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Noticias en 30” – LA NACION (Argentina)

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El papa Francisco viene a Colombia: visitará cuatro ciudades del 6 al 10 de septiembre – Noticias Caracol

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Live updates: Sri Lanka mourns as investigation into deadly blasts continues – CNN

Father Ivan, an elderly priest who runs Catholic schools in Colombo, told CNN’s Ivan Watson that he hasn’t seen a mass funeral like the one at St. Sebastian’s Church since 1984, shortly after the outbreak of the country’s bloody civil war.

More than 100 people died during Easter services at the church, which sits at the heart of a close-knit Catholic community near the city of Negombo, one of few areas in the country where Christians are a majority. Everyone in the community knew at least one person killed or injured, witnesses told CNN’s James Griffiths.

CCTV footage provided to CNN of the moments before the attack showed a packed service, with people both inside and outside the church doors listening in. A priest said that the whole church was covered in dust and debris by the blast, which left a scene like a “disaster zone” after it cleared.

Several people interviewed by CNN said the attack seemed to come from nowhere, without any rise in inter-communal tensions or threats against Catholics. The Sri Lankan government has admitted to failing to act on multiple intelligence warnings, however.

Following the blast at the church on Sunday, much of the interior was heavily damaged, as was the church’s red tile roof. Shards of glass could be seen scattered around the church grounds, as workers carried out pews stained with the blood of parishioners and piled up clothes and shoes of the wounded and dead.

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/sri-lanka-attacks-churches-hotels-dle-intl/index.html

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Ottawa police arrest two ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest organizers – The Washington Post

Aiello, who drove here 20 days ago, was sitting in the truck of his area’s “block captain,” who was at an organizing meeting. Nearby, a young man walked around with a walkie-talkie, part of a watch team to monitor who came into their area and prevent instigators from planting anything to make them look bad, Aiello said.

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Pau es el 49 mejor jugador de la NBA y Kobe ya no es ni ‘Top 20’ – MARCA.com

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To Fight Omicron, Biden Plans Aid From Military and 500 Million Tests – The New York Times

Mr. Biden was himself exposed to the coronavirus late last week but has tested negative, White House officials said on Monday. With Americans already jittery about their holiday plans, he will try to reassure the nation while reminding people, yet again, that their best defense against Covid-19 is to get vaccinated and, for those who are eligible, to get booster shots.

The White House is trying to avoid talk of lockdowns at all costs and, to the consternation of some, has stopped short of urging people to cancel travel plans, avoid public transportation and the like.

“This is not a speech about locking the country down,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, told reporters earlier on Monday. “This is a speech outlining and being directly clear with the American people about the benefits of being vaccinated, the steps we’re going to take to increase access, increase testing, and the risks posed to unvaccinated individuals.”

But Mr. Biden will also acknowledge that the shape of the pandemic is shifting, the officials said. Breakthrough Omicron infections are common, though scientists believe that the vaccines will still provide protection against the worst outcomes. Many fully vaccinated and boosted people who are getting infected are experiencing mild symptoms or none at all.

Mr. Biden will say that if people are vaccinated and follow other public health guidelines, including wearing masks in public places, “they should feel comfortable celebrating Christmas and the holidays” with their families, one of the officials said.

But beneath those notes of assurance from the president is deep concern among his advisers — and public health experts — about the ability of the nation’s hospitals, which are already under great strain, to withstand an Omicron surge. Even if the variant ends up causing less severe disease and a relatively low percentage of those infected need to be hospitalized, experts say, the explosion in cases means it is still possible that hospitals will become overwhelmed.

“That’s the big concern,” said Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “If there are a lot of people getting sick, even if only a small portion of them are getting severely ill, that could still be a huge number of people.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/us/politics/omicron-covid-biden.html

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Air Force Academy graduates cadets early amid coronavirus outbreak, first Space Force officers join the ranks – CNBC

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force Academy sent its 2020 graduates into the ranks six weeks early on Saturday — a move the military hasn’t done since World War II — as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation.

