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Polar Vortex Updates: Bitter Cold Weather Spreads East – The New York Times
Polar Vortex Updates: Bitter Cold Weather Spreads East – The New York Times

CHICAGO — A bitter, biting cold landed on the Midwest, and then it stayed.

As the middle of the nation awoke on Thursday, the deep freeze seemed to have settled in for a long, unwanted visit, disrupting life across an entire region for much of a week, contributing to deaths and injuries, and leaving residents impatient to emerge from their homes and get back to normal.

The grim temperatures and gusty winds lingered in the Midwest, and had spread to the Northeast.

Here are the latest developments:

• Temperatures broke records in some places, and remained low, near record levels, in much of the Midwest on Thursday morning. Minneapolis was minus 23, with a wind chill of minus 38, the National Weather Service said. Chicago was at minus 21, with a wind chill of minus 41. And Milwaukee hit minus 21, with a wind chill of minus 40.

• At least eight deaths have been connected to the Midwest’s dangerously cold weather system, according to The Associated Press, including that of a University of Iowa student who was found behind an academic hall several hours before dawn on Wednesday.

• The sustained cold taxed energy systems across the Midwest, leading to some outages and urgent calls to customers to reduce the heat in their homes.

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Student who died in polar vortex recalled as ‘momma’s boy with a tough exterior’ – New York Post
Student who died in polar vortex recalled as ‘momma’s boy with a tough exterior’ – New York Post

The University of Iowa student who died after being found outside on campus in subzero temperatures was “a momma’s boy with a tough exterior,” his dad said.

Gerald Belz, 18, was discovered unconscious Wednesday around 3 a.m. behind an academic hall — when the wind chill was about minus 51 degrees. The first-year pre-med student was rushed to a hospital, where he died.

“I want people to remember him as a compassionate person,” his dad, Michael Belz, told KCRG. “He had many more friends than I was aware of.”

Officials believe the teen died because of arctic temperatures that have been linked to at least nine other deaths as a polar vortex grips the Midwest. Doctors didn’t find any alcohol in his system, his family said, but the precise cause of death is not yet known.

The teen had been Snapchatting with his girlfriend late Tuesday and told her he was going to bed, his dad said, according to the Daily Iowan.

He’d graduated in May from Kennedy High School, where he played football.

The university canceled classes until Thursday amid the frigid weather.

With Post wires

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President Trump says Republicans ‘wasting their time’ on border security talks – USA TODAY
President Trump says Republicans ‘wasting their time’ on border security talks – USA TODAY
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Democrats offered to boost spending and flashed signs of flexibility as congressional talks began Wednesday aimed at resolving the standoff with President Donald Trump over border security. (Jan. 30)
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump expressed skepticism Thursday that a congressional committee will agree to his demands for a border wall, raising the specters of another government shutdown or an “emergency declaration” sure to be challenged in court.

Tweeting that “Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are wasting their time,” Trump said that “Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL.”

Trump did not specifically cite the prospects of another shutdown or an emergency declaration, but told Republicans “I’ve got you covered” because the “wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!”

He did not elaborate.

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The tweet came shortly after Trump changed his terms of debate, now insisting he wants a “wall” on the border, not a “barrier” or “fence.”

“Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games!,” he posted on Twitter. “A WALL is a WALL!” 

After weeks of downplaying the stark image of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border – and saying it could be a less obtrusive “barrier” like a “steel slat fence” – Trump said Thursday he is returning to his original formulation.

The new approach popped up a day after the first meeting of a bipartisan committee of 17 lawmakers on a new border security plan, the key feature of last week’s agreement to reopen the government until Feb. 15  following a record-setting shutdown that lasted 35 days.

If the committee’s plan does not include wall funding to Trump’s liking, he can refuse  to sign a new spending plan to keep the government open beyond Feb. 15. That would trigger another partial government shutdown.

Trump has also talked about declaring some sort of national emergency at the border, theoretically allowing him to use military funds for a wall. Democrats, however, have vowed to sue over such a declaration, saying Trump lacks the legal authority to take such a step.

Such a move would tie up the wall debate in court for months or years.

Trump and aides are also trying to develop a public relations plan to influence those congressional negotiations, including next week’s State of the Union, a Super Bowl Sunday television interview and possibly another trip to the U.S.-Mexico border.

But Trump’s message and terminology has been inconsistent throughout much of the debate. During the 2016 campaign, he reliably used the word “wall” to describe the barrier he wants on the Southwest border. More recently, he has taken to words like “barrier” or “steel slats.” 

When Congress approved border security money that only allowed the administration to erect previously approved barrier designs, the White House embraced the term “bollard wall,” which is a reference to a structure that some have compared to a large, steel fence. 

The president relied on a less specific terminology just last week when he announced the short term funding agreement to reopen the government. He said he had heard from members of Congress willing to make a deal on border security.   

“They have said they are for complete border security, and they have finally and fully acknowledged that having barriers, fencing, or walls – or whatever you want to call it – will be an important part of the solution,” Trump said in the Rose Garden.  

“We do not need 2,000 miles of concrete wall from sea to shining sea – we never did; we never proposed that; we never wanted that – because we have barriers at the border where natural structures are as good as anything that we can build,” Trump said. “They’re already there. They’ve been there for millions of years.” 

 Contributing: John Fritze

 

 

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‘Whistleblower’ in White House security clearance office gets suspended – NBC News
‘Whistleblower’ in White House security clearance office gets suspended – NBC News

WASHINGTON — A White House security specialist has been suspended without pay for defying her supervisor Carl Kline, less than a week after NBC News reported Kline approved Jared Kushner for top secret clearance over the objections of career staff.

The specialist, Tricia Newbold, had filed a discrimination complaint against Kline three months ago.

Newbold’s two-week suspension from the White House security office was for failure to supervise, failure to follow instructions and defiance of authority, according to the suspension decision notice obtained by NBC News. Security office chief Crede Bailey first proposed the suspension on Dec. 3, 2018.

Wednesday’s notice is signed by Bailey and mentions that in Newbold’s 18-year career she has not faced any “prior formal disciplinary action.” The document also harshly criticizes Newbold for her “defiance” and notes that Newbold said she would “continue to do what is best for the Executive Office of the President.”

In the notice, the chief security officer denies that the suspension has anything to do with Newbold’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint.

Newbold’s lawyer, Ed Passman, considers her a whistleblower and said he believes the administrative charges were brought as payback for her decision to file the complaint against Kline.

“It’s clearly reprisal for her whistleblowing,” Passman said. “[It] has no basis in merit whatsoever.”

Newbold told NBC News, “I confidently feel that this is completely unwarranted and I am also confident that I have done nothing wrong, every decision I and my team have made have always been in the best interest of the United States,” she said. “There is no compromise of personal identifiable information or sensitive information.”

Tricia Newbold has filed an EEOC complaint against Carl Kline, alleging he discriminated against her because of her height.

Asked about Newbold’s suspension, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “We don’t comment on personnel issues.”

