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For the first time, Mexico has committed to a serious effort to find its missing people. But a new wave of disappearances is more baffling, more complex than what happened during Latin America’s dirty wars of the 1970s and 1980s. It coincides with the drug war and the country’s troubled transition to democracy.
Wisconsin has certified Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election but the Trump campaign continues to file court challenges.
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The second-ranking Senate Democrat threw his support behind a proposal that would force him to give up a powerful subcommittee post overseeing the Pentagon budget amid a heated internal reckoning after the caucus came up short of expectations in a fourth straight election.
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