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Here are the headlines. You need to know Donald Trump will be absent from the presidential debate stage tonight and instead choosing to travel to Michigan to speak to blue collar workers this evening. Experts say the visit is an important move for Trump's campaign after he lost the state in the 2020 election during his visit today, he's expected to address hundreds of electricians and plumbers and use the moment to criticize Biden's backing of electric vehicles which Trump says will lead to job losses in the auto industry. Meanwhile, Sean Fain, that's the president of United Auto Workers is criticizing Trump's history with auto unions and his decision to hold tonight's rally at a non union company, Fain said this about Trump. I don't think the man has any bit of care about what our workers stand for, what the working class stands for. He serves a billionaire class and that's what's wrong with this country. Trump's visit to Michigan comes one day after President Biden met with Fain, visited the striking auto workers and became the first president to join a picket line. The Hollywood writers' strike is officially over last night. The Writers Guild of America leaders unanimously voted to authorize its members to return to work. After the vote, writers were told they could start working on scripts just after midnight. Early this morning, the union deal with Hollywood Studios achieved several key wins for writers including compensation, length of employment, size of staffs and control of artificial intelligence. Late night talk shows were the first to go dark when writers walked out on May 2nd, those writers are expected to return to work. First, scripted shows will likely take longer to return with actors still on strike pending negotiations. A government shutdown is just four days away. Late yesterday, the Senate voted to advance a bipartisan bill to fund the government through November 17. Their aim is to pass a continuing resolution to avoid a shutdown while members of both parties negotiate both Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and minority leader Mitch mcconnell support the bill. The bill includes $6 billion for Ukraine which house majority leader Kevin mccarthy said quote is wrong. Multiple house GOP members have said they will not vote for any Ukraine funding. Just this morning US. Officials announced they have the American soldier who crossed into North Korea in us custody. A Pentagon spokesperson thanked Sweden China and us military officials for their help bringing us army private Travis King home. According to New York Times sources, King will be flown back to the US and is expected to arrive later today or tomorrow earlier, North Korea said they had finished investigation into Kim King and intended to expel him from the country King was set to be sent to the US for disciplinary action. When he instead left the airport and illegally crossed the border into North Korea. He was immediately detained. North Korean officials previously claimed he entered the country because of racial mistreatment in the army. And that he was quote disillusioned about the unequal US society. Israeli tourists and business people will soon be allowed to enter the United States without a visa. The new rule is part of a deal by the State Department and Israel that will stop that country from restricting Arab, Palestinian and Muslim Americans from entering. This will take effect on November 30. It will also allow Israelis to travel into the US without a visa for trips of up to 90 days. The suspect of the Gilgo Beach killings appeared in court today, Rex Huberman who was accused of killing three women in Long Island, New York appeared in Suffolk County Supreme Court for a pretrial conference. Huberman told a judge in court. He has been spending 2 to 3 hours per day reviewing the evidence prosecutors have presented against him. That was the only time he spoke during today's hearing back in July. He pled not guilty to three counts of first degree murder over the deaths of three women whose remains were discovered near Gilgo Beach in 2010. A judge ruled last month that Huberman had to provide a DNA sample to be used as a comparison with other evidence, including a hair found on a victim. And DNA found on a pizza crust and a napkin. Huber's next court hearing is scheduled for November 15. That's when prosecutors will provide more evidence to Hu's lawyers, which is said to include more than 10,000 pictures, a wedding in Iraq yesterday turned into devastation when a fire killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others. There were approximately 1300 people in attendance. Fireworks set off at the wedding venue started the blaze and led to portions of the building collapse. The father of the groom says he holds the owner of the hall responsible for what happened at the party because there were no extinguishers or safety measures. Authorities say they are still investigating now following the tragedy, a three day period of national mourning has been issued in the country. New data released today shows how many people are using drugs like Ozempic. And we go the report from trillion health shows that health care providers wrote more than 9 million prescriptions for these drugs in just the last three months of 2022. The most popular was the diabetes drug Ozempic which accounted for 65% of prescriptions and was most used for weight loss in patients. The report went on to point out that future prescriptions and usage levels will depend on whether the drug makers can keep up with demand. A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have landed back on earth just a couple of hours ago. Frank Rubio breaking the record for the longest space flight for a US astronaut. The three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan around seven this morning. The flight mission lasted for 371 days spanning nearly 6000 orbits around earth going for 157 million miles.