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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Illegal Immigrant Charged with Impersonating CIA Official
An illegal immigrant running from Canadian prosecutors was arrested in September after allegedly trying to recruit as a fake CIA official in the United States, newly unsealed court records show.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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DOJ insists it just wants Alaska ballots preserved amid 'decoy Dan' controversy
The Justice Department is seeking to preserve ballots cast in Alaska’s closely watched Senate race, not change votes or declare a winner, as the department pursues an investigation into allegations that Democratic operatives helped recruit a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to confuse voters.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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DEA Begins Granting Federal Approval to Over 900 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
The Trump administration has begun granting federal approval to more than 900 medical marijuana dispensaries across several states, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Chevron and Exxon rake in profits thanks to diesel boosted by Iran and Russia
Chevron and Exxon Mobil earned significant profits during the third quarter of this year as the companies ran their refineries at full tilt, taking advantage of higher diesel prices.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Ohio poll shows Acton gained 10 points in wake of Ramaswamy ad debacle
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. As usual, we review Donald Trump’s week with grades from two top political strategists. Plus, how optimistic was Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager about the midterm elections?
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Judge grills Comey lawyers on dismissal bid: ‘Why are we doing this?’
A federal judge grilled former FBI Director James Comey’s attorneys on Friday over whether their effort to dismiss the Justice Department’s latest criminal case could become “a great exercise in futility” if a grand jury returns an indictment alleging more recent conduct.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
Vice President JD Vance is set to return to his home state of Ohio on Monday, the day before the election.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reaffirmed her support for Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed against his GOP opponent Mike Rogers on Friday, after criticizing his stance on Israel.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Pelosi slams el Sayed's refusal to say Israel should exist
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rebuked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed’s views on Jews and Israel on Thursday, marking notable pushback in the battleground race from one of his party’s top power players.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
President Donald Trump revealed on Friday that he recommitted to holding in-person rallies in Iowa and Kansas this weekend after officials from those states called him to visit one last time before the election.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Obama is ‘tired of being divided’: Pot, meet kettle
No phrase illustrates the irony of former President Barack Obama’s latest political pitch better than “right message, wrong messenger.” This week, Obama unveiled his new slogan ahead of the 2026 elections: “I’m tired of being divided.” The lack of self-awareness is astounding from the man who earned the nickname “divider-in-chief” during his two terms.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Carney aims for June deal with EU to define 'associate member' status
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he hopes to finalize an agreement by June establishing Canada as the European Union’s first “associate member.”
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Becerra will be Newsom, but worse for California
How will Xavier Becerra differ from Gavin Newsom as governor of California? According to Becerra, he will green-light even worse policies while speaking Spanish.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Netanyahu rivals face impossible political decision: Bibi, Arabs, or failure?
The official results of this week’s Israeli election have been released, and as many observers forecasted, the ethnic Arab political parties have successfully positioned themselves as kingmakers. The only problem is finding someone who would accept their crown.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) weighed into California’s general elections with three new, home-stretch endorsements against incumbent Democratic lawmakers.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Lawsuit abuse is a hidden tax on every American family
In Washington, it’s easy to get swept up in the policy debate of the day. But if you spend a few weeks on a bus traveling through America’s cities and small towns, you’ll quickly realize most people aren’t keeping tabs on every legislative battle. They’re trying to figure out why life seems to cost more than it used to at every turn.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Of course el Sayed is on the side of the terrorists
President Donald Trump recently accused Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed of being “on the side of the terrorists.” The accusation triggers fits of indignation from the Left. The Washington Post and other major outlets assured voters “there is no evidence” to claim that el Sayed supports groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Look at France: That is the exact chaos Democrats are courting
Within the past few weeks, violent unrest has swept across Europe, from Portugal to Italy. France has borne the brunt of the destruction, with communities disrupted, streets overtaken by violence, and businesses ransacked. One of the country’s historic landmarks, which has stood for 143 years, was reduced to rubble by flames.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated another $36 million to Democrats in a mix of House, Senate, and gubernatorial races in the final week before Election Day, according to Politico.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Russia shuts down last independent newspaper
Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s last independent newspaper and one of its most well-known, announced on Friday that it was shutting down for good.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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RFK Jr. defends comments on Islam with lengthy essay aimed at media critics
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published an extensive diatribe on social media on Friday denouncing radical Islam and calling on Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Tariffs threaten a Michigan woodworker’s business
WARREN, Michigan — Michael Howard never intended to become a furniture maker. He didn’t own a screwdriver, had never built a table, and had no business plan. He did have a new house, an empty garage, and a wife who was starting to wonder whether he had lost his mind.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Democrat midterm sweep would unlock socialist power: Johnson
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday made an eleventh-hour appeal to voters, warning that handing Democrats wins in the midterm elections would empower socialists to make sweeping changes to the American way of life.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Nvidia Defends CEO's Ties to Executive Accused of Aiding China
Nvidia is defending CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a technology executive whom U.S. intelligence agencies have accused of gathering information for Beijing, raising national security concerns as Washington and China compete for dominance in artificial intelligence.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Polish president scrambles back from overseas trip amid 'coup d'état'
President Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s head of state aligned with the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS), canceled a Friday trip to Senegal and is heading back to Warsaw amid what his allies are calling a “coup d’état.”
