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A multistate manhunt for a Tennessee inmate serving a life sentence for murder who escaped prison nine days ago ended Tuesday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on the “Pivot” podcast that even if Democrats score major victories in the midterms, they could squander their gains if they fail to focus on the issues that matter to voters most.Clinton spoke with “Pivot” podcast co-hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway at a live Election Night event and predicted a Democratic wave.”I think we’re going to wake up to a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate,” she told the co-hosts.Galloway agreed with Clinton’s prediction but warned that it may be a short-term victory if Democrats do not respond to voter concerns.BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON MAKE ELEVENTH-HOUR MIDTERM MOVES AS PARTY’S OLD GUARD FACES NEW REALITY”Let’s count our chickens and assume we take the House and the Senate and it’s Nov. 4. I would argue it’s a lease, not a mortgage, dating, not a relationship,” he said. “I think that it’ll be a function of not them loving Democrats, but hating us less.””What do you think the Democratic Party needs to do or Democratic leadership — what are two or three things you think they need to do immediately such that we can turn this into something enduring going into ‘28 instead of just them flipping back in 24 months,” he asked.Clinton agreed, warning that Democrats would need to capitalize on any midterm victories and follow through on their agenda if they want to win in 2028 as well.”You’re absolutely right, Scott. If the Democrats don’t go in with an agenda and have the discipline to enact that agenda, then they’re going to lose the kind of support that they’re going to gain in this election,” she said.TIM WALZ WARNS DEMOCRATS WILL FACE RECKONING IF THEY WIN POWER AND FAIL TO DELIVER CHANGEClinton said Democrats could capitalize on potential midterm victories by focusing on affordability, corruption and investigations into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).”Number one, they ought to look at the affordability agenda. What’s going to be in that? I think there are several things, one of which is healthcare costs, but there also can be even more fast tracking of, you know, housing starts, taking a hard look at how we can, you know, shift the burden on fossil fuel costs from consumers to the oil and gas companies which have recorded record profits,” she said. “So I think that there’s a lot of good work being done right now to put together an affordability package.””Secondly, an anti-corruption package. You know, people have to feel that this issue of corruption is going to be front and center, because it has been costing money,” she said. “People have been benefiting at the expense of, you know, everyday Americans, consumers, people who get up every day and try to make a living.”The final step, she said, would be to do some investigations into DOGE’s impact.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE”We still don’t even know the damage that Elon Musk did through DOGE,” Clinton remarked. “We don’t know what data was illegally taken, your social security data, your Medicare data … where is it? What’s it being used for? We need to get to the bottom of this.”

A key New Jersey swing district is falling out of Republicans’ grasp on Tuesday night in a critical victory for House Democrats.New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, which is where President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course is located, is projected to be represented next year by former Navy helicopter pilot Rebecca Bennett after she was projected to defeat Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J.Kean, the son of former Garden State Gov. Tom Kean Sr., was seeking a third term representing the affluent area encompassing suburbs and exurbs of New York City.DEMS PICK CHALLENGER FOR GOP CONGRESSMAN WHO VANISHED FROM PUBLIC VIEW AMID HEALTH MYSTERYMultiple election forecasts, including Fox News Power Rankings, projected he would lose to Bennett in what was expected to be an overall difficult year for Republicans trying to keep their congressional majorities.Kean is known to keep a low profile on Capitol Hill. But he was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year over a four-month absence from Congress that he later revealed was due to his getting treatment for depression. He received some blowback, however, for not revealing the specifics of his issue until his return.REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN WILL END MONTHSLONG ABSENCE FROM DC AFTER MISSING 135 ROLL CALL VOTES”When I first informed the public that I was dealing with a medical issue, I was still trying to understand what was happening myself,” Kean said on the House floor when he returned.”When I said I hoped to return in a matter of weeks, I believed it. Those were the best estimates the doctors could provide. But, as the over 48 million of my fellow Americans being treated for this illness have come to discover, there is no timeline for healing. There is no timeline for recovery. Only the work of getting better one day at a time.”He defended Trump’s economic record and war in Iran during his and Bennett’s first and only debate, while she criticized the president’s tariffs and blamed the Middle East conflict for the high gas prices Americans are grappling with.Kean told Fox News Digital of his own record in August.”I’ve been a really effective legislator who’s brought things back to the district, who’s listened to my constituents on their needs and their concerns, in contrast to my opponent, who has really been a very abject partisan,” Kean said. Republicans across the U.S. have been sandbagged by Trump’s low approval numbers despite the president crisscrossing the country in the weeks before the election in a bid to turn out the base.FOX NEWS POLL: AS ECONOMIC PAIN DEEPENS, DISAPPROVAL OF TRUMP HITS NEW HIGHSeveral House Republicans told Fox News Digital early Tuesday night that they had given up hope of keeping the majority. “It’s a bloodbath,” one senior House GOP aide said.And Kean’s district was one of the earliest in which GOP groups waved the white flag. Fox News Digital was told by multiple sources last month that the House GOP leadeship-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund and Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. were pulling their investments out of the district to triage races in other parts of the country. A source close to Kean’s campaign brushed it off at the time, telling Fox News Digital the campaign was set for cash. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told attendees at a fundraiser for Kean that Fox News Digital attended in August, “We consider this a top three race, not just a top 10. That’s how important it is to us. It has a target on its back.”

