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POLITICS: Recently, Prez Trump said ‘just kidding’ and didn’t sign off on the Senate’s stop-gap funding bill. Reminder: for weeks, Trump’s been saying he’d only approve a budget plan that included $5 billion for his border wall. Something the Senate did not want to include. The Prez apparently said he’d back down, but yesterday, he shook his head to the new funding bill. Now, Congress is scrambling to put together a deal that’ll make both lawmakers and Trump happy - before the gov shuts down. In other news, the Trump team just reached a deal that’d force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as cases are being processed. Problem, since many cases take months or years before closing. Hi, controversy.
WORLD: Yesterday, the Democratic Republic of Congo said ‘presidential election? What’s that?’ and postponed the country’s election for another week. Quick refresher: back in 2016, the country’s prez - Joseph Kabila - was expected to let another leader take his place. He didn’t. Since then, the country’s presidential election has been constantly delayed due to violence and unrest. Now, it looks like the election is being delayed once again. Speaking of which, there are now 560 cases of Ebola in Congo. And the number keeps rising. Meanwhile, the UK is investigating a new (and unexplained) spike in a polio-like illness. Stay tuned.
BIZ: The stock market isn’t getting any better. Yesterday, the Dow drop drop dropped nearly 500 points, putting it below 23,000 - something that hasn’t happened since October 2017. This comes during increasing concerns about a gov shutdown. In other news, the Justice Dept just indicted two Chinese hackers after they allegedly carried out a Chinese gov campaign to steal trade secrets and other info from over a dozen gov agencies - including the US - around the world. Yes, really. This has reportedly been going on for over a decade. No word yet on this from the Chinese gov.
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