FEMA exposed personal information of 2.3 million disaster victims – CBS News
FEMA exposed personal information of 2.3 million disaster victims – CBS News

FEMA mistakenly exposed personal information, including addresses and bank account information, of 2.3 million disaster victims, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released Friday. The breach occurred because FEMA did not ensure a private contractor only received information it required to perform its official duties, the report said.

The victims affected include survivors of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the 2017 California wildfires. 

The report found FEMA’s failure to protect their data put them at risk of identity theft and fraud. 

The Department of Homeland Security said it is working with the private contractor to remove the data from its system. The name of the contractor was redacted from the report. 

According to the report, some of the data collected, such as addresses and Social Security numbers, were necessary to give aid. But other information, like electronic bank account information, is not considered necessary. The report concluded FEMA did not take steps to ensure it only received the necessary data. 

FEMA has already been criticized for its response to the catastrophic 2017 hurricane season, with Harvey and Irma wreaking havoc on Texas and Florida and depleting resources before Maria struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. A federal report released in 2018 found FEMA had sorely under-prepared for the storm’s impact. 

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Amid Miami Beach’s spring break crackdown, visitors and advocacy groups raise concerns – Miami Herald
Amid Miami Beach’s spring break crackdown, visitors and advocacy groups raise concerns – Miami Herald

The police were out in full force on South Beach Friday afternoon, three days after city officials declared that they wanted to crack down on misbehavior and make spring break “a lot less fun.”

More than a dozen police cars and all-terrain vehicles roamed the beach off Eighth Street with their lights flashing. Portable police towers kept watch over hundreds of sunbathers. A police officer DJ’ed from an old lifeguard tower, playing a Bob Marley song set to a techno beat. Overhead, a police surveillance blimp floated in a cloudless blue sky. Police tents covered the entrances to the beach. A prisoner transport van was parked on the sand.

Spring breakers lying on a mosaic of towels with little space in between took selfies and soaked up the sun. Some drank from red plastic cups and beer cans. Others waded into the calm water. Police officers rode along the water’s edge on all-terrain vehicles, scanning the crowd. The only music came from the lifeguard tower-turned-DJ booth.

“There’s always been a police presence, but now it feels like they have the green light to just hound you,” said Whisly Laurent, 29, who was lounging in the sun with his friends. Laurent, an Orlando resident who has come to Miami Beach every year for the past four years to reunite with his college friends, said police had seized the group’s $150 speaker the day before with little explanation. “They just said we’re not allowed to have speakers on the beach,” Laurent said.

“I feel like they’re here to regulate the African-American community,” added Laurent’s friend, Jerome Hynes.

Nearby, Lidia Lee, 20, was posing for photos in a red bikini with her friend Bree Rainey.

The young women, who were on spring break from a college in Georgia, said the crowd on the beach was smaller than it had been earlier in the week when the police presence was lighter.

“I feel like the police scared everybody away today,” said Lee. “It’s safer, but it did kill the party.”

Killing the party is exactly what city officials are trying to do.

After residents complained about a particularly wild spring break — pointing to videos of fights and other misbehavior posted on social media — city officials called an emergency meeting on Tuesday and announced a police crackdown. A police squad was mobilized to patrol the beach in helmets and protective gear, seizing alcohol and drugs. Barricades were added to Ocean Drive, and reinforcements were called in from other police departments. In total, the city planned to have 371 officers working this weekend, which is expected to be one of the busiest of the spring break season.

City Manager Jimmy Morales acknowledged at the emergency meeting that the approach “may not be pretty” but said the administration “stands behind our officers to do everything they need to do to take control of the beach.” The idea is to keep spring break visitors from getting too drunk on the beach during the day to prevent problems once they migrate to the South Beach entertainment district after dark.

But local civil liberties groups say they are concerned about the city’s approach.

“An increased militarized police presence will inevitably lead to civil rights violations, and should not be the City’s first response,” Nicole Almeida Sinder, president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Greater Miami Chapter, said in an email. “There are ways of making our community safer without wholesale violations of the Constitution, and we urge the City to pursue constructive solutions without turning Miami Beach into a police state.”

Ruban Roberts, president of the NAACP’s Miami-Dade branch, said he did not agree with the city’s “negative approach,” including a marketing campaign urging young people to behave with slogans like “Come on vacation, don’t leave on probation.” He urged Miami Beach officials to come up with “more culturally sensitive” strategies to prevent misbehavior.

“The city really needs to be a more welcoming place to all and needs to really be vigilant about removing the bad actors, but not at the expense of those who come down to spend their dollars and enjoy the beach in a safe and a fun way,” Roberts said. “The thing that’s not spoken about is that a lot of the residents are not familiar with people with different backgrounds and different cultures and they fear large numbers of people, particularly black people, coming to the city. They assume all these people are bad actors and that’s not the case.”

A driver heading to Miami Beach on the MacArthur Causeway pours alcohol into the cup of a passenger in a nearby car.

Mayor Dan Gelber said he stood by the city’s new policing approach, which was put into effect on Thursday. He said that neither the ACLU nor the NAACP had contacted him directly to express their concerns.

