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Reaction and analysis from Mark Meadows and Reince Priebus on ‘Hannity’
President Biden’s Build Back Better socioeconomic spending bill is a misnomer, two former White House Chiefs of Staff said Thursday, telling Fox News that moderate Democrats in the House essentially folded to party leadership after the Congressional Budget Office scored the legislation they say won’t do what it is advertised to.
“They’ll have the votes tonight [to pass the bill],” Mark Meadows told “Hannity“. “The moderates were already falling all over themselves when they got the CBO Score.”
Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman added that Biden believes the best way to raise offsetting revenues is to hire more Internal Revenue Service agents to predictably engage in more comprehensive audits of the American people.
Several moderate Democrats including Problem Solvers Caucus co-chair Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida have been awaiting analysis from the CBO, which announced Thursday afternoon the bill will add about $367 billion to the deficit.
Murphy, who co-chairs the centrist Blue Dog Coalition with Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii and Tom O’Halleran of Arizona and whose Sanford district is a key swing constituency in the 2022 midterms – said in public remarks that “despite its flaws, the Build Back Better Act has a lot of positive elements.”
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a Florida Democrat, left, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, right, wait to speak during a news conference on the Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 582) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 18, 2019. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Later, Meadows added that Biden has no connection to the average American taxpayer let alone the American worker:
“The four areas that Joe Biden actually are polling the worst in are the ones that actually Donald Trump fixed and had a plan for, so all the Joe Biden has to do is run back and actually do what Donald Trump did for four years,” he said.
“Joe Biden is used to signing the back of a paycheck, not the front of a paycheck, so he doesn’t even understand what it takes — because he is used to a government paycheck for 40 years.”
CLEVELAND, OHIO – SEPTEMBER 30: Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden embarks on a train campaign tour at the Cleveland Amtrak Station September 30, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus later added that the onetime moderate Delaware Democrat now however has “no power over his own party” – and that like-minded colleagues including Obama-era Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, warned against the inflationary nature of Build Back Better.
Priebus and host Sean Hannity further discussed how the bill could likely be changed by the Senate due to the presence of apprehensive lawmakers like Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia – forcing an edited version to later return to the House for another final vote.
Washington is bracing for a prolonged shutdown that is already in its second week.
The partial shutdown has left a quarter of the government closed, and 800,000 federal workers furloughed or forced to work without pay.
Power in Congress is about to shift, with Democrats taking the House majority on Thursday. Yet it seems unlikely this will result in an immediate change in the dynamic.
“If the is the best effort at compromise that she can muster then the partial shutdown will continue weeks not days,” Meadows told The Hill.
Democrats were just as tough in their rhetoric, arguing it would be irresponsible for Senate Republicans not to take up their package, which would fund the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8 at existing spending levels, effectively punting a decision on Trump’s wall on the Mexican border to that date.
It would separately fund other parts of the government through the end of the current fiscal year. The Senate previously approved a stopgap bill to fund all of the remaining bills, including DHS, through Feb. 8.
“It would be the height of irresponsibility and political cynicism for Senate Republicans to now reject the same legislation they have already supported,” they said, alluding to a bill that passed the Senate in December.
But there’s no sign that McConnell is ready to put daylight between himself and Trump.
“It’s simple: The Senate is not going to send something to the President that he won’t sign,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, when asked about the House plan.
Senate Republicans could take up the House bill and amend it, or try to pass their own legislation, but Stewart declined to speculate.
Instead, he pointed to a recent floor speech from the Senate GOP leader, where he outlined what a successful bill would need to be able to do.
“In order to get us out of this mess, a negotiated solution will need to check these boxes. …It will need the support of 60 Senators — which will obviously include a number of Democrats. It will need to pass the House. And it will need a presidential signature,” McConnell said at the time.
The shutdown politics are politically tricky for the careful GOP leader. Moving the six-bill package would dramatically reduce the effects of the shutdown and let Trump continue to fight it out with Democrats over the border wall. But McConnell is unlikely to open up himself or his caucus to criticism from conservatives and the president on an issue viewed as crucial to the party’s base ahead of the 2020 election.
