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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from Trump-Biden debate clash The Memo: Debate or debacle? Democrats rip Trump for not condemning white supremacists, Proud Boys at debate MORE during Tuesday night’s debate said that he paid “millions” in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 — disputing a New York Times report saying he paid just $750 in each of those years — while Democratic presidential nominee Joe BidenJoe BidenFive takeaways from Trump-Biden debate clash The Memo: Debate or debacle? Democrats rip Trump for not condemning white supremacists, Proud Boys at debate MORE repeatedly pressed the president to release his tax returns.

“I paid millions of dollars in taxes, millions of dollars of income tax,” Trump said.

As the president continued to speak, Biden interrupted, saying “Show us your tax returns.”

“You’ll see it as soon as it’s finished,” Trump replied.

Debate moderator Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceFive takeaways from Trump-Biden debate clash The Memo: Debate or debacle? Democrats rip Trump for not condemning white supremacists, Proud Boys at debate MORE then asked Trump if he’ll tell the public how much he paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. Trump replied “millions of dollars” and said “you’ll get to see it.” Biden asked when that would be.

The Times published an article on Sunday that reported that Trump paid little to no federal income taxes in most years from 2000 through 2017. In each of 2016 and 2017, Trump paid $750, the Times reported.

Trump is the first president in decades who has not made any of his tax returns public. He has previously said he won’t release his returns while under audit, but the IRS has said that audits don’t prevent people from releasing their personal tax information.

Hours before the debate, Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisThe Memo: Debate or debacle? Biden will keep debating Trump, campaign says Joe Scarborough urges Biden: ‘Do not do anymore debates’ MORE (D-Calif.), released their 2019 tax returns. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, reported on their 2019 federal tax return adjusted gross income of about $985,000 and total taxes of nearly $300,000.

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The head of the FDA, Dr Stephen Hahn, said he “can’t predict when a vaccine will be ready”

The head of the US drugs regulator has cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s prediction that a Covid-19 vaccine will be ready this year.

“I can’t predict when a vaccine will be available,” US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr Stephen Hahn, said on Sunday.

Dr Hahn said vaccine development would be “based upon the data and science”.

A vaccine would train people’s immune systems to fight the virus, so they do not become sick.

Dr Hahn, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, was asked about the timeframe after President Trump suggested that a “vaccine solution” to the pandemic would be ready “long before the end of the year”.

“I want to send our thanks to the scientists and researchers around the country, and even around the world, who are at the forefront of our historic effort to rapidly develop and deliver life-saving treatments and ultimately a vaccine,” Mr Trump said during his Independence Day address at the White House.

“We are unleashing our nation’s scientific brilliance and we’ll likely have a therapeutic and/or vaccine solution long before the end of the year.”

The president has been criticised for his comments on vaccines and treatments during the coronavirus epidemic, which has claimed the lives of almost 130,000 people in the US.

In recent days, infections have been rising at a record rate in western and southern states, bringing the total to more than 2.8 million nationwide.

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned in June that scientists may never be able to create an effective vaccine against the coronavirus.

“The estimate is we may have a vaccine within one year,” the WHO chief said. “If accelerated, it could be even less than that, but by a couple of months. That’s what scientists are saying.”

Other experts have suggested a Covid-19 vaccine will not be available until at least mid-2021.

What did Dr Hahn say?

In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, FDA chief Dr Hahn said “we are seeing unprecedented speed for the development of a vaccine”, but did not elaborate on a timeline for its availability.

“Our solemn promise to the American people is that we will make a decision based upon the data and science on a vaccine, with respect to the safety and effectiveness of that vaccine,” he said.

In another interview with CNN, Dr Hahn said he would not comment on Mr Trump’s assertion that 99% of Covid-19 infections were “totally harmless”.

“I’m not going to get into who is right and who is wrong,” he said of Mr Trump’s remark, also made in his Independence Day speech.

The global fatality rate among Covid-19 patients is estimated to be relatively low, differing from country to country. In March the head of the WHO said about 3.4% of reported Covid-19 cases had been fatal globally.

While most patients with Covid-19 have mild or moderated symptoms, around 20% require oxygen, according to the WHO.

What progress has been made on a vaccine?

A vaccine would normally take years, if not decades, to develop, but scientists across the world are doing their best to fast-track efforts.

There are around 120 vaccine programmes currently under way. Oxford University and Imperial College London have both started human trials.

