NATION/WORLD
Thursday, March 17, 2016
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More than 12
punished for
mistaken Afghan
hospital attack
WASHINGTON (AP)
— More than a dozen U.S.
military personnel have
been disciplined — but face
no criminal charges — for
mistakes that led to the
bombing of a Doctors
Without Borders hospital
that killed 42 people in
Afghanistan last year, U.S.
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The punishments, which
have not been publicly
announced, are largely
administrative. But in some
cases the actions, such as
letters of reprimand, are
tough enough to effectively
end chances for further
promotion. The military
has previously said some
personnel were suspended
from their duties but has
given no further details.
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none are generals.
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not authorized to discuss
the outcomes publicly
and so spoke on condition
of anonymity, said the
disciplinary process is nearly
complete. It is derived from
a military investigation of
the Oct. 3, 2015, attack, the
results of which are expected
to be made public in a
partially redacted form in
coming days.
Sandra Murillo, a
spokeswoman for Doctors
Without Borders, said the
charity would not comment
on disciplinary actions until
the Pentagon communicates
its decisions directly to the
group or makes a public
announcement.
The hospital, run by the
medical charity Doctors
Without Borders in the
northern city of Kunduz,
was attacked by a U.S. Air
Force special operations
AC-130 gunship, one of
the most lethal in the U.S.
arsenal. Doctors Without
Borders called the attack
“relentless and brutal” and
demanded an international
investigation, but none has
been undertaken.
Army Gen. John
Campbell, who was the
top U.S. commander in
Afghanistan at the time
but has since relinquished
command, has called it
a “tragic but avoidable
accident caused primarily by
human error.”
Fed keeps key
rates unchanged;
foresees fewer
hikes in 2016
WASHINGTON (AP)
— The Federal Reserve is
keeping a key interest rate
unchanged in light of global
pressures that risk slowing
the U.S. economy.
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expect to raise rates more
gradually this year than they
had envisioned in December.
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two, rather than four, modest
increases in their benchmark
short-term rate during 2016.
The Fed said Wednesday
that the economy has
continued to grow
moderately but that the
global economy and
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risks. Offsetting the threats,
the Fed said in a statement
after a policy meeting
that it foresees further
strengthening in the job
market.
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Chair Janet Yellen said the
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has stayed persistently low,
to reach the central bank’s 2
percent target in two to three
years.
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by the Fed’s expectation of
a more gradual pace of rate
increases.
The Dow Jones industrial
average, which had been
up slightly before the Fed’s
statement was issued, closed
up 74 points. The yield on
the 10-year Treasury note
fell to 1.91 percent from
1.97 percent.
Asked at her news
conference whether she
thought the Fed could
receive enough new
economic information to
raise rates at its next meeting
in the last week of April,
Yellen stressed, as in the
past, that “every meeting is a
live meeting. April remains a
live meeting.”
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Obama nominates Garland to Supreme Court
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Barack Obama nominated appeals
court judge Merrick Garland to
the Supreme Court on Wednesday,
thrusting a respected moderate jurist
and former prosecutor into the center
of an election-year clash over the
future of the nation’s highest court.
Obama cast the 63-year-old
Garland as “a serious man and an
exemplary judge” deserving of a full
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vote, despite Republican vows to
deny him both. Standing in the White
House Rose Garden with Garland,
Obama argued the integrity of the
court was at stake and appealed to
the Senate to “play it straight” in
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death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
“It’s supposed to be above poli-
tics,” Obama said of the high court.
“It has to be. And it should stay that
way.”
Republican leaders, however,
held to their refusal to consider any
nominee, saying the seat should
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this year’s election. Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell spoke with
Garland but did not change his posi-
tion that “the American people will
have a voice.” He said he would not
be holding “a perfunctory meeting
but he wished Judge Garland well,”
a spokesman said.
Others in the GOP ranks were less
wedded to the no-hearing, no-vote,
not-even-a-meeting stance — a
sign that Republicans are aware the
strategy could leave them branded as
obstructionist.
Unlike McConnell, Senate Judi-
ciary Committee Chairman Charles
Grassley said he is open to meeting
with Garland in the coming weeks,
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— Rob Portman of Ohio, Jeff Flake
of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine,
James Inhofe of Oklahoma and
Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.
Others vowed to give his record a
close look. The judge will begin
visiting with Democratic senators on
Thursday at the Capitol, before the
giving the District of Columbia a
vote in Congress. Particularly on
criminal defense and national secu-
rity cases, he’s earned a reputation as
centrist with a law-and-order streak,
siding more often with prosecutors.
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the Supreme Court in the past, it
was liberal groups that expressed
concerns, pointing to early decisions
favoring the government in disputes
over the legal rights of detainees at
the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Progressives and civil rights
activists also had pushed the presi-
dent to name an African-American
woman or to otherwise expand the
court’s diversity. Obama passed over
appeals court Judge Sri Srinivasan,
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President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court during Paul Watford, who would have been
an announcement in the Rose Garden on Wednesday.
the second African-American on the
Senate breaks for a two-week recess. parties, including seven current current court.
