Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola spent significant time staring down at notecards during her debate with Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Sullivan responded by asking if she had gotten the questions beforehand.
The former congresswoman glanced down at the paper for several seconds at a time while answering early questions at Thursday night’s “Debate for the State” in Anchorage.
After Peltola again appeared to read from her notes, Sullivan <a href="https://alaskapublic.org/news/politics/elections/2026-10-15/sullivan-and-peltola-trade-verbal-blows-accuse-the-other-of-lying-during-debate-for-the-state">asked</a> the moderators, “We weren’t supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?”
“No, sir,” replied Alaska’s News Source reporter Wil Courtney. “Absolutely not,” added Alaska Public Media chief editor Lori Townsend.
“Okay, I’m just watching my opponent,&#8221; Sullivan replied, glancing over at Peltola after she read off a card during her answer.
Peltola cut in that she was simply better “prepared.”
A National Republican Senatorial Committee official mocked Peltola for apparently relying on talking points written by “Lower 48 handlers.” The Republican Party’s research arm posted a clip of her looking at her notes while discussing Alaska’s fishing industry.
Sullivan later told reporters that he believed them when they said no one saw the questions in advance.
“I’m not blaming you guys,” he said.
Presidential debates <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3046498/cnn-announces-rules-for-first-presidential-debate-muted-mics-and-no-notes/">typically</a> ban prepared notes and give candidates only blank paper and a pen. State and local debates are often looser. Alaska Public Media has not publicly posted its policy on notes.
Even where notes are permitted, the unwritten rule is to glance, not read. Checking a statistic or bill name is fine. Reading answers word for word tends to suggest a candidate doesn’t know the material, and answers that seem to anticipate questions can raise suspicions of a leak.
Those suspicions have a real history behind them. In 2016, hacked emails published by WikiLeaks showed that Donna Brazile, then a CNN contributor and later DNC chair, slipped the Clinton campaign advance word of questions during the Democratic primary.
The day before a March 2016 CNN debate in Flint, Michigan, Brazile emailed Clinton aides that a question <a href="https://www.gospelherald.com/news/leaked-email-shows-dnc-head-giving-clinton-debate-question-in-advance">would come</a> from a woman with a rash. A Flint mother then asked about the water crisis. Brazile also tipped off the campaign about a death penalty question at a CNN town hall.
CNN cut ties with Brazile in October 2016. She later <a href="https://freebeacon.com/?p=749821">wrote</a> that she would forever regret her decision to tip off the Clinton campaign.
The cue-card dust-up was only one front in a brawl. During the Alaska debate, Sullivan hammered Peltola over a New York Times report that former staffers accused her of angry outbursts. Peltola called the claims “outright fabrications or mass exaggerations,” and moderators threatened to cut the candidates’ microphones if the cross-talk didn’t stop.
The race has already had evidence of chicanery; a second Dan Sullivan, retired Petersburg teacher Dan J. Sullivan, is also on the November ballot after surviving a state effort to remove him. Republicans have accused him of entering the race on behalf of Democrats to confuse voters.
In a June <a href="https://www.notus.org/campaigns/dan-sullivan-advances-alaska-senate-race-name">Facebook post</a>, Senator Sullivan said Peltola had been in Petersburg days before the other Sullivan announced, and that a Left-wing political operative helped launch the campaign. Alaska’s Division of Elections disqualified him, ruling that his candidacy had not been filed in “good faith.” Fourteen Republican-controlled states filed an amicus brief backing the division’s authority to remove him. But Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews <a href="https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/06/27/judge-finds-alaska-division-of-elections-removal-of-dan-j-sullivan-from-us-senate-race-unlawful/">ruled</a> the disqualification unconstitutional, writing that the law doesn’t allow removing a candidate who meets the legal qualifications for office.

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A spokesman for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Thursday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;push to strip her of her citizenship and deport her has no basis in the law and has no precedent.&#8221; Omar&#8217;s spokesman was referring to a Department of Homeland Security raid examining whether the Democrat or her Somali father lied to gain entrance to the country in 1995.
But there is recent precedent for deporting someone with seemingly parallel circumstances, even after they&#8217;d been in the country far longer than Omar.
