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Following U.S., Putin suspends nuclear pact and promises new weapons The Washington Post

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said his country would follow the United States in its participation in a treaty banning midrange nuclear weapons, the latest step toward the demise of a pact that had been a pillar of international arms control since the close of the Cold War.

Putin ordered his military to start developing land based missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads in the range prohibited by the treaty, including a hypersonic version. He also directed his diplomats to stop initiating any arms control talks with the West, claiming Washington hadnt negotiated in good faith.

Putins move came a day after the Trump administration announced it was pulling out of the agreement and underscored analysts fears that a budding arms race between Russia and the United States is about to intensify.

Our answer will be symmetrical, Putin said in a televised meeting with his defense and foreign ministers. Our American partners declared that they will suspend their participation in the treaty, so we will suspend ours as well. They said they would start research and development, and we will do the same.

The United States and its allies have said for years that Russia is violating the 1987 pact between Washington and Moscow, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, by developing and fielding a banned missile. Russia denies the allegation.

Critics of U.S. withdrawal from the treaty say that, despite Russias violation, the best way to keep Russian arms in check would be to negotiate while keeping the treaty intact. Trump administration officials say the treaty threatens U.S. national security by preventing the country from responding to missile threats, not just from Russia but also from China, which isnt a signatory to the INF Treaty.

Putins directive on Saturday to start new development referred to missiles that would be different from the prohibited one the United States accuses Russia of already having deployed. He approved a request from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to create a land based version of existing sea launched missiles and to start developing a new, hypersonic medium range ballistic missile.

Both of those missiles would be capable of a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, or 311 and 3,418 miles, which is banned by the INF Treaty. The pact, signed near the close of the Cold War by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminated more than 2,600 missiles and ended a years long standoff with nuclear missiles in Europe.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that, effective Saturday, the United States will suspend participation in the agreement, starting a six month countdown to a final U.S. withdrawal. Pompeo said Russia could salvage the treaty by ending its banned missile programs, but Putins Saturday underscored the very low likelihood Russia will make such a move.

In the televised meeting, the Russian president directed officials to stop initiating any talks related to arms control. Putin had previously been eager to negotiate with the United States on the matter — in part because, analysts say, discussion of nuclear arsenals is one of the only issues on which Moscow can engage on near equal diplomatic footing with Washington.

Im asking both ministries to no longer initiate any negotiations on this issue, Putin said, referring to his foreign and defense ministries. Lets wait until our partners are ready to hold an equal, meaningful dialogue on this extremely important topic.

But Russias defense budget is far smaller than that of the United States — another incentive for Moscow to avoid a full fledged arms race, especially as show growing domestic discontent. Putin on Saturday said Russia would not let itself be drawn into an expensive arms race and, as the cameras rolled, made sure his defense minister could carry out the new missile development without increasing the defense budget.

With the demise of the INF Treaty, the key remaining arms control agreement between the United States and Russia is the New START treaty, which limits deployed strategic nuclear warheads and expires in two years. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Putin Saturday that the United States had failed to engage in Russian efforts to negotiate the treatys renewal.

All they say is that a decision about the fate of the New START treaty has not been made, Lavrov said. All in all, the situation is worrying.

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Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post - Duration: 2:31.

Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post

DETROIT — A Detroit area historical group is protesting a mayors decision to stop it from sending out the latest issue of its publication, which delves into Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Fords anti Semitism.

Officials with the Dearborn Historical Commission say the latest edition of The Dearborn Historian, a city financed quarterly journal, should be sent to its roughly 200 subscribers and that Mayor Jack OReilly should reverse his decision to cut ties with longtime Detroit journalist Bill McGraw, who wrote the Ford piece.

The story, which can be read online, highlights Fords writings and views on Jews and explores how they still influence modern neo Nazi groups. The cover of the halted edition noted that Ford bought a publication called the Dearborn Independent 100 years ago and used it to attack Jews. It added, the hate he unleashed flourishes in the Internet age.

The Dearborn based automaker disavowed its founders views before he died in 1947 and sought to make amends with Jews and Israel.

Andrew Kercher, assistant chief curator of the citys history museum, told The Detroit News that Ford is obviously Dearborns favorite son.

This wasnt just to sling mud or done irresponsibly, he said. This is basically a form of censorship and crazy to fire the editor and withhold the information from the public.

McGraw, a Dearborn resident and former Detroit Free Press reporter, praised the community and OReillys overall work as mayor.

