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

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Louisa Loveluck

March 22 at 4:59 PM

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

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

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

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

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

Neighboring Iraq declared victory over the group in late 2017.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The not guilty verdict did not surprise Antkowiak or Harris.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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Byron York: Five things that didn’t happen in the Mueller investigation – Washington Examiner
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Robert Mueller has delivered his report on the Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr. Sometime soon, perhaps within hours, Barr will send the report’s “principal conclusions” to Congress. It will first go to the chairperson and ranking member of both the House and Senate Judiciary committees. It is unclear what will happen after that, but certainly other lawmakers will see the document, and there will be a steady stream of leaks of what is in the report.

The Mueller investigation is over, and it is apparently the case that Mueller does not recommend any new indictments.

At this point, it is not possible to say what is in the report. But even at this early moment, it is possible to note some things did not happen during the Mueller investigation.

1. Mueller did not indict Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, or other people whose purported legal jeopardy was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

2. Mueller did not charge anyone in the Trump campaign or circle with conspiring with Russia to fix the 2016 election, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

3. Mueller did not subpoena the president, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

4. The president did not fire Mueller, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

5. The president did not interfere with the Mueller investigation, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year. In his letter to Congress, Barr noted the requirement that he notify lawmakers if top Justice Department officials ever interfered with the Mueller investigation. “There were no such instances,” Barr wrote.

So Mueller is finished. Not long after the news broke, Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts said, “The feeling [at the White House] right now is that this is finally over.” Yes and no. Mueller’s decision to file a report and not to recommend any more indictments does not mean that the broader Trump-Russia investigation is over. Anticipating just this possibility, House Democrats ramped up new Trump-Russia investigations in recent weeks to make sure that it will never be over. There is little doubt that such investigations will still be going, at least until the 2020 elections.

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Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General – The New York Times
Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General – The New York Times

Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the head of the House Judiciary Committee, has argued that the department’s view that presidents are protected from prosecution makes it all the more important for the public to see Mr. Mueller’s report.

“To maintain that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and then to withhold evidence of wrongdoing from Congress because the president cannot be charged, is to convert D.O.J. policy into the means for a cover-up,” he said before the House approved its nonbinding resolution to disclose the special counsel’s findings.

Some predict that any disclosures from Mr. Mueller’s report will satisfy neither Mr. Trump’s critics nor his defenders, especially given the public’s high expectations for answers. A Washington Post-Schar School poll in February illustrated the sharp divide in public opinion: It found that of those surveyed, most Republicans did not believe evidence of crimes that Mr. Mueller’s team had already proved in court, while most Democrats believed he had proved crimes that he had not even alleged.

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Mr. Rosenstein was expected to leave the Justice Department by mid-March, but may be lingering to see the report to its conclusion.

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Trump wastes his hard work on North Korea with foolish sanctions waiver – Washington Examiner
Trump wastes his hard work on North Korea with foolish sanctions waiver – Washington Examiner

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

Sadly, that’s exactly what Trump did on Friday, in suspending sanctions that were about to be introduced on Kim’s regime.

It’s not just a mistaken action, it’s one with amazingly bad timing: As Trump gifted Kim this undeserved relief on Friday, Kim abruptly ended his participation at a North and South Korean forum. Kim’s action is designed to intimidate Seoul and break U.S.-South Korean alignment. Trump should have responded resolutely, at least ensuring that the now-canceled sanctions took effect.

Instead, as with his recent suspension of two major military exercises, Trump has again shown weakness to a dictator who revels in it. Trump’s action will have consequences.

After all, Kim hasn’t simply seen America blink again, his senior advisers have also seen it. For hardliners such as Kim’s top adviser Kim Yong Chol, this American decision is proof positive that the old game of intimidation will work with Trump. They will suggest Trump’s 2017 threats to use military force were fake news. They will cajole the young North Korean leader to keep avoiding that which is necessary to end this crisis: compromise.

Reaching a successful conclusion to the North Korean nuclear crisis became a lot harder today. Trump has done the opposite of what he rightly did at the two leaders recent summit in Vietnam. He has indirectly told Kim to keep playing hardball against the United States.

