Noticias Telemundo’s “Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” (Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community) Town Hall broadcast on Sunday, February 12 at 7PM/6 C, ranked # 1 in Spanish-language TV in primetime across all key demographics, averaging 1.57 million total viewers, 708,000 adults 18 to 49 and 325,000 adults 18 to 34, according to Nielsen. The news special moderated by Noticias Telemundo News Anchor José Díaz-Balart also positioned Telemundo as the #1 Spanish-language network during the entire primetime on Sunday, across all key demos.
“Noticias Telemundo is empowering millions of Latinos with reliable and TRANSPARENT information at a time of change,” said José Díaz-Balart. “Viewers trust us because they know our only commitment is to present the facts the way they are, with professionalism and a total commitment to our community.”
“Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community” also reached 1.6 million viewers on Facebook, generating 23,000 global actions on the social network.
The Town Hall answered viewers’ questions about the impact of President Trump’s immigration policy on the Hispanic community. The news special featured a panel of experts, including immigration lawyer and Telemundo contributor Alma Rosa Nieto; Telemundo conservative political analyst Ana Navarro; the Deputy Vice President of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Clarissa Martínez, and CHIRLA’s Executive Director, Angélica Salas. In addition, “El Poder en Ti”, Telemundo’s robust community initiative, launched an Internet site for Hispanics looking for information, tools and resources on immigration in parallel to the Town Hall.
“Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” is part of a series of Noticias Telemundo specials, including “Trump en la Casa Blanca,” produced the day after the elections, and “Trump y los Latinos,” which aired on Inauguration Day. All of these programs share an emphasis on allowing audiences to express their views and empower them by giving them access to trustworthy, rigorous and relevant information presented under Noticias Telemundo’s banner “Telling It Like It Is” (“Las Cosas Como Son” in Spanish).
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South Carolina police have arrested a man who allegedly conspired with Alex Murdaugh, a high-profile attorney whose wife and son were murdered in a double shooting in June, to shoot and kill him in a plot to garner millions in life insurance payouts to his son.
“Agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Tuesday arrested a Colleton County man in connection with the shooting incident involving Alex Murdaugh on Sept. 4 in Hampton County,” South Carolina Law Enforcement Division spokesman Tommy Crosby said in a statement.
Curtis Edward Smith, 61, faces charges of assisted suicide, assault and battery, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud in connection with the case, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
Investigators said they have probable cause to believe Murdaugh set up the plot himself – but survived the shooting attempt with a superficial wound to the head, according to a SLED affidavit.
“Richard Alex Murdaugh conspired with Curtis Edward Smith in the area of Old Salkehatchie Road, for the purpose of Mr. Smith assisting Mr. Murdaugh to commit suicide,” the affidavit alleges. “Mr. Murdaugh provided Mr. Smith with a firearm and directed Mr. Smith to shoot him in the head for the purpose of causing Mr. Murdaugh’s death and allowing for the payment of a stated death benefit.”
If the plot succeeded, Murdaugh’s surviving son, Buster Murdaugh, could have collected on his father’s $10 million life insurance policy, police said.
Smith allegedly shot Murdaugh in the head on Old Salkehatchie Road on the afternoon of Sept. 4, then drove away to dispose of the gun, which the lawyer allegedly provided.
Police also charged Smith for allegedly selling methamphetamine and possessing marijuana.
Additional charges are expected in connection to the Murdaugh case after state investigators joined the case at the request of the Hampton County Sheriff’s Office, Crosby said.
Two days after the shooting, Murdaugh announced that he was resigning from his law firm, which his family founded more than a century ago, and entering rehab. Hours later, the firm, PMPED, alleged that the departing attorney had misappropriated funds. SLED is also investigating that case.
Later that same week, the state Supreme Court suspended Murdaugh’s law license.
The Murdaughs, prominent in the region through their law practice and decades-long control of the local prosecutor’s office, have attracted national attention following the unsolved shooting deaths of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, 22 and 52, on June 7. They were gunned down on a family property and discovered by Alex Murdaugh, who said he stumbled upon the crime scene on his way home from visiting his terminally ill father – who died days later.
At the time of their slayings, Paul was awaiting trial in connection with a drunken boat crash that killed a 19-year-old passenger named Mallory Beach in February 2019.
