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• Pretti family: DOJ refusing to turn over evidence

  28-10-2026 22:41 via Administration News
  
  The parents of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis nurse who was shot and killed by federal immigration agents earlier this year, accused the Justice Department (DOJ) of protecting those responsible for his death and refusing to provide answers about the ongoing investigation. “At every turn, they have ignored us, misled us and shielded Alex’s killers,” Pretti’s...
  
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• 3 battlegrounds where ticket-splitting could make the difference

  28-10-2026 22:29 via House News
  
  A handful of key gubernatorial and Senate contests in battleground states could hinge on split-ticket voters as Republicans look to keep control of both offices. Split-ticket voting has dwindled in recent cycles: A Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) forecast from last week suggests an average gap of more than 6 percentage points between the Senate and...
  
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• Trump: Peltola should be removed from ballot following New York Times report

  28-10-2026 21:17 via Administration News
  
  President Trump on Wednesday said that former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) should not be allowed to run for Senate against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) following a report that her campaign sought to recruit other candidates including Daniel J. Sullivan in an effort to impact the election results. “In Alaska, I don’t think Mary Peltola, after...
  
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• House Democrat: Paper ballots protect against Musk's potential election hacking

  28-10-2026 19:56 via House News
  
  Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that the use of paper ballots prevents hacking from tech mogul Elon Musk, who is supporting Republicans this election cycle. “Forty-nine of the 50 states have paper records of the ballots, right?” Himes said on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.” “Except for...
  
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• Support for reelecting congressional incumbents at record lows: Gallup

  28-10-2026 19:35 via Administration News
  
  A record low percentage of U.S. voters support the reelection their own representative or most sitting members of Congress, according to a new poll released Wednesday, less than a week before the midterm elections. In the latest Gallup poll, 43 percent of voters said they think that their own representative deserves re-election. In polls going...
  
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• HHS to allow sale of unapproved peptides under review

  28-10-2026 19:18 via Administration News
  
  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will allow compounding pharmacies to manufacture and sell peptides that have not yet been added to the list of approved substances, advancing access to the those championed by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. HHS stated in a notice that it would be practicing enforcement discretion...
  
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• Watch live: Warsh speaks after Fed votes to keep interest rates steady

  28-10-2026 19:11 via Administration News
  
  Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will speak to reporters Wednesday after the central bank voted to hold interest rates steady 3.75 percent to 4 percent, despite persistent inflation and mounting economic pressures ahead of the midterm elections. The decision comes six weeks after the Fed raised rates by a quarter point, its first hike in...
  
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• Live updates: Trump, Obama, Vance hit key states midterm sprint

  28-10-2026 18:11 via Administration News
  
  Former President Obama is stopping in Atlanta on Wednesday — less than a week out from Election Day — to give a boost to Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's running for Georgia governor, and incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). Obama's visit to the Peach State comes just a few days after his quippy speech at...
  
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• Live updates: Trump, Obama, Vance hit key states in midterm sprint

  28-10-2026 18:11 via Administration News
  
  Former President Obama is stopping in Atlanta on Wednesday — less than a week out from Election Day — to give a boost to Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's running for Georgia governor, and incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). Obama's visit to the Peach State comes just a few days after his quippy speech at...
  
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• House Democrat warns about Musk, other 'weird trillionaires' controlling AI

  28-10-2026 17:41 via House News
  
  Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) on Wednesday morning issued a stark warning about the influence that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and other artificial intelligence technology leaders have over global affairs following a recent reported slowdown of the satellite company's technology in Ukraine.“We’re in this world where, you know, five weird trillionaires are going to control...
  
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• Harris advises Democrats against attempting to impeach Trump

  28-10-2026 17:26 via Administration News
  
  Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday urged Democrats against making a third attempt to impeach President Trump if they win back the House after next week's midterm elections. "I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea, just to be honest with you," Harris told MeidasTouch's Aaron Parnas in...
  
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• Treasury sanctions North Koreans, Russians for alleged IT fraud

  28-10-2026 17:06 via Administration News
  
  The Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity involved in an alleged scheme to defraud American businesses to benefit the North Korean military. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned eight North Korean nationals and two Russian nationals, accusing them of facilitating a government-run information technology (IT) scheme to generate...
  
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• Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after fleeing Brazil

  28-10-2026 16:52 via Administration News
  
  Failed Brazilian presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in the U.S. after fleeing his home country following the election results. Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami on Wednesday, after the State Department extended them visas, The Associated Press reported. Brazil’s Supreme Court had ordered Bolsonaro’s passports to be returned as he was under...
  
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• Former RNC chair: Democrats will 'probably' take House control

  28-10-2026 16:05 via House News
  
  Former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel signaled Tuesday that Democrats were likely to regain control of the House with a week to go before the midterm elections.   “I think the House, you know with three seats that the Dems need to pick up, is probably going to go to the Democrats,” she told...
  
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• RFK Jr. rebuked for derogatory claim about 'Arabs in the world'

  28-10-2026 15:45 via Administration News
  
  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing backlash for comments he made about Arabs while at a campaign stop in Michigan. “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Fields prize, they don’t win the Wolf Prize,” Kennedy said....
  