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Battle for Baghouz: White House declares victory over ISIS in Syria, but desperation remains – NBC News

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

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

Still, President Donald Trump had been teasing the victory for days.

On Friday, the White House said the Department of Defense had declared that the militant group no longer held any territory in Syria. At around the same time, Trump tweeted that there was “nothing to admire” about ISIS.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men walk with others said to be members of the Islamic State as they leave the village of Baghouz.Delil souleiman / AFP – Getty Images file

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

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

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

A report issued by the United Nations’ population fund, the UNFPA, said Thursday “it is estimated that around 7,000 people are still inside” Baghouz, without elaborating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matt Bradley

Matt Bradley is a London-based foreign correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.

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Cyclone Idai: Zimbabwe’s desperate search for the missing – BBC News
Cyclone Idai: Zimbabwe’s desperate search for the missing – BBC News

Parts of southern Africa have been left devastated after Cyclone Idai swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.

Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more affected.

Even though the cyclone hit Mozambique over a week ago, aid agencies are warning that the disaster is getting worse.

The BBC’s Shingai Nyoka reports from Chimanimani in Eastern Zimbabwe, one of the worst affected areas.

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Abolishing The Electoral College Would Be More Complicated Than It May Seem – NPR
Abolishing The Electoral College Would Be More Complicated Than It May Seem – NPR

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

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

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

Democratic presidential candidates are weighing in too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The amendments

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

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

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

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

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

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

The state way

There may, however, be another way.

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

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

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

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

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

The cases for and against

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gregg says that change would radicalize politics.

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

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

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

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

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Boeing 737 Max crash: planes lacked safety upgrades – Vox.com
Boeing 737 Max crash: planes lacked safety upgrades – Vox.com

The passenger jets that recently crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia had something in common: They lacked safety features that could have helped prevent the deadly accidents, which Boeing charges extra for, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

Both upgrades were related to the plane’s angle of attack sensors, devices that read whether a jet’s nose is pointing up or down relative to oncoming air. One upgrade, called the angle of attack indicator, displayed the sensors’ readings; the other upgrade is a light that is activated if the sensors interfere with each other. The disagree light alone cost $80,000, according to CBS; the jet’s list price is roughly $120 million.

These features are considered optional and aren’t required by most airline regulators — but, according to the Times report, they could have helped the planes’ pilots realize something was amiss earlier, and some flight safety experts say they never should have been optional in the first place. “They’re critical, and cost almost nothing for the airlines to install,” Bjorn Fehrm, an analyst at the aviation consultancy firm Leeham, told the Times. “Boeing charges for them because it can. But they’re vital for safety.”

(Of the three US airlines that have Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets in their fleet, only two — American and Southwest — paid for these upgrades, the Times confirmed. A United Airlines spokesperson told the Times that its jets don’t include these upgrades because its pilots use other data to fly their planes.)

According to the Times report, Boeing also charges for things like backup fire extinguishers in the cargo hold, another feature the Federal Aviation Administration considers optional, despite past incidents showing that a single extinguishing system isn’t enough to put out in-air fires. According to the Times’s reporting, airlines have paid for items like extra oxygen masks for crew members.

Due to the proliferation of budget airlines, air travel has never been cheaper — or more accessible to the average person. But air travel has become a race to the bottom for airlines, which try to save money by passing on costs to consumers by charging for features that used to be considered standard, like seating choices, checked bags, and even carry-on luggage. The news that both the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air jets were missing certain safety features raises a more troubling question: Are airlines putting a price on safety? Consumers can choose which airline to fly with, but they have no say in — or, in many cases, knowledge about — whether that airline purchased specific safety upgrades.

Mark Goodrich, an aviation lawyer and former engineering test pilot, told the Times that charging extra for non-mandatory safety features has become “a great profit center” for Boeing. But this phenomenon isn’t limited to the aviation industry.

