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News I'm Steve Inskeep and I'm Noel King good morning the House of Representatives did what a lot of people expected it to do last night 4 Republicans and one independent joined every Democrat in the house in voting to condemn President Trump's racist tweets from the past weekend in those tweets President Trump told 4 u.s. Congress women to go back to where they came from 3 were born in the u.s. And all of them are citizens joining us on the phone now is a senior member of the house u.s. Representative Tom Cole is a Republican from Oklahoma Good morning sir Hey good morning to you so you were one of the few Republicans who openly criticize the president's comments do you think they were racist No I don't I think they were inappropriate and offensive but again I don't think they were racist why don't you think they were racist because I simply don't I don't think that but I don't think the president is a racist I think that was one of the reasons why the the by the very ill advised resolution program essentially along party lines it overreached and frankly you know it was a bipartisan set up as opposed to being a serious and thoughtful discussion about a problem when you critiques the president's comments when you critiquing them for you know that event Well 1st of all I don't think you ever tell anybody to go back where they're from in America almost all of Americans are from someplace else it's not an appropriate thing and 2nd I just thought you don't you also don't question anyone you're an American citizen you are an American whether you were born someplace else or not so I think that implication bothered me a great deal and I just thought it was an appropriate way to talk to any American let alone 4 Americans who had been elected by their fellow Americans to represent them in Congress you just don't think it was racist No I don't and frankly I also think that if you you have to remember here too there's we've had colleagues of routinely call down by presiding officers for using inappropriate language toward the president we've had people that have said Federal were. Hers are into running concentration camps we've had people that have said if you support Israel you do it for the money we've had people that have referred to the president with vulgar epithets and said we're going to peach and none of those people were subject to resolution so the double standard here in terms of accepting comments on your own side of the aisle and criticizing essentially Zimm what you know others might think are similar thing another is just you know it's breathtakingly inappropriate to have isn't it fair to say those people are not the president of the United States they are members of Congress and they are subject to the same rules of decorum so this idea that it's Ok for everybody but the president to say something I don't go with that look I think the rules of behavior and appropriate language of prior equally to everybody Congressman the president will likely hit some type of nerve along these lines again possibly soon are you comfortable with the Republican Party having to come to you to defend or decry the president's words again and again I think people have to make their own individual decisions about that I don't see this as a they Republican Party doing something I see it as individual members and elected officials reacting so would I change the language of president I would but when I change the language of my Democratic colleagues who again are routinely called down by the presiding officer on the floor on the floor which is actually a place that has a much higher standard of what's acceptable as a speaker found out yesterday you know again if you're going to do this yet be willing to do it to everybody and I don't spend a lot of time quite frankly commenting on what other people say if you do that you're not going to be saying anything you're just going to be commenting on other people's comments better to keep your head down do you work but when the president makes these remarks they don't do much to add to his base in a country this diverse we know that he says that is a losing strategy that he's pursuing Well find out you know a lot of people thought he was pursuing a lose lose interest. In 2016 and he prevailed so we'll find out about that but if you're asking me what I prefer the language would be more traditional and more Presidential I would and do I think that would be helpful to him politically I do because I think sometimes just gets in the way of a very good economy a very good record on deregulation of a very good effort to rebuild the mess the American military has a lot of it I think you could point to that sometimes it's sort of rhetoric to distract from and I you know as an old political guy I regret that I'd rather focus on the substance because I think it's a winner for the president we talked to former Republican Representative Ileana Ros Leighton in a couple months ago as she left office she was the 1st Latino elected to Congress and she told us if the Republican Party fails to attract more diverse people it's just going to lose a whole generation let me play you what she said we need to pay attention to the changing demographics of our country and we have not been attuned to that we've been appealing to one certain section of of America is she right I think she makes a very good point and certainly the point about feeling too diverse groups is absolutely critical in America frankly it always has been but it's even more so today and you know again I don't think that was certainly proved President Bush or many of our members so but the point is a good is an important point for Republicans to think about Unfortunately there are conservatives in every racial or ethnic group in America but you've got to welcome them and you've got