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News the French presidential candidate Emanuel has filed a lawsuit after his nationally as rival Marine Le Pen alluded to an alleged offshore account during Wednesday's acrimonious debate Mr McCraw denies holding any such account she's going field is in Paris at one point in the debate Marine Le Pen said the words I hope we're not going to find out that you have an offshore account in the Bahamas prompting Emanuel macron to rejoin with that is slander it's now clear that she was referring to an allegation that a just started circulating on some social media backed by purport a document according to which was to back Ron have set up a company not in fact in the Bahamas but in the Caribbean island of Nevis Mr macron has reacted urgently to quash what he regards as a classic piece of fake news Russia Turkey and Iran have signed an agreement to establish for safe zones in Syria the proposals drawn up by Moscow were agreed by delegates to the 2nd day of peace negotiations in Kazakhstan representatives of the SCIRI. An armed opposition walked out of the talks saying they couldn't accept the plan under the agreement Syrian and Russian warplanes would stop their bombing and opposition groups would halt attacks Buckingham Palace has announced that the Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip will retire in August in a statement he said he would fulfill his public engagements until then the Duke turns 96 next month Peter Hunt's reports when he turned 90 the Duke of Edinburgh told the b.b.c. It was better to get out before you reach your sell by date nearly 6 years later the prince is acting on his own advice and following a path into retirement which is tried by many non royals once they are in their sixty's today's announcement is a significant moment in the recent history of the British royal family a prince of Greece with Danish German and Russian blood here so of the ancient institution very publicly for 7 decades to his critics he is a gaffe prone Prince has many supporters argue that this nonagenarians senior royal has played a crucial role sustaining the monarchy a veteran Afghan warlord Goodman Hekmatyar says he's decided to accept the country's constitution for the sake of peace he was speaking at a ceremony welcoming him back to the capital Kabul 2 decades after he went underground he stands accused of destroying much of Kabul and inflicting heavy civilian casualties during fighting in the early ninety's Goban had no Diaz said Afghans should stop fighting each other and then tell foreign troops to leave Germany giving reports in Hekmatyar was at his most powerful during the 1980 s. And ninety's as a Mojahedin commander he fought the Soviets then other militant groups for political control of the country now his return is made possible by a controversial peace deal with the government the government hoped the deal would give momentum to the stored peace process and encourage bigger groups to follow suit so far there's been little sign of that world news from the b.b.c. This is state wide. News I'm Josh adage State Representative David e. Smith said some Alaskans are glad to become pregnant so that they can have a Medicaid funded trip to Anchorage or Seattle to have an abortion we've created incentive structure where people are now incented to carry their pregnancy longer than he would otherwise and then take part in that when they wouldn't otherwise be doing it when asked if he had any evidence where that has occurred he spent said he knew of specific instances but would not give names I can think of a case that was brought to our attention earlier this session where you had a family who was you know very glad to hear that their abortion and gone beyond a certain point because you know they were going to be heading to Seattle and we're going to be doing exactly that and he says there are other examples that have come across as desk where you have individuals who are in villages and you know are glad to be pregnant so they can have an abortion because there's a free trip to Anchorage involved Katie Rogers is the spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the great Northwest and the whole y. In islands and I didn't know who to create and despicable fitness Planned Parenthood has sued the state over restrictions that prevent 2nd trimester abortions from being performed in Alaska and she says the process for a woman to get to Seattle to access reproductive health care is challenging she even suggests that women are benefiting often very restrictions the state has put in place or that relates to 2nd trimester abortions as it is a new low even for Representative he sent Eastman made his remarks after working to amend a resolution to proclaim next April a Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month Eastman's Amendment inserted a statement that abortion is the quote ultimate form of child abuse. The u.s. House plans to vote today on a Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. And Alaska Congressman Don Young is not declaring a position his office said Young has no new comments on the subject Senator Lisa Murkowski was not so reticent yesterday Murkowski said she has not followed every turn in the negotiations but she does not like that the bill would allow insurance companies in some states to charge more for people with preexisting conditions I watched the president's interview this weekend where he basically said no no no don't worry preexisting is coverage Well it isn't it isn't the bill President Trump negotiated with House Republicans would let states opt out of the requirement that insurers charge people of the same age the same premium print cardless of their medical status for the Alaska Public Radio Network I'm Josh adage the Alaska Morning News is brought to you in part by your local public radio station older person direction group publishes senior voice so Alaska's only state wide publication for seniors and is an excellent source of information for families and caregivers senior voice Alaska dot com this message sponsored by Opie a.g.d. Support for n.p.r. Comes from the financial services firm of Raymond James offering personal lives wealth management advice and banking and capital markets expertise along with a legacy of putting clients financial wellbeing 1st learn more at Raymond James dot com. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep we have said this very sentence before House Republicans plan to vote today to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act last time around they called off the vote rather than lose this time it's very close and it's one of 2 big agenda items for President Trump on which he hopes to show some movement today n.p.r. White House correspondent Scott Horsley is on the line Scott good morning good morning Steve do they really have the votes this time well we'll see it was certainly an embarrassment for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for the president when they had to pull the bill the last time so Paul Ryan's been adamant they're not going to try again until they have the votes and so when House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy announced last evening that they are planning to bring this to the floor today that's a signal that at least the Republican leadership's believes they have the votes we'll see they're going to close and we'll find out we'll find out and let's remember the whole challenge for Republicans is they want to repeal a law that has many popular provisions and provides insurance for millions so how do you save a lot of money while also keeping the popular provisions including about preexisting conditions and I want to bring a voice into this conversation to Republicans visited President Trump and proposed adding money to the bill to help cover some of the insurance costs for people with preexisting conditions one of them is Congressman Billy Long Let's listen we're here announcing that with a suggestion that we brought to the president and sold him on an over an hour meeting in here with him they were both yesterday on the bill Ok so does the bill now protect people with preexisting conditions from losing their health insurance and not really at least not as in phatic Lee as President Trump has promised what the Republican bill does is it gives states the opportunity to opt out of some of the popular provisions that was a nod to the coast conservative members of the house however that lost some moderate Republican votes so what the president has now agreed to do is sweeten the pot a little bit by putting 8 Bill. In dollars in to help cover these folks in so-called high risk pools but critics who say look 8000000000 dollars is a pittance that's over 5 years it's not enough to really guarantee that people with preexisting health care conditions will be able to find affordable health care coverage got the last time they tried to vote on this there was an independent Congressional Budget Office analysis that found the 10s of millions of people would lose health insurance over time or would stop having health insurance over time what's the analysis say this time well the c.e.o. Has not had a chance to score this newest version of Bill but those things really haven't changed so we're still looking at 24000000 fewer people with health coverage by 2026 we're still looking at higher premiums for older and especially rural people and that's a lot of trouble voters Ok one of their item to talk about with N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley the president is promising an executive order today on religious liberty he says the President following up on a promise to overturn a decades old law that limits political activity by tax exempt religious groups here's how he's previously described his promise I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution I will do that remember Scott does this executive order change that law the Johnson Amendment it doesn't change the law that's a tricky thing to do what it does do is direct the i.r.s. Which is the enforcer of the Johnson Amendment to use maximum discretion in inforcing that this is to allow churches and other tax exempt organizations for to endorse or criticize political candidates what else is in this executive order there's also a. Provision granting regulatory relief from the requirement in Obamacare that employer provided health insurance offered cost free coverage for birth control that was anathema to some religious organizations and you know Donald Trump got a lot of support from even. Michael So this is something that they've been looking for although I guess we should point out again it's a law so it's not clear how much the president can change things it's regulatory relief so it's telling the Health and Human Services Department to kind of look the other way within the law Ok N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley thanks very much could be with you now to presidential politics of the French Friday and a marathon in silt fueled smack down in Paris last night was the final debate before the biggest presidential race in France in decades far right candidate Marine Le Pen threw some rhetorical punches at centrist Emmanuel McCall who happens to be leading in the polls N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt is in Paris Hi Frank and Hey Good morning Rachel we know Le Pen is a French nationalist who wants her country to leave the e.u. And bring back the old French franc the currency what was her line of attack against McCrum last night when Macross completely different than she is in a lot of ways he's a 39 year old former investment banker used to be the economy minister in the current government and what she tried to do was portrayed him as the soulless citizen of the world and the kind of guy who is going to leave France's most vulnerable citizens to fend for themselves and here's here's one of her lines of attack. Lowering the unemployment rate 3 points would create 25000000000 euros in revenue for the state except you are incapable of doing that because our economy is limited to savage globalization open borders and competition where it's everyone against everyone how to macro counterpunch to that. Well he in the beginning she was really clobbering him and she was hitting him with a lot of tough questions and smiling a lot and