Maputo — The European Union election observation mission, which observed the 16 October general elections in Mozambique, has accused the publicly owned television channel TVM, and the pro-government daily “Noticias” of serious bias in their coverage.
The final report from the EU mission carries an analysis of press coverage of the election campaign, concluding that TVM’s reporting on the campaign was “clearly tendentious” in favour of the presidential candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party, Filipe Nyusi. 64 per cent of TVM’s presidential campaign coverage was devoted to Nyusi, 19 per cent to Daviz Simango, candidate of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), and 17 per cent to Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo.
The TVM coverage of the political parties was also unbalanced – 56 per cent of the time went to Frelimo, 22 per cent to Renamo, 17 per cent to the MDM and five per cent to minor parties.
The imbalance was truly startling when it came to TVM panel discussions – overwhelmingly the guests TVM chose to invite were pro-Frelimo, and hostile to both opposition parties. The EU Mission report divided the tone used in these talk shows into positive, negative and neutral. It found that all the mentions of Nyusi were positive, while nothing positive was said about the other two candidates.
80 per cent of the mentions of Dhlakama in these programmes were negative and 20 per cent neutral. For Simango, the TVM panels were unrelentingly hostile, with 100 per cent negative mentions.
As for “Noticias”, the EU report found that 60 per cent of its presidential coverage went to Nyusi, 23 per cent to Dhlakama and 17 per cent to Simango. For the parties, 60 per cent of the coverage went to Frelimo, 14 per cent to the MDM, 12 per cent to Renamo and an astounding 14 per cent to the gaggle of 27 minor parties most of whom ran no campaign at all.
The report found Radio Mozambique and the main independent media group, SOICO, much fairer in their coverage. Thus in the presidential campaign, 39 per cent of the Radio’s coverage went to Nyusi, 33 per cent to Dhlakama and 28 per cent to Simango. But Nyusi was always the first candidate mentioned in the radio newscasts.
The EU mission thought that the radio’s coverage of the parties was also “reasonably balanced” – although Frelimo took 47 per cent of the time, compared with 23 per cent each for Renamo and the MDM and seven per cent for others.
The SOICO television channel, STV, was clearly making a serious attempt at balance.
The Report found that 41 per cent of its presidential campaign coverage went to Nyusi, 32 per cent to Simango and 27 per cent to Dhlakama. As for the parties, STV gave 37 per cent of the time to Frelimo, 33 per cent to Renamo, 28 per cent to the MDM and two per cent to the minor parties.
The coverage by the SOICO daily paper, “O Pais”, came close to equality between the three presidential candidates: Simango received somewhat more coverage than either of his opponents, with 37 per cent, compared to 33 per cent for Nyusi and 30 per cent for Dhlakama.
As for the parties, “O Pais” gave 39 per cent to Renamo, 38 per cent to Frelimo, 16 per cent to the MDM, and seven per cent to the most serious of the minor parties, the PDD (Party for Peace, Democracy and Development).
“The world sees Trump for what he is: insincere, ill-informed, corrupt, dangerously incompetent, and incapable, in my view of world leadership.” Biden’s voice says. “And if we give Donald Trump four more years, we’ll have a great deal of difficulty of ever being able to recover America’s standing in the world, and our capacity to bring nations together.”
After the release of the video of the world leaders, Trump called Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “two-faced,” and abruptly canceled a news conference, though he said it was “because we did so many over the past two days.”
The video, first shared by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, captures snippets of a conversation between Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Britain’s Princess Anne during a reception Tuesday night at Buckingham Palace hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.
“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Trump declared, and audible laughter is heard from the audience afterward.
“Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay,” He responded.
Diego Maradona hizo su jugada. Tras el escándalo que explotó en FIFA por corrupción, el excapitán y exentrenador de la selección argentina, quien participa en la campaña del príncipe Ali Bin Al Hussein, único oponente de Joseph Blatter en las elecciones presidenciales, salió a cuestionar con dureza a aquellas personas involucradas en la denuncia y a la actual dirigencia del organismo.
“Cuando nosotros lleguemos a FIFA, no se van a ir todos. Los buenos vana a quedar. Pero a los malos me voy a encargar personalmente de pegarles una patada en el culo”, dijo Maradona en diálogo con Radio La Red.
“Hoy se dijo la verdad. La FIFA tiene reservas por 1.5 billones de dólares. Hoy ganó el fútbol, basta de mentirle a la gente y de hacer un show para reelegir a Blatter”, apuntó Maradona.
“A mí me trataban de loco pero yo no tiro tiros al aire. Una vez le pedí a (Julio Humberto) Grondona que no sigan ‘choreando’ “, recordó.
“Estos son los mismos que me cortaron las piernas en el 1994, no cambió nada. Hay que ver si gana Blatter después de esto y tiene que ir a declarar a Estados Unidos donde lo persiguen hace tiempo”, sostuvo.
En caso de una victoria del príncipe jordano, advirtió que “no voy a festejar algo que todavía no se concretó. Los buenos se van a quedar y de los malos me voy a encargar personalmente de sacarlos a patadas”.
One of the most controversial parts of the near-total abortion ban passed by the Alabama legislature on Tuesday was the lack of exceptions for rape or incest, a common carveout in even the strictest anti-abortion legislation.
At one point during Tuesday’s contentious, hours-long debate over the bill, Alabama Sen. Bobby Singleton, a Democrat, pointed out that under the new bill, an abortion provider could spend more time in prison than a rapist.
Sponsors of the bill, which now awaits Republican Gov. Kay Ivey’s signature, say the lack of exceptions is necessary to get the ban in front of the Supreme Court, where it could result in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But rape and incest exceptionsare politically popular — 77 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal in the first trimester in these cases, according to a 2018 Gallup poll.
Now even some abortion opponents are saying the Alabama bill, which is likely to be challenged in court if it becomes law, goes too far. And some say the way the bill was crafted could actually hurt its chances with the Supreme Court.
Historically, abortion opponents have made the case that the Supreme Court “should overrule Roe because it’s the right thing to do,” Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University who studies the history of the abortion debate, told Vox.
The sponsors of the Alabama bill, however, are essentially saying “we want to just present a bill that overrules Roe, and we’re not going to do as much to make the case that you should.” That tactic could backfire with the Court, Ziegler said.
