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After puzzling delays by the city in posting the outcome, results showed Wu decisively in first place with 33.3 percent of the vote followed by Essaibi George at 22.4 percent. Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin said Wednesday the slow count was evidence of his determination — and that of Boston election officials — to ensure the integrity of Tuesday’s election.

Wu and Essaibi George hit the stump early Wednesday morning to underscore the differences in their visions for the city, even as results were still being tallied. Wu greeted commuters at the Forest Hills T stop in Jamaica Plain, while Essaibi George chose Mike’s City Diner, a South End eatery.

The candidates represent the two poles of the ideological spectrum in this year’s field. Either would be the first woman of color Boston has ever elected mayor, a historic shift. But the contest between them will nonetheless test the city’s appetite for change.

Essaibi George, 47, has inhabited the most moderate stance. She has courted the supporters of former Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who vacated his post to take a job in the Biden administration, setting up Tuesday night’s preliminary election. Walsh himself did not endorse in the preliminary but Essaibi George escorted his mother to the polls.

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By contrast, Wu, 36, is a favorite among the city’s young progressives, and a protege of Senator Elizabeth Warren. She has called for free public transportation and a Green New Deal for Boston, sometimes facing criticism that her pitches are unrealistic. Consistently the leader of public polling in the weeks ahead of the election, Wu emerged as the top vote-getter Tuesday night.

“This election is about the future of our city,” Wu told reporters outside the T stop Wednesday. “And we need to tackle the big, bold challenges to move forward and ensure that we are transforming our systems, and not sit back and wait and just nibble around the edges of the status quo.”

She greeted commuters at the station too, wishing them a good day and thanking them for their votes.

”How did you do yesterday?” one passing transit employee joked.

”We did OK,” Wu said.

”Good, good, good! I’m glad for you!” He replied.

Some morning commuters applauded and congratulated Wu as they headed for their buses and trains. A mother with her preschooler in a stroller said, “We’re fans,” and Wu posed for a selfie with Cheronna Monroe, a transit customer service agent.

Wu continued to push her campaign message later Wednesday during a briefing outside City Hall, flanked by supporters.

Outside Mike’s City Diner, a cheerful Essaibi George expressed confidence Wednesday about her chances in November, despite returns showing that Wu won significantly more votes in the first round.

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To many, the race is shaping up to be a test of how progressive the city has become. But Essaibi George dismissed as “lazy” the “labels” painting her as the moderate candidate and Wu as the progressive. She did, however, pitch herself as “a little more pragmatic than others.”

“We can say whatever we want about the challenges we face as a city, but unless it’s followed up with an action plan, with the work, and with the rolling up of the sleeves and doing it, it’s really not that bold,” she told reporters. “I think many of [Wu’s] plans unfortunately are very unrealistic. We have to make sure every day we are working towards the solutions to the challenges we face as a city. And that comes with not just bold ideas, but the action behind them.”

Gene Gorman, 50, a supporter from Dorchester said he has been friends with Essaibi George for decades, including when her husband coached his son in little league.

Essaibi George has the “boots on the ground mentality” necessary for leadership at the municipal level, while Wu’s ideas are broader and perhaps too lofty, he said. And the distinctions didn’t end there.

“She didn’t go to Harvard Law,” he said of Essaibi George, an apparent dig at Wu, who did. Essaibi George, he said, “came up in the school of hard knocks.”

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Essaibi George also made stops Wednesday morning at a raising of the Honduran flag on City Hall plaza and at the epicenter of the city’s opioid crisis at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Deteriorating conditions for residents there struggling with housing and addiction have become a campaign issue.

She said it was critical “to be here, to make sure this is a part of not just the conversation, but part of what we’re talking about solutions for.”

One bizarre wrinkle to the election night drama was that declarations of victory by Wu and Essaibi George, and defeat by their rivals, were made by the candidates themselves, rather than city officials, as part of a chaotic night in which election officials delayed posting any results hours after the polls closed.

