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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
In Alabama, a McConnell
rebuke, a Trump miscalculation
HOMEWOOD, Ala. — A firebrand Alabama jurist wrested
a U.S. Senate nomination from an appointed incumbent backed
by millions of dollars from national Republicans, adding a new
chapter Tuesday to an era of outsider politics that ushered Don-
ald Trump into the White House yet leaves his presidency and
his party in disarray.
Roy Moore’s 9-point victory over Sen. Luther Strange,
backed by the White House and Republican leaders on Capitol
Hill, ranks as a miscalculation and temporary embarrassment
for the president; it’s a more consequential rebuke for Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom Moore said should
step aside as GOP floor chief.
The Kentucky Republican already is struggling to capitalize
on his narrow 52-48 majority. He failed this week to deliver a
long-promised health care overhaul, with equally perilous fights
looming on taxes, the budget, immigration and the nation’s
credit limit. Now, McConnell may also face a 2018 midterm
election cycle complicated by GOP primary challengers who,
like Moore, make the Senate leader an albatross for establish-
ment candidates, including incumbents Dean Heller of Nevada
and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
Moore, the famed “Ten Commandments judge” twice
removed from elected judicial office for defying federal courts,
declared his nomination a message to Washington leaders
“that their wall has been cracked and will now fall,” though
he excepted the president from his ire. “Together we can make
America great,” he said, echoing Trump’s campaign slogan.
In Mississippi, state lawmaker Chris McDaniel, who nearly
defeated Sen. Thad Cochran in 2014, called Moore’s win an
“incredibly inspiring” blueprint that leaves him on the cusp
of challenging Sen. Roger Wicker in 2018. “We know Mitch
McConnell was rejected tonight — and Roger Wicker is just
another part of Mitch McConnell’s leadership apparatus,”
McDaniel told The Associated Press, saying he expects conser-
vative challengers to emerge in other states, as well.
Saudi women will be allowed to
drive in the kingdom in 2018
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s surprise decision
to grant women the right to drive in the conservative kingdom
marks a significant expansion in women’s rights, but activists
said Wednesday it is also only the first step in a long list of
demands for equality.
Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world to ban women
from driving. The royal decree late Tuesday comes into effect
next summer, but it comes nearly three decades after women
began agitating for the right to drive.
As recently as 2013, dozens of women uploaded videos
online of themselves behind the wheel of a car during a cam-
paign launched by Saudi rights activists. Some videos showed
families and male drivers giving women a “thumbs-ups,” sug-
gesting many were ready for the change.
While women in other Muslim countries drove freely, the
kingdom’s blanket ban attracted negative publicity. Neither
Islamic law nor Saudi traffic law explicitly prohibited women
from driving, but they were not issued licenses and were
detained if they attempted to drive.
The decision to change course and grant women licenses
was praised by the White House, which said President Donald
Trump views the change as “a positive step toward promoting
the rights and opportunities of women in Saudi Arabia.”
Scope of Puerto Rico damage so
wide that US aid hard to see
MONTEBELLO, Puerto Rico — Relatives helped Mari-
bel Valentin Espino find shelter when Hurricane Maria roared
through her community in northern Puerto Rico. Neighbors
formed volunteer brigades to cut fallen trees and clear twisty
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Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate
Roy Moore speaks during his election party Tuesday in
Montgomery, Ala. Moore won the Alabama Republican
primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an
appointed incumbent backed by President Donald Trump
and allies of Sen. Mitch McConnell.
mountain roads after the storm had passed. Now, friends and a
local cattle ranch provide the water they need to survive in the
tropical heat.
Valentin and her husband say they have not seen anyone
from the Puerto Rican government, much less the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, since the storm tore up the
island Sept. 20, killing at least 16 people and leaving nearly all
3.4 million people in Puerto Rico without power and most with-
out water.
“People say FEMA is going to help us,” Valentin said Tues-
day as she showed Associated Press journalists around the sod-
den wreckage of her home. “We’re waiting.”
Many others are also waiting for help from anyone from the
federal or Puerto Rican government. But the scope of the dev-
astation is so broad, and the relief effort so concentrated in San
Juan, that many people from outside the capital say they have
received little to no help.
Valentin, her husband and teenage son live in one such area,
Montebello, a 20-minute drive into what used to be lushly for-
ested mountains near the northern coastal municipality of
Manati. Hurricane Maria’s Category 4 winds stripped the trees
bare and scattered them like matchsticks. “It seemed like a
monster,” she recalled.