The ceremony for the nearly 1,000 cadets took place on the academy grounds in the military-rich town of Colorado Springs with guests and families watching virtually in order to comply with social distancing guidelines.

“When you arrived in 2016 or so, you knew your graduation day would be memorable, but did you imagine that your commencement would take place in mid-April, or that each of us would have a face mask at the ready or that you would march a Covid compliant 8 feet apart on the Terrazzo, or for that matter, that commissioning into the Space Force would be an option,” Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett posed to the graduating class.

“Today, you are living history,” she added.

Of the graduating cadets, 86 commissioned for the first time into the U.S. Space Force. Vice President Mike Pence was on hand to deliver the commencement address.

“You’re the elite. You stepped forward to serve your nation. You endured the rigors of training here at the Air Force Academy, and you’ve done so under some of the most difficult circumstances in the history of this storied institution,” Pence said referencing the coronavirus outbreak.

“America is being tested. And while there are signs that we’re making progress and slowing the spread as we stand here today more than 700,000 Americans have contracted the coronavirus and tragically, more than 37,000 of our countrymen have lost their lives,” he added. “But as each of you has shown in your time here, and as the American people always show in challenging times — when hardship comes, Americans come together.”

Following the commencement address, U.S. Air Force General John “Jay” Raymond, the first chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, asked the first 86 cadets to raise their right hands and take the oath. The remaining cadets stood and took their oath from U.S. Air Force General David Goldfein, chief of staff of the Air Force.

Per tradition, the nation’s newly-minted officers threw their caps towards the sky as U.S. Air Force Thunderbird jets flew over.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/18/air-force-graduates-early-amid-coronavirus-first-space-force-officers.html

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Snow reported in Seattle, California as parts of U.S. see unlikely white Christmas – NBC News

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Trump hosts Michigan rally – his first since Butler shooting – BBC.com

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Despite Pressure From Trump, House Democrats See No Urgency To Pass A Border Bill – NPR

President Trump participates in a roundtable on immigration and border security at the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station in Calexico, Calif., on April 5.

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President Trump is trying to ratchet up public pressure on congressional Democrats to bend to his administration’s will on immigration, but the House majority is dismissing new White House proposals to discourage the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a Wednesday morning tweet, the president called on Congress to return early from the scheduled two-week April recess to pass a border bill.

Democrats in Congress must return from their Vacations and change the Immigration Laws, or the Border, despite the great job being done by Border Patrol, will only get worse. Big sections of Wall now being built!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2019

Administration officials last week told White House reporters that they want Congress to act to change immigration laws affecting how families are held in detention, the processing of unaccompanied minors at the border, and the criteria migrants can use to claim asylum. The collective goal is to discourage more migrants from attempting to cross the border and to make it easier to hold them in detention if they do.

Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told NPR the White House’s ideas are “an anti-immigrant wish list that does nothing to keep our country safer and erodes our values as a nation of immigrants.”

Last week, the speaker defended congressional action on the border, noting the bipartisan spending deal reached in February and signed by the president included significant border resources, including $1.375 billion in funding to build barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“There is money there for increased judges to adjudicate the cases more quickly; there is funding there for humanitarian assistance for the people coming in; there is money for repairs and for physical necessities that may be there; and there is funding to send to countries of the Northern Triangle [Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador] to try to alleviate the problem before it reaches our shores,” Pelosi told reporters.

House Democrats do plan to act on immigration this year, but on a revamped Dream Act to provide legal status and a path to citizenship for up to 3.6 million people who were brought to the U.S. as children and reside in the country illegally or who are in legal limbo through the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that is being challenged in court.

For two years, President Trump has offered varying degrees of support for the Dream Act and taken it on and off the table in sporadic negotiations on immigration that have yet to result in any tangible immigration proposal that can pass both chambers of Congress and earn his signature.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is up for reelection in 2020, told reporters last week that he was open to a new round of immigration talks. “I think it’s way past time, on both sides, that we sit down together and see what we could agree to to improve the situation, not only border security, but also the asylum laws that are very challenging when you are confronted with this onslaught of people,” he said. He did not elaborate on what could clear a 60-vote hurdle in the Senate.

Efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation have failed under the previous two administrations, and it is far less likely to succeed under Trump as the two parties move further apart on the policies needed as the 2020 elections near.

The president and his allies have always seen his hard-line stance on immigrants and immigration as a reason for his 2016 victory and a key to bolstering his prospects for reelection. Meanwhile, Democrats see opposition to Trump’s immigration policies as a reason for their own successes in the 2018 midterms and believe they can campaign on the issue with minority voters heading into 2020.

NPR’s Mara Liasson and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.

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‘We are in limbo’: Student loan borrowers still face months of uncertainty about Biden’s forgiveness program – CNN

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Iran Rejects Nuclear Deal Talks With U.S. Proposed by Europe – The New York Times

The State Department also eased travel restrictions on Iranian diplomats coming to the United Nations and accepting Europe’s invitations to direct talks.

But then came Mr. Biden’s decision to order military strikes Thursday on several buildings used by the Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and other groups in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border. The strikes were a response to a rocket attack on Feb. 15 in northern Iraq that killed one civilian contractor and wounded an American service member and members of coalition troops.

Mr. Biden said the strikes were aimed at sending a message to Iran that “you can’t act with impunity — be careful.”

The escalating military tensions coincided with Iran weighing whether it would meet with the Americans, a notion that is just as unpopular within Iran’s conservative factions as it is among many Republican leaders in the United States.

A White House spokesman said Sunday that the United States was “disappointed” by Iran’s rejection of the talks but that “we remain ready to re-engage in meaningful diplomacy,” Reuters reported.

Henry Rome, a senior analyst who follows Iran for the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, said Iran’s decision in part reflected its leaders’ desire to look resilient in the face of U.S. pressure.

“This is far from a death knell for negotiations,” he said in an email.

In his remarks Sunday, Mr. Khatibzadeh said Iran would respond in kind to both pressure and concessions from Washington.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-talks-united-states.html

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Rafah Once Was a Refuge From the War. Now Gazans Don’t Know Where to Go. – The Wall Street Journal

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Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit – The New York Times

Many Republican lawmakers have accused social media companies of censoring conservative viewpoints on their sites. Mr. Huffman said banning “The_Donald” was not an attempt to specifically target conservatives.

“Absolutely not, full stop,” he said.

In a statement on Monday, Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign, did not address Reddit’s move but directed people to Mr. Trump’s app or to text the campaign directly.

The new bans follow the resignation this month of Alexis Ohanian, one of Reddit’s co-founders, from the company’s board of directors. Mr. Ohanian, who said he had been moved by the protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who was killed in police custody last month, asked to be replaced on Reddit’s board with a black candidate.

“I’m writing this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: ‘What did you do?’” Mr. Ohanian, who is married to the tennis star Serena Williams, said in a blog post at the time. “To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: Do not stop.”

Michael Seibel, the chief executive of the Silicon Valley start-up incubator Y Combinator and an African-American, has replaced Mr. Ohanian on Reddit’s board.

Reddit executives said the site remained a place that they hoped could be a forum for civil political discourse in the future, as long as users played by its rules.

“There’s a home on Reddit for conservatives, there’s a home on Reddit for liberals,” said Benjamin Lee, Reddit’s general counsel. “There’s a home on Reddit for Donald Trump.”

Kevin Roose contributed reporting.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/reddit-hate-speech.html

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Ilhan Omar at town hall: Trump ‘is threatened because we are inspiring people to dream’ – CNN

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After 169 hospitals, a dad finally got the Covid-19 care he needed — and changed dozens of skeptics’ minds – CNN

By Holly Yan, CNN

Updated 7:15 AM ET, Sun September 19, 2021

(CNN)Every breath Robby Walker takes is one that almost didn’t happen.

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¿A quién le pertenecen los tesoros del galeón San José hallado en Colombia? – BBC Mundo

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Se calcula que el tesoro que se encuentra sumergido en el mar Caribe colombiano es cercano a los US$1.500 millones.