In 2015, the consulting firm JD Power released a study revealing that most car owners are willing to pay for ostensibly optional safety upgrades, like blind spot detection, night vision, and collision avoidance systems — to a point. According to the study, buyers ages 38 and younger said they’d spend no more than $3,703 for new technology, and older buyers were willing to spend even less. But as the Associated Press noted at the time, some safety features can cost much more than that, and many aren’t available for cheaper or older models at all.

In 2015, when the JD Power study was conducted, Toyota only offered automatic braking on its Prius cars, and only as part of a $4,320 package, according to the AP. This feature has become standard on new cars in recent years, and the cost has gone down as a result, but it’s still primarily available for new cars. In other words, you have to be able to buy a new car to get upgrades like this in the first place, a luxury many people can’t afford. (US News compiled a list of the cheapest cars with automatic braking last year, the cheapest of which costs $16,900.)

Offering safety features at an additional cost essentially creates a system of haves and have-nots; it transforms safety into a luxury, not a necessity. Consumer watchdogs say this is a problem.

“Consumers shouldn’t have to pay extra for safety features, because paying extra means that they are not available to everyone and they’ll cost more than they should,” Jack Gillis, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, told the LA Times. “By simply incorporating the latest safety features into a product, two things happen. They are available to everyone, thus everyone benefits, and they become cheaper due to economies of scale.”

Whether people can afford to buy individual safety upgrades is just one part of this problem. As last year’s wildfires in California showed, the ability to prepare for — and, if necessary, flee — hazards like natural disasters is also divided along class lines. Last fall, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were criticized for reportedly hiring a team of private firefighters to save their $60 million home from the blazes that were tearing through Southern California. (The firefighters were actually deployed by the Kardashian-Wests’ insurance company, not by the famous couple themselves; according to NBC News, these private firefighting teams are primarily available for those whose properties are valued above $1 million.)

Similarly, more than a million people were given mandatory evacuation orders in the days before Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas — thousands refused to leave their homes because they couldn’t afford to leave or, in some cases, because their employers refused to give them time off.

These aren’t one-to-one comparisons: Buying a new car is different from buying a plane ticket, deciding where to live, or being unable to leave your home in the event of a natural disaster. But looked at together, these examples point to a two-tiered system where safety is only guaranteed to those who can afford it, often with deadly consequences.

In the case of the Boeing jets, the New York Times reports that the manufacturer will soon make certain features like the disagree light standard on all new jets. If investigators determine that those missing upgrades could have prevented both the Ethiopian and Indonesian crashes, it may be way past time to start thinking of safety upgrades as a necessity, not a luxury.

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Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the price of the cheapest car on US News’s roundup.

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Trump’s statement on Golan Heights sparks accusations of election meddling in Israel – The Washington Post
Trump’s statement on Golan Heights sparks accusations of election meddling in Israel – The Washington Post

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March 22 at 11:50 AM

JERUSALEM — President Trump’s statement that the United States should recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel was widely welcomed by Israelis on Friday but also triggered criticism that he was interfering in a close election campaign to help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The White House endorsement of Israeli sovereignty over the plateau, which was seized from Syria in 1967, fulfills a request from Netanyahu and came less than three weeks before Israeli voters decide on April 9 whether to reelect their longtime leader for a fifth term. 

“It’s clear that Netanyahu has managed to influence Trump to do this for his own electoral benefit,” said Jonathan Rhynhold, a professor in political science at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. “It is clear intervention in the Israeli electoral process.”  

In an interview with Fox Business aired on Friday morning, Trump denied he was trying to help Netanyahu politically. “I wouldn’t even know about that,” Trump said. “I have no idea. I hear he is doing okay.”

The president said he’d been thinking about the move for a “long time.”

[Trump repeats claims that Democrats are ‘anti-Israel’ and ‘anti-Jewish’ ahead of Netanyahu visit]

 But the decision adds to the list of wins that Netanyahu has been touting, including U.S. steps to scrap its participation in the nuclear deal with Iran and the transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem which it recognized as Israel’s capital. 

