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Love it or hate it, the military is often on the cutting edge of technology.

There's nothing like a good war to get the military to think outside of the box and come

up with new solutions to old problems.

Usually that problem is how can we kill people but like… from a distance.

But seriously, along with things like rockets, the internet and even wifi started off as

a military idea.

Not all of their ideas were winners though.

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In the 1840s, Manifest Destiny was all the rage, Americans were crossing into the west

by the tens of thousands and we were staking claim to basically everything the light touched.

It was one of the primary motivations behind the Mexican American War.

When it became apparent that the United States was about to capture all of this new land

from Mexico, people were already thinking of ways to cross it.

You see, the southwestern United States is a literal desert.

The sarlacc pit from Return of the Jedi was filmed near Yuma, Arizona.

So donkeys, mules, horses, and humans had a hard time crossing that desert due to a

lack of water.

In 1847, before the war was even over, Major G.H.

Crosman and Major H.C. Wayne submitted a report to the War Department, which is now the Department

of Defense, suggesting that camels might be the way to go.

For strength in carrying burdens, for patient endurance of labor, and privation of food,

water & rest, and in some respects speed also, the camel and dromedary are unrivaled among

animals…

They will go without water, and with but little food, for six or eight days, or it is said

even longer.

Their feet are alike well suited for traversing grassy or sandy plains, or rough, rocky hills

and paths, and they require no shoeing…

The report reached the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, which is now known as the

Senate Armed Services Committee, where it was mostly laughed off as ludicrous.

Some senators even said that the desert is too cold.

Which it is believe it or not, but camels live in the desert, they're already used

to that.

One senator who really took to the proposal and tried for several years to get it implemented,

was Jefferson Davis, a man famous for always supporting good ideas.

In 1853, Jefferson Davis was appointed Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce.

He continued to pressure Congress and the President to allocate funds for a small experiment

to see how viable the idea was, which they finally did in 1855.

Congress granted $30,000 to the project, about $866,000 in 2019 money… which is about one-tenth

of the price of a single M1 Abrams tank.

Davis wasted no time and two months later, Major H.C. Wayne and Lieutenant D.D.

Porter of the USS Supply were sent to the Mediterranean to purchase the first batch

of US camels.

Major Wayne went on his own little side quest to learn about camels first.

He stopped at the London Zoological Gardens to learn about their care and then interviewed

members of the French Camel Corps in Paris.

Yes, there was a French Camel Corps, they just used them to colonize Algeria.

Then he went to the Crimea, where camels were actively being used by the British in the

Crimean War against Russia.

It was there that Wayne decided dromedaries were preferable to camels.

Back in the day, the term "camel" usually specifically referred to the two-humped Bactrian

camel, it was significantly larger and slower, but could carry more weight.

A dromedary is the one humped Arabian camel.

It was quicker, could still carry a considerable load, and was much easier to ride, in fact

Arabian camels had been used for military purposes for as long as the horse.

Some militaries even outfitted them with cannons…

I know that's just a drawing so you might not believe me.

So here's a real picture, look at that, that's awesome!

Ahem, so anyway, Wayne and Porter were ordered to buy several different kinds of camels from

different places in order to test which ones would be suitable in America.

The story of their adventures is actually kind of funny.

They became somewhat experts in the camel trade and were able to refuse gifts of diseased,

worthless camels from the viceroy of Egypt.

Porter even had to construct a "camel deck" on the ship because they were so much larger

than horses.

In the end, they paid about $250 each for 33 camels from five different countries.

Twenty one larger Arabian camels for general hauling, nine swift dromedary camels for chasing

off Indians – direct quote from Jefferson Davis – two Bactrian two-hump camels, and

one Booghdee hybrid camel with only one hump.

A few camels died on the trip over.

But also, a few were born, so in May 1856, 34 camels landed in Indianola, Texas, beginning

the US Camel Corps.

The Texans laughed at Wayne, saying there was no way a camel could carry more than a

mule.

And I'll give it to them, camels do look pretty awkward.

But in front of a crowd, Wayne loaded four bales of hay, weighing a total of 1256 pounds

onto one camel, and it stood up and walked away without any struggle.

To convey to you the surprise and sudden change of sentiment when the camel, at the signal,

rose and walked off with his four bales of hay, would be impossible.

This was enough to make front page news in Texas.

Mules can carry about 300 pounds, a Bactrian camel can carry up to 1500, one of the larger

Arabians can carry 1000 pounds, and the swifter dromedaries can only carry 700.

Which is still more than double what a mule can carry.

The Camel Corps was stationed at the newly constructed Camp Verde, Texas, about 60 miles

north west of San Antonio.

But it wasn't just camels that were recruited into the Army.

Major Wayne also hired five Arabs and Turks to help teach the Americans how to properly

care for and ride the camels.

They actually make an appearance in several movies about the Camel Corps.

Praying, caterwauling heathens, that's what they are.

Don't seem to matter much how man looks to god, long as he looks.

The most famous of them was Hi Jolly… though his real name was actually Hadji Ali and the

Americans just couldn't pronounce that.

Though that wasn't his real name either.

It was actually Philip Tedro, he was a half-Greek, half-Syrian from Turkey, though it wasn't

actually Turkey at the time, it was still the Ottoman Empire.

But like many people who convert to Islam and complete the Hajj, he changed his name

to Hadji Ali.

Many of my fellow veterans will probably recognize that word as the derogatory term for Muslims.

But it actually just means "someone who has completed the Hajj" the closest Christian

word would be Pilgrim.

Think back, Pilgrim.

So when you call someone a hadji, you're basically calling them a pilgrim.

Well take some advice, Pilgrim.

Do you know how or when that term became a pejorative?

It comes from Jonny Quest, the 1960s cartoon.

This character is named Hadji, he's actually Indian, and while there are Indian Muslims,

it's pretty clear in the show that he's Hindu.

But you know, all brown people are basically the same, I guess.

Anyway, Hadji Ali or Hi Jolly, was so important to the project that he also appears in every

movie about the Camel Corps.

While we're performing introductions, let me introduce you to Hadji Ali from Smyrna,

we call him Hi Jolly.

How do you do?

Effendi.

Here you are Hi Jolly, no pork in yours!

Okay!

Hadji Ali's the name, or if you prefer as your barge driver so quaintly called me, Hi

Jolly!

Ha ha!

Camel instructor extraordinaire, at your service, sir.

The guy playing Hadji Ali in this one is actually Italian, but you know, all brown people…

I sure am glad whitewashing is no longer a thing in Hollywood.

It took the Americans a while to get used to the camels, the saddles are a bit awkward,

and camels are notoriously ill-tempered and stubborn.

They also smell different, not any worse than a horse, but different.

Which always made horses, donkeys, and mules afraid of them because they were this weird

foreign smelling animal, they'd always be restless when camels were around.

It was such a problem that Brownsville, Texas banned them from the city limits.

But Wayne continued to acclimate them and even began running experiments, when it became

obvious that camels weren't well suited for combat.

They're unwieldy in close quarters and can't sprint for very long like a horse.

In short bursts, camels have a top speed of 40 miles an hour, while a horse is only 30,

but can sustain it for much longer.

But the camel did beat the horse when it came to long distances.

During one experiment, he set a team of six camels against a team of six mules in a race

to San Antonio and back while carrying a cargo of oats.

The mules carried 1800 pounds and took five days, while the camels carried 3600 pounds

and took only two days.

That's double the cargo in half the time.

So it became pretty clear that the camels were much better suited for transporting cargo

as part of a wagon train.

In 1857, Buchanan was sworn in as president.

As a result, Major Wayne was transferred to another post and Jefferson Davis was out as

Secretary of War… but I have a feeling we'll be hearing from him again . And their replacements

were impressed with the camels so far.

So in June of that year, they were set to the task of helping E.F. Beale create a wagon

road across the 35th parallel, from Fort Defiance, Arizona to the Colorado River.

Kind of like the Southwest's version of the Oregon Trail.

He took 25 camels with him in the ultimate test of their ability, it's actually the

plot of every movie featuring the Camel Corps.

Except for Hawmps which is just terrible.

And look what gets off the boat, a bunch of raunchy, mangy… hawmps.

The expedition left in August 1857, and it took a while before Beale really warmed up

to the camels.

They pack their heavy load of corn, of which they never taste a grain; put up with any

food offered them without complaint, and are always up with the wagons…

It is a subject of constant surprise and remark to all of us, how their feet can possibly

stand the character of the road we have been traveling over for the last ten days.

It is certainly the hardest road on the feet of barefooted animals I have ever known.

You see, while horses need horseshoes, camel toes can take quite a beating…

I'm sorry.

The camels travelled 30-40 miles a day, they basically ate whatever they could find on

the trail including cactus, and would go 8-10 days without water.

The horses and mules would start to freak out from thirst after only 36 hours.

Here's a painting from the artist that went along with the expedition, as you can see,

the horses and mules are basically drowning themselves in the river, while the camels

are just hanging out in the back giving absolutely zero f***s.

Several times during the trip, they got lost while looking for a waterhole and it was the

camels that went out searching that saved the day.

I believe at this time I may speak for every man in our party, when I say that there is

not one of them who would not prefer the most indifferent of our camels to four of our best

mules.

They arrived at the Colorado River in October 1857, which was the biggest test, because

for those of you familiar with fording rivers, things don't always go your way.

This was compounded by the rumor that camel's can't swim.

It's said that camels can't.

