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Oct 25, 2026
Images by the Press Team of Maria Corina Machado team on Sunday shows the opposition leader arriving at Santa Rosa church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate returned home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States without her involvement. - Maria Corina Machado Press Team
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After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States without her involvement.
"I am here. With you," Machado announced on X Sunday morning shortly before other members of the opposition confirmed her arrival without providing details.
Former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who is currently in exile, celebrated her return, saying, "Today is a very important day for Venezuelans. Our sovereign voice returns with her to lead and guide this process!" He added that he will soon join her in returning to the country.
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Oct 25, 2026
Dustin Johnson and other players are considering whether to continue with LIV Golf.ASSOCIATED PRESSOne way or another, LIV Golf is in its final days as originally created. The tour began life as a PGA Tour breakaway funded by Saudi Arabia's virtually limitless Public Investment Fund, but now is working to both line up financing and hold onto players in preparation for what league officials have termed "LIV 2.0." With a self-imposed go/no-go deadline nearing, several recent developments have complicated plans for a new version of the league.
For players, LIV's chief drawing card was the paychecks with astounding numbers of zeroes. Stars, former stars and non-stars alike all cashed in during LIV's run, earning many millions more than they would have been able to on the PGA Tour or the Europe-based DP World Tour. But when Saudi Arabia cut off funding for LIV in April, the pipeline for those paychecks dried up, and now player after player has decided to take their chances elsewhere.
The most notable defection came several weeks ago, when Jon Rahm decided he'd had enough of LIV. Rahm's jump to LIV in late 2023 was a seismic moment in golf history, a declaration that the league was capable of enticing even one of the world's best players. But after three years of absolute domination on LIV and underperformance in majors,
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Oct 25, 2026
A 20-year-old U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan, has been indicted on charges stemming from the death last month of a woman found strangled in a hotel, authorities said on Sunday.
LCpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, who is stationed at the Futenma Air Base in Okinawa, was indicted on charges of robbery and murder, according to NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, citing the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office and other sources,
Kyodo via Reuters - PHOTO: Marine Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard leaves a police station to be sent to prosecutors over the killing of a Japanese woman in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, October 5, 2026 in this photo taken by Kyodo.Ballard is accused of strangling a 39-year-old resident of Naha City by wrapping a telephone receiver cord around her neck at a hotel in Naha City on Oct. 3 and also allegedly stealing a backpack containing her wallet and other belongings, according to NHK.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
This article originally appeared on ABC News at https://abcnews.com/International/us-marine-indicted-alleged-okinawa-robbery-homicide/story?id=137553792
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Oct 25, 2026
Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department's newly filed lawsuit to prevent Alaska state officials from certifying election results if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in November.
In an at-times contentious interview with CNN's "State of the Union," Blanche pointed out that according to the Constitution, Congress can create laws at any time to regulate elections. But when host Dana Bash asked what crime the administration was arguing was being committed, Blanche replied, "It depends."
"There could be a crime," said Blanche. "But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are going to be confused and will not have their vote heard. So an Alaskan intends to vote for one candidate, but is confused because of a second candidate with exactly the same name who has voted Democrat his entire life, who donated money to the other Democrat opponent, is running."
Bash pressed Blanche on how it is illegal for two candidates with the same name to be on a ballot at the same time.
"It is an obligation of the states to avoid confusion, among other things, confusion in the minds of voters in the election process," Blanche replied. "So the question is whether Alaska, by allowing this to happen, is violating the law and the federal law and the constitution by allowing confusion in the ballot."
The Alaskan Supreme Court in June ruled that both Sullivans may remain on the ballot as the incumbent faces off in a tight reelection battle with former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. The four-person Senate ranked-choice ballot for the general election specifies that Dan S. Sullivan is a "Registered Republican" and the "incumbent" — no information is listed after Dan J. Sullivan Jr's name.
Regardless, in the suit filed Thursday, DOJ argued that Dan J. Sullivan Jr.'s name on the ballot constitutes a purposeful effo
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Oct 25, 2026
A Northern California man was responding to a call about ICE activity in his city when surveillance footage showed he was hit by an agent in an SUV on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. - Obtained by CNN
When footage of a man being hit by federal immigration officers' SUV in Northern California became public, the Department of Homeland Security responded by saying the man had jumped on the vehicle's hood.
Local police raised doubts about federal officials' account as they announced a criminal investigation into Tuesday morning's incident involving the pedestrian, 37-year-old Antonio Moreida, citing video footage that contradicted DHS' statement.
Footage from a nearby surveillance camera, a bystander's cellphone recording and Moreida's GoPro, which had already been made public at the time of the agency's statement, told a different story of what happened on a residential street in Woodland, an agricultural city just outside of Sacramento. The incident is the latest in which DHS' account has been contradicted by officials and video evidence amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Police contradict ICE account
In a statement Wednesday morning, DHS said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers didn't hit a pedestrian.
"An agitator jumped onto the hood of an ICE vehicle and the officer driving applied the brakes," a DHS spokesperson said in a st
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Oct 25, 2026
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said it's "getting to be decision time" on whether he will make a deal with Tehran or resume attacks as Iranian and Houthi threats against Americans in the Middle East continue to grow.
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Trump has suggested that US strikes on Iran could resume after the Nov. 3 midterm elections and he has sent additional forces, including a third aircraft carrier group, toward the Persian Gulf.
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Oct 25, 2026
Call it the "avoidance" election, with many on each side more motivated by trying to prevent or stop things than by what they'll gain.
Against a backdrop of continued concern about inflation and the economy, Democrats maintain their lead in a bid for a House majority. They're currently on pace for 229 seats in our CBS News House model estimate, which translates voters' congressional preferences into seats.
The potential range of outcomes could reach into the 230s in our model, but Republicans do still have a very narrow path to hold the majority, too.
While that Democratic lead has been durable over recent weeks, it hasn't expanded, either.
In other words, there isn't a growing wave, at least not as of today.
If anything, the still undecided or uncertain voters tend to profile as more Republican.
Whether they decide to show up is perhaps the key question of 2026.
Either way, voters describe a dynamic in which they're more motivated in opposition to things they think might happen. For instance:
More think gas prices will go up if Republicans win than if Democrats do.
(Though they don't think Democrats will make gas prices go down.)
Most voters don't think Democrats have a plan and won't make people financially better off, either...But more voters think they'll be worse off if Republicans win.
The president remains a central factor. It would be a high number voting either to support or oppose a president in a midterm if this sentiment holds through Election Day.
Most of the Democra
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Oct 25, 2026
Why are major Democrats and Republicans flocking to Mississippi in recent weeks?
In a climate where polls show President Donald Trump's approval ratings cratering, Democrats are unusually optimistic about Scott Colom's chances of flipping the Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith -- even in deep-red Mississippi.
"We got to have a senator that looks out for Mississippi, that puts Mississippi farmers first, Mississippi small businesses first, represent our values by not allowing corruption to ruin our country and actually delivers on the commitments to put America first," Colom told ABC News in an interview earlier this week.
Sarah Warnock/AP Photo - PHOTO: Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom speaks during a voting rights town hall at the historic Farish Street Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 1, 2026.The incumbent's campaign dismisses the Democratic push as the last-ditch effort of a campaign that will fall short.
Gov. Wes Moore says key races in South 'in play,' Democrats 'made mistakes' not investing earlierColom is a district attorney for four counties along the Mississippi-Alabama border and a former nominee to become a U.S. district judge. He would be Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.
Democrats have argued that Colom's prominent credentials, as well as voter pushback against Republican incumbents and motivation among Democratic-leaning Black voters, could help boost him. Mississ
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Oct 25, 2026
The midterm campaign is being fought in areas President Donald Trump carried in the last election, and largely among voters who have supported him in the past but have soured on his presidency.
Rick Sebring, a resident of rural Black Creek, Georgia, is one of them. He was among the Americans drawn to Trump when he emerged as a political outsider running for president in 2015, and supported him in each election since.
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Now, he says, he jokes with his son and daughter, 25 and 18, that he needs a hat that reads: "I fell for it three times."
Trump is "not the same guy he was before," said Sebring, 66, who explained that he no longer believes the president is acting with ordinary Americans' best interests at heart.
"It's kind of like if your wife is screwing the guy next door," Sebring said. "You know, you're kind of butt hurt about it."
He is furious about the war against Iran that Trump started after pledging to avoid new wars in the Middle East. Trump should tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the president endorsed for reelection last week, to "go to hell," Sebring said, and "cut off all aid" to Israel and Ukraine.
He is bothered that Trump tried to stop the release of the Epstein files. He is disappointed that the government-slashing DOGE program, which Trump appointed Elon Musk to run, was ultimately brought to a halt.
Sebring, who responded to the most recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ip
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Oct 25, 2026
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Ford Expedition rumbled to a stop and Cindy Banda's bedazzled flip-flops landed on the asphalt of the Houston cancer center's vast parking lot. She threaded through the rows of cars, a tally of patients who gather here to sit with chemotherapy needles or lie on radiation machines.
The elevator dinged open. A year ago in this building, surgeons removed Banda's right breast, and she still didn't know whether treatment had expunged the cancer from her body. Doctors had told her it would be tough to beat.
"I'm more of a positive person myself," Banda said, now sitting with a white wristband in a dim waiting room. But the bills are harder to dismiss, and the single mother with six children in her care repeated something like a mantra. "Keep the house. Keep the cars. And just keep the kids stable."
That's true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September.
With party control of Congress at stake, registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say they trust Democrats over Republicans to handle healthcare, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from the same month. Thos
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Oct 25, 2026
So far in President Trump's second term, prices in the US have risen only about half as quickly compared to his predecessor's four years in office. Yet Trump has a 72% disapproval rating on the issue and risks paying a steep political price — just as former President Joe Biden did — with voters drawing a direct connection between rising prices and the president's policies.
In the last election cycle, prices of all items rose more than 20% during Biden's term, sparking widespread voter angst. This time around, price growth is notably slower, rising 5.4% in a little less than two years since Inauguration Day.
But a Yahoo Finance analysis of price data shows that a few major outliers have hit Americans' wallets in an outsized way, largely due to increases in goods affected by the war in Iran and tariffs.
Fuel oil and gasoline are perhaps the most dramatic examples, spiking over 30% beginning in March in response to the war in Iran and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
And voters have noticed, as evidenced in poll after poll. A
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Oct 25, 2026
A US marine has been indicted in Okinawa prefecture in Japan on charges of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman.
Lance corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, was accused of killing Anna Yagi, 39, in a hotel in the prefecture's capital Naha and taking her wallet and backpack earlier this month. Ballard denied the allegations.
Ballard, who was stationed at Futenma Air Base, was found walking alone in Okinawa city later that day and was arrested the following day on suspicion of robbery and murder.
He was indicted on Sunday amid growing anger among Okinawa residents over the incident and the presence of US military installations.
He allegedly strangled the woman with the cord of a telephone in a hotel room between 2.10 and 4.15am on 3 October and stole her backpack that contained her wallet and other belongings, according to the indictment.
The woman had checked into the hotel with a man around 2.10am that day. Hotel employees entered the room at 4.15am after she did not check out on time. The staff found her body and alerted the police, investigative sources told the Japan Times.
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Oct 25, 2026
Twist Robotics' drones can be used as signal repeaters to help the connection between a drone operator and their mission drone.Twist RoboticsDrones in Ukraine act as flying communications bridges between operators and mission drones.They repeat the operators' signal to allow drones to fly farther while staying connected.The signal-repeating drones make other drones more resistant to Russia's electronic warfare.Ukraine has created drones that act as flying relay towers, allowing its drones conducting missions to fly farther while making them harder for Russia to jam.
In a war where drones gather intel and account for more than 95% of Russia's front-line losses, Ukraine wants its operators to keep control of their drones over longer distances with stronger signals that are harder for Russia to break.
One solution is the signal repeater drone, a flying signal booster that operates between
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Oct 25, 2026
Supporters listen as Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a rally at Wayne State University in Detroit on October 22. - Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images
Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and doubt about President Donald Trump's willingness to change the nation's trajectory threaten to loosen the GOP's grip on working-class voters.
A decade after the Trump era began, when he first turned Midwestern political battlegrounds into reliably Republican states, the fallout from policies of his second term have rippled through the agriculture sector and broader economies across the Great Plains and the Rust Belt.
Iowa and Ohio, which have not been competitive since former President Barack Obama was on the ballot, are in play. And ruby-red states like Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana are not exempt. The shift is happening up and down the ballot, with tight contests for the House, Senate and governor blanketing the middle of the country.
From spring planting to fall harvest, anxiety over Trump's war with Iran and the fallout from his trade battles has turned into alarm.
In conversations across the region, voters point to the soaring cost of gas and diesel, as well as high grocery prices and interest rates. A whipsaw tariff policy has
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Oct 24, 2026
Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton told ABC News in an interview Saturday that she hopes President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance will "look at the facts" of the abuse she says she endured as a child after they defended an attack ad made by GOP nominee Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign.
