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Republican Sen. Susan Collins officially launched her bid for reelection Wednesday, setting up an expensive and closely watched battle that’s starting against the backdrop of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Collins, who made her formal announcement in an email to supporters, said she took her time with her decision and concluded her “bipartisan commonsense approach” will be important in an era of bitter partisanship. Collins also said her seniority in the Senate can help Maine.

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The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a bipartisan spending bill that would appropriate funding for gun violence research to the NIH and CDC.

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy joined Jersey City’s mayor Tuesday in calling for a school board member to quit over comments she made about the shooting at a kosher market, referring to Jews as “brutes” and questioning whether the shooters had a point to make in attacking Jews. A message seeking comment was left with Paige.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden would seemingly risk losing much more than he'd gain from announcing his intention to serve one term.

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A German man who has served 33 years in a US prison for a double murder arrived back in Germany on Tuesday, after receiving parole. Officials in the state of Virginia allowed 53-year-old Jens Soering, the son of a diplomat, to be released on parole. “I’m so happy to be in Germany after 33 years in prison in the US,” he told journalists in a short statement at Frankfurt Airport.

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Police in Austin are searching for Heide Broussard and her 2-week-old child, Margot Carey

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Starbucks apologized for employees' refusal to serve deputies in Riverside, California, the company's third such incident with police in six months.

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Italian authorities ordered the biggest peacetime evacuation in the country since World War Two on Sunday to defuse a massive unexploded British bomb that was partially damaged when discovered in the southern city of Brindisi. The historic evacuation displaced some 53,000 residents  —more than half — of the coastal city on the Adriatic,  due to the high risk that the 440-pound ordnance containing 40 kilograms of dynamite could explode. The chances of detonation were increased after the munition was damaged on November 2  by a bulldozer excavating for a remodel of a cinema.. The bomb is believed to have been …

A new Fox News poll on voter support for impeachment contradicted President Trump, who recently boasted major support in favor of “No Impeachment.” 

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