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A federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to stop providing access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal data, including their home addresses, to immigration officials.
District Judge Vince Chhabria, an Obama appointee, granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security from using Medicaid data obtained from 20 states that filed a lawsuit to stop the data sharing.
The order, handed down Tuesday, blocks HHS from sharing data on Medicaid enrollees in these states with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of targeting migrants for deportation.
«Using CMS data for immigration enforcement threatens to significantly disrupt the operation of Medicaid—a program that Congress has deemed critical for the provision of health coverage to the nation’s most vulnerable residents,» Chhabria wrote.
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A judge ordered HHS to stop providing access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal data to immigration officials. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The judge wrote that while there is nothing «categorically unlawful» about DHS collecting data from other agencies for immigration enforcement purposes, ICE has had a policy against using Medicaid data for that reason for 12 years.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has also long maintained a policy of using patients’ personal information only to run its healthcare programs.
«Given these policies, and given that the various players in the Medicaid system have relied on them, it was incumbent upon the agencies to carry out a reasoned decision-making process before changing them,» Chhabria wrote, adding: «The record in this case strongly suggests that no such process occurred.»
Chhabria said the preliminary injunction will remain in effect until HHS provides «reasoned decision-making» for its new policy of sharing data with immigration officials or until litigation concludes.
The disclosure of Medicaid data is part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to give DHS more data to help locate migrants and carry out the president’s mass deportation plan. In May, a federal judge refused to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants’ tax data with ICE officials.
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The disclosure of Medicaid data is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to give DHS more data to help locate migrants. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)
«The Trump Administration’s move to use Medicaid data for immigration enforcement upended longstanding policy protections without notice or consideration for the consequences,» California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. «As the President continues to overstep his authority in his inhumane anti-immigrant crusade, this is a clear reminder that he remains bound by the law.»
HHS first provided the personal information of millions of Medicaid enrollees in June, prompting a lawsuit from the 20 states to block the new policy.
In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services entered into a new agreement that allowed DHS to have daily access to the personal data of the country’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including their Social Security numbers and home address.
Neither agreement was announced publicly. HHS has insisted that its agreement with DHS is legal.
Medicaid officials had attempted to block the data transfer, but they were overruled by top advisers to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Immigrants – both legal and illegal – are not authorized to enroll in the Medicaid program, which offers nearly free coverage for health services. However, under federal law, all states must offer emergency Medicaid, a temporary coverage that only covers lifesaving services in emergency rooms to anyone, including people who are not U.S. citizens.
The judge blocked DHS from using Medicaid data obtained from 20 states that filed a lawsuit to stop the data sharing. (Getty Images)
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«Protecting people’s private health information is vitally important,» Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown said in a statement. «And everyone should be able to seek medical care without fear of what the federal government may do with that information.»
The sharing of Medicaid enrollees’ personal data could cause concern among people seeking emergency medical help for themselves or their children, immigration advocates have warned.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Three alleged narco-terrorists were killed in a U.S. strike on a drug smuggling vessel affiliated with Colombia’s National Liberation Army, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Sunday.
The «lethal kinetic strike» happened Friday in international waters at the direction of President Donald Trump, Hegseth wrote in a post on X.
«The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics,» Hegseth wrote. «There were three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike—which was conducted in international waters.»
«All three terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike,» he added.
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Hegseth also shared unclassified video showing the moment of the strike.
The vessel was linked to Colombia’s National Liberation Army, known as Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), Hegseth said. (Department of War)
Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) is a Designated Terrorist Organization. Hegseth likened the Colombian rebel group to the Al Qaeda terror group founded by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Hegseth said the vessel was trafficking narcotics. (Department of War)
«These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people,» Hegseth wrote. «The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.»
Hegseth attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, after a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers at the Alliance headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 15, 2025. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro disputed that the vessel was affiliated with ELN, calling it a fishing boat that belonged to a «humble family.»
«The fisherman’s boat from Santa Marta was not from the ELN; it belonged to a humble family, lovers of the sea, from which they drew their food,» Petro wrote in a post on X. «What do you say to that family? Explain to me why you helped assassinate a humble fisherman from Santa Marta, the land where Bolívar died, and which they say is the heart of the world.»