Is it true that camels can't swim?

I don't know, we're about to find out.

Camels, can't swim!

No, instinctively afraid of the water.

They can swim, in fact, the older of the two movies shows them doing it…

Okay we'll just ignore that really bad cookie cutter frame there…

The point is that they totally c- what?!

WHAT?!

I think we're gonna need CaptainDisillusion to crack this one.

All the camels, fully loaded successfully swam across the Colorado River, which is an

average of 300 feet wide.

Two horses and ten mules drowned during the same attempt.

Beale's expedition continued to Fort Tejon, California, a distance of 1200 miles covered

in four months.

He left the camels there and retraced his steps a year later.

Extending the road from Fort Smith, Arkansas, through Fort Defiance, Arizona, to Fort Tejon,

California.

Much like the Oregon Trail, Beale's Wagon Road later became a railroad and then a rather

famous highway where you can get your kicks…

Route 66.

You can still hike the trail and find signs like this.

The camel experiment was declared a huge success.

The Secretary of War petitioned Congress to buy 1000 more camels in 1858, 1859, and again

in 1860.

But then the Civil War happened, starring our old friend Jefferson Davis.

Because of Beale's expeditions, 31 camels were in Fort Tejon, California, which remained

part of the Union, they were used for local hauling and map surveying during the war.

80 camels were still in Camp Verde, Texas and were captured by the Confederacy.

Many of the camels were abused or even killed, but a few of them were put to use by the Confederate

Quartermasters.

An entire infantry company in Mississippi used a single camel to carry their luggage

around.

Apparently even Robert E Lee was impressed by the camels.

When the war ended, all of the remaining camels fell under US control again, but they didn't

know what to do with them.

Because the railroad was about to render them obsolete.

The first transcontinental railroad was underway and as a result, people didn't really do

wagon trains anymore.

So some of the camels were sold at auction.

Camels went to circuses or civilian transportation companies, even Hi Jolly bought a few and

used them for several years.

Others were simply turned loose in the desert.

Wild camels were spotted for decades afterwards, Douglas MacArthur apparently saw one in 1885,

there were sightings in 1901 and 1913, and even one near the Salton Sea in California

in 1941.

But that's nothing compared to the Legend of the Red G host.

In 1883, a woman in Arizona was trampled to death by a camel who left behind tufts of

red fur, then it terrorized prospectors in the surrounding area and was rumored to be

carrying a dead rider on its back.

Once, a hunter took a shot at it and the head fell off, because why not, right?

It made its way down to Mexico, where it was known as el Fantasma Colorado and was eventually

shot and killed in 1893, still wearing a harness but the rider must have been shaken off.

And because everything comes full circle, legend has it that the rider was Hi Jolly…

even though he was still alive at the time.

Hadji Ali died in 1902 and he was such an important local figure that they put up a

pyramid shaped monument in his honor in Quartzsite, Arizona.

It also contains the ashes of Topsy, the last US branded camel, which died in 1934 at the

age of 80.

One of the other camels' bones were sent to the Smithsonian and are still on display,

even mentioning its time in the Camel Corps.

The camel experiment was never officially called the US Camel Corps.

But I mean, c'mon, what a cool name.

And because of the success of the experiment camels were imported and used all over the

west by civilians starting their own camel corps small businesses.

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While the military may have been the source of the ultimately failed camel experiment,

the idea was eventually picked up by civilian companies.

Maybe not to the extent that Wayne, Beale, or Davis would have liked, but that's due

more to the railroad than to the camel.

While you may think it was a silly idea to bring a foreign animal to the United States

to try and change the culture and landscape…

I'd remind you that horses are foreign to America too.

The United States is a nation of immigrants, not only with its people but with its ideas,

we often borrow foreign ideas and make them better.

Hamburgers, pizza, even the car, are all foreign inventions.

The camel was a foreign idea that probably would have worked if not for the bad timing

of the Civil War.

And an even better foreign invention coming along.

Many of the things you probably thought were American aren't, so take a look around,

you're surrounded by foreign ideas, which isn't so bad, because now, you know better.

The State of the Union is on Tuesday, so join us for some group therapy, I'll also be

at Vidcon London next week so there won't be a new video for a while.

But if you'd like to add your name to this list of camel jockies, head on over to patreon.com/knowingbetter.

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HILLARY ANNOUNCED SHE'S LEAVING U S TO BE PRESIDENT - Duration: 17:01.

HILLARY ANNOUNCED SHE'S LEAVING U.S. TO BE PRESIDENT

Hillary Clinton has wanted to be president for decades, and last year she really thought

she would win.

Hillary had the support of the crooked liberal mainstream media, money from George Soros,

celebrity endorsements, and of course, voter fraud galore.

Everything was lined up correctly for Hillary to be crowned but that all changed the moment

Donald Trump stepped onto the scene.

The tough-talking New Yorker dashed Clinton's chances for a presidential win and in the

process also destroyed the Democrat party in a single blow.

For a year, liberals have been pouting over Trump's win, and Hillary Clinton is still

licking her wounds and obsessively whining about losing the election.

And, it appears she is not giving up on her dream of being president even if that means

leaving the country, or planet to be elected.

In the real world when someone starts talking about living in an alternate universe where

they are president, it usually signals that they have had a break with reality, and they

would be taken quickly to a doctor.

Well, that would be a logical solution, though if you are Hillary Clinton and you fantasize

about being president on another planet, it is just laughed off.

In a recent interview with the liberal online publication, Now This, Hillary Clinton sat

down to be interviewed and languished over being president on another planet.

Yeah, you read that correctly.

Hillary Clinton actually sat down and daydreamed about being president on the fictional planet

Earth 2 where she would save the world from Kim Jong-un and how she would handle the supposed

Russian "collusion."

Here is more from The American Mirror:

Hillary Clinton really wants to be president — even if that means blasting off from Earth

to do so.

The failed Democratic candidate recently talked with Now This, a liberal online news outlet,

where she pined for a presidency.

While discussing a variety of topics, Clinton envisioned leaving Earth and venturing Earth

2, where that planet faces the same issues as the actual Earth.

"We went to another planet with Hillary," the caption reads as Clinton and Now This's

Nico Pitney fired off a series of topics.

"People joke about Earth 2, where you are president," he told a giggling Hillary.

On Earth 2's North Korea, Clinton said she would have "full-on diplomatic pressure"

to solve the crisis with the portly dictator Kim Jong-un.

Clinton said if she was in charge, she would be "putting as much money as it took into

enforcing the laws we already have," and added she would want "universal background

checks."

After answering a question about the opioid crisis, a handler attempted to cut off the

interview.

"I fear we have to end it here," a voice off camera said.

"Okay," Pitney responded.

"You want one more?

I'll be short — one more.

Because I like being on Earth 2," Hillary said.

Pitney then asked Clinton what she would do about Russia.

"If I had been president, or on Earth 2, where I am," Hillary said she would have

an "independent commission" look into the alleged Russian "hacking" of the presidential

election.

"I worry about '18.

I worry about 2020 because this is the first time we've even been attacked and not imposed

any real consequences on our adversary," Clinton asserted, ignoring moves by Congressional

Republicans and the Trump administration to impose new sanctions on Russia since the election.

The L.A. Times reported in late October:

The Russian government on Friday accused the United States of displaying "hostility"

as the Trump administration belatedly took the first steps toward imposing new sanctions

to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

In early August, after considerable delay and with minimal fanfare, President Trump

signed into law a measure that required the new sanctions, which target individuals and

firms with ties to Russian defense and intelligence agencies.

Under the law, companies that "knowingly engage in a significant transaction" with

people or firms on the list could be subject to U.S. sanctions after Jan. 28.

It appears that Hillary Clinton has lost her mind completely, but no one on the left will

say it in order to save face.

They all know that Hillary Clinton is damaged goods and by her doing these public interviews

and making these outlandish remarks only proves the point more.

Instead of Hillary Clinton retiring and fading off into the distance, she continues to push

her insane conspiracy theories and whine about losing the election.

If she had any sense of decency in her, she would just keep her mouth shut and leave the

American people alone, but that isn't how Hillary works.

Hopefully, one day soon she will officially retire or find another hobby that doesn't

involve politics or activism so we

all

be

left alone in peace.

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What Do You Need To Run For President of the United States? - Duration: 7:38.

Think you got what it takes to run for President of the most powerful nation on earth?

Well, you probably do seeing as that bar has been historically set pretty low at times,

and with 2020 around the corner people around America are even now beginning to consider

their candidacy for the highest office in the land.

But just how does one get into the oval office and a chance to push the biggest, reddest

button in the world?

For starters you're going to need to make sure that you even qualify for the job, and

that means being a natural-born citizen of the United States- with 37,000,000 million

immigrants in the US that's going to knock out a sizable chunk of the competition.

Next you have to be at least 35 years old, which is bad news for Saira Blair of West

Virginia, who at 18 was the youngest person ever elected to state or federal office in

the United States.

Also not qualifying is James Tufts, who was 3 years old in 2012 when he was elected mayor

of the town of Dorset, a town with a population of 22.

Next you'll have to have made sure that you were a resident of the United States for at

least 14 years- so if you were born in the US as a natural citizen but took off to live

abroad, no dice for you.

We suppose the founding fathers thought that it might be dangerous to elect a President

who was heavily influenced by a foreign, potentially hostile, nation.

Be 35 or older, a 14 year resident, and a natural born citizen.

