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4B – Daily News – Thursday, January 13, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Hours before Ariz. shooting, suspect dashed from store to store, ran light TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — For Jared Loughner, the morning of the deadly shooting rampage was a blur of activity. He hus- tled to Walmart twice. He ran a red light, with the officer letting him off with a warning. Back home, he grabbed a black bag from the trunk of a family car and fled into the desert on foot, his suspicious father giving chase. Later, Loughner took a cab to a Safeway supermarket and began squeezing off round after round into the crowd. The new details of the Wal- mart visits and the traffic stop emerged Wednesday, adding to the picture of the last frenetic hours the 22-year-old spent before the attack Saturday that gravely wounded his apparent target, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and killed six others. ‘‘It sounds like he was pretty busy that morning,’’ Pima County sheriff’s Capt. Chris Nanos said. As Giffords’ condition improved in an intensive care unit on Wednesday, all federal judges in the state recused themselves from the case to avoid any future questions about their impartiality, given that one of their colleagues, John Roll, was killed in the rampage. Obama will try to uplift nation as he honors shooting victims at memorial WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading the nation in mourn- ing, President Barack Obama flew to Arizona Wednesday to pay tribute to the six people killed in the weekend shootings and to the fighting spirit of wounded lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the first assassination attempt on a member of Congress in decades. Searching for the right tone, Obama sought to console the country, not dissect its politics. Obama and his wife, Michelle, headed for a night- time service in Tucson with a bipartisan delegation aboard Air Force One in a sign of soli- darity. Back on Capitol Hill, Gif- fords’ House colleagues praised her and the other shoot- ing victims and insisted that violence would not silence democracy. ‘‘We will have the last word,’’ declared new House Speaker John Boehner. He fought back tears as he described Giffords’ battle to recover from Saturday’s gun- shot wound to her head. Haitian capital goes quiet as country holds Powerful winter storm buries Northeast HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The third winter storm in three weeks buried parts of the Northeast in nearly 2 feet of wet, blowing snow Wednesday, smothering highways, halting trains, and causing thousands of homes and business to go cold and dark. The storm, which iced over much of the South before sweeping up the East Coast, wreaked havoc on the morning commute across southern New England. In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency and mobilized the National Guard. He said the storm brought more snow and a wetter kind of snow than offi- cials expected, leaving more than 100,000 people without power or heat by noon. Maria Rivera, 60, slept overnight in a food court booth at a travel plaza on the Massa- chusetts Turnpike in Natick. She said the person providing her ride home to Worcester could not make it in the storm, and she had to be back for her Wednesday shift. ‘‘I have to work,’’ she said. ‘‘I have to pay my bills.’’ Mudslides in Brazil kill 140 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state’s mountains, killing at least 140 people in 24 hours, Brazilian officials said Wednesday. Rescuers using heavy machin- ery, shovels and bare hands struggled to dig through tons of mud and debris in a search for survivors. In Teresopolis, a town 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Rio, flash floods tossed cars into trees and mudslides poured tons of red earth over houses below. At least 114 died, according to a local Civil Defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to release the information. She added that 10 inches (26 centimeters) of rain fell on the town during 24 hours. Survivors waded through waist-high water, carrying what belongings they could, trying to reach higher ground. Floodwaters continued to flow down the mountains, though rains had stopped. ‘‘I’ve lived here 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,’’ Teresopolis citizen Manoel Rocha Sobrinho told the Folha de S. Paulo newspa- per. ‘‘I live on high ground and when I looked below, I only saw a sea of mud. Most people saved themselves by climbing trees.’’ With the new disasters, nearly 200 people have died since Christmas across the southeastern portions of the country. Riots reach heart of Tunisia’s capital TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tear gas and stone-throwing youthtype:italic;s reached the heart of Tunisia’s once-calm capital Wednesday as rioters desperate for jobs defied their autocratic president in escalat- ing unrest that poses his biggest challenge in 23 years in power. The army deployed armored vehicles around Tunis, and the government imposed a virtually unprecedented curfew to try to quell protests over unemploy- ment and political repression that began more than three weeks ago in a central Tunisian town. Outside the capital, at least two deaths were reported from police fire Wednesday. The demonstrations have set off clashes with police as they spread around the country, leav- ing at least 23 dead and shatter- ing Tunisia’s image as an island of calm in a region beset by Islamist extremism. The rioting stayed outside the capital until Wednesday, when the interior minister was fired and clashes broke out hours later, intensifying an unprecedented sense of uncer- tainty about the future of Tunisia’s government. Euro- pean countries issued warnings about the increased dangers of travel to the country. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 74, has maintained an iron grip on Tunisia since grab- bing power 23 years ago in a bloodless coup, repressing any challenge to a government many see as corrupt and intoler- ant. Palin’s use of ’blood libel’ dredges up sordid history NEW YORK (AP) — When Sarah Palin accused journalists and pundits of ‘‘blood libel’’ in the wake of the deadly Arizona shootings, she reached deep into one of medieval history’s most sordid chapters to make her point. The term ‘‘blood libel’’ is not well known, but it is highly charged — a direct reference to a time when many European Christians blamed Jews for kid- napping and murdering Christ- ian children to obtain their blood. Jews were tortured and executed for crimes they did not commit, emblematic of anti-Semitism so virulent that some scholars recoiled Wednesday at Palin’s use of the term. In a video posted to her Facebook page early Wednes- day, the 2008 GOP vice presi- dential candidate accused the U.S. media of inciting hatred and violence after the shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Palin has been criticized for marking Gif- fords’ district with the cross hairs of a gun sight during last fall’s campaign. ‘‘But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible,’’ she said. But some experts on the his- tory of blood libel took excep- tion to Palin’s use of the term. memorials PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The normally traffic- clogged streets of the Haitian capital turned quiet Wednesday as businesses closed and people walked in solemn processions to prayer services marking the anniversary of the worst natural disaster in the nation’s history. Many people wore white, a color associated with mourning in Haiti, and sang hymns as they navigated collapsed build- ings and rubble from the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that left much of Port-au-Prince in ruins. The government increased the estimated death toll to more than 316,000 peo- ple, but it did not explain how it arrived at that number. Evens Lormil joined mourn- ers in a crowd at the Roman Catholic cathedral, its towering spires and vaulted roof now col- lapsed, waiting for a memorial Mass next to what was once a prominent landmark in a ragged downtown. The 35-year-old dri- ver of the collective taxis known as tap-taps said his wife and two children were in the countryside north of the capital, still too traumatized by the quake to attend the service, or even live in the city. ‘‘I’m here to mourn all the victims,’’ he said before the Mass, which was held in a tent next to the ruined cathedral. ‘‘Even though life was bad before the earthquake, it got worse. I am hoping the country can move together and come forward.’’ Terez Benitot, who sat bare- foot outside the Mass because there was no more room inside, said she lost a cousin in the earthquake, her house col- lapsed and her husband, a mason, has less work than before the quake. Sister of slain dancer curses defendant NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. 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