The half-sister of Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wrote in 2016 that federal agents had searched the home she shared with their mother, the Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/fbi-raided-home-of-el-sayeds-mother-senate-candidates-sister-wrote-in-unearthed-article/">reported</a> Saturday.
Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor, made the remark in an <a href="https://shadowproof.com/2016/06/17/queer-muslim-unwelcome-new-stonewall/">essay</a> about a New York vigil for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. She recalled the FBI raiding mosques, Muslim charities and homes — “including my own.” The essay did not say when the search occurred.
Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), a Missouri-based charity, from 1999 through at least 2004, according to court records the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-for-terror-group-that-funded-bin-laden-and-taliban">previously reported</a>. Federal agents raided the charity’s offices in October 2004, the same month the Treasury Department designated its global network as a terrorism supporter, citing financial support for Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Hamas.
Elkomy was never charged. Exhibits in the government’s later prosecution <a href="https://www.nrsc.org/press-releases/the-midwesterner-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-for-designated-terror-group-iara-that-provided-direct-financial-support-to-osama-bin-laden-taliban-hamas-2026-08-18/">referenced</a> her more than a dozen times, including her role in wire transfers and a request to send more than $24,000 to the charity’s Iraq office. The charity’s executive director and a board member later pleaded guilty to illegally moving money to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions, and IARA itself admitted in 2016 to funneling roughly $1.4 million there.
In a separate 2024 <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/tweet-chicago-protesters-ready-harris-fbi-palestinian">essay</a>, Abdelhadi wrote that as a teenager she watched her mother sort through the family’s belongings for anything that might be misread during a raid, and that her mother periodically fielded calls from the FBI.
The disclosure comes days after El-Sayed, during Wednesday’s final debate against Republican Mike Rogers, <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/national-politics/america-votes/wxyz-tv-to-host-u-s-senate-debate-between-mike-rogers-and-abdul-el-sayed">suggested</a> the attacks stemmed from his mother being “a nurse in Missouri.” Rogers has pressed El-Sayed on both the IARA employment and Abdelhadi’s 2012 social media posts describing their mother’s activism in the Muslim Brotherhood as a college student in Egypt during the 1970s.
El-Sayed has denied that he or his family have any ties to the Brotherhood, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigans-el-sayed-cornered-by-liberal-outlet-over-muslim-brotherhood-then-lashes-out">told</a> NBC News he had never discussed the subject with his mother. He has said his parents divorced when he was 3 and that he was raised by his father and stepmother. His campaign has previously <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/25/el-sayed-mother-charity-terrorism/">said</a> Elkomy’s work at the charity involved helping orphaned children.
El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.

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A fire tore through the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat built for Adolf Hitler and known in the English-speaking world as the Eagle&#8217;s Nest — late Friday, leaving the building almost entirely gutted and a 33-year-old man under arrest on suspicion of setting it.
Emergency dispatchers in southeastern Bavaria were alerted around 9:15 p.m. local time, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-hitler-eagles-nest-berchtesgaden-alps-fire-338ec9bbec52ecf52d1c127546d01eed?taid=6adc6b23e84f6e0001704d87&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">according</a> to the AP, and roughly 200 firefighters, police officers and rescue workers were sent up the mountain above Berchtesgaden. When the first crews arrived, the entire structure was burning. Nobody was inside, and no injuries were reported.
On their way up the steep access road, officers came upon a motorcyclist heading down and took him into custody. German media <a href="https://orf.at/stories/3446050/">reported</a> that he tried to flee on the bike before being stopped.
Prosecutors in Traunstein <a href="https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3376654/">said</a> Saturday that a preliminary psychiatric evaluation indicated the suspect, a German national with ties to the area, suffers from mental illness. He was brought before an investigating judge in Rosenheim, and prosecutor Rainer Vietze <a href="https://www.tt.com/artikel/30945329/feuer-wuetete-an-hitlers-obersalzberg-kehlsteinhaus-fast-vollstaendig-zerstoert">said</a> authorities would seek his commitment to a secure forensic psychiatric facility, adding that investigators must assume his criminal responsibility was at least diminished. Officials said they would still examine whether he had a political motive.
