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And why Costco is suing the Trump administration.

But first, tonight, according to President Trump, the whole world is watching a rural part of Tennessee.

That's because there's a special election for a House seat tonight, a race that's turned out to be very close.

Anthony Zirker is a correspondent with the BBC who recently spent time in Tennessee to report on the race.

A Democratic win would be the first there for more than 40 years and would further chip away at the razor-thin Republican majority in the House at a moment in which recent Gallup polling indicates the president's approval rating is the lowest it's been in his term so far.

Democrat Afton Bain is a progressive running against conservative Republican veteran Matt Van Epps.

Yet for both candidates, the issue of affordability has dominated their campaign messaging.

The two candidates have appeared somewhat careful to stay independent from their party's leading figures.

Kamala Harris visited to campaign, but the New York Times notes Bain left the stage before any pictures could be taken of them together.

Van Epps, meanwhile, has President Trump's endorsement, but Zirker reports that he hasn't talked about the president much during the campaign.

Van Epps is still the favorite to win, but recent polls suggest it's a tight race.

No individual special election can translate into overall barometers of public opinion, and it's typical for incumbents in power to suffer losses.

But Zirker found that some Republicans in the state were showing signs of disagreements with recent Trump policies relating to tariffs and visas.

A major fire that tore through a Hong Kong apartment complex last week has left the city struggling with how to process the grief and where to direct the blame.

The fire ripped through eight tower blocks holding 2,000 apartments.

Over 150 people are now confirmed dead, with dozens still unaccounted for.

Yesterday, officials said contractors working on the building had used scaffold netting that didn't meet fire safety standards, something investigators say contractors had tried to conceal.

More than a dozen people have reportedly been arrested in recent days.

There are now major questions being asked of the city's construction industry and of the response from the Beijing-backed government.

Christian Shepard is a China correspondent for The Washington Post.