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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Brazil leaders to meet as protests, violence grow
Protesters gesture to riot police during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. More than half a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 Brazilian cities Thursday in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes happening in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the seaside city's central area. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Protesters gesture to riot police during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. More than half a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 Brazilian cities Thursday in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes happening in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the seaside city's central area. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
People run from tear gas during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. More than half a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 Brazilian cities Thursday in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes happening in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the seaside city's central area. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Military police detain a man during an anti-government protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. More than half a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 Brazilian cities Thursday in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes happening in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the seaside city's central area. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
People shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. More than half a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 Brazilian cities Thursday in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes happening in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the seaside city's central area. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Rio police advance with an armored vehicle, right, chasing demonstrators near Candelaria Church, background, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. More than half a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 Brazilian cities Thursday in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services. Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes happening in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the seaside city's central area. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Police and protesters fought in the streets into the early hours Friday as an estimated 1 million Brazilians swarmed through more than 80 Brazilian cities in the biggest demonstrations yet against a government viewed as corrupt at all levels and unresponsive to its people.
President Dilma Rousseff called an emergency meeting of her top Cabinet members for Friday morning, more than a week after the protests began. Rousseff, who has a standoffish governing style, has been almost entirely absent from the public eye, making only one statement earlier in the week that peaceful protests are part of the democratic process.
But the protests that raged across Brazil late Thursday and into Friday were spiked with violence as people vented anger over a litany of complaints, from high taxes to corruption to rising prices.
At least one protester was killed in Sao Paulo state when a car rammed into a crowd of demonstrators, after the driver apparently became enraged about being unable to drive along a street.
In Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators poured into the seaside city's central area, running clashes played out between riot police and clusters of mostly young men with T-shirts wrapped around their faces. But peaceful protesters were caught up in the fray, too, as police fired tear gas canisters into their midst and at times indiscriminately used pepper spray.
Thundering booms echoed off stately colonial buildings as rubber bullets and gas were fired at fleeing crowds.
At least 40 people were injured in Rio, including protesters like Michele Menezes, a wisp of a woman whose youthful face and braces belie her 26 years. Bleeding and with her hair singed from the explosion of a tear gas canister, she said she and others took refuge from the violence in an open bar, only to have a police officer toss the canister inside.
The blast ripped through Menezes' jeans, tearing two coin-sized holes on the back of her thighs, and peppered her upper arm with a rash of small holes.
"I was leaving a peaceful protest and it's not the thugs that attack me but the police themselves," said Menezes, removing her wire-rim glasses to wipe her bloodshot eyes.
She later took refuge in a hotel, along with about two dozen youths, families and others who said they had been repeatedly hit with pepper spray by motorcycle police as they also sheltered inside a bar.
Protesters said they would not back down.
"I saw some pretty scary things, but they're not going to shake me. There's another march on the 22nd and I'm going to be there," said 19-year-old university student Fernanda Szuster.
Asked if her parents knew she was joining in the protests, Szuster said: "They know and they're proud. They also protested when they were young. So they think it's great."
She added, though, that she wouldn't tell her father the details of the police violence. "If he knew, he would never let me leave the house again."
In Brasilia, the national capital, police struggled to keep hundreds of protesters from invading the Foreign Ministry, while the crowd set a small fire outside. Other government buildings were attacked around the city's central esplanade. There, too, police used tear gas and rubber bullets trying to scatter demonstrators.
Clashes were also reported in the Amazon jungle city of Belem, Porto Alegre in the south, the university town Campinas north of Sao Paulo and the northeastern city of Salvador.
"This was meant to be a peaceful demonstration and it is," artist Wanderlei Costa, 33, said in Brasilia. "It's a shame some people cause trouble when there is a much bigger message behind this movement. Brazil needs to change, not only on the government level, but also on the grass-roots level. We have to learn to demonstrate without violence."
The protests took place one week after a violent police crackdown on a much smaller demonstration complaining about an increase in bus and subway fares in Sao Paulo galvanized Brazilians to take their grievances to the streets.
The unrest is hitting the nation as it hosts the Confederations Cup soccer tournament with tens of thousands of foreign visitors in attendance. It also comes one month before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Brazil, and ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, raising concerns about how Brazilian officials will provide security.
