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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF bill on social media because that’s “where most people are get- ting their news nowadays.” The law allows police to inquire about the immigration status of anyone they detain, a situation that can range from arrest for a crime to being stopped for a traffic violation. It also requires police chiefs and sheriffs — under the threat of jail and removal of office — to comply with federal requests to hold criminal suspects for possible deportation. Republicans have a strong majority in the Legislature and shoved aside Dem- ocratic objections, even as President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold federal funding for sanctuary cities have hit roadblocks in federal courts. Associated Press French president-elect gears for transition — as do rivals PARIS — French president-elect Emmanuel Macron is laying the groundwork for his transition to power, with plans for a visit to Germany, a name change for his political movement and an appearance today with the man whose job he assumes. Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen handily in Sunday’s presidential vote, and now must pull together a major- ity for his year-old political movement by mid-June legislative elections. His party, En Marche (Forward) is tweaking its name as it prepares a list of candidates. Macron has promised that half of those candidates will be new to elected politics, as he was before Sunday. The far-right National Front party is also gearing up for a name change — if not a makeover of its ideas — after Marine Le Pen’s decisive loss. In interviews today, her campaign director, David Rachline, said the party founded by her father would get a new name as bait to pull in a broader spectrum of supporters in France. AP: Sex assaults in high school sports minimized as ‘hazing’ Ousted Obama official to speak on Trump aide’s Russia talks WASHINGTON — An Obama administration official who warned the Trump White House about contacts between one of its key advisers and Russia is set to speak publicly for the first time about the concerns she raised. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is testifying today before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The highly anticipated hearing — it is Yates’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since her firing in January — is expected to fill in key details in the chain of events that led to the ouster of Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, in the early weeks of the administration. The February resignation followed media reports that Flynn had discussed U.S.-imposed sanctions on Russia with Ambas- sador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period, which was contrary to the public representations of the White House. Yates is likely to testify today that she warned White House counsel Don McGahn on Jan. 26 that Flynn’s contacts — and the discrepancies between what the White House said happened on the calls and what actually occurred — had left him in a compro- mised position, according to a person familiar with her expected statements. The person was not authorized to discuss the testi- mony by name and requested anonymity. State has yet to distribute tax revenue from pot sales PORTLAND — Tax money collected from Oregon’s legal marijuana sales has been a rare bright spot as lawmakers fight over how to fill a $1.6 billion budget deficit. KGW-TV reports that the state has brought in almost $75 mil- lion in tax revenue since 2016. It’s not enough to close the bud- get gap, but it’s a start. But none of that tax revenue has been distributed to its intended recipients, like schools and police agencies. That’s because of a quirk in the state law that governs legal marijuana. It says before anyone else gets paid, the Oregon Liquor Con- trol Commission must be reimbursed for administrative costs associated with setting up the marijuana program. That hasn’t happened. Until it does, the tens of millions of dol- lars in marijuana tax revenue will just sit in a state account. Biomass facility hopes to profit from energy-credits bill LONGVIEW, Wash. — The KapStone packaging plant in Longview, Washington wants its wood waste boilers to earn cash. The Daily News reports that the mill’s “biomass” facility could be a moneymaker if Gov. Jay Inslee approves a bill that has cleared the Legislature. State Sen. Dean Takko, a Longview Democrat, says Inslee is expected to sign the measure today. The bill would allow older biomass facilities like KapStone’s to sell renewable energy credits. KapStone stands to earn hun- dreds of thousands of dollars annually under the legislation. Inslee vetoed a similar bill last year fearing biomass energy could undercut the competitiveness of other renewable energies. This year’s bill is narrower. Burning wood waste is considered a carbon-neutral form of AP Photo/Francois Mori French president-elect Emmanuel Macron participates in a ceremony to mark Victory Day in Paris, France, today. French president-elect Emmanuel Macron appeared alongside cur- rent President Francois Hollande in commemoration of the end of World War II. Today is a national holiday and marks the day of the formal German defeat in World War II. energy because the wood on its own would eventually decay and release stored-up carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Appeals court to weigh challenge to revised Trump travel ban RICHMOND, Va. — After a series of stinging legal defeats, President Donald Trump’s administration hopes to convince a federal appeals court that his travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries is motivated by national security, not religion. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today will examine a ruling that blocks the administration from temporarily barring new visas for citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. It’s the first time an appeals court will hear arguments on the revised travel ban, which is likely destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. Pointing to the Republican’s promises on the campaign trail to bar Muslims from entering the country, a federal judge in Mary- land found in March that the policy appeared to be driven primar- ily by religious animus. Attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department say the court shouldn’t rely on Trump’s statements, but on the text of the pol- icy, which they say is necessary to protect the country from ter- rorism. The banned countries represent just a fraction of the pre- dominantly Muslim countries worldwide, they note. “The court should have focused on official acts, not perceived subjective motivations,” the attorneys say in court documents. Texas stokes immigration debate with ‘sanctuary cities’ ban AUSTIN, Texas — Texas charged to the forefront of the national debate over immigration as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a so-called “sanctuary cities” ban that lets police ask during routine stops whether someone is in the U.S. legally and threatens sheriffs with jail if they don’t cooperate with fed- eral immigration agents. The new Texas law was blasted by opponents as the nation’s toughest on immigrants since Arizona’s crackdown in 2010. Opponents vowed to challenge it in court. Abbott signed the measure on Facebook Live Sunday evening without advance notice, which critics said was to avoid protest- ers. Abbott spokesman John Wittman said they chose to sign the The Georgia school district said it was investigating the base- ball players for “misbehavior” and “inappropriate physical con- tact.” What it didn’t reveal was that a younger teammate had reported being sexually assaulted. Even after players were later disciplined for sexual battery, the district cited student confidentiality to withhold details from the public and used “hazing” to describe the incident, which it also failed to report to the state as required. Across the U.S., perhaps nowhere is student-on-student sex- ual assault as dismissed or as camouflaged as in boys’ sports, an Associated Press investigation found. Mischaracterized as hazing and bullying, the violence is so normalized on some teams that it persists for years, as players attacked one season become aggres- sors the next. Coaches frequently say they’re not aware of what’s happen- ing. But AP found multiple cases where coaches knew and failed to intervene or, worse, tried to cover it up. The AP examined sexual violence in school sports as part of its larger look at student-on-student sex assaults . Analyzing state education records, supplemented by federal crime data, AP found about 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by stu- dents in grades K-12 over a recent four-year period. That figure doesn’t capture the extent of problem because attacks are widely under-reported and not all states track them or classify them uniformly. Macron election gives a gasping EU a breath of fresh air BRUSSELS — Tuesday is Europe Day, and this year Euro- pean Union leaders got to unwrap their present a bit early. French voters elected as president Emmanuel Macron, whose platform espouses a stronger EU and a tough line in negotiations on Britain’s exit from the bloc. Perhaps just as important, they rejected far-right contender Marine Le Pen, whose EU bashing knows few bounds. But if champagne corks are popping in Brussels, beware of the hangover: Brexit negotiations could go horribly wrong. Ital- ian elections could see an anti-euro movement become the big- gest party. Greek finances could wreck the value of the shared European currency. Despite overwhelming support for Macron across the conti- nent, the new French leader remains a political novice, untried and untested on European issues. And even as he celebrates European unity, he has argued that the bloc needs a fundamen- tal retooling. “It makes it tough to predict how he will act — in France and also in the EU,” said Hendrik Vos, a European policy analyst at Ghent University in Belgium. MTV Awards salute ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Stranger Things’ LOS ANGELES — Film hit “Beauty and the Beast” and Net- flix newcomer “Stranger Things” were the night’s big winners with two trophies apiece as MTV partied with its Movie & TV Awards show. For this, the 26th edition of what was formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards, TV was added to the mix. “Stranger Things” was decreed the Show of the Year, and its cast member, Millie Bobby Brown, was named Best Actor in a Show. “Beauty and the Beast” was the Movie of the Year, with its star, Emma Watson, the Best Actor in a Movie. But the awards had another trick up its sleeve, introducing a policy of breaking down gender barriers, as men and women competed jointly in the acting categories. The policy was put into practice at the top of the show by pre- senter Asia Kate Dillion, who proudly noted she has been able to break down gender barriers as “the first openly non-binary actor to play an openly non-binary actor on a major TV show,” Show- time’s drama series “Billions.” (A non-binary person is someone who doesn’t identify with either gender.) Then she presented the award to Watson. 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