then later on this was 2 and a half hours he started to come back he basically said Penn is this reckless extremes are going to crash the country's economy and that she has this plan to deport suspected Islamic radicals and then that's just going to divide French society even more and here was one of his tougher lines. I mean what Islamic terrorists want the trap that is awaiting us is what you will bring the Civil War The biggest hope they have is for Madame Le Pen to come to power in France seems like Frank we have heard this kind of debate a lot this here. Indeed you know in fact that argument you just heard is the same argument that Hillary Clinton made against Donald Trump in last year's campaign and French voters here has sort of same stark choice that Americans and British voters faced in 2016 reminds me a lot of the campaign that I covered back in the United Kingdom when they were voting to get out of the European Union and of course the Trump Clinton race was mentioning a difference Le Pen is actually much farther to the right than Donald Trump and McCraw he's a newcomer and he doesn't have the experience or even the baggage or certainly that Clinton had so the polls show McCrone winning fairly handily on Sunday at the election how are Le Pen's supporters responding to those polls and they're actually pretty upbeat I was in northern France yesterday it's a former coal country high unemployment definitely pen country and I was having lunch with this guy named Flo com He's 24 year old economic student and a hardcore lumpen supporter and he was actually speaking very optimistically even if she loses if we lose with 40 percent it's incredible it's amazing because nobody can spates a moment of pain a realize a big scar like that so he's saying losing with 40 percent is still a victory is that is that So actually he's. Right I think if you look at the big picture here if you look at French politics and western politics and where they've been heading pens National Front Party spent decades as a political pariah here she's been campaigning to normalize for politics if she can score pretty well she can very much claim that the National Front has become a mainstream political party and basically mark a big shift in the political landscape and if she loses you know a lot of political observers say she's really playing the long game she expect to win in 2017 she's actually aiming for the next election in 2022 N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reporting on the French presidential election takes place Sunday he joins us from Paris thanks Frank. Heavy duty Rachel. Later this morning gamers around the world will put down their wireless controllers in hot pockets and pay close attention to the announcement out of Rochester New York that's the home of the world of video game Hall of Fame and today we learn which games will join Pac-Man Tetris and World of Warcraft for this honor yes there really is a video game Hall of Fame and the staff has narrowed it down to 12 nominees Speirs John Paul Dyson director of the whole so we choose games to be said for criteria icon status longevity geographical reach and influence and look at fit those descriptions better than. You go on the web for some reason it was not your mom or has to climb ladders and dodge fireballs on his way to saving a damsel from the clutches of a mighty donkey gone made in 10 dollars fortune here in the United States when it came out $91.00 and it also introduced perhaps the most iconic videogame character of all time Mario that's even before we knew we had a brother now for one year might not have considered for the Hall of Fame Microsoft Windows Solitaire ubiquitous everyone who had a p.c. Had it on there and for many people it was the way they learned how to use a mouse you know I never thought of it that way but I guess that's true here's another nominee that turned a few stomachs when it 1st came out in 1992. Mortal Combat was the most brutal fighting game of its day when a bank which combatant was about to fall the game encouraged the player to finish and they usually meant a very very bloody dispatch it became the centerpiece of congressional hearings and I can only 3 were violent video games and that in part led to the establishment of the rating system the video game maker still used today let's mention some other nominated games Final Fantasy 7 Halo missed pokémon red and green portal Resident Evil Street Fighter 2. Tomb Raider and we sports double dice and in the world Video Game Hall of Fame staff well we'll know that field down to no more than 6 inductees later this morning how can you get it down to 6 tough stuff. This is n.p.r. News get your seat for dined by design an evening presented by the Alaska design forum on Friday May 5th at 6 pm in Anchorage featuring sustainable farming superstar Joel Selatan of poly face farms along with a perfectly prepared and locally sourced me all dine by design is a fundraiser for the Alaska design forum and promises to be a unique experience ticket and event information at Alaska design forum dot org this message sponsored by Alaska designed for our. Terrestrial plants and Lake ecosystems I'm ready Simon that this is Earth wise a look at our changing environment. Most of the planet's fresh water stores are found in the northern hemisphere a region that is changing rapidly in response to human activity and shifting climate trends a recent study analyzed $147.00 northern lakes and found that many rely on nutrients from tree leaves pine needles and other land grown plants to feed aquatic life to uncover the link between watersheds and Lake food webs The research team focus their attention on zoo a plant and tiny animals which form the base of the aquatic food web more than $550.00 point in samples were taken at Lakes across a range of climatic conditions the team use stable isotope techniques to determine if still playing to in a given sample were feeding primarily on aquatic plants or instead focusing on leaves and other organic material that washes into lakes from their watersheds Christopher Solomon is a freshwater ecologist at the Carey Institute of Ecosystem Studies workers for the things that we do. On