News for October 10, 2025

Former NFL player Wesley Leasy is seeking $2 million after he and his daughter say Phoenix-area police wrongly held them at gunpoint and handcuffed them at an airport.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth said she cannot support a White House proposal that would tie federal funding benefits to adopting President Donald Trump’s higher education priorities.

Kapil Raghu, an Indian immigrant in deportation proceedings, is asking ICE to drop his case after police wrongly mistook a perfume bottle labeled “Opium” for narcotics.

MIT rejected a Trump administration offer of federal funding tied to new rules for universities, saying the plan would limit its freedom and independence.

Andy Parker’s Netflix series “Boots” tells the story of a gay Marine recruit coming of age before “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and uses that story to show the personal cost of hiding who you are in the military.

Donald Trump fell short in his long push for the Nobel Peace Prize, which went instead to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

In their only Virginia governor debate, Abigail Spanberger and Winsome Earle-Sears clashed over violent texts sent by Democrat Jay Jones, while also sparring on culture-war issues, the shutdown, and other campaign topics.