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After a Championship Sunday that gave us one nail-biter and one blowout, the Super Bowl is officially set and it's going to be a rematch of a game we saw less than 15 years ago: Eagles vs. Patriots.

The Patriots punched their ticket to the NFL's biggest game by pulling off an improbable 24-20 win over Jacksonville. Of course, improbable is basically Tom Brady's middle name at this point, so maybe we shouldn't have been surprised by what he pulled off against the Jaguars.

All Brady did on Sunday was lead the Patriots back from a 20-10 deficit in the fourth quarter, even though he seemed to have the odds stacked against him. Brady threw two touchdown passes over the game's final nine minutes and he did that he even though he had 12 stitches in his hand, didn't have Rob Gronkowski on the field and was going up against the NFL's best pass defense.

The win over the Jags means that the Patriots are now headed to the Super Bowl for an NFL-record 10th time.

If the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl for a sixth time, they're going to have to do something they've already done: Beat the Eagles.

The Eagles advanced to Super Bowl LII by destroying the Vikings, 38-7, in a game that was never close. With the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, the Vikings had a chance to become the first team ever to play the game in their home stadium, but the Eagles crushed those dreams in their dominating win.

The game between the Eagles and Patriots is a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX, a game that the Patriots won 24-21. Oddsmakers aren't expecting this year's Super Bowl to be as close as that one as the Patriots have opened as a 5.5 point favorite.

For the Eagles, this is their third trip to the Super Bowl and they're still looking for their first win. Besides their Super Bowl XXXIX loss to the Patriots, the Eagles also lost to the Raiders 27-10 in Super Bowl XV.

When is the Super Bowl?

Super Bowl LII will be held on Sunday, Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NFL owners surprisingly awarded the game to Minneapolis after holding a secret ballot in May 2014. The northern city won the Super Bowl bid by beating out New Orleans and Indianapolis. This year's game will mark the sixth time in NFL history that the Super Bowl has been played in a cold-weather city and the first time since Super Bowl XLVIII was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

This game will mark the second time that the Super Bowl has been held in Minnesota. Back in January 1992, the Redskins blew out the Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.

What time does the Super Bowl start?

The kickoff for Super Bowl LII is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET.

How can I watch the Super Bowl?

NBC will broadcast this year's Super Bowl, with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth on the call and Michele Tafoya reporting from the sidelines. You'll also be able to stream the game on NBC Sports Live.

Who will perform the Super Bowl halftime show?

Justin Timberlake is scheduled to play at halftime of the Super Bowl and if his last Super Bowl performance was any indication, things could get kind of crazy. Back in February 2004, Timberlake and Janet Jackson gave us a wardrobe malfunction that quickly became one of the most unforgettable moments in Super Bowl history. Sports Illustrated re-visited the malfunction back in 2016, and it's definitely worth a read if you want to re-live the controversy. Of course, if you're expecting to see a wardrobe malfunction this year, don't get your hopes up. Timberlake has already said it's not going to happen.

Coincidentally, the Patriots were also playing the last time Timberlake served as the halftime show. Back in February 2004, New England beat Carolina 32-29 in a game that became kind of an afterthought following the wardrobe malfunction.

John Breech has been at CBS Sports since July 2011 and currently spends most of his time writing about the NFL. He's believed to be one of only three people in the world who thinks that Andy Dalton will... Full Bio

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After a Championship Sunday that gave us one nail-biter and one blowout, the Super Bowl is officially set and it's going to be a rematch of a game we saw less than 15 years ago: Eagles vs. Patriots. The Patriots punched their ticket to the NFL's biggest game by pulling off an improbable 24-20 win over Jacksonville.

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After a Championship Sunday that gave us one nail-biter and one blowout, the Super Bowl is officially set and it's going to be a rematch of a game we saw less than 15 years ago: Eagles vs. Patriots.

The Patriots punched their ticket to the NFL's biggest game by pulling off an improbable 24-20 win over Jacksonville. Of course, improbable is basically Tom Brady's middle name at this point, so maybe we shouldn't have been surprised by what he pulled off against the Jaguars.

All Brady did on Sunday was lead the Patriots back from a 20-10 deficit in the fourth quarter, even though he seemed to have the odds stacked against him. Brady threw two touchdown passes over the game's final nine minutes and he did that he even though he had 12 stitches in his hand, didn't have Rob Gronkowski on the field and was going up against the NFL's best pass defense.

The win over the Jags means that the Patriots are now headed to the Super Bowl for an NFL-record 10th time.

If the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl for a sixth time, they're going to have to do something they've already done: Beat the Eagles.

The Eagles advanced to Super Bowl LII by destroying the Vikings, 38-7, in a game that was never close. With the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, the Vikings had a chance to become the first team ever to play the game in their home stadium, but the Eagles crushed those dreams in their dominating win.

The game between the Eagles and Patriots is a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX, a game that the Patriots won 24-21. Oddsmakers aren't expecting this year's Super Bowl to be as close as that one as the Patriots have opened as a 5.5 point favorite.

For the Eagles, this is their third trip to the Super Bowl and they're still looking for their first win. Besides their Super Bowl XXXIX loss to the Patriots, the Eagles also lost to the Raiders 27-10 in Super Bowl XV.

When is the Super Bowl?

Super Bowl LII will be held on Sunday, Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NFL owners surprisingly awarded the game to Minneapolis after holding a secret ballot in May 2014. The northern city won the Super Bowl bid by beating out New Orleans and Indianapolis. This year's game will mark the sixth time in NFL history that the Super Bowl has been played in a cold-weather city and the first time since Super Bowl XLVIII was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

This game will mark the second time that the Super Bowl has been held in Minnesota. Back in January 1992, the Redskins blew out the Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.

What time does the Super Bowl start?

The kickoff for Super Bowl LII is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET.

How can I watch the Super Bowl?

NBC will broadcast this year's Super Bowl, with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth on the call and Michele Tafoya reporting from the sidelines. You'll also be able to stream the game on NBC Sports Live.

Who will perform the Super Bowl halftime show?

Justin Timberlake is scheduled to play at halftime of the Super Bowl and if his last Super Bowl performance was any indication, things could get kind of crazy. Back in February 2004, Timberlake and Janet Jackson gave us a wardrobe malfunction that quickly became one of the most unforgettable moments in Super Bowl history. Sports Illustrated re-visited the malfunction back in 2016, and it's definitely worth a read if you want to re-live the controversy. Of course, if you're expecting to see a wardrobe malfunction this year, don't get your hopes up. Timberlake has already said it's not going to happen.

Coincidentally, the Patriots were also playing the last time Timberlake served as the halftime show. Back in February 2004, New England beat Carolina 32-29 in a game that became kind of an afterthought following the wardrobe malfunction.

John Breech has been at CBS Sports since July 2011 and currently spends most of his time writing about the NFL. He's believed to be one of only three people in the world who thinks that Andy Dalton will... Full Bio

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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The global economy and geopolitical tensions are taking a back seat to a more immediate problem at this year's Davos summit of political and business leaders: heavy snow is burying the venue.

High in the Swiss alps on Monday, on the eve of the opening sessions, many of the roughly 3,000 delegates struggled to reach the ski resort. Part of the main train line into Davos had been buried in snow over the weekend, forcing people onto buses, and helicopters were disrupted by poor visibility.

Some pre-summit meetings were canceled or delayed as the first waves of delegates waded through snow-blanketed streets with luggage, looking for their hotels, or had to wait for road crews to dig their limousines out of drifts.

Businessmen slipped over on icy patches as snow plows roamed the streets, with the snow returning as fast as the machines could clear it.

World Economic Forum communications chief Adrian Monck said it appeared to be the heaviest snowfall for the four-decades-old summit since 1999-2000, though he described it as more of an inconvenience than a real threat to attendance.

"We know the snow causes inconvenience and it puts a lot of pressure on the city of Davos as a host but so far we have not seen any drop-off in registrations," Monck said.

With the weather forecast to clear on Tuesday, organizers are hoping transport will start to operate more smoothly and will be running without a hitch by the time U.S. President Donald Trump arrives on Friday to give the closing address.

However, so much snow has built up on the slopes surrounding Davos that avalanches remain a danger.

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Local officials said on Monday they had evacuated two dozen residents from vulnerable areas while crews used explosives to reduce dangerous build-ups on some slopes above the town.

"When Trump comes on Friday it is far from obvious whether he will be able to use a fleet of large helicopters to land in Davos," said a source close to the organizing committee. "Large helicopters increase the risk of avalanches."

