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Saturday, October 14, 2023

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Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, arrives Friday as House Republicans meet again behind closed doors to work on a path to elect a new speaker after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise dropped out of the race Thursday night, sending the GOP into further disarray, at the Capitol in Washington.

Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally's reach

Increasingly desperate Republicans convened behind closed doors again Friday as the endless search for a House speaker drags deeper into a second week leaving the GOP majority spiraling into chaos for the foreseeable future.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrives Friday in Tel Aviv. Austin is in Israel for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.

US defense secretary is in Israel to meet with its leaders and see America's security assistance

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Israel on Friday for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.
Shiite Muslims leave a mosque after Friday prayers as they walk over the representations of Israeli and U.S. flags as a protest against Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinian people, in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Tens of thousands protest after Muslim prayers across Mideast over Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrated Friday across the Middle East in support of the Palestinians and against Israeli airstrikes pounding Gaza, underscoring the risk of a wider regional conflict erupting as Israel prepares for a possible ground invasion in the coastal strip.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican, leaves the Republican caucus meeting Thursday at the Capitol in Washington.

Some want to grant temporary House speaker more power as Republican gridlock stalls Congress

When Rep. Patrick McHenry took the House speaker's gavel for the first time, he slammed it down with such force at adjournment that it gained viral internet attention as the defining image of a House in turmoil.
Riot police officers patrol the area after a man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded two others at a high school Friday in northern France. Antiterror prosecutors said they were leading the investigation into the attack at the Gambetta high school in the city of Arras, some 115 miles north of Paris.
A teacher dies and 2 people are wounded in a stabbing in a French school. Terrorism is suspected
A man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded two others on Friday at a high school in northern France, an attack being investigated as potential terrorism.
Israeli soldiers surround a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife Thursday at the site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip. At least 260 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack last Saturday.
A music festival survivor fleeing the attack, a pair of Hamas militants and a deadly decision
The two militants were just ahead of him, spraying gunfire from their motorcycle at passing cars. One militant was driving, the 50-year-old man said, and the other sat behind, shooting at any target he saw. At least one wore body armor.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana speaks to reporters as he arrives Wednesday for a meeting of House Republicans to vote on candidates for speaker of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Stalemated over a new House speaker, the Republican majority is scheduled to convene behind closed doors to try to vote on a nominee. But lawmakers say Wednesday's private ballots to replace ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy could take a while.
GOP's Scalise ends his bid to become House speaker as Republican holdouts refuse to back the nominee
Republican Steve Scalise ended his bid to become House speaker late Thursday after hardline holdouts refused to back the party's nominee, throwing the GOP majority into deeper chaos and leaving the chamber still unable to function.
Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year's historic boost and reflecting moderating consumer prices.
Social Security benefits will increase by 3.2% in 2024 as inflation moderates
Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year's historic boost and reflecting moderating consumer prices.
It's been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days after he was savagely beaten by two young men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate. His death has been memorialized as an egregious hate crime that helped fuel the LGBTQ+ rights movement over the ensuing years.
25 years after Matthew Shepard's death, LGBTQ+ activists say equal-rights progress is at risk
It's been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days after he was savagely beaten by two young men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate. His death has been memorialized as an egregious hate crime that helped fuel the LGBTQ+ rights movement over the ensuing years.
Striking United Auto Workers picket outside the Stellantis plant that makes Jeeps in Toledo, Ohio. The UAW is seeking a contract that will end a big disparity in pay for temporary workers.
More Americans support striking auto workers than car companies, an AP-NORC poll shows
A majority of Americans support higher pay for auto workers who are on strike against Detroit's Big Three carmakers, although approval of the workers' other demands is more mixed, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Five drug task force officers were shot and wounded Thursday while serving a search warrant near the east-central Minnesota city of Princeton, authorities said. The suspect was arrested after a standoff that lasted several hours.
Five officers shot and wounded in Minnesota confrontation, authorities say; suspect arrested
Five drug task force officers were shot and wounded Thursday while serving a search warrant near the east-central Minnesota city of Princeton, authorities said. The suspect was arrested after a standoff that lasted several hours.
An Afghan girl cries Wednesday in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in western Afghanistan. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history.
More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says
More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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