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VATICAN CITY (AP)
In five years, the world has gotten to know Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina who was so self-deprecat-ing that when he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on March 13, 2013, as Pope Francis, he quipped that his brother cardinals had to search to the “end of the Earth” to find a new leader.
For starters, he likes his mate — an Argentine tea. He suffers from sciat-ica. For a period in his 40s he saw a psychoanalyst to “clear up some things.” His favorite film is Fellini’s “La Strada” followed closely by “Rome, Open City” with a fondness too for “Babette’s Feast.”
Here are a few facts about Pope Francis, as well as some highlights from five years
with a very different kind of pope.MAGICAL MOMENTS:—Sept. 21, 2014: When he wept hearing
the life story of a priest, the Rev. Ernest Simoni, who was tortured and impris-oned during Albania’s communist rule. Francis later made Simoni a cardinal.
—Dec. 1, 2017: When his already whispery voice weakened as he met with Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees and told them “The pres-ence of God today is also called Rohingya.”
H I S T O R I C MOMENTS:
—June 8, 2014: When Francis hosted the Israeli and Palestinian presi-dents for a peace prayer in the Vatican gardens. Full-scale conflict broke out in the Gaza Strip a few weeks later.
—Sept. 24, 2015: When he challenged the U.S. Congress to redis-
cover America’s ideals by taking action on climate change, immigration and poverty reduction. The speech was the first by a pope at the U.S. capitol.
—Feb. 12, 2016: When he met with the Russian Orthodox patriarch in the first such encounter in over 1,000 years.
SEEMINGLY NORMAL, YET SPECIAL MOMENTS:
—March 14, 2013: When he paid his bill and checked out of the Rome resi-dence after he had been elected pope. The gesture set the stage for a papacy of simple, humble gestures.
—Nov. 30, 2015: When he invited the imam of Bangui to join him in his pope-mobile for a spin through the besieged, divided Central African Republic capital in a sign of Christian-Muslim coexistence.
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?—Francis doesn’t much care for “selfies”
but tolerates posing for them because that’s what kids these days do.
—He hasn’t watched television since June 15, 1990, when he made a promise to the Virgin Mary that he wouldn’t.
—He likes Caravaggio and Chagall, Mozart and Bach. His preferred liter-ary references run from Dostoyevsky to Borges and the Argentine epic poem “Martin Fierro.”
—He has a temper, admits to having an “authoritative” bent and has been known to curse like a sailor.
—He rises at 4:30 a.m., takes a siesta after lunch and is asleep by 10 p.m.
—He heats his own food in the Vatican hotel dining room microwave.
Some facts about Pope Francis at the 5-year mark
In this April 6, 2016 file photo, Pope Francis drinks from a mate gourd at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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RELIGION: Some facts about Pope Francis at the 5-year mark
STATE: Report says radioactive monitors failed at nuclear plant
FINANCIAL LITERACY: Teaching financial wellness to your kids
NATIONAL: Amid Trump visit, it’s business as usual for border towns
POLITICS: Trump’s strong words on guns give way to political reality
NATIONAL: University experts to lead Puerto Rico storm death review
IMMIGRATION: ACLU accuses US of broadly separating immigrant families
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RICHLAND, Washington (AP)
A new report says mistakes and mis-management are to blame for the exposure of workers to radioactive par-ticles at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state.
Contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. on Thursday released its evalu-ation of what went wrong in December during demolition of the nuclear reservation’s highly contaminated Plutonium Finish-ing Plant.
The Tri-City Herald reports the study said primary radioactive air moni-tors used at a highly hazardous Hanford project failed to detect contamination. Then, when the spread of contamination was detected, the report said steps taken to contain it didn’t fully work.
At least 11 Hanford workers checked since mid-December inhaled or ingested small amounts of radioactive particles. Private and government vehicles were contaminated with radioactive particles.
The sprawling site in southeast-ern Washington contains more than 50 million gallons of radioactive and toxic wastes in underground storage tanks. It’s owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, which hires private contractors to manage the cleanup work.