In 2018, the Trump administration <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-nazi-labor-camp-guard-jakiw-palij-removed-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> a 95-year old Nazi guard who entered the United States in 1949 by claiming to be an ordinary Polish farmer. Jakiw Palij was in reality a member of the SS who worked at a labor camp in Poland and was deported to Germany by Trump&#8217;s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Similar was done in the cases of 66 other Nazis. The United States welcomed <a href="https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/how-many-refugees-came-to-the-united-states-from-1933-1945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more</a> refugees fleeing Nazi persecution than any other country, but these Nazis sneaked in by hiding the fact that they were persecutors, not the persecuted.
The United States provided refuge to Somalis after the havoc wreaked by communist despot Mohamed Siad Barre, whose army committed a genocide of up to 200,000 members of a sect within Somalia known as the Isaaq.
But Omar&#8217;s family is not Isaaq. Quite the opposite: her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a colonel in Barre&#8217;s army. As the family of a high-ranking regime official, as a young girl she lived in a guarded compound, waited on by servants including a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/30/this-is-what-america-looks-like-review-ilhan-omar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chauffeur</a>.
Omar&#8217;s father allegedly told immigration officials he was an &#8220;educator,&#8221; changing his name to avoid detection. He died in 2020. A pro-Omar <a href="https://sahanjournal.com/remembering-minnesotans-lost-to-covid-19/he-was-loved-by-everyone-the-somali-community-remembers-nur-omar-mohamed-who-died-of-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obituary</a> mentions nothing about any teaching career, describing him as an &#8220;esteemed senior officer in the Somali National Army&#8221; who was trained by the Soviets and was &#8220;affluent.&#8221;
If all that is true, the Omar family&#8217;s admission into the United States would be similar to Nazis taking advantage of refugee programs for their victims.
The timeline supports it. The family didn&#8217;t leave Somalia until Barre was deposed and exiled in 1991. They weren&#8217;t fleeing his regime – they left because Somalis rose up against Barre&#8217;s oppression and drove him and his henchmen out.
Omar has said that Donald Trump has committed atrocities worse than any she saw in Somalia. That&#8217;s because she wasn&#8217;t one of the victims of her father&#8217;s boss.
Omar has said the raid on her home amounts to political persecution, but ironically, Barre passed a law allowing national security forces to indefinitely detain anyone who criticized the government, with no trial.
Theo Wold, a deputy assistant to Trump in his first term, <a href="https://x.com/RealTheoWold/status/2110929977164157179" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to Omar&#8217;s statement, saying the Trump administration has a legitimate reason to look into the Democrat&#8217;s immigration status.
&#8220;I was involved in deporting one of the last living Nazi SS officers back to Germany, who had lied on his immigration forms to come to America all the way back in 1945. If any foreign-born person fraudulently obtained immigration status in America, they can have it reviewed at any time – up to and including a revocation of status and denaturalization of citizenship,&#8221; Wold said.
<div id="attachment_1200019" style="width: 375px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1200019" class="wp-image-1200019 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/10/Jakiw_Palij_visa_photo.jpg" alt="Public domain" width="365" height="273" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/10/Jakiw_Palij_visa_photo.jpg 365w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/10/Jakiw_Palij_visa_photo-300x224.jpg 300w" sizes=" (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px" />Nazi guard Jakiw Palij</div>
Palij, the Nazi guard, moved to the United States in 1949 and gained citizenship in 1957. His citizenship was revoked in 2003 after authorities discovered the truth. A judge ordered his removal, but there was a lengthy delay because Germany, Poland, and Ukraine (which now controls the territory where he lived) didn&#8217;t want to take him, all claiming one of the other countries should.
Decades passed, with his neighbors in Queens making life as miserable as possible for him – unlike the reaction Democrats have given Omar.
Then came Trump, who ramped up the pressure on Germany, which finally relented.
&#8220;The US administration, senators, members of Congress and representatives of Jewish communities in the US stress that people who have served in the rogue regime of the Nazis should not be able to spend their twilight years unchallenged in the country of their choice, the US,&#8221; Germany&#8217;s foreign ministry said.
Germany conceded that it was a &#8220;moral obligation&#8221; to take him , saying &#8220;The guilt of those who carried out these crimes in Germany’s name will never elapse.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s press secretary at the time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, praised Trump for deporting the Nazi.
&#8220;For many years a Nazi forced labor camp guard had been living in NY — a terrible injustice. Past administration failed to deport him,&#8221; Huckabee Sanders said, adding that Trump &#8220;got the job done!&#8221;

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In what resembled a scene from &#8220;Back to the Future,&#8221; Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled a flying car on Thursday night.
