<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The Next Day
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Moore Loss: Alabama voters elected Doug Jones, a Democrat, as their next U.S. senator in a historic upset that followed a series of strategic mishaps by Republicans. The victory comes as a blow to President Trump, who failed to mobilize his supporters at both the primary and the general levels of the race. The Republican Party now faces what one strategist calls “a Trump-driven worst-case situation,” as recent elections in several states have shown surges in Democrats’ turnout. Yet if Democrats are to win back a legislative majority in 2018, they still have plenty of work to do.
A study of more than 1.1 million infants in Pennsylvania found that mothers who live close to fracking wells are more likely to Meanwhile, in Ukraine, security experts are bracing for a potential hack of the country’s power grid, which could have
