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“Comunicado NTN24 y Noticias RCN

Hoy 15 de junio de 2017, un equipo periodístico de NTN24 y Noticias RCN, conformado por la periodista Daniella Zambrano y el camarógrafo William Torres, corresponsales en Caracas, Venezuela, fueron retenidos de forma arbitraria por funcionarios del Metro de Caracas y por otras personas sin identificar –aproximadamente, 30 civiles-. Según un funcionario del Metro de Caracas, ellos estaban en el servicio público de transporte sin autorización para el ejercicio del periodismo, motivo por el cual no se podían mover del lugar hasta que miembros del servicio de inteligencia venezolano, SEBIN, tomaran el control de la situación.

Pero el atropello llegó a estadios superiores. No fue suficiente para los funcionarios del Metro de Caracas la retención ilegal. Esos servidores públicos bolivarianos procedieron a requisar ilegalmente a Daniella Zambrano y a William Torres, les tomaron fotografías y datos personales sin su consentimiento, ni orden judicial e inmediatamente después procedieron a borrar todo el material periodístico de la jornada. Tres horas después, el equipo periodístico fue puesto en libertad.

NTN24 y Noticias RCN rechazan este acto arbitrario en contra de nuestro equipo periodístico. La vida, integridad y libertad personal de Daniella Zambrano y William Torres fue puesta en riesgo por funcionarios estatales de Venezuela, sus Derechos Humanos atropellados y, en su condición de periodistas y comunicadores sociales de NTN24 y Noticias RCN, violentados en sus derechos a la libertad de prensa y de expresión.

Desde la Dirección de NTN24 y Noticias RCN hacemos un llamado a la comunidad internacional, a las instituciones multilaterales de la región, a los organismos defensores de los Derechos Humanos y a los gobiernos nacionales de América Latina para que se pronuncien sobre las constantes y sistemáticas violaciones a la libertad de prensa y de expresión en Venezuela.

A nuestros periodistas Daniella Zambrano, William Torres y a todo el equipo de NTN24 y Noticias RCN destinado en Venezuela, un mensaje de solidaridad, fuerza y constancia. Nuestro compromiso es con la verdad, con el seguimiento de los acontecimientos y con los ciudadanos, quienes día a día tiene el derecho a estar informados.”

Vea también: Corresponsal de NTN24 y Noticias RCN fue retenida en Venezuela

Source Article from http://www.noticiasrcn.com/nacional-pais/comunicado-ntn24-y-noticias-rcn

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Justice Department investigating Trump’s actions as part of Jan. 6 probe – NBC News

The Department of Justice is investigating former President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, an administration official familiar with the investigation said.

The inquiry is related to the department’s broader probe of efforts overturn the 2020 election results and not a criminal investigation of Trump himself, the official said.

The Washington Post first reported that the Justice Department was investigating Trump’s actions leading up to Jan. 6, citing four people familiar with the matter, whom it did not name. The department declined to comment on the investigation.

NBC News has reached out to a spokesperson for Trump for comment.

The Post, citing two people familiar with the matter, reported that prosecutors have asked witnesses before a grand jury about conversations with Trump. Some of the questions focused on substituting Trump allies for electors in states President Joe Biden won and on a pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election, the newspaper reported.

The Post also reported that the Justice Department has gotten phone records of aides that include former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. The Department of Justice, a spokesperson for Trump, and a lawyer for Meadows did not respond to the Post’s requests for comment. NBC News has not confirmed the details of the Post’s report about the DOJ’s line of questioning or the phone records.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said an interview that aired on NBC Nightly News Tuesday that “anyone” would be held accountable.

“We will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” Garland told NBC Nightly News’ Lester Holt.

More than 850 people across all 50 states have been arrested in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was formally counting the electoral votes that showed Biden had won, according to officials.

The House Jan. 6 committee has been airing hearings and interviews about the actions that led up to that day and the actions Trump took, or did not take, as it unfolded.

