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11.22.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Saturday,
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November twenty second, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, Radio
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I is a reading service intended for people who are
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blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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read printed material. Your reader for today is Greta. Today's
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front page headlines from the Washington Post are as follows. First,
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US leans on Kiev to sign peace accord. Ukraine given
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Thursday deadline to accept deal or lose war support. Next,
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Coast Guard reverses stance on swastika and noose symbols. Next,
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everything is possible here Chinese expats have established a bustling
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community in the heart of West Africa, but now it's
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ated inflection point as Islamist militants threatened Mali. Next Green
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to resign from Congress. MAGA supporter broke with Trump representative
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from Georgia will leave in January. Next, district renters wait
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and wait in line for a shot at emergency help.
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Next a mistake and a gunshot. How a house cleaner
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ended up dead. And last, Trump and Mom Danny long
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foes emerge from meeting as allies. First US pushing Ukraine
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to sign peace deal. By Thanksgiving or lose support. The
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US is sending signals that everything could be off the
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table if Kiev does not quickly sign a proposal, which
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was drawn up by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff by Shavan O'Grady,
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Katherine Belton, Michael Bernbaum, and John Hudson from Kiev. The
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White House is pressuring Ukraine to sign on its new
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proposal by Thanksgiving or lose US support in its war
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with Russia. According to five people familiar with the talks,
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US Army Secretary Daniel Driss presented Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky
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on Thursday with a version of the twenty eight point
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plan President Donald Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff recently drafted
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with Russian Envoy Kirril Dmitriyev. That plan, linked to the
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news media and confirmed by several officials, includes several red
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lines for Ukraine, including a significant reduction of its army
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size and ceding territory to Russia that Moscow has not
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conquered militarily. Zelensky addressed Ukrainians on Friday and told them
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the nation is facing one of the most difficult moments
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in our history, as the United States which has been
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the country's biggest ally seeks to force it into a
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deal that would cement Russia's gains. Ukraine may face a
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very tough choice, either the loss of dignity or the
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risk of losing a key partner, Zelensky said. Although Trump
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has lessened direct aid to Ukraine, the US has broken
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deals for Ukraine to receive US weapons through European partners
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and continues to share intelligence that is crucial to Ukraine's
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survival on the battlefield. The US is now sending signals
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that everything could be off the table if Kiev does
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not quickly sign the proposal, to officials said, even as
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Driscoll took a lighter tone in Thursday's meeting. The two officials,
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like others quoted in this article, spoke on the condition
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of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomatic discussions. Speaking from the
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Oval Office on Friday, Trump said that Zelenski will eventually
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have to accept a deal. He'll have to like it,
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and if he doesn't like it, then they should just
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keep fighting, I guess, Trump said, asked whether the White
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House was going to cut off US support for Ukraine
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if Kiev doesn't sign on the proposal, Trump declined to
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answer directly, but he said that at some point he's
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going to have to accept something, and he hasn't accepted. Remember,
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right in the Oval Office not so long ago, I said,
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you don't have the cards. Trump earlier told told Fox
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News Radio on Friday that next Thursday would be appropriate
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to reach agreement on the proposed deal. I've had a
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lot of deadlines, but if things are working well, you
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tend to extend the deadlines. But Thursday is what we
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think is an appropriate time, he said, adding that Ukraine
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was losing land and will lose in a short period
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of time. Russian President Vladimir Putin told the meeting of
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his Security Council Friday that the new peace plan could
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serve as the basis for a final peace settlement, though
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he claimed that the US had not yet discussed the
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proposal in detail with Russia. Russia is ready for peace
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talks and peaceful resolution of problems, but this requires, of course,
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a substantive discussion of all the details of the proposed plan.
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Putin said, the plan is pure Russian. A senior European
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diplomat said European leaders planned to meet Saturday on the
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sidelines of a Group twenty meeting in Johannesburg to put
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together a counter proposal that they believe will be more
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favorable to Ukraine. Another diplomat involved in the discussions said
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Ukraine is under extraordinary pressure to agree to a deal.
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A separate person said that while Washington's vow to withdraw
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support from Kiev is real, it probably would not be
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implemented for another two weeks at the earliest. The leaders
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of France, Britain and Germany held a joint phone call
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with Zelensky on Friday and appeared to push back on
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several of the plan's key points. German government spokesman's Stephen
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Cornelius said the leaders had agreed that vital European and
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Ukrainian interests must be safeguarded. German Chancellor Friedrich Meyers also
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spoke to Trump in a good and confidential phone call.
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The German leader wrote on x we have agreed on
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the next steps at the deer's level. I will now
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brief the European partners. Trump was focused on a speedy
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resolution to the conflict, but was willing to accept negotiations
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over the proposal. A person familiar with the call set
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breaking with the major European Powers. Was Hungary, Russia's closest
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partner in the European Union, which Trump has said could
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host a peace summit to end the war. We are
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very supportive of this proposal, which we believe is the
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only creditive alternative on the table, Hungary's Minister for European Affairs,
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Janos Boka, told The Washington Post in an interview. Boca
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said he had just completed meetings with Trump's top aids
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for Europe, including the National Security Council's Charles McLaughlan and
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the State Department's Brendan Hanrahan, who have continued to encourage
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Hungary's role in the peace process. Zelenski said in his
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address Friday that it was his duty to uphold his
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pledge to defend Ukraine's sovereignty and independence, and that he
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would offer alternatives to the US plan. The Ukrainian leader,
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one official said, had requested changes Thursday, and Driscoll's team
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agreed some could be made. The US appears to have
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divided its teams between Vitkoff and Driscoll to play good
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cop and bad cop. One presses the other tries to say,
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let's work together to change the plan, one official said.
