Talking Points ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Associated Press Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 62nd day of 2016. There are 304 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 2, 1836, the Republic of Texas for- mally declared its independence from Mexico. On this date: In 1793, the first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexing- ton, Virginia. In 1865, Congress established the position of Naval Judge Advocate General. In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presiden- tial election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. cit- izenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act. In 1933, the motion picture “King Kong” had its world premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy. In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (puh-CHEL’-ee) was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect. (Georgia and Connecticut soon followed.) In 1942, the original Stage Door Canteen, a wartime club for U.S. servicemen, officially opened its doors in New York’s theater district. In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. In 1965, the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christo- pher Plummer, had its world premiere in New York. In 1972, the United States launched the Pioneer 10 space probe, which flew past Jupiter in late 1973, sending back images and scientific data. In 1985, the government approved a screen- ing test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply. In 1995, the Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (MAHN’-moh-hahn SING) announced a land- mark civilian nuclear cooperation deal in New Delhi. A suicide attacker rammed an explo- sives-packed car into American diplomat David Foy’s car in Karachi, Pakistan, killing Foy and three others. The Senate voted 89-10 to renew the USA Patriot Act. “Killer nurse” Charles Cullen, who’d murdered 22 patients in New Jersey alone, was sentenced in Somerville to spend the rest of his life in prison. Five years ago: The Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that a grieving father’s pain over mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral had to yield to First Amendment protections for free speech in a decision favoring the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. A man armed with a handgun attacked a bus carrying U.S. Air Force troops at Frankfurt airport, killing two airmen before being taken into custody. (Arid Uka, an Islamic extremist, was later sentenced to life in prison.) Militants gunned down the only Christian in Pakistan’s Cabinet outside his widowed mother’s home. One year ago: Iraqi forces launched a large- scale offensive to take Saddam Hussein’s home- town of Tikrit from the Islamic State group, the first step in a campaign t o reclaim parts of northern Iraq from the Sunni extrem- ists. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who rose to become the longest-serving woman in the histo- ry of Congress, announced she would not seek re-election when her fifth term ended. (Stations: Rock musician Casey, one name, is correct) Today’s Birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 86. Author Tom Wolfe is 86. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 85. Actress Barbara Luna is 77. Author John Irving is 74. Actress Cassie Yates is 65. Actress Laraine Newman is 64. Former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is 63. Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is 61. Singer Jay Osmond is 61. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 60. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 58. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 57. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 54. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 53. Actor Daniel Craig is 48. Actor Richard Ruccolo is 44. Rock musician Casey (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 40. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 39. Actress Heather McComb is 39. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is 35. NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 34. Actor Robert Iler is 31. Actress Nathalie Emmanuel is 27. Singer- rapper-actress Becky G is 19. Thought for Today: “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” — Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka “Dr. Seuss”), American chil- dren’s author (born this day, 1904; died 1991). TRUMP: JUDGE’S ETHNICITY MATTERS IN TRUMP UNIVERSITY SUIT By Jill Colvin & Jeff Horwitz Associated Press Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is trying to deflect attention from a class-action civil lawsuit involving the former Trump University by pointing to the ethnic background of the judge in the case. Asked on “Fox News Sunday” what U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s ethnicity has to do with the lawsuit against him, Trump replied: “I think it has to do perhaps with the fact that I’m very, very strong on the border, very, very strong at the border, and he has been extremely hostile to me,” Trump said. According to the California class-action com- plaint in front of Curiel, a one-year appren- ticeship that Trump University students were promised ended after students paid for a three- day seminar. Attendees who were promised a personal photo with Trump received only the chance to take a photo with a cardboard cut- out. And many instructors were bankrupt real estate investors. Trump University emerged as a campaign issue at Thursday’s GOP debate, raised by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. “There are people who borrowed $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they’re suing now — $36,000 to go to a university that’s a fake school,” Rubio said. “And you know what they got? They got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump.” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz jumped in, adding: “It’s a fraud case. ... I want you to think about, if this man is the nominee, having the Republi- can nominee on the stand in court, being cross- examined about whether he committed fraud.” At a rally in Arkansas on Saturday, Trump took a break from his standard campaign speech to downplay the lawsuit pending against the business, which was founded by Trump and offered students instruction on real estate investments. “It’s a small deal, very small,” Trump said of the suit, which could force him to take the stand this summer. Trump specifically railed against the judge in the case, and at one point noted the judge’s Hispanic ethnicity. Trump claimed the case should have been thrown out years ago, “but because it was me and because there’s a hostility toward me by the judge - tremendous hostility - beyond belief.” He then noted, as an aside: “I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine. He’s Hispanic — which is fine.” A message left for Curiel, was not imme- diately returned. Curiel is a judge in the Southern District of California and based in San Diego. New York Attorney General Eric Schneider- man, whose office has filed a separate civil $40 million complaint against Trump University in state court, accused Trump of “racial dema- goguery.” Schneiderman sued Trump Univer- sity in 2013 alleging it committed fraud and fleeced 5,000 people out of millions of dollars. “I will not engage in a debate about ongoing litigation,” Schneiderman said in a statement issued after Trump made his comments. “But there is no place in this process for racial dema- goguery directed at respected members of the judiciary.” Schneiderman noted that New York’s state Supreme Court ruled that Trump University operated illegally in New York as an unlicensed educational institution. Schneiderman’s suit alleges that Trump University falsely promoted itself as an edu- cational institution even after the state edu- cation department warned it to stop. The complaint accuses Trump of falsely promising that Trump University students would receive intense training from experts hand-picked by Trump himself. During breaks in the seminars, Schneider- man’s complaint alleges, participants were urged to call their credit card companies and ask to increase their credit limits. Once the credit lines were secured, Trump University staff tried to persuade students to pay for addi- tional services. Trump, at the rally, dismissed the cases as the work of “a sleazebag law firm” and sug- gested that Schneiderman’s intervention was politically motivated. “I could’ve settled this suit numerous times. Could settle it now. But I don’t like settling suits,” Trump said. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands in front of his airplane as he speaks during a rally Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, in Bentonville, Ark. 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Ta l k i n g Po i n t sON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 62nd day of 2016. There are 304 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:On March 2, 1836, the Republic of Texas for-
mally declared its independence from Mexico.On this date:In 1793, the first president of the Republic
of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexing-ton, Virginia.
In 1865, Congress established the position of Naval Judge Advocate General.
In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presiden-tial election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. cit-izenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act.
In 1933, the motion picture “King Kong” had its world premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy.
In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (puh-CHEL’-ee) was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect. (Georgia and Connecticut soon followed.)
In 1942, the original Stage Door Canteen, a wartime club for U.S. servicemen, officially
opened its doors in New York’s theater district.In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’
famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
In 1965, the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christo-pher Plummer, had its world premiere in New York.
In 1972, the United States launched the Pioneer 10 space probe, which flew past Jupiter in late 1973, sending back images and scientific data.
In 1985, the government approved a screen-ing test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
In 1995, the Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (MAHN’-moh-hahn SING) announced a land-mark civilian nuclear cooperation deal in New Delhi. A suicide attacker rammed an explo-sives-packed car into American diplomat David Foy’s car in Karachi, Pakistan, killing Foy and three others. The Senate voted 89-10 to renew the USA Patriot Act. “Killer nurse” Charles
Cullen, who’d murdered 22 patients in New Jersey alone, was sentenced in Somerville to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Five years ago: The Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that a grieving father’s pain over mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral had to yield to First Amendment protections for free speech in a decision favoring the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. A man armed with a handgun attacked a bus carrying U.S. Air Force troops at Frankfurt airport, killing two airmen before being taken into custody. (Arid Uka, an Islamic extremist, was later sentenced to life in prison.) Militants gunned down the only Christian in Pakistan’s Cabinet outside his widowed mother’s home.
One year ago: Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive to take Saddam Hussein’s home-town of Tikrit from the Islamic State group, the first step in a campaign t o reclaim parts of northern Iraq from the Sunni extrem-ists. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who rose to become the longest-serving woman in the histo-ry of Congress,
announced she would not seek re-election when her fifth term ended.
