Voices, The Peoples News
October 26, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
ICE has overdue medical bills. Months of delays mean that in the interim, the agency has racked up millions in bills owed to ambulance services, hospitals and other healthcare service providers. While payments lapse, ICE facilities have delayed or denied medical care to detainees
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/ice-stopped-paying-for-detainee-medical-care-as-population-surged/
A 66-year-old woman in upstate New York charged with voting illegally — and set up as an example by the Trump administration — was adopted as a child and only recently discovered she is not a U.S. citizen, according to a criminal complaint.
https://apnews.com/article/syracuse-noncitizen-voting-arrest-charges-1e36b0d416c444f6aabfb5327adf8082
ICE detained a special needs, non-verbal student, who is a U.S. citizen, close to Santa Maria High School last Wednesday. The student was hospitalized for a wrist injury requiring surgery
https://www.independent.com/2026/10/23/ice-detains-special-needs-student-u-s-citizen-near-santa-maria-high-school/
Dozens of protestors gathered in Ogden, Utah, on Saturday after ICE detained a young couple at a traffic stop and separated them from their two-month-old child
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/24/ogden-protest-planned-utah-couple/
ICE agents arrested US citizen at gunpoint in Charlotte, NC immigration advocates say. Atilio Portillo said he has been living in the U.S. since 1988 and became a naturalized citizen in 2013.
https://ncnewsline.com/2026/10/23/ice-agents-arrested-u-s-citizen-at-gunpoint-in-charlotte-nc-immigration-advocates-say/
‘Dismantle ICE’ Says Jayapal After 60th Death in Agency Custody During Trump 2.0. “When our country detains people, we have the responsibility of ensuring both their physical and mental health—not driving them, though incredible cruelty, to commit suicide,” Jayapal said
https://www.commondreams.org/news/60th-death-ice-custody
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA / FEMA
Texas SNAP benefits are disappearing for thousands of families and Latinos are taking the biggest hit
https://latination.com/texas-snap-benefits-cuts-disproportionately-impact-latino-families/
Nearly 1 Million Chickens Slaughtered at Second-Largest Egg-Producing Farm in the U.S. amid Bird Flu Outbreak. There is no treatment available for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), so infected and exposed birds must be killed to contain the virus
https://people.com/nearly-1-million-chickens-killed-at-egg-farm-as-nation-s-largest-bird-flu-outbreak-grows-12192789
# Gov / Politics / US
Panicked phone calls fly from Trump’s corporate allies after ‘cardinal sin.’ Tech and defense companies that spent the last two years cozying up to President Donald Trump are now rushing to court Democrats, as they brace for a wave of congressional investigations if the party wins control of Congress in the midterms.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-silicon-valley/
Trump Confesses to Ordering Brazen Election Rigging Plot: President Donald Trump admitted that he personally ordered a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to block certification of the results of Alaska’s upcoming Senate election. “I’m the one that said do it,” Trump, 80, said when asked about the Department of Justice’s lawsuit filed on Thursday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-confesses-ordering-brazen-election-034113326.html
‘You’re out’: Unique legal plot hatched in case Trump meddles in election. Closing in on a week before Election Day, a lawyer is pushing state leaders to take legal action to prevent President Donald Trump from interfering in the midterms.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/2678129451/
Two FBI officials charged with lying about roles in Hunter Biden probe. Two senior Federal Bureau of Investigation officials were taken into federal custody Friday on charges of lying to Congress and criminally obstructing its investigation into the financial dealings of Hunter Biden
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/ex-fbi-officials-charged-hunter-biden-laptop
The battle between Ken Paxton and James Talarico for the Texas U.S. Senate seat has now become the most expensive non-presidential race ever tracked.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2026/10/23/paxton-vs–talarico-in-an-expensive-u-s–senate-showdown
Trump Declares He Doesn’t ‘Give A Damn’ About Gas Prices, Boasts U.S. Is ‘Making A Frickin Fortune’ From Iran War Oil Spike At Rally
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-gas-prices-as-us-making-fortune-12615894
# Global News
Brazil’s Bolsonaro refuses to concede, seeks to overturn Lula’s historic election win. For the first time since 1985, the second-highest vote getter in the first round of Brazil’s elections won the runoff.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-heads-polls-runoff-between-leftist-lula-bolsonaro-jr-2026-10-25/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations
Bombshell report flags possible crime in Trump DOJ’s Epstein ‘cover-up’: Judiciary Democrats’ report details mounting evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities and DOJ’s cover-up; specific accounts involving 11 women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes. DOJ and FBI shut down investigations and withheld evidence while claiming no basis to prosecute or even investigate any additional Epstein co-conspirators
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-report-details-mounting-evidence-linking-trump-to-epstein-s-criminal-activities-and-doj-s-cover-up-specific-accounts-involving-11-women-provide-more-evidence-of-potential-sex-crimes
# LGBTQ / Transgender
Ballot Measures Will Impact LGBTQ+ Rights in 7 States This Election. Voters will decide how trans youth can participate in school sports, access gender-affirming health care, and more.
https://truthout.org/articles/ballot-measures-will-impact-lgbtq-rights-in-7-states-this-election/
# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Programs
Tennessee Senate Bill 1949 (SB1949), known as the “mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act,” was introduced by Republican Senator Janice Bowling during the 114th General Assembly to classify mRNA COVID-19 and related products as weapons of mass destruction
https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/SB1949.pdf
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