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ENTERTAINMENT

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP)

Thursday’s Latin Grammy Awards were a love letter to Puerto Rico, with several

artists dedicating their performances and awards to the island hard hit by Hurricane Maria.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper Residente and singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi, all of Puerto Rican heri-tage, dedicated their awards to their homeland.

Fonsi’s global hit “Despacito” was the night’s big winner, making good on all four of its nominations, includ-ing record and song of the year.

“This song is a hymn to Puerto Rico,” Fonsi said backstage. “Every-thing I do, and everything I will do, now more than ever, is to continue celebrating my island, my culture, my homeland and my music, and to make sure the public knows that Puerto Rico needs help.”

Miranda, recognized for his artistic and philanthropic work with the Presi-dent’s Merit Award, thanked his wife, his parents, his many collaborators and

his Puerto Rican roots. He said he intended to remind the U.S. government that the residents of the island terri-tory “are human beings, too.”

The cere-mony, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and broadcast live on Univi-sion, opened with a moment of silence for Puerto Rico, fol-lowed by a per-formance by one of its native

sons. Residente wore a T-shirt embla-zoned with the Puerto Rican flag he per-formed his song “Hijos del Canaveral” (“Sons of Canaveral”), a tribute to his country.

He also won two awards: urban album for his self-titled solo debut and urban song for “Somos Anormales” (“We Are Abnormal”). Ruben Blades won the top prize, album of the year, for “Salsa Big Band.” Other winners included Shakira, for contemporary pop album, Juanes, for pop-rock album, and Vicente Garcia, who was named best new artist.

Most of the night’s awards were pre-sented during a pre-telecast ceremony, while the live broadcast was dominated by performances, including Natalia Lafourcade, Maluma, Juanes, J Balvin, Lila Downs, CNCO, Mon Laferte, Nicky Jam and Carlos Vives.

Besides Puerto Rico, the Latin Grammys also had a political element. Multiple nominee Danay Suarez spoke about sexual harassment. Presenter Wilmer Valderrama urged viewers to “make history in the next three years.” Other artists noted that music has no borders and no walls.

Alejandro Sanz, who received a special award, used his time onstage to call atten-tion to the “dreamers” affected by Presi-dent Donald Trump’s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Latin Grammys pay tribute to Puerto Rico in songs, speeches

Luis Fonsi accepts the award for record of the year for “Despacito” at the 18th annual Latin Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Thursday, November 16, 2017, in

Las Vegas, Nevada.

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ENTERTAINMENT: Latin Grammys pay tribute to Puerto Rico in songs, speeches

STATE: Republican, Democrat launch centrist group in Washington

NATIONAL: Cross-border wedding held as California ‘Door of Hope’ opens

POLITICS: Hispanic Caucus rejects request from GOP lawmaker to join

NATIONAL: Over 200 MS-13 gang members arrested in US

SPORTS: Seahawks beaten 34-31 at home by Atlanta

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STATE

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

The politically traumatized or in denial voter is being courted by a new movement that will

support independent, centrist-minded candidates for elected office in Washing-ton state.

That includes Republicans who have denounced President Donald Trump and his brand of conservatism, as well as Democrats tired of obeying their embat-tled leadership.

A former Democratic congressman and a former head of the state GOP have launched the Washington Independents as a "safe place" for non-confirming poli-ticians.

The group said Thursday that it has about 600 people who have indicated interest in its work. It plans to start out slow and will focus on a handful of Wash-ington state legislative seats for the next election.

Stuart Elway, an independent pollster and political scientist, said the group will face steep structural barriers but will be

one to watch, as both political parties forge ahead in their own respective civil wars.

"If there was ever an opportu-nity in terms of time and place for something like this to work, this is the time and this is the place," Elway said.

The new political action com-mittee says it will promote ideo-logically moderate politicians, who may be on the ballot rep-resenting any party or none at all. It's a part of a national move-ment to curb partisanship. They have so far raised a few thousand dollars on their own and said they were also given $10,000 in seed money by the national Cen-trist Project.

"People are sick of the two parties. They're looking for an alternative. This is it," said Chris Vance, who announced recently that he had left the Republican Party. In 2016, Vance refused to support Trump in the presi-dential election. The former Republican

stalwart later lost badly in the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sen. Patty Murray, who was re-elected. Vance was also once a state representative and the state's Republican party chairman.

The Washington Independents is not

an official party and doesn't have a full platform of positions on the issues, but the organizers say they're seeking candi-dates who would be socially tolerant, fis-cally conservative and environmentally responsible.

Republican, Democrat launch centrist group in Washington

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NATIONAL

SAN DIEGO, California (AP)

A United States man and a Mexican woman have wed between the doors of a steel

border gate that is opened for only an hour or so every year.

Saturday’s wedding at Border Field State Park in San Diego was a first for an opening of the gate known as the Door of Hope.

Evelia Reyes, wearing a white wedding dress with train and veil, embraced Brian Houston of San Diego after signing doc-uments that made them husband and wife.

“It’s a statement that love has no borders,” Houston told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “Even though we are divided by a giant fence here, we can still love each other on both sides of the fence.”

