A 19-year-old Florida protester was found dead over the weekend — after vanishing the same day she tweeted about being sexually assaulted, police said Monday.
The body of Oluwatoyin Salau, who took part in Black Lives Matter protests in Tallahassee, was discovered late Saturday as officers investigated a missing person case, Tallahassee police said.
A second woman, Victoria Sims, 75, who had also been reported missing, was found dead nearby.
Aaron Glee Jr., 49, has been arrested in connection with the slayings, but police did not elaborate on any alleged relationship between him and the women.
“There is no further information to release at this time,” Tallahassee police said in a statement.
A message seeking additional comment from police Monday was not immediately returned.
Glee, who lives on Monday Road — where Salau’s body was found — was taken into custody May 30 on a charge of aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability.
A woman told cops she was drinking with Glee when he propositioned her for sex and assaulted her when she declined his offer, police said.
Glee was arrested on a battery charge on June 9, three days after Salau was reported missing. Police reports in that incident were not immediately available, according to the newspaper.
Salau, who was also known as Toyin, had reportedly been active at protests in Tallahassee, where she recited the names of black people recently killed by police, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Tony McDade in Tallahassee in May.
Aaron Glee Jr.Leon County Sheriff’s Office
“I don’t want their names gone in vain,” Salau said during a demonstration outside the Tallahassee Police Department last month.
“Toyin was very passionate,” friend Danaya Hemphill told the newspaper. “She was very vocal, she was very loving, very spiritual, very caring. Toyin, she was like a light in a dark room. That was Toyin.”
Hemphill, 22, last saw Salau one day before she vanished and expected the worst, she said.
“I had a feeling that we were not going to find Toyin alive,” Hemphill told the newspaper.
Salau, who was discovered a few miles from where she was last seen at a library, detailed an alleged sexual assault on the day she disappeared, WTXL reported.
“Anyways I was molested in Tallahassee, Florida by a black man this morning at 5:30 on Richview and Park Ave,” she tweeted.
“The man offered to give me a ride to find someplace to sleep and recollect my belongings from a church I refuged to a couple days back to escape unjust living conditions.”
Sims, who was reported missing Thursday, was a retired state worker who spent her career in local Democratic politics, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. She also worked as a volunteer for AARP Florida, WTXL reported.
Democrats launched a sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump on Monday, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with inquiries into his White House, campaign and family businesses. (March 4) AP
WASHINGTON – The investigations surrounding President Donald Trump’s campaign and his presidency have not ended even though Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has wrapped up his probe.
Prosecutors in a half-dozen federal, state and city jurisdictions are pursuing overlapping inquiries focused on how Trump operated his namesake business empire, how a porn star was paid off in the final weeks of his campaign and how his inaugural committee raised money. New York State alone has three agencies conducting investigations.
The extent ofthoseinquiries – and the jeopardy they create for Trump and those in his political orbit – is impossible to know because some of the probes overlap and some investigators haven’t revealed the scope of their work.For example, federal prosecutors in New York’s Southern and Eastern districts are each investigating Trump’s $107 million inaugural committee.
So far, none of those investigations have directly accused the president of wrongdoing, though some have come close. Federal prosecutors in New York last year told a judge that Trump had directed his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to orchestrate illegal payoffs in the final months of his campaign to silence two women who claimed to have had sex with him.
Trump repeatedly called Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election a partisan “witch hunt” and called state-level investigators “presidential harassers.”
But many of the investigations that are ongoing – including the probes of hush payments and of the inaugural committee – are closely tied to the special counsel’s work, which produced a cascade of separate investigations.
Federal inquiries of Trump’s campaign
Federal prosecutors in New York are pursuing at least two inquiries. One office is scrutinizing Trump’s inaugural committee, including whether donors received benefits in exchange for funding the $107 million celebration, according to a subpoena sent to the committee. The authorities also are scrutinizingwhether vendors were paid with unreported donations or whether foreign nationals made contributions that are prohibited.
Samuel Patten, 47, was sentenced Friday to three years’ probation and fined $5,000 after pleading guilty in August to lobbying for a Ukrainian political party without reporting it to the Justice Department. Patten also helped conceal a Ukrainian national who bought $50,000 worth of tickets to Trump’s inauguration, prosecutors said. Patten “provided substantial assistance” to Mueller, who referred his case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, according to prosecutors.
Another federal inquiry in New York focuses on the hush-money Cohen said Trump told him to pay to two women who claimed to have had extramarital affairs with Trump. Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations for the six-figure payments before the 2016 election to porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Prosecutors said Trump and his business reimbursed Cohen for some of the payments, falsely concealing them a retainer for his legal services.
Cohen provided the House Oversight and Reform Committee with a copy of a $35,000 check that Trump signed personally to reimburse him in a series of installments during the first year of his presidency. Other checks were signed by Donald Trump Jr. and Allen Weisselberg, chief finance officer for the Trump Organization. When a lawmaker asked whether the checks documented a “criminal conspiracy of financial fraud,” Cohen testified: “Yes.”
Prosecutors in New York opened their investigation of Cohen in early 2018 after receiving a referral from Mueller.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and called Cohen a convicted liar, who heads to prison for three years on May 6. Trump questioned whether the payments even qualified for criminal charges, but said he never told Cohen to break the law.
Cohen also suggested that the Justice Department might be pursuing other investigations. During his testimony to the House, he said prosecutors in New York were investigating his most recent communication with Trump. And he said he was in “constant contact” with prosecutors about other investigations, but didn’t elaborate on their subject.
Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s lawyers, has said the legal team is “fully” aware of what prosecutors in both Washington and New York are pursuing. “Cohen did everything he could to create innuendo,” Giuliani said. “I think we have no liability.”
New York probes Trump finances
Cohen’s House testimony in February spurred investigations by state authorities in New York. Letitia James, the state’s attorney general, is investigating whether Trump exaggerated his wealth when seeking real-estate loans, including while he waspursuing a failed bid for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. State investigators have issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for documents about real-estate deals and the Bills bid.
“It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes,” Cohen told the House Oversight and Reform Committee in February. “That was one function. Another was when we were dealing later on with insurance companies, we would provide them with these copies so that they would understand that the premium which is based sometimes upon the individual’s capabilities to pay would be reduced.”
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has been probing Trump’s private charity, theTrump Foundation, since last year. The foundation agreed to dissolve amidst accusations that it had violated rules that constrain how charities use their money.
Trump also faces a series of congressional investigations, nearly all of them being conducted by House Democrats who have been eager to pry into his business dealings and his conduct since becoming president. And they have begun demanding records that could shed light on Trump’s finances.
