforcement with “locating unaccompanied alien children.”

apnews.com/article/infa... botulism in 10 US states linked to formula being recalled. ByHeart Inc. agreed to begin recalling 2 lots of the company’s Whole Nutrition Infant Formula. All 13 infants were hospitalized after consuming formula from two lots: 206VABP/251261P2 and 206VABP/251131P2.

apnews.com/article/mlb-... pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz charged with taking bribes to rig pitches for bettors

apnews.com/article/than... airlines' daily cancellations top 2,000 for first time since shutdown cuts began

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about. More than 70% of people in immigration custody have no criminal past. Also, centers for children have been packed since Trump took office.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The UC Irvine study checked 500 children ~10 years old. The tests showed a “clear association” between poorer lung function & the distance from which people lived from the lake. Those living closer to the lake showed wheezing & other respiratory conditions.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Power will be cut for between eight and 16 hours across most regions of Ukraine on Sunday, state transmission system operator Ukrenergo has said, after Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure reduced the country’s generating capacity to “zero”.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The study found only 26% of Canadians intend to take a US vacation this winter, down from 41% last year, and of those 61 and older, only one in 10 plan to visit, compared to one in three a year ago.

Dozens of earthquakes as strong as 3.8 rattle East Bay; swarm could continue for days. The earthquakes have occurred on the northern end of the Calaveras Fault, which is east of the Hayward Fault. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Trump administration demands states 'undo' full SNAP payouts as states warn of 'catastrophic impact'. It was unclear if the directive applies to states that used their own funds to keep the program alive or to ones relying on federal money entirely. www.sfchronicle.com/news/politic...

"This is not how a representative government works," @AdamSerwer writes. Trump is using the federal government "to extort political opponents or reward political allies": www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This shutdown is a reminder that “an executive branch unbound by Congress or the courts has a unique ability to inflict and prolong pain on the people,” @DavidAGraham argues. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

apnews.com/article/leo-... the 6-months mark, Pope Leo finds his footing and starts charting his own path and style.

apnews.com/article/anci... roads once led to Rome & stretched 50% longer than previously known. The data and an interactive digital map are also available online for scholars, history teachers or anyone with an interest in ancient Roman history.

apnews.com/article/colo... guerrillas are taking Colombia's children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them.

apnews.com/article/mout... people tape their mouths shut at night. Doctors wish they wouldn't. The safest approach is to figure out why exactly you are breathing with your mouth, because there could be something else going on.

apnews.com/article/indi... cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house in Indianapolis suburb.

apnews.com/article/ups-... & FedEx grounding MD-11 planes following deadly Kentucky crash. UPS: Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our employees & the communities we serve. FedEx will ground the aircrafts while it conducts a thorough safety review based on manufacturer recommendation

Steve is leading everyone to the pub for after work drinks. It's been a long week.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Students, faculty & staff at >100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump assault on higher education – the 1st in a series of nationwide, coordinated protests. This is the 1st time that students, faculty & staff have staged such a large-scale response.

apnews.com/article/snap... After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Jackson ordered a pause of the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause.

SNAP benefits: Here’s how to get or give support in the Bay Area sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/s...

Nancy Pelosi’s last win: Walking out the door instead of being carried sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/n...

narf.org/tribal-water... The most pressing water issue in Oklahoma is lack of access to safe drinking water. Many groundwater aquifers are depleted by commercial wells & contaminated by industrial operations. These issues are especially prevalent for the 38 Tribal Nations in Oklahoma.

Many parenting books and articles advise “It takes a village” and “Don’t be afraid to ask for help.” The problem is, @OlgaKhazan writes, “I didn’t have a village,” and many other moms don’t either: www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

Many people who work in health and science are fighting against the Trump administration's politicalization of those issues. Others are running for office. @katherinejwu reports: www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

"To conclude that Democrats have solved their electoral difficulties, or have even begun to, would be a mistake," @MarcNovicoff writes. "They are still in deep trouble": www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

apnews.com/article/auto... are more than 100 autoimmune diseases, and they mostly strike women. They’re chronic diseases that can range from mild to life-threatening, more than 100 with different names depending on how and where they do damage. Here's what to know.

apnews.com/article/miss... monkey on the loose after Mississippi highway crash is captured after being spotted by resident.

apnews.com/article/blac... in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the 'working man'. Some angry retired miners with black lung are fighting back, demanding that President Donald Trump honor promises he made to the people who voted him in.

apnews.com/article/trum... Republicans voted to reject legislation that would have put a check on President Trump’s ability to launch an attack against Venezuela, as Democrats pressed Congress to take a stronger role in Trump’s high-stakes campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

apnews.com/article/gove... consider prolonging the shutdown as Republicans prepare new bills without health care fix

apnews.com/article/halo... are working to fix Alaska Native villages devastated by flooding. But will residents return? “Every fall, we have a flood. …The climate warming is increasing the storms and they’re just getting worse and worse.”

apnews.com/article/faa-... are the airports that will reduce flights during the government shutdown.

apnews.com/article/snap... administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order

‘Navy has broken the trust’: Shipyard residents wary after report of airborne plutonium. Some are rethinking their commitment to the neighborhood following news the Navy detected airborne radioactive material but did not disclose it for close to a year. www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

These three are definitely trouble.

apnews.com/article/stol... seat taken? Thieves busted for stealing restaurant chairs in Spain. Spanish police have busted a criminal group dedicated to stealing >1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants & bars in Madrid & another nearby municipality in just 2 months.

apnews.com/article/las-... largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas. The all-electric vehicles are equipped w/shotguns, shields & ladders & additional battery capacity to handle the demands of a police dept. The Las Vegas police Cybertrucks don’t have any kind of self-driving feature.

apnews.com/article/arti... site in Alaska that casts light on early Yup'ik life ravaged by ex-Typhoon Halong. Typhoon Halong devoured dozens of feet of shoreline, disrupting a culturally significant archaeological site and washing away possibly thousands of unearthed artifacts.

apnews.com/article/flor... to reopen bay nationally known for its oysters. North Florida’s Apalachicola Bay will reopen for wild oyster harvesting, a move that supporters hope will breathe life into one of the last historic working waterfronts in the state.

apnews.com/article/cens... scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump administration

apnews.com/article/trum... may become the face of economic discontent, a year after such worries helped him win big.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Evidence that the site was reoccupied had been detected in the past, but in the rush to access Pompeii’s colourful frescoes and still-intact homes, the faint traces of the site’s reoccupation were literally removed and often swept away without any documentation