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Following the Thursday meeting in Kiev. Julie Davis, the charged
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affairs at the US and Bassia Ukraine, said the timeline
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for signing is aggressive. Plan contains elements long pushed for
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by Moscow, including a full withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from
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the heavily fortified Duanetsk region in the east of Ukraine,
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granting Russia full control of territory it had not been
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able to conquer in nearly four years of war. Russia
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would receive de facto recognition of its control of Crimea,
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Luhansk and Danetsk, as well as areas of Kherson and
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Zabriijia it sees illegally afflicted in these regions. Frozen on
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the current front line, Ukraine would be forced to enshrine
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in its constitution that it will not seek to join NATO,
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while agreeing to significantly reduce the size of its armed
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forces from between eight hundred thousand, eight hundred fifty thousand
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military personnel to six hundred thousand. In return for making
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such sweeping concessions to an armed invader, Ukraine a is
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to receive reliable security guarantees. Although the plan does not
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contain any wording on what that would mean. Ukraine has
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long insisted that its best security guarantee is its own military,
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which should not be reduced to accommodate Russian demands. In addition,
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the proposed settlement would bar the presence of any NATO
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troops on Ukrainian soil, effectively nixing European proposals to send
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troops to deter Russia from attacking again. The document would
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be signed by Zelensky and Trump before being presented to
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the Russians. Kiev has long feared any arrangement that would
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force it to reduce its army and seed its most
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fortified territory in Dunietsk, as that would give Moscow an
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upper hand territorially and militarily to eventually launch a new invasion.
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One person familiar with the contents of the plan said
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that it would require months of painstaking negotiations to bring
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it to a format that would be acceptable to Ukraine.
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Even if Zelensky wanted to sign it, he couldn't because
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there is no political base for it, the person said.
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There are many non starters there. It is very similar
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to the Minerals deal, the person added, referring to the
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economic Partnership agreement between Ukraine and the U S granting
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Washington preferential access to future Ukrainian minerals deals. We modified
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it for three months before it was signed. But this
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deal is between the U, Ukraine, Russia and Europe, so
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I think it will be more like twelve months to negotiate.
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I think this is the beginning of the peace process,
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not the end. Non Friday sought to blame Ukraine and
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its allies in Europe for the lack of process, accusing
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them of living in illusions and dreaming of inflicting a
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strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. Further Russian military
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breakthroughs were inevitable, he said, but analysts set aspects of
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the latest plan forward by the US would also probably
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be unacceptable to Russia. Although the concessions to Russia appear substantial,
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the plan would also require Moscow to abandon some of
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its earlier conditions, for example, the more radical reduction of
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Ukraine's armed forces or parts of the political reform package.
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Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center,
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having received in outline much of what it wanted Moscow
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now has to try read seriously something it is likely
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to view as fundamentally unsubstantiated and unreliable. Russia has been
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making incremental advances on the battlefield, far out manning and
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outgutting the Ukrainian side, and experts say any deal signed
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now would give Russia a huge advantage while it has
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the upper hand. But analysts say Moscow does not have
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the military capacity to make major gains and it could
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have to launch a politically difficult mobilization next year to
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continue the conflict, while sanctions are forcing the government to
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undertake painful tax hikes and spending cuts. The proposal also
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calls for reintegrating Russia into the global economy as a
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result of the settlement of the conflict, with sanctions to
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be lifted in stages and on a case by case basis.
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If Russia were to attack Ukraine again, in addition to
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a decisive, coordinated military response, all global sanctions would be
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reinstated and recognition of the ceased territories would be revoked.
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The planned states elements of the agreement appear to take
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inspiration from the White House's recent efforts to strike a
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peace deal in Gaza, including the establishment of a council
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to monitor violations of the agreement that would be personally
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chaired by Trump. Other ideas read like a wish list
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of long standing Russian demands, including an aid to further
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NATO expansion, with which Washington and its allies have long
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said would impose unacceptable limits on the sovereign desires of
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European nations to join the alliance. Russia would also win
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reintegration into the Group of Eight World Powers, from which
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it was expelled following its illegal annexation of Crimea in
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twenty fourteen, and the US would get a fifty percent
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cut of the profits of investments made in Ukraine with
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one hundred billion dollars in frozen Russian government assets, while
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the rest of the frozen assets would be handed back
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to Russia, installing an ongoing European effort to use those
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assets to pay for Ukraine's defense and reconstruction. Some Republicans
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in Congress who are sympathetic to Kiev vowed to oppose
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forcing Ukraine to accept a deal on bad terms. I
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would oppose, and I know many in Congress would oppose
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any coerced acceptance of the deal, said Representative Michael R. Turner,
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Republican from Ohio, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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In an interview, Zelensky has been weakened in recent weeks
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by a major corruption scandal that has ensnared several of
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his close associates, and which coupled with the exhausting pace
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of Russian military strikes and slow advances on the ground,
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could leave the Ukrainian leader with diminishing options as US
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officials exert greater pressure on him to accept a deal.