Bipartisan backlash has hit Ramaswamy's campaign, after the release of the ad featuring Acton's estranged mother who Acton says stood by the man who was criminally charged with sexually abusing her as a child. Acton said she hasn't seen her mother since she was 12 years old.
In the ad, Acton's mother, Donna Arthur, said Acton has lied about her past, though it doesn't mention the allegations of sexual abuse.
Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo - PHOTO: Amy ActonIn response to Trump and Vance who have doubled down on and defended the ad, Acton told ABC News, "My job is to work with anyone on any side of the aisle to solve problems instead of making them, and I would say I do hope they would look at the facts."
Acton spoke to ABC News after a rally in Cleveland with former President Barack Obama.
Trump doubles down on Amy Acton criticism as Ramaswamy ad controversy swirlsActon has alleged her mother's second husband molested her between the ages of 9 and 12. Charges were filed against her stepfather, and Acton testified against him. He pleaded not guilty, but fled the state before trial and never appeared before a judge. He died in 2004.
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Oct 24, 2026
By Bo Erickson and David Shepardson
PERRY, Georgia, Oct 24 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Audi plans to build a $4 billion assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually, as he seeks to convince ?Americans to back Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections.
Trump, who has pressured automakers to move production to the United States ?and has raised tariffs on autos, steel, aluminum and parts, made the announcement at a rally in Perry, near Macon in central Georgia, where Volkswagen's premium subsidiary intends ?to build its first US assembly plant.
Last year, Trump's tariffs dealt Audi a €1.2-billion-euro ($1.4-billion) blow as it imports all its vehicles for the US market from Europe or Mexico.
Georgia has competitive election races for US Senate and governor. Trump is eager to make the case that his auto tariffs are helping the US economy. Critics say they have boosted vehicle prices and that the trade uncertainty has delayed some automaker investments.
"We are planning to bring ?our biggest and most premium SUVs, and produce ?them here in Macon, Georgia," Audi CEO Gernot Doellner said at the event. "This is a this is a long-term investment because we believe in the American market."
REPUBLICAN SAYS TARIFFS BROUGHT AUDI PLANT TO UNITED STATES
Audi said the ?investment will create approximately 4,500 jobs. Construction is scheduled to begin next year, with production starting in the early 2030s, Audi said.
The plant is expected to assemble the Audi Q7, Q8 and Q9 SUVs, a US official told Reuters.
Audi also plans to build 25,000 vehicles a year in neighboring South Carolina, ?the ?official said. Some of the vehicles, now built in Europe, would be exported, ?the official added. Those vehicles will be assembled at ?a $2 billion plant of VW's off-road brand Scout Motors that is under construction in Blythewood, near the st
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Oct 24, 2026
At least 12 people, half of them juveniles and the youngest just 11 years old, were injured in a mass shooting near FAMU's Bragg Memorial Stadium Saturday night amid homecoming weekend.
Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said 11 people suffered gunshot wounds. Three victims were seriously injured, including one in critical condition, while eight were stable. A FAMU student was among the injured.
Police said preliminary information indicates an altercation occurred between individuals before the shooting, which Revell called an "isolated incident."
Midnight update: At least 12 injured in Perry Street shooting; youngest victim is 11At least 12 people were injured, including six juveniles, in the shooting near FAMU's Bragg Memorial Stadium Saturday night, Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said at a late-night press conference.
"I stand before you tonight devastated," Revell said.
Eleven of the victims suffered gunshot wounds. Six victims are adults and six are juveniles, with the youngest just 11 years old, Revell said. A twelfth victim is the grandmother of one of the victims who was injured fleeing from the scene. He said one of the victims is a FAMU student.
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Oct 24, 2026
People cast their ballots at St Mary's Episcopal church during the first day of early voting in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday.Photograph: Chris Torres/EPA
California's attorney general on Saturday rebuked the Trump administration's efforts to quash alleged noncitizen voting, calling it "politicizing and weaponizing the law".
Rob Bonta, the state's attorney general, said the justice department acted at Donald Trump's direction.
"It is once again the United States Department of Justice politicizing and weaponizing the law to attack its enemies, and it is completely improper," he told MS Now.
Less than two weeks before the midterms, federal prosecutors called upon California election officials to verify within 48 hours a list of about 20,000 ballots belonging to suspected noncitizens. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare, but in the run-up to the midterm elections, the justice department has ramped up prosecutions of people accused of illegally voting while not holding US citizenship.
California's election personnel have raised concern that the administration's directive could disenfranchise citizens. Los Angeles officials said this week a "high percentage" of the individuals on the list were born in the United States.
"Trump's DOJ is so desperate to invent ‘widespread voter fraud,' it sent California counties lists of people who NEVER voted - and voters from the WRONG COUNTY. Absolute clown show!" California's governor Gavin Newsom posted on social media.
"Voter intimidation has no place in our democracy," Pete Aguilar, a congressman representing s
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Oct 24, 2026
The Archdiocese of New York and attorneys for about 1,300 parishioners who said they were sexually abused by clergy have agreed to an $800 million settlement of their legal claims, the second-largest involving a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.
Archbishop Ronald Hicks sent an email Saturday to clergy confirming the settlement after attorneys for the survivors of alleged abuse announced it. Hicks said the agreement will not be final until the parties sign it, an action scheduled for the week of Nov. 6.
The only larger settlement over sexual abuse claims in the U.S. was by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which agreed in 2024 to pay $880 million to 1,000 abuse victims, in addition to $740 million in claims it had paid previously. In June, the Archdiocese of San Francisco agreed to a $395 million settlement over about 500 lawsuits filed over clergy abuse, and in December 2025, a federal judge approved a settlement in which the Archdiocese of New Orleans agreed to pay at least $230 million to abuse victims.
The agreement with the New York archdiocese would end more than seven years of lawsuits. The parties agreed to a framework for an agreement in May that required everyone who filed a claim to sign off.
"The unanimous agreement of survivors who filed claims against the Archdiocese of New York marks a powerful moment in the pursuit of justice," Jeff Anderson, an attorney representing people who filed
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Oct 24, 2026
By Gabriel Stargardter
SAO PAULO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Two US State Department officials led a campaign to restore the right-wing Bolsonaro clan to power in Brazil and successfully pushed for sanctions aimed at tilting the election in their favor, according to 10 current and former US officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
Their plan faces a reckoning on Sunday, when Senator Flavio Bolsonaro faces leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a tight run-off. Lula has warned Washington against encroaching on Brazil's sovereignty and accused his opponent of plotting with the Trump administration.
The two officials were Darren Beattie, a Senior Advisor ?for Western Hemisphere Affairs who oversees Brazil policy, and Ricardo Pita, another senior advisor promoted this year to Deputy Assistant Secretary for North America. The details of their campaign to return the Bolsonaros to power haven't been previously reported.
Beattie and Pita, both political appointees, operated with wide latitude to manage Washington's relationship with the ?second most-populous country in the Americas, the people said.
In the months before election campaigning began, they instructed US diplomats in Brazil that it was US policy to restore former President Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's leader - even though he had been disqualified from office for plotting a coup in 2022, when he lost the presidential election to Lula, three of the people said.
After Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence in September 2025, the two men pivoted to ?supporting the candidacy of his son, right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the three sources said. Beattie and Pita told embassy staff not to interact with other conservative presidential contenders who could challenge the younger Bolsonaro, they said.
Since last year, the two men have successfully advocated for punitive US government measures on Brazil designed to weaken Lula and boost the Bolson
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Oct 24, 2026
In his first rally of the 2026 midterm cycle, former President Barack Obama slammed President Donald Trump and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, calling out the latter's much-maligned campaign ad centering on Democrat Amy Acton's mother.
"There's gotta be something inside you where you just say no office is worth stooping that low," Obama said of Ramaswamy's choice to run the ad.
With the midterms just over a week away, Obama was rallying in Cleveland in support of Acton and Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.
Trump, Obama said, had broken a slew of promises he made on the campaign trail in 2024, ensnaring the country in an ongoing war in Iran and failing to bring down costs. Instead, "he's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory," the former president said, taking aim at Trump's renovations to the executive mansion.
"We got two more years of this administration," he said. "That's how our system of government works. But you know what we're not stuck with? We're not stuck with a spineless Congress and Republican governors who are enabling lawlessness and carelessness and cruelty and indifference for working people."
Long one of Democrats' top surrogates, Obama is again stepping off the sidelines in the closing stretch of an election. He'll appear in Detroit alongside Democrats Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson on Sunday, after which he'll travel to Georgia for a rally with Sen. Jon Ossoff and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Oct. 28.
The former president, who captured Ohio's electoral votes in 2008 and 2012, also called out Ramaswamy for his controversial campaign ad featuring
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Oct 24, 2026
Nearly 1,000 people were arrested in nationwide protests in France, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said Saturday, after demonstrations over the high cost of living and the country's education system earlier in the day remained largely peaceful.
Nuñez said the number of arrests is expected to rise significantly. He said marches "passed off well" in cities, but police officers found themselves confronted with "an extremely elevated level of violence" from "ultra-left" groups later in the day. Nuñez said some shops and businesses had been looted, but "the scale was far smaller" than a week earlier, when some 3,000 businesses were damaged or looted.
He said police acted more rapidly and conducted more pre-demonstration checks. Businesses and shopping centers had also been better protected. Earlier Saturday, the interior minister said police had confiscated weapons including metal balls, lead pellets, fireworks, slingshots, steel balls, improvised weapons, a katana and airsoft weapons, he said.
The French Interior Ministry said about 410,000 people participated in about 298 protests around the country. Union organizers from the General Confederation of Labor put the number at around 800,000. An explanation for the discrepancy was not immediately available.
Some confrontations were reported between authorities and demonstrators in several cities, but as of Saturday evening there had been no repeat of the major street violence and rioting that erupted amid similar protests last week.
Nuñez previously said th
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Oct 24, 2026
The interior minister said police had been confronted with 'an extremely elevated level of violence' (Sameer AL-DOUMY)French police arrested "nearly 1,000" people Saturday in nationwide protests in which officers were confronted with "an extremely elevated level of violence" from black-clad extremists, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said.
Although marches over the cost of living "passed off well" in cities, "ultra-left" groups took to throwing projectiles and aiming fireworks at police to provoke clashes, he told journalists.
Two people were "seriously injured", he said: one in the city of Toulouse, where a 20-year-old man reportedly had fingers blown off, and the other in Clermont-Ferrand. He did not give details of either case.
Nunez compared Saturday's figures with those from a week ago, when a first round of national demonstrations over the cost of living degenerated into street violence, with hundreds of shops looted and 2,700 people ending up being arrested.
He said that the nearly 1,000 arrests recorded on Saturday compared with the same time a week ago, when authorities had recorded 385 arrests.
He also said that, while some shops and businesses had been vandalised and looted on Saturday, "the scale was far smaller" than a week earlier, and he stressed that shopping centres had been well protected this time.
In Paris, where the main demonstration passed off largely peacefully but clashes broke out with police as the crowd dispersed, Nunez said "several thousand radical activists gathered at the rear of the march, including around 500 individuals identified as rioters".
Ensuing clashes in the capital lasted for around two hours, he said.
The minister said that in the southern cities of Cannes and Montpellier, authorities "for the first
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Oct 24, 2026
The Justice Department is pressing California election officials to set aside mail-in ballots from people it believes are noncitizens. It is warning that officials who count those ballots could face criminal charges.
Federal prosecutors sent letters Friday to county election offices across the state, giving them 48 hours to work with federal agencies to determine who on a government list is a citizen. NBC News reported that the letters went to 57 of California's 58 counties. Los Angeles County received a similar letter last week.
The secretary of state and Los Angeles County have refused the demand, and other counties are weighing their response. The fight is now before a federal appeals court, 10 days before Election Day.
Here's what to know.
What is the Justice Department asking for?The department wants counties to "segregate — not cancel" the mail-in ballots of people on its list until their citizenship can be confirmed, according to a letter to San Bernardino County obtained by NBC News. That county's list included 1,133 names.
It also asked counties to send identifying information about the voters on the list, including Social Security numbers and copies of their registrations,
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Oct 24, 2026
President Donald Trump dismissed polls showing his approval rating falling ahead of November's midterm elections, insisting Americans should trust his claim that his support is closer to 60 percent.
In an interview with The Washington Examiner's Byron York, published Saturday, Trump called the polling figures "fake" when asked about a RealClearPolitics average showing 38.8 percent of Americans approved of his job performance, while 60.4 percent disapproved.
"It's fake," Trump said.
When York pressed him on what he believed his actual approval rating was, Trump rejected the figures and insisted his support was much higher.
"The job approval, they said it's 37, 38?" Trump asked. "I'm not at 38."
President Donald Trump dismissed polls showing his approval rating slipping ahead of November's midterms as ‘fake,' claiming his support is closer to 60 percent (AFP/Getty) Trump continued: "I don't believe I could be beaten by anybody. I think that if I needed
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Oct 24, 2026
By Daniel Trotta
Oct 23 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department accused a government contractor on Friday of leaking national defense information to his girlfriend, the publisher of a Substack newsletter.
