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US spy chiefs break with Trump on several threats to the US – Aljazeera.com
US spy chiefs break with Trump on several threats to the US – Aljazeera.com

China and Russia pose the biggest risks to the United States, and are more aligned than they have been in decades as they target the 2020 presidential election and American institutions to expand their global reach, US intelligence officials told senators on Tuesday.

The spy chiefs broke with President Donald Trump in their assessments of the threats posed by North Korea, Iran and Syria. But they outlined a clear and imminent danger from China, whose practices in trade and technology anger the US president.

While China and Russia strengthen their alliance, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said some American allies were pulling away from Washington in reaction to changing US policies on security and trade.

The directors of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies flanked Coats at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. They described an array of economic, military and intelligence threats, from highly organised efforts by China to scattered disruptions by terrorists, hacktivists and transnational criminals.

“China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasingly use cyber operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways – to steal information, to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure,” Coats said.

“Moscow’s relationship with Beijing is closer than it’s been in many decades,” he told the panel.

The intelligence officials said they had protected the 2018 US congressional elections from outside interference, but expected renewed and likely more sophisticated attacks on the 2020 presidential contest.

US adversaries will “use online influence operations to try to weaken democratic institutions, undermine alliances and partnerships, and shape policy outcomes,” Coats said.

North Korea, ISIL remain threats

The intelligence chiefs’ assessments broke with some past assertions by Trump, including the threat posed by Russia to US elections and democratic institutions, the threat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) poses in Syria, and North Korea’s commitment to denuclearise.

Coats said North Korea was unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons. Trump asserted after the Singapore summit that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat.

“The capabilities and threat that existed a year ago are still there,” said Robert Ashley, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Plans for a follow-up Trump-Kim summit are in the works, but no agenda, venue or date has been announced.

Coats also said ISIL would continue to pursue attacks from Syria, as well as Iraq, against regional and Western adversaries, including the US. Trump, who plans to withdraw US troops from Syria, has said the armed group was defeated.



US intelligence directors testify on Worldwide Threats during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing [Saul Loeb/AFP] 

The intelligence officials also said Iran was not developing nuclear weapons in violation of the 2015 nuclear agreement, even though Tehran has threatened to reverse some commitments after Trump pulled out of the deal.

The intelligence assessment of Afghanistan, more than 17 years into a conflict that began after the 9/11 attacks on the US projected a continued military stalemate. Without mentioning prospects for a peace deal, which appear to have improved only in recent days, the report said, “neither the Afghan government nor the Taliban will be able to gain a strategic military advantage in the Afghan war in the coming year” if the US maintained its current levels of support. Trump has ordered a partial pullback of US forces this year, although no firm plan is in place.

Senators expressed deep concern about the current threats.

“Increased cooperation between Russia and China – for a generation that hasn’t been the case – that could be a very big deal on the horizon in terms of the United States,” said Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.

Biggest counterintelligence threat

The officials painted a multifaceted picture of the threat posed by China, as they were questioned repeatedly by senators about the No 2 world economy’s business practices as well as its growing international influence.

“The Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat I can think of,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said. 


He said almost all the economic espionage cases in the FBI’s 56 field offices “lead back to China”.

Coats said intelligence officials have been travelling around the US and meeting corporate executives to discuss espionage threats from China.

He said China has had a meteoric rise in the past decade, adding, “A lot of that was achieved by stealing information from our companies.”

Tuesday’s testimony came just a day after the US announced criminal charges against China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, escalating a fight with the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker and coming days before trade talks between Washington and Beijing.

Coats also said Russia’s social media efforts would continue to focus on aggravating social and racial tensions, undermining trust in authorities and criticising politicians perceived to be anti-Russia.

Senator Mark Warner, the panel’s top Democrat, said he was particularly concerned about Russia’s use of social media “to amplify divisions in our society and to influence our democratic processes” and the threat from China in the technology arena.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is one of several congressional panels, along with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, investigating whether there were any connections between Trump’s 2016 and Russian efforts to influence the election.

Russia denies attempting to influence US elections, while Trump has denied his campaign cooperated with Moscow, repeatedly calling the Mueller investigation a “witch-hunt”.  


Coats declined to respond when Democratic Senator Ron Wyden asked whether Trump’s not releasing records of his discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin put US intelligence agencies at a disadvantage.

“To me from an intelligence perspective, it’s just Intel 101 that it would help our country to know what Vladimir Putin discussed with Donald Trump,” Wyden said.

The chiefs made no mention of a crisis at the US-Mexican border for which Trump has considered declaring a national emergency. Trump declared there was a humanitarian crisis at the border.

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Eric Trump calls on his father to declare national emergency if negotiations fail – Fox News
Eric Trump calls on his father to declare national emergency if negotiations fail – Fox News
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Eric Trump: Democrats’ message doesn’t make sense anymore, almost an anti-American message

Eric Trump, son of President Trump, in an interview on “Hannity” Tuesday, said he wants his father to declare a national emergency at the border if negotiations for a wall or barrier fall through.

Trump referred to the battle with Democrats who oppose his father’s request of $5.7 billion for a border wall that resulted in a 35-day partial government shutdown and the looming threat of another one in upcoming weeks.

TRUMP, DEMOCRATS REACH TEMPORARY DEAL TO END SHUTDOWN

“Let’s see if they (the Democrats) were actually being truthful that once government was reopened and that they would come to the table and negotiate something that’s fair,” Trump said. “And honestly, if they don’t, declare the emergency.

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“Build the wall with the United States military because that’s what people in this country want,” he said.

Trump also said he wants the redoubling of efforts on legal immigration.

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Roger Stone saga reveals flaws in Trump’s ‘no collusion’ defense – CNN
Roger Stone saga reveals flaws in Trump’s ‘no collusion’ defense – CNN

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Washington (CNN)Roger Stone is known for hyperbole, but his latest graphic warning should worry Donald Trump.

      CNN’s Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.

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    Record-breaking cold clobbers two-thirds of the U.S. as polar vortex descends from Arctic – AOL
    Record-breaking cold clobbers two-thirds of the U.S. as polar vortex descends from Arctic – AOL

    Jan 29 (Reuters) – Two-thirds of the continental United States will be a frozen ice box Tuesday, as the so-called polar vortex of frigid arctic air spins across the U.S. Midwest, clips the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and pushes on into New England.

