SPORTS BETTING-MOBILE DEVICES
Some lawmakers worry about allowing sports bets on phones
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As state legislatures decide whether to authorize sports gambling, lawmakers are debating whether the bets should be allowed to happen online.
Among their concerns is that the accessibility of online betting — especially on mobile devices — could be a pathway for minors to start gambling. Some lawmakers also worry it could make sports betting more addictive.
The debate played out in Rhode Island this past week as the Legislature considered and then passed a bill that will allow sports bets to be placed online.
Rep. Teresa Tanzi voted against it. She worries it will give people unlimited access to an activity that can be highly addictive.
NEW ZEALAND-MOSQUE SHOOTING-THE LATEST
The Latest: Pope offers prayers for mosque shooting victims
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Pope Francis has offered prayers for “our Muslim brothers” killed in the attack against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Francis in his traditional Sunday prayer said that the mosque attack victims were added “to the pain wars and conflicts that don’t cease to afflict humanity.”
Francis led the faithful in a silent prayer “for our Muslim brothers who were killed” and renewed “an invitation to unite in prayer and gestures of peace to oppose hatred and violence.”
The public prayers follow a telegram of condolences sent after the Friday attacks that claimed 50 victims in which the pontiff denounced “the senseless acts of violence.”
A 28-year-old white supremacist from Australia is suspected in carrying out the worst terror attack in New Zealand’s modern history.
NEW ZEALAND-MOSQUE SHOOTING-PEACEFUL CHRISTCHURCH
Despite its peace, Christchurch painfully used to trauma
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Ahmed Tani settled in Christchurch as a refugee in 1999. After his escape from civil war in Somalia, the New Zealand city seemed a place of peace, a haven.
Christchurch was more than just physically distant from the bitter strife he had previously known. With its leafy streets, vibrant gardens and green public parks, the Garden City as it is known was even visually a world away from the desolation of his war-scorched past.
But that peace hasn’t always lasted and now the city will need to use its experience rebuilding from a 2011 earthquake to recover from the nation’s worst terrorist attack.
NEW ZEALAND-MOSQUE SHOOTING-GUN CONTROL
New Zealand citizens open to gun reform after massacre
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The New Zealand leader’s promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population.
Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern said her Cabinet will consider the details of the change on Monday. She has said options include a ban on private ownership of semi-automatic rifles that were used with devastating effect in Christchurch and a government-funded buyback of newly outlawed guns.
Christchurch gun owner Max Roberts predicted Ardern won’t face serious opposition to her in-principle agenda.
Elliot Dawson survived the shooting at Christchurch’s Linwood mosque by hiding in a bathroom. She hopes New Zealand follows Australia’s lead on gun control.
Australia’s virtual ban on private ownership of semi-automatic rifles cut the size of the country’s civilian arsenal by almost a third.
NEW ZEALAND-MOSQUE SHOOTING-THE YOUNGEST VICTIM
Toddler with an old soul: Young victim of NZ attack mourned
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — He spent just three years on this earth, but in some ways, a friend said, he seemed like an old soul. Before he became the youngest known victim of Christchurch’s mass shooting, 3-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim possessed an intelligence beyond his years.
But Friday, when a gunman stormed into the mosque where Mucaad was sitting with his big brother and father, it was Mucaad’s youth that left him so vulnerable. In the chaos that ensued as people fled from the bullets, the tiny boy became separated from his family. On Sunday, his brother Abdi Ibrahim said police had confirmed the worst: their beloved little boy was dead.
Each of the 50 lives lost Friday has left an aching wound across Christchurch. But the death of Mucaad has pierced with particular ferocity.
ELECTION 2020-KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND
Gillibrand in 2020 Democratic race as full-fledged candidate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand (KEER’-sten JIHL’-uh-brand) has spent more than a month traveling around the country to gauge support for a 2020 presidential campaign, and the New York senator says she’s now in the race.
Gillibrand is joining the dozen-plus contenders, saying in a campaign video that the nation needs “a leader who makes big, bold, brave choices. Someone who isn’t afraid of progress. That’s why I’m running for president.”
She says her debut speech as a candidate will come next Sunday in front of the Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York.
Gillibrand has been one of the most forceful critics of the Trump administration. Using the backdrop of one of President Donald Trump’s marquee properties is the latest example of that.
FRANCE-PROTESTS
France cleans up Champs-Elysees after yellow vest rioting
PARIS (AP) — Paris is cleaning up one of the world’s most glamorous avenues after resurgent rioting by yellow vest protesters stunned the nation.
Luxury stores, restaurants and banks on the Champs-Elysees assessed damage Sunday after they were ransacked or blackened by life-threatening fires. Tourists took pictures as shop owners tried to repair broken windows and city workers scrubbed away graffiti.
The posh avenue looked like a battle scene Saturday as protesters rampaged and riot police struggled to contain them for hours.
President Emmanuel Macron promised a crackdown on troublemakers he said “want to destroy the republic, at the risk of killing people.”
But he also tweeted that the rioting showed that his government needs to do more to address protesters’ concerns.
The yellow vest movement had been fizzling in recent weeks.
ETHIOPIA-PLANE CRASH
Ethiopians hold mass funeral ceremony for crash victims
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands of Ethiopians have turned out to a mass funeral ceremony in the capital one week after the plane crash that killed 157 people.
Some victims’ relatives fainted and fell to the ground during the procession through Addis Ababa on Sunday. Seventeen empty caskets were laid to rest in a remembrance of the victims from Ethiopia.
The victims came from 35 countries. Officials have begun delivering bags of earth to family members instead of the remains of their loved ones because the identification process is going to take such a long time.
Many families have held religious ceremonies and the grieving also have gathered at the rural, dusty crash site outside Ethiopia’s capital.
WINTER WEATHER-FLOODING-THE LATEST
The Latest: Downstream Missouri River prepares for flooding
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — As rivers and creeks in flooded eastern Nebraska and western Iowa crest Saturday, officials have begun looking downstream at likely flooding further south along the Missouri River.
The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports Missouri Gov. Mike Parson met with emergency management team members Friday to review and update flood-response plans. The Missouri Highway Patrol is preparing additional equipment, and swift water rescue personnel are on standby. The Missouri National Guard also has temporarily relocated the 139th Airlift Wing’s C-130s from Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in St. Joseph as a precaution.
Some flooding of low-lying areas around the river in northwest Missouri had already been reported Saturday.
The National Weather Service says the Missouri River at St. Joseph reached nearly 26 feet on Saturday, about a foot below what’s considered major flooding at the northwest Missouri city. But it’s expected to crest Wednesday or Thursday at 29.3 feet — more than two feet above major flooding level.
EAGLEMANIA
Where eagles flirt: A DC tale of love, loss and raccoons
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a tale of star-crossed lovers, pregnancy and loss, and a hungry raccoon.
Washingtonians, along with a global community of eagle-watchers, have been transfixed this winter by the saga of Liberty and Justice, a pair of bald eagles who’ve become local celebrities.
The birds have lived and nested for 14 years in an oak tree on the grounds of the city’s police academy, and their lives have been chronicled by a popular online eagle cam.
This year’s spring mating season was full of drama — covered by local media with Kardashian-level detail.
Justice, the male, disappeared for weeks, leaving his mate alone with their eggs and being courted by two other males. The couple eventually reunited, the eggs never hatched and a raccoon ate everything anyway.
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