Here’s what happened in America in the last 12 hours. A Florida federal judge Saturday permanently dismissed President Trump's multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over a story about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Shootings Friday at Spirit Halloween stores in California and Michigan killed two people, including a woman her family said was pregnant, and wounded six others in California, police said. Affordable Care Act benchmark premiums will rise an average thirteen percent next year, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports, with people above subsidy income limits paying the full increase. An immigrant-rights group's court filing says more than four in ten of about twenty-one thousand names the Justice Department flagged as possible California noncitizen voters are not on voter rolls. Alaska urged a federal judge Saturday to dismiss the Justice Department's Senate election lawsuit, saying it is meritless and separating ballots for the second Dan Sullivan is impossible. Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola denied any knowledge of an alleged effort by aides to recruit a second Dan Sullivan to the ballot, which The New York Times reported. Virginia and the District of Columbia sued Saturday to block President Trump's two-hundred-fifty-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, with the administration saying construction could begin as early as next week. Heavy rain is forecast across Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado through Monday, with flash flooding possible, after record-high tides hit California's coast and storms forced rescues in Phoenix. Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed asked former primary rival Representative Haley Stevens to skip his final Michigan campaign events, including Sunday's Detroit unity event, amid a dispute over an ad. President Trump is backing Republican candidates with telephone rallies, including in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as the White House plans more than twenty before midterm elections on Tuesday. A Michigan man was arrested Friday and charged with threatening Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel in Facebook messages sent in October, federal prosecutors announced. #USnews #NewsUpdate #TodayInAmerica #BreakingNews #news - @dailyplugusa