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Now, Truth Social is being investigated by SEC: Co-Founder: Trump Media violated laws https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/founder-trump-media-violated-laws-91600685

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Biden: Truss plan a 'mistake' amid 'worldwide inflation' COLLEEN LONG Sat, October 15, 2022 at 4:36 PM PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday called embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss' abandoned tax cut plan a “mistake,” and said he is worried that other nations' fiscal policies may hurt the U.S. amid “worldwide inflation." Biden said it was “predictable” that the new prime minister on Friday was forced to walk back plans to aggressively cut taxes without identifying cost savings, after Truss' proposal caused turmoil in global financial markets. It marked an unusual criticism by a U.S. president of the domestic policy decisions of one of its closest allies. https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-truss-plan-mistake-amid-233619004.html

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Who is in charge? Over the last couple of days you'd be forgiven for wondering if anyone was running the country. The dizzying ups and downs of the mighty financial markets suggest they didn't really have faith that anyone had a grip on things either. What happens on traders' screens affects the costs we have to grapple with - whether mortgages or rents - and how much of our taxes the government can spend on vital public services rather than paying interest on debt. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63268860

During a firearms training session, two men opened fire on a group who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, state-owned news agency Ria reported. The attackers were from a former Soviet republic, the Russian defence ministry said, but did not give further details. They were also shot dead during the incident in the Belgorod region of Russia, which borders Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63273599

Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been charged with attempted rape, engaging in controlling behaviour and assault. The forward was arrested in January following allegations that emerged in images and videos posted online. He was arrested again on Saturday for allegedly breaching his bail. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-63272019

Forty-one people have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey, the country's president says. The discovery of the final missing body brings the rescue operation to an end, more than 20 hours after Friday's deadly blast. Earlier the interior minister said 58 people working in the mine when the blast went off were rescued or got out by themselves. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63261746

After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, an obstetrician who works at a hospital in the Northeast thought she could make a difference by publicly describing what she was seeing, by telling the stories of the patients she saw suffering in the aftermath of the court’s historic court ruling. So when a reporter from The New York Times reached out, she was grateful for the opportunity to discuss the plight of patients traveling to her hospital from states that had abortion restrictions. The obstetrician passed along the reporter’s inquiry to her hospital’s public relations office, asking for permission to do the interview, noting that the reporter approached her because she holds a leadership position on a state government maternal mortality committee. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/health/abortion-doctors-talking/index.html

US health officials are becoming increasingly concerned about this year’s flu season – and are already seeing signs that the virus is spreading. As the 2022-23 flu season gets underway, one high school in California is facing a “high number of absences” among students due to possible flu cases. Flu activity in the United States often starts to increase in October and usually peaks between December and February. “We can confirm that there is a high number of absences at Henry High School due to probable Influenza,” Samer Naji, a spokesperson for the San Diego Unified School District, said in an email to CNN on Thursday. There were about 1,000 absences Wednesday, out of 2,600 students. So far COVID tests have been negative but several students have tested positive for flu.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/health/flu-season-concern/index.html

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You are forgiven! Sometime back I saw one of those being used and they were putting some pretty big tree branches in it and it just chewed them up in seconds. One of the guys feeding branches into it had his glove get caught on a branch and it started pulling him toward the machine, the glove came off and he was never in any real danger, but I thought it would be a most unpleasant situation for him and anyone witnessing it.

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 72. He also appeared in ITV detective drama Cracker and the James Bond films Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough. In a statement, his agent Belinda Wright confirmed the actor died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63261204

A tree trimmer has died after falling into a wood chipper while he was working, police say. The incident occurred at approximately 12:53 p.m. on Tuesday in Menlo Park, California, approximately 30 miles south of San Francisco, when the Menlo Park Police Department responded to a report of an incident involving a tree trimmer who had managed to accidentally fall into a wood chipper on the 900 block of Peggy Lane while he was working, police say. “When police units arrived on scene, a male subject was found deceased from injuries sustained in the incident,” the Menlo Park Police Department said in a statement confirming the fatality. https://abcnews.go.com/US/tree-trimmer-dies-falling-wood-chipper-police/story?id=91370938

Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter. The news came from a court filing made public on Thursday about the latest in ongoing legal disputes between the billionaire and the social network. While the filing said he was under investigation, it did not say what the focus was. "This game of 'hide the ball' must end," the company said in the court filing. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63254883

Liz Truss is facing a backlash from Conservative MPs after firing her chancellor and announcing a second U-turn on a major economic policy. One former minister told the BBC: "we cannot go on like this indefinitely". Another Tory MP said the party was in a "state of despair" after the PM's Downing Street news conference. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63263319

Alexandria, Virginia CNN — A federal judge on Friday threw out one of five charges against Igor Danchenko, the primary source of the Trump-Russia dossier, in a major setback for special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The judge dropped one of the five charges against Danchenko, specifically pertaining to the allegation that he lied to the FBI about speaking with a Democratic operative about the anti-Trump dossier. District Judge Anthony Trenga said in court Friday that Danchenko’s answer to the FBI interviewer “was literally true” and that Durham’s case on that specific charge was too weak to send to the jury. This is a major victory for Danchenko, who has maintained that he told the truth to the FBI agents who were trying to corroborate the dossier in 2017. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/john-durham-trial-igor-danchenko/index.html

The shooting occurred near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail in the area By George Wright, BBC News Police have identified the suspect in a Raleigh, North Carolina mass shooting as a 15-year-old male. Five people including an off-duty police officer were killed and two were injured in a shooting spree that unfolded Thursday night. The suspect is in critical condition in hospital. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63253516

Republicans in the House are planning to use a potential showdown next year over raising the federal debt limit to make changes in Social Security and Medicare, Bloomberg’s Jack Fitzpatrick reports. The developing plan hinges on Republicans winning control of the House in the midterm elections, an outcome that is looking likely. Four GOP lawmakers who are vying for leadership of the House Budget Committee in the event of a Republican victory told Fitzpatrick that the need to raise the debt ceiling could give them the leverage they need to force Democrats to make concessions. “The debt limit is clearly one of those tools that Republicans — that a Republican-controlled Congress — will use to make sure that we do everything we can to make this economy strong,” Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), the senior Republican on the current Budget Committee, said. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republicans-plan-debt-limit-leverage-222818100.html

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The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump for documents and testimony during a public hearing Thursday. The move is a significant escalation by the panel that will set up a showdown with the former President. It is not expected that Trump will comply with the subpoena, but the action serves as a way for the committee to set down a marker and show that it wants information directly from Trump as the panel investigates the attack. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/subpoena-trump-january-6-committee/index.html

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an emergency request from former President Donald Trump to intervene in the dispute over classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in August. Trump had asked the justices to reverse a federal appeals court and allow a special master to review about 100 documents marked classified, a move that could have opened the door for his legal team to review the records and argue that they should be off limits to prosecutors in a criminal case. But in a brief order, the court denied the request. There were no noted dissents. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/supreme-court-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html

Jury recommends life in prison without parole for Parkland school shooter A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday recommended that Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 17 people in the mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The unanimous verdict from the 12-member jury came on the second day of deliberations. Cruz had been facing the death penalty, but Thursday's verdict means he will avoid that fate. https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikolas-cruz-verdict-parkland-shooting-trial-death-penalty-life-prison-154605161.html