to bring them in and you've got to you know show them that their values are your values so when you fail to do that yeah you pay a political price for an appropriately so Representative Tom Cole Republican from Oklahoma thanks so much Tim Mak covers Congress for n.p.r. He's in studio with me to him what stood out to you from a conversation with the congressman seemed to suggest that Democrats on a routine basis make equally offensive comments as the president did over the weekend I think Democrats would say. That that misses the whole point of what was so uniquely offensive about what the president said Democrats don't typically I'm not aware of any Democrats having told the president to go back to where he came from and that's because people with the president's racial background don't get told that like that that's the very nature of why this these comments were racist over the weekend and I think that's what Democrats would say are leaders in both parties comfortable with the outcome of last night's vote is this going to move anywhere yeah Republican leaders in the house or were very quick to say that they did not think that the president was racist or that his comments were racist and they were as you could tell by the results of the vote yesterday unified against the Democratic resolution N.P.R.'s to makeovers Capitol Hill Tim thanks so much thanks a lot some other news now President Trump's new rules on asylum are causing anxiety and confusion among the people affected this new rule went into effect on Tuesday it means that most migrants cannot seek asylum at the u.s. Border unless they have already asked for asylum in one of the countries that they crossed on their way to the United States that means that many people fleeing Central America might end up having to ask for asylum in say Guatemala which has to prepare to deal with tens of thousands of asylum seekers Here's N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn the Jonathan Escobar is one of the 400 refugees now working their way to Guatemala silences them so as his mother his 2 young daughters 3 siblings and a niece the whole family threatened Salvatore to gang members threaten them accusing them of being police informants. I am. The head of. We pleaded with them not to kill us and they told us you have 3 days to get out of your house as Escobar the gang had already killed 3 of his brothers and just last. Steere the mother of his 2 girls. So we went to Mexico and thought watermelon was too close he says but the Mexico refugee offices were overwhelmed with migrants and the family was forced to sleep on the streets Escobar says they were all scared so they headed back to Guatemala. At the Custom a grant a shelter in downtown Guatemala City lunch is over and everyone is washing their dishes Escobar says the family has been here since May He's trying to get through the web of asylum paperwork so he can get a work permit and a real job for now he sells candies on the streets or washes cars. And if you see. Them out there you never know who runs the private shelter says quote amount authorities are in the fish and the process is too bureaucratic and slow and the president trumps new rules with stand court challenges versatility says there's no plan to take on more refugees his shelter only has 60 beds and is not equipped to house families the really most of. Them of all this it's more common than they're going to be living in poverty extreme poverty and they need to know that he says watermelons and cells have been fleeing the country in record numbers due to gang violence in the cities and poverty drought and climate change in the countryside former foreign minister a good Armando Gutierrez says quote Amal is in no position to accept refugees from other Central American countries he and 2 other former ministers this week won a court ruling barring President Jimmy Moore Dallas from making any migrant agreements with the u.s. President Trump has been pressuring Guatemala to become a safe 3rd country and agreed to accept asylum seekers. Under what criteria is this a safe country this is an unsafe country for sure a good deal. It says however with President Trump's new rule changes there's no need for a safe there country agreement tens of thousands of Hondurans and Salvadorans could be forced to request asylum here. And that worries school principal Carlos who's watching kids kick a ball around the outer plaza of his downtown school where. Kids and against threatening them he says. It's tough educating the kids all the way through high school only for them to graduate and realize there are many opportunities in Guatemala he says the government needs to take care of its citizens before taking on others Salvadoran refugee who Jonathan Escobar says he isn't asking for much in Guatemala just for his family to be safe he says life would have been better if they could have gotten to the u.s. And applied for asylum but it was too risky given President Trump's anti-matter and policies. I'm not looking to get rich I just want my family to be Ok so for now we're good will stay here he says Carrie Kahn n.p.r. News Guatemala City. This is n.p.r. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep and I'm Noel King good morning Montana Governor Steve Bullock started his presidential campaign late and so he missed the 1st Democratic primary debate his campaign says he's qualified for the next round later this month now at the center of his campaign is dark money in the latest installment of Morning Edition's opening argument series our policy conversations with 2020 candidates book says he thinks anonymous money from corporations and lobbying groups has corrupted our democratic process and he started with an example think about the 1st George Bush George h.w. Bush said we will lead on climate change and will lead from the top that was 30 years ago and now Republicans can leave acknowledge that climate change is human cost or real because of the outside spending in our elections if we can't take care of the craft and influence of money or elections everything else that the Democrats are talking about we're going to run in the same problem can I just ask what reforms you would make specifically on dark money or what what are your plans a day one I'd sign executive order that says if you want to contract with the federal government I can't tell you you can't spend or donate but you have to disclose every single dollar that you are either spending are donated influence or elections adding that sunshine and transparency will make a difference my legislature is about 2 thirds Republican when we passed a bill that said 90 days out from election you have to swallow as every nickel that you spend never forget when I was run for reelection day 90 all of that dark money spending stopped and if we could kick the Koch brothers or other groups out of Montana we ought to be able do it everywhere in the country let's turn to foreign policy which is something that as a governor you haven't had a tremendous amount of experience with would you end u.s. Military support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. I would what's happened in Yemen has been failed from the beginning so I think that we actually need to actually be withdrawing the u.s. Dollars but try to bring the u.n. In together for more of a peacekeeping role would you withdraw u.s. Troops from Afghanistan I would want to make sure that we are completely out by the end of my 1st term 20242024. You are one of just 4 Democratic candidates in a very large field not to pledge that you will not take money from the fossil fuel industry why not well I've looked at the overall efforts in trying to make sure that all monies disclosed has been the fight of my career and what I've said from the beginning is all disclose every single dollar that's donated to my campaign with full transparency no pac money no corporate money but I haven't said this industry or that industry we just want except I don't know why not to be candid I don't even know if I've gotten one nickel from anybody in the fossil fuel industry we could certainly check and get back to you but it's just if it's an individual giving a donation I'm not going to put these lines around here's who's worth the to give and who's worthy not to give and I also think that there's something about this too like you know Montana it's a coal state Yeah we have to take immediate and durable action on climate change but I think at times Democrats will turn around and say you know folks this example that it powered this country for their whole lives more toward. At times just perception the Democrats think something's wrong with those individuals so I think that we have to be careful especially the workers that we're not demonizing what they've chosen to do to actually feed their family but we're trying to make this transition fast you said we should rejoin the Paris climate deal we should know that even if the signatories to that deal meet their goals which they're not on track to do global temperatures will still rise over what scientists refer to as the threshold of catastrophe what else will you do to make sure that doesn't happen you bet and the scientists say we have to be net 0 emissions carbon neutral as a world by 2050 I think we could do it by 2040 Our even earlier if you were the president how what's your plan we need to make federal investments in everything from those opportunities upgrading the grid to invest in agriculture there sustainable agriculture and the dairy Council's examples are saying here's how they can be net 0 emissions we can't do this alone as you know China MIT's twice as much as we do we know that we have to take about a 1000000000 tons of c o 2 out a year if we're going to actually meet these targets and I think bringing together everybody from conservationists to labor to utilities and say let's actually make this track an opportunity. You are an interesting candidate in a very specific way you're a politician whose mind has changed on a very real topic which is gun control used to not support a ban on assault weapons and universal background checks but you changed your mind now you do what year did you change your mind 17 or 18 is when I said universal background checks is just last year assault weapons and that puts you behind a lot of the country though and I wonder why why that is yeah why did take you so long so we had a March for our lives in Helena in Montana I was asked to speak and is supposed to speak I went with my children and I listened and as these kids are saying enough that's where I finally said enough with the salt weapons because I know as a gun owner I know it's not for hunting I know it's not for self-defense there's no reason to continue to sell these when you talk about Dark Money you talk about how Americans are supposed to count equally and that dark money sort of perverts that there is a norm that you are very clearly seeking to return to in the United States but I wonder what you think American democracy looks like in the wake of the Trump presidency are there norms to return to or has this kind of there forever there has to be I mean I think that we are at a tenuous time in this 243 year spearmint called representative democracy and that's one of the reasons why I got into this because I think that things fundamentally change if this guy is reelected the norms and expectations and the behavior that's been normalized and the lies the misstatements the divine a spy race by gender by geography. I think that there are norms to be returned to and I think that we've got to make sure that people know that there's important as any corporation on Election Day and every one of us have the same amount of influence over elections the ads have we make sure that the norms are stored that people feel like that they have a role in a voice in this represent marks Montana Governor Steve Bullock thanks so much thank you so much for having me. This is n.p.r. News. Trump administration says think about prescription drugs like you think about cars since 1958 car companies have been required to post their sticker prices there's no reason it should be any different for drugs but does that comparison work if you're not negotiating with the pharmacist for the cost of your drugs in search of a better drug pricing analogy this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. 