Rittenhouse, who a Wisconsin jury found not guilty on all five charges, will be joining Fox News’ Tucker Carlson for an exclusive sitdown airing Monday at 8 p.m. ET.
Rittenhouse will also be appearing in a “Tucker Carlson Originals” documentary on Fox Nation set to premiere in December.
The documentary will include additional portions of the interview as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Rittenhouse and his defense team.
Kyle Rittenhouse puts his hand over his face after he is found not guilty on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The jury came back with its verdict after more than three days of deliberation. (Associated Press)
Rittenhouse, an Illinois resident, was accused of murdering two people and injuring another amid riots that took place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake.
Chris Wallace discusses the similarities between President Trump and Bernie Sanders’
“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace said on Tuesday that President Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders are the only two candidates who have a base with a “genuine grassroots enthusiasm” from ardent supporters that will “walk through fire for them.”
Wallace stressed that Super Tuesday is “so important” because Bloomberg will actually face voters in the national race for the first time.
“We’re going to see whether or not those half-billion dollars in ads actually get support when people go to the polls,” Wallace said.
Wallace’s comments came after Trump claimed Monday that the race is being “ rigged against Bernie.” Trump added that Sanders could still “pull through” and win the nomination.
Democrats began coalescing around Biden after he won handily in the crucial South Carolina primary on Saturday, while CNN and MSNBC appear to be renewing their hostile coverage of Sanders, I-Vt., who the Democratic establishment reportedly fears will run away with the nomination.
There has been a bitter feud between MSNBC and the Sanders campaign in recent weeks as the self-described socialist began emerging as the clear 2020 front-runner.
“Meet The Press” anchor Chuck Todd suggested that Sanders supporters were part of a “digital brownshirt brigade,” which was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League.
“Hardball” host Chris Matthews, who suddenly retired from the network Monday night, similarly invoked the Holocaust by comparing Sanders’ victory in Nevada to the Nazi takeover of France. He later apologized for those remarks.
Both MSNBC and CNN gave continuous coverage of Biden’s Texas rally on Monday evening, featuring his former competitors Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke, all of whom have given their endorsements to the ex-vice president.
Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
VICTIMS of the deadly condo collapse in Florida will receive at least $150million in compensation after a judge ruled a class action suit in their favor – and revealed all the rubble has been cleared from the site.
Those affected by the Champlain Towers building collapse in June will be paid millions of dollars first from insurance and then from the sale of the building’s property.
The cleared site of the condo collapse. Over $150 million will be paid out to families who were affected during the Surfside building collapseCredit: Twitter/Senator Jason Pizzo
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman ruled that any survivors, visitors and families of those who died in the Surfside building will be eligible for the funds.
Hanzman ruled that the owners of the original 12-story building will owe the families of at least 97 people who were killed in the collapse – and over 100 families whose apartments were left in the rubble.
The sum does not include funds that would be paid due to a growing number of lawsuits that have been filed since the June 24 collapse, where the building has stood for just 40 years.
All the suits are being filed into a single class-action lawsuit, Hanzman said.
“The court’s concern has always been the victims here,” he said. “Their rights will be protected.”
Attorney Michael Goldberg will act as a receiver to handle the building’s cash during a multi-agency investigation into the property.
RUBBLE CLEARED
Goldberg said the property is clear of debris and any rubble that is considered evidence will be sent to a warehouse in Miami.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is leading the federal review of the case.
Attorneys and engineers are waiting until the institute grants them the okay to carry on with their own investigation as they await to go through 22 million tons of rubble.
“It may take years for their report to become public,” Goldberg said.
Since the collapse and subsequent rescue effort, only 95 of the 97 bodies have been identified.
The property, which is worth about $100 million, is being contested by residents and authorities alike.
Some would like the building to be rebuilt so they can move back onto the property.
Others want it to become a park and memorial for those who lost their lives.
“I personally would never set foot in a building. That’s a gravesite,” owner Raysa Rodriguez said during the hearing.
“I wake up in the middle of the night thinking of everyone who perished.”
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman ruled that the pending lawsuits will be filed into a single class action caseCredit: AP
Only 95 of the 97 bodies have been identifiedCredit: AP
Some would like the property turned into a memorial for those who lost their livesCredit: AFP
J.J. Watt is giving back to his hometown community following a tragedy on Sunday.
The Arizona Cardinals defensive end will cover the funeral costs for the six people who died when a man drove a car into the crowd at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis. Watt was born in Waukesha and also played college football at the University of Wisconsin.
J.J. Watt is covering the funeral costs for everyone that lost their life in the Waukesha Christmas Parade. That is an amazing gesture. He has such a huge heart.
Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, was behind the wheel of the SUV that sped through a parade route in Waukesha on Sunday. He was charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide on Tuesday, according to the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office, and prosecutors will consider a sixth charge after a young boy died later at an area hospital.
Along with six deaths, 62 people were injured.
