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$1 Million for Voter Fraud Tips Ending in Convictions
President Donald Trump said Monday that people whose reports of voter
fraud in past elections or the upcoming midterms lead to arrests and
convictions would receive $1 million, making the announcement eight
days before voters decide control of Congress on Nov. 3.
"Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming
2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and
conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your
attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP," he wrote on Truth
Social.
Trump's statement does not identify an administering agency, funding
source, or application process. It also does not explain what evidence
would qualify, how competing claims would be evaluated, or whether the
offer applies to state prosecutions, federal cases, or both.
Senate Races Remain Tight
There are "a ton of very close" U.S. Senate races one week before
Election Day, Decision Desk HQ's Geoffrey Skelley said on Tuesday.
Appearing on "Wake Up America," Skelley, the election forecaster's
chief elections analyst, said Republicans remain competitive in several
battleground states despite polling that generally favors Democrats,
raising the possibility of a long election night.
"You've got a number of states where the polling is one, two percentage
points," Skelley said. "The races are broadly described as toss-ups,
even if one candidate is slightly ahead in our forecasts."
Skelley pointed to Texas, where Democrat James Talarico leads
Republican Ken Paxton by approximately 2 percentage points, and
Michigan, where Democrat Abdul El-Sayed holds a similarly narrow
advantage over former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.
Ukraine lands direct hit on Putin’s missile factory - and Zelensky thanks Trump and Elon
In a long conflict, momentum can shift in a matter of hours.
Setbacks on the ground often pile up until a sudden breakthrough changes the mood entirely.
Over the past few days, a pair of major developments has given one side a fresh reason to celebrate.
Ukrainian forces have scored a direct hit on a key Russian weapons plant using British missiles, the Daily Express reported.
Combat footage shared from the battlefield appears to show a Storm
Shadow missile slamming into the Proton-Electrotex complex in Oryol,
Russia, according to The Sun.
Feds raid billionaire’s Beverly Hills mansion in dramatic Eric Swalwell probe — as source reveals sex worker link
The FBI has raided a Beverly Hills mansion in connection with the
investigation into disgraced California politician Eric Swalwell — and
sources told The Post it is linked to a sex worker.
The Tuesday raid is believed to have targeted the home of billionaire
Stephen Cloobeck, who prominently backed Swalwell’s run for governor
and even let him stay at his mansion in SoCal.
However, when allegations surfaced that former Congressman Swalwell
sexually assaulted multiple women including former staffers, Cloobeck
changed his mind and booted him out of the house.
Ilhan Omar joins 'polarizing and dangerous' streamer at campaign event despite Democratic backlash
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is set to share the stage with far-left
streamer Hasan Piker on Monday night despite mounting opposition from
fellow Minnesota Democrats, some of whom have publicly urged the
congresswoman to cancel the appearance just eight days before the
midterm elections.
Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., has called Piker's rhetoric "polarizing and
dangerous" and said embracing him is "a mistake," while Sen. Amy
Klobuchar's gubernatorial campaign called a number of his past
statements "reckless and unacceptable." Other Democratic officials and
party groups have gone further, calling on Omar and state Sen. Omar
Fateh, who is hosting the sold-out Minneapolis event, to cancel the
appearance.
The controversy is exposing a divide among Minnesota Democrats in the
closing stretch of the midterms over whether Piker's enormous following
among younger progressives outweighs the political liability of his
past rhetoric. University of Minnesota political science professor
Larry Jacobs told FOX 9 the event would "create a split within the
DFL," arguing it could distract statewide Democrats from their closing
message and put candidates in a difficult position with moderate and
Jewish voters.
Israel Election Puts Netanyahu's Future at Stake
Israelis were voting Tuesday in a tense national election widely seen
as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership since
the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the wars that have
since shaken the Middle East.
Israelis vote for parties, which then form alliances to create a
majority coalition. No single party has ever won a 61-seat majority in
the 120-member parliament, or Knesset.
Opinion polls suggest a tight race, with no clear winner expected,
setting the stage for weeks or even months of negotiations among around
a dozen parties expected to win seats in the Knesset.
Obama knows better. He just sacrificed 4,000 years of Jewish history
First, congratulations are in order for former President Barack Obama
on receiving an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University. It is yet
another distinguished honor in a remarkable public career.
There was hope that Obama might reconsider and retract his remarks made
in Belfast on Oct. 13. But with no public retraction to date, a
response is necessary.
When Obama described the Jewish people as having suffered centuries of
persecution, only to then say that “they took land off people and they
were excessive,” it raised an obvious question: How could someone with
his knowledge of history so fundamentally misrepresent the Jewish
people’s connection to their ancestral homeland?
Obama knows better.
Mike Waltz gets in shouting match with Cuban delegate at UN as American staffer assaulted
US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz got into a shouting
match with Cuba’s foreign minister on the floor of the general assembly
hall Tuesday as he was detailing the Communist regime’s real estate
holdings.
As Waltz spoke, Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla charged
toward the rostrum and accused Waltz of lying, causing the US envoy to
shout: “Back up!”
“He’s not going to intimidate me in the United States of America — like
he tries to intimidate political prisoners,” said Waltz, raising his
voice at Parrilla as UN officials tried to restore order.
A video obtained by The Post showed Waltz spokesman J.P. Freire
apparently being assaulted by another member of the Cuban delegation
who tried to grab Freire’s iPhone as he was recording the confrontation.
