U.S. airports reported more than 20 incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, in the latest sign of the government shutdown’s impact. Some 13,000 air traffic controllers and about 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers must work even if they are not being paid during the shutdown, which started on October 1 as lawmakers deadlocked over the federal budget. The Trump administration has warned that flight disruptions will increase as controllers miss their first full paycheck on Tuesday. The Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday had 22 “triggers” that indicated shortages of air traffic controllers, Duffy told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” program. He called that figure “one of the highest that we’ve seen in the system” since October 1. “That’s a sign that the controllers are wearing thin,” Duffy said. The state of air safety has been closely watched for signs of an increase in delays or cancellations, as observers look for anything that shows the shutdown is making life harder for Americans, which in turn could pressure lawmakers to break the deadlock. According to FlightAware, a flight tracking website, there were more than 5,300 U.S. flight delays on Saturday and more than 2,500 by 12 p.m. ET on Sunday. Delays have often been above average since the shutdown began. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. With no end in sight for the federal shutdown, Duffy predicted more traffic controller shortages that would lead to more flight delays and cancellations over the next few days. The FAA said air traffic control staffing issues had already been reported on Sunday for Chicago and Newark flights. The agency issued a ground stop at Los Angeles International Airport due to traffic controller staffing shortages at around 11:30 a.m. ET (1530 GMT). By noon ET on Sunday, the agency had recorded shortfalls in air traffic controllers at six U.S. airports. Air traffic controllers received a paycheck two weeks ago at 90% of their regular pay. But Tuesday’s payday would have been for their first pay period solely for work in October. Controllers facing the prospect of missing a federal paycheck are looking for other sources of income, Duffy said. “They’re taking second jobs, they’re out there looking,” he said. The FAA is about 3,500 air traffic controllers short of targeted staffing levels and many had been working mandatory overtime and six-day weeks even before the shutdown. In 2019, during a 35-day shutdown, the number of absences by controllers and TSA officers rose as workers missed paychecks, extending wait times at some airport check points. Authorities were forced to slow air traffic in New York and Washington. Duffy and other Republicans have criticized Democrats for opposing a “clean” short-term funding bill with no strings attached. (Reporting by Idrees Ali and David Shepardson; Editing by Sergio Non and Nia Williams)

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A tiny kitten was rescued from under a shed. In just a few days, he was eager to meet other cats and take on the world. BokbokCelineGood Samaritans were stopped in their tracks by the piercing cries of a kitten. Determined to find the source, they followed the sound all the way to a shed.Hidden in the shadows underneath was a kitten about three weeks old, crying at the top of his lungs. As they carefully pulled him to safety, they noticed wounds on his neck that looked like bite marks.With no mother in sight, they reached out to local rescuers to give the little one a fighting chance. CelineVolunteers at Chatons Orphelins Montreal immediately stepped in and secured a foster home that very same day. "We named him Bokbok (he looked like a little chick with his shaved neck)," Celine from the rescue shared. "He devoured his food from a syringe. He was absolutely starving."His wounds, which had become infected, were treated right away, and he began receiving daily care to help him heal. CelineHis foster mom syringe-fed him every few hours to build up his strength. His appetite was voracious. After just one day in foster care, he gained an impressive 40 grams, a huge leap for such a tiny body.Within a few days, his wounds began to close, and he started eating from a dish on his own. CelineTo make sure Bokbok never missed a meal, his foster mom took him everywhere in his "private chariot." If his food was even a second too late, he made sure everyone knew it—loud and clear.Once his belly was full, he would snuggle up with a soft, plush toy, a stand-in cuddle buddy that became part of his daily routine. CelineAs Bokbok grew stronger, his curiosity bloomed. He loved car rides with his foster mom, wide-eyed and alert as he took in every new scent, sound, and sight. Tiny as he was, he was bold and adventurous."He's been a lively little guy since the day he arrived. He's a fighter, lucky to be alive given the condition he was in and the fact that