Evening Edition: Pelosi nominated as House speaker, a show of strength that will soon be tested
Dow leaps 600 points on Fed remarks, erasing November losses, turning positive for 2018; Senators demand CIA briefing on Khashoggi, admonish White House ahead of key Saudi vote
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 78, took the first step to reclaiming the gavel after Democrats voted in a closed-door session. When the new Congress meets Jan. 3, Pelosi must overcome more than a dozen Democratic rebels to amass the necessary votes in the full House to become speaker.
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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell suggested the central bank may slow the pace of its interest rate increases. But he said that rates were "still low by historical standards," in what seemed to be an implicit rejection of President Trump's recent criticism of the Fed's rate increases.
Amid frustration over CIA Director Gina Haspel's absence from a briefing Wednesday, the Senate is likely to advance a resolution to end U.S. involvement with a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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"He looked you right in your eye and said he couldn't help himself. He's a monster," a detective said after interviewing Little, a Texas inmate who recently began confessing to dozens and dozens of killings.
Such a move would mark a huge escalation of the trade war Trump has already launched against multiple countries, including Japan, South Korea and Germany.
Vice President Pence cast the tiebreaking vote to help move the nomination of Thomas Farr, who defended North Carolina voting laws that a court ruled were designed to disenfranchise minority voters.
The death of the 26-year-old American has prompted soul-searching in the evangelical community, which has been debating whether he was a martyr, a fool or was afflicted by a messiah complex.
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