“I have no idea what they would prefer us to do. We cannot allow our public venues to devolve into open fighting. It’s just that simple,” Gelber said. “If there’s another option, of course we’d avail ourselves of it, but this is obviously a concern. It’s a concern to see people fighting on our beaches.”

Morales also defended the city’s approach, including the marketing campaign.

“The core messaging of the campaign is to remind our visitors of the rules and consequences of breaking them — with the ultimate goal of keeping our tourists and residents safe,” he said in an email. “As a result of several serious incidents, we have had to elevate our level of security to keep everyone safe.”

Some beach-goers said they appreciated the heightened police presence. Yushica Willis, 46, was sunbathing with her teenage children in South Beach on Friday afternoon. The family was on vacation from Atlanta.

“I think it’s great because you know it’s okay to have fun, but you have to have people around just in case it gets out of hand,” she said.

Videos posted on social media demonstrate that at times spring break has gotten out of hand this year. One video, which was widely circulated by residents, shows a brawl on the beach involving dozens of young people. Another shows a young woman knocked unconscious near Ocean Drive. A third, shared by the police department, shows a driver on the MacArthur Causeway serving alcohol to passengers in another vehicle.

Police officers have also been injured. Early Thursday morning, a University of Tennessee football player was arrested after punching a cop in South Beach, according to an arrest affidavit. On Friday evening, a police officer was struck by a motorcyclist. Late Friday night, the motorcyclist was in custody; the officer was at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where police said he was “in pain, being evaluated.”

Partygoers brawl on South Beach during what residents have described as a particularly wild spring break.

It’s not just the widely publicized incidents that have led to the perception that spring break is particularly raucous this year. The number of 9-1-1 calls went up to roughly 2,400 over Saint Patrick’s Day weekend, compared to 2,100 over the same period in 2018.

City officials have largely blamed locals for the misbehavior. Last weekend, police arrested 97 people, more than half of whom were from South Florida.

This is not the first time civil liberties groups have raised concerns about how Miami Beach polices visitors, particularly black visitors. The city has been criticized in years past for a heightened police presence and increased crowd-control measures over Memorial Day weekend, which draws primarily young black visitors for the loosely affiliated hip-hop concerts and parties known as Urban Beach Week.

But last year, Miami Beach tried to take a new approach. With guidance from a panel that included African-American community leaders and representatives from the tourism industry, the city sponsored a range of events including a gospel concert, a youth poetry slam and a movie screening designed to give visitors something to do other than party.

Roberts, who represented the NAACP on the panel, suggested that Miami Beach consider a similar approach to spring break and sponsor events for young people next year.

It’s unclear whether taxpayers would be willing to add to already substantial spring break expenses, however. With the extra policing added this weekend, the police department expects to spend roughly $1.5 million on spring break security. Next year, police estimate that the price tag will be $2.7 million.

By nightfall on Friday evening, the beach looked like a crime scene. Flashing police lights from nearly a dozen vehicles illuminated a crowd of spring breakers. The police DJ had stopped playing and the young people had broken out their own speakers and were blasting music.

Further up on the sand, a group of young women suddenly started shouting and shoving each other. Before the fight escalated, a half dozen police officers descended on the group with their flashlights shining on the women and separated them.

By then, most of the visitors had migrated to Ocean Drive. They walked up and down the street, separated from the restaurants by barricades.

Despite the crowds — police estimate the number of spring break visitors is up by a third this year — business owners said that spring break hasn’t been good for business.

Ceci Velasco, the executive director of the Ocean Drive Business Association, said most of the business owners she talked to estimated that sales were down by double digits compared to last year.

“We support the city in their efforts to manage the crowds,” she said in a text message. “We can only work together at this time.”

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Get ready for Trump to spin the Mueller report – NBC News
Get ready for Trump to spin the Mueller report – NBC News

WASHINGTON — Like any master showman, President Donald Trump surely knows the goods can’t stay hidden from the audience forever.

The Mueller Report will come out.

There’s pressure from Trump’s presidential rivals and Congress — the House voted unanimously for its release. The president himself has said he favors putting it out. And there’s a long history of government documents, from the Pentagon Papers to the Iran/Contra report and the Starr report, making their way into the public domain through authorized release, congressional dump and just plain old leaking.

Like Trump himself said, that might be exactly what he wants.

If he’s exonerated, he’ll be the first to yell “NO COLLUSION!” from the Twitter mountaintop and from campaign rallies in the valleys of the Midwest.

“Without an indictment against him, Trump is going to hammer home the waste of time, taxpayer money and resources to prove that he was right all along and that he did nothing wrong,” said Ron Bonjean, a veteran Republican strategist who helped shepherd Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch through his Senate confirmation process.

Trump may do that even if the report casts brutal aspersions on his activities and those of his family and friends — or if it delivers a mixed bag of reasons that special counsel Robert Mueller declined to prosecute certain individuals in the Trump orbit.

After all, Trump’s no stranger to spin.

The bottom line for him, and for GOP voters, is that Mueller didn’t file charges against him.

But without seeing the report, it’s hard to know whether the decision not to prosecute amounts to a vindication for Trump, said former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance.

“If Mueller declined to prosecute because there was insufficient evidence, that’s hardly exoneration,” she said in a text message. “And if he didn’t indict Trump only because of the [Justice Department] policy against indicting a sitting president, that’s as far from a clean bill of health as you can get.”