Im proud of Dearborn and had this just been published, it would have been a positive thing for the city, he told The News.

OReilly said in a statement that he thought the publication and dredging up hateful messages from a century ago could become a distraction from our continuing messages of inclusion and respect. The mayor added he didnt fire McGraw, who wasnt an employee of the city or the museum.

For years, Dearborn has supported and participated with interfaith organizations and in regional roundtables with diverse communities, and actively promotes initiatives dedicated to increasing unity and understanding, OReillys said.

Dearborn now has one of largest communities of Arabs outside of the Middle East.

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McConnell privately cautions Trump about emergency declaration on border wall The Washington Post - Duration: 5:41.

McConnell privately cautions Trump about emergency declaration on border wall The Washington Post

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cautioned President Trump privately this week about the consequences of declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, telling him the move could trigger political blowback and divide the GOP, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the exchange.

McConnell R Ky. told Trump that Congress might end up passing a resolution disapproving the emergency declaration, the people said — which would force the president to contemplate issuing his first veto ever, in the face of opposition from his own party.

McConnell delivered the message during a face to face meeting with the president Tuesday at the White House, according to the Republicans, who requested anonymity to describe the encounter. The two men met alone and conversed with no aides present. Their meeting was not publicly announced.

The majority leaders comments to the president came amid rising GOP concerns over the fallout if Trump were to declare a national emergency that would allow him to circumvent Congress and use the military to build new stretches of wall along the U.S. Mexico border. Trump increasingly appears prepared to take that route, saying Friday that I think theres a good chance well have to do that.

Trump teased the possibility of making a definitive statement on the topic during his State of the Union address, telling reporters to watch the Tuesday speech closely. I think youll find it very exciting, the president said.

And Trump again dismissed chances that hell get the dollar 5.7 billion in wall funding he wants from a bipartisan congressional committee charged with producing a border security solution that could forestall another government shutdown. The committee is working to come up with a deal that could pass before Feb. 15, when a stopgap spending bill will expire if there is no action by Congress and Trump.

If the measure expires with no agreement, large portions of the federal government that reopened Jan. 25 after a record long funding lapse would shut down again.

We will be looking at a national emergency because I dont think anythings going to happen, Trump told reporters at the White House. I dont think Democrats want border security.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump and McConnells meeting. A McConnell spokesman declined to discuss the senators private conversations.

On the same day he met with the president, McConnell publicly voiced his opposition to a national emergency declaration as he encouraged the 17 member congressional committee to find another way out of the impasse. Im for whatever works, which means avoiding a shutdown and avoiding the president feeling he should declare a national emergency, McConnell said during his weekly news conference in the Capitol.

McConnells top deputy, Sen. John Thune R S.D. , told GOP senators at a private lunch that same day that if they had issues with the presidents declaring a national emergency, they should raise them with the White House, according to one of the Republicans and another person with knowledge of Thunes comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them.

The prospect of Trumps using a national emergency declaration to build his wall has divided Republicans, with a number of them expressing concerns about the precedent that such a move would set.

Sen. John Cornyn R Tex. , a top McConnell confidant, said this week that he opposes an emergency declaration, in part because of what it might embolden a future Democratic president to do.

Weve certainly tried to communicate that to him, said Cornyn, referring to Trump. And so, he understands our concerns as weve expressed them. But I dont know if he shares those same concerns.

Other Republican senators took a different view. President Trump proposed logical solutions, said Sen. Rick Scott R Fla. . If the Democrats wont negotiate with him because their judgment is clouded by their pure hatred of him, then the president needs to move forward.

Lawmakers of both parties expect that a national emergency declaration would be immediately challenged in court and would end up languishing in legal proceedings without producing quick action on the border wall that Trump long vowed Mexico would fund.

And a growing concern for Republicans — which McConnell voiced to Trump at the White House — is that they would be forced to vote on a disapproval resolution aimed at overturning the declaration, and that the resolution would pass.

That would take place under provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which provides that a presidential declaration can be terminated if lawmakers pass a joint resolution to do so. House Democrats would be likely to move swiftly to approve such a resolution, and the law provides that it would come to the Senate floor, where it would require only a majority vote to pass.

At least a half dozen Republican senators are fiercely opposed to the idea of an emergency declaration, generating enough opposition that a disapproval resolution could pass the Senate with the support of the 47 Democrats and a handful of GOP senators — the scenario about which McConnell warned Trump. Republicans expect that Trump would veto the resolution, and that the House and Senate would not be likely to muster the supermajority vote needed to override his veto.

