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• Comer seeks answers about D.C.'s AI-powered hunt for vacant, blighted homes

  10-09-2026 19:00 via washingtontimes.com
  House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer is warning D.C. officials that using artificial intelligence to identify vacant properties or homes in disrepair could put property owners on a fast track to fines and foreclosure.
  
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• Justice Department directs states to hold on to 2024 election records as it seeks their voter data

  10-09-2026 23:59 via washingtontimes.com
  The Trump administration is ordering officials in more than two dozen states to preserve records from the 2024 election as part of a campaign to force states to turn over detailed voter records despite repeated court losses.
  
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• Southern Baptist pastor calls Democrats 'advocates for evil' at Republican convention

  10-09-2026 23:50 via washingtontimes.com
  Southern Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress framed the midterms as a religious battle at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, saying Christians have a duty to oppose the Democratic Party and its Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.
  
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• Trump's $5,000 dividend offer upends the midterm election narrative

  10-09-2026 23:45 via washingtontimes.com
  President Trump's promise to pay a $5,000 dividend to Americans if Republicans win House and Senate majorities in the midterms is being trashed as a bribe and unworkable, but there's a long history of federal government mass payouts.
  
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• Prosecutor brought in to lead investigation of Trump foes says he has resigned his position

  10-09-2026 23:06 via washingtontimes.com
  An ally of President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has resigned from his post leading a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.
  
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• Police in riot gear holding back swarm of protesters near Republican National Convention site

  10-09-2026 23:03 via washingtontimes.com
  Mounted police and law enforcement in riot gear faced off with crowds of protesters who blocked streets near the Republican Party's midterm convention on Thursday.
  
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• Grand Canyon water supply to be restored in weeks, not months

  10-09-2026 23:00 via washingtontimes.com
  National Park Service officials expect to restore a reliable water supply in the Grand Canyon in weeks -- not months -- as the deadly flash flood didn't damage most of a near-complete pipeline project, they said Tuesday.
  
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• Body camera video offers a rare look inside an immigration raid at a N.Y. factory

  10-09-2026 22:59 via washingtontimes.com
  The sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief discussion of whether to force their way inside, a manager opened the front door.
  
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• Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons

  10-09-2026 22:50 via washingtontimes.com
  Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons.
  
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• Ex-Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores seeks release from jail, citing heart ailment

  10-09-2026 22:49 via washingtontimes.com
  Venezuela's former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges.
  
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• Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks the judge to spare her a second trial for killing her children

  10-09-2026 22:48 via washingtontimes.com
  Lindsay Clancy shouldn't be tried a second time for killing her three young children because prosecutors don't have enough evidence, her lawyer told a judge Thursday, saying the court should decide she's not guilty by reason of insanity.
  
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• California governor signs laws aimed at protecting kids from risks of social media, AI chatbots

  10-09-2026 22:42 via washingtontimes.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of laws Thursday aimed at protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and AI chatbots.
  
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• Trump wants to send Americans money. Congress and economists don't seem thrilled with the idea

  10-09-2026 22:37 via washingtontimes.com
  Donald Trump's pitch to send Americans $5,000 checks should Republicans prevail in the November midterms is drawing scorn from some members of Congress - the very people who have constitutional authority over federal spending.
  
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• FBI arrests California man in Skid Row ballot petition fraud scheme

  10-09-2026 22:31 via washingtontimes.com
  A California man was arrested on federal charges alleging he and two associates paid homeless residents of L.A.'s Skid Row to sign ballot initiative petitions using the stolen identities of registered voters.
  
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• Pilot hospitalized after crashing World War II-era plane at Pennsylvania airport

  10-09-2026 22:22 via washingtontimes.com
  A pilot crashed a World War II plane once used by the Royal Air Force at an airport in Pennsylvania Wednesday, and was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• Netflix faces boycott calls over 'neck injury' post on anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death

  10-09-2026 22:13 via washingtontimes.com
  Netflix's official U.K. and Ireland account is facing calls for a boycott, with some users saying they canceled their subscriptions, after a social media post referencing a "neck injury" landed on the same day as the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination.The post in question was a clip of a male character from "The Gentlemen" straining to look at a woman, captioned, "Nearly did himself a neck injury."
  
