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| A political crisis in the United Kingdom is coming to a boil, with Prime Minister Liz Truss facing calls to quit. Also in the news: Russian strikes are targeting Ukrainian utilities as winter looms. The Supreme Court may weigh in on President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. |
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What's going on with UK politics? |
| U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss is hanging on to power by a thread after a senior minister quit her government and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony. Read more |
| How bad could it be? A botched economic plan unveiled by the government last month triggered financial turmoil and a growing political crisis that has seen the replacement of Truss' Treasury chief, multiple policy U-turns and a breakdown of discipline in the governing Conservative Party. |
| • | Who is Liz Truss? The U.K.'s prime minister models herself on Margaret Thatcher and was foreign secretary in Boris Johnson's government. | | • | Conservative lawmaker Simon Hoare said the government was in disarray and Truss had "about 12 hours" to turn the situation around. Many Conservatives say Truss must resign – but she has remained defiant. | | • | Truss has vowed to stay. Truss described herself as "a fighter and not a quitter" Wednesday as she faced a hostile opposition and fury from her own Conservative Party over her economic plan. Truss faced more turmoil in Parliament Wednesday evening on a vote over fracking for shale gas — a practice that Truss wants to resume despite opposition from many Conservatives. | |
 | | Protester gather outside the gates of Downing Street during a demonstration by the climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion, in central London on October 14, 2022. Truss has said that Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion were part of an "anti-growth coalition" with trade unions and the main opposition Labour party determined to derail her economic reforms. | | DANIEL LEAL, AFP via Getty Images | |
With winter coming, Russia targets Ukrainian utilities |
| Russia has declared its intention to increase its targeting of Ukraine's power, water and other vital infrastructure in its latest phase of the nearly 8-month-old war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Moscow's forces have destroyed 30% of the country's power stations since Oct. 10. Amid power woes, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law Wednesday in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed as Ukrainian troops continue their unrelenting drive to retain control of the occupied territories. Biden called the tactic an intimidation attempt by Putin – the "only tool available to him'' – and said it won't work. Read more |
 | | In this file photo taken on September 30, 2022 (L-R) The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik join hands after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 19, 2022 introduced martial law in Ukraine's Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. | | DMITRY ASTAKHOV, SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images | |
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Taxpayer group asks Supreme Court to weigh in on Biden's student loan forgiveness program |
| A Wisconsin taxpayer group filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to temporarily block President Joe Biden's administration from implementing its student loan forgiveness program. The appeal from the Brown County Taxpayers Association is one of several percolating in federal courts attempting to stop the effort, which critics argue exceeds the Department of Education's authority. Because the case is arriving on the court's emergency "shadow docket" it could be decided relatively quickly – within a matter of days. If the high court rules that the group has standing to sue, that would send the case back down to a lower court to decide the questions raised by the lawsuit on the merits. Read more |
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 | | An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building, Nov. 2, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. | | Patrick Semansky, AP | |
COVID-19 contributed to a quarter of maternal deaths from 2020 to 2021, report finds |
| COVID-19 contributed to a quarter of all U.S. maternal deaths last year and in 2020, according to an oversight report. The report, released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan government auditing agency, details maternal mortality disparities during the pandemic. Out of last year's 1,178 reported maternal deaths, COVID-19 contributed to 401, according to the report. In 2020, the virus was behind almost 12% of maternal deaths. |
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 | | COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. | | Rogelio V. Solis, AP | |
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Will fights over curriculum usher in new era of segregated schools? |
| Education policy experts warn that efforts to keep certain books out of the classroom or ban the teaching of sensitive topics such as race and gender risk turning back the clock to a time when segregated schools meant separate – and vastly unequal – forums for learning. Millions of American students still go to schools where their classmates are predominantly the same race or ethnicity, decades after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional. But experts see a new era in which how and what students learn will be determined by what their schools are allowed to teach. Read more |
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 | | Demonstrators in Scottsdale, Ariz., protest against teaching critical race theory May 24, 2021. | | Patrick Breen/The Arizona Republic via USA TODAY Network | |
📷 Photo of the day: Best photos from MLB playoffs' League Championship Series 📷 |
| The San Diego Padres stunned the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5, scoring eight unanswered runs, including a five-run, 37-minute fifth inning that was sparked by Austin Nola's run-scoring single off his brother, turning the game upside down. The two teams are tied at one game apiece in the National League Championship Series, where the next three games are scheduled in Philadelphia and the winner going to the World Series. Read more |
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 | | Padres catcher Austin Nola hits an RBI-single in the fifth inning off his brother Aaron. | | Orlando Ramirez, USA TODAY Sports | |
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 | | The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. This is a region where young stars are forming – or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form. | | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Alyssa Pagan (STScI) | |
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