A disapproval resolution on a presidential emergency declaration is rare, so exactly how the process would play out is uncertain. But it could expose new rifts within the GOP on Trumps signature issue of a border wall, creating a portrait of disunity that most Republicans would like to avoid.

An emergency declaration would also risk further political damage to Trump, whose disapproval rating rose significantly over the 35 day partial government shutdown as more Americans faulted the president than Democrats for the standoff.

While Trump stood on weak political ground demanding a wall that most Americans continue to oppose, an even larger majority opposes Trumps declaring a national emergency to build it.

A Washington Post ABC News poll during the shutdown found that 66 percent of Americans opposed Trumps using emergency powers to build the wall without Congresss approval, 12 percentage points higher than opposition to the wall in general. Seven in 10 independents and about 9 in 10 Democrats opposed an emergency declaration to build a wall.

Trump is lodged between the political middle and his own base, which has embraced his demand for a border wall. While Republican support for using emergency powers to build a wall was 20 points lower than for the wall overall, 67 percent of Republicans favored Trumps taking emergency action, including a majority who supported this strongly.

Facing a deadline for a compromise, House Republicans on the conference committee plan to visit the border Sunday and Monday.

The White House discussion over a national emergency declaration illustrated the dynamic that has developed between Trump and McConnell. The two speak frequently, people familiar with their conversations said, with McConnell often providing Trump with blunt details about what a certain decision or course of action could mean on Capitol Hill.

But even as they have kept in touch privately, in public their strategies have diverged. Although McConnell has warned about the perils of another shutdown or a declaration of a national emergency, Trump has dangled both as possibilities.

I think some of their goals are aligned, but the methods to get there might be different, said Sen. Richard C. Shelby R Ala. . Asked how they differ, Shelby replied, You have to ask them, but I think its pretty obvious.

Josh Dawsey, Damian Paletta, Scott Clement and John Wagner contributed to this report.

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Washington Post to air Super Bowl ad showcasing reporters plight Freedom of the press News Al Ja - Duration: 2:26.

Washington Post to air Super Bowl ad showcasing reporters plight Freedom of the press News Al Ja

The 60 second commercial, narrated by Tom Hanks, will highlight dangers journalists face in the field.

The Washington Post will air a commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday evening, highlighting the role of journalists and the dangers they can face.

The 60 second commercial, to be narrated by Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, will briefly show several slain or missing journalists affiliated with the Washington Post and other publications, including who was murdered inside the Saudi embassy in Istanbul last year.

Khashoggi a Saudi writer, resident and Washington Post columnist entered the building on October 2 to obtain documentation certifying he had divorced his former wife so he could remarry.

After weeks of repeated denial that it had anything to do with his disappearance, eventually acknowledged that its officials were behind the gruesome murder. Saudi Arabia has yet to disclose the whereabouts of his body.

Other journalists in the commercial include freelance reporter Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria for more than six years, and Marie Colvin, a US correspondent for the Sunday Times in London who was killed in 2012 by Syrian forces while reporting in Homs.

, the commercial shows scenes from major news events from World War II through the present day, ending with the publications logo and its slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness".

"The Super Bowl is a remarkable moment to recognise the courage and commitment of journalists around the world that is so essential to our democracy," said Fred Ryan, publisher and CEO of The Washington Post.

"We decided to seize the opportunity to make this a milestone moment in our ongoing campaign."

While the publication declined to reveal how much it is paying for the 60 second slot, a CNBC report said CBS is charging a record dollar 5.25m for a 30 second slot.

More than died in targeted killings, bomb attacks and crossfire incidents last year, according to The International Federation of Journalists IFJ .

The figure was up from 82 deaths recorded in 2017.

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HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post - Duration: 2:30.

HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post

The Dearborn based automaker disavowed its founders views before he died in 1947 and sought to make amends with Jews and Israel.

Andrew Kercher, assistant chief curator of the citys history museum, told The Detroit News that Ford is obviously Dearborns favorite son.

This wasnt just to sling mud or done irresponsibly, he said. This is basically a form of censorship and crazy to fire the editor and withhold the information from the public.

McGraw, a Dearborn resident and former Detroit Free Press reporter, praised the community and OReillys overall work as mayor.

Im proud of Dearborn and had this just been published, it would have been a positive thing for the city, he told The News.

Dearborn now has one of largest communities of Arabs outside of the Middle East.

For more infomation >> HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post - Duration: 2:30.

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HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post - Duration: 2:30.