Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, October 16th, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America.

Packing and cracking. Plain, diverted, firings stopped, and CIA actions authorized. It's all coming up. Then Bill's

going to be here with your message of the day. But first, the Supreme Court appears ready to limit a

key part of the Voting Rights Act. This case is about the drawing of a second congressional district in

Louisiana for black people. The court's conservative majority seems to believe it's against the law to use race as a factor in creating a congressional district.

Now, you're a racist either way.

Either states pack more black people into a single congressional district, diluting their vote,

or the state will split black areas into multiple districts.

That's called cracking, thereby diluting their vote.

So you get called racist no matter what you do.

The Voting Rights Act does not require proof of intent to discriminate, but many of the

justices said that the plaintiffs should have to show at least some possibility of intent,

which is a tougher standard to meet.

Secretary of War, Pete Hexat, his plane was diverted, made an unscheduled landing in England

on the way back from a visit with NATO because of a cracked windshield.

After Hexath left Brussels, open-source flight trackers spotted his C-32 lose altitude

and begin broadcasting an emergency signal. In February, an Air Force C-32 lose altitude and begin broadcasting an emergency signal.

In February, an Air Force C-32 carrying Marco Rubio and the chairman of the Senate

Foreign Relations Committee was also forced to return to Washington after a crack in the windshield.

Another federal district judge issued an emergency order ordering the stopping of the Trump administration's

firing of government workers. Russ Vote has fired over 4,000 federal workers because of the government

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