Dan J. Sullivan, the second Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot, fled his home days before the New York Times broke the ballot scandal that has now drawn a criminal probe from the Justice Department. An undercover video catches Sen. Elissa Slotkin laying out a plan for "signature cases" against the Trump administration if Democrats win Congress, just days before the midterms. A federal appeals court lets the State Department keep the diversity visa green card lottery frozen while it appeals. And Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, was hit with a record $6.3 billion hack blamed on North Korean hackers.

Five days before the midterms, the Justice Department has issued a new wave of grand jury subpoenas in its criminal probe of how “Decoy Dan” Dan J. Sullivan landed on Alaska's Senate ballot, after a New York Times report that Democratic operatives sought to recruit candidates who share the incumbent's name. The Times also reports that federal agents investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage during the Obama administration, reportedly found evidence of fraud, and never brought charges. Early voting is past 31 million ballots, the Twin Cities saw another round of fraud-related search warrants, and El Salvador is sending about 1,000 troops to Haiti.

Five days before the midterms, the New York Times reports that Democratic Senate Campaign Committee aides and Mary Peltola's campaign staff worked to recruit the second Dan Sullivan onto Alaska's ranked-choice ballot, just as Trump's DOJ asks a court to hold up certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is breaking with Trump to endorse a Democrat for governor, and questions about foreign influence are swirling around Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Breaking tonight: El-Sayed's father sits on the board of a charity that was previously raided and fined for laundering money to Saddam Hussein. In Minnesota, prosecutors have charged James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felonies over videos testing the state's voter vouching law. And in Brazil, Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede, defied a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports, and landed in Miami.

One week before the midterms, the Federal Election Commission has taken its electronic filing system offline after Reuters reported hacking attempts against the agency. At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz and Cuba's foreign minister got into a shouting match on the General Assembly floor during the debate over the Cuba embargo. The FBI also searched the Beverly Hills home of billionaire Stephen Cloobeck, where former Rep. Eric Swalwell had stayed, in the widening investigation into Swalwell. And a Democratic House candidate in North Carolina was served a felony summons at her own campaign rally, part of a strange trend of Democratic candidates and officials with criminal records.

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with violating the Espionage Act. Nearly 500 blank Maine absentee ballot envelopes ended up in a Maryland storage unit, Maine's investigation was closed without answers, and The Daily Signal's own Virginia Grace McKinnon received multiple mail-in ballots. With Election Day eight days away, Trump's DOJ has sued Alaska over the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot, and the legal war over noncitizen voter lists, federal monitors, and armed agents at the polls keeps escalating. In Brazil, Lula was declared the winner by about 4.4 million votes after a Supreme Court justice who used to be his lawyer extended voting by two hours minutes before polls closed, and Flávio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede.

The full 5th Circuit just handed ICE a major win, ruling 10-7 that detainees who entered the country illegally and have lived here for years are not constitutionally entitled to individual bond hearings. Two former senior FBI intelligence officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, were charged with lying to Congress about their roles in the Hunter Biden laptop probe, just ten days before the midterms. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a Spanish-language video coaching New Yorkers on how to evade ICE, and Marco Rubio publicly invited Cubans seeking change to partner with the CIA as Trump floats sending warships to Cuba after Iran.

Sources reveal Rep. Ilhan Omar's name isn't her real name, and a Justice Department filing in federal court in D.C. now lists her under a different name, raising new legal questions for the Somali-born Minnesota Democrat. Trump's DOJ is going after federal judges in Minnesota over their immigration comments, while a federal judge in California just blocked DHS from continuing certain noncitizen-voting investigations in California and eight other states. In Los Angeles, federal prosecutors charged 15 people, including six medical professionals, in alleged health care fraud schemes totaling about $2 billion in false claims. And with Election Day less than two weeks away, Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers traded insults in Michigan while Michele Tafoya closes in on Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota.

DEVELOPING: A new wave of strikes is hitting Iran as the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz comes to a head. House Republicans subpoenaed New Jersey today over the 6,600 noncitizens added to its voter rolls, while California faces fresh federal scrutiny over its mail ballots and voter rolls less than two weeks before Election Day. Polling firm Wedgewood admitted most of its polls were fabricated after the New York Times and other aggregators folded them into their averages, and both parties are furious. The Justice Department rolls out a nationwide fraud enforcement surge with Vice President Vance.

