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Anchorage felt quake that hit Cook Inlet region TYONEK — People in Anchorage and Eagle River reporting feeling a small earthquake that struck the Cook Inlet region on Saturday, the Alaska Earthquake Center said. The magnitude 3.1 earthquake hit at 3:23 p,.m. and had an epicenter that was 17 miles northeast of Tyonek, a village of about 170 people, and 29 miles west of Anchorage. The earthquake had a depth of about 32 miles.
Grand jury indicts pickup driver in fatal crash WASILLA — A grand jury has indicted a driver involved in a crash that killed a retired Alaska State Trooper. Jacob Moreland, 22, of Wasilla was indicted on counts of criminal negligent manslaughter and driving under the influence. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was taken into custody Saturday night at a home, Alaska State Troopers said Sunday. Online court documents do not list Moreland’s attorney. Troopers shortly after 6 p.m. Sept. 26 were notified of a crash west of Wasilla. Investigators determined that Moreland’s pickup had struck the driver’s side of a pickup driven by Dallas Massie, 72, Both drivers were taken to an area hospital but Massie, the former state trooper, did not survive.
Fire displaces four U.S. Army families FAIRBANKS — A fire in housing on a U.S. Army post in Alaska has displaced four families. The fire broke out just after 11 p.m. Sunday in a four-unit housing structure on Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. A military police officer who responded to the fire was injured, according to an Army announcement. He was treated and released at the post hospital. None of the residents living in the complex
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Storms bring all kinds of chaos Area residents dealing with floods, power outages, emergency declarations after days of snow and rain By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
A series of winter storms bringing heavy snow, rain, ice and high winds to the peninsula have sparked emergency disaster declarations in the city of Seldovia and at the borough level. The Kenai Peninsula Borough, through Mayor Charlie Pierce, declared an emergency disaster Friday, Dec. 6, after the city of Seldovia declared their own the same day due to power line damage and extended power outages caused by gale force winds. The borough’s declaration cites several weather-related events that have caused damage across the entire peninsula. In Seldovia, high winds brought down trees and caused power outages across the city and in nearby villages, impacting backup generators, too.
Power outages In other parts of the peninsula, heavy snowfall around Dec. 2 left thousands of residents without power, primarily in Kenai and Nikiski. Monday afternoon Homer Electric Association updated residents via their Facebook page. In Monday’s
Michael Armstrong / Homer News
Mud and debris is washed up at Bear Creek near East End Road on Monday afternoon in Homer. Bear Creek crosses East End Road near Bear Creek Drive and overflowed the creek banks.
post, they said four crews are working on restoration and a crew is responding to outages from Homer. Their post said restoration efforts are taking time because of multiple trees on the lines. As of Monday evening, approximately 1,220 members in the Soldotna, Sterling and Funny River areas were waiting for their power to be restored. In
their post, Homer Electric said there are reports of downed power lines and are urging residents stay away. Homer Electric is also urging residents to not cut trees off lines in case those lines are still live. Residents without power or who want to report trees on lines or downed power lines can call 800-478-8551 to
speak with a representative.
Flooding The declaration is also gearing up for an imminent threat of flooding on the eastern peninsula. The National See storms, Page A2
Dems poised to unveil 2 impeachment articles By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House Democrats are poised to unveil two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump over his actions in the Ukraine matter, with an announcement expected early Tuesday. Democratic leaders are expected to announce the formal charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions but unauthorized to discuss the proceedings and granted anonymity. Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened the House chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry in her office late Monday after a daylong Judiciary
Committee hearing where Democrats laid out the case against Trump, warning of the risk his actions toward Ukraine now pose to U.S. elections and national security. Pelosi declined to discuss the articles or the coming announcement during an evening event, but when asked if she has enough votes to impeach the president, the Democratic leader said she is letting House lawmakers vote their conscience. “On an issue like this, we don’t count the votes. People will just make their voices known on it,” Pelosi said at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. “I haven’t counted votes, nor will I.” The House chairmen involved in the impeachment inquiry left her office at the the Capitol as the articles See impeach, Page A13
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., joined at right by Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the ranking member, convenes the panel to hear investigative findings in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Nikiski fire station project funds approved By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved additional funding for the construction of a third Nikiski fire station at its Tuesday meeting. The approved ordinance appropriates $1.5 million to be taken from
the Nikiski Fire Service Area fund and made available for the project. “The men and women of the Nikiski Fire Service Area have put a lot of thought, time and effort into this project to build fire station number three in Nikiski,” assembly member Jesse Bjorkman said at Tuesday’s meeting. “They have been through many
scenarios working out how this will better serve the people of Nikiski and portions of the fire service area where response times are very slow, sometimes 20 minutes or possibly more.” In 2003, the Nikiski Fire Service Area spent funds to acquire property and design a new fire station at the corner of Holt Lamplight Road
and Escape Route Road. In FY 2019, $3.2 million was appropriated to update design documents, complete construction and purchase the necessary equipment for the new station. At the Nov. 5 assembly meeting, Mayor Charlie Pierce introduced an See station, Page A2
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UA Regents look ahead at reductions, tuition hikes By Peter Segall Juneau Empire
In just under an hour, the University of Alaska Board of Regents approved the draft version of their work plan for 2020 in a brief meeting Monday afternoon. The plan outlines the regent’s meeting schedule for the coming year and the topics to be taken up at each meeting. The university is facing $70 million in cuts over three years following an agreement with Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed in August. Dunleavy has said the reductions
are necessary in light of the state’s $1.6 billion deficit and had originally proposed cutting $136 million from the university budget. The university went through one round of reductions already this year and has more lined up for next year, according to the draft version of the work plan. Also on the plan are proposed tuition increases for fiscal year 2021 and 2022. Regent Sheri Buretta said in the meeting those increases were a difficult decision that needed to be looked at seriously. During the meeting, regents were
careful to discuss how to be inclusive with their policymaking. Though it was never mentioned specifically, the university received a letter in September from the regional accrediting agency the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The letter expressed the commission’s concern with how the UA restructuring process was taking place. The letter raised concerns university leaders were not taking into account feedback from stakeholders such as students and faculty, as required by NWCCU guidelines. Any policy decisions made by the
regents will be audited by the regent’s Governance Committee in consultation with UA General Counsel Mike Hostina. Hostina said that a review of policy decisions by the general counsel would give his office a lot of authority over which policies are ultimately adopted. Regents would need to carefully consider the “allocation of authority,” Hostina said, in light of concerns about stakeholder involvement. Regent Mary Hughes said she anticipated meeting with stakeholders See regents, Page A3
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Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast heavy rains through Tuesday. The heavy rains are expected to cause more power line damages and other property damage due to trees falling, freezing levels and slick conditions, according to the borough’s emergency declaration. NOAA has two active warnings as of Monday afternoon, for high winds and flooding. A flood advisory is in effect until about noon on Tuesday for the Anchor River
and Anchor Point. Rainfall combined with snowmelt over the past 24 hours has resulted in significant rises in small streams and rivers on the Kenai Peninsula, the advisory said. The Anchor River at Anchor Point is expected to rise into minor flood stage Monday evening and flood the campground located downstream from the Sterling Highway Bridge. The Anchor River water levels are expected to remain elevated until Tuesday. Along Turnagain Arm and in the pass, high winds from the east, with gusts up to 80 miles per hour were expected until about 6 p.m., the warning said. The high wind warning said the winds may move
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loose debris, damage property and cause power outages. Borough Emergency Manager Dan Nelson gave borough residents an update on current storms through a YouTube video on Sunday. He said the peninsula is forecast to see high winds, rain and warmer temperatures. “We’re expecting quite a bit of rain and we’ve already seen warmer temperatures that are certainly starting to cause some complications,” Nelson said in the video update. Nelson said the borough’s incident management team is watching the eastern peninsula carefully, where heavy rains could cause drainage issues or localized flooding. “We’re going to respond
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to those issues and try and take care of them before they become a larger issue later in the week as storm totals are expected to increase, but are still pretty much an unknown,” Nelson said in the video update. With weather on the way, Nelson encourages residents to be prepared for potential power outages and to keep a cold weather car kit. In Homer, flooding in the early afternoon from Bear Creek at Bear Creek Drive and East End Road pushed woody debris — including some large logs — across the road and down Meadow Drive, a side street. State officials put out a text alert that the road was shut down to one line with pilot cars. By nightfall the road had been cleared. “It just flooded the whole road,” said Christie Hill, who lives on Meadow Drive. “It just took the driveway out.” A large culvert under East End Road was overwhelmed, Hill said. “The water must have rose 10 to 15 feet, from the bottom of the culvert to the top,” she said.
Seldovia declares emergency disaster The storm system that moved through the peninsula on Nov. 27 with heavy rains and gale force winds caused a power outage in Seldovia and surrounding areas. Power poles broke and lines were damaged by falling trees, according to Seldovia’s disaster declaration. “Treefall damage to power lines was so significant that the City of Seldovia and the surrounding area lost back up power generation on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 27, 2019 which
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Debris from a flood fills ditches along Meadow Drive near East End Road on Monday afternoon, in Homer. Bear Creek crosses East End Road near Bear Creek Drive and overflowed the creek banks.
continued into the following day, and multiple areas in the City of Seldovia and in the surrounding area outside of the city remained without power for over four days with some areas remaining without power for a total of six days,” the declaration said. The nearby villages of Port Graham and Nanwalek also lost power Nov. 27, the declaration said. Access to city infrastructure was also lost due to the high winds. Seldovia Airport was temporarily closed due to tree fall. As of Friday, access to city streets and the Susan B. English School playground and parking lot were limited because of felled trees. The Seldovia Small Boat Harbor and the Jakolof Bay Dock also sustained significant damage due to gale force winds and access between Seldovia and Jakolof Bay and its dock was lost due to the extreme tree fall of dozens of trees on Jakolof Bay Road, the declaration said. Several private homes in Seldovia also sustained significant damage and loss due to falling trees. The high winds also prompted the Alaska
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ordinance providing another $1 million for the project — bringing the total to $4.2 million. Third-party cost estimates, however, showed that the request would not be adequate to complete the scope of work, according to the ordinance.
Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to cancel service of the M/V Tustumena ferry on Sunday and Monday, impacting Homer, Seldovia, Port Lions, Ouzinki and Kodiak. The city of Seldovia said the continuation of the imminent threat of upcoming weather systems, current damage and tree fall removal from the Nov. 27 storm system exceeds the resources and financial capabilities of the city. The city’s declaration calls upon the borough and state for assistance in mitigating current damage and loss caused by the gale force winds and significant tree fall. The declaration also requests assistance in mitigating damage from imminent threat of upcoming weather systems. On Monday afternoon, the Seward Highway was closed after two rock slides blocked the roadway. Rocks fell and blocked the northbound lane at Mile 111, near McHugh Creek and a second rock slide was reported around Mile 106. Homer News reporter Michael Armstrong contributed to this report.
The total requested was amended to $1,519,000 after project bids, which were received Nov. 6, exceeded the project’s cost. The additional funds brought the total cost of the project from $3.2 million to about $4.7 million. The station will be slightly smaller than the other two in Nikiski. The building will be just under 7,500 square feet and two stories, and will have room for one fire engine, one ambulance and two other trucks.