Kline was the subject of an NBC News article last week that revealed he had approved Kushner’s top-secret clearance after it was rejected by two career White House security specialists. The pair had made the decision to deny Kushner the clearance after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

In her EEOC complaint, Newbold, who has a rare form of dwarfism, accused Kline of discriminating against her because of her height.

Her complaint states that, in December 2017, Kline moved security files to a new location that were too high and out of her reach. “You have people, have them get you the files you need; or you can ask me,” he told Newbold, according to her complaint.

Two sources who did not want to be identified confirmed that Kline had moved files out of Newbold’s reach.

Laura Strickler is an investigative producer in the NBC News Investigative Unit based in Washington.

Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander is a White House correspondent for NBC News.

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Donald Trump proposed a 14.5 percent wealth tax in 1999 – Vox.com
Donald Trump proposed a 14.5 percent wealth tax in 1999 – Vox.com

Sen. Elizabeth Warren wasn’t the first major American politician to put the idea of a tax on large fortunes on the political agenda.

Indeed, it’s been kicking around in one form or another since the late 1990s, when an influential then-independent rolled out a proposal that he framed as a way to reduce the national debt while preserving the interests of the 99 percent.

Here’s how the plan’s architect described it: “By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan. The other 99 percent of the people would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes.”

His name? Donald Trump.

The Trump plan for debt elimination

Trump’s plan, as articulated during a 1999 flirtation with a Reform Party presidential bid, differed from Warren’s in three important respects.

One, he wanted the tax to be a one-time levy that would reduce the national debt and therefore reduce interest service payments. That reduction in payments would be the enduring win for the middle class, while rich people would just pay the tax once and then forget it. Warren’s plan would simply levy a smaller tax each year.

Two, he wanted a fairly hefty rate — 14.5 percent — that would have required a lot of rapid-fire liquidation of business assets. Warren’s rate structure is much lower than that.

Three, he set the threshold for his tax lower. While Warren wants to tax fortunes worth more than $50 million, Trump proposed taxing wealth starting at $10 million. This was in 1999, and there’s been some inflation since then, but even in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Trump tax cutoff is a bit below $15 million.

What’s more, Warren has a progressive rate structure: Assets worth between $50 million and $1 billion would be taxed at 2 percent, and assets above $1 billion taxed at 3 percent tax. Trump’s tax is flat but starts lower, so he soaks the kinda-sorta rich more relative to the super-duper rich. The plan didn’t really make a ton of sense, but it does underscore one reason that very wealthy people express a lot of anxiety about the national debt.

Trump’s plan had some problems — and some insight

One major issue with wealth taxes historically has been that actually collecting the funds is relatively difficult — financial assets are highly portable, and the rich people who own them have a strong incentive to find ways to avoid paying.

Warren’s proposal contains a few ideas to try to curb avoidance — including the simple but important step of increasing IRS funding — though, of course, there are no guarantees.

Trump’s one-time wealth tax would suffer from all the same challenges as Warren’s, except that by setting the rate much higher while also making it a one-time tax, he created enormous avoidance incentives and never came up with a plan to deal with them.

Perhaps more importantly, the whole concept of dedicating a massive effort to reducing the federal debt overhang is somewhat dubious. Trump’s idea was that paying off the national debt would reduce federal interest rate costs, allowing for a middle-class tax cut. Instead, the debt volume has increased dramatically since 1999, but federal debt service payments as a share of GDP are actually lower than they were back then, since interest rates have fallen dramatically.

Relatively little of that debt accrual took the form of middle-class tax cuts — Bush’s regressive tax cuts, a couple of wars, a major recession, and a new round of regressive Trump tax cuts were the bigger player — but if we’d wanted to enact a big middle-class tax cut in 1999, we could have just done that, rather than fussing around with exotic taxes.

However, Trump’s thinking here does raise an important point. If the country continues to be nonchalant about the deficit, there is at least some chance that at some future point, debt service costs will spike unexpectedly. And if that does happen, some kind of quick soak-the-rich tax scheme would be an attractive means of reducing those costs. So if you happen to be a very wealthy person, it makes a lot of sense to worry about long-term debt accumulation (because if it goes badly, you are likely to be stuck with the bill) and to prefer instead that we slowly but surely reduce the deficit by cutting retirement programs.

The issue is rarely debated squarely in those terms, but Trump floated essentially what would be a reasonable approach to dealing with a debt crisis. And very rich people tend to want to avoid that outcome.

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/2019/1/31/18203999/donald-trump-wealth-tax-14-5-percent

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EU launches mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Iran – Aljazeera.com
EU launches mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Iran – Aljazeera.com

The European Union has announced the setting up of a payment mechanism to secure trade with Iran and skirt US sanctions after Washington pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal last May.

The proposal of a financial instrument has been a key element in the EU’s strategy to keep Iran from quitting the 2015 nuclear agreement, which was signed to prevent Tehran from building nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief.

The new institution, named INSTEX – Instrument In Support Of Trade Exchanges – will allow trade between the EU and Iran without relying on direct financial transactions. It is a project of the governments of France, Germany and Britain and will receive the formal endorsement of all 28 EU members.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has been closely eyeing European efforts to establish the financial mechanism and warned any attempt to evade its “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran would be subject to stiff penalties.

The mechanism is the first concrete step by the EU to counter Trump’s unilateral decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal. 

Iran and EU announced the plan to set up a legal entity in September last year to circumvent US sanctions, which has largely succeeded in preventing European firms from investing in the country.

On Thursday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs said the Special Purpose Vehicle will serve as the first step in the collection of commitments of Europeans towards Tehran.

“We hope they will be fully implemented and will not be incomplete,” Abbas Araqchi told the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Broadcasting (IRIB) Channel One on Thursday.

Too little too late?

INSTEX will initially be used for non-sanctionable trade, including humanitarian goods such as medicine, food and medical devices. Some have questioned whether it will prove effective.

“If [the mechanism] will permanently be restricted to solely humanitarian trade, it will be apparent that Europe will have failed to live up to its end of the bargain for Iran,” political analyst Mohammad Ali Shabani told Al Jazeera.

Foad Izadi, a professor at the University of Tehran, offered a similar analysis. 

“I don’t think the EU is either willing or able to stand up to Trump’s threat,“ he said. “The EU is not taking the nuclear deal seriously and it’s not taking any action to prove to Iran otherwise… People are running out of patience.”

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder of a Europe-Iran business forum, however, said the role of new payment channel should not be undermined given the pivotal role that medicines play as a trade category between Europe and Iran.

In 2017, the export of drugs from Europe to Iran totalled $884m compared with $194m from China and $52m from India, according to UN data.


As Batmanghelidj pointed out, even if limited, the mechanism could eventually pave the way for further advancement.

“The value of it is to give the EU an opportunity to learn how to operate properly, and then create [a mechanism] for more strategic sectors. It could turn into a pilot that the US would find difficult to target with political legitimacy given its humanitarian focus,” said Batmanghelidj.

“What seems a limitation, could turn into a strength.”

Opportunity for EU

The launching of INSTEX is not only a matter of Iran-EU relations but also embodies a new approach by the bloc towards US policies, according to Batmanghelidj.

