Former President Donald Trump’s bigoted and Islamophobic pal Laura Loomer has joined the chorus of right-wing and Republican fixtures to baselessly question Vice President Kamala Harris’ race. “I’m not Black, obviously,” Loomer said on an Oct. 18 video stream, Media Matters noted. “I’m not going to pretend to be Black like Kamala Harris does, although I will say I’m Blacker than Kamala Harris.” Harris, who is Black and South Asian, has long touted her heritage, despite right-wing claims to the contrary, including from Trump who falsely claimed in July that she “happened to turn Black.” “I’m Black, and I’m proud of being Black, and I was born Black, I will die Black,” Harris told The Breakfast Club in 2019. Loomer accused Harris of rolling out “fake accents”—a previous obsession of Fox News host Steve Doocy. As HuffPost’s Nathalie Baptiste noted last month, “What Harris is doing on the campaign trail is called code-switching: the practice of changing your tone and syntax depending on your audience.” That is neither new nor novel for politicians. Last month, Republicans, including many staunch Trump allies, lined up to slam Loomer after she made racist attacks on Harris' Indian heritage and Trump invited her, a 9/11 conspiracist, to memorials for the attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania. Loomer, who had been travelling with Trump and denied having an affair with him, was subsequently pushed out from the MAGA inner sanctum.

HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher, 68, admitted his “dating is not age-appropriate” and told anyone who would criticize his romantic pursuits, “f--- you. You do you, I do me. You do what works for you.” Maher made the remarks on the Him & Her podcast, where he was asked if the women he dates could be “perceived” as “younger than what you should be dating.” He asserted in response: “They literally are, they literally are.” Maher was recently spotted leaving L.A.’s Chateau Marmont with 30-year-old Noor Alfallah, who was until recently in a relationship with 84-year-old Al Pacino, with whom she shares a 1-year-old son. “Bill’s my friend, just my friend,” she later said. On his Club Random podcast, Maher also recently and creepily suggested to 21-year-old Haliey Welch, of “Hawk Tuah” fame, that she start a sex-focused podcast on his network, and he brought up porn when talking to two young children on another episode of the show. Last year, he had an oddly sexual exchange with 76-year-old Richard Dreyfuss, asking him what he thinks about when he pleasures himself. Dreyfuss, who spent the interview slipping down his chair in increasingly horrible posture, confessed “incestuous thoughts was the engine that drove my masturbation.”

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At least two of the three Pennsylvania voters to win MAGA billionaire Elon Musk’s controversial $1 million super PAC lottery so far are registered Republicans who have already voted, Politico reported. The first two winners, John Dreher and Kristine Fishell, sent in mail-in ballots before winning the purse, awarded daily by America PAC until election day, state records cited by the outlet show. Politico said that raises the question of whether Musk’s multimillion-dollar stunt is mostly drawing fanboys of Musk and former President Donald Trump instead of the swing voters needed to win the election. The voting status of the third winner, Shannon Tomei, was not immediately clear. Some experts have said Musk’s lottery amounts to illegal vote buying, while America PAC and Musk have said signing up doesn’t require a party affiliation and only asks that voters sign a pro free speech and pro gun rights petition. The petition, nevertheless, requires people who sign to hand over their precious personal data to the committee, which is using voter information to target voters in advance of the election on behalf of the Trump campaign. Musk has given $75 million to his pro-Trump group so far.

Diddy’s children took to Instagram Tuesday to share a message of support for their father. Quincy, Justin, King, Chance, and twins Jessie and D’Lila wrote in a joint statement that the last month has “devastated” their family. “Many have judged both him and us based on accusations, conspiracy theories, and false narratives that have spiraled into absurdity on social media,” the post read. The siblings’ statement comes the day after Diddy was hit with seven new lawsuits, including allegations that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. The photo featured the children with Diddy, Diddy’s mother Janice Combs, along with Diddy’s youngest child Love with her mother Dana Tran. The kids said that they will support Diddy “every step of the way.” TMZ reported that the kids “voluntarily chose” to share the post. “We hold onto the truth, knowing it will prevail, and nothing will break the strength of our family. WE MISS YOU & LOVE YOU DAD,” the statement finished.

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Emergency workers in Australia carried out a bizarre rescue operation on Saturday, saving a woman who’d managed to get herself trapped upside down between two boulders in search of her phone. Friends of Matilda Campbell, who’s reportedly in her early 20s, spent at least an hour trying to pull her by her ankles out of a 10-foot “S bend” in the stone before eventually calling the region’s ambulance service. The emergency team, made up of “multidisciplinary” workers, used a specialist winch to move one of the 500kg boulders aside before gradually freeing her from her “unlikely predicament” some seven hours after she’d first slipped in. “In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this,” one worker said. Campbell later posted on social media there’d be “no more rock exploration for me for a while” – presumably from a friend’s phone, given despite her very best efforts, her own remained lost to the rocky depths.