Since the election of President Donald Trump, abortion opponents have been pushing stricter and stricter bills at the state level, hoping to capitalize on a friendly administration and possibly mount a challenge to Roe. But the Alabama bill could test the limits of that strategy.
Most Americans support rape and incest exceptions
Exceptions for rape and incest date back to the years before Roe, when states began liberalizing their abortion bans to allow the procedure in certain cases, Ziegler said. In the mid-’60s, states like Colorado began legalizing abortion in cases of rape and incest.
After Roe was decided in 1973, states had to allow abortion before viability, regardless of how a pregnancy began. But the rape and incest exceptions resurged in 1976 with debate around the Hyde Amendment, which banned federal funding for abortions. Some anti-abortion activists objected to the inclusion of rape and incest exceptions in Hyde, Ziegler said, but ultimately, they were overruled.
Since then, some abortion opponents have argued against the exceptions, saying it shouldn’t matter how a fetus is conceived.
“Rape and incest are both acts of violence, and we would argue that abortion is also an act of violence,” Jamieson Gordon, director of communications and marketing for the group Ohio Right to Life, told Vox. “Rape will not be solved by an abortion.”
With notable exceptions like Akin, though, abortion opponents have generally seen the exceptions as politically untouchable, Ziegler said, largely because they’re so popular with voters — even those who oppose abortion under other circumstances.
But the Alabama ban nonetheless does not include these carveouts, though it does allow abortion if a pregnant person’s life is at risk.One Alabama resident told the Washington Post earlier this month that the lack of exceptions was a sticking point for her: “I’m a Christian. One hundred percent pro-life. But I don’t think I want that in the law.”
Some abortion opponents are worried the Alabama bill is too extreme
Some national anti-abortion groups have spoken out in favor of the Alabama bill. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, called the bill’s passage “a landmark victory for the people of Alabama” in a statement on Wednesday.
But others on the anti-abortion side say the bill is too extreme — and some worry that might hurt its chances at the Supreme Court.
“I don’t even think this bill, if it’s signed into law, makes it to the Supreme Court,” writes Joe Cunningham at the conservative website RedState. “I think it will get struck down in circuit court and the Supreme Court just won’t take it up. It’s not the fight they want to have because it’s so farcical.”
Cunningham may be right to worry. By crafting their bill explicitly to challenge Roe v. Wade — and being public about that fact — the Alabama bill’s sponsors may actually have hurt their chances, Ziegler said.
Alabama Rep. Terri Collins, the Republican who introduced the bill in the Alabama House of Representatives, has said she has empathy for survivors of rape and incest and supports states being able to carve out exceptions for those cases.
“But what I’m trying to do here is get this case in front of the Supreme Court so Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” Collins told the Washington Post.
But saying that you want to get a case before the Supreme Court is not necessarily the best way to get a case before the Supreme Court.
For decades, abortion opponents have “tried to make the case that Roe is incoherent or that Roe is unworkable or that abortion hurts women,” Ziegler said. But the sponsors of the Alabama bill are just saying they want Roe overturned, and they may not have offered the Court a compelling reason to do so.
If the Supreme Court wants to revisit Roe, it has a lot of choices — more than a dozen cases are currently one step away from the Court. And the justices may prefer to take up a law whose backers have made an argument on the merits, rather than one aimed simply at undermining Roe.
“It’s not a great strategy to say that you’re being strategic,” Ziegler said.
More broadly, it’s not at all clear that writing the most restrictive law possible is the best way to get the Supreme Court’s attention. Many sponsors of “heartbeat” bills around the country, which ban abortion as early as six weeks, have also said their goal is to challenge Roe v. Wade.
But Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel for the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, wrote at the National Review earlier this month that the Court may want to avoid the appearance of ruling for or against abortion, and that if it does decide to revisit Roe, it may do so in a case involving a law with more public support. As an example, Forsythe mentions laws requiring patients to view an ultrasound before having an abortion, on which public opinion has been about evenly split.
Of course, as Forsythe notes, if the Court chooses to weigh in on a more incremental law, it could still overturn the protections for abortion rights enshrined in Roe. Then states like Alabama would be free to ban abortion if they chose.
With the current composition of the Court, Roe is still at risk. It just might not be the Alabama bill that topples it.
Insight and analysis from the ‘Special Report’ All-Stars: Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume, Mo Elleithee, executive director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics, Kimberley Strassel, member of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal, and Tom Bevan, Real Clear Politics co-founder and president.
While it’s described as the most progressive platform in the Democratic Party’s history and pushes the party to left on many issues including health care reform, combating climate change, trade deals, and fighting racial injustice, the 92-page document doesn’t specifically endorse Medicare-for-all or the Green New Deal, two of the top proposals pushed by the party’s progressive wing.
And while the platform calls for major police reforms and for removing Confederate symbols from public spaces – in reaction to the mass protests over police brutality against minorities and systemic racism sparked by the death in May of Black man George Floyd while in police custody – it doesn’t call for the defunding of the police. There’s also no language in the document to ban fracking for oil, abolishing ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), free college tuition for all students, or support for the nationwide legalization of marijuana.
The 2020 platform had its genesis in the six policy task forces set up this spring by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who was Biden’s last remaining Democratic nomination rival before suspending his campaign and endorsing the former vice president in April.
While Sanders has said would support the final platform document, hundreds of his convention delegates decided to vote against the platform as part of a symbolic protest.
Two of them included high profile members of Congress.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, a member of the quartet of first-term progressive congresswomen of color known as The Squad, touted on Saturday that she voted against the party platform, tweeting that “as a party, we must push for a future where every resident has the ability to thrive. That means we need a platform that works to rid our society of oppression and greed. Unfortunately, in my view this platform does not do enough.”
And progressive Rep. Ro Khanna of California also voted against the platform.
“The premise of our nation is every person has dignity,” Khanna told Fox News on Tuesday. “Our health care should not depend on what job you have or whether you are employed. During this pandemic, we need to commit to extending Medicare to every American. This has been part of our platform since 1980 and should be part of it again.”
Democratic Party officials didn’t release the delegate vote totals on the platform – and would only confirm to Fox News that the document was adopted.
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The rules barred entry to most non-US citizens who had been in the UK and a number of other European countries, as well as China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil.
