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The 3.6% Social Security COLA Could Finally Feel Like a Raise for Retirees in 2027

Filed Under: Money.com, SUCCESS

The 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, could outpace inflation and boost Baby Boomers’ spending power next year.
If inflation cools next year as economists predict, the COLA could feel like a raise to beneficiaries, a new Bank of America Institute report said.

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The Social Security Administration announced on Oct. 14 that the COLA will be 3.6%, the largest increase since 2023. It is set to take effect in January for most recipients, giving a $75 average bump to monthly retirement benefits.
The question beneficiaries are asking: Will it be enough? Advocacy groups such as the Senior Citizens League say firmly that the answer is no.
“A 3.6% COLA is not enough!” John Adams, the organization’s chairman, said in an email blast Tuesday, adding that it won’t cover “the rising cost of everyday essentials.”
As measured by the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, or the CPI-W, the annual inflation rate is 3.9%, several notches higher than the 2027 COLA.
How the COLA compares with projected inflation
Comparing the COLA with current inflation isn’t the only way to assess the increase. The Bank of America Institute explains in the report that there’s historically a connection between the COLA and retirees’ spending in the year it takes effect.
The Social Security COLA is a routine cost-of-living increase mandated by federal law. It’s supposed to ensure that benefits rise in tandem with prices. It usually doesn’t make or break retirees’ finances. “But when inflation is close to a turning point, the increase can end up looking relatively high or low compared with inflation over the course of the following year,” David Tinsley, senior economist at the Bank of America Institute, wrote in the report.
The COLA is calculated by comparing average CPI-W inflation in the third quarter of the year with inflation in the third quarter of the previous year.
Retirees’ benefits would rise faster than prices if the COLA beats inflation, giving some older Americans a bit of breathing room in their budgets.
Looking at the 2023 COLA as the most recent example, Bank of America observed a link between the 8.7% adjustment, which far outpaced inflation that year, and slow spending growth among Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation.
The report says 2027 could be a mini-repeat of 2023. “The consensus expectation is that CPI inflation is likely to cool over 2027, largely reflecting the lessening impact of higher gasoline prices,” Tinsley wrote.
In that case, benefits would rise more than prices in 2027. But near-term inflation is difficult to predict, and the shocks to energy prices are ongoing.
Tinsley’s report highlights the unique mix of income streams among Americans 60 and older, who may be collecting pensions and Social Security, and who typically receive more income from interest, dividends and rental properties than younger generations.
Low unemployment rates and wage growth have been primary drivers of economic gains for workers. However, that doesn’t mean much for people who have retired.
Bank of America’s data shows that older generations’ discretionary spending growth has lagged younger generations’ for roughly a year. It’s another reason the COLA can’t come soon enough for tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries.
The bottom line: “If these [inflation] expectations prove correct, households that rely on Social Security may receive a more impactful boost to their budgets next year than they have for the last few,” Tinsley wrote.

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How to Get Your Online Store Ready for AI Shopping Agents

Filed Under: Addicted2Success, SUCCESS

For twenty years, getting found online meant one thing. You fought for a spot on a page of blue links, a human scanned that page, clicked through, and decided on your site whether to buy. That model is not dead, but it now has company. A growing share of shoppers are asking an AI assistant to do the searching, comparing and shortlisting for them, and the first “visitor” to judge your store is often a piece of software, not a person.
That changes what a good online store looks like. A beautiful homepage and a clever hero banner mean very little to an agent that is reading your product data, your return policy and your shipping promises to decide whether you make the shortlist. If you sell anything online, the work of the next twelve months is making sure your store can be read, trusted and chosen by AI shopping agents, while still delighting the humans who arrive on the other side.
The Shift Is Already Showing Up in the Numbers
It is easy to dismiss this as another round of tech hype, so look at the data first. Adobe tracks more than a trillion visits to U.S. retail sites, and its latest figures, reported by Search Engine Land, show AI-referred traffic to retailers grew 71% year over year in September 2026 and is up 1,772% since October 2024. More important than the volume is the quality. In September, visitors arriving from AI services converted 90% better than other visitors and generated 83% more revenue per visit. They also stayed 73% longer, viewed 25% more pages and added items to their carts at a 53% higher rate.
Just over a year earlier, in August 2025, those same AI visitors converted 9% worse than everyone else. In other words, the traffic went from curious to commercial in about twelve months. Adobe now expects AI traffic to retail sites to jump 159% on Thanksgiving, 95% on Black Friday and 88% on Cyber Monday compared with last year. A shopper who has already asked an assistant to narrow the field arrives at your site with intent. They are not browsing. They are close to buying.
If you want a clear picture of where this is heading, this conversation between a16z partners Alex Rampell and Justine Moore digs into how AI agents could reshape discovery, affiliate marketing and the way people decide what to buy.

