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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump touts hotel as Pence
heads to Utah in waning days
ASHLAND, Ohio — Donald Trump is taking a break from
campaigning today to formally open his new hotel in Washing-
ton, while dispatching his running mate to play political defense
in Utah — which hasn’t backed a Democrat for president in 52
years.
The odd travel schedule a dozen days before the Nov. 8 elec-
tion illustrates a Republican ticket pulled in two directions while
Democrat Hillary Clinton surges. Trump’s priority today is clear:
His personal brand and business, while Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
tries to boost the ticket where no Republican should have to.
“I don’t really believe the polls, but this looks like a tight
race,” said Trump supporter Susan Donaldson, 55, who worried
at a Tuesday afternoon rally in Sanford, Florida, that the GOP
nominee may be spreading himself too thin. “Can he be taking
time out like that?”
Trump will visit North Carolina for two campaign rallies this
afternoon, after spending the morning attending a ribbon cutting
at the new $212 million hotel that bears his name at Washington’s
Old Post Office Pavilion, not far from the White House.
Not all of the New Yorker’s backers shared Donaldson’s con-
cerns about Trump.
Cleveland Clinic via AP
Unidentified babies wear World Series onesie at the Cleve-
land Clinic’s Fairview Hospital in Cleveland on Tuesday.
Newborn babies at the Cleveland hospital have joined the
ranks of the Cleveland Indians’ fans. The clinic says ba-
bies born today and throughout the World Series at sev-
eral of its hospitals will be dressed in the outfits to help
cheer on the Indians’ quest for a championship as they
take on the Chicago Cubs.
ary, 44 percent of adults said they had learned about the election
in the previous week from social media, more than cited print
newspapers.
“People are using Twitter to connect more directly to the live
events, moments and candidates of this campaign in a way that
voters have never been able to do before,” says Adam Sharp,
Twitter’s head of news, government and elections.
Cleveland Indians get boost
from newborn babies
CLEVELAND — Newborn babies at an Ohio hospital have
joined the ranks of Cleveland Indians fans.
The Cleveland Clinic says at least five babies born Tuesday
at its Fairview Hospital were dressed in World Series onesies.
It says babies born throughout the World Series at several of its
hospitals will be dressed in the outfits to help cheer on the Indi-
ans’ quest for a championship as they take on the Chicago Cubs.
The first game of the series was won by Cleveland 6-0 on
Tuesday night.
The clinic says babies at its Hillcrest, Main Campus SDU,
Medina and Cleveland Clinic Akron General hospitals also are
receiving the onesies.
The outfits feature a baseball design accompanied by the
words “World Series Baby” and the hashtag #RallyTogether.
The Cubs haven’t won the World Series since 1908, the Indi-
ans since 1948.
Hobbit tourism is New Zealand’s
top foreign-cash source
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — In New Zealand there are
twice as many cows as people, but it’s the hobbits that are really
making hay.
According to figures released today, tourism has overtaken
dairy as the nation’s top earner of overseas dollars. And tourism
officials say the success of the fantasy movie trilogy “The Hob-
bit” has helped.
The dairy industry is struggling to recover from a slump in
prices, while a record 3.4 million visitors arrived in New Zea-
land in the year ending September. The Pacific nation is particu-
larly popular among tourists from Australia, China and the U.S.
Spending by international tourists was up by 20 percent in
the year ending March when compared with the previous year,
according to Statistics New Zealand. That follows a 17 percent
rise the year before.
Kevin Bowler, the chief executive of Tourism New Zealand,
said people were drawn to New Zealand by its spectacular land-
scapes and its outdoor lifestyle. The “Hobbit” movies showcased
some of that scenery and were heavily marketed overseas.
The Trump-Clinton Twitter war:
Bludgeon vs. stiletto
NEW YORK — Back in June, when Donald Trump slammed
President Barack Obama’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton on
Twitter, the Democrat’s campaign was quick to tweet back a
chilly three-word response: “Delete your account.”
It was a telling exchange, and not just because it set the stage
for what has become the country’s first nationwide Twitter elec-
tion. It also highlighted the striking, and very different, ways both
presidential hopefuls have used the service to hone their mes-
sages, hurl accusations at one another and speak directly to vot-
ers — in effect, bypassing traditional media while also relying on
it to amplify their retorts.
So entrenched has Twitter become in the 2016 election that
it can be difficult to remember just how new it is in this con-
text. Four years ago, candidates Obama and Mitt Romney were
just testing the waters with social media. This year, it’s a major
source of information — political and otherwise — for a huge
number of Americans. In a Pew Research Center poll last Janu-
Iraqi forces evacuate 1,000
civilians from Mosul front lines
KHAZER, Iraq — Iraqi special forces have moved more
than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the bat-
tle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding
areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of
atrocities in recent days, officials said today.