The only way to get answers, she said, is if Attorney General William Barr turns everything over. Even then, she added, “Trump would do well to remember the ‘collusion’ is not the only crime in the federal code and that there are ongoing investigations, including of his inauguration, his businesses and his foundation, in multiple jurisdictions — he is still ‘Individual 1’ in a [Southern District of New York] indictment.”

Democrats are just beginning a sprawling set of probes on Capitol Hill, and they are certain to use whatever kernels they can find in the Mueller report and whatever dirt they turn up with subpoenas and oversight hearings to try to convince the electorate that Trump is unfit for a second term.

They may even try to impeach him in the House. But the bar for removing him from office — already high because it would take 20 Republican senators to flip on him — will be much higher absent an independent investigator finding criminal wrongdoing on his part.

It’s hard to imagine the report won’t be made public — and soon. If not, Trump’s re-election campaign would undoubtedly be hamstrung by the kind of questions that dogged Hillary Clinton about her e-mails in the 2016 campaign.

Though Democrats, including several presidential candidates, were quick to demand the report’s release, there was support for that position on the Republican side of the aisle in Congress, too.

“Attorney General Barr should release the report to the public as soon as possible, while accommodating national security considerations,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a statement released Friday night.

Trump himself said earlier this week: “Let it come out. Let people see it.”

If the report clears him — or if he’s able to portray it that way effectively — he will no doubt be emboldened in his dealings with his own Justice Department, other federal agencies and Congress, a scenario that portends even more brutal fights between a president who is already unabashed in his attacks against Washington norms, institutions and political players of both parties.

“If you come at the king, you best not miss,” Bonjean said. “Trump is going to be unleashed in a way we haven’t seen before with a renewed fury.”

Jonathan Allen is a Washington-based national political reporter for NBC News who focuses on the presidency.

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ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces says – CNN
ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces says – CNN

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    Rather than waiting for a dramatic Oval Office moment when Netanyahu visits Washington next week, Trump tweeted out the news Thursday afternoon. The sudden announcement caught fire in Israel and overshadowed a new corruption story about how a distant cousin of Netanyahu’s had bought the prime minister’s shares in a struggling steel company, giving him a suspiciously large profit for what by all indicators seemed like a failed investment.

    Netanyahu raised the prospect of U.S. recognition in January, after years in which the issue had lain dormant. After all, Israel has held uncontested control of the Golan for five decades and its continued control there was a matter of exactly zero controversy in most of the world. The Syrian civil war seemed only to strengthen the case for Israeli control. But Trump’s decision to make U.S. approval — not just of control but of sovereignty — official has major negative consequences: for Israel, for Arab-Israeli diplomacy and the U.S. leadership role in that endeavor, and for broader U.S. foreign policy interests as well.

    Let’s first look at Israel’s interests. In Syria, where another capricious policy-by-tweet undermined the already small U.S. leverage over a political settlement of the war, Trump’s move has now eliminated it completely. Syria’s President Bashar al Assad gets to claim victim status and argue that a country that has approved the permanent acquisition of its sovereign territory by a neighbor should not have any say in Syria’s future governance. Iran and Hezbollah, too, get a windfall: With Israel’s occupation of the Golan now sanctified by the “Great Satan,” they will claim more justification for terrorism and other military operations against Israel — and it will be harder for the Arab states to back Washington in opposing them.

    Israel has been managing a very delicate situation in Syria, winning limited Russian acquiescence for Israeli strikes designed to prevent Iranian entrenchment and weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Trump’s Golan gift to Netanyahu does not come with any additional military backup for Israel in handling its problems to the north, and may even prompt the Russians, under pressure from Assad, Iran, and Hezbollah, to seize this opportunity to further constrain Israel’s freedom of action in Syrian skies. Israel may thus have won a symbolic victory — but when it comes to the real battle its generals are waging in Syria, they are on their own.

    Another serious blow struck by Trump’s apparent policy shift is to the long-awaited peace plan being put together by White House advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt. That’s because this move undermines the prospect of Arab regional cooperation on which their efforts seem to depend. After the 1967 war, the United Nations passed Security Resolution 242, which calls for Israel to withdraw from territories captured in that conflict as part of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace. This has governed Arab-Israeli diplomacy for nearly half a century. Indeed, UNSCR 242 is written into the preambles to both the Egyptian-Israeli and Jordanian-Israeli peace treaties.

    Trump’s move raises the question of whether the U.S. stands by those terms of reference, the foundations of Arab-Israeli rapprochement and of U.S. sponsorship and leadership of Arab-Israeli peacemaking. There’s some contention over whether UNSCR 242 applies to the Golan Heights, where neither Syria nor Israel ever had internationally recognized borders. But there’s no question that key Arab governments will read Trump’s move as undermining the U.S. commitment to 242. Given the president’s action, how likely are other Arab states to take on faith any U.S. commitments made on behalf of Jared’s peace plan? How likely are Arab governments to invest in a U.S.-sponsored peace plan now, when Trump has just undermined four decades of U.S.-sponsored Arab-Israeli diplomacy?