Meet those standards and you are free to declare your candidacy for president at any time,

although once you receive campaign contributions up to, or spend more than $5,000 you must

register with the Federal Election Commission- that's the agency that we in the US trust

to enforce campaign finance law and that helps keep foreign money out of our political system

so that candidates aren't compromised.

Of course it would be easier to simply make elections federally funded to ensure no funny

business, but think about all those poor lobbyists who'd be out of a job.

Next stop on your road to presidency is your state primary and caucuses.

Both help to narrow the pool of candidates from each political party.

A caucus and a primary works much the same way, a group of voters each cast their vote

for a nominee- however caucuses are limited to the parties voters are registered for only,

while some primaries, known as open primaries, allow a voter of any political party to vote

for the nominee they like best- however a voter cannot go to their car, put on a disguise,

and then vote in a second primary for another political party, that would be voter fraud.

Leading up to the primaries or caucuses though you're going to want to be on the road every

single day, you want to make sure your message reaches as many people as possible so you

can drum up as much support as possible.

You're also going to need funds to run campaign ads and finance your election team.

In a common sense system those funds would come from a federal election pool to ensure

candidates weren't compromised by lobbyists and to ensure a true democracy where poor

candidates weren't disadvantaged by richer candidates.

Instead though candidates are free to beg, scrape, borrow, and promise any amount of

favors and influence should they win the White House in exchange for cold, hard cash now.

So you're going to be putting in a lot of footwork as you move from fundraiser to fundraiser

and take meetings with special interest group after special interest group!

Remember to always be flexible with your principles, or just outright discard them!

All the while you're shaking babies and kissing hands- or is it the other way around... you'll

want to make sure your campaign manager finds out asap- you're going to be keeping your

eye on your political party's national convention.

That's the superbowl of party politics, and though a clear frontrunner is typically identified

early on, sometimes the national convention serves to confirm a single nominee.

At each convention- Republican and Democratic- there are a group of delegates which must

be swayed over to your side if you want a chance at your party's nomination.

These delegates are split into two main groups: pledged, or bound delegates are required to

support the candidate that the people gave the most votes to during their party's primaries

and caucuses.

Unpledged, or unbound delegates, or also known as superdelegates, are free to completely

ignore democracy and the people's votes both and simply vote as they see fit.

How do superdelegates fit into a democratic system?

They don't, are an affront to the very idea of democracy, and should be abolished immediately,

but we'll go ahead and tell you anyways:

In 1972 Democratic Senator George McGovern won the overwhelming support of Democratic

voters, but in the national election faced Senator Edmund Muskie who was the favorite

of the Democratic Party establishment.

McGovern however was so beloved by Democrats that he completely trounced Muskie, and thus

won the party nomination- only to go up against President Nixon in the general election and

give the Democrats one of their most humiliating defeats in history.

In the final vote, Democrats won only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

Incensed and determined to never suffer such an overwhelming defeat, the leaders of the

Democratic party established a VIP category of delegates who would vote however they saw

fit, completely ignoring the wishes of the voters.

These superdelegates wouldn't even have to be voted into their positions, they would

simply be appointed by senior party leaders and end up making up 30% of the total delegate

count- ensuring some measure of control over who wins the nomination and that democracy

would be in no way served.

Though Republicans also make use of superdelegates, theirs are limited to only three per state

and obliged to vote for their state's popular vote winner.

To have a chance of winning your party's nomination at the national convention, you're going to

want to tow the party line and make sure you please as many delegates as possible.

However if no nominee has their party's majority of delegates going into the convention, this

can result in a brokered or contested convention, where delegates must vote for their candidates-

pledged delegates must vote for the candidate they are pledged to, but after the first round

of voting are free to choose any candidate if their candidate doesn't make it past the

first round.

The two national conventions are pretty much modern Thunderdomes- many men, and sometimes

women, enter, but only one will exit victorious.

Now you're ready for prime time- the general election.

This is the big show, and where every single embarrassing secret, gaff, mistake, and poor-taste

tweet you have ever posted will be put on full public display.

If the national conventions are thunderdomes, the general election is a 1 on 1 no-holds-barred

deathmatch, and at stake is the ultimate prize: presidency of the United States.

But it's not as easy as simply campaigning, talking to people, and spreading your message-

you're going to have to be strategic about your time and money.

That's because both are limited, and because the Presidency is not actually decided by

individual votes, but rather by a process known as the electoral college.

The electoral college is an institution held over from an early compromise made by the

founding fathers.

While most supported a popular vote election, many- most of whom already held some form

of political power- insisted that while they would grudgingly allow the peasants to vote

for each party's presidential nominees, a bunch of 'normals' surely couldn't be

trusted to vote for the actual president- that'd be preposterous!

Thus they believed that only the US Congress should vote for President, in a kinda-sorta-not-really

democratic way.

With a brand new nation already on the verge of collapse and England gleefully waiting

for a chance to strike should it, the founding fathers came to a compromise- the President

would be elected by an electoral college, with each state receiving a number of electors

based on how many members of Congress that state has, and with absolutely no constitutional

obligation to even vote for the person who won their state's popular vote!

US territories on the other hand would pay taxes but mind their own business and receive

no electors, how the founding fathers missed that bit of irony given the cause of their

recent rebellion is beyond us.

So with your money and time running out, you're going to want to prioritize which states you

actually campaign in- aiming for all the states that have the highest number of electors.

States with few electors, or those that polls show are heavily made up of the opposing political

party, are going to be very low priorities for you.

Come election day all your hard work is going to pay off, and the electoral college will

do its job by ignoring the votes cast by the people and deciding for themselves who gets

to be president!

Would you ever run for president?

Is the electoral college and superdelegates truly democratic?

Also, check out our other video Can a US president Go To Jail?

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See you next time!

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Working level talks to be held between N. Korea and U.S on Monday - Duration: 1:36.

U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Biegun... arrives in South Korea this afternoon

for working-level talks with his North Korean counterpart scheduled for Monday.

They'll be working out the details and agendas for the highly anticipated second summit between

Pyeongyang and Washington.

Seo Bo-bin reports.

Ahead of the second bilateral summit between North Korea and U.S.,... Washington's envoy

to North Korea called on the regime to provide full disclosure of its nuclear and missile

programs.

According to diplomatic sources, Special Representative Stephen Biegun will be traveling to Seoul

on Sunday for working-level talks with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Hyok-Chol, ahead

of the second summit.

Prior to the working-level talks, it has been reported that Biegun will also be meeting

South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon... to discuss negotiation strategies.

No specific details regarding the venue has been announced,... but it is expected that

the talks could take place in the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjeom.

The discussion is expected to focus on denuclearization and corresponding measures that would be included

as part of the summit agenda.

The main sticking point is the range of concessions that the U.S. is willing to allow, in response

to the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear facilities.

The working-level talks could begin as early as Monday, but it is unclear how long it is

expected to last.

The U.S. State Department did release the starting date of Biegun's visit, but did not

specify when his schedule will end.

Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.

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US Assemblyman: Crypto Is a Golden Goose, Regulation Could Save It - Duration: 16:50.

The state of New York is about to introduce the US's first cryptocurrency task force comprised

of stakeholders such as technologists, consumers, investors, blockchain companies and academics.

The task force will study the regulation and use of crypto and submit a report by the end of 2020.

The announcement was first made by New York State Assembly member Clyde Burnell

who is also chair of the Subcommittee on Internet and New Technologies.

We interviewed Clyde and asked him to tell us more about the task force.

Well I was interested in Bitcoin, I mean I think I first heard about it in, I don't know,

the early 2010s or something like that and so yeah I heard about it for a very long,

you know, for you know, a while back and I used to work for a state senator where we,

you know, while I was working for him, I used to, you know, look at, we were trying to find

out, you know, what was going on with Bitcoin and that was back in 2014, 2013, 2014.

When I was blessed enough to get in this position as a New York State Assembly member in 2016,

you know, it was, you know, at that time a lot of stuff had been changing in the blockchain

space and the crypto space so when I first heard of Bitcoin in, you know, 2000

around 2010 - 2011, Bitcoin was the only token out there, you know.

When I got elected, you know, we was, it was, a world of, you know we had - and I also I

also hold coins.

I also, you know, you know, have some tokens.

So, but, a lot have proliferated from them.

But one day I was sitting in this office and I said "I wonder what are the different ways?"

Because I heard that there were, I saw that there were some Bitcoin ATMs around New York City.

So I said "I wonder if there are any Bitcoin ATMs and what's the closest one to my office?".

So I typed it in Google and I saw that there was one a block and a half away from here.

Is it still there?

It's still there.

And that's the one I did, the episode I did, the episode of me discovering that Bitcoin ATM.

That was all impromptu, at the moment, where I found that ATM - a block and a half away from here.

So if you look at a golden, you know, if you look at the fable of a golden goose.

There was a goose that laid golden eggs and every day; it laid a golden egg.

Every day it laid a golden egg.

The owner of it was like "Wow!

This goose is gonna make me so much money and it's laying eggs, one egg everyday.

If I open it up, I want to get all the eggs out!"

And when he opened it up, he killed the goose.

No more eggs.

If we overregulate, we can kill that goose and cryptocurrency, blockchain technology,

has the potential to lay golden eggs for a very long time.

We need to make sure that we take care of the goose so that it can continue to lay eggs.

We don't, but we don't want it to, we don't want the goose to go around killing other goose.

All right?

We don't, also, we don't want to feed the goose too much so it becomes too big.

