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The 2024 Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow. Here’s what to know. – CBS News
The 2024 Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow. Here’s what to know. – CBS News
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Olimpiadas Río 2016: las atletas que tropezaron, se ayudaron, quedaron últimas y los jueces clasificaron a la final por … – BBC Mundo
Olimpiadas Río 2016: las atletas que tropezaron, se ayudaron, quedaron últimas y los jueces clasificaron a la final por … – BBC Mundo

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Un abrazo de consuelo entre la atleta neozelandesa Nikki Hamblin (izquierda) y la estadounidense Abbey D’Agostino (derecha).

“¡Estos son los Juegos Olímpicos. Tenemos que terminar!”

Esas fueron las palabras de aliento de la atleta neozelandesa Nikki Hamblin a la estadounidense Abbey D’Agostino, en la pista este martes durante la carrera de 5.000 metros en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016.

La caída de Hamblin y luego de D’Agostino, que no la pudo esquivar, y su mutuo aliento dejó una de las historias más conmovedoras por la nobleza de su espíritu olímpico.

De hecho, aunque llegaron últimas, los jueces decidieron clasificarlas a la final, que será el viernes.

Sin embargo, este miércoles se supo que la historia tiene un final triste para D’Agostino, ya que sus Olimpiadas en Río terminaron: como resultado de la caída, la atleta sufrió lesiones de rodilla que la dejan fuera de competición, informó la federación de atletismo de Estados Unidos en un comunicado.

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La solidaridad se hizo presente en la pista de atletismo en Río de Janeiro.

Últimas pero primeras

En la segunda serie, Hamblin pisó el borde de la pista lo que le provocó la pérdida de equilibrio y la caída al suelo.

D’Agostino, que venía detrás, no pudo esquivar a la neozelandesa y terminó también en el piso.

Pero la estadounidense resultó en peores condiciones por lo que a los pocos metros volvió a caer.

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La corredora estadounidense terminó la carrera como pudo visiblemente afectada por el dolor.

Tras la desgracia y el dolor de D’Agostino, Hamblin no dudó en ayudar y alentar a su rival.

Tras las palabras de ánimo, ambas atletas se fundieron en un abrazo de consuelo y terminaron la carrera, aunque en las últimas posiciones.

D’Agostino debió ser retirada de la pista en silla de ruedas.

La emotiva escena conmovió a los jueces que decidieron recalificar a las atletas y tendrán la oportunidad de volver a correr el viernes en la final.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-37102016

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US imposes new travel restrictions after first coronavirus death – Al Jazeera English
US imposes new travel restrictions after first coronavirus death – Al Jazeera English

The government of United States has announced additional travel restrictions affecting Iran, Italy and South Korea, which have emerged as major hotspots of the new coronavirus outbreak, following the first death from the virus in the country.

Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the existing travel ban on Iran would extend to foreign nationals who had been in that country the past 14 days. He also urged US citizens not to travel to affected areas of Italy and South Korea. The US has already imposed restriction on entry from China, where the virus originated late last year.

“We want to lower the amount of travel to and from the most impacted areas, this is a basic containment strategy,” said Health Secretary Alex Azar at a joint news conference with President Donald Trump.

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Shortly before the news conference, the Washington state Department of Health confirmed that one person had died of the disease officially known as COVID-19, marking the first death linked to the new coronavirus in the US. 

The death in the western state comes amid a slowly growing number of cases of community transmission in the US. There are some 62 cases in the country, mostly evacuees from a cruise ship. Of the 22 cases in the US directly, around 15 are in recovery, while several remain ill.

Trump told reporters at the White House that the deceased person was a “medically high-risk” woman in her late 50s, although a health official in Washington state later said it was a man.

The victim appears to have become ill through local transmission, said Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The investigation at this time shows no evidence of link to travel or a known contact,” Redfield said at the news conference.

Redfield stressed that “the risk to the American public remains low,” echoing comments by Trump, who urged the media to exercise restraint.

“If you are healthy, you will probably go through a process and you will be fine,” the president said. “There is no reason to panic at all. This is something that is being handled professionally.”

Trump also announced he will meet on Monday heads of top pharmaceutical companies to discuss the novel coronavirus.

