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Donald Trump Jr appears to have forgotten one of the cardinal rules of the apostrophe: it comes after the “s” when the possessive noun is plural.

The American president’s son’s forthcoming book, Liberal Privilege, is subtitled “Joe Biden and the Democrat’s Defense of the Indefensible”. Unless Trump Jr is referring to only one Democrat, then the apostrophe needs to shift one place to the right to make the title grammatically correct.

Detail from trailed cover art for Liberal Privilege.

The book is out in August. Trump Jr said on Twitter that he had been working on it “during the last few months of quarantine”, and that he was “blown away by what Biden has gotten away with”.

“Libs,” he added, are “already triggered” by the book.

But Trump Jr was careful to share only a small portion of the book’s cover on Twitter, after Axios broke the news about the title, and he was mocked for the grammar error. His previous book, Triggered, was a New York Times No 1 bestseller, but sales were reported to have been boosted by bulk orders from the Republican National Committee.

According to Axios, Trump Jr is self-publishing the new book as “a shot across the bow” to traditional publishers, and “partnered” on it with the Trump Victory Finance Committee’s chief of staff, Sergio Gor.

His girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, an ex-Fox News television personality who is a senior fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, will read the audiobook, and also helped him work on it. Guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus last week.

“That’s how we came up with the idea for her to do the audiobook,” Trump Jr told Axios. “We would take turns reading the chapters out loud for flow … Love in a time of Covid.”

Biden’s national press secretary, TJ Ducklo, told Axios that Liberal Privilege was “the latest in a series of desperate and pathetic attempts to distract from the president’s historic bungling of the coronavirus response”.

“Is there anything more on brand than Donald Trump Jr trying to cash in on a book filled with disgusting lies and smears about Joe Biden?” Ducklo added.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/13/donald-trump-jrs-new-anti-biden-book-misplaces-apostrophe-in-title

Talking about “the wall” is now like banging your head against one. President Trump did a fantastic job selling the idea to the public, but the debate on controlling our jungle-like immigration system has shifted and now he needs to adjust. Otherwise, the border will be no more secure when he leaves the White House than when he arrived.

That means he needs to stop yelling about “the wall,” where Democrats are completely uncompromising and screaming “racism” for entirely political reasons. He needs to start talking about “more wall,” which all the border patrol agents I spoke to in Texas (mostly Latinos, by the way) are asking for.

There is no “the wall” that will ever get built — not least because Trump has never explained what it would look like or where it would go. But more importantly, there is already “wall” in place. We just need more of it, and depending on where it goes, it’s going to look different.

In the Rio Grande Valley sector at the southern border of Texas, more people are illegally crossing into the U.S. than anywhere else. There are sections of wall there — 25 feet of concrete and steel — that work to slow down or stop aliens, aiding in their apprehension by agents.

A portion of the border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Texas southern border.

When I went there two weeks ago, they said they want more of that wall to fill in gaps where it hasn’t been built. They also want more money for cameras and additional agents.

This has nothing to do with Trump. The pieces of wall that are there now were recommended by the border patrol in the 1990s and were built in 2008.

But Trump on Saturday, after caving on the government shutdown, tweeted again about a “a powerful Wall” necessary to keep illegals at bay.

Okay, maybe? But if Democrats are simply going to call that “racist” and never say yes to building it, force them instead to say no to what the border patrol wants.

If they do, then we can once and for all drop the lie that Democrats are “for border security.”

Border agents aren’t asking for “a powerful Wall.” They’re asking for more of what they already have, which Democrats said yes to in the past. Some in the conservative media aren’t helping by making dumb demands about “the wall,” insisting we replicate the barrier Israel has up around Gaza. Yes, Israel has a “wall” there, but guess what: It’s 40 miles long on mostly flat desert. You can’t build that over the 1,000 miles of canyons, mountains, and forest that make up our border with Mexico.

Trump moved the country in the right direction on immigration. His repeated “We either have a country, or we don’t” argument in favor of border control was essential to his victory and should go down as one of the great political lines of all time.

But he dragged his feet on fixing the problem when he had Republicans controlling both houses of Congress. Now he has to deal with Democrats who, if unwilling to build “the wall,” should at least be forced on the record to opposing what the Border Patrol wants: “more wall.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/if-trump-cant-get-the-wall-give-border-agents-more-wall

São Paulo – Brazilian agribusiness exports declined in September and year-to-date in 2014. According to figures released last Wednesday (8th) by the Ministry of Agriculture, US$ 8.29 billion worth of agribusiness products were shipped abroad in September, down 7.4% from September last year. Year-to-date through September, sales amounted to US$ 75.9 billion, down 2.7% from the comparable period in 2013.

Press Release/Embrapa

Maize plantation: no crop failure in sight

The Rural Economy professor at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Eugênio Stefanello, told ANBA that the main reasons for the lower export revenues and the trend of declining volumes are weak international demand and falling prices for the main commodities. Although the United States economy is recovering from the crisis, other countries which are major importers of Brazilian agribusiness products are growing at lower rates. Cases in point include the European Union, China and Japan.

“Commodities prices will be lower this year than in 2013 and will tend to remain flat in 2015, because a mild global recovery is expected. Prices may stay level or be lower, and as a consequence, we may see a scenario where exports will increase in volume decrease in value,” the economist said.

According to Chicago Stock Exchange figures cited by the economist, a bushel of maize (equivalent to 25.4 kilograms) sold for US$ 6.90 in 2012, US$ 5.63 in 2013, US$ 4.67 in the first half of this year and from US$ 3.20 to US$ 4.50 in September. The price of a bushel of soy (equivalent to 27.2 kilograms) dropped from US$ 14.63 in 2012 to US$ 14.14 in the first half of this year, and between US$ 11,00 and US$ 9.50 in September. According to Stefanello, crop failures are not expected in any the major commodities. He said the reason prices are dropping is precisely the fact that supply is rebounding.

Middle East

The Middle East countries are also buying less this year than they did in 2013. According to Agriculture Ministry figures, exports to the Middle East fetched US$ 5.2 billion from January to September 2014, down 12.2% from the comparable period in 2013. Regarding Brazil’s leading Arab destinations, sales are down 15.7% to Saudi Arabia and 8.6% to the United Arab Emirates. In turn, Egypt’s purchases from Brazil were up 5.9%.

