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President Biden’s Friday night stump speech in Virginia was interrupted by anti-pipeline protesters — leading the commander-in-chief to tell his audience to ignore the hecklers.

Biden was about two minutes into his remarks at an Arlington rally for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe when a group of people began yelling “Stop Line 3!” referring to a controversial oil pipeline project in northern Minnesota.

The rest of the crowd attempted to drown out the protesters by booing and chanting “Let’s go, Joe!” as the president tried to restore order.

“That’s OK, that’s all right,” Biden said. “No, no, no, no. Let ’em talk. That’s OK. Look, this is not a Trump rally. Let ’em holler. No one’s paying attention.”

The president spoke before an enthusiastic and largely unmasked crowd of around 3,000 people in support of McAuliffe, a longtime Democratic party heavyweight who is seeking another term as Virginia’s governor. McAuliffe previously held that office from 2014 to 2018. Under Virginia law, governors cannot run for a second consecutive term.

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Virginia, as he fended off hecklers shouting anti-pipeline remarks.
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McAuliffe is favored to defeat his Republican opponent, private equity executive Glenn Youngkin. While the race is seen as competitive, the rapid growth of northern Virginia’s Washington, DC suburbs has tipped the commonwealth into the reliably Democratic column. No Republican presidential candidate has won Virginia since George W. Bush in 2004 and the last GOPer elected governor was Bob McDonnell in 2009.

“You’re not gonna find anyone, I mean anyone, who knows how to get more done for Virginia than Terry,” Biden said. “Off-year election, the country’s looking. This is a big deal.”

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for Virginia democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe on July 22, 2021.
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Still, as one of only two regularly scheduled governor’s races this year (New Jersey being the other), the Virginia contest is drawing outsize national attention as a potential measuring stick of voter sentiment ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

When not touting his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy, Biden attempted to cast Youngkin as an “acolyte of Donald Trump.”

“I ran against Donald Trump in Virginia and so is Terry,” the president said at one point. “And I whipped Donald Trump in Virginia and so will Terry.”

Biden also accused Republicans of offering “nothing more than fear, lies and broken promises.”

“The United States is based on — the only country in the world based on the proposition, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ that all women and men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” he said. “We’ve never met the test, but we’ve never walked away from it like the Republicans have.”

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Diez millones de medicamentos para enfermedades crónicas llegaron este martes a Venezuela, informó la viceministra de Recursos, Tecnología y Regulación del Ministerio para la Salud, Linda Amaro.

Desde el aeropuerto internacional de Maiquetía, en el estado Vargas (norte), la funcionaria precisó que estos medicamentos serán para pacientes hipertensos y con padecimientos mentales, así como antibióticos para tratar infecciones.

 

 

“No se escatimaron esfuerzos para que los medicamentos llegaran al pueblo, como lo solicitó el presidente Nicolás Maduro”, expresó Amaro durante un pase por el canal estatal VTV.

Asimismo, detalló que más de 200 paletas de medicamentos ya están en el país y en los próximos días esperan la llegada de más medicinas para satisfacer las necesidades de los venezolanos.

 

 

Por su parte, el ministro para la Salud, Luis López, indicó a través de su cuenta en la red social Twitter que estas unidades de medicamentos proceden “de la hermana República de la India”.

Amaro resaltó que los medicamentos son gratuitos y llamó a la comunidad para que no caigan en manos de revendedores.

>> Presidente Maduro: Venezuela seguirá batallando por su dignidad

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RIO DE JANEIRO – A gang of gunmen reportedly attacked a bar in the capital of Brazil’s northern Pará state Sunday afternoon, killing 11 people.

The state security agency confirmed late Sunday only that six women and five men died in the incident in the Guamá neighborhood of the Pará state capital, Belém.

The G1 news website said police reported that seven gunmen were involved in the attack, which also wounded one person. The news outlet said the attackers arrived at the bar on one motorcycle and in three cars.

“A massacre is confirmed,” Pará state spokeswoman Natalia Mello said.

In late March, the federal government sent National Guard troops to Belém to reinforce security in the city for 90 days.

Brazil hit a record high of 64,000 homicides in 2017, 70% of which were due to firearms, according to official statistics.

Much of Brazil’s violence is gang related. In January, gangs attacked across Fortaleza, bringing that city to a standstill with as commerce, buses and taxis shut down. Rio de Janeiro experiences daily shootouts between rival gangs and also police that often kill innocent bystanders.

Rio de Janeiro, the country’s second biggest city, experiences daily shootouts between rival gangs and also between police and criminals, battles that often result in the deaths of innocent bystanders. Fogo Cruzado, a group that monitors shootings in the Rio metropolitan area, says there were 2,300 shootings in Rio and its suburbs during the first 100 days of this year.

One of new President Jair Bolsonaro’s main campaign promises was that he would loosen Brazil’s strict gun laws, arguing that because criminals are well-armed with illegally obtained guns, “upstanding citizens” should have the right to defend themselves with legally bought guns.

Bolsonaro has made good on that campaign promise with two presidential decrees that make buying guns easier, though federal prosecutors are seeking to get the courts to block that move.

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/05/19/brazil-officials-massacre-media-dead-bar/3736132002/

Five federal government employees are suing President TrumpDonald John TrumpGovernment workers protest outside White House on shutdown day 20 Fed chief Powell: Prolonged shutdown will harm US economy Senators say questions remain on Trump strategy in Syria after briefing MORE and members of his administration, alleging that they’ve been unlawfully required to work without pay and barred from seeking alternative jobs during the ongoing partial government shutdown.

The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that requiring workers to report for duty without pay during the shutdown violates the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

The lawsuit also claims that the government violated the plaintiffs’ Fifth Amendment rights by limiting their ability to seek alternative employment during the shutdown, which began Dec. 22. 

The plaintiffs are not identified, but two work for the Department of Justice, and the other three work for the Departments of Transportation, Agriculture and Homeland Security. Four of the individuals have been required to work without pay during the shutdown, while one has been deemed nonessential, according to the lawsuit.

The complaint names President Trump, Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoTrump’s shifting Cabinet to introduce new faces Trump to attend World Economic Forum in Davos for second straight year George H.W. Bush remembered at Kennedy Center Honors MORE, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenTrump cancels Davos trip over shutdown The Hill’s Morning Report — Groundhog Day: Negotiations implode as shutdown reaches 20 days Terrorism is not a thing to cry wolf about MORE, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and Agriculture Secretary Sonny PerdueGeorge (Sonny) Ervin PerdueUSDA extends deadline for farmers hurt by tariffs to seek aid Food stamp benefits will continue in February despite shutdown: USDA Trump’s shifting Cabinet to introduce new faces MORE

The lawsuit cites Trump’s comments earlier this month that the shutdown could go on for “months or even years,” leaving the plaintiffs in limbo for an extended period.

The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction barring the government from requiring employees to report for work without pay during the shutdown, and prohibiting the government from restricting employees’ ability to work elsewhere during the shutdown. About 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed or forced to work without pay for the time being due to the shutdown.

Two federal employees’ unions have already sued the Trump administration over the partial government shutdown, which has dragged on for 20 days and counting.

The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 members at 33 federal agencies, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that hundreds of thousands of workers are being illegally forced to work without pay.

The American Federation of Government Employees union announced a similar lawsuit last week.