Galvin said Wednesday that officials had expected to collect 3,000 mail-in and drop box ballots Tuesday, but ended up receiving 7,000 in total by 8 p.m.

Since then, Galvin said, city and state election officials have been cross referencing voting lists from polls with the mail-in and drop box ballots to make sure no one voted twice.

”I wanted to make sure the integrity of the election process was beyond reproach. Orderly can sometimes be slow, and it was, but that doesn’t mean it’s incorrect,’’ Galvin said. “I think what we are talking about here is accuracy — it’s important. There is no mystery here. I want every voter satisfied that if they cast their ballot yesterday it was counted. I want every candidate satisfied.”

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At Mike’s Wednesday morning, Essaibi George acknowledged “it was a long night” waiting for Boston’s election results to roll in. But she praised city workers for continuing to tally every ballot and said it’s a crucial effort.

Tuesday saw disappointing turnout levels, with only about 100,000 voters, or roughly 25 percent of the electorate casting a ballot. The low level of interest in the race likely helped Essaibi George, who had built a solid base among voters who are most likely to cast a ballot in a preliminary election, according to a recent poll conducted by research group MassInc. Preliminary municipal election turnouts are typically lower than other races and attract only the most consistent voters.

Those conditions did little to help candidates Kim Janey and Andrea Campbell, who had been in a fierce competition for second place with Essaibi George leading to Tuesday, and were dependent on a high voter turnout, according to the recent poll. Wu had commanded the lead in that poll and other recent surveys. When the votes were tallied, Campbell ended up in third place, while Janey, the acting mayor, took fourth.

Janey’s loss comes after she made history in March as the first woman and person of color to occupy the mayor’s office, when she was appointed to the role in an acting capacity after Walsh decamped for Washington.

“Kim Janey over performed in communities of color, but Campbell’s attacks, the Globe endorsement, and a more traditional turnout hurt and gave [Essaibi George] an opening,” tweeted Doug Rubin, a veteran political consultant who worked on Janey’s campaign. “We were not able to counter effectively enough – for that I take responsibility.”

What comes now is an ultimate, historic showdown between Wu, a flag bearer of the politically progressive movement that has taken hold in Boston and reshaped its ideological identity, and Essaibi George, who has taken a more conservative lane to focus on quality of life issues, such as public safety and improving schools.

An aide for Essaibi George told the Globe that the campaign was already preparing for a final between the two candidates, and would define Wu as a big picture progressive whose focus on topics such as the environment and transportation were unrealistic and unrelated to the day-to-day duties as mayor.

Essaibi George had laid a groundwork of putting social workers in schools and focusing on education and public safety. Police unions are helping fund a superPAC that has already poured a half-million dollars into her campaign.

But Wu has ridden the very progressive moment that has led to an ideological shift in Boston, as voters identify as more liberal and progressive, according to recent polls. A city councilor since 2014, and the first woman of color elected council president, she has also built a platform of addressing housing inequities, and addressing racial and economic disparities.

Wu’s also popular among newer and younger voters, in a city that has seen its population grow by over 60,000 people over the last decade, according to a recent Globe poll.

The poll of 500 likely voters shows that what they care about most is education (20 percent), followed by housing (19 percent), racism and equity (17 percent) and the economy and jobs (14 percent).

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Danny McDonald, John Ellement, Milton Valencia, Stephanie Ebbert, Meghan Irons, Dugan Arnett, Joshua Miller, and Laura Crimaldi of the Globe staff, and Globe correspondent Julia Carlin contributed to this report.





Emma Platoff can be reached at emma.platoff@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @emmaplatoff. Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com or 617-929-1579. Follow her on Twitter @talanez. John R. Ellement can be reached at john.ellement@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @JREbosglobe. Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.

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WASHINGTON – The discussions over another stimulus package turned testy Friday as Democrats and Republicans each blamed the other for their inability to come to an agreement just hours before a $600 weekly unemployment benefit for Americans officially ends.