Discovery Is Moving Faster Than Checkout
Here is the part most of the hype skips. The dream of an AI that finds, compares and pays for everything inside a chat window is still being worked out. OpenAI launched Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT in September 2025, and by March 2026 it had stepped back from that approach. According to CNBC, the company said the feature “did not offer the level of flexibility that we aspire to provide,” and purchases now generally complete on the merchant’s own site. Analysts pointed to the difficulty of onboarding merchants and keeping product data accurate.
That is not a reason to relax. It is a reason to focus your energy in the right place. OpenAI kept its Agentic Commerce Protocol for product feeds and promotions, and major retailers such as Target, Sephora, Best Buy and Home Depot are plugged into ChatGPT for discovery. Google, meanwhile, introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol in January 2026, an open standard developed with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart and endorsed by payment players including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and American Express. It powers checkout inside Google’s AI Mode and Gemini, with the retailer remaining the seller of record.
The lesson for founders is simple. The checkout layer will keep shifting as the big platforms compete, but every one of them depends on the same raw material, which is clean, accurate, structured information about what you sell and how you sell it. Whoever has the best data gets recommended. Whoever has messy data gets skipped, no matter how good the product is.
Make Your Store Readable to Machines
Adobe’s analysis of retail homepages, covered by Retail TouchPoints, found the average U.S. retail homepage scored just 63% for AI visibility. That means more than a third of the content on a typical homepage is effectively invisible to AI. General merchandise homepages scored only 40%. The content AI reads best is the explanatory material many brands treat as an afterthought, such as FAQs, return policies and buying guides.
Start with your product pages. Every product should have a clear, specific title, a description written in plain language, complete attributes like size, material, compatibility and dimensions, accurate pricing and real-time stock status. If your descriptions are vague marketing copy that says a jacket is “perfect for any adventure,” an agent has nothing to work with. If they say it is waterproof to a stated rating, weighs a certain amount and packs into its own pocket, the agent can match it to a shopper who asked for exactly that.
Then look at the structure underneath. Product schema markup, a well-maintained product feed and consistent data across your site, marketplaces and Google Merchant Center all help software understand your catalog without guessing. Avoid hiding key information inside images, sliders or pop-ups that a crawler cannot read. And treat your policy pages as sales pages. A clear returns window, honest delivery times and transparent warranty terms are precisely what an agent checks when it decides whether to recommend you to someone who wants a hassle-free purchase.
Use the Tools the Platforms Are Handing You
You do not need to build any of this from scratch. The commerce platforms are racing to make their merchants agent-ready because that is how they win too. In its Fall ’26 Edition, released this week, Shopify introduced a knowledge base inside its Agentic sales channel that lets merchants review and publish the facts AI agents receive about their store, things like return windows, shipping details and gift options. It also added a view showing which products are eligible for Shopify Catalog, the system that feeds product data to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Meta and other AI platforms, and it extended Shop Pay so customers can check out through personal AI agents.
If you are on Shopify, those settings deserve an afternoon of your attention right now, before the holiday rush. If you are on another platform, find out what your provider supports for ChatGPT discovery, Google’s protocol and product feeds, and ask direct questions about timelines. The founders who win this shift will not necessarily be the ones with the biggest budgets. They will be the ones who took the boring setup work seriously while competitors were still debating whether any of this mattered.
Trust Is the New Ranking Factor
When a human compares two stores, they might be swayed by a great photo or a clever headline. An agent is more literal. It is weighing signals that suggest a purchase will go smoothly. Reviews, ratings, delivery reliability, accurate stock levels and clear policies all feed that judgment, and inconsistencies between what your site says and what actually happens will hurt you over time.
This is why the brands that already run tight operations have an advantage. If you oversell stock, ship late or make returns painful, an AI system drawing on reviews and order data has every reason to send the shopper somewhere else. The flip side is encouraging. A small brand with excellent service, honest descriptions and loyal reviewers can now compete with much bigger names, because the agent is looking for the best match, not the biggest ad spend. If you want to go deeper on earning those recommendations, it is worth studying how to become the business AI chatbots recommend in your category, because the same principles apply to shopping agents.
A Practical Plan for the Next 90 Days
None of this requires a rebuild. It requires focus. Here is where I would put the effort if I were running an online store today.

