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Groton Daily Independent
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 079 ~ 18 of 40
10 Things to Know for Today By The Associated Press
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. WHY GOP HEALTH CARE BILL IS LIKELY TO FAIL
Even Republican leaders are conceding that the latest push to repeal “Obamacare” is all but dead after
Sen. Susan Collins’ decision to oppose the measure.
2. MILITARY EXPERTS DOWNPLAY PYONGYANG’S RESPONSE
They view a recent video simulating the shooting down of approaching U.S. warplanes as a tit-for-tat
response by North Korea to Trump’s ery rhetoric.
3. CHINESE SUPPLY CHAINS OF IVANKA TRUMP’S BRAND NOT CLEAR
Which companies in China manufacture and export the multimillion-dollar line of the president’s daughter
and adviser is more secret than ever, an AP investigation nds.
4. PALESTINIAN KILLS 3 ISRAELIS IN SETTLEMENT NEAR JERUSALEM
The attack at the upscale community of Har Adar by a 37-year-old man hiding among day laborers is
the deadliest in a two-year spate of violence.
5. IRAQI KURDISH VOTE LATEST IN SERIES OF DE FACTO BREAKS
These partitions, once rare in the region, are far more common now in the chaos that followed the 2011
Arab Spring.
6. SUPERMARKETS GRADUALLY RE-OPENING IN PUERTO RICO
But the situation is far from normal in the hurricane-ravaged U.S. territory and many customers are
going home disappointed.
7. MEXICO TALLYING UP ECONOMIC LOSSES AFTER MASSIVE QUAKE
The magnitude 7.1 temblor could knock between 0.1 and 0.3 percentage points off the country’s gross
domestic product in the third and fourth quarters.
8. WHO WILL FACE TOUGH QUESTIONING BEFORE CONGRESS
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton after the agency acknowledged that it also
was a victim to a hack.
9. BALI VOLCANO FEARS SPARK EXODUS
Indonesia’s disaster agency says more than 75,000 people have ed Mount Agung on the tourist island
because of fears of an eruption.
10. COWBOYS TAKE A KNEE BEFORE ANTHEM
Led by owner Jerry Jones, players and coaches locked arms and kneeled before the anthem, then rose
together and walked back to the sideline before Jordin Sparks sang the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Trump looms large in Alabama Senate race By KIM CHANDLER and JAY REEVES, Associated Press
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) — Sen. Luther Strange and rebrand jurist Roy Moore face off in Alabama’s U.S. Senate runoff Tuesday in a race that will reverberate through the Republican Party and has pitted President Donald Trump against his former strategist, Steve Bannon.
Trailing in the polls, Strange has looked to the White House to help make up ground against Moore, who is best known for de ant stands against gay marriage and for the public display of the Ten Commandments. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Strange in Birmingham, Alabama, while Bannon, speaking at a Moore rally, argued Moore is a better t for Trump’s “populist” movement.
“All of Washington is watching to see what Alabama does,” Moore said at a south Alabama rally attended by Bannon, Brexit leader Nigel Farage, and “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson.
Wearing a white cowboy hat and leather vest at a Monday night rally, Moore repeated the conservative Christian themes he has used his entire public career. He also lashed out at attack ads run against him in the race, including one suggesting he was weak on gun rights. “I believe in the Second Amendment,”