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    <title>Pollen clouds shroud parts of US south-east as allergies spike</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:41:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A thick haze of yellow pollen has blanketed the sky across parts of the south-eastern US, with reports of spring allergy symptoms on the rise.

One particularly dense cloud of pollen was photographed in Raleigh, North Carolina.

A video of pollen erupting from a falling tree in Hixson, Tennessee, has been widely shared on social media.

The high pollen levels have brought on the traditional itchy, watery eyes and sneezing.

"In April in North Carolina we have an overlap for a couple weeks where we have pretty high counts of tree and then grass also gets started," Dr Heather Gutekunst, of Allergy Partners of Raleigh, told ABC11.

"So when we see that, if you are allergic to both, we tend to see an escalation in symptoms."]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Administration to Push for Tougher Asylum Rules</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:04:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration plans to aggressively push for tougher screening of asylum seekers that will make it vastly more difficult for migrants fleeing persecution in their home countries from winning protection in the United States, a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday.

The official said that President Trump ordered a shake-up of his top immigration officials in recent days because they were moving too slowly, or even actively obstructing, the president’s desire to confront the surge of migrants at the southwestern border. The asylum changes are among many policies the president wants to put into effect with a new team in place, the official said.

Mr. Trump denied on Tuesday that one of those changes would be to restart his policy of separating migrant families at the border, though he said that the act of taking children from their parents — which drew global condemnation before he abandoned it last summer — was effective.

“Now I’ll tell you something, once you don’t have it, that’s why you see many more people coming,” Mr. Trump said. “They are coming like it’s a picnic, because, ‘Let’s go to Disneyland.’”

The administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity even as Mr. Trump was making his remarks, said a modified version of family separation, in which parents are given a choice of whether to be separated or to accept indefinite detention alongside their children, continues to be under consideration.

But the so-called binary choice proposal is “not ripe for White House consideration” right now, he insisted, because the government does not currently have the detention space to hold families if the policy were put in place.

The asylum changes being envisioned could drastically alter the role that the United States plays as a refuge for people fleeing poverty, violence and war. American and international laws require it to allow migrants to request asylum once they come to the country.

But the official said that an initial assessment of the basis for a request for asylum — known as a “credible fear” screening — too often accepts the claim that the migrant was persecuted. The official also said that many more asylum seekers should be rejected during that first step.

Out of 97,728 completed interviews with migrants in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed a credible fear of persecution 74,677 times, according to an agency official.]]></description>
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    <title>Tax refunds so far this year are down by $6 billion from 2018</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:00:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Individual tax refunds this year have been only slightly smaller than last year, but those shortfalls are adding up. At the end of last month, the amount of money the government refunded was $6 billion below this time last year, according to IRS figures.

As of March 29, the Treasury had issued 71.8 million refunds. This time a year ago it had issued 73.4 million. So while the average refund, at $2,873, is only $20 less than it was last year, about 1.6 million fewer people are getting refunds, the IRS said. ]]></description>
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    <title>US backtracks on Cuba baseball deal over Venezuela ties</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T22:56:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US has cancelled an agreement that allowed Cuban baseball stars to sign with American teams.

The deal meant players no longer had to defect from communist Cuba to join Major League Baseball (MLB) teams.

Signed in December, it enabled players to reach the US without resorting to human traffickers.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision to withdraw was part of efforts to pressure Cuba over its support for the Venezuelan government.

The US is backing opposition politician Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself Venezuela's interim leader in a bid to unseat President Nicolás Maduro.

The policy backtrack has been criticised on social media by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who called it "a cynical, cruel and gratuitous act".]]></description>
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    <title>Trump: Court defeat on asylum policy 'unfair to US'</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T22:53:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump has lashed out at a judge for blocking his policy of sending asylum seekers to Mexico to await court hearings in their cases.

"A 9th Circuit judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants," he tweeted. "So unfair to the US."

His policy would have returned migrants back over the border while they sought a legal right to stay in the US.

The legal defeat comes as migrant numbers at the US-Mexico border surged to their highest since 2008.

Mr Trump was said to be livid after US immigration officials estimated border apprehensions in March had topped 100,000.

The San Francisco ninth district judge's order on Monday against the migrant policy is not due to go into effect until this Friday, giving US officials a chance to appeal.]]></description>
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    <title>Thumb drive carried by Mar-a-Lago intruder immediately installed files on a PC | Ars Technica</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T22:52:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Secret Service official speaking on background told Ars that the agency has strict policies over what devices can be connected to computers inside its network and that all of those policies were followed in the analysis of the malware carried by Zhang.

"No outside devices, hard drives, thumbdrives, et cetera would ever be plugged into, or could ever be plugged into, a secret service network," the official said. Instead, devices being analyzed are connected exclusively to forensic computers that are segregated from the agency network. Referring to the thumb drive confiscated from Zhang, the official said: "The agent didn’t pick it up and stick it into a Secret Service network computer to see what was on it." The agent didn't know why Ivanovich testified that the analysis was quickly halted when the connected computer became corrupted.

Monday's hearing raised yet another question about Secret Service security. Adler, the public defender representing Zhang, got agent Samuel Ivanovich to admit that "the agency that protects the president largely relied on Mar-a-Lago staff to determine whether to admit her, didn't see red flags in the devices she carried, and asked no further questions of Zhang once they believed she was related to another club member with the same last name—which is extremely common in China."

Expect more scrutiny of the event, the resulting investigation, and the lax policies that led to the breach to continue, possibly for months to come.]]></description>
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    <title>Taylor Swift donates £86,000 to Tennessee LGBT group - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T22:48:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47863700</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift has donated $113,000 (£86,000) to an LGBT advocacy group in Tennessee, USA.

In a letter, shared on the group's Facebook, she writes that she felt "inspired" by its work fighting for LGBT rights.

"I am so grateful that they're giving all people a place to worship," she continues.

The Tennessee Equality Project lobbies local governments in the state for the equal rights of LGBT people.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump denies plan to separate migrant families, blames Obama for ‘cages’</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T18:40:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[

President Trump denied Tuesday that his administration is preparing to once more separate migrant families in response to the surge in border crossings, telling reporters that he had ordered an end to a policy established under President Obama.

“I’m the one who stopped it,” Trump said. “President Obama had child separation.”

Trump also told reporters at the Oval Office that he did not approve of the Border Patrol holding pens with chain-link partitions widely derided as “cages,” and whose images exacerbated a backlash against the White House last spring at the height of its “zero tolerance” prosecution push.

“Those cages that were shown — I think they were very inappropriate — were by President Obama’s administration, not by Trump,” the president said.

More than 2,700 children were separated from their parents last spring under “zero tolerance,” before the president reversed course amid a public outcry.

Under Obama, the separation of parents from their children at the border occurred on a far more limited basis than what the White House attempted last year.

The chain-link holding pens appeared in videos and photographs of underage migrants held at the Border Patrol’s Central Processing Center in McAllen, Tex. The facility was established in a converted warehouse that the Obama administration opened in 2014 when record numbers of Central American minors arrived at the border, leaving Border Patrol stations overflowing.

Asked directly if he is planning to separate families again, the President said no. But defended the effectiveness of the tactic as a deterrent to migration.

U.S. court rulings have specifically prohibited the government from taking children from their parents for purposes of deterrence.

“We’re not looking to do that, now,” Trump said, adding that it brings “a lot more people to the border when you don’t do it.”

The Trump administration has argued that Central Americans have been gaming the U.S. asylum system, taking advantage of U.S. laws that aim to allow people to seek protection from persecution. Trump alleges that people are submitting false claims and that the U.S. immigration system is not tough enough on them. Those seeking asylum can be released into the United States while they await court hearings, some of which are months or years delayed due to a massive backlog. U.S. courts have limited the government’s ability to hold families with children in detention.

“Now I’ll tell you something, once you don’t have it, that’s why you see many more people coming,” Trump said, referring to family separations. “They are coming like it’s a picnic, because, ‘Let’s go to Disneyland.’”
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    <title>Trump’s flailing shake-up of the Department of Homeland Security, explained</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T15:09:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kirstjen Nielsen’s surprise Sunday night resignation as homeland security secretary is part of an ongoing purge of President Donald Trump’s immigration apparatus. It suggests Trump is determined to get tougher on immigration but lacks any concrete plans to do so — his administration was already being about as tough as possible within the confines of the law — beyond saying he wants to get tougher policy agenda on immigration.

The shake-up started with the surprise announcement Thursday night that Trump had withdrawn the nomination for acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Ron Vitiello to run the agency on a permanent basis. White House policy adviser Stephen Miller is rumored to be advocating for the ouster of Lee Francis Cissna, the current director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The New York Times has added more names to the list of potential targets.

Meanwhile, Trump is attempting to name US Customs and Border Protection Chief Kevin McAleenan as acting DHS secretary, even though the statute requires the job to go to Undersecretary for Management Claire Grady. And for the past week there’s been talk of creating a new “immigration czar” post to ride herd officials from across the departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State, aiming to better coordinate the Trump administration’s efforts to curb Central American asylum seekers.

All of this adds up, in theory, to an even harder line from the White House on immigration. But what it amounts to in practice is not clear.

Trump is upset that his administration is not halting the flow of asylum seekers. But his only alternative to his own failed tough policies is to say that we need tough policies. So officials are being fired for no clear reason. (Trump’s only idea for negotiating with either congressional Democrats or other regional governments is more bluster.)

The president is frustrated about how little progress he’s making on a signature issue, but also apparently unwilling to try to resolve that frustration by actually doing anything different. ]]></description>
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    <title>Pompeo Bars 16 Saudis From U.S. in Response to Khashoggi Killing</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T13:56:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/politics/saudi-sanctions-khashoggi.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, facing criticism that the Trump administration has sought to sweep away the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal killing, announced on Monday that 16 Saudis, including one of the closest aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were being barred from entry to the United States.

The list included the close aide, Saud al-Qahtani, who officially served as the royal court’s media czar, but appeared to have overseen the operation to seize Mr. Khashoggi. It was one of a dozen or so operations by what American intelligence officials called the Saudi Rapid Intervention Group, set up by Mr. al-Qahtani to silence or eliminate dissent about Prince Mohammed’s rapid rise to become the de facto Saudi leader.