So I think that we have to make sure that we come out with regulations that protect

the goose, keep bad stuff from messing up the goose,

and to allow it also to continue to lay the eggs.

We're happy that the governor, Governor Andrew Cuomo, signed into law to be able to put together

a cryptocurrency - well we call it a digital currency task force - where we are going to

get stakeholders from around the industry, from technologists, to exchanges, to coins,

to investors, to consumers, to the New York State DFS, to be able to get in a room to

help figure out what the proper level of regulations are - to help figure out - to define what

these different tokens are, how do they use, how they are going to be used in New York,

to define and to figure out how to use blockchain property in New York, and they're going to

put together a report to help guide us on the right levels of regulations in this state.

What's great is that in conjunction with that task force California has a blockchain workgroup

and that was signed into law around the same time and with California study and New York study

and what have you, we could try to figure out the proper level of regulations and the

proper use of blockchain for the two biggest states, but really for the country, and maybe the world.

So a lot of people talk about the BitLicense and speak about it in a negative sense or

what have you, and we had to find the right level of regulations, but New York was the

first municipality government source in the nation, and in the world, to protect its investors,

to protect the regular consumers, right?

Back when New York State came out with a BitLicense, in 2014 when they were looking at it, we were

in a world where if you had, you know Bitcoin, and you purchased Bitcoin on an exchange like

Mt. Gox, and it was compromised, you had no recourse, none.

New York state, under the DFS (Department of Financial Services) in a short, in a deliberately

and very very smartly, came up with the BitLicense.

They had, and people, you know, and there's controversy around it or what have you but

I'm happy to be in a state where New Yorkers are protected.

If you are, if you're an exchange in New York and New Yorkers buy cryptocurrencies,

you are protected here.

Now that was that was four years ago.

There's a lot changes in four years, so the definition that was,

and then at that time - Bitcoin was the only player in town.

Right now we have, I don't know how many coins.

Right?

How many tokens?

Now we have different kinds of tokens.

Now we have security tokens.

Now we have utility tokens.

Now we have, we have a whole host of - you know - so the world has changed a whole lot

and so that's why this task force is important to look at, you know, not where the ball is

but where it's going.

But I think that New York is a great place for cryptocurrency.

I think New York is a great place for blockchain technology.

So crypto landscape in the U.S. is interesting.

So there are certain states that are wide open.

That's - right?

So I don't want to name any, but there's certain states that are wide open and say

"Look, any blockchain company, any blockchain business,

come on, we love you."

There are states that are saying, you know, "You want to pay taxes in crypto?

No problem."

"You want to pay whatever, you know, in crypto?

No problem."

And there are states that are not speaking about it at all.

So you had the whole gamut, right?

You had the whole gamut that's out there.

New York is the Empire State.

We like to brag about that but I think we are.

We are the Big Apple.

We are the Empire State.

But there is no doubt we are the financial capital of the world.

So we can't be the Wild Wild West.

We can't say whatever goes here, goes here.

Right?

Because the world is watching.

Not only are other states watching, the world is watching, right?

When we came out, the BitLicense had been used by many states and many countries as

a model for regulations.

So being that that's the case, being that we are, we have to be careful, deliberate,

and exacting on how we come out with these, with regulations, and our approach toward

cryptocurrency and our approach toward blockchain.

I can't speak on the SEC, that's federal government.

I can't speak on the SEC's potential decision on allowing Bitcoin electronic traded funds.

But I will say that in the space of cryptocurrency trading, you've seen two years ago, the commodities

exchange in Chicago, all right, trade in Bitcoin.

You've seen the New York Stock Exchange relax their view towards cryptocurrency.

You've seen many of the established financial institutions have and include cryptocurrency

and blockchain related divisions.

So in a relatively short time, that could be, that seemes like a long time for folks

- for the impatient young people in the space but in a relatively short time - the acceptance

of cryptocurrency in traditional finance - it's been happening on a very fast pace.

I know people are impatient, people think it's taking a long time, but it's not really,

it's not really taking a long time.

Keep in mind, we have to look at the context.

This is an asset, if I can call it that, that is 10 years old, that's a new thing.

That was developed very fast and that's changing very fast.

So for the SEC, for these financial, these established older financial institutions to

adopt these assets at this point is unheard of.

So Wyoming did it.

I think Ohio just recently said OK, I think, so it's interesting, if you looked at my YouTube

episode where I try to buy pizza with Bitcoin - when I actually went to go buy it - I couldn't

do it because I didn't want to spend - I didn't want to spend my Bitcoin on a two dollar pizza

and then have it be ten dollars later on.

So what's interesting is that I don't think crypto is in a place for currency and it's

my personal opinion.

This is my personal opinion.

This is not the opinion of the government.

I don't think crypto is in its place until - but what's interesting, generally speaking,

generally speaking, there are tokens that are called stable tokens that are, I think

they're called stable tokens, I think that's what they're called - excuse me if I'm wrong

but there are tokens that are pegged towards with the dollar, for example, right?

That don't have the volatility.

If that's kind of tokenized, then I could see that used as currency easier but also

I don't see I don't know if Bitcoin would be the standard to use as currency.

I would, when I went there, when I went to go buy the pizza, I would be more willing

to spend Litecoin on a pizza than Bitcoin.

So saying all that, I don't know if we're in place yet to have general acception, general

acceptance of accepting crypto for taxes.

How long do you think it would take?

I don't know.

You know I'm looking at these stablecoins and seeing that, you know that that's interesting

to me, you know, to see that if you know if you have these tokens that are, that are paid

towards, say the U.S. dollar, or some other kind of, you know, some other kind of fiat

currency, you know, what would that we know what that means.

So people are investing in, people are investing significant amounts in cryptocurrency.

Companies are wrapping their business around that technology.

So because that's the case it's very important to protect folks investments.

So whether you invest in something big or small, it's important for you,

on the one hand, for consumer protection and for investor protection,

to make sure that the new guys are properly protected.

So that's one thing.

So I don't think that, I don't think it's too small for us to regulate and they probably

meant larger scale, wider scale.

I don't know what the context of that question was because I respect the folks and I respect

that conference.

Another thing also is that also companies that are doing activities around the space

also want to make sure that they are properly protected and that they can grow.

So I think finding the right kinds of, the right level of regulation for them is important

and I don't think it's too small for us to talk about and think about.

I don't want to assure people one thing or not.

Like I said as how I defined, the way I view crypto, I view crypto as a great potential

that has great potential.

A great potential in the technology, a great potential to be able to exchange value with

and I think that it's a golden goose and the way I view it, and the same things, that we

properly, we find the right level of regulations so that we don't kill it and that it will

continue to provide eggs for us.

But this is not a new thing.

I mean I'm sorry.

It's not new that we're dealing with new technology.

I can imagine us having this same interview back in 1996 talking about the Internet.

You can say "Oh my gosh!

What are we gonna do about the Internet?"

You know how we're gonna start - what's the proper level of regulations?

Now keep in mind, we're in the Internet world, maybe 20 years into the Internet world and

we're still trying to figure out what to do with privacy.

We're still trying to figure out what the right levels of protections you need and what

are your rights with your personal data, right?

California just came out with a set of regulations.

Europe came out with their set of their GDPR you know less than a year ago.

So 20 years later we're still trying to figure out the Internet and we still, we have to

figure this out.

Twenty years later is still relatively new.

So with crypto I think we're in a similar space but even earlier.

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Joe Biden: Healthcare in the US | In-Person | J.P. Morgan - Duration: 2:30.

It's really, really complicated.

But what I found out that disappointed me the most is things that I'd imagine if I told

you or told the audience that were… weren't happening // There's not much collaboration

at all, with knowing that the more collaboration we get to cures much more quickly.

// For example, when my son had his cancer genome // a lot of things that I learned that

were impediments that existed; silos had been built up of information and data that were

not accessible.

Whereas if they were put together, we'd move a lot more quickly to finding answers on how

to deal with these cancers.

I think what they can do and should be doing is moving as strongly as they can to put pressure

on their elected representatives and on companies to begin to move more systematically and rapidly

toward dealing with cures to cancer that are available to us now, and making them affordable

and accessible to people.

// I was, vice president of the United States.

I literally had an entire Air Force available to me to get me anywhere I needed to get,

to get my son to the right doctors, hospitals, et cetera, and I thought to myself, what would,

how would people I grew up in my neighborhood in Claymont, Delaware, how do they do it?

How do they-- just practical things, like if you have a neighbor who is going through

chemotherapy, // If they are going through a particularly difficult time, offer to watch

their home for them.

Offer to drive them.

// and make a world of difference.

I know that sounds so overly simplistic, but it can change people's lives.

There are so many things to look forward to, it's the things we can do to prevent cancer

in the first place, diagnose it when it occurs, to get it early, be in a position once it's

diagnosed to be able to get treatment, and turn some cancers into chronic diseases instead

of death sentences, and absolute outright cures.

And so we should all be putting 100% of our effort behind dealing with a disease that

affects almost every family.

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HOT | As US Midwest thaws out, California braces for fierce winter storm - Duration: 2:33.

HOT | As US Midwest thaws out, California braces for fierce winter storm

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Los Angeles: As the US Midwest and East Coast thawed out from days of bitter, deadly cold, Californians on Friday battened down the hatches ahead of a fierce winter storm carrying heavy rains and high winds that could touch off urban flooding and mudslides.