Investigators looking into the double murder said they have also uncovered information that led them to reopen the probe into the 2015 hit-and-run death of 19-year-old Stephen Smith.
That case has raised questions about the family’s ties to local law enforcement and it launched both a state investigation and civil litigation regarding whether there had been undue influence.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump would beat every Democratic candidate in the swing states of Virginia and Florida except for former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a pair of polls from Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy.
In a hypothetical matchup, Biden narrowly edges Trump in Florida by 2 percentage points, 47%-45%. Trump leads Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, 51%-42%; Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 49%-44%; and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 49%-45%.
Biden’s lead over Trump is slightly wider in Virginia, where the former vice president leads the incumbent 49%-45%. The other Democrats trail the president in the state. The poll says Trump beats Warren 48%-44%, Sanders 51%-45% and Buttigieg 47%-45%.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll released this month said Trump beat every Democratic candidate, including Biden, in a national matchup.
Florida is an important swing state, narrowly deciding the 2000 election after a lengthy and controversial recount. It went for Trump in 2016 after backing President Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008.
Virginia has elected Democrats in recent statewide elections after years of being a red state,
“Over the last 30 years, Virginia has evolved from a state that leaned Republican in presidential elections, then, first, into a true swing state, but now has become one that clearly leans Democratic. Still, Democrats cannot completely take Virginia for granted as former Vice President Joe Biden is their only current candidate who is beating President Donald Trump,” the Mason Dixon firm says in the introduction to its poll.
Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, is not surprised by the results. Sabato tweeted that although Virginia may lean blue, it won’t vote for just any Democrat.
“Identity of D nominee matters. People surprised by Mason-Dixon’s results see VA as being deep Blue. It isn’t,” he wrote.
Virginia voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008. Before that, it went for every Republican nominee dating back to Richard Nixon in 1968.
The Virginia poll was conducted via telephone from Dec. 12-16, and the Florida poll was conducted from Dec. 11-16. Both have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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El aire acondicionado del camión no estaba funcionando.
Diez muertos y más de una decena de personas en estado crítico es el saldo de lo que la policía llama un “acto atroz” de trata de humanos.
En la madrugada del domingo, la policía descubrió que 38 personas fueron encerradas dentro de un camión de remolque estacionado cerca de un almacén de la cadena Walmart, en San Antonio, Texas (sur de EE.UU.).
Cuando la policía llegó al lugar, 8 personas ya habían muerto. Otras dos personas murieron cuando ya se encontraban en un centro médico.
Un empleado de la tienda fue quien alertó a las fuerzas de seguridad.
Los sobrevivientes fueron trasladados a hospitales de la zona, algunos en estado de gravedad, con hipertermia o deshidratación.
Se cree que la causa de los fallecimientos fue asfixia e hipertermia.
Acto atroz
Thomas Homan, director interino de la Oficina de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE), catalogó el suceso como un “acto atroz” liderado por una red de tráfico a la que “no le importa la vida de las personas con las que comercia”.
Homan señaló que esa dependencia se encargará de las investigaciones en este caso por tratarse de contrabando de personas, que constituye un delito federal.
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El jefe de la policía de San Antonio, William McManus, informó que ese organismo recibió una llamada de un empleado de Walmart.
La policía no ha informado de dónde procedía el vehículo, pero confirmó que el conductor está bajo custodiay a la espera de que le formulen cargos.
Ha sido identificado como James Mathew Bradley, de 60 años y residente en Clearwater, estado de Florida.
Las autoridades están intentando establecer las identidades y el estatus legal de las víctimas. Se sospecha que se puede tratar de inmigrantes indocumentados.
Texas es uno de los estados de EE.UU. que tiene frontera con México.
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La policía acordonó el lugar.
El hallazgo
El jefe de la policía de San Antonio, William McManus, le dijo a los medios de comunicación que los cuerpos fueron descubiertos después de recibir una llamada de un empleado de Walmart.
El trabajador de la tienda llamó después de que alguien que había estado dentro del camión se le acercó para pedirle agua.
Medios locales de San Antonio indicaron que las cámaras de seguridad del estacionamiento grabaron a varios vehículos que se acercaron al camión y se llevaron a personas, lo que apunta a que hubo más personas que hicieron el viaje dentro del vehículo.
“Estamos viendo un crimen de trata de personas“, añadió el funcionario.
