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How to reachus HOng KOllg prOtOStS —Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades today from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months. Watched by police, workers in white helmets used box cutters and pliers to remove plastic ties from the barricades, which were made up of metal and plastic safety barriers topped with traffic cones and scaffolding poles. They then passed parts of the barricades to coworkers who quickly shuffled them away to the side of the road. They were following orders from court workers carrying out a restraining order calling for barriers to be dismantled and obstructions removed from three sections of the protest site. Police then plan to move in to clear other blocked sections of road so that traffic can start flowing again.
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House Speaker John Boehner, from left, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi attend a ceremony Wednesday honoring veterans of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol at the Capitol. Campaign finance changes in the $1.1. trillion spend-
ing agreement are amongdozens of compromises reached behind closed doors that have cheered industries like coal and gas, while infuriating campaign finance watchdogs and environmental groups.
enin i sna s on ems'0 osi ion By Ashley Parker and Robert Pear
conservativeRepublicans con-
mittee helped to negotiate a political contribution provideal, called the spending plan sions were not changed. a "monumental achievement" "These provisions are dein an era of seemingly intrac- structive to middle-class famtable partisan divides. ilies and to the practice of our The objections mean that democracy," Pelosi said in a Congress will probably need statement. By Wednesday eveto pass a short-term funding ning, Democratic opposition measure tokeep government against the bill had hardened operations running beyond over the two provisions. today — the current deadline Boehner and his leader— while the final disputes are ship team nonetheless urged sorted out, even as Republi- Republicans to vote for t he cans expressed confidence bill, saying they would fight that the spending agreement Obama over immigration in would ultimatelybe approved. February — when the funding House Speaker John Boeh- for the Department of Homener w il l n e e d D e mocratic land Security is scheduled to votes to pass the bill, as many run out. of his more conservative memThe bipartisan package was bers arerefusing to support completed in the aftermath of it because of the president's the midterm elections in Nounilateral decision to d efer vember, when Democrats lost
tinued to argue that the bill
the deportations of as many
also did not do enough to try to scale back President Barack
as 5 million undocumented next year and lost seats in the immigrants. House as well. But the spending agreement showed signs of friction when Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
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Wall Street regulations and could deliver a financial windfall to big banks, and another that would allow big donors to wield even more influence over political parties. More
Obama's executive action on
immigration. Even with the resistance,
their majority in the Senate
Child sex rillg —The conviction Wednesday of an Alabama woman accused of being part of an incestuous sex ring provided graphic evidence about horrendous child molestation, but it didn't answer a baffling question: What happened to ayoung victim who is missing and presumeddead? Jurors took two hours to convict Wendy Wood Holland, 35, of sodomy, sexual abuse, sexual torture and child endangerment. Sheshowed no emotion when theverdict was read. Prosecutors say Holland faces at least 20 years in prison and could get a life sentence. Witnesses heard two days of testimony in her trial that didn't give any clues about the whereabouts of her 19-year-old niece Brittney Wood. Woodwas last seen with Holland's husband, Donnie, in 2012, and11 people havesince been arrested on sex-related charges. WOman'S durllillg death —Surveillance video that shows a Mississippi woman at aconvenience store gasstation less than two hours before shewas set onfire and left to die is part of the puzzle authorities were trying to piece together Wednesdayabout the last hours of the 19-year-old's life. Authorities were reviewing Jessica Chambers' cellphone records andtalking to possible witnesses, who could becomesuspects, said Jay Hale, anassistant district attorney who prosecutes cases in PanolaCounty. Theyare trying to figure out what happened to herbefore shewasfound barely alive near her burning car Saturday in Mississippi. Hale saidChambers spokewith firefighters on the scenebefore shewas taken to a Memphis hospital, where she died. Halesaid hecould not discuss what she said. Plltin in India —President Vladimir Putin flew into NewDelhi on Wednesday in need of a friend. Putin's 22-hour visit comes amid some uncertainty in the old relationship. Thenewdecision makers in NewDelhi say theyare less interested in geopolitics than in jump-starting the economy. Russia hasalready begun to worry that it will lose its advantage asthedominant arms supplier to India. In New Delhi, Putin will try to reinvigorate their countries' ties with a long list of possible projects, including deals to export Russian diamonds to India for polishing, build nuclear reactors in India andconstruct an oil and gas pipeline betweenthe two nations.
