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“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell are highlighting a fund that awarded nearly $125 million to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims as part of their effort to discredit four accusers who testified at trial.

All four accusers who testified for the prosecution at Ms. Maxwell’s trial said they had received awards from the fund, ranging from $1.5 million to $5 million. The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, which was created after the financier’s death, ended its claims process earlier this year after paying about 150 of Epstein’s accusers with money from his estate.

Source Article from https://www.wsj.com/articles/ghislaine-maxwell-defense-aims-to-discredit-witnesses-paid-by-epstein-victims-fund-11639823403

El Tribunal Superior de Medellín acaba de revocar la sentencia absolutoria que un Juez de Bello había decretado a favor del cantante de música urbana Carlos Alberto Pizarro, Alberto Stylee.

En la decisión, tomada por la Sala Penal de ese organismo, se ordena la captura inmediata del cantante para que pague por los delitos de tentativa de homicidio y porte ilegal de armas de fuego.

Los hechos por los que el alto Tribunal tomó esta medida ocurrieron la madrugada del 26  de febrero en una fiesta privada que se celebró en una finca en Copacabana (Antioquia).

Edwin Alfredo Moná, de 36 años, denunció que el artista interrumpió su presentación para perseguirlo durante más de 100 metros y dispararle con un arma de fuego porque él estaba hablando con la acompañante del artista.

Moná fue herido en dos ocasiones, una en el estómago y otra en uno de sus brazos (este mismo proyectil alcanzó su cráneo).

Posteriormente falleció.

Stylee había sido capturado el primero de junio de 2012 y recuperó la libertad el 30 de octubre del mismo año después de que el Juez que llevaba su caso le dictara sentencia absolutoria.

La defensa de Moná apeló la decisión y acaba de ser revocada.

 

Source Article from http://www.noticiascaracol.com/colombia/tribunal-superior-de-medellin-ordena-la-captura-del-reguetonero-alberto-stylee

The Biden administration has struggled to offer a specific number of Americans still in Afghanistan in recent days, prompting criticism from conservatives and others about the administration’s preparedness to evacuate U.S. citizens.

White House national security adviser Jake SullivanJake Sullivan National security adviser doesn’t rule out more sending additional US troops to Afghanistan Sunday shows – Afghanistan’s collapse in the spotlight Sullivan: US taking Afghanistan ISIS threat ‘absolutely deadly seriously’ MORE said Monday the difficulty pinpointing an exact number was because some Americans did not notify the U.S. Embassy when they arrived in Afghanistan or when they left.

“Many people have asked, reasonably, why we can’t provide a precise number of American citizens still in country,” Sullivan said at a White House press briefing.

“When Americans have come to Afghanistan over the years, we asked them to register with the embassy. Many have left without deregistering. Others never registered at all,” Sullivan said. “That is their right, of course. And it’s our responsibility to find them, which we are now doing hour by hour. In the days remaining, we believe we have the wherewithal to get out the American citizens who want to leave Kabul.”

Sullivan said a “significant majority” of the 37,000 individuals evacuated by the U.S. military over the last nine days are Afghan civilians and allies of the war effort because there are several thousand more Afghans seeking to leave the country. But Sullivan estimated “a few thousand Americans” have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban began taking over major cities en route to seizing the capital of Kabul.

Biden administration officials have been asked repeatedly in recent days about how many American citizens are in Afghanistan that need to be evacuated. Spokespeople have struggled to offer an answer more specific than several thousand.

Sullivan said the government has tried contacting those believed to be in Afghanistan through email, text, phone calls and public means, such as radio.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/569046-white-house-explains-why-it-cant-pinpoint-number-of-americans-still

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

En su entrevista del viernes en RPP Noticias, PPK volvió a hablar sobre el posible indulto a Alberto Fujimori. | Fuente: RPP Noticias | Fotógrafo: Marcos Reátegui

El indulto a Alberto Fujimori está nuevamente en el centro de la política nacional. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ha dicho que esta posibilidad se “resolvería” antes de fin de año pero no como indulto, sino como “perdón médico”. Desde Fuerza Popular han pedido que se concrete, mientras que en las calles, miles de personas marcharon este viernes contra la posibilidad. Al margen de las posiciones a favor y en contra, ¿qué dice la Constitución?

