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ArizonA DAily Sun Sunday, June 24, 2018 A9 1 US, China closer to trade war President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Trade Rep- resentative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chi- nese imports this week as the two nations moved closer to an all-out trade war. The tariffs, which Trump wants set at a 10 percent rate, would be the latest round of punitive measures in an es- calating dispute over the large trade imbalance between the two countries. Commerce Minis- try criticized the latest threat, saying it was an of ex- treme pressure and black- REDISTRICTING: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed electoral maps that were chal- lenged as excessively partisan to remain in place for now, de- clining to rule on the bigger issue of whether to put limits on redistricting for political gain. The court issued a pair of unanimous rulings in partisan redistricting cases from Wis- consin and Maryland that de- cided very little and ensured that any resolution by the high court would not come before the 2018 midterm elections.

ONLINE TAXES: States will be able to force more shoppers to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Su- preme Court decision Thurs- day. Consumers can expect to see sales tax being charged on more online purchases likely over the next year and potentially before the Christ- mas shopping season. MARIJUANA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday marijuana will be legal nationwide on Oct. 17. The Canadian Senate gave fi- nal passage to bill to legalize cannabis on Tuesday.

The country will become the second in the world to make pot legal nationwide. WEEK IN REVIEW IN THE NEWS THE WATER COOLER ABC, which can- celed its revival over its racist tweet, said Thursday it will air a Conner family sitcom minus Roseanne Barr this fall. ABC ordered 10 episodes of the spinoff after Barr relinquished any creative or financial participation in it, which the network had said was a condition of such a se- ries. FONDA APOLOGY: Peter Fonda apologized Wednesday for a Twitter rant that said 12-year- old Barron Trump should be ripped from arms and put in a cage with pe- The all-caps tweet went on to call President Don- ald Trump an expletive. MTV AWARDS: The MTV Movie TV Awards gave Pan- its first taste of awards glory, with block- buster taking home four hon- ors including two awards for its star, Chadwick Boseman.

was the top television honoree, winning four awards including a repeat win for best show. JERRY SPRINGER: NBC Uni- versal announced this week that Jerry Springer will stop making new episodes of his long-running TV show. Reruns of the show will continue to air on several networks. Neither Springer nor NBC Universal provided further details on the cancellation. BIG NUMBER $182 million The domestic box office haul last weekend for the best animated opening of all time, the biggest PG-rated launch ever and the eighth-high- est film launch overall.

HE SAID He who accepts evil with-out protesting against it is really cooperating with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, via Twitter, on Home- land Security Secretary Kirstjen role in the Trump policy of separating children from their parents after en- tering the U.S. illegally. VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO VIEW MORE WEEK IN REVIEW CONTENT US leaves human rights council The United States an- nounced Tuesday it was leaving the United Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley call- ing it organization that is not worthy of its It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international insti- tution. Haley, envoy to the U.N., said the U.S.

had given the human rights body portunity after to make changes. She lambasted the council for chronic bias against and lamented the fact that its membership includes accused human rights abusers such as China, Cuba, Venezu- ela and the Democratic Re- public of Congo. SPACE FORCE: Vowing to re- claim U.S. leadership in space, President Donald Trump an- nounced Monday he is di- recting the Pentagon to cre- ate a new as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space. WIRELESS DATA: Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile pledged this week to stop providing information on U.S.

phone locations to data brokers, stepping back from a business practice that has drawn criticism for en- dangering privacy. VIDEO GAMES: The World Health Organization said this week that compulsively play- ing video games now qualifies as a mental health condition. The statement confirmed the fears of some parents but led critics to warn that it may risk stigmatizing too many young gamers. The agency and other experts were quick to note that no more than up to 3 percent of all gamers are believed to be affected. Associated Press IN THE NEWS PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS WHITE HOUSE REVERSES COURSE AFTER MASSIVE BACKLASH early in the week, President donald Trump was unapologetic in defense of his border- protection policies despite rising outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents.

and then, he backtracked. Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, both within his own Republican party and abroad, Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting the policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained for illegally crossing the u.S. border. It was a dramatic turnaround for the president, who had been insisting that his administration had no choice but to separate families apprehended at the border because of federal law and a court decision. Here, Trump reflects on the situation as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen nielsen, left, addresses members of the media before the executive order was signed during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