(Stations: Rock musician Casey, one name, is correct)
Today’s Birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 86. Author Tom Wolfe is 86. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 85. Actress Barbara Luna is 77. Author John Irving is 74. Actress Cassie Yates is 65. Actress Laraine Newman is 64. Former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is 63. Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is 61. Singer Jay Osmond is 61. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 60. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 58. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 57. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 54. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 53. Actor Daniel Craig is 48. Actor Richard Ruccolo is 44. Rock musician Casey (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 40. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 39. Actress Heather McComb is 39. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is 35. NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 34. Actor Robert Iler is 31. Actress Nathalie Emmanuel is 27. Singer-rapper-actress Becky G is 19.
Thought for Today: “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” — Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka “Dr. Seuss”), American chil-dren’s author (born this day, 1904; died 1991).
TRUMP: JUDGE’S ETHNICITY MATTERS IN TRUMP UNIVERSITY SUIT By Jill Colvin & Jeff Horwitz Associated Press
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is trying to deflect attention from a class-action civil lawsuit involving the former Trump University by pointing to the ethnic background of the judge in the case.
Asked on “Fox News Sunday” what U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s ethnicity has to do with the lawsuit against him, Trump replied:
“I think it has to do perhaps with the fact that I’m very, very strong on the border, very, very strong at the border, and he has been extremely hostile to me,” Trump said.
According to the California class-action com-plaint in front of Curiel, a one-year appren-ticeship that Trump University students were promised ended after students paid for a three-day seminar. Attendees who were promised a personal photo with Trump received only the chance to take a photo with a cardboard cut-out. And many instructors were bankrupt real estate investors.
Trump University emerged as a campaign issue at Thursday’s GOP debate, raised by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
“There are people who borrowed $36,000 to
go to Trump University, and they’re suing now — $36,000 to go to a university that’s a fake school,” Rubio said. “And you know what they got? They got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz jumped in, adding: “It’s a fraud case. ... I want you to think about, if this man is the nominee, having the Republi-can nominee on the stand in court, being cross-examined about whether he committed fraud.”
At a rally in Arkansas on Saturday, Trump took a break from his standard campaign speech to downplay the lawsuit pending against the business, which was founded by Trump and offered students instruction on real estate investments.
“It’s a small deal, very small,” Trump said of the suit, which could force him to take the stand this summer.
Trump specifically railed against the judge in the case, and at one point noted the judge’s Hispanic ethnicity.
Trump claimed the case should have been thrown out years ago, “but because it was me and because there’s a hostility toward me
by the judge - tremendous hostility - beyond belief.” He then noted, as an aside: “I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine. He’s Hispanic — which is fine.”
A message left for Curiel, was not imme-diately returned. Curiel is a judge in the Southern District of California and based in San Diego.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneider-man, whose office has filed a separate civil $40 million complaint against Trump University in state court, accused Trump of “racial dema-goguery.” Schneiderman sued Trump Univer-sity in 2013 alleging it committed fraud and fleeced 5,000 people out of millions of dollars.
“I will not engage in a debate about ongoing litigation,” Schneiderman said in a statement issued after Trump made his comments. “But there is no place in this process for racial dema-goguery directed at respected members of the judiciary.”
Schneiderman noted that New York’s state Supreme Court ruled that Trump University operated illegally in New York as an unlicensed educational institution.
Schneiderman’s suit alleges that Trump University falsely promoted itself as an edu-cational institution even after the state edu-cation department warned it to stop. The complaint accuses Trump of falsely promising that Trump University students would receive intense training from experts hand-picked by Trump himself.
During breaks in the seminars, Schneider-man’s complaint alleges, participants were urged to call their credit card companies and ask to increase their credit limits. Once the credit lines were secured, Trump University staff tried to persuade students to pay for addi-tional services.
Trump, at the rally, dismissed the cases as the work of “a sleazebag law firm” and sug-gested that Schneiderman’s intervention was politically motivated.
“I could’ve settled this suit numerous times. Could settle it now. But I don’t like settling suits,” Trump said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands in front of his airplane as he speaks during a rally Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, in Bentonville, Ark. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Copyright 2016, The Associated Press
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