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At least 8 died in
marina boat dock
fi re in Alabama
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. —
At least eight people were
killed early Monday in an
explosive fi re that consumed
dozens of vessels docked at a
marina along the Tennessee
River in northern Alabama.
Scottsboro Fire Chief
Gene Necklaus said all eight
people who were known to
be missing have been con-
fi rmed dead, and “that num-
ber could go up, because we
don’t know how many were
on boats” that sank.
The fi re began just after
midnight at Jackson County
Park Marina and quickly
consumed the dock as peo-
ple were sleeping. The
wooden dock with at least
35 vessels went up in fl ames
and an aluminum roof that
covered many of the boats
melted and collapsed, cut-
ting off escape routes and
raining debris over the area
as boaters leaped into the
river.
“It was scary. The worst
thing for me is you could
hear people screaming for
help, and there was nothing
we could do. Nobody could
do anything to get to them,”
said Julie Jackson, who lives
with her husband and son
in a houseboat on another
dock that did not burn at the
marina.
At least seven people
were sent to hospitals suf-
fering from exposure to the
fl ames or the frigid water.
East Oregonian
GOP defends Trump as Bolton book adds pressure for witnesses
argument — that Trump
never tied withholding mil-
itary aid to Ukraine to his
demand the country help
investigate political rival
Joe Biden.
The attorneys did not
make any direct refer-
ence to revelations about
Bolton’s book draft as they
opened arguments, though
one did appear to take an
oblique swipe.
“We deal with transcript
evidence, we deal with pub-
licly available information,”
said attorney Jay Sekulow.
“We do not deal with spec-
ulation, allegations that are
not based on evidentiary
standards at all.”
Ken Starr, the former
independent counsel whose
By ERIC TUCKER,
ZEKE MILLER AND
LISA MASCARO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Pressure increased Mon-
day on senators to call John
Bolton to testify at President
Donald Trump’s impeach-
ment trial even as defense
lawyers
brushed
past
extraordinary new allega-
tions from Trump’s former
national security adviser
and made legal and histor-
ical arguments for acquittal.
The president’s legal
team resumed its presenta-
tion as Republicans grap-
pled with claims in a forth-
coming book from Bolton
that undercut a key defense
investigation into President
Bill Clinton resulted in his
impeachment, bemoaned
what he said was an “age of
impeachment.”
Impeachment, he said,
requires both an actual
crime and a “genuine
national consensus” that the
president must go. Neither
exists here, Starr said.
Impeachment is “fi lled
with acrimony and divides
the country like noth-
ing else,” Starr said, add-
ing, “Those of who lived
through
the
Clinton
impeachment understand
that — and indeed in a per-
sonal way.”
Even as defense lawyers
laid out their case, it was
clear that Bolton’s book has
scrambled the debate over
whether to seek witnesses.
In it, Bolton writes that
Trump told him he wanted
to withhold hundreds of
millions of dollars in secu-
rity aid from Ukraine until
it helped him with investi-
gations into Biden. Trump’s
legal team has repeatedly
insisted otherwise, and
Trump tweeted on Monday
that he never told Bolton
such a thing.
Republican
senators
faced a pivotal moment as
they arrived on Capitol Hill
to resume Trump’s trial.
Democrats are demand-
ing sworn testimony from
Bolton and other key wit-
nesses, and pressure is
mounting on at least four
Republicans to buck GOP
leaders and form a bipar-
tisan majority to force the
issue.
“John Bolton’s rele-
vance to our decision has
become increasingly clear,”
GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of
Utah told reporters. Sen.
Susan Collins of Maine
said she has always wanted
“the opportunity for wit-
nesses” and the report about
Bolton’s book “strengthens
the case.”
The push for Bolton
to testify did not appear
to move Senate Majority
Leader McConnell, who
told Republicans at a closed
lunch Monday they would
take stock after the defense
team concludes arguments.
Ally of Venezuela’s
Maduro hires DC
lobbyist to build ties
MIAMI — An ally
of Venezuelan President
Nicolás Maduro has hired a
Washington lobbyist whose
business has boomed under
the Trump administration as
part of a $12.5 million effort
to ease sanctions and reset
bilateral relations as the U.S.-
backed campaign to oust the
socialist leader stalls.
The Maduro govern-
ment’s top lawyer, Inspec-
tor General Reinaldo Muñoz,
hired lobbyist Robert Stryk’s
Sonoran Policy Group as
part of a larger contract he
signed with Foley & Lard-
ner, a law fi rm with offi ces in
Washington.
Both the law fi rm and
Stryk’s Sonoran Policy
Group registered as agents
of Muñoz in separate fi lings
with the Justice Department
that were published Monday
on the agency’s website.
Their work includes
“developing a strategy to
approach the U.S. Govern-
ment in support of delisting
the Foreign Principal or other
parties subject to U.S. eco-
nomic sanctions due to their
connections to the Repub-
lic,” according to the fi ling by
Foley, which in turn is paying
$2 million to hire Stryk as a
consultant.
The outreach comes as
U.S. support for opposition
leader Juan Guaidó, whom
it recognizes as Venezuela’s
rightful president, has come
under fi re.
China extends Lunar
New Year holiday
to fi ght virus
BEIJING — China
on Monday expanded its
sweeping efforts to contain
a deadly virus, extending
the Lunar New Year holiday
to keep the public at home
and avoid spreading infec-
tion as the death toll rose to
81.
Mongolia closed its vast
border with China, and
Hong Kong and Malay-
sia announced they would
bar entry to visitors from
the Chinese province at the
center of the outbreak fol-
lowing a warning by medi-
cal offi cials that the virus’s
ability to spread was grow-
ing. Travel agencies were
ordered to cancel group
tours nationwide, adding to
the rising economic losses.
The death toll rose Mon-
day when the southern
island province of Hainan
in the South China Sea
reported its fi rst fatality, an
80-year-old woman whose
family arrived from Wuhan
on Jan. 17.
— Associated Press
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