The average U.S. life expectancy fell in 2017 as suicide and drug overdose rates continue to rise, according to three government reports released Thursday
Americans born in 2017 are expected to live 78.6 years, down about 0.1 from the previous year, according to the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Overall, there were more than 2.8 million U.S. deaths in 2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year, the center said
"Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the Nation's overall health and these sobering statistics are a wake-up call that we are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable," CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a statement
"[W]e must all work together to reverse this trend and help ensure that all Americans live longer and healthier lives
" The drop was largely driven by deaths from drug overdoses and suicides, which have increased steadily over the past few years
Nearly 70,240 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, compared to about 63,630 during the previous year
"The pattern of drugs involved in drug overdose deaths has changed in recent years," the CDC said, noting a 45 percent increase in overdose deaths involving drugs synthetic opioids between 2016 and 2017
President Donald Trump has made fighting the country's opioid epidemic one of his tenants
The president declared the crisis a national health emergency in December 2017 and even said he'd be willing to institute the death penalty for those peddling the drugs
Separately, suicide rates have increased by about 2 percent per year between 2006 and 2017, according to the CDC's data
Suicide was ranked as the 10th-leading cause of death for Americans of all ages and the second-leading leading cause of death for people between ages 10 and 34, the data said
For males, the suicide rate increased 26 percent from 17.8 in 1999 to 22.4 in 2017, while the rate for women increased 53 percent over the same time frame, according to the CDC
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U.S. looking forward to more high-level talks with North Korea: State Dept. - Duration: 0:28.
the United States has reiterated that it is looking forward to having more
high-level talks with North Korea the State Department stressed on Thursday
that great progress was made at the Singapore summit in June but that
further talks are not going to be forced into artificial time constraints an
official hinted at possible working-level talks though saying that
future dialogue will take place led by Washington's special representative for
North Korea Stephen vegan
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Jesuits Admit They Are Helping Illegal Aliens Enter The US Criminally - Duration: 5:37.
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Why Does the U.S. Have Birthright Citizenship? | United States v. Wong Kim Ark - Duration: 5:22.
Mr. Beat presents
Supreme Court Briefs
1868, or 1871...or perhaps 1873
Wong Kim Ark is born.
His parents are Wong Si Ping and Wee Lee, both immigrants from China and not United States citizens.
According to the Naturalization Law of 1802, the two could never become citizens because they weren't "white."
Whatever the heck that means.
Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act discriminating against them, the Wongs moved back to China, when Kim Ark was 9.
But a few years later, Kim Ark came right back to California because he wanted to make much more money.
This was not a problem for Kim Ark because, since he was born in San Francisco, he was automatically an American citizen thanks to the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.
In 1890, Wong went to China to visit his parents, and he came back home to the United States with no problem.
However, four years later when he went back to China to visit them, he was denied re-entry upon his return.
He was like "dude, I live here." They were like, "nope, not anymore. You're not a citizen."
During the five months when Wong fought for re-entry into the country, U.S. Customs kept him confined on different ships just off the coast of San Francisco.
Fortunately for Wong, he got support from an organization called the Chinese Six Companies to help him fight for his citizenship.
He went to federal district court.
So let's break out that 14th Amendment, shall we?
So there's the Citizenship Clause of it, and what they focused on the most was different interpretations of this phrase here: "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
Does that cover when a child is born in the U.S. to parents who both are not citizens?
Wong's lawyers argued yes.
The United States had been waiting to test out the Citizenship Clause for awhile, and here was their chance.
Henry Foote, a former Confederate soldier, represented the United States, calling Wong a "accidental citizen," not the term you usually hear today, which is "anchor baby."
On January 3, 1896, the district judge sided with Wong, declaring him a citizen since he was born in the USA.
The U.S. government appealed the decision directly to the Supreme Court because...well...they could, and the Court heard oral arguments on March 5, 1897.
Soooo, COULD the government deny citizenship to people born in the United States in any circumstance?
The Court said "no."
In a 6-2 decision, they ruled in favor of Wong, declaring that any child born in the country to parents of a foreign country is automatically a citizen.
UNLESS...the parents are foreign diplomats, or the person is born on a public ship, or the parents are nationals of a foreign enemy country that is trying to take over the United States.
But yeah, you're born here? You a citizen, buddy!
The Court relied on English common law tradition just as much as they relied on the 14th Amendment for this one.
Leading the dissent was Chief Justice Melville Fuller, joined by justice John Harlan.
They both argued that the history of American citizenship broke with the tradition of English common law after it declared independence in 1776.
