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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old man with a variety of impairments,
including Asperger’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disor-
der, shot and killed his mother at their home, then went to school
where he killed the students, adults and himself.
The Obama administration rule required the Social Security
Administration to send in the names of beneficiaries with mental
impairments who also have a third party manage their benefits.
But lawmakers, with the backing of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation and advocacy groups for the disabled, opposed the regu-
lation and encouraged Congress to undertake a rarely successful
process designed to void regulations that Congress takes issue
with.
The 57-43 vote to revoke the regulation sends the measure to
Trump.
Associated Press
Investigations into Russia to
continue after Flynn’s exit
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies and Congress
will continue to investigate Russia’s involvement in the 2016
presidential election, even after President Donald Trump fired his
national security adviser for providing inaccurate accounts of his
contacts with the Russian ambassador last year.
Democrats said an independent investigation was the best
way to answer questions about the Trump administration’s ties
to Russia. But Republican leaders continue to refuse to consider
that option and said three congressional investigations underway
were enough.
Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was fired
late Monday. The White House said he misled Vice President
Mike Pence about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
This isn’t the first time Trump has distanced himself from an
adviser in light of relationships with Moscow. In late August, Paul
Manafort resigned as Trump’s campaign chairman after disclo-
sures by The Associated Press about his firm’s covert lobbying on
behalf of Ukraine’s former pro-Russia governing political party.
Trump has long held a friendly posture toward the long-time U.S.
adversary and has been reluctant to criticize Russian President
Vladimir Putin, even for Putin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea
region in 2014.
“This isn’t simply about a change in policy toward Russia,
as the administration would like to portray. It’s what’s behind
that change in policy,” said California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top
Democrat on the House intelligence committee, one of the con-
gressional bodies investigating.
Cracks may offer clues to
California dam’s troubles
Six months before rushing water ripped a huge hole in a chan-
nel that drains a Northern California reservoir, state inspectors
said the concrete spillway was sound. As officials puzzle through
how to repair Oroville Dam spillway, federal regulators have
ordered the state to figure out what went wrong.
Earlier inspection reports offer potential clues, including
cracks on the spillway surface that if not properly repaired could
let water tear through the concrete. In recent years, construction
crews patched cracks — including in the area where water bur-
rowed a huge pit last week.
Damage to the main spillway triggered a series of problems
culminating with the first use of the emergency spillway, which
quickly began eroding and threatened to unleash a torrent of
water on cities downstream. On Tuesday, officials said the imme-
diate danger had passed, and allowed nearly 200,000 residents
to go home after evacuation orders scattered them for nearly two
days.
Inspectors with the state agency that both operates and checks
the dam, the nation’s tallest at 770 feet, walked the half-mile-
long spillway in 2014 and 2015 and did not find any concerns.
“Conditions appeared to be normal,” the inspector wrote in
reports from both years.
Pope Francis: Native people
have rights over their lands
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis insisted today that indig-
enous groups must give prior consent to any economic activ-
ity affecting their ancestral lands, a view that conflicts with the
Trump administration, which is pushing to build a $3.8 billion oil
pipeline over opposition from American Indians.
Francis met with representatives of indigenous peoples
attending a U.N. agricultural meeting and said the key issue fac-
ing them is how to reconcile the right to economic development
with protecting their cultures and territories.
“In this regard, the right to prior and informed consent should
always prevail,” he said. “Only then is it possible to guarantee
peaceful cooperation between governing authorities and indige-
nous peoples, overcoming confrontation and conflict.”
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L’Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo
A woman wearing a traditional costume holds Pope Fran-
cis’ head on the occasion of his meeting with representa-
tives of indigenous peoples attending a UN agricultural
meeting in Rome, at the Vatican, today. Francis has insist-
ed that indigenous peoples must give prior consent for
any economic activity on their ancestral lands — an in-
direct critique as the Donald Trump administration seeks
to advance construction on a $3.8 billion oil pipeline over
opposition from American Indians.