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around the peninsula Caregiver Support Program Christmas Party
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No regularly scheduled meetings for the month of December. Please join us on Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 1-3 p.m. at the Soldotna Senior Center for the Kenai Peninsula Family Caregiver Support Program Christmas Party. We have set aside a special time to connect with our caregivers. Join us for a potluck and a recycle gift exchange. Paper products and drinks provided. RSVP to 262-1280 no later than Dec. 6.
This Christmas season will be like no other you have ever experienced! Imagine being able to step back in time more than 2,000 years. Stroll through the ancient streets of Bethlehem as you await the arrival of Mary and Joseph and the birth of the baby Jesus at 5:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m., 7 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. nightly. You will encounter on your journey: merchants, craftsmen, rabbis and many other citizens, as well as live animals. But that’s not the end of the story. Continue on, following the earthly ministry of Jesus, along the sea of Galilee where you’ll meet John the Baptist, the woman at the well, and others. Afterward, see how the ministry of Jesus is completed on the cross, leaving us with the promise of redemption and eternal life. From Friday, Dec. 13 to Monday, Dec. 16 at 5-8 p.m. at 44440 Kalifornsky Beach Road in Soldotna. Free Admission. Contact 907-262-3220.
Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board meeting The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gilman River Center on Funny River Road, Soldotna. Agenda topics include committee and agency reports. The public is welcome to attend. If you have any questions about the meeting you can contact Jack Blackwell at 907-262-5581, Ext 21.
Holiday art sale/art showing Join us for a holiday art sale/showing by local artists Kaitlin Vadla and Sarah Youngren Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 12-14, from 2-6 p.m. at the Cook Inletkeeper climate action studio 35911 Kenai Spur Highway, unit 13. We have originals, prints, cards, blankets, and more available for sale. Shop local, support your community! Art makes great gifts! A percentage of each sale supports the Community Action Studio. If these hours don’t work for you, contact us 907-394-8103 or 907-252-6525.
Backcountry Film Festival Tsalteshi Trails Association presents the 2019 Backcountry Film Festival at its annual meeting Dec. 14 at the Kenai Visitor and Cultural Center. Admission is free for TTA members and $20 for nonmembers, or become a member at the event and get in for free. Admission comes with a drink token, with beer from Kenai River Brewing and nonalcoholic beverages available. Tsalteshi gifts will be available for purchase. TTA members also get to vote in the annual board of directors election. For more information, email tsalteshi@yahoo.com or call 394-6397.
Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee meeting The Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee will be holding a public meeting in Homer at the KBRR Building at 2181 Kachemak Drive onTuesday, Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. Agenda topics will include Kodiak Finfish and Upper Cook Inlet Finfish proposals. For more information contact Dave Lyon at 399-2340 or contact ADF&G Boards Support at 907-267-2354.
Canine Good Citizen tests Kenai Kennel Club will be offering Canine Good Citizen (CGC) and Canine Good Citizen Advanced (CGCA) tests on Saturday, Jan. 18 beginning at 1 p.m. For more information about the CGC program, go to AKC.org and look for CGC Test Items to find out what your dog will need to know. Cost is $25 per dog to take the test. If you would like to pre-register please email kenaiobedience@gmail.com. Sign up soon, the test is limited to 10 students!
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were injured. Soldiers from three of the four families are deployed. Information about the possible cause has not been released, said Eve Baker, an Army public affairs officer.
Freezer Food switches gears for December Tsalteshi Trails continues its Freezer Food Series of community races. November was running month, December is biking and January will be skiing. Races are held at 2 p.m. Sundays at the trails. Check Tsalteshi Trails on Facebook for each week’s race route and trailhead. Register online at tsalteshi.org or in person at 1:30 p.m. before each week’s race. Bring a nonperishable food donation for a discounted race fee. For more information, email tsalteshi@ yahoo.com or call 252-6297.
Troopers Citizen Academy The Alaska State Troopers in Soldotna will hold a Citizen Academy from Jan. 14 to March 17, 2020. Meetings will be held from 6-9 p.m. one night a week on Tuesdays at the Donald E. Gilman River Center. The application deadline will be Dec. 27 at 4:30 p.m. Applications can be submitted at the Soldotna Trooper Post (46333 Kalifornsky Beach Road) or by email at Mallory.millay@alaska.gov. Any questions, please call Mallory Millay at 260-2701 or email at Mallory. millay@alaska.gov.
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Kenai Community Dog Park meetings Kenai Community Dog Park will host a meeting at the Kenai Library on Dec. 9 from 5-6:30 p.m. to develop goals of Kenai Dog Park. These meetings are open to the public. This will assist us with requirements from a technical assistance grant and assist us with future funding requests.
Evening of Christmas Concert The Redoubt Chamber Orchestra and Kenai Peninsula Singers will present Evening of Christmas on Friday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m., at Renee C. Henderson Auditorium, Kenai Central High School. Hear Christmas tunes new and old, and sing along with some of your favorite carols and the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah! Tickets are available at Country Liquor, River City Books, Already Read Books, and at the door. General admission is $15, youth 18 and under are free!
The Cannery Lodge we host a Brunch with Santa event here Saturday, Dec. 14 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. We will have a hot food buffet, activities for the kids, beverage stations and photos with Santa, Mrs. Claus & Santa’s live reindeer from The Kenai Reindeer Farm. We may even have The Grinch popping in to cause a little mayhem.
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The Totem Tracers Genealogical Society will have a December Social on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1 p.m. at the Kenai Community Library. It will be a side dish potluck with sandwiches provided. Party with fun, games and prizes. Public is welcome.
Kenai Fine Art Center’s November/December exhibit is “GATHER.” Eleven area artists are painting the walls of the center with original works. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. 283-7040, www.kenaifineart.com .”GATHER” will hang until Dec. 14.
Volleyball Club tryouts rescheduled Peninsula Midnight Sun Volleyball Club has rescheduled tryouts to Dec. 10, 11 and 12. Tryouts will be at the Kenai Middle School December 10-11 from 7-9 p.m. for the 18-year-old and under team (18U) and our two 16-yearold and under teams (16U). Tryouts for our 14-year-old and under (14U) team will be held on Dec. 12 at the Kenai Middle School from 7-8:30 p.m. Practices are held two
The Fort Wainwright Fire Department responded to the fire and was assisted by the city of Fairbanks, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Steese Volunteer fire departments. The fouralarm fire was declared extinguished shortly after 2 a.m. The four families, which include 12 children, will be moved to other housing on post.
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FAIRBANKS — A Salcha man died in a fire that destroyed a garage. Joseph Kuntz, 58, suffered severe burns, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. Emergency responders at Salcha Fire and Rescue shortly before 10:30 a.m. Sunday received a report of the fire at a threebay, wood-frame garage. They arrived to find the structure burned to the ground and Kuntz dead. The department is investigating the cause of the fire. Salcha is a Richardson Highway community about 33 miles south of Fairbanks within the southern boundary of the Fairbanks North Star Borough. It has a population of just more than 1,000 people.
ANCHORAGE — The cost for state and federal officials to fight Alaska’s summer wildfires this year is estimated to have surpassed $300 million. The final tally of damage may not be known for years because the estimate does not include costs incurred by private land and homeowners, The Anchorage Daily News reported. Through the end of November, the Alaska Division of Forestry recorded $224.9 million in firefighting expenses for 2019, officials said. The U.S. Forest Service reported $7 million in fire-related expenses, and the U.S. Department of the Interior reported $72 million in expenses, officials said.
SCC Christmas on Ice Please join the Sterling Community Center for a magical evening on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 5 p.m.Weather permitting, bring your skates! Even if it’s too warm for ice, show up! With or without the ice, we will still be celebrating the holiday season with Christmas music, games, bonfire, s’mores, a one-dish cook off competition, and much more.
A spokesperson for the interior secretary said some wildfire costs may show up in later fiscal years and the $72 million is not considered a final figure. As of Nov. 23, wildfires had burned 4,188 square miles. Some of this year’s biggest fires were close to populated areas, officials said. Much of the state’s cost could be reimbursed by the federal government, said Dan Saddler of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. The department estimated a cost to the state of about $142 million, but that could be lowered by $30 million to $35 million if the state receives a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Saddler said. The grant process “takes up to three years to complete,” he said.