Watt has given back to his communities before. The former Houston Texans star raised $41.6 million for Hurricane Harvey relief back in 2018, making it the largest crowd-sourced fundraiser in history.
Derek Watt, J.J.’s brother, also helped set up a community fund through the United Way and Waukesha County Community Foundation.
For anyone looking to assist the victims, check out the United for Waukesha Community Fund page here and additional resources compiled by WISN here.
President Donald Trump says his administration is ensuring the country knows “this is an actual emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border. (April 5) AP
As the Trump administration works to address what it describes as a growing “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said in a court filing that it may take two years for the government to identify thousands of migrant children who were separated from their families.
The filing Friday outlined the government’s plan to use data analysis and manual reviews to sift through the cases of about 47,000 children who were apprehended by U.S. immigration officials from July 1, 2017, to June 25, 2018, to identify which children might have been taken from family members. It estimated the process “would take at least 12 months, and possibly up to 24 months.”
Last month, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw expanded the number of migrant families that the government may be forced to reunite under his previous order after an inspector general report revealed that the administration had an undisclosed family separation pilot program in place starting in July of 2017. The ruling was made as part of a lawsuit led by the American Civil Liberties Union.
“The administration refuses to treat the family separation crisis it created with urgency, ” the ACLU said in a statement Saturday. “We strongly oppose any plan that gives the government up to two years to find kids. The government swiftly gathered resources to tear families apart. It must do the same to fix the damage.”
The administration refuses to treat the family separation crisis it created with urgency. We strongly oppose any plan that gives the government up to two years to find kids.
The government swiftly gathered resources to tear families apart. It must do the same to fix the damage. https://t.co/ZkOoG9kLmX
In recent months, the number of families crossing into the U.S. has climbed to record highs, putting severe strains on an already overburdened immigration system. In the past, most of those seeking to illegally cross the border were single, mostly male, Mexican nationals coming in search of work.
More than half are now parents and children fleeing impoverished Central American countries where violent crime is rampant.
“The numbers are overwhelming right now,” Gregory Archambault, the director of enforcement and removal operations in San Diego for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told The Associated Press. “Everybody is stressed because there are these mass numbers of people.”
“More and more people now accepting the fact that it’s a real crisis,” acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday during an interview with Fox News.
Mulvaney said the issues of migrant families and unaccompanied migrant children required congressional action because “there’s legally nothing that the (Department of Homeland Security) can do with the children.”
Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., said Democrats want to work with the president on a solution.
“Separating children from their families at the border is not humane. It’s not what the United States should be doing, and we continue to see this administration engage in those policies,” Luján said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Friday’s court filing came the same day President Donald Trump declared that there is “indeed an emergency on our southern border,” during a tour of the border in Calexico, California. He cited an upturn in the number of migrants arriving at the border in recent months.
“It’s a colossal surge and it’s overwhelming our immigration system, and we can’t let that happen,” Trump said.
“We can’t take you anymore. We can’t take you. Our country is full,” he warned those who might attempt to come to the U.S.
Like Trump, Mulvaney applauded Mexico for its apprehension of migrants in recent days, which he claimed was sparked by Trump’s threats to close the border or impose tariffs on Mexico’s auto exports if the country did not do more to stem the flow of northbound migrants.
But despite the White House’s claims that Mexico was apprehending migrants for the “first time in decades,” Mexico has taken hundreds of thousands of migrants into custody in the past four years from the “Northern Triangle” countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Mexico said its numbers in recent months were “about average.”
“There is no very substantive change,” Mexico’s foreign secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said this week. “There has not been a drastic change.”
Luján said Trump “continues to use immigration as a distraction.” He questioned whether the Department of Homeland Security was “accurately describing” its apprehension statistics because he said many families were voluntarily turning themselves in to seek asylum status.
“This is not the national security crisis that the president continues to describe,” Luján said. “There is a humanitarian crisis but it’s created by President Donald Trump.”
Some immigration experts agree with Luján’s assessment. They say Trump’s policies have caused so much chaos along the border that they may be encouraging illegal crossings.
For example, the family separation controversy helped to highlight the fact that families won’t be detained for long in the U.S. if they’re detained at all.
And metering, in which people are asked to return to a busy port of entry on another day to seek asylum, may have encouraged asylum-seekers to cross illegally, said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
“This policy chaos, coupled with a sense that the U.S. government may at some point really shut down the border, has generated an urgency to migrate now while it is still possible,” Selee said.
El Instituto Uruguayo de Meteorología (Inumet) publicó un informe especial por el mal tiempo que anuncia para hoy y hasta el miércoles vientos muy fuertes, bajas temperaturas, caída de árboles y cables del tendido eléctrico.
A partir del informe emitido por el Inumet, se activó el protocolo del Sistema Nacional de Emergencias. En caso de que la tormenta se configure como un “ciclón frontal”, según lo que se anticipa, también podrían verse afectadas las clases en las distintas ramas de la enseñanza.
