Closing summary
We have reached the end of another day’s live coverage of the second Trump administration. Thanks for reading. Here are the latest developments:
One day after Donald Trump said an unnamed “friend” had just sent “a check for $130m” to be used to pay military salaries during the government shutdown, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that the defense department “accepted an anonymous donation of $130m under its general gift acceptance authority”.
A federal appeals court paused a ruling by a three-judge panel issued earlier this week that paved the way for Trump to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon.
The justice department announced that it intends to send federal observers from its civil rights division to “monitor polling sites” in five California counties and one New Jersey county during “the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election”.
The conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said that he has decided to pause the advertising campaign that drew ire from Trump, but only after it plays during World Series games over the weekend.
New York attorney general Letitia James has pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, prices continued to rise in September, increasing at an annual rate of 3%, according to a government inflation report.
The US is sending the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships to waters off Latin America and the Caribbean.
Stephen Miller defended the unannounced demolition of the entire East Wing of the White House this week by arguing that the extension built nearly 125 years ago was not really part of the White House.
Comment by Zohran Mamdani about his odds of winning used in viral ad for wagering platform Kalshi
A recent comment from Zohran Mamdani, the candidate whose odds of being New York City’s next mayor have spiked on wagering platforms, has been turned into a viral ad by one of the platforms, Kalshi.
During an appearance on the podcast Flagrant this week, Mamdani was told by the host, Andrew Schulz, that his odds of winning the mayoral race were “93% on Kalshi.”
Over an hour later, near the end of the podcast appearance, Mamdani said that someone he hadn’t spoke with since their days in high school “texted me like five days before” the primary election he won earlier in the year. The text read: “Yo bro, I just put a thousand on you. Please don’t let me down.”
The Kalshi ad clipping those two parts of the interview together has more than 5 million views on X.
Updated