Though the sun was out in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon and temperatures hovered in the low 60s Fahrenheit, the National Weather Service said rain would begin to fall later in the evening and continue without let up through Saturday night.

This is a very big storm coming through Southern California, from the eastern Pacific Ocean, said National Weather Service meteorologist Rich Thompson.

The NWS predicted up to three inches of rain in coastal and valley areas with seven to eight inches forecast for mountain areas. Central and Northern California were also expected to be hit by rain and high winds.

Thompson said the weather service was not expecting the rain to be significant and sustained enough to cause widespread, damaging mudslides in areas left blackened and denuded of trees by major California wildfires late last year.

There might be the potential for minor mud and debris flows. Traffic accidents, urban flooding. Things like that, he said, adding that trees could fall amid high winds and saturated soil and that coastal waters could be dangerous for boaters.

Winter storm watches were issued for the areas damaged by wildfires, including the foothills above the post seaside community of Malibu left blackened by the Woolsey Fire in November.

An Arctic air mass sent south by a disruption in the polar vortex jet stream brought bone chilling cold to a large swath of the United States this week, causing more than a dozen deaths, closing schools and halting mail service.

The cold eased on Friday as the jet stream retreated, with temperatures forecast into the mid 40s to low 50s Fahrenheit through the weekend and Monday.

Manorama Online, Malayala Manorama, P.B No.26, Kottayam 686 001, Kerala, India.

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HOT | US arrests birth tourism operators linked to China - Duration: 0:29.

HOT | US arrests birth tourism operators linked to China

"Birth tourists" travel to foreign countries to give birth, so that their children acquire the citizenship of that country. In the US, the legal principle of jus soli automatically confers citizenship upon babies born on US soil. Other countries, including , do not grant citizenship automatically unless one or more parents are also citizens.

The three people in custody had not given comment at time of publishing. All were charged "conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, international money laundering and identity theft," according to the DOJ statement.

The charges stem from often upscale apartments, where mothers to be paid between dollar 15,000 to dollar 50,000 to give birth in the US, according to a statement given at the time by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE .

The DOJ alleges that the birth tourism operations advertised access to "the most attractive nationality; better air and less pollution; priority for jobs in US government; superior educational resources, including free education from junior high school to public high school; a more stable political situation; and the potential to receive your senior supplement benefits when you are living overseas."

The indictments allege that companies instructed women to wear "loose clothing that would conceal their pregnancies" while entering through US immigration.

"These cases allege a wide array of criminal schemes that sought to defeat our immigration laws laws that welcome foreign visitors so long as they are truthful about their intentions when entering the country," said US Attorney Nick Hanna.

"Statements by the operators of these birthing houses show contempt for the United States, while they were luring clients with the power and prestige of US citizenship for their children. Some of the wealthy clients of these businesses also showed blatant contempt for the US by ignoring court orders directing them to stay in the country to assist with the investigation and by skipping out on their unpaid hospital bills."

A multi million dollar crime ring

In total, the DOJ unsealed indictments that charged 19 people. Dongyuan Li, 41, who was one of the three arrested, is alleged by the DOJ to have received dollar 3 million in international wire transfers from China in just two years, serving more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers.

The indictment details communications Li allegedly had over whether to refund a down payment because a customer found out that her baby was a girl and "her husband had arranged an abortion for her."

The other two defendants arrested, Michael Wei Yueh Liu, 53, and Jing Dong, 42, are accused of operating a company called USA Happy Baby Inc., that charged VIP customers up to dollar 100,000. The indictment also alleges that Liu and Dong used 14 different bank accounts to receive more than dollar 3.4 million in international wire transfers from China during 2013 and 2014.

Federal prosecutors also unsealed indictments of 16 people who are believed to have fled and are now considered fugitives. All are linked to alleged Southern California birth tourism companies that catered to predominately wealthy Chinese clients.

Among the 16 defendants believed to have fled, one had told federal agents that his birth tourism business investment was "chump change," because he had more than dollar 10 million in his bank accounts in China, according to the DOJ.

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Iran RAGES at Trump for trying to topple Venezuela's Maduro - 'the US wants hegemony!' - Duration: 5:30.

 Iran President Hassan Rouhani said Washington was seeking "world hegemony" by suppressing independent countries, Tehran's state news agency reported

This latest attack comes as the US ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan leader Maduro as part of an effort to replace him with opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido

Following a meeting with Venezuela's new envoy in Tehran, Rouhani said: "The Americans are basically against all popular revolutions and independent countries and seek world hegemony by suppressing them

" Related articles War 3: Furious Iran taunts US with new cruise missile  Relations between Iran and the US have soured since President Trump announced he was pulling Washington out of a 215 nuclear accord and reimposing sanctions

 And the situation in Venezuela has strained relations even further as the rival nations throw their weight behind opposing sides in the rapidly escalating crisis

 Alongside Russia and China, Iran supports Maduro while the US and most of South America has demanded he step down

 Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic today risked further provoking Washington by showing off a new cruise missile

 READ MORE: Venezuela crisis: Foreign invasion, military coup or status quo - What's next for Maduro?  Related articles War 3: Iranian crowds chant 'DEATH TO AMERICA'  Tehran says the weapon can hit targets 8 miles away which puts its regional rival Saudi Arabia well within range

 Iran has continued to expand its missile programme, particularly its ballistic missiles, despite repeated warnings from the United States

 Defence Minister Amir Hatami said during the unveiling ceremony: "This cruise missile needs a very short time for its preparedness and can fly at a low altitude

" However, Western experts say Iran often exaggerates the capabilities of its weapons

 In January, Tehran tried to launch a satellite into space but the rocket failed to reach orbit

 Washington has warned Iran not to attempt further tests fearing that the same technology used to blast a satellite into space could be adapted to produce long-range ballistic missiles

 Tehran insists its space programme, a source of national pride, is purely for peaceful purposes

 In addition to concerns over Iran's ballistic missiles, the US is also keeping a close eye on its nuclear programme

   Officials in Tehran announced this week they were preparing to step up their production of enriched uranium

 The radioactive element is used as fuel for nuclear power but can also be further refined to create material for atomic weapons

 President Trump this week warned Iran remains a "source of potential danger and conflict" but his intelligence chiefs said Tehran is not working to create a nuclear weapon

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US| Medicare for All is not a fantasy Opinion - Duration: 0:39.

US| Medicare for All is not a fantasy Opinion

First, many countries do have national health care insurance along the lines advocated by proponents of Medicare for All. The list includes Canada, France and Denmark, among others. These countries all have healthy economies, with living standards comparable to those in the United States. In fact, in all three countries, ages 25 to 54 are employed than in the United States. Like all countries, these countries have some economic problems, but it is absurd to claim that the cost of providing universal health care is destroying their economies.

Their health care systems also have comparable outcomes to the United States. This means not only do people live as long actually they live somewhat longer on average , but people with health conditions such as cancer or heart disease on average do in countries with universal coverage as in the United States.

Having government guaranteed medical coverage does cost money, and in all the countries with universal coverage, people do pay a larger share of their income in taxes. However, the necessary increase in taxes to provide universal care may be less than many people would fear.

First, most working people are paying something like a tax for their health care insurance since they get it through their employer. Employers dont provide insurance as a gift, and premiums for insurance come out of workers wages in the same way that a tax would come out of those wages.

According to the , the average employer payment for a family plan was more than dollar 14,000 last year. Last year, this employer payment came to more than dollar 900 billion. Thats more than dollar 2,700 for every person in the country. Most workers would probably not object if their employers paid this money to the government for universal coverage as opposed to an insurance company.

The other key point is that we pay close to twice as much for our health care as the average person in other wealthy countries. According to the , we paid dollar 10,200 per person for health care in 2017. Canada paid dollar 4,800, Denmark paid dollar 5,200, and France paid dollar 4,900.

The main reason for the difference is that we pay twice as much for everything. We pay twice as much for prescription drugs, for MRIs and other medical equipment and tests, and our doctors get paid twice as much. In addition, the private health insurance industry costs us more than a year almost dollar 800 per person to act as an intermediary between patients and providers. In addition, hospitals, doctors offices and other providers spend tens of billions to deal with complex claim forms that differ by insurer.

The government already pays for of the nations health care bill through Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits and other public sector programs. Getting to Medicare for All would mean covering the other half of the current expenses, along with the additional costs of paying for the uninsured and under insured who are not getting the care they need.

This would be a difficult political process as the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and other affected groups will use all the political power they have to prevent reductions in their income. But at the end of the day, it is undeniable that the United States can afford the same guarantee of health care enjoyed by people in other wealthy countries. The question is whether we have the political commitment to bring it about.

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Asylum seekers are being sent back to Mexico from U.S. under Trump policy - Duration: 7:41.