Audit your top 20 products. Rewrite titles and descriptions so they state facts clearly, fill in every attribute and make sure price and stock data are accurate everywhere you sell.
Rewrite your policy pages. Make returns, shipping and warranty terms specific, easy to find and consistent across your site and your platform settings.
Build real FAQ and buying-guide content. Answer the questions customers actually ask, in plain text, on pages a crawler can reach.
Turn on the agentic features your platform offers. Check catalog eligibility, publish your store facts where agents can read them and confirm your product feed is healthy.
Track AI referrals separately. Segment traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot in your analytics so you can see what converts and what to fix.

That last step matters more than it looks. You cannot improve what you cannot see, and most stores are still lumping AI visitors in with general referral traffic. Once you separate them, you will learn which products the assistants favor, which questions bring people in and where the gaps are. Pair that with the metrics that matter for generative search and you will have a feedback loop most of your competitors do not.
Build for Both Visitors
It is tempting to see AI shopping agents as a threat that will strip away your brand and turn everything into a price comparison. Some of that pressure is real. But the stores that win will be the ones that serve two visitors at once, a machine that needs clear facts and a human who still wants to feel something when they land on your site. Clean data gets you on the shortlist. A great product, honest promises and a brand people genuinely like are what close the sale and bring them back.
The shift in shopping behavior is happening whether you prepare or not. The good news is that the preparation is mostly about doing the fundamentals better than anyone else, which has always been how great businesses are built. Start with your data, tighten your operations and make it easy for anyone, human or machine, to understand why you are the right choice.
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Strong GDP Growth Continues to Exceed Expectations in 3rd Quarter

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The nation’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continued to outperform economists’ predictions in the third quarter, a report released Thursday by the U.S. Commerce Department reveals.Real (seasonally-adjusted) GDP increased at an annual rate of 3.4% in the third quarter (July, August, and September), according to the advance estimate published Thursday. That’s up from the second quarter’s 2.2% growth and the fastest pace in a year. The third quarter’s GDP growth also exceeded economists’ prediction of 3.1%.Both the Commerce Department and economists have tended to underestimate real GDP increases in recent quarters.In September, for example, the Commerce Department had to upwardly revise both its second quarter and first quarter measures of GDP growth, which exceeded economists’ expectations. In that report, real final sales to private domestic purchasers, the sum of consumer spending and gross private fixed investment was revised up 0.4 percentage point from the previous estimate of 4.2%, which had been revised up from a prior estimate of 3.9%.The third quarter’s GDP growth is greater than the second quarter’s 2.2% increase and the fastest rate since the third quarter of 2025. The main contributors to the increase in real GDP in the third quarter were consumer spending, investment, and government spending.  Consumer spending grew 3.8% in the third quarter, matching the second quarter’s growth – and remaining at the fastest pace since the fourth quarter of 2024. Consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation’s economic output,Those additions to GDP were partly offset by a decrease in exports and an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP. The drop in exports primarily reflected a decrease in goods (led by petroleum and related products), while the largest contributor to imports was capital goods, other than automotive.The primary contributors to the increase in private inventory investment were wholesale trade and manufacturing (both led by nondurable goods industries).The increase in consumer spending reflected increases in both goods and services:Within services, the increase was led by health care (mainly hospitals and outpatient services), food services and accommodations (mainly purchased meals and beverages).Within goods, the increase was led by other nondurable goods (particularly prescription drugs).Total government spending rose at a 5.3% annualized rate in the third quarter. Here, federal government expenditures jumped 15.8%, while state and local spending dipped 0.1%%. The federal government increase was boosted by a 22.2% rise in nondefense consumption.“The U.S. economy is on steroids right now,” thanks to higher-then-expected GDP growth, Navy Federal Credit Union Chief Economist Heather Long told The Hill. And, while inflation remains a concern, the economy is being largely fueled by “the massive AI business investment surge,” Long noted.