But House Republicans have dismissed the investigations into Trump’s personal finances and business as fishing expeditions aimed at his impeachment. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the Oversight Committee, said investigating Trump’s private finances is an “astonishing abuse” of the panel’s authority. Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said valid congressional oversight can’t be used to inquire into private affairs unrelated to legislation.
•The House Financial Services and Intelligence committees have subpoenaed Trump financial records from Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions, to learn more about his finances. Cohen provided the House Oversight and Reform Committee with Trump’s personal financial statements from 2011, 2012 and 2013, which Cohen said were given to Deutsche Bank for the potential loan to buy the Buffalo Bills.
•The House Judiciary Committee is conducting a wide-ranging probe of whether Trump obstructed justice during Mueller’s investigation, or abused the powers of his office, chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said. The committeehas requested documents from 81 people and organizations connected to the administration or Trump’s business and approved for subpoenas for some of Trump’s onetime top aides, including strategist Steve Bannon, former communications directorHope Hicks, former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former White House counsel Donald McGahn.
•The Oversight and Reform Committee subpoenaed documents from Mazars USA accounting firm for Trump’s financial records, to corroborate Cohen’s testimony about plans for the Buffalo Bills. The committee is also investigating the federal lease for Trump International Hotel, which occupies a government-owned building a few blocks from the White House. Some Democratic lawmakers have criticized the arrangement because Trump is essentially both tenant and landlord, by overseeing the General Services Administration.
•The House and Senate intelligence committees are each continuing their investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The goal is to legislate responses to reduce or prevent foreign manipulation of the 2020 election.
Contributing: The Associated Press
More about investigations of President Donald Trump:
Rep. John Ratcliffe R-Texas, left, and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., center, leave a closed-door meeting of the House Intelligence Committee with testimony from Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, to attend a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin, AP
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, center, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform talks with Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., left, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., right, during testimony by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer on Capitol Hill. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
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El rechazo hacia Donald Trump en California es especialmente notable entre los mexicanos.
Banderas de México, piñatas y muñecos con la imagen de Donald Trump recibieron este viernes al precandidato republicano antes de su participación en la convención del Partido Republicano de California en Burlingame, cerca de San Francisco.
Cientos de personas se congregaron frente al hotel donde se celebra la convención para mostrar su rechazo hacia Trump, quien lidera la carrera por la nominación de su partido para las elecciones presidenciales del 8 noviembre en EE.UU.
Agentes del servicio secreto escoltaron a Trump, que tuvo que cruzar una carretera a pie para poder entrar en el edificio por una entrada lateral.
“Sentí como si estuviera cruzando la frontera”, dijo Trump al comenzar su intervención en la convención, que se retrasó más de una hora.
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El precandidato republicano no quiso cancelar su participación en el encuentro de su partido en California.
El multimillonario señaló que los miembros de los servicio de seguridad le propusieron que diera la vuelta y regresara al estado de Indiana pero no aceptó, porque, según dijo, “no podía decepcionar a sus seguidores”.
Las protestas de este viernes no fueron tan violentas como las del jueves, cuando partidarios y oponentes de Trump chocaron mientras el precandidato ofrecía un mitin a su llegada a California.
Los manifestantes bloquearon el tráfico en Costa Mesa, en el condado de Orange, y la policía arrestó a al menos a 17 personas.
El motivo principal de las protestas es la posición de Trump respecto a los inmigrantes, especialmente los mexicanos, y su promesa de deportar a millones de indocumentados si llega a la presidencia.
Sus propuestas han generado gran oposición en algunas zonas de California, en particular entre los mexicanos que residen en el estado.
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Los choques del jueves en Costa Mesa, California, dejaron un saldo de al menos 17 personas arrestadas.
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Donald Trump tiene también seguidores entre los latinos.
La periodista de BBC Mundo en Los Ángeles, Beatriz Díez, señala que, durante los choques del jueves, los partidarios de Trump gritaban “¡Construye ese muro! ¡Construye ese muro!” en referencia a la promesa de Trump de construir un muro en la frontera entre EE.UU. y México que además sería financiado por el gobierno mexicano.
La tensión degeneró en el lanzamiento de piedras a conductores mientras otros manifestantes se subieron a un auto de policía, rompiendo los vidrios.
Figura que polariza
El magnate no pareció perturbado por los disturbios y, después de su discurso, tuiteó: “¡Gracias Costa Mesa, California! 31.000 personas esta noche y miles que no pudieron entrar. ¡Volveré! #Trump2016”.
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Los manifestantes se congregaron frente al hotel donde se celebra la convención del Partido Republicano de California.
La campaña de Trump ha estado marcada por la violencia entre sus partidarios y oponentes.
El hecho más destacado ocurrió en la Universidad de Illinois, Chicago, el 11 de marzo.
Ese día el mitin tuvo que ser suspendido tras estallar varias peleas dentro el auditorio.
Tal como se están desarrollando las primarias, California se ha convertido en el premio más grande para los candidatos republicanos en la carrera por la nominación.
Question: Secretary Nuland, welcome to the show, welcome to Portugal. First question on the issue of Ukraine. Do you believe that the United States and Europe have different positions on Ukraine. Are we in sort of a war between U.S. and Europe because of Ukraine?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: Well, first, Nuno, let me just say how great it is to be back in Portugal and at this very important moment in our relationship and for Portugal. Congratulations on the 40th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. I think Portugal has an enormous amount to teach Ukraine and frankly to teach Russia. You made the transition to democracy without a drop of blood being spilled and that is what the people of Ukraine want for themselves. I don’t think that the United States and Europe have different positions. In fact, today we both said to Russia that we are dissatisfied with Russia’s implementation of the Geneva Agreement of less than two weeks ago. That we do not see the commitment that they promised to make to help stabilize Ukraine and, on the contrary, they are playing a negative, destabilizing role and, therefore, there have to be costs and we both imposed fresh sanctions today.
Question: You know what the Russians are saying is that, although they understand what they call the struggle of Eastern parts of Ukraine. They are not present militarily so the people that are there are grass roots people, probably some Cossacks, probably some paramilitary groups but not Russia as a state. Would you agree with that statement?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: That is complete garbage. We have high confidence in our assessment and, frankly, it is Europe’s assessment as well that Russia is playing a concrete role in organizing, funding, assisting, arming these protests and is playing an extremely destabilizing and dangerous role inside Ukraine, let alone the threatening moves that it is making with its 40,000 troops around Ukraine’s borders. Ten battalions of which went right up to the borders just a couple of days ago.
Question: Yeah, but that is the forces that are on the border. I am saying the forces that are inside of east Ukraine.
