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March 6, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
U.S.
- Manafort gets 47 months in prison for financial fraud (Politico)
- Wetter than ever: Winter 2018-19 was USA's soggiest in recorded history (USA Today)
- Cohen Offers Documents in Bid to Show Trump Lawyers Helped With False Testimony (New York Times)
- Flake, Kobach to take part in GOP debate about Trump (The Hill)
- Thousands of migrant children report that they were sexually assaulted in U.S. custody (USA Today)
- Crime lab scandal rocked Harris' term as San Francisco district attorney (Washington Post)
WORLD
- Can US help resolve Venezuela crisis? The first hurdle is history. (Christian Science Monitor)
- A snub and a last minute Hail Mary. Trump's tough lesson in North Korean diplomacy (CNN)
- Man who plotted truck attack on London's Oxford St jailed for life (Reuters)
- India builds bunkers to protect families along Pakistan border (Reuters)
- Saudi Arabia strips Osama bin Laden's son of citizenship (Reuters)
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U.S.
Manafort gets 47 months in prison for financial fraud (Politico)
Paul Manafort, the one-time 2016 Trump campaign chairman and longtime Republican lobbyist, was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison for a slate of financial fraud crimes, a much lighter sentence than many had anticipated. Manafort’s sentence, handed down by U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Va., is not the final word on his fate — another sentencing is scheduled next week for a series of additional crimes. However, his 47-month sentence is the longest to date for a Trump associate ensnared in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Wetter than ever: Winter 2018-19 was USA's soggiest in recorded history (USA Today)
…The winter of 2018-19 was the wettest winter ever recorded in the United States, according to a report federal scientists released Wednesday… The soggy winter could be a sign of things to come as human-caused climate change continues. "Since 1900, average annual precipitation over the U.S. has increased by roughly 5 percent," according to the National Climate Assessment, a federal report released in 2018.
Cohen Offers Documents in Bid to Show Trump Lawyers Helped With False Testimony (New York Times)
Michael D. Cohen on Wednesday provided new documents to the House Intelligence Committee that he said illustrated changes made at the request of President Trump’s lawyers to a knowingly false written statement that he delivered to Congress in 2017, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Flake, Kobach to take part in GOP debate about Trump (The Hill)
Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) will be among conservatives debating whether President Trump should receive the GOP nomination for president again in 2020. Intelligence Squared announced in a press release Wednesday that Flake would join New York Times columnist Bret Stephens in a debate pitting them against Kobach and Fox News columnist Liz Peek on March 28.
Thousands of migrant children report they were sexually assaulted in U.S. custody (USA Today)
In the past four years, 4,556 children said they were sexually assaulted while in the care of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes custody of unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border alone and those who are separated from their families. Allegations go back to 2015.. But the allegations have increased in the past two years after the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that led to at least 2,800 family separations flooding the department with additional children.
Crime lab scandal rocked Harris' term as San Francisco district attorney (Washington Post)
Harris “failed to disclose information that clearly should have been disclosed,” Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo wrote in a scathing decision in May 2010…. ...dismissing about 1,000 drug-related cases, including many in which convictions had been obtained and sentences were being served. Now this episode, which undercut Harris’s image as a polished leader and raised questions about her management style, has taken on new relevance as the senator seeks the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Casting herself as a “progressive prosecutor” who was concerned for the rights of defendants, Harris has highlighted her seven-year tenure as San Francisco’s top law enforcement official as evidence of how she balanced her roles.
WORLD
Can US help resolve Venezuela crisis? The first hurdle is history. (Christian Science Monitor)
If the United States wants to help in Venezuela, it first needs to dispel decades-old doubts in Latin America that it really has the region’s best interests at heart.
A snub and a last minute Hail Mary. Trump's tough lesson in North Korean diplomacy (CNN)
How the Hanoi summit unraveled.
Man who plotted truck attack on London's Oxford St jailed for life (Reuters)
A Muslim convert who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS) was jailed for life on Wednesday for plotting to drive a truck into pedestrians on central London's busy Oxford Street.Reuters - A Muslim convert who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State
India builds bunkers to protect families along Pakistan border (Reuters)
India is building more than 14,000 bunkers suitable for families living along its border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir state, hoping to keep them safe near their homes instead of evacuating them as artillery shells scream over.
Saudi Arabia strips Osama bin Laden's son of citizenship (Reuters)
Saudi Arabia has stripped citizenship from Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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