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Las lluvias intensas que se desataron entre las 08:30 y que se prolongaron por 45 minutos dejaron varias viviendas anegadas por las aguas y muchos vehículos atascados en medio de calles inundadas. Bomberos y Policías debieron asistir a los llamados de emergencias a socorrer a personas que quedaron atrapadas en sus vehículos, principalmente en Avda. Barbieri y Luis Alberto de Herrera.

Las condiciones meteorológicas continúan inestables. El Río Uruguay en un nivel cercano a los 10 metros frente al Puerto de Salto y salido de cauce en algunos sitios interrumpe el tránsito vehicular.

En Salto rige una alerta meteorológica por lluvias y tormentas hasta las 18 horas.

Se aguarda por un nuevo informe de la Comisión Técnica Mixta de Salto Grande en cuanto al comportamiento del caudal del embalse de la represa sobre cómo va a afectar las lluvias que se registran en el Norte. Hasta hoy se preveía una marca de 10.30.

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Ten new pro-gun laws will take effect in Texas in four weeks, less than a month after 22 people died in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed the measures after they were passed in a 2019 legislative session that the National Rifle Association, or NRA, called “highly successful” at the time, celebrating that the measures “will further loosen Texas’ permissive gun laws” and would send the “gun control crowd home empty-handed.”

Texas is home to almost 1.4 million holders of active firearm licenses, and five of the 20 deadliest mass shootings in the United States since 1900 have occurred in the state. Among them is the rampage in El Paso, where authorities said Monday that the number of deaths had risen to 22.

The NRA said its “deepest sympathies are with the families and victims” of the shootings in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio, where nine people were killed Sunday. The organization said it wouldn’t “participate in the politicizing of these tragedies.”

The NRA did heavily influence the political process in Texas, however, lobbying for all 10 of the new bills, some of which will make it easier to store or carry guns in foster homes and on church and public school grounds:

  • Foster homes: A bill that was cleared May 21 and signed by Abbott weakens state laws on safe storage of firearms in foster homes.

Texas had previously permitted approved foster parents to keep licensed firearms in their homes, but only if weapons and ammunition were stored in separate locked locations. The new law allows guns and ammunition to be stored together in the same locked location — a protocol that is discouraged by the pro-gun National Shooting Sports Foundation.

When the law was passed, the NRA’s lobbying group, the Institute for Legislative Action, or NRA-ILA, called it “just the first step toward restoring the Second Amendment rights of foster parents and their families.”

  • Churches: A new law removes “the premises of a church, synagogue or other established place of religious worship” from the list of locations where carrying a licensed handgun is a misdemeanor. Beginning Sept. 1, gun owners will be allowed to carry properly licensed handguns into a church unless the church explicitly declares that it bans weapons on its grounds.

“Places of worship are not crime-free zones, as Texans sadly know,” the NRA-ILA said in backing the measure, apparently referring to the killings of 26 worshipers at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in November 2017. “And current law, as written, only serves to confuse and potentially disarm law-abiding citizens.”

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/many-call-tighter-gun-laws-texas-set-loosen-n1039481


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Updated 12/27/2018 10:38 AM EST


MSNBC’s viewership last week propelled the network to its first No. 1 cable news network “sales day” rating in 18 years, NBCUniversal announced.

The network averaged 1.56 million total viewers between 6 a.m. and 2 a.m. in the Dec. 17-21 business week — ahead of Fox News’ 1.54 million and CNN’s 975,000.

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It was the first time in three presidencies that MSNBC topped Fox News on that metric. The most recent week MSNBC beat Fox News there was Nov. 6, 2000, when former President George W. Bush was first elected.

MSNBC also beat Fox News in the crucial demographic of 25- to 54-year-olds last week — for the first time since Oct. 8, 2001, the network said, citing Nielsen data.

The cable network, which media observers often portray as the liberal counterpart to the conservative Fox News, also finished ahead of its two main competitors in prime time for the fourth consecutive week.

And it boasted the most-watched program on cable news last week, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which drew an average of 3.21 million viewers.