In particular, they wondered about the part of the citizenship clause that said "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
Wouldn't that also mean not subject to any foreign power?
They argued Wong was still under the control of China due to his parents being under their control.
Of all Supreme Court decisions in history, United States v. Wong Kim Ark is the strongest at protecting that Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, no matter what the situation is with their parents.
Over the years, millions of Americans have owed their citizenship to this case.
So how did the story end for Wong Kim Ark?
Well, back when Wong was fighting for citizenship in the courts, he had started a family back in China.
He had a wife and kids back there.
After the Supreme Court decision, Wong still went back and forth, and for the rest of his life, Wong never got to fully enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
Every time he went home to China and came back he got hounded by Customs, always having to show extra documentation like the signatures of white Americans vouching for him.
Wong's oldest son tried to move to the United States and they wouldn't let him.
However, his youngest three sons were able to move to the United States as citizens, although it was far from easy.
One of those sons later served in World War II.
But Kim Ark? He eventually stopped trying to be an American.
In the 1930s, at the age of 62, he went to China and decided to never come back.
I'll see you for the next Supreme Court case, jury!
President Trump would definitely disagree with this case, but what do YOU think about the Court's decision in this one?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Well the next Supreme Court Briefs episode will feature the most important Supreme Court decision in American history.
Just trying to build up the hype here, let's get that hype train going, eh?
Thanks for watching.
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The US Has Created Major Humanitarian Crises By Ignoring Climate Change - Duration: 4:29.
If you think the issue of maybe a few thousand or even a few hundred migrants at our southern
border is a major problem, then I've got some really bad news for you.
That migrant caravan that came up from Guatemala and Honduras and trekked thousands of miles
up to our border, a large part of the reason those people had to flee their current countries
was because of climate change.
A new report published in common dreams and you can find a link to it in the description
of this video talks about the fact that because of climate change, refugees from other countries
and a couple million actually from the Central America region are being displaced because
of things like droughts, crop failures, storms and other climate related ills.
And here's the kicker.
While we're all freaking out about the caravan, or at least the Republicans are the United
States for many years, for decades was the biggest polluter on the planet and we knew
climate change existed.
We just had politicians that refuse to believe that or refuse to do anything about it.
So we let the problem get worse.
We let the situation, the circumstances in these other countries closer to the equator,
we let it get this way and then when we suddenly have to deal with the repercussions of that,
we shut down our borders, we turn it off, we deny them asylum for fleeing the conditions
which we, the United States helped to create, not just through climate change, but from
our destabilization efforts in south and Central America.
You know the sanctions we put on these countries.
We're the reason things suck so bad down there and it's not just south and Central America.
It's happening in Africa.
It's happening in Asia.
Pretty soon it's going to be happening in Europe all over the world.
This problem of climate refugees is going to get worse between the years 2008 and 2015.
There were 22 and a half million climate refugees throughout the world.
Twenty two and a half million people displaced because of climate change.
Between '08 and 2015, uh, last year alone we had four and a half million people displaced
in the Americas.
Four and a half million in the Americas.
62,000 people a day on average across the planet are being displaced because of climate
change, and again, we spent years as the United States as the top polluter on the planet.
We knew we needed to change, we knew we needed to do something.
Hell, we know that today, but we're not yet.
We've got a climate change denying president.
We've got a coal running the EPA and we've got Republicans in charge of the Senate who
still tell us that the existence of snow disproves global warming.
Well disprove the people at the border disproved the four and a half million people in the
Americas who were displaced last year because of climate change.
Show me that those aren't real because I guarantee you you're not gonna find a climate denier
among that bunch.
They understand what's happening because they live it here in the United States, a little
bit north of the equator further north and those folks were.
We haven't necessarily seen the horrid consequences of climate change just yet.
Oh, we've seen some bad things.
We've seen a lot of it storms and fires and floods and droughts and crop failures, but
nowhere near to the extremes that the people closer to the border are experiencing, but
it won't be long before those problems make their way to our borders, make their way to
our fields and our farms and our forests.
The effects of climate change.
They are happening in the United States, but we're about to start experiencing some of
the worst effects of it, the same effects that we've been ignoring around the planet
for years and now that these people are trying to flee those areas go to a place that's actually
habitable.
We're shutting down our borders, locking out asylum seekers and saying, sorry, I know we
created these massive humanitarian problems.
We just don't care enough to do anything about it.
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US stocks decline amid trade concerns - Duration: 1:52.
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US, China exploring deal to ease trade tensions: Report - Duration: 5:06.
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USMCA a win for US, Canada and Mexico? - Duration: 3:20.
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US life expectancy drops for third year in a row: Report - Duration: 3:29.
