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As of people are facing food shortages N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn is in the Capitol where there's no political resolution in sight. Also getting federal financial aid for college can be complicated right but Congress has approved changes to simplify the process. Immigrants journey from a lawyer in Nigeria to city councilor in Maine It is Wednesday December 18th happy cooking chef. Is 84 years old today. The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm sure Rahm the House of Representatives is in session today to consider whether President Trump should be impeached right now members are debating the framework for the impeachment debate Congressman Jim McGovern is chairman of the Rules Committee he says It's unfortunate the house must proceed on this path our inquiry is simply to answer the following question Did President Trump and his top advisers corruptly withhold official government actions to obtain an improper advantage in the next election we now know who the hard work of our investigative committees and because of the president's own admission that the answer that question is yes the House has to debate the articles of impeachment for 6 hours and then vote both articles are expected to be approved along party lines the Senate will then hold a trial on whether President Trump should be removed from office Pohlmann afford president from former campaign chairman will not face state fraud charges after all a New York judge dismissed the case since he's already been convicted of similar federal charges the trumpet ministration hasn't achieved much on lowering prescription drug prices but today as N.P.R.'s Selena Simmons Duffin reports Trump officials are announcing a move to allow drug importation from Canada because the Canadian government negotiates with drug makers on prices and the u.s. Does not prescriptions in Canada are generally cheaper states such as Florida and Vermont attracted to those Canadian prices have been asking the federal government to let them import drugs in bulk from Canada President Trump has made clear he likes the idea and today officials are laying out the details there are serious questions about whether this would work however the Canadian government and drug makers would need to cooperate anything happening in real life is likely years away and officials could not say whether we would actually save money Selena Simmons Duffin n.p.r. News studies suggest the Global Gender Gap won't be closed for another century new . To stick show that's 8 years sooner than last year's estimate Terry Scholz reports the most progress is expected in education the World Economic Forum the predicts gender equality worldwide will only be achieved another 99.5 years the 14th Global Gender Gap Report surveys more than 150 countries ranking them by a quality of participation and opportunities in politics the economy and education as well as by health and survival rates Iceland takes the top spot for the 11th year in a row followed by Norway Finland Sweden and Nicaragua the Us ranks 53rd despite more women holding high profile political positions around the world equality in politics is the worst performing category meanwhile is projected to take just a dozen years to reach gender equality in education and 40 countries have already achieved that for n.p.r. News I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels stock prices are moving higher than Dow is up 32 points the s. And p. Is up 2 points this is n.p.r. News from Washington. This is statewide news from Alaska Public Media maybe Collins about the elementary school principal charged with trying to learn a minor into having sex and sending obscene material to a minor made his initial court appearance in Anchorage Tuesday agents with the f.b.i. His Child Exploitation Task Force arrested Christopher Carmichael principal of Bethel's gladdest junk elementary school in Bethel on December 11th the agents seized Carmichael's school computers and told school officials that no children were in danger but the charges against Carmichael say Bethel police began investigating him in June when a former student reported Carmichael had touched her inappropriately the charges say Carmichael was later caught having explicit text conversations with a minor and in November that he wrote similar sexually charged messages to an undercover f.b.i. Agent pretending to be another minor assistant u.s. Attorney Kyle Reardon says investigators are continuing to look closely at Carmichael are following up on every possible lead and end of the screen every possible date that we have and that comes in magistrate judge Matthew Scoble ordered Carmichael to remain behind bars Carmichael's attorney Burke one now declined to comment after the hearing reared in the prosecutor later addressed a question about why it took several months from when the initial report was made to Bethel Police in June to an agents arrested Carmichael in December Reardon says securing warrants to monitor a person's communications can take time and that law enforcement officers always want to build a strong case with solid evidence I don't know what it was that. Resulted in the case not being brought to our office until November. But I am confident that it was pursued as diligently as about the police department were able to do. But the police lieutenant Amy Davis the Department's acting chief says the initial report of sexual assault of a minor a state crime was under investigation at the local level Davis says she was talking to the f.b.i. About a different incident when the Carmichael case came up and the federal investigators offered to help well at the time to investigate on a case together. These things take a look at what Davis says the allegations of child sexual abuse remain under investigation. President Donald Trump has endorsed Alaska u.s. Senator Dan Sullivan is reelection in a tweet Trump says the Republican Sullivan is doing a great job for the state while also supporting Trump's agenda celebrants highest profile challenger so far is Al gross an independent who earned an early endorsement from the state Democratic Party this is Alaska Public Media the Alaska Morning News is brought to you in