In politics, it seems, timing is everything. After months at odds over Israel’s handling of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen the day of one of the most hotly contested U.S. presidential election in modern history to fire his Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant. “In the midst of a war, more than ever, full trust is required between the prime minister and the defense minister,” Netanyahu said in a statement on Tuesday, quoted by the Financial Times. “Unfortunately, although in the first months of the campaign there was such trust and there was very fruitful work, over the past few months this trust has cracked between me and the defense minister,” he added. The Israeli Prime Minister had previously attempted to fire Gallant in March 2023, just five months into the conflict, but was forced to reverse his decision after the move prompted protests on the streets of Jerusalem. Gallant has not yet publicly commented on his dismissal beyond a short post on social media, in which he said “the security of the State of Israel was and will always remain the mission of my life.”

Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara detailed on Tuesday what the family patriarch did after wrapping up campaigning Monday: He blasted music at full volume on his airplane. “There was a lot of loud music being played,” Lara Trump told Fox & Friends. “Anybody who has been on [Trump Force One] with my father-in-law knows he’s a big music fan, so we had a lot of loud, very pumped-up music going.” The wife of Eric Trump also said that “nobody was drinking on the plane,” in keeping with Donald Trump’s teetotaler ways. Lara Trump didn’t specify what music her father-in-law was blasting, but Axios reported earlier this year that, among the songs Trump likes to blast at his Mar-a-Lago resort are Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain,” Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion.” At his rallies, Trump has also shown a fondness for The Village People’s disco smash “YMCA,” and he notoriously once spent nearly 40 minutes in MAGA ecstasy dancing on stage to a playlist that included James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” and Luciano Pavarotti’s rendition of “Ave Maria.”

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A billionaire Republican mega-donor has shuffled off this mortal coil on the morning of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history. The death of Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, a co-founder of Home Depot and long-time supporter of Donald Trump, was announced by the home improvement corporation on Tuesday morning. “Bernie was an inspiration in many ways,” the company said in its statement. “He never lost sight of his humble roots, using his success not for fame or fortune but to generously help others.” Born 1929 in New Jersey to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, Marcus co-founded Home Depot in 1979 and served on the company’s board until his retirement in 2002. Throughout his life, he donated millions of dollars to Republican political figures, including Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. During his later years, he made repeat appearances on right-wing news outlets in support of Trump’s presidential aspirations and accomplishments, stating in a 2022 interview with the Financial Times that “woke people have taken over the world” and that modern Americans have become work-shy on account of being “lazy,” “fat” and “stupid.”

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A captured Russian soldier claims his unit was shot at by the very same North Korean troops sent in to help them retake territory seized by the Ukrainian military. In a newly released video, published by the Daily Mail, the fighter, who has not been identified, claims he and several other soldiers, including at least ten North Koreans, were sent into the forest in the Kursk region to dig trenches when they came under attack. “During the assault, the Koreans started firing at us,” he said. “We tried to explain to them where to aim, but I think they shot two of our own,” he goes on, adding that “I decided it was better to surrender in this situation than to be killed by our own bullet[s].” Russian President Vladimir Putin has neither confirmed nor denied the presence of North Korean troops in Kursk, which was taken by Ukrainian forces in August of this year. Ukrainian intelligence, meanwhile, maintain that Pyongyang has sent up to 10,000 soldiers to bolster forces in the region. Experts say they’ve likely been deployed as cannon fodder for an upcoming offensive, given the poor level of training many of them are reported to have received.

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A 24-year-old Illinois man was charged with aggravated battery after punching an election judge at an early voting location on Sunday, according to police. Police in the Chicago suburb Orland Park said they were called to the polling site at 11 a.m. after a man was reported causing a fracas in the voting line. They said Daniel Schmidt was “restrained by numerous people” after entering the voting location and trying to blow past a line of people waiting to vote. When an election judge asked him to go to the back of the line, Schmidt refused, at which point a second judge intervened. Police said he tried pushing past the election workers, yelled profanities at them and, when he was prevented again from entering, punched the second election judge in the face. The judge declined treatment. Schmidt faces two counts of aggravated battery to a person over 60 and misdemeanor charges for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and is due to appear back in court later this month.