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Durante el día, la policía continuó trabajando en la escena del crimen.
El fiscal del Distrito Occidental de Texas, Richard Durbin, señaló que las autoridades están enfocadas en identificar a los responsables del incidente.
“Estas personas estaban indefensas en las manos de quienes los transportaban. Imaginen el sufrimiento en un camión sofocante a unos 100 grados de calor (más de 37 grados centígrados)”, señaló en un comunicado.
Fueron víctimas de “despiadados tratantes que fueron indiferentes al bienestar de su frágil carga”, añadió.
Dos menores
Charles Hood, jefe del cuerpo de bomberos local, indicó que su equipo llegó al lugar justo después de la medianoche y encontraron ocho personas muertas en la parte trasera del camión.
El aire acondicionado del vehículo no estaba funcionando y no había agua adentro.
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El jefe de los bomberos confirmó que al menos dos de las víctimas eran niños en edad escolar, uno de ellos 15 años.
Los sobrevivientes tenían ritmos cardiacos que sobrepasaban las 130 palpitaciones por minuto y cuando los rescatistas los tocaron estaban muy calientes.
“Somos muy afortunados de que no todas las 38 personas que estaban encerradas en el vehículo murieron”, añadió Hood.
El clima en el área ha estado caliente y seco.
Las autoridades de Texas han reportado un incremento en los casos de contrabando humano usando un camión de remolque en los últimos dos meses.
El 19 de junio descubrieron a 44 ciudadanos de Guatemala y México escondidos en un vehículo de ese tipo, y el 7 y 8 de julio, a 72 y 33 inmigrantes dentro de estos remolques cerrados.
La semana pasada, otro grupo de 16 inmigrantes fue descubierto dentro de un camión en un punto fronterizo.
Según datos proporcionados por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, en el año 2016 hubo un total de 2.110 investigaciones relacionadas con el tráfico de personas que conllevaron a la presentación de 1.522 acusaciones penales.
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.”
El más reciente país en sumarse a la lista de los que prohiben el festejo es Tayikistán (Asia central), que este martes anunció que este año se endurecerán las restricciones para la celebración de la Navidad.
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En países asiáticos con mayoría musulmana existen regulaciones diferentes sobre la celebración pública de la Navidad.
Esta república, que tiene frontera con Afganistán al sur, con China al este, con Kirguistán al norte y con Uzbekistán al oeste, prohibió las siguientes tradiciones navideñas:
Árboles de Navidad (naturales o artificiales)
Fuegos artificiales
Comidas navideñas
Intercambio de regalos
Recaudaciones de dinero
Disfraces de Papá Noel o de su versión rusa “Padre Frost”
La religión musulmana es mayoritaria en ese país y no ha dejado de crecer desde que en 1991 se desprendiera de la extinta Unión Soviética.
En otros países
En Brunéi, en el sudeste asiático, se prohibió el uso público de gorros de Papá Noel y otro tipo de indumentaria relacionada.
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En Brunéi se prohibió el uso público de gorros de Papá Noel.
Las personas no musulmanas en Brunéi están autorizadas a celebrar la Navidad pero con la condición de no hacerlo en público.
El Islam es la religión oficial del país y el sultán es el jefe religioso de este reino fronterizo con Malasia.
Como cada año, Arabia Saudita emitió una reglamentación anual que prohíbe “signos visibles” de la celebración de la Navidad.
Los musulmanes y visitantes no pueden ser parte de la celebración pues está determinado que todos deben regirse por el calendario lunar y no por el gregoriano.
En Arabia también están prohibidas celebraciones como San Valentín o Halloween.
En 2012, 41 cristianos fueron detenidos por la policía religiosa árabe acusados por “conspirar para celebrar la Navidad“.
Mientras tanto China, que convive entre su apertura al capitalismo de mercado y la celosa protección de sus tradiciones, tiene zonas donde las festividades navideñas siguen vetadas.
Una de las ciudades donde la celebración está prohibida es Wenzhou (China oriental), cuyo ayuntamiento prohibió a todas las escuelas y centros públicos cualquier actividad relacionada a la Navidad.
#NavidadEntreRefugiados
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Voluntarios visitarán centros de refugiados en Irak para celebrar la Navidad con ellos.
