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A Mariló Montero ya no le hace tanta gracia ser Trending Topic, sobre todo cuando se pone en tela de juicio no sólo su profesionalidad sino también sus aptitudes y cualidades intelectuales. Por esa razón ha llamado al programa radiofónico de Carlos Alsina, La brújula, en el que un colaborador ha manifestado su ‘queja’ por que la cadena pública tenga presentadoras tan “incultas” en su plantilla, capaces de confundir el río Miño con el Nilo o no saber qué significan las siglas Q.E.P.D.

“Entro por alusiones, ya que se me ha llamado inculta. Yo reconozco que me equivoco, pero de ahí a llamarme inculta, no”, ha defendido con rotundidad. “He trabajado durante 30 años y jamás me han dicho eso. Os puedo desmontar todas y cada una de las cosas que se han dicho sobre mí y todos los TT cuando lo he sido”, ha declarado Montero, que también aclara que no es catedrática y que no le “ponen” los catedráticos.

Mariló Montero: Me han convertido en el bufón de España

“Probablemente sea una inculta para muchos y que no merezco estar en los medios de comunicación para otros, pero a veces hay que confirmar las cosas y no fiarse de los titulares de Twitter”, ha argumentado la presentadora de La mañana de La 1.

Mariló Montero tiene claro que han visto en ella un tirón mediático “y me han convertido en el bufón de España, y yo lo llevo bien y hasta me río de eso, pero que no se olvide de dónde vengo, los problemas que he tenido para llegar hasta aquí”.

En un momento dado de la entrevista, el colaborador que la ha llamado inculta ha vuelto a incomodar a Montero cuando ha sacado a colación un tema delicado: “¿Te acuerdas cuando murió Rafael Martínez Simancas y diste las condolencias a la Federación Socialista madrileña? Es que…”. Y la comunicadora lo ha negado en redondo: “Jamás he dicho yo eso, nunca”. Ha zanjado la entrevista pidiendo comprensión, sobre todo “cuando llevas horas y horas de televisión en directo y te despistas por algo”. 

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For the second day, Spain has recorded its highest daily death toll as infections globally rise to over 938,000
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Spain passed 10,000 on Thursday, as the hard-hit country again reported its highest number of deaths in a single day since the outbreak began, with the total rising by 950 to 10,003 among 110,238 infections.

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — KWHY-TV 22, the MundoFOX Los Angeles television network affiliate posted one of its strongest ratings books to-date, according to Nielsen’s November 2014 Sweeps, finishing as the fastest growing late newscast in Los Angeles, with viewership now comparable to the 10 p.m. English language newscasts. 

“Noticias 22 is in fact ‘The Voice of Our City‘, and our growth is breaking news,” affirmed Otto Padron, President of Meruelo Media, “our team of highly dedicated journalists, have earned this trademark by producing compelling, impactful, and engaging reporting and delivering resounding results.”

KWHY-TV 22 MundoFOX November Ratings & Broadcast Highlights:

  • Noticias 22 at 10 p.m. is L.A.’s fastest growing late newscast, based on average weekday ratings among both Adults 18-49 (up 93% from November 2013, from 0.27 NSI rating to 0.52) and Adults 25-54 (up 95%, from 0.43 NSI rating to 0.84) — a bigger increase than any other late newscast: 10 p.m. or 11 p.m., Spanish or English.
  • For the key demographic of news viewers (Adults 25-54), Noticias 22 at 10 p.m. (Monday through Friday) averaged 0.84 NSI rating, beating the competing newscasts on KTTV-Fox (0.68), KTLA-CW (0.82), and neck-to-neck with KCAL-TV (0.85).
  • In primetime, KWHY-TV 22, for the first time in a ratings period, scored higher ratings among Adults 25-54 than KFTR-UniMas, averaging 0.52 rating (Monday to Friday, 7-11P) compared to 0.42.
  • Noticias 22 delivered a compelling investigative series from Israel, “Tierra Santa, Tierra Prometida” where main news anchor, Palmira Perez, visited the holy land, bringing viewers a unique perspective of its biblical and historical sites to include a rare interview with Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu during the recent Jerusalem disturbances.  
  • Also, Noticias 22 brought its viewers stories that impacted their lives and LA’s communities such as an investigate series on the negative effects of water conservation within an aging Los Angeles aqueduct; as well as series on police brutality, homelessness and an alternative cure using magnetic currents.
  • Noticias 22 also led with breaking and continuing coverage from Las Vegas on President Obama’s Immigration Reform Executive Order; as well as following the Brown Case developing racial tensions in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the local perspective in Los Angeles. 

For more information on MundoFOX Canal 22 and Noticias 22 please visit www.mundofox22.com.

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Meruelo Media (MM) is the media division of The Meruelo Group.  MM currently operates two Southern California Legendary media platforms;  the classic hip-hop and R&B radio station, 93.5 KDAY and one of Los Angeles’ oldest Hispanic TV stations, KWHY-TV Canal 22, which is currently the flagship of MundoFOX Television Network.  MM also owns the first and only US Hispanic Super Station, Super LA, airing on its KWHY-TV second digital stream and reaching over 6 Million Homes over various multiple video delivery providers.  MM also operates television stations in Houston and Santa Barbara.  The Meruelo Group is a minority owned, privately-held management company serving a diversified portfolio of affiliated entities with interests in banking and financial services; food services, manufacturing, distribution and restaurant operations; construction and engineering; hospitality and gaming; real estate management; media, public and private equity investing. For more information please visit www.meruelogroup.com.

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Ramos Allup: Odebrecht debería denunciar a quiénes le pagaron sobornos en Venezuela

Henry Ramos Allup,  el presidente de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela (AN), consideró este miércoles “muy importante” que la constructora brasileña Odebrecht indique los nombres de los venezolanos a los que sobornaron.

“Muy importante que Odebrecht denuncie a quién o a quiénes pagaron sobornos o financiamientos en Venezuela”, expresó el opositor en su cuenta en Twitter.

Un documento publicado por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos reveló que la empresa constructora brasileña Odebrecht y sus “cómplices” pagaron aproximadamente 788 millones de dólares en sobornos a 11 países, a partir de 2001, y uno de ellos es Venezuela.

Sospechoso del ataque en Berlín tenía 6 alias y 3 nacionalidades

El tunecino Anis Amri, quien cumple 24 años el jueves, es ahora el hombre más buscado en toda Europa. Aunque las autoridades insisten en que sigue siendo solo un sospechoso y no es todavía seguro que haya sido él quien condujera el camión que mató a 12 personas en Berlín, hay una urgente necesidad de encontrarlo.

Amri tiene seis alias, tres nacionalidades y vínculos con la misma rama de extremismo islámico que ha sumado al menos 6.000 de sus compatriotas a redes yihadistas, el grupo nacional más grande de combatientes extranjeros para el Estado islámico.

Muchos entrenan en campamentos del grupo en la vecina Libia. Otros se dirigieron a Siria e Irak. Uno de ellos es el hombre que mató 86 personas que festejaban en el Día de la Bastilla en julio en la ciudad de Niza, en el sur de Francia, y otro es aquel que mató a balazos a decenas de turistas en una playa en Túnez.

Aún no se sabe si Amri tiene vínculos directos con ISIS, pero éste se atribuyó la responsabilidad del ataque con un camión perpetrado la noche del lunes en un mercado navideño de Berlín en el que murieron 12 personas y 48 resultaron heridas.

Anis Amri de 24 años es considerado un hombre peligroso y las autoridades alertaron que podría estar armado.

El economista que escribió “Muerte por China”, nominado como nuevo asesor comercial de Trump

Peter Navarro, un economista que propone una línea dura sobre el comercio con China, dirigirá el recién formado Consejo Nacional de Comercio de la Casa Blanca, según anunció este miércoles el equipo de transición del presidente electo estadounidense, Donald Trump.

Navarro escribió una serie de libros y dirigió un documental en los que describe la amenaza que representa China para la economía de Estados Unidos y su deseo de convertirse en la potencia económica y militar dominante en Asia.

Navarro ya había aconsejado a Trump durante la campaña electoral. Entre los libros que ha escrito está “Death by China: How America Lost its Manufacturing Base” (Muerte por China: Cómo América perdió su base productiva), que sirvió de base para un documental del mismo nombre.

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Curiosity descubre chimeneas por las que circulaban fluidos en Marte

En sus jornadas de trabajo en el cráter Gale de Marte, el robot Curiosity –que lleva en el planeta rojo desde agosto de 2012 en el marco de la misión MSL de la NASA– se ha encontrado con unas estructuras geológicas inesperadas. Ninguna misión previa las había fotografiado, ni desde suelo marciano ni desde su órbita.

“Se trata de pequeñas secciones superficiales de estructuras cilíndricas o chimeneas verticales, que son demasiado pequeñas para ser detectadas con imágenes orbitales”, explica Jesús Martínez Frías, investigador del Instituto de Geociencias IGEO, centro mixto de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y el CSIC y miembro del equipo científico del Curiosity.

En un estudio publicado en Geology y destacado en su portada de enero, un equipo internacional de científicos del que forma parte el geólogo ha analizado las imágenes enviadas por el rover y las ha comparado con estructuras similares de la Tierra.

Vista general obtenida con la Mastcam del rover Curiosity mostrando el área de Marias Pass, una de las zonas donde se han encontrado estas chimeneas. / NASA/ JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

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La prueba se realizó, además de Eslovaquia, en Bolivia, Guatemala, Serbia, Sri Lanka y Camboya. Se extenderá por “meses, probablemente, porque a la gente le puede llevar tiempo adaptarse”, según Mosseri.

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President Donald Trump directed his outrage at Puerto Rico on Monday night, calling the U.S. territory “a mess” and its politicians “incompetent or corrupt,” after Senate Democrats clashed with their Republican counterparts over sending more disaster aid money.

Senators took test votes on two competing measures — one drafted by Senate Republicans and another passed by Democratic-led House of Representatives earlier this year — that would allocate billions of dollars in aid to U.S. states and territories ravaged by hurricanes, flooding, wildfires and other natural disasters in recent months. But neither piece of legislation got the support required to advance to a full floor vote. Democrats shot down the GOP legislation while Republicans rejected the House-passed bill, which proposes more aid for Puerto Rico than the Republican version.

No one can discern where he’s getting that figure, which is many times higher than the actual number.

Democrats said they wanted the federal government to release the money already appropriated to Puerto Rico in a previous relief package, in addition to hundreds of millions of dollars more. Republicans echoed Trump’s claims that Puerto Puerto Rico has been given much more than disaster-hit states and hasn’t spent the money wisely.

“The Democrats today killed a Bill that would have provided great relief to Farmers and yet more money to Puerto Rico despite the fact that Puerto Rico has already been scheduled to receive more hurricane relief funding than any ‘place’ in history. The people of Puerto Rico,” Trump posted on Twitter, “are GREAT, but the politicians are incompetent or corrupt. Puerto Rico got far more money than Texas & Florida combined, yet their government can’t do anything right, the place is a mess – nothing works.”

“FEMA & The Military worked emergency miracles but politicians like,” Trump continued. “the crazed and incompetent Mayor of San Juan have done such a poor job of bringing the Island back to health. 91 Billion Dollars to Puerto Rico, and now the Dems want to give them more, taking dollars away from our Farmers and so many others. Disgraceful!”

Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, the capital, responded to Trump’s remarks in her own tweets. She called the president “unhinged” and accused him of lying about the inadequate response to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on the island in September 2017 and caused some $100 billion in damage.

“Pres Trump continues to embarrass himself & the Office he holds. He is unhinged & thus lies about the $ received by PR. HE KNOWS HIS RESPONSE was innefficient [sic] at best. He can huff & puff all he wants but he cannot escape the death of 3,000 on his watch. SHAME ON YOU!” Cruz tweeted.

“Mr President I am right here ready to call you on every lie, every hypocrisy and every ill fated action against the people of Puerto Rico. My voice,and the voices of the people of Puerto Rico, will continue to unmask your insentive [sic], incapable & vindictive ways. SHAME ON YOU!” Cruz tweeted again.

The storm struck as Puerto Ricans still were recovering from Hurricane Irma, which unleashed heavy rain and high winds just two weeks earlier.

Though 64 people died as a direct result of Hurricane Maria, an estimated 2,975 died as a result of its aftermath, according to Puerto Rico’s most recent official counts based on a study, published in August of 2018, conducted by George Washington University and the University of Puerto Rico.

(Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images) A car drives on a damaged road in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Humacao, Puerto Rico on Oct. 2, 2017.

Jeremy Kirkland, general counsel to the Inspector General’s Office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, announced last Tuesday that his office has launched an internal investigation at the request of Congress to investigate whether there was any “interference” in the distribution of aid money to Puerto Rico.

Over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer penned an op-ed in The New York Daily News, saying the Trump administration “has yet to disperse nearly $20 billion in long-term recovery and mitigation funds for Puerto Rico, more than a year after they were approved by Congress and a year-and-a-half after the historic hurricanes made landfall.”

“[The president] claims that Puerto Rico is getting $91 billion in disaster relief,” Schumer wrote, “but no one can discern where he’s getting that figure, which is many times higher than the actual number.”

ABC News’ Stephanie Ebbs, Anne Flaherty, Joshua Hoyos and Trish Turner contributed to this report.

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There would be no chance of a scoop of stracciatella at Frio Gelato on Clark Street (not that anyone would want it), or Wiener schnitzel at the Berghoff Cafe downtown.

[You could get frostbite in a matter of minutes. Here’s what to do.]

Commerce slowed throughout the Midwest but the frigid conditions were unlikely to exact a lingering economic toll. In a 2015 report, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago concluded that winter weather had “a significant, but short-lived effect on economic activity.”

But economists, the report suggested, have long struggled to pinpoint the financial consequences of events like this week’s polar vortex, especially because regional and national economies are shaped by so many factors.

Still, plenty of businesses were not running as usual on Wednesday, suggesting that locally felt consequences might not surface in long-range data. Even “Disney on Ice,” which was scheduled to run on Wednesday night at Chicago’s United Center, was canceled.

[Read more here about how the deep freeze is hitting the homeless.]

Through it all, some restaurants pressed on.

At Huck Finn, a diner on the Southwest Side, there were fewer patrons than usual, said Demetri Hiotis, the general manager. But the people who did come in were cheerful, almost exuberant.

“It’s like they’re living through some kind of weather history — everyone else stayed in, and we’re here doing our thing,” Mr. Hiotis said. “There’s a sense of pride. It’s 22 below but I still went to work, got my breakfast, got my coffee and doughnut.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — After President Joe Biden’s giant COVID-19 relief bill passed Congress, he made a prime-time address to the nation and presided over a Rose Garden ceremony.

But there wasn’t so much as a statement from the White House after the House passed legislation that would require background checks for gun purchases, a signature Democratic issue for decades.

Biden’s views on gun regulation have evolved along with his party — at one point reluctant to impose too many restrictions that blue-collar Democrats opposed — to a near-unanimous call to do something about gun violence after a spate of mass shootings.

In the early months of Biden’s presidency, even popular proposals like background checks are lower on his list of priorities and their prospects in the Senate cloudy.

The two bills that passed the House last week would expand background checks on gun purchases, the first significant movement on gun control since Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House.

They are among a number of major bills House Democrats have pushed through in recent weeks, including legislation to expand voting rights and support union organizing, that now face an uncertain fate in the Senate. Supporters of the background check bills are hoping to see Biden become more actively involved.

“I hope and I expect that President Biden will be willing to get engaged in hand to hand advocacy in the Senate on background checks,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who has led the push for gun control in the Senate.

While Biden was more conservative on gun issues early in his Senate career, in the mid-1990s he helped pass the Brady bill, which mandated federal background checks for gun purchases, and he wrote the 1994 crime bill that included a 10-year assault weapons ban.

During his presidential campaign, Biden embraced an expansive gun-control agenda, backing an assault weapons ban and buyback program that was once seen as highly controversial and won’t see action in a divided Congress.

On the third anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last month, Biden issued a statement reiterating his support for such measures, prompting the National Rifle Association to label him “increasingly hostile” towards gun rights.

“Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets,” Biden said in the statement.

But the bills that just passed the House received meager GOP support there and face a much tougher road in the Senate, where 10 Republicans would have to join all 50 Democrats and independents for them to move toward passage.

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who sponsored one of the bills, suggested Democrats would have to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation to move them along.

“I think it’s about time for us to get rid of the filibuster,” Clyburn said in an interview.

But multiple Democrats have expressed opposition to reforming the filibuster, as has Biden himself. That leaves gun-control advocates hoping that the politics of gun control have shifted enough that more Republicans may be open to legislation that advocates argue is widely popular with the American public.

With Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., promising to give the background check bills a vote on the floor, Democrats are hopeful Republicans will step up when they’re put on the spot.

They’re also heartened by the declining influence of the NRA, which filed for bankruptcy this year after being outspent by gun-control groups for the first time during the 2018 election.

“I think the implosion of the NRA, the growing support among the American people and the inevitability of increased support gives us an opportunity we haven’t had before,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said last week. He added: “What’s changed is we now have a president who can put pressure on our colleagues.”

While much of Biden’s gun-control agenda is unlikely to win passage in an evenly divided Senate, some of his proposals can be achieved by prioritizing resources within the federal government. Biden has proposed, for instance, directing the FBI to ensure state and local law enforcement agencies are notified if someone who tries to buy a gun fails a background check. He has also said he’ll ask his attorney general to look for ways to better enforce gun laws.

But the Biden administration has yet to signal how the president himself will get engaged. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden is looking forward to working with Congress “to advance priorities, including repealing gun manufacturers’ liability shields.” She added that he “will look for opportunities to be engaged” on the background check bills.

Democrats still face political headwinds. A Gallup poll last November found that while 57% of Americans want stricter gun laws, that marked the lowest number in favor since 2016. And gun sales hit a new record high in January, continuing a surge over the past year.

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a moderate, have worked together for years to find compromise on background checks.

In a statement, Toomey’s office said the senator remains supportive of a previous bipartisan proposal with Manchin but believes “progress is only possible on this issue if the measure in question is narrow and protects the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”

Still, advocates say with a largely unified Democratic Party and the president on their side, they hope to finally see some movement.

John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, pointed in particular to Democratic wins in the 2018 midterms while running openly for gun control as evidence the politics are changing.

“Democrats are in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. The NRA is in the weakest shape it’s ever been,” he said. “It’s become clear that gun-safety laws aren’t only good life-saving policies, they’re good politics.”

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Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to show that Feinblatt is the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, not Everytown USA.

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Robert Durst, the real estate heir suspected in a string of killings over nearly four decades, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his friend and confidante Susan Berman.

A Los Angeles jury convicted Durst, 78, of first-degree murder last month for the 2000 killing. Prosecutors argued that Durst had shot Berman at point-blank range in her home to prevent her from telling police what she knew about the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s first wife, Kathie McCormack Durst. The verdict marked the first homicide conviction for Durst, who has been linked to the deaths of three people in three states.

Durst’s attorneys filed a motion seeking a new trial, claiming there was insufficient evidence to convict Durst, which the judge dismissed on Thursday at the start of the sentencing.

“The defendant’s testimony was profoundly incredible and incriminating,” said Judge Mark Windham, adding that there was “overwhelming evidence of guilt”.

Thursday’s sentence was expected as prosecutors did not seek the death penalty and the jury had also convicted Durst of the special circumstances of lying in wait and killing a witness, which carry mandatory life sentences.

Family and friends of Berman told the court how Durst had robbed them of an unforgettable and loyal friend who cared deeply for other people.

“It’s been a daily, soul-consuming and crushing experience,” Sareb Kaufman, Berman’s stepson, said of her murder.

Another relative said he had visited Berman’s grave to tell her that justice had been served and she could finally “rest easy”.

Before sentencing Durst, the judge said Berman was an “an extraordinary human being” and her death was a loss to the community.

The sentencing came six years after the documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst thrust the multimillionaire into the spotlight. The series chronicled Berman’s murder, as well as the disappearance of Durst’s wife and the 2001 death of a neighbor in Galveston, Texas, where Durst was hiding out while disguised as a deaf-mute woman. He was arrested on the eve of the airing of the last episode of the series, in which Durst appeared to confess to the killings, saying to himself, “What the hell did I do? … Killed them all, of course.”

In court, the 78-year-old appeared sick and far more frail than he did in the 2015 documentary. He struggles with hearing and used a wheelchair throughout the trial. At one point, after 38 hours of cross-examination, the judge urged the lead prosecutor to stop his questions. “At some point, there’s a limit,” the judge said.

Authorities have sought to put Durst behind bars for years for his role in crimes that officials believe date back to the disappearance and probable murder of McCormack.

“Everything starts with Kathie Durst’s disappearance and death at the hands of Mr Durst,” John Lewin, the deputy district attorney, said in his opening statement at the Berman trial.

McCormack’s body was never found, though she was declared dead in 2017. Durst was never an official suspect in the case, but prosecutors argued he was responsible for her death. The couple had been fighting before she disappeared, Durst admitted, and in the preceding weeks McCormack had gone to the hospital with injuries she said Durst had caused.

Prosecutors said Durst had killed Berman, his best friend, because she was prepared to tell police how she helped cover up the killing of McCormack. Berman had reportedly told friends she had provided him with a false alibi.

Prosecutors said on Thursday that they did not believe Berman had known she was covering up a murder, and that she had instead been trying to help her friend. Durst, they said, had probably told her what happened to McCormack was an accident.

Durst had previously faced a murder trial in Texas for the death of his neighbor Morris Black. While in Galveston, the heir tried to pass himself off as a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner, but Black didn’t buy the disguise and he was shot and dismembered, prosecutors said. Durst and his legal team argued he had killed Black in self-defense, and he was acquitted.

Prosecutors in New York are expected to pursue charges against Durst over his ex-wife’s death. The Westchester district attorney’s office has reopened the investigation into McCormack’s death but has not confirmed reports of its plan to seek an indictment against Durst.

McCormack’s family had hoped to speak at Thursday’s sentencing, a request that was denied as California law mandates that only Berman’s family is eligible to offer victim impact statements in court, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“It was never really a thought that they wouldn’t be allowed to give a victim impact statement,” Robert Abrams, the McCormacks’ family attorney, told the newspaper. “When somebody is the central focus of the criminal trial, you would expect it.”

Berman’s relatives pleaded with Durst to tell the McCormack family where he buried his first wife’s body.

“Any hope of any kind of redemption you can find is in letting them know where to find Kathie,” Kaufman said.

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En la guerra con el Estado Islámico los más perjudicados han sido los civiles que salen huyendo de Mosul sin rumbo alguno. Foto: AFP

Dos semanas después del inicio de la gran operación militar para recuperar Mosul, las fuerzas del régimen iraquí están a las puertas de la ciudad. Foto: AFP

Las organizaciones de asistencia a refugiados creen que dentro de la ciudad están atrapados más de un millón de civiles sometidos al Estado Islámico. Foto: AFP

El Estado Islámico ejecuta a los civiles mientras éstos tratan de huir para escapar del infierno al que han tenido que ser sometidos. Foto: EFE

Los iraquíes hablan con sus familiares que fueron desplazados de Mosul mientras venían a visitarlos en un campo de refugiados en la región. Foto: AFP

Las tropas iraquíes han expulsado al Estado Islámico de decenas de localidades en la provincia de Nínive. Foto: AFP

El Estado Islámico ocupó la ciudad desde 2014 lo que ha provocado que las niñas completen dos años sin asistir al colegio. Foto: AFP

La población civil permanece en medio de bombardeos y ráfagas de fusiles en la batalla por recuperar la Ciudad de Mosul. Foto: AFP

Las ayudas humanitarias ofrecen a los iraquíes desplazados alimentos en un campo de refugiados donde se concentran. Foto: AFP

La Media Luna Roja ha advertido de una gran crisis humanitaria cuando comience la lucha final para recuperar Mosul. Foto: AFP

Las autoridades temen que los combatientes radicales intenten abandonar la Ciudad de Mosul camuflados entre los civiles. Foto: AFP

Los organismos humanitarios tendrán que velar por la salud de las 6.000 familias para las que tiene capacidad el campamento. Foto: EFE

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin McCarthyCheney: McCarthy should ‘absolutely’ testify before Jan. 6 commission Gohmert says Jan. 6 mob attack on Capitol not an ‘armed insurrection’ Axios reporter Kadia Goba rejoining BuzzFeed News to cover GOP MORE (R-Calif.) said that President BidenJoe BidenVirginia GOP gubernatorial nominee acknowledges Biden was ‘legitimately’ elected BuzzFeed News finds Biden’s private Venmo account Kid reporter who interviewed Obama dies at 23 MORE doesn’t have the “energy of Donald TrumpDonald TrumpVirginia GOP gubernatorial nominee acknowledges Biden was ‘legitimately’ elected Biden meets with DACA recipients on immigration reform Overnight Health Care: States begin lifting mask mandates after new CDC guidance | Walmart, Trader Joe’s will no longer require customers to wear masks | CDC finds Pfizer, Moderna vaccines 94 percent effective in health workers MORE” after meeting with him for the first time in Biden’s presidency. 

“At no time, having known Joe Biden for quite some time, does he have the energy of Donald Trump. We both know it,” McCarthy said.

“Donald Trump didn’t need to sleep five hours a night, and he would be engaged. If you called Donald Trump, he would get on the phone before staff would,” McCarthy added.

McCarthy, House Minority Whip Steve ScaliseStephen (Steve) Joseph ScaliseThe Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – What the CDC’s updated mask guidance means Roy to challenge Stefanik for Cheney’s old position Stefanik shake-up jump-starts early jockeying for committee posts MORE (R-La.) and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise StefanikElise Marie StefanikAll House Republicans back effort to force floor vote on ‘born alive’ bill House Democrats unveil .9 billion bill to boost security after insurrection The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – What the CDC’s updated mask guidance means MORE (R-N.Y.) were interviewed by Fox News’s Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityJenner says she didn’t vote in 2020: ‘I just couldn’t get excited about it’ White House says Biden won’t ‘underestimate Trump’ if he runs in 2024 McConnell safe in power, despite Trump’s wrath MORE on “Hannity,” a show on which Trump has been interviewed where he likely will see McCarthy’s comments.

The three did a joint interview days after Stefanik replaced Rep. Liz CheneyElizabeth (Liz) Lynn CheneyAll House Republicans back effort to force floor vote on ‘born alive’ bill Cheney says she ‘regrets’ voting for Trump Cheney: McCarthy should ‘absolutely’ testify before Jan. 6 commission MORE (R-Wyo.) as the No. 3 Republican in the House. Stefanik had Trump’s backing during the process.

The three spent the interview attacking Biden and his policies.

“I am excited about Elise Stefanik joining the leadership team because Joe Biden is not just ignoring the problems; he’s igniting them,” McCarthy said.

Stefanik told Hannity that she “agrees with all the items” the host laid out as a part of the “Trump agenda” when he asked her about fears from others that she isn’t conservative enough.

“We are experiencing multiple crises under President Biden and Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.]. We have a border crisis. We have an economic crisis and a national security crisis in the Middle East. Republicans are going to fight on behalf of American families that are concerned about the radical direction this administration is taking us,” Stefanik said.

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  • Sen. Joe Manchin dug in on his proposal to require people work for the Biden child tax credit.
  • “Tax credits are based around people that have tax liabilities,” Manchin told Insider.
  • Early research indicates that advance payments helped cut hunger among families, including those in Manchin’s state of West Virginia.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia dug in on pushing a new requirement that parents work in order to receive the child tax credit on Tuesday as Democrats struggled to get the $3.5 trillion social spending plan over the finish line.

“They know I feel very strongly about that. Tax credits are based around people that have tax liabilities,” Manchin told Insider on Tuesday. “I’m even willing to go as long as they have a W-2 and showing they’re working, we’ve talked about that.”

It comes two days after Manchin first suggested requiring people to work and file taxes as a condition to get the advance monthly payments. He said in a CNN interview that tying the child tax credit to those with jobs would ensure federal assistance would flow to “the right people.” He maintained he supports child tax credits.

Democrats in the House and Senate, including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, on Monday poured cold water on the idea. Opposition to the idea on Tuesday grew from other Democrats as well. The party is laboring to assemble a party-line package that can garner the support of nearly every Democratic lawmaker and turn it into law this month.

“Adding a work requirement or other stipulations to the Child Tax Credit would hurt middle-class families,” Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington, chair of the 95-member moderate New Democrat coalition, said in a statement to Insider. “The Child Tax Credit is an important tax cut for middle-class families and in only two months is already having an incredible impact on American children.”

She added the New Democrat group was “all-in” on extending the benefit. 

Meanwhile, Brown told reporters on Tuesday, “I think that raising children is work.”

Other lawmakers expressed different qualms about the program. Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, told Insider he was “concerned” about the cash benefit flowing to high-earning Americans, but said families shouldn’t have to pay taxes to access the program, known as refundability.

“This should be refundable,” he told Insider.

The Democratic stimulus law in March turned the credit into a one-year cash benefit issued in monthly checks to the vast majority of families. Individuals who earn $75,000 or less are eligible for up to either a $250 or $300 direct payment per child depending on their age. Couples earning a combined $150,000 or less also qualify for the total check amount.

House Democrats are pushing to extend the revamped credit until 2025, and ensuring that low-income families who don’t have to file taxes can permanently get the benefit. The current child allowance does not require individuals to have a job to obtain federal assistance.

But its unclear whether Senate Democrats will extend it with the same length and structure, given early resistance from Manchin.

Early research indicates the first month of payments kept three million children out of poverty and helped feed two million kids in July. Food insecurity dropped among West Virginian families as well, per an analysis last month from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy.

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Christian Aid Ministries, a US-based organisation, sent a voice message to religious groups in Haiti as a “special prayer alert”, the Associated Press news agency reported.

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced additional sanctions against Russia’s central bank on Monday, a move that effectively prohibits Americans from doing any business with the bank as well as freezes its assets within the United States.

The new measures will also target the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to share Washington’s thinking, said the new sanctions will take effect immediately.

“We wanted to put these actions in place before our markets open because what we learned over the course of the weekend from our allies and partners was the Russian Central Bank was attempting to move assets and there would be a great deal of asset flight starting on Monday morning from institutions around the world,” the official said, on a conference call with reporters.

“Our strategy to put it simply is to make sure that the Russian economy goes backward. As long as President Putin decides to go forward with his invasion of Ukraine,” the official added.

The U.S. is also adding Kirill Dmitriev, another ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to the sanctions list as well as the direct investment fund Dmitriev heads. The Russian Direct Investment Fund, or RDIF, is officially a sovereign wealth fund but is widely considered a slush fund for Putin.

The official said the U.S. expects its allies to take similar steps in the coming days.

This comes after the U.S. and its allies announced over the weekend that they will impose restrictive measures aimed at preventing Russia’s central bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that may undermine sanctions.

“No country is sanctions-proof and Putin’s war chest of $630 billion in reserves only matters if he can use it to defend his currency,” a second senior administration official said Monday.

The U.S. and its allies have imposed a deluge of severe sanctions on Russia in recent weeks in a unified effort to keep economic pressure on the Kremlin.

Those penalties – imposed by the U.S. departments of the Treasury and Commerce – have sent the Russian markets sideways. The Russian ruble fell as low as 111 on Monday to the U.S. dollar from 83 on Friday, a drop of more than 20%. If that weakening holds, it would represent one of the largest single-day declines in the value of Moscow’s currency ever recorded.

The Bank of Russia, the nation’s central bank, stepped in to stanch the ruble’s swoon by more than doubling the country’s benchmark interest rate to 20% from 9.5%. The hike in rates is designed to tempt savers to keep cash in Russian banks since the West and its allies have moved to isolate Moscow’s biggest lenders from international markets.

The major market-based upheaval prompted the Russian central bank to keep the country’s stock exchange, the Moscow Exchange, closed Monday.

On Saturday, the U.S., European allies and Canada agreed to remove key Russian banks from the interbank messaging system, SWIFT, an extraordinary step that will sever the country from much of the global financial system.

Moscow’s exclusion from SWIFT, which stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, means Russian banks won’t be able to communicate securely with banks beyond their border. Iran was removed from SWIFT in 2014 after developments to Tehran’s nuclear program.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man and injured at least 11 others late Saturday night, police said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted early Sunday that the shooting in east Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood “shattered a peaceful neighborhood event.” Twelve people were shot, including a 38-year-old man who was dead on arrival at a local hospital, a New York City police spokesman said around 3:30 a.m. Sunday.

The police spokesman said he did not know the identity of the man, who was shot once in the head.

No arrests have been made, and police did not offer details about a possible suspect or whether there was more than one gunman at the park where the event took place. As of 6:30 a.m., police said they did not have details about the conditions of the other 11 people wounded and that the investigation as ongoing.

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NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 27: Maritza Ramos, wife of the victim, holds the colors as she is joined by her sons Justin, left, and Jaden, right, during the funeral of slain New York Police Department (NYPD) officer Rafael Ramos at the Christ Tabernacle Church on December 27, 2014 in the Glenwood section of the Queens borough of New York City. Ramos was shot, along with Police Officer Wenjian Liu while sitting in their patrol car in an ambush attack in Brooklyn on December 20. Thousands of fellow officers, family, friends and Vice President Joseph Biden arrived at the church for the funeral. (Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)




At least six people had been transported to local hospitals by just after midnight, with some in serious condition, a New York City fire department spokesman said earlier. He described the scene at the time as “fluid.”

De Blasio’s tweet didn’t include details about the community event referenced, but a notice on the NYC Parks website said other programming at the Brownsville Recreation Center by the playground was canceled over the weekend because of the annual Old Timers Event.

A 2010 newsletter from the parks department described it as a celebration of “former members of the center who went on to success and fame in sports and other endeavors” that’s grown to include concerts and other events. A flyer for the dayslong celebration said Saturday’s event was to begin at 6 p.m. on Hegeman Avenue, in the vicinity of the site of the shooting.

Calls and emails to the offices of council members organizing the celebration were not immediately returned, but Council Member Alicka Amprey-Samuel shared de Blasio’s tweet and added comments of her own.

“One of the worst experiences of my life,” the council member for the 41st District tweeted. “How does such a beautiful and peaceful event become overshadowed by tragedy in seconds?”

A man who answered a phone number listed online for one of Saturday’s scheduled performers, The Legendary Intruders, identified himself as band member Khalil Shabazz. He told The Associated Press that his band had already performed and departed the venue by the time of the shooting.

Videos posted on social media showed police clearing large groups of people out of the area around the recreation center following the shooting. Photos from local news outlets showed several people taken from the scene on stretchers, including some with what appeared to be minor wounds.

Brownsville is a neighborhood that’s continued to struggle with gun violence, even as New York streets become safer than they have been in decades.

“We will do everything in our power to keep this community safe and get guns off our streets,” de Blasio tweeted.

State Sen. Roxanne J. Persaud echoed de Blasio, adding the hashtags “#StopTheViolence” and “#PutDownTheGuns” to her tweets expressing frustration with the shooting, which she called “unacceptable” and “cowardly.”

