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New York Post   Elon Musk announced Friday that Tesla is winding down Cybertruck production – seemingly bringing an end to the futuristic, boxy car that divided drivers and proved a regulatory headache. The chief executive of Tesla wrote in a post on X, his social-media platform, that the company is phasing out production of the Cybertruck at its Gigafactory near Austin, Texas “around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.” The massive automotive headquarters is Tesla’s only facility with the capability to manufacture the specialized components used in Cybertrucks – a sign that it’s the end of an era for the stainless steel trucks, at least temporarily. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in a statement Friday that he was discharged from the Johns Hopkins Hospital and will spend several weeks at a rehabilitation center as he recovers from a stroke. Murphy will miss “the next several weeks of votes” as he continues his recovery. The senator said he was diagnosed with a “small” stroke after feeling unwell last Saturday, and his office announced the medical emergency in a statement one day after it occurred. “The doctors are very encouraged by the progress I’ve made so far,” Murphy said in the statement. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Cornell University’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution expressing no confidence in the university’s administration, including Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff and other administrators. It’s a major rebuke of the university’s leadership. Members of the faculty told CBS News New York the resolution questioned whether Cornell’s administration can effectively address the ongoing crisis of sexual assault on campus. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Salon   Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier. When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place. A small group of journalists set out to create something original: a publication with a strong voice, a curiosity about the world and a belief that the internet could bring journalism and readers together in new ways. They helped pioneer a form of journalism that would come to define an entirely new era of publishing. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Washington Sun   Senior congressional Democrats have been studying a 181-page dossier that identifies hundreds of executives and companies for them to investigate after they take control of the House and Senate next year. The document, drafted by the think tank Groundwork Collaborative and reviewed by The Washington Sun, argues that the party should respond to the results of the election by aggressively probing large corporations, including the biggest tech giants, artificial intelligence labs, natural gas firms, private prisons and nursing home operators, among dozens of others. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Politico   Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the National Guard to begin using boats, several dozen marked police cars, humvees and light medium tactical vehicles in the nation’s capital — an escalation of the troops’ presence that could further blur the line between their military and law enforcement role. It’s not clear why the Trump administration is making the move now. The Oct. 29 memo obtained by POLITICO detailing the expansion doesn’t provide any further details beyond doubling down on Trump’s plan to use the National Guard to crack down on what he’s called a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   The Senate race in Alaska remains unresolved Wednesday, as a contest that has garnered widespread attention over the two candidates named Dan Sullivan faces a lengthy ballot-counting process. Incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola are facing off in the race, which also has two other candidates on the ballot: an independent candidate and retired teacher Daniel J. Sullivan, and another Republican, Gerald Heikes. With around three-quarters of the vote in as of Wednesday morning, the race remains a toss-up, according to CBS News estimates. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Young voters appeared to distance themselves from Republicans in this year’s midterm election blowout for Democrats, according to a new poll. In The AP Voter Poll, which surveyed 2026 midterm voters, 73 percent of voters aged 18 to 29 backed a Democrat for their House seat, while 25 percent of the age group backed a Republican. According to The Associated Press, which partnered with SSRS for the poll, the age group was about evenly divided between President Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Voters in Washington State are backing Initiative 638, a measure that would ban males who identify as female from playing on girls’ sports teams. Initiative 638, also called the Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Initiative, would prohibit biologically male students from competing with and against female students and would require girls to submit documents from their doctor stating that they were born female. While votes are still being counted in Washington, as of Wednesday, the “yes” vote on the initiative led with 57 percent to the “no” vote of 43 percent, and it seems most likely that once counting is done, the “yes” votes will prevail. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Nvidia has instructed data center partners worldwide to keep Chinese customers below half their cloud computing business, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Financial Times reports that Nvidia’s sales force and regional teams have spent the summer verbally passing along a new rule to data center partners: sell at least 51 percent of cloud computing services to non-Chinese companies. No such restriction existed before. The instructions were never put in writing, people familiar with the rules said, and they apply globally rather than just to data centers in Asia, according to two people familiar with the matter. The rule covers only future contracts; existing leasing agreements are untouched. Sources describe the move as pre-emptive, meant to head off criticism from U.S. lawmakers and other critics of Nvidia’s approach to China before it escalates further. Washington has been trying to close off routes that let intermediaries build a black market for Nvidia chips in China, and to stop Chinese companies from reaching advanced chips indirectly through overseas leasing deals. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Binance said Tuesday that a $6.3 billion hack of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was the result of a “multi-stage campaign,” including a malicious software download and a fake job interview. Hackers, whom both the FBI and outside analysts have linked to North Korea, moved billions of dollars’ worth of crypto out of Binance wallets Thursday, prompting crypto companies to freeze about $3 billion in assets. In a lengthy post on the social platform X, Binance explained that an engineer initially downloaded tampered code to install a popular AI coding tool in June. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Poland launched a large-scale security operation this week along its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the country’s national police chief said, and the Polish prime minister said the effort may have prevented a sabotage or provocation operation targeting the NATO member. Additional police and counterterrorism units, as well as troops from the elite military special forces unit GROM, have been deployed as part of the operation, which national police chief Marek Boroń said would run from Monday until at least Nov. 8. Polish and allied intelligence agencies had warned of possible sabotage operations and provocations during the first half of November, particularly along Poland’s border with Kaliningrad, and including possible border incursions by armed groups. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   President Donald Trump has shared what he is willing to do to protect his administration’s officials if Democrats, whose party continues moving further to the left, try to prosecute them. The news came as the crucial midterm elections culminate on Tuesday after months of Democrat and Republican candidates campaigning across the nation. During his interview with the New York Post‘s Miranda Devine, Trump revealed he was willing to give administration officials preemptive pardons if Democrats carried out their threats to target them, the outlet reported Monday. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Monday threatened to sue the Trump administration over Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) alleged use of city property. In a letter addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, acting ICE Director David Venturella and ICE New York field office Director Kenneth Genalo, Mamdani states that he is “deeply troubled by recent reports” of ICE officers “using property owned by the City of New York to stage enforcement operations.” “This use of City property in furtherance of federal immigration enforcement is unauthorized and is therefore illegal, endangers City residents, and sows fear among those who seek to access City property,” the mayor said in his letter. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in its effort to force California election workers to set aside mail ballots from thousands of people it claims are not U.S. citizens. The Justice Department’s request for emergency relief came after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to order California officials to segregate the ballots cast by more than 20,000 people included on a government list of suspected noncitizens. More than 6 million mail ballots have been returned statewide as of Sunday, according to the California secretary of state’s office. Voting has been underway in California since early October. There are more than 23 million registered voters in the state. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   A video of a Minnesota official telling Somali residents they can show up to vote in Tuesday’s election without being registered has prompted concerns about election integrity in the North Star State. “If you’re already registered to vote, you don’t need to bring anything with you,” Minnesota Voter Outreach Director Melanie Hazelip can be seen saying on Somali TV. She continued, “You just show up to your early voting location, which is usually the county office or City Hall. Minneapolis and the bigger jurisdictions have a lot of extra places where you can go, like a lot of libraries or community centers. As long as you’re registered to vote, you don’t need to bring anything with you.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   The national debt topped the entire gross domestic product (GDP) for fiscal 2026, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). From the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of this year, the country’s economic output was more than $32.2 trillion, according to the BEA’s non-seasonally adjusted statistics. As of Sept. 30, the final day of the third quarter, debt held by the public was more than $32.4 trillion, per the Treasury Department. Debt held by the public is what the federal government owes to outside entities, including banks, state and local governments and foreign nations. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Pope Leo XIV has become the first pontiff to vote in a U.S. election. The Vatican confirmed Friday that the American-born pope submitted a mail-in ballot in his native Chicago ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing his longstanding belief in civic participation. The pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, “has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so,” the Holy See press office said. “The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,” the Vatican said in a statement. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security. When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, “no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis.” “There’s not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding, we’re actually not withholding anything based upon [national defense information],” said Blanche, who was deputy attorney general at the time. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   The Canadian government on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, to be conducted on people who have lost the mental capacity to give informed consent for the procedure. According to Justice Minister Sean Fraser, the idea is to give Canadians a way to authorize euthanasia in advance, when they are of sound mind, “so their wishes could be respected if ⁠they are diagnosed with an incurable illness that could take ​away the ability to make this decision.” Fraser promised there would be “rigorous safeguards to protect people and ensure the decision remains voluntary and free from external pressure.” He said, for example, that MAID would not be conducted automatically based on pre-authorization, but only for patients who are undergoing “intolerable suffering” and have lost the mental capacity to ask doctors to end their lives. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Conservative influencer James O’Keefe was charged Wednesday in Minnesota after he and fellow right-leaning commentator Cam Higby misrepresented themselves using registered voters’ names at polling places during the state’s primary election in August. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced during a press conference the two men are facing felony unlawful voting and identity fraud charges. “Elections are the bedrock of democracy and their protection is one of our highest priorities,” Moriarty said in a statement. “Individuals engaging in unlawful conduct related to our elections will be held accountable.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Guardian   The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled Brazil and is on his way to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election to the leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. A report by the news website Metrópoles, citing people close to the politician’s family, said he was en route to the US. “The plane is in flight,” Metrópoles reported, without making clear where it had departed from. Bolsonaro allies told Metrópoles that he would land in Florida on Tuesday afternoon and planned to request political asylum. “The Donald Trump administration has been informed,” the website added. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) deputy director and chief medical officer, is leaving the agency after just four months on the job. Shuford, an infectious disease physician, was a former Texas health commissioner. She was appointed in April as part of a leadership team to support director Erica Schwartz, along with Sean Slovenski as CDC’s chief operating officer. Shuford will stay on until just after the midterm elections. Her last day at CDC will be Nov. 12, the agency said. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Two violent attacks by armed individuals — one on October 20 and another on October 24 — left 60 Christians dead and 20 homes burned to the ground in Ethiopia. The Independent reported, “14 people were killed in Merti district” on the 20th and another “46… [were killed] in Shirka district four days later.” Moreover, over 20 people were injured “and 20 homes destroyed.” READ THE FULL STORY 

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Breitbart   Brazilian conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on Sunday night affirmed that it is “impossible” for him to recognize the results of that day’s presidential runoff election which resulted in a narrow victory for incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro announced that his campaign team will formally request the annulment of the results on grounds that the “rules of the game were changed” during the election. Sunday’s highly-anticipated 2026 presidential runoff election in Brazil concluded with a narrow victory for Lula, the 80-year-old leader of the far-left Workers’ Party (PT), securing a reelection for a fourth four-year term. According to the official, finalized results published by the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Lula was reelected with 51.79 percent of the votes while Bolsonaro received 48.21 percent. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Only two weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, Pope Leo XIV has been given the medical green light to embark on an ambitious 12-day tour of South America next month. “Based on his current clinical status, as well as the instrumental and laboratory tests performed, there are no contraindications that would prevent him from undertaking his upcoming apostolic journey to Latin America as planned,” the Vatican said in a statement on Monday. “The Pope is following medical recommendations with great care and diligence, and with a deep determination to continue serving the Church.” The trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, set for Nov. 6 to 17, is particularly grueling. The 71-year-old pontiff plans to travel to 10 cities, board 14 flights, and attend many public appearances and religious ceremonies. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   A federal judge ruled Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) unlawfully fired and must provide back pay to Maurene Comey, former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter who was terminated as a prosecutor last year. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman rejected the Trump administration’s arguments that it had constitutional authority to fire her. “Defendants’ argument is contrary to an unbroken line of Supreme Court decisions dating back almost two centuries, and the Supreme Court itself has not formally overruled any of those decisions. That is sufficient, in itself, to reject the argument,” Furman wrote in his 55-page opinion. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit that aims to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses his reelection bid. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the district of Alaska, argues that a win for Democrat Mary Peltola could be blocked by the controversial appearance on the ballot of a candidate with the same name as the incumbent. The filing alleges that Daniel J. Sullivan, who goes by Dan Sullivan, entered the race as a Republican “with the intention of misleading” the incumbent’s supporters, and that his inclusion on the ballot would cause voter confusion. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Military review boards in the Navy and Marine Corps have voted to retain transgender-identifying service members in nine of 12 cases despite Pentagon instructions directing them to recommend discharge, according to a report from the New York Times, revealing resistance among some military review boards to President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban. The New York Times reported that Navy boards have recommended retaining transgender sailors in seven of nine cases since hearings began in July, while Marine Corps boards have recommended retaining Marines in two of three cases since August. The outcomes differ significantly from those in the Army, where approximately 50 hearings have resulted in discharge recommendations in all but roughly five cases, and the Air Force, where approximately six hearings have resulted in recommendations for discharge in every known case. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   President Trump on Friday slashed tariffs on a handful of Canadian products that are used widely by Maine’s agricultural industry, a move cheered by Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is facing a tough reelection battle in the New England state. The items that are no longer subject to 50% tariffs include corrugated boxes, crates, plastic sacks, packing machinery, refrigeration equipment and seaweed, according to a White House proclamation. Several new categories of Canadian products were slapped with 50% duties in exchange, including shampoo, vinyl flooring, coffins, carpets and window-unit air conditioners. In a statement, Collins said the carveouts will protect Maine farmers, including wild blueberry producers who rely on “specialized harvesting boxes from Canada,” and apple and potato farmers who also use Canadian products during the harvest. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Politico   Elon Musk is facing a gauntlet of Democratic oversight. Democrats have long eyed investigating the world’s richest man and the GOP’s top donor. They may get their chance if they win back congressional power in November, and senior members are mulling how a range of panels could target Musk and a huge swath of his businesses. On X, the tech mogul responded, “Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets.”   READ THE FULL STORY   

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FauquierNow   A Stafford man is being held without bond after allegedly taking a sledgehammer to the Iwo Jima monument in Quantico. Around 10:13 p.m. Wednesday, Prince William County police officers responded to the statue near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road in Quantico, just outside Marine Corps Base Quantico. Officers found a man – later identified as 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano – “actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer,” according to a police news release. Officers quickly detained Maldonado Soriano. READ THE FULL STORY   

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News 5 Cleveland   If Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is elected governor, he said he would allow 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns. In contrast, Democrat Dr. Amy Acton is focusing on bipartisan safety initiatives. Both federal and state law ban the majority of 18- to 20-year-olds from buying handguns. Ramaswamy said that isn’t fair, since 18-year-olds can join the military. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Armed and in uniform, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status — and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections, a CBS News Investigation has found. The operation is part of an effort to root out potential noncitizen voters ahead of the midterms. DHS has alleged that there could be as many as 250,000 citizens illegally registered to vote, although election experts have disputed the accuracy of this figure. Just 156 people have been charged with voting-fraud related offenses since the beginning of the Trump administration, according to the Department of Justice. There are 227 million registered voters in the U.S. Critics say that sending armed federal agents to the doors of U.S. residents could be intimidating for legal voters. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Fewer Americans than last year think the federal government is effective at making a positive impact on people’s lives, according to a new poll released Wednesday. In the Bentley University-Gallup Business in Society survey, about 43 percent of respondents said the federal government has been effective in making a positive impact on people’s lives. This is down 8 percentage points from last year. The federal government is also the institution least trusted to act in society’s best interest, with 26 percent of respondents saying so. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Liberal Americans who fled to Europe after President Donald Trump’s reelection told Wired magazine that they made a mistake and found European countries not what they are cracked up to be. In a surprising article headlined “They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret It,” the magazine interviewed expats who sought “political refuge in the wake of Trump’s second term.” Most wanted to remain anonymous, fearing existing backlash from liberal Americans on social media. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   The gun used by a 16-year-old who shot and killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, last week was a birthday gift from the shooter’s mom, sources told CBS News. The Maverick 88 pump-action 12-gauge shotgun was purchased legally in August 2026 by Shauntai Nickerson, the mother of Griffin J. John II, and given to him for recreational use, the sources said. In 2020, Nickerson told a local television station that her son, who was 10 years old at the time, had special needs and was struggling with remote learning during the pandemic. She told KTVZ, “It’ll be great for my son to get back in there and get the help that he needs with the skilled teachers that he needs to get it from.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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CNBC   A new lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges President Donald Trump’s invocation of a Depression-era law to impose 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Trump in July used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap those steep tariffs on Canadian hockey sticks, wine, honey, wigs, and other products in response to alleged trade discrimination by Ottawa. It was the first time the 96-year-old law had ever been used to impose a tariff. “Section 338 is a relic of the retaliation-based tariff policy” that has been “impliedly repealed” by subsequent legislation, the civil complaint filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade says. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that the U.S. government’s posture toward Ukraine is unchanged, but emphasized that “our guys” need Patriot missiles interceptors too. “There’s a lot of things that have been said in the press that are not true about the Department of War,” Hegseth told reporters in Eau Claire, Wisc. when asked about reports of the Pentagon holding up some Patriot missile interceptor transfer from Kyiv allies. “We haven’t changed our posture in any way toward the Ukrainians, but certainly with things like interceptors, we want to make sure our guys have the most possible as well,” Hegseth said. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   President Trump said Monday he has not yet agreed to a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but he said he is open to it. “I would do it,” Trump told reporters on the White House’s South Lawn before heading to a midterm rally in Kansas. “Not so much on Ukraine because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much, and the same with China,” the president continued. “We would have it to talk about weapons and denuclearization.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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New York Post   President Trump predicted Monday that Paris would become “a Muslim city very soon” as he accused immigrants of causing a shocking wave of rioting and looting. Trump urged French President Emmanuel Macron to reduce migration into the country and “take those bad people out” — in apparent reference to his own mass-deportation campaign in the US. “I told him a long time ago, ‘You’re making a big mistake in France. You’re letting everybody from the world come in. The whole world was coming in,’” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a campaign rally in Kansas. READ THE FULL STORY   

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NewsNation   Federal agents collected garbage in hopes of obtaining the DNA of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and her family before this week’s raid at the Minnesota Democrat’s home in Washington, D.C., sources tell NewsNation. Investigators historically have used secretive “dumpster diving” to obtain DNA or other evidence when search warrants were not possible or would have tipped off investigatory targets. It is legal for law enforcement to collect trash that has been discarded for pickup and comb through it for genetic material. Multiple sources familiar with the probe tell NewsNation that potential DNA evidence is critical to the investigation into Omar. They say the case is broader than the public may assume based on longstanding accusations surrounding her immigration history and marital status. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Employers who try to extend the visas of their temporary foreign workers must file new justifications for not hiring skilled Americans, say new regulations from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The rule change ended the prior deference rules, which say agency examiners must defer to years-old corporate justifications for foreign workers. The likely result will be many more denials of requests for visa workers, such as the H-1B and J-1 workers being targeted by Vice-President JD Vance’s anti-fraud campaign. “DHS believes that removing deference [to prior justifications] would enhance program integrity and thereby better protect the interests of U.S. workers, consistent with this Administration’s priorities,” said the DHS statement. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is pressing Elon Musk to explain Ukraine’s loss of military access to Starlink and expressing hope that Ukraine’s restricted access to the space-based communications network was because of an error and not a deliberate decision. Tillis called on Musk in a social media post to “please tell me these overnight disruptions to Starlink terminals in Ukraine were unintended — that @SpaceX is doing everything it can to fix a temporary glitch.” Tillis warned that “intentionally degrading Ukraine’s ability to defend itself might be construed as aiding and abetting a mass murder,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. READ THE FULL STORY   

