And then there were two.
Trivia question: What U.S. counties have voted for the winning presidential candidate every election this century?
Since 2000, what counties have voted in favor of the winning presidential candidate every time?
In 2000, 2,439 counties voted for Republican George W. Bush. And four years later, almost all of them, 2,372, voted for him again. (We are not counting here the places that voted for Democrat Al Gore in 2000 because they were already eliminated from voting for the winner every time.)

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would require every public school classroom in the state to display the Ten Commandments, calling the law “unconstitutional in all applications.”
U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the state from enforcing the law, which had ordered schools to comply by Jan. 1. DeGravelles wrote that the law was “coercive,” unconstitutionally pressuring students to observe or venerate a scripture from a religion favored by the state.
He rejected the state’s claim that it could mandate displaying the Ten Commandments because it is a “historically significant document.”

Based on a NY Post report: About 100 miles to the west of Washington D.C., in a rural part of Pennsylvania, lies a collection of small businesses and community networks that were instrumental in securing the state for President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election. For nearly ten years, Republicans have been making efforts to reach an often-overlooked group — the Amish — by working tirelessly to register voters from this demographic, all while navigating the scents of fresh manure and the aroma of homemade shoofly pie.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu delivers a message to the people of Iran.

“There will be no ceasefire and no pause” in the fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said on Tuesday.
Following his first meeting on Monday with the IDF General Staff Forum, Katz tweeted, “The impressive and powerful actions carried out by the IDF and security forces against Hezbollah, including the elimination of Nasrallah, represent a victory image, and it is essential to continue offensive operations to further degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities and fully capitalize on the gains of this victory.”
Katz replaced Yoav Gallant as defense minister on Nov. 7, having previously served as Israel’s foreign minister.

Jack Teixeira, a former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for illegally obtaining classified materials from the Pentagon and distributing them online, as confirmed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts.
The sentence was handed down by Judge Indira Talwani in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Earlier this year, in March, Teixeira pleaded guilty to six charges related to the unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. His arrest took place in North Dighton, Massachusetts, in April 2023, and he has been in federal detention since mid-May 2023.

Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, missing one eye and with his left hand bandaged, met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on Tuesday ahead of his return to his post in Beirut.
Amani was wounded in Israel’s beeper operation against Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist group. He was taken to Tehran for treatment, according to Mehr News Agency, a semi-official news organ of the Islamic Republic.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was feared to be so close to using nuclear weapons in Ukraine that the famously short-serving British prime minister, Liz Truss, spent the last of her 50 days in office studying weather maps and preparing for cases of radiation poisoning, according to a new book about Truss entitled Out of the Blue.

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