Dos menciones. El artículo 118 de la Constitución Política del Perú señala las atribuciones del Presidente la República. El punto 21 dice que una de estas es “conceder indultos y conmutar penas. Ejercer el derecho de gracia en beneficio de los procesados en los casos en que la etapa de instrucción haya excedido el doble de su plazo más su ampliatoria”.

La segunda mención está en el artículo 139, en el capítulo VIII, dedicado al Poder Judicial. El punto 13 habla de “la prohibición de revivir procesos fenecidos con resolución ejecutoriada”, por lo que “la amnistía, el indulto, el sobreseimiento definitivo y la prescripción producen los efectos de cosa juzgada”. No se puede reabrir un caso por el que se indultó a alguien.

¿Perdón médico? A fines de abril, cuando se también se debatía la posibilidad de un indulto o un arresto domiciliario para Fujimori, la ministra de Justicia, Marisol Pérez Tello, dijo en RPP Noticias que hay dos tipos de indulto y que Fujimori solo podría calificar a uno de ellos. No podría recibir un indulto común, de iniciativa del presidente, porque fue “condenado por delitos de secuestro y lesa humanidad. Si lo aplicáramos, la Corte Interamericana diría que hay un intento de eludir la justicia”.

La otra posibilidad es el ‘indulto humanitario’. Según dijo Pérez Tello, este es pedido por la familia y debe pasar por un informe que pruebe que el reo cumple con las condiciones: tener una enfermedad terminal u otra no terminal que sea degenerativa, incurable y que se agudice en la cárcel. Tras esto, depende del Gobierno aprobarla.

En ese momento, la ministra dijo que Fujimori no reunía esas condiciones, pero este viernes Kuczynski dijo que “un perdón médico” sería “determinado exclusivamente por la opinión de doctores de primer nivel que verán cual es el estado de salud del expresidente”.

Fujimori fue condenado a 25 años de prisión por los casos de Barrios Altos y La Cantuta, matanzas durante su gobierno (1900-2000). | Fuente: Andina
El viernes por la noche, miles marcharon por las calles del Centro de Lima contra el indulto a Fujimori. En las últimas dos elecciones presidenciales del Perú, el voto antifujimorista fue clave en clave en las victorias de Ollanta Humala y Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. | Fuente: AFP

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The vehicle, he said, matched the make and model and license plate of Hernandez’s vehicle, a black GMC Acadia. Hernandez, 40, has been missing since April 17. 

“Our condolences go out to the family as they go through a painful time of waiting for a positive identification,” Deese said. 

He said he could not comment on whether the unidentified body showed signs of foul play. 

Deese said police gathered information with the FBI that led them to the small man-made lake in Pearland’s Shadow Creek Ranch subdivision. There, near the intersection of Reflection Bay and North Clear Lake, officers found evidence that a vehicle struck a curb and entered the body of water, Deese said. 

He said the dive team was called and quickly located the vehicle at the bottom of the lake, which ranges in depth from 8 to 15 feet. Deese said the SUV appeared to have been in the water since Hernandez was first reported missing. 

Officers noted damage on the SUV consistent with striking a curb, Deese said. Investigators believe the crash likely occurred in the early-morning hours, when “no one would have heard anything,” he said.

Pearland police will lead the investigation into the death. 

“We won’t definitively say the search for Erica Hernandez is over, because there is a process that still needs to be followed,” Deese said. 

Source Article from https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/pearland/article/Person-found-dead-in-vehicle-recovered-in-small-16169303.php

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer vowed to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee probe into President Donald Trump’s businesses,  campaign and administration.

