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In the next Congress, white men will also lead the House GOP campaign arm, the National Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC), and occupy other lower-tier leadership spots. The highest leadership post that Republican women or minorities have reached is chair of the GOP Conference — the No. She's expected to remain the highest-ranking GOP woman in the whole of the next Congress as well, given that white men make up all but one member of the Senate GOP leadership team. Eighty GOP women are running for House seats in these midterms. For his part, Donalds, whom Trump once called a “rising star,” has not made diversity a central part of his campaign for conference chair.

☆ Matthew Perry is talking addiction in a new memior
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Matthew Perry is “safely sober” and ready to tell his story. In it, he tells the story of his life and addictions, saying he’s finally in a place to talk about it. “I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” Perry tells People of the book. “I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down. Wanting to tell the story, even though it’s a little scary to tell all your secrets in a book, I didn’t leave anything out.

☆ Clothes, electronics, and toys are set to get cheaper this holiday season. That doesn't really help most Americans deal with inflation.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Americans are set to receive discounts on clothing, electronics, and toys this holiday season. "You could tell the same story for healthcare, childcare, tuition. Mark PerryPrices of electronics, toys, and apparel could see "massive" discounts in the coming months of over 32%, per an Adobe Analytics forecast. Perry says the "most concerning trends" are in the rising costs of college tuition and hospital services. In comparison, software, electronics, toys, and clothing – industries with less regulation — have seen prices fall, he wrote in a July blog post.

☆ Elnaz Rekabi: Fans cheer, clap as climber returns to Iran
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DUBAI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi, who caused controversy by competing in an international contest without a headscarf, has returned to Iran to cheering supporters, reiterating in comments to state media she had climbed without a hijab unintentionally. Footage had shown Rekabi, 33, scaling a wall without her head covered while competing in South Korea while representing Iran, which has been swept by protests ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in morality police custody. In her televised comments Rekabi, who came fourth in the competition, denied she had been unreachable for 48 hours, and said the team had returned to Iran as planned. BBC Persian had reported on Tuesday that friends had been unable to contact her, and there were fears for her safety. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Tom Perry, William MacleanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ 'Harry Potter' star Tom Felton details struggle with alcoholism in new book
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Actor Tom Felton opens up about his experience with alcoholism in a new book. “I went from being not particularly interested [in drinking] to regularly having a few pints a day before the sun had even gone down, and a shot of whiskey to go with each of them,” Felton wrote, according to an excerpt published by People. “My lawyer, whom I’d barely ever met face to face, spoke with quiet honesty,” Felton wrote. Felton, now 35, most recently starred in the feature film “Burial.”“I am not alone in having these feelings,” the star added in his book. “Just as we all experience physical ill-health at some stage in our lives, so we all experience mental ill-health too.

"The Hezbollah leadership scrutinized the understanding line by line before agreeing to it," said one of the sources familiar with the group's thinking. Two Hezbollah lawmakers told Reuters the group was open to the idea of a deal as a pathway to alleviate some of Lebanon’s economic woes. At one point, Hezbollah conveyed its frustration at the slow pace of the talks to Hochstein via Ibrahim, the Western source said. A U.S. official told Reuters Hezbollah had nearly "killed the deal with their provocative rhetoric and actions threatening war". "Once the pipes are in the water, war becomes a long way away," said a source familiar with Hezbollah's thinking.

☆ Elnaz Rekabi: Iranian climber returns from Seoul tournament amid hijab controversy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Citing an informed source, BBC Persian had earlier reported that friends had been unable to contact her, and there were fears for her safety. The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) said it had been in contact with Rekabi and was "trying to establish the facts". The IFSC, in a statement, said it had also been in contact with the Iranian Climbing Federation. "The IFSC fully support the rights of athletes, their choices, and expression of free speech". Last year, she won the bronze medal in the women's combined event at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships.

☆ Iranian climber returns from Asian tournament amid veil controversy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A month before the midterm elections, most Americans say abortion is important to their vote. Ninety percent of Americans who identify as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 78 % of independents and 74 % of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans say abortion matters at the voting booth. Nine in 10 Americans think a pregnant woman should be able to legally have an abortion if her health is seriously endangered by the pregnancy. Aggregating the states where abortion is legal, 88 % of Americans think abortion should be legal in the case of rape or incest. Two-thirds of Americans also said they think abortion regulations should be determined by public referendum rather than by elected officials or judges.

☆ Democrats in key Senate races have more cash to spend than Republicans in the final midterm push
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Democrats running in some of the country's closest Senate races headed into the final weeks of their campaigns with a cash edge over their Republican rivals, according to newly released Federal Election Commission records. While Democratic candidates have outraised Republicans in many of the most important Senate races, outside GOP groups such as the Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund have helped to close the gap. Fetterman leads GOP candidate Mehmet Oz by more than 3 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics. Warnock also leads Republican Herschel Walker by an average of about 3 percentage points, according to the site. The Nevada incumbent trails Republican Adam Laxalt by an average of just under 2 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics.