Viejos galeones perdidos, como el mítico San José, han estado en el imaginario de Colombia desde su fundación.

Solo basta pararse en las primeras páginas de la célebre novela “Cien años de soledad” del premio Nobel Gabriel García Márquez para darse una idea:

“Frente a ellos, rodeado de helechos y palmeras, blanco y polvoriento en la silenciosa luz de la mañana, estaba un enorme galeón español. Ligeramente volteado a estribor, de su arboladura intacta colgaban las piltrafas escuálidas del velamen, entre jarcias adornadas de orquídeas”.

El tesoro del galeón San José hallado en las costas de Cartagena puede ser “el más grande de la historia de la humanidad”

Y esa ilusión literaria se convirtió en realidad con el tuit del presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, este viernes 4 de diciembre: “Gran noticia: ¡Encontramos el Galeón San José! Mañana daré los detalles en rueda de prensa desde Cartagena”.

Pero apenas Santos presentó las imágenes de los cañones y vasijas arrumadas en el lecho marino cercano a Cartagena –donde en 1708 los ingleses hundieron el galeón español con 11 millones de monedas de oro a bordo– comenzaron los reclamos de paternidad sobre el gigantesco tesoro.

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El presidente Juan Manuel Santos dio la noticia sobre el hallazgo del galeón San José.

Entre los reclamantes, el gobierno español. El secretario de Estado de Cultura, José María Lasalle, se pronunció sobre el asunto apenas se supo la noticia.

“El gobierno español va a solicitar una información precisa acerca de la aplicación de la legislación de su país en la que fundamenta la intervención sobre un pecio (pedazo de naufragio) español“, dijo Lasalle, cuyo cargo equivale al de viceministro.

Pero no solo España alzó su voz. La empresa estadounidense Sea Search Armada se encuentra en medio de un litigio en varias cortes internacionales con el gobierno de Colombia sobre la propiedad del magnífico botín sumergido.

Entonces, ¿de quién son en realidad los casi US$1.500 millones en monedas de oro, plata y piedras preciosas que se estima están en el fondo del mar entre los restos del mítico San José?

Los derechos de España

“El galeón San José es patrimonio de todos los colombianos”, dijo el presidente Santos durante la rueda de prensa de este sábado.

Sin embargo, Lasalle fue cauto ante la euforia del mandatario colombiano.

“Estamos analizando qué actuaciones se pueden adoptar en defensa de lo que entendemos es el patrimonio subacuático y respecto a las convenciones de la Unesco con las que está comprometido nuestro país desde hace muchos años”, afirmó.

Pero el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de España, José Manuel García-Margallo, fue más allá y afirmó que el galeón San José es un barco de “Estado”.

“Se trata de un barco de Estado, de guerra, y no barcos privados, por lo que hay una titularidad del Estado donde esté abanderado el pabellón del navío”, dijo García-Margallo este lunes.

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Una de las formas de identificar al galeón fue por el delfín que llevaban grabados en los cañones.

Y hay un antecedente que podría jugar en contra de Colombia en este caso: en 2007, España obtuvo de vuelta el tesoro de la fragata Las Mercedes hundida en octubre de 1804 cerca del puerto de Cádiz y que había sido hallada por una empresa estadounidense.

España se queda con el tesoro hundido de una fragata proveniente de América

Por entonces, Odyssey Marine Exploration logró extraer del fondo del mar Mediterráneo unas 500.000 monedas de plata de aquella embarcación.

Sin embargo, un juez en Florida y después una corte de apelaciones en Atlanta le ordenaron devolver el tesoro a los españoles.

“No se trata de dilucidar en una sentencia quién es el legítimo dueño del patrimonio subacuático hallado porque, según el principio de inmunidad soberana, mientras un Estado no abandone expresamente su patrimonio público subacuático, seguirá siendo su propietario“, escribió el jurista español Carlos Pérez Vaquero.

Y agregó: “Con independencia del tiempo que haya transcurrido o del lugar en que se encuentren los restos”.

