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November 29, 2023
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

A rescue operation that was supposed to last a few days is now over. Seventeen days after a tunnel under construction collapsed in the Indian Himalayas, the 41 miners trapped inside are free. 

Two different drilling machines broke before a team of miners used a technique called rat-hole mining – so dangerous it was outlawed in 2014 – to at last get through. It is as unpleasant as it sounds, navigating tight spaces with only a hand drill. But “when we saw them inside the tunnel after the breakthrough,” one rescuer said, “we hugged them like they were family.”


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Thank you for joining us today. Tomorrow, we’ll head into the political ring for a 12-round prize fight: Whose approach to governing the United States is better, blue or red? Media personality Sean Hannity invited Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, to have a debate. Our contribution: a set of graphics that gets below the talking points to explore key factual comparisons. Make sure to bring some popcorn. 

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