Latest News Digest - November 10, 2025
- Elisa Ballard
- Nov 10, 2025
- 4 min read
National News
Compromise Bill May End U.S. Government Shutdown Soon. The U.S. federal government shutdown, which began on October 1, 2025, and became the longest in history at 40 days by November 9, is on the verge of ending following a bipartisan breakthrough in the Senate. On November 9, eight Democratic and Independent senators broke ranks with their party to vote alongside Republicans, advancing a House-passed short-term funding measure that cleared a key procedural hurdle late Sunday night. The compromise bill, a continuing resolution (CR), would extend government funding at pre-shutdown levels through January 30, 2026, while reinstating fired federal workers, guaranteeing retroactive back pay for all affected employees (including those who worked without pay), and preventing further layoffs until then. In exchange, Democrats secured a commitment from the Trump administration to rehire terminated workers and a promise of a Senate floor vote in December on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, which had been a major sticking point in negotiations. – CBS News; NPR.org
BBC Apologizes to the Public for Misleading Edit of President Trump’s Speech on January 6, 2021. President Trump demanded a retraction and is threatening legal action against the BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) for the outlet’s deceptive cut of his January 6th speech. The scandal has led to the resignations of director-general Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness. - CNN
Federal Judge Warns of "Existential Threat" from Trump Administration. On November 9, 2025, Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf published an essay in The Atlantic, cautioning that the Trump administration poses an "existential threat to democracy" through actions like partisan interference in government communications, including inserting political language into federal workers' out-of-office email replies, which a judge ruled as overreach. – Yahoo.com
DHS Adopts Advanced Surveillance Tools for Noncitizens. The Department of Homeland Security announced on November 8, 2025, the rollout of powerful new monitoring technologies, including AI-driven identification and tracking systems, to oversee noncitizens more aggressively; critics warn of privacy erosions, while supporters cite enhanced border security needs, amid heightened ICE activities. DHS will also be ramping up its social media surveillance of various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok – NPR.org
Energy Secretary Chris Wright Announces Plans to Focus on Nuclear Energy. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is working to transition the Department of Energy’s major loan-granting office away from its focus on renewable power sources and dedicate those resources to nuclear energy. – Washington Examiner
Florida Attorney General Opens Investigation into JP Morgan Chase. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on X that his department has launched an investigation into JP Morgan Chase de-banking Florida-based Trump Media Group, just before it went public. In a November 10th letter to Chase’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jamie Dimon, Uthmeier, expressed concerns that the Biden Administration was pursuing its political adversaries through an operation code-named “Arctic Frost” and was spying on them using subpoenas for sensitive banking information and other communications. Special Council Jack Smith, appointed under the Biden administration to look into January 6, 2021 Capitol attack and alleged mishandling of classified documents by then former President Trump, was secretly subpoenaing a long list of approximately 400 people and organizations that were linked to President Trump. Trump Media became a public company in 2024, years after the events that Jack Smith’s investigation supposedly focused on. – Posts on X by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier; FLVoiceNews.com
President Trump Pardons Multiple Former Election Aides. President Trump issued pardons for 77 allies in the 2020 “fake electors’ case including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, and dozens of others who were targeted by Democrats in the government post-2020 election for efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election. X Post, Eric Daugherty, FLVoiceNews.com; New York Post
FDA Removes Black-Box Warnings from Menopause Hormone Therapies. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that “the FDA (Food and Drug Agency) will follow the science, and America’s women will finally get the care, the respect, and the honesty that they deserve.” After decades of misinformation, the FDA is removing the broad “black box” warnings that stated that hormone replacement therapy would increase the risk of dying of breast cancer because clinical trials don’t support that association. Hormone therapy is not just about symptom relief. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary stated “By a large body of evidence, there are now recognized to be profound long-term health benefits that few people – even physicians – know about.” – Fox News
California News
Governor Newsom Proclaims Veterans Day, Various Events Planned Honoring Veterans in Northern California. Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation on November 8, 2025, honoring Veterans Day on November 11 and thanking service members for their sacrifices. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Army, the Navy, and the Marines. Various events are planned honoring Veterans and can be found at KCRA News at the following link:
