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Tennessee's Botched Execution of Christa Pike Leaves Her Hospitalized, Possibly Brain-Damaged

Two failed lethal-injection attempts prompted Gov. Bill Lee to halt every other Tennessee execution for the rest of 2026 pending a review.

Oct 2, 2026

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US Deploys Third Carrier Strike Group and Thousands More Troops to Middle East as Oil Prices Surge Amid Iran Tensions

Plus: an Energy Department employee charged with aiding the Houthis, Netanyahu's new FlyDubai co-pilot radicalization claim, Trump's Texas-Oklahoma midterm swing, CNN dropped from the press pool again, and a Milwaukee mosque leader's deportation ruling.

Oct 2, 2026

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FBI, Texas DPS Thwart Armed Plot to Attack State Capitol in Austin

Suspect Benny Caldera Jr., 40, allegedly vowed to “shoot up” the Capitol and railed against AIPAC before his arrest

Oct 1, 2026

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US Completes Full Military Withdrawal From Iraq After 23 Years

The U.S. closes a 23-year chapter in Iraq, but the fight against ISIS and Iran's proxies just relocated next door.

Oct 1, 2026

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Coast Guard Finds Debris Field Off Nantucket as Search Continues for 6 Aboard Vanished Medevac Jet

Plus: Tennessee's prisons chief resigns after Christa Pike's botched execution, Trump rallies Ohio for Husted and Ramaswamy, Eric Schmitt's Jack Smith “perjury” claim unravels, Rubio expels defiant Iranian diplomats, and Trump posts Tom Cotton's phone number over daylight saving time.

Oct 4, 2026

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Trump Strikes ‘Permanent’ Military Deal With Greenland, Barring China and Russia From the Arctic

Plus: Dearborn's mayor is sued over taxpayer-funded Ramadan displays, the White House pulls its ICE director pick, Speaker Johnson sends the House home early, the lone holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial breaks his silence, and Cuba suffers its seventh blackout of the year.

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Trump Predicts Iran War Will End ‘Right After the Election’ as G7 Taps Emergency Oil Reserves and Tanker Struck Near Oman

Plus: September’s jobs report badly misses forecasts, Cornell’s rape case erupts into a political firestorm, Tennessee’s botched Christa Pike execution, France’s teen riots spread nationwide, and two Ole Miss vape shop clerks face federal kratom charges.

Oct 3, 2026

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Rubio Orders Iran's UN Delegation to Leave US After Peace Talks Collapse

Trump says a renewed war “is not out of the question” once midterms pass, as Tehran disputes the US account of why its delegation left New York early.

Oct 1, 2026

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Hegseth Unveils Six-Part Pentagon Overhaul, Taps Musk to Help Map Future Warfare

A new four-star autonomous warfare command, a 120-day study co-led by Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey, and a $350 billion ask for Congress headline a sweeping Quantico address

Oct 1, 2026

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Omani Co-Pilot Tried to Crash FlyDubai Jet Bound for Israel After Stabbing Captain, Officials Call It Attempted Terror Attack

Plus: Elon Musk's new Pentagon war-forecasting role, Texas DPS foils a Capitol attack plot, strong September jobs with cooler inflation, the UK's new Iran link in the Fairford bomb plot, and the Title IX rollback for women's sports.

Oct 1, 2026

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Blackburn Sues Jack Smith Personally Over Secret Seizure of Her Phone Records

The Tennessee senator says the special counsel was never lawfully appointed and weaponized a gag order to hide the subpoena from her for over two years.

Sep 30, 2026

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Flydubai Co-Pilot Stabs Captain, Tries to Crash Israel-Bound Flight; Passengers Retake Cockpit

Israel's defense minister calls it a foiled terrorist attack after passengers overpowered the co-pilot mid-flight

Sep 30, 2026

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Flydubai Co-Pilot Stabs Captain, Tries to Crash Israel-Bound Flight; Passengers Retake Cockpit

Boeing Wins $20 Billion Navy Contract to Build F/A-XX, the Fleet's First Sixth-Gen Fighter

The carrier-based jet is Boeing's second next-generation fighter win in just over a year, after the Air Force's F-47.

Sep 30, 2026

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Boeing Wins $20 Billion Navy Contract to Build F/A-XX, the Fleet's First Sixth-Gen Fighter

Grassley: Jack Smith's Trump Probe Swept Up Fox News, Nearly 50 Journalists in Sweeping Surveillance Dragnet

Plus: a $521B healthcare fraud bombshell and 14 new GOP bills, ICE’s overnight arrest-guidance flip-flop, the Senate’s 77-22 college sports overhaul, Treasury’s sanctions on cartel kingpin “Mayito Flaco,” and the FBI’s $17B “Operation Blackout” scam bust.

