On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 A surprising amount of encouraging news.\xa0 New poll shows President Biden's public approval rating has spiked by 9 points.\xa0 Retail sales grew in August, while weekly jobless claims fell, again. Biden announced a tentative deal to avert a major strike by rail workers that would have caused considerable economic disruption.\xa0 New York's Attorney General rejected a move by Donald Trump's attorneys to reach a settlement in her civil probe of allegations of tax, bank, and insurance fraud by Trump's company. The FBI confiscated pillow impresario Mike Lindell's phone in a federal grand jury probe of an unlawful Colorado voting system security breach. A Special Prosecutor in Michigan is investigating GOP Attorney General nominee Matt DePerno and several other top Republicans in an unlawful Michigan voting system security breach. Top election official in Rensselear County, NY becomes the latest GOP official charged with absentee ballot voting fraud, part of a sweeping federal probe. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'