Last month it was revealed that members of Trump’s team challenged the 2020 election by organizing slates of alternative “fake electors” in seven pivotal states.

Fake electors submitted false certifications of Trump victories to the National Archives in hopes of having then-Vice President Mike Pence substitute them for the actual electoral votes that made Biden president, according to testimony and documents presented at a June hearing of the committee.

Garland said in the NBC News interview that aired Tuesday that the Justice Department is conducting “the most wide ranging investigation in its history.”

Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of staff, appeared Friday before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack, a source familiar with his testimony told NBC News on Monday.

Short was with Pence at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack. He would be the highest-ranking former Trump administration official known to have testified before the federal grand jury.

Garland said in the NBC News interview that Trump’s possible candidacy for president in 2024 would not impact the Justice Department investigation. Trump has not said whether he will run again.

No former president in U.S. history has ever been charged with a crime. Richard Nixon, the only president to resign from office, was pardoned by then-President Gerald Ford. Nixon was never charged with any crime.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-investigating-trumps-actions-part-jan-6-probe-rcna40167

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Texas Senate votes to bar Sen. Angela Paxton from voting in husband’s impeachment trial – CNN

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Russia says radiation spiked 4 to 16 times above normal after explosion – ABC News

The radiation spike that followed the apparent explosion of a nuclear-powered missile engine in Russia — an event that left seven dead and has been cloaked in secrecy — was higher than previously indicated by the country’s officials, Russian government weather agency on Tuesday said.

The news comes amid conflicting reports that authorities were preparing to evacuate a village close to the Arctic test site where the blast occurred and that doctors who had treated engineers injured in the blast had signed non-disclosure agreements.

Roshydromet, a state weather monitoring body, said Tuesday its sensors in a city near the Nenoksa Missile Test Site on Russia’s northern Arctic coast had picked up a spike in background radiation levels four to 16 times above the norm immediately after the blast on Friday when what officials have confirmed was a nuclear-powered missile engine exploded on a floating launch pad. The spike lasted about an hour and half, before levels returned to normal, the agency said.

The spike was still low, but above what Russian authorities said on Sunday, when officials from a nuclear research center noted the spike had been double the norm.

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday issued a statement saying Russia had informed it the radiation levels around the site in the Arkhangelsk region were equivalent to natural radiation.

Campaigners and experts said although they did not want to rule out possible health risks entirely from the fallout– which they said were likely low– the main problem was how Russian authorities had handled information about the accident.

“It’s not really dangerous for health if it’s not for really long and this spike was for less than an hour,” Konstantin Fomin, a media coordinator on energy issues at the environmentalist group, Greenpeace, that has gathered its own readings in the area showing the spike was 20 times above the norm, told ABC News on Tuesday. “The real problem is lack of transparency.”

The data on the radiation came five days after the explosion that killed five nuclear engineers and two defense personnel and that U.S. officials and outside experts have said they believe “likely” involved a nuclear-powered cruise missile. The weapon has been touted by President Vladimir Putin as the centerpiece of Russia’s new nuclear arsenal, described as having almost “unlimited range” due to what is effectively an onboard nuclear reactor.

A U.S. official on Monday told ABC News that they thought it was “likely” the explosion had been caused during a test on the missile, named the SSX-C-9 Skyfall by NATO and as the 9M370 Burevestnik by Russia.

The official said the U.S. had detected increased radiation levels close to the explosion.

The delay in making the information widely public, reflects the highly secretive response from Russian authorities, who first appeared to conceal that the blast involved radiation and then only slowly released details about it — for some, setting off echoes of the Soviet response to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986.

Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM via AP

In this grab taken from a footage provided by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM press service, people gather for the funerals of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by a rocket explosion in Sarov.

In the first days after the accident, Russia’s defense ministry initially made no mention the engine had contained nuclear materials and then denied there had been a spike in radiation. The local city administration on the Friday released a statement saying there had been a spike to a similar level of radiation reported by the weather agency on Tuesday, but then deleted it from its website.