The FBI arrested Ian Brinksman, ?42, on Friday following a search of his Washington home, a Justice Department statement said. Prosecutors charged ?him with unlawfully transmitting national defense information.
A federal public defender representing Brinksman declined to comment.
"As alleged, Brinksman reached far outside his own duties ?to obtain some of our Nation's most closely held secrets and handed them to a romantic partner he knew intended to publish them," John Eisenberg, assistant attorney general for national security, said in the statement.
"That is not carelessness. It is a betrayal of his oath and the American people who entrusted him to fulfill his duties honorably," Eisenberg ?said.
Brinksman held a top secret security clearance ?while working as an employee of a US government agency and later as a developer for systems integration for a private contractor working for the same agency, prosecutors said.
According ?to the sworn affidavit of an FBI agent investigating the case, Brinksman repeatedly accessed classified intelligence reports and then communicated with the journalist. The affidavit also cites phone records, database access logs, badge-swipe records, emails and other evidence.
The affidavit only ?identifies ?the journalist as "Individual 1," but it cites excerpts from articles ?she published.
"A fundraising article reportedly published by ?Individual 1 in September 2026 stated 'over the past year (Individual 1 has) published reporting based on classified (relevant U.S. government agency) assessments that I believe the public deserves to know about,'" the affidavit reads.
That quote appears in a September 28 piece published on the Capital &am
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Oct 24, 2026
ATLANTA (AP) — He's hardly the first billionaire to promise working-class voters he'll fight for them in public office. Rick Jackson, the Republican candidate for Georgia governor, has even compared himself to the real estate mogul who reached the Oval Office.
But Jackson's path differs from Donald Trump's, and the 72-year-old healthcare magnate and investor brings a vastly different persona to his first campaign. Unlike Trump, who was born to wealth, Jackson spent his early years bouncing through foster homes before launching his first company as a young man.
Now, he wants to leverage both his similarities and contrasts with the president, a challenge he's tackling with buckets of his own campaign cash and a personal story that anchors his appeal to voters.
"I have lived in poverty," Jackson says. "When you have not eaten, you never forget that, and you don't forget the people that are struggling."
Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, disputes Jackson's altruistic pitch, setting up the Nov. 3 election as a test of whether an alternate, softer version of conservative billionaire politics can complement or even counter Trump's pugilistic populism in a key swing state.
Jackson planned to join Trump at a rally Saturday in Perry, in what would be his second appearance with the president in the closing stretch of the campaign.
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Oct 24, 2026
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, said she is "deeply distressed" by the news that her father, Thomas Markle, is under investigation over claims he possessed images containing child sexual abuse in his home.
The images were reportedly found in his home in the Philippines after he returned to the U.S. in May, Philippine officials said.
Thomas Markle denied the allegations, calling them "sick lies" and "the worst thing anyone could accuse me of."
London's Metropolitan Police confirmed Saturday that it received a letter in January 2019 containing "a number of claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom," the BBC reported. The letter was sent to the force's protection command because of concerns about the duchess's security.
The Met said it passed the letter to the office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex "for their awareness," but did not share the details with other law enforcement agencies. The force said it is reviewing how it handled the matter and considering whether to refer itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the police watchdog.
In a statement through her spokesperson, Meghan Markle said that she is "deeply distressed" by the news, and that she was first made aware of the claims by the Met Police in 2018.
"I am deeply distressed at the news that has come to light in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed," Meghan's statement said. "In 2018, a letter was sent to the Metropolitan police and Royalty and Specialist Protection. That letter was subsequently shared with me. It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father, and I was given assurances that these we
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Oct 24, 2026
Dozens of medical professionals are running for Congress and top state offices this midterm season, a direct Democrat-led counteraction to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda's outsized influence on national health policy.
There are seven physicians running for congressional office in this election, including Democrats Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, Annie Andrews of South Carolina, Amish Shah in Arizona and Richard Pan in California. There are even more nurses — 14 non-incumbent candidates — running for Congress, according to Nurse.org's Nurses on the Ballot research series.
Among Republican non-incumbents, neurosurgeon John Cowan of Georgia and internist Ralph Alvarado of Kentucky are both running for the House.
With four nurses and 20 physicians in Congress — four in the Senate and 16 in the House — the number of doctors and nurses currently running outnumbers those in office.
On the campaign trail, physician candidates have leaned on their medical backgrounds, including their work responding to recent public health emergencies, when making their case as to why they are suited for federal office.
Physicians consistently rank high among Americans when it comes to trustworthiness. And the Democratic Party seems intent on tapping into this.
A KFF Tracking Poll released in June found that more participants said they trusted their "own docto
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Oct 24, 2026
President Donald Trump has suggested he may boot the journalists and media who cover the president from their longtime press briefing room inside the White House.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump said he "may move the Fake News to a less obnoxious location."
His comment comes after The New York Times reported Oct. 20 that Trump had told then-White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in August to move reporters out of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, which has been the home of the White House press corps for more than five decades.
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That idea wasn't put into action, and Leavitt departed later in the month. There's no current press secretary after the departure of
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Oct 24, 2026
In this aerial view, the train of the Goliath roller coaster is seen on the track where it was evacuated at Six Flags Over Georgia on October 14 in Austell, Georgia. - Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
Six Flags will add seat belts to Goliath and other roller coasters with similar restraints following the death of a man who fell from the ride at Six Flags Over Georgia earlier this month.
The company's CEO said in a statement Friday that Goliath remains closed pending safety reviews and clearances following the death of Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old Atlanta resident and "cherished member" of a public charter school, who fell from the coaster on October 12. Several other parkgoers were injured, including four minors, police said.
In a statement addressed to guests and passholders, Six Flags President and CEO John Reilly said the company is reinforcing safety precautions across its parks, including installing seat belts on the Goliath, and has engaged independent engineers and ride inspection specialists to review safety procedures across its attractions.
Goliath, a 3.5-minute ride reaching 70 mph and a height of 200 feet, features a waist restraint but does not have an over-the-shoulder harness. The addition of seat belts m
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Oct 24, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In 2022, Democrat Wiley Nickel ran as a moderate and narrowly won North Carolina's 13th Congressional District by about 9,000 votes. Two years later, the current congressman, Republican Brad Knott, ran as a conservative and coasted into the U.S. House by more than 70,000 votes.
Voters didn't change their minds. Politicians changed their voters.
North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature redrew its congressional map to transform what was one of the last remaining swing districts in the South to a safe GOP seat. Lawmakers split the rectangular district into an hourglass shape that carved out Democratic voters in Raleigh and replaced them with a swath of rural counties reaching to the Virginia border.
Swing seats, meaning a district a presidential candidate won by 5 percentage points or fewer in the previous election, are disappearing from the national map. For decades after World War II, the number of competitive seats in the House slowly eroded as the nation grew more polarized, voters were less likely to split their ticket and people moved closer to like-minded neighbors, creating Democratic strongholds in urban areas and Republicans ones across rural America.
That decline accelerated the past year since President Donald Trump sparked a partisan redistricting battle. The number of swing districts fell from 45 to 37. There were 96 House seats that fit the modern definition of a swing seat in 1964,
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Oct 24, 2026
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in March 2024. - Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg/Getty Images
GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick was weaving through the crowd of a fall street festival when he was confronted by a man enraged by the skyrocketing costs he's experiencing.
Dave Woods, a contractor and registered Democrat, held up red signs with big white letters in Fitzpatrick's face to show how his heating oil and diesel fuel costs have shot up in the last year. But Fitzpatrick walked away to head to his speech.
"Where's Mr. Fitzpatrick to get in the photo shot here?" Woods told CNN after the exchange. "I'm against the party that caused this."
Farther down the street, Ted Wassmer, a registered Republican who has supported the congressman in the past, was weighing his vote in the November election. Wassmer's woodworking business has been hit hard by the Trump administration's tariffs and rising inflation. A combat veteran who has never supported President Donald Trump, Wassmer called the Iran war an "absolute joke."
"It's a clown show in DC right now," Wassmer said. "I may vote against Republicans having dominance of the Congress, that may be my decision to get the administration in check. And I'm not very happy with Democrats either. I kind of think the left and the right are running rampant right now, so I have to kind of really look at it."
Fitzpatrick is one of the only Republicans in Congress fighting for reelection in a district Kamala Harris won in 2024 — and Democrats see this as their best chance in a decade to win the seat.
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Oct 24, 2026
Ukraine said its access to the Starlink and Starshield communications network had resumed Saturday after days of limited access and questions over who had ordered the restrictions.
Ukraine's Defense Minister Yevhen Khmara said a high-speed, stable connection to the satellite network had returned, with the restoration "particularly important for our front line, for the military, drone operations, logistics and communications."
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement that access had been restored to previous levels, and thanked "all Americans," including lawmakers, the State Department and President Donald Trump.
Ukraine's access to Starshield, the militarized version of SpaceX-operated Starlink, had been disrupted since last week, impeding Ukraine's strike campaign on Russian-occupied territory. It was not clear who had ordered the interruptions: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Starshield systems were controlled by the U.S. government, while Trump administration officials denied any involvement.
On Thursday, Trump described his relationship with Musk as "a very good one" and said that Musk had reinstated full access to Starshield. On Friday, after Ukrainian commanders reported that access was still throttled, Trump told reporters he had heard the restrictions were lifted, "but if it's not, I'll fix it."
He also said he had not spoken to Musk about the satellite system, contradicting media reports that he had called Musk and asked for access to be reinst
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Oct 24, 2026
Meghan says she was informed of "disturbing allegations" about her father via a letter [PA Media]
A letter making a "number of claims" relating to the Duchess of Sussex's father was received by the Metropolitan Police in 2019, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
The Met said it passed the information relating to allegations outside the UK to the office of the Duke and Duchess but did not share it with other law enforcement agencies.
It was reported on Friday that images of child sexual abuse allegedly belonging to Thomas Markle, 82, had been found in his former home in the Philippines. Markle, who is based in the US, denies possessing any such images.
On Friday, Meghan said she was informed about "disturbing allegations" about her estranged father in 2018. The Met said it was reviewing the matter and deciding whether to refer itself to the police watchdog.
Meghan statement offers answers after years of questions about her relationship with father
Responding to Saturday's developments dating the letter to 2019, a spokesman for the duchess said "any discrepancy of a few months" was "an understandable consequence of that passage of time".
The c
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Oct 24, 2026
By Juliette Jabkhiro and Alessandro Parodi
PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Demonstrators gathered in Paris and cities across France on Saturday under the watch of 70,000 police officers, as the government sought to prevent a repeat of the riots and looting that ?rocked the country last weekend.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 135 people had been arrested nationwide by early afternoon, many following pre-emptive ?searches that uncovered fireworks, ball bearings and other items that could be used as weapons.
"We have to be ultra, ultra responsive. We have significant calls for disruption from political ?groups and quite simply from criminals," he told reporters. "It is going to be a long day."
While the start of the main Paris march was peaceful, police fired tear gas at crowds in Lyon, France's third-largest city.
The government has deployed 10,000 more police and gendarmes than on October 17, when protests over the cost of living and deteriorating public services descended into some of the worst unrest France has seen in years.
SHOPS, MUSEUMS SHUT
Much of central Paris ?took on the appearance of a city under ?lockdown, with shopkeepers boarding up storefronts, museums closing their doors and more than 20 metro stations shut.
Business groups urged retailers to remain closed after thousands of shops and businesses were damaged or looted across France last weekend.
"There are ?hardly any customers, so it's not really worth staying open," said Oskar, manager of a Kiton boutique in Paris.
Several of the capital's best-known cultural institutions, including the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay and the Paris Opera, closed for the day as a precaution, leaving tourists frustrated.
"Everything's boarded up and we're not quite sure ?where ?we should be," said Xavier Dolliole, a tourist from the US city of New ?Orleans.
The route for Paris' main demonstration was s
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Oct 24, 2026
A school bus carrying the Salem High School football team overturned after Georgia State Patrol says the driver lost control getting off Interstate 20.
Multiple students were taken to the hospital, including one who had to be Life Flighted.
The crash happened around 10:48 p.m. where Georgia Highway 138 and Interstate 20 meet.
The Salem High School football team was coming back from their Friday night game against Greater Atlanta Christian in Gwinnett County.
Troopers said the 74-year-old school bus driver lost control and went across all lanes of Ga. 138. When the bus went into the northbound lanes, it hit a Black Kia Soul. Both drivers were taken to the hospital.
Rockdale County School District told that 22 students and three staff members were taken to the hospital.
GSP says some parents took their students to the hospital, others were taken by ambulance and one was airlifted.
"Our Troopers, officials from the school and officials from National EMS are all working together to compile a complete list of students, injuries and which hospital each student went to and how they were transported," Georgia State Patrol said.
A witness told that she was at the gas station near the impact. She heard a loud boom and turned around to see the Rockdale County school bus overturned.