land in terms of how we manage or care for the landscapes around us here in our big effects on the way that aquatic who went to work and where the organisms in a quarter of their living findings underscore the interconnectedness of terrestrial and aquatic systems and deliver a key message to maintain lakes in the northern hemisphere managers must understand how landscape changes such as forest clearing or agriculture impact Lake food webs for more information on this topic and other environmental news visit us at birth wives radio dot org or find us on Facebook earth Wise is a production of w.m.c. Northeast Public Radio with script contribution by the Carey into the tune of Ecosystem Studies. I'm Josh agit this news brief Conoco Phillips has confirmed it's giving up its small stake in the point Thompson field on the nor slope the move has some observers wondering if it's a bad sign for the state's effort to build a massive natural gas line point Thompson is one of the state's newest oil and gas projects it started producing last year Exxon operates the project and b.p. Is the other major owner Conoco only had about a 5 percent interest in the field Conoco spokeswoman Natalie Loman says the company wants to focus more on its core projects lawman says giving up a stake in point Thompson does not mean that Conoco Phillips does not support the gas line. Alaska might lose its 247 earthquake monitor Stu to budget cuts the Juneau Empire reported Wednesday that as of March 1st to more than 25 percent of the Alaska regional seismic network has been offline since 2013 staff has decreased from $20.00 to $14.00 employees and funding from the state has decreased from $800000.00 to a projected 588000 dollars next year the University of Alaska has been in charge of monitoring earthquakes since 1987 and he university funding is also down state seismologist Michael West says epicenters of the earthquakes in Alaska on Monday morning would have been identified much sooner with up to date resources this is the Alaska Public Radio Network this portion of Morning Edition with recorded earlier for broadcast at this time support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Member stations and from c 3 I o t bringing cloud computing artificial intelligence machine learning and Io t. 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Justice Department said yesterday they would not after a 10 month investigation prosecutors say they couldn't meet the burden of proof necessary to bring federal civil rights charges against those officers family members and a lawyer say they're disappointed but also encouraged because there are new details about the shooting that make it more likely that the state will pursue a criminal prosecution is joining us now to talk about all this is N.P.R.'s Greg Allen in Baton Rouge Hi Greg. Hi Rachel this shooting was almost a year ago last July Can you just get us up to speed on what new information has come out since then. Sure you'll recall that this happened outside of a Baton Rouge convenience store police had reports of a man with a gun there they arrived the whole time during the. Confrontation Sterling had a gun in his pocket it was never taken out but investigators did this long investigation a pin most as you say many witness interviews careful analysis of 6 different videotapes and have seen the sound and they've come up with some new information in a timeline for what happened there and a lot of the information focuses on one officer a man named Blaine Selim Monye shortly after they arrived on the scene to try to control Sterling get him to comply Salamone and held his gun to Sterling's head prosecutors say lawyers for the Sterling family say that prosecutors told them that Sal money actually threaten to kill Sterling at that point do they was then a struggle they tasered Sterling twice the officers did got him down on the ground at that point Salamone he said twice he's got a gun after the 2nd time he fired 3 shots into strings chest Sterling then struggled to get out as he stood as you start to sit up. Fired 3 more shots in Sterling's back so Federal prosecutors say they can't meet the burden of proof to file charges any more details on what that means. Well we had a briefing yesterday from the acting u.s. Attorney in the middle district of Louisiana and talk to the family and then later to brief the media he said because Salamone he couldn't be sure of Sterling didn't have a gun during this whole encounter prosecutors can show that he had willful intent to use unreasonable force to deprive him of a civil rights and here's what I meant and had to say it is news conference yesterday please know that experienced highly trained federal agents and prosecutors worked hard to investigate and examine the facts to determine if a federal criminal case could be brought here we have all concluded that no such case can be brought under federal law so now this goes to the state level you would have thought a state investigation would have happened already why is it only happening now. Well what's happened is that the Baton Rouge East district attorney recused himself because he knows Blaine parents he's sent it to the Attorney General Jeff Landry he decided to defer that this and wait for the federal investigation now that that's complete it's been all the information is being handed to state investigators but the burden of proof in a state case is much different than a federal civil rights prosecution Chris Stewart a lawyer for 2 of Sterling's children thinks all this new information about the shooting makes prosecution more likely Here's what he had to say via experience with these cases Attorney General Jeff Landry has a. Case against these officers not strong but no more no case against these officers Baton Rouge has been through a lot I mean after the shooting there were days of protests hundreds of arrests it's worth remembering there was another tragedy a sniper shot and killed 3 police officers How's this community doing well it's been quiet yesterday we had heavy rain all day long I think there's a sense that the federal prosecution was always a long shot they're all looking out to the general but yesterday a Salamone lawyer said that they think that the state prosecutors will draw the same conclusion that they can't bring charges N.P.R.'s Greg Allen reporting in Baton Rouge Louisiana thanks Frank. You're welcome. Tensions may be rising over North Korea's nuclear program but South Korea remains outwardly calm a presidential election comes next week and the scene in the capital Seoul includes parade floats and k. Pop N.P.R.'s Lauren Frayer Is there a presidential election season in South Korea is when Korean pop songs like this one cheer up by the girls and what. Gets turned into this. Deal is. Moon Jay Leno name of the front runner in next week's elections freelance film producer g.