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Medical marijuana dispensaries bill passes Georgia House – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Medical marijuana dispensaries bill passes Georgia House – Atlanta Journal Constitution

The Georgia House approved a bill Tuesday that would allow medical marijuana oil to be sold to registered patients, giving them a legal way to obtain a drug that they’re already allowed to use.

The legislation, which passed on a 123-40 vote, would permit medical marijuana growing, manufacturing, testing and distribution. Sixty dispensaries would serve the state’s rising number of physician-approved medical marijuana patients — more than 8,400 so far. Marijuana would remain illegal for recreational use.

Georgia has allowed patients suffering from severe seizures, deadly cancers and other illnesses to use medical marijuana oil since 2015. But it’s against the law to grow, buy, sell or transport the drug, leaving patients no permissible method of obtaining it.

“These aren’t people who are seeking a recreational high. These aren’t people who are seeking to use illicit drugs,” said state Rep. Micah Gravley, a Republican from Douglasville. “These are people who have tried and failed with opioids. These are people who want their children to suffer less seizures.”

The measure, House Bill 324, now advances to the state Senate. Gov. Brian Kemp has previously said he’s open to “research-based expansion” of medical marijuana.

If approved, Georgia would join 31 states that already allow some form of marijuana cultivation, according to the Joint Commission on Low THC Medical Oil Access, a group of lawmakers and stakeholders that recommended licensing marijuana growers, manufacturers and dispensaries.

Opponents of the proposal, including sheriffs and some religious groups, say it could lead to outright marijuana legalization.

“The path Georgia is taking now is a very treacherous and dangerous path,” said Terry Norris, the executive director of the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association. “The sheriffs are serious when they say that marijuana is a dangerous, addictive gateway drug. Even though we’re not taking about legalizing for recreational purposes, we believe all the notoriety of this discussion will lead to increased marijuana use by children.”

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The legislation would prohibit smoking or vaping medical marijuana oil.

Georgia’s medical marijuana program allows registered patients to use marijuana with up to 5 percent THC, the main psychoactive component of the cannabis plant.

The law covers 16 conditions, including severe seizures, deadly cancer, peripheral neuropathy and multiple sclerosis. Patients who register with the state are protected from criminal prosecution for possessing up to 20 fluid ounces of low-THC oil.

Last year, the General Assembly added post-traumatic stress disorder and intractable pain to the list of conditions eligible for treatment by cannabis oil.

“It was hypocritical to me to pass bills to let this substance be available to the sickest folks that needed it, the worst, and yet we didn’t give them the access to get it,” said Regulated Industries Chairman Alan Powell, a Republican from Hartwell. “There’s nothing in this bill that will encourage recreational use.”

This year’s legislation proposes that the state license a total of 60 medical marijuana dispensaries, split between large growers and distributors, smaller-scale companies and stand-alone retailers.

Initial licenses would cost $150,000 for large companies, $37,500 for smaller companies and $30,000 for retailers. Businesses would also have to pay annual license renewal fees ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.

Licenses would be approved by Jan. 1, and state-sanctioned medical marijuana products would be available to patients within 12 months of the license date.

A separate bill that the state House approved last week would allow hemp farming in Georgia. Hemp, with less than 0.3 percent THC, could be processed into CBD oils that are legally sold in stores.

Stay on top of what’s happening in Georgia government and politics at ajc.com/news/georgia-government/.






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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With Trump silent, no ‘sheriff’ in town on Pakistan-India crisis, ex-diplomats say – NBC News
With Trump silent, no ‘sheriff’ in town on Pakistan-India crisis, ex-diplomats say – NBC News

When India and Pakistan stood on the brink of war in 1999, President Bill Clinton waded into the crisis with personal diplomacy, forceful letters and stern warnings, threatening tough economic action against Islamabad unless it backed down.

But as tensions escalated last week between India and Pakistan, President Donald Trump and many of his senior aides were preoccupied with a high-stakes summit with North Korea, as well as a heated congressional hearing featuring his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

It was the most serious confrontation between the South Asian nuclear-armed rivals in decades, but the Trump administration was effectively a bystander — it did not seek to mediate the standoff as the U.S. has in the past, several former and foreign diplomats told NBC News.

Activists of Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an anti-Indian protest in Karachi on March 1, 2019.Asif Hassan / AFP – Getty Images file

“The U.S. government doesn’t appear to be engaged on this issue at a senior level,” said Daniel Feldman, former special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan under the Obama administration. “It demonstrates not only a lack of focus, but how diminished our capacity is with so many senior positions, across a number of key agencies, vacant or held by acting officials.”

At the height of the crisis last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford made phone calls to their counterparts in Islamabad and New Delhi, which were important but not close to the type of shuttle diplomacy that played out in previous crises, former officials said.

In 1999, Clinton worked the phone with both of his counterparts and helped resolve the showdown. But that was not the case this time.

“For the first time in over 20 years, Washington was not an active player in trying to calm down an Indo-Pakistani crisis,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who served on the National Security Council under Clinton. “The president didn’t talk to the protagonists.”

Administration officials rejected the criticism, saying the United States was one of the first governments to condemn the suicide bombing last month that killed 40 Indian troops — triggering the crisis — and repeatedly appealed to both sides to defuse the conflict. Pompeo “played an essential role in the de-escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan,” speaking to leaders in both countries and his counterparts, a State Department spokesperson said.

Washington was also in continuous contact through the U.S. embassies in New Delhi and Islamabad, the spokesperson said, adding: “While not all diplomacy can be conducted in public view, the United States will continue to engage with India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions through all appropriate channels.”

Washington has no ambassador to Pakistan and it was only in December that the White House finally submitted a nomination for the senior position at the State Department that oversees South and Central Asia. Other senior State Department positions handling South Asia have undergone frequent turnover, and former officials say the White House has often had other priorities that have pushed aside the long-running dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, well-versed in the history and politics of South Asia, stepped down in December after clashing with the president over Syria and international alliances. His successor, Patrick Shanahan, is a former Boeing executive inexperienced in foreign policy.

“In the past, we’ve been the sheriff in this region. Now, there’s no one in our police station who’s willing to intervene,” said Harry Sokolski, a former Pentagon official and now executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. “Who is our diplomat who is going to intervene here?”

At least one U.S. agency had concerns in the past few months that tensions were rising between the two adversaries. The concerns prompted the CIA to beef up its commitment to the region, two U.S. officials, who were not authorized to speak on the record, told NBC News. They offered no further details.

Other regional experts said while Washington had played a more limited role, India and Pakistan were not necessarily keen to see the Trump administration serve as an interlocutor. Unlike previous standoffs, the Trump White House was ready to grant India the room it needed to resolve the situation.

“It has been a little less of an aggressive posture by the United States to try to intervene, but that’s mostly by design because India is a much different place than it was 15, 20 years ago,” said Rick Rossow, senior adviser at the Center of Strategic and International Studies think tank.