In dueling press conferences, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows laid into Democrats for rejecting a short-term deal to continue the bolstered unemployment benefit for one week, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi railed against Republicans and the Trump administration for attempting to take a piecemeal approach to helping Americans as COVID-19 cases continue to surge nationally. 

“What we’re seeing is politics as usual from Democrats up on Capitol Hill,” Meadows said from the White House podium. “The Democrats believe that they have all the cards on their side, and they’re willing to play those cards at the expense of those that are hurting.”

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Two years after Donald Trump won the presidency, nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation.

Trump’s private company is contending with civil suits digging into its business with foreign governments and with looming state inquiries into its tax practices.

Trump’s 2016 campaign is under scrutiny by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, whose investigation into Russian interference has already led to guilty pleas by his campaign chairman and four advisers.

Trump’s inaugural committee has been probed by Mueller for illegal foreign donations, a topic that the incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman plans to further investigate next year.

Trump’s charity is locked in an ongoing suit with New York state, which has accused the foundation of “persistently illegal conduct.”

The mounting inquiries are building into a cascade of legal challenges that threaten to dominate Trump’s third year in the White House. In a few weeks, Democrats will take over in the House and pursue their own investigations into all of the above — and more.

The ultimate consequences for Trump are still unclear. Past Justice Department opinions have held that a sitting president may not be charged with a federal crime.

House Democrats may eventually seek to impeach Trump. But, for now, removing him from office appears unlikely: It would require the support of two-thirds of the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans.

However, there has been one immediate impact on a president accustomed to dictating the country’s news cycles but who now struggles to keep up with them: Trump has been forced to spend his political capital — and that of his party — on his defense.

On Capitol Hill this week, weary Senate Republicans scrambled away from reporters to avoid questions about Trump and his longtime fixer Michael Cohen — and Cohen’s courtroom assertion that he had been covering up Trump’s “dirty deeds” when he paid off two women who claimed they had affairs with the president before he was elected.

“I don’t do any interviews on anything to do with Trump and that sort of thing, okay?” said Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho).

“There’s no question that it’s a distraction from the things that obviously we would like to see him spending his time on, and things we’d like to be spending our time on,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). “So that’s why I’m hoping that some of this stuff will wrap up soon and we’ll get answers, and we can draw conclusions, and we can move on from there.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), summed it up another way: “It’s been a bad week for Individual Number One,” referring to the legal code name prosecutors in Manhattan used in court filings to refer to the president.

Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did White House or Trump Organization officials.

As the bad news has rolled in, the president has cut back his public schedule. He spent more time than usual in his official residence this week, with more than two dozen hours of unstructured “executive time,” said a person familiar with his schedule.

In several tweets on Thursday, Trump sought to cast doubt on two former advisers who have cooperated with investigators. Cohen, Trump said, just wanted a reduced prison sentence. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, he said, was the victim of scare tactics by the FBI.

Then — after wordy explanations of how both men had gone wrong — Trump tried to sum up his increasingly complex problems with a simple explanation.

“WITCH HUNT!” he wrote.

“He’s just never been targeted by an investigation like this,” said Timothy L. O’Brien, a reporter who wrote a biography of Trump, adding that the longtime real estate mogul had contended with extensive litigation in his business career, but never legal threats of this scale. “The kind of legal scrutiny they’re getting right now — and the potential consequences of that scrutiny — are unlike anything Donald Trump or his children have ever faced.”

Mueller’s investigation began in May 2017 after Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey. The special counsel’s mandate: to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and whether the Kremlin worked with Trump associates. Mueller is also examining whether the president has sought to obstruct the Russia probe.

So far, Mueller has charged 33 people. That includes 26 Russian nationals — some of whom allegedly stole emails and other data from U.S. political parties, others of whom allegedly sought to influence public opinion via phony social media postings.

Several Trump aides have also pleaded guilty.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was found guilty in August of tax and bank fraud charges and pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy and obstruction charges unrelated to his work for the campaign. He agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation — though the special counsel’s office recently asserted he has been lying to investigators.

Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, admitted to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Rick Gates, Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, admitted to conspiracy and lying to the FBI. Former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts. Cohen admitted to lying about efforts to build a Trump project in Moscow that lasted into Trump’s presidential run. All agreed to cooperate with investigators.

It’s unclear where Mueller’s inquiry is headed — and whether it will end with a spate of indictments reaching further into Trump’s world or with a written report submitted to the Justice Department.

Trump has repeatedly denied there was any “collusion” between his associates and Russia and has attacked the investigation as a fishing expedition led by politically biased prosecutors. Advisers said he has recently ramped up his attacks — hoping to undermine confidence in Mueller’s work — because he believes the probe is at a critical stage.

Separately, federal prosecutors in Manhattan have pursued another investigation that emerged out of the 2016 campaign: hush-money payments Cohen made to two women who said they’d had extramarital affairs with Trump.

Cohen, who was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for what a judge called a “veritable smorgasbord of criminal conduct,” pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations in connection to the payments.

Cohen also named who told him to pay off the women: Trump.

“He was very concerned about how this would affect the election,” Cohen told ABC News in an interview that aired Friday.

Trump has denied he directed Cohen to break the law by buying the silence of former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal and adult-film star Stormy Daniels. He also said Cohen, as his lawyer, bore responsibility for any campaign finance violations.

“I never directed him to do anything wrong,” Trump told Fox News on Thursday. “Whatever he did, he did on his own.”

Prosecutors also revealed Wednesday they had struck a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, the company that produces the National Enquirer tabloid, for its role in the scheme.

The company admitted it had helped pay off one of Trump’s accusers during the campaign. It said it had done so in “cooperation, consultation, and concert with” one or more members of Trump’s campaign, according to court filings.

It is unclear whether prosecutors will pursue charges against campaign or Trump Organization officials as part of the case.

But at the White House, advisers have fretted that this case — and not Mueller’s — could be the biggest threat to Trump’s presidency. House Democrats have already indicated the campaign-finance allegations could be potential fodder for impeachment proceedings.

The nearly $107 million donated to Trump’s inaugural committee has drawn the attention of Mueller, who has probed whether illegal foreign contributions went to help put on the festivities.

The special counsel already referred one such case to federal prosecutors in Washington. In late August, an American political consultant, W. Samuel Patten, admitted steering $50,000 from a Ukrainian politician to the inaugural committee through a straw donor.

Patten pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign lobbyist and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

On Friday, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel plans to investigate possible “illicit foreign funding or involvement in the inauguration.”

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether the inaugural committee misspent funds. The Washington Post has not independently confirmed that report.

Officials with the committee, which was chaired by Trump’s friend Tom Barrack, said they were in full compliance “with all applicable laws and disclosure obligations” and have not received any records requests from prosecutors.

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told reporters this week that questions about the committee’s practices have “nothing to do with the president of the United States.”

Trump also faces a pair of civil lawsuits alleging he has violated the Constitution by doing business with foreign and state governments while in office.

Trump still owns his private company, though he says he’s given up day-to-day control to his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. Since the 2016 election, Trump’s businesses have hosted parties for foreign embassies, hosted Malaysia’s prime minister and Maine’s governor, and rented more than 500 rooms to lobbyists paid by the Saudi government.

The lawsuits allege that such transactions violate a Constitutional ban on presidents taking emoluments, or payments, from foreign or state governments. One complaint was filed by congressional Democrats; the other by the Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

“What we want to do is be able to tie the flow of money from foreign and domestic sovereigns into Donald Trump’s pocketbook,” said Karl A. Racine (D), the D.C. attorney general. He called the emoluments clauses “our country’s first corruption law.”

The plaintiffs are seeking to have Trump barred from doing business with governments. But the more immediate threat for Trump and his company is the legal discovery process, in which the plaintiffs are seeking documents detailing his foreign customers, how much they paid — and how much wound up in the president’s pocket.

