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1 IN 5 U.S. ADULTS HAVE A DISABILITY
Wisconsin’s Walker had own email controversy
CDC report also breaks down data by state for first time Jennifer Calfas USA TODAY
One in five American adults have at least one kind of disability, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday. The findings, from 2013 data, come days after the 25th anniversary of the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The researchers defined a dis-
ability as a self-reported difficulty in one or more of five areas: vision, cognition, mobility, self-care or independent living — which includes tasks such as buying groceries or driving a car. The study is also the first stateby-state analysis of Americans with disabilities from CDC. The report found Southern states often had higher percentages of people with disabilities. For example, in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, 31.5%, 31.4% and 31.4%, respectively, of the state adult population has a disability. The percentage of Americans in Midwestern and Northern states were nearly half those from
“In order to understand and address their needs, we need to understand their diverse circumstances.” Elizabeth Courtney-Long, co-author on the CDC report
Southern states. In Minnesota and Alaska, 16.4% and 17.7%, respectively, reported a disability. The report also found adults who have lower education levels, lower income or are unemployed were more likely to have a disability. Broken down by race, the
study revealed African American and Hispanic Americans were more likely to have a disability than white Americans. Elizabeth Courtney-Long, a health scientist with CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and a co-author on the CDC report, said she believes the report will allow public health officials to understand the prevalence of Americans with disabilities — 53 million of them by this count. “In order to understand and address their needs, we need to understand their diverse circumstances,” she said. “This report provides a snapshot into that.”
CECIL’S DEATH CAUSES LARGE TOURISM DROP IN ZIMBABWE Lion lured from national park was killed by American Frank Chikowore
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The global outcry over the killing of Cecil the iconic lion has caused a drop in badly needed tourists to this impoverished African nation, government officials said Thursday. “Our tourism sector, which was booming, has recorded a significant drop in arrivals in the Hwange National Park, where Cecil was being kept,” Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief Karikoga Kaseke said Thursday without giving exact figures. “The culprits have painted Zimbabwe with a dirty brush. We are now seen as people who do not promote and protect animal rights.” Kaseke said he would launch an investigation to make sure other illegal hunting wasn’t occurring in the nation’s parks. Emmanuel Fundira, president of Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe, said foreign tourists in Zimbabwe were forecast to spend about $5 million in the final quarter of 2015. “Many international tourists that were set to visit the country to see Cecil have canceled their trips,” Fundira said. “This killing is a huge loss to our tourism sector that was contributing immensely to the national wealth.” Walter Palmer, 55, a Minnesota dentist, killed 13-year-old Cecil this month near the Hwange National Park on the Botswana border after paying two guides at least $50,000 to track and kill the big cat, according to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force. Palmer said he relied on his guides, Theo Bronkhorst and Honest Trymore Ndlovu, to make sure he hunted legally. Zimbabwean prosecutors claim Palmer
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“Many international tourists that were set to visit the country to see Cecil have canceled their trips.” Emmanuel Fundira, president of Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe
and the guides lured Cecil out of the national park with bait, shot him with a crossbow, tracked the wounded animal for 40 hours, then shot him dead. The two guides appeared in court Wednesday. Bronkhorst was released on bail, and Ndlovu was released without charges. Zimbabwean Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana said it would be difficult to force Palmer to return to the country for trial. Cecil was part of a research program funded by the Oxford University in Britain. He wore a
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Guides Honest Trymore Ndlovu and Theo Bronkhorst enter court Wednesday on allegations they lured the lion from Hwange National Park (top) to be killed by Walter Palmer. tracking collar, so conservationists could study lion longevity and personality characteristics. Farai Gambiza, 45, a Harare resident, canceled his October trip to Hwange National Park with his wife and children. “We have no reason to go there anymore because Cecil is dead,” Gambiza said. Patricia Muchekesi, 47, a government councilor near Hwange, said Cecil was beloved among Zimbabweans. “Cecil was a rare breed of a lion. Unlike other lions that we know to be dangerous,