To Stefanello, these countries are buying less because ongoing conflicts are forcing them to incur more unplanned expenses. He also remarked that the Russian embargo on products from the United States, European Union, Australia and Canada has caused these suppliers to seek new markets to sell to, including the Middle East, thus increasing competition for Brazilian products. Russia has banned foodstuffs imports from these countries in response to the embargos they have imposed on it due to the conflict underway in Ukraine.

Another cause for the decline in Brazilian exports to Saudi Arabia was the latter’s embargo on Brazilian beef. Saudi Arabia stopped buying the product following Brazil’s announcement, in late 2012, that a cow in the state of Paraná that borne the mad cow disease causative agent had died in 2010, even though it did not manifest the condition. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has upheld Brazil’s risk status for the disease as insignificant. The Ministry of Agriculture is in talks with Saudi authorities to end the embargo.

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum

Source Article from http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia/21865480/agribusiness/prices-low-demand-drive-down-agribusiness-exports/

São Paulo – Middle Eastern and North African countries’ economies will grow this year and in 2015, but they will have long-term challenges. According to the most recent data in the report “Regional Economic Outlook”, disclosed this Tuesday (6th) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Arab nations, plus Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, should grow 3.2% this year and 4.4% in 2015. Among the oil exporting countries, the forecast increase is 3.4% and 4.6%, respectively. The forecast for oil importing countries, however, is 2.8% this year and 4.1% in the next.

Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen are among the countries the IMF considers oil exporters. Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia are considered oil importers. From these groups, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran are not Arab countries.

In the Fund’s evaluation, the GDP of the Middle Eastern and North African countries will grow this year due to the global economy recovery. Both oil exporters and importers, however, will need to promote reforms in their economies to ensure long-term growth.

“Oil and gas output is expected to remain broadly stable in 2014. GCC production will rise owing to strengthening global demand, challenges in restoring oil production in the non-GCC countries (particularly Libya), and a decline in global oil inventories caused in part by cold weather in North America ”, says the release from the Fund.

The evaluation for oil importing countries, however, is that the economy grew roughly 3% last year, will expand a little below these 3% this year and increase to 4% in 2015, not enough for the demand of these countries. “Hovering at 3 percent last year, it has not yet caught up to the historical average, which is close to 5 percent. Even if it did, growth would be insufficient to reduce persistently high unemployment and improve living standards in the region ”, says the document.

Challenges

The document from the IMF warns that Middle East and North Africa countries will have long term challenges and claims that the oil exporters can no longer depend exclusively of the production of the commodity to survive. It reckons that the non-oil sector has been boosting the growth, but it warns that the recovery of the production in other countries, the higher energetic efficiency and the supplying of other forms of energy in North America may influence the production and the price of the commodity.

“Futures markets suggest the price of crude could decline by about $6 per barrel between 2013 and 2015 ”, says the document.

The IMF also observes that the capacity of oil exporters to resist crises is lower than in previous reports due to the increase in public sector salaries, oil price reduction and smaller fiscal surplus. Besides, some of these oil producing countries have been offering generous energetic subsidies, which boost consumption at the expense of exports.

As regards the oil importing nations, the main challenges are to solve political problems, undertake structural reforms to create jobs and export. The document observes that Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia are nation in political “transition”. For this group, the growth forecast is 2.8% in 2014 and 4.3% in 2015.

The growth forecast for each country in 2014 and 2015 is as follows: Algeria, 4.3% and 4.1%, respectively; Bahrain, 4.7% and 3.3%; Iraq, 5.9% and 6.7%; Kuwait, 2.6% and 3.0%; Libya, -7.8% and 29.8%; Oman, 3.4% and 3.4%; Qatar, 5.9% and 7.1%; Saudi Arabia, 4.1% and 4.2%, United Arab Emirates, 4.4% and 4.2%; Yemen, 5.1% and 4.4%; Djibouti, 6% and 6.5%; Egypt, 2.3% and 4.1%; Lebanon, 1% and 2.5%; Mauritania, 6.8% and 6.5%; Morocco, 3.9% and 4.9%; Sudan, 2.7% and 4.6%; Tunisia, 3% and 3.5%; West Bank and Gaza, 2.5% and 2.7%. The IMF did not make predictions for Syria due to political uncertainty.

*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

Source Article from http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia/21863662/macro-en/imf-sees-growth-in-arab-economies/

Three proposed rule changes by the Trump administration could cause millions of poor people to lose access to food stamps and decrease the size of the benefit for millions more.

Over the past year, the Department of Agriculture proposed three changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps. The new rules create stricter work requirements for program eligibility, cap deductions for utility allowances and “reform” the way 40 states automatically enroll families into SNAP when they receive other forms of federal aid.

A study by the Urban Institute released this week examined the three rules in combination for the first time and found that 3.7 million fewer people would receive SNAP in an average month, 2.2 million households would see their average monthly benefits drop by $127, more than 3 million others would see an average drop of $37 per month, and 982,000 students would lose access to free or reduced lunches.

“What we found is that overall the three proposed changes would reduce the number of households participating in SNAP by about 11 percent if this was implemented in 2018,” said Laura Wheaton, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who conducted the study. “It’s about a 9.4 percent reduction in the number of people participating and about an 8 percent reduction in overall benefits.”

Critics and experts say that would be antithetical to the program’s goals to address food insecurity in the United States.

Craig Gundersen, an agricultural and consumer economics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has studied the program for more than two decades, said that about a million people could become food insecure because of the change. He added that 50 percent of those 3.7 million SNAP beneficiaries were already food insecure despite the assistance.

The changes, he said, would put many Americans in a worse position, increasing hunger and health issues. Each additional adult who becomes food insecure sees an additional $2,000 in healthcare costs, Gundersen explained.

“The essential goal of the program is to mitigate hunger and its consequences in the United States,” he said. “Anything that impedes SNAP of doing that is very problematic as it leads to food insecurity in our country.”

The USDA, meanwhile, estimates that the changes would reduce the SNAP budget by about $4.2 billion.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue defended the work requirements in a USA Today column, emphasizing that it would save taxpayer dollars.

“At USDA, our informal motto is ‘Do Right and Feed Everyone,’” Perdue wrote. “With these proposed improvements, we will ‘do right’ by the taxpayers and restore the dignity of work to the able-bodied who receive SNAP benefits. And, we will ‘feed everyone’ by ensuring the health and stability of SNAP for those who truly need it.”

