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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:20:00 +0000 Trump Threatens Billions In Federal Funds If NYC Doesn't Put 'Little Italy' Back On Map
Trump Threatens Billions In Federal Funds If NYC Doesn't Put 'Little Italy' Back On Map
Trump Threatens Billions In Federal Funds If NYC Doesn't Put 'Little Italy' Back On Map
Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times ,
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to withhold billions in federal funding from New York City unless the city updates a map of immigrant communities to include Little Italy.
In 2023, the city created a map, "New York City Immigrant Enclaves," that maps ethnic communities across the city, such as Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, Little India and Little Manila in Queens, and Little Palestine in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. However, the map omits Little Italy as well as ethnic neighborhoods of Irish and Jewish communities.
Speaking at a Columbus Day celebration at the White House, Trump threatened to cut billions in city funding. "So you have Yemen covered, Haiti covered, Guyana covered, Senegal covered. I think it's a disgrace. We are going to work on that immediately," said the president.
The city budget relies on federal funding, with as much as $8 billion in the city's 2025 fiscal year budget coming from federal sources - most of that going toward education and social services. Federal grants also support counter-terrorism funding for NYPD bomb squads and emergency preparedness teams.
In October, 26,500 New Yorkers lost federal SNAP benefits for food assistance under expanded work requirements set up by the Trump administration. Starting in January 2027, possibly 900,000 New York City residents relying on Medicaid may lose health coverage when new federal work requirements take effect. This federal aid goes to individuals, not the city, but the city and state are scrambling to compensate lower-income New Yorkers for these lost benefits.
The 2023 immigrant enclave map resurfaced on social media back in July, and the City Council's Italian Caucus released a statement on X that it was deeply disappointed with the city for omitting the contribution of Italian-Americans .
"Italians are not a footnote in New York City history - we helped build it," City Council's Italian Caucus said in a statement on X on July 10. All four members of the Italian Caucus are Republicans.
When asked about leaving out Little Italy, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the map predates his administration, but that it would be updated in the future to include Little Italy and others.
"It's clearly not an exhaustive list of the more than 200 ethnic enclaves," Mamdani said July 11.
Trump Commemorates Columbus
In his speech, Trump said Columbus "undertook one of the boldest voyages in the history of our planet" when he set sail in 1492 westward with the goal of reaching Asia but instead landed in the New World.
Trump said that critics of Columbus want to abolish Columbus Day.
"They want to tear down the history and heritage that makes us who we are," the president said.
Before his comments at the Columbus Day celebration at the White House, Trump pledged on Truth Social in April 2025: "I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.
"The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much."
During President Joe Biden's term, the federal holiday was known as both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. Biden issued the first-ever presidential proclamation recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day, which has its roots in 1970s activism.
Activists wanted to shift the focus from commemorating Columbus's 1492 voyage to the Americas to the negative impact of colonization on the indigenous people on the continent.
At the celebration, Trump also gave a shoutout to notable Italian Americans including Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio, legendary singer Frank Sinatra, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former New York City Mayors Fiorello La Guardia and Rudy Giuliani, and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 16:20 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:10:00 +0000 This Won't End Well... Seattle Becomes First City To Price-Fix Your Groceries
This Won't End Well... Seattle Becomes First City To Price-Fix Your Groceries
This Won't End Well... Seattle Becomes First City To Price-Fix Your Groceries
Authored by Mark Harmsworth via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
This week the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson's "Fair Pricing and Transparency " ordinance in a 7-2 vote, a first-in-the-nation ban on so-called surveillance pricing.
The ordinance takes effect in 2027. The Washington Retail Association warned for months that the bill was rushed, would have significant and negative impact on prices, and that nearly all suggested fixes were ignored.
As approved, retailers must decide whether they can keep offering the tailored discounts and loyalty programs that Seattle families actually use or cancel all the programs and charge more for groceries.
Government should not be price-fixing consumer products.
Banning the use of loyalty cards and programs, fuel rewards, and targeted coupons hurts businesses and consumers alike.
Price controls do not make groceries cheaper. They flatten the tools stores use to compete for customers. When discounts vanish, the shelf price becomes the only price. That is how an "affordability" law raises a customer's grocery bill. A Greater Seattle Business Association and Seattle Latino Metropolitan Chamber guest column put it plainly: trying to control prices through experimental regulation has never worked, and this ordinance will make an already expensive city more unaffordable.
Jan Himebaugh of the Washington Retail Association offered a household example , nearly $1,000 in grocer loyalty savings this year for her family, the equivalent of more than 185 gallons of gas in a state where fuel is among the nation's most expensive. Those are not corporate talking points. They are the coupons that keep a cart full.