Melting snow, icy roads close Anchorage schools, APU campus ANCHORAGE — Icy roads and a forecast for deteriorating conditions closed schools Monday in Alaska’s largest city. The Anchorage School District canceled classes as temperatures continued above freezing and snow melt put water on roadways. The Anchorage campus of Alaska Pacific University also closed. The second in a series of storm systems on Sunday began moving through Southcentral Alaska, bringing rain and high wind, KTUU-television reported. A high wind warning took effect Sunday night and was scheduled to last through 9 p.m. Monday for Portage Valley, Turnagain Arm and higher elevations around Anchorage. Gusts to 90 mph, peaking Monday afternoon, were forecast along Turnagain and higher elevations. In the Anchorage Bowl, gusts to 40 mph were expected Monday afternoon. Rain and snow were forecast for Anchorage starting Monday morning. — Associated Press
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to take place at least once a month from February to June when policy decisions are being made. Chair John Davies asked if there was a time scheduled when stakeholders could be “looped back in” once policies had been decided on. There could be, Hughes said, noting that all regents meetings are open to the public and documentation provided during meeting was available online. Davies suggested there be yet another consultation opportunity for stakeholders
in September or November once policies have been adopted and school is back in session. On Dec. 5, the regents voted to halt the restructuring process until the University of Alaska Fairbanks had completed its accreditation process in 2021. NWCCU’s letter expressed concern at the “long-term consequences of reduced funding as it relates to student learning and educational attainment.” If any of the University of Alaska campuses were to lose their accreditation, it would make those institutions effectively defunct, as any degrees they awarded would not be recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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n what has become an all-too-familiar development, President Donald Trump has nominated, and the Republican-led Senate has approved, a new federal judge despite a “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association. Having won Senate confirmation Wednesday, attorney Sarah E. Pitlyk will sit on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, based in St. Louis. At the end of the month, she will replace the eminently qualified District Judge Catherine Perry, who is entering semi-retirement. Pitlyk has zero trial experience. What she does have are deep ties to conservative activist organizations and an antireproductive-rights philosophy so radical she has even argued against public access to fertility treatments. It’s one thing for Trump and Senate Republicans to embark on a campaign to mold the federal bench in their ideological image for a generation to come; if Democrats held the White House and the Senate, they’d be doing the same thing. But it’s unconscionable to mold that future with jurists who are, even by nonpartisan standards, unqualified and radical. In President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, he never nominated a single person to a federal judicial seat who had been slapped with a “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, the premier professional organization for attorneys. In Trump’s three years in office so far, he has nominated nine such unqualified judges — four of whom were so unqualified that they failed to win confirmation even with a Republican Senate. Pitlyk is the fifth to make it to the bench despite the judgment of her professional colleagues that she doesn’t belong there. Senate Republicans claim the nonpartisan ABA harbors a liberal bias — a rich claim, given that Trump has effectively outsourced his judicial vetting process to the conservative Federalist Society. The facts, the ABA argued, are these: Pitlyk “has never tried a case … has never examined a witness … has not taken a deposition … has never picked a jury … has never participated at any stage of a criminal matter.” What she has done is argued in briefs that when desperate couples seek to have babies through surrogacy or in vitro fertilization, it creates “grave effects on society, such as diminished respect for motherhood.” Unsuccessful Trump nominees have included a paranormal investigator, an attorney who described transgender children as part of “Satan’s plan,” and a 36-yearold lawyer who withdrew after being unable to answer basic legal questions for the Senate. No one could reasonably expect Trump to pass up the chance to nominate conservative judges while he can, but why so many utterly lacking in basic judicial qualifications? Elections have consequences, as the saying goes. A consequence of four more years of the GOP’s lock on the federal bench won’t just mean additional radical conservative judges — it will mean additional unqualified ones. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 7
The upside-down economics of the health insurance system E very year, the General Accounting Office (GAO) delivers a detailed report to Congress that identifies ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the federal government. Since 2011, implementation of their recommendations has saved taxpayers $262 billion. But when America’s health care insurance system is plagued by the same problems, Congress can be trusted to be the most ineffective entity throughout the federal government. A quarter billion dollars might seem like pennies compared to the $6 trillion-dollar federal budget deficit between 2011 and 2018. But I think we’d all agree Congress would be neglecting its duty to taxpayers if they ignored the GAO, even if cutting that wasteful spending put some federal and contractor employees out of work. Now, along comes a study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) that tallies up the inefficiencies in our health care system. The authors argue that replacing the current private/government hybrid with Medicare for All would streamline administrative billing and insurance-related activities. They estimate that alone could deliver a $50 billion annual reduction in America’s health care bill. Don’t expect Congress to get excited though. Democrats won’t be interested eliminating 1.8 million private sector jobs. And Republicans aren’t likely to support a program that increases the size of the federal government by taking over an entire private business sector. But the PERI study is worth examining because it flips the conventional thinking about government versus
private sector efficiency upside down. Under our current system, billing and insurance-related activities are riddled with inefficiencies. Burdensome government regulations are part of the problem. But it’s mostly caused by “all parties operating in the system having to deal with a large number of insurance providers with their own sets of rules and claims-processing requirements.” That description matches the three efficiency problems identified by the GAO. Fragmentation is multiple entities engaged in the same broad area of need. Overlap and duplication happen when they engage in similar activities to provide the same services across the same market of beneficiaries. Eliminating that kind of administrative waste “has appeal to economists who prioritize efficiency,” Rachana Pradhan wrote in an article about the PERI study. “But politically it can be a challenge when what looks like an ‘excess cost’ from a distance looks like a good-paying job to the person who holds it.” Pradhan discussed the problem with Janette Dill, a researcher at the University of Minnesota who has studied health care-related employment. Her explanation sounds more like a warning against reducing the size of the government bureaucracy. “We vilify the health care industry,” she said, “but it provides jobs to a lot of people, and not just jobs for wealthy people but jobs for everyday people.” About 874,000 of those goodpaying jobs are with private insurance companies. Another 1.6 million work primarily on health insurance administrative matters in hospitals,
clinics, doctors and dental offices. Under Medicare for All, some processing clerks and accountants would still have jobs, either with the new government agency managing it or in the office of health care service providers. But 1.8 million would join the ranks of the unemployed. This is what you’d expect when a dozen or more large businesses get absorbed into one large monopoly. But eliminating competition is supposed to drives prices up, and that usually has a negative impact on product demand. And the PERI authors are telling us something different. If Medicare for All is implemented, they predict the demand would rise by 12% as the currently uninsured and underinsured people and families start seeking health care. And as I’ve already pointed out, improved administrative efficiencies would drive the cost of those services down. To be sure, a new government program means new taxes. But combined with lower service and no insurance premiums, PERI claims the bottom-line average is “households and private businesses will be able to pay into Medicare for All about 9.6 percent less than they are presently contributing to the U.S. health care system.” Is there a way to accomplish this without the government running a monopoly? Congress could pass legislation that forced insurance providers to clean up their act. But as we’ll learned from Obamacare, the new regulations made insurance premiums rise, as did insurer profits. Proving both Democrats and Republicans in Congress got it all wrong.
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Nevada third to vote, still up for grabs for 2020 Democrats By Michelle L. Price Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Nevada won its coveted early date in the presidential primary because it was supposed to offer Democrats something different. It’s more racially diverse than the two states that weigh in earlier, Iowa and New Hampshire. Its population is young, working class, largely urban and increasingly leaning toward blue. Nevada looks like America, its boosters like to say. Polls show former Vice President Joe Biden has a slight lead, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders close behind. In one divergence from Iowa, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has trailed further back, struggling to crack double digits, but his campaign was slower to build out. “For whatever reason, it just doesn’t seem to be anybody’s picking up traction other than the big three: Warren, Biden and Bernie,” said Mark Stufflebeam, the president of the Democratic club in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson. Those candidates will be trying to shake up that dynamic this week, as they head to the state to court one of the most powerful political forces in the state, the casino workers’ Culinary Union. The 60,000-member union hasn’t said if it will endorse a candidate, but the town halls it is hosting this week will help the group decide. If the union does endorse and chooses early enough to help organize, the largely female and largely Latino group can offer candidates critical
reach into communities of color. Nevada’s population — 29% Latino, 10% black, 10% Asian American or Pacific Islander — closely mirrors that of the U.S. as a whole and provides the first test of a candidate’s appeal to a broad group. By contrast, Iowa is 85% white. Nevada’s early role can also cement a front-runner, as it did for Hillary Clinton in 2016, or solidify an upset, as it did for Barack Obama in 2008. “Nevada is small but mighty and has a history of playing really pivotal roles in the contests,” said Zac Petkanas, a Democratic strategist and former Hillary Clinton campaign aide. Still, you wouldn’t know it from watching most campaign coverage or tracking the candidates’ schedules. As it has for decades, Iowa gets outsize attention because it’s the first state and sets the tone, along with New Hampshire, Petkanas said. Even South Carolina, which votes a week after Nevada, has gotten more attention because it’s billed as the chief barometer of how candidates fare with African Americans, voters critical to Democrats general election chances. That doesn’t mean most of the top campaigns aren’t trying in Nevada. Democratic activists, voters and strategists in the state say Biden’s name recognition and history of visiting on official and political business have him running strong, though Warren, of Massachusetts, and Sanders, of Vermont, have built the sort of organizations that can drive people to show up at a caucus meeting in person. Sanders has the biggest team in the state,
with more than 70 paid staffers. Tick Segerblom, a Clark County commissioner who endorsed Sanders in 2016, said the Vermont senator learned his lesson from 2016, when his smaller team put up a tough but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to Clinton. Sanders counts a well of support in northern Nevada and Reno’s Washoe County, where he beat Clinton three years ago, but some of those backers have moved to support Warren’s brand of progressivism, Segerblom said. “If he doesn’t win the state, he’ll come very close,” Segerblom said. “It’s anybody’s game right now, but he has everything he needs.” Sanders said Monday in Carson City that he believes he has an “excellent chance” of winning in Nevada. After a late start, Buttigieg hired his first staffer in June, but he used a fundraising cache to quickly expand his team to 55 paid staffers this fall. “We’re running into a lot of people who haven’t really made up their minds yet,” said Paul Selberg, the Nevada director for Buttigieg’s campaign. “It’s up for grabs.” Buttigieg established some of the first campaign footprints in rural areas, a strategy seen as key to Obama’s narrow win in 2008, when he lost the popular vote in the caucuses to Clinton but was awarded more delegates. Buttigieg’s campaign is wooing Nevada’s relatively young population and sizeable group of military families and veterans, with the hope they’ll be drawn to the 37-year-old former Navy intelligence
officer. Laura Martin, the executive director of Nevada progressive group PLAN Action, said the strong organizing teams that Buttigieg, Warren and Sanders have set up are critical to winning. “We want to see that you care — not just a couple of months before the caucus,” she said. “Were you here sweating it out in the July 4th parade? Were you here for Labor Day? They want to see that you’re not just interested in winning, but you’re interested in our community.” Martin noted that California Sen. Kamala Harris, who dropped out last week, had also built up an impressive presence in the state and her exit left a gap. It’s too soon to say which candidate Harris backers will rally behind, she said. RJ Lemus, a 39-year-old student at Nevada State College, had most recently been supporting Harris, after his earlier favorites, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, dropped out. He’s undecided now, saying he’s going to wait and see how the race plays out over the next two and a half months. For now, Lemus said, he’s “comfortable enough with all the front-runners” and doesn’t “really feel a need to latch onto anybody.” He’s considering voting for former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro because Castro has campaigned heavily in Nevada and visited parts no other contender has, like homeless encampments in storm tunnels beneath the streets of Las Vegas.
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Report: Public misled on Afghanistan war progress Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government across three White House administrations misled the public about failures in the Afghanistan war, often suggesting success where it didn’t exist, according to thousands of pages of documents obtained by The Washington Post. The documents reveal deep frustrations about America’s conduct of the Afghanistan war, including the ever-changing U.S. strategy, the struggles to develop an effective Afghan fighting force and persistent failures to defeat the Taliban and combat corruption throughout the government. “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a threestar Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. The interviews were conducted as part of a “Lessons Learned” project by the Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan Reconstruction over the past several years. SIGAR has produced seven reports so far from the more than 400 interviews, and several more are in the works. The Post sought and received raw interview data through the Freedom of Information Act and lawsuits. The documents quote officials close to the 18-year war effort describing a campaign by the U.S. government to distort the grim reality of the war. “Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible,” Bob Crowley, an Army colonel who served as a counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2013 and 2014, told government interviewers, according to the Post. “Surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.” The Pentagon released a statement Monday saying there has been “no intent” by the department to mislead Congress or the public. Defense Department officials “have consistently briefed the
progress and challenges associated with our efforts in Afghanistan, and DoD provides regular reports to Congress that highlight these challenges,” said Lt. Col. Thomas Campbell, a department spokesman. “Most of the individuals interviewed spoke with the benefit of hindsight. Hindsight has also enabled the department to evaluate previous approaches and revise our strategy, as we did in 2017 with the launch of the president’s South Asia strategy.” SIGAR has frequently been vocal about the war’s failures in reports going back more than a decade, including extensive questions about vast waste in the nearly $1 trillion spent on the conflict. The Post said that John Sopko, the head of SIGAR, acknowledged that the documents show “the American people have constantly been lied to.” SIGAR was created by Congress in 2008 to conduct audits and investigations into waste of government spending on the war in Afghanistan. Democrats on Capitol Hill were quick to endorse the story’s findings. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., tweeted:
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An Afghan boy stands on a wall near a horse tied up at a camp for internally displaced people Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. Tens of thousands of internally displaced Afghans live in camps, which lack basic facilities, across Afghanistan.
“The war in Afghanistan is an epic bipartisan failure. I have long called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from that quagmire. Now it appears U.S. officials misled the American public about the war. It is time to leave Afghanistan. Now.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said in a tweet: “775,000 of our troops deployed. 2,400 American lives lost. Over 20,000 Americans wounded. 38,000 civilians killed. Trillions spent. Rumsfeld in 2003: “I have no visibility into who the bad guys are.’”