But conspicuously missing from the list is Prince Mohammed himself, despite the conclusion by American intelligence agencies that he was ultimately responsible for sending the team to Istanbul to kill Mr. Khashoggi, and for other actions by the Rapid Intervention Group. More than a year before Mr. Khashoggi’s death, American intelligence officials intercepted a communication from the crown prince saying that if Mr. Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist who lived in Virginia, did not voluntarily return to the kingdom and cease publishing his criticism, the state should go after him “with a bullet.”

Based on the findings of the C.I.A., which he led until last year, Mr. Pompeo would have been free to add the crown prince to the list, though that would have been an unusual move to take against a leader of a close ally. But Mr. Pompeo has at times also sounded passive about the investigation, saying he was giving the Saudis time to complete their own inquiry.

By moving to name the Saudis and barring them and their immediate families from traveling to the United States, the Trump administration appears to be trying to tamp down an unusual uprising in Congress that has involved members of both parties.

But it is far from clear that the relatively minor penalty, against Saudis who would be unlikely to enter the United States under current conditions, will be viewed as sufficient. Mr. Pompeo and President Trump are likely to still face the accusation that they are deliberately ignoring the C.I.A.’s intelligence findings in an effort to put the killing behind them. Mr. Trump once called the report about the crown prince’s involvement a “feeling” by the C.I.A., and has insisted that the evidence is not conclusive.]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Trump’s Immigration Crisis</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T13:55:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/trump-kirstjen-nielsen-border-security-.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is a sense in which this crisis vindicates immigration hawks, who warned from the late-Obama era onward that the immigration decline wasn’t necessarily permanent, that there could easily be another wave, that United States policy — particularly the Obama precedent of a tacit amnesty for child migrants — created specific incentives for families and children to come north.

But those same hawks ended up electing a president whose signature immigration policy, more walls to deter border-crossers, has proved largely ineffective in dealing with an immigration crisis created by people surrendering to Border Patrol officers and asking for asylum.

Nor does that president have the capacity to devise a more effective response, it seems, since any policy solution would require two negotiations. First, negotiation with Congress, to change asylum law to override the court decisions currently tying up the Trump White House’s attempts at deterrence — like the attempt to make Central American asylum petitioners wait out the process in Mexico. Second, negotiation with the Mexican government, to get more help discouraging migration on its side of the border. For a different president these tasks would be challenging; for Trump, they seem impossible.

Hence the flailing on display this week, with the president purging his entire Homeland Security apparatus, in the hopes of finding somebody with the requisite toughness to succeed where the present staff has failed. Since “toughness” apparently means one of two things — returning to the cruelty of child separation or ordering Border Patrol agents to simply ignore asylum law themselves — it’s doubtful that this purge will produce anything except more unpopularity for Trump's policies, and more unsuccessful collisions with the courts.

The flailing also absolves the Democratic Party, currently torn between radicalism and evasion on immigration, from actually having to propose a coherent alternative to the White House’s approach. If this sort of crisis were happening on President Hillary Clinton’s watch, it would create all kinds of political problems for the Democrats; as it stands, they can point at the man who once boasted of Washington that “I alone can fix it” and say, well, why don’t you?]]></description>
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    <title>US proposes tariffs on $11bn of EU products - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T05:05:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47862622</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US is considering imposing tariffs on about $11bn (£8.4bn) worth of goods from the European Union in response to subsidies that support Airbus.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has found that the subsidies have an adverse impact on the US.

Aircraft and cheese are among the products that could be hit by tariffs, the US Trade Representative (USTR) said.

The Trump administration has been fighting trade battles on many fronts.

The move would mark an escalation in trade tensions between the US and the EU.

The USTR said the value of goods that will be targeted with tariffs is subject to an arbitration at the WTO, the result of which is expected in a few months.

A preliminary list of goods has been issued for public consultation. It covers a wide range of items, from helicopters to wine.

"This case has been in litigation for 14 years, and the time has come for action. The Administration is preparing to respond immediately when the WTO issues its finding on the value of US countermeasures," said US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

"Our ultimate goal is to reach an agreement with the EU to end all WTO-inconsistent subsidies to large civil aircraft. When the EU ends these harmful subsidies, the additional US duties imposed in response can be lifted."]]></description>
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    <title>Judge Blocks Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy for Asylum Seekers</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T03:13:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/politics/trump-family-separations.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A California judge on Monday blocked President Trump’s efforts to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated by the immigration courts — a practice that immigration advocates called inhumane and illegal.

Judge Richard Seeborg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found that existing law did not give the Trump administration the power to enforce the policy, known as “migrant protection protocols,” which were introduced in San Diego and expanded to other parts of California and Texas.

The judge said in his ruling that in addition to violating immigration laws, the protocols did not include “sufficient safeguards” to comply with the Department of Homeland Security’s obligation against returning migrants to places where their “life or freedom would be threatened.”

Immigration advocates hailed the decision, calling it the latest victory in the legal battles with the Trump administration that began when the president imposed a travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries just days after taking office in 2017.

“Today’s victory is especially important amidst reports that the Trump administration is planning to move toward even more extreme immigration policies,” said Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “The decision will prevent incredibly vulnerable individuals from being trapped in dangerous conditions in Mexico.”

The Trump administration had negotiated the protocols with the Mexican government because of the president’s longstanding anger with so-called catch and release policies in which asylum seekers are temporarily released into the United States while they wait for their court hearings.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump removes Secret Service director as purge of DHS leadership widens - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T02:43:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DHS officials are now looking for a way to satisfy the president’s demand for “tough” measures, including a plan called “binary choice” that would give migrant parents the option of remaining detained as a family or agreeing to a separation so that their children would not remain in immigration custody.

The goal of the plan would be to end the “catch and release” model that has allowed most migrant families to go free within the United States while they wait to appear before an immigration judge.

Implementing binary choice without lawmakers’ approval risks another court injunction.

“The president doesn’t like the news he’s getting on immigration and has blamed leadership at DHS, but this is not something leadership at the department can fix,” said Stewart Baker, a top DHS adviser to President George W. Bush. “This needs to be fixed in Congress, and there doesn’t seem to be any appetite for that.”

Trump has suggested to aides in recent weeks that the administration’s previous policy of separating families at the border could be used to deter crossings and that a version of the policy could be reinstated, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. Some aides have resisted the idea of family separations, citing the public backlash last summer and noting that Trump himself reversed it.]]></description>
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    <title>President Told Border Agents to Break the Law</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T02:38:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Last Friday, the President visited Calexico, California, where he said, “We’re full, our system’s full, our country’s full — can’t come in! Our country is full, what can you do? We can’t handle any more, our country is full. Can’t come in, I’m sorry. It’s very simple.”

    Behind the scenes, two sources told CNN, the President told border agents to not let migrants in. Tell them we don’t have the capacity, he said. If judges give you trouble, say, “Sorry, judge, I can’t do it. We don’t have the room.”

    After the President left the room, agents sought further advice from their leaders, who told them they were not giving them that direction and if they did what the President said they would take on personal liability. You have to follow the law, they were told.]]></description>
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    <title>Sanctions Deal With Russian Oligarch Included Transfer of Shares to Benefit His Children</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T02:29:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department allowed the influential Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska to satisfy the terms of his divorce by transferring tens of millions of dollars in stock to benefit his children as part of a deal to lift United States sanctions on his corporate empire, according to the Trump administration and an interview with Mr. Deripaska.

The deal, announced by the Trump administration in December without publicly disclosing its details, included a clause providing for the completion of a transfer of 10.5 million shares of Mr. Deripaska’s main holding company, EN+, to a trust fund for the two teenage children he had with his former wife, Polina Yumasheva.

The couple divorced last year, and their settlement, which called for him to provide funds for their children, was finalized before Mr. Deripaska and his companies were sanctioned in April 2018, according to representatives of the Treasury Department, Mr. Deripaska and EN+.

The transfer has drawn the ire of Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, who is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Treasury Department. He said in a letter sent late last month to Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, that the transfer of the EN+ shares — which had a value of more than $78 million at the close of business on Monday — “constitutes a clear benefit to Deripaska and his children,” and conflicts with Treasury Department claims that neither would benefit from the sanctions relief deal.

The sanctions were intended to punish seven oligarchs and their companies — including Mr. Deripaska, EN+ and the giant aluminum company it controls, Rusal — for their affiliations with a Russian government that “engages in a range of malign activity around the globe,” including election interference, Mr. Mnuchin said at the time.

When the Treasury Department announced the deal with Mr. Deripaska’s companies to lift the sanctions, it cast the move as an effort to stabilize global aluminum markets roiled by the sanctions, and said that Mr. Deripaska would not personally benefit. As part of the deal, he agreed to relinquish control of the companies and sell off a significant portion of his ownership, with proceeds going into blocked accounts that he would not be able to access.

But members of Congress on both sides of the aisle blasted the deal as soft on Russia, and unsuccessfully tried to block it from going into effect. Those concerns were inflamed further when it was revealed that the confidential, legally binding document detailing the agreement showed that Mr. Deripaska and his allies would retain majority ownership of EN+.

The agreement specified that 1.64 percent of the shares of EN+ would be transferred to an entity called the Liberi Foundation, for which there was no easily traceable public record. After receiving inquiries from journalists, EN+ officials said Liberi was a trust fund for Mr. Deripaska’s children.

But when asked by Mr. Wyden at a Senate Finance Committee hearing late last month about the arrangement, Mr. Mnuchin said of Mr. Deripaska that “his children did in no way benefit from sanctions relief.”

A Treasury Department spokeswoman sought to clarify Mr. Mnuchin’s statement last week, saying that “Deripaska’s children were legally entitled to shares stemming from a divorce settlement that predated the sanctions.”]]></description>
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    <title>Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups - POLITICO</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T01:58:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/07/stephen-miller-trump-immigration-1260431</link>
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    <title>Mick Mulvaney rewrites history, claims Trump never promised to release his tax returns</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T23:12:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The White House might want you to forget about it now, but before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to release his tax returns.

In 2014, Trump said that if he “decide[s] to run for office, I’ll produce my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.” In 2015 — months before launching his presidential campaign — Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that “I would release tax returns ... I have no objection to certainly showing tax returns.”