☆ Factbox: Ethnic groups swept up in Iran's nationwide protests
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Critics say these accusations aim to present the protests as ethnic unrest rather than a country-wide uprising, and to justify a crackdown. Rights group Hengaw says it has recorded the deaths of at least 32 civilians killed by government forces during protests. Estimated to number some 10 million, Iranian Kurds are also Sunnis and mostly live in northwestern regions bordering Turkey and Iraq - which also have large Kurdish minorities. Kurdish human rights organisation Hengaw has identified 23 Kurdish people killed in the latest protests. The Revolutionary Guards, which have put down unrest in the Kurdish region for decades, have accused armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents of involvement in the protests.

☆ Twelve shot dead in Mexico bar attack in gang-plagued state
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MEXICO CITY, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen opened fire in a bar in the central Mexican city of Irapuato on Saturday evening, shooting dead six women and six men, local authorities said, the second mass shooting in the state of Guanajuato in less than a month. Three people were injured in the attack in the south of Irapuato, the city government said in a statement, adding that security officials were trying to track down the assailants. An initial statement by the city had put the death toll at 11. On Sept. 21, gunmen shot dead 10 people in an attack at a bar in the Guanajuato town of Tarimoro, about 60 miles (96 km) southeast of Irapuato. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Michael Perry and Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ No civilians killed in attack at Russian military base - local governor
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Oct 16 (Reuters) - No civilians were killed in the attack at a military base in Russia's Belgorod region, but many soldiers were killed or wounded, the governor of Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said early on Sunday. "A terrible event happened on our territory, on the territory of one of the military units," Gladkov said in a video post on the Telegram messaging app. "Many soldiers were killed and wounded ... There are no residents of the Belgorod region among the wounded and killed." The state RIA news agency cited the defence ministry as saying that 11 people were killed and 15 others were wounded.

☆ How obscure government documents foreshadowed divorce for Kanye West, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Madison Cawthorn
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, for one, puts her marriage first among her qualifications for elected office. "Marjorie Taylor Greene is a conservative wife, mother of three, a successful business woman and job creator. (Marjorie Taylor Greene, too, has sometimes herself invested in companies that clash with her social sensibilities.) Months later, Cawthorn would reveal in his annual personal financial disclosure that he and Bayardelle, despite their splashy nuptials, had never pooled their finances or jointly owned reportable assets. From billionaire to billionaire, Michael Bloomberg could teach Kanye West a lesson about how to hide one's personal finances when running for president.

☆ Donetsk's city administration building hit by shelling, Russian-backed officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A view shows the city administration building hit by recent shelling in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander ErmochenkoOct 16 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces shelling damaged the administration building in the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk region, Russian-backed administration of the city said on Sunday. The administration said on the Telegram messaging app that the main entry into the building was hit and several nearby cars damaged. Donetsk city has been controlled by the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic since 2014. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Michael PerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterShortly after arriving, Biden promoted the Democratic agenda at a gathering of party volunteers making campaign phone calls. While some Democratic candidates around the country have distanced themselves from Biden, seeing him as a political liability, Kotek is hoping for both a political and fundraising boost. Biden arrived in Oregon's largest city of Portland after starting his West Coast trip in California. Len Bergstein, a Portland-based public affairs consultant and political analyst, said that unlike in other states Biden could offer the Democrat a needed jolt in Oregon. "The Democratic governor's candidate has got to pull in the kind of voter that normally votes for Joe Biden in a race like this, and energizes that turnout," Bergstein said.

☆ Apple workers vote to unionize second U.S. store
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Doyinsola Oladipo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Apple Inc retail workers voted to form a union at an Oklahoma location, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Friday, making it the tech giant's second U.S. store to organize. Employees at the Apple Penn Square store in Oklahoma City voted 56 to 32 in support of joining the Communications Workers of America Union (CWA), securing the needed majority, according to a tally by the NLRB. Apple workers near Baltimore, Maryland, voted in June to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The CWA in May withdrew an election petition on behalf of Apple workers in Atlanta, Georgia, claiming that Apple had repeatedly violated federal labor law and the rising number of COVID infections among store employees made a fair election impossible, according to the CWA. Some current and former Apple workers last year began criticizing the company's working conditions online, using the hashtag #AppleToo.