But senior commanders decided to depart unannounced roughly 24 hours earlier, partly because of stormy weather forecast for Tuesday but also to build in a cushion in case of any snags, military officials said, including further attacks by ISIS-K.
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Who are the Taliban leaders? These are the top leaders of the Taliban, men who have spent years on the run, in hiding, in jail and dodging American drones. Little is known about them or how they plan to govern, including whether they will be as tolerant as they claim to be.
In the final hours of the evacuation, American surveillance and attack aircraft locked down the skies over Kabul, circling high overhead until the last transport plane was aloft.
“Job well done,” said Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne, who was on the last plane out. “Proud of you all.”
A military official said that every American who wanted to leave and could get to the airport was taken out. But a number of Americans, thought to be fewer than 300, remain, either by choice or because they were unable to reach the airport.
But the evacuation did not reach all those Afghans who had assisted the United States over the years, and who now face possible Taliban retribution. An unknown number of those who made it through the tortuous process for special visas granted to American collaborators never even made it to the airport, much less onto an evacuation flight.
“Because I worked with the Americans, I won’t be able to put food on my table, and I won’t be able to live in Afghanistan,” said one special visa holder, Hamayoon, in an interview on Monday from Kabul. “I risked my life for many years, working for the Americans, and now my life is at even greater risk.”
95-year-old Francis Goldin, left, poses with her daughter Reeni Goldin, middle. Emanuella Grinberg
Frances Goldin is 95 years old, and for the last 35 years, she’s been bringing the same sign to New York Pride.
“I Adore my Lesbian Daughters KEEP THEM SAFE,” the sign reads.
Goldin is a longtime housing activist after whom an affordable housing development for seniors in New York is named. Today, she’s here with her daughter, Reeni Goldin, and Reeni’s wife, Marge Burns.
“It’s been 50 years (since Stonewall) and in this climate of hate we need to have a force of solidarity,” Reeni Goldin says.
“And happiness,” her wife adds. “Happiness that we can be here.”
An air quality alert was issued Monday for much of Massachusetts because of smoke at the ground level from wildfires raging on the western side of the continent.
The alert, which was issued by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, is in effect through midnight. It means that the concentration of fine particulates in the air may approach or exceed healthy standards.
“It’s still projected to be quite thick here in central and eastern Massachusetts through this evening,” said StormTeam 5 chief meteorologist Harvey Leonard. “Then this particular plume, the heaviest part of it, will get carried off the coast. But, look, there’s likely to be more plumes giving us hazy skies again (Tuesday.)”
A haze set in over Boston during the early afternoon, blurring the view of the city’s tallest buildings and turning the sky to grey.
Several Massachusetts fire departments said they were receiving numerous calls reporting the smell of smoke or haze in the air.
“This (is) due to the Jet stream capturing smoke from the Western and Canadian Wildfires and bringing it over our region,” the Greenfield Fire Department said. “You may continue to smell smoke in the region for some time.”
Difícilmente, los medios de comunicación privados del mundo capitalista, al igual que los gobiernos que conforman el viejo mundo unipolar, bajo los designios de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica (EEUU), hayan transmitido y comentado noticias positivas o agradables en relación con la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, en los últimos diecisiete años, porque de hacerlo, sus gobiernos, como los de la película “Los juegos del hambre”, serían puestos en tela de juicio o cuestionamiento, por sus ciudadanos y sus medios dejarían de ser la palangre que los caracteriza al servicio del dios dinero, porque la noticia para ellos es uno de los negocios más lucrativos, por la virtualización de la realidad y el efecto que logran en las masas.
Por otras voces, otros medios y por otras vías, es posible saber que en esta tierra de gracia no todo es petróleo, mujeres bellas desde que nacen y tetas operadas, aunque esto no nos avergüence, sino, todo lo contrario, nos enorgullece.
También, somos un pueblo que gracias a la revolución bolivariana, socialista y chavista, liderada por en Comandante Hugo Chávez y continuada por Nicolás Maduro y la mayoría del pueblo venezolano: poseemos los más bajos índices de analfabetismo; contamos con uno de los mayores índices de estudiantes universitarios, per cápita, del mundo y de manera gratuita: nuestros adultos mayores y personas de la tercera edad reciben pensión homologada con el sueldo básico; contamos con uno de los sistemas integrales de salud, con centros de diagnóstico integrales, médicos integrales, hospitales gratuitos y el Estado costea los sistemas se hospitalización cirugía y hospitalización para absolutamente todos los empleados públicos, aunque entre las clínicas privadas y las empresas de seguros estén robando al Estado, en cada siniestro o atención médica, razón por la cual los médicos cirujanos trafiquen con la salud, con fines de lucro; contamos con la atención integral de atletas; subsidios al la alimentación; se ha masificado el sistema de camainas para los universitarios, canaimitas en los niños de primaria, para brindar la soberanía tecnológica e interconexión desde el Internet; subsidios y repotenciación de todo el sistema de transporte público y privado; más de millón y medio de viviendas las que más que dignas, son confortables, construidas y entregadas a las familias más pobres y para las parejas más jóvenes, con la meta de acabar con los cordones se miseria que los gobiernos neoliberales de la IV República condenaron a los más inermes; uno de lo mejores destinos turísticos del mundo, no sólo por sus paisajes y climas diversos, sino también por las redes hoteleras y turísticas, en las que mencionar, por ejemplo, el teleférico más alto y más largo del mundo en Mérida y con precios solidarios para que el pueblo y los más pobres lo disfruten, nos hace sentir orgullosos, al igual que los hoteles VENETUR, que ofrecen la posibilidad de que una familia de padres obreros puedan llevar a sus hijos a la isla Margarita y hospedarse en lo que otrora era el Hotel Hilton, que anteriormente alojaba a la burguesía, narcotraficantes, proxenetas y putas caras; subsidios directos e indirectos a la producción agrícola y pecuaria, a los alimentos y productos, aunque los corruptos, ladrones y pseudoempresarios se hayan encargado de robar todo cuanto han podido, para ir a parar a paraísos de corruptos, entre los que destacan EEUU, Panamá, Colombia y España.