Thin-margin stores close. When they close, the result is the very "food deserts" Mayor Wilson has spent a campaign and a mayoralty promising to fight. Wilson has said Seattle will not accept food deserts as the cost of doing business, but the "Fair Pricing" policy creates a retail environment that does exactly the opposite.
A pricing ordinance that chases discounts out of the city works against that goal. You cannot subsidize corner markets on Sunday and make their discount model legally hazardous on Tuesday.
If Wilson wants more grocery access, the path is not to micromanage how a retailer prices a gallon of milk. It is to stop piling first-in-the-nation experiments onto businesses already carrying Seattle's tax and regulatory load.
Personalized discounts are not surveillance. They are how competitive stores keep prices down and stay open. Kill those discounts, and the desert grows.
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Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 15:10 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0000 Indians Panic After Trump Sabotages Tech Firm Green Card Pipeline
Indians Panic After Trump Sabotages Tech Firm Green Card Pipeline
On October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that the Department of Labor will not accept any new PERM applications (Per
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Indians Panic After Trump Sabotages Tech Firm Green Card Pipeline
On October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that the Department of Labor will not accept any new PERM applications (Permanent Labor Certification) or process any pending applications involving a list of prominent tech firms. The action is being enforced amid ongoing federal investigations into alleged abuse of employment-based immigration programs.
This decision elicited outrage from a myriad of Democrats, but the group most flustered by the situation is undoubtedly Indian migrant workers and representatives. India is by far the greatest beneficiary of America's H-1B migrant worker program, and it's not even close.
Over the past ten years alone, over 8.7 million H-1B visas have been given to Indian nationals. Roughly 70% of all H-1B approvals every year go to Indians.
There are a number of reasons why this level of targeted immigration is a problem. The first reason is that these visas are often exploited as a stepping stone to gain a green card and permanent residency in the US.
H-1B visas are supposed to last for only a few years at most, but migrant workers can remain in the US for far longer. This is done through the PERM certification process, which allows employers to sponsor migrant workers for a green card, which can then be used to gain full citizenship after a few years. Trump's suspension of PERM extends to a number of major tech firms including: Microsoft, Adobe, and Capgemini, along with Indian companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech, and Cognizant.
The tech industry has been used as a pipeline for third world immigration for decades - Corporations have systematically eliminated hundreds of thousands of American jobs in favor of migrant workers because these workers take 17% to 40% less pay to fill certain rolls.
For example, Vice President JD Cance cites an ongoing investigation into Microsoft . He says that the company is suspected of firing over 6000 American tech workers, then used the visa machine to import over 6300 H-1B recipients along with helping 3000 others receive green cards. The vast majority of these workers are from India.
India’s foreign ministry pushed back on the announcement. They said the U.S. action “does not advance the shared ambitions of both countries.” They specifically called Vance’s description of foreign workers as “indentured servants” unwarranted and "deeply offensive."
Politicians in the US with an Indian background were also angered by the block of PERM, perhaps because these representatives have a habit of using their positions to also barter H-1B and green card access for their compatriots.
The panic on social media was palpable, with Indian accounts raging over the potential loss of US economic access. Their primary argument? That the US tech industry is dead in the water without them because the US doesn't have enough "brilliant" tech engineers to fill the necessary job roles. They claim that their "service" to the US economy earns them the right to permanent residency, but that's not how these things work.
These people agree to get paid to do a job, they are not entitled to citizenship just because they are willing to work for less. And let's consider their logic for a moment: If Indian tech workers are so highly skilled and bring so much value, why isn't India one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world? Why don't these workers bring any added value to their own economy? Why is India 150th in the world per capita?
Probably because the "high IQ" Indian tech worker narrative is a scam.
Their only value on the global market is their willingness to work for low wages. But why do Indians work for so much less? It's important to understand that US companies are offering a commodity on top of the otherwise low pay - And that commodity is permanent US residency. These companies are essentially selling access to US citizenship in exchange for cheap labor.
It's quite the deal for tech firms if you think about it. They get thousands of cheap laborers, and they get to use a commodity that requires minimal cost. Microsoft might pay around $4000 on average in attorney's fees to apply for a migrant worker to get PERM status, but they save tens-of-thousands on every migrant worker salary. The people who suffer most are American workers who get replaced.
Indian tech workers make a yearly salary of around $12,000 to $20,000 in their home country. A job in the US makes them significantly more, even with the pay cut. This money is often wired from the US back to India where US dollars have far greater buying power than the Rupee. Access to the US economy is a gold mine for third world migrants.
