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COUNTERPOINT: Focus on policy, not politics, this election

Sometimes the quieter political issues have more to say. High-decibel culture warriors have been getting people riled up over everything from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” remake to a woman playing a flute. But more important things are going on right now, such as the highest inflation in 40 years. And…

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POINT: Inflation is not the main issue in the election

The media have been obsessed with inflation for the last year and a half, reporting that this is the only economic issue that matters to people. In the real world, people have other things to worry about, like jobs.

Tribune News Service

Biden snaps at Fox News reporter for asking him his top priority for US

‘Multiple issues and they’re all important and we ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time,’ says Biden

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America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem

U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian.

Reuters

Biden Releases 15M Barrels From Oil Reserve

US Joe Biden announced the release of 15 million barrels of oil from the US strategic reserve Wednesday as his administration seeks to lower prices ahead of next month’s midterm elections. He also announced a policy to restock the strategic reserve. High fuel prices are threatening are feeding voter anger…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Man charged for threatening to kill Biden, Jan. 6 Chair Bennie Thompson and judge

He allegedly sent a letter "alluding to 'Anthrax,' and containing what appeared to be a white powder," DOJ says.

Axios

Election deniers could make deep changes to Arizona voting

The Republicans running for Arizona’s three top statewide offices have said they would not have signed off on the presidential results if they had held office in 2020

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Republicans gain in US midterm polls with three weeks until election

The United States midterm elections will be held in nearly three weeks, on November 8. All 435 House of Representatives seats are up for election, as well as 35 of the 100 senators. Democrats won the House by 222-213 in 2020, and hold the Senate on a 50-50 tie with…

The Conversation

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Group of taxpayers asks Supreme Court to halt student debt program

Tribune News Service

Trump signed statement alleging voter fraud knowing it was false, judge says

Document was part of lawsuit challenging results of 2020 election in Georgia

The Guardian - US

Arizona refuses US demand to remove containers along border

Arizona is refusing the federal government’s demand to take down double-stacked shipping containers it placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it won’t do so until the U.S. moves to construct a permanent barrier

The Independent UK

Social Security now allows individuals to self-select gender

Individuals will be allowed to make sure their records with the Social Security Administration align with their gender identity under a plan announced Wednesday

The Independent UK

US busts network providing technology to Russian military

The Biden administration has announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

U.S. lawmakers skeptical of potential easing of Venezuela sanctions

United States senators said on Wednesday they are skeptical of a potential easing of sanctions on Venezuela, amid meetings in Washington between the Biden administration and Venezuelan opposition leaders.

Reuters

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ASX falls on job numbers and as recession fears return to Wall Street

Recession fears return to the ASX and Wall Street with stocks ending a two-day rally. Weaker employment growth in Australia also weighs on shares.

The Independent UK

Ex-UCLA student linked to extremists gets Jan. 6 prison term

A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right extremist movement has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the building

The Independent UK

Democrats plan last minute push to boost key candidates and block election deniers

Recent trends in economic news have Democrats worried in final stretch

The Independent UK

Is the Secret Service covering up January 6? Agency under scrutiny as questions pile up

January 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger thinks something is amiss at the agency tasked with protecting US presidents. Andrew Feinberg looks at the evidence

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Group of taxpayer asks Supreme Court to halt student debt program

WASHINGTON — A taxpayer group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to pause a Biden administration program to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers, days after the launch of online applications.

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Group of taxpayers asks Supreme Court to halt student debt program

Reuters

Cuba calls U.S. trade embargo a 'hurricane' that never ends

Cuba on Wednesday said the decades-old U.S. trade embargo has been causing record financial losses and untold human suffering in recent months, at a time when Cuba was also battling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ian.

ABC News

The Loop: UK government in chaos as British home secretary resigns, Putin accused of of trying to brutalise Ukrainians after martial law declaration

What Australia is searching for and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories.

Tribune News Service

Oath Keeper wanted to stop Biden win ‘one way or the other’

WASHINGTON — A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with the Oath Keepers testified that members of the far-right militia group were set on stopping the certification of the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021, with violence, if necessary.

Al Jazeera

New York City opens tent shelter for bussed-in asylum seekers

Emergency centre aims to house about 500 single men, many of them from Venezuela, amid Republican bussing campaign.

Axios

Wisconsin taxpayers group asks Supreme Court to block Biden's student loan forgiveness plan

The Biden administration has so far been sued by at least seven states and two entities over the plan.

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