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Today's Top Political News Compilation - Tuesday, October 17, 2023

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Jim Jordan struggles in Speakership vote

House Republicans are struggling to elect a Speaker after their latest nominee, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), lost 20 GOP votes on his first ballot effort and fell well short of clinching the gavel.





























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School bus catches fire outside Bangkok and over 20 are feared dead, officials say

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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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

  • News source: Linda Qiu
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U.S. Raises New Concerns Over Chinese Lending Practices

  • News source: Alan Rappeport
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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

  • News source: Ian Prasad Philbrick
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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

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Bette Midler and Hannah Waddingham pay tribute to the Broadway and West End star.
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Three dead and 15 hurt in Shanghai Walmart stabbing

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Police arrested a 37-year-old man at the scene, and said further investigations were continuing.
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Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100

  • News source: BBC News - World
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There will be a flyover of jets in his hometown on Tuesday, and 100 people will have naturalisation ceremonies in his honour.
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How Kenya's president has fallen out with his deputy

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Lawmakers are threatening to oust the deputy president after accusing him of undermining the government.
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Far right in Austria 'opens new era' with election victory

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Freedom Party wins its first election, but building a coalition will be difficult.
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Moment Russian fighter jet swoops past US aircraft

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Newly released video shows a Russian fighter jet fly within feet of a US aircraft near Alaska.
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Watch: Drone footage of floods and torn-up roads in North Carolina

  • News source: BBC News - World
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At least 116 people have died across the US during Hurricane Helene - with officials warning the figure could rise.
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Latinos in Florida would vote for Trump if the election were held today, poll shows

  • News source: NBC Staff
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With the presidential election just weeks away, Telemundo Station Group and Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, Inc. surveyed the state of Florida to find out what decision Latino voters would make.

625 Hispanic voters registered in Florida interviewed by phone, indicated that they were likely to vote in the November general election. The interviewees were randomly selected from a Florida voter registration list that included landline and cell phone numbers.

The margin of error is no more than 4 percentage points. This means that there is a 95%...
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100-year-old Jimmy Carter's life has overlapped with these 17 other presidents

  • News source: Steve Coulter
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Jimmy Carter has witnessed many milestones in his life.

The 39th president of the United States gets to celebrate one of his own Tuesday when he turns 100 years old.

Born in Plains, Georgia, on Oct. 1, 1924, Carter announced his plans to run for the presidency 50 years ago in December. He went on to win the 1976 election, besting Gerald Ford in Electoral College votes 297-241.

Carter is now the first president to become a centenarian, living 43 years (and counting) after leaving the Oval Office in 1981.

One of the many presidential records...
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