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#1 Trial Date Set for DC Pipe Bomb Suspect - Matt Pusatory for WUSA9, Sam Iam, Steve Baker, Conservative Girl/Free Brian Cole, Viva Frei, JS Hochstein/Derrick Evans, and Shelley on X
A trial date has been set for the Virginia man accused of planting two pipe bombs in DC the night before the Jan. 6 insurrection. Brian Cole Jr., of Woodbridge, is federally charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and attempted malicious destruction by means of an explosive. Federal investigators say Cole, captured on surveillance cameras, placed “viable explosive devices” outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters. Phone records allegedly show he was around the area at the time the bombs were planted. He reportedly learned to build the pipe bombs from watching YouTube videos, with bank statements showing a breakdown of materials purchased within three years. Cole allegedly told federal agents “something just snapped” after “watching everything get worse and worse.”
#2 Florida GOP Candidate Claims Exclusion From Rally by Donald's Camp - Suryatapa Chakraborty for The Hill, Byron Donalds, James Fishback/Kingston Brooke, AF Post, and Tallahassee Democrat on X
Former Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback (R) said he was stopped from entering a Get Out the Vote rally in Clearwater, Fla., hosted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Saturday. Fishback said he and his wife were told that he was “not welcome here” when trying to enter the venue, local news station CBS 12 reported. “I have attended political events featuring [President] Donald Trump, [former President] Barack Obama, [former President] George W. Bush, [Sen.] Bernie Sanders [(I-Vt.)], and I’ve never had any issues. It is disgraceful that [Rep.] Byron Donalds [(R-Fla.)] would threaten to arrest us for attending a political event open to the public,” Fishback said, according to the report...
#3 Obama, Trump Rally in Battleground State Michigan - ABC News, Good Morning America, Molly Ploofkins, Morgan J. Freeman, Gunther Eagleman™, and Eric Daugherty on X
President Trump and former President Barack Obama held dueling rallies in Michigan as the countdown to the midterm elections enters its final eight days...
#4 Brazil Heads Back to the Future as Flavio Bolsonaro Refuses to Recognize Lula Win - Oliver Griffin and Luciana Novaes Magalhaes for Reuters, Fox News, Mario Nawfal, Nick Sortor, Eric Daugherty, and Lord Bebo on X
Brazilian right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has followed his imprisoned father's lead by refusing to concede defeat to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won a historic fourth term in Sunday's presidential election.Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, called into question a late-Sunday decision by a Lula-appointed Supreme Court justice that extended voting by two hours over alleged voter transport irregularities. He said he would ask for the result to be annulled. "It is impossible to recognize the election results, given the circumstances under which things unfolded," Bolsonaro told journalists...
#5 AG Todd Blanche Says DOJ Is “Doing Our Own Research Under the Law” With Alaska Senate Challenge - Kaia Hubbard for CBS News, Aaron Rupar, Face the Nation, Dallas Morning News, NEWSMAX, and Anchorage Daily News on X
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the Justice Department was looking to "put guardrails in place" with its move to prevent the Alaska Senate election from being certified if there is evidence that voters were confused by a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot. "This is the Department of Justice doing our own research under the law," Blanche said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." The Justice Department filed a lawsuit last week to preemptively challenge the certification of Alaska's Senate race if the Republican incumbent, Sen. Dan Sullivan, loses. Sullivan is facing off against Democratic candidate Mary Peltola in next week's election, in a race that has appeared closer than initially expected in a state that President Trump won in 2024 by double digits. But the state has a top-four primary and ranked-choice voting election system, with another candidate adding a wrinkle to the race...
#6 Jared Kushner’s Lawyer Puts Vanity Fair on Notice Over ‘False’ Claims - Hollie Silverman for Newsweek, Eileen Left/Chad Mizelle, NDTV Profit News, Skip Dillard, Stew Peters/The White Rabbit/@shanashananagins, and Isaac Newton/VANITY FAIR on X
Jared Kushner’s attorney says his legal team has formally put Vanity Fair and its parent company, Condé Nast, on notice over allegations about President Donald Trump’s son-in-law that the lawyer characterized as “false and defamatory.” The dispute centers on an excerpt from investigative journalist Matthew Cole’s forthcoming book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East. The Vanity Fair excerpt alleges that Kushner had access to foreign accounts involving large sums of money during Trump’s first term...
#7 Liberman Calls for Netanyahu Treason Probe Over Alleged Attempt to Start War to Delay Elections - Shir Perets for The Jerusalem Post, אביגדור ליברמן, Mario Nawfal, RT, Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X, and Noga Tarnopolsky on X
Yisrael Beytenu, chairman Avigdor Liberman, called on Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara to open a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on suspicion of treason, according to a statement released on Monday. Liberman's appeal does not establish criminal wrongdoing or mean an investigation has opened. The demand follows a report by N12 on Sunday that Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir had clashed over a proposed military operation that could trigger a confrontation with Iran, just two days before Israel's October 27 election...
#8 Elvis Presley Rights Holders Sue Anthropic, Alleging Copyright Infringement for AI Models - Fox News, Rolling Stone, Pop Base, Genius, Los Angeles Times, and NBC Los Angeles on X
Elvis Presley may have left the building nearly 50 years ago, but his music is now at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal showdown over artificial intelligence. Rights holders to hundreds of songs made famous by the King of Rock 'n' Roll have filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against AI giant Anthropic, accusing the company of using protected music and lyrics to train its Claude AI models without permission. The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in California, alleges Anthropic unlawfully copied 274 songs associated with Presley, including iconic hits such as "Can't Help Falling in Love," "All Shook Up," "Don't Be Cruel," "A Little Less Conversation" and "Return to Sender," according to Billboard, which first reported the lawsuit...
#9 Loggers Say Roadless Rule Repeal Won’t Solve Their Biggest Challenges - Kirk Siegler for npr, xalfeed, Jesse L. Ramos, Richard S, American Rivers, and Taxpayers for Common Sense on X
President Trump is widely expected to soon open up some 44 million acres of the country's last pristine national forests in a move he says will bring timber jobs back to struggling small towns and help prevent wildfires in overgrown lands. Trump signaled the move with executive actions last year aimed at dramatically boosting timber sales on U.S. Forest Service land and reversing the agency's 25-year-old Roadless Rule, which blocked most new logging on undeveloped national forestlands. Today with the formal repeal of the Roadless Rule rule expected early next year, the picture on the ground in timber country looks messier. Those who make a living in the forests say the problems are much bigger than access to more trees...
#10 Inside the Pentagon’s Doomsday Plan to Keep America Fighting if Global War Erupts - Morgan Phillips for Fox News, Now the End Begins, IBTimesUK, John F. Kennedy Jr Q, News9, and The Cradle on X
The Pentagon is preparing U.S. military bases to keep operating for at least 90 days without outside support as it prepares for the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids, disrupt supply chains, and threaten critical infrastructure on American soil. The new requirement is part of FORTRESS, a broader military initiative aimed at ensuring American forces can continue fighting even if the civilian systems they depend on are disrupted, according to documents reviewed by Fox News Digital. "We don't want to rely on standard civilian municipal infrastructure to run our national defense. We just simply can't. It's an intolerable risk," Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell told Fox News Digital...
And Now for Something Special 
The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire
Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it. Workers were still on-site, and yet the deer had already decided that it was theirs.