“I will do everything to facilitate this investigation, and there’s nothing that I have to hide,” Spicer told Fox News in an interview Tuesday. “So I want a swift conclusion to this whole thing as soon as possible.”

Spicer is one of the 81 individuals from whom Democrats are requesting documents as part of their investigation of possible power abuses. The extensive list includes Trump associates and family members, federal agencies and other organizations.

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White House Communications Director Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. February 2, 2017.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (L) takes questions during a daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spicer conducted his first official White House daily briefing to take questions from the members of the White House press corps.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing January 23, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

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U.S. President Donald Trump (L-R), joined by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, speaks by phone with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017.

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White House spokesman Sean Spicer takes questions during his press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2017.

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Rivals Brad Woodhouse (left) and Sean Spicer pose for a photograph outside Bullfeathers in Washington, D.C. on November 08, 2011. Sean Spicer and Brad Woodhouse (spokesmen for the RNC and DNC) hosts Congressional and other flacks to the 1st Annual ‘Flacks for Flacks Who Wear Flak Jackets’ Benefiting Military Public Affairs Officers serving in Afghanistan.

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Trump advisor Steve Bannon (2L), White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R), and White House spokesman Sean Spicer look on before the announcement of the Supreme Court nominee at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2017. President Donald Trump nominated federal appellate judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee, tilting the balance of the court back in the conservatives’ favor.

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Sean Spicer, White House press secretary, center, attends a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Trump today mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a hallmark of our democracy.

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Sean Spicer, left, is the new communications director for the Republican National Committee, and Rick Wiley, is the RNC� new political director.

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Sean Spicer, White House press secretary, arrives to a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump today mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a ‘hallmark of our democracy.’

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Spicer’s first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media’s reporting on the inauguration’s crowd size.

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Stephen Miller(L) and Sean Spicer, arrive to meet with US President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on January 10, 2017.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Spicer’s first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media’s reporting on the inauguration’s crowd size.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing January 23, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

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Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer takes a photo with his cell phone on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today’s inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States.

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Sean Spicer, a spokesman for the House Republican Conference, updates waiting media on progress of the meeting as House Republicans, eager to put a fresh face on their leadership team as they head into difficult November elections, chose John A. Boehner of Ohio as their new majority leader. Boehner beat out interim Majority Leader Roy Blunt of Missouri on the second ballot, 122-109. John Shadegg of Arizona, a late entrant into the race, was knocked out on the first ballot, when he drew 40 votes to 79 for Boehner and 110 for Blunt. Jim Ryun of Kansas drew two votes.

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Sean Spicer, incoming press secretary for President-elect Donald Trump leaves from Trump Tower after meetings on January 5, 2017, in New York.

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Chief Strategist and Communications Director at the Republican National Committee, Sean Spicer is interviewed in his office at the committee’s headquarters on Monday August 15, 2016 in Washington, DC.

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National security adviser General Michael Flynn (L) arrives to deliver a statement next to Press Secretary Sean Spicer during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spicer conducted his first official White House daily briefing to take questions from the members of the White House press corps.

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Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks as television screen displays journalists who participate in the daily briefing via Skype at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017.

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former assistant to US President Donald Trump Anthony Scaramucci attending a meeting on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, on January 17, 2017 in Davos, and White House spokesman Sean Spicer during a press briefing on June 20, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary Friday in protest at a major shakeup of Donald Trump’s embattled administration, an official told AFP. Spicer — the administrations most recognizable face after the president — resigned after just six months in office, having been increasingly sidelined in recent weeks. Spicer reached breaking point on Friday, the White House official said, when Trump appointed Anthony Scaramucci to be the new communications director, a bid to reset the scandal-wracked administration.

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While Spicer acknowledged the committee’s responsibility to serve as a check on the executive branch, he called its work a “potential fishing expedition,” arguing that going through the president’s history of financial dealings seems a step too far.

