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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee faces risk in 2020 race as polling shows climate is not top issue for voters – CNBC
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee faces risk in 2020 race as polling shows climate is not top issue for voters – CNBC

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday he’s entering the 2020 presidential race as a climate change crusader but he’s facing risk given polls show the issue ranks near the bottom as an issue priority for adult Americans.

“I’m running for president because I’m the only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation’s number one priority,” Inslee said in a video released Friday.

Inslee, 68, joins a crowded field of Democratic contenders who have announced or are considering running for president.

He is the first governor enter the 2020 Democratic presidential contest while another Western governor also is considering a run — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock.



In a Morning Consult survey last month, Inslee ranked 21st among Democratic primary voters. He was below Bullock and another potential contender, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Inslee has openly discussed his interest in a White House run for many months and from the start focused on climate change. The Democrat has already visited key early states, including Iowa and New Hampshire.

“We’re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change,” Inslee said in Friday’s video. “And we’re the last that can do something about it.”

The Washington governor is expected to make the White House bid official during an event Friday morning at a Seattle-area solar installation company. In a release, his campaign said Inslee’s policies have helped “grow Washington’s clean energy economy” and include signing a solar incentive jobs bill in 2017.

But not everyone considers climate change a top priority issue, according to Pew Research Center.

A Pew survey conducted in January found only 44 percent view climate change as a top priority of President Donald Trump and Congress, ranking it second lowest after global trade (39 percent). By comparison, 70 percent of those surveyed felt the economy should rank top as a policy priority and 69 percent identified health care costs.

Climate policies

In November, Inslee visited California after the Camp Fire destroyed most of the town of Paradise and later spoke about how climate change is contributing to more dangerous wildfires. Some of images in the launch video released Friday appear to show devastation from the Camp Fire, which destroyed more than 10,000 homes and killed 86 people.

Inslee, a two-term governor who applauds the Green New Deal, has been outspoken on the environmental issues and the need for clean energy for more than a decade. Prior to becoming governor, he served in Congress and authored “Apollo’s Fire,” a 2007 book about how to reduce greenhouse gases and gain energy independence.

Yet several other Democratic presidential contenders are also talking about climate change themes and a mix of ways to combat greenhouse gas emissions, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii. Also, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has weighed in on climate change as a human rights issue.

Carbon tax defeat

Inslee’s climate agenda suffered a setback last year when the oil industry funded a campaign to defeat a carbon emissions fee initiative the governor backed. The measure was seen as a way to raise revenue as well as to help the state achieve ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals.

One way around the voter setback is a pending clean energy bill that would require the state’s utilities to be carbon-free by 2045. The state already gets the majority of its power from hydroelectricity sources.

He also is a former criminal prosecutor and was a state legislator in Olympia before getting elected Washington’s 23rd governor in 2012 and re-elected in 2016. He could seek a third term if his presidential run isn’t successful.

The Washington governor also has strong views on other issues, including gun control, health care, immigration and labor issues.

Gun Control

Inslee is an advocate for stricter gun control laws and in 1994 while in Congress voted for the 10-year assault weapons ban. He also challenged Trump at a White House event last year on the issue of arming teachers with firearms.

Last year, Washington voters approved Initiative 1639, a measure Inslee supported that raised the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles to 21, from 18. The initiative also expanded background checks for rifles and added other new regulations, including firearm education and new standards for secured gun storage.

Health Care

Inslee backs a public health care option for the state that would compete with private insurers. The plan was proposed in January and promises that patients will spend no more than 10 percent of their income on premiums.

The Democrat has criticized the “instability” in the health care system that was caused by undermining Obamacare. His plan would expand subsidies to private insurers but has generated criticism due to concerns about costs from some critics.

Immigration

Inslee has been critical of Trump’s immigration policies and signed an executive order in 2017 that limited the state’s role in enforcing immigration enforcement laws. He also pushed to increase the state’s emergency funding to support civil legal aid services for immigrant families.

The governor also recently called Trump’s emergency declaration over the border wall “illegal” and last year slammed the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of separating families as “an intentional infliction, abusive behavior to punish innocent children.”

Labor

While he’s been governor, Washington state’s minimum wage has increased and currently stands at $12 an hour and is scheduled to jump to $13.50 in 2020. Seattle’s minimum wage last year jumped to $15 for those employers offering paid medical benefits while smaller employers have a wage floor of $14 an hour.

Inslee also has talked up progressive policies in the Evergreen State, including what he’s called one of nation’s “best paid family and medical leave” programs.

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Marianne Williamson’s highlights at the Democratic debate – Vox.com
Marianne Williamson’s highlights at the Democratic debate – Vox.com

Marianne Williamson did not speak for the first 27 minutes of the Democratic debate on Thursday. But when she finally did, everything she said was awesome.

If you’re not familiar, Williamson, who will turn 67 on July 8, is an author, spiritual leader, and friend to Oprah Winfrey. (Bet this time last year, you thought you’d be talking about Oprah on the debate stage and not her spiritual guru, right?)

She launched her presidential campaign in January and has more or less been flying under the radar, but her persona is distinctive: She sort of feels like a cross between your local psychic, the hippie lady who runs the town secondhand store, and your mom (or, um, you) two glasses of Chardonnay deep. She speaks with a cadence and accent that’s hard to put your finger on, but let’s just say it’s the definition of, as Marianne would probably put it, groovy.

Will she be president? Well, no. But Marianne is fun.

Williamson got a spot on the stage at the second night of the Democratic debates — something candidates including Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and Rep. Seth Moulton failed to achieve. And girlfriend (as Marianne would, again, probably put it) did not disappoint.

Here’s what she said, verbatim, because that’s really all you need:

On how she’d lower the cost of prescription drugs:

First of all, the government should never have made the deal with Big Pharma that they couldn’t negotiate. That was just part of the regular corruption by which corporations have their way with us. You know, I want to say, and while I agree — and I’m with Sen. Bennet and others, but I agree with almost everything here.