La Navidad es una celebración que se vive con moderación en Irak y Siria, donde han aumentado los ataques a centros de culto cristianos desde que recrudeció la guerra civil en esa región.
La iniciativa #NavidadEntreRefugiados busca transmitir saludos navideños a los cristianos refugiados en la zona, según informó la agencia de noticias católicas Aci Prensa.
Un grupo de voluntarios se trasladó hasta Irak para compartir la celebración con los cristianos que habitan los campos de refugiados.
LOS ANGELES, July 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — KWHY-TV Noticias 22, the MundoFOX Los Angeles television network affiliate’s award-winning newscast, Noticias 22, “La voz de Tu Ciudad,” “The voice of your city”, scored as the fastest growing late Spanish language newscast in Nielsen’s recently completed July 2015 Sweeps for Los Angeles, the city with the largest Hispanic market in the nation.
“Our growth is a strong statement of relevance and support to our news team and editorial direction,” stated Palmira Perez, Noticias 22 MundoFOX News Anchor. “Noticias 22 continues to produce the most engaging, compelling news and information daily for our community, and as part of Meruelo Media, together we’re committed to journalistic excellence,” added Otto Padron, President of Meruelo Media.
KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX Los Angeles July 2015 Sweeps Highlights:
KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX at 10:00 p.m. posted significant “year-to-year” growth in average ratings among the key demographic Adults 18-49, up 35% from the July 2014 Sweeps.
All the other Spanish-language late local newscasts were down, including those on KRCA/Estrella (-22%), KVEA/Telemundo (-1%) and KMEX/Univision (-2%). (Based on Monday to Friday average ratings.)
Among Adults 25-54, ratings for KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX at 10:00 p.m. were up 34% from the July 2014 Sweeps, more than the late newscast on KMEX/Univision (+15%) and KVEA/Telemundo (+7%), with KRCA/Estrella falling 19%.
Source: Los Angeles NSI Ratings, July 2015
For more information on KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX, please visit www.mundofox22.com.
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Maine Senator Susan Collins became the second Republican to criticize Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week for his pre-impeachment trial comments about being in “total coordination” with President Donald Trump.
Collins, speaking with Maine Public Radio in a segment broadcast Monday evening, said it was “inappropriate” for McConnell — and Democratic lawmakers — to “prejudge” the impending Senate impeachment trial. Collins said the level of agreement between Republicans and Democrats in deciding how proceedings should work during former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment is likely impossible today. Collins demanded “impartial justice” in the Senate trial and criticized McConnell for “saying that he’s taking cues from the White House.” Collins agreed with Democrats that witnesses and documents should be allowed for introduction at the Senate trial.
The moderate Maine Republican’s comments came just one week after Alaska GOP senator Lisa Murkowski was similarly critical of McConnell’s vow to be in “lockstep” with Trump’s wishes.
“It is inappropriate, in my judgment, for senators on either side of the aisle to prejudge the evidence before they have heard what is presented to us, because each of us will take an oath, an oath that I take very seriously to render impartial justice. That’s what it says, impartial justice,” Collins said Monday, adding that Democrats shouldn’t be jumping to the opposite conclusion before the trial is held.
Collins’ office did not immediately respond to Newsweek requests for comment Tuesday morning.
“And I have heard Democrats like Elizabeth Warren, saying that the president should be impeached, found guilty, and removed from office,” Collins continued. “I’ve heard the Senate Majority leaders saying that he’s taking his cues from the White House. There are senators on both sides of the aisle, who, to me, are not giving the appearance of and the reality of judging that’s in an impartial way.”
McConnell’s comments earlier this month about being in “total coordination” with the White House have been widely condemned by Democrats, left-leaning pundits and now at least two Republican senators. But his commentary was greeted warmly by fellow top Senator Lindsey Graham, who earlier this month vowed to kill impeachment as soon as it reached the Senate. “I am trying to give a pretty clear signal I have made up my mind. I’m not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here,” Graham said at the time.
Unlike many House Republicans who have dismissed the need for any documents or new evidence to be presented at trial, Collins said she is “open to witnesses.” But she said it is baffling why the House did not enforce subpoenas issued to people like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and instead rushed to get the articles of impeachment passed before Christmas.