    And the sub-zero cold and bitter winds will stick around for a couple of days, possibly bringing dozens of record lows with a life-threatening freeze before dissipating by the weekend, the National Weather Service reported (NWS).

    The polar vortex is a mass of freezing air that normally spins around the North Pole, but has slipped southward and swirled into the United States, forecasters said.

    The hardest-hit area will be the Midwest, where wind chill could bring temperatures as low as -50 F (-46C) in the Chicago area by Tuesday evening, the NWS reported. One-to-two feet of snow was forecast in Wisconsin, and six inches in Illinois.




    Even Alabama and Mississippi could see snow, the service added.

    “This arctic air dumps out of Canada and will affect us for days,” said Richard Bann, a forecaster with the NWS’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.

    “We’ll even get some snow this afternoon in the (Washington) D.C. area,” he said. “And because it’s so cold, there won’t be much of a warm-up Wednesday. You’ll have to wait for the weekend, before you see any higher temperatures.”

    Blizzard conditions were predicted across parts of the western Ohio Valley and snow was expected through Wednesday from the Great Lakes region into New England.

    States of emergency have been declared from Wisconsin and Michigan, down to Alabama and Mississippi.

    In Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker said wind chill could drive temperatures to -55 degrees Fahrenheit in northern parts of the state on Tuesday evening, a level that can cause frostbite in a matter of minutes.

    “This is a potentially historic winter storm that will bring extreme cold to our state and all Illinoisans must prepare,” Pritzker said in a written statement released by his office.

    Parts of north and central Georgia are expecting about 2 inches of snow or more in the coming days, along with freezing rain and ice-slicked highways. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp shut down government offices in 35 counties Tuesday, and schools across swaths of the state are also closed.

    Air traffic in the region is affected, with more than 1,200 flights canceled and as many delayed, the flight tracking site FlightAware.com reported early Tuesday.

    Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc said it would waive flight change fees for passengers affected by the winter weather in Chicago, Detroit and areas of the Upper Midwest. (Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta, Maria Caspani and Gina Cherelus in New York and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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    If Trump can’t get ‘the wall,’ give border agents ‘more wall’ – Washington Examiner
    If Trump can’t get ‘the wall,’ give border agents ‘more wall’ – Washington Examiner

    Talking about “the wall” is now like banging your head against one. President Trump did a fantastic job selling the idea to the public, but the debate on controlling our jungle-like immigration system has shifted and now he needs to adjust. Otherwise, the border will be no more secure when he leaves the White House than when he arrived.

    That means he needs to stop yelling about “the wall,” where Democrats are completely uncompromising and screaming “racism” for entirely political reasons. He needs to start talking about “more wall,” which all the border patrol agents I spoke to in Texas (mostly Latinos, by the way) are asking for.

    There is no “the wall” that will ever get built — not least because Trump has never explained what it would look like or where it would go. But more importantly, there is already “wall” in place. We just need more of it, and depending on where it goes, it’s going to look different.

    In the Rio Grande Valley sector at the southern border of Texas, more people are illegally crossing into the U.S. than anywhere else. There are sections of wall there — 25 feet of concrete and steel — that work to slow down or stop aliens, aiding in their apprehension by agents.

    A portion of the border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Texas southern border.

    When I went there two weeks ago, they said they want more of that wall to fill in gaps where it hasn’t been built. They also want more money for cameras and additional agents.

    This has nothing to do with Trump. The pieces of wall that are there now were recommended by the border patrol in the 1990s and were built in 2008.

    But Trump on Saturday, after caving on the government shutdown, tweeted again about a “a powerful Wall” necessary to keep illegals at bay.

    Okay, maybe? But if Democrats are simply going to call that “racist” and never say yes to building it, force them instead to say no to what the border patrol wants.

    If they do, then we can once and for all drop the lie that Democrats are “for border security.”

    Border agents aren’t asking for “a powerful Wall.” They’re asking for more of what they already have, which Democrats said yes to in the past. Some in the conservative media aren’t helping by making dumb demands about “the wall,” insisting we replicate the barrier Israel has up around Gaza. Yes, Israel has a “wall” there, but guess what: It’s 40 miles long on mostly flat desert. You can’t build that over the 1,000 miles of canyons, mountains, and forest that make up our border with Mexico.

    Trump moved the country in the right direction on immigration. His repeated “We either have a country, or we don’t” argument in favor of border control was essential to his victory and should go down as one of the great political lines of all time.

    But he dragged his feet on fixing the problem when he had Republicans controlling both houses of Congress. Now he has to deal with Democrats who, if unwilling to build “the wall,” should at least be forced on the record to opposing what the Border Patrol wants: “more wall.”

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    Huawei and China, Facing U.S. Charges, Have Few Ways to Retaliate – The New York Times
    Huawei and China, Facing U.S. Charges, Have Few Ways to Retaliate – The New York Times

    The file she was carrying, which the indictment said might have been deleted before being discovered, contained “suggested talking points” about Huawei’s relationship with Skycom, the company that prosecutors accuse Huawei of using as an unofficial subsidiary to obtain American-sourced goods, technology and services for its Iranian business.

    The indictment also said Skycom employed at least one United States citizen in Iran, a violation of American law. And it said that after Huawei found out that the United States was pursuing a criminal investigation in 2017, the company destroyed evidence and tried to move unspecified witnesses who knew about its Iranian business to China, beyond the reach of the American government.

    The other indictment, which concerns the theft of trade secrets from the American wireless provider T-Mobile, refers to internal emails describing a plot to steal testing equipment from T-Mobile’s lab in Bellevue, Wash.

    Huawei has contended that its employees were acting on their own to learn more about a robot that T-Mobile used to test smartphones, nicknamed Tappy because it could rapidly tap a phone screen. But the indictment cites multiple emails exchanged between Huawei engineers urging those with access to Tappy to take increasingly precise measurements.

    Eventually, the indictment says, a Huawei engineer sneaked into the Tappy laboratory with the help of other Huawei employees who had access. He was caught and thrown out but returned, the indictment said.

    Later, after all but one Huawei employee had their access to the robot revoked, the employee took a Tappy robotic arm home for closer study, according to the indictment. A Huawei investigation into the issue, which concluded there was minimal coordination among the engineers, contained false statements, the indictment said.

    The indictment also cites a Huawei program started in 2013 to reward employees for stealing confidential information from competitors. They were directed to post such information to an internal Huawei website, or in special cases to an encrypted email address, the indictment said. Bonuses were apportioned to those who stole the most valuable information, it said.

