Après Stanley Tucci et Michael Moore c’était au tour de l’acteur-réalisateur américain James Franco de recevoir un hommage lors du Festival de Deauville. Toutes les photos !

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Harry et Meghan Markle ne vivront pas à proximité de Kate Middleton et du prince Harry. Les futurs parents ont décidé de se créer un petit cocon à Frogmore Cottage. Un déménagement qui n’a pas plus à tout le monde, mais pour lequel ils ont reçu le soutien du prince William, selon un proche de la famille royale.

A quelques jours de l’accouchement de Meghan Markle, la duchesse du Sussex et son époux le prince Harry ont connu une petite déconvenue : ils ne vont pas pouvoir déménager avant la naissance du royal baby. Leur futur petit nid d’amour, situé à Frogmore Cottage, n’est pas tout à fait terminé, même si leurs ouvriers ont tout fait pour accélérer le rythme. Ils devront donc attendre après la naissance de leur enfant pour pouvoir terminer leur installation.

Leur départ a toutefois été encadré de nombreuses rumeurs : certains affirmaient que si le couple tenait à s’éloigner du palais de Kensington, c’était pour partir loin de Kate Middleton, brouillée avec sa belle-soeur. Pour d’autres, c’était surtout une volonté du couple de voler de ses propres ailes, et d’avoir son propre espace pour fonder une famille. La reine d’Angleterre elle-même a fait par de sa désapprobation face à cette situation.

Pourtant, selon l’experte de la famille royale Emily Andrews, le prince Harry a reçu un soutien important : celui de son grand frère. Dans le podcast On Heir, elle explique que le prince William a bien compris que le duc et la duchesse du Sussex étaient très importants pour la famille royale, mais qu’ils avaient besoin de plus d’indépendance : “C’est d’ailleurs le prince William qui a dû s’avancer et se battre pour aider Harry à avoir un peu plus d’argent pour leur nouvelle maison. Il comprend ce que cela représente pour son frère et tout ce qu’il veut construire.” Son objectif était de soutenir son frère, pas de l’éloigner pour passer moins de temps avec lui : les deux hommes restent en effet particulièrement complices.

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Cézanne et moi de Danièle Thompson

Avec Guillaume Gallienne, Guillaume Canet, Alice Pol…

Le saviez-vous ? A l’origine, Danièle Thompson voyait plutôt Guillaume Gallienne incarner Emile Zola comme l’acteur possède un “physique intellectuel”. Mais lorsqu’elle lui a remis le scénario, il a immédiatement dit qu’il voulait jouer Cézanne, en ajoutant : “Si tu veux, on fait une lecture et tu verras si vraiment je peux être Cézanne”. La lecture s’est avérée concluante.

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Juste La Fin Du Monde de Xavier Dolan

Avec Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Léa Seydoux…

Le saviez-vous ? Juste La Fin Du Monde est l’adaptation d’une pièce théâtrale éponyme de Jean-Luc Lagarce. Disparu en 1995 à 38 ans seulement, il est aujourd’hui l’auteur le plus joué. Adapter au cinéma Lagarce, connu pour son travail précis des mots, était un vrai défi pour Xavier Dolan, qui a décidé de respecter l’oeuvre originale au maximum : “Je voulais que les mots de Lagarce soient dits tels qu’il les avait écrits. Sans compromis. C’est dans cette langue que repose son patrimoine, et c’est à travers elle que son œuvre a trouvé sa postérité. L’édulcorer aurait été banaliser Lagarce”, explique le réalisateur.

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Blair Witch de Adam Wingard

Avec Brandon Scott, Callie Hernandez, Valorie Curry…

Le saviez-vous ? L’effet de surprise étant indissociable du premier Projet Blair Witch, pour cette suite les auteurs ont également cherché à garder le mystère. Un gros défi à une époque où tout est partagé sur Internet. Le scénariste Simon Barrett a même écrit de faux scripts pour les essais des comédiens ! Ces derniers ignoraient donc dans quelle aventure ils s’embarquaient jusqu’au moment où leurs contrats ont été finalisés.

