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WORLD IN BRIEF
seeking hundreds of million dollars more for more jail cells, pros-
ecutors and marshals to transport prisoners. It’s unclear if Con-
gress will give him the money.
Associated Press
Gov’t shutdown, health bill
rescue at stake in Congress
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan bargainers are making prog-
ress toward a budget deal to prevent a partial federal shutdown this
weekend, a major hurdle overcome when President Donald Trump
signaled he would put off his demand that the measure include
money to build his border wall with Mexico.
Republicans are also vetting proposed changes to their belea-
guered health care bill that they hope will attract enough votes to
finally push it through the House.
Both efforts come with Congress back from a two-week break
just days before Trump’s 100th day in office, an unofficial measur-
ing stick of a new president’s effectiveness. With little to show in
legislative victories so far, the Trump administration would love to
claim achievements on Capitol Hill by that day — this Saturday.
The same day, federal agencies would have to close unless law-
makers pass a $1 trillion spending bill financing them or legislation
keeping them open temporarily while talks continue. Republicans
hope to avoid the ignominy of a government shutdown while their
party controls Congress and the White House.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Monday that admin-
istration negotiators including Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mul-
vaney, “feel very confident” that a shutdown won’t occur.
Ketchikan seafood processors
to see water-rate hikes
KETCHIKAN, Alaska — Officials in Ketchikan have approved
an ordinance that more than doubles water rates for the southeast
Alaska city’s seafood processors over the next three years.
The City Council approved the ordinance in a 5-2 vote on
Thursday. Water rates will increase by 35 percent each year over
the next three years for Ketchikan’s three fish processors — E.C.
Phillips and Son, Trident Seafoods and Alaska General Seafoods,
The Ketchikan Daily News reported.
The new water rates come in response to a consulting firm’s
study that found all rate classes were paying more than their share
of the cost of providing water service except for the seafood pro-
cessors. The three companies accounted for nearly half the cost of
production but were paying less than 5 percent of generated reve-
nue, according to the study.
Paul Cyr, with E.C. Phillips and Son, has spoken out against the
argument that seafood processors are being subsidized by the city
or other ratepayers.
Seafood processor, EPA settle on
Alaska clean air violations
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Seattle-based seafood proces-
sor that operates in Alaska would pay a $1.3 million civil penalty
under a proposed settlement of clean air violations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Westward
Seafoods also would be required to spend $1.1 million on air pol-
lution reduction projects and $800,000 on emissions monitoring at
Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Westward Seafoods self-reported that three employees turned
off air pollution controls from 2009 to 2011 at a processing plant.
The three pleaded guilty to falsifying records.
The settlement would resolve the company’s civil liability and
require an independent auditor to conduct annual inspections and
verify compliance.
The public has until May 25 to comment on the proposed
settlement.
Westward Seafoods is owned by Maruha Nichiro Corp. of
Japan. The company didn’t immediately respond to requests for
comment.
Trailblazing Colorado abortion
law marks 50th anniversary
DENVER — Today marks 50 years since a groundbreaking Col-
orado law significantly loosened tight restrictions on legal abortions.
Before the law, Colorado — like many states — allowed abor-
tions only if a woman’s life was at stake.
In 1967, a Democratic freshman state lawmaker introduced a
bill that allowed abortions if the woman’s physical or mental health
was threatened, if the unborn child might have birth defects or in
cases of rape or incest.
Rep. Richard Lamm said he feared he might be committing
political suicide by introducing the bill to the overwhelmingly
male, Republican-dominated Legislature.
But within weeks, Republican Gov. John Love signed the bill
into law, making Colorado the first state to loosen restrictions on
abortion — six years before the U.S. Supreme Court would legal-
ize it nationally.
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Smugglers become a lifeline for
the starving in South Sudan
AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale
Sudan, a northern white rhino, arrives at the Ol Pejeta Con-
servancy in Kenya in 2009. There’s just one male northern
white rhino left in the world, and he’s getting some help
from the Tinder dating app.
World’s last male rhino getting
help from Tinder dating app
NAIROBI, Kenya — There’s just one male northern white
rhino left in the world, and he’s now on the Tinder dating app as
wildlife experts try to keep his species alive.
“I don’t mean to be too forward, but the fate of the species lit-
erally depends on me,” the rhino’s Tinder profile says. “I perform
well under pressure.”
The campaign called “The Most Eligible Bachelor in the
World,” by a Kenyan wildlife conservancy and the dating app,
focuses on the rhino named Sudan.
The 43-year-old and his last two female companions
are unable to breed naturally because of issues that include old
age.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the app aim to raise $9 million for
research into breeding methods, including in-vitro fertilization, in
an effort to save the species from extinction.
Overcoming Opioids: Special
schools help teens stay clean
INDIANAPOLIS — When Logan Snyder got hooked on pills
after a prescription to treat pain from a kidney stone, she joined
the millions already swept up in the nation’s grim wave of addic-
tion to opioid painkillers.
She was just 14.
Youth is a drawback when it comes to kicking drugs. Only
half of U.S. treatment centers accept teenagers and even fewer
offer teen-focused groups or programs. After treatment, ado-
lescents find little structured support. They’re outnumbered by
adults at self-help meetings. Sober youth drop-in centers are rare.
