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5 noticias del día: 14 de junio – El Economista
5 noticias del día: 14 de junio – El Economista


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1. Retiros sin tarjeta de Bancomer Móvil, con buenos resultados

La estrategia lanzada por Bancomer, a través de su aplicación Bancomer Móvil con el llamado Botón Verde, de permitir el retiro de efectivo en cajeros automáticos sin necesidad de usar la tarjeta, le ha dado muy favorables resultados.
De acuerdo con el banco de capital español, entre enero y mayo del 2017 el servicio de retiro sin tarjeta alcanzó más de 4 millones de operaciones, que ascienden a un monto de 5,700 millones de pesos. Las operaciones van desde los 100 y hasta los 8,000 pesos, con un retiro promedio de 1,320 pesos.

Retiros sin tarjeta de Bancomer Móvil, con buenos resultados.. Ver nota.

2. Cristiano Ronaldo vale el 71% de lo que vale la selección mexicana

Representando a América del Norte, México se enfrenta al campeón europeo, Portugal, liderado por Cristiano Ronaldo. El partido se antoja de cierta forma parejo, quizás con ventaja para el cuadro lusitano; sin embargo, si se compara el valor de mercado de las plantillas, existe una enorme ventaja para los europeos. Portugal es casi cuatro veces más caro que México y si sólo se compara a la estrella del Real Madrid, el jugador “merengue” representa el 71% del valor total de la plantilla mexicana.

Cristiano Ronaldo vale el 71% de lo que vale la selección mexicana.. Ver nota.

3. Se registra explosión en refinería de Pemex en Salina Cruz

Esta mañana se registro un incendio en la mayor refinería de Pemex, ubicada en el estado Oaxaca, sin que hasta el momento hubiera reportes de muertos o heridos, dijo un portavoz de la empresa.
El fuego se originó tras un derrame de crudo cerca de la casa de bombas de la refinería Antonio Dovalí, ubicada en Salina Cruz, dijo el portavoz. La refinería tiene capacidad para procesar 330,000 barriles por día.

Se registra explosión en refinería de Pemex en Salina Cruz.. Ver nota.

4. Paseo de la Contrarreforma

Un carton de Perujo

Paseo de la Contrarreforma. Ver nota.

5. Estados Unidos y México concretan acuerdo sobre azúcar

El Departamento de Comercio de Estados Unidos finalizó los términos de un acuerdo con México por las cuotas de azúcar, dijeron el miércoles fuentes familiarizadas con el pacto, lo que acerca a los países al fin de una larga disputa sobre el endulzante.
Dos fuentes, que hablaron bajo condición de anonimato, aseguraron que el acuerdo fue rubricado el miércoles y se espera un anuncio para más adelante en el día.

Estados Unidos y México concretan acuerdo sobre azúcar. Ver nota.

javier.cisneros@eleconomista.mx



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Michigan’s Virus Cases Are Out of Control, Putting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a Bind – The New York Times
Michigan’s Virus Cases Are Out of Control, Putting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a Bind – The New York Times

Several hospitals in Michigan delayed some elective procedures this past week because a wave of coronavirus patients has stressed their resources. Smaller, rural hospitals struggled to find urban hospitals that could accept their coronavirus patients who needed intensive-care beds. One doctor in Lansing described admitting five such patients in a five-hour period.

“It’s hard for me to have hope when I don’t see the basic public health precautions being implemented and sustained,” said Debra Furr-Holden, a Michigan State University epidemiologist whom Ms. Whitmer appointed to the state’s Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities. “If we continue the way we’ve been going, we’re going to continue to get what we’ve been getting, which is these ebbs and flows and these spikes. It will be a vicious cycle and the vaccines will not be able to keep pace.”

The balance between politics and public health, never simple, has become even more volatile as the pandemic enters a second year. Residents are exhausted, business owners are reeling and, unlike last year, no other state is seeing a similar surge.

There is also reason for optimism that distinguishes this virus surge from those that came before: One in three Michigan residents has started the vaccination process, and one in five is fully immunized. With older residents swiftly getting vaccines, health officials say that most of the people who are infected with the coronavirus now are younger than 65, a less vulnerable population. And so Ms. Whitmer, who received her first shot on Tuesday, has pointed to vaccines — rather than new lockdowns — as the way out of this moment.

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Byron York: What now, for those who denied a ‘crisis’ at the border? – Washington Examiner
Byron York: What now, for those who denied a ‘crisis’ at the border? – Washington Examiner

Congress is debating emergency humanitarian aid to care for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. The need is obvious. With virtually no barrier to stop them, thousands of migrants are crossing illegally into the United States every day. More than a million will come this year. U.S. law prevents border officials from quickly returning them. While they are being processed, some of the migrants, including children, are being kept temporarily in terrible conditions. American officials have an obligation to take care of them before those with no valid claim to be in the United States are returned to their home countries.

Capitol Hill Democrats are reportedly torn about an emergency aid measure. On one hand, they want to care for the migrants. On the other hand, they fear approving aid would empower President Trump to carry out a plan to deport illegal immigrants whose cases have received full legal due process and who have been ordered deported. Such deportations used to be relatively uncontroversial but are now, apparently, unacceptable to some Democrats.

This moment might be a time for introspection for those who have consistently downplayed the urgency of the situation on the border. Earlier this year, with the number of illegal crossings rising; with the nature of the crossers changing — more families and more children than in earlier years; with the testimony of border officials that they were unable to handle the situation — with all that happening, many Democrats and their supporters in the media forcefully denied that there was a crisis on the southern border. Here are a few — actually, more than a few — examples:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the situation “a fake crisis at the border.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it “a crisis that does not exist.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Eliot Engel called the situation “a fake crisis at the border.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said, “We don’t have a border crisis.”

Rep. Lloyd Doggett called the situation “a phony border crisis.”

Rep. Earl Blumenauer called it “a fake crisis at the border.”

Rep. Sanford Bishop called it “a crisis that does not exist.”

Reps. Jesus Garcia, Jose Serrano, Suzanne Bonamici, Donald Beyer, Pramila Jayapal, and Adriano Espaillat called it a “nonexistent border crisis.”

Former congressman and current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, “There is no border crisis.”

All are in public office and all have a say in determining policy. In the media, “Never Trump” Republicans, former Republicans, and other commentators have joined in.

Former Rep. Joe Scarborough, now with MSNBC, called the situation “an imaginary border crisis.”

Former Bush White House official Nicolle Wallace, also with MSNBC, said “There’s not a crisis.”

Former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called the situation “a fake crisis.”

GOP strategist Rick Wilson said, “There is no crisis on the border.”

Former conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

The Washington Post’s Max Boot called the situation a “faux crisis.”

The Post’s Jennifer Rubin said, “There is no crisis at the southern border.”

The Post’s editorial board called it a “make-believe crisis.”

And finally, lest anyone ignore the late-night Resistance, comedian Jimmy Kimmel called the situation “a fake border crisis.”

Are 26 examples enough? There are plenty more, for those who care to look.

The situation at the border is so terrible in part because those in power, and those cheering them on in the media, have steadfastly resisted commonsense measures to reduce the flow of illegal migrants — the large majority of whom do not have a valid claim of asylum — across the border. The resulting paralysis in border policy encourages more migrants to come, making the situation worse by the day.