he had no mother." CelineFascinated by the world around him, he would scramble to the top of his carrier like a pint-sized prince surveying his kingdom. He carried himself with the confidence of a cat three times his size."He goes everywhere with his foster mom in his carrier and is endlessly curious about everything happening around him." CelineDespite being the smallest member of the household, Bokbok was determined to be part of the action. He quickly gravitated toward the resident cats, trailing behind them and trying to join in their daily escapades.The older cats welcomed him, especially the senior, who took him under her wing. Completely fearless, Bokbok treated the bigger cats as equals. CelineThese days, the little guy can often be found basking in the sunlight by the window, curled up beside the nurturing senior cat. He makes biscuits on her fur, purring contentedly before drifting off into a deep slumber.Though they never found his mom, Bokbok now has a "grandma cat" to keep him company and a foster mom who adores him dearly. CelineOnce a fragile kitten hidden under a shed, Bokbok has blossomed into a bold, spirited adventurer. He's thriving and growing by leaps and bounds, thanks to the kindness of strangers and the dedication of his foster family.His personality is shining brighter every day, and he's ready to take on the world with wide eyes and a brave little heart. CelineShare this story with your friends. More on Bokbok and Chatons Orphelins Montreal on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Cat Arrives at Doorstep, Starts Delivering Kittens, Minutes After Being Inside, Her True Self Comes to Life

If this exchange between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and CBS’s Margaret Brennan is any indication, it would seem that some partisan gerrymandering is more acceptable than others. Ditto for the acceptability of talk of “rigged elections.” Watch as Jeffries justifies both as Brennan performatively questions, but ultimately waves Jeffries through: Margaret Brennan confronts Hakeem Jeffries on his use of "rigged elections" to describe off-year gerrymandering, only to offer zero pushback to his ridiculous "fair maps" response. No "Faces of Brennan" here! pic.twitter.com/0PPCe2Z04H — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 26, 2025 CBS FACE THE NATION 10/26/25 11:03 AM MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about something you said. You said Democrats – "there are no election deniers on our side of the aisle." You said that back in January. But recently you've been using the term "rigged elections" in reference the upcoming midterms. Democrats were appalled when President Trump used language like that. How do you justify using that now? Doesn't that undermine faith for voters you need to show up? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No, I've been using that term in the context of Donald Trump's unprecedented effort to gerrymander congressional maps in a partisan fashion all across the country in order to rig the midterm elections and deny the ability of the American people to actually decide who should be in the majority as it relates to the House of Representatives. The framers of the constitution were very clear. BRENNAN: You know Democrats are also going through – through gerrymandering and redistricting. JEFFRIES: No, no, no, – well, Democrats are going to push back aggressively to make sure that we have fair maps across the country, not partisan gerrymandering – BRENNAN: Well – JEFFRIES: Which Republicans have initiated in state after state after state. BRENNAN: Leader Jeffries, thank you for your time this morning. We'll be right back. Brennan deserves some modicum of credit for taking Jeffries to task over his use of “rigged elections”. It is also true that there are some on the left, unaccustomed to seeing Democrats face even a semblance of a tough question, who will watch this exchange and whine about whatever changes may have come to CBS News. But as we know, the devil is in the follow-up. With the “rigged elections” question out of the way, Brennan allowed Jeffries to breeze through with no follow up or further engagement to some responses that, quite frankly, demanded from viewers a willing and substantial suspension of disbelief. The interview concludes, quite weakly, with Jeffries making an unchallenged point about Democrat gerrymandering being an effort to bring about fair congressional maps. This is the rhetorical equivalent of saying that Joe Biden allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the country in order to secure the border. There was no constant hectoring from Brennan, no thousand faces made as was the case with that classic interview with Vice President JD Vance. After the initial question, there was only quiet deference. It’s (D)ifferent, apparently, when a Democrat defends partisan gerrymandering and what until recently used to be derided as election denialism.  

