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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 2017
Page
4
Senator McCain endorses the Senate budget resolution, backing a path to tax reform. Thad Cochran returns after illness, boosting Republicans as they push a simple-majority vote for tax cuts amid a divided Senate. McCain stresses funding for the military and signals ongoing talks with leadership.
U S Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer clashed with Canada and Mexico in the fourth NAFTA round, saying the United States will push to cut a roughly 60 billion trade deficit. Canada’s Chrystia Freeland and Mexico’s Alfonso Guajardo Villarreal warned against winner take all thinking while all three ministers extended talks to March. Freeland urged goodwill and cautioned that U S proposals to raise national content could disrupt supply chains and threaten tens of thousands of jobs.
President Donald Trump announced Rep. Tom Marino Pa withdraws his name from consideration for drug czar amid a Washington Post 60 Minutes probe into legislation that weakened the DEA. Senate leaders and Democrats urged changes to opioid policy as Trump plans a national emergency on the epidemic.
A coalition of 18 state attorneys general filed suit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over the Obama era gainful employment rule. The rule ties federal aid to vocational programs based on graduates debt to income metrics, with 800 of 8,700 programs failing. Prosecutors say delays and appeals have undermined accountability for high debt and weak skills.
A federal judge in Hawaii halted the latest version of the travel ban, barring entry restrictions for six of eight countries. Judge Derrick Watson ruled the order discriminates based on nationality, delaying enforcement except for North Korea and Venezuela. Expect appeals and further legal fights over executive power on immigration policy.
U S backed forces in Syria said they had full control of Raqqa the Islamic States capital signaling the end of its presence in the symbolically important stronghold An unnamed U S official said IS has now lost 87 percent of its territory.
American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first novel Lincoln in the Battlo. Saunders, 58, is the second consecutive American winner, as reported by Gazette wire services.
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