Friday, October 16, 2026 · Evening Edition

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By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. Attorneys say the Trump administration has put migrant children on what they call a "deportation assembly line", while a DOJ official insisted every case was decided in accordance with applicable law. In the field that machinery runs people down: an ICE agent struck a man with an SUV while pursuing Jose Parra Hernández — a man his family says has been dead since 2017 — and a rights group is demanding ICE "come clean" and release the bodycam video.

In the West Bank, Israeli settlers brutally attacked Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine on October 16 as she photographed Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives; she was carried on a stretcher into an ambulance.

The administration's own house is in disarray. Press secretary Katie Zacharia — reportedly chosen after Trump saw her on television — lasted five days, a record for the shortest tenure in the role. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former ambassador to Greece, now faces a defamation lawsuit from donor Eric Deters, who says she pressured him to pay her $100,000 American Express bill in exchange for White House access. A federal appeals panel appeared unconvinced by the Justice Department's claim that Trump personally owns his presidential records.

The opposition is organizing against it. In Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry halted an election mid-vote, a move strategist James Carville predicts will bring a reckoning. In Kansas, Senate President Ty Masterson accused Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cindy Holscher and her daughter of TikTok "witchcraft." In Texas, party chair Kendall Scudder says Democrats have recruited more than 1,000 precinct chairs and are better organized than in 2018 — even as billionaire Elon Musk bankrolls the GOP against Democrat James Talarico and Trump works the midterm rally circuit with claims drawing fact-checks.