«What do you say to the family of the fisherman Alejandro Carranza? He was a humble human being,» Petro continued.
TRUMP TOUTS ANOTHER US STRIKE NEAR VENEZUELA THAT KILLED SIX ALLEGED DRUG SMUGGLERS
The Friday strike brings the death toll from the Trump administration’s military campaign against suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the region to at least 31. The operations began last month and are part of Trump’s broader effort to dismantle transnational cartels by force.
On Thursday, the U.S. military carried out a strike on what Trump later called a «very large drug-carrying submarine» in the Caribbean, killing two suspected narco-terrorists and capturing two others alive.
Fox News previously confirmed that two survivors were rescued by the U.S. Navy after the strike and were being held aboard an American warship.
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A separate strike on Tuesday killed six suspected smugglers aboard a vessel off the coast of Venezuela.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
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En un histórico balotaje y sin el MAS por primera vez en 20 años, Bolivia da un brusco giro a la derecha
Los bolivianos elegirán este domingo a su nuevo presidente entre el derechista Jorge Tuto Quiroga y el centrista Rodrigo Paz.
No se trata de una elección más. Es un histórico balotaje que pondrá fin a 20 años de dominio absoluto del izquierdista Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) de Evo Morales, hoy reducido a una mínima expresión y con su líder recluido en su bastión de Chapare para evitar una orden de arresto en una causa por trata de personas.
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Bolivia eligió ya un cambio al dejar fuera de esta segunda vuelta al MAS, dividido y con escasísimo poder en el futuro Congreso. En medio de una crisis económica caracterizada por una inflación del 23% anual, una incipiente recesión, falta de divisas y escasez de combustible, los bolivianos deberán decidir si este giro ideológico se detendrá en el centro o avanzará hacia una derecha más dura.
“Es una votación histórica porque es la primera vez que llegamos a una segunda vuelta y porque es el final de 20 años del ciclo izquierdista en el país”, dijo a TN el analista y periodista boliviano Robert Brockmann.
El balotaje es un mecanismo electoral contemplado en la Constitución de 2009, aprobada durante el gobierno de Morales y a quien sucedió el presidente saliente, Luis Arce, enemistado con su mentor y con una impopularidad récord.
Quien gane estas elecciones asumirá el 8 de noviembre próximo por un período de cinco años.
Bolivia elige entre el centro y la derecha
Un total de 7,9 millones de bolivianos están habilitados para votar este domingo. Otros 369.000 lo harán en el exterior. Las urnas se abrirán a las 08:00 locales y el cierre está previsto para las 16:00 (una hora menos que en la Argentina).
El candidato presidencial Jorge «Tuto» Quiroga se dirige a sus simpatizantes durante un mitin de cierre de campaña antes de la segunda vuelta electoral, el miércoles 15 de octubre de 2025, en La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Foto/Natacha Pisarenko)
En la primera vuelta, celebradas el 17 de agosto, Paz obtuvo un sorpresivo primer lugar con un 32,06% de los votos, seguido de Quiroga con el 26,70%.
Quiroga, de la derechista Alianza Libre y que ya fue presidente en el período 2001/2002, es el favorito según algunas encuestas, sobre el senador centrista y candidato del Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC), Rodrigo Paz.
Pero las encuestas han fracasado en sus pronósticos en la primera vuelta. Entonces Paz, hijo del expresidente Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-/93), figuraba entre un lejano tercer y quinto lugar en los sondeos. En silencio, terminó por dar la gran sorpresa de los comicios, algo que analistas estiman que podría volver a repetir en este balotaje.
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“La situación es diferente. La elección se decidirá entre dos candidatos que no polarizan a la sociedad. Son más o menos lo mismo. Los dos son liberales. Quiroga es claramente de derecha o centroderecha y Paz es de una izquierda demoliberal, una especie de socialdemocracia”, dijo Brockmann
Los programas económicos de ambos candidatos no difieren mucho entre sí. Los dos buscan terminar con 20 años de hegemonía socialista bajo una grave crisis, pero evitan hablar de un “shock económico”. Las propuestas se basan en planes neoliberales y un acercamiento a Estados Unidos.