part by 1st National Bank Alaska offering online and mobile tools to help Alaskans 6 promises kept across current want to do if and be a law about support for n.p.r. Comes from Dr providing cloud backup full system back up and on site I drive appliance to protect P.C.'s Macs and servers from data loss due to crashes and ransomware and I drive dot com slash n.p.r. And Americans for the Arts This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene in Culver City California and I'm not well and I'm Noel King in Washington d.c. Good morning at this moment the u.s. House is voting on the rules that will inform the debate around President Trump's impeachment House House Rules Committee chairman Jim McGovern opened this way the president a successor to the same office is George Washington and Abraham Lincoln be trade his old to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. These aren't opinions these are uncontested facts and the top Republican on the Rules Committee Tom Cole had this to say it's going to be a deeply partisan vote coming at the end of an unfair and rushed process proscribed solely by Democrats to ensure a pre-determined result that vote will take place later today N.P.R.'s Claudio Grisel is on Capitol Hill she's with us now hey Claudia So an historic day what's it like there at the moment so the House of Representatives started out this historic day with a series of procedural votes related to Republicans efforts to adjourn the house or stop the proceedings with those failed in a series of votes House lawmakers have since moved on to these opening statements some of them very emotional ahead of this procedural vote perhaps this morning we could see that to wrap up before the actual debate on the Articles of Impeachment this afternoon I was in the chamber earlier this morning and you could sense the history in the air and the mood was very somber for both sides so these are rules votes that are happening now can you explain what that means exactly Well it depends on what side you ask them so for Republicans for example it's obviously an effort to stall the proceedings they this is their way of saying they're opposed to this process to the impeachment of the president they've been fiercely defendant of him throughout this and so for that that that's the Republicans a mare but for Democrats they are moving forward towards voting on this rule to set the stage for how this impeachment vote for on both these articles of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress could look later today what time do we expect this to be wrapping up today well this is a very fluid number it's Ok all day as we know on Capitol Hill things can shift on a dime but right now they're saying we could see the votes by 8 pm tonight we know one thing we learned from the previous proceedings before. Judiciary they don't want to vote on these articles in the dark of night so yeah late like 11 pm midnight get it on while people are still watching where exactly and they are granted an older Reporter Cody sellers thinks clay you know if the House passes the articles the Senate will begin a trial with all 100 senators serving as jurors Earlier today I talked to Indiana Republican Senator Mike Brown as jurors senators including you will take an oath to quote do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws and quote Are you prepared to do impartial justice here I am and I earlier was mentioned being objective I think the big issue is as we get into the Senate trial is there any other pertinent information that we hear beyond what we've heard so far and I think the easiest way to understand this idea of political is you could almost swap roles between McConnell and Shomer if you go back to the Clinton you know years so that I think is the best explanation of how this is political and look at the votes in the outcomes back then regardless of the reasons of how we got here so Senator Mitch McConnell says his mind is made up he is working in conjunction with the White House is your mind made up I think that's based upon once we get into the trial that there's nothing else we hear and I think in that case you could again say that same thing on both sides you know I'd wrote an op ed recently about how difficult this most must be for the 5 senators still in the presidential race on the Democratic side you know where none of us would probably be seated as jurors if you tried to parallel this completely to a court of law sounds like you are saying your mind is not made up that there is addition if you heard additional information you would be willing to vote to impeach she would be willing to vote guilty what what more do you want to learn about the president's behavior this point I don't think there will be any. Thing more to learn because we've had 3 renditions. The hearings behind closed doors and the public hearings the 4 constitutional experts and I'd listen carefully to see if I could glean anything from the 2 later discussions and I didn't really hear anything other than kind of a re. Taishan of stuff that we heard leaked out the main hit points you know early so your mind is made up not necessarily because I will never say never something different I'll consider it because I think we need to do that do you want to hear from witnesses and if you do who do you want to hear from I believe Sure I'd love to hear witnesses that we could call and vice versa to fix so who would you want to hear from. I would say that. I'm not sure about the whistleblower but I'd certainly probably want to hear from Biden are his son Hunter probably all the ones you've been hearing about and I think there that's a nonstarter that's a parlor game because both sides know witnesses won't be involved because you have to give the other side that same latitude and you know Chuck Schumer's already said that you know $100.00 Biden would be off the table in terms of the witness so I don't think we even start there but I know why the subject was broached It's all part of the process Ok this is the mutually assured destruction argument may I ask you in the seconds we have left what do you make of the letter that the president said to Nancy Pelosi it was in his own words some people refer to it as a rant or a bit unhinged it was certainly