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News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly family members of some of those killed in recent crashes of Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners will be on Capitol Hill today N.P.R.'s David Schaper says they're scheduled to testify as a House subcommittee examines the crashes that left 346 people dead in Ethiopia and Indonesia among those providing what is expected to be emotional testimony will be Paul Tjia Rogo whose wife and 3 young children were killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines $737.00 Max in March all makers will also hear from representatives of the National Transportation Safety Board and unions representing pilots flight attendants airplane mechanics and safety inspectors as the committee looks into what some say are design flaws in the troubled plane the next Democratic presidential debates are less than 2 weeks away N.P.R.'s Jessica Taylor says later today the lineup will be announced for the c.n.n. Debate stage on July 30th and 31st the lineup is expected to be pretty similar to the June debates the one newcomer to the stage is expected to be Montana Governor Steve Bullock a moderate who barely missed the cut last time he'll likely take the place of California Congressman Eric Swalwell who ended his bed last week criteria to make the debate stage included both polling and donor numbers but for the next debates in September the benchmarks will be higher this is n.p.r. News from Washington. At this hour a federal judge in New York is formally sentencing Joaquin Guzman the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo He's expected to spend the rest of his life in a federal prison for track of trafficking tons of cocaine heroin and other drugs into the u.s. He did so as the leader of Mexico's sin Aloa cartel he was convicted at trial back in February a major provider of reproductive health care in Maine says it's exiting the federal Title 10 program and p.r. Sarah McCammon says that decision follows word from the trumpet ministration that it will begin enforcing the rule prohibiting recipients of the funding from counseling patients about abortion the new Trump administration rules prohibit groups that provide or refer patients for abortion from receiving Title $10.02 pay for services like birth control and s.t.d. Screenings main family planning says it's withdrawing from Title 10 after nearly 5 decades as a grantee c.e.o. George Hill says the program provides more than a quarter of the group's funding our doors are going to remain open it's going to be an enormous challenge for us to replace these dollars but we simply can't accept Hill says main family planning will continue to fight the trumpet ministration rules in court and rely more heavily on other funding sources Sarah McCammon n.p.r. News Washington home construction in the u.s. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Steve Inskeep our next guest considered the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens his personal hero the retired justice died yesterday at age 99 he was on the court for 3 decades and more until 2010 and his admirers include William trainer who is dean of the Georgetown Law Center A's on the line Good morning sir good morning Steve what made John Paul Stevens a hero to you he was a justice who was committed to the rule of law who was brilliant and who had absolute integrity now you say committed to the rule of law I suppose we would say that of any Supreme Court justice or they would say that about themselves but is there some way to characterize his particular style or philosophy his philosophy in applying the law he wasn't a formalised in other words he didn't have kind of a great theory of originalism and like many members of the court he was very much focused on the cases and precedent and any changes mind over time so in many areas of the law for example with respect to affirmative action and death penalty he changed his mind during his tenure on the court and came to New decisions and. I met him. In about 10 years ago in 2005 when Fordham Law which I was dean of at the time had a celebration to mark 30 years of his time on the bench and what his speech was he talked about learning on the job. And the way in which thank you through cases thank you through the law made him change his views over time but what was consistent with the commitment to getting the cases right when he changed his mind then would he do that all too rare thing of actually admitting he had changed his mind and come to a different conclusion he did he did it really was quite remarkable So he did change his mind on a number of very important areas of the law and and people were surprised that. An appointee he was appointed by President Ford ultimately became the leader of the liberal wing of the court. But what was very striking to me was when we had the event at Ford in which Professor Abner Greene who was one of his clerks put together. In advance of the symposium I received a letter from President Ford. To my surprise and I think there had been a general thought that President Ford would feel like you'd made a mistake when he