I tell you one thing, it’s really nice if we have all these plans, but if you think we beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another thing coming. Because he didn’t win by saying he had a plan. He won by simply saying, “Make America Great Again.”

We have to get deeper than just these superficial fixes, as important as they are. Even if we’re just talking about the superficial fixes, ladies and gentlemen, we don’t have a health care system in the United States, we have a sickness care system in the United States. We just wait until somebody gets sick and then we talk about who is going pay for the treatment and how they’re going to be treated.

What we need to talk about is why so many Americans have unnecessary chronic illnesses, so many more, compared to other countries. It gets back into not just Big Pharma, not just health insurance companies, but it has to do with chemical policies, it has to do with environmental policies, it has to do with food, it has to do with drug policies, and it has to do with environment policies.

On family separation:

What Donald Trump has done to the children, and it’s not just in Colorado, [Gov. Hickenlooper], you’re right, it is kidnapping and it’s extremely important for us to realize that.

If you forcibly take a child from their parents’ arms, you are kidnapping them. If you take a lot of children and you put them in a detainment center, thus inflicting trauma upon them, that’s called child abuse. This is collective child abuse. … Both of those things are a crime. If your government does it, that doesn’t make it less of a crime. These are state-sponsored crimes.

What President Trump has done is not only attack these children, not only demonize these immigrants, he is attacking a basic principle of America’s moral core: We open our hearts to the stranger.

This is extremely important. It’s also important for all of us, and I have great respect for everyone who is on this stage, but we’re going to talk about what to do about health care? Well, where have you been, guys? Because it’s not just a matter of a plan, and I haven’t heard anybody on this stage who has talked about American foreign policy in Latin America and how we might have in the last few decades contributed to something being more helpful.

On criminal justice reform and police brutality:

All of these issues are extremely important, but they are specifics, they are symptoms, and the underlying cause has to do with deep, deep, deep realms of racial injustice, both in our criminal justice system and in our economic system. And the Democratic Party should be on the side of reparations for slavery for this very reason. I do not believe, I do not believe, that the average American is a racist, but the average American is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the United States.

On addressing climate change — and age?

The fact that somebody has a younger body doesn’t mean that you don’t have old ideas. John Kennedy did not say, “I have a plan to get a man to the moon, and so we’re going to do it, and I think we can all work together, and maybe we can get a man on the moon.” John Kennedy said, “By the end of this decade, we are going to put a man on the moon.” Because John Kennedy was back in the day when politics included the people and included imagination and included great dreams and included great plans.

I have had a career not making the political plans, but I have had I a career harnessing the inspiration and the motivation and the excitement of people. Masses of people. When we know that when we say we are going to turn from a dirty economy to a clean economy, we’re going to have a Green New Deal, we’re going to create millions of jobs, we’re going to do this within the next 12 years, because I’m not interested in just winning the next election, we are interested in our grandchildren. Then it will happen.

On which issue she would push first as president:

My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said her goal was to make New Zealand the place where it’s the best place in the world for a child to grow up. And I will tell her, “Girlfriend, you are so on.” Because the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up.

On the international relationship she would reset:

One of my first phone calls would be to call the European leaders and say, “We’re baaack.” Because I totally understand how important it is that the United States be part of the Western alliance.

Her closing statement — and message to Donald Trump:

I’m sorry we haven’t talked more tonight about how we’re going to beat Donald Trump. I have an idea about Donald Trump: Donald Trump is not going to be beaten just by insider politics talk. He’s not going to be beaten just by somebody who has plans. He’s going to be beaten by somebody who has an idea what the man has done. This man has reached into the psyche of the American people and he has harnessed fear for political purposes.

So, Mr. President — if you’re listening — I want you to hear me please: You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out. So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you’re doing. I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field, and sir, love will win.

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/28/18961296/marianne-williamson-democratic-debate-oprah-meme-twitter

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Sanders: Speed of Medicare for All plan is a ‘major difference’ with Warren | TheHill – The Hill
Sanders: Speed of Medicare for All plan is a ‘major difference’ with Warren | TheHill – The Hill

Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersSanders vows to create tougher nationwide drinking water standards as president Sanders: Speed of Medicare for All plan is a ‘major difference’ with Warren Warren vows to ‘attack corruption in Washington’ in New Year’s Eve address MORE (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that one of the “major differences” between himself and Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenYang raises .5 million in final week of December Sanders: Speed of Medicare for All plan is a ‘major difference’ with Warren Warren vows to ‘attack corruption in Washington’ in New Year’s Eve address MORE (D-Mass.) is in how quickly they would roll out “Medicare for All,” drawing a contrast on the key campaign issue. 

Sanders and Warren are vying for the progressive mantle in the Democratic presidential primary, but they have largely shied away from criticizing each other. Sanders, however, did point to some daylight on his signature issue of Medicare for All when asked on Tuesday by NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard how he would contrast himself with Warren.

“I’m not into attacking my colleagues,” Sanders told NBC. “We’re about differentiating differences of issues. And I think maybe one of the major differences is what I have said over and over again and I just repeated it right now, in my first week in office we will introduce a Medicare for All, single-payer program.”

Warren, in contrast, is not calling for introducing full-scale Medicare for All in her first week in office. She instead has a plan to pass an optional government-run health insurance plan as a first step in her first 100 days in office. Only by her third year in office does she call for passing additional legislation to implement full-scale Medicare for All. 

Backers of Warren’s approach say it could be more realistic first to pass an optional program as a stepping stone to full Medicare for All, given resistance to fully abolishing private health insurance among many Senate Democrats whose votes will be needed to pass a bill. 

Sanders, however, prides himself on pushing right away for full-scale Medicare for All, which would effectively abolish private health insurance, saying he will harness public pressure on Congress, even if it will be very difficult to get it passed.

