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KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX is the Fastest Growing Late Evening … – PR Newswire (press release)
KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX is the Fastest Growing Late Evening … – PR Newswire (press release)


















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.

About Meruelo Media

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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Insólito fenómeno astronómico en un sólo día – Univisión
Insólito fenómeno astronómico en un sólo día – Univisión

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Trump lashes out at Puerto Rico after Senate fails to advance disaster aid bill – ABC News
Trump lashes out at Puerto Rico after Senate fails to advance disaster aid bill – ABC News

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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As Biden’s vaccinate-or-test mandate approaches, questions arise over enforcement – NBC News
As Biden’s vaccinate-or-test mandate approaches, questions arise over enforcement – NBC News
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Advocates seek Biden push on gun bills, but prospects iffy – The Associated Press
Advocates seek Biden push on gun bills, but prospects iffy – The Associated Press

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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Daniel Ortega obtiene tercer mandato consecutivo en Nicaragua, oposición desconoce resultado – Noticias RCN
Daniel Ortega obtiene tercer mandato consecutivo en Nicaragua, oposición desconoce resultado – Noticias RCN

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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David DePape, man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, sentenced to 30 years in prison – NBC News
David DePape, man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, sentenced to 30 years in prison – NBC News
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Manchin digs in on requiring parents to work for Biden child tax credit – Business Insider
Manchin digs in on requiring parents to work for Biden child tax credit – Business Insider
  • 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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Biden administration expands sanctions against Russia, cutting off U.S. transactions with central bank – CNBC
Biden administration expands sanctions against Russia, cutting off U.S. transactions with central bank – CNBC

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.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/biden-administration-expands-russia-sanctions-cuts-off-us-transactions-with-central-bank.html

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1 dead, 11 others shot at during community event in Brooklyn park – AOL
1 dead, 11 others shot at during community event in Brooklyn park – AOL

 

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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Inside the online video strategy at Univision Noticias | Media news – Journalism.co.uk
Inside the online video strategy at Univision Noticias | Media news – Journalism.co.uk

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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Crean sitio en internet de noticias sobre Venezuela sin censura del Gobierno – Radio Programas del Perú
Crean sitio en internet de noticias sobre Venezuela sin censura del Gobierno – Radio Programas del Perú

Con el objetivo de tener información fiable y en tiempo real sobre la crisis en Venezuela, un grupo de profesionales desarrolla un proyecto a través de las redes sociales que ofrece noticias y datos objetivos sobre la situación en el país suramericano.

El sitio Venezuela Decoded busca recopilar la información presentada en Twitter en tiempo real agrupándola según las fuentes, ya sean del gobierno o de la oposición y separando la información en inglés y en español.

“Lo que empujó este proyecto es que hubo un aumento en la censura y la autocensura de los medios informativos en Venezuela desde las marchas de febrero”, explicó en entrevista con Efe, Ana María Carrano, periodista, editora venezolana y actual miembro del prestigioso programa Knight Fellowships de la Universidad de Stanford.

Ante casos presentados como el bloqueo de la señal de la emisora colombiana Noticias 24 que se recibía en Venezuela o la detención del político Leopoldo López, quien organizó una marcha contra el gobierno, varios periodistas venezolanos decidieron buscar una forma para presentar la información tanto de las fuentes oficiales como de la oposición para que los lectores pudieran formar sus propios criterios.

Igualmente, las fuertes restricciones a la importación de papel establecidas por el Gobierno venezolano han llevado a varios medios impresos a cerrar y a otros a reducir sus páginas teniendo que autocensurarse para poder subsistir, según explicó Carrano.

Por ello, agregó, el objetivo del proyecto es “aprovechar el valor protagónico de la información que se encuentra en Twitter y tratar de darle un marco organizativo”.

Todavía en desarrollo y con nuevas funciones en proceso que serán agregadas en las próximas semanas, venezueladecoded.com ofrece a través de un “timeline” los hechos más importantes de cada día y organiza la información más confiable y preponderante que se publica en Twitter.

Para los filtros iniciales, se hizo una evaluación de quiénes eran los periodistas que estaban haciendo seguimiento de los procesos con más regularidad y más confiabilidad, tanto en sus propios mensajes como en la repetición de mensajes de otras fuentes, destacó la periodista venezolana.

