Inside the Senate trial: How McConnell and enough Republicans blocked witnesses; Analysis: Senate to emerge from trial guilty of extreme partisanship; China infections could grow exponentially; fatality reported in Philippines; From Patient Zero to nearly 15,000 cases: The spread of coronavirus ; Kenya's blood banks are running dry after the U.S. ended aid — and a baby's life is in danger; Bernie Sanders sparks a debate over socialism — and Trump is happy to engage; Democratic presidential candidates make final push to rally a skittish, and largely undecided, Iowa electorate; Slavery reparations seem impossible. In many places, they're already happening.; Israel won the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Any plan has to reflect that.; Damned if they do, doomed if they don't: Why Sanders rivals don't go negative; I'm the mayor of a large college town. Pete Buttigieg isn't ready to be president.; We may finally get some justice for Bijan Ghaisar; The GOP doesn't deserve to survive this debacle; Top NRA official placed on leave, court filing states; Why the land mine, a persistent killer of civilians, is coming back under Trump
The Department of Justice argued in a court filing that unredacted copies of those emails are protected by "presidential privilege" and should not be released.
Sen. Mitt Romney, a near-lone GOP voice in seeking witnesses for the trial, was an outlier in a party bound to President Trump and unwilling to challenge him. That political reality helped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hold his conference together.
The Senate has become a completely top-down institution in which rank-and-file senators feel marginalized, and days of ad hoc bipartisan groups helping cool political passions have vanished.
China's leaders prioritize political stability over all else. That likely allowed the virus to spread in the critical weeks after the first cases appeared in Wuhan.
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The country had relied for years almost entirely on U.S. aid for its state-run blood transfusion service, but the funding was discontinued in September.
The senator's campaign is working to define 'democratic socialism' in positive terms while the president and his allies eagerly portray the Democrats as radical leftists.
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Land mines are designed to kill and injure enemy forces. But if they remain where they were placed, they often kill, maim and blind civilians years or even decades later.
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