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• NMSU eyes $125 million fundraising campaign amid uncertainty

  25-04-2017 23:47 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University has launched an ambitious campaign to raise $125 million amid uncertainty with state funding.
  The southern New Mexico college is set to hold “an energized event” on Friday to unveil the campaign’s theme and to announce a new gift to the university. Country music star Bri Bagwell is scheduled to perform at the event.
  Officials say the campaign, which extends through 2019, aims to create $50 million in new scholarship endo
  
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• La Cueva Town Center to get second El Patron, Ross outlet

  25-04-2017 23:43
  
  La Cueva Town Center at Wyoming and Paseo del Norte is getting a couple of new additions, including a second location of El Patron, complete with a drive-thru and patio. Also, the Ross Dress for Less “Coming Soon” sign is about to come down as the store gets ready to open. El Patron owners Nick […]
  
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• Ivanka Trump hears groans as she defends father in Berlin

  25-04-2017 23:40 via krqe.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Ivanka Trump drew groans and hisses Tuesday from an audience in Berlin while defending her father’s attitude toward women, but she brushed it aside as “politics” during her first overseas trip as a White House adviser.
  Appearing on a high-powered panel at a conference to push for more support for women in business, Trump also said she was still trying to define her place in her father’s administration.
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• Updated: Shutdown? New president, same old government brinkmanship

  25-04-2017 23:36
  
  WASHINGTON — There’s an unconventional new president in the White House. And the Republicans now have a new lock on both ends of Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue. But the capital city is still up to its old gridlock tricks. Just as occurred repeatedly during the Obama administration, the government is only days away from a shutdown, […]
  
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• Police: Man arrested in death after argument over beer

  25-04-2017 23:36 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Farmington police say a 20-year-old man has been arrested and accused of purposely using his vehicle to fatally hit another man following an argument about beer.
  Police say 20-year-old Anthony Wagon was arrested in the death Monday night of 29-year-old Jeremy Beard.
  According to police, Beard left his residence where the argument had taken place and was walking along a street when Wagon allegedly drove his pickup over the curb, struck Beard and then drove off.
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• Updated: Arkansas executions raise questions again about sedative

  25-04-2017 23:34
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas has executed three inmates in the past week using a sedative that’s been the subject of multiple court challenges since it was first used by Florida in 2013. A look at midazolam and its role in U.S. executions: ___ HOW DOCTORS USE IT Midazolam is an anti-anxiety drug, similar to […]
  
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• Railroad companies: Don’t take prom pics, selfies on tracks

  25-04-2017 23:34
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Transportation officials and railroad companies are sounding a warning: Active railroad tracks are a bad backdrop for prom pictures or selfies. With the season for graduations and prom portraits underway, North Carolina’s transportation and public school agencies this month are urging high school yearbook staff advisers to reject student photos taken on […]
  
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• Raytheon opens new facility near Farmington

  25-04-2017 23:33
  
  Raytheon Co. opened a new $5 million, 30,000-square-foot warehouse this week on the Navajo Nation in support of the company’s nearby Diné manufacturing facility, where Raytheon makes electromechanical assemblies and other products for missiles. The 95,000-square-foot Diné factory, in operation 25 years near the Navajo Agricultural Products Industrial Park south of Farmington, needed more warehouse […]
  
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• Judge blocks Trump order on sanctuary city funding

  25-04-2017 22:33 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Trump administration order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities, saying the president has no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending.
  U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the temporary ruling in a lawsuit against the executive order targeting so-called sanctuary cities. The decision will stay in place while the lawsuit works its way through court.
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• Student hit by car near Sandia High School

  25-04-2017 22:30
  
  When the last bell rings at Sandia High School and teens begin to shuffle across the street, it can be a dicey situation according to students. An example occurred last Friday when police confirmed a student was hit by a car while crossing the street around noon. The victim's family has allowed us to share her identity and little more about her.
  
