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January 3, 2020

Good Friday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

President Trump ordered the killing of the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, in a Baghdad drone strike early Friday, American officials said. It was a major escalation of Mr. Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.
General Suleimani was one of Iran’s most cunning and autonomous military figures, and some saw him as a potential future leader of the country.
A flood of money rushed into the presidential race in the last three months of 2019, producing an unusually large number of Democratic candidates with the resources to battle deep into the 2020 primary calendar. The five strongest fund-raisers in the field of 14 are expected to report well over $115 million raised in just the final quarter of the year.

Who raised the most this quarter? Senator Bernie Sanders. His campaign brought in more than $34.5 million, yet another display of his enduring financial might, fueled by a huge base of grass-roots donors.

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a fund-raising rebound, raising $22.7 million. It’s a significant improvement from the previous quarter, but it did not vault him to the top of the Democratic pack.
In a surprising twist, the entrepreneur Andrew Yang raised more than $16.5 million in the fourth quarter. That sum is likely to put him among the Democratic field’s top five fund-raisers.

Julián Castro, the former housing secretary and mayor of San Antonio, ended his presidential run. He was the only Latino candidate and a champion of progressive policies, but he struggled to catch on with voters.

More than 200 Republican members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 opinion establishing a woman’s right to an abortion.

The editor of Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical magazine, told The New York Times in an interview that he was struck by the quiet support he received, as well as the vocal criticism, after he published an editorial calling for Mr. Trump’s impeachment on his last day as editor of the publication.

Today’s On Politics briefing was compiled by Isabella Grullón Paz in New York.

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January 3, 2020

Nearly 40,000 inmates are serving life sentences in California’s prisons. But new laws have allowed some of them to be eligible for parole — if they can make the case to the parole board that they are suitable candidates for release. In our cover story this week, Dashka Slater follows two such parole-seeking lifers who must try to tell their life story in a way that proves they have reckoned with their pasts.

OUR COVER STORY:

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Can You Talk Your Way Out of a Life Sentence?

California is giving a second chance to thousands of inmates who had no hope of parole. But first they have to prove to a panel of strangers that they’ve truly changed.

By Dashka Slater

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Will Brexit Bring the Troubles Back to Northern Ireland?

As the United Kingdom confronts the prospect of dissolution, old factions are bracing for the possibility of new violence.

By James Angelos

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Talk

Lily Tomlin Plays Tender Characters on Purpose

“They might be overlooked easily, but they have something to say.”

By David Marchese

Photo illustration by Ina Jang

Diagnosis

She Felt Fine, but Her M.R.I. Showed Several Strokes. What Was Wrong?

After the 67-year-old woman fell at the airport, the left side of her body wouldn’t cooperate. The answer to her malady was found in her heart.

By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

Illustration by Shawna X

Letter Of Recommendation

Letter of Recommendation: Dumb Robot Vacuums

They’re poorly constructed and easily confused — but mine is the only gadget I can trust.

By Sam Biddle

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