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A bar chart titled "Annual Food at Home Inflation" on a cream background. Three vertical bars: Trump 45 (green, 1.6%), Biden (red, 5.3%), Trump 47 (green, 2.0%). A dotted light-blue horizontal line labeled "10 Year Average inflation of 2.8%" crosses the chart, with a pale shaded band below it. The Y-axis runs 0.0% to 6.0% in 1.0% steps. The chart presents itself as comparing food-at-home inflation across the two Trump terms and the Biden term, showing Biden's period far above the 10-year average and both Trump periods below it. A source line sits at the bottom.

Text in image: Annual Food at Home Inflation 6.0% 5.0% 4.0% 3.0% 2.0% 1.0% 0.0% 5.3% 10 Year Average inflation of 2.8% 2.0% 1.6% Trump 45 Biden Trump 47 Source: USDA Compound Annual Growth Rate calculations using BLS Consumer Price Index data

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Alright, thanks for coming man, appreciate that. I'm going to look at all this stuff a little bit from the racing standpoint. He's a big racing fan, I appreciate that. But we're in a big race here, guys. I'm going to look at it, alright. I'm going to lose you as him as the driver. This is the best driver we've ever had, okay. (cheering) Alright, so what we've got to do is you all have got to pick out the best pit crew for him. So we've got to have the best pit crew. And that's what all this is about. Let's get out and get the very best pit crew we can for the best driver in the world. So if they do that, if we can do that, then he's the winner, pit crews the winner, we're all winners all over the world. Thank you guys. (cheering)

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So we're online here four hours before President Trump's getting ready to speak. We just bumped into Roy. Roy, President Trump won this state by about 14 points two years ago. Why is the Senate race so close? -I think that because of the media that is putting out all this misinformation and -- -Not Fox News. -Maybe. -But -- and I think that that is just making some people kind of think twice. But the support is there. I'm from -- real -- about 30 minutes from the border, or a little closer than that, and there's a lot of support for Trump there. -Now, President Trump -- -Ben Paxton. -Now, President Trump received a lot of support from Hispanic voters. Are those Hispanics still with the President and with Ken Paxton? -I think so. I think so. -We're hearing a lot of yes, Harris. What do you -- Oh, you just went to yell that in the background. Okay. What is it that you like about Ken Paxton, and what do you not like about James Talarico? -Well, what I like about Ken Paxton is that he's a straight shooter. He's fought for us in -- I don't know how many court filings that he's had that he's won for our side. And he's got everything that they say that he was accused of, he was exonerated from, you know? And what I don't like about Talarico is that he's for the trans, the mutilation of young kids, defunding the police, and so on. And there has to be law and order in this state, in this country.

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Front page of the Dalton Daily Citizen newspaper, weekend edition dated October 17-18, 2026. The main photo shows a man in a dark suit and red tie wearing a red "USA" cap, pointing toward the camera, with a blurred crowd member in the left foreground. Below it are three small inset photos of a rally crowd and a man at a podium. Beneath the photo is a second story about Qcells solar panels. The page also has a weather box, a "Beyond the Ballot" promo, an "On the Agenda" box, an index, QR codes, and ads at the bottom for "Stronger Together" and a Hamilton mammogram service.

Text in image: BEYOND THE BALLOT Know what's on your ballot, when to vote and what we're asking the candidates. See Page 3 ON THE AGENDA ONLINE SUNDAY AT DALTONCITIZEN.COM Stay informed before decisions are made. Look for On The Agenda online Sunday at DaltonCitizen.com for a preview of next week's local government meetings and agenda highlights. DALTON DAILY CITIZEN SERVING NORTHWEST GEORGIA SINCE 1847 WEEKEND, OCTOBER 17-18, 2026 $2.00 DALTONCITIZEN.COM Trump draws packed crowd for Dalton rally USA PHOTOS: JESSICA WARNER & BRADLEY HAN President Donald Trump greets supporters on his way to the podium during a stop in Dalton on Friday for a midterm campaign rally. Qcells to launch residential solar panels with domestic frames Featuring aluminum frames produced in Tennessee, Qcells' new residential panels ensure customers can access the domestic content bonus WEATHER TAKE A HIKE SUBSCRIBER ADDRESS 2-Day Heat & Humidity Report INSIDE ONLINE STRONGER TOGETHER EARLY DETECTION SAVES LIVES Schedule your mammogram! 706-272-6565 Hamilton Peoples Cancer Center

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"If," by Redyard Kipling, "if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same, if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools, if you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and booze and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss, if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but a none too much, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man, my son.