Global spread

The virus has now hit 61 countries worldwide, with more than 2,900 people killed and nearly 86,000 infected since it was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.

Its rapid spread beyond China’s borders in the past week has caused stock markets to sink to their lowest levels since the 2008 global financial crisis over fears the disease could wreak havoc on the world economy.

Although the vast majority of infections have been in China, more daily cases are now logged outside the country.  

South Korea, which has the most infected people outside China, reported its biggest surge in new cases on Saturday with 813 more patients confirmed, bringing its total to 3,150. Italy, the epicentre of the outbreak in Europe, also reported a jump in new cases on Saturday, its number of infections exceeding 1,000 and the death toll jumping by eight to 29. Iran, meanwhile reported 205 new cases, with the overall number of infections now standing at 593 and the death toll at 43.

France on Saturday cancelled all gatherings of 5,000 people or more in a bid to contain the coronavirus outbreak which has infected 100 people throughout the country.

The virus has also spread to previously untouched areas in recent days, reaching new countries including Azerbaijan, Mexico and New Zealand, as well as the first case in sub-Saharan Africa with Nigeria reporting a case. Qatar and Ecuador both confirmed their first cases on Saturday.

Source Article from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/reports-death-due-coronavirus-200229183250291.html

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D. Franco: ‘El Chapo’ no es el de la TV – Univisión
D. Franco: ‘El Chapo’ no es el de la TV – Univisión

Por Darwin Franco Migues (@darwinfranco), académico y periodista independiente

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo”, no es únicamente el galán que coquetea a través del celular con la actriz de telenovela, Kate del Castillo, ni tampoco es solo aquel hombre aparentemente quieto que responde en video a las preguntas ligeras realizadas por Sean Penn, no. Esa es la representación mediática que se ha generado y explotado en estos últimos días en torno a éste, pero ese no es el verdadero Chapo Guzmán.

Quien otrora fuera uno de los líderes del Cártel de Sinaloa, una de las organizaciones criminales más ricas del mundo, es un hombre diferente al que no se nos quiere mostrar en las piezas informativas generadas tras su reaprehensión, pero mucho más en aquellas que hablan del aparente affair con del Castillo.

Estos “trabajos periodísticos”, al igual que el que publicó Sean Penn para la revista Rolling Stone, solo contribuyen a edificar aún más el “mito” alrededor de El Chapo pero no nos presentan al verdadero narcotraficante ni hacen que éste se confronte con toda la violencia que generó por años y, mucho menos, vinculan ésta con el enorme dolor que aún existe en las familias de aquellos que asesinó o desapareció.

Este dolor se generó no por sus “acciones de defensa” (como él sugiere en el video grabado por Kate del Castillo Productions) sino por su forma unilateral de actuar a través de la imposición del miedo y el terror. Ese es “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Si nos quedamos solo con este “El Chapo” que hoy se nos muestra/vende en los medios de comunicación, estaremos haciendo algo muy similar a lo que hemos hecho con diversos narcotraficantes que terminamos perdonando cuando vemos la representación de su vida (no su vida real ni las repercusiones sociales de ésta), a través de una serie o telenovela, o acabaremos justificando lo terrible de sus hazañas como hoy lo hacen cientos de mexicanos que cantan los narco-corridos porque consideran la posibilidad de ser algún día como Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “el jefe de jefes”.

El mito y su exacerbada representación mediática descontextualiza y desvincula al sujeto de sus acciones creando narrativas emotivas que humanizan los hechos violentos que éste cometió o puede ser capaz de cometer.

“Él no quería ser malo ni quería causar mal, fue la difícil vida que tuvo la que lo hizo así”, esto alguna vez me contestó una fanática de la telenovela El señor de los cielos, la cual narra a modo de ficción la vida del narcotraficante mexicano, Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

Para ella, lo que hacía Aurelio Casillas (Amado Carrillo Fuentes) podría ser totalmente justificado por la dolorosa vida que llevó, aunque en sí mismas las acciones que éste generaba en la serie fueran totalmente violentas y ella, como televidente, fuese totalmente capaz de identificarlo. La gran diferencia es que lo que “El Chapo” y Amado Carrillo realizaron no fue ficción sino absoluta realidad.

