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PITTSBURGH – It’s a 50-50 weekend ahead, with outdoor weather Saturday and the threat for severe weather Sunday.

Hit the bike trail or the park during the day Saturday, as temperatures climb back near 70 degrees under a mix of clouds and sunshine.

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Saturday evening will be perfect for hanging out with friends or family around the firepit, too, as temperatures dip down into the low 50s.

By Sunday, a strong system will bring showers back into the area early, with thunderstorms by the afternoon.

If you want to receive ALERTS about weather, please download our WPXI News App.

Some of the storms could bring heavy rain, frequent lightning and damaging winds, so you’ll want to check back often through the weekend for the latest updates, especially if you’re planning to do things outdoors.

Our team of meteorologists will be tracking the system, and we’ll bring you the latest timing on when the system will have the biggest impact on your weekend plans. 


 

 

 

 

 

 


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A 1991 photo of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend who now faces multiple counts of sex trafficking.

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A 1991 photo of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend who now faces multiple counts of sex trafficking.

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A federal judge has unsealed hundreds of pages of transcripts and other documents related to a now-settled defamation suit brought against Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping the late Jeffrey Epstein run a sex trafficking operation that catered to rich and powerful men.

The documents include a deposition given by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the draft of a memoir she was writing about her experiences inside the sex-trafficking ring, and email exchanges between Maxwell and Epstein.

Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, was charged earlier this month on several counts related to sex trafficking of minors and perjury. She has pleaded not guilty in that case. The 2015 defamation suit was brought by Giuffre after the British socialite accused her of lying when she alleged Epstein and Maxwell had sexually abused and exploited her.

Among other things, the documents included an email exchange in which Epstein protested his innocence and appeared to provide Maxwell with a statement to the media or set of talking points that she might use in defending herself against the allegations.

Maxwell had been the “target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harassment,” the email said in language that pushed back against “false allegations of impropriety and offensive behavior that I abhor and have never ever been party to.”

A few days later, responding to an email from Maxwell, Epstein wrote: “You have done nothing wrong and I (would) urge you to start acting like it.” He urged her to “go outside, head high, not as an (escaping) convict. go to parties. deal with it.”

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the documents unsealed last week after Maxwell’s lawyer Laura Menninger made a last-minute appeal to keep them from going public, arguing that they could damage her defense.

Preska ordered “many” of the case’s documents to be released last week, but she gave Menninger one week to file an emergency appeal with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. As she granted that delay, Preska also ordered both sides in the case to prepare for the records to be unsealed — including making any necessary redactions.

Even so, Preska criticized Maxwell’s defense team, saying the court was “troubled—but not surprised—that Ms. Maxwell has yet again sought to muddy the waters as the clock ticks closer to midnight.”

The defamation case generated more than 1,200 court docket entries, but many important documents have never been exposed. The case’s docket report described more than 50 records as “SEALED DOCUMENT placed in vault.”

Giuffre has said Epstein arranged for her to have sex with powerful men, including Britain’s Prince Andrew. The abuse took place at Epstein’s many properties, she said, including in Florida, New York and on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The prince has denied the allegation. In recent months, federal prosecutors in New York have repeatedly said they would like to speak to the prince, who is seen in a widely circulated photograph with his arm around Giuffre’s waist, with Maxwell smiling in the background.

Epstein’s social life also included ties with President Trump and former President Bill Clinton, who has distanced himself from Epstein.

Giuffre’s case against Maxwell was settled in 2017, but Giuffre had insisted many of the records should be made public. The Miami Herald and investigative reporter Julie K. Brown — whose work has helped substantiate the accusations against Epstein — also sought the records’ release.

The two sides wrestled over a central argument: Giuffre said it would serve the public interest to open access to the records. Maxwell claimed that to do so would unfairly harm people whose names appear in the documents. And with Maxwell now facing criminal charges, her attorney, said releasing the records would jeopardize her client’s right to a fair trial.

As of today, many of those records are finally coming to light.

Maxwell, 58, is currently in a federal jail in Brooklyn, N.Y.

“Maxwell was among Epstein’s closest associates and helped him exploit girls who were as young as 14 years old,” Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said after Maxwell was arrested early this month.

Maxwell has denied allegations linking her to Epstein’s exploitation of girls and young women, including under sworn testimony. But federal authorities now accuse her of committing perjury during depositions.

In legal records about Epstein, Giuffre was once known only as “Jane Doe No. 102.” But she decided to speak out publicly “in hopes of helping others who had also suffered from sexual trafficking and abuse,” according to her lawsuit against Maxwell.

Giuffre has said she fell under Maxwell and Epstein’s influence in 1999, when she was 15 years old and working at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Fla., resort owned by Trump. She says Maxwell recruited her to give Epstein a massage – and that years of sexual abuse followed, including instructions for Giuffre to have sex with Epstein’s friends.

Epstein never faced a federal trial for the crimes he was accused of. Roughly a month after his arrest on sex trafficking charges last summer, he died after being found unresponsive in his jail cell in Manhattan. His death at age 66 was ruled a suicide.

Accusations against Epstein have long been obscured by legal maneuvers — such as a controversial non-prosecution agreement he reached in 2007 with federal prosecutors in Florida. That plea deal with then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta exposed Epstein to state charges but prevented him and any co-conspirators from being prosecuted for federal sex crimes in southern Florida.

Under the deal, Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to two counts of solicitation of prostitution — one with a minor under the age of 18 — and was sentenced to 18 months in a county jail. He was also required to register as a sex offender. But the wealthy hedge fund manager was allowed to leave incarceration for work five days a week and was released five months early.

As part of the 2007 deal, Acosta agreed to a “confidentiality” provision, in which his office agreed not to tell Epstein’s victims about the non-prosecution agreement until after it won a judge’s approval. Last year, a federal judge ruled that the arrangement had violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

Several women who have accused Epstein and Maxwell of serial sexual abuse nearly got a chance to tell their stories in court for the first time in late 2018, as part of a separate defamation case. But Epstein settled that dispute at the last minute, blocking the women’s bid to testify against him.