All of the new rules have gone through a comment period with the changes to utilities currently taking feedback until Monday. Tens of thousands of people have already responded, with most providing negative responses.

The latest rule change proposed by the Trump administration would cause millions of people to take smaller deductions for shelter and utility costs, which are considered when a person applies for SNAP benefits. Critics say that would force people to choose between buying food and paying for housing.

Gundersen said this change will prove to be a major cost for those living in metropolitan areas with high living costs.

It could also create a steeper financial cliff for some beneficiaries. Those in danger of losing access to SNAP might be discouraged from working because the new calculation would put them in a higher income bracket, causing them to lose access, Gundersen explained

“On the one hand they want to encourage people to work, but on the other they would be taking away that incentive,” Gundersen said.

But the main issue is that SNAP is not intended to be a work program in the first place, Gundersen said, but instead aimed to address food insecurity within the United States.

As it operates now, SNAP does not discourage people from participating in the labor market, he said.

“There are some assistance programs that do discourage people to work, but this is not one of them,” Gundersen said, adding that what lawmakers should be asking is: “What makes this program work so well and why does it work well as compared to other programs?”

These new rules also have advocates in states like Nevada worried. Nevada could see up to 22 percent of recipients lose access to food stamps, which could be devastating in a place where 12.3 percent of households face food insecurity, according to the USDA.

“SNAP is related to hunger and getting people the nutrition they need,” said Jocelyn Lantrip, the communications director at Food Bank of Northern Nevada. “Food shouldn’t be a luxury.”

With a tech boom raising income levels but not enough to cover rising housing costs, Lantrip said that these changes could create further food insecurity issues, which remain close to the levels that the Food Bank of Northern Nevada saw during the recession.

At the height of the recession, Lantrip said her food bank helped 103,000 people per month. Now, during a period of perceived economic stability, she said they are helping 91,000.

Food banks like hers wouldn’t be able to accommodate for the needs of an additional 196,000 people, which is the number in Nevada who would likely need help accessing food if these rules were to go into effect, Lantrip said.

“That’s really hard for food banks to keep up with if you have that kind of decline in benefits,” she said. “We support people if they fall outside of the safety net, but we can’t replace the safety net as a food bank. We’re spinning our wheels already, because when unemployment is low people assume hunger is low, but we’re just helping more working poor than before.”

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-proposal-could-cause-millions-lose-food-stamps-n1092866


Martín Belaunde se escapó de su arresto domiciliario el domingo con la aparente complicidad de varias personas.

Martín Belaunde Lossio, empresario y exasesor del presidente de Perú, Ollanta Humala, fue hasta hace unos momentos el hombre más buscado por Bolivia y Perú.

Fue capturado en Beni (noreste de Bolivia) poco después del mediodía, hora local, en una casa particular donde se refugió. No opuso resistencia y de inmediato fue enviado a La Paz, informaron medios bolivianos.

La noticia fue ratificada por la cuenta de Twitter del Ministerio de Gobierno de Bolivia: “Confirmado, la Policía capturó a Belaunde”.

La Fiscalía peruana lo acusa de “conformar una organización criminal, como jefe de organización, por el caso Antalsis”.

Antalsis era una empresa española para la que Belaunde Lossio presuntamente realizó cabildeo con autoridades peruanas con el fin de conseguirle millonarias licitaciones.

Además se le investiga por presuntos delitos contra la administración pública “en la modalidad de colusión, tráfico de influencias y asociación ilícita para delinquir en agravio del Estado”, según el Ministerio Público peruano.

Belaunde Lossio se trasladó en diciembre a La Paz, Bolivia en busca de refugio y desde el pasado domingo desapareció de aquel lugar hasta que fue ubicado después de pasar cinco días en la clandestinidad.

Las autoridades bolivianas, antes del operativo policial que terminó en su captura, anticiparon que sería entregado a la justicia peruana de inmediato.


El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, compareció en rueda de prensa para hablar sobre la desaparición de Belaunde Lossio.

Búsqueda implacable

La misteriosa desaparición de Belaunde Lossio el domingo 24 de mayo en La Paz, hizo que el presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, prescindiera de su ministro de Gobierno y del comandante de la Policía, mientras que en Perú una avalancha de críticas castigó sin piedad al gobierno por no haber logrado la extradición del excolaborador a tiempo.

El escándalo alcanzó, principalmente, a la primera dama peruana, Nadine Heredia. Frente a las críticas, el presidente peruano ofreció el martes una recompensa por la entrega de Belaunde, a quien llamó “delincuente”. El mandatario rechazó, una vez más, que su administración proteja al ahora detenido y calificó de “insensatos” los ataques contra él y su esposa.

Y eso no es todo.

Desde que Belaunde Lossio abandonó la casa en la que guardaba arresto domiciliario a la espera de su entrega a la justicia peruana, 14 personas en Bolivia fueron involucradas en la fuga.

Un día antes de su detención, el ministro de la Presidencia de Bolivia, Juan Ramón Quintana, anunció una “búsqueda implacable” en una entrevista radial.

La fuga

Martín Belaunde Lossio solicitó refugio en Bolivia el 16 de diciembre de 2014, después de pasar la frontera de Perú sin que la justicia ni la policía de aquel país lo advirtieran.

Desde enero se quedó en una de las casas de Yuliano Arista y de su prima hermana Cloritza Díaz Belaunde, mejor conocidos como el Curaca Blanco y Zulayda, “curanderos espiritistas expertos en la unión de parejas”.

La justicia boliviana había determinado arresto domiciliario para él mientras se resolvía su pedido de refugio y la solicitud de extradición que se tramitó en Lima.


Estos son los objetos hallados en la habitación donde Belaunde Lossio se refugió hasta la desaparición.

Su desaparición se produjo en la madrugada del pasado domingo, 14 días después de que el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Bolivia determinara que el exasesor de Humala debía ser entregado a la justicia peruana.

Un día después del incidente, Hugo Moldiz renunció a su cargo de ministro de Gobierno en Bolivia y su sucesor, Carlos Romero, anunció cambios en los altos mandos policiales para que no se repitan episodios así.

Evo Morales, en conferencia de prensa, dijo que “corrió mucha plata”, dando a entender que los vigilantes de Belaunde recibieron sobornos para dejarlo huir.

“Seis custodios para una persona y que se les escape, es muy raro, lamento muchísimo ese desempeño policial, ojalá ellos que de alguna manera han permitido esta fuga puedan dar con el paradero y lo traigan al señor Belaunde para rendir cuentas”, afirmó a BBC Mundo el presidente del Senado boliviano, José Alberto Gonzales.

En menos de 48 horas, 14 personas quedaron detenidas, sospechosas de haber colaborado en la fuga.

Edgar Fernández, conocido como el lector de cartas del Tarot Ramsés, fue uno de los detenidos por la desaparición de Belaunde que, después de obtener su libertad, conversó con BBC Mundo.

“Vivimos horas de mucho miedo e incertidumbre. Por el hecho de hablar con Martín o visitar esa casa corríamos peligro de perder la libertad. Nueve familiares quedaron detenidos sólo por el hecho de ser familiares”.

En la década del 90, Ramsés fue uno de los testigos clave de un escándalo por narcotráfico que costó la libertad a importantes líderes políticos bolivianos en aquella época.

Después de someterse a un programa de protección de testigos de la DEA en Costa Rica, Ramsés volvió a Bolivia como lector de cartas del Tarot. Su esposa es hija de una sobrina de Belaunde y aquel parentesco le costó la detención a los tres.


La fuga de Belaunde Lossio dio lugar a la detención de al menos 14 personas. En la imagen, uno de los guardias sospechoso de haber ayudado a Belaunde a escapar.

Otro de los detenidos, el empresario y excorredor egipcio boliviano Alí Eid Alí, es acusado de haber prestado uno de los vehículos de su autoventa para que Belaunde escape.

A pesar de la captura de Belaunde, la investigación sobre él persiste y el vehículo fue confiscado.

Los vínculos con la pareja presidencial

A su llegada a Bolivia, Martín Belaunde se declaró perseguido político y dijo que él era “peligroso” para la pareja presidencial de Lima.

La Fiscalía de Perú informó a través de un comunicado que estaba vigente una orden de detención preventiva de 18 meses en contra del exasesor por otro caso conocido como “La Centralita”, una red criminal de desvío de fondos públicos que Belaunde habría cubierto con una de sus empresas.

Además, el pasado febrero, la fiscalía anticorrupción en Lima emitió una resolución en la que dispuso que la primera dama de Perú, Nadine Heredia, y cuatro congresistas también debían ser investigados por el caso de tráfico de influencias conocido como Antalsis.

La relación de Nadine Heredia con Belaunde Lossio se destapó unos años antes, cuando la Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera de Perú halló irregularidades en las cuentas de la pareja de Ollanta Humala y se filtraron los contratos que ella tenía con el exasesor.

Por aquellos vínculos, la primera dama afronta otra investigación por lavado de activos, al no haberse determinado el origen del dinero (US$215.000) depositado a su cuenta de ahorros entre 2006 y 2009.


La pareja presidencial de Perú está también bajo la lupa en el caso de Martín Belaunde Lossio.

El periodista Rodrigo Cruz, que sigue el caso para el diario El Comercio de Lima, explicó a BBC Mundo que la relación de Belaunde Lossio con los Humala arranca en la campaña de las elecciones que Ollanta perdió en 2006.

“Ellos necesitaban de alguien que los ayudara a introducir en los medios su proyecto político. Ese fue Martín Belaunde, empresario, joven de familia acomodada y de ideas de izquierda. El lazo se hace más fuerte con el tiempo. Y más aún cuando empiezan a ingresar bastante sumas de dinero a la campaña”.

Cruz añade que, desde entonces, Nadine es investigada por los sospechosos contratos que contrajo con Belaunde y que habrían sido para “blanquear dinero venezolano que llegaba a su cuenta personal”.

Todo ello motivó, desde el domingo, una ola de críticas de todos los partidos de oposición en Perú que acusaron al gobierno de no actuar a tiempo y facilitar la desaparición de su excolaborador.

A pesar de la detención, en ambos países persiste la guerra verbal entre representantes políticos que se responsabilizan los unos a los otros de haber permitido que Belaunde Lossio desaparezca durante cinco días.

El episodio le costó el cargo a un ministro en La Paz y otro está muy cerca de ser interpelado en Lima.

No serán los únicos. Los siguientes episodios del caso del hombre que fue el más buscado por Perú y Bolivia todavía son un misterio.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2015/05/150528_bolivia_peru_martin_belaunde_lossio_fugitivo_ng

El nominado por Donald Trump para secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Rex Tillerson, buscará una transición a la democracia en Venezuela, según su respuesta a preguntas de los senadores que evalúan su confirmación.

“Debemos pedir que se liberen los presos políticos y reforzar las sanciones a los violadores de DD.HH. en Venezuela y a los narcotraficantes”, respondió Tillerson a la pregunta de qué políticas debería llevar a cabo para ayudar a resolver lo que ellos consideran una crisis política que impera en Venezuela.

Estas declaraciones de Tillerson, cuya audiencia de confirmación en el Senado se celebró el pasado 11 de enero, fueron publicadas por la web Latin America Goes Global.

 

El exjefe de la petrolera ExxonMobil desea “cooperar particularmente con Brasil y Colombia y con organismos multilaterales como la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), para buscar una transición negociada a la democracia en Venezuela”.

Estados Unidos deberá continuar “respaldando un legítimo diálogo que resuelva la crisis política entre el Gobierno de Maduro y la oposición, la cual ahora controla la Asamblea Nacional”.

“Se van a cumplir las sanciones impuestas por el Congreso (…) vamos a continuar apoyando los esfuerzos del secretario general de la OEA, Almagro, en la búsqueda de la invocación de la Carta Democrática Interamericana para promover la normalización de la situación en Venezuela y el restablecimiento de las situaciones democráticas”.

Dos influyentes senadores republicanos, John McCain y Lindsey Graham, anunciaron este domingo que respaldan a Tillerson, lo que confirmaría su cargo.

Source Article from http://www.telesurtv.net/news/Secretario-de-Estado-de-Trump-busca-transicion-para-Venezuela-20170122-0041.html

via press release:

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.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump chastised his own intelligence officials Wednesday morning for being soft on Iran a day after they contradicted numerous administration claims of foreign policy success.

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    Ukraine’s vice prime minister said on Monday that internet terminals sent by Elon Musk, which were designed to work with satellites orbiting in space to provide online access, had arrived in the country.

