JUST IN: Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department's Alaska lawsuit "does not seek to stop any ballot from being cast or to stop the certification of Alaska's election," in a post on X. Trump has said he directed that the suit be filed.

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JUST IN: President Trump called Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) a "disgrace" to Alaska and attacked the state's ranked choice voting system after she criticized the Justice Department's lawsuit over that system, The Hill reports.

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The FCC barred a dashboard camera and a wireless video transmitter from the U.S. market because they contain surveillance chips made by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon. Chairman Brendan Carr said such devices "pose an obvious and unacceptable risk to the nation and our people." It is the first enforcement action under the FCC's new component rules.

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JUST IN: Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX throttled Starlink in Ukraine. "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week," Musk posted on X.

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JUST IN: President Trump went after Fox News on Truth Social over airtime given to Democratic candidates ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms: "FoxNews is spending far too much time putting on the OPPONENTS of Republican Party Candidates." Reported by The Hill.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit on Oct. 23 against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in the District Court of Collin County, alleging ChatGPT gave dangerous health advice tied to a Texas teen's death. The complaint says the chatbot is "not reliable or trustworthy."

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JUST IN: A 9th Circuit panel sounded skeptical of the DOJ's emergency bid to segregate 20,000 California ballots the Justice Department says went to likely noncitizens. "I don't see how we have jurisdiction," said Judge Mark Bennett. A trial judge holds a hearing Tuesday.

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JUST IN: Trump and Obama traded attacks in the final week before the Nov. 3 midterms. At rallies in Ohio and Michigan, Obama accused Trump's administration of "straight-up grifting"; Trump called Obama "grossly incompetent" in a 1 a.m. Truth Social post, The Washington Times reports.

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JUST IN: 27.7 million Americans across 47 states have already cast ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab — 13.5 million in person and 14.2 million mail-in ballots returned.

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JUST IN: Meta disclosed in an SEC filing that Mark Zuckerberg told its special committee he was evaluating relocating his primary residence outside California, where voters decide a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets in November. Meta's stated goal: keep him "continuing to lead the Company from California."

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BREAKING: The Justice Department charges former FBI Director James Comey for a third time.

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The two U.S. Attorney's Offices for Washington State asked election officials to set aside ballots cast by more than 400 people who appear to be illegally registered to vote, many of them green card holders. "We have identified over 400 non-citizens who are registered to vote and have voted in multiple elections," said Acting U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd.

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JUST IN: FEC filings released last week show LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman among the largest donors to House Majority PAC, the Democratic group now running Epstein-themed ads against Republican candidates. Hoffman visited Epstein's island and has denied wrongdoing.

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JUST IN: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth swore Air Force Brig. Gen. Melissa S. Cunningham back into the Air Force at a Pentagon ceremony, the Department of War said. Cunningham had been forced into early retirement under the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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JUST IN: The Supreme Court will hear Maxwell v. Dinis on Nov. 2, deciding whether a federal inmate can use the habeas statute 28 U.S.C. 2241 to challenge the Bureau of Prisons' refusal to speed up his transfer to a halfway house or home confinement, SCOTUSblog reports.

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JUST IN: President Trump signed a proclamation declaring that imports of robotics, industrial machinery and their parts and components threaten U.S. national security, acting on a Section 232 investigation report from the Commerce Secretary.

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JUST IN: A federal judge denied the DOJ's emergency request to sequester about 20,000 California mail ballots the department flagged as potentially sent to noncitizens, allowing them to be counted in the Nov. 3 midterms. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter called the request unprecedented federal overreach close to an election.

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JUST IN: Federal prosecutors charged former FBI Foreign Influence Task Force chief Nikki Floris and section chief Bradley Benavides with lying to Congress about the bureau's handling of the Hunter Biden investigations. An unsealed complaint shows Floris forwarded NBC's advance tip on the laptop story to FBI leadership on Oct. 15, 2020.

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JUST IN: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Hungarian FM Anita Orban signed two memorandums of understanding — one on law enforcement information sharing against left-wing political violence, one on energy infrastructure under the Trump Peace Pipelines framework. Rubio cited "this resurgence of far-left terrorism."

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JUST IN: The RNC says President Trump will headline tele-rallies in 19 states in a 72-hour sprint before Election Day, after canceling in-person events in Iowa and Kansas. Chairman Joe Gruters called it "a huge boost in the closing days."

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