Boston’s Logan International Airport (@flylogan) is searching for a new announcer who can pull off a wicked good local accent. More than 5,000 people auditioned — either in-person at Terminal A or online — for the coveted job. The airport is looking for a “voice that feels like home” to greet the roughly 130,000 people who fly in and out of the airport every day. Aspiring announcers read from a script that includes lines like, “Whether you’re grabbing a lobster roll by the harbor (pronounced LOB-STAH and HA-BAH)” and “heading out to Gloucester (pronounced GLOS-TAH) for a little salt air.” The airport has narrowed the competition down to eight finalists. Voting is open at voiceoflogan.com until Wednesday, and the winner will be announced on Nov. 5. Sources: @boston25, @wsj

President Trump touted oil industry windfalls from the Iran war as Americans face rising gasoline prices, declaring at a Georgia rally on Saturday: “We’re making a frickin fortune.” Trump said disruptions to Middle Eastern oil shipments had driven buyers to American producers. He called prices “temporarily high” and predicted they would fall dramatically once the war ends. He acknowledged advisers had urged him not to highlight the windfall because Americans were paying more at the pump. “My people said, please don’t mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher,” Trump said. He later added: “I don’t give a damn. I’m going to say it.” Trump also claimed Americans were “still paying lower than Biden.” But gasoline has averaged $3.472 a gallon during Trump’s second term, narrowly surpassing Biden’s $3.471 average, according to the latest Bloomberg News analysis of AAA data. Sunday’s national average was roughly $4.29, up more than $1 over the past eight months as the Iran war disrupted shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Biden still holds the single-day record of $5.02, set in June 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump had pledged to bring gasoline below $2 a gallon.

Jewish communities are spending so much time sounding the alarm about antisemitism that they risk neglecting the next generation’s connection to Jewish life, Dan Senor said in an interview on the Mo News podcast. Senor (@dansenor) says the concern about rising hate is justified, but warned that too little attention is going toward the schools, traditions and communities that help young Jews embrace their identity. “I’m not worried about Jews leaving America. I’m worried about Jews leaving Judaism,” he said. His prescription goes beyond security: Invest in summer camps, family traditions and community experiences that associate being Jewish with belonging, joy and pride. He also acknowledged why greater isolation makes some Jews in Canada and Europe feel more urgency about leaving. 🎧 Our full conversation covers Israeli elections, U.S.-Israel relations and Jewish life outside Israel. Available now in the Mo News podcast feed.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection Sunday with roughly 52% of the vote, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro and resisting the rightward political wave sweeping Latin America. Lula, who turns 81 Tuesday, becomes the first Brazilian elected president four times. After serving two terms beginning in 2003, he survived throat cancer and spent 580 days in prison on corruption convictions later annulled. He returned to power in 2023 after defeating Jair Bolsonaro. Now he’s beaten Bolsonaro’s eldest son. Flávio, 45, led the first round but fell short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff. He campaigned on fighting crime and freeing his father, Jair, who is serving a 27-year sentence, currently under house arrest, for a coup plot that included plans to assassinate Lula. The Bolsonaro family has close ties to President Trump, who celebrated Flávio’s first-round performance without formally endorsing him. The result keeps Latin America’s largest economy a major leftist counterweight to the region’s conservative governments. It also extends presidential backing for Amazon protections: annual deforestation has roughly halved since Lula returned, though his support for offshore oil exploration has drawn environmental criticism. But governing will be difficult. Lula faces a conservative Congress and voters frustrated by living costs and household debt.

President Trump praised Nicki Minaj’s body at a campaign rally in Detroit on Sunday, pivoting from another round of compliments about Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s rear end. “By the way, I’ve looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj,” Trump said to cheers. “That’s hard to miss. Stand up, that’s hard to miss.” Minaj stood and waved to the crowd. Trump has repeatedly praised Husted’s backside for roughly two weeks, dating back to a rally with him in Ohio earlier this month. Minaj later took the stage to campaign for Michigan’s Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers and gubernatorial candidate John James. Trump introduced her as the “Queen of Rap,” and she led the crowd in chants supporting both candidates before discussing her work with the administration over the past year.

A fire devastated Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat in Germany’s Bavarian Alps Friday night, and police arrested a 33-year-old German man on suspicion of arson. Prosecutors said the suspect showed signs of mental illness and was being sent to a psychiatric facility. No injuries were reported. Completed in 1938, the mountaintop building is widely described as a gift for Hitler’s 50th birthday. Hitler, reportedly afraid of heights, visited only a handful of times. The retreat primarily hosted Nazi officials and foreign guests. The Eagle’s Nest survived World War II and became a tourist attraction with a restaurant and beer garden. Bavarian officials intend to restore the damaged landmark to preserve its role in historical remembrance for future generations to come.

