Michigan 2026 Poll: El-Sayed and Rogers Locked in Close Election  —  Jocelyn Benson Takes Significant Lead Over John James in Governor Race  —  A new Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media Michigan poll finds 48% of Michigan voters support Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, and 46% support Republican Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate.

Trump's Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns … Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in his courtroom.  A former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court, he does not have the profile of a jurist likely to engage in a high-stakes standoff with the executive branch.Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior  —  The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.  —  OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes …

Why I'm Voting for a Texas Democrat  —  Bo French's bigoted tweet after a football game is part of a long and ugly pattern.  —  It was a moment every student in Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium will remember for life.  Forty-one seconds into the final quarter on Saturday …

China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say  —  China has privately asked Tehran to help rein in Yemen's Houthis after an appeal to Beijing by Saudi Arabia following the Iran-backed group's military blitz in the past week, according to three Iranian sources familiar with the matter.

The Fed, After Raising Rates, Grapples With What Comes Next  —  Kevin M. Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, on Wednesday left open-ended how much more interest rates may have to rise to tame inflation.  —  After four months of talking tough about inflation, Kevin M. Warsh finally followed through.

Trump Aides Are Prepping an AI Takeover of Government Services  —  Former DOGE operatives are working on a website that could offer services like direct tax filing — similar to a Biden-era program the Trump administration killed.  — Copy  —  Trump administration officials are preparing …

Carney to Trump: No one tells Canadians what to do  —  “Nobody is going to tell us about what language to speak, no one is going to dictate our culture, or with whom we can strike agreements,” Canadian PM says.  —  STRASBOURG — Canada's warming relationship with the EU “is a positive” …

UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity  —  A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.

Who Will Win the Midterms?  Republicans Are Reeling. … The political environment has worsened for Republicans as they try to defend control of Congress, though the party has a big cash advantage over Democrats.  Alex Kent/The New York Times  —  In Georgia, Republican strategists …

Hasan Piker on “The Axios Show”: America worse than al-Qaeda “pound for pound”  —  OPEN EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM CDN.JWPLAYER.COM … - “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” Piker said in an exclusive interview for a new episode of “The Axios Show.”

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials  —  This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera.  404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it.

Trump spotted looking at ‘Kennedy Center DEMOLITION’ booklet as his pouting over name change grows  —  President Donald Trump has been caught up in a long-running legal battle to rename the performing arts venue after himself since late last year, culminating with its board voting to close it down for repairs earlier this week

Alligator Alcatraz's Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier  —  This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security released a scathing report last Friday about the shuttered Florida …

Retire in peace  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🏛️ Subscribe to PN 🏛️  —  Mitch McConnell is unfit to serve in the US Senate and should resign immediately — that is, presuming he's lucid enough to wittingly make that decision.

Why Joe Manchin's endorsement of Susan Collins is so infuriating  —  When Democratic Sen. John Fetterman introduced his Republican colleague Doug McCormick at the GOP midterm convention, I could only roll my eyes.  But now former Sen. Joe Manchin has endorsed Sen. Susan Collins, and that's infuriating.

Industry titans' warning to Congress: Do what we say or health insurance premiums are going up  —  Some of America's largest companies are warning Congress that a law shielding patients from surprise medical bills is about to spike their health insurance premiums.

KSTP/SurveyUSA poll: Governor, Senate races tightening days before early voting starts in Minnesota  —  Just days before the start of early voting in Minnesota, the two biggest races in the state appear to be tightening.  —  Results of a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll show the gap between Amy Klobuchar …

JD Vance faces test in White House meeting with Israel-backing radio host  —  NEW YORK — Vice President JD Vance will hit a key hurdle in his fence-mending effort with Jewish Republicans on Thursday when he hosts a popular conservative radio host at the White House.

Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November  —  197 election deniers are running for Congress or statewide office in 43 states.  Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election.  —  On November 3 …

Johnson-Massie feud boils over: “Why are we taking days off our calendar?” … - “We had the Epstein recess last year. … - Massie's impeachment resolution has dim prospects in the GOP-controlled House, but it would have forced members to go on the record on Hegseth just weeks before the midterms.

Exclusive / Trump's Saudi ambassador pick faces early hurdles  —  President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, is staring down a potentially difficult confirmation fight due to hurdles from a tight Senate calendar and skepticism among Republicans.

Rand Paul kills Kennedy's AI ‘kill switch’ bill  —  Sen. Rand Paul blocked an attempt by fellow Republican Sen. John Kennedy to quickly pass legislation that would require companies to build a “kill switch” into their artificial intelligence model.  Kennedy, of Louisiana …

States prep for ICE agents to be at polls, just in case  —  The Trump administration's hints about sending ICE agents to election polling places this fall have led state officials from Maine to Oregon to make plans to counter any actions that could affect voters.

Scoop: Trump to hold Iran talks with Gulf leaders next week  —  President Trump is expected to hold a meeting with Gulf leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next Tuesday to discuss the next steps in the war with Iran, three sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.

Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)  —  The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.

These Democrats won over working-class voters.  Here's their advice for candidates.  —  Throughout the Trump era, Democrats have wrung their hands about how they can win over working-class voters.  —  Why not ask the Democrats who've actually done it?  —  That's what Robin Johnson …

How China is driving the emerging partisan divide on AI safety  —  Americans are divided on whether it's acceptable to fall behind other countries in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence.  So is Congress.  —  A new POLITICO Poll finds that Americans broadly recognize serious risks …

Democrats keep pressure on Hakeem Jeffries to punish rogue members  —  House Democrats aren't letting rogue members off the hook for bucking their party.  They hope Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries won't either.  “Obviously, there's got to be” punishment for the two Democrats who twice …