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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Obama health mandate now target of GOP in big tax bill WASHINGTON — Republicans began push- ing a broad tax cut for businesses and many indi- viduals through the Senate Finance Committee today, a measure complicated by a late addition — repeal of the Obama health care law’s require- ment that Americans get insurance coverage. Erasing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate provided Republicans with more money that they used to make some tax breaks for people modestly more generous. But it raised questions about whether it might prompt some moderate GOP senators to back away from the measure. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that dismantling the requirement would mean 4 million additional uninsured peo- ple by 2019 and 13 million more uninsured by 2027. Worries about leaving more people without coverage were among the reasons GOP attempts to outright repeal much of President Barack Obama’s law crashed in the Senate this summer. Republicans controlling the Senate 52-48 can afford to lose only two votes and still push the measure through the chamber, since all Demo- crats seem likely to oppose the package. In another money-saving move, the Senate bill was changed late Tuesday to abruptly end the personal tax reductions after 2025. Under Sen- ate rules, if legislation drives up federal budget deficits after 10 years it cannot be shielded from bill-killing filibusters by Democrats. It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster, numbers Republicans don’t have. The corporate tax cuts would be permanent. They include dropping the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent. “My colleagues on the other side have now shown their hand. The corporate handouts are permanent, the family breaks are not,” said Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, top Democrat on the Finance Committee. “To pay for these handouts to multinational corporations, millions of Amer- icans are going to lose their health care, millions will see their premiums skyrocket, and millions will get hit with a tax hike.” After 37 years, rule of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe appears to be over HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s mili- tary controls the capital and the state broadcaster and is holding President Robert Mugabe, 93, and his wife under house arrest. It appears that the world’s oldest head of state has been deposed by a coup. But the military is at pains to say it did not stage a military takeover, instead starting a pro- cess to restore Zimbabwe’s democracy. After 37 years, the military seems to have brought an end to Mugabe’s long reign in what the army’s supporters praised as a “bloodless correction.” South Africa and other neighbor- ing countries are sending in leaders to negotiate with Mugabe and the generals to encourage the transition. Citizens in Zimbabwe’s tidy capital, Harare, contributed to the feeling of a smooth change by carrying on with their daily lives, walking past the army’s armored personnel carriers to go to work and to shops. Many who have never known any leader but Mugabe waited in long lines at banks to draw limited amounts of cash, a result of this once-prosperous country’s plummeting economy. Trump returns, faces Alabama Senate scandal WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent five days in Asia largely keeping the Ala- bama Senate scandal at bay. He won’t be so lucky on U.S. soil. The president returned to Washington on Tuesday night and walked straight into a party panic over the sexual misconduct accusations dogging GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore. Having pushed publicly and privately for Moore to get out of the race, Republicans believe their last best shot is Trump, who they hope can per- suade his fellow political rebel to fall in line. Trump has given little indication of whether he’s interested in playing the role of party heavy. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has echoed other Republican leaders, saying last Fri- day that Moore should step aside if the allega- tions are true. But as other Republicans began to call for Moore to quit the race, Trump was notably silent in public. On Tuesday, he didn’t address the issue when he spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Wash- ington, nor did he respond to shouted questions about Moore as he entered the White House that night. For Trump and Republicans, there are no good options. If Moore wins, they can either spend an already harrowing midterm election cycle defending their new colleague, or overturn the will of Alabama voters by casting him out of the Senate. If Moore loses and the seat flips to Democratic control, the party loses a critical vote in its razor-thin Senate majority, with issues like tax reform and immigration set to be considered in the coming months. US scientists try 1st gene editing in the body OAKLAND, Calif. — Scientists for the first time have tried editing a gene inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person’s DNA to try to cure a disease. The experiment was done Monday in Califor- nia on 44-year-old Brian Madeux. Through an IV, he received billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a pre- cise spot. “It’s kind of humbling” to be the first to test this, said Madeux, who has a metabolic disease called Hunter syndrome. “I’m willing to take that risk. Hopefully it will help me and other people.” Signs of whether it’s working may come in a month; tests will show for sure in three months. If it’s successful, it could give a major boost to the fledgling field of gene therapy . Scientists have edited people’s genes before, altering cells in the lab that are then returned to patients. There also are gene therapies that don’t involve editing DNA. How to identify a possible gas leak. If you smell a rotten egg or sulfur odor, you hear a blowing or hissing sound, or you see blowing dirt, it could be a gas leak. If you smell ROTTEN EGGS What to do. Leave your home and the area immediately. Don’t use any electrical device such as a light switch, telephone, appliance or garage door opener. And don’t try to fi nd the leak yourself. it could be a gas leak. And the best thing to do is leave your home and call NW Natural. We’ll be out to make sure everything is safe. Who to call. Unsure of what to do? Just take a look at our tips to the right. Go outside and use your cell phone, or a neighbor’s phone, and call NW Natural at 800-882-3377. Smell. Go. 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