-d. a Volunteer on Moon's campaign said it was out of the building that a lot of us has as you know explains how they've changed the words to insert their candidate's name each campaign has its own set of songs drawn from what the world knows as he. Sat. There. For weeks dancers have been driving around the South Korean capital Seoul on future carraige flipped belting out k. Pop in favor of one candidate or another they wear their candidate signature color matching hats umbrellas even clown legs and fake animal. To just in case you thought South Korean you were cowering under their desks Cold War style because of the nuclear threat from North Korea meet volunteers a pop dancer in lyricist Jungmann song fresh from the South Korean army of people soldier he sets. People sort of every I mean here Korean army Ok and out that those are no jobs but it is all the water that you never know in the North Korea's provocations he says youth unemployment is his generation's issue in this election and he wrote it into the moon campaign's alternate k. Pop lyrics along with care for the elderly. Morning commutes during election season here mean ducking past rival campaign floats blasting capons at one another a look at the wrong about there it's part of the Korean culture and community spirit resists 60 year old Hong young Ray he did he knows most of these Teen Beat songs though he says he's able to tune them out when he needs to be easy for him to say. Covering an election in South Korea has given this visitor a pretty acute case of your worm come Wednesday this country will have a new president on the streets of May seem eerily quiet. Lauren Frayer n.p.r. News. It's n.p.r. News this is a Anchorage you can find complete broadcast schedule at Alaska public dot org If you're unsure what program you're listening to or you want to hear it again find out more about the show and make sure you don't miss it next time by clicking on radio schedule at Alaska public dot org. B.b.c. News with Marion Marshall the French presidential candidate Emanuel McCraw has filed a lawsuit after his national as rival Marine Le Pen alluded to an alleged offshore accounts during Wednesday's acrimonious television debate Mr Macro rejected allegations that it set up a shell company in the Caribbean island of Nevius Russia Turkey and Iran have signed as guarantors an agreement to establish for safe zones in Syria the proposals drawn up by Moscow were agreed a 2nd day of peace negotiations in Kazakstan representatives of the Syrian armed opposition walked out in protest against Iran's role Buckingham Palace has said the Duke of Edinburgh is to retire officials said Prince Philip Wood will fill his public engagements until August but would not accept further invitations President Trump has signed an executive order to ease a ban on political activity by churches and other tax exempt religious groups in the United States he said his 1st overseas trip as president would start in Saudi Arabia next month the u.s. House of Representatives will vote shortly on a Republican Party proposal to repeal Barack Obama's of portable health care act scrapping the measure was one of Mr Trump's key campaign promises the South African high court has ordered President Jacob Zuma to provide reasons for his decision last month to fire a well respected finance minister the sacking of Pravin Gordhan prompted large protests the European Council president Donna to ask has won against letting emotions get out of hand over bricks it speaking in Brussels he said if everyone started arguing before the talks even began they would become impossible. The governing body of World Basketball has lifted a ban on players wearing religious headgear scrapping the 20 year old ban from October will allow players to dawn most of his jabs and turbans on court the rules faced fierce opposition on discrimination grounds b.b.c. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole is on the line he's a member of the House Republican leadership team he's the deputy whip which means his job is to help round up votes as Republicans are trying to do again today for a repeal in replacement of the Affordable Care Act Congressman welcome back to the program today great to be with you how would you describe the state of play you do would you say you do have the votes or you hope you will have the votes later today or why we have the votes again you never know you have them until you actually schedule a vote and all that because some of these guys are pretty adroit and fairly slippery . But we think we've got got all the fish in the bucket so we'll see aren't you actually making some of the calls yourself and how we have been working this very hard like all the other you know people involved the whip operation so I feel certainly good about the people I've talked to and I trust the people that are actually doing the count Ok so so so people are saying to you things like I'm I'm with you but maybe not I will be with you like you're not entirely sure of some of them are now there's always a few like that but I you know we're we're pretty sure Ok again people know this is an important moment and the last thing you want to do it spend time like that is mislead other people I mean you know yes yes no it's no that's fair but you know don't play games this late in the game over there and that has consequences for you down the line so again actually at the end of the day most people are pretty honest Ok And of course I'm talking about this because there was