House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju he will swear in the Democrats who win their midterm races, according to CNN's description of the exchange, and called speculation otherwise a "nonsense narrative." The full answer has not been available for review.
President Trump alleges Alaska Democrats recruited a second Dan Sullivan to split the senator's vote, and he wants Mary Peltola removed from the ballot. Her campaign denies any involvement, and the allegations of perjury and fraud are his own, with no charge or ruling cited in the coverage we reviewed.
Hennepin County prosecutors have charged James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft over hidden-camera videos from Minnesota's August primary. Breitbart reports neither man cast a ballot, and Higby calls the case lawfare.
Gov. Kathy Hochul told NBC New York she was not interested in raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani sought to close a $12 billion deficit. A later New York Post story is dated Oct. 28, but its contents could not be verified.
Jeremy Lewin, the State Department's Director of Policy Planning, announced he is leaving for the private sector. Axios, whose text was reviewed only through a search extract, says he helped lead Venezuela normalization and the Havana talks; no successor has been named.
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander to 30 years apiece for a sex-trafficking conspiracy that Courthouse News reports ran from 2009 to 2017. The terms are twice the maximum the defense sought and short of the life terms prosecutors wanted.
Three Democrat-led cities and an immigrant-aid group asked the Supreme Court to revive a 2024 rule that let immigration judges set some deportation cases aside. The Court declined in an unsigned order, and the accounts reviewed note no dissents.
Newly unsealed court papers show federal prosecutors have charged former FBI Director James Comey over an alleged 2016 leak of national defense information to The New York Times, with reports describing two counts. His lawyers say the statute of limitations bars the case and have moved to dismiss.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iran's economy is collapsing and predicts a deep contraction as an eight-week sanctions push called Operation Economic Outcast gets tougher. Every claim is his own, and no independent data confirming them has been found.
A Virginia judge granted a $2,500 bond for the man police say took a sledgehammer to the Iwo Jima memorial in Quantico. It emerged at Monday's hearing that ICE had lodged a detainer against him, and no ICE pickup has been reported.
The Justice Department is sending about 1,000 monitors to polling places in all 50 states for the midterms, its largest effort ever. Democratic groups have trained tens of thousands of volunteers to watch the watchers.
Eight days before the midterms, President Trump promised $1 million to anyone whose voter fraud tip leads to an arrest and conviction. The White House has not said who would pay, how to apply, or whether any agency is running it.
Politico reports that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and friends have been playing late-night pickup basketball at the NYPD's Queens academy, according to anonymous sources. The department says the games have not disrupted any recruit training.
Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt married Saturday at the same Palm Beach church where he proposed, and Breitbart reported that President Trump attended a Mar-a-Lago party the night before.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a Spanish-language video on what to do if ICE agents approach, covering warrants, consent and the right to silence. Republicans including Sen. Rick Scott criticized it the same day on X.
A 32-year-old Brooklyn woman is charged after an alleged syringe attack on a young rabbi in Midtown Manhattan. Reports say a second Jewish man was also stabbed, but the timing and many details remain unconfirmed.
Washington and Beijing are each building an artificial intelligence club, and countries like Kazakhstan are joining both. Experts say the room to play both sides may be shrinking.