☆ BTS to hold free concert to support S.Korea's bid to host World Expo
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SEOUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - K-pop boy band BTS is reuniting on Saturday for a concert in the southern port city of Busan, which the city and the South Korean government hope will help win a bid to host the World Expo 2030. Four countries, including South Korea, Italy, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia, have submitted competing candidatures to organise World Expo 2030, according to the expo organising body Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). The host country of the World Expo 2030 is expected to be elected next year. In July, K-pop sensation BTS was named as the official ambassadors for the World Expo 2030 in Busan. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Heekyong Yang; Editing by Michael PerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China to refine COVID measures, reiterates need for persistence
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Yew Lun Tian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A woman walks past a poster welcoming the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing, China October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu WangBEIJING, Oct 15 (Reuters) - China will make its COVID-19 prevention measures more scientific, accurate and effective, a spokesman for the ruling Communist Party said on Saturday, while reiterating Beijing's stance that its pandemic approach is the right one. "If you count the general ledger, our epidemic prevention measures are the most economical and effective," Sun said. "Our prevention and control strategies and measures will become more scientific, more accurate, and more effective," he said. Cities across China, including its financial capital Shanghai, have been subjected to various degrees of economically disruptive and socially stifling lockdowns.

☆ India's largest private lender HDFC Bank reports profit up 20%
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Nupur Anand | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MUMBAI, Oct 15 (Reuters) - India's largest private lender HDFC Bank (HDBK.NS) on Saturday reported a 20% rise in net profit in the September quarter of this financial year, buoyed by higher loan growth and rise in other income. Net profit rose to 106.05 billion rupees, beating estimates. Net interest income, the difference between interest earned and paid out, was at 210.21 billion rupees, a 18.9% jump. Within retail loans, two-wheeler advances saw a slight slip with total advances in the segment at 95.97 billion rupees compared to 97.13 billion rupees a year ago. Total provisions inched up slightly to 32.40 billion rupees in the September quarter compared to 31.87 billion rupees in the June quarter.

☆ Small talks to defuse big pressure around Indo-Pak game
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Excitement is already building for the Oct. 23 blockbuster between the former champions in Melbourne but India captain Rohit sought to downplay the hype around one of cricket's greatest rivalries. "At the Asia Cup, and now here, whenever we meet, we talk about how things are back home, how the families are," Rohit said. "The previous generation of cricketers told us they too used to chat about these things -- 'how's life? Whenever we come across, I try to tap into his experience since he has served India for such a long time. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Michael PerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Australian flood crisis: southeast states on emergency alert
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

SYDNEY, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Emergency warnings remained in place on Saturday for parts of Australia's southeast as floods, sparked by days of heavy rain, impacted three states, with hundreds of people having to be rescued from floodwaters. Large parts of Australia's eastern states have been hit by severe flooding since early 2022, with the country now enduring a third consecutive La Nina weather event bringing heavy rains. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathan How said while heavy rain had cleared, flooding was still widespread. In the west of Melbourne city, a flood clean-up was underway after the Maribyrnong River burst its banks on Friday. Footage on social media showed Melbourne residents clearing water from homes and emergency services personnel on the scene.

☆ Analysis: 'Big Shot' new season finds the ball back in John Stamos' court
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But thanks to John Stamos, I’m now more of a basketball fan, which leads us into what to watch this week. Three things to watch‘Big Shot’ Season 2(From left) John Stamos as Coach Korn and Sophia Mitri Schloss as Emma Korn are shown in a scene from "Big Shot." “I need to now cut her loose and let her live in the minds and hearts of the fans that have supported her,” Curtis told Entertainment Weekly. “Sharing people’s stories that are not just on a rap sheet will help people get comfortable and understand where someone has come from,” Kardashian told The Hollywood Reporter. “I wasn’t talking about politics,” Elias told CNN.

☆ Ukraine says more than 600 settlements liberated in past month, including 75 in Kherson
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Ukraine's armed forces have liberated more than 600 settlements from the Russian occupation in the past month, including 75 in the highly strategic Kherson region, Ukraine's Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories said. Some 502 settlements have been liberated in the northeast Kharkiv region where Ukrainian forces last month advanced deep into Russian lines, the ministry said late on Thursday. The ministry said 43 settlements were liberated in the Donetsk region and seven in the Luhansk region. On Thursday, the Russian-installed governor of Ukraine's Kherson region appealed to residents to evacuate amid fighting between Russian and advancing Ukrainian forces. read moreIn late August, Ukraine launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces occupying the country since the start of their invasion in February.

☆ U.S. Senate rivals Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock debate in Georgia
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Former college football star and current senatorial candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally in Perry, Georgia, U.S. September 25, 2021. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Republican Herschel Walker's bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia came to a head on Friday when the two rivals met for their sole televised debate in a contentious race that could help determine which party controls the Senate. "There aren't that many people who are undecided in the race," Republican strategist Charlie Black added. An opinion poll conducted by the University of Georgia showed Warnock leading Walker 46% to 43% among likely voters.

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