As World Series Begins, Dodgers Look For Repeat

Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, October 24, 2025…

• The World Series gets underway Friday night from Toronto as the Blue Jays take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Fall Classic. LA is looking to become the first back-to-back champs in 25 years. Toronto hasn’t won a championship since 1993. 
• President Trump says he will not be sending a surge of federal agents to San Francisco. This comes after a call with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. While that’s eased some concerns in San Francisco, across the Bay in Alameda County, tensions remain high. 
• Some of the same families that were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during President Trump’s first administration are being split up again. That’s according to the ACLU, which is in a pitched battle with the government over what it says are violations of a federal settlement agreement.

Dodgers Take On Blue Jays In World Series

The Dodgers are back in the World Series, looking to repeat as Major League Baseball champions.

If they win, they’ll be the first team to win consecutive titles since the New York Yankees did it from 1998 to 2000. Standing in the way of L.A.’s quest for immortality: the Toronto Blue Jays.

In the postseason, Los Angeles has looked unstoppable. In the NLDS, the 96-66 Philadelphia Phillies managed only a single win over the Dodgers. And in the NLCS, Los Angeles swept the 97-65 Milwaukee Brewers. The Dodgers’ crown jewel, the two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, single-handedly powered Los Angeles to their Game 4 NLCS-clinching victory with three home runs as a batter and, as starting pitcher, 6.1 shutout innings with 10 strikeouts — a performance so herculean that it was instantly in the conversation for the greatest individual game of all-time.

Oakland Braces For Possible Federal Action After San Francisco Dodges Trump’s Attention

East Bay officials say they are still prepared for a possible increase in federal immigration enforcement in the absence of clear information about what President Trump’s decision to call off a federal “surge” in San Francisco means for Oakland.

Speaking at a press conference at Oakland City Hall Thursday morning, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said the city was monitoring the situation and would keep residents informed of any developments. “This is very fluid,” Lee said, flanked by East Bay officials at the local, state and federal levels. “There’s no information we can bring to you today to bring you up to date on what plans they have in place, but we are moving forward with our plans and we are prepared.”

Lee told reporters she had spoken with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie about his conversation with the president, and had been in touch with the governor’s office, but had not spoken with anyone in the federal government. “The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,” Lee said. “We know that Border Patrol agents are being stationed on Coast Guard Island. But let me be clear, [in] our city, as I said, we are fully prepared. We’re monitoring developments closely and will keep our residents informed if there are any confirmed changes.”

As of Thursday afternoon, Lee’s office said that she still had not received any communication from the White House or the Department of Homeland Security. “I will engage with anyone, at any level of government, to protect Oakland residents, as long as it respects our community’s values and constitutional rights,” Lee said.

Families Once Torn Apart At Border Face Renewed Threat Of Separation

Seven years ago, the first Trump administration triggered global condemnation when news broke that it was forcibly separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico Border. The outcry led the administration to shutter the program, but thousands of families remained shattered.

The American Academy of Pediatrics called the policy “government-sanctioned child abuse.” Physicians who examined statements from many separated parents and children noted that most met the diagnostic criteria for major mental health disorders as a result of their experience at the border. A class-action lawsuit followed, and the Biden administration later settled the case. In the settlement agreement, the federal government promised to repair some of the damage by reuniting the families in the U.S. and providing them with a path to asylum.

Now the second Trump administration is quietly abandoning that promise, putting thousands of once-separated families at risk of being split up a second time. At least four families have been deported already. That’s according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the original lawsuit, known as Ms. L. v. ICE, on behalf of separated families. The ACLU filed a motion in federal court this month asking for the recently deported families to be returned to the U.S., alleging that at least one of the deportations violated an explicit court order. It’s only one skirmish in a pitched battle that the ACLU and advocates across the country have been fighting since Trump was reelected. The organization said the settlement agreement is now in danger of unraveling.