Weeks after Epstein’s death, around 20 of his accusers got a chance to speak out against him in court, telling their stories before a judge ruled on prosecutors’ request to dismiss the case. One of the women, Teala Davies, called it “a day of power and strength.”

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GABBY Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie stayed in a $78-a-night motel after police stopped them following a domestic violence call, it has been revealed.

Staff at the Bowen Motel in Moab, Utah, confirmed the 23-year-old had stayed at the accommodation after police drove him there on August 12.

Utah police brought Brian Laundrie to Bowen Motel in Moab after responding to a domestic violence call on August 12Credit: YouTube
The motel in Moab, Utah where Laundrie was brought toCredit: YouTube
The couple went on a road trip across the US in July, but only Laundrie returnedCredit: Instagram @gabspetito

Bowen Motel confirmed staff have been co-operating with the police’s investigation into Gabby’s killing.

Laundrie was taken to the motel after Moab police decided not file any charges and instead separated the couple for the night following the roadside stop.

Bodycam shows that Gabby’s fiancé told police he could not afford a hotel for the night.

So he was instead booked a room at the motel which is sometimes used for domestic abuse survivors.

SHOCK BODYCAM VID

Police in Moab pulled the couple over and spoke to them 13 days before Gabby went missing.

The police stop came on the same day a 911 call was made about a domestic violence incident, with the caller claiming to see Laundrie hitting Gabby.

Harrowing body camera footage was released by the Moab PD, showing officers pulling over the couple in their 2012 white Ford Transit van.

With tears streaming down her face, Gabby told the officer: “We’ve just been fighting this morning. Some personal issues.”

Gabby was visibly distressed as she explained to the officer what they had been arguing about, while Laundrie was seen joking and laughing with the cops.

“We have been fighting all morning and he wouldn’t let me in the car before,” she said, telling the cops Laundrie “really stresses me out” and it had been a “rough morning”.

Gabby admitted hitting Laundrie, who told the officers with a smile that he had pushed Gabby several times in a bid to fend her off.

Scratches are visible on his face and arm, according to a police report.

Elsewhere in the clip, Gabby is interviewed again while sitting in the back of the cop car.

An officer asks her if Laundrie hit her. She responds “I guess” through tears, and then clasps her chin in a grabbing motion to reenact what Laundrie allegedly did.

“He like, did that with his hand,” she says, as the audio cuts out.

She adds that she suffers from “anxiety” and that Laundrie “gets frustrated a lot.”

According to police, Gabby and Laundrie were reluctant to separate but ultimately agreed to do so.

The side of the motel where Laundrie stayed after being separated from GabbyCredit: YouTube
The vlogger looked visibly distressed in the police’s bodycam footageCredit: Instagram

They helped Laundie stay at the Bowen Motel while Petito took possession of the van.

The bodycam footage was captured 13 days before Petito was last seen in person.

Petito, who had been traveling across the country with Laundrie in their camper van since July 2, was last known to have been visiting Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on August 25.

She was officially reported missing by her mom on September 11, two weeks after she’d last spoken to her daughter on the phone, and ten days after Laundrie returned home to Florida in their van without her.

An autopsy performed on Tuesday confirmed that the body of Gabby had been found in Wyoming.

FBI HUNT

Laundrie is now being hunted by the FBI after an arrest warrant was issued for the 23-year-old.

Laundrie is accused of swiping Gabby’s Capital One debit card and running up a $1,000 balance from August 31 until September 1.

The statement revealed that “On September 22, 2021, the U.S. District Court of Wyoming issued a federal arrest warrant for Brian Christopher Laundrie.”

“No piece of information is too small or inconsequential to support our efforts in this investigation,” the statement added.

Gabby’s family is asking for donations ahead of her funeral to the future Gabby Petito Foundation.

Attorney Richard Stafford says they can be made electronically at: https://Johnnymacfoundation.org.

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Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber blamed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the state reported 21,683 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, its highest single-day total during the ongoing pandemic.

“We’re not allowed to have mask mandates now, we were one of the first cities to require it and we charged a fine just to get people to do it. The governor stopped allowing us to do it and then immediately we saw a surge across our county and state when he did that,” Gelber told CNN.

The Democratic mayor said city officials are “trying to do everything we can to get around the governor’s very wrong-headed desires.”

The state has emerged as the new epicenter of the virus, accounting for about 20 percent of all new cases in the nation. As the highly virulent Delta variant spreads throughout most parts of the US, DeSantis, a Republican, has vowed not to instate mask mandates or further lockdowns, often criticizing public health guidance for being too far reaching.

Dan Gelber, Miami Beach Mayor, wears a facemask after an interview with the AFP in Miami Beach, Florida on June 16, 2020.
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The record Friday case figure, released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Saturday, shows how fast cases can surge from just one day earlier, when Florida reported 17,903 new cases. With vaccine rates, Florida ranks midway among states with about 60 percent of its population over 12 vaccinated.

“The governor has made it as difficult as possible to make people safe,” Gelber said. “He’s like the pied piper leading everybody off a cliff right now by letting them know that they don’t have to like the CDC, they don’t have to wear masks, that they can do whatever they want when we’re in the midst of an enormous pandemic.”

DeSantis on Friday prevented school districts from requiring children returning to classes in August to wear masks. Faced with backlash from health experts, the governor defended the move as one that would enable students to better focus on learning and enhance the classroom experience. He also argued that there’s no evidence to suggest that masks stop outbreaks among school children, which is against CDC guidelines.

“I have young kids. My wife and I are not going to do the mask with the kids. We never have. We won’t. I want to see my kids smiling. I want them having fun,” he said during a press conference.

The governor, who’s seeking reelection in 2022, blames the surge of COVID-19 on a hot summer that has seen people stay indoors with air conditioning, rather than outside where the virus is less likely to spread.

Newsweek reached out to DeSantis’ office for comment.

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Comisionado José Luis Álvarez manifestó que lo ocurrido es una campaña de desinformación por parte del Frente de Defensa.








Ante los sucesos que se vienen presentando en el distrito de Pichanaki, provincia de Chanchamayo (región Junín), el alto comisionado de la Oficina de Diálogo de la Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (PCM), José Luis Álvarez, declaró a RPP Noticias que una comisión viajará a esta ciudad para buscar una solución a dicho conflicto.

