G7 distributing up to 100 million barrels of reserves
On Friday, Group of Seven countries agreed to release tens of millions of barrels of diesel and crude oil to combat high gas prices. Diesel fuel prices in particular have risen in recent months due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian infrastructure, causing prices to increase by 70%. Over four months, the G7 will release up to 100 million barrels. The nations will also coordinate refinery maintenance to prevent simultaneous shutdowns. Releasing oil from reserves may temporarily lower prices, but long-term solutions require increased manufacturing capacity.

More Americans are finding work
The September jobs report found that while 29,000 jobs were created, the civilian labor force grew by 485,000. The private economy created 46,000 new jobs, mostly in construction and manufacturing, likely because of the booming AI data center business. The jobless rate stayed at 4.2%, meaning employers aren’t firing more employees than normal, despite fear that AI would incentivize layoffs. Labor participation increased by 0.2%, even though boomers are retiring and the Trump administration is deporting record levels of immigrants. The Labor Department survey also found a loss of 17,000 government jobs, mostly at the state and local level. In short, the jobs report shows that the U.S. labor market is thriving and the economy is growing.

U.S. moves bombers from UK
Following the arrest last week of five suspected Islamist terrorists outside the Royal Air Force Fairford base in the UK, which was being used by the U.S. military to station bombers engaged in the conflict with Iran, the bombers and their crews all returned to their home bases stateside on Sunday. According to President Donald Trump, this action was “about Iran,” while he reiterated his commitment to end the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapon ambitions. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham also acknowledged that “there are strong indications that Iran played a part” in the incident. A Pentagon spokesman noted that despite the move, “the Airmen that operate America’s bomber force, including B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, remain ready to deliver precision global strike capabilities — including through operations that launch and recover from the continental United States — anywhere, anytime.”

FlyDubai attacker was banned from flying before the flight
Oman had already banned the FlyDubai attacker from flying because of his radical views, yet he still found his way into the cockpit of a flight to Israel, even though Israel bars pilots from countries without diplomatic ties. The UAE airline hired Hamam al-Hammami as a copilot less than a year ago. A security failure allowed him to bring a knife on board Flight 1073. During the flight, al-Hammami stabbed pilot Smit Machchhar and turned the plane into a 14,000-foot dive. Machchhar fought to open the cockpit door, letting in several passengers who subdued the terrorist and heroically pulled the plane out of the dive. Two off-duty pilots then emergency-landed the damaged plane. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said al-Hammami “underwent Islamist radical indoctrination” but may still have been a suicidal lone wolf. The UAE is seeking the death penalty.

Iran doesn’t want to kill Americans?
Increasingly desperate Iranian leaders have spent the last couple of weeks reaching out to those they view as their supporters in the U.S.: the Democrat Party. They sent a 25-page letter to the American people, encouraging them to vote against President Trump. The letter also explained, in true Orwellian fashion, that the phrase Iranians have been chanting since 1979, “Death to America,” obviously does not “express any ill will toward the American people.” They spin the phrase as a cry against the “diabolical ruling elite” in the White House and explain that “Death to America” really means “Death to the crimes perpetrated by the American elite.” Really, the whole letter could’ve been written by any blue-haired affluent leftist woman attending one of America’s higher learning institutions.

Paxton’s ex-wife endorses GOP ticket
In a newly released ad from Texas PAC, an affiliate of the Republican Senate Leadership Fund, the estranged wife of Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton called on voters to support the GOP ticket despite her personal grievance. Last year, Angela Paxton filed for divorce, ending her 38-year marriage to Ken over his adultery. “Let’s talk about the elephant in the room,” she states. “In a general election, it’s not as much about the individual players on the team. It’s about getting the whole team across the finish line. Either we hold every Republican seat, or we hand the future of Texas to the other team. That’s why I’m voting for the Republican ticket on November 3.” Paxton is in a tight race with Democrat candidate James Talarico, with current polling showing a toss-up. Texas last elected a Democrat senator in 1988.

Oklahoma judge rules Flock searches unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill ruled last week that a Tulsa County deputy sheriff’s use of Flock data was unconstitutional. Hill said Deputy Sheriff Freddie Alaniz violated the 14th Amendment by searching Melisa Kyle’s travel history, even outside of Oklahoma. (The 14th Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures.) Alaniz noticed Kyle driving a car with California plates, monitored her with Flock cameras, and pulled her over for tailgating. When Kyle resisted questioning, Alaniz arrested her and found marijuana in her vehicle. Kyle challenged the traffic stop, and Hill ruled that Alaniz was right to pull Kyle over but wrong to use automated license plate reader data. Hill also warned, “It is also no longer difficult to imagine law enforcement using a fleet of drones hovering over an entire city so they don’t miss the movement of a single vehicle.”

Alito knows who leaked Roe decision
Justice Samuel Alito told “Fox News Sunday” that he has an idea of who leaked the draft opinion he wrote overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, but that the evidence he has isn’t strong enough for the court to charge the person. The internal investigation following the leak could not identify a culprit. Alito was making the Sunday talk show rounds ahead of his new book release, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country. Asked about rumors of a possible retirement from the High Court, Alito said he thinks about that option each year but doesn’t have immediate plans to step down. He also expressed concerns that Democrats want to alter the Supreme Court by packing it with more justices or imposing term limits, and he noted the importance of keeping it apolitical.

Is it Noah’s ark?
A research group called Noah’s Ark Scans shared new radar scans of a boat-shaped formation in eastern Turkey. The scans detected underground anomalies that researchers interpret as possible organized structures, but they have not confirmed any archaeological structures or uncovered man-made materials. Many geologists have long considered the formation to be the product of folded rock, mudflow, and erosion. Andrew Jones, the founder of the research group, said he hopes to eventually excavate promising sites and has already begun core drilling both inside and outside the formation. The team has implemented a radar system called BakhtarRadar, which Jones compared to a medical scan of the Earth that can probe as deep as 95 meters. He said the data is countering geologists’ claims that the formation is a solid block of rock because the team is finding “elevated organic matter,” the result of decayed wood.

Headlines

  • Supreme Court set to hear Suncor v. Boulder climate lawsuit arguments (Center Square)
  • Trump taps Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as AI czar (CNBC)
  • Nike CEO may have just admitted the company went too woke as stock hits 12-year low (OutKick)
  • Homecoming game in ritzy Minneapolis suburb evacuated after Somali gangs start fighting (Not the Bee)

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