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Leftist vandals risk jail defying subpoenas as DOJ seeks comrade
Leftists convicted in a 2023 vandalism attack said Thursday they will return to jail rather than testify in a federal grand jury investigation in New Hampshire.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Democrats' 'Decoy Dan' should spell the end of ranked choice voting
The Democratic Party claims to defend democracy, but in Alaska, its operatives have been busy cheating the electorate by recruiting a decoy candidate to confuse voters. They deny involvement but have been caught red-handed. Their effort to put a second Dan Sullivan on this year’s Senate ballot exposes the cynicism behind their pro-democracy rhetoric and their practice of turning elections into efforts to con voters. If anything good comes from this deception, let it be the swift and deserved demise of Alaska’s ranked choice voting system and an end to efforts to export it nationwide.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Hundreds evacuated from Russian-occupied front-line city
Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians who had been trapped in the Russian-occupied front-line city of Oleshky were evacuated on Friday as a part of the ceasefire first lady Melania Trump recently brokered.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds Florida rally in Daytona Beach
President Donald Trump is set to speak at a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday at 7 p.m. as he works to shore up Republican support just days before the 2026 midterm elections.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Appeals court rejects DOJ bid to set aside California mail ballots
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Justice Department’s emergency bid to force California to set aside mail-in ballots associated with roughly 20,000 suspected noncitizens, opening a potential path to the Supreme Court days before the midterm elections.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Trump vs. Obama: The finale America deserves
If this were a movie, the third act would write itself: a final showdown between 21st-century America’s two main characters — President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama, two-term presidents and historic rivals who have never faced each other on a ballot.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Has no tax on tips/overtime/Social Security helped the GOP?
HAS NO TAX ON TIPS/OVERTIME/SOCIAL SECURITY HELPED THE GOP? At a recent midterm campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa, President Donald Trump spent quite a while talking about his policies of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security. Since the measures, with an additional tax cut on car loan interest, were passed into law in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the White House has counted on the tax cuts to appeal to working- and middle-class voters in the midterm elections.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Polish president forces his way into high court as supporters clash with police
Polish President Karol Nawrocki forced his way into his nation’s high court as his supporters clashed against an army of police outside.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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An inconclusive outcome to Israel's first election since the Oct. 7 invasion
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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An eleventh-hour GOP surge, or a looming blue blowout?
With the 2026 midterm elections just days away, the pivotal question for Republicans seems to be whether Nov. 3 will go poorly or disastrously for them. The party in power almost always struggles in such cycles — history is not on the GOP’s side. That effect could be amplified by several compounding realities:
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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We need to forgive Thomas Jefferson
On the Seine’s left bank in the 7th Arrondissement stands a 10-foot-tall bronze statue, not to a French hero, but to Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America’s third president served as a diplomat to France between 1784 and 1789. He was an admirer of France, even of the Revolution, before denouncing the atrocities committed by Robespierre and the Reign of Terror.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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New York fights over a rent freeze. Minneapolis has results
Weeks into New York’s rent freeze, the argument over it has moved to a Manhattan courtroom, where landlords and City Hall are fighting over text messages and whether the mayor leaned on the board that voted it through.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted two competitive Senate races toward Democrats Friday, citing late-cycle developments in Louisiana and Minnesota less than a week before Election Day.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Aristotle and the midterm elections
Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told a packed Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington this week that social science has become redundant. It was a striking assertion, not least because Murray is a social scientist, one of the finest of our time.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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What Burke, Paine, and Mason can teach conservatives about debate
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Pope Leo XIV requested a ballot to vote by mail in 2026 elections
Pope Leo XIV may become the first-ever pope to vote in a secular election, let alone a U.S. one, as he ordered a mail-in ballot for the 2026 midterm elections.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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‘Trunk or Treat!’ ‘Trunk or Treat!’
The next sociologist to update Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone ought to write about “trunk or treat.”
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 Midterm Elections Live Updates: Latest News, Results, and Analysis
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is spending $450,000 to boost a trio of Democratic Senate candidates just days before the Nov. 3 election.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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California high-speed rail CEO's resignation won't save the project
The California High-Speed Rail Authority’s CEO has resigned over the project’s misuse of funds. If only the Democratic politicians who have continued to pour money into the project would do the same.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Judge opens inquiry into handling of East Potomac Golf Links case
A federal judge overseeing a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s plans to remake Washington, D.C.’s East Potomac Golf Links said Friday she would investigate whether administration officials misled the court and violated professional ethics rules during the proceedings.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Haley Stevens to campaign with Abdul el Sayed in final stretch of Michigan race
With less than a week remaining until Election Day, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) committed to campaigning with her former rival, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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2026 midterm elections live updates: Latest news, results, and analysis
A new Washington Post-Schar School poll has Democrat Adam Hamilton leading Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) by 10 points. This has given the megachurch pastor a lead of 2.6 points in the RealClearPolitics average, up from 0.2 points just last night. Kansas hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. But the outlet has its own concerns about the poll.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Why did anyone think Trump’s tariffs would be popular?
I can pinpoint the exact moment that I fell in love with Wisconsin. I had always had a distant regard for that lake-ringed state. I had applauded its pioneering reforms on school choice, welfare and the right to work. I had admired the Republican politicians which it supplied so disproportionately: Tommy Thompson, Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus and the privately sweet-natured Scott Walker.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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El Sayed and Stevens feud explodes days before Michigan Senate showdown
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), his former primary opponent, are again sparring over Israel just days before voters decide one of the most closely watched contests of the 2026 midterm elections.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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From China to Pittsburgh, Eos bets on American manufacturing
WARRENDALE, Pennsylvania — Joe Mastrangelo stood on the mezzanine overlooking the factory floor of Eos Energy Enterprises’ new plant, his eyes welling as he looked out over the rows of yellow-caged robotic cells, conveyors, and steel gantries stretching nearly the length of the building below.
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2026-10-31 06:51:32 UTC

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Trump's weekend rallies in Iowa and Kansas are back on
President Donald Trump will hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas over the last weekend before the midterm elections after the events were canceled just one day earlier, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
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