Candidate Trump reiterated that vow during the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton with a now-familiar caveat, saying, “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished, it will be released.”

Trump, of course, never followed through. He continues to cite an audit that seems poised to outlast any of our natural lifetimes as the reason he won’t release his tax returns. But now that House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) has formally asked the IRS to turn them over, the White House is pretending like Trump never said he’d release them at all.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney vowed that Democrats will “never” see Trump’s tax returns, and characterized the issue as one “that was already litigated during the election.”

“Voters knew Trump could’ve given his tax returns, they knew that he didn’t, and they elected him anyway,” Mulvaney said. ]]></description>
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    <title>Buttigieg to Mike Pence: “Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator”</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T23:02:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/8/18300601/pete-buttigieg-mike-pence-christianity-faith-sexuality</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pete Buttigieg had a message for Vice President Mike Pence during a speech on Sunday: If you have a problem with my gayness, take it up with God.

During his speech on Sunday, which was made at the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch, the presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, mayor spoke candidly about his sexuality, emphasizing how his gay identity is intertwined with his faith. A key point he emphasized: being gay is not a personal choice.

“That’s the thing that I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand,” Buttigieg said. “That if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”

In his speech, Buttigieg challenged the vice president, a conservative Christian who signed the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015, which allowed business to deny service for LGBTQ members on religious grounds. He also supported the funding of conversion therapy, which has been criticized as inhumane and ineffective by medical experts and activists, in 2000.

While directly addressing Pence, Buttigieg said his marriage to his husband has not only made him a better person but has also brought him “closer to God,” as well.

It wasn’t the first time Buttigieg talked about religion that day: The morning of his speech, Buttigieg also appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” criticizing the hypocrisy of Trump’s Evangelical supporters for embracing a president who “is not consistent with anything that I hear in scripture or in church.” A week before, he had questioned Trump’s belief in God because of the president’s lack of humility.]]></description>
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    <title>Another Day, Another ‘Acting’ Cabinet Secretary as Trump Skirts Senate</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T20:14:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/politics/trump-acting-cabinet-secretaries.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interim secretaries are also in place at the Departments of Defense and of the Interior, and at the Office of Management and Budget, the Small Business Administration and ambassador’s office at the United Nations. Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, is also serving in an acting capacity.

“I like acting. It gives me more flexibility. Do you understand that?” Mr. Trump told reporters in January before departing to Camp David. “I like acting. So we have a few that are acting. We have a great, great Cabinet.”

But there are concerns about having men and women in such high-level jobs without having been subjected to Senate confirmation for those posts. Leaving cabinet secretaries unconfirmed in their roles could give the president even more leverage over them, or could leave them without full authority in the job.

“The Senate grappled with this question in the very first Congress when it ordered George Washington to send nominations to the Hill at a reasonable pace,” said Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University who has written extensively on the appointment process. “Senators rightly worried that presidents might use acting appointees to evade oversight and institutional prerogatives. Yet, we haven’t heard a word from the Senate on the Trump administration’s abuse of its acting authority.”

Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a concurring opinion in a 2017 case that there was seemingly no constitutional basis for having “acting” cabinet members and that there needed to be limits on a president’s power to fill the highest positions without Senate confirmation.

The constitution requires that the president obtain “the Advice and Consent of the Senate” before appointing cabinet officials. Legal scholars also questioned the president’s power to use the “acting” authority in replacing Ms. Nielsen.

“To me, the real difference is avoiding Senate confirmation — either because the individuals he wants running these agencies can’t be confirmed even by a Republican-controlled Senate, or because he’s worried about the kinds of questions they’d have to answer and or concessions they’d have to make in order to be confirmed,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas. “Either way, that’s an alarming argument for bypassing a Senate controlled by his own party.”]]></description>
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    <title>Bomb kills three US soldiers in Afghanistan - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T20:02:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47860816</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three US service members and one contractor have been killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

Three other service members were injured, a statement from the military says.

The device exploded close to Bagram air base, 50km (31 miles) from the capital, Kabul.

Earlier three people were killed in twin explosions in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Demands Homeland Security Secretary Who Will Break the Law</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T18:26:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conservative elites have tried to convince themselves that what Republican voters really mean when they cheer for the wall and repeat lurid stories of Latino men committing horrific crimes is that they just want the law to be followed. Trump, as he has done so many times, has turned the rationalizations made on his own behalf into a joke.]]></description>
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    <title>New Zealand official in court over camera in US toilet</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T17:19:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47852116</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New Zealand's former top military official in the US is on trial for secretly filming people in the toilet of the country's embassy in Washington.

Alfred Keating is accused of hiding a camera in a heating duct, which was found when it fell onto the floor.

Mr Keating's DNA matched that found on the SD card in the camera, which appeared to have been in place for many months.

The former commodore has pleaded not guilty.

Formerly in the Royal New Zealand Navy, Mr Keating was the highest ranking official at New Zealand's US embassy when the camera was discovered in a unisex bathroom in 2017.

Because he was a foreign official, New Zealand is responsible for Mr Keating's trial, despite the alleged offence taking place in the US.

He is facing a charge of attempting to make an intimate visual recording of another person at Auckland District Court. ]]></description>
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    <title>US tourist and safari guide freed after kidnap in Uganda - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T17:19:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47848404</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A US tourist and her guide have been rescued after they were kidnapped at gunpoint while on safari in Uganda.

Kimberly Endicott, 35, and Jean-Paul Mirenge were set upon as they drove through the Queen Elizabeth National Park on the evening of 2 April.

Ugandan Police said then that kidnappers used one of their phones to demand a ransom of $500,000 (£383,435).

Officials have now said the pair are "unharmed, in good health and in the safe hands of the joint security team".]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a Foreign Terrorist Group</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T15:24:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump said on Monday that he was designating a powerful arm of the Iranian military as a foreign terrorist organization, the first time that the United States had named a part of another nation’s government as that level of threat and raising the risk of retaliation against American troops and intelligence officers.

The move, which has been debated at the highest levels within the administration, was imposed on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The military unit has carried out operations across the Middle East, trained Arab Shiite militias and taken part in a wide range of businesses in Iran.

The designation “underscores the fact that Iran’s actions are fundamentally different from those of other governments,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “This action will significantly expand the scope and scale of our maximum pressure on the Iranian regime. It makes crystal clear the risks of conducting business with, or providing support to, the I.R.G.C.”

The action imposes wide-ranging economic and travel sanctions on the military unit as well as the organizations, companies or individuals that have ties to it — including officials in Iraq, an American ally. Officials in the United States say the broad terrorist designation covers 11 million members of the Iranian group and units in its hierarchy.

Top Pentagon and C.I.A. officials oppose the designation, which they argue would allow hard-line Iranian officials to justify deadly operations against Americans overseas, especially Special Operations units and paramilitary units working under the C.I.A.

An interagency lawyers group concluded the designation was too broad, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, pushed for it, said a Trump administration official. The fighting among the senior administration officials intensified after The New York Times disclosed the pending designation last month.

On Saturday, a senior member of the Iranian Parliament said on Twitter that Iran would designate the United States military as a terrorist organization.

Earlier, at the height of the Iraq War in the mid-2000s, Iranian military officials and partners helped train Iraqi Shiite militias to fight American troops. Senior Iraqi officials are also opposed to the move by the Trump administration. Any Iraqi officials that maintain ties to the Iranian guard corps would be subject to travel limits and economic sanctions.

Officials in Baghdad also have said they oppose the sanctions that serve as a reminder of the broad United Nations economic penalties that were inflicted on the Iraqi population after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.

The Trump administration’s pressure on Iranian groups could fuel a move among many Iraqi parliamentarians to try to limit the movements and actions of 5,000 American troops based in Iraq.]]></description>
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    <title>Herman Cain Opens a New #MeToo Minefield for Republicans</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T01:50:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/business/herman-cain-federal-reserve.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Payments to women who complained of sexual harassment. Accusations of groping. Allegations of a 13-year extramarital affair.

As President Trump moves ahead with his plan to nominate Herman Cain, a 2012 Republican presidential candidate, for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, Republican lawmakers are being forced to confront a fresh round of uncomfortable allegations of sexual misconduct against women as the 2020 campaign begins.

A day after Mr. Trump made the choice of Mr. Cain official, Senate Republicans expressed quiet anxiety over the prospect of another #MeToo minefield even as the White House exalted the decision.

“President Trump’s statement that Herman Cain is ‘a truly outstanding individual’ is a message that the president of the United States is willing to ignore the allegations of a number of women who alleged that Herman Cain either sexually harassed them or had an affair with them,” said Gloria Allred, a lawyer who represented two of Mr. Cain’s accusers. “This message is an insult to women and should be condemned by the Republican Party and all those who care about respect and dignity for women.”

The choice of Mr. Cain comes as Mr. Trump’s other pick to fill an open seat on the seven-member Fed board, the conservative economist Stephen Moore, has been under fire for ethical and financial lapses that emerged from his divorce records. In both cases, the White House has publicly backed Mr. Trump’s selections despite criticism that he was installing loyalists with questionable credentials in two of the country’s top economic policy jobs.

“I don’t buy it; we’re not trying to damage the Fed’s independence,” Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said on the Fox Business Network on Friday when asked about Mr. Cain.

But the questions surrounding Mr. Cain, who made his loyalty to the president clear with his creation of a political action committee to combat misinformation about Mr. Trump, go beyond cronyism.

The sexual misconduct accusations against him first emerged in 2011, when his long-shot campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was gaining traction and he was briefly propelled to the top of the polls. He denied the claims, denouncing them as a political hit job that were being circulated by opponents to sink his candidacy.]]></description>
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    <title>How did US and Ethiopia become so close? - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T01:39:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47203691</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A high-level US delegation just returned from Ethiopia, which is arguably America's closest ally on the continent of Africa. How did these two countries become so close? Journalist James Jeffrey explains.

It's noticeable soon after you land in Washington - the city is full of Ethiopians.

Their ubiquitous presence - behind the counter at Starbucks or the wheels of taxis - in the bastion of American government symbolises the two pillars of this alliance.

The Ethiopian diaspora across America - the second largest community after Nigerians - has played an enormous role in influencing ongoing political reforms that have rocked Ethiopia since the beginning of 2018.