INSTEX “becomes an opportunity when it’s understood as an experiment and as part of a bigger project to strengthen EU economic power”, he said.

“What is relevant in this case is to see that the EU is doing something despite the position of the US, and in opposition to the US. This is something new.”

Witnessing the effect of US secondary sanctions on non-US firms, EU leaders are becoming more aware of the necessity to strengthen the eurozone, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated in her speech in Davos at the recent World Economic Forum.

“This [mechanism] is at most going to be a baby step towards international financial structures that would give the EU more independence,” said Henry Farrell, a professor of political science at George Washington University, in a social media post.

In the meantime, Iranians are waiting for their European partners to salvage the nuclear deal. But as Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, recently warned, the EU needs to step up “before it is too late”.

“We [Iran] will be losing trust and once the trust is lost, everybody will be a loser in the game,” Salehi said.

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Extreme Cold Hits Midwest, Northeast: 5 Dead, Thousands of Flights Canceled – The Weather Channel
Extreme Cold Hits Midwest, Northeast: 5 Dead, Thousands of Flights Canceled – The Weather Channel

The Polar Vortex continued its grip on the Midwest Thursday with the coldest Arctic air in decades. At least five people are dead as a result of the bitter cold, widespread school closures continue, flights are grounded and mail delivery is still on hold in some states until temperatures warm up.

The extreme cold is responsible for at least five deaths.

An unidentified former member of the Ecorse City Council was found dead near a neighbor’s house Wednesday. The former councilman was reportedly clothed in inappropriate clothing for the cold and without a hat and gloves, the Associated Press reports.

In Detroit, a 70-year-old unidentified man was also found dead in front of a neighbor’s home Wednesday.

18-year-old University of Iowa student Gerald Belz was found dead on campus Wednesday morning, KCRG reports. The exact details leading up to his death are unclear, but officials told the news station that the cold weather was to blame.

An 82-year-old Peoria County, Illinois man was found dead after he tripped and fell outside his home and fell victim to the cold temperatures, NEWS 25 reports.

On Sunday, the body of 22-year-old Ali Gombo was discovered outside his sister’s home in Rochester, Minnesota, WCCO reports. Police say he went to a bar Saturday night and was dropped off at the home around 2:30 a.m. He didn’t have keys to the home and when he found the home locked he reportedly tried to wake his sister but she didn’t hear him. Gombo’s body was found the next morning. Authorities say he likely died of hypothermia trying to get into the home.

The break in the Polar Votex brought a wind chill of -66 degrees Fahrenheit in Minnesota early Wednesday and wind chills of -58 degrees Fahrenheit in Wisconsin and Iowa.

Several major Midwest universities remain closed Thursday, including the University of Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, the University of North Dakota, the University of Wisconsin, the University of South Dakota and Iowa State University.

In a rare move, the cold prompted the U.S. Postal Service to ignore the popular saying, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Instead, the service has once again suspended service Thursday to parts or all of several Midwest states, including Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

More than 2,500 flights have been canceled as of Thursday morning, including more than 700 at Chicago’s O’Hare, according to Flight Aware.

Here’s a full breakdown of how different states in the Midwest are faring under the bitter cold:

Illinois

A state of emergency remains in effect for the state.

On Wednesday, 21 passengers on a Chicago-bound bus were rescued when the bus broke down on Interstate 55 near Springfield. The cause of the break down was gelled diesel fuel from the cold. The passengers endured cold temperatures on the bus for a significant amount of time before they were rescued, the Associated Press reports.

Temperatures dipped to -23 degrees Fahrenheit Wednesday morning at Chicago’s O’Hare, with a wind chill of 49 degrees below zero. The last time temperatures dropped below -20 degrees Fahrenheit in the Windy City was Jan. 18, 1994.

Calling the brutal cold a “public health risk,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said city agencies are making sure homeless people are in shelters or offered space in five Chicago Transit Authority buses, the AP reports.

“These (conditions) are actually a public health risk and you need to treat it appropriately,” Emanuel said. “They are life-threatening conditions and temperatures.”

The Salvation Army told weather.com they are partnering with city officials to conduct well-being checks. It’s also providing meals at shelters, delivering cold weather gear packages and deploying mobile feeding and homeless outreach units to 31 locations in the city.

Chicagoland schools and most colleges in the state remain closed Thursday.

The Brookfield Zoo is closed on Thursday because of the frigid weather. This will be only the fourth time the zoo has closed during its 85-year history.

Other Chicago attractions closed Thursday include the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum.

Amtrak says it is restoring some train service in and out of Chicago Thursday after suspending all trains Wednesday. Typically, 55 trains come in and out of the Chicago hub.

To prevent train tracks from contracting under the bitter cold, Chicago transit authorities set fire to the tracks.

The Chicago Transit Authority noted that the extreme cold can cause mechanical issues so commuters should expect delays.

An unidentified good Samaritan reportedly picked up the hotel tab for 70 homeless people who were camped in tents in Chicago Wednesday. The offer apparently came after the Chicago Fire Department confiscated propane tanks the people were using to keep warm.

Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, a state of emergency remains in effect through Friday. Schools were also closed throughout the state as temperatures plummeted.

“I want to make sure all state assets are available, including the Wisconsin National Guard if needed, to help communities across the state and keep people warm and safe,” Evers said.

(MORE: Here’s the Coldest It’s Ever Been in Your State)

The Ice Castles attraction, about 90 miles from Chicago on Lake Geneva, remained closed Thursday.

“The health and safety of our guests and our staff is our number one priority,” Ice Castles CEO Ryan Davis said in a statement. “No one should be outdoors for an extended amount of time in extreme sub-zero temperatures.”

Michigan

In Michigan, a state of emergency remains in effect. Hundreds of schools were canceled for Thursday and nonessential government offices were also closed, including the Capitol.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is urging residents to turn down thermostats to “65 degrees or less” after a fire erupted at a natural gas plant in Macomb County Wednesday.

Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said homeless shelters in the city were becoming “overloaded.” They also were filling up in Detroit.

“People don’t want to be out there right now,” said Brennan Ellis, 53, who is taking shelter at the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries.

Numerous schools, attractions, government offices and business closed Thursday. Central Michigan University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, among others, are also closed.

Two dozen water mains froze in Detroit, the Associated Press reports.

Minnesota

The extreme cold cracked rail along the Minneapolis light-rail system, forcing trains onto a single track, the Associated Press reported.

The extreme cold prompted the Minnesota Department of Transportation to halt snowplow operations in 11 southeastern counties. MDot officials said the cold was causing mechanical issues with the snowplows.

As with most states gripped by the dangerous cold, schools, government offices and businesses remain closed.

Ohio

Numerous schools and universities, including the University of Toledo, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Akron and Bowling Green State and Youngstown State universities are closed Thursday. The Ohio State University canceled classes Thursday until 11 a.m.

In Toledo, all non-essential city offices are closed through Thursday. Courthouses, libraries and many county agencies in Toledo also will be shut down through Friday.

In Cleveland, county buildings and courthouses are closed.

