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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "The Washington Post" <[email protected]> Date: 24 Feb 2017 09:01 Subject: Today's WorldView: The world is ignoring an 'unprecedented' starvation crisis To: <[email protected]> Cc: With 20 million on the brink of starvation, developed nations aren't doing much to help. Friday, February 24, 2017 <http://li.washingtonpost.com/click?s=135833&layout=marquee&li=todayworld&m=13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4&p=58afcbf471885010a3d477f4> <http://li.washingtonpost.com/click?s=135836&sz=116x15&li=todayworld&m=13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4&p=58afcbf471885010a3d477f4> <http://li.washingtonpost.com/click?s=135837&sz=69x15&li=todayworld&m=13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4&p=58afcbf471885010a3d477f4> A daily newsletter that explores where the world meets Washington. Not on the list? Sign up here. <https://s.washingtonpost.com/23f6/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/3/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> [image: Today's WorldView] <https://s.washingtonpost.com/228f/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/4/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> [image: BY ISHAAN THAROOR] *BY ISHAAN THAROOR* <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2290/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/5/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2291/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/6/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2292/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/7/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a72/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/8/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>*THE TAKEAWAY* The world is in the grip of an astonishing and acute crisis <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a73/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/9/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>: More than 20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, northern Nigeria and Yemen face starvation in the next six months, according to the United Nations. Nearly 1.4 million children are at "imminent risk <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a74/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/10/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>" of death. The scale of the hunger epidemic was described last month <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a75/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/11/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> by U.S.-based researchers as "unprecedented in recent decades." *The crises are in large part man-made, stoked by ruinous conflicts, collapsing governance and international indifference.* Only in one country, Somalia, which is recovering from years of war, is drought the main cause of the current food shortages. "The situation is dire," warned U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a76/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/12/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> earlier this week, in a desperate appeal for funds. "We need $4.4 billion by the end of March to avert a catastrophe." So far, his organization has raised only $90 million, a drop in the bucket. *At a time when the Trump administration has already threatened funding cuts to the U.N., the prospects for global relief look dim.* On Monday, the South Sudanese government, along with the United Nations, formally declared <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a77/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/13/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> famine in parts of the fledgling nation wracked by war. According to the U.N.'s classification, a famine takes place along certain grim criteria, including when 20 percent of the population in a given area faces "extreme food shortages." *It's usually invoked to describe already terrible conditions that are steadily getting worse.* <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a78/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/14/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> *Researchers fear that areas of northeastern Nigeria already endured famine-level conditions last year*. The region has been wracked by the insurgency of extremist outfit Boko Haram. But despite the Nigerian military's recent gains, some 5.1 million people face severe food shortages. Close to half a million children under the age of five <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a79/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/15/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> could suffer from acute malnutrition this year, and up to 20 percent could die unless more aid reaches them, according to the U.N. *In Somalia*, failed rains last year, along with a poor forecast for the spring, may put as much as half the country's population at risk of acute food insecurity. It was in Somalia in July 2011 when the United Nations last declared a famine <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a73/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/16/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>. 260,000 people died there in a two-month period. *In Yemen*, the toll of grinding civil war, complicated by months of aerial bombardment by a Saudi-led (and U.S.-backed) coalition, has created a shocking humanitarian crisis. Around half a million children are "dangerously malnourished <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a7a/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/17/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>" and at the risk of death. According to a U.N. study released earlier this month <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a7b/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/18/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>, some 7.3 million Yemenis required "emergency food assistance" and around 17.1 million Yemenis were "struggling to feed themselves." That is well over two-thirds of the country's total population. *In South Sudan*, aid agencies have been warning for months about the risk of widespread famine in areas ravaged by rival factions. Fields have gone fallow and the population's access to food has dried up. "Crop production has been severely curtailed by the conflict, even in previously stable and fertile areas, as a long-running dispute among political leaders has escalated into a violent competition for power and resources among different ethnic groups," reports the BBC <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a7c/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/19/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>. "As crop production has fallen and livestock have died, so inflation has soared ... causing massive price rises for basic foodstuffs." Now 100,000 people are facing starvation <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a7d/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/20/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>, and around a million people are on the brink of famine. Nearly 275,000 children are at risk of starving to death unless the international community intervenes in a rapid and meaningful way, the U.N. warned. "Our worst fears have been realized," said Serge Tissot, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s spokesman in South Sudan, to Foreign Policy magazine <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a7e/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/21/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>. "Many