MELISSA HEALY Tribune News Service esearchers have long looked upon wars, famines and mass migrations as grim but important opportuni- ties to understand how adversity affects health. culled the experiences of or- phans warehoused in government facil- ities, Jewish children dispatched to for- eign families ahead of a Nazi invasion and young refugees fleeing guerrilla warfare in Central America. conducted experiments in child development labs, taken brain scans, used epidemiologi- cal methods, examined the narratives of children torn from their parents all in an effort to find meaning in tragedy. Their trove of findings points to one un- mistakeable conclusion: Separating kids from their parents is detrimental to their physical and mental health. why: WHITE HOUSE IMMIGRaTIOn long-lasting health effects Experts: Kids who are taken from parents experience physical, mental damage ERIC GAY, ASSOCIATED PRESS Immigrants recently processed and released by u.S.

Customs and Border Protection wait Wednesday at the Catholic Charities RGV in Mcallen, Texas. More than 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the u.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries. Is it permanent? UCLA pediatrician Elizabeth Barnert, who has studied the chil- of El Salvador, has seen the long- term consequences of such separations. Boys and girls separated from their par- ents during El civil war in the 1980s are adults now in their 30s and 40s, and many have never recovered their abil- ity to trust others, she said.

truly creates an unresolvable Barnert said. After not knowing whether they would ever meet again, many were reunited after hostilities ended in 1992. such an explosion of emo- she said. children are feel- ing so much joy and grief and anger and abandonment. And parents feel relief and gratitude and guilt.

There is an on- going, lifelong pain as a result of the What happens after? More than 50 years ago, Dr. John Bowlby described the reactions of young children to separation from their parents during a stay in the hospital. His observations be- came the cornerstone for understanding of the re- lationship between infant and caregiver that fundamentally shapes our social worlds. sequence was: protest, despair, and said University of Rotterdam psychologist Marinus van IJzendoorn, who has studied the effects of trauma and family separation in India, Vietnam and elsewhere. In the first few days after separation, the children are expected to protest by crying and acting out in ways that reflect a desperate effort to secure the return of their parents.

Within a few weeks, they appear to lapse into despair, seemingly without hope for a returning parent. They show little energy or motivation to play and explore. After less than a month or so, Bowlby observed that the children de- Van IJzendoorn said. If the par- ents return, the children seem aloof and avoid the efforts to comfort and cuddle. How does it look on the ground? Just ask Rachelle Goldstein, co-director of the Hidden Child Foundation, which represents Jewish Holocaust survivors like herself who were hidden during the war when they were young.

separation of family was proba- bly the worst thing that ever happened to Goldstein said. take a child away from the parents, from the home, from everything they know they are never the Even for survivors now in their 70s, 80s and 90s, she added, still How bad could it be? evidence that such an experi- ence casts a shadow well into adulthood, and that the effects may even extend be- yond a single generation. average, what we see is that this early experience seems to be a major risk factor for mental health problems later on in said Columbia University psychol- ogy professor Nim Tottenham, who has studied the outcomes of children raised in care institutions throughout Eastern Europe and China. As these children neared adolescence and beyond, their rates of behavior (such as anxiety and depression) as well as problems (such as impulse control, conduct disorder, at- tention problems and substance abuse) were all significantly higher than those of kids who grew up in intact households. effect lasts she said.

Mental health is not all that suffers. Early trauma and adversity are thought to set a person up for physical stress re- actions specifically, the release of the or hormone cortisol that normal. With age, that sen- is thought to contribute to the development of chronic health problems ranging from pain syndromes to cardio- vascular disease. Why is a presence so important? a reason that childhood in humans lasts as long as it does: It takes that long for a brain to mature into adult- hood, says Tottenham, an expert in emotional development. parent is really in many ways an extension of the bi- ology as that child is Tottenham said.

adult routinely been there provides this enormous stress-buff- ering effect on a brain at a time when we yet developed that for ourselves. really one organism, in a When the reliable buffering and guidance of a parent is sud- denly withdrawn, the riot of learning that molds and shapes the brain can be short-circuited, she said. The brains of children who have experienced such a breach appear to become hypervigilant to threats a hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder. The regions of the brain that govern reward behavior respond normally, making them vulnerable to depression, anx- iety and substance abuse. And cortical structures needed for attention, planning, judgment and emotional control de- velop properly..