Assistant Secretary Nuland: And I said Russia is playing a concrete role. It has its own intelligence forces inside Ukraine who are organizing, coordinating, arming and funding the destabilization in the east. There are obviously some Ukrainians participating as well, but they are not the best actors inside eastern Ukraine and, in fact, if you look at the polling – Ukrainian polling, American polling, and European polling – that polling indicates that less than 18% of Ukrainians want anything to do with what Russia is proposing.
Question: I know you have discussed this topic with Christiane Amanpour, among others, but who is calling the shots in Moscow? Do you see this as a rational product of Russian foreign policy? You are a consummate diplomat, you are a professional diplomat. You have seen Russia in several shapes and forms. Is this a decision of a man or of a system? Do you see any rationality behind this Russian position?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: I believe, through my own experience, that you have to listen to what leaders say and believe what they say. We have a President in Russia who is talking about his greatest regret is the fall of the Soviet Union, who is invoking the period of Catherine the Great, one of the biggest expanders of the Russian empire, who is talking about “novo Russia” a time when half of Ukraine was part of Russia so you have to take him seriously when he says that is his aspiration.
Question: So people would argue that lots of problems that Ukraine is facing now are also due to their own incompetence, division, corruption, infiltration by other forces and surely also the fact that they are demoralized and maybe weakened at this moment, would you agree that?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: Absolutely, that is what Maidan was about. Maidan was about first the young people of Ukraine, but then old people and business people saying we want to turn the page on an era of corruption, on an era of bad government, on an era of a few rich people stealing the wealth of the country. We want to live in a clean, democratic country. That is what they are fighting for and that is what the U.S. and Europe are supporting. And that is what Russia is trying to deny them.
Question: As you know, Ukrainian Special Forces are hesitant to enter in to town centers because they do not want to arrest civilians, who are being used, apparently, as human shields, and so the operation is very difficult for the Ukrainians. If the operation doesn’t work, if the status quo continues, if everything continues to be occupied in those cities, the public buildings continue to be occupied, what is there to be done besides sanctions?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: Well, first to say, as you said, that the Ukrainians and their security services have shown enormous restraint in the face of the kind of terrorist, aggressive, vicious tactics that are being undertaken by the militants, and by the pro-Russian separatists. As you know, just this weekend, eight international monitors, OSCE monitors, taken hostage and taken to the dungeons of Slavyansk, now this awful epicenter of everything that is going wrong in Ukraine. Obviously, if Russia doesn’t change course. If it doesn’t allow Ukraine the breathing space to make its own choices, it is going to have to continue to cost and those sanctions and that isolation will just escalate. But, at the same time, the U.S. and Europe are intent, President Obama is intent, on leaving the door open for diplomacy, if Russian will change course. That is what our meeting in Geneva was about. But Russia has to make a choice. It can be a good neighbor or it can face isolation.
Question: Final thing because I know you are running out of time. One of the questions that Ukraine has to solve is that…
Assistant Secretary Nuland: What about something about Portugal? Are we going to talk about Portugal at all?
Question: Yes, we can say just one thing but just tell me one thing. Ukraine is very dependent, as Portugal is, on energy that comes from abroad. They don’t produce enough energy by themselves; we also feel that in another domain. How can it be solved for them to be less dependent on Russia?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: Well, first of all, you are absolutely right. This is one of the great difficulties that Ukraine faces, that other countries in Europe face, the great dependence on Russian energy. That is why we are working so hard as a transatlantic community, to diversify supply, to diversify types of energy. In the Ukraine context, the U.S. and Europe are working together: John Kerry, Cathy Ashton, Commissioner Oettinger were together two weeks ago to look at reverse flow, to move gas from Poland and Hungary and Slovakia back into Ukraine and we’re being relatively successful at that. But, you know, Ukraine is also exploring alternatives like shale gas and, if that works out, Ukraine will be a very rich country, very soon.
Question: Finally, about Portugal.
Assistant Secretary Nuland: Yes.
Question: How would you describe the present state of relations? We do not appear to have any storm between Portugal and the United States except for the questions of Lajes that gathered lots of opinions recently. Do you think there is a problem between Portugal and the United States because of the Azores base?
Assistant Secretary Nuland: We are great, strong allies. We so appreciate the transatlantic spirit and the global commitment of Portugal. What I wanted to say today is how proud we are of Portugal and the Portuguese people. How you have weathered these three years of difficulty. The intense reforms that you have undertaken and we have enormous confidence in Portugal’s future and what we want is for Portugal, and the Portuguese people, to have confidence in their future. Which is why I was here today talking with young entrepreneurs, the next generation, talking about the transatlantic trade and investment partnership that we are going to do that is going to bring jobs and growth on both sides of the Atlantic. We want to see Portugal continue to be that transatlantic engine of growth, the connection between U.S. and Europe that is going to make us all stronger and more prosperous. With regard to Lajes, we have a long, historic security relationship in the Azores. It is time now to broaden and deepen that relationship so it is also about economic opportunity, it is about protecting the environment, it is about tourism. We will continue to have a security relationship but let’s do more than that in the Azores.
La National Public Radio (NPR) hizo un gran anuncio: eliminará la capacidad de los usuarios para dar sus comentarios al final de cada nota publicada en su sitio.
“Hemos llegado al punto en el que nos hemos dado cuenta de que hay otras formas mejores para lograr el mismo tipo de discusión entre la comunidad en torno a los asuntos que consideramos en nuestro periodismo”, explicó Scott Montgomery, jefe de redacción de noticias digitales de NPR.
Ésta es una excelente noticia. Y todos los demás medios de comunicación principales deben seguir su ejemplo.
No, no estoy en contra de la Primera Enmienda. Y, no, no soy de piel tan delgada que no puedo aguantar las críticas. Ni soy tan arrogante como para creer que tengo la manera correcta de ver todo en el mundo político.
Pero odio las secciones de comentarios de los sitios web de los medios o, más bien, he llegado a odiarlos. Cuando empecé este blog en el 2006, pasé un montón de tiempo pensando en la sección de comentarios y el cuidado de la misma. Regularmente iba a las secciones de comentarios para interactuar (o tratar de interactuar) con los lectores. Lo incentivé y también lo delegué para mantener el orden de los comentarios.
Entonces me di por vencido. Debido a que ninguna de las tácticas o estrategias que probamos tenía ningún efecto real sobre la calidad del diálogo. Sin importar de lo que el post original fuera, un puñado de las más fuertes, o más comprometidas, voces en la sala secuestraron el hilo de comentarios para impulsar sus propias agendas. Cualquiera que tratara de regresar la conversación hacia el tema en cuestión —o incluso algo que se aproxime al tema en cuestión— era silenciado y humillado.