Special forces Maj. Gen. Haider Fadhil said residents of Tob
Zawa and other villages were taken to a camp in the nearby
Khazer region for their safety. The International Organization for
Migration says at least 8,940 people have been displaced since
the operation to retake Mosul began on Oct. 17.
The special forces were undertaking cleanup operations in
areas retaken from the militants to the east of the city, where
troops uncovered a vast tunnel network used by IS to shuttle
fighters and supplies by motorcycle, Maj. Salam al-Obeidi said.
Iraqi forces have been pushing toward Mosul from sev-
eral directions since the launch of the wide-scale offensive,
which involves more than 25,000 Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish forces,
Sunni tribal fighters and state-sanctioned Shiite militiamen. It is
expected to take week, if not months, to drive IS from its last
urban bastion in the country.
The militants have had months to prepare for the long-awaited
operation and are believed to have developed extensive defenses
in and around the city. In recent weeks they are also said to have
targeted alleged spies and others they fear may rise up against
them.
Lawsuit challenges Denver’s
sweeps of the homeless
DENVER — When Jerry Burton’s sleeping bag and tent
were removed by city workers from his campsite near a rapidly
developing area close to downtown Denver, he was able to start
over again with backup gear he keeps hidden for emergencies —
whether his or someone else’s. Now he’s one of nine homeless
people suing in federal court to try to stop the city’s sweeps of
homeless encampments and, as he sees it, restore the dignity and
respect of people who can’t find a home of their own in a grow-
ing city.
Burton, a former Marine who has had trouble finding housing
despite veterans’ rental assistance, compared the city’s seizures
of the homeless’ property with someone walking into a home and
taking a television.
“It’s going to continue to go on until the court stands up,” he
said of the sweeps after the first hearing in the lawsuit that drew
dozens of homeless people and their advocates even though the
Oct. 12 session was mainly to discuss scheduling.
The case is the latest to challenge homeless sweeps around
the country.
Last month, a federal judge in Washington state found that
Clark County was liable for clearing out homeless encampments
and seizing the residents’ belongings, including tents, stoves,
medication and documents, leading the county to settle the
case for $250,000. Earlier this year, Los Angeles agreed to pay
$822,000 to settle a lawsuit by homeless people who said that the
city had seized and destroyed their possessions.
Pakistan city shuts down, mourns
61 killed at police academy
QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistan’s city of Quetta was com-
pletely shut down today following a militant rampage at a police
academy the day before while families buried 60 police cadets
and an army officer killed in the attack — one of the deadliest tar-
geting Pakistani security forces in recent years.
The brazen assault in which unarmed cadets and police train-
ees — many of whom were asleep in their dorms when the attack
started — jumped from windows and rooftops, fleeing for their
lives, saw troops battle the attackers for four hours before the
siege was over.
The academy houses about 700 cadets, nearly all in their early
20s. Local Quetta hospitals were treating 123 wounded from the
attack.
In conflicting claims, an Islamic State affiliate and a Taliban
splinter group both said they were behind the attack in Quetta, the
capital of Baluchistan province.
Singer’s ballot selfie highlights mixed laws
The Associated Press
Now even Justin Timber-
lake has been forced to deal
with the question of whether a
ballot selfie is legal.
Timberlake flew from Cali-
fornia to Tennessee to vote early
this week, but his posting of an
image of himself at the voting
booth on Instagram on Monday
on social media, laws nation-
wide are mixed on whether vot-
ers are allowed to take pictures
of themselves voting and their
ballots.
Federal courts have struck
down bans in New Hampshire
and Indiana, and on Monday,
a judge in Michigan blocked
enforcement of a ban on ballot
selfies.
drew questions about whether
he was breaking the law.
A Tennessee law that took
effect earlier this year bars vot-
ers from taking photographs
or video while they’re inside a
polling location.
While secrecy in the vot-
ing booth has become a thing
of the past for those ready to
share their views and daily lives
Dawn McIntosh rejoins Campbell & Popkin
Judge-elect Dawn McIntosh has rejoined Campbell &
Popkin to work closely with Chris Palmer, in whom
she has great confidence. Dawn and Chris are both
well-known for skillfully representing clients in di-
vorce, seperation, custody and other family law mat-
ters. Campbell & Popkin also provides services in
business law, litigation, real estate, estate planning and
probate. Dawn and Chris are both taking new clients.
Dawn McIntosh
Chris Palmer
www.campbellpopkin.com
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Safe This Halloween
CMH would like to remind you to do what you can to make
sure that everyone has a spooktacularly fun Halloween:
• Make sure your porch and walkway is well lit.
• Keep candle-lit decorations away from walkways.
• And, remember to drive slowly and watch for trick-or-
treaters.
Happy Halloween from the CMH Pediatric Clinic!
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