The back-and-forth comes as negotiators have largely been stalemated since the Dec. 21 funding deadline. The Capitol has transformed into a ghost town with the partial shutdown, coupled with the holiday season, leaving only a handful of lawmakers in Washington.
Both the House and Senate met on Monday for a pro-forma session. Combined, the two chambers were in session for less than five minutes.
“Right now, we’re at a standoff,” Shelby, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told CBS News’s “Face the Nation. “[But] nobody wins in a shutdown. We all lose and we kind of look silly.”
The result has been negotiations that are largely in a holding pattern. Trump unleashed a string of tweets against Democrats on Monday, arguing they were using a “ridiculous sound bite” to say that a wall “doesn’t work.”
“It does, and properly built, almost 100%! They say it’s old technology — but so is the wheel. They now say it is immoral — but it is far more immoral for people to be dying!” he said.
In another tweet, Trump implored Democrats to return to Washington, saying that he was “in the Oval Office” and Democrats should “come back from vacation now.”
Trump also publicly urged Democrats over the weekend to “come on over” after he canceled plans to travel to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. But a spokesman for Pelosi said on Monday that she had yet to hear from Trump and hadn’t received an invitation to come to the White House to discuss the issue with him.
Republicans demanded $5 billion for the border wall, an amount that was backed by a seven-week stopgap bill House Republicans passed days before the shutdown deadline. But they’ve signaled since then that they are willing to accept roughly half of that, $2.5 billion.
Lawmakers and administration officials say they’ve made offers, unsuccessfully so far, to Schumer along those lines, including potentially being willing to go as low as $2.1 billion. But it’s unclear if Trump would sign such a deal and Democrats are making it clear they are not yet ready to back down from their negotiating position.
Schumer and Pelosi blasted Trump on Monday saying he “sits in the White House and tweets, without offering any plan that can pass both chambers of Congress” and urged him to “come to his senses.”
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The latest wave of COVID-19 cases has led to a surge in hospitalizations, compounding what has already been a taxing year for health care workers.
Caitlin Thompson, a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at UF Health Jacksonville’s North campus, spoke with News4Jax on Wednesday about what it has been like working in the ward.
“I feel like we are in a war, and that war is not ending anytime soon yet because people aren’t getting vaccinated yet,” she said.
As of Wednesday, UF Health Jacksonville had roughly 134 COVID-19 patients, 41 of whom were in the ICU. That’s up from 60 COVID-19 patients, 23 of whom were in the ICU, on July 12.
“I don’t think there are enough words to describe what the past two weeks or actually the last year and a half has been like,” she said. “We are tired. We are exhausted as a staff, as a health care facility. Our patients are younger. They are sicker. It’s been wild to say the least.”
UF Health Jacksonville nurse sheds light on latest COVID-19 wave
Her colleague — nurse practitioner Annette Wall, who provides special services for those in the ICU — agreed.
“The average ages seem to be younger. These patients seem to be in our intensive care unit a bit longer,” Wall said. “These people are in the prime of their life. These are hearty, healthy people. I have folks that are saying, ‘I just didn’t think I would get that sick because I’m healthy.’ You are until you catch COVID.”
James Owen echoed that belief. As of Wednesday, the 41-year-old Navy veteran had been in the ICU at the North campus for nearly a week and was still fighting to get better. From his hospital bed, he told News4Jax how he ended up there.
UF Health Jacksonville nurse on working in ICU amid COVID surge: ‘I feel like we are in a war’
“We had a Fourth of July party. On the 5th, I got sick,” he said. “At first I thought I could take care of it myself at the house. I was sadly mistaken and it landed me here.”
He said his wife is also ill but not hospitalized.
“I am doing much better now,” Owen said. “It’s been a rough road, but we are getting there.”
