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A man was trying to retrieve his friends phone when he fell into a trash compactor, badly injuring him. He is expected to survive.

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A Denver man is in critical condition after attempting to retrieve a friend's cell phone on Friday before accidentally falling into a trash compactor that crushed him, reports said.

Scott Walsh, 22, suffered two broken legs, a cracked skull and ruptured arteries in his neck, a friend told The Denver Post.

Walsh was with his female friend when her phone fell down the trash chute, the report said. When he looked down the chute, he lost his balance and fell about 15 feet to the compactor underneath, which began to operate while he was still inside, The Post reported.

Walsh has been heavily sedated, but is expected to survive, DiSalvo said.

Friends and colleagues of Walsh have set up a GoFundMe campaign that has raised nearly $4,000 as of Tuesday.

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A Denver man is in critical condition after attempting to retrieve a friend's cell phone when he fell into a trash compactor that smashed his body on Friday evening, reports said.

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For almost 30 years, John Chhan and his wife, Stella, ran the Donut City shop in Seal Beach, California, a constant, reassuring part of countless customers’ lives.

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SEAL BEACH, Calif. - For almost 30 years, John Chhan and his wife, Stella, ran the Donut City shop in Seal Beach, California, a constant, reassuring part of countless customers' lives.

But now the hard-working couple is facing a medical crisis, and their patrons are returning the sweetness.

Since Stella suffered a brain aneurysm last month, John has longed to spend as much time as he can with her.

"She's in a nursing home," Chhan said. " My sister-in-law is here helping me."

With a business to run and bills to pay, the doughnuts still have to roll. Chhan thought he would have to spend most of his time working at the doughnut shop - away from his wife.

But when customers learned about the Chhans' situation, they opened their hearts - and their mouths - wide.
Time to buy the doughnuts
Every morning, beginning at 4:30, customers flock to the doughnut shop. They buy up all the glazed, all the frosted. They drink up the coffee as they hand over their cash and their love.

By 7:30 the bins are empty. Chhan's heart is full.

"It is heartbreaking to hear her misfortune," regular Steven O'Fallon says of the woman who has been making him doughnuts for his entire life. "She was always in the back making doughnuts."

"I would drop by there with my mom and dad in the mornings before school. John would always toss a few extra doughnut holes. He always has a smile on his face."

O'Fallon and the other customers say they are simply giving back the good cheer the Chhans handed out over the decades.

"Every Sunday for 20 years, we've been purchasing doughnuts," said Jenee Rogers, another long-time customer. "It's one of the few things that's still here. He makes them fresh and brings them right there in the mornings. It's a real American dream for them."

The Chhans have worked hard for their piece of the dream on their own, and specifically asked that no crowdfunding sites be set up on their behalf. So, the customers decided to do what they've always done, just a little earlier in the morning: head to the Chhan's shop, buy the doughnuts and spread the sweetness.

"I am very appreciative," Chhan said.

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Customers buy out shop's doughnuts each day so owner can rush home to sick wife

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SEAL BEACH, Calif. - For almost 30 years, John Chhan and his wife, Stella, ran the Donut City shop in Seal Beach, California, a constant, reassuring part of countless customers' lives. But now the hard-working couple is facing a medical crisis, and their patrons are returning the sweetness.

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A high school choir randomly begins to sing the national anthem inside a restaurant and diners were all for it. They proceeded to sing other songs, but they all received a positive response.

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High school choir halts busy restaurant with moving national anthem performance

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"The world stops spinning just a minute!"

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A total of 30 have become sick, including 10 deaths, in connection with an adenovirus outbreak at a New Jersey health care facility

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30 now sick, including 10 deaths, in NJ adenovirus outbreak

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A total of 30 have become sick, including 10 deaths, in connection with an adenovirus outbreak at a New Jersey health care facility, the state's Department of Health announced Monday.

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Claire McCaskill has been defeated in the Senate Election in Missouri. Republicans jumped on the chance to win this one time swing state by spending tens of millions of dollars on advertising making it one of the most expensive Senate Races in US History.

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Joy Behar says Trump-supporting women don't 'know the difference between a predator and a protector'

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Joy Behar has some words for women who support President Donald Trump.

"The View" host put female Trump supporters on blast when discussing Trump's attempt to use a "softer tone" on Tuesday's episode of the ABC morning show.

"He said it because he realizes that women like him less than menstrual cramps. That's why he said it," Behar said on "The View." "He now has this like moment where he says, 'Gee, they don't like me.' You see the numbers. The women are out there voting in droves. He now realizes that."

