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**"Climate strike" named word of the year by Collins Dictionary**

J ohn Bercow brands Brexit 'biggest mistake after WW2' as he finally confirms view (MSN)

Macron says Europe is facing the 'brain death of NATO' (CNN)

Pompeo stresses NATO's importance in Germany visit (ABC)

Funerals set to begin for 9 members of American family slain in Mexico (ABC)

Young Iraqis and Lebanese aren't just demanding better societies. They're creating them at protest sites (CNN)

Western Individualism May Have Roots In The Medieval Church's Obsession With Incest (NPR)

Iran alleges UN inspector tested positive for explosives (AP)

美国时政 US Politics

GOP senator rips into Pelosi at Trump rally: 'It must suck to be that dumb ( The Hill)

Democrats' new moves show House could wrap up impeachment by Christmas (CNN )

Warren campaign launches 'a calculator for the billionaires' after Gates criticism (The Hill)

商业 Business

Rates surge with the 10-year Treasury yield jumping the most since Trump’s election (CNBC)

Trade hopes push stock indexes closer to more record highs (AP)

Millennials, Gen Xers to baby boomers: Can you retire so I can get a job promotion? (USA Today)

旅行 Travel

The tourists nobody wants (CNN)

健康 Health

CDC: Childhood Trauma Is A Public Health Issue And We Can Do More To Prevent It （NPR）

时尚 Style

Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world (CNN)

娱乐 Entertainment

Chinese and American cultures clash in ‘American Factory’ documentary (Los Angeles Times)

体育 Sports

Goalscoring etiquette: Aaron Ramsey nabs goal from Cristiano Ronaldo (CNN)

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英语咬文嚼字 The Crazy Logophile

litmus test
someone's decision or opinion about something that suggests what they think about a wider range of related things
（具有更广泛意义的）决定，意见 (Cambridge)

Trump's remark follows the House voting Thursday largely along party lines to set the ground rules for an impeachment inquiry. The vote was a litmus test for the impeachment process, with moderate Democrats who had been tepid on diving into impeachment voicing their near-unanimous support.
-- Politico By MATTHEW CHOI 11/01/2019 10:22 PM EDT

good riddance
said when you are pleased that a bad or unwanted thing or person, or something of poor quality, has gone
总算摆脱了，终于走掉了 (Cambridge)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was not sad to see Trump go.
"Good riddance. It's not like @realDonaldTrump paid taxes here anyway," Cuomo tweeted. "He's all yours, Florida."
The New York Times first reported the switch in residence.
-- CNN October 31, 2019

the crème de la crème
noun [ S ] /ˌkrem də lɑː ˈkrem/
the best people in a group or the best type of a particular thing
精英；精华（Cambridge）

Working-class recruits bore the brunt of the casualties in terms of total numbers. But wealthy, well-born young men — considered, in class-conscious Britain, to be the creme de la creme of society, destined for greatness — initially made up most of the field-officer corps and suffered disproportionate fatalities in horrific engagements such as the Battle of the Somme, in which 125,000 British service members died.
-- Los Angeles Times By Laura KingStaff Writer Nov. 6, 2019