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Scan of the front page of the Ravalli Republic newspaper (Bitterroot Valley, Montana), dated Thursday, October 15, 2026. The main photo shows a large crowd of people, many in jackets and some in red, white and blue, walking across a grassy field toward the camera, with mountains and a blue sky behind them. The caption says they are attendees lining up outside Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell ahead of a rally hosted by President Donald Trump. Other items are a top story on a judge halting a Forest Service reorganization, a sidebar on wolf protections, a story on a Stevensville student who is a National Merit semifinalist (with a photo of a young person with long hair standing in front of a school entrance labeled YELLOWJACKETS), and two small teaser photos at the top (football players, and a children's book cover).

Text in image: SERVING THE BITTERROOT VALLEY SINCE 1889 RAVALLI REPUBLIC CORVALLIS • DARBY • FLORENCE • HAMILTON • STEVENSVILLE • VICTOR Idaho Vandals to visit Missoula for second straight year. PAGE B1 Spooky reads for kids, adults as fall chill hits the air. PAGE A5 A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated Newspaper — Majority shareholder, David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group Thursday, October 15, 2026 RavalliRepublic.com Judge halts Forest Service reshuffle SAM WILSON sam.wilson@missoulian.com The ongoing reshuffling of the Forest Service, along with much of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was paused Tuesday after a federal judge in Northern California found the reorganization was "almost certainly" violating federal law by diverting funds without congressional approval. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria granted a temporary stay that bars the department and many of its agencies from closing any more offices or relocating employees, pending action by Congress. "Congress did not contemplate USDA using its appropriated funds to shut down offices or relocate employees," wrote Chhabria, with the U.S. District Court of Northern California. "To the contrary, Congress was actively working to restrict the agency's ability to do so." The USDA announced a sweeping plan in 2025 to reorganize the massive department, with an eye toward reducing its footprint in Washington, D.C., and staffing up regional hubs across the country. The USDA employs 3,100 full-time workers in Montana, according to the federal Office of Personnel Management. Of those employees, 2,700 work for the Forest Service. Forest Service officials are planning to eliminate the agency's longstanding Please see USFS, Page A2 TRUMP IN KALISPELL 'WE LOVE TRUMP' BEN ALLAN SMITH, MISSOULIAN Hundreds of attendees line up outside Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell ahead of the rally hosted by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Big crowd turns out for rally in GOP stronghold SEABORN LARSON, CARLY GRAF, GRIFFEN SMITH AND BEN ALLAN SMITH A star-spangled spectacle was brewing in the Flathead Valley on Wednesday afternoon as thousands descended on Majestic Valley Arena to see President Donald Trump. Trump was in Montana to campaign for GOP candidates, namely conservative radio host Aaron Flint, who is running to replace U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke as the representative in Montana's 1st Congressional District. Democrat Sam Forstag is running a tight race against Flint; polling has shown the race in a statistical tie for the last several weeks. Those in line to see the president on Wednesday came from nearby communities and from as far as California. At least eight sitting or hopeful legislators had been spotted at the rally as of 2 p.m. "I've been to over 30 of these Please see TRUMP, Page A4 Feds, wolf advocates duel over species' future SAM WILSON sam.wilson@missoulian.com When is a gray wolf "significant" enough to earn federal protections? And after a decades-long recovery returned the species to one-third of its historic range, is it time to remove the protections that brought them back? A panel of three appeals court judges visited Missoula's federal courthouse Wednesday afternoon as the bottom of those questions — along with a multitude of others — in a trio of lawsuits that could shape the future of the iconic species in the contiguous United States. In one case, the Center for Wildlife Biology, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other environmental groups are suing to overturn the federal government's rejection of their petition to relist wolves under the Endangered Species Act across the entire Lower 48 states. The lawsuit previously played out in the same courtroom in Missoula's Russell Smith Federal Courthouse, where District Judge Donald Molloy last year ruled against the Fish and Wildlife Service and found the agency failed to apply the best available science in its analysis and ignored the predators' historic range. Wolves once roamed across most of the North American continent, but were nearly eliminated south of Canada Please see WOLVES, Page A3 Stevi scholar drums up success Svaren is Bitterroot's only National Merit semifinalist NICOLE GIRTEN nicole.girten@ravallirepublic.com Stevensville senior Zane Svaren's ultimate dream is to be a rock star, drumming on the biggest stages. So far, though, one of Svaren's biggest accomplishments is being the only student in the Bitterroot named a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist. He will compete with about 16,000 other kids around the country next spring for 6,700 merit scholarships worth about $24 million. He said it "feels cool" to be among such an elite few. "Sometimes going to a school like Stevensville, it almost feels like maybe it's a 'big fish, little pond' thing because our school's kind of underfunded," he said. To qualify to be a semifinalist, applicants have to first score high on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Applicants also need an "outstanding academic record" and to submit an application Please see SCHOLAR, Page A5 YELLOWJACKETS Stevensville senior Zane Svaren is the Bitterroot's only Merit Scholar semifinalist in the 2027 cohort. He will go on to compete for one of more than 6,000 scholarships totaling more than $24 million. NICOLE.GIRTEN@RAVALLIREPUBLIC.COM GET THE FULL BENEFITS OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION! Activate your digital account to get updated stories, videos, and hundreds of additional puzzles and comics. Visit ravallirepublic.com/activate and download our app for the E-edition and breaking news on the go! Weather Mostly sunny, nice High: 59 Low: 29 Forecast: A10 Inside Opinion A6 | Sports B1 Nation/World A7 | Classified B8 Weather A10 $2.50 • TTS • Volume 137, Issue 288 • Copyright 2026 Follow us online: /RavalliRepublic /RavalliRepublic

