• The Republican Karen Handel overcame a well-funded challenger to easily win a special election in Georgia on Tuesday in the most expensive House campaign in history.

Ms. Handel’s victory showed she was able to bridge the divide in her own party between admirers of President Trump and those made uneasy by his administration.

Seen as a referendum on Mr. Trump, the race in the heavily conservative and affluent district outside Atlanta was the latest in a string of demoralizing losses for Democrats.

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• The death of Otto Warmbier, the American student who was returned from North Korea in a coma, drove a new wedge between Washington and Pyongyang.