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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Bend lawmaker announces
run for governor in 2018
Associated Press
Republican plan to slash legal
immigration wins Trump’s support
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has embraced
legislation that would dramatically reduce legal immigration and
shift the nation toward a system that prioritizes merit and skills
over family ties.
Trump joined with Republican Sens. David Perdue of Georgia
and Tom Cotton of Arkansas to promote the bill, which so far has
gained little traction in the Senate.
“This legislation demonstrates our compassion for struggling
American families who deserve an immigration system that puts
their needs first and puts America first,” Trump said during an
event Wednesday in the White House’s Roosevelt Room.
It was the latest example of the president championing an issue
that animated the core voters of his 2016 campaign, following deci-
sions to pull out of the Paris climate treaty and ban transgender
people from the military.
Perdue and Cotton’s legislation would replace the current pro-
cess for obtaining legal permanent residency, or green cards, cre-
ating a skills-based point system for employment visas. The bill
would also eliminate the preference for U.S. residents’ extended
and adult family members, while maintaining priority for their
spouses and minor children.
Overall, immigration would be slashed 41 percent in the legis-
lation’s first year and 50 percent in its 10th, according to projection
models cited by the bill’s sponsors. The bill would also aim to slash
the number of refugees in half and eliminate a program that pro-
vides visas to people from countries with low rates of immigration.
Trump to announce new ways to
help veterans get medical care
WASHINGTON — The government wants to make it easier
for veterans to get medical care and is promoting new ways to use
technology to help.
The steps include using video technology and diagnostic tools
to conduct exams, and veterans soon can use mobile devices to
help with appointments.
President Donald Trump is announcing the initiatives today at
the White House.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says the goal is bet-
ter health care for veterans whether they are in their homes or
traveling.
The new programs are in addition to “telehealth” programs that
Shulkin says provided care to more than 700,000 veterans last year.
Keystone XL survived politics,
but economics could kill it
LINCOLN, Neb. — The proposed Keystone XL pipeline sur-
vived nine years of protests, lawsuits and political wrangling that
saw the Obama administration reject it and President Donald
Trump revive it, but now the project faces the possibility of death
by economics.
Low oil prices and the high cost of extracting Canadian crude
from oil sands are casting new doubts on Keystone XL as exec-
utives with the Canadian company that wants to build it face the
final regulatory hurdle next week in Nebraska.
The pipeline proposed in 2008 has faced dozens of state and
federal delays, many of them prompted by environmental groups
who ultimately persuaded President Barack Obama to deny federal
approval in November 2015. President Donald Trump resuscitated
the project in March, declaring that Calgary-based TransCanada
would create “an incredible pipeline.”
After all that, a TransCanada executive raised eyebrows in the
energy industry last week when he suggested that the pipeline
developer doesn’t know whether it will move forward with the
project. Paul Miller, an executive vice president who is oversee-
ing the project, told an investor call that company officials won’t
decide until late November or early December whether to start
construction.
“We’ll make an assessment of the commercial support and the
regulatory approvals at that time,” Miller said in the conference call
Friday with investors.
The company has invited customers to bid for long-term con-
tracts to ship oil on the pipeline. The bidding will run through
September.
An energy expert said the project has been delayed so long it
may no longer make economic sense.
Nearly 2 tons of seized ivory
to be crushed in Central Park
ALBANY, N.Y. — Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jew-
elry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants
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Ivory artifacts seized by NY state investigators will be
crushed in Central Park today to highlight New York’s de-
termination to crush the illegal ivory trade.
are heading for a rock crusher in New York City’s Central Park to
demonstrate the state’s commitment to smashing the illegal ivory
trade.
The artifacts being destroyed include piles of golf ball-sized
Japanese sculptures, called netsuke, intricately carved into mon-
keys, rabbits and other fanciful designs.
Many of the items are beautiful. Some are extremely valuable.
One netsuke, depicting three men with a fish, is worth an estimated
$14,000. A pair of elaborately carved ivory towers set to be ground
into dust is worth $850,000.
But state environmental officials, who are partnering with
the Wildlife Conservation Society and Tiffany & Co. for today’s
“Ivory Crush,” say no price justifies slaughtering elephants for
their tusks.
The sale of ivory across international boundaries has been
banned since 1990, but the United States and many other coun-
tries have allowed people to buy and sell ivory domestically sub-
ject to certain regulations that gave smugglers loopholes. Last year,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service instituted a near-total ban on
the domestic commercial ivory trade and barred sales across state
lines.
Since August 2014, New York law has prohibited the sale, pur-
chase, trade or distribution of anything made from elephant or
mammoth ivory or rhinoceros horn, except in limited situations
with state approval. Enforcement efforts have focused on New
York City, the nation’s largest port of entry for illegal wildlife
goods, state officials said.
The ivory articles heading for the crusher include more than
$4.5 million worth seized by undercover investigators from Metro-
politan Fine Arts & Antiques in New York City in 2015. In plead-
ing guilty last week to illegally selling ivory, the store’s owners
agreed to donate $100,000 each to the World Wildlife Fund and
Wild Tomorrow Fund for their endangered species protection
projects.