appointed Justice Stevens because Justice Stevens had become the Liberal leader of the court. And so I you know open the mail and I got a letter from President Ford and he said and it was really was quite remarkable that he was very proud of his selection of Justice Stevens to be on the court and that he would be happy if his legacy as president was assessed on the basis of his appointment of Justice Stevens now Nagar course park correspondent Nina Totenberg has pointed out that he was he was rewrote majority opinions he was in the majority on cases involving a pervert action as you said property rights immigration school prayer a wide range of things I want to ask about one particular dissent though in the 5 to 4 Bush versus Gore decision in 2000 which decided the presidential election he was in the fore he was on the losing side and wrote quite memorable dissent in which he said that this decision would undermine the nation's confidence in judges how important was he in those moments when he was on the losing side of cases. Well he was a great to set or he was a great dissenter I think he felt that one of his obligations as a justice on the Supreme Court was to voice what his thoughts were in a clear way in order to produce a national discussion and that was really one of his landmark decisions as a dissent and very very forceful force national discussion meaning he was saying the Supreme Court is the final word but actually we're not the final word and I'm going to keep this thing going with the way that I protest against what happened he did say that but I think he was also signaling when he wrote his speech learning on the job that justices could change over time so he was both expressing his dissent but he had faith in the future and he had extraordinary faith in the court Mr Trainor thanks very much for your insights thank you very much it's just to see Vinces passing is a great loss but he leaves it profound legacy William trainer is dean of the Georgetown Law Center. How are asylum seekers absorbing a change in u.s. Rules Max Rivlin nether of k. P.b.s. Reports from Tijuana Mexico want to rule that tells many migrants that they must apply for asylum in other countries before the us. A little after 6 am migrants began crowding around a parking lot next to the San Isidro port of entry into Juana they came to hear numbers called from an unofficial list that holds their spot for the few admissions the us except for asylum processing each week some people have been waiting for months for their number to come up. But I don't. Know that almost none had heard about the new rule and how it might impact their asylum cases Carla who only gave her 1st name have been waiting for 4 months into Juana with her 5 year old son she's seeking asylum from Venezuela and had flown to Mexico because her number was so close to being called she arrived with her suitcase each of the past few days just in case her number came up but the new rule would prevent her from applying for asylum in the u.s. Without 1st applying in Mexico she was frustrated with the different laws regarding asylum seekers on both sides of the border going to the point that the people she said that everyone here makes a sacrifice has a hard time that they're stuck here for one month 2 months 4 or 5 months and the law doesn't say one way or the other then it's just lost time. Well the new rule was aimed at Central American migrants the demographics into wanna have shifted in the past few months the list is now also filled with people fleeing political persecution in places like Cameroon and Eritrea one man from Cameroon I spoke with who declined to give his name because he fears for his safety was just signing up to join the wait list today the list has ballooned to its highest number ever over 9000 people he left Cameron because his family had been attacked and his brother was shot he travelled through 8 other countries on his way to the United States he didn't think asylum in those countries was an option because of the language barrier they don't even have to him to speak and he had to do this in 2 new I don't know if he would talk in his face but what he did after 4 days of no new numbers being called on this day 78 people get the chance they're waiting for a few minutes later they're put in a van and heading to the United States. But what happens to them next is unclear according to the guidelines given to asylum officers and obtained by n.p.r. Many of the migrants into Juana can now be deemed an eligible for asylum because they travel through a 2nd country like Mexico on the way to the u.s. Those rules were challenged in San Francisco federal court Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups the claims of thousands of people waiting into Quanah hinges on that case for n.p.r. News I'm actually of a NAVL or at the Us Mexico border. This is n.p.r. News. Sibling adventures happen Saturday July 22nd this event at Red Rock open space is reversible siblings of children with disabilities and offer siblings a supportive safe and fun environment to share their experiences but more information on this can be found on the community count years you see. Senator Cory Booker says he would unite the country as our next president but how you do everything you can to affirm the values of our country what you don't do is what we see coming from the presidency which is rank racist rhetoric I'm Joshua Johnson New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker answers your questions about his run for the White House next time I don't want to. Stick around for one a that starts at 9 o'clock immediately following morning edition 743 Happy Wednesday the date is July 17th coming up it took a week but wildlife officials in Chicago say they've finally captured a 5 foot long alligator nicknamed chance the snapper the gators surprised city residents who spotted it in Humboldt Park more about that story in 7 minutes. We're. 