India's economy also benefits indirectly from H-1B immigration. India is the largest beneficiary of remittances in the world. The country received approximately $40 billion in cash transfers from the US every year, which is larger than the majority of India's budget for subsidized programs like welfare. It is 7% of the government's entire annual budget. That's massive.
So, it makes sense why there is a complex fraud network on both sides of the ocean to make Indian immigration happen. Indian workers are notorious for using fake degrees to get H-1B approval , but many US companies look the other way because they want the low wage labor. The Indian government backs the fraud because they get billions of dollars in cash flow into their economy on the back end. And the migrants happily participate because they get a much higher chance of gaining US citizenship, which is one of the most valuable commodities in the world.
It's one of the biggest economic rackets on the globe. It's also a key vehicle for the multicultural invasion of the US. There is no benefit to the American people to import millions of third world migrants, and it's about time that someone did something to stop the chain of abuse.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 14:35 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows
Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows
Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows
Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org ,
A White Baltimore arts executive was recently fired in September from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. The reason was not that Kelly Carnes was chronically absent or failed to perform her duties as the new executive director. Rather, it was the hairstyle that she briefly adopted on vacation. You see, Carnes is white, and co-workers were apparently triggered by her getting cornrows while attending the Burning Man festival.
It was not deemed a fun hairstyle choice adopted on a vacation but rather a despicable case of cultural appropriation that warranted her termination.
Carnes was hired on Sept. 8 and was heralded for her more than 21 years of experience in arts leadership, nonprofit strategy, communications, fundraising, and operations.
She said that she adopted cornrows as a 'protective style' while attending Burning Man.
We have previously discussed cultural appropriation controversies where people were triggered by cornrows , dreadlocks (and here ), food (and here ), costumes , big hoop earrings , yoga (and here ), songs , opera , or dance styles . Businesses and universities have yielded to these attacks, curtailing a wide array of different forms of free expression in the name of cultural tolerance.
Activists have even targeted artist Bo Derek for wearing cornrows in her Movie "10." These critics ignore that many hairstyles, like music and dance styles, began with particular cultural groups before becoming popular with general populations.
The Baltimore Rock Opera publicly stated that it knew its new executive director was spotted with cornrows and that it would immediately conduct a full investigation.
The Opera has now triggered a possible hair-raising case in which Carnes could allege racial discrimination. It would also make a novel and potentially important free speech case.
At issue may be Maryland's CROWN Act, which protects minority employees from discrimination based on traits associated with race, such as hair texture, afro hairstyles, and protective hairstyles. The law must apply equally to all races, including hairstyles adopted by Caucasian employees.
Under the state's discrimination laws, cornrows are clearly not a matter that would "reasonably preclude the performance of the employment." It is an objection to the appearance of employees based on racial bias or intolerance.
In my view, this is clearly racial discrimination as well as an abridgment of free expression. This is even clearer after Maryland enacted the CROWN Act, which defines race for anti-discrimination protections to include "traits associated with race," such as hair texture, Afro hairstyles, and protective hairstyles.
The fact that this was passed with reference to protect African American employees is not determinative. Carnes was fired because of her race and the adoption of a rule barring hairstyles on a racial basis.
Maryland said that it wanted to protect hairstyles. This may not be the litigant that they had in mind, but it is the same form of racial discrimination.
For the left, the Carnes case could be a discomforting moment of having to face racial discrimination done in the name of racial harmony or equity. At one point, the left relished hairstyle freedom as a form of free expression. That was captured in the popular musical Hair, which became a virtual national anthem for the left in the 1970s.
"Hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Knotted, polka-dotted
While the Supreme Court has only addressed hair regulations a few times (often in the context of allowable hair regulations for military or prison settings), hairstyles are (in my view) a form of free expression.
A few lower courts have supported that view. In Breen v. Kahl, the Seventh Circuit found in 1969 that "The right to wear one's hair at any length or in any desired manner is an ingredient of a personal freedom protected by the United States Constitution." While the appellate court was equivocal on where this right rested between the First and Ninth Amendments, it concluded that "it clearly exists and applies to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
There can also be religious-clause protections for hairstyles, though that is not the case here. However, there remains good-faith debate over the extent to which hairstyles are protected in comparison to free speech.
That is why this case is more likely to be resolved on the grounds of racial discrimination. Baltimore Rock Opera's firing of Carnes because of her race appears incontrovertible. If she were an African American, she would still be the executive director wearing cornrows. The Opera is telling employees that their hairstyles will be monitored on the basis of their race.
As Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote , "It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race. " While he may have been thinking more about college admissions than hairstyles, it is still true that "The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
Carnes could make a lasting contribution to constitutional law by standing firm against this discriminatory action. Of course, it is not easy to suddenly find yourself the target of a woke mob. She no doubt feels, as observed in Richard III, that "My hair doth stand on end to hear [these] curses." However, we are all cursed if the mob is allowed to control how we appear in public.
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Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of "Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution ."
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 14:00 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0000 Riyadh's International Airport Suspends All Operations After Mass Casualty Houthi Missile Barrage
Riyadh's International Airport Suspends All Operations After Mass Casualty Houthi Missile Barrage
On Saturday Yemen's Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of balli
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Riyadh's International Airport Suspends All Operations After Mass Casualty Houthi Missile Barrage
On Saturday Yemen's Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of ballistic missiles. A major emergency response has ensued with dozens of ambulances at the scene, and a total evacuation of the major flight hub.
In this fresh instance, which comes after multiple attacks on the kingdom's civilian aviation hubs stretching back at least a week, there appears to be mass casualties as a result .
Result of the prior October 8 attack on Riyadh's international airport, social media via Reuters Arrivals have been canceled across the board for much of Saturday, according to flight tracker Flightradar24, with passengers that were already in the air having been diverted to other cities.
"Terminal 3 of the King Khalid International Airport suffered a direct hit from missiles and has been evacuated, with at least some injuries, Saudi officials said," reports The Wall Street Journal
ALL OPERATION SUSPENDED
"Several ambulances and a few helicopters were sent to collect the wounded and take them to King Fahad hospital in Riyadh, one of the officials said," the report continues. "A video the official said was authentic showed blood smeared on the floor ."
Horrible scenes out of Terminal 3:
Various countries have increasingly warned their citizens against flying in and out of Riyadh, including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland, and others.
These travel alerts have especially increased in the wake of Thursday's deadly missile attack on the airport, which saw one or more parked plane destroyed and three people killed, including a pilot . Mass casualties are being reported via Reuters/CNN :
Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travelers were evacuated from parts of the facility.
One of the eyewitnesses reported seeing an explosion and then seeing multiple people lying injured on the ground inside the airport. More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing to the airport .
Saudi authorities have been slow to acknowledge or officially comment on these attacks, or give much in the way of details. Clearly, anti-air defenses are failing to intercept all inbound missiles from Yemen, and Thursday's attack also saw missile debris fall on a medical center in the capital.
The WSJ report further underscores a major area of sensitivity for the royal family: "The continued missile attacks on airports in Riyadh and a number of southern Saudi cities threaten to choke off business travel and tourism just as the busy conference and travel season gets going ," it writes.
"A major test will come with the kingdom’s flagship Future Investment Initiative summit, which is expected to draw thousands of global executives and investors to Riyadh at the end of this month," the publication also notes.
"Conference officials said before the Saturday attack that safety is their top priority and that comprehensive safety measures will be in place," it adds.
The conference which gathers leaders from across the world is set for October 26 to 29, 2026 at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh. So far there's been no indication that authorities will either cancel or change the venue. The Houthis in neighboring Yemen are expected to keep up the pressure, also as Aramco sites get targeted, amid the ground war and fight for Red Sea coastal areas.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 13:45 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000 Police Body Cam Footage Of 6-Year-Old Child Who Shot Teacher Finally Released
Police Body Cam Footage Of 6-Year-Old Child Who Shot Teacher Finally Released
The fatigue is real. A 6-year-old first grader shoots his teacher with a 9mm he stole from his mother, lodging a bullet in the educator'
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Police Body Cam Footage Of 6-Year-Old Child Who Shot Teacher Finally Released
The fatigue is real. A 6-year-old first grader shoots his teacher with a 9mm he stole from his mother, lodging a bullet in the educator's chest near her heart and nearly killing her, and the media and authorities suddenly go quiet about the details of the crime. It's an easy guess as to who is responsible and why.
The details of this story could not be more predictable because it follows a common thread of behavior which has plagued American culture for far too long.
On January 6, 2023 at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, a 6-year-old first-grader (referred to in court as J.T.) shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner with a Taurus pistol he took from his mother. The boy pulled the gun from his hoodie pocket and fired one shot at Zwerner from roughly 10 feet away as she tried to reach for the weapon.
The bullet went through her left hand and lodged in her chest (near her heart; her lung collapsed). She then escorted the other students out of the room before passing out in the school office. No other students were injured. The gun jammed after a single shot and still contained seven rounds (The notoriously cheap quality control of Taurus actually saved lives this time).
The boy never faced charges.
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To put the incident in context, it's important to remember that in 2023 the US was still in the midst of extreme race activism triggered by BLM and the political left. The mere act of telling the truth about certain crimes was considered untenable if those crimes involved minority suspects. Black Americans could do no wrong, and any suggestion that there might be a cultural problem was buried or dismissed as "bigotry."