State television also initially largely ignored the accident, barely mentioning it in news broadcasts for the first two days. Only on Sunday, did officials from Russia’s Federal Nuclear Center, which carried out the test, acknowledge in a video interview, that the engine used “radioactive materials.” Russia’s state atomic company Rosatom on Sunday also said in a statement the test had involved placing a small-scale isotope power source into a liquid propellant engine, but it has given almost not details.

The Kremlin on Tuesday for the first time commented on the explosion, but mostly turned aside questions. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, on Wednesday told reporters that “all relevant agencies were working to ensure the safety of Russian citizens,” saying he had nothing more to add on the explosion.

Experts said the radiation levels recorded did not appear to pose serious dangers. Roshydromet’s said its sensors had picked up readings of 2 microsieverts per hour; the European norm for the total natural radiation that an adult will absorb in a year is 1000 microsieverts and the spike had lasted only around an hour according to the weather station and local people monitoring it. The most contaminated areas at Chernobyl by contrast had been thousands of times higher.

Fomin, the Greenpeace coordinator said. “It’s obviously not on the Chernobyl scale but even if there is no danger — and I hope there is no danger — it is very worrisome that our government acts with so little transparency. Because when something more dangerous will happen, and when we speak about something nuclear it’s more about when, not if, and if they will operate with such lack of transparency it can be really harmful.”

Fomin said he did not understand why the local administration would have been pushed to delete its statement alerting about the elevated radiation levels since it coincided what Roshydromet’s on Tuesday. He said Greenpeace had actually already seen the readings from Roshydromet shortly after the blast, they had just not been widely publicised by authorities. He said his main concern was that authorities had not made public what radioactive materials were used in the engine, in particular since the measurements so far have only been for gamma radiation, not alpha particles, which can cause cancer. Some uncertainty also still remained about the levels of radiation released during the blast, since the sensors that picked up the spike were located in Severodvinsk, a city of 200,000 people about 20 miles east of the missile test site, meaning that the levels could have been higher closer to the blast.

On Tuesday, the state news agency TASS reported that several doctors who had treated the three engineers injured in the explosion had now been voluntarily flown to Moscow for examination and that they had signed non-disclosures agreements.

In a sign of the uncertainty surrounding the accident, there were conflicting reports in state media as authorities apparently first requested and then cancelled a temporary evacuation of the Nenoksa, the village right by the test site. Ksenia Yudina. The head of the Nenoksa village council’s press service told the state news agency RIA Novosti residents had been asked to prepare to leave on Wednesday morning while the military carried out an operation there.

But Arkhangelsk’s regional governor, Igor Orlov, hours later rejected that as “nonsense” saying no evacuations were taking place. Yudina then told Interfax that the request to leave had now been cancelled. Reports in local media still later quoted residents suggesting that such temporary evacuations were common, often requested just before a test was carried out at the test site.

“There’s a lot of contradictory information,” said Rashid Alimov, director of Greenpeace Russia’s energy department. “So it’s clear that people are having to operate in the conditions of a lack of information.”

Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-radiation-spiked-16-times-background-levels-suspected/story?id=64944648

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Lawmakers lay blame on Trump over riot as second impeachment trial looms | TheHill – The Hill

Republican and Democratic members of Congress on Sunday weighed in on the second impeachment trial of former President TrumpDonald Trump Twitter permanently suspends Gateway Pundit founder’s account Wyoming Republican Party censures Cheney over Trump impeachment vote Trump access to intelligence briefings will be determined by officials, White House says: report MORE, set to begin in the Senate this week.

While some Republicans laid blame on Trump for encouraging a mob to storm the Capitol last month to contest his 2020 presidential election loss, they continued to question the legality of an impeachment trial of a former president.

Sen. Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin Graham Sunday shows preview: Budget resolution clears path for .9 trillion stimulus; Senate gears up for impeachment trial Senate Republicans don’t want Trump to testify in impeachment trial McConnell congratulates Cheney on surviving attempted ousting from leadership MORE (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s most vocal supporters during his presidency, affirmed his opposition to a trial, citing Trump’s having left the White House.

