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• With ‘kindness not brutality,’ Joe Biden woos Obama Democrats
• Global city or Chinese city? Hong Kong fears the balance is tipping
• The calm for Congo's Ebola storm

With ‘kindness not brutality,’ Joe Biden woos Obama Democrats Posted: 15 May 2019 02:23 PM PDT A full hour before Joe Biden is scheduled to speak at Manchester Community College, the only parking spaces left are way in the back of the lot, behind the welding shop. Since announcing his candidacy late last month, Mr. Biden has skyrocketed in the polls – to the surprise of Washington pundits, many of whom had predicted his first day on the trail might wind up being his best.

Global city or Chinese city? Hong Kong fears the balance is tipping Posted: 15 May 2019 12:59 PM PDT It was a sight Hong Kongers aren't used to: legislators clambering over each other and the press corps, grabbing at the microphone as security struggled to restrain them. The city's legislature descended into scuffles May 11 over a government attempt to amend its extradition laws. The former British colony of 7.4 million people, which reverted to Chinese control in 1997, does not have extradition arrangements with mainland China, Macau, or Taiwan, among others.

The calm for Congo's Ebola storm Posted: 15 May 2019 12:23 PM PDT Despite a well-organized global effort to stop an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Congo – including the use of a new vaccine – the numbers have only worsened. Since October, when the outbreak began, more than 1,000 have died. The toll is the second largest in history for Ebola.

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