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    United States Warns Americans Not To Travel To Venezuela As Tensions Rise – NPR
    United States Warns Americans Not To Travel To Venezuela As Tensions Rise – NPR

    Venezuela’s top prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, talks to reporters in Caracas on Tuesday. He announced that Juan Guaidó, now President Nicolás Maduro’s most prominent opponent, is barred from leaving the country because of an investigation.

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    Venezuela’s top prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, talks to reporters in Caracas on Tuesday. He announced that Juan Guaidó, now President Nicolás Maduro’s most prominent opponent, is barred from leaving the country because of an investigation.

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    The State Department warned Americans on Tuesday not to travel to Venezuela, citing crime, civil unrest and the arbitrary detention of U.S. citizens. It came the same day that Venezuela’s top prosecutor announced that the opposition leader, whom the United States supports, is being investigated and barred from leaving the country.

    “Security forces have arbitrarily detained U.S. citizens for long periods,” the travel advisory stated. “Venezuelan authorities may not notify the U.S. Embassy of the detention of a U.S. citizen, and consular access to detainees may be denied or severely delayed.”

    The warning was released in the aftermath of protests racking Venezuela and as tensions between Washington and Caracas have escalated after President Trump voiced support for Juan Guaidó.

    The 35-year-old opposition politician recently proclaimed himself interim president until free elections could take place. In early January, he was elected the president of the National Assembly, a legislative body the U.S. State Department considers to be the “last remaining democratically elected institution.” Guaidó says President Nicolás Maduro’s second term is illegitimate because of a fraudulent presidential race.

    On Monday, seeking to bolster Guaidó’s power, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and national security adviser John Bolton announced sweeping sanctions aimed at weakening Maduro’s grip on the oil-rich country: All assets of state-owned oil company PDVSA that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction will be frozen and all U.S. citizens prohibited from trading with the company.

    More than 100 individuals, entities and aircraft have been designated as blocked property, according to the White House.

    But come Tuesday, the oil company was attempting to bypass the sanctions by asking purchasers to revisit contracts, Reuters reported:

    “PDVSA began calling customers ahead of the sanctions, urging them to swap foreign fuel and other products for its Venezuelan crude cargoes, the sources said. It is also considering asking trading houses to act as intermediaries for a portion of its oil sales to indirectly supply customers in the United States and elsewhere.”

    Maduro denounced the U.S. government sanctions and accused the Trump administration of stealing Houston-based Citgo, a subsidiary of PDVSA.

    Quoting oil company President Manuel Quevedo, a former National Guard general, Maduro tweeted, “Shame on the U.S government’s insolent robbery to the Venezuelan people, they tried to take over CITGO by all means and for all these years.”

    Maduro also talked to troops on Tuesday and announced his intention to enlarge Venezuela’s civilian armed militia to 2 million members by mid-April, according to The Associated Press.

    Meanwhile, Bolton reaffirmed a warning to Venezuela: There will be “serious consequences for those who attempt to subvert democracy and harm Guaido,” he said.

    Venezuela’s chief prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, told reporters Tuesday at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice that he had ordered an investigation into Guaidó. He also called for Guaidó’s bank accounts to be frozen and his ability to leave Venezuela blocked.

    The State Department announced Tuesday that Secretary Mike Pompeo has certified Guaidó’s authority to control assets of the Venezuelan government held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any other U.S.-insured banks.

    As the diplomatic row continues, most American diplomats have been ordered to leave the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. A State Department spokesperson told NPR, “The safety and security of our personnel is a top priority. On January 24, 2019, the Department ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel from Venezuela.”

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    The Las Vegas shooter’s motive remains a mystery. But we know how to stop gun violence. – Vox.com
    The Las Vegas shooter’s motive remains a mystery. But we know how to stop gun violence. – Vox.com

    The FBI on Tuesday announced that it had concluded its investigation into the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, in which 58 people were killed. But the conclusion left a big mystery open: Investigators could not figure out the shooter’s motive, meaning we may never know why he carried out the attack.

    It’s certainly unsatisfying and upsetting that we’ll never know why this happened. For the families and friends of the victims, it may rob them of closure. And for policymakers and law enforcement, not knowing the motive may make it harder to implement steps to prevent similar attacks in the future.

    But just because we don’t know the motive does not mean that we don’t know why the shooting happened. We don’t know what drove the shooter to kill 58 people. But we know why he was able to: He lived in a country where he could get nearly 50 guns — comprising everything from handguns to assault rifles, sometimes modified with bump stocks that can make these weapons more lethal.

    After mass shootings, politicians and other officials try to point to all sorts of explanations for why an attack happened. It’s mental illness. It’s misogyny. It’s anti-Semitism. It’s some other form of extremism or hate.

    In individual shootings, these all of course can play a role. But when you want to explain why America sees so many of these mass shootings in general — 27 so far in 2019 alone, by one estimate — and why America suffers more gun violence than other developed nations, none of these factors in individual shootings give a satisfying answer. Only guns are the common factor.

    To put it another way: America does not have a monopoly on mental health issues, bigots, or extremists. What is unique about the US is that it makes it so easy for people with these issues to obtain a gun.

    America’s gun problem, briefly explained

    It comes down to two basic problems.

    First, America has uniquely weak gun laws. Other developed nations at the very least require one or more background checks and almost always something more rigorous beyond that to get a gun, from specific training courses to rules for locking up firearms to more arduous licensing requirements to specific justifications, besides self-defense, for owning a gun.

    In the US, even a background check isn’t a total requirement; the current federal law is riddled with loopholes and snared by poor enforcement, so there are many ways around even a basic background check. And if a state enacts stricter measures than federal laws, someone can simply cross state lines to buy guns in a jurisdiction with looser rules. There are simply very few barriers, if any, to getting a gun in the US.

    Second, the US has a ton of guns. It has far more than not just other developed nations, but any other country period. Estimated for 2017, the number of civilian-owned firearms in the US was 120.5 guns per 100 residents, meaning there were more firearms than people. The world’s second-ranked country was Yemen, a quasi-failed state torn by civil war, where there were 52.8 guns per 100 residents, according to an analysis from the Small Arms Survey.


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    Both of these factors come together to make it uniquely easy for someone with any violent intent to find a firearm, allowing them to carry out a horrific shooting.

    This is borne out in the statistics. The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate of Canada, more than seven times that of Sweden, and nearly 16 times that of Germany, according to United Nations data for 2012 compiled by the Guardian. (These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.)


