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2020 Census Test Has Critics Counting Concerns, Not People The success of the 2020 census, which will be the first to include an online survey, could hinge on a single "dress rehearsal" underway right now in Rhode Island. So far, many locals aren't impressed. Providence County, the state's most populous, is the only place where the Census Bureau is running a full test, after plans to test two other sites this year were canceled because of a lack of funding from Congress. A planned question about citizenship that has states suing the federal government isn't on the test. Several elected officials and leaders of advocacy and community groups this week held an "emergency press conference" to raise concerns, which include a shortage of publicity around the test and its limited language outreach in an immigrant-heavy county, with large communities from countries including the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Portugal and Cape Verde. "If we don't get it right here, then the country's not going to get it right," Democratic Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee warned. States, cities sue The concerns in Rhode Island are the latest evidence of mounting apprehension over the 2020 census. Seventeen states and six cities, including Rhode Island and its largest city, Providence, sued the federal government on Tuesday to block a question the administration of Republican President Donald Trump announced last month it would ask about citizenship. The 2020 census will be the first to give respondents the option of answering online. Census Bureau officials say that the Rhode Island test is on track, and that they're focused on ensuring new technology works, including a smartphone app being used by canvassers and cloud computing. "There's things that aren't exactly the way they need to be. But we're learning that; we're making the changes on the fly," said Jeff Behler, a regional Census Bureau director who is overseeing the test. "We're getting some very critical information about changes that we need to make. And we have time to do that." In the test, which began March 16, 280,000 homes in Providence County are receiving letters through the U.S. mail that direct residents to a survey website or toll-free phone number. There, they can complete the survey, which includes questions including about age, race and ethnicity. People may also call to get a paper version of the census sent to them, but census officials hope most will do it online because it is less expensive. A response is legally required. Those who don't respond on their own will get a personal visit, with door-knocking scheduled through July, Behler said. Census workers who visit homes will use a new smartphone app, instead of paper forms, to enter information they collect in person. Nothing on citizenship The test survey does not include any question on citizenship, having begun several days before the Trump administration's announcement that it was adding that question. Entities that use census data worry about including a question on the census without testing it first. "Adding a question at this late stage of the Census process does not allow time for adequate testing to incorporate new questions, particularly if the testing reveals substantial problems," the American Statistical Association wrote in a January letter to the federal government. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he added the citizenship question at the request of the Justice Department to provide a more accurate tally of the number of voting-eligible residents in each neighborhood. Many Democratic officials and advocacy groups fear the question will scare people away from participating because they view the Trump administration as hostile to immigrants, diminishing the survey's overall accuracy. Many Republican officials have downplayed such concerns, instead echoing the Trump administration's assertion that there is no empirical evidence pointing to a steep participation decline. The Rhode Island test would have to be repeated — the second time with a citizenship question at the end — to gauge whether there is a decrease in participation, but there are no plans to do that. Even aside from the citizenship question, critics say they worry residents will ignore the test requests because they don't know what they are or because they fear how the government will use the information. And they worry a test with a lot of problems will ripple into the nationwide census two years from now. Funding shortages mean the testing has been scaled back significantly from original plans, including two canceled 2018 tests in West Virginia and Washington state, as well as two field tests that were canceled in 2017. Plans for the census bureau to run an ad campaign and other outreach for the Rhode Island test were also canceled for lack of funding. "At this time 10 years ago, there were five fully funded, end-to-end tests around the country," said Gabriela Domenzain, director of the Latino Policy Institute at Providence's Roger Williams University. "Today there is one underfunded. The census will fail. The pilot is failing." Letter in English only Community leaders point out that the region has a large immigrant population but that the official-looking, two-page government letter came only in English, along with a short flier that offered help completing it, with one sentence each in eight other languages. "The confusion around the census and the fear around it, we're afraid, is going to dissuade people from filling it out," said Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza. "I don't know what's in their minds, but it sure seems that if you're trying to be strategic and sandbag this process, that you would do exactly what they're doing." As of Monday, more than 43,000 households in the county of about 630,000 residents had responded to the test, a 15 percent response rate, Census Bureau spokeswoman Kristina Barrett said. That figure is in line with expectations at this point in the test, she said. Eighty-seven percent of respondents had done so online. At the bustling Carolina Family Restaurant in Providence on Friday, which serves up Dominican fare, one patron said she received the letter and completed it online; another said she got it and planned to do it. But five other county residents said they knew nothing about it. "I don't really watch the news," said Anthony Gomez, 29, of Providence. "It's depressing." This story was written by the Associated Press.