Mexicans displaced by quake:
‘This is like a horror story’
MEXICO CITY — Inside the Francisco Kino Elementary
School a miniature city has emerged at the site of a shelter for
people who lost their homes in last week’s deadly earthquake.
On the school’s open-air courtyard, doctors test blood pres-
sure and glucose levels at a makeshift triage center set up on a
plastic table. Nearby, children get haircuts while stressed-out
parents receive massages.
But frustration is growing inside the gym, where families
camp out on mattresses alongside piles of new, donated belong-
ings. Days without easy access to a shower and the loss of sim-
ple liberties like deciding when to turn out a light to go to asleep
have become aggravating.
They want to know: How long will they be stuck here?
“This is like a horror story,” said Ana Maria Castaneda, 49,
who is living at the shelter with five relatives.
Iranian soldier beheaded by IS
in Syria mourned as an icon
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader and thousands of
others Wednesday mourned a young Revolutionary Guard sol-
dier beheaded by the Islamic State group, a killing that has
struck a nerve within the Islamic Republic as its forces continue
to suffer casualties in Iraq and Syria.
The slaying of 25-year-old Mohsen Hojaji captured the
imagination of many in Iran, a Shiite-ruled nation whose
national religion considers as acts of mourning and acknowl-
edging sacrifices a sacred act. Since his death, artists and others
have memorialized Hojaji in videos and paintings, while dis-
cussion of his slaying has muted domestic criticism of Iran’s
foreign military operations, especially in Syria.
His funeral in Tehran brought Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who prayed near his Iranian-flag-wrapped casket.
Mourners later lay flowers atop his coffin, while on the street
soldiers with the paramilitary Guard mixed with men wearing
black and women in long black chadors. Many carried drawn
portraits of Hojaji, while others unfurled the black flags com-
mon during Muharram, a Shiite mourning period.
Many current and former government officials, including
parliament speaker Ali Larijani and former President Mah-
moud Ahmadinejad, attended the funeral. Politics entered the
mourning as well, as a cleric on hand alleged Israel and the U.S.
were behind the Islamic State group, drawing cries of “Death to
Israel” and “down with the U.S.” from the audience.
“We swear on blood of Hojaji we will not rest until destroy-
ing Israel,” cleric Ali Reza Pahanhian said from the podium.
“Israel, we swear on the head of Hojaji that we will behead
your leaders. Guards! Prepare your missiles for annihilation of
Israel.”
Trump, GOP roll out tax plan;
cuts rates, doubles deduction
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and congres-
sional Republicans are rolling out a wide-ranging plan to cut
taxes for individuals and corporations, simplify the tax sys-
tem, and likely double the standard deduction used by most
Americans.
Months in the making, the plan meets a political imperative
for Republicans to deliver an overhaul of the U.S. tax code after
the failure of the health care repeal.
The public reveal of the plan was set for Wednesday. The
day before, details emerged on Capitol Hill while Trump per-
sonally appealed to House Republicans and Democrats at the
White House to get behind his proposal.
“We will cut taxes tremendously for the middle class. Not
just a little bit but tremendously,” Trump said as he met with
members of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. He
predicted jobs “will be coming back in because we have a
non-competitive tax structure right now and we’re going to go
super competitive.”
Among the details: repeal of the tax on multimillion-dollar
estates, a steep reduction in the rate corporations pay from 35
percent to 20 percent and potentially four tax brackets, down
from the current seven. The current top rate for individuals,
those earning more than $418,000 a year, is 39.6 percent.
Big stakes in high court fight
over partisan political maps
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans are poised
for a Supreme Court fight about political line-drawing with the
potential to alter the balance of power across a country starkly
divided between the two parties.
The big question at the heart of next week’s high court clash
is whether there can be too much politics in the inherently polit-
ical task of drawing electoral districts. The Supreme Court has
never struck down a districting plan because it was too political.
The test case comes from Wisconsin, where Democratic
voters sued after Republicans drew political maps in 2011 that
entrenched their hold on power in a state that is essentially
evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
“It could portend massive changes in our electoral system,”
Washington lawyer Christopher Landau said, if the court for the
first time imposes limits on extreme partisan gerrymandering,
or redistricting. Courts have struck down racially discrimina-
tory maps for decades.
Wisconsin Republicans controlled the redistricting process
that followed the once-every-decade census because they held
the governor’s office and both houses of the legislature. They
worked in secret to fashion precise, computer-generated maps
and won approval on a party-line vote.
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