The motivation behind the committee’s dig for documents, Spicer implied, was a realization on behalf of Democrats “that while some people did some bad things, that there were some people that clearly interfered with the last election, that there was no collusion.”

However, that assessment amounts to mere speculation, since special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has yet to be released.

  • This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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Cal Cunningham, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s US Senate race, pointed out that the US is capable of coming together for the national good — just not, apparently, on Covid-19.

“If it had been a terrorist attack, there would have been an address to the nation, probably to a joint session of Congress. There would not have been a hesitation to invoke things like the Defense Production Act,” Cunningham, a military veteran, told me in a phone interview. “There would have been clear communication from the top to every corner of America about how we fight that enemy. Here, we were told it was a hoax.”

So I followed up: Why do you think this administration is treating the pandemic different from a terrorist attack?

He says that he has been “incredibly laser-focused on Senator [Thom] Tillis and the role a senator should play in a moment like this” — one that he’s found lacking.

Cunningham contrasted Tillis with Sen. Tom Cotton, a resolute conservative who still, to his credit, warned about the need to prepare for the worst after sitting in on a classified briefing in January about the Covid-19 threat.

“My guy, the person I hold accountable in this race, was not one of them,” Cunningham argued to me. “He has demonstrated an unwillingness and an inability to ask the tough questions when a US senator, in a coequal branch of government, should be doing exactly that.”

With a deftness that reminded me of Joe Biden’s convention speech, when the Democratic nominee never once named his opponent while still panning his record, Cunningham made clear the problems with President Trump’s approach to the pandemic — nobody else in a position of power was calling the coronavirus a “hoax” or hesitated to invoke the DPA — and yet when given the chance, he elided any more direct criticisms of Trump and instead stayed “laser-focused” on his own Republican opponent.

Cunningham’s critique overall — directed at the federal government broadly and Tillis specifically, with glancing blows to the man in the White House — was represented in his explanation of how his military experience had informed his own beliefs about crisis response:

“It requires the whole of government, led by an administration and a federal government that deploys all available resources. It is hard for us to come to any conclusion other than the federal government has dropped the ball with respect to some of the most basic building blocks of, first, containing the virus and containing the impacts of it.”

So I was curious: How are other Democratic hopefuls running against Republican incumbents in key swing states talking about Covid-19 and Trump? As it turns out, several of them sound a lot like Cunningham.

Take this ad from Theresa Greenfield, running against Sen. Joni Ernst in Iowa. She starts off by saying the Covid-19 pandemic had revealed “the worst in Washington” before transitioning into a populist critique portraying the original GOP Senate coronavirus relief package as a slush fund for corporate America (the same words used by Senate Democrats at the time, Politico reported).

Neither Donald Trump’s visage nor his name appears.

A new ad from Jon Ossoff, the Democrat challenging Sen. David Perdue in Georgia, likewise eschews any direct attack on Trump while still making his meaning perfectly clear. Ossoff says straight to the camera, after reminding viewers his wife who works at a hospital tested positive for Covid-19, that we need to listen to medical experts, we need a national testing strategy, and “we” need to stop politicizing masks.

Sara Gideon, running against Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, wrote a whole op-ed in the Portland Press Herald lamenting the shortcomings of “Washington’s COVID response.” The Trump administration doesn’t get mentioned until one of the last paragraphs, lumped together with Washington Republicans who “have focused on winning partisan fights and allowing the wealthy and well-connected to skip to the front of the line.”

Some of this is tried-and-true strategy for challenging an incumbent: associate them with “Washington” (a place nobody but the people who live here seems to like) and the status quo.

Some of it is triangulation on the part of Democrats running in states Trump won: The president’s approval rating in North Carolina is hovering around 45 percent; it’s about the same in Georgia and Iowa, per the most recent polling.

That’s not great, but it’s better than the national average. In all three of those states, the incumbents are running a few points behind Trump in the Real Clear Politics polling average, indicating there is some number of voters who are locked in for Trump but not as sold on their Republican senator. That is good reason to be less direct in critiquing the president and more focused on your actual opponent if you’re the Democratic challenger.

