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MANILA - Investigators are looking at politics and business as possible motives behind the fatal ambush on the mayor of Sudipen, La Union. Mayor Alexander Buquing and his wife, Vice Mayor Wendy Buquing, were on their way home when unidentified gunmen strafed their vehicle near a school in Sudipen on Monday night. Alexander was declared dead on arrival at a hospital, authorities said. Silverio Ordinado, public information officer of the La Union police, told reporters. (We are looking at the politics side. The mayor is also a businessman so we're also looking at the business side.) The filing of certificates of candidacy for next year's mid-term elections is scheduled this month, he noted. Alexander was supposed to seek re-election, his OIC executive assistant Reina Catcatan earlier told ABS-CBN News. The mayor owns a rice field and is a distributor of soft drink products, she said. Alexander is the 17th elected official killed during the Duterte administration.

The scale of cocaine smuggling at the port of Antwerp – through which half of Europe’s supply of the drug reportedly passes – is so vast that corruption of local politics is inevitable, the city’s mayor has said. Bart De Wever, who has been mayor since 2013, said the enormous amount of cash flooding in because of drug smuggling at Europe’s second biggest port has permeated the Belgian city. “This is going to penetrate all of society,” he told De Morgen newspaper. “The influence of the money volume is not limited to certain districts. I dare say: in Antwerp we are on the verge that people are also buying political influence.” In 2013, police in Antwerp intercepted more than 4,000kg of cocaine. Last year that figure rose to 40,000kg, worth more than €1.5bn (£1.35bn), as smugglers became increasingly creative. This summer, 56kg was found hidden in fake pineapples in a container that arrived from Costa Rica. De Wever said: “One cannot ignore the fact that since the 1970s entrepreneurs in the Netherlands have become filthy rich in the drugs business. First with cannabis, then with synthetic drugs and coke. The Dutch are global consultants.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tells CNN's Brian Stelter that without Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., "we would be a more unified country. There would be less overt hate."

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Good morning, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is setting his government on a collision course with Toronto’s mayor and councillors, introducing legislation today to cut the size of city council in half months before a civic election. Toronto Mayor John Tory and the city’s councillors have vowed to fight the planned cuts, though it’s not clear how. Mr. Tory wants the provincial government to call a referendum rather than making changes unilaterally. Mr. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on auto imports, citing “national security” concerns. The federal government is considering a “tiered” approach to compensation for damages related to the failed Phoenix pay system. The rule was first proposed more than a year before the tragic crash, but won’t take effect until September of 2020. Ontario was the first province to announce its regime for legalized marijuana under the former Liberal government, which envisioned a business model similar to the province-run liquor system. Mr. Mugabe led the country for 37 years before being ousted late last year. Canada will need a co-ordinated strategy that brings government, academia and the private sector together to develop this vital pool of talent.” David Shribman (The Globe and Mail) on the emoluments clause: “A brewing threat facing the presidency of Donald Trump may be one that stirs hardly any notice in the roiling waters of Washington: a quietly developing federal court battle that will shed light on whether Mr. Trump unconstitutionally benefited from foreign and domestic interests through his Washington hotel.” Got a news tip that you’d like us to look into? Reach out via SecureDrop Help The Globe monitor political ads on Facebook: During an election campaign, you can expect to see a lot of political ads.

People won’t ask each other, “Which generation are you voting for?” And they definitely won’t vote based entirely on way-insider technical issues. The question might be this: Black rose to success 20-40 years ago. If you don’t believe me, watch the faces of young people next time you catch an older person speaking to them about race, gender or national origin. But it may mean the election could turn on questions that speak to broader sensibilities, like rewilding the Trinity River, expanding the trail system, creating neighborhoods where poor people can live on the same street with middle-class people and the middle-class people won’t pass out every time they see them. Those issues are so deep, so close to the bone that people just read them in each other by mental sonar. And may the best sensibility win. But it’s going to get worked out as personality. You could almost say the reason we have politics in the first place is so we won’t all have to work on drainage issues. Say this for the technical side of politics: With that tiny a sliver of the city’s potential voters making the decision on vote day, any candidate who can push the stack by even a few thousand voters one way or the other will have an enormous advantage. I wish they could all be mayor at the same time.

