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erations taking place.” The White House did
not immediately respond to questions about the
matter.
The administration could announce its deci-
sion as early as Tuesday, the officials said. The
plan to withhold some of the money is backed
by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense
Secretary James Mattis, who offered it as a com-
promise to demands for more drastic measures
by U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the officials
said.
Associated Press
MLK III calls out
Trump on alleged
immigration comments
WASHINGTON — Martin Luther King
Jr.’s eldest son is calling out President Donald
Trump following accusations the president used
a vulgarity to describe African countries during
a meeting last week and expressed a preference
for immigrants from countries like Norway.
Martin Luther King III spoke in Washington
today, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
King says: “When a president insists that our
nation needs more citizens from white states
like Norway, I don’t even think we need to
spend any time even talking about what it says
and what it is.”
He says: “We got to find a way to work on
this man’s heart.”
Referring to former Alabama Gov. George
Wallace, King added: “George Wallace was a
staunch racist and we worked on his heart and
ultimately George Wallace transformed.”
Trump spent Sunday defending himself
anew against accusations that he is racist.
“No, No. I’m not a racist,” Trump said, after
reporters asked him to respond to those who
think he is. “I am the least racist person you
have ever interviewed. That I can tell you.”
Trump also denied making the statements
attributed to him, but avoided the details of what
he did or did not say.
“Did you see what various senators in the
room said about my comments?” he asked,
referring to lawmakers who were meeting
with him in the Oval Office on Thursday when
Trump is said to have made the comments.
“They weren’t made.”
Trump stands accused of using “shithole” to
describe African countries during an immigra-
tion meeting with a bipartisan group of six sen-
ators. The president, in the meeting, also ques-
tioned the need to admit more Haitians to the
U.S., according to people who were briefed
on the conversation but were not authorized to
describe the meeting publicly.
Trump commented as Sen. Dick Durbin of
Illinois, a Democrat, was presenting details of
a compromise immigration plan that included
providing $1.6 billion for a first installment of
the president’s long-sought border wall.
Cranberries singer
O’Riordan dead at 46
Pasco County Fire Rescue
Flames engulf a boat ferrying patrons to a casino ship off the Florida Gulf Coast.
Woman dies after fire on
casino boat off Florida’s coast
TAMPA, Fla. — A casino company said today it never had a problem with the shuttle boat
that erupted in flames off Florida’s Gulf Coast, leading to the death of a female passenger.
Tropical Breeze Casino spokeswoman Beth Fifer said the company does not know what
caused Sunday’s blaze, which gutted the shuttle boat and forced about 50 passengers to jump
into the chilly waters off Port Richey.
“We are deeply saddened for the loss of our passenger, the 14 injured and anyone else who
was affected by this tragedy,” Fifer said.
Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point spokesman Kurt Conover said today that the pas-
senger arrived at the hospital’s emergency room at 10 p.m. Sunday and died shortly after-
ward. He said she had apparently gone home after the fire but became ill. Eight other passen-
gers were treated at the hospital and released.
Helicopter video taken by WTSP-TV early today shows the boat was burned down to its
hull, with only an American flag on its bow uncharred.
The shuttle boat regularly carries people back and forth from the Tropical Breeze’s off-
shore casino, about a 45-minute ride into international waters. There, passengers can play
games such as black jack, which is illegal at non-Indian casinos in Florida, and roulette,
which is illegal statewide.
Officials said the shuttle vessel was headed out to the casino ship at the time of the fire. It
caught fire about 4 p.m. Sunday close to shore near residential neighborhoods.
Twin bombings in
Baghdad kill 38, shatter
post-IS calm
Hawaii missile-alert
error reveals uncertainty
about how to react
BAGHDAD — Twin suicide bombings
rocked Baghdad today, killing 38 people in the
deadliest attack since Iraq declared victory over
the Islamic State group last month, and raising
fears ahead of national elections planned for
May.
The bombers targeted the bustling Tayran
Square, in the heart of the capital, setting off
their explosive vests among laborers and street
vendors during the morning rush hour. More
than 100 people were wounded, according to
police and hospital officials.
No one has claimed the attacks, but they bore
the hallmarks of IS.
Iraqi forces have driven IS from all the ter-
ritory the extremists once held, but the mili-
tant group has proven resilient in the past and
is likely to continue carrying out insurgent-style
attacks. That could undermine Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi, who hopes to extend the coun-
try’s newfound sense of pride and unity in order
to lead a diverse coalition to power in May.
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri
denounced the attack as a “cowardly act against
innocent people” and called on the govern-
ment to take all necessary security measures.
Al-Abadi met security officials in charge of
Baghdad, ordering them to root out militant
sleeper cells.
