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Imagine half of your savings was gone and your rent was doubling every year. That is what's happening in Argentina as the country battles some of the highest inflation in the world.

People withe pre-existing conditions would still be protected from insurance discrimination under the new House GOP bill, but it remains to be seen how that benefit would be paid for.

Child labor is a reality in Bolivia, where an estimated one in three children work. But few face the danger of the country's child miners. A journalist who reported on the issue says some 3,000 children work in Bolivia's mines, children as young as 6. Some in Bolivia are trying to raise the working age; others want to lower it to legalize this employment of very young children.

Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida late tonight as a dangerous storm, and time is running out for people to evacuate. And, the EPA has mandated a nationwide lead pipe removal.

The Federal Reserve said 15 of the country's top 19 banks have enough capital to survive a "severe recession." The Fed tested them assuming an unemployment rate of 13 percent and a 50 percent drop in equity prices.

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list.

Some First Amendment advocates joined a suit against the president for blocking people from his Twitter account — and they are making a novel argument about the right to communicate in a digital age.

Authorities were still gathering evidence to determine what happened, and a sheriff's spokesperson said they could not say even how the people died.

Turkey's invasion of Syria this month has displaced 80,000 children who are "really in deep distress," UNICEF's Fran Equiza tells NPR. "The price children pay is absolutely disproportionate."

Some observers are wondering why American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-inspired superPAC, would bother to run a political attack ad against Hollywood star Ashley Judd, an outspoken supporter of President Obama who has said she's mulling a 2014 run against Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.