Washington sees India as “a responsible player,” with sufficient power and skill to take care of its interests, he said.

As the U.S. has grown frustrated with what it considers Pakistan’s failure to crack down on extremists, Washington’s ties with Islamabad have frayed while it has forged increasingly close ties to India, a country it sees as a crucial counterweight to China, according to Shuja Nawaz of the Atlantic Council think tank.

“This has been the policy for some time now. There’s been a discernible shift to India starting with the Bush administration, and it stayed on course during the Obama period and has continued under Trump,” Nawaz said.

Although the crisis appeared to ease after Pakistan released a captured Indian fighter pilot last Friday, the two sides exchanged artillery fire over the weekend in the disputed province of Kashmir, killing several civilians. And the underlying disagreements — over Kashmir and Pakistan’s support for militants — remain unresolved.

The standoff was triggered by the Feb. 14 suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian troops in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack, and India responded with an airstrike inside Pakistani territory that it said targeted a training camp for the militants. Pakistan retaliated by sending aircraft to bomb targets in India. In a dogfight, both sides claimed to have shot down aircraft, and an Indian fighter pilot was captured after his plane went down. Islamabad then released the pilot Friday in what it called a conciliatory gesture.

By ordering the first air raid across Pakistan’s border since 1971, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signaled his government would respond sharply to terrorist attacks it believes are linked back to Pakistan, and he has cited Israel as a model for his approach.

The stakes are now higher for the next time tensions erupt, and former officials said the Trump administration appears ill-prepared, with its chaotic decision-making and chronic understaffing.

“This is a wake up call,” Riedel said. “The Trump team is not ready for a real world crisis. It’s been lucky for two years.”

Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. 

Robert Windrem

Robert Windrem is an investigative reporter/producer with NBC News, specializing in international security.

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Prosecutors Don’t Plan to Charge Uber in Self-Driving Car’s Fatal Accident – The New York Times
Prosecutors Don’t Plan to Charge Uber in Self-Driving Car’s Fatal Accident – The New York Times

Mr. Douma said prosecutors’ announcement Tuesday tracked with how typically people, and not car manufacturers, are held responsible for crimes they commit behind the wheel. But, as autonomous vehicles become more sophisticated, he said, such cases raise questions about that way of thinking.

“Is this driver, or was this driver, behaving in any way different than what most drivers are going to be behaving like when the car is doing this much driving?” he said. “It’s a very conventional way of thinking to say we can expect and we should expect people to sit and monitor technology that is otherwise doing all the decision-making.”

The Yavapai County Attorney’s Office did its review at the request of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, which had a potential conflict of interest in the case because of an earlier partnership with Uber in a safety campaign. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.

The New York Times reported last March that Uber’s autonomous cars in Arizona struggled to meet the company’s expectations and required drivers to intervene more frequently than those of the company’s competitors.

Uber suspended testing of self-driving vehicles after the crash. In December, the vehicles returned to public roads, though at reduced speeds and in less-challenging environments.

In a preliminary report about the crash released in May, the National Transportation Safety Board said the Uber car’s computer system had spotted Ms. Herzberg six seconds before impact, but classified Ms. Herzberg, who was not in a crosswalk, first as an unrecognized object, then as another vehicle and finally as a bicycle.

The Uber car, equipped with Uber’s sensing technology, comes with an automatic emergency braking system from the manufacturer.

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The Trump tax return fight is coming back in a major way – CNN
The Trump tax return fight is coming back in a major way – CNN

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North Korea Has Started Rebuilding Key Missile-Test Facilities, Analysts Say – The New York Times
North Korea Has Started Rebuilding Key Missile-Test Facilities, Analysts Say – The New York Times

“Based on commercial satellite imagery, efforts to rebuild these structures started sometime between February 16 and March 2, 2019,” 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea analysis, said in a report about the Tongchang-ri facilities on Tuesday.

“On the launchpad, the rail-mounted transfer building is being reassembled,” it said. “At the engine test stand, it appears that the engine support structure is being reassembled.”

Beyond Parallel, a website run by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, published a report with similar assessments on Tuesday.

“Commercial satellite imagery acquired on March 2, 2019, shows that North Korea is pursuing a rapid rebuilding of the long-range rocket site,” it said. The renewed activity “may indicate North Korean plans to demonstrate resolve” after the Hanoi summit, it said.

Officially, North Korea says it no longer needs to carry out nuclear or missile tests because it has finished developing its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and begun mass-producing them. But some Western officials and analysts still doubt that the country has mastered the technologies needed to reliably strike a target across an ocean with a missile.

In his Singapore meeting with Mr. Trump, Mr. Kim made a vague commitment to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” But the North has since balked at taking specific actions toward dismantling its nuclear and missile programs, criticizing what it called Washington’s “unilateral, gangster-like demand for denuclearization” and insisting that it will not move toward denuclearization unless the United States takes “corresponding” steps.

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Trump Organization’s insurance records subpoenaed by NY financial regulator as investigations widen – USA TODAY
Trump Organization’s insurance records subpoenaed by NY financial regulator as investigations widen – USA TODAY
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President Donald Trump Tuesday denounced a Democratic sweeping new probe of his presidency as “the witch hunt continues.” (March 5)
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NEW YORK – A state regulator has subpoenaed an insurance provider for The Trump Organization, opening a new front in the widening investigations focused on President Donald Trump, his business, family, and White House administration.

Aon, a London-headquartered financial services company that is one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages, said it was served a subpoena on Monday by the New York Department of Financial Services. 

Donna Mirandola, Aon’s vice president of global content marketing, confirmed the subpoena. The insurance brokerage intends to cooperate with the request but would not “comment on specific client matters,” she said in an email response.

Another person with knowledge of the subpoena confirmed that the request sought records of communications involving Aon, Trump and his company, as well as internal documents for related insurance coverage. The person declined to be named because the subpoena had not been disclosed publicly. 

A spokeswoman for The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

The New York action, combined with moves by the Democratically controlled House, represents the latest in a series of new investigations that could target Trump through the second half of his White House term.

News about the subpoena, first reported by The New York Times, comes less than a week after former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen testified at a congressional hearing that his ex-boss inflated the value of his financial assets to obtain more favorable insurance rates and loans from banks.

Separately, the House Judiciary Committee on Monday requested records from 81 “agencies, entities and individuals” linked to the Republican presidential administration along with Trump’s family members, present and former associates and his private businesses.

Additionally, the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday announced new hires, including a former federal prosecutor with expertise in battling Russian organized crime. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who chairs the panel, has signaled plans to continue an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Criticizing the new investigations, Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Democratic House committee chairs “have gone stone cold CRAZY” and “won’t get ANYTHING done for our Country!”

More: Trump immigration policy under scrutiny at simultaneous congressional hearings

More: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb resigns

Special Counsel Robert Mueller also is focused on Russian interference with the presidential election; his report could be imminent. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have investigated Cohen, hush money payments to women who said they had sexual affairs with Trump, and other matters.

