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Republican chief election officials from seven states said that it’s too late for President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot order to be implemented before the midterm election, urging the Supreme Court to not allow the rule to go into effect in a brief submitted to the court on Wednesday.Trump’s order, signed in March, aimed to crack down on mail-in voting and assert federal control ahead of November’s election. In August, the U.S. Postal Service released a final rule that would allow it to refuse delivering ballots to states that failed to provide lists of eligible voters or adhere to approved envelope…

Corie Walsh charged with the murder of her 2-year-old son, Barrett “Bear” Walsh Illinois mother Corie Walsh, who had a reported obsession with Lindsay Clancy when she allegedly killed her 2-year-old son, also plotted to kill her husband, according to prosecutors. Walsh was arrested and charged with murder after two-year-old Barrett “Bear” Walsh was found hanging from the rafters in the basement of her Chicago home. She “had recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial,” a witness told police following the horrific crime. She had also been “actively discussing the case via group text message with her…

President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the war with Iran will end “immediately after” the November midterm elections, saying Tehran “can’t hold out any longer” as the United States intensifies military and economic pressure on the regime. “I think the war is going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer,” Trump told reporters before departing for Dallas. The president accused Iran of prolonging the war in an effort to influence the upcoming elections. “They’re desperate to try and affect the election so that we could get a nice, weak group of people in there and…

A closely watched inflation barometer rose less than expected in August. The producer price index, excluding food and energy, rose 0.2 percent last month, a slowdown from the previous month’s revised 0.3 percent increase and lower than the 0.3 percent forecast by economists. Headline PPI rose 0.4 percent after climbing an upwardly revised 0.1 percent in July. That matched the consensus forecast. Higher fuel prices have pushed up headline PPI since the start of the war with Iran. Compared with a year ago, the PPI is up 5.4 percent. That is higher than the previous month’s 4.8 percent year-over-year increase…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump sounds like he is “truly out of his mind.” Earlier at a 9/11 event, Trump said, “The United States Steel building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is, it creaked a lot. It creaked. It still creaks, but it never came down. And I’ll never forget, two firemen—we thought it was coming down on top of us, two firemen, big, strong guys. And I’m not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arm…

The reported attack on the base in Jordan came amid a renewed standoff over the Strait of Hormuz Multiple US military aircraft were damaged in an Iranian strike on a key American airbase in Jordan, CBS reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.The attack reportedly took place overnight on Tuesday and targeted Muwaffaq Salti Air Base near Azraq, about 100 km northeast of Amman, a major hub for US air operations in the region.One A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog, suffered severe wing damage, while around eight F-15s were lightly damaged but returned to service, according to the…

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins Missouri’s congressional map battle has exploded into a full-blown constitutional crisis, with Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins trapped between directly conflicting orders from the federal and state courts. Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark will not stop the Missouri Supreme Court from hauling Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins into court Thursday morning over the state’s congressional map fight. Clark, a Trump appointee, denied Hoskins’ emergency request late Wednesday night. The secretary of state asked the federal court to enjoin the state high court from proceeding with a 10 a.m. Thursday show-cause hearing…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — San Antonio City Council members requested an environmental study in what may be the city’s last hope to stop or delay the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) plan to convert an existing warehouse on the city’s southeast side. Council member Jalen McKee-Rodriguez submitted the request with four members’ concurrence in late August. As reported by Breitbart Texas, ICE awarded GardaWorld Federal Services a $17.3 million contract to renovate the existing warehouse and operate the facility on August 25. The contract calls for the company to modify a warehouse of more than 600,000 square feet on…

During an interview with PBS released on Tuesday’s “Settle In” podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said that he hasn’t been able to figure out the fair solution for transgender athletes despite trying to do so for years. Newsom said, “[A]s someone that’s not been intellectual on this, that’s had to practice the issue of how I address the question of fairness over multiple years as it relates to sports, I have been confronted. And I couldn’t figure it out, and I tried.” Host Amna Nawaz then cut in to ask, “Have you figured out?” Newsom answered, “No. I failed.”…

A major Houthi attack has exposed how little is known about the military commitments binding Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan A massive attack by Yemeni’s Houthis on Saudi Arabia has become the first serious test for the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement – a defense pact between Riyadh, Ankara, and Islamabad established just a month ago. We’re no longer talking about a future security architecture in abstract terms. Rather, a very concrete question is being posed: What actions should Saudi Arabia’s allies undertake following a strike on its territory?According to the Saudi-led coalition, Houthi missiles and drones struck civilian and economic…