Morning Wire - Evening Wire: Brazil Re-Elects Lula De Silva & US Violent Crime DROPS 25 Percent Under Trump | 10.26.26

Episode Date: October 26, 2026

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Lula de Silva won re-election to a fourth term in office on Sunday, though his opponent isn't conceding. Contributor Tim Pyrriss says the latest. Silva's unexpected victory came three weeks after he lost in the first round of voting to his right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jayao Bolsonaro. Yesterday's was the first election since Brazil's military dictatorship ended over 40 years ago in which the winner of the first round of voting did not win the presidency. For his part, Bolsonaro has not conceded. The election was thrown into chaos after a Supreme Court Judge issued a last-minute decision for polls to stay open two additional hours after their schedule close. That decision was issued by a judge who previously served as Silva's personal attorney

and will likely be the basis for future legal challenges by Bolsonaro and his supporters. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has returned home after more than 10 months in exile, drawing crowds of supporters as she traveled to Caracas. Machado fled Venezuela to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway after being barred from challenging then-President Nicholas Maduro in the 2024 election. Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in January, and his former deputy, Delci Rodriguez, took over as interim president. Machado's return follows U.S.-backed reconciliation talks that,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says have helped free hundreds of political prisoners and bring opposition figures home from exile. Machado has said she would run for president again, but it remains unclear what she plans to do next or when Venezuela might hold a new vote. Violent crime in the U.S. fell by a record 25 percent last year. Reporters, Zach Jule has more. Aggravated assaults dropped 31 percent, robberies fell 27 percent, and reported rapes and sexual assaults declined from about 138,000 to 75,000. Property crime also fell 19 percent, though simple assaults rose slightly. The figures show a sharper decline than the FBI's law enforcement data, which tracks crimes reported to police rather than incidents disclosed in household surveys.

The Justice Department credited President Trump's make America safe again agenda, though the survey faced a major limitation. A government shutdown halted interviews for part of October and November, and its household response rate fell to 53%. AI giant Anthropic is officially filing for an IPO that could break records. Tyson Langhofer from Alliance Defending Freedom has more. Anthropic, the creator of the Claude Chatbot, filed with the SEC today to list on the NASDAQ stock exchange, an offering that could value it at as much as $2 trillion.

That would eclipse SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO in May of this year. The filing also revealed staggering costs, with Anthropic reporting 80 billion in loss. in the first half of this year, against just $16 billion in revenue. Meanwhile, Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce. The company is looking to contain costs and fund its own massive AI investments, projected at $175 billion this year. Anthropics IPO also comes just weeks after CEO, Dario Amadi, called for an industry-wide slowdown in frontier AI development, with the five-year-eastern. filing warning investors that its most advanced models have demonstrated unexpected self-preservation

behaviors, including resisting shutdown attempts and behavior resembling blackmail. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's SpaceX has secured $40 billion in financing for new AI chips. After the announcement, Musk highlighted that tech giants are facing credit challenges and are struggling to secure funding for projects without immediate revenue outside of AI. Musk credits the new deal to the revenue streams SpaceX, receives from the Starlink satellite system, as well as its rocket launch business. Months after SpaceX's record-breaking IPO, the company has reported a 161% increase in revenue from last year.

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Associate producer White Harms says the story. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that the FAA has handed Vermont-based beta technologies a, quote, first-of-its-kind certification that clears the company to fly potential customers in its electric, vertical takeoff, and landing aircraft, also known as an e-vetyl. An e-vetyl takes off and lands straight up and down like a helicopter, but runs on battery-powered electric motors rather than traditional gas-powered engines. After take-off, the aircraft can switch from rotors to wing-based flight. The FAA issued beta a special airworthiness certificate for market surveys for its new aircraft.

The first of such authorization ever given to a vehicle of this type. The approval only allows beta to take airline and operator buyers for test rides. But if the test period goes well, the electric aircraft could hit market soon. Texas Democrat James Telerico's past comments are making the rounds on social media with the election just days away. Telerico has repeatedly combined his faith and politics in ways that have made many Christians uncomfortable. But as clips have shown, he's been making some of the election.

statements for years. He was Tala Rico back in 2023. What would Jesus do if he visited the Texas legislature? I think he would tell us, blessed are the trans children. The Democrat candidate made the comment at a rally while speaking in support of, among other issues, sex change procedures for minors. Up in Ohio, GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramoswamy is defending a controversial ad from his campaign, that features his opponent's mother. Reporter Drew Berkmeyer has the latest.

One of Ramoswami's latest ads features the estranged mother of Democrat Amy Acton. Ramoswami has drawn bipartisan criticism for the ad because of Acton's allegations of abuse at the hands of her stepfather. But Ramoswami says that the ad is fair given the attacks against his own mother. Here he was on Fox News this morning.

So look, Lawrence, I'll tell you the advice I was raised in, you never start a fight, but if you find yourself in one, you finish it. And you have to stand for what is right and what is true. They've attacked me. They've defamed my mother to media silence. It's unbelievable.

And yet at the same time, they'll trot out anything to attack a Republican. We're standing for truth. And so the irony is they're lying about an ad that was about her lying. The fact of the matter is I am running against somebody who is crazy, unstable, and dishonest. And even more importantly, they represent crazy and unstable and dishonest. ideas. This is a fork in the road for the future of Ohio. And if they actually believe these were unfair attacks, you know what my opponent would be doing? She would be agreeing to show up on a debate with me, as I agreed to on CNN and NBC. She is hiding because they want to lie

and then deflect accountability. We're not going to let them get away with that. Airbnb just announced a big rule change and some hosts aren't happy about it. Lifestyle reporter Lauren Barrows' story. If you've ever stayed at an Airbnb, you might have been surprised at checkout to discover you unknowingly signed up for a literal laundry list of chores. Stories have spread online of hosts demanding that guests clean sheets, take out trash, wash dishes, and even mop floors. All of this, sometimes, in addition to paying a cleaning fee. Now, Airbnb says no more. The platform has announced that hosts can no longer impose chores requiring significant effort or time. They've also done away with cleaning-related fines,

as well as prohibiting hosts from entering into agreements with guests beyond the standard platform agreement. Hosts can still make reasonable requests, like asking that dishes be put in the sink, but can't require that they be cleaned. While customers rejoiced, some hosts express their dissent online, like one Redditor, who said they would now be removing all the dishes from their property's kitchen to avoid having to clean. Others vowed to stop renting on the platform altogether. Airbnb's new rules will go into effect on November 20. And the most pressing news of the day, Loch Ness monster sightings have more than doubled this year with an official registry accepting 15 reports so far in 2026, compared with just six for all of last year.

The latest accepted sighting came in August when a German tourist reported seeing a roughly 20-foot-long creature surfacing about 1,000 feet offshore before disappearing. Other visitors described a dark mound rising above the water and a large eel-like animal swimming, against the current. But longtime Nessie investigator, Adrian Schein, cautions that the sightings may not be what they seem, arguing that the monster is typically spotted in calm water. Scientists have also found eel DNA throughout Loch Ness, raising the possibility that unusually large eels could explain some reports. The legendary creature continues to draw tourists to Scotland, generating an estimated $55 million annually for the region. All right, those are your drive-home updates.

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