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• 9/11 overshadows other major events of the past 25 years for many Americans, new poll finds

  10-09-2026 22:10 via washingtontimes.com
  Twenty-five years later, the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are still remembered as among the most important historic events in many Americans' lives, according to a new poll.
  
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• WATCH: Inside the futuristic world of missile defense

  10-09-2026 21:59 via washingtontimes.com
  National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with Mike "Woody" Woodhouse, a retired U.S. Army officer turned Vice President of Space, Missile & Air Defense at Leonardo DRS, a world-class defense technology company at the center of the fast-evolving world of missile defense. (Sept. 10, 2026)
  
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• Scammers exploit Trump's $5,000 dividend pledge with fake text alerts

  10-09-2026 21:58 via washingtontimes.com
  People say they're receiving texts from scam operators trying to exploit President Trump's $5,000 dividend pledge.
  
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• Mitch McConnell expected to return to Senate after three-month absence for health trauma

  10-09-2026 21:48 via washingtontimes.com
  Sen. Mitch McConnell is expected to return to Capitol Hill next week after health issues caused a prolonged absence that led to rampant speculation that he was dying or even dead.
  
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• Aaron Rodgers says 'there's no MAGA movement' in political rant

  10-09-2026 21:42 via washingtontimes.com
  AARON RODGERS on Trump: "There is no 'Make America Great Again' movement because the guy you elected hasn't done any of his campaign promises."
  
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• Oil prices rise as Iran targets vessels in Strait of Hormuz; Houthis seize critical Yemeni port

  10-09-2026 21:35 via washingtontimes.com
  Oil prices climbed Thursday after Iranian forces said they targeted two U.S. vessels near the Strait of Hormuz and Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized a key port city on Yemen's western coast.
  
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• Gaza documentary 'Naza' earns record 25-minute Venice ovation

  10-09-2026 21:30 via washingtontimes.com
  "Naza," a documentary about the war in Gaza, received a 25-minute standing ovation at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, the longest ovation in the festival's history.
  
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• Ukrainian man gets 4 years in prison for role in Conti ransomware scheme

  10-09-2026 21:25 via washingtontimes.com
  A Ukrainian national was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to deploy the Conti ransomware variant, which infected the computers of more than 1,000 victims worldwide, the Justice Department announced.
  
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• Pennsylvania Democrat sounds off on Fetterman GOP convention 'stunt'

  10-09-2026 21:24 via washingtontimes.com
  Rep. Madeleine Dean said she's "gravely disappointed" with Sen. John Fetterman, a fellow Pennsylvania Democrat, for his "stunt" at the Republican midterm convention Wednesday in Dallas.
  
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• United Airlines axes 9/11 Denver flyover due to local 'concerns'

  10-09-2026 21:02 via washingtontimes.com
  United Airlines canceled a private flyover in Denver scheduled for the 25th anniversary of 9/11 over unspecified "concerns" from locals.
  
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• Talarico reverses stance on transgender student-athletes

  10-09-2026 21:01 via washingtontimes.com
  Texas Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico now says he opposes transgender student-athletes competing in girls' sports "if it endangers safety or fairness."
  
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• Why 90% of colleges still don't require the SAT, even as the Ivy League returns to it

  10-09-2026 20:52 via washingtontimes.com
  The Ivy League has restored SAT and ACT admissions requirements that had been suspended during pandemic lockdowns, but a new report finds 90% of colleges and universities nationwide still do not require standardized test scores.
  
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• Surrogate asks the Supreme Court to intervene over care for a sick baby

  10-09-2026 20:51 via washingtontimes.com
  A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious heart defect.
  
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• 5 questions about Yemen's slide back toward civil war

  10-09-2026 20:39 via washingtontimes.com
  As a fragile truce collapses, Houthi rebels are pushing toward a key Red Sea strait -- threatening to reignite Yemen's civil war and rattle global oil markets already on edge over Iran.
  
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