Era lo contrario de lo que la comunidad estaba tratando de construir. En lugar de proporcionar un lugar donde los adictos a la política podrían intercambiar pensamientos, ideas y chistes sobre la escena política, la sección de comentarios se convirtió en un pueblo en el que el chico más gritón y más detestable se nombró el alcalde.
De lo que también me he dado cuenta —gracias al incremento del software que permite el análisis cuantitativo en tiempo real de lo que se está leyendo— fue que el número de personas que comentaban era minúsculo en comparación con el público en general para el blog. Fue casi como mi primer año en la universidad. Asumí que todo el mundo salía a emborracharse todas las noches debido a que las personas que lo estaban haciendo eran DEMASIADO RUIDOSAS. Sólo más tarde me di cuenta de que los gritones y la muchedumbre que fiestea todo el tiempo era una minoría y que había un montón de personas a las que tampoco les parecía.
NPR encontró la misma cosa. Estas estadísticas son elocuentes: En julio, NPR.org registró casi 33 millones de usuarios únicos y 491,000 comentarios. Pero esos comentarios vinieron de tan sólo 19,400 comentaristas, de acuerdo con Montgomery. Eso es 0.06% de los usuarios, un número que se ha mantenido constante hasta el 2016, agregó.
Números como éstos dejan claro que las secciones de comentarios no están impulsando las conversaciones, las están matando. Un grupo muy pequeño de personas están dominando todas las conversaciones, lo que hace más difícil para alguien que, por ejemplo, puede ser un experto en un tema en particular opinar, por temor a ser reprendido por tratar de entrar en el club.
El auge de las plataformas de medios sociales como Twitter y Facebook, —así como los sitios más de nicho de preguntas y respuestas como Quora— han hecho cada vez más obsoletas las secciones de comentarios también. No, no todo el mundo tiene una cuenta de Twitter o una página de Facebook, pero 1) la tendrán en breve y 2) el acceso a la conversación en torno a un tema o historia en particular es mucho más fácil en estas plataformas que tratar de navegar por las torpes secciones de comentarios de la mayoría de los medios.
El mejor de los casos para retener los comentarios está en proporcionar una moderación en tiempo real de ellos para mantener la conversación lo más cerca posible del tema y lo más lejos posible de ser mezquina. Pero incluso eso es poco práctico por dos razones principales.
En primer lugar, tiene un costo prohibitivo. Ningún medio puede permitirse tener empleados que supervisen cada pieza de contenido —o incluso la mitad, o incluso una décima— que se publica todos los días. En segundo lugar, el seguimiento de los comentarios trae sus propios problemas. ¿Quién es el monitor? ¿Cómo deciden qué comentarios son buenos y cuáles son malos? ¿Ser partidario hace a un comentario malo? ¿Por qué? Y así sucesivamente, hasta el infinito.
Voy a ser el primero en admitir que inclinarse porque las secciones de comentarios mueran parece y se siente, a primera vista, profundamente antidemocrático.
Pero eso es porque probablemente estás pensando en tu visión platónica de una sección de comentarios —en la que alguien que nunca has conocido ofrece un gran artículo, sobre el tema que te perdiste, entablas una amistad, se conectan en el mundo real y se convierten en los mejores de los amigos para siempre . Lo cual no nunca ocurre.
Lo que la sección de comentarios en realidad es, en este entorno de medios partidistas sobrealimentados, es un pozo de barro donde la única regla es que no hay reglas. Y, por definición, al luchar en un pozo de barro, nadie sale limpio. Así que, bien por ti, NPR por tomar una posición en contra de las secciones de comentarios. Espero que todos en los medios sigan tu ejemplo. Ayudaría nuevamente a hacer una gran conversación en línea, o tal vez un poco menos peor.
Chris Cillizza escribe The Fix, un blog para The Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos Announces Divorce (Twitter)
After 25 years of marriage, Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing. The duo released a statement promising that they will remain friends and partners, but you better believe this one is gonna be expensive!
Dior Reschedules Menswear Show Due to Protests (The New York Times)
Dior was originally scheduled to present its latest menswear collection on Saturday, January 19, but has decided to push its presentation up a day — to Friday the 18th — so as not to coincide with a “yellow vest” protest expected on Saturday. The protests have been ongoing for months, due to anger “driven by high living costs and frustration at President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership,” with Chanel and Dior stores being the targets of vandalism at times.
Dior Homme Fall 2019 (Dior)
Dior Homme Fall 2019 (Dior)
Dior Homme Fall 2019 (Dior)
Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber Leaves the Site, them Gets a New Editor (Billboard / Ad Week)
According to a memo from Condé Nast president Bob Sauerberg, Pitchfork founder and CEO Ryan Schreiber is stepping down from his position. Schreiber founded the music publication in 1995, and it was sold to Condé in 2015. “I’m at a point in my life where I feel I have more to offer … and the idea of giving myself over to something new really excites me,” Schreiber told Billboard. “I’ve done so much with this platform and it’s been super rewarding and it’s been really amazing, but I feel like this is the time if I want to do something else and this is a particularly great time in terms of technology and how things are evolving.”
In other Condé news, them, the LGBTQ+ vertical formerly helmed by Phillip Picardi, has a new executive editor —Whembley Sewell, a former channel manager at Teen Vogue. Congrats!
The Favourite Leads In BAFTA Nominations (BAFTA) The Favourite has nabbed 12 British Film Award nominations, including Best Film. Among the other highly nominated pictures are A Star Is Born,Bohemian Rhapsody, and Vice. Meanwhile fashion fans will be happy to learn that the Alexander McQueen documentary McQueen, is recognized in two categories. The full list of nominees can be viewed here.
Best Film BlacKkKlansman The Favourite Green Book Roma A Star Is Born
Outstanding British Film Beast Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite McQueen Stan & Ollie You Were Never Really Here
Film Not in the English Language Capernaum Cold War Dogman Roma Shoplifters
Emma Stone, “The Favourite”
Documentary Free Solo McQueen RBG They Shall Not Grow Old Three Identical Strangers
Animated Film Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Director
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Leading Actress
Glenn Close, The Wife
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Viola Davis, Widows
Leading Actor
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Christian Bale, Vice
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Steeve Coogan, Stan & Ollie
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
John David Washington, “BlacKkKlansman”
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Margot Robbie, Mary Queen of Scots
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Supporting Actor
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
EE Rising Star Award
Barry Keoghan
Cynthia Erivo
Jessie Buckley
Lakeith Stanfield
Letitia Wright
Costco Due to Pay Tiffany $25 Million (The Fashion Law)
Back in 2013, Tiffany filed suit against the big box retailer after learning that it had been selling rings marketed as being associated with “Tiffany.” Customers were lead to believe that the rings were associated with the luxury jewelry label. Costco has since been ordered to pay Tiffany $25 million in damages, however it is appealing the decision.