    This announcement also hurts the Palestinians. In the past two years, Trump “took Jerusalem off the table,” as he put it, closed the Palestinians’ mission in Washington and America’s mission to the Palestinians in Jerusalem, and cut off aid to Palestinian civil society and humanitarian needs. The Golan action now sends a stark new message to Palestinians: Give up on peace. Members of Netanyahu’s party, which Trump is brazenly boosting to re-election, are increasingly speaking about passing a law to annex Area C of the West Bank, which makes up 60 percent of the territory and is currently controlled by the Israel Defense Forces. Such a move would mean an effective end of the two-state solution, but Trump’s actions on the Golan signal he might be preparing to support it.

    Finally, the Trump administration’s view on the Golan Heights contravenes not only U.N. resolutions on the Arab-Israeli conflict, but the United Nations Charter itself — specifically, Article 2’s principles regarding the peaceful resolution of diplomatic disputes and the rejection of threats to the territorial integrity of member states. In conflict zones around the world, U.S. diplomacy has relied on these core principles to press other states to negotiate instead of fight, and to end wars that have cost lives and destabilized regions.

    So the fallout from Trump’s abandonment of these principles will extend well beyond the Golan Heights. Take American opposition to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea—Trump now has no leg to stand on. Moscow can likewise call out American hypocrisy in its refusal to recognize the Russian-sponsored “independence” of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from the Republic of Georgia. Morocco and Algeria can now dismiss the U.N. mediator for the Western Sahara, whose work Trump’s administration has sought to bolster. Or what if Saudi Arabia waltzes into Qatar? If Washington stops upholding the core international principle opposing the acquisition of territory by force, we should expect more states to seize territory they covet from their neighbors.

    This dark prospect also suggests that any future American president will face an enormous challenge in seeking to restore U.S. strength and project U.S. power in a post-Trump era. Republican or Democrat, his successor will need to cooperate with multilateral institutions and like-minded governments. By overturning decades of U.S. investment in multilateral tools as instruments for peace, Trump has just made that work much harder.

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    Flooding in the Midwest: Ruptured levees along Missouri River could cost billions to repair – CBS News
    Flooding in the Midwest: Ruptured levees along Missouri River could cost billions to repair – CBS News
    • Almost half of the country lives near a levee, and 12 have already failed during spring flooding 
    • Critics blame Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA for broken levees flooding the Midwest
    • The levees “were set up to fail,” says flood insurance expert

    The small town of Hamburg, Iowa was submerged this week when its levee – the earthen barrier protecting it from the raging Missouri River – broke, forcing its 1,100 residents to flee their homes. But luck was on their side: No one died. And now this same raging river is rushing toward Kansas City, Missouri.

    The Army Corps of Engineers warned during a Thursday briefing there could be other flooding as snow begins to melt along the upper regions of the Midwest. The states most likely to be affected: Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.

    “The runoff will be more than expected,” John Remus, chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Division confirmed during the briefing. Twelve levees have already been breached, others have been “overtopped.” And still others are in danger. “The public needs to remain vigilant.”

    “The whole thing is trashed,” said Pat Sheldon, who is president of a regional “levee district” that extends from Iowa to the Missouri border. He predicted that doing a “total rebuild” of his levee system alone could cost “several billion dollars.”

    Repairing levees damaged by Midwest flooding could cost billions

    There are nearly 100,000 miles of levees across the country, protecting almost 150 million people, and when they fail, it can be disastrous.

    Others who’ve witnessed the misfortune of a levee rupturing weren’t so lucky. The biggest tragedy occurred in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when a dike that was supposed to protect the city gave way and 1,300 people died. And a recent Christmas flood in 2015 set records for water height all along the Mississippi.

    These disasters haven’t gone unnoticed. In 2016, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Congressional watchdog, scolded the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for making “little progress” in ensuring the safety of the nation’s levees. The Corps of Engineers, which inspects just a small portion of these earth and gravel barriers, said at least five percent were at very high risk of flooding.

    The Corps of Engineers controls just 15 percent of the nation’s levees, while the rest are under state, local and tribal jurisdiction. But mistakes have been made regarding the levees the Corps of Engineers controls. When Hamburg built up its levee, Army officials ordered it be lowered. The flood water easily overwhelmed the lowered barrier wiping out the town. In New Orleans, the Corps of Engineers helped create a shipping channel dubbed “Mr. Go,” but it ended up funneling Katrina’s flood water into the city.

    And it’s unlikely anything will change when the current flooding ends. “Extreme weather events linked to climate change are causing flooding that strains aging infrastructures and produces even more damage,” says Executive Director Amy Bach of United Policyholders, a consumer insurance advocacy group. “Repairs don’t garner attention because they aren’t showy. There’s no ribbon cutting.”

    “You can’t continue to maintain these levees on a shoestring,” says John Dickson, a flood expert with Aon, an international insurance brokerage and consulting firm. “They were set up to fail.”

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    Student who survived Parkland school shooting dies in suicide: report – Fox News
    Student who survived Parkland school shooting dies in suicide: report – Fox News
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    Student who survived Parkland school shooting dies in suicide: report

    Sydney Aiello, 19, of Coconut Creek, died Sunday, according to police. Her grief-stricken mother told a news station Sydney took her own life.

