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Monday, October 26, 2026
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Good Morning! On this day in 1825, the Erie Canal opened after eight years of digging, and Gov. DeWitt Clinton set off from Buffalo aboard the Seneca Chief on the first trip to New York City. A relay of cannons fired one after another along the 363-mile route, so the city heard the news in about 90 minutes.
Scammers took $20 billion from Americans last year, and we want to tell you about the 10 most common scams that are putting you and your loved ones in danger right now. Odds are you’ve already encountered one or maybe even fallen into one. These deceptions are convincing enough to fool people who were sure they’d never fall for one, and knowing how they work is the best protection you have. So how do you keep yourself and the people you love safe? On today’s episode of Flyover Focus, we count down all 10, including one that threatens to drain your entire retirement account. Tune in here!
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 Musk Takes Credit for Starlink Curbs
Elon Musk said Saturday night that SpaceX deliberately restricted Ukraine’s Starlink service last week, accusing Kyiv’s military of breaking the system’s rules by using it for offensive drone strikes.
“That loophole was closed last week,” Musk wrote on X, calling his critics “bloodthirsty warmongers.” When another user posted that “Zelensky needs to go,” Musk replied, “Yes.”
Ukrainian officials say the charge is impossible. Commercial Starlink doesn’t work over Russian territory, and drone missions run only on Starshield, the military version that the U.S. government controls. A former defense ministry drone adviser said Ukraine “did not violate the terms of use.”
The slowdown, which capped front-line connections at 100 mph for more than a week, ended Saturday, two days after President Trump said Musk had agreed to “put it back.” Musk warned that if Starlink were ever shut off, “the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately.”
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Audi To Build First US Plant in Georgia
President Trump announced Saturday that Audi will build its first U.S. factory near Macon, Georgia, a roughly $4 billion plant that will turn out about 200,000 SUVs a year and employ about 4,500 people.
Audi CEO Gernot Döllner joined Trump onstage at a campaign rally in Perry, Georgia, 10 days before the midterms. “We are planning to bring our biggest and most premium SUVs, and produce them here in Macon,” he said. Production is slated to start in the early 2030s.
The appearance drew fire at home. A spokesman for IG Metall, Germany’s largest industrial union, called sharing a stage with Trump during an election “hard to understand,” saying Trump “wants to weaken our domestic economy.” Döllner said Sunday the deal followed “many months of careful planning and intense negotiations,” and that appearing was a matter of respect for the office.
Audi is the only German automaker without a U.S. plant, and tariffs cost it about $1.4 billion last year. Volkswagen’s supervisory board still has to approve the deal.
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Map: America’s Safest Cities
Juneau, Alaska, a capital reachable only by plane or ferry, is the safest city in America, according to a new ranking of 182 cities released last week.
The study scored cities on 41 measures, from murder and traffic deaths to natural disaster risk, unemployment, and credit scores. Juneau posted the lowest murder rate and lowest pedestrian death rate of any city studied, and its residents carry the ninth-highest credit scores.
Warwick, Rhode Island, and Overland Park, Kansas, round out the top three, followed by Burlington, Vermont, and its neighbor South Burlington. Virginia Beach, Cedar Rapids, Casper, Boise, and Yonkers complete the top 10.
At the bottom sit New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Baltimore, which ranked 180th out of 182 and near the bottom in both community safety and financial security.
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The following stories are featured exclusively on The Flyover Podcast—a daily show that gives you the most important headlines in under 15 minutes.