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Giuseppe Zanotti’s Collaboration With Rita Ora Coming Soon (WWD)
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Federal agents posing as potential terrorists and munitions sellers arrested a Georgia man in a plot to blast his way into the West Wing of the White House with an anti-tank rocket, according to court papers and prosecutors.
Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cummings, Georgia, met with undercover agents on Wednesday and traded his car for semi-automatic assault rifles, remote-controlled explosives and grenades, and an anti-tank rocket, according to an FBI affidavit.
He planned to blow out a door of the West Wing to gain entry, using as many weapons as possible to inflict carnage, court papers said. He also told at least one agent that he wanted to fire a rocket at the Statue of Liberty, the FBI said.
Unbeknownst to Taheb, the weapons he received on the back of a tractor-trailer had been rendered inert by the FBI. He was arrested within moments of “obtaining” the weaponry, according to prosecutors.
“It is important to point out that this investigation and arrest were the direct result of a tip from the community, another example of how important it is to contact law enforcement if you see or hear something suspicious,” said Chris Hacker, special agent in charge of the FBI in Atlanta.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Taheb had an attorney who could comment on the allegations, the Associated Press reported.
The tipster alerted authorities that Taheb had recently become radicalized, changed his name and planned to travel abroad, the FBI affidavit said.
The affidavit says Taheb told a confidential FBI source in October that he planned to travel abroad for “hijra,” which the agent wrote refers to traveling to territory controlled by the Islamic State. Because he didn’t have a passport, he couldn’t travel abroad and told the FBI source that he wanted to carry out an attack in the U.S. against the White House and the Statue of Liberty.
Federal authorities say Taheb appears to have acted as a lone wolf in the plan.
“All potential threats have been neutralized and under control from the inception of this case. Again, I want to clarify that there were no threats posed to any targets located in Northern District of Georgia, nor was the upcoming Super Bowl a target of his alleged activity,” said Byung J. “BJay” Pak, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
He met with the undercover agent and the FBI source multiple times last month and was also in frequent contact using an encrypted messaging application, the affidavit says.
During one meeting with the agent and the source, Taheb “advised that if they were to go to another country, they would be one of many, but if they stayed in the United States, they could do more damage,” the affidavit says. Taheb “explained that jihad was an obligation, that he wanted to do as much damage as possible, and that he expected to be a ‘martyr,’ meaning he expected to die during the attack.”
At another meeting, Taheb showed the undercover agent a hand-drawn diagram of the ground floor of the West Wing and detailed a plan for attack, the affidavit says. He asked the undercover agent to obtain the weapons and explosives needed to carry out the attack, and they discussed selling or exchanging their cars to pay for them.
Taheb told the undercover agent they needed a “base” where they could regroup and where he could record a video to motivate people: “He stated he would be the narrator, clips of oppressed Muslims would be shown, and American and Israeli flags would be burned in the background.”
Taheb said they would approach the White House from the back road, causing a distraction for police and proceed to use an anti-tank weapon to blow open a door and then take down as many people and do as much damage as possible, the affidavit says.
Taheb is charged with attempting to damage or destroy a building owned by the United States using fire or an explosive.
Washington, DC (CNN)Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, on Thursday said he and a group of Texas House Democrats, who have fled their state in an effort to block restrictive voting bills, have come to a “total agreement” on what they want, which is “basically to protect voting rights.”
SAN JOSE — In one of the Bay Area’s worst mass shootings, a Valley Transportation Authority employee opened fire early Wednesday morning at a VTA light rail yard building, killing eight people and wounding others before taking his own life, authorities said.
Sheriff Laurie Smith, whose office headquarters are near the rail yard, said deputies entered the building as shots were still being fired.
“We have some very brave officers and deputies,” Smith said
Law enforcement officers retrieve gear from a vehicle near the scene of a mass shooting at the VTA light rail yard in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
The gunman was identified by multiple sources as Samuel Cassidy, a 57-year-old VTA maintenance worker. What motivated the massacre remains unknown.
There was a heavy police presence at Cassidy’s house in San Jose, where a fire erupted before the shooting and was reported shortly after. Bomb squad technicians were at the scene.
California has a “red flag” law that lets family members and law enforcement ask a judge to temporarily confiscate guns from a person acting in a threatening manner. Legislation by Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, expanded the “gun violence restraining order” law in September to allow employers and coworkers to also petition to disarm a threatening person. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said Wednesday he does not believe the law was used in regard to the VTA shooter.
Explosive devices also were reported in the VTA building, and bomb dogs alerted to the devices, Smith said. Bomb squads were there as well.
About 100 VTA workers, mostly men and some family members, were escorted from the Sheriff’s Office to a larger auditorium across the street in the county administration. Inside the auditorium, screams and wailing broke out.
Rochelle Hawkins, a VTA mechanic, said when she heard shots she dropped her phone.
“I was running so fast, I just ran for my life,” she said as she led the meeting. “I would hope everyone would just pray for the VTA family. Just pray for us.”
VTA workers cross West Hedding Street in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
Workers said they were told not to talk to news reporters, but one worker said he was shaken to the core.
“The whole crew is gone, the whole shift is gone,” the worker, who didn’t want to be identified, said. “It’s horrible.”
Another VTA worker who didn’t want to be identified said that a woman had just learned her son was one of the fatalities.
“I just witnessed someone’s mom who just found out her son died,” the VTA worker said. “It was ugly.”
Governor Gavin Newsom said in a Tweet that his office was “in close contact with local law enforcement and monitoring this situation closely.”
Police officers wait near the intersection of West Hedding and San Pedro streets at the scene of a mass shooting in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
The massacre ranks among the region’s worst mass shootings, leaving as many dead as the July 1993 mayhem at a 101 California Street law firm in San Francisco by a disgruntled client who also took his own life, a horror that inspired a since-expired federal ban on military style firearms.
The reported shooting first reported at 6:34 a.m. occurred in the area of the 100 block of W. Younger Avenue and San Pedro Street.
Deputies currently on scene for an active shooter investigation in the area of 100 W. Younger Ave. SJ. Please stay away from the area. More info to follow.
According to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Russell Davis, some of the shooting victims are VTA employees. KTVU reported that it spoke to the mother of an employee who reported that the shooting happened at a union meeting. It was not known immediately if the shooting happened inside or outside, Davis said.
The VTA provides bus, light rail, and paratransit services and is a funding partner in regional rail service including Caltrain, Capital Corridor, and the Altamont Corridor Express. The mass shooting occurred in the VTA maintenance yard, where vehicles are dispatched — not in the organization’s operations center, according to the board chair. The VTA will suspend its light rail service at noon today, but continue bus service.
