JUST IN: The DOJ Civil Rights Division and the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights entered a university-wide Title VI settlement with UNC Chapel Hill to end antisemitism and race discrimination. UNC must name a "Merit & Civil Rights Administrator" within 30 days; the deal runs through Dec. 31, 2028.

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August 2024: the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to partially lift injunctions blocking its Title IX rules. The justices refused. Less than eight months later the Trump administration asked the same nine justices to undo an order forcing the Department of Education to keep funding terminated grants — and won. Same agency, same emergency docket, opposite outcomes. What changed?

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JUST IN: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a state arrest warrant for former Cuban leader Raul Castro, charged with one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder over the 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue civilian planes that killed four.

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JUST IN: The DOJ has sent grand jury subpoenas to Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner's office, sources tell Fox News. The move follows U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond's referral of Krasner and deputy Matthew Stiegler over potential obstruction of justice.

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JUST IN: DOJ and the FBI report Operation Not Forgotten 2026 produced 118 arrests, 41 people charged federally, 25 child victims identified or located and 72 weapons recovered in Indian country from April 1 to Sept. 30. FBI Director Kash Patel said arrests rose 123% over last year's operation.

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BREAKING: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told workers at Riverside Machine and Engineering in Eau Claire, Wisconsin that "under President Trump, it truly is a golden age of American manufacturing, where supply chains are coming home," according to a War Department release.

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An illegal alien was sentenced to 36 months in prison for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department said. Roberto Castillo-Leal, 43, presented a real citizen's passport, birth certificate and Social Security card to block his removal.

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JUST IN: Russia released American teacher Stephen Hubbard, who was serving a seven-year sentence on mercenary charges, after a meeting between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin, The Hill reports. Trump said on Truth Social there was "no 'swap' necessary for this release."

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JUST IN: Vice President JD Vance is set to announce that the White House anti-fraud task force he leads has identified $40 million in SNAP fraud and more than 40 suspects, Fox News Digital reports, citing a source familiar with the charges.

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JUST IN: The Supreme Court declined to pause a federal judge's order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing its new policy ending hormone therapy and "social accommodations" for transgender inmates. Justices Alito and Thomas indicated they would have granted the administration's request.

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Two federal fentanyl sentences, both announced by DOJ on Oct. 21.

Alaska: Christian Rodgers, over 14 years for conspiring to traffic more than four kilograms of fentanyl.

West Virginia: Alphonzo Baker, 15 years and 8 months for three sales of 40 grams or more.

Same drug, two districts. What explains the gap?

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The Supreme Court will hear argument Dec. 9 in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., reviewing the Trump administration's policy of removing migrants to third countries where they have no ties, according to the court's December argument calendar.

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JUST IN: The Justice Department charged Virginia state Sen. Lillie Louise Lucas, 82, in an eight-count indictment alleging racketeering conspiracy, marijuana distribution, money laundering and honest services fraud. Six others were charged, including two of her daughters and her grandson.

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JUST IN: President Trump signed a proclamation on Oct. 22 adjusting imports of wind turbines and their parts into the United States under Section 232, following a Commerce Department investigation into the national security effects of those imports.

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Daniel Ott, 41, former assistant principal of a Missouri middle school, was indicted in federal court in St. Louis on one count of receiving child sexual abuse material and pleaded not guilty, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said. The charge carries five to 20 years.

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JUST IN: Two former FBI officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, were charged Friday with lying to Congress about the bureau's Hunter Biden investigations, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and FBI Director Kash Patel announced. Each faces one count of making false statements.

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JUST IN: The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that illegal immigrants can be held in detention without bond hearings. "The Constitution does not entitle them to a bond hearing," the majority wrote. The Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 1 to decide the question.

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Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 255 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from Oct. 16 through Oct. 22, U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons announced. One man charged with illegal re-entry had been removed from the U.S. seven times and has prior convictions for sex battery and burglary.

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D'Aundrey Scott, 32, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a May 2020 arson spree that killed 62-year-old Darryl Finney, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced. Scott pleaded guilty in August to second-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, arson and felony destruction of property.

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JUST IN: Texans are voting early at higher rates than in the 2022 midterms, The Washington Times reports from the trail. Attorney General Ken Paxton trails Democrat James Talarico by roughly 2 points in recent polls, and President Trump returns to Texas on Tuesday to campaign for Paxton.

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