Fed Dodges Questions About Iran War’s Financial Toll

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The Federal Reserve declined Wednesday to elaborate on whether policymakers are adequately accounting for the financial burden of the Iran war on American households after Chairman Kevin Warsh acknowledged rising oil prices during a press conference.

Warsh’s remarks followed the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) decision to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at 3.75% to 4.00%, despite persistent inflationary pressures. The decision raised questions about how long the central bank can look past war-related energy price increases before they threaten to push broader inflation and consumer expectations further above the Fed’s 2% target.

“I’m not going to be the guy who says that oil prices haven’t gone up,” Warsh said during Wednesday’s press conference.

Warsh also acknowledged that Americans are experiencing higher prices firsthand.

“When consumers interrogate reality, they look outside their windows too. They go to the gas station too. And they see the prices are up,” Warsh said. (Read more from “Fed Dodges Questions About Iran War’s Financial Toll” HERE)

US Army Practices Digging Temporary Battlefield Graves

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The Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and return to families after the end of a conflict.

During an exercise in North Carolina, engineers, preventative medicine teams, chaplains and fatality management specialists prepared for mass temporary interment not used on a large scale since the Korean War, the Army announced in a release last week.

For more than twenty years during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. air superiority allowed the quick evacuation of remains back to the United States through mortuary affairs channels. Future conflicts — especially those with large-scale combat operations, or LSCO — may not have the same capabilities.

Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant challenged troops to test and validate temporary burial operations and remains preservation at a large scale. Engineer soldiers involved had to use their equipment to excavate and then fill burial trenches without damaging mock remains, made of skeletal models and water containers, so that hypothetical future forensic teams could unearth and repatriate them after the end of a conflict.

“This exercise allowed us to take a critical look at how we respect, honor, and systematically manage our fallen in a high-intensity conflict,” said Sgt. 1st Class Delbert Ruede, the senior fatality management leader for 3rd Corps Sustainment Command (CSC), in the release. “If we went to war tomorrow, we would be making this up as we went along. What we are doing here is taking a scientific, field-tested approach so that we can maintain positive control and respectfully care for our fallen.” (Read more from “US Army Practices Digging Temporary Battlefield Graves” HERE)

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Trump Says Peltola Should Be Prosecuted over Dem Scheme to Recruit 2nd Dan Sullivan into Alaska Senate Race

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President Donald Trump believes the reported Democrat scheme to recruit a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska to hurt Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in the general election is “a criminal act” and that Alaska’s Democrat Senate nominee, Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK), who was reportedly aware of the scheme, should be prosecuted.

A day after the New York Times reported that Democrat operatives persuaded another Dan Sullivan to enter the race earlier this year to help Peltola and hurt the incumbent, Trump, at a campaign rally in South Carolina, said it appears to be a “conspiracy” and high-level “voter fraud.”

“It’s called splitting the vote. Totally wrong. Totally illegal. This is voter fraud at the highest level, and the Democrat candidate who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola—who treats her staff horribly, by the way, so badly that they think she’s abusive, actually—should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted, and so should the fake Dan Sullivan,” Trump said.

“This is a guy that never ran for office. He never had anything to do with politics. He just happened to have the name Dan Sullivan,” Trump added. (Read more from “Trump Says Peltola Should Be Prosecuted over Dem Scheme to Recruit 2nd Dan Sullivan into Alaska Senate Race” HERE)

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Netanyahu Loses Seats, Trails Challenger Gadi Eisenkot in Israel Election, Exit Polls Show — Here’s what Happens Next

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By New York Post. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to lose significant support to opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in the Israeli election Tuesday, according to exit polls — but neither bloc was set to win enough seats to secure a clear majority.

The big story, however, was the huge gain for Israeli Arabs, who make up about 25% of the population.

They were on pace to score 17 seats, a huge increase.

Netanyahu’s Likud party had 25 seats, and his right-wing alliance had 50, according to the Kan 11 exit poll published after voting ended. That would be a massive drop from the 32 they currently hold.