families have exhausted every means they have to survive." *Aid workers and humanitarian organizations say much of the crisis was preventable had the international community taken action sooner. *The conditions that lead to famines are complex, of course, and bound up with the failure of the states where they take place. But critics also place blame on listless actors abroad. The U.N.'s vast funding shortfall is the obvious problem. Emergency donor conferences, such as one held on Friday <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a7f/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/22/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> in Oslo to address the crisis in northeastern Nigeria, are attempting to make up the gap. But the international community has dropped the ball in other ways as well. In the case of South Sudan, for example, the U.N. Security Council failed to pass a punitive arms embargo <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a80/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/23/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> on the country that could have possibly stemmed the violence and the wanton abuses of its warring factions. The crisis now, writes Human Rights Watch researcher Jonathan Pedneault <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a81/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/24/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>, "underscores the complete failure by government, opposition forces, and international actors to end the cycle of abuse." <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a82/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/25/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> As far as President Trump goes, there are still figures within his White House who are deeply suspicious of the United Nations and hostile to funding aid projects overseas <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a82/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/26/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> . Hence another bitter irony of 2017: Somalia and Yemen, where millions of people face acute food shortages, have been characterized by the Trump administration as nations that export terror and subjected to a potential immigration ban. *When you can't even expect empathy, how can you expect real help?* • White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon spoke at a conservative summit in Washington on Thursday (his boss is scheduled for today) and continued to *preach the administration’s mantra of contempt for the mainstream media <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a83/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/27/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>*. He warned his audience of fellow travelers that the media, whom he has labeled the “the opposition party," will keep fighting the Trump presidency. “If you think they are giving you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken,” he said — a statement that ought to furrow many brows. The Washington Post’s White House bureau chief, Phil Rucker, also reported on *Bannon celebrating Trump’s assault on a host of federal regulations <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a83/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/28/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>*: “Atop Trump’s agenda, Bannon said, was the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ — meaning a system of taxes, regulations and trade pacts that the president and his advisers believe stymie economic growth and infringe upon one’s sovereignty.” • Rumana Ahmed, a Bangladeshi American, joined President Obama’s National Security Council in 2011. Despite the Trump campaign’s vilification of American Muslims, she chose to stay on her White House post and serve her country. *She lasted eight days after Trump took office <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a84/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/29/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>* . “When Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and all Syrian refugees, I knew I could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat,” she wrote. Ahmed describes informing Trump adviser Michael Anton, a hardline hawk, of her decision to quit. He nodded and said nothing. “It was only later that I learned he authored an essay under a pseudonym, extolling the virtues of authoritarianism and *attacking diversity* <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a85/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/30/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> as a ‘weakness,’ and Islam as ‘incompatible with the modern West.’” Ahmed counters: “My whole life and everything I have learned proves that facile statement wrong.” Her searing personal account was *published in the Atlantic on Thursday* <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a84/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/31/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> and is a must-read. • In *an interview with Reuters <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a86/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/32/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>* on Thursday, Trump was asked about his posture on nuclear weapons. In December, the then-president-elect tweeted about his desire to expand American nuclear capabilities. He has since complained about joint measures the Obama administration took in conjunction with Russia to reduce their nation’s nuclear stockpiles. “If countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack,” Trump told Reuters. “Trump’s assertions in December and to Reuters fit with his broad policy toward military strength: peace through dominance,” *wrote my colleague Philip Bump <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a86/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/33/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>*. Dan Zak, a Post journalist who has written a book on nuclear weapons, *observes* <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a87/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/34/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> that the U.S.’s current nuclear arsenal “has the power to end human civilization, like 30 times over.” • Here’s *another episode of Trump deputies traveling overseas and making very different noises than the president himself <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a88/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/35/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>.* On a trip to Mexico, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly sought to diffuse tensions with the U.S.' southern neighbor. “There will be no — repeat, no — mass deportations," Kelly said at the Mexican Foreign Ministry, referring to a recent Trump utterance. "There will be no use of military force in immigration." [image: Malaysian youth leaders protest outside the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 23. (Rahman Roslan/Getty Images)</p>] Malaysian youth leaders protest outside the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 23. (Rahman Roslan/Getty Images) *Boxed in* North Korea is a notoriously isolated country, yet *recent events suggest that its isolation could be getting even worse.