Indiana

An Indiana State Trooper tweeted Wednesday that Interstate 65 was becoming a “parking lot with broken down semis.” Master Trooper Glen Fifield said the problem stems from fuel filters freezing and gelled fuel.

A Zebra died due to cold exposure in Carroll County. The Zebra got stuck in the fence and froze in the extreme cold.

The temperature fell to -11 degrees Fahrenheit Wednesday in Indianapolis, which tied the record low for the date set in 1966.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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Dems give themselves some wiggle room in border talks | TheHill – The Hill
Dems give themselves some wiggle room in border talks | TheHill – The Hill

Democrats are giving themselves some room for movement in bipartisan congressional negotiations over border security funding.

Less than a week after the shutdown ended, House Democrats are walking a fine line of avoiding being seen as soft on Trump’s goal of building a wall while also not appearing obstinate in talks aimed at preventing another shutdown.

Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday downplayed the need for physical barriers during the first meeting of the bicameral committee tasked with finding a border security compromise by Feb. 15. But they also didn’t close the door entirely.

“Smart border security is not overly reliant on physical barriers, which the Trump administration has failed to demonstrate are cost effective compared to better technology and more personnel,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita LoweyNita Sue LoweyOn The Money: Fed holds rates steady | Dems hint they are open to border deal with Trump | House plans hearing on bill requiring presidential tax returns Dems signal flexibility at border meeting Lawmakers seeking to avoid new shutdown meet for first time MORE (D-N.Y.) said at the conference meeting.

When asked afterward if physical barriers are off the table, Lowey was noncommittal.

“At this point, I’m certainly not going to give an answer to that question,” she told reporters.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), a centrist Democrat on the 17-member conference committee, said House Democrats were approaching the negotiations in staunch opposition to any new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The bottom line is, my position is no,” Cuellar said shortly before the start of the conference meeting.

But Cuellar, who represents a district along the Mexican border, also hinted that there’s room for give-and-take.

“I’m saying no, but we’re negotiators and we’ll talk,” he said.

Trump dug in on his demand for a border wall Wednesday ahead of the conference meeting.

“If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!” Trump tweeted.

House Democratic conferees unveiled the outline of a border security proposal that calls for funding 1,000 new customs officers; new technology at ports of entry to scan vehicles for illicit drugs; equipment for mail processing facilities to detect opioids; and repair projects at ports of entry.

For now, Democrats are not agreeing to money for new barriers.

“We want to follow the facts. But what we can’t do is arbitrarily give a number for a border wall that we don’t feel is effective and allocate funding for that,” said Rep. Pete AguilarPeter (Pete) Ray AguilarNo GOP appetite for a second shutdown Border security that is smart, just and merciful Some Dems float idea of primary challenge for Ocasio-Cortez MORE (D-Calif.), another conference committee member, after Wednesday’s meeting.

Democratic leaders also aren’t shooting down the possibility of physical barriers.

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem JeffriesHakeem Sekou JeffriesHouse Dems postpone annual retreat amid border negotiations The Hill’s Morning Report – Negotiators face long odds to reach immigration truce No GOP appetite for a second shutdown MORE (N.Y.) said at a press briefing Tuesday that his party is willing to support certain “fencing” that falls short of a full-scale border wall.

“We do not support a medieval border wall from sea to shining sea,” Jeffries said. “However, we are willing to support fencing where it makes sense. But it should be done in an evidence-based fashion.”

House Majority Leader Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerHouse approves pay raise for federal workers Lawmakers seeking to avoid new shutdown meet for first time No GOP appetite for a second shutdown MORE (D-Md.) also didn’t rule out the possibility of Democrats accepting new fencing.

“The negotiations of the conference committee are going to be hopefully directed at, how do we best make our borders secure, and they will come up with an answer to that question and propose it,” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonHillicon Valley: Mueller alleges Russians used case files to discredit his probe | Trump blasts intel leaders | Facebook ends 2018 with record profits | Judge refuses request to unseal possible Assange charges Nielsen meets with NFL officials to discuss Super Bowl security House Homeland Security chairman echoes calls for ‘smart wall’  MORE (D-Miss.) said “there’s room for a conversation” about whether certain barriers might be the best security strategy in some places along the border.

“I have a record of supporting barriers in the past, so I’m not running from that,” Thompson said Wednesday. “I just think that over time you have to develop and see whether or not there are ways of accomplishing what you want other than barriers, if it can be accomplished. Some places, barriers are probably the optimal.”

Democrats have previously voted for authorizing fencing; in 2006, they supported about 700 miles of fencing along the southern border. A total of 64 House Democrats and 26 Senate Democrats voted for it, including Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHey team, loyalty means we don’t whine ‘Trump is a wimp’ Dems tap Stacey Abrams to give response to Trump’s State of the Union The wall versus the shutdown: Comparing costs MORE (N.Y.).

But some Democrats now question the semantics of authorizing money for something called a “fence” or “barrier” versus a “wall.”

“We’ve been very clear on our position on the wall. And just because you call it something else doesn’t mean it’s still not a border barrier,” said Rep. Pramila JayapalPramila Jayapal‘Medicare for all’ opens up Dem divide GOP lawmaker defends intel officials: ‘They are doing a pretty good job’ Progressives want Dem bill to require presidents release business tax returns MORE (D-Wash.), co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

When asked Wednesday if a border security deal could include physical barriers, another progressive Democrat, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.) replied, “At this point, no.”

“I’ll see what the details of that are and how they define that. But, you know, wall across the border is ridiculous. The cost is ridiculous,” said Grijalva, whose district includes part of the border with Mexico.

Republicans are also indicating room for compromise on the border wall fight.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyGOP announces members who will serve on House intel panel House resolution condemning government shutdowns falls short in floor vote Boehner blames ‘knuckleheads in Congress’ who listen to talk radio for shutdown MORE (R-Calif.) told reporters on Tuesday that “it doesn’t have to be a wall.”

“Physical barriers would be fine,” McCarthy said, adding that the terms “wall” and “barrier” are equivalent to him and Trump.

“Inside the meetings we’ve had, he’s said it could be a barrier, it could be a wall,” McCarthy said. “Because what a barrier does, it’s still the same thing. It’s the 30-foot steel slat, that’s a barrier.”

Mike Lillis contributed.

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University of Iowa student dies during polar vortex; 7 other deaths linked to wintry blast – Fox News
University of Iowa student dies during polar vortex; 7 other deaths linked to wintry blast – Fox News
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Deep freeze: Midwest struggles with deadly cold temperatures

A University of Iowa student has died after being found unresponsive on campus grounds early Wednesday as a polar vortex  gripped the Midwest in arctic temperatures that have been linked to at least seven other deaths.

Gerald Belz, 18, was found behind an academic building on the Iowa City campus just before 3 a.m. by campus police, KCRG-TV reported. The pre-med student was rushed to a hospital, where he later died.

DEADLY POLAR VORTEX BLASTS MIDWEST WITH RECORD-BREAKING COLD, FORECASTERS WARN TO ‘MINIMIZE TALKING’ OUTDOORS

Police haven’t released a cause of death, but believed the frigid temperatures played a role, FOX28 Cedar Rapids reported. With wind chill, the temperature at the time police found Belz was negative 51 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

Foul play isn’t suspected and zero alcohol was found in Belz’s system, police said.