Y, no podemos dejar de señalar que el gobierno revolucionario ha sido el gran garante en el cumplimiento de los pagos y compromisos económicos con organismos internacionales, en una paz y respeto de los Derechos Humanos, que con Chávez y con Maduro, el gobierno revolucionario ha sido un celoso garante de la vida y la paz, como nunca antes lo vivimos en Venezuela.
Pero, nada de los bueno de la tierra venezolana y su pueblo han sido suficiente, para que desde los últimos tres gobiernos estadounidenses hayan promovido y practicado todo tipo de boicot, crímenes y atentados, en los que la guerra económica y el cerco contra Venezuela, han sido el arma más efectiva con la que han contado, aunque, pesar de ello, no han logrado salir de Nicolás Maduro y liquidar el chavismo, para ellos volver a restaurar la IV República al servicio de los más asqueantes intereses imperiales.
Ahora bien, el gobierno estadounidense y sus lacayos de la Unión Europea y de América Latina y el Caribe, no son más, ni numéricamente, ni económicamente, ni energéticamente y, menos aún, ética y moralmente, que los países del mundo libertario, multicéntrico y pluripolar.
Por otra parte, los organismo internacionales del viejo orden unipolar que controla el imperio rapaz, con la diplomacia de la hipocresía y las poses, no poseen la fuerza y el ímpetu libertario de los países del BRICS, las naciones emancipados del mundo árabe, los gobiernos progresistas y revolucionarios de África, los miembros de la ALBA-TCP, la UNASUR, la CELAC, PETROCARIBE y, aunque ahora algunos no les guste La presencia de Venezuela en el MERCOSUR.
A pesar de tanta unión de nuestros países libérrimos, emancipados, socialistas, revolucionarios, progresistas y erróneamente, algunos llamados “humanistas, el pueblo venezolano es víctima de un bloqueo económico no declarado abiertamente, en donde la solidaridad efectiva y concreta pareciera que en ciertos casos está de viaje. Los venezolanos no estamos pidiendo que nos den, como tampoco necesitamos “ayuda humanitaria”, pues prostituiría la razón de fondo y le haría el mandado a la macabra mentira imperial, sino que hemos estado buscando que nos vendan e intercambiemos, alimentos, productos y materias primas, en lapsos perentorios, ll que en unos casos, de algunos gobiernos, tal vez, chantajeados o porque son serviles imperiales, se han hecho sentir con escandalosa frialdad.
Aún así, el gobierno que preside Nicolás Maduro y el pueblo que es la víctima directa del desabastecimiento programado, resistiremos el cerco económico que dirige el gobierno que preside Barack Husseín Obama y sus aliados externos, junto con empresas parasitarias, como Polar y el resto de complotados de Fedecámaras-Venamcham, para agudizar el boicot económico.
Igualmente, tanto el gobierno revolucionario, como el pueblo chavista, resistiremos el cerco y boicot económico, inspirados en el legado del Comandante Chávez y con la misma fortaleza con la que en el 2002 se enfrentó el boicot energético con el paro petrolero, el cierre de comercios y servicios, además del golpe de Estado, al igual que nos sentimos inspirados en la dignidad de la Cuba libertaria que resistió el bloqueo imperial y de sus lacayos, por más de cincuenta años, incluso, cuando gobiernos de países hermanos evitaban, hasta saludar al Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz.
Venezuela seguirá apostando por el nuevo mundo multicéntrico y pluripolar y pondrá todo su esfuerzo en fortalecer nuestras instituciones regionales, como las más nuestras y llevando el mensaje de unidad, amor y paz, a donde podamos llegar, como el Libertador que “en el fango plantó una flor”.
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Al-Kuwari (L) participated at the Brazilian artist?s exhibit opening
São Paulo – Seven years ago, Marilza Ramos, artist from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, participated for the first time at Index, a furniture and decoration trade show in Dubai. She sold 38 pictures. Since then, trade shows have been her greatest showcase in the Arab world, but now, after her recent exhibit in Doha, Qatar, she has greater plans for the Middle East.
In 2011, during the Big 5 construction trade show, also in Dubai, Ramos met the businessman Mohamed Salem, from Doha. According to her, Salem works in many sectors and decided to invest also in the decoration segment. The artist’s picture exhibit at the Katara Gallery, in the Qatari capital city, in November last year, entirely organized by the entrepreneur, was their first joint project. The event was opened by the country’s minister of Culture, Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari.
“He is opening a gallery in Doha where I shall show my work. There shall be about 50 to 80 pieces in permanent exhibition and which may be sold,” reveals Ramos. The Brazilian artist also says Salem has a construction project for a great hotel in Qatar, which shall be in part decorated by her.
The pictures and panels by the artist have a wooden base and are decorated with elements such as crystals, aluminum, glass and mirrors. In 2007, when she exhibited at Index, through her company MZ Artes, Ramos noticed her art was very well accepted by buyers in the region. “I saw that my work had a lot to do with the Arab culture,” she says.
Seen that the Arabs appreciate her work, the artist is already exploiting further opportunities in the region. “We are also planning on opening a studio in Doha and a showroom in Dubai,” she says. Ramos is to set dates for opening the studio, showroom and gallery in May, when she will be participating at Index once again.
As well as these projects, Ramos says she will also decorate a luxury home in the Jumeirah residential complex in Dubai, and a palace in Saudi Arabia. Currently, her pictures are being sold to twelve countries, among them, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Porto Rico, Canada, United States and Spain.
Hoy, 14 de marzo cumple seis años la guerra de Siria, uno de los conflictos más grandes y preocupantes del mundo que alteran la paz, principalmente en medio oriente y sus alrededores. También, sabrás de las próximas elecciones en Francia y Holanda, incluso te enterarás del descubrimiento de una fosa clandestina, considerada la más grande de México hasta entonces.
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NEW: THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: MONDAY: President Donald Trump is having lunch with Vice President Mike Pence. TUESDAY: Trump is having lunch with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. WEDNESDAY: The president will participate in an “Opportunity Zones” event. THURSDAY: Trump will meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and have a discussion with governors-elect.
SUNDAY BEST … MUELLER FALLOUT EDITION: JAKE TAPPER spoke with REP. JERRY NADLER (D-N.Y.) on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION”: TAPPER: “If it is proven that the president directed or coordinated with [Michael] Cohen to commit these felonies, if it’s proven — and I understand it has not yet been — it’s been alleged by the prosecutors, but has not been proven. If it’s proven, is — are those impeachable offenses?”