Border officials in the U.S. returned about a dozen people, mostly men, to Tijuana on Wednesday on the second day of the Trump administration's policy that requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico for their immigration court proceedings

 The pilot program began Tuesday with one Honduran man crossing back to the plaza at El Chaparral where asylum seekers line up each morning to wait their turn in a months-long queue to ask the United States for protection

Those crossing back will face another wait in Tijuana until they return on their court dates to see immigration judges in the U

S. Advertisement >  Immigration officials on both sides of the border said that 11 more returned on Wednesday

Activists and observers in the plaza said they counted at least 17 who had come back that day

 Some crossed back through PedWest at the San Ysidro Port of Entry to El Chaparral alone or in small groups

Others came back as part of a large group led by Mexican immigration officials late in the afternoon

 A 19-year-old Honduran named Marlon who arrived with the most recent migrant caravan was among those in the large group

He was glad to be back in Tijuana, he said.  "I didn't want to be there, above all because of the food

They had us locked up," he said in Spanish. "It's better to be here than there locked up

"  He, like the others, was given a court date for March. He plans to stay in a shelter at a church while he waits, he said

 Another Honduran man, Douglas, who had arrived with the caravan was similarly relieved to be free in Tijuana compared to his experience in holding cells at the port of entry

 "For us, it's an advantage," he said. "The rest will be waiting two months in prison, and we're here free and can get work in Tijuana while we wait

"  Douglas is a youth pastor who fled death threats after he was severely beaten by gang members for working to get security cameras installed in his neighborhood

He carries the proof in both photos and scars.  He said that once his name was called on Tuesday from the wait list, he and the rest of the group of 45 were taken to the east side of the port of entry in the afternoon to be processed

 Officials took their backpacks, shoelaces and jewelry, he said.  They were asked their names and where in the United States they wanted to go

Officials took their fingerprints and checked their names and tattoos, if they had any

 Then they spent about 14 hours in the holding cells. Douglas was split from the friends he entered with, and at first he wanted to cry, he said, but then in the holding cell he found other people he knew from the recent caravan

 Then an immigration official took them for interviews and asked about why they wanted asylum in the U

S., he said. That official told Douglas he would have to go back to Mexico to wait for his court date

 He learned that he would need to find an immigration attorney in the U.S. to help him with his case

The official told him that he should have that attorney before his first court hearing in a month and a half

Advertisement >  He wasn't sure how to go about finding one, he said. The challenge of finding an attorney in the U

S. while living in Mexico didn't seem to deter him.  "We have another wait," Douglas said

"We have another opportunity to keep going with our case. We're hoping we won't have to go home and will have an opportunity for life

"  He will stay with an American who lives in Tijuana and helped him during his wait to ask for asylum

 He acknowledged that his friendship with the American will make his stay in Tijuana easier than it will be for those who are relying on shelters for places to sleep

 "We have this little part of the United States here with us, giving us a voice and supporting us so we can continue with our cases," he said

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US NEWS | BIZARRE moment Governor Northam appears to CONSIDER doing moonwalk until his wife interven

Virginia Governor Ralph Northams Saturday press conference reached bizarre heights when the politician almost showed off the moonwalk he perfected when donning blackface for a Michael Jackson costume in the 80s.

The 59 year old from Nassawadox became more of a  laughing stock when he brazenly admitted to dressing up as the late singer wearing similar footwear, a glove and shoe polish to look like an African American person.

During the excruciating appearance in the Executive Mansion, he said he later learned from a friend Seth that doing so for a dance competition was indeed inappropriate and he apologized to his friend at the time. 

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The 59 year old from Nassawadox became more of a laughing stock when he brazenly admitted to dressing up as the late singer

While taking questions, a reporter asked Virginia Governor Ralph Northam: Are you still able to moonwalk?

But while taking questions, a reporter asked the governor: Are you still able to moonwalk?

And in the brief moments after the question, Northam appeared to look around to see if he had enough space to do the dance move. 

But just as he looks to start the jig, his wife asserted: Inappropriate circumstances. 

My wife says inappropriate circumstances, the controversial politician reiterated. 

Northam appeared to look around to see if he had enough space to do the dance move

People on Twitter were shocked by the moment

Northam was 25 when he deemed it okay to cover his face in shiny black wax at least two decades after the Civil Rights movement decried it.

Northam appeared to try to soften the offensive occasion by revealing he won the contest he did it for.

The moonwalk has gone through several iterations since it first hit the dance scene in the 1930s, but Michael Jackson immortalized the dance with his own rendition

Making his revelation worse, he told attendees the reason why he only wore a little bit of shoe polish was because its difficult to remove.

I dont know if anybodys tried this... he said to the shocked room. But it didnt explain why he was wearing blackface to show off his dance talent during the skit.

Northam told the audience during question time: I have discussed this with a person of color. I apologized to him.

Despite his revelation about donning blackface to do the Moonwalk, Northam said he felt sick after seeing the image of people wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and blackface and would remember if he had done so.

The moonwalk has gone through several iterations since it first hit the dance scene in the 1930s, but Michael Jackson immortalized the dance with his own rendition. 

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US| 16 injured after charter bus crash carrying high school basketball team - Duration: 0:38.

US| 16 injured after charter bus crash carrying high school basketball team

RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va WSAZ A charter bus carrying Martinsburg High School students rolled over on I 64 near exit 124, injuring dozens.

According to Raleigh county dispatch, numerous police and sheriffs departments responded to the accident. A call to all available E.M.S vehicles in the region was issued as well.

There are no reported fatalities and everyone on the bus has been transported to Raleigh General and BAR H. Two of the individuals on the bus were air lifted to the hospitals.

We have learned that the students are members of the Martinsburg High School girls basketball team. They were participating in the Big Atlantic Classic in Beckley over the week and were on their way home when the accident took place.

Keep checking WSAZ.com for updates to this developing story.

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US| Mitch McConnell privately cautioned Trump about emergency declaration on border wall Chicago T - Duration: 6:33.

US| Mitch McConnell privately cautioned Trump about emergency declaration on border wall Chicago T

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R Ky., listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican Congressional Leadership at the White House in September.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R Ky., listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican Congressional Leadership at the White House in September.

Majority Leader cautioned President privately this week about the consequences of declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, telling him the move could trigger political blowback and divide the , according to two Republicans with knowledge of the exchange.

McConnell, R Ky., told Trump that might end up passing a resolution disapproving the emergency declaration, the people said which would force the president to contemplate issuing his first veto ever, in face of opposition from his own party.

McConnell delivered the message during a face to face meeting with the president Tuesday at the , according to the Republicans, who requested anonymity to describe the encounter. The two men met alone, and conversed with no aides present. Their meeting was not publicly announced.

The majority leaders comments to the president came amid rising GOP concerns over the fallout if Trump were to declare a national emergency that would allow him to circumvent Congress and use the military to build new walls along the . Trump increasingly appears prepared to go that route, saying Friday that I think theres a good chance well have to do that.

Trump teased the possibility of making a definitive statement on the topic during his , telling reporters to watch the Tuesday speech closely. I think youll find it very exciting, the president said.

And Trump again dismissed chances that hell get the dollar 5.7 billion in wall funding he wants from a bipartisan congressional committee charged with producing a border security solution that could forestall another government shutdown. The committee is working to come up with a deal that could pass before Feb. 15, when a stopgap spending bill will expire absent action by Congress and Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared Thursday that therell be no "wall money" in any compromise border security deal as she and President Donald Trump signaled that congressional negotiators may never satisfy his demands for his cherished Southwest border proposal.

Trump, who in recent weeks has...

If that happens, large portions of the federal government that reopened Jan. 25 after a record long funding lapse would shut down again.

We will be looking at a national emergency because I dont think anythings going to happen, Trump told reporters at the White House. I dont think want border security.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the meeting between McConnell and Trump. A McConnell spokesman declined to discuss the senators private conversations.

On the same day he met with the president, McConnell publicly announced his opposition to a national emergency declaration as he encouraged the 17 member congressional committee to find another way out of the impasse. Im for whatever works, which means avoiding a shutdown and avoiding the president feeling he should declare a national emergency, McConnell said during his weekly news conference in the Capitol.

McConnells top deputy, Sen. John , R S.D., told Republican senators at a private lunch that same day that if they had issues with the president declaring a national emergency they should raise them with the White House, according to one of the Republicans and another person with knowledge of Thunes comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them.

The prospect of Trump using a national emergency declaration to build his wall has divided Republicans, with a number of them expressing concerns about the precedent that such a move would set.

Sen. John Cornyn, R Texas, a top McConnell confidant, said this week that he is opposed to a national emergency declaration in part because of what it might embolden a future Democratic president to do.

Weve certainly tried to communicate that to him, said Cornyn, referring to Trump. And so, he understands our concerns as weve expressed them. But I dont know if he shares those same concerns.

Other Republican senators took a different view.

President Trump proposed logical solutions, said Sen. , R Fla. If the Democrats wont negotiate with him because their judgment is clouded by their pure hatred of him, then the president needs to move forward.

Lawmakers of both parties expect that a national emergency declaration would be immediately challenged in court, and would end up languishing in legal proceedings without producing quick action on the border wall Trump long promised Mexico would pay for.

And a growing concern for Republicans which McConnell voiced to Trump at the White House is that they would be forced to vote on a disapproval resolution aimed at overturning the declaration, and that the resolution would pass.

That would take place under provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which provides that a presidential declaration can be terminated if lawmakers pass a joint resolution to do so. House Democrats would be likely to move swiftly to approve such a resolution, and the law provides that it would come to the Senate floor, where it would require only a majority vote to pass.

At least a half dozen Republican senators are fiercely opposed to the idea of an emergency declaration, generating enough opposition that a disapproval resolution could pass the Senate with the support of the 47 Democrats and a handful of GOP senators the scenario McConnell warned Trump about. Republicans expect that Trump would veto the resolution, and that the House and Senate would not be likely to muster the supermajority vote needed to override his veto.

A disapproval resolution on a presidential emergency declaration is rare, so exactly how the process would play out is uncertain. But it could expose new divisions within the GOP on Trumps signature issue of a border wall, creating a portrait of disunity that most Republicans would like to avoid.