“Our community mourns again. We should be able to have fun in open spaces without fear of violence,” tweeted Persaud, whose district includes Brownsville. “Respect your community. We are better than the violence.”

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In the last year, Univision Noticias has gone through a process of digital transformation to shape its approach to online video, as a Spanish-language TV network whose aim is to “empower and inform the latino community in the United States”.

Selymar Colón, managing editor and senior director for digital at Univision, told attendees at the WAN-IFRA International Newsroom Summit in London today (23 November) that, considering its TV legacy, the broadcaster’s aim was to improve on how it produced and delivered video for online.

Between January and September 2016, Univision Noticias acquired more than 1.1 billion video views across its own website and social media platforms, and Colón said one of the biggest changes in its digital video strategy was to find the suitable pace and workflows before the newsroom started experimenting with formats.

Univision Noticias identified four ‘rhythms’ to approach online video, which she outlined as breaking news, social video, TV content and craft video – these help determine the team’s take on stories.

However, it is often the case that all four can apply to the same story, as it happened with the organisation’s video coverage of the Orlando nightclub shooting in June.

Univision Noticias started with a breaking news video on its website at 2am, showing survivors leaving the club. It then dipped into social video with a Facebook Live of news anchor Jorge Ramos on his way to Orlando, who gave viewers the latest updates before arriving at the scene, where the key moments were broadcast on TV for several hours.

The coverage was rounded off with ‘Orlando gets its pulse back’, a mini-documentary Univision published a month after the event, featuring interviews with three survivors of the massacre.

“Once you have identified the right workflow for your newsroom and you know what your story is, then you can pick the format.”

Colón highlighted five formats that Univision Noticias has been focusing on:

Interactive video

The organisation published ‘How a single piece of paper can change a family’s life’, an interactive video produced in partnership with creative production company Wondros.

Available in English and Spanish, the video showed what it’s like to live in the US both as a documented immigrant and an undocumented one, enabling viewers to choose which version of the story they wanted to watch.

“To do this, we shot exactly the same things with the same people for both versions, and the audience is the one who can choose what happens.

“It also means that you can probably get the same person to watch the same video three times, as at first they play around with it before exploring the two versions of the story.”

360-degree video

The US election gave Univision Noticias the occasion to produce 360-degree video, showing people the atmosphere inside the buildings where the presidential candidates were waiting for the results to come in and the reactions of Donald Trump aides and supporters when he won the vote in the state of Florida.

Mini-documentaries

In May, Univision Noticias produced ‘From undocumented immigrant to Harvard graduate’, a four-minute video showing snippets from a particularly important week in the life of Norma Torres, a young woman who was about to graduate from Harvard University.

As her mother was living as an undocumented immigrant in Texas, Torres flew to Houston to pick her up before they drove the 2,000 miles back to Cambridge so that her mother could attend the graduation ceremony.

Animations

“This format sets us apart from the TV content we produce on a daily basis, and it also allows us to play a little bit with the story,” Colón said.

An example is an animated video Univision Noticias created as part of an investigation into the cruising industry, produced with the School of Journalism at Columbia University.

“In this particular case, we found a woman who had actually suffered abuse while working on a ship and she agreed to talk to us, but didn’t want to show her face, so we recorded the interview with her and decided to illustrate her testimony.”

Drone journalism

In March, Univision Noticias sent a team to Bolivia to report on how the drying up of Lake Poopó, the country’s second largest lake, was affecting the life of the community living in a village that used to be located on the lake’s shores.

The broadcaster partnered with a local organisation in Bolivia to film and produce ‘Fishermen in the desert’, a four-minute video centred around drone footage of the area.

Website publishing vs social distribution

The next step after finding the right formats is to find out if they should live on your own platform or on social media, explained Colón.

On its website, Univision Noticias has focused on developing “franchises”, which are special series, exclusive interviews and regular programmes, such as a weekly interview in which an immigration lawyer answers one question about related issues.

As part of its social distribution strategy, the organisation’s approach to videos published on its website is to share a link to the content on social platforms, before uploading them as native videos 24 hours later.

Univision Noticias publishes video on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, tailoring its content according to the strengths of each platform.

“For me, social videos means we’re back to silent movies, as the majority of people on Facebook watch with the sound off and we’re competing with other elements in their newsfeed.”

For that reason, most of its videos on Facebook are “text-driven and feature illustrations”, while Facebook Live has worked both for “digital-first video and TV-style”, depending on the story.

“For huge events like the presidential debates or election night, we didn’t want to compete with TV on Facebook, so we connected the two and did some eight hours of programming on Facebook Live, gathering about 14 million video views in total.”

In 2017, Univision Noticias will focus more on a video format Colón called the ‘noon cast’, a newscast happening every day at 12pm in the newsroom, which is simultaneously broadcast on its website, Facebook Live and YouTube.

“On TV, this newscast would be 30 minutes with commercials, which is actually 22 minutes of programming.

“But for digital, you have to produce those 30 minutes because you can’t put in the same commercials, so in their place we will produce other types of content and it will be a different experience for each platform where people watch.”

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