The host then said women who do support Trump feel the president is a "protector" of their values but then stated that those women don't "know the difference between a predator and a protector."

Behar continued, "...because as far as I can tell, he is the one grabbing women by the you know what."

But some viewers didn't agree with what the ABC star had to say about Trump's female supporters.

Others thought she made a valid point.

Behar made headlines last week after appearing on the MSNBC's show "The Beat," where she recalled the time when she was friends with Trump but now considers him to be a "psycho" and an "anarchist."

"Who knew he was such a psycho? I liked the guy in a way," Behar said before quickly stating that she no longer feels the same way she once did about Trump. "It's like, 'Oh he is a New York character.' And now you know..."

The liberal star, who attended Trump's second wedding to Marla Maples in 1993, continued on to say that the state of New York didn't vote for him in the 2016 election because they knew him to be a "beast."

"We know the beast, we knew him," Behar said. "He's a con man. The New Yorkers are hip to this and the rest of the country, they didn't really know him the way we do."

When asked if she thought that Trump had changed since the days that Behar joked with him on television about his hair, the star said, "Obviously, I never thought that he would be this bad, never. Even before he won, I said, 'Well, if he wins, God forbid, he can't be really such a maniac.'"

She then explained that some people, including herself, thought that Trump would get better in office, but she now thinks he's "worse" than she expected.

"I think he's worse," the 76-year-old explained. "I thought he was also a secret Democrat, which he shows us he's not. He is not a Republican or a Democrat. He's just an anarchist as far as I'm concerned."

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Joy Behar says Trump-supporting women don't 'know the difference between a predator and a protector'

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The "View" host calls out women who support President Donald Trump.

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Andrew Gillum lost the race for governor, but concedes the race to Ron Desantis and gives a good speech and tell everyone that he is not going anywhere and is still going to fight to get things changed.

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'I'm not going anywhere': Andrew Gillum concedes governor's race in Florida - video

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The nominee faced a tough climb in a state that Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2016

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A witness saw a male subject dressed in all black and wearing a yellow bandana force Hania into a relative's vehicle that was parked in the driveway,

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Amber Alert: A 13-year-old girl is abducted outside her North Carolina home | CNN

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Police have issued an Amber Alert after a 13-year-old girl was abducted outside her home in Lumberton, North Carolina, on Monday morning.

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In Hanoi Vietnam, an airport has finally been cleared of Dioxins from the chemical Agent Orange from the Vietnam War.

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Vietnam and the United States said Wednesday they have finished the cleanup of dioxin contamination at Danang airport caused by the transport and storage of the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

The 30 hectares (74 acres) of land cleansed of the toxic chemical were handed over to Vietnam at a ceremony.

Vice Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh praised the U.S. government's involvement in the cleanup.

"It is proof that we are opening a future of good cooperation between the governments of Vietnam and the United States," Vinh said. "Today marks the day that Danang airport is no longer known as a dioxin hotspot, the day that Danang people can be assured that their health will not be destroyed by chemicals left over from the war."

Large amounts of Agent Orange, which contains dioxin, were stored at Danang airport during the war and sprayed by U.S. forces to defoliate the countryside and deny communist fighters jungle cover. Vietnamese still suffer from the effects of the spraying.

U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink called the joint cleanup a significant milestone in the expanding partnership between the two countries.

"This project truly is a hallmark of our countries' shared vision to be honest about the past, deal responsibly with remaining legacy issues and turn a point of contention into one of collaboration," he said.

Kritenbrink said working together on the issues of the past "builds strategic trust and enables us to further strengthen our forward-looking partnership that advances shared interests and strong people-to-people ties."

Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million gallons of Agent Orange across large swaths of southern Vietnam. Dioxin stays in the soil and in the sediment at the bottom of lakes and rivers for generations. It can enter the food supply through the fat of fish and other animals.

Vietnam says as many as 4 million of its citizens were exposed to the herbicide and as many as 3 million have suffered illnesses caused by it - including the children of people who were exposed during the war.

The U.S. government says the actual number of people affected is much lower and that Vietnamese are too quick to blame Agent Orange for birth defects that can be caused by malnutrition or other factors.

Last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Bien Hoa air base north of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, another dioxin hotspot.

The U.S. Agency for International Development will soon begin a soil restoration project at the base that is estimated to take several years and cost $390 million.

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Vietnam and the United States said Wednesday they have finished the cleanup of dioxin contamination at Danang airport caused by the transport and storage of the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

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A Colorado man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of murdering his pregnant wife and two small daughters and dumping their bodies in an oil field in an agreement that will spare him the death penalty.