Wind and the season&#8217;s first snowfall hampered firefighting at the 6,017-foot site, and crews withdrew for part of the night. The risk of falling debris kept them from entering the structure Saturday.
Damage is reportedly estimated in the millions. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, whose state government owns the building, said it was well insured and indicated it would be rebuilt. &#8220;We will hardly be able to leave a ruin standing there,&#8221; he told the German Press Agency on the sidelines of a party convention in Munich.
Nazi official Martin Bormann commissioned the chalet in 1937, and it was formally presented to Hitler on his 50th birthday in April 1939. Hitler, reportedly afraid of heights, made only around 14 documented visits. The building came through an Allied bombing raid on the Obersalzberg in April 1945 largely intact and has operated as a mountain restaurant since 1952, with visitors arriving by bus and an elevator bored through the rock.
The Obersalzberg Documentation Center, the area&#8217;s main Nazi-history museum farther down the mountain, was not damaged.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has turned to two veteran Washington litigators with deep ties to Democratic legal fights against President Donald Trump as federal prosecutors dig into her immigration history.
Omar is represented by Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, both partners at Hecker Fink, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/us-news/ilhan-omar-brings-on-bidens-personal-attorney-amy-jeffress/">according</a> to the New York Post. Jeffress became former President Joe Biden&#8217;s personal attorney in 2025, replacing Bob Bauer. She previously represented former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump text messages with agent Peter Strzok became a flashpoint in the Russia investigation, and did outside counsel work for the House January 6 committee.
Matz served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during both of Trump&#8217;s impeachments and has represented Brown, Columbia and New York universities in litigation against the administration. Neither lawyer&#8217;s practice centers on immigration law; both focus on constitutional disputes and government investigations.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar&#8217;s Washington home on October 12, seizing her phone, passport, computers and notebooks, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/in-new-letter-ilhan-omar-fights-back-against-home-search-47c64ee1">according</a> to The Wall Street Journal. Investigators are examining whether Omar or her late father misstated her age on naturalization paperwork, along with long-running allegations that her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a marriage to her brother. A Justice Department filing tied to the search lists Omar as &#8220;Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,&#8221; without explanation, the Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-insists-her-name-has-always-been-ilhan-omar-after-doj-filing-raises-questions?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Ilhan+Omar+Insists+Her+Name+Has+Always+Been+Ilhan+Omar+After+DOJ+Filing+Raises+Questions">reported</a>.
On October 16, Jeffress and Matz sent the Justice Department a letter demandning the return of all seized property and accusing the agents of ignoring a magistrate judge&#8217;s search protocols.
&#8220;This vindictive, retributive, and politically motivated criminal investigation into one of the President&#8217;s chief congressional critics violates Representative Omar&#8217;s constitutional rights and threatens the separation of powers,&#8221; they <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/politics/ilhan-omar-challenges-legality-search-home">wrote</a>.
Omar posted a video Tuesday begging supporters to chip in for her legal defense. Her campaign filing showed no payments to Hecker Fink or either lawyers as of the October 15 deadline, according to the Post.
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Ilhan Omar is on TikTok asking for donations after having her home raided by federal authorities: “It is going to be a very expensive and challenging time.” https://t.co/rjptexM7aI
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Trump on Thursday <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6167516-trump-demands-omar-resignation-name/">called on</a> Omar to resign immediately. Border czar Tom Homan has <a href="https://www.startribune.com/under-fire-rep-ilhan-omar-demands-return-of-seized-items-including-sisters-phone/601902327">said</a> she could face denaturalization and deportation if fraud is proven.
Omar denies wrongdoing.

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An Air Force airman died after falling from the rafters of the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, during a pregame demonstration before Saturday&#8217;s college football game between the University of Texas at San Antonio and Navy.
