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International Budget for Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Updated at 0330 UTC (11:30 p.m. U.S. EDT Tuesday).

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^Putin and Erdogan outline plan to reduce tension along Turkey-Syria border

RUSSIA-TURKEY:LA _ The presidents of Turkey and Russia outlined a plan late Tuesday meant to reduce tensions along the Turkey-Syria border, where Turkish forces launched a military offensive almost two weeks ago.

Authorities meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi said the effort would involve Russian and Syrian government forces and a so-called border safe zone long demanded by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a session that reportedly lasted almost seven hours, apparently reflecting the difficulty of crafting an agreement.

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^WORLD NEWS

^Johnson faces Brexit delay after lawmakers reject timetable

BRITAIN-EU-2ND-LEDE:DPA _ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said late Tuesday he will "pause" his key Brexit legislation after lawmakers rejected the three-day timetable he had proposed for them to scrutinize it.

"I will speak to EU member states about their intentions," Johnson told the Commons, Parliament's elected main house, after he won a vote on the legislation but then lost a vote on a "program motion" for the timetable.

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^Top US diplomat in Ukraine contradicts Trump's claim of no quid pro quo

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William B. Taylor's deposition, recounted from copious notes and presented in exacting detail, provided Democrats with devastating corroboration of what has already been described by previous witnesses: the hijacking of U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine by a "highly irregular" second channel, led by Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and others.

Democrats described the testimony as conclusive evidence for the impeachment case they are investigating and indicated that Taylor would be a prime witness when they begin laying out the case to the public in hearings later this fall.

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^Immediate backlash hits Trump after he calls impeachment probe a 'lynching'

TRUMP-LYNCHING:CON _ Conjuring memories of violent racially motivated murders and drawing an immediate bipartisan backlash, President Donald Trump on Tuesday described House Democrats' impeachment inquiry as a "lynching."

Trump made the statement in a morning tweet that began with a warning that "if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights."

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^New bribery charge leveled against Lori Loughlin and other parents in college admissions scandal

CMP-ADMISSIONS-FRAUD-LOUGHLIN-1ST-LEDE:LA _ Already charged with fraud and money laundering, 11 of the 15 parents who have maintained their innocence in a federal investigation of college admissions fraud were indicted Tuesday on new bribery charges, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.

The newly indicted parents _ a group that includes actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, a fashion designer _ were charged in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Boston, alleging they conspired to commit federal program bribery to secure their children's fraudulent admissions to the University of Southern California.

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^Anonymous Trump official who wrote 'resistance' op-ed to publish tell-all book

ANONYMOUS-OPED-BOOK:LA _ The anonymous writer behind the "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" op-ed published last year in The New York Times has written a forthcoming tell-all book.

The publisher, Twelve Books, announced Tuesday that the book titled "A Warning" will offer "an unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency." The publisher said the book's author is the same anonymous senior Trump administration official who wrote a Sept. 5, 2018, op-ed that claimed members of the administration were working to counter the president's "ill-informed," "impulsive" and "erratic" instincts and "amorality."

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^Trump floats Mulvaney replacements including Mnuchin and Conway

TRUMP-CHIEFOFSTAFF:BLO _ Donald Trump has for weeks been privately testing the idea of replacing his chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who's swiftly fallen out of favor with some of the president's allies after high-profile stumbles handling the House impeachment inquiry.

About a month ago, Trump said to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in front of a roomful of staff: You have such great ideas, why don't you be my chief? He has made similar remarks about Chris Liddell, a deputy chief of staff at the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. He's also asked advisers whether his counselor Kellyanne Conway would be a good chief of staff, other people said.

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^Despite reversal, Trump's Doral promotion will now be used against him in court

G7-SUMMIT-DORAL:WA _ Congressional Democrats filed a legal brief in federal court on Tuesday asserting that President Donald Trump's promotion of his Doral resort for the G-7 summit was further evidence he has violated the Emoluments Clause, despite his decision to reverse course.

The initial announcement last week _ from Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, as he stood behind the official White House podium _ provided the president's personal property with "invaluable publicity" that in and of itself may amount to an emolument, a House Democratic source said.

Democratic lawmakers and their aides debated how to proceed over the weekend, after the president tweeted that he had reversed the decision and would not hold the G-7 summit at his Florida resort, only three days after Mulvaney's announcement.

