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| It's Monday, Short Listers, and the week is starting off a bit grim: California is ablaze, and a deadly shooting suspect is arrested. |
| It's Ashley. Let's get through this together. |
| But first, the impeachment inquiry: The House will vote this week to formalize inquiry procedures, the first time members will be forced to go on record on their support or disapproval of the inquiry. |
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To all firefighters and first responders: Thank you |
| Between raging fires, high winds and blackouts, California is living a real-life disaster movie. Celebrities were among tens of thousands of Los Angeles residents ordered out of their homes Monday, joining almost 200,000 Northern Californians previously forced to flee sprawling wildfires fueled by high winds and drought conditions. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state's governor from 2003 to 2011, shared on Twitter that he evacuated. "If you are in an evacuation zone, don't screw around. Get out," he directed. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James said his family was also forced to evacuate. Is this the new normal? |
| California can't catch a break: In Northern California's Sonoma County, residents stressed by unrelenting evacuations and power outages were rocked by another slap from Mother Nature on Monday when a magnitude 3.3 earthquake rattled the area. |
 | | A firefighter watches a flames approach the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood during the Getty fire, Oct. 28, 2019, in Los Angeles. | | Christian Monterrosa, AP | |
This is why we do what we do |
| Kits stocked with supplies to stop severe bleeding from childbirth and training drills for doctors and nurses to practice responding to a hemorrhage crisis will be required at U.S. hospital maternity units next year to prevent deliveries from turning deadly. About 4 in 5 babies nationally are delivered at the hospitals that must adopt new safety standards. The nation's largest hospital accreditation group credited a USA TODAY investigation with pushing the safety standards forward, saying the two-year Deadly Deliveries series "helped to open up all of our eyes to the magnitude of the problem." USA TODAY exposed how hospitals across the nation fail to follow nationally promoted best practices to prevent harm. |
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Al-Baghdadi is dead. So what happens to ISIS now? |
| The killing of the Islamic State's elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a U.S. raid leaves ISIS without an obvious leader, but America's military campaign against the extremists is far from finished. What does this mean for ISIS? |
| • | The Islamic State has ambitions to regenerate again. And it remains a dangerous threat in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. | | • | Even with the death of al-Baghdadi, the Islamic States' "kill where you are" ethos is likely to live on. That means U.S. forces will continue hunting Islamic State targets, even as Trump says he's committed to bringing them home. | | • | Syrian Kurdish forces say they killed a close al-Baghdadi aide, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. If confirmed, the death would be another blow to ISIS. | | • | Good news: The hero military dog of al-Baghdadi raid returned to duty after treatment – and presumably treats – after suffering minor wounds in the operation. | |
 | | President Donald Trump announces on Oct. 27, 2019, that Islamic State leader Bakr al-Baghdadi died in a U.S. military raid in northern Syria. | | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images | |
Former college student charged in suicide death of boyfriend |
| Echoing the high-profile Michelle Carter case, prosecutors brought an involuntary manslaughter charge Monday against a former Boston College student who they allege pressured her boyfriend to kill himself through relentless abuse. Inyoung You, 21, of South Korea, was charged in connection with the May 20 suicide death of her boyfriend, 22-year-old Alexander Urtula, a Boston College student who jumped from the top of a parking garage on the morning of his graduation. His girlfriend of 18 months watched, prosecutors said. The couple exchanged 75,000 text messages in the two months leading up to Urtula's death. Her texts, according to prosecutors, included repeated abusive remarks for Urtula to "go kill himself." |
| • | If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) any time of day or night or chat online. | |
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So we meet again, Pierre Delecto |
| Sen. Mitt Romney, affectionately known to some online as Pierre Delecto, laughed off being outed as the owner of the anonymous Twitter account, telling USA TODAY that he didn't put much thought into the account's name when his son created it for him eight years ago. Twitter user Pierre Delecto was found out to be Romney after the Utah senator and GOP presidential candidate mentioned using a private Twitter account for lurking purposes. It didn't take long for a Slate reporter to discover Delecto was, in fact, Romney's handle. |
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 | | Sen. Mitt Romney shows off the Olympic torch in his Senate office | | Ledyard King | |
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