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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Ex-foster kids: Abuse was routine in dismembered teen’s home Associated Press GOP leaders: Bill to build wall will cost up to $15 billion PHILADELPHIA — Congress will move legislation this year providing up to $15 billion to build a wall along the Mexican boundary, Republican leaders said today. But they would not say how they would prevent the massive project from adding to fed- eral deficits. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters at a GOP strategy retreat that they were planning legislation providing $12 billion to $15 billion for constructing the wall, one of President Donald Trump’s chief goals. Ryan said the goal is to complete that and other major bills in 2017, but the leaders offered no details on how the wall would be paid for, saying they would wait until the Trump administration proposes legislation. Trump has repeatedly said Mexico will pay for the wall, but Mexican leaders oppose it and have said they won’t finance it. Congress will pay for “the construction of the physical barrier on the border,” Ryan said. “We intend to address the wall issue ourselves,” said McConnell. Pressed on whether construction would increase federal defi- cits, Ryan said Republicans are fiscal conservatives. He said strengthening the economy and replacing President Barack Obama’s health care system were two of the best ways to bolster the government’s budget. “If we’re going to be spending on things like infrastructure, we’re going to find the fiscal space to pay for that” in a budget Congress plans to write this spring, Ryan said. For most Americans, Dow 20,000 carries little benefit WASHINGTON — While Wall Street celebrates yet another stock market record — surpassing 20,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average — many Americans have little reason to cheer. Despite the spread of 401(k) retirement plans, the wealthiest 10 percent of households own roughly 80 percent of stock market wealth. The Dow’s 23 percent surge over the past year has bene- fited mostly investors who were already well-off. The rising concentration of wealth at the top is one reason why the economy’s significant gains since the Great Recession ended 7½ years ago haven’t been felt by many Americans. Though the Dow more than doubled in President Barack Obama’s two terms, pay growth was stagnant, especially for people without higher education or high-tech skills. Discontent and anxiety about the economy’s direction helped fuel President Donald Trump’s elec- tion victory. Now, a major challenge for Trump is to help extend the econ- omy’s gains beyond wealthier households and those in thriving large metro areas to struggling regions and many rural areas. Research by Edward Wolff, an economist at New York Uni- versity, found that the wealthiest 10 percent of households owned 81.4 percent of stock market wealth as of 2013, the most recent year for which figures are available. The middle 60 percent of U.S. households owned just 7.7 percent. Those figures include stocks held in individual retirement plans and 401(k)s as well as in mutual funds. Trump’s immigration actions mark sharp shift in US policy WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging executive actions tightening border security— and the prospect of additional measures restricting refugee flows — mark a sharp shift away from Washington’s elusive efforts to forge compre- hensive immigration legislation. “We do not need new laws,” Trump said Wednesday during remarks at the Department of Homeland Security. “We will work within the existing system and framework.” The centerpiece of the measures Trump signed was an order to jump-start construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border THE DAILY ASTORIAN T HURSDAY E VENING A (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) (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) Elise assisted living community the Congressional Republicans prepare to hear from Trump PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republicans eager to deliver are about to find out whether Donald Trump can stay focused on their goals in his first appearance before them as president. Trump will speak today to House and Senate GOP lawmakers at their annual policy retreat. Despite a rocky start to his admin- istration — Trump has veered off course to make false claims about voter fraud and his inaugural crowd size — many law- makers remain optimistic at the prospect of the work they can do together. They hope to see a Trump focused on unity and results, not one veering off-course into conspiracy theories or re-litigat- ing the election or the inauguration. Ahead of Trump’s appearance, House Speaker Paul Ryan sketched out an ambitious agenda to lawmakers including send- ing Trump a health care repeal bill by March and a rewrite of the tax code by summer’s end. Also in the first 200 days Congress will confront paying for Trump’s newly announced border wall, which Ryan confirmed could cost $8 billion to $14 billion, and will work on an infrastructure bill that Trump requested be added to the already packed agenda. “I’m just so excited we finally have a chance to do this because we have the House and the Senate and a president who is with us,” Ryan said Wednesday in an interview on MSNBC, discussing plans to