Despite the drop, the party is still projected to get the most votes out of any other single party in the election, according to all major exit polls.

Meanwhile, the “Change” opposition is slated to win 52 to 53 seats. (Read more from “Netanyahu Loses Seats, Trails Challenger Gadi Eisenkot in Israel Election, Exit Polls Show — Here’s what Happens Next” HERE)

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Netanyahu posted election misinformation on X account, expert says

By NBC News. Netanyahu posted a series of messages on X Tuesday that social media users and disinformation experts have called anti-Arab and misinformation.

One post from Netanyahu’s X account depicts a line of people wearing hijabs outside what appears to be a community center in Sakhin, Israel being used as a polling station. A photo under it shows people donned in black niqabs claiming to be in Rahat, Israel.

The caption reads, “This is an emergency call! The future of our Jewish state hangs in the balance. Go out and vote right now! Higher-than-usual voter turnout in the Arab sector compared to the low turnout of right-wing voters.”

According to Achiya Schatz, an online misinformation expert and founder of Fake Reporter, an Israeli organization fighting misinformation, the photo depicting a long line of what appears to be Muslim voters outside the polling station in Sakhin, may be AI-generated. (Read more from “Netanyahu posted election misinformation on X account, expert says” HERE)

Either Ilhan Omar Lied About Her Age In Her Autobiography, Or She’s Lying Now

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The autobiography written by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., appears to prove she was an adult at the time she says her father obtained U.S. citizenship in 2000. Omar herself obtained citizenship on the basis of her reported status as a minor at the time, but statements in her book, as well as government records, indicate she was an adult.

Ilhan Omar — or Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, as U.S. government documents identify her — has claimed that her birthday is Oct. 4, 1982, making her 17 years old for most of the year 2000. Claims in at least two parts of her autobiography strongly suggest, however, that her birthday is actually in 1981, making her at least 18 throughout 2000, and therefore not eligible to receive citizenship under the sponsorship of her father.

“I was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia. One day everything was okay, and the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings but also people,” Elmi said in a chapter called “War: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia.” The claim that she was 8 in 1989 points to a birth year of 1981, meaning she was 18 or 19 in 2000 at the time of her naturalization.

In another chapter called “Return: 2011-2012, Fargo, North Dakota, to Africa to Minneapolis, Minnesota,” Elmi once again made claims that would give her a 1981 birth year, as opposed to 1982. During a three-month trip back to Somalia in 2011, Elmi said, “I was thirty years old.”

But the references to a 1981 birth do not stop in her autobiography. (Read more from “Either Ilhan Omar Lied About Her Age In Her Autobiography, Or She’s Lying Now” HERE)

’60 Minutes’ Under Fire After Full DHS Interview Reveals What Was Left On Cutting Room Floor

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CBS News has published the full 60 Minutes interview with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) General Counsel James Percival after omitting key exchanges.

Percival sat down with 60 Minutes contributor Gianna Toboni for a segment titled “Destination: Nowhere,” which aired Sunday and examined the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy.

Percival later said the interview lasted nearly an hour, but only part of it aired. On Oct. 26, 2026, 60 Minutes published the full version on its official YouTube channel, while DHS criticized the program’s editing and argued that the omitted exchanges provided additional context about the administration’s policies.

In one clip shared by Percival on X, he challenged Toboni over whether deportees faced persecution or torture after returning to their home countries.

“Are you suggesting that when these people went back to their home countries that they were persecuted or tortured?” Percival asked. (Read more from “’60 Minutes’ Under Fire After Full DHS Interview Reveals What Was Left On Cutting Room Floor” HERE)

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Hackers Knocked Federal Election Commission Offline, Emails Show

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The U.S. Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) website was targeted by a hacker or hackers just days before the November midterm elections.

The outage disrupted the agency’s electronic filing system, preventing electronic filings while leaving the public’s access to previously submitted campaign finance reports unaffected.

An FEC spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller that the agency’s IT staff are working to restore service. The spokesperson emphasized that the public can still access previously filed reports through the FEC’s online database.

