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6A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Wilmington isn’t Chicago or Los Angeles, Baltimore or Detroit. It is a city of less than 72,000 people known primarily as the birth- place of chemical giant DuPont and as a cozy home for big banks and Fortune 500 fi rms. But an Associated Press and USA TODAY Network analysis of Gun Violence Archive data — gathered from media reports and police press releases, and covering a 3½ year period through June of this year — reveals that Wilmington far and away leads the country in its rate of shootings among young peo- ple ages 12 to 17. Associated Press Equifax breach exposes 143 million people to identity theft SAN FRANCISCO — Credit monitoring company Equifax has been hit by a high-tech heist that exposed the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information about 143 million Amer- icans. Now the unwitting victims have to worry about the threat of having their identities stolen. The Atlanta-based company, one of three major U.S. credit bureaus, said Thursday that “criminals” exploited a U.S. website application to access fi les between mid-May and July of this year. The theft obtained consumers’ names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers. The purloined data can be enough for crooks to hijack the identities of people whose credentials were stolen through no fault of their own, potentially wreaking havoc on their lives. Equifax said its core credit-reporting databases don’t appear to have been breached. “On a scale of one to 10, this is a 10 in terms of potential identity theft,” said Gartner security analyst Avivah Litan. “Credit bureaus keep so much data about us that affects almost everything we do.” Lenders rely on the information collected by the credit bureaus to help them decide whether to approve fi nancing for homes, cars and credit cards. Credit checks are even sometimes done by employers when deciding whom to hire for a job. Equifax has established a website, https://www.equifaxsecu- rity2017.com/, where people can check to see if their personal information may have been stolen. Consumers can also call 866- 447-7559 for more information. Hurricane Irma slams Turks and Caicos on path to Florida CAIBARIEN, Cuba — Hurricane Irma battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday and Cuba evacuated tourists from beachside resorts as the fearsome storm continued a rampage through the Caribbean that has killed at least 11 people, with Flor- ida in its sights. Waves as high as 20 feet were expected in the Turks and Cai- cos. Communications went down as the storm slammed into the islands, and the extent of the devastation was unclear. The fi rst hurricane warnings were issued for parts of southern Florida as the state braced for what could be a catastrophic hit over the weekend. Following in Irma’s wake was Hurricane Jose, with some of the islands hit hardest by Irma in its expected path. Irma weakened from a Category 5 storm to Category 4 on Fri- day morning with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph, but it remained a powerful hurricane. Irma rolled past the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thurs- day and spun along the northern coast of Cuba on Friday morn- ing. Thousands of tourists were evacuated from low-lying keys off the Cuban coast Thursday in anticipation of 20-foot storm surges. Buses loaded with tourists began streaming out of Santa Maria, Cayo Coco, Cayo Guillermo and other keys dotted with all-inclu- sive resorts. Delaware city struggles as a gun plague affl icts its youth WILMINGTON, Delaware — When the shots rang out — “pop, pop, pop,” and then a thunder roll of gunfi re — Maria Wil- liams hit the fl oor. Donald Trump Jr. fl ed father’s name before embracing it AP Photo/Moyses Zuniga A monument surrounded by debris is cordoned off in the aftermath of an 8.1-magnitude earthquake in San Cristob- al de Las Casas, state of Chiapas, Mexico, early Friday. Mexico hit by biggest quake in century, 5 killed MEXICO CITY — A major earthquake off Mexico’s southern coast killed at least fi ve people, with the president saying Friday it was the biggest in a century to hit the coun- try. Houses toppled and the quake produced tsunami waves and sent people running into the streets in panic. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the earthquake’s magnitude as 8.1, but President Enrique Pena Nieto says it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years. He also said it was bigger than the 8.1 quake in 1985, which killed thousands and devastated large sections of Mexico City. “It was a large-scale earthquake,” Pena Nieto said of the latest temblor. “It had a bigger magnitude than the one Mex- icans knew in 1985.” The death toll could rise as authorities assess the damage. The president said that 62 aftershocks followed the quake and it’s possible that one as strong as 7.2 could strike in the next 24 hours. Pena Nieto also said that serious dam- age had been caused and that 1 million customers initially had been without power following the quake, but that elec- tricity had been restored to 800,000 of them. The bullets sprayed through her front door and window, leaving perfectly cylindrical holes in the glass. They blasted clear across the nursery, where her 2-year-old daughter’s toys were strewn on the carpet. They burrowed into the kitchen cabinetry — and hit her teenage son and daughter. Amid their screams, “All I could think of was, ‘I’m not losing another child,’” Williams recalled, tears spilling down her cheek. Her 18-year-old stepson — William Rollins VI, known as Lil Bill — had been gunned down two years before, another victim of Wilmington’s plague of teens shooting teens. His shooter was 17. NEW YORK — Donald Trump Jr. has been in the public eye since becoming the fi rst-born child of a magnate, but the fl ashes of him were fl eeting — a boy caught in his parents’ messy divorce, a 20-something accessory on a reality show, a hunter in gory photos with exotic prey. His current image has been cemented for many with his full-throttle embrace of his father’s campaign and his some- times ruthless, no-penance turns, appearing on a white national- ist’s radio show, likening Syrian refugees to poisonous Skittles and using Holocaust imagery to describe purported media bias. When approached with an offer of Russian help defeating Hillary Clinton, he oozed enthusiasm, emailing back “I love it.” But even as many Americans who despise his politics have come to see him as nothing more than a consigliere, many who know him insist he’s all courtesy and humility up close. “I know the father’s an animal — we all know that. But the son is a doll,” said Randy Narod, a one-time business partner of Trump Jr. The 39-year-old presidential namesake stepped into his most scrutinized role yet Thursday, appearing for questions by staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee as lawmakers probe Russian meddling in the election that handed his father the White House. S. Korea braces for another possible N. Korea missile test SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea is closely watching North Korea over the possibility it may launch another intercon- tinental ballistic missile as soon as Saturday when it celebrates its founding anniversary. Seoul’s Unifi cation Ministry spokeswoman Eugene Lee said Friday that Pyongyang could potentially conduct its next ICBM tests this weekend or around Oct. 10, another North Korean holi- day marking the founding of its ruling party. North Korea has previously marked key dates with displays of military power, but now its tests appear to be driven by the need to improve missile capabilities. The North is just coming off its sixth and the most powerful nuclear test to date on Sunday in what it claimed was a detona- tion of a thermonuclear weapon built for its ICBMs. The coun- try tested its developmental Hwasong-14 ICBMs twice in July and analysts say the fl ight data from the launches indicate the missiles could cover a broad swath of the continental United States, includ- ing major cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago, when perfected. North Korea fi red the ICBMs at highly lofted angles in July to reduce ranges and avoid other countries. 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