Belz’s father, Michael, described his son to KCRG as “a momma’s boy with a tough exterior.”

Ice covers the Chicago River Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Chicago as a deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Meanwhile, an 82-year-old Illinois man was found outside several hours after he fell trying to get into his home, the Peoria Journal Star reported. His cause of death was recorded as related to cold exposure. His identity was withheld until his family can be notified.

MICHIGAN CAMERA CAPTURES 15 INCHES OF SNOW FALLING IN 13 SECONDS

In Indiana, a 22-year-old police officer and his wife were killed in a crash on an icy road, South Bend station WBND reported. Ligonier Police Officer Ethan Kiser’s SUV spun into the path of another SUV, killing the couple and the driver of the other vehicle, 21-year-old Shawna Kiser, officials told the station.

Other deaths included a man struck and killed by a snow plow in the Chicago area and a Milwaukee man found frozen to death in a garage while out shoveling snow.

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While the deadly cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze was expected to ease Thursday, temperatures could still tumble to record lows in some places before the region begins to thaw out.

Before the worst of the cold begins to lift, the National Weather Service said Chicago could hit lows early Thursday that break the city’s record of minus 27 degrees set on Jan. 20, 1985.

Fox News’ Nicole Darrah and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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An Angry Trump Pushes Back Against His Own ‘Naive’ Intelligence Officials – The New York Times
An Angry Trump Pushes Back Against His Own ‘Naive’ Intelligence Officials – The New York Times

Representative Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, defended the agencies, saying, “They are doing a very difficult job and they are actually trying to advance the president’s priorities.”

Mr. Trump’s defenders, however, said the threat assessment reflected the views of the national security establishment — a culture that the president took office vowing to disrupt. They said the president would be vindicated for many of his foreign policy initiatives.

“The establishment is wrong and he’s right,” said Stephen K. Bannon, who served as Mr. Trump’s chief strategist until last year. “He’s made NATO more robust. In the Middle East, we’re much more engaged. The destruction of the underlying physical caliphate of ISIS is a fact.”

Jack Keane, a retired four-star Army general, said the nature of intelligence assessments was not to give credit to foreign policy achievements but to dwell on the risks and shortfalls.

“The president wants credit for moving away from an appeasement policy toward a more confrontational approach toward Iran,” Mr. Keane said. “This president has approached the Iranians more than any other president, and he wants to get credit for it.”

In his tweets on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said negotiations with the Taliban to wind down the war in Afghanistan were “proceeding well.” He said the relationship with North Korea was the “best it has ever been with U.S. No testing, getting remains, hostages returned. Decent chance of Denuclearization …”

Under his predecessor, President Barack Obama, he said, the “relationship was horrendous and very bad things were about to happen.”

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Schumer asks intel chiefs to educate Trump after ‘extraordinarily inappropriate’ criticism – CNN
Schumer asks intel chiefs to educate Trump after ‘extraordinarily inappropriate’ criticism – CNN

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      Don’t bring the debt ceiling into border negotiations – Washington Examiner
      Don’t bring the debt ceiling into border negotiations – Washington Examiner

      With a little more than a fortnight to go before the government shuts down once more in the absence of a budget deal, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has publicly touted bringing a debt ceiling deal into the mix of border security negotiations. This should really go without saying, but adding even more brinkmanship into Republicans’ common sense compromise is a terrible call.

      For one thing, Democrats successfully called President Trump’s bluff in the shutdown. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., simply waited out the five-week political faux pas, banking on the fact that the public would blame Trump for making what essentially amounted to an eleventh hour demand. Although Trump’s actual demands were sensible enough, just one billion dollars more for border security than Democrats pushed for in the Gang of Eight bill in 2013, Pelosi successfully framed the narrative not as Democratic obstruction but Republicans holding the government hostage. And she won.

      The debt ceiling issue will arise on its own in March, and Congress will have to vote on authorizing the government to borrow money and pay back its debts. Our skyrocketing national debt is a ticking time bomb of its own, one now much greater than our annual gross domestic product and reaching a proportion of our economy not seen in almost a century. Social security, which Trump has foolishly promised not to touch, will become insolvent in just 15 years, and Medicare is currently spending more than three times per capita of what its recipients paid into it.

      But the solution to our egregious national debt is not to default on our loans, or even to threaten to.

      Any further manipulation of the debt ceiling would backfire. Republicans want a physical barrier along the southern border as well as extra funding for courts and personnel, but they’ve made clear that they’re open to issuing major concessions to the Democrats to get it. And if you support both letting the people already here stay and preventing new illegal immigrants from coming in, Trump’s compromise makes sense. Granting a sizable DACA extension — a constitutional one this time — or amnesty cannot be done so long as the border remains so permeable without incentivizing further illegal immigration. And Democrats would be dumb to give Trump his key campaign promise without demanding a permanent and legal solution to the fates of DACA recipients and temporary protected status holders.

      Trump’s problem right now is one of messaging. He’s logically correct in his compromise, or at least the direction that he’s going in. He’s no longer withholding pay from 800,000 federal workers. If Pelosi refused to name her price when Trump has made his inelasticity of demand so apparent, it means one of two things: She’s an actual open borders extremist who’s made a full 180 on the importance of sovereignty and law enforcement, or she cares about “Dreamers” so little that she’d rather blow a once-in-an-administration opportunity to secure their destinies forever.

      This is the story Republicans need to be telling. But to add an issue as economically threatening and politically toxic as the debt ceiling into the mix would only complicate the story, not clarify it.

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      Mitch McConnell: making Election Day a federal holiday is a Democratic “power grab” – Vox.com
      Mitch McConnell: making Election Day a federal holiday is a Democratic “power grab” – Vox.com

      Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t think Election Day should be a federal holiday because that would give Democrats too much power.

      McConnell took to the Senate floor Wednesday to rail against HR 1, the sweeping anti-corruption proposal House Democrats have put forward as their first bill in the majority. Among many other measures, it proposes making Election Day a federal holiday and encourages private sector businesses to do the same.

      McConnell, who calls the bill the “Democratic Politician Protection Act,” sees that as a “power grab.”

      “Just what America needs, another paid holiday and a bunch of government workers being paid to go out and work … [on Democratic] campaigns,” he snarked on the Senate floor. “This is the Democrat plan to restore democracy? … A power grab.”

      The proposal to make Election Day a federal holiday is based on a simple reality: A wide swath of the American public doesn’t vote — and most of those nonvoters say they skipped the polls because they had to work or get kids to school and didn’t have the time.

      Currently, more than 20 states require employers to allow paid time off to vote. Others require employers to allow unpaid time off. Voting rights activists argue that making Election Day a federal holiday would promote more civic participation. Detractors say a federal holiday would be too big an ask of businesses that rely on day-to-day revenue.

      McConnell is making a different argument altogether: He’s saying that making Election Day a federal holiday would result in unfavorable election outcomes for Republicans. More to the point, he’s saying that the more people vote, the worse it is for his party.