Emerging deal on consumer health costs supported By Alan Fram Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House endorsed an emerging bipartisan agreement Monday on legislation aimed at curbing rising health care costs, including taking steps to limit “surprise” medical bills that can plague patients treated in emergency rooms. While the deal’s fate remained uncertain, enactment could give President Donald Trump and lawmakers of both parties a chance to crow about a rare legislative achievement during a bitterly
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Putin, Ukraine’s Zelensky agree to a cease-fire By Pol O Gradaigh and Peter Spinella dpa
PARIS — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, agreed on a full cease-fire in eastern Ukraine by the end of the year as they met for the first time on Monday. But Zelensky, who has said resolving the conflict is his top priority and
has reached out to Putin since being elected in April, warned that “real facts” were needed. Multiple previous cease-fires with the pro-Russian rebels whom Putin represented at the talks had failed, he noted. The two leaders, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron who brokered the talks, admitted that there had been less progress on political issues to bring
the five-year conflict to a close. The timing of elections in rebelheld areas of eastern Ukraine remains a stumbling block, with Zelensky insisting Kiev must regain control of the border with Russia before they take place and Putin determined that it should be the other way around. Merkel nevertheless said the talks had “overcome a standstill.” The leaders had agreed on “realistic things” and “of course we will
also continue along this path,” the German leader said. Macron praised Zelensky for his “political courage and determination,” and said he hoped more progress could be made on political issues ahead of a second summit in four months time. The leaders also agreed on further prisoner releases, saying the sides should work to release all conflictrelated detainees by the end of the year.
There should be troop withdrawals from three more areas on the conflict line and more crossing points should be opened for the population. The process was moving in the right direction, Putin said: “We have achieved progress on many issues.” Zelensky has reached out to Putin since his election and recent months have seen several confidence-building steps including troop pullbacks and exchanges of prisoners.
Up to 13 feared dead in volcanic eruption off New Zealand By Nick Perry Associated Press
TAURANGA, New Zealand — A volcano off the New Zealand coast erupted Monday with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam as dozens of tourists were exploring its moon-like surface, killing five people and leaving eight others missing and feared dead, authorities said. Helicopter crews landed on White Island despite the danger and helped evacuate the dozens of survivors, some of them critically injured. Hours after the disaster, authorities said the site was still too dangerous for rescuers to search for the missing. But aircraft flew over the island repeatedly, and “no signs of life have been seen at any point,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. The missing and injured included New Zealanders and tourists from Australia, the U.S., China, Britain and Malaysia, the prime minister said. Some of
those who were exploring White Island volcano were passengers from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Ovation of the Seas, docked on neighboring North Island. “My god,” Michael Schade tweeted as he posted video of the eruption. “My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it. Boat ride home tending to people our boat rescued was indescribable.” His video showed a wall of ash and steam around White Island and a helicopter heavily damaged and covered in ash. He said one woman was badly injured but seemed “strong” by the end. The terrifying disaster immediately raised questions of why people were allowed to visit the island some 30 miles off mainland New Zealand after scientists had noted an uptick in volcanic activity in recent weeks. White Island is the tip of an undersea volcano. Authorities said 47 people were on the island at the time. Some were walking along the rim of the
crater just before the eruption. In addition to the dead and missing, 31 survivors were hospitalized and three others were released, officials said. Some of the victims were reported severely burned. The eruption took place about 2 p.m. and consisted of two explosions in quick succession, the prime minister said. It sent a plume of steam and ash an estimated 12,000 feet (3,660 meters) into the air. One of the boats that returned from the island was covered with ash half a meter (yard) thick, Ardern said. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 13 Australians were hospitalized and 11 others were believed to be among the missing or dead. “Ï fear there is worse news to come over the course of perhaps today or over the next few days,” he said. “This is a terrible tragedy, a time of great innocence and joy interrupted by the horror of that eruption.” The GeoNet agency, which monitors volcanoes and earthquakes
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This aerial photo shows White Island on Monday after its volcanic eruption in New Zealand.
in New Zealand, had raised the alert level on White Island on Nov. 18 from 1 to 2 on a scale where 5 represents a major eruption, noting an increase in sulfur dioxide gas, which originates from magma deep in the volcano. It also said that volcanic tremors had increased
from weak to moderate strength. Ardern said White Island is a “very unpredictable volcano,” and questions about whether tourists should be visiting will have to be addressed, “but for now, we’re focused on those who are caught up in this horrific event.”
World trade minus rules? U.S. shuts down WTO appeals court By Jamey Keaten and Paul Wireman Associated Press
GENEVA — Global commerce will lose its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call “the law of the jungle.’’ The United States, under a president who favors a go-it-alone approach to economics and diplomacy, appears to prefer it that way. The terms of two of the last three judges on the WTO’s appellate body neared their end at midnight Tuesday. Their departure will deprive the de facto Supreme Court of world trade of its ability to issue rulings. Among the disputes left in limbo are seven cases that have been brought against Trump’s decision
last year to declare foreign steel and aluminum a threat to U.S. national security and to hit them with import taxes. The WTO’s lower court — its dispute settlement body — can hear cases. But its decisions will go nowhere if the loser appeals to a higher court that is no longer functioning. Without having to worry about rebukes from the WTO, countries could use tariffs and other sanctions to limit imports. Such rising protectionism could create uncertainty and discourage trade. “We are in a crisis moment for our global trading system,’’ said U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla, who sits on the House Ways and Means subcommittee on trade. “As of tomorrow, the court will cease to exist.’’ The loss of a global trade court of
final appeals, Murphy said, is “really dangerous for American businesses.’’ The panel is supposed to have seven judges. But their ranks have dwindled because the United States — under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Trump — has blocked new appointments to protest the way the WTO does business. Trump and his top trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, are especially vociferous critics of the WTO. They argue that the trade organization constrains America’s ability to counter unfair trading practices by China and other countries. Even other countries have complained about the WTO’s system for settling trade disputes. Critics say that cases take too long to resolve, that the panel often overreaches in its rulings and that the Geneva-based agency is
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Diplomats: U.S. backs out of North Korea human rights meeting UNITED NATIONS — The United States changed its mind and is now refusing to sign a letter that would have authorized the U.N. Security Council to hold a meeting on the human rights situation in North Korea, diplomats said Monday. Without support from the United States, European and other countries that wanted the U.N.’s most powerful body to discuss human rights in North Korea can’t go ahead Tuesday because they are now one vote short of the minimum nine “yes” votes required, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were private. North Korea’s U.N. ambassador, Kim Song, sent a letter to all 14 council members except the U.S. last Wednesday warning that holding a meeting on its human rights would be “another serious provocation” resulting from America’s “hostile policy.” Kim said a meeting would increase tensions on the Korean peninsula, and the North would “respond strongly to the last.”
U.S. airstrike kills extremist rebel in Somalia, officials say MOGADISHU, Somalia — Intelligence officials in Somalia say an airstrike conducted by the U.S. military in the country’s south killed a senior extremist of the al-Shabab rebel group. The airstrike on Monday by an unmanned U.S. drone targeted a vehicle outside Sakow, a town in Somalia’s Middle Jubba region, killing the rebel and wounding another, said the
officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The strike was conducted in coordination with Somali intelligence which assisted in tracking the slain militant before the U.S. airstrike. There was no immediate comment from al-Shabab on the latest airstrike.
Journalist group: Fewer media staff killed this year BRUSSELS — Deaths among journalists killed in the line of duty are lower this year, but a journalism advocacy group said Monday that one reason appears to be that media workers are refraining from going to the most dangerous areas. The International Federation of Journalists said that 49 journalists have been killed so far this year, down from 95 deaths last year. The group said that even if journalists are showing more caution, it also means the public is less informed about some of the most deadly conflicts and human rights abuses. Another reason for the lower number of deaths is decreased fighting in Iraq and Syria. “Although we welcome the fewer losses of lives that we have recorded, we mourn the fact that these conflicts are no longer properly covered by professionals,” the IFJ’s head of human rights and safety Ernest Sagaga told The Associated Press. Mexico is the most dangerous place for a journalist to work, with 10 on-the-job slayings that account for more than half of Latin America’s 18 killings this year. The Asia Pacific region had 12; and Africa, nine. The figures may still slightly rise in the last weeks of the year, Segaga said. It will likely remain the lowest year since 2000 when 37 media staff were killed. — Clarion news services
ill-equipped to deal with the challenge posed by the Chinese economy’s unconventional blend of capitalism and state control. Getting the WTO to reform is difficult because it requires consensus from its 164 member countries. Trump is willing to use America’s economic and political clout to shake things up in a way that smaller countries couldn’t. “Where the United States is completely alone is the approach they’ve taken, (which) is to say: ‘We’re just going to blow this thing up,’ “ said Bernard Hoekman, an economist at the European University Institute. The impending shutdown was met with dismay by several WTO member countries. Zhang Xiangchen, China’s ambassador to the WTO, said in a statement that he was marking the
occasion by wearing the black tie his wife had given him for funerals. Letting the “lights go out’’ at the appellate body, at least temporarily, Zhang said, is delivering what is “no doubt the most severe blow to the multilateral trading system since its establishment.’’ The EU’s WTO ambassador, Joao Aguiar Machado, said in a statement, “The very idea of a rules based multilateral trading system is at stake.’’ The EU, he said, “will not support, and will not condone, a system slipping into power-based economic relationships.’’ The EU and other countries have been working to set up an ersatz appellate body — including some former members of the existing appeals panel — to arbitrate future trade disputes. But that’s just a stopgap. And it is uncertain how many countries might join in.
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2019. There are 21 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 10, 1994, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East. On this date: In 1817, Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state of the Union. In 1861, the Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow state government that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort. In 1869, women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory. In 1905, the O. Henry short story “The Gift of the Magi” was published in the New York Sunday World Magazine under the title “Gifts of the Magi.” In 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepted it “with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind.” In 1967, singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona; trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the group the Bar-Kays, was the only survivor. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded three days of summit talks in Washington. Violinist Jascha Heifetz died in Los Angeles at age 86. In 1995, the first group of U-S Marines arrived in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to join NATO soldiers sent to enforce peace in former Yugoslavia. In 1996, South African President Nelson Mandela signed the country’s new constitution into law during a ceremony in Sharpeville. In 2007, suspended NFL star Michael Vick was sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed (Vick served 19 months at Leavenworth). Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment. In 2013, South Africa held a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, during which U.S. President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectators and nearly 100 visiting heads of state with a plea for the world to emulate “the last great liberator of the 20th century.” (The ceremony was marred by the presence of a sign-language interpreter who deaf advocates said was an impostor waving his arms around meaninglessly.) General Motors named product chief Mary Barra its new CEO, making her the first woman to run a U.S. car company. Ten years ago: President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a humble acknowledgment of his scant accomplishments and a robust defense of the U.S. at war. James Cameron’s 3-D film epic “Avatar” had its world premiere in London. Five years ago: Current and former CIA officials pushed back against the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report released the day before which concluded that the United States had brutalized scores of terror suspects during interrogations, calling the report a political stunt by Senate Democrats which tarnished a program that saved American lives. NFL owners moved quickly and unanimously to change the league’s personal conduct policy, announcing it would hire a special counsel to oversee initial discipline. One year ago: Facing almost certain defeat, British Prime Minister Theresa May postponed a vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal, saying she would go back to EU leaders to seek changes to the divorce agreement. In a televised address, French President Emmanuel Macron broke his silence on the increasingly violent protests in Paris and elsewhere, pleading for a return to calm and offering tax relief for struggling workers and pensioners. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Tommy Kirk is 78. Actress Fionnula Flanagan is 78. Pop singer Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy) is 78. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ralph Tavares is 78. Actress-singer Gloria Loring is 73. Pop-funk musician Walter “Clyde” Orange (The Commodores) is 73. Country singer Johnny Rodriguez is 68. Actress Susan Dey is 67. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is 63. Jazz musician Paul Hardcastle is 62. Actor John York (TV: “General Hospital”) is 61. Actor-director Kenneth Branagh (BRAH’-nah) is 59. Actress Nia Peeples is 58. TV chef Bobby Flay is 55. Rock singer-musician J Mascis is 54. Rock musician Scot (cq) Alexander (Dishwalla) is 48. Actress-comedian Arden Myrin is 46. Rock musician Meg White (The White Stripes) is 45. Actress Emmanuelle Chriqui is 44. Rapper Kuniva (D12) is 44. Actor Gavin Houston is 42. Actor Alano Miller is 40. Violinist Sarah Chang is 39. Rock musician Noah Harmon (Airborne Toxic Event) is 38. Actor Patrick John Flueger is 36. Country singer Meghan Linsey is 34. Actress Raven-Symone is 34. Actress/singer Teyana Taylor is 29. Actress Kiki Layne is 28. Thought for Today: “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” -- Amy Carmichael, American missionary (1867-1951).
