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ning on the Hualapai reservation outside the
boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. The
three died and four others, including the pilot,
were injured.
The group was traveling aboard a Papillon
Grand Canyon Helicopters chopper near Quar-
termaster Canyon. Crews tackled difficult ter-
rain in a remote area to try to recover the vic-
tims’ bodies.
A witness said he saw flames and black
smoke spewing from the crash site, heard explo-
sions and saw victims who were bleeding and
badly burned.
Windy conditions, darkness and the rugged
terrain made it difficult to reach the helicopter’s
wreckage. Rescue crews had to fly in, walk to
the crash site and use night vision goggles to
find their way around.
Associated Press
Israeli prime minister:
Airstrikes dealt ‘severe
blows’ to Iran, Syria
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister said
Sunday his country delivered “severe blows” to
Iranian and Syrian forces and vowed to take fur-
ther action against its adversaries following the
most serious Israeli engagement in Syria since
the war there erupted almost seven years ago.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s tough words to his
Cabinet came a day after Israel carried out a
wave of airstrikes in Syria. Israel ordered the
airstrikes after it intercepted an Iranian drone
that had infiltrated its airspace, and an Israeli
F-16 was downed upon its return from Syria.
Israel has tried to stay on the sidelines since
civil war broke out in neighboring Syria in 2011,
though it has periodically carried out airstrikes
against suspected weapons shipments believed
to be headed for Lebanese Hezbollah, the Ira-
nian and Syrian-allied militant group. But as the
Syrian war winds down, Israeli officials have
voiced increasing alarm that Iran and its Shiite
allies are establishing a permanent presence in
Syria that could turn its aim toward Israel.
Israeli leaders said the airstrikes sent a clear
message to Iran.
Saturday’s airstrikes marked the toughest
Israeli aerial assault in Syria in decades.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
which monitors the war in Syria through a net-
work of activists on the ground, said Sunday that
at least six Syrian troops and allied militiamen
were killed in the airstrikes. The six included
Syrian and non-Syrian allied troops.
“They, and we, know what we hit and it will
take them some time for them to digest, under-
stand and ask how Israel knew how to hit those
sites,” Israel’s Intelligence Minister Israel Katz
told the Army Radio station. “These were con-
cealed sites and we have intelligence agencies
and the ability to know everything that is going
on there and yesterday we proved that.”
The White House issued a statement in
which it said it supports Israel’s “right to defend
itself from the Iranian-backed Syrian and militia
forces in southern Syria.”
Trump’s $4.4 trillion
budget moves deficit
sharply higher
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump
unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that
heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits
and — unlike the plan he released last year —
never comes close to promising a balanced led-
ger even after 10 years.
The growing deficits reflect, in great part, the
impact of last year’s tax overhaul, which is pro-
jected to cause federal tax revenue to drop. And
today’s budget submission does not yet reflect
last week’s two-year bipartisan $300 billion
pact that wholly rejects Trump’s plans to slash
domestic agencies.
Tax revenue would plummet by $3.7 tril-
lion over the 2018-27 decade relative to last
year’s “baseline” estimates, the budget projects.
Trump is requesting a record $686 billion for the
Pentagon, a 13 percent increase from the 2017
budget enacted last May.
The spending spree, along with last year’s
tax cuts, has the deficit moving sharply higher
with Republicans in control of Washington.
Trump’s plan sees a 2019 deficit of $984 bil-
lion, though $1.2 trillion is more plausible after
last week’s budget pact and $90 billion worth of
disaster aid is tacked on. That’s more than dou-
ble the 2019 deficit the administration promised
last year.
All told, the new budget sees accumulating
deficits of $7.2 trillion over the coming decade;
Trump’s plan last year projected a 10-year short-
fall of $3.2 trillion.
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A man works on the southern Nevada portion of U.S. Interstate 11 near Boulder City.
Trump’s plan to rebuild US
roads relies on local dollars
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump today launched what he calls a “big week”
for his infrastructure plan, which envisions $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade to rebuild
roads and highways. The plan would fulfill a key campaign goal but rely heavily on state and
local government budgets to become a reality.
The president was meeting with eight governors and several state and local officials at the
White House later in the day to drum up support.
The administration’s 55-page plan is centered on using $200 billion in federal money to
leverage local and state tax dollars to fix America’s infrastructure, such as roads, highways,
ports and airports.
Administration officials previewing the plan said it would feature two key components:
an injection of funding for new investments and help speed up repairs of crumbling roads and
airports, as well as a streamlined permitting process that would truncate the wait time to get
projects underway. Officials said the $200 billion in federal support would come from cuts
to existing programs.
Half the money would go to grants for transportation, water, flood control, cleanup at
some of the country’s most polluted sites and other projects.
