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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2017 WORLD IN BRIEF question” for Washington to continue mediating between Israel and the Palestinians. “That pro- cess is now over,” he said. An earlier draft com- munique had similarly declared the U.S. role over, but it was not clear if that language was ulti- mately adopted by the attendees. Jerusalem’s status is at the core of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Trump’s Dec. 6 announcement was widely per- ceived as siding with Israel. It also raised fears of more bloodshed as past crises over Jerusalem have triggered violence. Associated Press Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith named to fill Franken seat ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Lt. Gov. Tina Smith today to replace fellow Democratic Sen. Al Franken until a special election in November, setting up his longtime and trusted adviser for a potentially bruising 2018 election. Smith was widely seen as Dayton’s top choice from the moment Franken announced his resig- nation last week. But her previous decision not to run for governor had raised questions about whether she would want to launch a Senate cam- paign that would be in the national spotlight. Smith told reporters today that she intends to run to complete Franken’s term through 2020. “I can tell you I shouldn’t be underestimated and if I weren’t confident I wouldn’t be doing this,” she said. It’s not clear when Smith will head to Wash- ington. Franken, who resigned under pres- sure from his own party after he was accused of improper behavior by at least eight women, announced last Thursday that he would resign “in the coming weeks.” His office said Tuesday that he had not yet set a final departure date. The appointment won’t change the balance of power in the Senate. Smith, 59, may have competition from her own party as well, with several Democrats who had hoped to succeed Dayton likely to eye the Senate race as well. And her past work with Planned Parenthood in Minnesota and other Mid- western states, where she served as an executive, was sure to become a flash point with Republi- cans on the campaign trail. A native of New Mexico, she graduated from Stanford and earned an MBA from Dartmouth. A marketing job with General Mills brought her to Minnesota, where she eventually started her own marketing and political consulting firm. House, Senate leaders reach deal on tax package WASHINGTON — House and Senate GOP leaders forged an agreement today on a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax laws, paving the way for final votes next week to slash taxes for busi- nesses and give many Americans modest tax cuts starting next year. Top GOP aides said lawmakers had reached an agreement in principle on the final package. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about private negotiations. Details still need to be drafted and assessed by congressional scorekeepers, but the final House-Senate compromise is on track to be unveiled this week, the aides said. Asked if there is a deal in principle on the tax cuts, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said, “It’s more than that. I think we’ve got a pretty good deal.” The measure would give President Don- ald Trump his first major victory in Congress. It fulfills a longstanding goal by top Republicans such as Speaker Paul Ryan to rewrite the loop- hole-cluttered tax code. The measure has come under assault by Dem- Crews gain on huge California fire but wind threat remains AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi Dire Straits lead guitarist Mark Knopfler performs in 2005 in Bombay, India. Rock Hall 2018 class: Nina Simone, Bon Jovi, the Moody Blues NEW YORK — Iconic singer Nina Simone and New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi lead the 2018 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, which includes four first-time nominees. The Cars, as well as first-time contenders Dire Straits, The Moody Blues and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, also are part of the 2018 class announced Wednesday. They will be inducted on April 14 in Cleveland, Ohio. The six inductees were chosen from a group of 19 nominees, including Radiohead, who were expected to enter in the Rock Hall in their first year of eligibility, but didn’t make it. Tharpe, a pioneering guitarist who performed gospel music and was known to some as “the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll,” will be inducted with the “Award for Early Influence.” She died in 1973. The other five acts will be inducted as performers. Rock Hall voters have recently opened their hearts to progressive rockers, which bene- fited “Nights in White Satin” singers The Moody Blues. English rockers Dire Straits, which includes brothers Mark and David Knopfler, blended blues into their music. Each year, between five and seven acts usually make it into the Rock Hall following a vote by 1,000 people, including performers, music historians and industry experts. Fans also were able to vote on the Rock Hall’s website. All of the inductees had to have released their first recording no later than 1992 to be eligible. ocrats who say it is unfairly tilted in favor of busi- ness and the wealthy. Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said today GOP leaders should pump the brakes on taxes and delay a final vote until Sen.-elect Doug Jones, D-Ala., is sworn in. “It would be wrong for Senate Republicans to jam through this tax bill without giving the newly elected senator from Alabama the oppor- tunity to cast his vote,” Schumer told reporters. “That’s exactly what Republicans argued when (former Massachusetts GOP Sen.) Scott Brown was elected in 2010.” Back then, the issue was a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system that Democrats muscled through Congress in March 2010. Palestinian leader rejects US role in peace process ISTANBUL — Palestinian President Mah- moud Abbas told an international summit today that the United States was unfit to mediate the Mideast conflict, marking a major policy shift after decades spent courting American goodwill. 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Russian officials last month reported high lev- els of Ruthenium-106 in areas close to the Mayak nuclear plant in the Ural Mountains. The environmental group Greenpeace alleged that Mayak could have been the source of a Ruthenium-106 leak, but the plant said it has not extracted the isotope or conducted any other operations that may lead to its release “for many years.” But Yuri Mokrov, adviser to Mayak’s direc- tor general, said in a webcast press confer- ence Wednesday that Ruthenium-106 routinely emerges during the processing of spent nuclear fuel. Mokrov insisted, however, the plant was not the source of any major leak, saying it does not produce the isotope on purpose and that the emissions that the plant makes are so insignifi- cant “we can only see it in the chimney.” SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A He announced the shift, which came in response to President Donald Trump’s declara- tion of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, at a sum- mit of Muslim leaders that condemned the U.S. move and called for world recognition of a Pal- estinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem. Abbas said Trump’s decision was a “crime,” which came at a time when the Palestinians were engaged with Washington in a new push to reach a long-elusive peace agreement with Israel, the “deal of our times.” “Instead we got the slap of our times,” Abbas said. “The United States has chosen to lose its qualification as a mediator ... We will no lon- ger accept that it has a role in the political pro- cess.” He suggested the U.N. should take over as mediator. The summit of the 57-member Organiza- tion of Muslim Cooperation concluded with the so-called Istanbul Declaration, outlining the bloc’s response to Trump’s declaration. It called the decision “null and void” and urged Trump to reconsider the move, which it said was an “unlawful decision that might trigger chaos in the region.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who hosted the summit, said it is “out of the LOS ANGELES — After announcing increased containment on one of the biggest wild- fires in California history, officials warned that communities remain at risk and the threat could increase as unpredictable winds whip up again. Red Flag warnings for fire danger due to Santa Ana winds and a critical lack of moisture were extended, with a possible increase in gusts into the end of the week. Evacuations continued today for the seaside enclaves of Montecito, Summerland and Carpin- teria and the inland agricultural town of Fillmore. Officials announced Tuesday night that crews had carved containment lines around one-quarter of the blaze straddling Santa Barbara and Ven- tura counties. The so-called Thomas fire has burned over 900 structures, at least 700 of them homes, since it broke out Dec. 4. It stretches across nearly 370 square miles of Southern California, making it the fifth-largest in state history. Elsewhere, fire officials announced that a cooking fire at a homeless encampment sparked a blaze last week that destroyed six homes in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. Evening listings WEDNESDAY D ECEMBER 13 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 KATU News at 6 (N) Modern Family (N) Am.Housewife (N) Designated Survivor "Line of Fire" (N) KATU News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel Jeopardy! (N) Wheel Fortune (N) The Goldbergs (N) Speechless (N) KOMO 4 News (N) Wheel Fortune (N) Jeopardy! 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