Arab support for Harris plummets, an ominous sign for her chances of winning Michigan

At least 4 dead, millions without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton
Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storm late Wednesday along Florida’s Gulf Coast and is still continuing as of Thursday. Around 3.5 million Floridians are without power. Gov. DeSantis says officials are still assessing the damage.

Milton moves off Florida's coast after lashing state with torrential downpours, deadly tornadoes
Milton has moved off into the Atlantic and is expected to dissipate. Several tornadoes were spawned as a result of its powerful winds, and the roof of Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, was ripped off during the hurricane.

Viral Florida Man ‘Lt. Dan' Is Safe After Riding Out Hurricane Milton In His Boat
A Florida man, nicknamed “Lieutenant Dan,” is going viral after riding out Hurricane Milton on his 20-foot sailboat.

Sheriff rescues 14-year-old stranded on floating hurricane debris
Sheriff Chad Chronister found a 14-year-old boy clinging to floating debris among the wreckage left by Hurricane Milton.

Biden tells Trump 'get a life' over hurricane misinformation
President Biden said that Trump should “get a life” when asked about Trump’s “misinformation” regarding FEMA’s response to hurricane victims. President Biden, who was speaking on Hurricane Milton at the White House, stated he had no plans to speak with Trump.

One-legged Joseph Malinowski, nicknamed 'Lieutenant Dan,' who went viral for facing hurricane in his sailboat, has lengthy criminal history
A GoFundMe account has raised more than $43k for Malinowski, who said "God told me" to ride out the storm in his small sailboat, despite being charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, drug possession, and attempted breaking and entering, including one accusation of trying to light a woman on fire after getting into an argument.

DeSantis again castigates Harris for trying to politicize hurricane disaster response: 'She has no role in this process'
DeSantis made the comments when asked by a CBS News reporter about Harris' accusations that he had not taken her phone call about helping the affected residents: “I didn’t even know she was trying to reach me, but she has no role in this process. And I’ve been dealing with these storms in Florida under both [former President] Trump and Biden. Neither of them ever politicized it."

Boris Johnson blows up Trump-Russia narrative, silencing CNN's Jake Tapper
The Trump-Russia narrative emerged from Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, claiming Trump has spoken with Putin seven times since leaving office. Johnson defends Trump’s record, saying he did more to keep Putin in check than the Biden-Harris administration ever did.

Ethel Kennedy, passionate supporter of the family legacy, dies at 96 from a stroke
Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and mother of RFK Jr., passed away on Thursday, October 10. She never remarried after the assassination of her husband, and she devoted herself to working on behalf of his causes and raising their 11 children.

Seattle-based school safety activist arrested for allegedly running a massive fentanyl ring out of her home even as she was the executive director of an organization in charge of $1 million of taxpayer money
Prosecutors say 49-year-old Matelita "Marty" Jackson and several of her family members distributed 800,000 fentanyl pills across numerous states. Jackson made headlines as an activist after a shooting in Seattle, which led to her receiving money from the local government in support of her youth restorative justice nonprofit, called the SE Network SafetyNet Program, which is connected to the Boys and Girls Clubs of King County.

Parents accuse teachers within Texas' Spring Independent School District of giving their preschool-age children 'sleepy stickers,' body-worn patches that release melatonin and other substances
One parent, Lisa Luviano, said her daughter first brought the sleep patches to her attention last month: "The sticker makes me fall asleep."

Trump leads Harris by 4 points in Florida, according to a new poll
The poll indicates that black and Latino voters are shifting away from the Democratic Party and are more open to backing Trump. Trump recently surpassed Harris in other key swing states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

FCC chair denounces Trump’s calls for CBS to ‘lose its license’ over Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ interview
Jessica Rosenworcel, the chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, denounced former President Trump’s call to revoke CBS’s “license” after they edited an answer given by Kamala Harris during a recent “60 Minutes” interview.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to unseal additional filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out his election interference case against Trump
Trump’s attorneys signaled they plan to challenge the move to unseal the documents: "There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized — during early voting in the 2024 Presidential election.”

Obama campaigned for Vice President Harris in Pennsylvania
In an effort to move the needle toward Harris in the key swing state, Obama criticized Trump on health care, abortion access, immigration, and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and even compared him to Fidel Castro.

Union workers are increasingly leaving the Democratic Party and voting for Trump
Scott Sauritch, the president of United Steelworkers Local 2227, made headlines recently for endorsing Trump as a lifelong Democrat: “I don’t care what you see on TV. The grunts in the lunchroom love Trump.”

Kamala Harris agrees to CNN town hall
Kamala Harris agreed to participate in a town hall on Oct. 23 and hosted by CNN. In a statement, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon claimed that Kamala “welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a New Way Forward” and accused Trump of hiding from voters.

Harris tops Trump by 4 points in new national poll
However, while Harris has 38% of the Independent vote, Trump edges Harris with winning 40% of this critical demographic.

Arab support for Harris plummets, a horrible sign for the candidate's chances at winning Michigan
A new poll conducted for the Arab American Institute found Trump winning the Arab American vote 42% to 41% over Harris. This catastrophic downturn is apparent when compared to the 60% of Arab Americans who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.

Ex-CBS staffers call for outside probe of the network's ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris amid editing scandal
Former staffers are demanding an independent investigation after "60 Minutes" released what seemed to be a highly edited version of the interview to cover up Kamala's "word salad" answers. The network still refuses to release the full, unedited transcript despite growing demand.

Gretchen Whitmer drops bizarre video seductively feeding Doritos chip to left-wing podcaster Liz Plank on her knees
To publicize her interview with the Michigan governor, Plank is shown eating a Dorito on her knees fed to her by Whitmer, who then stares at the camera. Doritos are the favorite junk food of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Viewers interpreted the bizarre video as a blasphemy of the eucharist and a plug for Harris.

