In the latest Washington Examiner magazine: ⁠ ⁠ • AGs v. Trump: How an AWOL Congress made hundreds of lawsuits possible • California: Where attempted murder is worth one day in jail • White House press secretary’s task becoming impossible See the full magazine here: trib.al/16giMj7

I warned the FBI about Iran’s sleeper cells in 2017. Nobody listened — now Washington is panicking | OP-ED by Erfan Fard, a counterterrorism analyst and Middle East studies researcher based in Washington trib.al/MLW9Fs8

For some Texas Republicans, defeating Talarico matters more than electing Paxton trib.al/yqYqb4g

.@DHSGenCounsel James Percival breaks down the concept of due process for illegal immigrants. tinyurl.com/mr2n9kts

The Trump administration’s hopes for Venezuela’s future are crystallizing, nearly eleven months after Washington intervened to topple the South American country’s socialist government. trib.al/tfHBWrP

The 27-year-old man accused of destroying the Iwo Jima statue in Quantico, Virginia, with a sledgehammer was granted bond by a circuit court judge on Monday. Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 21, after the Prince William Police Department said officers caught him using a sledgehammer to smash the statue. One soldier on the monument had been decapitated, its head lying on the grass. MORE: trib.al/BG16sk6 (Photos provided by Prince William County Police Department)

Florida Democratic Senate candidate @AngieNixon says "people have told" her that Cuba is a dictatorship, so she has to "take their word for it." tinyurl.com/8hy74tt3

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee @amyactonoh's past is coming back to haunt her this October in more ways than one. trib.al/Bh34bjT

Democratic strategist and 2Way host Kevin Walling discusses what a Democratic majority in Congress would look like after the midterm elections. MORE videos on the midterm elections: tinyurl.com/46y8ers2

Democrats lost control of Washington in 2024 because they were living in a bubble. The rest of America had ventured into alternative media to hear broader perspectives about topics like immigration and DEI, but Democrats remained stuck in the Obama-era information ecosystem, taking cues from network news, the New York Times, and celebrity speeches at the Oscars. tinyurl.com/bdzbe9xz

The Supreme Court may not be on the ballot next week, but its rulings over the past year have shaped the midterm elections in significant ways, from determining the maps used for congressional elections to how campaign cash may be used. trib.al/1IbzBaP

Many of Annie Andrews’s supposed Republican backers have history of supporting Democrats trib.al/pRyEXcd

Trump praises @SenHydeSmith (R-MS) for her short speech at his Corinth, Mississippi, rally: "That was a record." tinyurl.com/y43wy5c3

Quick to catch his own slip: @VP JD Vance laughs off mispronouncing Helena, Montana, on stage. tinyurl.com/r6r2b79z

Pamela Edgecomb couldn’t look past Paul LePage’s coarse style of politics as she cast her ballot for a House seat in northern Maine. trib.al/YxmTwjy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of high voter turnout in “the Left’s strongholds” in the most important election of his career. trib.al/uljel6a

A Biden-appointed federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Monday, prohibiting the Trump administration from removing more trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C. trib.al/7uEv47v

President Donald Trump used an outsize portion of his Monday rally in Corinth, Mississippi, to push back on criticism former President Barack Obama made of the White House renovations. trib.al/aO3TbdZ

A major problem with predicting who will win the Senate in next Tuesday’s midterm elections is that the signs of a blue wave and a polling miss look alike. trib.al/musdz1z

Why Trump’s DOJ skipped the grand jury to drop a Hunter Biden laptop bomb two weeks before midterms | OP-ED by Solomon L. Wisenberg, Partner and White Collar Defense Practitioner at FBFK LAW. trib.al/fBXtKwK

WEX Wake-up: Comey charged in leak case, Vance leads Rubio, and Supreme Court faces key rulings