The New York regulator is part of the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a frequent Trump critic. The Department of Financial Services oversees all insurance companies that do business in New York, as well as many banks, credit unions and consumer credit reporting agencies.

The regulator does not have review authority over Trump or his business, nor does it have prosecutorial power. However, the regulator can refer findings to law enforcement authorities.

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I’m Jewish, and the hypocrisy of GOP islamophobes hounding Ilhan Omar is breathtaking | Opinion – Newsweek
I’m Jewish, and the hypocrisy of GOP islamophobes hounding Ilhan Omar is breathtaking | Opinion – Newsweek

Representative Ilhan Omar is facing censure in the House, brought in part by her own party leaders. She is also facing shockingly Islamophobic attacks calling her a terrorist, simply because she is a Muslim. And all the while, other congressional leaders are tweeting out unabashedly anti-Semitic messages with abandon.  

The hypocrisy is breathtaking enough at its own right, but it is also an indicator of the fight between an emerging progressive coalition that seems different than Congressional generations of old, and which increasingly integrates Palestinian rights into its agenda, based on universal rights and the need for equality and freedom for all people.

Representative Ilhan Omar is also part of a class of newly elected Congresspeople who don’t look much like Congresspeople of generations past: dynamic women of color from communities (Black and Muslim in Ilhan Omar’s case,) who face some of the fiercest racism and xenophobia in this country.  

Not coincidentally, it is young people, women, and people of color who make up the emerging coalition of progressive people that support Palestinian rights as a natural part of an agenda based on fairness, dignity and freedom. This is the context around the accusations of anti-Semitism and islamophobia in the last weeks centering on Representative Omar. While some critics of Representative Omar’s tweets made them in good faith, too often they were part of a cynical strategy to paint this emerging progressive coalition as anti-Semitic.

As one of two of the first Muslim-American women in Congress, Ilhan Omar is facing a specific set of demands and attacks. Accusations of anti-Semitism are being used to silence her criticisms of Israel. An obvious form of Islamophobia coming from the right is attacking her directly for her identity. A soft form of Islamophobia is evident in the lesser degree of concern expressed for the far more outrageous attacks on her personally.  And many more liberal elected officials and others are making a false claim of equivalence between calling out of Omar’s tweets (which were about Israel) and calling out Islamophobia against Omar herself.  

Rep. Omar has engaged with critics who brought up good faith critiques of her language and has shown true commitment to live up to her values—unlike other members of Congress who continue to promote anti-Semitic messages

Even before the West Virginia GOP posted a heinous Islamophobic poster linking Representative Ilhan Omar to the attacks of 9/11 because she is Muslim, the Islamophobia at play in the attacks on Omar was blatantly clear. As Omar tweeted: “My Americanness is questioned by the President and the @GOP on a daily basis, yet my colleagues remain silent.” At he same time, Congressional leaders are making actual anti-Semitic statements – like the tweet posted over the weekend by Rep. Jim Jordan, spelling Tom Steyer’s name with a dollar sign instead of an S, or then-Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s tweet about Jewish donors which are going all but unnoticed, and certainly unpunished.

anti-Semitism—specifically as an expression of right-wing white supremacy—has never been in such proximity to power, at least in my lifetime, and Jewish people from across the political spectrum are rightfully frightened. Charlottesville, what feels like a cascade of graffiti and physical attacks on Jewish people—and above all else, the murderous attack in Pittsburgh—are making many of us revise our belief of our safety in this country, especially those of us who are white and who have not been singled out as directly for abuse, in recent lived experience.

That makes it confusing when critiques of Israel, support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), or even anti-Zionism are presented as part of the continuum of anti-Semitism that Jews in the U.S. are facing in this era. 

It has never been more important to be able to distinguish between the critique—even the harshest critique—of a state’s policies (Israel,) and discrimination against a people (Jews.)  Israel does not represent all Jews.  Not all Jews support Israel. Speaking out for Palestinian human rights and their yearning for freedom is in no way related to anti-Semitism, though the Israeli government does its best to obscure that.  And yes, there are anti-Semites who support Palestinian rights. They have no place in any movement for justice, which Palestinian leaders of the movement have made very clear.

We also know that in the last several months, leading Black scholars and activists, from Angela Davis to Marc Lamont Hill to Michelle Alexander have spoken out strongly on behalf of Palestinians—and found themselves targeted in return. The policing of people of color, including Ilhan Omar, who speak out on Palestine—the higher standards to which they are held, and the assumptions of bad faith by which their words are judged make their leadership on this issue all the more remarkable, but it means they are also paying an almost unbearable cost.

The exhaustion and rage that so many people—Muslims, Palestinians, Black people, Jews of color, and Jews who support Palestinian rights—are feeling as these battles continue to play out does have one silver lining. The only antidote to the pro-Israel lobby is building a strong, grassroots movement of people willing to stand up for Palestinian rights. That’s what ended U.S. support for apartheid in South Africa, its what won limited civil rights victories for Black Americans, and it’s what shifted American views on gay marriage over the course of ten short years. And that’s what we’re seeing today.

It is no surprise that the first elected officials defending Palestinian human rights are facing such fierce opposition from defenders of the status quo. Omar herself is not backing down, firing back at her critics: “Being opposed to Netanyahu and the occupation is not the same as being anti-Semitic. I am grateful to the many Jewish allies who have spoken out and said the same… We must be willing to combat hate of all kinds while also calling out oppression of all kinds.”

Omar will be joined by many more, but only if we’re willing and able to fight to defend them—by speaking about anti-Semitism with precision, by challenging racism and islamophobia, and by holding our institutions and elected officials accountable.

Rebecca Vilkomerson is Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own.​​

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Payments to corporation owned by Ocasio-Cortez aide come under scrutiny – The Washington Post
Payments to corporation owned by Ocasio-Cortez aide come under scrutiny – The Washington Post

Michelle Ye Hee Lee

March 5 at 8:22 PM

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)’s chief of staff helped establish two political action committees that paid a corporation he ran more than $1 million in 2016 and 2017, federal campaign finance records show.

Brand New Congress LLC, the corporation owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, was also paid $18,880 for strategic consulting by Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign in 2017, records show. The following year, he worked as a volunteer to manage her campaign, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The arrangement, first reported by conservative outlets, left hidden who ultimately profited from the payments — a sharp juxtaposition with Ocasio-Cortez’s calls for transparency in politics. She has called dark money “the enemy to democracy.”

The money that flowed to her chief of staff’s corporation have subjected the first-term congresswoman to critics’ charges of hypocrisy. On Monday, a conservative group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the PACs failed to properly disclose their spending.

David Mitrani, attorney for the PACs, the LLC and Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign, said in a statement Tuesday that all four entities “fully complied with the law and the highest ethical standards.”

He said that Chakrabarti never received any salary or profit from the corporation, the PACs or the campaign.

“There is no violation” of campaign finance law, Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News on Tuesday. It is unclear whether she had knowledge of the payments to Chakrabarti’s corporation.

