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Associated Press
Donald Trump picks Tillerson
to lead State Department
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump has tapped
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department,
dismissing concerns about the businessman’s close ties to Rus-
sia and bringing a long public audition process to a conclusion.
Two people close to Trump’s transition team said Monday
night that Trump had selected Tillerson. They insisted on ano-
nymity because they were not authorized to disclose the pick
ahead of that announcement.
Trump was set to announce his nomination this morning.
The selection could set him up for a potential fight with Con-
gress over confirming Tillerson, who has connections with Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin. Leading Republicans have already
expressed anxieties about Tillerson, as they contend with intelli-
gence assessments saying Russia interfered with the U.S. presi-
dential election to help Trump.
But two meetings with the oil executive impressed Trump,
who called Tillerson a “world class player” in an interview on
“Fox News Sunday.”
In the interview, Trump pointed to Tillerson’s deep relations
with Moscow as a selling point. As ExxonMobil’s head, he main-
tained close ties with Russia and was awarded by President Vlad-
imir Putin with the Order of Friendship in 2013, an honor for a
foreign citizen.
Republican lawmaker looks
to overhaul Social Security
WASHINGTON — A key Republican lawmaker wants to
overhaul Social Security, the decades-old program that provides
benefits to some 60 million retirees and disabled, with a plan to
gradually increase the retirement age and slow the growth of ben-
efits for higher-income workers.
Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas, the chairman of the House Ways
and Means subcommittee on Social Security, introduced legisla-
tion just before the end of the congressional session last week that
he said would “permanently save” the program. He said the bill
would increase benefits for lower-income workers.
About 168 million people work and pay taxes toward the
inevitable monthly Social Security benefits. About 42 million of
the beneficiaries are retirees and their families. The trustees who
oversee Social Security say it has enough money to pay full ben-
efits until 2034, and then Social Security will collect only enough
taxes to pay 79 percent of benefits.
Unless Congress acts, millions of people on fixed incomes
would get an automatic 21 percent cut in benefits.
“Americans want, need, and deserve for us to finally come
up with a solution to saving this important program,” Johnson
said.
First SeaWorld park without orcas
opening in Abu Dhabi in 2022
ORLANDO, Fla. — Months after SeaWorld Parks & Enter-
tainment ended its orca-breeding program amid pressure from
animal rights activists, company officials announced today that
they will help develop in Abu Dhabi the first new SeaWorld park
without orcas — and the first outside the United States.
SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby told The Associated Press that the
Abu Dhabi park is an important step for the theme park compa-
ny’s move away from orcas, which long were company icons.
The captive orcas have been the focus of blistering campaigns
against SeaWorld by animal rights activists.
Officials with SeaWorld and Abu Dhabi-government-backed
Miral Asset Management said the SeaWorld park will open in
2022 in Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island, a man-made island that is fast
becoming a tourism and entertainment hub near the southeast tip
of the Arabian peninsula.
The Abu Dhabi location will have a research, animal rescue
and rehabilitation center, which will open ahead of the park, and
the theme park will focus on educating visitors about ocean con-
servation, officials said. The two companies had been in talks
since 2011 about a park in Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab
Emirates.
SeaWorld ended its innovative orca-breeding program in
March after years of declining attendance and pressure from
activists following the 2013 release of the critical documen-
tary “Blackfish.” The documentary chronicled the life of Tili-
kum, an orca that killed a SeaWorld trainer during a performance
in Orlando in 2010, and the movie implied that killer whales
become more aggressive in captivity.
AP Photo/John Raoux
SeaWorld trainer Ryan Faulkner, left, with killer whale Me-
lia, and Michelle Shoemaker, right, with Kayla work on a
routine for a show at the Orlando, Fla., theme park in 2014.
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is partnering with a Unit-
ed Arab Emirates company to build a theme park in Abu
Dhabi in what will be the first SeaWorld park outside the
United States and without orcas.
Obama: President without
briefings ‘flying blind’
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama has criticized Don-
ald Trump for saying he plans to shun daily intelligence briefings
once inaugurated, saying that would be akin to “flying blind” in
managing national security affairs.
Appearing Monday evening on Comedy Central’s “The Daily
Show,” Obama said fit would be a mistake for a president to pass
on regular briefings from the intelligence community.
Trump had said on “Fox News Sunday” he is not interested
in getting daily intelligence briefings, a practice that’s been a fix-
ture for chief executives of both parties for several years. Asked
whether he’s actually rejecting valuable intelligence, Trump was
defiant.
“I get it when I need it,” he said of the top-secret briefings
sessions, adding that he’s leaving it up to the briefers to decide
when a development represents a “change” big enough to notify
him.
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punishing his business interests
in their countries.
Trump had planned a news
conference for Thursday on
the future of his business but
announced Monday he would
postpone it until next month.
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