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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF leaders have set, but until now failed to meet, for reconfiguring the nation’s health care system. With Senate Republicans straining to coalesce around plans, new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price met pri- vately with GOP senators Wednesday, but participants said no spe- cifics were discussed. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said lawmak- ers and the White House are trying to decide who should release a plan to replace Obama’s law first — the White House or Congress. Associated Press ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protests being held across US PHILADELPHIA — Immigrants across the country are expected to stay home from school and work today to show how critical they are to the U.S. economy and way of life. “A Day Without Immigrants” actions are planned in cities including Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Houston, Chicago and New York. The protest gained momentum on social media and by word of mouth. It comes in response to President Donald Trump, whose admin- istration has pledged to increase the deportation of immigrants liv- ing in the country illegally. Trump campaigned on building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and blamed high unemployment on immigration. As president, he’s called for a ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries from coming into the U.S. Organizers expect thousands of people to participate or show solidarity with workers. Problem nominations are hard to avoid, history shows WASHINGTON — It was pretty much inevitable. Every recent president has had a doomed Cabinet nomination or two, and President Donald Trump is no exception. On Wednesday, Trump’s choice for labor secretary, fast food CEO Andrew Puzder, withdrew his name after Republicans expressed concern over his failure to pay taxes promptly on a for- mer housekeeper who wasn’t authorized to work in the U.S. Dem- ocrats also had complained about Puzder’s business record and remarks about women and workers at his company, which owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. Puzder was Trump’s first Cabinet-level nominee to withdraw. The president also ousted his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, after just weeks on the job because Flynn wasn’t truthful about his contacts with Russian officials during the transition. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and both Bush presidents all had to come up with new names after nominees for their Cabinets ran into trouble. Military seeks $21M to clean lead-contaminated armories PORTLAND — The Oregon Military Department is seeking $21.6 million from the federal government to clean up toxic armor- ies around the state. The Oregonian reported Wednesday that the money would go toward cleaning armories in Portland, Ashland, Backer City, Bend, Coos Bay, Eugene, McMinnville, Ontario, Pendleton and Salem. The state’s request to the National Guard Bureau comes after an 18-month investigation by The Oregonian that revealed wide- spread lead dust problems in armories nationwide. The 2016 investigation showed that state military leaders tried to cover up how long they knew about the problem and downplay its severity. The Oregon military has recently increased disclosure about its toxic armories. In December, the National Guard Bureau, which oversees state units, said it would pay for armory cleanups, the first time it has made such a commitment. Washington court rules against florist in gay wedding case OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding broke the state’s antidiscrimination law. Barronelle Stutzman, a florist in Richland, Washington, had been fined by a lower court for denying service to a gay couple in 2013. Stutzman said she was exercising her First Amendment rights, and her lawyers immediately said they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn today’s decision. She had previously sold the couple flowers and knew they were 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 gay. However, Stutzman told them that she couldn’t provide flow- ers for their wedding because same-sex marriage was incompatible with her Christian beliefs. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the couple sued her, saying she broke state anti-discrimination and consumer protection laws, and the lower court agreed. The state’s nine high court justices upheld that verdict. Texas splits with other states, defends Trump travel ban SAN FRANCISCO — Texas is splitting with other states and defending President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed documents with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednes- day asking the court to reconsider its decision not to immediately reinstate the ban. Paxton says the ban is a legal exercise of presi- dential authority. A three-judge panel last Thursday refused to block a lower court decision that suspended the ban. The panel rejected the Trump administration’s claim of presidential authority and concluded that the order was unlikely to survive the legal challenge mounted by the states of Washington and Minnesota. The 9th Circuit will decide whether to have a larger panel of judges reconsider that decision. House GOP batting around options for revamping health law WASHINGTON — With the Republican drive to craft a new health care plan sputtering, House GOP leaders are offering options to rank-and-file lawmakers for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law with a conservative approach domi- nated by tax breaks and a transition away from today’s Medicaid program. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and other House leaders planned to discuss details of their plans with lawmakers today and gauge their receptiveness. The briefing was coming hours before a weeklong recess sends Congress home to energized voters — mostly Democrats — who have recently crammed town hall meet- ings to complain noisily about GOP efforts to repeal Obama’s stat- ute. Lawmakers are eager to have something to show constituents. “This is complicated work. We’re not going to rush it,” said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the House Energy and Com- merce Committee, one of the panels helping craft the legislation. Walden said by the end of March, his committee would start writing its part of the measure voiding much of Obama’s law and substituting GOP programs. That’s the most recent of several self-imposed deadlines that President Donald Trump and GOP China carfentanil ban changes the game for opioid epidemic SHANGHAI — China is adding the deadly elephant tranquil- izer carfentanil and three related synthetic opioids to its list of con- trolled substances effective March 1, China’s National Narcotics Control Commission said today. The move closes a major loophole in the global regulation of a substance so lethal it has been used as a chemical weapon and described as a terrorist threat. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration called China’s action a potential “game-changer” that is likely to reduce supply of key chemicals driving a surge of overdoses and deaths among unsuspecting drug users in North America. After China controlled 116 synthetic drugs in October 2015, seizures in the United States of compounds on that list plunged. “It’s a substantial step in the fight against opioids here in the United States,” said Russell Baer, a DEA special agent in Washing- ton. “We’re persuaded it will have a definite impact.” China has emerged as an important source country for opioids like carfentanil, which burst into public view last summer when it appeared in the North American drug supply. Dealers cut fentanyls into heroin and other drugs to boost profit margins. Pro-government tribal leader among dead in US raid in Yemen CAIRO — The main figure killed in last month’s U.S. raid in Yemen targeting al-Qaida was a tribal leader who was allied to the country’s U.S.- and Saudi-backed president and had been enlisted to fight Yemen’s Shiite rebels, according to military officials, tribal figures and relatives. The government connections of tribal chief Sheikh Abdel- Raouf al-Dhahab raise further questions over the planning of a raid that turned into a heavy firefight with casualties on both sides. One U.S. Navy Seal was killed, six American soldiers were wounded and a military aircraft suffered a hard landing and had to be destroyed in the assault, which took place days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. LISTINGS Evening listings THURSDAY F EBRUARY 16 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 A. "It Only Gets Much Worse" (N) Scandal "The Belt" (N) Get Away With Murder "It's War" (N) KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! Grey's A. 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Red 2 (2013, Action) Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis. Movie Tracers ('15, Act) SF Machinery Small Town Rural America 'Live' Steve Lantvit Rural Eve. News Market Journal GA Farm Monitor SF Machinery Small Town Time Life Library Suzanne a p a r t of AP Photo/Steven Senne Tsugumi Joiner, associate director of the Davis Muse- um at Wellesley College, walks past the shroud-covered painting, “Friends in a Storm Approaching,” left, by Scot- tish-born artist James McDougal Hart, today, at the mu- seum in Wellesley, Mass. To protest President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban, artworks by immigrants, or artworks given to the museum by immigrants, will be cov- ered or de-installed through Tuesday to call attention to contributions that immigrants have made to culture. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities today announced the second and third arrests in the death of the North Korean leader’s half brother, whose apparent assassination this week unleashed tales of spectacular intrigue: a pair of women assailants, a broad-daylight killing and a dictator-sibling out for blood. But investigators were still piecing together details of the case, which hinges in part on speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a hit squad to kill his estranged half brother, who loved gambling and casinos and lived abroad for years, know- ing he was a hunted man. The three suspects — two women and a man — were picked up separately Wednesday and early today. The women were iden- tified using closed-circuit TV footage from Kuala Lumpur Interna- tional Airport, where Kim Jong Nam, who was 45 or 46, suddenly fell ill Monday morning. He died on the way to the hospital, after telling medical work- ers at the airport that he had been sprayed with a chemical, said two senior Malaysian government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive diplomatic issues involved. Multiple South Korean media reports, citing unidentified sources, said two women believed to be North Korean agents killed him with some kind of poison before fleeing in a taxi. 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 Two women, one man arrested in North Korean’s death in Malaysia 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 F E B R UA RY M OV E - I N S P E C I A L Assisted Living seaside A sweet deal! 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