Mass protests have been rare in this country of 190 million people in recent years, and the mushrooming demonstrations of the past week caught Brazilian government officials by surprise while delighting many citizens.
"I think we desperately need this, that we've been needing this for a very, very long time," said Paulo Roberto Rodrigues da Cunha, a 63-year-old clothing store salesman in Rio.
Despite the energy on the street, many protesters said they were unsure how the movement would win real political concessions. People in the protests have held up signs asking for everything from education reforms to free bus fares while denouncing the billions of public dollars spent on stadiums in advance of the World Cup and the Olympics.
"We pay a lot of money in taxes, for electricity, for services, and we want to know where that money is," said Italo Santos, a 25-year old student who joined a rally by 5,000 protesters at Salvador's Campo Grand Square.
But many believe the protests are no longer just about bus fares and have become larger cries for systemic changes.
"This is the start of a structural change in Brazil," said Aline Campos, a 29-year-old publicist in Brasilia. "People now want to make sure their money is well spent, that it's not wasted through corruption."
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Associated Press writers Marco Sibaja in Brasilia, Bradley Brooks and Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo and Ricardo Zuniga in Salvador contributed to this report.
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Jon Stewart appears on Egyptian satirical TV show
CAIRO (AP) ? Jon Stewart took the guest's seat Friday on Egypt's top satirical TV show, modeled after his own program "The Daily Show."
Stewart was brought to the set wearing a black hood and introduced by host Bassem Youssef as a captured foreign spy.
Stewart, wearing a scruffy beard, spoke briefly in Arabic as the studio audience gave him a raucous welcome.
"Please sit down, I am a simple man who does not like to be fussed over," he said in Arabic to laughter.
Youssef, one of Egypt's most popular TV presenters, has been questioned by prosecutors on accusations of blasphemy and insulting the president. Stewart defended his counterpart and friend in one of his monologues after Youssef was interrogated earlier this year, and Youssef has appeared as a guest on the popular New York-based show.
Stewart, who is on a summer-long break from anchoring the Comedy Central fake newscast is in the Middle East making his first movie. He expressed admiration for Youssef in Friday's episode, which was recorded earlier this week during a visit to Cairo.
"Satire is a settled law. If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime," Stewart said, adding that Youssef "is showing that satire can be relevant."
True to form, Youssef began the weekly show with a series of jokes about Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's appearance and address at a rally last weekend hosted by his hard-line Islamist backers.
The president, Egypt's first freely elected leader, announced at the rally a complete break of diplomatic relations with the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Youssef, however, criticized Morsi for remaining silent and wearing a stone face while one of the rally's organizers denounced as non-believers opposition protesters planning massive, anti-government demonstrations on June 30, the anniversary of the start of the president's term.
Stewart said he was overwhelmed with the generosity of Egyptians but took a jab at Cairo's horrendous traffic. "I flew in three days ago and I have just arrived to do the show," he joked.
Youssef ? known as Egypt's Jon Stewart ? was interrogated in April for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader. His questioning drew criticism from Washington and rights advocates. A trained heart surgeon, Youssef catapulted to fame when his video blogs mocking politics received hundreds of thousands of hits shortly after the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.
Unlike other local TV presenters, Youssef uses satire to mock fiery comments made by ultraconservative clerics and politicians, garnering him a legion of fans among the country's revolutionaries and liberals. He has 1.4 million fans on Facebook and nearly 850,000 followers on Twitter.
During his hiatus, Stewart will be directing and producing "Rosewater" from his own script, based on a memoir by Maziar Bahari. This Iranian journalist was falsely accused of being a spy and imprisoned by the Iranian government in 2009 while covering Iran's presidential election.
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EFF looks at rules controlling NSA surveillance, sees big risks for Americans
While The Guardian undoubtedly garnered attention when it posted court papers detailing data collection rules for the NSA, it also provided a lot of detail that isn't easy to digest. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is more than willing to break down those rules, however -- and it doesn't like what it sees. It's concerned that there are too many exceptions letting the NSA store and transmit private information, with little oversight preventing investigators from seeing more US data than they should. Allegedly, the rules could defy American rights to anonymous speech; they may also violate attorney-client privileges both inside and outside of the US. We have a hunch that the NSA might disagree with this interpretation of its authority, but you can see all the points of contention for yourself at the link below.
