What the Trump revolt is actually about

January 11, 2016 - Daily News Briefing

A Republican poverty summit this weekend was seen as 'far from the center of the GOP race.' But seen a different way, it has been the race's defining issue.

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Recently captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was unapologetic for running one of the world's biggest drug trafficking organizations in a Rolling Stone interview with American actor Sean Penn.

Penn had the first-ever interview with Guzman in late October while the world's most-wanted drug lord was on the lam after escaping through an elaborate tunnel from Mexico's maximum security prison in July.

A Mexican law enforcement official said Saturday that the interview in the remote community of Tamazula in the northern state of Durango helped authorities track the whereabouts of the drug lord.

A "projectile" struck a clinic supported by international medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres in north Yemen on Sunday, killing four people, MSF said, another in a series of attacks on its facilities in the war-torn country.

MSF said it was not clear who was behind the attack that also wounded 10 other people in Shiara Hospital in the Razeh district, where the group has worked since November last year.

MSF did not identify who was killed in the attack but said that three of the wounded were staff members.

Police van driver Caesar Goodson was with Freddie Gray for every second of his 45-minute trip from the site of his arrest to the Western District police station in Baltimore, where Gray arrived critically injured and unresponsive. But Goodson's account of what happened on that day remains a mystery: He is the only one of six officers charged in Gray's death not to speak to investigators.

His trial, which begins Monday, will offer the public its first chance to hear Goodson's side of the story.

The United States deployed a B-52 bomber on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea on Sunday, a show of force following North Korea's nuclear test last week.

The test angered both China and the United States, although the US weapons experts doubt the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s claim that the device was a hydrogen bomb.

The massive B-52, based in Guam and capable of carrying nuclear weapons, could be seen in a low flight over Osan Air Base at around noon.

A Syrian scientist seeking a new start for his family in Michigan will represent Syrian refugees as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama for the president's final State of the Union address.

Refaai Hamo and his family arrived in Detroit in December. Hamo fled to Turkey from Syria after a missile attack killed his wife and daughter.

The guests include veterans and service members, including one of the three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack aboard a Paris-bound train. Those on the guest list will highlight issues that President Obama has attempted to prioritize during his tenure.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday hammered away at his closest challenger's eligibility to be US president, while the party's Senate leader said the chamber will stay out of the fray involving Ted Cruz's citizenship.

Under the Constitution, presidents must be "natural born citizens." Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, to an American mother, which he says makes him eligible to run.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told ABC's "This Week" the Senate would not act to counter Trump's claim that Cruz's Canadian birth makes him ineligible. The father of the senator from Texas was born in Cuba.