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GREELEY, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of murdering his pregnant wife and two small daughters and dumping their bodies in an oil field in an agreement that will spare him the death penalty.

Christopher Watts, 33, admitted in Weld County District Court to strangling his wife, Shanann, 34, and the couple's two daughters, Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, in August at the family's home in Frederick, about 30 miles (48 km) north of Denver.

Watts' voice quavered slightly as he entered the guilty pleas before Judge Marcelo Kopcow. He was handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail outfit and wore a bullet-proof vest.

Authorities declined to say why Watts was given the vest.

Watts pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife and daughters and allegations that he killed the girls while in a position of trust. He also pleaded guilty to unlawfully terminating a pregnancy and tampering with the bodies of the three victims.

Under Colorado law, a first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

"He deserves a life sentence for each and every act," Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said at a news conference on Tuesday.

Watts had faced the possibility of the death penalty if convicted, but under his plea agreement prosecutors pledged to not seek the death penalty, Steve Wrenn, chief deputy district attorney for Weld County, told the judge.

Rourke said he traveled to North Carolina, where Shanann Watts' family lives, to consult with them before entering into the plea deal.
'FLAT OUT LIE'
After Shanann Watts and the two girls were reported missing in August, Christopher Watts went on multiple Denver television stations pleading for their safe return. The following day, Aug. 15, he was arrested for the murders.

Watts initially told police that he strangled his wife in a rage because, after the couple had argued, she killed their two girls. The suggestion that Shanann Watts killed the girls was a "flat out lie," Rourke said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have not said what motivated Watts to kill his them.

Watts told detectives that he was having an affair, according to an arrest warrant affidavit, and that he had loaded the bodies of his wife and daughters into his truck and taken them to an oil field. The bodies were found the week Watts was arrested.

Shanann Watts was 15 weeks pregnant.

(Reporting by Keith Coffman in Greeley, Colorado Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Leslie Adler)

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Last March, a woman hit 2 children while reckless driving. She has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

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The woman charged with fatally running over two Park Slope toddlers last March and causing the Broadway actress mom of one of them to lose her unborn child died Tuesday of an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Dorothy Bruns, 44, was found dead in her Staten Island home by a friend late Tuesday afternoon, sources said. Bottles of prescription pills and an apparent suicide note were found nearby.

Bruns had multiple sclerosis and was prone to seizures.

She'd been instructed by doctors not to drive but got behind the wheel on March 5 and ran through a Park Slope intersection, killing Joshua Lew, 1, and Abigail Blumenstein, 4.

Both of the children's mothers were also struck, and Abigail's pregnant mom, Tony-winning star Ruthie Ann Miles, later lost her near-term baby.

Bruns faced up to 15 years behind bars at trial on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, assault and reckless driving. She was freed on $75,000 bond in September.

In her last court appearance Oct. 3, she turned down an offer of 5 to 15 years in jail on the manslaughter charges. She was due back in court Nov. 20.

Police are investigating.
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The woman charged with fatally running over two Park Slope toddlers last March and causing the Broadway actress mom of one of them to lose her unborn child died Tuesday of an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told The Post.

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30 sickened in adenovirus outbreak in New Jersey, including 10 children who have died

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Lawyers for migrant caravan members give them stark advice: ‘It’s going to be difficult’

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The park here hosting some 7,000 migrants looks like something out of a renaissance fair, with dozens of small tents giving away shoes or offering a host of services, like dental work, medical care, telephones, haircuts, food and, perhaps the most important product - legal advice.

A line began to form Tuesday outside the Institute for Women in Migration before a 10 a.m. seminar. A dozen men formed a circle around U.S. attorney Anna Joseph when she began to speak.

"We are telling them it's going to be difficult," she said. "We're telling them this administration is not amenable to asylum right now, so even though many have legitimate claims, they're going to be up against a very tough system at the moment due to orders from above."

"Above" means President Trump. It's ironic, some say, that a group diametrically opposed to the president's immigration policies is indirectly helping make his case.

Trump wants the caravan to turn around, promising to unleash military assets and potentially amend asylum laws to stop their entry. Yet, Joseph's advice is the first concrete, straight-forward and honest assessment of the situation many received in weeks.

After hearing some of the migrants' individual stories, Joseph suggested some might reconsider their dreams of living in the U.S.

"A lot depends on how the administration decides to address the situation and the role of the military," she said. "We're telling people there is already a wait of over 1,000 people in Tijuana."

She said legal advisers are not trying to deter people, "but trying to give them options and information."