Collins repeatedly stated that Trump’s impeachment proceedings should mimic the bipartisan approach taken against Clinton in the late 1990s
“I have made that recommendation. I have spoken in our caucus, but since I’m one of the few members of the caucus who participated in the 1999 trial, I went back and gathered all the documents,” Collins said. “And I have shared with my colleagues my belief that the Clinton approach, the approach to the Clinton trial worked well.”
(CNN)More than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s rich nations are beginning to accept that Covid-19 is not going away — despite high vaccination rates drastically cutting the number of hospitalizations and deaths.
“If you had more New Yorks and New Jerseys — you know, Chicago, Detroit, L.A., Dallas, Houston, all of our major cities modeled like New York — that’s what gets us into trouble,” she said.
El cardenal estadounidense Raymond Leo Burke, considerado cabeza del sector ultraconservador que discute algunas decisiones del papa Francisco, ha sido enviado a la isla de Guam, en el Pacífico occidental, para ocuparse de las acusaciones contra el arzobispo por abusos sexuales a menores.
El viaje de Burke a esta pequeña isla, a más de 12.000 kilómetros de Roma, no responde a ningún tipo de decisión reciente del Vaticano, sino a que el pasado 5 de octubre se constituyó el Tribunal de Primera Instancia encargado de investigar este presunto caso de abusos cometido en la isla de Guam, y el presidente de dicho tribunal es el cardenal, aclararon fuentes vaticanas.
Como juez presidente de dicho tribunal, el cardenal Burke tiene el mandato de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe de tomar testimonio a los acusados y a las supuestas víctimas, explicó el Vaticano.
Burke deberá permanecer en la isla el tiempo necesario para que interrogar a los testigos y recoger todas las informaciones necesarias para elaborar su fascículo y después entregarlo a la Congregación de la Doctrina de la Fe.
La noticia del viaje de Burke a esta isla del Pacífico ha llamado la atención de los especialistas en el Vaticano debido a que el cardenal estadounidense ha protagonizado dos episodios de contestación al pontífice.
Burke es uno de los cuatro purpurados firmantes de la carta en la que se exigía al pontífice que resolviese cinco “dudas” sobre la exhortación apostólica post-sinodal “Amoris laetitia”, sobre todo relativas a la posibilidad de que los sacerdotes puedan acceder a dar la comunión a los divorciados vueltos a casar y que resultan en pecado por cometer “adulterio”.
El caso
El caso sobre el que indagará el cardenal es el del arzobispo de Guan, Anthony S. Apuron, de 71 años, y al que tres hombres le acusan de haber abusado sexualmente de ellos cuando eran monaguillos en los años 70, también la madre de una cuarta víctima, que ya ha muerto, acusa al arzobispo de estos cargos.
El arzobispo, que aún no ha sido imputado por la justicia civil, ha rechazado estas acusaciones.
El papa ya intervino hace seis meses cuando designó al arzobispo Savio Hon Tai-Fai como “administrador apostólico” en Guam ante la situación creada por las acusaciones.
“I guarantee you that because when you have an outbreak in one part of the country, even though in other parts of the country they’re doing well, they are vulnerable,” Fauci said. “I made that point very clearly last week at a press conference. We can’t just focus on those areas that are having a surge, it puts the entire country at risk.”
The outbreaks might be partly driven by states that reopened too soon and might have disregarded some of the federal guidance meant to help states restart safely, Fauci said.
“We’ve got to make sure that when states start to try to open again, they need to follow the guidelines that have been very carefully laid out with regard to checkpoints,” Fauci said earlier Tuesday. He added that some states might be “going too quickly” with regard to reopening and “skipping over some of the checkpoints.”
While much of the country was still shutdown in April, the White House published guidance to help states reopen businesses and parts of society to try to avoid a major resurgence of the virus. The guidance included recommendations like waiting to reopen until daily new cases steadily fall for 14 days, ramping up testing and contact tracing, and increasing hospital capacity.
However, the guidance was not mandatory and a number of the first and most aggressive states to reopen have since seen daily new cases spiral into full-fledged outbreaks, prompting officials to pause or reverse reopening efforts. Fauci added that it’s not just states that reopened early with outbreaks. In other states, expanding outbreaks could indicate that the public is not heeding public health precautions such as mask wearing and physical distancing.
