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In addition, Russia says it is taking flight from the city of Kherson and markets are to analyze China’s “zero covid”.
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By Amelia Nierenberg
In critical midterm elections, Democrats defied old odds, as well as an expected “red wave” that may have given the GOP a truly large majority in the House and a narrower majority in the Senate.
With several key races still too close, Republicans have merit in the House, which could ruin President Biden’s legislative timeline and mean bitter partisan conflict. But margins are narrow and Democrats can still hold the Senate. Here are updates and five conclusions.
Donald Trump’s position as a kingmaker is shaky: Many applicants subsidized through the former president have underperformed, and his imminent presence would likely have undermined Republicans in some close races. The right-wing media has been praising Ron DeSantis, who was re-elected as governor of Florida and is a frontrunner for 2024.
It will take weeks to decide control of the Senate, though Republicans now have a less difficult path to majority than Democrats. In Georgia, the race between Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, and Herschel Walker, a Republican, will move to the hour. next month.
Abortion: The factor turns out to carry more weight than analysts expected, proving decisive for Democrats in battleground states.
Biden: It turns out he’s had the intermediate functionality of any president in 20 years, which may give more weight to his clients by 2024.
More than 210 Republicans who contested the seats in the 2020 election.
Yesterday, the Russian defense minister ordered the withdrawal of his forces from the key town of Kherson in Ukraine.
The move comes after a month-long Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south. A withdrawal through Kherson would be a humiliating blow to Moscow and a victory to Ukraine. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, remained silent.
But even when Ukrainian infantrymen entered some frontline villages that were under Russian control, the Ukrainian army was not convinced that the Russians intended to withdraw completely. Senior officials warned that Russia could fake a withdrawal in an attempt to lure Ukrainian forces into urban combat.
“We have symptoms that they are retreating,” one colonel told The Times. “They blew up bridges that would have allowed our forces to advance. We see them leaving the population centers, but in some they leave infantrymen to cover their movements.
Background: Kherson, the first major city to fall to Russia and the only regional capital that is under Moscow’s control. Last month, Putin announced the annexation of the Kherson region.
Brittney Griner: American basketball is transferred to a penal colony.
Analysis: Some analysts of the withdrawal order as a reminder of Putin’s willingness to make tactical concessions.
Here’s what everyone is asking: when will China abandon its strict Covid-19 restrictions?
The uncertainty is worrying global markets as politicians and business leaders wait for a signal from Xi Jinping, China’s biggest leader, who is tougher than ever.
After his third term at the Communist Party congress expired last month, markets plunged. A few days later, the hypothesis about easing restrictions caused them to skyrocket. Xi continues to trumpet “zero Covid” and his promise is repeated through senior officials. , while low-level fitness officials urge less drastic enforcement of existing measures.
The numbers do not yet suggest a sudden change to life with Covid. With more than 8,100 new infections per day, cases in China are at their highest point in six months. Officials rely on the same old gambling manual: Just yesterday, CNN reports, the blockades spread to Guangzhou, a production hub of 19 million people, as cases mounted.
Quote: “China has this boot on the neck of economic activity, and we have passed the point where the boot made sense,” said one China expert. “It is that the maximum authoritarian voice continues to reiterate that there is no change. “
Hackers have begun publishing stolen information from Medibank, Australia’s largest fitness insurer, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The Taliban are barring entry to amusement parks, Reuters reports.
Climate activists wrote on glass over a painting by Andy Warhol in Canberra, Australia, The Guardian reports.
Suki Kim, a Korean-American journalist, writes about the similarities between the Sewol ferry crisis in 2014 and the Halloween crowd crash in Seoul.
Meta laid off more than 11,000 employees, a 13% reduction, and prolonged the hiring freeze.
Cryptocurrency costs fell as talks about a deal between two industry giants rattled the industry. My colleague Kevin Roose looks at it.
Even though concussions can cause C. T. E. , a brain disease, an influential organization that guides doctors and sports leagues has rejected the research.
Jaguars are returning to Mexico.
Deep brain stimulation, commonly used to help patients with Parkinson’s disease, can be an effective remedy for binge eating.
Antidepressants do not cause a “chemical imbalance. ” But they seem to work. Here’s what we know.
Here are photographs of the lunar eclipse.
My colleagues Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios traveled in the direction of 70-mile migrants through the dangerous Darien Gap, between Colombia and Panama, to perceive a seismic shift in global migration through the pandemic, climate change and developing conflict.
They met a 6-year-old girl, Sarah Cuauro, who had left Venezuela for the United States with her mother. When separated from her parents in the jungle, Sarah began singing “The Glory of God, Giant and Sacred. “She squawked in tears. ” He carries me in his arms. “
This year’s COP27, a UN climate summit, is taking position in Egypt. African leaders and activists have a unified agenda: hold accountable the nations that are the ultimate culprits of greenhouse fuel emissions.
The continent is already feeling the effects of extreme weather, adding to a drought in the Horn of Africa that has put millions of people at risk of famine.
COP27 comes more than a decade after world leaders gathered in Durban, South Africa, and pledged $100 billion a year to transition the next countries to renewable energy and climate change adaptation. These promises were never fully fulfilled.
“Our continent has contributed 1% of the damage caused by climate,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said this week. Industrialized countries, he said, “must fulfill the commitment they have made. “
This time, emerging countries put “loss and damage” financing, a form of climate repair, on the summit’s agenda. The U. S. and some other major countries are thinking about broader liability demands.
If rich nations are serious about Africa’s future, said Eric Njuguna, a 20-year-old Kenyan activist, this investment goes beyond the “smart math” of borrowing and diverted aid. this COP to do climate justice for Africa,” said Njuguna. — Lynsey Chutel, editor of Briefings in Johannesburg.
Make a steak. Then to make French fries.
In “The Fabelmans”, Steven Spielberg’s staff.
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A smartphone is like a car: it works better and longer with maintenance.
Play mini crossword puzzles. Here’s a hint: king or queen (five letters).
Here’s Wordle and the Spelling Bee.
You can all our puzzles here.
So for today’s briefing. See you. — Amelia
PS The Berlin Wall fell yesterday 33 years ago. “Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners walked through the newly porous wall in a celebration,” the Times reported. Here are some photos.
“The Daily” is halfway there. In “Still Processing”, the disco is back.
What did you like?And what can we do better? Email us at briefing@nytimes. com.
Lynsey Chutel wrote today’s Spotlight on Africa.
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