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College Admissions Scandal Shows How The System Favors Wealthy Students – NPR

The fallout — and fascination — continues from the massive college admissions scandal.

The University of Southern California has “placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged admissions scheme,” the school said in a statement on its website. And lawmakers in Congress have already introduced legislation aimed at leveling the playing field for college students.

But many of those students say they aren’t surprised by the the scheme that involved bribing university coaches and test proctors to get wealthy students into some of the nation’s top schools.

Whether you’re fascinated by Olivia Jade or furious at her parents for scamming the system, here are a few ideas to keep in mind.

There are lots of ways that wealthy families get a boost in the college admissions process. Most are quite legal.

Donations: It’s no secret that well-off alumni give money to their alma maters. This cash can make a difference when the kids of these alumni grow up and apply to college. The issue came up last fall in the Harvard University admissions trial — which focused on the ways that the school factors race into admission. That trial also lifted the the veil on how the process can work, and among evidence presented were email exchanges between Harvard officials discussing connections between applicants and major donors.

Legacy admissions: Nearly half of private colleges and universities (42 percent) and 6 percent of public ones take into account whether an applicant’s family members attended that school, according to Inside Higher Ed. Harvard officials defended their use of legacy admissions in court filings, saying the practice helps connect the school with its alumni, whose financial support is essential.

Campus visits: Some colleges consider whether or not students “demonstrate interest” in their schools by making the costly trip to visit campus. But not every family can afford that trip.

Applying early decision: At many schools, students are more likely to be admitted in the early action or early decision cycles, which occur in the fall instead of the spring. But research shows that early options favor white and wealthy students.

College consulting and test prep: As The New York Times reported last week, some well-off families pay hundreds, even thousands of dollars for guidance from college consultants. These consultants are part of an entire industry devoted to getting wealthy teens into their schools of choice.

How important is it to attend one of these elite schools?

For most Americans, these schools represent more than a college degree — they’re seen as a ticket to economic mobility. And getting into an elite college can make a big difference for low-income students, who end up making almost as much as their peers, according to research by a team based at Harvard.

But studies have also shown that going to a prestigious college doesn’t make much of a difference in the long-term happiness or life satisfaction.

This college admissions scandal is one part of a larger story about education. Don’t forget the bigger picture.

Even when low-income students make it to campus, inequity continues.

“Universities have extended invitations to more and more diverse sets of students, but have not changed their ways to adapt to who is on campus,” Anthony Abraham Jack, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told NPR’s Elissa Nadworny.

Schools don’t always set up students from underrepresented backgrounds — including those who are the first in their families to go to college, and those from rural areas — for success.

Even before college, low-income students and children of color are at a disadvantage in school.

A report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published last year concluded, “The federal government must take bold action to address inequitable funding in our nation’s public schools.” Schools in America remain largely segregated — and those serving mostly students of color get $23 billion less than schools serving white students, according to a recent report from the nonprofit EdBuild.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/03/23/705183942/how-admissions-really-work-if-the-college-admissions-scandal-shocked-you-read-th

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American-backed Syrian force declares victory over Islamic State – USA TODAY

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Fighting in the Syrian village of Baghouz, the last IS-held pocked in the country, continued on Tuesday. A spokesman says U.S.-backed forces took control of an encampment that IS extremists have held for months. (March 19)
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The Islamic State group lost its final sliver of territory in Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Saturday while declaring victory over the extremists.

Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the SDF, tweeted that the militant group, also known as ISIS, suffered “100 percent territorial defeat.” He said that the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz, where jihadists had been mounting a last stand, “is free and the military victory against Daesh has been achieved.” Daesh is ISIS’ Arabic acronym.

Bali said that the self-declared caliphate that ISIS established in 2014, and which once sprawled across much of Syria and neighboring Iraq while imposing brutal rule on as many as 8 million people, had been eradicated. He said the SDF pledged to continue the fight against remnants of the extremist group until they are completely gone.

Saturday’s announcement is significant. It marks the end of a 4 ½-year military campaign by an array of forces against the extremist group, which at its height in 2014 ruled an area the size of the United Kingdom, including several major cities and towns.

The announcement follows remarks by President Donald Trump after landing in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. “That’s what we have right now,” he said while showing reporters a map comparing ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014 with today. The map indicated ISIS’ diminished territory. It “will be gone by tonight,” he said.

But the jihadist group remains a serious threat despite repeated announcements from Trump that it had been completely defeated and that its demise meant there was no longer any reason to keep U.S. troops deployed in Syria.

While ISIS has yielded all of its physical territory in Syria or Iraq, it is still a potent fighting force and continues to carry out insurgent attacks in both countries. It also maintains affiliates in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

More: Hoda Muthana, who married into ISIS, won’t get fast-tracked case, judge rules

According to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ISIS’ military capabilities are far from obliterated. The Washington-based think tank estimates the militant group may still have 20,000 to 30,000 active fighters in Syria and Iraq.

Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander for U.S. operations in South Asia and the Middle East, said in February that coalition forces needed to maintain “a vigilant offensive against the now largely dispersed and disaggregated (ISIS) that retains leaders, fighters, facilitators, resources and the profane ideology that fuels their efforts.”

In January, U.S. military planners and officials issued a report for the Defense Department that said that ISIS “could likely resurge in Syria within six to 12 months and regain limited territory” if adequate pressure by coalition forces was not maintained.

After Trump ordered a complete withdrawal of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, Defense Secretary James Mattis announced his intention to resign. In February, under pressure from Congress and the Pentagon, Trump agreed to leave a residual force of about 20 to 400 U.S. troops in Syria for “peacekeeping” purposes.