The Cheyenne River and the Standing Rock Sioux tribes have
sued to stop construction on the final stretch of the Dakota Access
pipeline, which would bring oil from North Dakota’s rich Bakken
fields across four states to a shipping point in Illinois.
The tribes say the pipeline threatens their drinking water, cul-
tural sites and ability to practice their religion, which depends on
pure water. The last piece of the pipeline is to pass under a res-
ervoir on the Missouri River, which marks the eastern border of
both tribes’ reservations.
The company building the pipeline, Texas-based Energy
Transfer Partners, has insisted the water supply will be safe.
Study: Most drivers, not just
young, are taking risks
DETROIT — Young drivers aren’t alone in behaving badly
on U.S. roads, a trend that could be contributing to a spike in
highway deaths.
Well over half of drivers in every age group have texted
behind the wheel, run a red light or driven faster than the speed
limit in the last 30 days, according to a new study by the AAA
Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Younger drivers are the worst offenders. Eighty-eight per-
cent of drivers ages 19 to 24 admitted to at least one of those
behaviors. But even mature drivers skirted the rules more often
researchers expected. For instance, 10 percent of drivers between
60 and 74 have texted or sent email from behind the wheel, while
37 percent of drivers over 75 said they’d driven through a light
that had just turned red.
“It was a surprise that there were relatively high rates of these
behaviors among the drivers we think of as safer,” said Lindsay
Arnold, a research associate with the AAA Foundation.
Arnold said the responses were similar to those in past years,
indicating a troubling trend. In 2015, U.S. traffic deaths rose 7
percent to 35,092, the largest single-year increase in five decades.
They’re expected to rise again in 2016 when that data is finalized.
Congress blocks rule barring
mentally impaired from guns
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate voted today
to block an Obama-era regulation that would prevent an esti-
mated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to
purchase a firearm. The measure now goes to President Donald
Trump, who is expected to sign it.
The regulation was crafted as part of President Barack Obama’s
efforts to strengthen the federal background check system in the
wake of the 2012 massacre of 20 young students and six staff
China awards Trump valuable
new trademark to his own name
SHANGHAI — The government of China awarded U.S. Pres-
ident Donald Trump valuable rights to his own name this week,
in the form of a 10-year trademark for construction services.
The registration became official on Feb. 14 and was published
in a trademark registration announcement on the website of Chi-
na’s Trademark Office today.
This may well be the first foreign trademark to be handed to
Trump during his presidency, but is unlikely to be the last. In
China alone he has 49 pending trademark applications and 77
marks already registered in his own name, most of which will
come up for renewal during his term.
Critics say Trump’s global intellectual property interests could
be used by foreign states as leverage over the president and may
violate the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which
bars public servants from accepting anything of value from for-
eign governments unless explicitly approved by Congress. These
concerns are particularly sharp in China, where the courts and
bureaucracy reflect the will of the ruling Communist Party.
The registration this week came as a surprise win for Trump
after a decade of trying — and failing — to wrest the rights to
his name back from a man named Dong Wei. The abrupt turn
in Trump’s bureaucratic fortunes once he declared his candidacy
has raised questions about the extent to which his political status
may be helping his family business.
Any special treatment from China would mean that Trump
effectively accepted a present from Beijing, an act that would
violate the Constitution, Richard Painter, chief White House eth-
ics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said in an email. “A
different conclusion might be reached if Trump had been treated
like everyone else seeking a trademark, but the evidence does not
point in that direction.
Report: More than 55,000 US
bridges structurally deficient
WASHINGTON — A new report says the Brooklyn Bridge
and Washington’s Arlington Memorial Bridge are among thou-
sands of spans considered structurally deficient.
Although the numbers of deficient bridges have declined
in recent years, the American Road & Transportation Builders
Association’s analysis of transportation department data shows
more than 55,000 bridges in the U.S. have been deemed deficient.
ARBTA says deficient bridges are crossed about 185 mil-
lion times a day. The top 14 most-traveled deficient bridges are
located in California.
Bridges labeled structurally deficient aren’t necessarily in
immediate danger of collapse. The term is applied when spans
need rehabilitation or replacement because at least one major
component has advanced deterioration or other problems.
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