Trump says Israel will stop receiving $4B in US aid by year's end, can still buy weapons

🔮 The Trump administration argues that allowing illegal voting and halting investigative work could lead to prosecution for those involved.

🔮 President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.S. aid to Israel would end at the close of the year, arguing that the country no longer needs the assistance and can purchase its own weapons. "We were giving them $4 billion – we are – but it gets cut off at the end of the year," Trump told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday morning in an Election Day morning announcement.

🔮 "The Court is therefore unpersuaded by the plaintiffs' assertion that a person who is simply 'project[ing a] command[ing] presence, scan[ning] crowds, and more" – without any outward indications of law enforcement authority – would generate objectively reasonable fear in a voter," according to Walton, who was nominated to the Washington, D.C., court by former President George W. Bush.

🔮 The DOJ argues the limited injunction would preserve the ballots while their eligibility is investigated, without canceling any votes.

🔮 Rogers welcomed the early November surprise with just two days to go before Tuesday's Election Day in a race that could flip the Democrat Senate seat red and help President Donald Trump's party keep control of the upper chamber.

🔮 Murphy, who is not running in the midterms but has been stumping for Democrats, began feeling numbness in his arm Saturday afternoon while at his son’s hockey game and was taken to a local hospital before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring, according to Allison Herwitt. "He is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery," Herwitt said, adding that Murphy is responding well to treatment and doctors are encouraged by his progress.

🔮 A disturbance in the crowd may have preceded the shooting, police said.

🔮 We couldn't be more different from Republicans versus Democrats, and I honestly hope people see this straight in the eye with what's happened out of Alaska, that Democrats are completely disingenuous.

🔮 Jason Turkish, a Jewish registered Democrat, told The Detroit News he will be voting for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, appearing at a Rogers event sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition on Wednesday night at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan.

🔮 A federal judge rejected the Justice Department’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have barred California from counting mail ballots from more than 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters, saying the election "is already underway." U.S. District Judge David Carter, in a ruling issued late Wednesday night after a hearing in Los Angeles, said the government's request "would wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway, create a chilling effect on election workers and voters alike, and discount the votes of United States citizens." The Justice Department immediately appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. "