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Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn verdict that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll; OH ICE enforcement scrutinized, former detainee warns of broad risks; CT bill reforms how schools conduct active shooter drills; Post shutdown, WA Head Start programs face uncertain future.

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The Public News Service Tuesday afternoon update.

I'm Mike Clifford.

President Donald Trump Monday asked the US Supreme Court to review the $5 million dollar civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E.

Jean Carroll.

That's from CNN.

They report last year a federal appeals court affirmed the jury's verdict and $5 million dollar judgment against Trump ruling the trial judge did not make errors that would warrant a new trial in June.

Trump lost an effort to have that appeal reviewed by the full bench.

It is not clear the high court will take up the civil case.

Meantime new data show ICE arrests of people without criminal charges have surged in Ohio since June.

The UC Berkeley deportation data project reports that non-criminal arrests accounted for about 50 percent of ICE's daily arrests in Ohio in June, up from 29 percent in May following a Trump administration move to triple ICE's daily arrest quota to 3,000.

Cincinnati faith leader Ayman Suleiman detained 73 days earlier this year while seeking protection says the experience revealed systemic failings.

The sense of injustice was the worst of all.

But I came here fleeing a persecution and you guys are telling me you were gonna send me back to where I actually fled from.

So the feeling of injustice was the most overwhelming of all.

DHS says 70 percent of ICE arrests were criminal illegal aliens with convictions or pending charges, although independent analysis shows sharp increases in non-criminal arrests.

Farah Siddiqui reporting, this story was produced in association with media in the public interest and funded in part by the George Gunn Foundation.

Next, a bill in Connecticut aims to reform school crisis response drills.

House Bill 7077 calls for the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection working with the Connecticut Center for School Safety and Crisis Prevention to develop guidance for trauma-informed crisis response drills.

It also calls for a study on the impacts of crisis response drills on the school community.

Stacey Mayer with Connecticut Against Gun Violence says these new drills can be more effective.

By doing things this way it will reduce anxiety, it will prioritize psychological health of students, it will make sure kids aren't being re-traumatized.

Often for children who have experienced trauma outside of school, including violence at home and other trauma, lockdown drills can be especially difficult and damaging.

Active shooter drills have been shown to have vast mental and physical health impacts.

The American Federation of Teachers passed a resolution opposing these drills, noting they're not effective at stopping a school shooting from happening and can be harmful to students.

I'm Edwin J. Viera.

And a bill now in process to reopen the federal government, but the current proposal would not guarantee Head Start programs that have been hard hit by the shutdown will be funded after January.

Fiona Krantz is a Head Start teacher in Washington State who says her program serves as a lifeline for families.

We have lots of kids who also are homeless and or living with family and this is a lot of the times the only hot meal they have in a day.

20 Head Start programs across the country had to fully or partially close as a result of the government shutdown, including one in Washington State.

This is Public News Service.

Indiana will pause together this Veterans Day to honor those who've worn the uniform.

We get more from our Joe Ulori.

The Benjamin Harrison presidential site in Indianapolis will host a one-minute tribute at sunset on Tuesday.

A bugler will play taps from the front porch of the 23rd president's home and organizers invite Hoosiers across the state to step outside and join in.

Charles Hyde, executive director of the presidential site, says the idea began in 2020.

We started this in 2020 for the pandemic.

It was important to still have public commemoration.

That way any veterans across the state and beyond might hear the strains of taps being played, know that they will be remembered.

The event is live-streamed on Facebook, allowing people across Indiana to reflect together.

Hyde says anyone, whether they play trumpet, clarinet or trombone, can participate.

The site encourages all musicians to sound taps from their own front doors.

And signs did emerge this week of the government shutdown nearing an end, but hunger relief forces say even if food assistance is back to normal soon, SNAP's November pause could be felt for a while in North Dakota and elsewhere.

Backers of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program say it's uncharted territory because funds were never disrupted like this.

The shutdown resulted in a host of delays in court orders when the Trump administration argued it could only authorize partial payments.

North Dakota officials recently stated that some recipients could soon access partial benefits, but the Alliance to End Hungers' Karen Aron says they might have already spent money meant for other expenses on food.

People who participate in SNAP probably do not have a lot in savings that they can draw on.

So this can impact their finances not only for November but into December.

Arons, who has North Dakota roots, says this state previously had one of the lowest food insecurity rates, but she says it's no longer immune to hunger challenges made worse by higher food costs.

I'm Mike Moen.

Finally to Illinois, where an artist is on a mission to bring awareness to an issue that kills billions of birds annually across North America by sawing one cloth bird at a time.

Window strikes killed nearly 1,000 birds in one incident in Chicago in 2023 when they collided with a McCormick Place Lakeside Center.

The building has enough windows to cover two football fields and birds can confuse the reflections for open natural space.

Artist and Syracuse University professor Holly Greenberg says she learned about the avion collisions while in Evanston volunteering to restore natural habitats.

This volunteer next to me said, "Here we are planting all these native plants to build habitat for the birds and they just come and crash into our windows."

And I was like, "Wait, what?"

I'm Judith Ruiz Branch reporting.

This story produced with original reporting by Kate Moths with Arts Midwest.

This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service.

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