El problema con estas representaciones mediáticas que se construyen alrededor del narcotráfico, los narcotraficantes y la narco cultura es que impactan la producción social de sentido; es decir, la manera en que todos aprendemos a nombrar y significar algo en el mundo.

Por ello, estas representaciones buscan más la visibilización del mito alrededor del “capo más buscado del mundo” que la contextualización que nos permita entender qué posibilitó que un hombre como Joaquín Guzmán Loera escalara la estructura criminal del Cártel de Sinaloa pero también reconocer qué circunstancias se concatenaron para que éste escapara en dos ocasiones de prisiones de alta seguridad.

Este contexto cargado de redes de corrupción y filtración del narcotráfico en los tres niveles de gobierno del país, sin embargo, no vende tanto como el capo escapista que hace túneles bajo tierra o el capo que en su afán de inmortalizar su vida es capaz de traer a dos actores para que uno le haga su película y el otro una entrevista a modo.

Y, en medio de todo esto, se da tiempo de mostrar sus dotes de “don juan” hacia una actriz que en su momento también contribuyó a edificar el mito del narcotraficante a través del papel de Teresa Mendoza en la telenovela La Reina del Sur. Bajo este argumento no está por demás decir que Kate del Castillo no es Teresa Mendoza, como tampoco es únicamente la representación de la mujer que coqueteó con “El Chapo” que hoy se nos vende en la mayoría de los medios mexicanos.

Lo que hoy vemos después de la recaptura de “El Chapo” Guzmán es la producción y representación mediática que de él se hace en los medios, ya sea por decisión propia o en colusión con los intereses político-ideológicos del gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto. “El Chapo” hoy es su producto y lo están explotando a través de la misma narrativa que Joaquín Guzmán Loera quería controlar a través de Penn y del Castillo, la de su mito.

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Univision Arizona, ASU Cronkite School partner to air ‘Cronkite Noticias’ – Arizona State University
Univision Arizona, ASU Cronkite School partner to air ‘Cronkite Noticias’ – Arizona State University

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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.

The first collision takes place with the inaugural learning lab series, “Beyond Buckskin: Beyond Online” on March 1 followed by “Protection in All Directions: A Fashion & Resistance Awareness Event” on March 4. The latter will include discussions, multi-media discussions and a fashion show highlighting local Native American designers including Jared Yazzie of OxDX.

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.

Source Article from https://asunow.asu.edu/20170228-univision-arizona-asu-cronkite-school-partner-air-cronkite-noticias

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Hoy No Circula en DF y Edomex, miércoles 17 de mayo de 2017 – Terra México
Hoy No Circula en DF y Edomex, miércoles 17 de mayo de 2017 – Terra México

Este

miércoles 17 de mayo

no pueden circular los vehículos con engomado rojo, terminación 3 y 4 y hologramas 1 y 2  en la Ciudad de México (

DF

) y en los municipios del

Estado de México

debido al programa

Hoy No Circula.

Te recordamos que la fase 1 de

contingencia ambiental

sigue activa.

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El programa

Hoy No Circula

restringe este miércoles

17 de mayo

la circulación de automóviles particulares, taxis, camiones de carga y otros vehículos en un horario de 5:00 a 22:00 horas.

Este día quedan exentos del

Hoy No Circula

los vehículos con holograma cero y doble cero, así como vehículos de servicios fúnebres, de emergencia, urbanos, bomberos, médicos, rescate, seguridad pública, protección civil y las unidades conducidas por personas con capacidades diferentes.

De acuerdo con la Comisión Ambiental de la Megalópolis (

CAME

), la calidad del aire se reportó como muy mala la tarde del martes en el DF, por ello la

contingencia ambiental

sigue activa en la capital del país y zona metropolitana del Valle de México.

En el reporte de las 17:00 horas, la

CAME

informó que la zona suroeste del Valle de México había registrado 153 puntos de concentraciones de ozono (O3), por lo que la

calidad del aire

era muy mala.


