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Rural areas sacrificed for Xi Jinping’s new city, satellite imagery shows The damage was wrought when Chinese authorities opened floodgates and dams this month, sacrificing whole villages to spare politically important cities. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again while talking with reporters The freezing incident while taking questions from journalists in Kentucky mirrored another occasion when the Senate minority leader abruptly stopped speaking last month. In the Gulf, a growing scramble for Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs Ozempic is surging in popularity in the region, where obesity rates are among the highest in the world — driven by near-universal access to cars, punishing heat that keeps people indoors and the increasing prevalence of processed foods. Twelve Republican senators joined Democrats in voting in favor of a same-sex marriage bill on Tuesday, a share that would have been all but imaginable a decade ago that shows how internal party divisions have grown on the iss