Trump has demanded for weeks that Congress provide more than $5 billion in funding for his proposed wall, something Democrats have staunchly opposed. The disagreement has been at the heart of the shutdown, which affects roughly 25 percent of the government.

The president has pledged to hold out for funding for the wall, arguing that furloughed federal workers support his position. 

The Democratic-led House on Thursday passed a standalone spending measure Thursday to provide funding for the Departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and other agencies. The bills are unlikely to be taken up in the Senate.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/regulation/424817-5-federal-workers-sue-over-shutdown-allege-work-without-pay-violates-13th

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What happened?

On Tuesday, India said its Air Force conducted strikes against a militant camp in Pakistani territory. That attack killed a “very large number” of terrorists, trainers and senior commanders belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed, according to New Delhi.

India’s response came after the group recently claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in India-controlled Kashmir where more than 40 security officers were killed. That suicide car bombing prompted a barrage of international criticism toward Pakistan for failing to crack down on terror groups operating on its soil.

For its part, Islamabad denied there were any casualties from India’s Tuesday strike.

On Wednesday, Pakistan said its Air Force carried out strikes along the so-called Line of Control to demonstrate its “right, will and capability for self defence.” The Line of Control is the de facto border between the Indian and Pakistani parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Then, according to a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces, Indian planes entered Pakistani airspace and two jets were shot down. One of the aircraft fell on India’s side of Kashmir, while the second came down in Pakistani-held territory, and its pilot was captured, the spokesman said.

An Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman acknowledged that one pilot was missing and a combat jet had been lost. That spokesman also claimed a Pakistani jet had been shot down in the altercation.

Why does it matter?

Kashmir has always been a sensitive topic for both countries, which have fought two wars over the mountainous region. In 2014, forces from Pakistan and India exchanged fire in border clashes.

Tuesday’s attack was the first time India has used airstrikes inside Pakistan since 1971. Moreover, the area it struck — Balakot — was well outside Pakistani Kashmir and beyond the Line of Control.

Since the terrorist attack earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been under pressure from his base to respond with force ahead of a parliamentary election due to take place by May.

“That India entered Pakistan’s airspace is a clear indication that it is willing to do whatever it takes to keep India safe, which, I suspect, caught Pakistan off-guard,” Akhil Bery, analyst for South Asia at political consultancy Eurasia Group, told CNBC on Tuesday.

Dhruva Jaishankar, a fellow in foreign policy studies at Brookings India, said India has faced a series of terrorist attacks since the 1990s from groups and individuals based in Pakistan. The challenge for both sides has always been about how to respond to provocations from its neighbor, especially after each country became a nuclear power.

Jaishankar told CNBC that both countries have tested the limitations of how far they can escalate the conflict before reaching a “nuclear threshold.”

To be clear, escalating tensions to the point of nuclear conflict would be catastrophic for both India and Pakistan and would destabilize the entire region — an option unlikely to be taken by either New Delhi or Islamabad.

For his part, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sway with the country’s influential military is limited. The way Khan handles this week’s situation will be a big test of his leadership, according to Moeed Yusuf, associate vice president for the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace.

“You have a new leader in Pakistan who (has to) show that he is strong and willing to stand up to India,” Yusuf told CNBC. “He must also follow the army’s lead and so if the army decides to escalate, he won’t be able to say much to them right now.”

For Modi, meanwhile, it would be “political suicide” if he walked back on the conflict at this stage — when it may appear to outside observers that India and Pakistan had evenly matched each other’s force, Yusuf said.

What’s next?

Experts have said it is highly unlikely that a war would break out between the two nations — even if the situation escalates further in the coming days.

Eurasia Group’s Bery said New Delhi’s public statements on its air strikes were careful to emphasize that it was an attack on a terror camp that was already planning terrorism against India. Modi may also have electoral politics in mind.

“Modi has already alluded to the strikes in a campaign rally earlier today, and will continue to press the point he is willing to do whatever it takes to keep India safe,” Bery said on Tuesday, adding that the prime minister is positioning himself as someone committed to India’s security to appeal to more voters.

For Pakistan’s part, Jaishankar said it is possible that Islamabad would play up Wednesday’s air strikes as “some kind of a retribution” and that could even lead to a de-escalation of tension between the countries.

The international community may need to get involved in coming days, according to Yusuf, who said the U.N. Security Council should step in and prevent further use of force.

— The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to the report.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/27/india-pakistan-air-strike-claims-what-you-need-to-know.html

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday said House Democrats will pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill this week and come to an agreement on their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, despite the massive differences between moderates and progressives. 

Her comments came as the leaders of the party’s warring moderate and progressive factions appeared to make minor concessions after a week of digging into their stances, possibly leaving some daylight for Pelosi, D-Calif., to pull off what is still a very difficult legislative lift

“Let me just say we’re going to pass the bill this week,” Pelosi said of the infrastructure bill on ABC’s “This Week.” “But you know I’m never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn’t have the votes. And I think any time you put in an arbitrary date… you cannot choose the date, you have to go when you have the votes.”

HOUSE DEMS PREPARE TO VOTE ON INFRASTRUCTURE, RECONCILIATION BILLS

The House speaker also said on “This Week” that Democrats will “absolutely” need to come to an agreement on the reconciliation package before the infrastructure bill can pass. This was a nod to House progressives who say several dozen of their members will vote against the infrastructure bill without assurances on reconciliation. 

DEMS’ RECONCILIATION BILL HAS $6B TRANSPORTATION ‘SLUSH FUND’ THAT GOP AIDE WARNS COULD FUND BACKDOOR EARMARKS

“It’s all the wonderful legislative process that we have,” Pelosi said, dismissing comments from “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos about how daunting Democrats’ legislative task is. 

“Building Back Better has the support of over 95% of our caucus…. There are some who disagree and I respect that about the size of the package, and a couple in the Senate as well,” she continued. “And we have to find our common ground, respectful of each other’s views … this isn’t about moderates versus progressives.”

The speaker may have gotten an opening on Sunday when the top moderate in the House and the chamber’s top progressive each bent slightly on their demands, leaving an apparent path for Pelosi to thread the needle on the two major bills. 

Previously, Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., was demanding the passage of the reconciliation bill before most of her caucus would consider infrastructure. Problem Solvers Caucus Chairman Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., meanwhile, was insisting that Pelosi must bring the infrastructure bill to a floor vote Monday per a deal she made with him weeks ago. 

Jayapal, however, appeared to say on CNN’s “State of the Union” that a mere agreement on reconciliation would be enough for progressives to vote for the infrastructure bill. And Gottheimer conceded that Pelosi could move the infrastructure vote to later in the week. 

Holding up a copy of the U.S. Constitution, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., votes to impeach former President Donald Trump in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)
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CONGRESSMAN WON’T SUPPORT DEBT CEILING HIKE, CITES NEED TO ANALYZE SPENDING

“The way these things work if you start debating it and it rolls over to Tuesday, I don’t think – I think we’re all reasonable people,” Gottheimer said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He also made sure to emphasize that infrastructure and reconciliation are “separate bills.” 

“Everything should be agreed upon… exactly what’s in there, the language needs to be worked out,” Jayapal said on CNN of what she would need on reconciliation in order to vote for infrastructure. “And everyone’s gonna vote for it, and if Republicans offer amendments in a vote-a-rama that we’re not gonna have Democratic senators suddenly vote with Republicans.”

