A Colorado funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies in a bug-infested building took a plea deal last year for abusing corpses, but on Monday, family members of the deceased will argue that the deal’s 15- to 20-year sentence isn’t enough. Carie Hallford and her husband, Jon Hallford, owned Return to Nature [.].
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday moved to limit the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth.
US Rep. Ro Khanna on Friday demanded urgent congressional action to avert “another endless, regime-change war” amid reports that President Donald Trump is weighing military strikes inside Venezuela. Such strikes, warned Khanna (D-Calif.), would be “blatantly unconstitutional.”“The United States Congress must speak up and stop this,” Khanna said in a video posted to social media. “No president, according to the Constitution, has the authority to strike another country without Congress’ approval. And the American people have voted against regime change and endless wars.”Watch: Trump is getting ready to launch strikes inside Venezuela per the @WSJ & @MiamiHerald. This is blatantly unconstitutional. Congress must speak up now to stop another endless, regime-change war. @RepThomasMassie @RandPaul. pic. twitter. com/LrnPPUVZaU- Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) October 31, 2025 Khanna’s remarks came in response to reporting by the Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal on internal Trump administration discussions regarding possible airstrike targets inside Venezuela. The Herald reported early Friday that the administration “has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment.” The Journal, in a story published Thursday, was more reserved, reporting that the administration “has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs,” but adding that “the president hasn’t made a final decision on ordering land strikes.”Citing unnamed US officials familiar with the matter, the Journal reported that “the targets would send a clear message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that it is time to step down.”Following the reports, the White House denied that Trump has finalized plans for a military strike on Venezuela. Trump himself told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday that he has not made a final decision, signaling his belief he has the authority to do so if he chooses. Last week, the president said publicly that land strikes are “going to be next” following his illegal, deadly strikes on boats in waters off Central and South America. Trump has said he would not seek approval from Congress before attacking Venezuela directly.“The American people oppose being dragged into yet another endless war, this time in Venezuela, and our constitutional order demands deliberation by the U. S. Congress-period.”A potentially imminent, unauthorized US attack on Venezuela and the administration’s accelerating military buildup in the Caribbean have thus far drawn vocal opposition from just a fraction of the lawmakers on Capitol Hill, currently embroiled in a shutdown fight. Just three senators-Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)-are listed as official backers of a resolution aimed at preventing Trump from attacking Venezuela without congressional authorization. Other senators, including Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), have spoken out against Trump’s belligerence toward Venezuela.“Trump is illegally threatening war with Venezuela-after killing more than 50 people in unauthorized strikes at sea,” Sanders wrote in a social media post on Friday. “The Constitution is clear: Only Congress can declare war. Congress must defend the law and end Trump’s militarism.”Dylan Williams, vice president of government affairs at the Center for International Policy, wrote Friday that “most Americans oppose overthrowing Venezuela’s leaders by force-and an even larger majority oppose invading.”“Call your senators and tell them to vote for S. J. Res. 90 to block Trump’s unauthorized use of military force,” Williams added. “The Capitol switchboard can connect you to your senators’ offices at 202-224-3121.”A similar resolution led by Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) in the US House has just over 30 cosponsors. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) announced his support for the House resolution on Thursday, saying in a statement that “Trump does not have the legal authority to launch military strikes inside Venezuela without a specific authorization by Congress.”“I am deeply troubled by reports that suggest this administration believes otherwise,” said Neguse. “Any unilateral directive to send Americans into war is not only reckless, but illegal and an affront to the House of Representatives’ powers under Article I of our Constitution.”“The American people oppose being dragged into yet another endless war, this time in Venezuela, and our constitutional order demands deliberation by the U. S. Congress-period,” Neguse added.
