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Media misses Hegseth being reprimanded by a soldier
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Hoax about Rubio's football trips
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Democrats are moving fast in trifecta states
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Reader question on lessons from the midterms
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🔵 Democrat flips Mississippi Senate seat in stunning upset. District attorney Scott Colom defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, giving Democrats at least 55 Senate seats after flipping eight GOP seats this cycle. The victory caught national analysts off guard and caps a brutal midterm for Republicans already facing internal blame games over the wipeout.
🇮🇷 Bessent moved to military base amid Iranian threats. The Trump administration confirmed that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was relocated from his Washington home after assassination threats reached "more than an advanced stage." White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have also moved to protected housing in recent weeks.
🛫 Illegal alien who threatened plane claimed to be trans for asylum. The Honduran man who allegedly tried to hijack a United Airlines flight this week was previously deported twice before gaining asylum in 2020 by claiming to be transgender. According to law enforcement sources, Gomez-Alberto told authorities he feared persecution in Honduras over his gender identity, which allowed him to argue his case before a judge.
🔍 Florida AG subpoenas DSA over foreign donations. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced an investigation into whether the Democratic Socialists of America accepted contributions from Cuba or China, citing recent delegations where DSA members met with Cuban President Díaz-Canel. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dismissed the probe as a "politically targeted attack.”
WORLD NEWS
Anti-Israel protesters surround Biden's motorcade

Behind the paywall: Iran's first all-women military training camp and a Salvadoran strike on a Haitian gang headquarters.
HOAX TRACKER
Washington Post spins Rubio's fatherhood into a scandal
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SOME GOOD NEWS
An 84-year-old woman who was paralyzed by Guillain-Barré syndrome returned to the Pennsylvania nursing home where she recovered to play piano for other patients. Bonnie Fay, who began studying piano at age 7, promised herself during her own difficult recovery that she would one day return and give back to the place that helped her heal.
ASK THE EDITORS
Weathering the blue wave
Q: What can we learn from past midterm losses and how the ship was righted? Like Truman in 1946, Reagan in 1982, and Clinton in 1994. — Jacob from Florida
A: Most presidents lose seats in their first midterm. Truman in 1946, Reagan in 1982, and Clinton in 1994 all took heavy losses and still won re-election two years later, largely because the economy improved or they adjusted their message.
But the sheer size of this defeat shows that voters are angry about the cost of living, whether or not the reasons, like the Iran war, are justified. President Trump and Republicans will need to show Americans over the next 18 months that prices are coming down if the GOP is to have any shot at retaining the presidency and winning back some Congressional seats in 2028.
Later today, we’ll send out a Q&A on the midterm elections where we’ll dive a bit deeper into these kinds of questions.

THE COMMUNITY SECTION
TODAY’S POLL
POP QUIZ
US History: Roughly how many immigrants passed through Ellis Island while it was open?
POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY
Is Jim Jordan the right choice to lead House Republicans?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👍 Yes (895)
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 👎 No (51)
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🤔 Unsure (168)
👍 Yes: “Absolutely. He has the most integrity of all the congressmen.” — Terry
👎 No: “He was a do-nothing before and will continue to do nothing.” — Jim
🤔 Unsure: “He definitely talks a big game and sounds good, but where's the proof? Is he another puppet of Big Government and a closet RINO?” — Fred
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