Nearly 3 In 10 New-Car Trade-Ins Are Underwater, Edmunds Finds

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Nearly 3 In 10 New-Car Trade-Ins Are Underwater, Edmunds Finds

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times,Almost three in 10 vehicles traded toward a new car are worth less than the amount still owed on their loans, a new report suggests.In the third quarter of 2026, about 29.1 percent of trade-ins with outstanding loans carried negative equity, according to an Oct. 21 analysis by car-shopping platform Edmunds. That was down from 30.9 percent at the beginning of the year but above 28.1 percent in the same quarter of 2025.While the share of so-called underwater trade-ins has eased slightly this year, the amount borrowers owe has continued to climb.Drivers trading in underwater vehicles owed an average of $7,107 more than their cars were worth in the third quarter, the highest third-quarter figure in at least a decade, according to Edmunds.That was more than $1,800 above typical levels before the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2016 and 2019, the average deficit generally ranged from about $5,000 to $5,500.The financial burden grows when drivers roll that unpaid balance into a new car loan.Consumers who did so in the third quarter financed an average of $57,235, up more than 44 percent from $39,732 in the same period in 2019, Edmunds said. Their average monthly payment climbed to $952 from $646 over that period.At an average interest rate of 8.1 percent, those borrowers are expected to pay about $16,610 in interest over the life of their loans, nearly 83 percent more than in the third quarter of 2019.Compared with the average new-car buyer, consumers rolling negative equity into a new loan financed about $12,600 more and paid an additional $165 per month, Edmunds said. More than 91 percent financed their purchases for 72 months or longer.Longer loans can reduce monthly payments, but they also slow the rate at which borrowers build equity and can leave them underwater for longer.Pandemic-Era Purchases Come Back to MarketEdmunds said the current trend partly reflects vehicles bought during the pandemic-era supply shortage, when many buyers paid unusually high prices.”During the pandemic, vehicle shortages and surging used-car values created an unusual window in which many owners found themselves with more equity than expected, even relatively early in their loans,” Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds, wrote in the analysis.By early 2022, only 14.7 percent of financed trade-ins were underwater, with the average deficit below $4,300.However, as new-vehicle production recovered and used-car prices retreated from their peaks, some buyers who financed vehicles at elevated prices were left owing more than their cars were worth.The problem is expected to continue into the fourth quarter.A separate report by auto market research firm JD Power forecast that 29.6 percent of trade-ins in October will carry negative equity, up 0.6 percentage points from a year earlier.Lower trade-in equity is contributing to higher monthly payments even as average new-vehicle prices remain roughly flat, JD Power said.The average new-vehicle transaction price is expected to be $46,329 in October, down 0.1 percent from a year earlier. But the average monthly finance payment is projected to reach an October record of $823 as the average loan rate rises to 6.81 percent.Consumers also continue to stretch out their loans to keep monthly payments manageable. JD Power expects 13.3 percent of new-vehicle loans in October to run for 84 months or longer, up slightly from a year ago.For buyers who need to replace a car before paying off their current loan, higher borrowing costs and longer loan terms can make it harder to escape negative equity without putting additional cash into the transaction, Edmunds warned.”Keeping a vehicle longer or paying down the existing loan before trading can help reduce negative equity when circumstances allow,” Caldwell wrote. “Those who need to replace their vehicle sooner should focus on minimizing additional debt and evaluating the total cost of financing rather than the monthly payment alone.”
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Thu, 10/29/2026 – 13:10

