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October 25: Missouri Redistricting Campaign Goes Quiet as Le Pen Launches Presidential Bid
In U.S. news
The Republican campaign supporting Missouri’s 2025 congressional map redraw has gone quiet less than two weeks before the election, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The newspaper says the political action committee backing the map had just $90,000 on hand last week, after a yearlong legal battle to keep the map off the ballot.
In a separate Missouri case, a man accused of killing 17-year-old Alyssa Wilson on Interstate 170 has been charged in another shooting. Police say that shooting also involved gunfire into a car and happened days earlier.
In Florida, twelve people, including six minors, were injured in a shooting outside a college football celebration. Police are seeking information and videos.
And more thunderstorms were forecast for the Southwest after flooding forced evacuations and water rescues. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch across much of the Four Corners region.
In health research
An American Cancer Society survey of nearly 33,000 women found that 99 percent recognized family history as a breast cancer risk factor. But researchers say more than 85 percent of women diagnosed have no family history. Regular exercise, limiting alcohol and maintaining a healthy weight can lower risk, society researcher Dr. Curtis Miyamoto says, but cannot eliminate it.
In Auckland, researchers found that adding general practice records to hospital data more than doubled the share of adults identified with multiple chronic conditions, from 14 to 31 percent. The findings concern patients enrolled in January 2014, not today’s prevalence.
In France
Marine Le Pen launched her presidential campaign in Orléans ahead of next spring’s election. The National Rally leader, currently ahead in opinion polls, promised to restore the “rule of law.” Her launch followed a weekend of violent protests across French cities.
In Albania
Demonstrators threw stones and set fire to government buildings during renewed protests in Tirana. The unrest comes amid public frustration over perceived corruption and incompetence, as Albania advances in European Union membership talks.
In NHS care
Psychiatrists told Channel 4 News they fear draft NHS guidance in England could restrict access to specialist obsessive-compulsive disorder care when initial treatments fail. The proposed guidance would update recommendations more than twenty years old.
At the United Nations
Former Emirati ambassador Lana Nusseibeh has entered the race to succeed António Guterres as secretary-general, with Palestine’s endorsement. Her candidacy faces criticism over the UAE’s human rights record and its alleged funding of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces.
In Venezuela
Opposition leader and Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado has returned from exile following nationwide protests demanding free elections.
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