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Brooklyn Village de Ira Sachs

Avec Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Greg Kinnear…

Le saviez-vous ? Après Love is Strange et Keep the Lights On, le metteur en scène Ira Sachs collabore pour la troisième fois avec le scénariste Mauricio Zacharias. Comme ils en ont l’habitude, avec Brooklyn Village les deux hommes ont commencé par regarder des films pour trouver de l’inspiration dans leur processus d’écriture : “Et pourtant nous sommes nés” et Bonjour (son remake), deux longs métrages de Yasujirô Ozu. Sachs note : “Tous deux sont des films sur des enfants qui, pour des raisons différentes se mettent en grève contre leurs parents. Cela nous a donné notre noyau dur : deux garçons en conflit avec leurs parents qui décident de ne plus jamais parler avec eux.”

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Rock’n roll… Of Corse! de Lionel Guedj, Stéphane Bébert

Avec Sting, Kim Wilde, Henri Padovani…

Le saviez-vous ? Lionel Guedj et Stéphane Bébert ont réalisé Rock’n roll… Of Corse! en 2010, leur documentaire étant même en Sélection Officielle au Festival de Cannes de la même année. Il finira par sortir au cinéma en 2016 ! Lionel est un réalisateur autodidacte qui s’est très vite intéressé au milieu de la musique après des études d’histoire et de philosophie. Quant à Stéphane Bébert, c’est un musicient touche à tout. Après l’expérience Rock’n roll… Of Corse!, il travaille au théâtre en jouant et co-écrivant de nombreux spectacles.

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Soy Nero de Rafi Pitts

Avec Johnny Ortiz, Rory Cochrane, Aml Ameen…

Le saviez-vous ? Johnny Ortiz, qui joue le rôle principal de Nero, est moitié guatémaltèque, moitié mexicain. Il s’agit d’un acteur non professionnel qui s’est retrouvé dans un gang lorsqu’il était enfant et qui a connu très tôt la prison. S’il ne correspondait pas vraiment à ce que cherchait Rafi Pitts, le metteur en scène a décidé de modifier son scénario dès qu’il a rencontré le jeune homme.

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Kubo et l’armure magique de Travis Knight

Avec Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes…

Le saviez-vous ? Kubo, réalisé en stop-motion, s’inspire pour la création de ses créatures du plus célèbre monstre réalisé en 1954 avec cette technique, Godzilla. Le film est également inspiré par les créatures créées par Ray Harryhausen dans Le monstre des temps perdus, À des millions de kilomètres de la Terre, Le 7ème voyage de Sinbad le marin ou Jason et les argonautes.

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Des Porto Ricains à Paris de Ian Edelman

Avec Alice Taglioni, Luis Guzman, Rosario Dawson…

Le saviez-vous ? Des Porto Ricains à Paris réunit un casting hautement improbable avec les françaises Julie Ferrier et Alice Taglioni donnant la réplique aux américains Luis Guzman, Edgar Garcia et Rosario Dawson.

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Tout va bien de Alejandro Fernández Almendras

Avec Agustín Silva, Paulina García, Alejandro Goic…

Le saviez-vous ? Le film s’inspire de l’affaire du fils de Carlos Larrain (un avocat et politicien chilien) qui, alors qu’il était ivre au volant de sa voiture, renversa et tua quelqu’un. Il quitta les lieux avec ses amis alors que la victime aurait pu être sauvée… Par la suite, un rapport d’autopsie a été falsifié en faveur des accusés et le père Lorrain proposa même d’acheter le silence de la famille de la victime pour 20 000 dollars. Après l’enquête, le fils fut blanchi, ce qui a eu pour conséquence (avec d’autres exemples du même type) de dresser la population chilienne contre la justice du pays.

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Vendanges de Paul Lacoste

Le saviez-vous ? Paul Lacoste a voulu faire un film sur les vendangeurs plutôt que sur la vendange au sens traditionnel. Il avait déjà filmé des vendanges pour une série documentaire en 2004 et avait été impressionné par ce côté “précarité qui fait collectif”. Il confie : “J’ai toujours milité pour un monde plus solidaire et j’ai compris que je pouvais en parler en évoquant les vendangeurs. Y a t-il un esprit de groupe ? Est-ce que la collectivité prime ? Ce sont les questions que je voulais poser et c’est ce que montre le film.”

