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March 20, 2019
Deadly Midwestern US floods threaten to spill south as Nebraska cleans up
VALLEY, Nebraska — Nebraskans struggled on Wednesday to clear the wreckage left by deadly floods that caused an estimated $1 billion in damage, while emergency officials farther south kept a wary eye on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers as the disaster threatened to spread.Floodwaters resulting from a late-winter storm last week and warming spring weather that melted snow quickly this week inundated a large swath of Midwestern farm states Missouri, ...
March 20, 2019
UN rights boss decries Venezuela crackdown; says sanctions may worsen
GENEVA — Venezuelan security forces, backed by pro-government militias, have quashed peaceful protests with excessive use of force, killings and torture, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.The country was plunged into a political crisis in January when Juan Guaido, head of the opposition-controlled congress, invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing Nicolas Maduro’s 2018 re-election was not legitimate.Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council that ...
March 19, 2019
US lawmaker sues Twitter, alleging anti-conservative bias
WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman is suing Twitter claiming the online platform discriminates against conservatives by hiding their messages, and for allowing “abusive, hateful and defamatory” content about the lawmaker.The complaint was filed by Representative Devin Nunes, an ally of President Donald Trump, in a Virginia state court, and released online by Fox News. It seeks $250 million in damages.Nunes alleges that Twitter “shadow bans” conservatives — purportedly making their ...
March 19, 2019
US Supreme Court gives Trump victory on immigration detention
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed the US government’s authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime — potentially even years — after they have completed prison terms for criminal convictions, handing President Donald Trump a victory as he pursues hardline immigration policies.The court ruled 5-4, with its conservative justices in the majority and its liberal justices dissenting, that federal authorities could pick up such immigrants and place them ...
March 19, 2019
Pence to survey damage after deadly flood hits US Midwest
WASHINGTON — At least one person was missing on Monday after devastating floods across the US Midwest that killed three others and inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in what Nebraska’s governor called a disaster of historic proportions.As floodwaters began to recede in much of the area inundated by the aftermath of a storm dubbed a “bomb cyclone,” Nebraska officials were taking in the damage in a state ...
March 19, 2019
In US presidential race, how old is too old?
WASHINGTON — With a septuagenarian president preparing his re-election bid, and two likely main challengers in their late seventies by 2020, Americans are facing an inevitable question: does age matter in White House politics?Donald Trump, the oldest person ever elected US president, will be 74 on Inauguration Day 2021.Two likely contenders for the Democratic nomination who lead early polls, Senator Bernie Sanders and former vice president Joe Biden, will be ...
March 18, 2019
Parts of US Midwest mired in deadly and historic flooding
CHICAGO, Illinois — The US Midwest struggled on Monday with historic flooding that claimed at least two lives, displaced residents, and damaged hundreds of homes and businesses.Rising waters impacted much of Nebraska, as well as parts of Iowa and Wisconsin. All were under states of emergency after a major storm last week dumped snow and rain, even as melting snow was already raising the levels of area waterways.Neighboring states could ...
March 18, 2019
Iranians held in Argentina had 4 forged passports
Buenos Aires — An Iranian couple arrested in Argentina last week had four forged Israeli passports with them, and switched hotels three times in 24 hours.The two — Sajad Samiel Nasran, 27, and Masura Sabazali, 30 — are being interrogated on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity.The two arrived from Spain to Argentina on an Air Europe flight. Their passports identified them as Netanel and Rivka Toledano, which aroused airport ...
March 18, 2019
2020 hopeful Beto O’Rourke rakes in record $6.1 million on Day 1
WASHINGTON — Democrat Beto O’Rourke raised more than $6.1 million in the first day after declaring his candidacy for his party’s 2020 presidential nomination last week, his campaign said on Monday, highlighting his fundraising prowess in a crowded field.His fundraising puts him at the top of a Democratic pack of more than a dozen candidates including Bernie Sanders, the independent US senator who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party’s nomination in ...
March 18, 2019
Boeing 737 crashes put US aviation regulator in a spot
NEW YORK — Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX?That’s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded data showed “clear similarities” between last week’s Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of Indonesia’s Lion Air five months earlier.In service since May 2017, the 737 MAX 8, one of several variants of the 737 MAX, has now experienced two deadly tragedies, a scenario ...
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