➤ Eleven people, six of them children, were shot after Florida A&M’s homecoming game, and police say a fight between two or three people set it off. (Hear Details)
➤ Clocks fall back this weekend, and three different plans to stop the twice-a-year switch all stalled in Congress. One would have split the difference by 30 minutes. (Hear Why)
➤ Most of what America streams was released five or more years ago, and a 2015 pop song is one of this year’s biggest hits. (Listen Now)
  
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➤ Former President Obama returned to the campaign trail Saturday with rallies in Cleveland and Detroit, calling President Trump’s second term “two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence.” (More)
➤ Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department’s Alaska Senate lawsuit Sunday as “guardrails” against voter confusion, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said the DOJ “should never have filed” it. (See Details)
➤ Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said he will move to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., if the federal immigration probe finds fraud, after a court filing listed her legal name as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. Omar has not been charged. (More)
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➤ Sunday’s NFL slate featured Pittsburgh’s 16-10 win over New Orleans in the league’s first regular-season game in France, Cleveland’s 27-24 last-second win over Tennessee, the Giants’ 27-21 overtime win over Houston, and Detroit’s 20-17 win over Green Bay. (See Scores)
➤ Kyle Larson won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega by 0.041 seconds over William Byron, extending his championship lead to 73 points with two races remaining. (More)
➤ Kimi Antonelli won Sunday’s United States Grand Prix for his ninth victory of the season, finishing 13.078 seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc. Max Verstappen placed third as Antonelli moved closer to clinching the Drivers’ Championship. (More)
➤ Miami remained No. 1 in the latest AP Top 25, followed by Ohio State, Georgia, Indiana, and Notre Dame. Texas made the biggest jump, rising eight spots to No. 11, while BYU fell six spots to No. 8. (See Full Rankings)
➤ Moscow was selected to host the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships, the first event awarded to Russia by an Olympic federation since its invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. (See Details)
➤ Yesterday’s Results: NFL | NHL | NBA | Soccer | Golf | NASCAR | F1
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➤ Scammers stole $20 billion from Americans last year, and the people they fooled were sure it could never happen to them. Odds are you’ve already encountered one of their tricks. (Tune In Here)
In the latest episode of Flyover Focus, we count down the 10 most common scams putting you and your loved ones in danger right now. These deceptions are convincing enough to fool even the most careful people, and knowing how they work is your best protection. We count them all down, including one that threatens to drain your entire retirement account. How many would you have spotted?
In case you missed it, last week’s Flyover Focus counted down 10 small towns that changed American history. (Watch Now)
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➤ Taco Bell is sticking with Pepsi through 2036, one week after sister chain KFC switched to Coke in the U.S. That keeps Pepsi-made staples like Mountain Dew Baja Blast and Doritos Locos Tacos on Taco Bell’s menu. (More)
➤ America’s billionaires are on the move. A new state-by-state ranking finds 46 states now have at least one, with California (255), New York (153), Florida (138), and Texas (88) holding the most. (See Rankings)
➤ Finland halted work on two Google data center sites after the company cleared an estimated 250,000 trees before finishing a required environmental review. Google’s Finland chief apologized and said it believed it had approval to proceed. (More)
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➤ Forcing a smile can lower stress and slow your heart rate even when you don’t feel like it, psychologists say. The catch is that it only works when it’s voluntary, not mandated. (See Why)
➤ A British spacecraft with robotic claws will hunt down two dead satellites and drag them low enough to burn up on reentry. The $81 million garbage truck launches from Scotland in 2029. (See Mission)
➤ A dying star 5,000 light-years away has shaped its leftover gas and dust into a lion’s face, mane and all, in a new James Webb image of what astronomers now call the Lion Nebula. (See Lion)
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➤ An 80-ton boulder that hung over visitors’ heads at New Hampshire’s Polar Caves Park since 1922 finally fell on the last day of the season. No one was hurt. (See Boulder)
➤ Cloistered nuns in rural Pennsylvania are building a $100 million stone monastery by hand, meant to last 1,000 years, with no electricity, hand-forged nails, and a finish date of 2041. (See Photos)
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 Daily Quote
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“If I can just find more crews that had a vow of obedience and were working toward something greater than their next raise, I’d be sitting good. We could build anything with a crew like that.”
— Joe Bonifate, the contractor overseeing a group of Pennsylvania nuns building their own stone monastery by hand
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Today’s Trivia
