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15 Dead After Landslide In Southwest China Buries More Than 120 : The Two-Way : NPR   More than 110 people remain missing after rescuers found 15 bodies among the debris of a landslide in the town of Xinmo in southwest China Saturday. Local officials estimate more than 120 people and 62 homes were buried under tons of rubble. The Chinese state news agency  Xinhua reports  15 people are confirmed dead, as the now 3,000-strong rescue team, armed with "life-detection instruments and sniffer dogs," continue to search overnight. Xinhua quoted the government of Sichuan province, where the town is located, as saying the identities of the 118 missing will be soon made public. Rescuers had pulled out at least three people earlier Saturday, Xinhua reported. "We won't give up as long as there is a slim of chance," said an unidentified rescuer, according to the news agency. PARALLELS Rebuilding A Life Shattered By An Earthquake In China A family of three managed to escape...

Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates - The Washington Post A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders’ health-care bill could damage the nation’s social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure’s passage as their colleagues on the right. The vast changes the legislation would make to Medicaid, the country’s broadest source of public health insurance, would represent the largest single step the government has ever taken toward conservatives’ long-held  goal of  reining in federal spending on health-care entitlement programs in favor of a free-market system. That dramatic shift and the bill’s bold redistribution of wealth — the billions of dollars taken from coverage for the poor would help fund tax cuts for the wealthy — is creating substantial anxiety for several Republican moderates whose states have especially benefited from the expansion of Medicaid that the Affordable Care Act ha...

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Saudi Arabia's king replaces nephew with son as heir to throne - CNN.com The 31-year-old has been appointed deputy prime minister and will continue in his role as defense minister, according to a royal decree cited by state media. Despite his youth, Mohammed bin Salman has long had a visible role in the government, and has spearheaded the kingdom's attempts to wean itself off oil as part of an economic strategy announced last year. What Saudi Arabia's royal reshuffle means for the world Key reform policies currently in place -- such as the  Vision 2030 plan  and a planned IPO by Saudi oil giant Aramco -- were already being driven by him. As defense minister, he   has overseen the Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels, which has caused the deaths of thousands of civilians since 2015 and left the country spiraling towards " total social, economic and institutional collapse ," according to the United Nations. The consolidation of power, which...

Democrats reel from another special election loss, and some point fingers at Pelosi - The Washington Post Narrow losses in two House special elections had Democrats once again trading recriminations Wednesday and pondering anew whether their leaders have them on a path back to power. Especially painful was Jon Ossoff’s three-point loss Tuesday in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District after his campaign was buoyed by more than $23 million in donations, much of it from grass-roots Democrats across the country eager to oppose President Trump. That funding surge was blunted by millions of dollars worth of TV ads and mailers from Republican victor Karen Handel and from outside GOP groups. A common theme in those efforts was to tie Ossoff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — a figure both well-known and widely reviled, according to Republican polling. [ Republican Karen Handel defeats Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District ] That had Pelosi’s Democratic cr...