Targeted drug shrinks tumors in 3 out of 4 patients with advanced breast cancer

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There may be a promising new treatment on the horizon for advanced breast cancer patients, according to developing research.Researchers are studying the cancer-killing drug trastuzmab rezetecan for those with ERBB2-low metastatic breast cancer, whose tumors have low levels of HER2, a protein that can help cancer cells grow.A phase 3 clinical trial called HORIZON-Breast06 sought to determine whether the drug works better than standard chemotherapy for patients with this cancer type.SHIFT IN CANCER SCREENING GUIDANCE HAS EXPERTS CLASHING OVER NEW GUIDANCEThe researchers analyzed 551 female patients across 73 hospitals in China who were randomly assigned to receive either the drug intravenously every three weeks, or the physician’s choice of chemotherapy. The study period lasted from June 2023 to August 2025.The drug significantly delayed cancer progression compared with chemotherapy, giving patients more than a year before their cancer began growing again.The median time without tumor growth was 16.4 months compared to 6.8 months with chemo.FDA APPROVES ONCE-DAILY PILL FOR DEADLY CANCER AFTER PATIENTS’ SURVIVAL RATES NEARLY DOUBLEPatients who received trastuzumab rezetecan were 73% less likely to have their cancer worsen or die during the study than patients who received chemotherapy.The drug appeared to delay cancer progression in patients with both hormone receptor-positive and hormone receptor-negative breast cancer.The results were published in JAMA.Tumors shrank in 75.5% of patients who received the drug, compared with 41.2% of those who received chemotherapy.At the 12-month mark, 90.6% of trastuzmab rezetecan patients were alive, compared to 81.4% of chemo patients.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERThe authors concluded that trastuzumab rezetecan provided “significant progression-free survival benefit over physician’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with ERBB2-low advanced breast cancer.”Loren Rourke, a Texas-based breast surgical oncologist and author in Texas, called the results “incredibly encouraging.””When you’re talking about women living with advanced breast cancer, those months matter,” Rourke, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital. “They represent more time when the cancer is being held in check and potentially more opportunities to enjoy life without the disease getting worse.”What makes these findings especially exciting, according to the oncologist, is that the treatment showed benefits across different types of breast cancer.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES”It’s another important step forward, and it gives us genuine reason to be hopeful,” she said. “A treatment that can keep cancer from progressing for a longer period has the potential to make an enormous difference in a patient’s life.”While the drug may cause fewer serious lung problems than similar treatments, it was linked to other side effects, including anemia and other blood-related problems.Serious side effects occurred in more than 84% of patients who received the new drug, compared with nearly 68% of those who received chemotherapy.Rourke emphasized the importance of considering the side effects, “because more time without cancer progression doesn’t automatically mean better quality of life.””We need to better understand the side effects, particularly the significant decreases in blood counts that can lead to fatigue, anemia and increased risk of infection,” she said.The researchers acknowledged that toxicity occurred more frequently and often required dose modification, although they said these effects were “generally manageable.”TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZThe experts agreed that more research is needed.”As exciting as these findings are, there are still important questions we need to answer,” Rourke told Fox News Digital. “We know this treatment delayed cancer progression, but we don’t yet know whether it will help patients live longer. That’s an important distinction.””It’s important to celebrate meaningful progress while making sure we’re asking the right questions about what comes next.”

Cruz says there’s ‘real risk that Americans will die’ if El-Sayed gains access to US intelligence

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested that Americans could die if Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is elected, suggesting that the Democrat could use U.S. intelligence to tip off terrorists.”If Abdul El-Sayed becomes the senator from Michigan, there is absolutely nothing to stop Chuck Schumer from placing Abdul El-Sayed on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee has access to our most closely-guarded secrets. And if I am correct that he is a passionate supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, there is a very real risk that Americans will die as a result,” Cruz warned.”We have American service men and women in harm’s way fighting Muslim Brotherhood terrorists right now. And we also have intelligence covert operatives heroically going undercover trying to anticipate and stop terror attacks before they happen, before they kill Americans. We have every reason to believe that Abdul El-Sayed, if he found out, ‘OK, they’re about to apprehend these terrorists,’ that he would let those terrorists know,” Cruz claimed.HALEY STEVENS’ FIANCE HAMMERS EL-SAYED, SAYS HE’LL VOTE FOR ROGERSThe El-Sayed and Rogers campaigns did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s comment requests on Thursday.Speaking to Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier last week, the Democratic candidate said that he has “never been” and “never will be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.”MICHIGAN SENATE RIVALS CLASH OVER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ALLEGATIONS AS ROGERS DOUBLES DOWN ON EL-SAYED”I am interested in serving the United States. I’m interested in swearing an oath to the Constitution that every senator has swore an oath to,” El-Sayed said.El-Sayed is facing President Donald Trump-backed former Rep. Mike Rogers in the Michigan U.S. Senate contest.EL-SAYED RALLYGOERS URGE ‘MAJOR CHANGE,’ CASH HANDOUTS TO FIGHT COST CRISISCruz made the comments while campaigning for Rogers in the Wolverine State on Wednesday.