But I think there is one other way to understand the Democratic approach to Trump and Covid-19 in these Senate races. Trump’s failures, documented so well by my colleague German Lopez, are plain for all to see. There is no need to belabor the point because the public’s approval of Trump’s Covid-19 response is already disastrously low. When you talk about not bringing the full power of the federal government to bear or politicizing masks, people know who it is you mean.

The goal, then, seems to be making sure these Republican senators own that failure, too.


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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

(CNN)The nine victims of a mass shooting in San Jose on Wednesday have been identified as investigators begin the process of figuring out why such a fierce burst of violence happened during the early morning hours at a light rail yard.

Eight of the victims, who ranged from ages 29 to 63, were identified Wednesday by the Santa Clara County office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner as Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose Dejesus Hernandez III, 35; Timothy Michael Romo, 49; Michael Joseph Rudometkin, 40; Abdolvahab Alaghmandan, 63; and Lars Kepler Lane, 63.

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    JUDICIAL

    ¿Quién quiere matar al ‘hacker’?

    Lo que el ‘hacker’ Andrés Sepúlveda le está contando a la Fiscalía apunta a que los escándalos recientes de chuzadas ilegales obedecen a oscuros intereses.

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    (CNN)The reckoning that has been due for the Trump administration ever since Democrats won the midterm elections is about to hit with full force, with a multi-front oversight offensive targeting the President and his senior officials.

      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/michael-cohen-trump-congress-oversight/index.html

      President Donald Trump on Monday attacked the whistleblower at the center of the growing Ukraine scandal and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, after promoting comments from a supportive pastor who told Fox News that impeaching the president would lead to a “Civil War-like fracture in this nation.”

      Trump’s comments on Twitter came as he faces an impeachment inquiry in the House over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he asked Zelenskiy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s family. The Trump administration, around the same time as that July conversation, placed a hold on hundreds of millions of dollars in Ukrainian military aid, only to release it earlier this month.

      Download the NBC News app for full coverage of the impeachment inquiry

      Trump on Monday called the whistleblower complaint at the center of the scandal “fake” and said it was “not holding up,” even though it lined up with a record of the July 25 call between the two presidents that the White House released, was deemed credible by a Trump-appointed intelligence community inspector general, and was authored by a whistleblower who the Trump-appointed acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire told Congress last week had acted in “good faith.”

      Then Trump went after Schiff, who he said “illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people.”

      “It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call,” Trump added. “Arrest for Treason?”

      Though the remarks Trump was referring to, which Schiff made during the hearing with Maguire last week, did not line up verbatim with the detailed summary of the call released by the White House, they did mirror its description. Schiff himself made clear during the hearing that his remarks were “the essence” of what Trump said during the call.

      Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attacks-whistleblower-schiff-tweets-impeachment-would-cause-civil-war-n1060191

      New York state lawmakers on Friday moved to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of temporary emergency powers he was granted last year to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.

      The state Senate, in a 43-20 vote, approved the bill, which would revoke Cuomo’s power to issue new orders related to coronavirus, while allowing current orders to remain in effect, albeit with great legislative oversight.

      The bill still was being debated Friday in the Assembly, which is expected to pass it.

      The effort came as the Democratic governor dealt with two major scandals: a cover-up of Covid nursing home death data by Cuomo’s administration and accusations by three women that he sexually harassed them.

      NBC New York reported earlier this week that the Democratic leaders of the state Senate and Assembly had reached a deal to revoke Cuomo’s emergency powers that would allow issues such as Covid lockdowns to be determined by local authorities.

      Cuomo has suggested he is willing to sign the bill.

      “I think everyone understands where we were back in March and where we are now. We certainly see the need for a quick response but also want to move toward a system of increased oversight and review. The public deserves to have checks and balances,” said Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Westchester County.