Media captionKathy is among the first of 300 volunteers who are taking part in this phase of Imperial College London’s trial

US health officials have expressed cautious optimism that a vaccine will be in production by the end of 2020 or early 2021.

Earlier this week, the US’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, said the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine against Covid-19 should be known by “early winter”.

Dr Fauci said trials of various vaccines would be entering the latter stages of the testing process this month.

“We may be able to at least know whether we are dealing with a safe and effective vaccine by the early winter, late winter, beginning of 2021,” said Dr Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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São Paulo – This Wednesday (9th), the ambassador Bernardo de Azevedo Brito has stated that Brazilian enterprises must seek out business deals in Iraq. “Brazil cannot leave this market untapped,” said the diplomat during the launch of his book Iraque: dos primórdios à procura de um destino (Iraq: from the early days to the quest for a destiny) at the offices of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, in São Paulo. He served as Brazilian ambassador in the Arab country from 2006 to 2011.

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Brito autographs a copy of his book

According to Brito, the book is mostly geared towards scholars and businessmen who are interested in learning about the Iraqi political and economic scenario. He believes the news on Iraq as shown in Brazil convey a “deformed image.” “And that discourages people from going to Iraq,” he said.

The ambassador noted that the violence notwithstanding, Iraq is a country “that grows at 8% to 9% a year” and does “invests massively.” “It is an extremely important economy with a great outlook in the Middle East,” he said.

He mentioned the importance of the Arab Brazilian Chamber’s work in promoting bilateral trade. “During my term in office, the Arab Brazilian Chamber, thanks to its [CEO] Michel [Alaby], always responded to the embassy’s pleas,” he said. “I hope the organization insists on its pioneering actions, and on breaking into promising new markets in the Middle East,” he added.

Alaby, in turn, described the diplomat as a “conqueror of the Iraqi market” and one of the people who have “helped tailor Brazilian foreign policy for the Levant region and neighbouring countries.” Prior to serving at the embassy in Iraq, Brito was head of the Brazilian representation in Ramallah, West Bank.

Erbil Fair

The Arab Brazilian Chamber CEO seized the occasion to discuss Brazilian participation in the Erbil International Fair, due in in Northern Iraq from September 22nd to 25th. The Chamber organizes the Brazilian stand at the fair alongside the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brazil) and the Brazilian embassy in Baghdad, currently headed by ambassador Anuar Nahes.

“The last two times I was at the fair, local companies were bent on buying directly from Brazil,” he said, adding that Brazilian products arrive at the Iraqi market via intermediaries in the neighbouring countries Turkey and Iran. “Erbil is the gateway into Northern Iraq, and a hub for international companies,” he said. Registrations for the fair are open.

The event at the Arab Brazilian Chamber was mostly attended by delegates from member companies. Many of the attendees showed interest in exhibiting at the fair.

Some of these enterprises have taken part in past editions of the fair and operate on the Iraqi market. A case in point is Fanem, a medical and hospital equipment manufacturing company. The company was experiencing difficulties bidding in tenders in Iraq as a result of a legal caveat that favours manufacturers from United States, Europe, and Japan. With backing from the Brazilian embassy in Baghdad and the Arab Brazilian Chamber, however, the issue is being reviewed, and a change may take place soon.

One pending issue between Brazil and Iraq is an embargo on Brazilian beef. Like Saudi Arabia, Iraq banned imports following eh Brazilian government’s announcement, in December 2012, that an animal in the state of Paraná, which died in 2010, was a bearer of the causative agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, aka mad cow disease, but did not develop the condition. Last year, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) confirmed that Brazil’s “negligible risk” status for the disease has been maintained.

“The embargo on beef remains in place, but we will try to sort it out,” said Alaby. “The leader in this battle is the Abiec,” he added, referring to the Association of Brazilian Beef Exporters, represented at the event by ambassador Brito.

The official launch of the diplomat’s book will be held on Thursday (10th), at 7:00 pm, at Fundação Badesc, in central Florianópolis, the capital of the state of Santa Catarina, where he lives.