Hanford was established during World War II and made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The 560-square mile site also made
most of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
The report released Thursday said before the December spread of contami-nation, Hanford officials were relying pri-marily on continuous air monitors that check for airborne radioactive contamina-tion in near real-time and sound an alarm if workers may be in danger.
The monitors had worked in the past, including in June, when alarms sounded and workers were told to shelter in place.
But the monitors did not detect air-borne contamination in December, pos-sibly because some of the particles that spread were too heavy to stay aloft.
Officials had other signs that there might be a problem, including contami-nation found in monitors that workers wear on their lapels, yet continued to rely on the continuous air monitors.
The CH2M report, which is now being reviewed by a Department of Energy panel, listed 42 steps to take in response to its findings, like changes to training for radiological workers.
Report says radioactive monitors failed at nuclear plant
In this file photo taken June 13, 2017, the Plutonium Uranium Extrac-tion Plant, right, stands adjacent to a dirt-covered rail tunnel, left,
containing radioactive waste, on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington.
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NATIONAL
CALEXICO, California (AP)
The daily commute from Mexico to California farms is the same as it was before Donald Trump became president. Hundreds of Mexicans cross the border and line the sidewalks of Calexico’s tiny downtown by 4 a.m., napping on cardboard sheets and blankets or sipping coffee from a 24-hour dough-nut shop until buses leave for the fields.
For decades, cross-border commut-ers have picked lettuce, carrots, broccoli, onions, cauliflower and other vegetables that make California’s Imperial Valley “America’s Salad Bowl” from December through March. As Trump visited the border Tuesday, the harvest is a reminder of how little has changed despite heated immigration rhetoric in Washington.
Trump was to inspect eight prototypes for a future 30-foot border wall that were built in San Diego last fall. He made a “big, beautiful wall” a centerpiece of his cam-paign and said Mexico would pay for it.
But border barriers extend the same 654 miles (1,046 kilometers) they did under President Barack Obama and so far Trump hasn’t gotten Mexico or Congress to pay for a new wall.
In Tijuana, tens of thousands of com-muters still line up weekday mornings for San Diego at the nation’s busiest border crossing, some for jobs in landscaping, housekeeping, hotel maids and shipyard maintenance. The vast majority are U.S. citizens and legal residents or holders of “border crossing cards” that are given to
millions of Mexicans in border areas for short visits. The border crossing cards do not include work authorization but some break the rules.
Workers in the Mexicali area rise about 1 a.m., carpool to the border crossing and wait about an hour to reach Calexico’s portico-covered sidewalks by 4 a.m. Some beat the border bottleneck by crossing at midnight to sleep in their cars in Calexico, a city of 40,000 about 120 miles (192 kilo-meters) east of San Diego.
Fewer workers make the trek now than 20 and 30 years ago. But not because of Trump.
Steve Scaroni, one of Imperial Val-ley’s largest labor contractors, blames the drop on lack of interest among younger Mexicans, which has forced him to rely increasingly on short-term farmworker visas known as H-2As.
“We have a saying that no one is raising their kids to be farmworkers,” said Scaroni, 55, a third-generation grower and one of Imperial Valley’s largest labor contractors.
Scaroni’s main objective is to expand the H-2A visa program, which covered about 165,000 workers in 2016. On his annual visit to Washington in February to meet members of Congress and other officials, he decided within two hours that nothing changed under Trump.
“Washington is not going to fix any-thing,” he said. “You’ve got too many people - lobbyists, politicians, attorneys - who make money off the dysfunction. They make money off of not solving prob-lems. They just keep talking about it.”
Amid Trump visit, it’s business as usual for border towns
In this March 6, 2018 picture, farmworker Santiago Martinez, of Mexicali, Mexico, picks cabbage before dawn in a field outside of Calexico, California.
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POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP)
Not two weeks ago, President Donald Trump wagged his finger at a Republican senator and scolded him for being “afraid of the NRA,” declaring that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby and finally get results on quelling gun violence following last month’s Florida school shooting.
