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CHICAGO, IL - Malka was home alone with her baby in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago on Saturday morning when she heard gunshots ring out. The gunman, who shot Malka’s Orthodox Jewish neighbor as he walked to synagogue, returned to the scene 20 minutes later, shouting “Allahu Akbar” and shooting at police and paramedics.
In a video of the first shooting Malka shared with The Daily Wire, two gunshots are heard, followed by a voice screaming “Get off me! Leave me alone! Leave me alone! Get out of here! What is wrong with you?”
Malka, who requested that her last name be withheld for privacy, said she left her home to check on the 39-year-old victim, who was receiving first aid in another neighbor’s home.
“I was home alone with my baby and I saw the shooter running,” Malka said. “I eventually went outside to check on the person who was shot, because I thought it was safe, because the police and paramedics were there. People were walking their dogs, and it seemed like life was back to normal with the police being there.” Click here to read more.
LAS VEGAS, NV - Machines in Nevada County, California encountered a printing error last week, and officials are unaware of just how many of the 77,000 ballots were potentially compromised.
Nevada County elections office discovered something was wrong with the ballots on Oct. 21, according to CBS News. They became aware of the root of the problem the following day.
The error pertained to vote-by-mail ballots. the outlet reported. The officials reportedly plan to rescan the affected ballots. (RELATED: Virginia Asks Supreme Court To Let It Remove Noncitizens From Voter Rolls)
Election officials contacted the California Secretary of State’s office upon discovering their machines were not reading every ballot appropriately, according to CBS. The printing service said the issue was an overspray of the ink on certain bar codes.
“Some of our ballots, if you look really closely and use a magnifying glass, you will see that there is imperfections in the bar codes,” Nevada County Clerk Recorder Natalie Adona told the outlet. “We will use a report and say, ‘OK, which pages did not go through?’ We’ll pull those out and we’ll mark them as to be rescanned, and we will rescan them with a piece of paper where the bar code is very clear.” Click here to read more.
PORTLAND, OREGON - Hundreds of ballots were destroyed in separate fires at ballot drop boxes in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, with officials urging affected voters to request replacements as investigations continue into potential arson.
A ballot box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver, Washington, was spotted smoking early Monday morning. In photos obtained by ABC affiliate KATU, dense gray smoke can be seen pouring out of the dropoff ballot box near Southeast 162nd Avenue just after 6 am.
Several police units converged on the area and roped off the box as it continued to smoke. Around 6:30, the outlet reportedly captured first responders releasing several burning ballots to the ground where they continued to smolder and smoke even though the fires had been put out.
According to Clark County's elections auditor, the box held hundreds of ballots at the time, as the last collection had been at 8 a.m. Sunday. KATU reports only a few ballots were saved. The auditor urged anyone who dropped off a ballot at that location to contact the Election Auditor's Office immediately to request a new ballot. Click here to read more.
NEW YORK, NY - The mainstream media's dominance in narrative- and reality-shaping in presidential elections shattered in 2024.
The future of news and information is upon us. Welcome to the shards of glass election — and news era.
Why it matters: How and where Americans get informed has broken into scores of pieces — from young men on Joe Rogan's podcasts, to suburban women following Instagram influencers.
Both campaigns have targeted small, often little-appreciated shards to reach hyper-specific pockets of potential voters. The campaigns are doing this with unorthodox, sometimes lengthy media appearances and precision ad targeting.
Former President Trump reached way more potential male voters with his three-hour Rogan conversation (33 million views over the weekend) than he could have with a dozen or more appearances on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC combined. All three cable news networks skew very old in viewership, with median ages ranging from 67 to 70.
Vice President Kamala Harris reached more young women on Alex Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast, a show about sex and relationships, than she could on CBS' "60 Minutes" and ABC's "The View" combined. Both shows skew very old, too.
Memes, prediction markets and long-form podcast interviews shape the conversation as surely as any front page.
This new fragmented reality is the future — not just of elections, but also for how America learns about business, products, technology, culture and current events.
It's how reality will be shaped and "truths" hardened.
It's where partisans will sharpen and spread their ideas — or lies.
It's where trends and misinformation will be born and trafficked.
It's where products and brands will be judged and sold.
It's where a new generation of information stars are spawned.
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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA - A Florida woman called 911 to “order a pizza” as a diversion to seek help.
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office 911 Communications Center received the emergency call around 4 a.m. ET, and the dispatcher quickly learned that the woman calling to order a pizza was actually calling for help.
An audio recording of the call, which distorts the victim’s voice for privacy, and bodycam footage of the woman’s rescue were shared to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office social media accounts.
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The communications center and patrol deputies were able to use the woman’s phone to track her location, which was somewhere in the middle of a field in Pierson, Florida.
As deputies approached the woman’s location, they found that the suspect was on top of the female while she was screaming for help. The officers were able to spring into action quickly and detain the suspect.
“I can’t say enough about the great work shown in this video and the smart thinking of this victim who figured out a way to call for help,” Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said.
Chitwood identified the suspect as 27-year-old Luis Diego Hernandez-Moncayo, who is in the U.S. illegally and reportedly applied for asylum the day before the incident.
