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Wednesday, August 30, 2017
NKorea leader urges more
missile launches to Pacific
Delivery without drivers:
Domino’s, Ford team for test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more
ballistic missile tests targeting the Pacific
Ocean, Pyongyang announced Wednesday,
a day after his nation for the first time flew a
ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear
payload over Japan.
Tuesday’s aggressive missile launch —
likely the longest ever from North Korea
— over the territory of a close U.S. ally sends
a clear message of defiance as Washington
and Seoul conduct war games nearby.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central
News Agency said it was a Hwasong-12
intermediate range missile that the North first
successfully tested in May and threatened to
fire into waters near Guam earlier this month.
Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over
the launch that he called a “meaningful
prelude” to containing Guam, which is home
to key U.S. military bases that North Korea
finds threatening, the agency said. He also
said the country will continue to watch “U.S.
demeanors” before it decides on future actions.
Kim noted that the launch was North
Korea’s military operation in the Pacific and
that it’s “necessary to positively push forward
the work for putting the strategic force on a
modern basis by conducting more ballistic
rocket launching drills with the Pacific as a
target in the future.”
The launch seemed designed to show that
North Korea can back up a threat to target
the U.S. territory of Guam, if it chooses to
do so, while also establishing a potentially
dangerous precedent that could see missiles
flying over Japan.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — No ring of
the doorbell, just a text. No tip for the driver?
No problem in this test, where Domino’s
and Ford are teaming up to see if customers
will warm to the idea of pizza delivered by
driverless cars.
Starting Wednesday, some pizzas in
Domino’s hometown of Ann Arbor will arrive
in a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars and a
camera that is used for autonomous testing.
A Ford engineer will be at the wheel, but
the front windows have been blacked out so
customers won’t interact with the driver.
Instead, people will have to come out of
their homes and type a four-digit code into a
keypad mounted on the car. That will open
the rear window and let customers retrieve
their order from a heated compartment. The
compartment can carry up to four pizzas and
five sides, Domino’s Pizza Inc. says.
The experiment will help Domino’s
understand how customers will interact with
a self-driving car, says company President
Russell Weiner. Will they want the car in their
driveway or by the curb? Will they understand
how to use the keypad? Will they come
outside if it’s raining or snowing? Will they
put their pizza boxes on top of the car and
threaten to mess up its expensive cameras?
Domino’s, which delivers 1 billion pizzas
worldwide each year, needs to stay ahead of
emerging trends, Weiner says. The test will
last six weeks, and the companies say they’ll
decide afterward what to do next. Domino’s is
also testing pizza delivery with drones.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Three more
people have been charged with toppling a
Confederate statue in North Carolina earlier
this month.
Durham County jail records show that
Jessica Nicole Jude, Joseph Baldoni Karlik
and Qasima Rohan Elise Wideman were
arrested Monday and later released. Jail
records show each faces charges related to
rioting and property damage.
An attorney representing the three, Scott
Holmes, declined to comment on their
arrests.
Eight others had already been arrested
previously on similar charges of tearing
down the Confederate statue in front of
a government building in Durham. The
bronze soldier was pulled down Aug. 14 by
protesters who climbed a ladder and attached
a rope.
The toppling came in the aftermath of a
white nationalist rally in Virginia that turned
deadly.
Court asks Mississippi
governor to defend
Confederate flag
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S.
Supreme Court is asking attorneys for
Mississippi’s governor to file arguments
defending the Confederate battle emblem on
the state flag.
The court on Tuesday set a Sept. 28
deadline for the filing.
Mississippi has the last state flag featuring
the Confederate battle emblem. Critics say
the symbol is racist, and supporters say it
represents history.
Carlos Moore, an African-American
attorney in Mississippi, filed suit in 2016
seeking to have the flag declared an
unconstitutional relic of slavery.
