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Nancy Pelosi met privately Friday with her top potential rival for House speaker, Rep. Marcia Fudge, who said the two had a frank and open discussion, including “the feeling in the caucus of people who are feeling left out and left behind.” (Nov. 16)
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I stopped drinking in 1992, so I thought society’s drinking problem had changed along with my own. In fact, alcohol-related deaths are on the rise.
What happened in Abigail Spanberger’s district is not only emblematic of the 2018 election, but of political shifts across the US for the last decade.
From 2007 to 2017, the numberof deaths attributable to alcohol increased 35 percent. The death rate rose 24 percent. Deaths among women rose 67 percent.
Paraplegic athlete Darren Belling claims he was forced to urinate in a bottle on aflyDubai flight because he couldn’t access the bathroom.
Arab dissidents, journalists and activists honored Jamal Khashoggi in one of Istanbul’s holiest mosques on Friday. But across the city, the police made a new round of arrests.
New rules in Hangzhou also banned large breeds and led to the confiscation of unlicensed dogs.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta says all he wants to do is go back to work covering “the guy in there,” referring to President Donald Trump. Acosta said the court case to get credentials back ‘was a test and we passed the test’ (Nov. 16)
Family and friends were baffled by the disappearance of Patrick Braxton-Andrew of North Carolina. Mexican officials now describe “a cowardly and brutal murder, of a totally innocent person.”
In new books, Jeffrey Sachs looks beyond exceptionalism, Michael Beckley describes unrivaled power and Robert Kagan favors pragmatic leadership.