Owen said he’s grateful to the staff who he believes have gone out of their way to help him.
“Thanks again to the team of nurses and medical staff,” Owen said.
He said he wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19, and he shared a message for others who haven’t gotten the shot.
“For yourself, for your loved ones, get vaccinated. I’m used to being the strong protector and it definitely broke me down. I am very humbled. This virus is nothing to joke about,” he said. “After what I’ve been through, I’m definitely going to get it as soon as I’m cleared.”
Thompson, who has been working with Owen, also encouraged people to get vaccinated.
“My message: Do your education and learn and ultimately get vaccinated,” she said. “Vaccination is key and trying to decrease this crazy pandemic and this surge that we are seeing.”
Thompson said that right now, COVID-19 patients who make it out of the ICU still experience lingering impacts.
“If they do make it out, it’s with long-term effects of the disease or some people having to go home on oxygen,” Thompson said. “People having to go on to long-term care facilities just to get their strength back, and those that do go home in the future could see other long-term effects.”
Registered nurse Carson Griego, who works on a special COVID-19 ward, said some of his young friends have not been vaccinated and he tells them the story of one patient who, unfortunately, died.
“He said, ‘I wish I got vaccinated. I wish I had took this all seriously,’” Griego said.
Staff members said those who are not vaccinated are the ones now becoming very ill and they hope that showing what’s happening at the hospital will bring about some change and lead to more people getting vaccinated.
“I certainly think there is a disconnect with people here on the outside and what we see on the inside,” said Chad Neilsen, UF Health Jacksonville director of accreditation and infection prevention. “So we’re trying to step up and use our microphone and say we are the ones seeing this going on real-time, please get vaccinated.”
GRAND CANYON, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Officials found a body in the Grand Canyon Wednesday believed to be a missing Kentucky man.
According to the National Park Service (NPS), the body and a motorcycle were found below the South Kaibab Trailhead following a multi-day search and rescue operation. NPS said last Sunday that 40-year-old John Pennington of Kentucky had entered the Grand Canyon on Feb. 23 and had abandoned his personal vehicle near Yaki Point at the South Rim. He was last seen riding a yellow motorcycle in the area.
Authorities are searching for a missing man who was last seen near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Tuesday.
Park rangers discovered the body and motorcycle 465 feet below the rim. The body was taken by helicopter to the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office. Officials say based on the evidence found, the body is believed to be Pennington.
Party leaders have tried to move on from that divisive episode, but there are still deep wells of suspicion and distrust between mainstream Democrats and the left.
“The civil war that started in 2016 never ended,” said one veteran Democratic hand. “It’s still going on.”
The 2016 primary contest left liberals fuming at what they viewed as establishment interference in the race, underscored by the hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails that showed favoritism toward Clinton.
And some mainstream Democrats are unnerved by what they view as a group of left-wing interlopers, online brawlers and sore losers trying to take over the party.
“I hope the establishment wing understands how dangerous it would be to attack Bernie Sanders or anybody else who they may feel represents the left wing of the party. That would be a really stupid thing to do.”
The left has won a slew of victories in the years since Sanders’s primary defeat.
There have been changes at the DNC to limit the power of superdelegates, the party officials who propelled Clinton to victory in 2016. A robust debate schedule will ensure that voters are exposed to the full field of candidates.
And many of Sanders’s once-fringe ideas have gone mainstream in the Democratic Party.
“Bernie Sanders has already defined the soul of the party if you look at the current conversation on health care, college tuition, foreign policy and wealth inequality,” said Jonathan Tasini, a progressive writer. “That debate is over if the party looks at what voters thirst for.”
But many on the left feel like outsiders in the Democratic Party. They’re still worried about officials exerting influence over the primary, particularly if there is a contested convention, which seems likelier this year with the massive field of candidates splitting votes.
“A lot of people still feel burned,” said Jacob Limon, who was the Texas state director for Sanders’s 2016 campaign. “We corrected a lot of the imbalances, like the unfair superdelegates dynamic, but there are still a lot of raw feelings around that and a sense that you absolutely cannot burn the grassroots again.”