Perhaps some of those quoted above only want to deny the president a victory, no matter how sensible. Perhaps others are simply looking for a partisan advantage. Perhaps some sincerely believe in open, or virtually open, borders. It does not matter what their motives are. The crisis — yes, crisis — at the border worsens every day they do not act.

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Live updates: Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens; former Ukraine envoy testifies on Capitol Hill – The Washington Post
Live updates: Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens; former Ukraine envoy testifies on Capitol Hill – The Washington Post

Colby Itkowitz

John Wagner

Felicia Sonmez

October 3 at 4:34 PM

President Trump called on China on Thursday to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter in relation to the younger Biden’s business dealings during the tenure of the former vice president.

Trump’s comments came as Democrats accelerated an impeachment inquiry that was sparked by a whistleblower’s complaint that Trump had pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a similar investigation. Some Democrats said Trump’s latest comments had generated another potential article of impeachment.

As Trump spoke to reporters at the White House, Kurt D. Volker, who resigned last week as Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, was being interviewed behind closed doors in front of three House committees. Volker was among the officials mentioned by name in the whistleblower’s complaint.

In a television interview that aired earlier, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused her Republican colleagues of being loyal to Trump and not the Constitution.

●Trump involved Vice President Pence in efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leader, though officials say that Pence was unaware of allegations in the whistleblower complaint

●Odd markings, ellipses fuel doubts about the “rough transcript” of Trump’s Ukraine call

●Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani consulted on Ukraine with imprisoned Paul Manafort via a lawyer

Read the whistleblower complaint | The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Zelensky | Related coverage and analysis of the Trump impeachment inquiry

4:30 p.m.: IRS whistleblower said to report that Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence

An Internal Revenue Service official has filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that he was told at least one Treasury Department political appointee attempted to improperly interfere with the annual audit of the president or vice president’s tax returns, according to multiple people familiar with the document.

Trump administration officials dismissed the whistleblower’s complaint as flimsy because it is based on conversations with other government officials. But congressional Democrats were alarmed by the complaint, now circulating on Capitol Hill, and flagged it to a federal judge. They are also discussing whether to make it public.

The details of the IRS complaint follow news of a separate, explosive whistleblower complaint filed in August by a member of the intelligence community. That complaint revealed Trump’s request to the Ukrainian president for an investigation of Biden and his son, which has spurred an impeachment probe on Capitol Hill.

Read more here.

— Jeff Stein, Tom Hamburger and Josh Dawsey

4:05 p.m.: Trump bizarrely suggests Big Pharma is pushing his impeachment

Trump accused pharmaceutical companies of being behind the House Democrats’ push for impeachment because of his administration’s work to lower drug prices.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the hoax didn’t come a little bit from some of the people that we’re taking on,” Trump said during an event on Medicare in Florida. “They’re very powerful, they spend a lot of money, spend I think more money than any other group in the world actually in terms of lobbying and lobbying abilities.”

“And I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the nonsense that we all have to go through, but that I go through, wouldn’t be surprised if it was from some of these industries like pharmaceuticals that we take on,” he continued.

Trump did not provide any evidence for his claim.

Holly Campbell, spokeswoman for PhRMA did not immediately respond to request for comment, but she told Politico that it was “a ridiculous question.”

3:45 p.m.: Pelosi swats down McCarthy’s call to cease impeachment inquiry

Pelosi began a letter to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) telling him that as members of Congress “we take a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and thus that is what the House is doing with its impeachment investigation.

“As you know, our Founders were specifically intent on ensuring that foreign entities did not undermine the integrity of our elections,” Pelosi wrote. “I received your letter this morning shortly after the world witnessed President Trump on national television asking yet another foreign power to interfere in the upcoming 2020 elections. We hope you and other Republicans share our commitment to following the facts, upholding the Constitution, protecting our national security, and defending the integrity of our elections at such a serious moment in our nation’s history.”

Pelosi was responding to a letter Thursday morning from McCarthy asking that she suspend the inquiry until she fully explained how she intended the proceedings to go. McCarthy has complained that Pelosi decided to launch the probe without input from Republicans.

3 p.m.: Letter shows GOP senators in 2016 supported Biden’s efforts to oust Ukrainian prosecutor

A bipartisan letter dated Feb. 12, 2016, signed by Republican Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio), Ron Johnson (Wis.), and Mark Kirk (Ill.) and sent to Ukraine’s then-president Petro Poroshenko, asks him to make changes in the office of the top prosecutor.

The letter, first unearthed by CNN, shows that then-vice president Joe Biden was not alone in wanting Ukraine to oust its prosecutor over concerns about the corruption pervasive in the country.

The senators wrote to the Ukrainian president that they “urge you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General’s office and judiciary.”

Trump has said that Biden wanted the prosecutor ousted because he’d investigated a Ukrainian natural gas company that employed Biden’s son, Hunter. There has been no evidence found to support this accusation, and the letter shows that concerns about the prosecutor were widespread and bipartisan.

Notably, since it was revealed that Trump asked the Ukrainian president for help getting information about Biden and his son, Johnson has said he would consider opening a congressional investigation into Biden’s engagements with Ukraine.

2:50 p.m.: Pascrell says Virginia, District bar associations should sanction Barr

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) sent letters Thursday to the District of Columbia and Virginia bar associations calling for sanctions on Attorney General William P. Barr, accusing Barr of having “repeatedly violated” both bodies’ Rules of Professional Conduct.

“Mr. Barr’s pattern of lying and his corruption of the rule of law in America in service of one man is a betrayal of Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s warnings and unprecedented in our national life,” Pascrell said in the letters. “In carrying out that perversion, Mr. Barr has clearly violated [your] Rules of Professional Conduct he swore to uphold and should face the severest sanction your body can mete out: revocation of his law licensure.”

2:15 p.m.: Pence says Americans ‘have right to know’ about Biden and his son

Pence defended Trump when he was asked to respond to the president calling for China to investigate Biden and his family.

“I think the American people have a right to know if the vice president of the United States or his family profited from his position as vice president in the last administration,” Pence said during an event in Arizona. “That’s about looking backwards and understanding what really happened.”

The Post reported Wednesday that Trump had used Pence on several occasions to put pressure on Ukraine in an attempt to receive information about Biden.

2 p.m.: Trump mockingly admonishes supporter who yells, ‘Lock her up.’

On the same day that Trump invited another foreign country to help him gather information on Biden, the president invited cheers for a man who yelled, “Lock her up.”

Trump was speaking at an official government event ostensibly on Medicare, but it felt more like a political rally, with Trump going after his normal targets.

When a supporter yelled “lock her up” — the chant that originated in 2016 about Hillary Clinton — Trump smiled. Then he said the news media was going to attack him for smiling, so he invited the person who said it to stand.

The man waved his hand as the crowd cheered him.

“I’m admonishing you,” Trump said sarcastically as the crowd laughed. “Now the press can’t say I didn’t admonish.”

Later in his speech, when the crowd started chanting “four more years,” Trump encouraged them to drive the media “crazy” by saying, “eight more years or 12 more years. Sixteen would do it — you’d really drive them into the loony bin. And that’s why they do the impeachment crap, because they know they can’t beat us fairly.”

1:10 p.m.: FEC chair renews warning for candidates not to accept foreign election help

Trump’s remarks on China and Ukraine grabbed the attention of Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub, who on Thursday retweeted a statement she had made in June warning candidates not to accept help from foreign governments.