Former President Barack Obama mocked President Trump’s gold-heavy White House decor Saturday while campaigning in Ohio and Michigan to help Democrats win control of Congress. “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory!” Obama told an Ohio crowd, arguing Trump was more focused on renovations than lowering Americans’ costs. “He should be on HGTV,” Obama added. His remarks followed Bill Clinton’s jab this week that Trump had turned the Rose Garden into “the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.” ⁠ Trump’s changes, including demolishing the East Wing for a ballroom, are among the most significant White House alterations in a century. Obama made his own small White House addition during his presidency, adapting an outdoor tennis court for basketball. Obama additionally accused Trump of enriching himself and his allies while congressional Republicans enabled him.

Eager customers lined up across the world, some camping overnight, to get their hands on Apple’s first foldable phone when it was released Friday. Video from New York City, Miami, London, Berlin, and Shanghai show lines snaking around blocks, starting as early as Thursday. Demand for the iPhone Duo appears to be much higher than supply. Preorders sold out completely almost immediately after becoming available last week, and new orders for the Duo on Apple’s website are now offering delivery in January 2027. Apple said it planned to have some Duos available in stores on Friday, but said it predicts they will sell out quickly. Apple’s latest gadget costs nearly $2,000, the highest starting price for an iPhone yet. The phone arrives more than seven years after the first Samsung Galaxy Fold phone hit the market. Foldable phones from Motorola and Google have also been on the market for several years. iPhone sales account for about half of all of Apple’s revenue, and the Duo is the largest change to the product since the original iPhone debuted in 2007. “With an entirely new design and intuitive experiences, it shows what’s possible when hardware and software are engineered together and redefines what it means to use a foldable phone,” Apple CEO John Ternus said. Videos: @reuters, @storyfulvideo Sources: @reuters, @bloomberg

The heroic father who shot and killed a gunman at a Bend, Oregon elementary school last week is opening up about his split-second decision to go after the suspect. Kaylub Giamanco relived the traumatic experience in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting (@OPB). He says he saw a “man in black” holding a long gun fire at a red pickup truck last Thursday before walking into Silver Rail Elementary. “I started hearing children pleading for their lives and then I started hearing gunfire and I just started army crawling faster and faster and I told myself, this is probably the last thing that I'm ever gonna do,” Giamanco said. Giamanco crawled through a broken window and toward a special education classroom where the suspect was shooting. He opened fire, killing the 16-year-old gunman, and potentially prevented more lost lives. The attack killed three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher. Another teacher and a 7-year-old girl were seriously injured, but are expected to recover. Giamanco, a father of two girls, said he fired at the shooter multiple times “to make sure that he couldn’t move” because he “was afraid of him shooting anybody else.” The 36-year-old said he called his mom afterward to tell her what happened: “I was like, Mom, I just had to take the life of what I think might be a child because he went into my daughter's school with a gun,” Giamanco said. Despite being hailed as a hero, Giamanco says he lies awake at night reliving what happened, saying, “I see faces, I hear voices, I hear screams.” Sources: @opb @cbsnews Video: @opb

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit asking Alaska to delay certifying its Senate election results if Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses, arguing that an independent candidate on the ballot, Dan J. Sullivan, could confuse voters. The administration alleges Dan J. Sullivan’s candidacy is a Democratic-backed effort to divert votes from the incumbent Republican. The candidate denies coordinating with Democrats, and the Alaska Supreme Court has previously ruled that he has the right to run. If the race between Sullivan and Democratic candidate Mary Peltola is close, votes cast for the second Dan Sullivan could become a focal point in the fight over the outcome. The lawsuit raises questions about the federal government’s role in elections, which are run by the states.

President Trump is defending an attack ad featuring Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton’s estranged mother, even after reporters explained the family’s history of sexual abuse and estrangement. Trump said he hadn’t known the background and questioned what was true, but continued to defend the ad on Friday. “A mother is saying don't put my daughter there because she's a terrible person and she's a liar,” Trump told reporters outside the White House Friday. “Why shouldn't somebody use that?” The ad, produced by Republican opponent Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign, features Acton’s mother calling her daughter a liar and urging Ohioans not to vote for her. Acton was removed from her mother’s home at age 12 after her stepfather was charged with raping Acton. Her mother, who hasn’t spoken to Acton since 1978, then left the state with the stepfather. He remained a fugitive on the child rape charges until his death in 2004. When NBC’s @albamonica asked Trump about the sexual abuse, he called her a “horrible little reporter” and continued defending the ad. “If my mother said bad things about me, do you think the Democrats would put it up? I think so,” Trump said, adding that he watched the ad and thought Acton’s mother was a “smart woman.” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and other Republicans have criticized the ad this week. Ramaswamy, who trails Acton in recent polls, is standing by it. Trump and VP JD Vance have criticized Republicans who have called out the ad.