Posiblemente para la próxima semana, la página añadirá un nuevo canal denominado “Quién es quién” donde se presentará a los principales protagonistas del conflicto político venezolano, tanto del gobierno como de la oposición y se les relacionará con información complementaria.

Según comentó a Efe Martín Quiroga, también miembro actual del Knight Fellowships y arquitecto de sistemas, otra nueva adición del sitio incluirá la posibilidad de “mantenerse al tanto de una historia”.

Directamente desde el “timeline” de la página, “vamos a añadir una opción para suministrar un correo electrónico o una cuenta de Twitter y recibir la actualización de la historia”, señaló.

 

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Source Article from http://www.rpp.com.pe/2014-04-16-crean-sitio-en-internet-de-noticias-sobre-venezuela-sin-censura-del-gobierno-noticia_685122.html

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Former Uvalde school police chief charged with 10 counts of ‘abandoning and endangering’ Robb Elementary survivors – ABC News
Former Uvalde school police chief charged with 10 counts of ‘abandoning and endangering’ Robb Elementary survivors – ABC News
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Malas noticias con y sin rating Cristian Valencia Columna EL TIEMPO – ElTiempo.com
Malas noticias con y sin rating Cristian Valencia Columna EL TIEMPO – ElTiempo.com

La frontera con Venezuela acapara toda nuestra atención porque así lo han querido los medios más importantes de radio y televisión. Hacen reportajes especiales que provocan la indignación nacional y promueven la solidaridad con los compatriotas que vienen allende la frontera. Pero frente a los cuatro mil niños wayúus muertos de hambre en La Guajira en los últimos 4 años, son incapaces de desplegar el mismo operativo noticioso. Ayer, los medios estaban indignados porque aparentemente la Guardia Nacional de Venezuela había asesinado a dos indígenas wayúus. Es probable que ayer tres niños hayan muerto de inanición. Pero no hubo cadena de radio ni televisión que hiciera un reportaje especial que despertara el fervor y la solidaridad del pueblo colombiano.

Es probable que antier también hayan muerto tres, o cuatro. Seguro habrán muerto niños durante toda la semana pasada. Y mientras usted lee estas pocas palabras, es probable que un niño se esté muriendo de hambre. Y morirán mañana también. Han venido muriendo de hambre sin que nadie lo note. Si no tienen protagonismo en los medios, no lo tienen para la opinión pública ni para el Gobierno.

Me pregunto cuáles son los móviles de los directores de los medios de comunicación para privilegiar ciertas noticias, para privilegiar ciertos damnificados, ciertos malhechores, ciertas víctimas, ciertos victimarios.

Creo que esas predilecciones se deben al rating. Hay malas noticias que son muy buenas para el rating, y malas noticias que no son buenas. Los niños que mueren de hambre en La Guajira o en el Chocó no son malas noticias buenas para el rating. Tampoco son buenas para el rating las noticias que nos dicen en la cara que tenemos 6 millones de desplazados internos por esta guerra interna. Esas noticias no parecen despertar el mismo fervor patriótico de los medios de comunicación. Supongo que ningún colombiano se sentiría orgulloso de esos hechos. Por el contrario, producirían mucha vergüenza personal, social, estatal, mediática. Son noticias mucho más complejas de transmitir, requieren mucho más trabajo para que la opinión pública las asimile y se haga una idea sobre esos problemas que la simpleza maniquea de encontrar un enemigo al dente, que amenaza nuestra colombianidad, a nuestros compatriotas, como sucede ahora con Venezuela y como sucedió antes con Nicaragua.

Muchos de ustedes recordarán alguna conmovedora fotografía de niños muriendo de hambre en Ruanda, Sierra Leona o Sudán. Frente a esa realidad tan triste, apretamos el pecho y lanzamos entre suspiros un “qué vaina con África”. Y ya, quedamos curados porque no podemos hacer nada. África está muy lejos. La Guajira no.

Lejos de querer hacer un ajuste de cuentas con los medios masivos de comunicación, quisiera pedirles que se comprometan con estos niños de La Guajira y el Chocó. Cuatro mil niños muertos de hambre son muchos niños muertos. No podemos seguir haciéndonos los tontos frente a esto. Los medios tienen que meterse con todo su poder para presionar al Estado, para conmover y formar la opinión pública.