      “This legislation creates a system with increased input while at the same time ensuring New Yorkers continue to be protected,” Stewart-Cousins said.

      Cuomo has issued nearly 100 orders related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to debate in the Senate on Friday morning.

      Sen. Andrew Lanza, R-Staten Island, on Friday complained that the bill would not prevent Cuomo from acting unilaterally and continuing directives he has issued under the emergency powers authorization.

      Lanza, who said he would vote against the bill for that reason, blasted “one-man rule” and the effects from “when you have one man have absolute power over your lives” since last March.

      “If I would have told anyone two years ago that we were going to stand by and let a governor to tell student athletes that they couldn’t play” or tell students they could not put on a play “people would say, you’re crazy, no way, no how is that happening,” Lanza said.

      The move to strip Cuomo’s powers underscore what has been a growing rift between the governor and lawmakers from his own party.

      Cuomo for years has been able to enforce his political will with less effective pushback from the Senate and Assembly than his predecessors faced.

      In late January, Attorney General Letitia James said the Cuomo administration had underreported the number of Covid deaths related to nursing homes by up to 50%

      “Many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in [the Department of Health’s] published total nursing home death data,” James said at the time.

      On Thursday night, The New York Times reported that top aides to Cuomo last June rewrote a state Department of Health report to take out the fact that more than 9,000 nursing home residents as of that month had died of the coronavirus. The move came as Cuomo was starting to write a book about what at the time was his widely praised handling of the pandemic.

      The Times report contradicts the recent claim by Cuomo’s aides that the death data was suppressed to keep the information from being used as a political weapon by the Justice Department, which at the time was under the control of Attorney General William Barr, a loyal ally of then-President Donald Trump. The Justice Department’s query for the data, however, came months after the Cuomo aides removed it.

      The suppression of the nursing home data has perplexed many because it did not change, in any way, the official death tally for Covid in New York. Instead, the move undercounted deaths related to nursing homes while reporting those deaths elsewhere.

      “Not only did they withhold the information, they changed the information,” Lanza said Friday.

      “A lot of bad things happen when you give power to one man,” he said.

      Cuomo’s special counsel Beth Garvey on Friday afternoon issued a lengthy statement on The Times article, suggesting there was no intent to mislead the public or lawmakers.

      “To be clear, multiple times during the time the July 6 DOH report was being developed, public statements were made during the daily briefings and in the press regarding the existence of the data, but noting that the deaths were being counted in the facility where individuals died,” Garvey said.

      “There were repeated public statements acknowledging the out of facility deaths were not being listed as a subset of nursing home deaths stemming from concerns related to potential for double counting and consistency and accuracy.”

      Garvey said that no members of the governor’s staff “changed any of the fatality numbers or ‘altered’ the fatality data.”

      Instead, she said, staff asked Health Department questions about the source of previously unpublished data, “to which there were not clear or complete answers,” and probed whether the data “was relevant to the outcome of the report.”

      Then, Garvey said, “a decision was made to use the data set that was reported by the place of death with firsthand knowledge of the circumstances.”

      Garvey said that decision “gave a higher degree of comfort in” the data’s “accuracy.”

      Cuomo earlier this week refused to resign over claims by two former aides and a woman who worked in the Obama White House that he sexually harassed them.

      But in his first public comments on the women’s allegations, he also said, “I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional.”

      The nursing home death data is the subject of a federal criminal investigation, while James is overseeing a probe of the women’s allegations.

      Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/new-york-lawmakers-move-to-strip-cuomo-of-emergency-covid-powers.html

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      Aún se desconoce quién está detrás de los ataques.

      Ataques con misiles contra al menos cuatro hospitales y varias escuelas del norte de Siria dejaron más de 50 muertos.

      Fuentes de la Organización de Naciones Unidas dijeron que dichos ataques “son una clara violación de las leyes internacionales”.

      La organización Médicos sin Fronteras, MSF, dijo que uno de sus hospitales, en la ciudad de Maarat al Numan, en Idlib, fue bombardeado deliberadamente.