Newly released videos show the moments leading up to the fatal police shooting of a 1-year-old boy in Mississippi in June. Kohen Wiley was killed in June when Senatobia police officer Sgt. Hunter Foster fired his gun into a moving vehicle while responding to a call about the boy's mother and another woman allegedly shoplifting diapers. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety on Thursday released footage showing the shooting from the body-worn cameras of multiple law enforcement officers and surveillance footage from Walmart. Darkhorse Press, a local Mississippi news outlet, posted some of that footage on its website a day earlier. The videos show Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, holding Kohen as she and her friend run across the parking lot and enter their vehicle. Five officers approach the parked car with guns drawn. The car reverses and crashes into a parked vehicle as officers yell for it to stop. In the video, the vehicle is seen accelerating forward as Foster steps toward it with his gun drawn. Foster fired his gun, shattering the window of the front passenger side, where Kohen was seated on his mother’s lap. Kohen Wiley and the driver were shot by an officer, and the baby died from resulting injuries. Two use-of-force experts reviewed the footage at the request of The Associated Press but provided conflicting assessments. One said the shooting was "objectively reasonable," and another said Foster used "really bad tactics." In body-camera footage, officers are heard saying they didn't see the baby in the car. Wiley has previously said she held up her son to show officers he was there. The footage contradicts parts of her June account, where she said her friend drove away from officers. The shooting sparked protests in Senatobia where there have been longstanding complaints about discriminatory policing. Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented the families of George Floyd and Trayvon Martin, is representing the Wiley family. He has called for the release of additional footage, and questioned the state's decision not to charge the officer.

A Trump impersonator is dancing in a mock jail cell above a busy Tehran square, part of Iran’s latest propaganda campaign against the U.S. president. The masked actor rattles bars, naps and performs Trump’s signature Y.M.C.A. dance while a billboard behind him displays images of a deadly strike on an Iranian wedding they blame on the U.S.. Unveiled Tuesday in the capital's Tajrish Square, the installation has drawn crowds filming, laughing and honking.

President Donald Trump, who has already renamed two bodies of water after America, said he would like to redub the Atlantic Ocean as well — but that the CEO of Google pushed back on the idea. Trump said Wednesday at a campaign rally that because Google Maps had been “really great” about previous name changes, he asked Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, if the company would consider renaming the Atlantic. According to the president, Pichai said, “No, no, no. This time, I’m not doing it,” adding, “Oceans are different, sir,” because they border “a lot of countries.” Google Maps changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America last year and Lake Ontario to Lake America this past August, following executive orders. “Lake America” remains on display for Google Maps users in the United States, but Canadian users still see “Lake Ontario.” Users outside the two countries can see both names. Trump did not say what he would call the Atlantic Ocean but noted that he would probably pass on renaming the second-largest of the world’s five oceans. Sources: @thehill @washingtonpost

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine urged Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign Thursday to pull an attack ad featuring Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton’s estranged mother, but said he still endorses Ramaswamy to succeed him. DeWine, a Republican who prosecuted sexual assault cases earlier in his career, called the ad “deeply, deeply troubling.” Pressed by reporters, DeWine reaffirmed his support for the Republican ticket but said the ad needs to come down and voters will make up their own minds. The ad, backed by a $4 million statewide TV buy, features Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar and urging Ohioans not to vote for her. Acton was removed from her mother’s home at age 12 after her stepfather was charged with raping her. Her mother, who hasn’t spoken to Acton since 1978, then left the state with the stepfather. He remained a fugitive on the child rape charges until his death in 2004. Trump responded by calling DeWine disloyal to the Republican Party and suggesting he wanted a Democrat to win. “I suggested, on the other hand, that Vivek should keep it up,” Trump wrote. He praised Acton’s mother for participating and described the ad as “hitting pay dirt.” DeWine joins other Republicans criticizing the ad, including Sen. Jon Husted, who said he would not have run it. But President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have defended it. Vance told Republicans Wednesday to “stop whining” and focus on winning the race. Acton led Ramaswamy 51% to 43% among likely voters in a Marist poll released Tuesday prior to the ad release. Source: @nbcnews @politico @wbnstv10

A polling firm whose surveys appeared in major news coverage and polling averages has admitted fabricating data after researchers uncovered evidence its numbers were fake. Wedgewood Polls then claimed the deception was a “social experiment” to expose weak industry oversight. That explanation came after it was confronted. The firm emerged in June, with surveys cited by Newsweek and The Hill and included in The New York Times’ polling database. Several of their fabricated polls boosted progressive Democrats, including Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Francesca Hong in Wisconsin. Former Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow says a fabricated poll showing her support at nine percent helped derail her campaign, drying up donations and devastating volunteers. She suspended her campaign in July. El-Sayed went on to win that primary. Polling trackers are removing Wedgewood’s numbers. Another firm, Median Strategies, admitted fabricating surveys in August—also claiming it was conducting a social experiment.

