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CrowdStrike launched an AI kill switch feature to stop and block internal agents that misbehave. The cybersecurity giant also announced a Claude Cowork integration and two AI acquisitions. ... being able to control and shut down agent activity is vital to the next wave of AI adoption. ... CrowdStrike is betting that it has a solution to rogue artificial intelligence. The cybersecurity vendor on Tuesday launched an AI kill switch designed to let security teams stop internal AI agents that go rogue, block them from relaunching and cut off their enterprise network access. The tool is built into CrowdStrike’s Falcon...

HOUSTON — Could Texas really turn blue? This year’s U.S. Senate race is testing whether Democrats can win a seat the state has kept in Republican hands for nearly four decades. Democrat James Talarico is facing Republican Ken Paxton in a contest that has renewed attention on Democrats’ chances of winning statewide. Texas last elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1988, when Lloyd Bentsen won reelection. A Talarico victory would end that 38-year drought.

Her former campaign manager says the other Sullivan was recruited to confuse GOP voters. When the Justice Department sued Alaska over its manipulated Senate ballot, liberal shrieks could initially be heard up to the Arctic. They’re fading now, after the New York Times on Wednesday published evidence that Democrats rigged Alaska’s ranked-choice ballot with a decoy candidate who threatens to deny Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan re-election.Yet while exposing the deceit is helpful, it’s no remedy. Hurdle upon hurdle has been stacked against Alaskans’ ability to have a clear and fair vote: False-flag candidates, a Rube Goldberg ballot, deceptive electioneering. Court...

The reasons behind these record crime reductions aren’t difficult to understand... Most people who follow the news probably missed Monday’s announcement from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS): Felony violent crime plunged 25 percent in 2025. Rape fell 13 percent, robbery dropped 27 percent, and aggravated assault declined 31 percent. Property crime fell 19 percent. Except for rape, these represent the largest one-year declines since the government began collecting these data 53 years ago. That marks a dramatic reversal from the Biden administration, when felony violent crime soared by a record 59 percent and property crime rose 8 percent between...

A former worker on Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign was among 12 anti-Israel activists indicted for an alleged campaign of threats, vandalism and intimidation targeting Michigan’s Jewish community and University of Michigan officials. Mariam Odeh, 24, was among eight people initially indicted for allegedly conspiring to threaten university officials in an effort to force the institution to sever ties with Israel. Federal prosecutors announced Friday that four additional suspects had been indicted, bringing the total number of defendants to 12. According to The Detroit News, Odeh worked for El-Sayed’s Senate campaign for two weeks in 2024, receiving nearly $750 in...

A terrified teenage girl was seen making a desperate dash for freedom after allegedly being kidnapped and brutally stabbed inside a Baltimore basement. The newly released surveillance footage captures the 15-year-old fleeing a property on Garrison Boulevard at 8.52pm on October 22, just 43 minutes after arriving with her alleged attacker, who is an illegal immigrant released into the US under Biden. The girl had been taken to the property by Abubakarr Barrie, 23, who is accused of stabbing her repeatedly during a horrific ordeal that left her with a collapsed lung.

...The Westchester County Board of Elections says an issue with the thickness of paper ballots is preventing voting machines from accepting them at polling locations throughout the county. Officials urge voters to stay in line and complete their ballots as instructed, saying ballots will be secured in monitored orange emergency ballot bags and counted according to election procedures. The board is instructing poll workers to check voters in and provide them with ballots. The ballots are being placed in orange bags while technicians work to resolve the problems. The bags will be sent to the Board of Elections at the...

Law enforcement had to evacuate thousands of people Saturday night from St. Paul’s historic Union Depot during a Muslim halal market after fights broke out and reports of shots fired emerged.... ...Another deputy was heard telling Fletcher during the broadcast that members of about four Somali gangs had been spotted at the event. The deputy said there had been attempts to remove the gang members, but they kept returning... ...

...Democratic State Representative Faces Larceny Charge Police determined there was probable cause to charge Hughes with sixth-degree larceny. The Democratic lawmaker was arrested Friday and issued a misdemeanor summons, according to NBC Connecticut. The charge stemmed from the removal of campaign signs belonging to Republican candidate Darrell Harris....

