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14 indicted in racist-based gang case One suspect remains at large, possibly in Houston ASSOCIAT ED PRE SS

CORPUS CHRISTI — More than a dozen South Texas residents accused of being in a violent white supremacist gang have been indicted on racketeering or drug-related counts.

Federal prosecutors on

Thursday announced 14 Corpus Christi residents face up to life in prison if convicted of crimes blamed on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.

An indictment returned Wednesday includes charges of conspiracy to participate in Gang continues on A8

STATE CAPITOL Cuate Santos / Laredo Morning Times

In this June 2016 file photo, architectural conservator Frank Briscoe, in foreground, explains the process of the restoration at the Treviño-Uribe Rancho in San Ygnacio.

HISTORIC HOMES TO OPEN TOMORROW Public invited to visit recently restored homes located in town’s historic district

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ourteen historic private residences in San Ygnacio will be open to the public on Sunday, including the recently restored Treviño-Uribe Rancho.

The fort was founded 1830 and has been a national historic landmark since 1998.

The San Ygnacio historic house tours is set to start at 11 a.m. at Benavides Elementary School, 301 Lincoln St, where an assembly and presentations will take place. At 1:30 p.m., there will be a walking tour of the San Ygnacio historic district.

Admission to the house tour is $6. Tickets can be purchased at Benavides Elementary School Proceeds benefit student programs in San Ygnacio.

Restoration of the Treviño-Uribe Rancho was funded by the National Park Service, the Save America’s Treasures program, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Texas Historical Commission, the Brown Foundation of Houston and many local benefactors, including the Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation.

The restoration offers an audio soundtrack to guide visitors through the rooms of the Treviño-Uribe Rancho, illustrating Homes continues on A8

Government seeking $90M to sustain CHIP ASSOCIAT ED PRE SS

AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's administration is asking for $90 million more in federal funding in hopes of delaying health insurance cancellations for nearly half a million children.

Texas will end its Children's Health Insurance Program on Jan. 31 unless it gets such funding. The state would send notices about the program's termination to affected families days before Christmas, the Dallas Morning News reported.

The state Health and Human Services Commission requested $90 million from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services so the program can continue in Texas through February. The federal agency

Congress let the program's funding expire in September.

The program covers 9 million children across the U.S.

has until Dec. 9 to decide.

The commission is prepared to refer families to the Affordable Care Act's online insurance marketplace if the funding is rejected. But there are several concerns about moving families from CHIP to the marketplace, said Adriana Kohler, senior health policy associate for advocacy group Texans Care for Funding continues on A8

FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS

Town repeals law making English official language A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas — Officials in a Dallas suburb have repealed a controversial, decade-old ordinance that made English the city's official

language.

The Farmers Branch City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal the 2006 English-only resolution. The resolution had declared that all city business must be conduct-

ed in English. It also prohibited official translations for city documents, meetings, programs and publications unless required by state or federal law.

Mayor Robert Dye said the

repeal will help the city move beyond its controversial past and be able to focus on development and growth.

"We want to show not only to our community but to other communities outside Farmers

Branch that it's a new day," he said. "We've learned, and we are now focused on moving forward and planning for the future."

The council approved anothRepeal continues on A8

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First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

SUNDAY, DEC. 3 San Ygnacio Christmas House Tours. 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch and entertainment at Arturo L. Benavides Elementary School. Parade to follow after lunch. House tour tickets, $6.

Plate sale tickets, $6.50. All proceeds will benefit Benavides Elemenrary students.

MONDAY, DEC. 4 Ray of Light Anxiety and Depression Support Group Meeting in English. 6:30p.m. to 8 p.m. Westcare Foundation, 1616 Callaghan St. The support group welcomes adults suffering from anxiety and/or depression to participate in free and confidential support group meetings.

Contact: Anna Maria Pulido Saldivar, gruporayitodeluz@gmail.com, 956307-2014

TUESDAY, DEC. 5 Alzheimer's support group meeting. 7 p.m. Meeting room 2, building B of the Laredo Medical Center. The support group is for family members and caregivers taking care of someone who has Alzheimer's. For information, call 956-693-9991.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 61 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / AP

Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips after receiving a 20-year prison sentence for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands.

WAR CRIMINAL DIES AFTER TRIAL THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A former Croatian general who died after swallowing a liquid at a war crimes hearing in the Netherlands had cyanide in his system, Dutch prosecutors said after an autopsy was performed Friday.

Preliminary results from a toxicological test revealed "a concentration of potassium cyanide" in Slobodan Praljak's blood, the Hague Public Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

The cyanide caused heart failure, which investigators "pointed out" as the 72-yearold Praljak's "suspected cause of death,"

according to the prosecutor's statement.

On Wednesday, Praljak drank from a small bottle that he said contained poison seconds after an appeals judge at the U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia confirmed his 20year sentence for crimes during the 199295 Bosnian war.

He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital a little while later.

The United Nations tribunal ordered an independent review of its "internal operations" following the dramatic event in its courtroom.

SATURDAY, DEC. 16 8th annual Birdies on the Rio golf tourney. 7 a.m. registration at the Max Mandel Municipal Golf Course. Join the Rio Grande International Study Center for the biggest, baddest golf tournament in town. $150 per golfer (all-inclusive). Register at www.rgisc.org.

MONDAY DEC. 18 Special Screening of Documentary Film "Crazywise.” 5:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) - Main Entrance (next to Laredo Driver License Office), 1901 Bob Bullock Loop. “Crazywise” adds a voice to the growing conversation that believes a psychological crisis can be an opportunity for growth and potentially transformational, not a disease with no cure. The screening is 82 minutes long, followed by a 20-minute discussion. Event is free. Please RSVP at 956-307-2014. Contact information: Anna Maria Pulido Saldivar, gruporayitodeluz@gmail.com, 956-307-2014

TUESDAY, DEC. 19 Bilingual Breast Cancer Support Group Meeting. 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. 1102 Santa Maria Ave., classroom No. 7, the entrance to the parking lot is on Davis Street. The support group welcomes adults suffering from anxiety and/or depression to participate in free and confidential support group meetings.

Contact information: Anna Maria Pulido Saldivar, gruporayitodeluz@gmail.com, 956-307-2014

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

SATURDAY, JAN. 6 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

SATURDAY, FEB. 3 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

Jailing of Catalan separatists under review by judge MADRID — A Spanish Supreme Court judge is set to decide on Monday if two Catalan pro-independence activists and eight former members of the separatist regional cabinet ousted over a month ago should be released from custody after hearing their appeal.

The 10 requested Friday's court appearance to pledge lawful behavior and renounce

unilateral independence efforts in the hope of being released.

Most of them are running in an early regional election this month that Spanish central authorities called after they took control of Catalonia in response to the regional lawmakers' declaration of independence. Official campaigning begins at midnight on Monday.

Spain also dismissed the regional government as part of unprecedented measures to rein in the country's deepest political crisis in nearly four decades of democratic rule.

The eight politicians, including former regional Vice President Oriol Junqueras, face possible charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement that can be punished with decades in prison.

They were among the leading figures involved in events that crystalized in the Oct. 27 independence vote. After the proceedings, the 10 were sent back to jails around Madrid where they will wait for magistrate Pablo Llarena's decision on Monday.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION Military IDs 100 killed during Pearl Harbor attack HONOLULU — The military has identified 100 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago, officials said Friday.

The milestone comes two years after the Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency dug up nearly 400 sets of remains from a Hawaii cemetery.

Officials exhumed the bodies after determining that advances in forensic science and genealogical help from families could make identifications possible. The buried Marines and sailors have been classified as missing since World War II. The agency has said it expects to identify about 80 percent of the battleship's missing crew members by 2020.