“Senator Warren’s position is a little bit different,” Sanders said. “Check it out. Her transition period is quite different than ours.”

He touted that his proposal would expand Medicare benefits to cover dental, vision and hearing care and lower the eligibility age to 55 within the first year of a four-year transition plan under his legislation. 

Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGiuliani says he would be willing to testify in impeachment trial Sanders: Speed of Medicare for All plan is a ‘major difference’ with Warren Saager Enjeti rips Biden, says coal miner remarks harken back to Clinton mistakes of 2016 MORE and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegSanders: Speed of Medicare for All plan is a ‘major difference’ with Warren Warren vows to ‘attack corruption in Washington’ in New Year’s Eve address Panel: Why aren’t candidates taking more shots at Joe Biden? MORE, more moderate candidates, are touting an optional government-run health insurance plan while allowing people to keep their private insurance if they wanted.

Sanders pushed back forcefully on those plans on Tuesday, as he has in the primary debates as well. 

Asked why the country should not go with the public option proposed by Biden and Buttigieg, Sanders replied, “because it doesn’t work.”

He noted there would still be some cost to patients in premiums under Biden and Buttigieg’s plans. 

“How much does the public option cost? Have you got the number? What’s the number exactly?” Sanders asked.  

“The current system, which they are defending, with minor tweaks, is far and away the most expensive system in the world,” he added.

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Estados Unidos: Donald Trump dice que deportará hasta 3 millones de indocumentados con antecedentes judiciales – BBC Mundo
Estados Unidos: Donald Trump dice que deportará hasta 3 millones de indocumentados con antecedentes judiciales – BBC Mundo

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Por primera vez Donald Trump le puso número a la cantidad de inmigrantes indocumentados que va a deportar de Estados Unidos cuando asuma la presidencia.

El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dijo este domingo que entre dos y tres millones de inmigrantes indocumentados serán deportados o encarcelados en los primeros días de su gobierno.

En un adelanto del programa 60 Minutes de la cadena CBS, al cual brindó su primera entrevista como presidente electo, Trump explicó que los indocumentados que tengan antecedentes judiciales o sean identificados como pandilleros o traficantes de drogas serán expulsados de EE.UU.

En el fragmento de entrevista publicado, que será emitida completa esta noche a las 7 pm hora local (0:00 GMT), la periodista Lesley Stahl le pregunta a Trump si mantendrá algunas de las principales promesas de campaña, entre ellas la deportación de los inmigrantes indocumentados.

“Lo que vamos a hacer es atrapar a las personas que son criminales y tienen antecedentes criminales, miembros de pandillas, traficantes de drogas, que son muchas personas, probablemente 2 millones, quizá hasta 3 millones, y los vamos a sacar del país o quizá los vamos a encarcelar”, dijo el republicano.

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El programa “60 Minutes” de la cadena CBS entrevistó a Donald Trump en su apartamento en Nueva York.

Esta es la primera vez que Trump le pone un número concreto a la cantidad de personas que piensa deportar de EE.UU.

También aclaró que el destino de los otros ocho millones de indocumentados que se estiman viven en el país norteamericano será decidido una vez se “asegure” la frontera sur con México.

“Después de asegurar la frontera (sur) y de que todo se normalice, vamos a determinar qué hacer con esas personas de las que estamos hablando, que son una gente estupenda, pero vamos a tener que tomar una decisión al respecto“, afirmó.

“Pero antes de que tomemos esa decisión, es muy importante que aseguremos nuestra frontera”.

En septiembre Trump había dado un discurso ahondando en las medidas principales de su plan migratorio en donde afirmó que la única opción para todos los indocumentados sin antecedentes será salir de Estados Unidos y realizar el proceso legal estipulado, que ahora será más exigente.

Según el periodista de BBC en Washington DC Anthony Zurcher, si bien Trump afirma que ese primer grupo de deportados estará integrado por criminales, “para alcanzar una cantidad tan elevada será necesario o bien abarcar a las personas con antecedentes por infracciones menores o deportar a los extranjeros con residencia legal con antecedentes penales”.

En cualquier caso, agrega Zurcher, esto implicaría crear una ampliada “fuerza de deportación”, algo que esta misma semana han negado los más allegados aliados políticos de Trump, como el republicano Paul Ryan, actual presidente de la Cámara de Representantes.

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Trump dijo además que el muro podría ser reemplazado por una valla en algunas zonas de la frontera con México.

El muro con México

Durante la entrevista, la otra promesa de campaña que Trump dijo que mantendrá es la construcción de un muro en la frontera sur con México, donde ya hay varios tipos de barreras erigidas.

Stahl señaló que hay miembros del Partido Republicano que estarían más de acuerdo con reemplazar el muro con un vallado, a cual Trump respondió que en algunas zonas de la frontera podría funcionar.

Y agregó: “Pero en ciertas áreas es más apropiado un muro. Soy muy bueno en esto, se llama construcción, y podría haber algún vallado”.

La promesa que cambió

Está previsto que Trump asuma la presidencia el 20 de enero de 2017, luego de 8 años de gobierno del demócrata Barack Obama.

El presidente electo contará con mayorías republicanas en ambas cámaras del Congreso.

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Donald Trump y Barack Obama ya comenzaron el traspaso de mando de cara al 20 de enero.

Las declaraciones de Trump afirmando que cumplirá con sus promesas de campaña respecto a los inmigrantes indocumentados y el muro llegan 48 horas después de que dijera al diario The Wall Street Journal que estaría dispuesto mantener dos partes del Obamacare porque le “gustan mucho”.

Durante su campaña electoral, Trump dijo que la Ley de Protección al Paciente y Cuidado de Salud Asequible popularmente llamada Obamacare (por haber sido impulsada por el gobierno de Obama) era un “desastre total” y que iba a derogarla y reemplazarla.

También en un adelanto de la entrevista con el programa 60 Minutes Trump desdijo sus declaraciones a The Wall Street Journal afirmando que sí derogará y reemplazará Obamacare, pero que lo hará “simultáneamente”, para que nadie quede sin protección.