The timing is particularly favorable for Netanyahu, as his political opponents have been trumpeting more corruption allegations against him. His main election opponents in the Blue and White Party, headed by former army chief of staff Benny Gantz and Netanyahu’s longtime rival Yair Lapid, have called for an investigation into allegations that the prime minister made $4.3 million in connection with an Israeli submarine contract with a German firm.

The Israeli attorney general has already announced his intention to indict Netanyahu in three other corruption cases, pending a hearing in which the prime minister can offer a defense. Netanyahu has not been named as a suspect in the submarine case, known as Case 3000, but his close aides and personal lawyer have. 

Netanyahu has strongly denied any wrongdoing in connection with the four cases and on Friday instructed his lawyers to sue Gantz and Lapid for libel.

“You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to speculate that given the extremely intimate level of coordination between Trump and Netanyahu’s teams, the timing is no coincidence,” Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer wrote in a front-page article in the Haaretz newspaper entitled “Why Trump dropped his bombshell now.”


Tourists take photographs next to a mock road sign for Damascus, the capital of Syria, and other cities in an old outpost in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on March 22. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

 An analysis in the Jerusalem Post called Trump’s statement “the election gift Netanyahu dreamed of.”

“All of a sudden the submarines and Blue and White Party allegations that Netanyahu illicitly profited from the deal seem like toy boats in a bathtub,” the newspaper analysis said. “Netanyahu will come to the voter and say, ‘submarines, schmumbarines, I’ve brought you U.S. recognition that we can stay on the Golan.’”

Raviv Drucker of Israeli Channel 13 called Trump’s statement “a clear attempt to help Netanyahu.” Drucker said that Netanyahu’s Likud Party also indicated that more “gifts” are expected from Trump, adding that he will “go out of his way” next week when Netanyahu visits Washington to help him. 

The latest polls show the Likud Party and Blue and White Party battling it out for first place in the elections. Israel Hayom newspaper on Friday projected Blue and White would win 30 seats in the 120-seat parliament, compared with 26 for Likud. The ultimate test will be which leader is able to assemble a governing coalition from various parties.

“Small changes can make huge differences,” said Rhynhold, suggesting that Trump’s announcement could make a difference. “If it means one seat goes to him and not the left, it can change the whole coalition-building process.” 

He said that Israeli voters are less attuned to the damage that Netanyahu is doing to the relationship with the U.S. Democratic Party by tying himself so closely to Trump. Polls have shown a slide in support for Israel among young liberals in particular and veteran Democrats formed a new group – the Democratic Majority for Israel – earlier this year to counter claims the party is not behind Israel. 

“They are anti-Israel,” Trump said before departing for Florida on Friday. “Frankly, I think they are anti-Jewish.” 

The United States has been accused of putting its thumb on the scale in previous U.S. elections, including in 1996 by backing Ehud Barak, whose bid for reelection still failed. However, Trump and his policies have resonated with Israelis. 

The Golan move was welcomed across Israel’s political spectrum. Lapid, whose Blue and White party had promised to strengthen Israel’s hold on the Golan, called the decision a “dream come true.” 

Writing in Israeli daily Ydioth Ahronoth Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas called the move a “recognition of reality.” 

But Israelis are now pondering what the Trump administration may ask from Netanyahu in return, especially since a long-awaited White House peace plan for the Middle East is expected after the elections.

Rhynhold said Trump likely takes the attitude “if I do you a favor, you do me a favor” and the favor expected of Netanyahu would be to back the peace plan. But that plan could involve setting up a Palestinian state with a role for militant groups like Hamas.

Israeli politicians have been wary of the price for the Trump administration’s pro-Israel moves. “With all the joy of American recognition of the Golan Heights, it is essential to say: The ‘Golan in exchange for Hamastan’ deal is a danger to Jewish settlements and to Israel,” Rhynhold said. 

Just over half of the population on the Golan Heights are Arabic speaking Druze who live alongside Israelis who have settled there since it was captured in the 1967 war. The elevation of the plain makes it highly strategic, with Syria using as a shelling position during the conflict.   

Israel’s 1981 annexation of the territory was not recognized by the United Nations or the rest of the international community. 

“The Golan Heights are either Israeli or Syria,” tweeted Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. 