Fast forward to this week, when a judge finally unsealed and released the body cam footage for the police response to the shooting. The behavior of the child involved should tell you everything you need to know. Now it makes perfect sense why this footage was kept away from the public for so long.
“If you want a piece of me, come it all, bitch,”
"I stole that [gun] from my mom.”
“I don’t care if you call backup...I don’t care if I go to jail.”
The child is a ghetto psychopath in the making, and there's a high probability that he will continue to commit such crimes well into the future. Where did a six-your-old learn how to act like this? It's another case of the single-mother household problem.
J.T.'s mother was charged with lying on a federal background-check form when buying the 9mm handgun and to possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user of marijuana. She was not charged with any responsibility for the shooting of the teacher.
The woman's attitude in interviews explains a lot about her son's mindset; she made excuses for the child and seemed to blame the teacher for the eventual shooting because the teacher imposed penalties for bad behavior in the classroom. Single-mother households in the black community are, essentially, criminal factories.
This event once again illustrates an ongoing and largely ignored cultural dysfunction within the black community; an unwillingness to point out and punish sociopathic behavior. A willingness to blithely excuse violence. And an attitude of scorn when it comes to education (the treatment of public schools as daycares rather than places of academic study).
By extension, American society enables this problem by refusing to bring the hammer down on minority criminal activity for fear of being accused of "racism". The liberal revolving door of prosecutions and prisons has created a large and ever present population of repeat offenders. This tiny percentage of the American public creates the fast majority of problems in society (black Americans are also only 13% of the population and 50% of all violent offenders) .
Around 90% of all state prisoners have a history of prior convictions, and many of them started when they were young.
The issue has only been addressed more openly in the past couple of years as public fatigue grows. When authorities finally stop caring about who they "offend" and start applying pattern recognition to enforcement, that's when the US will stop seeing violent crime on such a scale.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 13:30 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 New Jersey Pulls More Improper Voter Registrations, Adds Daily Audits At Motor Vehicle Agency
New Jersey Pulls More Improper Voter Registrations, Adds Daily Audits At Motor Vehicle Agency
New Jersey Pulls More Improper Voter Registrations, Adds Daily Audits At Motor Vehicle Agency
Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times ,
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Oct. 7 ordered daily checks of voter registrations processed through the state Motor Vehicle Commission after a review found about 1,090 additional registrations that were improperly handled.
Sherrill ordered the review after disclosing in July that a software error had registered about 6,600 people who said they were not U.S. citizens when they applied for driver's licenses and state IDs between June 2023 and June 2024.
She said fewer than 400 of them voted.
Sherrill, a Democrat, said in a statement that neither of the new problems involved noncitizens.
About 750 of the records came from the same error in a system run by IDEMIA, the agency's vendor, according to a press release from the governor's office.
Those people answered "no" when asked whether they were old enough to vote, but their registrations went through anyway, her office said.
Sherrill's administration said their birth dates showed they were old enough and that many appeared to have pressed the wrong button on the keypad.
Because they answered no, the registrations weren't legally valid, according to the administration.
About 380 of those people had no other registration and didn't vote, and their records are being deleted, according to the governor's office.
About 320 voted and had other potentially valid registrations, and their cases are going to county election officials, the governor's press release stated.
About 50 were registered only because of the error and voted. Their records are being deleted and also sent to the counties. The other 340 records came from voter sign-ups at agency events for people leaving prison, dating back to 2016, Sherrill's office added.
The administration said some people at those events wrongly said they were eligible while still serving a sentence for an indictable offense, New Jersey's equivalent of a felony.
County officials will review those records one by one.
Separately, about 60 people were found to be currently incarcerated, and their names were sent to the counties for routine removal.
Under the new process, the agency will compare registration records each day against what customers actually entered, including citizenship, age, and whether they chose to register.
Records that don't match will be staff-reviewed before going to election officials.
The agency is also adding a keypad question at re-entry events asking people to confirm they aren't currently incarcerated for an indictable offense, and offering registration questions in five languages.
Sherrill said she promised a thorough review so that no ineligible person stays on the rolls and every eligible voter is heard.
"In just two and a half months, we conducted this review and are taking sweeping action," she said.
She criticized President Donald Trump, saying he has complained about the issue for a decade without fixing it.
State Senate Republican Leader Anthony Bucco said in a statement that the updates are "creating more questions than answers."
He said the public still hasn't seen the report on the original 6,600 registrations, and that with Election Day less than a month away, voters deserve to see the analysis behind the administration's conclusions.