On Thursday's The Last Word show, MSNBC senior national correspondent and anti-ICE propagandist Jacob Soboroff repeated several pieces of misinformation over the 2018 separation of illegal immigrant families as he complained about the Trump administration recently deporting some of the families who used to be separated. Filling in for regular host Lawrence O'Donnell, Soboroff misleadingly recalled that during the first Trump administration, migrant children were put in cages, and used a discredited photograph of a child crying as if she had been separated from her parents even though she was not. He even played a clip of himself from 2018 predicting that Trump would cause more babies to die in the desert even though it was during the Biden administration that record numbers of migrants died in the desert while Trump's deterrence policy has caused deaths to plummet since January. After beginning the segment by complaining that President Donald Trump is still trying to get court approval to hold "migrants" as detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Soboroff segued by reaching back to the past: "It comes as the ACLU is standing up to Donald Trump once again over the victims of Trump's cruelest first-term policy -- taking children and babies from their parents and detaining them in cages." He then played a clip of himself from June 19, 2018, speaking with O'Donnell about what he had seen on the border. Soboroff had related: Inside this building that we're standing in front of, 1100 kids have been separated from their parents that was inside the building, and there are babies sitting by themselves in a cage with other babies. ... Where are they going to put those babies when their parents are picked up and sent into a federal prison or a local jail and then deported, and then they never come back? He then predicted: You want to know what happens next? The babies don't end up making it into a facility like this: The parents that normally would come with those babies don't show up to declare asylum -- they decide to run from the border patrol instead. And the next chapter in this story is we're going to be seeing pictures of dead babies in the Arizona desert and in the south Texas brush. That's what happens when you put deterrence in place, and that's what's going to happen next in this story. You're going to have babies dying coming into the United States because families are afraid to seek asylum because they don't want those babies to end up in tender age shelters. But it was during the Biden administration that there were record numbers of bodies being recovered on the border when President Joe Biden was trying to make it easier for asylum seekers to enter. It was also not noted that it was the Barack Obama administration that constructed cage-like structures, as explained later by Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, because it was the safest way they could detain tremendous numbers of migrants so that border agents could see that women and children were not being abused by other detainees. And, needless to say, Soboroff did not remind viewers that it was those who brought their children across the border illegally who were separated from their children, complying with federal law demanding that all illegal aliens be detained while it was deemed by court ruling to be illegal to hold children in the same facilities with their parents. He then showed excerpts of an online article from LAist which displayed an infamous image of a child crying on the border in 2018 which was used at the time as alleged evidence of children being made to suffer from family separation even though it turned out she was not separated from her parents. But that hasn't kept some in the liberal media from misleadingly exploiting the image anyway. Soboroff went on to speak with the ACLU's Lee Gelernt about his efforts to stop the Trump administration from deporting families who had been reunited and allowed to remain during the Biden administration. Transcript of relevant portion follows: MSNBC's The Last Word October 23, 2025 JACOB SOBOROFF, FILL-IN HOST: It comes as the ACLU is standing up to Donald Trump once again over the victims of Trump's cruelest first-term policy -- taking children and babies from their parents and detaining them in cages. LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, MSNBC HOST (from the June 19, 2018, The Last Word): Jacob, you've been reporting on the border for years now. I want to know if you've picked up any clues that were sounding like there's something out there called a "tender age shelter"? SOBOROFF: I mean, Chris (Hayes) just hit the nail on the head, Lawrence. Inside this building that we're standing in front of, 1100 kids have been separated from their parents that was inside the building, and there are babies sitting by themselves in a cage with other babies. Where are those babies going to go? Where are they going to put those babies when their parents are picked up and sent into a federal prison or a local jail and then deported, and then they never come back? You want to know what happens next? The babies don't end up making it into a facility like this: The parents that normally would come with those babies don't show up to declare asylum -- they decide to run from the border patrol instead. And the next chapter in this story is we're going to be seeing pictures of dead babies in the Arizona desert and in the south Texas brush. That's what happens when you put deterrence in place, and that's what's going to happen next in this story. You're going to have babies dying coming into the United States because families are afraid to seek asylum because they don't want those babies to end up in tender age shelters. SOBOROFF (live): That was in 2018, and this is a case that is still going on today. LAist has this report on what happened next: Seven years ago, the first Trump administration triggered a global condemnation when news broke that it was forcibly separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico Border. The outcry led the administration to shutter the program, but thousands of families remained shattered. A class-action lawsuit followed, and the Biden administration later settled the case. In the settlement agreement, the federal government promised to repair some of the damage by reuniting the families in the U.S. and providing them with a path to asylum. Now, the second Trump administration is quietly abandoning that promise, putting thousands of once-separated families at risk of being split up a second time. At least four families have been deported already. That's according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the original lawsuit known as Ms. L. v. ICE, on behalf of separated families. The ACLU filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday asking for the recently deported families to be returned to the U.S., alleging that at least one of the deportations violated an explicit court order. That lawsuit details some of the horrific stories that these families have been through.

