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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

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As Chicago prepares for the arrival of more migrants like these, staying last month in a makeshift shelter at O’Hare International Airport, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is urging the Biden administration to do more to help the state.

Pritzker urges Biden to intervene amid 'untenable' pace of migrant arrivals

As Chicago prepares this week for an increase in the already steady stream of migrants arriving from the southern U.S. border, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is once again publicly pressuring President Joe Biden to play a larger role in coordinating relocation efforts.
Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji eats bamboo in his enclosure Thursday at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington.

Pandas could be gone from America's zoos by the end of next year

The San Diego zoo returned its pandas in 2019, and the last bear at the Memphis, Tennessee, zoo went home earlier this year. The departure of the National Zoo's bears would mean that the only giant pandas left in America are at the Atlanta Zoo -- and that loan agreement expires late next year.
President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s plans to lower prescription drug costs and protect Social Security and Medicare during a 2022 visit to Joliet. The Biden administration says the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs it selected for Medicare’s first price negotiations have agreed to participate. Tuesday’s announcement clears the way for talks that could lower their costs in coming years and gives the White House a potential political win heading into next year’s presidential election.

Biden says that all 10 drugs targeted for the first Medicare price negotiations will participate

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs selected for Medicare's first price negotiations have agreed to participate, clearing the way for talks that could lower their costs in coming years and give him a potential political win heading into next year's election.
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden arrives for a court appearance, in Wilmington, Del, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.

Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to three federal gun charges filed after his plea deal collapsed

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three federal firearms charges filed after a plea deal imploded, putting the case on track toward a possible trial as the 2024 election looms.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media Tuesday before entering the courtroom in New York.
New York judge issues limited gag order after Trump sends disparaging post about court clerk
A New York judge sternly imposed a limited gag order in Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial Tuesday after the former president disparaged a key court staffer.
Bereaved families hold pictures of their loved ones Tuesday as they stand outside the opening hearing of Module 2 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry in London.
Britain's COVID-19 response inquiry enters a second phase with political decisions in the spotlight
Britain's inquiry into the response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the nation entered its second phase Tuesday, with political decision-making around major developments, such as the timing of lockdowns, set to take center stage.
FILE — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing at Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2023. The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge. The CFPB case is one of several major challenges to federal regulatory agencies on the docket this term for a court that has for more than a decade been open to limits on their operations. The CFPB, the brainchild of Warren, has long been opposed by Republicans and their financial backers.
The Supreme Court seems likely to side with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Even some conservative justices sounded skeptical of arguments that the agency, created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance, violates the Constitution in the way it is funded.
An Indian flag is laid on the street as protesters wave a Canadian and Khalistan flags during a protest last week outside the Indian Consulate in Vancouver, British Columbia.
India tells Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, an official says
India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, an official familiar with the matter said Tuesday, ramping up a confrontation between the two countries over Canadian accusations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver.
Visitors evacuate a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday. Hundreds of shoppers fled the major shopping mall in the center of the Thai capital Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon after what sounded like gunshots were heard inside.
Shooting at a major Bangkok shopping mall kills 3, and a suspect is in police custody
A shooter opened fire inside a major shopping mall in the center of Thailand's capital Tuesday afternoon, killing three people before being apprehended, authorities said.
Associated Press/Feb. 8, 2022 Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager who killed four students in a shooting at Oxford High School, appear in court during a 2022 in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The Michigan Supreme Court turned down an appeal Tuesday clearing the way for the parents of the shooter to face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges.
Michigan school shooter's parents cleared to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges
The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Michigan's Oxford High School lost an appeal Tuesday and will face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, a rare case of prosecutors attempting to pin some responsibility for a school shooting on the perpetrator's family.
Protesters shout before a 2017 speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro on the campus of the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California. New polling finds that America’s college campuses are seen as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes free speech. Polling from the University of Chicago and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 47% of adult Americans say liberals are free to express their views on college campuses, while 20% said the same of conservatives.
Few Americans say conservatives can speak freely on college campuses, an AP-NORC/UChicago poll shows
Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll.
District 207 is among about 1,500 public school districts that took on tobacco companies in a class-action lawsuit over teen vaping.
Why District 207 is getting a $44,904 payout from Big Tobacco company
Maine Township High School District 207 will receive a five-figure payout from a leading tobacco company as part of a nationwide settlement over teen vaping.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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