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In the news, Sunday, July 19, 2015


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U.N. Vote on Iran Nuclear Deal Irks Congress
During the closed-door talks in Vienna on limiting Iran’s nuclear program, Secretary of State John Kerry argued that the United Nations Security Council should not vote on lifting sanctions on Iran until Congress had a chance to review the deal. But he ran into a wall of opposition from Iran, Russia and even the United States’ closest European allies, who argued successfully that Security Council action should come first, according to Western officials.

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Muslim Terror is HERE: Fort Hood Victim Says Obama Needs to Get his ‘Head Out of His A**’

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How did this monster get created? The decades of GOP lies that brought us Donald Trump, Republican front-runner
Donald Trump did not happen overnight. He's the product of a dangerous, cynical GOP strategy that dates back years

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from The Spokesman-Review

I-90 lanes reopen after fire near Vantage
The westbound lanes of Interstate 90 have reopened between George and Vantage after a brush fire near the freeway forced officials to halt traffic for several hours today.

Missing elderly man found dead in back yard
An elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease who went missing Friday in Spokane Valley was found dead later that night in the back yard of a residence about four blocks west of the nursing home where he lived. Glen Stratton had been last seen at The Gardens on University, 414 S. University Road, about 6:15 p.m. The 89-year-old, who used a wheelchair, was reported missing that night.

Trump criticism of McCain takes spotlight at Iowa forum
Donald Trump’s criticism Saturday that Sen. John McCain isn’t a war hero overshadowed his rivals’ quest for support among evangelical voters at an Iowa political gathering designed to showcase their conservative views. In their appeals to more than 2,000 religious conservatives crowded into a sports arena, Trump and other White House hopefuls urged a crackdown on illegal immigration, a forceful approach to the Islamic State group that could include ground troops, and a devotion to Christian values. Yet Trump’s questioning of a respected Republican leader’s war record dominated the day.
Trump, McCain had been trading barbs
Trump and McCain, the Republican Party’s 2008 presidential nominee and former prisoner of war, traded barbs earlier last week. McCain said at a rally in Phoenix that Trump’s controversial comments about immigrants had “fired up the crazies.” Trump retorted that the Arizona Republican was “a dummy” who graduated at the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Tennessee shooter exemplifies FBI terrorism concerns
The deadly shootings at military sites in Tennessee illustrate the threat that FBI officials have warned about: violence directed against a vulnerable government target by a lone gunman with apparent terrorist aspirations.

Time is ripe for hounding huckleberries
The same weather that brought a thin snowpack, early runoff and an explosive wildfire season has delivered something that is infinitely more positive: an early and flavorful huckleberry crop. Berries are now ripening at all elevations, and the word is getting out. Pickers are appearing on Inland Northwest slopes in good numbers.

Sleuths find grave of first male slave freed by Lincoln
Researchers believe they found the grave of a man who could be considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln, tracking his final resting place to the cemetery of a former Minnesota psychiatric hospital.

Iran deal vindicates Kerry’s diplomatic fight
For John Kerry, vindication came at midnight. As last Monday became Tuesday in Vienna, the U.S. secretary of state picked up the telephone in his first-floor room at the ornate, 19th-century Palais Coburg and dialed the White House. We have a deal, Kerry told President Barack Obama. After nearly 18 days of intense, often fractious and highly technical negotiations in the Austrian capital, he reported an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. All that remained was cleaning up the written details, Kerry said, a task that would be completed in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Then, world powers and Iran would announce the accord to the world.

Groups stage competing rallies over flag in South Carolina
Hundreds of people taunted each other on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse during separate rallies staged by two groups from outside the state. Black Educators for Justice, based in Jacksonville, Florida, held its rally Saturday on the north side of the Statehouse, where the Confederate flag was removed earlier this month. Later, the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally on the opposite side of the building to protest the flag’s removal.

Poll: Country sharply divided after gay marriage ruling
The Supreme Court’s ruling last month legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide has left Americans sharply divided, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that suggests support for gay unions may be down slightly from earlier this year. The poll also found a near-even split over whether local officials with religious objections should be required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, with 47 percent saying that should be the case and 49 percent saying they should be exempt. Overall, if there’s a conflict, a majority of those questioned think religious liberties should win out over gay rights, according to the poll. While 39 percent said it’s more important for the government to protect gay rights, 56 percent said protection of religious liberties should take precedence.

Toll rises to five in Tennessee attack
A wounded U.S. Navy sailor died on Saturday, bringing the toll to five service members killed in last week’s attacks on military centers in Chattanooga, the Navy announced. The military did not identify the latest victim, but family members have previously said that Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, 26, was among the injured and was in critical condition.

