News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Federal and local investigators are looking into the background and movements of a man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and attacking her husband. https://t.co/JmCbb1VZIk
— ABC News (@ABC) October 29, 2022
BREAKING: The death toll in South Korea has risen to at least 146 people killed, with 150 others injured, as they were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in Seoul. https://t.co/W1SELDVBLU
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2022
Russia announced Saturday that it will immediately suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain deal that has seen more than 9 million tons of grain exported from Ukraine during the war and has brought down soaring global food prices. https://t.co/HDcjEuXNC7
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 29, 2022
"I was there I went inside there, and, you know, I didn’t damage or break anything," an elected official in Connecticut said after online sleuths said they identified him as one of the approximately 3,000 individuals who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. https://t.co/Fab3htOOb1
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2022
Protests in Iran over the in-custody death of Mahsa Amini entered the seventh week, as the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned protesters that Saturday will be their last day taking to the streets, per Reuters. https://t.co/MDoUTGsUva
— Axios (@axios) October 29, 2022
The identity of an accused Russian spy posing as a Brazilian researcher in Norway was revealed. https://t.co/I0RgGBaU2L
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 29, 2022
Rishi Sunak, the youngest UK prime minister in more than 200 years, is very comfortable taking extreme positions. The markets, however, are satisfied that, contra his two predecessors, he's neither fiscally nor morally incontinent. https://t.co/vicNyDOr90
— Axios (@axios) October 29, 2022
The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center has been released and “reunited with his family” in Pakistan, the country's foreign ministry says. https://t.co/H9MUo8dnU2
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2022
The three top Twitter executives whom Elon Musk fired Thursday will walk out the door with about $187 million of Musk’s money https://t.co/lIEAHUYlu5
— CNN (@CNN) October 29, 2022
Kari Lake thanks Liz Cheney for "anti-endorsement" https://t.co/niNQeXMkD0 pic.twitter.com/LqGCmlYOq5
— The Hill (@thehill) October 29, 2022
Former President Barack Obama described Herschel Walker as “a celebrity that wants to be a politician” during a speech Friday night in Georgia https://t.co/vi2kTJRYSw
— CNN (@CNN) October 29, 2022
To combat an increase in threats against voters, the Brennan Center for Justice has released a new guide outlining key anti-intimidation laws as a resource for states. https://t.co/oHK668s8oL
— ABC News (@ABC) October 29, 2022
