NATION/WORLD
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Jumbled GOP field hopes for
survival in South Carolina
Christie, Fiorina
end campaigns
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Republican
presidential
contenders
descended
Wednesday
on
South
Carolina, no closer to clarity
about who can stand between
Donald Trump and their
party’s nomination.
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announced, dropping out
of the campaign. A Chris
Christie spokeswoman said
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To the dismay of party
leaders, all signs point
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delegates following Trump’s
resounding
victory
in
New Hampshire. Florida
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be looking at May — or the
convention,” Rubio campaign
manager Terry Sullivan told
The Associated Press.
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on edge, Democrats were
feeling no less queasy.
Rejected
in
New
Hampshire, Hillary Clinton
sought redemption in Nevada,
where a more diverse group
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amounts, his campaign said,
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win a presidential primary
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test Trump and the others in
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Hampshire, the candidates
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In this Feb. 9 ile photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris- terminated talk of Republican
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behind him as the strongest
Nashua, N.H.
alternative to “outsiders”
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that the race could veer a
contested convention seemed
to signal to mainstream
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already had early discussions
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which could be triggered if no
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of delegates by convention
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with less than two weeks until after largely sitting out interest into support in a state
the Democratic contests in New Hampshire. He drew ideologically distant from his
contrasts with Trump as he native Ohio. With a minimal
Nevada and South Carolina.
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Al Sharpton, a civil rights Carolinians are more alike must work quickly.
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40 days.”
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more than $32 million has
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activists who on Wednesday night
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wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon have
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others Jan. 26 on a remote road outside
the refuge. Wednesday’s tense standoff
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seized the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge on Jan. 2 to oppose federal land
policies and has repeatedly asked the
holdouts to go home. The Associated
Press has not been able to contact the
remaining occupiers, but they have said
in online statements and interviews that
they want assurances they won’t be
arrested.
Like most of the occupiers, none of
the holdouts is from Oregon. Here are
details about them:
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me as soon as they were old enough
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Wednesday.
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to his son “once or twice” since the
standoff began but declined to provide
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agents have surrounded the remaining four occupiers at the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge, on Wednesday.
she has “two kids who have been really
affected by all this.”
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Ohio, formed an online friendship with
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novel. Finicum became a recognizable
spokesman for the armed group before
he was shot and killed by police in a
confrontation last month.
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and against the advice of his father,
to the refuge, where he often posted
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planned to say goodbye to Finicum and
return home before his father got back
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stretch of road outside the refuge.
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leave, saying federal authorities might
be forcing him to make the request.
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never saw myself as a leader. ... We’re
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for disorderly conduct, as well as
possession of drugs and drug parapher
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the town of Janesville, Wisconsin,
within the last several years to Riggins,
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for hunting, tactical and survival gear.
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said the Andersons are good residents,
though he didn’t know as much about
Sean as he did about Sandy.
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with the government,” he told Oregon
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charges in Wisconsin for resisting an
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and possession of THC, the intoxicating
chemical in marijuana.
He also has pleaded guilty to a series of
misdemeanors in recent years: domestic
abuse in December 2010, disorderly
conduct in 2008, criminal trespass in a
dwelling in 2002, and disorderly conduct
in 1999.
A friend of the couple, Lindsey Dipo,
told the Lewiston Tribune newspaper that
the couple recorded their will on Dipo’s
cellphone before departing for Oregon.
East Oregonian
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BRIEFLY
Government sues Ferguson
after city tries to revise justice deal
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The federal government
sued Ferguson on Wednesday, one day after the City
Council voted to revise an agreement aimed at improving
the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities
in the St. Louis suburb.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Ferguson’s
decision to reject the deal left the Justice Department no
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“The residents of Ferguson have waited nearly a year
for the city to adopt an agreement that would protect their
rights and keep them safe. ... They have waited decades
for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer,”
Lynch told a Washington news conference.
The Justice Department complaint accuses Ferguson
of routinely violating residents’ rights and misusing
law enforcement to generate revenue — a practice the
government alleged was “ongoing and pervasive.”
Ferguson leaders “had a real opportunity here to step
forward, and they’ve chosen to step backward,” Lynch
said.
Ferguson has been under Justice Department scrutiny
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18 months ago. A grand jury and the Justice Department
declined to prosecute Wilson, who resigned in November
2014.
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Following months of negotiations, an agreement between
the federal agency and Ferguson was announced in
January.
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deal, but with seven amendments.
Two deputies killed, suspect dead
in Maryland shopping center shootout
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sheriff’s deputy inside a crowded restaurant at lunchtime
Wednesday and killed another deputy in a shootout,
authorities and witnesses said.
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far from the shopping center where the restaurant was
located, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said.
Remarkably, no bystanders were hurt.
Police haven’t released a motive for the shooting,
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approached the gunman was shot because he was wearing
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County and Florida, where he was accused of assaulting a
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restaurant in Abingdon, which is about 20 miles northeast
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getting lunch and almost sat right next to the gunman.
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the man appeared “sketchy” and disheveled. He was
sitting in the back and hadn’t ordered any food, Faulker
and her mother said.
A sheriff’s deputy was called to the restaurant to check
on a report about someone causing a problem. The deputy
tried to talk to the man, who was apparently known to
local deputies and workers at the restaurant. The deputy
sat down beside him, asked how he was doing and the
man shot him in the head.
Panel denies parole to Sirhan Sirhan,
assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
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denied parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy.
The decision came after Sirhan answered questions
from a California parole panel during a hearing that lasted
more than three hours.
Commissioners concluded Sirhan did not show
adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime.
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presidential candidate.”
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previous account that he did not remember the shooting
in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after
Kennedy won the Democratic presidential primary in
California.
He said he recalled being in the hotel then going to his
car and returning after realizing he had too much to drink.
He said he became interested in a female and they drank
coffee in a hotel pantry.
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place.”
Sirhan, a native of Jerusalem, listened intently during
most of the hearing, turning testy when commissioners
pressed him on his memory. He said he felt remorse
for any crime victim but added that he couldn’t take
responsibility for the shooting.
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