“You are going to see some crazy stuff tonight,” the world’s richest man said as he walked onstage at SpaceX’s rocket test site in McGregor, Texas, and greeted the audience. Musk explained that what they were about to see would be so unbelievable that their live presence was required to prove the demonstration wasn’t generated by artificial intelligence.
“We need an audience to prove that it’s not AI or SI,” Musk said, referring to the new term &#8220;super intelligence.&#8221; “You’re going to see what happens when you see a collaboration of the world’s best car company and the world’s best rocket company.” 
After a 20-second countdown, the new Tesla Roadster was revealed at the bottom of a curved ramp. The car climbed the ramp and drove upside down, using a fan underneath the vehicle to hold it against the surface. At the top, the Roadster flipped over and used thrusters to bring itself back to the ground.
SpaceX contributed 10 thrusters to the car. Together with the fan under the car, the thrusters let the car hover, spin and flip over. Musk said that while going upside down wouldn’t be necessary for the average driver, the car’s intense suction system allows it to “defy physics” on the road as it comes to a stop and makes sharp turns. 
Musk then showed the audience just how fast the car could go. In the demonstration, the Roadster went from zero to 60 mph in less than one second. Tesla says the car can reach speeds above 230 mph, and Musk said he eventually wants it to reach half the speed of sound, roughly 380 mph.
Musk also said the Roadster will be driven by a human, not by Tesla’s self-driving software. Musk wants the Roadster to be the only manually driven car Tesla makes, and the company touted the vehicle as &#8220;the last best driver&#8217;s car.&#8221; 

Musk originally promised the second-generation Tesla Roadster in 2017, sharing a video on X of a flying car. 
“The new Roadster will actually do something like this,” he said at the time. 
Nearly a decade after his promise, Musk told Thursday’s audience that production would begin in 2028. He laughed as he promised them that, this time, the production would actually happen as the Roadster has had several delays over the past nine years. 
Despite members of the audience yelling out, “How much?” Musk and other executives did not share a price for the new car. However, Tesla’s reservation page <a href="https://www.tesla.com/roadster/reserve">offered</a> customers a “performance” version of the vehicle that requires a $50,000 deposit and a “Thrust” version of the vehicle that requires a $250,000 deposit. The “rocket” version of the car is listed as “invite only.”

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Tensions flared Thursday during the final Maine Senate debate after Democrat Troy Jackson told incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins to “shut up.”
The <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/2110878309034967549?s=20">fiery exchange</a> came moments after a protester interrupted the live debate, shouting at Collins about artificial intelligence and data centers.
“AI data centers are destroying our climate,” the male protester shouted. “They are poisoning our water.”
Collins quickly responded, suggesting the protester was connected to her opponent.
“So this is obviously one of Troy’s supporters,” she said.
Jackson fired back: “Oh, shut up &#8230; I don’t even know that kid,” he told Collins.
“Oh, right,” Collins replied, before the debate resumed and authorities escorted the protester out of the venue.
Maine remains a nail-biter. Jackson leads Collins by 1.3 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average, though Collins has a history of outperforming polls quite substantially. Last weekend, Jackson<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/us/politics/maine-bernie-sanders-troy-jackson-seante-democrats.html"> campaigned</a> alongside socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as he sought to build enthusiasm for his campaign.
Jackson has also faced questions about his ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-dem-troy-jackson-dodges-simple-question-on-ties-to-radical-socialist-group">The Daily Wire previously reported.</a> During a previous debate, moderators pressed Jackson about his support for Medicare for All, a policy championed by the organization, and whether he was a member. Citing polling that showed nearly 40% of Mainers held an unfavorable view of socialism, moderators asked Jackson to clarify his affiliation.
Jackson did not directly confirm or deny membership, instead pivoting to a defense of universal healthcare and criticizing pharmaceutical company profits, Collins, and President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.
“I support Medicare for all, so that people that I know across the state have healthcare,” Jackson said, arguing that people should not have to forgo medical care because they cannot afford it.