Ce lundi 6 mai, Nagui recevait un certain Hubert sur le plateau de Tout le monde veut prendre sa place. Le jeune homme a avoué sa fascination pour la reine Elizabeth II, ce qui lui a valu quelques petites moqueries de la part de l’animateur…

Chaque jour, sur le plateau de Tout le monde veut prendre sa place, chaque candidat y va de sa petite anecdote. Ce lundi 6 mai, parmi les six candidats venus participer au jeu, figurait un jeune homme prénommé Hubert. Au moment où il allait se présenter, Nagui a mis le doigt sur une passion étonnante du jeune homme : « Vous êtes admirateur de la reine d’Angleterre ? Alors ça, il faut m’expliquer », lance l’animateur, surpris mais curieux. Avant d’ajouter : « Vous l’avez toujours été ? Vous n’avez pas grandi dans le culte de la reine d’Angleterre ou de la famille royale ? ». Et le candidat de répondre, un brin gêné : « Presque pas. »

Nagui, qui aime apporter à son public et aux téléspectateurs une petite précision culturelle ou historique dès que l’occasion se présente, rebondit : « Les Anglais, de quelque bord qu’ils soient, ils ont le mug avec la reine, avec Kate, avec William, avec le prince Charles… » Et visiblement, il n’y a pas que les Anglais… Hubert fait lui aussi partie de ces collectionneurs : « J’ai tout ça à la maison ! », confesse-t-il. « J’ai dit à des copains que je trouvais plutôt sympa qu’elle ait tout connue et ils ont pris ça pour argent comptant. Donc j’ai les mugs, j’ai les assiettes et chaque copain qui part en Grande-Bretagne ramène son petit cadeau. C’est un musée à la maison ! », confie le jeune homme, pas peu fier de cette collection qui ne cesse d’évoluer.

« C’est un musée dédié à la reine d’Angleterre ? », réagit Nagui. Et le candidat d’avouer : « Il y en a partout (il possède une cinquantaine d’objets, ndlr). » L’animateur, un brin moqueur et surtout jamais en reste lorsqu’il s’agit de taquiner les candidats du jeu qu’il anime, décide de titiller Hubert : « Qu’est-ce que ça doit être moche chez vous ! » Un tacle qui n’a pas manqué de faire sourire le candidat. Ce dernier était, lui aussi, conscient du “kistch” de sa collection…

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Vous avez envie de replonger dans l’univers d’Harry Potter mais pas le temps de revoir les huit films de la saga ? Ce montage réalisé par un fan est fait pour vous…

Les fans d’Harry Potter n’ont jamais manqué d’imagination. Entre les fanfilms s’intéressant aux origines de certains personnages, les génériques à la façon de Friends & co. ou encore les versions très raccourcies de la saga en mode Lego ou en version musicale, il y en a pour tous les goûts ! Cette fois, un fan a fait très fort en synthétisant les huit films de la saga en un véritable long-métrage de 90 minutes. Mais, attention, il ne s’agit pas d’un simple résumé…

Intitulé Wizardhood, ce film est en réalité un joli hommage à Boyhood. Chaque année pendant 12 ans, le réalisateur Richard Linklater a suivi le même garçon, de son enfance à son adolescence. Un projet de grande ampleur qui proposait une vision unique et touchante de la famille et, bien évidemment, du temps qui s’écoule. Cette thématique du temps, de l’enfance à la maturité, est donc l’idée centrale que ce monteur, nommé Tim Stiefler, a voulu aborder dans son montage de la saga Harry Potter.

