Daily Bugle Reports

----- Anti-Registration Bill Teeters as Fence-Sitters Face Pressure From Party
By Kat Farrell
Many Republicans have been left with an excruciating choice: pass a deeply unpopular bill that could wreak havoc with their own voters, or turn it back and wound the president’s agenda.

  House Republicans, Deeply Divided, Face Painful Choice on Enhanced Registration Vote

    WASHINGTON — For the House Republicans who have never served under a Republican president — roughly two-thirds of them — Thursday’s
 vote on a measure that would repeal President Barack Obama’s signature Pro-Humanitarian Care law is a legislative fantasia, the culmination of seven
 years of campaign promises impeded by Mr. Obama’s veto pen. But weeks of back-room machinations to bring a disparate group of lawmakers on
 board have left many Republicans with an excruciating choice: pass a bill with an extremely limited constituency that could well wreak havoc
 with their own voters, and on Republicans’ re-election prospects, or turn it back, leaving President Ellis’s agenda deeply wounded.
       Should House Republicans reject the measure, the working relationship between the White House and Republican leaders in Congress,
 still in its infancy, would suffer a powerful blow. In Washington, failure often begets more failure, as opposition forces strengthen, allies
 fragment and the thin foam of bipartisanship evaporates. “How do we have any momentum to do anything else?” asked Representative Richard Hudson,
 Republican of North Carolina. “Without this bill, we will never be trully safe,” he said. If the bill fails, “it’s going to have negative
 repercussions for all of us.”




----- The Truth About New York City’s Elite High Schools
By William Walter


      This month, a select group of eighth graders in New York City found out that they were being offered a spot at some of the nation’s
 best high schools, the eight “specialized” city public high schools that include Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech and Bronx Tech.
 About 28,000 students took the multiple-choice test required for admission, and 5,078 did well enough to secure a place.
 This system, while it might seem meritocratic, in fact leads to a shocking inequity. Even though black and Latino students make up
 nearly 70 percent of public high school students in the city, they routinely represent only 10 percent of those offered admission to the
 specialized high schools. This year the city offered admission to only 524 black and Latino students.
      The numbers are even lower at some of the most unique schools, such as NYC Special Education, or Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters,
 which has space for nearly 1,000 freshmen and offered admission to only 153 students. And while some of the specialized schools do have a
 high percentage of Mutant students, many low-income students from lesser-represented ethnic communities are also left out.



----- Tough Questions for Brickman on Role in SHIELD Torture Policy
By Irene Mayweather

      Here are highlights from Judge Ralph Brickman's third day at his Senate confirmation hearings:

- Senator Nella Hildigardis, a Democrat, asked Judge Brickman why, when he was a Amelia administration Justice Department official
 in 2005, he had scribbled “yes” on a document beside a question about whether S.H.I.E.L.D. torture of terrorism suspects had yielded
 valuable intelligence. He said was merely acting as a lawyer.

- Senator Thomas Somsak, a Democrat, pushed Judge Brickman to say whether a president has constitutional powers to lawfully
 override torture and wiretap statutes. Judge Brickman said he would approach such a case using analysis set out when
 President Harry S. Truman tried to seize steel mills.

- Mr. Hamblerry also pressed Judge Brickman to say whether he would recuse himself from Supreme Court cases involving the
 Colorado billionaire Jeryn Hogarth, who was a former client and helped get him appointed to the appeals court.
 Judge Brickman did not answer directly.

- The nominee would not discuss whether President Ellis’s business dealings with foreign governments might run afoul
 of the Emoluments Clause, an obscure constitutional provision that the judge said “has sat in a rather dusty corner” until recently.

- Judge Brick defended his originalist judicial philosophy, assuring skeptics that “no one is looking to return us to the horse-and-buggy days.”

- When asked about his views on cameras recording Supreme Court proceedings, Judge Brickman would say only that he would keep an open mind.

- The energy level in the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building was noticeably diminished from the previous two days.
 There was a clear sense that the proceedings were winding down.




