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The group is also investing $3m in Maine, to boost Democrat Troy Jackson\u2019s chances against Susan Collins \u2013\u00a0the five-term moderate GOP incumbent, who Democrats see as increasingly vulnerable in a cycle where anti-Trump sentiment has colored much of the election.This comes after reports that the Senate Majority Pac has also paused ad spending in North Carolina and Georgia. Semafor was first to report on the updated spend.Key events11h agoClosing summary11h agoKatie Zacharia claims she misheard question about where she passed the bar exam, but still has no answer \u2013 report12h agoTrump lies that Abdul El-Sayed once said he was 'a member of the Muslim Brotherhood'13h agoKamala Harris says 'I haven't decided' about 2028 presidential run15h agoZelenskyy says he feels 'betrayed' by Trump over Starlink access16h agoTrump campaigns for Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs in Arizona17h agoTrump's new press secretary fawns over Elon Musk in since-deleted X posts18h agoHere's a recap of the day so far18h agoTop Senate Democratic Super Pac pours millions more in Michigan and Maine races19h agoKen Paxton says Greg Abbott is 'struggling' in Texas gubernatorial race in leaked audio \u2013 report20h agoJustice department threatens California over alleged noncitizen voters22h agoKamala Harris to travel across country to rally for Democrats in final midterm sprint23h agoGeorgia sets new record for first-day early midterm voting23h agoInflation hits 3.7% in final report before midterms1d agoJudge extends White House access to banned media outlets CNN, MS Now and Politico1d agoFamily of man killed by tiger criticise online content as Trump mocks fatal incident1d agoTrump heads to Arizona and Montana after campaign stop-off in conservative AlaskaClosing summaryThis concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:\n \n Donald Trump traveled to Bullhead City, Arizona and Kalispell, Montana for campaign rallies today. In Arizona, Trump urged voters to elect Andy Biggs, a GOP congressman who\u2019s running to unseat the state\u2019s Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs. In Montana, Trump rallied for Kurt Alme, a Republican and the former US attorney for Montana, who is facing Alani Bankhead, a Democrat and a retired air force officer, as well as Seth Bodnar, an independent and US army veteran former president of the University of Montana.\n \n The president traveled to campaign rallies today onboard the new Air Force One, a luxury Boeing 747-8 aircraft gifted by the Qatari government. Speaking about the plane during his appearance in Arizona, Trump said, \u201cWhen you\u2019re giving gifts, you take them, right?\u201d\n \n Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he feels personally betrayed by Donald Trump after it emerged that Ukraine\u2019s military has had its access to Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite squeezed, raising doubts about long-term US support for Kyiv. The Ukrainian president, on a visit to London, accused Trump of picking the other side after more than four years of war, risking a breakdown in relations already strained by the US agreeing to buy diesel from Moscow.\n \n The top Super Pac for Senate Democrats will pour more than $7m into two marquee races this cycle: Michigan and Maine. The Senate Majority Pac has reserved $3.7m for its campaign in Michigan, to support Democratic Senate nominee Dr Abdul El-Sayed. The group is also investing $3m in Maine, to boost Democrat Troy Jackson\u2019s chances against Susan Collins.\n \n Federal authorities investigating the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar seized the Democratic lawmaker\u2019s phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.\n \n The justice department has threatened California over alleged noncitizen voters. In a letter addressed to the California secretary of state, Shirley Weber, on Tuesday, the acting deputy attorney general, Trent McCotter, said the justice department gave Los Angeles county officials a \u201cpassword-protected thumb drive\u201d with names of people that the federal government \u201cbelieves are likely noncitizens\u201d.\n \n US price increases reached an annual rate of 3.7% in September, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.4% in August. This final inflation report before the pivotal midterm elections comes amid polls showing widespread dissatisfaction with the Trump administration over the cost of living.\n \n A record number of Georgians cast ballots in the first day of early voting this midterm cycle. According to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia\u2019s secretary of state, there were 188,600 votes cast on Tuesday \u2013 an increase of more than 53,000 voters over the 2022 midterm election, which saw 134,962 early in-person votes.