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Tropical Storm Emily Soaks Florida Peninsula; Weakens

Darcelle Jacobs and her dog Skittles check out the flooding on their street in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Monday, July 31, 2017. Tropical Storm Emily weakened to a
tropical depression Monday afternoon as it slogged eastward across the Florida peninsula, spreading drenching rains, causing power outages and leaving two
fishermen to be rescued from Tampa Bay. (Andrew West/The News-Press via AP)
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At Press Time:
Venezuela Defiant as US Moves to Sanction President

Associated Press Venezuelan government’s The official result would ernment-allied observers to negotiate an end to
CARACAS, Venezuela behavior. The Trump ad- mean the ruling party but no internationally rec- hostilities that have gener-
(AP) — Venezuela’s so- ministration backed away won more support than it ognized poll monitors. ated four months of pro-
cialist government on from earlier threats to had in any national elec- Opposition leader Hen- tests that have killed at
Monday claimed a popu- sanction Venezuela’s oil tion since 2013, despite a rique Capriles, the gover- least 120 and wounded
lar mandate to dramati- industry — a move that cratering economy, spiral- nor of the central state of nearly 2,000. Venezuela’s
cally recast the country’s could undermine Madu- ing inflation, shortages of Miranda, urged Venezu- chief prosecutor’s office
political system even as ro’s government but raise medicine and malnutri- elans to protest Monday reported 10 deaths in new
condemnations of the U.S. gas prices and deep- tion. Opinion polls showed against an assembly that rounds of clashes Sunday
process poured in from en Venezuela’s humani- 85 percent of Venezuelans critics fear will effectively between protesters and
governments around the tarian crisis. disapproved of the consti- create a single-party state. police. Seven police offi-
world and the opposition Electoral authorities said tutional assembly and sim- Maduro has said the new cers were wounded when
at home. The United States more than 8 million people ilar numbers disapprove assembly will begin to gov- a fiery explosion went off
added President Nicolas voted Sunday to create of Maduro’s overall per- ern within a week. He said as they drove past piles of
Maduro to a steadily grow- a constitutional assembly formance. Independent he would use the assem- trash that had been used
ing list of high-ranking Ven- endowing Maduro’s rul- analysts and opposition bly’s powers to bar op- to blockade a street in an
ezuelan officials targeted ing party with virtually un- leaders estimated the real position candidates from opposition stronghold in
by financial sanctions, es- limited powers — a figure turnout at less than half running in gubernatorial eastern Caracas.
calating a tactic that has widely disputed by inde- the government’s claim in elections in December un- Continued on Page 12
so far failed to alter the pendent analysts. a vote watched by gov- less they sit with his party