Cecil was very friendly.” Conservationists fear Cecil’s death could lead to the deaths of other lions in his pride. “The saddest part of all is that ... the next lion in the hierarchy, Jericho, will most likely kill all Cecil’s cubs so that he can introduce his bloodline into the females,” said Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force Chairman Johnny Rodrigues. “This is the standard procedure for lions.” Contributing: Mihret Yohannes in Berlin
IN BRIEF FORMER VA. GOVERNOR JOINS GOP PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore became the 17th Republican presidential candidate Thursday, making the announcement in a Web video. “Some may ask, ‘Why am I running?’ ” Gilmore says in the video, noting the large GOP field. “I’m a candidate for president because our current Washington leadership is guiding America on a path to decline, and I can reverse that decline,” he says. His entry into the race is no surprise. He told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in July that he would announce his candidacy the first week of August. Gilmore, 65, was elected governor in 1997, running on a platform of ending the car tax. Prior to that he served as the state’s attorney general. — Cooper Allen COP ACCUSED OF KILLING DRIVER RELEASED ON BOND
A former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a man he pulled over for a missing front license plate pleaded not
cial pieces of evidence was bodycamera video that contradicted the account of the incident that Tensing gave to investigators. — Kevin Grash, The Cincinnati Enquirer
A FESTIVE TIME IN FRANCE
GOP candidate calls for Clinton inquiry Madeleine Behr USA TODAY
MADISON, WIS . Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker last week denounced Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State. Jay Heck, executive director for Common Cause Wisconsin, a non-partisan good government organization, found Walker’s statement “highly ironic.” “I was like, ‘Hello? Pot calling the kettle black,’ ” he said. Walker, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, was Milwaukee County executive from 2002-10 when two of his staffers, Kelly Rindfleisch and Darlene Wink, were convicted of campaigning EPA on public time Clinton because of work they did for Walker’s successful 2010 gubernatorial bid and then-state representative Brett Davis’ campaign for lieutenant governor. GETTY IMAGES Records Walker show Walker’s staff used a sep“I was arate Wi-Fi syslike, tem, private ‘Hello? email accounts and different Pot laptops in his calling county office to the kettle correspond black.’ ” with campaign aides. Jay Heck, executive director In his statefor Common ment denouncCause Wisconsin ing Clinton, Walker raised the possibility that the former secretary of State had threatened national security and called for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to determine whether Clinton broke the law. Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Walker probably doesn’t find his statement about Clinton hypocritical because compromising national security is far different than campaign activities on public time. “I think the press release is more about him trying to get attention as a Republican candidate who will be tough on Hillary Clinton,” Burden said. Comparing Clinton’s situation to the case with Walker’s office is like comparing “apples and oranges,” former state attorney general Peg Lautenschlager, a Democrat, said. Walker’s case is just the opposite: private email system to do political work on government time, rather than a private server to do government work using personal resources, she said. “There is nothing iffy about this,” Lautenschlager said. “You can’t do political work on government time. Period, end of story.”
CONFEDERATE FLAGS PLACED OUTSIDE MLK’S CHURCH
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Large-scale puppets make their way through the crowd Thursday during the 79th Bayonne summer festival in Biarritz. France’s largest festival ends its five-day run Aug. 2. guilty in court Thursday and was out of jail on bond less than eight hours later. Ray Tensing, 25, killed Samuel DuBose, 43, on July 19 as the unarmed black man delayed producing his driver’s license during the traffic stop near the university’s campus. Judge Megan
Shanahan of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court set Tensing’s bond at $1 million during the arraignment. On Wednesday, Tensing was charged with murder after a Hamilton County grand jury indicted him earlier in the week in the DuBose case. Among the cru-
Four Confederate flags were placed outside of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s church Thursday. Authorities said they are looking for two white men who were caught on surveillance video. Authorities have images of the men placing the flags outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said Atlanta Police Chief George Turner. Local authorities are working with federal authorities and have not determined what charges might be levied, he said. They have not ruled out a hate crime, Turner said. An officer from the Atlanta FBI’s joint terrorism task force was on the scene “to better determine if any specific threats were received” and to provide support to Atlanta police, FBI Special Agent Steve Emmett said in an email. — WXIA-TV
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