Correction: An earlier version of this story inaccurately described the time period in which MSNBC beat Fox News in ratings. It was the “sales day” rating for Dec. 17-21, which covers the hours between 6 a.m. and 2 a.m.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misstated the time frame in which MSNBC beat its competitors last week. It was 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/27/msnbc-fox-cable-ratings-number-one-1075872

Our nation is made great by the many immigrants who have come here and made themselves part of the American story. We will need more immigrants if the federal government is to avoid bankruptcy.

But good government demands an understanding of who lives here and what lives they lead. Correspondingly, the Trump administration is correct to include the question on the 2020 census: “Are you a citizen of the United States?” That inclusion of that question will soon be ruled upon by the Supreme Court. Until then, and perhaps afterward, Democrats will remain upset.

Some of their concerns are more justified than others. Take the analysis from left-wing news site Vox. Senior Correspondent Dara Lind notes that Democrats in blue states are “worried [the question’s inclusion] will make their residents less likely to return their census forms — and thus hurt their apportionment in Congress after the 2020 census results are tallied.”

If the best reason not to do this is that Democrats rely on non-voter illegal immigrants to artificially boost their apportionment of seats in the post-2020 House of Representatives — well, do they really want to admit to that?

Other excuses against the citizenship question seem more justified. It is more reasonable, for example, to believe that longtime illegal residents of the U.S. might not complete the census form in fear of being identified and deported. That would negatively affect the development of good policy and also risk inaccurate social science analysis.

Still, the basic point here is whether it is appropriate to ask residents of America whether they are citizens. I believe it is.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/yes-ask-a-citizenship-question-on-the-census

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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/

Britain on Thursday accused Russia of a “war crime” for an attack the previous day on a children’s and maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Ukrainian officials have said that at least three people, including a young girl, were killed in the strike, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky labelled an “atrocity” soon after it happened.

U.K. armed forces minister James Heappey said Thursday that regardless of whether it was “indiscriminate” fire by Russia into a built-up area or a deliberate targeting of a health facility, “it is a war crime.”

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking alongside Poland’s president Thursday in Warsaw, noted the attack on the hospital and said the world was witnessing “atrocities of unimaginable proportions in Ukraine.” 

“We stand with the people of Ukraine,” Harris said after reaffirming America’s “ironclad” commitment to defend NATO nations.  

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends a news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda (not pictured) at Belwelder Palace, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland March 10, 2022.

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Asked later if she believed Russia’s actions should be investigated as possible war crimes, Harris said “when it comes to crimes and violations of international norms” the U.S. was “clear that any intentional attack on innocent victims is a violation.”

She said the United Nations had an established process to determine whether war crimes had been committed, and “absolutely there should be an investigation. The eyes of the world are on this war and what Russia has done.”  

An injured pregnant woman walks downstairs at the bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. 

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Speaking after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday in Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the claims of a Russian attack on a functioning hospital as lies and propaganda. 

“It is not the first time we have seen pathetic outcries concerning the so-called atrocities” by Russia, Lavrov said, claiming the hospital was being used as a base by an “ultra-radical” Ukrainian battalion. He said Russia had submitted data to the United Nations “days ago” to prove its claim, and accused foreign media of manipulating information on the strike.

Lavrov claimed no patients or staff had been at the facility, which he insisted had “long ago become a base for extremists.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a news conference after meeting with his counterparts Ukrainian Dmytro Kuleba and Turkish Mevlut Cavusoglu, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Antalya, Turkey, March 10, 2022.

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CBS News’ Pamela Falk reported from United Nations headquarters that Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vassily Nebenzia did tell Security Council members on March 7 that “locals” in Mariupol had reported “that Ukraine’s Armed Forces kicked out personnel of natal hospital #1 of the city of Mariupol and set up a firing site within the facility.” 

Nebenzia offered no evidence to support the claim, and Russia has been accused for weeks by the West of making false statements to create a pretext for attacks in Ukraine.

“We lost three people, including a child, a girl. The number of wounded is 17. These are children, women, medical workers,” Ukraine’s Zelensky said in a video address on Thursday.

“This topic was mentioned on Russian TV,” said Zelensky. “But not a word of truth was said. The Russians were lied to that there had been no patients in the hospital and no women or children in the maternity hospital. The Russians were lied to that ‘nationalists’ had allegedly taken up positions there. They lie confidently, as always.”

CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata said the massive airstrike on the hospital in Mariupol shattered a fragile cease-fire in the southern port city of Mariupol late Wednesday afternoon amid efforts to evacuate civilians from the besieged city.

Emergency teams and soldiers scrambled to evacuate the wounded, including pregnant women, from the hospital. The blast destroyed the complex inside and out, and the size and depth of the crater and the surrounding debris were clear evidence of its ferocity, D’Agata said. 

Albania’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ferit Hoxha, speaking Thursday to the Security Council, dismissed Russian allegations that the hospital was being used by any armed forces.

“What we saw were women in labor among rubble. We condemn this in the strongest terms. This is a crime which should not remain unpunished and no one should get away with crime,” Hoxha said according to Falk.  

Mariupol has come under heavy Russian bombardment for days, cutting off power and water to more than 400,000 people trapped in the city. Ukrainian officials say at least 1,200 civilians have been killed there since the war began, and images have shown city workers placing bodies into a mass grave.  

A car burns outside the damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol, March 9, 2022. 

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Ukrainian officials said at least seven more civilians were killed in further Russian artillery attacks overnight, and the city council said on Thursday that the rocket fire continued, hitting more civilian infrastructure.

“Bombs are hitting houses,” the council said in a social media post. 

A video shared on the Telegram social media app by Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and a former member of the Ukraine’s parliament, showed what he said were fresh strikes hitting central Mariupol on Thursday. 

An image from video shared on the Telegram social media app by Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and a former member of the Ukraine’s parliament, shows what he said were fresh Russian strikes hitting central Mariupol on March 10, 2022. BBC News said it had confirmed the location of the video as being central Mariupol.

Telegram/Anton Gerashchenko


“Russian occupiers continue to shell residential areas of Mariupol. The maternity and the children’s hospitals are not enough for them, they want more victims among the civilians,” Gerashchenko said in his post.

A humanitarian convoy trying to reach Mariupol was forced to turn back on Thursday because of ongoing fighting, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.

After his discussion with Lavrov on Thursday, Ukraine’s Kuleba said he was prepared to meet his counterpart again to “continue engagement” aimed at first establishing a cease-fire and humanitarian corridor for Mariupol, saying the city was at the epicenter of the humanitarian crisis in his country. 

Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-maternity-hospital-bombed-uk-says-war-crime/

Hurricane Dorian strengthened and shifted slightly early Saturday, setting it on course to potentially miss a direct hit with Florida and make landfall in the Carolinas.

But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is warning residents to remain vigilant, warning that the Category 4 storm could still change course again and that even if does not make landfall in the state it could bring dangerous storm surges and flooding.

“As you’re looking at these forecasts, a bump in one direction or the other could have really significant ramifications in terms of impact,” DeSantis said at a Saturday morning news conference. If it bumps just a little west, then you’re looking at really, really significant impacts.”

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Broward County has issued a mandatory evacuation order starting Sunday, DeSantis said, while Martin County issued a partial evacuation. A number of areas, including Glades, St. Lucie and Osceola counties, have issued voluntary evacuation orders, according to DeSantis.

The National Hurricane Center announced Saturday morning that “there’s been a notable change overnight to the forecast of Dorian after Tuesday,” but it stressed that the shift does not rule out the possibility of the storm making landfall on the Florida coast.

Dorian became a potentially devastating Category 4 storm Friday evening as it continued to churn in the Atlantic Ocean on its course to the southeastern United States early next week.

“It’s important to stress that this doesn’t paint Florida as out of the woods yet,” said Kathryn Prociv, a meteorologist for NBC News.

“Florida is still very much in the red zone,” she added.

Full coverage: Latest stories and video on Hurricane Dorian

Dorian will continue westward through the weekend but is then forecast to turn northward as it approaches the east coast of Florida early next week, the center said. It will bring “risks of life-threatening storm surge, devastating hurricane-force winds, heavy rainfall and flooding along its path.”

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. ET advisory Saturday, the storm was located 280 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas and 445 miles east of West Palm Beach.