strong it was strong and if you look at the entirety of the 6 page letter I think it was. Almost every paragraph was something I heard before and it was kind of put into a compilation because I think for President Trump as much as he lets anything roll off his back. You know we're converging on a day here that you know he. Along said that impeachment is an ugly word and I think today is that day when it's formalized and for Mame. The foundation of how we got here in the 1st place is different from other proceedings and that to me taints the process a little bit and I think in the see that play out Senator Mike Brown of Indiana thank you for coming in good to be here more than a year after widespread complaints of mold mice and other issues the military is still struggling to improve conditions in private military housing the new defense budget includes a language that puts greater power in the hands of tenants and local commanders Steve Walsh with member station p.b.s. Has more. Yes and that's the intake and if I could show you on my intake at my house oh my goodness I hope when Bradley lives in military housing in San Diego Her husband is in the Navy she's become an unofficial spokeswoman for other residents in privately run military housing for some of these families this is the 1st time that they've lived away from home this is the 1st time that they have rented a home and been responsible for the things that happen with them at home and they just simply don't have the knowledge the problems with contractors who provide private military housing for each of the service branches made nationwide news over a year ago but those problems persist Marine families in San Diego have reported mice infestations inside their homes at Camp Pendleton Navy and Marine families complained about the slow response time from private maintenance contractors that's what they were not asking for anything outlandish we just want Holman's that don't make our children sick tenants complained about mold collecting in their ductwork in one development Lincoln Military Housing the private contractor who runs the subdivision sent a contractor who taped blue plastic all over their vents Bradley says the family hasn't been told when the contractor will be back she says the Navy has to do a better job of managing the private contractor a fellow like enough of us are saying hey guys this is not Ok Hey guys they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing for our families hey guys we need some help from somebody that can make something happen the Navy like all of the service branches about to get more involved after widespread complaints of substandard conditions made their way all the way to Congress last year but in San Diego alone the Navy found they had little leverage to force changes under their contract with Lincoln Military Housing right now again it's advocacy if there's a problem Captain Mark nice would tell me is the commander of naval base San Diego he says when problems arise he talks to the contractor my fellow command office when they're sailors have issues please bring them up and watch me suffer in silence let's hear about them. Because we don't know about them they say they're maybe struggling and they don't need to feel that way local commanders haven't had the authority to withhold incentive payments for substandard conditions for camp the nice widow me that's meant limited options those are the tools I have right now and the advocate for our families and could there be more tools that potentially come to the come a officers and they could payments are based on things like customer satisfaction surveys recently the General Accounting Office told Congress those surveys are suspect adding the Pentagon has little insight into the real condition of housing managed by private contractors Congress has included language in the defense budget that would require the Pentagon to negotiate a tenant's Bill of Rights for military housing local commanders would also have some discretion to withhold incentive payments hope Bradley who works with other military tenants in San Diego says families can feel stuck they can rent a place on their own but in pricey San Diego even finding a home can be tough our families are kind of ending position because a lot of them don't have anywhere else they can afford to live out in town in San Diego where there are complaints of mold in the ducks the contractor has told the Navy that every home will be inspected though for now at least $700.00 families are expected to remain in hotels over Christmas with no definite answer on when they'll come home for n.p.r. 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News I'm Joel King and I'm David Greene with the latest beer news one of the country's largest independent craft breweries is getting a new owner shareholders of New Belgium the maker of Fat Tire voted yesterday to sell to an international beer conglomerate with a controversial background Matt Blum from member station k.u.n.c. Reports on the end of an era for long time Fat Tire fans New Belgium started in the basement of a home in Fort Collins Colorado in the early ninety's and it's since grown into one of the country's largest independent beer distributors with a devoted following it's how Mary Collins a lifelong resident explained to people over the years where she was from it was like on her problems oh I love that tire like that's great so like you Belgium like really put us on the map sitting at a bar in town she says the sale changes things for her it's going to be really sad for me to like like it won't be as much of a point of pride for the company's new owner is a subsidiary of one of the world's largest beer makers Kiran holdings it's based in Tokyo with operations across the globe including Southeast Asia Belgium j m I 5 year Kiran's business dealings in Myanmar formerly Burma have come under fire by human rights groups including Amnesty International they say the company's operations there have financially benefited the military which the un is accused of serious human rights abuses Kiran has pushed back on the allegations saying any benefit provided to me and Mark was meant for humanitarian aid a pill Service spokeswoman for a New Belgium says it stands by Kiran