Jackson has sought to distance himself from political labels on the campaign trail, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/20/politics/video/democrat-aiming-to-flip-maine-sen-susan-collins-seat-faces-onslaught-of-attacks">telling CNN’s Manu Raju</a> that he doesn’t “consider myself anything” and telling MS NOW’s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; that <a href="https://time.com/article/2026/10/05/democrats-in-key-senate-races-embrace-capitalist-label/">he does not endorse</a> the national platform of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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The Pentagon is expanding its counter-drug campaign in Latin America by deploying Army troops whose assignments could include training alongside regional forces and supporting military advisers, The New York Times reported.
U.S. military officials told the newspaper that soldiers assigned to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, had begun deploying in Panama for jungle training. The initial arrivals belong to a battalion of about 600 soldiers, with training also planned in Colombia and Honduras.  
The U.S. Embassy in Panama challenged reports that 600 troops were deploying to the country. <a href="https://www.riotimesonline.com/us-denies-sending-600-troops-to-panama-2026">According</a> to regional reporting, the embassy said 120 soldiers from the division were participating in a two-week course and would return to their home units afterward.
The accounts leave unresolved how the current training group relates to the broader deployment described by the Times.
Beyond exercises, the newspaper reported that some soldiers could guard American helicopters or assist U.S. Special Operations personnel if they encounter trouble while advising local militaries. Those partner forces conduct raids against suspected drug traffickers. The report does not establish that the newly deployed soldiers will carry out raids themselves.
The division is also expected to send several hundred soldiers to Miami to staff a command overseeing Western Hemisphere operations, according to the Times.
The expanded military presence follows Washington&#8217;s push for regional governments to intensify operations against cartels and cooperate more closely with American forces.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has championed that effort through the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition. At an August gathering in Panama, he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/hegseth-trump-anti-cartel-coalition.html">described</a> its motto: &#8220;We do bad things to bad people.&#8221;
The Pentagon has already conducted dozens of strikes over the past year against vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific that it says were transporting drugs.
Gen. Francis L. Donovan, who leads U.S. Southern Command, told The Wall Street Journal last month that land strikes were among the options available as the military seeks to disrupt cartel operations.
&#8220;Do I see land strikes as options? Yes. We want all options at the table,&#8221; Donovan said.
He also described measures that would involve law enforcement and border security rather than military strikes.
&#8220;Those actions might be strikes, arrests, or the takedown of a safe house,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It could even be something as routine as increasing the use of cargo scanners at border checkpoints.&#8221;

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Vice President JD Vance launched a new six-point pledge on Thursday calling on elected officials and government leaders nationwide to join the Trump administration’s effort to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in taxpayer-funded programs, drawing support from Republican governors, members of Congress, state financial officials, and senior administration figures.
“I’m calling on every member of Congress, as well as local and statewide officials, and anyone seeking public office, to rise to the occasion,” Vance said in a video announcing the pledge.
The initiative builds on Vance’s role leading the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which President Donald Trump tasked him with coordinating earlier this year. The pledge calls on signatories to protect vulnerable Americans from fraud, ensure benefits go to eligible recipients, prevent taxpayer-funded assistance dollars from being used to purchase luxury goods, coordinate across government to stop fraudulent payments before they are made, and hold convicted fraudsters accountable.
The document also calls for illegal aliens convicted of fraud to be arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned, and deported. Twenty-two Republican governors signed the pledge, according to the document released by the <a href="https://www.rga.org/republican-governors-sign-vice-president-vances-pledge-protect-americans-fraud/">Republican Governors Association</a>.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee — policy chairman of the group — praised Vance’s leadership, <a href="https://x.com/GovBillLee/status/2110779521074909586">saying</a> that he was, “Honored to lead RGA members to support the anti-fraud pledge &amp; grateful for @JDVance’s leadership in the fight to protect American taxpayers.” Lee added. “Fraud against taxpayers is unacceptable, &amp; every level of government has a responsibility to prevent it.”
Members of the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, were among the first lawmakers to sign the pledge, according to <a href="https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/10/15/rsc-fraud-pledge-n2684759">Townhall</a>.
“The American people are done being robbed by fraudsters and the bureaucrats who enable them,” RSC Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) said. “For years, billions of taxpayer dollars were stolen in broad daylight while the last administration shrugged and called it compassion.” Pfluger said combatting fraud has been one of his top priorities in Congress and pledged to continue working to ensure government benefits reach eligible recipients.
