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Utah bills
would allow law
enforcement
to shoot down
drones
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Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., left, reacts as Republican presidential
candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate at The University of
Houston on Thursday in Houston.
Anxious to slow Trump,
Rubio and Cruz attack
HOUSTON (AP) —
Brawling from the get-go,
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hard after Donald Trump
in Thursday night’s Repub-
lican debate, lacerating the
front-runner’s position on
immigration, his privileged
background, his speaking
style and more.
Ted Cruz piled on, too,
questioning the front-runner’s
conservative credentials, as
the two senators tag-teamed
Trump in a debate that
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urgency of their effort to take
down the billionaire busi-
nessman before he becomes
unstoppable. It was a rare
night where the bombastic
Trump found himself on the
defensive.
The debate played out as
a raucous night of tit-for-tat
insults, with candidates
shouting over one another
so much that it was hard to
follow at times. The show-
down came just days before
the Super Tuesday 11-state
round of mega-voting that
could all but lock up the
nomination.
When Trump faulted
Rubio on a deal to buy a
$179,000 house, the Florida
senator shot back that if
Trump “hadn’t inherited $200
million, you know where
Donald Trump would be
right now? Selling watches in
Manhattan.”
In another rough exchange,
Rubio accused Trump of
shifting his position on depor-
tation, hiring people from
other countries to take jobs
from Americans and being
“This guy’s a choke artist
and this guy is a liar.”
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alone had “discovered the illegal immigration to do it.”
issue of illegal immigration.”
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people. You’ve hired nobody.” won’t pay for his planned
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a more personal tack, touting the wall.” And he said that
his own ability to get along because Mexico’s current and
with others and adding: “You former presidents had criti-
get along with nobody. ... cized him on the issue, “the
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yourself.”
Trump, known for his
Both Rubio and Cruz said frequent use of coarse and
that Trump had had to pay profane language on the
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immigration hiring.
former Mexican President
The candidates were Vicente Fox for using a
pressed on why they haven’t profanity in talking about
released their tax returns as Trump’s plan for the wall.
promised. The GOP’s 2012
“He should be ashamed of
nominee, Mitt Romney, himself and he should apolo-
suggested this week that gize,” declared Trump.
Trump was holding back
After Trump mocked
because there was a “bomb- Rubio for his “meltdown” in
shell” that would be revealed. a previous debate when the
Thursday night, Trump Florida senator repeated rote
offered a new excuse, saying talking points, Rubio swatted
that he’s been audited by the right back, scolding Trump
IRS every year and can’t for spouting the same things
release his returns while that’s over and over Thursday night:
going on.
“Everyone’s dumb. He’s
Rubio and Cruz both going to make America great
promised to release more of again. We’re going to win,
theirs in the next two days.
win, win. He’s winning in the
Rubio was the principal polls.”
aggressor of the night, and he
When Trump repeated
held nothing back. Taking on his positions on health care,
Trump’s declaration that he’d Rubio pounced again.
build a wall on the Mexican
“Now he’s repeating
himself,” Rubio said with a
grin.
Trump was hardly silent,
responding to both Rubio
and Cruz: “This guys a choke
artist and this guy’s a liar.
... Other than that I rest my
case.”
While Rubio was loaded
for bear from the start, Cruz
ramped up his criticism as
the night word on. The Texas
senator said Trump wasn’t
releasing his tax returns
“because he’s afraid,” and he
argued that Trump wouldn’t
be an effective opponent
against Hillary Clinton in the
general election.
Making light of Cruz’s
attempts to diminish him,
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keep swinging, man, swing
for the fences.”
In the past, Rubio and
Cruz had shown little will-
ingness to take on the former
reality television star when
the national spotlight was the
brightest. That all changed in
the ninth GOP debate of the
campaign, clearly showing
the growing sense that Trump
is on track for the nomination.
The debate’s location in
Houston gave a nod to the
primacy of Texas in the Super
Tuesday voting: There are
595 delegates at stake, 155 in
Texas.
The other two remaining
candidates, Ben Carson and
John Kasich, were largely left
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overhead.
At one point, as the top
three candidates mixed it
up, Carson spoke up: “Can
somebody attack me please?”
Gunman, 3 others dead after Kansas shootings
HESSTON, Kan. (AP)
— A sheriff in south-central
Kansas said Thursday that
four people, including a
gunman, are dead after a
series of shootings at a busi-
ness, its parking lot and two
streets nearby.
Harvey County Sheriff
T. Walton said at a news
conference that all the dead
were shot inside Excel
Industries, a plant in Hesston
that makes lawn mower
products. He said 14 were
injured in the shootings.