they also have a commitment you know culture and the well being of our coworkers and that was actually progress the brewery was one of the 1st to be 100 percent employee owned that model is set to go away now my hope is that I can still go to New Belgium and feel like a New Belgium as I was working there Peter Bouckaert spent more than 2 decades as a company's brewmaster he saw. As a sale makes business sense the craft beer market is more competitive than ever and beer makers need a lot of capital if they want to keep growing I'm still surprised that so many breweries or want to open a lot of home brewers want to open but they don't really understand what this business is about there's distribution special taxes marketing Bowker knows as well as anyone else he left New Belgium about 2 years ago to give starting his own local brewery a try just a few miles down the street for n.p.r. News I'm Apple him a woman named Angelo Okafor has made history in the small city of Bangor Maine Okafor is an attorney and a small business owner and that she's something else too she's the 1st immigrant and the 1st person of color elected as a city councilor in Bangor Maine Public Radio's Robbie Feinberg sent us this. So I think it's not just for that update inside her small shop in downtown Bangor Angelo Okafor is chatting with the local mama she braids her hair a few feet from the styling chair Oka for his young daughter glides on a scooter through shelves of international foods and spices racks of African clothing sewn by okra for Lima wall it's a busy place she says and one that the city's small immigrant population seeks out for food and connection I have bikes here have jumpier groups I have played 2000 people bring come here to shop with the kids I write invites for me it's a community so what do you do on a shop like this didn't exist when 4 and her husband moved to mean from Nigeria about a dozen years ago on a work visa like most of the state Bangor is overwhelmingly white and for says the adjustment was hard people couldn't understand her and would often stop and stare and despite holding a law degree from her home country and passing the New York bar exam for says it was nearly impossible to get any job in the legal field employers told her she was either overqualified or said she needed the main experience they are frustrated he's been. Description I feel free to talk this not because I am my own employer but it watching a lot of other people who call civil dot com not speak up so for took things into her own hands 3 years ago she launched an immigration law practice which she could operate with her out of state license because of its basis in Federal Law She then opened her international food store and hair salon to provide needed services to Bangor as immigrant communities but she wasn't done earlier this year after seeing other immigrants bring their concerns to local leaders who were all white local For realized that they needed representation and you know who better to do that so one needs to do that and at some point I'm like why not me so Okafor got into the race for city council and last month she won handily becoming the 1st immigrant and person of color elected in Bangor is history city council chair Claire Davidge says that for will bring a needed perspective to city leadership and then to have her knowledge of law and as a small business owner that representation matters so much especially as we are losing workforce and trying to rebuild that for is one of dozens of women of color nationwide who have jumped into politics in recent years Kimberly Peeler Allen is a visiting practitioner at Rutgers University who founded higher heights a national nonprofit to elect black women to office she says her organization identified about 90 black women running for federal in statewide executive office in the 2800 cycle already they know there are more than that in 2020 and with months left to go until the filing deadlines in several states she says those numbers could easily keep climbing Peeler Alan partially attributes the shift to the national prominence of candidates like Camila Harris as well as dissatisfaction with current leaders particularly at the federal level so it is really propelling more women to say what else can I do you and how can I. Deeper level and I'm not happy with my current elected leadership so I think I think you a better job and they're throwing their hat in the ring box careful between customers in her small shop in Bangor Angela Forbes says she feels grateful for the newfound prominence in her city after years of overcoming barriers for me this is you know I grew up struggling I struggled at not growing up so. Right now I feel privileged I feel I'm very religious I feel blessed and while she still learning the ins and outs of her new role on the Bangor City Council before says she wants to focus on improving public transportation but she says has long affected families and small businesses now Okafor says she's in a position where she can make a difference for n.p.r. News I'm Robbie Feinberg in Bangor Maine. This is n.p.r. News. A historic day in Congress the full House of Representatives debates articles of impeachment against President Trump as in past impeachment inquiries technology has played a leading role received text messages on a 3 way what's up next a conversation with them both to vote groups on the I'm Ari Shapiro tech and impeachment this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Support for Alaska Public Media comes from Continental Subaru and the Subaru Forester standard symmetrical all wheel drive standard eye sight driver assist technology and 33 mpg learn more at Continental dash Subaru dot com and from Siri fireweed conference center offering 2000 square feet of conference space for training seminars and meetings rental details at fireweed Center dot com slash conference live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jenny Herb's live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying. The house will be in order on Capitol Hill the full House is now in the throes of a historic debate on President Trump's impeachment N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor tells us what's at stake in the Democratic majorities bid to impeach