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Wisconsin state Senate President Chris Kapenga, regarding two bills that would make it a crime to be naked in public for any reason and for a child to attend any event where people don’t have clothes on. The bills were introduced after a photograph circulated earlier this year of a child at Madison’s annual naked bike ride. (Associated Press — Oct. 5, 2023)
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Glenmore Blackwood, the father of a Morgan State University student, regarding the shooting on campus during the school’s homecoming week celebration on Tuesday evening. Five people were wounded, none critically. The shooting occurred shortly after the coronation of Mister and Miss Morgan State as students were heading to a campus ball. (NPR — Oct. 4, 2023)
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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, complaining about China buying up American farmland, which is just one of several recent incidents that show growing tensions between the U.S. and China, several of which have been panda-related. The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in early December with no public signs that the 50-year-old exchange agreement will be renewed or continued. Beijing currently lends out 65 pandas to 19 countries through “cooperative research programs.” If the National Zoo’s pandas do return to China in December, the only giant pandas left in America will be those at the Atlanta Zoo, and their loan agreement expires late next year. (Associated Press — Oct. 3, 2023)
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U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, regarding his triggering of a fire alarm in a congressional office building on Saturday afternoon ahead of a spending bill vote. Republicans allege that Bowman was trying to delay the vote and have called for him to be punished, while Democrats insist that Bowman was simply trying to open a closed door that was usually open. (NPR — Oct. 1, 2023)