These have included the opening of borders, the freeing of political prisoners, the lifting of restrictions on media, and the opening of political space to previously banned groups, as well as a significant redistribution of power within the ruling coalition government.

Expatriate Ethiopians run numerous TV stations and online media which are beamed into Ethiopian homes or to smartphones more than 11,000 kilometres away in the motherland - often, in the past, with a message critical of the government.

At the same time, US foreign policy significantly influenced last year's seismic events and is helping the Ethiopian government prepare the country for crucial national elections in 2020.

A US House of Representative Congressional Delegation (Codel) has recently returned from a visit to Ethiopia and Eritrea.

During that visit, US Ambassador to Ethiopia Michael Raynor announced the US will be "embedding senior US government officials at key Ethiopian economic ministries and operations for a sustained period of time". ]]></description>
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    <title>Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen leaving Trump administration amid surge of migrants</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T00:16:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-leaving-trump-administration-amid-surge-of-migrants/2019/04/07/97d20358-597d-11e9-b8e3-b03311fbbbfe_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump announced Sunday that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was leaving the administration, marking the exit of a second top immigration official in a matter of days as the White House continues to grapple with an influx of migrants on the southern border.

Replacing her on an acting basis will be Kevin McAleenan, who currently serves as the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Trump said Sunday. The announcement on Twitter came shortly after Trump and Nielsen met at the White House, according to two senior administration officials.

“Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service,” Trump tweeted Sunday evening. “I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!”

The meeting between Trump and Nielsen was not disclosed on the president’s public schedule that was distributed by the White House, and it came three days after the White House abruptly yanked the nomination of Ronald Vitiello, who had been picked as Trump’s director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The president later signaled that he wants the nation to go “in a tougher direction” on immigration enforcement.

It was not immediately clear whether Nielsen resigned or if Trump fired her. One senior administration official said Nielsen “did not go to the White House with the intention of resigning.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2019/4/7/18299585/kirstjen-nielsen-trump-dhs-homeland-security-resign-secretary-new">
    <title>Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns as Trump rage continues</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T00:07:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/4/7/18299585/kirstjen-nielsen-trump-dhs-homeland-security-resign-secretary-new</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nielsen’s tenure as secretary was defined not by these actions themselves, but by the force that motivated all of them: the building frustration and rage of Donald Trump at the fact that people continued to enter the US.

During the first few months of 2017, apprehensions at the US-Mexico border plummeted from what were already historically low levels of border crossings. Trump took personal credit — and held it up as proof that all it took was a tough-talking president to secure the border once and for all.

He was half right — and he’s been bedeviled by the other half, the “once and for all” part, ever since. Because Trump decided to measure the success of his immigration policy in whether or not people were trying to enter the US at all — not in how many were being deported, or allowed to stay, or anything else — he set himself up for failure.

It really does appear that the early 2017 lull in apprehensions was a reaction to Trump taking office. But people both within and outside the government understood at the time that the absurdly quiet border of Trump’s first months wouldn’t last, because for a year — through Kelly’s tenure and the beginning of Nielsen’s — tough talk was all the Trump administration had to offer.

This wasn’t a failure of political will on John Kelly’s part. It was a belated reckoning with reality: The low-hanging fruit of deterrent immigration policies had been picked a long time ago.

US immigration law is a balance between the desire to minimize unauthorized entry into the United States and the desire to protect vulnerable people who may be fleeing harm and persecution. Both US and international law prohibit the US from refusing entry to people who are in danger of prosecution in their home countries; both US statute and court settlements offer extra due-process protections to asylum-seekers, children, and families.

Trump’s anger at Kirstjen Nielsen is really an anger with this delicate balance. For the past year, the US has tried to do as much as it can to push policy toward enforcement over protection — with the political and legal resistance that might be expected when tough problems are met with blunt solutions.

But its ideas — at least the ones that haven’t yet been struck down in court — haven’t been enough.

The administration hasn’t yet been able to find a way to guarantee that someone who comes to the US without papers has no chance of staying. Short of that, no policy crackdown will persuade someone desperately fleeing her home country that it’s not worth it to try to come to America.

And mass deterrence — fewer people getting caught by Border Patrol because fewer people want to set foot in the US without papers — is the only outcome Trump has set himself up to accept.

Trump’s new favorite tropes — the idea that the US needs to “get rid of judges” (which doesn’t reflect immigration hawks’ actual frustrations with the asylum system) and should just start telling migrants they can’t come in — simply don’t reflect a policy that a future Homeland Security secretary could put into effect.

If Donald Trump wants a DHS secretary who looks the part of a law-enforcement official, McAleenan — a career border officer — is a better fit. If he wants someone who can talk tough in front of the cameras, McAleenan might not be a good fit for exactly the same reasons — he hasn’t been as willing to blame either Democrats or migrants themselves for the current situation at the border as other Trump officials, including Nielsen.

Trump could nominate someone more rhetorically aggressive — like occasional adviser Kris Kobach — but he could face an uphill battle in the US Senate.

But if Donald Trump wants a DHS secretary who will stop people from setting foot on US soil, none of these will satisfy him. Neither will anyone else. ]]></description>
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    <title>‘Normal America’ Is Not A Small Town Of White People</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-07T05:55:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/normal-america-is-not-a-small-town-of-white-people/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Jim VandeHei, a former executive editor of Politico, wrote an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal accusing the Washington political…]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/03/20/did-the-u-s-just-lose-its-war-with-huawei/">
    <title>Did The U.S. Just Lose Its War With Huawei?</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-07T03:22:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/03/20/did-the-u-s-just-lose-its-war-with-huawei/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are two things I don’t believe in," Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, referring to Germany's standoff with the United States over Huawei's inclusion in her country's 5G rollout. "First, to discuss these very sensitive security questions publicly, and, second, to exclude a company simply because it’s from a certain country."

Europe now seems likely to settle on 'careful and considered' inclusion of Huawei instead of any blanket bans. Chancellor Merkel stressed this week that a joined-up EU response would be "desirable", and Italy and the U.K. are also backing away from Washington's prohibition on Huawei's 5G technology. If they fold, it is likely the broader European Union will follow suit. And if those key European allies can't be carried, what chance Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East?

There comes a tipping point in any battle, and with this one, we may be just about there. Even as the head of the U.S. European Command told the Armed Services Committee "we’re concerned about [Germany's] telecommunications’ backbone being compromised... If [Huawei] is inside of their defense communications, then we’re not going to communicate with them," the industry was delivering a very different message.

"We’ve not seen any evidence of backdoors into the network,” said Vodafone’s most senior lawyer in the U.K. “If the Americans have evidence, please put it out on the table.”

What Vodafone and other industry leaders have to say carries serious weight. Governments will be swayed by the network operators, and so the telecoms industry will likely decide Huawei's fate. They control investments and 5G rollout schedules. They also have the technical expertise and talk glowingly about the Chinese manufacturer's innovation. The company filed more patents than anyone else last year: “An all-time record by anyone,” the WIPO director general told reporters.]]></description>
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    <title>U.S. government says it could take two years to identify families...</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-07T02:32:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-separation-idUSKCN1RI0KL</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ It could take the U.S. government up to two years to identify potentially thousands of additional children separated from their parents by the authorities at the southern border, the government said in a court filing.

The filing late on Friday outlined for the first time the Trump administration’s plan for identifying which family members might have been separated by assessing thousands of records using a combination of data analysis, statistical science, and manual review.

Last month, a federal judge in San Diego expanded the number of migrant families that the government may be required to reunite as part of a class-action lawsuit brought last year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said earlier this year that the agency had identified many more children in addition to the 2,737 initially included in the suit. U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw had already ordered that those children be reunited with their parents.

“Defendants estimate that identifying all possible children ... would take at least 12 months, and possibly up to 24 months,” the government wrote in Friday’s filing. It added that the time frame would be affected by the efficacy of its predictive statistical model, the manpower it can dedicate to the manual review, and any follow-up meetings required.

In a statement on Saturday, the ACLU’s lead attorney for the case, Lee Gelernt, said the group strongly opposed the government’s proposed plan and accused it of not treating the separations with the necessary urgency.

“The government was able to quickly gather resources to tear these children away from their families and now they need to gather the resources to fix the damage,” Gelernt said.

President Donald Trump’s administration implemented a “zero tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute and jail all illegal border crossers, even those traveling with their children, leading to a wave of separations last year. The policy sparked outrage when it became public, and the backlash led Trump to sign an executive order reversing course on June 20, 2018. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47822492">
    <title>Donald Trump urges US Fed to cut interest rates</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-07T01:21:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47822492</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on the US Federal Reserve by calling for the central bank to cut interest rates.

The US President claimed that the Fed has "really slowed us down" in terms of economic growth, adding that "there's no inflation".

Mr Trump made the comments as data showed a sharp rebound in new jobs growth during March.

US firms added 196,000 jobs last month, compared to 33,000 in February.

Mr Trump said: "I think they should drop rates and get rid of quantitative tightening. You would see a rocket ship."

The Fed has raised interest rates four times since Jerome Powell took over as chairman in February last year.

Mr Powell was appointed by Mr Trump but the president has frequently criticised the Fed chairman for increasing rates.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Mr Trump told Mr Powell in a recent phone call: "I guess I'm stuck with you."]]></description>
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    <title>Trump lawyer dismisses tax return demand</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T21:03:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47840026</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has the right to keep his tax returns private and Democrats' demands to see them are "harassment", a lawyer for the president has said.

William Consovoy's statement hints at the shape of a possible future legal battle over the issue.

On Thursday a Congressional tax committee demanded to see six years of Mr Trump's returns, saying it was necessary to ensure accountability.

Unlike previous presidents, Mr Trump has refused to publish his tax details.

On Friday he said he believed that the law was "100% on my side".]]></description>
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    <title>America’s Biggest Economic Challenge May Be Demographic Decline</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T21:02:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/upshot/americas-biggest-economic-challenge-may-be-demographic-decline.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For many years, American economists have spoken of Japan and Western Europe as places where the slow grind of demographic change — masses of workers reaching retirement age, and smaller generations replacing them — has been a major drag on the economy.

But it is increasingly outdated to think of that as a problem for other countries. The deepest challenge for the United States economy may really be about demographics. And our understanding of the implications is only starting to catch up.