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Lagarde: Arabs should strengthen economy’s ‘pillars’ – Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)
Lagarde: Arabs should strengthen economy’s ‘pillars’ – Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)

São Paulo – Managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, were in Rabat, capital of Morocco, this Thursday (8th) and spoke on the economy of transitioning Arab countries, that means, the ones affected by the Arab Spring of 2011. In a speech at the Moroccan Economic, Social and Environmental Council, she advocated the strengthening of the small and medium-sized companies, middle class and a “middle road” for the roles of government, not too intrusive or too liberal.

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Lagarde spoke in a session of the Economic Council in Morocco

 “The good news is that the economic situation in the Arab transitioning countries is looking up – higher exports, higher public investment and signs that private investment will rise,” said Lagarde. “Countries like Morocco are reaping the fruits of their efforts by diversifying and spurring both exports and foreign investment – especially in high value-added areas, like cars, aeronautics, and electronics,” she added.

That said, she pointed out that economic stability alone in not enough, as these nations go through a “jarring job crisis”, unemployment rate averaging 13%, with youth unemployment up to 29% entre, one of the highest rates in the world. Since 2012, according to Lagarde, the number of people out of work has jumped by 1.5 million.

For the Fund’s director, these nations have to double the average growth rates, currently at 3%, to have a larger job creation. It is worth noting that the block cited is quite diverse, including countries which did not change regime, such as Morocco and Jordan, to cases such as Syria, which is in civil war.

As such, she recommended the strengthening of the “central pillars’ of economy. One of these pillars is represented by the small and medium-sized companies, which are the backbone of a healthy economy and are the main engines of job creation”.

Lagarde pointed out that in the transitioning Arab nations the formal economy is dominated by a few large firms and the informality rates range from 17% in Jordan to a 35% in Tunisia.

Other main point is the strengthening of the middle class which, according to her, in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, has a higher share of the wealth today than in the 960’s. “Let me be frank: the dividends of growth have too often gone to the top, leaving too many others out in the cold”, she said.

The IMF’s director observed that global experience shows that a strong middle class is necessary to drive and economy forward. “A strong middle class makes societies more cohesive, and lays ground for stability and prosperity. A strong middle class is also home to the kinds of entrepreneurs we need for today’s modern economy,” she said.

As regards the state, Lagarde pointed out the governments “need to take a step back from some areas and step forward in others”, that is, to grant less subsidies and expand the social protection. The subsidies to food and fuel are commonplace in the Arab world. She advised the resources should be directed to safety nets, health education and public investment.

“Most importantly, [the state] needs to become less of an employer, and more of an effective and impartial regulator and enabler of the private sector – the ultimate source of good jobs”, stressed the businesswoman.

In Lagarde’s evaluation, strengthening these central pillars means to make the economy more of a “participatory” and less of a “privilege” economy.

Policies

She suggested the adoption of a series of policies for this goal, such as facilitating the opening of companies by reducing the bureaucracy, boosting credit offer, reducing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, enabling young people to enter the job market, reducing the labor regulations fees and strengthening the women participation in economy.

In this last issue, the IMF’s director said that the difference between male and female contribution to the job market in the Middle East and North Africa is three times larger than in most developing nations. “It is imperative to let women contribute, by removing outdated obstacles and introducing enabling policies”, she pointed out. “After all, it was Ibn Rushd who said that ‘treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty’”, she added, referring to Averroes, Arab philosopher defender of Aristotle’s’ philosophy in the Middle Ages.

Lagarde suggested a bigger transparency and the adoptions of good governance. And that goes for both public and private. According to her, more than half the companies in Middle East and North Africa report having been asked for a bribe.

According to the IMF, the speech of the managing director was a preview of the issues which will be discusses in the regional conference Building the Future: Jobs, Growth, & Fairness in the Arab World , which will be held on the 11th and12th, in Amman, Jordan. The event is promoted by the IMF, Government of Jordan and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.

Lagarde concluded by saying that the IMF is a partner of the transitioning Arab nations seeking for reforms. She declared that the institution delivered 55 technical assistance missions in the region in 2013 and committed more than US$ 10 billion in financial support.

