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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Thu Oct 31 2024

Nicole Fallert | Newsletter Writer

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The Los Angeles Dodgers claimed their eighth World Series title in franchise history. USA TODAY found private organizations stand to profit from former President Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of unauthorized migrants. And what voter roll purges in Virginia mean for voting rights.

🙋🏼‍♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert, Daily Briefing author. 👻🎃 Happy Halloween! Would you visit a "haunted ghost forest"?

Champions! Dodgers win World Series

In a five-run hole in Game 5 and facing New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, the Los Angeles Dodgers staged a startling fifth-inning rally to tie the score, pushed across two more runs to take the lead for good in the eighth and then closed their eyes and hoped for the best from a bullpen stretched to its limit. The move led to a 7-6 Game 5 victory, a 4-1 conquest of the Yankees and the Dodgers' first World Series title since 2020 and first in a full season since 1988. Read USA TODAY's full recap of the wild win.

Mlb World Series Los Angeles Dodgers At New York Yankees

Dodgers players celebrate the final out.

Robert Deutsch, Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images

Officials brace for Election Day

"We just want to make sure that every area is covered. While we hope for the best, we plan for the worst."

- Detroit, Michigan, elections official Daniel Baxter. More than a dozen county and city election officials spoke with USA TODAY about what they are doing to make sure they can count ballots at central ballot counting locations once polls close, no matter what happens outside.

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The big business of Trump's deportation plan

The companies quietly running the federal government's immigration detention and deportation system are anticipating a potentially massive payday should Donald Trump return to the White House.

The background: Trump has promised a "mass deportation" that would round up millions of immigrants living in the country unlawfully to detain and deport them – an effort that could take 10 years and cost nearly a trillion dollars, according to the American Immigration Council.

•	A cost to taxpayers: The federal government already relies on an intricate network of for-profit companies to execute its immigration enforcement. To meet the increased demand, experts say, it would need to scale-up taxpayer dollars to those private partnerships.
•	Trump made a similar promise of such a deportation during his first administration. This time around, he's prepared to employ a range of logistical and legal tactics to make it happen.
•	Día de Los Muertos remembers migrants who died trying to make it to U.S. The indigenously rooted, primarily Mexican holiday marked on the first two days of November, is commonly thought of as a time for families to celebrate loved ones who've passed. As the tradition has rooted itself in America, it is a vehicle for social commentary.

Virginia can resume it purge of voter rolls

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to reinstate a purge of suspected noncitizens from voter rolls. Over the objections of the three liberal justices, the court accepted an emergency request from state officials to intervene after lower courts stopped a state program that had removed more than 1,600 names since Aug. 7. While Virginia's governor lauded the more, voting rights advocates call it "a last-minute purge that includes many known eligible citizens." Read more

☁ Zen zone ☁

Please enjoy this section of the Daily Briefing made for fun.

•	Watch this groom and guests be moved to tears as a bride surprises them.
•	Make your own brown sugar.
•	Imagine finding a glittering gold fossil from millions of years ago.
•	Would you try a picklewich?!?

Have a hyper-specific costume you have to explain?

You're not alone. In a gay world, Halloween is the one night a year when "chronically online" people can dress as probably the most niche internet reference you can think of. People are using the phrase "I hate gay Halloween" when posting hyper-specific Halloween costumes from pop culture's farthest corners to their social media feeds. Read more

More Halloween happenings from USA TODAY:

•	Here's to make sure you find your friends this Halloween.
•	What is Beggars' Night in Des Moines Iowa?
•	Choose your favorite celebrity Halloween costumes.
•	Use these tips for exploring cemeteries on Halloween.

Photo of the day: The president meets a super hero

President Joe Biden met the one-and-only Spider-Man during a White House trick-or-treat event on Wednesday night.

US President Joe Biden reacts as he hosts a Halloween trick-or-treat event at the South Portico of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 30, 2024.

TIERNEY CROSS, AFP via Getty Images

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Harris breaks with Biden's 'garbage' remarks about Trump supporters

Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris talks to reporters before boarding Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on October 30, 2024.

Harris split with Biden's comments where he appeared to refer to Donald Trump's supporters as "garbage," saying she doesn't agree with criticisms of voters.

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