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#10 Massive Migrant Caravan Heads to U Southern Border Ahead of Election - Misty Severi for Just the News, Bud Man 4241, SweetPeaBelle, and Yvonne C on X
A caravan of approximately 2,000 migrants was spotted traveling on Sunday to the United States border with Mexico ahead of next month's presidential election. Both presidential candidates have pushed for tougher security at the country's southern border after a record 10 million illegal immigrants crossed into the country during the Biden administration. Vice President Kamala Harris recently claimed that people who were caught crossing into the country illegally would be deported and barred from re-entry for five years, per CBS Austin...
#9 The World Bank Pushes Forward on Global Digital Transformation- Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Tim Hinchliffe, and "Sudden and Unexpected" on X
The World Bank (WB) plays a crucial role in facilitating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put forth by the United Nations and supported by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and, of course, Bill Gates and other self-serving non-government organization (NGOs). The group’s goals have not faded, and although they now conceal their primary objective, many recognize this shady group as the “you will own nothing and be happy” tyrants. Integral to achieving the SDGs is a World Bank initiative called Identification for Development (ID4D), which focuses on helping nations develop and implement what they describe as robust, inclusive, and responsible digital identification systems. If you assume the talk of Digital IDs has quieted down because the propaganda around COVID-19 has largely been debunked, make no mistake, it hasn’t...#8 FTC’s Rule Banning Fake Online Reviews Goes Into Effect - News Nation for Associated Press, Major Digest, 13News Now, and ABC11 EyewitnessNews on X
A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect. The Federal Trade Commission issued the rule in August banning the sale or purchase of online reviews. The rule, which went into effect Monday, allows the agency to seek civil penalties against those who knowingly violate it. “Fake reviews not only waste people’s time and money but also pollute the marketplace and divert business away from honest competitors,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said about the rule in August. She added that the rule will “protect Americans from getting cheated, put businesses that unlawfully game the system on notice, and promote markets that are fair, honest, and competitive.”Specifically, the rule bans reviews and testimonials attributed to people who don’t exist or are generated by artificial intelligence, people who don’t have experience with the business or product/services, or misrepresent their experience...
#7 ‘Wrong, Both Morally and Legally’: Florida AG Slams Fcc for Defending Abortion Misinformation - Mary Margaret Olohan for The Daily Wire, and Florida's Voice on X
As Florida seeks to combat misinformation about the state’s abortion laws, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is drawing fire for defending local TV stations airing false pro-abortion advertisements — and claiming that it is “dangerous” for the state to push back on these ads. In a letter to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel obtained by The Daily Wire, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody tore into the agency for defending TV stations that aired an ad falsely claiming a woman in Florida with brain cancer could not get an abortion to save her life. In Florida, the state’s attorney general pointed out, pro-life laws allow exceptions to save the mother’s life and to prevent permanent injuries.“I am shocked that you would use the power of the FCC to promote such an obvious misstatement of fact, which undermines the mission and credibility of your agency,” Moody wrote in the Oct. 16 letter...
#6 Texas AG Goes After Democratic Fundraising as GOP Outspent in Key Races - Saul Elbein for The Hill, Texas Attorney General, John Cardillo, and Pat on X
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday called on federal regulators to make it more difficult for donors to use ActBlue, a popular progressive fundraising platform that has collected record donations for the Harris campaign. Recent polling by the University of Texas shows Vice President Harris within 5 points of former President Trump in Texas — the closest a Democrat has been to winning the state since the days of Bill Clinton. In a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Paxton accused the platform of failing to keep off “straw donors,” people who use another person’s money to make a donation in their own name. “Our investigation into ActBlue has uncovered facts indicating that bad actors can illegally interfere in American elections by disguising political donations,” Paxton said in a statement. ActBlue targets small-dollar donations and has been a major part of the Democratic fundraising apparatus, collecting an estimated $1.5 billion from about 7 million donors...