Audrey McAvoy / AP

A gravestone identifying the resting place of 7 unknowns from the USS Oklahoma is shown at the National Memorial Cemetery.

The most recent identification came last week, the agency said in a news release. The family hasn't been notified yet, however, so his name hasn't been released.

Many of those identified have been buried in their hometowns.

Others were reinterred at the National Memorial Ceme-

tery in the Pacific, which is located in an extinct volcanic crater in Honolulu.

Altogether, 429 people on board the battleship were killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing that plunged the United States into World War II. Only 35 were identified in the years immediately after.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND TEXAS Former nurse pleads guilty in inmate's death TEXARKANA — A former nurse who refused medical treatment to a Texas jail inmate who later died has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor negligent homicide.

Brittany Danae Johnson, 27, was charged after 20-year-old Morgan Angerbauer died in July 2016 at the jail in Texarkana. She will serve about

Today is Saturday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2017. There are 29 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 2, 1942, an artificially created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago.

On this date: In 1697, London's St. Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was consecrated for use even though the building was still under construction.

In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French.

In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October.

Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat was born in Paris.

In 1927, Ford Motor Co. unveiled its Model A automobile that replaced its Model T. In 1939, New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) went into operation as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight.

In 1954, the U.S. Senate passed, 67-22, a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., saying he had "acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

In 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first full-scale commercial nuclear facility in the U.S., began operations.

(The reactor ceased operating in 1982.)

In 1967, Cardinal Francis Spellman died in New York at age 78.

In 1970, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency opened its doors under its first director, William D. Ruckelshaus.

In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.

In 1997, the film drama "Good Will Hunting" starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck was released by Miramax Films.

In 2015, a couple loyal to Islamic State opened fire at a holiday banquet for public employees in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 21 others before dying in a shootout with police.

Ten years ago: Venezuela President Hugo Chavez suffered defeat as voters rejected sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 to 49 percent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's party swept 70 percent of the seats for a new parliament in a vote whose fairness was called into question by European election monitors. Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Steve Martin, Diana Ross and pianist Leon Fleisher received Kennedy Center honors for their career achievements.

Five years ago: Hundreds of concrete slabs, each weighing more than a ton, fell from the roof of a highway tunnel west of Tokyo, crushing vehicles below and killing nine people.

Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Led Zeppelin, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova received Kennedy Center Honors.

One year ago: Thirty-six people died when fire erupted in an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, during a dance party (two men have pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter). President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in a highly unusual move that was bound to antagonize China.

Today's Birthdays: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III is 86.

Former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is 78.

Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 73. Movie director Penelope Spheeris is 72.

Actor Ron Raines is 68. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 67. Actor Keith Szarabajka is 65. Actor Dan Butler is 63. Broadcast journalist Stone Phillips is 63. Actor Dennis Christopher is 62. Actor Steven Bauer is 61. Country singer Joe Henry is 57.

Rock musician Rick Savage (Def Leppard) is 57. Actor Brendan Coyle is 54. Rock musician Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) is 49. Actress Suzy Nakamura is 49. Actress Rena Sofer is 49.

Rock singer Jimi HaHa (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 49. Actress Lucy Liu is 49. Rapper Treach (Naughty By Nature) is 47. Actor Joe Lo Truglio is 47. International Tennis Hall of Famer Monica Seles is 44. Singer Nelly Furtado is 39. Pop singer Britney Spears is 36. Actress-singer Jana Kramer is 34. Actress Yvonne Orji is 34. Actress Daniela Ruahis 34. NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers is 34.

Actor Alfred Enoch is 29.

Thought for Today: "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate." — Addison Mizner, American architect (1872-1933).

CONTACT US three months jail.

An autopsy determined Angerbauer died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition that results from blood sugar reaching severely high levels.

Johnson's attorney, Jeff Harrelson, initially said she was willing to plead "no contest" to negligent homicide. But the judge declined to accept a plea other than guilty. Johnson pleaded guilty on Monday.

Court records allege Angerbauer asked Johnson to check her blood sugar but Johnson

refused, saying jail staff members were in charge of deciding when medical attention was needed.

Angerbauer was found unconscious in her cell early the next morning.

One jail staff member testified that he told Johnson they should immediately call for emergency help, but that Johnson refused for more than a half hour. Angerbauer was dead by the time paramedics arrived.

— Compiled from AP reports

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Sheriff says it's unlikely border agents were attacked A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

VAN HORN — A Texas sheriff who was among the first people to reach two badly injured U.S. Border Patrol agents said he thinks they may have been sideswiped accidentally by a tractor-trailer, not attacked, as President Donald Trump and some others have suggested.

The injured agents were found the night of Nov. 18 along a culvert next to Interstate 10 near Van Horn, which is about 110 miles southeast of El Paso and about 30 miles from the border with Mexico.

Agent Rogelio Martinez succumbed to traumatic head injuries and broken bones. His partner, who has not been identified,

was seriously injured and hospitalized for several days. The agent has no memory of what happened that night.

Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo said he thinks a tractortrailer may have accidentally sideswiped the pair, The Dallas Morning News reported.

I-10 is a heavily traveled route for truck drivers and accidents regularly occur, some due to wind drafts and others from drivers overcorrecting after drifting across lanes, Carrillo said.

"From the beginning we were radioed to assist in the incident as an injury, not an assault," Carrillo told the newspaper. "That's the way it was communicated to us.

Mark Lambie / Associated Press

Border Patrol pallbearers carry Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez to a graveside service at Restlawn Cemetery, Saturday, Nov. 25 in El Paso, Texas. Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo said he believes that Martinez’s death and the injuries sustained by a fellow agent may have been caused by an accident, not an attack.

"If this was an assault, believe me, as sheriff, I'd be the first one out there emphasizing safety in our community and with our deputies, pairing them up," he added.

It's not clear why Martinez and his partner were along the highway and U.S. Customs and Border Protection only said in a statement that they "were responding to

activity."

A Border Patrol union, the National Border Patrol Council, has said the pair was attacked and struck with a rock or rocks.

President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also have said the two were attacked, with Trump using the incident to renew his call for a

border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie Jr. in the FBI's El Paso office said last week that investigators were treating the incident as a "potential assault," but they could not rule out other scenarios.

Federal officials have released few details about the circumstances leading

to their injuries.

The FBI announced Thursday a $45,000 reward for information leading to solving the mystery surrounding Martinez's death and a new digital billboard campaign to promote the reward. It is asking for statements from anyone who drove through Van Horn between 10 p.m. and midnight on Nov. 18.

Rep. Joe Barton to retire First baby from a after nude photo scandal uterus transplant in the

By Will Weissert A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

AUSTIN — Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas' most-senior member of Congress, announced Thursday that he won't seek re-election after a naked photo of him circulated online and a conservative activist released past messages of a sexual nature from him.

The photo of the 68year-old Barton was posted on an anonymous Twitter account just before Thanksgiving and Barton apologized. But he also suggested he could be the victim of online exploitation by a woman he'd had a relationship with whose name has not been released.

About a week later, tea party organizer Kelly Canon revealed Facebook Messenger exchanges from 2012 in which Barton asked if she was wearing panties and made other sexual references. Now twice-divorced, Barton was still married to his second wife at the time of their online exchanges.

Canon said her relationship with Barton never advanced beyond the messages. She said Barton hadn't apologized for them and that she hadn't asked him to — but she also called on him to resign so that his private life couldn't be used against him and other Republicans during 2018 congressional elections.

In announcing that he would retire next year,

Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP

Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas' most-senior member of Congress, announced Thursday that he won't seek re-election after a nude photo of him circulated online and a Republican activist revealed messages of a sexual nature from him.

