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Henry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state and national security adviser who escaped Nazi Germany in his youth to become one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in American history, has died, according to a statement from his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates. He was 100.

Henry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state and national security adviser who escaped Nazi Germany in his youth to become one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in American history, has died at the age of 100.

“There’s nothing they can really agree on. They used to talk a lot about abortion. The cat’s got their tongue now that they have realized we’re in a pro-choice country.” — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), talking to MSNBC about House Republicans.

“Multiple GOP lawmakers expect former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to step down from his seat before the end of the year,” Axios reports. “Speculation over McCarthy’s potential departure escalated ahead of the Thanksgiving recess, with multiple GOP sources noting he posted a photo on Instagram in which his district office appeared to be in the process of being packed.”

No Labels — the bipartisan group plotting a third-party presidential bid — is pulling the plug on its Dallas convention next spring and will instead conduct its “selection process virtually,” Axios reports.

“Henry Kissinger, a scholar, statesman and celebrity diplomat who wielded unparalleled power over U. S. foreign policy throughout the administrations of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford, and who for decades afterward, as a consultant and writer, proffered opinions that shaped global politics and business, died Nov. 29 at his home in Connecticut,” the Washington Post reports. “As the only person ever to be White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time, he exercised a control over U.