Nellis Air Force Base Public Affairs <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/airman-dies-utsa-rappelling-incident/">confirmed</a> Sunday that the service member, assigned to Detachment 2 of the 6th Combat Training Squadron, was hurt at the stadium and later died at a local hospital. The Air Force has not released his name, and the cause of the fall remains under investigation.
Four members of the detachment were scheduled to descend by rope from the stadium&#8217;s roughly 170-foot ceiling about 15 minutes before kickoff as part of UTSA&#8217;s annual Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans game. Video <a href="https://x.com/CoffindafferFBI/status/2111802303175094740">posted</a> to X shows one airman appearing to lose control of his descent midway down and plunging to the turf as spectators screamed.
Medical personnel and UTSA staff reached him within moments and worked on him on the field for about 10 minutes before he was carried off on a stretcher. The San Antonio Fire Department took him to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
&#8220;Everybody was quiet, the band stopped performing. Everybody was dead silent,&#8221; a witness <a href="https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/10/18/military-service-member-hospitalized-after-fall-during-rappelling-demonstration-at-utsa-football-game/">told</a> KSAT.
The detachment, which operates out of Joint Base San Antonio, screens and trains airmen for the Tactical Air Control Party career field — specialists who embed with Army and Marine ground units to direct air and artillery strikes. Roping down from helicopters hovering 100 feet or more above the ground is part of that training.
Kickoff was delayed about 10 minutes, and a moment of silence was held before the game began. UTSA beat Navy 38-34 in front of some 23,000 fans.
&#8220;We are deeply saddened by the incident that occurred at the start of tonight&#8217;s football game,&#8221; a UTSA spokesperson said. The university said it was offering wellbeing services to students, faculty and staff.
The American Conference said it consulted with both schools, Alamodome management and local authorities, and would coordinate any further updates with officials while respecting the family&#8217;s privacy.
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said she was saddened by the airman&#8217;s death and would keep his family in her prayers.
The accident comes nine months after a parachutist with a veteran jump team snagged on goalpost netting and fell into the stands before the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth. That parachutist walked away unhurt.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back at former President Barack Obama on Friday, rejecting Obama&#8217;s claim that Jews seized land from its inhabitants when they founded Israel and reopening one of the most bitter rivalries of the Obama years.
&#8220;The Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in the land of our forefathers,&#8221; Netanyahu said in a video posted on X. &#8220;Our history is not a colonial enterprise. Our land is not stolen land.&#8221;
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The Jewish people’s right to their own state in their ancestral homeland is non-negotiable.
Watch: https://t.co/uMWfObAMaJ
— Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) <a href="https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2111051808429035545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is our homeland; it&#8217;s called Judea. That&#8217;s where Jews come from. We&#8217;ve been attached to it for thousands of years,&#8221; he added.
The prime minister called the remarks &#8220;regrettable&#8221; but never named Obama. The former president made them Tuesday during a paid onstage interview with Irish journalist Susan McKay at the O2 Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, before a crowd of about 7,000, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/world-news/netanyahu-fires-back-at-obama-after-he-accuses-israel-of-stealing-palestinian-land/">according</a> to the New York Post. Hours earlier, Queen&#8217;s University Belfast had given him an honorary doctorate.
Obama granted that Jews had suffered persecution &#8220;for millennia,&#8221; much of it in Europe, and had good reason to seek refuge. Then he added: &#8220;What is also undeniable is that they took land off people and they were excessive. And those people understandably said, &#8216;This is injustice and I want my land back.'&#8221;
He also said Israel had &#8220;ceded moral ground&#8221; by leaning on its military edge instead of compromise. He said he had made that case to Netanyahu directly while in office.
Netanyahu said Israel is not the obstacle to peace. He blamed the refusal of &#8220;our enemies, and America&#8217;s enemies&#8221; to accept a Jewish state &#8220;in any boundaries.&#8221;
The exchange revives a feud that shaped both men&#8217;s time in power. In 2011, Netanyahu <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0kPX4t4BYE">lectured</a> Obama against using Israel&#8217;s pre-1967 borders as a basis for negotiations. In 2015, he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf1cdw4IAY">went before Congress</a> to argue against the nuclear agreement Obama was then negotiating with Iran. And he condemned the administration&#8217;s decision in December 2016 to let a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements pass.
