By Mark Creech, Op-ed Contributor Tuesday, November 03, 2026iStock/SilverVA gentleman recently left a comment beneath one of my articles that deserves thoughtful consideration, especially since Election Day is today. He wrote:“I’m voting for the party that stands against liars and corruption; that stands against those who twist religion for power…
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President Donald Trump says he is ready to issue preemptive pardons to members of his administration if Democrats follow through on threats to investigate and prosecute them, Breitbart News reported. In an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine published Monday, Trump was asked about Democratic rhetoric targeting his…
More than a dozen Republican-led states have teamed up to make sure illegal immigrant truck drivers have nowhere to hide, the Daily Wire reported. Tim Tipton, commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, told reporters Monday that the coordinated effort began after Oklahoma troopers started targeting illegal truckers with…
A Chinese national who ran a cocaine transportation network for one of Mexico’s most violent cartels is headed to a U.S. federal prison for 12 years. Wenshen Xu, 52, who lived in Honduras, was sentenced late last week and ordered to pay a $22 million judgment, according to information the…
The report cited official remarks and public statements but did not provide independent verification of the claims made by officials on any side. Officials across the statements described the situation in security terms. Other accounts described a broader diplomatic push, including a proposal by Putin for a trilateral summit with…
Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on its international platform on Oct. 29 after reports that users’ accounts had been drained and positions closed without authorization, in a security incident later linked to a compromised third-party provider. The disruption lasted about an hour, with trading eventually resuming after the platform said its…
An analysis published by ZeroHedge states that the standard of living for American workers has fallen significantly over the past 55 years. According to the analysis, the decline is larger than most people realize, based on comparisons of wages, productivity, and cost of living. The report attributes the trend to…
Reversing metabolic syndrome naturally: Simple habits outperform standard care in two-year trial A two-year clinical trial found that simple lifestyle habits reversed metabolic syndrome in 28% of participants, versus 21% in the control group. The 618-person study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, focused on four daily habits: vegetables at meals,…
An article published Oct. 30, 2026, by mindbodygreen and authored by Molly Knudsen, M.S., RDN, states that recovery is where physiological progress takes shape after training. The article lists sleep, nutrition, and heat therapy as three foundational strategies and presents recovery as a daily maintenance requirement rather than a weekly…
According to a September Gallup poll, Americans’ satisfaction with K-12 education has fallen to 32 percent, the lowest level since Gallup began tracking the issue 27 years ago. Nearly half of Americans said the country’s schools did a poor job of preparing students to think critically and solve problems. “Preparing…
For decades, every two years, on the morning of the first Tuesday of November, I would make an official, professional prediction about the likely outcome of the elections. That was my job—or at least part of it—as a Washington analyst for the financial services industry. It says something terribly unfortunate…
AI companies won the argument about learning from books. They lost the argument about stealing them. Both sides of this fight have a reason to blur the two. On July 20, a federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval to the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in American history.…
Judge David Carter, a Clinton nominee, was one reason that LA was flooded with homeless drug addicted vagrants. Carter illegally turned himself into some sort of homeless czar, throwing his weight around, brokering deals, making unilateral demands and inventing his own homeless policy. All of this is so vastly outside…
The Democrat Party of Michigan is purging its own congresswoman and its own constituents to protect this level of enemy activity. The top Lebanese diplomat in Detroit, who attended an Arab American banquet in support of Abdul El-Sayed and other Democratic candidates last week, praised Hezbollah’s 1983 suicide attack on…
Business18 sources·Updated Nov 3, 2026·1 min readXRG, the international energy investment arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., has agreed to buy Shell’s 16.67% stake in Australia’s North West Shelf LNG project for a base $1.45 billion, with additional payments tied to development milestones. The deal, which is subject to…
Policies have consequences, but it’s the media’s job to carefully avoid explaining the negative consequences of the policies they advocate for. So instead here’s a whole Seattle Times article about the sharply rising cost of health insurance that leaves out certain pertinent details. ‘Enraging’: WA residents despair as insurance premiums…
