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contact with the 29-year-old Goodall, who lost
her mast 2,000 miles west of Cape Horn near
the southern tip of South America.
Her engine failed and could not be restarted,
limiting her ability to maneuver in seas with
13-foot swells. Without an engine, her stricken
yacht, the DHL Starlight, had to drift with its
sea anchor before the master of the MV Tian
Fu could maneuver the 40,000-ton cargo ship
alongside it.
Goodall was the youngest entrant and the
only woman in the Golden Globe competi-
tion that began July 1 in Les Sables-d’Olonne,
France. Only five of the 18 skippers who began
the race still remain. They are trying to sail
roughly 30,000 miles alone, nonstop and with-
out outside assistance before returning to the
same French port.
Associated Press
Trump says he’ll
nominate Barr for
attorney general
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump
said today he will nominate William Barr, the
late President George H.W. Bush’s attorney
general, to serve in the same role.
Trump made the announcement while
departing the White House for a trip to Mis-
souri. He called Barr “a terrific man” and “one
of the most respected jurists in the country.”
“I think he will serve with great distinction,”
Trump said.
If confirmed by the Senate, Barr would suc-
ceed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was
forced out by Trump in November following
an acrimonious tenure. Sessions’ chief of staff,
Matthew Whitaker, is currently serving as act-
ing attorney general.
Trump’s fury at Sessions for recusing him-
self from the Russia investigation — which
helped set in motion the appointment of special
counsel Robert Mueller — created deep ten-
sions between Trump and his Justice Depart-
ment. He sometimes puts the word “Justice”
in quotes when referring to the department in
tweets and has railed against its leaders for fail-
ing to investigate his 2016 campaign rival, Hil-
lary Clinton, as extensively as he would like.
Democrats will presumably seek reassur-
ances during confirmation proceedings that
Barr, who as attorney general would be in a posi-
tion to oversee Mueller’s investigation, would
not do anything to interfere with the probe.
Barr was attorney general between 1991 and
1993, serving in the Justice Department at the
same Mueller oversaw the department’s crim-
inal division. Barr later worked as a corporate
general counsel and is currently of counsel at
a prominent international law firm, Kirkland &
Ellis LLP.
Trump names State
spokeswoman Nauert
for UN ambassador
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump announced today he’s nominating State
Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be
the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“Heather Nauert will be nominated,” Trump
said. “She’s very talented, very smart, very
quick, and I think she’s going to be respected
by all.”
If she is confirmed by the Senate, Nauert, a
former Fox News Channel reporter who had lit-
tle foreign policy experience before becoming
State Department spokeswoman, will replace
Nikki Haley. Haley, a former South Carolina
governor, announced in October that she would
step down at the end of this year. Nauert would
be a leading administration voice on Trump’s
foreign policy.
Nauert catapulted into the upper echelons of
the State Department’s hierarchy when Secre-
tary of State Rex Tillerson was fired in March
and replaced with Mike Pompeo. Nauert was
then appointed acting undersecretary of state for
public diplomacy and public affairs and was for
a time the highest-ranking woman and fourth
highest-ranking official in the building.
Nauert, who did not have a good relation-
ship with Tillerson and had considered leaving
the department, told associates at the time she
was taken aback by the promotion offer and rec-
U.S. Navy
The destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor survivors gather in
Hawaii for attack remembrance
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — About 20 survivors are expected to gather at Pearl Harbor
today to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago.
The youngest of the veterans are in their mid-90s. The Navy and National Park Service will
jointly host the remembrance ceremony at a grassy site overlooking the water and the USS Ari-
zona Memorial.
Attendees are expected to observe a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the time the attack
began on Dec. 7, 1941. Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 jets are scheduled to fly overhead in
“missing man formation” to break the silence.
No survivor from the USS Arizona will attend the ceremony this year, as none of the men
were able to make the trip to Hawaii.
The Arizona sank after two bombs hit the ship, triggering tremendous explosions. The Ari-
zona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines, the greatest number of casualties from any ship. Most
remain entombed in the sunken hull of the battleship at the bottom of the harbor.
Altogether, the Pearl Harbor attack killed nearly 2,400 U.S. servicemen.
Dozens of those killed have been recently identified and reburied in cemeteries across the
country after the military launched a new effort to analyze bones and DNA of hundreds long
classified as “unknowns.”
This led to the 2015 exhumation of 388 sets of remains from the USS Oklahoma buried in a
national cemetery in Honolulu. The Oklahoma had the second highest number of dead after the
Arizona at 429, though only 35 were identified in the immediate years after the attack.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified 168 sailors and Marines from
the Oklahoma since the exhumations three years ago. It has said it expects to identify about 80
percent of the 388 by 2020.
ommended a colleague for the job. But when
White House officials told her they wanted her,
she accepted.
That role gave her responsibilities far
beyond the news conferences she held in the
State Department briefing room. She oversaw
public diplomacy in Washington and all of the
roughly 275 overseas U.S. embassies, consul-
ates and other posts. She was in charge of the
Global Engagement Center that fights extrem-
ist messaging from the Islamic State group and
others, and she has a seat on the U.S. Agency for
Global Media that oversees government broad-
cast networks such as Voice of America.
her mast and flung her yacht end over end in
the Southern Ocean as she competed in a solo
round-the-world race.
British sailor Susie Goodall tweeted “ON
THE SHIP!!!” soon after the Hong Kong-reg-
istered MV Tian Fu arrived at her location. The
cargo vessel had been traveling from China to
Argentina when it diverted to reach her.
Race officials have been in regular radio
Hart steps down as
Oscars host over his
past anti-gay tweets
NEW YORK — Just two days after being
named host of the Academy Awards, comedian
Kevin Hart stepped down following an outcry
over past homophobic tweets.
Capping a swift and dramatic fallout, Hart
wrote on Twitter early today that he was with-
drawing as Oscars host because he didn’t want
to be a distraction. “I sincerely apologize to the
LGBTQ community for my insensitive words
from my past.”
Thursday evening, the comedian had refused
to apologize for tweets that resurfaced after he
was announced as Oscars host on Tuesday. In a
video on Instagram, Hart said the Academy of
Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gave him an
ultimatum: apologize or “we’re going to have to
move on and find another host.”
Hart has since deleted some of the anti-gay
tweets, mostly dated from 2009-2011. But they
had already been screen-captured and shared
online. In 2011, he wrote in a since-deleted
tweet: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play
with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break
it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s
gay.’”
Hart’s attitudes about homosexuality were
also a well-known part of his stand-up act. In
the 2010 special “Seriously Funny,” he said
“one of my biggest fears is my son growing up
and being gay.”
It’s not the first time an Oscars host has
been derailed by anti-gay remarks. Ahead of
the 2012 Academy Awards, producer Brett Rat-
ner, who had been paired with host Eddie Mur-
phy, resigned days after using a gay slur at a
film screening. Murphy soon after exited, as
well.
That year, a tried-and-true Oscars veteran
— Billy Crystal — jumped in to save the show,
hosting for his eighth time. This time, specula-
tion has already been rampant that few in Hol-
lywood want the gig, for which few win glow-
ing reviews.
Ship saves British
sailor after storm
in Southern Ocean
LONDON — A cargo ship rescued a Brit-
ish sailor today after a violent storm ripped off
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