La alerta es por una depresión atmosférica (“ciclón frontal”), que se desplazará sobre Uruguay desde el noroeste en dirección al sureste “a partir de hoy y durante la jornada del martes 26; profundizándose sobre el mar territorial uruguayo hasta el miércoles 27, inclusive”, indicó el Inumet.
En tanto, la agencia brasileña de pronósticos Metsul emitió ayer una advertencia sobre las condiciones meteorológicas adversas en Rio Grande do Sul y Uruguay entre este lunes y el miércoles.
Para hoy Meteorología emitió una alerta amarilla por tormentas intensas y lluvias abundantes para todo el país. Se debe a una “depresión atmosférica frontal que comienza a ingresar al país, en su desplazamiento de Noroeste hacia el Sureste generará tormentas, algunas intensas”.
Además se podrán producir precipitaciones abundantes (50-100 mm), intensa actividad eléctrica, ocasionales granizadas y rachas de viento entre 60-75 km/h asociadas a tormentas.
Comenzará a regir a partir de las 12 del mediodía en la zona 1 (Durazno, Florida, Flores, Colonia, Soriano, Lavalleja, Río Negro, Paysandú, San José, Montevideo, Canelones, Maldonado y Rocha) y a las 15 horas en la zona 2 (Artigas, Salto, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Cerro Largo y Treinta y Tres).
Vientos fuertes.
Según el Inumet, vendrán distintos fenómenos adversos. El más notorio serán los vientos huracanados.
Meteorología informa además que partir de las 15 horas de hoy y hasta las 6 de la mañana del martes “se prevén rachas de viento fuertes entre 60-75 km/h del E y NE entre 60-75 km/h para San José, Montevideo, Canelones, Maldonado y Rocha”.
El organismo añade que continuará monitoreando la situación e informará ante eventuales cambios. Realizará una nueva actualización a las 6 de la mañana del martes.
La posibilidad de que se formara un ciclón extratropical en el sur de Uruguay, fue adelantada el viernes por el profesor Luis Zunino, ex jefe de predictores de Meteorología, y confirmada por algunos portales y pronósticos privados.
En el informe anterior Meteorología advertía sobre ráfagas de 100 a 120 kilómetros en la costa, “potencialmente superiores en algunos puntos” y “con alto riesgo de caídas de árboles y daños en las estructuras en los departamentos de la costa”. En este sentido, Metsul indica que Maldonado y Rocha “pueden ser los lugares más afectados”.
Frío y olas.
También se prevé un leve y gradual descenso en las temperaturas. Con los fuertes vientos, esta situación provocará bajas sensaciones térmicas en el Sur y Este, principalmente.
En las costas se advierte que las olas comenzarán a incrementarse durante la jornada de mañana, alcanzado su mayor altura durante el miércoles. Sobre el Río de la Plata interior serían menores a 4 metros, en la zona exterior alcanzarían los 5 metros, y sobre el mar territorial superarían los 6 metros.
Todos coinciden.
Tanto el pronóstico oficial como el de los institutos privados coinciden en la alerta. El meteorólogo Diego Vázquez Melo también advirtió sobre el fenómeno.
Según un informe de Subrayado, es “altamente probable que se forme una profunda depresión atmosférica frontal sobre el Uruguay; luego se desplazaría hacia el sureste, internándose en el Atlántico sur”.
Los fenómenos meteorológicos más intensos y adversos previstos asociados incluyen para la tarde y noche de hoy tormentas fuertes dispersas y lluvias moderadas/abundantes, principalmente en el suroeste y sur del país. Del mismo modo, se advierte por rachas de viento de temporal (62 a 74 km/h) y, ocasionalmente, de temporal fuerte (75 a 88 km/h).
“En la tarde-noche del martes y la madrugada del miércoles próximos habrá vientos persistentes del Suroeste, con intensidades de temporal (62 a 74 km/h) y de temporal fuerte (75 a 88 km/h), principalmente en el sur y sureste del Uruguay”, señala el meteorólogo.
The Florida man who mailed homemade bombs to leading Democrats and other critics of President Trump broke down in court on Thursday while pleading guilty to charges that may send him to prison for life.
“MAGA bomber” Cesar Sayoc, 57, claimed he never intended for the devices — which he packed with explosive powder from fireworks, fertilizer, pool chemicals and broken glass — to actually blow up and hurt anyone.
None of the crude pipe bombs detonated, but Sayoc admitted in Manhattan federal court that “I was aware of the risk” they would.
“In October 2018, I made devices that were designed to look like bombs and sent them in the US Mail,” he said softly, while reading from a prepared statement.
“I sent 16 devices to people around the country.”
Sayoc also listed his targets as financier George Soros, Hillary Clinton, former CIA Director Jonn Brennan, actor Robert DeNiro, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, ex-President Barack Obama, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), former Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California), hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer and CNN.
“I also put pictures of the recipients with a red Xs over their faces inside the package,” the muscle-bound former stripper added.