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• Teen involved in murder of Albuquerque man appears in court

  25-04-2017 20:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – There was another hearing Tuesday to decide if one of the teens involved in the murder of a popular Albuquerque bartender will be sentenced as an adult.
  The teens were out burglarizing homes and cars in the summer of 2015 when Steven Gerecke confronted them in his driveway and they killed him.
  All of the teens were initially charged with murder, but the rest took deals for lesser charges.
  Ryan Archibeque pleaded guilty to charges including aggravated burglar
  
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• No decision on if teen accused of murder will be sentenced as adult

  25-04-2017 20:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – There was another hearing Tuesday, to decide if one of the teens involved in the murder of a popular Albuquerque bartender will be sentenced as an adult.
  The teens were out burglarizing homes and cars in the summer of 2015 when Steven Gerecke confronted them in his driveway and they killed him.
  All of the teens were initially charged with murder, but the rest took deals for lesser charges.
  Ryan Archibeque pleaded guilty to charges including aggravated burgla
  
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• Active weather continues this week…

  25-04-2017 20:26 via krqe.com
  
  Showers will continue across much of the state this afternoon and evening. The higher peaks of the Northern Mountains and Sandias will continue to see steady light snowfall. Wind will be an issue, especially for the southern tier of the state. That wind, along with the dry conditions, will cause elevated fire concerns for today. The storm is also ushering in cooler air with today’s temperatures about 15° – 25° cooler than yesterday.
  We will dry out for the day Wednesday, but
  
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• Updated: Wells Fargo faces shareholders, protesters at annual meeting

  25-04-2017 19:42
  
  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Wells Fargo’s top management faced a series of protesters and apologized to investors Tuesday, but board members kept their jobs — albeit barely in some cases — at the first big shareholder meeting since a scandal over sales practices erupted. Shareholders clearly were irritated or angry at Wells’ management. In […]
  
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• NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. to retire at end of season

  25-04-2017 19:22 via krqe.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. abruptly announced his retirement at the end of the season Tuesday, a decision that will cost NASCAR its most popular driver as the series scrambles to rebuild its fan base.
  At a news conference, Earnhardt said he “wanted the opportunity to go out on his own terms.” After missing much of the 2016 season due to concussion-like symptoms, he acknowledged that time off played a role in his decision. He wanted retirement to be his choic
  
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• Man arrested after shop windows smashed in downtown Santa Fe

  25-04-2017 19:16
  
  SANTA FE — A Lovington man was arrested early Monday morning after police say he broke windows to several businesses along a downtown Santa Fe street and stole merchandise. According to a Santa Fe police report, officers responded to a call about a man breaking windows to shops on East Palace Avenue around 12:30 a.m. […]
  
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• Santa Fe man died of blunt force trauma to his abdomen

  25-04-2017 19:11
  
  SANTA FE — A Santa Fe man who was found dead in an apartment earlier this month died of blunt force trauma to his abdomen, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in District Court Monday. Officers responded to a call about a man who had been beat up in an apartment on Calle Amanda […]
  
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• Officers fatally shoot Houston-area robbery suspect, 16

  25-04-2017 19:05
  
  HOUSTON — Investigators say officers fatally shot a 16-year-old armed robbery suspect and wounded two others during a Houston-area restaurant holdup. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says an 18-year-old suspect was arrested Monday night in a nearby vehicle. A sheriff’s statement Tuesday said three suspects, wearing hoodies and bandannas, were seen running toward the fast-food […]
  
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• Writers Guild votes to authorize strike as talks continue

  25-04-2017 19:04 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members of the Writers Guild of America are one step closer to striking come May 2. In a letter to its members Monday, the WGA said 96.3 percent voted to authorize a strike as the May 1 contract expiration deadline looms. Negotiations between the Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will resume Tuesday.
  Responding to the strike authorization, the producer’s group said in a statement that it is committed to reach
  
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• Updated: Hello? Justice Stephen Breyer’s cellphone rings in court

  25-04-2017 19:02
  
  WASHINGTON — Even Supreme Court justices forget to turn off their cellphones. A high court argument on Tuesday was interrupted by the familiar sound of a ring chime, and Justice Stephen Breyer seemed to be the culprit. A mildly embarrassed Breyer quickly appeared to reach down to turn it off as a majority of his […]
  
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• City of Albuquerque holding sign-ups for free Summer Recreation Program

  25-04-2017 17:23
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque parents looking for a way to keep kids busy over the summer might want to check out the city’s free Summer Recreation Program.
  