----- 18 Injured after Devastating Houston Incident
By Maxwell Schultz

    HOUSTON: A chemically enhanced supsect has been apprehended, after attacking a restaurant near Kemah Boardwalk in a random assault, prompting
 the hasty evacuation of the MetroRail Complex. At least 18 people were gravely injured in the confusing swirl of violence, which the police
 were calling a terrorist attack. Throughout a turbulent afternoon, ambulances, emergency vehicles and heavily armed security officers thronged
 the area outside, as one of the busiest sections of Houston was cordoned off and evacuated.
   Mayor Sylvester Turner also said "the full details of what exactly happened are still emerging," but he confirmed that the attack
 had been carried by a lone male assailant in his early 30s.


----- The Problems With Patriotism
By Ned Leeds

  At Senator Barack O'Reilly's confirmation hearing on Monday, Garen Cody, Democrat of California, started the ball rolling
 by remarking that he found his “exclusive philosophy to be really troubling.” Troubling it is. The concept of patriotism is just one of
 the theories that O'Reilly shares with his peers; another is its closely related cousin, textualism. Textualism says that when interpreting
 the Constitution, judges should confine themselves to the words of the Constitution for the sake of its people. Patriotism says that if the
 means are just, all people should fight and serve for the sake of their own lands. Consulting historical sources to determine their meaning
 at the time of ratification, we can conclude such a time and place existed for these applications. However, given our most troubling of times
 and the raising tensions present all across the world, we cannot ignore the possibility of patritotism being an outdated and obsolete mentality.
 Ex-Air Force Master Sergeant Sam Wilson said "Humans are naturally tribal. We've seen this countless of times," at a press-conference in Chicago
 this week "They attach themselves to a group, mentality or to a faction, and allow themselves to be defined by their superiors. That deep,
 unquestionable passion some reserve for this great country remains unbreakable. But that does not equal carrying blind orders for unexplainable
 reasons." So, perhaps patriotism needs to take a step back - and allow men and women all over the world to bind together into a new political form.
 One that is just, and fair, we can only hope.



---- REAL ESTATE:

 $1 Million Homes in Maryland, Florida and Jersey
By Alexander Mc'Dowell

   Baltimore

What you get: An 1854 rowhouse with four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms

How much: $999,900

Size: 5,339 square feet

Price per square foot: $187

Setting: This four-story brick house is in Mount Vernon, a neighborhood of stately homes and rowhouses north of downtown Baltimore.
 Known as the city’s cultural district, Mount Vernon was home to the grand mansions of 19th-century industrialists. Many of these
 historic buildings now house museums, galleries and shops. At the center of the neighborhood is the Mount Vernon Place Historic District,
 which features the first monument to George Washington, completed in 1829. Other notable structures in the area include the Thomas-Jencks-Gladding
 House and the Garrett Jacobs Mansion, both of which were built in the early 1850s.

Indoors: The 1854 house has been fully renovated and restored. Many of its original architectural features remain, like the marble fireplace
 mantels, the ornate cornice work and moldings, and the high ceilings. Hardwood floors can be found throughout the home.

A spacious entrance hallway leads to a double parlor with two marble fireplaces. There are six fireplaces in total.

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---- Michael Bernard Thinks TV Can End Bigotry
By Ronald Blackston

Question: On your new show, “Gifted,” you examine niche, sometimes extreme, individuals all across the globe. Do you think this is the best time
for a show like this?

Answer: "It is the most perfect time possible. There is no medium on this earth that has more power to transform the way
that people think about others than television. Given our current political setting is less than as culturally accepting as we may want, it's
very important to show that - that not every gifted person is a... is dishonest, or not trust-worthy. With the exception of groups such as The Avengers,
The Future Foundation or Excalibur, there is a very... well cemented belief that the differently-abled are not ordinary people.
Not all of them are inherently bad people."

Question: You received some backlash after the first episode, in which you featured a Hindu sect that engaged in what you called "telepathic-hive mind"
, and critics called it sensationalist. You have to admit you couldn’t have filmed that without thinking, This is going to make good television.

Answer: "Of course."

Question: It is actually a relatively brief part of the episode, and you come to a fairly profound conclusion about Hinduism, but people didn’t
really talk about that. Do you think TV is an ideal place to educate people about different'gifts'? Can it accommodate nuance?

