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News Budget of Thursday, July 5, 2018
Updated at 8 pm. EDT (0000 UTC).
Adds FACEBOOK-ATTACK: LA, MEXICO EXPLOSIONS: LA, USRUSSIA-PUTIN: BLO, NORTHROP-WHITESUPREMACY: LA, TRUMP-NYC-APARTMENT: NY, TRUMP-MONTANA: CON
UPDATES: LA, FLA-HOSTAGES-TIR: OS
Other reports appear on the MCT-NEWSFEATURES-BJT
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^ EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, resigns amidst scandals <
PRUITT-1ST-LEDE: THE – Scott Pruitt, chief of the US Environmental Protection Agency. environment American history, leaves the agency.
"I accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as a director of the Environmental Protection Agency," Trump said Thursday in a tweet. "In the agency, Scott has done a great job, and I will always be grateful to him for that."
He said that Pruitt's badistant at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will take over Monday as interim administrator. with trimmings) by Evan Halper in Washington. PROPOSED
^ Estimates of the administration of children separated from their parents to 3,000 [<19659002] IMMIGRATION-CHILDREN: LA - The Trump administration admitted Thursday that the government has separated hundreds of people. Their parents' children after illegal border crossings About 100 of the children are under the age of five, said Alex M. Azar, the secretary of health and social services, whose agency has custody of the children. children, told reporters on a conference call. The total number of children abducted from their parents could rise to nearly 3,000, he said.
800 by Jazmine Ulloa in Washington. PROPOSED
^ Trump narrows the search of the Supreme Court to 3 forerunners <
TRUMP-SCOTUS: BLO – Three judges of the Federal Court of Appeal emerged as favorites in the search for President Donald Trump for a new supreme justice: Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge, two people familiar with the case, said:
Of the three, Trump currently favors Kavanaugh and Kethledge over Barrett, according to the people.
500 by Jennifer Jacobs in Washington. PROPOSED
^ Pompeo goes to North Korea to press Kim on nuclear disarmament
USNKOREA: LA – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo goes to North Korea on Thursday to press leader Kim Jong Un on his declared willingness to disarm Arsenal, amid reports that Kim is expanding the program.
The visit Friday will be Pompeo's third in Pyongyang, the capital, in three months, but the first since President Donald Trump held a summit with Kim in Singapore. last month. Trump departed saying that he trusted Kim to carry out a promise that both leaders had written to "work toward denuclearization"
Evidence since then has raised questions about Kim's intentions.
1350 (with trimmings) by Tracy Wilkinson and David S. Cloud in Washington. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo travels to Pyongyang to discuss the disarmament of North Korea, another problem may overshadow his primary mission.
USNKOREA-REMAINS: BLO The recovery of corpses killed in the Korean War should be high on the Pompeo agenda after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un enlisted June 12 summit with President Donald Trump on the "immediate repatriation" of identified remains. North Korea had not surrendered the bodies as Pompeo was leaving Washington on Thursday, pressuring him to negotiate their release during the trip.
800 by Kanga Kong in Seoul, South Korea. PROPOSED
^ While Trump plans Putin meeting, Europeans fear new interferences from Moscow <
USRUSSIA-HACKING-EUROPE: LA – The day the White House announced a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin if Moscow had interfered with the campaign that landed at the White House.
"Russia continues to say that they have nothing to do with ingesting in our election!" Trump tweeted, contradicting the lingering conclusions of intelligence agencies from his own country.
These statements have been controversial here for the past two years. Now, they are also agitating American allies in Europe, where Moscow has deployed some of the same tactics of misinformation as those used to manipulate the American campaign.
As Trump prepares to meet Putin on July 16 in Helsinki, Finland, there is little sign that he is ready to take a hard line against electoral interference.
1150 (with trimmings) by Chris Megerian in Washington. PROPOSED
^ Mueller draws more career prosecutors than Trump's investigation [<19659002] USRUSSIA-HACKING-MUELLER: BLO - Special adviser Robert Mueller seeks additional resources from the Department of Justice for his badistance in new legal battles While Mueller continues his investigation, he is increasingly using career prosecutors from US prosecutors offices and the headquarters of the Justice Department, as well as FBI agents - a sign that he might be in the process of depositing. The preparatory work for some parts of his investigation was finally announced by several current and former US officials.
900 (with moldings) by Chris Strohm in Washington. The Trump government on Thursday punished three top Nicaraguan officials, accusing them of human rights violations, corruption and ordering attacks on peaceful protesters
USNICARAGUA-SANCTIONS: WA [19659003ThesanctionscomeasWashingtonputspressureontheCentralAmericannationwheremorethan200peoplediedintwomonthsofanti-governmentprotestsin19659003byFrancoOrdonezinWashingtonPROPOSED
^ Rand Paul and his wife open about November attack in the middle of the legal battle <
PAUL-ASSAULT: CON – Rand Sen Paul and his wife opened on the November attack by their neighbor who landed the Kentucky Republican hospital with six broken ribs and a fight with chronic pneumonia – ostensibly during a triage fight.
In an interview with WKBO in Kentucky posted Tuesday, Paul's wife, Kelley, became emotional when she spoke of her husband's injuries. He received media after his neighbor, Rene Boucher, 60, laid Paul on the ground in front of his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, crashing his ribs
500 by Griffin Connolly in Washington, DC PROPOSED [19659003] Mueller fights Manafort's application for release from prison before trial <
USRUSSIA-HACKING-MANAFORT: BLO – Special advocate Robert Mueller told an American court of appeal that Paul Manafort must prepare his criminal trials behind bars, citing the finding of a judge it can not be trusted to play by the rules.
150 by Andrew Harris in Washington PROPOSED
^ Hoyer s 39 expects to make "full recovery quickly" of pneumonia <
CONGRES-HOYER: CON – Steny Hoyer, minority bad of the House, should recover quickly after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
150 by Eric Garcia in Washington PROPOSED [19659003] ^ Federal Judge Denies Administration Effort to Block California Sanctuary Law
CALIF-SANCTUARY: LA – Federal Judge Refused Thursday to Block California to Restrict Local Cooperation with Law Enforcement immigration officers. the law "shrine" of the state.
US In rejecting the Trump administration's position that California law is an attempt to thwart the application of immigration, District Judge John A. Mendez wrote that "refuse to help is not the same as embarrbading "
450 by John Myers in Sacramento, Calif. MOVED
^ Onion's attack on Trump's immigration policy – but some do not laugh <19659003] IMMIGRATION-ONION SITE: THE – On June 14, the media through The country gave the nation its first glimpse of Casa Padre, the converted Walmart in Texas, had immigrant children separated from their parents, after a small group of journalists visited the secret facility.
The same day, the satirical information website Onion published its own article: "Immigrant Child Esp Realize the American Dream of a Better Cage."
"Wild, j & r I laughed, but it's wild, "replied one commentator online
" Too far, Onion, ashamed, how dare you ridicule people's lives, the real pain? And fear people – including g infants and children – feel? "
Few questions have highlighted the dark nature of current cultural wars in America, such as the Trump administration's policy of separating children from parents taken illegally in the United States.
1050 by Hailey Branson-Potts. PROPOSED
^ Trump in Montanans: "Tester does not share your values" <
TRUMP-MONTANA: CON – President Donald Trump lost little time at a rally in Montana Painting of Democratic Senator Jon Test as a "liberal" "I see Jon Tester say nice things about me, but I say," But he never votes for me, "said the president about the votes to test against most of the key points Republicans' agenda. "Tester does not share your values."
1050 (with trims) by John T. Bennett at Great Falls, Mt. PROPOSED
^ New York City Nixes Tax Property for Trump's Apartment <
TRUMP-NYC-APARTMENT: NY – New York City Nixed a $ 48,000 Tax on President Donald Trump Receiving on his Trump Tower Condo Following Investigations Tuesday, the records in the city indicated that Trump needed to save $ 48,834.62 on his tax bill. For the year beginning July 1st through the city condominium abatement, a popular tax break available to owners of condominiums and co-ops. But an owner is only eligible for tax relief if the condo is his primary residence.
400 by Jillian Jorgensen in New York. GUANTANAMO J.: MI – The military judge who ordered a marine general to serve 21 days in a trailer park at Guantanamo Bay for contempt of court – a conviction A federal court recently dismissed as illegal retirement after 26 years of service, announced Thursday the Pentagon.
Colonel Vance Spath "has a retirement date approved on November 1, 2018," said the spokeswoman for the Air Force. in an e-mail response of a sentence to a question from McClatchy. She did not say when the colonel submitted her papers for retirement.
600 by Carol Rosenberg in Miami. PROPOSED
^ Newsrooms are silent to remember the Capital Gazette attack <
MD-JOURNAL-SHOOTING-SILENCE-1ST-LEDE: BZ – Phone calls have ended, the typing has stopped. Silence filled the temporary newsroom
For once, deadlines would wait.
Newspaper reporters The Capital and Maryland Gazette – the survivors – stood and remembered their five colleagues killed. It was 2:33 pm Thursday, exactly one week after the attack
Journalists from elsewhere were also silent
400 by Tim Prudente in Annapolis, Md. MOVED
^ Northrop Grumman says that he is studying the report of an employee involved in a white nationalist group <(19659002) NORTHROP-WHITESUPREMACY: LA – Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp. said he was taking "immediate steps" to verify that one of his engineers was part of a white nationalist group and that he had participated in violent fights throughout the year last. Join the Good Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
The ProPublica Investigative Media and "Frontline" Identify Michael Miselis, 29, a member of the Rise Above Movement, whom they describe as a group from Southern California who "expresses his disdain for Muslims, Jews and immigrants."
ProPublica and "Frontline" said that they identified Miselis pushing a black protester on the ground and "beating on him" in video footage of the rally from Charlottesville.
400 by Saman Tha Masunaga in Los Angeles. PROPOSED
^ 7 wounded in the July 4 shootings in Chicago, including 2 teenagers.
CHICAGO-VIOLENCE: TB – Seven people were injured in Chicago between Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning as hundreds of additional police were deployed July 4 holiday
A 32-year-old man was seriously injured in the South Shore district at around 4:15 am on Thursday, Chicago police reported
400 by Paige Fry and Hannah Leone in Chicago. PROPOSED
^ Leader sentenced to 8 years in prison for beating teenager in live attack <
FACEBOOK-ATTACK: TB – The alleged leader of racism of a mentally ill teenager l & # 39; last year was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to a hate crime.
The case drew national indignation when the attackers watched live video of the brutal badault on Facebook. The prosecutors of Cook County reported that the victim had schizophrenia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
600 by Megan Crepeau in Chicago. PROPOSED
^ The secret registration of mom catches kindergarten teacher calling 5 years a "loser" <
FLA-TEACHER-RECORDING: MI – At the second week of school fall last, Kandy Escotto knew that something was wrong with her 5 years
Her son, Aaron, complained about going to school. He brought bad grades home. Then, while they were working together on homework, Aaron told his mother that he was a bad boy.
"I said," Why do you say something like this? "" Said Escotto. He said: "That's what the teacher tells me when I'm not working."
Escotto says she's complaining to Banyan elementary school principal Cheri Davis about Rosalba Suarez, a 33-year-old teacher this year at school this year. from Westchester. She says the director told her that she needed proof that Suarez was intimidating her son
So Escotto bought a recorder, placed it in his son's backpack for four days in October and listened to 32 hours of audio. humiliating his son and another boy, calling them "loser".
700 by Colleen Wright in Miami. PROPOSED on
^ Calif. Democratic lawmakers ended a dispute over a proposed Internet neutrality bill on Thursday, agreeing to a move that would ban Internet service providers from blocking, speeding up the process. adoption of the law on net neutrality. increasing or slowing down websites and videos, as well as website fees for fast lanes.
500 by Patrick McGreevy in Sacramento, California MOVED
^ The Lake County SWAT team fires, kills a man holding hostages in Florida 19659002] FLA-HOSTAGES-DRAW-1ER-LEDE: OS – A Three-hour hostage taking in an Eustis neighborhood ended Thursday morning with a shootout when five members of the SWAT team from Lake County Sheriff fired on An armed man According to an agency official, no one else was hurt in the incident that occurred in a house behind Grove Square, according to the county sheriff's office. Lake, who helped the European Union. The Stis Police Department
was killed in the showdown was Tracy Alan Richards, 55, said Sheriff's Lieutenant John Herrell. He was holding his wife, Wendy Lee Richards, 51, and his brother Gary Lee Babb, 47, a hostage, he said.
1000 (with toppings) by Annie Martin and Martin E. Comas in Eustis, Florida. 19659002] ^ A woman fired at a pirate who was trying to steal her SUV with children inside, the Dallas police said
CARJACKER-SHOOTING: DA – A woman shot a pirate's head who was trying to steal his SUV with his two kids Wednesday, Dallas police said.
150 by Loyd Brumfield in Dallas. PROPOSED
^ Alligator protecting his youth when he trapped the teenager in the tree <
FLA-GATOR-THREAT: OS – An alligator protected his youth when he trapped a teenager in a tree the last week, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A Lake County deputy sheriff fired on the caregiver, who was about 8 and a half feet in length, with an AR-15 rifle. According to Greg Workman, a spokesman for the commission, an alligator's nest was found near
150 by Annie Martin in Orlando, Florida
^ The California wildfire reaches 86,000 acres with 30% confinement <
Firefighters fighting a forest fire in Yolo County, California, were able to make some progress in containing the fire during the night, firefighters said Thursday. extended their coverage to 86,000 acres. 30 percent contained, said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. More than 3,400 firefighters are present to fight the fire, which has also moved to Napa County.
300 by Sarah Parvini. PROPOSED
^ Ed Schultz, former MSNBC animator and personality of Francophone radio, has died. [
^ SCHULTZ-OBIT: PH- <The former MSNBC animator and longtime broadcaster Ed Schultz has pbaded away. He was 64 years old
Schultz, a liberal torch, died of natural causes, according to WDAY-TV, based in Fargo, ND, where he had once worked
SCHULTZ-OBIT: LA – 400 by Stephen Battaglio in New York. PROPOSED
^ This controversy takes the cake <
FLA-CITYOFFICIAL-CAKE: FL. – The boss of Sunrise City Hall will keep his job of $ 204,000 a year despite a lot of delay on a Bundt cupcake and an expired coupon.
The Sunrise commissioners said Thursday that they were ready to put everything in place.
Last week, City Manager Richard Salamon found himself in the hot seat after a local baker told the commissioners that Salamon opposed it when he was told that his coupon for a miniature Bundt cake of $ 3.99 had expired. She says that he demanded that they break the rules and give him the cake for free.
350 by Susannah Bryan in Fort Lauderdale, Florida PROPOSED
^ 2 men killed in Baltimore early Thursday, police say <
BALTIMORE- VIOLENCE: BZ – Two men were killed in separate incidents early Thursday at Baltimore, according to the police.
150 by Sarah Meehan in Baltimore. PROPOSED
^ Tropical Storm Beryl is formed in the Atlantic Ocean, the hurricane center says:
WEA-ATLANTIC-1ST-LEDE: OS – Tropical Storm Beryl It's formed in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. There is no indication that Beryl will become a hurricane, let alone one that will hit Florida, according to the Hurricane Center.
The hurricane center also observes an area of thunderstorms southwest of Bermuda.
200 by Annie Martin in Orlando, Florida PROPOSED
^ Putin prepares a real deal Trump can sell after the summit [
USRUSSIA-PUTIN: BLO – Kremlin officials are in intense negotiations with counterparts in Washington to make at least one deal that they hope to let President Donald Trump tout his summit with Vladimir Putin as a triumph that justifies steps to repair relations.
