Rangel barely holds off primary challenger
NEW YORK – U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, the face of Harlem politics for generations, held off a strong Democratic primary challenge and moved one step closer to what he says will be his 23rd and final term in the House.
Rangel, 84, defeated state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in what was a bruising fight that shed light on the changing face of a district that was once one of the nation’s black political power bases.
With 100 percent of the vote counted in unofficial results, Rangel led Espaillat 47.4 percent to 43.6 percent, a difference of fewer than 2,000 votes. Nearly 47,800 votes had been counted.
Hillary Clinton book sales drop sharply
NEW YORK –Sales for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Hard Choices” dropped sharply in its second week of publication, but her memoir remains the country’s most popular adult nonfiction book.
According to Nielsen BookScan numbers released Wednesday, “Hard Choices” sold just over 48,000 copies last week, compared to around 85,000 the previous week.
Two Koreas mark anniversary of war
PYONGYANG, North Korea – North and South Korea on Wednesday marked the 64th anniversary of the war between them that ended in a truce and left the nations bitterly divided.
Thousands of North Koreans took part in a huge rally in Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang. Signs praising North Korea’s leaders past and present, and highlighting North Korea’s confrontation with America, decorated the square.
The chairman of the Pyongyang City People’s Committee spoke from a balcony, his speech punctuated by chants and raised fists from the crowd in the square.
The 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula still technically in a state of war.
Associated Press