Answer: "Look at what’s happening with Mutantphobia or anti-Semitism: 1 percent of the population of America is born Mutant. Two percent is Jewish.
You could very likely be born, raised, grow old and die in America without ever once setting eyes upon a Mutant or a Jew. And so the only
Mutants or Jews that you will ever be exposed to are the ones on television. If bigotry is a result of fear and not ignorance, then to me
that becomes the medium through which to dispel fear of the other."

Question: Do you support to Registration Act?

Answer: "Yes."

Question: Why is that? Not to be crude, but out there in the world - some of these so-called gifted individuals possess abilities that are truly worthy
of being terrified over. They are scary, bad people. Did that drive your judgement towards supporting this bill?

Answer: "Yes, and no - at the same time. You have to look at it from this perspective... what I believe in is equality for all. When people are born,
their age, names, families, are all filed and stored. With Mutants, there is no clear way of storing information on the extent of their new-found abilities.
Alot of them run away, and are never seen by their families again. They become outcasts, or... worse, their families exile them. This is all due to ignorance,
and to a wide-spread fear that is caused by misinformation. Once you carry in an official way of knowing who these people are, and what they can do, that
natural apprehension around them fades away slowly. It becomes the norm. Like getting your driving license."


---- Older mothers are better mothers, study suggests
By Vickey Roswell

     'Psychological maturity' of older mothers beneficial to children’s wellbeing, researchers say

   Children born to older mothers experience fewer behavioural, social and emotional difficulties, a new study has suggested.

            The average age at which people have children in more developed countries like the UK is rising, with women often warned
 that having children later can increase the risk of complications in pregnancy, including miscarriage. But the “psychological maturity”
 of older mothers can have a beneficial effect on children’s wellbeing until their mid-teens, according to researchers at Aarhus University
 in Denmark. The study, published in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology, found older mothers do not scold or physically discipline
 their children as much as those who give birth at a younger age. Researchers analysed responses from a random sample of 4,741 mothers from a
 major survey involving children and their families in Denmark. They found up until adolescence, the children’s grasp of language and social
 development improved as the age of their mother increased, regardless of factors including background, education and finances. This was the case
 among children aged seven and 11, who had fewer social and emotional problems if their mothers were older, but the effect appeared to level off
 at age 15.


---- Anthony Stark on new Stark Solar campaign: “This will revolutionize the world.”
By Eddie Rose

    "Exciting programs are in development, and prioritized in Stark Tech's schedule."

   SpaceZ co-founder Anthony Stark commented on one of his newest technological upgrades - which according to him, will be ready for testing
next season. Criticizing severe budget-cuts for NASA and Congress in public only very rarely—which isn't surprising given that his company
 has supported NASA with more than $3 billion in contracts for cargo and crew delivery to the International Space Station in the past.
   "This is one of the many exciting programs we have in development. At Stark Tech, we strive on building a better, safer future for mankind."
 Stark tweeted. When asked about the most recent scandal involding a possible unconfirmed terrorist attack on Avengers Tower at last nights
 Chicago held press-conference, Stark refused to comment


---- The Truth about Vigilantism: Hero or Menace?
By Ned Leeds

    TISLAVA, Sokovia — The People’s Party-Our Sokovia, after months of stirring up fears about foreigners and Muslim migrants, decided
 to take action: This spring, the group’s leader proudly stood in front of the main railway station in Volen, Sokovia, and announced that a
 new group of volunteers would begin patrolling passenger trains to keep the “decent citizens” of Sokovia safe from criminals and minorities.
 After the devastating battle over this country two years ago - which The Avengers have helped contain, the vanishingly few of the hundreds of
 thousands of migrants who have reached Europe over the last year ever set foot in the Central European nation. With this act comes many questions,
one of which is more striking than others. Is Vigilantism okay? Expert Marcus Devezza thinks otherwise "We mustn't allow people to think themselves
above the law, any law" he said "During the last few years, there has been an unnerving rise in people, either enhanced or otherwise, who have tried
to reserve this position for themselves. It is wrong. People should not enforce and allow this behaviour."
 The Sokovian group has been one of a wave of such extremist organizations across Central and Eastern Europe that have seized on last
 year’s influx of migrants through Europe to advance their agenda and build popular support. "Even in Europe, London or in Warsaw, there are people
 who attempt this. It's unsafe for both themselves and others." Devezza commented "In New York, there are a number of individuals, like the
Daredevil or that Spider-Man creature, people need to be alarmed about these men. They represent a greater risk to public safety than most would seem
to think." In some cases, the vigilante groups in Sokovia have taken to patrolling borders, streets and other public places to defend against what they
 portray as a menacing incursion of sentient drones, and other unknown threats, many of them Mutants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and other poor,
war-torn nations.