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Youngren qualifies for marathon trials By Jeff Helminiak Peninsula Clarion
Megan Youngren’s watch wasn’t working Sunday. Her will was. Despite a malfunctioning timepiece that left her without a true idea of her pace throughout the race, Youngren, 28, qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials for marathon by clocking 2 hours, 43 minutes, 52 seconds, at the California International Marathon in Sacramento, California. The effort put Youngren comfortably under the “B” qualifying standard of 2:45:00, gaining her entrance to the trials on Feb. 29, 2020, in Atlanta. The CIM put two athletes with strong Kenai Peninsula ties among the best Alaska women marathoners ever. According to a list compiled by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame, Youngren is now fourth on the alltime list of Alaska women’s marathon times, which is topped by the 2:31:35 Chris Clark ran at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The runner must have grown up in Alaska or have been living in Alaska when running the fast marathon. Anchorage’s Julianne Dickerson, who was raised in Kenai, finished 119th among women at 2:49:52, averaging 6:29 per mile. That effort put her ninth on the all-time Alaska list.
“I’m still kind of shocked,” Youngren said in a cellphone interview Monday. “I haven’t even fully processed it yet. I can’t believe it worked. “It was a really hard race from the beginning and it never got any easier. I felt like for most of it, there was a chance I would fall apart. It was one of those races where I left everything on the course.” According to Matias Saari of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame, Youngren is the fifth Alaskan to qualify for the upcoming marathon trials. Also going are Anchorage’s Anna Dalton, Fairbanks’ Keri McEntee, Anchorage’s Aaron Fletcher and Tony Tomsich, formerly of Fairbanks. The California International Marathon, a fast course that draws fast runners, is considered an ideal place to run a fast marathon. Youngren, averaging 6:15 per mile, finished 40th among women, with California’s Jane Kibii taking the victory at 2:29:31. Going into the race, Youngren had heard how fast the CIM course was. She found out quickly that a marathon under 2:45 is going to hurt, no matter where it is done. “Every elevation graph shows it downhill from start to finish,” Youngren said. “There was only one spot where I felt like it was a true downhill, where it felt like my legs were getting a rest. Every other part of it was uphill or
flat.” Youngren was not getting accurate splits off her watch at the beginning of the race and later learned she went out at a pace that would have given her a 2:40 marathon. There was a pace group for a 2:45 marathon, but there were so many fast runners Youngren wasn’t sure where that pace group was. “I always had roughly an idea of how fast I was going and where I was at,” Youngren said. “Luckily, I have a thing on my foot that tells me how much power I’m putting out, and I knew my target for the race. I ended up going off that and it was great.” There were still lingering doubts. With about four miles to go, a couple of guys passed Youngren and she asked them if they were part of the 2:45 group. One initially said, “Yes,” inducing panic, because Youngren knew she couldn’t hold that pace. Then the two corrected themselves and said the 2:45 group was about a minute behind. That gave Youngren a nice mental boost. “I was in so much pain for the whole race,” she said. “It was just me and the road and some people around me.” Running on the edge, Youngren wrote in a Reddit race report that it didn’t help that so many started dropping from the marathon after mile 18. CIM is the place to get a PR, and for many it’s PR
Danica Schmidt has big hoops weekend Staff report Peninsula Clarion
Danica Schmidt, a 2019 graduate of Soldotna High School, was named the tournament MVP of the 24th annual Everett Women’s Basketball Classic on Sunday while playing for Lower Columbia College of Longview, Washington. Schmidt averaged 12.3 points and 11 rebounds in the tourney to lead the Red Devils (6-3 overall) to the championship. Lower Columbia went 3-0 at the tournament, finishing with a 79-73 victory over Southwestern Oregon in overtime in
Sunday’s championship contest. Schmidt had 10 points and 13 rebounds off the bench in the game. In the first two games of the tournament, Lower Columbia defeated teams which had been previously unbeaten this season. Friday, the Red Devils topped Big Bend 73-58, with Schmidt grabbing 11 rebounds and also scoring eight points. Saturday, Lower Columbia topped Clackamas 87-75 by scoring 53 points in the second half. Schmidt had 16 points and nine rebounds as the Red Devils bench keyed the victory.
Islanders top Lightning TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Semyon Varlamov stopped 31 shots, Brock Nelson scored twice in the third period, and the New York Islanders beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 on Monday night.
BLUE JACKETS 5, CAPITALS 2 WA S H I N G T O N — Cam Atkinson scored twice, including a late empty-netter, and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 37 shots to help Columbus beat Washington.
SENATORS 5, BRUINS 2 OTTAWA, Ontario — Anthony Duclair had two goals and an assist and Ottawa beat Boston.
FLAMES 5, AVALANCHE 4, OT DENVER — Sean Monahan scored 2:09 into overtime to lift Calgary past Colorado. Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, Derek Ryan also scored and David Rittich made 28 saves for the Flames.
On Tap Thursday Hockey Kenai at Service, 4:30 p.m. at Ben Boeke Friday Hockey Kenai at Houston, 7 p.m. Homer at Bartlett, 4:30 p.m. at Ben Boeke Wrestling Kachemak Conference wrestling at Cordova, 3 p.m. Soldotna at Northern Lights Conference tourney at Colony, 2 p.m. wrestling start, 6 p.m. semifinals
Saturday Hockey Kenai at Palmer, 2:30 p.m. Homer at Service, 1:15 p.m. at Ben Boeke Wrestling Kachemak Conference wrestling at Cordova, 9 a.m. Soldotna at Northern Lights Conference tourney at Colony, 10 a.m. consolation, 2:30 p.m. championships Skiing Lynx Loppet, 5K classic, interval start, 12 p.m.
Soldotna’s Megan Youngren competes in the California International Marathon in Sacramento on Sunday. (Photo provided by Megan Youngren)
or bust. Youngren always thought she had a sub-2:45 in her, but she’d gone into two previous marathons this year thinking the same thing and failed to qualify. In another marathon, she thought she had at least a shot and failed. “I made it through this one,” she said. “It’s a sense of relief more than celebration.” Youngren said the qualifying time is more about the journey that got her here than the Atlanta destination. “I started from nothing five years ago and trained to get to this point,” she said. “It’s not like I went from zero to here, but it was a long process. “I got more organized and read more, talked to people and honed everything in.”
During the winter of 2018-19, Youngren put in a solid training cycle then ran 3:06:42 at the Los Angeles Marathon in March. That went so well Youngren started to wonder whether it was possible to qualify for the trials. Now that she’s done it, she must figure out a way to train for a February marathon — a marathon for which the Atlanta Track Club will pay some of her travel costs. “I’m going to run Ski Hill Road a lot,” she said. “I don’t like the treadmill at all. Things hurt that should not hurt.” Youngren said the Atlanta course has rolling hills that make it difficult, but Youngren’s regular training ground of Tsalteshi Trails
should make that palatable, although Tsalteshi is not available in the winter. She has no illusions about finishing in the top three and making the Olympics. “2:44 exactly is the goal,” she said. “It’s like when people qualify for (the Boston Marathon). That’s the hard part and Boston itself is the victory lap. I don’t have thoughts of the top three, I’m going to do the best I can and have fun. “The whole thing is more about the journey than the destination and that’s why I have a weird feeling now.” After the trails, Youngren will move her focus from pavement marathons to things more in her wheelhouse, like ultramarathons and trail races.
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FAU 7, Arizona St. 5, Iowa St. 5, UCF 5, California 4, Washington 3, North Dakota St. 1.
Arizona 32 18 10 4 40 89 75 Calgary 32 16 12 4 36 86 96 Vegas 32 15 12 5 35 93 93 Vancouver 30 15 11 4 34 103 91 San Jose 32 15 15 2 32 88 111 Anaheim 30 12 14 4 28 79 90 Los Angeles 31 11 18 2 24 77 102 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Sunday’s Games Winnipeg 3, Anaheim 2 Florida 5, San Jose 1 N.Y. Rangers 5, Vegas 0 Arizona 4, Chicago 3, SO Buffalo 3, Edmonton 2, OT Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 1 Columbus 5, Washington 2 Ottawa 5, Boston 2 Calgary 5, Colorado 4, OT Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay at Florida, 3 p.m. Montreal at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. St. Louis at Buffalo, 3:30 p.m. San Jose at Nashville, 4 p.m. Detroit at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Anaheim at Minnesota, 4 p.m. New Jersey at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Calgary at Arizona, 5 p.m. Carolina at Edmonton, 5 p.m. Toronto at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Chicago at Vegas, 6 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m. All Times AKST
scoreboard Basketball AP Women’s Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:
Record Pts Prv 1. Stanford (27) 8-0 747 2. UConn (1) 8-0 686 3. Oregon (1) 7-1 679 4. Oregon St. (1) 8-0 653 5. South Carolina 9-1 634 6. Baylor 8-1 598 7. Louisville 9-1 597 8. Florida St. 9-0 550 9. N.C. State 9-0 490 10. UCLA 8-0 458 11. Texas A&M 7-1 438 12. Indiana 8-1 412 13. Maryland 8-2 395 14. Kentucky 9-0 386 15. Mississippi St. 8-2 349 16. DePaul 7-1 302 17. Gonzaga 8-1 255 18. Arizona 9-0 235 19. Michigan St. 6-2 150 20. Missouri St. 8-1 148 21. Arkansas 8-1 120 22. West Virginia 6-1 106 23. Tennessee 7-1 96 24. Michigan 8-1 79 25. Miami 5-3 56
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Others receiving votes: South Dakota 46, Florida Gulf Coast 39, Minnesota 19, North Carolina 10, Ohio St. 6, Rutgers 5, Colorado 3, Arizona St. 1, Texas 1, TCU 1.