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For our next article. In reversal, Coast Guard again classified
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swastikas and nooses as hate symbols. The new order came
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hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify
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such symbols as potentially divisive under guidelines set for release
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next month by Tara Copp, Michelle Borstein, Hari Raj, and
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Victoria bis. In a stunning and hasty reversal, the US
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Coast Guard announced late Thursday that swastikas and nooses are
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prohibited hate symbols, erasing an attempt to soften their definition
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after the plan elicited furious backlash. The abrupt policy change
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occurred hours after The Washington Post first reported, but the
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service was about to enact new harassment guidelines that downloaded
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the meaning of such symbols of fascism and racism, labeling
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them instead potentially divisive. That shift had been set to
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take effect December fifteenth. In a memo to Coast Guard personnel,
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the service's Acting Admiral Kevin Lunday said the police see
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document issued late Thursday night, supersedes all previous guidance on
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the issue. Divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited,
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Lunday wrote in his memo. These symbols and flags include,
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but are not limited to, the following, a noose, a swastika,
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and any symbols or flags co opted or adopted by
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hate based groups as representations of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance,
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anti Semitism, or any improper bias. The revision also emphasizes
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that Confederate flags remain banned from display, except in limited
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contexts or where they are part of a historical display
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or a minor part of a painting. It was unclear
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Friday morning who had directed the attempt to reclassify such
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symbols as potentially divisive rather than hate symbols. A Coastguard
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spokeswoman did not immediately address questions about how the late
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night policy reversal came to be. The Department of Homeland Security,
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which oversees the Coast Guard under the purview of Homeland
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Security Secretary Christy L. Nome, did not respond to questions
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Friday seeking to understand whether Nome or her staff at
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DHS had any involvement in attempting to classify Swastika's and
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newses as potentially divisive, or whether the Secretary had even
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known about the planned language change before the Post story
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was published. Instead, the agency's cheek spokeswoman Trisha MacLachlan issued
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a statement attacking the Post and falsely claiming that its
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initial reporting was demonstrably false. It is unfortunate, she said
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that the Coastguard must take time away from its mission
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to protect our nation to respond to these baseless smears
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and revolting lies. The tenor of McLachlan's message was sharply
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at odds with a statement from Londay's chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Plazai,
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who had acknowledged earlier Thursday that Coast Guard leadership intended
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to review the matter. Hours later, officials issued Lunday's memo
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to the force along with the new policy document. Though
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the Coastguard is not part of the Defense Department. The
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service had been reworking its personnel policies to align with
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the Trump administrations changing tolerances for hazing and harassment within
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the U. S. Military. In September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsath
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directed a review and overhaul of those policies, calling the
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military's existing standards overly broad and saying they jeopardized troops
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combat readiness. Lunday ordered a similar move within the Coastguard
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last winter. It came days into President Donald Trump's second term,
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after he ousted Lunday's predecessor and put him in charge
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of the service. Lunday's directive suspended a hazing and harassment
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and policy impermitted in twenty twenty three that was unequivocal
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in its repudiation of swastikas and other inflammatory symbols. The
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revised document, which watered down that language, was published online
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this month, prompting Thursday's uproar and the Coast Guard's ensuing
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scramble to perform damage control. Excerpt from Thursday's memorandum reads,
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divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited. These symbols
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and flags include, but are not limited to, the following,
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a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co
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opted or adopted by hate based groups as representations of supremacy,
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racial or religious intolerance, anti Semitism, or any other improper bias.
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An exerpt from the November twenty twenty five U S
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Coast Guard Policy Document, page thirty six reads, Potentially divisive
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symbols and flags include, but are not limited to, the following,
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a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co
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opted or adopted by hate based groups as representations of supremacy,
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racial or religious intolerance, or other bias. An excerpt from
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the February twenty twenty three U S Coast Guard Policy Document,
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page twenty one reads, the following is a non exhaustive
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list of symbols whose display, presentation, creation, or depiction would
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constitute a potential hate incident. A newse, a swastika, supremacist symbols,
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Confederate symbols or flags, and anti Semitic symbols. The display
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of these types of symbols constitutes a potential hate incident
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because hate based groups have co opted or adopted them
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as symbols of supremacy, racial, or religious tolerance or other
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bias that Coastguard's now defunct plan to reduce the swastika
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and news to just potentially divisive had confounded and upset
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some lawmakers and service members. At a time when anti
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Semitism is rising in the United States and around the world,
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relaxing policies aimed at fighting hate crimes not only sends
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the wrong message to the men and women of our
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Coast Guards, but it puts their safety at risk. Senator
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Jackie Rosen, a Democrat from Nevada, a member of the
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Senate's co Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Coast Guard,
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told the Post this week. A Coast Guard official who
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had seen the earlier proposal, speaking on the condition of
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anonymity because of fear of reprisals, said, we don't deserve
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the trust of the nation if we're unclear about the
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divisiveness of swastika's. The Coast Guard was the first military
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service targeted by the Trump administrations sweeping dismissals of senior
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leaders and its broader shake up of military culture. On
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the first day of the new Trump administration, the commandant
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at the time, Admiral Linda Fagan, was removed from her position,
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with administration officials citing her focus on diversity initiatives and
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her handling of sexual assault investigations. Fagin was the first
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woman to lead a branch of the US military. Trump
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chose Lunday to replace her. The admiral's Senate confirmation hearing
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was Wednesday. It is unclear when his nomination may come
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up for a vote. Our next article is titled Inside
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a thriving Chinatown neighborhood in the heart of West Africa.
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Chinese migrants have created a lively community in the Malian
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capital of Bamaco, but the advance of Islamist militants has
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some questioning their future. There by Rachel Chassen. This article
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is accompanied by several photos. Their first is captioned people
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drive motorbikes in front of Chinese shops in Bamaco in October,
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photos by Karmen Yasmin Abdahli for The Washington Post. The
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photo shows, as the caption says, five people driving motorbikes
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in front of a row of Chinese labeled shops in
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the middle of a street. There are several cars parked
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behind them, as well as a group of people walking.