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^Democrats could tie paychecks to testimony in impeachment inquiry

IMPEACHMENT-PAYCHECKS:CON _ House Democrats are threatening to force Trump administration officials' compliance with their impeachment inquiry by targeting something they hold dear: their paychecks.

Democrats have twice referenced using an obscure provision in the annual Financial Services spending bill, referred to as Section 713, that says any federal employee who "prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to prohibit or prevent" another official from communicating with lawmakers shouldn't be paid during that time.

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^Accusing critics of a 'lynching' is not just a Trump thing

TRUMP-LYNCHING-OTHERS:CON _ President Donald Trump's description of his impeachment travails as a "lynching" is by no means the first time a public figure has used that term to attack critics.

But there's one thing Trump, a self-described billionaire who's spoken repeatedly _ if not always accurately _ about his European roots, does not have in common with many who have resorted to the political lynching defense. His ancestors were neither slaves nor descended from free blacks, historically the most frequent targets of mob violence and extrajudicial hangings.

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^Trump's company removes his name from Central Park ice rinks ahead of skating season

TRUMP-ICERINKS:NY _ Does Donald Trump's company think the Trump name is bad for business?

The president's eponymous business has scrubbed his name from a couple of ice rinks in Central Park that he has owned since the 1980s, according to city officials.

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^Buttigieg focus groups found being gay 'a barrier' for some black South Carolina voters

BUTTIGIEG-SCAROLINA:WA _ Internal focus groups conducted by Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign this summer reveal a key reason why he is struggling with black American voters: some see his sexuality as a problem.

The 21-page report, conducted by the Benenson Strategy Group with black Democratic South Carolina voters in mid-July and obtained exclusively by McClatchy, found that "being gay was a barrier for these voters, particularly for the men who seemed deeply uncomfortable even discussing it. (T)heir preference is for his sexuality to not be front and center."

While the report stated that Buttigieg's sexuality was not a "disqualifier" for these voters, some of the focus group participants questioned why Buttigieg even brought it up.

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^Russia-linked group likely used Iranian hacking tools, NSA says

RUSSIA-IRAN-HACKING:BLO _ A Russia-linked group is believed to have utilized Iranian tools to conduct cyber attacks against dozens of countries, in an apparent effort to mask their identities, according to joint advisories by the U.S. and the U.K.

The group, known as Turla, used tools from suspected Iran-based hacking groups and deployed them against old and new targets. In order to acquire the tools, Turla "comprised the suspected Iran-based hacking groups themselves," according to the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre, which released the advisories on Monday.

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^Former President Jimmy Carter fractures pelvis in fall at home

CARTER:AT _ Former President Jimmy Carter fell Monday at his home in Plains and suffered a "minor pelvic fracture," The Carter Center tweeted Tuesday morning.

Carter, who recently turned 95, was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center for observation and treatment.

"He is in good spirits and is looking forward to recovering at home," the tweet stated.

This is the second time the 39th U.S. president has fallen this month and the third fall this year.

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^Aryan Brotherhood fugitive hangs himself after arrest in Costa Rica

ARYANBROTHERHOOD-SUICIDE:SA _ An Aryan Brotherhood member who has been a fugitive since federal officials in Sacramento charged 16 people in a massive racketeering and murder probe killed himself in a Costa Rican jail last month hours after being apprehended.

Matthew Hall, 50, of Hermosa Beach, hanged himself Sept. 27 after Costa Rican authorities arrested him at a home he was living in at the time.

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^Ex-Russian Olympics official who drew wrath of Putin arrested by ICE in South Florida

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Agents detained Akhmed Bilalov, a onetime deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee who fled the country after Putin chastised him for construction delays and spiraling costs before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

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^Trump administration is weakening endangered species protections for delta smelt and salmon

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The rollback _ coming a year after President Donald Trump targeted the regulations in a memo _ rewards Central Valley agribusiness interests that are some of the president's strongest California supporters. To critics, it highlights the extent to which the Trump administration has injected politics into federal oversight of the nation's leading environmental laws.

The actions also put California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leader of the Trump resistance on many environmental matters, in a politically fraught position _ since California's biggest and most powerful water agencies want the state to go along with the Trump moves.

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