Men’s AP Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Louisville (55) 9-0 1591 1 2. Kansas (4) 7-1 1486 2 3. Ohio St. (5) 9-0 1464 6 4. Maryland 10-0 1428 3 5. Michigan 8-1 1286 4 6. Gonzaga 10-1 1235 9 7. Duke 9-1 1232 10 8. Kentucky 7-1 1170 8 9. Virginia 8-1 1060 5 10. Oregon 7-2 905 13 11. Baylor 7-1 872 18 12. Auburn 8-0 836 14 13. Memphis 8-1 756 15 14. Dayton 7-1 672 19 15. Arizona 9-1 654 12 16. Michigan St. 6-3 637 11 17. North Carolina 6-3 615 7 18. Butler 9-0 529 24 19. Tennessee 7-1 455 21 20. Villanova 7-2 285 23 21. Florida St. 8-2 253 17 22. Seton Hall 6-3 250 16 23. Xavier 9-1 216 -24. Colorado 7-1 210 20 25. San Diego St. 10-0 197 -Others receiving votes: Utah St. 160, Washington 144, Purdue 130, Indiana 13, Marquette 11, Liberty 9, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 8, Texas 6, Florida 5, Penn St. 5, Georgetown 4, Richmond 3, West Virginia 3, LSU 2, DePaul 1, Duquesne 1, VCU 1.
Women’s Major Scores EAST Columbia 63, Davidson 60 St. John’s 96, Army 60 SOUTH Florida Gulf Coast 91, Florida Memorial 47 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 81, Ark.-Pine Bluff 60 SMU 66, North Dakota 51
EAST Duquesne 90, Columbia 54 SOUTH Alcorn St. 108, Rust College 62 MIDWEST Iowa 72, Minnesota 52 South Dakota 73, Alabama St. 59
NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 17 5 .773 — Philadelphia 17 7 .708 1 Toronto 16 7 .696 1½ Brooklyn 13 10 .565 4½ New York 4 19 .174 13½ Southeast Division Miami 17 6 .739 — Orlando 11 12 .478 6 Charlotte 9 16 .360 9 Washington 7 15 .318 9½ Atlanta 6 17 .261 11 Central Division Milwaukee 21 3 .875 — Indiana 15 9 .625 6 Detroit 10 14 .417 11 Chicago 8 17 .320 13½ Cleveland 5 18 .217 15½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Dallas 16 7 .696 — Houston 15 8 .652 1 San Antonio 9 14 .391 7 Memphis 7 16 .304 9 New Orleans 6 18 .250 10½ Northwest Division Denver 14 7 .667 — Utah 13 11 .542 2½ Oklahoma City 11 12 .478 4 Minnesota 10 13 .435 5 Portland 9 15 .375 6½ Pacific Division L.A. Lakers 21 3 .875 — L.A. Clippers 18 7 .720 3½ Phoenix 11 12 .478 9½ Sacramento 10 13 .435 10½ Golden State 5 20 .200 16½ Sunday’s Games Brooklyn 105, Denver 102 Atlanta 122, Charlotte 107 L.A. Clippers 135, Washington 119 Miami 110, Chicago 105, OT Philadelphia 110, Toronto 104 Sacramento 110, Dallas 106 Oklahoma City 108, Portland 96 L.A. Lakers 142, Minnesota 125 Monday’s Games L.A. Clippers 110, Indiana 99 Boston 110, Cleveland 88 Detroit 105, New Orleans 103 Milwaukee 110, Orlando 101 Sacramento 119, Houston 118 Toronto 93, Chicago 92 Oklahoma City 104, Utah 90 Phoenix 125, Minnesota 109 Memphis 110, Golden State 102 Tuesday’s Games Washington at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 4 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. New York at Portland, 6 p.m. All Times AKST
Football AP Top 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. LSU (47) 13-0 1535 1 2. Ohio St. (12) 13-0 1488 2 3. Clemson (3) 13-0 1441 3 4. Oklahoma 12-1 1364 6 5. Georgia 11-2 1241 4 6. Florida 10-2 1167 7 7. Oregon 11-2 1141 13 8. Baylor 11-2 1039 8 9. Alabama 10-2 1011 9 9. Auburn 9-3 1011 11 11. Wisconsin 10-3 944 10 12. Utah 11-2 909 5 13. Penn St. 10-2 888 12 14. Notre Dame 10-2 709 14 15. Memphis 12-1 675 16 16. Minnesota 10-2 645 15 17. Michigan 9-3 597 17 18. Boise St. 12-1 500 19 19. Iowa 9-3 494 18 20. Appalachian St. 12-1 355 20 21. Navy 9-2 246 23 22. Southern Cal 8-4 195 24 23. Cincinnati 10-3 183 21 24. Air Force 10-2 97 25 25. Oklahoma St. 8-4 70 NR Others receiving votes: SMU 63, Virginia 55, Kansas St. 50, Texas A&M 7,
NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 3 0 .769 338 168 Buffalo 9 4 0 .692 274 212 N.Y. Jets 5 8 0 .385 226 301 Miami 3 10 0 .231 221 399 South Houston 8 5 0 .615 317 309 Tennessee 8 5 0 .615 318 255 Indianapolis 6 7 0 .462 296 295 Jacksonville 4 9 0 .308 230 337 North x-Baltimore 11 2 0 .846 430 236 Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 259 242 Cleveland 6 7 0 .462 273 291 Cincinnati 1 12 0 .077 198 325 West y-Kansas City 9 4 0 .692 371 281 Oakland 6 7 0 .462 258 366 Denver 5 8 0 .385 236 261 L.A. Chargers 5 8 0 .385 289 251 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Dallas 6 7 0 .462 334 267 Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 297 301 Washington 3 10 0 .231 188 310 N.Y. Giants 2 11 0 .154 247 362 South y-New Orleans 10 3 0 .769 344 296 Tampa Bay 6 7 0 .462 378 381 Carolina 5 8 0 .385 300 360 Atlanta 4 9 0 .308 300 343 North Green Bay 10 3 0 .769 309 270 Minnesota 9 4 0 .692 339 249 Chicago 7 6 0 .538 243 232 Detroit 3 9 1 .269 287 335 West San Francisco 11 2 0 .846 397 229 Seattle 10 3 0 .769 341 321 L.A. Rams 8 5 0 .615 311 262 Arizona 3 9 1 .269 272 374 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Chicago 31, Dallas 24 Sunday’s Games Green Bay 20, Washington 15 Minnesota 20, Detroit 7 Atlanta 40, Carolina 20 San Francisco 48, New Orleans 46 Cleveland 27, Cincinnati 19 Tampa Bay 38, Indianapolis 35 Denver 38, Houston 24 N.Y. Jets 22, Miami 21 Baltimore 24, Buffalo 17 L.A. Chargers 45, Jacksonville 10 Tennessee 42, Oakland 21 Kansas City 23, New England 16 Pittsburgh 23, Arizona 17 L.A. Rams 28, Seattle 12 Monday’s Games Philadelphia 23, N.Y. Giants 17, OT Thursday, Dec. 12 N.Y. Jets at Baltimore, 4:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15 Denver at Kansas City, 9 a.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 9 a.m. Houston at Tennessee, 9 a.m. Miami at N.Y. Giants, 9 a.m. Seattle at Carolina, 9 a.m. Chicago at Green Bay, 9 a.m. New England at Cincinnati, 9 a.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 9 a.m. Cleveland at Arizona, 12:05 p.m. Jacksonville at Oakland, 12:05 p.m. Minnesota at L.A. Chargers, 12:05 p.m. Atlanta at San Francisco, 12:25 p.m. L.A. Rams at Dallas, 12:25 p.m. Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 4:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16 Indianapolis at New Orleans, 4:15 p.m. All Times AKST
Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 31 20 5 6 46 107 78 Florida 29 15 9 5 35 105 99 Buffalo 31 14 11 6 34 96 95 Montreal 30 13 11 6 32 97 102 Toronto 31 14 13 4 32 100 103 Tampa Bay 28 14 11 3 31 103 92 Ottawa 31 13 17 1 27 84 97 Detroit 31 7 21 3 17 66 124 Metropolitan Division Washington 32 22 5 5 49 117 93 N.Y. Islanders 29 20 7 2 42 86 69 Philadelphia 30 17 8 5 39 96 85 Pittsburgh 30 17 9 4 38 103 81 Carolina 30 18 11 1 37 97 82 N.Y. Rangers 29 15 11 3 33 93 91 Columbus 30 12 14 4 28 76 93 New Jersey 29 9 15 5 23 74 109 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division St. Louis 31 18 7 6 42 92 83 Colorado 30 19 8 3 41 111 84 Winnipeg 30 18 10 2 38 87 82 Dallas 31 17 11 3 37 82 76 Minnesota 30 14 12 4 32 90 98 Nashville 28 13 10 5 31 95 92 Chicago 30 12 12 6 30 83 93 Pacific Division Edmonton 32 18 10 4 40 97 93
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BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed RHP Marcos Diplán off waivers from Detroit. BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with Raquel Ferreira, Eddie Romero, and Zack Scott to multi-year contracts with the club, all three will hold the title of executive vice president/assistant general manager. TEXAS RANGERS — Named Greg Hibbard pitching coach, Chase Lambin hitting coach and Tyler Graham coach of Nashville (PCL); Bobby Wilson manager, Jeff Andrews pitching coach, Josue Perez hitting coach and Jonathan Gelnar coach of Frisco (TL); Josh Johnson manager, Jared Goedert hitting coach and Jon Nazarko strength coach of Down East (Carolina); Carlos Cardoza manager, Jason Hart hitting coach, Jay Sullenger coach, Tyler Voas trainer and Andy Earp strength coach of Hickory (SAL); Sean Cashman manager, Bryan Conger pitching coach, Sharnol Adriana hitting coach, Pat Brady coach and Yuichi Takizawa trainer of Spokane (NWL); Matt Hagen minor league field coordinator; Jono Arnold minor league pitching coordinator; Cody Atkinson minor league hitting coordinator; Geno Petralli minor league roving coach; and Turtle Thomas minor league roving catching coordinator. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Promoted assistant trainer Jose Ministral to head trainer. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Named Andy Green bench coach, Chris Young bullpen coach, Craig Driver first base/ catching coach, Mike Napoli quality assurance coach and Kyle Evans senior director of major league data and development and Will Venable third base coach. CINCINNATI REDS — Assigned RHP R.J. Alaniz outright to Louisville (IL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Designated RHP Joe Harvey for assignment. Claimed RHP Tyler Kinley off waivers from Miami. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Alex Claudio on a one-year contract. Claimed INF Ronny Rodríguez off waivers from Detroit. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHP Zack Wheeler on a five-year contract. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Stephen Strasburg to a seven-year contract. FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Placed LB Roquan Smith on IR. Signed LB Devante Bond. Released LB Dewayne Hendrix from the practice squad. Signed DB Xavier Crawford to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived PK Brett Maher. Signed PK Kai Forbath. DETROIT LIONS — Signed LB Anthony Pittman to the practice squad. Released TE Cole Herdman from the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated T Jared Veldheer from the exempt/commissioner permission list. Released G/T Adam Pankey. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed K Adam Vinatieri and WRr Parris Campbell on the IR. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined N.Y. Rangers F Brendan Lemieux $2,000.00 for elbowing. ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned F Michael Chaput to Tucson (AHL). Recalled D Robbie Russo from Tucson. ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled Fs Jordan Kyrou and Austin Poganski from San Antonio (AHL). American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled F Tyler Spezia from Toledo (ECHL). Signed D Brandon Anselmini to a professional tryout. SOCCER Major League Soccer ATLANTA UNITED — Acquired M Emerson Hyndman by permanent transfer from Bournemouth (Premier League-England) agreed to terms with him on a multi-year contract. D.C. UNITED — Acquired G Bill Hamid by permanent transfer from Midtjylland (Superliga-Denmark) and signed him to a three-year contract. MONTREAL IMPACT — Re-signed F Anthony Jackson-Hamel to a one-year contract. ORLANDO CITY — Acquired M Andrés Perea on a one-year loan from Atlético Nacional (Primera A-Colombia). Signed M David Loera to a multiyear contract. SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed F Khiry Shelton to a three-year contract.