      También aseguraron que habían confirmado la muerte de siete personas y que ocho estaban desaparecidas.

      Otro hospital de la misma ciudad también fue atacado.

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      Grupos de activistas aseguraron que los bombardeos fueron llevados a cabo por tropas rusas.

      “Ataque deliberado” sobre el hospital de MSF

      La organización humanitaria precisó que sus instalaciones en Idlib fueron alcanzadas por cuatro misiles en un margen de minutos, lo que les lleva a pensar que “no fue un ataque accidental”.

      Mego Terzian, presidente de MSF Francia, le dijo a la agencia Reuters que “o el gobierno sirio o Rusia es claramente responsable”.

      Pero el embajador de Siria en Moscú, Riad Haddad, responsabilizó a Estados Unidos, algo que el Pentágono desestimó como “claramente falso”.

      “No tenemos ninguna razón para atacar Idlib ya que el autodenominado Estado Islámico no está activo allí”, declaró el portavoz del Pentágono capitán Jeff Davis.

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      Qué dice el derecho internacional sobre el bombardeo de hospitales

      • El derecho internacional humanitario prohíbe cualquier ataque sobre pacientes y personal médico o sin duda cualquier ataque sobre instalaciones médicas, que son zonas que se deben respetar bajo las normas de la guerra
      • Incluso si los combatientes se resguardan en ellos, no deben ser atacados
      • Bajo las normas establecidas por la Corte Penal Interncional, cualquier incidente de este tipo tendría como consecuencia un elevado número de víctimas civiles, lo que se conoce como la regla de la proporcionalidad.

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      Evacuación en el hospital de Azaz, cerca de la frontera de Siria con Turquía.

      Los ataques siguen un patrón de bombardeos sistemáticos sobre instalaciones sanitarias en Siria, añade Mark Lowen, reportero de la BBC ubicado en la vecina Turquía.

      Reincidencia

      Mientras, dos hospitales y una escuela de niños en Azaz, cerca de la frontera con Turquía sufrieron también ataques que causaron la muerte de al menos 12 personas.

      No es la primera vez que una instalación gestionada por Médicos sin Fronteras es objeto de un ataque.

      En octubre del año pasado, Estados Unidos bombardeó por error un hospital de esta organización en Kunduz, Afganistán, causando la muerte de 30 civiles.

      Dudas sobre el cese el fuego

      En un comunicado, el portavoz de Naciones Unidas Farhan Haq dijo que los ataques “ensombrecen” los compromisos adoptados por las potencias internacionales la semana pasada.

      El jueves pasado, líderes mundiales se comprometieron a trabajar por el cese de hostilidades en Siria en una semana.

      Pero Rusia alega que “el cese” no aplica a los ataques aéreos, que han desequilibrado la balanza de la guerra en favor del gobierno de Siria.

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      El canciller francés calificó el ataque sobre las instalaciones de MSF como “crimen de guerra”.

      El presidente sirio Bashar al Assad declaó que cualquier cese el fuego no significa que “cada parte dejará de usar armas”.

      En comentarios difundidos por televisión, al Assad puso en duda que las condiciones para el alto el fuego se puedan dar en una semana.

      “Crimen de guerra”, dice Francia

      Francia condenó el bombardeo del hospital de MSF en términos contundentes, con el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Jean-Marc Ayrault calficándolos de “crímenes de guerra”.

      Estados Unidos también condenó los ataques y aladió que despiertan dudas sobre “la disposición de Rusia o su capacidad para ayudar a poner fin a la continua brutalidad del régimen de al Asad contra su propio pueblo”.

      El emviado de Naciones Unidas para Siria, Staffan de Mistura, está en la capital siria, Damasco, como parte de su esfuerzo para la reanudación de las conversaciones de paz.

      Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/02/160215_ultnot_internacional_siria_ataque_cuatro_hospitales_muertos_ppb