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Millions Of Residents Exposed To Toxic Metals From LA Fires, Study Shows

As homes ignited and burned down during the 2025 Los Angeles fire, millions of California residents were exposed to a high concentration of airborne toxic metals, a new study discovered.

Almost two years ago, wildfires spread through southern California killing at least 31 people and destroying 16,000 structures — but the extent of the blaze’s far-reaching effects remained unclear. Researchers measured the chemical signatures emitted between urban fires and wildfire smoke to find approximately 7 million Californians inhaled deadly heavy lead poisoning in the air during the first 24 hours of the devastating fires, a study published Wednesday in Science Advances found. Click here to read more.

 

ICE Reveals Fresh Lineup Of Foreign Nationals Accused Of Voter Fraud

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revealed a new lineup of noncitizens accused of voter fraud.

Documents obtained by the Daily Caller detail 17 people connected to ICE investigations and arrests involving election-related offenses, including noncitizens who allegedly admitted to unlawfully registering to vote or casting ballots.

The documents identify individuals accused of illegally voting in federal, state, and local elections, including illegal immigrants with criminal records and lawful permanent residents. Click here to read more.

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Young Americans increasingly embrace socialism as midterm elections approach

Nearly half of young Americans now hold a favorable view of socialism, according to a new Fox News poll, highlighting a generational debate over capitalism, government intervention and the future of the American economy just days before the midterm elections.

The poll found 48% of adults ages 18 to 34 view socialism favorably, as younger Americans grapple with rising living costs, expensive housing and student debt.

At the University of Maryland, students expressed a range of opinions about socialism, including support for greater government involvement and skepticism about abandoning capitalism.

“I think socialism’s great,” one student said, explaining that “a government’s job should be to like help support the people that live in the country.” Click here to read more.

 

New World screwworm confirmed in Arizona dog, USDA says

Per a statement, officials with the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the case in a dog in Cochise County.

“This is the first detection of [New World Screwworm] in Arizona,” read a portion of USDA’s statement. “APHIS is working closely with the Arizona Department of Agriculture on a joint response.”

What we don’t know:

USDA officials did not say where the dog was located in Cochise County.

Why you should care:

Officials with USDA say New World screwworm “is a serious pest that affects livestock, pets, wildlife, and, less commonly, people”.

“The larvae feed on living tissue and can cause severe wounds, animal suffering, and significant economic impacts if not detected and treated quickly,” read a portion of the statement. Click here to read more.

 

18-year-old charged in hate-motivated attack after luring victim through dating app, police say

An 18-year-old in Missouri was charged in a hate-motivated attack after allegedly luring a victim through a dating app, according to authorities.

Around 2:20 a.m. Oct. 21, the victim went to Bluebird Park to meet a man named Adam, whom he had been talking to on a dating site.

When the victim met the man he thought was Adam, the suspect, identified as Abdulwareth A. Alahmad, told him, “I actually hate gay people,” and four men who were hiding in nearby bushes approached him. Click here to

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James O’Keefe, Cam Higby Criminally Charged for Exposing Vulnerable Minnesota Election

Investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby have been hit with felony charges by left-wing Minneapolis prosecutors for their video exposing vulnerable loopholes in Minnesota’s elections.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday:

The journalist duo recorded footage of Higby entering Minnesota polling locations during the state’s August primary while donning Muslim garb in an effort to show how the voting system could be abused by registered voters being able to “vouch” for another person from the same precinct’s eligibility. Click here to read more.

 

Washington Post Ends Election Season With Dumbest Investigation Of All Time

“Democracy dies in darkness,” The Washington Post informed readers in February of 2017 — but the newspaper’s last-ditch attempt to shade President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections is laughable at best.

The Post’s 11th-hour investigation dug into President Trump’s proposed new monument celebrating 250 years of American independence — dubbed “Independence Arch” — and determined through digital modeling that the structure would, at times, cast a shadow over parts of Arlington National Cemetery.

The outlet ran a digital simulation showing the shadows that would be cast by the monument over the course of a full year, and then published the findings on Tuesday — one week before Election Day. Click here to read more.

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Albany’s New Assisted Dying Law Follows Canada’s Deadly Cost-Cutting Playbook

New York State assisted dying was signed into law in February, and by the end of September, an estimated 20 patients had already received prescriptions for life-ending treatment.

New York is the 14th state, including Washington, D.C., to legalize some form of the controversial procedure, with advocates arguing on moral grounds to ease suffering. Yet the debate is not about compelling anyone to endure agony. The real concern is institutional, and Britain and Canada demonstrate how assisted dying incentivizes state-sponsored death.