Near the end of his statement, Sayoc’s voice choked up with emotion as his body shook and he scrunched up his face, apparently holding back tears.
“I am extremely sorry,” he said in a voice barely above a whisper.
He then pleaded guilty to 65 counts of use of a weapon of mass destruction, interstate transportation of an explosive device, conveying a threat through interstate commerce, illegal mailing of an explosive device and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony.
Sayoc’s plea agreement says both the prosecution and defense agree that sentencing guidelines call for life in prison, plus 120 years, and a fine of up to $500,000.
But the deal lets either side argue for more or less time in the slammer at Sayoc’s scheduled Sept. 12 sentencing.
Sayoc was busted Oct. 26 outside an AutoZone store in Plantation, Fla., following the FBI’s discovery of his fingerprint on the package he sent to Waters.
The arrest came just four days after the first of his bombs was discovered at Soros’ Westchester County estate, and law-enforcement sources have told The Post that Sayoc had a target list with hundreds of more names on it.
At the time, Sayoc was living in a white van with its windows covered with pro-Trump images and messages, and others attacking the president’s critics — including ones that showed red crosshairs over Obama and Clinton.
The dashboard was also covered with baseball caps featuring American flag motifs and Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” slogan.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
Al menos 13 personas murieron en México y 3 en Texas como consecuencia de un tornado.
El fenómeno azotó principalmente la localidad fronteriza mexicana de Ciudad Acuña.
El secretario de Gobierno de Coahuila, Víctor Zamora, precisó que entre los muertos hay tres menores. Además, 88 lesionados permanecen en hospitales.
El tornado volteó vehículos y causó daños en numerosas viviendas en esta ciudad del estado de Coahuila, situada justo en la frontera con el estado de Texas (Estados Unidos).
Los medios locales señalaron que la cifra de muertos podría aumentar según se realiza la búsqueda de personas en las casas afectadas.
“Hay vehículos encima de las casas, hay personas muertas en las calles, es un caos total”, indicó Rosario Ramírez, residente de la localidad, en declaraciones al diario mexicano La Jornada.
La fuerza del tornado estremeció a los habitantes de Ciudad Acuña.
El impacto del tornado se produjo temprano en la mañana, hora local.
Más de 100 autos fueron destruidos, algunos de los cuales fueron localizados en los cerros cercanos a Ciudad Acuña.
Rosario Cano, portavoz del departamento de Interior de Coahuila, indicó que el tornado impactó sobre las 06.40, hora local (11.40 GMT).
Las autoridades, según indicó, están evaluando los daños y coordinando las operaciones de respuesta al desastre.
El subsecretario de Protección Civil, Luis Felipe Puente, declaró que es la primera vez en la historia de Ciudad Acuña que sucede un evento de este tipo.
Tragedia inmediata
El gobernador de Coahuila, Rubén Moreira Valdez, visitó la zona afectada por el tornado.
El presidente municipal de Ciudad Acuña, Evaristo Pérez, dijo que la mayoría de las víctimas estaba fuera de sus casas cuando se presentó el tornado.
“Duró seis segundos, pero con eso tuvo para generar una verdadera tragedia”, dijo a la televisora Milenio.
“Tenemos cientos de casas prácticamente inservibles, muchos lesionados. Hay gente desaparecida, camiones de transporte industrial que cayeron sobre las casas”, añadió el alcalde.
“Hay vehículos que iban por la avenida y que fueron catapultados hacia muchos metros de distancia. Allí es donde ocurrieron varias de las muertes que tenemos”.
El tornado duró apenas 6 segundos pero aun así causó grandes daños.
Los equipos de rescate trabajan para retirar los escombros y buscar personas desaparecidas.
Hay al menos un niño desaparecido y 750 casas están dañadas, 70 de las cuales fueron arrancadas de su base.
Soldados del Ejército ayudan en la búsqueda de personas atrapadas, además que gobiernos de estados vecinos ofrecieron ayuda para auxiliar a los damnificados.
El tornado azotó en la parte surponiente de la ciudad y afectó a cuatro colonias.
Ciudad Acuña se encuentra en el norte de Coahuila, una región donde es frecuente que se presenten estos fenómenos meteorológicos la mayoría en zonas rurales.
Sin embargo, de acuerdo con las autoridades, el tornado de este lunes de categoría 4 es uno de los que mayor daño ha causado en los últimos años.
El presidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, ordenó que su gabinete apoye a los gobiernos de Coahuila y la alcaldía de Ciudad Acuña.
Estados Unidos
Las inundaciones que afectaron al sur y partes del centro de Estados Unidos durante el fin de semana causaron al menos tres muertos y una docena de desaparecidos.
Las inundaciones causaron numerosos daños en Texas, donde unas 2.000 personas tuvieron que dejar sus hogares para ir a un lugar más seguro.
Dos personas fallecieron en accidentes relacionados con las condiciones climáticas en Oklahoma y un hombre murió en la localidad de San Marcos (Texas).
