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Truss Resigns as UK Prime Minister After Just 6 Weeks in Post

Liz Truss, who became UK prime minister just six weeks ago, has resigned after a significant number of Conservative MPs lost confidence in her leadership.

She’s set to become the shortest-serving UK prime minister in history after failing to stem an open revolt from her own MPs demanding her departure.

Speaking in Downing Street shortly after Oct. 20 lunchtime, Truss said she had told King Charles III that she’s resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.
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Truss said she’ll stay on as prime minister until a successor is chosen via a leadership election that will be held within the next week.
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But opposition parties have called for an immediate general election.

 How curious! This is the second female prime minister that resigns in Europe in the last year or so.

Mexico Sues US Gun Industry in US Courts a Second Time

The government of Mexico is suing five U.S. gun sellers in a federal court in Arizona, claiming the businesses are illegally engaging in arms trafficking for cartels in that crime-ravaged country.

The new lawsuit comes after a federal judge in Massachusetts threw out a $10 billion lawsuit on Sept. 30 that Mexico brought against arms makers, including Smith & Wesson, claiming that U.S. companies deliberately undermined that country’s draconian gun laws by making “military-style assault weapons” that found their way to drug cartels and criminals.

The judge in that case found that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) of 2005 “unequivocally bars lawsuits seeking to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the acts of individuals using guns for their intended purpose.” The PLCAA was enacted to protect the industry from frivolous lawsuits filed against businesses related to crimes they didn’t commit.

Mexico is appealing the dismissal, as reported by The Epoch Times.

Critics say Mexico is exploiting U.S. laws in an effort to cripple the U.S. firearms industry and weaken the Second Amendment protections enjoyed by Americans.

 It depends on how they submitted the appeal. On first glance, it simply states that US arm dealers are selling weapons to Mexican cartels. If that's the case, it's the same as selling weapons to American criminals. Nonetheless, there's no proof that clearly points to any specific manufacturer, not even Smith & Wesson. Thus there might be some sort of overreach there after all.  

CEO Warns Biden Put US in a ‘Very Precarious Position’ After More Oil Is Released

After President Biden announced an additional 15 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) would be released to combat rising gas prices just weeks before the midterm elections, one American oil industry leader is now calling it the “strategic political reserve.”

“This is a very precarious position we’re in today at a time of dramatic geopolitical upheaval,” American Petroleum Institute president and CEO Mike Sommers told Fox News on Thursday. “We need to have that SPR in place and at the right levels dealing with the current geopolitical situation we’re in today.”

In the coming months, the United States could again see record-high gas prices, he warned.

After receiving criticism from GOP lawmakers that he’s misusing the SPR, Biden said the release of oil is not being done for political reasons.

 Oh really? So it's a TOTAL coincidence that he released it just a few weeks before the midterms.

Australia and Fiji Sign New Security Deal to Counter ‘Challenges’ in Pacific

A new security deal between Australia and Fiji will provide both countries with a framework to counter and respond to “common security challenges” in the Pacific.

While no explicit reference to China was mentioned, both The Australian and Fijian Defence ministers—who signed the “Status of Forces Agreement” on Oct. 20—said the new deal marked an “important milestone” in the defence relationship.
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This follows Australia’s push to seek closer defence ties with Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji—to counter China’s growing influence in the region.
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Marles said that the legal framework provided under the agreement was “rare” between both countries, particularly in relation to defence.

“We don’t have many of these, and it speaks to how close our relationship is with Fiji,” Marles said. “It is a very, very significant step.”

Under the agreement, both defence forces will have a closer working relationship while building “interoperability” and capabilities in the process.

The agreement also covers immigration and customs, arrangements for visiting forces to wear uniforms while in the other country, and criminal and civil jurisdiction over visiting forces while in the other country.

Ohio Voters to Decide If Non-US Citizens Can Vote in Local Elections

If passed, Issue 2 would change the Ohio Constitution. It proposes that only adult U.S. citizens who legally reside and are registered to vote in Ohio for at least 30 days can cast a ballot in future state and local elections.

The current Ohio Constitution states that “every citizen of the United States, of the age of eighteen years and has been registered to vote for thirty days is entitled to vote at all elections.”

The state constitution doesn’t say that noncitizens can’t vote.

Federal law prohibits noncitizens from casting ballots in federal elections.

A 1917 ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court determined that the state constitution’s home rule, which gives cities control over their local issues, provided municipalities permission to expand voting rights in city elections.

Issue 2 would ensure that a city’s home rule doesn’t circumvent the law that only adult U.S. citizens can cast ballots.

Beware of the Muslims trying to vote for candidates that support the imposition sharia law in American soil.