Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, at a time when the country continues to fight wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and is increasingly in direct confrontation with Iran. The move on Tuesday came after months of public disagreement between the two over the course of the wars. Netanyahu said he was firing Gallant due to a breakdown in trust and gaps in positions between them. Gallant has publicly challenged Netanyahu's failure to decide on a plan for the Gaza Strip's long-term governance and for not prioritizing a deal to release Israeli and other hostages held in the Palestinian enclave. "In the past months, trust has been cracked between myself and the defense minister," Netanyahu said Tuesday in a statement released by his office.
Republicans have cut into Democrats' recent advantage in early voting " including in key battleground states " putting Vice President Kamala Harris behind where Democrats were four years ago in the preliminary vote tally. It follows a concerted effort by Republican nominee Donald Trump's campaign to encourage supporters to embrace early voting, including voting by mail, after the former president demonized the practice as the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic clashed with the 2020 election. Trump during a campaign rally Wednesday in Duluth, Georgia, boasted about the critical swing state's record-setting early-vote numbers, declaring "people have never seen anything like it." But election data experts say there's no clear conclusion to draw from the Republicans' early-voting gains, and Harris allies insist the trend is not a cause for their troops to panic. read more
In 2023, the Village of Lockland had a population of just 3,500. One year later, village leaders say that number has doubled as an estimated 3,000 West African migrants pack into the small Hamilton County community. The dramatic influx is overwhelming finances, resources and emergency services in the village, which only spans 1.2 miles between neighboring Reading and Wyoming. "With the federal government's open border policy, these immigration population outbursts have been left for small villages like Lockland to have to deal with," Mayor Mark Mason told WCPO Tuesday. "If they're going to have an open border policy they're going to need a policy to direct these immigrants to communities that can withstand that kind of population outburst. 1.2 square mile village " it's unsustainable." read more
So, in case you didn't know, vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) has a new "hot take" on Tesla founder and X CEO Elon Musk " he's "gay." At a campaign stop in Detroit, Michigan, Walz was talking about billionaires and brought up Musk's name followed by a very specific classification. "If you're a billionaire - Elon Musk, for example say - that guy, that gay guy [chuckles] ... Michigan knows that word," Walz said. "Look, that dude got a tax cut ... "
The Arizona Secretary of State's Office has been ordered by a judge to release a list of the thousands of voters affected by a "glitch" in the state's registration system. On Thursday, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge gave the secretary until Nov. 4 to release an original list of the estimated 98,000 voters affected by a coding glitch in the state's databases. Earlier this year, state officials discovered that for the last 20 years there was an error in Arizona's record-keeping system when it comes to verifying a voter's citizenship. The issue affected a specific group of residents who had been issued a driver's license before October 1996 and registered to vote after February 2004. read more
Congratulations Danni, our State did it. I am so proud!