"Fake polls aren't always fake news.

For the second time this year, a new pollster has been caught flat-out fabricating political survey data.

In August, Median Strategies was exposed as bogus after claiming its published poll showed that socialist Francesca Hong had a 23-point lead in the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin. She lost.

Now we learn that Wedgewood Polls, another new polling company that emerged this election cycle, was a complete fraud.

The company admits that just one of the 17 polls it published this year was real."

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"There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away.

"One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions versus their preservation and renewal.

"Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism."

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"As the footage of violent French riots circled the globe this weekend, American conservatives are warning that the same destruction could come to American shores.

"The threat, as they see it, comes from the burgeoning Red-Green Alliance, a partnership between the far-left and Islamists. A powerful visual of the purported alliance was on display in France this past weekend as crowds waving Palestinian flags protested and rioted alongside French communists and other far-left groups.

"At the center of the international promotion of France's unrest sits the network funded by left-wing donor Neville Roy Singham, whose groups were central boosters of the wave of anti-Israel demonstrations in the United States after Hamas' deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack. 

"Singham, who was born in the United States, now lives in Shanghai, China. The New York Times reported in 2023 on his ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party."

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"The worst thing George W. Bush did while president wasn't the war with Iraq. It was signing the 'Energy Independence and Security Act,' which, among other ill effects, produced today's ban on incandescent light bulbs. Our most fervent hope is that Republicans will correct this mistake while they still have the chance.

"Those inexpensive incandescent bulbs, invented right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. by Thomas Edison, were deemed by our Washington masters to be too inefficient. And, because the public was told we needed to 'save energy,' the law mandated efficiency standards that traditional bulbs could never meet.

"And so, despite the fact that millions of consumers prefer traditional lightbulbs for regular home use, they aren't made anymore. Now, buying replacement bulbs has transmogrified from a simple process of deciding what wattage you needed to an overly complicated exercise in deciding which of an array of different types of lighting devices -- all wildly more expensive than the old Edison bulbs -- will suit your lighting needs."

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"There was a time when diesel fuel was usually cheaper than gasoline in the United States. That relationship began to change about 20 years ago, and since then diesel has generally traded at a premium. Today, that premium is not just persistent but unusually large, which raises an obvious question: how did we get from gasoline typically costing more than diesel to diesel costing substantially more than gasoline?

"The answer has two parts. The first is structural and goes back to the mid-2000s, when changes in fuel specifications, taxes, refining economics, and global demand fundamentally altered the relationship between gasoline and diesel prices.

"The second is more immediate. In 2026, refinery disruptions, geopolitical conflicts, low inventories, and reduced exports from major suppliers have pushed the global diesel market into an unusually tight position. Understanding the difference between those long-term and short-term forces explains both why diesel usually costs more and why the gap is so large right now."

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"The Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of 16 individuals across nine states for alleged election crimes, including voting by illegal immigrants and fraudulent voter registration.

"Pennsylvania had the most arrests in this nationwide sweep, with four people arrested: Hacina Saadi, a 48-year-old illegal immigrant from France; Jamil Ahmad, a 50-year-old lawful permanent resident from Pakistan; Nighat Jamil, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident from Pakistan; and Paulo Silva, a 54-year-old lawful permanent resident from Portugal. All were charged with illegally voting in the 2024 general election.

"Despite being referred to as lawful permanent residents, those with such a status cannot vote in federal, state or most local elections, according to the U.S. government.

"'Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,' a DOJ spokesperson told Just the News. 'In 2020, Iowa's 2nd Congressional District race was decided by six votes. The department is now bringing more than double that amount of election fraud cases every week. Every federal race also shares the ballot with state and local contests, which are often decided by even narrower margins."

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"Houthi rebels responsible for deadly missile strikes in Saudi Arabia have been using Anthropic's artificial intelligence to make warheads, the US firm has admitted.

"The makers of Claude revealed in a report last month that the Yemen-based fighters launched three weapons programmes using their AI products.

"Over the weekend, the Houthis launched their most devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia to date.

"In two attacks on the King Khalid International Airport, 14 were killed and hundreds injured, forcing the closure of the airport."

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"With the race between Democrats and Republicans to control the House and Senate now in the homestretch, many candidates are eagerly seeking opportunities to one-up their opponents and secure a last-minute edge -- or knockout.

"Most of those opportunities have or are still coming in the form of the classic, one-on-one debates with Election Day on Nov. 3.

"But the question remains, do these actually impact the key contests?"

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"Over the summer, the Miami Herald told the story of a young man named Camron Drummond. In June, he found himself standing in line at a South Florida job fair in Amerant Bank Arena, holding a red folder filled with resumes. Employers at the fair included the Army, the Navy and several police departments. He was looking for IT work -- 'literally anything,' he told the newspaper.

"Since graduating, he estimated he had applied to hundreds of jobs. By the time the piece went to press, six employers had gotten back to him -- three just to say no. The furthest he got was the final stage of a customer service interview with a budget airline. Then the company stopped responding.

"In the meantime, Drummond was working for DoorDash about seven hours a day, bringing home roughly $300 a week. He was crashing at his brother's place, facing the prospect of having to start repaying $20,000 in student loans.

"The New York Fed reported that unemployment for Americans ages 22 to 27 with bachelor's degrees was 5.6 percent in the second quarter of this year. Unemployment for 20-to 24-year-old college grads hit 9.7 percent in July -- a post-pandemic high -- before falling back to a still-high 7.8 percent last month."

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"Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.

"A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing 'too fast,' while 27% say its development has been 'about right' and only 8% say it's moving 'too slow.'

"The risk that powerful AI models could evade human control and hurt humanity, once the stuff of science fiction, has been emerging as a more pressing concern. Even leaders of the companies that are developing frontier AI models are calling for a slowdown so that government regulation can catch up. President Donald Trump has pushed back against slowing down AI development because of concerns that China will gain an advantage with the technology. Data centers powering AI projects have also taken a prominent role in major political races as the midterm elections approach."

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