Houston, a U.S. citizen, said he couldn’t go into Tijuana for reasons he declined to explain but spoke daily with his bride. The couple has an attorney who is trying to obtain a green card for Reyes to join Houston in the U.S., Houston said, although that could take more than a year.

Border Patrol agents opened the gate

in the border wall at noon for an hour, allowing waiting family members from the U.S. to walk partly through and meet and embrace relatives in Mexico for a scant three minutes each before tearfully saying goodbye.

It was the sixth time that the gate has opened since 2013, allowing people from the U.S. and Mexico who cannot legally cross the border to visit without fear of deportation. At other times, families can talk but not touch through the steel fencing.

In order to arrange the wedding, the couple worked with Enrique Morones, the executive director of the Border Angels group that organizes the gate openings.

The group takes meeting requests from families and forwards the names to the State Department, which conducts checks and makes the final decision on who will be allowed to briefly reunite, Morones said.

The gate opening took place about 15 miles west of where the eight prototypes for President Donald Trump’s wall have been built.

“While some people want to build walls, we want to open doors,” Morones said.

Cross-border wedding held as California ‘Door of Hope’ opens

In this Saturday, November 18, 2017, photo, Brian Houston, of Rancho San Diego, California, center left, and Evelia Reyes, right, of Tijuana, Mexico, look at each other in their wedding at the “Door of Hope,” part of the

border fence between the U.S. and Mexico.


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POLITICS

WASHINGTON (AP)

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus rejected the request of Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo

to join its ranks on Thursday, saying his record is inconsistent with the group’s values.

Florida’s Curbelo, who is serving his second term, said the rejection “sends a powerful and harmful message of dis-crimination, bigotry and division.” He also took to Twitter over the dispute: “Whatever happened to the values of diversity and inclusion? Truly shameful.”

In announcing the decision, caucus spokesman Carlos Paz Jr. said: “The CHC isn’t just an organization for Hispanics; it is a caucus that represents certain values. This vote reflects the position of many of our members that Rep. Curbelo and his record are not consistent with those values.”

The statement did not go into any more detail. Curbelo voted for the GOP tax bill Thursday that all Democratic lawmakers voted against. He’s also the lead sponsor of

an immigration bill that’s different from the Demo-cratic-preferred measure.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has 31 members, all Democrats. Meanwhile, six Republi-cans are part of a separate organization, the Con-gressional Hispanic Foun-dation.

Curbelo represents a district in South Florida that is about 70 percent Hispanic and is consid-ered competitive in next year’s midterm elections.

Hispanic Caucus rejects request from GOP lawmaker to join

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, leads applause for House

Ways and Means Chair Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, along with Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., and

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., during a news conference

following a vote on tax reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, November 16, 2017.



NATIONAL

WASHINGTON (AP)

The Trump administration announced a major gang sweep Thursday, with the arrest of

more than 200 members of the violent street gang MS-13.

Officials from the Department of Home-land Security and Justice Department said “Operation Raging Bull” was conducted across the United States from Oct. 8 to Nov. 11, and concluded with the arrest of 214 members of MS-13.

“We will not rest until every member, associate and leader of MS-13 has been held accountable for their crimes,” said Thomas Horman, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This was the second phase of a federal effort to target MS-13. The first phase involved 53 arrests in El Salvador in Sep-tember after an 18-month investigation.

In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said more than 1,200 gang members have been convicted so far this year, and about 4,000 have been arrested and charged. He said the arrests will help

make the country safer “by taking MS-13 off our streets for good.”

Of the most recent round-up, officials said, criminal charges included murder, aggravated robbery, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, firearms offenses and assault. About 60 of the arrests involved people illegally cross-ing the border as unaccompanied children, officials said.

ICE officials announced that they added six MS-13 fugitives to its list of “most wanted” individ-uals — one wanted for homicide in Texas and five others wanted for attempted homicides of police officers in El Salvador.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump directed federal law enforcement officials to focus resources on combating transna-tional gangs, including MS-13. The gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s, then entrenched itself in Central America when its leaders were deported.

Over 200 MS-13 gang members arrested in US

File photo of a suspected MS-13 gang member being arrested by a New York City police officer in New York, New York.

SPORTS

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

Matt Ryan threw a pair of touch-

down passes, Adrian Clay-born returned a fumble 10 yards for a score and the Atlanta Falcons held off a late rally to beat the Seattle Seahawks 34-31 on Monday night.

Atlanta stayed in the hunt for an NFC playoff spot thanks to its second straight victory and handed Seattle a second consecutive home loss. Ryan threw TDs to Mohamed Sanu and Levine Toilolo, while Tevin Coleman added a 1-yard TD run on Atlanta’s opening possession. But it was Clay-born’s fumble return that helped break the game open early in the second quarter and gave Atlanta a 21-7 lead.

Seattle attempted a late rally down by 11 points. Russell Wilson hit Doug Baldwin on a 29-yard TD with 3 minutes left, and Seattle got in range for a long field goal attempt by Blair Walsh in the closing moments, but his 52-yard attempt with 2 seconds left came up short and Atlanta escaped with the victory.

Seahawks beaten 34-31 at home by Atlanta

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson runs towards the end-zone during an NFL game on Monday, November 20, 2017, in Seattle,

Washington. Photo by Braulio Herrera

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