So far, Trump — who is represented by the Justice Department and a private attorney — has failed to get the cases dismissed or block discovery.

Earlier this month, the two attorneys general sent Trump’s company a raft of subpoenas. They expect to get answers early next year.

In New York, where Trump’s business is based, incoming Attorney General Letitia James (D) is preparing to launch several investigations into aspects of his company.

“We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” James told NBC News.

She said she wanted to look into whether Trump had violated the emoluments clause by doing business with foreign governments in New York and examine allegations detailed by the New York Times that Trump’s company engaged in questionable tax practices for decades.

New York state’s tax agency has also said it is considering an investigation into the company’s tax practices.

Earlier this year, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed suit against Trump and his three eldest children, alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a case spurred by reporting by The Post in 2016.

Trump is accused of violating several state charity laws, including using his charity’s money to pay off legal settlements for his for-profit businesses. He used the foundation to buy a portrait of himself that was hung up at one of his resorts. Trump also allegedly allowed his presidential campaign to dictate the charity’s giving in 2016 — despite laws that bar charities from participating in campaigns.

The attorney general has asked for Trump to pay at least $2.8 million in penalties and restitution and that he be barred from running a charity in New York for 10 years.

Trump has called the suit politically motivated and “ridiculous.”

Last month, a New York state judge denied a request by Trump’s attorneys to throw out the suit.

Meanwhile, a defamation suit against Trump by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos has also quietly advanced through the New York courts.

A judge has allowed Zervos to seek discovery — including possibly deposing the president — as the two sides wait for a panel of New York appellate judges to rule on Trump’s latest move to block the lawsuit.

Trump has argued that, as a sitting president, he is immune from the claims in both the foundation and Zervos case. He maintains that the 1997 Supreme Court decision in Clinton v. Jones — which said that presidents do not have immunity from civil litigation — does not apply in state courts.

Alice Crites, Josh Dawsey, Jonathan O’Connell, Tom Hamburger, Michael Kranish, Carol D. Leonnig, Elise Viebeck and John Wagner contributed to this report.

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Over the past year, there was a significant jump in the number of migrants — mostly families — from Brazil, which has been in the grips of the worst Covid crisis in South America. More migrants also arrived from Venezuela, Nicaragua and India, among many others.

Southern border apprehensions previously reached such high levels in the late 1990s, peaking in 2000, when many migrants who entered the country unlawfully were drawn to jobs in construction, food processing and restaurants.

As in the past year, most of those who entered were single adults from Mexico. Many of them tried more than once to sneak into the country, usually until they succeeded, because they did not face significant legal consequences, said Jessica Bolter, an analyst with the Migration Policy Institute. She added that there were “lots of incentives for migrants to try to cross over and over.”

When the Trump administration first invoked the current public health rule, known as Title 42, officials said it was needed to avoid the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. But it has had the unintended consequence of encouraging hundreds of thousands of desperate people to make repeated attempts to enter the country. Many of those subjected to the rule are expeditiously returned to Mexico, often by bus, only to try again a few days later.

Before the public health rule was put in place at the beginning of the pandemic, migrants caught entering the country without authorization could be criminally prosecuted and detained for months.

In September, about 25 percent of the arrests were of repeat crossers.

The high rate of recidivism suggests the majority of border crossers in recent years have been caught, which was not the case during previous peaks. The number of Border Patrol agents has increased substantially in the last decade, and technology like heat sensors, cameras and drones makes it difficult to evade capture.

“There were not nearly as many agents, they had little technology, and there were a lot of easy places to cross,” said Jeff Passel, a demographer at the nonpartisan Pew Research Center who studies the population of those who enter without authorization. “Data shows the Border Patrol now catch almost everybody who tries to cross illegally.”