As voters grapple with the possibility of a fresh wave of violence following Election Day, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) looked back on Jan. 6, 2021, in an interview on The Daily Beast Podcast. “I wasn’t prepared,” he said of that day’s insurrection. While rioters breached the Capitol, politicians and staffers inside were forced to decide seemingly between certifying the electoral vote and staying safe. As two of the Senate’s younger members, Booker said he and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) made a plan to stay behind in the Senate chambers to fight off any rioters. “Let’s just take the end, just in case people break through those doors and we have to fight them off,” he recalled telling Kelly. Once they left the chamber, Booker described running through tunnels beneath the Capitol while rioters “were screaming bloody murder.” He remembered seeing wounded Capitol police officers; five police officers died as a result of injuries they received that day. Once he’d found a secure location, “I turn on the TV,” Booker said. “And the first image I saw just feet from where I sit in the Senate chamber, was a Confederate flag.”

Britain’s Queen Camilla is taking time off work after contracting a chest infection. Buckingham Palace said that the queen, 77, will not be attending a “Field of Remembrance” ceremony on Thursday, with her place being taken by the Duchess of Gloucester. A palace spokesperson said Tuesday: “Her Majesty The Queen is currently unwell with a chest infection, for which her doctors have advised a short period of rest. With great regret, Her Majesty has therefore had to withdraw from her engagements for this week, but she very much hopes to be recovered in time to attend this weekend’s Remembrance events as normal. She apologizes to all those who may be inconvenienced or disappointed as a result.” The Remembrance ceremonies honoring veterans are some of the most sacrosanct engagements on the royal calendar. The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, is expected to attend the official wreath-laying this weekend in her most high-profile engagement since returning to work after getting the all-clear following her cancer diagnosis. Official palace sources told The Daily Beast the queen was “resting privately at home” under doctors’ supervision. They added that Camilla would also “sadly” be unable to attend an Olympic and Paralympic reception scheduled for Thursday as well.

The panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday roundly condemned JD Vance for calling Kamala Harris trash in one of his final events of the campaign. “In two days, we’re going to take out the trash, and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris,” Vance said at an event in Atlanta on Monday. On Morning Joe, Claire McCaskill questioned why Vance would say something like that given the GOP’s need to win over women voters. “It should tell you all you need to know,” the former Missouri Democratic senator said. “This guy’s judgment is so flawed he goes from calling this guy—Trump—America’s Hitler, to calling Kamala Harris trash. Something’s wrong there. That’s really, radically wrong.” Host Joe Scarborough added that the Trump campaign’s strategy appeared to be “let’s offend as many women as possible,” while Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asked simply: “JD Vance—what is wrong with this guy? What is wrong with this guy? He’s supposed to be smart. He wrote a book!”

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PHILADELPHIA—At Kamala Harris’ final campaign rally, Oprah Winfrey had a dire warning for Americans thinking of sitting out the 2024 election. “If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again,” she said. The famed talk show host had already been talking about how urgent voting was on Sunday, when she told of meeting a woman while hiking who told her she was planning to sit out this election. “I know she was immediately sorry she told me that, ’cause I would not let up,” she said. Oprah, who wore a “Yes She Can” shirt, was finishing off a three-month sprint in which she’s been unusually involved in politics, appearing at the Democratic National Convention and holding a friendly interview with Harris. “We are voting to save ourselves from this precipice of danger where we now stand,” she said on Monday. “All the anxiety and the fear you’re feeling, you’re feeling them because you sense the danger. And you change that with your vote.”

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A regional field director for former President Donald Trump’s grassroots get-out-the-vote effort in Pennsylvania was fired for secretly promoting white nationalist views, according to multiple reports. Luke Meyer, a 24-year-old regional field director for Trump Force 47 in western Pennsylvania, pseudonymously hosted a podcast with notorious neo-Nazi Richard Spencer while in the role, Politico reported. In episodes of the podcast, Meyer expressed a desire to return America to being “80 percent, 90 percent white” and posted photos of himself wearing a ring bearing the sonnenrad—a symbol used by the Nazis. Trump Force 47 is the campaign’s grassroots organizing effort which is described as a “joint effort” by the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign. Meyer was reportedly fired from the role by the Pennsylvania Republican Party last Friday, and admitted the reporting was accurate to both Politico and The Washington Post. The Pennsylvania GOP did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily Beast, but told Politico that Meyer was background checked. “If we’d had any inkling about his hidden and despicable activity he would never have been hired, and the instant we learned of it he was fired,” the local party said in a statement to Politico. “We have no place in our Party or nation for people with such shameful, hateful views.”