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To combat rising gas prices ahead of the midterm elections, Biden announced the release of 15 million additional barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned from Liz Truss’s cabinet, citing a technical breach of ministerial rules and criticizing the government's direction. This contributed to the deepening crisis that led to Truss's resignation shortly after. To combat rising gas prices ahead of the

In Myanmar, bomb explosions at Yangon's Insein Prison killed at least eight people. In Mexico, the Congress of Tabasco voted to legalize same-sex marriage, making it the 30th Mexican state to do so. United States Developments This contributed to the deepening crisis that led

President Vladimir Putin declared martial law in four recently annexed Ukrainian territories: Donetsk , Luhansk , Kherson , and Zaporizhzhia . Concurrently, Russian forces began evacuating civilians from the occupied Kherson region as Ukrainian counteroffensives advanced.

The IRS announced adjusted 2023 tax brackets and a higher standard deduction to help taxpayers cope with high inflation.

On October 19, 2022, the world saw significant political upheaval in the United Kingdom , major military escalations in Ukraine , and key domestic policy shifts in the United States .