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Women's March 2.0: Scenes of a Protest

A year after millions of women protested President Trump, marchers gathered across the country and the world.

"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains." "Trump can't read. Trump can't read. All he does is watch TV." "Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like." "Show me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like." "And together let's make sure all young girls everywhere know that they have a voice. They can use it. One woman's voice is powerful. But all of our voices are completely unstoppable." "Well I went down to the White House and I took back what he stole from me." "Women's rights are human rights!"

A year after millions of women protested President Trump, marchers gathered across the country and the world. Credit Credit... Andrea Bruce for The New York Times

A year after millions of people turned out for the Women's March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump's inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States, galvanized by their disdain for Mr. Trump and his administration's policies.

A deluge of revelations about powerful men abusing women, leading to the #MeToo moment, has pushed activists to demand deeper social and political change. Progressive women are eager to build on the movement and translate their enthusiasm into electoral victories in this year's midterm elections.
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* More than 200,000 protesters attended the march in New York on Saturday, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles said 600,000 attended the march there, while organizers of the Chicago march said 300,000 attended that event. Thousands also turned out in Washington, Philadelphia, Austin and hundreds of other cities and towns around the country and world.

* Several speakers urged women to channel their energy into helping Democrats win races in the upcoming midterm elections. A rally called "Power to the Polls," organized by the leaders of last year's Women's March in Washington, will be held on Sunday in Las Vegas.

* President Trump said in a tweet that it was a "perfect day for all Women to March," while touting "unprecedented economic success and wealth creation" under his watch.

* Read our analysis of how activists have tried to sustain the energy from last year's marches - and the challenges they face next.

That's what Vanessa Medina, a 32-year-old nurse, said prompted her to participate this year, even though she didn't march last January. Ms. Medina, of Clifton, N.J., cited the Time's Up campaign against sexual harassment and Republicans' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as her reasons for protesting.

"I want equal pay," her 11-year-old daughter, Xenaya, chimed in. "And equal rights."

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Ann Dee Allen of Wauwatosa, Wis., stood by a vendor table on 60th Street and Broadway, holding a T-shirt and a handful of buttons she had just bought for the demonstration.

"I feel differently about it this year," said Ms. Allen, 61, who works in communications for a health care organization. "Last year, I just felt kind of angry and impassioned. This year, I feel like I'm in it for the long haul."

Women filled Central Park West from 61st Street north as far as the eye could see. A D.J. spun songs. The wind kicked up.

Desiree Joy Frias, 24, of the Bronx, and her grandmother, Daisy Vanderhorst, wore red capes and curved white hoods - the telltale outfits of the enslaved child-bearers of "The Handmaid's Tale," which was recently adapted for television from Margaret Atwood's dystopian science fiction novel.

"We both watch the show," said Ms. Frias, a law school graduate who said she belongs to an activist group called the "Handmaid Coalition." "We're a group of men and women that believe fiction should not become reality."

In the middle of a park surrounded by gleaming downtown skyscrapers, hundreds of thousands of people assembled. Some hugged strangers. Others were still coloring in their signs.

"I'm done with men feeling like they have some sort of power over women, and I'm definitely done with having a president who believes that he has the power to take things from them, to take things that are provided - like Planned Parenthood - from women, when they deserve the same sort of health care as anybody else," said Amanda Kowalski, 28, who works in financial services.

Claudia Grubbs, a 42-year-old high school teacher, returned after marching last year, which she said spurred her into donating to organizations that support women in politics.

"Over the last year, every day when I read the news or watch the news, I'm horrified at the things that Trump and his administration are doing, and I feel like going to the march will help re-center me, refocus me and not make me feel like I don't know what is happening to our country," she said. "I feel like it'll help me gain a sense of balance and a sense of purpose, and help me pursue things that I want to pursue."

Ashley Bennett, a Democrat from Egg Harbor Township, N.J., unseated a longtime local Republican politician in her first campaign for office last November. She ran for Atlantic County freeholder against John L. Carman after he posted a meme on Facebook during last year's march asking, "Will the women's protest be over in time for them to cook dinner?"

Ms. Bennett told the crowd at Saturday's march in New York that she was scared to run at first, and that she asked herself, "Am I the right person? Can I really do this? But then I realized that if you wait until you feel ready, you may never take action."

In Washington, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, took the stage with other legislators who arrived from the Capitol. She praised the women who have already launched campaigns, many for the first time.

"They marched, and now they have run for office, and some of them have already won their office," she said. "We want women to know their power in so many respects - by showing up not only on the day of the march, but in airports, in town halls."

"It's women who are holding our democracy together in these dangerous times," added Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York. "To change the system, we need to change the players and have women at the table."

On Twitter Saturday afternoon, the president seemed to celebrate the women's demonstrations, even though the protests across the country had a distinct anti-Trump message.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the unemployment rate for women aged 20 and older has been falling steadily since 2012, years before Mr. Trump took office.

On Friday, Mr. Trump addressed the thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered in Washington for the March for Life.

"We are with you all the way," he said in remarks broadcast to the National Mall. The president, who once described himself as "very pro-choice," has used his executive powers to curtail abortion rights.

The federal government shutdown that took effect early Saturday did not dissuade marchers from taking to the streets.

One of the sticking points that led to the shutdown - disagreement over extending legal status to immigrants brought into the country illegally as children - has become a rallying cry for organizers.

On the Metro headed to the Smithsonian, participants on their way to the Lincoln Memorial wore the symbolic pink hats that became popular during last year's march.

Michelle Bloom, 52, a Washington teacher, held a sign as her daughter, Jenna, 14, repaired hers with duct tape. She had made it in her mother's classroom Friday, tracing the handprints of her classmates who couldn't make it to the march.

"It's inspiring to see young and old coming together like this," Michelle Bloom said. But, she added, "I thought there would be more."

Women lined the frozen reflecting pool and slowly filled the grassy areas, but there was still space for kickball games around the Washington Monument. And people jogged and biked around the Mall, which would have been impossible a year ago, when the crowd of marchers was bigger.

The organizers of last year's march in Washington focused their energy this year on putting together an event Sunday in Las Vegas. The event, Power to the Polls, will serve as an opening rally for a national voter registration campaign.

While the crowds in Washington were not quite as large as they were in 2017, the Mall was still teeming with people.

Garrett Regunberg, 32, pointed to the rallies against President Trump's travel ban as an example of ongoing activism that has made a difference.

"There was a lot done in the first year to limit the damage that could have been done," he said. "The resistance is alive."

Marchers packed into downtown Chicago to listen to speakers like billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer, who has urged Democrats to make the ouster of Mr. Trump a central campaign issue this year.

With midterm elections approaching, Mr. Steyer said, "We are going to have to be organized, we are going to have to be engaged and we are going to have to go to the polls and flip those seats."

Marchers shouted anti-Trump chants and carried signs saying, "Vote" and "Immigrants Make America Great."

"I'm an activist and an artist and I'm here to fight for women's equality and equality for all minorities," said Michelle Hartney, 39, of Chicago, who said she attended the Women's March in Washington last year.

Some women avoided the marches on Saturday because they felt they were too focused on electing Democrats, at the expense of other issues. They wanted the movement to be more inclusive of people of color and other marginalized groups.

Nadya Agrawal, 26, joined the big rally in Washington last year. "But it just wasn't what I thought it would be," she said. "It felt more like a commiseration rather than the start of a lot of work."

Gatherings like these, she added, were no substitute for more focused activism. "I hope that the women who are at this rally are also going to the next Black Lives Matter protest, or marching on behalf of DACA," she said.

Other gatherings across the country faced similar criticism on social media and in public statements. In Cincinnati, Black Lives Matter activists said on their website, the march was not welcoming to minorities and was "a poorly veiled campaign to elect more Democrats to 'resist Trump.'" In Philadelphia, activists criticized the rally in an open letter after they learned that the police would be on patrol. (Organizers said the security was normal for a large event and marginalized groups were well represented.)

Deandra Jefferson, 24, who helped write the letter, said in a phone interview on Saturday that the march "caters mostly toward middle class, straight white women," and was not an effective way to dismantle oppression.

"They should stop organizing these marches until they decide what they're going to do the other 364 days of the year," she added.

The shutdown kept the president from traveling as planned to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida this weekend.

Despite his absence, several hundred protesters gathered north of the mansion, on the beach in front of Worth Avenue. Many people waved "Impeach Trump" signs.