This article originally appeared on WSB Cox at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/multipl
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Oct 24, 2026
Election workers sort ballots during early voting ahead of the midterm election at San Francisco County's election operations facility at City Hall in San Francisco, California, on October 21, 2026. - David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Justice Department on Friday ordered California election officials to identify suspected noncitizens on voter rolls and set aside their mail-in ballot — warning that officials who knowingly count ballots cast by noncitizens could face criminal liability.
The action marks an escalation in the Trump administration's efforts to scrutinize voter rolls ahead of the midterm elections as it continues to double down on claims of voter fraud, fueled by President Donald Trump's baseless allegations of widespread election cheating.
Letters sent to California county election officials asked them to work with the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security to "identify who on the accompanying list is a citizen and who is not."
"If persons knowingly tabulate ballots cast by individuals identified by federal agencies as noncitizens, they risk becoming aiders and abettors to a federal crime," First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli wrote in a letter to San Bernardino County officials, which was seen by CNN.
The letters follow a demand earlier this month from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, who
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Oct 24, 2026
Elon Musk wants SpaceX (SPCX) to take on America's largest cell service providers, but matching the telecom giants' vast wireless networks could take years and billions of dollars, executives and analysts warned this week.
SpaceX, which already operates the world's largest commercial satellite network with Starlink, is in talks with major telecommunications infrastructure companies to secure access to at least 80,000 cell sites across the United States, Bloomberg reported. The move would advance Musk's ambitions to establish a fourth nationwide wireless carrier alongside the three traditional telecom and mobile service incumbents: Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), and T-Mobile (TMUS).
The announcement sent stock in AT&T and T-Mobile falling by as much as 6% on Friday, while Verizon declined by a thinner 1.5%.
Satellite launches through Starlink and spectrum acquisitions "will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the US," Musk said on SpaceX's earnings call.
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Oct 24, 2026
Your parents' nest egg was mostly bonds and savings accounts. Yours is mostly stocks.
Stocks made up 48.2% of Americans' financial assets in the second quarter, counting everything from brokerage accounts to 401(k)s, according to the Federal Reserve's latest Financial Accounts data. That's the highest share in records going back to 1945. It tops the 38.7% reached at the height of the dot-com mania and the 41% hit after the 2021 meme-stock frenzy.
Federal Reserve, Yahoo FinanceThe cash pile looks small by comparison. Households hold about $74 trillion in stocks against roughly $20 trillion in bank deposits and money market funds — a record $3.65 in stocks for every dollar of cash.
So much for all that money waiting on the sidelines.
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Oct 24, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Elon Musk said on Saturday that his company SpaceX had throttled the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, disrupting operations that the country relies on to defend itself against Russia.
Musk's admission on social media came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine's access to Starlink and Starshield satellite links has been restored to the speeds it had before restrictions that disrupted front-line operations for more than a week.
Questions have persisted since last week about who ordered the interruptions to the Musk-made satellite internet system that Kyiv has relied on for years to counter Moscow's attacks.
"The speeds are now where they need to be," Zelenskyy wrote on X, adding that restoration began overnight and were sufficient by Saturday morning, improving front-line logistics and defense against Russian jet-powered Shahed drones.
Musk admits he was behind Starlink's speed restriction
After Ukraine said the services had been restored, Elon Musk spoke out on the speed restrictions that began last week. In a post Saturday on X, Musk acknowledged that his company SpaceX throttled the Starlink satellite internet service.
"Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be," Musk wrote. "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week."
But he maintained that the U.S. government controlled whatever changes happened with Starshield, the military-grade version of Starlink that is the
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Oct 24, 2026
By Crispian Balmer and Elizabeth Pineau
PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - French security forces fanned out across Paris on Saturday ahead of protests that authorities fear could turn violent, with Interior Minister Laurent Nunez urging police to be "hyper-reactive" against troublemakers and looters.
Soldiers from ?an anti-terrorism military unit patrolled the Champs-Elysees avenue while police vans circled the Arc de Triomphe, looking to protect some of ?the capital's most famous sites from any repeat of the unrest that shook France last week.
Nunez has mobilised 70,000 police nationwide for Saturday's demonstrations, 10,000 more than on October 17, when ?a wave of vandalism and looting raised questions about the government's ability to maintain order.
Anger over living costs and strained public services has drawn students, workers and unions onto the streets in recent weeks, but authorities say radical militants and bands of young looters have exploited the protests to sow chaos.
Speaking to police in Paris, Nunez warned officers that they would face attempts to target shops, public institutions and security forces.
"We have to be ultra, ultra responsive. ?We have significant calls for disruption from political groups ?and quite simply from criminals," he said. "It is going to be a long day."
SHOPS, MUSEUMS, OPERA SHUT
Many shopkeepers in Paris boarded up storefronts, while luxury retailers beefed up security.
Business groups have urged stores to remain closed after thousands ?of shops and businesses were damaged or looted across France last weekend.
Lidiya Shevchenko, a sales assistant at a Graziella Braccialini store in Paris, said she doubted many customers would venture out to browse luxury boutiques during the day.
"I suppose the mood is just as important when it comes to shopping," she said.
Several of Paris' ?best-known ?cultural institutions,
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Oct 24, 2026
FILE PHOTO - Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, meets volunteer first responders from the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club during a visit to Sydney's Bondi Beach. (is associated with: «Philippines investigating allegations against Meghan's father») Jonathan Brady/PA Wire/dpaAuthorities in the Philippines said they are investigating allegations that Thomas Markle Sr, the father of Meghan Markle, wife of Britain's Prince Harry, had a hoard of child sex abuse images.
According to The Sun, Meghan's half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, alleged that he found a stash of images belonging to their father at his former home in the Philippines.
He reportedly told police in the country that he discovered the child abuse pictures and videos mixed up with innocent family mementos.
The newspaper said he also contacted FBI investigators in the US in July.
Nicholas Ty, undersecretary for the Philippines Department of Justice, told ITV News: "Our Anti-Trafficking and Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children taskforce in Cebu is currently investigating the matter."
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Thomas Sr denied possessing child sex images, calling the accusations "sick lies."
On Friday, Meghan said she was made aware of "disturbing allegations" about her father in 2018.
She said she was shown a letter sent to Scotland Yard eight years ago making "troubling" allegations against Thomas Markle Sr and she was assured that these were being investigated.
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Oct 23, 2026
More than 200 firefighters are at the scene in Bavaria - Getty ImagesPolice have detained a suspect after a fire destroyed Adolf Hitler's German mountain retreat.
Around 200 firefighters were deployed to tackle the fire engulfing the Eagle's Nest, a remote residence at the top of Obersalzberg mountain in Bavaria built in the 1930s for the Nazi leader.
Authorities on Saturday said the building had been almost completely destroyed and that it was unclear whether parts could be salvaged.
Police said firefighters had found the building "completely ablaze" as they approached the Kehlsteinhaus residence.
Emergency services arrived on site at 9.52pm (8.52pm UK time) after a smoke detector triggered a fire alarm.
Flames engulfed the Kehlsteinhaus, known as the Eagle's Nest, on Friday night - Getty/Ferdinand Dorfler-FarthoferSeveral hours later, firefighters were struggling to extinguish the fire because of the house's remote location, police said.
A police spokesman said a "suspicious person" had been "taken into temporary custody" but that the criminal investigation was ongoing and that no one had been injured.
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Oct 23, 2026
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned Friday that Iran has "substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel" abroad, with plots to kill Americans reaching "advanced stages" in the Middle East and other countries.
The warning, contained in an unclassified memo that was sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obtained by CBS News, comes as the State Department adjusts staffing at diplomatic posts across the Middle East, and the U.S. military pares back its footprint in the region, amid concerns about direct threats from Iran and threats from the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in Yemen.
"The lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries," Clayton wrote.
The memo, which was issued as the Trump administration weighs resuming military strikes against Iran, does not identify specific targets or countries where the alleged plots are underway, or indicate whether attacks may be imminent.
Clayton said the U.S. intelligence community is working to downgrade sensitive intelligence — received through various channels — so it can be shared more broadly with State Department personnel. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was copied on the memo.
Axios was first to report on the memo.
The warning follows a series of precautions at U.S. diplomatic facilities across the region. Earlier this week, the State Department ordered non-essential U.S. embassy personnel and their families to depart Saudi Arabia. Several other American embassies in the region adjusted their staffing under "restricted operations" status, which allows them to reduce the number of personnel without formally going on ordered
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Oct 23, 2026
Los Angeles (AP) — Federal prosecutors sent letters to county registrars across California on Friday demanding that local officials set aside and verify ballots that the Department of Justice said may belong to noncitizens, according to the Los Angeles County registrar and a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
The letters are the latest escalation in a legal battle between California and President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, which has recently focused on the state in its efforts to root out noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections. Data shows illegal voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.
Earlier this month, the federal government targeted Los Angeles County and the California Secretary of State's office in a lawsuit that aimed to block them from counting the votes of roughly 20,000 people who are "likely" noncitizen voters. A hearing on the case is scheduled for Tuesday.
The Trump administration asked the 9th Circuit court of appeals to rule on the lawsuit barring a decision from the district judge assigned to the case. They set a deadline for Saturday.
Now, according to the LA County registrar's office, at least 18 counties across the state have received simila
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Oct 23, 2026
By Erin Banco and Joey Roulette
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine's military access to Elon Musk's satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries, according to six former senior US officials familiar with the matter.
During the presidency of Joe Biden, the requests included switching off the service to prevent Iranian proxy militias in Yemen and Lebanon from using Starlink to communicate, and ?activating the service to provide internet access inside Iran and in Ukraine to support its military, said four of the former officials.
Similarly, President Donald Trump's administration asked Musk, who is CEO of SpaceX, to make the service available in Iran following US-Israeli strikes in ?2025 and 2026, in hopes it would bolster internet access and communications for anti-government protesters, a former senior Trump official and a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
All of the people spoke on condition of anonymity. The previous US requests about Starlink access are being reported here for the first time.
The recent blowup over restrictions to Ukraine's use of SpaceX satellite services ?has raised questions about the ties between the US government and Musk, whose company owns systems vital to the US military and to US allies.
The Biden-era and Trump requests to Musk show a close relationship in which US administrations rely to an unprecedented degree on a private-sector company to help implement foreign policy.
The recent limits on Ukraine, despite being a US ally, have also rattled officials in Europe, some of whom argue that Europe must develop its own military satellite communications capabilities because no viable short-term alternative currently exists.
STARSHIELD RESTRICTIONS HOBBLE UKRAINE MILITARY
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Oct 23, 2026
Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry resigned Friday from her position as a State Department press adviser following an altercation at a basketball game this week, ABC News has learned.
McHenry was captured on camera appearing to throw a drink on someone during a Washington Wizards vs. Milwaukee Bucks NBA game on Wednesday.
Video obtained by TMZ appears to show McHenry being escorted from the stands at Capital One Arena following the incident.
Alex Brandon/AP - PHOTO: Britt McHenryMcHenry was appointed to her role at the State Department last month. A Department official declined to comment on McHenry's exit, saying it was an internal personnel matter.
ABC News was not immediately able to contact McHenry.
McHenry formerly worked as a reporter for ESPN. In 2015, she was suspended by the network for one week after a video showing her berating a clerk at a towing company went viral.
Her departure from the State Department was first reported by Page Six.
This article originally appeared on ABC News at https://abcnews.com/Politics/britt-mchenry-resigns-state-department-job-after-basketball/story?id=137526303
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Oct 23, 2026
Kaylub Giamanco, the man praised as a hero for fatally shooting a gunman at a school in Bend, Oregon, last week, is speaking out for the first time about the moments leading up to the shooting and how he is grappling with the aftermath.
The 36-year-old carpenter, whose two daughters attend Silver Rail Elementary School, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that it was happenstance that he was passing by the school at that moment. He said he had decided to go home for lunch that day instead of eating the food he had packed.
As he drove by the elementary school, he saw a "man in black" holding a long gun and shooting at a vehicle. At first, he thought it was a prank, but then the shooter threw the gun over the school fence before climbing it.
"That's when panic fled into my brain and that's when I opened my center console and said, 'No. No. No. No,'" Giamanco said in the interview. In the console of his truck was a .40-caliber handgun he rarely used.
He said he grabbed the weapon's magazine from another compartment, drove into the school parking lot and saw the shooter walk across school grounds.
"I just was in full panic, like, 'No, there's children, there's babies in there,'" he recalled. "I told my Siri to call 911." He said the dispatcher had questions for him, but he didn't stay on the call.
"I said, 'I'm sorry, I have to go in. People are going to die,'" Giamanco said.
He described trying to stay out of sight as he followed the gunman.
"I heard him fire two shots into the doors," Giamanco said. "That's when I started hea
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Oct 23, 2026
A judge in New York on Friday decided the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe can pursue her sexual assault claim against the university and seven fraternity members while remaining anonymous.
Permission to proceed in litigation under a pseudonym is not automatic, but the judge said "the notoriety of the allegations and widespread reports of certain malicious actors' behavior" warranted anonymity.
