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Mayor Maria Pacheco of Kerman, California, was alleged to have followed and harassed a random man on Oct. 14 because she mistakenly thought he was an ICE agent. Fresno resident Eric Bridges accused Pacheco, who is listed as “non-affiliated” but was endorsed by Democrats, of pursuing him for 25 minutes to his sister’s house because she thought he was an ICE agent, GV Wire reported. Bridges detailed the encounter in a TikTok video and filed a formal complaint on Oct. 19. “I am not, nor have I ever been, an employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Department of...

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday, a major shakeup in the final stages of a top battleground race that could determine which party controls the Senate. “Hey, Michigan, as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video. “And he’s right, and that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” she said. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.” The congresswoman’s announcement marks a whirlwind turnabout from...

Whether Paxton wins the senate race or not, I'll be writing my current senator John Cornyn to express my disgust with his recent stances on the election, and his long-recognized treachery toward his Party. They say you should keep such letters polite and to a specific point. How firm should this rule be on an outgoing senator like Cornyn? My rage toward him is bottomless.

1 November 2026 All Saints Solemnity All Saints Catholic Church, DallasReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingApocalypse 7:2-4,9-14I saw a huge number, impossible to count, of...

PITTSBURGH, PA — Language learning app Duo Lingo announced this week that it will be rolling out a new language called "Kamala Harris" to help people understand the former Vice President. Researchers at Duo Lingo say they spent years studying the strange verbal inflections and random sound repetitions of the Kamala language. The task of parsing it out in a teaching module wasn't easy, they said, but they're excited to offer it as a new feature.

"The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery," the statement said in part. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, according to his chief of staff.Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son's hockey game Saturday, his chief of staff said in a statement. He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a stroke.Murphy was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment.Watch NBC 4 free...

Teachable moment in radio. It's a 'favorite caller' I post from time to time. It starts at minute 19 and goes on for just 10 minutes.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) appeared Sunday at Detroit's Perfecting Church alongside Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, praising his support for Black-owned businesses just two days before he faces the Democratic nominee she previously endorsed. • Stevens then tweeted an endorsement for Rogers.

Trump pushed the late-Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister to run for his seat, in a race that has become surprisingly close ROCK HILL, S.C.—Darline Graham had just been sworn in to finish her late brother’s Senate term this summer when she was in the Oval Office trying to coax President Trump to support Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill. Trump was reluctant, but her brother had been obsessed with the bill, Graham said in an interview. Graham told the president that he could blame a grieving sister for any fallout. Trump chuckled and told her, “You’re tough.” She said it was then...

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., was inside Detroit’s Perfecting Church on Sunday, standing next to Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers during a service, Fox News confirmed — an unusual scene in a Senate race roiled by Democratic infighting. The appearance came after Stevens was disinvited from a planned church event with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, the man who narrowly defeated her in Michigan’s August Democratic primary. The reversal left Stevens at the same church as Rogers, El-Sayed’s Republican opponent.

Democrats could change the Electoral College to elect presidential candidates by the national popular vote if they win the majority in four state legislatures, warns an election expert. Altering the Electoral College to follow the national popular vote would take power away from the states in electing the president, Trent England, founder and executive director of Save Our States, told The National News Desk on Wednesday. Each state’s political parties nominate people to be presidential electors for that state prior to Election Day. In 48 states, presidential electors for the Electoral College are chosen by a “winner-take-all" system, meaning that...

The verdict was met with a groan from Tommy Robinson’s supporters, who had sat behind the dock throughout his harassment trial. It took more than 11 hours of jury deliberations to find the far-right activist guilty of harassment causing fear of violence to two journalists, enough time for a band of lieutenants and hangers-on to get their hopes up that he might be acquitted. Yet as Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, potentially faces up to 10 years in prison, another narrative has now taken hold. A miscarriage of justice has taken place, according to messages pumped out across...

When a creator is dissatisfied with how the final product turned out, it’s not uncommon for them to use a pseudonym rather than their real name. *snip* There are multiple names that have been used, often created by each individual person, but one name stands above them all. Alan Smithee.

President Donald Trump’s administration is putting up to $42 million in federal funding behind a natural gas pipeline that New York helped derail years ago, invoking national defense powers to revive the project as the White House pushes to lower energy costs across the Northeast. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Oct. 19 that the funding would advance the proposed 125-mile Constitution Pipeline, which would transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New York. The money would come through the Defense Production Act (DPA), a federal law granting the president authorities to strengthen industrial capabilities deemed essential to national defense. “This...

Hollywood director and producer Michael Mann has been rushed to hospital after accidentally shooting himself whilst at a gun range. The film-maker, 83, was at a gun range in Los Angeles when the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at around 4pm. A source told TMZ that Mann, best known for his 1995 film Heat, was trying to holster his firearm when the weapon fired and he was shot in the leg. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance, while police and fire crews were in attendance. Police confirmed to TMZ that the incident took place at The Range LA,...

Some 671 people in nine boats made the journey to Britain on Friday, when footage captured a man wielding a knife as he threatened migrants before boarding a dinghy. It comes after 263 people in three boats crossed on Thursday, which broke a 21-day hiatus marking the longest spell without arrivals this year amid high sea swell and wind in the Channel. Several children were among a large group of people wearing life-jackets who were seen being brought ashore in Dover, Kent, as better weather brought calmer crossing conditions. In footage captured by the Press Association on Friday, a man...

The Justice Department has warned election officials in multiple states that they could face jail time if they fail to preserve election records in accordance with federal law, according to copies of the letters obtained by ABC News. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter framed his letter, sent Thursday to state election leaders, as a "reminder" of their obligation to preserve ballots, pollbooks, precinct sign-in sheets and other election-related materials. "It is a crime to willfully fail to comply" with the record-retention rules, McCotter wrote. "Such a failure is punishable by up to a year in prison and a $1,000...

Former Democrat turned Independent Joe Manchin (WV) is encouraging voters to back Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers who is running against radical leftist Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (D-MI). During a recent interview with Fox News, the former senator Manchin said, “I’ve served with Mike Rogers. He is very, very intelligent. He does his homework and he knows what’s going on around the world to keep us safe. So, Mike’s a good friend and I encourage people to support Mike Rogers.”

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I’m speaking about 10 days before our Nov. 3 midterms, the second midterm in the second term of the two Trump administrations. We thought, given historical precedents, that it should be a shoo-in for the Democrats. One hundred and twenty-six years since 1900, to take the modern era, 90% of the parties that were holding the White House at the time of the second-term midterms lost. And of all midterms, the in-party only won on three occasions: FDR in the ’34 election, Bill Clinton in the ’98 election, and George...

Just in time for Halloween in the eastern United States, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 31, 2026, at 12:04 a.m. EDT (9:04 p.m. PDT - Oct. 30). [Full Story] The mission marked SpaceX's 118th Falcon 9 launch of the year, with the rocket's first-stage booster completing another successful landing aboard the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX Halloween Blastoff! 🎃🚀 Launches Starlink satellites from California, nails landing | 9:12 VideoFromSpace | 2.17M subscribers |...