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Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Hosts with a pretty brutal summary of Trump's very bad week on the campaign trail, and they didn't even get to Arnold Palmer's penis or talking about how much he loves cows.

Since Trump began campaigning in 2015, we've seen the evangelical Christian nationalist movement take over the MAGA GOP.
The now retired Christian Broadcast Network's Pat Robertson was a key figure in promoting the Big Lie and first prophesied Trump would win in 2020, then after he lost, led the charge to overthrow the general election of 2020.

“A judge tossed out a Republican Party lawsuit aimed at tightening the qualifications for Americans overseas to cast ballots in Michigan,” Politico reports.

A Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin has been found dead after apparently falling from the 10th story window of his Moscow apartment, The Telegraph reports.

He is the latest of nearly a dozen Russian energy executives to die in mysterious circumstances over the past two years.

The Wrap: In an interview with Vanity Fair, Baier explained that he had his reasons for the numerous cutoffs of the vice president during his brief interview with the Democratic candidate.”

“With two weeks until Election Day, more than 15 million people have already cast their ballots, the clearest sign yet that voting habits were forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic and that early voting has become a permanent feature of the American democratic process,” the New York Times reports.

After former President Donald Trump’s very weird week, more than 400 doctors and health professionals are questioning his mental and physical fitness to serve, and calling for him to release his medical records.

Mayor Mike Johnston has responded to the big changes City Council members want him to make to his proposed 2025 budget by offering up $7.3 million in reshuffled spending, including a boost to the city’s rent assistance program.
That’s roughly 25% of the value of budget changes council members asked for.

I’m old enough to remember when the Times, although leftist, had a certain gravitas and some self-respect.