Desde que entró en vigor, en octubre de 2013 Obamacare permitió acceder a cobertura sanitaria a unos 20 millones de personas que hasta entonces no disponían de ella, aunque aún quedan unos 24 millones de personas sin seguro.

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Yes, children can be affected by Covid-19. Here’s why doctors say they need to be protected – CNN
Yes, children can be affected by Covid-19. Here’s why doctors say they need to be protected – CNN

By Holly Yan, CNN

Updated 8:35 AM ET, Sat August 7, 2021

(CNN)The idea that kids don’t get hit hard by Covid-19 is losing steam — in part because of a variant more contagious than any we’ve seen before.

    CNN’s Deidre McPhillips and Jen Christensen contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/health/children-covid-19-protection/index.html

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    Strong winds stoke flames, fears as Kincade Fire rages on – The Mercury News
    Strong winds stoke flames, fears as Kincade Fire rages on – The Mercury News

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    SANTA ROSA — The dreaded North Bay winds whipped up again Tuesday, raising the stakes in the fierce battle against the Kincade blaze as firefighters from around the state raced to try and keep the fire from spreading and incinerating more Wine Country homes.

    Fanned by winds reaching speeds of up to 40 mph Tuesday afternoon and forecasted to grow stronger overnight, the fire in Sonoma County had burned more than 76,000 acres — making it to the edge of the 2017 Tubbs Fire — and still was only 15% contained. The blaze has destroyed 189 structures, of which 86 are single-family homes, seven are commercial buildings and 96 are sheds or outbuildings, and damaged another 39. About 90,000 structures remain threatened.

    “The winds are what makes it difficult. It can change on you so quickly,” said Nathaniel Armstrong, battalion chief of the Hayward Fire Department, as he and his crew prepared for their fourth day of work on the fire.

    Meanwhile, power outages and air quality issues persisted throughout the Bay Area. As of Tuesday evening, 540,000 PG&E customers were without power as a result of planned outages intended to prevent PG&E equipment from starting wildfires, Mark Quinlan, PG&E senior director of emergency preparedness and response, said during a media call. The utility expected to receive the “all-clear” to restore power to Northern California customers by 8 a.m. Wednesday.

    On Tuesday, PG&E notified Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office that it’s planning to issue rebates to customers affected by a public safety power, or PSPS, shutoff earlier this month. More details on the plans were not immediately available. Newsom earlier this month pressured the utility to provide $100 rebates for each residential customer who lost power, and $250 for business customers.

    “We have carefully considered the governor’s request to provide reimbursement for our customers impacted by the Oct. 9 PSPS and we have agreed to move forward with a one-time bill credit for customers impacted by that event,” said PG&E Corp. CEO and President Bill Johnson in a statement.

    “We believe it is the right thing to do for our customers in this case, given the challenges with our website and call center communications,” Johnson continued.

    The California Public Utilities Commission on Monday announced it will open an investigation into the shutoffs.

    At the same time, temperatures around the Bay Area are expected to drop significantly this week — to near or below freezing in some places — making it harder for residents without power to keep warm.

    “We want to warn individuals, in particular our unsheltered population, that they can seek shelter at many of our evacuation shelter sites,” said Barbie Robinson, director of the Sonoma County Health Services Department. “And we want to encourage folks that are living in tents or living in their cars to please come in and seek shelter during this cold weather advisory.”

    And the region was hit with another “Spare the Air” alert for Wednesday — the third day in a row. While the air was expected to clear Wednesday morning, it likely will worsen again Wednesday afternoon as winds decrease and smoke drains south into the Bay Area, according to a news release from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

    The fierce winds died down momentarily Monday, but the fire continued its eastward push, and a spot fire that ignited in Lake County continued to grow. As the sun went down Tuesday in Sonoma County, and the National Weather Service predicted wind gusts of up to 60 mph overnight before subsiding Wednesday morning, firefighters were gearing up for the worst at three battlegrounds.

    “This is going to be hopefully one of the final tests of these fire perimeters, especially on the western side of the Highway 101 corridor area,” said Cal Fire Division Chief Jonathan Cox.

    At the fire’s western border, firefighters worried the blaze would jump Highway 101 and advance into a wooded, hilly area near the town of Windsor.

    “If it crosses 101, we feel like we’re gonna lose this thing,” Sonoma County Battalion Chief Mark Dunne said Tuesday afternoon as he marshaled crews to watch for spot fires that could ignite from embers  smoldering after an epic battle there Saturday.

    Map: For the latest fire and evacuation zone information in Sonoma County click here.

    Firefighters also had their eye on Shiloh Road, about two miles south of Windsor. At the fire’s southern border, they were watching the unincorporated area of Mark West Springs, which was ravaged in 2017 by the Tubbs Fire. Strong northeast wind currents could push the fire down the canyon toward the Larkfield-Wikiup area and Santa Rosa — just as it did two years ago.

    “To see how devastated our community was when that fire came through the town was hard. And two years later, here we go again,” Santa Rosa fire Capt. Jack Thomas said, peering over the hilltop from Pepperwood Preserve Road and into the smoke in the distance. “So we’re doing everything in our power to make sure that never, ever happens again. Or that we at least have some control over the fire compared to in 2017.”

    As of 10 p.m.,the southern lines of the fire were holding strong under clear and starry skies. The strong winds expected earlier in the day appeared to be a no-show.

    “I don’t think we’re going to get the wind,” Thomas said. “Our EOC got some pretty good intel that the wind event is not going to get here.”

    The winds materialized elsewhere. Forest Lake recorded a peak gust of 64 mph about 4:20 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. Other peak gusts included 60 mph in Anderson Springs at 8:50 p.m. and 57 mph in Middletown at 9:10 p.m. But for the majority of Sonoma County, peak gusts ranged from 15 mph to 30 mph.