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    The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, is also pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths. Researchers have found this to be true not just with homicides, but also with suicides (which in recent years were around 60 percent of US gun deaths), domestic violence, and violence against police.

    As a breakthrough analysis by UC Berkeley’s Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins in the 1990s found, it’s not even that the US has more crime than other developed countries. This chart, based on data from Jeffrey Swanson at Duke University, shows that the US is not an outlier when it comes to overall crime:


    Instead, the US appears to have more lethal violence — and that’s driven in large part by the prevalence of guns.

    “A series of specific comparisons of the death rates from property crime and assault in New York City and London show how enormous differences in death risk can be explained even while general patterns are similar,” Zimring and Hawkins wrote. “A preference for crimes of personal force and the willingness and ability to use guns in robbery make similar levels of property crime 54 times as deadly in New York City as in London.”


    This is in many ways intuitive: People of every country get into arguments and fights with friends, family, and peers. But in the US, it’s much more likely that someone will get angry at an argument and be able to pull out a gun and kill someone.

    Researchers have found that stricter gun laws could help. A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives. A review of the US evidence by RAND also linked some gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths. A growing body of evidence, from Johns Hopkins researchers, also supports laws that require a license to buy and own guns.

    That doesn’t mean that bigots and extremists will never be able to carry out a shooting in places with strict gun laws. Even the strictest gun laws can’t prevent every shooting.

    And guns are not the only contributor to violence. Other factors include, for example, poverty, urbanization, alcohol consumption, and the strength of criminal justice systems. But when researchers control for other confounding variables, they have found time and time again that America’s loose access to guns is a major reason the US is so much worse in terms of gun violence than its developed peers.

    So America, with its lax laws and abundance of firearms, makes it uniquely easy for people to commit massacres. Until the US confronts that issue, it will continue to see more gun deaths than the rest of the developed world.

    For more on America’s gun problem, read Vox’s explainer.

    Source Article from https://www.vox.com/2019/1/29/18202358/las-vegas-mass-shooting-motive-fbi

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    British pound lower after UK lawmakers vote on key Brexit amendments – CNBC
    British pound lower after UK lawmakers vote on key Brexit amendments – CNBC

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    The British pound fell to its lows of the day Tuesday after an amendment that would have delayed the U.K.’s exit from the European Union in the event both parties did not have a deal in place was voted down by Parliament.

    Sterling fell 0.6 percent to $1.307 against the U.S. dollar following the vote. Prior to that, it had traded around the flatline versus the greenback.

    The so-called Cooper amendment was defeated by a vote of 321 to 298. Named after Labour opposition lawmaker Yvette Cooper, the amendment would have sought to rule out a no-deal Brexit by giving the government more time to reach a formal agreement with the EU.

    The Brexit deadline is currently set for March 29, but the bill would have pushed back that date to Dec. 31. Thus it would have diminished the chances of a no deal — which is widely seen as being a negative for the U.K economy where the country would have to rely on World Trade Organization rules for trade.

    Like all amendments being voted on by the U.K. Parliament on Tuesday evening it would have required backing by the EU. Brussels has stated that it is not willing to budge on the Withdrawal Agreement that it agreed with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May at the end of 2018.

    Brady amendment passed

    Later on Tuesday evening, members of Parliament passed another amendment which called for the controversial Irish backstop to be replaced by an alternative.

    The vote, put forward by Conservative lawmaker Graham Brady, was won by 317 votes to 301, and is likely to secure more support for May’s proposals. Therefore it could potentially strengthen her hand when she returns to Brussels to thrash out adjustments to her plans. Sterling briefly spiked but then tracked slightly lower after the vote was announced.

    The Irish backstop is essentially a legally-binding insurance policy to ensure there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland whatever the outcome of future trade talks between the U.K. and the EU. It is disliked by many lawmakers who argue that it could tie the U.K. with the EU for an indefinite amount of time.



    U.K. lawmakers are still trying to wrangle a formal agreement with the EU for Brexit, after May’s initial proposals were overwhelmingly rejected in the U.K. Parliament on Jan. 15. May lost that vote by 230 in what was the largest defeat for a sitting government in U.K. political history.

    May has since sought to speak to a broad range of politicians to gauge possible ways forward for Brexit. She has also reportedly spoken to key EU officials and politicians on Tuesday, highlighting her intention to reopen negotiations.

    British citizens voted in favor of leaving the European Union in June 2016, a decision that sent ripples across global financial markets.

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    5 Things Swimmers Can Do to Stay on Track During the Polar Vortex – SwimSwam
    5 Things Swimmers Can Do to Stay on Track During the Polar Vortex – SwimSwam

    This week is projected to be one of the coldest weeks in the continental United States in at least a generation, if not ever. The upper-midwest is the epicenter, with Chicago in reach of its second-coldest day ever and wind chills at least 50 degrees below 0: colder than Antarctica or Mt. Everest are this week, but most of the country will be impacted: an estimated 75% of the United States will see temperatures below zero this week.

    Temperatures in some parts of the country will be cold enough for frostbite to set in in as few 5 or 10 minutes on exposed skin.

    Needless to say, there’s going to be a lot of cancelled swim practices in the coming days, which can be tough timing with the spring championship season just over the horizon. So, if you’re in one of these frigid wonderlands, and are trying to stave off a premature taper, here’s 5 tips for how to keep your season on track:

    1) Drylands – The most obvious thing to do: drylands! There are good routines all over the net, or you can ask your coach to send you one. The key to success here is to approach it like you would a practice. Don’t just haphazardly do some pushups when you’re bored; write down a routine, plan a time to do it in, and finish the entire workout – even if it’s hard. Just be sure that whatever you hook your stretch cord onto is screwed securely into a stud. Don’t rely on a towel rack. Alternatively, if you have a strong metal chair in your house, you can hook the stretch cord onto that – just pile up enough heavy things on the chair to overcome the rating of your stretch cords. Or better yet…stick with body weight. Probably a bad day to get kicked out of the house for putting holes in the walls.

    2) Don’t “Boredom Eat” – You’re not hibernating, but research shows that humans have a natural proclivity to overeat in the winter. The best way to stave off bored eating: don’t get bored (see #1). Come up with a project to entertain you, reorganize your closet, I dunno, you know what makes you bored. Just don’t do it! Soup is a great meal for times like this – lots of vegetables, a good hot meal on a good cold day, and most soups are low in calories, so if you go digging through the fridge for an afternoon snack, it won’t break the caloric bank.

