Montana’s governor declared a “winter storm emergency” tonight after the state was slammed by more than 3 feet of heavy, wet snow. Governor Steve Bullock declared the emergency as storm watches and warnings were posted across the region.
This early-occurring winter storm blasted the city of Great Falls with more than a foot of snow in September. The snow has covered streets and made driving difficult.
“My recommendation is to stay off the road if you can,” said Sergeant Wade Palen of the Montana Highway Patrol. “The biggest challenges are overnight. The roads will freeze again so they’ll become more ice covered.”
Pedestrians make their way along a snow covered street lined with trees that still have their leaves during a fall snowstorm in Helena, Montana, on Sunday, September 29, 2019.
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Closer to the mountains, snow now measured in feet is piled high outside homes. With high winds, trees have been knocked down. At one point, thousands lost power.
“When is the last time you’ve seen a September like this? i have never seen a September snow like this,” said National weather service meteorologist Don Britton.
Britton has lived in Great Falls for more than 40 years. He says this storm is a record breaker.
“That one set back in 1934? That was broken,” he said. “That was a three-day record of over 13 inches of snow. We’ve already had over 14 inches of snow in two days, so that record is pretty much obliterated.”
The snowstorm also hit parts of Idaho.
And in Spokane, Washington, the storm marked the first time the city recorded snow on this date since officials began keeping records in 1881. Forecasters expect the winter weather to continue through the night.
“Hunker down, stay warm, and try to avoid travel,” Britton advised.
The storm is expected to move out of the area by early tomorrow morning. Some schools will be closed Monday, but all of this snow is expected to melt by the end of the week, and everyone here can get back to fall.
El Ejército de Nicaragua informó el martes 10 de febrero que está gestionando la compra de aviones cazas con el fin de combatir el narcotráfico en su espacio aéreo, principalmente sobre el territorio marítimo otorgado por la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) de La Haya, que definió los límites en el Caribe con Colombia.
El inspector del Ejército nicaragüense, general de brigada Adolfo Zepeda, dijo a periodistas que “para evitar (el) tráfico de aviones del narcotráfico en nuestro espacio aéreo”, han hecho “algunas gestiones para obtener medios cazas interceptores”.
Es “aviación netamente defensiva, no aviones de ataque”, aclaró el jefe militar.
Zepeda brindó esas declaraciones tras ser consultado por las presuntas intenciones de las Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia, de acuerdo con medios colombianos, de reforzar de forma prioritaria sus capacidades aéreas, en respuesta a esas gestiones de Nicaragua en adquirir aviones Mig-29 u otros cazas.
“Nicaragua no constituye amenazas para que ningún país argumente armarse más por una amenaza eventual de Nicaragua”, dijo al respecto el general de brigada nicaragüense.
“Somos un país pacífico, somos respetuosos del ordenamiento internacional. Nuestras diferencias a nivel internacional las llevamos a la Corte Internacional de Justicia, y esos fallos Nicaragua los respeta”, argumentó.
La CIJ de La Haya dirimió el 19 de noviembre de 2012 un litigio marítimo entre Nicaragua y Colombia, y le otorgó al primero los derechos económicos sobre una zona que Colombia calcula en 75.000 kilómetros cuadrados y el país centroamericano en más de 90.000 kilómetros cuadrados.
En el mismo fallo la Corte dejó en manos de Colombia siete cayos del archipiélago de San Andrés, cuyas islas mayores ya se habían concedido a esta nación en 2007, aunque dos de los islotes quedaron enclavados en aguas centroamericanas.
El Ejército de Nicaragua también ha considerado que necesita ocho nuevas patrulleras y ya ha visitado astilleros, entre ellos los de Rusia, un antiguo aliado que durante el primer régimen sandinista (1979-1990) dotó de armamento soviético a las Fuerzas Armadas nicarag enses.
WASHINGTON — American defense firms Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are preparing to make massive adjustments to their production processes as the U.S. tries to pressure Turkey not to follow through with a multibillion-dollar deal to buy a Russian missile system, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
If Turkey goes through with the Russian deal, Lockheed Martin would have to rework its supply chain on components for the F-35 fighter jet, while also making changes to its production schedule. Yet if Turkey abandons its deal with Russia, Raytheon would reorganize the Patriot missile defense system production schedule to guarantee that Turkey could receive the missile system within a faster time frame.
