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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Another snowstorm hits
the Northeast, threatens
more power outages
PHILADELPHIA — The second big storm
to hit the Northeast in less than a week brought
wet, heavy snow today to a corner of the coun-
try where tens of thousands of people were still
waiting for the power to come back on from the
first bout of wintry weather.
The nor’easter closed schools and govern-
ment offices, grounded thousands of flights and
raised fears of another round of fallen trees and
electrical outages as it made its way up the East
Coast.
A mix of snow and light rain fell before
daybreak in many areas, then began turning
to all snow. By late morning, heavy snow was
blanketing eastern Pennsylvania, and driving
became treacherous on some highways.
The National Weather Service issued a win-
ter storm warning into Thursday morning from
the Philadelphia area through most of New
England. Forecasters said areas west of the
Interstate 95 corridor could easily get more than
a foot of snow, with some places in northwest-
ern New Jersey expected to receive up to 2 feet.
More than 2,000 flights across the region —
1,700 in the New York metro area alone — were
canceled, a number expected to climb as condi-
tions deteriorated.
The morning commute went smoothly in
most areas, as the storm had not yet kicked into
high gear. But motorists were urged to avoid
travel so crews could treat and clear roads.
Pennsylvania and New York banned big rigs
from some major highways.
Putin praises Trump,
says US political
system eating itself
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin lavished praise on President Don-
ald Trump, but added that he was sorely disap-
pointed with the U.S. political system, saying
that it has been “eating itself up.”
Speaking in a series of interviews with Rus-
sian state television which were included in a
documentary released today, Putin described
Trump as a great communicator.
“I have no disappointment at all,” Putin said
when asked about the U.S. president. “More-
over, on a personal level he made a very good
impression on me.”
The two leaders met on the sidelines of
international summits last year. Putin praised
Trump as a “balanced” man, who easily gets
into the gist of various issues and listens to his
interlocutor.
Moscow has said that its hopes for better ties
with Washington have been dashed by the ongo-
ing congressional and FBI investigations into
allegations of collusion between Trump’s cam-
paign and Russia.
He said he was particularly dismayed by
what he described as the U.S. role in the ouster
of Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president in Febru-
ary 2014 amid massive protests.
Putin charged that the U.S. had asked Rus-
sia to help persuade then-President Viktor Yanu-
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Signs in storage at the Bexar County Election offices in San Antonio.
Democrats, women candidates
score big in Texas primaries
AUSTIN, Texas — Women running for Congress surged to big wins and Democrats
smashed recent turnout levels in Texas’ first-in-the-nation 2018 primary elections, giving
Republicans a potential glimpse of what’s ahead in the first midterms under President Don-
ald Trump.
Energized and angry Democrats in Texas, where the GOP has dominated for decades,
came out in force to surpass 1 million voters Tuesday and eclipse midterm primary partici-
pation totals unseen since 1994, when the party was in full slide toward wilderness after long
being the top political dog.
Equally striking was the showing by women on the ballot: Of the nearly 50 women run-
ning for Congress in Texas, more than half won their primaries outright or advanced to run-
offs. What’s more, at least three of those runoffs in May will feature women going head-to-
head, including a key race for Democrats in their bid to take control of the U.S. House this
fall.
Not all women fared so well. Kathaleen Wall, a Republican megadonor in Houston who
pumped $6 million of her own money into her race for Congress, failed to survive a crowded
nine-person field despite outspending all other candidates and having the backing of Repub-
lican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Wall’s failure was also a potential warning sign of the limits of Republicans going all-in
on Trump this election year. She partly staked her candidacy on TV ads that told voters there
was little daylight between her and the president, who remains popular among GOP voters
despite his rough edges and low approval ratings nationwide.
For all the talk of renewed Democratic energy heading into 2018, Texas Republicans also
set a new benchmark for turnout in a midterm election. More than 1.5 million people voted
Tuesday in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, won by incumbent Ted Cruz. That beats
the previous record of 1.48 million in 2010, during former President Barack Obama’s first
term.
kovych not to use force against protesters and
then “rudely and blatantly” cheated Russia,
sponsoring what he called a “coup.”
Russia responded by annexing Ukraine’s
Crimean Peninsula.
Report: Failed VA
leadership put
patients at risk
WASHINGTON — A stinging internal
investigation finds “failed leadership at mul-
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European Union
ready for a trade war if
Trump slaps on tariffs
BRUSSELS — The European Union says
it’s ready to retaliate against the U.S. over
President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs
on steel and aluminum — with counter-mea-
sures against iconic U.S. products like Har-
ley Davidson motorcycles, Levi’s jeans and
bourbon.
The EU threat and Trump’s insistence that
the tariffs will go ahead escalate the risk of
a trade war, in which countries try to pun-
ish each other by increasing taxes on traded
goods. In the end, that tends to hurt all sides as
exporting producers suffer but so do consum-
ers who face higher costs, experts say.
There was some hope that free trade pro-
ponents in the White House, like economic
adviser Gary Cohn, would dissuade Trump
from going ahead with the tariffs. But Cohn’s
resignation Tuesday dealt a blow to that
expectation.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malm-
stroem said today that the EU is circulating
among member states a list of U.S. goods to
target with tariffs so that it can respond as
quickly as possible.
The list is being finalized but so far includes
U.S. steel and agricultural products, as well as
other products like bourbon, peanut butter,
cranberries and orange juice.
She did not say what level of tariffs the EU
would set, leaving it unclear what the eco-
nomic impact would be.
The EU considers itself to be caught in the
crossfire of this particular trade dispute, in
which Trump has mainly singled out China for
being unfair in its commercial deals.
Trump last week he said his government
would levy penalties of 25 percent on imported
steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports, but
left it not clear whether trading partners like
the EU and Canada would be exempt.
SCHEDULE
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ASTORIAN
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tiple levels” at the Veterans Administration
during the Obama administration that put
patients at a major hospital at risk. It’s another
blow to current Secretary David Shulkin, who
also served at the agency then and now is
fighting to keep his job.
The 150-page report released today by the
VA internal watchdog offers new details to
its preliminary finding last April of patient
safety issues at the Washington, D.C., medi-
cal center.
Painting a grim picture of communications
breakdowns, chaos and spending waste at the
government’s second largest department, the
report found that at least three VA program
offices directly under Shulkin’s watch knew
of “serious, persistent deficiencies” when he
was VA undersecretary of health from 2015 to
2016, but stopped short of saying whether he
was told about them.
Shulkin, who was elevated to VA secretary
last year by President Donald Trump, told gov-
ernment investigators that he did “not recall”
ever being notified of problems.
Declaring the problems “systemic,”
Shulkin told reporters that he was not aware of
the problems at the Washington hospital. He
pledged wide-scale change across VA, includ-
ing unannounced audits of its more than 1,700
medical facilities from health experts in the
private sector, immediate hiring to fill vacan-
cies at local hospitals and plans in the com-
ing months to streamline bureaucracy and
improve communication.
A blistering report by the inspector general
last month concluded that he had violated eth-
ics rules by improperly accepting Wimbledon
tennis tickets and that his then chief of staff
had doctored emails to justify his wife travel-
ing to Europe with him at taxpayer expense.
He also faces a rebellion among some VA
staff and has issued a sharp warning to them:
Get back in line or get out.
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