Jayapal added: “This is a pre-conferenced bill, which means everybody in the Senate and everybody in the House has to agree with every piece of it.”

It will certainly not be easy for Democrats to come to that kind of agreement. There are many areas of disagreement on what should be in the reconciliation bill, ranging from the topline price to in-the-weeds policy issues. But the Sunday morning statements seem to put Democrats in a place where the demands coming from its various factions are not irreconcilable, which appeared to be the case last week. 

As part of the negotiating process, Pelosi said on ABC it is nearly certain the price tag of the reconciliation bill will drop to a lower number than $3.5 trillion. Jayapal, notably, appeared open to that in an interview later Sunday with CBS – though she seemed to say progressives would resist major cuts. 

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“Yeah, you know what we’ve said is we are happy to hear what it is that somebody wants to cut,” she said on CBS. “The key thing is not the topline number, it’s what is it that you actually want to fund.…Do you want to cut the child care, do you want to cut paid leave, what is it you want to cut?”

Pelosi said in a letter to House Democrats Saturday that she plans to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill by Thursday. That simultaneously gives her some wiggle room on the vote for the infrastructure bill, which was originally planned for Monday but may slip a couple of days, and gives Democrats very little margin for error on the reconciliation bill. 

The House Budget Committee in a rare Saturday meeting approved the text for the reconciliation bill with one Democratic “no” vote, but with a wide gulf between party progressives and moderates the bill is subject to change significantly. 

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report. 

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The president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have made it abundantly clear that this is all a performance to them.

Trump had two years of Republican control of the House and Senate and failed to prioritize his premier campaign promise: increased border security. A GOP-controlled Congress didn’t pass so much as an e-verify expansion bill, let alone secure funding for his wall. He waited until the eleventh hour before he lost control of the House to stamp his foot and demand last-minute funding for the wall. He then shut down the government and declared it an act of bravery.

In theory, Trump handed a blank check to Pelosi. Trump owns the shutdown, and he needs to end it. For $5.7 billion in wall funding, Pelosi can ask for almost anything she wants.

But she hasn’t. Rather than secure the fates of 700,000 Dreamers and demand that the president grant them amnesty in order to achieve his beloved wall, she’s simply sneered in his face, glowing in the approval of the #Resistance for hurting Drumpf’s feelings and refusing to give him what he wants. You want your wall? Well you can’t have it, loser! Take that, President Cheeto!

Think about it. Pelosi has a blank check that costs a mere $5.7B, a drop in our multi-trillion dollar budget. Yet she’d rather spite Trump and leave hundreds of thousands of government workers without paychecks than actually cash in her potential prize.

The generous conclusion here is that we’re being ruled by children. The honest one is that we’re ruled by tyrants.

Our corrupt ruling class would rather posture to their bases than actually win anything for them. The shutdown’s economic costs aren’t just threatening our gross domestic product and stock markets. There are actual lives in financial and physical danger.

The shutdown will put the safety of the border, the very entity the president shut down the government to protect, in real jeopardy if it continues. The shutdown has effectively halted all Border Patrol training, and because most Department of Homeland Security recruiters are furloughed, the department is hemorrhaging staffers without hiring new ones.

If the shutdown continues for another week, federal district courts will run out of funds, halting civil proceedings. Federal workers will go a second pay cycle without a check.

States are clamoring to issue February food stamp funds to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients early, as the program has no proper funding past January. By March, the 38 million SNAP recipients — the majority of whom are children, elderly, or disabled — will likely receive no funding for food.

All of this ignores the businesses, from Walmart to local grocers, who rely on SNAP spending and customers who are federal employees without pay for their revenue.

And according to congressional staffers talking to McKay Coppins at the Atlantic, the politicians orchestrating the whole charade couldn’t care less. Coppins reports:

I spoke to one congressional staffer who wondered aloud whether it might take a stressed-out air-traffic controller causing a plane crash to bring an end to the shutdown. And several aides worried that some kind of terrorist incident would end up serving as the catalyst to get the government up and running again …

Even if some of their worst-case shutdown scenarios remain unlikely — there are still plenty of paths forward that don’t include body counts — the defeatism on display is revealing. It exposes the extent to which the latter-day crisis of faith in America’s core political institutions has infected even the members of the institutions themselves.

On Wednesday night, I spoke with a Democratic House aide who confessed that she was ambivalent about the shutdown. The battle had unified her party, with Democrats linking arms in defense of their ideals and in defiance of Trump. Polls suggested that a majority of Americans were with them, and that the ‘optics’ of the fight were good. ‘While it may be horrible for the country,’ she said of the shutdown, ‘it’s fine for the party.’

I’ve already made the case that the government is an unreliable employer, and the shutdown demonstrates the number of agencies, from the Transportation Security Administration to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, that must be privatized, downsized, or abolished completely. But those should be thoughtful, intentional decisions, not based on political posturing that punishes and blindsides millions of average Americans as collateral damage so our wealthy overlords can pander to their fans.

Trump needs to sit the speaker down and offer to fill that blank check with something significant enough that she can call it a win. Pelosi needs to accept the political opportunity of strong-arming Trump into a valuable concession that could help, say, 700,000 people in legal jeopardy who have already assimilated with our culture and contributed, as well as the moral cost of continuing this shutdown, all to keep a few billion bucks from the president’s hands.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-pelosi-has-a-blank-check-and-shed-rather-spite-trump-than-cash-it

Fugitive Brian Laundrie left to go ‘for a hike’ in Florida swampland a day earlier than his parents originally told police, Dailymail.com can reveal.

Dad Christopher, 62, and mom Roberta, 55, told detectives he vanished on the evening of Tuesday, September 14 – two weeks after he returned alone from the ill-fated cross-country road trip with girlfriend Gabby Petito, 22.

But the Laundrie lawyer Steve Bertolino says the parents have now corrected their version of events and say their son disappeared on Monday, September 13.

The Laundries did not report their son missing until the Thursday of that week.

Bertolino told Dailymail.com: ‘The Laundries were basing the date Brian left on their recollection of certain events.

‘Upon further communication with the FBI and confirmation of the Mustang being at the Laundrie residence on Wednesday, September 15, we now believe the day Brian left to hike in the preserve was Monday, September 13.

Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito are pictured together. Laundrie is now believed to have gotten a four-day headstart on authorities 

Police have previously said Laundrie’s silver Ford Mustang convertible was given a police ticket at one of the entrances to the alligator-infested Carlton Reserve near his home in North Port, Florida, when left there on the Tuesday night.

Bertolino did not respond when asked at what time Brian left the house on the Monday.

However Dailymail.com arrived at the Laundrie home to cover the story of Gabby’s disappearance at 1pm that day. The Mustang was not on the driveway, suggesting Brian had already vanished.

Officers had turned up at the Laundrie house on the night of Saturday, September 11 to speak with Brian. It was just hours after Gabby’s frantic mom Nichole Schmidt reported her missing at around 7pm to her local sheriff’s office near her own home on Long Island, New York.

However the Laundrie parents refused ‘to make Brian available’ at the doorstep, saying everything should be handled through Bertolino.

Dailymail.com has confirmed no officers actually saw Brian that night at the home. North Port police said: ‘He was not seen.’

Spokesman Josh Taylor added: ‘I would preface that by saying I cannot speak on if we saw him after that, for the integrity of the investigation.’    