Iran hosts Saudi defence pact states as Houthis launch more attacks
Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan were due in Iran
on Monday in a push to de-escalate the regional conflict now afflicting
the Gulf kingdom, as Yemen's Houthis launched further attacks on
Riyadh's airport and Saudi oil facilities.
The talks were the first high-level contact between Iran and the three
nations — which signed the Mecca mutual defence pact in August — since
a war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran also spread to
Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said the visit was part of efforts to
"de-escalate" and "promote dialogue and diplomatic solutions". It
stressed the need to open negotiating channels to "prevent the return
of military escalation".
Trump admin slams CBS for leaving out ‘absurd bit of fraud’ from ‘60 Minutes’ profile of deported husband and father
The Trump administration slammed a CBS News “60 Minutes” segment on
Monday that failed to mention a key reason why an illegal immigrant
from Mali was deported to a third country.
Moussa Diawara, a married father of two, was deported to Ghana in July,
more than a decade after he overstayed a tourist visa and claimed
refugee status that barred him from being sent back to his home country
of Mali, according to the “60 Minutes” profile.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) insists the news program left
out an “absurd bit of fraud” from Diawara’s asylum application: His
claim that he’s gay.
The Trump administration took issue with a CBS News “60 Minutes”
segment on Monday that failed to mention a key reason why an illegal
immigrant from Mali was deported to a third country.
China’s economy may never overtake America — and it’s all due to an ill-fated 47-year-old policy
Just one child doomed China’s hopes of overtaking the US.
The Middle Kingdom, once a surging economic growth engine expected to
eclipse the US economy in just a few years, is not expected to outgrow
the US until the 2040s now — if it does at all.
And it’s largely down to China’s 1979 One Child Policy, which is
devastating growth, according to Yi Fuxian, a Chinese demographer at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Plummeting birth rates and economic problems have erased the 6+% per
year growth that China reported before the COVID-19 pandemic.
China has a GDP of $21.6 trillion — just two-thirds the size of the US economy.
New York’s Kathy Hochul ranked worst governor in US as part of scathing new study
Gov. Kathy Hochul was ranked the worst state leader in the US for protecting constituents’ freedoms, a scathing new study found.
Hochul ranked No. 50 in the Cato Institute’s 2026 “Freedom in the 50
States” list, scoring an “F” and falling behind the governors from
Hawaii, California, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The annual study weighed the freedom of various state economic and
personal policies — such as fiscal, housing, occupational, education,
firearms, speech and medical — and graded each state a percentage out
of 100 for how its local laws promoted freedoms for each.
UK Urges Citizens to Keep 3 Days of Food Stored
Britain has advised households to keep enough food and other essential
supplies to last three days in the event of a catastrophe, The Guardian
has reported.
The United Kingdom joins a growing number of countries encouraging
people to prepare for disruptions to critical infrastructure and supply
chains.
The recommendations reflect an increasing emphasis on civilian
preparedness as governments warn that emergencies could disrupt
electricity, communications, banking systems, transportation, and
access to basic necessities.
DOJ Files New Espionage Act Case Against Comey
Former FBI Director James Comey faces two new federal charges stemming
from an alleged 2016 disclosure of classified national defense
information to a New York Times reporter, according to court documents
unsealed Monday.
The Department of Justice filed a criminal information Oct. 5 in U.S.
District Court in Washington charging Comey with two violations of the
Espionage Act: unlawfully transmitting national defense information and
conspiring with others to disclose it.
Prosecutors allege that Comey, through one or more co-conspirators,
directed an unidentified individual to disclose the information to a
reporter on Oct. 5, 2016.
Blue states like New York might dash Democrats’ Blue Wave dreams
By Isaac Schorr
Could blue states like New York turn out to be the seawall standing in the way of this year’s much-anticipated Blue Wave?
It’s not just a pipe dream.
The paradox is this: Nationally, polls show voters are dissatisfied
with the ever-increasing cost of living, tired of President Donald
Trump’s act and ready to punish the GOP.
But in places where unified Democratic control of state government has
proven disastrous, there’s a lot less optimism about what Democrats
would really do with still more power.
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Their lives are proof to the contrary.
Five reasons Republicans could defy the polls and shock Democrats on Election Day
Don't forget, Democrats are still unpopular across the country and Republicans are flush with cash
By Liz Peek
Election Day is one week away. Most pundits are ready to declare the
midterms over and Democrats the victors. But hold on: There are several
reasons Republicans may outperform the gloomy polls and forecasts
making headlines.
First, Democrats are unpopular. A recent CNN poll showed Democratic
favorability at 35%, considerably below the 38% awarded President Trump
in the most recent RealClearPolling average.
Second, Republicans are flush with campaign cash that is now flowing
into tough races across the country. Money doesn’t win elections (see:
Kamala Harris), but it can help snag undecided voters. That is true
especially in contests like the Michigan Senate race, where
little-known Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is facing off against Mike Rogers,
a veteran and moderate GOP former congressman.
Voters are just now discovering allegations about El-Sayed’s possible
family ties to the designated terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood,
causing the polls to tighten. Fox News recently reported, "El-Sayed has
also faced scrutiny over social media posts from his half-sister
describing their mother's alleged involvement in Muslim Brotherhood
activism in the 1970s. He has denied personal or family ties to the
organization and said he was raised by his father and stepmother."