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is projected to win Georgia’s gubernatorial race against Republican businessman Rick Jackson — flipping the governor’s mansion blue for the first time in more than two decades.Fox News Decision Des projects the former Atlanta mayor will become the Peach State’s first female governor and the first Black woman elected governor in American history.The victory marks a major breakthrough for Democrats in one of the nation’s most closely contested swing states. Georgia voters had not elected a Democratic governor since Roy Barnes won the 1998 election and took office in 1999, with Republicans capturing the governor’s mansion in 2002 and holding it ever since.GOP GOVERNOR CANDIDATE SKIPS DEBATE AGAINST FORMER BIDEN ADVISOR, REPLACED BY EMPTY PODIUMFellow Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff also won his race for reelection, Fox News Decision Desk projects.Bottoms, who served as Atlanta’s mayor from 2018 to 2022, later joined former President Joe Biden’s White House as a senior advisor and director of the Office of Public Engagement.She emerged from the Democratic primary to face Jackson in the open-seat race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.Jackson, a wealthy healthcare executive and first-time candidate, poured more than $200 million of his personal fortune into his campaign. He defeated Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the Republican primary runoff , setting up the general election against Bottoms.The race drew national attention in a state that has shifted from a longtime Republican stronghold into a presidential battleground.Biden narrowly carried Georgia in 2020, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992, before President Donald Trump returned it to the Republican column in 2024.GIANNO CALDWELL: BOTTOMS RAN ATLANTA INTO THE GROUND. WE CAN’T LET HER DO IT TO GEORGIABottoms campaigned on expanding Medicaid, raising the state’s minimum wage and increasing pay for public employees, while Jackson called for phasing out Georgia’s income tax and pitched himself as a political outsider who would bring a businessman’s approach to state government.Jackson repeatedly targeted Bottoms’ record as Atlanta mayor, while Bottoms attacked the Republican’s massive self-funding and sought to tie him to Trump.Bottoms’ victory ends a Republican run in the governor’s office that began with Sonny Perdue’s election in 2002 and continued through the administrations of Nathan Deal and Kemp.Fox News’ Charles Creitz contributed to this report.

The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democratic challenger Annie Andrews has defeated appointed GOP Sen. Darline Graham, the younger sister of the late longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham, to win a six-year term representing South Carolina in the Senate.With her major upset, Andrews, a pediatrician who ran as an outsider, becomes the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win a Senate election in South Carolina.Having a very familiar name in South Carolina and receiving two 11th-hour campaign trail stops by President Donald Trump weren’t enough to help push Graham over the finish line in the ruby-red southeastern state.DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUBThe race became increasingly competitive in the final weeks of the campaign. And outside groups aligned with Republicans and Democrats poured cash and resources into the ballot box showdown at the 11th hour.With some of the top nonpartisan political handicappers shifting the contest in the direction of the Democrats, Trump traveled to South Carolina with less than two weeks until Election Day to rally with Graham.”She’s smart and incredible. She’ll never let you down,” Trump said as he praised Graham at an Oct. 21 stop in Upstate South Carolina.SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTERDemocratic strategist Mally Smith told Fox News Digital that “South Carolina bows to no king.””President Trump tried to hand-pick his successor in South Carolina, and the voters emphatically rejected his choice. Americans are sick of electing MAGA puppets to higher office who enable Trump’s erratic behavior and blatant corruption,” said Smith.During the general election campaign, Graham emphasized her support for Trump’s agenda, continuing her brother’s work in the Senate, and spotlighting cost of living issues.”I know how it feels to live paycheck to paycheck. There’s been many years in my life that I’ve lived paycheck to paycheck like a lot of South Carolinians. So I know they’re feeling it at the gas pumps,” Graham said in a recent interview on Fox News’ “America Reports.””Suspending the gas tax, that’s a temporary solution. I’m all for that. I’m glad that President Trump eased regulations on red-dyed diesel. I think that helps farmers. But the long-term solution is easing regulations on drilling and oil refineries.”Andrews also made affordability, along with healthcare costs, a centerpiece of her Senate campaign, and highlighted her experience as a pediatrician working with children and families.”I never in a million years thought I would be running for federal office, let alone a US Senate seat, but I have 20 years of experience working inside America’s broken healthcare system, coming face to face with all of Washington’s failures in my hospital exam rooms. And I take that experience and I bring it to the campaign trail,” Andrews emphasized in a recent Fox News Digital interview.After her brother’s sudden death in July, GOP Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Graham to fill the remainder of the late senator’s current term, which concludes at the end of this year.At the time of his death, Lindsey Graham had won renomination in South Carolina’s June primary. With Trump’s urging and support, Graham ran in a special Republican Senate nomination primary to succeed her brother. She defeated Rep. Ralph Norman in a late August runoff election after the two advanced two weeks earlier from a crowded 10-candidate primary.