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• ‘Bachelor’ star Chris Soules jailed after deadly Iowa crash

  25-04-2017 16:59 via krqe.com
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities have arrested former “The Bachelor” star Chris Soules, alleging that he fled the scene of a deadly traffic accident.
  The Iowa State Patrol reports that a pickup truck rear-ended a tractor on a highway in Buchanan County on Monday night, sending both vehicles into a ditch and killing the tractor driver, whose name wasn’t released.
  The crash happened on County Highway 45, about 15 miles south of Soules’ farm in Arlington, which
  
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• Thai husband kills baby, self on Facebook Live

  25-04-2017 16:48 via krqe.com
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say a man upset with his wife hanged their 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live and then killed himself.
  Police Col. Jirasak Siemsak said officers found the bodies of 20-year-old Wuttisan Wongtalay and the baby in an abandoned hotel in Phuket province after receiving reports of the video. He said Wuttisan and his wife had been arguing.
  The man made the broadcast Monday evening, and the video was made inaccessible by Facebook late Tuesday afternoon.
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• Man bites officer's boot during arrest, police say

  25-04-2017 16:11
  
  Albuquerque police say an arrest attempt quickly escalated at an apartment complex.
  
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• Lobos hold lead in Mountain West standings

  25-04-2017 16:10
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The University of New Mexico baseball team sits on top of the mountain right now. The Lobos are in first place in the conference standings with a 14-2-1 record.
  
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• Many neighborhood traffic study requests deferred

  25-04-2017 16:07
  
  At the beginning of the year, the City of Albuquerque had approximately 200 neighborhood traffic study petitions to tackle. They include speeding complaints, requests for stop signs and traffic lights. Some neighbors may find their complaint doesn’t go far or that they’re contacting the wrong department.
  
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• Could Border Patrol recruitment affect APD's staffing?

  25-04-2017 16:04
  
  It is busy on the border between the United States and Mexico. President Donald Trump has pledged to build a border wall. He's also promised to hire thousands of new agents. In March, Border Patrol Agent George Gomez told KOB the agency's biggest need is people. But qualified law enforcement applicants have to come from somewhere.
  
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• BCSO: APS employee arrested for 'inappropriate relationship' with student

  25-04-2017 16:03
  
  An Albuquerque Public Schools employee has been arrested and charged with engaging in an "inappropriate relationship" with a former Rio Grande High School student, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said Monday.
  
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• Council of Europe assembly wants to monitor Turkey again

  25-04-2017 15:32 via krqe.com
  
  BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Legislators representing Europe’s top human rights body on Tuesday voted in favor of re-opening monitoring procedures in Turkey in a move that reflects its strong concern over the functioning of democratic institutions in the country.
  The decision in the Strasbourg-based Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was approved on a vote of 113-45 after a nearly three-hour debate.
  The assembly’s monitoring committee raised concerns over constitution
  
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• Summer fun for the whole family at the science center

  25-04-2017 15:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –Summer camps and sensory support are among some of the perks offered at a local children’s science museum.
  Explora is offering some creative diversions this summer, including youth apprenticeship camps, unique merchandise, and plenty of events to inspire the imagination and challenge the brain. In conjunction with the NM Autism Society, Explora also offers more support for visitors with assistance kits and Sensory Friendly hours.
  Summer camp registration is
  
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• Updated: Deputy wrangles feisty alligator in central Georgia

  25-04-2017 14:55
  
  An alligator has been apprehended at a park in central Georgia after a sheriff's deputy wrestled the creature. The Telegraph…
  
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• Pope tells Egypt ahead of visit he comes as peace messenger

  25-04-2017 14:47 via krqe.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has told the Egyptian people he is coming to Cairo this week as a friend and a “messenger of peace.”
  In a videotaped message in Italian released by the Vatican on Tuesday, Francis says he hopes the pilgrimage will be “an embrace of consolation and of encouragement to all Christians in the Middle East.”
  Twin bombings of Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday killed 44 people.
  Francis departs for Cairo on Friday and returns
  