    3) Don’t SnowSwim – Did you read the above? Frostbite in minutes? Just because one of y’all got y’allselves on a T-Mobile commercial doing it (who is this??) doesn’t mean you needa be out SnowSwimming when the windchill is -55. Save that for when it’s 30 and warming back up from the overnight snow. More broadly: don’t do anything stupid. We need everyone back in the water safely when this blows past, and all of that extra energy has to be spent somehow. Revert back to #1 if you find yourself antsy.

    4) Catch up on Schoolwork – I know, studying during a free day off? Sounds super lame. But, you’re not really sacrificing much (probably not many social gatherings going on when it’s that cold out), and you can earn some hours for later in the semester when you’re beat down by the grind. Make an investment in yourself.

    5) Or…just swim! – It’s -53C (-60 Fahrenheit) in Winnipeg, and people still live there! But seriously. Ian Grunewald, head coach of the Sst. James Seals Swim Club in Winnipeg, posted these photos on Tuesday. The temperature (not the windchill) has to be colder than -50C or colder to cancel schools, and the pool never closes because rec centers serve as emergency warming centres (eh).

    Source Article from https://swimswam.com/5-things-swimmers-can-do-to-stay-on-track-during-the-polar-vortex/

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    Senator Kamala Harris has an extreme idea to get gun control legislation passed – AOL
    Senator Kamala Harris has an extreme idea to get gun control legislation passed – AOL

    While fielding a question about gun violence during a CNN Town Hall appearance, presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris called out Congress for the lack of gun control legislation.

    And she even suggested “harsh” means to encourage Congress to introduce a new bill.Harris started her discussion about gun reform by saying: “You can be in favor of the second amendment and also understand that there is no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons around communities that can kill babies and police officers.”

    Harris shamed Congress for not introducing a bill following a 2011 assassination attempt on Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot in the head and 6 innocent bystanders were fatally shot.

    Harris slammed Giffords colleagues, saying: “The people who work with her every day, who know her – you know, we have colleagues. We know them. We know their children. We break bread. We share holiday moments with them. The people who knew her didn’t act.”

    Senator Harris became even more impassioned while discussing the inaction by congress following the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting that took the lives of 20 children between the ages 6 and 7.

    She said: “I think somebody should have required all those members of Congress to go in a room, in a locked room, no press, nobody else, and look at the autopsy photographs of those babies. And then you vote your conscience.”

    Senator Harris’s response resonated with many viewers, with one person tweeting: “Truly blown away by the answer that Kamala Harris just gave on gun violence.”

    San Francisco’s new district attorney, Kamala Harris, right, receives the oath of office from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George, left, during inauguration ceremonies Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004, in San Francisco. In the center is Harris’ mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, who holds a copy of “The Bill of Rights.” Harris, a political novice and career prosecutor, became San Francisco’s chief law enforcer Thursday and California’s first district attorney of Indian and black descent. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)

    California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who as a prosecutor once specialized in child sexual assault cases addresses the Domestic Human Trafficking symposium in Los Angeles, Friday, April, 25, 2014. According to a 2005 International Labour Organization paper, human trafficking, or sexual servitude and forced labor, brings in about $32 billion annually, making it the second most profitable criminal enterprise after illegal arms trafficking. The vast majority of those trafficked are women and children, from all milieus of society. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)




    While there was not a direct response to Senator Harris’s statements, in 2018 the National Rifle Association’s CEO Wayne LaPierre suggested armed guards instead of gun control to curb the problem, saying: “Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don’t harden our schools and protect our kids.”

    Regardless, Senator Harris made it abundantly clear who she holds accountable for the continued gun violence plaguing our great nation.

    “We’re not waiting for a tragedy. We have seen the worst human tragedies we can imagine. So what’s missing? What’s missing is people in the United States Congress to have the courage to act the right way,” she said.

    The Town Hall took place Monday in Des Moines, Iowa, and was broadcast live by CNN.

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    Source Article from https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/01/29/kamala-harris-has-an-extreme-idea-to-get-gun-control-legislation-passed/23655730/

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    ‘Life-Threatening Arctic Blast’ Surges Into Midwest, Barreling Toward Eastern U.S. – NPR
    ‘Life-Threatening Arctic Blast’ Surges Into Midwest, Barreling Toward Eastern U.S. – NPR

    People bundled up against the cold in downtown Chicago on Sunday. Forecasters warned of dangerous weather conditions across a swath of the U.S. over the next several days.

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    People bundled up against the cold in downtown Chicago on Sunday. Forecasters warned of dangerous weather conditions across a swath of the U.S. over the next several days.

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    Record-shattering cold, heavy snow and howling winds are descending on a broad swath of the U.S., the National Weather Service says. It’s the result of one of the coldest arctic air masses to hit the country in recent memory, the agency says, forecasting bitter conditions in areas from the Upper Midwest to many Eastern states.

    Warning of a “very dangerous and life-threatening arctic blast,” the weather service predicts that the next several days could see “widespread record lows and low maximum temperatures from the Upper Midwest to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.”

    Officials also are warning of horrible travel and road conditions, high temperatures that stay in the single digits and wind chills that dip far below zero.

    In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared a state of emergency, urging people to limit the time they spend exposed to the elements and to check on the well-being of children, older neighbors and pets. Her office advised people to keep water dripping through vulnerable pipes to prevent them from freezing — and to set the thermostat to the same temperature for night and day.

    “Keeping Michiganders safe during this stretch of dangerously cold temperatures is our priority,” Whitmer said.

    Frigid weather has already started to hit the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. It is expected to sweep into the Eastern U.S. in coming days, forcing residents and businesses, governments and schools to adapt to intensely low temperatures.

    Wisconsin could see wind chill values from minus 30 to minus 50 degrees, Gov. Tony Evers said as he declared a state of emergency in his state Monday afternoon.

    “When it gets this cold, nobody should be outside unless it is absolutely imperative for them to be outside,” Douglas Brunette, an emergency room doctor at Hennepin Healthcare, told Minnesota Public Radio.

    “Stay inside,” Brunette said, warning of the heightened risks of frostbite and hypothermia. “Don’t challenge nature.”

    Farther east, in Buffalo, N.Y., the city’s public school district canceled classes for Wednesday and Thursday and told school staff to stay home, citing the forecast of “heavy lake effect snow, winds, and extreme cold.” Other nearby districts were making similar plans, as member station WBFO reports.

