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Obituary:  Representative Louise Slaughter, Democrat from New York, has died.  A strong advocate for progressive issues, she was 88 years old:

Slaughter died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington after an injury sustained in her home last week, Liam Fitzsimmons said in a statement.
“It is difficult to find a segment of society that Louise didn’t help shape over the course of more than 30 years in Congress,” Fitzsimmons said.

Slaughter was a feisty opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), complaining that Rochester, New York, in her district lost half of its manufacturing jobs after the treaty went into effect. She supported rewriting NAFTA.

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Kentucky is on the verge of banning child marriage in the state.
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