On the same day, three New Yorkers—a trader, a lawyer and a social worker—ordered cocaine from a delivery service. Within hours, all three were dead from fentanyl. on.wsj.com/3DoNtAf

Could Another Phillies World Series Win Mean Financial Doom? phillymag.com/news/2022/10/0…

Tonight’s temporary order does not prevent borrowers from applying for student debt relief at studentaid.gov – and we encourage eligible borrowers to join the nearly 22 million Americans whose information the Department of Education already has.

Breaking News: A federal appeals court has temporarily halted President Biden’s student debt relief plan, preventing the government from moving forward. nyti.ms/3F2RQlz

Biden says permanent repeal of debt ceiling is “irresponsible” — directly at odds with the position of Treasury Secretary Yellen

PITTSBURGH — Biden promotes infrastructure law in Pennsylvania swing w/ Fetterman.

“I’m a proud Delawarean, but Pennsylvania is my native state — it’s in my heart” Biden said. nytimes.com/2022/10/20/bus…

Biden: “I thank Prime Minister Liz Truss for her partnership on a range of issues including holding Russia accountable for its war against Ukraine.”

President Biden tells reporters “all important” when asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy whether inflation or abortion is his top domestic issue. “Unlike you, there’s no one thing … We can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

New: Biden expands effort to secure U.S. energy independence as Russia and Saudi Arabia roil oil markets.

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.Karine Jean-Pierre on why it is a good deal now to replenish the strategic petroleum reserve when oil prices drop, but Dems said it was a 'bailout for big oil' when Trump proposed it in 2020:

'It was a different time then. It was not the same situation that we are currently in.'

.Karine Jean-Pierre says that Republicans plan to 'get rid' of Medicare and Social Security.

Biden on Putin: 'I think Vladimir Putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position.'

Adds: 'It seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in Ukraine, Ukrainian citizens, to try to intimidate them into capitulating.'

NEW: Fed officials and staffers spent last week quizzing market participants about the risk of a financial accident in the United States, post-U.K. So did the White House.

Prognosis: Not imminent, but not impossible.

w/Jim Tankersley Joe Rennison
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On today’s front page: Inside Biden’s struggle to repair a refugee system dismantled by Trump and decimated by COVID.

Miriam Jordan and I look beyond the southwest border to examine the state of the US refugee program

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'America is now pledged to do everything short of fighting an actual war to stop China’s rise.' Me on Biden's huge step to decapitate China's advanced chips sector that has had remarkably little media attention. ft.com/content/398f0d…

New: U.S. to release millions more barrels of oil to contain gas prices.

The 180m barrels Biden authorized from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will soon exhausted and more could get the green light this winter. nytimes.com/2022/10/18/bus…

.Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden will 're-evaluate' the US relationship with Saudi in a methodical way.

Fed officials expect to raise interest rates by three-quarters of a point next month as policymakers grow alarmed by inflation’s persistence. nyti.ms/3CLJMmm

Biden says that since yesterday 4m more people applied for student debt forgiveness.

Biden, at DNC event, says he will veto any efforts by Republicans to enact a national abortion ban on his watch.