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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Pipe bomb strapped to man explodes in NYC subway, injuring 4 NEW YORK — A man with a pipe bomb strapped to his body with Velcro and zip ties set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square on Monday, injuring him and three other people at the height of the morning rush hour. All four were being treated for non-life-threat- ening injuries in what the mayor and police labeled an attempted terror attack. The explosion happened in a long under- ground passageway that runs a full city block under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The 7:20 a.m. blast caused smoke to fill the passageway, which was crowded with Monday morning commuters. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commis- sioner James P. O’Neill labeled it an attempted terror attack. “Thank God the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals,” de Blasio said. The suspect was identified as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. Law enforcement officials said he was inspired by the Islamic State group but had apparently not had any direct contact with the group. The officials said he lives in Brooklyn and may be of Bangladeshi descent. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the blast. Law enforcement officials work following an explosion near New York’s Times Square on Monday in New York. Police said a man with a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in an underground passageway. Final push for Moore and Jones in Alabama Senate race Start the clock for Trump, GOP in last push on taxes, budget HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama Demo- crats see Tuesday’s special Senate election as a chance to renounce a history littered with pol- iticians whose race-baiting, bombast and other baggage have long soiled the state’s reputation beyond its borders. Many Republicans see the vote as chance to ratify their conservative values and protect Pres- ident Donald Trump’s agenda ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. At the center are Republican Roy Moore, a former jurist twice removed as state chief jus- tice and now accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls decades ago, and Democrat Doug Jones, an erstwhile federal prosecutor best known for prosecuting two Ku Klux Klans- men responsible for killing four black girls in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church. The winner will take the seat held previously by Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Republicans control the Senate with 52 seats. In truth, the matchup mixes both Alabama’s tortured history and the nation’s current divi- sive, bitterly partisan politics, and it has made a spectacle of a Deep South state well acquainted with national scrutiny but not accustomed to competitive general elections. WASHINGTON — Start the countdown clock on a momentous two weeks for President Donald Trump and the GOP-run Congress. Republicans are determined to deliver the first revamp of the nation’s tax code in three decades and prove they can govern after their failure to dismantle Barack Obama’s health care law this past summer. Voters who will decide which party holds the majority in next year’s midterms elections are watching. Republicans are negotiating with Demo- crats on the contentious issue of how much the government should spend on the military and domestic agencies to avert a holiday shutdown. An extension of the program that provides low- cost health care to more than 8 million children and aid to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida need to be addressed. And further complicating the end-of-year talks is the fate of some 800,000 young immigrants here illegally. Lawmakers are trying to get it all done by Dec. 22. 21 Rohingya women recount rape by Myanmar armed forces UKHIA, Bangladesh — The use of rape by Myanmar’s armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, The Associated Press found in interviews with 29 Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Ban- gladesh. Yet their stories were hauntingly sim- ilar. The military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Will misconduct scandals make men wary of women at work? NEW YORK — Some women, and men, worry the same climate that’s emboldening women to speak up about sexual misconduct could backfire by making some men wary of female colleagues. Forget private meetings and get-to-know- you dinners. Beware of banter. Think twice before a high-ranking man mentors a young female staffer. “I have already heard the rumblings of a backlash: ‘This is why you shouldn’t hire women,’” Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a recent post . “So much good is happening to fix work- places right now. Let’s make sure it does not have the unintended consequence of holding women back,” said Sandberg, author of the working women’s manifesto “Lean In.” M ONDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM Firefighters brace for second week of California wildfires LOS ANGELES — As Southern Califor- nia enters its second week engulfed in flames, fire officials anticipate more growth and danger due to continued strong wind gusts, no rain and decades-old dry vegetation. A powerful flare-up on the western edge of the largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames ripped down hillsides toward coastal towns northwest of Los Angeles. New evacuations were ordered as the fire sent up an enormous plume near Montecito and Carpinteria, seaside areas in Santa Barbara County. “The winds are kind of squirrely right now,” said county fire spokesman Mike Elia- son. “Some places the smoke is going straight up in the air, and others it’s blowing sideways. Depends on what canyon we’re in.” Southern California’s gusty Santa Ana winds have long contributed to some of the region’s most disastrous wildfires. They blow from the inland toward the Pacific Ocean, speeding up as they squeeze through mountain passes and canyons. Gusts of up to 40 mph are expected through Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Bitcoin futures rise as virtual currency hits major exchange CHICAGO — The first-ever bitcoin future jumped after it began trading Sunday as the increasingly popular virtual currency made its debut on a major U.S. exchange. The futures contract that expires in Janu- ary surged more than $3,000 to $18,580 eight hours after trading launched on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The contract opened at $15,000, according to data from the CBOE. The CBOE futures don’t involve actual bit- coin. They’re securities that will track the price of bitcoin on Gemini, one of the larger bitcoin exchanges. The start of trading at 5 p.m. CST over- whelmed the CBOE website. “Due to heavy traffic on our website, visitors to www.cboe. com may find that it is performing slower than usual and may at times be temporarily unavail- able,” the exchange said in a statement. But it said the trading in the futures had not been disrupted. Another large futures exchange, the Chi- cago Mercantile Exchange, will start trading its own futures on Dec. 18 but will use a compos- ite of several bitcoin prices across a handful of exchanges. Russia’s Putin stops at Russian military base in Syria MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian military air base in Syria on Monday and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the country. Putin made a stopover at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia while en route to Egypt. The base, in the heartland of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Alawite minority, has served as the main foothold for the Russian military cam- paign in Syria. Speaking to the Russian troops at the base, Putin said that he had ordered the military to withdraw a “significant part” of the Russian contingent in Syria. He added in remarks car- ried by Russian news agencies that “if the ter- rorists again raise their heads, we will deal such blows to them they have never seen.” Meanwhile, Syrian state TV said that Ashar Assad met up with Putin at the air base in Syria earlier in the morning. The Russian military has said previously that they will maintain their presence at the Hemeimeem air base and the naval facility in Tartus. SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Ana Quincoces, a Miami-based attorney and entrepreneur who owns her own food line, says her business and its success involves working mostly with men, and sales and other activities are often concluded over lunch or drinks. Those opportunities, she says, are dwindling, because many of the men she knows through her busi- ness “are terrified.” Evening listings MONDAY D ECEMBER 11 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 Jeopardy! 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