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) also <a href="https://x.com/RepMcCormick/status/2110788203699380626">announced</a> that he had signed the pledge, writing that government benefits should go to people legally entitled to them rather than those exploiting the system. Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) likewise <a href="https://x.com/RepPeteStauber/status/2110805616910323923">said</a> he was proud to sign, arguing that taxpayer dollars should help Americans in need rather than line the pockets of criminal fraudsters.
Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball praised the pledge as an example of the federal leadership needed to combat fraud and protect taxpayers. “This new pledge is the kind of committed leadership we need from the federal government to help us protect taxpayers from fraud and keep the most vulnerable among us safe and secure,” Ball said. “I applaud Vice President Vance for introducing it, and I strongly encourage all elected leaders to sign it and then hold true to its promises. Families in Kentucky and across our country deserve nothing less.”
The State Financial Officers Foundation (<a href="https://sfof.com">SFOF</a>) also signed on with the initiative. “The State Financial Officers Foundation applauds Vice President Vance’s powerful new pledge to protect the American people from fraud in government,” the organization said. “Americans are tired of the waste, fraud, and abuse committed by corrupt bureaucrats, scammers, and illegal aliens, and are flat-out sick of the higher costs that come with it.” The signatories include 41 financial officers across 28 states.
The foundation thanked Vance and the Trump administration for their commitment to combating fraud and said it looked forward to remaining on the front lines of the effort.
Several senior administration officials also announced that they had signed the pledge. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2110754599640485941">said</a> his department was working to protect taxpayer funds, hold fraudsters accountable, and ensure federal health and human services programs serve the Americans who depend on them.
“Every dollar stolen through fraud takes resources away from Americans in need,” Kennedy wrote.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz <a href="https://x.com/DrOzCMS/status/2110756883388878963">called</a> the pledge a “commonsense commitment” and said CMS would continue working with the White House task force to safeguard benefits and save taxpayer money.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon <a href="https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/2110796989981941893">also signed</a> the pledge, saying the Department of Education had prevented more than $2 billion in student aid fraud and implemented real-time verification measures to protect taxpayer funds.
“Every dollar lost to fraud is a dollar taken away from a student trying to build a better future,” McMahon said.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to barnstorm two key red states in a campaign blitz aimed at boosting Democratic enthusiasm ahead of the midterms.
Over the next week, the Vermont socialist will campaign in Florida and Texas as part of his ongoing “<a href="https://berniesanders.com/oligarchy/">Fighting Oligarchy Tour</a>.” Beginning Saturday, Sanders will make stops in Tampa, Melbourne, Gainesville, and Tallahassee.
In Florida, he will be joined by far-left state Rep. Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, who has called for the punishment and imprisonment of incumbent Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.
During a<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-pushes-back-on-claims-she-wants-to-abolish-prisons-argues-for-jailing-opponent?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Dem+Pushes+Back+On+Claims+She+Wants+To+Abolish+Prisons%2C+Argues+For+Jailing+Opponent"> viral CNN interview</a>, Nixon pushed back on claims that she supports abolishing prisons, arguing that she could not possibly support doing so because she wants her opponent, Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL), thrown behind bars.
“They are spreading, like, a lot of disinformation and lies on commercials about me, of saying things like, I want to abolish prisons, and I want to defund the police,” Nixon claimed, as the CNN anchor sat beside her with a straight face. “Why would I want to do that when I want her [Moody] locked up and punished in jail for what she has done?”
Nixon also spent months attacking slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling his supporters tools of “white supremacy” and comparing a bill honoring the Turning Point USA founder to something “brought straight by the KKK,” as<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialist-senate-nominee-called-charlie-kirk-supporters-tools-of-white-supremacy"> The Daily Wire previously reported</a>.
Nixon’s embrace of Sanders on the campaign trail could prove politically risky in a conservative state where many voters, including immigrants who fled repressive communist and socialist regimes, have backed Republicans in recent elections.
<a href="https://x.com/AshleyMoodyFL/status/2110351917519905123?s=20">In a recent advertisement</a>, Moody painted Nixon as a far-left radical and leaned into anti-socialist messaging.
“She quotes cop killers, attacks law enforcement, and signed up for a socialist platform to abolish prisons and defund the police,” Moody said. “I approve this message because it’s freedom or socialism, and that’s not complicated,” she added.
After Florida, Sanders will take his left-wing populist message to Texas, where Democrat James Talarico and Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton are locked in a tight race. He will be in Amarillo, El Paso, and Houston. But unlike Nixon, Talarico will not join Sanders on the campaign trail as he seeks to turn Texas blue for the first time in decades.
