News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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A judge ruled that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify in a probe by Atlanta-area prosecutors of efforts to overturn the 2020 election https://t.co/sI6AfMC5XL
— POLITICO (@politico) October 26, 2022
JUST IN: New woman accuses Walker of pressuring her to have abortion https://t.co/HcHMJz2OW3 pic.twitter.com/SucKchrEmQ
— The Hill (@thehill) October 26, 2022
A group of Chinese-linked cyber criminals has expanded influence operations aimed at discrediting and undermining the U.S. political system, including explicit attempts to discourage Americans from voting in the 2022 midterm elections. https://t.co/PKXqDsWIjT
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 26, 2022
Russia targeted more than 40 villages around Ukraine over the past day, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, killing at least two people and sustaining the terror that forces people into air raid shelters each night. https://t.co/0d6Lo9smTS
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 26, 2022
40 days since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the US has imposed new sanctions on Iranian officials over a crackdown on protests. https://t.co/vYEKgRhIvN
— CNN (@CNN) October 26, 2022
A Jan. 6 rioter who wielded a hatchet and smashed two windows with a flagpole will serve no jail time, a federal judge ruled, finding that Asperger’s syndrome made him susceptible to the influence of the mob. https://t.co/DvKq4d9gi2
— POLITICO (@politico) October 26, 2022
Undaunted by lawsuits, student debt relief advocates urge people to keep applying. https://t.co/q4sA3p2ZcQ
— ABC News (@ABC) October 26, 2022
The FDA has indefinitely postponed a Nov. 18 meeting of outside experts to help decide whether to allow over-the-counter sales of birth control pills. https://t.co/QoHTxtgEKe
— Axios (@axios) October 26, 2022
A jury in Michigan has found three men guilty of providing material support for a terrorist act and two other state charges related to the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. https://t.co/zfDBxHrHT6
— CNN (@CNN) October 26, 2022
JUST IN: Darrell Brooks found guilty of intentional homicide for barreling his SUV into a Wisconsin Christmas parade in November 2021, killing six. https://t.co/9RqKE6QYxz
— ABC News (@ABC) October 26, 2022
The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. https://t.co/vjbhrVgCf4
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 26, 2022
Some bodies will be exhumed once again starting Wednesday in another effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. https://t.co/Kue0gQISOm
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2022
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said Tuesday that the leak of his draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade made his colleagues in the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court “targets for assassination.”https://t.co/uOMOo1KPyG
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 26, 2022
