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Heavy security was present at the House of Representatives in Tennessee as they prepare to vote on a resolution filed by Republican leadership to expel three Democratic leaders for 'disorderly behavior' Oother draft laws are being debated in state legislatures cover everything from which pronouns can be used in classrooms to whether trans girls can play in trans sports teams and if trans people must use bathrooms that correspond to their birth sex.

A report from state broadcaster CCTV on Sunday said drills had 'simulated joint precision strikes against key targets on Taiwan island and surrounding waters', adding that forces 'continued to maintain the situation of closely encircling the island'. The trio had joined hundreds of protestors who marched to the State Capitol last week calling for stricter gun laws in the wake of the grisly massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville at the hands of twisted gunman Hale, 28.

'The Democratic Caucus has unanimously, formally voted to oppose the baseless resolutions for expulsion and will zealously oppose them should they come up for a vote on the House floor,' they said in a statement. In Washington, a State Department spokesperson said the United States had 'consistently urged restraint and escuelas no change to the status quo', but noted it had ample resources to fulfil its security commitments in Asia. 'With home-selling sentiment now lower than it was pre-pandemic - and homebuying sentiment remaining near its all-time low - consumers on both sides of the transaction appear to be feeling cautious about the housing market,' said Duncan in a statement.

Fellow ousted Tennessee state lawmaker Justin Pearson said Sunday that he never felt welcome in the legislature in the deep red state. 'It has always been a toxic work environment to work in the Tennessee State Capitol,' he said in an interview with NBC  They have seen the longest selloff in technology shares since the dotcom bubble at the turn of the millennium, a collapse in the cryptocurrency industry, a run on U.S.

and British real estate funds and an intervention by the Bank of England to prevent a near-collapse of British pension funds. 'Higher mortgage rates have a direct impact on borrowing costs, hurting affordability,' said Nadia Evangelou, senior economist at the National Realtors Association. 'At today's rate, buyers need to put more than 20 percent down if they don't want to be cost-burdened.'  It comes as Chinese fighter jets and warships simulated strikes on Taiwan Sunday as they encircled the island during a second straight day of military drills that were launched in response to its president, Tsai Ing-Wen, meeting the US House speaker.

Tsai returned to Taiwan on Friday after visiting her island's dwindling band of official diplomatic allies in Latin America, with two US stopovers that included meetings with McCarthy and other lawmakers. California banking regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank on Friday after the bank, which had $209 billion in assets at the end of 2022, saw a run, mathcelebrity with depositors pulling out as much as $42 billion on a single day, rendering it insolvent.