Organizers of the second Women's March in Ottawa shifted the focus to issues directly affecting Canadian women. Many marchers wore red scarves as a gesture of support for the large number of indigenous women whose murders or disappearances have received relatively little attention from the police.

The march, which began at the Parliament buildings, was one of about three dozen across Canada.

Among those who addressed the crowd in Ottawa was Catherine McKenna, the environment minister, who has been one of the leading international voices against President Trump's climate policies.

Late last year, Ms. McKenna confronted a reporter from a right-wing Canadian news outlet, Rebel Media, over its repeated references to her as Climate Barbie. Earlier, a Conservative member of Parliament apologized for describing her that way on Twitter.

"I realized that when I spoke out in my small case of being called Climate Barbie - when I did it I felt better, but I also saw that so many other people stood up for me and they also felt empowered," Ms. McKenna said in an interview outside of a concert venue at the end of the march.

Although Ms. McKenna credited Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who regularly describes himself as a feminist, for encouraging women to enter politics, she said their numbers still must increase, and not just in Canada.

"I really believe that we wouldn't have had an ambitious Paris climate agreement if we didn't have strong women negotiators," she said. "That's one of the untold stories."

The actress and director Asia Argento, one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, has been mostly vilified by Italian commentators. But the several hundred women who congregated in a downtown Rome piazza on Saturday morning gave her a rousing welcome.

"I'd like to see how many of you today acknowledge that you have put up with abuse, by raising your hands. And not just sexual. Abuse of power. Because we are women, because we don't have power," said Ms. Argento, as numerous hands timidly rose from the crowd.

The women chanted slogans in Italian and English in solidarity with a global sisterhood whose vision "is in sharp contrast with the Donalds of the world and other self-proclaimed geniuses," said one of the keynote speakers, Loretta Bondi, of Rome's Casa Internazionale delle Donne, or International Women's Center.

Women also gathered in other corners of the world, including Frankfurt, Germany; Kampala, Uganda; and Osaka, Japan, where a small group chanted "Time's up!" in English and Japanese.

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A year after millions of people turned out for the Women's March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump's inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States, galvanized by their disdain for Mr. Trump and his administration's policies.

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A tsunami warning was lifted hours after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska in the US.

The quake hit 280km (173 miles) south-east of Kodiak, at a depth of 25km, at 00:31 local time (09:31 GMT), the US Geological Survey said.

The US National Weather Service (NWS) said tsunami waves of less than 1ft (0.3m) had been confirmed.

A lower-level advisory briefly remained in effect for south Alaska and the peninsula, before being lifted.

Waves between 0.4ft and 0.7ft had been recorded in Kodiak, Seward, Old Harbor, Sitka and Yakutat, the NWS said.

It said that tsunami waves of less than 1ft were expected in the town of Homer.

The latest advisory would be the last handed out, the service said - but still advised residents not to return to "hazard zones until local emergency officials indicate it is safe to do so".

Residents had earlier been told to seek high ground as sirens in several towns blared at around 01:00 on Tuesday. Four hours later, the all-clear was given.

Kodiak City Manager Mike Tvenge thanked residents for their orderly evacuations and told them to return home safely. Mayor Pat Branson said the warning centre had done an "excellent job".

Kodiak school district cancelled all classes on Tuesday because of the warning, telling students to remain home.

The weather service said an earlier tsunami warning had been cancelled "for the coastal areas of British Columbia, south-east Alaska and south Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula from The Wash./BC Border to Hinchinbrook Entrance, Alaska".

Many residents in Kodiak left by car in the middle of the night.

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A US weatherman tweeted about a buoy which reported a 32ft water rise shortly after the earthquake hit.

One Alaska reporter got this response when he called the Kodiak police department, looking for information about the tsunami threat.

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Lawmakers in the House and Senate are offering drastically different visions of how to resolve their fate. But those on both sides of the debate, as well as advocates for immigrants' rights, said that ultimately Mr. Trump would need to get involved for the immigration dispute to be settled.

Mr. Trump's intentions were hard to discern, even as he took time to jab at the Democrats.

"Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on Shutdown," the president said on Twitter at 11:30 p.m.

The message continued: "Now I want a big win for everyone, including Republicans, Democrats and DACA," referring to the Dreamers, "but especially for our Great Military and Border Security. Should be able to get there. See you at the negotiating table!"

The vote in the Senate was lopsided: 81 senators voted to end the shutdown while 18 - two Republicans and the rest of the Democrats and an independent who caucuses with them - sided against the measure. In the House, the vote was 266 to 150, with about three-quarters of Democrats opposed.

The measure also shored up the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, which insures nearly nine million children. States had warned that they were on the verge of having to end coverage after Congress allowed funding for the program, which had been created and sustained for two decades with bipartisan support, to expire in September.

The votes came after a weekend of fevered negotiations by a bipartisan group that eventually grew to include about 25 senators, who helped put together a framework in which Democrats would vote to reopen the government in exchange for the promise from Mr. McConnell.

An apparent turning point came when Mr. McConnell took the Senate floor on Monday morning to announce that he would ensure a "level playing field" on immigration - language that some Democrats interpreted as going further than he had before. Mr. McConnell said he would have the Senate take up immigration legislation by mid-February if the issue had not been resolved by then.

"I sat on the floor and listened to him very intently, somewhat holding my breath," said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats. "I think the majority leader has made a public commitment that it would be very hard for him not to meet."

But Senator Kamala Harris, Democrat of California, was unconvinced, and voted against the bill. She suggested that she did not trust Mr. McConnell.

"I refuse to put the lives of nearly 700,000 young people in the hands of someone who has repeatedly gone back on his word," she said.

Immigrants' rights activists were crushed.

"Last week, I was moved to tears of joy when Democrats stood up and fought for progressive values and for Dreamers," said Frank Sharry, the executive director of America's Voice, an immigrants' rights group. "Today, I am moved to tears of disappointment and anger that Democrats blinked."

Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants have been protected from deportation under an Obama-era initiative, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Mr. Trump rescinded the program in September and gave Congress six months, until March 5, to come up with a replacement.

But the president has demanded that border security - including money for the "big, beautiful wall" he has promised at the southern border with Mexico - be included in any package. Mr. Trump also wants limits on what critics call "chain migration," in which immigrants can sponsor their relatives, and an end to the diversity visa lottery, which fosters immigration from countries that are underrepresented.

A bipartisan group of six senators, led by Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, has proposed the backbone of an immigration deal that backers hope could garner 60 votes, enough to break a filibuster.

But Mr. Trump has rejected that plan. And the measure is almost certainly a nonstarter in the House, where Speaker Paul D. Ryan has promised a vote on a conservative immigration measure championed by the chairmen of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, if it has the support to pass.

"If we are hoping that Paul Ryan is going to have courage and that the House Republicans are going to be fair and decent and that a bill could emerge, we're smoking something," Mr. Sharry said.

Monday's Senate vote exposed a rift between moderate Democrats who are up for re-election this year in states won by Mr. Trump and their more liberal counterparts.

One of those Trump-state Democrats, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, characterized the vote as a "big win for the Dreamers," adding that if the Senate passes a measure with more than 60 votes, it would "put a lot of pressure" on the House to act.

But more liberal Democrats, including Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who voted against the spending measure, disagreed.

"The lesson to me is that a promise here is far less meaningful when there is no involvement by the House, not to mention the White House," he said, adding that he has "no confidence, zero, that Paul Ryan will bring a measure to the floor, in fact on the contrary."

Mr. Graham said it was critical that the Senate's eventual immigration bill have the support of a broad bipartisan majority of perhaps 70 senators.

"A partisan product doesn't get you to where you want to go," he said. "If you're going to make the play of trying to pick off a handful of the other side, it's going to crash and burn."

The shutdown crisis began Friday, after talks between Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, and Mr. Trump to keep the government open broke down when the president and his chief of staff demanded more concessions on immigration.

According to one person familiar with that day's discussion, Mr. Schumer agreed to more military spending and discussed fully funding the president's request for a border wall in exchange for an agreement from the president to support legalizing the Dreamers.

Late that night, an overwhelming majority of Democrats, joined by a handful of Republicans, voted to block consideration of a spending bill very much like the measure that passed Monday. The only difference is that the initial bill would have funded the government for four weeks, not three.

A round of partisan finger-pointing ensued, with Democrats calling the impasse the "Trump Shutdown" and Republicans branding it the "Schumer Shutdown."