    “It looks like the winds began a little bit earlier than we had anticipated today, so the front end of it coming in earlier might kind of make the tail end of it come through a little bit faster, too,” said weather service meteorologist Rick Canepa in a phone interview late Tuesday night. “We’re mostly on track here for the overnight hours, as forecast.”

    By Wednesday morning, the worst — for now — was expected to be over. Winds were predicted to die down after midnight, said weather service meteorologist Ryan Walbrun.

    “As we wake up tomorrow morning, we’ll notice the winds are much lighter,” he said.

    Walbrun said conditions will continue to improve through the end of the week.

    But shifting winds and changing conditions Tuesday added to the stress felt by some evacuees trying desperately to determine if their neighborhoods were in the fire’s path. In front of Finley Hall on the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, where evacuees with small pets are staying, Allison and Gail Baker peered at a map of the fire tacked to a wooden board, tracing their fingers from the southern tip of the fire to their home in Windsor.

    It’s been confusing to follow where the blaze is moving and to know whether their home is facing a serious threat, said Allison Baker, though she was reassured by the efforts of both Cal Fire and the Red Cross.

    “We (initially) thought we’d be here for three days, but we didn’t know the magnitude of the windstorm,” she said.

    For some of the fire’s smallest evacuees, questions and worries abound. Jazmin Jacinto and Elias Dehmes, who evacuated to the fairgrounds from north Santa Rosa, tried to keep spirits high for Dehmes’ two daughters, Ezra, 2, and Nova, 3.

    As fire trucks from across the country passed by the center, the family stood outside, waving and signaling for a honk from firefighters — and cheering when their efforts proved successful.

    “I think we got that one,” Dehmes said, giving his daughter a high five after a truck full of Red Cross personnel reciprocated their vigorous waves and smiles.

    “They’ve been asking a lot of questions, and sleeping was a bit hard last night,” Jacinto said about the girls. “But we just told them it was a giant sleepover, and they’ve been adjusting pretty well.”

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    Cox, the Cal Fire division chief, said fire crews have been working as hard as they can to get the fire contained and help the community recover.

    “I think the best way to describe it is, we’re in a battle rhythm,” he said. “The shifts are very structured now. We have resources that are assigned to areas shift over shift, and I think firefighters are ready to turn the corner after this wind event and really put some closure and some stability back into the community.”

    Cox confirmed that there was a minor medical emergency on the fire line Tuesday, but he did not have additional details.

    Cal Fire resources kept on top of fires further afield, including a wildland fire that scorched nearly 10 acres of hilly terrain behind homes in rural Palermo, seven miles southeast of Oroville in Butte County, just before 4 p.m. A swift response from more than 100 firefighters stopped flames’ forward progress within hours, leaving it at 50 percent containment as of 8:45 p.m. with mop-up efforts due to continue into Wednesday. There were no reports of injuries or threatened or damaged structures, and its cause was under investigation.

    Meanwhile, law enforcement was cracking down on behavior that could aggravate the already precarious situation in the North Bay. On Tuesday morning, California Highway Patrol Capt. Aristotle Wolfe, commander of the Santa Rosa area CHP, stopped a motorist on Highway 101 in Petaluma who had tossed a cigarette butt out the window.

    “I’m in an unmarked car. I rarely make stops,” Wolfe said. “But I wasn’t going to let that one go — with smoke in the air and tinder on the highway” from winds blowing branches.

    “This is an extremely dangerous time,” he said, “and unsafe or lawless behavior won’t be tolerated.”

    Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick said at least three cases of looting have been reported in evacuation zones.

    “The sheriff’s office is currently investigating all of these cases,” he said, “and I can assure you that if we are able to determine those responsible, arrests will be made and we will prosecute those people to the fullest extent.”

    Staff writers George Avalos, Annie Sciacca and George Kelly contributed to this report. 

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    Mass Shootings in Texas and Ohio Kill 29 as Authorities Confront Domestic Terror – Wall Street Journal
    Mass Shootings in Texas and Ohio Kill 29 as Authorities Confront Domestic Terror – Wall Street Journal

    The shootings in Texas and Ohio that killed at least 29 people over the weekend left authorities searching for how to confront the challenges posed by mass violence and domestic terrorism, especially attacks driven by white-nationalist ideologies.

    Violence committed by white men inspired by an extremist ideology make up a growing number of domestic terrorism cases, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Of about 850 current domestic terrorism cases, 40% involve racially motivated violent extremism and a majority…

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    Who Is Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, Leader of Syrian Rebel Offensive? – The New York Times
    Who Is Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, Leader of Syrian Rebel Offensive? – The New York Times
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    U.S. officials think massive surge at southern border possible if Covid restriction is lifted Thursday – NBC News
    U.S. officials think massive surge at southern border possible if Covid restriction is lifted Thursday – NBC News
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    Authorities believe they found 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell’s remains – CNN
    Authorities believe they found 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell’s remains – CNN

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    To Contain Iran, Trump’s Newest Line in the Sand Looks a Lot Like Obama’s – The New York Times
    To Contain Iran, Trump’s Newest Line in the Sand Looks a Lot Like Obama’s – The New York Times

    That, of course, was the central dilemma facing the Obama administration making its first, secret approach to Iran six years ago. At first, Mr. Obama’s aides insisted Iran would have to give up everything, but that the Tehran government could produce no material that might ultimately be diverted to a bomb.

    Eventually, American negotiators concluded after years of running into walls that it would be better to leave Iran with a face-saving token capability for 15 years, and vigorous international inspections, than walk away with no agreement and the real prospect of war.

    Many of Mr. Obama’s critics, including some Democrats, have said the negotiators gave up too much. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump quickly honed in on the nuclear agreement’s most glaring weakness: After 15 years, the Iranians could resume unlimited fuel production.