The Florida home of Brian Laundrie and his parents is seen at 1.09pm on Monday September 13

Chris and Roberta Laundrie pictured. Brian Laundrie’s parents have now said they ‘believe’ he went on the run one day earlier than they first claimed – September 13 not 14

It is not clear why the Laundries did not alert authorities to their son’s disappearance for four days.

Nor is it clear if authorities ever received proof of Laundrie being in the family home on September 11 or entering the Carlton Reserve – where they have focused much of the more than $1 million search based on the information from Laundrie’s parents. 

Laundrie’s headstart on authorities has so far proved to be problematic for investigators who are yet to locate the 23-year-old after a more than two week manhunt. 

Questions continue to mount about what Laundrie’s parents know about the doomed cross-country trip and their son’s current whereabouts. 

When Petito was reported missing on September 11, Christopher and Roberta Laundrie refused to let authorities speak to their son.

They then didn’t tell police he had vanished until three days after they allegedly last saw him on September 14, sparking a nationwide manhunt. 

Rumors have also been circulating that both Laundrie and his mom have been using burner phones.    

Petito’s dad Joe Petito hit out at the Laundrie parents in a new Dr. Phil interview, which aired Tuesday, calling them ‘cowards’ who ‘don’t know how to stand up for their actions’. 

The Laundrirs’ attorney Steve Bertolino brushed off the inconsistency putting it down to ‘recollection of certain events’ in a text sent to WFLA

Joe and Petito’s mom Nicole Schmidt said they had tried calling and texting the Laundries multiple times when they grew concerned about not hearing from their daughter in early September – but they never replied.  

Laundrie’s sister Cassie has also questioned her parents’ involvement in her brother’s disappearance, urging them to ‘come clean’ about what they know in an interview with ABC’s GMA, which aired Tuesday.  

While she insisted she had nothing to do with Laundrie’s disappearance, she admitted she wasn’t so sure about her parents Christopher and Roberta Laundrie who she urged to cooperate with investigators.

‘I don’t know if my parents are involved,’ said Cassie. ‘I think if they are, then they should come clean.’  

Cassie said she would ‘turn him in’ if she knew where her brother was and said she doesn’t know ‘what to think’ about what happened on the young couple’s doomed cross-country trip.  

Laundrie’s sister has come under fire in recent days after it emerged she had seen her brother twice in the time between him returning home to Florida and going on the run – despite previously claiming she hadn’t spoken to him.   

Gabby Petito’s family from L-R: step-mother Tara Petito, father Joe Petito, step-father James Schmidt, mother Nicole Schmidt on Dr Phil. Petito’s dad called the Laundrie parents ‘cowards’

The significant change in the timeline of Laundrie’s disappearance was revealed the same day the attorney also admitted Laundrie took a round trip to Florida in the days leading up to Petito’s disappearance.

Bertolino has claimed the fugitive flew home to Florida ‘to empty a storage unit’ five days after he and Gabby Petito got into a physical fight in Utah – before then rejoining his fiancee just two days before she made her final phone call to her family.

Attorney Steve Bertolino told Newsday Tuesday that Laundrie, 23, took a commercial flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Tampa, Florida, on August 17.

Five days later, on August 23, Laundrie then took a return flight ‘to rejoin Gabby’ for the remainder of their trip. 

Bertolino said the purpose of the fleeting visit was to pick up some items and close the storage unit because the young couple were thinking of ‘extending the road trip’ which was due to end in Oregon in October.   

But the trip was in fact cut short, with Laundrie driving the couple’s white campervan back to his family’s home in North Port, Florida, on September 1 while Petito’s body was discovered in a park in Wyoming over two weeks later on September 19. 

Brian Laundrie’s sister Cassie has urged her fugitive brother to ‘come forward’ and for her parents to ‘come clean’ if they know anything 

Laundrie remains at large with a nationwide manhunt under way for the only person of interest in his fiancee’s homicide.

The additional details of the couple’s whereabouts – and the fact they separated for five days – raises more questions about what happened on the doomed cross-country trip. 

Bertolino said he believed the couple shared the costs for Laundrie to make the detour. 

‘To my knowledge, Brian and Gabby paid for the flights as they were sharing expenses,’ the attorney said. 

‘Brian flew home to obtain some items and empty and close the storage unit to save money as they contemplated extending the road trip.’ 

This revelation reiterates what Petito’s mom Nicole Schmidt told DailyMail.com exclusively earlier on in the search. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to the FBI Denver Office – which is leading the manhunt for Laundrie – to confirm the timeline detailed by Bertolino. 

Laundrie’s alleged flight back to Florida came just days after the couple were separated by police in Moab, Utah, following a domestic incident. 

Bodycam footage from the August 12 encounter reveals a distraught Petito telling cops her fiance had hit her and cut her face by grabbing her ‘with his nail’ during a fight when he locked her out of their van. 

‘He like grabbed me with his nail, and I guess that’s why it looks, I definitely have a cut right here. I can feel it, when I touch it it burns,’ she tells the officer.   

The 22-year-old is then seen defending Laundrie saying she ‘hit him first’, after an officer points out marks on her arms and face. 

Police pulled over the couple’s van in Moab, Utah, on August 12 following reports of a man hitting a woman 

The new bodycam shows Petito telling the cop Laundrie hit her. According to attorney Steve Bertolino, Laundrie took a commercial flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Tampa, Florida, five days later on August 17

Police had responded to a 911 call from a bystander who said he had seen a man slapping a woman outside the nearby Mayflower grocery store before driving off in a white van. 

Cops determined Petito was the ‘primary aggressor’ and separated the couple for the night – meaning they are likely to have reunited on August 13. 

Body camera video from one Moab officer was released two weeks ago, while Petito was still a missing person and the audio was unclear at times. 

Footage from the second officer’s body-worn camera was released last week, revealing Petito did admit to her fiancee hitting her. 

According to the account given by Laundrie’s attorney, it was five days after this police callout that Laundrie left his fiancee in Utah and flew to Florida. 

It is not clear if Laundrie stayed at his parents’ home in North Port or who he saw during that five-day period. 

It is also not clear what Petito did during this timeframe as she stayed back in Utah with the couple’s campervan.

In police bodycam footage on August 12, Petito tells the officer she does not usually drive the vehicle. 

On August 19, Petito posted two photos on Instagram – an aerial view of the couple’s campervan and a photo showing what appears to be the back of Laundrie’s head sitting in front of her in the back of the van.  

Laundrie is seen in bodycam from the August 12 incident where cops separated the couple for the night 

‘Almost immediately after telling @bizarre_design_ how happy it made me to see that people were truly respectful of the park, I watched some guy leave his processed pre-packaged plastic conglomerate of lunch garbage on the picnic table!’ she captioned the post. 

It is not clear when those photos were taken.  

The timing of Laundrie’s return on August 23 could also be significant as it comes just two days before Petito made her final phone call to her mom on August 25, where she told her she was in Grand Teton National Park.

She is thought to have last been seen alive on August 27 at the Merry Piglets Tex-mex restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming, where the manager said she witnessed an ‘incident’ involving the couple. 

‘Yes, we can confirm Gabby and Brian were in Merry Piglets … We have already notified the FBI and they are aware. We are letting them do their jobs and we are respecting Gabby’s family and have nothing further to comment,’ the restaurant said in an Instagram post last month. 

Two witnesses in the restaurant – Nina Angelo and her boyfriend Matt England – described seeing a ‘commotion’ between the couple.

