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OCTOBER 29: Hurricane Melissa Strikes Caribbean, Devastating Countries
OCTOBER 29: Netanyahu Orders Strikes, Claiming Hamas Violated Ceasefire
OCTOBER 29: OpenAI Completes For-Profit Restructuring
OCTOBER 29: US Strikes Boats Off the Pacific Coast
OCTOBER 29: SNAP Benefits Set to Expire on November 1st
OCTOBER 28: Trump Admits He Isn't Allowed a Third Term
OCTOBER 28: Connolly Becomes Ireland's Next President
OCTOBER 28: Hearing Date of Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Case Decided
OCTOBER 28: China and the US Strike Preliminary Trade Deal
OCTOBER 28: Trump Meets with Japan's New Prime Minister
OCTOBER 27: Javier Milei Wins Big in Argentine Elections
OCTOBER 26: Hurricane Melissa Intensifies, Threatening the Caribbean
OCTOBER 26: Russia Spooks NATO With New Missile Test
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What’s really in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a piece of legislation with impacts spanning from green energy cuts to urban affairs? In 18,278 words, our writers broke the full text down: title by title, and section by section. We explained what the legal jargon actually says in plain English, how it affects you, and the impacts hidden between the lines. Read the most comprehensive analysis and warranted implications of the bill that you'll ever discover.
October 6th, Finian Knepper
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October 6th, Daniel Song
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Trump Floats Use of the Insurrection Act
October 6th, Arnav Goyal
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In domestic news, read about the Voting Rights Act, American military strikes in Latin America, and the who's who of Maine's competitive Senate Race.
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