The incoming equipment for U.S. military members is so advanced that it not only looks like a video game but seems like the user is cheating.The standard helmet for the Army has remained largely the same in the last few decades, save for key updates in blunt force protection. While there may have been additions that allow for microphones and night-vision attachments, nothing has even come close to what is on the horizon.'Think of it almost like a hive mind.'Leaning more toward what a fighter pilot's helmet is capable of, the new Eagle Eye warfighter helmet from Anduril Industries uses technology that is pretty hard to explain.The company recently released a stunning display that looks like the first-person view of a video game. Providing a directional map in the bottom corner of the soldier's view, the optics are immediately recognizable to anyone who has played a video game of that genre; a young man in the Army probably has.A heads-up display reveals nearby enemies with a red blip, and the soldier digitally selects a tactical strike with a drone on an encroaching vehicle in seconds, all while chatting with other soldiers on his team.The new helmets make this possible by using a "hive mind" technology that connects soldiers on the battlefield with drones, cameras, surveillance, and their squad mates on the ground; the results are fairly shocking.RELATED: 'Insane radical leftists' are gone: Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey reunite for US military project — (@) "The ability to have night vision, thermal vision, but also the ability to see where all the bad guys are, see where all the good guys are by fusing everyone's view together. Think of it almost like a hive mind," inventor Palmer Luckey recently told Joe Rogan."If I'm able to see something, you should be able to see it. If a drone can see it, you should be able to see it. Even if it's on the other side of a building, you should be able to see it and effectively have X-ray vision. And I should be able to command and control all these other systems using this heads-up display interface," Luckey continued.Using "intelligence sensors," the Eagle Eye helmets can detect cellphone signals, radio signals, and even where gunshots were fired, revealing their distance from the soldier.The Anduril CEO showed Rogan that with a pair of connected augmented reality glasses, the soldier can see all the data being captured by the helmet and show it in real time to the user. This, in conjunction with any drones, cameras, or other soldiers wearing the tech, combine to form a network of data that Anduril says gives America the advantage in an "unfair fight."What this results in is the soldier being able to see everything at once, effectively seeing through walls or over hills; if anyone or anything on his team can see it, so can the individual.Luckey showed off a sample video where a soldier could use the X-ray vision to track his allies through a sea can while engaging enemies, displaying them as skeletal-like figures. Once the allies saw the enemy, the user could see them through a wall too.RELATED: You can now buy a real-life Jetsons vehicle for the same price as a luxury car Additionally, the helmets not only have thermal sensors, night-vision censors, and hearing protection, they also have sound amplification. Tactical technology allows the wearer to hone in on sounds coming from a certain direction, while canceling out noise from other directions to better focus on the target.Anduril boasts that it used no taxpayer dollars to create Eagle Eye and is certainly pushing advanced military technology in the right direction.The advancements come at the same time the company has revealed its anti-drone technology, in the form of a mobile kit for soldiers on the ground. Drone strikes have become an often-used instant-casualty tactic in the Russia-Ukraine war and are a constant threat for those operating without cover.These products show that Luckey has put a very real focus on protecting the individual American fighter in attempt to prevent loss of life.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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