Instead, former Texas Democratic star Beto O’Rourke will join Sanders on the campaign trail. O’Rourke previously failed to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 and Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022.
Whether or not Talarico joins him, Sanders’ visit is likely to draw statewide media attention and complicate Talarico’s efforts to win over the moderate voters he needs to prevail.
&#8220;Bernie Sanders and James Talarico are two peas in a socialist pod,&#8221; RNC spokesman Zach Kraft said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;From introducing a Texas Green New Deal to ban oil and gas to saying he &#8216;doesn&#8217;t care how high he has to raise taxes,&#8217; Talarico is already auditioning to be Bernie&#8217;s top lieutenant fighting for a radical liberal agenda in the U.S. Senate.&#8221; 
The Daily Wire previously<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-positions-talarico-abandoned-in-one-night?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=5+Positions+Talarico+Abandoned+In+One+Night"> reported</a> how Talarico flip-flopped on numerous issues from border security to his beliefs about God during a CNN town hall Wednesday as he continues to run from his radical past. 
“I am not running for the U.S. Senate to represent New York or California. I’m not running for the U.S. Senate to represent the Democratic Party,” Talarico claimed during the town hall. “I am running for Senate to represent all 31 million Texans, and I will always do what’s best for Texas.”

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The United States military is reportedly considering using the “mother of all bombs&#8221; against Iran if President Donald Trump orders renewed attacks. 
The weapon, formally known as the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/15/politics/us-considering-mother-of-all-bombs-iran">According</a> to CNN, Trump has ordered the military to develop additional strike packages that include &#8220;a lot of energy infrastructure&#8221; and the potential use of the MOAB. Plans for striking Iranian nuclear sites, including the facility known as Pickaxe Mountain, also explicitly call for the weapon. 
The United States first<a href="https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PUBLIC-RELEASES/Article/1151115/us-forces-targets-destroys-isis-k-stronghold/"> used</a> the MOAB in combat in April 2017, during President Donald Trump’s first term, to target an ISIS-K tunnel complex in Afghanistan. Military officials said the weapon was chosen to minimize the risk to Afghan and American forces conducting clearing operations in the area, where ISIS-K had fortified its defenses with improvised explosive devices, bunkers, and underground tunnels.
However, sources familiar with the planning told CNN there are doubts about whether using the weapon would achieve Trump&#8217;s stated objectives or tip the balance of the war. Its potential use is among the options being developed for the president. 
The report comes despite Trump&#8217;s pledge last week not to attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections. CNN reported that several White House advisers said privately they did not know whether Trump&#8217;s statement was definitive.
Iran has acknowledged the strain it is facing. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-iranian-protests-intensify-as-citizens-demand-end-to-ayatollah-rule">reported</a> on Thursday that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian described the pressure on his country during a development conference. 
“Never in the 48 years since the Islamic Revolution have we been under such pressure and faced such difficulties,” Pezeshkian said.
Elsewhere in the region, leaders are bracing for further turmoil. Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, urged Qataris on Tuesday to prepare for worst-case scenarios as the conflict strains the country’s economy. Trump initially claimed the war would last around six weeks, but it is now in its eighth month. 
At home, higher energy costs have added to the economic pressure on Americans and are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-iran-escalation-another-jump-at-the-pump">expected</a> to create political challenges for Republicans heading into the midterm elections, where the economy remains one of voters’ top concerns.
Trump has repeatedly called higher costs a “very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done,” referring to his administration’s efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
In his announcement last week, Trump said discussions with Iran were continuing while the blockade remained in place.
&#8220;We are having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. I want to make it clear to everybody that, while Iran is in very bad condition, both economically and militarily, and while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, with Oil flowing in Record Numbers of Barrels through the Hormuz Strait,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd.&#8221;
He added that &#8220;Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.&#8221;

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Attorneys involved in the &#8220;Cornell 7&#8221; case are trading barbs over media appearances, with each accusing the other of seeking an advantage in the court of public opinion.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cornell-accuser-faces-new-legal-fight-over-what-she-can-say">Jane Doe&#8217;s</a> attorney Thomas Giuffra submitted a letter to the court Wednesday urging it not to impose an order that would restrict all parties from discussing the case with the media. Attorneys for defendant Diego Sarabia had asked the judge on Monday to restrict lawyers and parties from commenting on the case, accusing Giuffra of running a media campaign that could taint the jury pool. Giuffra defended his own media appearances and accused defense attorneys of leaking documents to the press.