Every Senate Republican has signed on to a resolution that would create a special Senate committee to investigate.
Bucco and state Sen. Kristin Corrado also introduced a bill that would end automatic voter registration at the agency, require voter ID, and set biannual independent audits of the voter rolls.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 13:00 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Trump Petitions Supreme Court To Reinstate Lawsuit Against Clinton & DNC Over Russia Claims
Trump Petitions Supreme Court To Reinstate Lawsuit Against Clinton & DNC Over Russia Claims
Trump Petitions Supreme Court To Reinstate Lawsuit Against Clinton & DNC Over Russia Claims
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times ,
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Oct. 9 to revive his dismissed civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and others.
The president alleges they conspired to create and spread a false story that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
Lower courts rejected the case and ordered Trump and one of his attorneys, Alina Habba, to pay almost $1 million in sanctions. The trial judge and the appeals court called the lawsuit "frivolous," saying it had no legal merit and appeared aimed at political grievance rather than a valid claim.
Trump is now asking the nation's highest court to review the appeals court's decision upholding both the dismissal and the sanctions.
While he was out of office after losing the 2020 election, Trump initiated the lawsuit in federal court in Florida in March 2022, under a federal racketeering law known as civil RICO. That law allows private individuals to seek damages when they claim someone engaged in a pattern of illegal activities, such as fraud or conspiracy.
The lawsuit targeted Clinton, the DNC, former British spy Christopher Steele, former FBI Director James Comey, and more than two dozen other people. It centered on the so-called Steele dossier, which was opposition research funded by Clinton's campaign that alleged the Russian government had compromising material on Trump.
Trump's lawsuit touches on topics covered by two earlier government investigations. Former special counsel Robert Mueller's 2019 report found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Former special counsel John Durham's 2023 report criticized the FBI's handling of its 2016 counterintelligence investigation - codenamed Crossfire Hurricane - into possible Trump campaign contacts with Russia. Durham said the FBI relied too much on uncorroborated tips, including material connected to the Clinton campaign.
Those government reports dealt with criminal and counterintelligence questions. By contrast, Trump's civil lawsuit is a private damages case governed by different rules. The lower courts held that Trump waited too long to file it under the RICO Act's time limit.
Dossier Source Scrutiny
Steele's dossier included claims that the Russian government possessed a salacious video of Trump at a hotel in Moscow. His main source was later revealed to be Igor Danchenko, who was based in the United States and has been investigated by federal agents over possible ties to Russian intelligence.
Attorneys for Trump and Habba wrote in the new petition that Supreme Court review of the case is necessary to protect the institution of the presidency. They said that the decisions by the lower courts reflect "a deeply troubling trend of federal courts using sanctions and disciplinary threats to punish the president and his lawyers for legitimate legal positions that those courts (erroneously) reject."
"Treating contested advocacy as misconduct corrodes our legal culture, deters representation of controversial clients, and makes constitutional adjudication depend on counsel's willingness to risk personal liability, " they said.
They alleged in the lawsuit that in the months leading up to the 2016 election, Clinton conspired with allies to discredit him with a "false narrative" that he and his campaign engaged in collusion with Russia, according to the petition. The suit alleged several claims, including racketeering and a "conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood."
Trump defeated Clinton in 2016 and went on to serve in the presidency from January 2017 to January 2021. Trump later regained the presidency by defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president, in 2024.
In September 2022, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks threw out Trump's lawsuit against Clinton on multiple grounds, including that Trump waited too long to pursue some of the claims. Middlebrooks compared Trump's lawsuit to a "two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him." The judge later imposed sanctions on Trump and Habba for filing a case he said was calculated "to dishonestly advance a political narrative," and for misusing the courts.
In 2025, the 11th Circuit affirmed Middlebrooks, including the sanctions, saying that many of Trump's and Habba's legal arguments "were indeed frivolous."
In the new filing, the attorneys said the time limit for launching the suit should have been extended because Trump opted to delay filing during his first term of office so he could focus on executing his constitutional responsibilities as the nation's chief executive.
The attorneys argue that the heavy demands of being president justify pausing the normal deadline for filing a private lawsuit while Trump is in office, so he should not have to choose between running the country and defending his own legal rights.
The attorneys also ask the Supreme Court to decide whether a lower court can fine a president and his lawyers close to $1 million merely for making that argument, even if the court rejects it in the end.
"This court's intervention is necessary to protect the presidency, and to prevent judicial disagreement from becoming a license to punish its advocates, " the petition said.