After talking to Joseph, Honduran migrant Jovan Ochoa said he would stay in Mexico.

"If I get a work permit, I will stay in Mexico," he said. "I didn't pay attention to the asylum part. All I want is permit to work because I can't lose time."

Marco Flores had a different problem.

"I was deported twice for crossing illegally," Flores said. "So I have to wait three years. I asked if I could ask for forgiveness to enter the United States."

Forgiveness is not part of asylum law, which tends to be rigid and has become more so under Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Unlike the Obama administration, which tweaked the rules to allow for claims of domestic and gang violence, the Trump administration returned to the original statutory language, which only allows non-citizens to remain in the U.S. if they can establish a credible fear of persecution at home based on race, religion, political thought, nationality or social class.

That is a small minority among the roughly thousands of migrants who fill Jesus Martinez Stadium, sleeping in tents, bleachers or under tarps. Caravan organizers were scheduled to meet with federal officials to secure transportation, work permits and residency cards for the caravan migrants. It's unclear if any are in the offing, but caravan leaders say they are trying.

In Mexico City, the caravan is roughly 600 miles from McAllen, Texas and more than twice that to Tijuana, their stated goal. Their day of departure from Mexico City remains unknown, and many factors will determine when the bulk of the caravan will arrive.

But many migrants say they will split off from the main group the closer they get the U.S. border.

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Lawyers for migrant caravan members offer stark advice: 'It's going to be difficult'

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The Mexico City park hosting some 7,000 migrants looks like something out of a renaissance fair, with dozens of small tents giving away shoes or offering a host of services, like dental work, medical care, telephones, haircuts, food and, perhaps the most important product - legal advice.

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Colorado has elected the nation's first openly gay governor, Democratic Rep. Jared Polis, securing rare federal representation for the community. His policies include universal healthcare, free early childhood education and progressing Colorado to a 100% renewable energy state.

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Colorado Democratic US Rep. Jared Polis will be his state's next governor, becoming the nation's first openly gay man elected to a governor's mansion, CNN has projected.

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Dad pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant wife and two small daughters.

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A Colorado man accused of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters entered a guilty plea on Tuesday as a part of a deal that would prevent him from facing the death penalty, prosecutors said.

Christopher Watts, 33, pleaded guilty to nine felony counts, including three first-degree murder charges, in the deaths of his wife, Shanann, 34, and two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, Weld District Attorney Michael J. Rourke said.

Rourke went on to say that Watts will face three consecutive life sentences for the murder charges; the rest will be "left to the discretion of the court" when Watts is officially sentenced on Nov. 19.

Watts, a former oil and gas worker, was charged in August with killing his pregnant wife and their daughters at their home north of Denver. Police have said Watts drove their bodies to an oil site owned by his former employer. The girls' bodies were found submerged in an oil tank, and Shanann Watts' body was found in a shallow grave.

According to court documents, a police investigation determined that Watts "was actively involved in an affair with a co-worker."

Investigators claimed in the documents that Watts admitted to police that he killed his wife. He said he strangled her in "a rage" when he discovered she had strangled their two daughters after he sought a separation.

Prosecutors said they couldn't comment on the details of the investigation because the judge has yet to formally accept Watts' guilty plea.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A Colorado man accused of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters entered a guilty plea on Tuesday as a part of a deal that would prevent him from facing the death penalty, prosecutors said.

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Democrats take over the House of Representatives.

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There are a lot of different ways to read the results from elections across the country Tuesday.

There will be lots of spin in the coming days about what it all means, but here are seven ways to cut through the noise and put what happened in context:
1. It was a Democratic wave in the House, and that is a very big deal
This stands head and shoulders above anything else you'll read about the 2018 midterm elections - and maybe the only thing that matters. Come January, Democrats will be in charge of the House once again. They stand to pick up between 24 and 32 seats when all the races that are too close to call are finally decided. Democrats needed a net gain of 23 seats to take control of the House. Make no mistake: That is a wave.

Just how big a deal is recapturing the House for Democrats? Imagine a scenario in which Republicans held the House. President Trump and Republicans would consider themselves validated and step on the gas, likely repealing the Affordable Care Act, rolling back more regulations and seeking any other number of policy priorities that Democrats would find odious.