Jane Doe says she felt 'unsupported and disbelieved' by Cornell presidentThe judge's decision came with a warning to those who have threatened Jane Doe and others connected to the case.
"While the Court is cognizant that some members of the public have made it their mission to try and identify Jane Doe, and have likewise tried to use what they believe to be Jane Doe's identity to harass and threaten certain individuals allegedly tied to her, the Court issues the following words of caution: cyberstalking and engaging in or encouraging threats across state lines, whether it be of Jane Doe, any of the named defendants, or their attorneys, can be considered a federal crime and perpetrators of those acts may be subjecting themselves to prosecution," Judge Phaedra Perry-Bond wrote in her opinion.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images - PHOTO: A hand written sign is seen before a rally in support of a former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe at the Ithaca Commons, October 13, 2026 in Ithaca, New York. Former Cornell fraternity president dropped from Jane Doe l
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Oct 23, 2026
Watch: Who controls Ukraine's access to Starlink?
Ukraine is still recording issues with the Starlink internet network, sources within the defence ministry say, after Donald Trump said limits had been reversed by Elon Musk who owns the satellite system.
The sources told the BBC that instances of drones experiencing connection loss at speeds of 161km/h (100mph) were being recorded, hampering military operations.
The US president had denied instructing the tech billionaire to restrict connectivity to Starlink's military-grade counterpart, Starshield, before saying on Thursday that Musk had "put it back".
Asked on Friday, Trump said: "If there is a problem, I will get it straightened out."
Trump added: "I have not spoken to him. I might have to, but I have not. I've heard it was fixed, but if it's not, I'll speak to him."
Musk previously said he was not behind the slowdown, which affected Ukraine's ability to use attack drones and co-ordinate defensive operations.
Trump told reporters he did not think the tech billionaire had too much power.
The Ukrainian defence ministry sources said the military was constantly monitoring the performance of both the Starlink and Starshield networks.
They added that there was "currently no confirmation that these restrictions have been lifted".
Last week, Kyiv said uplink speeds to the low Earth orbit satellites had been restricted, affecting the speed at which drones could travel. Any drone travelling faster than 100mph lost its connection, officials said.
Shortly after, Musk said that Starshield, which Ukraine uses for some of its operation, was controlled by the US militar
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Oct 23, 2026
An upstate New York woman who says she only recently learned she wasn't born in the U.S. has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections.
Marva Cook was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a U.S. citizen, she told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month, according to the criminal complaint.
But in searching for her biological mother, the 66-year-old Syracuse resident, who starred on Syracuse University's women's basketball team decades ago, said she discovered she had a German birth certificate.
Federal prosecutors say Cook has had a green card for several years now, but she still cast ballots in recent elections despite not having citizenship.
She faces a single federal charge of voting by an alien stemming from her vote in the 2022 midterms.
The misdemeanor offense carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine up to $100,000, if convicted. Cook can also face deportation, under federal law.
Cook says she has faith in God and support from community
Reached by phone Friday, Cook declined to discuss the criminal case, her voting record or her past efforts at becoming a citizen.
But she said she was "not thrilled" by her court appearance Wednesday as she was placed in shackles despite having voluntarily turned herself in just hours earlier.
"It was a difficult time," Cook said. "I'm about kindness and service and doing for others as I want to be treated."
She also said she appreciated the outpouring of support of
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Oct 23, 2026
A photo released by the US Navy shows an F/A-18 Super Hornet launching from the flight deck of the USS George Washington as it operates in the Middle East on September 9, 2026 (-)The United States appears to be preparing to resume large-scale strikes against Iran, but there is unlikely to be a military solution for either side in the devastating conflict, experts say.
Washington and Tehran's forces have settled into a pattern of strikes on commercial ships, with the United States seeking to enforce a blockade of Iran's ports and the Islamic republic trying to exert control over the key Strait of Hormuz waterway.
Neither country has engaged in major attacks on land-based targets since early September, but that may soon change.
"I'm banking now on the likelihood of strikes shortly after the midterms," said Suzanne Maloney, director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, referring to November 3 elections in the United States.
She pointed to potential signs including the movement of additional US military assets and troops to the Middle East, warnings issued to Americans in the region, and a high alert status for Israeli forces.
Additionally, President Donald Trump "came out publicly and said that he wouldn't strike before the midterms," and "it wouldn't seem to help him at the polls to do so," Maloney said.
The US-Israeli war against Iran is largely unpopular in the United States, especially because it has sharply driven up fuel prices, and is likely to be a drag on Trump's Republican Party in the key vote.
"Fundamentally, the situation isn't sustainable in its current state," Maloney said, noting that the US blockade is "creating greater pain for the Iranians," while Washington has a large number of naval assets tied up in enforcin
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Oct 23, 2026
A chemical leak that sent 60 people to the hospital and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes has been blamed on an employee error.
Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz announced the cause of the tank leak at a news conference on Friday and said that all remaining evacuation orders in Toledo, Ohio.
The chemical leak happened Tuesday night when an employee of MC Tank Transport "introduced a temperature level to the tank in the process of trying to transfer the liquid" that caused a chemical reaction, the mayor said.
MC Tank Transport said the tank contained glycidyl methacrylate, which it described as "an industrial chemical used to make certain plastics, paints and coatings perform better."
A plume of smokes rises from MC Tank Transport Inc., where a chemical tank exploded overnight, prompting hundreds of residents to evacuate or shelter in place amid concerns about a potential toxic release, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026 (AP) The e
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Oct 23, 2026
Citi Bank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase have taken steps to limit third-party AI agents from accessing their platforms and services, and others are following suit.
The banks' decisions, first reported by Axios, come amid mounting concern over AI agents taking unwanted actions on behalf of users. Two-thirds of chief information security officers surveyed in financial services and software ranked agentic AI among their top three cybersecurity risks, and more than one-third named it as their top concern, according to a 2026 study by Palo Alto Networks.
"We do not permit third-party AI agents or assistants to log into a customer's account or transact directly within our digital banking platforms," a Citi spokesperson wrote to USA TODAY.
Citi customers can authorize agents to "limited, read-only access to their account information with certain Citi-approved open banking providers," the statement continued. Citi has not seen reports of agents accessing client accounts.
"There's a window of vulnerability where the systems, the banks, the users are all vulnerable to the speed with which AI is being weaponized," said Andre Durand, founder and CEO of Ping Identity, which sells identity security infrastructure to financial institutions.
He cited concern over AI being used to perpetrate fraud and scams at higher levels as well as fear that agents could be compromised or decide to take malicious action on their own.
In an October report
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Oct 23, 2026
Oil prices climbed to a 6-month high on Friday as traders priced the odds of escalating fighting in the Middle East. Attacks near the Red Sea also stoked worries of further constraints on oil supplies from the region.
Brent crude (BZ=F) futures for December delivery settled at $116.72 per barrel. The international benchmark posted its third consecutive week of gains. Meanwhile, West Texas Intermediate crude (CL=F) closed just above $103 a barrel.
President Trump telegraphed an escalation in Iran after the midterm elections and an extended stand-off, with the Strait of Hormuz remaining at the center of the conflict.
This week, the New York Times reported that the US and Israel have reportedly drawn up plans for renewed attacks on Iran after the Nov. 3 elections. The US has ordered nonessential embassy personnel to depart Saudi Arabia after a series of attacks at the country's airports and oil fields.
President Trump has said he will
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Oct 23, 2026
It's crunch time. With less than two weeks to go until the 2026 midterm elections, Democratic and Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives nationwide are making one last push to persuade voters in their districts — and help their party win or retain control of the chamber on Nov. 3.
The stakes are high. President Trump has enjoyed complete Republican control of Congress for the first half of his second term. Flipping the House would give Democrats the power to block parts of the president's agenda, investigate his administration and even impeach him (again).
Historically speaking, a president's party almost always loses seats when voters return to the polls to judge his first two years in office. (The average number lost since World War II? Twenty-six.) Sometimes, the backlash is so pervasive that the president's party loses seats across a wide range of competitive districts — a phenomenon known as a "wave" election.
But the past doesn't necessarily predict the future, and Republicans have certain advantages today that they didn't have before. Here's what needs to happen for each party to come out on top.
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Oct 23, 2026
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy on Friday defended his campaign's ad featuring the estranged mother of Democratic rival Dr. Amy Acton in the closely watched race for Ohio governor.
Speaking at a campaign stop in northeast Ohio, he said the advertisement, which features Acton's mother calling her "a liar," had nothing to do with childhood abuse.
"The irony is they're lying about an ad that is about lying," Ramaswamy said. "They're changing the subject because they don't want to answer for their own failures."
The advertisement features Acton's birth mother, Donna Arthur, criticizing her and insinuating she has mental health issues. Arthur lost custody of her children after her husband, the children's stepfather, was indicted for raping Acton.
Acton is Ohio's former public health director and has made no secret of facing homelessness and abuse as a child. She has condemned Ramaswamy for the ad.
"I won't normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is just something I'm complaining about." she told Spectrum News, a cable news outlet in Ohio.
A message seeking comment was sent Friday to her campaign
The ad has stirred significant reaction, including from President Donald Trump, who said it was like "hitting pay dirt."
At a campaign rally in Iowa on Thursday, Trump told the crowd Ramaswamy called him to ask for advice.
"You've got to ride with it," Trump recalled telling Ramaswamy, a biotech billionaire and former presi
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Oct 23, 2026
Washington — Two former senior FBI officials are facing criminal charges for allegedly making false statements to Congress during testimony in 2023 about the bureau's investigation involving Hunter Biden's laptop.
Nikki Floris, 46, a former intelligence analyst in charge in the bureau's Washington Field Office, and Bradley Benavides, 56, the former deputy assistant director at the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, each appeared in court on Friday in Washington, D.C., where they were presented with a copy of a criminal complaint charging them with one count each of lying to Congress about their roles on the Foreign Influence Task Force during the 2020 election, specifically the FBI's Hunter Biden investigations.
A statement of facts prepared by the FBI and filed with the complaint alleges that Floris made false statements to Congress on July 19, 2023, and Benavides allegedly did the same that September. Their alleged false statements pertained to "their awareness of involvement in the FBI's investigations into Hunter Biden," it said.
"The evidence further establishes probable cause to believe that Floris and Benavides made these statements for the purpose of concealing [the Foreign Influence Task Force's] engagement with and communications about the Hunter Biden investigations and impeding the congressional investigation," it said.
The decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. to charge the pair in a criminal complaint stemming from three-year-old allegations is highly unusual, and both their defense attorneys and the magistrate judge who presided over Friday's hearing and unsealing raised questions about the decision.
"The alleged conduct happened years ago. The government has had the information about this for years," said Ron Safer, an attorney for Benavides. He ask
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Oct 23, 2026
The Trump administration intends to push for new labels on seafood sold at grocery stores to give consumers a better idea of where products originated, two U.S. officials told CBS News.
However, the "U.S. Caught Seafood" label, proposed by the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn't be mandatory.
President Trump was expected to mention seafood during his pitch to voters in Florida on Friday afternoon. He is stumping in Fort Myers for Senate candidate Ashley Moody and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds before spending the night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
The White House has prepared economy-related perks to roll out in each of the states he visits in the final campaign blitz before the midterm elections.
Most seafood eaten in the U.S. is imported, government data shows. About 80% of the seafood Americans ate in 2023 came from abroad, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. U.S. commercial fishermen caught seafood valued at $5.1 billion in 2023, while the U.S. imported $25 billion worth.
The Trump administration was also preparing $5 billion in loans targeted at the fishing industry so that it can buy new equipment, according to U.S. officials. The loans would be through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This article originally appeared on CBS News at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-seafood-labels/
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Oct 23, 2026
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Anthropic's public listing, which is expected this year at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion, is bound to be a windfall for both early-stage and later-stage investors. But even at the company's latest private market valuation of $965 billion, the stakes held by many of those VCs and early backers already total billions.
Coatue, which first backed Anthropic in 2025 at a $183 billion valuation and co-led the AI lab's last two funding rounds, has poured a total of $4.75 billion into the company. That stake, based on the last round's price, is now worth roughly $7.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. Coatue declined to comment.
Below is what some other backers of Anthropic are worth based on the last round's price, according to Bloomberg:
Eric Schmidt: The former Google CEO invested in Anthropic's Series A in 2021, when the startup was valued at $461 million, according to PitchBook data. Today, Schmidt owns about 1% of the company, and even at its current private valuation, his stake is worth nearly $10 billion.
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Oct 23, 2026
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for New Hampshire to enforce a ban on voters using student ID as proof of identity at the polls in November's midterm elections.
In its decision Thursday, the court paused a federal court's ruling that would have allowed poll workers to consider student IDs to verify voters' identities without an approved government-issued ID. One Supreme Court judge, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented.
The court action came as a result of New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan asking the Supreme Court to intervene after telling election officials that he wouldn't accept student IDs even as backup identification in this year's midterms. Earlier this year, a Republican-backed law removed student ID from the list of identification voters can use to get a ballot.
