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WORLD IN BRIEF
was settled by drawing lots in Virginia. In 1971,
Republican William H. Moss Sr. appeared to lose
the election for a seat in northern Virginia. But
after a recount ended in a tie, Moss was declared
the winner after a blindfolded state elections offi-
cial pulled his name out of a large decorative cup,
according to news reports at the time.
The race between Yancey, a three-term incum-
bent, and Simonds has bounced back and forth
since the November election, when Virginia Dem-
ocrats — fueled by voter anger directed at Repub-
lican President Donald Trump — wiped out
a 66-34 advantage held by Republicans in the
House. The election has been widely seen as a
potential harbinger of the 2018 midterm congres-
sional elections.
Associated Press
Trump moves to vastly
expand offshore drilling,
including Pacific
WASHINGTON — Sources say the Trump
administration is moving to vastly expand off-
shore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic
oceans, including opening up federal waters off
the coast of California for the first time in more
than three decades.
The new five-year drilling plan could also
open new areas of oil and gas exploration off
the East Coast in places from Georgia to Maine,
where drilling has been blocked for decades.
The Interior Department is set to announce
the plan today. Two sources described the plan
on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to discuss it before its release.
It’s the most expansive offshore drilling pro-
posal in decades and comes in response to Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s executive order in April
encouraging more drilling rights in federal
waters.
New book leaves
Trump ‘furious,’
‘disgusted’ with Bannon
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump
launched a scathing attack on former top adviser
Steve Bannon, responding to a new book that
portrays Trump as an undisciplined man-child
who didn’t actually want to win the White House
and quotes Bannon as calling his son’s contact
with a Russian lawyer “treasonous.”
Hitting back via formal White House state-
ment rather than a more typical Twitter volley,
Trump insisted Bannon had little to do with his
victorious campaign and “has nothing to do with
me or my Presidency.”
“When he was fired, he not only lost his job,
he lost his mind,” Trump said Wednesday.
It was a blistering attack against the man who
helped deliver the presidency to Trump, spurred
by an unflattering new book by writer Michael
Wolff that paints Trump as a leader who doesn’t
understand the weight of the presidency and
spends his evenings eating cheeseburgers in bed,
watching television and talking on the phone to
old friends.
Late Wednesday, Trump attorney Charles
Harder sent Bannon a letter saying the for-
mer Trump aide violated confidentiality
agreements by speaking with Wolff. The letter
demanded Bannon “cease and desist” any fur-
ther disclosure of confidential information. Ban-
non did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Harder today sent cease-and-desist letters to
Wolff and publisher Henry Holt and Co. Neither
immediately responded to requests for comment.
Trump has a history of threatening to sue
when he doesn’t like something but rarely acts
on those threats.
White House aides were blindsided when
early excerpts from “Fire and Fury: Inside the
Trump White House” were published online by
New York magazine and other media outlets
ahead of the Jan. 9 publication date.
Divided Democrats
face liberal backlash
on immigration
WASHINGTON — With a new deadline
fast approaching, Democrats in Congress are
struggling to adopt a unified strategy to protect
hundreds of thousands of young immigrants
from deportation.
Their inaction has enraged liberal activ-
ists across the country, who have shifted their
18 killed, about
260 injured in South
Africa train crash
Stan Dube/Ira Dube
These sketches provided by Ira Dube of U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division soldiers
were among more than a dozen done by his father, Stan Dube, during World War II.
Faces of war: Who are the
men in soldier’s WWII sketches?
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Before the Army’s 27th Infantry Division was decimated
in a bloody World War II battle, Stan Dube sketched portraits of his fellow soldiers. The 17
drawings were forgotten after the war and stashed in an attic for decades before being found
a year ago by his son.
Now, Ira Dube is on a mission to identify the men in his late father’s 75-year-old artwork.
So far he has definitively identified two of the soldiers, both New Yorkers who served in the
27th Division’s 105th Infantry Regiment, which suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of
Saipan in the Pacific. One was killed on Saipan; the other died in the 1970s.
Because the 27th was a former New York National Guard unit, Dube believes most or all of
the other 15 men also were New Yorkers. He recently donated the original sketches to the New
York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in hopes its artifacts and records
could be used to help identify more of the soldiers. It’s not known whether any of the men
depicted in the artwork are still alive.
“These people need to be remembered,” said Ira Dube, 61, a retired Navy veteran living in
Woodland Park, Colorado. “I look at these sketches and I see a hero.”
