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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The president got what you might call a grassroots display of support at the White House, welcoming an 11-year-old Virginia boy who offered to help cut the lawn.President Donald Trump high-fived Frank Giaccio, who lives in the Washington suburb of Falls Church. The White House says Frank wrote Trump to say he admires the president's business acumen and runs his own neighborhood lawn-care business.Frank was so focused on pushing the lawn mower, he didn't notice Trump had emerged to greet him until the president was next to him in the Rose Garden.Trump says Frank is "the future of the country" and will soon be "very famous."Frank said he wants to be a Navy SEAL, to which Trump exclaimed, "He'll make it." 738
¡¡¡¡WATCH THE LAUNCH:(KGTV and CNN) - Friday morning's launch of a SpaceX rocket from the Central California coast will be a notable one for Elon Musk's out-of-orbit efforts.A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:13 a.m. PT. The rocket will deliver a group of satellites for communications firm Iridium (IRDM).Shortly after launch, SpaceX is probably going to make another experimental attempt to guide the rocket's nose cone, also called a payload fairing, onto a passenger ship outfitted with a giant net.PHOTOS: SpaceX?rocket launch visible above San DiegoThe fairing rests on the very top part of the rocket, and it acts as a shield for satellites during launch. Once the rocket is in space, the fairing splits into two and falls away. Typically, it's left to plummet back to Earth where the ocean becomes its graveyard.But SpaceX wants to change that, mostly because the fairing on its Falcon 9 costs million.As Musk once put it, if "you had million in cash on a palette flying through the air, and it's going to smash into the ocean, would you try to recover it? Yes. Yes, you would."The company has quietly attempted to recapture the 43-foot-long fairing halves since at least March of 2017.At least twice, SpaceX has guided fairing halves to soft landings in the ocean, according to Musk's social media pages.But there's a problem."Once it gets into the water, it's quite damaging to the electronics and components inside the fairing," said Glenn Lightsey, a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. "Most likely if it gets into the water, it's not usable."Enter, Mr. Steven.For Friday's launch a ship, named Mr. Steven, will head out to sea and attempt to catch half of the fairing with a giant net. 1810
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KGTV) - President Trump addressed questions Tuesday about a possible closure of the U.S.-Mexico border, saying ¡°I¡¯m totally prepared to do it.¡± Speaking at a White House news conference, Trump called on Congress to make a deal and the Mexican government to stop immigrants from entering Mexico. Trump suggested Mexico had stepped up its efforts to keep Central American migrants from moving north in the past two days. The president also demanded change in what he described as "the worst, dumbest immigration system in the world."¡°We need to get rid of chain migration, we need to get rid of catch and release, and visa lottery, and we have to do something about asylum, and to be honest with you, we have to get rid of judges,¡± said Trump. Closing the border would have a severe impact to the U.S. economy, especially in border cities like San Diego. The flow of goods, including avocados and cars, would be disrupted, along with manufacturing supply lines. The Council of Economic Advisers was conducting studies on the potential impact of a border closure and "working with the president to give him those options," said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. When asked about the economic impact of a border shutdown, Trump said, ¡°To me trading is very important the borders are very important but security is what - the most important.¡± Trump also left open the possibility of closing sections of the southern border instead of the entire border. There was no immediate word on which areas would be affected. The president is scheduled to visit the southwestern U.S. Friday, including Calexico.Watch Trump's news conference:The Associated Press contributed to this report. 1704
¡¡¡¡We hear it all the time--save the bees! Well, one Colorado woman has come up with an idea that could do just that.Danielle Bilot, an instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, created the Forgotten Hive project. The initiative aims to transform parts of parking lot spaces into rest stops for bees.¡°These native bees, some of them can only fly about three blocks before they need more food,¡± explains Bilot. ¡°And, so, if we don't have a frequent enough system, they're going to potentially die trying to get to the next big park space.¡±Bilot, with the help of students involved in the project, added nearly two dozen different plants at the edge of one parking lot in Boulder. The new plants, which replaced shrubs, will hopefully give bees a place to get food year-round.Bilot says there are more than 3,600 native bee species around the country, and they're not just cool to look at.¡°They are more efficient pollinators for crops than the honeybees we often think of,¡± says Bilot.Bilot visits the lot at least once a week to observe the bees and to take note of how they¡¯re responding to the plants.¡°If some of them aren't attracting native bees, and we're not catching them on them, we won't plant them in the next lot,¡± Bilot says.The instructor hopes to spread the word and to spread hives to parking lots around her city, the country and the world.¡°We're looking at a large amount of urban land that can be converted into productive green space for a variety of benefits,¡± says Bilot. ¡°What city wouldn't want to do that?¡± 1548
¡¡¡¡WASHINGTON, D.C. ¨C One hundred years after the 19th Amendment became law, eligible women voters could end up as the definitive political power in the 2020 election.¡°Women are the most consistent, reliable voting bloc across the country, across the elections, year in and year out,¡± said Jeanette Senecal with the League of Women Voters.The numbers bear that out. According to the Pew Research Center, women have outnumbered men in the voting booth in every presidential election since 1984.In 2016, 63% of eligible women voted, versus 59% of men.Those numbers have implications for both the Democratic and Republican parties, according to American University professor Jane Hall.¡°We are seeing a very striking acceleration of what has been a trend for some time, which is a gender gap between women voting for Democrats and men voting more for the Republican party,¡± Hall said.In the 2018 midterm elections, that gender gap became pronounced.Among registered voters, 50% of men identified as either Republican or leaning Republican, while 42% of men went with Democrats, a difference of 8%.Yet, among women, that gap more than doubled: 56% of women identified as Democrats, but only 38% with Republicans ¨C a gap of 18%.How women choose to vote, though, is more complex than just two political parties, said Howard University political science professor Dr. Keesha Middlemass. There are differences in race and ethnicity, as well as levels of education and income.¡°We have to think about women as multiple blocs of voters,¡± Dr. Middlemass said. ¡°They¡¯re not a monolith.¡±That¡¯s something the two presidential candidates seem to realize. President Donald Trump recently said he¡¯s trying to appeal to what he calls ¡°suburban housewives,¡± while Joe Biden picked a woman, California Senator Kamala Harris, as his running mate.¡°Anecdotally, talking to a lot of women: representation matters, seeing yourself there matters,¡± Hall said.What impact all of this has on the upcoming election remains to be seen.¡°Women want policies: ¡®how are you going to make my life better?¡¯ well, that requires policy,¡± Dr. Middlemass said. ¡°But that whole idea of gender politics is going to be very evident in getting out the vote.¡±All of it is happening in an election where gender could tip the balance of power one way, or another. 2318
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