The Coalition for Open Democracy, which is challenging the ban, wrote
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Oct 23, 2026
President Donald Trump on Friday said he told his administration to file its lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, kicking off what many fear could become a lengthy battle between the government and states over certifying an election where the president's party is struggling.
"I'm the one that said do it," Trump told reporters as he landed for a campaign rally in Florida.
The lawsuit, filed late Thursday, centers on one of the president's longstanding complaints in the Senate race — the presence of a second candidate named Dan Sullivan, who Republicans fear could siphon away votes from the incumbent in what's likely to be a photo-finish contest with Democrat Mary Peltola, the state's former congresswoman.
The second Sullivan, who is Daniel J. Sullivan from the tiny fishing community of Petersburg, has said he decided to run on his own, but Republicans have contended he is a Democratic plant to siphon votes away from their candidate.
The lawsuit by the Republican president's Department of Justice in federal court in Alaska demands that the state be blocked from certifying a Peltola win if Daniel J. Sullivan remains on the ballot. "The United States accordingly brings this lawsuit to protect the integrity of the 2026 Senate election in Alaska," the lawsuit says, contending that federal law requires states to protect the integrity of federal elections.
The legal challenge came 11 days before the Nov. 3 election and months after the final ballot was set.
The Alaska Supreme Court
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Oct 23, 2026
Jared Kushner is pushing back on a report involving a hacked iPhone, international spies and billion-dollar transfers from foreign governments.
An upcoming book by journalist Matthew Cole claims Kushner, who is President Trump's son-in-law, had access to more than $2 billion in "slush money funds" from Middle Eastern leaders in an attempt to influence U.S. foreign policy.
An excerpt of the book released Thursday details allegations encompassing Kushner's time as a senior White House adviser during the first Trump administration, which included a lead role in U.S. policy in the Middle East. Kushner had a major hand in negotiating key foreign policy deals that involved Israel, the Gulf states, China and Russia during that period.
Kushner and his legal team released fiery statements Thursday night categorically denying all accusations against him. Kushner said, "The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened." His attorney called them "false and defamatory" and said they intend to pursue legal action against those responsible, but did not specify whom.
The new book, "Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East," alleges Kushner had access to billions of dollars in undisclosed foreign bank accounts intended to pay for "influence within the U.S. government."
An excerpt from the book that was published in "Vanity Fair," but not independently verified by CBS News, says Dutch intelligence agents learned the Russians had hacked Kushner's iPhone in 2017 after flipping a Russian spy and subsequently gained access to Kushner's phone as well.
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Oct 23, 2026
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone Duo goes on sale today, but limited supplies and long lines outside Apple Stores mean you'll have to be lucky to get your hands on one.
Preorders for the company's first foldable smartphone sold out almost immediately last week, with delivery times currently pushed out well into late January.
Apple said it planned to have some Duos available in stores but expects them to sell out quickly.
"On Friday morning, our teams look forward to welcoming customers at Apple Stores to experience iPhone Duo and the incredible iPhone line-up for themselves," Apple said in a statement earlier this week.
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) October 23, 2026
"Apple Stores will have limited iPhone Duo available for walk-in customers, and we're working hard to get this revolutionary new product into customers' hands as quickly as possible."
At least some of the preorder madness
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Oct 23, 2026
A card with images depicting Alex Pretti and Renee Good is placed at a makeshift memorial in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 28 January 2026.Photograph: Seth Herald/Reuters
The federal government has stopped sharing evidence with Minnesota authorities who are investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers during a violent anti-immigration, anti-protest crackdown in the state earlier this year, state officials said in recent court filings.
Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration in March for access to materials they said they needed to independently investigate the shootings.
The family of Good, 37, earlier this month sued over her death when she was shot by a federal officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as she drove her car away during a protest in January.
Pretti, also 37, was shot dead in the street by a border patrol agent as he went to the assistance of a fellow protester on the icy city streets during fierce demonstrations against the crackdown. Both Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and ICE are under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.
The shootings of the two protesters, both US citizens, was a turning point
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Oct 23, 2026
President Donald Trump said Friday that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is continuing to fill with water, declaring that the landmark is "looking really good" and will be protected by anti-vandalism cameras.
The pool has become a recurring point of attention since Trump ordered it resurfaced in "American flag blue" ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations. The project has faced rising costs, algae issues, and damage to its freshly installed lining.
Trump shared an image of the Reflecting Pool on the Truth Social platform on Friday.In a message posted to Truth Social in the early hours of Friday morning, Trump said the Reflecting Pool was 85 percent full, "and looking really good!"
Trump added: "It hasn't worked properly since 1922, but will now. We have cameras set up to stop any potential Vandalism, including the grassed areas, which were destroyed by chemical poisoning with a large, and very inappropriate, phrase. The grass was completely replaced!"
The president also included in his post an image the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, with the Lincoln Memorial centered in the distance.
Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email on Friday.
Cases Dropped Trump earlier this week threatened any potential vandals with jail time, reviving a dispute over cause of damage to the pool's lining. A judge dismissed a
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Oct 23, 2026
First lady Melania Trump (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)
First lady Melania Trump has successfully negotiated a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine to allow humanitarian aid and civilian evacuations in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky, her senior adviser, Marc Beckman, revealed for the first time Friday on Newsmax's "National Report."
Appearing live in the Newsmax studio, Beckman disclosed that representatives of both countries had signed the agreement just hours before his appearance, marking a significant humanitarian breakthrough in the nearly five-year war.
"Let me start by being very crystal clear: the first lady of the United States of America has successfully negotiated a cease fire between Ukraine and Russia, localized in this region of Oleshky," Beckman told Newsmax.
The ceasefire, scheduled to begin Oct. 29, will allow Ukrainian and Russian civilian representatives to enter Oleshky, about 5 miles behind the front lines, to identify residents needing assistance and coordinate evacuations, Beckman said.
"It will bring humanitarian aid to the entire city, this includes medics, medicine, food, clean water," he said, noting the operation will include "an evacuation of the city of Oleshky as well."
Newsmax has been granted exclusive television access to accompany a delegation of Russian and Ukrainian observers entering Oleshky on Oct. 29.
Both Ukrainian and Russian officials agreed to allow Newsmax to document the humanitarian operation.
Beckman emphasized the immediacy of the breakthrough, revealing that the agreement had only just been finalized.
"As recently as this morning, I'm coming
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Oct 23, 2026
Oct 23 (Reuters) - The first Russian diesel bound for the US following a surprise agreement reached between Moscow and US President Donald Trump is aboard a tanker heading for New York, ship-tracking data showed on ?Friday.
Trump announced the deal this month as part of his efforts to bring down soaring diesel prices ahead ?of November 3 US mid-term elections.
Trump also waived parts of a new US sanctions law against Russia and threatened Europe with a US diesel export ?ban unless countries released more from their emergency reserves to help ease prices.
The Malta-flagged medium-sized tanker Agioi Fanendes was loaded with 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low sulphur diesel in Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk on October 22, according to LSEG shipping data. It is expected to arrive in the United States on November 7.
The identity of the buyer and seller were not immediately known. The ?cargo will be the first imported by ?the US since former President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil and petroleum products in 2022.
Trump announced on October 9 that Russia would immediately export 300,000 metric ?tons, or 2.25 million barrels, to the US and global markets, followed by 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter".
A Kremlin spokesperson on Friday confirmed a first ship under the deal had departed, but did not specify whether it was bound for the ?US market ?or elsewhere.
"As far as I'm aware, there have already been reports ?from the Ministry of Energy that the first ?tanker has, in fact, set sail for its recipients, its buyers. Further shipments will continue at a steady pace from here on," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on a daily conference call.
The deal with the US involved Russia lifting a self-imposed ban on diesel exports.
RUSSIA RESUMING GLOBAL EXPORTS Since the EU imposed a full embargo on imports of Russian oil products i
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Oct 23, 2026
President Donald Trump said Elon Musk has lifted restrictions on Ukraine's access to Starshield, the military equivalent of Starlink, amid confusion over who previously ordered access to the network be curtailed.
Trump declined to comment on reports that he called the SpaceX chief executive to ask Ukraine's access to the satellite network be fully reinstated, but described his relationship with Musk as "a very good one." The "bottom line" was that Musk had "put it back," he said in comments to reporters on Thursday.
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However, Ukrainian soldiers said Friday they were still experiencing Starshield disruptions, with no indication that any restrictions had been lifted.
On Friday, Starshield was still operating "with constant interruptions," although at a higher speed than on Thursday, Ukrainian commander Andriy "Klima" Klymenko, commander of the 414th Unmanned Systems Brigade, told The Washington Post.
"Right now we don't notice that restrictions on Starlink have been lifted," Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine's defense ministry, wrote in a statement.
Ukraine's military access to Starshield, a secure satellite network designed for government use, was unexpectedly throttled last week, impeding Ukraine's midrange strike campaign on Russian-occupied territory. There is confusion over who ordered access to the network be curtailed, with both Musk and Trump suggesting it was the other side.
The curtailed service followed Trump's announc
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Oct 23, 2026
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The Duchess of Sussex has said she was informed about "disturbing allegations" about her estranged father in 2018.
In a statement, Meghan said a letter containing allegations against Thomas Markle was sent to the Metropolitan Police that year and subsequently shared with her.
Her comments come after reports that images of child sexual abuse allegedly belonging to her father had been found at his former home in the Philippines, which she said were "deeply" distressing.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Thomas Markle denied possessing child sex images, calling the accusations "sick lies".
The duchess said: "I am deeply distressed at the news that has come to light in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed."
She said that when she received the letter outlining allegations against her father, she was "given assurance that these were being investigated".
She added she hoped it could be understood why she had kept her distance from her father and did "not allow him to have contact with our children".
This was "to protect them", she said, adding that she had "trusted that the authorities were doing the same for other families".
Meghan described the allegations as "more sickening than one could ever imagine" and said her "sincerest hope is that justice will be fully served and that the priority remains the safety and protection of innocent children".
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Oct 23, 2026
Elon Musk's influence over first Tesla (TSLA) and now SpaceX (SPCX) has long been measured in terms of corporate valuations, technological breakthroughs, and personal wealth, where his companies have made him the richest person in the world. Across the last few years, however, the centi-billionaire's growing portfolio of businesses has pushed him into a new lane entirely.
Over the past decade, Elon Musk has become far more than a corporate executive or political power broker. Through his control of companies underpinning global communications, military operations, space access, and artificial intelligence, Musk has acquired a degree of influence over national security, international relations, and the global economy that few private individuals have ever possessed.
An artilleryman of the Special Rifle Police Battalion of Zaporizhzhia region sets up Starlink satellite internet system, at a position, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 16, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File PhotoReuters / REUTERS
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Oct 23, 2026
Elon Musk has adopted a war posture in response to looming threats of congressional investigations: If Democrats win control of Congress in next month's midterm elections, Musk has signaled he is bracing for a fight.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword," he said Wednesday in a post on X, responding to a Politico report that cited Democratic lawmakers seeking to investigate him.
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"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," said Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
Musk's battle-ready stance comes as a host of Democrats have said they are eager to wield the power of their office to investigate the world's richest person should they win either chamber in the midterms.
As Republicans' election prospects have soured, lawmakers are building momentum for probes looking into the tech mogul, his companies or the work of the U.S. DOGE Service, which Musk oversaw and which was instrumental in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in an interview Thursday that he would investigate Musk and DOGE if Democrats win. Blumenthal led inquiries relating to the cost-cutting group but was in the minority and did not have subpoena power, which could be used to compel the attendance of witnesses, as well as the production of documents and records.
"The American people have a right to know the cost, the consequences and the chaos resulting from DOGE and … what he may be concealing," Blumenthal said. "There is
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Oct 23, 2026
Early in September, a New York Times investigation rocked the Kansas Senate race. The incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, the paper revealed, had sued some 700 patients over his previous, decadeslong career as an obstetrician-gynecologist in rural Kansas; in 81 of the cases, patients had gotten arrested over missed court dates. In an agricultural state already hard-hit by Donald Trump's tariffs, and in a cycle with affordability as voters' top issue, the revelation of struggling patients facing legal peril over medical debt — in one case of as little as $101 — changed the map, putting Republicans officially on the defensive in a state that had looked safe only months before.
The story was a coup for the paper and veteran health care reporter Sarah Kliff who, as the paper noted, "reviewed thousands of court records and interviewed eight people whom Roger Marshall sued over medical debt." But many also suspected a particular hand behind the initial tip: Tyson Brody, a 39-year-old opposition researcher and an alum of both the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns, who moved home to Kansas to work for Marshall's Democratic challenger, Rev. Adam Hamilton. Brody is "the kind of guy who, forget a skeleton in your closet — he will find every single dust bunny in your closet," said Caitlin Legacki, a senior fellow at Third Way and a Democratic strategist who has worked with Brody in the past.