Border protection claims the New York City mayor and Austin's Mayor Adler illegally crossed the border between Mexico and the U.S. William La Jeunesse has the story. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering…

On Tuesday, Waterville voters will decide if they want to keep Isgro as mayor or recall him from office. The pivotal vote comes amid an increasingly polarized national political climate under President Donald Trump, whose own tweets seem to cause controversy almost daily. “The city is on fire,” Payne said. I’ve said that all along.” Similar debates have unfolded across the country in the months since Trump’s election. The president himself has refused to apologize for anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant remarks. For some, the post about Hogg might have been the final straw because it was an attack directed at a child that came on the heels of a national tragedy, Brewer said. In Maine, legislative candidate Les Gibson dropped his campaign after outrage over a tweet he made calling another survivor, Emma Gonzalez, a “skinhead lesbian.” In his defense, Isgro has scapegoated the news media and pointed to outsider liberal groups and “dark money” for meddling in city politics. Rep. Larry Lockman, R-Amherst, who himself has a long history of making controversial statements, including recent comments urging people to resist the “left’s war on whites,” said across the state, politics have become more divisive since the 2016 election because of liberals refusing to accept the election of candidates such as Trump or Isgro. Payne, the school board member who supports Isgro, and former Waterville Mayor Karen Heck, an independent who originally endorsed Isgro but has stated her preference for Democrats and has since helped lead the recall effort against the mayor, said there have always been issues that have sparked political controversy in Waterville — whether it be the debate over pay-as-you-throw trash, city budgets in past years or school budgets. “It’s just the Trump playbook.” Still, Reisert, the Colby professor, pointed to the City Council’s recent unanimous vote on the city budget as an example of how local government may be working better in some ways than things on the national level.

“Eat it, Hogg,” Isgro said in response to an article about Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham losing sponsorships for disparaging remarks she made toward Florida school shooting survivor David Hogg, who has gone on national TV to call for gun control legislation in the wake of the attack. On Tuesday, Waterville voters will decide if they want to keep Isgro as mayor or recall him from office. “The city is on fire,” Payne said. I’ve said that all along.” Similar debates have unfolded across the country in the months since Trump’s election. The president himself has refused to apologize for anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant remarks. Isgro also has argued the controversy over the tweet and the recall are a distraction from city work, in particular the city budget. “Certainly racist or homophobic tweets also cross a line, but directing an attack at a child, most Americans strongly feel that line shouldn’t be crossed.” But those lines seem increasingly blurred on social media. Rep. Larry Lockman, R-Amherst, who himself has a long history of making controversial statements, including recent comments urging people to resist the “left’s war on whites,” said across the state, politics have become more divisive since the 2016 election because of liberals refusing to accept the election of candidates such as Trump or Isgro. Payne and former Waterville Mayor Karen Heck, an independent who originally endorsed Isgro but has stated her preference for Democrats and has since helped lead the recall effort, said there have always been issues that have sparked political controversy in Waterville – whether it be the debate over pay-as-you-throw trash, city budgets in past years or school budgets. “It’s just the Trump playbook.” Still, Reisert pointed to the City Council’s recent unanimous vote on the city budget as an example of how local government may be working better in some ways than things on the national level.

Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Event is sold out, but will be live-streamed here. More information is here. 5-7 p.m. outside the Israeli Consulate, 456 Montgomery St., San Francisco. Palestinian forum: Event marking 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the expulsion and exodus of Palestinians from what became the state of Israel. More information is here. Politics 101: United Democratic Club hosts a primer on local politics. 6:30 p.m., New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk St., San Francisco. More information is here. More information is here.