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will say they’re not comfortable with this. It would stifle what I
think will be a very good thing for humanity.”
Associated Press
More clemency coming after
Manning’s sentence shortened
WASHINGTON — Embracing his clemency powers like
never before, President Barack Obama is planning more commu-
tations in his final days in office after a dramatic move to cut short
convicted leaker Chelsea Manning’s sentence.
Obama became the president to have granted more commuta-
tions than any other when he announced Tuesday that Manning
will be freed in May, almost 30 years ahead of schedule. Man-
ning, the transgender Army intelligence officer who leaked more
than 700,000 U.S. documents, was one of 273 people receiving
clemency on a single day.
Receiving pardons from the president were retired Gen.
James Cartwright, who was charged with making false state-
ments during another leak probe, and San Francisco Giants Hall
of Famer Willie McCovey, sentenced in 1996 on tax evasion
charges. Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera’s 55-year
sentence was commuted.
But Obama is not finished. The White House said Obama
would grant more commutations Thursday — the day before his
presidency ends — though officials said those would focus on
drug offenders and would not likely include any other famous
names.
Neil Eggleston, Obama’s White House counsel, said the indi-
viduals were learning “that our nation is a forgiving nation, where
hard work and a commitment to rehabilitation can lead to a sec-
ond chance, and where wrongs from the past will not deprive an
individual of the opportunity to move forward.”
Inaugural speech is Trump’s time
to rise to the moment
WASHINGTON — Tradition suggests it’s time for Donald
Trump to set aside the say-anything speaking style and rise to the
inaugural moment.
But bucking tradition, or ignoring it altogether, is what got
Donald Trump to his inaugural moment.
When Trump stands on the west front of the Capitol on Fri-
day and delivers his inaugural address, all sides will be wait-
ing to see whether he comes bearing a unifying message for a
divided nation or decides to play up his persona as a disrupter of
the established order.
How Trump tends to that balancing act, in both style and con-
tent, will be a telling launch for his presidency.
“The inaugural is an address that is meant for the ages,” said
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a communications professor and direc-
tor of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of
Pennsylvania. “In particular, it’s important when you’ve had a
divisive election. You need to become president of all of the peo-
ple, including those who vehemently opposed your election.”
Were opportunities for clues
from MH370 debris missed?
SYDNEY — Three nations shelled out around $160 million
and years’ worth of work on the underwater search for missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The result: No plane. The only tan-
gible — and arguably most important — clues into what hap-
pened to the aircraft have come courtesy of ordinary citizens,
who bore the costs themselves.
The deep-sea sonar search for the vanished Boeing 777 was
suspended on Tuesday after officials conceded defeat following
the most expensive, complex aviation search in history.
But while search crews spent years trawling in futility
through a remote patch of the Indian Ocean, people wandering
along beaches thousands of kilometers (miles) away began spot-
ting pieces of the plane that had washed ashore. Those pieces
have provided crucial information to investigators and prompted
some to question whether Malaysia, Australia and China — who
funded the hunt for the underwater wreckage — missed key
opportunities by failing to organize coastal searches for the rem-
nants that drifted to distant shorelines.
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Pointed questions await Trump’s
pick for health secretary
U.S. Army
U.S. Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wear-
ing a wig and lipstick. On Tuesday, President Barack
Obama commuted the sentence of Manning, who leaked
Army documents and is serving 35 years.
“It would have been good to have been getting people looking
for debris,” said David Griffin, an Australian government ocean-
ographer who worked on an analysis of how the debris drifted in
a bid to pinpoint where the plane crashed. “I think that was a job
that fell between the cracks of whose responsibility it was.”
Since the plane vanished on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing on March 8, 2014, more than 20 pieces of debris con-
firmed or believed likely to have come from the aircraft have
turned up on beaches along the east coast of Africa and on islands
including Madagascar. All of the parts have been found by local
residents and tourists who stumbled upon them, and by Blaine
Gibson, an American amateur sleuth who launched his own, self-
funded hunt for debris after working with oceanographers to esti-
mate where bits of the plane may have ended up.
For driverless cars, a moral
dilemma: Who lives or dies?
BOSTON — Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your
brakes fail. As you speed toward a crowded crosswalk, you’re
confronted with an impossible choice: veer right and mow down
a large group of elderly people, or veer left into a woman push-
ing a stroller.
Now imagine you’re riding in the back of a self-driving car.
How would it decide?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are
asking people worldwide how they think a robot car should han-
dle such life-or-death decisions. Their goal is not just for better
algorithms and ethical tenets to guide autonomous vehicles, but
to understand what it will take for society to accept the vehicles
and use them.
Their findings present a dilemma for car makers and govern-
ments eager to introduce self-driving vehicles on the promise
that they’ll be safer than human-controlled cars. People prefer a
self-driving car to act in the greater good, sacrificing its passen-
ger if it can save a crowd of pedestrians. They just don’t want to
get into that car.
“There is a real risk that if we don’t understand those psy-
chological barriers and address them through regulation and pub-
lic outreach, we may undermine the entire enterprise,” said Iyad
Rahwan, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab. “People
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WASHINGTON — With coverage for millions of people at
stake, Rep. Tom Price is facing pointed questions about Presi-
dent-elect Donald Trump’s health policies — and his own invest-
ments in health care companies — from senators considering his
selection as health secretary.
While Price, an orthopedic surgeon-turned-lawmaker, is
largely a known quantity on Capitol Hill, Trump’s bottom line
on health care remains a mystery for Democrats and Republi-
cans alike. Trump campaigned on repealing “Obamacare,” but at
times he’s sounded more like a liberal, for example, with recent
comments about providing insurance for everyone and taking on
the drug companies.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Commit-
tee scheduled a hearing on Price’s nomination for Wednesday.
Price, 62, represents Atlanta’s northern suburbs and chairs the
House Budget Committee. A budget hawk and a social conserva-
tive, he drafted his own plan to replace President Barack Obama’s
2010 health care law. It would have saved taxpayers money but
covered fewer people, according to an outside analysis.
Democrats intend to question Price about the impact of
Trump’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, now
providing coverage for about 20 million people.
Power shortages leave
Gaza in the dark
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — At night, large swaths of the Gaza
Strip plunge into darkness — the result of chronic and worsening
power outages. In crowded city streets, the only source of light
comes from the headlights of passing cars.
The power shortages are the worst to hit Gaza since
Hamas seized control of the territory 10 years ago. In recent
weeks, electricity has been available for just three or four hours
a day. Although some relief has arrived, the power woes have
turned Gaza into a cold, dark place at the height of the winter
season and sparked rare public protests against the Islamic mil-
itant group.
“Our situation is bad. I swear to God it’s very, very bad,” said
Majed Abu Nemer, a father of six who supports his family by
transporting goods on a horse-drawn cart.
On a recent day, he and other residents in a poor neighbor-
hood of the southern town of Khan Younis burned scrap wood
inside their homes, unbothered by the smoke. His family clus-
tered around the fire, on which their mother cooked soup and
roasted bread.
“I can’t afford to keep buying candles, or go and bring an
(emergency) light,” Abu Nemer said. “When the light’s battery
is about to die, I go to my neighbors to charge it so I can see how
my children are sleeping and if they are covered.”
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