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while it was granted credentials for the crew from the Browns, the home team, “our failure to inform the Bengals and the League was an unintended oversight.” When confronted, the team said the crew “immediately turned over all footage to the league and cooperated fully.” “The sole purpose of the filming was to provide an illustration of an advance scout at work on the road. There was no intention of using the footage for any other purpose,” the statement said. “We accept full responsibility for the actions of our production crew at the Browns-Bengals game.”
NEW ORLEANS — Derrick Rose hit a 14-foot jumper in the lane with 0.3 seconds left and scored 17 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter to lift Detroit over New Orleans. With the game tied, Detroit worked an isolation play for Rose, who dribbled the ball out top against Jrue Holiday. Rose drove into the lane, spun to the right and hit the jumper over Holiday’s outstretched arms.
CHICAGO — Pascal Siakam scored 22 points, and Toronto held on to beat Chicago when Zach LaVine missed a runner in the closing seconds. The defending NBA champions ended their first three-game skid since last November and beat Chicago for the 11th straight time. Norman Powell added 17 points for Toronto, including six in the fourth quarter.
THUNDER 104, JAZZ 90
CLIPPERS 110, PACERS 99
SALT LAKE CITY — Dennis Schroder scored 27 points off the bench and Oklahoma City beat Utah. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 20 points and Chris
INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 36 points in his first trip to Indianapolis with the Clippers and
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carson Wentz relied on a bunch of guys off the practice squad and his go-to guy Zach Ertz to rally the Philadelphia Eagles. After Eli Manning led the New York Giants to a 14-point lead, Wentz brought the injury-depleted Eagles back and tossed a 2-yard touchdown pass to Ertz in overtime to give Philadelphia a 23-17 win on Monday night. The Eagles (6-7) snapped a
executive committee means that Russia’s flag, name and anthem will not appear at the Tokyo Games, and the country also could be stripped of hosting world championships in Olympic sports. The sanctions are the harshest punishment yet for Russian state authorities who were accused of tampering with a Moscow laboratory database.
three-game losing streak and moved into a tie with Dallas (6-7) for first place in the NFC East. Philadelphia takes the division title if it wins its final three games. The Eagles meet the Cowboys in Week 16. “Guys stepped up and made plays,” Wentz said. “We had guys moving around and I had no choice but to trust these guys.” The Eagles were down to one healthy wide receiver by the end of the game and were
SUNS 125, TIMBERWOLVES 109 PHOENIX — Devin Booker scored 26 points, Kelly Oubre Jr. added 24 on his 24th birthday and Phoenix beat Minnesota. Oubre shot 8 of 15 from the field and made all six free throws, while Ricky Rubio finished with 16 points and 14 assists. The Suns won at home for the first time since Nov. 14, snapping a fourgame losing streak at Talking Stick Resort Arena.
GRIZZLIES 110, WARRIORS 102 SAN FRANCISCO — Ja Morant returned to Memphis’ lineup and scored 26 points to lead the Grizzlies over Golden State. The No. 2 pick in the draft added seven assists, two rebounds and a steal in 29 minutes after missing the previous four games with a sore back.
using inexperienced guys and players out of position. Ertz, a Pro Bowl tight end, had to line up at wide receiver. “We understood as a team that we had to find a way,” Ertz said. Manning, the two-time Super Bowl MVP, threw a pair of TD passes to Darius Slayton in his first game since Week 2. Filling in for injured rookie Daniel Jones, Manning was 15 of 30 for 203 yards. But he couldn’t prevent New York
(2-11) from losing its ninth straight game, tying a franchise record set in 1976, when the team opened 0-9. “I’ve played a lot of football games,” Manning said. “I know the offense and know what I’m supposed to do. I made some good throws and didn’t make some plays that I needed to.” Wentz threw for 325 yards and a pair of TDs, including a 5-yard toss to Ertz to tie it at 17 with 1:53 left.
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HOUSTON — Nemanja Bjelica made a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift Sacramento over Houston. The game was tied when Russell Westbrook drove into the lane for a layup that put Houston on top with a second to go. After a timeout, Cory Joseph inbounded the ball to Bjelica and his 3-pointer swished through the net to give the Kings the win and send the entire bench onto the court to celebrate.
injury filled resume. Strasburg received the highest deal for a pitcher in both total dollars and average annual value at $35 million. The largest contract for a pitcher had been David Price’s $217 million, sevenyear deal with Boston that began in 2016. The highest average value had been Zack Greinke’s $34.4 million as part of a $206.5 million, sixyear agreement with Arizona prior to the 2016 season.
Montrezl Harrell added 26 to power short-handed Los Angeles Clippers past Indiana. Booed repeatedly early in the game, George finished with a season-high seven 3-pointers as the Clippers won for the fourth time in five games.
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 32 points and 15 rebounds to lead Milwaukee to its 15th straight victory. Khris Middleton scored 20 points for Milwaukee and Dante DiVincenzo added 12 points off the bench.
KINGS 119, ROCKETS 118
Russia gets 4-year ban LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russia was slapped Monday with a four-year ban from international sports events, including next summer’s Tokyo Olympics, over a longstanding doping scandal, although its athletes will still be able to compete if they can show they are clean competitors. The ruling by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s
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By The Associated Press BOSTON — Kemba Walker led Boston’s balanced scoring with 22 points, Gordon Hayward had 14 points in his return from a broken hand and the Celtics remained unbeaten at home with a 110-88 victory over the sinking Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night. Jaylen Brown had 20 points and seven rebounds, Jayson Tatum added 19 points with 11 boards, and Daniel Theis scored 10 for Boston, which improved to 10-0 at TD Garden.
Strasburg gets $245 million SAN DIEGO (AP) — Stephen Strasburg returned to the Washington Nationals with a record contract on the first day of the winter meetings, a deal that puts fellow free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole in position for an even larger payday. Washington and the World Series MVP agreed to a $245 million, seven-year contact, a deal of surprising size and length for a 31-yearold right-hander with an
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Mom weighs bringing defiant daughter on family vacation DEAR ABBY: One of On one hand, we want to our daughters (18) has include her, not wantbeen rebelling for the last ing to destroy what little couple of years. She’s not relationship we have. On doing well in community the other, we do not want college. She is dating a to be “used” for a fun drug user and has been vacation. Because she has caught in lie after lie, chosen to live on her own including about spendas an adult, she must pay ing the night at friends’ her own way (which she homes. can’t afford). Should we Dear Abby She has now decided take her or not? — MOM Jeanne Phillips she no longer wants to OF AN ALMOST-ADULT live with our rules, which DEAR MOM: Your include staying enrolled in college daughter has made a choice — to be full time and making progress, doing out from under your thumb and on a few household chores, telling us her own. The “price” for her indewhere she is going and when we pendence is being unable to depend can expect her home, and having no upon you and your husband to foot overnighters. She has moved out and the bill for her expenses. in with a friend. Would she be running wild and We know she’s immature and will staying out all night if you take her grow up eventually. We are heartbro- with you? You would have to set some ken but understand we can’t control rules beforehand and get her to agree this. We are praying for her safety. to abide by them if she is going to be We have an out-of-town wedincluded with her sibling(s). A posiding coming up and have decided tive experience as a family may be to make a family vacation out of it. what you all need right now. But only
you can decide whether it’s worth taking the chance. DEAR ABBY: I am recently divorced, but my husband, “Danny,” and I still see each other. The other night he mentioned that his ex-girlfriend texts him. He also allows her to follow him on Instagram but says he isn’t following her. It really bothers me because she and Danny were in contact when we were married, “just as friends” is what he said. He repeated with 100% certainty that he has no interest in ever getting back together with her. I spend a lot of nights at his place, and he spends nights with me, so I guess I have to trust his word, but it’s eating me up inside. I have asked him to not allow her to follow him on Instagram, but he has not done that yet. He said he doesn’t care who follows him. — UNFOLLOW IN CONNECTICUT DEAR UNFOLLOW: I’m confused. Exactly what is your question? You say you are divorced, but you are still
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acting — and thinking — like you are Danny’s wife. He’s a free man now, and you not only do not have the right to dictate who should or shouldn’t follow him on Instagram, but also don’t have the right to tell him he can’t see another woman if he wishes. Face it, you are BOTH free now. You can’t be cheated on by a husband who is no longer your husband. Consider this: It might be healthier for you to spend less time with Danny and devote more time to moving forward with your life. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. To receive a collection of Abby’s most memorabl poems and essays, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby — Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You might be overly cautious in the morning, but by the afternoon, the unexpected helps loosen you up. Making a call or connecting with a certain loved one could be difficult at first. Do not give up. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news over dinner.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Your energy could be out of sync in the a.m., but you will manage to make your point. Confusion surrounds a close friendship or partnership in the afternoon.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You have been unusually low-key. A partner, a loved one or a group of friends has been quite demanding. Midafternoon, you decide to take a stand and make your opinions heard. Tonight: As you wish.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Use the morning to the max to complete your work and clear out a problem. You might be unusually tired by the demands of others; let them know how you feel in no uncertain terms. Expect attitude but know that it will wear off. Tonight: Take a personal night.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Others respect you but also want your help. Your naturally gregarious self emerges, and before you know it, you are visiting with nearly everyone. A friendship might be more important than you realize. Tonight: Plan around a special person.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You have reached out for someone at a distance. Hopefully you have connected and received
Dear Readers: Finding the right cheek color and formula can be challenging. This time of year, we can tend to go a bit pale, so a blush to the cheek may be a good idea. The two most popular formulas are cream/ gel and powder. Creams are best for drier skin, and powder formulations work well on normal to oilier skin. Now, which shade? Fair or light skin can sport a wispy pink, medium and olive skin tones are flattered by peach, and deeper skin can carry a bold rose red shade. Application? A light hand is best; the color is blendable. For powders, a good brush is a must. Cream or gel blush application can be applied with bare fingertips. — Heloise
TECH TUESDAY Dear Readers: A mouse pad used to be standard issue with your hand-guided “mouse” and
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HHHH Activity surrounds your friends and/or a group of close associates at work. How a situation develops could vary from moment to moment. Midafternoon, you decide to clear your desk and return calls. Tonight: Get some beauty sleep.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You have been unusually successful relating on a one-onone level. Discussions have been intense. You also might be taking a hard look at a personal situation. You lighten up midday when a call you have been waiting for comes in. Tonight: Get distracted.
HHHH You could decide that someone you live with is a stick in the mud and you want some distance. Is this the best way to handle the issue? Midafternoon, completing a conversation is close to impossible. Maintain your sense of humor. Tonight: Let off some steam.