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• Contrasting accounts of Arkansas execution from witnesses

  25-04-2017 14:47 via krqe.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — As a condemned killer lay on a gurney awaiting lethal injection in Arkansas’ death chamber, a federal judge had to decide whether there was sufficient evidence that an inmate executed earlier that evening showed signs that he was suffering while he was put to death.
  The judge ultimately allowed the second execution to go ahead after a hastily arranged 20-minute hearing by phone, marking the nation’s first double execution on one day in nearly 17 years,
  
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• Arkansas conducts nation’s 1st double execution since 2000

  25-04-2017 14:47 via krqe.com
  
  VARNER, Ark. (AP) — After going nearly 12 years without executing an inmate, Arkansas now has executed three in a few days — including two in one night.
  Jack Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night, just about three hours apart. It was the first double execution in the United States since 2000.
  While Jones, 52, was executed on schedule, shortly after 7 p.m., attorneys for Williams, 46, convinced a federal judge minutes later to briefly del
  
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• Wind, rain/storms/snow & cooler temps…

  25-04-2017 14:30 via krqe.com
  
  TUESDAY: Showers will continue to spread over northern and western NM through late morning with cloud cover extending farther south and east. Temperatures, although much warmer this morning, will be significantly cooler this afternoon across northern, western and central NM – most of us falling below seasonal averages. Low elevation rain and thunderstorms plus high mountain snow will continue to stretch over the northern 2/3rds of the state through this evening. Overnight into Wednesday mo
  
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• April 25 Morning Rush: Showers continue to spread over northern and western New Mexico

  25-04-2017 14:18 via krqe.com
  
  1. U.S. lawmakers will continue to talk about the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Senior Trump administration officials are now saying they will put off funding for the president’s controversial border wall until September. Reports out Tuesday morning state that White House Officials will be happy if the bill includes funds for general border issues. Many Democrats and even Republican lawmakers along the U.S. Mexico border have been against the U.S. funding the wall
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• France honors police officer killed in Champs-Elysees attack

  25-04-2017 13:53 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — France’s top officials and presidential candidates attended a national ceremony Tuesday to honor the police officer killed by an Islamic extremist on the Champs-Elysees.
  Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, who are facing off in the May 7 presidential runoff, were present at the ceremony at the Paris police headquarters. Others present were Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
  President Francois Hollande paid tribute t
  
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• Negotiations continue between La Promesa Early Learning Center and PEC

  25-04-2017 13:37 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Public Education Commission is expected to meet with officials of embattled Albuquerque school, La Promesa Early Learning Center. This is after the school has been in hot water due over financial problems during the 2016 fiscal year.
  Officials with La Promesa and the PEC are expected to meet Tuesday morning to negotiate the details of a corrective action plan, ultimately giving the school a second chance at staying open.
  Earlier this month, the PEC voted to put
  
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• Police chief who sexually assaulted a young woman expected to be sentenced

  25-04-2017 13:27 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The former Jemez police chief who sexually assaulted a young woman in his custody is expected to be sentenced Tuesday.
  According to State Police, Shane Harger pulled over an 18-year-old woman back in 2014, attacked her then threatened her to not to tell anyone.
  Harger pleaded no contest to false imprisonment, battery and tampering with evidence early April.
  He faces up to nine years in prison.
  The plea bars him from ever being allowed to work in law enforcem
  
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• Former Jemez police chief accused of rape gets no prison time

  25-04-2017 13:27 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – No prison time for a former police chief accused of raping a woman he pulled over.
  Shane Harger was the chief of the Jemez Police Department in 2014 when he pulled over a woman and three men. Another officer took the men into custody while Harger took the woman.
  That woman says Harger raped her and threatened her if she told anyone. Harger later pleaded no contest to false imprisonment, battery and tampering with evidence as part of the plea agreement.
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• Man in hospital after jumping in and out of traffic

