Friday, July 10th, 2026 - ICE Kills Yet Again, Ken Paxton Voted Illegally, Walmart Is Finally Cutting Prices

Friday, July 10th, 2026 - ICE Kills Yet Again, Ken Paxton Voted Illegally, Walmart Is Finally Cutting Prices

From Morning Announcements by Betches Media

July 10, 2026 · 10 min

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The episode discusses recent political events including Mitch McConnell's absence, ICE's controversial actions, and Ken Paxton's alleged voter fraud.

Today's Headlines: Mitch McConnell is still missing with zero health updates, Elaine Chao's spokesperson says she left for China two days before he was hospitalized and has since returned. Mitch’s absence is now actively complicating Senate business since he sits on the Appropriations Committee that needs to pass a government funding bill by September 30th — so the republicans need him conscious and present, which remains unconfirmed. In other news, The Secret Service apparently made Trump swap planes leaving Turkey out of "an abundance of caution" over Iran escalation concerns about how quickly the Qatari hand-me-down was retrofitted, despite Trump insisting the plane is fine. Meanwhile the  White House columns are now covered in a tarp printed to look like the White House, which is a real thing that exists. On the Immigration beat, ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national with no criminal record who had lived in the US for decades and was on his way to work, with federal officials claiming self-defense and no footage to back it up — and Mexico is now reportedly planning to file criminal complaints in the US over multiple ICE custody deaths, because…

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Organizations: ICE, Secret Service, White House, Qatar

Places: Texas, US, China

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