Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu " fighting for political survival in Tuesday's elections " has pleaded with President Trump in recent days to show more public support for his campaign, according to a U.S. source with knowledge and an Israeli source briefed on the matter. Why it matters: The U.S. source said the White House sees Netanyahu's aggressive lobbying as a "sign of desperation" and an indication that the Israeli leader thinks he's trailing. The U.S. source said Netanyahu spoke with Trump twice in the last three days and asked him to double down on his Truth Social post last week endorsing him.
Russian operatives are pumping out fabricated claims about Democratic candidates, AI-manipulated videos of celebrities and fake posts impersonating real news outlets in an effort to influence American voters in the final run-up to Election Day.
Yemen's Houthi rebels launch a barrage of missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Read more
The Ninth Circuit on Friday said President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in June of last year when he deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles as protests erupted against the unprecedented immigration crackdown in Southern California.
"But I said, I don't give a damn, I'm gonna say it: We're making a frickin fortune,'" he added. President Donald Trump has said he does not "give a damn" about potential criticism of his remarks boasting that the United States is making a "fortune" from high oil prices, as American motorists continue to face elevated gasoline costs. Speaking at a rally in Georgia on Saturday, October 24, Trump said advisers had warned him against highlighting the financial gains associated with rising oil prices, suggesting the comments would invite criticism over the cost of fuel for ordinary Americans.
President Donald Trump slammed the Wall Street Journal for fixating on scandals within the Republican Party while, in his view, completely ignoring "Democrat corruption" " like party leaders being linked to dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, he vented. Trump bashed the outlet while speaking to reporters in West Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday afternoon. A WSJ reporter " who sounded like White House reporter Phillip Wegmann " asked the president why he believed corruption is a top issue heading into the midterms, after a recent Fox News poll showed 88% of Americans were "extremely or very concerned" about it. "Well, because the Democrats are very corrupt. To me, corruption is one of the biggest things " if you look at Minnesota, if you look at Los Angeles, if you look at New York, the corruption is rampant. And to me, corruption is a very big factor," Trump said.
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You may be thinking: That is so Idaho.
Whether that's good or bad is up to voters.
The Gem State will become the 11th state to designate an official state gun. Utah was the first, choosing the M1911 in 2011.
In Idaho, House Bill 932 is the reason voters will get to make their pick on the ballot. The bill passed unanimously in both the Idaho House and Senate during the 2026 legislative session.
The official ballot question asks voters: "Which of the following guns should be designated as the state gun of Idaho?" Voters are instructed to choose only one. The six choices are the Winchester Model 1894 (.30-30); Winchester Model 1873 "Gun that Won the West" (.44-40); 1873 Colt Single Action Army Revolver "Peacemaker" (.45 Colt); M1 Garand rifle (.30-06); Colt M1911 .45 automatic Colt pistol (.45 ACP); and Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle (.30-06).
A much needed (though not deserved) Rest
Police in the south German state of Bavaria have detained a suspect during a fire at Adolf Hitler's Alpine mountain retreat, the Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle's Nest. Dispatchers in Traunstein received a fire alarm from the building at 21:15 (19:15 GMT) on Friday, and firefighters found it engulfed in flames. The Nazi dictator used the retreat, which lies above the town of Berchtesgaden, as a part-time seat of government and met commanders there to plan the invasion of the USSR in 1941. A criminal investigation is under way to determine whether the suspect is connected to the fire.
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Ukraine's military on Friday struggled with a still-slowed Starlink satellite system despite President Trump's promise a day earlier that SpaceX owner Elon Musk had restored the service.
Connections with Starshield " the military version of Starlink, a major tool for Ukraine to defend itself from missile and drone attacks from Russia " continued to fail in most of the country if drones flew faster than 100 mph, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there, and the speed has not been restored," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks on Friday.
He said Ukraine hopes SpaceX and the Trump administration will fully restore the service: "We count on such decisions."
Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes
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A Florida mayor was arrested Wednesday on theft and fraud charges alleging that she illegally enriched herself and family members through a COVID-19 small business relief program launched under her administration, according to the state's attorney general. Kissimmee Mayor Jackie Espinosa is being charged with grand theft, a second-degree felony, and organized scheme to defraud, a first-degree felony, according to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. Espinosa is accused of improperly appropriating $50,000 in funds through the city's Business Boost 2.0 program, according to the arrest warrant.
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said he would rather see Republicans keep control of the House by five seats than watch Democrats win the chamber by the same margin, warning that a "nightmare" razor-thin majority would leave party leaders "hostage to the DSA."
Democrats are up in arms after a so-called polling firm that projected far-left candidates as strong contenders in several primaries admitted that it had fabricated its polling data. Wedgewood Polling, which billed itself as an election survey company, released a statement Tuesday night admitting it used "fabricated numbers" for an "experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry." The group's polls were cited by Abdul El-Sayed's campaign amid a high-profile primary race against Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. The nonpartisan polling aggregator Political Polls also cited Wedgewood in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, showing socialist Francesca Hong having an edge over Republican candidate Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.
President Trump on Tuesday again complimented the backside of Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio), something he has done multiple times on the campaign trail as the midterms near. "I looked at his a, and then I looked at his legs, and my " I said, His a is like, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs, and I said, Man, his feet are big,'" Trump said during a rally in North Carolina, talking about Husted, who is locked in a tight race with former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Trump's approval numbers are at record lows as voters are angry about the war in Iran and the resulting rise in gas prices and overall inflation. Corruption in government is also a top concern down the midterm homestretch.