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Iraque: dos primórdios à procura de um destino
Bernardo de Azevedo Brito
Publisher: Editora UFSC
376 pages
Price: R$ 58.00 (US$ 26 at current exchange rates)
Where to buy: www.editora.ufsc.br

Launch: Thursday, 04/10, 7:00 pm
Place: Fundação Badesc, Rua Visconde de Ouro Preto, 216, Centro, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
Tel.: (+ 55 48) 3224-8846
Website: http://fundacaoculturalbadesc.com/

Information on the Erbil International Fair
Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce
Tel.: (+55 11) 3283-4066
Email: members@ccab.org.br
Website: www.ccab.org.br

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

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

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

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

 

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

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

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El escritor británico Kazuo Ishiguro despertó este jueves con una llamada que le quitó el sueño: era su agente, para decirle que “creía que había ganado el Premio Nobel de Literatura”.

“¿Tienes alguna evidencia?”, fue su respuesta, incrédula.

Pero no, el agente aún no tenía ninguna confirmación.

La BBC también lo llamó un momento después, pero Ishiguro seguía sin ninguna certeza: ya la Academia Sueca había anunciado el premio, pero aún no había realizado la tradicional llamada para confirmárselo personalmente y preguntarle si lo aceptaba.

“Es un magnífico honor principalmente porque significa que estoy en los pasos de los más grandes autores, y eso es un elogio increíble” aseguró a la BBC.

Pero el autor de “Pálida luz en las colinas”, (1982) y “Lo que queda del día” (1989) afirmó también que esperaba que el galardón contribuyera a un cambio positivo en los tiempos actuales.

“El mundo está en un momento muy incierto y espero que todos los Premios Nobel sean una fuerza para algo positivo en el mundo. (…)Estaré profundamente conmovido si pudiera de alguna manera ser parte de algún tipo de clima este año en contribuir a algún tipo de ambiente positivo en un momento muy incierto”, dijo.

Finalmente, un rato después de la conversación con la BBC, el autor recibió la esperada llamada.

Para ese momento, ya era noticia en medio mundo.

Las obras

Su trabajo, que incluye guiones para el cine y la televisión, examina temas como la memoria, el tiempo y el autoengaño.

La Academia Sueca informó que concedió el premio a Ishiguro porque “en novelas de una gran fuerza emocional, ha descubierto el abismo que hay debajo de nuestra ilusoria sensación de conexión con el mundo”.

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La versión cinematográfica de “Lo que queda del día” fue protagonizada por Anthony Hopkins y Emma Thompson.

Sara Danius, secretaria permanente de la Academia, describió el estilo del escritor inglés como “una mezcla de Jane Austen, comedia de costumbres y Franz Kafka”.

El premio consistirá en una medalla (con la efigie de Alfredo Nobel, creador del galardón) que recibirá en la tradicional ceremonia de diciembre próximo y un monto de US$ 1,1 millones.

¿Quién es Kazuo Ishiguro?

  • Nacido en Nagasaki, Japón, en 1954, se trasladó en 1960 a Inglaterra con su familia, cuando le ofrecieron a su padre un puesto como oceanógrafo en Surrey.
  • Estudió inglés y filosofía en la universidad de Kent y luego realizó un máster en escritura creativa en la Universidad de East Anglia, donde sus tutores fueron Malcolm Bradbury y Angela Carter.
  • Su tesis se convirtió en su primera novela, que fue aclamada por la crítica, “Pálida luz en las colinas”.
  • Ganó el Premio Booker en 1989 por Lo que queda del día, que fue convertida en película en 1993, dirigida por James Ivory y protagonizada por Anthony Hopkins y Emma Thompson.
  • Su última novela publicada es “El gigante enterrado”, que salió en 2015. El comité Nobel elogió este libro por explorar “cómo la memoria se relaciona con el olvido, la historia con el presente y la fantasía con la realidad”.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-41510740

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La posesión de Donald Trump (izq.) y la de Barack Obama 2009. La imagen fue tomada del famoso obelisco que está en el centro de Washington, en el momento en que ambos presidentes juraban en su cargo.

El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, dijo este sábado que los periodistas “estaban entre los seres humanos más deshonestos”.

La disputa del nuevo mandatario con la prensa se dio a partir de la publicación de una imagen sobre la asistencia a su ceremonia de posesión, el viernes pasado.

Trump, que hizo la afirmación durante una visita a la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA, por sus siglas en inglés), criticó la publicación de dos fotografías que contrastaban la cantidad de público asistente a su toma de mando con la registrada en 2009 para la asunción de Barack Obama, a la vista mucho mayor.

“Los periodistas y los medios están entre los seres humanos más deshonestos del planeta. Al menos un millón y medio de personas se acercaron para estar en mi posesión”, dijo el mandatario.