“I think I’m ready to move on. I’m ready to end the impeachment trial because I think it’s blatantly unconstitutional,” Graham said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

However, the South Carolina senator suggested history would hold Trump responsible for the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In January, the House impeached Trump for a historic second time on charges of inciting the riot. Ten Republican lawmakers voted in favor of impeachment, with many acknowledging that casting such a vote likely meant the end of their political careers.

“He had a consequential presidency. Jan. 6 was a very bad day for America, and he’ll get his share of blame in history,” Graham said.

Graham said after the insurrection that Trump’s presidency had been “tarnished” by his role in the riot but that he did not back the use of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

Sen. Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott Murphy Sunday shows preview: Budget resolution clears path for .9 trillion stimulus; Senate gears up for impeachment trial Five things to know about Biden’s Yemen move Why school nurses are vital to ending the school-to-prison pipeline MORE (D-Conn.) took the opposite track, telling Fox News host Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) Wallace Wyoming Republican Party censures Cheney over Trump impeachment vote Juan Williams: GOP cowers from QAnon Biden aides signal president is open to talks on COVID-19 relief MORE that “impeachment comes not only with the provision to remove an individual from office but to disqualify them from future office. I don’t think our job ends just because the president has left office.”

Murphy said the chamber was undecided on whether to call witnesses in the trial because, unlike the phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for which Trump was impeached in 2019, “we saw what happened in real time. President Trump sent that angry mob to the Capitol on live TV, so it’s not as important that we have witnesses.”

Sen. Roger WickerRoger Frederick Wicker Sunday shows preview: Budget resolution clears path for .9 trillion stimulus; Senate gears up for impeachment trial Bipartisan bill to provide 0B in coronavirus relief for restaurants reintroduced House will have to vote on budget second time as GOP notches wins MORE (R-Miss.), meanwhile, called the trial a “meaningless messaging partisan exercise.” He said impeachment was not meant to be used to hold someone accountable who was no longer in office.

“Now, if there are other ways, in the court of public opinion, or if some criminal charge dawns on some prosecutor, perhaps here’s another avenue there,” wicker told ABC’s George StephanopoulosGeorge Robert Stephanopoulos CDC says schools are safe, but Biden continues to ignore science, doctors Pass the rescue bill — with or without Republicans By his own definition, Biden is already governing like a dictator MORE.

Stephanopoulos brought up Wicker’s earlier comments that the impeachment of former President Clinton would “protect the long-term national interest of the United States, to affirm the importance of truth and honesty and to uphold the rule of law in our nation.”

Wicker responded that Clinton had been determined to have committed perjury, whereas “I’m not conceding that President Trump incited an insurrection.”

Seventeen Republicans would need to join all 50 Senate Democrats for the two-thirds majority necessary to convict the former president. Democrats have conceded this outcome is unlikely, particularly after all but five GOP senators joined Sen. Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard Paul Sunday shows preview: Budget resolution clears path for .9 trillion stimulus; Senate gears up for impeachment trial Five takeaways from the budget marathon Republican 2024 hopefuls draw early battle lines for post-Trump era MORE (R-Ky.) in backing a challenge to the trial’s constitutionality.

On the House side, Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz CheneyElizabeth (Liz) Lynn Cheney Wyoming Republican Party censures Cheney over Trump impeachment vote Republicans worry Greene could be drag on party in suburbs Sunday shows preview: Budget resolution clears path for .9 trillion stimulus; Senate gears up for impeachment trial MORE (Wyo.), the highest-ranking Republican to vote to impeach Trump last month immediately following the insurrection, defended her vote after sharp backlash from her GOP colleagues that nearly cost her the leadership role.

“The oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment, and it doesn’t bend to partisanship. It doesn’t bend to political pressure,” Cheney said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s the most important oath that we take, and so I will stand by that, and I will continue to fight for all of the issues that matter so much to us all across Wyoming.”