The latest clash comes ten days before Israelis vote in an October 27 election widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu&#8217;s leadership.

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A federal judge born in South Korea has ordered the Trump administration to restart the diversity visa lottery, the program President Donald Trump suspended last year after a green card holder who came through it allegedly killed three people in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/redeagle-v-rubio-ruling-101426.pdf">issued a preliminary injunction</a> on Wednesday directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to hold the 2027 lottery, which offers up to 55,000 green cards a year to applicants from countries that send relatively few immigrants to the United States. Ohta, a Biden appointee, was <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/ohta-jinsook?utm_source=chatgpt.com">born in Seoul</a> in 1976 and immigrated to the U.S. at age six.
Under a revised timeline both sides requested, the State Department must announce the registration period by October 29, open online entries by November 1, keep the window open for 30 days, and notify winners by December 3. The department must then process selectees&#8217; applications until that year&#8217;s visas run out or the fiscal year ends on September 30, 2027.
The case was brought by Red Eagle Law, a California immigration firm that told the court diversity visa clients make up a large portion of its business. The firm <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/RedEagle-v-Rubio-TRO.pdf">sued</a> Rubio in August after the department failed to open registration, which normally begins each fall.
Government lawyers <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-ordered-to-reinstate-2027-green-card-lottery/">argued</a> the legal deadlines for running the 2027 lottery had already passed. Ohta, who had earlier denied the firm&#8217;s request for a temporary restraining order, rejected that position, finding that sticking to the usual timetable would mean no lottery would happen at all.
Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the pause in December after authorities identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, as the gunman who killed two students at Brown University and then murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in his home. Neves Valente, who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, obtained his green card through the lottery in 2017.
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The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country.
In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people.
At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.
— Special Envoy Kristi Noem (@EnvoyNoem) <a href="https://x.com/EnvoyNoem/status/2001873077089767435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,&#8221; Noem wrote at the time.
The State Department followed by halting issuance of diversity visas indefinitely, and in March it <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program">finalized a rule</a> requiring entrants to submit a valid passport when they enter.
Trump has sought to end the lottery since his first term, when he pressed Congress to scrap it after an Uzbek national who entered through the program killed eight people in a 2017 truck attack in New York City. Congress <a href="https://uscodeweb1.house.gov/statutes/pl/101/649.pdf">created</a> the program in 1990 and has never repealed it.
Ohta&#8217;s order comes after a federal court in a separate case <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73529774/medani-v-trump/">lifted</a> the December suspension on visa issuance in August.

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Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson drew laughter from the audience at his final debate with Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday after he admitted billionaires are funding his campaign — two days after he insisted on the debate stage that none were.
At a Tuesday <a href="https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2026/maine-us-senate-debate/686564">debate</a>, Collins went after Jackson for not yet disclosing who was paying for his candidacy. &#8220;I would point out that we have no idea who is financing Troy&#8217;s campaign,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He promised to be completely transparent, yet he has not filed a single report.&#8221;
Jackson bristled and promised to hand over the report the next morning. &#8220;Because we see yours and I know that there&#8217;s no billionaires funding me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll give you the report tomorrow and then we&#8217;ll talk about it on Thursday.&#8221;
He didn&#8217;t follow through. His campaign instead <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00955609/">released</a> its third-quarter filing Thursday, the Federal Election Commission&#8217;s deadline, reporting $20.4 million raised since he entered the race in July. The filing shows maximum contributions from at least four billionaires: Bain Capital co-chairman Josh Bekenstein, Getty Oil heiress Anne Earhart, hedge fund founder Nat Simons and his sister, Liz Simons.