At the White House on Monday, Mr. Trump's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, insisted that Monday's deal was not "drastically different" than what was discussed on Friday between the president and Mr. Schumer.

Despite what was characterized by both parties as Mr. Trump's invisibility this weekend, Ms. Sanders insisted that he was responsible for making a deal happen.

"What the president did clearly worked," she said, adding, "The president stayed firm, Republicans stayed firm, and Democrats, I think, realized that they had to move past that piece of legislation" to discuss immigration going forward.

But Ms. Sanders declined to clarify precisely what the parameters of an immigration deal would look like. That worried Democrats like Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

"The problem with all of this is the problem it's been from the beginning," Mr. Menendez said. "You got no guarantees from the House. You got no guarantees from the president. So you have two-thirds of the equation that are just not there."

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Lawmakers in the House and Senate are offering drastically different visions of how to resolve their fate. But those on both sides of the debate, as well as advocates for immigrants' rights, said that ultimately Mr. Trump would need to get involved for the immigration dispute to be settled.

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Walmart is boosting the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $11 and dishing out bonuses of up to $1,000, crediting President Trump's tax cut for enabling the move.

The increase for the nation's largest private employer also comes amid political pressure to bolster minimum wages and comes amid a hot streak for the retailer.

The big-box store chain, which has more than 1 million U.S. hourly employees, will reap a windfall from the U.S. corporate tax rate cut to 21%, down from 35%.

"Today, we are building on investments we've been making in associates, in their wages and skills development," Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a statement. "It's our people who make the difference and we appreciate how they work hard to make every day easier for busy families."

The move also comes amid a 17-year low for the U.S. unemployment rate, which has intensified competition for workers.

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McMillon said Trump's corporate tax cut "gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S."

At the same time, Walmart confirmed Thursday that it is closing about 50 Sam's Club stores and converting another dozen or so into online fulfillment centers. Those closures suggest that the retail landscape remains extremely challenging for certain brands.

Walmart's wage-boost announcement follows a series of similar moves by major corporations that also credited the tax cut with bolstering their businesses.

For example, AT&T and Comcast dished out one-time bonuses of $1,000 to non-management workers, and Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp boosted base hourly pay to $15.

Economists have argued that one-time bonuses, while significant for workers living paycheck to paycheck, are not as meaningful as permanent wage increases. Critics of tax reform have said companies are dishing out bonuses for the sake of good publicity and to curry favor with the White House.

"Walmart would have had to go to at least $11 in many markets in order to retain reliable employees," University of Michigan business professor Erik Gordon said. "The tax cut made it easier for the company to swallow."

But, Gordon said, the move indicates that "the corporate tax cut's touted trickle-down effects that were met with skepticism by critics may be happening."

Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect, said the move shows that the retailer is betting on solid economic growth for the next two to three years. It also reflected a recognition that Walmart needed to "up its game to keep its employees and get new employees," he said.

"They've started to change the way they treat employees because they can't take them for granted anymore," Fishman said.

Walmart's wage increase will take effect in February. The company said the one-time bonuses would cost the company $400 million and will be based on length of service. Employees who have worked for at least 20 years will get the full $1,000, but most will get up to a few hundred dollars.

The company is also boosting its paid maternity leave policy for full-time hourly workers to 10 weeks at full pay. Previously, mothers got six to eight weeks at half pay.

Walmart is also increasing its paid leave policy for new fathers, non-birthing mothers, adoptive parents and foster parents to six weeks at full pay for full-time hourly workers. Previously, the company didn't offer paid leave for them.

The changes in parental leave put salaried and hourly workers on the same footing.

Walmart also said it would offer financial help to full-time hourly and salaried employees who are seeking to adopt children.

The minimum wage increase comes about a year after Walmart hiked hourly pay to at least $10 for most workers. Twelve states already have minimum wages of at least $10, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

The wage increase comes as Walmart is on a roll. While many traditional retailers have been struggling to keep up with online behemoth Amazon, Walmart has fared better. Walmart's online business is surging.

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LONDON - It sounds like a character from a dystopian novel, but Britain has created a "minister for loneliness" to tackle modern public health problems associated with social isolation.

The government said Wednesday it appointed Tracey Crouch after research showed as many as one in ten people felt lonely "always or often" and that hundreds of thousands of elderly people hadn't spoken to a friend or relative in the past month.

Crouch, whose official title is Minister for Sport and Civil Society, will devise a national strategy to tackle isolation across all ages, and find ways of measuring alienation in official statistics.

"We know that there is a real impact of social isolation and loneliness on people, on their physical and mental well-being but also on other aspects in society and we want to tackle this challenge," Crouch said.

In the United States, approximately 42.6 million adults aged over 45 reported suffering from chronic loneliness in a major 2010 study by the AARP.

The most recent U.S. census data shows more than a quarter of the population lives alone, more than half of the population is unmarried and, since the previous census, marriage rates and the number of children per household have declined, the American Psychological Association heard last summer.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, professor of psychology at Brigham Young University, told the organization that research indicated social isolation and living alone had "a significant and equal effect on the risk of premature death ... one that was equal to or exceeded the effect of other well-accepted risk factors such as obesity."

Announcing Crouch's appointment as "new ministerial lead for loneliness," British Prime Minister Theresa May said: "I want to confront this challenge for our society and for all of us to take action to address the loneliness endured by the elderly, by carers, by those who have lost loved ones, people who have no one to talk to or share their thoughts and experiences with."

The role was the main recommendation in a 2017 report commissioned in memory of Jo Cox, a lawmaker and mother of two who was murdered in the street in 2016 by a neo-Nazi terrorist.

"Jo Cox recognized the scale of loneliness across the country and dedicated herself to doing all she could to help those affected," May said.

Cox's widower, Brendan Cox, tweeted early Wednesday: "One of the awful things about losing Jo is knowing how much difference she would have made in the world. When the kids wake up this morning I'm going to tell them how - even though she's not here - she's still making the world a better place."

However, there was some criticism of the appointment on social media, with users pointing out a link between loneliness and government cuts to community services such as public libraries, day care centers and community halls.

So important. Loneliness and social isolation drive physical and mental ill health. Especially in hyper-competitive, hyper-individual cities like London.

Minister for loneliness appointed. https://t.co/CgKeno0m8f
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The UK is now so bereft of empathy, it needs a Minister for Loneliness? Says more about people, than government.
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LONDON - It sounds like a character from a dystopian novel, but Britain has created a "minister for loneliness" to tackle modern public health problems associated with social isolation. The government said Wednesday it appointed Tracey Crouch after research showed as many as one in ten people felt lonely "always or often" and that hundreds of thousands of elderly people hadn't spoken to a friend or relative in the past month.

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Family: Al Adi will not be released from ICE custody

Posted: Friday, January 19, 2018 11:34 AM EST Updated: Friday, January 19, 2018 4:13 PM EST

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -

"It's been really wild, going from one high to the next."

Those were the words shared exclusively with WFMJ Today anchors Mike Case and Christa Lamendola by the family of Amer Al Adi Othman as they prepared to see him released from custody Friday morning.

However, just a few hours later, the family would receive another blow- information from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials saying that Al Adi will not be released from custody today.

Instead, Fidaa Musleh, Adi's wife, tells 21 News that they were told late Friday morning that Al is instead being transferred to another facility.

According to Adi's attorney, he was transferred to the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown.

The family told WFMJ Today that Al was hospitalized earlier this week, as a result of complications from his hunger strike.

The family said they were told that Adi would be released after the House Judiciary Committee approved a measure granting Adi a six-month stay in which officials could examine his case.

Al, a longtime Youngstown business owner was taken into custody earlier this week during what was expected to be a regularly scheduled check in with immigration officials.

Adi was just 19-years-old when he moved to the United States from Jordan. In 1979 he married his first wife and settled down in San Diego after receiving his green card

After their divorce, Adi moved to Youngstown where he then met his second wife.

After spending several years out of the country with his wife, Adi had his green card confiscated upon returning.

Adi's citizenship was then denied because of "a claim that the marriage from 1979 was fraudulent.

Congressman Tim Ryan worked trying to push a private bill for years to keep Adi off the deportation list.

After working with Adi's lawyers and the House Judiciary Committee, they were able to grant Al Adi a stay.
This is a developing story. Check back to wfmj.com for updates.

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Hans Riemer, president of the Montgomery County Council, found out from a friend via text message.

"My heart skipped a beat," he said.

