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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump administration seeking to force Harvard University to turn over records on admissions decisions.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in June had already called out the Democrat-manufactured plot to confuse voters by having a man with the same name run against him, months before any concrete action was taken to foil the scheme.
The post Exclusive: Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan’s Months-Old Claims on Democrat Decoy Candidate Vindicated appeared first on Breitbart.

The victims of Sunday’s fatal plane crash in Palm Beach, Florida — which killed nine people — have been identified.
The post Victims of Fatal Palm Beach Plane Crash Identified appeared first on Breitbart.

Hollywood leftist celebrities are going all-in for a last-minute push to convince fans to vote for radical Democrats as the midterm elections come down to the wire.
The post Hollywood’s Closing Midterm Message: Jail Trump, ‘I’d Rather Be Dead than Vote Red’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Leftist Islamists are outraged after a middle school teacher in California showed her students an educational PragerU video about what happened on 9/11.
The post Exclusive: Leftists Have Meltdown over California Middle School Teacher Showing Students a PragerU Video About 9/11 appeared first on Breitbart.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, talked about subpoenas for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Trump administration officials on the first day of a Democrat majority, should his party flip the House
The post Oversight Democrat Robert Garcia Previews ‘Day One’ Subpoenas of Trump Officials If Dems Win House appeared first on Breitbart.

The Republican Party is headed into the midterm elections armed with a powerful economic case in favor of keeping its majorities in Congress, but it’s unlikely to move many voters.
The post Breitbart Business Digest: How the Economy Might Matter for the Midterms appeared first on Breitbart.

Oakland’s Experiment In Anarchy

Authored by Sanjana Friedman via City Journal,What would happen to a city if its government effectively stopped enforcing laws protecting public space and private property? Oakland, California, has been testing the proposition. Many have heard about Oakland’s extraordinarily high violent-crime rate, which, despite recent declines, remains roughly four and a half times the national rate and the worst among California’s big cities. But in recent years, the city has also struggled to enforce laws against illegal dumping, burglary, car break-ins, and squatting.

Photo by Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

As a result, much of the city is “buried under trash,” according to a recent government report, which found that the city collects some 20 million pounds of illegally dumped debris – 47 pounds per resident – annually. Oakland also has the highest level of property crime of any large U.S. city. It solves these crimes at a rate of just 0.1 percent – meaning that one in every 1,000 property crimes reported to the Oakland police produces an arrest – compared with rates of about 10 percent in San Francisco and 13 percent in Berkeley, respectively. And the city has become home to a shadow industry of “squatter removal services,” including one whose sword-wielding operators promise to help landlords reclaim homes from unauthorized occupants, since the sheriff’s office often takes months to act.To an outsider, this might seem a bizarre state of affairs. Oakland sits directly across the bay from San Francisco, one of the country’s most productive economic centers. It lies within commuting distance of the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford, two of the world’s leading research universities. It boasts nearly 20 miles of waterfront, one of the ten largest container ports in the country, an international airport, and a year-round Mediterranean climate. Its residents have higher per-capita incomes than the average American or Californian. Oakland is a major hub of the region’s public-transit network, abuts redwood-covered hills, and boasts a thriving food and entertainment scene.What explains this apparent paradox? At a macro level, the same thing that explains much of the dysfunction afflicting the rest of California: a kind of resource curse, whereby a state blessed with abundant natural bounty and a booming economy is bled dry by self-serving elected officials, union bosses, and nonprofit activists. Books could be written analyzing this dysfunction, but a handful of statistics will suffice. California ranks at or near the bottom of the country in adult literacy and has more homeless people than any other state. Fewer than one-third of its fourth-graders read at the NAEP “proficient” level, while the University of California is confronting a sharp deterioration in students’ performance in foundational math courses. The state has spent $14.6 billion on a high-speed rail system that has yet to carry a passenger and lost an estimated $20 billion to pandemic unemployment fraud.But Oakland’s problems are extreme even by California’s dismal standards, and it’s worth understanding why. The most important factor is Oakland’s dysfunctional police department, which has been neutered by a combination of decades-long adversarial oversight, internal mismanagement, and pervasive low morale. Until it ended recently, federal oversight of the Oakland Police Department had been in effect since 2003 – the longest-running federal police monitorship in U.S. history – following a settlement of its “Riders” scandal, in which four officers were accused of beating suspects, planting evidence, making false arrests, and falsifying police reports.Under this regime, the OPD’s internal hires (including its chiefs), use-of-force policies, and officer-discipline protocols were all subject to the approval of a nonresident federal monitor, Robert Warshaw, who had overseen the department since 2010. His monitoring operation, paid for by Oakland, for years cost the city roughly $1 million annually, though that figure fell recently as the department moved closer to ending federal oversight. Warshaw, who set the OPD’s compliance goals and determined whether the department was meeting them, took a direct role in the firing of several police chiefs.The OPD is also subject to the Oakland Police Commission, a civilian oversight body with substantial authority over department policy. Among the most controversial policies adopted under this system was Oakland’s restrictive rule on police pursuits, which generally permitted officers to chase suspects only for violent crimes. The policy proved so problematic that, in 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom took the extraordinary step of deploying state police to patrol Oakland’s streets and catch criminals who “flee with impunity because it’s common knowledge that OPD [pursues] in only very limited circumstances,” as he put it in a letter to then-Mayor Sheng Thao.Meanwhile, the OPD itself has too few officers to meet the city’s policing needs and loses several officers each month to attrition. It has gone through five chiefs in five years. The department was so overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of stolen-vehicle and license-plate alerts it received from its recently installed Flock license-plate cameras that it elected to disable the notifications.Including the federal monitor, police commission, mayor, and various other committees, the OPD has been operating under at least seven layers of adversarial oversight and a widespread “culture of fear” of running afoul of these authorities, as a recently departed police chief put it. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that the department is so ineffective at solving crime.What is stranger is that a powerful subset of Oakland’s political class seems to encourage the ambient anarchy. This includes recalled Mayor Thao, who was indicted last year on federal bribery charges and, while serving on the city council, voted to strip the OPD of funding (before reversing course when the political winds changed); current city council member Carroll Fife, who rose to prominence defending the rights of squatters and campaigned on promises to defund the police; and Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who, while serving on the city council, pushed unsuccessfully to halve the OPD’s budget.For all its depth and scale, Oakland’s dysfunction remains a tractable problem – given the political will to fix it. This, however, the city does not seem to have.Sanjana Friedman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a writer and researcher at Y Combinator.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/02/2026 – 19:50