the 2 articles that the House takes up today charged President Trump with number one abusing the power of his office and secondly obstructing Congress each article was approved on a party line vote last week by the House Judiciary Committee and it's expected that today's final vote will also closely follow party lines on the eve of the vote President Trump fired off a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the impeachment effort an illegal partisan attempted coup N.P.R.'s Brian Naylor reporting the u.s. Senate holds a trial next year with Republicans in the majority present shop expects to be exonerated equity between men and women in the workplace continues to lag but Teri Schultz reports a new survey shows Iceland leads the way the World Economic Forum says despite more women taking high profile political posts around the world it is in political empowerment where gender parity suffers the most in the labor market female participation is stalled and inequalities are even increasing but in educational participation and opportunity the find equality could be reached in just a dozen years and 40 of the $153.00 countries surveyed are already there this is n.p.r. . Judge's greenlighting to settlements totaling $24.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to help compensate Pacific Gas and Electric customers who suffered losses in utility related wildfires in northern California today's approval bolsters p.g. And E.'s attempt to emerge from bankruptcy by June 30th Japan has announced new regulations on big tech companies like Facebook and Google Abigail Leonard has latest from Tokyo the Japanese government unveiled 5 guidelines that strengthen rules on big American tech firms as well as Japanese online retailers including Yahoo Japan the biggest change is that tech giants will have to disclose details of contracts with customers that's supposed to prevent big tech companies from abusing their market power to exploit small businesses the government says it will also strengthen personal data protections and allow individuals to requested to tell firms stop using their data. Japan's regulations are part of a global trend and chief cabinet secretary Yoshi he said they establish a new model for rules in the digital marketplace for n.p.r. News I'm Abigail Leonard in Tokyo a judge's greenlighting to settlements totaling $24.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to help compensate p.g. And e. 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And I'm David Greene in Culver City California the western hemisphere's poorest country Haiti has experienced months of anti-government protests these demonstrations have left more than 40 people dead crippled the economy and left millions in the Caribbean country on the brink of starvation opponents of the current president say he is corrupt and has mismanaged millions of dollars and must go but he is refusing it actually appears his grip on power could be tightening N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn is in the capital Port au Prince and joins us this morning hi Carrie good morning David can you just remind us of the context here what fueled this protest movement 80. It's corruption people are very upset about specifically this a low interest oil program that was sponsored by Venezuela to its ideological allies and neighbors here in the region Haiti received billions of dollars and there is no accounting for that money and people are extremely upset about that they want to know where is the money and now it sounds like going through a lot of suffering as as well I mean but but there does seem to be some sort of change me just weeks ago there were tens of thousands of protesters on the streets and it sounds like that is no longer the case I mean or are demonstrators giving up or what's happening no not at all but there definitely is a lol It sort of a holiday pre-Christian it's lol There is no resolution to the political crisis here but we definitely have seen a drop off in the size and the scope of the protests just Asians are tired of what they call here paid luck it's called the lockdown on the country but it just seems like a temporary calm and like he said they want the president to resign he says he has done nothing wrong and he is not budging. So what does life feel like I mean there are some summons of normalcy of the protests are dying down but the traffic is back to its horrific ways here you takes just it could take an hour to get just a few a few miles so you see activity on the street you see kids actually going back to school they're not wearing their color for old need bright uniforms that you usually see because they just don't want to draw attention themselves because they're afraid of retaliation by opponents who have tried to keep schools closed businesses closed everything just shut down. Ok so you have a president who is disliked and is hanging on to power we have several dozen people dead an economy in terrible shape of a very poor country what happens now I mean is this is political stalemate get broken in some way. It's going to be. Increasingly more difficult there are supposed to be parliamentary elections in January the 2nd Monday of January but there is no signs that they can hold an election and that just means that there will be no active parliament in force come the middle of January I think there's something like only 10 senators terms have will not be turned out so that just will intensify and many people and analysts believe that the protests will resume once the holidays are over. And what does life just feel like being there I mean take us to what you've seen and what people are going through it's very difficult the currency here inflation is Spike the currency is just worthless it's hard to get basic goods what is interesting though is that you have seen the president out in the open and trying to rehabilitate himself to sort of take advantage of those lol to get out he sees the largest private electricity provider in the country many say this is an illegal move to silence his opponents and the head of the company has been a very outspoken critic but he does to is asking people to be patient but patience is really run out especially when it comes to electricity he campaigned