The Unspun News for American Citizens · Monday, October 12, 2026 06:13 AM EDT
Noise removed — for independent thinkers.
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Executive Summary
A federal judge ruled Sunday night on the money behind a political message. Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the administration to cancel its remaining TV ads promoting Trump, bought with $20 million in Homeland Security funds. Her order bars new ad contracts for two weeks. On CBS, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the ads. He also defended the ICE officers who shot a driver in Manhattan on Thursday. City cameras show officers breaking his car window before he drove off.
The wars widened and the talks stalled. The Houthis hit Riyadh’s airport again and claimed strikes on Dammam and two Aramco sites. They say they are answering a Saudi-led offensive in Yemen that began last week. Trump said Washington is considering joining Saudi strikes. Iran called the latest U.S. reply to its peace proposal “insufficient.” Trump declared a Russia-Ukraine “energy ceasefire,” and Kyiv said Russia struck a Kharkiv power plant after his post. Six senators from both parties urged him to drop the Russian diesel deal he announced Friday.
Pakistan suspended the provincial government run by Imran Khan’s party. South Carolina’s Senate candidates met in their only debate, and North Korea fired missiles Monday morning. Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel Prize in economics. Rochon’s hearing comes Tuesday. The country begins the week with an ad canceled by a judge, a truce declared in a post and a peace reply called insufficient, three messages still waiting for someone bound to answer them.
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