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Politico   A new poll that includes large oversamples of young voters of color shows Donald Trump has massively increased his support among groups that he previously performed poorly with in 2020. It underscores some of the challenges Kamala Harris has had connecting with younger male voters — a demographic that typically breaks for Democrats, but is showing signs of shifting away from the party this election cycle. READ THE FULL STORY                

The Epoch Times Steve Bannon will serve the rest of his prison sentence, a federal judge ordered on Oct. 22. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected Bannon’s request to be released early from prison. “Whether viewed as a motion for reconsideration or not, the Court concludes that the relief the Defendant seeks is not warranted,” Nichols said in a minute order released by the U.S. District Court in Washington. READ THE FULL STORY      

CBS News   Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested Tuesday on charges of sex trafficking and engaging in interstate prostitution, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The indictment contains more than a dozen counts, and includes allegations of sex trafficking between December 2008 and March 2015. Jeffries allegedly leveraged his position as CEO of the company to lure young men into sex by suggesting they could become models for the fashion company, prosecutors said. READ THE FULL STORY                 

Breitbart   Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized material in addition to her book Smart on Crime, an analysis by Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium found Tuesday. The additional allegations of plagiarism diminish the credibility of the Harris campaign’s denial of plagiarism. The Beacon’s Sibarium reported Harris also plagiarized pages of congressional testimony from a Republican colleague and a fictionalized story about human trafficking. READ THE FULL STORY 

The Hill   The Cook Political Report on Monday shifted the Pennsylvania Senate race into the “toss-up” category and moved the Nebraska Senate contest from likely to “lean Republican” with just 15 days until the November election. With Pennsylvania shifting to the right from “lean Democrat,” three of the “blue wall” states are now toss-ups.   Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is looking to nab a fourth term in office over Republican David McCormick, who has narrowed the gap to inside the margin of error. READ THE FULL STORY                 

New York Post   Should former President Donald Trump win back the White House, as many as 4.5 million migrants who entered the US illegally will be a “first priority” for deportation, House Speaker Mike Johnson told The Post in an exclusive interview. Trump, 78, has already floated the removal of “nearly 20 million” migrants if he becomes the 47th president — and his closest ally in the House sees an opportunity to fast-track the removal of the most dangerous of the lot. “There’s about 4.5 million who would be the first priority for that, people who’ve already committed crimes,” Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday. “They’re in the system now [for] shoplifting, or whatever it is … or [having] done things that are untoward or unlawful.” READ THE FULL STORY      

Breitbart   Swing states are disproportionately facing unaffordable home prices, an analysis conducted by the Washington Post reveals, and it is crushing middle class Americans. Since 2019, when former President Donald Trump was in office, unsustainable housing costs and rents have increasingly burdened Americans living in swing states like North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, the analysis finds. READ THE FULL STORY                 

Catholic News Agency   The Catholic population in Europe fell by nearly half a million people in 2022 but continued to increase in every other part of the world, according to data released by the Vatican this week. According to the Vatican numbers, released by the Holy See’s Fides News Agency, the Catholic population in Europe was just under 285.6 million people at the end of 2022. That is about 474,000 fewer Catholics than was reported in 2021. The Catholic population decline coincided with a total population reduction on the continent, which recorded a net loss of 517,000 people living in Europe over the year. READ THE FULL STORY          

Breitbart   A whopping 37 percent of credit card holders have either maxed out or come close to it since inflation gripped the nation under the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, a Bankrate/YouGov survey found Thursday. Credit card debt rose significantly due to rising costs,which soared about 20 percent on average across the board. “Inflation does not care if you are rich or poor. Everyone can feel its wrath,” Bankrate analyst Sarah Foster stated. “With limited options to absorb those higher costs, many low-income Americans have had no choice but to take on debt to afford costlier essentials — at a time when credit card rates are near record highs.” READ THE FULL STORY 

Axios   Israeli officials said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Hamas has not commented publicly on the reports. Sinwar was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 people and set off Israel’s year-long war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel has made killing him a key objective, and may now be more willing to scale back its military operations in Gaza. Most of the people killed on Oct. 7 were civilians, including 43 Americans. 250 people were taken hostage, among them 12 Americans. READ THE FULL STORY               