Collins pressed him on it that night in Bangor, at the race&#8217;s final debate held before Election Day. She noted that Jackson had pledged to refuse billionaire money and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s not accurate.&#8221;
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WATCH: Troy Jackson Discloses Campaign Donations From Billionaires Two Days After Saying &#8216;There&#8217;s No Billionaires Funding Me&#8217; https://t.co/SqhjDzggHg
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href="https://x.com/FreeBeacon/status/2111146420770066466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I know what&#8217;s in my campaign,&#8221; Jackson replied. &#8220;As far as the billionaires that I might have on my campaign, that is accurate. But I haven&#8217;t made any deals like Senator Collins has with those billionaires.&#8221;
The crowd burst into laughter.
Jackson then vowed to &#8220;tax those billionaires&#8221; once he reaches the Senate. He also blamed the delayed report on the size of his donor base, saying more than 200,000 people had contributed to his campaign. Separately, he said he had received $15,000 from oil and pharmaceutical lobbyists and donated it to charity.
Jackson&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://www.jacksonformaine.com/">website</a> still tells voters he &#8220;isn&#8217;t backed by corporate PACs or billionaire donors.&#8221;
Jackson became the nominee in July after Graham Platner withdrew following numerous scandals, most recently a sexual assault allegation, which Platner denied. The race remains close. A recent Washington Post-Schar School <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/09/poll-democrat-troy-jackson-narrowly-leads-susan-collins-maine-senate-race/">poll</a> had Jackson ahead 50% to 46%.

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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed likened his past criticism of former President Barack Obama to second-guessing a parent during a Meet the Press interview Sunday, weeks before the two are set to campaign together in Detroit.
NBC moderator Kristen Welker asked El-Sayed whether he still sees Obama&#8217;s presidency as a failure. In a 2012 HuffPost <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/president-obamas-reelection_b_2090310">essay</a>, El-Sayed wrote that Obama &#8220;was not the right choice&#8221; and that &#8220;the list of his failures goes on.&#8221;
El-Sayed said Obama &#8220;was handed a really difficult set of circumstances, and he did his best.&#8221; He then asked Welker whether her parents were still living. She said they were.
&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have my life but for my dad&#8217;s efforts,&#8221; El-Sayed said. &#8220;At the same time, there&#8217;s a lot of things about my dad I would do differently, right?&#8221;
In hindsight, El-Sayed said, Obama looks like &#8220;a really capable leader,&#8221; and called the former president a &#8220;mentor.&#8221;
El-Sayed has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-said-obama-left-america-no-better-off-now-he-wants-his-help">criticized Obama repeatedly over the years</a>. At a 2020 University of Chicago panel, he said the country was not &#8220;better off&#8221; eight years after Obama&#8217;s election, &#8220;as someone who loves him deeply.&#8221; In a 2017 Vox interview, he said he disagreed with Obama on &#8220;a lot of things.&#8221;
His campaign said the earlier remarks do not reflect hostility toward Obama. El-Sayed used a similar line in an Instagram video this week: &#8220;Do you love your dad? Do you agree with everything your dad has ever done?&#8221;
Obama is scheduled to appear with El-Sayed and gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson on October 24, the day in-person voting begins in Michigan. El-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers in the November 3 election. A YouGov poll this month had El-Sayed ahead 49% to 48%, and the two traded sharp attacks in a debate Thursday in Grand Rapids.
El-Sayed also again expressed regret in the interview for his March remarks after the Temple Israel synagogue attack, saying he wishes he had &#8220;thought twice&#8221; before making them.

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Shane Gillis used the F-word on live television Saturday night while hosting Saturday Night Live, then apologized twice before the broadcast ended.
The comedian, 38, played a defensive son in a Green Eggs and Ham parody on the episode. Mikey Day played his father. Andrew Dismukes, as Sam-I-Am, kept pushing the dish on him. Gillis stepped in to tell Sam-I-Am to back off, swore mid-line, them exclaimed &#8220;Jeez!&#8221; and waved to the laughing audience.