People: Queen’s Nazi salute – at age 7 – surfaces
Buckingham Palace expressed its disappointment Saturday with a tabloid newspaper for publishing images of a young Queen Elizabeth II performing a Nazi salute with her family in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler came to power.
President, daughters take in ‘Hamilton’
The current American president took a trip back in time Saturday to visit some of the country’s early leaders in the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” on Broadway, leaving the young cast jazzed and beaming.

U.S.-backed move on Islamic State off to disappointing start
A U.S.-backed military offensive against Islamic State fighters faltered in its first week as several hundred militants entrenched in the provincial capital of Ramadi withstood punishing airstrikes and held off a far-larger force of Iraqi ground troops, senior U.S. and coalition commanders said Saturday.

Kodak takes new role as landlord for startups
The chemical know-how and machines that spooled out countless miles of film are being eyed for medical marijuana and solar cells, while the private rail line now carries tomatoes alongside coal as photography pioneer Kodak, its bankruptcy behind it, embraces a new role: startup landlord. The 127-year-old company had buildings and infrastructure to rival a small city when digital photography bumped its familiar yellow boxes from tourists’ camera bags and took over much of Hollywood. But rather than selling off its sprawling, 2-square-mile Kodak Park campus, the company has become landlord to 58 diverse companies – and counting – that have been courted with the promise of plentiful utilities, its own railroad and unique access to Kodak’s specialty technical and industrial capabilities. "There's tremendous value in being able to repurpose the assets that exist here," said Michael Alt, the retiring director of the renamed Eastman Business Park.

Trial of ex-dictator in Chad decades in making
The bodies came daily. Sometimes 10, sometimes 20 lives lost to torture, malnutrition or sickness in prison in Chad, say survivors. Clement Abaifouta, a prisoner himself, had to wrap them in sacks and bury them. “There was a lot of suffering, a lot of pain,” he said about his time in jail until 1989. “What did I do to have gotten four years in prison? I want to know why.” Abaifouta wants justice, like thousands of other political prisoners who were victims of torture during Chadian ex-dictator Hissene Habre’s rule from 1982-1990. On Monday Habre will go on trial in Senegal, fulfilling the work of many who say they suffered abuse under his rule and setting a bold precedent for justice in Africa. For more than a decade after his overthrow, Habre lived freely in Senegal. His easy exile was a symbol of impunity in Africa until he was taken into custody and charged in 2013. Now his trial is a warning to other African dictators that they may be held accountable in Africa for their actions, say human rights experts.

Rain calms wildfire that terrified I-15 drivers
A rare summer storm helped firefighters advance Saturday on a wildfire that swept across a California interstate, torching vehicles and sending people running for their lives before burning property in a desert town. Light rain and moist air dampened the blaze that began Friday afternoon in the mountainous Cajon Pass 55 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the main route connecting Southern California and Las Vegas. The fire was sparked below the elevated lanes of Interstate 15. Pushed by 40 mph winds, it raced up a hill and onto the traffic-clogged freeway. Drivers and their passengers abandoned their cars as flames hopscotched down the freeway, destroying 20 vehicles, several of which exploded in fireballs.

In brief: Family, friends mourn Mississippi man who died after fight with officer
A standing-room-only crowd of hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday in the Family Life Center Church in Quitman to remember the life of 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders. Sanders, who had been driving a horse and buggy, died after a fight Wednesday with a Stonewall police officer in neighboring Lauderdale County. There is no consensus of what occurred that night. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death.
Man buries mother, then son’s body found
On the same day Kevin Johnson buried his mother, searchers found the body of his 34-year-old son who drowned while trying to save his grandmother from flash flooding that ravaged their tiny Appalachian community. Overlooking where Scott Johnson’s body  was retrieved was the hillside cemetery where Scott Johnson’s grandmother, Willa Mae Pennington, was laid to rest. “You could look from where we buried her and see right where he was at,” Kevin Johnson said. “He didn’t leave her after all.”

