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The low-cost carrier is ramping up service to reconnect orphaned airports left in the lurch by Spirit’s collapse and is adding tropical getaways to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. New York Post
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The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice. New York Times
The world’s richest person has antagonized Democrats, some of whom have signaled their intent to investigate him when they take control of Congress. New York Times
President Isaac Herzog has tried to avoid controversy and heal rifts in his largely ceremonial role. But his skills as a savvy mediator could be instrumental after an inconclusive election. New York Times
The race was called in favor of incumbent Senator Hagerty (R-Tenn.) when 99% of the total votes were counted. He received 55.1% while his opponent, Democrat Marquita Bradshaw, received 42.9% of the vote. OANN
Skies began to clear Tuesday, but while floodwaters from almost two weeks of on-and-off heavy rain still inundated parts of the U.S. Southwest, other areas left mud-caked by receding torrents presented homeowners and businessowners with the filthy work of cleanup. Washington Times
NASA officials said a communication lapse put them out of contact with the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which later this month will have traversed one light-day -- or the distance light travels in 24 hours -- in its nearly 50-year journey. Washington Times
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The Supreme Court waded back into the realm of religious liberty Tuesday as the justices heard a case testing whether states can ban Catholic schools from a universal preschool program because those schools exclude families that do not adhere to the church's teachings on homosexuality. Washington Times
An Oklahoma man is facing charges after he sent hundreds of pieces of mail containing a white powder to officials ahead of the 2024 and 2026 elections, according to the FBI. Washington Times
Democrat James Talarico will defeat Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race marking a major flip for Democrats that they have long sought in the Lone Star State. CBS
VOA VIEW: Texas will lose.
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Elon Musk's spending may have become a liability as voters in exit polls raised concerns about government corruption and the growing influence of billionaires. CNBC
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The move would reverse the company's $78 billion acquisition of Aetna and dismantle the vertically integrated healthcare conglomerate it created in 2018. CNBC
Mortgage rates came down again last week, but mortgage demand from homebuyers continued to decline, as high home prices and inflation stretch affordability. CNBC
The Learjet 60's left elevator was found miles from the Palm Beach County crash site, adding to evidence the jet broke apart before killing all nine aboard. FOX News
Jacob Allen Morley broke out of the Northwest Correctional Complex last week before Missouri state troopers tracked down the escaped murderer. FOX News
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasts sanctuary policies after Baltimore, Maryland, stabbing suspect was previously released by NYC despite ICE detainer. FOX News
Adam Robinson's final LinkedIn post celebrated RB2B hitting $10 million in annual recurring revenue and teased a live debate he would never attend. FOX News
North Korea launched several missiles toward the sea separating Korea and Japan on Wednesday morning, South Korea's military said, as Pyongyang rejected dialogue with Washington. UPI
Job openings changed little in September while the number of people who quit their jobs grew, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. UPI
At least 33 people were killed, 10 were injured and 50 remain missing after Russia dropped 3.3 ton bombs on a village where residents were taking cover. UPI
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Republican-appointed Justice Samuel Alito heartily defended the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a national right to abortion, and lamented the death threats that ensued at the time. It was the truth.
Alito, who authored the 2022 landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, hailed it as a textbook case of interpreting the Constitution as it is written rather than projecting one’s personal beliefs on the law. “I know this is very controversial, but I thought it was perfectly clear that the reference to liberty in the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868 did not mean that there is a constitutional right to abortion,” Alito told “Fox News Sunday” in a prerecorded interview.
“In 1868, abortion was illegal in most of the states,” he added. “And so it is unthinkable that those states would ratify an amendment that rendered their own laws unconstitutional and then continue to have those laws on the books for decades after that.” “I think there, originalism provided a clear answer.” Alito, who is widely regarded as the most conservative Supreme Court justice next to Clarence Thomas, is a disciple of originalism, the legal philosophy of interpreting the Constitution and laws by the text and how its meaning would’ve been understood at the time it was written.
He has frequently characterized himself as a “practical originalist,”though more recently he’s opted to describe himself as a “working judicial originalist” who is wary of academic originalism becoming too pure. The associate justice did a brief media tour ahead of the Supreme Court’s start of the new term on Monday to promote his new book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country."
In the Dobbs decision, Alito tore into legal precedents that began with Roe v. Wade, finding that the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed a fundamental right to privacy, which meant that women had the right to obtain abortion nationally. As Alito noted in the Dobbs opinion, the text of the Constitution made no mention of abortion or a right to privacy. His opinion returned the issue of abortion to Congress and the states. But before that opinion dropped, a draft of it was leaked to Politico in May 2022, weeks before the Supreme Court formally handed it down. During that time, justices in the majority opinion faced a torrent of death threats.
“That was totally unprecedented in the history of the country,” Alito said of the leak. “It was a grave breach of the trust that everybody who worked in this building had before that point. “And it very predictably made the five of us in the majority targets for assassination and nearly resulted in the assassination of my colleague Brett Kavanaugh.” Nicholas Roske, a California sicko, had shown up to Republican appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in June of 2022 armed to the teeth in an apparentassassination plot that was foiled.