Harvey Weinstein is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with cancer, according to NBC News. Two unidentified sources told NBC the former Hollywood producer has chronic myeloid leukemia, a rare form of bone marrow cancer. Weinstein is undergoing treatment at Rikers Island in New York, the sources added. A spokesperson seethed at the announcement in a statement sent to Variety, calling it “unacceptable” and “troubling.” It read: “Craig Rothfeld, Mr. Weinstein’s authorized legal healthcare representative in New York State, expresses profound dismay at the speculation surrounding Mr. Weinstein’s medical condition. It is both troubling and unacceptable that such private and confidential health matters have become a subject of public discourse. Out of respect for Mr. Weinstein’s privacy, we will offer no further comment.” Weinstein most recently appeared in a New York court in September. He was wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair after undergoing heart surgery while in July, Weinstein was hospitalized for a “myriad of health conditions,” including diabetes and COVID-19, according to ABC News.

Donald Trump’s campaign has amassed a staggering pile of unpaid debts for services related to his rallies since 2016, according to Al Jazeera, which reported Monday that the former president’s team still owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to 10 cities across the United States. The largest outstanding invoice belongs to El Paso, Texas, which told the network that the Trump campaign still owes it $569,204.63 for a 2019 rally. In 2020, the El Paso City Council retained a law firm to “advocate in the City’s interest in the collection” of the money, a city spokesperson told NBC News earlier this month. “The city continues to seek the payment of these past due expenses, so city taxpayers do not continue to bear the cost,” another city spokesperson told Al Jazeera. Other cities chasing the campaign for unpaid tabs include St. Cloud, Minnesota, which is owed $208,935.17 for a rally this July; Spokane, Washington, which is owed $65,124.69 for a 2016 event; and Tucson, Arizona, which is one of several cities that now requires Trump’s campaign to pay for services up front, to avoid adding to the $81,837 bill it’s already racked up. The campaign did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.

McDonald’s said they invited Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to visit one of their franchises—one day after former President Trump worked the drive-thru at a franchise in Pennsylvania. The company said they extended the invitation in a message sent to employees, which was later authenticated by the Associated Press. In the message, McDonald’s said they were “proud” of former President Trump’s well-documented love of the fast food chain, as well as Harris’ “fond memories working under the arches.” Harris claims she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California in 1983. Trump has frequently claimed that Harris is lying about her summer job. The company seemed to address this claim in the message, stating that “we and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the ‘80s.” McDonald’s corporate said the company does not endorse candidates for elected office, and agreed to the Trump event based on one of the company’s core values: “We open our doors to everyone.” McDonald’s corporate and the Harris campaign have not returned requests for comment from the Daily Beast.

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One Direction singer Liam Payne had cocaine in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina, according to local officials. A final toxicology report for the late singer is not expected to be released for weeks, but prosecutors in Argentina got a preliminary report indicating the presence of the narcotic, the Associated Press confirmed on Monday. Payne died after falling from a third story balcony in the Argentinian capital last Wednesday. Prosecutors previously said Payne was alone when the fatal fall occurred, which may have been caused by substance abuse. Meanwhile, Argentinian newspaper La Nación published crime scene photos from Payne’s hotel room in Buenos Aires, showing a smashed television, a white powder substance, and bottles of alcohol. Earlier on Monday, sources told ABC News the singer had traces of multiple drugs in his body, including so-called “pink cocaine,” a drug that typically contains a mixture of other drugs such as ketamine or methamphetamine.

Vice President Kamala Harris jokingly denied eating “gummies” at a campaign event in Michigan, while giving supporters a rare glimpse at how the Democratic nominee deals with the stress of the campaign trail. “Everybody I talk to says ‘I have to turn off the news, I can‘t read anything, I’m meditating, I’m doing yoga, I’m so anxious I just don’t even know, I’m eating gummies, all kinds of things,’” moderator Maria Shriver said. “I’m not eating gummies,” Harris immediately replied before breaking out in laughter. Marijuana is legal in Michigan, and Harris came out in support of legalizing the drug nationally last week. Leading up to her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris told The Breakfast Club that she smoked marijuana in college. But Harris did admit she was feeling the pressure of the ongoing campaign. “I wake up in the middle of the night usually these days, just to be honest with you,” the vice president admitted to the audience of supporters.