*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

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FBI reiterates lawmakers should report counterintel threats as GOP forces Swalwell vote – POLITICO
FBI reiterates lawmakers should report counterintel threats as GOP forces Swalwell vote – POLITICO

Republicans, led by GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, are seeking to remove Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee over his 2012-2015 interactions with Christine Fang, the accused foreign agent. Fang helped fundraise for Swalwell’s campaign in 2014 and once placed an intern in his House office. But when Swalwell was briefed on concerns about Fang in 2015, he says he immediately cut off contact and cooperated with the bureau’s probe.

An FBI official has previously defended Swalwell, telling outlets in December that Swalwell was “completely cooperative” and “under no suspicion of wrongdoing,”

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy intends to force a vote on Swalwell’s committee post Thursday afternoon, contending that the Democrat’s interactions with Fang disqualify him from holding the sensitive assignment. Swalwell wouldn’t be eligible for a security clearance in the private sector and shouldn’t therefore be granted access to national security secrets through the intelligence panel, McCarthy argued at a Thursday press conference.

Asked to explain his push against Swalwell, McCarthy fell back on classified information he says he received in an FBI briefing last year. “I cannot talk to you about what I was given in a classified briefing,” he said, adding that the public record of Swalwell’s relationship with Fang should be enough to disqualify him.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who unilaterally appoints the Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee, has stood behind Swalwell, saying she has “no concerns” about his actions.

House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff also defended Swalwell Thursday, issuing a statement of support in a “Dear Colleague” letter aimed at rallying the Democratic caucus to his side. Schiff noted that Republicans — including the panel’s current ranking GOP member Devin Nunes of California and then-Speaker John Boehner — were briefed on the matter in 2015 and raised no concerns about Swalwell’s ability to continue serving on the committee.

“It’s disturbing that Leader McCarthy is attempting to weaponize classified counterintelligence briefings as a political cudgel, and use them to smear a House colleague in the process,” Schiff said. “Members face real counterintelligence risks from sophisticated actors, and bad faith political attacks on Members will only make it more difficult to respond.”

Members of Congress are not required to receive security clearances to access classified intelligence, though calls to strip members of the House Intelligence Committee of their access to classified information have become well-worn political weapons in recent years.

Fang first interacted with Swalwell when he held a city council post in California, one of several back-and-forths she reportedly had with local officials across the country. She maintained those contacts until 2015, when intelligence officials’ alarm grew about her relationship with Swalwell, and they offered him a “defensive briefing.” Those briefings are meant to alert the targets of potential foreign operations in order to protect information from falling into the wrong hands.

Swalwell told POLITICO in December that he feared the initial Fang story, which he said he first learned Axios was pursuing in mid-2019, was planted to damage him after he emerged as a prominent Trump critic during a short-lived presidential bid.

“The timing feels like that should be looked at,” he said at the time.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/18/eric-swalwell-fbi-christine-fang-477020

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Website to order free COVID tests launches a day early – KATU
Website to order free COVID tests launches a day early – KATU
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Mass graves in Ukraine: Battered cities are digging makeshift burial sites – BBC.com
Mass graves in Ukraine: Battered cities are digging makeshift burial sites – BBC.com

The battered city’s street cleaners and road repair teams were collecting bodies in the streets, he said, as municipal services had collapsed. “Some people were killed during those collections. We’ve had no electricity, or heating, sanitation, water, food for 11 days,” he said.

Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60729206

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Republican who ‘swift boated’ John Kerry to run pro-Trump Super Pac – The Guardian
Republican who ‘swift boated’ John Kerry to run pro-Trump Super Pac – The Guardian

The Republican strategist who orchestrated the “swift boating” of John Kerry in 2004 is behind a new effort to aid Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.

Chris LaCivita will run a Super Pac called Preserve America, beginning with a $30m ad campaign in key states, based on Trump’s law-and-order message. According to Politico, the casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus are among Republican mega-donors funding the group.

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was a group that emerged in August 2004, as Kerry, a Vietnam veteran who became an anti-war campaigner and then a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, challenged George W Bush in the polls.

Swift boats were small river craft used by the US navy in Vietnam. Kerry, later secretary of state under Barack Obama, captained one.

Reporting for the Guardian, Julian Borger wrote: “John Kerry’s Vietnam war record has been trashed in a series of advertisements and a book by a group … who claim that Kerry inflicted injuries on himself and falsified his field reports to win his medals and ultimately get out of Vietnam after four months of combat.”

