What's News: World-Wide -- WSJ
March 24 2017 - 3:02AM
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Republicans prepared to take a high-stakes gamble Friday, when
they are expected to bring to the House floor -- at Trump's urging
-- a GOP bill to replace the ACA without knowing whether the vote
will produce a victory.
London police identified the suspected Islamist terrorist in
Wednesday's attack as a 52-year-old British-born man who had prior
convictions for a range of offenses.
Schumer will oppose Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court,
and he called on his Democratic colleagues for a filibuster.
A partisan rift on the House intelligence panel is clouding the
future of a probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016
election.
Israeli police arrested a teenager suspected of making dozens of
threats against Jewish institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere that
put the communities on edge.
A former Russian lawmaker was gunned down in Kiev in what
Ukraine's president called "an act of state terrorism" by the
Kremlin.
Trump is expected to nominate John J. Sullivan to be the State
Department's No. 2 official.
The U.N.'s air-safety arm is pushing for video recorders to be
installed in future airliner cockpits to assist probes of serious
incidents.
Taliban forces have again retaken the district of Sangin in
Afghanistan's Helmand province, following a surge in fighting.
The U.S., Canada and 12 of Latin America's leading nations
called on Venezuela to take steps to return to full democracy.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 24, 2017 02:47 ET (06:47 GMT)
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