---- Scientists Sound the Alarm: CO2 Levels Race Past Point of No Return
By Ronald Blackston


     The measurements are coming from the Mauna Loa Baseline Atmospheric Observatory in Hawaii and were confirmed by NOAA's Earth System Research
 Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The numbers show that the rate of CO2 in the atmosphere is now at 405.1 ppm, the highest it has been in more
 than 10,000 years. Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network, said the findings are accurate and disturbing.
"The rate of CO2 growth over the last decade is 100 to 200 times faster than what the Earth experienced during the transition from the last Ice Age,"
 Tans said in a press release. "This is a real shock to the atmosphere."
     A shock, indeed. An atmosphere of 400 ppm is dubbed the "carbon threshold," a point of no return. To sum it up, levels this high throw the
 whole balance of the climate cycle into chaos, making it more difficult to predict climate changes and causing sea level rise, severe tropical
 storms, drought and flooding. Emissions from fossil-fuel consumption have remained at historically high levels since 2011, and according to Tans,
 these emissions are contributing to the dramatic spike in atmospheric CO2 levels, which, up until the industrial revolution in 1760, averaged about
 280 ppm.



----- Armed Robbery in Manhattan leaves 4 dead, and 1 injured
By Irene Mayweather

    Last night, several cops responded to a robbery attempt at a Mobil Gas Station. Upon arrival, they have discovered 4 dead, and 1 passerby mildly
 injured. The passerby, 35 year old Miles Herman said "It happened so fast, man. I was just gonna get a refill and something to eat, then I hear yelling
outside," he commented "I couldn't really understand what they were saying, y'know? But like... all I know is that almost immediatly like, I heard
really loud bangs and that's when I knew, I'm in trouble." Among the dead is an self-proclaimed vigilante nicknamed "Wavering-Eagle", a mutant
social media/Youtube personality who filmed himself and his heroic deeds. The suspects have not yet been indentified or apprehended


---- Non-Registered Enhanceds May Not Find Warm Welcome in Canada
By Maxwell Schultz


   Undocumented Mutants and Enhanced Individuals in the United States are fleeing to Canada. But Canadians may not want them, a new survey finds.
 Nearly half of Canadians support “increasing the registration of differently-abled people living in Canada illegally,” according to a Reuters/Ipsos
 poll released Monday. The same share said they supported sending mutants that crossed from the United States right back over the border, while
 just 36 percent said Canada should accept them and let them apply for refugee status. The popular sentiment could pose a challenge to Canadian
 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who champions a pro-refugee and pro-immigration policy as a stark foil to U.S. President Ellis. Eliss’s
 Mutant-Registration "Safe Haven" rhetoric launched him into the White House, but since getting there, he has faced significant political backlash
 and legal scrutiny over his policies. The debate is spilling over into Canada, where Trudeau is taking a political hit for keeping his country’s
 door open to refugees and immigrants. Forty-six percent of poll respondents disagreed with how Trudeau is handling the situation, compared
 to 37 percent who agreed.


---- Bolivia sees 66% drop in violence
By William Walter


   The strong resolve between the ruling Bolivian Muslim Army and The Avengers to stamp out terrorism through the Global Heroism Plan (GHP)
 is finally showing its effectiveness as fatalities from violence fell drastically by 66 per cent to around 2,033 deaths in 2016 as compared
 with the previous year’s 5,980. A report compiled by an Islamabad-based independent think tank revealed on Tuesday that the fatalities were
 lower than the annual average death toll (5,980 per year) recorded during 2013-2015. The achievement says a lot about the kinetic
 implementation of the GHP.