The process will now shift into a new phase, with Amazon representatives communicating more directly with the finalist cities as they prepare to select a winner later this year - and perhaps with cities being even more outspoken about why they should be chosen. Emissaries from Amazon are expected to visit the finalist locations in person.

Some of the finalists are neighbors, setting up what are likely to be intense regional rivalries. Ms. Bowser said Amazon's selection of Montgomery County and Northern Virginia - both near Washington - spoke to the appeal of the region's work force.

"Of course," she added, "we believe that Washington, D.C. - with our top talent and world-class amenities - is the right place for Amazon HQ2."

Mayor Baraka said that Newark has a "friendly rivalry" with its bigger neighbor, New York, while adding that his city enjoys the advantages of cheaper real estate, space for development in its downtown and lots of fiber optic network capacity.

Amazon needs a second headquarters because it's bursting at the seams in its hometown, Seattle. Mr. Bezos founded the company there in 1994, and it has since transformed the city, employing more than 40,000 there. That expansion has also contributed to Seattle's soaring cost of living and its traffic woes.

To lure applicants, Amazon showered local politicians with its own data about the effect the company has had on the Seattle economy, and some of the immediate economic benefits its second home would experience - including $5 billion in construction spending.

It asked candidates to include in their bids a variety of detailed information, including potential building sites, crime and traffic stats and nearby recreational opportunities. Amazon also asked cities and states to describe the tax incentives available to offset its costs for building and operating its second headquarters. The most eye-popping of those offers was New Jersey's promise of up to $7 billion in tax incentives to bring Amazon to Newark.

Another tech giant, Apple, this week said it, too, was hunting for a location to build a major new campus. But the company's chief executive, Tim Cook, said it would not conduct a public bidding process akin to Amazon's. He said California and Texas were unlikely locations for the new campus because Apple already has significant operations there.

Amazon's search process has also attracted critics. Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit organization that serves as an advocate for local businesses, said that politicians were enhancing Amazon's image just as the company's market power was under growing scrutiny from groups like her own.

"As these cities woo and grovel, they are basically communicating this idea that we should want Amazon to be bigger and more powerful in our economy," Ms. Mitchell said.

Ed Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard who studies cities, predicted that the winner of the contest would have in place the kind of positive economic attributes that mean it wouldn't necessarily need Amazon to thrive.

"At its best, the competition for Amazon has spurred cities to think about how to improve their quality of life more generally," he said. "At its worst, the competition has become a distraction and a contest for throwing cash at the giant."

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Hans Riemer, president of the Montgomery County Council, found out from a friend via text message. "My heart skipped a beat," he said. The process will now shift into a new phase, with Amazon representatives communicating more directly with the finalist cities as they prepare to select a winner later this year - and perhaps with cities being even more outspoken about why they should be chosen.

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This week was supposed to be a fresh start for president trump. To combat the fallout from the explosive book, "Fire and fury" he called cameras into the white house to watch him negotiate an immigration deal with a bipartisan group of legislators. It was an extraordinary moment. And it seemed to work. Until Thursday. Another immigration meeting. This one behind closed doors in the oval office. Where the president repeated that pro fancy when discussing immigration from Africa and Haiti. Stunning remarks that put a lingering question in stark relief. Is president trump a racist? Today, we celebrate Dr. King for standing up for the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear, that no matter what the color of our skin or the place of our birth, we are all created equal by god. President trump at the white house on Friday, praising martin Luther king like so many presidents before. Then came the questions. Mr. President, will you give an apology for the statement yesterday? Mr. President, are you a racist? Will you respond to these serious questions about your statement, sir? Questions about the vulgar and racist slur he used when discussing immigration from Africa and Haiti. It happened on Thursday. The president was frustrate bid a bipartisan plan that would scale back the Visa lotter E roory program. The president asked those in the room why day would want people from Haiti, Africa, and other expletive countries coming into the United States? Instead he suggested the U.S. Should bring the more people from European countries like Norway. The white house didn't deny the statement. The next day, trump tweeted. Lindsey graham said he countered the president's comments in the moment. Richard Durbin said trump could not have been more clear. He used the vile and vulgar comments calling the nations they come from . The exact word used by the president. Not once but repeatedly. That was the nature of the conversation. I'm sorry, there is no other word one can use but racist. Reporter: Condemnation from Haiti, El Salvador. And the meeting of the African ambassadors,alled on trump to apologize. Questions about trump and race have dogged him for decades. In 1973, the use disdepartment pseudohim and his father for discriminating against black persons in the operation of their buildings. The case was settled. In 1989, te campaign against the central park five. He placed full page ads in four New York newspapers. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and when day kill, they should be executed for their crimes. Trump promoted the birther movement against president Obama. When he prepared to run for president. Of course there's a question. Was there a birth certificate? You tell me. Some people say it wasn't his birth certificate. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Reporter: A blast against Mexican immigrants. They're brinking drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume are good people. Reporter: A Mexican American judge. There's a hostile till toward me by the judge. Beyond belief. I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine. Reporter: And as president, those inflammatory comments after a white supremacist rally in charlottesville. You also had people that were very fine people. On both sides.

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This initial phase takes one to four days. "The more you inhale, the shorter the incubation period," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. "In the beginning, you don't feel sick. You don't even know it's there."

As the virus colonizes your respiratory tract, your body starts to figure out something is amiss and rallies its immunologic troops in an inflammatory response, releasing proteins called interferons - because they interfere with alien invaders. Interferons flood your bloodstream and set up camp in your mucus, prompting more proteins called cytokines to join the battle. These protein soldiers circulate throughout your body, ready to rumble.

"Paradoxically, our own soldiers created for the fight are what cause us to have symptoms," said Dr. Schaffner.

"War creates damage and so you get fever and a headache and muscular aches and pains," which you experience as the abrupt and intense opening salvos of the flu. These early symptoms are usually what distinguishes the flu from just a normal cold.

The achiness and fever also signal that you need to start drinking a lot of fluids. The battle royal being waged inside you will dehydrate you more than you think. You may notice that your urine will get darker and you'll have to go less often. Experts say to make sure you drink a cup or so of water or other liquid every hour, avoiding alcoholic and caffeinated beverages.

Drinking fluids will diminish your headache and also bolster your immune response because your protein soldiers are conveyed via bodily fluids. Dehydration hampers their movement. It's one reason people tend to want soup when they're sick and may crave watery fruits like citrus and melon.

While you may feel rotten all over, the real battle is going on in your respiratory tract where the virus is localized. When the war is winding down, you stop feeling achy and feverish but you have residual inflammation in your throat, sinuses and bronchial tubes. All those cells lining your mucous membranes have been damaged and are like weeping sores, Dr. Schaffner said. That's why your nose is runny and you start to sneeze and cough to clear out the detritus.

Given this, over-the-counter medications that suppress your cough and dry your sinuses may not be the best idea.

"Certainly there is the thought that you don't want to suppress a cough too much or dry out your nasal passages because you want to get rid of the infection," said Dr. Tara Vijayan, an assistant clinical professor in the division of infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine. "There's a balance for sure. I don't think you should suffer unnecessarily, but you need to weigh the true benefit."

Although you want to rest, lying flat all the time can be problematic because it collapses your lungs so you can't cough as efficiently, trapping bacteria in your respiratory tract. If the virus destroys enough cells in your bronchial tubes it creates openings for bacteria to get into your lungs, which can lead to pneumonia, a potentially life-threatening complication of the flu.

When your lungs are vertical rather than horizontal, "you're able to breathe deeply and freely and you're able to cough out any inadvertent material, even microscopic bacteria, that get down into bronchial tubes," Dr. Schaffner said.

The C.D.C. recommends people who are hospitalized or at high risk for complications of the flu, such as older patients, pregnant women and those who are otherwise immunocompromised, take the antiviral drug oseltamivir, sold under the brand name Tamiflu, because observational data indicate it might reduce the likelihood of death.

Other researchers, including those at the Cochrane Collaboration, disagree, saying that there's not enough evidence to support taking oseltamivir or its chemical cousin zanamivir (brand name Relenza). They question the wisdom of spending billions stockpiling them as many countries, including the United States, began doing during the swine flu scare in the mid 2000s. Indeed, the World Health Organization last year downgraded oseltamivir from its list of essential medicines. It may or may not help, depending on which study you look at.

For healthy people who get the flu, most researchers agree the data indicates oseltamivir taken within 48 hours of onset can reduce the duration by about two-thirds of a day. But at around $154 for a course of the medication, that may not be worth it, given that the side effects include nausea and vomiting.

