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Chinese police help a man to safety near the site of an explosion in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality on
Thursday. Chinese state media reported huge explosions at the Tianjin port late Wednesday.
Hundreds injured, 17 killed as huge
warehouse blasts hit Chinese port
explosion. Like surrounding
buildings, the Mediterranean
style complex had all its
TIANJIN, China — Huge
windows blown out, and
explosions in a warehouse
some of its surfaces were
district sent up massive
scorched.
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“It’s lucky no one had
night sky into day, killing at
moved in,” said a worker on
least 17 people and injuring
the site, Liu Junwei, 29. “But
hundreds in the Chinese port
for us it’s a total loss. Two
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years of hard work down the
witnesses said Thursday.
drain.”
China’s state broadcaster,
“It had been all quiet, then
CCTV, said that at least 17
the sky just lit up brighter
people were killed in the
than day and it looked like a
explosions late Wednesday
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and that 32 were in critical
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worker on the site who gave
condition
in
hospital.
Hundreds of others were In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency smoke just his surname, Li.
and fire erupt into the night sky after an explosion in
In one neighborhood
taken to hospital.
Binhai New Area in north China’s Tianjin Munici- about 10 to 20 kilometers
The blasts, originating at the
pality on Thursday.
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The explosions took place were sleeping on the street
shattered windows up to
Police in Tianjin said in a mostly industrial zone, wearing gas masks, although
several miles away.
an initial blast took place with some apartment build- there was no perceptible
“I thought it was an at shipping containers in a ings in the vicinity. Buildings problem with the air apart
earthquake, so I rushed warehouse for hazardous of a half-dozen other logistics from massive clouds of
downstairs without my shoes materials owned by Ruihai companies were destroyed smoke seen in the distance.
“It was like what we were
on,” Tianjin resident Zhang Logistics, a company that in the blasts, and more than
Siyu, whose home is several says it is properly approved 1,000 new Renault cars told a nuclear bomb would be
kilometers from the blast site, to handle such materials. were left charred in a nearby like,” said truck driver Zhao
said in a telephone interview. State media said senior parking lot, the Beijing News Zhencheng, who spent the
night in the cab of his truck.
“Only once I was outside did management of the company said.
I realize it was an explosion. had been detained by author-
Photos
taken
by “I’ve never even thought
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wounded people weeping. explosions.
photos on state media outlets tary medical tents were set
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anyone who had been killed, agency said an initial explo- painted the night sky bright showed patients in bandages
but “I could feel death.”
sion triggered other blasts at orange, with tall plumes of and with cuts.
State
broadcaster
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smoke.
of what caused the blasts,
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Associated Press
Ernest Hemingway’s Idaho
house listed on national register
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE — An Idaho house where
Ernest Hemingway wrote his last works
before killing himself in the main
entryway in 1961 has been listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
The Nature Conservancy owns the
two-story, 2,500-square-foot house
in the central Idaho resort town of
Ketchum and announced the listing
Tuesday.
“We’re looking at ways to honor and
also build on the literary legacy that
Hemingway brought,” said Lou Lunte,
the group’s deputy state director.
Hemingway experts say the famed
author worked on “A Moveable Feast”
and “The Dangerous Summer” at the
house he owned from April 1959 until
his suicide in July 1961 at age 61 when,
biographers say, he feared he had lost
the ability to write to his standards.
The National Park Service, which
manages the National Register, said
the Ernest and Mary Hemingway
House was listed because of its ability
to provide insights about Hemingway.
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said Paul Lusignan, a historian with the
National Register.
The death of Hemingway wasn’t a
deciding factor to include the house, but
Lusignan said it did play a role.
The house is “associated with a part
of his career in which he had lost the
ability to write as he previously had,”
Lusignan said. “He lived a full life and
he was going out on his own terms. I
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This 2007 file photo shows an exterior view of the house formerly owned
by Ernest Hemingway outside Ketchum, Idaho. The Idaho house where
Hemingway wrote his last works before killing himself in the main
entryway in 1961 has been listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. The Nature Conservancy owns the two-story, 2,500-square-foot
house in the central Idaho resort town of Ketchum and announced the
listing Tuesday.