an effort to vote on this before and in the end it had to be pulled back let me ask about the bill in the form you're going to vote on Congressman there is a provision as some people will know which allows states to opt out of some of the provisions of Obamacare the Affordable Care Act There are provisions that were quite popular there are essential benefits that are required in an insurance plans there is protection for people with preexisting conditions now you have a bill that would allow states to opt out of those protections Why do that well 1st of all. We think it's basic federalism we think people in Oklahoma probably make better decisions for Oklahomans and people in Washington d.c. Same in California same in New York as 2nd to this particular provision you know can't be exercised for several years in other words you have to build up the risk bill but at the end of the day you know you need to trust your governor your state legislature you down in my case I do and it's far easier if they make an error for people to frankly correct them and or fire them if a need to than it is to deal with the sort of faceless federal bureaucracy that's in many cases thousands of miles away although you're going to ask your members to make a vote to say I'm going to remove essential benefits that's how this is going to be framed Well it'll be frank that way prodded by critics but that's really not the case they're making a vote to say I'd rather have people in my neighborhood in my state make this decision than somebody else and I think at the end of the day it's very unlikely that any governor of any state will remove the preexisting conditions clause when and if they do the people in that state can correct it pretty quickly and there's all sorts of very strange of conditions that they would have to meet before they could apply for the waiver and again remember they have to apply for the waiver the waiver has to be approved so I think it's the appropriate thing to do but it's not as if there's not a lot of safeguards there and let me ask about another thing Congressman the last time you tried to vote on this the Congressional Budget Office did an analysis of the bill and found among other things that over time something like 24000000 people would lose or drop their insurance coverage would no longer find it to be worth it to them or affordable this time there's not the Congressional Budget Office scoring at all why not wait to allow one Well I think number one when we look at this is fairly We we have a score we think if this does anything it probably improves things but remember you know we're again and I've read complex federal system this thing is going to go to the United States Senate it's going to change in my view in the United. Chan in some way then we have to have a Congress that a conference had to work out the differences if we can do that then it has to still pass the House and the Senate again before it ever gets the President so you know at some point you just have to move and we think this is it and that this will create some momentum again I'm interested to see what our friends in the Senate will do in response kind of awkward to do that though isn't it Congressman selling your members a pass this bill which is unpopular many provisions are going to be unpopular and it's just not going to be law in that form anyway Well no actually I don't think of them because they're pretty sophisticated about knowing how things work and that this is not a hard Bill the graph is not like Obamacare which was 2400 pages long spells out in 13 or 14 page or 17 I think the last time I loved it these amendments are you know less than a page piece so they're not hard to understand there are copper hand and in my case it's a certainly better than what we've got today look and I live in a state where we're down to a single provider has lived losing money we have a 69 percent rate increase coming from people who don't have to start subsidizing the pool and finally because we're not a Medicaid expansion state you know we've got hospitals saying care classes of patients that not are places they get compensated for not here so congressman got to stop you there but you have very much for thank you Tom Cole of Oklahoma these on the state keep losing ground in Iraq and Syria but defeat wouldn't mean the end of the terrorist group here's n.p.r. National security correspondent Mary Nicholas Rasmussen head of the National Counterterrorism Center says the war against ISIS is going well on the battlefield but military campaigns keep chipping away at the group's territory new recruits are way down the good news is that we know that this rate of foreign fighter traveling to the conflict zone has steadily declined since its peak in 2014 this is forcing him to think about how ISIS will evolve as it loses most or perhaps all of the land that it rules with not the numbers of foreign fighters attempting to leave Syria and Iraq they will increase as ISIS continues to Lou. Territory national security officials here abroad were initially concerned they could be flooded with returning ISIS militants an estimated $40000.00 foreign fighters from more than $100.00 countries have gone to fight for the group the largest concentrations are from Europe and other Middle Eastern countries but I think we've come to realize that it's actually quality that matters as much or more than quantity when it comes to foreign fighters who are returning home he says the greatest risk is now expected from a relatively small number who have skills to carry out sophisticated attacks or to recruit fellow extremists still rescues and believes the u.s. Is better positioned the most to guard against them and that's because u.s. Persons make up a very small portion of the total number of foreign fighters he didn't give a number the other u.s. Officials have previously said about 250 Americans have attempted to join the Islamic state ISIS is also calling for supporters in Western countries to carry out attacks even if they never left home and don't have formal links to the group several recent attacks in Europe seem to follow this model rest misson acknowledge there are plenty of threats inside the u.s. He says the f.b.i. Is investigating about a 1000 potential cases of homegrown extremism Greg Myre n.p.r. News Washington. It's n.p.r. 