Limited-liability corporations, which in some states are not required to disclose details about their owners or spending, have played an increasing role in politics in recent years. Critics say such entities allow both donors and vendors to mask their activities, making it difficult for the public to trace who is giving to campaigns and profiting from them.

Brand New Congress LLC, initially called Brand New Campaign LLC, was formed by Chakrabarti to serve as a “campaign in a box, a one-stop vendor for communications, field, online organizing, fundraising and the like,” Mitrani said in his statement.

Among its clients were two PACs — Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress — which worked to recruit progressive and nontraditional candidates to run for Congress, he said.

Chakrabarti identifies himself as a co-founder of both groups on his LinkedIn page.

In 2016 and 2017, the two PACs reported paying the LLC $1.07 million, records show.

Campaign finance experts said the relationship between Chakrabarti’s PACs and the limited-liability corporation obfuscated who received the payments — and raised questions about who benefited.

“In a normal situation, if all you saw was a PAC that disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars to an affiliated entity to pay the salaries of people who were really working for the PAC, that looks like . . . a PAC that takes in money to engage in political activity but is actually enriching its owners,” said Adav Noti, former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now chief of staff of the Campaign Legal Center, a group that advocates for greater transparency in campaign finance.

In his statement, Mitrani said that the PACs did not disclose information about the ultimate recipients of the money because they were not required to do so by the FEC.

“If the PACs and campaigns were required to provide additional information on subvendor payments made by Brand New Congress LLC, it would have done so,” he wrote.

He provided a January 2017 contract between the Justice Democrats PAC and the LLC showing that the corporation charged the PAC a monthly retainer fee of $60,000. The fee was to pay employees, subcontractors and agents, according to the contract.

The contract shows that the primary consultants for the project were Chakrabarti; Nasim Thompson, then the LLC’s chief operating officer; and Corbin Trent, a consultant who is now a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez.

Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent.

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Southern border at ‘breaking point’ after more than 76000 illegal immigrants tried crossing in February, officials say – Fox News
Southern border at ‘breaking point’ after more than 76000 illegal immigrants tried crossing in February, officials say – Fox News
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100,000 illegal immigrants may be arrested at the border in March: report

More than 76,000 people tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in February — a “remarkable” leap that more than doubles the number of border apprehensions during the same period of time last year, and is also the highest number of any February in the past 12 years, according to officials.

The system is “well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters on Tuesday as the agency released the “record numbers” of those trying to enter the U.S. through the southern border.

67 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOUND IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS INSIDE TINY NEW MEXICO ‘SHED’: ICE

Officials said that 76,103 people — an increase of 31 percent over January — were apprehended. Of those, 7,249 were unaccompanied children, and 40,385 were family units — totaling 60 percent of apprehensions.

Brian Hastings, the chief of law enforcement operations at the agency, told reporters that historically, 70 to 90 percent of apprehensions at the border included Mexican nationals.

As of Tuesday, he said, 70 percent of those arrested for attempting entry without proper documentation are from the “Northern Triangle of Central America,” which includes Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

“It should be very clear from these numbers that we are facing alarming trends in the rising volumes of people illegally crossing our southwest border, or arriving at our ports of entry without documents,” McAleenan said.

NEARLY 200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS APPREHENDED CROSSING BORDER IN NEW MEXICO

While fewer people overall are being apprehended crossing the border illegally each year, he said the increased numbers are “currently at our highest levels in over a decade both a border security and humanitarian crisis.”

The commissioner added that border patrol is also noticing a “stark increase” of those seeking asylum. Since October, there’s been a 90 percent increase over the “record levels” of asylum seekers since the last fiscal year, according to the agency, which added that 60 percent of those trying to enter the U.S. without proper documentation are “making claims of fear of return to their home country.”

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Officials on Tuesday announced plans for a new processing center in El Paso, Texas, to manage the record number of people crossing the border. While not a permanent solution, it will be better suited to manage families and children, and handle medical care concerns.

“While our enhanced medical efforts will assist in managing the increased flows, the fact is that these solutions are temporary and this solution is not sustainable,” he said.

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After two illegal immigrant children died while in Border Patrol custody, the agency stepped up medical screenings and announced sweeping changes that include more rigorous interviews as they enter into the system.

The data released on Tuesday comes as the GOP-controlled Senate plans to reject in a vote next week President Trump’s national emergency declaration at the border that would send extra funding there.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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President pressured staff to grant security clearance to Ivanka Trump – CNN
President pressured staff to grant security clearance to Ivanka Trump – CNN

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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.

      CNN’s Gloria Borger and Maegan Vazquez contributed to this report.

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    Southern border at ‘breaking point’ after more than 76000 illegal immigrants tried crossing in February, officials say – Fox News
    Southern border at ‘breaking point’ after more than 76000 illegal immigrants tried crossing in February, officials say – Fox News
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    100,000 illegal immigrants may be arrested at the border in March: report

    More than 76,000 people tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in February — a “remarkable” leap that more than doubles the number of border apprehensions during the same period of time last year, and is also the highest number of any February in the past 12 years, according to officials.

    The system is “well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters on Tuesday as the agency released the “record numbers” of those trying to enter the U.S. through the southern border.

    67 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOUND IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS INSIDE TINY NEW MEXICO ‘SHED’: ICE

    Officials said that 76,103 people — an increase of 31 percent over January — were apprehended. Of those, 7,249 were unaccompanied children, and 40,385 were family units — totaling 60 percent of apprehensions.

    Brian Hastings, the chief of law enforcement operations at the agency, told reporters that historically, 70 to 90 percent of apprehensions at the border included Mexican nationals.

    As of Tuesday, he said, 70 percent of those arrested for attempting entry without proper documentation are from the “Northern Triangle of Central America,” which includes Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

    “It should be very clear from these numbers that we are facing alarming trends in the rising volumes of people illegally crossing our southwest border, or arriving at our ports of entry without documents,” McAleenan said.

    NEARLY 200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS APPREHENDED CROSSING BORDER IN NEW MEXICO

    While fewer people overall are being apprehended crossing the border illegally each year, he said the increased numbers are “currently at our highest levels in over a decade both a border security and humanitarian crisis.”

    The commissioner added that border patrol is also noticing a “stark increase” of those seeking asylum. Since October, there’s been a 90 percent increase over the “record levels” of asylum seekers since the last fiscal year, according to the agency, which added that 60 percent of those trying to enter the U.S. without proper documentation are “making claims of fear of return to their home country.”

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    Officials on Tuesday announced plans for a new processing center in El Paso, Texas, to manage the record number of people crossing the border. While not a permanent solution, it will be better suited to manage families and children, and handle medical care concerns.

    “While our enhanced medical efforts will assist in managing the increased flows, the fact is that these solutions are temporary and this solution is not sustainable,” he said.

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    After two illegal immigrant children died while in Border Patrol custody, the agency stepped up medical screenings and announced sweeping changes that include more rigorous interviews as they enter into the system.

