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WORLD IN BRIEF
later tweeted that the ZTE talks were “part of a
larger trade deal” being negotiated with China.
Trump has drawn criticism from members of
Congress for going easy on the Chinese company.
“This deal is a loser for American security
and a loser for American workers,” said Sen. Ron
Wyden, D-Ore. “The president and congressio-
nal Republicans must reverse this decision before
it is too late. The Trump administration is giving
ZTE and China the green light to spy on Ameri-
cans and sell our technology to North Korea and
Iran, as long as it pays a fine that amounts to a
tiny fraction of its revenue. The president is mak-
ing America less safe, creating jobs in China and
securing nothing for American workers in return.
The only question is whether this was the price of
Ivanka’s trademarks and the $500 million loan to
an Indonesian Trump development.”
Associated Press
House GOP in
eleventh-hour attempt
for immigration accord
WASHINGTON — Divided on immigra-
tion, House Republicans are huddling privately
as leaders try pushing them toward consensus on
the issue, racing the clock and trying to defuse
a civil war within the party that threatens their
effort to keep control of the chamber in Novem-
ber’s elections.
But even as they gathered in a Capitol base-
ment meeting room, there were no indications
that a deal mending the party’s chasm over immi-
gration was at hand and no definitive details of
where middle ground might be. If leaders fail to
find a solution, that would give momentum to
moderates seeking to stage election-year votes in
just three weeks on the issue, a showdown that
leaders want to head off.
GOP lawmakers emerged from the office of
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Wednesday say-
ing he would present the rank and file with broad
ideas for resolving a dispute that has split Repub-
licans for years, damaging the party with His-
panic and moderate voters.
Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., Rep. Jeff Den-
ham, R-Calif., and other moderates need just two
more GOP signatures on a petition to require
immigration votes, assuming all Democrats sign
on. If today’s meeting doesn’t produce an accord,
the moderates could reach that threshold quickly.
The major hang-up in GOP talks has been
how, as the moderates have demanded, to offer
a chance for citizenship to young “Dreamer”
immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as chil-
dren. Conservatives have opposed creating a spe-
cial pathway for them to become citizens, call-
ing it amnesty.
Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., said a large group
of conservatives he leads has discussed providing
a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers in exchange
for giving President Donald Trump nearly all the
$25 billion he wants to build his proposed wall
with Mexico. In addition, the conservatives want
to end a lottery that grants visas to countries with
few immigrants to the U.S. and curb the relatives
who can be brought over by immigrants, Walker
said.
Democrats and at least some moderates would
likely oppose such measures, giving it little
chance of surviving in the more centrist Senate.
Commerce Secretary:
US reaches deal with
China’s ZTE
WASHINGTON — The United States and
China have reached a deal that allows the Chi-
AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
Carrie Underwood performs ‘Cry Pretty’ at the CMT Music Awards.
Underwood makes history again,
Shelton wins top country award
Carrie Underwood continued to make history as the most decorated act at the CMT Music
Awards with 18 wins, while Blake Shelton walked away with the night’s top prize.
Shelton, the only person to win two awards Wednesday, won video of the year for “I’ll
Name the Dogs” at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I’ve been doing this for 18 years. I have been making records and luckily enough you guys
have accepted them,” said Shelton, who also won male video of the year. “It’s been a crazy
ride.”
Underwood won female video of the year for the Ludacris-assisted song, “The Champion,”
also giving the rapper-actor his first CMT Award.
Underwood, per usual, was a vocal powerhouse as she sang “Cry Pretty,” earning of the
night’s loudest applause.
Some performers sang outdoors, including Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton and Sam Hunt,
who sang “Downtown’s Dead” in downtown Nashville, walking the streets and going into bars
during the performance.
The CMT Music Awards, which kicked off with a spoof of the Royal Wedding, honors the
year’s best country music videos.
nese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. to stay
in business in exchange for paying an additional
$1 billion in fines and agreeing to let U.S. regula-
tors monitor its operations.
The fine announced today comes on top of
$892 million ZTE has already paid for break-
ing U.S. sanctions by selling equipment to North
Korea and Iran. The Commerce Department said
that ZTE must also put $400 million in escrow
— a sum that it would forfeit if it violated today’s
agreement.
In addition, a compliance team chosen by
the United States will be embedded at ZTE and
the Chinese company must change its board and
executive team.
President Donald Trump has drawn fire from
Congress for intervening in the case to rescue a
Chinese company that had violated U.S. sanc-
tions against two rogue nations that have been
pursuing nuclear weapons programs.
In April, the Commerce Department barred
ZTE from importing American components for
seven years, having concluded that it deceived
U.S. regulators after it settled charges last year
of sanctions violations: Instead of disciplining
all employees involved, Commerce said, ZTE
had paid some of them full bonuses and then lied
about it.
Trump barged into the ZTE case last month
by tweeting that he was working with President
Xi Jinping to put ZTE “back in business, fast”
and save tens of thousands of Chinese jobs. He
Boy Scout’s toy grenade
causes bomb scare in
Houston airport
HOUSTON — A Boy Scout who packed a
toy grenade in his carry-on bag caused the shut-
down of a security checkpoint at Houston’s Wil-
liam P. Hobby Airport this morning, just a day
after the international terminal of the city’s other
major airport was evacuated due to a bomb scare.
Houston Airport System spokesman Bill Beg-
ley said people were allowed to approach the
checkpoint again after authorities determined
that the suspicious item spotted by a Transpor-
tation Security Administration agent was a “nov-
elty grenade.” It’s not clear why the 17-year-old
had the item in his bag.
Houston police said the state won’t charge the
teen but that he could face a federal fine.
Hobby Airport is a hub for Southwest Airlines
and Begley said more than 15 Southwest flights
were delayed. The website FlightAware indicated
delays of an hour or more for flights arriving and
departing the airport immediately after the secu-
rity checkpoint reopened.
An Associated Press journalist was in the line
when a TSA agent raised the alarm at about 4:35
a.m., forcing hundreds of people to move away
from the immediate area on both sides of the
security checkpoint.
“My wife and I were waiting to drop our
bags into the X-ray machine and go through the
detector, and I heard a TSA agent scream ‘Shut
it down, shut it down, shut it down!’ Everyone
was looking around, confused, and people were
ordered to ‘Clear out now!’” the AP’s John L.
Mone said.
On Wednesday, police detained “an impatient
passenger” who made comments about explo-
sives in a bag at Houston’s Bush Intercontinen-
tal Airport. Begley said that unidentified pas-
senger’s “inappropriate comment” prompted a
bomb squad to close the international terminal
for nearly an hour.
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