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The Trump administration in one year has grown personal incomes more than Biden. In four years, real median household income hit more than $80,000 last year. That's the highest level on record. This is a boom. Not air Americans richer than ever before. The poverty rate has plunged to the lowest level in American history. To just over 10 percent. That is a historic load. It hasn't been lower ever in our history.

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[Crowd cheering]

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A food-price infographic with a green banner header and a cream background. It shows eight food items, each drawn as an illustration with a green price-tag shape below it holding a percentage change. Top row: olive oil (glass bottle), grapes (purple cluster), cheese (wedge with holes), chicken breast (grilled). Bottom row: oatmeal (bowl), butter (stick on wrapper), tomatoes (single red tomato), eggs (fried egg). Every percentage is negative. A small footnote at the bottom gives the data source and notes that the egg figure is a wholesale price. It reads as a political graphic claiming that grocery prices have fallen.

Text in image: REAL FOOD, REAL SAVINGS OLIVE OIL GRAPES CHEESE CHICKEN BREAST -18% -8.4% -5.8% -7.0% OATMEAL BUTTER TOMATOES EGGS* -2.2% -15.7% -2.0% -90% Source: USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) using Circana Retail Scanner Data (not seasonally adjusted), Multioutlet + convenience (MULO+) between January 2025 and week ending Sep 27, 2026, 16 oz. * Wholesale prices for a dozen of eggs

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Yeah, Kristen, like you said, outside here at the Menard Center, just a few moments ago, the doors officially open. People are starting to make their way in and get themselves situated still a couple hours before the start of the actual rally itself, but people are raring to go. As you can see, there are lots of people here waiting in line, many more than the initial barriers that were installed could hold people all the way out into the parking lot and more arriving literally by the bus load every 20 minutes or so. We're seeing folks getting dropped off, and we've talked to people who just came a few miles down the road to be here. We've talked to people from Anchorage, from the peninsula, even a few from off the road system. So, safe to say, lots of people here from all across Alaska are excited to see President Trump. And before there was this sea of humanity, as you saw, there was a small dedicated few at the front door. A lot of them volunteers helping this rally go smoothly, a chance they were excited to receive. I'm glad the weather is cooperating. I don't think they're ready for what they're going to experience here. What do you mean by that? I think there's going to be more people here than what they anticipated. I didn't realize he was going to come here. My daughter called me and let me know, and I thought it was either a rumor or a hoax. It makes me feel great that all these supporters could come out today, actually. I know we've got more people coming in, and there's young people coming in, too. So I think it's just great.

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He's acting like he's on the ballot. He is campaigning so hard. He has not stopped. And that is something that I think when all of this is said and done, when his term is over, we're gonna miss what a hardworking president looks like, 'cause I don't think we'll ever see anyone work as hard as that man. - But you know, obviously the headwinds are very much going against Republicans just because of the nature of politics. It's the second midterm for a sitting president. That's always a very difficult time. But the big picture, sort of historical moment here is, you know, 20 years ago, Democrats were romping in states like Michigan by double digit points. Donald Trump walks in and takes all of these states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, puts them back into play, and then wins them. And what's significant about that is what was the Democrat response to it? You would think the Democrat response to that would be to moderate and become, and try to get those working class voters back to their side of the aisle, but that's not what they did. They took off and went crazy.

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[APPLAUSE]

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(crowd cheers)

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A digitally edited image. A large photo of a man's face (light blond-gray swept hair, orange-toned skin, half-lidded eyes, downturned mouth, dark suit collar and white shirt) is composited into a blue sky with clouds above a Greenland-style coastal settlement of brightly colored wooden houses (red, green, blue, yellow) with a small white-spired church, dirt roads, and rocky mountains. His fingers appear to hold or peel back the mountain ridge like a sheet, as if lifting the landscape toward his mouth. A white banner across the top carries the greeting in large dark green text. It looks like a meme or edited graphic about Greenland, with the face of a figure resembling Donald Trump looming over the town.

Text in image: Hello, Greenland!