As it stands, Turkey faces removal from the F-35 program, forfeiture of 100 promised F-35 jets, cancellation of a Patriot missile deal and the imposition of U.S. sanctions as well as potential blowback from NATO if the deal with Russia is completed. Lockheed Martin makes the F-35, while Raytheon produces the Patriot system.
“The ball is very much in their court,” a U.S. defense official familiar with the matter told CNBC. “There is a lot to lose on the line and Turkey should know that these aren’t idle threats.”
Turkey is slated to receive the Russian-made S-400 missile system later this year after brokering a deal reportedly worth $2.5 billion with the Kremlin in 2017.
Turkey has helped finance Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program, America’s most expensive weapons system and the world’s most advanced fighter jet.
For Lockheed Martin, the adjustments include replacing Turkey’s role in manufacturing elements for the F-35’s fuselage and landing gear. Therefore, a new supplier would have to take over making those specific jet components. Additionally, the 100 F-35 jets Turkey hoped to add to its budding arsenal will be shuffled in the company’s intricate production schedule as to ensure the defense giant’s assembly line will hum along without skipping a beat.
On Thursday, the head of the F-35 program at the Pentagon told lawmakers that Turkey’s removal would impact the aircraft production rate and strain the jet’s intricate global supply chain.
“The evaluation of Turkey stopping would be between 50 and 75 airplane impact over a two-year period,” Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter told members during a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing.
“From a timeline we would see within 45 to 90 days an impact of the slowing down or stopping of those parts to the three production lines,” Winter said, adding that Turkey produces approximately 7 percent of the jet’s parts.
In multiple efforts to deter Turkey from buying the S-400, the U.S. State Department offered in 2013 and 2017 to sell it a Patriot missile system. Ankara passed on Patriot both times because the U.S. declined to provide a transfer of the system’s sensitive missile technology.
The intelligence assessment included satellite imagery of a concrete launch facility as well as bunkers, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The new construction fits the pattern for Russia’s S-400 surface-to-air missile system, the source indicated.
The S-400 missile system, equipped with eight launchers and 32 missiles, is capable of targeting and collecting valuable technical intelligence from the F-35. Similarly, the S-400 cannot be operated alongside NATO defense systems.
The Turkey-U.S. military relationship took more anxious turns Monday, when the U.S. halted delivery of two F-35 fighter jets to Ankara and an agreement to sell the Patriot system to Turkey expired.
On Tuesday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said he expected the dispute with Turkey over its planned purchase of Russia’s S-400 system to be resolved.
“I expect we’ll solve the problem so that they have the right defense equipment in terms of Patriots and F-35s,” Shanahan told a small group of reporters at the Pentagon.
The jewelry designer behind Michelle Obama’s “VOTE” necklace at the 2020 Democratic National Convention says the brand has been inundated with offers thanks to the primetime moment.
Chari Cuthbert, who owns the Los Angeles boutique ByChari, said the brand saw “a significant uptick in sales” in just the hour after the former first lady debuted the $430 gold chain, the Daily Beast reported.
“My finance guy just texted me a bunch of exclamation points, so I assume that’s a good thing,” Cuthbert said. “He said, I’m so happy for you, this is everything you’ve worked for.”
She wasn’t aware that Obama would be wearing the design for the DNC until it appeared on television screens across the nation during her speech, which headlined the first night of the convention.
Cuthbert previously told The Post she designed a VOTE necklace for the 2016 election and was planning on selling one again this time around.
“I was honored when Michelle Obama’s stylist asked for one and am thrilled she is wearing it!” she said in a statement.
“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.
“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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Umberto Eco era el máximo intelectual italiano.
Umberto Eco era tan famoso por su creación intelectual como por sus lúcidas y polémicas declaraciones mediáticas.
