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New Jersey opens nine days of in-person early voting today, Saturday 24 October, with Senator Cory Booker and the closely watched Kean-Bennett House race on the ballot. Alex and Jordan run through the voting hours, the record early turnout of the last cycle, and the provisional-ballot rule for mail-ballot voters.

Almost 21 million Americans have already voted in the midterm elections, with turnout running ahead of both 2022 and the record 2018 midterms, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. Alex and Jordan break down the surge, the battleground-state pace, and what it could mean for Election Day on 3 November.

In Michigan's battleground Senate race, Reuters finds voters across Detroit's Jewish, Muslim and Black communities ranking gas and grocery prices above the Israel-Gaza debate. Alex and Jordan meet the voters putting affordability first and explain why the race could decide control of the Senate.

One of India's most wanted fugitives, Haryana gangster Himanshu Bhau, has been found in ICE custody in Nevada under a false name, with India pushing for fast deportation through immigration proceedings. Alex and Jordan trace the arrest in Las Vegas, the 18 cases he faces in India, and why no US criminal charges have been filed.

A divided Fifth Circuit has ruled detained immigrants in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have no constitutional right to bond hearings, extending mandatory detention in a major win for the administration's deportation drive. Alex and Jordan explain what the 10-7 ruling means, why seven dissenting judges warned of indefinite detention, and what the Supreme Court will decide next.

A federal jury awarded $51.8 million to the mother of Antonio Garza Jr., a mentally ill man shot dead by San Bernardino County deputies in 2023, in what is described as the largest police-shooting verdict in California history. Alex and Jordan break down the award, the shooting, and the family's push for criminal charges.

A Durham County jury convicted Miguel Salguero-Olivares on all four counts for the 2012 murder of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth, and he was sentenced immediately to life without parole after a DNA breakthrough from a 2021 drink-driving stop. Alex and Jordan tell the story of the 5,158-day wait, the cold-case breakthrough, and the family's forgiveness in court.

A divided 9th Circuit panel ruled 2-1 on 23 October that President Trump's 2025 federalisation of 4,000 California National Guard troops for Los Angeles was unlawful, rejecting the claim that immigration protests amounted to a rebellion. Alex and Jordan explain the ruling, its precedent for future Guard deployments in the West, and Governor Newsom's reaction.

At a South Florida rally on 24 October, President Trump revived the idea of US military action against Cuba, saying warships returning from the Iran campaign could stop in Cuba, though no order, date or target was announced. Alex and Jordan report the remark exactly as made and separate rally rhetoric from military action.

A newly surfaced unclassified intelligence memo dated 23 October 2026 warns that Iranian lethal plotting against American citizens has reached advanced stages in the Middle East and certain other countries, prompting the State Department to order nonessential personnel and families out of posts in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dhahran, the UAE, Lebanon, Qatar and Jordan. Alex and Jordan explain what the memo says, what it does not claim, and what to watch next.