{UAH} Daily Headlines

Daily Headlines Wednesday, August 29, 2018

FIRST UP White House counsel Don McGahn is resigning After a tumultuous stretch as President Trump's in-house lawyer, the president announced McGahn's departure in a Wednesday morning tweet. McGahn spearheaded Trump's successful push to pack the federal bench with conservative judges. Emmet Flood, who is part of the president's legal team that focuses on the Justice Department's Russia investigation, has been touted as McGahn's replacement. Sanders called Flood "super-well-respected" at the White House. Read more. A surprise upset in Florida's primary, and a nasty race heats up in Arizona Chris O'Meara/AP Results in this week's state primaries ushered in a pair of first-evers in Florida and Arizona. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Bernie Sanders-backed progressive who defeated centrist candidate Rep. Gwen Graham in Tuesday's contest, would become the first African-American governor of Florida if elected. In Arizona, voters will elect their first female senator in November. The conservative establishment candidate, Rep. Martha McSally, won the Republican ticket, and will face Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema later this year. Read more. Now for sale online: printed 3D gun instructions Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are suing a Texas company and its founder over plans to sell and send printable plans directly to customers. A U.S. district judge in Seattle has issued a temporary injunction preventing the files from being uploaded on the Internet, but they they can still be emailed, mailed, securely transmitted or otherwise published within the U.S. Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson claims to have received 400 orders for blueprints for 3D-printable guns. Read more. Gov. Jerry Brown makes California the first state to end cash bail Rich Pedroncelli/AP Under the new law — which goes into effect October 2019 — those arrested and charged with a crime won't be putting up money or borrowing it from a bail bond agent to obtain their release. Instead, local courts will decide whom to keep in custody and whom to release while awaiting trial. Washington, D.C., already has a cashless bail system, and other states are considering making similar changes. Read more. Record high number of STD infections in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2017 — an increase of 200,000 cases over the previous year. David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, says federal funding to prevent and control sexually transmitted diseases has dropped by roughly 40 percent in the past 15 years, which has choked off state and local programs. He called on Congress to appropriate $70 million immediately to address the crisis. Read more.

DIGGING DEEPER Puerto Rico's staggering death toll from Hurricane Maria Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images When Hurricane Maria passed over Puerto Rico nearly a year ago, the island was destroyed. Buildings were crushed, communication and power lines were cut, and people lost access to food and clean water. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló commissioned an independent study by researchers at George Washington University, following criticism that the territorial government's original death count of 64 was inaccurate. That number has now been revised to 2,975 deaths in the six months following the storm. The study found several governmental shortcomings: Puerto Rican officials didn't have an adequate disaster communications plan ready and failed to communicate well with residents. Further, many health officials on the island didn't know how to properly document hurricane deaths, contributing to public confusion.    "This could have been done differently," Rosselló said. "I recognize all that." Rosselló has created a commission to review proposals set out by the GWU report. He has also talked to architects at the University of Puerto Rico about plans to create a memorial for those who died.

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