Far-left Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has defeated GOP candidate Ken Paxton.
President Trump endorsed Ken Paxton earlier this year.

Decision Desk HQ projects James Talarico wins the TX US Senate General Election
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— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 4, 2026

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U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C.
U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, the South Carolina Republican who was appointed to the U.S. Senate after the death of longtim Sen. Lindsey Graham, her brother, has lost her bid to stay in the Congress’ upper body.
Democrat Annie Andrews, with 51% of the vote, has defeated Graham in a hotly contested race, flipping a Senate seat from red to blue. President Trump had endorsed Graham in both the primary and general election.
Democrat Annie Andrews
Commentators election night pointed to Graham’s inexperience in politics and the verbal stumbles she took during the campaign.
“Absolutely jaw-dropping,” remarked Eric Daughtery on X.

? BREAKING: In a gigantic FLIP, Democrat Annie Andrews WINS South Carolina US Senate race, defeating Darline Graham Absolutely jaw-dropping. The Senate is gone. https://t.co/6pPmxP3az7
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 4, 2026

Daughtery also pointed out that one county in South Carolina Trump won two years ago by 17 points went for Graham by just 6 points.

? NOW: South Carolina county won by Trump+17 in 2024 is being won by Darline Graham+6 points with 95% reporting This is a shift of D+11 so far Democrats are witnessing huge swings nationwide regardless of the state right now. https://t.co/r1LzA2uRLm
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 4, 2026

‘Deceiving the people’: Sen. Darline Graham slams Dem opponent Annie Andrews for ‘disgusting video mocking Republican white women’

