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National Briefs
Uncertain outcome, intense haggling likely in UK election
Clinton wades into debate over Obama's immigration actions
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would go even further.
Clintons aggressive
stance reinvigorates the
debate over the scope of
presidential powers, which
has become a flashpoint
in Washingtons politically
fraught immigration fight. It
also raises questions about
the legality of Clintons
proposals and sets up a
potential conflict between
the Democratic front-runner
MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
JULIE PACE
AP White House
Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama
says his executive actions
blocking the deportation
of millions living illegally
in the U.S. go as far as the
law allows. But Hillary
Rodham Clinton says that if
she becomes president, she
more in law enforcement,
health care and education.
Clinton, speaking to
young immigrants in
Nevada on Tuesday, vowed
to protect Obamas actions,
which could also be voided
by future presidents. In a
surprise to many supporters,
Clinton added that she
would move unilaterally
to let even more people
stay in the country if
coalition pact or broad deal
with the SNP. But he also
knows that the nationalists,
who are staunch anti-
Conservatives, would back
Labour on key votes.
Minority government:
Either Labour or the
Conservatives — whichever
has more seats — could try
to govern alone, relying on
smaller parties for support
on a vote-by-vote basis.
Minority governments
are often unstable, and
sometimes fall within
months. But Britain’s
political parties, with their
members exhausted and
coffers depleted, may be
unwilling to trigger a second
election this year. And
recent legal changes have
made it harder to bring
down a government. Once,
defeat on a major piece
of legislation would have
done it, but it now requires
an explicit vote of no-
confidence by lawmakers.
Grand Coalition: Unlikely
but not impossible is a
coalition of traditional
enemies Labour and the
Conservatives. It has
happened before, though
only at a time of national
crisis, during World War
II. Some have argued that
it is the best option to keep
Britain united in the face of
a fractured political system
and growing separatist and
anti-European sentiment.
until it hears his formal bail
plea on Friday.
The California-based
company led by billionaire
Elon Musk aims to launch
U.S. astronauts to the
International Space Station
as early as 2017. Boeing
is designing its own crew
capsule. NASA wants to
make sure the commercial
crew flights will be safe in an
emergency, and is insisting
on reliable escape systems.
There was no immediate
word from SpaceX on how
the test flight went, but it
appeared, at least on TV, that
everything operated more or
less as planned. The plan was
for the capsule to climb close
to a mile high and come
down about a mile offshore.
In the days leading up
to this first major test
of the escape system,
SpaceX officials cautioned
something might go wrong.
The capsule could have
been lost at sea or, worse,
smashed down onto the
Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station, from where it took
off. A two-mile area was
cleared of personnel before
the test, just in case.
SpaceX said its
revolutionary abort system,
once perfected, will provide
escape for astronauts
throughout their climb
to orbit, something even
NASA’s early manned
spacecraft could not do.
The pointy launch-escape
towers atop the Mercury and
Apollo capsules were good
for just the initial part of
liftoff; the same is true of the
Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
The two-man Gemini
capsules relied on ejection
seats, as did the first four
space shuttle flights.
Only the Russians ever
used their escape system
during a real manned launch
— back in 1983 — and it
saved two cosmonauts’
lives. The seven Challenger
astronauts might have
survived their 1986 launch
accident with a decent
escape system; that disaster,
along with the 2003 loss
of Columbia and seven
astronauts during re-entry at
flight’s end, showed NASA
just how valuable an abort
system can be.
and the Obama White
House.
The president unveiled
executive measures last fall
that spare up to 5 million
people, mostly parents and
the young, from deportation.
The administration also set
new enforcement priorities
that could make it easier for
many more people in the
U.S. illegally to stay in the
country.
Star sentenced
to 5 years
MUMBAI, India (AP)
— One of India’s biggest
and most popular movie
stars, Salman Khan, was
sentenced to five years in
jail Wednesday on charges
of driving a vehicle over five
men sleeping on a sidewalk
and killing one in a hit-and-
run case that has dragged for
more than 12 years.
Judge D. W. Deshpande of
the Mumbai Sessions court
found Khan guilty earlier
Wednesday of culpable
homicide.