On Monday, Trump struck a very dif-ferent tone as he backpedaled from his earlier demands for sweeping reforms and bowed to Washington reality. The presi-dent, who recently advocated increasing the minimum age to purchase an assault weapon to 21, tweeted that he’s “watch-ing court cases and rulings” on the issue, adding that there is “not much political support (to put it mildly).”
Over the weekend, the White House released a limited plan to combat school shootings that leaves the question of arming teachers to states and local com-munities and sends the age issue to a com-mission for review. Just two days earlier, Trump had mocked commissions as
something of a dead end while talking about the opioid epidemic. “We can’t just keep setting up blue-ribbon com-mittees,” he said, adding that all they do is “talk, talk, talk.”
Seventeen people were killed in last month’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, prompting a national conversation about gun laws, fierce advocacy for stronger gun control from surviving students and, initially, a move from Trump to buck his allies at the National Rifle Association.
In a televised meeting with lawmakers on Feb. 28, Trump praised members of the gun lobby as “great patriots” but declared “that doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything. It doesn’t make sense that I
have to wait until I’m 21 to get a handgun, but I can get this weapon at 18.”
He then turned toward Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, and questioned why previous gun control legislation did not include that provision.
“You know why?” said Trump, answer-
ing his own question. “Because you’re afraid of the NRA, right? Ha ha.”
Toomey had a ready response after the pres-ident’s tweet Monday: “It’s quite obvious that I’m the guy that stood up to the NRA,” he said. Asked if Trump was afraid of the NRA, Toomey said, “I don’t know what’s driving his decision.”
Democrats and gun control advocates were quick to pounce on the president’s retreat from previous demands, with Sen.
Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., tweeting that Trump “couldn’t even summon the political courage to propose raising the age limit on firearm purchases - despite repeated promises to support such a step at a meeting with lawmakers.”
Trump’s strong words on guns give way to political reality
In this March 10, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Atlantic Avia-tion in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
Puerto Rico’s governor announced Thursday that a team of experts at George Washington Univer-sity will lead an independent, in-depth review to determine the number of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria amid accu-sations that the U.S. territory has under-counted the toll.
The team, led by the dean and an epi-demiologist of the university’s school of public health, expects to have a prelimi-nary report in three months and a final report in one year.
“We will call it as we see it,” said Dean Lynn Goldman. “That I promise you.”
The administration of Gov. Ricardo Rossello had maintained that 64 people died as a result of the Category 4 hurri-cane that hit on Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph (248 kph). But critics have said the death toll is much higher, noting that a spike in the number of deaths after the storm was not normal. Puerto Rico recorded an official average of 82 deaths a day in the two weeks before Maria hit. The number increased to 117 a day after the storm pummeled the island in mid-September and then fell below usual in October.
Rossello said his administration wants to rely on the most up-to-date science to get more clarity about the number of victims.
“I want to know the truth,” he said. “It’s
important for those who have lost loved ones.”
Goldman said the team will review all deaths from September until the end of February, relying on death certificates in addition to possible funeral home and hospital visits and interviews with family members and doctors. The team also will review mortality records from the past 10 years to calculate possible excess deaths and analyze the process that Puerto Rico used to count victims. She said the type of research her team will be doing could lead to an improved U.S. model for estimating deaths after a disaster.
“Worldwide, these methods are not sufficiently developed,” she said, adding that she will be working alongside Puerto Rican officials. “Despite the best efforts of many people to care for people in the aftermath of this disaster...it hasn’t always been possible for the records to be kept in a way that they normally are.”
Puerto Rico government officials have rejected media reports that suggest hun-dreds of people died as a direct result of the storm, and Rossello called for a review of the death toll in late December. The current toll includes some of those who died from heart attacks, suicide and respi-ratory failure, but one report by research-ers including the director of applied demography at Pennsylvania State Uni-versity estimates that there were nearly 500 excess deaths in Puerto Rico in Sep-tember.
University experts to lead Puerto Rico storm death review
In this Saturday, September 30, 2017 file photo, the foundation of a heavily damaged house stands amid broken trees in the mountains after the passing of Hurricane Maria in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of
Morovis, Puerto Rico.
