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Asia, including China, where they
are delicacies in Chinese dishes,
prized for medicinal value and
considered an aphrodisiac.
Border inspectors have spotted
smuggled Mexican sea cucumbers
for years, but the charges against
the Mayorquins and their family
business, Blessings Inc. of Tucson,
Arizona, are striking for the
multi-ton shipments. Authorities
say they sell for $300 to $500
a kilogram in Asia, helping
explain the draw for poachers and
smugglers.
In New Orleans,
Confederate monuments
are gone — Lee last
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They
were among the city’s oldest
landmarks, as cemented to the
landscape of New Orleans as
the Superdome and St. Louis
Cathedral: a stone obelisk
heralding white supremacy and
three statues of Confederate
stalwarts.
But after decades standing
sentinel over this Southern city,
the Confederate monuments are
gone, amid a controversy that
at times hearkened back to the
divisiveness of the Civil War they
commemorated.
The last of the monuments — a
statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee facing
defiantly north with his arms
crossed — was lifted by a crane
from its pedestal late Friday. As air
was seen between Lee’s statue and
the pedestal below it, a cheer went
out from the crowd assembled
below who recorded the history
with their phones and shook hands
with each other in congratulations.
Many in the crowd had waited all
day in anticipation.
Lee’s was the last of four
monuments to Confederate-era
figures to be removed under a 2015
City Council vote on a proposal
by Mayor Mitch Landrieu. It caps
a nearly two-year-long process
that has been railed against by
those who feel the monuments are
a part of Southern heritage and
honor the dead. But removal of
the monuments has drawn praise
from those who saw them as brutal
reminders of slavery and symbols
of the historic oppression of black
people.
Appeals court strikes
down FAA drone
registration rule
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
appeals court on Friday struck
down a Federal Aviation
Administration rule that required
owners of drones used for
recreation to register their craft.
The ruling was a victory for
hobbyists and a setback for the
FAA, which cited safety concerns
as it tried to tighten regulation of
the fast-growing army of drone
operators.
Some pilots of commercial
airliners have reported close calls
with drones flying near airports.
About 760,000 hobbyists have
North Korea vows
to strengthen nukes as
U.S. increases pressure
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
Workers take down the statue of former confederate general Robert E. Lee, which stands over
100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans on Friday.
registered more than 1.6 million
drones since 2015, and sales have
skyrocketed. The FAA estimates
that hobbyists will buy 2.3 million
drones this year and 13 million
by the end of 2020. Commercial
operators from photographers to
oil pipeline and cellphone tower
owners were forecast to buy
another 10 million through 2020.
The FAA decided in 2015 to
require hobbyists to register their
drones, or model aircraft. Violators
could be sentenced to prison.
The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia
Circuit ruled that a law passed by
Congress and signed by President
Barack Obama in 2012 barred
the FAA from imposing new
regulations on model aircraft.
The three-judge panel said that
safety was obviously important and
making hobbyists register “may
well help further that goal to some
degree,” but it was up to Congress
to repeal the ban on FAA rules for
model aircraft.
Colorado governor
pardons felon to stave
off deportation
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s
governor on Friday pardoned a
Cuban immigrant for an armed
robbery he committed 19 years
ago in an effort stave off the man’s
deportation after immigration
authorities detained him following
a judge’s ruling that he should no
longer be imprisoned.
The pardon from Gov. John
Hickenlooper, a Democrat, was
the latest twist in the saga of Rene
Lima-Marin, 38. He came to the
U.S. as a toddler as part of the
1980 Mariel boat lift from Cuba
and had legal residency until it
was revoked following his 2000
criminal conviction. Lima-Marin
was sentenced to 98 years in
prison for the robbery. But he was
mistakenly paroled from Colorado
state prison in 2008.
Lima-Marin married, had a
child and got a steady job installing
glass before state authorities
realized their mistake in 2014 and
sent him back for the remainder of
his 98-year prison sentence.
A Colorado judge earlier
this week ordered Lima-Marin
released from state prison, saying
it’d be “draconian” to keep him
incarcerated. But before he could
return to his family, immigration
authorities picked him up, citing a
still-active deportation order from
2000. His lawyers said a pardon
was his only chance to stave off
deportation.
Lima-Marin’s case became a
bipartisan cause celebre this week
in Colorado, as 98 members of
the state Assembly, Democrats
and Republicans, called on
Hickenlooper to pardon him.
Though the legal roots of Lima-
Marin’s deportation order stretch
back to actions of the Obama
administrations, his detention
comes as the Trump administration
has moved aggressively to speed
up deportations, sometimes
sparking clashes with local
officials.
Charges shed light
on sea cucumber
smuggling in U.S.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Charges
against a father-son partnership
for allegedly smuggling more
than $17 million worth of sea
cucumbers to the United States and
exporting them to Asia sheds light
on a growing and lucrative illegal
cross-border trade.
David Mayorquin and his father,
Ramon Torres Mayorquin, are
accused of a scheme to buy the
illegally harvested animals from
poachers in Mexico’s Yucatan
peninsula, pay for them under fake
names and underestimate their
weight and value to inspectors at
San Diego’s Otay Mesa border
crossing, across from Tijuana,
Mexico. From San Diego, they
allegedly shipped the product to
]UNITED NATIONS
(AP) — The U.S. defense chief
warned Friday that a military
solution to the standoff with North
Korea would be “tragic on an
unbelievable scale,” while the
North vowed to rapidly strengthen
its nuclear-strike capability as long
as it faces a “hostile” U.S. policy.
North Korea tested a longer-
range missile last weekend, which
experts say was a significant
advance for a weapons program
that aims at having a nuclear-tipped
missile that can strike America.
The test triggered a new U.S.-
backed push for a fresh round of
U.N. sanctions against the North.
At the United Nations, North
Korea’s deputy ambassador,
Kim In Ryong, was defiant. He
said North Korea would never
abandon its “nuclear deterrence for
self-defense and pre-emptive strike
capability” even if the U.S. ratchets
up sanctions and pressure “to the
utmost.”
Speaking to reporters, Kim
hailed the test launch and said
that if the Trump administration
wants peace on the divided Korean
Peninsula, it should replace the
armistice that ended the 1950-53
Korean War with a peace accord
and halt its anti-North Korea
policy.
At the Pentagon, Defense
Secretary Jim Mattis said the
missile test showed North Korea
isn’t heeding cautions from the
international community. However,
he stressed the need for a peaceful
resolution by working through
the U.N. with countries including
China, the North’s traditional ally
and benefactor.
Matts said North Korea
“probably learned a lot” from last
weekend’s test.
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