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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Parks promised to poor Calif. areas unbuilt Poll: Young Americans favor LGBT rights WASHINGTON — Young people in America overwhelm- ingly support LGBT rights when it comes to policies on employment, health care and adoption, according to a new survey. The GenForward survey of Americans ages 18-30 found that support for those policies has increased over the past two years, especially among young whites. But relatively few of these young adults consider rights for people who are les- bian, gay, bisexual and trans- gender to be among the top issues facing the country. According to the indings, 92 percent of young adults support HIV and AIDs pre- vention, 90 percent support equal employment, and 80 percent support LGBT adop- tion. Across racial and ethnic groups, broad majorities sup- port training police on trans- gender issues, government support for organizations for LGBT youth and insur- ance coverage for transgender health issues. GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The irst-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opin- ions of the country’s most diverse generation. In the past two years, sup- port has increased from 69 percent to 84 percent among young whites for policies such as allowing gays and lesbi- ans to legally adopt children. Support among this group for employment equality for LGBT individuals rose from 84 percent to 92 percent. The poll also suggests support for allowing adoption by gays and lesbians has increased among Hispanics over the past two years, from 65 percent to 75 percent. Trump faces fresh GOP pushback WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald Trump is seeking to quell concerns he lacks the discipline or policy know-how to make a competent presi- AP Photo/Rick Bowmer AP Photo/Seth Wenig A woman holds a rainbow flag during the NYC Pride Pa- rade in New York in June. Young Americans overwhelm- ingly say they support LGBT rights when it comes to em- ployment, health care and adoption. dent, even as the list of fel- low Republicans deeming him unit for the Oval Ofice grows. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate long wary of Trump, became the latest Republican to announce her intent not to vote for her party’s nominee. Days after rebuking Trump for insinuating Somali refugees in Maine were dangerous, Col- lins said late Monday she’d thought “long and hard” about whether she was obligated to support the GOP nominee and decided she could not. “With the passage of time, I have become increasingly dismayed by his constant stream of cruel comments and his inability to admit error or apologize,” Collins wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. Collins wrote that she sup- ports neither party’s nominee, though previously she’s said she’s open to voting for Hil- lary Clinton. The defection from a respected senator added to a chorus of GOP voices insisting they can’t back Trump. Some 50 Republican former national security oficials signed an open letter calling Trump the most reckless candidate in his- tory, prompting a counterat- tack from Trump, who said the signers share blame with Clin- ton for making the world “a mess” and fueling the Islamic State group’s formation. Delta canceled more lights Tuesday DALLAS — Delta’s tra- vails, and those of its custom- ers, move into day two with the airline canceling of another 300 lights. The disruptions Tuesday follow about 1,000 cancelled lights Monday and, accord- ing to FlightStats, about 2,800 delayed lights, after an outage at Delta’s Atlanta headquarters instigated a global meltdown of its booking and communi- cations systems. The airline was back online after a number of hours Mon- day, but the outages were so widespread that it is still deal- ing with the ripple effects a day later. FlightStats, a light tracking services, puts delayed lights Tuesday at close to 600, and cancelled lights closer to 330. More than 1,000 people spent the night at Narita airport outside Tokyo because of the shutdown and, while lights were resuming Tuesday, Delta spokeswoman Hiroko Okada said more delays are expected. Delta also extended to Tuesday travel waivers issued to the stranded. The airline posted a video apology by CEO Ed Bastian. And it offered refunds and $200 in travel vouchers to peo- ple whose lights were can- celed or delayed at least three hours. Delta’s challenge Tuesday will be to ind enough seats on planes during the busy sum- mer vacation season to accom- modate the tens of thousands of passengers whose lights were scrubbed. Airlines have been putting more people in each plane, so when a system of a major car- rier crashes, as has happened with others before Delta, ind- ing a new seat for the waylaid becomes more dificult. Last month, the average Delta light was 87 percent full. Confusion among passen- gers Monday was compounded as Delta’s light-status updates crashed as well. Instead of staying home or poolside at a hotel until the troubles blew over, many passengers only T UESDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM learned about the quagmire only after they passed through airport security. They were stuck. The disruption was so deeply rooted Monday that at one point, the airline warned travelers that information on its website, its app, and even given by its own employees in airports, may be outdated. ered for breaks with many of the lawyers who were killed Monday. “Those who even did not spare the hospital and car- ried out the suicide attack can- not be called humans,” Ashraf said. “We request that the gov- ernment tracks down and pun- ishes all those who killed innocent lawyers and other people.” Pakistani lawyers mourn US destroyer slain colleagues visit latest twist QUETTA, Pakistan — in China-US ties Pakistani lawyers on Tues- day mourned colleagues slain in a shocking suicide bomb- ing the previous day at a hos- pital in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed 70 people, mostly lawyers. The attack, which stunned the judicial community, also underscored concerns that mil- itants in Pakistan are still capa- ble of striking in the heart of the country’s cities and towns — despite government claims of dismantling various terror networks. The Pakistani bar associa- tion called for lawyers to boy- cott courts in an unusual strike against the attack. Schools and markets were closed in Quetta, also in protest over the attack, which was claimed by a break- away faction of the Pakistani Taliban, the Jamaat-ul-Ah- rar militant group. Paki- stan deployed extra police units outside court building. In Islamabad, lawyers lined up outside the Supreme Court under tight security to offer funeral prayers for those killed in Quetta, the capital of Balu- chistan province. In Quetta, senior attor- ney Mohammad Ashraf stood with colleagues in an open area outside a court building where they had often gath- QINGDAO, China — The visit of the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Benfold to the northern Chinese port of Qingdao this week is the lat- est development in a long-term effort to build trust between the countries’ militaries amid tensions and a rivalry for dom- inance in Asia. Though China resents the highly visible presence of the U.S. armed forces in Asia, especially the South China Sea, it has gradually over- come its reluctance and shown a willingness to engage that the sides hope will help avoid conlicts. The Benfold’s visit is the irst to China by an Amer- ican warship since Bei- jing responded furiously to a Hague-based international arbitration tribunal’s ruling that its expansive South China Sea maritime claims had no basis in law. The fact the visit went ahead appears to show that Beijing now values the military-to-military relation- ship too much to allow it to be derailed by other events as was once the case. Qingdao is the base of China’s northern leet and is thus less sensitive than ports to the south closer to hotspots, such as Taiwan and the South China Sea. LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Passengers stand in line after Delta Air Lines flights re- sumed Monday in Salt Lake City, following a computer outage. Delta Air Lines delayed or canceled hundreds of flights Monday after its computer systems crashed, stranding thousands of people on a busy travel day. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A decade after California vot- ers were promised $400 mil- lion worth of parks in some of the state’s poorest neigh- borhoods, an Associated Press review inds fewer than half of the 126 projects that received the money have been built, as Democratic lawmakers push to add another $1 billion to the program. State oficials say the long wait is the result of strong over- sight, but people waiting for the parks see only empty lots. In the South Los Ange- les neighborhood of Florence, Jennifer Schott won’t let her kids play outdoors, nor is she willing to make the eight-min- ute walk through gang territory to the nearest park. No one told Schott, who directs a mental health facil- ity in the high-crime neighbor- hood, that the state has shelled out $5 million for the city parks department to replace vacant industrial buildings with 4 acres of grass, basketball courts and a community gar- den. Six years after the project was approved, the structures haven’t been touched. “I would hope that they would start construction on it soon,” Schott said. “If they have a grant, let’s do it.” Kansas boy sufered fatal injury on slide KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to igure out how a state law- maker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” — German for “insane” — that since its debut two years ago has been the top draw at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas. Kansas City, Kansas, police issued a statement late Mon- day afternoon saying that Caleb suffered a fatal neck injury around 2:30 p.m. while he was riding the slide with two women, neither of whom was related to him. They suf- fered minor facial injuries and were treated at an area hospi- tal, police said. 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