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Michael Bloomberg, 77, the former mayor of New York City, has announced that he will not be entering as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election. There were rumors circulating that Bloomberg would consider a run as a Democrat, after making a statement that an Independent run would not be successful in the upcoming election in January—a bid he had considered in the past. His name came up in both 2008 and 2016 was a potential independent candidate. Instead of running, Bloomberg will focus on expanding his campaign, Beyond Coal, which has already closed more than half of America's coal plants, and

Fifty-one-year-old Pemala Sherpa was 16 when she married a man she didn’t know, in a remote region in the mountainous country of Nepal. She gave birth to two children—a boy and a girl. It wasn’t long, she said, before her husband began to beat her. As the years passed, Sherpa says, she realized that she had a choice: either stay and possibly lose her life, or leave her country. So at 26, in 1994, Sherpa boarded a plane to the U.S. on a tourist visa, leaving her two children behind. To afford the fare, she borrowed money from a friend. “They