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – MAY 26: San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, left, speaks with officials following a press conference after a shooting at the VTA light rail yard in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said on Twitter just after 8 a.m. that several people were being treated. Liccardo also said the “shooter is no longer a threat” and that the facility was evacuated. Liccardo
said later that the city is in a “very dark moment,” but that he is “heartened by the response of the
VTA family to come together and help their coworkers.”
A shooting at the VTA facility on Younger St has left several people being treated, but the situation is still being assessed. The shooter is no longer a threat, and the facility has been evacuated. I will update as more information becomes available.
One VTA employee who did not want to be identified said workers were told, “Run outside the building now! There’s an active shooter!” Another said he saw people scattering around the maintenance yard as shots rang out.
Rochelle Hawkins said when she heard shots she dropped her phone. “I was running so fast. I just ran for my life,” said Rochelle, wearing her mechanic’s uniform as she led the meeting.”I would hope everyone would just pray for the VTA family. Just pray for us.”
SAN JOSE – MAY 26: Michael Hawkins Sr., left, and son Michael Jr., right, reconnect with their wife and mother Rochelle, center, a mechanic with VTA, near the scene of a shooting in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, May, 26, 2021. (Randy Vazquez/ Bay Area News Group)
Two male shooting victims were transferred to Valley Medical Center in San Jose, one person was dead on arrival and another is in critical condition, Valley Medical spokeswoman Joy Alexiou said. There were no further details on their condition.
“We’d be the closest to get the most seriously injured patients,” Alexiou said. “People with lesser injuries can be transferred to other hospitals.”
Michael Hawkins, 19, stood behind the yellow police tape, hoping to see his mom, Rochelle Hawkins. She had called her son earlier Wednesday from a coworker’s phone to say she was alright.
“She got down with the rest of her coworkers,” when the shooting began and dropped her phone, he said. She didn’t see the shooter, he said, and was uncertain how close she may have been to the tragedy. “She was terrified.”
The shooting happened during the busiest time of day at the maintenance facility, when operators and maintenance workers are getting ready for the start of the day’s service, according to Raj Singh, the recording and financial secretary for Amalgamated Transit Union local 265, which represents VTA operators.
SAN JOSE – MAY 26: A law enforcement officer walks across West Younger Avenue near the scene of a shooting in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, May, 26, 2021. (Randy Vazquez/ Bay Area News Group)
Singh said the shooting had not happened at an official ATU union meeting, as those meetings are held at the union hall in Campbell. He said he’s received calls from members expressing shock and from family members unable to get in touch with their loved ones.
“This is unspeakable,” he said. “You hear about it happening somewhere else and you think never here.”
Light rail service initially continued but VTA later announce the trains would stop running at noon.
We will be shutting down light rail service starting at noon today until further notice. We will have bus bridges in place to provide limited service while we work through this. The light rail yard remains an active investigation scene, limiting our ability to provide service.
Confirming that: – Active Shooter at VTA Light Rail Yard around 6:45a – Multiple casualties, extent of injuries being determined – Suspect deceased – Employees evacuated – VTA service not impacted (trains were in service before incident)
Authorities were asking people to stay away from the area of E. Taylor Street, W. Hedding Street and E. Mission Street. They were holding a staging area for families who may have relatives at 70 Hedding Street in the area at the sheriff’s office headquarters, which are next door to the VTA light rail yard.
No other information was available immediately.
Please check back for updates.
Staff writers Nico Savidge, Maggie Angst, Aldo Toledo and Kate Selig contributed to this story.
Don your jackets and mittens. You’re going to need them.
The next five to seven days won’t just be cold — they’ll be record-breaking cold.
That’s according to data from the National Weather Service, which predicts over 300 record cold temperatures could be tied or set from Monday to Wednesday.
It’s all part of the Arctic blast that’s hitting the East Coast, bringing the coldest air of the season to the eastern two-thirds of the country. On Monday, temperatures are expected to plummet in the Great Plains before moving farther east on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Lows Monday night into Tuesday morning will be more like January temperatures across the Central US. Readings below zero are forecast for parts of Minnesota and temperatures down into the teens are forecast for as far south as Texas.
On Wednesday, almost 100 record lows could be set from the Deep South to the Northeast.
Some places in the East could experience temperatures on Wednesday afternoon that are up to 30 degrees below average, said CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward.
Freeze watches and warnings extend as far south as Florida.
Snow will fall from the Rockies to New England
More than 70 million people could see accumulating snow from Colorado to Maine, says CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen. Winter warnings or advisories stretch from the Midwest to New England.
Snow fell during Monday morning commutes in Detroit, Kansas City, Chicago and Milwaukee.
The heaviest snow will fall from New England, back toward the Great Lakes, where more than a foot of snow is likely in some locations.
Enhanced lake-effect snow is forecast to produce even higher snow totals in the areas where the snow bands set up. That happens when very cold, windy conditions form over a not-so-cold lake, with the water providing a water source that leads to snow.
“Within DHS, there have been a lot of policy suggestions, small and large, that have been worked up but have been blocked by the people who are the heads of the agencies,” said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for lower levels of legal and illegal immigration.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo last year requiring that all immigrants entering the country illegally would be prosecuted. But a 1997 settlement in a federal court case required the U.S. to release children immigrants after 20 days. To honor both commitments, the Trump administration separated children and adults.
Trump backed down under immense pressure, signing an order in June to end family separations. Immigration advocates pointed to reports Monday that Trump and adviser Stephen Miller want to re-start the process with Nielsen gone.
“Trump and Stephen Miller’s desire to go in a ‘tougher direction’ means we are heading for an even more dangerous and draconian era,” said Kerri Talbot, director of federal advocacy for the advocacy group Immigration Hub.
“More families will be separated while Trump and Miller disregard the law and create chaos in our immigration system,” she said.
Trump repeatedly threatened to close the border last month before he retreated in recent days, arguing that Mexico had taken a more aggressive stance on apprehending Central American migrants in response to his words.
Closing all ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a logistical and economic nightmare, experts say. Roughly $1.5 billion in trade takes place across the border every day. But past presidents – including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan – took steps to slow traffic through checkpoints to send a political message to Mexico.
Reagan closed nine border crossings and increased inspections at the rest in 1985, a response to the abduction and murder of Drug Enforcement Agency agent Enrique Camarena. Nixon approved Operation Intercept during his first year in office, increasing inspections at U.S.-Mexico border crossings to stem the flow of drugs.
