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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Major Southern
California freeway closed
amid wildfire fight
VENTURA, Calif. — Authorities closed a
major freeway today as flames from the largest
and most destructive Southern California wild-
fire jumped lanes and churned toward coastal
and mountain communities northwest of Los
Angeles,
Crews kept an eye on unpredictable winds.
A more favorable wind forecast still called for
potentially dangerous gusts, but ones not likely
to approach historic levels forecasters had feared,
according to the National Weather Service.
Calmer overnight conditions helped crews
protect the Ventura County resort town of Ojai,
where most of the 7,000 residents were under new
evacuation orders following a big burst of wind
late Wednesday. Evacuations were also ordered
for the first time in Santa Barbara County, where
the coastal city of Carpinteria was under threat.
Officials closed U.S. 101 for more than a
dozen miles along the coast, cutting off a major
route between Ventura and Santa Barbara coun-
ties for several hours as fire charred heavy brush
along lanes.
Southern California has been hit hard by four
major fires that have put tens of thousands of peo-
ple under evacuation orders and destroyed nearly
200 homes and buildings, a figure that is almost
certain to grow.
Across the wide I-405 freeway from the fire,
the Getty Center art complex was closed to pro-
tect its collection from smoke damage. Many
schools across Los Angeles were closed because
of poor air quality and classes were canceled at
265 schools today.
Franken announces
resignation from Senate
amid allegations
WASHINGTON — Minnesota Sen. Al Fran-
ken said today he will resign from Congress in
coming weeks following a wave of sexual mis-
conduct allegations and a collapse of support
from his Democratic colleagues, a swift political
fall for a once-rising Democratic star.
“I may be resigning my seat, but I am not
giving up my voice,” Franken said in the other-
wise-hushed Senate chamber.
Franken quit just a day after new allegations
brought the number of women alleging miscon-
duct by him to at least eight. One woman said he
forcibly tried to kiss her in 2006, an accusation he
vehemently denied. Hours later, another woman
said Franken inappropriately squeezed “a hand-
ful of flesh” on her waist while posing for a photo
with her in 2009.
Franken noted that he was being forced out
while President Donald Trump — who has
been accused of worse offenses and bragged
on a leaked “Access Hollywood” videotape of
grabbing women by their genitalia — emerged
unscathed. Trump has also endorsed Alabama
GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has
been accused by multiple women of sexual mis-
conduct with them when they were teens and he
was a deputy district attorney in his 30s.
“I, of all people, am aware that there is some
irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man
who has bragged on tape about his history of sex-
ual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who
has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns
for the Senate with the full support of his party,”
Franken said.
Franken had gained respect as a serious law-
maker in recent years and has even been men-
tioned in talk about the 2020 presidential
campaign.
His resignation means Minnesota Gov. Mark
Dayton, a fellow Democrat, will name a tempo-
rary replacement. The winner of a special elec-
tion in November would serve through the end
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Motorists on Highway 101 watch flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway
Wednesday north of Ventura, Calif.
of Franken’s term in January of 2021. Among the
possibilities is Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, a trusted ally.
Ex-cop gets
20 years in prison
for fatal shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white former
South Carolina officer was sentenced to 20 years
in prison today for fatally shooting an unarmed
black motorist in the back in 2015, wrapping up
a case that became a rallying cry for the Black
Lives Matter movement.
Attorneys for ex-North Charleston Officer
Michael Slager said he shot 50-year-old Wal-
ter Scott in self-defense after the two fought and
Scott reached for Slager’s stun gun. They said
race didn’t play any role in the shooting and that
Slager never had any “racial animus” toward
minorities.
Still, Slager pleaded guilty in federal court to
violating Scott’s civil rights. As part of the plea
agreement reached in May, prosecutors dropped
state murder charges. A year ago, a state judge
declared a mistrial when jurors deadlocked.
A bystander recorded the shooting on a cell-
phone, and it was shared around the world, set-
ting off protests across the U.S. The video started
after the struggle between Slager and Scott and
showed Scott running away and the officer firing
eight times. Scott was hit in the back five times.
After the shooting, Slager picked up his stun gun
and placed it next to Scott. Slager contends he
was securing the weapon. Prosecutors think he
put it there to bolster his self-defense story.
Palestinians protest
Trump move on
Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Palestinian
protesters clashed with Israeli troops across the
West Bank today, while demonstrators in Gaza
burned posters of President Donald Trump over
his widely denounced decision to recognize Jeru-
salem as Israel’s capital.
The leader of the Hamas militant group,
which runs Gaza, called for a new armed upris-
ing in a widespread show of anger, as the demon-
strators torched American and Israeli flags.
In the West Bank, crowds of protesters set
tires on fire and hurled stones at Israeli troops.
