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Senate Chaos Returns: Six Hours After Major GOP Victory, "Repeal And Replace" Is Voted Down

Senate Chaos Returns: Six Hours After Major GOP Victory, "Repeal And Replace" Is Voted Down

If this is what passes for a legislative victory in the Trump administration, the president may be in trouble.

Less than a day after the Senate GOP leadership mustered the minimum number of Republican votes necessary to begin debate on a bill to repeal Obamacare (and even then thanks only to a tiebreaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence), the Republican campaign to kill the legislation remains in chaos.

Fatal Police Shootings In UK At 12-Year High

Fatal Police Shootings In UK At 12-Year High

Fatal police shootings are on the rise in England and Wales. As Statista's Isabel von Kessel explains, the latest figures released by the Independent Police Complaints Commission reveal that the 6 people were shot dead between April 2016 and March 2017, up from 3 in the previous period.

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This is the highest figure since 2004/05. Among the recent fatalities recorded, one was terrorism-related, when officers shot an assailant after a stabbing attack in Westminster earlier this year.

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