Ben Carson, currently the leading Republican candidate for president, apparently thinks that Joseph from the Old Testament built the pyramids. (Archaeologists disagree.) In other news:

• Chris Christie is going to be relegated to the early debate for candidates with the lowest poll numbers the next time the Republicans have a debate.
• Canada’s new prime minister picked a cabinet that is half women, he says, “because it’s 2015.”
• If vote counts hold, Salt Lake City looks to have elected a gay woman as mayor.
• Details of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal were finally released.
  
• And George H.W. Bush gave some very frank opinions about Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld’s performances in his son’s administration.

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