      Democrats are trying to get Republicans to admit to voter suppression

      McConnell’s position is likely rooted in the somewhat overblown conventional wisdom that higher turnout favors Democrats, a conclusion that’s reached largely because low-propensity voters tend, on average, to prefer Democratic candidates and liberal policies. Democrats also tend to turn out more voters on Election Day.

      But it’s important to note that nonvoters are only slightly more Democratic than voters. As John Sides, a political scientist with George Washington University, explained in the Washington Post in 2015, even “if everyone voted, a lot would be the same.”

      That said, voter suppression tactics, like cutting down voting hours or the number of polling stations, or purging voter rolls, do disproportionately impact minority and Democratic voters, as Vox’s German Lopez explained:

      Since minority Americans are less likely to have flexible work hours or own cars, they might have a harder time affording a voter ID or getting to the right place…

      For the same reasons, they may rely more on early voting opportunities to cast a ballot, or require a voting place they can walk to or reach by public transit. And they may have problems overcoming other hurdles, like having to appeal a voter registration or having to stay in line longer.

      Democrats are pushing these voting rights changes to highlight this disadvantage. And by extension, McConnell, who made clear that Democrats’ proposals would not see the light of day in the Republican-controlled Senate, is saying the quiet part out loud: He doesn’t want more Democrats to participate.

      Source Article from https://www.vox.com/2019/1/30/18203936/mitch-mcconnell-election-day-federal-holiday

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      Virginia Gov. Northam faces backlash for comments on 3rd-trimester abortion bill: ‘Morally repugnant’ – Fox News
      Virginia Gov. Northam faces backlash for comments on 3rd-trimester abortion bill: ‘Morally repugnant’ – Fox News
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      Virginia governor pushes proposal that allows termination up until birth

      Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came under fire Wednesday after he waded into the fight over a controversial abortion bill that one sponsor said could allow women to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment before birth — with critics saying Northam indicated a child could be killed after birth.

      Northam, whose office is now pushing back on those claims, appeared on WTOP to discuss The Repeal Act, which seeks to repeal restrictions on third-trimester abortions. Virginia Democratic Del. Kathy Tran, one of the sponsors, sparked outrage from conservatives when she was asked at a hearing if a woman about to give birth and dilating could still request an abortion. The bill was tabled in committee this week.

      OUTRAGE AS VIDEO SHOWS VIRGINIA ABORTION BILL SPONSOR SAYING PLAN WOULD ALLOW TERMINATION UP UNTIL BIRTH

      “My bill would allow that, yes,” she said.

      Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, was asked about those comments and said he couldn’t speak for Tran, but said that third-trimester abortions are done with “the consent of obviously the mother, with consent of the physician, multiple physicians by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities or there may be a fetus that’s not viable.”

      “So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

      The intent of his comments was not clear. But some conservative commentators and lawmakers took his remarks to mean he was discussing the possibility of letting a newborn die — even “infanticide.”

      “This is morally repugnant,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in a statement to National Review. “In just a few years pro-abortion zealots went from ‘safe, legal, and rare’ to ‘keep the newborns comfortable while the doctor debates infanticide.’ I don’t care what party you’re from — if you can’t say that it’s wrong to leave babies to die after birth, get the hell out of public office.”

      Wednesday evening, Northam tweeted: “I have devoted my life to caring for children and any insinuation otherwise is shameful and disgusting.”

      Northam Communications Director Ofirah Yheskel said GOP critics were “trying to play politics with women’s health” — and sought to clarify:

      “No woman seeks a third trimester abortion except in the case of tragic or difficult circumstances, such as a nonviable pregnancy or in the event of severe fetal abnormalities, and the governor’s comments were limited to the actions physicians would take in the event that a woman in those circumstances went into labor. Attempts to extrapolate these comments otherwise is in bad faith and underscores exactly why the governor believes physicians and women, not legislators, should make these difficult and deeply personal medical decisions.”

      NEW YORK ‘CELEBRATES’ LEGALIZING ABORTION UNTIL BIRTH

      Former Sen. Jim DeMint called Northam’s remark’s “evil.”

      “VA Gov Northam is no moderate, this is one of the most vile, radical pro-abortion positions ever put forward. This is evil. He should recant or resign,” he said.

      The effort in Virginia follows New York passing a bill last week loosening restrictions on abortion, as New Mexico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington also pass new laws expanding abortion access or move to strip old laws from the books that limit abortions.

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      New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week directed the One World Trade Center and other landmarks to be lit in pink Tuesday to celebrate the passage of “Reproductive Health Act.” Under that legislation, non-doctors are now allowed to conduct abortions and the procedure could be done until the mother’s due date if the woman’s health is endangered or if the fetus is not viable.

      The previous law only allowed abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy if a woman’s life was at risk.

      Fox News’ Alex Pappas contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/va-gov-faces-backlash-for-comments-on-controversial-third-trimester-abortion-bill

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      The Midwest is colder than Antarctica thanks to the polar vortex — here’s what it looks like – Business Insider
      The Midwest is colder than Antarctica thanks to the polar vortex — here’s what it looks like – Business Insider

      As the polar vortex continues, many social-media users in the Midwest have added Antarctica to their weather apps, just so they can share images like this:

      The Weather Channel

      It’s proof that the temperatures they’re experiencing are colder than those on the planet’s southernmost continent.

      But perhaps more startling than the numbers are the images emerging from the cities and states experiencing this intense cold.

      Lake Michigan looks like something out of the movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” In Chicago, workers lit kerosene-soaked ropes on fire next to frozen train tracks in order to keep trains running.

      Here’s what the reality of the polar-vortex event looks like on the ground.

      Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-frozen-midwest-polar-vortex-2019-1

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      What Is A Polar Vortex? Your Freezing Cold Questions Answered – NPR
      What Is A Polar Vortex? Your Freezing Cold Questions Answered – NPR

      Frigid temperatures arrived in the Upper Midwest with a polar vortex. In Chicago on Wednesday, Marius Radoi walked along a freezing Lake Michigan.

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      Frigid temperatures arrived in the Upper Midwest with a polar vortex. In Chicago on Wednesday, Marius Radoi walked along a freezing Lake Michigan.

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      Updated at 5:43 p.m. ET

      How cold is it in the Upper Midwest today? It’s so cold that if you toss boiling hot water in the air, it may immediately evaporate. (Be careful out there and always check which way the wind is blowing, folks. People tend to scald themselves doing this.)

      A polar vortex, as NOAA explains here, is a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding the Earth’s poles. The “vortex” is the counter-clockwise flow of air that helps keep the colder air close to the poles. On occasion throughout winter, the vortex will expand, and send cold air southward with the jet stream.

      The polar vortex is a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding the Earth’s North and South poles. “Vortex” refers to the counterclockwise flow of air that helps keep the colder air close to the poles (left). During winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the polar vortex can shift, sending cold arctic air southward over the United States (right).

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      While we’re cooped up inside, we called Greg Carbin, who is in charge of NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center Forecast Operations Branch, to answer our questions about this blasted polar vortex sweeping the Northern parts of the U.S.