Federal, state, and local agents raided social adult day care centers across New York City today in a Medicaid fraud investigation, the same day independent journalist Nick Shirley joined President Trump in the Oval Office for the launch of a new $25 million fraud whistleblower program. In Ohio, a pro-Vivek Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother is drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle, and the campaign is standing by it with Election Day two weeks away. And Sen. Bernie Moreno says he'll lead a Senate push to open Trump Accounts to every American under 40, a potentially massive expansion. Plus, Sen. Tim Scott joins us live on how redistricting will shape the midterms.

Federal agents arrested 28 noncitizens across California in a sweep the Justice Department calls "Operation Protect the Vote," just days after DOJ gave the state an ultimatum over roughly 20,000 suspected noncitizen mail ballots and took California to federal court. Across the Atlantic, riots tore through France and Italy over the weekend, with looting, arson, and more than a thousand arrests in France alone. And House Oversight Chairman James Comer alleges that Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband sold investors wine barrels from his winery with nothing in them. Plus, James O'Keefe has landed an interview with a Michigan Democratic Party employee who says Abdul El-Sayed is taking foreign dollars.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's papers from medical school reveal one of the worst late-campaign revelations in political history. CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper says the U.S. blockade has kept at least $25 billion worth of Iranian crude from reaching the market. And the White House press shop is in turmoil again, with reports that Katie Zacharia was fired less than a week into the job.

President Trump is accusing Sen. John Cornyn and Karl Rove of sabotaging the Republican effort in Texas just weeks before the midterms, while Democrat James Talarico's CNN town hall is drawing heavy criticism. Meanwhile, Trump's Justice Department just sued California over its ballots, alleging thousands of mail ballots went to noncitizens. And Tony has new reporting that Iran's IRGC is moving tanks toward the Iraqi border, fearing a U.S. invasion. Plus, we give you our official midterm election predictions as the race tightens.

Sen. Chuck Grassley says Jack Smith's special counsel team and the Biden Justice Department collected data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, supporters and voters, including red MAGA hat buyers, with records dating back to 2005 and, in Grassley's words, "well outside Smith's scope." On the legal front, the Ninth Circuit has handed the Trump administration a win over California, ruling the state can't force federal immigration agents to display identification. And the administration says it has removed tens of thousands of deceased and double-covered people from Obamacare, as fraud becomes a front-line midterm issue. Plus: a container ship goes down near Hormuz, U.S. soldiers return to the jungle in Panama, and The Daily Signal's Virginia Grace McKinnon joins us live on new midterm election scandals.

Three weeks before the midterms, early voting numbers are running well below expectations in many states, lower than some experts projected. The Democrats' answer? Pull Hillary Clinton out of political cold storage to co-host a midterm podcast with Kara Swisher. Meanwhile, the Falklands are heating up again: British paratroopers just rehearsed a 1982-style amphibious assault on the islands as Argentina's Javier Milei lets his ultimatum over the Sea Lion oil project run out. Plus, the Supreme Court takes up the case of a Nigerian asylum seeker who cooked for a terrorist group, and the FBI hits North Korean laptop farms across Texas.

After a week of Houthi missile attacks on Saudi airports, a Saturday strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport left at least 12 dead, including an American, and more than 300 wounded. Back home, Homeland Security agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home, part of what the Justice Department calls an ongoing criminal investigation, just three weeks before the midterms. And a federal judge says the Trump administration defied her order, cutting down hundreds of trees at a historic D.C. golf course without the notice she demanded.

A federal judge ruled that the Justice Department's effort to collect state voter rolls and run them against a federal immigration database is unlawful, and another judge blocked the deportation of a man shot by ICE in New York City. The State Department has now revoked more than 250,000 visas, and Rubio just wrapped a European tour featuring a new Greenland security pact and a Strategic Dialogue in Athens — State Department Principal Deputy Spokeswoman Paloma Chacón joins us LIVE. Meanwhile, the Michigan Senate debate got personal, forecasters are feuding over the midterm polls, and gun owners just scored a major win as the ATF stops enforcing NFA registration for suppressors and short-barreled rifles.