Giuffra named <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/10/15/cornell-7-accused-of-leaking-documents-by-jane-does-lawyers/">entertainment site TMZ</a> in the letter, claiming that &#8220;2 Angry Men&#8221; podcast cohost Mark Geragos was using his relationship with the outlet to get information in front of the public because his daughter, Teny Geragos, is representing defendant Winston Lee.
Despite his accusations, Giuffra said he opposed restrictions on media appearances because he believed the defense would use surrogates to push a narrative and he would be left with no way to respond.
Andrew Miltenberg, who is representing defendant Gillio Lopes, fired back in a statement to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/10/15/cornell-7-lawyer-says-jane-doe-attorney-is-a-hypocrite/">TMZ</a> on Thursday, saying in part, &#8220;Apparently, Mr. Giuffra believes media coverage is appropriate only when it serves his client&#8217;s interests.&#8221;
&#8220;The hypocrisy in Mr. Giuffra&#8217;s sudden outrage over defense counsel speaking to the media is astonishing. He spent weeks promoting his client&#8217;s allegations on television, in newspapers and across the internet, helping turn this case into a national media spectacle before the seven publicly identified defendants had a meaningful opportunity even to review the allegations, much less respond,&#8221; he wrote.
Miltenberg noted that Giuffra named the seven defendants in the lawsuit while protecting his client&#8217;s identity. While Miltenberg said he fully understood the importance of protecting her identity, he added that &#8220;[Giuffra] knew those young men would face intense public scrutiny, and he seemed perfectly comfortable with the resulting media frenzy when his side was driving the story.&#8221;
Doe alleges that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted her at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024. The men have denied the allegations, saying either that the encounter was consensual or that they were not involved.
Miltenberg denied that he or any other defense attorney leaked documents and said Giuffra should substantiate the accusations.
&#8220;Jane Doe deserves privacy, respect and the opportunity to be heard. So does Gillio Lopes. Mr. Giuffra doesn&#8217;t get to use the media as a megaphone for his allegations and then demand that the defense put down its microphone. He cannot have it both ways,&#8221; Miltenberg concluded.

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At least four people, including three children, were killed Thursday afternoon in a shooting at an elementary school in central Oregon. The gunman is also dead.
Police said the 16-year-old male suspect opened fire on a vehicle with a long gun outside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend before entering the building. Authorities said he forced his way into the school by shooting at locked doors. An armed Good Samaritan intervened before police arrived, killing the teenager inside the school. A responding officer said the community member saw the suspect enter the school, pursued him inside, and engaged him.
The three children killed were ages five, eight, and 11. An adult teacher was also killed, according to police. At this stage of the investigation, law enforcement does not know if the gunman had any connection to the school.
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The horrifying ordeal appeared to unfold and end within minutes, thanks to a heroic bystander who stopped the shooter in his tracks, even as police responded swiftly.
“We received the first report at 12:59 of a shooter outside of the building shooting into a car, and within about a minute, we were receiving multiple 911 calls from within the school. Our officers were on scene at 1:02, and the shooter was down seconds later,” Sheila Miller, Bend Police Department’s communications manager, told local media. 
During an evening briefing, police declined to specify the type of long gun used in the shooting or the number of rounds fired.
Oregon&#8217;s Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek said her heart is &#8220;broken&#8221; and praised the Good Samaritan who jumped into action.
“And to the community member who heroically intervened to stop further loss of life, your actions carry a heavy emotional burden, and I just want you to know that my thoughts are with you as well,” she said.
FBI Director Kash Patel said federal agents are on the scene. “We will make every resource they need available,” Patel said in a statement.
Bend, about a three-hour drive from Portland, has nearly 100,000 residents. Silver Rail is a public K-5 school serving 438 students.
A reunification center was organized at a local church. Police urged the public to avoid the area. Another media briefing is scheduled for Friday. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s devastating,&#8221; Miller told reporters, wiping away tears. &#8220;Apologies, it&#8217;s devastating, and our hearts go out to this community, and we ask our community to really work together and come together at this time.&#8221;
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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California Thursday seeking to block the state from counting mail-in ballots from people the federal government identifies as likely noncitizens until their citizenship can be verified.