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(soft music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)

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A wide-angle photograph of a waterfront path beside a broad river or bay under a blue sky with scattered white clouds. In the foreground, a section of the shoreline walkway has collapsed or eroded: broken, tilted concrete slabs and bare dirt sit inside an area fenced off with black metal barricades and sagging chain-link fencing. A white metal railing runs along the water's edge, partly bent. Grass and a large leafy tree are on the left, a concrete path is on the right, and a distant shoreline with buildings is across the water. A person's dark blue trouser leg is visible at the bottom left edge. No people are shown in full and no text is visible.

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A color photograph of a wide river or tidal waterfront under an overcast sky. Water has risen over a paved waterside path and part of the grass bank, leaving puddles and mud in the foreground. A chain-link fence with metal railings runs along the path and is partly submerged. A weeping willow stands at upper left. Three people stand near the fence in the far left distance, one holding an orange umbrella. A far shoreline with low buildings is visible across the water on the horizon. There is no caption or overlaid text.

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A color photograph of a waterside path flooded by a wide river. A black metal barricade stands in the shallow water across the path, which runs along a white railing and chain-link fence beside the river. Water flows over the path and past a concrete barrier in the foreground, behind a chain-link fence. Green leafy trees hang over the right side. A distant city skyline and a long bridge appear across the water under an overcast, cloudy sky. No people are visible.

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Color photograph, wide-angle, taken from under the covered porch of a tan stucco building with dark green shutters. Water has risen over a grassy strip and is pooling against a black chain-link fence, partly submerging the fence base and the vegetation. Beyond the fence is a harbor or marina with moored boats and large multi-story buildings along the far shore. Construction cranes stand in the background under a partly cloudy sky. On the porch floor, wet debris (twigs, scraps, and a pile of white plastic sheeting) lies near an orange traffic cone. At the left edge, a person is partly visible from the shoulder down, wearing a gray short-sleeved uniform shirt with an arrowhead-shaped patch and dark green trousers. A white pickup truck is parked in the distance by the trees. The image looks like a photograph of flooding or high water at a waterfront site.

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A dark red and gold graphic from "Team Trump" listing Michigan's Trump-endorsed candidates for the November 3, 2026 midterm elections. A faded, tinted photo of a man in a suit giving a thumbs-up fills the background. Circular headshots with names sit under office headings: Governor (John James), U.S. Senate (Mike Rogers), and U.S. House (Jack Bergman 01, John Moolenaar 02, Bill Huizenga 04, Tim Walberg 05, Tom Barrett 07, Lisa McClain 09, Mike Bouchard 10). Governor and Senate are in outlined boxes. A gold footer bar gives a website URL. This is an endorsement slate graphic promoting a voting site.

Text in image: TEAM TRUMP MICHIGAN ★ TRUMP-ENDORSED CANDIDATES ★ NOVEMBER 3, 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS Governor U.S. Senate U.S. House John James Mike Rogers Jack Bergman (01) John Moolenaar (02) Bill Huizenga (04) Tim Walberg (05) Tom Barrett (07) Lisa McClain (09) Mike Bouchard (10) VISIT SWAMPTHEVOTEUSA.COM

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Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) from the account "Breaking911" (@Breaking911), which has a gold verification badge and a red-and-white "BREAKING 911" logo avatar. A black "Subscribe" button, a slashed-circle icon and a three-dot menu appear at the top right. The post text is a quote attributed to President Trump claiming that the last time Democrats had power they produced the worst inflation, highest energy prices, worst trade deficit and allowed 25 million people across the borders, and that they would do it again if given the chance. The post has no attached photo and shows no engagement counts.

Text in image: Breaking911 @Breaking911 Subscribe PRESIDENT TRUMP: The last time the Radical Dumocrats had power, they gave us the worst inflation, highest energy prices, and worst trade deficit in American history, and allowed 25 million people to pour across our borders... If given the chance, they'll do it all again.

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>> [APPLAUSE] >> [APPLAUSE]

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Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by Lori Furstenberg (@FurstenbergLori), with a small circular profile photo of a woman with blonde hair and glasses. The post text is a comment with an American flag, flexed bicep, American flag emoji row and three downward-pointing finger emojis, followed by a headline. Below is a link-preview card with a photo of a smiling woman with long highlighted blonde-brown hair, glasses, drop earrings, a navy jacket with white trim over a white top, standing in front of a blue financial-news studio backdrop with partial large letters "IGS" and "MA". A caption bar on the image repeats the headline. Below the card is the source domain, timestamp and view count.

Text in image: Lori Furstenberg @FurstenbergLori Love it for her! 🇺🇸💪🇺🇸 👇👇👇 Maria Bartiromo Lands First Hosting Gig Since Fox News Exit IGS MAI Maria Bartiromo Lands First Hosting Gig Since Fox News Exit - NewsBreak From newsbreak.com 6:51 PM · Oct 29, 2026 · 101.7K Views

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(dramatic music) (dramatic music)

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