Returning to school means resisting offers to get high with old
friends.
But Snyder is lucky: Her slide ended when her father got her
into a residential drug treatment program. Now 17 and clean, she
credits her continued success to Hope Academy in Indianapolis,
a tuition-free recovery school where she’s enrolled as a junior.
“I am with people all day who are similar to me,” she says.
“We’re here to hold each other accountable.”
Tough court on immigration
serves as model for Trump plans
DEL RIO, Texas — One by one, the Mexican men stood in the
jury box, shackles rattling as they fidgeted slightly and pleaded
guilty to crossing the U.S. border illegally.
They had come for better jobs, many to earn more money to
help raise their children, their defense lawyer told a federal mag-
istrate in a quiet west Texas courtroom about 3 miles (5 kilome-
ters) north of the Mexican border. The magistrate, Collis White,
warned that a guilty plea would mean jail time and they couldn’t
return to the United States legally for years. Speaking in Spanish,
each of the 15 men said they understood and took their chances.
They faced up to six months in jail, but most were sentenced to
just a few days.
The men had the misfortune of landing in America’s toughest
courthouse when it comes to dealing with people who cross the
border illegally. In other jurisdictions, authorities routinely skip
the criminal charges and simply order quick deportations. But
for the last decade, just about everyone arrested near Del Rio gets
prosecuted.
That tough approach is a model President Donald Trump
hopes to replicate as part of his sweeping plans to stop illegal
immigration, the cornerstone of his campaign. He wants to pros-
ecute many more people caught crossing the border illegally.
Doing so wouldn’t be cheap. Immigration cases already
account for more than half of federal prosecutions. Trump is
WANYJOK, South Sudan — Sadiq Mohammed climbs
into the cab of a truck that looks more like a nightclub than a
smuggler’s perch. Red and yellow tassels dangle from the
ceiling, while tapestry drapes much of the windshield.
He switches on the electric fan above his head and nestles into
the front seat, which he’s fitted with a more comfortable lawn
chair.
The Sudanese trader-turned-smuggler says life is good. With
both civil war and famine raging in South Sudan, “I have more
business now than before.”
After crossing from Sudan into this small South Sudan town,
the 38-year-old father of two unpacks his shipment of food
before trying to relax from his three-day journey. What began as
a respectable, legal food transport job in 2009 has turned into a
risky profession.
After South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011,
parts of the border between the two countries were sealed. Truck-
ers like Mohammed had to decide on changing jobs or continu-
ing to work illegally.
“I have no choice but to keep on smuggling,” he says.
Wells Fargo to face irritated
shareholders at annual meeting
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Wells Fargo’s top management
and board of directors will face irritated investors today for the
first big shareholder meeting since the scandal over the bank’s
sales practices led to an executive shake-up, fines and a dented
reputation.
The bank has changed the way it pays branch employees,
reclaimed promised compensation to several executives and
apologized to customers after regulators imposed $185 million
in fines last September. Authorities said Wells Fargo workers
opened up to 2 million accounts without customer permission as
employees tried to meet aggressive sales goals.
It’s likely that Wells Fargo’s top management will apologize
to shareholders — a new, and arguably more patient, audience
— following apologies already given to customers and employ-
ees. CEO Tim Sloan, who got that job in October, has repeat-
edly talked of making things right with customers. Whether the
changes will be enough — Wells has seen a sharp decline in new
customers and remains under investigation by various authorities
— is a main issue to be decided today.
Wells Fargo’s executives are expected to face calls for their
ouster. Shareholder proposals call for an overhaul of the bank’s
corporate governance as well as more investigations into the
pressure-filled corporate culture that some bank employees say
pushed them to open the fake accounts.
An investigation by the bank’s own board of directors,
released earlier this month, found that the problems at Wells
Fargo and its overly aggressive sales culture date back at least 15
years, and that executives had little interest in dealing with the
issue until it spiraled out of control. It also clawed back another
$75 million in pay from former CEO John Stumpf and former
community bank executive Carrie Tolstedt, saying both dragged
their feet for years about the problems.
Arkansas executes 2 inmates on
the same gurney, hours apart
VARNER, Ark. — After going nearly 12 years without exe-
cuting an inmate, Arkansas now has executed three in a few
days — including two in one night.
Jack Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal injections
on the same gurney Monday night, just about three hours
apart. It was the first double execution in the United States since
2000.
While Jones, 52, was executed on schedule, shortly
after 7 p.m., attorneys for Williams, 46, convinced a federal
judge minutes later to briefly delay his execution over con-
cerns about how the earlier one was carried out. They claimed
Jones “was moving his lips and gulping for air,” an account
the state’s attorney general denied, but the judge lifted her stay
about an hour later and Williams was pronounced dead at 10:33
p.m.
In the emergency filing, Williams’ attorneys wrote that offi-
cials spent 45 minutes trying to place an IV line in Jones’ neck
before placing it elsewhere. It argued that Williams, who weighs
400 pounds, could have faced a “torturous” death because of his
weight.
Intravenous lines are placed before witnesses are allowed
access to the death chamber.
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