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The most powerful passport, midterm election monitoring, what is citizenship?

The WorldOctober 31, 2018
A woman with a blue shirt and her hair pulled back is shown voting at a booth with an American flag and the word "vote" on the side.

Desteny Martinez, 18, votes for the first time, in the US midterm elections in Norwalk, California, Oct. 24, 2018.

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In this episode:

Ranking passports
What is citizenship?
Monitoring the midterms
NATO exercise
Failure of leadership
New England vampire panic
Pakistani woman on death row acquitted
Puerto Rico evacuees in Philadelphia
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