ISSUES IN THE NEWS: With a Looming Government Shutdown, House Republicans Face a New Challenge of Who Will Be the Next Speaker.

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US Congress is now at a standstill with the removal of a speaker of the US House of Representatives. Republicans Steve Scalise, and Jim Jordan are the two leading candidates vying to become the next speaker of the House. Ethnic Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh are now scattered about in Armenia.