Folks, it’s Kacee. Five stories on the site since last night’s recap, starting right here at home in Kentucky. Let’s walk through it.
Kentucky keeps DOJ monitors outside the polls. Kentucky election officials said Monday they will not allow Justice Department election monitors inside polling places in Jefferson and Fayette counties, pointing to KRS 117.235, the state law on who can be in a polling place. Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said monitors can watch from beyond the 100-foot line, and the State Board of Elections warned that voter intimidation can be charged as a Class D felony. Early, no-excuse in-person voting runs Thursday through Saturday, Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and you’ll need a photo ID.
The ballot fights in California and Washington. A federal appeals court on Monday declined to order California officials to set aside thousands of ballots the Justice Department says may have come from noncitizens, The Washington Post reported. The same day, the administration asked Washington state to set aside ballots from more than 400 people it alleges registered without U.S. citizenship, according to The Associated Press. Treat those numbers as allegations until they’re tested in court or confirmed by state election officials.
A report that Trump told Netanyahu to wait on Iran. CNN reported Monday, citing two U.S. officials and an Israeli security source, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for a joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran before Israel’s election, but the Trump administration asked him to wait until Washington was ready. Netanyahu’s office called the report “fake news,” and the Network has not independently confirmed the anonymous-source claims. CNN’s U.S. sources also said forces in the region could begin a new campaign against Iran within 96 hours of a presidential order.
Starlink users and an alleged spy firm. Reuters reported Tuesday, citing six people familiar with the matter, that an Israeli ad tech firm called Discover-Tech appears to have made Starlink users a priority target, with researchers saying its ads were probably used to pinpoint or monitor users. Citizen Lab and the ad security firm Confiant said the firm gave Israeli surveillance vendors a route into major ad platforms, and Google, Comcast and others have since cut it off. These are still allegations, and Discover-Tech has not been charged with anything.
The Air Force’s first hypersonic missile goes into production. The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $694 million contract to produce and field the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, known as ARRW, moving it from testing into production. The weapon uses a solid-fuel booster to get past Mach 5 before releasing a hypersonic glide vehicle. The Air Force says it won’t release quantities or delivery dates.
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