An emergency declaration would also risk further political damage to Trump, whose disapproval rating rose significantly over the 35 day partial government shutdown as more Americans faulted Trump than Democrats for the standoff.

While Trump stood on weak political ground demanding a wall which most Americans continue to oppose, an even larger majority opposes Trump declaring a national emergency to build it.

A Washington Post ABC News poll during the shutdown found 66 percent of Americans opposed Trump using emergency powers to build the wall without approval from Congress, 12 percentage points higher than opposition to the wall in general. Seven in 10 independents and about 9 in 10 Democrats opposed Trump declaring an emergency to build a wall.

Trump is pitted between the political middle and his own base, which has embraced his demand for a border wall. While Republican support for using emergency powers to build a wall was 20 points lower than for the wall overall, 67 percent of Republicans favored Trump taking emergency action, including a majority who supported this strongly.

Facing a deadline for a compromise, House Republicans on the conference committee plan to travel to the border Sunday and Monday.

The Oval Office discussion over a national emergency declaration illustrated the dynamic that has developed between Trump and McConnell. The two speak frequently, people familiar with their conversations said, with McConnell often providing Trump with blunt details about what a certain decision or course of action could mean on Capitol Hill.

But even as they have kept in touch privately, in public their strategies have diverged. Although McConnell has warned about the perils of another shutdown or a national emergency, Trump has dangled both as possibilities.

I think some of their goals are aligned but the methods to get there might be different, said Sen. , R Ala. Asked how they differ, Shelby replied, You have to ask them but I think its pretty obvious.

The Washington Posts Josh Dawsey, Damian Paletta, Scott Clement and John Wagner contributed to this report.

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US| A Mayors Effort to Play Down Henry Fords Anti Semitism Backfires The New York Times - Duration: 1:11.

US| A Mayors Effort to Play Down Henry Fords Anti Semitism Backfires The New York Times

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DEARBORN, Mich. — Henry Ford is everywhere in Dearborn, Mich., his hometown, where more than 70 years after the famed industrialists death, his name or likeness graces everything from the performing arts center to the manhole covers.

But Bill McGraw, editor of a local quarterly journal published by the citys historical commission, felt that residents could stand to learn more about the unflattering side of the man who founded Ford Motor Company and pioneered assembly line production in his factories. During the 1920s, Mr. Ford spread virulent anti Semitism in his weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent.

In general, metro Detroit and its institutions tend to treat Mr. Ford gently when it comes to his dark sides, he wrote. But his anti Semitism is much more than a personal failing.

And so when the latest issue of Mr. McGraws quarterly, The Dearborn Historian, arrived off the presses, it contained a special report on the extraordinary efforts by Mr. Ford to spread hate.

Thats when the mayor of Dearborn, John B. OReilly, decided to bar the city financed journal from distribution. Mr. McGraws contract to edit the magazine was terminated.

Mr. OReilly said that given Dearborns ethnic diversity now — it is about one third Arab American — it was irresponsible to present Mr. Fords offensive opinions.

It was thought that by presenting information from 100 years ago that included hateful messages — without a compelling reason directly linked to events in Dearborn today — this edition of The Historian could become a distraction from our continuing messages of inclusion and respect, the mayor said in a statement released Friday afternoon.

Copies of the magazine were delivered to the Dearborn Historical Museum, which distributes them, but they have since been returned to the printers.

In protest of the mayors decision, the citys historical commission unanimously passed on Thursday night a nonbinding resolution — with one abstention — that asks for the magazines to be mailed to the journals 230 subscribers, all of whom are members of the museum.

Mr. McGraw, 67, who has lived in Dearborn for 31 years, was a longtime reporter and editor for The Detroit Free Press. He said that most educated people in southeast Michigan know that Mr. Ford was anti Semitic. But the journal paints a clearer picture of the millions he spent on packaging his hateful message.

Readers learn of the large portrait of Mr. Ford hanging in Hitlers office in 1931, and Hitlers statement to a Detroit News reporter: I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration.

But Mr. McGraw also included in his report an article on how Mr. Fords descendants have consistently supported Jewish charities and cultural organizations; a recommended reading list of more than a dozen books and articles; and a one page essay entitled Why Write About Henry Fords Hateful Side?

In the essay, he described the growing diversity of the Detroit region and the nation, and the backlash to it, which includes a well documented rise in anti Semitism.

Fords attacks on Jews were distributed around the world before and after World War II and, alarmingly, they influence budding neo Nazis today. Its a subject worth talking about in Dearborn. Let the discussion begin.

While the mayor may have been trying to limit the reach of the journal, his decision has only spread word of its contents. Tens of thousands of users have read the bulk of it on , a web publication.

It is just really important to emphasize that history is looking at the whole picture, Jonathon Stanton, the historical commissions chairman, said in an interview. If were only talking about the parts that make us proud, then what were doing isnt really history.

Now, instead of Dearborn confronting its past, Mr. Stanton said, people are talking about how the city is reluctant to discuss history.

We really agree with the mayors views about the present and the efforts on inclusivity, he said. Everyone on the commission is an admirer of the mayor, which adds to the confusion of why he made this decision. Hes gone to the mat for our Arab American and Muslim neighbors when there is racism. We definitely think of him as a man of consciousness and integrity.

At lunch at the Al Ameer Restaurant in a part of Dearborn renowned for its Middle Eastern eateries, Kareem Ali, 22, said young people in Dearborn rarely associated the city with Mr. Ford as much as they did with its fast growing Arab American and Muslim populations. He said that until this week, he had not been aware of Mr. Fords anti Semitic history, so he was glad the mayors wrongheaded decision had led to so much media attention and publicity.

It does nobody any good to censor this kind of thing, said Mr. Ali, who attends a local community college. Im against hate towards anyone, and its important to remember history because it reminds us that just because youre rich and famous doesnt mean youre a perfect person. Everyone has flaws.

Felicia Calvo, a 45 year old Dearborn native, said her father, who worked for the Ford Motor Company for 34 years, told her that as venerated as the company founder was, he definitely had an impact on the trials that the Jewish community went through. She finds the mayors actions odd, given that Fords history of anti Semitism is a piece of his biography that Dearborners grew up learning.

This is not something that Ford Motor Company, or the Ford family have ever denied, said Ms. Calvo, who works in information technology. I was also aware that Ford Motor Company took great steps to address the damage that Henry Ford had done. To me, there was nothing in this article that hasnt been shared before, that isnt publicly available. Im sure the mayor is kicking himself, because the article never would have gotten this attention had he not banned it.

Daniel Markey, a 76 year old retired high school chemistry teacher from Howell, Mich., who was taking his 4 year old grandson to the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, said he understood the mayors instinct to protect Fords legacy. But sugarcoating history, he added, is a bad idea.

What does it accomplish to pretend that this isnt a part of Henry Fords story? Mr. Markey asked. He should be respected for what he did and condemned for his shortcomings. Many geniuses were also terrible human beings. Thats kind of a good lesson about people, isnt it?

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Putin says Russia will follow US and withdraw from nuclear deal - Duration: 2:32.

 Russian president Vladimir Putin has said Russia will follow the US and pull out of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty

 Mr Putin said Russia's withdrawal would take place within six months.  America's secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that he was suspending compliance with the treaty, with a threat to pull out completely in six months

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will follow the US and withdraw from the treaty (Picture: ITAR-TASS News) Mr Pompeo gave Russia a final chance to save the deal, adding: 'Countries must be held accountable for their actions.' Paedophile who 'confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey wanted to eat her' However Mr Putin has hit back during a meeting with foreign and defence ministers this morning

 'The American partners have declared that they suspend their participation in the deal, we suspend it as well,' he said

 He added Russia would start work on creating new missiles, including hypersonic ones, and told ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with Washington

Advertisement Advertisement  'We have repeatedly, during a number of years, and constantly, raised a question about substantiative talks on the disarmament issue,' Mr Putin said

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that the US was suspending compliance with the treaty (Picture: Rex Features) Vladimir Putin also announced that the country would build new missiles (Picture: Reuters) 'We see, that in the past few years the partners have not supported our initiatives.'  Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused the US of an 'outright violation' of the treaty and other arms deals

 Putin also added that Russia would not be drawn into a costly arms race and it will not deploy its weapons in Europe and other regions unless the United States did so first

 NATO has already said it 'fully supports' the US, adding: 'Allies regret that Russia, as part of its broader pattern of behaviour, continues to deny its INF Treaty violation, refuses to provide any credible response, and has taken no demonstrable steps toward returning to full and verifiable compliance.'  The treaty was signed toward the end of the Cold War between presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan

 It banned ground-launched missiles with a range between 500 and 5,500km. Got a story for Metro.co.uk?  If you have a story for our news team, email us at webnews@metro.co.uk

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US NEWS | Iowa farmers teach Sherrod Brown a lesson on running in the rurals cleveland.com - Duration: 1:49.

US NEWS | Iowa farmers teach Sherrod Brown a lesson on running in the rurals cleveland.com

PERRY, Iowa – Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, has run for decades in his home state on his stances on trade.

Brown won his first congressional election in 1992 largely on a platform of opposing NAFTA. Since then, hes consistently opposed trade deals, which hes deemed unfair to average workers, while supporting tariffs on countries like China for gaming the economy.

Brown, who is in Iowa as part of an early primary state tour as he considers a run for the White House, hopes that message resonates with voters, especially in the Midwest.