Even in states where governors and mayors “did it right with the right recommendations, we saw visually in clips and in photographs of individuals in the community doing an all-or-none phenomenon, which is dangerous,” he said. “By all or none I mean, either be locked down or open up in a way where you see people at bars not wearing masks, not avoiding crowds, not paying attention to physical distancing.”
The “disregard of recommendations” that public health officials and scientists have made in response to the pandemic needs to be addressed, Fauci said. He urged people to follow the guidelines, practice physical distancing and wear a mask.
“I think the attitude of pushing back from authority and pushing back on scientific data is very concerning,” Fauci said. “We’re in the middle of catastrophic outbreak and we really do need to be guided by scientific principles.”
Fauci was responding to a question from Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, who said “we do not have enough tests and we do not have enough contact tracers.”
Contact tracing occurs when trained personnel contact infected people to investigate how they got Covid-19 and who they might have passed it to. Along with widespread testing and the ability to isolate potentially infectious people, tracing is an age-old public health intervention that is now being ramped up at an unprecedented scale.
“To just say you’re going to go out and identify, contact trace and isolate, that doesn’t mean anything until you do it,” Fauci told CNBC’s Meg Tirrell last week. “Not checking the box that you did it, but actually do it. Get people on the ground. Not on the phone. When you identify somebody, have a place to put them to get them out of social interaction.”
People are editing Ivanka Trump into historic photos and artworks after a video went viral showing her having an awkward exchange with world leaders at the G20 summit.
With the hashtag “#UnwantedIvanka,” people edited Ivanka into moments from the D-Day landings to a Muhammad Ali fight.
The video appeared to show Ivanka try to join in talks between leaders of the UK, France, and the IMF, and sparked new criticism of her senior White House role.
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification” and said Trump should bring a “qualified diplomat” to the summit.
People are editing Ivanka Trump into historic scenes with the hashtag “#UnwantedIvanka” after a video of her having an odd conversation with world leaders at the meeting of G20 leaders went viral.
The video, shared by the French government, appeared to show Ivanka trying to engage in conversation with UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, and IMF chairwoman Christine Lagarde.
The conversation seems awkward, and sparked new debate about how Ivanka, who is the eldest daughter of US President Donald Trump, landed her role as White House advisor and why she was at the summit.
Ivanka has been edited into photos of the D-Day landings, Martin Luther King’s speech, and famous artwork
Ivanka has been edited into some of history’s most important photos, from the D-Day landings, to the signing of the US Declaration of Independence, to some of the most important moments in cultural history.
Footage of the awkward talk led to renewed scrutiny over Ivanka’s role
The video, shared by the Élysée Palace — France’s equivalent to the White House — government, shows Ivanka appear to interrupt world leaders. They have shifted their bodies away from her and look away as she speaks.
You can see the video, shared on Twitter by BBC journalist Parham Ghobadi, here:
While it is not totally clear, Ivanka seems to interrupt Macron as to agree him as he says something about “social justice.” May then says: “As soon as you talk about the economic aspect of it though, a lot of people start listening who wouldn’t otherwise listen.”
Ivanka then says, with a smile: “And it’s the same with the defense side. In terms of the whole ecosystem, it’s been very male-dominated.”
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Nick Ayers, chief of staff to Vice President�Mike Pence, from left, Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, and Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, listen during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, April 9, 2018. Trump�promised U.S. farmers that they will emerge from a trade dispute with China better off despite threats from Beijing to impose tariffs targeting American agricultural products. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, left, and Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, listen during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, April 9, 2018. Trump�promised U.S. farmers that they will emerge from a trade dispute with China better off despite threats from Beijing to impose tariffs targeting American agricultural products. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, left, and Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, pose for photographers as they arrive for a dinner in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017.�Ivanka Trump lauded the Japanese governments efforts to increase female workforce participation during a speech in Tokyo on Friday, giving a high-profile boost to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Womenomics’ initiative. Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Pool via Bloomberg
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, left, and Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, pose for photographers as they arrive for a dinner in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017.�Ivanka Trump lauded the Japanese governments efforts to increase female workforce participation during a speech in Tokyo on Friday, giving a high-profile boost to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Womenomics’ initiative. Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Pool via Bloomberg
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, left, and Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, pose for photographers as they arrive for a dinner in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017.�Ivanka Trump lauded the Japanese governments efforts to increase female workforce participation during a speech in Tokyo on Friday, giving a high-profile boost to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Womenomics’ initiative. Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Pool via Bloomberg
Ivanka Trump, assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, right, speaks as Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, listens during a panel discussion at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. Near-term risks to world financial stability have declined since April amid improving macroeconomic conditions and the subsiding risk of emerging-market turmoil, the IMF said in its latest Global Financial Stability Report released yesterday. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(FILES) Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrive for a joint press conference by US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House on February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC.