\n \n Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 presidential nominee, will travel across the country in support of several Democrats facing competitive races in the final two weeks ahead of the November midterms, according to her office. During a podcast appearance yesterday, Harris said \u2018I haven\u2019t decided\u2019 about a 2028 presidential run.\nBefore his rally speech, Donald Trump blamed Joe Biden for provoking the Russian invasion of Ukraine in remarks to a reporter back stage. \u201cI have to make deals with people, so I don\u2019t go around calling them names,\u201d the president said. \u201cI don\u2019t go around mocking people. Part of the reason you have that war in the first place is Biden went around mocking Russia.\u201dKatie Zacharia claims she misheard question about where she passed the bar exam, but still has no answer \u2013 reportRobert MackeyKatie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, told the New York Times on Wednesday that she misheard reporters who asked her on Tuesday where she had passed the bar exam.When reporters asked Zacharia, as she left the White House with Donald Trump on Tuesday, where she had passed the bar exam, since she has described herself as a lawyer, she replied, oddly: \u201cI moved to China\u201d.In a brief phone interview with the Times, she said: \u201cI assumed the question was, \u2018Where were you after law school?\u2019\u201cThat\u2019s all I could hear over the sound of Marine One,\u201d she said, of the helicopter that was about to bring her and the president to the airport for his flight to Alaska. \u201cAnd, wanting to respect protocol, the distance behind the president, kept me from moving closer to hear the question.\u201dAccording to the Times, she added that when she first began appearing on television as a pro-Trump commentator, the president of Pepperdine law school, where she obtained her law degree in 2011, warned her not to call herself \u201cattorney\u201d or \u201cesquire,\u201d but said that using the term \u201clawyer\u201d was allowed.That answer suggests that Zacharia simply did not pass the bar exam in any US state, before or after moving to China to work in a Chinese law firm.The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday night that Zacharia sat for the California bar exam after graduating from law school at Pepperdine in 2011, but failed to pass, according to a source it did not name.Donald Trump began his remarks in Montana tonight focused largely on gun rights.Kurt Alme, the Republican candidate for US Senate that Trump is campaigning for, has an A rating from the National Rifle Association, which endorsed him last month.Donald Trump has arrived in Montana an hour after he was slated to appear. We\u2019ll bring you newsworthy lines from his second campaign appearance of the day.Uwa Ede-OsifoJames Talarico downplayed a past remark about God being non-binary, after being questioned about his social stances.In 2021, Talarico, a state legislator, came out against a bill restricting transgender athletes, saying then \u201cGod is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.\u201dHis comments have since surfaced as fuel for his opponent Ken Paxton\u2019s attack ads.\u201cWhen I said that, I was being provocative and I want to admit that and come clean about that,\u201d Talarico said during the CNN town hall. \u201cWhat I was saying is actually not controversial theologically: the idea that we can\u2019t define God using human categories. Not only did I say that, but the late Charlie Kirk said that \u2013 the late Pope Benedict said that.\u201cPreachers often will say something shocking in a sermon to get your attention and that\u2019s something I\u2019m still learning how to do in a responsible way.\u201dBill Clinton will join Democrats campaigning for the November elections when he joins David Jolly, who\u2019s running for governor in Florida, next week.Clinton will join Jolly, a former Republican congressman who\u2019s now running on the Democratic ticket, at an interfaith event.Uwa Ede-OsifoJames Talarico, the Texas Democratic candidate for Senate, once again debunked rumors in the conservative media that he had a clandestine stint at a mental health facility.Before his CNN town hall kicked off on Wednesday evening, Talarico said, as he has before, that he took a hiatus from in-person campaign appearances after coming down with the flu.\u201cMy decision to stay home for a week sent my opponent and his conspiracy theorists spiraling. I opened up social media and learned I had apparently dropped out of the race, had flown to a mental hospital in Ohio \u2013 that I had died,\u201d Talarico said.\u201cFalse claims got millions of views online and this is an example of what I call the \u2018rage economy.