Few members of the tight-knit Somali community are willing to talk about Ilhan Omar — due to threats and fear of violence if they do. The Minnesota representative is backed by a fiercely protective group, many of whom take it upon themselves to bombard anyone who speaks out with online threats and even physical harm in the US, Europe and Africa. The group is not officially connected to Omar, and do not receive instructions from her and it is unclear if she is personally aware of their actions. The Post understands one member of the community who broke ranks was...

The Greenwich woman who appeared to have her phone swatted away by Gov. Ned Lamont on Saturday as she attempted to ask him a question told News 8 on Sunday that she is unlikely to seek criminal charges. The woman, Jackie Homan, identified herself as a reporter for a local conservative media outlet. She was filming on her phone’s camera as she approached the governor at a Saturday morning campaign event at Scalzi Part in Stamford. She began asking Lamont about a traffic incident involving one of his close advisors, Rob Blanchard of Newtown, who was issued an infraction two...

U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould, Dallas Police, and federal law enforcement agencies announce joint federal actions following the deadly Deep Ellum Halloween shootings.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. The Midwesterner wrote that El-Sayed advocated for Sharia law and was heavily affiliated with groups that provided support to Hamas. The apple does not fall far from the tree because his own mother supported terrorist organizations. Three times, El-Sayed has avoided questions about labeling the Brotherhood a terrorist group. He instead mocked his questioner and repeated a painfully generic “this is about democracy” answer. “I’m not going to stoop to that level,” El-Sayed said when asked if he would designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. .......

The O’Keefe Media Group on Monday released “Talarico Tapes” one day before the midterm elections. James O’Keefe released undercover videos of Texas Democrats admitting Talarico’s “moderate” act is just for the cameras to win over Texas voters. Williamson County Democrat Chair and Talarico’s girlfriend’s family were caught on OMG undercover video revealing James Talarico holds extremely progressive views. “James is not going… he’s not going middle. He’s a progressive,” Matt Menard, Talarico’s girlfriend’s father told the OMG undercover journalist. “Don’t put too much stock into border security comments… “He’s [Talarico] offended by ICE. He and I have spoken about these...

Independent journalist and filmmaker Nick Shirley dropped a 43-minute investigative documentary overnight on X that has already gone viral, exposing how the Biden administration’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children operated as the largest government-funded human trafficking ring in history. In the film, posted to his account, Shirley states that “Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars,” detailing contracts in which one NGO alone received $895 million while others pulled in more than $100 million each. Shirley notes that groups operating in places like Tucson, Arizona, pocketed large sums...

I said last night on News 24, I expect the Democrats to make a net gain of 25 or more seats in the House and take control of that chamber. I think they will fall short in the Senate, but I could be wrong: it is entirely possible that they could gain four or more seats and take control of that body, too. What will the reaction in the press be, especially if the Democrats do eke out a Senate majority? You will be told that Trumpism has been repudiated. That Trump’s second term is as good as over. You...

Mario ZNA @MarioBojic Chaos in Kyiv after people discover Zelensky's torture chambers, where more than 40 men are being held captive. In Kyiv, Ukraine, people have just uncovered basements where Zelensky's units tortured kidnapped Ukrainians. According to initial witness accounts, the torturers broke prisoners' bones, cut off body parts, and sexually abused them. Who knows how many more of these torture chambers exist across Ukraine? The evil Zelensky is inflicting on his own people is directly supported by the EU. Video <1min at link

Obama-appointed U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, long criticized as a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge,” gave the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) and its UCLA Voting Rights Project allies tightly restricted access to the Trump Department of Justice’s list of more than 20,000 people federal investigators flagged as likely noncitizens who received mail ballots in California. The court order was crystal clear: the data was for standing arguments only. Plaintiffs could not disclose names and could not use the information for broader political or media attacks on the government’s election-integrity efforts. That restriction lasted roughly 24...

Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said the case against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides failed to establish probable cause for the charges against them. A federal judge on Monday dismissed a criminal complaint against a pair of former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress during its investigation of Hunter Biden, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui found the government had failed to show probable cause that Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides had lied to lawmakers about what they knew about the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Data from the abandoned computer later...

“Where Enlightenment philosopher Descartes said, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ the Communist says, ‘I’m right, therefore I’m in charge.’ — Data Republican on X It was supposed to be an election, but the event we’re in is actually an attempt to overthrow the government. The coup is underway. It’s a turnstile into the next phase of this Fourth Turning. We know who the perps are. They have outed themselves. They have declared war on the republic on video. Is there any other remedy except to arrest the bums, take them off the game board, and stuff them into a courtroom?...