* Consider the spat now underway with Malaysia. Once upon a time, Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur enjoyed a relatively close relationship — at least by North Korean standards. The two countries had deep business ties, enjoyed visa-free travel and Malaysia is one of only two dozen or so countries with an embassy in Pyongyang. The relationship wasn’t without its strains <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a89/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/36/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>, but things have clearly gotten far worse since the public assassination of Kim Jong Un's estranged older brother in Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week. *The killing of Kim Jong Nam has lead to serious diplomatic fallout between the two nations*. Reuters reported <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a8a/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/37/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> that Malaysia is considered expelling the North Korean envoy after he suggested last week that Kuala Lumpur <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a8b/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/38/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> could be "colluding with outside forces" — an apparent reference to South Korea. *Worse still is the evolving spat between North Korea and China, traditionally Pyongyang's "big brother."* Relations between the two have soured after the Kuala Lumpur killing as well as a recent North Korean ballistic missile launch <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a8c/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/39/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>. Beijing announced last week that it was suspending all coal imports from North Korea until the end of the year <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a8d/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/40/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>, a major economic blow for Pyongyang. On Thursday, North Korea hit back with fiery state media commentary <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a8e/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/41/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> that not only accused a country — unnamed, but clearly China — of "mean behavior" and "dancing to the tune of the U.S." *How the U.S. fits into this right now is unclear.* Before he was elected, President Trump spoke often of the need for a stronger stance on North Korea, but his administration has so far offered little hint of what that stance will be. There are reportedly plans afoot <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a8f/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/42/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> to bring North Korean officials to the U.S. for a kind of preliminary round of talks, but my colleague Anna Fifield writes that “analysts also say they highly doubt that Pyongyang … would be willing to moderate its position on its weapons program.” *But if an increasingly lonely North Korea is willing to bargain, it seems the road out of isolation could run through Washington. **— Adam Taylor* [image: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department building in Washington on Feb. 8. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)</p>] Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department building in Washington on Feb. 8. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) *The big question* *While President Trump certainly isn’t afraid to mix it up with the media, his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has been near-silent in the weeks since he took office. Tillerson has endured wave of criticism <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a90/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/43/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> in recent days for supposedly neglecting his public diplomacy duties, staying out of the media and the public eye. Reporters are also concerned by the fact that the State Department has yet hold its usual daily briefings under the new administration. So we asked Post political correspondent Anne Gearan: How difficult has it been to cover the State Department under Trump?* “It's been easy — unless you want to actually get information. “*There is pretty much nothing to cover day to day*, since there are no press briefings and very few appearances or announcements involving Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The daily briefing is a State Department staple going back some 50 years. It's never been on hiatus this long, and it's not clear how or when the Trump administration will reinstate it. “*Tillerson has taken two short foreign trips, and on neither of them has he taken the usual complement of reporters and photographers.* He's given no speeches and no interviews. The beat reporters typically cover all of that routinely, alongside trying to break news and explain important foreign policy developments. “It's easier and more straightforward to get questions answered when the State Department is running normally, with the top offices filled and empowered spokespeople in place. That's not the case now. *It's Home Alone over there.* There are exactly two Senate-confirmed people on the job: Tillerson and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. “But breaking news is never easy no matter what administration you're covering, and in that sense not much has changed. I try to talk to as many people about as many topics as I can, in and out of the State Department. *There will always be people who have an interest or agenda in talking and there will always be people whose interest is the opposite.*” Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the freshly appointed national security adviser to President Trump, is the new darling of official Washington for his seeming potential to moderate the president's foreign policy. Gabriel Elefteriu has some suggestions in the Telegraph about how he might do that, while Parag Khanna writes in Politico about how Trump would also be wise to adjust course on trade. For the many liberals hoping the electoral backlash to Trump is coming, Dalibor Rohac has a roadmap in the Post on how to beat him, while Jan-Werner Mueller warns in Foreign Policy that Trump is more durable than many people think. General McMaster knows where the West went wrong <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a91/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/44/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Even before Trump took office, McMaster was clear on just how precarious the West’s strategic situation has become. By Gabriel Elefteriu | The Telegraph • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a91/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/45/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a91/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/46/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Trade grows — without the U.S. <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a92/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/47/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> As connections deepen between emerging nations, will America be left out of the loop? By Parag Khanna | Politico • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a92/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/48/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a92/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/49/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> My country had its own Trump. Here’s how we beat him. <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a93/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/50/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Lessons from Central Europe on overcoming the temptations