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Eleven Illinois counties will vote in the midterms on exploring a split from Chicago to form a new state — non-binding, but if all pass, 44 of 102 counties will have backed the idea.

Without any hurricane, king tides and a full moon flooded Florida’s east coast — Port Canaveral hit its highest non-storm water level since 1994, with worse expected Tuesday morning.

A localized ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump took effect at 3 a.m. in southern Ukraine to let aid reach up to 2,000 stranded people in Russian-occupied Oleshky.

Obama mocked Trump’s White House as looking like “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” — Trump fired back calling him a “lousy president” and defending the renovations.

Tesla jumped 5.2% to $391.62 as Musk backed the idea of merging Tesla and SpaceX — a combination worth about $3.5 trillion, though no deal has been announced.

Trump told a Corinth rally Ilhan Omar should resign over a long-denied marriage-fraud claim — she calls it baseless, has not been charged, and remains in Congress.

At a Mississippi rally Trump declared Iran started the war and it will end soon — a claim that sits uneasily beside the documented February 28 start of US-Israeli strikes.

House Democrats release a 53-page report demanding a special counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Epstein — allegations the White House calls false and politically motivated.

A decade-old case returns as James Comey is charged a third time over a 2016 news story — and he insists he is innocent and unafraid.

Trump promises $1 million to anyone whose voter fraud tip leads to an arrest and conviction, eight days before the midterms — with no details on funding or how it would work.