Thousands show up for jobs at
Amazon warehouses in US cities
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Thousands of people showed up
Wednesday for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon cus-
tomers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly
a dozen U.S. warehouses.
Although the wages offered will make it hard for some to make
ends meet, many of the candidates were excited by the prospect
of health insurance and other benefits, as well as advancement
opportunities.
It’s common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff
in August to prepare for holiday shopping. But the magnitude of
its current hiring spree underscores Amazon’s growth when tradi-
tional retailers are closing stores — and blaming Amazon for a shift
to buying goods online.
Amazon said it received “a record-breaking 20,000 applica-
tions” and hired thousands of people on the spot, and will hire more
in the coming days. That number represented fewer than half of the
50,000 people it had said it planned to hire.
Most of the jobs are full-time positions in packing, sorting and
shipping and will count toward Amazon’s previously announced
goal of adding 100,000 full-time workers by the middle of next
year.
The bad news is that more people are likely to lose jobs in stores
than get jobs in warehouses, said Anthony Carnevale, director of
Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
On the flip side, Amazon’s warehouse jobs provide “decent and
competitive” wages and could help build skills.
SALEM — A Republican lawmaker from the mountain town
of Bend announced his candidacy for governor today, aiming to
unseat Democratic Gov. Kate Brown in 2018.
Rep. Knute Buehler said on Twitter he is “ready to bring
change with education, budget and economic reforms.”
He told editors of The Bulletin, Bend’s daily newspaper, on
Wednesday that he planned to announce he was running. A web-
site has also been activated asking for donations of as little as $10
and beyond $1,000. Buehler said retirement pay formulas should
be reworked in the pension system for state employees, which has
been draining state coffers, and the level of health care payments
reformed.
The Senate Republican Office this week said the state’s pen-
sion debt has surged to $52 billion.
“Oregon’s ticking time bomb known as PERS is on the brink of
exploding,” the Republicans said, referring to the Public Employ-
ees Retirement System.
The Legislature is dominated by Democrats. The highest GOP
state official is Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, who occu-
pies the second-highest office in the state.
Brown sprung to the governorship from that position in 2015
when then Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned amid a state ethics inves-
tigation into alleged influence-peddling by his fiancee. Brown
beat oncologist Bud Pierce, the GOP candidate, by 7 percentage
points in the election last November to serve out the remaining
two years of Kitzhaber’s term.
Buehler, an orthopedic surgeon, would need to win the Repub-
lican primary to run for the state’s highest office in November
2018.
Seeking a dream, Indonesian
family finds nightmare in Raqqa
AIN ISSA, Syria — The 17-year old Indonesian girl made a
persuasive case to her family: lured by what she had read online,
she told her parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins they should
all move to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
Each of her two dozen relatives found something in it for them.
Free education and health care for the girls. Paying outstanding
debts for her father and uncle, finding work for the youngest men.
And the biggest bonus: a chance to live in what was depicted as
an ideal Islamic society on the ascendant.
It didn’t take long before their dreams were crushed and
their hopes for a better life destroyed as each of those promised
benefits failed to materialize. Instead, the family was faced with
a society where single women were expected to be married off
to IS fighters, injustice and brutality prevailed, and a battle raged
in which all able-bodied men were compelled to report to the
frontline.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Nurshardrina Khai-
radhania, now 19, recalled her family’s fateful decision to immi-
grate to the IS stronghold of Raqqa two years ago — and how, only
months later, their bid to escape began.
Venezuela president disputes
vote tampering allegation
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s president defiantly dis-
missed allegations that official turnout figures for the election of
an all-powerful constituent assembly were manipulated, accusing
the international software firm behind the claim of bowing to U.S.
pressure to cast doubt over a body that he hopes will entrench an
even more staunchly socialist state.
In his first meeting with assembly delegates Wednesday
night, President Nicolas Maduro not only stood by the official
count of 8 million-plus votes cast in Sunday’s divisive elec-
tion, but proclaimed that an additional 2 million people would
have voted if they hadn’t been blocked by anti-government
protesters.
Maduro also announced a one-day delay in the assem-
bly’s installation, saying it would convene on Friday instead of
today as planned, in order to “organize it well in peace and
tranquility.”
The body is empowered to rewrite Venezuela’s constitu-
tion and Maduro vows he will use it to target his opponents and
solidify the socialist system installed by the late President Hugo
Chavez. Maduro called the vote in May after weeks of protests
fueled by widespread anger over food shortages, triple-digit infla-
tion and high crime — unrest that continues and has caused at
least 125 deaths.
The head of voting technology company Smartmatic said ear-
lier Wednesday that the National Electoral Council’s voter turn-
out number was off by at least 1 million, further darkening uncer-
tainty over the veracity over the results. Independent analysts and
opposition leaders have contended that the actual participation
level was much lower.
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