Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline)

I’ve read more stories on the Cheesecake Factory controversy than the substantiated Trump rape allegations.

Breaking News: Flávio Bolsonaro, who just lost Brazil’s presidential election, left the country for the U.S. after the Brazilian police asked for his passport because he was being investigated in a money-laundering case. nyti.ms/4A0AfnN

Israel's election ended Tuesday with no clear winner, exit polls indicate, likely setting off weeks of jockeying before a leader is declared. https://to.pbs.org/4eW4CmW

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

“My whole community is scared. It’s post-911 in Dearborn. It’s that feeling, like we’re under attack.”

11 new letters about the Nov 3. election from Lancaster and Lebanon county residents online this morning. Read them all here: lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...

What potential threats to a free and fair election in Pennsylvania may arise next week is anybody’s guess, but county election officials, prosecutors and judges are ready to respond, come what may, according to a bipartisan panel of Pennsylvania election… lanc.news/4zY2IdS

Both false and racist

"The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, with most cases happening in the 1990s." truthout.org/articles/new...

Lancaster County logged 23 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the county total to 478 cases this year. Statewide, the number of people infected with the virus rose by 74 since last Monday, raising Pennsylvania’s total to 1,360… lanc.news/4yI8UFK

Mobile phones will be banned in Pennsylvania classrooms beginning in the 2027-28 school year under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Josh Shapiro. lanc.news/4iHhakv

If you need any more evidence that MAGA and Trump-authoritarians are going to refuse to accept the results of any US election they lose, just listen to the growing chorus of MAGAs calling for a coup and military overthrow of a newly elected Brazilian government they don't like.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Penn State Health is warning individuals who visited the emergency department at Lancaster Medical Center Oct. 18 and 19 of a possible measles exposure. lanc.news/3UeDrwP

The Trump Administration has advocated for Viktor Orbán to be UN Secretary-General, WSJ reports.

University of Pennsylvania professor Zeke Hernandez studied one particular aspect of the “ICE tax” — the price paid by local businesses and communities in the aftermath of ICE activity and arrests, events that are often sudden, public, and violent.

Is the measles outbreak slowing? Experts have differing opinions lancasteronline.com/news/health/...

Gas prices are above $4 per gallon at many Lancaster County stations at the start of the week. lanc.news/4zO9TFi

Each Monday, our digital team takes a look at last week’s top stories on LancasterOnline. lanc.news/3WNiKss

🚨Penn State Health is notifying the public of a potential measles exposure at Lancaster Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital in Hershey. pennstatehealthnews.org/2026/10/penn...

🚨Penn State Health is notifying the public of a potential measles exposure at Lancaster Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital in Hershey. pennstatehealthnews.org/2026/10/penn...

Trump is leaning toward a return to major combat operations, the officials said, though no final decisions have been made. Critics say another flurry of missile attacks won’t compel Tehran to surrender its nuclear program but would raise global energy prices.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Elon Musk's audacious campaign to keep Alex Gibney's Musk out of theaters and social media shows the fantastic power Musk wields in America today, especially the power to squelch his critics. www.status.news/p/elon-musk-...

We're still not sold on a bell-to-bell school cellphone ban, but we understand support for it [editorial] lanc.news/3UFgcfs

Reflecting on Cornell, Chi Phi and the burden of preventing sexual assault [column] lanc.news/4yAFAkB

Jonathan Groff will star in a one-man play on Broadway about the West Nickel Mines School shooting deadline.com/2026/10/jona...

A Hamilton Elementary School student wandered off the school’s playground unnoticed during recess Thursday and was found 15 minutes later in a nearby creek, according to an email the school sent to families. lanc.news/4dRVcIT

Solanco enrolls 32% more English language learners than last year; 11 languages spoken lanc.news/3VS7pqW

Trump: "We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran ... those beautiful ships, they'll pass Cuba. We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands, and then we're gonna send Marco Rubio in."

France is bracing for yet another wave of protests this weekend with authorities racing to prevent a repeat of the kind of violence and riots that hit the nation last week. https://cnn.it/3UfddKA

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Family members of staff at several U.S. embassies in the Middle East have been relocated, following the evacuation of nonessential workers and their families from Saudi Arabia.

Brent crude oil prices surge above $117/barrel for the first time since March 19th amid fears that the US will renew strikes on Iran.

Trump jokes he has the ‘right’ to run for a third term as president

Up next: Children's Halloween parties and trick-or-treating in close groups

As Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander explained in 2022: "Any election I don't like is stolen. ... If I don't like it, it's stolen. If I like it, it's not stolen. If you win, it's stolen."

BREAKING: The Trump administration sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses as another candidate shares his name.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

If he can pull the plug on Ukraine, he can pull the plug on America. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

"The rest of the world is exhausted when it comes to counting the damage that the U.S. is willingly doing to allies, multilateral structures, economic cooperation, disaster relief..." Our country is a climate supervillain and it barely registers in our politics. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The latest F&M poll tells the same story we've seen through much of this year - Shapiro has a 20-point lead while many voters say they don't know a lot about Garrity. With less than 2 weeks til Election Day, F&M's Berwood Yost says it's unlikely much will change lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

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