Texas Senate nominee James Talarico has been off the campaign trail for 12 days with just 26 days until Election Day — his campaign says it's the flu, while Ken Paxton's "Where's Jimmy?" countdown and a crowd chant at Trump's San Antonio rally have turned the absence into the story of the race. Meanwhile, Vice President Vance announced that Microsoft, Adobe, and several Indian IT firms are being suspended from the green card program for H-1B workers over fraud allegations, Defense Secretary Hegseth says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public, and President Trump just promised no strikes on Iran before the midterms.

On the third anniversary of October 7, the FBI announced it stopped an ISIS-inspired plot to attack the Mall of America, arresting an 18-year-old U.S. citizen of Somali descent from Richfield, Minnesota, after a nearly two-year investigation. Meanwhile, the DNC filed a federal lawsuit over the Trump administration's taxpayer-funded TV ads, ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is expected to face new U.S. charges over the alleged torture of Americans, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's October 7 statement set off a firestorm.

An internal DHS alert obtained by NewsNation warns that a cartel-linked smuggler may be planning to target and abduct Border Patrol personnel near Presidio and El Paso, Texas. Meanwhile, Middle East oil exports are reportedly back above pre-war levels, and President Trump signed an executive order letting truckers and farmers use tax-free red-dyed diesel on the highway through the end of the year. The media is also melting down over Trump's rally remarks about Iran and California, and the White House says critics are twisting what he actually meant.

The Justice Department just filed to revoke the citizenship of 40 naturalized Americans accused of lying about serious criminal histories on their applications — what Attorney General Todd Blanche calls "the largest denaturalization effort in modern history." Meanwhile, Minnesota is making headlines for all the wrong reasons: a shooting outside a high school homecoming game, and 10 of 16 newly charged election-crime defendants across the country turning up in the North Star State. Turkey and Pakistan are also deploying troops to Saudi Arabia, and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit joins us LIVE.

The DOJ unsealed charges today against men in Florida and Louisiana accused of funneling over $1.7 million to Hamas through fake charity drives — with French authorities making coordinated arrests on the same day. Meanwhile, a Biden-appointed federal judge in Miami just ruled the 1996 law banning noncitizen voting unconstitutional, and New York's Cornell sexual assault case exploded into a political circus as AOC got fact-checked stating civil lawsuit allegations as established fact and Trump called newly appointed special prosecutor Letitia James "corrupt." France, meanwhile, remains in flames as student riots enter their third day.

Authorities thwarted a planned mass shooting at the Texas State Capitol scheduled for today — the same day President Trump was set to visit the state. Meanwhile, Bolivia's own Attorney General was arrested just two days after Secretary Rubio revoked his visa over trafficking and money laundering allegations, and a new Honduran migrant caravan is pushing north as DHS warns it has "zero chance" of reaching the border. Add in midterm polling that's gone completely haywire in every direction, and it's a packed show.

The DOJ just filed a judicial misconduct complaint against six of Minnesota's seven active federal judges for badmouthing the Trump administration's immigration crackdown to the New York Times. President Trump announced a $54 billion South Korean investment in an Alaska LNG pipeline today — even as a gas pipeline exploded outside Damascus, knocking out three Syrian power plants. And Israeli passengers on a FlyDubai flight stormed the cockpit themselves to stop an attempted jihadist hijacking — while legacy media tripped over itself calling it a "brawl."

Sen. Chuck Grassley dropped a bombshell today: Jack Smith's investigators didn't just subpoena 87 White House phones — they swept up communications from nearly 20 news outlets, including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The Federalist. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court handed Trump another 6-3 win, letting third-country deportations resume while the justices weigh the policy's legality. The Iranian regime is reportedly growing rattled by a surge in insurgent activity in the country's southeast, adding to the pressure from the naval blockade and stalled ceasefire talks. Rep. Riley Moore joins us LIVE to talk H-1B visa fraud, and brand-new polling shows record disapproval for absolutely everyone — Trump, Congress, even the Supreme Court.

Middle East crude oil exports just hit 80% of pre-war levels while Iran's own exports have collapsed to zero — and President Trump just rejected Tehran's latest ceasefire offer as insufficient. Meanwhile, swing-state Democrats are openly telling AOC and her fellow socialists to stay away from their campaigns just weeks before the midterms, Education Secretary Linda McMahon formally rescinded Biden's Title IX gender-identity rule today, and Rand Paul dropped fresh Fauci diary revelations about a secret aerosolized Ebola experiment.