Thursday, October 8, 2026 Today, Democratic candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District Bernadette Greene-Placentia was sexually assaulted by two men while repairing campaign signs; soldiers seriously wounded in an Iranian drone strike say the military’s medical system failed them; a Massachusetts man has pled guilty to selling plutonium from Russia; the Trump administration is blocking international election monitors for the first time in two decades; a federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center board to unseal a renovation report the Trump administration has been trying to keep secret; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Today, Democratic candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District Bernadette Greene-Placentia was sexually assaulted by two men while repairing campaign signs; soldiers seriously wounded in an Iranian drone strike say the military’s medical system failed them; a Massachusetts man has pled guilty to selling plutonium from Russia; the Trump administration is blocking international election monitors for the first time in two decades; a federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center board to unseal a renovation report the Trump administration has been trying to keep secret; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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