DETROIT (AP) — Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month, lending his support to the progressive nominee after a bruising Democratic primary exposed divisions within the party.

Obama will appear with El-Sayed at an Oct. 24 rally that will also feature other top Democratic candidates in Michigan, including Jocelyn Benson, the party’s nominee for governor. Obama is getting significantly more involved in the midterm elections, with additional campaign stops and advertisements expected to come in the closing weeks, according to plans shared first with The Associated Press.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a strategy to combat antisemitism Tuesday, including tens of millions of dollars in funding for hate crime prevention and Jewish cultural centers.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is weighing a drastic plan to pull planes, ships, weapons and tens of thousands of U.S. troops from Europe, despite warnings from NATO allies about the growing threat of Russian aggression, according to seven current and former U.S. and Western officials.

The reduction could be roughly one-third of all U.S. troops in Europe, or about 25,000. A U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the deliberations say it could be even larger — as much as half, or up to 40,000 troops.

The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee took the rare step Wednesday of publicly announcing a hold on the Trump administration’s $2.8 billion plan to sell 40,000 one-ton bombs to Israel.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has signaled the Senate could take up the bill. But even if the legislation passes the Senate, it’s unlikely to immediately lower energy costs: It directs states to consider making firms that operate new data centers pay a federally set rate for high-volume electricity usage.

Highlights

• Abusing declassification to prove Trump's conspiracies. Like clipping sentences from a report saying there is no Chinese election interference in order to support Trump.
• Using the CIA to tell Americans their votes were stolen
• He used the CIA on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galapagos islands.
• Authors argue that he is not actually an "adult in the room", and is politicizing the CIA

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