    Mr. Obama’s essential bet was that in 15 years Iran will have different leadership, perhaps more interested in integrating with the world than keeping a bomb-making capability. So he brought into the negotiation a nuclear scientist in his cabinet, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

    Mr. Moniz, the former head of the M.I.T. nuclear physics lab, sat for months with his Iranian counterpart, who had done his graduate studies at M.I.T. They bonded, and emerged with an agreement that Energy Department scientists certified would assure Iran would need a year or more to “break out” and manufacture the fuel needed for a nuclear weapon — until the 15-year clock ran out.

    Now Mr. Trump’s negotiators have decided they need the same thing — but it must be permanent.

    The schedule that Mr. Rouhani announced to his nation last week would put Iran back on the path of nuclear fuel production. Sooner or later, it would cross that one-year threshold. Iran has never enriched at the level of purity needed to produce a weapon, inspectors say, but they have come close.

    “If you want to keep Iran more than a year away from the capability to build a bomb, the way to do it is to go back into the deal,” said Jake Sullivan, a former Obama administration national security official who helped open the negotiations with Tehran. “Because that’s exactly what the deal does.”

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    From Trump’s ‘attack dog’ to star witness: Michael Cohen set to testify in hush money trial – ABC News
    From Trump’s ‘attack dog’ to star witness: Michael Cohen set to testify in hush money trial – ABC News
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    Trump walkout marks point of no return – CNN
    Trump walkout marks point of no return – CNN

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    Trump sides with Kim Jong Un over Joe Biden in Japan – Vox.com
    Trump sides with Kim Jong Un over Joe Biden in Japan – Vox.com

    President Donald Trump seems to have a new ally in his 2020 reelection fight: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. More shocking, though, is that Trump appears fine with it — and is siding with the brutal dictator over a fellow American.

    Last week, the state-run Korean Central News Agency published a scathing article targeting top Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden. Among other insults, the commentary called the former vice president “a fool of low IQ” and listed off a series of embarrassing moments in his life — like the time Biden fell asleep during a 2011 speech by then-President Barack Obama, or how in 1987 he admitted to plagiarizing in school.

    Trump seemed delighted by the KCNA hit piece, tweeting Sunday that he had “confidence” Kim had “smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse.”

    And asked about his tweet during a press conference alongside Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo* the next day, Trump reiterated his stance. “Kim Jong Un made a statement that Joe Biden is a low-IQ individual. He probably is, based on his record. I think I agree with him on that,” the president told reporters.

    Just stop for a second and think about that: The president of the United States endorsed a foreign government’s nasty insults of America’s former vice president — and did so while standing next to the leader of a top American ally.

    That’s appalling behavior from the president. There’s an unwritten rule that Americans — and especially high-level American politicians — are supposed to leave domestic politics at the water’s edge when they travel abroad. That means you don’t talk badly about your political opponents overseas, but instead show a united front as a representative of the United States.

    Not only did Trump violate that very basic principle, he did so gleefully — and sided with a murderous, repressive dictator while he was at it.

    Even some of Trump’s allies in Congress, like Rep. Pete King (R-NY), were appalled by Trump’s behavior.

    Some experts, however, aren’t too shocked by Trump’s remarks. “This is Trump being Trump, using anything he can to strike his political enemies,” Harry Kazianis, a North Korea expert at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, told me.

    Still, it shows that Trump has a penchant for siding with dictators when it most suits him — even at the expense of Americans and US allies.

    Trump breaks with Bolton and Abe on North Korea’s missile tests

    Trump didn’t just side with Kim when it comes to making fun of Biden — he also took Kim’s side on a much more serious issue: missile testing.

    Earlier this month, North Korea conducted two tests of short-range ballistic missiles, ending an 18-month break in provocations. Many analysts viewed the tests as (literal) warning shots to Trump that Pyongyang is very, very unhappy that months of nuclear talks have produced few tangible results.

    The two tests prompted Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton to tell reporters in Tokyo on Saturday that there was “no doubt” North Korea violated United Nations resolutions barring such launches, effectively making the case that they were a severe provocation.

    But Trump, who has spent months trying to strike a nuclear deal with Kim, brushed those concerns aside.

    “My people think it could have been a violation, as you know. I view it differently,” Trump said, with Bolton sitting only a few feet away during the joint press conference with Abe. “There have been no ballistic missiles going out,” he continued, going against even the Pentagon’s assessment. “There have been no long-range missiles going out. And I think that someday we’ll have a deal. I’m not in a rush.”

    The Japanese prime minister had a different take, though. “North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile. This is violating the Security Council resolution,” Abe said. “So my reaction is, as I said earlier on, it is of great regret,” he continued, making sure still to give credit to Trump for engaging diplomatically with Kim.

    That moment was, to put it mildly, troubling.

    Japan, a staunch US ally, is the country that is among the most directly threatened by North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile programs. North Korea views Japan, its former colonizer, as a mortal enemy, and many of the missiles the country tests land near — or even fly directly over — Japan (although the last two tests didn’t threaten Japan at all).

    At a time like this, the US president would normally stand firmly alongside the Japanese prime minister and state unequivocally that North Korea should stop conducting tests of weapons that could kill thousands of Japanese people. Instead, Trump’s avid desire for a deal with Kim led to a massive break in Washington and Tokyo’s position on a top national security issue for both capitals.

    Put together, Monday’s press conference was an unmitigated disaster for Trump. It would be an extraordinary event if it weren’t already so ordinary.

    Trump’s Japan comments were Helsinki-esque

    In July 2018, Trump stood alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and made shocking comments: telling the world he bought Putin’s claim that Moscow didn’t interfere in the 2016 presidential election — even though US intelligence agencies clearly assessed it did.

    “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Trump said during a press conference with the Russian leader.

    While Trump’s performance in Tokyo on Monday wasn’t as bombastic, he still substantively did the same thing as in Helsinki: agreed with a dictator at the expense of Americans.

    It’s now an established pattern for the American president: It’s more likely that he will say things that most make him look good — regardless of whom it might make look bad. If you think that’s not a trait an American president should have, it’s because it’s not.