Ainsi, Wizardhood débute directement avec l’entrée d’Harry à Poudlard, sans évoquer l’épisode du placard et de la méchante famille du sorcier. Le film choisit effectivement d’évincer de nombreuses intrigues de la saga pour s’attacher vraiment aux personnages. De cette manière, les volets 2 et 3 sont présents à l’image mais disparaissent très rapidement du paysage. Tim Stiefler se concentre vraiment sur les luttes d’Harry, d’Hermione et Ron, que l’on voit grandir à l’écran autant que leurs interprètes. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson et Rupert Grint ayant tout de même passé 10 ans de leur vie dans la peau de ces personnages.

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Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, who was charged in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, will learn how much his extensive cooperation with the Justice Department has paid off when he is sentenced in federal court in Washington.

Neither his lawyers nor federal prosecutors are seeking prison time for Gates, who pleaded guilty in February 2018 to charges relating to lucrative political consulting work he did in Ukraine. The Justice Department says that Gates provided “extraordinary assistance” in multiple investigations and that prosecutors will not oppose his request for probation. The decision will be up to the judge, who is expected to sentence Gates on Tuesday.

Gates is one of a half-dozen associates of President Trump charged in Mueller’s investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. All six have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty at trial. The three who have already been sentenced have all received prison time. Two others, former Trump administration national security advisor Michael Flynn and Trump confidant Roger Stone, are awaiting sentencing.

Gates was among the first defendants charged in Mueller’s investigation. An indictment accused him and Paul Manafort, his onetime mentor and the chairman of the 2016 Trump campaign, of failing to disclose the work they did for then-Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych and of hiding their proceeds from U.S. tax authorities to fund lavish lifestyles and pay for personal expenses.

Gates pleaded guilty to charges of false statements and conspiracy against the United States, and he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

He has met with prosecutors more than 50 times, testified in three criminal trials — including the cases against Manafort and Stone — and admitted crimes that the government didn’t already know about, according to a Justice Department court filing last week.

“Gates’ cooperation has been steadfast despite the fact that the government has asked for his assistance in high profile matters, against powerful individuals, in the midst of a particularly turbulent environment,” prosecutors wrote. “Gates received pressure not to cooperate with the government, including assurances of monetary assistance.”

Immigration has been a hallmark issue for President Trump since the day he announced his bid for office in 2015, and it continues to animate his base of supporters. It has also been a primary source of conflict with Democrats, with issues such as the Muslim travel plan, the fate of “Dreamers” and family separation at the border leading to pitched legal battles.

The 2020 Democratic candidates are vocally united in opposition to the president’s immigration rhetoric and have pledged to overturn his administration’s policies, with Congress or through executive order. They agree on the broad strokes of immigration reform, such as creating a path to citizenship for people in the country illegally, ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border and increasing foreign aid to Central America to reduce root causes for the flow of asylum seekers.

But there are some policy differences, including whether unauthorized border crossings should be decriminalized and what compromises candidates would be willing to make to expedite a path to citizenship for Dreamers, young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Here is where the seven candidates who qualified for the December Democratic debate stand on immigration issues:

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Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden has said the nation’s immigration system is broken but can be fixed without sacrificing America’s values.

He supports providing healthcare and creating a pathway to citizenship for all who are in the country illegally and increasing the annual cap on refugees allowed into the United States to 125,000. He proposes allowing local governments to petition for new immigration visas to support economic growth if there are not enough local workers to fill jobs.

Biden is a vocal critic of Trump’s call to add to the border wall, but as a senator representing Delaware he voted to fund wall construction, and last year, he said he would support some new funding as part of a deal to provide citizenship to Dreamers.

In contrast with some of his rivals, Biden would not decriminalize unauthorized border crossings or abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He has also faced criticism from immigrant rights activists over the record level of deportations during President Obama’s administration. His campaign has said he “understands the pain felt by every family across the U.S. that has had a loved one removed from the country, including under the Obama-Biden administration.”

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Pete Buttigieg

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s family separation policy and decision to send U.S. troops to the border with Mexico.

Buttigieg would allow people in the country illegally to buy into his healthcare plan, but they would not qualify for subsidies. He has said he would decriminalize border crossings, making them a civil offense except in cases of fraud or human trafficking.

The former McKinsey & Co. consultant at times takes a research-based approach when asked about details. He supports extending barriers at the border if experts recommend doing so; he doesn’t support abolishing ICE but wants to do a comprehensive review to determine how it should be restructured.

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Amy Klobuchar

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has tried to position herself as a moderate alternative who can appeal to all parts of the country, not just liberal bastions, and her immigration proposals show this centrism.

Klobuchar has pledged that if she is elected president, within 100 days of taking office she would start negotiating comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship, with the goal of passing it within one year.

But she does not support decriminalizing border crossing, and would provide immediate medical care rather than broad access to healthcare for those in the country illegally.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders’ campaign includes three Dreamers who helped shape his immigration policy.

If elected, the Vermont senator would institute an immediate moratorium on deportations and would seek to provide legal status and a pathway to citizenship for people in the country illegally in the first 100 days of his administration.

Sanders has said he does not believe the United States needs a border wall, though he did vote for some funding as part of a bill to avoid a government shutdown. He proposes restructuring the Department of Homeland Security, including breaking up ICE and Customs and Border Patrol and redistributing their authority to other departments.

Along with providing a pathway to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, Sanders would aim to expand the program that protects their parents. His “Medicare for all” plan would cover residents in the country illegally.

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Tom Steyer

Billionaire hedge-fund manager turned environmental activist Tom Steyer has used his wealth to support liberal immigration policies, people in the country illegally and asylum seekers.

He opposes any extension of the border wall, would restructure ICE and would decriminalize border crossings.

Steyer supports creating a pathway to citizenship and says he would use executive action to give Dreamers legal residency if Congress does not act. He also says he would “reinvigorate” the visa system to attract schools and businesses to the U.S.

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Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has called for an expansion of legal immigration to boost the economy and reunite families.

She proposes raising the age limit for those eligible for DACA and increasing the number of refugees allowed into the United States annually to 175,000 by the end of her first term.

She would also end detention along the southern border, decriminalize illegal border crossings and provide healthcare coverage to those in the country illegally. Warren would also redirect Homeland Security efforts on the border to preventing smuggling and trafficking.

She also proposes creating an “Office of New Americans” to help immigrants transitioning into the U.S., including offering English, civics and employment classes.

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Andrew Yang

Businessman Andrew Yang supports most conventional Democratic immigration policy, but he has two positions that differentiate him from his rivals.

He would seek to provide a path to citizenship to those in the country illegally, but he says it should take longer than the normal process to reflect that they did not follow the law.

Immigrants in the country illegally would be granted legal residency and could gain citizenship after 18 years if they pay taxes and have no felony record. Yang would allow those applying for citizenship access to healthcare for an additional cost. Those who do not sign onto this process would be deported.

Yang’s signature universal basic income proposal of $1,000 per month is limited to U.S. citizens.

Where the Democratic debate candidates stand …

By Matt Pearce

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates agree on big gun control policies, including banning the sale of semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15.

After deadly mass shootings and a mounting suicide toll, they’ve called out the president and the powerful National Rifle Assn., the gun rights group that spent more than $30 million to help put Donald Trump in the White House.

And all seven candidates who qualified for the primary debate on Thursday support “red flag” laws, which enable people to get a court order removing guns from those judged to be a risk to themselves or others.

It’s in the details that differences emerge. Should the U.S. establish a gun buyback system? How far should it go?

Here’s a look at where the candidates who qualified for the debate scheduled for Thursday in L.A. stand on gun laws:

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Joe Biden, former vice president

Joe Biden

In the Senate, where Joe Biden served from 1973 to 2009, he helped lay the foundation for the current background-check system and was one of the main supporters of the 1994 assault weapons ban, which lasted for a decade.

Biden had hoped to revive the ban, along with other gun control policies, when he was vice president in the Obama administration, but he was stymied by pushback from Republicans and the NRA. He’s now hoping to give the ban another go as president and require existing owners to register those guns with the government or sell them in a federal buyback program.

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Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind.

Pete Buttigieg

As mayor of South Bend, Ind., Buttigieg has presided over a Rust Belt community that has been racked by gun violence, and his calls for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks and gun licensing come with a proposal for “urban gun violence intervention programs” that would address root causes of violence.

Buttigieg has also called for banning people convicted of hate crimes from buying or owning guns. But he has also pointedly warned that confiscations of assault weapons might bring a political backlash that could imperil the chance for more moderate changes.

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Amy Klobuchar, senator from Minnesota

Amy Klobuchar

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Midwestern moderate who has pitched herself as a candidate best positioned to reach Trump voters, is nonetheless in step with the rest of the Democratic field when it comes to guns.

She would ban assault weapons, require universal background checks and pursue “red flag” laws allowing authorities to take guns away from high-risk gun owners.

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But she also positions herself as a defender of hunters, often asking of policies, “Would this hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand?”

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Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont

Bernie Sanders

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken somewhat moderate positions on gun control in the past — voting against a federal background-check system in 1993 and at one point earning a “C-“ grade from the NRA, which is more prone to giving Democrats failing grades — but no longer.

The 2020 version of Sanders has unequivocally called for a ban on assault weapons sales and to treat the ownership of existing weapons as the government treats that of fully automatic weapons, which are heavily restricted.

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Tom Steyer, philanthropist

Tom Steyer

Billionaire Tom Steyer has previously used his self-funded activist nonprofit NextGen America to help register high school students to vote after the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Steyer has framed his campaign around building grass-roots power for voters, and he has linked his main gun control policies — an assault weapons ban and universal gun licensing and background checks — to what he sees as structural challenges to the NRA’s lobbying power: campaign finance reform, expanded voter registration and a bolstered Internal Revenue Service to scrutinize industry-backed nonprofits such as the NRA.

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Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts

Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has linked her plans for gun restrictions — including mandatory licensing, universal background checks and an assault weapons ban — with a call to end the filibuster, which she sees as potentially dooming any such legislation in the Senate.

She has also proposed taking extensive administrative action that would allow to her to avoid Congress, where Republicans hope to maintain a majority in the Senate.

Her administration, she says, would take a close look at the NRA.

“The NRA is accused of exploiting loopholes in federal laws governing nonprofit spending to divert member dues into lavish payments for its board members and senior leadership,” she said in a blog post revealing some of her gun control proposals. “I’ll appoint an attorney general committed to investigating these types of corrupt business practices, and the banks and third-party vendors — like Wells Fargo — that enabled the NRA to skirt the rules for so long.”

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Andrew Yang, businessman

Andrew Yang

Yang, an outsider candidate who has had some of the most unorthodox ideas in the Democratic primary, is in line with the rest of the field in calling for an assault weapons ban, mandatory licensing and background checks, and creating a federal buyback program.

His more unusual ideas, however, include requiring gun owners to present a receipt for a gun locker or a trigger lock as a condition of obtaining a gun license, and he wants to “initiate and fund mindfulness programs in schools and correctional facilities” to reduce violence.

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There’s a reason why the Democratic debates have spent so much time on healthcare — it has emerged as one of the most contentious battles in the presidential primary.

“Medicare for all,” and how candidates line up for or against it, is the biggest healthcare flashpoint, a proxy war for the broader philosophical fight between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party. But there’s a lot more to healthcare policy than Medicare for all.

The candidates who will be on the debate stage Thursday have delved into some of the other major issues pertaining to Americans’ well-being, including combating the opioid crisis, expanding mental health treatment and addressing the country’s poor maternal health outcomes.

All the candidates support abortion rights and back codifying into federal law the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs. Wade that legalized the procedure nationwide. They also support repealing the Hyde Amendment, which largely prohibits federal dollars from paying for abortions.

Here’s a look at what the seven candidates scheduled to appear in the December debate are proposing:

Joe Biden

Joe Biden has been a vocal critic of Medicare for all, arguing that it would be too costly.

Instead, the former vice president proposes building on the Affordable Care Act by offering a public health insurance option that would be financed primarily through higher taxes on capital gains. People could also stay on their employer-based coverage or buy into a private plan on their own.

Biden’s plan would increase tax credits to ensure no one is spending more than 8.5% of their income on insurance. To lower drug prices, he would allow the federal government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, and he wants to limit launch prices for drugs that face no competition and to limit price increases for all brand and biotech drugs and high-priced generics to inflation. He would allow consumers to import drugs from other countries, as long as they are certified safe, and would terminate drug companies’ tax breaks for marketing costs.

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Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg proposes “Medicare for all who want it,” which is effectively a government-run public option to compete with private insurance companies.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor proposes expanding subsidies to make premiums more affordable and would cap them at 8.5% of a person’s income. He would also cap out-of-pocket drug spending for those on the public option at $250 per month and $200 a month for seniors on Medicare.

He wants the federal government to negotiate drug prices and would use the government’s power to acquire intellectual property rights from drug companies that excessively price their medications. He says he would penalize pharmaceutical companies that raise drug prices faster than inflation.

Buttigieg proposes a 10-year, $100-billion grant program to help communities that have been affected by the opioid epidemic, and he supports state-level lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for their role in the crisis. He proposes ramping up the federal government’s monitoring of the prescription of controlled substances and making naloxone, the overdose reversal drug, and other medication-assisted treatments for addiction more widely available.

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Amy Klobuchar

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar emphasizes building on the Affordable Care Act instead of a more sweeping overhaul like Medicare for all.

She proposes a nonprofit public option that would allow people to buy into Medicaid or Medicare while still maintaining a role for private insurers. Klobuchar wants to expand premium subsidies under the ACA and provide discounts on patients’ out-of-pocket costs such as copays and deductibles.

She aims to reduce drug costs for seniors by letting the government negotiate prescription prices through Medicare Part D and allowing the personal importation of cheaper medicine from Canada.

Klobuchar, who often speaks about her father’s struggle with alcoholism, has put particular emphasis on addiction treatment. She proposes a 2-cent fee on each milligram of active opioid ingredient in a prescription pain pill, paid for by the manufacturer or importer of the drug. The money would be used to provide and expand access to treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. She would craft a Master Settlement Agreement with opioid manufacturers to give money directly to states to cover the cost of addiction treatment and social services.

She has also called for expanding access and increasing beds for mental health, alcohol and drug treatment services.

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Bernie Sanders

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the candidate most closely associated with Medicare for all. After all, as he likes to say, he “wrote the damn bill!”

Sanders’ plan would do away with private insurance companies. Instead, his proposal would cover all residents, including those without legal status, under a government-run plan that would have no out-of-pocket costs for consumers except for prescription drugs. He has proposed financing the plan through a payroll tax on employers, higher income taxes on families making more than $29,000 per year and higher taxes on the wealthy.

The government would negotiate with drugmakers over prescription prices, and he would also allow patients, pharmacists and wholesalers to buy from Canada and other industrialized countries. To reduce costs, the Vermont senator wants to peg medication prices to the median drug price in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan.

He has taken a tough line on drug manufacturers, introducing legislation to prohibit illegal marketing and distribution of opioids and calling for criminal liability for drug company executives and for manufacturers to reimburse the country for the negative effects of their products.

To address shortages of healthcare providers, especially in the mental health fields, he wants to increase funding for the National Health Service Corps.

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Tom Steyer

Tom Steyer does not support Medicare for all.

Instead, the Bay Area-based billionaire has called for the creation of a government-run public option to compete with private insurance plans. Those who would qualify for Medicaid would be offered fully subsidized enrollment in the public option, which would also be open to people living in the country illegally. He would expand subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act.

Steyer would have Medicare and the public option negotiate drug prices with manufacturers, and he would set a price cap and benchmark the price of drugs against international standards. He would also allow Americans to purchase drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration from across international borders.

Steyer has called for spending $100 billion on expanding mental healthcare and $75 billion over 10 years specifically to address the opioid crisis. His administration would also encourage prescribers to look to other therapies before turning to opioids and other addictive medications.

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Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren supports Medicare for all, but unlike Sanders, she has called for a longer transition to a new government-run healthcare system.