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Sen. Rand Paul will insist the name of the whistleblower be revealed during the question and answer phase of President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

“Senator Paul will insist on his question being asked during today’s trial,” tweeted Paul’s staffer, Sergio Gor. “Uncertain of what will occur on the Senate floor, but American people deserve to know how this all came about…”

The Kentucky Republican attempted to include the whistleblower’s name as part of a question he posed to the floor during Wednesday’s session, but Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts refused to allow the inquiry to be heard.

Paul, 57, has been a vocal advocate of naming the whistleblower, who he suggested is former CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella. “I think Eric Ciaramella needs to be pulled in for testimony,” said Paul during the House impeachment investigation.

The confirmed identity of the whistleblower remains a mystery as Trump faces trial in the Senate after the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

[Read more: Schiff hired former colleague of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella the day after Trump-Ukraine call]

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June 8, 2022

With 100,000 votes counted, the San Francisco Board of Elections put votes for the recall of Chesa Boudin, the district attorney, at 61 percent. At the pro-recall watch party, the crowd erupted with elation, shouting, “Sixty-one! Sixty-one!”

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In court Thursday, Kupperman’s attorney Charles Cooper, who also represents Bolton, did not rule out the possibility that Bolton could be added to the lawsuit if he is subpoenaed. House investigators have asked Bolton to testify before two committees next week, but Cooper said Bolton has not yet received a subpoena.

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Los tres científicos estadounidenses llevan tres décadas estudiando el ritmo circadiano de la mosca de la fruta.

Los investigadores estadounidenses Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash y Michael W. Young fueron distinguidos este lunes con el premio Nobel de Medicina 2017.

La Asamblea Nobel del Instituto Karolinska de Estocolmo, Suecia, dijo que los reconocía por sus “descubrimientos de los mecanismos moleculares que controlan el ritmo circadiano“, es decir, nuestro reloj biológico.

“Sus descubrimientos explican cómo las plantas, los animales y los seres humanos adaptan su ritmo biológico para que sesincronice con las revoluciones de la Tierra“, dijo la Asamblea en un comunicado.

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Los tres científicos son pioneros en el estudio de nuestro reloj biológico.

Sus investigaciones permitieron que “podamos echar un vistazo dentro de nuestro reloj biológico y dilucidar su funcionamiento interno”, explicó la institución.

El reloj biológico es el responsable de que nos dé sueño por la noche e influye en nuestro humor, estado de alerta e incluso en nuestro riesgo de sufrir un paro cardiaco.

“Lo que esto puede hacer es concientizarnos más de la importancia que tiene la higiene del sueño y de lo relevante que es asegurarnos de que estemos yendo a la cama a una hora adecuada“, afirmó Juleen Zierath, de la Asamblea.

El premio asciende a US$1,1 millones y es el primero de los Nobel que se anuncia cada año. El martes se revelará el nombre del ganador del Nobel de Física; el miércoles, el de Química; el jueves, el de Literatura; el viernes, el de Paz y el lunes 9, el de Economía.

El Nobel de Medicina se concedió el año pasado al biólogo japonés Yoshinori Ohsumi por descubrir los mecanismos detrás de la autofagiacelular, el proceso de degradación y reciclaje de células.

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Los tres científicos son pioneros en el estudio del ritmo biológico.

Rosbash y Hall comenzaron a colaborar en la Universidad de Brandeis, en Boston, hace más de 30 años para estudiar el ritmo circadiano de la Drosophila, la familia de la mosca de la fruta.

Ambos fueron los primeros en clonar el primer gen del ritmo circadiano de esta mosca en 1984.

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En esa época, la relación entre la genética y el reloj biológico no era una idea que la comunidad científica aceptara con facilidad. Sólo otro científico estudiaba este tema: Young.

Young ha investigado en la Universidad Rockefeller durante tres décadas la biología molecular y el carácter genético de los ritmos biológicos de la mosca de la fruta.

Su papel fue crucial para establecer la relación entre los genes y el comportamiento, ya que sus estudios ayudaron a descubrir muchos de los grupos de genes y proteínas que regulan el ritmo biológico de este insecto, según explica la página web de la Fundación Gruber, de la Universidad de Yale.

Muchos aspectos de nuestra fisiología y de la de todos los organismos multicelulares guardan una estrecha relación con el reloj biológico.

Este regula a un gran número de genes para ayudar a nuestro cuerpo a adaptarse a las diferentes fases del día.

Estos estudios que utilizaron a la mosca de la fruta como modelo permitieron descifrar principios que resultaron válidos en el resto de organismos multicelulares.

“Desde que estos tres laureados realizaran estos descubrimientos trascendentales, la biología circadiana se ha convertido en un campo de investigación amplio y muy dinámico, con repercusiones en nuestra salud y bienestar“, explicó la Asamblea en su nota de prensa.

Los premios Nobel se entregarán el 10 de diciembre.

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a 2020 presidential candidate, is facing blowback on social media for sharing a video of herself working out during a return campaign visit to Iowa.

The clip shows Gillibrand, 52,  lifting weights at a gym in the Hawkeye State, wearing a shirt that reads, “Just trying to get some ranch.”

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“Good to be back in Iowa. Do you like my new workout shirt?” Gillibrand asked.

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The shirt’s message refers to a moment on the campaign trail that went viral last month, in which a restaurant patron in Iowa walked past Gillibrand in search of salad dressing while the senator was speaking to a group of voters.

On Wednesday, Gillibrand’s tweet was the subject of mockery on social media, with some Twitter users accusing her of trying too hard to “relate to the average American.”

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WAKEFIELD, Mass. — A group of heavily-armed men are engaged in an ongoing standoff Saturday with Massachusetts police, prompting shelter-in-place orders in some areas and sparking massive delays on the holiday weekend as a portion of Interstate 95 remains shut down.

The standoff began around 2 a.m. when police noticed two cars pulled over on I-95 with hazard lights on after they had apparently run out of fuel, authorities said at a Saturday press briefing.

Eleven men were clad in military-style gear with long guns and pistols, Mass State Police Col. Christopher Mason said. He added that they were headed to Maine from Rhode Island for “training.”

The men refused to put down their weapons or comply with authorities’ orders, claiming to be from a group “that does not recognize our laws,” police said. They took off into a wooded area, where two men were initially arrested.

The remaining men were taken into custody around 10:30 a.m.

Officials used negotiators to interact with the other suspects.

“Time is our ally in this and we will certainly utilize this,” Mason said.

Mason said the “self-professed leader” of the group wanted it to be known that they are not anti-government.

“I think the investigation that follows from this interaction will provide us more insight into what their motivation, what their ideology is,” Mason said.

Mason said he had no knowledge of the group, but it was not unusual for the state police to encounter people who have “sovereign citizen ideology,” although he did not know if the people involved in the Wakefield standoff was a part of that.

“We train to those encounters,” Mason said. “We very much understand, I guess, the philosophy that underlies that mindset.”

The standoff shut down part of I-95 in Wakefield in both directions, prompting heavy traffic as people hit the road for the Fourth of July weekend.

In Massachusetts, Interstate 95 runs from the Rhode Island line, around Boston to the New Hampshire line. Wakefield is just east of where Interstate 95 and 93 meet north of Boston.

Residents in Wakefield and Reading near where the standoff is taking place have been asked to shelter in place.

Wakefield police said in its statement that no threats had been made but the men were considered armed and dangerous.


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Five Houston police officers have been shot in southeast Houston. The officers were reportedly serving a narcotics warrant.

Life Flight was called to the scene. All the officers have been taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Two of the officers are in critical condition. The other three officers are listed as stable.

Houston police have confirmed one suspect is dead at the scene. SWAT officers are working to determine if anyone else is in the home.

Streets in the neighborhood are blocked off and neighbors are being held at a safe distance. Media is being pushed back as police say the scene is still an active investigation.

The incident happened late Monday afternoon in the 7800 block of Harding in southeast Houston. Harris County Sheriff’s deputies and ATF agents are assisting at the scene.

