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WORLD IN BRIEF
Trump to challenge Obama-era
fuel standards in Detroit
Associated Press
Trump earned $153M and
paid $36.5M in taxes in 2005
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump earned $153
million and paid $36.5 million in income taxes in 2005, paying a
roughly 25 percent effective tax rate thanks to a tax he has since
sought to eliminate, according to highly sought-after newly dis-
closed tax documents.
The pages from Trump’s federal tax return show the then-real
estate mogul also reported a business loss of $103 million that
year, although the documents don’t provide detail. The forms show
that Trump paid an effective tax rate of 24.5 percent, a figure well
above the roughly 10 percent the average American taxpayer forks
over each year, but below the 27.4 percent that taxpayers earning
1 million dollars a year average were paying at the time, accord-
ing to data from the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
The tax forms were obtained by journalist David Cay John-
ston, who runs a website called DCReport.org, and reported on
MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Johnston, who has long
reported on tax issues, said he received the documents in the mail,
unsolicited.
Trump’s hefty business loss appears to be a continued benefit
from his use of a tax loophole in the 1990s, which allowed him to
deduct previous losses in future years. In 1995, Trump reported a
loss of more than $900 million, largely as a result of financial tur-
moil at his casinos.
Tax records obtained by The New York Times last year showed
the losses were so large they could have allowed Trump to avoid
paying taxes for up to 18 years. But Trump’s 2005 filing shows that
another tax prevented him from realizing the full benefit of those
deductions.
Trump travel ban faces key test
in multiple federal courtrooms
The day before it is supposed to go into effect President Don-
ald Trump’s revised travel ban will be scrutinized in federal court-
rooms across the country today.
In Maryland, a U.S. judge will hear arguments from the Amer-
ican Civil Liberties Union and others who want to stop the new
directive and more than a half-dozen states are trying to derail
the executive order affecting travelers from six Muslim-majority
nations.
Hawaii’s lawsuit is heading to federal court in Honolulu, while
Washington state, which successfully sued to block the original
ban, wants its own hearing before a federal judge in Seattle. Five
other states have joined Washington’s challenge.
US charges Russian officials,
hackers in mass Yahoo breach
WASHINGTON — The United States announced charges
today against two Russian intelligence officers and two hackers,
accusing them of a mega data breach at Yahoo that affected at least
a half billion user accounts.
The hack targeted the email accounts of Russian and U.S. offi-
cials, Russian journalists, and employees of financial services and
other businesses, officials said.
“We will not allow individuals, groups, nation states or a com-
bination of them to compromise the privacy of our citizens, the
economic interests of our companies, or the security of our coun-
try,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord.
One of the defendants has been taken into custody in Canada,
and another is on the list of the FBI’s most wanted cybercriminals.
The charges arise from a compromise of Yahoo user accounts
that began at least as early as 2014. Though the Justice Department
has previously charged Russian hackers with cybercrime — as
well as hackers sponsored by the Chinese and Iranian governments
— this is the first criminal case brought against Russian govern-
ment officials.
The announcement comes as federal authorities investigate
Russian interference through hacking in the 2016 presidential
election.
AP Photo/Paul Sakuma
The Yahoo logo is seen outside of the offices in Santa
Clara, Calif. A law enforcement official says the Justice
Department announced charges against four defen-
dants, including two officers of Russian security ser-
vices, in a mega data breach at Yahoo.
Yahoo didn’t disclose the 2014 breach until last September
when it began notifying at least 500 million users that their email
addresses, birth dates, answers to security questions and other
personal information may have been stolen. Three months later,
Yahoo revealed it had uncovered a separate hack in 2013 affecting
about 1 billion accounts, including some that were also hit in 2014.
Second health care bill in the
works to woo the reluctant
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are working on a com-
panion to their bill replacing “Obamacare,” a legislative second act
that would ease cross-state sale of health insurance and limit jury
awards for pain and suffering in malpractice lawsuits.
The problem: the so-called “sidecar” bill lacks the votes in the
Senate.