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• Trump says he approves of Bolsonaro coming to US

  28-10-2026 14:15 via Administration News
  
  President Trump on Tuesday said he approves of former Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro entering the U.S. after his runoff election loss to incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva earlier this week. "Well, I would approve," Trump told reporters outside Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews. "I think they're fine people. The election was...
  
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• Live updates: Trump, Obama campaign in midterm sprint; Murkowski backs Dem in Alaska governor's race

  28-10-2026 14:13 via Administration News
  
  Former President Obama is stopping in Atlanta on Wednesday — less than a week out from Election Day — to give a boost to Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's running for Georgia governor, and incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). Obama's visit to the Peach State comes just a few days after his quippy speech at...
  
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• Trump says he 'made the mistake' of 'studying' GOP senator's 'anatomy'

  28-10-2026 13:15 via Administration News
  
  President Trump on Tuesday quipped that he made "the mistake" of "studying" Sen. Jon Husted's (R-Ohio) "anatomy," after his remarks about the senator's backside made headlines last week. "So I'm studying him, and I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his a--," Trump told supporters during a rally in Lubbock,...
  
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• 'Back away from this podium': UN ambassador posts video of confrontation with Cuban reps in General Assembly Hall

  28-10-2026 12:55 via Administration News
  
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on Tuesday posted a video depicting the confrontation between U.S. and Cuban officials while he spoke at the podium of the U.N. General Assembly chamber. The video shows Cuban officials standing and speaking to Waltz, who can be heard saying one of them needs "to back away...
  
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• Trump, Congress set to clash over Hegseth, Iran war, Ukraine after election

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Administration News
  
  President Trump is headed for a showdown with Democrats and members of his party after Election Day over Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s future leadership of the Pentagon, the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war. Democrats are stepping up their demands that Trump fire Hegseth after the midterm elections and warning they won’t support funding...
  
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• Silicon Valley braces for firestorm of Dem scrutiny in 2027

  28-10-2026 11:00 via House News
  
  Silicon Valley is bracing for a firestorm of scrutiny should Democrats take control of Congress next year, underscoring how the industry’s efforts to get on President Trump’s good side last year became a political liability.After two years of a GOP-controlled House and Senate, Democratic lawmakers are expected to bring the heat on tech firms,...
  
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• Jeffries tiptoes around Hegseth impeachment

  28-10-2026 11:00 via House News
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is tiptoeing around the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, denouncing the Pentagon chief in the sharpest terms but without taking the further step of endorsing Hegseth’s forced removal.Jeffries’s careful approach highlights the delicate dance Democratic leaders are attempting as they seek to balance the various interests in...
  
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• GOP election losses could scramble year-end funding fight

  28-10-2026 11:00 via House News
  
  A bruising midterm election for Republicans could complicate Congress’s next government funding fight, as lawmakers return to Washington facing uncertainty over how President Trump will respond to potential GOP losses. Congress has passed a stopgap measure, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), to keep the government funded through Dec. 11. Lawmakers in both parties...
  
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• Trump and Talarico hold dueling Texas rallies

  28-10-2026 04:12 via Administration News
  
  President Trump and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) shared their competing visions Tuesday as the two held dueling rallies in the Lone Star State one week before the midterm elections. Trump did two rallies in Texas — the first in Corpus Christi and another in Lubbock. It’s his fourth trip to Texas to support...
  
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• Talarico vows to 'take back Texas' as Trump makes last-minute push to keep the state in GOP hands

  28-10-2026 04:12 via Administration News
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Tuesday decried a "corruption crisis” he says is plaguing the U.S. political system, competing for the spotlight with President Trump in deeply conservative West Texas ahead of next week's midterm elections. Trump was in Texas for the third time in a month in a last-minute...
  
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• Trump reups calls to put Cruz on Supreme Court in vacancy scenario

  28-10-2026 03:49 via Administration News
  
  President Trump joked Tuesday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) would be his pick for the next Supreme Court vacancy, saying the senator could get unanimously confirmed because lawmakers in both parties would jump at the chance to get rid of him in Congress. During a midterm rally in Lubbock, Texas, the president praised Cruz as...
  
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• Federal grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson

  28-10-2026 03:44 via Administration News
  
  A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony to lawmakers about President Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Justice Department attorney Neville Hedley told U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui that the grand jury...
  
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• Johnson says there will be 'peaceful transfer of power' on Jan 3

  28-10-2026 02:03 via House News
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that there will be a “peaceful transfer of power” when new House members are set to join the lower chamber next year. “Of course, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power, but it will not be transferring because we are going to keep the majority, and I'm going...
  
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• Trump announces proposal to loosen methane rules for oil and gas production

  28-10-2026 01:35 via Administration News
  
  President Trump announced plans to loosen methane regulations from the oil and gas sector during a Lubbock, Texas rally Tuesday night. The announcement came during the president's second campaign stop of the day in Texas, during which he aimed to assist the Senate campaign of Republican Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, in the oil-heavy...
  
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• Husted leans into Trump's compliments on his physique

  28-10-2026 00:24 via Administration News
  
  Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) on Tuesday leaned into President Trump’s recent campaign trail comments on his physique. “The president's coming in, tomorrow, again to Ohio, third time in less than 30 days. He'll be in Chillicothe,” Husted said at a campaign event Tuesday. “Don't worry, I was in the weight room this morning working out,”...
  
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