Tras el fallecimiento este viernes a los 84 años del autor de libros como El nombre de la rosa y El péndulo deFoucault, BBC Mundo recopila un decálogo de frases suyas sobre distintos temas.
“Los libros no están hechos para que uno crea en ellos, sino para ser sometidos a investigación. Cuando consideramos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué significa”. El nombre de la rosa.
2. Sobre los padres
“Creo que aquello en lo que nos convertimos depende de lo que nuestros padres nos enseñan en pequeños momentos, cuando no están intentando enseñarnos. Estamos hechos de pequeños fragmentos de sabiduría”. El péndulo de Foucault.
3. Sobre Dios
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Para Eco, internet permitió “la invasión de los imbéciles”.
“Cuando los hombres dejan de creer en Dios, no quiere decir que creen en nada: creen en todo”.
4. Sobre el amor
“El amor es más sabio que la sabiduría”. El nombre de la rosa.
5. Sobre los héroes
“El verdadero héroe es héroe por error. Sueña con ser un cobarde honesto como todo el mundo”.
6. Sobre los villanos
“Los monstruos existen porque son parte de un plan divino y en las horribles características de esos mismos monstruos se revela el poder del creador”. El nombre de la rosa.
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Eco no tenía una buena opinión de las redes sociales.
7. Sobre la poesía
“Todos los poetas escriben mala poesía. Los malos poetas la publican, los buenos poetas la queman”.
8. Sobre el periodismo
“No son las noticias las que hacen el periódico, sino el periódico el que hace las noticias y saber juntar cuatro noticias distintas significa proponerle al lector una quinta noticia”. Número cero.
9. Sobre internet
“Las redes sociales le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas que antes hablaban sólo en el bar después de un vaso de vino, sin dañar a la comunidad. Entonces eran rápidamente silenciados, pero ahora tienen el mismo derecho a hablar que un Premio Nobel. Es la invasión de los imbéciles”. Eco al diario La Stampa.
10. Sobre la corrupción
“Hoy, cuando afloran los nombres de corruptos o defraudadores y se sabe más, a la gente no le importa nada y solo van a la cárcel los ladrones de pollos albaneses”. Eco a la Agencia Efe.
(CNN)An underwater volcano near Tonga has erupted for the third time in four days, potentially threatening the ability of surveillance flights to assess the damage to the Pacific island nation following Saturday’s massive eruption and tsunami.
And on Wednesday, even as he claimed that Pakistan had had no choice but to retaliate for India’s airstrikes around Balakot the day before, he also expressed concern that the two countries must calm hostilities rather than risk nuclear war.
Behind the calm exterior, though, is the widespread belief that Pakistan is in no shape right now to wage a major war. Its economy is in deep trouble, with the country running out of hard currency. And most other nations — including China, which has traditionally taken Pakistan’s side in disputes — have pressed Pakistan to take more action against terrorist groups.
In the propaganda war of the past few days, both countries have been guilty of missteps. Pakistan maintained for a day that it had shot down two Indian fighter jets and captured two pilots, only later revising it down to one on each count.
But it is India that has suffered the more glaring contradictions. The government has yet to offer any evidence publicly for its claim that it downed a Pakistan plane, which Indian officials say crashed beyond their border. Likewise, India has offered no proof that its initial airstrike on Tuesday killed “a very large number” of “terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis,” as India’s foreign secretary has claimed.
Videos of a crushed building filled with bodies that soon began circulating widely on social media in India were quickly debunked. The images were not from the airstrike but from an earthquake in Pakistan more than 10 years ago.
This is beginning to take its toll on Mr. Modi, who is up for election in about two months and who until recently seemed invincible. But in some sectors, he is now being accused of military adventurism. One family of a fallen soldier called the government a liar.
Other Indians seem frustrated.
”The government has been lax and inaccurate in the way information is being let out,’’ said Mohammad Saquib, who works at a hotel in Delhi.
Detail of a scarf print from the Beyond Buckskin Boutique. Photo courtesy of shop.beyondbuckskin.com. Download Full Image
Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.
Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.
Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.
“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.
ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.
Jessica Metcalfe
Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?
Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.
Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.
You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.
Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?
A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.
I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.
