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  • Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire

    01/11/2025 10:25:36 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 57 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | January 11, 2025 9:50 AM EST | Anna Phillips, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Evan Halper, Joshua Partlow
    In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods earlier this week, killing at least 11 people and destroying thousands of homes, the city suddenly found itself in survival mode. A critical question became why the largest city in California, a state that has spent years fortifying itself against wildfires, couldn’t stop the fires this time. State regulations required residents in high-risk neighborhoods to create vegetation-free buffers around their homes. California had invested billions of dollars to reduce the amount of woody fuel for fires to burn. It...
  • Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border

    11/24/2018 9:32:39 AM PST · by NRx · 72 replies
    WaPo ^ | 11-24-2018 | Joshua Partlow and Nick Miroff
    <p>MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team.</p>
  • After months of restraint, Mexico adopts new strategy: Standing up to Donald Trump

    04/07/2016 7:18:04 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 04/07/2016 | By Joshua Partlow
    MEXICO CITY — The rise of Donald Trump and the anti-immigrant wave he is riding in his presidential primary campaign have alarmed the Mexican government so much that it has reshuffled top diplomats and, according to officials, adopted a new strategy — to defend the image of Mexicans abroad. Trump has consistently targeted the United States’ southern neighbor, calling Mexican border-crossers “rapists” and criminals and threatening to cut off the money they send home to their families unless Mexico pays for a border wall. But for months, the Mexican government has opted to remain quiet, with a few high-profile exceptions,...
  • US Unit Walks 'A Fine Line' in Iraqi Capital

    02/05/2007 8:53:29 PM PST · by lonestar67 · 3 replies · 706+ views
    Washington Post ^ | Feb 5 | Joshua Partlow
    By Joshua Partlow. BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 -- The camouflaged American soldiers, weary from hours of struggling to talk with Iraqis during a patrol in eastern Baghdad, laughed with relief after an Iraqi army major's wife met them at her door.
  • Iraqi Official Warns Against Coup Attempt

    07/28/2006 8:46:14 PM PDT · by jmc1969 · 7 replies · 633+ views
    NY Times ^ | July 29, 2006 | Joshua Partlow and Saad Sarhan
    A Shiite Muslim political leader said Friday that rumors were circulating of an impending coup attempt against the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and warned that "we will not allow it." A new government would mean "canceling the constitution, canceling the results of the elections and going back to square one . . . and we will not accept that," he said. Amiri is also a top official in the Badr Organization, the armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the leading member of a coalition of Shiite political parties governing...