In Britain, MPs voted 286 to 270 against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill last month, halting the legislation at its second reading. The proposal would have permitted mentally competent adults in England and Wales with less than six months to live to request assistance ending their lives. Click here to read more.

 

Camp Grayling’s drone testing leads to Michigan deer hunting closures

More than 20,000 acres within Camp Grayling’s boundaries in Northern Michigan will be closed to hunting as the U.S. Military conducts testing on its drone program.

The temporary shuttering of more than 10% of the area within the complex operated by the Michigan National Guard will take place during deer firearm season.

A notice from the U.S. Army and Air Force said the short-term closures are to keep the public safe from “active testing zones.”

Combat-ready drones

Big picture view:

According to an October release from the military, Camp Grayling is supporting a “vital federal defense program” that includes the evaluation of tens of thousands of combat-ready drones.

The work precedes the “testing and delivering” of drones that will eventually be wielded by the soldiers fighting abroad, the release said. Click here to read more.

 

How Florida took the lead in battling big tech

Florida’s attorney general asked a judge to restrict children’s access to Meta’s platforms, won a court ruling allowing a social-media ban for minors and sued messaging platform Discord for allegedly failing to protect children from predators. That was all in just one week earlier this month.

Florida has staked a position as one of the most aggressive states taking on artificial intelligence and Big Tech, bucking President Trump and channeling growing consumer anxieties about AI. Spearheaded by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier, both Republicans, the multi-front effort aims to rein in AI model development, guard consumer privacy and protect minors from social-media harms. Click here to read more.

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XX-XY Athletics activist speaks out on ejection from NWSL match after fans threw food and beer at them

Around 20 “Save Women’s Sports” activists wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts were forcibly escorted out of a Portland Thorns match on Friday night after members of the group were struck and verbally berated by other fans during a demonstration supporting female-only sports.

Women’s sports activist Amy Sousa told OutKick that she and other XX-XY Athletics attendees filed police reports after being escorted out of the stadium.

In a Tuesday appearance on “The Faulkner Focus,” Sousa said she and others were bombarded with food, beer, flags and poles.

"This is a bit of political theater. We went with a very clear message, and our message was 'Save women's sports.' And we were forcibly removed from a women's sporting event for expressing support for the very category that makes that event possible," Sousa said on Tuesday. "Those words are really our purpose, and our purpose is to draw attention to issues that go far beyond the NWSL and impact girls in real time - in their high schools, in their junior highs and in their elementary schools. It is about professional athletics, but it is also about the girls that are facing this on their level." Click here to read more.

 

The Online Gambling Industry Has Its Eyes On Your Teenage Son

Online gambling is about to ravage many young men’s futures.

An opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times recently compared celebrities promoting online gambling sites to spokespersons for cigarette companies in the past. It’s an apt comparison, considering the tension between online betting’s glamorous persona and its frequent reality of financial debt, addiction, suicide, and devastation to marriages and families.

The global sports betting market is worth over $120 billion. Prediction markets, which allow the average citizen to place bets on the outcome of everyday events, are on track to reach an astounding $1 trillion in volume by 2030.

Many bettors, however, fail to recognize that this isn’t a lucrative, skill-based path toward financial freedom; it is, instead, risky and dependent on chance. Click here to read more.

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Feds Raid Beverly Hills Mansion In Connection To Disgraced Dem Eric Swalwell

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a mansion in Beverly Hills, California, Tuesday in connection with an investigation into former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, a law enforcement source told the Daily Caller.

The latest raid is part of the FBI’s ongoing criminal investigation into the disgraced congressman. The FBI previously stopped Swalwell at San Francisco International Airport and executed search warrants at his Washington, D.C., home, seizing several personal electronics. Click here to read more.

 

Arrests, Prosecutions and Deportations Fuel Record Drop in Crime

The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration’s embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are the largest one-year reductions recorded since data collection began 53 years ago.

The reductions followed substantial increases during the previous four years, when felony violent crime rose 59% and violent crime, including misdemeanor simple assault, increased 42%. Click here to read more.

 

The Hydrogen Economy Was Promised Billions. What Happened?

Washington promised billions trying to build a hydrogen economy, expecting new jobs, lower emissions and a major new source of American energy. But a new RealClearInvestigations report by James Varney finds that hydrogen remains expensive, low-emission production is still limited, and major federally backed projects have been paused.

On The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller speaks with Varney about what taxpayers have to show for the investment, whether Washington tried to scale hydrogen too quickly, and whether hydrogen has become a viable market without billions more in government support. Varney’s full investigation can be found here.