24-year-old Joey Ray Dawson lured deputies with a fake 911 call. CCSO says Dawson called from a number not tied to the E. Seneca St address, threatening to kill everyone inside if deputies didn't arrive within 10 minutes. When they arrived he came out of the wood line in a gas mask with his hands in a backpack, then raised a large black object in a firing stance — it turned out to be a radio, not a firearm. The four deputies involved are on paid leave; FDLE is investigating. Sources: FOX13.

Trump said Monday the 12 B-1s ‘didn’t fly out by accident’: ‘rather than tempting the enemy, we moved them around a little bit, not very far.’ Vance called it an ‘abundance of caution’ over a suspected Iran-linked terror plot. UK PM Burnham says there are ‘strong indications’ of Iranian involvement; Tehran denies it and summoned the British ambassador. Six arrested suspects were all bailed. Note the split: Rubio had declined to tie the withdrawal directly to the plot — today Trump did it himself. Sources: The Times.

State is pressing Russia to share ‘accurate information quickly and openly’ on the Irkutsk anti-plague institute death. Daria Shipilova, 28, died of ‘pneumonia of unknown etiology’ after reportedly breaking a test tube on Sept. 25; ~200 contacts are under observation and no additional cases have been found. Rubio, en route to Iceland: ‘There’s very limited travel between the U.S. and Russia … but something like that gets out, it could quickly spread.’ Russia insists the region is stable. Sources: Washington Examiner.

Declassified docs released Monday by the White House transparency task force show Jack Smith’s team used a pen register on then-campaign-manager Wiles’s phone — call metadata (who, when, how long), not conversation content. Also swept up: ~21 defense attorneys, 5 journalists, and Melania and Barron Trump’s travel. Garland signed off on Wray’s recommendation in May 2022. Read the framing, not just the facts: ‘tapped’ headlines overreach (a pen register is not a wiretap), and the release came from a White House-aligned task force led by John Solomon, three years after the fact. Sources: Washington Examiner.

The polls missed again — most had Lula ahead; the final count had Flávio up by ~1.9 points. His Liberal Party also took the most seats in both chambers of Congress, and his stepmother Michelle Bolsonaro won a Senate seat. Runoff polling is essentially tied. Bolsonaro’s camp will cite the miss as proof the pollsters tilt for Lula; Lula has to flip Bolsonaro voters directly to win on Oct 25. Sources: Newsmax.

The facts: vendor Runbeck mailed 3,126 vote-by-mail packets Oct 1 instead of Oct 7 — the ballots are correct and went to the correct voters, per GOP Recorder Justin Heap, and they stay valid. Heap disclosed it publicly Oct 4. Today’s split-screen: Trump urged Republicans to vote by mail (‘we seem to have no choice’) while calling Maricopa ‘a very, very dishonest county’ over the error. A Republican recorder runs the office now — ‘they got caught’ is a take on a disclosed logistics mistake. Today was also Arizona’s voter-registration deadline. Sources: azcentral · Washington Examiner.

After Friday’s G7 deal (100M barrels of reserves over 4 months, diesel front-loaded in the first 20 days), Trump says ‘we’re not going to be doing the export ban.’ The White House now pushes dyed-diesel access — 10 states have expanded it, ~60¢/gal potential tax savings — but GasBuddy’s De Haan: ‘farmers already use dyed diesel and are still paying record prices. Taxes aren’t the problem, supply is.’ National average still ~$6.37–$6.52, the highest ever for this time of year. In your lane: WSJ says C.H. Robinson is buying broker RXO for ~$5.8B. Sources: Newsmax · WSJ.