It is unclear when the Supreme Court will take up the petition.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 12:00 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0000 Vance Casts Doubt On Firing Squad Execution, Balks At Hegseth's Live Stream Plan
Vance Casts Doubt On Firing Squad Execution, Balks At Hegseth's Live Stream Plan
Vice President JD Vance seemed less enthusiastic and more ambivalent compared to other top officials in the US administration when asked about War Secr
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Vance Casts Doubt On Firing Squad Execution, Balks At Hegseth's Live Stream Plan
Vice President JD Vance seemed less enthusiastic and more ambivalent compared to other top officials in the US administration when asked about War Secretary Pete Hegseth's announcement that the Pentagon will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan.
A reporter asked Vance about the unusual development on Friday. Hegseth has been insistent that it will happen. Apparently having been approved by President Trump, the execution is set for December 3rd of this year.
"Well, first of all, I’ve seen these announcements. I don't know that that’s actually going to happen . Let’s sort of see what - I think it’s going to happen in December when he’s executed," Vance began.
Vance, who will himself likely run for president after Trump's term, continued: "But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11 ."
"The people that he was meant to treat, the army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their most vulnerable and gunned down these people where they live."
But then he noted that he is unlikely to watch it: "So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don’t forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people. Now, that said, I mean, look, if it’s all through livestream, I’m not going to be watching it ."
Hegseth's announcement has been controversial and received pushback not just among Democrats but Republicans as well. For example, Republican Senator Thom Tillis has argued : "Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting."
Many on the Right have not been impressed with the whole bizarre livestream aspect...
In 2009, former US Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Hasan opened fire inside a crowded Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian , as well as an unborn child. In the jihadist-inspired terror attack he also wounded 32 others , before being shot by military police and permanently disabled.
Hegseth had boasted to TV outlet Real America's Voice on Wednesday that "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public ."
Source: Bell County Sheriff's Department The tiny handful of countries known for carrying out public executions over the years are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan . The last public execution in the US happened in 1936 in Kentucky, when a convicted murder and rapist was hanged amid onlookers.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2026 - 11:30 Close Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:25:22 +0000 Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince's Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World's Cobalt
Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince's Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World's Cobalt
When Erik Prince signed on with Kinshasa last year, the brief was mostly about spreadsheets: help Congo's fina
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Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince's Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World's Cobalt
When Erik Prince signed on with Kinshasa last year, the brief was mostly about spreadsheets: help Congo's finance ministry actually collect taxes on its minerals. But on September 17, it turned into a firefight.
According to a Reuters exclusive published Friday, a team working for Prince's Vectus Global was ambushed in South Kivu in eastern Congo, leaving roughly 20 people killed and wounded , among them at least seven Congolese and a former New Zealand special forces soldier. The wounded include Tim Kennedy, the retired Green Beret, ex-UFC fighter and podcaster with millions of social media followers (and a fight résumé in a sport the president is rather fond of, as Reuters helpfully notes), who took three gunshot wounds to the leg
Regular readers know we have been tracking Prince's slow migration from Kinshasa's tax office to the front lines since his men and drones showed up in Uvira in February. What is new is the body count, and the fact that the war for Congo's minerals now has an American celebrity casualty - which means Washington can no longer pretend it isn't there.
"An Incredibly Dangerous Place Right Now"
Per Reuters, which said it spoke to at least 10 people with direct knowledge of the attack or briefed on it, the Vectus team was moving between locations when it was hit. Some highlights:
Two sources working with Congo's government put the toll at about 20 dead and wounded ; a Congolese security source added that villagers were likely among the casualties too.
The dead included a former member of New Zealand's Special Forces, whom the NZ Herald has identified as NZSAS veteran Justin Conaglen, since buried in Northland. Kennedy and one other foreign contractor were among the wounded.
It is the first time the company has taken casualties in Congo , according to a source with direct knowledge of the operation. Vectus declined to comment.
The kicker: one government-side source suspects Rwandan forces backing M23 found the team by tracking one of its own surveillance drones . Two other sources flatly said the Rwandan military carried out the ambush; a third said the attack's sophistication pointed that way.
Kigali, Kinshasa and M23 did not respond to Reuters, and Rwanda has always denied backing M23 despite UN and Western claims that it exercises command and control over the group. Its online supporters, meanwhile, were already busy Friday recasting the ambush as one of Congo's "internal wars." Denial at its finest.
As for the irony: the drone that allegedly gave away the team's position was exactly the kind of kit Prince had been flying with lethal results in Haiti last year.
From Tax Collector To Front Line In Under 18 Months
The original pitch was decidedly un-Blackwater. When Reuters first reported the deal in April 2025, the mandate was to tighten tax collection and curb mineral smuggling in copper-rich Katanga, far from the M23 front, with one Congolese source claiming about $40 million a month in lost revenue in the Kolwezi area alone. Sources at the time stressed there were no plans to send security contractors into active conflict zones (it's call black ops for a reason).