Álvarez manifestó que en estos momentos se encuentran reunidos con el presidente regional de la región Junín, el alcalde de Pichanaki, así como el congresista Jhonny Cárdenas, a fin de preparar la comisión que viajaría en la brevedad posible con los viceministros de Energía y Minas; y del Ambiente.

Ante lo ocurrido, recalcó que lo que se viene presentando es por una campaña de desinformación por parte del Frente de Defensa, señalando que existiría una contaminación por parte de la empresa PlusPetrol.

Es falso, puesto que no hay actividad petrolera ni gasífera, lo que hay es estudios de exploración que realizaron durante los últimos meses para ver si existe gas o no en la región. No hay actividad, es una campaña de desinformación”, manifestó en entrevista a RPP Noticias.

Asimismo, señaló que la oficina de diálogo del Ambiente ha realizado campañas informativas, tanto con autoridades como alcaldes y organizaciones, incluso las comunidades nativas que se encuentran cerca entendieron esto y muchas organizaciones están en contra del paro.

Sobre el enfrentamiento que dejó hasta el momento un muerto y más de ocho heridos, manifestó que el hecho se produjo cuando los manifestantes intentaron tomar la comisaría de Pichanaki, donde se produjo en enfrentamiento con miembros del Ejército.

Finalmente, manifestó que la información sobre más de 80 heridos es por pate de medios locales que apoyan este paro, por lo que pide a los medios de comunicación informen sobre el trabajo de la Comisión de Alto Nivel a fin de resolver esta situación.

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Pero este no será el único cambio. La pareja de presentadores formada por Matías Prats y Mónica Carrillo se pone al frente de las ediciones de fin de semana. Mientras que Álvaro Zancajo y Sandra Golpe presentarán el informativo de las 21:00 horas de lunes a viernes. Vicente Vallés y Lourdes Maldonado se mantienen en la edición del mediodía. También lo hacen María José Sáez y Esther Vaquero, en la edición matinal.

Juego de colores en el plató | Foto: Atresmedia

 

Antena 3 mantiene su apuesta por la mejor información deportiva con Manu Sánchez, en Antena 3 Noticias 2; Ainhoa Arbizu, en la primera edición; Javier Alba en Las noticias de la mañana; y Óscar Castellanos, en el fin de semana.

Una temporada más, la información meteorológica sigue a cargo de Roberto Brasero, director de un equipo integrado por Himar González, Gema Chiverto y César Gonzalo.

Junto a ellos, ha regresado hoy ‘Espejo Público’, el magazine producido por informativos que presenta Susanna Griso y que se mantiene fiel a su seña de identidad: la actualidad y la información, incorporando nuevas caras a las distintas secciones del programa como Lara Álvarez, Estíbaliz Gabilondo y Diego Revuelta.

Como en cursos anteriores, Antena 3 Noticias volverá a contar con los principales protagonistas de la actualidad en directo en su plató. El líder socialista, Pedro Sánchez, acudirá al plató de informativos a las 21:00 horas para inaugurar la temporada de entrevistas de la directora general de Antena 3 Noticias, Gloria Lomana, el próximo miércoles 10 de septiembre en prime time.

Los informativos de Antena 3 se mantienen como referencia informativa en televisión. Antena 3 Noticias 1 es la edición líder absoluta de las Sobremesas de lunes a viernes en lo que va de año, con una media del 14,1% de cuota y 1.864.000 espectadores.

Los fines de semana, Antena 3 Noticias 1 es además el informativo más visto y líder absoluto con una media en 2014 de 15,4% de share y 1.942.000 espectadores. ANTENA 3 Noticias fin de semana lidera también con una media de cuota de pantalla del 13,4% y 1.783.000 espectadores. Los informativos Antena 3 han conseguido una audiencia media de todas sus ediciones de 12,7%.

Con la nueva temporada, los informativos de Antena 3 estrenan nueva identidad gráfica que incorpora el rojo para elementos destacados, así como cabecera. ANTENA 3 Noticias jugará con los colores en función de las diferentes ediciones y del contenido informativo. El imponente plató se aligera y se hace más versátil y mantiene una de sus ya clásicas señas de identidad, la redacción como fondo. Un segundo y polivalente set servirá de apoyo al principal. La realización se adapta al nuevo espacio para aprovechar al máximo la puesta en escena.

Pedro Sánchez, secretario general del PSOE, ha elegido Antena 3 Noticias para conceder su primera entrevista a un medio audiovisual (televisión y Radio). La entrevista, en directo y en horario de máxima audiencia, estará realizada por Gloria Lomana, Directora General de Antena 3 Noticias, y responde una vez más a la vocación de los servicios informativos de la cadena por la actualidad y por llevar al espectador los mejores contenidos informativos.

El plató de informativos volverá a recibir en este curso a grandes figuras de la política y la actualidad para ser entrevistados por Lomana. A la vanguardia de la innovación y la modernidad y fieles al compromiso con la actualidad

Antena 3 noticias se mantiene a la vanguardia de la innovación y la modernidad desde que hace cuatro años revolucionara la forma de ofrecer la información con su nuevo plató que incorporaba la mayor pantalla táctil del panorama televisivo español (11 x 2,5 metros), con tecnología LED y emisión en Alta Definición como una ventana al mundo.

Además, los informativos de Antena 3 sostienen su compromiso con la actualidad y potenciarán su cobertura en los momentos informativos que así lo requieran. Los presentadores continuarán saliendo de la redacción central para recorrer la geografía española y compartir y trasladar los acontecimientos más relevantes con el espectador, allí donde se produzcan.

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More than 84,000 people have signed a petition calling on news broadcasters to stop providing live coverage of the White House’s briefings on the coronavirus outbreak.

Accusing President Donald Trump of using each briefing as a “live campaign rally,” the petition, which has been published on MoveOn.org, asks CNN, ABC, CBS NBC, NPR and Fox News to consider whether it is necessary to livestream the COVID-19 press conferences in full.