The 49-year-old actor was
also given separate terms for
negligent driving and causing
grievous harm to the victims,
but all the sentences will run
concurrently, defense lawyers
said.
Khan is one of Bollywood’s
most popular stars,
appearing in more than 90
Hindi-language films in his
27-year career.
His lawyers filed an appeal
for bail in the Mumbai
High Court, lawyer Srikant
Shivade said. It granted Khan
two days of temporary bail
Conservative-Liberal
Democrat coalition that
has governed since 2010.
The Lib Dems are open
to this option, and have
campaigned as the sensible
center ground between
Tories on the right and
Labour on the left. But the
party is likely to lose a big
chunk of its 59 seats. Still,
a Conservative-Lib Dem
coalition could probably
rely for support on key
votes from smaller parties
including Northern Ireland’s
Democratic Unionists and
the U.K. Independence
Party.
Lib-Lab Pact: Labour
could try to form a coalition
with the Liberal Democrats,
who are sympathetic to
them on some issues. Such
an alliance could probably
command support from
small left-leaning parties
including Wales’ Plaid
Cymru and the Greens.
Labour and the SNP: This
is one of the combinations
most likely to add up to a
Commons majority, but
is politically fraught. The
SNP, which is expected
to take most of the seats
in Scotland, supports
Scottish independence,
and its participation in
national government has
been painted by opponents
as a threat to the future of
Britain. Labour leader Ed
Miliband has ruled out a
Congress didn’t act on broad
legislation.
“I would do everything
possible under the law to
go even further,” Clinton
said. She specifically raised
the prospect of stemming
deportations for parents of
“dreamers” — those who
were brought to the country
illegally as children. They
were not covered under
Obama’s executive actions.
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Big rig makes
big entrance
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Its
name is “Inspiration” and
Daimler Trucks says it’s the
first ever self-driving semi-
truck licensed to drive on
public roads — in this case
Nevada’s highways — not only
for testing, but business, too.
Daimler Trucks North
America LLC debuted the
self-driving big rig Tuesday
night with a drive — and a
driver steering — atop the
Hoover Dam on the Nevada-
Arizona border.
Taking a line from
astronaut Neil Armstrong,
Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard of
Daimler Trucks and Buses
told the crowd bused to the
site from Las Vegas for the
news conference that they
were about to witness “a short
drive for man and a long haul
for mankind.”
On Wednesday, the
company planned test-drives
with invited members of
the media to show off the
automated technology.
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) — SpaceX chalked
up another big test flight
Wednesday, firing a capsule
into the air to try out its new,
super-streamlined launch
escape system for astronauts.
No humans were on board
for this brief, first-of-its-kind
flight and the whole thing
lasted barely 1 1/2 minutes.
A dummy was the only
passenger.
The Dragon capsule shot
off a test stand, not a rocket,
and flew up and then out
over the Atlantic. Rocket
engines on the capsule
provided the thrust. Red and
white parachutes popped
open and lowered the capsule
into the ocean, just offshore.
“This flight test unlike
any seen in Florida since
the days of Apollo,” NASA
spokesman Mike Curie, the
TV commentator for the test,
said after the capsule plopped
into the Atlantic. Recovery
boats and a barge moved in
to retrieve the craft.
Faulkner is a
rising star
NEW YORK (AP)—
Harris Faulkner’s hobby may
sound like a patriotic put-on,
but the Fox News Channel
anchor insists it’s legit.
“The thing that I really
love to do, that I now only
do in the shower, is to
sing the national anthem,”
said Faulkner, a regular
on Fox’s daytime show
“Outnumbered.”
While you clear that
image of a shower gel bottle
doubling as a hand-held
mic, know that Faulkner
belted out “The Star Spangled
Banner” in public before
Kansas City Chiefs and
Minnesota TimberWolves
games. She sang it so much
in the newsroom at a Kansas
City television station that a
colleague secretly arranged
her public debut.
Harris, 49, is considered
a rising star at Fox News
after a decade there. Besides
“Outnumbered,” which just
celebrated its first full year on
the air, she regularly works
six-day weeks by anchoring a
Sunday evening newscast.
election, do not participate.
