ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

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October 26, 2016 (San Diego's East County) - East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

General news

Presidential campaign

WORLD

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U.S.

General news

Should we see everything a cop sees? (New York Times Magazine)

Body cameras have been promoted as a solution to police misconduct. But the strange two-year saga of Seattle shows just how complicated total transparency can be…. Unlike dashcams, bodycams, which are attached to an officer’s uniform or purpose-built glasses, can go into homes and hotel rooms.

An outsider takes charge of the Border Patrol (Los Angeles Times)

As the new chief of the troubled Border Patrol, Mark Morgan faces any number of complex problems, from corruption in the ranks to a new surge of children and families streaming to the border… Morgan spent 20 years at the FBI and was first brought to Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, in 2014 to overhaul its internal affairs division. After a subsequent stint running the FBI’s training academy, he got the top job at the Border Patrol in June.

Will The New Era of Limited Federal Monitoring Still Protect Voter Rights? (NPR)

The Justice Department will still send out "monitors" on Nov. 8. But the number is smaller than in the past, and due to a 2013 Supreme Court decision, they'll have limited authority to intervene.

Will Maine Be the First State Where Voters May Rank Their Choices?  (Reason)

What if you really didn't have to accept that there are only two valid choices for a particular race, and your third-party vote actually mattered more than as just a protest? Maine voters may find out for themselves. On their ballot this November is Question 5, a ballot initiative that would institute ranked-choice voting for statewide positions like governor and for lawmakers on both the state and federal levels.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~4/S8bKXweaeCc

AARP sues U.S. agency over employee wellness programs (Reuters)

(Reuters) - A lobbying group representing older Americans sued the Obama administration on Monday claiming regulations for programs designed to rein in employee health care costs will subject workers to invasions of their medical privacy.

US warns its citizens of possible kidnappings, terror attacks in Turkey (JPost)

US State Department updates travel warning for American citizens in Turkey.

NSA contractor faces spying charges (BBC)

An NSA contractor is accused of stealing vast amounts of government secrets over a 20-year period.

Sempra owned leaking gas well in Alabama, too (Los Angeles Times)

‘We cannot breathe’; a poor Alabama town has lived with the rotten egg stench of gas for 8 years

Presidential campaign

Inside Donald Trump’s one-stop parties: attendees recall cocaine and very young models(Daily Beast)

after I wrote for The Daily Beast earlier this year about the parties he hosted in the 1990s where “his wealthy friends, high-rollers from his Atlantic City casinos, and potential Trump condominium buyers could meet models” from second-tier agencies, several men who attended those parties at the Plaza Hotel emerged to share scandalous specifics about Trump’s presence and behavior at events where illegal drugs and young women were passed around and used.. I’ve been covering Trump since 1985, when I worked for The New York Times’ women’s pages.

 Fact check: The final fiery debate between Clinton and Trump (CNN)

The third — and final — presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump was held Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace. We found plenty of factual inaccuracies:

Clinton might be moving toward privatizing Social Security (Forbes)

The presidential candidates say they won’t touch Social Security.  But there are signs that Clinton might want to push for some degree of privatization.

The stunningly long list of women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault (Mother Jones)

Last Friday, the Washington Post published a leaked tape showing Donald Trump speaking to Billy Bush of Access Hollywood, describing groping and kissing women without their consent.... Trump responded to the onslaught of criticism by saying that what he described was just "locker room talk"—not a description of something he'd ever actually done. But on Wednesday night, the New York Times published the accounts of two women who alleged that Trump had done precisely what he'd so lewdly described on tape—groped and kissed them without consent. Since then, 17 women have gone public with more tales of unwanted sexual touching or inappropriate behavior by Trump.

Top 10 Things We Learned from Hillary Clinton Campaign's Emails (Reason)

Between the WikiLeaks revelations, FOIA requests, and FBI investigation, there are important details among the noise.

Did FBI barter with Hillary Clinton over email classification? (CS Monitor)

Patrick Kennedy, the US State Department official, allegedly offered the FBI permission to post agents in more countries in exchange for reclassifying emails found on Hillary Clinton's private server. 

 WORLD

Hundreds near Mosul sent to hospital after sulfur plant set alight (JPost)

The US officials said Islamic State set the sulfur plant ablaze on Thursday during fighting around al-Mishraq, which is south of Mosul.

UK to pardon thousands convicted under past anti-gay laws (CS Monitor)

The Ministry of Justice said the pardons apply to men convicted for consensual same-sex sexual relations before homosexuality was decriminalized several decades ago. 

Mexico's Demand for Potent California Marijuana Creates Southbound Smuggling (KPBS)

Marijuana has long flowed from Mexico into the U.S. Now, it's starting to flow in the opposite direction. http://feedpress.me/13288/4675244.gif

Did Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro stage a coup? (CS Monitor)

In a rowdy session of Venezuela's legislature, lawmakers declared Sunday that, by blocking a recall effort, President Nicolas Maduro had staged a coup.

Another North Korea intermediate range missile fails after launch (Reuters)

North Korea fired a missile that failed immediately after launch early on Thursday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said, hours after the two countries agreed to step up efforts to counter the North's nuclear and missile threats.

Bennett suspends Israeli cooperation with UNESCO after Temple Mount vote (JPost)

Education Minister Nafatali Bennett decided Friday morning to immediately freeze all Israeli cooperation with UNESCO, because of its decision to declare top Jewish holy sites Muslim.

Police Van Rams Protesters at Anti-U.S. Demonstration in Philippines (NPR)

Several people were hospitalized after demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila called for U.S. troops to leave the country. AP footage shows a police van repeatedly ramming into protesters.

Two American citizens sentenced by Iran to 10 years in jail (JPost)

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman in his mid-40s, in October 2015, while he was visiting family in Tehran. The IRGC arrested his father, Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official in his early 80s, in February.… "Siamak Namazi and Mohammad Baquer Namazi have each been sentenced to 10 years’ prison ... for cooperating with the hostile government of America…."

Exclusive: Iran steps up weapons supply to Yemen's Houthis via Oman - officials  (Reuters)

 Iran has stepped up weapons transfers to the Houthis, the militia fighting the Saudi-backed government in Yemen, U.S., Western and Iranian officials tell Reuters, a development that threatens to prolong and intensify the 19-month-old war.


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