    One of Mr. Musk’s companies, SpaceX, has deployed thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit over the past three years as part of its business to beam high-speed internet service from more than 100 miles above the planet.

    Satellite internet services like Mr. Musk’s, which is known as Starlink, can be useful in parts of the world where people cannot easily access conventional internet providers, whether because of technical limitations, government restrictions or other barriers.

    There have been a number of internet disruptions in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began last week. On Saturday, Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine, who is also the minister of digital transformation, wrote to Mr. Musk on Twitter to ask for Starlink stations.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/world/europe/elon-musk-satellite-internet-ukraine.html

    Donald Trump has been losing Twitter followers since he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden – while the Democratic president-elect has been adding them.

    According to Factbase, a website dedicated to tracking Trump’s public utterances, the president has lost 133,902 followers since 17 November while the president-elect has gained 1,156,610.

    In a Sunday tweet, CNN host and media reporter Brian Stelter said that while Twitter followers were “surely not the most important metric in the world”, it was “still worth noting: for the first time since 2015, Trump is consistently losing followers”.

    Factbase, he pointed out, had “measured small declines for 11 days in a row”.

    Trump has 88.8 million followers, to whom he continues to tweet baseless claims of electoral fraud and all-out conspiracy theories surrounding his loss to Biden.

    His most recent message at the time of writing accompanied video of a crowd at a rally and said: “NO WAY WE LOST THIS ELECTION!”

    Trump has complained about his treatment by Twitter, alleging it is biased against conservatives. Many observers expect that once he leaves office, the site will stop giving him the benefit of the doubt regarding his false and inflammatory messages.

    Biden has 20.2 million followers.

    On Monday morning, his most recent message read: “It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, and listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans.”

    Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/30/trump-losing-twitter-followers-biden-gains-them

    Congressman Matt Gaetz on Tuesday night denied he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paid for her to travel with him after The New York Times reported that the Justice Department was investigating the matter. Gaetz, a close ally of former President Trump, appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” where he claimed he was the victim of an attempted extortion.

    The New York Times, citing three unnamed sources, reported that investigators are looking into whether Gaetz “violated federal sex trafficking laws.” The investigation reportedly began under the Trump administration. 

    Gaetz denied the relationship to Carlson and in a separate statement. “The person doesn’t exist. I have not had a relationship with a 17-year-old,” Gaetz told Carlson. “That is totally false.” 

    Gaetz also alleged that a former Justice Department official — whom he named on television — was trying to extort him and his family out of $25 million in exchange for “making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away.”  

    Gaetz told Carlson he reported the alleged extortion attempt to the FBI. He claimed the FBI asked his father to wear a wire during conversations with the former DOJ official, and called on the bureau to release the audio recordings of the resulting conversations to “prove my innocence.”  

    He also questioned the timing of the Times article, claiming that his father was supposed to contact the former DOJ official on Wednesday to coordinate a $4.5 million down payment on the bribe. “The planted leak to the New York Times tonight was intended to thwart that investigation,” Gaetz said in a statement.  

    The New York Times story was published just hours after several outlets reported that Gaetz, 38, was considering not running for reelection and floated that he wanted a job at Newsmax, a conservative media network. 

    Gaetz is a member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, and Congressman Ted Lieu on Tuesday night called for him to be suspended from that committee while the investigation is ongoing. 

    Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-denies-inappropriate-sexual-relationship-17-year-old-investigation/

    BARRON, Wis. (AP) – The Latest on the case of a kidnapped Wisconsin girl whose parents were fatally shot and the man accused of committing the crimes (all times local):

    1:05 p.m.
    A criminal complaint says a Wisconsin man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs spotted her getting on a school bus one day and made up his mind to take her.

    Jake Thomas Patterson was charged Monday with kidnapping and with killing Jayme’s parents. The criminal complaint says Patterson told investigators he was driving to his job at a cheese factory one day near Almena, Wisconsin, when he stopped behind a school bus and watched Jayme get on.

    The complaint quotes Patterson as saying when he saw Jayme, “He knew that was the girl he was going to take.”

    The complaint says Patterson went to the Closs home twice with the intent of taking Jayme but was unable to do so because too many people were around before he was able to kidnap her.
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    12:45 p.m.
    A Wisconsin man has been charged with kidnapping, two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and armed burglary in the abduction of 13-year-old Jayme Closs and the slaying of her parents.

    Jake Thomas Patterson was arrested Thursday after Jayme apparently escaped from a remote northwestern Wisconsin cabin where she says she was held.

    Patterson was charged on Monday.

    Investigators say the 21-year-old man broke into James and Denise Closs’ home near Barron, Wisconsin on Oct. 15 by blowing the front door open with a shotgun. Jayme’s parents were shot to death and the teenager vanished the same day.

    Investigators believe Patterson planned to abduct Jayme but say they don’t know what led him to target her.
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    11:15 a.m.
    A Wisconsin sheriff says 13-year-old Jayme Closs had a smile on her face when he saw her Sunday, just days after she fled the remote cabin where she says she was held for three months.

    Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said it was the first time he had met Jayme since she apparently escaped from her captor on Thursday.

    Fitzgerald called it “awesome” and a moment he’ll never forget. He says Jayme showed him the room where she is staying with an aunt in Barron, Wisconsin.

    Jake Thomas Patterson, the man suspected of abducting Jayme and killing her parents, James and Denise Closs, was expected to be charged later Monday with kidnapping and homicide.
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    10:30 a.m.
    Photos of the Wisconsin cabin where a man suspected of kidnapping Jayme Closs allegedly held the teenager show an unfinished ceiling, a three-car garage and an empty box of adult female diapers in the trash.

    Investigators believe Jake Thomas Patterson broke into Jayme’s home in October, killed her parents and abducted her. She was missing for almost three months before a woman walking her dog near Gordon, Wisconsin, found her on the road. Jayme said she had escaped from Patterson’s cabin nearby.

    Photos published by the New York Post show the cabin’s living area, complete with a refrigerator, white kitchen cabinets and an old television. The ceiling is not finished.

    Exterior shots show a lean-to covering firewood, a three-car garage and an empty box of adult female diapers in a trash can. A sign over the front door reads “Pattersons Retreat.”
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    9 a.m.
    Relatives of a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped after her parents were fatally shot say they aren’t asking the girl to tell them what happened while she was held captive for three months.
    Her aunts say they’re surrounding Jayme Closs with love and attention.