States, local governments and other project sponsors could use the grants — which admin-
istration officials view as incentives — for no more than 20 percent of the cost. Transit agen-
cies generally count on the federal government for half the cost of major construction proj-
ects, and federal dollars can make up as much as 80 percent of some highway projects.
The 2019 budget was originally designed
to double down on last year’s proposals to
slash foreign aid, the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, home heating assistance and other
nondefense programs funded by Congress each
year.
Congress takes on
immigration issue amid
election pressures
WASHINGTON — The Senate begins a
rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the
fate of the “Dreamer” immigrants today, and
Republican senators say they’ll introduce Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s plan.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., scheduled an initial procedural vote for
this evening to commence debate. It is expected
to succeed easily, and then the Senate will sort
through proposals, perhaps for weeks.
Democrats and some Republicans say they
want to help the “Dreamers,” young immigrants
who have lived in the U.S. illegally since they
were children and have only temporarily been
protected from deportation by an Obama-era
program. Trump has said he wants to aid them
and has even proposed a path to citizenship for
1.8 million, but in exchange wants $25 billion
for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall plus
significant curbs to legal immigration.
McConnell agreed to the open-ended debate,
a Senate rarity in recent years, after Demo-
crats agreed to vote to end a three-day govern-
ment shutdown they’d forced over the issue.
They’d initially demanded a deal toward help-
ing Dreamers, not a simple promise of votes.
To prevail, any plan will need 60 votes,
meaning substantial support from both parties
is mandatory. Republicans control the chamber
51-49 but GOP Sen.
Democrats adamantly oppose Trump’s plan,
particularly its barring of legal immigrants from
sponsoring their parents or siblings to live in
the U.S. It has no chance of getting the 60 votes
needed to survive. Another proposal likely to
surface, backed by some Republicans and many
Democrats, would give Dreamers a chance
at citizenship but provide no border security
money or legal immigration restrictions. It too
would be certain to fail.
British tourists killed
in Grand Canyon
helicopter crash
PHOENIX — Three British tourists who
died in a helicopter crash at the Grand Can-
yon were in the American Southwest to cele-
brate one of their birthdays, a trip they had been
looking forward to for a long time, family and
friends said.
They were identified early today as veteri-
nary receptionist Becky Dobson, 27; her boy-
friend, Stuart Hill, 30; and his brother, Jason
Hill, 32. They were staying in Las Vegas for a
long weekend.
From there, they took a helicopter to the
west rim of the Grand Canyon, where it crashed
under unknown circumstances Saturday eve-
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Workers find both data
recorders at Russian
plane crash site
MOSCOW — Tramping through snowy
fields outside Moscow, emergency workers
found both flight data recorders from a crashed
Russian airliner today as they searched for
debris and the remains of the 71 passengers and
crew who died.
The An-148 twin-engine regional jet bound
for Orsk in the southern Urals went down min-
utes after taking off from Moscow’s Domode-
dovo airport Sunday afternoon. All 65 passen-
gers and 6 crew on board were killed.
Russian investigators quickly ruled out a ter-
ror attack but will not speculate on possible rea-
sons for the crash.
Still the crash has re-ignited questions about
the An-148, since the model’s safety record is
spotty, with one previous crash and a series of
major incidents in which pilots struggled to land
safely. Saratov Airlines, which operated the
plane, has grounded several other An-148s in its
fleet pending the crash probe.
The Investigative Committee, Russia’s pre-
mier state investigative agency, said the plane
was intact and there had been no fire on board
before it hit the ground. The plane’s fuel tanks
exploded on impact, scattering debris across 74
acres in deep snow. Drones were used to direct
the search.
Blackout hits northern
Puerto Rico following
fire, explosion
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An explosion
and fire at an electric substation threw much
of northern Puerto Rico into darkness late Sun-
day in a setback for the U.S. territory’s efforts to
fully restore power more than five months after
Hurricane Maria started the longest blackout in
U.S. history.
The island’s Electric Power Authority said
several municipalities were without power,
including parts of the capital, San Juan, but they
were optimistic it could be restored within a day
as they worked to repair a substation that con-
trols voltage.
The blast illustrated the challenges of restor-
ing a power grid that was already crumbling
before it was devastated by the Category 4
hurricane.
In many cases, power workers are repairing
equipment that should have long been replaced
but remained online due to the power authori-
ty’s yearslong financial crisis. PREPA is worth
roughly $4 billion, carries $9 billion in debt and
has long been criticized for political patronage
and inefficiency. It also struggled with frequent
blackouts, including an island-wide outage in
September 2016.
It was not immediately known what caused
Sunday’s fire, which was quickly extinguished.
Officials said the explosion knocked two other
substations offline and caused a total loss of 400
megawatts worth of generation.
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