“Is this thing on?” Weintraub tweeted, along with a microphone emoji.

Weintraub, a Democrat, had put out the statement in June, 24 hours after Trump told ABC News that he would not necessarily report to law enforcement if a foreign national offered him information on a political opponent.

“Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office,” Weintraub wrote at the time. “It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election. This is not a novel concept.”

1:05 p.m.: Trump shares McCarthy’s call to suspend impeachment inquiry

After landing in Florida for an event on Medicare, Trump took to Twitter to share a letter from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) asking Pelosi to suspend the impeachment inquiry until she answers several questions about the process.

“Leader McCarthy, we look forward to you soon becoming Speaker of the House,” Trump wrote. “The Do Nothing Dems don’t have a chance!”

12:45 p.m.: Trump is counting on Republicans to look the other way, Amash says

Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), a vocal Trump critic who left the Republican Party in July, said Thursday that Trump is counting on members of his party to turn a blind eye to his recent actions.

“He’s openly challenging our system of checks and balances,” Amash said of Trump in a tweet. “In plain sight, he’s using the powers of his public office for personal gain and counting on Republicans in Congress to look the other way.”

Before becoming an independent, Amash was the only Republican in Congress to have accused Trump of impeachable acts. He has not ruled out a 2020 presidential bid.

12:20 p.m.: McCarthy calls on Pelosi to suspend impeachment inquiry

As Democrats erupted over Trump’s latest comments, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called on Pelosi to suspend the impeachment inquiry until she answers questions about the process.

In a letter, McCarthy contended that Pelosi had “given no clear indication” as to whether the inquiry will follow historical precedents or offer due process to Trump.

“As you know, there have been only three prior instances in our nation’s history when the full House has moved to formally investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of a sitting President,” McCarthy wrote. “I should hope that if such an extraordinary step were to be contemplated a fourth time it would be conducted with an eye toward fairness, objectivity and impartiality.”

McCarthy listed 10 procedural questions, including whether Republicans would have “co-equal subpoena power” and whether Trump’s counsel would have the right to present evidence.

12:15 p.m.: Some Democrats say Trump ‘just created another article of impeachment’

As the dust settled on Trump’s South Lawn remarks, some House Democrats said his latest comments had generated another potential article of impeachment.

Many took to Twitter to voice disbelief at Trump’s call for China and Ukraine to launch investigations into the Bidens.

“@POTUS just created another article of impeachment by doing in public what he did in private,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) tweeted. “This time enlisting China to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of his campaign. His disregard for the law is stunning. So much for his oath of office.”

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) referenced Trump’s remark during the 2016 campaign that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

“Trump didn’t shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. He shot himself in the foot on the White House South Lawn,” tweeted Yarmuth, who is chairman of the House Budget Committee. “Shameful. Illegal. Dangerous.”

[Trump says Hunter Biden ‘walks out of China with $1.5 billion.’ Biden’s lawyer said that’s not true.]

12:15 p.m.: Hillary Clinton weighs in

Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, took aim at the Republican who defeated her in an early afternoon tweet.

“Someone should inform the president that impeachable offenses committed on national television still count,” Clinton tweeted, referring to Trump’s call for China to investigate Biden and his son.

12:05 p.m.: Cheney ignores Trump comments, seeks to steer focus back to Biden

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third-ranking House Republican, responded to Trump’s comments by ignoring them — and attempting to steer the focus back to Biden.

“If foreign entities attempted to influence US policy by paying Hunter Biden, the American people have a right to know,” Cheney said in a tweet. “Question for @SpeakerPelosi and @RepAdamSchiff — why do you think the Ukrainians and Chinese were paying Hunter Biden?”

Other Republicans continued to lash out at Schiff.

“Last week, @RepAdamSchiff did what he does best; mislead the American people,” Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-Ga.) tweeted, adding that he’s a “proud co-sponsor” of a resolution “censuring him for his careless & deceitful remarks at last week’s impeachment hearing.”

11:55 a.m.: Biden, other Democratic White House hopefuls pounce on Trump’s comments

Several Democratic presidential candidates, including Biden, pounced on Trump’s call for an investigation by China, calling it a further abuse of power.

“With his administration in free-fall, Donald Trump is flailing and melting down on national television, desperately clutching for conspiracy theories that have been debunked and dismissed by independent, credible news organizations,” Biden campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.

Several other candidates took to Twitter.

“Make no mistake: This is a threat. It’s an abuse of power. And it’s an impeachable offense,” tweeted former congressman Beto O’Rourke (Tex.).

Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), meanwhile, pledged that Congress would hold Trump accountable.

“Mr. President, telling lies about Joe Biden won’t protect you from the truth,” she tweeted. “Joe has more patriotism in his pinky finger than you’ll ever have. You violate your oath and undermine American values when you urge foreign nations to do your dirty work. We will hold you accountable.”

11:45 a.m.: Schiff says Trump ‘cannot use the power of his office to pressure foreign leaders’ on investigations

Trump’s comments about China and Ukraine on Thursday prompted alarm among congressional Democrats, including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), who argued that the president was now openly inviting foreign interference in U.S. elections.

“The President cannot use the power of his office to pressure foreign leaders to investigate his political opponents,” Schiff said in a tweet. “His rant this morning reinforces the urgency of our work. America is a Republic, if we can keep it.”

Other House Democrats followed suit in voicing concern at the president’s statements.

“There it is,” Pascrell said in a tweet in which he shared video of Trump’s remarks. “My republican colleagues can lie and obfuscate all they want but their leader is now publicly calling on foreign governments to meddle in our elections.”

Another New Jersey Democrat, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., voiced similar sentiments. “Trump is now openly calling for foreign interference in our elections in a calculated effort to normalize his corruption,” Pallone tweeted. “This alone is impeachable. House Democrats will continue to investigate this president’s abuse of power.”

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) addressed Trump, tweeting, “I know this is a new concept for you, but in America, voters elect the president—not foreign countries.”

And Rep. David E. Price (D-N.C.) tweeted: “In democracies, presidents don’t dictate investigations into political rivals.”

11:15 a.m.: Intelligence community’s top lawyer offers assurances on not disclosing identity

The intelligence community’s top lawyer has assured the whistleblower’s legal team that “we will strenuously object to any attempts to disclose your client’s identity.”

That comes as Trump has demanded for days to meet the anonymous U.S. intelligence officer who brought the complaint against him.

In a Friday letter to the whistleblower’s lawyers obtained by The Washington Post, Office of the Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Jason Klitenic said, “Please know that we are coordinating with others to take protective measures designed to ensure your client’s safety and security.”

In a follow-up letter Monday to the whistleblower’s lead attorney, Andrew Bakaj, Klitenic reiterated that the protections apply not only to disclosures the whistleblower made to the intelligence community inspector general, but also to disclosures to Congress, as long as they are made to “cleared individuals in a secure facility.”

“We applaud the DNI’s support for protecting this and all other whistleblowers,” said Mark Zaid, another member of the legal team. “These letters reflect the sentiments of someone committed to the rule of law rather than politics.”

— Ellen Nakashima

10:30 a.m.: Trump calls for China to investigate the Bidens

Trump suggested Thursday that another foreign country should investigate Biden and his son Hunter, even though House Democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry against him over his request that the Ukrainian president do the same.

Biden is a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

“China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” Trump told reporters.