Biden is trying to avoid the perception that he’s the anointed establishment candidate. In an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Biden said that he specifically asked former President Obama not to endorse him in the primary.
“I didn’t want it to look like he’s putting his thumb on the scale here,” Biden said. “I’m going to do this based on who I am, not by the president going out and saying, ‘this is the guy you should be with.’”
But many centrist Democrats are just as worried about how the left will approach the primary contest.
They’re frustrated by Sanders’s steadfast refusal to officially join the Democratic Party and worried by what they view as his team of political assassins. And they wonder whether Sanders’s supporters will accept the outcome of the primary and turn out to vote for the nominee in the general election if Sanders falls short again.
“There is a ‘Bernie or bust’ coalition and they have no allegiance to the party,” said the Democratic strategist. “They don’t care about campaign infrastructure or winning up and down the ballot. They’re just concerned about bullshit litmus tests and defending their guy no matter what and pretending that everyone else is a member of the big bad establishment.”
Liberal groups have torn into Biden since he launched his campaign, casting him as a relic of the “old guard” and an establishment figure beholden to corporate interests.
The Sanders campaign swiped at Biden for holding a fundraiser at the home of a lobbyist. The Justice Democrats, a liberal group started by former Sanders campaign aides, tore into the former vice president, saying he “stands in near complete opposition to where the center of energy is in the Democratic Party today.”
“The level of nastiness we see here is completely up to Sanders and his camp,” said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist.
“Joe Biden is an optimistic guy. I can’t think of a sunnier or more unifying person. The way he communicates is in stark contrast to Sen. Sanders, who unfortunately tends to campaign in a language of grievances, conspiracies and victimhood. It’s my hope that Sen. Sanders campaigns on his own merits and polices, but so far his surrogates and he have engaged in the same old attacks. No other Democrat is doing that. Sanders is the one that sets the tone for his campaign here.”
Still, some Democrats are optimistic that the party will come together in the end no matter the outcome.
“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.
El Instituto Uruguayo de Meteorología (Inumet) emitió a las 13:40 horas del viernes una advertencia amarilla para todo el país por tormentas puntualmente intensas que comenzó a regir en las primeras horas de este domingo.
Según el Informe Meteorológico Especial, las tormentas estarán acompañadas de precipitaciones (con volúmenes entre 20 a 50 mm en seis horas, 50 a 100 mm en 24 horas) actividad eléctrica, ocasionales granizadas y algunas rachas de viento fuerte (60 a 75 km/h).
La zona afectada es todo el país, “principalmente departamentos del Norte y litoral Oeste”.
Para este domingo y madrugada del lunes 6 se prevé el desplazamiento de un frente frío sobre nuestro país con tormentas asociadas.
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El meteorólogo Diego Vázquez Melo, titular de la empresa Hardsun, dijo que este fin de semana se esperan tormentas fuertes y precipitaciones abundantes, con rachas de viento intensas. Hay posibilidades que que ocurran chaparrones de granizo, de corta duración y con efectos muy localizados.
Estos fenómenos ocurrirían principalmente en la mitad Oeste del país, desde la noche de este sábado hasta la noche del domingo.
Habrá rachas de vientos fuertes desde la noche de este viernes hasta la tarde del domingo en todo el país, que irán de los 51 km/h a los 61 km/h, y con ocasionales rachas de temporal de 62 km/h a 74 km/h.
El meteorólogo advirtió sobre posibles inundaciones, cortes de rutas, daños en arbolado, cables y techos livianos.
Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover. Some of the others are dying.
“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
Three COVID-19 vaccines have been widely available in Alabama for months now, yet the state is last in the nation in vaccination rate, with only 33.7 percent of the population fully vaccinated. COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations are surging yet again due to the more contagious Delta variant of the virus and Alabama’s low vaccination rate.