    A winter weather advisory went into effect at 4 a.m. Tuesday in Baltimore, where health officials declared a “Code Blue” emergency through Friday morning. “The designation prompts agencies to offer free meals for senior citizens, encourage homeless people to seek shelter and help residents apply for utility bill assistance,” The Baltimore Sun reports.

    As of Tuesday, more than 1,800 flights had been canceled and more than 8,000 had been delayed.

    Federal government workers in the Washington, D.C., area were allowed to leave two hours early, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

    In the Southeast, predictions of perilous weather prompted Delta Air Lines to cancel 170 flights out of Atlanta on Tuesday. Member station WABE’s Susanna Capelouto says it was a pre-emptive move and that travelers will be allowed to change their flights without a penalty.

    “It’s Super Bowl week in Atlanta, so a forecast of possible snow late this morning caused schools and governments to close for the day,” Capelouto reports for NPR. “Icy weather is taken seriously here, as just five years ago, thousands of motorist were stranded on highways after a midday snowfall.”

    Around 1 p.m. ET, the National Weather Service office in Atlanta canceled its winter weather advisory for counties in northern Georgia but warned that patches of black ice could still pose a threat.

    Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency for all of her state’s counties Monday, well in advance of the brunt of the storm. As member station WBHM reports, many school systems and city and county offices have since been closed because of expected snow.

    “Due to the extreme cold and heavy snow predictions, all crime and doing really dumb things has been cancelled until further notice,” the Priceville Police Department in Alabama joked in a post on Facebook.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689689124/life-threatening-arctic-blast-surges-into-midwest-barreling-toward-eastern-u-s

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    New poll is bad news for Democrats, worse for Trump – Washington Examiner
    New poll is bad news for Democrats, worse for Trump – Washington Examiner

    Americans are united by a commonly shared distaste for their leaders, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News survey.

    The poll, which was conducted between Jan. 21 and 24 and sampled 1,001 U.S. adults, found that a majority of respondents are dead set against voting for President Trump should he run again in the 2020 election.

    A full 56 percent the survey’s respondents said they “Definitely would NOT vote for” him if he runs again as the GOP nominee, while a much smaller 14 percent say they “Would consider voting for” his re-election bid. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

    Only 28 percent of respondents gave a hard “yes” when they were asked if they “Definitely would vote for” him.

    Those are not great numbers for the president. Obviously.

    He will need to turn these figures around fast, and there’s only so much he can do now that he has the support of only one chamber of Congress. Then again, he can always gamble his re-election chances on the sheer incompetence of his 2020 challenger. It worked for him in 2016, running against someone who was less likeable than himself. He might luck out again in two years and have the good fortune of running opposite another monument to hubris.

    [Read more: The challenge for any 2020 primary challenge to Trump]

    Speaking of troubles, the Democrats may have a problem of their own, based on the numbers reported in the Washington Post-ABC News survey.

    The survey’s 447 “Leaned Democrats” were given a choice of liberal candidates to rank. They were asked, “If the 2020 Democratic primary or caucus in your state were being held today, for whom would you vote?” The choices include former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, former first lady Michelle Obama, two-time losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey.

    The overwhelming majority (43 percent) of respondents identified as “Leaned Democrat” said they had “no opinion.” Not a single name offered by the survey’s administrators broke double-digits. Not even Oprah. Biden leads the competition with a whopping 9 percent, while Sen. Harris trails directly behind him with 8 percent. Clinton, who was billed in 2016 as the most qualified presidential candidate in U.S. history, came in at only 1 percent. She is tied with “Someone New,” which also came in at 1 percent.

    When the “Leaned Democrat” respondents were asked to offer their choice to run against the Republican nominee in 2020, 56 percent of them offered nothing. In other words, there is no clear front-runner for the opposition party, and there is no clear, enthusiastic support for any likely Democratic contender, even as the 2020 campaign season is underway and as the president’s approval numbers are at all-time lows. “Indecision reigns,” as the Washington Post put it.

    And if there’s one person who knows how to capitalize on the indecisiveness of his opponents, it’s the chaos agent in the White House.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-poll-is-bad-news-for-democrats-worse-for-trump

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    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will not run for president – POLITICO
    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will not run for president – POLITICO

    Mayor Eric Garcetti, a fourth-generation Angeleno of Mexican-Italian-Jewish descent, had been edging toward a presidential run, using the midterm elections to launch a tightly choreographed play where he traveled the country. | Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

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    LOS ANGELES — Eric Garcetti will not run for president in 2020, he confirmed late Tuesday, saying that being mayor of Los Angeles is “what I am meant to do.”

    Garcetti, who traveled extensively for months as he mulled a presidential run, said at a hastily arranged news conference here that in local government he saw a “vision of a brighter future and a better day” that stood in “contrast to what we see coming out of Washington, D.C., every day.”

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    “Reflecting on those travels and recognizing the incredible opportunity that I have every single day as mayor of this great town,” Garcetti said, “I realized that this is what I am meant to do, this is where I want to be, and this is a place where we have so much exciting work to finish.”

    Garcetti called the recently settled teachers’ strike in Los Angeles “a little bit of a kick in the pants for me that what we have right here in Los Angeles sets the pace for the nation.”

    He said he had decided against running for president “a couple of weeks ago in my mind, but not finally until this morning.”

    The 47-year-old mayor, whose term does not end until 2022, declined to foreclose on a future campaign. When asked about running for vice president on a potential 2020 ticket, however, he said, “I think I’ve got a better job than that.”

    He said, “I kind of believe that whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.”

    He said no other candidate’s entry into the race — including that of Sen. Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian — dissuaded him. However, he said that he was confident the Democratic nominee in 2020 could defeat President Donald Trump and that “I feel even more secure in my decision watching the field of candidates who are jumping into the race in 2020.”

    Garcetti, a fourth-generation Angeleno of Mexican-Italian-Jewish descent, had been edging toward a presidential run, using the midterm elections to launch a tightly choreographed play in which he traveled the country and built up goodwill by raising more than $1 million for state Democratic parties.

    But the demands on his time in working to help settle a recent teachers’ strike in his home city put those plans on hold, Garcetti acknowledged to reporters last week at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington.

    Several Democratic activists and officials on the ground in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire told POLITICO that they had heard nothing from the mayor recently about a possible run.

    “It’s radio silence,” said one Democrat in an early presidential state.