While the new US president has shown a capacity to change, both his tone and his positions, he has been unable to show the world a ‘new’ Trump, with a steady presidential style and a clearly articulated worldview. As the symbolic milestone of his 100th day in power, which falls on April 29, 2017, draws near, a cold, hard reality is setting in for the billionaire businessman who promised Americans he would ‘win, win, win’ for them. At this stage of his presidency, he is the least popular US leader in modern history (even if his core supporters are still totally behind him.) / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN / TO GO WITH AFP STORY, US-politics-Trump-100days (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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The footage renewed scrutiny about Ivanka’s role in the White House, which began as she started informally advising her father when his presidency began.
It continued after she was made an official adviser in 2017, as people questioned whether she was qualified to be part of the administration’s staff.
Ivanka spoke at the G20 summit’s women’s empowerment event, where she calledon G20 leaders to do moreto strengthen economic freedom for women around the world.
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The footage led Democrats to question why Ivanka was able to attend the G20 summit and in the position to engage with world leaders.
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared the video, saying that Trump should bring a “qualified diplomat” to the summit.
“It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification. It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on,” she tweeted.
“The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either.”
And Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu said he wanted to “hear Ivanka Trump’s explanation about this video” and asked why her husband, Jared Kushner, still has security clearance.
I would like to hear Ivanka Trump’s explanation about this video.
Oh wait, Senior White House Advisor @IvankaTrump blocked me. Can you forward the below video to her and ask for her response? Thanks.
P.S. Can you also ask her why Jared Kushner still has a security clearance? https://t.co/qQ4xdrrpyl
Kushner is also an adviser to Trump, his father-in-law, and has come under scrutiny for his high-level security clearance and his close relationships with foreign governments as he spearheads some of Trump’s policies in the Middle East.
Ivanka has previously said that neither she nor Kushner received preferential treatment while being granted clearances.
But Trump has fanned the flames by suggesting that he would put Ivanka forward for more senior roles, including leading the World Bank.
Familiares de los pasajeros del vuelo MH370 pidieron investigar un presunto acto terrorista. Foto: AP.
La Procuraduría de París recibió esa petición en vez de por motivos de “homicidios involuntarios”, pues están convencidos de que hubo un acto terrorista, destacó el diario Le Figaro. Uno de los familiares, el abogado francés Ghislain Wattrelos quien perdió a su esposa, a sus dos hijos y a su cuñada en el drama, mantiene esa posición.
Wattrelos recordó que el pasado 15 de marzo, una semana después de la desaparición del avión de Malaysia Airlines, el gobierno de Malasia, donde estaba matriculada la aeronave, explicó que la desaparición de la nave fue el acto “deliberado” de una persona a bordo del vuelo.
También considera que la hipótesis terrorista es la adecuada por los datos que revelaron los satélites que indican que el vuelo MH370, que partió de Kuala Lumpur el ocho de marzo con destino a Pekín, cambió bruscamente de rumbo. De acuerdo al código penal francés, un “secuestro de aeronave” constituye un atentado terrorista, resaltaron los familiares.
Hasta el momento el juez que instruye el caso en Francia considera que por los datos existentes se debe aplicar la hipótesis de homicidio involuntario y no terrorismo, pero los familiares creen que se trata de que el caso quede olvidado.
“La inercia de la procuraduría es manifiesta. La línea es claramente mantener este tema fuera del campo terrorista” comentó uno de los representantes de los afectados en Francia. Los familiares planean constituirse en parte civil en el procedimiento judicial, de acuerdo a las fuentes.
One is a veteran establishment Democrat; the other is a young grassroots activist. Pelosi is Ms. Inside and Ocasio-Cortez is Ms. Outside. Pelosi is a shrewd and skilled political player. Ocasio-Cortez, already known simply as “AOC,” can work around the power structure because she commands the media like no other House member can. Between the two of them, they cover a lot of ground.
