the importance of special elections for House seats in a bitterly divided Washington and the long-shot opportunity of an opposing party to flip a district in what can be a low turnout affair.

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Five scientists won this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work on GLP-1 and the development of drugs for diabetes and obesity.