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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Clinton presses into Arizona,
Trump focuses on Florida
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hillary Clinton is pressing into
reliably red Arizona as she tries to steal a Republican state away
from Donald Trump. Her rival, reinvigorated by the FBI’s new
email review, is laser-focused on Florida, a marquee battleground
state he can’t win the White House without.
With less than a week until Election Day, both candidates are
warning of dire consequences if the other is elected.
Trump says Clinton would be under investigation as president,
sparking a “constitutional crisis,” though the FBI has declined
to prosecute her for her handling of classified information. Clin-
ton has vowed the FBI will have “no case” after reviewing new
emails, but her campaign is nervous about tightening polls and
ramping up attacks on Trump, hoping to scare away voters who
could still be persuaded to back him.
On her own Florida swing Tuesday, Clinton hammered Trump
as dangerous and divisive, highlighting in particular his treatment
of women.
“When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump
and what he’s been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot
of time demeaning, degrading, insulting and assaulting women,”
Clinton said.
Two officers in Iowa killed
in ambush-style attacks
DES MOINES, Iowa — Authorities apprehended a man
today suspected in the early morning killings of two Des Moines
area police officers who were shot to death while sitting in their
patrol cars in what authorities described as separate ambush-style
attacks.
Officers from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa
State Patrol took 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene into custody
and were taking him to Des Moines, police said.
His arrest came about eight hours after the killings to two
officers.
Des Moines Sgt. Paul Parizek told CNN that he had few details
about the circumstances of Greene’s capture, but that Greene was
on foot on a roadway at the time and was alone when we was
taken into custody.
Police responded to a report of shots fired at 1:06 a.m. and
found an Urbandale Police Department officer who had been
shot. Authorities from several agencies saturated the area after
that shooting, and about 20 minutes later discovered that a Des
Moines officer who had responded to the initial killing had been
shot in a patrol car at an intersection, Parizek said. The shootings
happened less than 2 miles apart and both took place along main
streets that cut through residential areas.
Telescope reveals amazing
pillars in star-breeding ground
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A peek into a distant star-breed-
ing ground has uncovered scenes worthy of a watercolor master.
Astronomers today released majestic images of pillars of gas
and dust in the Carina Nebula, some 7,500 light-years away. The
observations were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s
Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The pictures rank right with the Hubble Space Telescope’s
famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, an image now 21
European Southern Observatory
This image provided by European Southern Observatory, taken by the MUSE instrument, mounted on ESO’s Very Large
Telescope and shows the region R44 within the Carina Nebula, 7500 light-years away. Scientists say these new images
appear to be pillars of destruction, in which massive new stars destroy the clouds of gas from which they were born.
years old. Scientists say these new images appear to be pillars of
destruction, in which massive new stars destroy the clouds of gas
from which they were born. They do that by blasting out radia-
tion. Scientists were able to see the effect of this so-called photo
evaporation in the dissipating pillars.
Online: European Southern Observatory: http://www.eso.org/
public/
Mexico taking US factory jobs?
Blame robots instead
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump blames Mexico and China
for stealing millions of jobs from the United States.
He might want to bash the robots instead.
Despite the Republican presidential nominee’s charge that “we
don’t make anything anymore,” manufacturing is still flourishing
in America. Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as
they used to because machines now do so much of the work.
America has lost more than 7 million factory jobs since manu-
facturing employment peaked in 1979. Yet American factory pro-
duction, minus raw materials and some other costs, more than
doubled over the same span to $1.91 trillion last year, according
to the Commerce Department, which uses 2009 dollars to adjust
for inflation. That’s a notch below the record set on the eve of the
Great Recession in 2007. And it makes U.S. manufacturers No. 2
in the world behind China.
Trump and other critics are right that trade has claimed some
American factory jobs, especially after China joined the World
Trade Organization in 2001 and gained easier access to the U.S.
market. And industries that have relied heavily on labor — like
textile and furniture manufacturing — have lost jobs and produc-
tion to low-wage foreign competition. U.S. textile production, for
instance, is down 46 percent since 2000. And over that time, the
textile industry has shed 366,000, or 62 percent, of its jobs in the
United States.
Fed is widely expected to leave
key interest rate unchanged
WASHINGTON — With voters set to choose a new presi-
dent and Congress in six days, the Federal Reserve will likely
keep a low profile when it ends a meeting today to try to ensure
it doesn’t become part of the debate at the close of a tumultuous
political campaign.
The Fed is expected to end the meeting with a policy state-
ment that leaves interest rates unchanged. It’s possible that the
statement will include a signal that a rate hike is likely at the
Fed’s next meeting in mid-December as many expect. On the
other hand, the Fed might decide to offer no hints today of a
forthcoming rate hike in order to remain entirely neutral at a sen-
sitive political moment.
“In the midst of an election, the last thing the Fed wants to do
is add fuel to all the political controversy from the candidates,”
said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State
University, Channel Islands.
Sohn and other economists say they still think December is
when the Fed will resume the rate increases it began late last
year after having left its benchmark rate at a record low near
zero for seven years. Next month’s meeting will include a news
conference by Chair Janet Yellen, which would provide a plat-
form for her to explain the Fed’s action and perhaps provide
guidance on how many further rate increases the Fed foresees
in 2017.
The Fed’s years of record-low short-term rates were cred-
ited by many analysts with rejuvenating the economy after the
Great Recession. When the Fed finally raised rates modestly in
December last year, most economists and the central bank itself
foresaw multiple rate increases in 2016. But economic weakness
and market turmoil in China and Europe and a slowdown in U.S.
growth kept the Fed on the sidelines.
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