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US midterm Congressional results and divided Congress pose new challenges for Mr. Trump's bid for 2024. Skeptics including Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, Gov Kristi Noem South Dakota voice their concerns.

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A thin Republican majority in the single digits, many elected with an investigative mood, and 3 newcomers from New York who are moderates to be targeted at the outset by Democrats will make the House ungovernable says this analysis in the NYT of the US Congress midterms of 2022. 

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Republicans won 218 seats to 211 for Democrats in a strongly contested election for the House with 6 Congressional races not yet called. Republicans unexpectedly gained 3 seats in New York to gain the majority. The NYT gives this visual presentation of where and what happened as seats switched on both sides in 2022 US Congressional midterms.

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Bien and Xi Jinping of China meet for the first time at the G20 gathering in Indonesia. This leads to clarification of positions of both sides on Taiwan and the emphasis on peaceful cooperation to resolve differences. The US says Biden seeks peaceful competition with China and exchange of opinions on differences.

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Chinese president Xi tells Canada's prime minister Trudeau that details of their talks should not have been leaked to the press. Trudeau replies that Canada believes in free and open dialogue. The discussions involved Canada's concerns about Chinese espionage.  

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By gaining control of the House of Representatives Republicans will lead key committees in the House. Any Republican efforts in the House are likely to be blocked in the Senate which is controlled by the Democrats. Both parties have very thin majorities. 

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Ukrainian missile from its air defense system accidentally lands in Poland.

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Macron says he will visit China soon, and China can play a mediating role in Ukraine to prevent ground offensives in January and February 2023- to give peace talks a chance.

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This report in The Guardian explains what a split Congress means in the US as the Republicans control the House and Democrats control the Senate in the midterms of 2022. This means legislative logjam says The Guardian.  The narrow majority also means there will be difficulty for the Republican Speaker to control the House with 3 newcomers from New York and others as moderates, and a mix of views within Republicans.

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The costs to Ukraine and Europe to repair the damage done in Kherson as Ukrainian forces recover the city of Ukraine from Russian control is shown here in The Guardian.

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Mail in ballots in the vote for the US Senate in Nevada will pay a crucial role for Democrats to control the Senate. Some reports say Democrats who are running at about 61% in mail in ballots could make it through if they get 55% to give Ms. Cortez Masto the Democrat a seat in the Senate. With Arizona leaning Democrat this would give the Democrats control of the Senate even before the runoff election in the third undecided state of Georgia in December. So close has been the struggle for the US Senate.

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The meeting planned between Xi and Biden is important for stable US China relations after the Trump administration angry rhetoric, the Covid pandemic, and when imbalances in the poorly managed trade relationship with the entire supply chain shifted to China with millions of its American jobs has shaken working class communities in the US. China's and Xi's views on Hong Kong and Taiwan have also affected the relations. After the Ukraine war this will be the first meeting between the two leaders, and follows a visit by German chancellor Scholz to Beijing. Under Bush America appeared to be distracted by middle east wars, under Obama and Trump America appeared weak or angry but not resolute. Under Biden America appears resolute and sure of itself. This makes a difference for US China relations. Following the Ukraine war both the US and Germany, and China, appear to have grasped the dangers of nuclear threats such as were made in recent weeks. India has also shown its serious concerns about wars for territorial gains, and the world community of nations has expressed this through the words and actions of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaking for Europe, and the rest of the world.  Under Biden America seeks decent Competition with China and not conflict, and this is in the interest of both countries and of all the countries in the world. Neither China or America represent the largest share of the world's peoples, and in a world of advanced technologies other regions such as India, Europe, South East Asia and Japan, have just as great a determination and influence to seek a mutually beneficial peaceful coexistence in the interests of all the peoples of the world including the continents of Africa and Latin America. ...

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American singer Linda Ronstadt looks back to her roots in the Rio Sonora region of Mexico in this AARP excerpt about her years growing up in that region before her father moved to Tucson, Arizona. Her album Canciones de mi Padre, is the best selling non English music album in the US of all time. Her book is called- Feels Like Home- Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. It looks at the emotional and physical links between the US southwest and Mexico and the hold that this region has on the popular imagination. She says that wherever she has lived, wherever she has travelled, her soul is always winging it down the road, to the land south of the border. A stretch of desert she calls her foothold to the world. Today millions of Mexican Americans share this heritage and this kind of genetic memory. When the Spanish landed in the 1500's there was no border. The land and its physical aspects have not changed through waves of immigration- this story in the AARP magazine shows the agaves in the backdrop of the Huachuca mountains. Apple Music has Ronstadt's album and The Arbolitas, a song of the trees, etched in the Sonoran sunlight.  ...