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Trump, Clinton win big in NY, push closer to nomination
Associated Press
He peppered his brash remarks with
more references to the economy
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swept to resounding victories in a new team of advisers seeking to
Tuesday’s New York primary, professionalize his campaign.
Clinton’s triumph padded her
with Trump bouncing back from a
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campaign and Clinton pushing Sanders and strengthened her claim
tantalizingly close to locking up the to the Democratic nomination that
eluded her eight years ago. In a shift
Democratic nomination.
“The race for the nomination is toward the general election, she
in the home stretch, and victory is in made a direct appeal to Sanders’
sight,” Clinton declared to cheering loyal supporters, telling them she
believes “there is more that unites
supporters.
Trump captured more than us than divides us.”
Exit polls suggested Democrats
50 percent of the vote in New
York and was headed toward a were ready to rally around whoever
big delegate haul in his home the party nominates. Nearly 7 in 10
state, a commanding showing that Sanders supporters in New York
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nomination if he continues to win. probably vote for Clinton if she is
He claimed at least half of the 95 the party’s pick.
Sanders energized young people
delegates at stake Tuesday, and was
likely to add to his tally in individual and liberals in New York, as he has
across the country, but it wasn’t
congressional districts.
$ FRQ¿GHQW 7UXPS LQVLVWHG LW enough to pull off the upset victory
was impossible for his rivals to he desperately needed to change the
trajectory of the Democratic race.
catch him.
“We don’t have much of a Still, the Vermont senator vowed to
race anymore,” he said during a keep competing.
“We’ve got a shot to victory,”
victory rally in the lobby of the
Manhattan tower bearing his name. Sanders said in an interview with
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Colorado
lawmakers target
edible pot in fruit,
animal shapes
DENVER (AP) —
Pot-infused lemon drops
and other marijuana edibles
that resemble fruits could
be coming off Colorado
shelves, the latest front in
a battle by lawmakers to
eradicate retail pot products
that could appeal to kids.
A committee in the state
House of Representatives
advanced the bill that also
would ban infused edibles
shaped like animals or
people. Edible pot makers
already are preparing for
new regulations starting this
fall that will require each
piece of food to carry a
symbol with the letters THC,
marijuana’s intoxicating
chemical.
Marijuana manufacturers
say the latest measure goes
too far, with the Colorado
Cannabis Chamber of
Commerce warning it could
shut down a big part of the
edibles industry.
“It really comes down
to the adult, the parent, to
keep it out of the hands of
children, just like alcohol,
just like cigarettes,” said
Dave Maggio, who works
for manufacturer Cheeba
Chews.
Many pot producers
have agreed to stop making
candies that resemble
animals or people but
oppose the bill because it
could be interpreted to ban
shapes that unintentionally
look like fruits, such as an
orange-colored circle.
The measure’s supporters,
including the governor and
Colorado’s chief medical
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candies are like modern-day
candy cigarettes and send a
dangerous message to kids.
“Children are more likely
to consume products that
resemble familiar foods,” Dr.
Larry Wolk told lawmakers
Tuesday.
Many of the 24 states and
Washington, D.C., allowing
marijuana for medical or
recreational use do not allow
the sale of edible marijuana.
In Colorado, where the
state constitution authorizes
marijuana in any form,
pot regulators have been
ratcheting up limits on
edible marijuana ever since
recreational pot became
legal in 2012.
Judge approves
deal between
Ferguson, Justice
Department
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A
federal judge approved an
agreement Tuesday between
Ferguson and the U.S.
Justice Department that
calls for sweeping changes
in the Missouri city where
18-year-old Michael Brown
was fatally shot by a police
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U.S. District Judge
Catherine Perry issued her
ruling after a public hearing
of several hours in St. Louis,
where nearly three dozen
people spoke, and many
others had submitted written
comments. Perry said the
settlement is a “reasonable
resolution” that avoids an
extensive court battle.
“I think it’s in everyone’s
best interest and I think it’s
in the interest of justice,” she
said.
The settlement calls for
diversity training for police;
the purchase of software
and the hiring of staff to
analyze records on arrests,
use of force and other police
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and jail workers with body
cameras; the hiring of a
team to monitor progress;
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reforms; and other changes.