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Victims slowly identified in Canadian hockey team bus crash disaster; death toll rises to 15 The identities of some of those killed in the crash of a bus carrying a Canadian junior hockey team headed to a playoff game were revealed Saturday, as relatives learned the team's coach and team captain were among the 15 dead.
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US Senators Call For Credible Elections in Zimbabwe Visiting members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee say Zimbabwe's government must ensure free and fair elections if Washington is to lift sanctions. Jeff Flake and Chris Coons, both members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters Saturday in Harare they are happy with how Zimbabwe is progressing since the forced retirement of Robert Mugabe as the country's president last November. Flake urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure Zimbabwe hold credible elections so the West can lift sanctions imposed on some members of the ruling Zanu PF party in 2002 after accusations of election rigging and human rights abuses. "Nothing will please us more than to be able to play a role in the legislative branch and also to recommend to the president that these sanctions are all to be lifted, and the U.S. and Zimbabwe can have not just full diplomatic relations as we do now for commercial ties and to have expanded trade and to remove individuals from that sanctions list, but that depends as we all know on what happens in the upcoming months," said Flake. That was a reference to Zimbabwe's elections, expected in July or August of this year. Senator Coons was asked what the U. S. and the West expect from the polls. "We believe there are well known international standards adopted by the African Union, by SADC [Southern African Development Community], by EU [European Union], by others that show what steps are that go from a declaration that we intend to have a free and fair election, to having that election, and steps that follow after an election to re-establishing the rule of law, to re-establishing a sound economic system that is sound, to re-establishing human rights and respect for others. It is not our place to dictate a particular path or steps," Coons said. Last month, Senators Flake, a Republican, and Coons, a member of the Democratic Party, introduced a bill to reset relations, including laying out steps Zimbabwe's new government needs to takein order to have U.S. sanctions lifted. This story was written by VOA's Sebastian Mhofu.
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Malaysia's prime minister appeals for strong mandate Malaysia's prime minister has unveiled a lavish manifesto with cash benefits targeting rural ethnic Malays, his key voting bloc, as he appealed to voters to give his long-ruling coalition a strong mandate.
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More police on London streets as murder spike worries locals British police say they are deploying 300 more officers on the streets of London this weekend to confront a spike in stabbing and shootings that has sparked fears about rising crime.
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Brazil's Ex-President 'Lula' Defies Court, Jail Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defied an order to turn himself in to police Friday, instead hunkering down with supporters at a metallurgical union that was the spiritual birthplace of his rise to power. The once wildly popular leader, who rose from poverty to lead Latin America's largest nation, had until 5 p.m. local time to present himself to police in the city of Curitiba to begin serving a sentence of 12 years and one month for a corruption conviction. Hours after the deadline, however, da Silva remained inside the union building in the Sao Paulo suburb of Sao Bernardo do Campo, about 260 miles (417 kilometers) northeast of Curitiba. Party leaders initially said he would speak in the late afternoon, but later said he would not. Turning himself in Two sources close to da Silva told The Associated Press the former leader would not go to Curitiba, but instead was considering either waiting for police at the union or presenting himself in Sao Paulo on Saturday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share internal deliberations being discussed. Forcing da Silva out of the union building on a Friday night would be a logistical nightmare given the thousands of supporters outside and heavy Friday traffic in Sao Paulo. "The intention is not to force compliance at any cost, but rather follow the order the best way possible, with tranquility and without a media show," Luis Antonio Boudens, president of the federal police, said in a statement. Sen. Roberto Requiao told reporters that da Silva planned to attend a commemoration Saturday morning for his late wife, to be held at the union. Corruption conviction Anna Julia Menezes Rodrigues, a specialist in criminal law at Braga Nascimento e Zilio, said da Silva's defiance did not turn him into a fugitive. It just meant that it was now up to federal police to carry out the warrant, she said. Federal judge Sergio Moro, seen by many in Brazil