HHHH Allow a close loved one or friend to pitch in on a project. You will get through it quickly and have more fun. A discussion midafternoon could be worrisome because you cannot complete it. Other calls come in and you are very busy. Tonight: Settle in before you decide.
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HHHH Your emphasis on getting various little errands and jobs completed will be important. The afternoon holds a whole different series of events involving a loved one or dear friend. Tonight: Stay flexible.
ZIPPER FIXER Dear Readers: To unstick a zipper, run a dry bar of soap or a candle along it. — Heloise
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HHH Screen calls in the morning if you want to get anything accomplished. You have a lot of details to take care of. Your sense of humor emerges later in the day. Be careful not to make judgements. Tonight: Cocooning at home.
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desktop computer. The mouse pad allowed for a smooth ride for the mouse, and it kept the tracking ball of the mouse dirt-, dust- and oil-free. As with all technology, times have moved ahead. “Optical mice” and even laser-equipped mice can scoot along on all surfaces, and, because the optical and laser components don’t touch the desk and they operate without that tracking ball, very little residue can build up on the device. However, a mouse pad is still a good idea. It can absorb wear marks from the desk and pick up slight stray hairs and dust particles. Also, if anyone in the family is a “gamer,” an oversized mouse pad can help with tracking fast movements. — Heloise
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the information you needed. Late in the day, your emphasis is on work, image and perhaps planning a holiday party. Someone else has different ideas. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.
BORN TODAY English mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815), poet Emily Dickinson (1830), actor/director Kenneth Branagh (1960)
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This year, life will be a mixed bag. Sometimes, you’re very stoic and determined. Other times, you are loose and easy, coming up with solutions out of the blue. If single, this moodiness can often confuse the other party. You want to be with someone who understands both sides of you. If attached, the two of you frequently enjoy having heavy discussions or getting into a new hobby. GEMINI creates a lot of information, fun and humor. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
Getting the chaos cleared could be difficult. A sense of humor will go far. Tonight: Running errands.
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Wray: Russia probe report found ‘unacceptable’ problems By Eric Tucker Associated Press
WASHINGTON— A Justice Department inspector general report on the early days of the Russia investigation identified problems that are “unacceptable and unrepresentative of who we are as an institution,” FBI Director Chris Wray said Monday in detailing changes the bureau plans to make in response. In an interview with The Associated Press, Wray said the FBI had cooperated fully with the inspector general — which concluded in its report that the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia was legitimate but also
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are being prepared, with some saying an announcement would come in the morning. “I think there’s a lot of agreement,” Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, told reporters. “You’ll hear about about some of it tomorrow.” Rep. Jerrold Nadler of the Judiciary Committee and others have not disclosed how many articles of impeachment are being prepared, but Democrats had been expected to put forward at least two formal charges against the president. What remained uncertain was whether Pelosi would reach beyond the Ukraine probe to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings of Trump’s actions in the report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. That now seems unlikely. “A lot of us believe that what happened with Ukraine especially is not something we can just close our eyes to,” Engel said. “‘This is not a happy day. I don’t get any glee at this. But I think we’re doing what we have to do. We’re doing what the Constitution mandates that we do.” The decisions were being aired following an acrimonious, nearly 10-hour hearing at the Judiciary Committee. Democrats say Trump’s push to have Ukraine investigate
cited serious flaws — and accepted all its recommendations. Wray said the FBI would make changes to how it handles confidential informants, how it applies for warrants from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, how it conducts briefings on foreign influence for presidential nominees and how it structures sensitive investigations like the 2016 Russia probe. He said he has also reinstated ethics training. “I am very committed to the FBI being agile in its tackling of foreign threats,” Wray said. “But I believe you can be agile and still scrupulously follow our rules, policies and processes.”
Wray was not FBI director when the Russia investigation began and has so far avoided commenting in depth on the probe, one of the most politically sensitive inquiries in bureau history and one that President Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced as a “witch hunt.” Wray’s comments Monday underscore the balancing act of his job as he tries to embrace criticism of the Russia probe that he sees as legitimate while limiting public judgment of decisions made by his predecessors. He said that though it was important to not lose sight of the fact that Inspector General Michael Horowitz found the investigation justified and did not find it to be tainted by
political bias, “The American people rightly expect that the FBI, when it acts to protect the country, is going to do it right — each time, every time. “And,” he added, “urgency is not an excuse for not following our procedures.” The report found that the FBI was justified in opening its investigation in the summer of 2016 into whether the Trump campaign was coordinating with Russia to tip the election in the president’s favor. But it also identified “serious performance failures” up the bureau’s chain of command, including 17 “significant inaccuracies or omissions” in applications for a warrant from the secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and subsequent warrant renewals. The errors, the watchdog said, resulted in “applications that made it appear that the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case.” Wray declined to say if there was one problem or criticism that he found most troubling, but noted, “As a general matter, there are a number of things in the report that in my view are unacceptable and unrepresentative of who we are as an institution.” “This is a serious report,” he added, “and we take it serious.”
rival Joe Biden while withholding U.S. military aid ran counter to U.S. policy and benefited Russia as well as himself. Trump and his allies railed against the “absurd” proceedings, with Republicans defending the president as having done nothing wrong ahead of the 2020 election. The outcome, though, appears increasingly set. A Judiciary committee vote could come as soon as this week. “President Trump’s persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security,” said Dan Goldman, the director of investigations at the House Intelligence Committee. Republicans rejected not just Goldman’s conclusion as he presented the Intelligence Committee’s 300-page report on the Ukraine matter; they also questioned his very appearance before the Judiciary panel. In a series of heated exchanges, they said Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, should appear rather than send his lawyer. “Where’s Adam?” thundered Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “We want Schiff,” echoed Trump ally Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. From the White House, Trump tweeted repeatedly, assailing the “Witch Hunt!” and “Do Nothing Democrats.” The hearing set off a pivotal week as Democrats march toward a full House vote expected by Christmas.
In drafting the articles of impeachment, Pelosi is facing a legal and political challenge of balancing the views of her majority while hitting the Constitution’s bar of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Nadler, D-N.Y., was blunt as he opened Monday’s hearing, saying, “President Trump put himself before country.” He said the case against Trump is clear after “multiple officials testified that the president’s demand for an investigation into his rivals was a part of his personal, political agenda, and not related to the foreign policy objectives of the United States.” Trump’s conduct, Nadler said at the end of the daylong hearing, “is clearly impeachable.” Collins said Democrats are racing to jam impeachment through on a “clock and a calendar” ahead of the 2020 presidential election. “They can’t get over the fact that Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and they don’t have a candidate that can beat him,” Collins said. In one testy exchange, Republican attorney Stephen Castor dismissed the transcript of Trump’s crucial call with Ukraine as “eight ambiguous lines” that did not amount to the president seeking a personal political favor. Democrats argued vigorously that Trump’s meaning could not have been clearer in seeking political dirt on Biden, his possible opponent in the 2020 election.
Asked for his view, Goldman testified, “I don’t think there’s any other way to read the words on the page.” Republicans also revived criticism of Schiff’s decision to expose phone records of members of Congress. The inquiry showed that Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in frequent contact with California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. Collins accused Democrats of engaging in a “smear” campaign against lawmakers by disclosing phone records. But Goldman said investigators did not subpoena lawmaker accounts but simply matched them up once they appeared in the records. The Republicans tried numerous times to halt or slow the proceedings, and the hearing was briefly interrupted early on by a protester shouting, “We voted for Donald Trump!” The protester was escorted from the House hearing room by Capitol Police. The White House is refusing to participate in the impeachment process, and Trump appears to be focused elsewhere — on Giuliani’s own probe and the president’s upcoming campaign rallies. Trump spent the morning tweeting against the proceedings. He and and his allies acknowledge he likely will be impeached in the Democratic-controlled House, but they also expect acquittal next year in the Senate, where Republicans have the
majority. The president was focused instead on Monday’s long-awaited release of the Justice Department report into the 2016 Russia investigation. The inspector general found that the FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and that the FBI did not act with political bias, despite “serious performance failures” up the bureau’s chain of command. Those findings undercut Trump’s claim that he was the target of a “witch hunt,” rejecting theories and criticism spread by Trump and his supporters. Yet it found errors and misjudgments likely to be exploited by Republican allies as the president faces probable impeachment. As the House pushes ahead toward votes, Giuliani said Monday he’ll soon be releasing findings from his own recent visit to Ukraine. Many Republicans in Congress are distancing themselves from Giuliani, but Trump’s top ally found an audience in former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon’s “War Room 2020” podcast to discuss his findings, which he promised to reveal in more detail later this week. Democrats say Trump abused his power in a July 25 phone call when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a favor in investigating Democrats. That was bribery, they say, since Trump was withholding nearly $400 million in military aid that Ukraine depended on to counter Russian aggression.
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Wildlife officials agree to Lower 48 grizzly bear review By Matthew Brown Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials will review whether grizzly bears have enough protections across the Lower 48 states after advocates sued the government in a bid to restore the fearsome animals to more areas, according to court documents filed Monday. The review must be completed by March 31, 2021, under a settlement approved by U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen. Grizzly bears are protected as a threatened
species outside Alaska. An estimated 1,900 bears live in portions of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington state. Tens of thousands of grizzlies once roamed across much of western North America before hunting and trapping killed most of them off by the early 1900s. Federal wildlife officials said in 2011 that additional areas should be considered for grizzly bear recovery, but that work has never been completed. The Center for Biological Diversity said in a June lawsuit that officials should consider restoring
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grizzlies to areas of California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Oregon. “There are a lot of places where grizzly bears used to live where we believe they could currently live,” said Andrea Santarsiere, an attorney for the group. The agreement to review the grizzly bear’s status does not fully resolve the June lawsuit, which also seeks an update to the government’s recovery plan for grizzlies. Environmentalists successfully sued last year to block grizzly hunts planned in Wyoming and Idaho. The hunts were
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A grizzly bear and a cub along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey
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• Domestic Medium Hair • Adult •Female • Medium • Black & White / Tuxedo • Short Hair • House Trained • Vaccinations up to date, spayed / neutered • Good in a home with other cats
• Jack Russell Terrier • Adult • Female • Small • Prefers a home without other dogs, cats, children
Meet Noddy Noddy is a lovely short haired girl in black and white. She is silky soft. Her ears show the difficulties she has been through as a stray; one has the tip frosted off; the other is nicked. She is about 5 years old. Noddy is a very sweet, personable girl. She is immediately friendly, almost an insta-cat. She so much wants love and care that she will give you attention and affection in a minute. She is comfortable in the midst of family chaos. When the house is full of people and all the other cats have taken refuge under the bed, she will still be there, ready to be petted. She was raised with a little girl and does well with nice children. She will need a safe place to go outside--she is an excellent huntress--but will always need access to her warm home with her loving family! In Sterling but can travel for a happy forever home. Call 980-8898
This pet is available at the Kenai Animal Shelter
POLARIS
• Domestic Short Hair • Young • Female • Medium • Vaccinations up to date, spayed / neutered
Meet Maui My name is Maui. I am an 8 year old Jack Russell. I am used to frequent car rides and love people. I am a very active little girl that will need someone willing to exercise me. Unfortunately, I do not like other animals (cat, dogs or other). I need a home where I am the only animal. I have lived with children and would prefer to no longer live with little ones. Teenagers may be okay.
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