Dube found the signed sketches in the attic of his sister’s home in Mississippi early last
year while they were going through their father’s belongings.
anger in recent days from Republicans who
control Congress to Democrats seeking to bal-
ance their commitment to a progressive pri-
ority with their desire to avoid an explosive
government shutdown heading into the 2018
midterm elections.
Liberal groups with millions of members,
like MoveOn, are threatening primary elec-
tion challenges later this year against Demo-
crats who don’t fight hard enough for so-called
“Dreamers.” Meanwhile, the liberal organiza-
tion CREDO is pledging to block campaign
cash from uncooperative Democrats, and the
pro-immigration United We Dream is prepar-
ing a new wave of camera-friendly protests at
the Capitol and outside congressional Demo-
crats’ offices nationwide.
“The unity and trust between the grassroots
and elected Democrats is rapidly eroding. It
could turn ugly if this goes on any further,” said
Ben Wikler, MoveOn’s Washington director.
At issue is President Donald Trump’s deci-
sion to rescind an Obama-era executive order
that created the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program, which gave protected sta-
tus to about 800,000 immigrants in the United
States illegally. Popularly known as “Dream-
ers,” many were brought here as infants or chil-
dren and have known no other country except
the U.S.
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RICHMOND, Va. — By luck of the draw,
incumbent Republican David Yancey won a Vir-
ginia state House of Delegates race so close that its
outcome was determined today when an elections
official pulled his name out of a ceramic bowl.
The drawing of lots happened after the race
between Yancey and Democratic challenger Shel-
ley Simonds ended in tie. The win allows Repub-
licans to maintain a slim majority in the House,
though a final tally is still uncertain because
Simonds could ask for another recount. Adding
another wrinkle: Another close legislative race is
in doubt because it’s locked in a court battle.
The drawing drew quite a crowd to the Vir-
ginia elections board meeting. Most of the people
packed into the room were Simonds’ supporters.
Yancey did not attend but did have a representa-
tive there.
The name of each candidate was printed on a
piece of paper and placed into separate film canis-
ters. The canisters were put into a cobalt-blue-and-
white ceramic bowl made by a local artist, stirred
around and Yancey’s name was chosen first.
It’s been nearly 50 years since a legislative seat
3 cars on Amtrak train
with 311 passengers
derail, none hurt
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Three cars on an
Amtrak train carrying more than 300 passengers
on a route from Miami to New York derailed
in snow-covered Savannah after a fierce winter
storm, but no injuries were reported.
Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said Sil-
ver Meteor train 98 was backing slowly into the
Savannah station about 10 p.m. Wednesday —
hours after the storm clobbered the Southeast
coast — when two sleeper cars and a baggage
car derailed.
“All three cars — a baggage car and two
sleeper cars — are fully upright,” Abrams said
early today.
He said there were 311 passengers on board,
in addition to crew, but he had no reports of any-
one hurt.
Abrams’ statement said the main train was
to continue its journey north though some of the
sleeping car passengers had to be put aboard a
different train.
He didn’t say what caused the derailment, and
the statement also gave no immediate indication
whether the storm that coated Savannah with a
rare snowfall on Wednesday was a factor.
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Virginia Republican’s
name drawn from bowl,
giving him win
JOHANNESBURG — A passenger train car-
rying people home after the holidays slammed
into a truck in rural South Africa today, killing
at least 18 people and injuring about 260 others,
authorities said.
Officials said the truck driver allegedly tried
to cross the tracks just ahead of the oncoming
train, part of which burst into flames after the
collision, trapping some passengers in carriages.
Those who were able to escape with their lug-
gage hurriedly dragged bags from the smoking
wreck to a nearby road.
“The truck driver was taking chances. He
thought that he was going to pass through,”
Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi told jour-
nalists. “Little did he know that the train was
going to hit him. That has cost a lot of lives.”
Some of the dead were badly burned, said
Mthuthuzeli Swartz, acting CEO of the state-
owned passenger rail agency.
The train with 429 passengers aboard had
been traveling from Port Elizabeth to the coun-
try’s commercial hub, Johannesburg.
Video showed part of the Shosholoza Meyl
train in flames after the collision that occurred
between the communities of Hennenman and
Kroonstad in Free State province. The crash
derailed half a dozen carriages, and power lines
were damaged. A large vehicle was upside down
beside a train carriage that appeared to have
partly crushed another, smaller vehicle.
The truck driver emerged unscathed and the
train driver and his assistant suffered minor inju-
ries, Swartz said.
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