“America should never support giving an inch of territory to the barbaric war criminal Assad,” she said, referencing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria, along with its allies Iran and Russia, has slammed the U.S. move. 

Ruth Eglash in Jerusalem and Anne Gearan in Washington contributed to this report.

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Trump says he is withdrawing earlier North Korea-related sanctions – Reuters
Trump says he is withdrawing earlier North Korea-related sanctions – Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ordering the withdrawal of recently announced North Korea-related sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department.

“It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large-scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” Trump said on Twitter. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!”

It was not immediately clear what sanctions Trump was referring to. There were no new U.S. sanctions on North Korea announced on Friday but on Thursday the United States blacklisted two Chinese shipping companies that it said helped North Korea evade sanctions over its nuclear weapons program.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders did not specify which sanctions Trump spoke of but said: “President Trump likes Chairman Kim (Jong Un) and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary.”

The sanctions on the Chinese shippers were the first since the second U.S.-North Korea summit broke down last month. Hours after the sanctions announcement, North Korea on Friday pulled out of a liaison office with the South, a major setback for Seoul.

North Korea said it was quitting the joint liaison office set up in September in the border city of Kaesong after a historic summit between leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in early last year.

Reporting by Susan Heavey; writing by David Alexander; editing by Tim Ahmann and Bill Trott

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Donald Trump’s new, confusing closing argument against the Mueller report – CNN
Donald Trump’s new, confusing closing argument against the Mueller report – CNN

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“It’s always interesting to me because a deputy, that didn’t get any votes, appoints a man that didn’t get any votes, he’s going to write a report on me. I had one of the greatest election victories in history. Would you say that’s true? They came from the valleys, they came from the rivers, they came from the cities, they came from all over, they voted in one of the greatest elections in the history of our country, and now I have a man, because we have an attorney general who — nobody can even believe he didn’t tell me, but he recused himself — so I have a man who is a deputy who I don’t know, who I didn’t know at all, and he appoints a man who had just left my office, I didn’t give him the job at the FBI, [James] Comey’s his best friend, but listen, you know it better than anybody, you’ve been very fair in this, but listen, I have a deputy, appoints a man to write a report on me, to make a determination on my presidency? People will not stand for it.”

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    Indonesia’s National Airline Seeks to Cancel Order of Boeing Max 8s – The New York Times
    Indonesia’s National Airline Seeks to Cancel Order of Boeing Max 8s – The New York Times

    Norwegian Air, a low-cost airline with one of the largest Max 8 fleets outside the United States, said last week that it expected Boeing to cover the costs of the aircraft being grounded. But arguing for compensation could also be difficult at this stage, experts said.

    A spokesman for Norwegian said on Friday that the airline had no plans to cancel its orders from Boeing. Representatives of other airlines with 737 Max planes on order, including Tui, Icelandair, FlyDubai, LOT, Comair and Enter Air, also said they had no current plans to cancel orders.

    “We’re waiting for the result of the investigation,” said Aage Duenhaupt of Tui Fly, a subsidiary of the Tui Group, a tourism company based Germany that has 59 737 Max planes on order. “We see fleet decisions as long-term decisions. There are no plans on our side to change at the moment.”

    Garuda’s decision to back out of its order and the indication that many passengers do not trust that they can fly safely in a Boeing’s 737 Max is nevertheless a blow to the company, which has been thrust into crisis by the crashes.

    Dennis A. Muilenburg, Boeing’s chief executive, said this week that the company was “taking actions to fully ensure the safety of the 737 Max.” He also said that the company was working on an update to the software, which investigators are examining as a possible cause of the Lion Air crash.

    With its best-selling plane grounded, no firm timetable for a return and airlines questioning their contracts, the company also faces increased scrutiny from regulators.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/world/asia/indonesia-boeing-737.html

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    White House: ISIS territory in Syria has been 100 percent eliminated | TheHill – The Hill
    White House: ISIS territory in Syria has been 100 percent eliminated | TheHill – The Hill

    The White House said Friday the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has lost all of its territory in Syria, an announcement that has long been promised by President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate GOP budget ignores Trump, cuts defense Trump says he’ll nominate Stephen Moore to Fed White House: ISIS territory in Syria has been 100 percent eliminated MORE.