Después de estas declaraciones, el secretario de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Sean Spicer, dio una conferencia de prensa en la que mostró otras fotografías de la toma de posesión y señaló que la ceremonia de asunción de Trump fue “la que ha tenido mayor cantidad de público en la historia de los juramentos presidenciales”.

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El secretario de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Sean Spicer, acusó a los medios de “empañar el entusiasmo de las personas en la posesión”.

“Los medios están malinterpretando las imágenes y utilizando datos pocos claros para minimizar el enorme respaldo que recibió el presidente el día de su toma de posesión”, agregó.

Los señalamientos además se dieron mientras millones de personas alrededor de Estados Unidos marchaban para protestar en contra de Donald Trump en las Marchas de las Mujeres.

Las cifras señalan que cerca de tres millones personas salieron a las calles de ciudades de todo el mundo, siendo la de Washington D.C. la de mayor movilización.

Sin embargo, después de la fuerte reacción de los medios que rechazaron las declaraciones de Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, consejera del presidente Trump, dijo este domingo en el programa de la NBC “Meet the Press“, que lo que hizo la Casa Blanca fue presentar “hechos alternativos”.

“No es posible que se pueda probar la cantidad de personas que asistieron a la posesión. No hay manera de contar las multitudes“, explicó Conway.

¿Cuáles son las cifras reales?

Por décadas, la Administración de Parques Nacionales dio a conocer las cifras sobre la asistencia de público a los eventos masivos que ocurrían en el National Mall.

Pero dejó de hacerlo en 1995, después de que fuera demandada por la organización de la “Marcha del Millón”, por los derechos de las personas afroestadounidenses.

Esta vez, después de que se publicó la foto de la toma de mando de Trump y fue replicada por varios medios, la primera cifra que apareció fue la del propio gobierno, difundida este sábado, que hablaba sobre el “millón y medio de personas” que estuvieron con el republicano en las calles.

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Centenares de miles de personas salieron a las calles de las principales ciudades de EE.UU. para exigir el respeto a los derechos de la mujeres.

Pero no dio ningún detalle de dónde se había sacado ese cálculo.

Para apoyar esa afirmación, Spicer fijó las cifras en 750.000 personas en el National Mall.

Y además, agregó que el número de personas que tomó el metro ese viernes hacia el Capitolio fue mucho mayor que el día que Barack Obama asumió el segundo mandato, en 2013.

Pero, de acuerdo a las cifras oficiales del metro de Washington, el 20 de enero de 2013 se utilizaron 782.000 tiquetes, mientras que este viernes se utilizaron 571.000.

Spicer apuntó que las cubiertas plásticas que se habían puesto para cubrir la grama habían ocasionado “el efecto de resaltar las áreas en que las personas no estaban de pie mientras que en años pasados la hierba eliminó ese efecto”.

Pero en 2013 la grama también estaba cubierta con el mismo plástico.

Finalmente señaló que este año se habían instalado unas puertas electromagnéticas que “habían desalentado a muchas personas de asistir al National Mall“.

“Primer ministro” Peña Nieto

La mayoría de los medios de Estados Unidos negaron las acusaciones hechas por Trump y el secretario de prensa.

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El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, dijo sus señalamientos a la prensa desde los cuartes de la CIA.

El New York Times publicó que los dichos del vocero de prensa estaban basados en datos incorrectos y CNN señaló que el secretario de prensa había atacado a los medios por reportar de forma “correcta y precisa” los hechos.

Después de finalizar el señalamiento sobre las imágenes, en la conferencia de prensa se habló de otros temas y el secretario erróneamente se refirió al presidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, como “el primer ministro”.

Él (Trump) también habló con el primer ministro Peña de Nieto y hablaron sobre su visita, que ocurrirá el próximo 31 de enero, en la que se discutirán temas de comercio, inmigración y seguridad”, dijo Spicer.

Al final de ofrecer su comunicado no permitió preguntas de la prensa.

Pero más allá de los errores, para el corresponsal de la BBC en Washington David Willis este es un “preocupante debut para el presidente Trump”

“En su primera vez antes los medios, Sean Spicer se fue contra los periodista de una manera que no tiene precedentes, según lo que muchos aquí recuerdan”, anotó Willis.

“Ese mensaje de que ‘haría responsable a la prensa’ (de los supuestos errores publicados) no queda muy claro, pero sí dejó profundamente preocupados a veteranos reporteros de la Casa Blanca que llevan mucho tiempo cubriendo esta fuente”, dijo.

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A la ceremonia de posesión de Lyndon B Johnson de enero de 1965 (esta foto pertenece a un evento en julio de ese año) asistieron 1,2 millones de personas.

“Lo que nos lleva a la pregunta que venimos haciendo en los últimos tiempos sobre qué será lo más desagradable de esta administración: ¿el mensaje o el mensajero?”.

“Hechos alternativos”

Por su parte, Kellyanne Conway, consejera presidencial y exjefa de campaña de Donald Trump intentó maquillar lo sucedido afirmando que Spicer dio “hechos alternativos”.

La curiosa respuesta de Conway, que fue entrevistada por la cadena de televisión estadounidense NBC, rápidamente logró eco en medios locales como en redes sociales.

Pocos minutos después de esta declaración, brindada el domingo en la mañana, la etiqueta #alternativefacts (hechos alternativos en inglés) fue tendencia en Twitter y Facebook.

Durante la entrevista, el presentador de NBC Chuck Todd le respondió a Conway que “los hechos alternativos no son hechos. Son falsedades”.

Conway, sin embargo, siguió defendiendo a Spicer y acusó al periodista de ser “muy dramático”

Las cifras anteriores

De acuerdo a las cifras del distrito de Columbia, en 2009, cuando Barack Obama se posesionó como presidente de EE.UU., cerca de 1,8 millones de personas se hicieron presentes en el National Mall.

En 2013, cuando juró para un segundo mandato, asistió cerca un millón de personas.

George W. Bush atrajo 300.000 en 2001, Bill Clinton cerca de 800.000 en 1993. Para la posesión de Ronald Reagan en 1985 se vendieron cerca de 140.000 entradas. Pero la ceremonia tuvo que ser trasladada para un escenario cerrado debido a las bajas temperaturas.

Y antes de que la Administración Nacional de Parques dejara de realizar el conteo, la mayor asistencia de público se registró en 1965, cuando Lyndon B. Johnson juró por segunda vez para ser presidente de EE.UU., en un evento al que asistieron 1,2 millones de personas.

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A sixth grader in Florida was arrested after his refusal to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance escalated into a confrontation with police and school officials, authorities said.

The unnamed boy was charged with disrupting a school function and resisting an officer without violence on Feb. 4, the Lakeland Police Department said in a news release.

A local news outlet, Bay News 9, reported that the confrontation began after the student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy, near Tampa, called the flag racist and described the national anthem as offensive.

Citing a statement provided to the Polk School District by the boy’s substitute teacher, the station reported that the teacher asked him, “why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live.”

“They brought me here,” the boy replied, according to the statement.

After the teacher told him he could “always go back,” she called the school’s office “because I did not want to continue dealing with him,” the station reported.

The district did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday, but a school spokesman told the Ledger, a local newspaper, that students are not required to participate in the pledge.

The spokesman, Kyle Kennedy, told the newspaper that the teacher, Ana Alvarez, wasn’t aware of that policy and would no longer work with the district.

The boy’s mother, Dhakira Talbot, could not immediately respond to an interview request on Sunday, but she told Bay News 9 that Alvarez’s response “was wrong.”

“She was way out of place,” Talbot said, according to the station. “If she felt like there was an issue with my son not standing for the flag, she should’ve resolved that in a way different manner than she did.”

After the confrontation began, the school’s dean of students tried unsuccessfully to calm the student down, asking him to leave the class 20 times, police said.

“The school resource officer then intervened and asked the student to exit the classroom and he refused,” the department said. “The student left the classroom and created another disturbance and made threats while he was escorted to the office.”

According to Bay News 9, the student denied making threats.

The Lakeland Police Department said in a statement that the boy was not arrested for refusing to stand for or recite the Pledge of Allegiance. “This arrest was based on the student’s choice to disrupt the classroom, make threats and resisting the officer’s efforts to leave the classroom.”

“I want the charges dropped and I want the school to be held accountable for what happened because it shouldn’t have been handled the way it was handled,” Talbot said.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sixth-grader-arrested-florida-after-refusal-participate-pledge-allegiance-led-n972671

Most of the people running mass sites are learning on the fly. Finding enough vaccinators, already challenging for some sites, could become a broader problem as they multiply. Local health care providers or faith-based groups rooted in communities will likely be far more effective at reaching people who are wary of the shots. And many of the huge sites don’t work for people who lack cars or easy access to public transportation.