    The suicide death over the weekend of a teen who survived the 2018 Parkland school shooting is being blamed on the horrible tragedy.

    Sydney Aiello, 19, of Coconut Creek, died Sunday, according to police. Her grief-stricken mother told a news station Sydney took her own life. Sydney and Meadow Pollack, one of the 17 persons killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, were close friends.

    “It breaks my heart that we’ve lost yet another student from Stoneman Douglas,” Ryan Petty told CBS 4 Miami. Alaina Perry, his daughter, was also one of the victims.

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    “My advice to parents is to ask questions, don’t wait,” he said.

    Sydney suffered from “survivor’s guilt” and had been diagnosed recently with post-traumatic stress disorder, Cara Aiello told the station.

    She said her daughter was taking college classes but struggled because she was scared to be in a classroom. She graduated Stoneman Douglas in June after the shooting.

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    Aiello said her daughter was sad but never asked for help before killing herself, according to the station.

    She said she was talking about the suicide in hopes that others can learn from what happened to her daughter.

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    “Beautiful Sydney with such a bright future was taken from us way too soon,” Meadow Pollack’s brother, Hunter Pollack, said Wednesday on Twitter. “My friend’s sister and someone dear to Meadow.”

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    Mueller report is just the start of a new Russia showdown – CNN
    Mueller report is just the start of a new Russia showdown – CNN

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      CNN’s Laura Jarrett, Pamela Brown, Jim Acosta, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.

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      MSNBC’s Chris Matthews livid over Mueller report: ‘How could they let Trump off the hook?’ – Fox News
      MSNBC’s Chris Matthews livid over Mueller report: ‘How could they let Trump off the hook?’ – Fox News
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      The politics and the fallout from the completion of the Mueller report

      MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed outrage on Friday upon hearing reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his Russia investigation and submitted it to the attorney general — with further indictments not expected.

      SCHIFF REJECTS REPORTS THAT INDICTMENTS ARE OVER

      Matthews began his show by summarizing the breaking news, but stressed that Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice “without ever directly interviewing the president of the United States.”

      “That means no charges against the president, his children or his associates after all those meetings with the Russians,” a visibly upset Matthews told his viewers.

      The liberal cable news host opened the discussion to the panel, telling them his “biggest question” was “How can the president be pointed to as leading collusion with Russia, aiding a Russian conspiracy to interfere with our elections if none of his henchmen, none of his children, none of his associates have been indicted?”

      NBC News national security reporter Ken Dilanian responded by telling Matthews that Trump couldn’t be indicted “in a criminal sense” since Mueller’s office “didn’t have it,” adding that the president “couldn’t conspire with himself.”

      “Maybe he missed the boat here,” Matthews responded. “Because we know about the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, we know about the meeting at the cigar bar with Kilimnik. My God, we know about all of those meetings with Kislyak at the Republican convention in Cleveland. All these dots we’re now to believe don’t connect.”

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      “Well, that’s the conclusion in front of us,” Dilanian told Matthews. “All of that stuff was suggestive, it didn’t prove anything.”

      “Why was there never an interrogation of this president?” Matthews shot back. “We were told for weeks by experts, ‘You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive… How could they let Trump off the hook?… He will not be charged with obstruction of justice or collusion without having to sit down with the Special Counsel Mueller and answer his damn questions. How could that happen?”

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      Report: Sydney Aiello, who survived the Parkland high school shooting, dies by suicide – USA TODAY
      Report: Sydney Aiello, who survived the Parkland high school shooting, dies by suicide – USA TODAY

      A recent graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived the Parkland school shooting has died by suicide, the student’s mother told CBS Miami.

      Sydney Aiello was 19 when she died Sunday, according to a GoFundMe page set up in her honor.

      “She lit up every room she entered. She filled her days cheerleading, doing yoga, and brightening up the days of others. Sydney aspired to work in the medical field helping others in need,” the campaign says.

      Aiello was friends with Meadow Pollack, one of the 17 people killed at the Parkland shooting on Feb. 14, 2018, CBS Miami reports. Cara Aiello — Sydney’s mother — told the station that her daughter was at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that day, but was not in the building where the massacre occurred.

      Sydney Aiello had been recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and struggled with a fear of classroom settings, hindering her ability to attend college classes, Cara Aiello told the station. 

      Pollack’s father, Andrew Pollack, told the Miami Herald that his “heart goes out to [Aiello’s] poor, poor parents.”

      “It’s terrible what happened. Meadow and Sydney were friends for a long, long time,” he said. “Killing yourself is not the answer.” 

      The GoFundMe page set up in Aiello’s honor had raised over $40,000 by Friday afternoon, more than double the fundraising effort’s goal. The money “will be given directly to the Aiello family to honor their daughter,” the page says.

      If you or someone you know may be struggling with suicidal thoughts, you can call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) any time of day or night or chat online.

      Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, confidential support via text message to people in crisis when they dial 741741.

      Investigation: Suicide rate up 33% in less than 20 years, yet funding lags behind other top killers

      Suicide prevention: Self-care tips, true stories on how survivors cope

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      White House declares end to Islamic State, but fighting grinds on – The Washington Post
      White House declares end to Islamic State, but fighting grinds on – The Washington Post

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      March 22 at 4:59 PM

      U.S.-backed forces have pushed the Islamic State out of its final foothold in Syria, the White House said Friday, making a long-awaited victory announcement but defying eyewitness accounts of continued fighting.

      Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the group’s “territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria.”

      Trump, making brief remarks to reporters after landing in Palm Beach, Fla., showed reporters a map comparing Iraq and Syria at the height of Islamic State power in 2014 with today.

      “That’s what we have right now,” he said, indicating areas no longer controlled by the militants.

      The announcement, more than four years after the United States launched its first airstrikes against the then-formidable militant group, follows months of speculation about when U.S.-backed Syrian forces would capture the Islamic State’s final foothold in eastern Syria.

      Neighboring Iraq declared victory over the group in late 2017.

      But the White House statements were immediately contradicted by reports from eyewitnesses and local forces in eastern Syria, where the U.S.-backed ­Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have struggled to root out militant holdouts who are dug in among civilians.

      Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the SDF, said the fighting had not eased up around the village of Baghouz, which has been the scene of an intense battle against those holdouts.

      “Heavy fighting continues around mount #Baghouz right now to finish off whatever remains of ISIS,” he said in a message on Twitter.

      A U.S. military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly, said the SDF was still working “to clear pockets of ISIS from caves under Baghouz.”

      The official said there appeared to be a few hundred militants remaining around Baghouz.

      Photographs from the area showed the night sky lit up with tracer rounds.

      The militants appeared to be pinned down along a cliff near the Euphrates River as they mount a desperate final stand.

      More than 50,000 people have left the enclave since January, surprising military planners who have repeatedly believed the area to be almost empty.

      On Thursday, the International Rescue Committee said that thousands more civilians could follow in the coming days.

      “These women and children are in the worst condition we have seen since the crisis first began,” said Wendy Taeuber, the group’s Iraq and northeast Syria country director.

      The Pentagon did not immediately provide an explanation for the apparent disconnect between the White House depiction and reports from eastern Syria.

      Trump, who has been eager to end the U.S. military mission in Syria, has repeatedly suggested in recent months that a final victory was imminent, only to have the fighting drag on.

      In December, Trump made another victory declaration as he announced, in a surprise move, that he would pull out all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.

      In the following weeks, the president appeared to back away from that victory claim as top advisers warned that an abrupt departure from Syria would alienate allies and jeopardize gains against the militants.

      The Pentagon now plans to keep at least 400 troops in Syria to help the SDF and other allies maintain security in former Islamic State strongholds.

      While a conclusion to the operation would be a milestone for the Pentagon, officials expect the group will seek to mount continued insurgent attacks in Syria, as it has in Iraq.

      Sanders said Trump had been briefed during his flight by acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan.

      Shanahan joins Trump at his exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort as the president considers nominating the former Boeing executive to the top Pentagon job.

      It was not immediately clear whether Shanahan conveyed to Trump that the Islamic State had been ejected from Baghouz, or whether Trump or Shanahan were aware of the assessment from Syrian and U.S. forces in the region.

      Loveluck reported from London. John Wagner in Washington contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-declares-islamic-state-100-percent-defeated-in-syria/2019/03/22/ce39dd02-4cbd-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html

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      Rosfeld’s testimony appeared to sway jury, legal experts say after verdict – Tarentum Valley News Dispatch
      Rosfeld’s testimony appeared to sway jury, legal experts say after verdict – Tarentum Valley News Dispatch

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      The jury appeared to believe Michael Rosfeld’s testimony that he felt threatened as two teens ran from him, legal experts told the Tribune-Review hours after a jury acquitted the former police officer in the shooting death of Antwon Rose II.

      The jury evidently was impressed Rosfeld’s testimony, something Bruce Antkowiak, a law professor at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, termed a “significant factor” in the acquittal.

      University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris agreed. In use-of-force cases involving police, a jury is tasked with deciding if Rosfeld has a “reasonable” fear for his safety and his life, Harris said.

      “Under the law, he doesn’t have to be correct, only reasonable,” Harris said. “The jury believed Rosfeld’s claim that he was reasonable in fear for his safety and his life.”

      Harris said the speed of the verdict indicated the jury didn’t have a problem reaching that conclusion.

      “If there was any reason to find him guilty, the debate would have gone on much longer,” Harris said.

      The not guilty verdict did not surprise Antkowiak or Harris.

      Convictions are not common among cases involving police facing similar charges nationally.

      “Juries have a very difficult time putting themselves in a position to second guess a police officer,” Antkowiak said.

      Regardless of the verdict, “it’s a no-win situation for anybody,” Antkowiak said.

      Rosfeld shot 17-year-old Rose on June 19 as he ran from a felony traffic stop. Rosfeld had stopped the car in which Rose was a passenger because he thought it matched the description of a car suspected in a drive-by shooting minutes earlier.

      Rose was one of nearly 1,000 Americans, both black and white, who died last year after being shot by police. Rosfeld was one of just 98 police officers charged homicide in such deaths over the last 14 years. While charges against officers in such shootings are rare, convictions are even rarer. Of the 98 officers charged, three were convicted of murder; 32 others were found guilty of manslaughter or lesser crimes.