En Texas, 12 personas han sido dadas por desaparecidas en las inundaciones causadas por una línea de tormentas que se extiende desde el Golfo de México hasta los Grandes Lagos, informó Reuters.
En algunas áreas se registraron hasta 25 centímetros de agua en 24 horas y se pronostican más lluvias en la región.
Miles de personas se vieron obligadas a dejar sus casas debido a las inundaciones.
El gobernadorde Texas, Greg Abbott, declaró el estado de emergencia en 24 condados del estado.
The new deal is the product of five Democrats and five Republicans — Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Mark R. Warner (D-Va.).
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Washington — The Interior Department’s inspector general said in a report released Wednesday that evidence it obtained “did not support a finding” that federal authorities forcibly cleared protesters from Lafayette Park last year so then-President Trump could walk from the White House and pose for a photo outside the historic St. John’s Church.
The watchdog, which examined the incident that occurred June 1, 2020, during protests against racial injustice and police brutality in Washington, D.C., instead found the U.S. Park Police had the authority to clear the park and surrounding areas, and did so to allow a contractor to install anti-scale fencing after several nights of violent clashes. U.S. Park Police also did not know that Mr. Trump would potentially be leaving the White House and crossing Lafayette Park until “mid-to late afternoon” on June 1, hours after the contractor had arrived to begin installation, according to the report.
“The evidence we obtained did not support a finding that the USPP cleared the park to allow the president to survey the damage and walk to St. John’s Church,” the report from the Interior Department’s inspector general states.
The watchdog further found that U.S. Park Police used a “sound amplifying long-range acoustic device” to issue three warnings telling the crowd to disperse, though acknowledged not all could hear the warning, and some police units began moving to clear protesters before the third and final warning was given. Additionally, the report states there were communication issues between U.S. Park Police and law enforcement agencies brought in to assist during the demonstrations, which were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“We found that the USPP and the Secret Service did not use a shared radio channel to communicate, that the USPP primarily conveyed information orally to assisting law enforcement entities, that an assisting law enforcement entity arrived late and may not have received a full briefing on the rules of engagement, and that several law enforcement officers could not clearly hear the incident commander’s dispersal warnings,” the report says. “These weaknesses in communication and coordination may have contributed to confusion during the operation and the use of tactics that appeared inconsistent with the incident commander’s operational plan.”
In a statement, Mr. Trump claimed the inspector general “totally exonerat[ed] me.”
“As we have said all along, and it was backed up in today’s highly detailed and professionally written report, our fine Park Police made the decision to clear the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing to protect from Antifa rioters, radical BLM protestors, and other violent demonstrators who are causing chaos and death to our cities,” he said.
Mr. Trump was condemned for the incident on June 1, 2020, during which law enforcement officers used pepper balls and chemical irritants to disperse the crowd of protesters gathered in Lafayette Park, located outside the White House, just before the city’s 7 p.m. curfew took effect.
Shortly after the area was cleared, Mr. Trump, flanked by some members of his Cabinet and White House staff, walked across the park to St. John’s Church, a part of which had been set on fire the prior night.
The then-president delivered brief remarks outside the church and then held up a Bible as photos of the impromptu visit were taken.
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House on Monday, June 1, 2020.
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Then-Attorney General Bill Barr said the protesters were removed from the park to expand the security perimeter around the White House, a move that was planned before Mr. Trump decided to walk through the area.
Video footage and news reports from June 1 raised questions about the events leading up to Mr. Trump’s walk from the White House, as Barr was spotted speaking with the U.S. Park Police operations commander on the scene.
Asked about the exchange, the operations commander told the watchdog’s team he warned Barr the area was unsafe and asked him to move away from the crowd.
“The USPP operations commander said the attorney general asked him, ‘Are these people still going to be here when POTUS [President of the United States] comes out?'” according to the report. “The USPP operations commander told us he had not known until then that the president would be coming out of the White House and into Lafayette Park. He said he replied to the attorney general, ‘Are you freaking kidding me?’ and then hung his head and walked away. The attorney general then left Lafayette Park. The USPP operations commander denied that the attorney general ordered him to clear Lafayette Park and H Street.”
The incident commander with the Park Police told the inspector general’s office that he, too, was never informed of Mr. Trump’s specific plans or when he planned to leave the White house.
“It was just a, ‘Hey, here he comes.’ And all of a sudden I turn around and there’s the entourage,” the incident commander told investigators, as detailed in the report.
The Park Police’s acting police chief also said he did not know of Mr. Trump’s plans to visit St. John’s Church, though the incident commander told him the president might assess the damage at an unspecified time, according to the report.
Narrow in scope, the investigation from the Interior Department’s inspector general focused on the U.S. Park Police actions and did not examine individual uses of force by officers, which are at the center of ongoing lawsuits or separate investigations. The watchdog said its authority to obtain documents or statements from entities outside the Interior Department was limited, though the office received radio transmissions and other information from the Metropolitan Police Department and Arlington County Police Department, as well as videos from Secret Service observation cameras in the Lafayette Park area and documents from the agency.
