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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 20

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  1. skybrian
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    Patrol vehicle hit by shrapnel as Marines fired live artillery over California interstate, highway patrol says … … … …

    Patrol vehicle hit by shrapnel as Marines fired live artillery over California interstate, highway patrol says

    The Marines Corps has launched an investigation after the California Highway Patrol said shrapnel from an artillery shell, fired during a live-fire demonstration touted by the White House, struck a law enforcement vehicle.

    No injuries were reported when an artillery round “detonated overhead prematurely” during Saturday’s 250th anniversary celebration for the Marines Corps at Camp Pendleton, the highway patrol said.

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    “This was an unusual and concerning situation,” CHP Border Division Chief Tony Coronado, who also identified himself as a Marine, said in the statement. “It is highly uncommon for any live-fire or explosive training activity to occur over an active freeway.”

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    Pictures from a CHP incident report show a black-and-white unit with a hood apparently pierced by shrapnel, as well as multiple munition fragments. The report indicated that the fragment on the hood measured around 2 inches by 2 inches. According to a CHP map, the vehicle was at Interstate 5 and Las Pulgas Road, nearly a mile north of the Red Beach demonstration along the northernmost coast of San Diego County, when it was hit.

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    The CHP said the strike happened as officers were temporarily halting traffic on the freeway so motorists would be out of harm's way during the demonstration.

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom had been critical of the plan to fire live munitions over the interstate in the days leading up to Saturday's celebrations, which were attended by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who both spoke at the event.

    Newsom, a Democrat who has repeatedly sparred with the Trump administration, had criticized the potential impact of a temporary closure of the 80,000-vehicles-per-day Interstate 5, and he said state authorities were denied sufficient notice of a dangerous and “absurd show of force."

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  2. canekicker
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    In Trump v Probably Illegal Actions in South America news US returning Caribbean strike survivors to Colombia and Ecuador, Trump says and Trump ends aid to Colombia and calls country's leader a...

    In Trump v Probably Illegal Actions in South America news

    US returning Caribbean strike survivors to Colombia and Ecuador, Trump says

    and

    Trump ends aid to Colombia and calls country's leader a 'drug leader'

    Bonus story

    Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says