Trump’s allegations regarding Hunter Biden and China center on him joining the board of an investment firm whose partners included Chinese entities while his father was vice president. The president and his allies have provided no evidence to back up their claims of wrongdoing.

[Fact Checker: Trump’s false claims about Hunter Biden’s China dealings]

Trump made his comments to reporters as he prepared to depart the White House.

Asked what he wanted from Zelensky, Trump said, “I would think if they were honest about it, they’d start a major investigation into the Bidens.”

Trump added: “Likewise, China should start an investigation into the Bidens.”

Asked whether he had requested Chinese President Xi Jinping to help investigate the Bidens, Trump replied: “I haven’t, but it’s certainly something we can start thinking about, because I’m sure that President Xi does not like being under that kind of scrutiny.”

Trump also told reporters he had fired former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch because he “heard very bad things about her.”

Yovanovitch was recalled from her position in Ukraine this year amid political attacks by conservative media and other allies of Trump, including Giuliani, who targeted her with unsubstantiated accusations and argued that she “should be part of the investigation as part of the collusion.”

Yovanovitch is scheduled to appear before three House committees on Oct. 11 as part of the impeachment inquiry.

9:30 a.m. Giuliani accuses Democrats of running a ‘Star Chamber’

As Volker was scheduled to begin his deposition, Giuliani took to Twitter to accuse the Democratic-led committees of conducting a “Star Chamber” and shared a text exchange with Volker.

In his tweet, Giuliani echoed complaints of Republican lawmakers about their more limited role in the proceedings.

“This is a Star Chamber, illicit and part of their conspiracy to violate constitutional rights condoned by their media lamb dogs,” Giuliani added. “Kurt did nothing wrong.”

He included a text exchange with Volker in which Volker asked Giuliani if he were “back stateside” and suggested they “get together.”

In subsequent tweets, Giuliani shared other text messages about arranging meetings.

On Thursday, the committees are expected to examine Volker’s role in facilitating contacts between Giuliani and officials of the Ukrainian government in the summer.

9:15 a.m.: Former Ukraine envoy arrives on Capitol Hill for a deposition behind closed doors

Volker is scheduled to testify behind closed doors on Capitol Hill at 9:30 a.m. to the House Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs committees.

He resigned Friday from his position as U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, and has agreed to testify before the three congressional committees on Thursday despite Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s refusal to make current State Department officials available to lawmakers.

Volker tendered his resignation to Pompeo on Friday, within hours of an announcement that the veteran diplomat was among State Department officials who would be compelled to testify.

Volker, who heads the McCain Institute at Arizona State University, had held the Ukraine job part time for the past two years.

He worked for months to facilitate a meeting between Trump and Zelensky, a young anti-corruption reformer elected in April. That meeting may have been held up as part of Trump’s pressure campaign. The two met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week.

8:15 a.m.: Trump takes renewed aim at Schiff, highlights prankster episode

Trump renewed his attacks Thursday on Schiff, calling him a “lowlife” in a tweet that also shared a Breitbart report about pranksters once offering Schiff nude photos of Trump.

“Schiff is a lowlife who should resign (at least!),” Trump said in his tweet.

In 2018, the Atlantic reported that two Russian pranksters posing as members of Ukraine’s parliament called Schiff claiming to have “pictures of naked Trump” from a purported encounter with a Russian woman, among other information.

Schiff’s staff told the Atlantic in a statement that they had alerted law enforcement before and after the call that the claim was “probably bogus.”

In recent days, some House Republicans, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), have sought to focus renewed attention on the episode, arguing that Schiff is a hypocrite for criticizing Trump for seeking dirt on a political opponent.

Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, also referred to the episode during a hearing last week.

7:15 a.m.: Pelosi says Republicans are loyal to Trump, not the Constitution

Pelosi accused Republicans of being loyal to Trump and not the Constitution during a television interview that aired Thursday in which she discussed the impeachment inquiry.

Speaking to ABC News, she derided her GOP colleagues for attacks on the inquiry that she launched last week.

“When I took the oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, as my colleagues have done as well, I did not say I will do this as long as the Republicans can understand the Constitution,” Pelosi said. “So the fact that their loyalty is to Trump and not to the Constitution is not going to slow down or impair our ability to keep the republic.”

During the interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Pelosi also pushed back on a Republican argument that Trump’s call with Zelensky was not problematic because there was no explicit “quid pro quo” between providing U.S. military aid to Ukraine and investigating the Bidens.

Trump’s call in which he asked Zelensky for a “favor” came shortly after the Trump administration suspended congressionally approved aid.

“First of all, it’s not necessary,” Pelosi said of a “quid pro quo.”

“But second of all, there is a quid pro quo if you’re only a couple of days apart in granting or withholding and then asking for a favor to create dirt on your political opponent,” she continued. “The president did engage in the leverage of our national security, legislation that was passed by the House and the Senate, in the interest of our national security to give military assistance to Ukraine.”

7 a.m.: White House officials weigh appeal to Democrats in GOP districts to stop impeachment of Trump

White House officials intent on stopping the House from impeaching Trump are considering appealing to moderate Democrats in Republican districts to stand with the president, a pursuit at odds with fresh political attacks from the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.

The nascent outreach campaign would target some of the 31 Democrats from congressional districts Trump won in 2016, many of whom ran on rebuilding infrastructure, improving trade deals and lowering the cost of prescription drugs, according to multiple officials familiar with the strategy.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk freely, said the appeal would be based on these Democrats’ 2018 election promises to work with the president — accompanied with a warning that impeachment would hamper possible legislative victories.

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— Rachael Bade and Josh Dawsey

6:45 a.m.: Trump shares Franklin Graham’s prayer for Democrats

Amid a spate of morning tweets and retweets, Trump shared an account of evangelist Franklin Graham praying that God would steer Democrats away from impeachment.

“The socialist Democrats’ message to the United States of America is: 1. We’re going to take your guns, and 2. We’re going to impeach your president,” Graham wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post.

“Pray that God would change the hearts of Democratic leaders in Washington and that they would see the dangerous road that we’re on,” he added.

6:35 a.m.: Wednesday’s White House news conference generates ridicule and some concern in Finland

Wednesday’s roller coaster news conference with Trump and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö elicited ridicule and some concern in Finland, where many celebrated their leader on Thursday for enduring with dignity what they largely described as a Trump monologue.

Coming from a nation that ranks second on the World Press Freedom Index — compared to the United States, which ranks 48th — stunned Finnish reporters described to their readers back home a “circus” and parallel reality in the White House.

[Has anyone checked in on the president of Finland?’: Trump’s ‘off the rails’ performance turned a foreign leader into a meme]

Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet offered a blunt summary of the meeting: “Niinisto’s visit was overshadowed by Circus Trump — President Niinisto asked Trump to safeguard US democracy.”

“It was a very typical Trump press conference with a foreign leader. [Trump talks] and the foreign leader is just a prop, who basically watches and tries to keep a straight face,” Jussi Hanhimaki, a Finnish researcher focusing on transatlantic relations, told The Washington Post.

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6 a.m.: Biden, in fiery remarks, tells Trump: ‘I’m not going anywhere’

RENO, Nev. — Biden struck a defiant tone Wednesday night during a campaign speech in which he ripped Trump’s efforts to smear him and assured supporters that Trump won’t destroy him or his candidacy.

The top-polling 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has become inextricably intertwined with the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s behavior, which centers on Trump asking a foreign leader for dirt on Biden’s son.