“President Trump is blatantly using the news organizations’ extensive, live coverage to freely campaign for a second term,” the petition claims. “It is wrong and dangerous to provide so much unfettered airtime to someone who is happily, shamelessly spreading terrible, damaging misinformation that is already costing fellow Americans their lives.”

Rather than broadcasting live coverage of the White House’s COVID-19 briefings, the MoveOn petition, started by Julie Rochman, asks broadcasters to monitor the briefings instead “and have your anchors and correspondents quickly share appropriately edited valuable accurate parts.”

The “valuable accurate parts,” the petition states would be the statements coming “from medical experts.”

Cutting out Trump’s own comments, the petition asserts, would “leave the President’s insults, false braggadocio and outright lies on the editing room floor, where they belong.”

“Please stop covering the President’s daily live campaign rally (thinly disguised as a coronavirus ‘news conference’),” the petition implores. “There is no need to do so.”

In the days since the petition was launched, it has quickly garnered support, gaining tens of thousands of signatures since three days ago, when it had just 10.

“Stop giving this tyrant free publicity that is also dangerous to the public,” one of the petition’s signatories wrote.

“All he does is lie and insult the people who actually are doing something constructive. He needs a Time Out,” another said.

Despite criticism of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, the president has played a key role in the White House’s briefings on COVID-19, often fielding questions on the U.S.’s response to the outbreak, including the country’s rollout of testing and access to personal protective equipment.

In a briefing on Monday, the president took centerstage, responding to a question about why the U.S. was not testing as many people per capita as other countries by asserting that the U.S. was “very much on par” with other nations.

“We have vast farmlands. We have vast areas where they don’t have much of a problem. In some cases, they have no problem whatsoever,” he said. “We have done more tests…I didn’t talk about per capita. We have done more tests, by far, than any country in the world, by far.”

Further, Trump said: “Our testing is also better than any country in the world. And when you look at that, as simple as that looks, that’s something that’s a game changer, and every country wants that. Every country.”

“So rather than asking a question like that,” Trump continued, admonishing the journalist, “you should congratulate the people that have done this testing, because we inherited—this administration inherited a broken system, a system that was obsolete, a system that didn’t work. It was okay for a tiny, small group of people, but once you got beyond that, it didn’t work.”

Since the briefings began, there have been repeated calls for the White House to keep politics out of the briefings, with Scott Dworkin, the co-founder of the Democratic Coalition, being an outspoken critic of Trump’s involvement in the press conferences.

In a string of tweets on Monday, Dworkin called on broadcasters to stop airing Trump’s comments, with the hashtag “#StopAiringTrump”.

“I’m watching Trump’s press conference so you don’t have. Instead of watching, please let all networks know we don’t want a pathologically lying politician’s spin on coronavirus,” he wrote. “We want doctors talking about facts and science. Period. No more Trump propaganda.”

Newsweek has contacted the creator of the MoveOn.org petition, Dworkin, the Trump administration and Trump’s campaign team for comment.

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Los colores del aeropuerto de Maiquetía son obra del artista venezolano Carlos Cruz-Díez.

El aire en el aeropuerto que sirve a Caracas, Maiquetía, ahora tiene precio.

Son 127 bolívares, entre US$2 y US$20 dependiendo la tasa de cambio que se use, que cada pasajero debe pagar por su derecho a respirar aire acondicionado ozonificado.

El impuesto por respirar entró en vigor el 1º de julio, cuando el Instituto Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía (IAIM) oficializó su proyecto de ozonificación para “proteger la salud de los pasajeros”.

Se trata de un valor más que los venezolanos tendrán que añadir a los ya costosos boletos que con mucho esfuerzo se encuentran, producto de una crisis económica que ha impactado fuertemente a las aerolíneas, la mayoría de las cuales han reducido sus frecuencias a Venezuela.

“Bioseguridad”

Según el IAIM, en mayo se instaló un servicio de ozonización para “la eliminación de contaminantes en el ambiente y protección de la salud”.

“Los usuarios con vuelos nacionales e internacionales, desde Maiquetía, deberán cancelar este arancel a su aerolínea al momento de chequearse”, dice un comunicado de la entidad aeroportuaria.

Y continúa: “Para este proyecto, la Gobernación del estado Vargas instaló un sistema de bioseguridad y ozonizado en los conductos de aire acondicionado del aeropuerto, lo cual consolida a Maiquetía como el primer aeropuerto de Suramérica y El Caribe en adoptar esta tecnología”.

Entre burlas y críticas

Todos los aeropuertos cobran diferentes impuestos, pero este es el primero en su especie en América Latina, y de ahí la sorpresa de muchos venezolanos al haber conocido la noticia.

Según fuentes del sector, el impuesto tiene como objetivo aliviar el impacto de la crisis.

Algunos, por supuesto, se tomaron la noticia con humor, como el comediante Laureano Márquez, que en una parodia de la Ley “decretó” que “los pasajeros que se nieguen a cancelar dicha tasa (…) deberán salir a las afueras de las instalaciones, agarrar bastante aire y contener el resuello mientras se encuentren en el interior de la terminal”.

Algo parecido acotó el blog de humor El Chigüire Bipolar, que en una parodia de noticia tituló “Aeropuerto de Maiquetía estrena robot que te pone de cabeza y te quita el dinero”.

Por su parte, la cuenta opositora de Twitter @VVperiodistas dijo que “pronto nos cobrarán impuesto por tragar ‘gas del bueno'”, en referencia a los gases lacrimógenos que las fuerzas oficiales usan para dispersar las protestas opositoras.

Crisis de las aerolíneas

Sin embargo, muchos otros recibieron la medida con indignación, pues la ven no solo como un impuesto “absurdo” que puede ser una fuente de corrupción, sino como una prueba de que el aeropuerto internacional más grande de Venezuela está corto de efectivo.

El mensaje del presentador y locutor Daniel Martínez en Twitter resume el pensamiento de muchos: “¿Me explican lo del ozono en Maiquetía? Los baños no tienen agua, el aire acondicionado se daña, hay perros callejeros adentro, pero ¿hay ozono?”

