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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Democrat John Hickenlooper has defeated Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in Colorado. It the first seat that the Democrats have picked up on election night.Colorado is a state that shifted strongly to the left since Gardners election to the Senate in 2014.Hickenlooper is a popular former two-term governor who repeatedly tied Gardner to President Donald Trump during the race.Graphic by PBS NewsHour based on AP data.Gardner promoted his work on a sweeping public lands bill, a national suicide prevention hotline he launched and various federal dollars he secured for Colorado. But he avoided criticism of the president and struggled to distinguish himself from Trumps words and policies.Democrats have won every statewide race since Gardners election, with the exception of a board of regents position in 2016. Left: 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper speaks during the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. Photo by Scott stanley cup Morgan/Reuters Related stanley cup Polling places are latest front in battle over face masks B stanley cup y Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press Why it could be a long night, or more, Tkse Amy Coney Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-LGBTQ policies
Banadir Hospital staff bring a patient in for treatment. Photo by Abd stanley cup ullahi Ahmed Hussein.In the Somali capital Mogadishu, Mohammed Saeed Hassan was driving his ambulance one day in February when an artillery shell landed directly in front of him. The shell splintered the windshield and left Hassan with minor injuries, but he was able to pick up the injured patient and get him to the hospital for treatment.Conflict within the country has been a fact of life since 1991. In 2010, at the height of hostilities between the Transitional Federal Government and al-Shabab, an Islamist group with ties to al-Qaida, more than 6,000 people were admitted to the city two largest hospitals. Al-Shabab is seeking to wrest control from the existing, weakened government. In August 2011, U.N.-backed African Union troops gained control of Mogadishu, and the city is relatively safer these days, though sporadic attacks like the one Hassan pictured at right experienced continue.Hassan, a 30-year-old father of two, is one of nine ambulance drivers who w adidas og ork for Aamin Voluntary Ambulance Co., transporting patients to one of four hospitals in the city.The ambulance company began in 2008, when Dr. Adbulkadir Abdirahman Aden, one of the founders, bought an ambulance and hired the first driver. He is one of a small stanley cup group of Somali doctors responsible for contributing to the operating expenses to keep the free service running. It now operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with |
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