    *Editor’s note: Vox’s style guidelines on the Japanese prime minister’s name have changed to better reflect Japanese naming conventions. From now on, the prime minister’s name will be written as “Abe Shinzo,” not “Shinzo Abe.”

    Source Article from https://www.vox.com/2019/5/28/18642441/japan-trump-abe-biden-kim-missile

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    ‘We know this will be hard’: Pritzker orders Illinois residents to hunker down amid coronavirus – POLITICO
    ‘We know this will be hard’: Pritzker orders Illinois residents to hunker down amid coronavirus – POLITICO

    Illinois reported its 5th death due to the illness on Friday. State Public Health chief Ngozi Ezike said there are 585 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across 25 counties.

    Non-essential businesses must shut down, Pritzker said, but the “fundamental building blocks” of society will not change. Similar to New York and Ohio, which have also shuttered a range of businesses to fight COVID-19, restaurants are barred from offering dine-in service but take-out and drive-through will continue.

    “We know this will be hard,” Pritzker said. “This will not last forever. But it will force us to change. We in Illinois have overcome obstacles before and we will again.”

    Pritzker’s new plan goes well beyond what Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told city residents in a Thursday afternoon address from her ceremonial office in City Hall, mostly urging those who feel sick to stay home.

    By Friday afternoon, Lightfoot made the leap alongside the governor.

    “This is a make break or break moment for the city and the state,” Lightfoot said during Friday’s briefing.

    Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/illinois-pritzker-coronavirus-139601

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    Who Are the Unvaccinated in America? There’s No One Answer. – The New York Times
    Who Are the Unvaccinated in America? There’s No One Answer. – The New York Times

    Part of the challenge is that the unvaccinated live in communities dotted throughout the United States, in both lightly and densely populated counties. Though some states like Missouri and Arkansas have significantly lagged the nation in vaccination rates, unvaccinated Americans are, to varying degrees, everywhere: In Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago, 51 percent of residents are fully vaccinated. Los Angeles County is barely higher, at 53 percent. In Wake County, N.C., part of the liberal, high-tech Research Triangle area, the vaccination rate is 55 percent.

    The rate of vaccinations across the country has slowed significantly since April, but there are signs in recent days of a new rise in shots being distributed, with upticks in vaccinations particularly in states like Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri, where cases have grown. As of Friday, about 652,000 doses, on average, were being given each day, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; that was up from recent weeks, when the country hovered just above 500,000 shots a day. Nationwide, about 97 percent of people hospitalized with Covid-19 are unvaccinated, federal data shows.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/us/virus-unvaccinated-americans.html

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    Jacob Blake shackled to hospital bed despite being paralyzed, father says – The Guardian
    Jacob Blake shackled to hospital bed despite being paralyzed, father says – The Guardian

    Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old who was shot seven times by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer on Sunday, is shackled to his hospital bed despite being unable to walk and being heavily medicated, with no clarity on whether or why he might be under investigation, his father revealed on Friday.

    “There was the cold steel on his ankle. He is shackled to the bed, but he cannot get up, he could not get up, he is paralyzed,” Jacob Blake Sr, father of Jacob Blake Jr, said on CNN in an interview, describing a hospital visit he had with his son two days ago.

    “He grabbed my hands and began to weep and he told me that he was having hallucinations. He said ‘Daddy, Daddy, I love you. Why did they shoot me so many times?’ I said, ‘Baby, they were not supposed to shoot you at all,” Blake Sr said.

    He wept intermittently as he was giving the live interview on Friday morning.

    “I lay on the bed close to him. We talked about him being paralyzed from the waist down. He wanted a dog and I said, ‘We will get you a dog, Baby’.”

    Lawyers acting for the Blake family have said Jacob Blake has damaged spinal cord, spine, stomach, kidneys and liver, has lost most of his colon and has no bowel or genital function.

    Blake said he did not know why his son was shackled, saying: “I guess he is in custody, I don’t know.”

    The family’s lawyer, Ben Crump, said: “There is no explanation for this.”

    The description of Blake’s condition by his father came after the fifth night of protests in Kenosha, which were peaceful on Thursday night for the second night after a fatal shooting when agitators attacked protesters on Tuesday night.

    Late on Tuesday, a 17-year-old gunman fatally shot two protesters and wounded another, police said. Before the slayings, some who did not appear to be linked to the main, peaceful protest groups engaged in looting.

    The Kenosha News reported that there were no incidents of fire or vandalism as of 10.30pm on Thursday.

    At Civic Center Park, some protesters sang along to religious music. Black Lives Activists of Kenosha, a major protest group, walked with flags to the sprawling local law enforcement complex. Several calmly spoke with two police officers to discuss the release of at least one detained demonstrator, the newspaper said.

    Although protests appear to have calmed, with fierce emotions but no violence, additional national guard members are expected to arrive in Kenosha on Friday.

    Wisconsin’s governor, Tony Evers, who first announced the deployment of state national guard members on Monday, has on several occasions authorized more troops. On Thursday, Evers said that national guard members from Alabama, Arizona and Michigan would be deployed to Kenosha, USA Today reported.

    As the ranks of national guards members are poised to increase, law enforcement response to protests – which has included some use of teargas and flash-bangs – has come under scrutiny.

    Activists have said that some demonstrators who were arrested in Kenosha this week were “snatched up” by federal law enforcement officers in unmarked vehicles, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. On Wednesday night, three area activists were arrested while walking to their vehicle, and then whisked away in an unmarked sports utility vehicle, organizers said.

    Video on social media appears to show law enforcement agents smashing the windows of a minivan with Oregon license plates and forcibly removing the people inside. Those people were subsequently driven away in an SUV.

    Police in Kenosha claimed that this group had been stopped after federal US Marshals spotted them allegedly filling gas cans at a gas station, reports said.