Biden, who spent four decades in the Senate, has in the past sought to separate Trump and his base from the Republican Party that contains his friends and peers, including many he served with as a senator. But in his remarks here, Biden slammed the GOP and “hatchet men” who he said echo Trump’s words.

“He is repeatedly smearing me and my family. His party fans out to carry the smear,” Biden said.

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— Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Colby Itkowitz

6 a.m.: Whistleblower drafted complaint ‘entirely on their own,’ lawyer says

A lawyer for the whistleblower said Wednesday that the whistleblower drafted the complaint “entirely on their own” and without input of Congress.

The statement came after Trump, at a joint news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, accused Schiff, with no evidence, of having helped write the complaint.

Trump made the comment in response to a question about a New York Times report stating that Schiff had learned the outlines of the whistleblower’s concerns days before the individual filed a formal complaint.

“The Whistleblower drafted the Complaint entirely on their own,” Mark Zaid, a lawyer for the whistleblower, said in a statement. “In fact, none of the legal team saw the Complaint until it was publicly released by Congress. To be unequivocally clear, no Member or congressional staff had any input into or reviewed the Complaint before it was submitted to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.”

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Biden’s Dogs Moved After a ‘Biting Incident’ – The New York Times
Biden’s Dogs Moved After a ‘Biting Incident’ – The New York Times
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If Trump can’t get ‘the wall,’ give border agents ‘more wall’ – Washington Examiner
If Trump can’t get ‘the wall,’ give border agents ‘more wall’ – Washington Examiner

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.”

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Sanders surges, Biden plateaus in latest NBC/WSJ poll of 2020 Democratic primary voters – CNBC
Sanders surges, Biden plateaus in latest NBC/WSJ poll of 2020 Democratic primary voters – CNBC

Bernie Sanders has jumped into a virtual tie with Joe Biden nationally just before the first nominating contests in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Friday.

The Vermont senator has the support of 27% of Democratic primary voters, a 6 percentage point jump from December, the survey found. The former vice president follows closely at 26% — down 2 percentage points from a month ago. Sanders’ 1 percentage point edge falls well within the poll’s plus-or-minus 4.7 percentage point margin of error.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., trails with 15% of support. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg was the first choice of 9% of respondents, leapfrogging former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who came in at 7%.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and entrepreneur Andrew Yang garnered 5% and 4% of support, respectively.

The survey, taken Sunday through Wednesday, offers a snapshot of the Democratic presidential race nationally days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3. Sanders has steadily cut into Biden’s lead in averages of U.S. polls, which capture overall voter sentiment but not voting preference in the states that will decide who faces President Donald Trump in November.

The Vermont senator has also seen his support rise in recent polls of tight races in Iowa and New Hampshire, the second nominating state.

Less than half of respondents to the NBC/WSJ survey — 45% — said they would definitely vote for their first choice. Another 27% answered that they would probably vote for the candidate, and an additional 27% said they were just leaning toward their first choice.

About a quarter, or 24%, of Democratic primary voters pick Warren as their second choice. Biden is the second choice of 20% of respondents, followed by Sanders at 15%.

Bloomberg has fueled a climb in national polling averages by spending at least $100 million on a barrage of ads. He did not try to compete in the first four nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina and has instead focused on Texas and other states that vote on Super Tuesday, March 3.

His ads appear to have made an impression: 59% of poll respondents said they remember seeing an ad from Bloomberg on TV or social media. A third said they recalled seeing an ad for billionaire activist Tom Steyer, and 28% said they remembered seeing an ad for Sanders.

The NBC/WSJ poll of 428 Democratic primary voters took place from Jan. 26-29 and has a plus-or-minus 4.7 percentage point margin of error.

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Trump’s New Executive Order Seems Aimed at China and Huawei – TIME
Trump’s New Executive Order Seems Aimed at China and Huawei – TIME

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday to help protect the United States against foreign adversaries that are taking advantage of technological vulnerabilities to threaten U.S. communications systems.

The order, which declared a national emergency in response to the threat, does not name specific countries or companies. But it appears to target Chinese tech giant Huawei, the world’s biggest supplier of network gear used by phone and internet companies. Huawei has long been seen as a front for spying by the Chinese military or security services, but the company has denied the allegations.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai applauded Trump’s executive order, saying it would safeguard the U.S. communications supply chain. “Given the threats presented by certain foreign companies’ equipment and services, this is a significant step toward securing America’s networks,” he said.

The Trump administration has been trying with only some success to persuade allied nations not to use Huawei equipment. Last year, Trump signed a bill that barred the U.S. government from using equipment from Huawei and China’s ZTE Corp.

The U.S., which is embroiled in an escalating trade war with China, also has sounded warnings about Huawei’s efforts to expand into Europe. The U.S. worries that China could use Huawei gear to gain access to private, commercial or other information that could compromise NATO and allied intelligence operations.

Early this year, the Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against Huawei, a top company executive and several subsidiaries, alleging the company stole trade secrets, misled banks about its business and violated U.S. sanctions. The sweeping indictments accuse the company of using extreme efforts to steal trade secrets from American businesses — including trying to take a piece of a robot from a T-Mobile lab.

The executive charged is Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada in December. The U.S. is seeking to extradite her.

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Wilbur Scoville ganha homenagem em Doodle do Google com ‘escala quente’ – Globo.com
Wilbur Scoville ganha homenagem em Doodle do Google com ‘escala quente’ – Globo.com

Wilbur Scoville ganhou um Doodle do Google com direito a um jogo que simula o ‘teste da escala quente’ de pimentas. Hoje, o Google celebra o nascimento do químico há 151 anos (1865-1942). Scoville, além de receber a homenagem desta sexta-feira (22), é conhecido por ter inventado um método de avaliação do nível de ardência de vários tipos de pimenta, a famosa Escala de Scoville, disponível abaixo em app. 

Escala Scoville; app salva de pimenta ‘muito quente’

O Doodle do Google, além de animado, é interativo. No jogo, os usuários devem fazer com que um sorvete acerte a pimenta para acabar com a ardência na boca de Scoville, após o químico prová-la. O leite, muito presente no sorvete, é um dos principais componentes neutralizadores do ardor da pimenta.

Doodle de Wilbur Scoville brinca com jogo que usa ‘teste da pimenta’ (Foto: (Foto: Reprodução/Google))

A cada degustação que Wilbur Scoville prova, uma pimenta diferente e as suas propriedades e curiosidades também são reveladas. Após terminar as “lutas”, que você pode ganhar (e aí desbloquear “novas pimentas” para enfrentar) ou perder (e fazer com que Scoville caia no chão com a boca “pelando”), um sistema de compartilhamento dos resultados do jogo nas redes sociais é exibido.

Ralador de pimenta bloqueia Wi-Fi e deixa todo mundo ’em família

O Doodle foi produzido pela artista e doodler do Google Olivia Huynh. Para a designer, a melhor parte do trabalho foi desenhar as pimentas e as reações de Scoville. “O conceito de picante é universal, cômico, e foi o que tentei usar para criar esse jogo de luta”, explica Huynh, em post do Google.

“Fiz storyboards de como poderia ser, rascunhos e testamos um protótipo. Depois vieram os cenários e animações. Desenhar as pimentas e as reações de Scoville foram minhas partes favoritas”, conta. 