Cheney did not say whether she would vote to convict Trump if she were in the Senate but said Republicans “should not be embracing the former president.”

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/537726-lawmakers-lay-blame-on-trump-over-riot-as-second-impeachment-trial

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11 firefighters injured in downtown Los Angeles explosion – The Washington Post

“We’ve been saying for the last two months, even more than usual, how much we appreciate our medical personal and first responders,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said at the briefing, referring to the coronavirus pandemic, “and, tonight, I’m doubly and deeply grateful for both of them.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/17/los-angeles-explosion/

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Fauci: Americans Should Get Vaccinated Even if Merck’s Covid Pill Cuts Deaths – The New York Times

Merck said it would seek emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its drug, known as molnupiravir, as soon as possible. The pills could be available by late this year.

Dr. Fauci pointed to the stark difference in how many people died during Merck’s clinical trial for the treatment, with eight among the placebo group and none among those taking the drug. “That’s very impressive, so we really look forward to the implementation of this and to its effect on people who are infected,” he said.

The federal government has placed advanced orders for 1.7 million doses of the new medication. But Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former F.D.A. commissioner under President Trump and a board member for Pfizer, said that amount was “not enough” on CBS’ Face the Nation, covering only one month’s worth of infections in Southern states since the Delta variant emerged. He also contrasted that quantity with the national stockpile of medication to treat a flu pandemic, which he said numbers in the tens of millions.

Earlier, Dr. Fauci dismissed the notion that federal officials had not procured enough of the medicine, saying they had placed “a good bet” on the treatment.

“We have options for millions more,” he said on the program, predicting the company would ramp up production to meet demand in the United States and across the world.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/health/merck-covid-pill-vaccine-fauci.html

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Biden buys new ads, hits the trail after State of the Union address – The Washington Post

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Noticias Telemundo Presents ‘Muriendo Por Cruzar’ This Sunday August 3 at 6PM – TVbytheNumbers

via press release:

NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

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Alabama abortion ban: Republicans’ strategy could backfire – Vox.com

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 exceptions are 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.”

Others have claimed, as Todd Akin did in his Missouri Senate campaign in 2012, that the exceptions are moot because a woman is unlikely to become pregnant through rape. This is false.

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.

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/5/15/18624810/alabama-abortion-ban-supreme-court-exceptions-senate

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Man Tries to Open Plane Door, Stab Flight Attendant on LA-Boston Flight, Feds Say – NBC10 Boston

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Jeffrey Toobin fired from The New Yorker after exposing himself on a Zoom call – CNN

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

Updated 5:34 PM ET, Wed November 11, 2020

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/media/jeffrey-toobin-fired-new-yorker/index.html

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Trump, Bloomberg trade insults as Twitter feud escalates – New York Post

President Trump and Michael Bloomberg traded sharp jabs on Twitter Thursday, with the commander-in-chief ripping the Democratic presidential candidate as a “loser,” prompting the former Big Apple mayor to describe him as a “barking clown.”

“Mini Mike is a 5’4” mass of dead energy who does not want to be on the debate stage with these professional politicians. No boxes please,” Trump said in one of two tweets about Bloomberg, who is 5 feet 8. “He hates Crazy Bernie and will, with enough money, possibly stop him. Bernie’s people will go nuts!”

The president compared Bloomberg to one of his Republican challengers in 2016.

“Mini Mike Bloomberg is a LOSER who has money but can’t debate and has zero presence, you will see. He reminds me of a tiny version of Jeb ‘Low Energy’ Bush, but Jeb has more political skill and has treated the Black community much better than Mini!” he said.

But Bloomberg fired back with his own tweet 20 minutes later, taking aim at Trump’s reputation as a self-made billionaire real estate developer.

“@realDonaldTrump – we know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you & call you a carnival barking clown,” Bloomberg said in a posting. “They know you inherited a fortune & squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.”

“I have the record & the resources to defeat you. And I will,” Bloomberg concluded.

Bloomberg, whose wealth Forbes estimates at $61.8 billion, making him the eighth-richest person in the US, is pouring his money into an advertising blitz to promote his presidential run and to knock Trump.

Since throwing his hat in the ring in November, Bloomberg, who is self-financing his campaign, has poured about $350 million into television, online and radio spots.

The media mogul has said he would be willing to spend $1 billion on the race.

Trump, whom Forbes estimates to be worth $3.1 billion, and associated committees raised $154 million in the last three months of 2019 and have $195 million on hand, according to an analysis by the New York Times.

The president and the Republican National Committee spent about $9 million on advertising and polling in the fourth quarter.

Trump and Bloomberg even ran dueling ads that cost $10 million each during the Super Bowl earlier this month.

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2020/02/13/trump-bloomberg-trade-insults-as-twitter-feud-escalates/

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A Boeing 737 cargo plane makes emergency landing in the water near Honolulu – CNN

By Gregory Wallace, Paul P. Murphy and Dakin Andone, CNN

Updated 11:33 AM ET, Fri July 2, 2021

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/02/us/cargo-plane-down-hawaii/index.html

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Delaware State lacrosse team: Believe them over police after ugly stop – USA TODAY

There are two words you need to focus on when examining the disgraceful, ugly, and possibly racially motivated stopping of a bus containing the mostly-Black Delaware State lacrosse team as they traveled through Liberty County, Georgia.

Those two words are: Believe them.

Believe the players, believe the coaches, believe what they say.

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Virginia Democrats win full control of the state legislature, AP reports – NPR

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2 men who were wounded when a gunman opened fire on Trump at rally say Secret Service failed them – NBC News

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Google joins Apple in probing Saudi app that lets men control where women travel, as pressure piles on the tech giants to kill the service – Business Insider

Google has joined Apple in promising to investigate a Saudi app that lets men control women’s travel, as pressure from rights groups and international lawmakers builds on the tech giants.

Google will review the app to determine whether it violates its policies, a spokesman told The New York Times on Wednesday. Earlier, Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to investigate as well.

“A Google spokesman confirmed that the company is assessing the app to determine if it is in accordance with its policies,” The Times reported.

Google and Apple have failed to respond to repeated requests for comment from Business Insider.

Business Insider’s sister website INSIDER revealed details about Absher earlier this month and published criticism from human-rights groups, which triggered US politicians to call on the tech giants to rethink the app.

#DropTheAPP

Numerous high-profile US politicians condemned Apple and Google on Wednesday. They called on the tech giants to kill the service from their app stores.

“Absher is a patriarchal weapon: it allows Saudi men to track women, restrict their travel, and enable human rights violations,” the Democratic Party Caucus’s vice chair, Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, tweeted.

Rep. Katherine Clark addressing Congress.

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“#Apple and #Google must stop facilitating this dangerous tool of control,” she added.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York also tweeted: “An app available on Google/Apple’s App store helps Saudi Arabia enforce its guardianship system that doesn’t allow women to travel without permission from a male guardian. No company should help w/ oppression of women!”

Maloney also encouraged the hashtag “#DropTheAPP.”

On Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that they “immediately remove” Absher from the App Store and Google Play.

The app “flies in the face of the type of society you both claim to support and defend,” Wyden wrote. “American companies should not enable or facilitate the Saudi government’s patriarchy,” he said, calling the Saudi system of control over women “abhorrent.”

On this Absher form, guardians can say where women have permission to go, how long for, and which airports they can use.

Absher

Before Wyden wrote to the CEOs, the two tech companies faced challenges from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the women’s-rights activist Yasmine Mohammed.

“Apps like this one can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women,” Rothna Begum, a Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch, said.

“There’s a definite tragedy in the world’s most technologically progressive platforms, Apple and Google, facilitating the most archaic misogyny,” Yasmine Mohammed, an activist who campaigns and writes on women’s rights, said.

European and Australian lawmakers pile on

Lawmakers outside the US chimed in as well, with Dutch MP Kees Verhoeven tweeting: “Apple and Google offer the Saudi government app Absher, which limits the freedom of women to travel.” He added it was right for Amnesty and Human Rights Watch to “call the tech giants to reconsider offering them!”