Mayor James Knowles
III said after the hearing
that the city has already
implemented many reforms,
and will act swiftly on others
to “move into compliance as
soon as possible.”
Ferguson has been under
scrutiny since Brown, who
was black and unarmed, was
fatally shot by white police
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2014. Brown’s death was a
catalyst in the national Black
Lives Matter movement.
The Associated Press. “We have
come a very long way in the last 11
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this out until the end of the process.”
Of the 247 Democratic delegates
at stake in New York, Clinton
picked up at least 104 while Sanders
gained at least 85. Many remained
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tallies
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gate haul consumed the presidential
contenders for two weeks, an
eternity in the fast-moving White
House race. Candidates blanketed
every corner of New York, bidding
for votes from Manhattan and
the surrounding boroughs to the
working class cities and rural
enclaves that dot the rest of the
state.
The nominating contests will
stay centered in the Northeast in
the coming days, with Connecticut,
Delaware, Maryland and Penn-
sylvania all holding contests next
week. Sanders spent Tuesday in
Pennsylvania, as did Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump’s closest
rival.
Cruz panned Trump’s win in
New York as little more than “a
politician winning his home state,”
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sought to add to his scant delegate
total in New York and keep up his
bid to play a long-shot spoiler at
the convention. He bested Cruz on
Tuesday and is refusing to end his
campaign despite winning only his
home state.
Trump’s political strength,
though he boasts of drawing new
members to the party, has left
some Republicans concerned that
his nomination could splinter the
GOP. Among Republican voters in
New York, nearly 6 in 10 said the
nominating contest is dividing the
party, according to exit polls.
Still, about 7 in 10 New York
Republicans said the candidate with
the most votes in primary contests
should be the Republican presiden-
tial nominee
The surveys were conducted by
Edison Research for The Associ-
ated Press and television networks.
Trump now leads the GOP race
with 804 delegates, ahead of Cruz
with 559 and Kasich with 144.
Securing the GOP nomination
requires 1,237.
Among Democrats, Clinton now
has 1,862 delegates to Sanders’
1,161.
Earth’s hot streak continues for 11 months
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON
—
Earth’s record monthly heat
streak has hit 11 months in a
row — a record in itself.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
announced Tuesday that
March’s average global
temperature of 54.9 degrees
was not only the hottest
March, but continues a
record streak that started last
May.
According to NOAA
climate scientist Jessica
Blunden, the 11 heat records
in a row smashes a streak
of 10 set in 1944. Climate
scientists say this is a result
of El Nino, along with
relentless, man-made global
warming.
Blunden and Michael
Mann at Penn State
University worry that people
will be desensitized to the
drumbeat of broken records
and will not realize the real
effect they have on weather
— for example, massive
changes in what is supposed
to be winter in the Arctic.
Greenland had a record
early start for its ice sheet
melting. The Arctic had its
smallest winter maximum
for sea ice and it was the
second smallest March
snow cover for the Northern
Hemisphere.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
With Mount Rainier in the background, people cool off
in the water, Monday at Owen Beach in Point Defiance
Park in Tacoma, Wash. Temperatures were at record
levels in Western Washington on Monday.
“It’s
becoming
monotonous in a way,”
said Jason Furtado, a
meteorology professor at
the University of Oklahoma.
“It’s absolutely disturbing
... We’re losing critical
elements of our climate
system.”
March
was
2.2
degrees warmer than the
20th-century average. That’s
a record amount above
average for any month,
breaking the mark set only
the month before. Africa
and the Indian Ocean were
especially warm, Blunden
said.
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the year were 2.07 degrees
warmer than normal and
half a degree warmer than
the previous record start, set
last year.
Beyond NOAA, NASA,
the
Japanese
weather
agency and satellite tracking
measurements have reported
that March was a record hot
month. Blunden said there’s
a good chance April will
mark a solid year of records
Eventually, she said, the
record setting streak will
come to an end as the El
Nino dissipates.
El Nino, a warming of
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changes weather worldwide,
tends to push global
temperatures up. La Nina, its
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for later this year.
For NOAA, this is the
37th time monthly heat
records have been broken
since the year 2000, but it
has been more than 99 years
since the last time a global
cold record has been set.
NOAA records go back
to 1880.
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