The AI Arms Race Goes To Orbit, And The Night Sky Is Collateral Damage

If built as filed with the FCC (by SpaceX, Blue Origin and Cowboy Space), the number of orbital data centers could, if left unmitigated, put roughly 100 times more visible satellites than stars in the night sky at some hours, according to a preprint by astronomers Aaron Boley, Samantha Lawler and Hanno Rein.The paper, “Rings in the Sky,” models three designs taken from company filings which suggest Blue Origin’s Sunrise would be up to 51,600 satellites, Cowboy Space’s Stampede 20,000, and SpaceX’s constellation, which its filing describes as 1 million satellites, about 1.2 million once the orbits listed in a later update are added. Because the filings give only narratives and a few representative orbits, the authors fill in the rest with their own assumptions.The satellites are big… and droppy. SpaceX told the FCC its data center satellites would present about 800 square meters of area, counting radiators and solar panels. Cowboy’s sketch implies a solar array of about 4,800 square meters, more than double the roughly 2,250 square meters on the International Space Station. At 30 degrees latitude on a winter evening, the authors count about 98,000 satellites brighter than magnitude 5 in the sky from SpaceX’s design alone, against roughly 500 stars of that brightness.The rings would not be spread evenly. The satellites would sit in Sun-synchronous rings that each cross the sky twice a day, and the paper says the largest impacts come in winter, when ring structures could be seen sweeping through otherwise dark skies. Near the poles they would stay in view through the day. “People have lost the sense of the night sky because of the light-polluted cities,” Boley told Scientific American. Gaspar Bakos of Princeton, who was not part of the study, told the magazine, “The effect of satellites is truly global, with no place to retreat from them.”The numbers rest on a simple model that treats each satellite as a reflective sphere, and the authors say actual brightness could be higher or lower. The paper’s conclusion is that only brightness reductions “by orders of magnitude” or hard limits on satellite numbers would avoid the worst case, and that “the only clear way to reduce the on-sky impacts of ODCs is to limit their use.”The authors list other costs. A fleet of 1 million satellites with five-year lifetimes would mean one disposal every three minutes, and the paper says the metal deposited in the stratosphere would be orders of magnitude beyond anything yet modeled.Not everyone’s Panicking… Stefan Andersson wrote on X that some people “want it to be impossible to build orbital data centers, so they make up all sorts of irrational reasons to justify their false beliefs,” adding that SpaceX “already has 11,000+ satellites in LEO that demonstrate the feasibility of computing in space.” However, his point goes to whether the data centers can be built, not to the paper’s brightness figures.Some people want it to be impossible to build orbital data centers, so they make up all sorts of irrational reasons to justify their false beliefs. Fortunately for SpaceX it already has 11,000+ satellites in LEO that demonstrate the feasibility of computing in space. $SPCX https://t.co/QDhIRT863Y pic.twitter.com/zh4h0tOo5K— Stefan Andersson (@Stefan_A) November 3, 2026SpaceX has already dimmed its existing Starlink satellites and has promised mitigation in its filings, according to Scientific American, which says the other companies have not publicized plans. Nevertheless, the American Astronomical Society has already asked the FCC to deny SpaceX’s application, and says its concerns extend to the Starcloud, Blue Origin and Cowboy Space filings.
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Claire Valdez, a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 7th Congressional District, is projected to win her congressional race against Republican challenger Melvin Rivera, a community activist, on Tuesday evening in the race to fill the seat of outgoing Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.Velázquez, who has held the seat since 2013 and has been a member of Congress since 1993, is retiring.The district’s strong Democratic lean made Valdez the favorite, and her victory marks another noteworthy win for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in the 2026 midterms.MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALISTS LOOK TO TAKE NEW YORK PLAYBOOK NATIONWIDE AFTER PRIMARY VICTORIESIn the June primary, New York’s 7th District was seen as a proxy for the direction of the party.During that race, Valdez faced off against a crowded field of other congressional hopefuls. Among them was Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president.While Valdez enjoyed the backing of the DSA and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, Reynoso received support from more established Democrats — including the outgoing Velázquez.”It’s very nice to get to New York for a few years and to have opinions about other elected officials without knowing the history and the struggle and who was there fighting corrupt government,” Velázquez told the New York Times ahead of the primary.JEFFRIES’ SOCIALISM DILEMMA: NEW YORK VICTORIES EXPOSE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DIVIDE”Now, all of the sudden, people want to come in and decide who is the best candidate with total disregard to the history, the background.”U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t endorse in the race, but surmised the divides at play in the race, noting the DSA’s break with many other New York Democratic figures, including Letitia James, the state’s attorney general.”Nydia Velázquez and a coalition of very progressive Democrats, including Tish James… along with the Working Families Party and many of the unions… are on one side of that race, with DSA on the other,” Jeffries told reporters in June.Valdez based her primary platform on promises to abolish ICE and implement a Green New Deal-style approach to climate change. She also supports universal rent control and Medicare for All.Her platform attracted the backing of the DSA in January.DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN WARNS OF ‘DANGEROUS’ SOCIALIST AGENDA AFTER FAR-LEFT PRIMARY WINS”With this endorsement, Valdez’s campaign will be powered by the same volunteer army that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani to victory in 2025… Valdez is the only candidate running in NY-7 who has committed to not taking money from the real estate industry,” the group stated in a press release.Democratic strategist Mally Smith told Fox News Digital, “It is not surprising she won given how blue that district is.””We are a big tent party and that means there are going to be some folks on the far left who win. But for us to win in competitive red or swing states we should nominate candidates like Roy Cooper and James Talarico,” Smith added.Valdez isn’t the only DSA-backed candidate in New York to prompt considerations about the future of the Democratic Party. In a very similar primary race, Darializa Avila Chevalier, another DSA candidate, beat out incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., a high-ranking Democrat and the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.The wins have captured national attention and drawn criticism from some Democrats who have criticized the DSA’s growth in the party.Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who has not shied away from confrontations, has been one of the few Democrats to express alarm about the kind of candidates carrying the party’s banner.”I mean, you look at some of the things that people have said. Abolish prison, abolish the border, abolish ICE, I mean these crazy people — I have colleagues in my caucus that refuse to even call this out,” Fetterman told Fox News Digital earlier this year.