National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Cory Gardner said Alabama GOP nominee Roy Moore is "unfit to serve" and should be expelled from the Senate if he wins. The repudiation follows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's comments that Moore, who is accused of initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32, should step aside. "I believe the women," McConnell said.
Acting for the first time in more than a decade, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology redefined high blood pressure as a reading of 130 over 80, down from 140 over 90.
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The 2.5-mile-wide strip between North and South Korea has kept the two states separate. A handful of North Koreans have made it across in recent years, and several Americans in South Korea have been thwarted trying to make the opposite journey.
In 1992, scientists published a dire "warning to humanity" about a host of impending ecological disasters. A quarter-century later, most of them have gotten worse: "Soon it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory," the authors of the new statement write.
People familiar with the incident said President Trump raised the arrests during a two-day state visit to Beijing, arriving a day after the basketball players had been accused of stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store.
To some women raised in conservative Christian communities, Moore's courtship of teenagers — and a public attitude that encouraged girls to date older men — sounded familiar.
Companies with the most to gain or lose from a sweeping overhaul of the tax code are also struggling to assess the bottom-line impact of the changes proposed so far.
When D.C. principal Brian Betts was killed in 2010 by someone he had arranged to meet via a telephone chat line, his ex-boyfriend, O'Neil McGean, vowed to be careful about online dating services. But after six years, McGean's caution had waned — he didn't expect to be betrayed.
As in 2015, the largest share of victims last year — nearly six in 10 — were targeted because of bias against the victim's race or ethnicity. Of the cases spurred by hatred of a particular religion, anti-Semitism was again the leading cause.
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