    White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One that acting Defense Secretary Patrick ShanahanPatrick Michael ShanahanWhite House: ISIS territory in Syria has been 100 percent eliminated Overnight Defense: Top Marine warns border deployment could hurt readiness | McSally aims for sexual assault reforms in defense bill | House to vote on measure opposing transgender ban | New warning over F-35 sale to Turkey On The Money: Trump rolls dice on uncertain economy | 737 crisis tests Boeing’s clout in Washington | Watchdog group pushes 2020 candidates for 10 years of tax returns MORE briefed Trump on the development during the flight.

    Sanders showed reporters a map of Syria demonstrating ISIS’s territorial losses and Trump later handed a copy to reporters, saying it demonstrates that the caliphate has been eliminated “as of last night.”

    “You guys can have the map. Congratulations. Just spread it around,” Trump told reporters on the tarmac in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he is spending the weekend at his nearby Mar-a-Lago club. 

    “There’s ISIS, and that’s what we have right now,” he added, pointing to an area without any red ISIS-held territory.

    Sanders referred questions to the Defense Department, adding that the Pentagon “made the call” that ISIS had been eliminated completely in Syria.

    “The territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria,” she said.

    The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    The development marks an achievement for the Trump administration in the years-long fight against the extremist group, but U.S. officials and lawmakers have warned that ISIS still poses a threat.

    Trump has said for months that ISIS has been “100 percent” territorially defeated, even though the announcement was just made on Friday. His comments have angered members of Congress who fear that the president is underestimating the threat and declaring victory prematurely.

    The president said during a March 3 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that officials would make the announcement “probably today or tomorrow” that “we will actually have 100 percent of the caliphate in Syria.”

    “The caliphate is gone, as of tonight,” Trump said Wednesday during a speech at an Ohio tank plant. “Pretty good. That’s pretty good, right?”

    –Updated 12:40 p.m.

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    Parkland shooting survivor suicide: Sydney Aiello takes her own life a year after surviving shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – CBS News
    Parkland shooting survivor suicide: Sydney Aiello takes her own life a year after surviving shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – CBS News

    On the day a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sydney Aiello escaped with her life. However, the grief of losing 17 of her classmates and teachers, as well as the long-lasting effects of enduring such a traumatic event, weighed heavily on her. And this weekend, at the age of 19, Aiello took her own life.

    Now, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas community is mourning yet another loss.

    Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School graduate Sydney Aiello does yoga in the photo on her family’s GoFundMe page, launched to raise funds for her memorial.

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    Sydney’s mother, Cara Aiello, told CBS Miami that her daughter struggled with survivor’s guilt and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the year following the tragedy. And while she reportedly never asked for help, she struggled to attend college classes because she was scared of being in a classroom.

    Sydney was also a close friend of Meadow Pollack, one of the students who was shot and killed in the Parkland shooting. Meadow’s father, Andrew, became one of the most visible of the Parkland victims’ parents when he delivered a searing and emotional speech at the White House just a few days after the shooting, arguing for an increase in school safety rather than changes to America’s gun laws.

    CBS News journalists embedded with Andrew Pollack as part of the documentary “39 Days“, which showcased the birth of a movement as many Parkland students turned their grief into action. 

    39 Days: A CBS News documentary

    While the nation’s attention turned to budding young activists like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, however, other Parkland survivors were suffering in silence. And the Aiello family’s tragedy is an all too painful reminder that trauma effects teens deeply, often quietly, and for years.

    Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina died in the shooting, told CBS Miami he worries that more traumatized Parkland teens will take their own lives. So, he has focused his grief and his efforts into suicide prevention.

    “It breaks my heart that we’ve lost yet another student from Stoneman Douglas,” Petty said. “My advice to parents is to ask questions, don’t wait.”

    There is now a GoFundMe page to help Sydney Aiello’s parents and brother pay for her memorial services. 