He added: “It is a potentially devastating multi-media assault on a presidential candidate. It also turns out to be largely untrue.”

The effort achieved sufficient levels of infamy – and was sufficiently successful – that in US politics at least its name became a verb.

As the New York Times put it in 2008, “swift boat” became “the synonym for the nastiest of campaign smears, a shadow that hangs over the presidential race as pundits wait to proclaim that the swift boating has begun and candidates declare that they will not be swift boated.”

LaCivita’s website describes him as “a former Marine who was wounded in combat … a fierce competitor with a proven track record of winning difficult campaigns at every level of the ballot”.

Politico quoted him and embedded ads accusing Biden of being weak on law and order, a key Republican tactic as the campaign hots up and a president who has watched a pandemic kill more than 180,000 and crater the economy seeks political distraction.

“The radical leftwing mob is trying to destroy our country from within and Joe Biden is too weak to stop them,” LaCivita said. “It’s a concern shared by a growing number of Americans and we intend to spread their message far and wide.”

Somewhat ironically, news of the swift boat veteran’s return came as Military Times released a poll showing “a slight but significant preference” for Biden among US servicemen.

Trump claims strong support in the US military. The new poll showed Biden up 43% to 37%, slightly below his lead in most national polling averages.

On Saturday, Biden addressed the National Guard Association. In a shot at Trump’s words and actions against protesters in cities including Kenosha, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Washington DC, he said he would “never put you in the middle of politics, or personal vendettas.

“I’ll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate rights of fellow citizens. That’s not law and order. You don’t deserve that.”

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Karen Read murder trial testimony features contentious cross-examination of Jennifer McCabe – CBS Boston
Karen Read murder trial testimony features contentious cross-examination of Jennifer McCabe – CBS Boston
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Hurricane Warning Issued for Florida As Isaias Spins in the Bahamas; Weekend of Strong Winds, Heavy Rain For SE Coast – The Weather Channel
Hurricane Warning Issued for Florida As Isaias Spins in the Bahamas; Weekend of Strong Winds, Heavy Rain For SE Coast – The Weather Channel
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Trump warns of ‘painful’ two weeks ahead as White House projects more than 100000 coronavirus deaths – CNN
Trump warns of ‘painful’ two weeks ahead as White House projects more than 100000 coronavirus deaths – CNN

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Iranian military leader killed, anti-Semitic attacks in NYC, and the new Mars Rover | Week In Review – USA TODAY
Iranian military leader killed, anti-Semitic attacks in NYC, and the new Mars Rover | Week In Review – USA TODAY

Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani is killed in a US airstrike. Trump and Rudy Giuliani weigh in; Stabbings inside a rabbi’s home on the seventh day of Hanukkah marked the latest in a string of incidents that have targeted the Jewish community in New York; NASA plans to launch a rover to Mars this July to hunt for signs of ancient Red Planet life.

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A 9th victim of the San Jose mass shooting has died. Now investigators are focused on why it happened – CNN
A 9th victim of the San Jose mass shooting has died. Now investigators are focused on why it happened – CNN

(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.

            CNN’s Jon Passantino, Sarah Moon, Eric Levenson, Stella Chan, Cheri Mossburg, Paul P. Murphy, Josh Campbell, Steve Almasy, Joe Sutton, Dan Simon and DJ Judd contributed to this report.

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    Democrats blast absent Trump with oversight offensive – CNN
    Democrats blast absent Trump with oversight offensive – CNN

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      ‘Dangerous precedent’: Jan. 6 committee trains its sights on false pro-Trump electors – POLITICO
      ‘Dangerous precedent’: Jan. 6 committee trains its sights on false pro-Trump electors – POLITICO

      Nessel, in recent interviews, has said the evidence points toward a coordinated effort to convene GOP electors in multiple states Trump lost and have them declare themselves authentic electors for that state. She noted that the forms the electors used in different locations were nearly identical, from their wording to their fonts.

      “It’s clear to me that this was not independent, rogue actors that were unknowingly doing the same thing as they had done in many other states,” she said.