By Daily Mail. Former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson has claimed that Donald Trump may be days away from launching a nuclear strike on Iran to destroy its Pickaxe mountain lair.A strike against the underground nuclear site would render World War Three ‘inevitable’, said the conservative podcaster. He said the…
CHULA VISTA, Calif. (CN) — A San Diego Superior Court judge Monday sentenced Larry Millete to 25 years to life in prison on Monday after an emotional day in court as family members of Maya Millete recalled their memories of a mother, aunt and sister.A jury convicted Larry Millete in…
As the midterm elections approached, many American farmers were in the dumps.Their appraisal of both current conditions and future expectations for their farms dropped from August to September.That’s according to the Ag Economy Barometer, a survey of a sample of farmers that is a joint project between Indiana-based Purdue University…
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the…
Business29 sources·Updated Nov 3, 2026·1 min readSaudi Aramco’s third-quarter 2026 net profit rose 34.5% year over year to $36.25 billion, while adjusted net income increased about 9% to $31.2 billion, beating analyst expectations. Higher prices for crude, refined and chemical products drove the gains, with the average realized crude price…
Remember, crime is down. According to the media and its pet experts who have figured out how to massage the numbers, not to mention pro-crime city mayors who have shut down crime reporting to keep the crime numbers lower than they actually are. Indeed, crime is so low that 13…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,…
The Archbishop of New York joined four orders of Catholic nuns and a few Catholic healthcare ministries in a lawsuit against the state of New York’s assisted suicide mandate that forces healthcare providers to take part in helping terminal patients kill themselves.Archbishop of New York Ronald Hicks told The Center…
Los Angeles voters will decide Tuesday whether to reelect Mayor Karen Bass or give the job to City Councilmember Nithya Raman in a race that a poll says tightened dramatically in recent weeks.An October poll from University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Government Studies and the Los Angeles Times shows…
Investigators have indications that a Learjet 60 began breaking apart before crashing in Palm Beach County on Sunday, killing all nine people aboard, a National Transportation Safety Board member said Monday.During a press conference, NTSB member Tom Chapman said the investigative team of about 20 people will be looking into…
The former leader of the FBI’s Chicago field office has filed a lawsuit claiming he was forced to resign because “false and defamatory statements” by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros created political pressure.Douglas DePodesta filed the suit Monday in the Northern District of Illinois and…
Irish middle-distance star Ciara Mageean has died at 34 after a fight with stage-four bowel cancer, weeks after marrying her longtime partner and drawing tributes across Ireland.A statement posted on her social media accounts said Mageean died at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, surrounded by her loved ones, after losing her battle…
A Miami federal judge dismissed with prejudice President Trump’s $10 billion Wall Street Journal lawsuit over an alleged Epstein letter, finding no actual malice, his team plans to appeal.U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles threw out the defamation case after ruling that President Donald Trump’s amended complaint failed to show the…
Hollywood director Michael Mann was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Saturday after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a private gun range, an injury his publicist called superficial.The 83-year-old filmmaker behind Heat and Collateral discharged a handgun into his own thigh while handling the weapon at The Range…
Colorado is back before the Supreme Court over Catholic preschools locked out of taxpayer preschool funds, a pattern critics say shows the state will not stop overriding First Amendment rights.On Nov. 3, the justices are set to hear whether Colorado can shut Catholic preschools out of its universal preschool program…
Cornell High School head football coach Ed Dawson collapsed during a Friday game in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and was pronounced dead after CPR and a hospital rush left his community shattered.Dawson told an assistant he was not feeling well in the second quarter of Cornell’s game against Rochester, then sat on…
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed to sue the Trump administration if ICE keeps using city-owned parking lots for immigration enforcement, claiming agents lack city authorization.NY Post reported that Mamdani sent a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and warned federal agents to stop parking and staging on…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Netflix appearance on uncharged Cornell assault claims has drawn attorney warnings that her remarks cast an air of impropriety over the probe.Fox News reported that Hochul surfaces about 13 minutes into the newly released documentary “Instadocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell,” offering on-camera comments about a…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced arrests of convicted felons for illegally casting ballots in Harris County, saying his Election Integrity Unit is pursuing more election crime cases.Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office has arrested convicted felons accused of casting ballots they were not eligible to cast under Texas…