      Rose was shot three times as he ran. The shooting was captured on video by witnesses.

      Harris, however, said this case is another example of how videos do not tell the whole story.

      He cited the 2015 North Charleston, S.C. shooting of Walter Scott, who was running away from a police officer who fired eight times that was also captured on video and resulted in a hung jury.

      “The video only tells part of the story,” Harris said. “People need to understand that what they see in a video is not enough to prove a case.”

      It also points to weaknesses in the law as it applies to law enforcement officers in these cases.

      “The law as it stands is not really adequate to address these sorts of problems,” Harris said. “A jury has to judge the actions of a police officer under a standard of whether his actions were objectively reasonable.”

      The jury doesn’t get to use hindsight or personal experience to look at the officer’s actions, Harris said. Instead, they should try to view a case “through the eyes of a reasonably objective police officer.”

      With that as the standard and with most juries looking at police as the good guys, “it’s quite rare to see the conviction of a police officer even with good evidence,” Harris said.

      S. Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Rose family, said after the verdict that laws need to be changed and that he and the family would work toward that.

      “Although the facts of the case seemed clear cut, namely that Antwon Rose was shot in the back as he ran from officer Rosfeld; the jury’s verdict was heavily influenced by flaws in current Pennsylvania law that contradict protections afforded citizens by the U.S. Constitution,” Merritt said in a statement released after the verdict. “Antwon’s family and I will be working to change those laws in an effort to prevent other families from suffering a similar disappointment.”

      Tom Davidson is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Tom at 724-226-4715, tdavidson@tribweb.com or via Twitter .



      Source Article from https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/rosfelds-testimony-appeared-to-sway-jury-legal-experts-say-after-verdict/

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      Anatomy of a feud: How Trump attacks – CNN
      Anatomy of a feud: How Trump attacks – CNN

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      President Trump is right to sideline North Korean human rights, right to flatter Kim Jong Un in their personal meetings, and right to pursue a grand bargain to end North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile-enabled nuclear threat. But all his efforts will go to waste if he copies South Korea and embraces a concession-based strategy towards Kim.

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      BAGHOUZ, Syria — The sound of airstrikes and gunfire could be heard near the last enclave of the Islamic State group Friday night, less than an hour after the White House declared victory over the militants.

      The battle for Baghouz, the group’s last holdout and all that remained of the vast territory that it once ruled in Syria and Iraq, had dragged on for more than 10 weeks — far longer than either the U.S. military or their allies on the ground had predicted.

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      The militants, meanwhile, have been putting up a desperate fight, and the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces supported by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have held off declaring victory.

      “Heavy fighting continues around mount Baghouz right now to finish off whatever remains of ISIS,” Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF’s media office, announced on Twitter Friday night.

      Three U.S. military officials said fighting is still ongoing in Syria, and that there could still be a couple of hundred fighters there in hiding.

      Tunnels are of particular concern to the Kurdish-led forces. Dug in fields and under abandoned homes, they provide invaluable hiding places for ISIS militants trying to avoid drone surveillance. The group has used such tunnels to great effect in almost every battle.

      Women and children also present a unique challenge. SDF forces have repeatedly paused their offensive, sometimes for weeks at a time, to allow fighters and their families to surrender and leave the camp through a humanitarian corridor.

      NBC News recently observed SDF fighters armed with AK-47s talking to ISIS members as women, children and elderly men began hiking along the base of a cliff overlooking Baghouz.

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      The people filing out were dirty. Many were visibly injured and limping on makeshift crutches. Others were bleeding and wincing in pain.

      A young girl wearing a niqab — a veil worn by the most conservative Muslim women in which, at most, only the eyes show — cried out in pain as a woman carried her along the trail before putting her in a wheelchair. Her jeans were torn, exposing tiny legs streaked with blood.

      The sheer number who emerged — almost 30,000 since early January, according to Kurdish officials — have taken the SDF and others by surprise.

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      When asked in Arabic how many people were left inside the camp, some of the surrendering people responded in a cacophony of foreign languages: Turkish, Uzbek and others that were incomprehensible.

      One exhausted-looking elderly man responded that there were “many” people left in the camp, including women and children.

      Uniformed and armed SDF fighters stood sentry along the trail. At one point, the trail wound up the cliffside, forcing surrendering families to climb the cliff by gripping an exposed pipe.

      Left behind were dozens of strollers, wheelchairs and pieces of luggage — items that the evacuees couldn’t carry up the side of the cliff.

      Most of the surrendering people were women in niqabs. As they tried to climb the steep cliff out of the Euphrates River valley, female SDF fighters reached out to assist them.

      When female fighters weren’t on hand, male fighters reached out to pull them up with a piece of a wheelchair, giving them an assist while avoiding actually touching their hands.

      Instead, fighters are still engaged in “clearing” or “combing” efforts in the tiny pocket where ISIS fighters and their families are thought to remain in a narrow band on the banks of the Euphrates River.

      But the actual fighting, along with the sound of gunfire, artillery and airstrikes launched by the U.S.-led coalition, had all but ceased this week. In and around Baghouz itself, SDF fighters could be seen strolling past bombed-out pickup trucks, and huge craters left both by artillery and tunnel entrances.

      But questions loom even if the caliphate has been finally defeated.