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And d. a Alaska dot com I'm Charles well for a host of outdoor Explorer Spring is here time to clean it up and we're marking the occasion by replaying a show for 2 years ago about cleaning up marine debris from beaches in town and remotely around the region and cleaning up our creeks and encourage is a hugely rewarding experience to pick up trash when it needs improving a place that normally is way too good to be improved by human hands Joining us to learn how you can get involved Thursday at 21 f.m. 91 point what Alaska Public Media. I'm Josh adds with this news brief the Alaska Dispatch News is reporting one of its reporters was slapped by a state senator according to an article posted yesterday the event happened Tuesday in Juneau mat suit Valley Republican David Wilson is alleged to have lightly hit Capitol reporter Nathaniel hers in a stairwell her as recently wrote about a piece of legislation the freshman senator from Washington had introduced at the time hers had his i Phone out recording audio. Would you think it was that reasonable. Or. Fair. There. In the recording Wilson can be heard taking a long pause after being asked if he thought the article was fair and then. As Wilson walks away hearses heard telling another nearby senator. The slap to the house interesting hers was not hurt in the incident but did file a report with the Juneau police department he declined to comment and pointed to the paper's own coverage of the incident the a.t.f. Editor David he will and is quoted in the paper as saying it's not Ok for a legislator to strike anyone senator Wilson's office says it has no comment on what happened for the Alaska Public Radio Network I'm Josh edge. This is the Alaska economic report I'm Josh adage oil prices continue to fall this week Brant crude oil coming in at $49.72 per barrel this morning West Texas Intermediate at 46 dollars and $0.69 per barrel the White House wanted to cut c grants funding for the remainder of this fiscal year if the request had been approved several projects in Alaska would have ended are so early as this summer secret helps coastal communities with fisheries and climate change research despite President Donald Trump's requests Congress released a bipartisan spending bill on Monday that will allow c grant to continue for the time being sunny Rice from Alaska c grants in Petersburg says that's good news it's going to allow us to keep doing the things we know at least through the end of timber that we had been planning and I feel like it's like a quarter of a sigh of relief because I think that the big effort is going to be for the full budget president trumps blueprint budget ask Congress to consider a limited and see grants funding for next year as well since the president made the announcement in March Alaska's congressional delegation has shown support for c. Grant saying the program is a good return on investment secret helps fund research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Congress is expected to approve a budget for next fiscal year by October. It looks like Alaska's 1st retail marijuana store is likely to stay open as Casey choose Tony Gorman reports ballot Proposition one which would have banned the sale and cultivation of marijuana within the city limits is failing following preliminary results from Tuesday night's municipal election. Or opponents of Proposition one were happy after the preliminary results from Tuesday night's about these municipal election were announced 835 voters said no to prop one while only 286 voted yes that means Retail Stores Incorporated will continue to do. This within city limits at an election party at the local bar the board room owners and staff of herbal out theirs breathe a little easier after months of campaigning against probably one of the store's general manager Derek Morris says he can sleep better knowing that he still has a job and we were fearful when your head's on the chopping block you don't know and we don't want to let down anybody. But you can never spend it can't put into words right now just being hard over the net for not only us but for this industry in Alaska for it to move forward and this shows that we're no longer the minority we are the majority last October herbal Outfitters became the 1st retail marijuana store to open in the state the store was still under construction when a little group successfully petitioned for Prop one to be on this year's ballot some members of the group felt the store would have a negative impact on the community especially with miners verbal Outfitters owner Rick blue with vested a $1000000.00 into the store extended his hand to proponents of Prop one they can rest assured that. Any time and we were going to keep it out of the hands of kids under $21.00 we want them to know that if Prop one had passed herbal Outfitters would have had 90 days the closest stores retail sales and cultivation of marijuana could only be sold to miles outside city limits but all lecture results will be certified at Wednesday's city council meeting reporting from Valve I'm Tony Corman. And for the last public radio network I'm Josh adage the Alaska economic report is made possible by b.p. Production and began 40 years ago today as a result of continued investment made these producing 55 percent of Alaska's oil learn more about B.P.'s investments in Alaska for today and tomorrow at b.p. Dot com slash Alaska this is n.p.r. And the Alaska Public Radio Network. It's Marketplace Tech for me for a mystery and go in for Ben Jonson Netflix says it'll add a warning to 13 reasons why a popular drama that centers on the suicide of a teenage girl settling because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically why my life ended. And if you're listening to the tape. You're one of the reasons why according to Variety it's the most tweeted show of the year but mental health experts and educators have been highly critical of the show and its very graphic depiction of suicide worried it will inspire viewers to