\u2019 Billionaires who own these platforms get rich. We all get angry and nobody\u2019s life gets any better. Conspiracy theories don\u2019t put food on the table, put gas in the tank, or improve our communities.\u201dTrump lies that Abdul El-Sayed once said he was 'a member of the Muslim Brotherhood'Robert MackeySpeaking to reporters in Arizona on Wednesday, Donald Trump was asked about the allegation that Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s relatives in Egypt once supported the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist opposition movement.The president responded by lying that El-Sayed had called himself \u201ca member of the Muslim Brotherhood\u201d.\u201cAbdul, or as I call him, Mohammed El-Sayed, he\u2019s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d Trump said in a false statement posted on social media by the White House. \u201cHe said that years ago, he was a proud member,\u201d the president continued, also falsely. \u201cAnd you can\u2019t have a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress, being on one of our security committees.\u201dDespite Trump\u2019s blatant lie, there is no evidence that El-Sayed is or ever has been a member of the group. The allegation he was being asked to respond to, which has become a centerpiece of the Republican campaign against El-Sayed, is that his mother and members of her family in Egypt might have once had sympathy for the group, based on three tweets posted in 2012 and 2013 by the candidate\u2019s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, in response to political developments in Egypt after the revolution there.The social media posts from El-Sayed\u2019s half-sister were reported this week by the Washington Free Beacon, a partisan, rightwing news site funded by a major Republican donor. The rightwing site was invited to accompany Trump on his trip to Arizona on Wednesday by the White House.On 24 June 2012, the day that a former Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Morsi, was elected Egypt\u2019s president, with the support of secular pro-democracy activists who celebrated in Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square, Abdelhadi posted criticism of the Islamist group while saying that her family had supported it during its long years of opposition to the ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.The same day, as secular supporters of the revolution that deposed Mubarak expressed relief that Morsi had defeated a military-backed candidate, Abdelhadi also posted: \u201cHad an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college.\u201dOn 3 July 2013, when Morsi was deposed in a military coup by Gen Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, starting a bloody crackdown on Islamists and secular activists that lasts to this day, El-Sayed\u2019s half-sister posted that she was praying for family members in Egypt who supported the Muslim Brotherhood.El-Sayed, who was raised by his father and stepmother \u2013 and grandparents \u2013 told NBC News on Wednesday that his half-sister\u2019s tweets did not contradict his repeated statement that he has no ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. \u201cI wasn\u2019t raised by my mother,\u201d El-Sayed said, adding that he has never talked to her about her days as a student activist in Egypt a decade before his birth in the US.Donald Trump is scheduled to begin speaking soon at a rally in Montana.Here, Kurt Alme, a Republican and the former US attorney for Montana, is facing Alani Bankhead, a Democrat and a retired air force officer, as well as Seth Bodnar, an independent and US army veteran former president of the University of Montana.A Trump administration raid on Ilhan Omar\u2019s home this week is part of an investigation intended to build a case to strip her of her US citizenship and deport her, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials and other people familiar with the investigation.During his second term, Donald Trump\u2019s administration has aggressively pursued work to denaturalize US citizens. Since returning to office, the president\u2019s administration has filed more than 200 lawsuits against people it is seeking to denaturalize. Previously, the government filed denaturalization cases fewer than a dozen times a year, the Journal reports, citing the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.Kamala Harris says 'I haven't decided' about 2028 presidential runKamala Harris said she has not decided whether she will run for president in 2028, the former vice-president told Keke Palmer during an interview on the actor\u2019s podcast Tuesday.At the end of the interview \u2013 which covered the midterm elections, the Trump administration and Black voters \u2013 Palmer asked whether Harris was considering a 2028 presidential run.\u201cI haven\u2019t decided. I haven\u2019t decided yet. 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