Arizona’s elections chief must disclose the identities of 218,000 individuals on the state’s voter rolls who lack documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC), a judge ruled on Thursday.

Writing on behalf of Maricopa County Superior Court, Judge Scott Blaney ordered Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to comply with an open records request filed by Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona (“EZAZ.org”).

The conservative grassroots organization submitted the request last month shortly after state officials revealed there are approximately 98,000 registered “full-ballot” voters who have not provided documentary proof of citizenship, which is required to participate in state and local elections. The error appears to have resulted “from the way the Motor Vehicle Division [MVD] provides driver’s license information to the state’s voter registration system,” according to Votebeat Arizona.

Fontes said most of the affected voters are registered Republicans, according to the outlet.

In Arizona, voters registering via state registration form must show DPOC to vote in state and local races. Individuals who are unable to provide such documentation are registered as “federal-only” voters and can only cast ballots in federal races.

Later that month, state officials revealed that they found an additional 120,000 registered voters lacking DPOC, bringing the total number of affected voters to 218,000. That discovery was announced after the Arizona Supreme Court had already sided with Fontes and the Arizona GOP in granting affected registrants the ability to vote “full ballot” this fall.

(Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, along with state resident Yvonne Cahill, filed an amicus brief in the case,

The Trump campaign filed a complaint against The Washington Post with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in response to advertising efforts Republicans argue amount to illegal electioneering.

On Thursday, the Dhillon Law Group filed a complaint on behalf of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, that claims the Post is engaged in “a dark money corporate campaign” to boost Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The Washington Post recently announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate, a decision the Post’s owner defended on the basis that ‘Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,’” the complaint reads. “Yet, on October 30, 2024, the news website Semafor published a report titled ‘Washington Post pays to boost stories critical of Trump as subscribers flee.’”

The Semafor article published Wednesday chronicled the paper’s desperate efforts to save readership after losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers in the aftermath of an announcement that the editorial board would not endorse Harris.

“Washington Post pays to boost stories critical of Trump as subscribers flee,” the headline read.

Semafor reported that eight days before Election Day, “On Monday, the paper aggressively ramped up its paid advertising campaign, boosting dozens of articles related to the election. While the articles about Vice President Kamala Harris were relatively neutral in tone and focused on her innovative digital strategy, her policy proposals, and her chances of winning next week, the articles that the Post paid to highlight about Trump told a different story.”

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Americans hoping for an economic rebound in the waning months of 2024 under the Biden-Harris administration did not receive the news they were hoping for on Friday.

According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. economy only added 12,000 nonfarm payroll jobs during October. The nation’s unemployment rate remained “essentially unchanged” at 4.1 percent.

The agency detailed how “[e]mployment continued to trend up in health care and government” sectors, while job losses were reported in the “help services” sector. The manufacturing industry also experienced a decline in job numbers, which BLS attributed to “strike activity.”

According to Fox Business, the 12,000 total is “well below the 113,000 gain that was predicted by LSEG economists and the lowest tally since December 2020.”

Equally notable, however, is the agency’s revelation that the total number of nonfarm payroll jobs for August and September were less than originally reported. According to BLS, August’s total “was revised down by 81,000, from +159,000 to +78,000, and the change for September was revised down by 31,000, from +254,000 to +223,000.”

“With these revisions, employment in August and September combined is 112,000 lower
[nonfarm payroll jobs] than previously reported,” the agency concluded.

The Biden-Harris administration’s downward revision of job totals is not a new phenomenon. Results from an annual analysis by BLS published in August revealed that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from March 2023 to March 2024 than originally reported.

October’s jobs numbers present an increasing problem for