The latest forecast track has narrowed the “Cone of Concern,” as Miami-Dade County no longer faces the threat of the center of the hurricane. Parts of Broward County, including Fort Lauderdale, remain in the possible path of a Dorian landfall, according to the NHC.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hurricane-dorian-strengthens-shifts-towards-carolinas-florida-forecast-avoid-direct-n1048601

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Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has expressed interest in the Trump campaign’s relationship with the National Rifle Association during the 2016 campaign.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/mueller-nunberg-trump-campaign-nra/index.html

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    New York (CNN Business)American reporters asked President Trump about Michael Cohen’s testimony during a photo opportunity between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Wednesday.

      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/media/trump-kim-summit-reporters/index.html

      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/

      Tim Howard, portero de la Selección de Estados Unidos, del Everton y uno de los arqueros más espectaculares de la pasada Copa del Mundo en Brasil, habló sobre la actualidad de la Selección Mexicana analizando a sus máximas estrellas como a Giovani dos Santos, a quien considera como el elemento más talentoso de México; sobre Guillermo Ochoa indicó que le da mucho gusto ver a otro portero de la zona (CONCACAF) en un nivel tan alto. Howard consideró que ‘Memo’ fue uno de los mejores arqueros del Mundial pasado. 

      Por último tocó al delantero mexicano del Mancheter United, Javier Hernández, a quien describió como su “némesis”, ya que siempre le hace gol, y además, de acuerdo a su opinión, Chicharito no corresponde al biotipo del futbolista mexicano, ya que corre más que los demás y siempre juega al límite. 

      Asimismo, lo describió como una gran persona, futbolista, y que suele encontrarselo en Manchester debido a que viven cerca. 

      Source Article from http://www.foxsportsla.com/noticias/167014-tim-howard-javier-chicharito-hernandez-es-mi-nemesis

      Transcurría el cuarto periodo del partido que Portland le ganó a Dallas, 108-87, cuando ocurrió la desgracia. De repente, en pleno tiempo muerto, en la grada se originó un revuelo nada habitual. Una mujer de 67 años había caído fulminada, inconsciente, y trataban de reanimarla. Los servicios de urgencia intentaron todas las maniobras previstas para la ocasión. El Moda Center enmudeció y la mujer, en camilla, abandonó el pabellón ante la sorpresa del público y de los jugadores.

      Poco después se confirmaron las peores noticias cuando el Hospital Legacy Emanuel confirmó el fallecimiento de la aficionada cuyo nombre no ha trascendido.

      Tras el partido, algunos de los jugadores de los Blazers recordaban lo que vivieron: “Estaba sentado en el banquillo”, decía Damian Lillard, “concentrado en el tiempo muerto y no sabía lo que estaba pasando. “Entonces vi que toda la gente miraba en una dirección y entonces me di cuenta de lo que pasaba. Incluso cuando no conoces a la persona…, sigue siendo alguien capaz de venir aquí para animarnos. Odio que pasen estas cosas a cualquiera”.

      Terry Stotts: “Obviamente es un momento muy triste. Creo que nos cogió a todos por sorpresa. Nunca, en ningún partido en el que he estado, he vivido una situación como esta y a todos los que estábamos en el pabellón nos ha afectado. Nuestros pensamientos y oraciones están con su familia”.

      LaMarcus Aldridge: “Una noticia muy triste de oir. Recé una oración por ella durante el partido y volví a rezar por ella la pasada noche. Tenía esperanzas de que se recuperara. Es algo que obviamente no nos gusta ni ver ni experimentar. Creo que la franquicia hará algo para ayudar a la familia”.

      Wesley Matthews: “Es muy duro vivir algo así. Nuestras oraciones están con su familia. Estos momentos son realmente muy tristes”.

      Nicolas Batum: “Malas noticias. Lo primero es expresar mis condolencias con la familia porque son momentos muy duros para ellos. Durante el partido, cuando tuvo lugar el suceso, se respiraba mucha tristeza, porque este equipo, esta ciudad, esta comunidad es como una gran familia”.

      Chris Kaman: “Es muy triste. Mi corazón se rompió mientras veía cómo trataban de reanimarla. Es muy duro. En el vestuario, todos, rezaremos una oración por ella. Es casi surrealista presenciar algo como esto. Te hace replantearte algunas cosas de tu vida”.