For the first year and a half of the pandemic, Cobia and hundreds of other Alabama physicians caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients worked themselves to the bone trying to save as many as possible.
“Back in 2020 and early 2021, when the vaccine wasn’t available, it was just tragedy after tragedy after tragedy,” Cobia told AL.com this week. “You know, so many people that did all the right things, and yet still came in, and were critically ill and died.”
“A few days later when I call time of death,” continued Cobia on Facebook, “I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.”
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can’t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.”
More than 11,400 Alabamians have died of COVID so far, but midway through 2021, caring for COVID patients is a different story than it was in the beginning. Cobia said it’s different mentally and emotionally to care for someone who could have prevented their disease but chose not to.
“You kind of go into it thinking, ‘Okay, I’m not going to feel bad for this person, because they make their own choice,’” Cobia said. “But then you actually see them, you see them face to face, and it really changes your whole perspective, because they’re still just a person that thinks that they made the best decision that they could with the information that they have, and all the misinformation that’s out there.
“And now all you really see is their fear and their regret. And even though I may walk into the room thinking, ‘Okay, this is your fault, you did this to yourself,’ when I leave the room, I just see a person that’s really suffering, and that is so regretful for the choice that they made.”
Cobia said that the strain wears on healthcare workers after the trauma of 2020 and 2021.
“It’s really hard because all of us physicians and other medical staff, we’ve been doing this for a long time and all of us are very, at this point, tired and emotionally drained and cynical,” she said.
Cobia said the current wave of Delta patients reminds her of the time in October and November of 2020, just before Alabama’s peak of coronavirus cases and deaths.
“What we saw in December 2020, and January 2021, that was the absolute peak, the height of the pandemic, where I was signing 10 death certificates a day,” she said. “Now, it’s certainly not like that, but it’s very reminiscent of probably October, November of 2020, where we know there’s a lot of big things coming up.”
Cobia worries that the upcoming school year will lead to a similar surge.
“All these kids are about to go back to school. No mask mandates are in place at all, 70% of Alabama is unvaccinated. Of course, no kids are vaccinated for the most part because they can’t be,” Cobia said. “So it feels like impending doom, basically.”
Drs. Miles and Brytney Cobia with children Carter and Claire.
Cobia also had a personal experience with the virus, contracting it in July while 27 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her symptoms were mild and the child, Carter, was delivered early out of caution but suffered no serious complications.
Her husband, Miles, is also a physician, and the couple says they were both extremely cautious about wearing protective equipment but one of them still caught the virus and gave it to the other, as well as other family members.
“We still went to work but we masked 100% of the time,” Cobia said. “We didn’t go anywhere or do anything, we ordered through Shipt for all of our groceries, we did nothing at the time.”
Cobia said she delivered in September without incident and got the vaccine herself in December when it was made available to healthcare workers.
“I did not hesitate to get it,” she said. “There was a lot unknown at that time, because I was still breastfeeding about whether that was safe or not. I talked to as many other physician colleagues as I could and spoke with my OB as far as data that she had available and decided to continue breastfeeding after vaccination.”
For people who are hesitant to receive the vaccine, Cobia recommends speaking to their primary care physician about their concerns, just as she did.
“I try to be very non-judgmental when I’m getting a new COVID patient that’s unvaccinated, but I really just started asking them, ‘Why haven’t you gotten the vaccine?’ And I’ll just ask it point blank, in the least judgmental way possible,” she said. “And most of them, they’re very honest, they give me answers. ‘I talked to this person, I saw this thing on Facebook, I got this email, I saw this on the news,’ you know, these are all the reasons that I didn’t get vaccinated.
“And the one question that I always ask them is, did you make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion on whether or not you should receive the vaccine? And so far, nobody has answered yes to that question.”
The FBI association’s report says a lack of funds has interfered with operations related to crimes against children and sex trafficking, drug and gang crimes, and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
One FBI special agent said the partial government shutdown has “eliminated any ability to operate.” Another said the job has “never been so hard or thankless.” A third said agents cannot “protect and serve the American people.”
