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Here is our weekly survey of news stories to round out the week of May 9-15, 2016.
Republicans scored a significant victory over President Obama’s health care law on Thursday https://t.co/CXil9HjZuD pic.twitter.com/ws3PaUlaEk
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 13, 2016
Ankara’s efforts to “Turkify” its border with Syria never quite succeeded: https://t.co/mGIOZ92l9V pic.twitter.com/prT4oSQ48H
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) May 13, 2016
Why are Chinese police officers patrolling the streets of Rome and Milan? https://t.co/ndFMgmBPNX pic.twitter.com/a5eHECxg74
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 13, 2016
McConnell, Ryan are the 2 most powerful people in the GOP after Trump. And they couldn’t handle him more differently https://t.co/NAkloDbRoQ
— POLITICO (@politico) May 13, 2016
Pacific islands, shorelines disappear due to climate change https://t.co/YqydvnMkSg @BenThompson_CSM pic.twitter.com/08R7HwDzNI
— CS Monitor (@csmonitor) May 13, 2016
Trump is trailing Clinton by 60+ points among non-white voters in some swing states: https://t.co/ofYpemlj3G pic.twitter.com/B1bEHE1dvR
— Brookings (@BrookingsInst) May 12, 2016
Dubbed “Duterte Harry”, the new president of the Philippines could stunt progress https://t.co/ebGEY7xuVs pic.twitter.com/a283pDYTTo
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 13, 2016
Obama administration plans new raids that would deport Central American children https://t.co/k755PoOxqO
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 13, 2016
The director of the F.B.I. believes that the “viral video effect” is making police hesitant to do their jobs https://t.co/f81N85tbfJ
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 13, 2016
Economists are split about the timing of the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate increase https://t.co/Na4RNBpw3q pic.twitter.com/C94YtGwyge
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 12, 2016
At this rate, it will be a very long time before every child gets access to preschool https://t.co/fTzxatFoaf pic.twitter.com/0ALMZw7Eca
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 12, 2016
How would @realDonaldTrump deal with the national debt? He wouldn’t. https://t.co/0DhafjWlJe #Cato2016 pic.twitter.com/HnhZkQjUdD
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) May 12, 2016
Rank-and-file Illinois lawmakers talking income tax hike to help bring in $5.4 billion https://t.co/mqH46uTzfv pic.twitter.com/KXUdVifQE6
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) May 12, 2016
The power of the Islamic State is waning. But the self-declared caliphate has a “Plan B.” https://t.co/5kHll5dCdy pic.twitter.com/4v2DzPk4HI
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) May 12, 2016
The U.S. middle class is losing ground in the vast majority of metro areas in the country https://t.co/xuQKPak0ud pic.twitter.com/cecheyCLR6
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) May 12, 2016