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ByLindseyTanner The Associated Press CHICAGO Teensuicideat- tempts in the U.S. declined after same-sex marriage became legal and the big- gest impact was among gay, lesbian and bisexual kids, a study found. The research found de- clines in states that passed laws allowing gays to marry before the Supreme Court made it legal na- tionwide. The results don't prove there's a connection, but researchers said poli- cymakers should be aware of the measures' potential benefits for youth mental health. Suicide is the second- leading cause of death for all U.S. teens. Suicidal be- havior is much more com- mon among gay, lesbian and bisexual kids and adults; about 29 percent of these teens in the study re- ported attempting suicide, compared with just 6 per- cent of straight teens. Laws that have the greatest impact on gay adults may make gay kids feel "more hopeful for the future," said lead au- thor Julia Raifman, a re- searcher at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Pub- lic Health. The measures also could create more tolerance and less bullying, making these teens feel less stigmatized. Those effects could also benefit straight teens but more research is needed to determine how the laws might influence teen be- havior, Raifman said. The study was published Monday in JAMA Pediat- rics . The researchers ana- lyzed data on more than 700,000 public high school students who participated in government surveys on risky youth behavior from 1999 through 2015, the year the Supreme Court legalized same-sex mar- riage. About 230,000 students reported being gay, lesbian or bisexual. The surveys didn't ask about transgen- der status. They included questions about suicide at- tempts, smoking and alco- hol or drug use. In 32 states that enacted same-sex marriage laws during the study, suicide attempts dropped 7 per- cent among all students and 14 percent among gay kids after the laws were passed. There was no change in suicide at- tempts in states without those laws. The study only in- cluded suicide attempts, not deaths. The new work makes an important contribution to identifying how laws lim- iting gay rights may affect psychological and physi- cal health, said Columbia University public health researcher Mark Hatzen- buehler. But more research is needed to determine which teens are most vulnerable to policies that limit gay rights, he wrote in an ac- companying editorial. HEALTH Teen suicide attempts fell as same-sex marriage became legal GOVERNMENT SUSANWALSH—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS President Donald Trump, right, listens as Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, le , talks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday where Trump announced that McMaster will be the new national security adviser. By Catherine Lucey The Associated Press PALM BEACH, FLA. Pres- ident Donald Trump has tapped Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new na- tional security adviser, re- placing the ousted Michael Flynn. Trump announced the pick Monday at his Palm Beach club and said Mc- Master is "a man of tremen- dous talent and tremendous experience." The president, who has no military experience, has shown a preference for generals in the top secu- rity roles. McMaster, who wore his uniform for the announcement, joins De- fense Secretary Jim Mat- tis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, both retired generals. Trump says retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg who had been his acting ad- viser, will now serve as the National Security Council chief of staff. He also said he would be asking John Bolton, a former U.S. am- bassador to the United Na- tions, to work with them in a "somewhat different ca- pacity." Trump made the an- nouncement from a luxuri- ous living room, sitting on a couch between McMaster and Kellogg. The president told reporters as he exited the room that Vice Presi- dent Mike Pence had been involved in the process. Trump brought four can- didates for the position to Mar-a-Lago over the week- end for in-person inter- views, McMaster among them. McMaster called the appointment a "privilege." McMaster served in the first Gulf War, Afghani- stan and Iraq. Considered a scholarly officer, he holds a Ph.D. in military history, and has authored a book called "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam." He has also written articles ques- tioning the planning for wars in Iraq and Afghani- stan. The position of national security adviser does not re- quire Senate confirmation. Trump pushed out Flynn a week ago after revelations that the adviser had mis- led Pence about discussing sanctions with Russia's am- bassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition. Trump said in a news con- ference Thursday that he was disappointed by how Flynn had treated Pence, but did not believe Flynn had done anything wrong by having the conversa- tions. Trump's first choice to replace Flynn, retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, turned down the offer. Trump selects military strategist as security adviser By Julie Pace The Associated Press WASHINGTON As Presi- dent Donald Trump be- gins his second month in office, his team is trying to move past the crush of con- troversies that overtook his first month and make prog- ress on health care and tax overhauls long sought by Republicans. Both issues thrust Trump, a real estate exec- utive who has never held elected office, into the un- familiar world of legislat- ing. The president has thus far relied exclusively on ex- ecutive powers to muscle through policy priorities and has offered few details about what he'll require in any final legislative pack- ages, like how the pro- posals should be paid for. The White House also sent conflicting signals about whether the president will send Congress his own leg- islative blueprints or let lawmakers drive the pro- cess. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus told The Associated Press that he expects a health care plan to emerge in "the first few days of March." Pressed on whether the plan would be coming from the White House, Priebus said, "We don't work in a vacuum." On Sunday, White House advisers held a three-hour meeting on health care at Trump's South Florida club, their third lengthy discus- sion on the topic in four days. Gary Cohn, the for- mer Goldman Sachs banker now serving as Trump's top economic adviser, and newly sworn in Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have been leading talks with Republican lawmak- ers and business leaders on taxes. Neither man has prior government experi- ence. Republicans long blamed Democrats for blocking ef- forts to overhaul the na- tion's complicated tax code and make changes to the sweeping 2010 health care law signed by President Barack Obama. But with the GOP now in control of both the White House and Congress, making good on those promises rests almost entirely with the president and his party. To some Republicans' chagrin, both issues were overshadowed during Trump's first month. The president spent more time publicly fighting the media than selling Americans on his vision for a new health care law. Fresh questions emerged about Trump's ties to Russia, particularly after national security ad- viser Michael Flynn was fired for misleading the White House about his con- versations with a Russian envoy. The White House botched the rollout of a ref- ugee and immigration exec- utive order, Trump's most substantive policy initia- tive to date, and the direc- tive was quickly blocked by the courts. Priebus said the distrac- tions did not slow down work happening behind the scenes on the president's legislative priorities. "Obviously with the White House staff, you're able to walk and chew gum at the same time," Priebus said. "The economic team isn't screwing around with the legal case and the law- yers aren't screwing around with tax reform." GOVERNMENT Trump tries to move controversies, toward legislating By Mark Sherman The Associated Press WASHINGTON Sixty feet and the U.S-Mexico bor- der separated the un- armed, 15-year-old Mexi- can boy and the U.S. Bor- der Patrol agent who killed him with a gunshot to the head early on a June eve- ning in 2010. U.S. officials chose not to prosecute Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. and the Obama administration refused a request to extradite him so that he could face criminal charges in Mex- ico. When the parents of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca tried to sue Mesa in an American court for violating their son's rights, federal judges dismissed their claims. The Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing the parents' appeal, which their lawyers say is their last hope for some mea- sure of justice. The legal issues are dif- ferent, but the Supreme Court case resembles the court battle over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven ma- jority Muslim nations in at least one sense. Courts examining both issues are weighing whether foreign- ers can have their day in U.S. courts. Privacy experts also are watching the case be- cause it could affect how courts treat global inter- net surveillance, particu- larly when foreigners are involved. It's there that the "Fourth Amendment ques- tion in Hernandez seems to matter most," George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr wrote on the Volokh Con- spiracy blog. 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