The inspector general said the office did not seek to interview Barr, White House personnel, Federal Bureau of Prisons officers, or personnel from the Secret Service or Metropolitan Police Department.
The report recommended the U.S. Park Police develop a detailed policy laying out procedures for operations involving protests that may require the use of force and improve field communication procedures.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland told Inspector General Mark Greenblatt in a letter last month that she is establishing a task force to review and improve its law enforcement programs.
“The challenges our officers face every day are many, and the need to coordinate closely across jurisdictions in a manner that promotes transparency, accountability and public trust is paramount,” she said.
The National Park Service and U.S. Park Police said they have taken steps to address both recommendations from the inspector general.
The world is ringing in 2022 with muted celebrations for another year, as the coronavirus pandemic — now fueled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant — continues to upset daily life across the globe. The new variant, which is now driving record case numbers in the U.S., forced many cities to tone down celebrations or cancel them altogether.
New York City’s Times Square still plans to hold an event, but it will allow only a small fraction of the typical crowd, and all attendees over the age of 5 who do not qualify for an exemption are required to be fully vaccinated and wear face masks. Cities such as Atlanta and San Francisco have canceled typical celebrations.
In New Zealand, one of the first cities to kick off the new year, a light display replaced the traditional fireworks show. Australia proceeded with its seven-minute fireworks display over the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Sydney Opera House, but limited access to downtown Sydney, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci urged Americans not to attend large gatherings on New Year’s Eve.
“What I would suggest people do not do, is to go to very large 50-to-60-person parties where people are blowing whistles and all that sort of thing, and celebrating, and you don’t know the vaccination status of the people in that environment,” Fauci said.
Fireworks light up the sky over Sydney Harbour as the clock strikes midnight on January 01, 2022 in Sydney, Australia.
Instead, he said in an interview, the agents asked for march routes and other plans in order to separate the Proud Boys from counterprotesters. Other times, he said, agents warned that they had picked up potential threats from the left against him or his associates.
But before the Jan. 6 event, no one contacted the leaders of the Proud Boys, Mr. Tarrio said, even though their gatherings at previous Trump rallies in Washington had been marred by serious violence.
“They did not reach out to us,” he said.
‘Disavow, Disavow, Disavow’
In summer 2017, neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to announce their resurgence at the “Unite the Right” rally. Its organizer, Jason Kessler, was a member of the Proud Boys.
The group had been founded a year earlier by Gavin McInnes, now 50, the co-creator of the media outlet Vice. (The company has long since severed all ties.) He was a Canadian turned New Yorker with a record of statements attacking feminists and Muslims, and he often expressed a half-ironic appetite for mayhem. “Can you call for violence generally?” he once asked in an online video. “’Cause I am.”
The Proud Boys had been volunteering as body guards for right-wing firebrands like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos and frequently clashed with left-wing crowds, especially at college campuses. Proud Boys “free speech” rallies in bastions of the left like Seattle, Portland or Berkeley, Calif., routinely ended in street fights.
Yet Mr. McInnes shunned the Unite the Right gathering, saying in an online video: “Disavow, disavow, disavow.”By his account, the Proud Boys were not white supremacists but merely “Western chauvinists.” That stance helped the Proud Boys evade scrutiny from federal law enforcement.
Este 19 de marzo se dio el cierre oficial del programa del Proyecto de Mejora del Desempeños de las Pequeñas Empresas, a través de la implementan de prácticas empresariales responsables, que estuvo a cargo de UnirRSE.
Dicho programa tuvo una duración de tres años y que estuvo integrado por tres empresas ancla y 23 pequeñas empresas de distintas áreas.
Parte de los resultados del proyecto es que se las empresas lograron implementar ahorros en sistemas de producción y cuido de las comunidades en las que se encuentran.
El programa fue respaldo por un financiamiento del BID Fomin.
La decisión ocurre después de la reunión de los dos presidentes durante la Cumbre de las Américas en Panamá, en abril.
Estados Unidos anunció el restablecimiento de los viajes en ferry a Cuba, algo que no ocurre desde que se implantó el embargo en 1960.
Se trata del más reciente paso de la normalización de las relaciones bilaterales, anunciada por los presidentes Barack Obama y Raúl Castro el pasado mes de diciembre.
La Oficina de Control de Activos del Departamento del Tesoro de EE.UU. levantó la prohibición y ya al menos cuatro compañías de transporte marítimo han informado que recibieron licencias para realizar el viaje a la isla, que se encuentra 150 kilometros de los cayos en el sur de la Florida.
“La acción de hoy es un gran paso hacia adelante”, le dijo a la agencia de noticias AFP Joseph Hinson, presidente de United Americas Shipping Services, una empresa de envío de mercancía con sede en Miami.
