Analysis: Republicans' New Strategy? Pointless Obstruction.

In November 2022, Jillaine St. Michel was 20 weeks pregnant with her second child when an ultrasound revealed that her baby had serious developmental and genetic conditions that made it unlikely to survive the pregnancy. She and her husband were devastated, and decided that an abortion would be the most compassionate choice for their family.

As Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, all eyes are on the three-way contest to replace Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who has held the top GOP post for nearly two decades and is stepping down at the end of the year. Three senators are running in a secret ballot election Wednesday for the leadership spot: Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida.

Donald Trump may have won the presidency partly because voters were fed up with inflation. But if he enacts many of the policies he proposed on the campaign trail, voters may see prices continue to rise, according to economists, analysts, and business owners. “There’s a lot of inflationary pressure in his promises,” says Simon Johnson, one of the 2024 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics and a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Business.

President-elect Donald Trump has already begun building out a team to serve in his second term. Trump’s new administration is expected to look different from his first—he said in an October interview that the “biggest mistake” of his first term was choosing “bad, disloyal people” to join his administration. Many of the roles will need to be confirmed by the Senate—though Trump has demanded that Republican leadership bypass the typical confirmation process.

Gabe Landeskog was back on the ice Monday morning. The Avalanche captain was in full gear and skating at Ball Arena ahead of his team’s morning skate before Colorado’s game with the Nashville Predators. He was on the ice with the two goalies who are not playing against the Predators, plus the injured players and Valeri Nichushkin. Landeskog did not remain on the ice for the full team portion of the morning skate.

When Donald Trump won the U. S. presidential election last week, emotions spiked to feverish levels. Some people celebrated until they were hoarse; others lost their voice from shouting into the void or at those very revelers. Few on opposite sides knew how to talk to each other, at least in any way that felt productive, meaningful, and (imagine!) kind. “We have in our minds that the people who support the other candidate are these narrow stereotypes of what we’ve seen in the media, and what our own minds created due to our cognitive biases,” says Tania Israel, a professor of counseling psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide.