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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly apologized Thursday for discriminating against Japanese Americans and helping the U.S. government send them to internment camps in World War II.

The Assembly unanimously passed the resolution as several former internees and their families looked on. After the votes, lawmakers gathered at the entrance of the chamber to hug and shake hands with victims, including 96-year-old Kiyo Sato.

Sato said young people need to know about the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps because the U.S. government feared some would side with Japan. The U.S. entered World War II after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.

"We need to remind them that this can't happen again," Sato said.

The resolution came a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Feb. 19 a Day of Remembrance. That's the date in 1942 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to the imprisonment of Japanese Americans across 10 camps in the West and Arkansas.

The governors of Idaho and Arkansas also proclaimed it a Day of Remembrance, and events were held nationwide.

A congressional commission in 1983 concluded that the detentions were a result of "racial prejudice, war hysteria and failure of political leadership." Five years later, the U.S. government apologized and paid $20,000 to each victim.

California state senators will take up a version of the resolution and send it to the governor to sign. The resolution does not include any compensation.

Georgia blames Russia for cyberattack; US, Britain agree

TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian authorities on Thursday accused Russia's military intelligence of launching a large-scale cyberattack that targeted the government and private organizations with the goal of destabilizing the ex-Soviet nation.

The U.S. and Britain weighed in, strongly condemning the alleged action by Russia in October.

Georgia's Foreign Ministry said the Oct. 28 cyberattack was "targeted at Georgia's national security" and designed to hinder efforts to join the European Union and NATO, going "against international norms and principles."

The Russian Foreign Ministry rejected the accusations as "unfounded and politically driven."

"There isn't and there can't be any evidence of the involvement of Russian official structures in any malicious cyber-activities in Georgia," the ministry said.

Good Samaritan survives 75-foot fall off highway bridge

SALISBURY, N.C. - A man who stopped to help a stranded driver on a North Carolina highway fell 75 feet and survived.

Jeremiah Cribb, 24, was driving a FedEx truck early Wednesday morning on Interstate 85 when he saw a driver stranded in the fast lane, news outlets reported.

Cribb said he went to help the driver but soon noticed a tractor-trailer barreling toward them, so he jumped out of the way, thinking he would land on a median of the same height, but instead went off the Yadkin River Bridge, falling 75 feet onto a sandbar.

"I just reacted. It's pitch black dark," Cribb said.

Despite some dizziness and shortness of breath, Cribb was able to get into a harness to be pulled up by firefighters. He suffered three fractured ribs and a collapsed lung.

Label: Rapper Pop Smoke slain in Hollywood Hills shooting

LOS ANGELES - Pop Smoke, a rising Brooklyn rapper who had a breakout year of hit songs and albums that made some of the biggest names in hip-hop his fans and collaborators, was fatally shot during a break-in Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, his label said.

"We are devastated by the unexpected and tragic loss of Pop Smoke," said a statement from Republic Records, the label of the 20-year-old whose legal name was Bashar Barakah Jackson.

Investigators were looking at several possible motives, Los Angeles police said Thursday, as detectives sought to identify the shooter.

Police officers found a victim shortly before 5 a.m. after responding to a 911 call from someone who reported intruders, including one armed with a handgun, police said.

Amid protests, Portugal lawmakers OK euthanasia

LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's parliament voted Thursday in favor of allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people.

The landmark vote left Portugal poised to become one of the few countries in the world permitting the procedures. However, the country's president could still attempt to block the legislation.

The 230-seat Republican Assembly, Portugal's parliament, approved five right-to-die bills, each by a comfortable margin. Left-of-center parties introduced the bills, which had no substantial differences.

Before lawmakers voted, hundreds of people outside parliament building protested the measures. One banner said, "Euthanasia doesn't end suffering, it ends life." Some protesters chanted "Sim a vida!" ("Yes to life!") and others held up crucifixes and religious effigies.

Amid fallout over book, NSC adviser reassigned

WASHINGTON - Victoria Coates, a top official on the National Security Council, is being reassigned amid fallout over the identity of the author of the inside-the-White House tell-all book by "Anonymous."

Coates, who serves as national security adviser for the Middle East and North Africa,will be joining the Department of Energy as a senior adviser, the NSC said Thursday.

The move comes amid renewed speculation about the author of the book, "A Warning," that was deeply critical of President Donald Trump, written under the pen name "Anonymous."

But a senior administration official insisted that White House officials reject rumors that have circulated in recent weeks suggesting Coates is the author. The move, they said, has been in the works for several weeks.

In South Sudan: Two rival leaders on Thursday announced they have agreed to form a coalition government just two days before the deadline, a major step in the emergence from a five-year civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people in the world's youngest nation.

The rival leaders had twice missed deadlines in the past year to form the transitional government that is expected to lead to elections in three years' time. Without that new government, many feared, South Sudan might slide into fighting again.

Opposition leader Riek Machar said he and President Salva Kiir agreed that after the government's formation they will resolve any outstanding issues laid out in a September 2018 peace deal.

Caption: In an image taken from video, a paraglider is ensnared in power lines before he was rescued Wednesday night with no major injuries in Olivehurst, California. The unidentified man was stuck for three hours after trying to land at the Yuba County airport.

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