Y es que este aeropuerto, famoso por la obra de colores del artista venezolano Carlos Cruz-Diez en el terminal internacional, también parece haberse visto impactado por la crisis que azota a las aerolíneas, pues la frecuencia de pasajeros, ha constatado BBC Mundo, es cada vez menor.

Fuentes del sector le dijeron a BBC Mundo que el objetivo del impuesto por respirar es aliviar el impacto de la crisis, pues la baja de frecuencia de las aerolíneas significa una reducción de los ingresos para el aeropuerto.

Por ejemplo, el recorte de los vuelos de American Airlines en un 80% significa que el aeropuerto pasará de recibir US$80 millones al año a US$10 millones, según Humberto Figuera, presidente de la Asociación de Líneas Aéreas de Venezuela.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/07/140711_venezuela_aeropuerto_ozono_dp.shtml

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April 30 at 5:59 AM

Japan’s popular Emperor Akihito formally abdicated on Tuesday in a short ceremony at the Imperial Palace, giving way to his son after the weight of official duties became too much for the 85-year-old.

Dressed in a morning coat with his wife, Empress Michiko, just behind him, Akihito gave a short televised speech in the Imperial Palace’s Pine Chamber, or throne room, encapsulating the humble and peaceful values that marked his rule.

“Since ascending the throne 30 years ago, I have performed my duties as the emperor with a deep sense of trust in and respect for the people, and I consider myself fortunate to have been able to do so,” he said.

At the start of the ceremony, Akihito had walked into the room slowly with his wife, before the pair stood together in front of two thrones on a raised platform. 

Their steps ringing out on the polished wooden floor, imperial chamberlains then carried in two of Japan’s three sacred treasures — a sword representing valor and a jewel representing benevolence — as well as the Privy Seal and the Great Seal of Japan, the seals of the emperor and the state, respectively.

Enclosed in cases and only ever seen by the emperor and high priests, the sacred treasures were held up to the emperor before being carefully placed on stands made of Japanese cypress. The third treasure, a mirror — representing wisdom — is kept at Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest Shinto site in Japan.

Akihito is a much-loved figure in Japan. With his wife at his side, he humanized the role of the emperor, once viewed here as a living god, by reaching out to vulnerable members of society and victims of natural disasters, and by looking ordinary people in the eye when talking to them.

But he also encouraged Japan to acknowledge its wartime past, and he never pandered to the conservative nationalists who revere the tradition embodied in his role, experts said.

Speaking on behalf of the nation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his “deep reverence and gratitude” to the emperor and the way he had shared the “joys and sorrows” of the people.

“While keeping in our mind the way Your Majesty has lived, we the people of Japan are determined to work for the creation of a bright future for Japan as a peaceful country full of hope and pride,” he said.

Akihito is the first Japanese emperor to abdicate since the Emperor Koukaku gave way, also to his son, in 1817. His 30-year reign as ceremonial head of state ends at midnight, concluding what is known as the Heisei era.

Crown Prince Naruhito, 59, will accede to the Chrysanthemum Throne in another ceremony at the palace Wednesday morning. His reign will mark the beginning of the Reiwa era, a term taken from ancient Japanese poetry and translated as “beautiful harmony.”

“I sincerely wish together with the empress that the Reiwa era, which begins tomorrow, will be a stable and fruitful one,” Akihito said, “and I pray with all my heart for peace and happiness for all the people in Japan and around the world.”

Akihito’s father, Hirohito, now referred to as Emperor Showa, ruled Japan during a period of frenzied nationalism and militarism that ended in its defeat in World War II.

Under the U.S.-imposed constitution that followed, the emperor was confined to ceremonial duties, and was forced to renounce his divine status as a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.

Akihito has put those principles into practice enthusiastically. Throughout his reign he and Empress Michiko have visited elementary schools, as well as homes for the elderly and the disabled.

Takeshi Hara, who has written many books about Japan’s imperial history, said that in Emperor Showa’s era, the emphasis had been on enhancing the emperor’s authority, with the monarch addressing tens of thousands of people from elevated positions.

“Emperor Akihito changed that style radically,” he said. “He came to speak to people at the same eye level, as was seen in his visits across Japan. It’s a significantly large difference, and a style fitting to Japan’s postwar democracy.”

Akihito is fondly remembered for a moving national address he gave five days after an earthquake and tsunami hit eastern Japan in March 2011, killing nearly 20,000 people. He called on the nation to share the hardships of the suffering, and subsequently visited the region for seven consecutive weeks with Empress Michiko at the height of winter.

A survey conducted for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper this month found that 76 percent of Japanese people felt affinity to the royal family, while just 17 percent did not.

But Akihito’s personable style did not please Japan’s ultraconservatives, who thought he undermined imperial authority, for example by kneeling down to chat to evacuees after a volcano erupted in Nagasaki in 1991.

In recent years, Akihito has also attended memorial ceremonies for several of Japan’s World War II battles, including Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan and Palau, to remember the tragic history of the war.

Ken Ruoff, director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University, said Akihito periodically reminded his countrymen that Japan had caused great suffering, especially in neighboring countries.

“He’s the chief nationalistic symbol in Japan. And yet Akihito wanted nothing to do with chest-thumping ‘Japan first’ nationalism,” he said. “He would never lend his prestige to even the slightest hint of that.”

His desire to seek reconciliation with Japan’s neighbors made him an “awkward figure” for conservatives, and ironically something of a champion for Japanese liberals who might otherwise not have seen an emperor as compatible with secular democracy, said Jeff Kingston, a professor at Temple University in Tokyo.

Rituals marking the abdication began March 12 when the emperor informed his ancestors of his desire to abdicate at a palace shrine to Amaterasu: Tuesday’s ceremony was the ninth and final event, and the only one to be televised live. A formal and more elaborate enthronement ceremony for Naruhito will take place Oct. 22, and will be attended by royalty and dignitaries from around the world.

Akiko Kashiwagi contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-says-farewell-to-a-popular-emperor-who-humanized-a-godlike-role/2019/04/30/c7cd64ba-6ab9-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html

Former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday said it didn’t “ring a bell” when asked whether he received an investigative referral on Hillary Clinton purportedly approving “a plan” attempting to tie President Donald Trump to Russia and distract from her email scandal before the 2016 election.

