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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • A magnitude-7.3 earthquake left at least 445 people dead and thousands injured in western Iran, and at least eight dead on the Iraq side of the border. Photographs from the predominantly Kurdish area on the Iran side showed collapsed buildings, cars destroyed by rubble and people sleeping in the streets in fear of aftershocks. The quake was felt as far away as Turkey and Pakistan. _____ • In Washington, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, called on a fellow Republican, Roy Moore, to drop out of the race for a Senate seat from Alabama as a fifth woman accused Mr. Moore of accosting her when she was a teenager. Some want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fill his old seat. At a Senate committee hearing today, Congress will confront accusations of sexual harassment within its own halls. _____ • At a separate hearing, Mr. Sessions is expected to face questions about his contacts with Russian officials. Four congressional officials told us that Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, had online conversations during the 2016 presidential campaign with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that last year released a hacked trove of Democrats’ emails. And Republicans, for their part, are likely to press Mr. Sessions on their demands for investigations into the Clinton Foundation and an Obama-era purchase of American uranium mines by a Russian-backed company. _____ •... Link to the full article to read more