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From a dog attack as a child while living in an apartment complex been humming struggled with neighbors who she alleges did not control their dogs and harassed her she sought help from the landlord several legal cases ensued and she ended up without a place to live. By me and I'm from used in Texas I came down here my son is with military He's a veteran he was he was station in Colorado Springs and when here again Harvey here you know we lost everything and they came down told me to come on with him and take him a grandchildren and this was then I came last January of a 20. 5 who have p.t.s.d. From a dog attack as a child and I'm 62 so I was born in early sixty's and me and my 5 siblings were coming home from the park to go back Asian males you know is back in the sixty's sickbay Dowd's on a sitcom boy and we've just run and run and I'm in the back behind him and I could feel the hybrid of the doll little of then you look at the Grown me and smile and they sit down on us basically I was traumatized and then. New and. Texas we have valves that Vattel have no issue with no animals but these dogs a big end when you come Billy's is along in a struggling with a Mona Lisa isn't in the dollars come at you I'm not comfortable if you're struggling with it out there I'm told to be comfortable and get on you know and like I'm lame you know keep it out back and they continue to let the dollars come at. The neighbors it's like they're offended because you don't want to read. Dolls and I care back in a way to keep them coming at me so I brought to the hammer put a hammer in the bag and disabled it down by my saddle my grandkids we come downstairs and 11 of the neighbors said what he got what is that for and I said don't feel threatened if you do feel great about it this is how I feel about your dog you know I actually to keep him back because I have p.t.s.d. You know that made a mess and so used to dealing with this every day every day one time my grandchildren we stopped at Sonic they're going into the apartment and one of the dogs get loose in my granddaughter she runs in the building she drop a sign said she just ran up the stairs next day my daughter in law gets called into the mansion he want to access did she leave a sonic bag a sad how he noted neighbors told us he didn't see there but they didn't tell him once she dropped the bag so you go down and it's a big stack of cigarette butts in front of the door and doubtful when you x. In a bat a bag or one time thing that she dropped and you giving her a hard time about a bag I called animal control to find out my rights and you know what can I do Animal Control took the information and one person I spoke tells me Well ma'am if a dog comes at you friendly and you do something to it you will be charged. Differently Tao can come up any leak you you know friendly leak you jump up on you know if you get on me and you want to share my pantyhose and you so when you listen to her saying that so you tell me it's Ok whatever dogs do to you is Ok. I was tired of just the back and forth with a dog so I stored it packing up the little things that I did have an apartment I'm living in my car right now and my thing is I want to house so I will have to ever deal with landlords again and. Basically feel. I don't want to come outside because no way you can go to the store my doctor's office I went up to the c.d.c. Center own garden to go check on my Medicaid and stuff like that and I'm waiting in line to speak with a lady. When they get caught he she come with a doll bigger than me and not backed up you know in knots and chairs over it this is a service doll you notice they were a wave you need a service doubt because you have a medical condition I have one too I have p.t.s.d. I've been attacked bought one without it I'd buy it if I don't want Joe doll that he can it's new can all meet Do I not have that right. You know what it would have people write you know dolls rule dolls rule what about people what about old disabled Singh use. P.t.s.d. Or post traumatic stress disorder is considered a disability under the Fair Housing Act a landlord quote may not refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules policies practices or services if necessary for the disabled person to use the housing it is the responsibility of a tenant to disclose any disability. You're 91.5 k. Or c.c. 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News I'm Noel King and I'm Steve Inskeep as the climate changes certain plants and animals are ranging farther south or farther north we do not know if that is precisely why an alligator a reptile well known in the southern United States turned up in Chicago's Humboldt Park lagoon chance the snapper was the name given to the alligator after a contest on social media a week long chase for him was 1st led by a volunteer nicknamed alligator bot of course but eventually city officials brought in Frank Robb who is an alligator expert from Florida he captured chance with his fishing pole once we were able to see him with one cast and one cast and on Sure simple 5 foot 3 alligator what could go wrong the alligator he says did put up a little bit of a fight people ask you how you get an alligator just barely is the answer it's easy just barely Rob says this is the 1st alligator he has caught outside of Florida and chance Senshi ka go into a frenzy One guy tried to lure the gator with a were to Serie chicken in a release officer blared the Jaws theme song from his cruiser and. People made alligator t. Shirts and tote bags and musicians even recorded a song about it and I want to. Make them. Believe that. They are singing the gator in the park does not have teeth after he was captured chances snapper appeared at a press conference