President Trump denounced former attorney Alina Habba’s $50 million deal with a Venezuelan banker’s family as outrageous and unacceptable, and wants part of it redirected.At a Mar-a-Lago Halloween gathering on Saturday, President Donald Trump told Fox News he was furious that his onetime personal lawyer had locked in a massive…
Saturday Night Live used its Halloween episode and Tom Hanks’ David Pumpkins return to mock President Trump for complimenting Republican candidates’ physiques, labeling it “gay dementia.”James Austin Johnson, playing President Trump, crashed the returning David Pumpkins sketch on the show’s Halloween episode and turned the bit into another round of…
Vice President JD Vance warned voters during his final midterm rally in Ohio on Monday that Somali communities are coordinating to flood the polls and drown out the votes of Americans. Vance urged people to vote for Vivek Ramaswamy for governor. Standing alongside Ramaswamy at the Eugene F. Kranz Toledo…
A developer said the city illegally took several actions to prevent its data center plans for 194 acres in California’s Imperial Valley. A federal judge wasn’t convinced by the claims.(CN) — A federal judge on Monday threw out a developer’s lawsuit, in which it claimed the city of Imperial impeded…
Draymond Green was ejected in the third quarter of the Warriors’ Monday game against the Suns after an altercation involving Phoenix center Khaman Maluach and forward Dillon Brooks. Green threw Maluach to the floor during a physical play, then clashed with Brooks, who stepped in to defend his teammate; officials…
A powerful new telescope has discovered a dwarf planet candidate beyond Pluto — and scientists say it could be among the largest of its kind ever found in the reaches of our solar system.The discovery, announced Oct. 27, was made using observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a newly…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—A business jet that crashed in Florida and killed all nine people aboard, including a family with two young children, likely started breaking apart before it slammed into the ground and erupted in a fireball, a federal investigator said Monday.The jet did a steep nosedive, leaving behind…
Lockheed Martin announced a $420 million expansion of its Arkansas missile manufacturing operations Monday as the Pentagon struggles to replenish interceptor stockpiles devastated by the costly Iran War.The investment will expand production capacity for Patriot PAC-3 and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors while creating 650 jobs over five…
An earthquake rocked Michigan’s Democratic Party 48 hours before polls close on Nov. 3 when the loser of the Democratic Senate primary broke ranks and endorsed Republican Mike Rogers.As the high-stakes race came down to the wire last weekend, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) stunned Democrats from Lansing to Washington with…
By New York Post. Haunting cockpit audio from a doomed Learjet captures the moment the pilot appears to recite the Lord’s Prayer in the seconds before the plane smashed into the ground in Florida on Sunday, killing all on board.Haunting cockpit audio from the final moments of the doomed Learjet…
The Monterey County Jail in Salinas was visited by ICE agents on Tuesday for a targeted operation seeking three individuals with prior arrests for DUI, drug offenses, and providing false identification. Instead of working with them to facilitate transfers, the jail was placed on lockdown for roughly three hours, suspending…
World57 sources·Updated Nov 3, 2026·1 min readTwo helicopters operated by Fishtail Air and Air Dynasty collided while trying to land at the Pheriche helipad in Ward 4, Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu district, on Tuesday morning. One foreign national died on the spot. Accounts said the rotor blades struck…
President Trump on Monday argued Republicans should be able to “win in a landslide” while warning that his administration’s achievements will be “wiped out” if Democrats emerge victorious in the midterm elections.“All the things that we’ve done, everything gets erased,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity of what will…
President Donald Trump gave a one-word answer Nov. 2 when asked by a reporter if he was considering renewing strikes against Iran after the midterms.“No.”The president made the statement to a White House correspondent as he left the Lincoln Reflecting Pool following his final campaign speech before midterm election polls…
Voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday to decide control of the House and Senate in what are expected to be close contests across the country. While the in-power party typically loses ground in the midterms, Republicans hope to buck historical trends and retain control of both chambers.Recent polling,…