The anonymous testimonials came in a report Tuesday by the FBI Agents Association, which advocates for more than 14,000 active and former FBI special agents, detailing how the longest-ever partial government shutdown hinders the agency’s operations.
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“The shutdown has eliminated any ability to operate,” said one unnamed special agent, who the report said is working on counter-intelligence matters against a top threat to the United States’ national security. “It’s bad enough to work without pay, but we can only conduct administrative functions while doing it. The fear is our enemies know they can run freely.”
The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment on the report Tuesday.
No progress has been made by Republicans and Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, which is on day 32. President Donald Trump has not budged from his demand for more than $5 billion to fund a wall at the Mexican border, which Democrats have refused to accommodate.
The FBI association’s report, which includes anonymous accounts from special agents across the nation and some overseas, says the lack of funds has interfered with operations related to crimes against children and sex trafficking, drug and gang crimes, and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.
The anecdotes in the report are vague and include claims that forensic interviews of child victims are being delayed, that sources in counter-terrorism investigations have been lost and that travel has been restricted.
The report also warns of consequences agents could face if they are not paid.
Special agents are subjected to “rigorous and routine financial background check,” according to the report. The association warns that if agents get behind on payments, it could delay them securing or renewing security clearances, or even disqualify some agents from serving in some of their cases.
In addition, the association warns that pay uncertainty could dissuade individuals from being recruited to the FBI.
Esta vez el líder del juego ofensivo fue Zach Randolph, que aportó un doble-doble de 22 puntos, 12 rebotes –10 defensivos–, repartió 4 asistencias y recuperó 3 balones.
Junto a Randolph el español Marc Gasol se mantuvo en su línea de jugador decisivo tanto en el apartado individual como de equipo y consiguió 18 puntos, 6 rebotes -todos defensivos-, y 5 asistencias, además de recuperar un balón y poner un tapón.
Marc jugó 31 minutos, en los que anotó 6 de 11 tiros de campo y estuvo perfecto desde la línea de personal con 6-6, mientras que le ganó el duelo individual al pívot Ryan Hollins, que siguió de titular en el puesto del hombre franquicia de los Kings, DeMarcus Cousins, que se perdió el segundo partido por un virus.
La baja de Cousins se hizo sentir demasiado en el juego interior de los Kings, que nada pudieron hacer ante la superioridad que mostraron Randolph y Marc, además de los reservas el ala-pívot Jon Leuer, que aportó ocho puntos con cinco rebotes, y el pívot Kosta Koufos, que capturó cuatro balones bajo los aros.
Tony Allen reivindicó su condición de gran jugador defensivo al recuperar dos balones, además de ser eficaz en el ataque con 13 puntos tras anotar 5 de 7 tiros de campo y 3 de 7 desde la línea de personal.
Courtney Lee llegó a los 11 tantos y el base Mike Conley anotó 10 puntos y repartió seis asistencias, que lo dejaron como el quinto jugador de los Grizzlies que tuvieron números de dos dígitos.
Como equipo, los Grizzlies lograron un 48 por ciento de acierto en los tiros de campo (38-79) y el 23 de triples (3-13), pero donde estuvo la clave de su triunfo fue en haber forzado nada menos que 23 perdidas de balón a los Kings que convirtieron en 23 tantos.
La victoria dejó a los Grizzlies con marca de 15-2, al mejor de la NBA, medio partido por encima de los Warriors de Golden State (14-2), que también ganaron a domicilio 93-104 a los Pistons de Detroit y consiguieron el noveno triunfo consecutivo, la racha mayor ganadora actualmente en la NBA.
Los Grizzlies consiguieron una ventaja de 21 puntos en el segundo cuarto, que fue todo lo que necesitaron hasta el último, cuando aseguraron la victoria al volver a realizar su mejor defensa y hacer una buena selección en los tiros a canasta.