    The data released on Tuesday comes as the GOP-controlled Senate plans to reject in a vote next week President Trump’s national emergency declaration at the border that would send extra funding there.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    Alabama tornadoes: How lessons from deadly 2011 outbreak that killed hundreds help save lives now – NBC News
    Alabama tornadoes: How lessons from deadly 2011 outbreak that killed hundreds help save lives now – NBC News

    SMITHS STATION, Ala. — As the sirens sounded Sunday afternoon, alerting residents just before deadly tornadoes cut through eastern Alabama, Terryn Smith, 12, and Hannah Mounce, 13, immediately sprung to action.

    “When the sirens went off, that’s when we took cover,” Terryn told NBC News.

    The girls hid with Terryn’s mother and a friend in a Lee County home, huddled with pillows and blankets on the floor of the kitchen, a windowless room in the center of the house.

    Krista Smith, Terryn’s mother, shielded the girls with her body as windows blew out and doors slammed in other parts of the home.

    “I was like scared that the house would take off and we weren’t going to make it,” Hannah said.

    The tornadoes roared through Lee County on Sunday afternoon, killing at least 23 people, including multiple children, in what a local official called “the worst natural disaster that has ever occurred” in the county.

    A tornado watch for Lee County was issued at 11:40 a.m. CST (12:40 p.m. ET), with the first tornado warning issued at 1:58 p.m. CST. That warning was issued just five minutes before the first damage report in the county.

    It was one of the deadliest tornado events in the state since 2011, when more than 230 people across Alabama were killed that April.

    Granadas Baker retrieves personal items from his home after a tornado caused extensive damage a day earlier in Beauregard, Alabama, on March 4.David Goldman / AP

    The 2011 tornado outbreak left about 300 dead throughout the southeastern United States. In response, the National Weather Service improved its operations for helping communities prepare for natural disasters, said Douglas Hilderbrand, a meteorologist who leads the NWS’ Weather-Ready National Ambassador program. The initiative began in response to that tornado season.

    “That April 2011 experience was really an eye-opener for the National Weather Service, in the sense that it was a very well forecast event … we were highlighting the magnitude of this event days in advance and yet 300 people lost their lives,” he said.

    “It really shined a light on how there’s much more that needs to be done from a National Weather Service perspective, but also a community perspective in terms of working together,” he said.

    The NWS invested in its technology and services to not only issue timely and more accurate tornado warnings but also to disseminate information to the community, he said.

    The NWS recommends having multiple ways to receive warnings about extreme weather, such as receiving phone alerts, and warnings on television broadcasts and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Radio.

    During a news conference Monday, Lee County Emergency Management Director Kathy Carson said she was “pretty sure” the sirens sounded warnings ahead of the tornado, but that both the weather service and the agency were increasingly reliant on sending targeted cellphone alerts to residents about tornadoes.

    The 2011 outbreak in Alabama was declared a federal emergency and led to improvements in the state’s tornado shelters in addition to its warning systems, experts said.

    “Since then, through funds from FEMA, there has been a lot of work to put in community safe rooms to be used during storms, as well as money that has gone out through individual mitigation funds to put in tornado safe rooms in houses,” said Lisa McCormick, an expert on emergency preparedness and associate dean for public health practice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

    McCormick said the state also worked to upgrade its outdoor warning systems so that they would be able to target county areas being impacted by incoming storms.

    Experts recommend having a plan long before a tornado threat occurs, such as going to a basement, storm cellar or interior room away from windows and outside walls. People in mobile homes are encouraged to evacuate to community shelters.

    Myles Tatum, a Lee County resident, said he and his two sons, ages 7 and 10, ran and hid inside a closet in their barn after they saw a tornado heading toward them.

    He said what was going through his mind as he heard the tornado coming was, the “same thing we’re supposed to do, that’s what they teach us — go find cover in the best place you can find.”

    Tatum said they could not get the door of the closet closed and just hoped the roof would not rip off. In the end, he and his boys survived.

    “The only reason this part of the barn was here, I’m convinced, is the Lord saved us,” he said.

    “We just piled up on top of everything, there’s no time to worry about anything else, right? It’s what we’re supposed to do,” he said.

    Sanders reported from Smiths Station, Silva reported from New York.

    Daniella Silva is a reporter for NBC News, specializing in immigration and inclusion issues.

    Kerry Sanders

    Kerry Sanders is a Miami-based correspondent for NBC News, covering national and international breaking news and feature stories.  He contributes regularly to “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “Today” and MSNBC. His work, including reporting on Hurricane Katrina, Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, the Chilean miners and Kosovo have earned him multiple awards.  

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    Why Ty Cobb might be the most important figure in the Mueller probe – CNN
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      McConnell: Senate may consider measure addressing anti-Semitism – Washington Examiner
      McConnell: Senate may consider measure addressing anti-Semitism – Washington Examiner

      Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, citing a “disturbing” rise in anti-Semitism, on Tuesday said the Senate could vote on a measure addressing the issue.

      His comments come as the House prepares to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, spurred by comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — though the House measure doesn’t measure the first-term lawmaker by name.

      McConnell said anti-Semitism is on the rise in part because of recent comments made by Omar and other House Democrats.

      The Senate may vote on a measure related to condemning anti-Semitism, McConnell said.

      “I am concerned about it,” McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday following a closed-door meeting with fellow GOP lawmakers.

      Earlier this year, the Senate passed a Middle East security measure that included a provision meant to stifle the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, which aims to economically isolate Israel.

      “We feel like we already addressed a portion of this through the BDS proposal, and we may well address it again,” McConnell said.

      “This is a good time in America to think again about anti-Semitism,” McConnell said. “It seems to be more fashion in Europe. it seems to be more fashionable in this country regretfully, at least among some members of the new class in the House. We need to stand up to it in any way we possibly can.”

      Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Omar’s comments were “wrong and hurtful.”

      Schumer said all senators would condemn anti-Semitism, but he added that Muslims have also been the target of prejudicial attacks.

      An exhibit at the West Virginia Republican Party day at the state capital depicted Omar below an image of the burning Twin Towers.

      The state GOP has denounced the poster and said it was not responsible for displaying the image.

      “Linking all Muslims to the terrorist attacks was wrong and hurtful and and both can be condemned,” Schumer said.

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      South Korea sees signs North Korea restoring part of launch site it… – Reuters
      South Korea sees signs North Korea restoring part of launch site it… – Reuters

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last year, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday.

      Yonhap quoted lawmakers briefed by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) as saying that the work was taking place at the Tongchang-ri launch site and involved replacing a roof and a door at the facility.

      Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb. 16 and March 2, Jenny Town, managing editor at the project and an analyst at the Stimson Center think tank, told Reuters.

      The news comes days after a second summit on denuclearization between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down over differences on how far North Korea was willing to limit its nuclear program and the degree of U.S. willingness to ease sanctions.

      The summit took place in Hanoi on Feb. 27 and 28.