“Highly motivated people that have a vehicle — it works great for them,” said Dr. Rodney Hornbake, who serves as both a vaccinator and the East Hartford site’s medic, on call for adverse reactions. “You can’t get here on a city bus.”

Before dawn on a recent raw morning, Susan Bissonnette, the nurse in charge, prepared enough vials of the Pfizer vaccine and diluent for the first few hundred shots of the day. At 7:45 a.m., her team surrounded her in a semicircle, stamping the snow off their boots and warming their fingers for the hours of injections that lay ahead.

“We’re going to start with 40 vials, eight per trailer,” Ms. Bissonnette shouted to the group of 19 nurses, a doctor and an underemployed dentist who had volunteered to help. “OK, so remember it’s Pfizer, right? Point three milliliters, right?”

The site vaccinates about 1,700 people on a good day, partly because Connecticut is small and gets fewer doses than many other states. It is a well-oiled machine, with a few dozen National Guard troops directing cars into 10 lanes, checking in people, who have to make appointments in advance, and making sure they have filled out a medical questionnaire before moving down the runway to their shots.

Troops also supervise the area at the end of the runway where people wait after their shots for 15 minutes — or 30, if they have a history of allergies — in case of serious reactions.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/health/covid-vaccine-sites.html

A little boy who’s lucky to be alive said he does not know how he managed to survive the horrifying escape from his Mexico City school after a powerful earthquake that killed more than 200 people destroyed the building while he was in the middle of class.

“I was in my English class and the ground started to vibrate,” Luis Carlos Tomé, told NBC News partner Noticias Telemundo on Wednesday, visibly shaking and crying.


Luis Carlos said he noted out loud that the ground was shaking because no alarm had sounded and everyone left the classroom quickly.

“That’s when I made the best decision of my life — which was not to go to the left, which is where everything fell first,” he said, crying. “I went to the right with my friends.”

The boy said he, his friends and others were all going down the stairs when suddenly people started to fall.



PHOTOS: Desperate Rescuers Dig Through Rubble After Powerful Mexico Quake

“There were many [people on the stairs] but all of a sudden I didn’t see them anymore,” he said.

After he escaped, he said he “could only see how the whole school had fallen.”

Luis Carlos said he looked around and did not see many of his classmates, or his teacher.

“All the dust, we could only cover ourselves,” he added.


The boy then came to the realization that many of the classmates and teachers he knew may already be dead.

“Everything happened so fast, I did not see her,” Luis Carlos said of his teacher. “In about thirty seconds my school was down and I don’t even know how I saved myself.”

Luis Carlos’ mother, who was unidentified, told Noticias Telemundo that she thanked God after she found out both of children survived the massive quake.

“My life came back,” she said.

Rescue workers pulled at least 25 bodies, all but four of them children, from the Enrique Rebsamen school in the south of the capital after it collapsed following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Mexico Tuesday afternoon.

Related: Mexico Quake Turns Classroom Into Coffin, Rescuers Scramble for Survivors

Eleven people were rescued from the school, while two children and one adult were still missing, Mexico’s Education Minister Aurelio Nuño said Wednesday morning.

Crews wearing hard hats worked throughout Wednesday to find the missing, and rescuers found a surviving child in the ruins, the Associated Press reported.



Three workers entered the rubble, the AP reported, and spotted the girl. Rescuers had been trying to secure the child for hours, according to the AP.

Dr. Pedro Serrano, one of the volunteers, told the AP that he managed to crawl into the crevices of the tottering pile of rubble and made it into a classroom, but found all of its occupants dead.

“We saw some chairs and wooden tables,” he said. “The next thing we saw was a leg, and then we started to move rubble and we found a girl and two adults — a woman and a man.”



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Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, which employs more than 60 DACA recipients, said there were lawful ways to shut down the program.

“Our brief acknowledges very explicitly, based on the issues that we’ve raised, that we’re not suggesting that there would be no basis for a rescission of DACA,” he said. “But if there is going to be a rescission of DACA, it has to be done in the right way and it has to be done for sound reasons.”

The administration, by contrast, has argued that its determination that DACA is unlawful could not be second-guessed by the courts. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, rejected that view.

It acknowledged that presidents have broad powers to alter the policies of earlier administrations but said the legal rationale offered by the Trump administration for rescinding DACA did not withstand scrutiny. The court also questioned “the cruelty and wastefulness of deporting productive young people to countries with which they have no ties.”

