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Patty Judge, a former Iowa lieutenant governor, will challenge Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, who has refused to consider an Obama nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Kim Jong-un’s comments were reported a day after the United Nations Security Council approved tougher sanctions aimed at curtailing his country’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs.
President Obama said during a visit to Milwaukee that “we’re going to have to stay” in the capital until his younger daughter, Sasha, finishes high school.
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