overhaul the tax code, eliminating loopholes and lowering corporate rates to 20 percent or even the 15 percent sought by Trump. “If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy, that is how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people,” he said. Is Ivanka Trump Jewish? In Israel, she has a trump card PETAH TIKVA, Israel — Is Ivanka Trump really Jewish? Last summer, Israel’s religious authorities issued a ruling that raised doubts about her conversion to Judaism. But after her father was elected president, they have changed their tune, raising eyebrows among activists who have long lobbied the rabbinical establishment to be more tolerant toward converts. President Donald Trump’s daughter converted to Judaism under a prominent Orthodox rabbi in Manhattan before her 2009 marriage to Jared Kushner, an observant Jew. In its ruling last July, an Israeli government religious court rejected the legitimacy of another conversion by the same rabbi. Although it didn’t directly affect Ivanka Trump, it raised ques- tions as to whether Israel’s powerful religious establishment would recognize her as being Jewish. But in early December, just weeks after Trump’s election vic- tory, Israel’s chief rabbis said they would work to change the rules for recognizing conversions performed abroad — and they singled out Ivanka Trump. Farm to table: A bit tricky in winter, but in high demand MONTPELIER, Vt. — Demand driven by the farm-to-table movement knows no seasons, so farmers in colder areas of the country increasingly use greenhouses and similar structures to meet wintertime demand for local produce. While crusty snow and ice covers the ground in January in Vermont, spinach leaves sprout in rows of unfrozen soil inside a high tunnel — a large enclosure covered by plastic film that is warmed by the sun and protected from the wind. “I can never keep up with the spinach demand,” said Joe Buley, owner of Screamin’ Ridge Farm in Montpelier, who planted the spinach in November and will sell it in about two weeks. This time of year, when vegetables are trucked in from Cal- ifornia and Mexico, some consumers clamor for fresh local produce. “I’m definitely interested in supporting local agriculture, and I definitely like eating greens in the winter,” said Serena Matt of Marshfield, Vermont, who paid Bear Roots Farm in South Barre, Vermont, ahead to get biweekly bundles of produce that in the winter typically include greens like spinach or baby kale. LISTINGS Evening listings THURSDAY J ANUARY 26 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune Grey's Anatomy (N) Scandal "Survival of the Fittest" (SP) (N) With Murder "We're Bad People" (N) KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! 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The actions, less than a week into Trump’s presidency, would fulfill pledges that animated his candidacy and represent a dra- matic redirection of U.S. immigration policy. They were cheered by Republicans allies in Congress, condemned by immigra- tion advocates and triggered new tension with the Mexican government. 6 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 Rohini Shahriar/Nasdaq The display at Nasdaq Tower in New York’s Times Square shows that the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 20,000-point mark for the first time, Wednesday. Before her torturous death, Grace Packer grew up in a hotbed of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, according to three chil- dren fostered by the adoptive mother who now stands charged, along with her boyfriend, of killing and dismembering the 14-year-old girl as part of a barbaric rape-murder fantasy. Police say Sara Packer, a former county adoptions supervisor, watched as her boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan, beat and raped Grace, who was then bound, gagged and left to die in a sweltering attic. Returning the next day and finding Grace still alive, Sullivan strangled her, court documents say. They stored her body in cat litter for months, then hacked it up and dumped it in a remote area where hunters found it in October, police said. In separate interviews with The Associated Press, the now- grown former foster daughters, all of whom lived with Sara Packer several years before Grace’s rape and murder, said Sara abused her adopted daughter and clearly favored Grace’s biolog- ical brother, who was also adopted. “Her favorite child, and you could see it plain as day, had always been Gracie’s brother,” said Jade Tenezaca, now 27. “She was more demanding on Gracie to be normal. But Gracie is not normal. Gracie had a learning disability.” Tenezaca recounted an episode that, in hindsight, seems chill- ing. Sara was watching the TV crime drama “CSI” once and casually mentioned that if she ever killed someone, she’d dis- member the body and burn the pieces to ash, Tenezaca said. a v a m e r e f a m i l y of c o m p a n i e s 503-738-0307 101 Forest Dr. Seaside, OR 97138 ASSSISTED LIVING N E W Y E A R M OV E - I N S P E C I A L Assisted Living seaside Pay no move-in fee and receive 50% off Independent your Living 503-738-0900 second month’s rent. Call today! Memory Care 2500 S Roosevelt Dr. at a p a r t of *Reduced rent offer excludes services. Limited time offer. Subject to change without notice. the a v a m e r e f a m i l y of c o m p a n i e s Seaside, OR 97138 ASSISTED LIVING & MEMORY CARE
