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Republican-aligned groups are planning to spend $166 million to boost advertising for Republican candidate Ken Paxton. His advertisement aired 258 times during "Judge Judy" in September alone in an effort to defeat James Talarico, Paxton’s Democratic rival.

President Trump is personally behind a series of taxpayer-funded ads promoting himself and his policies, a source tells CNN. Ryan Goodman, former DOD Special Counsel, tells Erin Burnett the law is clear, “if executive officials use public funds that have not been appropriated, it's a crime."

In immigration courts that decide who will be deported, young migrant children often face the judge without an attorney. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez reports.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke to students at More Perfect University’s fourth Students vs. Billionaires town hall about prosecutors reopening an investigation into a former Cornell University student’s allegations she was gang raped by seven members of a fraternity.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of replacing press with an "echo chamber" at the Pentagon, calling the behavior "snowflakeish" and urged Hegseth to engage Congress and the public to build support for the Iran war effort.

与共和党结盟的团体计划斥资1.66亿美元，加大对共和党候选人肯·帕克斯顿的竞选广告投入。仅在9月份，帕克斯顿的竞选广告就在“朱迪法官”节目中播放了258次，旨在击败他的民主党对手詹姆斯·塔拉里科。

据CNN报道，一位消息人士透露，特朗普总统亲自策划了一系列由纳税人资助的广告，旨在宣传他本人及其政策。前国防部特别顾问瑞安·古德曼告诉艾琳·伯内特，法律条文很明确，“如果行政官员使用未经拨款的公共资金，那就是犯罪。”

在决定谁将被驱逐出境的移民法庭上，年幼的移民儿童常常在没有律师的情况下面对法官。CNN记者普里西拉·阿尔瓦雷斯报道。

纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯在“更完美大学”第四届“学生对抗亿万富翁”市政厅会议上向学生们讲述了检察官重新调查一名康奈尔大学前学生指控其被七名兄弟会成员轮奸一案的情况。

北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯指责国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯在五角大楼用“回音室”取代了新闻界，称这种行为“玻璃心”，并敦促赫格塞斯与国会和公众接触，以争取对伊朗战争的支持。