Trump threatened last week to impose a 25% tariff on all cars made in Mexico and shipped into the U.S. if the Mexican government stopped apprehending immigrants who cross the border illegally. If that doesn’t work, he said, then he would close the border.
The U.S., however, already has agreed not to impose tariffs on cars built in Mexico.
….This will supersede USMCA. Likewise I am looking at an economic penalty for the 500 Billion Dollars in illegal DRUGS that are shipped and smuggled through Mexico and across our Southern Border. Over 100,00 Americans die each year, sooo many families destroyed!
A new trade agreement the Trump administration negotiated last year with Mexico and Canada includes a side letter that specifically exempts a certain number of passenger vehicles from any new tariffs the U.S. might impose on autos under the guise of national security.
For Mexico, the agreement means that 2.6 million passenger cars would be exempted from any new tariffs.
Trump, however, said on Twitter that his latest threat to impose tariffs would “supersede” the new trade pact.
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FEMA director Brock Long, left, talks with from left, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Margo Anderson, Mayor of Lynn Haven, right, as they tour a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Michael, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Lynn Haven, Fla. Evan Vucci, AP
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, center, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, left, and Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Brock Long, right, speaks at a briefing on this year’s hurricane season at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, June 6, 2018, in Washington. Andrew Harnik, AP
White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly (R),his wife, Karen Hernest (C), and Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, (2-L) walk to the gravesite of Kelly’s son in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, USA, on 28 May 2018. Section 60 is the burial ground in the cemetery where military personnel killed in the Global War on Terror since 2001 are interred. PETE MAROVICH, EPA-EFE
Trump has sought to limit the number of people seeking asylum, claiming the system is a “scam” and that migrants only use the claims to get a foot in the door before disappearing rather than going through the process of confirming their eligibility.
Under Nielsen, the Trump administration sought to address that problem by requiring asylum claimants to remain in Mexico rather than entering the U.S. A federal judge Monday blocked that policy, ruling that DHS overstepped its legal authority.
Beck, with NumbersUSA, said the administration may now be considering changes to executive decisions made by past administrations.
Among those, for instance, would be deputizing Customs and Border Patrol agents to take a more substantial role in deciding whether asylum claimants have a credible case to remain in the country. Supporters said that move could speed up reviews so migrants who don’t meet asylum requirements are returned to their native country more quickly.
“There are some innovative ideas that have to do with way regulations are put together,” Beck said .”One of the big knocks against the current DHS secretary is that a lot of proposals have gone to her office and just died there.”
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Vice President Mike Pence, center, accompanied by and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, right, speaks during a briefing at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Advanced Training Facility in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., March 13, 2019. Andrew Harnik, AP
About 1,500 cars had managed to flee Mariupol on Wednesday, according to Mr Orlov, the deputy mayor. But, he said, an attack by Russia on the convoy left at least five wounded, including a child.
Rescuers airlift stranded cruise ship passengers off the coast of Norway. USA TODAY
Norwegian authorities on Monday began investigating why a cruise ship was sailing in stormy weather when it developed engine trouble that triggered a perilous helicopter evacuation effort for hundreds of terrified passengers over the weekend.
“We don’t know the reason why the ship sailed, knowing such bad weather was forecast,” Kurt Olsen, acting director for Norway’s Accident Investigations Board, told USA TODAY. “We have a very good weather service in this country, so I would guess the crew knew everything about the forecast. How they responded will definitely be part of the investigation.”
Twenty-eight people were treated for injuries, according to Norwegian media, and nine remained hospitalized Monday, one critically.
The crew issued a mayday call, and a team of helicopters airlifted almost 500 of the more than 900 passengers to safety Saturday night and Sunday morning. The ship, aided by tow vessels, finally limped into the Norwegian port of Molde on Sunday, freeing the remaining 436 passengers and crew of 458.
“The ship drifted to within 100 meters of running aground before they were able to restart one of the engines,” Hans Vik, chief of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center for southern Norway, told the nation’s TV2. “If they had run aground, we would have faced a major disaster.”
Olsen would not speculate why the Viking Sky captain decided to sail despite the weather warning. He said ship operations were one part of the investigation, along with a technical study of why the engines failed and a third review of how the rescue was handled.
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“It’s really early in the investigation, so we just don’t know much yet,” Olsen said.
Yngve Skovly, a police inspector in the Molde region, told the Verdens Gang tabloid there was no suspicion of criminal behavior and the ship was too new to suspect maintenance problems. He said crucial information could be obtained from the ship’s computer logs.
Torstein Hagen, chairman of ship owner Viking Ocean Cruises, said his company would conduct its own investigation and support government agencies reviewing the mishap. Police expected all passengers to be flown out on Norway by Monday night.
“The last few days have been both dramatic and hectic for guests and crew on board Viking Sky,” Hagen said in the statement. “I would like to apologize for all our guests have been through.”
The cruise had been scheduled to wrap up Tuesday in the British port of Tilbury on the River Thames. The passengers were mostly English-speaking, and many Americans were aboard.
Rodney Horgana said a huge wave crashed through the ship’s glass doors and swept his wife 30 feet across the floor.
“When the windows and door flew open and the 2 meters (6 feet) of water swept people and tables 20 to 30 feet, that was the breaker,” Horgan told the Associated Press. “I said to myself, ‘This is it.’ ”
Another American, Beth Clark, told Norwegian news outlet Dagbladet how she was plucked off the ship.
“The guy came down from the helicopter … snapped my belt and said, ‘Hold it,’ and shot me up about 100 feet in the air,” she said. Someone “grabbed me and pulled me in like a sack of potatoes and dragged me to the back of the helicopter.”
American Jan Terbruegn told Dagbladet there was little time for panic.
“We could see that we were getting blown in toward some rocks,” he said. “That was the most frightening thing, I think. But luckily, that wasn’t our destiny.”
Una foto de la cara de Marcelo Tinelli llena de tatuajes es la tapa de la revista, que tituló la nota con “El Tinelli que nadie cuenta”.
Noticias habla de la relación laboral que el conductor tiene con López, empresario kirchnerista, dueño del mayor porcentaje accionario de Ideas del Sur, la productora fundada por Tinelli y en la que antes fue socio el Grupo Clarín.
“Cerca suyo confirman que Tinelli está incómodo con ciertas maniobras de su nuevo jefe-socio. De vacaciones, evitó opinar sobre la polémica salida de Antonio Laje y Oscar González Oro, por no encajar con la sintonía política que busca Indalo para el 2014. “¿Qué va a hacer? ¿Me va a echar a mí?”, desestimó ante sus colaboradores cuando surgió el tema en una reunión de trabajo. Tinelli confía en su propio peso para tomarse licencias. Si Clarín le permitió gestos como la presencia en el funeral de Néstor Kirchner, ¿por qué sería menos indulgente Cristóbal? Pero la tensión existe y el conductor no se resigna y padece no poder hacer lo-que-se-le-cante. Al punto que nadie termina de saber qué piensa en realidad”, dice la revista.