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Yahoo News Calls Kenya 'The Country Of Obama's Birth'
Apparently someone has been listening to too many birthers.
In an article about President Obama's upcoming trip to Africa, a Yahoo News reporter referred to Kenya as "the country of his birth." (See the screenshot below).
The article has since been revised to refer to Kenya as the president's "ancestral homeland." A correction at the top acknolwedges that "an earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the president's birthplace."
Obama was born in Hawaii, a fact that state officials have repeatedly confirmed, though the claim that he was secretly born in Kenya has dogged him for much of his presidential career. He sought to put questions to rest once and for all by releasing his long-form birth certificate in 2011.
At that year's White House Correspondents Dinner, the president made light of the conspiracy theories by promising to show his "official birth video," then playing a clip from "The Lion King."
"I want to make it clear to the Fox News table," he said afterwards, "that was a joke, that was not my birth video, that was a children's cartoon."
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
On guns and more, NH Sen. Ayotte backs GOP leaders
BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) ? U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte has endured sustained and sharp political attacks on New Hampshire television for voting with her Republican Party and against universal background checks on gun purchases, and Republicans close to the first-term lawmaker acknowledge that her popularity has suffered.
But there's more to it than that. The gun vote says a lot about the image she's carved out since taking office in 2011.
Ayotte quickly has become one of the party's most loyal senators, supporting GOP leaders far more frequently than do fellow Republicans in the Northeast. That's politically dangerous in New Hampshire, where independents and Democrats hold considerable sway.
Overall, Ayotte supported her party at least 86 percent of the time since coming to Capitol Hill, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan group OpenCongress.
In a party eager to find fresh faces, such loyalty brings a high-profile role.
The former New Hampshire attorney general was an important surrogate for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign last year and has become a leading GOP voice on national security.
U.S. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., describes the 44-year-old mother of two young children as a rising star for an evolving Republican Party long dominated by older "white guys." She is one of just four Republican women in the Senate and the youngest of the group by more than a decade.
"It's amazing to me after just a few years what an impact player she's become," Graham said.
Ayotte's visibility, like her early voting record, carries risks.
Critics suggest she is following the footsteps of at New Hampshire's last Republican senator, John E. Sununu, who was once thought to be a climber among Republicans in the nation's capital, but lost his first re-election. Ayotte's supporters note that while her once sky-high popularity has suffered, polls suggest that more New Hampshire voters still see her favorably than not.
Ayotte declined to be interviewed for this story.
Her supporters note that most Democrat senators across the Northeast have higher party-loyalty ratings than Ayotte does. Indeed, her New Hampshire colleague Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat up for re-election next year, votes with her party more than 90 percent of the time.
But the stakes may be higher for Ayotte, who faces re-election in 2016, in a region where Republicans are nearly extinct. Ayotte is one of just two congressional Republicans across all six New England states. The other, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, is widely considered more moderate and voted with her leadership just 65 percent of the time, according to OpenCongress.
The frequency of Collins' willingness to vote against her party is in line with former Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe, of Maine, and Scott Brown, of Massachusetts. Snowe retired last year, while Brown was defeated.
"Kelly Ayotte is representing around 10 percent of voters who are the extreme right wing of her base," Democratic National Committee spokesman Michael Czin said. "I don't think it will serve her well in the short term or the long term."
Despite her early record, colleagues say Ayotte is willing to reach across the aisle. Ayotte joined with Democrats during last week's congressional hearings about sexual assault in the military.
"What you're going to find in Kelly is a conservative who is very practical and pragmatic," said Graham, who described Ayotte as the "third amigo" in his friendship with Arizona Sen. John McCain. "She's by no means an ideologue."
Ayotte has embraced a high-profile role on some contentious issues. Most notably, she has become a leading voice in the GOP's campaign to investigate the Obama administration's actions in Libya, where the American ambassador and three others were killed in Benghazi last fall.
Like many of her party's more conservative members, she has yet to endorse the immigration legislation, crafted by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and a small bipartisan group of senators, that allows a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the country illegally. She has resisted joining Democrats and a few Republicans who are calling for tighter gun laws following the December school massacre in Connecticut.