#5 Georgia Casts Over 1.4M Ballots as Critical Battleground Shatters Early Voting Records - Elizabeth Elkind for Fox News, Beer League Growler, and Erin Burnett OutFront on X
One of the most pivotal battleground states in the 2024 election has now seen more than 1.4 million residents cast their ballots early. Georgia has been shattering turnout records since early voting began on Tuesday. As of Monday morning, the Georgia state elections website showed 1,347,843 ballots were cast in person so far, while just over 80,000 absentee ballots have been returned and accepted. "Today there is Sunday voting in several counties. And AGAIN, the voters have set another record," Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer in the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, wrote on X yesterday. "As of 2:30 over 25,000 Georgians had cast ballots today. The previous Sunday record was 24k back in 2022. Keep up the great work counties and voters." The Sunday total wound up being just over 42,400 votes cast – nearly double the 2022 tally...
#4 Anti-Ranked Choice Voting Group Warns Ballot Initiatives Will Make Elections Less Secure - Brady Knox for Washington Examiner, PDX Real, and Honest Elections Progress on X
An anti-ranked choice voting group warned that ballot initiatives in favor of the practice would make elections less secure. Eight states and the District of Columbia will have ballot initiatives related to ranked-choice voting. RCV is a method of voting where voters can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference. While activists praise the method as being more fair and allowing voters’ voices to be better heard, opponents making up the Stop RCV Coalition, such as Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead, argue that the process serves only to confuse voters...
#3 Report: Middle-Class Americans in Swing States Disproportionately Face Unaffordable Home Prices - John Binder for Breitbart, Prodigal, and Bloomberg on X
Swing states are disproportionately facing unaffordable home prices, an analysis conducted by the Washington Post reveals, and it is crushing middle-class Americans. Since 2019, when former President Donald Trump was in office, unsustainable housing costs and rents have increasingly burdened Americans living in swing states like North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, the analysis finds. The Washington Post reports: Americans in swing states are far more likely to live in areas where housing has become disproportionately more costly since 2019, according to a Washington Post analysis of home-price data. Nationally, home prices have grown 48 percent since 2019. But in some counties across the seven most tightly-contested swing states — including Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania — prices have more than doubled, an analysis of Zillow data shows...
#2 Pentagon Investigating Whether Leaked Israeli Plans for Iran Attack Came From Hack or Insiders - Caitlin Doornbos for The New York Post, Mario Nawfal, Iran International English, and The Jerusalem Post on X
The Defense Department is hunting for the source of the leaked Israeli plans to attack Iran as the National Security Council called the breach “unacceptable.” “I know the Department of Defense is investigating this, and I’m sure that as they work through that, they’ll try to determine the manner in which they did become public,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday, adding that the Biden-Harris administration cannot yet say how the classified documents became public. “That is not supposed to happen,” Kirby said, “and it’s unacceptable when it does.” President Biden is “actively monitoring” the investigation, and “remains deeply concerned about any leakage,” Kirby added...
#1 Washington Reined In 2024 Spending By ‘Only’ Burning Through $1.9 Trillion More Than It Brought In - Christopher Jacobs for The Federalist, Jim Rickards, Global Markets Investor, Money Metals Exchange, and The Washington Examiner on X
The cliché holds that a picture is worth a thousand words. But a recent chart from the Congressional Budget Office is worth nearly 2,000,000,000,000 (that’s two trillion) words. It illustrates the size of the budget deficits Washington continues to run, year in, year out. The downward trend of the chart, which shows budget deficits for 2023 and the fiscal year that ended on September 30, echoes the downward trend of our nation’s fiscal trajectory, as lawmakers’ unabated desire to spend money we don’t have jeopardizes our national security — and our future...
And Now for Something Special 
Photos: Giant Pumpkin Regatta Makes a Splash in Oregon - Jenna Deml for News Nation, KOIN News, The Oregonian, and Kimberly Beatty on X
People in giant squash made a big splash and then some in Oregon’s Lake of the Commons Sunday afternoon. Paddlers dressed in their Halloween best raced in carved-out pumpkins with all their might as part of the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta. The goal is not only to make it to the finish line first, but also avoid taking on too much water. Event organizers say racers came from as far away as South Carolina and Massachusetts.