wearing a plaid bow tie we don't know who did that to him but Chance has been given a clean bill of health and according to Chicago Animal Care and Control he'll be transferred to an animal sanctuary. One of the most celebrated voices in modern South African music has died singer dancer and activist Johnny Clegg co-founded 2 groundbreaking racially mixed bands during the apartheid era and he took their music to fans around the world Johnny Clegg died Tuesday at a family home in Johannesburg. After a year's long struggle with cancer he was 66 N.P.R.'s honest your calls has this remembrance. Johnny Clegg wrote his $987.00 song a symbol for Nelson Mandela while the future president was still in prison it became an anthem for South Africa's freedom fighters. Clegg was born in England but he became one of South Africa's most creative and outspoken cultural figures he discovered the country's music when he was a young teenager and your hand a spark as he told n.p.r. In 2017 I stumbled on guitar music being performed by Zulu migrant workers traditional tribes and from the rule areas and they developed a totally unique Shong of guitar music indigenous to sell Africa and I found it quite emancipating he'd been studying classical guitar but he found a local black teacher who took him into neighborhoods where whites weren't supposed to go because he was so young he was accepted and in those neighborhoods he discovered his other great passion the war like movements of Zulu dance which was pretty powerful for a young 16 year old and listen boy they knew something about Bynum in which they could communicate physically in the way that they danced and carried themselves and I wanted to be able to do the same thing basically I wanted to become a silly warrior and in a very deep sense it offered me an African identity and even though he was white he was welcomed into their ranks despite the dangers to both him and his mentors he was arrested multiple times for breaking the segregation laws yet he continued to go back and it was through his dance team that he met one of his longest. Musical collaborators. And we played for about 67 years traditional guitar music we couldn't play in public so we played in private in news schools churches University we played a lot of embassies we played a lot of consulates. Played wanted to try to meld with Celtic folk and rock so they founded a band called which means. At the time Johnny was a professor of anthropology was working as a gardener they landed a record deal and while they couldn't get airplay or perform publicly in South Africa the band still managed to find an audience and one of its songs became a hit in the u.k. . The band toward internationally for several years but eventually broke up founded a new group. Meaning we have risen in Zulu who was launched basically in the state of emergency and so if we can 186 you could not ignore what was going on then toss if you could project was based in the South African experience and the fight for a bit of quality of life in the freedoms. Mandela eventually danced onstage with Sobotka and Clegg went on to a solo career but in 2017 he announced he'd been fighting cancer and launched one final tour. Following year dozens of high profile musicians recorded one of Clegg's songs to honor him and benefit primary school education in South Africa. Like never shied away from being described as a crossover artist he embraced the concept I love it I love the hybridization of culture language music dance if we look at the history of oughts generally speaking it is through the intersection of different communities cultures world views ideas concepts that invigorates styles and genres and gives them life and gives people a different angle on stuff that was really just you know being passed down blindly from generation to generation Johnny Clegg didn't do anything blindly Instead he held a mirror up to his nation and urged South Africa to redefine itself understands it still place n.p.r. News New York. 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News in Washington encore of a Coleman a federal judge in Ohio has ordered the release of secret data showing how tens of billions of opioid pain pills flooded American communities North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann has more this federal data was kept secret for years but in court documents Judge Dan pollster says records collected by the Drug Enforcement Administration give a much clearer picture of how the deadly opioid epidemic happened and which companies were involved Paul Farrelly is one of the attorneys suing the pharmaceutical industry that's the beauty of looking at actual data you'll be able to see the steady flow to not a trickle to Somali government officials now say drug makers and pharmacies including c.v.s. Wal-Mart and Walgreens profited hundreds of billions of dollars while downplaying or lying about the risk of opioid medications Brian Mann n.p.r. News the House of Representatives has approved a resolution condemning President terms racist tweets attacking 4 Democratic lawmakers 4 Republicans and one independent joined the Democrats the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Congresswoman Karen Bass criticized Trump's tweets even for this president this is a new low using rhetoric against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's race is superior before lawmakers held a vote on the resolution they 1st had to vote on whether to sanction Speaker Nancy Pelosi there was heated debate over whether she broke House rules of decorum by saying the word racist when describing Trump's tweets that vote was defeated the a.c.l.u. And some immigrant advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration over its new asylum policy the rule denies asylum to nearly all migrants who arrive at the Southern u.s. Border who don't for.