10 things you need to know today: December 1, 2018

Former President George H.W. Bush dies at 94, magnitude 7.0 earthquake causes 'major infrastructure damage' in Alaska, and more

Then-President George H.W. Bush poses for photographers after his address to the nation, 27 September 1991, in the Oval Office of the White House.
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1. Former President George H.W. Bush dies at 94

George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died Friday at the age of 94. During his presidency from 1989 to 1993, Bush, a Republican, oversaw a handful of foreign policy decisions that would come to define his legacy. His even-handed diplomacy helped navigate the aftermath of the Cold War, but his route of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait in 1991 is held responsible for igniting "years of American preoccupation with Iraq." In his later years, Bush was diagnosed with Parkinson's, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, died just under eight months ago at the age of 92.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.