The KKK and the power of protest 'at its best'

February 29, 2016 - Daily News Briefing

The civil rights protesters of today are writing a new playbook, but some of the old lessons might still apply.

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Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio continue to swing at Donald Trump ahead of the Super Tuesday presidential primaries that could help the Republican front-runner expand his delegate lead in an increasingly caustic nomination fight. From Rubio mocking "Hair Force One" to Cruz dismissing Trump's wealth as a result of "picking the right Daddy" and suggesting the billionaire has business ties to the Mafia, the two first-term senators have unleashed a personal and policy-based barrage, using the Sunday talk show circuit to warn that nominating Trump would be catastrophic for the party in November and beyond.

Iranian reformists appear have won all 30 seats representing the nation's capital in parliament, a definitive rebuke to the hard-liners opposing President Hassan Rouhani's efforts to increase economic openness and cooperate with the West. In the first elections held since last year's nuclear deal, none of Iran's three main political camps — reformists, conservatives and hard-liners — is expected to win an outright majority, but early results indicate the best reformist showing in the 290-seat parliament in more than a decade.

Warplanes carried out air raids Sunday on several parts of northern Syria as a top opposition official warned that continued violations of a fragile cease-fire could jeopardize a planned resumption of U.N.-brokered peace talks. The acts of violence came as Russia said a northern town held by a predominantly Kurdish militia came under fire from the Turkish side of the border. Sunday's air raids came on the second day of a cease-fire brokered by Russia and the U.S., the most ambitious effort yet to curb the violence of the country's five-year civil war. The truce has been holding since it went into effect at midnight Friday despite accusations by both sides of violations.

Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to automatically expel foreigners who commit even low-level crimes, according to results, handing a setback to a popular nationalist party that had put forward the measure. The initiative was rejected Sunday by 59 percent of voters, the government Web site showed. Public debate over the issue was unusually fierce by Swiss standards. The People's Party's campaign posters showed a white sheep atop a Swiss flag, kicking away a black sheep. Opponents of the measure released an electronic ad at train stations showing a tattered swastika next to a large "No" to the referendum.

An Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon was arrested on murder and other charges in the death of a police officer and another person, authorities said Sunday. Ronald Williams Hamilton, 32, is being held without bond in the Prince William County Adult Detention Center on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer as well as the domestic violence murder of his wife. He is accused of shooting and killing Officer Ashley Guindon on her first day on the job after she answered a domestic violence call at the Hamilton home Saturday evening. Two other officers were hospitalized with injuries.

Europe has the ability to stop the flow of migrants reaching the continent but its leaders have no plans to do so, Hungary's prime minister declared Sunday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been at the forefront of those rejecting the refugees and asylum-seekers flooding into Europe due to conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Hungary last year built razor-wire fences on its borders with Serbia and Croatia to stop the migrants from freely entering the country — moves that altered the flow of migrants across Europe.

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