A new report from the Economic Innovation Group, a Washington think tank funded in large part by tech investors and entrepreneurs, adds rich new detail, showing that parts of the United States are already grappling with Japanese-caliber demographic decline — 41 percent of American counties with a combined population of 38 million.

At the national level, slower growth in America’s working-age population is a major reason that mainstream forecasters now expect the economy to expand around 2 percent each year rather than the 3 percent common in the second half of the 20th century. As a matter of simple arithmetic, lower growth in the number of people working will almost certainly mean slower growth in economic output.]]></description>
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    <title>Saudi Arabia reportedly detains 2 U.S. dual nationals in 1st &quot;crackdown&quot; since Khashoggi killing</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia has reportedly detained at least 10 people, including two U.S. dual nationals, in what one human rights groups called on Friday a "new campaign of arbitrary arrests" aimed at advocates for free speech and human rights. "We reject this vicious crackdown and call for the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience," the Prisoners of Conscience organization said in a tweet on Friday.

The Associated Press also reported a new round of arrests, citing an anonymous source "with knowledge of the apprehensions," but put the number of new detainees at eight, also including two American dual nationals.

Rights groups are not permitted to operate inside the conservative Islamic kingdom, but there are a couple that have members who work covertly, at great risk to their safety, to reveal such information, including the Prisoners of Conscience. As the activists work anonymously, the information about the new arrests -- like most proceedings in Saudi Arabia's secretive justice system -- could not be independently confirmed.

It marks the first sweep of arrests to target individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October. The arrests come despite global outcry over Khashoggi's grisly killing by Saudi agents in an operation directed by former top aides to the crown prince, and which the CIA has concluded the crown prince himself very likely ordered.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump just withdrew his nominee to lead ICE — and didn’t really explain why</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T01:33:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/4/5/18296851/trump-ice-nomination-immigration-vitiello</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[None of that has anything to do with ICE. ICE’s primary responsibilities are arresting immigrants within the US, detaining immigrants pending deportation hearings, prosecuting immigrants in those hearings, and deporting those who are ordered deported.

ICE has been more aggressive on all these fronts under the Trump administration than it was in the last years of the Obama administration, and is setting new records for the number of immigrants in detention (blowing through its budget to do so). Just this week, it launched the biggest workplace raid in a decade, arresting more than 280 immigrants at a Texas cellphone repair facility. But it’s still not arresting or deporting as many immigrants as it did in Obama’s first term.

This is partly due to the decreased willingness of blue cities and states to defer to ICE in picking up immigrants from jail after they’d otherwise be released, and partly — especially in the past year — because resources are being taken up dealing with the influx of families and asylum seekers at the border.

The Trump administration has put a lot of emphasis on rolling out aggressive policies that make more people vulnerable to deportation. But that doesn’t automatically get people deported. ICE actually has to arrest them and open (or reopen) cases against them to do that.

ICE’s detention responsibilities extend to detaining anyone caught at the border within 72 hours of their apprehension. But they’re constrained, much to the Trump administration’s frustration, by a court ruling that limits the time families can be detained before they must be released into the US pending the resolution of their court cases.

There have been questions about coordination between ICE and Customs and Border Protection (the agency overseeing border enforcement) when it comes to the transfer of migrant families. But Trump’s comments about being “tougher” don’t necessarily reflect that.

It’s also doubtful that whoever Trump might nominate in lieu of Vitiello would be confirmed by the Senate. Democrats are increasingly unwilling to endorse any aspect of federal immigration enforcement as run by Trump, and some Republicans remain leery of Trump immigration-hawk favorites like former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

When Vitiello was nominated, he was seen as the only confirmable candidate for the position; he was a career law enforcement officer who’d come from a leadership position at CBP. That, apparently, is no longer tough enough for Trump. Who could pass that bar, whether the Senate will fall in line, and what a “tougher direction” might look like in practice remain to be seen.]]></description>
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    <title>One Trump Victory: Companies Rethink China</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T01:31:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/business/china-trade-trump-jobs-decoupling.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Whatever deal Washington and Beijing reach over the trade war, President Trump has already scored a big victory: Companies are rethinking their reliance on China.

The two sides are nearing an agreement, with Mr. Trump saying on Thursday that an “epic” trade pact could be weeks away and that he may soon meet with President Xi Jinping, China’s top leader. But already, spurred by tariffs and trade tensions, global companies are beginning to shift their supply chains away from China, just as some Trump administration officials had wanted.

The move, known as decoupling, is a major goal of those who believe the world has grown far too dependent on China as a manufacturing giant. As Beijing builds up its military and extends its geopolitical influence, some officials fear that America’s dependence on Chinese factories makes it strategically vulnerable.

Now companies in a number of industries are reducing their exposure to China. GoPro, the mobile camera maker, and Universal Electronics, which makes sensors and remote controls, are shifting some work to Mexico. Hasbro is moving its toy making to the United States, Mexico, Vietnam and India. Aten International, a Taiwanese computer equipment company, brought work back to Taiwan. Danfoss, a Danish conglomerate, is changing the production of heating and hydraulic equipment to the United States.

Mr. Trump’s victory in this department is not unalloyed. Despite his promises to bring jobs back to the United States, most of the work is shifting to other countries with lower costs. Reshaping global supply chains also takes time, and China will remain a vital manufacturing hub for decades to come.

Still, chief executives say the trade war has prompted a fundamental reassessment of China as the dominant place to make things. Even Chinese companies are expanding overseas, although they still have most of their production in China.

“China was the factory of the world,” said Song Zhiping, the Communist Party chief at the China National Building Materials Group, a state-owned giant. “Things are changing. That’s why Chinese companies are going out of China.”]]></description>
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    <title>U.S. Ethics Office Declines to Certify Mnuchin’s Financial Disclosure</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-05T22:04:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The top federal ethics watchdog said on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s sale of his stake in a film production business to his wife did not comply with federal ethics rules, and it would not certify his 2018 financial disclosure report as a result.

Although Mr. Mnuchin will not face penalties for failing to comply, he has been required to rewrite his federal ethics agreement and to promise to recuse himself from government matters that could affect his wife’s business.

Mr. Mnuchin in 2017 sold his stake in StormChaser Partners to his then-fiancée, Louise Linton, as part of a series of divestments before becoming Treasury secretary. Since they are now married, government ethics rules consider the asset to be owned by Mr. Mnuchin, potentially creating a conflict of interest for an official who has been negotiating for expanded access for the movie industry as part of trade talks with China.

The controversy over Mr. Mnuchin’s finances has become an unwanted distraction in recent weeks as the Trump administration has been engaged in intense negotiations with China on a wide range of trade matters. While Robert Lighthizer, President Trump’s top trade official, has been leading the talks, Mr. Mnuchin has been the point person for promoting the film industry because of his background as a Hollywood producer and investor.

Mr. Mnuchin said last month at a Senate hearing that he was told by Treasury ethics officials that he was allowed to sell his stake in StormChaser to Ms. Linton, an actress and producer. However, the Office of Government Ethics was not made aware of that guidance and had not approved it.

In a letter to Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and the chairman of the Finance Committee, the ethics office said that it could not certify Mr. Mnuchin’s report but that because he had modified his ethics agreement and agreed to recuse himself from matters that might affect StormChaser’s film business, he and Ms. Linton could continue to hold the asset.]]></description>
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    <title>Seeking ‘Tougher’ Direction for ICE, Trump Withdraws His Nominee</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-05T21:52:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/us/politics/ronald-vitiello-ice.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday said that he withdrew his nominee to run Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he wanted the agency to go in a “tougher” direction, a surprise decision ahead of the president’s trip to the United States southern border.

Ronald D. Vitiello, who was nominated last summer by Mr. Trump to run ICE, the agency that arrests, detains and deports people who are in the United States illegally, has been serving as the agency’s acting director since June last year. He had planned to accompany the president on his trip to California but was left behind.

“Ron’s a good man, but we’re going in a tougher direction,” Mr. Trump said to reporters as he left the White House en route to Calexico, Calif.

Mr. Vitiello did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Vitiello’s nomination had been awaiting approval by a second Senate committee and confirmation by the full chamber.

The president’s abrupt decision came at a time when his administration considers the United States border with Mexico to be in crisis because of the flow of people trying to get into the country, making it a priority to have a confirmed appointee leading the agency to carry out the administration’s policies. But some senators, including Republicans, had concerns that Mr. Vitiello was not the right person for this job.

Mr. Trump, who has continued to push for stronger deportation rules, had also expressed concern about whether a career civil servant, like Mr. Vitiello, would be up to the task. ICE has been led by acting directors since the Obama administration ended in January 2017.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Heads to the Border After Backing Off His Threat to Close It</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-05T21:45:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/us/politics/trump-border-wall.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday will stand in front of a 30-foot-tall section of border wall — the physical embodiment of his immigration agenda — just a day after retreating from his threat to shut down the entire border with Mexico.

The president’s arrival in this small border town two hours east of San Diego is intended to highlight what the president and his aides say is an out-of-control crisis caused by a surge of Central American families who have overwhelmed law enforcement facilities.

The answer, he argues, is construction of a border wall and legal changes to allow the authorities to treat illegal border crossers and asylum seekers more strictly.

“The president himself has made it clear that this is a humanitarian crisis,” Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, said Thursday night on CNN. “He recognizes that humanitarian crisis and he’s trying to take it to the people who can fix it.”]]></description>
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    <title>Trump's tax cuts added $3.7 billion to JPMorgan's profits</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon hailed President Donald Trump's tax cuts in the bank's annual investor letter on Thursday, saying the law gave a boost to earnings to the tune of $3.7 billion.

The letter outlined the bank's record earnings performance "even without the impact of tax reform."

JPMorgan made a record profit in 2018, posting net income of $32.5 billion and an astonishing $111.5 billion in sales, "reflecting strong underlying performance across our businesses."

Dimon added: "All things being equal (which they are not), the new lower tax rates added $3.7 billion to net income."

"The new tax code establishes a business tax rate that will make the United States competitive around the world and frees US companies to bring back profits earned overseas," Dimon wrote in the letter. "The cumulative effect of capital retained and reinvested over many years in the United States will help cultivate strong businesses and ultimately create jobs and increase wages."