    No mayor has ever jumped directly from City Hall to the White House, and the prospects of such a feat in 2020 appeared long. But Garcetti had been at the front of a handful of Democratic mayors considering presidential campaigns. Earlier this month, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., entered the race.

    In 2017, Garcetti started a nonprofit group of mayors working with labor and business leaders to fund investments in cities around the country, giving him a platform to travel extensively as he mulled a campaign.

    During the midterm elections, Garcetti used his expansive Hollywood donor network to raise money for state parties — including some small, typically overlooked states — hosting fundraisers for them in Los Angeles.

    Last year, he hosted a Hollywood fundraiser with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and DJ Khaled that raised more than $1 million, divided among 10 state parties. Garcetti had previously raised $100,000 for the South Carolina Democratic Party at a fundraiser in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park.

    Thanking Garcetti at that event, the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Trav Robertson, said to applause, “After the mess we’ve got in Washington, we all may need somebody who’s got experience managing a large government and an economy.”

    As he considered running, Garcetti sought to position himself as an officeholder who is especially grounded in the day-to-day concerns of governing. Contrasting Los Angeles explicitly with Washington in his State of the City address last year, he described the city he oversees as “thriving, strong, stable and decent.”

    Still, Garcetti has been dogged by a pervasive homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. Writing in the Los Angeles Times last year, columnist Steve Lopez told readers that with a such a crisis in their city, “this could be the year Garcetti’s presidential pipe dream ruptures under a shantytown in the homeless capital of the United States.”

    Garcetti’s exit comes two days after Harris launched her presidential campaign with a massive rally in Oakland. Earlier this month, a third Californian, billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, announced that he would not run for president in 2020.

    Garcetti said he is a friend of many of the Democratic Party’s top contenders, and he called Buttigieg, a fellow mayor, “a big sleeper who’s going to surprise people.”

    He pledged to continue to advocate for cities, saying, “I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.”

    Garcetti acknowledged “some sadness about this moment, but not much. I mostly have excitement about it.”

    He said that when he told his 7-year-old daughter he did not plan to run for president, she told him” “That’s good. You’ll be home more.”

    Garcetti said, “That’s when I knew it was the right decision.”

    Source Article from https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/eric-garcetti-will-not-run-for-president-1136400

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    In rebuke to Trump, Mitch McConnell unveils proposal urging troops stay in Syria, Afghanistan – CNN
    In rebuke to Trump, Mitch McConnell unveils proposal urging troops stay in Syria, Afghanistan – CNN

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      CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s chief prosecutor asked the pro-government Supreme Court on Tuesday to prohibit opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó from leaving the country and to freeze his bank accounts, prompting the United States, which a day earlier slapped sweeping sanctions on Venezuela’s state-run oil company, to say there would be “serious consequences” if Guaidó is harmed.

      “We request these preventive measures against Guaidó while we compile elements to stop the events that since January 22 have broken the peace of the Republic,” the prosecutor, Tarek Saab, said in a news conference.

      Speaking at the opposition-led National Assembly, which he heads, Guaidó responded to the move by dismissing it as “nothing new under the sun.” He said it came from “a regime that doesn’t give answers to Venezuelans” and whose “only answer is persecution and repression.” Guaidó added: “The world is clear on what’s happening in Venezuela . . . Let’s not desist because of threats and persecution. We will continue to advance in our fight.”

      The United States, which backs Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, pushed back hard against the chief prosecutor’s effort. “We denounce the illegitimate former Venezuelan Attorney General’s threats against President Juan Guaido,” White House national security adviser John Bolton wrote on Twitter. “Let me reiterate—there will be serious consequences for those who attempt to subvert democracy and harm Guaido.”

      The chief prosecutor’s request came after the United States escalated its efforts to unseat leftist President Nicolás Maduro on Monday by punishing the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), in an effort to transfer control over it to the opposition. The U.S. move freezes $7 billion in U.S.-based assets and blocks more than $11 billion in revenue that Venezuela would get from oil sales next year through its U.S.-based company Citgo, which owns three refineries in the United States and employs thousands of workers.

      [Russia slams U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and vows to back Maduro]

      “Today’s designation of PDVSA will help prevent further diverting of Venezuela’s assets by Maduro and preserve these assets for the people of Venezuela,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement Monday. The Treasury Department said money would go to a fund that a transitional government headed by Guaidó would eventually have access to.

      On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also gave Guaidó control over certain Venezuelan government accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

      Revenue from oil sales to the United States and from Citgo, which imports Venezuela’s heavy crude oil, refines it and distributes gasoline throughout the United States, is one of the Maduro administration’s main sources of income. These oil sanctions, experts say, constitute the biggest blow that the populist Maduro, who rose to power in 2013 after leftist firebrand Hugo Chávez died and named him his successor, has ever confronted.

      “Venezuelan heavy oil is not easy to place. These sanctions leave the government with a tiny maneuvering margin,” said Henkel Garcia, head of local consulting firm Econometrica. “This is not just a big blow to Maduro but also to the Venezuelan people. It will hit the population hard in the short term with scarcity of food and medicines and even of gasoline.”

      [Trump administration announces sanctions targeting Venezuela’s oil industry]

      Venezuela’s government is responsible for more than half the country’s imports of food and medicine. The country, which depends on oil production that has steeply fallen in recent years, also depends on imports of raw materials to manufacture and distribute basic goods. Even the processing of the country’s heavy crude depends on imports of diluents and additives from the United States.

      The sanctions come during a tense week in Venezuela. Overnight protests are surging and are being met with harsh repression. At least 35 people have been killed and more than 800 detained in a week. More protest marches are scheduled this week.

      Many Venezuelans are desperate for change as they confront crippling hyperinflation and scarcity of vital medicines, but many worry that U.S. sanctions could make the dramatic situation even worse in the short term.

      At a supermarket in central Caracas on Tuesday, people were making nervous purchases amid predictions that food would become scarcer after the sanctions.

      Amaury Caraballo, 62, a businessman, said he has been trying to buy more food but that prices are too high to accumulate much. “I support the sanctions because it’s the only way to pressure the regime,” he said. “Everyone in the country is struggling to find food and medicines already. I’m definitely worried the sanctions will harden the situation for us, and I’m getting prepared for it, but I think it will be a good thing in the long term.”