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Trump is winning the trade war, China already cut tariffs: Brian Wesbury - Duration: 4:15.
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Rainbow lightens up migrants' view of US at the Mexican border - Daily News - Duration: 7:17.
Six thousand Central Americans are being housed in the sports complex in Tijuana hoping to get into the US
They have marched for weeks on end from Honduras and Guatemala but have now come to a halt at the final hurdle, unable to get passed border patrol agents who have hurtled tear gas at them this week to stop their efforts to scale the fence
On Thursday, torrential downpours flooded the already rancid camp where there are now fears of a breakout of TB, HIV, AIDS, chicken pox and lice
Afterwards, as the clouds cleared, a rainbow filled the migrants' view of the land they want to call home
Scroll down for video Despite traveling as much as 4,500 miles - much of it on foot - hundreds of migrants have already accepted free flights home rather than stay longer in the filth-strewn sports complex that has become their temporary home
Lice and respiratory infections are becoming endemic inside the Benito Juarez sports complex and health workers warn that it's a matter of 'when, not if' an outbreak of serious disease sweeps the scruffy labyrinth of tents and tarps sheltering an estimated 6,000 people
Tijuana's Health Department revealed on Thursday that there are cases of migrants suffering from tuberculosis, chickenpox, skin infections, and there is now a risk of an hepatitis outbreak due to the squalid conditions
So far, there have been three confirmed cases of tuberculosis, four of chickenpox, and four cases of HIV/AIDS
The tumbledown facility a hundred feet from the Mexico-US border has become the last refuge for members of the snaking human convoy who fled gang-plagued Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador around six weeks ago, igniting a political storm and prompting President Donald Trump to send US troops to the border
Mexican officials revealed that around 200 migrants volunteered this week for repatriation, with more than a hundred having already flown home from Tijuana's airport Monday
A further 98 were forcibly removed after Sunday's violent clashes at the border when US agents were accused of firing tears gas on a crowd of migrants, including kids
DailyMail.com toured the crumbling Benito Juarez sports complex Wednesday where thousands of migrants have been bedded down for the past two weeks under tents or makeshift canopies built from ropes and plastic sheeting
A handful of desperate residents have even used twigs and branches to build nest-like homes with the temperatures likely to turn chilly and rains forecast by the end of the week
The earliest arrivals were able to stake their claims to the limited space inside an indoor basketball court with bathrooms and showers
Some latecomers opted for the neighboring playground and garden areas where there's at least trees for shade and shelter
The vast majority, however, are camped out on almost every spare inch of ground in the neighboring Little Padres baseball field, named in homage to the San Diego Padres MLB team which plays its games 20 miles north
Despite the trickle of migrants leaving voluntarily, the numbers are still growing by the day
Around 500 people arrived Tuesday, waiting in line for a wristband letting them come in and out
Some migrants have decided it's so overcrowded inside the camp that they would rather pitch their tents outside in the streets
A few feet away, vendors sell donuts and sugary cakes for ten pesos. Lines for free plates of beans and rice supplied by the federal government snake hundreds of yards
Federal health workers and NGOs work from trucks, providing free health checkups and treating caravaners for head lice, blisters and flu
In the past few days they have had cases of pneumonia and chicken pox - a chilling development in conditions ripe for an epidemic
'People aren't able to take showers, they sleep on the floor, nobody is cleaning the bathrooms, so the conditions are there for a major infection,' said Carlos Betanzos, a coordinator for Ministerios Nazarenos de Compasión, an Evangelical aid group
The migrant caravan originated in Honduras on October 12 when it was erroneously reported on local TV that a radio host, Bartolo Fuentes, was willing to pay transportation costs for anyone travelling to the US
Around 150 migrants set off from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. By the time they crossed into Mexico one week later the column had swollen to 7,200 participants
The mass movement inspired several more caravans to form in neighboring El Salvador amid a flurry of angry Tweets from President Donald Trump who vowed to repel what he described as an 'invasion'
Supporters say the migrants are fleeing persecution and banding together so they are not preyed upon by gangs
Trump deployed 5,000 US troops to the border after accusing the caravan of harboring an assortment of criminals, from violent MS-13 gangsters to Middle Eastern terrorists from ISIS
Sunday saw the first real clashes between migrants and US security agents, who fired tear gas on a group of migrants, including children, who 'rushed' the border around ten blocks from the Benito Juarez sports complex
While the President was attacked in the media for his 'draconian' response, many of the camp's residents told DailyMail
com they blamed the 100 or so 'troublemakers' who tried to storm the fences.Mexican officials deported 98 people for their part in the skirmish and have banned migrants from holding protest marches close to the border
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United States presidential election, 1976 | Wikipedia audio article - Duration: 26:20.
