Friday, August 25, 2017

Friday's Headlines: Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears Ears

 
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Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears Ears
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to alter monuments established by previous presidents will likely reshape federal land and water protections and is certain to trigger major legal fights.
At CIA, a watchful eye on Mike Pompeo, Trump's ardent ally
The director's tendency to play down Russian interference in the 2016 election is seen as a nod to Trump, and Pompeo's interactions with the CIA's counterintelligence center have come under particular scrutiny.
 
Trump distances himself from GOP lawmakers to deflect personal blame if agenda stalls
According to advisers, Trump is railing against Republicans because he thinks it will help protect him politically if the GOP loses the House. But Trump could face greater peril than a difficult 2020 election: a Democratic majority eager to pursue impeachment.
 
Once a destination for sun and fun, Acapulco now is Mexico's murder capital
For each of the past five years, Acapulco has been the deadliest city in Mexico, in a marathon of murder that has hollowed out the hillside neighborhoods and sprawling colonias that tourists rarely visit. This city's woes are emblematic of what Mexico faces as crime spreads and order disintegrates across growing swaths of this country.
 
'Astounding' Hurricane Harvey catches Texas off guard as state braces for potentially catastrophic flooding and winds
Harvey is expected to strike late Friday as a Category 3 hurricane, making it the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
 
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Samsung's heir apparent sentenced to five years in corruption case
In a case that has gripped South Korea, Lee Jae-yong was on trial for five months on charges including bribery, embezzlement and perjury, all related to the scandal that led to the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye.
 
 
As Kushner leaves Mideast, U.S. calls talks 'productive' but doesn't commit to two-state solution
Both sides agreed to continue with U.S.-led conversations, the State Department said. But some Palestinians voiced frustration that the Trump administration has not embraced the two-state idea that was the focus of peace efforts for decades. 
 
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin viewed eclipse from roof of Fort Knox
Treasury officials rejected the notion that Steven Mnuchin traveled there for the eclipse, noting that the trip was planned for earlier in the month but postponed when the Senate delayed its recess.
 
16 Americans suffered injuries while stationed at U.S. Embassy in Havana
The State Department suspects that they were victims of a mysterious "acoustic attack" that deliberately targeted American diplomats.
 
Civil War submarine's crewmen killed by their own weapon, researchers say
When the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was recovered from the seafloor in 2000, the skeletons of its crew were still at their stations. A new paper posits that their torpedo produced a blast wave that led to their deaths.
 
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A black man went undercover online as a white supremacist. This is what he learned.
Theo Wilson knew he would come up against some unpalatable ideas, but some of his discoveries still came as a shock.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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