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department just got caught lying in court and it certainly wasn’t the first time, according to a new analysis. Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern pointed out Friday that prosecutors “keep lying brazenly” to the judge and, when given the opportunity, don’t correct the record. “The government got caught red-handed just straight up lying to the 9th Circuit last week. Full-on lying from the Justice Department is familiar at this point,” Lithwick said. Raw Story wrote this week about a letter in which DOJ officials were forced to admit they dramatically inflated the number of Federal Protective Service agents (FPS) sent to Portland as a result of the danger in the city. In submitting a list of “undisputed facts,” the Justice Department alleged that the situation in Oregon was so dangerous that the president had to divert nearly a quarter of them to Portland. Adam Klasfeld, who runs “All Rise News,” posted the letter flagging the error that was sent to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It turns out that it was more like 13%. That amounts to “65 of the 86 individuals employed to Portland were inspectors.”It was also discovered by “Law Dork’s” Chris Geidner on Bluesky that the DOJ implied that more than 100 officers were deployed for four months and FPS had to redirect “a huge chunk of its workforce for extended duty in Oregon.”It turns out that that was not true at all, as the plaintiffs wrote: Only a fraction of inspectors were ever in Portland at any given time-at most 31, and as few as 20 during some weeks. Not 115, but 20-31. So the government quadrupled the true number of FPS officers who were sent to the city to manage the protests. And the figure that the government put forth was at the core of the 9th Circuit decision in favor of Trump. Lithwick and Stern said that the DOJ’s case was trying to “justify Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.” The U. S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit panel of three judges ruled in favor of the administration. Then it became clear that the government lied in their case. “The full 9th Circuit wiped away that decision on Tuesday, giving its members another opportunity to reconsider the case on the basis of truthful information,” wrote the Slate legal experts. The lower court, with U. S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, issued two temporary restraining orders that the 9th Circuit was considering. Lithwick and Stern explained, “This is really important, because in some sense it might sound as if we’re just nitpicking numbers. But this goes to the very heart of why we have judicial oversight at all. Look at what happens when you just take the government at its word! And this is why we have judges fighting one another about the role of the judiciary. In the circuit court’s decision, the dissenter, Judge Susan Graber, kept saying: They’re really not telling the truth!’ And the majority wouldn’t even question the DOJ’s numbers.”Read their full column here.
A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to consider whether to pay at least partial SNAP food benefits — even though millions of people will be without aid starting tomorrow.
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President Donald Trump’s surprise order to resume nuclear weapons testing has set off concerns about a potential global arms race, but one Democratic senator is working to stop it from happening. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Thursday introduced emergency legislation to prevent the president from resuming nuclear weapons tests, which experts have warned could undermine global geopolitical stability as more nations could respond by ramping up weapons tests of their own. The text of Markey’s bill is just two pages and it states that “none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2026, or authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for any fiscal year before fiscal year 2026, and available for obligation as of the date of the enactment of this act, may be obligated or expended to conduct or make preparations for any explosive nuclear weapons test that produces any yield.”In a statement promoting the bill, Markey warned that restarting nuclear weapons tests would be “a mistake of radioactive proportions,” which Congress should intervene to block.“The United States has not conducted a nuclear test since 1992, and there is absolutely no need to resume,” Markey said. “A Trumpatomics plan would provoke Russia and China to resume nuclear testing, and China in particular has much more to gain from this than does the United States. This is a reckless directive from Trump that will only make the country and the world less safe and lead to a terrible new nuclear arms race.”Markey, who co-chairs the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, also urged the US Senate to finally ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which was first adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1996 and which has been ratified by 178 other nations. The UK-based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) on Thursday put out a statement condemning Trump’s weapons testing announcement, which it described as “a wake-up call that the threat of nuclear war is real and accelerating.”The organization also pointed out that resuming nuclear tests was not the only way that the US under the leadership of both Trump and former President Joe Biden is increasing the risks of nuclear war. Among other things, CND pointed to risks posed by the “Golden Dome” missile shield being pushed by Trump, as well as the AUKUS Agreement signed during Biden’s tenure that gives Australia access to nuclear-powered submarines. CND general secretary Sophie Bol warned of the dire consequences of a global nuclear arms race and said “it is absolutely critical that we rachet up the political pressure to make these world leaders-including the British government-step back from this nuclear escalation.”In an editorial published by Common Dreams on Thursday, Pavel Devyatkin, nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, argued that the resumption of nuclear weapons tests “marks a dangerous turning point in international security.”In particular, Devyatkin argued that resuming such tests would imperil chances of extending the nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia that has been in effect since 2011.“The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear weapons, expires in February 2026,” he explained. “For over a decade, New START has kept a cap on deployed warheads and compelled both sides to transparency through data exchanges and inspections. If this agreement expires, there would be no binding limits on the two countries’ nuclear arsenals.”.
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