Rudy Gay, exjugador de los Grizzlies, se convirtió en el líder del ataque de los Kings (9-8) al aportar 20 puntos, cuatro rebotes y tres asistencias.
Mientras que Ben McLemore llegó a los 18 tantos y el ala-pívot reserva Reggie Evans surgió con su mejor actuación en lo que va de temporada tras conseguir un doble-doble de 17 puntos y 20 rebotes, que no fueron suficientes a la hora de impedir la tercera derrota consecutiva que sufrieron los Kings.
ROME (Reuters) – A visibly indignant Pope Francis had to pull himself away from a woman in a crowd in St Peter’s Square on Tuesday after she grabbed his hand and yanked him toward her.
Pope Francis was walking through the square in Vatican City and greeting pilgrims on his way to see the large Nativity scene set up in the huge, cobbled esplanade.
After reaching out to touch a child, the pope turned away from the crowd only for a nearby woman to seize his hand and pull her toward him. The abrupt gesture appeared to cause him pain and Francis swiftly wrenched his hand free.
The woman had made the sign of the cross as the pope had approached. It was not clear what she was saying as she subsequently tugged him toward her.
Reporting by Crispian Balmer, Editing by Timothy Heritage
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En las noticias más leídas del último viernes de julio, el presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, recibió críticas desde el extranjero y enfureció a sus rivales políticos con la convocatoria de una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente para reescribir la constitución de la convulsa nación. La economía del sur-sureste se contrajo por la fase recesiva en la que se encuentran los estados de Tabasco y Campeche. De acuerdo a la organización Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, la PGR le compró en 32 millones de dólares el sistema de espionaje Pegasus a Grupo Tech Bull, perteneciente a dos jóvenes menores de 30 años.
1. ¿Qué es la asamblea constituyente de Venezuela?
Nicolás Maduro, presidente de Venezuela, recibió bastantes críticas de otros países y enfureció a sus rivales políticos con la convocatoria de una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente para reescribir la constitución de la convulsa nación sudamericana.
La elección del domingo, de la que saldrán los delegados de la asamblea, llega tras casi cuatro meses de protestas y desacuerdos que causaron más de un centenar de muertos, y miles de heridos y detenidos.
Hasta el momento se tienen muy pocos detalles de los cambios constitucionales que podrían aplicarse. Pero aliados del dirigente socialista dicen que la asamblea señalará a los líderes opositores, generando advertencias sobre que Maduro podría empelar la asamblea para instalar un régimen autocrático.
¿Qué es la asamblea constituyente de Venezuela?. Ver nota.
2. Centro-occidente, región del país con el mayor dinamismo económico
El mayor crecimiento económico del país (4.7%), se registró en la región centro-occidente del país, durante el primer trimestre del 2017, mientras que la zona sur-sureste enfrentó una caída anual de 1.0%, de acuerdo con datos desestacionalizados del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (Inegi).
José Luis De la Cruz Gallegos, director general del Instituto para el Desarrollo Industrial y el Crecimiento Económico, expuso que mientras que la región centro se vio favorecida por un mayor desarrollo industrial, lo que le perjudicó al sur-sureste fue el escaso dinamismo fabril así como la disminución del sector energético.
Centro-occidente, región del país con el mayor dinamismo económico. Ver nota.
3. Empresa mexicana vendió Pegasus a la PGR
La Procuraduría General de la República compró en 32 millones de dólares el sistema de espionaje Pegasus a una compañía llamada Grupo Tech Bull SA de CV, según una investigación realizada por la organización Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad.
Esta empresa pertenece a dos jóvenes menores de 30 años, sin experiencia en el manejo de temas de seguridad nacional, de acuerdo con información de MCCI.
Grupo Tech Bull se constituyó en octubre del 2013 en la capital mexicana con un capital de 50,000 pesos, para un año después vender el malware Pegasus a la PGR en 32 millones de dólares.