Center for Immigration Studies   I recently came across a CIA report that was a shocker: Of the three countries with the highest net in-migration—that is, the highest proportion of migrants entering compared to those leaving– in the world, Ukraine is first and Venezuela is third. Why are a war-torn country and an economic basket case leading expat refuges like the British Virgin Islands (number 4), the Caymans (5), and Monaco (7) in terms of in-migration? And, more importantly, why are our migrant-friendly policies for Ukrainians and Venezuelans still in effect? Before I continue, as the CIA explains: “Net migration rate compares the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population)”. The higher the rate, the larger the number of proportional annual arrivals. READ THE FULL STORY               

NBC Montana   Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of an illegal Venezuelan migrant convicted of assaulting a New York City police officer in Times Square. Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel is one of several individuals who were caught on video kicking and beating two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers earlier this year. He reportedly smirked but did not speak during his sentencing for the crime. ICE wrote Izquiel first entered the U.S. near the Rio Grande Valley in Texas in August of 2023. He illegally entered the country without being inspected by Border Patrol agents, the agency said. After he was given an expedited order of removal, the migrant withdrew his application for admission to the U.S. and voluntarily returned to Mexico, according to ICE. READ THE FULL STORY                   

CBS News   President Joe Biden on Thursday said an additional $4.5 billion in student debt is being canceled for about 60,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters and others, bringing the number of public service workers to get relief during his administration to more than 1 million. More than $73 billion in loans have been forgiven under a 2007 initiative, according to an Education Department news release. Borrowers eligible for the latest round of relief should learn of their debt being cleared in coming weeks.  The borrowers getting relieved of debt are benefitting from reforms to the government’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The PSLF program, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, lets certain not-for-profit and government employees have their federal student loans canceled after 10 years of monthly payments. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2013 estimated that a quarter of American workers might be eligible.  READ THE FULL STORY                  

CBS News   The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a top election official had no authority to declare unconstitutional a state law that restored the voting rights of those who have been convicted of a felony, issuing a decision with implications for the upcoming election. In July, Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen ordered county election officials to reject voter registrations of those with felony convictions, citing an opinion by Attorney General Mike Hilgers. That opinion, which Evnen had requested, deemed as unconstitutional a law passed this year by the Legislature immediately restoring the voting rights of people who have completed the terms of their felony sentences. Evnen’s order could have prevented 7,000 or more Nebraska residents from voting in the upcoming election, the American Civil Liberties Union said. Many of them reside in Nebraska’s Omaha-centered 2nd Congressional District, where both the race for president and Congress could be in play. READ THE FULL STORY                 

Politico   Elon Musk’s SpaceX is suing a California agency that rejected his company’s plan to increase rocket launches from an Air Force base in Santa Barbara County, arguing that commissioners engaged in political bias while making the decision. Attorneys from Los Angeles-based law firm Venable LLP filed the complaint against the California Coastal Commission in Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday, days after Musk threatened in a weekend post on X to take legal action against the agency. The lawsuit argues that the agency’s 12-member commission “engaged in naked political discrimination” during last week’s debate on a Department of Defense proposal to expand the number of SpaceX rocket launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base from 36 to 50. READ THE FULL STORY              

Breitbart   Former President Donald Trump vowed to “just ban it” when questioned at a town hall for women that aired on Wednesday about keeping men from playing on female sports teams and entering female spaces. The all-women town hall was held in the battleground state of Georgia and aired at 11:00 a.m. on Fox News’s “The Faulkner Focus.” The second question for the former president was about men who claim to be transgender and identify as women playing on female sports teams and entering female spaces, such as locker rooms. When host Harris Faulkner asked the women in attendance how many “are worried about biological men and boys competing against women and girls in sports,” every hand in the audience went up. Then a woman with nine grandchildren, including six who are girls, asked Trump how he plans to address the issue.  READ THE FULL STORY                 

