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Congressman Elijah Cummings has died. The Democrat from Baltimore passed away this morning due to complications from longstanding health challenges. Cummings was a sharecropper's son who became the powerful chairman of a U.S. House Committee investigating President Donald Trump. He was 68.

Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are in Turkey to mount an improbable push for a cease-fire in Syria. Their visit to Ankara comes a day after President Trump suggested the U.S. has no stake in defending Kurdish fighters once allied against the Islamic State group.
U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is set to testify before House lawmakers conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Sondland is expected to say he was merely repeating President Trump's reassurances when he told another envoy there was no quid pro quo in the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.
And country music artists cried together and prayed together at an emotional CMT Artists of the Year awards show last night in Nashville. The show reflected the tight-knit community of artists who supported each other through success and loss.

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1.Congressman Elijah Cummings has died. The Democrat from Baltimore passed away this morning due to complications from longstanding health challenges.

complications并发症

It was not known if he had health complications.
他是否有健康并发症，目前还不知晓vmB*TkQ(E)=lWT。

2.Congressman Elijah Cummings has died. The Democrat from Baltimore passed away this morning due to complications from longstanding health challenges.

longstanding长期存在的

In truth, this is not socialism, but an extension of longstanding corporate welfarism.
事实上，这不是社会主义，而是长期的企业福利主义的扩张8.ezEBYiPP5T1l%Q;。

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副总统迈克·彭斯(Mike Pence)和国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥(Mike Pompeo)正在土耳其发起一项看似不可能的推动叙利亚停火的协议,6~UUxgeaEM。在他们访问安卡拉的前一天，特朗普总统表示，美国在保卫曾联合对抗“伊斯兰国”组织的库尔德武装方面没有任何利害关系ifZVMc)-D,F2djh4~。
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昨晚在纳什维尔举行的CMT年度艺术家颁奖典礼上，乡村音乐艺术家们一起哭泣，一起祈祷Ey|xq59*D&。这场演出反映了艺术家之间的紧密、团结，他们相互扶持着经历了失败与成功[#BDFPUxpU9AD719IAp^。