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killed the gunman, who
worked at the plant, after
he began shooting at them,
Walton said.
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vehicle, the sheriff said.
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than a week after authorities
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several locations in Kalam-
azoo, Michigan, leaving
six people dead and two
severely wounded.
Martin Espinoza, who
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Police look for a possible second shooterat Excel
Industries in Hesston, Kan., Thursday.
works at Excel, was in the
plant during the shooting.
He heard people yelling
to others to get out of
the building, then heard
popping, then saw the
shooter, a co-worker he
described as typically pretty
calm.
Espinoza told The Asso-
ciated Press the shooter
pointed a gun at him and
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pulled the trigger, but the gun
was empty. At that point, the
shooter got a different gun
and Martin took off running.
“I looked right at him
and he looked right at me,”
Espinoza said.
KSN-TV footage showed
a large law enforcement
presence at Excel Industries
and at least one person being
loaded into an ambulance. A
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locked down.
Hesston is a community
of about 3,700 residents
about 35 miles north of
Wichita. Excel Industries
was awarded the Governor’s
Exporter of the Year award
in 2013 from the Kansas
Department of Commerce.
The company manufac-
tures Hustler and Big Dog
mowing equipment and was
founded in Hesston in 1960.
Walton said the FBI and
the Kansas Bureau of Inves-
tigation had been called in to
assist.
SALT LAKE CITY
(AP) — Utah lawmakers’
proposed solution to
getting recreational
drones out of the way of
emergency response units?
Shoot them out of the
sky.
Legislators throughout
the U.S. are working to
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regulate drones as they
become increasingly
prevalent, particularly
when it comes to
interfering with emergency
response work. Other states
have proposed shooting
down drones, but it hasn’t
become law, according to
the National Center for
State Legislatures.
Law enforcement
already has some tools to
control airspace.
In cases such as
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can ask the Federal
Aviation Administration
to restrict air travel. That
could apply to planes
and unmanned aircraft,
more popularly known as
drones.
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interfered with aircraft
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according to the U.S.
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Two Utah lawmakers
proposing similar bills aim
to change that.
State Sen. Wayne
Harper, a Republican from
Taylorsville, proposed
a bill that would allow
law enforcement to
“neutralize” drones, which
could include shooting
them, jamming their
signals or convincing their
operators to move them.
Nevada governor
withdraws name
from high court
consideration
LAS VEGAS (AP)
— Nevada Gov. Brian
Sandoval said Thursday
he is not interested in
being considered for the
Supreme Court vacancy
— a decision that foils one
route President Barack
Obama might have had to
breach Senate Republicans’
planned blockade of any
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Sandoval, a Republican
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Hispanic governor, issued
a statement the day after
news broke that the White
House was considering
him as a potential
replacement for the late
Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Earlier today, I
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that I do not wish to be
considered at this time
for possible nomination
to the Supreme Court of
the United States,” wrote
Sandoval, an abortion
rights supporter and
former federal judge.
“The notion of being
considered for a seat on
the highest court in the
land is beyond humbling,
and I am incredibly
grateful to have been
mentioned.”
He offered no reason
for his decision but said he
also expressed his position
to senators Harry Reid,
Dean Heller and Mitch
McConnell.
White House
spokesman Josh Earnest
declined to comment,
saying he would not offer
detailed updates on the
president’s short list.
The Senate’s vetting
process for any nominee
is expected to be viciously
political, if hearings take
place at all.
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insistence that voters in
November and the next
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Cleveland
surgeons perform
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uterus transplant
CLEVELAND (AP)
— Surgeons in Cleveland
say they have performed
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transplant, a new frontier
that aims to give women
who lack wombs a chance
at pregnancy.
In a statement Thursday,
the Cleveland Clinic said
the nine-hour surgery was
performed a day earlier
on a 26-year-old woman,
using a uterus from a
deceased donor.
The hospital had long
been planning for such
a surgery, announcing
last fall a clinical trial
that would attempt 10
transplants. The hospital
said it wouldn’t release any
more details until a press
conference next week.
Other countries have
tried womb transplants —
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successful birth in 2014,
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babies so far. Doctors there
say the still experimental
treatment might be an
alternative for some of
the thousands of women
unable to have children
because they were born
without a uterus or lost it to
disease.
Others have questioned
whether such an extreme
step would be a realistic
option for many women.
It’s fraught with medical
risk, including rejection
of the transplant and
having to take potent
immune-suppressing drugs
for a transplant that, unlike
patients who receive a
donated kidney or heart,
isn’t life-saving.
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