“At this time, we can point to the status update posted to the FEC’s website that the electronic filing system is currently offline and our IT staff are actively working to restore service. The website search for FEC reports is not affected,” the spokesperson wrote. . .

The FEC also acknowledged the disruption in a post on X Tuesday, writing, “FEC’s electronic filing system is offline. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve the issue.” (Read more from “Hackers Knocked Federal Election Commission Offline, Emails Show” HERE)

Donald Trump Jr. Reportedly Hunted In Mongolia With Russian Oligarch Who Bankrolled His Wedding—And Killed An Endangered Sheep

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Donald Trump Jr. reportedly took a hunting trip in August to a remote part of Mongolia with the Russian oligarch, Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for his wedding—the latest revelations about the relationship that is said to have angered President Donald Trump behind closed doors.

Kremlev accompanied Trump Jr. on his two-day hunting trip in August to western Mongolia, where Trump Jr. shot and killed an Altai argali, an endangered horned sheep, the Financial Times reported, citing social media posts, flight tracking data, local sources and public records.

A spokesperson for Trump Jr. confirmed the two went hunting together earlier this year, telling the Financial Times, “it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone” and that “Don has made clear that he has a personal friendship, not a business relationship, with Umar,” adding, “their friendship is largely based on their shared love for hunting, fishing and the outdoors.”

Trump Jr.’s relationship with Kremlev, the head of the scandal-plagued International Boxing Association who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, first raised eyebrows in September, when Trump Jr. and his wife, Bettina, admitted Kremlev helped fund their lavish wedding weekend at private islands in the Bahamas earlier this year.

While Bettina Trump (née Anderson) described the payment as an “extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend,” the president, who did not attend the wedding, told reporters “as I understand it, he paid him back, he didn’t want to have that.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Jr. Reportedly Hunted In Mongolia With Russian Oligarch Who Bankrolled His Wedding—And Killed An Endangered Sheep” HERE)

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Middle Eastern Country Arrests Terrorists, Begins Strikes Against Those Behind Church Massacre

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Jordan has arrested gunmen and conducted air strikes against terrorist cells responsible for a church massacre.

Jordanian law enforcement has arrested three armed militants accused of carrying out a mass shooting during a funeral held at a Greek Orthodox Church near the city of Karak on Oct. 23, according to the BBC. Additionally, the Jordanian Air Force conducted strikes against terrorist groups alleged to be involved with the church shooting, Reuters reported Monday.

The Jordanian government did not immediately respond for comment.

Nine people were killed and 34 more were injured in the attack, per the BBC.

“The terrorist attack against Karak will be met with the harshest retaliation. Those who delude themselves into thinking that they can divide Jordanians with their bullets have no chance in the face of our unity … every Jordanian life is precious, and we will strike with an iron fist against those who dare to threaten our nation,” Jordanian King Abdullah II wrote in an Oct. 23 X post.

(Read more from “Middle Eastern Country Arrests Terrorists, Begins Strikes Against Those Behind Church Massacre” HERE)

United Passenger who Forced Newark-Bound Flight to Return to Vegas over ‘Hijacking Threat’ has Boozy Explanation

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A United Airlines passenger accused of grounding his plane home to New Jersey after a flight attendant saw him texting about alleged hijacking plans told cops he was just drunk and joking around with a friend in another seat.

Dante Milne, 25, a trainee welder, was arrested over the weekend for allegedly sending a text, saying, “I’m gonna hijack this bitch and crash ur row only,” while aboard a United Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Newark Saturday, according to a criminal complaint.

After his arrest, the Wood-Ridge, New Jersey-native told investigators he’d downed a beer and some shots at the airport bar.

He then fell asleep on the flight only to discover after he awoke that the plane was heading back to Vegas just minutes after taking off, according to Fox 5 Vegas, which cited his arrest report.

Initially, Milne said he texted someone on the flight but said he didn’t remember what the messages were about, the arrest report said. (Read more from “United Passenger who Forced Newark-Bound Flight to Return to Vegas over ‘Hijacking Threat’ has Boozy Explanation” HERE)