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  The United States economy added 165,000 jobs in October, showing the job market may be stronger than many believed leading into this week’s midterm elections. On Friday, the U.S.  Bureau of Labor Statistics  (BLS) reported that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in October, while the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.1% from 4.2% With about 7.1 million people unemployed in the U.S., the unemployment rate has remained in the 4.1% to 4.3% range since March. The rise in jobs, however, dwarfed September’s increase of 60,000 jobs and came well ahead of the 65,000 new jobs economists expected in October. In October, 1.6 million people who were not actively looking for work still wanted a job and had searched for one within the previous year. Of those, 448,000 were considered discouraged workers, meaning they believed no jobs were available to them. Both figures changed little from the previous month. The average hourly earnings for all employees on private...

  Meghan Markle’s estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., has reportedly been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for his alleged stash of child pornography. The  Daily Mail  first reported on Tuesday that federal agents apprehended the 82-year-old at his Maravida Senior Living care home in Lakeland, Florida, not long after  journalists found several sexually suggestive materials  across his previous residences. The outlet reported, citing an anonymous source, that Markle was arrested for possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The reported arrest followed reports of the materials found in an abandoned storage unit that Markle allegedly owned near his former home in Mexico, only about 10 miles from the U.S. border. Reporters from the  Daily Mail  found books about pedophilia, magazines showing children being sexually abused, photos of young Asian females, and film negatives that depicted images of children on a beach and a woma...

  U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna has won reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives by a narrow margin in Florida’s midterm elections. On Thursday, two days after Election Day, the  Associated Press  called the race for Luna (R-Fla.), who won 155,117 votes, or 49.5%, defeating retired Army Brigadier Leela Gray, the Democrat nominee, with 99% of the total votes counted. The incumbent congresswoman won by about 2,500 votes. Luna, 37, is going on to serve her third term in the lower chamber of Congress after she was first elected in 2023. President Donald Trump threw his support behind Luna in 2025, calling her a “MAGA Warrior” and a “WINNER.”   “Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is an incredible Advocate for the Great People of Florida’s 13 th  Congressional District!” Trump posted to Truth Social. “Anna is an America First Patriot, who fights tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Cut Taxes, Secure our Border, End Migrant Crime, Support our Great Military/Vets...

  Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has authorized National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to use boats, marked police cars and military vehicles to support law enforcement operations in the nation’s capital. The move was announced in a memo obtained by  POLITICO  on Thursday with the Pentagon confirming the deployment. It remains unclear why President Donald Trump’s administration decided to expand the deployment at this time, as the memo obtained by  POLITICO  did not disclose a reason. However, the document reiterates President Trump’s mission, first announced in August 2025, to use the National Guard to combat a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital. The extra security presence will be in place through the end of the year and National Guard members will be deployed through city streets in vehicles typically reserved for battlefields like Iraq and Afghanistan, though they are not allowed to pursue suspects or make arrests. The memo also stated that the boa...

CENTRAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE offices at the Knesset, Oct. 29. (photo credit: FLASH90) From the 2019-2021 era of several elections and the  current mixed results , it is more apparent than ever that Israel’s electoral system needs to be fixed. Some of the following ideas may need to wait until the main battle in Israeli politics is no longer between  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s camp and the anti-Netanyahu camp. People of Israel's chairman Ofer Winter, who failed to cross the threshold during the last election, said on Friday that B'Yachad's Naftali Bennett and Yisrael Beytenu's Avigdor Liberman need to form a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "No more politics of boycotts. No more governments held hostage by the extremes. No more civil wars," Winter said in a statement where he also hinted at the possibility of running again for Knesset in case there are new elections. "We will continue," Winter said, adding that his mov...

  Democrats head Yair Golan at meeting of opposition heads after Israel's election, November 3, 2026. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV) Israel is at a "critical juncture," and Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu  is "in a panic, trying to stage a coup, and seize power by force," Democrats party leader  Yair Golan  wrote on X/Twitter on Friday. Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Director  David Zini  and the agency as a whole have "fallen into the hands of the Netanyahu family," Golan said. "The holy of holies of Israel's security is in the hands of those who serve Netanyahu rather than the state. The crisis with the US is deepening, military aid funds are being cut, and the rift with the  Democratic Party  is growing ever more severe," he added. "This is a real danger to Israel and its security, and we have no time to waste on political games," he wrote. Netanyahu is "in a panic" and attempting to seize power by fo...