Trump's California comments, France protests, Cornell rally (Updated)

Hi, I'm Kim Van Al in Wangenewy, New Zealand. And I'm Christopher Walgespr in Chicago. It's Tuesday, October 6th. Today, Trump's comments at a Nebraska rally provoked bipartisan pushback. LGBTQ migrants granted legal protection in the U.S. are deported to countries where they could be at more risk. The thousands hit the streets in Paris in the biggest day of school protests. This is Royce's World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the frontlines in 10 minutes, 7 days a week. President Trump at a campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, stumping for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections. The comments have been swiftly criticized by California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. And even a Republican congressional candidate, Jim Desmond, who is running near San Diego, pushed back on Trump's remarks, saying no American city is expendable. The White House says that Trump was talking about the threat that a nuclear-armed Iran could have posed to U.S. cities. The administration argues Trump's actions have actually made the country safer. While the remarks may have drawn applause in Nebraska, Trump risks alienating voters in California, which began early voting on Monday. Thousands have poured into Paris and other French cities in some of the biggest school protests France has seen in decades. House fired tear gas at demonstrators in Paris, Lyon, and Straussburg on Tuesday, rushing crowds of demonstrators with riot shields and batons. Students, teachers and parents are rallying over crumbling infrastructure, teacher shortages, and overcrowded classrooms. At least 215 students and 85 staff members have been injured since protests began in September. That includes a teenager who lost a hand and part of his forearm on Monday after picking up a non-lethal police grenade. More than 6,000 people have been arrested, most of the miners. The unrest comes just months before a presidential election, where President Emmanuel Macron's government is facing a budget standoff and surging borrowing costs. The protest movement is growing at Cornell University, after a student's gang rape allegations sparked national outrage. Students, faculty and activists marched across campus Monday demanding an external inquiry into how Cornell managed the allegations and calling for minimum sanctions for all sexual assaults on campus. We need to ban the frauds and start treating the root cultural issues that lead to environments where this is allowed or perpetuated. One sign held by a protestor read, "Prison sentences, not topic sentences." A reference to a claim made in the alleged victims' civil lawsuit that some of the seven students accused were allowed to seek reduced penalties from the university by writing essays. Cornell says essays weren't the only punishment. It says it shut down the fraternity chapter, involved, and disciplined the accused students with suspensions and expulsions. Rochester's reporter Ed O. went to the rally in Ithaca, New York and has more. Cornell's president has said that the allegations raised serious questions about the university's handling of the case and has welcomed an independent review. The students and protestors here say that the problem goes beyond just one case, that this is a systemic issue. The students here I spoke to describe both anger and grief and frustration that these issues keep on coming up over and over again. One thing that I noticed, a lot of the undergraduates were too young to remember me too. They are aware of the beginning of this new movement, I am Jane Doe, but many students I've spoken to have reflected that it's actually really sad that every new generation has to reckon with the exact same thing that nothing really changes. British police have arrested a 22-year-old man in London in connection to a suspected terror plot near the RAF Fairford Air Base. As the Air Base, the U.S. has used to launch strikes on Iran. Trump has linked the alleged threat to Iran, saying it prompted the removal of American B1 bombers from the base. Now Iran denies any involvement, the arrest comes after six other men in their 20s, including a British Iranian national, were detained in the case. All have since been released on bail while the investigation continues. After a Reuters report revealed McDonald's is using AI to help set menu prices across nearly 14,000 restaurants in the U.S., the vast food giant is now facing a proposed nationwide class action lawsuit. Reuters alleged McDonald's illegally coordinated prices between company owned and franchised locations, and they claim the company used algorithms trained on non-public data. McDonald's calls the allegations speculative and uninformed. That's Abdul Latifal, who two years ago was assaulted by a mob after he was seen kissing the man he loved in the West African nation of Togo. He fled his home and sought refuge in the United States, according to his asylum application. A U.S. immigration judge ruled it was not safe for him to be sent home. But in June, Latifal was forced onto a U.S. deportation plane, not back to Togo, but to Sierra Leone, a nation where gay men can be sentenced to life in prison. He's now in hiding in Ivory Coast. Latifal's case is one of 40 documented by Reuters where migrants were granted U.S. legal protection after being persecuted for their LGBT status, but were then deported to third countries that either criminalize same-sex relations or have been described by the State Department as hostile to LGBT people. Robby Cory-Bullet has more. These countries agree to take in migrants who have a judge's protection, not to be deported to their home country. Instead, they go to this third country, which is ostensibly safer for them and means that they're not being sent back to a place where they would face the same threat that spurred them to seek asylum in the U.S. and the first place. And the Trump administration has said that when it carries out these third country deportations, once somebody is no longer in U.S. custody, it's the receiving country that is responsible for what happens next, their well-being. What immigrants rights advocates and lawyers and the deportees who we spoke to themselves have said is that you're for LGBT people if you are deporting them to a third country that criminalizes same-sex relations or is known for a climate of hostility toward LGBT people. This idea that it's somehow safer doesn't apply and these deportations are no less dangerous than if you were to send them home. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a Belgian American physicist. Halzen helped conceive and build an Antarctic observatory buried deep beneath the ice. It's designed to detect high-energy neutrinos or ghost particles as they pass through the earth. They're elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise hidden information about the cosmos. More than 5,000 sensors are embedded in a cubic kilometer of pristine ice and searching for signals from space. That work has opened a new window into cosmic phenomena, including exploding stars and black holes. And Halzen says the real breakthrough may still be yet to come. An expanded version of the observatory is planned for 2033. For more on any of the stories from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting pure news straight from the source. 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