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Of the people, the people riding the motorbikes are all
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dressed variously, one woman in h jab and a long dress,
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two gentlemen in baseball caps, one wearing a helmet, and
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one man not wearing a helmet at all. Two front
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page photos. The first is captioned Tony two, age thirty nine,
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gets a haircut in a Chinese own spot and salon
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in Bamako last month. The other is captioned A Kun
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from lu Zhou, China serves regulars at her tea shop
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in Bamaco on October fourteenth. In the hit Chinese own
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spot and salon photo, it shows one man with his
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back to the camera, although reflected in a mirror, wearing
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a green apron as another man trims his hair. There
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are several mirrors and posters and typical salon items in
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the back drop. Up in the tea shop photo, it
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shows three men sitting at a table while one woman
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on kun leans over handing them their drinks. The backdrop
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you can see the counter and the menu where they
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would order tea, and in the far back another gentleman
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bending over a counter working on something. And now for
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the article from Bamako, Mali drive through downtown. In this
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West African capital. Pass traditional markets and mosques, and you
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arrive unexpectedly in a neighborhood with bubble tea shops and
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Chinese boutiques where virtually every sign is in Mandarin. In
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the mornings, radishes spring onions, and Chinese cabbage fly off
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the stalls of a husband and wife vegetable stand. At lunch,
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another couple from China prepares spicy beef stew and stir
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fried snails at a restaurant across the street. As the
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sun sets, Chinese workers and business owners take evening strolls
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on the promenade that runs along the Niger River. Chinese
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expats have long gravitated to this part of the Malian capital,
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also home to Western embassies and nonprofit headquarters, but their
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presence has become more visible in recent years, transforming the
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neighborhood into a Chinatown of sorts. According to business owners, residents,
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and Western diplomats, it is emblematic, experts say, of how
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Chinese communities in Africa exist and often thrive independent of
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the government in Beijing and state backed enterprises. They are
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born of commercial desire and individual motivation, said Deborah Brautigum,
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director of the China Africa Research Initiative at the John
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Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Often they operate
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in boom and bust cycles, she added, rapidly expanding or
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contracting based on the political and economic realities in China
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and their host countries. Molli's Chinatown has been in a
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period of growth, according to dozens of interviews with migrants
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last month, but is now at an inflection point as
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Islamist militants threatened the capital. Everything is possible here, said
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Yiji Kung, a muscular man who swiped sweat from his
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brow one morning as he took a break from filling
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vegetable orders received on we Chat, the popular Chinese social
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networking app. He and his wife arrived from Guangxi Province,
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near the border with Vietnam, in twenty eighteen, he explained,
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encouraged by former neighbors who had settled in Bamako. If
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I didn't have the courage to live in Mali, he said,
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how would I have money. In recent months, however, this
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landlocked nation, long racked by violent insurgencies, has entered a
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new and dangerous chapter. Al Qaida affiliated militants have encircled
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Bamaco and attacked fuel trucks across the country in a
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bid to bring the military government to its knees. On
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the street outside He's shop was a long line of
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motorists waiting for gas, which has become so scarce that
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schools have been shuttered for weeks. Asked whether he would say,
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he looked down, explaining in a combination of Mandarin and French,
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Mali's official working language, that he was not sure molly
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in this time, he said, shaking his head. Is not
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doing well next finding their place. Formal data on Chinese
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migrants in Africa is difficult to come by, experts say,
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but their numbers probably peaked around twenty fifteen and are
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now believed to sit between five hundred and seven hundred
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thousand continent wide, according to Eric Olander, the editor in
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chief of the China Global South Project, an independent media initiative,
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as insecurity has deepened in Malli in recent years, driven
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not just by Islamist militants, but also by violent crackdowns
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carried out by the military and Russian mercenaries. The presence
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of state backed Chinese companies has shrunk, Olanders said, with
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authorities in Beijing increasingly averse to risk, but the informal
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Chinese presence has grown, according to Western diplomats in Bamako,
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as well as Chinese and Malian residents evident in the
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restaurants and shops in the Cte Deunuger neighborhood. Oge Onobogu,
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director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic
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and International Studies, said China's economic ties with Mali are
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among its deepest in Africa, dating back to the nineteen seventies,
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creating a pathway for its citizens to strike out on
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their own here they want to find their place in
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the local economy. She said, it's clear there's a drive
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to engage. Five years ago, when Mali's military stage Jacu
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and cut ties with France, some European businesses closed up
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shop and Chinese entrepreneurs filled the gap, said Amalian hairdresser,
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who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of
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government reprisals. The salon he manages was empty on a
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recent day, but business was booming at the Chinese owned
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one around the corner, where a recently arrived hairdresser in
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a hustle for muscle shirt gave rapid fire cuts in
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the chair was thirty nine year old Tony two, a
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solar panel vendor, who said he'd always been able to
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make a good living, benefiting in part from the country's
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chronic electricity shortages. The number of Chinese expats in Mali
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had exploded since he arrived eight years ago. Too many
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to even count, he said, with a laugh. The reason,
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said Yuhua Wang, aged fifty, as he tallied the morning's
28:50
sales at his modest produce stand nearby, is always money
28:56
next cornering the market. Beijing is pushing to expand its
29:01
soft power across Africa and other parts of the Global South,
29:05
said Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the
29:08
Stemson Center. But in Mali, she said the push is
29:12
coming from the ground up. Chinese follow Chinese. She said,
29:17
things like Chinese restaurants appear when people know there is
29:19
a market. An Kun, the self described queen of tea
29:24
in Bamaco, described the market in Mali as similar to
29:27
China before it began to open its economy in the
29:30
nineteen seventies, and there was always an opportunity here for
29:33
those who sought it out. In China, trying to open
29:37
a tea shop was like feeding a belly that was
29:39
already full, she said. Standing in her shop here, I
29:43
knew I could be one of the great tea sellers.
29:46
On a good day in Bamaco, she added, she can
29:49
make what would take her a month to earn back
29:52
home next growing fears, but no one is blind to
29:58
the growing dangers or the pre cat of life in Mali.
30:02
Chinese informal migrants typically operate on the fringe and without rules,
30:06
said Olander, sometimes arriving on tourist visas and then overstaying
30:12
or finding local networks of Chinese business people who have
30:14
a system for bribing local officials to get the paperwork
30:17
and permits needed to live and work. Often, he said,
30:22
they are a headache for the local Chinese embassy, where
30:25
the attitude can be summed up as you went to
30:28
this part of the world, now you're on your own.