Barton made no mention of the embarrassing revelations.

"I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office," he said in a statement. "Now is time to step aside and let there be a new voice."

Canon said she was happy that Barton had "finally came to his senses."

"I am very relieved that we do not have to fight that battle," the tea party activist said by phone after Barton's announcement. "It would have been a feeding frenzy and it would have affected so many other races."

Though his seat remains safely Republican, Barton this week had drawn a little-known challenger for Texas' March primary and could have faced others. Immediately after his retire-

ment announcement, Texas Republicans began lining up to replace him.

Before Barton decided to retire, political pressure on him to quit had increased. The Republican Party chairman in his North Texas home county of Tarrant called on him to step aside this week and began being joined by Republican members of the Texas' state Senate.

A former oil and gas consultant, Barton was first elected to Congress in 1984 and his retirement now means a whopping seven of the state's 36 members of Congress aren't seeking re-election.

All but two of those open seats are Republican.

Barton, who is from Ennis, just south of Dallas, is vice chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and manages the Republican team that was practicing for a charity congressional baseball game in June when a gunmen opened fire, seriously wounding one congressman.

Barton was the only Texas congressional Republican to say he would support a proposed immigration package that would provide protections for immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. If approved, that could be an alternative to the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump says he will do away with.

US born in Dallas

By Marilynn Marchione ASSOCIATED PRE SS

DALLAS — The first birth as a result of a womb transplant in the United States has occurred in Texas, a milestone for the U.S. but one achieved several years ago in Sweden.

A woman who had been born without a uterus gave birth to the baby at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Hospital spokesman Craig Civale confirmed Friday that the birth had taken place, but said no other details are available.

The hospital did not identify the woman, citing her privacy.

Baylor has had a study underway for several years to enroll up to 10 women for uterus transplants. In October 2016, the hospital said four women had received transplants but that three of the wombs had to be removed because of poor blood flow.

The hospital would give no further information on how many transplants have been performed since then. But Time magazine, which first reported the U.S. baby's birth, says eight have been done in all, and that another woman is currently pregnant as a result.

A doctor in Sweden, Mats Brannstrom, is the first in the world to deliver a baby as a result of a uterus transplant. As of last year, he had delivered

Dorothee Thiesing / Associated Press

In this Sept. 19, 2016 file photo, professor Mats Brannstrom poses besides a photo showing the birth of a baby of a mother with a womb transplant at Stockholm IVF fertility clinic in Stockholm, Sweden.

five babies from women with donated wombs.

There have been at least 16 uterus transplants worldwide, including one in Cleveland from a deceased donor that had to be removed because of complications. Last month, Penn Medicine in Philadelphia announced that it also would start offering womb transplants.

Womb donors can be dead or alive, and the Baylor study aims to use some of both. The first four cases involved "altruistic" donors — unrelated and unknown to the recipients. The ones done in Sweden were from live donors, mostly from the recipients' mother or a sister.

Doctors hope that womb transplants will enable as many as several thousand women born without a uterus to bear

children. To be eligible for the Baylor study, women must be 20 to 35 years old and have healthy, normal ovaries. They will first have in vitro fertilization to retrieve and fertilize their eggs and produce embryos that can be frozen until they are ready to attempt pregnancy.

After the uterus transplant, the embryos can be thawed and implanted, at least a year after the transplant to make sure the womb is working well.

A baby resulting from a uterine transplant would be delivered by cesarean section. The wombs are not intended to be permanent. Having one means a woman must take powerful drugs to prevent organ rejection, and the drugs pose long-term health risks, so the uterus would be removed after one or two successful pregnancies.

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Al Franken’s calculated strategy of non-denial

By Ramesh Ponnuru B L OOM BE RG V IEW

Sen. Al Franken has a strategy for getting out of his current mess. You can see it in action in an interview he gave this week to Esme Murphy, a reporter for CBS affiliate WCCO. The Minnesota Democrat has been accused of groping several unwilling women and forcibly kissing another. There are two obvious responses to such accusations: Either admit them, apologize and ask for forgiveness, or deny them.

Franken is refusing to do either.

You can see why he balks. If he admits it, especially in this moment of righteous anger against male sexual entitlement, pressure to resign will mount. Allies who are standing by him in the presence of doubt about what he did will desert him if that doubt dissolves to his disfavor.

So he isn’t going to admit anything unless there’s photographic evidence.

If he denies the accusations, on the other hand, he will be at least implicitly attacking his accusers. An aggressive posture would go over badly, again especially in this moment of heightened awareness of how many women have struggled to get their accurate testimony about male misbehavior believed.

Denials could even draw forth more accusations.

Like Buridan’s ass, he cannot choose.

In the interview, then, Franken gives a master class in how a politician can try to wriggle out of answering a question.

Unfortunately for him, Murphy gives a master class in how a journalist can try to pin a politician down.

Murphy begins by asking Franken whether he indeed groped and forced kisses on women.

Franken’s response is worth quoting at length: Some women, and any is too many, have felt that I have crossed a line and I am terribly sorry about that. They feel that in these interactions I’ve done something to disrespect them and that’s not my intention but what I know is that intention doesn’t matter. What matters is we listen to women’s experience and so I’ve been trying to think about - you know, I feel terrible that they have felt this way. And I’ve been trying to think of how this could have happened and I know very well that I have to be much more careful and much more sensitive and Murphy interrupts.

"But, senator, these women are all using very

This isn’t a he-said, she-said story. The women are giving their stories, and he’s just emitting vapor.

similar language to describe basically their butt cheek being cupped or grabbed." She quotes Lindsay Menz, who says that Franken put his hand "tightly around my butt cheek." The reporter asks, "When you grab somebody’s butt, don’t you know it?"

Franken then offers 140 or so words, starting with, "I understand that.

And I again I am going to have to do everything I can going forward to be enormously sensitive."

Again Murphy breaks in. "I guess, you know, just going back to the specific allegations though, are they mistaken that their butt was grabbed? Is that what you’re saying?"

"I am not saying that," Franken responds, adding that he does not remember these events.

Murphy asks whether he thinks "this happened unintentionally." Franken says he never had the intent to make anyone "uncomfortable" and repeats his line that his intent didn’t matter.

On and on it goes. He says he respects women’s feelings. Murphy says that Menz "feels that you molested her." Franken says he feels very bad about it. Murphy keeps asking Franken specific, factual questions about what took place.

Franken keeps responding by talking about feelings: his feelings, the women’s feelings, and his feelings about their feelings. At every turn he redirects attention away from the realm of objective fact to the more nebulous zone of emotion (or, in the case of the kiss, the haze of conflicting memories).

He is very sorry, he says, that women felt "disrespected." What the women say they felt was his hand on their butt cheeks: a word Murphy keeps having to use.

This isn’t a he-said, she-said story. The women are giving their stories, and he’s just emitting vapor. "What matters is we listen to women’s experience," he says.

Listen, without believing, or disbelieving.

Without, that is, taking their claims seriously. It is a rhetorical strategy as clever as it is shameless.

At the moment it appears to be working.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist.

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Before old Nazis die, let them bear witness

By Leonid Bershidsky BL OOMBERG VIEW

Oskar Groening, a former Nazi, is going to jail in Germany at age 96. Tony Hovater, 29, a current Nazi sympathizer, has lost his job in the U.S. after being profiled by the New York Times. It’s a shame the two will never meet or even talk via Skype.

After the profile ran, reporter Richard Fausset admitted the existence of a “hole at the heart” of the story. He couldn’t understand how Hovater’s radicalization occurred.

Behind this incomprehension lurked another question: How can one be positive about Hitler in 2017?