FAIR    Illegal aliens and open-borders advocates are re-grouping after their first attempt to sue the University of California stalled. The plaintiffs sued the University of California in early October claiming it was illegally denying them on-campus jobs. The lawsuit was filed just days after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation that would have authorized the school to hire them. The plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are both illegal aliens. Jeffry Umaña Muñoz is an illegal alien who attended UCLA as an undergraduate and was denied employment at the university bookstore and cafeteria. Discussing the lawsuit at a press conference, he said, “I experienced firsthand the pain and difficulty of being denied the right to on-campus employment at my university.” He continued, “At the crux of this case are thousands of undocumented students and our families who simply want the freedom to study, work, and fully contribute to our universities.” The other plaintiff, Iliana Perez, is an illegal alien who is a DACA recipient. Umaña Muñoz and Perez, along with two unnamed plaintiffs, have filed the lawsuit with the help of Organized Power in Numbers and the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. READ THE FULL STORY               …

Washington Examiner   With just 21 days until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in national polls. However, Trump maintains a slight edge over Harris among the seven battleground states on which the race hinges. That’s a shift from a month ago when the Democratic nominee had the advantage among swing-state voters. Both candidates are sprinting to visit the battleground states as much as possible while also adding on interviews and town halls meant to shore up support among women, men, and black voters before Nov. 5. READ THE FULL STORY                   

Breitbart   Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com. TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies set by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure: Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific abuse, as I discovered when I spoke to Landon Dickeson, the 36-year-old executive director for Bob’s House of Hope in Denton, Texas, the only shelter for male sex-trafficking victims ages 18 and up in the country. Dickeson says they’ve seen teens from Central and South America who have been so tortured by their traffickers they can barely function. Dickeson described caring for teens who have brain damage from being so heavily drugged—teens who have had their fingernails pulled out, and lemon juice poured on wounds. When I asked to interview one of their migrant residents, Dickeson said they simply weren’t in any condition to speak to anyone, much less a reporter. “We think the cartels and gangs use torture as a control method for the males,” said Dickeson. “They’re not going to fight back if they chain their victims to a radiator, beat them up frequently, or drug them.” READ THE FULL STORY …

New York Post The proof of Tren de Aragua’s violence in Aurora, Colo., is written in blood. A fed-up landlord in the Denver suburb has shared a bloody photo of one of its workers after the man was allegedly beaten to a pulp by members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang for refusing to let them stay in a vacant apartment they had taken over. The Brooklyn-based company claimed that the gang effectively stole entire apartment complexes out from under it by threatening employees and tried to extort it for a cut of the rent in exchange for being allowed to keep operating the properties. READ THE FULL STORY      

Fox News Business True Value retail stores, which are independently owned and operated, are not part of the bankruptcy True Value, which sells hardware, tools, lumber, plumbing and heating supplies, and other home improvement goods, has between $500 million and $1 billion in total liabilities, according to its Chapter 11 petition in Delaware bankruptcy court. “After a thorough evaluation of strategic alternatives, we determined that the sale of our business was the path forward to maximize value and best serve our retail partners and other stakeholders into the future,” said Chris Kempa, True Value’s CEO.  READ THE FULL STORY    

The Verge Google plans to buy electricity from next-generation nuclear reactors. It announced the deal yesterday, which it says is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase electricity from advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) that are still under development. Google inked the deal with engineering company Kairos Power, which plans to get its first SMR up and running by 2030. Google agreed to purchase electricity from “multiple” reactors that would be built through 2035. Google needs a lot more clean energy to meet its climate goals while pursuing its AI ambitions. New nuclear technologies are still unproven at scale, but the hope is that they can provide carbon pollution-free electricity while solving some of the problems that come with traditional nuclear power plants. READ THE FULL STORY    

CBS News Florida residents who fled hundreds of miles to escape Hurricane Milton made slow trips home on crowded highways, weary from their long journeys and the cleanup work awaiting them but also grateful to be coming back alive. “I love my house, but I’m not dying in it,” Fred Neuman said Friday while walking his dog outside a rest stop off Interstate 75 north of Tampa. Neuman and his wife live in Siesta Key, where Milton made landfall Wednesday night as a powerful, Category 3 hurricane. Heeding local evacuation orders ahead of the storm, they drove nearly 500 miles to Destin on the Florida Panhandle. Neighbors told the couple the hurricane destroyed their carport and inflicted other damage but Neuman shrugged, saying their insurance should cover it. READ THE FULL STORY                 