El argumento de Colombia

La gran diferencia entre el caso de la fragata Las Mercedes y el galeón San José es su ubicación: mientras Las Mercedes yace cerca de las playas del sur de España, el San José reposa bajo el océano a unos 8.000 kilómetros de distancia de la costa española.

Y es aquí donde el país sudamericano blande sus mejores sables: Colombia no hace parte del convenio de patrimonio subacuático de la Unesco firmado en París en 2001 y que cita el ministro de Cultura español.

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Estas monedas hacen parte de las halladas en la fragata Las Mercedes, hundido en 1807.

“Al no ser parte de ninguna convención que afecte la propiedad del galeón, puede concluirse con certeza, luego de los análisis, que este pecio forma parte exclusivamente del patrimonio colombiano”, le dijo al diario El Tiempo el abogado colombiano Néstor Humberto Martínez, quien hace parte de la Comisión Colombiana de Antigüedades Náufragas.

El país también había preparado un soporte legal, tal vez anticipándose al hallazgo anunciado este sábado: en 2013, el congreso colombiano aprobó la ley de patrimonio sumergido para la protección de tesoros subacuáticos como el San José.

Allí se expresa que el gobierno es dueño de lo que sea declarado patrimonio y que esté sumergido en su territorio marítimo.

Además se tiene contemplado qué se le pagara a la empresa que ayude con el rescate de los restos con parte del tesoro encontrado.

“Respetamos profundamente al gobierno español. Vamos a esperar a que llegue la solicitud formal de la que habla el ministro, la cual estudiaremos con la Cancillería y la Presidencia de la República“, anotó la ministra de Cultura de Colombia, Mariana Garcés.

Sea Search

Pero España no es el único obstáculo que tiene Colombia tras el anuncio del hallazgo del “mayor tesoro sumergido de la humanidad”.

En 1981 la empresa de exploración submarina Sea Search Armada (SSA) declaró que había encontrado el lugar donde se había hundido el legendario galeón.

Colombia, mediante continuas acciones legales, demandó a Sea Search Armada con la intención de proteger el inmenso tesoro subacuático y en 1984 negaron que la empresa hubiera descubierto el barco perdido.

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El galeón San José es considerado el “santo grial” de los tesoros sumergidos.

Y a pesar de que en 2007 se declaró al San José patrimonio cultural e histórico de la nación y en 2011 una corte estadounidense se declaró a favor de dicho pronunciamiento, la SSA está lejos de declarar el caso cerrado.

“El gobierno de Colombia mantiene la gran mentira de que ellos ‘ganaron’ el caso en la corte federal y que SSA perdió sus derechos sobre el tesoro. Nada puede ser más alejado de la realidad“, escribió en un comunicado Jack Harbeston, director de SSA.

La empresa naviera saca a relucir un dictamen de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia, que estableció que la mitad de todo lo que se hallara en el galeón que no fuera patrimonio debía repartirse por mitades entre SSA y el gobierno colombiano.

“Aparentemente Colombia no tiene intenciones de implementar la orden de su Corte Suprema, que le ordena negociar con SSA”, agregó Harbeston.

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La Armada Colombiana afirmó que el hallazgo se hizo con nueva información, distinta a la que dio la empresa estadounidense SSA.

Por su parte el gobierno de Colombia señaló que referente a esta demanda las sentencias de cortes federales de EE.UU. en 2005 y 2011 decidieron el caso a su favor y que el hallazgo de la Armada Colombiana –hecho el pasado 27 de noviembre–, se hizo con nueva información y en un lugar distinto al descrito por SSA.

Por ahora se espera que los tesoros que se hallen en el San José se conserven en un museo.

Y, en última instancia, que estas disputas no terminen convirtiendo en realidad la profecía de García Márquez en “Cien años de soledad”: “Muchos años después, el coronel Aureliano Buendía volvió a travesar la región, cuando era ya una ruta regular del correo, y lo único que encontró de la nave fue el costillar carbonizado en medio de un campo de amapolas”.

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

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Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.

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

Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.

Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.

“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.

ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.

Jessica Metcalfe

Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?

Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.

Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.

You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.

Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?

A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.

I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.

We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.

Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?

A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.

Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?

A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.

A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.

Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.

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Photos of massive tent at Obama’s mansion raise questions of ‘scaled back’ birthday party – Fox News

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Celebrities and a massive tent were spotted in Martha’s Vineyard for former President Obama’s 60th birthday that his office said was “scaled back” to include just close friends and family amid concerns over the Delta coronavirus variant.

Drone footage obtained by Daily Mail showed large tents set up outside Obama’s massive Martha’s Vineyard estate along with a dance floor and several long tables.

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Additionally, several high profile celebrities reportedly made their way to the island including Jay-Z, Eddie Vedder, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Dwyane Wade, and Stephen Colbert.

Obama’s team had originally planned a lavish birthday with over 500 guests expected to attend but announced this week the party would be “scaled back” amid criticisms over holding such an event while the Delta coronavirus variant was surging across the country.

“Due to the new spread of the delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends. President Obama is appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people soon,” an Obama spokesperson said earlier this week.

Some celebrities reportedly didn’t make the cut and had their invitations revoked including Larry David, David Axelrod, Conan O’Brien, and David Letterman.

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Several social media users reacted to the photo of the large tent with criticism and suggested that the affair was larger than Obama’s team let on.

“This is the tent for Obama’s ‘scaled back’ birthday party where only close friends & family were said to attend,” conservative commentator Charlie Kirk tweeted. “Instead, multiple celebrities & politicians were seen.”

Kirk added, “Why is it that the same people telling you to stay home & social distance don’t think those rules apply to them?”

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“Because it’s all about their wealth and power and the little people need to shut up and work and pay their taxes and do as they’re told to advance the Oligarchy’s political agenda,” former Republican Congresswoman Nan Hayworth said in response to Kirk’s tweet.

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Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec tweeted a picture of the event with a sarcastic caption of “Scaled Back.”

Some criticism also came from residents on the island with one local reportedly saying that Obama had expanded the definition of what constitutes a “close friend.”

“His close friends apparently include his golfing buddies, politicians, celebrities,” the local said. Those people are here on the island and I doubt he’ll be turning them all away. He wants people to think this is going to be small and intimate, but I don’t think we have the same definition of intimate.”

The office of Barack and Michelle Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the crowd size from Fox News.

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House delays vote on $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill to allow more time for talks – CNBC

Pelosi and Mnuchin met in person for the first time since last month, raising hopes of Congress approving more aid to boost the U.S. economy and health-care system before the Nov. 3 election. Both officials sounded more optimistic about the prospect of a deal earlier Wednesday as Mnuchin prepared to offer a roughly $1.5 trillion package to counter the Democrats’ proposal.

Speaking to reporters as he left the Capitol, the Treasury secretary said the sides “made a lot of progress over the last few days,” according to NBC News.

“We still don’t have an agreement, but we have more work to do. And we’re going to see where we end up,” he said.

After months of lawmakers wrestling over how much money to inject into the ongoing fight against the virus outbreak, it is unclear what could pass both chambers of Congress and get signed by President Donald Trump. The Republican-held Senate has grown more wary of spending federal dollars on the response as leaders in the Democratic-held House insist on a comprehensive relief package.

Vulnerable members of both parties have agitated to pass more aid ahead of Election Day.

The House this week released its latest coronavirus stimulus plan, which costs about $1.2 trillion less than the $3.4 trillion plan the chamber approved in May. To trim the price tag, it largely cuts back the amount of time for which money is allocated.

The package would reinstate the enhanced federal unemployment insurance at $600 per week through January and send another $1,200 direct payment to most Americans. It would set aside more money for a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans for certain small businesses, provide another $25 billion in aid for airline payrolls, and send $436 billion in relief to states and municipalities over one year.

The bill would include rent and mortgage assistance funds, $75 billion for Covid-19 testing and contact tracing, along with more than $200 billion for education.

— CNBC’s Ylan Mui contributed to this report

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Ken Buck one of multiple Republicans receiving death threats for voting against Rep. Jim Jordan as House Speaker – Colorado Public Radio

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