Masters winner becomes latest golfer to leave LIV, keeping ‘options open’ for PGA Tour return

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LIV Golf is in shambles, and another one has bitten the dust.Sergio Garcia said on social media that he will be playing in the DP World Tour, formerly the European Tour, and is “keeping my options open for a return to the PGA Tour.”The DP World Tour announced earlier this month that it was no longer allowing LIV players to participate in its tournaments.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE”This tour has been a huge part of my career from the very beginning, and I’m proud to call it home again,” Garcia said in his statement.The 2017 Masters winner also said it is a “goal” to play for Team Europe in the Ryder Cup in Ireland — European golfers must be a member of the DP World Tour in order to be eligible. Thus, with the DP World Tour’s new stipulations, Garcia’s already-slim chances were essentially put to zero.Garcia last played in the Ryder Cup in 2021, several months before jumping to LIV. He has won six times in his 10 appearances.Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, both Team Europe staples, have already said they are leaving LIV Golf. Louis Oosthuizen is also leaving, and Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed departed months ago.The PIF halted funding in April to redirect money toward domestic projects and manage financial pressures from the regional war with Iran. Following the decision, PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan resigned from LIV’s board.AUSTIN SMOTHERMAN SETS SIGHTS ON EARNING MASTERS INVITE AFTER PICKING UP BACK-TO-BACK PGA TOUR WINSLIV filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey last month. Between 2021 and 2026, LIV spent an estimated $5 billion to $8 billion. Bankruptcy filings show the league owes millions of dollars in unpaid compensation to top players, including Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Cam Smith.The league’s future depends on a proposed restructuring plan called “LIV 2.0,” but Rahm said the terms of “2.0” are “unacceptable” and he won’t be participating in it. Rahm and Hatton were perhaps the two biggest LIV names to play in DP World Tour events.Under the proposal, London-based private equity firm BC Partners, which has financial ties to player agency GSE Worldwide, would fund a 2027 relaunch. The plan would also give the players majority ownership of the league.LIV has laid off most of its operational staff, left event contractors waiting for payment and faces a lawsuit from the Premier Golf League alleging breach of confidence and conspiracy.Shortly after the PIF pulled its funding, LIV CEO Scott O’Neil said the LIV calendar would not be altered, but that did not occur. The league’s originally-scheduled championship weekend was cancelled, forcing it to be played a week earlier.OutKick’s Alejandro Avila contributed to this report.

WATCH LIVE: President Trump Holds Midterm Rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina – 1 PM ET

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President Trump holds a midterm rally in Clemson, South Carolina – October 21, 2026
President Trump is holding another midterm rally in South Carolina this afternoon while stumping for Senator Darline Graham, the sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham, days before the November 3 election.
Trump also spoke in Clemson, South Carolina, last week, where he dropped a hilarious line about Graham’s Democratic opponent.
“Tranny Annie Andrews,” he called her, while railing against her support for transgender surgeries for minors.
Trump Calls South Carolina Democratic Senate Nominee “Tranny Annie Andrews” – Accuses Her of “Child Abuse” and Calls for Her Medical License to Be Revoked (VIDEO)

The President shared a list of his endorsed candidates in the state:
TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GET OUT AND VOTE FOR:
– Darline Graham for U.S. Senate
– Alan Wilson for Governor
– Cody Simpson for Agriculture Commissioner
– Jenny Costa Honeycutt for U.S. Congress (SC-01)
– Joe Wilson for U.S. Congress (SC-02)
– Sheri Biggs for U.S. Congress (SC-03)
– William Timmons for U.S. Congress (SC-04)
– Wes Climer for U.S. Congress (SC-05)
– Russell Fry for U.S. Congress (SC-07)
These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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A massive line of supporters had gathered hours early to see President Trump speak.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:

The Gateway Pundit is traveling with the President today.
Trump is expected to take the stage at approximately 1 pm ET.
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