Study: U.S. labor key in migrant smuggling
The smuggling of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border relies heavily on American labor, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review found in an eight-month investigation that paints a portrait of the network of smugglers known as “coyotes.” Three out of every five convicted smugglers are U.S. citizens, according to an analysis by the newspaper of 3,254 federal trafficking convictions during 2013 and 2014 in federal courts in the southern stretches of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

In brief: Mall reopens in Kenya where 67 died in attack
Hundreds of shoppers Saturday thronged through the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, nearly two years after an extremist attack there left at least 67 people dead.
China reports deportations
China has deported 20 foreigners from Britain, South Africa and India for watching video clips that advocated terrorism and religious extremism, the official state media reported.
Cosby paid after sex, report says
Bill Cosby says he paid women after having sex with them and went to great lengths to hide his behavior and the payments from his wife. The New York Times reported the revelations Saturday after obtaining a copy of a transcript from a deposition Cosby gave a decade ago.
Five found dead in home
Five people were found dead in a California home after someone called authorities to check on the people inside, police said Saturday. Officers responding to a request to conduct a welfare check on the home, in a residential neighborhood in Modesto, discovered the bodies in the afternoon, a police spokeswoman said.

County grants Knezovich request to allow unmarked patrol cars
At the request of the sheriff, Spokane County commissioners last week passed an ordinance authorizing the use of unmarked patrol cars, amid statewide controversy about the practice. Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said the county ordinance reiterates what state law already says, that the department has the authority to operate vehicles without official markings. The county ordinance limits use of unmarked cars to undercover detectives and deputies, high-ranking members of the office and deputies performing traffic control. Knezovich said he was moved to act because the state Legislature won’t. “For five years we have asked people at the state Legislature to clean this up, to no avail,” Knezovich told commissioners Tuesday.

In brief: Vigil planned for victims of Colville apartment fire
A community candlelight vigil is planned this evening for the two young boys who died in a Colville apartment fire early Friday.
Cape Horn wildfire completely contained
The Cape Horn fire near Bayview is now 100 percent contained, and the number of firefighters in the area has been dropping.
Donors help grow WSU med school fund
A fund created to bolster Washington State University’s new medical school has received a major boost. Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories contributed $100,000, while its president and founder, Edmund O. Schweitzer III, gave another $100,000 on behalf of his family. It pushed total contributions to the newly formed Dr. Elson S. Floyd Medical Education Founders Fund to about $425,000.

Vehicles at standstill on I-5 hit by truck
A dump truck carrying gravel crossed the median of Interstate 5 on Saturday in Mount Vernon, injuring at least six people when it plowed into oncoming traffic that was stopped while police investigated an earlier shooting, authorities said. Twenty-three vehicles were involved in the collision north of Seattle, and traffic was backed up for miles as lanes were closed in both directions. Injuries ranged from minor to critical. Two people were airlifted to a Seattle hospital, said Trooper Mark Francis of the Washington State Patrol. The truck driver had a broken arm and chest injuries, and may have had a medical condition that caused the crash, Francis told KING-TV.

Driver charged in U.S. 95 crash near Bonners Ferry
A driver was charged with reckless driving after crashing while trying to pass several cars, the Idaho State Police reported. The crash occurred on U.S. Highway 95 south of Bonners Ferry shortly after noon Saturday. Gary E. Alvarez, 69, of California, was heading south in a Ford pickup when he slowed to make a left turn on Brown Creek Road. Several cars behind him also slowed, ISP said. Cheyann N. Phillips, 17, of Moyie Springs, was southbound and attempted to pass a half-dozen cars at high speed, the ISP said. Phillips’ Ford Explorer struck Alvarez’s pickup as Alvarez turned left.

Attorney takes case against Clarkston for pot shop owner
Fighting citywide bans on retail marijuana sales is nothing new for attorney Liz Hallock. The Vancouver, Washington, attorney is representing business owner Matt Plemmons in two court cases the city of Clarkston is bringing against his shop, Greenfield Co. She has experience with situations like Clarkston’s citywide sales ban – and has had success.

Washington state seeks to detain sex offender indefinitely
The Washington state attorney general’s office is attempting to label a Stevens County sex offender a sexually violent predator after the man was jailed several times for probation violations. Officials accuse him of having contact with minors and having relationships with women who had children. If the state succeeds, Joseph S. Griffith would be detained indefinitely. Griffith, 34, was convicted of two counts of second-degree rape of a child in Snohomish County in 2000. He also was convicted of second-degree rape and indecent liberties for sexually assaulting a female cousin repeatedly from 1993-95 starting when both he and the victim were 12 years old.

Arrest warrant issued in West Central shooting
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man in connection with a north Spokane shooting Monday morning. Forest J. Shields will face a charge of attempted first-degree murder. The man who was shot lived in the Daniels Apartments, 525 W. Sinto Ave., and was outside in the parking lot when he talked with the driver of a pickup. The driver, identified as Shields, reportedly shot the victim once in the shoulder and neck area.

Spin Control: Governor’s actions seal legislative action
Although the Legislature left town July 9, the true end of the session came Wednesday when Gov. Jay Inslee signed the last three of the 363 bills lawmakers managed to pass in their record-setting, 176-day, triple-overtime stint.