"We wish we had better drugs that could wipe out flu," said Angela Campbell, a medical officer with the C.D.C.'s Influenza Division. But she said oseltamivir is "what we have right now" and in outpatient situations "it's really the clinician's decision with the patient based on a number of factors," including cost and effectiveness, whether it should be prescribed or not.

The C.D.C. also still recommends getting this season's flu shot, despite its questionable prophylactic value, because it might reduce the severity of the flu should you contract it. In previous years, against strains other than H3N2, flu shots have had reported effectiveness of about 40 percent to 60 percent.

But beyond that, rest, fluids, not staying horizontal all day and perhaps also letting in fresh air and sunlight are the best things you can do for yourself. To prevent friends, family members and colleagues from getting sick, keep to yourself until 48 hours after your fever has subsided and you're feeling better.

While you may continue to cough for weeks, Dr. Schaffner said you probably aren't infectious. Just annoying.

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This initial phase takes one to four days. "The more you inhale, the shorter the incubation period," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. "In the beginning, you don't feel sick. You don't even know it's there."

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WASHINGTON - President Trump's chief of staff privately told a group of Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had not been "fully informed" when promising voters a wall along the Mexican border last year, and said that he had persuaded the president it was not necessary. He also expressed optimism that a bipartisan immigration deal could eventually be reached.

John F. Kelly, the retired Marine general credited with bringing a measure of discipline to Mr. Trump's chaotic White House during his six months as chief of staff, told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he had educated the president about the issue of immigration, adding that Mr. Trump had "evolved" on the wall.

The comments were an unusual instance of a White House chief of staff seeming to undercut public statements made by the president, in the process contradicting the central message of "Build the wall" that defined Mr. Trump's presidential campaign. The president has recently begun to temper his own statements about the wall, telling a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House last week that a 2,000-mile structure would not be needed because parts of the border would be impassable.

But in telling lawmakers that Mr. Trump had essentially erred from the start in promoting a wall and by claiming credit for dissuading him, Mr. Kelly appeared to be voicing a sentiment some in the West Wing have heard him express privately - that it is his job to tutor a sometimes ill-informed president who has never served in public office before.

At the same time, it suggested that Mr. Kelly, who served as secretary of homeland security before coming to the White House and has hard-line views on immigration that mirror the president's restrictionist approach, was positioning himself now as a moderating influence.

Mr. Kelly made the remarks at a meeting with members of the Hispanic Caucus, as a group known as the Twos - the No. 2 Democrat and Republican in both the House and Senate - worked toward negotiating a deal to protect from deportation the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. The meeting with the Hispanic caucus was first reported by The Washington Post.

Mr. Kelly expressed confidence that the negotiations to preserve the protections provided by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the Obama-era policy that Mr. Trump moved in September to end, would succeed, though not necessarily this week. The president gave Congress six months to enact a replacement for the program, which protects about 780,000 young people.

"There's no doubt in my mind there's going to be a deal, so long as men and women on both sides are willing to talk," Mr. Kelly said in an interview with Fox News.

As recently as Sunday, Mr. Trump was far more pessimistic about the program's future and criticized its Democratic supporters. "DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don't really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr. Kelly told lawmakers that "he was the one who tempered" Mr. Trump "on the issue of the wall, on the issue of DACA," said Representative Raúl Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, who attended the session.

Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez, Democrat of Illinois, who was also at the meeting, quoted Mr. Kelly as having told the group that, "a 50-foot wall from sea to shining sea isn't what we're going to build."

Mr. Gutiérrez told reporters that at the meeting, Mr. Kelly said that during the presidential campaign, "there were statements made about the wall that were not informed statements."

Mr. Trump often cited his promise to build a "big, beautiful wall" to energize his campaign rallies.

Marc T. Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, denied the Democrats' characterization of Mr. Kelly's comments about the president's familiarity with immigration issues, telling CNN in an interview: "I don't recall General Kelly saying the president was uninformed."

But he did not dispute the notion that the president has changed his view of what is needed to secure the border, based in part on information from Customs and Border Protection, the government agency charged with immigration enforcement.

The wall has been a prominent issue in the negotiations over DACA, with Mr. Trump insisting that funding to build it be part of any such bill, along with measures to limit the extended family members immigrants can sponsor for entry into the United States and an end to the diversity visa lottery.

As Mr. Trump's first secretary of homeland security, Mr. Kelly presided over the beginnings of the president's immigration crackdown, including the enactment of his travel ban and tougher interior enforcement measures.

But Mr. Kelly did not push the idea of a solid wall across the entire southern border, arguing from the outset that "a physical barrier will not do the job." More recently, he has prevailed upon Mr. Trump not to dwell on the idea of Mexico paying for the wall, a notion that the president has not mentioned for some time.

"He used the word 'evolved,'" Mr. Grijalva said, adding that Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump has "evolved, in the general context of the wall and DACA, and he said you make campaign promises; that's different from governing."

Two House Democratic aides who attended the meeting confirmed the accounts given by Mr. Grijalva and Mr. Gutiérrez.

Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, Democrat of California, said she sought a clarification from Mr. Kelly about what would constitute the border wall that Mr. Trump is seeking, since "so many people have different ideas about what the wall actually is."

Mr. Kelly said that since taking office, Mr. Trump "realizes what the realities are, and that they are no longer considering the wall to be what was described in the campaign," Ms. Roybal-Allard said.

"It wasn't until he got to the White House that he was better informed in terms of what were the possibilities in terms of barriers," Ms. Roybal-Allard added, recalling what Mr. Kelly said about Mr. Trump.

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Trump Was Not 'Fully Informed' in Campaign Vows on Wall, Chief of Staff Says

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WASHINGTON - President Trump's chief of staff privately told a group of Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had not been "fully informed" when promising voters a wall along the Mexican border last year, and said that he had persuaded the president it was not necessary.

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Lawmakers had a similar deadline last month, but they passed a continuing resolution December 21 to keep the federal government funded for another month.

Democrats had been pushing a solution for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and insisted that it be addressed before the Friday deadline -- and the two parties were unable to reach an agreement.

The House voted Thursday night to avert a government shutdown, sending the bill on to the Senate, where it failed, 50-49.

Shortly before the House vote, the Freedom Caucus said a majority of its members would vote to support a stopgap spending measure, a key sign that holdout conservatives who had been undecided earlier had come on board.

The Senate measure needed 60 votes to pass the chamber to break a filibuster, which meant that Republican leaders needed as many as more than a dozen Democrats.

The shutdown, however, doesn't mean every federally funded agency, program and service will grind to a halt. Whoever works for agencies and departments that are considered nonessential, including agencies that pay out small business loans and process passport requests,will cease to work until Congress is able to agree on a bill for the federal budget.

The employees in these departments will be placed on "furlough." In previous shutdowns, everyone who stayed home was paid retroactively after an agreement was reached in Washington.

At the peak of the 2013 government shutdown, about 850,000 employees were furloughed per day, according to the Office of Management and Budget.

But what is considered essential and nonessential?

President Donald Trump tweeted last week, "The Dems will threaten 'shutdown,' but what they are really doing is shutting down our military, at a time we need it most."

And on Tuesday he tweeted, "The Democrats want to shut down the Government over Amnesty for all and Border Security. The biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding Military, at a time we need it more than ever. We need a merit based system of immigration, and we need it now! No more dangerous Lottery."

During a shutdown,the military is considered essential and would still report for duty. However, the troops -- including those in combat -- will potentially not be paid during a shutdown. In addition, many civilian Department of Defense employees will not be working during a shutdown, including instructors at military academies and maintenance contractors.

If the shutdown goes on for weeks, about 1.3 million active-duty military will be expected to work potentially without pay. The military is currently paid through February 1.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team will continue to operate, a Justice Department spokesperson told CNN.

"All employees with the Special Counsel's Office are considered exempt and would continue their operations in the case of a lapse in appropriations," the spokesperson said.

But if you had plans for a vacation to visit any national parks, zoos or museums, those will be closed.

The shutdown will also affect the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, meaning if you wanted a gun permit, you'll have to wait until the shutdown is over.

Essential services, such as Social Security, air traffic control and the Transportation Security Administration, will continue to be funded even if some employees of those agencies are not.

And the US Postal Service won't stop serving residents -- you'll still get your mail.

Members of Congress will continue to receive paychecks because it's written into law.

In 2013, the shutdown especially affected residents of Washington. But this time around, Mayor Muriel Bowser vowed that services in the city will continue, unlike last time.