    Lynn Closs and Sue Allard told “CBS This Morning” that they’re telling their niece they’re proud of her for surviving and escaping. Lynn Closs says her niece’s strength is incredible and that she took the power away from her captor.

    The suspect, Jake Patterson, is scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.

    Investigators believe Patterson broke into James and Denise Closs’ home near Barron on Oct. 15, killed the couple and abducted their daughter.

    Jayme was missing for nearly three months before she escaped from a cabin in Gordon late last week. She told investigators Patterson had been holding her against her will.
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    5:50 a.m.
    Defense lawyers for the man suspected of fatally shooting a Wisconsin couple and kidnapping their daughter say they believe he can get a fair trial, but they’re not sure where.

    Jake Patterson is scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.

    Investigators believe he broke into James and Denise Closs’ home near Barron on Oct. 15, killed the couple and abducted their 13-year-old daughter, Jayme Closs. Jayme was missing for nearly three months before she escaped from a cabin in Gordon late last week. She told investigators Patterson had been holding her against her will.

    Public defenders Charles Glynn and Richard Jones say it’s been an emotional time for the community of Barron, and they understand the pain the case has generated.

    It’s unclear how Patterson became aware of Jayme, and authorities have found no evidence of any interactions between them. Charging documents released Monday could shed more light on the case.
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    12 a.m.
    A man suspected of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents is due to make his first court appearance.

    Twenty-one-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson is expected to appear in Barron County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon, after prosecutors formally charge him with intentional homicide and kidnapping.

    Investigators believe Patterson broke into James and Denise Closs’ home near Barron on Oct. 15, gunned the couple down and abducted 13-year-old Jayme Closs. She was missing for nearly three months before she escaped from the cabin in Gordon where she said Patterson had been holding her.

    Charging documents could shed more light on the case. It’s unclear how Patterson became aware of Jayme, and authorities have found no evidence of any interactions between them. Her family says they don’t know Patterson.
     

     

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    One day after President Trump decried what he called “the politics of revenge” and “partisan investigations” in his State of the Union address, Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced a new, wide-ranging probe into the president’s foreign business dealings and Russian election meddling.

    The move was fiercely condemned by Trump, who called Schiff a “political hack” on a partisan search-and-destroy mission.

    The Intelligence Committee on Wednesday also voted to hand over a slew of interview transcripts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller that were generated by the panel’s previous Russia investigation, which was conducted under GOP leadership and concluded last March. That investigation found “no evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election.

    Republicans had previously voted to release the transcripts publicly, but that has been held up by an intelligence community review to ensure no sensitive materials are disclosed.

    The flurry of activity comes shortly after Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said he expected Mueller’s final Russia report “within a month.

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    Although the precise nature of the new Democrat-led House probe is unclear, Schiff said the investigation will include “the scope and scale” of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the “extent of any links and/or coordination” between Russians and Trump’s associates, whether foreign actors have sought to hold leverage over Trump or his family and associates, and whether anyone has sought to obstruct any of the relevant investigations.

    Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., now ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, exits a secure area to speak to reporters, on Capitol Hill last March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Schiff, D-Calif., charged late last year that Trump’s financial records with Deutsche Bank and Russia might reveal a “form of compromise” that “needs to be exposed.”  Schiff has long maintained that there had to be some reason that the German banking giant, which has what he called a “history of laundering Russian money,” was willing to work with the Trump Organization.

    In response, Trump told reporters at the White House that Schiff was grandstanding.

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    “He has no basis to do that. He’s just a political hack who’s trying to build a name for himself,” Trump said. “It’s just presidential harassment and it’s unfortunate, and it really does hurt our country.”

    Trump, who last November called Schiff “little Adam Schitt,” warned during his State of the Union that an “economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations.”

    Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., characterized Trump’s remarks as threatening.

    “The president should not bring threats to the floor of the House,” Pelosi said.

    For his part, Schiff said Trump’s comments would not deter Democrats.

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    “We’re going to do our jobs and the president needs to do his,” Schiff said. “Our job involves making sure that the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.”

    While it was unclear whether Mueller had requested that the Intelligence Committee turn over the interview transcripts, Republicans unanimously voted in September to release the documents, pending a review for potentially sensitive contents. Democrats have long vowed to turn over the transcripts to Mueller.

    President Donald Trump announces his nomination of David Malpass, under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, to head the World Bank, during an event in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

    That investigation, which Democrats said had been concluded prematurely, found “no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.”

    Since then, both former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone have been charged with lying to the panel. Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to the House and Senate intelligence committees about his role in a Trump business proposal in Moscow. He acknowledged that he misled lawmakers by saying he had abandoned the project in January 2016 when he actually continued pursuing it for months after that.

    Stone pleaded not guilty to charges last month that he lied to the House panel about his discussions during the 2016 election about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released thousands of emails stolen from Democrats. Stone is also charged with obstructing the House probe by encouraging one of his associates, New York radio host Randy Credico, to refuse to testify before the House panel in an effort to conceal Stone’s false statements.

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    Schiff on Wednesday also announced a delay in an upcoming closed-door interview with Cohen, “in the interests of the investigation.” The interview was originally scheduled for Friday. It will now be held on Feb. 28, Schiff said.

    Schiff said he could not speak about the reason for the delay. Hours after the meeting was pushed back, a document was filed under seal in the criminal case against Cohen brought by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The court’s docket did not contain any details about the nature of the document.

    Special counsel spokesman Peter Carr declined comment, as did Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen.

    Fox News’ Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released its sixth batch of subpoenas Tuesday targeting some of former President TrumpDonald TrumpMeat industry groups pledge to meet Paris Agreement emissions targets by 2030 Judge tosses part of DC AG’s suit against Trump inaugural committee Rep. Gosar posts anime video showing him striking Biden, Ocasio-Cortez MORE’s highest-ranking staff, including White House adviser Stephen MillerStephen MillerTrump, Jan. 6 panel lawyers head to court in executive privilege fight Trump Defense chief blocked idea to send 250,000 troops to border: report Dave Chappelle refuses to be cancelled MORE and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

    The subpoenas to Miller and McEnany focus on the false statements they made promoting baseless claims of voter fraud.

