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Question: Benjamin McDowell   30  pleaded guilty Monday to being a felon in possession of a weapon  according to reports by multiple news outlets.  He  also could be fined $250 000 when  he âs sentenced at a later date.
Authorities first began investigating  McDowell  in December 2016 when  he  threatened a Myrtle Beach synagogue on Facebook. Local officials were already keeping tabs on  him  because  he  made friends with white supremacists groups and got tattoos associated with racist groups while in prison on a felony burglary charge  according to the FBI.
 McDowell  then said  he  wanted a gun and told an undercover FBI agent who offered to get  him  one that  he  planned to attack somewhere in the name of white power and write on the building âin the spirit of Dylann Roof â according to court records. Roof was sentenced to death last year for a racist shooting that killed nine black worshippers at a Charleston  South Carolina  church.
âI seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred â the undercover agent recalled  McDowell  saying.
 McDowell   who couldnât legally own a gun because of the burglary conviction  was arrested after the purchase. Agents said  McDowell  bought the gun â which had the firing pin shaved down so that it would not work â and ammunition for $109  which  he  had borrowed from  his  grandfather.

Answer: Benjamin McDowell


Question: “Staff are working at a pace that is unheard of (in trade negotiations) ... and any suggestion that we’re not operating beyond a normal pace is just flat wrong ” U.S. trade envoy Robert Lighthizer told reporters.
 Lighthizer  said Canada had “mentioned” the U.S. ruling during talks on Wednesday.
Asked whether the dispute could affect NAFTA talks   Lighthizer  told reporters: “I‘m not saying it doesn’t have an effect on relationships  it does  but not on this negotiation.”
 Lighthizer  said the United States would “hopefully” present draft text by the next round on the thorny issue of rules of origin  which outlines how much of a product needs to originate in a NAFTA country  and on a dispute settlement mechanism.
 Lighthizer  said the U.S. decision on Bombardier still had several stages to go through before it was finalized.
“There are several more stages  we don’t even know whether it is going to be successful  and in addition there are off-ramps in the litigation ”  he  said. “It’s too early to tell.”
 Freeland  has suggested that Canada could walk away from the NAFTA talks over the so-called Chapter 19 dispute mechanism  under which binational panels make binding decisions on complaints about illegal subsidies and dumping. The United States has frequently lost such cases.

Answer: Robert Lighthizer


Question: Rep. Patrick Meehan  Reeling From 'Soul Mate' Scandal  Won't Run Again
 Pennsylvania Republican Patrick Meehan  who up until this week had been one of the House Ethics Committee members investigating sexual harassment charges   was revealed Jan. 20 to have paid a taxpayer-funded settlement to an accuser last year.
The New York Times reported  Meehan  had settled with a younger staff member after telling  her   he  was attracted to  her . House Speaker Paul Ryan removed  Meehan  from the Ethics Committee post after the story was published.
 Meehan  has decided to leave the House  sources in Congress and the Pennsylvania Republican Party confirmed Thursday night  saying  he  won't defend  his  seat in November's election.
The Philadelphia Inquirer obtained a letter that it reports  Meehan  sent to  his  campaign chairman:
"Unfortunately  recent events concerning my office and the settlement of certain harassment allegations have become a major distraction "  he  wrote. "I need to own it because it is my own conduct that fueled the matter."
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 Meehan  hasn't denied the facts of the settlement  and even told reporters  he  viewed the woman as a soul mate — but insisted the conversation and a letter  he  wrote her wasn't harassment.  He  told member station WHYY: "[I clarified] that I was a happily-married man. I was not looking for any kind of a relationship."
 His  decision not to run again opens up a Democratic-leaning House seat in suburban Philadelphia that already had been high on Democrats' lists of 2018 targets.

Answer:
Patrick Meehan