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WVTM 13   Pope Leo XIV thanked fellow Catholics for their prayers on Wednesday in his first message since he underwent surgery for lung cancer in Rome. “As you know, I have been unable to be among you during these days,” Leo wrote in a statement to Catholics participating in a symposium for the 10th anniversary of Amoris laetitia, a document written by his predecessor, Pope Francis. “I thank you warmly for your prayers and for the work you have done together. Your sharing of experiences and attentive listening are indeed a gift to the whole Church,” he said. “I ask you please to pray for me, as I pray for you.” READ THE FULL STORY 

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CBS News   The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery. It said the diagnosis had been suspected by preoperative tests and was confirmed during surgery. The 71-year-old pontiff was in the operating room for about 3 hours, the statement said. The surgery itself lasted approximately 90 minutes. “The surgery was successful, and there were no complications,” the statement said. “To ensure a radical resection, the lower lobe of the right lung was removed using a video-assisted technique,” the Vatican said in a statement. “Intraoperative histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary adenocarcinoma, as suspected from pre-operative tests.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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CNBC   Bank of America was hit with more than $1.2 billion in federal penalties Tuesday after regulators said the nation’s second-largest bank failed for years to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions and fix longstanding anti-money-laundering problems. More than $1 billion of the unreported activity involved national security and other high-priority risks, including Chinese money-laundering networks and activity tied to the southwest border, Treasury said in a press release. The action also lands less than a day before the bank reports quarterly earnings Wednesday morning. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   The U.S. Embassy in Caracas announced the restoration and reopening of a plaza honoring Abraham Lincoln Venezuela’s capital city. The Abraham Lincoln Plaza, often shortened to Lincoln Plaza, is a public space featuring a bust of the sixteenth United States president located in Bello Monte, a neighborhood in Baruta, one the five municipalities that form the broader Caracas Metropolitan District. The plaza was originally built in the 1950s but had fallen into disrepair in recent years as a result of the Venezuelan socialist regime’s animosity toward the United States during the rule of deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro. The American Embassy in Caracas announced on Monday that the plaza was restored and reopened on Friday during an official event alongside Mayor of Baruta Darwin González. The restoration of the Lincoln Plaza is part of the Trump administration’s Freedom 250 celebrations commemorating 250 years of American freedom. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   House Speaker Mike Johnson said he intends to serve as GOP leader if Republicans lose their House majority in November — but he remains bullish about the party’s chances despite significant headwinds. “In the unlikely scenario where we lost the majority, I would expect my colleagues would ask me to continue leading this conference, even if we have divided government,” Johnson told CBS News’ Robert Costa in an interview near Johnson’s hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Johnson, who has led House Republicans as speaker since 2023, has repeatedly pushed back on questions about his plans if the GOP loses the majority in the lower chamber in November. Known for his optimistic outlook, the speaker has expressed confidence that Republicans will hold on to the chamber, or even grow their narrow majority. But midterm dynamics traditionally boost the party opposing the party in control of the White House, and the unpopular war in Iran, high gas and diesel prices and other controversial Trump administration policies have added to those challenges for the GOP. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Washington Examiner   New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling for a comprehensive review of the New York City Police Department’s use-of-force policies over the coming months after several high-profile incidents involving police and renewed calls from progressives for change. “When the government uses force against a New Yorker, the standard for accountability must be at its highest,” Mamdani said. “Every New Yorker deserves to know that force will be used lawfully, carefully and only when necessary.” The reforms include measures to prevent officers facing disciplinary charges from avoiding accountability by retiring before their cases are resolved, ensure compliance with state reporting requirements for police-involved deaths, and standardize how the department shares information with families after critical incidents. The NYPD will also submit personnel information to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services when officers retire with pending disciplinary charges, helping prevent them from being hired by other New York law enforcement agencies. READ THE FULL STORY   

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