      He shared one fact that blew our minds: The difference in temperatures across the contiguous U.S. on Wednesday is nearly 120 degrees. A temperature of minus 44 was measured in Bottineau, N.D., while temperatures in Imperial Valley, Calif., hit 74 degrees and rising.

      The conversation with Carbin has been edited for clarity and brevity.

      How common is a polar vortex?

      It happens every winter. Actually it’s not uncommon at all across the Northern Hemisphere in the winter.

      Is it weird that the vortex is over the U.S.?

      It shifts. This core of very cold air associated with the Arctic regions of the globe basically wobbles and shifts around. As you go through the winter months, the jet stream becomes unstable — and occasionally the system can wobble across parts of the North American continent where it’s not normally centered. That’s when we have what we call “Arctic air outbreaks.”

      The farther north you are in the Northern Hemisphere winter, the more likely you are to experience this type of cold air. But it’s not uncommon at least once or twice a winter for that air to spread south out of the Arctic regions and into other parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

      This is unusually cold, no doubt about it. We’ll establish some new records.

      But events of similar magnitude have occurred in the past. The last one was back in 2004, and another one in the mid-’90s, and another one in the mid-’80s. Every few decades we see these events occur, where that arctic air that normally resides at the pole starts to make its way south into parts of the U.S.

      Any reason why this is happening now?

      It’s basically the most likely time for it to happen. You have snow and ice cover over a large part of the Northern Hemisphere. And so these cold air masses that have been generated over the past several weeks over the Northern climes can more easily translate south into the more Southern latitudes. This is the most likely time of the year that we would experience this type of outbreak: the middle of winter.

      What happens next?

      It’s not much consolation for those that are experiencing 50-below wind chills today across the Midwest, but [the freezing temperatures will be] relatively short-lived. We’ll see a change back to above-normal temperatures across much of the region by the beginning of next week.

      Then another wobble in the jet stream will bring another mass of cold air south across the border with Canada and into parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes. That’s kind of an extended-range forecast, but it does look like we’re in a very changeable pattern right now, and so another outbreak is possible across some of these areas. Hopefully not quite as severe, but it’ll bring below-zero temperatures to Northern states in about two weeks.

      And that cold air outbreak is also connected to the polar vortex?

      It is. Again all of this cold air is kind of circulating around the Northern latitudes of the globe, and occasionally a chunk of it will break off and spread south. It’s very much the same dynamic that we’re experiencing now.

      Is there anything new about this? The term “polar vortex” seems to have started being used more often, at least by NPR, around 2014.

      It’s just a meteorological term that’s used to describe this cold air and the circulation that occurs during the winter months over the Northern latitudes.

      I’m not sure why the phrase has all of a sudden caught on — it’s got that kind of techy sound to it. But essentially it’s been a phenomenon that’s pretty well understood for many decades. It’s been a meteorological term in use for quite some time.

      Is this polar vortex connected to climate change?

      Hard to say. The cold air is is unusual, but again it’s not unprecedented. I think we’ve seen similar events of similar magnitude that happen maybe once every decade or so. That’s part of climate.

      The rapid swing from very cold to very warm is a bit unusual. We’re going to see 60-degree changes in temperature across the Chicago area in about four days. But linking that directly to climate change is a very difficult task, and usually we wait until after these events occur to try to come up with attributions for these events.

      Right now it’s a little too early to say exactly why. But the likelihood of this happening in the middle of winter? The odds are in favor of very cold air outbreaks in late January.

      Note: As Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told NPR’s Here and Now earlier this month, this question is being actively debated among climate scientists.

      “The science is not settled, and we have different ideas, but I think the lack of sea ice, the melting sea ice, has been contributing to more of these disruptions — we call them disruptions, or perturbations — in the polar vortex,” Cohen said. “[The polar vortex breaking up] is … nothing new — this I’m sure has been happening for millions of years, if not hundreds of millions of years. But it just [seems to have gotten more frequent recently.]”

      Numerous studies (as here and here and here) explore the link between climate change and polar vortexes.

      Anything else we should know about what’s happening out there?

      What I’m most impressed by today are the incredibly low daytime temperatures across the Midwest. They’re 19 below now at O’Hare [airport]. That’s incredibly cold for the middle of the day. What’s really going to be interesting is to see what kind of daytime records we set with this cold air mass.

      Normally you associate really cold temperatures with the early morning, because temperatures drop overnight without the sun. Then once the sun comes up, even in the winter you can get some warmth out of that.

      We’re not getting any warmth out of that today across the Midwest.

      On the weather reports, we often hear very dramatic wind chill temperatures. Is wind chill a scientific thing?

      It’s real. It’s good science: it’s based on the exposure of human flesh to apparent temperature. Since there’s moisture in our skin, it can evaporate and can actually cool a surface colder than the actual air temperature, and that evaporation is facilitated by the wind.

      The ambient air temperature right now in some of these areas is 20 below. If there wasn’t any wind blowing, it would take a while for frostbite to set in — a few minutes. But with the wind, it can set in in a very short period of time because any moisture in your skin, any warmth, is just immediately removed by the wind.

      As far as impacting other nonhuman things like structures? It doesn’t really have an impact. It’s based on evaporating moisture from skin.

      The weather service issued wind chill warnings and wind chill advisories across a lot of the Upper Midwest today. They warn that exposed skin can freeze in as little as five minutes, if the wind chill is 40 to 45 below.

      Note: If you know the temperature and the wind speed, you can calculate the wind chill yourself and amaze all your friends. Here is the formula that is used.

      Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/01/30/690034103/why-is-it-so-cold-come-warm-up-in-the-answer-vortex

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      Mueller says his files were leaked to Russia, which used them for ‘disinformation campaign’ – Washington Examiner
      Mueller says his files were leaked to Russia, which used them for ‘disinformation campaign’ – Washington Examiner

      A pro-Russia Twitter account somehow gained access to nonpublic evidence gathered by special counsel Robert Mueller and tweeted out altered versions of those files as part of a “disinformation campaign,” Mueller asserted Wednesday.

      The allegation was made by Mueller’s team in a new court filing Wednesday in the case against Concord Management and Consulting, a Russian company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a billionaire friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Concord Management helped finance a known Russian troll farm, Internet Research Agency.

      According to Mueller, “certain non-sensitive” evidence given by federal prosecutors to the defense team was “altered” and posted online “as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system.” Mueller didn’t describe how the information was altered.

      According to the court filing, on Oct. 22, 2018, a newly created Twitter account, @HackingRedstone, said: “We’ve got access to the Special Counsel Mueller’s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russia collusion. Enjoy the reading!”

      The tweet linked to a webpage located on an offline file-sharing portal containing folders with “non-public names and file structure of materials” produced to Concord’s defense team, said Mueller.

      Roughly 1,000 of the total 300,000 files posted online matched files produced to Concord Management in discovery, the FBI found.

      Mueller’s team noted that the FBI found “no evidence” that federal government servers or Mueller’s servers “fell victim to any computer intrusion.” Still, it wasn’t clear how information on the file structure became public.

