user: Question: House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is tapping a fresh face -- 42-year-old Latino Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico -- to replace Rep. Steve Israel of New York at the helm of the party's campaign efforts. Israel chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2012 and 2014 elections but had said in the wake of this year's Republican victories that he wouldn't seek a third term in that role. Lujan, a former state utility regulator who was first elected to Congress in 2008, is set to start his fourth term representing a congressional district that includes Santa Fe. Pelosi tweeted the news of Lujan's selection Monday. Lujan is one of the Democratic caucuses younger members, a group that has faced pressure to bring newer members to the leadership table. Lujan will face a tall task: After a drubbing in the 2014 midterms, Democrats have just 186 House seats to the GOP's 244, with five races still undecided.
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Important parts: New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Lujan is the next chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Lujan replaces Rep. Steve Israel, who helmed the party's campaign efforts in 2012 and 2014. Lujan is a 42-year-old New Mexico Democrat entering his fourth term.
in: Russia began to cut off natural gas supplies to Belarus on Monday as talks over unpaid debts continued, Russian state media reported. President Dmitry Medvedev gave the order for Russian energy giant Gazprom to start restricting gas supplies, company CEO Alexei Miller said, according to official Russian news agency RIA-Novosti. Miller said the cut, which began Monday, will be "gradual, daily and proportional to the volume of debt." Belarus has refused to pay Russian gas rates of $169 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first quarter of the year and $185 for the second quarter, RIA-Novosti reported.  The former Soviet republic has instead been paying $150 since Jan. 1, ringing up a large debt in the process. Russia's action could hurt customers farther down the pipeline. Belarus has said it will be technologically unable to ensure complete natural gas transit to Europe, if Russia cuts gas supplies to Belarus by 85 percent, state media reported. In the past, other countries including Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Romania, Greece and Turkey have complained that their gas supplies have been affected as Russia trimmed output to upstream customers like Belarus and Ukraine. Gazprom is the world's biggest producer and exporter of natural gas -- and Russia's most powerful company. It controls 20 percent of the world's natural gas reserves and operates the world's largest gas distribution network covering an area from Europe to the Far East, according to its website. Gazprom exports energy to 32 countries and provides around 25 percent of the European Union's gas supplies. Formed in 1989 to replace the Soviet Ministry of the Gas Industry, Gazprom is closely tied to the Russian government, which owns a controlling 50 percent stake in the company.  Medvedev is a former Gazprom chairman. In recent years, an increasingly confident Moscow has used Gazprom to assert its authority over Russia's former sphere of influence by offering heavily subsidized gas to ex-Soviet countries. But that policy has led to disputes as Gazprom has then sought to raise prices. Gazprom has switched off gas supplies to another former republic -- Ukraine -- several times in recent years in a row over payments and Kiev's rejection of proposals to hike rates.  Those disputes ended earlier this year when Russia agreed to a 30 percent drop in the price of natural gas sold to Ukraine, in exchange for permission to extend Russia's lease of a major naval base in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Ukraine, for 25 years.
out: NEW:  Belarus says it can't guarantee natural gas transit to Europe. Talks to continue over debts owed to Russia by Belarus. Gas cuts will be "gradual" Gazprom operates the world's largest natural gas distribution network.
Problem: The daughter of a man who died after falling four stories at Shea Stadium said her father was not sliding down the escalator when the accident happened, as police reported. A statement from the New York Police Department on Tuesday said witnesses saw 36-year-old Antonio Nararainsami of Brooklyn sitting on the banister of the escalator when he lost his balance and fell. Nararainsami's daughter, Emily, told CNN affiliate WABC on Tuesday that her father was walking down the escalator, not sliding on its banister, as fans left the stadium after the New York Mets-Washington Nationals game. She said she and another relative saw what happened. "He wasn't moving or nothing; he was just walking down. I guess he tried to say something to us or something, and I guess he just lost his balance and flipped over," she said. Nararainsami died at Booth Memorial Hospital about 25 minutes after the 10 p.m. incident. Police are investigating the death as an accident. E-mail to a friend.
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Answer: Police said man lost his balance on an escalator as fans left the stadium. He died about 25 minutes later at Booth Memorial Hospital. Police are investigating the death as an accident.
The Civil Air Patrol has called off the search for multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, nearly a month after he took off from a Nevada ranch, the agency announced Tuesday. Adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing since September 3. Fossett, 63, was last seen September 3 when he left hotel magnate Barron Hilton's private Minton, Nevada, ranch in a single-engine plane. He was reported missing after his Bellanca Super Decathlon failed to return from the flight. Fossett was said to be scouting test sites for a future attempt at breaking the land speed record. In a statement announcing the end of the effort, the Civil Air Patrol said rescuers covered 20,000 square miles in an effort to locate Fossett -- "one of the largest, most intensive searches for a missing aircraft in modern history." "The Civil Air Patrol joins the rest of the aviation world and admirers worldwide in its disappointment in not locating Steve Fossett," said Brig. Gen. Amy S. Courter, the agency's acting national commander. Fossett was the first man to fly around the world in a balloon alone and the first solo pilot to circle the globe without refueling. He holds 14 world records in airplane flight, two for ballooning, six in gliders and one in an airship, in addition to 11 records for sailing and one for cross-country skiing. "This remarkable man showed us what grit and determination are all about," Courter said. "In his life, he chased and shattered world records, floating and flying farther and faster than anyone before. His adventures are many and his accomplishments profound. We regret that those adventures may have come to an end." The search was scaled back September 19, but rescuers said they would continue to pursue tips sent by phone and e-mail. E-mail to a friend.

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assistant: The Nevada Civil Air Patrol had been looking for Fossett for nearly a month. The 63-year-old record-breaker was last seen September 3. CAP called search "one of the largest, most intensive searches" in history. Fossett was first to fly around the globe in a balloon, among other feats.