&#8220;Hey, what the hell is wrong with you?&#8221; Gillis said. &#8220;My dad said he doesn&#8217;t like green eggs and ham — drop it, walk away.&#8221;
&#8220;But he may like green eggs and ham!&#8221; Sam-I-Am replied.
&#8220;Bro, it&#8217;s a nonstarter. He told me — he said he doesn&#8217;t f*cking — jeez — like &#8217;em!&#8221;
Day worked the slip into the scene. &#8220;You said a bad word,&#8221; Day told him in character.
&#8220;Yes, I did,&#8221; Gillis answered.
Day returned to it later, telling his on-screen son: &#8220;You&#8217;re a loser, and you said a bad word!&#8221;
As the sketch cut away, Gillis could be heard saying &#8220;Sorry about earlier.&#8221; He repeated the apology during the closing goodbyes.
Saturday was Gillis&#8217;s third turn as host. SNL announced him as a cast member in 2019 and dropped him days later, before he appeared on air, after a podcast clip surfaced in which he used a racial slur against Chinese people. He first returned to host in February 2024. His Netflix series Tires was recently renewed for a fourth season.
The FCC restricts indecent and profane broadcasts between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., with Saturday&#8217;s episode starting at 11:30 p.m. Eastern.
SNL has no new episode for the next two weeks. It returns on Halloween with Obsession&#8216;s Inde Navarrette hosting and Gracie Abrams as a musical guest.

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Convicted murderer Christa Pike has returned to prison and is recovering from her failed execution, according to a statement from her attorneys.
Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and sent back to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, Tennessee, her attorneys, Stephen Ferrell, Kelly Gleason, Luke Ihnen, and Randy Spivey, said in a statement Saturday.
“Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years,” her attorneys said in the statement. “She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery.”
Pike, who tortured and killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, had been in the hospital since September 30 after a botched execution. She is the first known person to survive after execution drugs were actually administered, <a href="https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/DPI-Statement-on-Tennessees-Failed-Execution-of-Christa-Pike.pdf">according</a> to a statement by the Death Penalty Information Center.
The state previously confirmed there is no pending order for another execution attempt, but the possibility is still on the table, The Daily Wire <a href="http://after-an-execution-went-wrong">reported</a>.
Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, said she did not “get justice for my daughter” after the failed execution, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christa-pikes-lawyer-paints-a-mixed-picture-of-recovery-after-botched-execution">reported</a>.
“It doesn’t matter what I think,” Martinez <a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/christa-pike/christa-pike-conscious-speaking-after-failed-execution-her-attorneys-say/51-ed86d8fd-0d09-453f-b8fe-6655e94c5ca5">told</a> WBIR when asked if she thought Pike would ever be executed. “They’re going to do what they’re going to do.”
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christa-pikes-lawyer-paints-a-mixed-picture-of-recovery-after-botched-execution">paused</a> all executions in the state until the end of the year and ordered an investigation into the failed attempt. A judge has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-judge-gives-tennessee-new-orders-after-an-execution-went-wrong">ordered</a> the state to preserve all evidence related to the botched execution.
Pike and her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp were convicted in 1996 of killing Slemmer after inviting her into the woods near Knoxville and torturing her with a box cutter and a meat cleaver. Pike killed her by dropping a piece of asphalt on her head. The pair also carved a pentagram into Slemmer’s forehead and chest, <a href="https://wpln.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/09/Pike-execution-stay-denial-Tennessee-Supreme-Court-092326.pdf">according</a> to court documents.