ABC airs anti-abortion ad with graphic images during 'The View' broadcast, comparing show co-hosts, Taylor Swift, Oprah, and other celebs to Nazis
The video was funded by and featured Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who said during the video, "These are dead human beings, murdered by abortion that you promote. If history even remembers you, you'll be remembered like Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels." The ad was preceded by a warning message that ABC put on the screen, reading, "The following is a paid political advertisement, and the ABC Television Network is required to carry it by federal law."

New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal issues a demand that Madison Square Garden cancel Trump's upcoming rally, equating the campaign event to a Nazi rally
Hoylman-Sigal insinuated further that on the basis of imagined threats that it was necessary to compel a private institution to cancel a contract, thereby aiding the state in running roughshod over Americans' freedom of association and the freedom of speech.

Inspired by Spider-Man, researchers recreate web-slinging technology
Researchers at Tufts University have created a liquid from silk moth cocoons that solidifies into webbing when exposed to air. The researchers can shoot this fluid from a needle and use it to pick up objects.

Ford and GM introduce technology that would enable cars to 'snitch' on their drivers
Ford filed a patent for new technology that would use vehicles' cameras and sensors to detect speeding motorists and report them to authorities. Regarding GM, Texas AG Ken Paxton filed suit on behalf of the state against the carmaker for installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other companies without drivers’ consent.

Elon Musk unveils driverless 'robotaxi' priced under $30,000
Tesla also unveiled a second vehicle, a Robovan, designed to shuttle up to 20 people at a time.

Toronto-based TD Bank charged by the US for allegedly failing to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money laundering
Three money laundering networks took advantage of TD Bank’s alleged oversight failures, moving more than $670 million through TD accounts between 2019 and 2023. The bank agreed to pay various U.S. agencies $3 billion in penalties.

Annual inflation falls to 2.4%, its slowest pace since early 2021. But is it already too late for Kamala?
Democratic pollster Carly Cooperman says, "Voters still feel that day-to-day costs are expensive," which may limit how voters react to the perceived economic lift following the disastrous era of Bidenomics.

NYC Mayor Adams to close a violent immigrant shelter and house immigrants with tourists in hotels instead
The tent shelter, which is slated to close down at the end of February, has become a hotbed for violence since it opened last August, which has poured into the surrounding area. Adams credits its closure to "reduced capacity."

Medicaid records for illegal aliens compared to voter rolls show noncitizens voting in Maine's elections since 2016
Whistleblower records show both legal and illegal noncitizen Medicaid recipients being registered to vote and participating in previous elections. When the identities of the 18 legal and illegal aliens named in the records were cross-referenced with voting records from the Maine secretary of state, six of the individuals were registered to vote, five had voted in elections since 2016, and all were registered Democrats. Maine has somewhere between 70,000-100,000 noncitizens.

Taliban-linked Afghan entered US this month from Turkey on a US visa
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken informing him that Emran Rahimim, whose YouTube account is filled with videos of his travels and meetings with Taliban officials, arrived in Virginia's Dulles Airport and has since traveled to North Carolina.

Afghan accused of plotting terror attack worked as CIA guard, officials say
An Afghani man who had previously worked for the CIA was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma. He stands accused of plotting an attack on Election Day on behalf of ISIS. Some suspect he was one of the many unvetted Afghans with U.S. ties let into the country after the Biden admin’s withdrawal in 2021.

A quarter of Lebanese under evacuation orders as Israel expands its offensive against Hezbollah
Israeli military says its evacuation orders are meant to minimize harm to civilians in areas where Hezbollah operates, covering over 100 villages and urban neighborhoods across southern Lebanon

Tehran is threatening in secret diplomatic backchannels to target the oil-rich Arab Gulf states and other American allies in the Middle East if their territories or airspace are used for an attack on Iran
The Arab officials said the countries that Iran has threatened include Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, all of which host U.S. troops.

Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna dies in Russian captivity
The freelance journalist had gone missing in Russian-occupied territories since August 2023. The circumstances surrounding her death are still unclear.

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te calls for calm amid military threats from China
In a public address, Lai Ching-te reaffirmed the island nation's independence and condemned China's antagonizing claims of sovereignty and threats of invasion, asserting Beijing has no right to represent them.

CAIR suggests pro-Trump owner of Jets fired Muslim head coach over his support of Lebanon and demands 'thorough' explanation
The 45-year-old Robert Saleh was fired Tuesday over a slow start to the team's season, which saw only two wins and three losses, as well as perceived animosity between him and Jets star quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. The left, however, was quick to speculate that Saleh's firing was connected to wearing a Lebanese flag patch amid Israel's ongoing fight with Hezbollah.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s sex trafficking trial to begin in May
The hip-hop mogul is accused of directing a huge criminal enterprise involving the assault and trafficking of women with the aid of his various businesses from at least 2008. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison and a minimum of 15 years if convicted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.

Emmanuel Macron says France ‘will fight hard’ to keep hit Netflix show 'Emily In Paris' ... in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron vows to keep the hit Netflix show “Emily in Paris” in Paris after the season finale revealed that the lead character would be moving to Rome.

THROWBACK: French national security and water expert calls for regulation of 'artificial rainfall techniques via cloud seeding,' points out China's use of the technology
"It's important to focus on techniques aimed at making it rain or, conversely, stopping it. These techniques are no longer science fiction."

Nearly 10 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef and chicken recalled due to listeria outbreak
Oklahoma-based meatpacker BrucePac, whose brand names include Urban Bruse and City Grillers, is recalling 9,986,245 pounds of meat products after the USDA discovered listeria present in poultry products.