on bringing electricity 24 hours a day there Haiti and people barely have 3 to 4 hours at that well N.P.R.'s Carrie Kahn in the Haitian capital Port au Prince Harry thanks you're welcome the process of applying for financial aid is really complicated and every year millions of students and sometimes their parents have to figure it out there is an act called the Future Act which is passed in Congress and it makes that process simpler President Trump just needs to sign it N.P.R.'s Alyson that were me has the story if you've ever applied to college or helped a friend or family member you've probably encountered the fafsa or Free Application for Federal Student Aid the point of the future act is to make that process a lot easier for students this piece of legislation is one giant step forward that's just in Dreger president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators the future act cuts down the number of questions on the fafsa and despite concerns about privacy it allows the i.r.s. To share data with the Education Department so you don't have to submit that information in your taxes and then again when you're applying to college not only helps people apply for financial aid more easily it also prevents schools from having to constantly follow up with them to verify the information that they submitted on their phone. Because they'll already have it from the i.r.s. It's meant to help students like Whitney Brown. Paving my way through uncharted territory Brown is a junior at Howard University in Washington d.c. Where she's studying criminology she lies on federal aid loans and a Pell grant to help pay for school and she's the 1st in her family to go you know it's a building of a legacy you understand that you're doing it 1st and yes it's going to be hard but there's going to be so many more people that come after you that it's not going to be difficult for him so it's very much so where things were going Ok she filled out her fafsa each year she's a student leader and she has great grades but then this fall she got an e-mail it said she had been randomly flagged to verify her income on the fafsa. Back and forth with the school servicing center understanding like what I mean how to submit that information it was a long drawn out process the Education Department does this because they want to make sure that that money is going to the right people and it's a process that creates a lot of confusion for students and a lot of work for colleges and universities just in Dreger says the Education Department doesn't release how many people are verified but his organization estimates that about 30 percent of Pell Grant recipients are selected for verification and research has shown that getting verified it rarely changes the amount of aid you get often the most vulnerable populations are stuck in the an enviable position of having to prove over and over again to multiple agencies that their poor was juggling all the back and forth on paper work on top of assignments and midterms the process dragged on and since she hadn't been officially verified that meant she never got her financial aid and because she owed university money she couldn't register for classes or secure housing for the spring so to know that I was you know set myself in good standing to go to such a prestigious school and be able to pay for it and that is $1.00 process is going to end it all. Kind of unfair Whitney's still waiting to get verified but in the meantime she's fundraised and. I do emergency grants and scholarships just this week she had enough money to register for classes and has the support that are due have been I wouldn't be in school the data agreement that would help students like Brown could also help folks in rolled in income driven repayment options paying down their federal student loans those plans require you to verify your income each year the Future Act makes the government agencies do it for you all the simplification it's estimated to save the Government $2800000000.00 over 10 years and that makes it possible to provide permanent federal funding for historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions and let's not do any n.p.r. News Washington this Susan p.r. News. This is Alaska Public Media on k s k encourage by Maggie Collins the municipality of Anchorage will formalize government to government relations with the native village of a clue The move comes after a unanimous vote by the city's assembly following following more than an hour of contentious debate me Assembly resolution is just over a page long and lays out the intention of establishing a formal relationship with over the course of the coming year the federally recognized tribes owns land in the northern end of the municipality although the resolution is a modest step toward establishing a more formal relationship it was complicated by a confusing push by private interests to tie the measure to ongoing litigation concerning gambling. Is currently working through the courts to establish a right to set up a casino something established gambling interests in Anchorage oppose Erin Leggett is president of a Clinton is tribal council and says the issue of a casino and formalizing relations with the municipality have nothing to do with each other. Ultimately a debate over whether or not to delay a vote on the measure in order to allow for public testimony was shot down the resolution passed unanimously the time is $743.00 and this is Alaska Public Media. Only the 4th time in history the House of Representatives gets set to vote on articles of impeachment against a president who has the latest next time around here and there. It is the season to be busy if the holiday rush has you falling behind on the news now you can listen to Morning Edition on demand weekdays 7 till 3 just say Alexa why Morning Edition. 