One reason an independent-minded person can turn into a Nazi these days is that there are so few living ex-Nazis left -- and that they seldom talked freely while they were still around.

If one’s life experience leaves a deep mistrust of mainstream narratives, which is far from uncommon, alternatives start to look appealing. But for people of Hovater’s generation trying to figure out the past on their own, it’s hard to find one that’s as real and tangible as the experiences that set off the quest. Hovater ended up with books like “The War Path” by British Holocaust denier David Irving, photographed by the New York Times on his bookshelf. He should have ended up talking to someone like Groening.

Growing up with a nationalist father between the wars, it was natural for Groening to fall into the Nazi movement. At 19 he volunteered for the SS and for two years served at Auschwitz. He didn’t

kill anyone there -- that is now clear after an extensive investigation and a trial; he worked as a bookkeeper, counting the money confiscated from the Jews who were brought to the camp and preparing it to be sent off to Berlin. He also stood guard as new arrivals were herded from trains to barracks. He saw a baby’s head being smashed against a truck.

He saw a gassing. He asked repeatedly for a transfer and was denied, then finally was sent to the front.

Then something happened that essentially made it possible for people like Hovater to become Nazi sympathizers in the 21st century. After coming back from a British POW camp in 1948, Groening told his wife not to ask questions. She didn’t, and neither did their children.

Groening didn’t read or watch films about Auschwitz: He didn’t need to.

People like him -- and especially those who actually killed -- talked only when forced to testify, and then they were fighting for survival, not really telling the story.

“After 1945, the memories of these experiences were so emotionally painful at the personal level that most Europeans simply preferred to avoid recalling the past altogether,” historian Gavriel Rosenfeld wrote. “Certain aspects of the war years were discussed in the media, invoked by politicians, and portrayed in popular culture. But when Europeans did mark the past, they did so in selfcentered, rather than ‘other’-centered, ways that enabled them to focus on their own suffering and evade a sense of guilt for the suffering of others.

This practice entailed a delicate balancing act, of course, and because of the past’s acute sensitivity, most Europeans simply preferred to focus on the present and future.”

Then Groening met a Holocaust denier at his stamp collectors’ club in 1985. He was shocked: He’d seen with his own eyes what the man was refusing to acknowledge.

He started writing down what he remembered, and giving it to people to read.

People read and were afraid to ask questions. He talked to journalists. The weekly Der Spiegel published an exemplary profile of him in 2005. With its many mundane details and matter-of-fact tone, it was a lot like what Fausset wrote of Hovater, but the writer, Mathias Geyer, wasn’t accused of “normalizing” Nazism because Groening -- reluctant as he was to admit his own guilt as a mere “small cog in the machine” -- wasn’t interested in normalizing what he saw or did.

By talking in response to claims that the Holocaust was a lie, he opened himself up to prosecution.

He was sentenced to four years in 2015 as an accomplice to the murder of 300,000 people. This week, a court decided he was fit to start serving the term.

It’s important to German justice not to normalize his experience, given the rise of the right in Germany in recent years.

But he was arguably more use to the world when he was talking freely, denying the deniers. He was a credible witness to those who didn’t believe Holocaust survivors. He knows the story from the other side. Anyone on a genuine search for truth should

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have access to him so he can answer questions from those who didn’t trust mainstream media as conduits. Perhaps the courts should have ordered his oral history recorded and used in schools.

Of course, not everyone wants the truth. Last month, a German court sentenced Ursula Haverbeck, 88, to six months in prison for denying the Holocaust. She wasn’t old enough to understand what she witnessed in the 1940s, but plenty old enough to seek out people with Groening’s experience. It’s hard to give someone like Haverbeck the benefit of the doubt. I still want to give it to people like Hovater; I want to think he says the Holocaust is “overblown” because he never got a chance to ask Groening a question.

Though I grew up in a country, the Soviet Union, that was among the victors of World War II, and plenty of those who fought in it were alive when I grew up, it was hard to get substantive stories out of them. What scholars call “unmastered pasts” were as hard on victors as on the defeated. Perspectives outside the approved mainstream were precious; old people guarded their pasts from anyone who might hasten to condemn them or brush aside what they had seen and done. Now, even the luxury of trying to wheedle the stories out of them is largely gone. Truth is about your choice of books.

I guess that’s normal, though it certainly isn’t optimal.

Leonid Bershidsky is a Bloomberg View columnist.

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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE BINGO A BENEFICIO 1 Bingo a beneficio del Zapata Mariachi Booster Club el domingo 3 de diciembre a las 2 p.m. en el Zapata County Pavilion. Donación de 10 dólares por tres cartas.

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SESIÓN INFORMATIVA SOBRE ZIKA 1 La Ciudad de Roma invita a la Sesión informativa sobre Zika el 8 de diciembre, en el Centro Comunitario de Roma, 502 6th Street, en Roma, desde la 1:45 p.m.

Link para registrarse https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freezika-informationsessionFoto de archivo Billy Calzada / San Antonio Express-News

DESFILE DE NAVIDAD 1 El Desfile de Navidad y la iluminacióm de la Plaza del Condado se realizarán el jueves 7 de diciembre, los tres coches alegoricos mejor decorados recibirán trofeos. El desfile comenzará a las 6 p.m. en 17th Ave. detrás de la Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.

Inmediatamente después se encenderán las luces del árbol de Navidad en la Plaza del Condado donde Santa estará repartiendo regalos.

AVIARIO 1 La Ciuda de Roma invita a visitar el aviario Roma Bluffs World Birding Center en el distrito histórico de Roma. El aviario estará abierto desde el jueves a domingo de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m. hasta enero.

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BOTES DE BASURA 1 La Ciudad de Roma informa a la comunidad que sólo estará recolectando basura contenida en botes propiedad de la ciudad. Informes al 849-1411

PAGO DE IMPUESTOS 1 Desde diciembre, los pagos por impuestos a la propiedad de la Ciudad de Roma deberán realizarse en la oficina de impuestos del Distrito Escolar de Roma, localizado en el 608 N. García St.

PAGO EN LÍNEA 1 La Ciudad de Roma informa a sus residentes que a partir de ahora el servicio del agua puede pagarse en línea a cualquier hora las 24 horas del día.

El fuerte Rancho Treviño-Uribe fue construido en 1830 en San Ygnacio y ha sobrevivido casi intacto como un raro ejemplo de de la arquitectura verácula mexicana. Abrirá sus puertas al público el 3 de diciembre.

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quellos que visitan el fuerte Rancho Treviño-Uribe en San Ygnacio tienen muchos pequeños detalles que observar.

Es una estructura de piedra arenisca aparentemente simple. Hay un par de cocinas, dos dormitorios, una sala de estar, un patio. Pisos de tierra, paredes polvorientas, habitaciones vacías.

Pero las partes más antiguas de esta casa fueron terminadas en 1830, y fue habitada continuamente hasta que la última persona que vivió allí murió más de 160 años después.

Entonces, hay firmas de vida si sabes dónde buscar. En una de las habitaciones, un albañil talló en la arenisca un triángulo equilátero dividido en cuatro. Y una viga del techo en la antigua sala de estar está fechada: 3 de diciembre de 1871.

Esta ha resultado ser una fecha importante para el fuerte, no solo porque está inscrito, sino porque el 3 de diciembre de 2017, esta histórica joya de la arquitectura vernácula mexciana se abrirá al público como museo por primera vez.

En los años 80, un aclamado artista contemporáneo llamado Michael Tracy vivió un largo periodo en San Ygnacio para trabajar en aislamiento si-

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El experto en restauración Frank Briscoe examina una puerta en el fuerte Rancho Treviño-Uribe en esta fotografía de archivo de septiembre de 2016.

lencioso. En 1989, fundó la Fundación River Pierce.

