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MEAT GROUPS SUE USDA DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Requiring meat labels to have more details about a product’s origins is too costly and serves no public health or safety benefit, industry groups said Tuesday in announcing a... - PAGE B7
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Dems draw firm line on path to citizenship
WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting up a potential clash with the Republicans who control the House, congressional Democrats insisted Tuesday they will not agree to any immigration bill that lacks a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States. Lawmakers staked out the position after a private meeting Tuesday morning between the House Democratic caucus and the four Senate Democrats who helped write a comprehen-
sive immigration bill that passed the Senate last month. “Without a path to citizenship there is not going to be a bill, there can’t be a bill,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters after the meeting. The stance met quick resistance from House Republicans who are expected to meet Wednesday on how to move forward with the immigration issue. Many conservatives who control the House oppose giving citizenship to
people who crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who chairs the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee, said in an interview that Democrats risk ending up with no bill at all if they insist on citizenship for all those here illegally. “When the bar has been set, as it has been by some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, that it’s full-fledged citizenship for all 11 million or noth-
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ing, because that’s so overtly political they may end up with nothing,” said Gowdy. Gowdy favors a citizenship path for people brought to the country as youths, military veterans, and certain others who’ve lived here for years and contributed to society. Other House Republicans are open to allowing guest worker or some other legal status to people now here illegally, but would stop short of citizenship. But Schumer insisted
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CHELIOS TO JOIN HALL OF FAME Chris Chelios played in the NHL for as long as he could. And he did it at a high level. “I always said I’d go right until the tank was empty,” he said... - PAGE B1
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Investigators: Pilots relied on automatic speed control Obediah from the planet Silver greets the crowds during the 2013 UFO Festival, Saturday.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — The pilots of Asiana Flight 214 relied on automated cockpit equipment to control the jetliner’s speed as they landed at San Francisco airport, but realized too late they were flying too low and too slow before the aircraft crashed, investigators said Tuesday. The new details were not conclusive about the cause of Saturday’s crash, but they raised potential areas of focus: Was there a mistake made in setting the automatic speed control, did it malfunction or were the pilots not fully aware of what the plane was doing? One of the most puzzling aspects of the crash has been why the wide-body Boeing 777 jet came in far too low and slow, clipping its landing gear and then its tail on a rocky seawall just short the runway. The
crash killed two of the 307 people and injured scores of others, most not seriously. Among those injured were two flight attendants in the back of the plane, who survived despite being thrown onto the runway when the plane slammed into the seawall and the tail broke off. National Transportation Safety Board chair man Deborah Hersman said the autothrottle was set for 157 mph and the pilots assumed it was controlling the plane’s airspeed. However, the autothrottle was only “armed,” she said. Hersman said the pilot at the controls, identified by Korean authorities as Lee Gang-guk, was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777 and was landing that type of aircraft at the San Francisco airport for the first time
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ever. And the co-pilot, identified as Lee Jeong-Min, was on his first trip as a flight instructor. Autothrottles typically have three settings — off, on and ar med. An autothrottle that is armed but not on will remain at its previous speed, which was probably near idle, said Doug Moss, a pilot for a major U.S. airline and an aviation safety consultant in Torrance, Calif. Pilots will frequently shift to idle off and on when preparing to land in order to descend faster. The pilot flying the plane had turned off his flight director, while the training captain had his flight director on, Hersman said. The flight director computes and displays the proper pitch and bank angles required in order for the See PILOTS, Page A3
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Democrats will accept nothing less. House GOP leaders are deliberating how to deal with the immigration bill after the Senate passed its White House-backed legislation on a bipartisan vote of 68 to 32. The Senate bill spends $46 billion to secure the border, requires employers to check their workers’ legal status, expands visa programs to allow hundreds of thousands of high- and low-
Egypt names prime minister
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military-backed interim leader named a new prime minister and won $8 billion in promises of aid from wealthy Arab allies in the Gulf on Tuesday in moves aimed at stabilizing a political transition less than a week after the ar my deposed the Islamist president. The armed forces warned political factions that “maneuvering” must not hold up its ambitious fasttrack timetable for new elections next year. The sharp message underlined how strongly the military is shepherding the process, even as liberal refor m movements that backed its removal of Mohammed Morsi complained that now they are not being consulted in decision-making. The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the transition See EGYPT, Page A3
Site invites public to share UFO encounters JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Are we alone in the universe? Your Facebook friends may now be able to help you answer that. At roswellsightings.com, anyone in the world can upload photos or videos of sightings or encounters with what they believe are UFOs. The recordings can then be shared on social network sites for any and all to view and pick apart with millions of other randomly posted cat videos. Roswell Sightings, based in New York and working in partnership with the International UFO Museum, designed the platform specifically for the world to share their UFO encounters directly with the global community.
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“We don’t want to tell people what (the UFO) is,” Dickson said. “We want to generate a discussion. We want to create a community around this and get experts to chip in.” The site is already up and running, taking in new videos and photos every day. “(The museum) loved the idea to upload sightings onto a map,” Dickson said. People can select their favorites and design coffee mugs, shirts and other merchandise at the store. Site visitors can also watch the latest scientific news or other videos, Dickson said. Program designers hope to complete a smartphone application that users can utilize to
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