The Hill   Vice President Harris has a 3-point edge over former President Trump in battleground Pennsylvania, according to new polling. The New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College survey, released Saturday, shows Harris leading Trump 50 percent to 47 percent among likely voters in the Keystone State.   Pollsters and analysts say Pennsylvania more than any other state will decide the winner of the election, now less than a month away. READ THE FULL STORY                 

NBC Montana  If interest rates go down, so should mortgage rates. That’s what many people expected after the Federal Reserve lowered rates by 50 basis points last month, but that hasn’t been the case. The opposite has been happening with rates going up. According to data from Mortgage Daily News, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has jumped about 47 basis points since the Fed rate cut in September to right around 6.62%. READ THE FULL STORY                   

The Hill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed Thursday to unseal additional filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out his election interference case against former President Trump, something Trump’s attorneys signaled they plan to challenge. Chutkan agreed to a request from Smith to unseal exhibits that accompany his 180-page brief asserting that prosecutors can still bring much of their Jan. 6 case against Trump in the wake of a Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity.    Smith argues Trump’s efforts to thwart the transfer of power were the unlawful actions of a private citizen, not of a president. READ THE FULL STORY    

Foreign Affairs Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline. But whereas the last implosion was caused by a deadly disease borne by fleas, the coming one will be entirely due to choices made by people. With birthrates plummeting, more and more societies are heading into an era of pervasive and indefinite depopulation, one that will eventually encompass the whole planet. What lies ahead is a world made up of shrinking and aging societies. Net mortality—when a society experiences more deaths than births—will likewise become the new norm. Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life. Human beings have no collective memory of depopulation. Overall global numbers last declined about 700 years ago, in the wake of the bubonic plague that tore through much of Eurasia. In the following seven centuries, the world’s population surged almost 20-fold. And just over the past century, the human population has quadrupled. READ THE FULL…

Semafor The New York publisher who is now the lead bidder for the Telegraph, the British Conservative Party’s newspaper of record, is still working to assemble investors to back the $550 million deal. Dovid Efune, the bidder, has approached the group founded by the conservative American business figure Charles Koch, Stand Together, the organization confirmed. Efune, the publisher of the New York Sun, was reportedly poised to enter exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph Media Group from the Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund that acquired it from its owners, the Barclay Brothers, but was blocked by the British government from taking it over. A person familiar with the talks said the parties have still not entered the exclusivity period, which had been expected to begin Wednesday. READ THE FULL STORY    

NBC News Hurricane Milton wrought havoc across Florida, where it whipped up tornadoes, cut power for more than 3.3 million energy customers, put some 11 million people at risk of flooding and caused at least 12 deaths. Milton was moving into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday morning after making landfall the previous evening as a Category 3 storm in Siesta Key, roughly 70 miles south of Tampa. At least six deaths have been confirmed in St. Lucie County on the state’s Atlantic coast, where tornadoes touched down. At least two people were killed in St. Petersburg during the storm, police said. At least three people died in Volusia County, according to the sheriff. And one person is dead in Citrus County after a tree fell on their car, the Florida Highway Patrol said. READ THE FULL STORY                     

Breitbart   Top Democrat politicians and operatives fear polling numbers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania show Vice President Kamala Harris running behind former President Donald Trump, Axios’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei reported.  The report confirmed private Harris campaign polling from earlier this week that showed Harris is in a lot of trouble, according to political analyst Mark Halperin. A survey published Wednesday by Quinnipiac, a pollster that is historically biased towards Democrats, found Trump took a three-point lead in a head-to-head matchup in Wisconsin and a three-point lead in Michigan, while Harris led Trump in Pennsylvania by three points. All three state polls were within the margin of error. READ THE FULL STORY                 

CBS News The trial of Bryan Kohberger, who has been charged with killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, has been set.  The trial will begin on Aug. 11, 2025, and continue through Nov. 7, 2025, according to a scheduling order issued by the state of Idaho. It had been scheduled to start in June 2025. Other hearing dates will be held before the start of the trial. On Nov. 7, 2024, there will be a hearing addressing motions challenging the death penalty as a possible sentence, if Kohberger is convicted. Prosecutors have previously said they plan to ask for the death penalty if Kohberger is found guilty. READ THE FULL STORY                   