At a farmer roundtable Friday in Perry, Iowa, he found out it wasnt that simple.

Perry, a town of around 7,500 people west of Des Moines, looks like a typical agricultural community thats seen better days. A faded welcome sign at the entrance of town reads, Make Yourself at Home, but the downtown area is littered with vacant buildings. The town has shrunk in the last 10 years, even as Dallas County remains the fastest growing in the state, largely due to urban creep from the Des Moines metropolitan area.

Its prototypical of the forgotten America that politicians have salivated over since Republican President Donald Trumps victory. He won the county by nearly 10 percentage points in 2016. Republicans have carried the county since 1996.

Perry and places like it are where Brown has argued his message on working class issues will connect with voters. Hes argued that many voters bought into Trumps economic message during the 2016 campaign, but the president has failed to deliver.

But unlike in Ohio – with its more industrial based economy – the tariffs arent overwhelmingly welcome in rural Iowa.

The commodity prices are terrible right now, said Mary Weaver, a family farmer with her husband and son in nearby Rippey. We harvest soybeans and corn and the tariff has really, really hurt us. Im eager to hear what he says about trade and how high thats going to be on his priority list.

Corn and soybean prices have fallen since Trump imposed tariffs on China. In retaliation, China cut how much of the crops it has purchased from the United States. Trump also put tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

Farmers have received some assistance, but that was for last year alone with no guarantee for help in the future.

A lot of time and effort went into creating those relationships that have led to the growth in those exports, said Jim Gannon, a 42 year old family farmer from about an hour away in Mingo.

Brown has been supportive of Trumps tariffs against China, as a way to punish bad actors. But hes been critical of using them as a long term solution and of those levied on Canada and Mexico, who are American allies.

Full disclosure, I supported the tariffs originally, Brown told the group of roughly 10 at Fridays roundtable. To me tariffs, if done right, and the reason I supported them is that they are a temporary tool to get to a certain point, not a long term trade policy. Trump has made them a long term trade policy because hes not doing real good negotiations with China.

Ardent opposition to trade deals and blanket support for tariffs play well in Ohio, especially in old industrial cities that have lost jobs to outsourcing like Youngstown, Toledo and Cleveland.

Brown was open about his thoughts on the tariffs and his opposition to trade deals like NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership. The deals of the past have pitted farmers like those in Perry against industrial workers like Browns constituents in Ohio, he said.

You need to do it in a way you dont play it off industry against agriculture, Brown said. You dont pit steelworker against farmer. Trump never really understood the depth of that.

Brown spoke little during the roundtable, opting to listen and ask questions instead of hogging the air. After the exchange about trade, he quickly switched the subject to ethanol – an important issue to Iowa farmers.

Warren Varley, a 58 year old fifth generation farmer who runs a small town law practice in Stuart, interjected to give the senator some advice as he continues thinking about running for president.

Senator, excuse me for interrupting. You might win the caucuses talking about tariffs and ethanol, but youre not going to win rural voters, Varley said. Rural voters are upset with China, as they should be. Long before this deal with phone technology, we had Chinese stealing seeds from Pioneer. This goes back a long ways. Youve got to talk about economic concentration and the effect thats having on farmers in particular, but rural communities in general. Thats whats really grinding farmers.

Varley said in an interview with that his concern wasnt with Browns position, but his focus.

Hes not going to reach the voter we need to reach, Varley said. I have a lot of farmer friends who consistently vote Republican, and they agree with the president that China is treating us unfairly. Theyre not going to abandon him over tariffs. We need to talk about whats really impacting them economically.

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Putin pulls Russia out of US nuclear treaty putting world at risk of World War 3 - Duration: 6:09.

 The world looks on the brink of a new worldwide conflict following the shocking tit-for-tat move taken by Russia

Its President, Vladimir Putin, announced the Kremin's decision of suspending the INF on Saturday morning, one day after his US counterpart Donald Trump did the same

Mr Putin said: "Our American partners announced that they are suspending their participation in the treaty, and we are suspending it too

   Related articles  "All of our proposals in this sphere, as before, remain on the table, the doors for talks are open

"  Mr Putin also said Russia will start work on creating new missiles, including hypersonic ones, and told his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with Washington

  The Russian President continued: "We have repeatedly, during a number of years, and constantly raised a question about substantiative talks on the disarmament issue, notably, on all the aspects

 "We see, that in the past few years the partners have not supported our initiatives

"  The treaty, signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and the president of the then-USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, banned all nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with short and medium ranges

  READ MORE: WORLD WAR 3: Trump RIPS UP treaty which could herald return of NUCLEAR MISSILES to Europe But yesterday Mr Trump's administration said Washington was suspending the treaty for six months

  Launching a blistering attack the Kremlin, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued Russia has breached the INF multiple time, which pushed the US to temporarily pull out of it

  He said: "If Russia does not return to full and verifiable compliance with the treaty within this six-month period by verifiably destroying its INF-violating missiles, their launchers, and associated equipment, the treaty will terminate

"  But this move sparked the opposite reaction from Russia, which has denied violating the INF accord, and triggered its suspension as well

   Related articles War 3: US prepares for SECOND COLD WAR against Russia and China War 3: Russia and Iran UNITE against US over Venezuela crisis  On Friday night, the Kremlin said it was reserving the "right" to be able to react to Washington's actions

  Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during an interview with the 6 Minutes programme on the Rossiya television channel: "Moscow reserves the right to a corresponding reactions and response measures following the US' withdrawal from the INF Treaty

  "Naturally, it will be done." "As a matter of fact it is only a part of America's general concept of breaking down and abandoning a great number of international agreements

  "So, it is not about Russia's guilt of violating this treaty, it is not about China or any other factor of international security

 "It is about the United States' strategy of waiving international liabilities in various spheres"

  The European members of the NATO rushed to back the US, according to the alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who reiterated Russia has breached the treaty multiple times

  He told the BBC: "All European allies agree with the United States because Russia has violated the treaty for several years

 "They are deploying more and more of the new nuclear capable missiles in Europe." 

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US| ICE confirms it is force feeding detainees on hunger strike Chicago Tribune - Duration: 4:10.

US| ICE confirms it is force feeding detainees on hunger strike Chicago Tribune

Protesters walk June 2018 along Montana Avenue outside the El Paso Processing Center, in El Paso, Texas.

Protesters walk June 2018 along Montana Avenue outside the El Paso Processing Center, in El Paso, Texas.

officials have confirmed they are force feeding nine detainees who initiated a hunger strike at an El Paso, Texas, detention center.

Ten detainees at the facility are under a self imposed hunger strike, ICE spokeswoman Danielle Bennett said in an email Saturday.

Of the 10, nine are from India and one is from Nicaragua, Bennett said. Nine of them missed nine consecutive meals, triggering ICEs hunger strike protocols— medical evaluations and health monitoring.

At various points in mid January, a federal judge ordered the nine to be fed and hydrated without consent, according to ICE.

ICEs update comes on the heels of a , which first revealed on Wednesday that six detainees were being force fed at the El Paso facility. They are on a hunger strike to protest rampant verbal abuse and threats of deportation from guards. The AP report triggered outrage from lawmakers and human rights groups who decried the practice as cruel, inhuman and degrading.

One detainee on a hunger strike detailed to the wire service the excruciating experience of guards dragging him from his cell and constraining him to force feed him through a nasal tube.

They tie us on the force feeding bed, and then they put a lot of liquid into the tubes, and the pressure is immense so we end up vomiting it out, the detainee, identified only by his surname, Singh, . We cant talk properly, and we cant breathe properly. The pipe is not an easy process, but they try to push it down our noses and throats.

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D Texas, whose district includes the El Paso Processing Center, said she was deeply alarmed by reports that detainees were being force fed and immediately requested a visit.

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On Thursday, she said being force fed— at the time the only ones being force fed— before that number increased to nine a day later.

ICE has not identified the detainees being force fed, beyond their countries of origin. Escobar said most of the detainees she met had been in custody for 15 to 18 months.

ICE has said it fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference and that agency health officials have explained to the detainees the negative health effects of going on a hunger strike.

ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers, the agency said in a statement. For their health and safety, ICE closely monitors the food and water intake of those detainees identified as being on a hunger strike.

Besides the El Paso detention center, nationwide there are four other detainees on a hunger strike, ICE confirmed Saturday: one each in ICE custody at facilities in Miami, Phoenix, San Diego and San Francisco.

The has called on ICE to stop the inherently cruel, inhuman and degrading practice of force feeding.

Medical ethics and human rights norms generally prohibit the force feeding of detainees who are competent and capable of rational judgment as to the consequences of refusing food, the group . Hunger striking is a desperate expressive act. In immigration detention, it can be a response to the irrationality of prolonged and needless detention.

In August, Mergensana Amar, a Russian citizen who had been in U.S. immigration custody for more than a year, launched a hunger strike that nearly killed him at a detention center in Tacoma, Wash., . He survived— then died in November after he tried to hang himself.

Amars death is an example of the lengths that ICE will go to keep people in detention, Maru Mora Villalpando, a community organizer with NWDC Resistance, an organization that tried to help Amar, said at the time. They could have released him, and they decided not to. He kept telling us, Id rather die here than be deported.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have confirmed they are force feeding nine detainees who initiated a hunger strike at an El Paso, Texas, detention center.

Ten detainees at the facility are under a self imposed hunger strike, ICE spokeswoman Danielle Bennett said in an email Saturday.