A federal district judge and an appeals
court ruled against Moore, but his attorneys
asked the Supreme Court in June to consider
the case during the term that begins in
October. Moore’s attorneys said lower courts
were wrong to reject his argument that the
flag is a symbol of white supremacy that
harms Moore and his young daughter by
violating the Constitution’s guarantee of
equal protection to all citizens.
Moore and one of his attorneys, Michael
Scott, said Tuesday it’s a good sign that
justices are requesting arguments from
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant.
Bad blood lingers in GOP
as Congress ponders
Hurricane Harvey relief
NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans
from New York and New Jersey are
pledging unconditional support for those
devastated by Hurricane Harvey. But their
resentment lingers.
As historic floods wreaked havoc across the
Gulf Coast, Northeastern Republicans recalled
with painful detail the days after Superstorm
Sandy ravaged their region in 2012. At the
time, Texas’ Republican lawmakers, led by
Sen. Ted Cruz, overwhelmingly opposed a
disaster relief package they argued was packed
with wasteful spending.
The debate delayed the passage of the
Sandy relief package by several weeks. And
five years later, another powerful natural
disaster has exposed lingering resentment
that underscores regional divisions in a
deeply divided Republican Party grappling
with crisis.
“It was cruel, it was vicious, and
something that I’ll never forget,” Rep. Peter
King, R-N.Y., said Tuesday. He said Texas
Republicans held up the 2012 bill as part of
“a political ploy against the Northeast.”
“Having said that,” King added, “I don’t
want the people of Texas to suffer.”
King’s comments were representative
of several New York and New Jersey
Republicans interviewed by the AP who
said they were still angry, but would not
employ the tactics of their Texas colleagues
as Congress awaits an expected Trump
administration request for billions of dollars
of assistance. It may take weeks or months
to survey the damage, but early estimates
suggest Harvey could be one of the most
expensive natural disasters in U.S. history.
Trump’s Cabinet struggles with
whether to defend their boss
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some seek
their distance, delicately taking issue with
President Donald Trump’s most controversial
remarks. Others decide it’s safer to stand by
him. Most would rather say nothing at all.
Under intense pressure, members of
Trump’s Cabinet are struggling to walk the
line between rebuking their notoriously
thin-skinned boss and defending comments
that struck even many loyal Republicans
as offensive. Though the friction has
been building for months, Trump’s
polarizing response to white nationalism in
Charlottesville was a catalyst, with fallout
that has continued to dog his administration
more than two weeks later.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was
the latest administration member forced
to take a position on Trump’s handling of
Charlottesville, in which he described people
at a neo-Nazi rally as “very fine people.” The
unenviable list also includes Trump’s treasury
secretary, chief of the National Economic
Council and defense secretary.
“They’re getting pressure from friends,
colleagues, Capitol Hill, journalists,” said
Matt Mackowiak, a Republican political
strategist. “I think we’re at a point where
Republicans are feeling more freedom and
perhaps responsibility to speak out when
Trump crosses the line. But there’s no
handbook for this.”
McKay Creek Estates
Iran rejects U.S. demand for
inspection of its military sites
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Tuesday
dismissed U.S. demands for the inspection
of Iranian military sites by the U.N. nuclear
watchdog, shrugging off a request by
America’s ambassador to the U.N. as only a
“dream.”
Iran’s government spokesman
Mohammad Bagher Nobakht told reporters
that the demand by Ambassador Nikki
Haley wasn’t worth any attention. Iran will
not accept any inspection of its sites and
“especially our military sites.”
In remarks broadcast by state TV, he said
the sites and all information about them are
“classified.”
Last week Haley said the United States
wants inspections of Iranian military and
non-military sites to determine its compliance
with the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between
Iran and world powers.
The deal saw Iran cap its nuclear activities
in return for lifting of crippling sanctions.
In a televised interview later in the day,
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also
rejected the demands, saying “regulations
dictate out relations with the (International
Atomic Energy) Agency, not the United
States.”
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In this Aug. 24 photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry on Aug. 29, a South
Korean missile is test-fired at an undisclosed location in South Korea.
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