Sen. Eric Abetz of Australia published a detailed press release condemning Google and Apple for hosting the app. “This app is being used as a tool of oppression and to restrict the free movement of people in Saudi Arabia,” the release said.

The UK government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office would not condemn the app directly but said it wanted to see an end to the guardianship system in Saudi Arabia, which the app encourages.

A page on Absher where a guardian can see which permissions are active and easily change them if needed.

Absher

“We continue to call for an end to the guardianship system to allow women to fully participate in Saudi society,” a representative of the office said. Addressing the specific travel function on Absher, Renate Künast, the chairwoman of Germany’s Alliance ’90/The Greens party, tweeted: “Why do @Apple & @Google condone this? @GoogleDE Are you campaigning against it?”

Her ministerial colleague Tabea Rößner tweeted: “Don’t be evil! -Experience shows, however, companies that are concerned with maximizing profits have no conscience.”

Concerning the app’s travel-permissions function, Nate Schenkkan, the director for special research at the human-rights group Freedom House, tweeted that “technology can be used to reinforce oppressive social structures.”

The app raises awkward questions for Apple and Google, two of the biggest players in Silicon Valley, where tech firms have well-established links to Saudi Arabia.

Both firms hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last year. The crown prince got a rare tour inside the $5 billion Apple Park campus, in California, which included face time with Cook and other top executives.

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Biden and Xi clash over Taiwan in Bali but Cold War fears cool – Reuters

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Live updates: Daughter of coronavirus victim denounces Trump in fiery speech at DNC – The Washington Post

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Veterans Day beginning to look a lot like Christmas as cold sweeps nation; freeze coming to Florida – USA TODAY

A wintry weather pattern that brought single-digit temperatures and more than a foot of snow to parts of the Upper Midwest was rolling across a wide swath of the nation Monday, threatening to break hundreds of records and bring a deep freeze as far south as Florida.

“The coldest surge of arctic air so far this season will bring widespread record low temperatures for much of the central and eastern U.S. even down to the Gulf Coast,” said Kwan-Yin Kong, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.

Parts of Michigan already were overwhelmed with more than a foot of snow Monday – and some areas could see more than two feet before the snow ends Tuesday, AccuWeather said. As far south as Oklahoma, freezing temperatures and freezing rain normally reserved for the middle of winter were making their debut more than two weeks before Thanksgiving.

Americans heading out to Veterans Day events will need to bundle up. Thousands are expected to line the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the city’s 101st Veterans Day Parade.

“Cold front continues to surge through OK, with post-frontal gusts of 35-50 mph,” the National Weather Service warned in a tweet. “The freezing line is slowly creeping into northeast OK.”

Record lows are expected across the South and Midwest on Tuesday, when parts of Texas could drop to 16 degrees. Cities in Texas and Louisiana were predicted to reach highs in the mid-40s, breaking long-standing records.

By Tuesday, record cold is possible in the Northeast, Ohio Valley and portions of the South. The cold will sweep into the southern Plains and Ohio Valley. People living in parts of the Texas Panhandle up to Tulsa, Oklahoma, should allow extra time for the Monday morning commute to allow for icy, slippery conditions, AccuWeather warned.

The high Tuesday in Dallas is forecast for 44 degrees – 24 degrees below average for the date. By Tuesday night, Dallas is forecast for a low of 22 degrees. The record low for the date is 21 degrees.

Monday’s high in Brownsville, Texas, was forecast for 82 degrees – double Tuesday’s forecast high of 41 degrees.

‘They’re like children’: How to keep pets safe amid record-breaking cold

By Wednesday the coldest temps will drift east. Boston down to Washington, D.C., will challenge record lows for the date.

“We expect a swath of higher snowfall totals from central New York to northern Maine, where accumulations could climb into the double digits,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Courtney Travis said.

No more fire in the kitchen: Cities ban natural gas in homes to save planet

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