FAA issues mysterious drone ban over Chicago
Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/3/2025 12:19:00 AM
CHICAGO — The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a ban on private drone flights over the entire City of Chicago and stretching into the northern, western and southern suburbs. “Temporary flight restrictions for Special Security Reasons” is the stated reason for the drone ban, which began Wednesday and continues through Oct. 12. An FAA spokesperson referred questions about the reasons behind the ban to Homeland Security, which did not respond to a request for comment from WGN Investigates. The ban comes at a time of heightened tension in Chicago as federal immigration agents have been carrying out unannounced operations and arrests. It’s unclear if the two are connected. Responding to WGN Investigates’
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Crow said, “Packing hundreds of general officers, generals and admirals into a room so they could be lectured by Pete Hegseth on woke culture war issues and grooming standards is not something that you see in the United States of America or should see in the United States of America. That’s something that Vladimir Putin would do. That’s something that Kim Jong Un would do, or Xi
Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said President Donald Trump was “unhinged and unwell.”
Discussing a conversation with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Dean said, “I told him how deeply concerned I am that the president is unhinged and unwell, and our allies are noticing it, and they’re looking elsewhere for support, and our enemies are enjoying it, and they are emboldened by it.”
Host John Berman said, “You just called the president unwell again. What do you mean by that?”
Dean said, “Well, he’s aging, aren’t we all?
Stocks edged up to new record highs on Thursday as the U.S. government shutdown appeared poised to stretch into its third day.
The S&P 500 moved up a slight 0.06 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 79 points, or 017 percent. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.4 percent.
Bond prices rose, pushing down yields. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell 0.019 percent to 4.087 percent and the yield on 30-year Treasuries dipped 0.022 percent to 4.693 percent. Two years were flat.
Investors are increasingly convinced
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Host Chris Hayes said, “You’ve have been in you’ve served in Congress, in the Senate, you served through a number of different administrations with different presidents. I’ve covered a number of shutdowns. I’ve never seen a president during a shutdown kind of gloating about the ability to punish people or to take stuff away from people in states that didn’t vote for him. Have you seen that before?
Do You Hear Laughter, Democrats?
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In 1956's The Ten Commandments, after Yul Brynner's Pharaoh released the Hebrew slaves from bondage, his Queen, Nefertiri, played by Anne Baxter, was bitter at losing her son in the final plague God brought on Egypt during the first Passover. She uttered the question, dripping with condescension, "Do you hear laughter, Pharaoh?" The same laughter of mocking and derision is cascading down on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and the rest of the Congressional and Senate Democrats in the wake of the Schumer shutdown, now entering Day 2.
If there has to be a government shutdown, October is as good a month as any
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CHICAGO — The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a ban on private drone flights over the entire City of Chicago and stretching into the northern, western and southern suburbs.
“Temporary flight restrictions for Special Security Reasons” is the stated reason for the drone ban, which began Wednesday and continues through Oct. 12. An FAA spokesperson referred questions about the reasons behind the ban to Homeland Security, which did not respond to a request for comment from WGN Investigates. The ban comes at a time of heightened tension in Chicago as federal immigration agents have been carrying out unannounced operations and arrests. It’s unclear if the two are connected.
Responding to WGN Investigates’
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The policy is strongly opposed by just 24 percent, down by two percent from April.
Self-described independents split: 53 percent support versus 25 percent “strongly oppose.”
Ninety-five percent of Trump’s 2024 voters back his policy.
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Democrats thought they had a winning strategy when they voted to shut down the government. They assumed they could pin it on Republicans, rally their base, and walk away with political momentum. Instead, what they’ve created looks like a textbook self-own, handing the GOP a golden opportunity while leaving themselves with little to show for all the drama.
Democrats initiated the shutdown, blocked a clean continuing resolution in the Senate, and now they’re left holding the bag for a political stunt that backfired in ways they never imagined. In fact, even MSNBC is reporting that some Democrats are already wanting to cave.
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Charlie Kirk is dead. Americans must face why.
His murder was not random, not confusing, not detached from the battles he fought so fiercely in life. It was the direct consequence of his bold refusal to bend before one of the most aggressive and destabilizing ideologies of our time: transgender radicalism.
For years, Kirk warned about the dangers of this movement. Not just its cultural consequences, but the deeper crisis of mental illness and violence it has unleashed across the nation. In the end, his voice was silenced by precisely the pestilence he spent his career opposing.
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It’s a terrible fix for a problem that doesn’t exist — and one that would lead to worse policing, and so more crime; it would likely even produce a force with far more bad cops.
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Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a bizarre symbol of her crusade against “fascism,” aka Donald Trump.
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The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen — mostly on MSNBC — symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II.
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I see Forbes is saying this morning:
"The $7,500 EV tax credit was one of many casualties resulting from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While this bill was signed into law on July 4, the credit did not expire for several months, according to Forbes. However, as of October 1, these credits are no longer available, leading to questions about the future of this segment of the automotive industry. Most notably, the tax incidence for purchasing these vehicles shifts from the Federal government to the purchasers or the car manufacturers."
Buckle up, kids. I’ll tell you right up front: I’m cheering that this tax break has been ended. Truth is,
JK Rowling on rift with Emma Watson over
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JK Rowling has responded after Emma Watson made conciliatory comments in a podcast posted Wednesday about their relationship, which has been marked for years by conflicting views on transgender rights.
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CBS News producer Joey Annunziato, a passenger on the flight from Charlotte, described the chaos inside his plane’s cabin after the collision as “super jarring.”
CA Sec. of State Owns Up to Big Mistake
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