      Las reacciones de los jugadores de los Blazers

      Source Article from http://www.marca.com/2014/11/07/baloncesto/nba/noticias/1415399452.html

      “No. The president has made clear that he is focused on ensuring that vaccines are accessible to every American. That is our focus,” Psaki told reporters at a White House press briefing.

      “The next step is economic recovery. And that is ensuring that our neighbors, Mexico and Canada, have similarly managed the pandemic, so that we can open our borders and build back better,” she added.

      For the time being, however, “the administration’s focus is on ensuring that every American is vaccinated,” Psaki said. “And once we accomplish that objective, we’re happy to discus further steps beyond that.”

      Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will join Biden for his meeting with López Obrador. The leaders will discuss “a new phase of the U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship,” Psaki said, with a specific emphasis on “migration, recovery from Covid-19, climate change and security.”

      On Saturday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine — the third shot to be cleared for use in the U.S., after those from Pfizer and Moderna.

      Weekly vaccine shipments to states have ramped up to 14.5 million over the past month, and drugmakers testified last week that the U.S. is on track to have 3 million doses per day available by April.

      Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/01/biden-mexico-covid-vaccine-sharing-471939

      Few Americans alive today have set foot inside North Korea, the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship sometimes called the Hermit Kingdom.

      On Sunday, Ivanka Trump became one of them, capping a consequential three-day Asian trip in which the president’s eldest daughter played a very public role that blended family ties with diplomatic work that is usually performed by diplomats.

      She pronounced the short walk to the other side of one of the world’s most fortified borders “surreal.”

      Previously, at the Group of 20 economic summit in Japan, Ivanka Trump was everywhere — at her father’s side at times when other leaders’ spouses were present (first lady Melania Trump skipped the trip), in meetings where her presence puzzled other participants, and even giving an awkward video “readout” of Trump’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

      Another video of Ivanka Trump talking with British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde at the G-20 also went viral over the weekend. Lagarde’s impatient side-eye as Ivanka Trump interjects in what appears to have been a back-and-forth between Macron and May suggested irritation at finding herself standing alongside the daughter of the U.S. president — rather than the president himself.

      “As soon as you charge them with that economic aspect of it, a lot of people start listening who otherwise wouldn’t listen,” May can be heard saying, as Lagarde nods in agreement.

      “And the same with the defense side of it, in terms of the whole business that’s been, sort of, male-dominated,” Ivanka Trump then says, as a startled-looking Lagarde turns toward her, then purses her lips.

      The first daughter’s prominence in Japan and South Korea appeared to be by design — a sign of her influence with President Trump and the current absence of influential opponents within the administration.

      It’s not clear, however, to what end.

      Ivanka Trump shuttered her clothing business after joining the administration, although not right away, and has largely stepped away from her old life as an entrepreneur and social mainstay in New York. She and her husband, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, let it be known last year that they would remain in Washington and in the White House indefinitely.

      Her ambitions are unknown — she demurs on any desire for public office. Over time, her work on women’s issues and entre­pre­neur­ship has increasingly resembled that of a State Department envoy. She made a lengthy trip to India in November 2017, and several others since, sometimes with her father and sometimes on her own. On a solo Africa trip in April, Trump said she would campaign for women’s right to own and inherit land in Africa and promote a $50 million U.S. development project in Ethiopia.

      The gray area she occupies — family, employee, envoy, advocate — frequently overlaps with the work of career diplomats. But her unfamiliarity with some elements of diplomacy were on display on this trip, including when she pronounced India a “critical ally.” It is a partner in many areas, but U.S. diplomats avoid the higher terminology of ally.

      Mostly, her prominence on a major foreign trip sends a message about who other countries should listen to or court, said Christopher R. Hill, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and other nations.

      “It looks to the rest of the world like we have a kind of a constitutional monarchy,” said Hill, who oversaw nuclear talks with North Korea at the close of the George W. Bush administration.

      “It’s increasingly problematic in terms of our credibility,” Hill said. “It says to our allies, to everyone we do business with, that the only people who matter are Trump and his family members.”