Doodle também é informativo, detalhando tipos de pimentas  (Foto: Reprodução/Google)

Escala de Scoville

Wilbur Lincoln Scoville nasceu em Bridgeport, nos Estados Unidos, em 22 de janeiro de 1865 e morreu em 10 de março de 1942. O trabalho do americano como farmacêutico é reconhecido mundialmente: criou o Teste Organoléptico de Scoville, que gerou a já conhecida Escala de Scoville.

Com este método, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville definiu o grau de pungência de vários tipos de pimenta, através da detecção da concentração de capsaicina, substância responsável pela ardência da pimenta.

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O teste é um Procedimento de Diluição e Prova. Scoville misturava as pimentas puras com uma solução de água com açúcar, e quanto mais solução fosse necessária para diluir a pimenta, mais alta seria sua picância. Depois disso, o método foi melhorado e foram criadas as unidades de calor Scoville (Scoville Heat Units, ou SHU).

Doodle Wilbur Scoville (Foto: Reprodução/Google)

Uma xícara de pimenta que equivale a 1.000 xícaras de água é uma unidade na escala de Scoville. A substância Capsaicina, que gera a ardência nas pimentas, equivale a 15 milhões de unidades Scoville.

A pimenta mexicana Habanero chega a 300 mil, uma “Red Savina Habanero”, modificada, tem 577 mil, e a Tezpur indiana, 877 mil.

Entretanto, este não foi o único trabalho de Scoville. “The Art of Compounding” (A Arte dos Compostos), de 1895, é um de seus livros, que foi usado como referência na farmacologia até os anos 60.

Scoville também publicou um livro com centenas de fórmulas de perfumes e outras essências, que foi chamado de “Extract and Perfumes” (Extratos e perfumes).

Em 1922, Scoville recebeu o Prêmio Ebert, e em 1929 ganhou a sua Medalha de Honra Remington e o título de Doutor honoris causa em Ciências pela Universidade de Columbia. O pesquisador morreu no dia 10 de março de 1942, deixando mulher e dois filhos.

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*Colaborou Roberto Caligari

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Highlights: Fiona Hill And David Holmes’ Impeachment Hearing Testimony | NBC News – NBC News
Highlights: Fiona Hill And David Holmes’ Impeachment Hearing Testimony | NBC News – NBC News

From rejecting 2016 conspiracy theories to Ambassador Sondland’s “domestic political errand,” watch highlights from the impeachment hearing testimony of Dr. Fiona Hill and David Holmes.
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What it means that a special counsel is running the Trump investigations – CNN
What it means that a special counsel is running the Trump investigations – CNN
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As new school year looms, debates over mask mandates stir anger and confusion – The Washington Post
As new school year looms, debates over mask mandates stir anger and confusion – The Washington Post

In Iowa City, parents asked the school district to educate masked and unmasked students separately, since the state barred it from passing a mask mandate. “The parents, rightly so, are trying to find clever ways to work around the laws and still keep their kids safe,” said Shawn Eyestone, president of the school board. “But the problem is, logistically, it’s almost impossible.”

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Ganó Del Mazo en Edomex, según conteo rápido del IEEM – Aristeguinoticias
Ganó Del Mazo en Edomex, según conteo rápido del IEEM – Aristeguinoticias

El Instituto Electoral del Estado de México informó que el candidato del PRI, Alfredo del Mazo, aventaja las votaciones en la elección de gobernador de esa entidad.

Según el conteo rápido del instituto, estos porcentajes obtuvieron cada uno:

Alfredo Del Mazo entre 32.75 por ciento y 33.59 por ciento
Delfina Gómez entre 30.73 por ciento y 31.53 por ciento

Juan Zepeda entre 17.6 por ciento y 18.28 por ciento
Josefina Vázquez Mota 10.99 por ciento-11.57 por ciento


“A partir de la muestra recuperada y de acuerdo a las estimaciones realizadas por el comité técnico asesor del conteo rápido existe una diferencia estadísticamente significativa entre el primero y segundo lugar de la elección para gobernador del Estado de México… es importante señalar categóricamente que si bien el conteo rápido es un ejercicio estadístico muy preciso la información que arroja es preliminar al igual que el del Programa de resultados electorales preliminares conocido como PREP. Los resultados oficiales de la elección para gobernador del Estado de México serán los que resulten de los 45 cómputos distritales el próximo miércoles 7 de junio”, informó el presidente del IEEM.

El margen de error del conteo rápido, dijo, es del 95 por ciento, es decir, es superior a la diferencia entre el primero y segundo lugar.

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Trump launches 2024 U.S. presidential run, getting jump on rivals – Reuters.com
Trump launches 2024 U.S. presidential run, getting jump on rivals – Reuters.com
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‘She’s not my type’: Trump again denies E. Jean Carroll’s sexual misconduct allegation – USA TODAY
‘She’s not my type’: Trump again denies E. Jean Carroll’s sexual misconduct allegation – USA TODAY
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These are 4 things you need to know about E. Jean Carroll. The advice columnist is the latest to accuse President Donald Trump of sexual assault.
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WASHINGTON – Saying that “she’s not my type,” President Donald Trump on again denied Monday that he forced himself onto longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

“I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type,” he said during an interview with The Hill. “Number two, it never happened. It never happened, OK?” 

Since Carroll came forward Friday with an accusation that Trump sexually assaulted her over 20 years ago, the president has repeatedly denied it, calling her a liar and saying the two have never even met.

Shortly after the president’s latest comments, Carroll responded.

“I love that I’m not his type,” she said during an interview on CNN. She noted she only mentioned Trump by name once in her forthcoming book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” which details the allegation, and that the book is not about him.

More: Before the White House, Trump faced an array of sexual misconduct accusations. As president, he faces another

More: These are the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault or unwanted advances

Previously, Trump had a similar response when another woman accused him of sexual misconduct.

In October 2016, Jessica Leeds accused Trump of putting his hand up her skirt on an airplane in the early 1980s. Days after she came forward, Trump said during a rally that Leeds was not physically attractive enough for him.

“Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you,” he said.

Carroll wrote in her book that Trump forced himself on her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. New York Magazine published an excerpt from the book, which included a photo of Carroll wearing the coat dress she said she wore the day of the alleged attack more than two decades ago.

Carroll wrote in the excerpt that she ran into Trump while shopping at the elegant New York City department store. She said that he stopped her and greeted her as “that advice lady,” and she responded by greeting him as “that real-estate tycoon.”

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Summer Zervos: The former “Apprentice” contestant has accused the president of sexual misconduct, including kissing and groping her in the years after she left the show. She has filed suit against him, saying he made defamatory remarks about her after she came forward with her story.
Seen here, Summer Zervos, left, stands with her lawyer Gloria Allred outside the New York County Criminal Court on Dec. 5, 2017, in New York. The judge in the case allowed on March 20, 2018, Zervos’ defamation suit against Trump to proceed. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY

He asked for her help to buy a present for a “girl,” Carroll wrote. She pointed out handbags and hats, but Trump pointed out lingerie and asked Carroll to try on a piece, she said. Near the dressing room, Carroll claimed, Trump forced himself on her.

“The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips,” Carroll wrote. “He holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.”

Carroll claimed Trump “opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway – or completely, I’m not certain – inside me.” The episode lasted no longer than three minutes, Carroll said. It was the last time she had sex, she wrote.