      “The fact that the file folder names and folder structure on the webpage significantly match the non-public names and file structure of the materials produced in discovery, and the fact that over 1,000 files on the webpage match those produced in discovery, establish that the person(s) who created the webpage had access to at least some of the non-sensitive discovery produced by the government in this case,” the filing said.

      According to a footnote, the files include images of political memes from Facebook and other social media accounts that were, as alleged in the indictment against Concord, posted and reposted online by Russian troll agency IRA. They were produced as nonsensitive to the defense, says Mueller, but many of the images are “presumably still available elsewhere on the Internet.”

      Mueller said Wednesday that Concord Management’s defense team said on Oct. 23, 2018, that it received inquiries from journalists claiming that they had been offered “hacked discovery materials from our case” and that the defense concluded that it was a “scam” peddling information from a Concord computer hack in 2014.

      But Mueller’s team said that was not possible and that “[t]hese facts establish a use of the non-sensitive discovery in this case in a manner inconsistent with the terms of the protective order.”

      The filing Wednesday by Mueller was in response to Concord Management’s request that the special counsel turn over “sensitive” information, so that it can be reviewed by the company’s officers and employees in Russia as the defense team prepares for trial.

      Mueller’s team declined and said doing so “unreasonably risks the national security interests of the United States.”

      The court ordered in June 2018 that material designated as “sensitive” by the government can only be stored according to a specific U.S. law and not be “disclosed, transported or transmitted” outside the U.S. because of “national security, privacy and law enforcement interests.”

      Concord Management was one of three Russian companies and 13 Russians Mueller indicted in February. Concord Management and IRA own Concord Catering, which is run by Prigozhin — who has been dubed “Putin’s chef.”

      All three were charged by Mueller, and none of the company’s owners, nor any of the Russians, are in U.S. custody. It is unlikely they ever will be.

      Meanwhile, Twitter has suspended the @HackingRedstone account for violating its rules.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-says-his-files-were-leaked-to-russia-which-used-it-for-disinformation-campaign

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      The Left abandons safe, legal, and rare – Washington Examiner
      The Left abandons safe, legal, and rare – Washington Examiner

      Over the past few decades, the American public has become more socially liberal on most issues. It has reversed its opposition to gay marriage and marijuana legalization and grown unsupportive of the death penalty. But there’s one issue that’s effectively stagnated, evenly dividing the electorate, with no signs of budging: abortion.

      Twenty years ago, 56 percent of the country favored legal abortion. Today, that number is 57 percent, with minimal fluctuation over the past two decades.

      But the binary of pro-choice vs. pro-life doesn’t tell the whole story.

      Today’s Democratic Party would have you believe that the future is female and demands abortion on demand at any time in a pregnancy. But the average American’s view on the matter can pretty much be summed up with “safe, legal, and rare,” the standard that Democrats abandoned long ago.

      While the majority of Americans favor legal abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, just one quarter believe in allowing it in the second trimester. That figure plummets to 13 percent when Americans are asked about legal abortion for the final trimester of pregnancy. These numbers have remained constant for two decades.

      These figures grow even more complicated when Americans judge the rationale behind an abortion. The overwhelming majority of the public favors a woman’s ability to abort a pregnancy conceived through rape, but only 45 percent of Americans believe a woman should be allowed to get an abortion solely for personal reasons, even in the first trimester.

      Compared to the nation’s new, popular support for gay marriage and legal pot, our abortion polling demonstrates that social liberalism is now social libertarianism. Letting people live their lives without the imposition of the government is broadly supported, but abortion imposes a level of cognitive dissonance in the American psyche. If the stagnancy and breakdown of our abortion polling numbers indicate anything, it’s that Americans don’t want to abolish the practice outright but remain extremely uncomfortable with the Left’s fetishization of it.

      Rather than treat abortion as a necessary evil, as most Americans seem to, the new Democratic Party has heralded abortion as a positive good, a personal undertaking to celebrate as an act of feminist independence. The execrable “ShoutYourAbortion” campaign repeatedly trends on social media, and the ardent pro-choice crowd has vilified Republican lawmakers for attempting to deregulate and increase access to birth control pill as well as commonsense pushes to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancies.

      Now, New York and Virginia have made concerted efforts to legalize abortion not just past the point of fetal viability but right up until the time of birth. Democrats in those two states have turned their backs on all meaningful attempts to define the beginning of life as, say, the point at which a fetus can feel pain or the moment of quickening (the European Medieval understanding). Instead, they’ve abandoned any pretense of ethics and accepted that some humans simply have less moral value than other humans.

      Democrats have relied on the most sympathetic presentation of women seeking abortions, invoking teen pregnancies and poor, single women to win over Americans skeptical of abortion. But now the Left is gambling that the country will accept abortions up to birth, motivated by pure selfishness, as a positive good. This may just detonate the tenuous coalition that’s kept the pro-choice movement a national majority.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-left-abandons-safe-legal-and-rare

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      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fine living and dying by the primary – Washington Examiner
      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fine living and dying by the primary – Washington Examiner

      Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is unafraid. At least publicly.

      Anonymous Democratic operatives grumble that the millennial progressive needs a primary challenger.

      “What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find her a primary opponent and make her a one-term congressperson,” a Democratic lawmaker told the Hill. “You’ve got numerous council people and state legislators who’ve been waiting 20 years for that seat. I’m sure they can find numerous people who want that seat in that district.”

      Ocasio-Cortez said bring it on, more or less.

      “We believe in primaries as an idea. We’re not upset by the idea of being primaried. We are not going to go out there being anti-primary — they are good for party,” Corbin Trent, a campaign spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told the Hill.

      It was the only response Ocasio-Cortez could make. Primaries are kind of her thing. She won her seat by defeating Rep. Joe Crowley during a summer primary. Then, she turned around and sent out a second call to arms.

      “Long story short, I need you to run for office,” Ocasio-Cortez said last November during a video conference hosted by Justice Democrats, the insurgent group trying to push the party left by primarying incumbents.

      “All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately, the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the time. “That’s really what we need to do to save this country. That’s just what it is.”

      Congress hasn’t scared her off so far. Aside from President Trump who wrote the freshman off altogether, establishment Republicans and Democrats still don’t realize that attacking AOC has the opposite effect. It bolsters her standing.

      The most recent case in point: An email the Ocasio-Cortez camp sent out fundraising off of the anonymous primary threats lobbed her way.

      “We expected pushback. Today we got it,” campaign manager Rebecca Rodriguez reportedly wrote in the email. “We always knew the establishment would stand in our way. We just didn’t expect them to come after us so hard and so fast.”

      The Ocasio-Cortez campaign asked for as little as a $3 dollar donation to “fight back against any primary challenge the establishment throws our way.”

      If shadowy voices keep calling for her ouster, Ocasio-Cortez will continue to monetize the threats. Small-dollar donations will continue to roll in. She will have plenty of cash on hand, to say nothing of her ever expanding media presence, if a primary challenger ever emerges. That should inspire confidence.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-fine-living-and-dying-by-the-primary

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