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Democrats rebuke federal raid of Ilhan Omar’s home: ‘rogue abuse of power’

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Top House Democrats question the ‘corrupt weaponization’ of federal government against Trump’s adversaries Ilhan Omar ’s Democratic colleagues have condemned federal agents’ search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home on Monday morning, describing it as “deeply disturbing” and emblematic of the Trump administration ’s “corrupt weaponization” of the US government. House Democratic leaders, including minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, party whip Katherine Clark and caucus chair Pete Aguilar, issued a joint statement excoriating the president for the search.

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USNBC News

Judge tears into Trump administration for felling trees in D.C. golf course redesign without advance notice

A federal judge on Monday ripped the Trump administration for “inexcusable” gamesmanship after it removed hundreds of trees from a public golf course that the president said he wants to turn into “one of the greatest golf courses anywhere in the world” — a renovation plan being challenged in court. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said lawyers for the government had assured her it would give her ample warning if it planned any “irreversible” actions at the East Potomac Golf Links, only to chop down over 400 trees on the course over the holiday weekend without proper notice.

USCBS News

Selma Blair arrested after allegedly biting flight attendant

Actress Selma Blair has been arrested after an incident on board a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday night. Two flight attendants reported injures and one was taken to the hospital after the incident, according to the Port Authority Police. One of the flight attendants was bitten and the other sustained a laceration, according to a law enforcement source. It happened at 11 p.m. on board Delta Air Lines Flight 938. The flight crew needed to restrain her, a law enforcement source said.

USNBC News

A sixth measles-related death is reported in Pennsylvania

A sixth measles-related death was reported Monday in Pennsylvania, involving a 39-year-old woman in Franklin County, amid the state’s largest outbreak in three decades. In a statement, the county’s coroner office said the woman had underlying medical conditions, though it did not provide specifics. A spokesperson for the Franklin County coroner’s office said the “primary cause of death was a probable acute cardiac event due to possible complications of the measles.”

USABC News

Flash-flood risk lingers across the Southwest after Rachel’s remnants swamped Nevada

Forecasters issued flood watches Monday and warned more rain and isolated thunderstorms could hit the Southwest after the remnants of tropical storm Rachel caused severe flooding in Las Vegas over the weekend. Las Vegas tied an all-time daily rainfall record for the month of October after receiving 1.08 inches of rain into Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service. The last time that much rain fell on the city in one October day was in 1947. Videos posted on social media showed a torrent of water rushing through a street near the Las Vegas Strip, with a Ferris wheel and casinos in the background.