of populism. By Dalibor Rohac | The Washington Post • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a93/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/51/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a93/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/52/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Donald Trump is much more resilient than he looks <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a94/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/53/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> The White House might not be popular or organized — but it’s populist enough to keep a firm grip on power. By Jan-Werner Mueller | Foreign Policy • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a94/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/54/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a94/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/55/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <http://li.washingtonpost.com/click?s=220945&layout=marquee&li=todayworld&m=13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4&p=58afcbf471885010a3d477f4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/293d/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/57/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/293e/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/58/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> The opioid epidemic in the U.S. is now responsible for taking the lives of 91 Americans a day. Virginia’s governor yesterday signed four bills into law aimed at stemming some of the deaths in his state. But there is a lot left to be done, as the results of a new study revealed that many addicts continue to receive opioids after treatment. Meanwhile, the President’s press secretary somehow managed to incorrectly link the crisis to recreational marijuana use. McAuliffe signs four bills to address Virginia's opioid crisis <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a95/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/59/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> The bills put into action syringe-services programs; initiatives to increase access to the overdose-reversal drug naloxone; changes to opioid prescription policies; and processes for providing services to infants exposed to opioids in utero. By Katie Demeria | The Richmond Times-Dispatch • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a95/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/60/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a95/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/61/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> People getting opioid addiction treatment often double up, study finds <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a96/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/62/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Two-thirds of people prescribed a drug usually used to treat opioid addiction get more of the addictive drugs after treatment, researchers say. By Maggie Fox | NBC • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a96/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/63/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a96/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/64/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Sean Spicer wrongly links recreational marijuana use with opioid crisis <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a97/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/65/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Sean Spicer ignores the evidence that legalized marijuana actually counteracts the opioid crisis instead of contributing to it. By Debra Borchardt | Forbes • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a97/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/66/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a97/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/67/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> These refugees, who fled the United States for Canada in the face of President Trump's travel ban and immigration crackdown, received a warm welcome when they crossed into Quebec. But *how long can that last* <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a98/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/68/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4>? Some Canadians fear it won't be long before warmer weather prompts a new, larger wave of asylum seekers to make their way to Canada — and that an anti-refugee backlash will arrive with them. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press/AP) <http://li.washingtonpost.com/click?s=220950&layout=marquee&li=todayworld&m=13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4&p=58afcbf471885010a3d477f4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2943/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/70/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2944/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/71/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> You are reading *Today's WorldView,* our daily email newsletter covering events and opinions from around the globe. Not a regular subscriber? SIGN UP NOW <https://s.washingtonpost.com/23f6/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/72/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a99/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/73/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Trump’s chief strategist outlines nationalist agenda and says president will fulfill hard-line promises. By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a99/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/74/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a99/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/75/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Law professors file misconduct complaint against Kellyanne Conway <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9a/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/76/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Counselor to President Trump is a graduate of George Washington University Law School who was admitted to the D.C. Bar in 1995. By Sari Horwitz • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9a/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/77/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9a/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/78/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Spicer: Feds could step up enforcement against marijuana use in states <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9b/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/79/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> The White House press secretary said President Trump sees "a big difference" between use of marijuana for medical purposes and for recreational purposes. By John Wagner and Matt Zapotosky • Read more » <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9b/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/80/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9b/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/81/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> <https://s.washingtonpost.com/2a9c/58afcbf471885010a3d477f4/amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/82/88/13168e8833e77ae0a2ec9f8c9e91f7a4> Here's what a literal bear hug looks like. Trouble reading? Click here <https://s.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?e=amRhcmNxQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&s=58afcbf471885010a3d477f4> to view in your browser. 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