Pike kept a piece of Slemmer’s skull and was arrested after showing it off to others. She was 18 at the time of the murder, and her death sentence made her the youngest woman condemned in Tennessee since the modern death penalty era began, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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A Philadelphia police officer died Saturday after a gunman shot him and another officer who had answered an overnight call about an armed man in West Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, a ten-year veteran with a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter, was hit three times. The second officer, 33 and a father of five, was struck 12 times. Bethel said that officer is stable but &#8220;not out of the woods yet,&#8221; 6ABC News <a href="https://6abc.com/post/philadelphia-police-officer-dies-shooting-another-cop-injured/19926939/">reported</a>. Both were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
Officers from the 19th District were sent to the scene just after 12:20 a.m. for a report of a man with a gun on the porch, <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/live/philadelphia-police-shooting-suspect-officers-updates-20261010.html">according</a> to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The shots came soon after the officers reached the porch, about half an hour after dispatch. The gunman then reportedly ran through an alley and fired at other officers, missing them. Police found him in a tree and arrested him.
Investigators recovered a shotgun and two handguns. One of the handguns had been taken from a wounded officer, Bethel said.
Seiber&#8217;s wife and relatives were with him at the hospital when he died. &#8220;He fought valiantly, but he lost his life today,&#8221; Bethel said. Police sources <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-police-officers-shot-today-52nd-street/">told</a> CBS News Philadelphia that Seiber had recently finished SWAT training and hoped to join the unit.
Mayor Cherelle Parker, who said the officers were &#8220;badly wounded,&#8221; used the briefing to urge state lawmakers to expand Pennsylvania&#8217;s involuntary commitment law to cover substance use disorder and other behavioral conditions. &#8220;I don&#8217;t apologize for it,&#8221; she said. Officials have not tied the suspect to either.
Police have not publicly named the man in custody or said what prompted the shooting. Law enforcement sources have identified him to the Inquirer as Eric Lewis, a Philadelphia Water Department employee.

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The man wounded by ICE agents during an attempted arrest in the Bronx on Thursday is a Dominican national who federal officials say entered the country illegally and was freed by local authorities despite an immigration detainer, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/09/us-news/man-shot-by-ice-in-bronx-is-illegal-immigrant-with-rap-sheet-of-alarming-crimes-and-absolutely-not-a-new-yorker-neighbors-said/">according</a> to the New York Post.
Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck after plainclothes agents approached his parked Honda SUV in Marble Hill around 4 p.m. Marcos Charles, who leads ICE&#8217;s Enforcement and Removal Operations, said Belgal drove into two of the agents as he tried to get away. Belgal&#8217;s 5-year-old son was in the back seat and was not physically hurt. Belgal was treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and later moved into federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Court records <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/10/09/dhs-debunks-new-york-sanctuary-politicians-lies-about-ice-shooting-illegal-alien">show</a> Belgal was arrested in late 2023 and accused of holding up two passengers in his car at gunpoint on Morris Avenue. He was later released without bail, later pled guilty to a reduced charge of fourth-degree grand larceny, and was sentenced to a month in jail and five years of probation. In August 2025, he was arrested again on charges of selling fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. The case remains open. Federal officials said ICE filed a detainer after the drug arrest, but the city did not honor it.
Thursday&#8217;s encounter was ICE&#8217;s second attempt to take Belgal into custody. Officials said he evaded agents in September. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the press release that federal investigators believed Belgal had &#8220;direct or indirect knowledge&#8221; of the July 2025 shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in Fort Washington Park.
Two Dominican nationals in the country illegally were charged in that attack, in which the officer was shot in the face and arm and returned fire. ABC7 reported both were sentenced in federal court this week.
Mullin blamed New York&#8217;s sanctuary laws. &#8220;Sanctuary politicians create an environment for criminal activity to thrive, not for American citizens to be safe,&#8221; he said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1749713782768411">has called</a> for abolishing ICE, referred to Belgal as &#8220;a New Yorker.&#8221; He said the agents&#8217; masks and construction vests left &#8220;no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents.&#8221; Gov. Kathy Hochul <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/person-shot-during-ice-interaction-marble-hill-manhattan/19922531/">said</a> residents &#8220;deserve to know exactly what happened.&#8221;
Mullin said the agents were wearing body cameras, but DHS has not released the footage.

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Left’s New Migrant Martyr Kept Getting Off For Armed Robbery, Drug Dealing

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