La compañía Havana Ferry Partners, de Fort Lauderdale, Florida, también anunció que tiene licencia para efectuar viajes entre los dos países.
Durante décadas, Cuba ha sido un país de emigrantes.
“Este es un acontecimiento histórico. Gracias al presidente Barack Obama, a quien estamos muy agradecidos por su liderazgo”, escribió en su página de Facebook la empresa.
Lea también: ¿Está Cuba preparada para una “invasión” del turismo de Estados Unidos?
Faltan algunos obstáculos
La iniciativa se da a conocer después de la reunión de los presidentes Raúl Castro y Barack Obama en la Cumbre de las Américas en Panamá, el mes pasado.
La aerolínea Jetblue anunció que abrirá una ruta directa en Nueva York y La Habana.
“Dado que la decisión de restablecer las relaciones diplomáticas con La Habana fue anunciada por Washington en diciembre ha habido un aumento notable en el número de estadounidenses que visitan Cuba. Ahora, tienen un nuevo medio para llegar aquí”, explicó el corresponsal de BBC Mundo en La Habana, Will Grant.
“La medida no significa necesariamente que los barcos comenzarán los viajes a las costas cubanas de inmediato, ya que todavía hay otros obstáculos burocráticos a superar en ambos países”, aclara Grant.
“Pero es un indicio más del deseo de Washington de dejar en el pasado la política de aislamiento a Cuba y comenzar una nueva era de cooperación”.
Las noticias sobre el restablecimiento de los viajes en ferry ocurre después de que la aerolínea de bajo costo estadounidense Jet Blue empezará a volar entre Nueva York y La Habana.
El gobernador del estado de Nueva York, Andy Coumo, encabezó una visita comercial a Cuba en abril.
La nueva ruta a Cuba fue acordada durante una reciente visita de intercambio comercial de empresas de Nueva York en Cuba, liderada por el gobernador del estado, Andrew Cuomo.
A pesar del anuncio de las nuevas rutas aéreas y de ferry entre los dos países, dice el corresponsal, la prohibición de viajar a Cuba sigue vigente para los ciudadanos estadounidenses.
“Sólo a aquellos que tienen la documentación correcta en 12 categorías diferentes se les permite visitar la isla”.
Los viajes marítimos comerciales entre las dos naciones incluyen además el transporte de carga.
Lea también: Gobernador de Nueva York encabeza misión comercial a Cuba
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Emiratos Árabes Unidos dieron a los diplomáticos qataríes 48 horas para abandonar el país.
Seis países árabes cortaron relaciones diplomáticas con Qatar, al que acusan de estar creando inestabilidad en la región.
Arabia Saudita, Egipto, Bahréin, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Yemen y Libia acusan al país de apoyar a grupos terroristas,incluyendo el autodenominado Estado Islámico (EI) y al Qaeda, lo que es negado categóricamente por Qatar.
Pero el rompimiento de relaciones, anunciado este lunes, también pone de manifiesto profundas divisiones entre los aliados de Estados Unidos en el Golfo Pérsico por cuenta de su relación conIrán.
Y su anuncio se produce en medio de las crecientes tensiones en la región luego un supuesto hackeo a la agencia de noticias oficial de Qatar, el mes pasado.
Según la agencia de noticias estatal SPA, Arabia Saudita cerró sus fronteras con Qatar, cortando así todo contacto terrestre, marítimo y aéreo con la península.
El medio citó a funcionarios sauditas respaldando la medida y diciendo que era necesaria para “proteger la seguridad nacional contra los peligros del terrorismo y el extremismo”.
Riad -la capital de Arabia Saudita- también acusa a Doha -la capital de Qatar- de apoyar a grupos como la “Hermandad Musulmana” y colaborar con milicias apoyadas por los iraníes.
Pero Qatar, quien está llamado a celebrar el Mundial de fútbol de 2022, asegura que las medidas son “completamente injustificadas” y no se basan en hechos comprobados.
Arabia Saudita también ha sido acusada de financiar a grupos como EI, ya sea directamente o al no hacer lo suficiente por evitar que donantes privados hagan llegar dinero al grupo, algo que el gobierno de Riad también niega.
Ultimátum
El rompimiento de relaciones fue iniciado por Bahréin y luego Arabia Saudita el lunes temprano.
Luego se les sumaron los gobiernos de Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU), Egipto, Yemen y Libia.
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Unos supuestos comentarios del emir de Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (en la foto junto al presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino), tensionaron todavía más las relaciones con sus vecinos.
La agencia estatal de noticias de Bahréin dijo que el país cortaba lazos con Qatar por “agitar la seguridad y la estabilidad de Bahréin y entrometerse en sus asuntos“.
Emiratos Árabes Unidos, por su parte, le dio a los diplomáticos qataríes 48 horas para abandonar el país.
Las autoridades de Abu Dabi acusan a las de Doha de “apoyar, financiar y alentar el terrorismo, el extremismo y las organizaciones sectarias”, dijo la agencia estatal de noticias de EAU, WAM.
