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The Gazette NATION/WORLD
BRIEFSCompiled from Gazette wire services
Sessions to announce Alabama Senate bid
WASHINGTON—Former Attor-
ney General Jeff Sessions will announce
that he is entering the race for his old
U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, two Repub-
licans with direct knowledge of his plans
said Wednesday.
Sessions, 72, will be making a return
to the political stage
a year after stepping
down as President Don-
ald Trump’s first attor-
ney general when their
relationship soured over
his recusal from the Rus-
sia investigation.
The two Republicans
confirmed to The Associ-
ated Press that Sessions
is expected to announce his candidacy
Thursday. They were not authorized to
discuss the matter publicly and spoke
on condition of anonymity.
They said Sessions has not spoken to
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell about it, nor has he informed Trump
of his decision.
The longtime senator’s candidacy
upends the 2020 Republican primary,
which has a crowded field competing to
challenge Democratic Sen. Doug Jones
for the once reliably red seat.
Iraq protesters storm bridge, medic killed
BAGHDAD—Anti-government
protesters in Iraq stormed a bridge
Wednesday in central Baghdad, where
security forces pushed them back with
batons and tear gas, wounding dozens.
A medic was killed while aiding dem-
onstrators.
The military called on the protesters
to stop blocking roads and ports, say-
ing they had cost Iraq $6 billion, and it
vowed to arrest those responsible. The
U.S. Embassy urged the government to
“engage seriously and urgently” with the
demonstrators and condemned attacks
on them.
Tens of thousands of people have
taken to the streets in recent weeks in
the capital and across the Shiite south
to demand sweeping political change.
The protesters complain of widespread
corruption, a lack of job opportunities
and poor basic services, including reg-
ular power cuts despite Iraq’s vast oil
reserves.
The protesters have focused their
anger on Shiite political parties and
militias, many of which have close ties
to Iran. Across the south, they have
attacked party and militia headquar-
ters, setting some of them ablaze.
Trump rule on religious objections struck down
NEW YORK—A federal judge on
Wednesday struck down a new Trump
administration rule that could open
the way for more health care workers
to refuse to participate in abortions or
other procedures on moral or religious
grounds.
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engel-
mayer said the U.S. Health and Human
Services Department overstepped its
authority and went beyond existing law
in issuing the rule. He also said that the
measure could be costly, burdensome
and damaging to emergency care and
that the whole rationale for the rule was
based on a lie.
He said the department’s claim that
there was a significant increase in com-
plaints about workers being forced
to violate their conscience was “flatly
untrue.”
The HHS rule, he said, is a classic
“solution in search of a problem.”
Nineteen states, the District of
Columbia, three local governments,
health organizations and others had
sued to block the rule from taking effect
Nov. 22, arguing that it would be dis-
criminatory and would interfere with
people’s access to health care.
Actress Deneuve hospitalized with stroke
PARIS—French actress Catherine
Deneuve has had a mild stroke while
filming her latest movie, the screen star’s
family said Wednesday.
Deneuve, 76, suffered a “very limited
and therefore reversible” stroke, accord-
ing to a family statement sent to The
Associated Press by the media represen-
tative for Artmedia, the agency that rep-
resents Deneuve.
It said no further statements were
planned.
“Fortunately, she has no motor defi-
cits (but) must, of course, take some
time to rest.”
Deneuve was hospitalized in Paris,
but the family didn’t disclose the name
of the facility. No details were given on
when she had the stroke, but French
media reported that it happened late
Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Associated Press
BERLIN
The remains of an
ancient ape found in a
Bavarian clay pit suggest
that humans’ ancestors
began standing upright
millions of years earlier
than previously thought,
scientists said Wednesday.
An international team
of researchers says the fos-
silized partial skeleton of a
male ape that lived almost
12 million years ago in the
humid forests of what is now
southern Germany bears a
striking resemblance to
modern human bones. In
a paper published by the
journal Nature, they con-
cluded that the previously
unknown species—named
Danuvius guggenmosi—
could walk on two legs but
also climb like an ape.
The findings “raise fun-
damental questions about
our previous understand-
ing of the evolution of the
great apes and humans,”
said Madelaine Boehme of
the University of Tuebin-
gen, Germany, who led the
research.
The question of when
apes evolved bipedal
motion has fascinated scien-
tists since Charles Darwin
first argued that they were
the ancestors of humans.
Previous fossil records of
apes with an upright gait—
found in Crete and Kenya—
dated only as far back as 6
million years ago.
Among the remains they
were able to piece together
were primate fossils belong-
ing to four individuals that
lived 11.62 million years
ago. The most complete,
an adult male, likely stood
about 3 feet, 4 inches tall
and weighed 68 pounds.
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, KY.
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin asked Wednesday for a recanvass of Ken-tucky election results that showed him more than 5,000 votes behind Demo-crat Andy Beshear, who dis-counted the challenge and began preparing to take office.
Beshear, the state’s attor-ney general, said he’s con-fident in the election out-come, saying any review would show he won the hard-fought campaign.
“Whatever process that the governor chooses to go down, it’s not going to change this overall num-ber of votes,” Beshear said at a news conference. “We are going to take the steps to move forward to make sure that we are ready ... on the day that we’re inau-gurated.”
With 100% of precincts reporting, Beshear led by a little over 5,000 votes out of more than 1.4 mil-lion counted, or a margin of less than 0.4 percentage points. That’s inside the margin that would trigger a recount in most states, and it’s AP policy not to call races that could go to a recount. Although there
is no mandatory recount law in Kentucky, the AP is applying that same stan-dard here.
At a news conference late Wednesday in Frank-fort, Bevin said he wanted to ensure integrity in the process even as he hinted without offering evidence that there had been irregu-larities in the voting.
“We’re in the process of getting affidavits and other information that will help us to get a better under-standing of what did or did not happen,” he said.
Bevin said any infor-mation turned up won’t be “followed through on” until after the recanvass—an indication he could seek further review of the elec-tion results.
Kentucky’s secretary of state, Alison Lunder-gan Grimes, scheduled the recanvass for Nov. 14. A recanvass is a check of the vote count to ensure the results were added cor-rectly.
Beshear’s campaign responded with a state-ment repeating that he hopes Bevin honors the election results. The cam-paign noted that a recan-vass has never led to a rever-sal of an election result in Kentucky.
Kentucky vote leaves Republican seeking recanvass
Associated PressDemocratic gubernatorial candidate and Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear speaks at the Democratic Party elec-tion night event Tuesday in Louisville, Ky. With 100% of pre-cincts reporting, Beshear led by a 5,000-vote margin.
Scientists find oldest example of upright ape
Standing tall
Sessions