Now all of that is stopped in its tracks. For Democrats - feeling a degree of disappointment at losing some closely watched governors' races and suffering a net loss of at least a couple of seats in the Senate - taking back the House is a major victory. It's the equivalent of a court-ordered injunction keeping the steamroller at the property line.
2. A lot of centrist Democrats will be headed to Congress. That presents an opportunity and a challenge for Democrats
In order to secure that victory and retake control of the House, however, it took a lot of wins in center to center-right congressional districts. That can be an opportunity for Democrats to own the middle after an election in which the president did little to win over independents. It's also a challenge in that a new Democratic speaker - presumably Nancy Pelosi, who spoke for the party Tuesday night - will have to try to unify a caucus that will have new centrists as well as a restive progressive base looking to exact revenge on Trump as the 2020 presidential campaign begins to ramp up.
3. The power of Trump was clear in Senate races
Despite the results in the House, there was a very different message in the Senate. Republicans stand to gain as many as four seats. Three seats have not yet been called but Republicans lead in Montana, Arizona and Florida. Add those to Republican pickups in North Dakota, Missouri and Indiana and it was a virtual wipeout of the competitive seats held by Democrats. Trump lobbied hard in those states and appealed to his base. They turned out and again defied the polls.

In practical policy terms, what will an expanded GOP Senate majority mean? Not very much since the filibuster was already gotten rid of for federal judges and Supreme Court nominees. Look for Republicans to continue to confirm as many judges as possible and to be ready to place another Supreme Court justice on the high court if a seat comes open.
4. Republicans who distanced themselves from Trump didn't fare so well
There was a real divergent message out of this election: Trump turned off independents, women and suburban voters key to the House races, but candidates who distanced themselves from Trump lost. Think about soon-to-be-ex-Reps. John Culberson of Texas, Kevin Yoder of Kansas, Carlos Curbelo of Florida, Mike Coffman of Colorado and Barbara Comstock of Virginia. They all tried to put space between themselves and Trump in one way or another and lost. But embracing Trump may not have helped those candidates in their districts either. They may very well have been caught in the Trump vise from the moment he was elected president.
5. Democrats made gains at the state level but not as much as they would have liked
Some Democrats may feel a bit of a letdown after Tuesday night because they are projected to lose some of the marquee races that grabbed national attention, like the Florida governor's race, as well as the Senate race in Texas. And the governor's race in Georgia is also looking like a GOP victory but the race has not been projected yet and Democrat Stacey Abrams has not conceded. Andrew Gillum in Florida, Abrams in Georgia and Beto O'Rourke in Texas were among the favorites for the Democratic base, and they each came very close. Democrats also lost the governor's race in Ohio.

But Democrats can feel good about finally defeating Scott Walker in Wisconsin after several bruising elections. And that means now in that critical trio of states that President Trump won - Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - Democrats now have the governorships in all three. That's something to think about ahead of 2020.
6. There will be a record number of women in the House
When all the votes are counted, more than 90 women will be members of the House. Women will still be far underrepresented in the halls of Congress come 2019, but their new level of representation surpasses the previous record of 84 women serving in the House. And the overwhelming majority of them - more than 80 - will be Democrats. It's the culmination of a year that saw a record number of women candidates, especially Democratic women, run and win races for federal office.
7. The polls were wrong - and right - again
The national polls pointed to a Democratic national majority, but several statewide polls were off from their final polling average results. Sound familiar? It was the same story in 2016, and it's becoming a pattern. There were dozens of fewer good statewide polls in this cycle.

Local newspapers used to pay for these polls. But with the decline of revenue at local newspapers, they either aren't funding polling or are going with cheaper, less rigorous outfits. It's a problem with no clear solution. It's also a reminder that while polls can be great to help with trends and getting a sense of what's important to the electorate, they aren't everything and can't tell you precisely who will show up to vote.

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The biggest story of the night is that Democrats took back the House. That will stop President Trump's agenda in its tracks unless he compromises with the other side.

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Trump wakes up to a shift in power as Democrats take over the House of Reps.

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President Donald Trump will wake up to a different Washington when Democrats formally take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3, as a tectonic shift in power will begin to unleash a succession of new legal and political challenges for his administration.

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"I want to look at all the things the president has done that go against the mandates of our Founding Fathers in the Constitution," said Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Maryland Democrat who is poised to take control of the powerful House Oversight Committee. "We need accountability, transparency, integrity, and honesty from this Administration."

Democrats swept to power, having campaigned on the promise of providing a stronger check on the Trump administration. That pledge could initiate bruising legal battles over congressional subpoenas, a stack of demands for documents and testimony from federal agencies -- including Trump's tax returns -- and withering investigations into facets of Trump's personal life, his family business, and his government.

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Cummings' committee has already compiled a list of 64 subpoenas and inquiries looking into concerns they had with Trump administration activities but were denied by the committee's Republican leadership. The Democrats said they intend to revisit the requests.