That lasted about nine months.
In January and early February, after M23 briefly seized Uvira on the Burundi border and Washington leaned on the rebels to pull back, Prince's men and drones deployed to help Congo's army lock the town down, alongside Israeli trainers. We covered it at the time:
Now Vectus is taking fire in South Kivu. Officially, of course, none of this is America's war: the State Department says it has no contracts with Prince in Congo, even as US officials have said they plan to work more closely with Vectus in Haiti. In other words, a Trump ally's private army is guarding the minerals America just signed a deal for, under a peace accord America brokered, without an American contract
Follow The Cobalt
Why would anyone send a former Green Beret to the jungles of South Kivu? Because Congo is not just "rich in minerals." It is the cobalt market : according to the USGS, the DRC mined some 230,000 tons of the world's ~310,000 tons in 2025, or 74% . Indonesia, a distant second, managed 14%. The US? 0.1% .
And Kinshasa has learned how to use that leverage. Congo suspended cobalt exports outright in February 2025 when prices hit nine-year lows, then replaced the ban with quotas in October that will run through at least end-2027. The result: cobalt metal hit $26/lb this spring, up 160% since the ban
Washington noticed. The Pentagon went shopping for its biggest cobalt stockpile since 1990 in August 2025:
...then (in typical fashion) cancelled the purchase two months later. In December, Trump hosted Kagame and Tshisekedi to sign the "Washington Accords," pledging that the US would buy their minerals and inking bilateral deals for access. And in April, a tiny eight-person US firm founded by an ex-Green Beret (a recurring theme) took control of Chemaf , one of the biggest non-Chinese cobalt producers, after a $920 million sale to a Chinese state-owned defense group collapsed. As we reported back in July 2025 , "the US is catching up" in the race with China for DR Congo's minerals.
It isn't just cobalt, either. Congo is also the swing source of new copper supply at a time when the red metal trades near $14,500/ton. In his October 7 morning note (available to pro subs Goldman's metals specialist James McGeoch laid out the bank's published mine supply numbers: global output down 1% this year, then up 2.6% in 2027, which he calls the biggest ask for Q3 prints . And a big chunk of that growth is supposed to come from Congo:
The current published numbers at GS are mine supply -1% y/y for 2026, for 2027 we are +2.6% (the delta is mostly new growth, Chile +2% y/y, DRC +6% includes +90kt at KK v cons 100kt , Indonesia basis Grasberg at +140kt v cons +180kt, Panama the team have +190kt v cons 150kt).
Translation: with Chile's production down 8% YTD, Congo is one of the few places the Street is counting on for more copper next year . To be fair to Goldman, Kamoa-Kakula sits in Lualaba, hundreds of miles south of South Kivu. But every ambush in the east is a reminder that "DRC +6%" is a forecast that comes with a security bill attached - and someone has to pay it. Right now, that someone is apparently Erik Prince's contractors.
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None of this should surprise long-time readers. Back in January 2019, we reported that Prince was launching a fund of up to $500 million for electric-car metals , having already found a copper-cobalt deposit in Congo, explaining to the FT that battery minerals come "from generally weird, hard-to-access places." At the time, Congo supplied "more than 60%" of the world's cobalt. It's now three-quarters.
The twist? Back then Prince's Frontier Services Group was backed by China's state-owned Citic , which is why five years earlier we had asked how Erik Prince would help China subjugate Africa . A decade later, he is the tip of the (private) American spear trying to pry Congo's minerals away from Beijing. Mercenary, it turns out, is truly a flexible job description.
Bottom Line
On paper, the eastern Congo war ended in Washington last December. On the ground, M23 still controls swathes of the east, Kigali and Kinshasa keep trading accusations at the oversight committee, Congo is fighting an Ebola outbreak that has now reached Kenya , and the private contractors America relies on, but doesn't officially employ, are taking bullets. Or, as one of Reuters' sources summed it up, eastern Congo is "an incredibly dangerous place right now."
The question is what happens next. One path: the casualties (and Kennedy's megaphone) push the administration to lean harder on Kigali to enforce the accords. The other, and far more likely , path: the minerals are simply too important to walk away from, so the privatized security footprint grows, the drones get bigger, and "no plans to deploy to active conflict areas" becomes the second-funniest line in this entire saga - behind the State Department's "no contracts."
Either way, the price of three-quarters of the world's cobalt just went up. It's now measured in more than dollars per pound.
Much more in the full GS Materials morning note , available to pro subs .
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