    “Sydney spent 19 years writing her story as a beloved daughter, sister and friend to many,” the page reads. “She lit up every room she entered.  She filled her days cheerleading, doing yoga, and brightening up the days of others. Sydney aspired to work in the medical field helping others in need. On March 17th, 2019 Sydney became the guardian angel to many. It was a privilege to have you in our lives. Sydney, we will miss you and always love you. May you find peace in His arms.”

    Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parkland-shooting-survivor-sydney-aiello-takes-her-own-life/

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    Marine Corps commandant says deploying troops to the border poses ‘unacceptable risk’ – Los Angeles Times
    Marine Corps commandant says deploying troops to the border poses ‘unacceptable risk’ – Los Angeles Times

    Neller, a four-star general, said because of the problems, Marines will not participate in planned training exercises in Indonesia, Scotland and Mongolia, and will reduce their participation in joint exercises with Australia and South Korea.

    Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-marine-corps-border-national-emergency-20190321-story.html

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    Teen arrested for alleged threats targeting black, minority students at a Charlottesville school – NBC News
    Teen arrested for alleged threats targeting black, minority students at a Charlottesville school – NBC News

    A 17-year-old boy was arrested Friday for allegedly making online threats against black and Hispanic students at a high school in Charlottesville, Virginia, police said.

    The arrest came after the Charlottesville City Schools said it would be closing all of its public schools for the second day in a row Friday as police investigated the message.

    The district also closed schools Thursday after a message was posted on the fringe internet message board 4chan targeting minority students at Charlottesville High School and telling white students to stay home.

    Charlottesville Chief of Police RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday afternoon that the teen, who was not named, identifies as Portuguese and is a resident of Albemarle County.

    Authorities said during their investigation into the threat, which referred to the “ethnic cleansing” of black and Hispanic high schools students, they learned who posted the message on 4chan and executed a search warrant for the teen’s arrest.

    He faces a felony charge of threats to commit serious bodily harm to persons on school property and a misdemeanor charge of harassment by computer.

    “We want the community to know that any threats made against our schools, credible or not, are taken seriously and will be thoroughly investigated,” Brackney said. “We want the community and world to know that hate is not welcomed in Charlottesville; violence is not welcomed in Charlottesville; intolerance is not welcomed in Charlottesville.”

    Dr. Rosa Atkins, superintendent of Charlottesville City Schools, said the teen is not a student in their district. She said schools will re-open on Monday.

    In a statement on Facebook, the district said it wanted to condemn “the fact that this threat was racially charged.”

    “We do not tolerate hate or racism,” Charlottesville City Schools said. “The entire staff and School Board stand in solidarity with our students of color — and with people who have been singled out for reasons such as religion or ethnicity or sexual identity in other vile threats made across the country or around the world.”

    Also Friday, a teenager was arrested by police in Albemarle County, Virginia, and charged with one felony count of threats of death or bodily injury for allegedly threatening to carry out a shooting at Albemarle High School, which is a few miles away from Charlottesville High School.

    “At this time, the Albemarle County Police Department is investigating this as an isolated incident, with no connection to the social media threats directed towards Charlottesville High School from earlier this week,” the department said.

    Fringe internet message boards including 4chan have become destinations for racist and misogynist content as mainstream social media platforms have in recent years begun to crack down on extremist content. As those communities began to grow, threats and rhetoric originating on the message boards have led to real-world violence.

    Most recently, the man who allegedly killed 50 people in New Zealand appeared to post his intentions to 8chan, a message board that spun off from 4chan, ahead of the attack.

    In 2017, a deadly white nationalist rally took place in Charlottesville and claimed the life of Heather Heyer, 32, and injured 19 others when James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters.

    Fields was found guilty in December 2018 of first-degree murder in connection with Heyer’s death and five counts of aggravated malicious wounding, three counts of malicious wounding and one hit and run count.

    Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.

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    Trump intensifies effort to discredit Mueller report – AOL
    Trump intensifies effort to discredit Mueller report – AOL

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is intensifying his efforts to discredit a highly anticipated report on the special counsel’s Russia investigation.

