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Newsfeed PHILADELPHIA An 89-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect died in custody hours before a U.S. ruling Wednesday that he should be extra- dited to Germany to face trial. Johann Breyer died Tuesday night at a Phil- adelphia hospital, where he had been transferred Saturday after a month in jail, his lawyer and the U.S. Marshals Ser- vice said. His death was disclosed Wednesday just as U.S. Magistrate Timothy Rice approved the extradition request, which would still have needed final U.S. govern- ment review. Rice found probable cause that Breyer was the person being sought by German authorities over his suspected service as an SS guard at Auschwitz during World War II. "No statute of limita- tions offers a safe haven for murder," he wrote in his ruling. U.S. marshals had ar- rested Breyer in June outside his longtime home in Philadelphia. He was facing charges of aiding in the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children at a Nazi death camp. SUSPECTED SS GUARD Naziwarsuspect, 89, dies as extradition OK'd INDIANAPOLIS An In- diana teenager who was attempting to set a re- cord for an around-the- world flight has died in a crash over the Pacific Ocean, a family spokes- woman said Wednesday. Annie Hayat said the plane flown by 17-year- old Haris Suleman went down shortly after leav- ing Pago Pago in Ameri- can Samoa. Suleman and his father, Babar Sule- man, were on board. Hayat said the body of Haris Suleman had been recovered, but crews were still looking for his father. Federal Aviation Ad- ministration spokesman Ian Gregor in Los An- geles said the single-en- gine Hawker Beechcraft plane crashed into the ocean Tuesday night un- der unknown circum- stances. The tail num- ber provided by the FAA shows the plane is reg- istered to a limited lia- bility corporation whose address matches Babar Suleman's home address in Plainfield, Indiana. U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Offi- cer Melissa McKenzie said witnesses reported see- ing the plane crash about a mile from shore shortly after taking off from Pago Pago's airport. RECORD ATTEMPT Spokeswoman: Indiana teen pilot dies in crash JUNEAU, ALASKA Sarah Palin is facing a $154 ticket for speeding in her hometown of Wasilla. The former Alaska governor was pulled over July 16 and cited for driv- ing between 10 and 19 mph over the speed limit. The penalty includes a $144 fine and $10 police training surcharge. An attorney for Palin said he didn't know de- tails of the case but that Palin would pay the fine. A Wasilla Police Depart- ment spokesman did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. In discussing the ticket with TMZ, Palin made an auto racing reference, jok- ing that she wasn't speed- ing, she was "qualifying." 'QUALIFYING' Former governor cited for speeding in Alaska hometown The Associated Press WASHINGTON At an im- passe on immigration, House Republicans and Senate Democrats ad- vanced competing propos- als Wednesday for dealing with tens of thousands of young migrants showing up at the southern border. Each side quickly ruled the other's approach unaccept- able, leaving a solution a re- mote possibility with Con- gress' annual August recess looming. Unless Democrats capit- ulate, "We're going to be at an impasse and we will have earned even greater disdain from the Ameri- can people than we already have," Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., said. But Republicans were having difficulty agreeing even among themselves. At a meeting of House Republicans on Wednes- day, Speaker John Boehner urged action to address the border crisis, remind- ing GOP lawmakers that the Border Patrol and other agencies would be run- ning out of money in com- ing months because of the heavy influx of unaccompa- nied minors and families at the border. A working group ap- pointed by Boehner rolled out proposals including sending in the National Guard and changing a 2008 trafficking victims law to al- low Central American kids to be turned around quickly at the border and sent back home. Lawmakers an- nounced plans to chop Pres- ident Barack Obama's $3.7 billion emergency spending request for the border crisis down to $1.5 billion. But as they left the meet- ing some of the more con- servative members of the GOP caucus made clear they were unconvinced. "If Republicans moves forward on this, we're now jumping right in the middle of President Obama's night- mare and making it ours," said Rep. John Fleming, R-La. Fleming said he wor- ried that any House-passed bill "will be turned on its head" by the Senate "and actually make the problem even worse." Fleming said Boehner told Republicans he was un- decided about bringing the plan to the floor because he didn't know whether there were enough votes to pass it. In his comments to re- porters after the meeting, Boehner was noncommittal. "This discussion with our members is going to con- tinue, but we've not made any decisions," he said. "I'd like to act. We've got a hu- manitarian crisis on the border that has to be dealt with." IMMIGRATION IMPASSE Both houses push competing border plans J.SCOTTAPPLEWHITE/THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Speaker of the House John Boehner talks with reporters on Capitol Hill following a Republican strategy session. House Republicans want to slash President Barack Obama's emergency spending request for the border. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at the Catholic University of America, in Washington on Wednesday. The Associated Press WASHINGTON Americans who oppose same-sex mar- riage often face "intolerance" from those who support it, Republican Sen. Marco Ru- bio of Florida said Wednes- day in a speech about values that appeared aimed at woo- ing social conservatives. In remarks he said were likely to get him attacked as a bigot, the Florida Republi- can also complained to the audience at Catholic Uni- versity about liberals who defend abortion rights for women but not protections for "the unborn." While Rubio has consis- tently held conservative po- sitions on abortion and gay marriage, his current em- phasis appears to be an ef- fort to appeal to social con- servatives who have yet to settle on a 2016 candidate. "Even before this speech is over, I will be attacked as someone who is a hater or a bigot," Rubio said. Rubio is also trying to re- cover from his failed push for an immigration over- haul, now seen as a misstep. Rubio helped write the bi- partisan immigration over- haul that passed the Senate but stalled in the House as some Republicans balked. Conservatives grew wary of the measure, and the Repub- lican-led House signaled the comprehensive Senate plan would go nowhere. Rubio did not include immigration in his speech, which focused on the mer- its of marriage, raising chil- dren in two-parent homes and educating them with values. But a member of the audience did ask Rubio about his immigration leg- islation's hopes in Congress. "I just don't see how we ever get the support in Washington any time in the next decade" unless law- makers are convinced the flow of immigrants coming across the Southern border has stopped, Rubio said. Rubio: Same-sex marriage foes face 'intolerance' FLORIDA REPUBLICAN The Associated Press LAS VEGAS Vice Presi- dent Joe Biden urged the NAACP on Wednesday to spread the word about what he called "a hail- storm" of measures to re- strict citizens' ability to vote, trying to rally the Democratic Party's base before the midterm elec- tions. In a 31-minute speech to the civil rights group's an- nual convention in Las Ve- gas, Biden said there have been 83 attempts this year alone in 29 states to re- strict voting rights. The measures stiffen require- ments on identification needed to vote, or limit or end early voting. "These moves to limit the right to vote are noth- ing more than pure poli- tics, masquerading as at- tempts to combat corrup- tion where there is none," Biden said. Civil rights groups com- plain the measures make it harder for minorities to vote because they have less access to identification and depend more on early vot- ing. Biden said if the laws had been in effect during the 2012 election and only six percent of black vot- ers who cast their ballots had been unable to vote, President Obama would have lost Florida rather than narrowly winning the state. Biden also criticized the Republican judges on the U.S. Supreme Court who last year gutted a key pro- vision of the Voting Rights Act, noting the measure had strong bipartisan sup- port for decades. He said that after former segrega- tionist Strom Thurmond voted to reauthorize the measure in the 1980s and Republicans continued to support the law "I thought we had finally won." Biden's speech was part of a swing through lib- eral political gatherings by the vice president, who has been eclipsed by Hill- ary Clinton as Democrats jockey for position in 2016. He will attend a rally for a Nevada congressional candidate Wednesday af- ternoon and speak to the National Urban League in Ohio on Thursday. The emphasis on vot- ing rights is also an effort to motivate minority vot- ers who are more likely to sit out midterm elections like the upcoming one in November. Blacks voted at a greater rate than whites for the first time in his- tory in 2012 and some ob- servers believe the efforts to restrict voting access backfired and increased African-American turn- out. 'A HAILSTORM' Bi de n de cr ie s ea rl y vo ti ng restrictions in NAACP speech The Associated Press NEW YORK Eric Garner, who died in police custody last week after he was put in an apparent chokehold, was suspected of com- mitting the relatively mi- nor crime of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on the street. The encounter was an unintended consequence of the New York Police De- partment's embrace of the policing tactic called "Bro- ken Windows" — the idea that going after smaller crimes such as public drinking or graffiti helps stop greater disorder such as assault and murder. But Garner's death has put Broken Windows un- der renewed scrutiny, with some lawmakers and ex- perts saying the decades- old theory no longer applies to a city with far less crime, unnecessarily puts nonvio- lent people at risk and fuels tensions in the city's minor- ity communities. "I don't think it's a nec- essary police tactic," City Councilman Andy King said Tuesday during a news conference about Garner's death. City Councilwoman Inez Barron added that such enforcement "leads to confrontations like this." The tactic caused a stir even before Garner's death. An 84-year-old pedes- trian on Manhattan's Up- per West Side who tussled with police officers trying to stop him for jaywalking earlier this year ended up with a bloody head injury. He's since filed a $5 million claim against the city alleg- ing he was assaulted. But the Garner case has turned up the heat. His arrest was captured on a widely distributed ama- teur video that appears to show an officer putting the asthmatic, 350-pound father of six in a banned chokehold after he refused to be handcuffed. He can be heard yelling, "I can't breathe!" as several offi- cers take him down. Autopsy results are pending on a death that has sparked protests, a criminal probe and a warn- ing by the Rev. Al Sharpton that Garner's family would explore asking for a fed- eral civil rights investiga- tion. The family held a can- dlelight vigil Tuesday night on the eve a funeral set for Wednesday night. The criticism comes at a time when the new admin- istration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has sought to ease tensions between police and minorities by curtail- ing the department's wide- spread use of street stops of young men — so-called stop and frisk — as a strat- egy to curb crime. 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