Sep 30, 2026

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Grassley: Jack Smith's Trump Probe Swept Up Fox News, Nearly 50 Journalists in Sweeping Surveillance Dragnet

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecution as GOP Senators Grill Him Over 'Arctic Frost' Media Sweep

Sep 29, 2026

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecution as GOP Senators Grill Him Over 'Arctic Frost' Media Sweep

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time, the former special counsel stood by his decision to charge Trump as Republicans pressed him on a subpoena sweep that reached roughly 50 journalists.

House GOP Escalates ActBlue Probe, Demands Attorney Testify Over Foreign Donor Vetting

Sep 29, 2026

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House GOP Escalates ActBlue Probe, Demands Attorney Testify Over Foreign Donor Vetting

Republicans say a WilmerHale lawyer's defense of the platform's screening conflicts with internal review findings; ActBlue calls the probe a “political stunt.”

Trump Finalizes Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards, Cutting 2031 Mileage Target Nearly in Half

Sep 29, 2026

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Trump Finalizes Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards, Cutting 2031 Mileage Target Nearly in Half

New rule scraps the EV credit-trading system and reclassifies crossovers as cars — Buttigieg and industry critics push back

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RAF Fairford Terror Suspects Released on Bail as Iran Denies Role in Alleged Plot Against US-Linked UK Base

Sep 29, 2026

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RAF Fairford Terror Suspects Released on Bail as Iran Denies Role in Alleged Plot Against US-Linked UK Base

Plus: Trump's $15B Iowa steel plant, a new migrant caravan crossing into Mexico, SpaceX's Starship reaching orbit, Trump's White House dinner with Anthropic's Amodei, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders' welfare ad backlash.

Trump Unveils $15 Billion Steel Plant in Iowa, Largest in U.S. History

Sep 28, 2026

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Trump Unveils $15 Billion Steel Plant in Iowa, Largest in U.S. History

The Mesabi Metallics project promises up to 1,750 permanent jobs and doubles as a midterm-season showcase for Trump's 50% steel tariffs.

Trump Rejects AI Slowdown, Hosts Anthropic's Amodei for Tense White House Dinner

Sep 28, 2026

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Trump Rejects AI Slowdown, Hosts Anthropic's Amodei for Tense White House Dinner

Pentagon fight over Anthropic's AI models looms as Trump doubles down on beating China

SpaceX Launches Starship on Historic First Attempt to Reach Orbit

Sep 28, 2026

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SpaceX Launches Starship on Historic First Attempt to Reach Orbit

The 14th test flight aimed for six orbits and a Starlink deployment, a key step toward NASA's Artemis moon landings.

Trump Cancels $810 Million in DEI, Immigration Funds via Rare 'Pocket Rescission'

Sep 28, 2026

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Trump Cancels $810 Million in DEI, Immigration Funds via Rare 'Pocket Rescission'

The White House ran out the clock on the fiscal year to kill the funding before Congress could object — and a GOP senator says it's unlawful.

Five Arrested Near U.S. Bomber Base in UK in Suspected Terror Plot

Sep 28, 2026

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Five Arrested Near U.S. Bomber Base in UK in Suspected Terror Plot

British police are probing a possible Iran link after evacuating dozens of homes near RAF Fairford, the base central to America's strikes on Iran.

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Trump Won't Rule Out More Iran Strikes Before Midterms as Tehran Signals Openness to Nuclear Talks

Sep 28, 2026

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Trump Won't Rule Out More Iran Strikes Before Midterms as Tehran Signals Openness to Nuclear Talks

Plus: Trump says 25,000 died last month in the Ukraine war and approves Patriot missile production for Kyiv, the White House quashes a report that ICE stood down on non-criminal arrests, RFK Jr. disputes Pennsylvania's measles deaths as the CDC logs its first of 2026, Texas secures $7.5 billion to repay its border security spending, and OpenAI admits its AI models improperly accessed government websites.

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Nor'easter Batters Mid-Atlantic Coast, NJ Gov. Sherrill Declares State of Emergency in Eight Counties as Flooding and Power Outages Spread

Sep 27, 2026

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Nor'easter Batters Mid-Atlantic Coast, NJ Gov. Sherrill Declares State of Emergency in Eight Counties as Flooding and Power Outages Spread

Plus: Trump and Xi strike a $30 billion tariff deal, Susan Collins's camp calls a revived bribery claim a “political hit job,” Senate Democrats skip a hearing on protecting women's sports, a GOP senator pushes to codify Trump's immigration crackdown, and Saudi Arabia intercepts more Houthi missiles.

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Trump Rejects Iran's 7-Day Ceasefire Proposal, Tells Aides Bombing May Resume After Midterms as China's Ties to Tehran Deepen

Sep 26, 2026

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Trump Rejects Iran's 7-Day Ceasefire Proposal, Tells Aides Bombing May Resume After Midterms as China's Ties to Tehran Deepen

Plus: the Supreme Court blocks Missouri's GOP-favored congressional map, the Pentagon stands up a new team to cut wasteful defense spending, Trump and Xi wrap a summit long on pageantry, GOP senators sound the alarm on China's ties to Iran, and the Supreme Court lets a revamped voter-verification database move forward before the midterms.