La idea de Tracy era traer artistas a trabajar en las riberas del Río Grande, de acuerdo con el director ejecutivo de la fundación, Christopher Rincón, quien se fue a vivir a San Ygnacio en 1995.

Unos años después, el rol de la Fundación River Pierce fue reconfigurado.

El Rancho Treviño-Uribe fue nominado como Monumento Histórico Nacional en 1997, y uno de los propietarios del fuerte se acercó a Tracy para que comprara su parte, aproximadamente la mitad de la propiedad, dividida en diagonal a través de la casa.

La fundación adquirió oficialmente la mitad del fuerte en 1998, y no llegó a poseer el resto hasta 2008, cuando otros miembros de la familia decidieron

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LABORATORIO COMPUTACIONAL 1 La Ciudad de Roma pone a disposición de la comunidad el Laboratorio Computacional que abre de lunes a viernes en horario de 1 p.m. a 5 p.m. en Historical Plaza, a un lado del City Hall.

Informes en el 956849-1411.

vender su parte.

En los años posteriores, la Fundación River Pierce ha recaudado dinero, a través de donantes privados, fundaciones benéficas y subvenciones federales, para preservar y restaurar viviendas en San Ygnacio, especialmente el fuerte TreviñoUribe.

Hace seis años, la fundación recibió un gran impulso cuando recibió 269,130 dólares del Servicio de Parques Nacionales a través del programa de subvenciones Save America's Treasure (Salvar el tesoro de América).

Los visitantes del fuerte Rancho Treviño-Uribe no verán ningún tipo de simbolismo visual que señale cómo se vería esta casa en 1936, su período de interpretación.

Las habitaciones son de hecho austeras. No existe

una modesta cabecera en el dormitorio. No hay una olla de hierro fundido, una silla de madera o plátanos de plástico en la cocina. No hay placas explicativas o etiquetas.

“Michael siempre tuvo la idea de que en lugar de tener muebles de época en el edificio, tendríamos algo así como una banda sonora”, dijo Rincon.

“Que sería un artista encargado de hacer esta pieza, y sería tratado como una composición musical en lugar de una grabación de audio”.

Omar Zubair había trabajado previamente con Tracy en algunos trabajos de restauración de sonido para algunas de sus películas. Rincón dijo que Zubair ya conocía la filosofía de Tracy y que estuvo viniendo a San Ygnacio durante años, por lo que parecía una buena opción para este proyecto.

Zubair es un consumado diseñador de sonido de Brooklyn.

Cada habitación del fuerte tiene su propia banda sonora que Zubair ha diseñado, superponiendo innumerables grabaciones para crear la atmósfera correcta. La cocina está llena de crujientes ruidos de cocina, un sonido lento y constante que raspa la olla y el murmullo de una mujer que tararea una melodía. En cierto punto, la paz se interrumpe cuando deja caer la sartén y suelta un “sí”.

Cada pista dura entre cinco y 20 minutos.

La hermana de dos líderes del Cártel de los Zetas ha sido arrestada en Nuevo Laredo, México, dijeron las autoridades el martes.

Autoridades estatales de Tamaulipas dijeron que arrestaron a Ana Isabel Treviño el lunes por la noche en conexión con un caso de secuestro que supuestamente ocurrió en noviembre de 2016.

Las autoriTreviño dades la arrestaron con la ayuda de las tropas del Ejército Mexicano y la policía federal.

“La detenida está relacionada a dos líderes de un grupo criminal organizado que, de acuerdo con servicios de inteligencia, ha estado operando principalmente en Nuevo Laredo y tiene control de varias actividades relacionadas, al tráfico humano, contrabando, tráfico de drogas, extorción y secuestro, entre otros actos ilegales, así como desapariciones forzosas y homicidios”, dice la oficina del fiscal general de Tamaulipas en una declaración.

Las autoridades no mencionaron el nombre del grupo criminal. Pero los medios mexicanos reportaron que Treviño es hermana de Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, el Z-40 y Omar Treviño Morales, el Z-42.

Ambos se encuentran en prisiones mexicanas.

Miguel Treviño Morales fue capturado el 15 de julio de 2013 por la Marina de México cuando interceptaron una camioneta con 2 millones de dólares en efectivo en un camino de terracería a las afueras de Nuevo Laredo, que durante mucho tiempo ha servido como base de operaciones de los Zetas.

Omar Treviño Morales fue arrestado la madrugada del 4 de marzo de 2015, en una redada efectuada en en San Pedro Garza García, ciudad ubicada en el área metropolitana de Monterrey.

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Entre las personalidades icónicas del siglo XX destaca Ernesto Che Guevara. La Revolución Cubana lo catapulta.

Incubada en México dicha empresa, surge algo que a punto está de imponerle derroteros imprevistos. Veamos por qué.

Nacido en tierras argentinas, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna visita Guatemala, atrayéndolo las simpatías por el gobierno popular de Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán. Lo derrocan en 1954 élites castrenses. El cuartelazo hace emigrar a partidarios del presidente depuesto.

Ernesto pasa a la Ciudad de México. Habita en la calle Nápoles lo que con ironía considera “buen departamento”.

Siempre escaso de recursos económicos –rev-

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Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna

ela–, “por las tardes y el domingo me dedico a la fotografía” ambulante o periodística, “y por las noches estudio” de manera autodidacta.

Merced al título de galeno, durante la mañana trabaja para el Hospital General y el Hospital Infantil. Realiza investigaciones alergológicas

que producen varios artículos reproducidos en revistas especializadas.

Gana así una beca que “incluye casa, comida, lavado de ropa” y modestos estipendios, comenta.

Pronto conoce a exiliados de la isla caribeña.

El ciclón Hilda azota en la madrugada del 19 de septiembre de 1955 las goteras tamaulipecas del sureste. Provoca cuantiosas pérdidas humanas y materiales.

Al joven facultativo llama mucho la atención el nombre del meteoro.

Intervienen peculiares circunstancias, pues el 18 de agosto previo contrae matrimonio con Hilda Gadea, compañera de andanzas guatemaltecas.

Y aunque la cigüeña está próxima, botiquín por delante el Che pretende ir de voluntario a Tamaulipas.

Guevara narra: “El huracán Hilda, fíjate el

nombre simbólico y exacto, tomó por su cuenta …

Tampico, puerto sobre el golfo” de México, dejándolo “en ruinas, después vino el Pánuco, se desbordó y casi … tapa” la urbe porteña. “Ahora –remata—le cayeron los rufianes de toda laya”, refiriéndose a la ayuda brindada por tripulantes del Saipán, portaviones enviado para matizar el intervencionismo gringo en Latinoamérica.

Debido al contexto, sorprende el afán humanitario del Che. Se dice que en julio o agosto de 1955 conferencia por vez primera con Fidel Castro Ruz, líder de los rebeldes cubanos. Prevalece además que enseguida lo admite el grupo castrista. No obstante, según versiones confiables el acercamiento de ambos personajes ocurre hasta septiembre, mes del aludido diluvio.

Parece asimismo tran-

scurrir algún tiempo antes de ingresar Ernesto al cuerpo guerrillero.

Nada lo entusiasma tanto como la respectiva causa insurgente, volviéndola prioridad máxima.

Vistas las secuelas del ciclón Hilda, “yo me ofrecí para ir a colaborar, pero el gobierno desdeñó mis servicios y me quedé sin poder ver de cerca la catástrofe”, puntualiza en la correspondencia personal de aquellas fechas.

El desdén burocrático padecido en labores de salvamento permite al Che relacionarse con Fidel. Por ello se incorpora de lleno a los preparativos inherentes y descuella luego en la exitosa lucha contra el dictador Fulgencio Batista. Vaya encrucijadas: sus auxilios médicos en Tamaulipas, que le menosprecian, hubieran alterado el rumbo de cruciales sucesos.