The bank's fourth quarter was part of an unconventional earnings cycle for the industry, mostly because the late-arriving tax law that has caused many banks to book losses on deferred tax assets that declined in value]]></description>
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    <title>The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T15:31:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.

Today, Banting and colleagues would be spinning in their graves: Their drug, which many of the 30 million Americans with diabetes rely on, has become the poster child for pharmaceutical price gouging.

The cost of the four most popular types of insulin has tripled over the past decade, and the out-of-pocket prescription costs patients now face have doubled. By 2016, the average price of insulin rose to $450 per month — and costs continue to rise, so much so that as many as one in four people with diabetes are now skimping on or skipping lifesaving doses.

Members of Congress have been pressuring drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers to bring insulin costs under control. And on Wednesday, one health care company showed that it’s attempting to respond to the problem.

The insurance behemoth Cigna, and its pharmacy benefit arm Express Scripts, announced a new program that’ll cap the 30-day cost of insulin at $25. That’s a 40 percent reduction from the $41.50-per-month fee people with Express Scripts benefits were paying in 2018. ]]></description>
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    <title>Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T04:38:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/limited-information-barr-has-shared-about-russia-investigation-frustrated-some-on-muellers-team/2019/04/03/c98e8a02-567a-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some members of the office were particularly disappointed that Barr did not release summary information the special counsel team had prepared, according to two people familiar with their reactions.

“There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work instead,” according one U.S. official briefed on the matter.

Summaries were prepared for different sections of the report, with a view that they could made public, the official said.

The report was prepared “so that the front matter from each section could have been released immediately — or very quickly,” the official said. “It was done in a way that minimum redactions, if any, would have been necessary, and the work would have spoken for itself.”

Mueller’s team assumed the information was going to be made available to the public, the official said, “and so they prepared their summaries to be shared in their own words — and not in the attorney general’s summary of their work, as turned out to be the case.”

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined to comment. A spokesman for the special counsel did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Attorneys for the president did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the wake of the limited information released by Barr, Trump declared that the Mueller report provided him with “complete and total exoneration.” He has repeatedly called for an inquiry into how the investigation began in the first place.

“There was no collusion with Russia,” Trump said. “There was no obstruction.”

During nearly two years of work, Mueller’s team — which included 19 lawyers and roughly 40 FBI agents, analysts and other professional staff — worked in near silence, speaking only rarely, through public documents filed in court. The fact that some have been confiding in recent days to associates is a sign of the level of their distress.

Some members of Mueller’s team appear caught off guard by how thoroughly the president has used Barr’s letter to claim total victory, as the limited information about their work has been weaponized in the country’s highly polarized political environment, according to people familiar with their responses.]]></description>
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    <title>Nato chief Stoltenberg reaffirms bond in US Congress address</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T02:59:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47805786</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Nato Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, has marked the alliance's 70th anniversary with a rare address to the US Congress.

"Nato has been good for Europe but Nato has also been good for the United States," the former Norwegian prime minister said to applause.

He said that Nato did not want a new Cold War but it "must not be naive" about relations with Russia.]]></description>
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    <title>US warns Turkey over Russian S-400 missile system deal - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T02:45:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47809827</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[US Vice-President Mike Pence has warned Turkey against buying a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system that Washington sees as a threat to US jets.

He said Turkey "must choose" between remaining a key Nato member or risk the security of that partnership "by making such reckless decisions".

Turkey responded that the purchase of the advanced system was a done deal.

Ankara has been establishing closer links with Russia after recent souring of its ties with the US and Europe.]]></description>
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    <title>Fed Risks Stoking Financial Bubble in Drive to Lift Inflation</title>
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    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/fed-risks-fomenting-financial-bubbles-in-zeal-to-lift-inflation</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve risks stoking the same sort of asset bubbles that Chairman Jerome Powell has linked to the last two recessions with its new-found eagerness to fan inflation.

The Fed’s surprise pivot away from any interest rate increases this year has boosted prices of stocks, high yield bonds and other risky assets in spite of nagging investor concerns about slowing global economic growth. Financial conditions, at least as measured by the Chicago Fed, are at their easiest since 1994. And they could well get looser.]]></description>
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    <title>Malware Arrest Exposes Security Gaps at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T02:16:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/mar-a-lago-chinese-malware.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The arrest of a Chinese woman who carried a malware-laced device into Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s Florida resort, has exposed porous security at the private club and escalating tensions between Secret Service agents and the resort’s staff members, who vet guest lists and allow people onto the sprawling grounds.

At times neither side has had full clarity on who was entering Mar-a-Lago. Secret Service agents must rely on club receptionists and other employees to crosscheck visitors, former officials said.

Communication breakdowns allow for security breaches — like the one that happened on Saturday, with Mr. Trump in residence, when the woman, Yujing Zhang, 32, was arrested with four cellphones, a hard drive, a laptop and a malware-infected thumb drive. She said she was there to attend a “United Nations Friendship Event” that had never been scheduled at the resort.

Her arrest revealed gaps in Mr. Trump’s security and also the challenge of protecting a president who spends less time at the remote, fortified Camp David and more time at his busy resort with sometimes hundreds of guests. The normally tight-lipped Secret Service was so disturbed by the breach that it issued an unusual statement that effectively blamed the Mar-a-Lago staff for not tightly tracking the comings and goings of guests at the club.]]></description>
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    <title>New book details Trump’s topsy-turvy relationship with Congress</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T01:03:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-book-details-trumps-topsy-turvy-relationship-with-congress/2019/04/03/fe0725b0-54a8-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During a Republican retreat at Camp David last year, President Trump seemed particularly enthralled as Gary Cohn, then his chief economic adviser, delivered a briefing on infrastructure. The president impressed the assembled lawmakers with his apparent interest in the presentation, nodding along and scribbling furious notes.

But Trump’s notes “had nothing to do with infrastructure,” journalists Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer write in their new book, “The Hill to Die On.”

Instead, Trump had scrawled “Sloppy Steve” atop his index card, followed by “copious notes” criticizing Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist whom he had fired several months earlier.

“As Cohn had detailed his plans to rebuild America’s roads, the president was writing down how he wanted to trash Steve Bannon the next time someone asked him about it,” the authors write, in one of buzzy scenes that pepper the book.

The 399-page tome — written by two longtime congressional reporters at Politico who also anchor the publication’s flagship newsletter, “Politico Playbook” — chronicles Congress in the age of Trump, largely beginning on Election Day 2016 and stretching through the end of 2018. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the book, which is scheduled to be released Tuesday.

According to a foreword, “A Hill to Die On” is the result of about 26 months of reporting, as well as interviews with White House aides and the president. The authors also write that they were reporting their book “contemporaneously with the daily news cycle” — and thus some scenes and details have already “appeared in news stories in Politico, The Washington Post, the New York Times, and elsewhere.”]]></description>
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    <title>House Democrat Demands Six Years of Trump Tax Returns From I.R.S.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-03T22:45:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/mueller-report-subpoena-house.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, using a little-known provision in the federal tax code, formally requested on Wednesday that the I.R.S. hand over six years of President Trump’s personal and business tax returns, starting what is likely to be a momentous fight with his administration.

Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, hand-delivered a two-page letter laying out the request to Charles P. Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, ending months of speculation about when he would do so and almost certainly prompting a legal challenge from the Trump administration.]]></description>
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    <title>Conservatives Say Students Censored Border Patrol. Now the University of Arizona Will Charge Them for Protesting.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-03T00:45:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/university-of-arizona-could-jail-students-for-protesting-border-patrol</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Law enforcement at the University of Arizona said they plan to charge two students for protesting Border Patrol agents’ presence on campus last month. In a statement announcing the charges, the university’s president accused the students of infringing on “free speech” rights.

The March 20 incident was tailor-made for right-wing outrage. A viral video shows a University of Arizona student standing outside a classroom and criticizing two Border Patrol agents who had come to give a presentation to the school’s Criminal Justice club. A young woman calls the officers “an extension of the KKK” and cites the agency’s destruction of water bottles left for migrants in the desert. Conservative outlets and a border patrol union blasted the students involved for apparently censoring the agents.

Their hand-wringing about students going “berserk” and “harassing” Border Patrol are part of a larger right-wing narrative about the supposed death of free speech at the hands of leftist students. But the student activists, not the federal agents the students shouted down, are the ones facing punishment for their speech. The university’s police force plans to charge two unidentified students with “interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution,” for which they face up to six months behind bars.

The University of Arizona did not return a request for comment. In a March 29 email to students, university president Robert Robbins described what he characterized as “a dramatic departure from our expectations of respectful behavior and support for free speech on this campus.”

Video shows one student criticizing Border Patrol agents through an open door of a classroom where the agents were speaking to the Criminal Justice club. She does not appear to enter the classroom, and two members of the club appear to call the police on her. ]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Pompeo’s new spokeswoman bridges the GOP establishment and Trump world</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T23:50:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/02/pompeos-new-spokesperson-bridges-gop-establishment-trump-world/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The challenge for any national security official in the Trump administration is how to merge traditional Republican foreign policy ideals with the "America First" mantra of President Trump and his campaign. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo understands this better than most; that’s likely why he chose a new spokeswoman who has managed to succeed in both worlds at once.

Many will recognize Morgan Ortagus from her recent appearances on Fox News, where she has been a frequent guest for more than a year and a paid contributor for the past couple of months. But in Washington, Ortagus has been a fixture of the GOP foreign policy establishment for more than a decade. She has served as a press officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a financial intelligence officer at the Treasury Department and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. She has also worked with several political campaigns, as well as a political action committee, and has experience working on Wall Street and in foreign policy consulting.

This all constitutes a solid résumé for the position of State Department spokesperson, the job she will assume in the coming days. But what makes Ortagus even more valuable to Pompeo and the State Department are her strong connections to Trump’s inner circle and her ability to bridge the two sides of the GOP foreign policy divide.

“Pompeo is trying to find that middle ground between Reagan national security and America First,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has mentored Ortagus over the years. “What Pompeo saw in Morgan was someone who understood his worldview, shares his worldview and has the ability to communicate.”