We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.
Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?
A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.
Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?
A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.
A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.
Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert withdrew her name from consideration for the U.N. ambassador nomination, the department said Saturday.
“I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary [Mike] Pompeo for the trust they placed in me for considering me for the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,” Nauer said in the statement. “However, the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration.
She went on to describe her time working in the administration as being “one of the highest honors of my life.”
A State Department source told Fox News that the process, on top of traveling around the world and between Washington D.C., and New York to see family, grew to be too much.
Trump — who picked Nauert to succeed Ambassador Nikki Haley in December — will make an announcement “soon” about a nominee for the position, the State Department said.
Before she worked at the State Department, Nauert worked as an anchor and correspondent at Fox News — including as a breaking news anchor on “Fox & Friends.” Before Fox, she was a reporter at ABC News. She moved to the State Department in April 2017.
Secretary of State Pompeo also addressed the decision in the statement, saying it was one he respected.
“Heather Nauert has performed her duties as a senior member of my team with unequaled excellence,” he said. “I wish Heather nothing but the best in all of her future endeavors and know that she will continue to be a great representative of this nation in whatever role she finds herself.”
When Trump tapped Nauert for the U.N. role last year, he said she was “very talented.” His announcement came roughly two months after Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, abruptly resigned from the position.
Fox News’ Alexandra Pamias, Rich Edson, Adam Shaw and Kaitlyn Schallhorn contributed to this report.
Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal demanded that the administration turn over over six years’ worth of President Donald Trump’s tax returns — but Democrats may face a tougher-than-normal situation with taxpayer secrecy rules. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
There will be a period, possibly lasting months, when Democrats will have seen the president’s taxes, but they won’t be able to talk about them.
Democrats’ bid to seize President Donald Trump’s tax returns will come with some serious legal risk to themselves.
Lawmakers are concerned that, even if they get the president’s filings, his returns will still be protected by strict confidentiality laws — it is a felony, punishable by up to five years, to improperly disclose private tax information.
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There are ways around the dilemma, and Democrats intend to make at least some information about Trump’s taxes public — that is much of the point of their entire effort. But that probably won’t happen right away. Lawmakers say they will likely take some time to examine his filings behind closed doors before making anything publicly available.
That means there will be a period, possibly lasting months, when Democrats will have finally seen the president’s long-hidden taxes — and they will be inundated with questions about what’s in them — but they won’t be able to talk about them. If they let anything slip, Republicans will surely jump, demanding an investigation by the Justice Department.
“We’re going to have to be circumspect in terms of the way we handle this,” said Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee. “That’s the responsibility of every member.”
It’s a risk that’s been barely acknowledged in the battle over Trump’s returns, though it is one reason why Democrats have taken so long to formally request them.
Of course, Democrats have to get the returns first, and they’re a long way from that. Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) demanded this week that the administration turn over six years’ worth of Trump’s individual and business tax returns, giving them a deadline of April 10.
The administration has indicated it plans to fight the demand in court.
“From what I understand, the law is 100 percent on my side,” Trump said Friday.
That Democrats may have to keep Trump’s taxes secret for a time has been largely overlooked in the debate over the returns, probably because of a misconception of how the law Democrats are tapping works.
They are relying on a statute that allows the heads of Congress’s tax committees to examine anyone’s confidential taxes. Advocates of the effort emphasize that the law says the Treasury Secretary “shall” hand over any requested returns.
But that’s just the question of whether the administration must give up the documents — even if Trump’s returns are handed over, they will still be protected by privacy laws. Making them public will be a separate matter.
Experts say lawmakers can do that by essentially having the Ways and Means Committee vote in a closed session to release them.
Though Democrats haven’t worked out exactly how they’ll proceed, there’s likely to be some time between when they receive the returns and when they consider divulging them.
There seems to be a “false presumption” that lawmakers will simply release the returns the moment they get them, said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), another Democratic tax writer who has helped lead the push to get the president’s returns.
“There is a need for a thorough review of them to see if there’s anything in them that justifies releasing them and that’s something that could take awhile to do because they are, according to the president, very complex,” he said. “I hope it’s not months, but I don’t think it will be days.”