The complaint comes after acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sent letters to Golden State officials threatening legal action if they failed to review a list of people the federal government believes are likely noncitizens who were sent mail-in ballots for the November 3 election. The department provided the list on a password-protected thumb drive to Los Angeles County officials and gave officials 48 hours to respond to its demands to review the names and set aside ballots from anyone whose citizenship could not be confirmed.
The Justice Department also asked the state to stop sending ballots to listed individuals who had yet to receive one and to set aside returned ballots from listed individuals without tabulating them until citizenship could be determined.
&#8220;State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America,&#8221; Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Thursday.
&#8220;If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system and violated laws that protect our nation’s representative system of government. The Department of Justice will continue working to uncover cases of voter fraud, hold fraudsters accountable, and restore trust in American elections,&#8221; Blanche said.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber&#8217;s office said late Wednesday that the DOJ &#8220;demands that California blindly trust this administration without any evidence or legal authority to justify its request.&#8221;
&#8220;The Secretary of State’s (SOS) office received a demand to review a list of an unknown number of people the ‘Federal Government believes are likely noncitizens,’ but the United States Department of Justice did not provide the list to our office,&#8221; Weber&#8217;s office said.
&#8220;The USDOJ’s relentless efforts to unlawfully gain access to states’ protected voter data and purge voter rolls serve only to cause chaos and fuel public distrust in our elections,&#8221; said Weber.
LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said his office would refuse to access the contents of the thumb drive &#8220;because doing so would conflict with established data privacy and information security protocols.&#8221;
&#8220;We do not consider the device a secure medium,&#8221; Logan said in the statement. &#8220;Additionally, the letter does not specify the number of individuals involved or describe the information contained in the records.&#8221;
The Justice Department made clear in the lawsuit that it&#8217;s not asking California to &#8220;purge&#8221; state voter rolls or cancel votes. Instead, the department is asking a judge to require the state to set aside the ballots of people it identifies as likely noncitizens until their citizenship can be determined.
The lawsuit says the list contains more than 20,000 names.

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Senate nominee James Talarico (D-TX) drew accusations from CNN commentator Scott Jennings that he had misrepresented his own position on the SAVE America Act while speaking to a U.S. Navy veteran at his Wednesday night town hall.
When the veteran asked Talarico about the SAVE America Act — which would require Americans to prove their citizenship when they registered to vote — Talarico claimed that he did not know enough about it to speak intelligently on the topic. Talarico instead said he supports what he called &#8220;Fair Voter ID,&#8221; which would include student IDs. But as Jennings later pointed out on &#8220;CNN NewsNight,&#8221; Talarico has spoken out in opposition to the SAVE America Act, claiming it would rob Americans, &#8220;particularly our black neighbors,&#8221; of their right to vote.
Jennings brought up the Navy veteran, who had said at the outset of the exchange that he supported the SAVE America Act and wanted to know whether Talarico would vote in favor of it.
The CNN commentator posted a clip of the segment on social media, <a href="https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/2110757559699193993">claiming</a> Talarico &#8220;straight up LIED&#8221; to the Navy veteran.
&#8220;Talarico looked him in the eyes and said effectively, &#8216;I really don&#8217;t know that much about it, I don&#8217;t want to comment on things I don&#8217;t know anything about,'&#8221; Jennings said. He then noted that the Texas Democrat had given a lengthy answer on the topic in August, &#8220;trashing the SAVE America Act and claiming it was only designed to disenfranchise black voters.&#8221;
The clip then showed an earlier video of Talarico, who said, &#8220;We as human beings have the right to shape our own destinies and we do that through the vote. And so many brave Americans — so many brave black Americans have fought and died for that right. And so for politicians in Washington or Austin, as they&#8217;re now doing with the SAVE Act, they are trying to rob our neighbors, particularly our black neighbors, of their God-given rights.&#8221;
Jennings argued that Talarico&#8217;s earlier criticism undercut his professed lack of familiarity with the legislation and accused him of avoiding a direct disagreement with a veteran.
&#8220;What I learned about Talarico in that moment is that he has trouble looking someone in the eye who he knows disagrees with him and just saying, you know what? You and I are just going to have to agree to disagree on this,&#8221; he said.
Other panelists argued that Talarico had done that throughout the evening, but Jennings pushed back: &#8220;He lied to that veteran, he is more slippery than a wet panther.&#8221;

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