Wednesday 31 August 2016

Wednesday's Headlines: Trump sets last-minute meeting in Mexico with the country’s president

With immigration speech, Trump risks alienating voting blocs; Latino influx is upending GOP politics in Florida ; How a visit to the restroom became a national debate; Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faces final impeachment vote;
 
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Trump sets last-minute meeting in Mexico with the country's president
Mexico's Enrique Peña Nieto sent invitations to the Republican nominee and to Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump opted to accept and visit hours before Wednesday's scheduled speech in Arizona on immigration policy. Trump has wavered for weeks over whether he would continue to hold his hard-line position on deporting an estimated 11 million immigrants who are living in the United States illegally.
With immigration speech, Trump risks alienating voting blocs
The GOP nominee, who launched his campaign by railing against Mexican immigrants, now is caught between appeasing his staunchest supporters or attempting to appeal to moderates.
 
Latino influx is upending GOP politics in Florida
Unlike a generation ago, when the state's Cuban-American population was devoted to the Republican Party, new Latino voters are less likely to support the GOP — and they are increasingly unlikely to register with either major party.
 
How a visit to the restroom became a national debate
The case of the teenager Gavin Grimm's decision to use the boys' bathroom one fall day in 2014 places him and his town at the epicenter of the much wider discussion over how public schools should accommodate transgender students.
 
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faces final impeachment vote
Brazil's Senate is expected to vote today on whether to permanently remove Rousseff from power, in the final act of an impeachment process that has divided the country.
 
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Democrats ask the FBI to investigate Trump advisers' Russia ties
 
Trump's brazen immigration flip-flops
 
Our gawking at Anthony Weiner reveals something ugly about us
 
In St. Louis schools, water fountains are symbols of inequality again
 
Trump’s racist appeals manage to turn off just about everyone
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Chicago police superintendent calls for firing officer who shot and killed Laquan McDonald
The city's top cop, who was hired after the deadly 2014 shooting, has also called for firing other officers accused of lying about the case, which prompted heated protests and a federal investigation of the department.
An innocent black man was punched, Tasered and arrested by police officers. A jury awarded him $18.
The jury found that the officers had violated DeShawn Franklin's constitutional rights, but still offered a low award. His nephew called the experience a "slap in the face."
ISIS reports death of spokesman and senior leader in Aleppo
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was inspecting troops in Aleppo when he was killed, according to the group's media arm. U.S. officials were not able to confirm the report.
'Forty years gone': Canadian friends, born days apart, were likely switched at birth
"What happened here is lives were stolen," Manitoba's former aboriginal affairs minister said of the 1975 Norway House Indian Hospital mix-up.
Most young people don’t vote — and these awkward efforts to woo them aren’t helping
Many efforts to lure the youngsters to the polls — with marketing campaigns that attempt to speak their language — have been memorably mortifying.
Cartoonist who drew Hillary Clinton in blackface: ‘I fail to see the racism’
The Trump surrogate who tweeted the image is sorry. The man who drew it is not.
Financials, depositions and transcripts: The documents behind 'Trump Revealed'
Explore the trove of original documents used in the development of The Post's biography about the Republican presidential nominee.
'Buy British' movement gains steam after Brexit vote
The break with the European Union means Britain must rewrite its trade, industrial and agricultural policies, and farmers and industry leaders are pressing the government to support domestic business.
Why the Army is worried about insurgents turning to remote-controlled weapons
A U.S. Army report looks at 21 cases of remote-controlled weapons in Iraq, Syria and Libya. One such weapon, photographed with rebels in Libya, appears to be a medium machine gun affixed to a toy truck.
 
     
 
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