    In an interview with Fox Business Network to be aired Friday, Trump said: “I have a deputy, appoints a man to write a report on me, to make a determination on my presidency. People will not stand for it.”

    Trump’s comments came as special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to soon deliver a report to the Justice Department on his investigation into Russian election meddling.

    Trump complained about Mueller’s appointment, calling him a “best friend” to James Comey, who succeeded Mueller as FBI director. Trump fired Comey while he was leading an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. There is no evidence the two are close friends.




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    Boeing Faces First Order Cancellation for 737 MAX Jets Since Crash – The Wall Street Journal
    Boeing Faces First Order Cancellation for 737 MAX Jets Since Crash – The Wall Street Journal

    JAKARTA, Indonesia—Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia said it is seeking to cancel an order for 49 Boeing Co. 737 MAX jets, saying passengers have lost confidence in the aircraft following two deadly crashes in recent months.

    The move makes Garuda the first airline to publicly confirm plans to cancel a 737 MAX order. The 737 MAX jets were grounded by regulators world-wide this month in the wake of an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 passengers and crew on board.

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    ‘Last chance’: EU leaders issue ultimatum to Britain over no-deal Brexit – CNBC
    ‘Last chance’: EU leaders issue ultimatum to Britain over no-deal Brexit – CNBC

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    European Union leaders have warned Britain that it has one final opportunity to leave the bloc in an orderly fashion, after agreeing to delay the departure date beyond March 29.

    The U.K. will be offered a delay until May 22, if lawmakers support Prime Minister Theresa May‘s twice-rejected Withdrawal Agreement next week.

    But, if Parliament votes against May’s embattled template to leave the bloc, the EU will support a shorter delay until April 12. This is designed to allow the U.K. time to get the deal through or indicate another way forward.

    “This is perhaps the last chance for Britain to say what it wants for the future,” Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel told reporters on Friday.

    “More than ever, this is in the hands of the British parliament,” Michel said, as he arrived for the second day of an EU summit overshadowed by talks over Britain’s departure.

    ‘This is it’

    May, who had asked to be able to delay Britain’s departure until June 30, said British lawmakers now faced a “clear choice.”

    They could either support her Brexit deal, deliver on the referendum result and exit the EU in an “orderly manner” or face the prospect of having to stand candidates in the European Parliamentary elections three years after a small but clear majority voted for Brexit.

    On Thursday, EU leaders spent seven hours discussing a host of options regarding Brexit, saying that while they regret the country’s decision to leave, they are eager to move on with the process.

    Eventually, the bloc decided a May 22 departure date would apply if Parliament rallies behind the prime minister next week. Otherwise, Britain must decide whether to offer a new plan or leave the EU without a deal on April 12.

    “In case of no vote (in Parliament)… it will guide everybody to a no-deal for sure,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters on Thursday.

    “This is it. We are ready,” Macron said.

    ‘How can you prepare for something terrible?’

    The French premier reportedly told EU leaders in the room on Thursday that before coming to Brussels he had thought May only had a 10 percent chance of winning a third meaningful vote.

    But, after listening to the prime minister speak on Thursday, he had cut his estimate to just 5 percent, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the discussions.



    Many market participants are fearful a no-deal Brexit, sometimes referred to as the “cliff-edge” scenario, could hammer both economic growth and jobs in the world’s fifth-largest economy.

    “If next week, there is no vote or the vote is negative, then we have already agreed that the cliff-edge then becomes, in a sense, April 12,” Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins told CNBC’s Willem Marx in Brussels on Friday.

    When asked whether he had the impression that EU leaders were now fully prepared for a no-deal scenario, Karins replied: “How can you prepare for something terrible?”

    “We don’t want this but we realised a while ago that we had better be prepared… and this has probably happened in all member states.”

    Goldman Sachs said the likelihood of a no-deal Brexit had increased to 15 percent from 5 percent, Reuters reported, citing a research note published Friday. The U.S. investment bank cut the chances of May’s deal passing to 50 percent, down from 60 percent.

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