30:31
As he walked along the Niger River at Sunset, Yang
30:35
Choo forty four, explained to the draw and downside of
30:39
his new adventure. Yang, who arrived just a few months ago,
30:44
is a prospector for a Chinese mining company. You can
30:47
find gold anywhere, he said, but his colleagues have warned
30:51
him about the risks posed by armed groups, so he
30:54
tried to limit his movements, he said. In the tea shop,
30:58
a group of men traded cautionary ties. One had been
31:01
stopped by masked men who took his money. Another said
31:05
he was too scared to leave. Bamaco Uncun, the tea
31:08
shop owner, said she had friends who were kidnapped by
31:12
militants while working as miners. The assailants demanded ransom, not
31:16
from China's government, she said, but from the local Chinese community.
31:21
Molly is no longer safe because of the terrorists, she said.
31:24
We are all scared. Back in the hair salon Tony
31:29
two pulled up pictures of rivers and forests in his
31:31
native province. For the first time in eight years, he
31:35
has started to think seriously about returning to China. I
31:39
am afraid, he said, and I want to go home.
31:42
For our next article, go O P Representative Marjorie Taylor
31:46
Green announces she is resigning from the House. The long
31:50
time MAGA supporter says she is stepping down as of
31:53
January fifth, in the middle of her two year term.
31:56
The move comes after a public falling out with Trump
32:00
by Kadia Gooba, Mariana Alfaro and Hannah Knowles. Representative Marjorie
32:07
Taylor Green, Republican from Georgia, said late Friday that she
32:11
will resign from Congress as of January fifth, a surprise
32:15
announcement that came days after a public spat with President
32:18
Donald Trump in which he lobbed public insults at his
32:21
longtime ally and said he would not endorse her next year.
32:26
In a video and a statement shared on social media, Green,
32:30
a staunch supporter of the Make America Great Again movement
32:33
who has often been a polarizing figure in politics, touted
32:37
her conservative record voting record in Congress in alignment with
32:40
Trump's priorities, but she slammed her colleagues, particularly House Republican leaders,
32:46
over the handling of the shutdown in other issues she
32:50
said have rendered Congress ineffective. I ran for Congress in
32:55
twenty twenty and have fought every single day, believing that
32:58
make America great Again meant America first, Green said in
33:02
a video on x However, with almost one year into
33:05
our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined. In a
33:10
ten minute video and four page statement, the Georgia congresswoman
33:14
said that the House should have been working to address
33:17
health insurance instead of being shut down for eight weeks.
33:21
She also noted that lawmakers will soon go into campaign
33:24
season and leave Washington again. I raged against my own
33:29
speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work
33:32
diligently to pass the plan to save America's health care
33:35
and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced and unaffordable health insurance policies.
33:40
Green said the House should have been in session working
33:44
every day to fix this disaster, but instead America was
33:48
force fed disgusting political drama. In an unusual move, Green,
33:54
who first came to the House in twenty twenty one,
33:57
will resign in the middle of her latest two year term.
34:01
She and Trump had been on opposite sides for weeks
34:03
on issues including foreign policy and health insurance subsidies. A
34:08
major rift broke on November fourteenth, as she pushed to
34:12
force the House to vote on requiring the Justice Department
34:15
to release more files on the late convicted sex offender
34:18
Jeffrey Epstein. Late last week, the President called Green a
34:22
trader and said he would endorse a challenger against her
34:26
in the twenty twenty six midterms. Mons Moments after the announcement,
34:32
Trump told ABC News reporter Rachel Scott that Green's resignation
34:36
is great news for the country. Trump told Scott that
34:40
the congress woman did not give him advance notice of
34:42
her decision. It doesn't matter, you know, but I think
34:45
it's great. I think she should be happy, he said
34:48
in a phone interview early Sunday. Trump also wrote on
34:52
social media that Marjorie went bad and that her decision
34:56
to step down was prompted by plummeting poll numbers and
34:59
not wanting to face a primary challenger with a strong
35:02
Trump endorsement. He added, Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie
35:07
and thank her for her service to our country. As
35:12
The Washington Post reported this week, Green supporters in her
35:15
home district had continued to back her even after Trump
35:18
revoked his endorsement. Even some of her Republican critics acknowledged
35:23
before the Friday night bombshell that her populist brand resonated
35:28
and that even a Trump backed candidate would have a
35:30
hard time beating her in a primary. Green said Friday
35:34
night that she loves her district too much to endure
35:37
a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President.
35:40
That we all fought for Green also said that she
35:44
has endured NonStop, never ending personal attacks, death threats, law fair,
35:49
ridiculous slander, and lies throughout her career in Congress. Green's
35:54
departure will leave the House Republicans with two hundred nineteen
35:58
seats if they win a special election in Tennessee. In
36:00
early December, the Georgia congress woman from a safely read district,
36:06
predicted that Republicans will lose the mid term elections in
36:09
twenty twenty six. Green seemed not to rule out another
36:13
political run, saying in her announcement that she looked forward
36:16
to seeing many of you again sometime in the future.
36:21
Green had become one of maga's biggest stars in Congress,
36:24
casting herself in recent weeks as more America First than
36:29
Trump on some issues. Denise Burns, a former GOP chair
36:33
for the fourteenth congressional district Green represents, said she was
36:37
also caught off guard by the resignation and lamented the
36:40
loss of a very effective spokesperson for the MAGA movement.