If no party has a
majority, political leaders
will negotiate to put
together groupings that can
command a majority for key
votes.
There is no rule saying the
party with the most seats
gets the first shot at talking
to other parties about
forming a government,
but there will be unofficial
pressure for that to happen.
Liberal Democrat leader
Nick Clegg says he will
speak first to the biggest
party, although there are
likely to be parallel and
overlapping talks.
“I’ve described it like
freestyle wrestling,” said
Peter Riddell of the Institute
for Government. “Anyone
can talk to anyone else,
and it may well be that the
second-largest party is in
easier position to form a
government than the largest
party.”
As head of state, Queen
Elizabeth II formally
appoints the prime minister,
but her role is symbolic.
Once the political picture
is clear, current Prime
Minister David Cameron
will go to Buckingham
Palace — either to tell her
he can form a government,
or to resign and ask her to
summon Labour leader Ed
Miliband.
HOW LONG WILL IT
decisions, but handle routine
business and emergencies.
Financial markets hate
instability, so some fear
the pound could take a
pummeling if the talks drag
on.
“There will be a strong
civil service presence saying:
‘Do you look at the markets?
You had better get a grip.
You’d better work something
out,”’ said Leeds University
political scientist David
Seawright.
Other analysts believe
the markets have already
factored in a period of
uncertainty so are unlikely
to be too volatile.
Riddell points out that
protracted negotiations,
while novel for Britain, are
the norm in many European
countries.
He said, “we won’t be
like Belgium,” which went
without a government for
more than a year.
“The general view is, keep
calm and it will work itself
out.”
WHAT ARE THE LIKELY
OUTCOMES?
“It’s unbelievable,
the permutations,” said
Seawright. “It’ll be musical
chairs to see who can form a
government.”
Some of the potential
options:
The Coalition
Continues: Britain could
see a continuation of the
“We’ve expanded my
authorities under executive
action and prosecutorial
discretion as far as we can
legally under the existing
statute, the existing law,”
Obama said earlier this year.
The president’s actions are
largely on hold amid a court
challenge filed by Texas and
25 other states. The states say
Obama’s action would force
local governments to invest
TAKE?
In 2010, it took five days
for the Conservatives and
Liberal Democrats to forge
a coalition. Gus O’Donnell,
who as Britain’s top civil
servant oversaw those
negotiations, said that “was
a piece of cake compared
to what might happen this
time.”
“More options, more
parties involved ... it is
harder this time,” he told the
BBC.
Parliament is due to
reconvene on May 18,
when lawmakers will take
their oaths and one will
be elected Speaker. That
could all happen without a
government being in place.
A firmer deadline is
May 27, the date set for the
Queen’s Speech. That is an
annual address, delivered
by the monarch but written
by ministers, outlining the
government’s legislative
program. It is followed
by a debate and a vote —
and it would be hard for
a government to survive
losing that vote.
IN THE MEANTIME,
WHO’S IN CHARGE?
Win or lose, on Friday
morning Cameron will
remain Britain’s prime
minister. The current leader
and his government will
remain in place until a new
one is assembled. Ministers
are expected to defer major
LONDON (AP) —
Counting the votes in
Britain’s election will take a
matter of hours. Assembling
a government could take
days — or weeks.
By Friday, the country will
know how many seats each
party has won in the House
of Commons. If either the
Conservatives of Labour
has more than half the 650
seats, they can quickly form
a government.
But almost no one thinks
that will happen. Polls
predict a “hung Parliament,”
in which no party has a
majority, triggering an
intense period of wrangling
and uncertainty.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
If no one has a majority,
the parties start talking, to
see if formal or informal
alliances can help them
reach the magic number of
seats they need to govern.
In Britain’s parliamentary
system, the test of a
government is whether it
can secure the backing of
a majority in the House
of Commons to pass its
budgets and laws.
In theory, that takes
326 seats, but in practice
it’s about 323: the Speaker
does not vote, and Irish
nationalists Sinn Fein, who
had five seats before the
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