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This is state wide news from Alaska Public Media I'm Abbie Collins Tuesday was the final deadline for public comments on a proposal to exempt the tongue this national forest from the robust rule as the deadline loomed environmental groups increasingly tried to get the word out to encourage people to weigh in and those conversations have taken place in physical spaces and also increasingly online from Alaska's energy desk Elizabeth Jenkins has more Mary Catherine Martin works for salmon state and environmental advocacy group that works to protect waterways for salmon so I'm pulling this up on salmon state's Instagram she says the videos the group created with its partners about the Tongass has had a big reach. Our elders always told us. You know. This is Your Land I Klink it woman and a huge big woman dressed in regalia talk about the cultural and environmental significance of the nation's largest national forest salmon and Eagles make an appearance the pacing of the video. Card and fallen trees on the screen Mart estimates the video has been viewed on Instagram by more than 32000 people and her group is still adding up the numbers she says the goal isn't just to get people to watch and share the content but main purpose of all of this besides informing people about what's going on in the different ways the Tongass is valuable as an intact forest is to get people to comment in February the u.s. Forest Service logged over 140000 comments on a draft version of changes to the world this rule in the Tongass most of the commenters suggested keeping the rule in place but in November Department of Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue announced that despite all those comments the agency would recommend the Tongass be completely exempted from the roadless rule according to the Forest Service during this final comment period that started in October 220000 people have weighed in as of Monday. Over the weekend Autobahn Alaska helped host a weapon are to guide people through the process of crafting their comments I know we are looking at questions from the format was personal not stuffy The instructors for the video appear to be in their homes being crude activist and a tribal government leader 350 people watched on Facebook live another 150 people have streamed it sense that Natalie Dawson Audubon Alaska's executive director says environmental groups about making a special effort this go around to bolster the numbers I mean there's definitely been a bigger social media push for this than there has for other issues on the Tongass 100 percent here and down Dawson says people have asked her if official comment periods really matter doesn't thinks it does carry weight if the agency chooses to ignore the public and the public has made it stand to comment then that ground to pursue litigation and lawsuits to go after each and you know the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council took a different approach in addition to the group social media outreach executive director Meredith trainer says they want to invite people to drop comments on the eve of the deadline over bowls of salmon chowder it's also important to feel together right to feel a part of something bigger and to see each other make eye contact one of the comments that went into the public record was in the form of a song. For will roll will keep those logging roads or. For the. Road moves rule to. The u.s. Forest Service is expected to make its final decision on how the road this rule applies to the Tongass and 2020 from Alaska's energy I'm Elizabeth Jenkins in Juneau. Alaska Public Media. 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Good morning you are listening to Alaska Public Media on k s k encourage I may be Collins in the weather forecast for the Anchorage area today cloudy with highs in the mid twenty's mostly cloudy tonight with lows around 20 degrees and a partly cloudy day tomorrow with highs around 20. The sun will rise this morning at 1011 and set this afternoon at 340 giving us 5 hours and 29 minutes of daylight today a difference of 46 seconds the time now is 751 and this is Alaska Public Media. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning in June 1055 the 64000 dollar question debuted on c.b.s. It was a big money quiz show high on drama and it turned out it was also rigged Julie Fenster and her latest book cheaters always win looked at why so many people were captivated by that show they would have one contestant who would sit in a little booth and you get basically one question per week it started out miniscule but as we know the questions were supposed to get harder but the key was that each person only answered questions on one subject so part of the appeal from the producer's point of view was to get strange pairings of people and their expertise so there was a jockey who was an expert on fine arts and you know those were the kind of grabber pairings that the producers really really loved and then very few people got to the $64000.00 question but the ratings skyrocketed as the people went up the ladder but something was going on behind the scenes which was manipulation and cheating. The producers couldn't leave well enough alone with their hit show they wanted some contestants to exit stage right and they thought the charismatic one should stay around so for the ones they were tired of the producers would come up with questions that were beyond difficult and for the people that they kind of liked and wanted to stick around they would in casual conversation mention some arcane fact as though it were just came up that the president of Brazil might have had a wife named Darcy with. Isn't that they would say it like over lunch it wasn't like hey we're handing you the answers it was like yes it was as you say it was in casual conversation maybe even a stagehand would mention something lots of t.v. Game shows in the fifty's were up to the same tricks you might remember the movie Quiz Show from the 1990 s. It was all about that but not all the contestants on these shows were willing to cheat and Julie Fenster writes about one woman in particular who had a chance on the $64000.00 question and didn't take it well the person that did not cheat was Dr Joyce Brothers who started her public life as a contestant on the 64000 dollar question when she was just a another face in the crowd in New York City circa 1956 tell us about Dr Joyce Brothers and what she refused to do essentially which she pulled off yet next time anybody tells you that Oh everybody does it regarding cheating you've got to remember Dr Joyce Brothers because she wanted to go on the show she was a very well educated