Los países del Golfo (Arabia Saudita, EAU y Bahréin) también les dieron a los ciudadanos qataríes dos semanas para abandonar sus territorios.
Los tres aliados anunciaron además el cierre de su espacio aéreo para Qatar Airways, que ya suspendió sus vuelos a Arabia Saudita.
Las aerolíneas Etihad Airways, Emirates y FlyDubai, por su parte, dijeron que iban a suspender todos sus vuelos hacia y desde Doha a partir del martes temprano.
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Los vecinos de Qatar están cortando todo tipo de contacto aéreo, terrestre y marítimo con el país.
Egipto también cerró su espacio aéreo y puertos para todo el transporte qatarí, señaló en un comunicado el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores egipcio.
La coalición árabe liderada por Arabia Saudita, que lucha contra los rebeldes hutíes en Yemen, también expulsó a Qatar de su alianza debido a las “prácticas que fortalecen el terrorismo” de Doha y su apoyo a grupos como “al Qaeda y Estado Islámico, así como tratar con las milicias rebeldes”, según SPA.
Contexto
Si bien la ruptura de relaciones con Qatar se produjo intempestivamente, las tensiones entre Doha y sus vecinos se han estado acumulando por años.
Ya en 2014, Arabia Saudita, Bahréin y Emiratos Árabes Unidos retiraron durante varios meses a sus embajadores en Doha en protesta por su supuestainterferencia en asuntos internos.
Y las tensiones se agravaron hace dos semanas, luego de que medios estatales qataríes publicaran supuestos comentarios del emir de Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, en los que criticaba a Arabia Saudita.
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Bahréin es uno de varios países que acusan a Qatar de inmiscuirse en sus asuntos internos.
El gobierno de Doha dijo que los comentarios eran falsos y atribuyó su publicación a “un desvergonzado crimen cibernético”.
Pero los vecinos de Qatar procedieron a bloquear el acceso a los sitios noticiosos de ese país, entre ellos Al Jazeera.
Los dos factores clave en la decisión de este lunes, sin embargo, son los supuestos vínculos de Qatar con grupos islamistas y milicias apoyadas por Irán, el gran rival regional de Arabia Saudita.
Si bien Qatar es parte de la coalición internacional contra el grupo autodenominado Estado Islámico liderada por EE.UU., el gobierno de Doha se han visto constantemente obligado a negar acusaciones de que apoya financieramente a EI.
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La independencia de medios qataríes como Al Jazeera incomoda a muchos de sus vecinos.
Se cree, sin embargo, que tanto ricos qataríes como el mismo gobierno han apoyado financieramente a grupos islamistas en Siria.
Y Qatar también ha sido señalado de vínculos con el grupo antes conocido como Frente Nusra, un afiliado de al Qaeda.
El comunicado saudí acusa a Qatar de apoyar a esos grupos, así como a la “Hermanada Musulmana”, además de “promover el mensaje y planes de esos grupos constantemente a través de esos medios”.
¿Fortalecidos por Trump?
Según un experto en temas del Golfo Pérsico entrevistada por la agencia Reuters, el reciente viaje del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump a Arabia Saudita, parece haber convencido a este país y sus aliados de que había llegado el momento de lidiar “con el enfoque alternativo” exhibido por Qatar en estos asuntos.
Durante su visita Trump instó a los países musulmanes a que asumieran el liderazgo en la lucha contra la radicalización y culpó a Irán por la inestabilidad en el Medio Oriente.
“Y parece que sauditas y emiratíes se sienten fortalecidos por el alineamiento entre sus intereses regionales -hacia Irán y el islamismo- y los de la administración Trump”, le dijo a Reuters Kristian Ulrichsen.
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Trump eligió a Arabia Saudita como el destino de su primer viaje oficial como presidente de Estados Unidos.
El secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Rex Tillerson, le pidió sin embargo a los países resolver sus diferencias mediante el diálogo.
“No espero que esto vaya a tener ningún impacto significativo, o de cualquier tipo, sobre nuestra lucha compartida contra el terrorismo en la región o a nivel global”, agregó Tillerson.
Qatar, por su parte, aseguró que la decisión de sus vecinos “no va a afectar la vida normal de sus ciudadanos y resientes”.
Pero la bolsa de valores registró importantes pérdidas el lunes por la mañana.
Y el periódico Doha News reportó que mucha gente había corrido a los supermercados para abastecerse de agua y alimentos.
Población 2,7 millones
Superficie 11.437 Km²
Principal idioma Árabe
Mayor religión Islam
Esperanza de vida 79 años (hombres), 78 años (mujeres)
Moneda Riyal
Todos los días cientos de camiones cruzan la frontera entre Arabia Saudita y Qatar, muchos de ellos cargados con comida.
Se estima que el 40% de la comida de Qatar llega al país por esa vía.
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