It is not clear what Laundrie and Petito did within the five-day period they were said to have separated. Petito posted this photo on Instagram appearing to show the back of Laundrie’s head on August 19 – when he was reportedly in Florida

Angelo previously told CNN Petito was crying and Laundrie was visibly angry, going in and out of the restaurant several times and appearing angry with the staff.

The coroner has not released details on when Petito died.

A preliminary autopsy ruled her death a homicide but cause of death is still unknown.  

On September 1, just nine days after Laundrie is said to have returned from Florida to Utah, he arrived back at his family’s home in North Port without his fiancee but driving their van.

Petito was reported missing on September 11 by her mom after not hearing from her daughter for multiple days and coming up against a wall of silence from Laundrie and his parents. 

Laundrie lawyered up and refused to speak to cops about his fiancee’s whereabouts before going on the run. 

His parents reported him as missing on September 17, telling authorities they had not seen him since September 14 when he went on a hike in the alligator-infested Carlton Reserve in North Port. 

Local police and the FBI have now been searching for Laundrie for almost three weeks.        

Timeline of missing Gabby Petito’s case

  • July 1: Gabby Petito and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie left Blue Point, New York for a cross-country road trip
  • August 12: Police in Moab, Utah respond to a domestic incident involving the couple
  • Aug. 17: Laundrie allegedly flies back to Florida to ‘clear out a storage unit’   
  • Aug. 21: Petito’s father, Joseph Petito, has his last FaceTime video call with his daughter who was in Salt Lake City, Utah 
  • Aug. 23: Laundrie flies back to Utah to ‘rejoin Gabby’ on their trip 
  • Aug. 24: Petito is last seen at a hotel in Salt Lake City with Laundrie
  • Aug. 25: Petito makes final call to her mother, Nicole Schmidt, saying she was in Grand Teton National Park
  • Aug. 25 or 26: The couple chats with the owner of a shop called ‘Rustic Row’ in Victor, Utah for about 20 minutes 
  • Aug. 27: Video of Petito’s van was taken by blogger Jenn Bethune, of Red White & Bethune, around 6.30 pm at the Spread Creek Campground; Witnesses say they saw a ‘commotion’ with the couple at Merry Piglets Tex-mex restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming
  • Aug. 29: The day that Wisconsin TikToker Miranda Baker claimed that she and her boyfriend were approached by Laundrie at Grand Teton National Park and asked them for a ride at 5.30pm; Schmidt says she is not entertaining this claim and believes it possibly factual
  • Aug. 30: Schmidt receives the last text from Petito: ‘No service in Yosemite’
  • Sept. 1: Laundrie returns to his parents’ home in North Port, Florida in a van without Petito
  • Sept. 6-7: Laundrie and his parents visit Fort De Soto campsite in Florida
  • Sept. 11: Schmidt reports Petito missing to authorities in New York; Petito and Laundrie’s van was impounded by police in Florida that same day
  • Sept. 12: Grand Teton National Park rangers search for Petito
  • Sept. 13: Laundrie’s lawyer says on October 5 that his parents now ‘believe’ this was the day they last saw him heading for a hike
  • Sept. 14: Laundrie issues a statement about Petito’s disappearance through his lawyer; Laundrie’s parents claim on September 17 that Laundrie left his parents’ home for a hike and they hadn’t seen from him since 
  • Sept. 15: Laundrie is officially named a person of interest in Petito’s case
  • Sept. 17: Laundrie family attorney confirms his whereabouts are unknown
  • Sept. 18: North Port police and the FBI start searching the Carlton Reserve in Sarasota County for missing Brian Laundrie
  • Sept. 19: Bethune realizes she has video of Petito’s van around 12am and submits the FBI with the footage 10 minutes later; Officials announce a body was found near Grand Teton National Park that matched Petito’s description in the afternoon
  • Sept. 21: Coroner confirms remains found in Grand Tetons belong to Petito. Her death is ruled a homicide but her cause of death is still under invesetigation
  • Sept. 20 – 22: FBI and North Port police continue search for Laundrie in Carton Reserve 
  • Sept. 22: Neighbors say they saw the Laudrie family pack up their detached camper on the day Gabby was reported missing. DailyMail.com photos show the camper was back in the driveway two days later, on September 13 
  • Sept. 23: FBI issues an arrest warrant for Laundrie for ‘use of unauthorized access device’ for fraudulently using a Capitol One Bank debit card that was not his between August 30 and September 1 to spend $1,000; A probe is launched into the police handling of the Utah police incident on Aug. 12; Laundrie’s parents visit their attorney in Orlando 
  • Sept. 25: Dog the Bounty Hunter joins the search for Laundrie 
  • Sept. 26: A funeral is held for Petito in Holbrook, New York, and her family launch a charity to help parents find missing children 
  • Sept. 27: Manhunt for Laundrie in the Carlton Reserve is scaled back after 10 day search doesn’t find him. Dog the Bounty Hunter says Laundrie and his parents stayed at Fort De Soto Park from September 1-3 and September 6-8 – and that on the latter visit only the parents left 
  • Sept. 28: Laundrie’s mom is accused of using a burner phone to contact her son Sept. 29: Documents reveal Laundrie’s mom canceled a reservation for the Fort De Soto Park campsite for two from September 1 to 3 and booked for three from September 6 to 8; FBI seizes surveillance footage from site; FBI investigates lead Laundrie bought a burner phone on September 14; Dog the Bounty Hunter searches the area near Fort De Soto finding a recently drunk can of Monster Energy at a makeshift campsite deep in the woods 
  • Sept. 30: Bodycam footage from a second officer at the August 12 incident is released showing a distressed Petito admitting Laundrie hit her; FBI agents collect more evidence from the Laundrie home 
  • Oct. 1: It emerges Laundrie’s sister had contact with him after she said she did 
  • Oct. 2: A hiker along the Appalachian Trail claims to have seen Laundrie near the border of Tennessee and North Carolina 
  • Oct. 3: Investigators searched the area on the Appalachian trail for any signs that Laundrie had been there  
  • Oct. 4: Laundrie’s sister told protestors outside her home that her family has been ignoring her after they rebuked her story and that she does not know where her brother is
  • Oct 5: Laundrie’s sister appeared on Good Morning America to say she would turn her brother in if she knew where he is; The Laundrie attorney says his parents now ‘believe’ he went on the run one day earlier than they first claimed (September 13 not 14) meaning he had a four-day headstart before they reported him missing to authorities; The attorney also says Laundrie flew from Utah to Florida on Aug. 17 without Petito to clear out a storage unit then returned on Aug. 23

Source Article from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10062287/Brian-Laundrie-flew-Florida-storage-unit-five-days-fight-Gabby-Petito.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.

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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.

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., defended hiring officials from the National Security Council to assist in the panel’s oversight of the Trump administration.

“If the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people, maybe he should work on being a better employer,” Schiff said, according to CNN.

Schiff said the committee has a “long tradition of hiring out of the intelligence community, out of the National Security Council.”

An aide clarified that no recent committee hire came directly from the White House.

The Hill reported one of the hires was Abigail Grace, who served on the NSC staff from 2016-2018. It was not clear if she was the only person hired who had worked on the NSC staff during the Trump administration.

Trump fumed about the hires Thursday morning on Twitter, accusing Democratic-led committees of “stealing” people who work at the White House.

“A continuation of Witch Hunt!” he wrote.