In Bethlehem, troops fired water cannons and
tear gas to disperse a crowd, in clashes that could
cloud the upcoming Christmas celebrations in the
town of Jesus’ birth. In Ramallah, the seat of the
Palestinian government, protesters set tires on
fire, sending a thick plume of black smoke over
the city.
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Lawmaker says GOP
has the votes to avert
government shutdown
WASHINGTON — One of the House’s con-
servative leaders indicated today that Republi-
cans have the votes needed to approve legisla-
tion preventing a weekend partial government
shutdown.
With Senate passage also considered likely, the
remarks by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., seemed
to erase any doubt that Congress would approve
legislation keeping federal agencies afloat through
Dec. 22. Their money runs out at midnight Friday
without approval of fresh funding.
But hours before President Donald Trump
was to bargain with congressional leaders at the
White House over long-term budget decisions,
Meadows, who heads the hard-right House Free-
dom Caucus, says the group would oppose any
agreement they feel allows excessive federal
spending.
Meadows said House Majority Whip Steve
Scalise, R-La., told him Republicans have the
votes they’ll need to approve the short-term
spending measure today. Freedom Caucus mem-
bers will likely give leaders whatever votes they
need to pass the legislation, Meadows said.
Many conservatives had been threatening to
oppose the measure. Meadows says they’ll help
it pass to avoid distractions from the GOP drive
to push their $1.5 trillion tax bill through Con-
gress this month.
FBI director
counters Trump’s
attacks on his agency
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Christo-
pher Wray today countered strident attacks on
his agency by President Donald Trump, saying,
“There is no finer institution than the FBI.”
Wray testified before the House Judiciary
Committee as Democrats and Republicans
clashed over the significance of Trump’s attacks
Tillerson: Ukraine
is a sticking point
in US-Russia ties
VIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Til-
lerson said today that Ukraine is the sole sticking
point keeping the United States and Russia from
forging a closer relationship, suggesting that all
other disputes are secondary.
The assessment from America’s top diplomat
notably played down other areas of dispute, par-
ticularly Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presiden-
tial election. U.S. intelligence agencies, including
the CIA and FBI, have concluded the Krem-
lin interfered in the election in an effort to help
now-President Donald Trump and hurt Democrat
Hillary Clinton.
Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on that find-
ing, and a special counsel is investigating whether
members of the Trump campaign colluded with
the Russian effort. He has said he believes Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin’s personal denials
that Moscow meddled.
But Tillerson hasn’t shied away from accus-
ing the Kremlin of election interference. One of
the Trump team’s toughest voices on Russia, he
said in a speech last week that there was “clear
evidence of Russia meddling in democratic elec-
tions in the U.S. and Europe,” and he called it
part of an “active threat of a recently resurgent
Russia.”
North Korea says war
is inevitable as allies
continue war games
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea says a
nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become
a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out
at a massive joint military exercise between the
United States and South Korea involving hun-
dreds of advanced warplanes.
North Korea also claimed high-ranking U.S.
officials, including CIA Director Mike Pompeo,
have further confirmed American intent for war
with a series of “bellicose remarks.”
Pompeo said Saturday that U.S. intelligence
agencies believe North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un doesn’t have a good idea about how tenu-
ous his situation is domestically and internation-
ally. The North’s spokesman said Pompeo pro-
voked the country by “impudently criticizing
our supreme leadership which is the heart of our
people.”
“We do not wish for a war but shall not hide
from it, and should the U.S. miscalculate our
patience and light the fuse for a nuclear war, we
will surely make the U.S. dearly pay the conse-
quences with our mighty nuclear force which we
have consistently strengthened,” a spokesman
said.
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Trump’s dramatic break on Wednesday with
decades of U.S. policy on Jerusalem counters
longstanding international assurances to the Pal-
estinians that the fate of the city will be deter-
mined in negotiations. The Palestinians seek
Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, captured by
Israel in 1967, as a future capital.
Palestinians shuttered their schools and shops
today to begin three “days of rage” over Trump’s
decision. Rallies were underway in other West
Bank cities, and a demonstration was being held
outside the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old
City.
on the agency. In a storm of tweets last weekend,
Trump called the nation’s top law enforcement
agency a biased institution whose reputation is
“in Tatters — worst in History!” and urged Wray
to “clean house.”
Democrats pushed Wray to respond force-
fully, while Republicans echoed Trump in sug-
gesting they worry about political bias in spe-
cial counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of possible
Trump campaign ties to Russia during the 2016
presidential election. Like Trump, they seized on
revelations that an FBI agent was removed from
Mueller’s team because of anti-Trump texts.
“There is no shortage of opinions out there,
but what I can tell you is that the FBI that I see
is tens of thousands of agents and analysts and
staff working their tails off to keep Americans
safe,” Wray said of the agency he has led for just
four months. “The FBI that I see is tens of thou-
sands of brave men and women working as hard
as they can to keep people they will never know
safe from harm.”
Wray conceded that agents do make mistakes
and said there are processes in place to hold them
accountable.
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