October 18, 2023: Jordan speaker ballot loss, global gathering in China and India same-sex marriage ban

Facts & Spins for October 18, 2023 Top Stories: Jim Jordan loses the first-round vote to become House speaker, China kicks off its Belt and Road forum, Biden makes plans to visit Israel, Liberia’s presidential election heads to a likely runoff, India declines a petition to legalize same-sex marriage, SCOTUS allows Biden to continue regulating ‘ghost guns,’ Trump faces another gag order, the former Bank of China chairman is arrested on bribery charges, violent crime in the US is found to have decreased to pre-pandemic levels, and the Amazon rainforest’s water level falls to a 121-year low.

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