At his State of the Union address, Trump told Democrats not to investigate him, saying, “If there is going to peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation.”

A day after the comment, Schiff announced the Intelligence Committee would investigate Trump’s finances.

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FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are warning that the safety of Americans who remain in Afghanistan is “in the hands” of the Taliban’s new interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of a designated terror organization and one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist operatives. 

The top Republican on the committee, Rep. John Katko, and the top Republican on the House Subcommittee on Intelligence & Counterterrorism, Rep. August Pfluger, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, first obtained by Fox News, laying out their concerns after the Taliban announced the formation of its new government in Afghanistan – including Haqqani as interior minister. 

WHITE HOUSE SAYS ‘NO RUSH’ TO RECOGNIZE NEWLY ANNOUNCED TALIBAN GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN

“As you are aware, the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan continues to pose increased terrorism risk to Americans both at home and abroad,” they wrote to Mayorkas. 

“With American citizens and our Afghan allies awaiting permission from the Taliban to leave the country on chartered flights – a previously unthinkable scenario that is wholly unacceptable to the American people – we are urgently concerned about the Taliban’s naming of one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist operatives, Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of a terrorist group known as the Haqqani network, as the country’s acting interior minister,” they wrote. 

Further, Katko and Pfluger warned that individuals serving as interior ministers often hold authorities “related to policies governing security, border enforcement and transportation,” saying that they are “concerned that the safety of American citizens may now be directly in the hands of a known terrorist operative.” 

Biden administration officials said this week that “just under” 100 Americans remain in Afghanistan. The State Department, on Monday, touted the safe evacuation of four American citizens from the country – without interference from the Taliban. 

The Biden administration completed a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan on Aug. 31, after airlifting more than 124,000 Americans and Afghan allies to safety following the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country. Administration officials have said the mission has shifted from a military one to “diplomatic,” maintaining that they are working with Americans still in Afghanistan to get them out of the country. 

STATE DEPARTMENT ON AFGHAN REFUGEES IN US: ‘WE’RE DOING ACCOUNTINGS ON THE BACK END’

“We are concerned that this newfound power in the hands of the Haqqani Network may further exacerbate circumstances leading to Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven, accelerating plotting against the United States emanating from Afghanistan,” they wrote. 

Haqqani leads the Haqqani network, which has been designated by the U.S. government as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 2012. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence describes the network as “a Sunni Islamist militant organization” that is “responsible for some of the highest-profile attacks of the Afghan war.”

“The Haqqanis are considered the most lethal and sophisticated insurgent group targeting U.S., Coalition, and Afghan forces in Afghanistan,” according to the DNI report. “They typically conduct coordinated small-arms assaults coupled with rocket attacks, IEDs, suicide attacks and attacks using bomb-laden vehicles.”

U.S. officials have blamed the Haqqani network for numerous high-profile attacks in Afghanistan, including the 2011 attack on the Kabul International Hotel and a pair of suicide bombings at the Indian Embassy. The group had also attacked the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in 2011 and is blamed for “the largest truck bomb ever built,” a 61,500-pound device intercepted by Afghan security forces in 2013.

Haqqani is also known as the head of the Taliban’s military strategy, and was placed in charge of security in Kabul after the militants seized the city last month. His exact age is unclear, but he is believed to have been born in either Afghanistan or Pakistan between 1973 and 1980, according to the FBI, which placed him on its most wanted list and is offering a $5 million reward.

The ‘Seeking Information’ poster issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is Afghanistan’s newly appointed acting interior minister. FBI/Handout via REUTERS    THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

His father, Jalaluddin Haqqani, founded their namesake jihadist group and handed over leadership before his death in 2018 at 71.  But in the 1980s, the elder Haqqani was among the U.S.-backed mujahedeen warlords battling a Soviet Union invasion and was a close friend and mentor of the slain al Qaeda terrorist Usama bin Laden, according to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence’s Counterterrorism Guide.

Since 2008, Sirajuddin Haqqani has been wanted for questioning in connection with a Kabul hotel bombing that killed six people, including one American. He is also suspected of coordinating and taking part in attacks against U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan and playing a role in the failed assassination attempt of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

He has a long lists of aliases, according to the FBI: Siraj, Khalifa, Mohammad Siraj, Sarajadin, Cirodjiddin, Seraj, Arkani, Khalifa (Boss) Shahib, Halifa, Ahmed Zia, Sirajuddin Jallaloudine Haqqani, Siraj Haqqani, Serajuddin Haqani, Siraj Haqani and Saraj Haqani.

And he’s not the only member of the Haqqani network with influence within the Taliban.

Sirajuddin Haqqani’s younger brother, Anas Haqqani, was freed as part of a prisoner exchange in 2019 that also secured the release of American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks, who had been held hostage by Taliban fighters for over three years. Then he led a Taliban delegation to meet with ex-officials of the toppled Afghan government last month. After the Taliban seized Kabul last month, Haqqani’s uncle, Khalil Haqqani, delivered public remarks at the city’s largest mosque – receiving cheers in response, according to The New York Times.

The Republicans also pointed to the Aug. 26 suicide bombing in Kabul, which took the lives of 13 U.S. service members, saying that with Haqqani having “known ties to al Qaeda, including supporting similar suicide bombing attacks,” they “struggle to understand how the Biden administration’s reliance on vaguely articulated ‘over-the-horizon’ counterterrorism capabilities will be sufficient in protecting the homeland.”

Republicans also pointed to a recent statement made by Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said “there’s at least a very good probability of a broader civil war and that will then in turn lead to conditions that could, in fact, lead to a reconstitution of al Qaeda or a growth of ISIS or other myriad terrorist groups.” 

Republicans went on to demand answers as to how the Department of Homeland Security is supporting diplomatic efforts to evacuate the remaining Americans in Afghanistan and Afghan allies, amid reports that the Taliban is preventing flights from leaving. 

As for those seeking to leave Afghanistan, including Americans, a Taliban spokesperson said individuals have not been able to leave if they do not have proper documentation, but said the creation of the new government would help to better facilitate departures. 

“Regarding the flights, they have to obey our law,” Zabijullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, said. “They have to have proper documents and if they don’t have documents, we will not allow them to go.” 

He explained that individuals “have to have passports, have to have visas, and we have to have an exit stamp on their passports – from now, we’ve had nothing.” 

“Tomorrow, on, we will definitely restart the work of departments and then people will be able to travel abroad,” he said. “So, the next few days, people will be able to travel abroad.” 

Republicans also asked for any intelligence that DHS has related to the Haqqani network’s operations in Afghanistan and the region, whether the network maintains “external plotting capabilities for terrorist attacks,” and if DHS has assessed Haqqani’s appointment to be a signal of a close relationship between the Taliban and terrorist groups. 

“How will DHS navigate potential interactions with a known terrorist on security issues under control of the Taliban’s interior ministry, including interactions pertinent to DHS efforts to help evacuate American citizens and Afghan allies, such as border enforcement and vetting?” they wrote. 

PENTAGON: ‘NO QUESTION’ AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL MAKES IDENTIFYING TERROR THREATS MORE DIFFICULT

“What impact does having the Haqqani network ingrained with Afghanistan’s senior Taliban leadership have on DHS’s overall assessment of terrorist threats to the United States?” they added. 

