August 2019

Aide: Sen Mitch McConnell trips, breaks shoulder in Kentucky

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recovering at home in Kentucky after suffering a shoulder fracture in a fall Sunday, a spokesman said. McConnell tripped on his outdoor patio at his Louisville home Sunday morning, and has been treated and released after getting medical attention, said David Popp, a spokesman for the Kentucky Republican.

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What These Student Debaters Learned From the 2020 Democratic Debates

Since its inception in 2015, the camp has exploded from just 32 students to hundreds. The league has grown from a handful of schools to nearly 50, all of them public schools in Washington and nearby Prince George’s County, Md. About 30 cities, including Baltimore, New York and Chicago, have urban debate leagues. (Detroit’s urban

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As Mortgage-Interest Deduction Vanishes, Housing Market Offers a Shrug

PLAINFIELD, Ill. — The mortgage-interest deduction, a beloved tax break bound tightly to the American dream of homeownership, once seemed politically invincible. Then it nearly vanished in middle-class neighborhoods across the country, and it appears that hardly anyone noticed. In places like Plainfield, a southwestern outpost in the area known locally as Chicagoland, the housing

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The Latest: Heathrow Airport workers delay start of strike

The Latest on contract negotiations for workers at London’s Heathrow Airport (all times local): 6:55 p.m. A labor union that represents workers at London’s Heathrow Airport says the first day of a planned two-day strike has been suspended to union leaders, airport negotiators and their mediators more time to talk. Security guards, firefighters, engineers and

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