      Trump told a news conference after an unprecedented first summit with Kim on June 12 in Singapore that the North Korean leader had promised that a major missile engine testing site would be destroyed very soon.

      Trump did not identify the site, but a U.S. official subsequently told Reuters it was the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, which is located at Tongchang-ri.

      Asked to comment, the White House referred to the U.S. State Department, which did not immediately respond. A U.S. government source said the NIS was considered reliable on such issues, but added that the work described did not seem particularly alarming, and certainly not on a scale of resuming missile tests that have been suspended since 2017.

      Kim Jong Un also pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September to close Sohae and allow international experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine-testing site and a launch pad.

      Signs that North Korea had begun acting on its pledge to Trump were detected in July, when a Washington think tank said satellite images indicated work had begun at Sohae to dismantle a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles.

      However, subsequent images indicated North Korea had halted work to dismantle the missile engine test site in the first part of August.

      The breakdown of the summit in Hanoi last week has raised questions about the future of U.S.-North Korea dialogue.

      U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he was hopeful he would send a delegation to North Korea in the coming weeks but that he had had “no commitment yet.”

      While North Korea’s official media said last week Kim and Trump had decided at the summit to continue talks, its Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui told reporters Kim “might lose his willingness to pursue a deal” and questioned the need to continue.

      U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told a news briefing that the United States remains “in regular contact” with North Korea, but he declined to say whether they had been in contact since the summit.

      Palladino said U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, who led pre-summit negotiation efforts, planned to meet his South Korea and Japanese counterparts on Wednesday.

      Yonhap also quoted lawmakers briefed by intelligence officials as saying that the five-megawatt reactor at North Korea’s main nuclear site at Yongbyon, which produces weapons-grade plutonium used to build bombs, had not been operational since late last year, concurring with a report from the U.N. atomic watchdog.

      Yonhap quoted the sources as saying there had been no sign of reprocessing of plutonium from the reactor and that tunnels at North Korea’s main nuclear test site in Punggye-ri had remained shut down and unattended since their widely publicized destruction in May, which Pyongyang said was proof of its commitment to ending nuclear testing.

      The fate of the Yongbyon nuclear complex and its possible dismantling was a central issue in the Hanoi summit.

      Reporting by Lisa Lambert and David Brunnstrom; additional reporting by Mark Hosenball; editing by David Gregorio and James Dalgleish

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      Michael Bloomberg will not run for president in 2020 – CNBC
      Michael Bloomberg will not run for president in 2020 – CNBC

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      Michael Bloomberg will not run for president in 2020, the billionaire businessman wrote in a statement posted online on Tuesday, ending months of speculation about the political future of one of the Democratic Party’s top donors.

      Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York, had been toying with the idea of a presidential run for months and was floated as a candidate in every presidential cycle going back to 2008. As recently as the past two months, aides to Bloomberg had been interviewing potential staffers in Iowa and New Hampshire, early contests in the Democratic primary.

      But, facing a packed field of Democratic contenders, Bloomberg, 77, wrote he was “clear-eyed” about the obstacles to securing the party’s nomination.

      “I know what it takes to run a winning campaign, and every day when I read the news, I grow more frustrated by the incompetence in the Oval Office. I know we can do better as a country. And I believe I would defeat Donald Trump in a general election,” Bloomberg wrote. “But I am clear-eyed about the difficulty of winning the Democratic nomination in such a crowded field.”

      The longtime figure in American politics, who has identified as a Republican, a Democrat and an independent at different points in his career, acknowledged the skepticism he was facing from members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, but wrote that he was confident about what his prospects would have been against President Donald Trump should he have been victorious in the primary.

      Read more: Bloomberg says Green New Deal ‘stands no chance,’ offers alternative plan

      His statement appeared as an opinion article with the headline “Our Highest Office, My Deepest Obligation,” that was carried on Bloomberg News, a news outlet that is a part of Bloomberg’s business empire.

      Bloomberg had previously said little in public about a potential run, though he had made clear that, if he did run, it would be as a Democrat. After Howard Schultz, the billionaire former chief of Starbucks, announced that he was considering a bid for president as a centrist independent, Bloomberg wrote in a statement that an independent run would likely “split the anti-Trump vote and end up re-electing the President.”

      Some speculated that Bloomberg’s entrance into the race might have served as a moderating influence in a primary that has seen a host of candidates vying to appeal to the party’s increasingly left-leaning base.

      But his moderate views would also be a liability. Bloomberg has faced scrutiny from progressives over his ties to the financial services industry, his sprawling wealth and his past statements on issues including policing tactics and the Me Too movement, among other areas.

      “Many people have urged me to run. Some have told me that to win the Democratic nomination, I would need to change my views to match the polls,” Bloomberg wrote. “But I’ve been hearing that my whole political career.”

      The philanthropist made his fortune selling informational devices to financial services companies and was an influential force as a Democratic donor during the 2018 midterms, pledging more than $100 million to candidates. He is estimated to have a net worth of more than $55 billion, according to Forbes.

      Though Bloomberg will not run for president, he wrote he would expand his environmental philanthropy, and announced the launch of a new project, Beyond Carbon, that he described as a “grassroots effort to begin moving America as quickly as possible away from oil and gas and toward a 100 percent clean energy economy.”

      Bloomberg wrote that in the coming weeks he will “dive even deeper into the work of turning around our country, through concrete actions and results.”

      “And I will continue supporting candidates who can provide the leadership we need — on climate change, gun violence, education, health, voting rights, and other critical issues — and continue holding their feet to the fire to deliver what they promise,” he wrote.

      Bloomberg is not the first person — or even the first billionaire environmental activist — to take himself out of the running for the Democratic nomination despite telegraphing a potential bid.

      Tom Steyer, who spearheads the environmental advocacy nonprofit NextGen America, and who has pushed Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against the president, surprised observers in January by suddenly announcing his intent not to enter the race despite having engaged top staffers for a possible run.

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      California AG Says Officers Who Shot Stephon Clark Will Not Face Criminal Charges – NPR
      California AG Says Officers Who Shot Stephon Clark Will Not Face Criminal Charges – NPR

      California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday that the two Sacramento police officers who killed Stephon Clark last year will not face criminal charges. Becerra is seen here during a press conference last year.

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      California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday that the two Sacramento police officers who killed Stephon Clark last year will not face criminal charges. Becerra is seen here during a press conference last year.

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      California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet — the police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark last March — will not face charges. The two officers fired on Clark, who was unarmed, after a foot chase that ended in his grandmother’s backyard.

      Clark was 22 years old. The circumstances around his death made national headlines and added another layer to an ongoing conversation about the police use of deadly force, particularly against unarmed black men. The officers shot Clark seven times, including three times in the back, the official autopsy found.

      Becerra announced the findings of the state’s independent criminal investigation into the police shooting death of Clark days after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced she would not be filing criminal charges against the two police officers who killed Clark.

      Schubert’s decision, which was announced nearly a year after Clark’s death, sparked a new round of protests and demonstrations in Sacramento — including a march in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood that resulted in police arresting at least 84 people Monday night.

