Good morning!🙋🏼♀️ I'mNicole Fallert.Something in your eye? Normally, a meeting of top military officialswould be scheduledmonths in advance. U.S. citizens seekmillions in damagesafter violent ICE arrests. A favorite Hollywood couplehave called it quits. They're coming to take a loyalty oath? To hear a speech about "warrior ethos"? To take a physical fitness test? Theories swirl as Americans try to explaina mysterious mass gathering Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hastily ordered last week, summoning hundreds of top military commanders to Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday. The Pentagon isn't dropping hints.America's highest-level officers from around the world are ordered to report to the base for an 8 a.m. meeting,which will likely cost taxpayers millions of dollarsand create security challenges at home and abroad. Could this have been an email?Exportstold USA TODAYthis could have been a conference call (at least), especially as annual travel-dedicated funds appropriated to military units expire on the day of the meeting. A government shutdown could trap the generals at Quantico. President Donald Trump and Democrats emerged from a private White House meeting Mondaywithout an agreementto keep the federal government open. If commanders' aides haven't booked return flights — they could get stuck. Rebecca Shouhed watched the surveillance video in horror, as one immigration agent knocked her 79-year-old, U.S. citizen father to the ground inside his car wash business. When he got back up and went outside, two others tackled him to the pavement. Rafie Ollah Shouhed, the owner of Valley Car Wash in Van Nuys, California, filed a $50 million tort claim Sept. 26 against DHS and its component agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming agents "illegally and unlawfully assaulted and battered" him during their operation.The increasingly violent arrest encountershave resulted in multiple, multi-million-dollar tort claims by people— including American citizens — who say they were severely harmed or wrongfully detained during ICE operations. Does ICE enforcementcontinueduring a government shutdown? Track Hurricane Humberto'spath. Trump says Israelagreed to a U.S. planto end the war in Gaza. ICEwantsNational Guard troops in Chicago. What does the NYC mayoral racelook likefor Mamdani and Cuomo? What's the weather today?Check your local forecast here. ~ Thomas Sanford, his voice breaking slightly,spoke to the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, in a brief phone interview Monday. His son, Thomas Jacob Sanford, attacked a church during a Sunday morning service. Four church members died in the attack. Eight others were wounded. The younger Sanford died in a gunfight with police. A growing crop of Americans are acquiring research-grade peptides and transforming them into a GLP-1-like drug amid affordability and access barriers facing weight loss medications like Ozempic. The process is casually referred to as "gray GLP-1s" or just "gray." But the popularity of "gray" has medical and legal experts concerned: "gray GLP-1s" are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and purchasing research-grade peptides for human use is illegal on state and federal levels. Misinformation is rampant, too.Medical providerstold USA TODAYthat Americans desperate to lose weight are "grasping at straws." Tyreek Hill has adislocated kneeand is undergoing testing. Here's what the $55 billion Jared Kushner-Saudi Arabia EA dealmeans for gamers. J.K. Rowlinghit backat Emma Watson. She never took Tylenol while pregnant.All 3 of her kids were diagnosed with autism anyway. ... We're not sure. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have split after 19 years of marriage. People and TMZ — which was first to share the news — reported Monday that Urban, 57, and Kidman, 58, are separated. USA TODAY has reached out to both Kidman and Urban's representatives for comment. The couple first met 20 years ago in Los Angeles and married just over a year later near Sydney, Australia, on June 25, 2006.You're not crying, we're crying. Bruce Springsteen attended theNew York Film Festivalfor the unveiling of "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," a new drama starring Jeremy Allen White ("The Bear") that traces the creation of the musician's 1982 "Nebraska" album.The rock icondidn't mince wordsat the premiere of his new biopic. Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY,sign up for the email here. Want to send Nicole a note? Shoot her an email at NFallert@usatoday.com. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Daily Briefing: Mystery meeting at Quantico