The 1950s house contains an aston-
ishing array of the author’s personal
possessions rarely seen by the public.
Because of zoning restrictions, The
Nature Conservancy allows visits to the
house by invitation only.
Mary Hemingway, who died in
1986, gave the house to The Nature
Conservancy. The group used it as a
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has an astonishing array of the author’s
personal possessions and mid-1950s
decor.
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tury time period,” said Tricia Canaday
of Idaho’s State Historic Preservation
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what’s so amazing. His boots are sitting
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where he painted ‘Hemingway’ on it.”
Lunte said The Nature Conservancy
hopes to start a writer-in-residence
program at the house and is also collab-
orating with The Community Library
to link Hemingway to sites and stories
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homes in the U.S. listed on the National
Register due to Hemingway having
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One of the most visited is Hemingway’s
former home in Key West, Florida.
FRANKFORT,
Ky. (AP) — A county
clerk in Kentucky will
not immediately issue
marriage licenses to
same-sex couples, her
lawyer says, despite a
federal judge ordering her
to do so Wednesday in a
case that seeks to reconcile
the country’s new marriage
law and its protections of
religious freedom.
Rowan County Clerk
Kim Davis was one of a
handful of local elected
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that stopped issuing all
marriage licenses after
the U.S. Supreme Court
legalized same-sex
marriage nationwide in
June. Two gay couples and
two straight couples sued
her in federal court in the
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County clerks issue
marriage licenses in
Kentucky, but someone
else must “solemnize” the
marriage before the license
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county clerk. Davis argued
that issuing a marriage
license to a same-sex
couple that contains her
signature is the same as her
approving the marriage,
which she said violates
her Christian beliefs. But
U.S. District Judge David
Bunning rejected that
argument, saying Davis
has likely violated the U.S.
Constitution’s ban on the
government establishing
a religion by “openly
adopting a policy that
promotes her own religious
convictions at the expenses
of others.”
Email troubles
persisting,
Clinton camp
reassures backers
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Try as she might
to focus on the policies she
wants to enact if elected
president, Hillary Rodham
Clinton just can’t dig out
of her inbox.
Clinton’s email
problems are getting
worse. She agreed to turn
over her private server to
the Justice Department
this week on the same day
Congress got word that
at least two emails that
traversed the device while
she was secretary of state
contained information
that warranted one of the
government’s highest
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The developments
suggest the investigation
into the security of
Clinton’s email setup
could run deep into 2016,
as she is trying to win the
Democratic nomination for
president and, potentially,
the general election.
Clinton campaign aides
argue there’s nothing for
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the State Department says
it’s not yet clear if the
material at issue ought to
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at all.
What worries Clinton’s
team is the lingering whiff
of political scandal in a
tightening primary race,
and they pushed back hard
on Wednesday, trying their
best to dismiss the matter
as nothing more than
politics.
“Look, this kind of
nonsense comes with the
territory of running for
president. We know it,
Hillary knows it, and we
expect it to continue from
now until Election Day,”
campaign communications
director Jennifer Palmieri
wrote in an email to
campaign supporters.
While her Democratic
rivals have yet to seize on
the issue, it has become a
major part of the GOP case
against Clinton.
Member of
infamous ‘San
Quentin 6’ killed
by fellow inmate
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. (AP) — An inmate
involved in a bloody
1971 San Quentin escape
attempt that left six dead
has been killed by a fellow
prisoner, corrections
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The slaying of Hugo
Pinell, 71, triggered a
riot Wednesday that
grew to involve about 70
inmates at a maximum
security prison east
of Sacramento, said
California Department of
Corrections spokeswoman
Dana Simas.
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the target,” Simas said.
She would not give more
information about the
alleged attacker for his
own protection.
Once Pinell was
attacked in a California
State Prison, Sacramento,
exercise yard by his fellow
inmate, “everyone else
joined in,” Simas said,
including members of
multiple prison gangs.
Eleven other inmates
were taken to an outside
hospital to be treated for
stab wounds.