HOmiCide deathS OutpaCeWar —Homicide andacts of personal violence kill more people thanwars andarethe third-leading cause of death amongmenaged15 to 44, the United Nations said Wednesday in anew report. Around the world, there were about 475,000 homicide deaths in 2012andabout 6 million since 2000, "making homicide amorefrequent cause of death than all wars combined in this period," the report states. The report is intended to provide a base line for assessing efforts to address domestic violence, including child maltreatment; youth, intimate partner andsexual violence; andelder abuse, as well as homicides. — Fromwirereports
Republican leaders and some the minority leader, told her Democrats expressed confi- members in a closed-door dence that a government shut- session that she had called down would be averted. Sen. the speaker and signaled that Barbara M i k u lski, D - M d ., Democrats could have diffiwho as chairwoman of the culty supporting the final deal Senate Appropriations Com- if the financial regulation and
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Detroit out of bankruptcy but not out of the woods By Monica Davey New York Times News Service
DETROIT — This city for-
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ing control of this mostly black, Democratic-run city. "We still have enormous
mally emerged from court pro- challenges delivering services tection on Wednesday, bring- in the cityevery day, but at least ing to a dose the largest munic- now we are no longer a city ipal bankruptcy in American that's inbankruptcy," said Dughistory after about 17 months.
gan, who took office almost
Yet the end of the bankruptcy
a year ago. "So we're going
was also the start of what may
to start fresh tomorrow. And
be a still more difficult, lengthy we're going to do the best we test — of Detroit leaders' abil- can to deliver the kind of serity to chart a new, sustainable vices that the people in the city coursefora city rescued from deserve." financial collapse but still Duggan said that the reorgastruggling. nization plan — which allows "How do you deliver service Detroit to shed $7 billion of its in a city where the unemploy- debts and to spend about $1.7 ment rate is double the state billion to remake its dismal city average, and we've got to re- services over the next 10 years build a water system and a bus — "gives us the tools to have a system and a computer system chance to succeed." and a financial system?" Mayor Even with a clean financial Mike Duggan asked Wednes- slate, questions remain about day, adding, "It's all going to be how Detroit can shift its fate, a challenge." stop an exodus of taxpayers Duggan appeared in a news and bring jobs and improveconference beside Gov. Rick ments to the hardest-hit neighSnyder, who announced that borhoods in a city with a foothe no longer considered De- print designed for a population troit to be in a state of finan-
that was once more than twice
cial emergency, and beside
as many asthe approximately
Kevyn Orr, the state-appointed
700,000residents here now.
manager who said he was no The Detroit public school longerneeded to oversee city system, too, has its own set of spending and operations as he woes; it is overseenby an emerhas since March 2013, and was gency managerbecause of its returning control to elected own financial crisis. leaders. But Snyder noted areas of The group assembled here, improvement. He said that the heaping praise on Detroit's city's homicide rate, which progress, might once have was at its highest rate in 40 seemed unlikely to sit in the years when the Detroit entered same room. bankruptcy in 2013, had fallThough the b ankruptcy en 18 percent; he said police case was ultimately resolved response times, 58 minutes on with deals struck with Detroit's average according to an exammajor creditors, the notion of ination last year, were now less bankruptcy had irked many than 18 minutes. And a plan is city leaders, who initially ac- underway to replace the city's cused the state's white, Republi- streetlights, 40percent of which can leadership of unfairly seiz- failed to light not long ago.
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