36:45
We are going to need an effective spokesperson to step
36:48
up and carry that flag since she is handing it off,
36:51
Burns said, as her phone buzzed with texts, We'll need
36:55
another effective spokesperson on the Hill that'll be prepared to
36:58
distill MAGA for the peace people that are becoming increasingly
37:02
concerned that nobody up there has our back. Green touted
37:07
her voting record as a staunch member of the Republican
37:09
Party and her opposition to several of Trump's policies, as
37:14
well as her demands on the release for more information
37:16
on Epstein. Loyalty should be a two way street, and
37:21
we should be able to vote our conscience and represent
37:24
our district's interests because our job title is literally representative,
37:29
adding that standing up for American women who were raped
37:32
at fourteen years old, trafficked and used by rich, powerful
37:36
men should not result in me being called a traitor
37:38
and threatened by the President of the United States, whom
37:41
I've fought for. Green also accused both parties of sewing
37:46
division among Americans, arguing that every election cycle, politicians work
37:51
to convince Americans to hate the other side more. Among
37:55
her complaints, she attacked corporate and global interests, as well
37:59
as legal and ounes undocumented immigrants, whom she claimed are
38:02
replacing American labour. She also complained that Americans tax money
38:07
is being used to fund foreign wars, foreign aid, and
38:10
foreign interests, while the spending power of the dollar continues
38:14
to decline. Green has long been a darling of Trump's
38:18
maga brand of conservatism before it became the norm within
38:21
the GOP. Her political career has also been marked by inflammatory, antisemitic,
38:27
and Islamophobic statements. In addition, she had publicly backed q
38:32
annon baseless theory that Trump is fighting a cabal of
38:35
deep state saboteurs who worship Satan and traffic children for sex.
38:40
Green has said she no longer believes in QAnon. Green
38:45
also accused some establishment Republicans of secretly hating Trump, arguing
38:50
that she spent millions of dollars of her own money
38:52
defending the president when he was on trial in New York,
38:56
but that other members of her party stabbed him in
38:58
the back and never defended him again anything. Sally Grubbs,
39:03
a state GOP leader who used to chair the party
39:06
in Cobb County, which overlaps with overlaps with Green's district,
39:10
said she is truly heartbroken and that Green's record was
39:14
truly maga. Absolutely stunned and sad for Georgia. Grubbs said,
39:20
for our next article, Hundreds of struggling renters in nation's
39:24
capital line up to ask for help. The Emergency Rental
39:28
Assistance program, intended to give limited aid to people who
39:32
could face eviction due to unexpected challenges in their lives,
39:35
sustained large budget cuts this year. By Megan Flynn, the
39:41
line snaked out the door, down the sidewalk into the
39:44
parking lot, men and women, and children and the elderly
39:47
hundreds of DC residents who arrived at the city's Family
39:51
Resource Center for a shot at emergency rental aid. Marquisha
39:56
Drake sat inside the parking garage stairwell nearby, and her
40:00
four month old bundled in a pink blanket and tiny
40:02
coat inside her car seat, trying to get her to sleep.
40:07
She had brought ten diapers, a whole pack of wipes,
40:10
and four bottles of milk, Drake said, and at the
40:13
rate the line was moving, she wasn't sure how long
40:15
the bottles would last. She's a little cranky right now,
40:19
she said, And I get it because she's not used
40:21
to being outside this long. Like the roughly nine hundred
40:25
people who had shown up that morning, some as early
40:28
as six a m. Drake was behind on rent. The
40:32
backlog started when she quit her job as a concierge
40:35
while she was pregnant, when hyperemesis, severe sustained nausea that
40:40
hit some women during pregnancy became unbearable, keeping her from
40:44
going to work. The hole kept growing despite subsidized rent
40:48
covering two thirds of her payments. Now she was seven
40:52
thousand dollars behind and there was an eviction notice on
40:55
her door. The number on the yellow ticket in her
40:59
pocket was three hundred ninety two, with three hundred ninety
41:03
one people in front of her, all seeking an appointment
41:06
with the d C Department of Human Services to apply
41:09
for emergency rental assistance. There probably won't be enough money
41:13
to go around. The Emergency Rental Assistance program, intended to
41:18
give limited aid to people who could face eviction due
41:21
to unexpected challenges in their lives, sustained large budget cuts
41:25
this year, down to eight point six million dollars for
41:29
more than twenty six million dollars, but the high demand
41:33
hasn't seemed to change. I'm praying, said Drake, aged twenty six.
41:38
They said they was going to help all of us
41:40
out here, so I'm hoping that they do that before
41:43
you know, this building closes at four forty five. The
41:47
hundred strong queue outside the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center
41:51
on Thursday offered a snapshot of hardship that Washingtonians living
41:56
on the margins had been facing, the choices between paying
41:59
rent or food or car notes, and the limitations of
42:03
the safety net to keep the city's poorest residence from eviction.
42:08
ERP has been seen as a band aid solution to
42:11
housing stability by many in city government, one time aid
42:15
that residents can't rely on or expect to receive given
42:18
the enormous demand, but advocates say it's also a critical
42:22
lifeline for those facing eviction who may have nowhere else
42:25
to turn. We're all just one check away, you know,
42:29
said Ginia Marshall, a twenty six year old college student
42:33
who had been affording rent without a problem until losing
42:35
her job as a concierge in July, falling five thousand
42:39
dollars behind. Because of the limited funds in skyrocketing demand,
42:45
DHS closed applications for ERP last November after accepting them
42:50
for a single day. Thursday marked the first time residents
42:54
could seek rental aid again, but this time rather than
42:58
using an online portal, They would have to schedule an
43:01
in person appointment, either by calling DHS or showing up
43:05
at the resource center. A DHS spokesman said in a
43:09
statement the switch to requiring in person appointments was intended
43:13
to increase transparency, improve eligibility verification, and better manage limited
43:19
program funding. The doors and phone lines opened at nine am.
43:25
The phones went down unprepared for the volume of calls.
43:29
The line was punishingly long, demand that DHS acknowledge it
43:33
underestimated despite advanced planning, They scheduled more than eleven hundred appointments,
43:39
about two hundred on the phone before having to pause
43:43
scheduling anymore. We could have done better, the statement said.
43:48
Police stood outside the door and loitered in the parking lot.
43:52
Socialist activists handed out handwarmers and granola. Some people who
43:57
were disabled or had young children were given for preference,
44:01
but after several hours even those groups grew large. Many
44:05
in line said they didn't understand how the DC government
44:08
had failed to create a sensible process to submit an application.
44:13
We're all cold, we're all hungry. I just want a snack.
