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Former President Donald Trump welcomes Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, to the stage at a 2022 campaign rally in support of the campaign of Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance at Wright Bros. Aero Inc. at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio.

Trump is inserting himself into the messy race to become the next House speaker. Will it matter?

With Trump's firm grip on the GOP base, his endorsement can effectively clear the field in many congressional primaries. But the speaker's race is more complex, an intraparty fight that will play out in secret at points and in a tense environment with many Republicans furious about McCarthy's ouster.
Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Eagle Pass, Texas. The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration are creating political and security challenges for President Joe Biden. Even some of his top allies worry about those issues’ effects on his reelection chances.

Biden faces more criticism about the US-Mexico border, one of his biggest problems heading into 2024

Some Democrats across the country are distancing themselves from the White House, and polls indicate widespread frustration with Biden's handling of immigration and the border, creating a major liability for the president's re-election next year.
Buildings are inundated after flash floods triggered by sudden heavy rainfall swamped Rangpo town in Sikkim, India.

Deaths rise to 47 after an icy flood swept through India's Himalayan northeast

Rescuers found more bodies overnight as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India's Himalayan northeast, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee.
This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy and against the death penalty.

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women's oppression

Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women's rights and democracy, and against the death penalty.
Strong earthquake and several aftershocks reported in western Afghanistan
Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes have killed at least 15 and injured nearly 40 others in Herat province in Afghanistan, according to Mohammad Abdullah Jan, spokesman for the country's national disaster authority.
A hearse and debris sit Thursday at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo. Authorities are investigating the improper storage of human remains at a southern Colorado funeral home that performs “green” burials without embalming chemicals or metal caskets.
Police found 115 bodies at Colorado 'green' funeral home while investigating putrid smells
At least 115 decaying bodies were found this week at a storage facility for a "green" funeral operator after neighbors reported abhorrent smells emanating from the location in rural southern Colorado, police said Friday, calling it a "disturbing discovery."
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Police Press Office, emergency workers search for victims Friday of the Russian rocket attack that damaged a multi-story building in central Kharkiv.
A Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine kills a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother
A Russian missile attack killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother Friday in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials said. Elsewhere in the region, villagers prepared to bury their dead after a strike the previous day killed at least 52 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months.
A FedEx driver makes deliveries in Palatine. On Friday, the U.S. government issues its latest monthly jobs report.
U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 336,000 jobs in September in a sign of economic resilience
The nation's employers added 336,000 jobs in September, an unexpectedly robust gain that suggests that many companies remain confident enough to keep hiring despite high interest rates and a hazy outlook for the economy.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear challenge to GOP's maps after liberal justice doesn't recuse
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote along partisan lines Friday, agreed to hear a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative maps after a newly elected liberal justice declined to recuse herself.
Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, left, and Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, have emerged as contenders to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who was voted out of the job by a contingent of hard-right conservatives. Jordan is now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump. Steve Scalise has long sought the top post.
A look at the contenders for House speaker and the demands they're facing from fellow Republicans
For Republicans, it's a question with no clear answer: Who becomes House speaker after Kevin McCarthy?
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — a first-term Democrat seen by his party as a rising star nationally — gave his backing to a Republican-backed school voucher proposal over the summer. School choice advocates say that makes Shapiro unique among Democratic governors and could mark an evolution in traditional alliances on school choice politics.
Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, a rising political star, crosses partisan school choice divide
In the partisan politics of education funding, the school choice movement has pressed states for decades to send taxpayer money to private and religious schools and long had to concentrate its efforts on states where a Republican governor was an ally.
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militia targets in north Syria after US downs Turkish armed drone
Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria, after the U.S. military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of American troops, officials said Friday.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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