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion Wednesday, nearly a month after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook. It marks the biggest fine ever against the tech giant. In 2021, New Mexico sued Meta over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political consulting firm that worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from as many as 87 million Facebook users without their consent. The state alleged Facebook misled users about who could access their data and how it handled hate speech and misinformation on the platform. How did the judge come to $25 billion? In September, jurors found that 26 of 29 statements by Meta and its executives were misleading. Each Facebook user or New Mexico resident reached by each statement was counted as a separate violation, resulting in more than 43 million violations. At up to $5,000 per violation, the maximum penalty could have reached $219.5 billion. Instead, Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion. Under the New Mexico Constitution, fines for violations of consumer protection laws go to state education spending. The penalty is the largest tied to the scandal, after more than the $5 billion Federal Trade Commission fine in 2019. In August, six other states settled with Meta tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal for $459.2 million, but New Mexico chose to take the company to court on its own. Meta had argued for a penalty of no more than $3.45 billion, saying the state never proved any New Mexican was actually misled. Meta said it disagreed with that New Mexico ruling and planned to appeal. Attorneys for Facebook also said the company has adapted its policies since the state’s lawsuit was filed in 2021 and that it removes 99% of content that violates standards.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday he would accept a peace deal leaving Russia in control of the Ukrainian territory it currently occupies only if the U.S. and European allies provide security guarantees to prevent another invasion. Ukraine’s central concern is what happens after the fighting stops: Without NATO membership or a firm U.S. security guarantee, Kyiv fears Putin could use any ceasefire to rebuild his military and attack again in the future. Zelenskyy told @foxandfriends he would support freezing the 4½-year war along its current frontlines, leaving Ukraine in control of at least 75% of its remaining territory. That would leave Russia holding its territorial gains without Kyiv formally recognizing them as Russian land. Asked whether he would be willing to give up parts of the Donbas region Russia hasn't taken over, Zelenskyy rejected the idea, calling it “not fair.” He argued that Russia is using military and diplomatic pressure to push Ukrainians off the land it has been unable to take on the battlefield. Zelenskyy insisted that Ukraine be directly involved in any negotiations, saying Kyiv is open to talks in any format. Russia has repeatedly rejected ceasefire proposals, arguing that any pause would give Ukraine time to rearm. The remarks come as White House envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg Wednesday. Putin agreed “in principle” to resume trilateral negotiations with the U.S. and Ukraine after Nov. 10. Representatives of the three countries held three rounds of negotiations early this year, meeting twice in Abu Dhabi in January and February, followed by further talks in Geneva in February. However, they produced little beyond exchanges of prisoners of war as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their longstanding basic demands. Source: @foxnews @apnews @nypost

Vice President JD Vance says Republicans should “stop whining” about an attack ad targeting Ohio Democratic governor nominee Amy Acton. Vance defended GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy amid bipartisan backlash during a trip to the state on Wednesday. The controversial ad features Acton’s estranged mother attacking her character. Acton was removed from her mother’s home at age 12--in the late 1970s--after her stepfather was charged with raping her. Acton's mother, who hasn't spoken to Amy since 1978, then left the state with the stepfather, who remained a fugitive on the child rape charges until his death in 2004. Democrats and some Republicans have condemned the ad. Acton’s brother denounced the ad as a “desperate, disgusting attack.” Vance said Wednesday he was actually “disgusted” by Republicans criticizing the spot, arguing they should instead focus on defeating Democrats. “Politics is a tough business,” he said. “Stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race.”

President Trump can't seem to stop talking about Ohio Sen. Jon Husted's physique, even while campaigning outside Ohio. At a rally in North Carolina Tuesday, Trump again praised the Ohio Republican's body, from his feet to his shoulders to, yes, his butt. Trump also made similar comments at an Oct. 12 rally in Ohio and at an Oct. 17 rally in Kentucky, drawing laughter from the crowd. “I’ve never studied the body of a man before. It’s not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course,” Trump said. Husted, 59, appointed last year to fill Vice President JD Vance's former Senate seat, was an all-American defensive back at the University of Dayton. He faces former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in the midterms in less than two weeks. Cook Political Report rates the race a "toss-up." Source: @thehill