The Times declined to comment, as did both Brody and the Hamilton campaign. Kliff has said on Kansas City public radio that she will not reveal who gave her the tip, as is standard journalistic practice. But journalists and operatives familiar with Brody's work think it's no coincidence that the Hamilton campaign's oppo game is exploding as it happens to employ one of the Democratic party's top practitioners of the craft — in h
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Oct 23, 2026
The Trump administration aims to stop Alaska from certifying the Senate race result if Republican Senator Dan Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola and votes for another candidate named Dan Sullivan could have changed the outcome.
A lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday against the state of Alaska and various election officials alleges that the Republican candidate listed on the ballot as Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. entered the race intending to mislead voters into backing him instead of the incumbent with the same name.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats of planting Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher, to confuse Alaska voters. In a social media post earlier this week, Trump—who has endorsed the incumbent—called his presence on the ballot a "scam" that could threaten Senator Dan Sullivan's potential victory in what has become one of the closest Senate contests this year.
"Even 1, 2, or 3 percent could make the difference," the president wrote. "Dan S. Sullivan is leading by a lot, but this is CHEATING in an Election, and the Judge that allowed this to happen should be ashamed of himself."
Senator Dan Sullivan is currently 2.7 points behind Peltola, according to VoteHub's poll tracker, underscoring how potentially consequential even a small number of votes could be.
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Oct 23, 2026
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who the military said had launched an attack near Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning. At least five other people were injured, some critically.
The violence is likely to heighten political tensions and security concerns ahead of Israel's parliamentary election next week.
The army said it had prevented a "terror attack against Israeli civilians" and that the two men, both Palestinians from Hebron, were armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun. It did not identify the target of the alleged attack or those injured.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office later said it had instructed security forces to immediately cordon off Hebron and prepare for a full closure of the West Bank starting Friday.
Voters go to the polls Tuesday in an election that will help determine whether Netanyahu secures another term as prime minister. The vote comes three years after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
Israel's government has warned of potential attacks by the country's "enemies" in the lead-up to the election.
Netanyahu holds an emergency meeting
Following the shooting, Netanyahu held an emergency meeting of his Security Cabinet and officials from top military and security agencies. He said Hamas was "planning a major attack aimed at murdering innocent civilians."
"Our brave soldiers thwarted this attack with courage and determination," he said, without elaborating on what the planned attack entailed.
"I commend them for their actions and wish our wounde
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Oct 23, 2026
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says two soldiers were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning that also left two suspected gunmen dead in violence that is likely to heighten political tensions and security concerns ahead of Israel's parliamentary election next week.
The army said two soldiers, Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, were killed and three others were lightly wounded during an attack by Palestinian gunmen. The attack took place near the Yehuda Junction outside the West Bank city of Hebron.
The army said it had prevented a "terror attack against Israeli civilians" and that the two suspects, both Palestinians from Hebron, were armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun.
It said the men arrived at an Israeli military position in the morning, triggering an exchange of fire lasting approximately 20 minutes, after which the gunmen were killed by Israeli troops. The army said its forces prevented the men from advancing further where the attack could have resulted in civilian casualties.
The military set up roadblocks and closures in Palestinian towns in the area.
Israeli voters will decide next Tuesday whether to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yet another term as prime minister — or usher in a new era of Israeli politics. The election comes three years after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
Israel's government has warned of potential attacks by the country's "enemies" in the lead-up to the election.
Netanyahu holds an emergency meeting
Netanyahu's office said it had instructed security f
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Oct 22, 2026
President Donald Trump's brand of brash, sometimes offensive, politics has consumed the Republican Party for a decade. But bipartisan outrage over Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring his opponent's estranged mother shows how candidates often fail when they try to embody the president's bombast.
Ramaswamy, an Ohio Republican running for governor against Democrat Amy Acton, a former public health official, gained national prominence as the 2024 presidential candidate who sought to mimic Trump's brand of shock-jock politics, confronting his rivals in public and working the sidelines of social media to rile and excite supporters.
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Ramaswamy's newest ad features Acton's mother calling her a "liar," even as documents show that Acton and her brother were removed from her home as children after her stepfather was charged with raping Acton.
Political operatives in both parties called the ad an extension of Trump's no-holds-barred politics that catapulted him to the presidency in 2016. Trump's rise was fueled by a Republican ecosystem - much of it online - that has been increasingly shaped in his image over the past decade.
And Trump defended Ramaswamy in an online post on Thursday, calling the ad "very powerful" and writing that criticism is meant only to "damage, demean, and embarrass a Republican."
"I told him leave it up and look upstairs and say 'thank you, God, very much, I appreciate it,'" Trump said at a rally in Iowa on Thursday night, recounting a conversation he said he
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Oct 22, 2026
Washington — President Trump on Thursday praised the "very powerful ad" Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is running featuring the estranged mother of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, after the ad drew pushback from some Republicans like Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social that he suggested Ramaswamy keep the ad up, saying the press is "trying to convince everyone that this Ad is bad, because it's so good!"
The ad, which first circulated on social media on Monday and is now television, features Acton's estranged mother, Donna Arthur, who called Acton a "liar" and sought to undermine her credibility. Acton's campaign condemned the ad, and her brother, Philip Stearns, called it a "despicable low."
According to court documents provided by the campaign, Arthur's now-deceased husband was charged with raping Acton, which she said occurred when she was between 10 and 12 years old. He entered a not guilty plea and left the area while out on bond; the case never went to trial.
DeWine on Thursday said he thought the Ramaswamy campaign should take the ad down. "It's wrong to run this ad," the Ohio Republican told reporters. "I would urge Ramaswamy's campaign to take this down." DeWine did not rescind his endorsement.
But Vice President JD Vance and now Mr. Trump are defending the ad and using it to criticize Acton.
"Vivek Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Amy Acton, who is running for Governor of Ohio, is a liar, and much worse," Mr. Trump wrote in his social media post. "The Press, in a concerted an
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Oct 22, 2026
Washington — President Trump on Thursday praised the "very powerful ad" Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is running featuring the estranged mother of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, after the ad drew pushback from some Republicans like Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social that he suggested Ramaswamy keep the ad up, saying the press is "trying to convince everyone that this Ad is bad, because it's so good!"
The ad, which first circulated on social media on Monday and is now television, features Acton's estranged mother, Donna Arthur, who called Acton a "liar" and sought to undermine her credibility. Acton's campaign condemned the ad, and her brother, Philip Stearns, called it a "despicable low."
According to court documents provided by the campaign, Arthur's now-deceased husband was charged with raping Acton, which she said occurred when she was between 10 and 12 years old. He entered a not guilty plea and left the area while out on bond; the case never went to trial.
DeWine on Thursday said he thought the Ramaswamy campaign should take the ad down. "It's wrong to run this ad," the Ohio Republican told reporters. "I would urge Ramaswamy's campaign to take this down." DeWine did not rescind his endorsement.
But Vice President JD Vance and now Mr. Trump are defending the ad and using it to criticize Acton.
"Vivek Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Amy Acton, who is running for Governor of Ohio, is a liar, and much worse," Mr. Trump wrote in his social media post. "The Press, in a concerted an
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Oct 22, 2026
Attorney General Todd Blanche left the door open on whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) would intervene in states' midterm elections verification processes, telling reporters Thursday there are hypothetical "scenarios" in which it could block the certification of votes.
"Yes, of course there's scenarios that we can all come up with hypothetically, you know, some doomsday scenario for example, right?" he said. "So, I don't think it's proper to make any kind of conclusory statements about what's going to happen in the future, because I have no idea what's happening in the future."
Blanche added the DOJ has no intention "to improperly interfere with elections or the state confirmation process or certification process."
"There's no circumstances that we would ever do that," he continued. "Of course I'm not going to say that. But am I planning my days around the election to be somewhere to not certify? Of course not, no, not at all."
Blanche said earlier this month the DOJ plans to send 1,000 election monitors to polling places in every state on Election Day. At the time, he told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream the department's presence would serve to ensure federal law is properly enforced, adding the government has been monitoring elections since the 1960s.
During the Fox interview, Blanche went on to accuse Democrats of "fearmongering" by claiming the DOJ is trying to intimidate vo
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Oct 22, 2026
With the Trump administration signaling that work on the triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery could begin two weeks from Thursday, opponents of the project urged a federal judge to issue an order blocking the construction unless it is authorized by lawmakers.
The request for a preliminary injunction comes a day after the Justice Department filed notice with a federal judge indicating that construction on the arch could begin on Nov. 5, immediately after the National Capital Planning Commission is set to grant its final approval of the project.
Judge Tanya Chutkan had previously ordered that the government must give at least 14 days' notice before starting work on the arch. Wednesday's notice would keep with that timeframe.
Harrison Design/U.S. Commission of Fine Arts - PHOTO: A rendering of the ‘triumphal arch," that the Trump administration is planning to build near Arlington National Cemetery.The Vietnam-era veterans who have brought a lawsuit against the arch asked Chutkan to step in so that the administration can't "render the arch a fait accompli before this Court has made a final determination whether Defendants' project is unlawful."
Triumphal Arch final plans submitted by Interior Department to National Capital Planning CommissionThe veterans' filing accuses the administration of having "barreled ahead, doing site testing, drawing architectural plans, and seeking approvals from commissions populated by friends of the
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Oct 22, 2026
An aerial view of scorched grass in London, the UK, on August 11, 2026. - Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
More than 50,000 people are estimated to have died across Europe's cities during the brutal heat waves that roiled the continent this summer — making this year's heat the region's deadliest on record, according to a new analysis.
About two-thirds of the deaths, more than 32,600, are directly attributed to climate change, driven by fossil fuel pollution, according to the findings, published in two peer-reviewed papers in the journal Nature Health.
"I think we can be quite confident in stating that the summer of 2026 is likely to have been the worst on record for heat-related mortality across much of Europe," said Clair Barnes, an author on the reports and an extreme weather and climate change researcher at Imperial College London.
This stark death toll is revealed just weeks before international leaders gather in Turkey for the annual UN climate talks, and days after a UN report warned the world's chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels has now vanished.
"We're well off-track to limit the worst consequences of climate change, and governments need to realize that witho
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Oct 22, 2026
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said New Hampshire can fully enforce a ban on voters using student IDs as a form of identification at the polls next month, a win for the Republican Party's effort to tighten voting procedures.
The court on Oct. 22 agreed to pause a lower court's ruling that a student ID is among the forms of identification that may be considered by poll workers if the voter lacks an approved government-issued ID.
The state's U.S. Senate race is among the contests that will decide whether Republicans keep control of that chamber after the midterm elections. The Republican National Committee had backed the state's unsuccessful emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.
New Hampshire, controlled by Republicans, is among several states that have banned registered voters from using a student ID to verify their identity at the polls. A voting-rights group challenged the change as discrimination against younger voters and as an unconstitutional burden on their right to vote.
A federal judge in New Hampshire declined to block enforcement of the law as the case is litigated.
But the judge also said the new law had not changed the fact that a poll worker may accept or reject a student ID as a valid form of identification on a case-by-case basis through the state's "safety-valve" provision.
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan asked the Supreme Court to intervene.
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Oct 22, 2026
Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed, the respective Republican and Democratic candidates in Michigan's crucial Senate race, sparred over tariffs, the Supreme Court, health care and a range of other issues in a contentious debate Wednesday night.
Both candidates are jockeying for an edge in a tight matchup that's likely to play a significant role in deciding which party controls the upper chamber of Congress after the midterms. According to forecasters, Michigan may be the GOP's best opportunity to flip a blue Senate seat on Nov. 3, which could prove critical to maintaining its slim majority as Democrats target GOP incumbents in a number of red states across the country.
Michigan hasn't elected a Republican to the Senate in more than three decades, but Rogers came extremely close to ending that streak two years ago, and polls suggest he may have another chance this time around.
Throughout the campaign, El-Sayed has garnered
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Oct 22, 2026
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rumblings from Washington, D.C., suggest the Trump administration, through the U.S. Department of the Treasury, could start cracking down on defaulted federal student loan borrowers.
The USDT is mulling several enforcement options, including hiring more professional debt collectors, garnishing paychecks and withholding some federal benefits, The Washington Sun reported this week.
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Oct 22, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is significantly reducing the chances that melanoma patients' tumors come back, according to results of a major study released Thursday by drugmakers Moderna and Merck.
The vaccine was custom-brewed for each patient to match their tumor. Adding it to a standard post-surgery treatment reduced by 42% the risk of melanoma returning two years after surgery, according to the most advanced study to date of this new strategy for fighting cancer.
"The field has been looking for a win and I think this one is a big one," said Dr. Hussein Tawbi of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of the researchers in the international study.
The vaccine, called intismeran, is made with the same Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology that was behind COVID-19 vaccines. Experimental personalized cancer vaccines made with mRNA and some other approaches also are being tested against other types of cancer including lung, kidney and pancreatic.
Experts not involved with the new study say its success bolsters the field.
"This is a new frontier," said Karen Knudsen, CEO of the Parker Institute, which helps fund cancer immunotherapy research.