“Until such time as that review is complete and a vote is taken to forward them to congress and the public, they will be protected.”
Democrats may want to redact certain information from the returns. Trump’s filings could reveal private information about other people he’s in business with who are of little interest to lawmakers, for example.
Tax veterans say the period between when Democrats get Trump’s returns and if and when they release something will be stressful for lawmakers, given the criminal penalties for even inadvertent disclosure. Democrats won’t be able to discuss even basic things about Trump’s returns, like how much he paid in taxes, what he reported earning or if he gave to charity.
“When we’ve had members in these situations before, we frequently have members say, ‘I don’t know if I want you to tell me or not, because I don’t know if I can trust myself not to say anything,’” said Rick Grafmeyer, a former deputy head of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation and expert on taxpayer privacy laws.
Tax writers typically use their power to examine private tax returns to help inform the policymaking process. If they are trying to write legislation outlawing a corporate tax shelter, for example, they might look at an individual company’s tax documents to better understand how the dodge works.
Some say Democrats’ situation will be tougher than what most lawmakers deal with when it comes to taxpayer secrecy rules. Everyone will likely know Democrats have Trump’s returns and lawmakers would be besieged with questions from reporters, constituents and other lawmakers. That’s a lot different than when lawmakers quietly examine an oil company’s tax return.
Also, the Ways and Means Committee is loaded with new members who aren’t steeped in the intricacies of the tax secrecy rules — the closest analogue many say is when lawmakers received classified intelligence briefings.
“I’m sure that there will be briefings about all the ethical issues that surround this,” said Larson.
Many of the details of how exactly Democrats would handle the returns have not been worked out.
Neal could keep Trump’s documents to himself and a few close aides — and not even let other members of his panel see them. He has already said he won’t share the returns with any other committees, including the Judiciary and Oversight panels, which have been conducting their own high-profile investigations of the administration.
That would keep the circle of people who’ve seen Trump’s taxes tight — and the more people who see the returns, the more likely there will be leaks.
But many of his colleagues have been clamoring for the president’s returns for months, and will surely be unhappy to learn they won’t be able to examine them.
Another option: Lawmakers turn the filings over to the JCT and ask its staff of tax experts to analyze Trump’s returns and report back on what they find.
“They’re going to have to think carefully about how they’re going to want to do this,” said Dean Zerbe, a former Senate tax aide. “The penalties are certainly quite real.”
Internet es una plataforma en donde todos tienen voz, pero eso no significa que todo el mundo aproveche el espacio público digital para el bien. Tanto en momentos de crisis como en situaciones en donde alguien simplemente quiere generar histeria masiva, es muy fácil que se difundan noticias falsas, con información errónea y que no responden a la realidad.
Pasó hace un rato con la información equivocada de que se vendría un masivo corte de energía en la Región Metropolitana, pero es muy frecuente ver a personas en Facebook y Twitter compartir noticias que dicen hechos escandalosos pero que no citan ni una fuente ni entregan datos correctos.
Por eso, el activista Antonio Franyuti tiene en su Facebook un pequeño tutorial con simples pasos que te ayudarán a chequear que lo que estás difundiendo efectivamente sea correcto. Te lo dejamos a continuación:
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is calling for a Republican challenger to President Trump in the 2020 elections.
Jeb Bush believes a Republican should challenge President Trump for the nomination in 2020 — slamming the president’s “dangerous” policies on trade and other issues.
In the latest salvo between the two former rivals, Bush, who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, made the comments Saturday during an interview with ex-Obama adviser David Axelrod.
“I think someone should run just because Republicans ought to be given a choice,” Bush said on CNN’s “The Axe Files.” “It’s hard to beat a sitting president, but to have a conversation about what it is to be a conservative, I think it’s important.”
Bush, whose father George. H.W. Bush was the 41st president of the United States and his brother, George W. Bush, was the 43rd, reportedly added that Republican voters should be given more of a choice between different ideologies.