Practically speaking, the Democrats will be well positioned to pursue their oversight agenda. The budget for the majority will enable committee leaders to hire a small army of investigators, lawyers, and other key staffers. Lawyers began contacting senior Hill aides months ago to discuss potential job openings, according to sources familiar with the informal conversations.

The power of the majority will also enable Democrats to issue subpoenas, and demand records and testimony from federal officials. Notable among those powers: the ability to ask the Internal Revenue Service to turn over Trump's confidential tax records for their review.

Rep. Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, is one of several committee members who told ABC News last month that the House Ways and Means Committee plans to exercise that power and initiate a review of Trump's tax filings.

"We will recommend a thorough review on a non-partisan basis, something I began asking for 18 months ago," Pascrell said. "We are allowed to investigate this. Nothing should step in our way."

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have been frustrated by Republicans' decision to focus their investigation into Russian election interference on the conduct of the FBI, rather than any possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. They now say they intend to seek testimony from more than 30 witnesses -- including Trump family members and confidants -- to address lingering questions they have about the Trump campaign's activities.

Democrats say Republicans failed to question key witnesses and follow some relevant lines of inquiry.

"We will take our oversight responsibilities seriously, both with respect to the intelligence agencies under our charge but also with respect to any work left undone in the Russia probe by the majority," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement to ABC News ahead of the election.

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They say they intend to explore questions about the Trump Organization's finances, including the relationship between the family business and Deutsche Bank, which has financed some of the Trump Organization's real estate deals. The bank has said it is cooperating with investigators.

They want to review, among other items, what they have called "credible" allegations about the use of Trump properties by Russian oligarchs to launder money -- allegations that Trump aides have refuted. The effort could involve hiring investigators with specialized data and forensic accounting experience, according to a congressional source. Trump has denied doing business in Russia, apart from the Miss Universe pageant.

Democrats also want to continue investigating Trump campaign's digital operation and relationship with the data firm Cambridge Analytica. The company, which shut down in May, is still being investigated by British authorities for alleged improper use of Facebook user data.

For months, Republicans have predicted that Democrats would overstep if they took control.

Democrats "have proven beyond any doubt that their sole aim is to run an endless investigation against the administration in hopes of pinning some imaginary horrific crime on them," Jack Langer, a spokesman for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, told ABC News ahead of the election.

Regarding Trump's tax returns, Republicans have said they plan to put up a fight. In October, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, responded on Twitter to statements from Democrats suggesting they would pursue copies of the returns.

"This is dangerous," Brady wrote. "Once Democrats abuse this law to make public @realDonaldTrump tax returns, what stops them from prying/making public YOUR tax returns for political reasons? Who is next? #AbuseOfPower #EnemiesList"

Just this week, Trump told reporters he doesn't care if Congress looks at his returns. "I don't care. They can do whatever they want and I can do whatever I want," Trump said on a campaign stop in Indiana.

Some Trump allies warn that the Democrats' plans could stop the president's agenda in its tracks, and bog down the administration in endless oversight hearings.

"Everyone has to assume if Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker that every committee will hold hearings and bring every single Trump appointee in under oath," former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally, told ABC News. "It would be an enormous drain on time away from policies they'd like to pursue."

Concern that overreach could spark a backlash has brought expressions of concern from Democrats as well.

Cummings has vowed he would not lose sight of kitchen table issues including prescription drug prices, postal reform and student debt.

"I'm not looking for retribution, life is too short," said Cummings, who battled with Republicans over investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack and Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. "While we are dealing with whatever may come in the storm of Trump, I have to keep in mind that there are people who have to live day to day."

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Another House Democratic source told ABC News that there are broad concerns Democrats could spread themselves too thin investigating the administration and president, and some argue they should limit their work to a handful of inquiries and issues to maximize attention and deflect likely criticism from Republicans of overreach.

As the new Congress gets underway, the White House that is already grappling with Mueller's probe and has begun bracing for the fresh investigative onslaught.

"It's not going to be enough to go on Twitter and say, 'This is a witch hunt!' and not cooperate," Kurt Bardella, a public relations consultant who served as an aide to former House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told ABC News.

The White House did not respond to questions about concerns with potential investigations from a Democrat-led House.

Democrats have taken caution not to bandy about one word that excites passions on both sides of the aisle: impeachment. But the man who would be positioned to oversee any movement to try to remove Trump from office, the expected Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was spotted earlier this year on the Amtrak Acela reading a stack of books on the topic.