U.S. officials will mediate a new round of talks between Ukraine and Russia next week with the goal of delivering “lasting security for generations to come,” U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday.Witkoff said the U.S.-mediated negotiations will be held on Nov. 10 and 11 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.”The United States will mediate working-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on November 10–11 in Abu Dhabi, advancing President Trump’s mission to end the war. Discussions will focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts, and next steps toward peace,” Witkoff wrote on X.INSIDE MELANIA TRUMP’S SECRET DIPLOMATIC ROLE IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CEASEFIRE DEALAhead of next week’s peace talks, U.S. negotiators will meet this week in Brussels with representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the EU and NATO.”Additionally, American negotiators will meet this week in Brussels with representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the EU, and NATO to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe’s post-war security architecture, and economic opportunities to support Ukraine’s reconstruction,” Witkoff said.The push by the U.S. government builds upon earlier diplomatic discussions held in Kyiv, Oslo and St. Petersburg, as the Trump administration continues efforts to broker an end to the war following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.”We look forward to building on the progress made in Kyiv, Oslo, and St. Petersburg toward a comprehensive, durable peace agreement that delivers lasting security for generations to come,” Witkoff said.TRUMP NEGOTIATORS WITKOFF, KUSHNER MEET WITH PUTIN IN MOSCOW AS US PUSHES FOR END TO RUSSIA-UKRAINE WARThis comes after President Donald Trump said last month that efforts to resolve the war were “maybe now the closest we’ve been,” adding that he believed both sides wanted an end to the conflict after years of fighting and heavy casualties.

A major power outage struck Washington, D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood Monday morning, the day before the midterm elections, knocking out power for more than 1,100 Pepco customers and disrupting key government and international facilities, including parts of the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
Traffic signals went dark across parts of the area, George Washington University canceled classes, and emergency crews responded to reports of smoke rising from multiple underground manholes near H Street NW and the World Bank.

BREAKING: A substation failure has knocked out power across Foggy Bottom in Washington, DC
Pepco says about 1,100 customers are in the dark near GW University, the World Bank, the IMF and the State Department
Smoke poured from multiple manholes on H Street NW
State Department officials confirmed the building lost power.
GW cancelled classes for the day
Pepco: “At this time, the cause of the event remains under investigation.”
No restoration time yet
The capital’s grid failed blocks from the State Department.
— Patriot (@_Patriot1776Q_) November 2, 2026

Pepco confirmed the outage stemmed from an event at the company’s I Street Substation in Foggy Bottom.

DC Fire and EMS responded to reports of smoke coming from multiple manholes in the area.
Large police presence outside of the World Bank building with power still out. https://t.co/6WItFSDh0V
— Wid Lyman (@Wid_Lyman) November 2, 2026

The utility company said about 1,100 to 1,176 customers lost power, crews were on scene assessing conditions, and the cause remained under investigation.
The timing, on the eve of Election Day, prompted concern across social media.
Pepco has explicitly noted that “at this time, there is no indication of foul play.”

We’re responding to a power outage in the Foggy Bottom area following an incident at our I Street Substation. The cause remains under investigation, with no indication of foul play at this time. Our focus remains on safely restoring power to our customers. https://t.co/FpFHlADfq3
— Pepco (@PepcoConnect) November 2, 2026

The company later reported that it had restored power to all impacted customers by around 2 p.m.

Smoke from Multiple Manholes – 1800 Block of H Street NW
@dcfireems responded for the report of smoke coming from multiple manholes.
@PepcoConnect on scene to assist with power surge and electrical outages in the area.
— DC Fire and EMS Department (@dcfireems) November 2, 2026

D.C. Fire and EMS had responded earlier to smoke coming from manholes in the 1800 block of H Street NW, with Pepco assisting with the power surge and outages.

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