attempt suicide for more on the influence the media has on adolescent health we reached out to Dan Romer he's research director at the Emberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania thanks for joining us oh thanks for inviting me is the depiction of suicide something people should be concerned about Generally yeah we think so there's been a lot of research over the years that shows that depictions of something like suicide where someone ends their life or engages in self harm is something that could be influential for a small but important segment of the audience that is either currently contemplating suicide or is depressed and the way that is portrayed can also affect things you know the more explicit it is especially if it's a novel method or something people aren't aware of you know more likely to try that the producers of the show I know have come out and said look we tried to make this scene as real and as intense and as unpleasant as we could we weren't trying to glorify this moment of suicide is there any responsible way to do this I've heard them say that in fact I think one of the writers said what prevented him from. And in his life was a vision of a very horrific attempt at suicide by someone else but unfortunately it will be seen as a method to solve a problem for some people this is a television show based on a book and I wonder if it's different from a contagion standpoint to read a story like this than to see a story like this I don't know of any. Clear research on that but my guess would be seeing it is far more impactful than reading it now there's an all you know there's a classic case going back to the late 17th Hundreds of a German book called The Sorrows of young where they're very famous book that was extremely popular about the suicide of a young man and the book was banned in several countries because there were so many young men taking their lives after the book came out yes it's actually by a very famous German author named. And that made him famous That's how powerful that story was Dan Romer is research director of the Emberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania thanks so much Ok thank you we reached out to Netflix for comment and haven't heard back. Marketplace Tech is supported by Home Advisor matching homeowners with background checks professionals for home projects from minor repairs to major remodels see homeowner reviews compare prices and book appointments at Home Advisor dot com And by Legal Zoom helping business owners get started with incorporation l.l.c. Is nonprofits and more well providing legal advice through its network of independent attorneys more at Legal Zoom dot com slash marketplace Facebook has announced it will hire 3000 people over the next year to help address violence on its site the remove it e o showing people hurting themselves and others the new hires will bring the total number of people reviewing flagged video content to about 7500. 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Plans and that's a big reason why so many Americans aren't saving there are 55000000 Americans who have no way to save for their retirement at work that's Christina Martin for veto with the a.a.r.p. She says when bigger companies automatically enroll workers in retirement plans the vast majority of people stick with it and keep saving they could up doubt but they don't and if you did the same thing for workers at small businesses they would be 15 times more likely to see for retirement if they could do that straight out of their paycheck so Oregon California Illinois and 5 other states have now passed laws to help small businesses enroll workers in state designed plans that was given a boost by an Obama administration policy which Congress just overturned I'm just disappointed Tobias Reed is the state treasurer of Oregon he explains that the Obama administration created guidance for states and it said basically if you do the savings plans in this way you're within federal law but rescinding that Congress has now created uncertainty and that could discourage more states from passing these laws Oregon is facing that uncertainty too but Reed says with 1000000 people with no workplace retirement plan his state is going to push ahead we believe we are safely within the law and we want to take the chance to help working Oregonians one of the 1st small business owners to take part in the Oregon saves planet will be saleman Noorani he runs to wine and beer shops and he has 11 employees who will automatically be enrolled in the pilot phase of the plan this summer. Well they are very excited that the even being able to participate in the program Noorani says setting up a for a one k. Plan was just too expensive for his small business but the Oregon plan is free for him and his workers will choose from a few different investment options it's actually a lot leg state designed at 529 college savings plans mistake creates the framework but the investments are managed by a private company in this case it's State Street Bank I was so glad to see Oregon come up with this plan where it makes it so easy and so simple which is why Noorani is also very confused about why Republicans in Congress have now voted to make these plans harder for states to set up I'm going to publish and I can find any logical answer for and when you see something there's not a quick solution out there why do you rule around this time of time the financial industry has been lobbying Congress to get rid of the Obama policy Lisa bloggers with the securities industry and Financial Markets Association every state is coming up with all different ideas as to how they're going to direct Bleier says that will create problems and some in the industry think that the government just shouldn't get so involved here Dennis Keller heads up the financial watchdog group better markets he says there's another reason if states set up plans that are relatively low cost for workers that might push the whole market in that direction and hurt financial firms profits it's all about protecting profits and that's all this fight was really about drips part the a.a.r.p. 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