Trump's education pick advances in US Senate

The US Senate voted Friday to advance the nomination of Donald Trump's embattled choice for education secretary, setting up what will be a nail-biter of a final confirmation vote early next week. Betsy DeVos, a Republican mega-donor from Michigan who is married to a heir of the Amway fortune, cleared a procedural hurdle when lawmakers voted 52 to 48 along strict party lines to move her nomination forward. "She'll be an excellent education secretary in my judgment," Senator Lamar Alexander, himse