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Trump says US close to deal with China but he'd be OK continuing trade war - Duration: 4:14.
As President Donald Trump prepares to sit down with China's President Xi this weekend, Trump said Thursday that the administration is "very close" to reaching a deal to end the trade showdown between the two major economies even as he also sought to downplay the importance of making such a deal
"I think we're very close to doing something with China, but I don't know that I want to do it, because what we have right now is billions and billions of dollars coming into the United States in the form of tariffs or taxes
So I really don't know," Trump said as he departed the White House on his way to Argentina for the G-20 Summit, where he will also have a working dinner with Xi
"But I will tell you that I think China wants to make a deal. I'm open to making a deal
But, frankly, I like the deal we have right now," the president continued. The president has also repeatedly said that should a deal not be reached, his administration stands ready to further escalate the U
S. tariffs imposed on China. "I have another 250 billion dollars' worth of tariffs to put on if we don't make a deal," Trump told reporters last week
"And, believe me, I'll be putting them on because China has been ripping off our country for many, many years
And they don't rip us off with me." The president's economic adviser Larry Kudlow, in a briefing with reporters this week, similarly sought to make the case that the U
S. comes into the negotiations from a stronger bargaining position than China. "We're in very good shape," Kudlow said
"China, not so good. I'm not here to critique or second-guess the Chinese economy, but most observers believe China to be in a slump, whereas the United States is in a very strong, solid position going into this summit
" But despite the administration's public posturing, the US economy has been showing signs of strain as of late with a volatile stock market and an announcement from General Motors this week that the US automaker is poised to lay off thousands of workers
The president has not assumed any personal responsibility for the negative economic news, instead pointing the finger at his Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for raising interest rates
"I'm not happy with the Fed," Trump told the Washington Post earlier this week. "They're making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me
" Before departing for Argentina, the administration signaled its willingness to play hardball and continue to apply pressure to China
Two days after GM's announcement, the U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer released a statement saying he would "examine all available tools to equalize the tariffs applied to automobiles" between the U
S. and China at the president's direction.
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Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps | Wikipedia audio article - Duration: 1:57:26.
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Life expectancy in U.S. drops - Duration: 1:31.
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Ben Carson stresses positive aspect of migrant caravan, contradicting Trump US news - Duration: 2:10.
Ben Carson stresses positive aspect of migrant caravan, contradicting Trump US news
A Trump cabinet member is striking a tone at odds with the president's calls to meet immigrants at the Mexico border with force and demands that Congress fund a border wall.
Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development and Trump's only black cabinet appointee, delivered a speech to conservative state lawmakers reframing the issue.
"We've created an amazing country. I mean, where else in the world do you see caravans of people trying to get into the country? Sometimes we should maybe look at the positive aspect of some of the things going on," Carson said, according to a video of his speech.
Trump has repeatedly attacked migrant caravans seeking to cross the US border, often saying they include criminals and violent gang members. He even suggested that they included "unknown Middle Easterners", probably in an attempt to make a link to security concerns about terrorism. He also has controversially deployed thousands of US soldiers to the border with Mexico, in a move critics have lambasted as expensive and unnecessary.
Carson was speaking at the opening lunch of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), which drafts legislation for Republican state lawmakers to pursue.
"One of the things we need to understand in this country is we're not each other's enemies and we need to stop allowing people to divide us up and make us think we're enemies," he said.
Carson added: "When we start doing things for people, we need to do things for all of our people. It shouldn't be some identity group du jour. Every day it should be about everybody and what impacts everybody because we have a diverse society and we can't allow ourselves to be divided amongst identity groups."
He followed Mick Mulvaney, the office of management and budget director at the White House, who drew a stark contrast with a pointed defense of Trump's record and conservatism.
"The conservative ideas are winning, which is all we've ever asked for, right? [It's] the chance to prove that our ideas, our thoughts about how you should govern yourself are superior to the folks who are offering something else," Mulvaney said.
Highlighting Trump's tax cuts, deregulation and economic growth, Mulvaney said: "the proof is in the pudding, much to the chagrin of the folks who are not here today. I always laugh when I start to think about some of the things that the left said about our policies before we started to put them in place."
Alec members are voting this week on conservative resolutions to take back to their legislatures to consider. For example, the energy taskforce is will vote on expressing support for Trump energy and environment policies, as agencies have sought to expand fossil fuel use and cut public health standards. Another resolution would oppose tax rebates for electric vehicles.
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