During his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Chairman Lindsey Graham asked Comey about the newly declassified information released Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BRIEFED ON CLAIMS HILLARY CLINTON DRUMMED UP RUSSIA CONTROVERSY TO VILIFY TRUMP, DISTRACT FROM EMAILS

According to the declassified information, in September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral on Clinton purportedly approving “a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections” in order to distract the public from her email scandal. That referral was sent to Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.

“You don’t remember getting an investigatory lead from the intelligence community? Sept. 7, 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to James Comey and Strzok regarding Clinton’s approval of a plan [about] Trump…as a means of distraction?” Graham asked Comey Wednesday.

“That doesn’t ring any bells with me,” Comey replied.

“That’s a pretty stunning thing that it doesn’t ring a bell,” Graham fired back. “You get this inquiry from the intelligence community to look at the Clinton campaign trying to create a distraction, accusing Trump of being a Russian agent or a Russian stooge.”

Graham questioned “how far-fetched is that,” citing the fact that Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, through law firm Perkins Coie, hired Fusion GPS and ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to author and compile information for the controversial and unverified anti-Trump dossier.

The dossier contains claims about alleged ties between Donald Trump and Russia that served as the basis for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants obtained against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

“A bunch of crap to be used against an American citizen,” Graham said. “You don’t recall this?”

Comey replied: “It doesn’t sound familiar.”

Asked later, by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on the matter, Comey said: “I don’t know what the director is doing.”

Graham’s line of questioning came after Ratcliffe informed the committee Tuesday that the Obama administration obtained Russian intelligence in July 2016 with allegations against Clinton, but cautioned that the intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the text to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”

Ratcliffe, in the letter sent to the committee, did not offer specifics on the intelligence, but did reveal that former CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes show that he briefed former President Obama on the information.

According to Ratcliffe’s letter, the intelligence included the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

SOURCE OF STEELE DOSSIER WAS INVESTIGATED BY FBI FOR RUSSIAN CONTACTS

Nick Merrill, Clinton’s spokesperson, called the allegations “baseless b———t.”

“This is Russian disinformation,” tweeted Rachel Cohen, spokeswoman for Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., adding that it was “laundered by the Director Of National Intelligence and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

“This is extraordinary,” she tweeted.

But Ratcliffe, in a statement released after the information was made public, pushed back on the idea he was advancing “Russian disinformation.”

“To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community,” Ratcliffe said in a statement to Fox News. “I’ll be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.”

Graham, of South Carolina, said he would review the information, noting that Ratcliffe would make it available in a classified setting.

“This latest information provided by DNI Ratcliffe shows there may have been a double standard by the FBI regarding allegations against the Clinton campaign and Russia,” Graham said.

The new information will likely add to criticisms from Republicans and those close to the president about the Russia investigation.

Attorney General Barr last year appointed U.S. Attorney of Connecticut John Durham to investigate the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe shortly after special counsel Robert Mueller completed his years-long investigation into whether the campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election.

It is unclear whether this information will be considered part of Durham’s investigation.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-hillary-clinton-trump-russia-probe


Aunque la muerte del león se produjo a principios de mes, la noticia se conoció el pasado fin de semana.

En unos días, Walter Palmer, dentista y cazador aficionado, se convirtió en uno de los hombres más odiados de Estados Unidos. Y también en uno de los más buscados.

Palmer, que a principios de mes mató en una cacería a Cecil, el león más popular de Zimbabue, cerró su consulta en Mineapolis, canceló sus cuentas en redes sociales y desapareció.

Lea: Los cuestionados beneficios de la caza de especies amenazadas

No se sabe nada de él desde el martes. Y ya lo buscan las autoridades de su país, que investigan si puede ser llevado a juicio por lo que hizo.

En concreto, el Servicio Estadounidense de Pesca y Vida Silvestre (USFWS, por sus siglas en inglés) anunció este jueves que está investigando si la muerte del león Cecil fue parte de una conspiración para violar la ley de EE.UU. contra el tráfico ilegal de fauna.

Además, se puso en marcha una iniciativa ciudadana para pedir a la Casa Blanca que Palmer sea extraditado a Zimbabue.

En pocas horas, la petición consiguió superar ampliamente el umbral de las 100.000 firmas que obligan a que el gobierno dé una respuesta.


La acción del dentista Palmer, aficionado desde hace años a la caza mayor, ha generado indignación internacional.

¿Será procesado Walter Palmer por lo que hizo?

Lea: El estadounidense que mató al león Cecil de Zimbabue dice que lamenta lo ocurrido

¿Violación de la Ley Lacey?

La investigación abierta en Estados Unidos se centra en averiguar si el caso se puede abordar como una posible violación de la Ley Lacey, que prohíbe el comercio de pesca, flora o fauna que haya sido muerta, transportada o vendida de forma ilegal.

Al momento de ser aprobada en 1900, fue la primera ley federal que protegía la vida salvaje en EE.UU. La ley impone sanciones civiles y penales por el comercio ilegal de animales y plantas.

Actualmente, regula también la importación de cualquier especie protegida por la legislación internacional o nacional, e intenta evitar la expansión de especies invasoras o no nativas.

Dan Ashe, director del USFWS, escribió en la red social Twitter que la muerte del león es trágica y que su agencia “irá donde le lleven los hechos” en la investigación.


Theo Bronkhorst es cazador profesional y Honest Ndlovu, un terrateniente. Ambos participaron en la cacería que acabó con la vida de Cecil.

El organismo informó que no ha podido establecer contacto con Palmer, de quien no se sabe nada desde que el pasado martes emitió un comunicado en el que lamentaba lo ocurrido y decía que no sabía que la caza de Cecil fue ilegal.

Asimismo, Palmer se mostraba abierto a hablar con los investigadores y cooperar.

Edward Grace, subdirector de seguridad del USFWS, instó al dentista a ponerse en contacto con ellos inmediatamente.

Proceso en Zimbabue

Por el momento, el proceso judicial por la muerte del león ya se inició en Zimbabue.