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied in a statement this week a report in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. military is now developing plans to keep nearly 1,000 troops in Syria. Dunford called the report “factually incorrect.”

More: Told to leave, ISIS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/23/islamic-state-syria-american-forces-baghouz/3254079002/

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Hundreds of thousands march in London to demand new Brexit referendum – Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May’s premiership.

Marchers set off in central London with banners proclaiming “the best deal is no Brexit” and “we demand a People’s Vote” in what organisers said could be the biggest anti-Brexit protest yet.

After three years of tortuous debate, it is still uncertain how, when or even if Brexit will happen as May tries to plot a way out of the gravest political crisis in at least a generation.

May hinted on Friday that she might not bring her twice-defeated EU divorce deal back to parliament next week, leaving her Brexit strategy in meltdown. The Times and The Daily Telegraph reported that pressure was growing on May to resign. [nL8N21A0B6]

“I would feel differently if this was a well managed process and the government was taking sensible decisions. But it is complete chaos,” Gareth Rae, 59, who travelled from Bristol to attend the demonstration, told Reuters.

“The country will be divided whatever happens and it is worse to be divided on a lie.”

While the country and its politicians are divided over Brexit, most agree it is the most important strategic decision the United Kingdom has faced since World War Two.

Pro-EU protesters gathered for a “Put it to the people march” at Marble Arch on the edge of Hyde Park around midday, before marching past the prime minister’s office in Downing Street and finish outside parliament.

While there was no official estimate of the numbers, campaign organisers said hundreds of thousands of people were in the crowd as it began to march.

Organisers were confident that the size of the crowd would exceed a similar rally held in October, when supporters said about 700,000 people turned up.

“NEVER GONNA GIVE EU UP”

Phoebe Poole, 18, who was holding a placard saying “never gonna give EU up” in reference to a song by 1980s popstar Rick Astley, wasn’t old enough to vote in the 2016 referendum.

“We have come here today because we feel like our future has been stolen from us. It is our generation that is going to have to live with the consequences of this disaster,” she told Reuters.

“It is going to make it harder to get a job. You are already seeing a lot of large companies leaving. I am worried about the future.”

Two hundred coaches from around Britain were booked to take people to London for the march. One coach left the Scottish Highlands on Friday evening, and another left from Cornwall on England’s western tip early on Saturday morning.

A petition to cancel Brexit altogether gained 4 million signatures in just 3 days after May told the public “I am on your side” over Brexit and urged lawmakers to get behind her deal.

In the June 23, 2016 referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 52 percent, backed Brexit while 16.1 million, or 48 percent, backed staying in the bloc.

But ever since, opponents of Brexit have been exploring ways to hold another referendum.

May has repeatedly ruled out holding another Brexit referendum, saying it would deepen divisions and undermine support for democracy. Brexit supporters say a second referendum would trigger a major constitutional crisis.

We already put it to the people. And the people roared,” pro-leave group Change Britain said in a tweet.

Supporters of Brexit say that while the divorce might bring some short-term instability, in the longer term Britain would thrive if cut free from what they cast as a doomed experiment in German-dominated unity that is falling far behind other major powers.

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Some opinion polls have shown a slight shift in favour of remaining in the European Union, but there has yet to be a decisive change in attitudes.

Many voters in Britain say they have become increasingly bored by Brexit and May said on Wednesday that they want this stage of the Brexit process to be “over and done with.”

But protesters disagreed with May’s claim that she is on the side of the British public, with one placard reading: “You do not speak for us Theresa.”

Editing by Guy Faulconbridge

Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-march/hundreds-of-thousands-march-in-london-to-demand-new-brexit-referendum-idUSKCN1R40CG

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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.

Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-data-breach-exposed-personal-information-of-2-3-million-disaster-victims/

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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.”

Source Article from https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article228179524.html

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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.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/get-ready-trump-spin-mueller-report-n986536

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

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Trump’s Golan Fiasco – POLITICO

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Recognizing the disputed territory won’t help Israel. But it will reverberate all over the world.

President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights on Twitter Thursday, sending a sudden thrill through the Israeli electorate just two weeks ahead of the election on April 9. Israel’s embattled prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, immediately welcomed the announcement – and so, helplessly, did Netanyahu’s election opponents.

Whatever the symbolic power of Trump’s recognition for Israelis – and it is symbolic, as the strategic 500 square-mile plateau has been under Israeli control since 1967, when Israeli troops seized it from Syria – his Golan move will have a fierce afterburn. It damages Israeli security and undermines American interests in the Middle East and beyond, while stirring a hornet’s nest that didn’t need stirring.

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Netanyahu, facing voters for the fourth consecutive time in just two weeks, is in the fight of his political life. His re-election quest has run into two major roadblocks. The first is a looming indictment for multiple corruption charges — Israel’s attorney general has already announced his intent to indict the prime minister. The second is the Blue-White Coalition, an unexpectedly strong challenge from a new electoral alliance headed by three former army chiefs of staff and a former finance minister. Only a decisive electoral victory and the chance to pass a law granting him immunity while in office might rescue Netanyahu from an ignominious fate.

Facing these challenges, Netanyahu has pulled out all the stops. He has used his bully pulpit to label the corruption investigation (by his handpicked attorney general) a witch hunt. He has brought even the most extreme parties under his wing – even Otzma Yehudit, widely condemned as racist within Israel and among American Jewish groups – with promises of ministerial portfolios. And he has relentlessly pressed the case that no one can match the respect he wins from world leaders – especially the one in Washington.

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

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

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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.

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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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