    Authorities claim that they used force because the driver didn’t stop when ordered to do so. These arrestees were part of the group Riot Kitchen, a Seattle-based non-profit that gives food to homeless persons and protesters, the newspaper said.

    Meanwhile, Kyle Rittenhouse – the teenager charged in relation to Tuesday’s deadly shootings – is expected to appear in an Illinois court on Friday.

    Rittenhouse, who surrendered to authorities in his home town of Antioch, Illinois, about 15 miles from Kenosha, is charged with six criminal counts in Kenosha, including first-degree intentional homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment.

    Rittenhouse, who will be defended by the law firm whose high-profile clients include Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and ex-adviser Carter Page, appears poised to claim self-defense in the shooting.

    Lin Wood, another lawyer defending Rittenhouse, reportedly said: “He was not there to create trouble, but he found himself with his life threatened, and he had the right to protect himself.”

    One man was killed while trying to disarm Rittenhouse after he had apparently earlier shot another demonstrator and appeared to be walking away while others attempted to give the victim first aid.

    On Friday, more details emerged about police involved in Blake’s shooting. The Wisconsin department of justice, which previously named Rusten Sheskey as the officer who shot Blake in the back, identified two more officers present during the encounter: Vincent Arenas and Brittany Meronek.

    The officers allege that Sheskey and Arenas used their Taser stun guns on Blake when their attempt “to stop” him during his arrest failed. Investigators said that Sheskey was the only officer who fired a weapon and that Blake had told the police he had a knife.

    “There is no explanation for this,” Crump, the family lawyer, said of the police shooting Blake and of the report of Blake being shackled in hospital. “It’s such an outrageous thing. That he was shot seven times, this adds insult to injury. It’s why we are marching in Washington DC today.”

    He was referring to the Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march, a protest demanding criminal justice reform that is expected to draw tens of thousands to Washington on Friday and coincides with the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech in 1963 calling for racial equality.

    Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/28/jacob-blake-shackled-to-hospital-bed-father-says

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    7 youth group members hospitalized after lightning strike in Utah – NBC News
    7 youth group members hospitalized after lightning strike in Utah – NBC News
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    Nuclear talks in doubt as N.Korea tests missiles – AOL
    Nuclear talks in doubt as N.Korea tests missiles – AOL

    SEOUL, July 25 (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired two new short-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean officials said, the first such launch since leader North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to revive stalled denuclearisation talks last month.

    South Korea’s Defence Ministry urged the North to stop acts that are unhelpful to easing tension, saying the tests posed a military threat.

    It was not immediately clear if the missiles used ballistic technology which would be a breach of U.N. Security Council resolutions targeting North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs.

    At least one of the two missiles North Korea test fired on Thursday was a newly developed design and flew some 690 km (428 miles), an official at South Korea’s defense ministry told Reuters, adding that a detailed analysis was being done to verify if the two missiles were the same model. 

    North Korea launched the missiles from the east coast city of Wonsan with one flying about 430 km (267 miles) and the other 690 km (428 miles) over the sea. They both reached an altitude of 50 km (30 miles), an official at South Korea’s Defence Ministry said.

    Some analysts said the North appears to have retested missiles it fired in May, but two South Korean military officials said the missiles appeared to be a new design.

    The launch casts new doubt on efforts to restart denuclearisation talks after Trump and Kim met at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas at the end of June.

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho had been expected to meet on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian security forum in Bangkok next week.

    But a diplomatic source told Reuters on Thursday that Ri had canceled his trip.

    The White House, Pentagon and U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    South Korea had detected signs prior to the launch and was conducting detailed analysis with the United States, the presidential Blue House said in a statement.

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the test had no immediate impact on Japan’s security, according to Kyodo News.

    U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, who has taken a hard line towards North Korea, made no mention of the launches in a tweet on Thursday after a visit to South Korea. He said he had “productive meetings” on regional security.

    South Korea’s nuclear envoy, Lee Do-hoon, had phone calls with his U.S. counterpart, Stephen Biegun, and his Japanese counterpart, Kenji Kanasugi, to share their assessment, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

    Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a briefing that Beijing had noted the launch, calling for North Korea and the United States to reopen negotiations “as early as possible.”




    ‘CLEAR MESSAGE’

    After Trump and Kim met last month, the United States and North Korea vowed to hold a new round of working-level talks soon, but Pyongyang has since sharply criticized upcoming joint military drills by U.S. and South Korean troops.

    North Korea’s Foreign Ministry accused Washington this month of breaking a promise by holding military exercises with South Korea. On Tuesday, Kim inspected a large, newly built submarine from which ballistic missiles could be launched.

    “By firing missiles, taking issue with military drills and showing a new submarine, the North is sending one clear message: there might be no working-level talks if the United States doesn’t present a more flexible stance,” said Kim Hong-kyun, a former South Korean nuclear envoy.

    Kim Dong-yup, a former navy officer who now teaches at Kyungnam University in Seoul, said the weapons tested on Thursday appeared to be the same as the ones tested in May, which were less of a challenge than long-range missiles but “enough to subtly pressure” Washington.

    But the South Korean military believes they may be new, because they traveled further. In May, the projectiles flew only 420 km (260 miles) and 270 km (168 miles) though they reached the same altitude of about 50 km (30 miles).

    “We’re very cautious because it’s difficult to extend the range within such a short time,” said one military official, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.

    Nuclear talks between North Korea and the United States stalled after a second summit between Trump and Kim in Vietnam in February broke down.

    Trump has repeatedly lauded the North’s freeze in weapons testing as he is keen for a big foreign policy win as he campaigns for re-election in 2020.

    (Reporting by Joyce Lee, Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin; Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom and Idrees Ali in WASHINGTON, and Huizhong Wu in BEIJING Editing by Nick Macfie)

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    Nielsen ouster lays bare Trump’s own immigration crisis – CNN
    Nielsen ouster lays bare Trump’s own immigration crisis – CNN

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