  25-04-2017 13:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man is in the hospital in critical condition after suffering a medical episode.
  It all started when police were called to Lomas and I-25 frontage road in response to a man jumping in and out of traffic.
  When officers arrived it appeared the man was under the influence of some sort of narcotic and a short time later he suffered an unknown episode and was rushed to UNM Hospital.
  Police say because he was in police custody when he had his episode they are con
  
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• Updated: Overcoming Opioids: Special schools help teens stay clean

  25-04-2017 13:05
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — When Logan Snyder got hooked on pills after a prescription to treat pain from a kidney stone, she joined the millions already swept up in the nation’s grim wave of addiction to opioid painkillers. She was just 14. Youth is a drawback when it comes to kicking drugs. Only half of U.S. treatment […]
  
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• Turkey strikes Kurds in Iraq, Syria, drawing condemnation

  25-04-2017 12:51 via krqe.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes struck suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from Baghdad and criticism from the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, which is allied with Kurdish factions in both countries.
  Syrian activists said the attack killed at least 18 members of the Syrian Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, which is a close U.S. ally against IS but is seen by Ankara as a terrori
  
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• Turkey hits Kurdish areas in Iraq’s Sinjar, northeast Syria

  25-04-2017 12:51 via krqe.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on Tuesday against suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and in northeastern Syria, the military said, in a bid to prevent militants from smuggling fighters and weapons into Turkey.
  The attack killed at least 18 U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish troops, according to a monitoring group, as well as five members of the Iraqi Kurdish militia known as the peshmerga and drew swift condemnation from Baghdad.
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• Trump to sign orders on oil drilling, national monuments

  25-04-2017 12:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will sign executive orders this week aimed at expanding offshore oil drilling and reviewing national monument designations made by his predecessors, continuing the Republican’s assault on Democratic President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy.
  The orders could expand oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and upend public lands protections put in place in Utah, Maine and other states. The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorizes the
  
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• GOP budget hawks open to Trump tax plan despite deficit

  25-04-2017 12:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans who slammed the growing national debt under Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday they are open to President Donald Trump’s tax plan, even though it could add trillions of dollars to the deficit over the next decade.
  Trump is scheduled to unveil the broad outlines of a tax overhaul Wednesday that includes a massive cut in the corporate income tax, reducing the top rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. The plan will also include child-care benefits, a cause pr
  
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• A budget deficit challenge for Trump’s tax plan

  25-04-2017 12:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to stick with his campaign pledge to slash the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, but the dramatic cut raises a problematic question for the White House: How can the president deliver the “massive” tax cut he promised without also blowing a massive hole in the budget?
  A senior administration official confirmed the planned reduction to corporate rates, speaking on condition of anonymity in order discuss details of the
  
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• UN hosts aid conference for beleaguered Yemen

  25-04-2017 12:50 via krqe.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general is appealing to dozens of countries to boost aid to war-torn Yemen, which faces “the world’s largest hunger crisis.”
  Antonio Guterres kicked off an aid conference co-hosted with the Swiss and Swedish foreign ministers, aimed at better addressing a crisis that has been overshadowed by Syria’s war and other Mideast conflicts.
  “Our humanitarian appeal for 2017 is $2.1 billion and only 15 percent has been met until the pres
  
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• UN chief says Yemen aid conference draws $1.1B in pledges

  25-04-2017 12:50 via krqe.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — International donors have pledged $1.1 billion for war-torn Yemen, the U.N. secretary-general said Tuesday, appealing to the fighting sides to grant access to humanitarians and revive diplomatic efforts to end a conflict that has killed over 10,000 civilians.
  Antonio Guterres ended a daylong Yemen aid conference by hailing the “clear generosity and solidarity” of governments and civil society after two years of intensified conflict in the Arab world’s poores
  
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• Tough court on immigration serves as model for Trump plans

  25-04-2017 12:39 via krqe.com
  
  DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — One by one, the Mexican men stood in the jury box, shackles rattling as they fidgeted slightly and pleaded guilty to crossing the U.S. border illegally.
  They had come for better jobs, many to earn more money to help raise their children, their defense lawyer told a federal magistrate in a quiet west Texas courtroom about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the Mexican border. The magistrate, Collis White, warned that a guilty plea would mean jail time and they couldn&rsqu
  
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