Top of the list for the July 16 meeting in Helsinki, Finland, the role of Iran in Syria is a Tehran issue, a senior Russian official said on condition of anonymity that he was not allowed to comment on the disc.
1100 by Henry Meyer in Moscow. PROPOSED
^ At least 22 killed in explosions of fireworks in a Mexican city with a history of deadly explosions
MEXICO-EXPLOSIONS: LA – At least 22 people were killed and 40 injured on Thursday when explosions exploded in several fireworks plants. a Mexican city that has a long history of deadly explosions
The explosions took place in Tultepec, a city in the state of Mexico known as the country's pyrotechnic capital and the site of a explosion that killed 42 people in 2016. Several manufacturers were killed on Thursday. Authorities said, with at least four firefighters and two policemen who rushed to the scene to help.
Rarely, a government official promised to review the city's fireworks industry to determine if a temporary closure of certain plants was necessary.
550 by Kate Linthicum in Mexico City. MOVED
^ Mayor of London approves Trump Baby Airship & # 39; to fly over the Parliament during the presidential visit <
^ TRUMP-BRITAIN-BLIMP: NY- <Here are some swelling news for those hoping to see a parody parodying President Donald Trump The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, will allow the airship to Nearly 20 feet fly over Parliament on July 13 – while Trump is in town – after Twitter's user, Leo Murray, has campaigned for the right to steal it.
350 by Peter Sblendorio. PROPOSED
^ Group of poachers killed by lions after sneaking into South African Game Reserve <
^ SAFACIA-RESERVE-POACHERS: NY- <A group of poachers was beaten by a lion of lions game reserve in order to hunt down and shoot down a flock of rhinos.
At least three men made their way to the Sibuya reservation in the early morning Monday
300 by Jessica Schladebeck. PROPOSED
STATEMENT OF MEMORIES: MCT – Summaries of National and International News
^ TODAY'S NEW FACTS [<19659002] ^ A three-year-old child was separated from his father at the border. Now, his parents are facing his trauma <
IMMIGRATION-CHILD-TRAUMA: THE – In the living room of Van Nuys's one-bedroom apartment, the boy tried to explain, according to the words from a three year old, What happened to his father
"Papa cae in piso", he says, turning away briefly from a game on his mother's phone.
Andriy Ovalle Calderon recounts the moment his father was detained by customs officers He spent more than a month with a family in California before being released in April to his mother , who had gone to an entry port with his younger son. . Claudia Calderon was allowed to stay with her mother-in-law while she waited for an immigration judge to hear her asylum application.
Her husband, Kristian Francisco Ovalle Hernandez, was deported to Guatemala.
At Night, Andriy While federal agencies are working to reunite more than 2,000 families who remain separated, affected by the "zero tolerance" immigration policy of the Trump administration, many of them are still working. children struggle to cope with the consequences of separations
. 1600 by Brittny Mejia in Los Angeles. PROPOSED
^ 'You took 32 years of my life': Freed man accuses LAPD detective of manipulating eyewitnesses <
LA-FORT CONVICTION: THE – The teenager watched 16 photos of the cup, looking for the face of the man had stabbed his boyfriend to death while they were sleeping in his van in South LA
It was in November 1984 – a months after the badbadination – and Saladena Bishop had already pointed police at two suspects who were quickly excluded. Now, Los Angeles police detective, Richard Marks, had a new set of photos, and he drew his attention to number 7.
"What about him?" The detective asked, referring to an image of Andrew Wilson.
The bishop said that it was the man – she was almost sure, according to Marks.
Wilson, who has always maintained his innocence, was sentenced to life in prison in a case that was almost entirely based on the identification of the witness. More than three decades have pbaded before a judge in 2017 rejected his conviction and released him.
Wilson, 63, sued for civil rights, accusing Marks of identifying him as a murderer. continued controversy over how many police agencies handle eyewitness identifications.
1600 by Marisa Gerber in Los Angeles. PROPOSED
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