    “As a White House Press Secretary you made multiple public statements from the White House and elsewhere about purported fraud in the November 2020 election, which individuals who attacked the U.S. Capitol echoed on Jan. 6,” the committee wrote in its subpoena to McEnany.

    The committee appeared to peg Miller as being at the center of an effort to craft voter fraud conspiracies and Trump’s messaging ahead of the Jan. 6 rally where the then-president encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell.”

    “You and your team prepared former President Trump’s remarks for the rally on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, you were at the White House that day, and you were with Trump when he spoke at the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally,” the committee wrote. 

    Other aides subpoenaed show an effort by the panel to gain information about the activities of former White House Chief of Staff Mark MeadowsMark MeadowsJan. 6 panel has interviewed more than 150 people so far Trump DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark to testify before Jan. 6 panel Friday Trump, Jan. 6 panel lawyers head to court in executive privilege fight MORE, who has also been sought for testimony by the committee.

    The latest subpoenas include former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher LiddellChristopher Pell LiddellOVERNIGHT ENERGY: Trump creates federal council on global tree planting initiative | Green group pushes for answers on delayed climate report | Carbon dioxide emissions may not surpass 2019 levels until 2027: analysis Trump creates federal government council on global tree planting initiative MORE and Ben Williamson, a right hand man to Meadows. 

    “The Select Committee wants to learn every detail of what went on in the White House on January 6th and in the days beforehand. We need to know precisely what role the former President and his aides played in efforts to stop the counting of the electoral votes and if they were in touch with anyone outside the White House attempting to overturn the outcome of the election,” Chair Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonJan. 6 panel issues six new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides Jan. 6 panel weighs contempt charges for former Trump DOJ official Clark Jan. 6 panel has interviewed more than 150 people so far MORE (D-Miss.) said in a statement.

    “We believe the witnesses subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to comply fully with the Select Committee’s investigation as we work to get answers for the American people, make recommendations on changes to the law to protect our democracy, and help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again.”

    The subpoenas come just a day after the committee demanded testimony from former Trump campaign aides and John Eastman, who crafted the strategy used to contest the election both at the state level and during Congress’s certification of the vote. The panel also subpoenaed Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor who sat in on a White House meeting about seizing voting machines.

    Eastman’s memos became a blueprint for the Trump team in seeking avenues to unwind the election, likely igniting Trump’s focus on having former Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceHere are the six latest Trump allies to be subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel Jan. 6 panel issues six new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides Sunday shows preview: House passes bipartisan infrastructure bill; Democrats suffer election loss in Virginia MORE buck the largely ceremonial duty of certifying the 2020 election results.

    To that end the committee has questions for Nicholas Luna, who served as Trump’s personal assistant and was reportedly in the Oval Office the morning of Jan. 6 when the former President was on a phone call to Pence pressuring him not to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

    Miller, a powerful aid throughout Trump administration, especially in the immigration sphere, is also set to be asked about Eastman’s plans, including an effort to get states to encourage states to select alternate electors. Eastman held a meeting with some 300 state legislators in a bid to carry out this plan.

    The subpoenas also show an increasing interest in the activities of Meadows, who appears to have been involved in multiple aspects of Trump’s plan to push back on the election results.

    Cassidy Hutchinson, a special assistant, has been asked to testify about her work arranging a trip for Meadows to travel to Georgia to attend an election audit. Her letter suggests she is “potentially in a position” to inform the committee about Meadows’s contact with election officials there; his efforts to contact Department of Justice officials as Trump sought to pressure DOJ to involve itself in the election; and his contacts with Jan. 6 rally organizers.

    Liddell and Williamson are asked about similar themes, though Williamson’s subpoena also asks about a report indicating he and Meadows were contacted by former White House communications director Alyssa Farah and asked to persuade Trump to issue a statement condemning the attack at the Capitol as it was playing out. 

    The committee is also seeking testimony from those with more knowledge about Trump’s efforts at DOJ.

    A letter to Molly Michael, special assistant to Trump and Oval Office Operations Coordinator, asks about her role in sending election fraud claims to various officials on behalf of the president, including sending an email to former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen “from POTUS” discussing unfounded election irregularities in Michigan. 

    Another letter to Kenneth Klukowski seeks more information about the activities of Jeffrey Clark, a mid-level DOJ official that Trump weighed installing as attorney general after he proposed DOJ send a letter to Georgia and other states encouraging them to delay certification of their election results due to alleged fraud.

    “You communicated with Mr. Clark about that letter, and Mr. Clark contacted you before he attended a meeting at the White House during which he tried to oust Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and assume the role of acting United State attorney general,” the subpoena states. 

    Also subpoenaed is John McEnteeJohn (Johnny) David McEnteeBiden rolls out new members of White House senior staff GOP lawmaker: Trump implementing a ‘loyalty purge’ amid firing of top cybersecurity official Esper firing hints at broader post-election shake-up MORE, the White House personnel director.

    The committee said McEntee would likely be familiar with Oval Office conversations as Trump, Pence and Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiHere are the six latest Trump allies to be subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel Jan. 6 panel issues six new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides Giuliani says in deposition he ‘didn’t have the time’ to verify election claims: CNN MORE discussed the audit process in Georgia and “listened as Giuliani suggested seizing Dominion voting machines because of fraud.”

    The committee has sought testimony from top DHS officials Chad WolfChad WolfHere are the six latest Trump allies to be subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel Jan. 6 panel issues six new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides Jan. 6 panel seeks interviews with Trump DHS officials Wolf, Cuccinelli: CNN MORE and Ken Cucchinelli about the potential for seeing voting machines and on Monday subpoenaed Michael Flynn after he likewise attended a meeting on the topic.

    But McEntee is also sought for his efforts in seeking to halt the transition process. 

    “You were also involved in communications with officials in various federal agencies regarding loyalty to former President Trump and you specifically discouraged a number of individuals from seeking employment after the election as it would appear to be a concession of President Trump’s defeat,” the committee wrote.

    Lastly the committee subpoenaed Keith Kellogg, Pence’s National Security Advisor, including sitting in on a meeting where Trump said Pence “need[ed] to send the votes back.” 

    It also seeks his insight on Trump’s reaction to the rally throughout the day, noting that he reportedly “urged Mr. Trump to send out a tweet to his supporters at the U.S. Capitol to help control the crowd.”

    The slew of subpoenas is likely to raise more executive privilege objections from Trump.

