Seven of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates took part in the party’s smallest debate to date Thursday night at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Below, who did well and who didn’t.
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Winners
– Joe Biden: I’ve had him as a loser in just about every debate thus far. He’s been halting, often confused and hasn’t shown himself to be the kind of debater Democrats will want going toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump. Thursday night was better. It wasn’t flawless, but he kept things on the rails, had flashes of good humor, and was deft with tough moments he could see approaching, including about his age.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy, which only recently was flashing warning signs of a sharp slowdown, should finish the year in better shape, thanks to rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and a cease-fire in the U.S.-China trade war. The Commerce Department said Friday that the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of […]

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It was a standout moment in Thursday’s Democratic debate: Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to stutter while speaking movingly about the stuttering children he has mentored.
Biden grew up with a stutter, and talks often about the bullying he faced.
“The little kid who says ‘I can’t talk, what do I do?’ ” Biden said, affecting a stutter on the I. “I have scores of these young men and women that I keep in contact with.”
Minutes later, President Donald Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Sanders sent a tweet with 15 I’s in a row – a typographical insult aimed at Biden.
“I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I hhhave absolutely no idea what Biden is talking about,” she tweeted, adding the tag #DemDebate.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister signed an agreement Friday with the country’s main Jewish organization to reintroduce military rabbis, saying it was a “strong sign” of the importance of Jewish life in the country. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the decision to restore religious counseling for Jews serving in the Bundeswehr armed forces after […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would “show the power of the gavel.” This year, she laid it out for all to see. The past week alone, the Democratic leader delivered a $1.4 trillion government funding package to stop a shutdown, pushed through the bipartisan U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, and passed her party’s […]

Seven of the top Democratic presidential candidates took the stage for a debate in Los Angeles. The candidates were united on impeachment and immigration, but clashed on economic policies, differed on climate change, and argued over campaign fundraising.
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Almost from the moment he took office, President Donald Trump seized on a theory that troubled his senior aides: Ukraine, he told them on many occasions, had tried to stop him from winning the White House.
After meeting privately in July 2017 with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Trump grew more insistent that Ukraine worked to defeat him, according to multiple former officials familiar with his assertions.

More than 40 Israelis were detained on Wednesday at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow and their passports confiscated.
The passengers, including children, were brought to a pre-prepared area where Russian security personnel questioned them.
Following two hours of questioning and fingerprinting, all passengers were released.
The incident followed the arrest and imprisonment by Russian authorities of 26-year-old Israeli Naama Issachar, who was discovered with 9.5 grams of cannabis in her checked luggage on a connecting flight through Moscow on her way to Israel from India several months ago.