      The Hawaii factor

      Republicans at the time emphasized that their decision to hold unsanctioned elector votes had a precedent. In 1960, three Democratic electors from Hawaii met to cast votes for John F. Kennedy, even though the election results showed that Richard Nixon had narrowly prevailed in the state. With a recount underway, those pro-Kennedy electors met to cast their votes anyway and submitted those results to Congress and the National Archives, the clearinghouse for elector certificates.

      Hawaii’s recount ultimately reversed the outcome, showing Kennedy had won by fewer than 200 votes, and the state’s governor then certified the Democratic slate as well. On Jan. 6, 1961, the Democratic electors were the ones counted by Congress, with Nixon, then vice president, presiding.

      Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward later pointed to that episode when describing her decision to deliver GOP electors to Congress in 2020.

      In a statement this week, the Wisconsin GOP also pointed to Hawaii’s electors in 1960 — and emphasized that it had received legal advice to assemble GOP electors, in case Trump found a way to prevail.

      Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers from some of the states where Republicans submitted false elector slates have also seized on the issue. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) wrote a letter Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging him to investigate the “attempted fraud” and vowed to introduce legislation that would create penalties for Electoral College-related deception.

      Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/january-6-committee-precedent-pro-trump-electors-527528

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      Glass Fire Rages Across Northern California, Burning Thousands Of Acres – NPR
      Glass Fire Rages Across Northern California, Burning Thousands Of Acres – NPR

      Charred framing remains, Monday, Sept. 28, at the Restaurant at Meadowood, which burned in the Glass Fire, in St. Helena, Calif.

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      Charred framing remains, Monday, Sept. 28, at the Restaurant at Meadowood, which burned in the Glass Fire, in St. Helena, Calif.

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      The Glass Fire has prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents in California’s Napa and Sonoma counties and caused the destruction of dozens of buildings.

      Since igniting in the wine country on early Sunday, wind-fueled flames have engulfed 48,440 acres and consumed more than 50 homes and buildings, according to CalFire. As of late Wednesday morning, the fire was only 2% contained.

      “Right now we have approximately 8,200 folks who have been evacuated,” Santa Rosa Mayor Tom Schwedhelm told NPR’s All Things Considered on Wednesday. “There’s about another 20,000 that are under evacuation warning because of the wind direction.”

      The evacuations and the warnings are becoming a tragic routine for the area.

      “This isn’t our first rodeo experiencing this,” Schwedhelm said during a news conference.

      Three years ago, the Tubbs Fire devastated large stretches of Sonoma and Napa counties, destroying more than 5,000 structures and killing 22 people.

      “We experienced fires both in 2017 with the Tubbs Fire that took out about 5% of our residential stock in Santa Rosa, and then in 2019 we had the Kincade Fire, about 60,000 of our residents were evacuated,” Schwedhelm said. “We’re actually getting better with our response to this.”

      The mayor said other states who may be experiencing wildfires for the first time need to be prepared.

      “We’ve done a lot of community education about having your go bag ready so if you do get the call that you have to evacuate,” Schwedhelm said. “Don’t wait for someone else to take the responsibility for your safety.”

      California is battling more than two dozen other fires, including the Zogg Fire in Shasta County that has left at least three civilians dead. On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma and Shasta counties due to the fires.

      While the cause of the Glass Fire is still under investigation, winds have contributed to the fires and the area is bracing for potentially warm weather. As wildfires continue to rage across the west coast, experts warn of the effect climate change has on the disasters.

      “As far as climate change, I would just say people need to take an active role in that. Don’t pretend that it’s happening somewhere else and not here,” Schwedhelm said. “The city of Santa Rosa has [combating climate change] as one of our priorities and we have taken several significant steps to try to lower our carbon footprint, if you will.”

      Since the beginning of 2020, there have been over 8,100 wildfires in California that have burned more than 3.9 million acres, according to CalFire. More than 7,200 structures have been destroyed and 29 people have died.

      The audio version of this story was produced and edited by Lauren Hodges, Jason Fuller, Patrick Jarenwattananon and Carol Klinger.

      Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918844270/glass-fire-rages-across-northern-california-burning-thousands-of-acres

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      Trump plans to tell CPAC crowd: ‘I am your retribution’ – CNN
      Trump plans to tell CPAC crowd: ‘I am your retribution’ – CNN
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