Los fiscales imputaron al cazador profesional que supervisó el viaje de Palmer, Theo Bronkhorst, por matar a un león sin contar con la autorización necesaria para hacerlo.

Bronkhorst compareció ante la corte el mércoles y salió bajo fianza de US$1.000.

Si es hallado culpable, el cazador zimbabuense se enfrenta a una pena de hasta 15 años de cárcel.

La fiscalía está pendiente de imputar cargos contra un segundo sospechoso, Honest Ndlovu, propietario del terreno donde se produjo la muerte de Cecil y que se presentó ante el tribunal también este miércoles.

“Todavía estamos esperando a que el Estado lo impute ya que aún no hay cargos formales contra mi cliente”, declaró el abogado de Ndlovu, Tonderai Mukuku.

Leones en África

35.000

población máxima aproximada de leones

12.000

población máxima de leones en el sur de África

  • 665 número aproximado de leones “trofeo” muertos al año para ser exportados desde África

  • 49 leones “trofeo” fueron exportados desde Zimbabue en 2013

  • 0,29% contribución de la denominada “caza de trofeos” al PIB de Zimbabue

  • 17% del terreno de Zimbabue se destina a la “caza de trofeos”

Según la oficina de Conservación de Zimbabue, durante la caza nocturna ambos ataron un animal muerto en la parte trasera de su auto para atraer al león fuera del Parque Nacional de Hwange donde estaba protegido.

La asociación de operadores de safaris de Zimbabue, a la que pertenecía Bronkhorst, le retiró la licencia.

Lea también: Cecil el león y los beneficios de la caza de especies amenazadas

Extradición de Palmer

Pero hay quienes consideran que Walter Palmer también debe responder ante la justicia y en Zimbabue.

Al menos, así lo piensan las más de 159.000 personas que, hasta media noche del jueves, firmaron la petición a la Casa Blanca para que el cazador sea extraditado al país africano.

El portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Josh Earnest, declaró este jueves que, dado que la petición superó las 100.000 firmas necesarias para que sea tomada en consideración por el gobierno, habrá una respuesta oficial.


Se han organizado diversas protestas frente a la clínica dental de Palmer, cerrada desde el pasado lunes.

“Lo que quiero aclarar como asunto general -añadió Earnest- es que las decisiones sobre la acusación y la extradición las toma el Departamento de Justicia”.

Las condiciones legales para la entrega de Palmer están dadas: Estados Unidos y Zimbabue tienen un acuerdo de extradición desde abril de 2000.

El tratado aplica a todo aquel que sea imputado o condenado por “una ofensa extraditable” que se define “como un hecho punible según las leyes de los dos estados signatarios”.

Por ahora, Palmer no ha sido imputado ni en Zimbabue ni en Estados Unidos.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/07/150730_eeuu_busqueda_walter_palmer_leon_cecil_bd

Rep. Maxine WatersMaxine Moore WatersDemocrats highlight lack of diversity at major banks in new report Fed chief issues stark warning to Congress on deficits 10 Democrats to boycott Trump State of the Union address MORE (D-Calif.) on Tuesday called President TrumpDonald John TrumpCensus Bureau spends millions on ad campaign to mitigate fears on excluded citizenship question Bloomberg campaign: Primary is two-way race with Sanders Democratic senator meets with Iranian foreign minister MORE a “mafia boss” after the Justice Department lowered the sentencing recommendation for his associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneTrump says he has ‘total confidence’ in Barr Judge refuses to delay Stone sentencing In defense of William Barr MORE

The California Democrat alleged the president is using Attorney General Bill Barr to “get his criminal friends out of jail,” calling that “the tip of the iceberg.” She suggested Trump will grant clemency to former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign chairman Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrump says he has ‘total confidence’ in Barr Judges’ association calls emergency meeting in wake of Stone sentencing reversal A tale of two lies: Stone, McCabe and the danger of a double standard for justice MORE, in addition to Stone. 

“Trump will pardon Flynn, Manafort, & Stone b/c the GOP cowards in the Sen bowed to his feet,” she posted. “Repubs now stand for crime, corruption, autocracy, & Russia! They are PATHETIC!” 

Waters also referenced the emergency meeting with independent Federal Judges Association planned for Wednesday to “talk about the danger to our country.”

“The judges know what Barr did is not ordinary. Stay tuned for meeting & whether the judges release an opinion!” she tweeted.

“Trump doesn’t seem to care that it’s rumored he has mafia associations, but he sure acts like a mafia boss!” she added. 

Waters also cited the letter signed by more than 2,000 former Justice Department officials who called on Barr to resign amid the Stone scandal.

The Federal Judges Association scheduled a meeting regarding the Justice Department’s actions, with its president, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, saying it “could not wait” until the spring conference. 

Prosecutors originally suggested that Stone, a longtime ally of Trump’s, serve a seven to nine year sentence after being convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering. But the department intervened, saying it requested a “far less” sentence after Trump tweeted that the proposed sentence was unfair. 

The Justice Department’s involvement has prompted several Democrats to call for the attorney general’s resignation. 

Trump also granted presidential pardons to four individuals Tuesday: former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevic (D), former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, financier Michael Milken and former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo, Jr.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/house/483543-maxine-waters-blasts-trump-as-mafia-boss-over-stone-case


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El gobierno mexicano canceló los incentivos fiscales que se otorgaban a las producciones extranjeras que grababan en México, mientras que en el primer cuatrimestre del año, el dinero destinado al pago de intereses por el endeudamiento del gobierno federal, el pago de pensiones y las participaciones que se entregaron a estados y municipios casi representaron la mitad del gasto neto pagado del sector público. En la Ciudad de México se anunció la cancelación de la construcción de la línea 7 del Metrobús que correría por Paseo de la Reforma y la comunidad LGBT marchará para celebrar la inclusión, la diversidad y el respeto como cada último sábado de junio.