Empresa mexicana vendió Pegasus a la PGR. Ver nota.
4. ¿Cómo ingresa cocaína el cártel de Sinaloa al Reino Unido?
El Cártel de Sinaloa en Europa se alió con un grupo criminal de Rumania para introducir drogas al Reino Unido, reportó el periódico británico, The Times of London.
Según esta información, la alianza del cártel mexicano con el grupo rumano opera a través de camiones pesados y tienen la habilidad para introducir al país cantidades significativas de cocaína cada semana, confirmó un portavoz del NCA.
También se han registrado reportes de que el Cártel de Sinaloa y otros grupos criminales mexicanos están activos en Europa, especialmente en España. Aunque la relación de los cárteles mexicanos con células operativas en el viejo continente y otras partes del mundo ya había sido reportado por el portal web contralinea.com desde el 2011.
¿Cómo ingresa cocaína el cártel de Sinaloa al Reino Unido?. Ver nota.
5. Corea del Norte lanzó un misil a zona de Japón: Abe
Corea del Norte lanzó un misil que pudo haber alcanzado la zona económica de Japón, dijo el primer ministro nipón Shinzo Abe.
El canal japonés público NHK, citó fuentes del Gobierno cuando reportó que un misil norcoreano fue disparado poco después de la medianoche local.
El primer ministro Abe convocó a una reunión de emergencia de su Gabinete tras la acción de Corea del Norte.
Corea del Norte lanzó un misil a zona de Japón: Abe. Ver nota.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
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Érika podría convertirse en huracán el fin de semana cuando pase por las costas de la Florida.
Al menos 20 personas murieron en el paso de la tormenta tropical Érika por Dominica, según confirmaron las autoridades de esa isla caribeña que continúan buscando desaparecidos.
Es el peor desastre natural que sufre la isla en décadas.
La mayoría de las víctimas perecieron en deslaves provocados por las fuertes lluvias, con corrientes de lodo penetrando en las viviendas que el primer ministro, Roosevelt Skerrit, catalogó de monumentales.
La tormenta se encuenta golpeando Haití y República Dominicana, aunque los meteorólogos señalan que está perdiendo fuerza.
No obstante, el gobernador del estado de Florida, Estados Unidos, declaró una emergencia en anticipación de la llegada de Erika a sus costas, el sábado.
De acuerdo a información del diario thedominican.net, citada por la agencia de noticias AFP, los cuerpos de un adulto y dos niños fueron recuperados del lugar de un deslizamiento en la población de Good Hope.
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Los daños causados por Érika representan el peor desastre natural sufrido por Dominica en décadas.
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Puerto Rico está en alerta de tormenta tropical por causa de Érika, que podría convertirse en huracán antes de llegar a Miami.
En la vecina isla de Puerto Rico se presentaron pequeños derrumbes. Cortes eléctricos dejaron miles de hogares sin luz. Como precaución, las autoridades de Puerto Rico suspendieron desde este jueves las actividades escolares y las clases en las universidades del este de la isla.
La tormenta se encuentra sobre la isla de Hispaniola (que comprende a República Dominicana y Haití), islas Vírgenes y gran parte de las Antillas Menores, que se están en alerta.
Estas islas tendrán precipitaciones de entre 100 y 200 milímetros, pero en algunas zonas, como en Dominica pueden llegar a 300 milímetros.
Las autoridades dominicanas esperan recibir en los próximos dos días una cantidad de agua equivalente a las lluvias que caen sobre la isla en seis meses en condiciones normales.
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El 80% de la isla de Dominica quedó sin electricidad con el paso de la tormenta.
Las proyecciones de los meterólogos del Centro Nacional de Huracanes de EE.UU. indican que Érika podría impactar el estado de Florida auqnue con menor fuerza.
Sin embargo, el gobernador de Florida, Rick Scott, declaró este viernes el estado de emergencia.
En el océano Pacífico, por su parte, el huracán Ignacio se dirige de este a oeste camino a Hawai.
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