"It's a big step forward for science, for oncology, because this vaccine will apply to many different cancers," said Dr. Michael Atkins, deputy director of Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Moderna and Merck had announced in August that the late-stage trial of intismeran was successful but the detailed results were set to be released Saturday at a meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncolog
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Oct 22, 2026
When it comes to picking senators, no state is nearly as consistent as Kansas. The last Democrat to win there, a former county attorney named George McGill, was elected in 1932. Kansas's other senator, a Republican incumbent, won reelection in 1936. McGill lost to a Republican in 1938. And Kansas has been sending Republicans to the U.S. Senate ever since.
That's a 90-year winning streak.
But the composition of Kansas's Senate delegation could change on Nov. 3 — and with it, Republican control of the chamber as a whole. To the surprise of pretty much the entire political world, first-term GOP incumbent Roger Marshall is currently locked in a too-close-to-call contest with megachurch-pastor-turned-rookie-candidate Adam Hamilton — a former Republican who considered running as an independent before deciding to seek the Sunflower State's Democratic nomination.
Hamilton, 61, is one of several heartland Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents who are giving Senate Republicans a run for their money in ruby-red states that President Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024 (including Texas, Iowa, Nebraska and even South Carolina). He describes himself as "a liberal conservative and a
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Oct 22, 2026
Calley Means, senior advisor at Health and Human Services (HHS) and co-founder of TrueMed, at the Semafor World Economy Summit during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2025. —Kent Nishimura—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesCalley Means, one of the key figures in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, said on Thursday that he was stepping down from his role as a senior health adviser in the Trump Administration.
In a post on X, Means said that he was resigning "with tremendous respect" for President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"They laid out a vision of combatting the entrenched, dark forces in DC that profit from Americans getting sick," Means said. "More policy and cultural change has happened around these goals in the past 2 years than any time in history—and I know this movement is just getting started."
News outlets including the New York Times and POLITICO, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation, have reported that Means was becoming increasingly frustrated because he felt that there was little movement on issues central to the MAHA agenda—for instance, on the issue of defining and regulating ultraprocessed foods.
Means, who was pivotal in coordinating an alliance between Kennedy and Trump during the 2024 election cycle, has championed the
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Oct 22, 2026
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has made a deal with the firm's board allowing him to sell or transfer up to 20% of the company's new Class C stock so that his voting majority doesn't decrease even if he has to pay the billionaire tax. (Nic Coury / Associated Press )Meta's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has wielded enormous power over the social media empire he built more than two decades ago, leading the California juggernaut through major scandals, scrutiny and technological shifts.
But the 42-year-old tech mogul considered leaving the state because he feared that a ballot measure to impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of California billionaires could reduce the amount of control he has over Meta, a recent regulatory filing shows. Meta's board struck a deal so he would stay in California. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
The filing highlights how one of the world's wealthiest people, whose net worth totals more than $200 billion, is bracing for the possibility that California voters pass Proposition 40, a wealth tax proposal that would primarily be used to fund healthcare.
Although supporters say the fear that billionaires will flee the state are overblown, the ultrawealthy have made moves to potentially avoid paying the tax or are funding campaigns to defeat it.
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Oct 22, 2026
A New York tradition more than a century old is ending.
The New York City Council on Oct. 22 voted to ban horse-drawn carriages, winding down a historic tradition that's popular among tourists and fiercely opposed by animal rights groups.
In a 40-7 vote, the council approved a ban that will phase out the operation of horse carriages that are in and around Central Park by June 2028.
"Today's historic vote marks our commitment to animal welfare, public safety, and protecting workers," council speaker Julie Menin said in a statement.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani supports the bill and is expected to sign it into law. In early October, he declared that the horse carriage industry is "coming to an end in New York City."
The city's horse carriages have traversed a loop in Central Park dating back to the 1800s. By the mid-20th century, the city limited horse-drawn carriage licenses to 68. Over the decades, the carriages became a tourism staple and appeared in iconic films and television shows, such as "Sex and the City," "Elf" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York."
But in recent years, animal rights groups and others have increasingly called for the end to the tradition, arguing that the practice subjects horses to harsh unnatural conditions and physical exhaustion
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Oct 22, 2026
The California billionaire tax, Proposition 40, is finally coming to a vote on Nov. 3. The measure would levy a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires. Two competing initiatives on the same ballot, Props 41 and 42, are backed by opponents of the tax, including billionaires.
If either garners more yes votes than Prop 40, it could keep the tax from taking effect.
The labor union Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is spearheading the campaign for the tax on the state's ultra-wealthy to prevent hospital and clinic closures, protect healthcare jobs, and help fund K-14 public education and state food assistance programs.
Opponents, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, say the tax would fuel an exodus of wealthy company founders and investors, spark job losses, and further weaken California's economy.
Read more: How billionaires get away with paying less tax
What is the billionaire's tax?Prop 40 would levy a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of billionaire state residents, subject to the asset restrictions noted below. Taxpayers could choose to pay the tax in five annual installments, with a 7.5% annual deferral charge on the unpaid balance.
Who would pay?
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Oct 22, 2026
Corey Lewandowski speaks to the press in July 2024..(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Justice Department prosecutors are investigating allegations of contract misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security, including the role of Corey Lewandowski who worked as de facto chief of staff to former Secretary Kristi Noem, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.
The probe follows a criminal referral for Lewandowski from the DHS Inspector General's office, which has been examining contracting practices at the agency during Noem's and Lewandowski's tenure, according to one of the people familiar.
The Justice Department declined to comment on the matter.
"Mr. Lewandowski has not been contacted by the Justice Department regarding any investigation, and he denies any wrongdoing when he was proudly serving his country in a voluntary capacity," Lewandowski's attorney Adam Trigg told CNN.
The Department of Homeland Security didn't immediately return a request for comment on the matter.
The referral is an unusual move for the Trump administration, which has been hesitant to criminally investigate its own members.
Critics have instead largely accused the Justice Department of improperly targeting the president's political enemies and accused DHS of protecting their own employees from scrutiny.
In recent months, as the allegations of possible corruption emerged, Washington, DC, US Att
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Oct 22, 2026
Holiday hiring is heating up with multiple companies saying they are adding temporary workers in the coming months, ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Amazon announced it is looking to fill 300,000 seasonal part-time and full-time roles across their national support operations during the holidays -- an increase of 50,000 positions compared to the same period in 2025. Seasonal employees will earn an average rate of about $20 an hour.
Shipping company UPS said it will hire 100,000 workers in the next few months, noting that many applicants can get a job offer in less than 7 minutes.
John Minchillo/AP - PHOTO: A UPS employee unloads a truck before making deliveries, June 29, 2023, in New York. Spirit Halloween, the largest Halloween retailer in the U.S., said it plans to employ a record 52,000 associates at store locations.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: The "Jack The Reaper" logo displayed in the windows of a Spirit Halloween seasonal holiday store in the location, August 26, 2024 in Los Angeles.Poultry company Butterball, famous for their turkey hotline, also said they are hiring their largest team on record to handle calls coming into their
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Oct 22, 2026
The Israeli Defense Forces and the United States military have drawn up plans to renew joint strikes on Iran in the coming weeks, according to two Israeli sources familiar with the plans.
The Israeli sources said the strikes would almost certainly take place after the U.S. midterm elections, citing President Donald Trump's reluctance to further destabilize oil markets in the final days of the campaign.
The White House said Thursday that the U.S. will not resume attacks on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
US Navy - PHOTO: U.S. Navy Command Master Chief John Shubert, assigned to Airborne Command and Control Squadron (VAW) 115, conducts leadership training aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, Oct. 20, 2026. "The United States will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections," White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement to ABC News.
Iran live updates"Hunting season is open as soon as the elections end and it's obvious that they're not going to wait long," one Israeli source said.
The New York Times was first to report on the planning.
Asked about the Times' reporting, a White House official said the administration does not comment on "sensitive military plans that may or may not exist."
The official added that Trump "keeps all options on the table" to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
The Pentagon declined to comment.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is firmly in favor of renewed action against Iran, but both sources said the decision for joint strikes to resume is "only for Trump to decide."
One Israeli
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Oct 22, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's team dropped and damaged a historic World War II-era globe previously used by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a source familiar with the incident told The Hill on Thursday.
While moving the artifact to the secretary's office, Hegseth's staff lost control of the 30-inch floor globe, causing it to crash on its base and resulting in an inches-wide gash near Antarctica, The Washington Post first reported Thursday.
The Post obtained images of the globe that showed the damage caused during the early February relocation attempt.
The Army's press office referred The Hill to Hegseth's office.
A Pentagon official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday the accident occurred while staff was transporting the replica of the Eisenhower globe as part of its relocation.
"Accidents happen, we are grateful no one was harmed, and the globe is being repaired," the official said in a statement. "It is unsurprising that the Washington Post is once again dedicating time to another inconsequential non-story."
The globe was ultimately not relocated.
One of the Eisenhower globes has pen line
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Oct 22, 2026
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt acknowledged Thursday that her successor Katie Zacharia, who stepped down after less than a week as press secretary, was not a good fit for the job.
"Look, White House press secretary is a tough job. I know that because I did it," Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
"Many people say it's one of the hardest jobs in politics. It takes a lot of preparation. Sometimes you don't know how someone will perform until they go out there," she continued. "As the president said, we wish Katie the best. The job obviously was not for her."
Leavitt said Trump is continuing his search for potential candidates, and she has offered to assist the president in finding a replacement.
"I do obviously talk to him about what the job entails, and he knows it very well. Nobody understands the press better than Donald Trump. He knows that he needs someone who is tough, who is smart, who understands his policies, who is loyal and can go out there and put up a fight," she said.
Leavitt served as press secretary from the beginning of the second Trump administration in January 2025 until this August, saying she wanted to spend more time with her family.
Prior to serving as White House press secretary, Leavitt worked as press secretary on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. Despite her exit from the White House, Leavitt is still seen as a close confidant of Trump's.
Leavitt's comments came after Zacharia left the role after only five days on the job earlier this month.
Zacharia's departure followed intense scrutiny over a shaky first press
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Oct 22, 2026
By Andrew Hay
Oct 22 (Reuters) - The University of Arizona has suspended a fraternity after a female student ?alleged she was raped at its house by two ?men, the latest action taken by a major US university against a Greek ?chapter over accusations of sexual assault.
The university suspended Sigma Phi Epsilon, which was already on probation for hazing new members, on Wednesday after the KOLD-TV station reported the allegations of a female ?student who said she ?was raped at the chapter's fraternity house in Tucson. The university said it was investigating.
"It ?has been determined that your organization presents a substantial risk to members of the university community," Whitney Mohr, associate dean of students, ?said ?in a letter to the ?fraternity.
The female student told police ?she was at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house with friends and residents of the chapter around midnight on August 26 when she woke up in a dark room being sexually assaulted by two men, according to the September ?police report published by KOLD-TV.
The Sigma ?Phi Epsilon chapter and its national ?organization did not ?immediately respond to requests for comment.
US universities have ?come under growing pressure to ?crack down on ?misconduct following allegations of sexual assault by fraternity members at Cornell University.
Earlier this month, the University of Arizona suspended ?all fraternity activities ?during investigations into alleged hazing, physical assault and drug ?and alcohol violations.
(Reporting by Andrew Hay in New ?Mexico; editing by David Gaffen)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/arizona-university-suspends-fraternity-rape-161205125.html
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Oct 22, 2026
(Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of an alleged sexual assault.)
Utah defensive tackle Jamal Wallace has not been with the team because of a suspension following a rape allegation against him.
Wallace was arrested on Oct. 11 on five counts of distribution of an intimate image after a woman he was dating alleged that he had raped her. The school said in a statement Wednesday that it was "made aware of the situation with Jamal Wallace on Oct. 11 and he was immediately placed on indefinite suspension from the program."
Per the probable cause statement obtained by KSL, the woman said that Wallace forced her to perform oral sex after they were discussion their relationship and infidelity. An investigation into the rape accusation is ongoing.
The woman said she continued to try to "flinch" and "pull away," but he continued to keep her there before he left the room. She said she was "frozen" during the incident and "thought if she just let it happen, it wouldn't last that long."
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Oct 22, 2026
A new campaign ad in which the estranged mother of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton argues that her daughter should not be elected as the Buckeye State's next governor has added a new level of controversy to what was already one of the most closely watched races of the midterms.
Acton, a Democrat, is running to replace outgoing Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. She's facing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire who ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2024.
In the ad, Acton's mother, Donna Arthur, calls her daughter a "liar" and urges Ohioans not to support her.
"Don't let her become your governor," she says. "If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse."
As the ad began to spread across social media, Acton's brother released a statement in which he accused Arthur of siding with their stepfather after he was charged with sexually abusing Acton when she was a child, and criticized Ramaswamy for attempting to use the alleged abuse as a "political talking point."
Ramaswamy defended the ad on Tuesday, telling reporters that Acton's account of her past "does deserve to be scrutinized." His campaign confirmed to the Enquirer that it will spend $4 million to air the ad across the
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