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NATIONAL Jury acquits Mexican man in San Francisco pier killing of woman

By Paul Elias A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

SAN FRANCISCO — A jury on Thursday found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder.

The shooting of Kate Steinle came during the presidential primary campaign in 2015 and was used by then-candidate Donald Trump to push for a wall on the Mexican border.

The president called the verdict "disgraceful" on Twitter late Thursday.

"No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration," Trump wrote.

The suspect's lawyers said outside court that their client's immigration status was unfairly exploited for political purposes and had nothing to do with the criminal case.

"From Day 1 this case was used as a means to foment hate, to foment division and to foment a program of mass deportation. It was used to catapult a presidency along that philosophy of hate of others," defense attorney Francisco Ugarte said after the verdict. "I believe today is a day of vindication for the rest of immigrants."

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Steinle was fatally shot in the back while walking with her father on the pier.

The case spotlighted

San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy, which limits local officials from cooperating with U.S. immigration authorities.

Politics, however, did not come up in the monthlong rial that featured extensive testimony from ballistics experts. Defense attorneys argued that Garcia Zarate was a hapless homeless man who killed Steinle in a freak accident. Prosecutors said he meant to shoot and kill her.

Garcia Zarate did not deny shooting Steinle and said it was an accident.

Jurors did find him guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm, meaning he knowingly had a firearm but there was no intent for him to hurt or shoot anyone.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the count carries a potential sentence of 16 months to three years behind bars.

"The verdict that came in today was not the one we were hoping for," said Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the San Francisco prosecutor's office. "The jury came back with the verdict they did, and we will respect that decision. ... This is really about the Steinle family. They showed incredible resolve during this whole process."

Jim Steinle told the San Francisco Chronicle the family was saddened and shocked by the verdict.

"There's no other way you can coin it. Justice was rendered, but it was not served," he said in what he called the last interview he would do about the case.

The family did not attend the reading of the

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Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco.

verdict. Jurors left without comment and the judge sealed their names.

Before the shooting, Garcia Zarate finished a federal prison sentence for illegal re-entry into the United States and had been transferred to San Francisco's jail in March 2015 to face a 20-year-old charge for selling marijuana.

The sheriff's department released him a few days later after prosecutors dropped the marijuana charge, despite a request from federal immigration officials to detain him for deportation.

The Trump administration has sought to punish sanctuary cities through a series of legal actions, including an executive order to withhold funding, but a federal judge recently blocked it in a lawsuit from two California counties, San Francisco and Santa Clara. The administration has appealed.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Thursday that San Francisco's decision to release Garcia Zarate led to Steinle's death.

"The Department of Justice will continue to ensure that all jurisdictions place the safety and security of their communities above the convenience of criminal aliens," Sessions said. "I urge the leaders of the nation's communities to reflect on the outcome of this case and consider carefully the

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A Hawaii Civil Defense Warning Device, which sounds an alert siren during natural disasters, is shown in Honolulu on Wednesday. The alert system is tested monthly, but on Friday Hawaii residents will hear a new tone designed to alert people of an impending nuclear attack by North Korea.

Attack siren blares in Hawaii for first time since the Cold War

By Caleb Jones and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

HONOLULU — A siren blared across Hawaii on Friday for the first time since the end of the Cold War in an effort to prepare tourists and residents for a possible nuclear attack from North Korea.

The state is the first to bring back the Cold Warera warning system, Hawaii emergency management officials said. The wailing siren sounded for a minute after the usual testing of the steady alert for tsunamis and other natural disasters that Hawaii residents are used to hearing.

There was little reaction from people on famous Waikiki Beach, where the test sounded like a distant siren.

"We believe that it is imperative that we be prepared for every disaster, and in today's world, that includes a nuclear attack," Gov. David Ige said this week, adding that the possibility of a strike is remote.

Ige said the new test will ensure the public knows what they should

do in case of an imminent attack. If a missile is launched, residents and tourists would have less than 20 minutes to take shelter, officials said.

Vern Miyagi, administrator for Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said the state delayed the test for a month to let people know it would be happening. Hawaii turned to public service announcements on TV and radio, town hall meetings, information on agency websites and media stories.

The test comes the same week that North Korea fired a powerful nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile it calls the Hwasong-15, leading analysts to conclude the nation has made a jump in its missile capability. The weapon would have a range of more than 8,100 miles (13,000 kilometers), easily reaching the U.S. mainland.

Hawaii is one of the closest states to North Korea, and its large military presence could make it more of a target.

The island of Oahu is home to U.S. Pacific Command, the military's headquarters for the

Asia-Pacific region. It also hosts dozens of Navy ships at Pearl Harbor and is a key base for the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps.

Miyagi has previously said a nuclear strike on Hawaii would result in thousands of deaths, thermal radiation, severe damage to critical infrastructure, widespread fires and other chaos.

The tests will continue on the first business day of every month. If the siren sounds because an attack is imminent, residents and tourists should get inside and stay tuned for further instructions, officials said.

Hawaii no longer has any nuclear shelters.

When the Cold War ended, funding for maintaining them ran out as the threat of attack ended, emergency officials said.

Lorraine Godoy, 75, who grew up hearing air raid sirens on the Big Island, said the tests are a "reminder that this is not a safe world anymore.

Even here, in Hawaii, it's not safe."

Tourism officials disagree, saying travelers "should not be alarmed by the testing."

harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement officers."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it "will work to take custody of Mr. Garcia Zarate and ultimately remove him from the country" once he serves his local sentence.

San Francisco Deputy District Attorney Diana Garcia said during the trial that she didn't know why Garcia Zarate fired the weapon, but he created a risk of death by bringing the firearm to the pier and twirling around on a chair for at least 20 minutes before he fired.

"He did kill someone.

He took the life of a young, vibrant, beautiful, cherished woman by the name of Kate Steinle," she said.

Defense attorney Matt Gonzalez said in his closing argument that he knows it's difficult to believe Garcia Zarate found an object that turned out to be a weapon, which fired when he picked it up.

But he told jurors that Garcia Zarate had no motivation to kill Steinle and that as awful as her death was, "nothing you do is going to fix that."

Ballistic experts testified that the bullet ricocheted about 15 feet from where Zarate was sitting and then traveled another 80 feet before striking Steinle in the back and piercing her heart.

By Deb Riechmann ASSOCIATED PRE SS

WASHINGTON — A cybersecurity company said Tuesday it found top secret files related to classified Army communications systems sitting unprotected online for anyone to see.

The data belonged to the U.S. Army's Intelligence and Security Command, a division of both the Army and the National Security Agency. It's the latest known setback linked to the NSA where former agency contractor Edward Snowden disclosed a cache of classified material in 2013.

NSA referred questions to the intelligence command, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Chris Vickery, an analyst at UpGuard, a cybersecurity company based in Mountain View, California, discovered the unprotected data online on Sept. 28. Vickery notified the government about what he had found and was told on Oct. 10 that it had been secured.

"It is unclear to us what the precise relevance of the classified data we found is to active INSCOM operations," Dan O'Sullivan, another analyst on UpGuard's cyber risk team, said Tuesday.

The data contained 47 files and folders that could be viewed, including three that could be downloaded. Some of the data could not be accessed without being linked to Pentagon systems, O'Sullivan said.

"It is unclear to us what the precise relevance of the classified data we found is to active INSCOM operations.”

Dan O'Sullivan, UpGuard cyber risk team analyst

Many files were marked "top secret" or "NOFORN," a classification that prohibits disclosure to foreign governments.