Además, la revista habla de cómo se prepara Tinelli en Punta del Este para su vuelta, el significado de su obsesión por dibujarse el cuerpo y el “mimetismo” con sus hijos adolescentes y la paternidad a los 54 años.
Scott Morrison, Australia’s conservative prime minister, pulled off a shock defeat in Australia’s national election Saturday, defying scores of polls that predicted a victory
“I have always believed in miracles,” Mr. Morrison said at his victory party. “Tonight is about every single Australian who depends on their government to put them first. And that is exactly what we are going to do.”
The final result of the election may not be known until late Saturday, Morrison’s coalition won more than 70% of the 74 seats of the 76 needed for a majority, with Labor on just 66 seats.
A significant block of voter support for Morrison came from outer suburban seats with demographics that closely resemble America’s Rust Belt, according to Reuters. Taking office in August, Morrison became the became Australia’s fifth prime minister in five years, and the latest figure at the front of the country’s tense politics.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison with wife Jenny, children Abbey and Lily after winning the 2019 Federal Election, at the Federal Liberal Reception at the Sofitel-Wentworth hotel in Sydney, Australia, May 18, 2019.AAP Image/Dean Lewins/via REUTERS
Both parties have called for stability amid turbulent national politics
The country’s conservative party has been at the center of swelling tensions in national politics with its hawkish stances on immigration and atmosphere of sexism that has alienated women, who have fled in droves from the party.
Despite the recent controversies, Morrison’s victory secures a continuing foothold for conservative politicians on the national stage.
Morrison pushed the party’s economic and immigration policies while seeking re-election, while his opponent, the Labor Party’s Bill Shorten, presented a vision that included addressing climate change and developing federal interventions into the economy.
These proposals were painted by Morrison as costly and threatening to the country’s economic success, comments that came just over a year after he brought a lump of coal to Parliament to voice his support for industry and rail against what he called “coal-o-phobia.”
Though the country saw carbon emissions fall while the economy grew under a carbon tax passed in 2011, Liberals repealed the tax in 2014 and haven’t offered a comprehensive legislative solution for the environment since.
Shorten also voiced suspicions of Trump and the US that were pushed aside by Morrison’s lively and often combative campaign that drew marked similarities to Trump’s campaign for the 2016 US presidential election.
Morrison’s victory speech had a similarly strong call for support for working-class Australians “who have worked hard every day, they have their dreams, they have their aspirations, to get a job, to get an apprenticeship, to start a business, to meet someone amazing.”
Emphasizing industry, Morrison championed his mission to support Australians’ potential “To start a family, to buy a home, to work hard and provide the best you can for your kids. To save for your retirement.”
He continued, calling his supporters “the quiet Australians.”
Some have pointed to Saturday’s surprise results as another part of the populist wave sweeping international politics.
“I think people have become afraid after a very negative campaign,” Labor supporter Julie Nelson told Reuters at the party’s Melbourne election night function. “They [the Liberals] managed to convince people they should be afraid of change.”
Susan Harris-Rimmer, a law professor at Griffith University in Queensland, told the New York Times that politics had reached a new, “absurd” normal.
“It just seems like it’s been a long time since politics was normal anywhere,” Harris-Rimmer said.
Morrison’s unexpected victory doesn’t exactly spell a certain future for conservative control of the country, as it’s still unclear if politicians close to Morrison can pass policy with an outright majority or will need to court independents for support.
El hombre armado que permanecía atrincherado en un bar de Zaragoza desde las 23.00 horas de ayer se ha suicidado minutos antes de las siete de la tarde, han confirmado fuentes de la Policía Nacional. El hombre, llamado Luis Pedro R.G. y de 62 años, llevaba atrincherado pero sin rehenes dentro del bar Maxi 2 de la calle La Salina de Zaragoza desde ayer por la noche, y durante todo el día un equipo de negociadores de la policía ha intentado convencerle para que depusiera su actitud, finalmente sin éxito.
Una portavoz de la Policía Nacional ha explicado a los medios de comunicación en el lugar de los hechos que los agentes, después de un encierro que se prolongaba durante diecinueve horas, han decidido entrar en el bar porque se habían agotado ya “todas las posibilidades de negociación”, la situación estaba “estancada” y no se percibían “avances”.
Cuando los policías han accedido al interior del local, han disparado dos cargas aturdidoras y varias ráfagas de cargas de gas con el objetivo de aturdir al hombre y conseguir que desistiera. En ningún momento, han agregado las fuentes, la policía ha disparado armas de fuego. Una vez en el interior del bar, los policías han notado al hombre “sereno, cansado y agotado” y han intentando durante veinte minutos evitar el fatal desenlace.
Pero después, el atrincherado se ha metido en una pequeña estancia del local y ha sido en ese momento cuando se ha escuchado el disparo con el que Luis Pedro R.G. ha acabado con su vida, supuestamente con el arma de fuego de pequeñas dimensiones que portaba. “No se ha podido hacer nada” por evitarlo, ha asegurado la portavoz policial, quien también ha recalcado que el equipo negociador ha tenido “mucha paciencia” y ha desarrollado un “intenso trabajo” y en ningún momento “ha perdido la esperanza” de que el hombre accediera a abandonar su encierro.
En el transcurso de la negociación, Luis Pedro R.G solicitó algunas cosas “banales”, como cigarrillos, y también hablar directamente con sus familiares, que conversaron con él desde la puerta del bar protegidos con chalecos antibalas.
De hecho, su hermana, sus hijos y su expareja han acudido hasta el lugar para colaborar con el equipo negociador e intentar convencerle para que saliera. Respecto a los motivos que han podido llevar a este hombre a protagonizar los hechos, la portavoz de Policía Nacional remite a la investigación que se ha abierto, pero ha recordado que durante la negociación Luis Pedro R.G no ha formulado ninguna petición concreta.
El equipo negociador ya ha comunicado a los familiares de Pedro R.G su fallecimiento. Hasta el lugar de los hechos se ha desplazado ya el forense y la comisión judicial. Desde la noche de ayer, han participado en este operativo los Grupos de Homicidios y de Atracos de la Jefatura Superior de Policía de Aragón, la Patrulla de Seguridad Ciudadana, el Grupo de Operaciones Especiales y dos negociadores de la Comisaría General de la Policía Judicial de Madrid, además de la Policía Local y servicios sanitarios.
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