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On Today’s Episode:

• Chaos Consumes Drive to Avoid Government Shutdown, With 2 Days to Go, by Chris Cameron

• Dominique Pelicot Gets 20-Year Sentence in Rape Trial That Shook France, by Catherine Porter

• California Declares an Emergency Over Bird Flu in Cattle, by Apoorva Mandavilli

• Starbucks Has a Pumpkin Spice Latte Problem in China, by Alexandra Stevenson, Julie Creswell and Zixu Wang

• ‘Murder Hornet’ Has Been Eradicated From the U.S., Officials Say, by Mike Baker

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