      The extremist fighters remain a threat even if they no longer control territory, operating in remote areas elsewhere and capable of mounting attacks.

      And in December, Trump declared that “we have won against ISIS” and that he would pull all of the 2,000 or so U.S. troops from the country, an announcement that surprised U.S. allies and senior military officials and plunged the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS into turmoil.

      Last month, the White House said that about 200 U.S. troops will remain in Syria after the withdrawal of most U.S. forces.

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      Cyclone Idai: Zimbabwe’s desperate search for the missing – BBC News
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      Abolishing The Electoral College Would Be More Complicated Than It May Seem – NPR
      Abolishing The Electoral College Would Be More Complicated Than It May Seem – NPR

      Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at an organizing event in February. Warren says she wants to get rid of the Electoral College, and vote for president using a national popular vote.

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      Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at an organizing event in February. Warren says she wants to get rid of the Electoral College, and vote for president using a national popular vote.

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      Most people in America want the Electoral College gone, and they want to select a president based on who gets the most votes nationally, polls say.

      Democratic presidential candidates are weighing in too.

      “Every vote matters,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in Mississippi on Monday. “And the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting and that means get rid of the electoral college.”

      That line garnered one of her largest roars of applause for the evening.

      Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke said there is a “lot of wisdom” in the idea and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., also said she’s open to it.

      The politicians are tapping into what’s become a popular position with many voters, especially Democrats. In the U.S., 65 percent of adults think whoever wins the popular vote should hold the nation’s highest office, according to an Atlantic/PRRI poll last year.

      Under the current system, voters in each state cast their ballots for electors, of which 270 are necessary to win. So it’s possible for a candidate to win more votes overall across the country than a rival but not be inaugurated because of insufficient support from the Electoral College: a scenario that has occurred twice in the past two decades.

      But experts say reforming this practice isn’t likely anytime soon for a number of reasons. First, there’s the Constitutional problem.

      The amendments

      Fully overhauling the way the president is selected would take a Constitutional amendment, which would require the votes of two-thirds of the U.S. House of Representatives, two-thirds of the Senate, and three-fourths of the states.

      Support of that magnitude has become rare for anything in a sharply divided United States. An amendment hasn’t been adopted since the 27th, in 1992, and one hasn’t been adopted relatively quickly since the 26th, which took 100 days from proposal to adoption in 1971.

      President Trump once supported abolishing the Electoral College — he previously felt it was a “total disaster for democracy” — but since his 2016 presidential victory over Hillary Clinton, in which Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, but Trump received 304 electoral votes, he has changed his mind.

      Now, Trump feels the Electoral College is “far better for the U.S.A.” as he wrote Tuesday on Twitter.

      That position, shared by many Republicans, makes it highly unlikely that there would be sufficient support for changing the system.

      “There’s no realistic chance of a Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College,” said Jacob Levy, a professor of political theory at McGill University.

      The state way

      There may, however, be another way.

      A number of states have signed onto a pact that guarantees their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote, no matter the outcome in their individual states.

      The compact would only go into effect once the number of states involved surpasses the 270 Electoral College vote threshold that is required to win the presidency.

      Today the pact has the support of states — and Washington D.C. — that total 181 electoral votes, largely those that have gone for Democrats in recent years.

      The pact raises questions of its own for democracy: It creates a situation in which voters in, for example, Colorado, may cast most of their votes for the Democrat in a presidential race — but the state might wind up giving its electors to the Republican depending on the national outcome.

      That might invite legal challenges from candidates or voters’ groups if it took place.

      The cases for and against

      Supporters of a national popular vote argue something must be done; the Electoral College disproportionately inflates the influence of rural areas while undervaluing the votes of cities. That, critics say, means devaluing the votes of many non-white voters too.

      “It really does over-represent some sparsely populated states, and it provides some skew and bias to our system that I just don’t think is healthy anymore,” said Paul Gronke, a political scientist at Reed College.

      Gronke notes, however, that there would be major administrative challenges if the U.S. ever got to the point of switching to a national popular vote.

      Would the federal government get into the business of administering the elections, or leave that up to state and local officials, as it does today? Could Washington administer a national recount in the event of a close result?

      “How would that work?” Gronke asks. “You look at the Florida situation we had in 2000 — that already took a lot of time and effort, but imagine if that was done across the country. It’s just not clear how you could do that.”

      Gary Gregg, who leads the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, says that if today’s system over-privileges rural states, a national popular vote would be just as unfair in the opposite direction.

      Trump made a similar argument earlier this week, warning that “smaller states & then entire Midwest would end up losing all power.”

      Gregg says that change would radicalize politics.

      “The game will not be any longer to be a [politician who is] liberal but be able to appeal to a rural Ohioan,” he said. “The game will be: Be a liberal — to the extent I can maximize votes in major urban centers.”

      Jacob Levy, of McGill University, disagreed with that argument.

      “Precisely what it does is proportionately advantages where the people are,” Levy said. “And places where there are more people become more important when you’re counting votes.”

      Still, Levy said if he had to bet on whether the U.S. will still be using the Electoral College in 20 years — he thinks it will.

      Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705627996/abolishing-the-electoral-college-would-be-more-complicated-than-it-may-seem

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