 | | | | | | Hello, these are your top stories for Friday, October 20, 2023.
Go to cbc.ca/news to read more stories. | | |  | | | | October 20 , 2023 • 04:24 AM EDT | | Hamas released two U.S. hostages, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, who were kidnapped during its attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday. | | Read more | |  | | | | October 20 , 2023 • 05:51 PM EDT | | One half of the U.S. Congress remains paralyzed in an operatic spectacle of betrayal, bitterness and internecine backstabbing. The House of Representatives will soon have gone three weeks without a Speaker, after repeated failures by Republicans. | Read more | |  | | | | October 20 , 2023 • 06:33 PM EDT | | The private company that assists members of the Canadian military and foreign service when they move across the country or around the world has been hacked, says a Department of National Defence note issued internally late Friday. | | Read more | | |  | | | | October 20 , 2023 • 03:05 PM EDT | | Métis residential school survivors recently had the chance to spend three days together at Métis Crossing cultural interpretative centre in Alberta. Survivors say they felt something special from the moment they arrived. | | Read more | |  | | | | October 20 , 2023 • 04:12 PM EDT | | Ed Currie had already held the record for the world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, but he apparently did not fear the reaper, and upped the ante with his new record-breaker, Pepper X. | | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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