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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Conyers to retire, facing sexual
harassment allegations
DETROIT — U.S. Rep. John Conyers — beset with allegations
of sexual harassment by former staff members — announced his
retirement today, bringing to an end a more than five-decade run
in the House.
The 88-year-old Conyers made the announcement while speak-
ing with Detroit radio talk show host Mildred Gaddis. Conyers also
endorsed his son, John Conyers III, to replace him in office.
“I’m in the process of putting my retirement plans together,” he
said from a hospital. “I am retiring today.”
Shadawn Reddick-Smith, Conyers’ spokeswoman, confirmed
that the retirement is effective today.
“My legacy can’t be compromised or diminished in any way by
what we’re going through now,” Conyers said. “This too shall pass.
My legacy will continue through my children.”
Michigan state Sen. Ian Conyers, a grandson of John Conyers’
brother, said he plans to run for the 13th District congressional seat.
John Conyers, who was first elected in 1964, easily won re-elec-
tion last year in the heavily Democratic district. But following the
mounting allegations of sexual harassment, he has faced grow-
ing calls to resign from colleagues in the House, including House
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Ryan Cullom/Ventura County Fire Department
Firefighters work to put out a blaze burning homes early today in Ventura, Calif.
Southern California fires force thousands to flee homes
GOP leaders now backing
Moore, despite allegations
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Washington are
coming to grips with the possibility — perhaps even probability —
that Alabama’s Roy Moore will win his special election next Tues-
day and join them in the capital.
Looking past allegations of sexual misconduct with Alabama
teenagers, President Donald Trump now has endorsed Moore, and
the Republican National Committee quickly followed suit late
Monday, announcing it was returning the support it had pulled last
month.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, who once called on
Moore to get out of the race, changed his rhetoric over the week-
end to say that it was Alabama voters who should decide.
The changed tone — and Trump’s decision to do away with any
facade of distancing himself from the race — make it clear they are
increasingly confident in Moore’s chances of victory despite the
continued unease of some other Republicans.
The special election is next Tuesday for the seat once held by
Jeff Sessions, now the U.S. attorney general. Although the polls
have showed a narrowing contest with Democrat Doug Jones, Ala-
bama is a strongly Republican state and Democrats generally have
little chance there.
A Moore victory would set up a potential clash with fellow Repub-
licans in Congress, some of whom have resoundingly called on him
to quit the race. While some have softened their rhetoric recently,
others have said they still will try to expel him if he is elected.
Border arrests plunge,
deportation arrests soar
WASHINGTON — Border crossings plunged to a 45-year low
while arrests by deportation officers soared during President Don-
ald Trump’s first months in office, as his efforts to overhaul the
nation’s immigration system went into effect.
The Border Patrol made 310,531 arrests during the fiscal year
that ended Sept. 30, a decline of 25 percent from 415,816 a year
earlier and the lowest level since 1971. Despite the significant
decline, border arrests increased every month since May — largely
families and unaccompanied children.
“ICE will no longer exempt any class of removable alien from
potential enforcement activity,” Thomas Homan, the acting direc-
tor of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told reporters
during a briefing today. “In other words, officers are empowered to
do their sworn duty to enforce the law as it was written.”
ICE, whose officers pick up people for deportation, made
143,470 arrests, an increase of 25 percent from 114,434 a year ear-
lier. After Trump took office, ICE arrests surged 40 percent from
the same period a year earlier.
The numbers released Tuesday provide the most complete sta-
tistical snapshot of immigration enforcement under Trump. And
they show that deportation officers are taking Trump’s call for an
immigration crackdown to heart, even without the funding increase
that the president has sought from Congress for more hiring.
Saudi strikes rock Yemeni
capital after ex-president slain
SANAA, Yemen — Heavy airstrikes by the Saudi-led coali-
tion rocked Yemen’s capital today, striking Sanaa’s densely pop-
SANTA PAULA, Calif. — Ferocious Santa Ana winds raking Southern California whipped explosive wildfires today,
prompting evacuation orders for thousands of homes.
The biggest blaze broke out Monday in Ventura County and grew wildly to more than 48 square miles in the hours that
followed, sheriff’s Sgt. Eric Buschow said.
Another fire erupted on the north edge of Los Angeles, threatening the Sylmar and Lakeview Terrace neighborhoods,
where residents scrambled to get out.