      With findings from the county and state inquiries now released, the Sacramento police department plans to use them as part of its internal review of the shooting.

      “Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn said his office and internal affairs will make a decision about the officers’ actions and employment” after Becerra’s agency shares its results, as member station Capital Public Radio reported.

      Critics, including Clark’s family, said it was inappropriate for Schubert to publicize the young man’s text messages, Internet searches and drafts of emails that were pulled from his cellphone. She presented those records as signs that Clark was troubled.

      “She used that as a smear campaign or a fake way to justify and condone,” Clark’s mother, SeQuette Clark, told NPR this weekend. “Her officers weren’t doing — she never once addressed their actions. She presented and painted a picture of my son that was her opinion.”

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      After Alabama Tornado, Search For Missing Continues As Recovery Begins – NPR
      After Alabama Tornado, Search For Missing Continues As Recovery Begins – NPR

      First responders walk through a neighborhood heavily damaged by a tornado the day before in Beauregard, Ala., on Monday. The death toll from the storm stands at 23, with victims ranging in age from 6 to 93.

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      First responders walk through a neighborhood heavily damaged by a tornado the day before in Beauregard, Ala., on Monday. The death toll from the storm stands at 23, with victims ranging in age from 6 to 93.

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      In Lee County, Ala., teams are searching for seven or eight people still missing in the wake of an extremely powerful tornado that swept through the area on Sunday afternoon.

      The death toll from the storm stands at 23, with victims ranging in age from 6 to 93. They have all been identified and their families informed, according to the coroner. One family, connected by marriage and living in two homes along the same road, lost seven members.

      “Just keep those families in your prayers,” said Lee County Coroner Bill Harris. “It’s a tragic situation.”

      Opelika, Ala., Fire Chief Byron Prather said teams will continue to search as long as necessary to make sure they haven’t missed anyone. “We are still conducting some searches in the area, searching through piles of debris where there may be people or animals … So we haven’t given up hope. We’re still searching.”

      Officials say they hope to be able to shift from search and rescue to recovery status on Tuesday. Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said they had narrowed down the search areas, and the number of missing people had decreased significantly. Heavy equipment is being used to lift large pieces of debris, he said, and certain areas continue to be restricted to only first responders and search teams.

      President Trump said he pledged his “unwavering support” to the residents of Lee County. He will visit affected areas in Alabama on Friday and meet with Gov. Kay Ivey.

      John De Block, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Birmingham, described the tornado’s nearly mile-wide path to NPR member station WBHM: “The tornado struck shortly after 2 o’clock in the Macon County/Lee County line. … From there it went into the Beauregard community area, progressed across southern portions of Lee County just north of Smiths Station,” before crossing into Georgia. Wind speeds were up to 165 miles per hour, he said.

      When the tornado touched down, Lee County resident Johnny Washington was asleep, he told WBHM. He sought refuge under his bed. “After what I woke up and seen this morning, I’m in shock I’m still here,” he said.

      Chris Darden is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Birmingham. Surveying the damage on Monday, he said any loss of life is regrettable — but with a tornado this powerful, it was almost inevitable.

      “You know 170 mile an hour centrifuge throwing bricks debris 2 by 8s,” he told NPR’s Russell Lewis. “They’re all spears. … They’re all killing machines.”

      But for the survivors, the effort starts now to pick up the pieces. Residents have been told they can start pushing debris on their properties out to the edge of roadways for eventual pickup.

      Patricia Moore lives in Beauregard, just south of Opelika. “I don’t know I just think God is really trying to get people together, and seeing that that’s what’s going on now just looking around at everybody helping each other,” she told WBHM. “It’s amazing.”

      Sheriff Jones was optimistic about the future, too. “This is a very tight-knit community,” he told reporters. “These people are tough, they’re resilient people. And it’s knocked them down, but they’ll be back.”

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      Democrats brace for Trump tax return legal fight that could reach Supreme Court – ABC News
      Democrats brace for Trump tax return legal fight that could reach Supreme Court – ABC News

      House Democrats are girding for a fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, one that will likely lead all the way to the Supreme Court.

      A team of four attorneys has been guiding the House Ways and Means Committee, which has the authority to request the IRS documents from the Treasury Department. They have been actively crafting what they hope will be an “air-tight” legal strategy to compel the president to hand over 10 years of his personal tax returns, working on the assumption their request will be challenged by the courts, according to a senior Democratic aide.

      “It will be fought out in the courts, and then possibly the Supreme Court,” committee member Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., told ABC News.

      “We knew this would eventually happen. They weren’t going to simply take the letter and agree to it.”

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      Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., leaves the House Democrats’ caucus meeting in the Capitol, Jan. 4, 2019.

      Trump’s refusal to make his tax returns public -– a move that broke with decades of tradition — was a Democratic rallying cry during the 2016 campaign. Since the 1970s, most presidential candidates have made their tax returns public.

      Trump’s returns have remained a persistent fixation during his presidency, with his critics viewing the filings as a potential road map to possible conflicts of interest and tax evasion.

      During recent testimony, the president’s one-time personal attorney Michael Cohen alleged that Trump regularly bragged that he did not pay taxes. There are also questions over whether the president inflated his personal wealth.

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      President Donald Trump speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., March 2, 2019.

      Cohen’s bombshell testimony last week also accelerated the timeline for requesting the president’s personal tax returns from the past 10 years, according to three Democratic aides. During Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee, he suggested that Trump’s tax returns would show if he committed tax evasion or inflated his income for insurance purposes.

      Trump has resisted releasing his returns, saying they are under audit. One of his attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, has said the president will fight any effort by Congress to obtain copies.

      Prior to the midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., enjoyed a good personal relationship, according to aides to both men. Shortly after the midterms, the two met for a breakfast where they talked tax policy, but towards the end of the meal, the issue of President Trump’s tax returns came up.

      After Democrats took control of the House during the 2018 midterm elections, there was wide speculation that the party would use its new majority to pursue Trump’s returns, but during the breakfast meeting neither side laid out a clear position, according to the aides. As Neal has moved forward, aides have said the Treasury Department has given no clear indication of how it will respond to a committee request for Trump’s returns.

      “Secretary Mnuchin will review any request with Treasury’s attorneys for legality,” a Treasury Department spokesperson said.

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      Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaks during a TV interview at the White House, May 21, 2018.

      The committee has not acted yet but is already anticipating resistance. The senior committee aide suggested to ABC News that Neal will likely have to submit one letter and then a follow-up letter if the Department of Treasury does not respond. Their third request will be a subpoena. This would initiate a court battle in District Court, and then if the ruling is appealed, it could end up in the Supreme Court.

      The upcoming request is likely to be a one-page two-paragraph memo, according to two Democratic committee aides. The committee aims to submit the letter in the coming weeks, with a self-imposed deadline of April 15, according to one aide. But if the Mueller report is made public before the letter is submitted, they will move to immediately make the request.