44:17
Kayla House, aged twenty three, who had been in line
44:20
for about five hours, said as she inched towards the front.
44:25
The people on line quieted down as a DHS staff
44:28
member with a bullhorn tried to deliver an update, his
44:31
voice traveling no farther than the first several dozen weary waiters.
44:36
You will get an erp appointment today, he bellowed everyone
44:40
in this line. We'll get a number. Some had taken
44:44
off work to be there, from low wage jobs that
44:46
weren't enough to pay the rent. Renoika Davis, age thirty six,
44:54
said that a slow down in the restaurant industry meant
44:56
she was pulling in less than half what she used
44:59
to make waiting to tables at Carmines. Her car got
45:02
repossessed now the landlord wanted her apartment back too. Nikaiba Jackson,
45:09
age twenty eight, works the overnight shift for Amazon one
45:13
twenty a M two eleven fifty a m. Friday through Monday,
45:17
and works as an aid for disabled people from two
45:20
pm to ten pm Monday through Friday, a second job
45:23
she picked up recently, but that also put her over
45:27
the income limit for food stamps for her and her
45:29
two kids, and while she has a housing voucher covering
45:33
a portion of rent, She said she comes up a
45:36
bit short at the end of the month, she has
45:38
an eight hundred and forty dollars gap to fill. Many
45:42
others in line were in the throes of unemployment, struggled
45:45
struggling to compete in the job market as landlords ran
45:48
out of patience. Chanelle Washington, age thirty two, said she
45:53
lost her job helping high schoolers prepare for college in August. Now,
45:58
she said it was hard to justify making the payments
46:01
with what little she had at her disposal when her
46:04
place was infested with roaches and the landlord wasn't fixing
46:07
the problem. Dion Johnson, age thirty six, moved to d
46:12
c from Dallas in February to take a job as
46:15
a program analyst at the National Institutes of Health, which
46:20
he got through the federal government's prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship,
46:24
only to be immediately laid off along with thousands of
46:27
other employees. A court ordered he and others be rehired,
46:32
only for the Trump administration to fire him again in July.
46:36
Johnson tapped retirement funds to pay his rent in August
46:40
and September. He didn't pay at October, November He has
46:44
applied for about sixty positions at nonprofits and in higher education,
46:49
the field in which he attained a PhD in twenty
46:52
twenty two. It was further than anyone in his family
46:55
had gone. He grew up poor, he said, and now
46:58
standing for six hours in the cold to apply for
47:01
government aid, he felt like he was right back where
47:03
he began. It was humbling, he said, having grown up
47:08
in poverty, getting to upper middle class, going back to poverty.
47:12
It's been like wow, he said. Everything turned into a nightmare.
47:18
Back in the stairwell, Drake changed her baby's diaper on
47:21
her lap and fed her some more milk. Outside, a
47:24
man in line noticed her through the window and came
47:27
in to check on her. Did you try to go
47:30
up there, he said, wondering whether they'd let Drake and
47:32
her baby through the front of the line. She had
47:35
tried that, she said, and it didn't work. The man,
47:38
a stranger, said to wait. He would go try to
47:41
find help for her again. He peeked at the infant
47:44
trying to fall asleep in her blanket. I got three
47:47
bottles left, Drake said. For our next article, two minutes
47:53
on a porch, A misunderstanding and a fatal shot. A
47:57
house cleaner's killing led to a criminal charge after a
48:00
couple mistakenly tried to unlock the wrong door by Maria
48:05
Luisa Poele and Angie Riana Arnandez. The house cleaners had
48:11
circled the block in an Indiana town a few times
48:13
that morning following the mapping apps directions to the location
48:17
to which they'd been sent. It kept routing them back
48:20
to the same gray shingled house on Mays Lane. So
48:23
Maria Fillin, Florinda rios Peris de Velazkis, and her husband
48:28
Maricio Velazkes walked to the porch and began trying the keys.
48:33
Court records say when none of them worked, something they
48:37
would normally call their boss about, they didn't even have
48:40
time to reach for their phones. According to court records,
48:44
rios Peris de Velaskis was on the ground with a
48:46
gunshot wound to her head. Less than two minutes later,
48:49
The record state the homeowner, sixty two year old Kurt Anderson,
48:54
allegedly fired through the front door. Boone County prosecutors charged
48:59
Andrews of Whitestown with voluntary manslaughter Monday for a killing
49:04
that started like several other shootings in recent years with
49:08
someone approaching a stranger's home intending them no harm. Across
49:13
the country, shootings linked to wrong addresses, mistaken knocks, and
49:17
routine doorstep interactions have intensified the debate over how far
49:21
stand your ground protections extend in a country with historic
49:25
levels of gun ownership. Anderson's attorney, Guy Relford, said his
49:31
client's actions were fully justified under Indiana's state defense law,
49:35
which allows someone to use deadly force if they reasonably
49:39
believe it's necessary to prevent unlawful entry into their home.
49:43
Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood told reporters Monday that his
49:48
office believed the stand your ground law did not protect
49:51
Anderson because he did not have a reasonable belief that
49:54
that type of force was necessary given all the facts
49:57
he had at the time. The National Rifle Association has
50:02
said stand your ground laws protect people's fundamental right to
50:06
self defense and are a necessary public safety tool, but
50:10
studies have found that they are linked to an increase
50:12
in firearm homicide rates. We cannot as a society have
50:17
people deciding literally to shoot first and ask questions later,
50:21
said Jody Madeira, a law professor at Indiana University. The
50:26
Whitestown shooting left Vilathkis as the sole provider to the
50:30
four children, the youngest being a year old that he
50:34
shared with his wife. The couple came to the United
50:37
States from Guatemala three years ago, settling in Indianapolis, where
50:42
Rios Berris de Volaskis had a few relatives nearby. The
50:46
pair found work as contractors for a cleaning service. On
50:50
November fifth, they were tasked with cleaning the windows of
50:53
a recently constructed model home that is part of a
50:56
new housing development directly east of Anderson's house. Courts say
51:02
recent satellite pictures reviewed by The Washington Post show ongoing
51:06
construction in the new neighborhood. However, that development does not
51:10
appear on Google Maps, which instead shows a plot of
51:13
empty farmland and a cutoff road. Shortly before seven a m.