A federal judge in Washington, John D. Bates, gave the administration a second opportunity to justify the rescission, and Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary at the time, responded with a three-page memorandum. It mostly relied on the earlier rationales in Ms. Duke’s memo, but added one more, about the importance of projecting a message of resolve in light of recent events.

“Considering the fact that tens of thousands of minor aliens have illegally crossed or been smuggled across our border in recent years and then have been released into the country owing to loopholes in our laws — and that pattern continues to occur at unacceptably high levels to the detriment of the immigration system — it is critically important for D.H.S. to project a message,” she wrote, “that leaves no doubt regarding the clear, consistent and transparent enforcement of the immigration laws against all classes and categories of aliens.”

Judge Bates said that justification was “not without its logical difficulties: After all, DACA is available only to those individuals who have lived in the United States since 2007.” He rejected the new rationale, calling it “too little, too late.”

This article includes reporting from the book “Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration,” by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear.

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PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Hurricane Elsa continues to move quickly though the eastern Caribbean, expected to move across Hispaniola Saturday.

South Florida remains inside Elsa’s forecast cone, and residents should keep a close eye on the storm’s track over the weekend.

As of 5 a.m. Saturday, Hurricane Elsa is located about 190 miles east-southeast of Isla Beata of the Dominican Republic, according to the National Hurricane Center.

It’s moving to the west-northwest at 31 mph and has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

Hurricane Elsa is forecast to move near the southern coast of Hispaniola Saturday during the afternoon and into the evening, and then move near Jamaica and portions of eastern Cuba on Sunday.

By Monday, Elsa is forecast to move across central and western Cuba and then head toward Florida.

According to the NHC, Elsa is expected to slow down on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a turn toward the northwest Sunday night or Monday.

Hurricane Elsa advisory summary. (WPLG)

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the southern coast of Dominican Republic from Punta Palenque to the border with Haiti, the southern portion of Haiti from Port Au Prince to the southern border with the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica,

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the coast of Haiti north of Port Au Prince and the south coast of the Dominican Republic east of Punta Palenque to Cabo Engano.

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Granma, Guantanamo, Holguin, Las Tunas, and Santiago de Cuba.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the north coast of the Dominican Republic from Cabo Engano to Bahia de Manzanillo, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman.

Elsa is the earliest fifth-named storm on record, beating out last year’s Eduardo which formed on July 6, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. He also noted that it’s the farthest east that a hurricane has formed this early in the tropical Atlantic since 1933. The 1991-2020 average date for the first Atlantic hurricane formation is mid-August.

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Homero T. tiene 39 años. Por las noches sale a buscar muros donde realizar pegatinas publicitando un espectáculo musical para una productora. A las 23:30 horas del lunes 21, Homero comenzó a pegar afiches en una de las paredes del IPA, cuando se le acercaron tres jóvenes para intimidarlo.

Uno de los estudiantes le dijo que no podía pegar afiches en la fachada del IPA. “Eran del Ceipa, del Centro de Estudiantes de ahí”, declaró la víctima en el Juzgado Penal de 6° Turno, cuya titular es la magistrada Fanny Canessa. Homero les replicó que le pagaban por pegar afiches y que, una vez pegados, le permitieran sacarle una foto y luego se retiraba. También les señaló a los estudiantes que, posteriormente, podían retirar el afiche.

Uno de los estudiantes le dijo a Homero que se fuera porque “me iban a romper todo y otro me amenazó con pegarme un tiro. Este vestía de blanco. El lío empezó con tres y luego salió otro muchacho desde adentro a gritarme. Me insultó y cuando este se me vino encima, volvieron a pegarme pero esta vez los cuatro”. Homero cayó al suelo. “Me pegaron patadas por todos lados, me llegué a caer al piso, más que nada me pegaron en el piso y en la cara y en la cabeza”. El médico forense estableció que las lesiones sufridas por Homero llevarán más de 20 días de recuperación.

Fiscal pidió liberación de agresores.

El fiscal Pablo Rivas pidió el archivo del caso y la liberación de los tres agresores porque carecían de antecedentes penales. La jueza Fanny Canessa hizo lugar al pedido fiscal señalando que la víctima fue golpeada en forma violenta. “Habida cuenta de la pluriparticipación, correspondía ejercitar la acción penal contra indagados”, dijo la jueza.

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