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Today is the 40th day of 2023 and the 51st day of winter. T ODAY’S HISTORY: In 1825, the U.S.

Democrats loudly complained when Republicans threw Rep. Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Dear Annie: My sister, “Claire,” is getting married this summer and has lost weight by getting injections of drugs for diabetes. Claire might have had a little padding, but I never thought of her as being fat. And Claire is not the only person I know who is taking these drugs for weight loss. I know several others, and they all seem to be very happy with the results. The two brands that I keep hearing about are Ozempic and Wegovy.

Alarmists Are Unfazed by the Lack of Evidence That ‘Foreign Influence Campaigns’ Have Affected Public Opinion or Voting Behavior A widely cited list of Twitter users who were described as “Russian bots” included “a bunch of legitimate rightleaning accounts,” according to an internal 2018 email from Yoel Roth, then the social media platform’s “trust & safety” chief. Roth thought the list, compiled by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, was “bulls-t” but never said so publicly, apparently because of pushback from other Twitter employees.

Dear Annie: I lived a parallel childhood with the pain of an extremely abusive mother and a father who buried his head in the sand. I did confront him years ago about why he didn’t protect me, and he was thoughtful and then emotional when he replied, “I guess she treated me that way, too, and I was afraid of centering her attention back on me. I never thought about how hard that must’ve been for you.”

Documentary ‘The Holly’ Shows How Police Punish Both. Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts are an unlikely pair.

WASHINGTON -- I have been following the pledging of combat tanks to Ukraine by the European allies. It is impressive. I do not think it is an exaggeration to claim that Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine has roused all Europe’s wrath. Even little Portugal has gotten into the act.

Dear Annie: My daughter, “Melanie,” now 34, dated a boy when she was 15. It only lasted a few months. Melanie and I had a great relationship before they started dating. The boy’s mother has kept her relationship with Melanie to this day. She always loved Melanie and constantly made remarks that her son was an idiot for ending the relationship. She’d say things like how she wanted a daughter just like mine.

The ordinarily fluent and unperturbed Justice Elena Kagan seemed, judging from the transcript, to be sputtering a bit in the oral argument of the Supreme Court’s case challenging the racial quotas and preferences used in admissions by the University of North Carolina.

Driving to dinner on Sunday, I found myself suddenly surrounded by emergency vehicles. Fire trucks, police cars and ambulances seemed to converge from all directions. Had someone jumped off the bridge into the river?