Quiroga apuesta por una agenda de libre mercado, relanzamiento productivo e independencia del poder judicial, con atención a la educación y las instituciones democráticas. Paz propone la descentralización administrativa, un modelo de “capitalismo para todos” y una reforma judicial con tolerancia cero a la corrupción. Rodrigo Paz, candidato del Partido Demócrata Cristiano. (Foto: REUTERS/Claudia Morales)
Pero ambos coinciden en mantener los subsidios a los combustibles (uno de los grandes temas de debate) sólo para el transporte público y sectores vulnerables, así como continuar con los programas sociales en un contexto de fuerte precariedad social y con un movimiento indígena que abandonó al MAS y deberá optar por un nuevo modelo de gobierno.
Cualquiera que gane, el cambio será rotundo tras dos décadas de socialismo del siglo XXI.
La derecha tendrá mayoría en el nuevo Congreso
De cara al futuro gobierno, el nuevo presidente deberá tratar de garantizar gobernabilidad. El Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Paz tendrá el número más alto de escaños con 16 senadores y 49 diputados, aunque sin asegurar una mayoría. La Alianza Libre de Quiroga será la segunda fuerza con 12 senadores y 39 diputados.
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La Alianza Popular, del disidente del MAS Andrónico Rodríguez, obtuvo ocho diputados, mientras que el hasta ahora oficialista MAS apenas dos. Morales quedó inhabilitado para participar en las elecciones y llamó a anular el voto. Los votos nulos rozaron el 20% en la primera vuelta.
En resumen cuatro partidos de derecha (los de Paz, Quiroga y otros dos minoritarios) tendrán 119 diputados sobre 130 y la totalidad de los 36 senadores, lo que vaticina una mayor gobernabilidad para el presidente que resulte electo si logra concertar alianzas.
“El problema va a ser si el próximo presidente desmantela el sistema de subsidios a los combustibles. Eso provocaría el encarecimiento de las cosas en un contexto social difícil. La economía es muy precaria. Si empeora aún más, puede no durar mucho el nuevo gobierno. Si fracasa, podríamos estar pensando en el regreso de Evo en poco tiempo”, concluyó Breckmann.
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SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – With Election Day fast approaching, the Republican nominee in one of only two races for governor in the nation this year is fired up.
«Championship teams finish strong,» Jack Ciattarelli told a crowd of supporters jam-packed into a diner in this northern New Jersey town earlier this week. «Let’s win this race.»
Ciattarelli, who’s making his third straight run for Garden State governor and who nearly upset Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy four years ago, has good reason to be confident.
In a state where registered Democrats still outnumber Republicans despite a GOP surge in registration this decade, two new public opinion polls released this week indicated Ciattarelli narrowing the gap with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill in the race to succeed the term-limited Murphy.
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Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor in New Jersey, speaks to supporters at a diner in Saddle Brook, N.J. on Oct. 15, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The slightly fresher of the two surveys, a Fox News poll conducted Oct. 10–14, put Sherrill at 50% support among likely voters, with Ciattarelli at 45%. Sherrill’s 5-point advantage was down from an 8-point lead in Fox News’ September survey in New Jersey.
New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states to hold gubernatorial showdowns in the year after a presidential election, and the contests traditionally grab outsized attention and are viewed as political barometers ahead of the following year’s midterm elections.
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And this year, they’re being viewed to a large degree as ballot-box referendums on President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and combustible second-term agenda.
While Democrats have long dominated federal and state legislative elections in blue-leaning New Jersey, Republicans are very competitive in gubernatorial contests, winning five out of the past 10 elections.
President Donald Trump, seen speaking during a campaign event at Wildwood Beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, May 11, 2024, will headline a tele-rally for Jack Ciattarelli, the 2025 Republican gubernatorial nominee in the Garden State. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And Trump made major gains in New Jersey in last year’s presidential election, losing the state by only six percentage points, a major improvement over his 16-point deficit four years earlier.
Ciattarelli, interviewed by Fox News Digital Wednesday in Bayonne, New Jersey, noted that he «made big gains» in his 2021 showing «in Hudson County and Passaic County,» two long-time Democratic Party strongholds.