“And our country needs to have competing ideologies that people — that are dynamic, that focus on the world we’re in and the world we’re moving toward rather than revert back to a nostalgic time,” he said on CNN, seeming to take aim at Trump’s “Make America Great Again” 2016 slogan.
Bush elaborated about his disagreements with Trump during the interview.
“We haven’t had a major crisis to deal with, but this unilateralism or going-alone-ism I think is really dangerous,” Bush said of Trump’s foreign policy moves, according to The Hill.
“Our friends no longer believe they can trust the United States and our enemies, in many cases, feel emboldened by this approach,” he reportedly added. “I think it defies the…bipartisan kind of consensus on foreign policy that has, by and large, kept America safe.”
According to The Hill, Bush also critiqued Trump’s ability to handle the more symbolic aspects of running the country, such as responding during moments of crisis.
However, he did praise Trump’s tax policy, regulatory changes and judicial nominations.
“You can honestly say he’s done good things in terms of policy and applaud them,” Bush said. “I think the symbolic, you know the kingly duties of the presidency, that’s where he falls short, and it’s important.”
The interview is the latest in a series of back-and-forth jabs between the two men.
Bush blasted Trump in September 2018 as a bad role model for young children, telling the Detroit Free Press: “He is not my role model as it relates to values I would share with my children and grandchildren.”
During a June 2018 interview with CNBC, Bush criticized Trump for going negative, saying that candidates must be civil with one another.
“The kind of campaign [Trump] ran would have never been successful a decade ago or in the age of [Ronald] Reagan and Bush, for example,” said Bush.
The ends don’t justify the means, Bush said, referring to the way Trump goes negative. “It’s not worth disparaging people.”
Bush told Axelrod that Republicans need to “offer a compelling alternative” to Democratic ideas rather than just calling their ideas “bad.”
So far, the only person to hint at challenging Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination is former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who formed an exploratory committee in February.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is intensifying his efforts to discredit a highly anticipated report on the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
In an interview with Fox Business Network to be aired Friday, Trump said: “I have a deputy, appoints a man to write a report on me, to make a determination on my presidency. People will not stand for it.”
Trump’s comments came as special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to soon deliver a report to the Justice Department on his investigation into Russian election meddling.
Trump complained about Mueller’s appointment, calling him a “best friend” to James Comey, who succeeded Mueller as FBI director. Trump fired Comey while he was leading an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. There is no evidence the two are close friends.
Nativos indígenas de Brasil tienen rastros de ADN de Oceanía, algo que genera nuevas preguntas sobre cómo y cuándo llegaron los primeros pobladores a América.
Dos estudios genéticos separados hallaron evidencias de un sorprendente vínculo genético entre las poblaciones nativas de las Américas y Oceanía.
El ADN de algunos nativos amazónicos muestra una semejanza significativa con los habitantes indígenas de Australia y Melanesia, el cinturón de islas que van desde el Pacífico occidental hasta Fiji.
Los dos grupos de investigación, sin embargo, hacen distintas interpretaciones de cómo fue poblada América.
Los estudios fueron publicados en las revistas Science y Nature.
Hay un consenso en que los primeros pobladores de las Américas llegaron a través de Siberia, por un puente de tierra que conectaba con Europa y Asia.
Pero no hay acuerdo sobre la procedencia de estos pobladores y en qué momento llegaron.
¿Pudo ser esta la ruta de los primeros americanos?
Al analizar el ADN de los nativos americanos modernos y de antiguos restos humanos, el grupo que escribe para Science concluye que todos los nativos americanos de la actualidad proceden de una migración única no más temprana a hace más de 23.000 años.
Entonces, alegan, hace unos 13.000 años los nativos americanos se dividieron en dos ramas: una que ahora está dispersa por América del Norte y del Sur, mientras que la otra se limita a América del Norte.
“Nuestro estudio muestra que el modelo más simple posible parece ser verdadero, con una sola y notoria excepción”, le dijo a la BBC el profesor Rasmus Nielsen de la Universidad de California, Berkley.
No hay acuerdo sobre la procedencia de los pobladores de América y en qué momento llegaron.
“Así que las ideas fantasiosas de que de alguna manera América fue poblada por personas procedentes de Europa y todo tipo de lugares son erróneas”.
