AP News Summary at 8:06 a.m. EDT

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : The British government has dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners.
42% : Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng said Monday that he would abandon plans to scrap the top 45% rate of income tax paid on earnings above 150,000 pounds a year.
41% : Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded publicly to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn the "rioting" and accuse protests of being planned by the U.S. and Israel.
38% : However, he sharply condemned the protests as a foreign plot to destabilize Iran, echoing authorities' previous comments.
36% : Some of them already face financial sanctions from the United States and European Union.
34% : Demonstrations have continued in Tehran and far-flung provinces even as authorities have restricted internet access to the outside world and blocked social media apps.

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