The largest file contained a virtual hard drive likely designed for receiving Defense Department information from remote locations. The exposed data included sensitive details concerning a battlefield intelligence platform, known as the Distributed Common Ground System-Army, as well as the platform's troubled cloud auxiliary program codenamed "Red Disk."

Snowden leaked classified material exposing U.S. government surveillance programs.

In August 2016, Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested by the FBI after federal prosecutors say he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home and car.

Reality Winner, 25, a former Air Force linguist who worked as an NSA contractor at a facility in Augusta, Georgia, was charged in June with copying a classified U.S. report and mailing it to a news organization.

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NCAA FOOTBALL: TEXAS A&M AGGIES

Jimbo Fisher resigns at Florida State to take Texas A&M job Head coach finishes 83-23 in 8 years with Seminoles

By Joe Reedy A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jimbo Fisher, who coached Florida State to its third national title in 2013 and opened this season with his team ranked in the top five, is leaving to take the same job at Texas A&M. Fisher told university President John Thrasher on Friday that he was resigning to accept Texas A&M’s offer.

“I believe Texas A&M is getting one of the best coaches in college football. We appreciate all he has done for our program and wish him and his family great success moving forward,” Thrasher said in a statement that closed days of

speculation about Fisher’s future.

Fisher leaves Florida State after going 83-23 in eight seasons. Besides the national championship, he also led the Seminoles to three Atlantic Coast Conference titles and four ACC Atlantic Division crowns. He will replace Kevin Sumlin, who was fired last weekend after going 51-26 in six seasons at Texas A&M. The Houston Chronicle reported that Fisher is expected to earn between $7 million and $7.5 million over at least five years.

Fisher goes to a program that has lofty hopes amid a drought: Texas A&M last won a conference championship in 1998, when it was in the Big 12. The

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: HOUSTON TEXANS

Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle file

Lamar Miller ran for 75 yards and a touchdown and caught four passes for 56 yards and another score when the Texans routed the Titans 57-14 on Oct. 1.

Titans eye staying atop AFC South, not payback vs. Texans

By Teresa M. Walker A S S O CIAT E D PRE SS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Staying atop the AFC South and chasing the franchise’s first playoff berth since 2008. The Tennessee Titans insist that’s their only focus when they host the Houston Texans on Sunday, needing a win against the two-time division champ to stay exactly where they want to be.

Payback? Revenge for the 57-14 thumping the Texans handed Tennessee back on Oct. 1?

A mere memory.

“Nope, don’t feel like we owe them one,” Titans tight end Delanie Walker said. “They got us. They whupped our butt. That happened. But in the back of our minds, I know everybody knows that. At the end of the day, we got to go out there, we can’t play frustrated. We can’t play angry. We got to play smart football, and that’s the only way we’re going to be able to win.”

The Titans do hope they learned a painful lesson. They went to Houston winners of two straight and left embarrassed as Houston scored the most points in franchise history, with Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota missing the second half with an injured left hamstring.

Now the Titans (7-4) have won five of six and are coming off their first win at Lucas Oil Stadium

after beating the Colts 20-16 last week. That victory moved Tennessee back ahead of Jacksonville atop the division.

The Texans are in the midst of consecutive road trips that included a 23-16 loss Monday night in Baltimore. The injuries keep coming, with two more players joining Deshaun Watson, J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus on injured reserve this week.

Coach Bill O’Brien, who is 6-1 against the Titans, said he isn’t taking much from their earlier win in this series.

“They’re different,” O’Brien said. “We’re different obviously. I can tell you that it will be a much tougher football game.”

The Texans will be starting a different left tackle with Chris Clark now on IR. The Texans have started four left tackles this season, including Duane Brown getting one start before being traded to Seattle.

O’Brien said he was looking at their options, though Kendall Lamm started the opening loss to Jacksonville and replaced Clark when he left the Baltimore loss.

Houston quarterback Tom Savage has started the last four games with Watson out, and Savage has more interceptions (five) than touchdown passes (four). He’s also been sacked 15 times already, and has lost seven of eight fumbles in six games this season.

school’s only national title came in 1939. Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp said after Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting that expectations were “nothing serious. We just want him to win a national championship.”

Fisher is just the fourth head coach to leave a school where he has won an AP national championship and go directly to another college job. The last to do it was Johnny Majors, who went from Pittsburgh to Tennessee in 1977.

Florida State (5-6) faces Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday and needs a win to be bowl eligible for a 36th consecutive season.

Defensive line coach Odell Haggins will be the interim coach.

Stephen M. Dowell / Orlando Sentinel file

Jimbo Fisher stepped down at Florida State on Friday finishing 83-23 overall in his eight years with the Seminoles.

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COWBOYS KNOW PLAYOFF FORMULA: KEEP WINNING WITHOUT ELLIOTT Dallas keeping slim hope alive

By Schuyler Dixon ASSOCIATED PRE SS

ARLINGTON, Texas — In 15th-year tight end Jason Witten’s view, the Dallas Cowboys still have playoff hopes — if they win every remaining game.

And that includes their first victory without suspended star running back Ezekiel Elliott, 38-14 over the Washington Redskins on Thursday night. It was a refreshing reversal for Dallas after getting outscored 72-6 in the second half of losses in the first three games minus last year’s NFL rushing leader.

The Cowboys (6-6) still have two games without Elliott from his six-game suspension over alleged domestic violence. However, 2016 All-Pro linebacker Sean Lee is expected to return for the next game Dec. 10 against the last-place New York Giants after injuring his hamstring during the first game without Elliott and missing the next three.

“There’s not a whole lot of wiggle room, but you know, that’s what we play for and that’s kind of the big picture,” Witten said after catching his 67th career touchdown, third on the franchise career list, on the same night Dez Bryant broke Hall of Famer Bob Hayes’ club record with his 72nd TD grab.

“I believe we’re in the hunt and there’s still a lot of football to be played.”

Philadelphia needs just one victory in its final five games to take the NFC East title from the Cowboys, who went

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Jason Witten ranks third in franchise history with 67 touchdowns receptions after scoring on an 8-yard pass from Dak Prescott Thursday in the Cowboys’ 38-14 win over the Redskins.

an NFC-best 13-3 last year behind the spectacular rookie seasons of Prescott and Elliott.

The Cowboys made the Eagles wait at least until Sunday’s visit to Seattle by dominating despite just 275 yards total offense against the Redskins. Dallas forced four turnovers after getting one total the previous three games and rookie Ryan Switzer returned a punt 83 yards for his first career touchdown.

Dallas bounced back from three-and-outs on its first four possessions, a point owner and general manager Jerry Jones couldn’t emphasize enough after the game considering how much the offense struggled during the losing streak.

Jones also lauded Prescott for playing with a bruised right hand that had to be checked for a fracture after he banged his throwing hand on a helmet while running the option. X-rays during the game were negative.

Mostly, Jones was just

glad to see some life from his team after a dramatic three-game skid with all kinds of dubious numbers — Prescott’s eight turnovers without a TD pass, for instance.

“You’re talking to a dreamer, so yes,” Jones said when asked if he could still dream about the Cowboys making the playoffs. “It’s not hard for me to look at the way we played, the way we answered the bell, with Sean Lee coming back and the players we’re getting back and not dream.”

The quickest explanation of the daunting road to the playoffs for the Cowboys involves Atlanta.

If the Falcons can win their fourth straight by beating NFC Northleading Minnesota on Sunday, Dallas is guaranteed to be at least two games behind all four current wild-card qualifiers with four games left.

The Cowboys will have head-to-head losses

against two of them (Atlanta and the LA Rams), with wins against none.

Not that such a gloomy forecast was part of the mood in a locker room enjoying its first win since before the downer of learning that Elliott had run out of legal options in his fight against the suspension.