Eye on Boise: Idaho lawmakers say U.S. hostages should be part of Iran deal
At President Barack Obama’s press conference last week, he was pressed by a reporter about why the nuclear deal with Iran didn’t secure the release of four Americans in Iran, three being held in jail, including Idaho Pastor Saeed Abedini, and one missing. That’s a concern raised by all four members of Idaho’s congressional delegation in their reactions to the administration’s newly announced nuclear deal with Iran, about which the lawmakers ranged from skeptical to openly hostile, with Sen. Jim Risch labeling the agreement “horribly flawed.”

Birth control soon to be available over the counter in Oregon

Veterans tout medical marijuana
Twenty22Many meets every other Sunday at Rainier Xpress, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Olympia. The group got its name from a sobering statistic from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: An average of 22 veterans commit suicide every day – or nearly 8,000 per year. Some academic studies suggest a link between medical marijuana and a reduction in suicide rates and PTSD symptoms. In 2013, the American Journal of Public Health reported that suicides among men ages 20-39 were reduced by an average of 10.8 percent in states that have legalized medical marijuana compared to states that have not. In addition, a 2014 study by New Mexico psychiatrist Dr. George Greer concluded that marijuana provided relief for PTSD symptoms in 75 percent of patients in a controlled study.

Air crash survivor, 16, describes ordeal
Autumn Veatch stood on the side of Highway 20, hoping someone would pull over and help her. For an hour, vehicles traveling across the North Cascades whizzed by her. The drivers on Monday afternoon wouldn’t have known that the 16-year-old girl waving her arms had survived a plane crash, then trekked for days through some of the most treacherous areas of the mountain range. They wouldn’t have known that the girl on the road would soon be on network morning shows and nighttime cable news, hailed as a superhero. So for an hour, no one stopped for the girl covered in bruises and scratches, who could hardly stand. She had finally reached civilization, but she was still alone. Veatch was in a small plane July 11 with her step-grandparents, flying from Kalispell to Lynden, Whatcom County, when the plane crashed in the mountains. Leland and Sharon Bowman were killed. Veatch escaped before fire engulfed the plane.

Doug Clark: Gonzaga Prep grad earns astronaut pin
Spokane’s Anne McClain is an astronaut. “It’s been an amazing journey,” said McClain, 36, one of eight in her class (four women and four men) who completed two years of the toughest training imaginable to earn their astronaut pins.

Huckleberries: Fire coverage has tourists steering clear of Bayview

Ann McFeatters: Calling out candidates’ so-called bold, new promises

Kathleen Parker: On treating human fetuses as commodities

Editorial: Condon and Fagan deserves re-election

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Forest, wildfire bill needs to become law

Susan Mulvihill: Never too early to start planning for fall

Likely hikes of interest rates put consumers on alert
It’s no longer a matter of if, but when. The interest rate on everything from credit cards to adjustable-rate mortgages could soon be headed higher.

Log furniture business thrives on low, high tech
Dan Booterbaugh traces the roots of his career to a high school elective that may be heading toward extinction: wood shop. “When I was a senior,” he recalled, “I had two wood shop classes, and the teacher would leave the shop open after school so we could work on stuff. My favorite tool was the lathe.” Today, wood shop courses are routinely dropped in favor of STEM electives – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – or they’re tweaked to reflect today’s priorities and renamed “pre-engineering.” Booterbaugh has thrived by embracing both high tech and low tech. Soon after launching his North Idaho Log Furniture Co. two decades ago, he built a website to market his rustic creations.

CVS chooses high road in clash with U.S. Chamber
CVS Health did something the other day that we don’t see enough in the business world. It stood up for its principles. The pharmacy giant announced it was quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce after reports that the influential business organization was lobbying against anti-smoking laws around the world. CVS said last year it would no longer sell tobacco products in its stores. The company declared, and I’m paraphrasing here, that it’s pretty hypocritical for a health care firm to profit from a product that kills people.

BBB Tip of the Week
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, recently released its 2014 Internet crime report. It covers cyber complaints, the age and state of residence of those filing complaints, and reported monetary losses.

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THE OBAMA-CLINTON CLOWARD-PIVEN LEGACY
Exclusive: Chuck Norris exposes devious plot behind 'fundamental transformation'
In May 1966, Columbia University sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven published what would become known as their Cloward–Piven strategy in the liberal magazine, “The Nation.” Their article was titled, “The weight of the poor: A strategy to end poverty.” In short, the Cloward-Piven strategy is a political plan to overload the U.S. public welfare system with the goal to replace it with a national system of “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”

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