Skeptics abound. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas
called it “mythical legislation” in an interview Tuesday on the Hugh
Hewitt radio show. In a tweet, conservative Rep. Thomas Massie,
R-Ky., suggested “Easter basket” might be a better description.
Yet Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., has said he wants to move a
companion bill through the House alongside the main GOP legis-
lation that rolls back key parts of Barack Obama’s health care law
and limits federal spending on Medicaid for low-income people.
That strategy may just help Ryan put together enough votes to
get through the House, but then the sidecar would probably get
detached in the Senate, where 60 votes would be needed for such
legislation. Republicans only have 52 senators and they would
need the support of Democrats alienated by the drive to repeal
“Obamacare.”
GOP health overhaul puts
pressure on state governments
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — The Republican health care plan
means less money for states and gives them a tough choice: Find a
pot of cash to make up the difference or let coverage lapse for mil-
lions of lower-income Americans.
Governors and state lawmakers analyzing the Republican plan
to replace former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act
fear a return to the past, when those without health coverage used
emergency rooms for their medical needs. That uncompensated
care that was written off by hospitals or billed to the state.
The ax would fall especially hard on Medicaid, the state-fed-
eral program that provides health care to the poor and lower-in-
come workers.
In Washington, for example, state officials say they would have
to come up with $1.5 billion a year starting in 2020 to keep cov-
erage in place for about 600,000 residents who gained coverage
through the Medicaid expansion that was a key part of Obama’s
health care law.
“It would actually leave our nation worse off than before the
ACA was implemented,” Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, said in a
written statement.
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Timber group files suit over
expansion of Oregon monument
MEDFORD — A timber industry group has joined a grow-
ing list of entities challenging the legality of former President
Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument.
The Mail Tribune reports the American Forest Resource Coun-
cil filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal court to invalidate the
expansion. It’s the third federal lawsuit filed in the case since
February.
Before leaving office, Obama added 48,000 acres to the monu-
ment in southwestern Oregon to protect its biodiversity.
The council says the land is dedicated to timber production
under the O&C Lands Act. The group claims Obama went against
a 1940 Department of the Interior legal opinion stating O&C lands
can’t be pulled from production.
The Oregon Association of O&C Counties and the lumber
group Murphy Co. have also challenged the monument expansion.
Dutch voting in election seen
as barometer of populism
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch voters cast ballots today
at polling booths across the nation in parliamentary elections that
are being closely watched as a possible indicator of the strength of
far-right populism ahead of national votes in France and Germany
later this year.
Two-term Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s right-wing VVD party
was leading in polls ahead of the Dutch vote, with the anti-Islam
Party for Freedom of firebrand lawmaker Geert Wilders a close
second.
Wilders voted amid tight security and unprecedented media
attention at a school in a modern neighborhood on the edge of The
Hague early in the day.
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WASHINGTON — Moving forcefully against Obama-era
environmental rules, President Donald Trump is set to announce
in Michigan plans to re-examine federal requirements that regulate
the fuel efficiency of new cars and trucks.
Trump is expected to reveal his plans during an appearance
today at the American Center for Mobility in Detroit where he’ll
challenge the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) emis-
sions targets that were a centerpiece of former President Barack
Obama’s strategy to combat global warming. The rollback under-
scores the Trump administration’s rejection of mainstream climate
science in an effort to boost economic growth.
The Detroit center was used to produce B-24 bombers during
World War II and is now in the process of being converted into an
automotive testing and product development center. While visit-
ing there the president is expected to meet with auto executives
and workers and discuss “how his plans for rolling back federal
red tape will lead to more American jobs and higher wages, specif-
ically in the automobile sector,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer told
reporters.
The president will travel later today to Nashville, Tennessee,
where he’ll lay a wreath at President Andrew Jackson’s tomb to
mark what would have been Jackson’s 250th birthday, before hold-
ing a campaign-style rally in the city.
But the most significant move of the day will likely be the pres-
ident’s announcement on the CAFE emissions targets. The move
will have no immediate effect. But it is expected to set the stage
for weaker fuel efficiency standards as well as drawn-out legal bat-
tles with environmental groups and states like California that have
adopted their own tough tailpipe standards for drivers.
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