Ayotte's mid-April vote against expanded background checks for gun purchases at gun shows and on the Internet in particular triggered a flood of criticism. Polls suggest the proposal was overwhelmingly popular among voters in New Hampshire and nationwide. Four other Republican senators ? including Collins, McCain, Illinois' Mark Kirk and Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey ? voted for the plan, which fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group backed by New York's mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, has spent $1.8 million so far pummeling Ayotte with statewide television ads since early May. Rubio came to her defense, using his political action committee to fund a television ad campaign praising Ayotte's support for a substitute gun provision focused on mental health. But Bloomberg's group has outspent Rubio's and released a new television ad, its fourth since early May, that targeted Ayotte as recently as last week.
"Our hope is that she looks at this issue and reconsiders, and recognizes that what people are really looking for is bipartisan leadership," said Howard Wolfson, Bloomberg's deputy mayor and a strategist for the group. "We're not going away. We're going to continue to press the issue."
Ayotte's aides say she's unlikely to change her vote if background checks come up again in the Senate. They say there's plenty of time to recover any lost political capital before her next election, which is more than three years away.
But the impact of the ad campaign was evident at a recent Memorial Day celebration, even among veterans who supported Ayotte in 2010.
"She was the only one in the Northeast to vote against it," said World War II veteran Earl Isham, of Bedford, N.H., a Republican and fierce critic of President Barack Obama. "Her vote tells me she was voting with them and not her state."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guns-more-nh-sen-ayotte-backs-gop-leaders-121815823.html
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
Andrea bringing rains, flood watches to East Coast
A woman leaps across a puddle during a rainstorm Friday, June 7, 2013, in Philadelphia. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for much of southeastern Pennsylvania as remnants of tropical Storm Andrea move through the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
A woman leaps across a puddle during a rainstorm Friday, June 7, 2013, in Philadelphia. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for much of southeastern Pennsylvania as remnants of tropical Storm Andrea move through the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
A woman walks shielded from a rainstorm with an umbrella, Friday, June 7, 2013, in Philadelphia. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for much of southeastern Pennsylvania as remnants of tropical Storm Andrea move through the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Police officers direct traffic next to the Stuart C. Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. Friday, June 7, 2013. Tropical Storm Andrea doused the area with ample rainfall as the arena hosted graduations for local high schools. (AP Photo/The Progress-Index, Patrick Kane)
Residents make their way along flooded areas of Singletary Street after heavy rain sweeps across the region, Friday, June 7, 2013 in Wilson, N.C. After bringing rains, heavy winds and even tornadoes to parts of Florida, Tropical Storm Andrea moved quickly across south Georgia and was speeding through the Carolinas on Friday morning, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend. (AP Photo/The Wilson Times, Gray Whitley)
Jason Childress and his son Jackson Childress, 4, have different reactions to the heavy rain as they battle rain from tropical storm Andrea before shopping at the Target store in Park Place Shopping Center Friday, June 7, 2013 in Cary, N.C. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris Seward) MANDATORY CREDIT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ? The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season drenched the Southeastern U.S. but caused no major damage on Friday, marching up the East Coast as it brought the threat of weekend flooding as far north as New England.
After bringing rain, strong winds and even tornadoes to Florida, Andrea was losing its tropical characteristics on Friday even as it still packed maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph).
It was blamed for one traffic-related death in Virginia.
As of 11 p.m. Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami had discontinued all tropical storm warnings. The remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea were about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Cape May, N.J., and the system was moving northeastward at 35 mph (56 kph)
The storm's low-level center was losing definition but remained a threat to the East Coast while "evolving into a low-pressure center," Darin Figurskey, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Raleigh, N.C., said early Friday evening.
Forecasters say Andrea could bring high winds, heavy rainfall, and localized coastal flooding through Saturday across the mid-Atlantic states and New England. Rainfall accumulations of 2 to 4 inches were possible along the Eastern Seaboard into coastal Maine, the hurricane center said. Winds near gale force were possible from New Jersey to Canada through Sunday.
Officials in the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast were bracing for the storm Friday night. New York City activated its flash flooding plan, and heavy rainfall resulted in a number of flash floods, causing some sections of roadways to be closed throughout Long Island.
The weather service reported that small streams and creeks in southeastern Pennsylvania were going over their banks Friday night. New York City's airports experienced flight delays, and Connecticut reported numerous lane closures on highway as cars spun out amid heavy rain.
