Today's five.

Promising cash to voters in exchange for winning elections used to be a thing that happened in other countries. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Trump pledged a "Trump dividend" — $5,000 to every adult American — if Republicans hold both chambers in November, comparing it to a company distributing profits to shareholders. The plan would cost over $1 trillion. He added the money would have to be spent in the U.S., without explaining how that would work. Time covered the mechanics; The Guardian led with the price tag. The checks, notably, don't exist yet.

A year after Kirk was fatally shot on a Utah Valley University campus, Turning Point USA is somewhere between a movement and a memory. Membership surged immediately after his death — one college student submitted a chapter request six times in a single night because the servers were overloaded. But the NYT framed the anniversary around splintering; NBC framed it around Vance showing up to honor him. Both things are probably true. The organization Kirk built was always more personality than infrastructure, which is a great model until the personality is gone.

Junior bankers spend their careers making pitchbooks and pulling data at midnight, so naturally OpenAI just launched a product that does exactly that. ChatGPT for Financial Services runs on GPT-4o and plugs into data from LSEG, PitchBook, and Daloopa — the sources analysts already use — with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners, which means the people who hire junior bankers helped build the thing replacing them. CNBC led with the labor disruption angle; Independent Journal Review led with the enterprise compliance features. Both are right. The product automates the work; the governance packaging makes it safe enough for legal to approve.

Someone figured out that elderly people are more trusting of caregivers than strangers, and decided to make that a business model. A Florida woman already arrested for posing as a caregiver to steal from elderly victims is now wanted in additional cases, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office — meaning the first arrest didn't uncover the full picture. The details of the new cases haven't been released. Only one outlet picked this up, which is the kind of local crime story that rarely travels far but probably should.

Denver just sued the federal government to keep ICE agents away from voting sites, which is a legal first and also a sentence that would have sounded like satire five years ago. The suit argues that stationing armed officers at polling places violates a federal law banning "troops at polls" — a law that exists because this exact scenario is the kind of thing democracies historically wanted to avoid. The Hill focused on the city's move; Straight Arrow noted eight weeks until the midterms. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin had signaled ICE would appear at polling locations for immigration enforcement. The 1800s called and left a relevant statute.