    Trump has already encouraged Meadows, his former communications guru Dan Scavino, Kash Patel, chief of staff to the then-defense secretary and Steve BannonStephen (Steve) Kevin BannonHere are the six latest Trump allies to be subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel Jan. 6 panel issues six new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides Pediatrician unveils challenge to GOP’s Mace in South Carolina MORE, who was not a White House employee at the time of the attack, to defy the committee and refuse to testify.

    While three are reportedly in negotiations with the committee, Bannon has since been censured by the committee and referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. DOJ has not yet acted on the matter.

    Trump is also seeking to block release of his presidential records to the committee, claiming it would violate his executive privilege and that the committee lacks a valid legislative aim.

    The committee has steadfastly rejected those arguments, saying only the sitting president has the authority to exert executive privilege, and President BidenJoe BidenNicaragua’s Ortega set to win election amid international criticism Rep. Gosar posts anime video showing him striking Biden, Ocasio-Cortez Overnight Energy & Environment — Presented by ExxonMobil — Activists cry foul over COP26 draft MORE has already agreed to release the records. 

    Lawmakers on the committee have also pledged to introduce legislation to prevent another similar attack.

    Updated 4:35 p.m.

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    As House Democrats vote Tuesday to stop President Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern border, congressional Republicans should ask themselves: Why is it that every other president is permitted by courts to exercise “executive discretion,” and yet Trump isn’t?

    A New York Times report on Monday set up the scene for weak-willed Senate Republicans, writing that, “The [Democrat-controlled] House’s vote on a declaration of disapproval will force Republicans to choose between the congressional prerogative over federal spending established in the Constitution and a president determined to go around the legislative branch to secure funds for a border wall that Congress has refused to grant.”

    This is, on its face, a false choice, though some in the GOP are stupidly buying into it.

    Trump’s emergency declaration earlier this month does nothing more than free up little bits of money already allocated to the executive branch so that he can build more wall barriers on the border, stunting the overwhelming flood of illegal immigration from Latin America.

    It’s every bit of a crisis today as it was when former President Barack Obama called it that in 2014, and the media happily played along. Trump’s official declaration only means he’s using his last option to address the issue.

    This isn’t an choice between fidelity to the Constitution or blind loyalty to a president; though I’ll note the executive branch is part of that newly appreciated document, and Congress has already given the president the authority to do exactly what Trump is pursuing. This is a choice about relinquishing authority to Democrats to set immigration policy even while a Republican president is in office.

    Obama made up his own law in 2012 that said nearly 1 million eligible illegal immigrants in the U.S. would not only be overlooked by law enforcement but could come out, declare themselves to the public, and receive indefinite legal protection.

    Take for granted that the program was created out of compassion — plus Obama’s upcoming re-election — for young immigrants who may only know the U.S. as their home, but it should then also be taken for granted that if one president can dictate immigration policy within the authority Congress has given them, the same right belongs to every other president. Or, at the very least, every other president should be able to exercise power in moving to limit the influx of foreigners by erecting limited structures on the border.

    Not so fast, says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit!

    The federal court ruled in November that the Trump administration could not end the Obama-era program with the argument that it was never legal to set it up in the first place. And yet, in the court’s unanimous opinion, it repeatedly acknowledged that the executive branch has the right to determine enforcement of immigration law by way of “executive discretion.”

    Page 10: Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals “was a permissible exercise of executive discretion.”

    Page 27: The Reagan administration “exercised executive discretion to defer the deportation of the minor children of non-citizens” and “extended voluntary departure, the mechanism through which these individuals were allowed to remain in the United States is, like deferred action, a creature of executive discretion.”

    Page 69: “We therefore conclude that DACA was a permissible exercise of executive discretion.”

    Who with a straight face could argue that it’s acceptable “executive discretion” for one president to carve out an exception for up to 1 million people not legally entitled residence in the U.S. but that it’s unconstitutional for another duly elected executive to eliminate that same exception? The 9th Circuit did it.

    Now Trump’s emergency declaration is, as everyone knew it would be, tangled up in court. That order didn’t even affect anyone in the U.S., whether legally here or not. It did nothing more than cobble together funds available to the executive so that Trump might add on to the existing walls and barriers at the southern border, slowing down the drug dealers, human traffickers, and child molesters from Central America.

    Skittish Republicans can keep this in mind when presented with the fake dilemma that they must either choose between the Constitution and the president. They can instead choose reality.

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    Vice President Kamala Harris Friday said the right to abortion is “nonnegotiable” even as the Supreme Court declined to put a stop to a Texas law that curtails abortions while allowing further litigation over the statute

    The Court ruled Friday that a lawsuit by abortion providers against Texas over its abortion law may proceed, despite arguments by Texas that the way the law was written made it so that parties could not sue against the law until it was enforced.

    “As far as I’m concerned, and as far as our administration is concerned, a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body is non-negotiable,” Harris said, claiming that the ruling is an “attempt to undo” precedent.

    SUPREME COURT LETS CHALLENGE TO TEXAS ABORTION LAW PROCEED, ALLOWS LAW TO REMAIN IN EFFECT

    Harris’s remarks followed the swearing-in ceremony of former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., to serve as US Ambassador to Turkey.

    Later, President Biden questioned the Court’s decision.

    “I am very concerned by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow SB8 to remain in effect in light of the significant consequences that law has for women in Texas and around the country, and for the rule of law,” Biden said in a statement. “I am deeply committed to the constitutional right recognized in Roe v. Wade nearly five decades ago.”

    President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the debt ceiling during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, in Washington. 
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    In addition, Biden claimed there is “so much more work to be done” in states like Texas and Mississippi where “women’s rights are currently under attack” as restrictive abortion measures have been implemented.

    Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Tribal Nations Summit in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington.
    (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    Harris noted that the administration will “continue to fight for the constitutional right of all women to make decisions about their own body without interference” by legislative groups.

    In its ruling, the court also let the law remain in effect pending legal challenges. The ruling is procedural and will not be the final word on the law’s constitutionality.

    Pro-abortion rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, December 1, 2021.
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    The Texas law bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and uses a unique system to enforce that ban – allowing private individuals to bring suit in state court against people who perform abortions.

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    In a September tweet, Harris offered similar remarks on the “right of women” to have an abortion.

    “Our Administration will always fight to defend the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies,” Harris wrote. “It is non-negotiable.”

    Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this article.

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