The Hill Incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is trailing Republican rival Tim Sheehy by 8 points in the Montana Senate race, according to the latest survey from The New York Times/Siena College. The polling, released Thursday, shows Sheehy garnering 52 percent support from likely voters in the state compared to Tester’s 44 percent. Four percent were undecided or did not reveal their preferred candidate.   The race, one of the most hotly contested in the upper chamber, could influence which party controls the Senate next session — Democrats currently have a razor-thin majority. READ THE FULL STORY                     

Politico Eight days into the fiscal year, the federal government has spent nearly half the disaster relief that Congress has allocated for the next 12 months. The rapid spending — which is likely to accelerate as aid flows to states pulverized by Hurricanes Helene and Milton — soon will force the Federal Emergency Management Agency to restrict spending unless Congress approves additional funding.   “I’m going to have to evaluate how quickly we’re burning the remaining dollars in the Disaster Relief Fund,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Wednesday during a news briefing, hours before Milton began tearing into Florida’s Gulf Coast and spawning floods, tornadoes and power outages across the state. READ THE FULL STORY                   

The Post Millennial A professor at the University of Kansas has been put on administrative leave after telling students during a recent lecture that men who do not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot. The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university’s Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department, according to KU’s faculty directory. A video of the incident posted to social media has since gone viral. In the clip, Lowcock can be heard telling his students, “There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don’t think females are smart enough to be president.” “We can line all those guys up and shoot them,” he continued. “They clearly don’t understand the way the world works.” READ THE FULL STORY      

The Weather Channel   H​urricane Milton will make landfall in Florida tonight into early Thursday where it poses a major threat to life and property as it hammers the state with destructive storm surge, devastating wind damage, potentially catastrophic flooding rainfall and several tornadoes. “The track of Hurricane Milton continues to be a worst-case scenario for the Tampa Bay region southward to Charlotte”, the National Weather Service in Tampa Bay said in a briefing Wednesday morning. Milton has weakened slightly to a Category 3 hurricane packing winds up to 125 mph as of 4 p.m. EDT. It is centered 100 miles southwest of Tampa and is tracking to the northeast at 17 mph. READ THE FULL STORY                      

Catholic News Agency   Home schooling continues to grow even as the pandemic is no longer a contributing factor, according to a September study that found multiple states reaching all-time-high numbers of home-schooled students.   The Johns Hopkins School of Education’s Homeschool Research Lab in its 2023-2024 report on home school growth found that 90% of states that shared numbers with the institute reported that home schooling had increased since the previous school year.  The report, published in September, found that while the total number of students is declining nationwide in part due to declining birth rates, the number of home-schooling students is increasing. READ THE FULL STORY                                   

Breitbart   Private Harris campaign polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris is in a lot of trouble, political analyst Mark Halperin said on The Morning Meeting with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine. Despite Harris being up three points nationally according to the New York Times poll, Halperin said he sees her support as precarious. While highlighting key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, where Harris’s polling deteriorated, Halperin explained that the Wall Street Journal reported that Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) campaign shared negative polling with the paper, indicating broader implications for Democratic candidates in Senate races linked to Harris’s performance. READ THE FULL STORY                 

CNN Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College “needs to go,” while acknowledging “that’s not the world we live in,” during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, according to a pool report. “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in. So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee told supporters gathered at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s private residence in Sacramento, according to the pool report. Walz’s call for eliminating the Electoral College is not an official campaign position, a Harris campaign official told CNN. READ THE FULL STORY 

Breitbart Former President Donald Trump holds an edge over Vice President Kamala Harris on several economic issues, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The survey, conducted as the 2024 presidential election approaches, shows Trump leading Harris on handling matters such as the stock market, the job market, cost of living, and overall economic management. Among registered voters, Trump holds a 15-point advantage on managing the U.S. stock market and a nine-point lead on both improving Americans’ financial well-being and overseeing the broader U.S. economy. The poll also shows voters favoring Trump by seven points on handling the job market and by six points on the cost of living—an issue that a majority of respondents said should be the next president’s top priority. READ THE FULL STORY