"They will start doing everything in their power to oppose, resist, impeach, obstruct this president," Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., a Trump ally, said in an interview with ABC News.

While progressives have tried to force votes on articles of impeachment against Trump, senior Democrats, including Schiff, House Minority Leader Pelosi and Nadler, have all said they want to see the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation before giving any thought to potential impeachment proceedings. Pelosi, in particular, has been resistant to talk of any drastic measures.

In an interview with Rolling Stone this summer, she said impeachment was, in her view, "off the table."

"I don't think it's in the interest of America's working families to focus on that, unless we have more to go on, which we don't at this time," Pelosi told the magazine. "You get the power of subpoena, you don't know where it takes you. I wouldn't not impeach the president for political reasons. But I wouldn't impeach him for political reasons, either. That's just not what it's supposed to be about. I think it's not unifying for the country."

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President Donald Trump will wake up to a different Washington when Democrats formally take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3.

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He wants to put a ring on it, but she may be expecting a diamond as big as the Ritz.

A soon-to-be fiancée was slammed online after she discovered her engagement ring in her boyfriend's belongings and complained about it on Facebook - before the proposal even happened.

After the unidentified woman found the ring in his nightstand, she uploaded a photo in a "ring shaming" Facebook group, a community dedicated to criticizing engagement baubles, Yahoo reported.

"Ewwwww. Self shame Friday here I come," she wrote. "Found this in the BF's nightstand. Not a fan."

She then asked fellow members to join in on roasting her ring and solicited advice for how to tell her boyfriend to "tactfully" get a different diamond.

The post made its way to Reddit where angered users called out the mystery woman's complaint.

"I hope the guy sees this and breaks up. Seriously if that's the type of person she is nobody should marry her until she fixes her attitude," one person wrote.

"This lady deserves to get shamed not the ring," another user said.

But other people were more understanding about her ring preferences.

"I think she's justifiably asking for advice," one user wrote. "'How do I tactfully say no, you need to go and get something different?' And the answer is for her to say 'Hey hun, you should go and get some different girlfriend.'"

Some took the opportunity to crack jokes.

"Plot twist, it's not for her," one person joked. Another quipped that her discovery is "how she finds out she's the side chick."

Ring shaming is on the rise in the age of social media. Food blogger Jen Phanomrat told Yahoo she was criticized in June after posting a selfie with her fiancé on Instagram, where users called her ring "microscopically small."

"I was shocked to see so many females wasting their time replying to each other to dampen our happy moment," Phanomrat, who runs YouTube channel Just Eat Life, said. "I deleted many comment threads to ease the cycles of hate speech."
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Claire McCaskill lost, and Republican Josh Hawley takes a seat in Republican controlled senate.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri's Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill conceded defeat on Tuesday to state attorney general Josh Hawley, handing Republicans a Senate seat from a state President Donald Trump had visited twice in the week before Election Day to boost the young challenger.

Hawley, 38, tied his campaign closely to the president. He relentlessly attacked McCaskill as too liberal to represent Missouri.

"What the people of Missouri said tonight is that they want a senator who actually stands with the people of Missouri, who represents our values and represents our voice and will fight for us in Washington, D.C.," Hawley said to supporters in Springfield. "And I will."

McCaskill had long survived near-political death even though Missouri trended Republican. She embarrassed Republicans in 2012 when she used what she called "reverse psychology" by running ads in the Republican primary decrying the conservative resume of the weakest candidate, Rep. Todd Akin. He won and went on to lose to McCaskill in the general election after saying women's bodies can prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."

Determined not to let her outfox them again, GOP heavyweights this election plucked the Ivy-league educated Hawley and cleared the field for him.

Unlike Akin, Hawley was less prone to political gaffes. He threw his support behind Trump's policies, while avoiding using or reacting to the president's incendiary rhetoric.

Hawley was the only statewide candidate in Missouri to receive more votes than Trump in 2016, when he won his bid for attorney general.

Missouri was once considered a bellwether state, but Republicans now control the state Legislature and almost every office. McCaskill was one of only two Democrats to hold statewide office.

Seeking a third term, the 65-year-old McCaskill presented herself as a moderate during more than 50 town halls held in Republican strongholds, noting that she voted with Trump nearly half the time in the Senate.

"He is Trump's guy, and I am not anybody except Missouri's guy, or gal I guess," McCaskill said during a Monday campaign stop in Columbia.

Hawley dismissed McCaskill's claim to be a moderate, hammering her on Senate votes against both of Trump's Supreme Court picks, his federal tax overhaul and other priorities.