“It’s like a weight lifted off of us,” said running back Alfred Morris, who had his first 100-yard game as Elliott’s replacement. “Our push for the postseason is still alive.

We have to keep showing up. Otherwise, our chances of keeping this postseason alive are slim to none.”

The chances are still kind of slim, though.

NOTES: Jones said CB Orlando Scandrick sustained small bone fractures in his back against the Redskins, but said Scandrick played with the injury. Jones is optimistic Scandrick won’t miss many games. Former QB Tony Romo missed one game with a similar injury in 2014.

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FROM THE COVER Nearly 894K apply for FEMA Harvey aid by deadline

By Juan A. Lozano A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

HOUSTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency says nearly 894,000 people in Texas met this week's deadline to register for federal disaster assistance to help them recover from Hurricane Harvey.

The agency said Friday more than $1.4 billion in help has been approved so far.

But officials and nonprofit groups say more funding will be needed to help the state rebuild and reach those who live in the shadows and might not have easy access to resources to aid in their recovery.

After several extensions, FEMA had set Thursday as the deadline for Texans affected by Harvey to register for federal help.

FEMA says 893,798 Texans registered, with 356,553 applications so far approved.

Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 storm Aug. 25 about 180 miles southwest of Houston.

REPEAL From page A1 er ordinance around the same time as the Englishonly resolution that required home renters to provide proof of citizenship or residency. It also threatened to fine or revoke renter's licenses for landlords who leased property to immigrants illegally living in the U.S. After a seven-year legal fight, a federal court ruled the rental ban unconstitutional. The fight cost Farmers Branch about $6.6 million.

"I remember protests here where they would say, 'Go back to Mexico,'" said Carlos Quintanilla, an immigration and civil rights activist who partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge the rental ban in court.

Quintanilla said repealing the English-only ordinance this week is "part of a long healing process."

GANG From page A1 racketeering activity involving the activities of

Comfort dogs help kids after South Texas church shootings

By Eline De Bruijn THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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LEDO, Texas — He's got to be the most popular guy at school. It's his hair, his eyes, the way he walks down the hallway.

The Dallas Morning News reports the students at McCall Elementary clamor just to be near him.

Pax, a fuzzy 3-year-old golden retriever, visits the school at least once a month to do what he does best: offer comfort.

"They just love him," counselor Shannon Reynolds said. "We like to make Pax a really fun part of the school."

Pax and Phoebe, another golden retriever, are part of the Lutheran Church Charities' comfort dog program , which includes Fort Worth's St. Paul Lutheran Church. The program sends out 100 dogs from 24 states for free visits.

Pax and Phoebe spend six to seven hours a day visiting hospitals, nursing homes and anywhere else that calls for their help in North Texas.

Pax in November traveled to Sutherland Springs to bring comfort to the small South Texas town after more than two dozen people were killed in the church shootings there.

Pax was walking with Janice Marut, St. Paul Lutheran's comfort dog coordinator, when they met a fire chief who told them a struggling firefighter could use a boost.

Pax and five other dogs visited the restaurant where the volunteer firefighter worked. She spent time with the dogs and their handlers, who prayed with her, Marut said.

Later, the firefighter's mother told the charity's president the visit with the dogs was the first time the firefighter had smiled since the shooting.

"That's what we do; that's what we do with a dog," Marut said.

"And it's really not about the dog.

The dog just gets us there and allows us to do the ministry."

Pax, whose name means "peace" in Latin, also traveled to Orlando, Florida, after the Pulse nightclub massacre that killed 49

HOMES From page A1

David Woo / AP

Janice Marut, church comfort dog coordinator, left, and Shannon Reynolds, counselor at McCall Elementary School in Willow Park, Texas, reads with Pax, a Comfort Dog, to kindergarten students.

Pax is a trained LCC K-9 Comfort Dog at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Fort Worth and The Summit in Aledo, Texas. He interacts with people at schools, nursing homes, and hospitals and in disaster response situations.

people in 2016 and provided comfort in Dallas after the police ambush downtown.

Before he went on his first comfort mission, Pax learned how to behave as part of a program in Chicago, where he completed more than 2,000 hours of training.

When his leash is on, Pax knows to obey his handler, who can be anyone from a pool of 45 trained volunteers from the church. He can respond to 40 commands.

On his recent visit to McCall Elementary, Pax helped Reynolds, the school counselor, as she read "Marley: A Thanksgiving to Remember," a story of a mischievous golden retriever.

The relaxed, 74-pound pooch splayed across the colorful carpet as kindergartners surrounded

him, touching his whiskers, smoothing his fur and playing with his paws.

After the story, Reynolds had each student tell Pax what they were thankful for.

"I'm thankful for my swimming pool and Pax," Caden Laughley said.

"I'm thankful for Pax and Jesus," Samantha Reeder said.

"I'm thankful for Pax and bunnies," Ella Lee said.

Reynolds calls the church when she knows a student or staff member needs support. She has reached out when a student has lost a loved one or has a relative dealing with an illness.

The dog's presence in Reynolds' office can help students talk about how they're feeling or just make them feel better if they're too young to put their

historical events as well as everyday life in the rancho from different eras spanning nearly 200 years. American composer and recording artist Omar Zubair was specially commissioned by the River Pierce Foundation.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Zubair’s work has been presented on a global stage in prestigious settings like the Centre

Pompidou and the Grand Palais in Paris and Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. His other collaborations have included the Wooster Group, Guerlain, Madonna and Lady Gaga, amongst others.

The foundation planned to open the Treviño-Uribe fort to the public last December, but the weather was terrible — rainy, muggy and hot.

They invited people from Laredo, and Zapata County Independent School District invited people as

well. But no one came, said Christopher Rincon, the foundation’s executive director.

The plan to have the grand opening last December was aggressive, he said, so when the weather snubbed their plans, the foundation’s board met a month later and decided to move forward in commissioning a sound composer and designer for the fort’s soundtrack, to be ready by the second try for a grand opening.

the gang, violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity and conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Investigators say the gang operated in the Corpus Christi area and the case involves alleged racketeering activity since 1995.

Officials say 13 suspects were in custody Thursday, while a 14th remains at large and is believed to be in the Houston area.

feelings into words, she said.

"He just brings so many smiles and lots of love and comfort to our building, and we're just really, really blessed," Reynolds said.

"He's helped us in so many different situations, from kindness to sadness to celebrations."

When Pax can't be there, the counselor has a stand-in stuffed toy replica, Pax Jr., that children carry around for comfort. Similar toys were handed out to the children in Sutherland Springs.

Pax gets plenty of toys, too.

When he's not working, he loves to roll in the mud and play, handlers said. And he gets a massage every day.

"It helps reduce the stress from him," Marut said. "Because whatever stress he takes from a child he keeps, and we have to help him get rid of it."

FUNDING From page A1 Children.

"Families might fall through the cracks, families might not be able to afford coverage in the marketplace," Kohler said.

"And then there's the system issue that needs to be worked out. On the online marketplace, if you qualify for other insurance programs like CHIP, you cannot enroll in a marketplace plan. So these kids are technically eligible for CHIP, but their coverage will lapse after January."

The commission initially estimated it had enough funding to keep the program running until February, but cut into its

resources by waiving Hurricane Harvey victims' CHIP fees and copayments, said Carrie Williams, spokeswoman for the commission.

Congress let the program's funding expire in September. The program covers 9 million children across the U.S. Texas' program covers more than 400,000 children whose parents have too high an income to qualify for Medicaid, but make less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

"State leaders need to stress the urgency of CHIP funding to Congress," Kohler said. "The longer we wait, the closer Texas gets to cutting off health care for these kids."

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