El análisis también descarta la teoría, defendida por algunos, de una migración escalonada desde Siberia: la primera de hace más de 30.000 años que fue detenida durante 15.000 años por el hielo que bloqueaba la ruta y una segunda oleada una vez que el camino se despejó.
Pero, al igual que en el estudio de la revisa Nature, el equipo de Nielsen registró rastros de ancestros “australo-melanesios” en algunas poblaciones, incluidas aquellas de las islas Aleutianas (frente a Alaska) y la comunidad surui del Amazonas brasileño.
El profesor David Reich de la Escuela Médica de Harvard lideró el estudio de Nature.
Reich le explicó a la BBC que “ambos estudios muestran que ha habido múltiples flujos de migración hacia las Américas”.
Según Reich, el descubrimiento del linaje oceánicos entre algunos grupos nativos Americanos indica que América fue poblada por una serie de grupos más diversos de lo que anteriormente se creía.
El mapa del artículo de Nature resalta la similitud entre los indígenas amazónicos y los australasianos.
“El modelo más simple posible nunca predijo una afinidad entre los amazónicos y los australasianos”, señaló.
“Esto sugiere que hay una población ancestral que cruzó hacia América que es diferente de la población que dio lugar a la gran mayoría de americanos. Y esto es una gran sorpresa”.
Reich cree que la explicación más plausible es que hubo una migración separada desde Australasia (región que comprende Australia, Melanesia y Nueva Zelanda), posiblemente hace unos 15.000 años.
Este grupo, considera, probablemente se dispersó más por América del Norte pero gradualmente fue expulsado por otras comunidades nativas americanas.
Por su parte, Nielsen tiene una interpretación diferente pues opina que los rastros del ADN australasiano se derivan de una migración posterior, hace unos 8.000 años, que avanzó por la costa del Pacífico.
A key Republican involved in the negotiations over a border security deal said talks are at a stalemate with the deadline to avert another government shutdown fast approaching.
“I think the talks are stalled right now. I’m hoping we can get off the dime later today or in the morning because time is ticking away, but we got some problems with the Democrats dealing with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], that is detaining criminals that come into the U.S. And they want a cap on them, we don’t want a cap on that,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
Shelby is among the bipartisan group of lawmakers working to reach agreement on a border security deal before Friday, when funding for a slew of government agencies will lapse again. A 35-day partial government shutdown ended late last month after President Trump signed a stopgap measure.
A point of contention for congressional negotiators is funding for a wall along the southern border, for which Trump wants $5.7 billion. Democrats are opposed to the demand.
The two sides have also reached a stalemate over immigrant detention beds that Immigration and Customs Enforcement can use. Democrats want to cap funding for the beds while Republicans oppose the restrictions. In order for an illegal immigrant to be detained there must be a bed for them, and a cap on beds would limit the number of detentions.
Lawmakers working on the deal huddled at Camp David this weekend for further talks with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, though Shelby and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who is also working on the border deal, indicated another shutdown is possible.
“I’m not positive we will end up with a deal, but with this group of people and the folks from the House, I think we are going to end up with something that deals with detention beds, with barriers, with technology, with the challenges we have on the southern border in a commonsense way,” Tester, who joined Shelby on “Fox News Sunday, said. “Chairman Shelby is correct, time is of the essence. We need to move forward, we need to keep our eyes on this but I’m very hopeful, not positive, but very hopeful we can come to an agreement.”
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who invited lawmakers to Camp David this weekend to work on a deal, would not rule out another government shutdown.
“The president has to sign a piece of legislation in order to keep the government open. He cannot sign everything they put in front of him. There will be some things that simply we couldn’t agree to,” Mulvaney said on “Fox News Sunday.” “So the government shutdown is technically still on the table. We do not want it to come to that, but that option is still open to the president and will remain so.”
Shelby, meanwhile, said there is a “50-50” chance they reach an agreement, and noted Monday is effectively a deadline for lawmakers in terms of moving legislation through the House and Senate before funding lapses Friday.
“I’m not confident we’re going to get there,” he said.
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