Current Events Oct 18 - Oct 25

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Officials on a __________ island on Sunday were investigating the collapse of a ferry dock gangway the previous day that killed seven people and left three others hospitalized. The dock was carrying people gathered for an annual celebration of a community of descendants of enslaved people.

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Georgia

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Israeli airstrikes targeted nearly a dozen branches of a ______-run financial institution that the IDF says helps to fund terror operations. Israel issued evacuation warnings ahead of the airstrikes, and there have been no reports of casualties.

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Hezbollah

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______'s electrical grid collapsed on October 20, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, raising fresh doubts about a quick fix on an island already suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine. The blackout, after weeks of rolling outages, sparked some small protests around the Caribbean island, where a tropical storm threatened to hamper efforts to restore power.

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Cuba

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Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, ________, called on law enforcement to investigate billionaire Elon Musk for his promise at a weekend pro-Trump rally to give away $1 million each day until Election Day.

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Josh Shapiro

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Residents in _____ were forced onto the roof of a convention center after record-breaking rainfall triggered severe flooding October 20. Over 5.78 inches of rain fell, shattering their all-time daily rain record from 1901.

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Roswell, NM

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______ County saw 46,820 voters on the first day of early voting. That’s the highest number of first day voting in the county’s history.

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Bexar

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Ten months after a jury awarded two Georgia election workers nearly $150 million in a defamation lawsuit brought against ________, a federal judge ruled that the former attorney to Donald Trump must fork over his luxurious New York apartment and other valuables.

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Rudy Giuliani

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The editorials editor of the ___________ resigned after the newspaper's owner blocked the editorial board's plans to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

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Los Angeles Times

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A _________-sized asteroid and 4 others will speed past Earth on the same day this week.

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skyscraper

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Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, __________, on Sunday called on law enforcement to investigate billionaire Elon Musk for his promise at a weekend pro-Trump rally to give away $1 million each day until Election Day.

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Josh Shapiro