Trump veers into profanity and stereotyping in rally speeches.
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Trump → veer → speeches
And why some consumers are hunting their dinner amid concerns over meat quality.
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consumers → hunt → quality
Trump’s final campaign swing is taking on a darker tone
President Donald Trump has traveled 22 of 28 days in October, appearing in a total of 19 states.
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Trump → take → states
His remarks have averaged 1½ hours.
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remarks → average → hours
At 80 years old, this frenzied pace is testing his stamina and his ability to deliver a compelling rationale for preserving the Republicans’ slim majority in Congress.
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pace → test → Congress
This is Morning Rundown, a weekday newsletter to start your day.
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This → start → day
But between messages about the economy — during which he has touted numbers without substantiation — viewers are getting profanity, physical objectification and ethnic stereotyping.
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viewers → tout → profanity
For example, he emphasized Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s middle name, Mohamed, at a rally in Michigan.
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he → emphasize → Michigan
Upset that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump called Norway a “s---house country.”
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Trump → win → Norway
He’s commented on Ohio Senator Jon Husted’s muscular “a--” and said rapper Nicki Minaj’s is “hard to miss.”
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Minaj → comment → a--
At a South Carolina event, after punches were thrown at a protester, Trump said, “That was incredible!”
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That → throw → protester
White House communication director, Steven Cheung, insists Trump is “making a significant impact on races.”
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Trump → insist → races
While Ronald Reagan popularized “Morning in America,” Trump rallies tell of a gathering darkness.
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rallies → popularize → darkness
His closing message before the elections leans into the notion that jihadists and communists are hiding in plain sight — and on the ballot.
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jihadists → lean → ballot
Dive deeper into the 2026 election:
- See the latest polling and the battleground states in play.
- Track early voting tallies by age, gender and more.
- Find out how candidates are polling in competitive Senate races.
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candidates → dive → races
See who’s running and how Republicans and Democrats fared in past elections.
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Republicans → see → elections
More politics news:
- Trump is calling for criminal charges against Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate in Alaska’s Senate race, after the New York Times reported that she and other Democrats worked to recruit a candidate with the same name as GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.
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she → call → Sullivan
But finding another Dan Sullivan to run doesn’t necessarily run afoul of election laws, legal experts said.
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experts → find → laws
- A federal judge refused the Trump administration’s request to segregate 20,000 mail-in ballots in California from alleged noncitizens.
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judge → refuse → noncitizens
- For subscribers: Election prediction markets became less accurate as primaries neared, a new analysis found, challenging the notion that they can predict the likely outcome of a race.
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they → become → race
Newly obtained court records reveal Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who was featured in GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad, showed signs of instability in recent years.
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who → obtain → years
40,000 DHS employee names exposed in hack
Anti-fascist activists opposed to the Trump administration said they hacked the Department of Homeland Security and created a database of names and contact information for over 40,000 agency employees.
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they → expose → employees
The searchable database is hosted by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a transparency nonprofit that often makes hacked government files available to the public, similar to WikiLeaks.
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files → host → WikiLeaks
The group behind the attack calls itself the Department of Peace, and the alleged hackers and DDoSecrets said the release was to protest DHS and its deportation operations.
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release → call → DHS
The 40,000 agency employees whose personal information was shared represent roughly 15% of the more than 260,000 people directly employed by DHS.
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information → share → DHS
The data includes work contact information, which can be sensitive because DHS keeps many employees’ identities secret, including those of ICE officers.
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DHS → include → officers
Study estimates three-fourths of NFL players who died in 15-year span had CTE
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who → estimate → CTE
An estimated 75% of football players who died from 2008 to 2023 had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a new study found, marking the highest estimate to date.
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study → estimate → date
“I had to double-check the numbers,” said study leader Yorghos Tripodis, the director of statistics and data management at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease and CTE Center, expressing shock at the results.
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Tripodis → have → results
One huge hurdle in studying CTE, which affects parts of the brain involved with regulating behavior and emotions, is that the condition can only be diagnosed after a person has died.
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person → study → behavior
Plus, 99% of the brains donated to research by NFL players had signs of CTE, according to a previous study.
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% → donate → study
To estimate how many players had CTE more accurately, Tripodis and his team combined data from Boston University’s UNITE Brain Bank with national death records for other former NFL players.
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Tripodis → estimate → players
Milwaukee Brewers claim their first World Series title
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Brewers → claim → title
They beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 of the World Series, then poured onto Tropicana Field, in St. Petersburg, Florida, after closer Trevor Megill induced a soft grounder for the final out.
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Megill → beat → out
“This is one of the greatest moments of my life,” Brewers shortstop Cooper Pratt said on Fox after the game.
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Pratt → say → game
It doesn’t even feel real.
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It → feel → ?
Milwaukee is the MLB’s smallest market, and its payroll ranked only 19th out of 30 teams.
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payroll → rank → teams
But the Brewers still completed one of the most dominant postseason runs in MLB history.
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Brewers → complete → history
The team’s 12-2 postseason record is among the best since 1995, when the league expanded the playoffs to include wild-card teams.
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league → expand → teams
Staff Pick: Want cheap, high-quality meat? Hunt your own game
Ground beef prices are near record highs, and concerns about meat quality are mounting.
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concerns → want → quality
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