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US diplomat in charge of refugee issues quits amid Trump shakeup | US news | The Guardian - 1 views

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  • Simon Henshaw, the acting assistant secretary of the state department’s bureau of population, refugees and migration, told colleagues in the refugee sector in an e-mail seen by Reuters that he will be leaving the bureau at the end of next week.
  • The bureau will be run from 22 January onward by Carol O’Connell, the deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, according to her state department biography
  • Earlier this month, Barbara Strack, chief of the refugee affairs division at U.S. citizenship and immigration services said she would retire in January.
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'We will survive Mr Trump': Haitian Americans reject Oval Office slur | US news | The G... - 0 views

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  • Rony Ponthieux hasn’t had too much time to be angry about Donald Trump calling Haiti a “shithole”. As a nurse working the night shift at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, he’s too busy saving lives.
  • Monestime, 54, has similarly pledged himself to paying back a debt of gratitude he says he owes a country that provided opportunities unimaginable in Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.
  • Rony Ponthieux Marleine Bastien is executive director of the advocacy group Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women of Miami). She said: “To hear a US president who purports to be a model and leader for us to use language like that to describe our nation is cruel and beyond understanding. “In the war of independence our ancestors fought and died for America, we’ve
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Why 'Medicare for All' Will Sink the Democrats - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Repeal-and-replace may be done for now, but for Senator Bernie Sanders, the war is just beginning — and it has already become a fracas that is dividing the Democratic Party, to its detriment.
  • As a centrist Democrat, I’m scared to see my party pulled into positions that are both bad politics and dubious policy. And I’m disappointed that few of our party’s moderates are willing to resist the freight train coming at us from the left.
  • when factors like whether taxes would be raised or the Affordable Care Act would be repealed are introduced, the consensus swings to opposition.
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Trump's Fed Finalists Offer a Clear Choice: Status Quo or Significant Change - The New ... - 0 views

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  • The two men that President Trump is considering as replacements for Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen of the Federal Reserve have sharply different views on monetary policy, offering a stark test of Mr. Trump’s economic priorities.
  • Mr. Powell, who joined the Fed in 2012, has generally supported the Fed’s expansive efforts to stimulate growth.
  • But some Republicans in Congress and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, want to overhaul the central bank, beginning right at the top.
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Senate Approves $36.5 Billion Aid Package as Hurricane Costs Mount - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • As the costs of this year’s hurricanes continue to rise, the Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to a $36.5 billion disaster relief package that includes a bailout of the financially troubled National Flood Insurance Program.
  • In addition to providing hurricane and wildfire funding, it would help Puerto Rico’s government avoid running out of cash in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
  • The measure approved on Tuesday is intended in part to prop up the National Flood Insurance Program, which is facing an influx of claims from this year’s hurricanes
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Jeff Flake, a Fierce Trump Critic, Will Not Seek Re-election for Senate - The New York ... - 0 views

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  • Senator Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican who has tangled with President Trump for months, announced on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election in 2018
  • The announcement appeared to signal a moment of decision for the Republican Party. Last week, Senator John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, spoke in Philadelphia, denouncing the “half-baked, spurious nationalism” that he saw overtaking American politics
  • Those positions stood in marked contrast to Mr. Trump’s inward-looking, anti-immigration nationalism.
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'We're walking down a dark path': Biden hammers Trump in scathing speech | US news | Th... - 0 views

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  • Joe Biden, the former US vice-president, has taken off the gloves with a scathing denunciation of Donald Trump and the existential threat he poses to the postwar international order.
  • he said: “The appeal to populism and nationalism is a siren song, a way for charlatans to aggrandise their power, raise themselves up, break down those mechanisms that were designed, whether in our constitution or internationally, to limit the abuse of power, and destabilise the world.
  • Biden pointed and chided: “No, you think I’m kidding. It’s irresponsible. It’s this brand of zero-sum thinking that I find the most disturbing and dangerous.”
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Trump EPA plan will roll back Obama standards on power plant emissions | Environment | ... - 0 views

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  • The Trump administration is moving to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s attempt to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
  • The new EPA proposal would make good on Trump’s campaign pledge to unravel Obama’s efforts to curb global warming and follows the president’s promise to pull the US out of the landmark Paris climate agreemen
  • Repealing the Clean Power Plan without a timeline or a commitment to propose a rule to reduce carbon pollution “isn’t a step forward, it’s a wholesale retreat from EPA’s legal, scientific and moral obligation to address the threats of climate change”, said former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy.
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Trump says 'only one thing will work' with nuclear-armed North Korea | World news | The... - 0 views

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  • Donald Trump on Saturday said “only one thing will work” in dealing with North Korea, after previous administrations had talked to Pyongyang without results.
  • Trump did not make clear to what he was referring. Amid rising tension and exchanges of insults with the nuclear-armed regime of Kim Jong-un, Trump has previously said the US will destroy North Korea if necessary to protect itself and its allies.
  • Asked to clarify his cryptic “calm before the storm” remark earlier this week, which was made to reporters ushered into a dinner with military leaders, he said: “Nothing to clarify.”
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'Monsters out there every day': NRA refuses to contemplate major gun control | US news ... - 0 views

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  • The National Rifle Association chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, said on Sunday bump stocks, novelty devices that may have been used in the Las Vegas shooting, “fuzz the line” between semi-automatic and fully automatic weapons.
  • Gun control advocates in Congress continued to push for broader gun restrictions, saying that even if tougher laws might not have stopped the Las Vegas shooting, they would have an impact on the more than 80 Americans killed in gun suicides and homicides every single day.
  • “You have to go beyond simply clarifying Americans shouldn’t have automatic weapons in this country,” said Chris Murphy, a Connecticut senator who represents the town where 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012.
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Trump digital director says Facebook helped win the White House | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views