A perimeter has been set up for a possible additional suspects.

Stay with ABC13 Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing situation.

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“When you have problems in Boston,” he said, “you can have problems in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.”

Officials warned that the expected mixed precipitation would make driving difficult and dangerous on Sunday afternoon into Monday night. Coastal areas along New York, New Jersey, Long Island and southwest Connecticut could see some minor coastal flooding during high tide on Sunday evening.

In New York, Binghamton University canceled Monday classes in anticipation of the snow.

On Friday evening, roads were already closed in Wyoming and Colorado, where forecasters said winds could reach 80 miles per hour on Saturday.

Taking its time on a wet and blustery journey, the storm took shape early in the week around the California and Oregon coasts, bringing snow to areas in the West that don’t typically see much snow, Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said.

For instance, Salt Lake City recorded 6 inches of snow and Flagstaff, Ariz., got 14 inches in some areas, he said.

The snowfall in higher elevations resulted in flooding, including in Arizona where a vehicle was swept away.

The storm continued traveling east toward the Northern and Central Plains on Saturday, and will pass through the Great Lakes and the Northeast before slowly moving off the East Coast by early on Tuesday, Mr. Hurley said.

Mariel Padilla contributed reporting.

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Noticias Telemundo has released new details of “Francisco en México,” its special coverage of Pope Francis’s historic visit to Mexico. The network’s unique programming will begin on February 10 – Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent – with special live uplinks from Mexico City, and will continue as the Pope travels to cities across the country over the following days. A team of acclaimed reporters and presenters, including musical superstar Lucero and actress and television host Adamari López, will help cover Francis’s activities on this his first trip to Mexico.

On Thursday, February 11, the day before the Pope’s arrival, network programs such as “Un Nuevo Día,” “Al Rojo Vivo” and “Noticiero Telemundo” will offer live reports from Mexico City by José Díaz-Balart, Adamari López, Karina Monroy, Agustín Oláis, Raúl Torres, Rogelio Mora-Tagle and Azucena Cierco, about the extensive preparations for the papal tour.

Special segments on the same shows and a dedicated feature at 8PM/7C will document the Pope’s arrival on Mexican soil on Friday, February 12. Noticias Telemundo reporters Edgardo del Villar, Jimena Duarte, Rogelio Mora, Agustín Oláis and Raúl Torres will be stationed at key points across the capital, including the airport, the Basilica of Guadalupe and the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, where the Pope will spend the night.

On Saturday, February 13, “Francisco en México” will begin its special coverage at 9AM/8C, when the Pope is scheduled to arrive in Mexico City’s Zócalo, or Main Square. Noticias Telemundo team will also accompany the pontiff at 5PM/4C as he says Mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe and views the famous image of the Virgin, a holy relic that commemorates the arrival of Catholicism in Latin America.

Noticias Telemundo will also broadcast the Masses the Pope will lead at a number of other sites around the country, starting on Sunday, February 14 at 10:30AM/9:30C with the event expected to draw the biggest crowd, a religious service in the municipality of Ecatepec in the State of Mexico. On Monday, February 15, Francis will travel to San Cristóbal de las Casas, where, at 10:30AM/9:30C, he will hold a Mass dedicated to the indigenous groups of southeastern Mexico. He will officiate over a similar ceremony the following day (Tuesday, February 16 at 10AM/9C) in Venustiano Carranza Stadium in Morelia, the state capital of Michoacán.

The Pope’s final stop in Mexico will be in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, on Wednesday, February. His time there will include a number of activities, including a visit to a state prison, where he will read a homily for the inmates at 12PM/11C. Noticias Telemundo will also bring viewers cross-border coverage of the special ceremony the Pope will lead at 5:30PM/4:30C on the former Feria Expo grounds, just meters from the US border, which will include a Mass dedicated to migrants in both countries. Felicidad Aveleyra will cover the Mass from the US side, in El Paso, Texas, showing the impact of the Pope’s historic visit for viewers on both sides of the border.

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