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Welcome to the Thursday, October 5, Brew. 

Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.

Washington: A recent double-blind, randomised controlled trial found that elder abuse of older individuals with chronic illnesses, including dementia, was reduced by an educational and social support intervention for carers. Read further on Dynamite News:

US President Joe Biden faces hardening scepticism from Republicans over aid to Kyiv. What does this mean for Ukraine?

Hard-right Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz made US history on Tuesday by bringing down House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

US lawmakers are demanding probe into allegations that Egypt was involved in bribery scheme with Senator Bob Menendez.

For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of leadership

State v. Valdiglesias Lavalle, decided Thursday by the Washington Supreme Court (in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud), involved Washington's criminal solicitation law, which makes it a crime to, with intent to promote or facilitate the commission of a crime, … offer[] to give or give[] money…

Cuellar was unharmed in the incident, and law enforcement eventually retrieved the car.