«And the President did very, very well in ’24 in those very same counties. And if you take a look at who’s been endorsing me, including some very prominent Democrats here in Hudson County, people want change,» Ciattarelli emphasized.
But Ciattarelli is also aiming to energize Republican base voters in what’s likely to be a low-turnout election.
Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News that Trump will hold tele-rallies with Ciattarelli ahead of Election Day. Trump’s teaming up with Ciattarelli may help energize MAGA supporters, many of whom are low propensity voters who often skip casting ballots in non-presidential election years.
Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio Vivek Ramaswamy headlines a campaign event for New Jersey GOP nominee for governor Jack Ciattarelli, on Oct. 15, 2025, in Saddle Brook, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And on Wednesday, Ciattarelli was joined at his diner stop, where there was an overflow crowd of a couple of hundred people outside, by Vivek Ramaswamy, the MAGA rockstar who is running for governor next year in his home state of Ohio.
Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur and conservative commentator who pushed an «America First 2.0» platform as he ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination before ending his bid and becoming one of Trump’s top supporters and surrogates, told Ciattarelli, «We’re going in Ohio next year, but you’ve got to pave the path this year. We’re counting on you.»
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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, commenting on why Republicans feel bullish about the New Jersey showdown, raised concerns.
«New Jersey is the best place, probably, for Donald Trump to actually stop the Democratic momentum — or at least minimize the Democratic momentum that we’ve seen throughout this year,» Martin said in a Politico interview.
But the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is confident of a Sherrill victory next month.
«As numerous polls show her holding a strong lead and earning more than 50% of the vote, Mikie Sherrill is rising to meet the moment in this incredibly competitive race,» DGA Spokesperson Izzi Levy told Fox News. «It’s clear that Mikie has the momentum, and that New Jersey voters are all-in to reject Ciattarelli for a third time this November.»
New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill, right, and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, on the stage moments at the start of their second and final debate, on Oct. 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News Digital)
While Trump isn’t on the ballot, he’s loomed large over the New Jersey gubernatorial election.
At last week’s second and final debate, Sherrill charged that her GOP rival had «shown zero signs of standing up to this president. In fact, the president himself called Jack 100% MAGA, and he’s shown every sign of being that.»
Asked whether he considered himself part of the MAGA movement, Ciattarelli said he was «part of a New Jersey movement.»
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When asked to grade the president’s performance so far during his second term, Ciattarelli said, «I’d certainly give the president an A. I think he’s right about everything that he’s doing.»
«I think that tells us all we need to know about who Jack Ciattarelli’s supporting. I give him an F right now,» Sherrill responded, as she pointed to New Jersey’s high cost of living.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey, takes questions from reporters following a debate on Oct. 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The race in New Jersey was rocked a couple of weeks ago by a report that the National Personnel Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, mistakenly released Sherrill’s improperly redacted military personnel files, which included private information like her Social Security number, to a Ciattarelli ally.
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But Sherrill’s military records indicated that the United States Naval Academy blocked her from taking part in her 1994 graduation amid a cheating scandal.
The showdown was jolted again last week after Sherrill’s allegations that Ciattarelli was «complicit» with pharmaceutical companies in the opioid deaths of tens of thousands of New Jerseyans, as she pointed to the medical publishing company he owned that pushed content promoting the use of opioids as a low-risk treatment for chronic pain.
This week, Trump set off a political hand grenade in the race, as he «terminated» billions of federal dollars for the Gateway Project, which is funding a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York.
Sherrill, holding a news conference Thursday at a major commuter rail station just a few miles from the site of the tunnels in one of the busiest train corridors in the nation, called the project «critical» as she took aim at Trump and Ciattarelli.
«I’m fighting for the people of New Jersey. He’s fighting to excuse Trump. It’s unacceptable,» Sherrill charged.
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New Jersey traditionally elects a governor from the party out of power in the White House, which this year favors the Democrats.
But Garden State voters haven’t elected a governor from the same party in three straight elections in over a half century, which would favor the Republicans.
One of those political trends will be busted in next month’s election.
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