      Ivanka Trump had front-row seats at nearly every televised session in Japan and for President Trump’s visit to South Korea, where the trip to the demilitarized zone was the main event. She and Kushner were among the small U.S. delegation at the border, which included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo but not White House national security adviser John Bolton, a longtime skeptic of diplomacy with North Korea. Bolton instead had left to fly to Mongolia.

      Ivanka Trump worked the room at a meeting of South Korean business leaders on Saturday, with cameras catching the smiling interactions. Pompeo did not attend. She remained in the front row at Trump’s news conference in Seoul, nodding in agreement as the president spoke, after Pompeo ducked out minutes into the event.

      Along the way were opportunities for the kind of “branding” Ivanka Trump espouses as a tool for empowering women — a main theme of her work as presidential adviser, some of it captured on her Instagram account.

      A video shows Ivanka Trump looking into the camera as she recounts meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Modi and others at the G-20, and touts a program launched by G-20 members to expand access to capital for women in the developing world.

      “It’s been a great success; one of the truly great deliverables of the G-20 in Hamburg” two years ago, Ivanka Trump says. “Very excited to talk about the deliverables of this important initiative.”

      She also posted a photo in which she and Kushner pose with Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

      “Today, President Trump held dynamic and productive meetings with many world leaders to discuss key security and economic issues. It is an honor to be a member of the U.S. delegation during an incredible first day of the #G20OsakaSummit,” she wrote.

      But the final day of Trump’s trip — with the history-making trip to the DMZ and an address to U.S. forces stationed in South Korea that had at times sounded like a campaign rally — produced the most dramatic images of Ivanka Trump in her hybrid and often inscrutable role.

      Trump invited Pompeo onstage at the Osan Air Base, and gave a nod to traditional diplomacy by saying that a “whole team” would follow up on Trump’s third face-to-face discussion with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

      Pompeo trotted onto the stage and started toward Trump but hadn’t made it to the lectern when Trump moved on to the big reveal.

      “And you know who else I have?” he asked, leaning toward the crowd for dramatic effect.

      “Has anybody ever heard of Ivanka? he asked, to whoops from the crowd.

      “Come up here,” he commanded, as Ivanka Trump appeared at the rear of the stage.

      “She’s going to steal the show,” Trump said, grinning.

      As Pompeo fell in beside Ivanka Trump and the two walked toward him, President Trump quipped, “What a beautiful couple,” and the audience howled. “Mike! Beauty and the beast,” Trump went on, as he also acknowledged Harry Harris, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea.

      Pompeo appeared to gesture to Ivanka Trump to go first, but she stepped aside and signaled for him to speak. After Pompeo briefly thanked the troops, there was a roar as Ivanka Trump stepped forward. President Trump and Pompeo flanked her, grinning, as she also thanked the troops and their spouses and families.

      “They made the trip with me, and we spent a lot of time, a lot of time,” the president said.

      Ivanka Trump’s presence at the DMZ is particularly troubling, said Jenny Town, a North Korea specialist at the Stimson Center and editor of 38 North, a publication focused on North Korea.

      “It was not appropriate for Trump to bring his kids to this meeting,” Town said. “But it was a weird mix of people on the U.S. side to begin with. What’s notable, however, is who wasn’t there: Bolton.”

      Trump has sidelined or fired some professional national security advisers and undercut others, including at times Pompeo and Bolton. He has never publicly criticized or contradicted Ivanka Trump or Jared Kushner, although he has jokingly teased Kushner at times.

      Pompeo spoke to reporters after the DMZ visit and outlined some of the bureaucratic next steps with North Korea.

      Pompeo was asked whether his presence at the DMZ was a signal to North Korea, which has complained about him and reportedly sought to go around him with Trump. Pompeo, who enjoys a close relationship with Trump, did not mention Ivanka Trump in his answer, though her presence Sunday had served to underscore the personal nature of Trump’s direct diplomacy with Kim.

      “So far as I know, President Trump has always had me in charge” of negotiations, Pompeo said.

      John Hudson in Washington, Simon Denyer in Seoul, Seung Min Kim in Panmunjon, Korea, and Carol Morello in Anchorage contributed to this report.

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