51:18
Rios Perre Develaskis and her husband were standing on the
51:21
front porch of what they believed was the house they
51:24
were meant to clean. Court records say given that it
51:27
was a model home, the records say they thought no
51:30
one was living there and observed no lights on or
51:32
cars in the driveway. The pair started trying the keys upstairs.
51:39
The noise at the door woke Anderson and his wife
51:41
self described night owls who had gone to bed only
51:44
a few hours earlier. According to court records, Anderson's wife
51:49
later told investigators that her husband panicked and reacted immediately. Oh,
51:54
it's a break in, she recalled him saying. According to
51:57
court documents, Anderson described the sound as a commotion the
52:02
people outside thrusting at the door in a way he
52:05
believed was growing more aggressive. Court record state his wife
52:09
recalled the steady rattle of a locked doorknob turning again
52:12
and again. After the shooting, Anderson told investigators he had
52:17
previously watched videos about what to do if someone tries
52:20
to enter your home and had devised a plan for
52:23
a potential break in, according to court records. Convinced that
52:28
was happening, he did not approach the door, turn on
52:31
a light, or call out. Court record state. Instead, he
52:35
allegedly moved to the room he called his safe room,
52:38
unlocked a pelican case, and loaded his glock pistol. During
52:42
his interrogation, Anderson told investors he had bought his first
52:46
gun in twenty twenty three to protect his home, though
52:49
he never carried it outside. He traded that firearm for
52:53
the glock in September, but said he had never fired
52:56
either weapon. The only time he had ever shot up gun,
53:00
he told investigators, was during his service in the US Navy.
53:05
Anderson enlisted in nineteen eighty one and was later commissioned
53:08
as an officer in the Navy Reserve. According to a
53:11
service record summary provided by the Navy, he served in
53:15
the nurse Corps, where he would have overseen care for
53:17
service members. His awards indicate he was involved in combat
53:22
during the Gulf War, though his job would not often
53:24
include the use of weapons outside of training and familiarization.
53:28
He retired in two thousand seven as lieutenant commander. His
53:32
record says in recent years, Anderson had twice called law
53:36
enforcement to report suspicious activity at his home, said Captain
53:40
John Jerkash, a Whitestown's police spokesperson, but officers responding to
53:46
the calls for service, once in twenty twenty three and
53:49
again in twenty twenty four, determined there was no criminal
53:52
activity afoot. The morning of November five, Anderson stood at
53:57
the top of his home stairs and fired a single
53:59
shot through the closed, locked door. Court record state a
54:03
cry rose immediately from the porch. Andersen told his wife
54:07
to call nine one one. When she handed him the phone,
54:09
he pleaded with the dispatcher, please come, please come, please come.
54:13
They are trying to get in. According to the court records,
54:17
on the other side of the door, Velaskis held his
54:20
wife as she collapsed. A bullet had entered her temple
54:23
and exited the back of her head. Court documents say
54:27
Velaskz told investigators he didn't understand what had happened until
54:31
he saw her fall. He knelt beside her, speaking to
54:34
her as she bloed on the porch. He said he
54:36
heard no voices from inside the house, only the gunshot.
54:41
Police arrived to find Velaskis still on the porch, grasping
54:45
his wife upstairs. Andersen told the nine one one dispatcher
54:49
he was too afraid to come down, convinced that the
54:52
people outside were trying to get in. Court document, state
54:57
officers asked velasks to carry his wife's lif less than
55:00
five foot body toward the street for his own safety,
55:03
then spent several minutes coaxing Andersen out of the house.
55:07
According to records, Anderson eventually stepped through the door with
55:11
his hands raised, and police detained him and his wife.
55:15
A pair of black shoes, a black palm beamy, and
55:18
a tube of lipgloss were later found on the porch,
55:21
alongside a pool of blood. An undisturbed layer of dust
55:25
covered the front door, which was locked with a dead
55:27
bolt and handle. Investigators wrote in court documents the door
55:32
had no hand prints or evidence of forceful contact, and
55:35
its latch and frame had no scratches. The record state
55:39
there was no sign of forced entry, the investigators, wrote. Madeira,
55:44
the law professor, seid court documents suggest the crime scene
55:48
examination was very revelatory because that showed that this was
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not a very aggressive attempt at entry. The records also
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suggest a drastic difference between what investigators found at the
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scene and Anderson's perspective of an increasingly forceful commotion that
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terrified him. Madeira said Indiana's law surrounding self defense is
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considered among the broadest in the nation. It allows the
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use of reasonable force, including deadly force, even against a
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law enforcement officer, if someone reasonably believes it is necessary
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to stop an unlawful entry or attack on their home,
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surrounding property, or occupied vehicle. The law also removes the
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duty to retreat, and the state's code provides civil immunity
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for those who use justified force under the statute. Ralford,
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Anderson's attorney called the death of rios Peret de Velaskis
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a terrible tragedy that is heartbreaking for everyone involved, but
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he added that his client's actions were protected by the
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state's castle doctrine provision, which allows for a deadly force
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to prevent an unlawful entry into a person's home. We
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also believe that mister Anderson's actions are being unfairly judged
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based on facts that were unknowable to him as events
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unfolded that early morning. Ralford, who is also the founder
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of a gun's rights organization, wrote Monday on X the
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law does not allow a criminal conviction based on hindsight.
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Madeira said that castle doctrine doesn't activate just because someone's
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on the porch. We'll have to end the article here
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due to time constraints. This concludes the reading of the
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Washington Post for today, Saturday, November twenty second, twenty twenty five.
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