HONOLULU — When Jonathan Scheuer
got an alert on his phone of a ballistic missile
headed for Hawaii, he and his family didn’t
know what to do. They went to their guest bed-
room, then decided it would be safer on the
ground floor of their Honolulu home.
“What do we do?” he wondered. “Where do
we go?”
Residents and tourists alike remained rattled
a day after the mistaken alert was blasted out to
cellphones across the islands with a warning to
seek immediate shelter and the ominous state-
ment: “This is not a drill.”
The blunder that caused more than a million
people in Hawaii to fear that they were about
to be struck by a nuclear missile fed skepticism
Sunday about the government’s ability to keep
them informed in a real emergency.
The erroneous warning was sent during a
shift change at the state’s Emergency Manage-
ment Agency when someone doing a routine
test hit the live alert button, state officials said.
They tried to assure residents there would be
no repeat false alarms. The agency changed pro-
tocols to require that two people send an alert
and made it easier to cancel a false alarm — a
process that took nearly 40 minutes.
The error sparked a doomsday panic across
the islands known as a laid-back paradise. Par-
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US wants to cut money
for Palestinian refugees
WASHINGTON — The Trump administra-
tion is preparing to withhold tens of millions
of dollars from the U.N. agency for Palestin-
ian refugees, cutting the year’s first contribution
by more than half or perhaps entirely, and mak-
ing additional donations contingent on major
changes to the organization, according to U.S.
officials.
President Donald Trump hasn’t made a
final decision, but appears more likely to send
only $60 million of the planned $125 million
first installment to the U.N. Relief and Works
Agency, said the officials, who weren’t autho-
rized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke
on condition of anonymity.
Future contributions would require the
agency, facing heavy Israeli criticism, to
demonstrate significant changes in operations,
they said, adding that one suggestion under con-
sideration would require the Palestinians to first
re-enter peace talks with Israel.
The State Department said Sunday that “the
decision is under review. There are still delib-
2 Koreas discuss
Northern art troupe’s
visit during Olympics
SEOUL, South Korea — Officials from the
two Koreas met today to work out details about
North Korea’s plan to send an art troupe to the
South during next month’s Winter Olympics,
as the rivals tried to follow up on the North’s
recent agreement to cooperate in the Games
in a conciliatory gesture following months of
nuclear tensions.
In a development that still shows their bit-
ter animosities, the North issued a veiled
threat on Sunday indicating it could cancel
its plans to send an Olympic delegation to
protest what it called South Korea’s “sordid
acts of chilling” the prospect for inter-Ko-
rean reconciliation. The warning is relatively
milder than the North’s typical fiery, bellicose
rhetoric and it didn’t appear to put the recent
signs of warming Korean ties in imminent
danger.
“They should know that train and bus carry-
ing our delegation to the Olympics are still in
Pyongyang,” the North’s official Korean Cen-
tral News Agency said. “The South Korean
authorities had better ponder over what unfa-
vorable results may be entailed by their impo-
lite behavior.”
KCNA criticized the remarks by
South Korean President Moon Jae-in last
week that credited President Donald Trump
for getting the North to sit down with the
South. It also accused Seoul of letting Washing-
ton deploy strategic assets like an aircraft car-
rier near the Korean Peninsula on the occasion
of the Olympics. The United States is beefing
up its presence around the peninsula in what
it describes as routine training and scheduled
upgrades.
During today’s talks at the border village of
Panmunjom, the two Koreas discussed when
and where the North’s art troupe would perform
in South Korea and under what specific stage
conditions, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said
in a statement. The talks were to continue later
today, it said.
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ents clutched their children, huddled in bathtubs
and said prayers. Students bolted across the Uni-
versity of Hawaii campus to take cover in build-
ings. Drivers abandoned cars on a highway and
took shelter in a tunnel. Others resigned them-
selves to a fate they could not control and sim-
ply waited for the attack.
LONDON — Dolores O’Riordan, lead
singer of Irish band The Cranberries, died sud-
denly today. She was 46.
O’Riordan died in London, where she was
recording, publicist Lindsey Holmes said. The
cause of death wasn’t immediately available.
Holmes said the singer’s family is “devas-
tated” by the news.
Formed in Limerick, Ireland, The Cranber-
ries became international stars in the 1990s
with hits including “Zombie” and “Linger”
that fused the alternative rock edge with poppy
tunefulness.
The band split up in 2003 but reunited sev-
eral years later. The Cranberries released the
acoustic album “Something Else” in 2017 and
had been due to tour Europe and North Amer-
ica. The tour was cut short because O’Riordan
was suffering from back problems.
In 2014, O’Riordan was accused of
assaulting three police officers and a flight
attendant during a flight from New York to
Ireland. She pleaded guilty and was fined
$6,600.
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