Analysis: Writer E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of rape. Why are we so reluctant to talk about it?

A timeline: Misconduct allegations against President Trump

The incident was not reported to the police, and Carroll said she told only two close friends, whose names were not made public in the story. One told her to go to the police. The other told her to forget about it, she wrote.

At least 15 other women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. The president has denied all allegations.

On Friday, the president said in a statement released by the White House that the advice columnist was trying to just sell books.

Monday, Trump also said that Carroll was “totally lying” about her allegation.

“Totally lying. I don’t know anything about her,” he said Monday. “I know nothing about this woman. I know nothing about her. She is — it’s just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that.”

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Trump losing Twitter followers since election – as Biden gains them – The Guardian
Trump losing Twitter followers since election – as Biden gains them – The Guardian

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.”

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‘Top of the kill list’: Rep. John Garamendi speaks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – KCRA Sacramento
‘Top of the kill list’: Rep. John Garamendi speaks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – KCRA Sacramento

On Saturday, Rep. John Garamendi, a senior member of the armed services committee spoke with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss Russia’s invasion.

He joined a one-hour briefing with 50 members of Congress.

Garamendi, who represents parts of Northern California between Sacramento and San Francisco, shared his candid conversation with Zelenskyy.

“He knows that he is at the top of the kill list, and he knows that his life is in jeopardy but he has pushed that aside to lead this nation. An incredible man of courage and leadership,” Garamendi said.

Garamendi said Ukraine’s president emphasized that Russian forces are moving away from targeting the Ukrainian military and are now attacking communities.

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“He went into detail about high schools, kindergarten schools, apartment buildings, government buildings, presumably with the intent of breaking the wheel of the Ukrainian people,” Garamendi said.

Zelenskyy asked the U.S. for more help.

“The Ukrainian people are determined, in his words, to be free — to not be subjects of Putin and Russia but, rather, to be Ukrainians. To set their own course to make their democracy,” he said.

The war has led to higher gas prices.

“Is there price gouging going on by the oil companies the answer is absolute, yes,” Garamendi said.

California drivers are paying more than $5 for a gallon of unleaded gas which is sparking talk about investigating the six major petroleum companies.

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“I think the American people are willing to accept the reality that this is not just about Ukraine if Putin is successful. If the sanctions are to be forgotten and Russian oil is allowed to flow freely around the world and Putin is able to finance his government and finance his military then we should be very very aware that Putin has his eyes on more than Ukraine,” he said.

When asked if there is an end in sight, Garamendi said: “I think there is. The sanctions, together, with the extraordinary bravery of the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian military, should continue to receive American military support, financial support. Those sanctions are hurting Russia. The military offense that Putin planned is stalled.”

The U.S. has vowed to keep helping Ukrainian refugees.

“The United States most definitely has the back of the refugees that have left Ukraine and those that are continuing to leave,” Garamendi said.

Those helping with the humanitarian effort said a financial donation is best.

“Generally, in these kinds of crisis situations, it is best to send money to credible organizations that can then assemble the necessary supplies.”

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US coronavirus cases hit new one-day high as states backtrack on reopening – The Guardian
US coronavirus cases hit new one-day high as states backtrack on reopening – The Guardian

The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases per day in the US hit an all-time high of 40,000 according to figures released on Friday, eclipsing the mark set during one of the deadliest stretches in late April – in a resurgence that has led some governors to backtrack or at least pause the reopening of their states.

While the increase is believed to reflect, in part, greatly expanded testing, experts say there is ample evidence the virus is making a comeback, including rising deaths and hospitalizations in parts of the country, especially in the south and west. Arizona, Texas and Florida are among the states that have been hit hard.

The number of confirmed infections soared past the previous high set on 24 Aprilof 36,400, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

Deaths from the coronavirus in the US are down to around 600 per day, compared with about 2,200 in mid-April.

Some experts have expressed doubt that deaths will return to that level, in part because of advances in treatment and prevention but also because a large share of the new infections are in younger adults, who are more likely than older ones to survive.

The virus is blamed for 124,000 deaths in the US and 2.4m confirmed infections nationwide, by Johns Hopkins’ count.

But US health officials said on Thursday that the true number of Americans infected is about 20 million, or almost 10 times higher. Worldwide, the virus has claimed close to a half-million lives, according to Johns Hopkins.

Arizona late Thursday joined Texas in putting the brakes on its reopening plans amid a sharp surge in coronavirus infections, as cases are now rising across 29 states.

Health experts warned on Friday that the US was not doing enough testing for Covid-19 and that simply pausing reopening plans in some states – as others continue to roar ahead – would not be enough to stem the spread of the disease.

“Pausing reopening is not enough. We have got to try to ‘put the horse back in the barn’, as it were … we need to start to reverse the opening up,” Ashish Jha, director of Harvard University’s Global Health Institute, told ABC on Friday morning.

He warned that hospitals are going to be overwhelmed in states across the south and west where infections are surging, unless leaders take stronger measures to stop the spread.

Jha urged more testing, saying the US was not doing enough, even though it is performing an estimated 500,000 tests per day, after the CDC on Thursday said that there were likely an estimated 10 times as many Americans who have or have had coronavirus than current statistics show.

“They are missing cases because there is not enough testing, they are way below where they need to be,” said Jha.

Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his false assertion that more testing is responsible for the increased numbers of cases being reported.

“If you did not do testing, you would not have cases,” he said on a trip to Wisconsin.

An ABC/Ipsos poll on Friday showed that 56% of Americans believe the country is opening back up too quickly, with no vaccine and no cure available for Covid-19.

Jha urged Americans to wear face masks in public. “It’s a pretty small step to take to make sure our hospitals don’t get overwhelmed,” he said, asserting that masks do help prevent the spread, despite a high-profile anti-mask backlash in some parts of the country.

In Texas the governor, Greg Abbott, abruptly halted the push to loosen more restrictions and is now urgently telling people to stay home.

Arizona governor Doug Ducey, like Abbott a Republican, did the same, declaring the state “on pause” as hospitals accelerate toward capacity.


Tubers float in the Comal River despite the recent spike in Covid-19 cases Thursday, in New Braunfels, Texas. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

As an alarming coronavirus resurgence sets records for confirmed cases and hospitalizations across the US south and west, governors are retreating to measures they once resisted and striking a more urgent tone.

“I think they’re going to have to,” said Dr Mark McClellan, former head of the Food and Drug Administration. “It doesn’t take most people in a community getting sick to overwhelm health care systems.”

Critics bristle that the actions are too little, or worse, possibly too late as patients fill up intensive-care beds and the US closes in on hitting all-time highs for daily confirmed cases.

But Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who until recently had rarely worn a face covering, has said he won’t impose statewide mask orders or delay reopening. And Abbott says shutting down the Texas economy again is a last resort.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research latest data says many Americans never fully embraced the reopening effort now underway in many states.

A majority of Americans still have concerns about contracting Covid-19, and significant shares still support the kinds of public health restrictions that states have rolled back.

The number of cases in Duval county, which is home to Jacksonville, Florida, where the Republicans plan to hold their convention in August, after switching from North Carolina because of greater restrictions on gatherings, has shot up along with statewide numbers.

Congresswoman Donna Shalala of Florida, a former secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, called on DeSantis to make a course correction.

“He followed the president’s leadership, and people have died because of it,” she said. “He can pivot and take very strong steps.”