¿Qué va a pasar con nosotros como sociedad? ¿Hasta dónde llegará nuestro cinismo? Lloramos los niños muertos de África y deploramos la situación de los inmigrantes ilegales de Europa. Pero aseguramos la puerta con tranca para que no se metan a nuestra zona de confort esos niños muertos de hambre de La Guajira o esos 6 millones de desplazados que nos rondan.

Mientras tanto, en Ciudad Mediática, todo lo malo viene de Venezuela y Maduro es nuestro Guasón.

Cristian Valencia
cristianovalencia@gmail.com

Source Article from http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/columnistas/malas-noticias-con-y-sin-rating-cristian-valencia-columna-el-tiempo/16382744

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Trump administration to allow lawsuits over seizures of US property in Cuba – Fox News
Trump administration to allow lawsuits over seizures of US property in Cuba – Fox News
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Trump administration to tighten rules for baseball players from Cuba

The Trump administration intends to announce Wednesday that it will allow U.S. citizens to sue companies doing business in Cuba, according to a senior administration official.

Marking another break from Trump’s predecessors that threatens to upend relations with allies, the administration plans to enforce a provision of a 1996 law known as Helms-Burton that allows Cubans who fled Fidel Castro’s regime to sue companies that have used their former property on the island.

CUBA CITES LACK OF EVIDENCE IN MYSTERIOUS SONIC ATTACKS ON DIPLOMATS

Every president since Bill Clinton has suspended the section of the act that would allow such lawsuits because they could snarl companies from U.S.-allied countries – like the U.K., France and Spain – in years of complicated litigation that could prompt international trade claims against the United States.

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The senior administration official said going forward, there will be no more waivers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement.

The Trump administration has signaled plans to end the waivers. It’s taking the step in retaliation for Cuba’s support of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the U.S. is trying to oust in favor of opposition leader Juan Guaido.

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White House National Security Adviser John Bolton plans to deliver a speech in Miami — home to thousands of exiles and immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua – criticizing those governments as a “troika of tyranny.”

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The speech at the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association is being delivered on the 58th anniversary of the United States’ failed 1961 invasion of the island, an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.

Fox News’ Kellianne Jones and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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A Medical Examiner Testified That Drugs Were Not The Main Cause Of George Floyd’s Death – BuzzFeed News
A Medical Examiner Testified That Drugs Were Not The Main Cause Of George Floyd’s Death – BuzzFeed News

The county medical examiner who conducted George Floyd’s autopsy testified Friday that the actions of police officers were the main cause of his death, although drugs and underlying heart conditions played a role.

Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker said his opinion on what killed Floyd remained unchanged from what he listed in the death certificate last June.

“That’s cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression. That was my top line then. It would stay my top line now,” Baker said.

Floyd’s use of methamphetamine and fentanyl and his preexisting heart conditions were “not the direct causes of his death,” he said.

His testimony during Derek Chauvin’s murder trial came after prosecutors called several medical experts to support their argument that the former Minneapolis police officer’s actions, including pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck, were fatal.

The presence of methamphetamine and fentanyl in Floyd’s system at the time of his death is central to the defense’s argument that those drugs and underlying heart conditions caused his death. Floyd had 11 nanograms of fentanyl per milliliter and a low level of meth in his system.

While the defense has yet to present its case, Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, has frequently mentioned fentanyl overdose deaths and the effects of methamphetamine on the heart during his cross-examination of the state’s medical experts. Nelson is expected to call his own medical experts to testify.

Baker said Floyd’s enlarged heart already needed more oxygen than normally required due to his “severe underlying heart disease” and a history of hypertension.

Floyd’s interaction with the officers would have caused him to release stress hormones like adrenaline, Baker said, which would cause his heart to beat faster and require more oxygen.

According to Baker, Floyd’s encounter with Chauvin and three other officers “tipped him over the edge” given his heart’s condition.

The prosecution’s medical experts suggested that Floyd’s chronic drug use over the years could have built up his tolerance to higher levels of fentanyl. They also said that the level of meth in his system was too low to be a significant factor in his death.

Bill Smock, a police surgeon who said he frequently deals with fentanyl overdose cases, told the jury Thursday that Floyd showed no signs of suffering from a fentanyl overdose.

“We watch those videos, he’s breathing, he’s talking, he’s not snoring, he’s saying, ‘Please get off me, I can’t breathe.’ That is not a fentanyl overdose, that is someone begging to breathe,” Smock said.

Lindsey Thomas, a forensic pathologist who previously worked at the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office and was involved in training Baker, testified that the “mechanism” of Floyd’s death was asphyxia or low oxygen to the brain.

Martin Tobin, a pulmonary and critical medicine doctor with 45 years of experience, ruled out both drugs and Floyd’s heart conditions as the cause of his death, echoing testimony that Floyd died of asphyxia or low oxygen to the brain.

The medical experts also said asphyxia is not typically listed on autopsies because, as Tobin said, “it doesn’t leave a fingerprint.”

Source Article from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/george-floyd-medical-examiner-cause-of-death

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Byron York: Five things that didn’t happen in the Mueller investigation – Washington Examiner
Byron York: Five things that didn’t happen in the Mueller investigation – Washington Examiner

Robert Mueller has delivered his report on the Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr. Sometime soon, perhaps within hours, Barr will send the report’s “principal conclusions” to Congress. It will first go to the chairperson and ranking member of both the House and Senate Judiciary committees. It is unclear what will happen after that, but certainly other lawmakers will see the document, and there will be a steady stream of leaks of what is in the report.

The Mueller investigation is over, and it is apparently the case that Mueller does not recommend any new indictments.

At this point, it is not possible to say what is in the report. But even at this early moment, it is possible to note some things did not happen during the Mueller investigation.

1. Mueller did not indict Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, or other people whose purported legal jeopardy was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

2. Mueller did not charge anyone in the Trump campaign or circle with conspiring with Russia to fix the 2016 election, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

3. Mueller did not subpoena the president, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

4. The president did not fire Mueller, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

5. The president did not interfere with the Mueller investigation, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year. In his letter to Congress, Barr noted the requirement that he notify lawmakers if top Justice Department officials ever interfered with the Mueller investigation. “There were no such instances,” Barr wrote.

So Mueller is finished. Not long after the news broke, Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts said, “The feeling [at the White House] right now is that this is finally over.” Yes and no. Mueller’s decision to file a report and not to recommend any more indictments does not mean that the broader Trump-Russia investigation is over. Anticipating just this possibility, House Democrats ramped up new Trump-Russia investigations in recent weeks to make sure that it will never be over. There is little doubt that such investigations will still be going, at least until the 2020 elections.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-five-things-that-didnt-happen-in-the-mueller-investigation

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Papua New Guinea landslide: Race to rescue villagers trapped – BBC.com
Papua New Guinea landslide: Race to rescue villagers trapped – BBC.com
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Venezuela Has 20 Tons of Gold Ready to Ship. Address Unknown – Bloomberg
Venezuela Has 20 Tons of Gold Ready to Ship. Address Unknown – Bloomberg

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Governor Cuomo Announces COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted as 70% of Adult New Yorkers Have Received First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine – Governor.NY.gov
Governor Cuomo Announces COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted as 70% of Adult New Yorkers Have Received First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine – Governor.NY.gov

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that COVID-19 restrictions are lifted immediately as 70 percent of New Yorkers aged 18 or older have received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccination series. The State’s health guidance and New York Forward industry specific guidelines—including social gathering limits, capacity restrictions, social distancing, cleaning and disinfection, health screening, and contact information for tracing—are now optional for retail, food services, offices, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and personal care services, among other commercial settings. 


Unvaccinated individuals continue to be responsible for wearing masks, in accordance with federal CDC guidance. Consistent with the State’s implementation of the recent CDC guidance, masks are still required for unvaccinated individuals. Further, the State’s health guidelines continue to be in effect for large-scale indoor event venues, pre-K to grade 12 schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, nursing homes, and health care settings per CDC guidelines.

Source Article from https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-covid-19-restrictions-lifted-70-adult-new-yorkers-have-received-first

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Trump has awarded next year’s G-7 summit of world leaders to his Miami-area resort, the White House said – The Washington Post
Trump has awarded next year’s G-7 summit of world leaders to his Miami-area resort, the White House said – The Washington Post

The G-7 summit rotates among sites chosen by the seven member countries, as well as by the European Union. The last time it took place in the United States, in 2012, President Barack Obama held it at the government-owned retreat at Camp David in Maryland. Before that, President George W. Bush held it at the exclusive, isolated resort of Sea Island, Ga., in 2004.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-has-awarded-next-years-g-7-summit-of-world-leaders-to-his-miami-area-resort-the-white-house-said/2019/10/17/221b32d6-ef52-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

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