as a crusader against endemic graft, on Thursday gave da Silva 24 hours to present himself to authorities. The arrest warrant came hours after Brazil's top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal, voted 6-5 to deny a request by the former president to stay out of prison while he appealed a conviction that he contends was simply a way to keep him off the ballot in October's election. He is the front-running presidential candidate despite his conviction. Last year, Moro convicted da Silva of trading favors with a construction company in exchange for the promise of a beachfront apartment. That conviction was upheld by an appeals court in January. The former president denies any wrongdoing in that case or in several other corruption cases that have yet to be tried. Returning to his base Friday night, thousands listened to music and speeches outside the metallurgical union in Sao Bernardo do Campo where the ex-president universally known as "Lula" got his start as a union organizer. However it happens, the jailing of da Silva will mark a colossal fall from grace for a man who rose to power against steep odds in one of the world's most unequal countries. Born in the hardscrabble northeast, da Silva rose through the ranks of the union in the country's industrial south. In 1980, during the military dictatorship, da Silva was arrested in Sao Bernardo do Campo for organizing strikes. He would spend more than a month in jail. After running for president several times, in 2002 da Silva finally won. He governed from 2003 to 2010, leaving office an international celebrity and with approval ratings in the high 80s. Since leaving office, things have steadily gotten worse for the leader, who has been charged in several corruption cases. He has always maintained his innocence while continuing to campaign across the country the past year. Despite his legal troubles, he leads preference polls to return to office, if by some chance he is allowed to run. Workers' Party leaders insist that da Silva, 72, would still be the party's candidate in October. Technically, beginning to serve his sentence would not keep da Silva off the ballot. In August, the country's top electoral court makes final decisions about candidacies. It was expected to deny da Silva's candidacy under Brazil's "clean slate" law. Da Silva is the latest of many high-profile people to be ensnared in possibly the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history. Over the last four years, Brazilians have experienced near weekly police operations and arrests of the elite, from top politicians to businessmen like former Odebrecht CEO Marcelo Odebrecht. Investigators uncovered a major scheme in which construction companies essentially formed a cartel that doled out inflated contracts from state oil company Petrobras, paying billions in kickbacks to politicians and businessmen. While Moro, who oversees many cases in the so-Called "Operation Car Wash," is hailed as a hero by many, others see him as a partisan hit man out to get da Silva and the Workers' Party. This story was written by the Associated Press.
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Bernie Sanders Struggles With New Path to Black Voters Bernie Sanders took the stage in Mississippi's capital city alongside a popular, young African-American mayor whose election he'd endorsed last year. Sanders, the one-time and potentially future presidential candidate, praised Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba as an heir to the legacy of Martin Luther King, not just on civil rights for black Americans but economic justice for poor and working-class Americans. Yet on the same night Lumumba and Sanders gathered to honor the slain civil rights leader, the Vermont senator seemed to downplay another iconic black American. Former President Barack Obama, Sanders said, was a "charismatic individual ... an extraordinary candidate, a brilliant man." But "behind that reality," Sanders continued, the nation's first black president led a Democratic Party whose "business model" has been a "failure" for more than a decade. It served as the latest confirmation that Sanders, even as he tries for new footholds in the black community, hasn't mastered his precarious relationship with a key Democratic Party constituency that effectively blocked his White House path in 2016 with its overwhelming support for Hillary Clinton; it's a constituency he will need if he hopes to reshape the party going forward, much less make another presidential run. Sanders, who is elected in Vermont as an independent but caucuses in Washington with Democrats, has been spending more time in places dominated by black voters, including Southern states where African-Americans shape Democratic primaries. He and Lumumba have become a sort of political odd couple: the white 76-year-old democratic socialist with his rumpled suit and untamed hair, preaching in his Brooklyn accent, and an impeccably clad 35-year-old black attorney-turned-politician smiling his way through calm expositions sprinkled with the occasional "y'all." But they share a common vision. Lumumba expresses hopes to make Jackson "the most radical" of U.S. cities. Besides campaigning for