Garland — a white, male jurist
Scheduling courtesy meetings Republicans senators.
As a replacement for Scalia, with an Ivy League pedigree and a
is a long way from securing a full
hearing, much less winning the Garland would undoubtedly shift the career largely in the upper echelon
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comments as evidence Garland’s the more liberal members on envi- Supreme Court nominee since
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The D.C. Circuit isn’t a hotbed
Republicans.
Garland, 63, is the chief judge for for cases on social issues, leaving Garden, he choked back tears, calling
the United States Court of Appeals few solid indicators of Garland’s the nomination “the greatest honor
for the District of Columbia Circuit, views on abortion rights or the death of my life.” He described his grand-
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prompted concern from gun control judge’s job as a mandate to set aside
potential justices.
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and Harvard Law School, Garland wanted the full court to reconsider law, not make it.”
Obama quoted past praise for
has clerked for two appointees of a panel decision that struck down
Republican President Dwight D. Washington, D.C.’s ban on handgun Garland from Roberts and Sen.
Eisenhower — the liberal Justice ownership. But Garland never took Orrin Hatch. In 2010, Hatch said he
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investigation and prosecutions in erized instant background check to the appeals court. Then, as now,
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in 1995, as well as the case against position was challenged by the was Grassley, who argued he had no
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Trump: Time to rally around me — or expect voter riots
WASHINGTON (AP)
— After yet another round
of convincing victories for
Donald Trump, Republican
leaders spent Wednesday
wavering between grudging
acceptance and deep denial
about the businessman’s
likely ascent to the GOP
presidential nomination. An
emboldened Trump warned
that if the party tried to block
him, “You’d have riots.”
With at least three more
states in his win column,
Trump is now the only candi-
date with a path to clinching
the Republican nomination
before the party’s convention
in July. But he still must do
better in upcoming contests
to get the necessary 1,237
delegates, leaving some
opponents with a sliver of
hope he can still be stopped.
“I still think it’s a
very realistic chance that
nobody’s going to have a
majority of the delegates,”
said Henry Barbour, a
senior Republican National
Committee member who
worked on Marco Rubio’s
delegate strategy until the
Florida senator exited the
race Tuesday.
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Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump
speaks at a rally in Hick-
ory, N.C., on Monday.
Barbour said Trump
“doesn’t deserve to be
president,” but also said he
could ultimately support
the billionaire if he “can
convince me that he’s pres-
idential material.”
Trump cautioned that his
supporters would revolt
if he falls just short in the
delegate count and loses
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“If you just disen-
franchise these people,
I think you would have
problems like you’ve never
seen before,” Trump said on
CNN’s “New Day.”
Despite the deep concerns
about Trump within the
Republican Party, there
was little tangible action
Wednesday that indicated a
way to stop the real estate
mogul’s march toward the
general election.
There was no rush among
party leaders or donors to
coalesce around Ted Cruz,
the only candidate in the
race with even a long-shot
chance of overtaking Trump
in the delegate count. A
small group of conservatives
moved forward with plans to
meet Thursday to discuss the
prospect of rallying behind
a third-party option, but no
candidate had been identi-
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efforts to stop Trump
abruptly ceased advertising
after Tuesday’s elections.
The outside groups Amer-
ican Future Fund, Our Prin-
ciples and Club for Growth
have no Trump attack
ads planned for Arizona
- a crucial winner-take-all
contest in six days - or in any
states beyond.
Former House Speaker
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successor, Paul Ryan, as the
nominee in the event of a
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quickly took himself out of
the mix, saying through a
spokeswoman that he would
“not accept a nomination
and believes our nominee
should be someone who ran
this year.”
Meanwhile, Democratic
front-runner Hillary Clinton
set her sights on a November
showdown with Trump.
Her sweep of Tuesday’s
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including a slim lead in
yet-to-be-called Missouri
— was a harsh blow to
rival Bernie Sanders, giving
Clinton what her campaign
manager described as an
“insurmountable lead” in the
delegate count.
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history, the Democratic Party
will nominate a woman as
their presidential nominee,”
Robby Mook wrote in a
memo to supporters.
Clinton has at least 1,599
delegates to Sanders’ 844.
It takes 2,383 to win the
Democratic nomination.
Trump urged Repub-
licans to view the party’s
nominating contest with the
same sense of clarity. During
a round of calls to morning
television shows, he said
some of the same Repub-
lican senators who publicly
criticize him have called him
privately to say they want to
“become involved” in his
campaign eventually.
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WHAT GOD SAYS:
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1. You have sinned against God: “For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)
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is death.” (Romans 6:23a) “And Death and Hell were cast into the
Lake of Fire. This is the second death.” (Revelation 20:14)
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sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) “Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures…He was buried, and…He
rose again the third day...” (I Corinthians 15:3-4)
4. Now He offers you a free gift: “But the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23b)
*You Cannot Earn That Gift: “Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to His
mercy He saved us...” (Titus 3:5) “For by grace are ye saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of
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