Ortagus is close to the Trump family, especially Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, who Ortagus met through former deputy national security adviser Dina Powell. At the Munich Security Conference in February, Ortagus moderated a panel on women’s empowerment with Ivanka Trump, Graham and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.]]></description>
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    <title>Americans Borrowed $88 Billion to Pay for Health Care Last Year, Survey Finds</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T23:38:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/health/americans-health-care-debt-borrowing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Americans borrowed an estimated $88 billion over the last year to pay for health care, according to a survey released on Tuesday by Gallup and the nonprofit West Health.

The survey also found that one in four Americans have skipped treatment because of the cost, and that nearly half fear bankruptcy in the event of a health emergency.

There was a partisan divide when respondents were asked whether they believed that the American health care system is among the best in the world: Among Republicans, 67 percent of respondents said they believed so; that number was 38 percent among Democrats.

But Democrats and Republicans had similar responses about putting off medical treatment. Asked if they had deferred treatment because of the cost, 27 percent of Democrats said they had, compared with 21 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of independents.

Respondents from across the political spectrum also reported pessimism about their leaders’ abilities to reduce health care costs. About 70 percent of respondents said they had no confidence in their elected officials to bring prices down. And 77 percent said they were concerned that rising health care costs would damage the American economy.]]></description>
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    <title>Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T23:32:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/mar-a-lago-zhang-chinese-secret-service.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A 32-year-old woman from China carrying four cellphones and a thumb drive infected with malware gained access to Mar-a-Lago during President Trump’s visit to the Florida resort this weekend by saying she wanted to use the pool, federal court records show.

The woman, identified as Yujing Zhang, was admitted by Secret Service agents stationed outside the resort after the Mar-a-Lago security manager on duty verified that her last name matched the surname of a member of the club, according to a complaint filed in federal district court in Florida.

When asked if she was the member’s daughter, “she did not give a definitive answer,” the complaint said. It said she was allowed to enter and was escorted to the front desk in a valet-driven golf cart.

Ms. Zhang told the authorities that she had flown in from Shanghai to attend a United Nations Friendship event, but no such event existed, the complaint said. When the authorities searched her belongings, they found that she was carrying four cellphones, a hard drive, a laptop and a thumb drive that was found to be infected with malware.]]></description>
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    <title>Impasse Over Aid for Puerto Rico Stalls Billions in Federal Disaster Relief</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T22:12:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/politics/puerto-rico-aid.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Senate on Monday blocked billions of dollars in disaster aid for states across the country as Republicans and Democrats clashed over President Trump’s opposition to sending more food and infrastructure help to Puerto Rico.

Opposition came from both parties for different reasons. Most Republicans refused to endorse a recovery bill passed this year by the House. They cited Mr. Trump’s opposition to the bill’s Puerto Rico funding, as well as their own concerns that the bill lacked money for Midwestern states, like Iowa and Nebraska, that have since been devastated by flooding and tornadoes.

For their part, Democrats balked at a separate measure drafted by Senate Republicans that included the money for the Midwest, arguing that a proposed $600 million in nutritional assistance for Puerto Rico was not enough. The Republican legislation had no chance in the House.

The votes on both measures were procedural and needed support from 60 senators to advance to a full floor vote. Neither won the support required. It was unclear late Monday how lawmakers would overcome that impasse and end the delay in disbursing the disaster aid.

The effort begins anew on Tuesday, when Senate Democrats will propose a measure that would allocate billions of dollars that would help Iowa and Nebraska, as well as Puerto Rico, according to a Senate Democratic aide.

Mr. Trump has been pressuring Democrats to support a disaster relief measure that does not include the money they want for Puerto Rico, and he went on the attack late Monday on Twitter.]]></description>
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    <title>Administration scrambles to respond to migrant surge — but no signs of Trump’s threatened border closing</title>
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    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/administration-scrambles-to-respond-to-migrant-surge--but-no-signs-of-trumps-threatened-border-closing/2019/04/01/2611608c-548d-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Theresa C. Brown, a former DHS policy official in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, called the situation unprecedented, given the record number of Central American families that have crossed the border in recent months. She noted that border port closings after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks caused widespread harm to the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Brown called Trump’s threats a “double-edged sword.”

“It may have an impact on Mexico, and whether that would get them to do what Trump wants is a diplomatic question,” she said. “But it will also have an economic impact on the United States. So the question is, are you hurting Mexico more and in a way that is sufficient to get them to act? I’m generally not a believer in the sticks over carrots approach.”

Nielsen also ordered CBP to immediately expand Migrant Protection Protocols, a new policy that returns asylum seekers to Mexico to await immigration court hearings in the United States. Three weeks ago, officials said they had sent 240 migrants back to Mexico since January, but on Monday, Nielsen ordered them to return hundreds each day — a labor-intensive effort because, under the policy, officials must interview migrants, provide them with an immigration court date and work with Mexico to return them across the border.

Trump has called on Mexico to halt the flow of Central Americans traveling to the United States border. He also threatened to cut foreign aid to the migrants’ homelands in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, for allegedly failing to stop them from leaving — although experts said that could backfire because the economic and security situations in those countries could deteriorate and spark more mass migration without the aid money.

CBP Commissioner Kevin ­McAleenan said last week that the U.S. immigration system is overwhelmed, with thousands of families and unaccompanied minors surrendering at the border daily, packing holding cells, immigration jails and shelters. Most are funneled into an immigration court system already saddled with an 820,000-case backlog.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Celebrates Criminal Justice Overhaul, but His Budget Barely Funds It</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T22:45:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/politics/first-step-act-donald-trump.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Despite the high-profile party and round tables — and the White House releasing a presidential proclamation declaring April “second chance month” — Mr. Trump’s budget, released last month, listed only $14 million to pay for the First Step Act’s programs. The law passed in December specifically asked for $75 million a year for five years, beginning in 2019. The funding gap was first reported by The Marshall Project.

Advocates participating in the events at the White House on Monday said they were hoping that officials would publicly address questions about funding the program.

“The answer is a resounding yes. We’re fully committed to doing that,” said Ja’Ron Smith, a White House adviser who has worked extensively on the First Step Act implementation, referring to the funding.

In a budget justification document, the Bureau of Prisons, which operates under the Justice Department, said that it had not concluded how much money would be required to put the First Step Act into effect. But it goes on to say that fulfilling the law is a “priority” and that the Bureau of Prisons’ budget for re-entry activities “will be prioritized to fully fund the requirements of the act.” The document also noted that the prison bureau plans to dedicate $147 million in the 2020 fiscal year to First Step Act-related activities, which includes the cost of expanding halfway housing, the cost to relocate people and $85 million for the Second Chance Act grant program, which aids states and nonprofits in reducing recidivism.

Despite the assurances that the changes remain a budget priority, questions about funding have advocates on the issue concerned.]]></description>
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    <title>U.S. Retail Sales Unexpectedly Decline on Building Materials</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T21:13:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/u-s-retail-sales-unexpectedly-fall-prior-reading-revised-up</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seven of 13 major retail categories showed declines, led by a 4.4 percent drop in building materials and garden supply stores that was the steepest since April 2012. Food and beverage stores posted a 1.2 percent drop, the most in a decade.

Economists including Capital Economics’ Andrew Hunter said weather likely played an outsize role in February sales. There was record rainfall in parts of the Southeast, major winter storms in the North, including record snowfall and cold temperatures in the Northwest.]]></description>
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    <title>White House Insists That Trump Really Is Dumb Enough to Close the Border</title>
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Or, so one might think. The White House, for its part, insists that this is a far too generous interpretation of Trump’s actions — and that he is genuinely enough of a moron to use his own feet as target practice.

“It certainly isn’t a bluff,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said of Trump’s border closure plan on Fox News Sunday morning. “You can take the president seriously.” White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney echoed on ABC’s This Week, saying that it would take “something dramatic” to change his boss’s plans. “The president will do everything he can” to end the “humanitarian crisis” at our border, Mulvaney explained. “If closing the ports of entry means that, that’s exactly what he intends to do. We need border security and we’re going to do the best we can with what we have.”

It’s tempting to see this as another layer of kayfabe. And if you had to put money on whether Trump will go through with these plans, you’d probably bet against it. Or at least, that’s what you would do if you were the typical Wall Street investor; despite Trump’s emphatic promises to commit economic self-sabotage, major indexes were up sharply in early trading Monday.

But it’s worth remembering that we aren’t in John Kelly’s White House anymore. The “adults” (such as they were) have been evicted from the room. The president is no longer intimidated by the awesome powers of his office, and has been wielding them with blithe recklessness for some time now. Earlier this year, the president learned that he could shut down the federal government for over a month — and gain no policy concessions from the exercise — and see his approval rating quickly return to its long-run average. In recent weeks, Trump nullified the bedrock, postwar norm against recognizing the sovereignty of a conquering power over land acquired through invasion (thereby eviscerating his government’s rationale for opposing Putin’s annexation of Crimea). And, of course, the president is pushing forward with his efforts to unilaterally fund his border wall through an emergency declaration. For better or worse, in April 2019, “Trump would never do this because it would be stupid and self-defeating” isn’t a very persuasive argument.]]></description>
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    <title>China Bans All Types of Fentanyl, Fulfilling Pledge to Trump</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T16:54:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/world/asia/china-bans-fentanyl-trump.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[China announced on Monday that it would treat all variants of the powerful opioid fentanyl as controlled substances, making good on a pledge the country’s leader, President Xi Jinping, made to President Trump late last year.

China’s export of the drug, a family of synthetic opioids blamed for tens of thousands of overdoses in the United States, has long been a source of tension in relations and has, more recently, become tangled up in the ongoing trade war.

China already treats more than two dozen variants of fentanyl and its precursors as controlled substances, thus strictly regulating their production and distribution, but it has banned those variants only after reviewing them case by case, a process that can be lengthy.

The latest step would expand restrictions to all “fentanyl-related substances,” effective May 1. That could plug gaps that, experts and American officials have said, allowed manufacturers in China to make novel variations of the drug that were not technically illegal.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Administration Defends Plan to Close the Border, Telling Democrats, ‘We Told You So’</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T16:44:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/us/politics/trump-mulvaney-border-close-mexico.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, defended President Trump’s threat to end assistance to three Central American countries and to close parts of the United States border with Mexico next week, saying on Sunday that it would take “something dramatic” to prevent Mr. Trump from carrying out that plan.

“Why are we talking about closing the border?” Mr. Mulvaney said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “Not to try and undo what’s happening, but simply to say, ‘look we need the people from the ports of entry to go out and patrol in the desert where we don’t have a wall.’”]]></description>
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    <title>Migrants Moved Out of Holding Pen Under El Paso Bridge</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T16:41:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/us/el-paso-bridge-migrants.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Federal immigration officials appear to have cleared out an enclosure under a bridge in El Paso where they were detaining hundreds of families of asylum seekers, following an outcry over the conditions at the site.

The site was empty on Sunday morning, and images of the location circulated by journalists showed it empty of migrant families. It was not immediately clear where the families who were held at the site were transferred, or whether the enclosure under the bridge would be used again.

A spokesman for the Border Patrol said he would respond to requests for comment when possible.

Authorities with Customs and Border Protection had contended last week that they had no choice but to hold the migrants in the enclosure, surrounded by fencing and razor wire, because of overcrowding at processing facilities in El Paso brought on by a surge in Central American migrants applying for asylum.

Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, addressed journalists last Wednesday near the enclosure when he claimed that the country’s immigration enforcement system was at a “breaking point.”

Criticism over the bridge enclosure had been building all week, with reports of children sleeping on trash-strewn gravel at the site under the Paso del Norte bridge. Some migrant families stayed inside a military tent set up at the site; others remained outside even as nighttime temperatures dipped into the 40s.

The American Civil Liberties Union said on Sunday that the detention of migrants in outdoor pens was “an unprecedented and extreme violation.”

Citing interviews with families held under the bridge, the A.C.L.U. said it had received reports that agents had verbally and physically harmed migrants, forced them to stand for prolonged periods and deprived them of sleep and access to medical care, and had failed to provide the migrants with adequate food and water.

Some families were detained under the bridge for as long as four days, the A.C.L.U. said, adding that families with infant children were told to sleep on the ground and were not provided with any bedding, mats or chairs.]]></description>
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    <title>Democrats Might Not Get Their Hands On Trump's Taxes Before November 2020</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T04:03:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) can ask for copies of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns whenever he wants, but Neal is in no hurry and seemingly doesn’t care if Democrats don’t get the documents before the next election.

Though the law is clear that the treasury secretary is supposed to hand over any returns requested by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has all but said he’ll disobey the law ― meaning there will be a court fight.

“I can’t substitute my timetable for the federal courts’,” said Neal, chairman of Ways and Means, when asked if he thought the case could be wrapped up by Election Day. “I’ve been very careful not to presuppose a timeline.”

Democrats said they’d make the request for Trump’s returns after regaining control of the House of Representatives, but they’ve waited nearly three months to follow through. Neal has said only that he will make the request sometime this year, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has backed his cautious approach.

Nobody knows how long a court case could take, though congressional Democrats generally say they figure it will take months if not a year. But there’s never been such a case before.

Neal can request any American’s tax info thanks to a specific section of the tax code that grants that power to the chairs of congressional tax committees. George Yin, a tax expert at the University of Virginia School of Law, said he is unaware of any instance of a treasury secretary refusing to comply with a request under the law, which Congress has rarely used since it was enacted in 1924. ]]></description>
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    <title>Arkansas Principal Shares Image on Facebook Saying “Kick Islam Out of America” | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T22:33:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/31/arkansas-principal-shares-image-on-facebook-saying-kick-islam-out-of-america/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
Arkansas Principal Shares Image on Facebook Saying “Kick Islam Out of America”
By Hemant Mehta
March 31, 2019

Last Sunday night, Mark Jelks, the principal of White Hall High School in Arkansas, shared an anti-Muslim image on Facebook. The post said “Kick Islam out of America” with a silhouette of a man kicking a star and crescent.]]></description>
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    <title>New Orleans mayor to apologise for 1891 lynching of Italian-Americans - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T22:31:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47767421</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The city of New Orleans has announced it will apologise for the lynching of 11 Italian-Americans in 1891.

Some of the victims had been accused of murdering a police chief, but were acquitted after a trial.

Angry about the verdict, a mob of racist vigilantes in the city attacked and publicly hanged them.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell is due to apologise for the killing - believed to be the largest recorded lynching in US history - on 12 April.]]></description>
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    <title>Nominee For No. 3 At Justice Department Withdraws After Backlash From GOP Senators</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T01:06:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.npr.org/2019/03/29/707938914/nominee-for-no-3-at-justice-department-withdraws-after-backlash-from-gop-senator</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump's pick to serve as third in command at the Justice Department, overseeing health care and immigration cases, withdrew her name from consideration Thursday evening amid backlash from conservative lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Jessie Liu leads more than 300 prosecutors as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., the nation's largest such office. As an Asian-American woman, she would have added a measure of diversity to the Justice Department's senior ranks — as well as serious prosecution chops. The Justice Department said Liu will remain in her current post and advise Attorney General William Barr as the head of a committee of other top federal prosecutors.

Two sources told NPR that the attorney general got into a "shouting match" with Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, a key figure in opposing Liu's bid. A spokeswoman for Barr declined comment on the heated conversation with a lawmaker from his own political party. For his part, Barr issued a statement filled with praise for Liu and insisting, "We will all benefit from her universally-regarded expertise and dedication to public service" in her role as an adviser to him.

Four lawyers familiar with the matter said the stumbling block for Liu was a broader concern about her conservatism — specifically, her stance on women's reproductive rights. Interest groups had begun drafting letters to senators about their fears that Liu would not support restrictions on abortion. Another key factor: Earlier in her career, Liu had an affiliation with the National Association of Women Lawyers, which sent a letter opposing the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. ]]></description>
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    <title>With social program fights, some Republicans fear being seen as the party of the 1 percent</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T01:03:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-social-program-fights-some-republicans-fear-being-seen-as-the-party-of-the-1-percent/2019/03/29/9cfc3232-516b-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump boasted this week that the Republican Party will soon be known as “the party of great health care.”

But a growing number of Republicans fear that it risks being tagged as the party of the 1 percent instead — handing Democrats a potent political message as the GOP pushes to gut former president Barack Obama’s health-care law and other popular federal programs, including those that help the poor and people with disabilities.

A spate of policy moves in recent weeks by Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials has driven the party’s agenda hard to the right, giving new fodder to Democratic presidential candidates eager to shift the national debate to such issues as health care and jobs ahead of the 2020 election.

The administration’s budget released this month, for example, includes massive rollbacks of programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance, as well as cuts to the Special Olympics, Meals on Wheels, and programs related to autism and other developmental disabilities.

Trump signaled his misgivings about some of those cuts in recent days — rescinding a proposal to zero out Special Olympics funding, which had sparked a bipartisan backlash, and promising to protect a cleanup program for the Great Lakes in states that could be crucial to his reelection.

Democrats said the broad efforts by Trump and Republicans to attack programs that aid lower-income and working-class Americans could help blunt the president’s populist appeal and provide voters with more reasons to consider supporting Democratic candidates. The debate bears echoes of Obama’s successful reelection effort in 2012, when Democrats attacked now-Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) as an out-of-touch GOP nominee beholden to the wealthiest Americans. ]]></description>
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    <title>Axios AM - March 29, 2019 - Axios</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T00:52:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-ccadb2d1-18ab-4678-b811-d5c89834c525.html?stream=top</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After 24 hours of brutal coverage of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' defense of scrapping funding for the Special Olympics, President Trump stepped in to claim he was saving a program his own budget had threatened, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.

    "I heard about it this morning," Trump told reporters as he left the White House. "I have overridden my people. We're funding the Special Olympics."

It was a bad look for DeVos, but standard operating procedure for Trump.

    It's a reminder of why his team can never feel safe: He loves to put aides in their place.
    And it's why at home and abroad, no one is really sure that anyone besides Trump — even a Cabinet member — is speaking for the administration.

Administration officials past and present have told us that Trump savors news coverage that shows him acting unilaterally.

    Even — one source said especially — when it involved like overriding members of his own administration. ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s threats to close the US-Mexico border, explained</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-29T23:57:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/29/18287101/trump-close-border-us-mexico-tweets</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shutting down ports of entry would be an economic disaster. It would also disrupt the lives of border communities that rely on the flow of people between the US and Mexico — including the major cities of San Diego (and Tijuana) and El Paso (and Ciudad Juarez).

Approximately $1.5 billion worth of commerce happens along the US-Mexico border every day. Nearly half a million people cross the border legally every day through Texas ports alone.

Even reductions in port capacity or temporary shutdowns tend to lead to panic among the business community and local residents. El Paso is currently concerned that already-long waits at the ports could get longer as agents are reassigned to care for unauthorized migrants. When the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego shut down for a few hours in November, as agents responded with force (including tear gas) to an organized march of asylum-seekers, the temporary closure cost about $5.3 million in lost business revenue.

Of course, making it harder for people to cross legally generally only encourages people to cross illegally — something that’s already been seen as the US has limited the number of asylum-seekers it allows to present themselves at ports.

Trump’s Friday tweets actually tacitly acknowledge that drug smuggling is more likely to happen at ports than between them — something he generally explicitly lies about. But drug smugglers are less likely than, say, banana exporters to just throw up their hands if a port is shut down, rather than finding other illegal ways to get drugs into the US.

Every time Trump tweets something like this, border-state legislators and business associations react with alarm. Generally, DHS officials stress that they understand the importance of keeping the ports open. But Trump by all appearances does not.

It’s not that “shutting down the border” is the administration’s only proposed solution — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote a letter to Congress on Thursday asking for changes to the law regarding family detention and child deportation, and predicting that they would need more funding. But it’s the idea Trump himself can’t let go of. And now, for the first time — if for completely different reasons — there is an actual prospect that the administration will do something that looks vaguely similar to Trump’s threats.
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    <title>Grand Canyon: Tourist plunges to his death taking photos</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-29T23:14:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47750685</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The body of a Hong Kong man who plunged to his death while taking photos at the Grand Canyon has been recovered.

The man, who was part of a tour group, fell at Eagle Point near the Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped glass bridge that juts out from the canyon wall.

A helicopter was sent to retrieve the body 1,000ft (305m) below the rim.

About a dozen people are reported to die every year at the attraction, two or three from falls over the edge. ]]></description>
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