He launched an ad criticizing the Democrats' handling of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump's Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, making the Missouri race a barometer of the "Kavanaugh effect"- whether GOP voters would be more likely to vote after the attacks on the justice.

Columbia Republican Jimmy Reed, 67, said Trump's endorsement of Hawley motivated him to go to the polls Tuesday. He said the president deserves a chance to get things done, and he needs a Republican majority in Congress to do that, so he voted for Hawley.

"She may be somewhat moderate, but she's still a Democrat against the other side right now," Reed said of McCaskill.

Democrats had accused Hawley of going easy as attorney general on former Republican Gov. Eric Greitens, who faced multiple political and personal scandals after media reported details about Greitens' extramarital affair in 2015 and his use of a charity donor list for his gubernatorial campaign.

That criticism of Hawley faded after Greitens stepped down in June.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri's Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill conceded defeat on Tuesday to state attorney general Josh Hawley, handing Republicans a Senate seat from a state President Donald Trump had visited twice in the week before Election Day to boost the young challenger.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are taking their fight for custody of their children to court.

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In Denver, Scott Walsh, a 22 year old male, accidentally fell into a trash compactor on Friday evening.  He was retrieving his friends phone when she dropped it into a trash compactor. He lost his balance and fell 15 feet into the compactor and the machine started to operate while he was still inside. He is now in critical condition in a hospital. He is expected to survive and is now heavily sedated.

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A Denver man is in critical condition after attempting to retrieve a friend's cell phone on Friday before accidentally falling into a trash compactor that crushed him, reports said.

Scott Walsh, 22, suffered two broken legs, a cracked skull and ruptured arteries in his neck, a friend told The Denver Post.

Walsh was with his female friend when her phone fell down the trash chute, the report said. When he looked down the chute, he lost his balance and fell about 15 feet to the compactor underneath, which began to operate while he was still inside, The Post reported.

Walsh has been heavily sedated, but is expected to survive, DiSalvo said.

Friends and colleagues of Walsh have set up a GoFundMe campaign that has raised nearly $4,000 as of Tuesday.

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Mother, 10-year-old daughter killed when car plowed into Girl Scout troop 'needed to be together'

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Though Judy Schneider is grieving the loss of her daughter and granddaughter who were killed in an alleged hit-and-run in Wisconsin, she said the two "needed to be together."

Her granddaughter, 10-year-old Haylee Hickle, was among the three young Girl Scouts who were struck and killed while picking up trash along a road this weekend, police said. Haylee's mother, Sara Jo Schneider, 32, was with the Girl Scout troop and was also hit and killed, officials said.

"They needed to be together," Judy Schneider, 53, told ABC Minneapolis affiliate KSTP. "We are hit double, but it needed to be that way. I think God knew that."

In a separate interview with The Associated Press, she said "Haylee would've never made it if she lost her mother. And Sara would've never been able to come back from losing Haylee."

Haylee's father died when she was 3, Judy Schneider told the AP, and her daughter, granddaughter and grandson moved in with her several years ago. Judy Schneider said her 6-year-old grandson doesn't understand that they're gone.

The Girl Scout troop was picking up trash along a county highway Saturday morning when a driver veered out of his lane, crossed over the center line and ultimately drove into a ditch, said Lake Hallie police.

The other Girl Scouts killed in the crash were Jayna Kelley, 9, and Autumn Helgeson, 10, officials said.

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A 10-year-old girl was also injured.

All members of the group -- seven children and five adults -- "were in the ditch, not on the pavement or gravel shoulder at the time of the crash" and were "wearing green highly visible safety vests," police said.

The suspected driver, 21-year-old Colten Treu of Chippewa Falls, fled but later turned himself in several hours later, police said.

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Treu and his passenger, who also turned himself in, allegedly told police that right before the crash they "had been intentionally inhaling chemical vapors," also known as "huffing."

Treu was huffing an air duster, according to prosecutors, and when the passenger noticed Treu veering, he corrected the steering wheel. The two then got into an argument, after which Treu drove off the road, according to prosecutors.

Treu was arrested on charges including four counts of homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle, police said.

He appeared in court via video Monday and was held on $250,000 cash bond. He is set to return to court Tuesday afternoon.

"This is a horrible reminder of our nations epidemic of self-indulging with substance abuse without regard of the consequences," Lake Hallie Police Chief Cal D. Smokowicz said in a statement Monday. "Words cannot describe our Lake Hallie community's sorrow for the witnesses, victims, and their families. This senseless crash was completely avoidable."

ABC News' Rachel Katz contributed to this report.

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