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week admitted that there is “no question” it will be “more difficult to identify and engage threats that emanate from the region” after the full withdrawal of U.S. troops, but said the U.S. is “committed to making sure that that threats are not allowed to develop that could create significant challenges for us in the homeland.” 

The Taliban, on Tuesday, formally announced the formation of its new government. The Taliban spokesperson said positions within the government are now in an “acting capacity,” but many members of the old guard are part of the new government. 

The government, according to a report by the BBC, will be led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar as deputy. Other appointments include Mullah Yaqoob as acting defense minister and Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi as a second deputy. 

Despite the Taliban’s announcement of its new government, the White House is in “no rush” to recognize them as legitimate.

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“There’s no rush to recognition, and that will be planned dependent on what steps the Taliban takes,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. “The world will be watching whether they allow for American citizens, whether they allow individuals to leave who want to, and how they treat women and girls around the country.” 

She added: “I don’t have a timeline for you.” 

Psaki’s comments come after President Biden, on Monday, said recognition of the Taliban government was “a long way off.” 

“That’s a long way off,” he said again. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-homeland-gop-taliban-haqqani-fbi-terror-most-wanted

El Barcelona no tuvo problemas en el debut de la Copa del Rey, ante el Murcia: hizo descansar a sus jugadores más importantes, ganó sin inconvenientes y ya se prepara para mantener su liderazgo en LaLiga.  

El sábado 28 de octubre, visitará a Athletic Club, a las 20:45 de España (15:45 de Argentina y Chile; 13:45 de México y Colombia). 


ALINEACIÓN PROBABLE


En un principio, Valverde cuenta con lo mejor que tiene para ir a buscar los tres puntos. 


LESIONADOS Y SANCIONADOS


La principal baja de Ernesto Valverde es la lesión de larga duración de Ousmane Dembélé, quien no estará disponible para los azulgranas en lo queda de 2017. Tampoco estará Rafinha, que ha sido operado de una nueva dolencia en su rodilla.


HORA DEL PARTIDO, DÓNDE VERLO POR TV


El partido entre el Athletic Club y el Barcelona se jugará en el estadio San Mamés el sábado 28 de octubre las 20:45 horas de España (19:45 horas en las Islas Canarias, 16:45 en Chile y Argentina, 14:45 de Colombia y México) será retransmitido por Bein LaLiga.

Source Article from http://www.goal.com/es/noticias/la-alineacion-del-barcelona-ante-el-athletic-dia-hora-noticias-y-/ebuo2sra179w1aucf149bqt4c

Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said that she and Republican Florida Representative Matt Gaetz are “taking charge” in a Republican “civil war.”

“Matt and I have teamed up because we refuse to allow Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger or any Trump-hating Republican … we won’t allow the GOP to turn into their party. So we’re taking charge. We’re bringing it to the people,” she said during a recent interview with the Real America’s Voice network.

“We know what the people want,” she continued. “The people overwhelmingly support President Trump as the leader of the Republican Party.”

The “civil war” she referenced likely has two sides. On one side are those like Greene and Gaetz who think that Republican former President Donald Trump and his unapologetic, outspoken style represent the party’s future.

One the other are Republicans—like Representatives Cheney of Wyoming and Kinzinger of Illinois—who reject Trump and his baseless claim that the 2020 election was “stolen.” They see Trump and his claims as dangerous to democracy, alienating to voters and distracting from policy battles.

Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said that she and Republican Florida Representative Matt Gaetz are “taking charge” in a Republican “civil war.” In this photo, Greene speaks at a February 5, 2021 press conference on Capitol Hill after she lost her House Committees seats for espousing extremist conspiracy theories including one about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slicing off and wearing a child’s face.
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Both Cheney and Kinzinger have accurately said that there’s no proof to back up Trump’s repeated claim that an unprecedented nationwide conspiracy of voting fraud caused him to lose the 2020 election. They have called Trump’s claim “dangerously irresponsible.”

Both also voted to impeach the former president for inciting the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Several insurrectionists have said they were following Trump’s orders to stop Congress from “stealing” the election from him.

Greene and Gaetz, however, have cheered on efforts to re-examine the 2020 election for proof of fraud. The two have begun an “America First” tour starting in Mesa, Arizona, claiming that ballot audits will prove Trump right.

Speaking in Mesa last Friday, they praised the ongoing ballot audit happening in Maricopa County. Though the audit has been called a “joke” by state Republicans, Gaetz and Greene insisted that similar audits will soon occur in other blue states won last November by Democratic President Joe Biden. The two pledged to visit Fulton County, Georgia—another site where Trump alleged voter fraud—as their next tour stop.

In Mesa, Arizona the two denounced Republicans who oppose Trump’s election fraud claims.

“Just because you have an ‘R’ by your name and you say things doesn’t mean you’ll do them when you run the country,” Greene said. “This is why so many people don’t vote. They don’t trust Republicans to do the job.”

In mid-April Gaetz declared himself as a member of the “America First Caucus” launched by Greene. A leaked seven-page document announcing the caucus’ formation said that it championed “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”

The caucus document was widely criticized as racist. Kinzinger referred to the caucus as the “White Supremacy Caucus” and said that its members should be expelled from Congress. The same day the document was leaked, Greene said she was “not launching anything,” that she had never seen the document and that a third-party had created it.

Congressional Republican leaders have publicly denounced Greene’s comparison of COVID-19 mask mandates to the Jewish Holocaust and her past support of extremist conspiracy theories. However, the same leaders also helped facilitate a vote to oust Cheney as the party’s third-ranking leader because of Cheney’s repeated public remarks against Trump and his baseless fraud claims.

Newsweek contacted Greene’s office for comment.

Source Article from https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-matt-gaetz-are-taking-charge-amid-gop-civil-war-1595681

Todos los fanáticos de ‘Desnudando la noticia’ están cruzando los dedos para que Venezuela pase a cuartos de final de la Copa América y así puedan ver cómo las integrantes de este curioso canal de noticias cumplen su promesa de desnudarse por su país.

Esta promesa alborotó a sus más fieles seguidores, entre los que se encuentran miles de peruanos, quienes en su cuenta de Facebook manifestaron que, si bien son hinchas de la selección peruana, festejarían el pase de la ‘vinotinto’ a cuartos de la copa con tal de ver a las modelos como ‘Dios las trajo al mundo’.

Esta promesa ha llegado a oídos del seleccionado venezolano, quienes solo atinan a reírse por esta hazaña y evitan dar declaraciones al respecto.

La campaña #MeDesnudopor, seguido de la selección a la que apoyas, busca eliminar la censura y buscar el máximo apoyo a las selecciones que disputarán desde este jueves 11 de junio, el torneo más antiguo a nivel de selecciones.

⇒ [MIRA ESTO] ‘Desnudando la noticia’: Mira sus programas más calientes

Como se sabe, ayer Venezuela dio la sorpresa al ganarle 1-0 a Colombia en su debut en la Copa América, siendo celebrado por las chicas de ‘Desnudando la noticia’, quienes esperan que su equipo vaya con todo y pase a siguente ronda de la Copa América.

⇒ [MIRA ESTO] Copa América: Conductoras de televisión venezolana se desnudaron en apoyo a la ‘Vinotinto’

Y para mantener a sus fieles seguidoras, el programa venezolano incluyó una sección que recuerda al famoso pulpo Paul, el cual le atinó a varios resultados durante el mundial de 2010, aunque existe una diferencia en cuanto al manejo de esta especia de oráculo.