NADLER: “Well, they would be impeachable offenses. Whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question. But, certainly, they would be impeachable offenses, because, even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office. That would be the — that would be an impeachable offense.”
— TAPPER also spoke with SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FLA.): TAPPER: “If it is proven that the president directed an aide to commit felonies to influence the election, what should the repercussions be?” RUBIO: “Well, again, we’re speculating, right, because we don’t know what additional information the Justice Department have. … If someone has violated the law, the — the application of the law should be applied to them, like it would to any other citizen in this country. And, obviously, if you’re in a position of great authority, like the presidency, that would be the case.”
— RUBIO on “FACE THE NATION” with MARGARET BRENNAN: “There’s no reason to not stand by anybody in this moment. There are pleadings there are cases there are evidence, we’re gonna wait for all of it to be out there. And I would caution everyone to wait for all of it to be out there until you make judgment.”
— CHUCK TODD talked with SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY.) on NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS”: TODD: “Why do you think that the story keeps changing in and around the president. If all of these things are as innocent as you’ve said, why does he keep changing his story?” PAUL: “I think we’re trying to make and find a crime. This has been my overall complaint about the process — about having these special prosecutors: is that really, they find a person and they look for a crime. Traditional justice in our country is, someone steals something from the grocery store and you have a crime, you try to find out who did it.
“With a special prosecutor you decide, we’re going after someone, the president, and we’re going to squeeze as many people as we can until we can try to get a person. And that’s why I’m against these special prosecutors. I think they’re a huge mistake. I think they’re a huge abuse of government power.”
— MARTHA RADDATZ spoke with CHRIS CHRISTIE on ABC NEWS’ “THIS WEEK”: RADDATZ: “And Gov. Christie, if you were still a U.S. attorney, would you indict the president?” CHRISTIE: “Well, first off, there’s Justice Department policy which says that you can’t indict a president. So my guess is that I wouldn’t and that I’d follow Justice Department policy. …
“I thought the Michael Cohen situation was much more perilous for the White House then was Bob Mueller. There’s no Russian collusion, there’s been no proof of Russian collusion. And I don’t think there’s going to be. It doesn’t appear to me there will be. This is the stuff that’s much more — should be much more concerning to the White House legal team. And that language is very, very strong and very definitive, so the prosecutors better have corroboration, because if they don’t and they just go by Michael Cohen that’s a problem, but if they do have corroboration that could be a problem for the White House.”
Good Sunday morning. WHAT’S ON THE PRESIDENT’S MIND — @realDonaldTrump at 8:38 a.m.: “On 245 occasions, former FBI Director James Comey told House investigators he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans (not 2) — didn’t know who signed off and didn’t know Christopher Steele. All lies!”
… at 8:53 a.m.: “Leakin’ James Comey must have set a record for who lied the most to Congress in one day. His Friday testimony was so untruthful! This whole deal is a Rigged Fraud headed up by dishonest people who would do anything so that I could not become President. They are now exposed!”
SPOTTED at the Army-Navy game on Saturday in Philly (Army won 17-10): President Donald Trump (who visited the group for an hour), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, HR and Katie McMaster, Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), David Solomon, Dave Urban and Kellie Mooney, David McCormick and Dina Powell, Ambassador Jeanne Phillips, Josh Raffel, Virginia Boney, Dan Scavino, Jordan Karem, Tony Sayegh, Vinnie Viola, Ralph Reed, Tommy Hicks, Manus Cooney and Luis Alberto Moreno.
FROM 30,000 FEET — WAPO’S BOB COSTA and PHIL RUCKER: “‘Siege warfare’: Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils”: “A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump’s presidency — and threatens to consume the rest of the party, as well.
“President Trump added to the tumult Saturday by announcing the abrupt exit of his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, whom he sees as lacking the political judgment and finesse to steer the White House through the treacherous months to come.
“Trump remains headstrong in his belief that he can outsmart adversaries and weather any threats, according to advisers. In the Russia probe, he continues to roar denials, dubiously proclaiming that the latest allegations of wrongdoing by his former associates ‘totally clear’ him. But anxiety is spiking among Republican allies, who complain that Trump and the White House have no real plan for dealing with the Russia crisis while confronting a host of other troubles at home and abroad.” WaPo
— NYT’S PETER BAKER and NICK FANDOS: “Prosecutors’ Narrative Is Clear: Trump Defrauded Voters. But What Does It Mean?”: “The latest revelations by prosecutors investigating President Trump and his team draw a portrait of a candidate who personally directed an illegal scheme to manipulate the 2016 election and whose advisers had more contact with Russia than Mr. Trump has ever acknowledged. In the narrative that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and New York prosecutors are building, Mr. Trump continued to secretly seek to do business in Russia deep into his presidential campaign even as Russian agents made more efforts to influence him.
“At the same time, in this account he ordered hush payments to two women to suppress stories of impropriety in violation of campaign finance law. The prosecutors made clear in a sentencing memo filed on Friday that they viewed efforts by Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to squelch the stories as nothing less than a perversion of a democratic election — and by extension they effectively accused the president of defrauding voters, questioning the legitimacy of his victory.” NYT
MORE SUNDAY BEST — FOX NEWS SUNDAY: “Kudlow: U.S.-China trade talks ‘on track’,” by Martin Matishak: “White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday insisted that U.S.-China trade talks are moving in a ‘positive’ direction, despite mixed signals from top Trump administration officials and the arrest of the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei.
“‘We are on track,’ Kudlow said on ‘Fox News Sunday’ when asked about the stock market’s 1,100 point drop over the course of last week, pointing to ‘promising’ statements from Beijing’s commerce department and government agencies. … ‘I don’t think there’s much daylight between Peter and I,’ according to Kudlow. ‘I really think that’s an exaggerated point.’
“He also said that President Donald Trump ‘did not know’ of the plan to arrest Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada when hammering out trade details with his Chinese counterpart at the G-20 summit last week. ‘He learned way later,’ Kudlow said. ‘And he had no reaction afterward.’” POLITICO
2020 WATCH — ELIANA JOHNSON, “Kelly exit helps position Trump for 2020”: “Brian Jack, the deputy White House political director, is expected to replace [Bill] Stepien as White House political director. White House aides predicted that [Nick] Ayers, if tapped despite internal opposition to his selection, would focus the West Wing almost entirely on the president’s reelection effort. ‘You’re going to have a White House that’s all politics all the time,’ said a former White House official, who predicted a transformation of the West Wing into a ‘quasi-campaign operation.’ …
“Among other things, Kelly knocked Kushner for trying to play a sort of ‘boy secretary of state,’ according to a former White House official, and looked down on the first daughter for what he perceived were efforts to burnish her image at the expense of the White House, according to a former White House official.” POLITICO
— NYT’S ANNIE KARNI and MAGGIE HABERMAN: “Mr. Trump has settled on Nick Ayers, a youthful but experienced political operative who serves as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, as his top choice to replace Mr. Kelly … But Mr. Ayers, 36, who has young children and wants to return home to Georgia with his family, has so far agreed to serve only on an interim basis through the spring. Mr. Trump, who does not want more turnover, is pressing Mr. Ayers to agree to a more permanent stay …
“If the president ultimately turns to another candidate, potential choices include the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin; his budget director, Mick Mulvaney; and the United States trade representative, Robert Lighthizer. … In the residence on Friday night, the president and Mr. Kelly agreed that the departing chief would break his own news on Monday, announcing his exit to senior White House staff members. But Mr. Trump ultimately broke the news himself on Saturday afternoon.” NYT
WSJ: “Details Emerge in U.S.’s Trade Truce With China,” by Lingling Wei in Beijing and Bob Davis: “A week after President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping struck a trade truce in Buenos Aires, details of the ceasefire are becoming clear—big Chinese purchases, tough negotiations and shifting deadlines to finish a deal.
“Interviews with officials in both countries, briefed on the Trump-Xi talks, give a fuller picture of the agreement the two men reached. The two sides agreed on a negotiating period of about 90 days, during which the U.S. won’t raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25%, as it had planned to do on Jan. 1.
“Beijing and Washington also agreed that China will purchase large amounts of goods and services, with China pledging to announce soybean and natural-gas purchases in the coming weeks, said officials in both nations. Beijing is also considering reducing tariffs on U.S. automobiles.” WSJ
SCOOP — “Trump first wanted his attorney general pick William Barr for another job: Defense lawyer,” by Yahoo’s Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman: “In late spring 2017, President Trump was having a hard time finding a topflight lawyer to spearhead his defense in the sprawling Russian investigation conducted by the new special counsel Robert Mueller. Some of the most prominent litigators in Washington had turned aside overtures to represent the president in the case, expressing concerns that he would not listen to their advice anyway. Around that time, sources tell Yahoo News, White House officials reached out to a man they thought would be an ideal candidate: William P. Barr, the attorney general under President George H.W. Bush.
“An outspoken conservative, Barr had gotten on Trump’s radar screen that spring after he had written a newspaper op-ed vigorously defending the president’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. At one point, Barr was ushered into a brief White House meeting with Trump, who asked him if he was interested in the job, according to a source who was present for the meeting. Barr demurred. He had other obligations, he said. He would have to think about it.” Yahoo
2020 WATCH – “Beto O’Rourke Emerges as the Wild Card of the 2020 Campaign-in-Waiting,” by NYT’s Matt Flegenheimer and Jonathan Martin: “Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas has emerged as the wild card of the presidential campaign-in-waiting for a Democratic Party that lacks a clear 2020 front-runner.
“After a star-making turn in his close race against Senator Ted Cruz, Mr. O’Rourke is increasingly serious about a 2020 run — a development that is rousing activists in early-voting states, leading veterans of former President Barack Obama’s political operation (and Mr. Obama himself) to offer their counsel and hampering would-be rivals who are scrambling to lock down influential supporters and strategists as future campaign staff.” NYT
SNL LAST NIGHT – “Trump Brothers Bedtime Cold Open”: “Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day) puts Eric Trump (Alex Moffat) to bed when an unexpected visitor, Robert Mueller (Robert De Niro), stops by to chat.” 5-min. video
PLAYBOOK READS
DOWN IN NORTH CAROLINA … — “North Carolina’s ‘Guru of Elections’: Can-Do Operator Who May Have Done Too Much,” by NYT’s Richard Fausset, Alan Blinder, Sydney Ember and Timothy Williams in Bladenboro, N.C. and Serge F. Kovaleski in N.Y.: “In this rural region near the state’s southern border, where candidates are often intimately known as neighbors, friends or enemies, [L. McRae] Dowless ran a do-it-all vote facilitating business that was part of the community fabric. … Dozens of interviews and an examination of thousands of pages of documents portray Dowless, a former car salesman, as a local political opportunist who was quick to seek ballots, collect them or offer rides to the polls.
“He employed a network of part-time helpers, some of them his own relatives, who, lured by promises of swift cash payments, would fan out across southeastern North Carolina in get-out-the-vote efforts for whichever candidate happened to be footing that year’s bill.” NYT
DAVID SIDERS in Manhattan Beach, Calif.: “Progressives rail against bandwagon Democrats”: “Progressive Democrats are beginning to confront an unintended consequence of their own success: Dilution of the brand.
“So many Democratic presidential prospects are now claiming the progressive mantle in advance of the 2020 primaries that liberal leaders are trying to institute a measure of ideological quality control, designed to ensure the party ends up with a nominee who meets their exacting standards.
“Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are discussing policy platforms that could serve as a litmus test for presidential contenders. Progressive donors, meanwhile, are plotting steps — ranging from closer engagement with campaigns to ultimatums tied to fundraising — to ensure that Medicare for All, debt-free college and a non-militaristic foreign policy, among other causes, remain at the center of the upcoming campaign. In an effort to winnow the burgeoning field, progressive advocacy groups are beginning to poll supporters in the hopes of elevating candidates who gain the imprimatur of the left.” POLITICO
GREAT READ — “The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House,” by NYT’s David D. Kirkpatrick, Ben Hubbard, Mark Landler and Mark Mazzetti: “Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son of Saudi Arabia’s king.Given Mr. Kushner’s political inexperience, the private exchanges could make him susceptible to Saudi manipulation, said three former senior American officials.
“In an effort to tighten practices at the White House, a new chief of staff tried to reimpose long-standing procedures stipulating that National Security Council staff members should participate in all calls with foreign leaders. But even with the restrictions in place, Mr. Kushner, 37, and Prince Mohammed, 33, kept chatting, according to three former White House officials and two others briefed by the Saudi royal court.
“In fact, they said, the two men were on a first-name basis, calling each other Jared and Mohammed in text messages and phone calls. The exchanges continued even after the Oct. 2 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was ambushed and dismembered by Saudi agents, according to two former senior American officials and the two people briefed by the Saudis.” NYT
FOR YOUR RADAR — “Millions Of Comments About The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Were Fake. Now The Feds Are Investigating,” by BuzzFeed’s Kevin Collier and Jeremy Singer-Vine: “The Justice Department is investigating whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people’s identities were posted to the FCC’s website without their permission, falsely attributing to them opinions about net neutrality rules, BuzzFeed News has learned. Two organizations told BuzzFeed News, each on condition that they not be named, that the FBI delivered subpoenas to them related to the comments.” BuzzFeed
BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
— “‘Everyone’s for Sale’: A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter,” by Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo: “Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems.” VF
— “Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and NRA,” by Mike Spies in The Trace and Mother Jones: “Trump and the gun group used the same consultants to spearhead their TV ad blitzes at the height of the 2016 election, likely in violation of federal law.” The Trace
— “On to Mars,” by Charles Krauthammer in the Weekly Standard in Jan. 2000: “It took 100,000 years for humans to get inches off the ground. Then, astonishingly, it took only 66 to get from Kitty Hawk to the moon. And then, still more astonishingly, we lost interest, spending the remaining 30 years of the 20th century going around in circles in low earth orbit, i.e., going nowhere.” TWS
— “Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t,” by Zoë Heller in the New Yorker: “Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?” New Yorker
— “How a Real-Estate Scuffle Turned into a True Tale of Miami Vice,” by Mark Seal in Vanity Fair’s Holiday issue: “They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.” VF
— “Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche,” by Laurie Penny in Breaker Mag: “There are people of all genders and political persuasions looking to walk the plank of the good ship Reality before they’re pushed, but I’ve never met so many so transparently trying to con as many fellow travelers on their way down.” Breaker Mag (h/t Longform.org)
— “The Empress of Facebook: My Befuddling Dinner with Sheryl Sandberg,” by Virginia Heffernan in Wired: “In person Sandberg is dazzling. She looks like the actor Carla Gugino—old-fashioned, with rosy lineless skin and 91 percent cacao-content hair. … I don’t think I’ve ever met a better host. At a table of decidedly anti-corporate women, Sandberg engaged, and seemed to win over, everyone.” Wired
— “The Friendship That Made Google Huge,” by James Somers in the New Yorker: “Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.” New Yorker
— “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom,” by Anand Gopal in the New Yorker: “Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?” New Yorker
— “Why We Miss the WASPs,” by NYT’s Ross Douthat: “Their more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.” NYT … “The Death of the WASP,” by Ben Schreckinger in POLITICO Magazine in April 2014
— “Special Report: How Iran spreads disinformation around the world,” by Reuters’ Jack Stubbs and Christopher Bing: “A Tehran-based agency has quietly fed propaganda through at least 70 websites to countries from Afghanistan to Russia. And American firms have helped.” Reuters
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) hanging out in the cafe car of the 3 p.m. Acela from NY Penn Station to DC.
SPOTTED at a holiday party last night held by David Frum and Danielle Crittenden: Susan Rice and Ian Cameron, Al Franken, Marty Baron, Elizabeth Drew, Susan Eisenhower, Charles Lane, Andrew Sullivan, Kevin Chaffee, Jeff Goldberg, Francesca Chambers, Mona Charan, Juleanna Glover and Christopher Reiter, Katherine Bradley, David Corn, Jamie Kirchick, Ken Weinstein, Amy Nathan and British Ambassador Kim and Lady Darroch.
WEEKEND WEDDINGS — Ryan Jackson, chief of staff at the EPA and a Jim Inhofe and EPW alum, married Ashley Winfree, who works in banking, in a ceremony at the White-Meyer House with a reception at the Meridian House. EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler attended and made remarks. Pic
– “Hannah Levinson, Jonathan Cross” – N.Y. Times: “Mrs. Cross, 30, is a health care law associate in the Washington office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a law firm. … Mr. Cross, 31, is a managing director of the Quincy Group, a government relations and strategic advisory firm in Washington that focuses on the Middle East.” With a pic.NYT
— “Nora Kelly, Douglas Lee” – N.Y. Times: “Ms. Kelly, 29, is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic in Washington. … Mr. Lee, also 29, works in Washington as the legislative director for Representative Mike Quigley, Democrat of Illinois.” With a pic.NYT
BIRTHDAYS: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is 52 … Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is 64 … Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is 64 … Samantha Tubman, manager of special projects at the Obama Foundation (hat tip: Meredith Carden) … Neal Wolin, CEO of Brunswick Group, is 57 (h/ts Tim Griffin and George Little) … former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is 71 … Nathan Daschle, president and COO of the Daschle Group … Terry Moran, chief foreign correspondent for ABC News … Jonathan Wald, SVP at MSNBC (h/t Kurt Bardella) … James Pindell, Boston Globe political reporter … Jeff Smith is 45 … Cris Turner, head of gov’t affairs for the Americas at Dell … Aniela Butler (h/t Meghan Mitchum) … Treasury alum John E. Smith (h/t Peter Baker) … Scott Schloegel … Emily Kopp … Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) is 56 … former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) is 72 … Andrew Ricci, principal at Riccon Strategic Communications … Laena Fallon … Brian McGuire, policy director at Brownstein Hyatt …
… Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review staff writer … Kathryn Cameron Porter … Kyle Roberts, president of Smart Media Group … Kelsey Gorma of Miller Strategies … Fernando Lujan (h/t Susanna Quinn) … Ryan King … Richard Allen Smith … Graham Wilson … Veronique Rodman … Josh Katcher … Hammad Ul Hassan … Ryan Whalen of the Rockefeller Foundation … Alli Blakely Sydnor (h/t Ed Cash) … Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy (h/t Blair Latoff Holmes) … Megan Devlin (h/t Ben Chang) … Shoshana Weissmann … Eric Garcia … Dottie Suggs … Tricia Enright, comms director for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) (h/ts Jon Haber) … Derrick Johnson … Anne Dudro … Richard Wachtel is 36 … Rhett Dawson … Rick Horten is 5-0 … Dawn Wilson … Diane Kopp … Robert Kraig (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
The Omicron surge filled hospitals in Brooklyn last month, including the Brookdale Hospital Medical Center.Credit…Dave Sanders for The New York Times
The Omicron wave is now receding in states where the extremely contagious variant arrived later, and some governors are saying it’s time for pandemic-fatigued Americans to try to restore a sense of normalcy and learn to live with the virus.
The United States remains in a precarious position, as hospitals are overstretched and daily deaths are above 2,500 and rising. Case counts are now declining in some interior states, including Arizona, Utah, Colorado, North Dakota, Louisiana and Mississippi, where Omicron swept through more recently, and while new cases are falling nationally, too, they remain far higher than in any other period of the pandemic. And the spread of an Omicron subvariant that appears to be even more contagious has some experts warning that it could take longer than expected for the winter wave to wane.
The daily average of U.S. cases remains about 519,000 a day — more than double the worst statistics from last winter. Hospitalizations, which lag cases, seem to have peaked nationally, though they remain higher than last winter’s peak. Deaths, which lag more, are also at record levels in some states.
In a few states, like Washington and Montana, cases are still rising.
A few state leaders said Sunday that while more variants and, inevitably, another surge remain a threat, Omicron has brought the country closer to the endemic stage of the virus.
Public health experts say the next phase of the virus in the United States will depend on what variants emerge and whether a sluggish vaccination campaign picks up speed. Herd immunity to the coronavirus, experts say, is unlikely to be achieved.
The spread of an Omicron subvariant is yet another reminder of the unpredictable path the pandemic could take next.
Scientists warn that the new member the Omicron viral family, known BA.2, could drag out the Omicron surge in much of the world. So far, BA.2 doesn’t appear to cause more severe disease, and vaccines are just as effective against it as they are against other forms of Omicron. But BA.2 does show signs of spreading more readily.
“This may mean higher peak infections in places that have yet to peak, and a slowdown in the downward trends in places that have already experienced peak Omicron,” Thomas Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, told The Times’s Carl Zimmer.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the chief Covid adviser to President Biden, recently offered words of cautious optimism, saying he believed outbreaks could become much more manageable in the coming months — to a point where “they’re there, but they don’t disrupt society.”
As Omicron declines, Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, a Republican, said the United States should move toward treating the virus as if it’s endemic, but remain vigilant. He acknowledged that more variants are inevitable and called on the federal government to help states ramp up testing capacity and access to treatments.
“That’s where the federal government needs to step up,” he said on “Meet the Press.” “Let’s take advantage of this going down to be prepared for what’s around the corner.”
Roni Caryn Rabin, Carl Zimmer and Maggie Astor contributed to this report.
President Trump offered his condolences to the victims of the deadly Sri Lanka blasts on Easter Sunday, but initially did so with a tweet that had an absurdly high death toll statistic.
“Heartfelt condolences from the people of the United States to the people of Sri Lanka on the horrible terrorist attacks on churches and hotels that have killed at least 138 million people and badly injured 600 more. We stand ready to help!” Trump said in a tweet Sunday morning.
He deleted the tweet 20 minutes later, replacing it with one that contained the accurate death toll estimate.
“138 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, with more that 600 badly injured, in a terrorist attack on churches and hotels. The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka. We stand ready to help,” he said in the follow-up tweet.
138 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, with more that 600 badly injured, in a terrorist attack on churches and hotels. The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka. We stand ready to help!
Trump has made gaffes on Twitter in the past — perhaps the most infamous being “covfefe” — but this one suggested roughly 2.2 percent of the world population had been killed.
His critics were quick to pounce.
“[Y]ou are a total fuck up,” tweeted Adam Parkhomenko, a former Democratic National Committee field director.
“The attacks in Sri Lanka were awful. But 138 million people did not die. That’s like a nuclear holocaust situation,” said journalist Emily Singer.
Eight bombs exploded at churches and hotels around Sri Lanka, killing at least 140 people in injured hundreds on Easter Sunday. Officials have described the blasts as a terrorist attack and blamed it on religious extremists. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
ÚN|Vanessa Arenas-. La periodista de Venevisión, Ana Alicia Alba, tiene invadida su casa en Barinas desde el año 2007, cuando a los inquilinos se les venció el contrato y no quisieron salir. Ella necesita vender la propiedad para poder adquirir un inmueble en Caracas, donde vive actualmente alquilada. Alba conversó con Últimas Noticias y dijo que la familia que vive en la casa ubicada en los Jardines de Alto Barinas, “la mejor zona de la región”, está conformada por la señora Marisol Carrillo, sus cuatro hijos mayores de edad y un niño de 10 años, nieto de Carrillo.
“Ellos eran amigos de nuestra familia y tenían 10 años viviendo allí, pero en el 2007 se les venció el contrato y necesitábamos vender la casa. Les dimos tiempo, conversamos con ellos, nos decían que no tenían a dónde ir pero que buscarían”, contó.
El pasado viernes, la conductora de “Sexo al Desnudo”, llegó a Barinas a ayudar a su papá en la lucha por su casa. “El sábado nos reúnimos con ellos y quedamos en que firmarían un documento que les daba un lapso de seis meses para desalojar, cuando los llamamos dijeron que nunca habían aceptado y por eso decidimos protestar pacíficamente“.
Alba relató que los inquilinos llamaron a la policía para despachar a sus familiares y rompieron pancartas “y nos comenzaron a insultar. La policía se puso de nuestra parte cuando vieron que los violentos eran ellos”.
Mañana tienen citación en la Fiscalía para iniciar un juicio donde determinarán la sentencia para el caso. “Hemos acudido a todas las instancias pero nos dicen que las leyes están a favor de ellos. Es injusto porque es nuestra propiedad”, dijo la joven que se mudó de la casa con su familia cuando tenía 13 años.
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