At least 150 structures had burned so far in Ventura County, officials said. Officials did not immediately say what type
of buildings burned, but TV reports showed homes in flames as well as Vista del Mar Hospital, a facility that treats patients
with mental problems, chemical dependency and veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
More than 27,000 people have been evacuated and one firefighter was injured in Ventura County. There was no word on
the extent of the injuries. After initial reports of a fatality, county fire Capt. Steve Kaufmann said a dead dog but no person
was found in an overturned car.
The winds were pushing the fire toward Santa Paula, a city of some 30,000 people about 60 miles northwest of Los Ange-
les. Many of the evacuated homes were in that city.
However, evacuation orders were expanded to houses in Ventura, which is 12 miles southwest and has 106,000 residents.
ulated neighborhoods in apparent retaliation for the killing of for-
mer President Ali Abdullah Saleh by the Shiite rebels who control
the city.
Residents reported heavy bombing, and a U.N. official said at
least 25 airstrikes hit the capital over the past 24 hours. The Sau-
di-led coalition battling the rebels had thrown its support behind
Saleh just hours before his death, as the longtime strongman’s alli-
ance with the rebels unraveled.
Saleh’s body, which had appeared in a video by the militias with
a gaping head wound, was taken to a rebel-controlled military hos-
pital. A rebel leader, speaking to a mass rally in Sanaa, said Saleh’s
wounded sons had been hospitalized, without providing further
details.
The gruesome images from the previous day sent shockwaves
among Saleh’s followers — a grisly end recalling that of his con-
temporary, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, in 2011.
Saleh’s son Salah said on Facebook today that he won’t receive
condolences for his father’s death until “after avenging the blood”
of the former leader. Salah also urged his father’s followers to fight
their former allies, the Shiite rebels known as Houthis.
Opposition grows to possible
US embassy move to Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Vociferous Arab and Muslim opposition was
building today to any possible U.S. recognition of contested Jeru-
salem as Israel’s capital, as European leaders expressed concern
about harm to fragile Mideast peace efforts.
President Donald Trump informed Palestinian President Mah-
moud Abbas in a phone call today that he intends to move the U.S.
Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a holy city whose
Israeli-annexed eastern sector the Palestinians seek as a future capital.
Abbas’ office said the Palestinian leader warned Trump of dan-
gerous repercussions for Mideast peace efforts, as well as security
and stability in the region and the world.
The statement did not say if Trump gave a timeline for the
intended move.
U.S. officials familiar with planning for a possible announce-
ment on Jerusalem said they expect Trump to speak to the matter
around midday Wednesday, although the specifics of what he will
say were still being debated. The officials were not authorized to
discuss internal deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Kennedy wrestles with wedding
cake case at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — His vote likely to decide the outcome,
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy voiced competing con-
cerns today about respecting the religious beliefs of a Colorado
baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple,
and the gay couple’s dignity.
Kennedy, the author of all the court’s major gay-rights cases,
worried early in a riveting argument at the high court that a ruling
in favor of baker Jack Phillips might allow shop owners to put up
signs saying “We do not bake cakes for gay weddings.”
But later, Kennedy said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission
seemed “neither tolerant nor respectful of Mr. Phillips’ religious
beliefs” when it found his refusal to bake a cake for the gay couple
violated the state’s anti-discrimination law.
Phillips and the couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, were
all in the courtroom today to listen to an argument that otherwise
seemed to put the conservative justices squarely with Phillips and
the liberals on the couple’s side.
The case pits Phillips’ First Amendment claims of artistic free-
dom against the anti-discrimination arguments of the Colorado
commission, and the two men Phillips turned away in 2012.
The argument was the first involving gay rights since the
Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that states could not prevent same-
sex couples from marrying.
The Trump administration is supporting Phillips in his argu-
ment that he can’t be forced to create a cake that violates his reli-
gious beliefs. It appears to be the first time the federal government
has asked the justices to carve out an exception from an anti-dis-
crimination law.
The case’s outcome also could affect photographers and florists
who have voiced objections similar to those of Phillips.
The case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights
Commission, 16-111, will be decided by late June.
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The officials, along with an outside adviser to the administra-
tion, said they expected Trump would make a generic statement
about Jerusalem’s status as the “capital of Israel.”
They said they did not expect the president to use the phrase
“undivided capital,” which would imply Israeli sovereignty over
east Jerusalem, which is not recognized by the United Nations.
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