⇒ [MIRA ESTO] ‘Desnudando la noticia’, el programa donde las conductoras se quitan la ropa mientras comentan sobre el Mundial

En ‘Desnudando la noticia’, la idea de predecir los resultados de los partidos de la ‘Copa América 2015’ se trabaja con el sketch ‘La Teta Teresa’, que consiste primero en que una de las modelos que participan del programa se coloquen las banderas de los países que jugarán el torneo en sus pezones.

Source Article from http://trome.pe/deportes/desnudando-venezuela-copa-america-2052322

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Viernes, 29 de Agosto 2014  |  9:48 am




Créditos: RPP / Jess Urbina

´Rocky´ interrumpió una transmisión en vivo desde el Santuario de Santa Rosa, hecho que fue visto por la televidente, que lo identificó y acudió rápidamente a buscarlo. El reencuentro fue emotivo.






Una anciana se reencontró con su perro perdido tras verlo en una transmisión en vivo de RPP Noticias desde el Santuario de Santa Rosa.

Nuestro reportero Gerardo Reyna estaba realizando una nota periodística desde el citado templo, a propósito de la festividad de la santa limeña, a realizarse el día de mañana, cuando el animal apareció.

El perro interrumpió la transmisión en vivo y no paraba de mordisquear los cables de nuestros equipos. De hecho, en un determinado momento, el can pasó a protagonizar la nota.

Afortunadamente, la transmisión de RPP Noticias era vista por Doris Yepes Cáceres, dueña del perrito, que estaba extraviado desde hace varios días.

La mujer no lo pensó dos veces y acudió raudamente hasta el Santuario de Santa Rosa, donde se dio el emotivo reencuentro.

La anciana se mostró agradecida con RPP Noticias por haber permitido el reencuentro con su mascota, a quien identificó como ‘Rocky’.

“Estoy muy agradecida a ustedes, los reporteros. Tuve la suerte de encontrar a mi hijo que es mi engreído. Lloraba toda la semana extrañando a mi hijo, a quien veo más delgado”, dijo.

“Doy gracias a Santa Rosita y a Dios haber encontrado a mi perrito, que es como un hijo para mí”, añadió.

La mujer dijo que tiene un albergue en el Rímac, donde -aparte de Rocky- tiene nueve perros y 40 gatos.








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Between them, these health care organizations represent millions of physicians, nurses and other health care workers across the country, including pediatricians, oncologists and pharmacists.

And they don’t think the health care industry should be the only one to require vaccines. They also called on other industries to follow suit.

“As the health care community leads the way in requiring vaccines for our employees, we hope all other employers across the country will follow our lead and implement effective policies to encourage vaccination,” the joint statement said. “The health and safety of U.S. workers, families, communities, and the nation depends on it.”

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, just 58% of nursing home staff are vaccinated. According to one estimate in late May, 1 in 4 health care workers were unvaccinated in the U.S. In some places, like Florida, the rates were as low as 40%.

Nationwide, the U.S. is struggling to increase its vaccination rates past 50% of the total population, including children, and missed President Joe Biden’s goal to get 70% of adults vaccinated with one shot by July Fourth. As of Monday, about three weeks later, still just 69% of adults had met that goal, while 60% of adults were fully vaccinated, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

The influential statement has the potential to move the needle on an issue that, so far, has held up in court and proven to be effective at increasing vaccinations, at least in the health care field. Over the winter, Houston Methodist became the first hospital to require vaccines for its staff, and many hospital systems around the country have followed suit. In Houston, the hospital was sued, but won a lawsuit over the requirement and saw the vast majority of its 26,000-person staff get vaccinated, while around 150 quit or were fired for not adhering to the policy.

That decision spurred a recent statement from another massive health care organization, the American Hospital Association, to call for mandatory vaccinations in hospitals and paved the way for even more to get on board as they did on Monday.

“I think it’s incredible to see these organizations come together and make the bold statement to mandate vaccinations, which we know are safe and effective,” said Dr. Jay Bhatt, the former chief medical officer for the AHA and an ABC News contributor.

“We know, as Americans, it’s hard for folks to agree on a lot of things. So if we’re seeing big organizations agree on vaccinations, we should be paying attention to it,” Bhatt said.

In defending their reasons, the groups that came out in support of vaccine mandates on Monday said it was necessary for caregivers to protect patients who might be immunocompromised or not yet eligible for a vaccine, and for their own health.

The organizations emphasized their confidence in the vaccines, which are safe and effective, and hinted at the fact that the vaccines would be fully approved by the FDA soon, which will also bring more employer mandates. Currently, the vaccine is authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization, which is a temporary approval.

“As we move towards full FDA approval of the currently available vaccines, all health care workers should get vaccinated for their own health, and to protect their colleagues, families, residents of long-term care facilities and patients. This is especially necessary to protect those who are vulnerable, including unvaccinated children and the immunocompromised,” the joint statement said. “Indeed, this is why many health care and long-term care organizations already require vaccinations for influenza, hepatitis B, and pertussis.”

Also on Monday, the Department of Veteran Affairs announced that it would mandate the vaccine for its doctors and nurses. The decision came after four unvaccinated employees of the department died in recent weeks. The mandate will go into place in two months.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Dennis McDonough said the mandate is “the best way to keep veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country.”

While there is a risk of pushback that could lead to people leaving their jobs, particularly in parts of the country where there is more refusal to get the vaccine, the rising levels of the delta variant, which currently makes up 83% of all cases in the U.S., could also hit hospital workforces hard, particularly for doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the pandemic.

“Either way, there’s a risk of them not being in the workforce. And I would say the cost of getting COVID is great enough that it warrants vaccination,” said Bhatt.

But for those who can’t be vaccinated because of medical reasons, which the groups estimated to be “a small minority of all workers,” they should be evaluated individually.

Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/50-major-health-care-organizations-call-mandating-vaccines/story?id=79070163

La boxeadora trujillana no renuncia al título mundial y pedirá otra pelea con Daniela Bermúdez, que le ganó el último sábado.

Con la fe intacta. Linda Lecca ha perdido una batalla, pero no la guerra, a esas ganas de luchar y triunfar. A pesar de haber perdido la posibilidad de alcanzar el título mundial supermosca OMB, el último sábado, ante la argentina Daniela Bermúdez, nuestra boxeadora alimenta sus ansias de gloria.

“Estoy convencida de que voy a conseguir el título para mi país, que tengo la capacidad para vencer a la ‘Bonita. Hubo algunas irregularidades desde el inicio. Nos dieron guantes inadecuados, no los que solicitamos. También está el tema de la ropa, que a mí me cuesta estar cambiándome y enfrió mi mejor momento”, comentó Lecca, refiriéndose al sexto round cuando el réferi detuvo el combate, que era parejo hasta ese instante.

“Mi entrenador lanzó la toalla en el octavo round, pero no me gustó eso porque me sentía bien y quería pelear hasta el final. Quizá de afuera se vio otra cosa. Sé que tendré mi revancha y ojalá sea en Lima”, agregó.

Su mánager Jorge Bartra denunció una serie de irregularidades que perjudicaron el desenvolvimiento de la peruana. “Hubo cosas raras. A Linda le dieron unos guantes usados y talla 10 cuando ella usa 8. Tampoco se permitió ver el vendaje de su rival y no hubo control antidoping”, apuntó.

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