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THE NATION

SATURDAY JUNE 18 2016

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outside Rochester, N.Y.,

said they drove 7 hours to
come to the services at
Fellowship Alliance Chapel.
The couple, both 24, said
theyve been fans since
Grimmie launched her
YouTube channel as a high
school student.
We have been fans for
years but we didnt know
how much we appreciated
her until she passed, Alissa Canto said.

boosting foot traffic

through the more than 400
sites in a national park
system that turns 100 in
August.

Hackers find
security gaps in
Pentagon websites VA wont use law
WASHINGTON
that allows quick
High-tech hackers
brought in by the Pentagon firing of execs
to breach Defense Department websites were able to
burrow in and find 138
different security gaps,
Defense Secretary Ash
Carter said Friday.
The so-called white-hat
hackers were turned loose
on five public Pentagon
internet pages and were
offered various bounties if
they could find unique
vulnerabilities. The Pentagon says 1,410 hackers
participated in the challenge and the first gap was
identified just 13 minutes
after the hunt began.
Overall, they found 1,189
vulnerabilities, but a review
by the Pentagon determined that only 138 were
valid and unique.
The experiment cost
$150,000. Of that, about
half was paid out to the
hackers as bounties, including one who received
the maximum prize of
$15,000 for submitting a
number of security gaps.
Others received varying
amounts, to as low as
$100.

Obama family
tours Carlsbad
Caverns
CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL
PARK, N.M.

Eyes wide open and head

tilted upward, President
Barack Obama appeared
awed Friday as he toured
an underground cave at a
national park in New Mexico part of a family vacation thats also designed to
draw attention to Americas natural wonders.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters,
Malia and Sasha, spent part
of the afternoon at Carlsbad Caverns National Park,
one of two national parks
the damily is scheduled to
visit on a long Fathers Day
weekend away from Washington.
How cool is this? Obama exclaimed as a National
Park Service employee led
the family on a tour of the
Big Room, an area nearly
800 feet deep into the
limestone cavern that nature carved out of the Guadalupe Mountains.
The Obamas plan to
spend Saturday and part of
Sunday exploring Yosemite
National Park in California.
Coming at the end of a
difficult week, the trip
gives Obama an opportunity to tout his record on
open-space preservation
and promote administration programs aimed at

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WASHINGTON

The Department of Veterans Affairs will no longer

use its authority to fire
senior executives in an
expedited manner dropping a key portion of a law
Congress passed two years
ago in response to a nationwide scandal over long wait
times for veterans seeking
medical care.
Deputy VA Secretary
Sloan Gibson said the
agency was forced to abandon the new authority after
the Justice Department
said it would no longer
defend the provision in
court.
Under these circumstances, I believe it would
be irresponsible to continue using that authority
when other methods for
disciplining senior executives exist, Gibson said
late Friday.
Using the expedited
authority against Justice
Department advice would
only hinder VAs ability to
hold senior officials accountable and make
those actions stick, Gibson said.

Oakland police
chief steps down
after 2 days on job
OAKLAND, CALIF.

Oakland lost its third

police chief in nine days
Friday as it struggles with
allegations that a number
of officers had sex with a
teenage prostitute and
exchanged racist text messages.
Mayor Libby Schaaf said
acting Police Chief Paul
Figueroa was on the job for
two days before stepping
down but said his decision
was not connected to the

THE WORLD

Iraq says most

of Fallujah retaken
from IS militants
BAGHDAD
KAMRAN JEBREILI The Associated Press

THE BIG PICTURE

Indian fishermen collect traps after they repaired them during the last day of fishing
season Friday at the Jumeirah harbor in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Most of the
fishermen will travel to their home countries before they come back in about three
months to start the new season.
two scandals.
However, she denounced
the departments toxic,
macho culture and vowed
to root out the bad apples.
As the mayor of Oakland, Im here to run a
police department, not a
frat house, Schaaf told a
news conference Friday
evening.
The police department
was already engulfed by
the sex scandal when
Schaaf revealed Friday a
separate investigation into
racist text messages that
she said were wholly inappropriate and not acceptable from anyone who
wears the badge of the
Oakland Police Department.

Calif. brushfire
surging through
coastal canyons
GOLETA, CALIF.

A California wildfire that

forced the evacuation of

campgrounds and ranches

devoured additional thousands of acres Friday and
rising winds could stoke
the flames racing through
rugged canyons toward the
Pacific Ocean, fire officials
said.
The blaze which shut
down U.S. 101, the states
major coastal highway, for
two nights in a row had
consumed 9 square miles
of heavy brush.
The fire was 20 percent
contained but so-called
sundowner winds that
rush down the mountains
in 40 mph gusts were beginning to kick up again
Friday night, fire officials
said.
Its very hot and dangerous, Susan Klein-Rothschild with the county
health department said of
the blaze. The last couple
of nights its calmer
during the day and the
eruptions and explosions
and expansions have happened during the night
hours.

Hundreds in line
for slain Voice
singers services
MEDFORD, N.J.

Hundreds of friends and

fans stood in line and thousands more were expected
Friday at a memorial service for The Voice singer
Christina Grimmie.
The 22-year-old was shot
to death last week as she
signed autographs after a
show in Orlando, Florida.
Her assailant fatally shot
himself.
Among those offering
their condolences to Grimmies family were Alissa
and Joseph Canto. The
husband and wife from

Iraqi special forces swept

into Fallujah on Friday,
recapturing most of the city
as the Islamic State groups
grip crumbled after weeks
of fighting. Thousands of
trapped residents took
advantage of the militants
retreat to flee, some swimming across the Euphrates
River to safety.
Residents described
harrowing escapes even
after IS fighters abandoned
some checkpoints that had
them bottled up in the city.
On the river, some boats
packed with people overturned in the water. Others
picked their way down
roads laced with hidden
bombs that killed several.
In some cases, IS allowed
people to leave only if they
took the jihadis families
with them.
After weeks of heavy
battles since the offensive
began in late May, it appeared that IS defenses in
much of the city collapsed
abruptly.
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