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Today's Top Political News Compilation - Thursday, October 19, 2023

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Republicans are facing death threats as the election for speaker gets mired in personal feuds

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the thing that was supposed to make Rep. Jim Jordan the 56th speaker of the House. An onslaught of pressure from the Republican Party base, allies predicted, would compel the GOP’s moderate and establishment members to support Jordan, a hero of the far-right, and help him secure the votes for the gavel.

























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DOJ announces first-ever federal review of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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The federal review is being conducted by the Civil Rights Division’s Cold Case Unit, under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
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WATCH: Former President Jimmy Carter turns 100: A look back at his legacy

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Carter, who served as the 39th president from 1977 to 1981, is the longest-lived former chief executive in U.S. history.
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WATCH: Russian jet comes within 50 feet of US fighter off coast of Alaska

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NORAD released dramatic video on Monday that showed just how close the Russian fighter flew ahead of the American aircraft at a high rate of speed.
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VP debates rarely matter - the Walz v Vance showdown is different

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In a tight US election race, every opportunity to generate positive attention and political momentum is precious.
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'People are just scrambling' - North Carolina reels from devastating storm

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Residents describe how the storm "destroyed everything in its path" and wiped out entire communities in the state.
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How to watch the VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Vice presidential candidates Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance are poised to go head-to-head at their first and only debate in New York on Tuesday, as ballots are already being mailed to voters weeks before Election Day.

Hosted by CBS News, the VP debate between Walz, the Democratic nominee, and Vance, the GOP nominee, will be moderated by "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell and "Face the Nation" moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan.

The 90-minute event is taking place just over a...
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Where does the VP live? Inside the second-in-command's official house

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The most well-known address in the United States is perhaps 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the president's home and epicenter of the U.S. government. But what about the nation's vice president? Where does the second-in-command live?

When they're not at their office in the White House, or jet-setting around the world, they too, reside in Washington D.C., albeit across the city from the White House

The house that's served as the stomping grounds for every vice president from Walter Mondale to Kamala Harris is .

Tucked away in the northwestern quadrant of...
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Harris courts Latinos with health care-focused ads slamming Trump

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is ramping up its efforts to win over Latino voters across battleground states with a health care-focused ad blitz attacking former President Donald Trump, as recent polls show her advantage over him among these voters is significantly smaller than President Biden's was in 2020.

Starting Tuesday, Harris will have ads up arguing Trump would "rip health care away" from millions of Latinos, and in the process take money out of their pockets.

Trump has said little about health care during the 2024 presidential...
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School bus catches fire outside Bangkok and over 20 are feared dead, officials say

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Officials in Thailand say a bus carrying young students and teachers caught fire outside Bangkok and 23 of those on board are feared dead
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Harris and Trump talk about insulin cost, but a law Walz signed does more

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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In June 2019, Lija Greenseid handed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an empty vial of insulin that her 13-year-old daughter had painted gold.

Greenseid's daughter has Type 1 diabetes, which means she requires daily injections of manufactured insulin to stay alive. The price of a single vial of insulin rose by about 1,200% between 1996 and 2018, and the gold vial was a reminder, Greenseid said, that this lifesaving pharmaceutical shouldn't be as expensive as precious metal.

"What I heard is that that gold vial remained on his desk at the governor's office...
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Fact-Checking Vance and Walz on the Campaign Trail

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U.S. Raises New Concerns Over Chinese Lending Practices

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A Treasury official will call for greater transparency over emergency currency “swap” loans to struggling countries by China’s central bank.
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Another Way Jimmy Carter, 100 Today, Bested His Fellow Presidents

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The longest-lived president has also written more best-selling books than any modern president — and had the fewest written about him.
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Is this S Korea's most glamorous granny? Miss Universe judges think so

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Choi Soon-hwa only started modelling at 72, but now has her eyes on an international career.
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TV and Broadway star Gavin Creel dies aged 48

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Bette Midler and Hannah Waddingham pay tribute to the Broadway and West End star.
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