The rainy weather washed out events such as NASCAR's Sprint Cup qualifying and the Washington Nationals Friday night home game.
Authorities in Virginia blamed heavy rain from the storm's outer bands for a fatal accident on Interstate 77 in the state's western mountains. William Petty, 57, of Lexington, S.C., died when a car in which he was a passenger hydroplaned while passing a tractor-trailer. He survived the crash, only to be killed moments later when the car was struck by second tractor-trailer, authorities said.
During the morning rush hour in Charleston, S.C., there was little evidence that the center of the storm was passing to the northwest beyond a few downed tree branches, gusty winds and some puddles in the street. The sun occasionally peeked through.
Derrec Becker with the South Carolina Emergency Management Division said the storm brought only a severe thunderstorm Friday. No injuries were reported, and there had been no reports of significant damage.
Mike Sprayberry of North Carolina Emergency Management told the Weather Channel that there had been some flash flooding and local road closures in the state but that "so far we have been quite fortunate."
Thousands of power outages were also reported.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott had warned Thursday of the risk of tornadoes, and officials said that eight were confirmed across the state.
Forecasters didn't expect major problems, however, along the most vulnerable parts of the coast such as North Carolina's Outer Banks, a popular tourist destination.
David Tweedie, 41, of Ocracoke, said an early-morning burst of rain and the forecast of another three hours or so of rain and wind on the Outer Banks island has done little to alter the day's routine for the roughly 1,000 year-round residents.
The Friday fish fry that kicks off the island's annual folk music and arts festival was moved indoors to the island's only public school, and a musical performance of the three-day event was shifted to the community center. But the tropical system was otherwise forcing no changes to the Ocrafolk Festival that normally draws more than 2,000 visitors, Tweedie said.
"The weather is looking pretty good for blowing out and for us having a good day tomorrow," said Tweedie, the festival coordinator.
Authorities in coastal Bertie County, N.C., said a school bus with 32 elementary students on board slid off the road and into a ditch about 8 a.m. No injuries were reported.
A Coast Guard cutter and HC-130 Hercules airplane were called to rescue four adults aboard a 35-foot sailboat about 65 miles off Charleston, S.C. The sailboat's engine was disabled during the storm and left rocking in 15-foot seas and 35-mph winds.
Beach vacationers were keeping a close eye on the storm.
Tan Sanders, 20, of Goldsboro, brought his surfboard, hoping for bigger-than-usual waves during his vacation at North Myrtle Beach, S.C. The newcomer to surfing got more than he wanted.
"I went out for probably about 20 or 30 minutes, but it was beating me to death so we come back in," Sanders said.
But it wasn't long before the heavy weather was gone.
"We did most of what we wanted to, other than working around the rain," Sanders said. "It was definitely blowing some sand for a little while, but after about two o'clock or three o'clock it got right back to normal with people going back out on the beach, taking their chairs and stuff."
Farther east in Chapel Hill, heavy rains forced the forced the postponement of Friday's NCAA super regional baseball series opener between No. 1 seeded North Carolina and South Carolina until Saturday. A second game between N.C. State and Rice in Raleigh was also postponed.
While the storm departed Florida early Friday, the Sunshine State was still feeling the effects into the day. The weather service estimated that feeder bands from Andrea's remnants dropped more than 9 inches of rain on eastern Miami-Dade County and more than 6 inches of rain on eastern Broward County on Friday. The Miami Herald reports 70 vehicles were stalled on flooded roads in Aventura, a city just north of Miami.
In Cuba, days of torrential rains associated with Andrea caused rivers to jump their banks in the western province of Pinar del Rio. More than 3,300 people evacuated endangered homes, and nearly 1,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of croplands suffered "serious damage," state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde said Friday. Rain was forecast to continue falling on already waterlogged areas through Saturday.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kiley Armstrong and Jacob Pearson in New York; Michael Rubinkam in Allentown, Pa., Lisa Rathke in Montpelier, Vt., Samatha Henry in Newark, N.J., Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., Michael Felberbaum in Richmond, Va., Aaron Beard in Raleigh, N.C.; Bruce Smith in Charleston, S.C.; Jack Jones in Columbia, S.C.; Jennifer Kay and Kelli Kennedy in Miami; Gary Fineout and Brent Kallestad in Tallahassee, Fla.; and Peter Orsi in Havana.
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