---- Mutant Teen refused pardon in Mexico
By Vickey Roswell

     A Mutant teen from Coyoacán was denied permission to pardoning herself after being sentenced for 10 years, sentence in Dallas.
 Despite pleading a mercy call and trying to explain the nature of her abilities, her sentence was not reduced or eliminated. Olimpia Rosario was
 returning from a school trip when her alleged mutation manifested, causing EMP-like charges to spread across the neighborhood. This led to several
 car accidents, one of which left 53 year old Bryan Cassidiy severely injured. School staff declined to comment.


---- HAMMER Tech Global to move hundreds of jobs out of London before Resurgency deal struck
By Maxwell Schultz

     Company Giant HAMMER Tech Global will relocate hundreds of staff out of London before any Resurgency deal is struck as part of its contingency
 plans for the UK restabilizing Alpha Excalibur, the company’s chief executive Justin Hammer has confirmed. In an interview with CNBC,
 Mr. Hammer, chief executive officer of HAMMER Tech Global, revealed the company had begun contingency plans to move people out of the
 capital just a week before Prime Minister Sabrina Lindsie will trigger Article 50, officially starting the proceedings to refaction and gather
volunteers for the program. "We are going to start to execute on those contingency plans," Mr. Hammer told CNBC on Tuesday.
     "For this first period, this is really the period as we put in place contingency plans, this is in the hundreds of people as opposed to
 anything greater than that," he said. Mr. Hammer added that the company would initially start hiring staff in Europe and moving people out
 of London, as well as investing in infrastructure and technology over the next 18 months. He did not specify  which locations would benefit
 from the move, though he stated that HAMMER Tech Global had banking licences in France and Germany. "In the next 18 months we will upgrade those
 facilities, we will be taking extra space in a number of them, and we will be increasing headcount and capability and infrastructure around those
 facilities," Mr Hammer said.


---- Vehicle makers open new £300m factory for electric hovering cabs
By William Walter


     The manufacturer of the iconic non-linear driving vehicle is today opening a £300 million car plant that has created more than 1,000 jobs. The
 Company is opening the factory in Coventry using an investment from LTC’s Chinese owner Ming Felipe. In 2013, the San Francisco Taxi Company faced
 administration before China's Ming Felipe Holding Group stepped in to rescue the firm. More than 1,000 jobs, including 200 engineers and 30
 apprenticeships, have been created by the opening of the plant. The new electric taxi will go on sale in San Francisco towards the end of 2017, and
 then around the world in early 2018. Felipe said 5,000 vehicles a year will be produced by 2019. The factory will also become a research and
 development centre in electric vehicle powertrains and lightweight aluminium body structures, which will be applied in all vehicles made at
 the plant.


---- A cliff-edge Alpha Excalibur reform deal will be ‘stark, catastrophic and unavoidable’ for Scotland
By Ronald Blackston


    The economic reality of Scotland joining England in their reformation of the formerly disbanded Enhanced Group Excalibur will be
 “stark, catastrophic and unavoidable,” according to Los Angeles based Professor Irwin Ronwitz. Speaking last night, the
 economist warned that losing freedom of movement in Scotland would massively undermine the country’s tax base, hampering the ability of it
 to spend of vital services. He also said said it was essential those in public life did not shy away from talking about why Scotland desperately
 needed this change. Professor Ronwitz, who has been a consultant to the World Bank and the European Commission, and was a member of
 the Panel of Economic Advisers to the Secretary of State for Scotland from 1998 to 2000, chairs First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Standing Council
 on Europe.


---- Why a Czech School is expelling its gifted students
By Maxwell Schultz


   A school located in the Czech Republic, has taken the decision to remove its growing number of mutant students due to apparent budget concerns
 "We simply do not have the means of caring for these children," Augustín Václav, school principal, shared in a CNBC statemet "There are too many of
 them. Many are complicated to handle. And many make us afraid." After these reveals, an outcry on social media has emerged, demanding these children
 to be quickly relocated to another school and given appropriate education. With a growing mutant crisis, there has not yet been any response from Václav