In Arkansas, governor Asa Hutchinson has urged people to cover their faces and even begins his daily briefings by showing off his mask. But the Republican governor has resisted calls to require them, arguing that it would be difficult to enforce in a rural state.

In Arizona, Ducey resisted pressure to close businesses as the virus first spread in March.

Now Ducey has put the brakes on reopening.

The numbers “continue to go in the wrong direction,” Ducey said Thursday.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez applauds billionaire’s offer to pay off academic debt, but says students shouldn’t… – Fox News
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez applauds billionaire’s offer to pay off academic debt, but says students shouldn’t… – Fox News

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during the National Action Network Convention in New York, Friday, April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighed in on billionaire Robert F. Smith’s offer to pay off the student loan debt of the entire graduating class at Morehouse College, saying that while she applauded the gesture, college students shouldn’t be forced to rely on the generosity of others.

“It’s important to note that people shouldn’t be in a situation where they depend on a stranger’s enormous act of charity for this kind of liberation to begin with (aka college should be affordable), but it is an incredible act of community investment in this system as it is,” she tweeted Sunday.

Smith, a billionaire investor who founded Vista Equity Partners, made the surprise announcement during the historically black college’s 135th commencement service.

“We’re going to put a little fuel in your bus,” Smith told the graduates. “This is my class, 2019. And my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans.”

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The extraordinary move comes as calls grow about the mounting burden of student loan debt across the country.

“Every Morehouse Class of 2019 student is getting their student debt load paid off by their commencement speaker,” the freshman lawmaker said. “This could be the start of what’s known in Econ as a ‘natural experiment.’ Follow these students & compare their life choices w their peers over the next 10-15 years.”

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Ted Cruz tries to explain why his Nike boycott exerted free speech but Goya boycott silences it – Salon
Ted Cruz tries to explain why his Nike boycott exerted free speech but Goya boycott silences it – Salon

The Texas Republican is criticizing calls for a boycott because the Hispanic food company’s CEO praised President Donald Trump.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday said calls for a boycott of Goya Foods because its CEO praised President Donald Trump were an attempt to “silence free speech.” But one year ago, the Texas Republican encouraged people to boycott Nike after the company halted plans to sell shoes featuring the Betsy Ross flag that some say glorifies slavery and racism, according to NPR.

On Thursday, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue praised president Donald Trump in a ceremony at The White House. Goya bills itself as America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company.

“We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder, and that’s what my grandfather did,” said Unanue. “He came to this country to build, to grow, to prosper. And so we have an incredible builder, and we pray for our leadership, our president, and we pray for our country that we will continue to prosper and to grow.”

That sparked an immediate reaction on Twitter, where hashtags like #BoycottGoya, #GoyaFoods and #Goyaway began trending. Hispanic leaders, including former Texas congressman and presidential hopeful Julián Castro, responded with anger, noting that the president has villainized and attacked Latinos “for political gain.”

“Free speech works both ways. @Goyafoods CEO is free to support a bigoted president who said an American judge can’t do his job because he’s ‘Mexican’, who treats Puerto Rico like trash, and who tries to deport Dreamers,” Castro tweeted on Friday. “We’re free to leave his products on the shelves. #Goyaway.”

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization, also defended the boycott.

“GOYA is turning its back on our community to appease a President who attacks and demonizes Latinos daily,” said Domingo Garcia, National President of the League of United Latin American Citizens on a statement on Friday. “I will recommend adoption of a national boycott against GOYA Foods unless Mr. Unanue issues a public apology and formal retraction by 5PM EST Saturday.”

But Cruz criticized the backlash.

“Goya is a staple of Cuban food. My grandparents ate Goya black beans twice a day for nearly 90 years. And now the Left is trying to cancel Hispanic culture and silence free speech,” Cruz tweeted on Friday.

Yet Cruz last year said that he wouldn’t buy any more Nike products, after the brand decided to pull the sneaker designed with the the 13-star Betsy Ross flag. This decision came after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick “expressed the concern to the company that the Betsy Ross flag had been co-opted by groups espousing racist ideologies,” according to The New York Times.

“I love America. I stand for the anthem, respect the flag & honor the men & women who fought to defend our Nation,” Senator Cruz tweeted in July 2019. “I respect Free Speech & I’m exerting mine: until @Nike ends its contempt for those values, I WILL NO LONGER PURCHASE NIKE PRODUCTS. #WalkAwayFromNike RT if you agree.”

Cruz’s office did not respond to a request for comment late Friday.

In an interview with Fox News on Friday, Unanue said he visited The White House as part as the unveiling of president Trump’s Hispanic Prosperity Initiative, a public-private initiative to promote education and entrepreneurship within the Hispanic community. He called the boycott a “suppression of speech.”

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated Julián Castro’s experience in public office. He is a former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

     

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A Brexit deal is now ‘touch and go’, says Johnson – BBC News
A Brexit deal is now ‘touch and go’, says Johnson – BBC News
Media captionBoris Johnson: “In the last few days there’s been a sort of dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals”

Boris Johnson has said the chances of a Brexit deal are “touch and go” – having previously said the odds of a no-deal Brexit were “a million to one”.

In a BBC interview at the G7 summit in France, he said it “all depends on our EU friends and partners”.

When pressed on the chances, he said: “I think it’s going to be touch and go. But the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal.”

Mr Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the EU on 31 October.

Asked if people would still be able to get their medicine if there was a no-deal Brexit, the prime minister said: “That is certainly a guarantee that we can make.”

But he added: “I do not want at this stage to say there won’t be unforeseen difficulties.”

Mr Johnson has previously said the UK must leave on 31 October “deal or no deal”, but that the chances of a no-deal Brexit happening are a “million to one”.

Speaking at the G7 summit on Sunday, he said: “I think in the last few days there has been a dawning realisation in Brussels and other European capitals what the shape of the problem is for the UK.”

He said he was an “optimist” and thought the EU would understand there is an “opportunity to do a deal”.

The PM also said if there is no deal, the UK would keep a “very substantial” sum of the £39bn Theresa May had agreed to pay the EU in her withdrawal agreement.

The G7 summit – a get-together of most of the leaders of the world’s largest economies – comes with just over two months until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU at the end of October.

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Mr Johnson and other world leaders have gathered for the G7 summit in Biarritz, France

Mrs May struck a withdrawal agreement with the EU – the so-called “divorce deal” – but British MPs rejected the deal three times.

Mr Johnson wants to remove the Irish backstop from the deal but the EU has consistently ruled this out, saying it will not reopen negotiations over the agreement.

If implemented, the backstop – a last resort should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit – would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.

It would also see the UK stay in a single customs territory with the EU, and align with current and future EU rules on competition and state aid.

This week German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested there could be an alternative to the backstop but the onus was on the UK to find it.

But the next day French President Emmanuel Macron said the backstop was “indispensable” to preserving political stability and the single market.

On Sunday, the PM met President Donald Trump to discuss a trade deal between the UK and the US.

Mr Johnson said the US’s aim to strike a deal within a year was “going to be tight”, adding: “These [Americans] are tough guys.”

Meanwhile, former chancellor Philip Hammond has written to the PM about the leaked Operation Yellowhammer documents on preparations for a no-deal Brexit.

He said it was now apparent the document was dated August 2019, and therefore could not have been leaked by a minister from Mrs May’s government.

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