scholar and psychology and they said nobody wants to look at a intellectual woman and hear about psychology wanted to become an expert on something like boxing they thought they'd never see her again Dr Joyce Brothers had an encyclopedic mind and she studied book after book after book and Cyclopedia is a box of old clippings about boxing and it only took about 6 weeks and she went back to the producer and said I'm ready to be a contestant regarding boxing and then she gets on the show and she wins surprising everyone because they didn't expect her to know everything they didn't expect her to know anything and I think and she keeps winning Yeah and they're asking her harder and harder and harder questions each week she kept coming back and now the producers are saying she's run her course they were scrambling talking to experts on boxing talking the old boxers trying to find pleasure to know what and what world could answer and. She did and she won the $64000.00 question and then as you just mentioned Oh well there was a tremendous scandal these game show producers were cheating they were also you know enticing the contestants into cheating to the New York district attorney looked into it the u.s. Congress looked into it that was the subject of Quiz Show and The New York district attorney actually brought Dr Joyce Brothers in to the grand jury and peppered her with questions the whole day she had to answer boxing questions because he was so sure that she had been fed the answers and she answered them all correctly she better come out of the party. As a student of cheating she really is important because some people don't have to cheat they are really good at what they do what keeps a person from cheating you did all of this research at the end of the day if I were to ask you what is it about a person that prevents them or forbids them from cheating when so many of us do it the book's divided into 2 sections 1st people who get cheated and 2nd people who cheat within one of those sections is why some people don't want is family pride just the mortification if your family is embarrassed by your cheating that's one of the strongest another one that's interesting I found is just sheer pride the people who say I don't if I go out have it I don't even want it then I think what I found most interesting is how many people do not even consider cheating and this is why the current atmosphere in which those same people who would never cheat but they kind of accept it in other people to a greater degree a you write about game shows you write about athletes a lot about athletes you write a lot about card players you write a ton about students you. Right almost nothing about politicians who when I think of cheating rightly or wrongly I would say they're the 1st group that ambles into my mind why didn't you write anything about politicians well in a way the whole every word in the book is about politics because when we look at President Trump the 1st self admitted cheater to be taken seriously as a nominee let alone to be elected he did admit to try entering as a husband for her in other people's marriages as well now that's made me wonder was he so special that he changed the attitudes of voters or was it my thesis is that actually the voters changed 1st the country changed in their attitudes toward cheating so the book is sort of asking why so many politicians today their tolerance seems total and I I almost write this saying that there can't be such a lack of character on the part of so many politicians without it being a political calculation so if I in the book didn't talk about the politicians and their cheating it's because I'm trying to find out of the electorate changed 1st to a Fenster author of the book cheaters always win the story of America thank you so much for being with us this was such a pleasure thank you. 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Or Boston I'm Jeremy Hobson I'm Tanya mostly it's hearing that. Coming up we're witnessing history a vote from the House to impeach President could come later today the president with health Congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine a country under siege not to fight corruption but to extract a personal political favor We'll have the latest on the House debate and we'll speak with historian Julian Salazar also after last week's big Alexion when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants Parliament to quickly pass his brags that deal but then what I think the big issue of course is what is Britain's future relationship with the European Union going to be these stories and 60 years of comedy from 2nd City in Chicago coming up here in. The news is 1st. State wide news from Alaska Public Media Collins around 200 people gathered for a rally outside the federal building in Anchorage Tuesday the crowd was calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment and removal from office ahead of a vote expected in the u.s. House of Representatives today the event was one of several 100 similar mobilizations around the country organized by progressive and liberal political groups Cindy Roberts wants to see Senator Lisa Murkowski vote to remove Trump from office we believe that she can now make a very honest decision while being for that some of those who attended the rally didn't think the impeachment hearings have changed many people's minds that sentiment is backed up in a recent poll which found the public's attitudes toward impeachment statistically unchanged over the course of the hearings across the country the progressive advocacy group Move On helped organize events and lists a broad range of state and national partner groups says part of its impeach and remove campaign there were no visible counter protests outside the federal building though a few drivers rolled down their windows to shout pro Trump slogans at the crowd. Speakers and the language learners came from around the u.s. To a week long workshop in Anchorage with the goal of translating census materials can be a crowd has more racial Adams who is going to announce a Baskin works as an indigenous language specialist with the Alaska Public Interest Research Group or at permit organized by groups like.

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