The Speaker’s contributions are manifest. She stonewalled the president’s obsession with bricks and mortar border security. While I watched President Trump’s televised speech folding on his beloved wall, I imagined Pelosi just off camera holding a gun to his head while he announced his concession. Teddy Roosevelt had his bully pulpit. Well,Trump is just a bully. Trump tried to face Pelosi down but she stood up to him and forced him to cave.
The president owned casinos so he should have known the house always wins. Trump underestimated Pelosi’s steely resolve but he should have known better. While she was House Minority Leader in the first half of Trump’s term, he failed to get a single Democratic vote in the House for his two most important legislative initiatives TrumpCare and his tax plan.
Critics have demanded for years that Democrats stand tall and go toe-to-toe with right-wing Republicans. Now they have stand-up Democrats like Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez to do the job. Both women are tough as nails. They bring different but complementary skill sets to the table.
The president found out the hard way that experience still matters in Washington. Pelosi is as experienced as anybody can be. Trump is a babe in the wild ways of Washington. AOC doesn’t have much experience but she has plenty of energy and she can channel the enthusiasm of the millennials who are the rising force in national politics.
AOC is a breath of fresh air in the fetid Washington swamp. She shares the public’s distaste for established economic and political power. No one should dismiss the representative from New York City as an extremist when she represents a national constituency of Americans who believe that government and the economy are rigged against working families.
She caused a major ruckus recently when she called for a 70 percent marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans. But most voters believe the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes and that the 2017 Trump tax scam favored corporations and wealthy Americans at the expense of working families.
Data from a national Gallup survey conducted last year demonstrated the public’s concern with tax fairness. Two of every three Americans indicated that they felt corporations (66 percent) and upper-income Americans (62 percent) paid too little in federal income taxes.
The marginal tax rate was higher than 70 percent under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower but somehow her proposal makes Ocasio-Cortez a radical. If she is a radical so are a majority of Americans.
Pelosi and AOC both want to repair the damage from the disastrous Trump tax law that lowered taxes for corporate America and raised the national debt to record levels. The Trump tax plan cheated middle-class Americans of their right to significant tax relief. Worse, it gave the GOP an excuse to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to bail the nation out from the deficit that Republicans themselves created.
Pelosi and Ocasio represent the two wings of the Democratic Party. But a bird needs both wings to fly. Both congresswomen want to fight corruption, improve health care coverage and to reduce income inequality. There are differences in opinion on the means to deal with these problems. The two Democrats and their supporters have their differences but if everybody focuses on their common concerns, they will accomplish a lot and lay the groundwork for a big Democratic victory in 2020 which will allow them to do even more with a Democratic President and Senate.
El analista político y periodista Leonardo Curzio dijo adiós a su noticiero radiofónico, cuya última emisión fue este miércoles 4 de octubre, que se transmitía en la primera emisión de Enfoque Noticias, de Núcleo Radio Mil, también se desempeñaba como director de Noticias.
Curzio se negó a quitar “La Tertulia”, una mesa de análisis que realizaba cada jueves junto a Ricardo Raphael, de CIDE, y María Amparo Casar, de Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, ya que aceptarlo hubiera significado despedir a sus dos colaboradores.
En entrevista con Aristegui Noticias, Curzio explicó que el dueño de la estación, Edilberto Huesca Perrotin, le pidió de manera cordial la cabeza de los dos colaboradores, a lo que amablemente rechazó.
“El lunes yo ratifiqué que no estaba dispuesto a entregar la cabeza de nadie… hay silencios que se explican por sí mismos”, dijo.
No me cesaron, me voy por mi propia voluntad. En efecto, me pidieron la cabeza de dos colaboradores.
Acerca de quién habría pedido al grupo radiofónico que sacara a sus colaboradores, Curzio aceptó que no quiso enterarse ni preguntar, aunque señaló que en algún momento se sabrá y pidió que la libertad de expresión en este país no se estreche más.
Por otra parte, Huesca Perrotin agradeció a Curzio por los 18 años de trabajo con ellos, y resaltó que en la empresa se ha llevado a cabo una reestructuración por la situación financiera y que “La Tertulia” no era económicamente rentable, porque su duración de unos 40 minutos, no le generaba ingresos, por lo que el consejo de administración tomó la medida de cortar éste y otros espacios y negó que se haya tratado de otras circunstancias.
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