| Ocasio-Cortez gains instant stature in Congress, and social media is a key Posted: 03 Jan 2019 01:54 PM PST ![Ocasio-Cortez gains instant stature in Congress, and social media is a key]( "Ocasio-Cortez gains instant stature in Congress, and social media is a key") Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hardly sat down before she whips out her phone to record the chaos around her. "All right, it's time to pick out our offices," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez says in the video. Since her surprise primary victory in June against top House Democrat Joe Crowley, Representative Ocasio-Cortez – and her social media stream – has become a newsmaking machine.
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| The Trump effect at two: Have views of an unconventional presidency shifted? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 01:07 PM PST ![The Trump effect at two: Have views of an unconventional presidency shifted?]( "The Trump effect at two: Have views of an unconventional presidency shifted?") From the start, Donald Trump has tested a "chaos theory" of the American presidency. Countless norms of a modern White House have vanished, as the ultimate outsider chief executive has done things his way. A year that began with a short shutdown ended with a long, partial one, as Mr. Trump blew up Congress's plan to extend funding for a quarter of the government over funding for a Southern border wall.
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| The chicken age: Will finger lickin’ fossils define our geological era? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 11:53 AM PST ![The chicken age: Will finger lickin' fossils define our geological era?]( "The chicken age: Will finger lickin' fossils define our geological era?") Most people, when they take a broiler chicken from their supermarket shelf, don't give much thought to what kind of a fossil the bird's bones will one day make. The Pleistocene Epoch had woolly mammoths. The world eats more than 60 billion chickens a year, and the standing population is around 23 billion, according to a University of Leicester paper published recently by Professor Zalasiewicz and a team of colleagues.
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| Where age is a state of mind Posted: 03 Jan 2019 10:47 AM PST ![Where age is a state of mind]( "Where age is a state of mind") As self-designated watchdogs on government, the news media were remarkably quiet Thursday about one aspect of Rep. Nancy Pelosi as she was elected House speaker for the second time. Yes, she is again the most powerful woman in American politics, the chief adversary of President Trump, and the nation's third most senior official. In fact, journalists were almost as little focused on the age of one new House member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
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