"Washington, DC, is open," Bowser said in a statement publishedFriday. "DC government will continue to provide services to our residents, the services they expect and deserve, uninterrupted."

She also said the city plans to help the federal government maintain the National Mall.

"I've called on my agencies, where we are able, to step in for the federal government," she said during the press conference. "The National Mall is operated by the National Park Service, and there are many other National Service Park properties throughout Washington, DC ... we will step in and ensure litter and trash are picked up along the National Mall to keep nation's front yard clean of debris."

This story has been updated to reflect new information from the District of Columbia.

CNN's Vaughn Sterling, Laura Jarrett and Ryan Browne contributed to this report.

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Lawmakers had a similar deadline last month, but they passed a continuing resolution December 21 to keep the federal government funded for another month. Democrats had been pushing a solution for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and insisted that it be addressed before the Friday deadline -- and the two parties were unable to reach an agreement.

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The two countries also agreed on Wednesday that their skiing teams would train together in the Masikryong ski resort in North Korea. The resort, a showpiece project of the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, was opened in 2013.

South Korean officials said on Wednesday that the North's delegation would include at least 550 people, including about 150 to the Paralympic Games in March. But the joint news statement said that the final number would be determined in Switzerland on Saturday, when the International Olympic Committee is to bring together North and South Korean officials. The plan is for the North's athletes to enter the South over a land border on Feb. 1.

So far, the only North Korean athletes to qualify for the Pyeongchang Games are a pairs figure skating team. North Korea missed an Oct. 31 deadline to accept invitations from South Korea and the International Olympic Committee to join the Games. But the international body has said it remains willing to consider wild-card entries for North Korean athletes.

A unified team of any kind at the Olympics would be a milestone for the Koreas, which have been bitter rivals in international sports as well as diplomacy and armed conflict, but which also have a history of trying to use sports as an avenue for reconciliation.

Mr. Moon proposed in June that the two Koreas form a unified team for the Pyeongchang Games, but the suggestion was not taken seriously until the Mr. Kim used his New Year's Day speech to propose dialogue with the South and to discuss his country's participation in the Olympics.

That proposal led to a series of talks in Panmunjom between the two Korean governments. In an earlier round of negotiations, the North agreed to send a 140-member orchestra to play in the South during the Olympics.

The prospect of fostering inter-Korean reconciliation through sports and other channels has strong appeal in South Korea, so much so that successive governments have tried to negotiate sending a unified team to the Olympics.

Such efforts have sometimes led to breakthroughs. In 2000, the year of the first inter-Korean summit meeting, the countries' delegations marched together at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. They have marched together nine times, including in Athens in 2004, carrying a blue-and-white flag representing a united Korea, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The two Koreas last marched together in the Asian Winter Games of 2007.

But forming a joint Olympic team proved elusive. Past negotiations faltered over such details as whether a joint team would have an equal number of players from each country, who would choose the coaches and where the athletes would train.

South Korean athletes, who have far more resources and Olympic experience than their counterparts from the North, have balked in the past at the idea of sacrificing their hard-earned prospects for the sake of parity with North Korea in a united team. South Korean news outlets have reported that the South asked the International Olympic Committee to allow a unified hockey team to have an expanded roster, so that none of the South Korean players would have to bow out of the Games.

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North and South Korean Teams to March as One at Olympics

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The two countries also agreed on Wednesday that their skiing teams would train together in the Masikryong ski resort in North Korea. The resort, a showpiece project of the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, was opened in 2013. South Korean officials said on Wednesday that the North's delegation would include at least 550 people, including about 150 to the Paralympic Games in March.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Entrepreneur Elon Musk's digging company, Boring Co., could start the construction of hyperloop tunnels, terminating near West Pratt and South Paca streets in Baltimore, as early as January, according to documents obtained by Capital News Service.

In a conditional utility permit granted to Boring Co. by the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration on Oct. 16, Musk's company estimates it will begin digging two parallel, 12.4-mile transportation tunnels in January 2018.

The document lists the start location as "immediately north of MD 175" and details a dig to "within 0.25 miles of intersection of W. Pratt and S. Paca" - about a block from Oriole Park at Camden Yards - with tunnels running under the approximate route of the Maryland-owned section of Route 295, or the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

Steve Davis, an employee at SpaceX, one of Musk's companies focused on rocket and spacecraft manufacturing, signed Boring Co.'s application for the conditional permit. He was also in email exchanges with Maryland Secretary of Transportation Pete Rahn and his staff, where Davis arranged meetings with Maryland officials in September and November.

In those same emails, Rahn touches on some of the confusion surrounding Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's October announcement in support of Musk's hyperloop: What technology is being installed underneath Route 295?

Boring Co., a company started by Musk, envisions tunnels that will cart cars and people underneath major cities on electric sleds at speeds approaching 150 mph.

Musk has already begun implementing his vision near Los Angeles, starting construction of a tunnel underneath SpaceX's facility in Hawthorne, California, and sharing a map Dec. 4 detailing proposed routes.

The email exchange between Davis and Rahn mention these electric sleds, indicating an intention for installing Boring Co. technology under Route 295.

This differs from the vision Musk shared in a July tweet, proposing an East Coast hyperloop transporting passengers at speeds of up to 760 mph on air skis, resulting in a 29-minute, New York City-to-D.C. commute, a project that apparently received "verbal govt approval," again according to a July tweet by Musk.

How Maryland government and Boring Co. will resolve the conflict of technologies between these two visions, as well as how Musk plans to dig under the remaining two-thirds of Route 295, which is under federal jurisdiction, is yet to be seen; the Maryland State Highway Administration documents indicated it was considering issuing a full utility permit to Boring Co. after receiving more details on the project.

A Maryland Department of Transportation representative on Wednesday told Capital News Service it would not disclose those details citing "confidential commercial information," and also indicated that no public dollars were being spent on the project.
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Elon Musk Hyperloop May Have Terminus Near Camden Yards

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Entrepreneur Elon Musk's digging company, Boring Co., could start the construction of hyperloop tunnels, terminating near West Pratt and South Paca streets in Baltimore, as early as January, according to documents obtained by Capital News Service. In a conditional utility permit granted to Boring Co.

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The Sheriff's Department did not say how long the siblings may have been held captive.

Sheriff's deputies provided food and water to the siblings, who claimed they were starving. They were later transported to hospitals for treatment. Their conditions were not released.

California records show that Mr. Turpin had received state approval to run a private school, the Sandcastle Day School, at the family's home, a one-story stucco house in a subdivision built in recent years. The school enrolled six students this year, in grades six through 12, and Mr. Turpin was listed as the principal.

In a neighborhood where residents often walk outside and children run around a nearby playground, the Turpins stood out for never being seen, neighbors said. Dennis Cooke, who lives two blocks from their home, said he saw Mr. Turpin once but never the siblings.

Roberto Gomez, who lives in the house behind the Turpins, said the family kept lights on inside the house at all hours but never seemed to come outside. Another neighbor, Julio Reyes, said that last year he saw teenagers mowing the family's yard and helping put up Christmas decorations.

"They look pretty normal," Mr. Reyes said. "Pretty normal house, they have nice cars. It's just an appearance."

Perris, about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles, is one of the largest cities in Riverside County, which became an emblem of bankruptcy and foreclosure during the depths of the recent recession. Known as the Inland Empire, the region has rebounded in recent years.

The couple filed for bankruptcy in California in 2011, stating in court documents that they owed between $100,000 and $500,000 in debt. At that time, Mr. Turpin worked as an engineer at Northrop Grumman, the defense contractor, and earned $140,000 annually, records show. Ms. Turpin's occupation was listed as a homemaker.

Their bankruptcy lawyer, Ivan Trahan, said in a phone interview on Monday night that the parents spoke often about their children. They had 12 at the time of their bankruptcy, Mr. Trahan said, adding that the children never visited his law office.

"They spoke about them highly," Mr. Trahan said.

He said Ms. Turpin told him that the family loved Disneyland in Southern California and visited often.

"We remember them as a very nice couple," he said. "This is shocking."

The Turpins moved to California from Texas around 2010, the parents wrote on Facebook, after Mr. Turpin returned to work for Northrop Grumman. On a family photo of the parents and 12 children (the youngest had not yet been born) posted on their Facebook page in 2011, a friend asked if all the children pictured were theirs.

"Yes all 12 are our children and we are very proud of them," the Turpins replied.