1. Cancela México apoyo a películas extranjeras

El Gobierno de México canceló el Programa de Apoyo a la Industria Cinematográfica y 
Audiovisual de Alto Impacto con el cual se otorgaban estímulos fiscales a productores de cine extranjeros que filmaran en nuestro país y consistía en la devolución de hasta 17.5 % del costo de producción.
Según un documento en poder de El Economista, la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público decidió cancelar el ProAv e instruyó a “proceder de manera inmediata a la suspensión de aportaciones, extinción y terminación de contratos relacionados”.

2. El pago de intereses, pensiones y participaciones estrangula al gasto

En los primeros cuatro meses del año, los recursos que se destinaron al pago de intereses por el endeudamiento del gobierno federal, el pago de pensiones y las participaciones que se entregaron a estados y municipios absorbieron 40% del gasto neto pagado del sector público.
De acuerdo con información de la SHCP, esta proporción ha venido en aumento, ya que en el mismo periodo del año pasado significó 35.3% del gasto neto del sector público y para el 2015 la relación era de 31.9 por ciento.
Entre los tres compromisos se destinaron 627,452.6 millones de pesos, un incremento de 11% real, respecto de lo que se gastó en los primeros cuatro meses del 2016.

3. ¿Por qué marcha la comunidad LGBTTTI?

Ya son más de 30 años de aquel decisivo encuentro en donde un puñado de activistas mexicanos, cansados de la intolerancia y la humillación, decidieron formar el Frente Homosexual de Acción Revolucionaria (FHAR), un grupo de homosexuales y lesbianas con un puntual objetivo, hacerle frente a los crímenes y abusos de los que eran víctimas.
Carteles, en lugar de armas; colores, en lugar de sangre; ellos salieron a las calles a unirse para erradicar el hostigamiento en el cual estaban inmersos en aquellos tiempos, cuando decir que eras delincuente era más aceptable que confesar que eras maricón.

4. México y Alemania sellan alianza pro libre comercio

Luego de la visita de la canciller federal de Alemania, Angela Merkel, y su comitiva de empresarios a México, el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto afirmó que el viaje es una muestra de la relación positiva que existe entre ambas naciones y la confianza como socios comerciales.
Peña Nieto puntualizó que México continuará promoviendo el libre comercio como guía para todas las negociaciones comerciales incluyendo las que se están realizando con la Unión Europea y con América del Norte, además de proteger las inversiones nacionales y extranjeras y proteger a los inversionistas que han confiado en México.

5. Juez suspende construcción de la Línea 7 del Metrobús

Un juez federal ordenó este lunes el cese total de la construcción de la Línea 7 del sistema de transporte público Metrobús, después de que el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) informó que la avenida Paseo de la Reforma está catalogada como monumento histórico.
El juez octavo de Distrito en Materia Administrativa, ordenó suspender la construcción de la Línea del Metrobús sobre Paseo de la Reforma, hasta determinar si el gobierno capitalino puede o no realizar obras en zonas tangenciales a los monumentos históricos.

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Source Article from http://eleconomista.com.mx/politica/2017/06/12/5-noticias-dia-12-junio

Noticias Telemundo, the news division of Telemundo Network, and La Opinión, the leading Spanish-language daily newspaper in the U.S., have formed a partnership to produce and publish news content aimed at Hispanic Americans. The partnership includes the launch of Telemundo and La Opinión Present, a series of stories on Latino issues that will appear on Telemundo Network, La Opinión newspaper and the digital platforms of both organizations.

“We are delighted to partner with La Opinión,” said Luis Fernández, Telemundo’s EVP of network news. “We will leverage our complementary structures to bring together stories that resonate with the Hispanic audience.”

 “We are thrilled to join forces with Telemundo’s team,” remarked Damián Mazzotta, General Manager West, Impremedia. “In La Opinión’s 90th year of service dedicated to advocate for the Latino community, we believe that this partnership will have an enduring impact by generating relevant content that reflects the current and changing face of American culture.”

The companies said the agreement, announced in the midst of an election cycle in which Latinos are expected to play a critical role, allows Noticias Telemundo and La Opinión to share news information and resources to research, develop and deliver news content for multiple platforms. 

They went on to say Telemundo and La Opinión Present will cover subjects that impact the Latino community, “backed-up by in-depth research and emphasizing their human aspect, in line with the storytelling tradition shared by both news organizations.” 

Source Article from http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/96483/noticias-telemundo-paper-in-news-content-deal

Esta sección nos encanta porque siempre hay algún momento de cachondeo. Es la parte más graciosa y chistosa del programa. Incluso, algunas noticias nos hacen tanta gracia que casi acabamos por los suelos. Otras nos preocupan porque son más serias.

Por ejemplo, Daniel nos contó la noticia de un oso que dejaron atado a una farola. Otras noticias hablaban de unos chicos que iban al colegio en bañador porque no tenían aire acondicionado, de una mujer que celebró una boda para sus perros, o de un chico que hablaba inglés pero cuando despertó del coma hablaba chino y tardó un par de días en volver a hablar su idioma.

Internet, la televisión, el periódico y la radio son nuestras fuentes de información para conseguir noticias como estas. O como la que contaba que una joven engañó a sus padres y amigos haciéndoles creer que estaba de vacaciones a través de las redes sociales.

También hemos contado en nuestro programa que una niña ha recorrido un montón de kilómetros haciendo autostop. Nos pareció increíble porque cuesta creer que una niña tan pequeña haya sido tan ingeniosa y se haya atrevido a una aventura como esta. A algunos nos parece un poco peligroso porque podía haber tenido un accidente. Y entonces de una noticia curiosa podría haber pasado a ser una noticia seria y triste.

Además, nos gustó la noticia del trabajador taiwanés que fue premiado por no pedir ni un día de descanso en todos sus años de trabajo o la de la madre militar que estuvo separa de su hijo 9 meses y el niño se saltó el protocolo y se tiró a sus brazos nada más verla. 

Aunque las entrevistas a nuestros invitados son fundamentales, es importante darle aire fresco al programa con estas noticias. A veces tenemos dificultades para entender estas noticias, pero nos las preparamos bien para contarlas a los oyentes y que se sorprendan como nosotros.

Source Article from http://www.que.es/blogs/201410060800-noticias-curiosas.html