Lumumba, Sanders came to Mississippi last year to lobby workers to unionize a Nissan auto plant. The senator backed another black millennial in neighboring Alabama, helping Randall Woodfin to the mayor's office in Birmingham. In New Orleans, Our Revolution, the spinoff of Sanders' presidential campaign, tapped the eventual winner of a crowded mayoral race. LaToya Cantrell will be sworn in May 7. On Capitol Hill, Sanders aides say he huddles more routinely with black lawmakers to discuss shared priorities. In an interview in Mississippi, Sanders brushed back "the myth" that he has little black support, noting 2016 primary exit polls showing he won voters under 30 across racial lines. But he mostly shuns most race-based analysis and casts his post-2016 maneuvering as ideological: He wants to move public policy leftward on everything from health care and college access to criminal justice and labor policy, and he argues the way to do that is increase voter turnout across demographic groups. "My goal is to bring forth a progressive agenda that speaks to the needs of working people, whether they are black, white or Latino, and get people involved in the political process in a way we have not seen in a very long time," he said in an interview before his event with Lumumba. His mentions of the civil rights movement still don't include his own activism as a white college student in Chicago. His travel itinerary has been void of state and local party galas where lower-level party players are accustomed to welcoming would-be presidents. Clinton attended such events for decades, and by her presidential campaigns often could call several attendees by name. "We haven't heard from him at all," said Alabama's Joe Reed, who leads an influential black caucus within his state's party. Georgia's Nikema Williams, her state party's vice chairwoman and a first-term state senator, said the same. Sanders came to Atlanta last year to campaign for a black mayoral candidate who ultimately lost, but didn't reach beyond Vincent Fort's campaign circle. As a comparison, Williams said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a possible 2020 candidate, called to congratulate her after her election. "It struck me that she'd be calling a new state senator in Georgia," Williams said. Sanders answered that he doesn't need "the establishment," regardless of race, and said most voters are "estranged" from the two-party system anyway. As with Sanders' comments on Obama, some of the rub is as much about emphasis as substance. Seated with Lumumba, the senator was asked about the marginalization of black LGBTQ citizens. He shifted the question to people "you didn't talk about" like "people working two or three jobs" and "people who spend 50 percent of their limited income on housing." He repeatedly turned discussion of fighting racism to fighting poverty. "If all I hear about is 'the working class,' and it seems he's talking to just one segment, then it's easy to feel he's not talking to me," said Williams, the Georgia Democrat. Exit polling from the 2008 and 2016 Democratic presidential primaries showed that the eventual nominee - Obama, then Clinton - actually lost the cumulative white vote, but prevailed on the strength of non-whites, particularly black voters. Those trends may not apply neatly in 2020, when the Democratic field is expected to include well more than two competitive candidates. There could be multiple credible black candidates, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey. But Clay Middleton, who ran Clinton's South Carolina campaign in 2016, said the takeaway remains: "You want to get elected president, you want to win the nomination, you cannot take the African-American vote for granted." Reed, the Alabama Democrat, offered a warning both to Sanders and black Democrats. Black voters, Reed said, must recognize that "we can't elect a president by ourselves" and that any victorious candidate must "appeal to more than just us." But any presidential hopeful, Reed said, must understand that black voters "will look for somebody that looks out for our interests." This story was written by the Associated Press.
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Bald eagle lands on Seattle Mariners pitcher James Paxton prior to start of national anthem Seattle Mariners pitcher James Paxton was visited by an unexpected guest during his warmup routine Thursday prior to his start against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday.
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South Korea's history of bad presidential endings grows In the same courtroom where an ex-military dictator was once sentenced to death, Park Geun-hye's corruption conviction on Friday extended the tradition of South Korean presidencies ending badly.
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Pennsylvania man arrested after allegedly stabbing father to death with butter knife, removing one of his eyes, police say A Pennsylvania man was arrested after allegedly killing his father with a butter knife and removing one of his eyeballs which officers later recovered from the floor of their Philadelphia home.
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