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  • The Trump presidential campaign spent most of its digital advertising budget on Facebook, testing more than 50,000 ad variations each day in an attempt to micro-target voter
  • “Campaigns aren’t able to hand-pick Facebook team members to work on their projects,” the statement read, in apparent reference to Parscale’s claim
  • “I started making ads that showed the bridge crumbling,” he said. “I can find the 1,500 people in one town that care about infrastructure. Now, that might be a voter that normally votes Democrat.”
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Fightback begins over Trump's 'illegal and irresponsible' clean power repeal | Environm... - 0 views

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  • The US is set for a fresh battle over climate change after the Trump administration moved to tear up the country’s primary policy to lower emissions and stave off dangerous global warming.
  • The move has provoked a furious reaction from states, businesses and environmental groups that warn that the world’s second-largest carbon polluter is risking its population’s health and the future livability of parts of the planet.
  • Several large companies have stated their support for the Clean Power Plan
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Trump to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen as homeland security secretary | US news | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • The White House said on Wednesday that Donald Trump would nominate Kirstjen Nielsen to serve as his next secretary of homeland security.
  • The White House said Nielsen, who worked for the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) under George W Bush, had “extensive professional experience in the areas of homeland security policy and strategy, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and emergency management”.
  • While that approach has earned its detractors in the White House, aides said Nielsen was known for a no-nonsense approach to the job that will probably serve her well in the Senate confirmation process.
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Donald Trump's Twitter use is a risk to global security, Hillary Clinton says | US news... - 0 views

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  • Donald Trump’s Twitter account represents a “clear and present danger” to world security, Hillary Clinton has argued.
  • “I think he is, because he is impulsive, he lacks self-control, he is totally consumed by how he is viewed and what people think of him,” she said.
  • She alleged that Assange cooperated with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to disrupt the US election and damage her campaign for president.
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Senators reach bipartisan deal to salvage Obamacare subsidies Trump eliminated | US new... - 0 views

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  • Senators have moved to salvage Obamacare following Donald Trump’s decision last week to scrap critical subsidies that underpin the health law.
  • The president – who last week announced he was ending the subsidies to insurance companies while claiming the ACA was “imploding” – said he approved of the plan and that the White House had been involved in the negotiations.
  • Democrats have accused him of scrapping them to “sabotage” Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law following repeated failed attempts by Republicans to repeal it, and the president’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has praised him because the decision is “gonna blow that thing [Obamacare] up”.
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After Charlottesville, white nationalist's campus event fuels free speech debate | US n... - 0 views

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  • Students at the University of Florida, where a white nationalist leader will speak on Thursday, are facing a difficult choice. They could listen to Richard Spencer, who wants to form a “white ethno-state” in North America, a
  • ddress the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that left dozens of counter-protesters seriously injured and one young woman dead. Th
  • ey could protest as part of the “No Nazis at University of Florida” rally, which more than 2,000 people on Facebook say they plan to attend. Or they could go to Disney World.
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  • Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, has already declared a state of emergency in the county where the school is located, giving local law enforcement more resources and latitude to respond to unfolding events
  • In April, Auburn University in Alabama attempted to shut down Spencer’s visit to its campus over concerns that it would endanger public safety
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Puerto Rico mayor: ​for US response to crisis Trump deserves 'a 10' - out of ... - 0 views

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  • Trump has faced consistent criticism for his response to the crisis, including from Cruz, who accused the administration of not doing enough.
  • Cruz added: “I think the president lives in an alternative reality world, that only he believes the things he is saying. But certainly people are still without electricity. We knew it was going to take a long time for that to happen. But the basic services are still not there yet, and there doesn’t seem to be any [sign] of how it’s supposed to go.”
  • Cruz said: “Listen, people have different styles and different ways of doing things. I’m always looking injustice in the face. Of course the response got here, but was it enough? No. And people from this administration have admitted to it.”
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Jimmy Carter says he is willing to go to North Korea on peace mission | US news | The G... - 0 views

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  • Jimmy Carter said he was willing to travel to North Korea in an attempt to soften tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
  • Trump has engaged in a war of words with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, often via Twitter
  • Carter said he was “afraid” of nuclear conflict between the US and North Korea. “They want to save their regime [and have] now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland.”
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Boris Johnson backs diplomatic solution to North Korea crisis | Politics | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • While Johnson will stress that the US president has “an absolute duty” to prepare for a possible military option if North Korea is about to attack the United States, the foreign secretary will say diplomatic efforts must be paramount.
  • Johnson is also to use his speech, extracts of which were released in advance by the Foreign Office, to praise the Iran nuclear deal, another diplomatic effort repeatedly condemned by Trump.
  • While the government is careful to avoid directly criticising Trump, Johnson is making it very clear by highlighting Tillerson’s method that he does not support the US president’s notably more aggressive approach.
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John McCain takes aim at Donald Trump over Vietnam medical deferment | US news | The Gu... - 0 views

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  • John McCain took another shot at Donald Trump on Sunday night, with an angry reference to Americans who avoided the draft for the Vietnam war
  • Recently McCain has led calls for greater transparency from the administration over the deaths of four US soldiers in Niger.
  • McCain criticised “half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems”. He said: “We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil.”
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