      “If we’re going to court we need to lay out things that are very specific to indicate that the law is on our side, we want to make sure the facts are,” Pascrell said.

      “This is why it’s going to be very methodical.”

      Through a 1924 provision in the tax code, the Treasury Secretary “shall furnish” any individuals’ tax return information “upon written request” from the chairmen of certain congressional committees. Once provided, the tax information can only be reviewed in a closed session by certain members unless lawmakers vote to make it public.

      In the opening days of the new congressional term, the committee sought tax returns directly from the Trump organization and Trump Foundation in addition to Trump’s personal tax returns, according to two committee aides. But now, they are considering a direct request to Treasury for his personal returns from the past 10 years. If the committee wins that legal battle, they assume it will pave the way for Trump Organization and Trump Foundation returns.

      House Democrats are aware that the president’s personal tax returns won’t likely provide a roadmap to Russian relationships, if any exist, since the origin of the money is not stated. There’s also a concern that the Trump Organization records could be overwhelming for the committee to analyze since it’s entities are split into numerous limited liability corporations.

      Neal has been cautious about how aggressively to pursue the tax returns. He initially told reporters that he planned to wait for the special counsel’s report to be made public before submitting the request. But there’s been new pressure since Cohen’s testimony from within the panel and from outside committees to make the request.

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      The solution for Trump’s impending Senate showdown: End the national emergency – Washington Examiner
      The solution for Trump’s impending Senate showdown: End the national emergency – Washington Examiner

      By declaring a national emergency to build his promised wall at the southern border, President Trump has pitted his presidency against the Constitution’s principles of separation of powers, legislative control of funds, and limited government among others. And, as congressional Republicans have increasingly made clear, they’re not so willing to throw those principles out the window. That leaves the Senate poised to rebuke the president and, in the process, highlight divisions within the party. That’s a spectacle that Trump should avoid.

      And there’s a way to do it.

      Already, four Republican senators — enough for the bill to pass with a slim 51-49 majority — have joined Democrats in rejecting Trump’s national emergency. On Saturday, Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. joined Sens. Thom Tills R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski R-Alaska, and Susan Collins R-Maine, all but ensuring that the bill will pass the Senate.

      With Paul taking a decisive stand against the president, more senators are likely to come out against the national emergency declaration as well. That leaves Trump in need of an escape route from an embarrassing floor vote and the prospect of using his first veto to further the untoward and saga of getting money for his wall by circumventing Congress.

      Luckily, there’s another option. In 2005, former President George W. Bush faced a somewhat similar situation. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he had issued a proclamation suspending Davis-Bacon, allowing government contractors to pay workers at lower wages because the devastation constituted “national emergency.” Lawmakers from both parties in the House and Senate saw things differently. And so, facing criticism and the prospect that a vote on the joint resolution introduced against the proclamation might result in a rebuke, Bush revoked his own proclamation entirely, avoiding a fight within his own party.

      Trump needs a similar solution to avoid conflict within his party. And for Trump, the consequences are coming from opposition within his own party upping the stakes. Although likely to stir significant anger among his base, Trump should, like Bush, recognize that danger of congressional rebuke and opt to avoid it by pulling his controversial declaration.

      Indeed, GOP lawmakers have already floated this as a possibility. On Thursday, Sen. Lamar Alexander R-Tenn. implied that rethinking the declaration was the preferable solution, explaining, “There is time for the president’s lawyers to take another look and determine whether we can both build the 234 miles of border wall that the president has requested and avoid this dangerous precedent.”

      Alexander is right. A fight among Republicans forcing a choice between the president and the Constitution does not end well for either Republican control of the Oval Office or the future of the party. If Trump wins, the party loses its credibility. If the Constitution wins, as it ought to, the White House faces a clear challenge from allies it desperately needs on the Hill as Democrats embark on ambition investigations.

      That’s not a fight that Trump should be looking to pick within his own party, especially as Republicans have made clear that he does not have their backing. His best option is to revoke his own emergency declaration.

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      Moderate Dems fume over Ocasio-Cortez ‘list’ threat – Fox News
      Moderate Dems fume over Ocasio-Cortez ‘list’ threat – Fox News
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      Ocasio-Cortez is making a ‘list’ after moderate Dems side with Republicans

      Moderate Democrats are fuming over New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s closed-door warning last week that Democrats who vote with Republicans are “putting themselves on a list” – a comment interpreted as a primary challenge threat.

      Ocasio-Cortez has since downplayed her comments, made in the wake of 26 Democrats joining Republicans to vote for a provision requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be notified if illegal immigrants attempt to purchase guns.

      OCASIO-CORTEZ WARNS OF ‘LIST’ FOR MODERATE DEMS WHO VOTE WITH REPUBLICANS

      Still, some House Democrats aren’t happy with her talk of a “list.”

      “I don’t think it’s productive,” Michigan Rep. Dan Kildee said Saturday on Fox News’ “Cavuto Live.”

      He added, “I don’t think we should be interfering with one another’s politics. The people who elected us get to make those choices.”

      New Jersey Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chairman of the Problem Solvers Caucus, said Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the word “list” was “Nixonian.”

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      “Being unified means ensuring that Democrats aren’t primary-ing other sitting Democrats,” Gottheimer told The Washington Post. “Since when is it okay to put you on a Nixonian list? We need to have a big tent in our party or we won’t keep the House or win the White House.”

      The brouhaha began last week when two-dozen moderate Democrats broke from their party’s progressive wing and sided with Republicans on a legislative amendment having to do with illegal immigrants and guns.

      In a closed-door meeting afterward, according to The Washington Post, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded her wayward center-leaning colleagues, telling them: “We are either a team or we’re not.”

      Ocasio-Cortez then told fellow Democrats that those who voted with Republicans were “putting themselves on a list.” Ocasio-Cortez later claimed she wasn’t talking about a list for primary challenges.

      “I didn’t say that they were putting themselves on a list for primaries,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “I said that by Dems distinguishing themselves by breaking off on procedural…votes, they were inadvertently making a list of targets for the GOP and for progressive advocates on their pro-ICE vote.”

      Reacting to Ocasio-Cortez’s comments, one party strategist who works for moderate Democrats argued Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t “respect” the views of other Democrats who don’t embrace her progressive politics.

      “My main gripe about AOC is that while I respect her voice in the party, I don’t think she respects mine or anyone else’s who differs with her on policy or comes from a different political electoral reality,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster in Alabama.

      There’s been speculation since she was elected to Congress that Ocasio-Cortez could get involved in Democratic primary fights in 2020, especially with the group Justice Democrats signaling plans to primary incumbent Democrats they see as insufficiently progressive. Ocasio-Cortez has been aligned with that group.

      It’s a tactic that has been embraced by some conservative groups and politicians on the right, especially during the 2010 and 2012 elections, when incumbent lawmakers in the House and Senate were ousted in primaries by conservative challengers.

      Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-moderates-fume-over-ocasio-cortez-list-threat

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