      A 63-year-old textile businessman, Jacobo Benzaken, said the sanctions would hit the people harder than they would hit the government. “We will have no gasoline, no money, nothing,” he said. “I’m scared of not having transportation, food. Everything is scary. If we’re not doing well now, imagine what comes next?”

      Freddy Guevara, an opposition leader who who has taken refuge inside the Chilean Embassy, tweeted: “Yesterday President Guaidó achieved the protection of the republic’s accounts abroad to avoid further robbing. Today the usurpers respond by freezing his checking account with which he recharges his phone balance. We’re doing well Venezuela. #assymetricwar”

      In Washington, speculation about possible U.S. military intervention grew Monday after White House national security adviser John Bolton appeared at a news conference carrying a yellow notepad bearing the handwritten words, “5,000 troops to Colombia.”

      [Photo of John Bolton’s notes raises questions about U.S. military role in Venezuela crisis]

      Speaking to soldiers before they held a military exercise in the Caracas suburb of Maracay, Maduro said the U.S. was leading a coup against him by threatening to send troops to the Colombian border, referring to the Bolton notepad.

      “It’s an infantile way of leading an imperialist foreign policy,” Maduro said. “You, military leaders of our homeland have to stay loyal and subordinate, and defend us saying ‘Yankee go home, get out of here.”

      He announced the intention of creating 5,000 “defense units” across the country and to grow the country’s civilian militia to 2 million people. He then joined soldiers in the exercise, jogging with them.

      This is the second military exercise Maduro has attended since his swearing in.

      Separately, the State Department on Tuesday issued a new travel advisory for Venezuela, raising it to “Level 4 — Do Not Travel.” The advisory cited “crime, civil unrest, poor health infrastructure, and arbitrary arrest and detention of U.S. citizens.” In its previous travel advisory dated Jan. 24, the department ordered “the departure of non-emergency U.S. government employees and family members due to ongoing political instability.”

      Bolton has maintained that all options remain on the table when it comes to Venezuela, prompting questions about whether the top White House official showed off the notepad purposely as a warning and show of mettle.

      Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday that he has not spoken with Bolton about the possibility of deploying 5,000 troops to the U.S.-allied nation along Venezuela’s western border. He declined to comment on whether he had spoken to anyone else in the administration about the possible involvement of American troops in the crisis.

      “We are supporting, we are monitoring the situation very carefully, and we’re watching,” Shanahan said. “We are working very much in real time.”

      Shanahan said the National Security Council, under Bolton’s leadership, has “created a number of options” with regard to Venezuela.

      “We support them with their policy development, and as the situation in Venezuela evolves, we are there to give them advice and counsel and support,” he said.

      In a televised meeting with diplomats on Monday, Maduro fired back at the United States. “John Bolton announced a series of immoral and illegal unilateral and criminal measures,” he said. “With this measure they want to rob our company Citgo. Be alert Venezuela.” He added that the state oil company would take “legal and political actions” shortly.

      Krygier reported from Miami and Faiola from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Paul Sonne in Washington contributed to this report.

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      8 things you shouldn’t leave in your car in cold weather during polar vortex – Detroit Free Press
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      Here are a few things you don’t want to leave in your car during a polar vortex.
      USA TODAY

      Editors’ note: This story is an updated version of an article published on Jan. 3, 2018.

      The polar vortex is swooping down from the North Pole once again this week, paralyzing a wide swath of the nation with frigid temperatures and howling winds.

      In Chicago, it is forecast to feel like minus-45 degrees with the wind chill, and Minneapolis could reach minus-54 degrees.

      As temperatures continue to drop, you might want to take a look at your car. While there are several ways to winter-proof your vehicle, here are some things you shouldn’t leave inside for a considerable length of time:

      Cellphones

      Apple advises against storing the iPhone or iPad at temperatures below negative-4 degrees, and they shouldn’t be operated at temperatures lower than 32 degrees. There are similar recommendations for Samsung phones and other electronics. Lithium-ion batteries popular in cellphones are the most vulnerable component to cold. They can stop working in extreme cold but should be OK once you get back indoors. However, repeated exposure to subzero temperatures can cause problems. 

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      Soda or beer

      Water expands when it freezes. And for canned liquids under pressure, that can mean explosion. The freeze temperature for Coca-Cola is 30 degrees, and the temperature for beer that’s 5 percent alcohol by volume is 27 degrees (higher-alcohol beers freeze at lower temperatures), as NJ.com reported. 

      Musical instruments

      Things contract when they freeze, so this can cause some instruments to go out of tune. More seriously, “damage can be done when an instrument shrinks as a result of the cold air. If your instrument is made of real wood, the cold air can cause cracking, which is very expensive to repair. Sometimes they are broken beyond repair,” according to The Real School of Music. If an instrument is left in a freezing car for a long period, try to make it warm up gradually. 

      Eggs

      Eggs shouldn’t be allowed to freeze in their shells; if that happens, throw away any cracked eggs. Keep the un-cracked ones frozen, and move them to the refrigerator before use. “These can be hard cooked successfully, but other uses may be limited. That’s because freezing causes the yolk to become thick and syrupy so it will not flow like an unfrozen yolk or blend very well with the egg white or other ingredients,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service. 

      Canned foods

      Letting a can of beans freeze allows for the water to freeze and expand in a similar way to beer and soda. The USDA advises that this can result in a broken seal, causing spoilage. If canned food freezes, allow it to thaw in a refrigerator. “If the product doesn’t look and/or smell normal, throw it out. DO NOT TASTE IT! If the seams have rusted or burst, throw the cans out immediately, wrapping the burst can in plastic and disposing the food where no one, including animals can get it,” according to the USDA.

      Medication

      If you’re visiting a pharmacy during the deep freeze, consider that some medications can be affected by low temperatures. “Drugs like insulin can lose their effectiveness if they freeze. The same goes for any so-called suspended medication that has to be shaken before use,” according to a report in The New York Times. 

      Loved ones

      This should be obvious. But it’s worth noting that children and elderly people can be more susceptible to hypothermia at cold temperatures, with symptoms such as shivering, confusion and exhaustion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So even limited amounts of time in an unheated vehicle could be dangerous. The same goes for pets.

      A low gas tank

      Keeping a fuel tank more than half-full helps to prevent fuel lines from freezing. It’s also a good idea to check fluids, such as antifreeze. The cold can affect tire pressure. “A temperature change of just 10 degrees can cause a 10 percent reduction, or constriction, of air in tires. So tire pressure can be affected from day to night temperature,” according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. 

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