The Massachusetts senator said she would aim to pass a Medicare public option, which would automatically cover all children and low-income Americans, within the first 100 days of her presidency. Other people could opt into the program in its early stages or stay with private insurance companies. In her third year, she would pursue a full Medicare-for-all plan, which would cover everyone in the country with no out-of-pocket costs. The complete plan would cost $20 trillion, funded by new taxes on the rich and contributions from employers, her blueprint says.

Warren has also outlined a slew of executive actions she would take in her first months as president, including reversing Trump administration efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act and using existing government powers to revoke a medication’s patent if there is public need, which would pave the way for lower-priced versions of that drug.

Warren would allow the federal government to manufacture generic drugs in certain circumstances, such as when there is a drug shortage or when no company is manufacturing the drug, and she supports allowing Medicare to negotiate with companies to lower drug prices.

To deal with the opioid crisis, she has proposed a $100-billion plan that includes targeted funds for areas with the highest levels of overdoses and expanded access to naloxone, the anti-overdose drug. She would impose criminal penalties on executives of companies if they’re found to have acted negligently in distributing drugs.

Warren would address the country’s high maternal mortality rate by tracking health outcomes for mothers and infants at hospitals and would give bonuses or penalties based on the results.

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Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang, a New York entrepreneur, says he supports the “spirit” of Medicare for all but does not think that immediately eliminating private insurance is realistic.

His plan focuses on ways to bring healthcare costs down. He supports shifting doctors to a flat salary instead of a fee-for-service model.

In addition to having the government negotiate drug costs, he wants to use the average cost of medications in other countries to set a baseline for prices and has called for public manufacturing facilities to make generic drugs. If a company is pricing a medication too high, he backs granting a license to produce that drug to a company that would charge less.

He backs expanded use of technologies such as telehealth and artificial intelligence to boost coverage, and wants to create a single telemedicine license that would allow providers to see patients in all 50 states.

Yang would direct $20 billion per year toward addiction treatment and rehabilitation and wants to impose a new tax on opiate manufacturers to pay for treatment. He would clamp down on the prescription rate by requiring all opioid prescriptions to come from hospitals instead of individual offices or practices.

Where the Democratic debate candidates stand …

Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved fast-tracking the billion-dollar arena complex the Clippers want to build in Inglewood, as plans for the project continue to advance.

Newsom certified the project Friday under legislation passed last year to shield the project from extended environmental litigation.

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The decision, which sets a nine-month window for lawsuits and appeals over the project’s environmental impact to be resolved, came after the California Air Resources Board found the project would be net carbon neutral.

The state’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee has 30 days to approve Newsom’s certification. If that happens, the environmental impact report will be released.

“Receiving the state’s certification is just more evidence that this project will be by far one of the most environmentally friendly and energy efficient sports venues in the country,” said Chris Meany, the developer and project manager for the arena.

The complex would be centered on a sail-shaped arena that seats 18,000 people near the intersection of West Century Boulevard and South Prairie Avenue in addition to a practice facility, sports medicine clinic, team offices, retail space and a hotel.

The Madison Square Garden Co., which owns the Forum less than two miles away, called the arena plan “deeply flawed” and pledged to continue its fight against the project.

“The truth remains that the arena would overwhelm Inglewood with four million more cars per year and thousands of tons of harmful air pollution,” the company said in a statement.

A spokesman for Newsom didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

After 11 months of negotiations, the Clippers and CARB agreed this month to a package that includes the organization providing 1,000 electric car chargers for residences in the area, planting 1,000 trees and instituting a program to reduce event-related trips to the arena by 15%.

Several environmental and community groups and residents submitted letters opposing the project being fast-tracked.

The Clippers hope to start arena construction by July 2021 and complete it in time for the 2024-25 season.

MSG sued Inglewood over the project, which would be built on vacant land owned by the city, last year. The Clippers-controlled company backing the arena, Murphy’s Bowl LLC, later countersued MSG. The trial date has been repeatedly postponed, but a new date could be set during a hearing next month.

Times staff writer Taryn Luna contributed to this report.