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13 Siblings, Some Shackled to Beds, Were Held Captive by Parents, Police Say

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The Sheriff's Department did not say how long the siblings may have been held captive. Sheriff's deputies provided food and water to the siblings, who claimed they were starving. They were later transported to hospitals for treatment. Their conditions were not released.

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An image of the alert sent to cellphones on Saturday morning.

An early-morning emergency alert mistakenly warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack was dispatched to cellphones across Hawaii on Saturday, setting off widespread panic in a state that was already on edge because of escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea.

The alert, sent by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, was revoked 38 minutes after it was issued, prompting confusion over why it was released - and why it took so long to rescind. State officials and residents of a normally tranquil part of the Pacific, as well as tourists swept up in the panic, immediately expressed outrage.

"What happened today was totally unacceptable," said Gov. David Y. Ige. "Many in our community were deeply affected by this. I am sorry for that pain and confusion that anyone might have experienced."

Officials said the alert was the result of human error and not the work of hackers or a foreign government. The mistake occurred during a shift-change drill that takes place three times a day at the emergency command post, according to Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for the agency.

"Someone clicked the wrong thing on the computer," he said.

State officials said that the agency and the governor began posting notices on Facebook and Twitter announcing the mistake, but that a flaw in the alert system delayed sending out a cellphone correction. As a result, they said a "cancellation template" would be created to make it easier to fix mistaken alerts. A new procedure was instituted Saturday requiring two people to sign off before any such alert is sent.

At no time, officials said, was there any indication that a nuclear attack had been launched on the United States. The Federal Communications Commission announced that it had begun "a full investigation into the FALSE missile alert in Hawaii."

The alert went out at about 8:10 a.m., lighting up phones of people still in bed, having coffee by the beach at a Waikiki resort, or up for an early surf. "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL," it read.

Hawaii has been on high emotional alert - it began staging monthly air-raid drills, complete with sirens, in December - since President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, began exchanging nuclear threats. Estimates vary, but it would take a little more than half an hour for a missile launched from North Korea to reach Hawaii, traversing an arc of roughly 5,700 miles. State officials said that residents here would have as little as 12 minutes to find shelter once an alert was issued.

Within moments of the first announcement, people flocked to shelters, crowding highways in scenes of terror and helplessness. Emergency sirens wailed in parts of the state, adding to the panic.

"I was running through all the scenarios in my head, but there was nowhere to go, nowhere to pull over to," said Mike Staskow, a retired military captain.

Allyson Niven, who lives in Kailua-Kona, said her first instinct was to gather her family as she contemplated what she thought would be her final minutes alive.

"We fully felt like we were about to die," she said. "I drove to try to get to my kids even though I knew I probably wouldn't make it, and I fully was visualizing what was happening while I was on the road. It was awful."

Ray Gerst was vacationing on Oahu with his wife to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary. He received the alert as they pulled up for their tour of Kualoa Ranch.

"All the buses stopped, and people came running out of the ranch and said, 'Just sit still for a minute, nobody get off the bus, nobody get off the bus,'" he said.

They were taken into the mountains, Mr. Gerst said, and dropped off at a concrete bunker. They sheltered in place for about 15 minutes, he said, during which time they had no cell signal.

"It was scary," Mr. Gerst said. "I mean, there was no intel."

At Konawaena High School on the Island of Hawaii, where a high school wrestling championship was taking place, school officials, more accustomed to alerts of high surf or tsunamis, moved people to the center of the gym as they tried to figure out how to take shelter from a missile.

"Everyone cooperated," said Kellye Krug, the athletic director at the school. "Once they were gathered, we let them use cellphones to reach loved ones. There were a couple kids who were emotional, the coaches were right there to console kids. After the retraction was issued, we gave kids time to reach out again."

Matt LoPresti, a state representative, told CNN that he and his family headed for a bathroom. "I was sitting in the bathtub with my children, saying our prayers," he said.

Natalie Haena, 38, of Honolulu, said she was getting ready to take her daughter to ice skating lessons when the alert came. "There's nothing to prep for a missile coming in," she said. "We have no bomb shelters or anything like that. There's nowhere to go."

An electronic sign reading "Missile alert in error: There is no threat" on a highway in Hawaii. Credit... Cory Lum/Civil Beat

In Washington, Lindsay Walters, a deputy press secretary, said that President Trump had been informed of the events. "The president has been briefed on the state of Hawaii's emergency management exercise," she said. "This was purely a state exercise."

Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii said the mistake was "totally inexcusable."

"The whole state was terrified," he said. "There needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process."

While the cellphone alerting system is in state authorities' hands, the detection of missile launches is the responsibility of the United States Strategic Command and Northern Command. It was the military - not Hawaiian officials - that was the first to declare there was no evidence of a missile launch.

The false alert was a stark reminder of what happens when the old realities of the nuclear age collide with the speed - and the potential for error - inherent in the internet age. The alert came at one of the worst possible moments - when tension with North Korea has been at one of the highest points in decades, and when Mr. Kim's government has promised more missile tests and threatened an atmospheric nuclear test.

During the Cold War there were many false alarms. William J. Perry, the defense secretary during the Clinton administration, recalled in his memoir, "My Journey at the Nuclear Brink," a moment in 1979 when, as an under secretary of defense, he was awakened by a watch officer who reported that his computer system was showing 200 intercontinental ballistic missiles headed to the United States. "For one heart-stopping second I thought my worst nuclear nightmare had come true," Mr. Perry wrote.

It turned out that a training tape had been mistakenly inserted into an early-warning system computer. No one woke up the president. But Mr. Perry went on to speculate what might have happened if such a warning had come "during the Cuban Missile Crisis or a Mideast war?"

The United States faces an especially difficult problem today, not just because of tense relations with North Korea but also because of growing fears inside the military about the cyber vulnerability of the nuclear warning system and nuclear control systems.

Because of its location, Hawaii - more than any other part of the United States - has been threatened by escalating tensions and the risks of war, and preparations have already begun there.

On Friday, the day before the erroneous alert, several hundred people attended an event in Honolulu sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce in which military commanders, politicians and others discussed the threat to the islands' population.

"The U.S. is the designated recipient - and that's because we are public enemy No. 1 to North Korea," Dan Leaf, a retired Air Force lieutenant general and Pacific Command deputy commander, was quoted as saying in The Honolulu Star Advertiser.

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency has been holding "are you ready" drills. As a chain of islands, Hawaii is subject to all kinds of threats - hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis - but officials have made clear that none is more urgent now than the threat of an attack by North Korea, given how little time there would be between an alert and the detonation of a bomb.

The fifth page of an emergency preparation pamphlet issued by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency features a picture of a rocket lifting off: "Nuclear Threat - Unlikely But Cannot Ignore It."

Vern T. Miyagi, the administrator of the agency, said that during the drill, an employee - whom he did not identify - mistakenly pushed a button on a computer screen to send out the alert, rather than one marked to test it. He said the employee answered "yes" when asked by the system if he was sure he wanted to send the message.

Mr. Miyagi, going through a detailed timeline of the events at an afternoon news conference, said the agency tried to correct the error on social media. It took 38 minutes to send out a follow-up message canceling the original alert, which he acknowledged was a shortcoming with the alert system that the agency would fix.

Mr. Rapoza said he did not know if anyone would be disciplined for the mistake. "At this point, our major concern is to make sure we do what we need to do to reassure the public," he said. "This is not a time for pointing fingers."

The panic that followed the alert - if relatively short-lived - gripped the islands. There were reports of people seeking shelter by parking their cars inside a highway tunnel that cuts through a mountain. When the announcement was rescinded, a digital highway sign read: "Missile alert in error: There is no threat."

People in Hawaii tend to know what to do to protect themselves to threats of a tsunami or a hurricane. The prospect of nuclear annihilation was entirely new terrain.

"So this was the most terrifying few minutes of my LIFE!" Paul Wilson, a professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, said on Twitter. "I just want to know why it took 38 minutes to announce it was a mistake?!?"

Chris Tacker, a veteran who lives in Kealakekua, said the mistake had left her angry and frustrated.

"I didn't know where to go," she said. "Anyone try to dig a hole in lava? Good luck trying to build a shelter. I'm stocking my liquor cabinet."

Still, she added, "If we don't have our sense of humor about this, it's all over."

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Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error (Published 2018)

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An early-morning emergency alert mistakenly warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack was dispatched to cellphones across Hawaii on Saturday, setting off widespread panic in a state that was already on edge because of escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea.