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WASHINGTON — For more than 90 years, a huge concrete cross has dominated part of Bladensburg, Maryland, a Washington suburb. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether it should stay, raising a question that has vexed the justices for decades: What is the proper place for religion in American public life?

To its defenders, which include the state and the American Legion, the 40-foot-tall Peace Cross is a secular monument, a memorial to area war dead. To its detractors, it’s an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion invoking Christianity’s most potent symbol.

Completed in 1925, it was built to commemorate 49 servicemen who died in World War I. Their names are on a bronze plaque at the base. Private funds paid for the cross, but a state commission took it over in 1961 as well as the land it sits on, which is now in a busy traffic interchange.

In 2012, the American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit, claiming that its presence on public land violates the Constitution, amounting to a government establishment of religion. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia agreed, saying it could not ignore that “for thousands of years the Latin cross has represented Christianity.”

Private funds paid for the memorial, but a state commission took it over in 1961 as well as the land it sits on, which is now in a busy traffic interchange.Lawrence Hurley / Reuters file

Applying a test the Supreme Court has employed in the past to evaluate religious displays, the appeals court said a reasonable observer would conclude that the government “either places Christianity above other faiths, views being American and Christian as one in the same, or both.”

Monica Miller, the Humanist association’s senior counsel, says the cross was always intended to be a religious symbol, and its original planners wanted it to look like the cross of Calvary, described in the Bible as the place where Christ was crucified.

“The Latin cross is not embraced by non-Christians or used by them as a symbol of death or sacrifice,” she says. When the government prominently displays the cross as a war memorial, “it does more than just align the state with Christianity. It also callously discriminates against patriotic soldiers who are not Christian.”

The state parks commission defends the cross as a memorial designed to mirror the cross-shaped markers on the graves of American servicemen overseas. In the aftermath of World War I, the group says, crosses became the cultural symbol of the fallen, as depicted in one of the most famous poems of the war: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row.”

Local governments may display symbols associated with a particular religion to honor historical events or acknowledge the role of religious faith in society, said Neal Katyal, a Washington lawyer representing the parks commission, and they don’t threaten the values of religious neutrality. But requiring them to be torn down would promote a hostility to religion that the Constitution prohibits.

The American Legion also urges the court to abandon a test it has used for decades to determine whether government displays or expressions involving religious symbols would be seen by a reasonable person as a government endorsement of a particular religious faith.

“The test should be coercion,” Michael Carvin, a D.C. lawyer representing the patriotic group, said. “Has there been some tangible threat to liberty because of what the government is doing, such as outright proselytizing? That should be the question.”

A government’s use of religion in a passive display does not compel people to support or participate in any religion, he says, and a memorial honoring war dead “is precisely where one would expect to encounter religious imagery in a government display.”

The Trump administration agrees. Its friend of court brief says the Constitution’s ban on an establishment of religion does not prohibit the acknowledgement of religion in public life. “Passive displays generally fall on the permissible side of that line, because they typically do not compel religious belief.”

Past Supreme Court decisions on this question are widely considered to be a muddle of contradictions. The court has upheld opening legislative sessions with a prayer and has ruled against challenges to “In God We Trust” on currency or the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. But it also invalidated displays of The Ten Commandments in local courthouses.

A decision is expected by late June.

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President Donald Trump on Sunday again ripped into four freshmen Democratic congresswomen who’ve been the target of his sustained attacks, calling them “weak” and “insecure” minutes after blasting a Washington Post story on the fallout over his initial comments about the members a week earlier.

“I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,” Trump tweeted. “They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, but are weak & insecure people who can never destroy our great Nation!”

The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump’s own top aides did not think he fully understood what he had done in posting racist rhetoric about the four congresswoman of color, nicknamed “The Squad,” on Twitter before a golf outing last weekend.

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as, from left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about the four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don’t like things going on in America. They fired back at what they called his “xenophobic bigoted remarks” and said it was time for impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., responds to base remarks by President Donald Trump after he called for four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “broken” countries, as he exploited the nation’s glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All four congresswomen are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., respond to base remarks by President Donald Trump after he called for four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “broken” countries, as he exploited the nation’s glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All four congresswomen are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., respond to base remarks by President Donald Trump after he called for four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “broken” countries, as he exploited the nation’s glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All four congresswomen are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, attend a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019, on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s violation of the Hatch Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., flanked by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., left, and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., responds to remarks by President Donald Trump after he called for four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “broken” countries, as he exploited the nation’s glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All four congresswomen are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. Omar is the first Somali-American in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as, from left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about the four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don’t like things going on in America. They fired back at what they called his “xenophobic bigoted remarks” and said it was time for impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, attend a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019, on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s violation of the Hatch Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks as, from left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about the four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don’t like things going on in America. They fired back at what they called his “xenophobic bigoted remarks” and said it was time for impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, gather their things following the adjournment of a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019, on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s violation of the Hatch Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, attend a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019, on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s violation of the Hatch Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., center, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, attend a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019, on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s violation of the Hatch Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., respond to base remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “broken” countries, as he exploited the nation’s glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rep. llhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their “broken” countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)




Last Sunday, Trump touched off an uproar when he tweeted that the four lawmakers — who are citizens and, except for one, were born in the United States — should “go back” and try to fix the “crime infested places” they “originally came from” before telling the U.S. government how to handle its problems.

Trump said the Post story contained “phony sources who do not exist” and “is Fake News.”

“The only thing people were talking about is the record setting crowd and the tremendous enthusiasm, far greater than the Democrats,” he added. “You’ll see in 2020!”

The Post report, which was based on interviews “with 26 White House aides, advisers, lawmakers and others involved in the response,” said Trump had posted the tweets after watching an episode of “Fox & Friends.” He wanted to elevate the four congresswomen, telling his advisers he thought they were good foils, the newspaper reported.

Although he did not name them in his initial tweets, Trump later made clear he was referring to Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

Omar, a Somali refugee, moved to the United States when she was 12 and is a naturalized citizen. Tlaib, a Palestinian American, was born in Michigan; Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Hispanic descent, was born in New York; and Pressley, who is African American, was born in Cincinnati.

Trump’s tweets were widely condemned, with Democrats and a small number of Republicans saying they were racist. The Post reported that Trump “acted alone — impulsively following his gut to the dark side of American politics, and now the country would have to pick up the pieces.” Aides and allies, the report said, “would work behind the scenes to try to fix the mess without any public admission of error because that was not the Trump way.”

Many allies urged Trump to “reframe” his tweets “away from the racist notion at the core” of his posts — “that only European immigrants or their descendants are entitled to criticize the country,” the Post reported.

During a campaign rally in North Carolina days later, the crowd began chanting “send her back” after Trump went on a riff about Omar, bringing the racist tone of Trump’s original tweets back into focus. After Democrats and some Republicans denounced the chant, the president distanced himself from it, saying “I disagree with it.”

Days later, Trump promoted a tweet from a British pundit praising the chant, saying, “As you can see, I did nothing to lead people on, nor was I particularly happy with their chant. Just a very big and patriotic crowd. They love the USA!”

The pundit Trump elevated, Katie Hopkins, had previously called for a “final solution” to Muslim immigration into the United Kingdom and said Jewish leadership was to blame for a massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue last year because of its support of migration.

The Post reported that Trump’s allies sought to reframe the debate away from racism and toward the congresswomen’s viewpoints, which have come under fire on the right and among the more moderate members of the left.

Speaking at a town hall event in Queens on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez said the president’s recent comments coupled with the “send her back” chant made clear “this is not about immigration at all.”

“Because once you start to tell American citizens to quote go back to your own countries, this tells you this president’s policies are not about immigration, it’s about ethnicity and racism,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And his biggest mistake was that he said the quiet part loud. That was his biggest mistake. Because we know that he’s been thinking this the entire time.”

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden, Sanders lead field in Iowa poll The Memo: Cohen fans flames around Trump Memo Comey used to brief Trump on dossier released: report MORE is finding himself increasingly isolated less than a week ahead of a potential government shutdown, as even members of his own party admit that he has backed himself into a corner with his demands for $5 billion in funding for a wall on the Mexican border. 

“Everybody is looking to him for a signal about what he wants to do, and so far it’s not clear,” Sen. John CornynJohn CornynKevin McLaughlin tapped to serve as NRSC executive director for 2020 On The Money: Trump leaves GOP in turmoil with shutdown looming | Trump names Mulvaney acting chief of staff | China agrees to 3-month freeze of auto tariffs | Dem to seek Deutsche Bank records of Trump’s personal finances The Hill’s Morning Report — Trump maintains his innocence amid mounting controversies MORE (R-Texas) said of the president.  

Few Republicans will criticize Trump on the record, but behind the scenes there is frustration that he has weakened the GOP’s negotiating position with Democrats. There is also a sense that Trump might not be worried about the fallout for his party if his own supporters delight in his fighting with Democrats.

“Trump will get the blame, but he won’t care,” one GOP lawmaker told The Hill. “And the base will love him for it.”

Trump’s declaration last week that he would be “proud” to shut down the government to secure $5 billion for his border wall emboldened Democrats.

They say they will only agree to measures that extends last year’s funding level, which would provide $1.6 billion for border security, including $1.3 billion for pedestrian fencing.

Rep. Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D’Alesandro PelosiTrump celebrates judge’s decision tossing core tenets of ObamaCare Pelosi gets her swagger on Young girl’s death draws new scrutiny over US treatment of migrants MORE (D-Calif.), the presumed next Speaker, publicly challenged Trump on whether Republicans could muster enough votes to pass such a bill in the House.

“You won’t win,” she told him at an extraordinary televised Oval Office meeting on Tuesday alongside Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerRetired Gen. McChrystal: Sending troops to build wall could be seen as ‘misuse of power’ ‘It’s called transparency’ works for Trump on TV, not so much on campaign finance Trump, Pelosi, Schumer: No adult in the room MORE (D-N.Y.).

The House GOP’s decision to adjourn until Wednesday night, just two days ahead of the shutdown deadline, seemed to indicate that she was correct, though top Republicans continue to insist that they may bring the bill to a vote next week, and cautioned members that they should be prepared to return to Washington early.

While Republicans dutifully blame Democrats, most seem to agree that, were it not for Trump, there would be little trouble keeping the government open.

If he were to give the go-ahead to compromise, they say Congress would be able to pass appropriation measures for the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies that would keep the government open.

“The six bills we have are basically written and read out, ready to go, and with this one it’s only a portion of it that’s in dispute, so when the people who disagree come to an agreement, we can move,” said Rep. Tom ColeThomas (Tom) Jeffrey ColeTrump leaves GOP in turmoil with shutdown looming GOP struggles to win votes for Trump’s B wall demand Shutdown ‘more than possible,’ says top Senate appropriator MORE (R-Okla.), an appropriator.

Republicans have also made clear that they oppose shutting down the government.

“One thing I think is pretty clear no matter who precipitates the government shutdown is the American people don’t like it,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump touts ruling against ObamaCare: ‘Mitch and Nancy’ should pass new health-care law Federal judge in Texas strikes down ObamaCare Ocasio-Cortez: By Lindsey Graham’s 1999 standard for Clinton, Trump should be impeached MORE (R-Ky.), who has been key to passing many of Trump’s key accomplishments, this week. 

“I don’t think anybody wants a shutdown,” added Rep. Scott PerryScott Gordon PerryThree Republicans battle to succeed Meadows at House Freedom Caucus Democratic gains erasing House GOP in California House Republicans set to elect similar team of leaders despite midterm thumping MORE (R-Pa.)

Cole warned that “you will lose a shutdown fight if you start it.” 

Since Trump and Democrats laid down their lines at Tuesday’s explosive Oval Office meeting neither side has budged. Democrats, naturally, blame the president.

“We’ve agreed to 99.9 percent. We disagree on the wall, but they want to shut down the government,” House Democratic Whip Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerPelosi gets her swagger on Term limit fight highlights growing pains for Pelosi’s majority DeGette dropped from chief deputy whip spot MORE (Md.) told The Hill. “And we thought the Mexicans were going to pay for it,” he added.

“If it were up to the Senate we could get all the appropriations bills done by Friday,” said Sen. Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyShutdown would affect 800K federal workers, Senate Dems say Oval Office clash ups chances of shutdown Senators dumbfounded by Trump vow to shut down government MORE (D-Vt.), the vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “The difficult thing is that the experience has been when you make an agreement with President Trump, he thinks of something else two days later and changes his mind.”

Trump also seems to lack public support on the matter, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll survey published Tuesday, which found that 57 percent of respondents wanted the president to avoid a shutdown and compromise on the wall. 

But the sentiment was different among Trump’s base, which has often been more important in his decisionmaking. The poll found that 65 percent of Republicans surveyed did not want Trump to compromise. 

Trump has tried to throw the blame back at Democrats, tweeting a video Thursday night accusing them of hypocrisy on border security. 

“Let’s not do a shutdown, Democrats – do what’s right for the American People!” he wrote.

So far, the best prospects to avoid a shutdown that would affect 800,000 federal workers across the country seem to be short stopgap measures to push the fight until after Christmas or into the new year.

“It depends, really, on what the president would be willing to consider,” Cornyn said.

Juliegrace Brufke contributed to this article. 

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La policía acordonó la zona.

La policía de Francia mató este jueves a un hombre armado con un cuchillo que intentó irrumpir en una comisaría en el barrio Goutte d’Or, en el norte de París.

Fuentes policiales informaron que amenazó con el arma a los agentes, que luego le dispararon.

Un testigo le dijo a la agencia de noticias AFP que escuchó dos o tres tiros. Las autoridades acordonaron la zona.

Funcionarios confirmaron que el hombre gritó Allahu Akbar (“Dios es grande”) y que llevaba un chaleco explosivo falso.

Aniversario

Este hecho ocurrió el mismo día en que se cumple un año del ataque a la revista satírica Charlie Hebdo, que dejó 12 muertos.

Y Francia aún no sale de la conmoción tras la serie de ataques del 13 de noviembre en París, que dejaron 130 muertos y cientos de heridos.

Horas antes de lo ocurrido en Goutte d’Or, el presidente francés, Francois Hollande, se dirigió a las fuerzas de seguridad de su país y les advirtió: “La amenaza terrorista sigue presente”.

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Hollande dijo este jueves que Francia debe seguir en alerta tras los ataques en París y contra Charlie Hebdo en 2015.

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Cristina Fernández y Mauricio Macri tienen un largo historial de desencuentros.

Lo que está ocurriendo en Argentina a pocos días de la asunción del nuevo presidente, Mauricio Macri, podría haber salido del guión de un drama político televisivo… o hasta de una canción del dúo Pimpinela.

Los dos presidentes, la que es la mandataria de Argentina hasta el jueves, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, y el electo Mauricio Macri, están peleados por cómo debe ser el traspaso de mando que marque el cambio tras 12 años de gobiernos kirchneristas.

Una disputa en la que no faltan reproches y, según Cristina Fernández, incluso gritos.

“¿Qué es lo que está pasando con algo tan simple como una trasmisión de mando?”, se preguntó la presidenta en un largo mensaje dejado este domingo en las redes sociales.

“Porque debo reconocer que el maltrato de esa llamada telefónica que me hiciera el presidente electo me resultaba inexplicable y casi increíble”, dice al referirse a una conversación en la que ambos trataron el tema de la transición.

Idas y vueltas con el traspaso

Mauricio Macri quiere dirigirse a la Nación desde el Congreso, primero, donde un nuevo mandatario debe jurar su cargo ante los legisladores.

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Macri quiere recibir el bastón y la banda en la Casa Rosada, la actual presidenta quiere que sea en el Congreso.

Y después dirigirse a la Casa Rosada, sede del ejecutivo, para que Cristina Fernández le entregue el bastón de mando y la banda presidencial.

El equipo de Cambiemos, la coalición de partidos antikirchneristas que venció en las elecciones del pasado 22 de noviembre, argumenta que así es el protocolo para el cambio de mando y que así lo hicieron otros presidentes desde 1983.

Desde el macrismo se sostiene que el porteño será “presidente desde la cero hora del jueves 10”, y que por tanto le corresponde a él organizar la ceremonia.

Pero el todavía oficialismo apunta que Cristina Fernández será quien gobierne hasta que Macri jure ante el Congreso, y presentó un documento del escribano de la Nación donde señala la hora de comienzo de gestión de Macri.

Además quiere que el líder de Cambiemos reciba los atributos presidenciales en la sede del poder legislativo, igual que lo hicieron Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández en sus tres periodos de gobierno (también asumió en el Congreso el expresidente Eduardo Duhalde, que había sido elegido por el legislativo en 2002 tras la grave crisis política y económica de ese tiempo).

“El 10/12 no es su fiesta de cumpleaños sino el día que asume como Presidente de todos los argentinos”, dijo la presidenta sobre la postura de Macri.

“La autoridad, no su imagen, no se logra en una ceremonia de trasmisión de mando y mucho menos gritándole a una mujer por teléfono… Una mujer que además de estar sola quiere entregar el mando a quien ha tenido el honor de ser elegido presidente de todos los argentinos”, agregó.

Macri había acusado a Fernández de entorpecer la transición y de salir “por la puerta chica” como presidenta de Argentina, además de asegurar que la única reunión que tuvo con ella desde que fue elegido presidente “no valió la pena”.

Al momento en que se publicó esta nota, todavía no se sabe dónde será finalmente la ceremonia del traspaso de poder. Y si Cristina Fernández le entregará finalmente el bastón y la banda a Mauricio Macri. Ni si estará o no presente en el evento.

Aunque gran parte de Argentina espera ver la imagen de ambos presidentes el día 10, el mandatario electo dejó claro que quiere que esta fotografía se tome en el Salón Blanco de la Casa Rosada.

Y dijo que “si la presidente no quiere entregar los atributos, lo hará la Corte Suprema”.

Un orfebre en problemas

En mitad de esta contienda presidencial está un hombre que nunca pudo imaginar verse metido en semejante lío.

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Hasta el artista encargado de elaborar el bastón de mandos se vio envuelto en la polémica.

Se trata del orfebre Juan Carlos Pallarols, que desde el regreso a la democracia con Raúl Alfonsín en 1983 lleva confeccionando los bastones de mando que se entregan a los presidentes en el traspaso de poder.

Elaboró los dos de Cristina Fernández y ahora el de Mauricio Macri, pero aún no sabe a quién se lo va a entregar.

“Me parece un juego de adolescentes, me pone triste porque esto no es serio”, le dice Pallarols a BBC Mundo.

“El bastón nadie me lo ha pagado ni me lo ha encargado, lo hago por tradición cada cuatro años. ¿Qué hago? ¿Lo llevo a un lado, lo llevo a otro? No puedo dejarlo en la mesa de entrada de cualquier lugar, no estoy entregando una pizza. Estoy esperando una respuesta”, asegura.

“Me da igual entregárselo a Macri, a la Corte Suprema o a Cristina Kirchner, no soy yo quien decide. Pero si ninguno de los dos se pone de acuerdo lo llevaré a la Virgen de Luján”.

Pallarols asegura además que desde la Casa Rosada amenazaron a una empleada suya para que entregue el bastón al equipo de la presidenta, algo negado desde la actual Presidencia.

Si la situación no fuera ya lo suficientemente complicada, aparecieron otros dos orfebres que dicen haber confeccionado otros bastones de mando –uno de ellos el propio hijo de Juan Carlos Pallarols, lo que generó una discusión en el seno de la familia-.

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Macri dijo que su única reunión con la presidenta “no valió la pena”

El nivel de discusión en ámbitos políticos y mediáticos ha sido tal, que hasta un personaje de dibujos animados se ha visto envuelto en la polémica.

Se trata del niño Zamba, del canal infantil público Pakapaka, a menudo alabado por el oficialismo, que lo contrapone a personajes de animación estadounidenses como Micky Mouse o el Pato Donald.

En uno de sus programas, en el que Zamba recorre la Casa Rosada junto a sus compañeros de escuela, se escucha a la maestra decir: “Y éste es el Salón Blanco, que es el lugar donde se le otorga la banda y el bastón a los presidentes”.

Y así, el personaje pasó de ser ícono kirchnerista a fuente de todo tipo de bromas desde los simpatizantes de Macri.

Otra prueba de que ésta es probablemente la transición de poder más surrealista que se recuerda en la historia democrática del país.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/12/151207_argentina_macri_cristina_mando_traspaso_baston_irm

An enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in eastern India Friday near the coastal city of Puri, impacting an area that’s home to tens of millions of people.

It’s believed the storm, called Cyclone Fani (pronounced “Foni”), struck the coast with winds in excess of 115 miles per hour (equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane). That makes it the strongest storm to hit India in 20 years.

The storm has since weakened but will remain a dangerous system as it moves up India’s east coast toward Bangladesh, where 2.1 million people are expected to be evacuated, according to CNN. Flash flooding and potentially deadly landslides may occur. So far, three deaths have been reported due to the storm. Overall, the United Nations warns that 28 million people live in the path of the storm.

As New Delhi Television notes:

A teenager was killed when a tree came crashing down on him in Puri. Flying debris from a concrete structure hit a woman in Nayagarh district. In Kendrapara, a 65-year-old woman died after suspected heart attack at a cyclone shelter.


Fani strengthened over ideal conditions for cyclone formation.
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Tropical cyclones are the exact same weather phenomenon as hurricanes. And the winds are just one of the risks they bring.

This monster storm also brought with it a storm surge of 13 feet in some areas, according to the Weather Channel. Storm surge is a literal wall of water a cyclone pushes onshore, and it tends to be the deadliest feature of a cyclone. It can also be very destructive (as we saw with Hurricane Sandy in 2012).

In preparation for Cyclone Fani, more than a million people were evacuated in coastal areas in the Indian state Odisha, where the storm hit. Some 4,000 shelters were set up in the region. Train stations and airports were closed.

The evacuations were justified. In 1999, a similar sized storm hit Odisha and killed nearly 10,000 people.


The Indian state Odisha is in red.
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Source Article from https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/3/18528079/cyclone-fani-what-we-know-category-4

  • Rep. Kevin McCarthy on Saturday said he’d bet his home on the odds that the GOP secures a majority in 2022.
  • “I would bet my house. My personal house. Don’t tell my wife, but I will bet it,” he said. 
  • Democrats have a slim majority in the House. Republicans will need to flip five seats to regain control.
  • Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy on Saturday said he’d wager his own home on Republicans reclaiming a House majority in 2022. 

“We’re going to get the majority back. We’re five seats away,” he told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“I would bet my house. My personal house. Don’t tell my wife, but I will bet it,” he continued. “This is the smallest majority the Democrats have had in 100 years.”

In the 2020 elections, Democrats retained control of the House. Democrats now have a slim majority in the lower chamber, and Republicans need to flip just five seats to regain control. Democrats also took back the Senate from the Republicans, giving President Joe Biden a Democratic stronghold in Congress. 

McCarthy also said there’s “not a chance” the Republicans will lose in 2022. 

Since the days surrounding Biden’s formal inauguration into office, other Republicans have also begun to clamor about a potential GOP win in 2022. 

Earlier this month, for example, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he’d try to leverage former President Donald Trump’s influence to ensure that the Republican party takes back the House and Senate in 2022. 

In an interview with Politico, Graham said he planned to meet with Trump to discuss the future of the GOP and his role in it.

“I’m going to try and convince him that we can’t get there without you, but you can’t keep the Trump movement going without the GOP united,” Graham said.

“If we come back in 2022, then, it’s an affirmation of your policies,” he said about Trump. “But if we lose again in 2022, the narrative is going to continue that not only you lost the White House, but the Republican Party is in a bad spot.”

McCarthy’s office did not immediately return a request for comment. 

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fired back at McCarthy’s remarks in a statement to Insider:

“No one should be surprised the Minority Leader is willing to wager his home,” said Robyn Patterson, deputy communications director. “McCarthy doesn’t have much to give after sacrificing his integrity trying to cancel $1,400 survival checks for Americans trying to make ends meet during a deadly pandemic.”

Democrats and Republicans are once again clashing on the contents of the next stimulus bill. House Democrats this weekend approved a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package containing $1,400 stimulus checks for Americans.  

McCarthy, the House minority leader, was one of the bill’s dissenters, saying on the House floor that its price tag was untenable.

“The Democrats’ spending bill is too costly, too corrupt, and too liberal for the country,” the California Republican said. 

Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-mccarthy-bets-his-house-that-gop-takes-majority-back-2021-2

A man who was allegedly shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a deadly Wisconsin protest testified on Monday that he thought he was going to die as he faced the barrel of a semiautomatic rifle and saw the teenager “re-racking” the weapon.

Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, took the witness stand for the prosecution in the double homicide trial and testified that as a trained emergency medical technician and working paramedic, he went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020, to provide medical aid to people who were injured during the protest as he had done at 75 demonstrations that summer.

Grosskreutz testified that as a legal observer for the American Civil Liberties Union, he was also recording the protest in Kenosha in that capacity for a Facebook Live broadcast.

A resident of Milwaukee, Grosskreutz testified that in addition to bringing his medical supplies to the protest, he brought his Glock-27 handgun despite having an expired concealed weapon permit.

‘You shot somebody?’

He said he had treated several people for minor injuries at the demonstration, which began after a Kenosha police officer shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, during a domestic incident. He said one of the protesters he treated had been shot in the arm with a rubber bullet he assumed was fired by the police.

Just before midnight, Grosskreutz testified that he was recording a live stream when he heard gunshots coming from the south of where he was and then saw Rittenhouse running in his direction being chased by people.

Grosskreutz’s video was played for the jury and he said he took it while running alongside the armed Rittenhouse and asking him, “Hey, what are you doing. You shot somebody?”

Rittenhouse continued to run while answering, “I’m going to get the police,” according to the video.

Grosskreutz said he briefly started to go back to where Rittenhouse was running from to see if he could find the person who was shot but then decided to follow Rittenhouse when people started yelling he had just shot someone.

“I thought that the defendant was an active shooter,” Grosskreutz said.

‘High likelihood I would be shot myself’

Prosecutors allege that at that point, Rittenhouse had already shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, during an encounter at a car lot the teenager was helping to guard with other similarly armed men who answered an online call to come to Kenosha and help protect lives and property.

Grosskreutz said when he turned back to Rittenhouse’s direction, he saw Anthony Huber, 26, who video showed hitting Rittenhouse in the head with a skateboard, being fatally shot by the then-17-year-old gunman, who had been knocked to the ground and had also fired shots at an unidentified man who appeared to kick him in the face.

Video footage played for the jury by prosecutor Thomas Binger showed Grosskreutz holding his Glock handgun in his right hand and his cellphone in his left hand as he approached Rittenhouse, who was still on the ground.

Grosskreutz said that he saw Rittenhouse point his rifle at him but the gun didn’t go off. He said he then witnessed Rittenhouse “re-racking” the gun to prepare it to fire. The video showed Grosskreutz raising both hands in the air as he came within a few feet of Rittenhouse.

“I was very close to the defendant and I thought there was a high likelihood I would be shot myself,” Grosskreutz said. “By re-racking the weapon, I inferred that the defendant wasn’t accepting my surrender.”

‘I was never trying to kill the defendant’

Binger asked why he didn’t just shoot Rittenhouse.

Grosskreutz said that such a lethal response would have gone against the medical ethics ingrained in his mind and tattooed on his arm to “Do no harm.”

“I do know, though, I was never trying to kill the defendant. That was never something that I was trying to do,” Grosskreutz said looking directly at the jurors. “In that moment, I was trying to preserve my own life, but doing so while also taking the life of another is not something that I’m capable of or comfortable with doing.”

He said he was attempting to use a “non-lethal way to end that interaction” when, according to the video, he lowered his arms and moved toward Rittenhouse, who shot him in the right bicep.

Binger showed graphic photos of the gaping wound in Grosskreutz’s arm, an injury that has caused Grosskreutz to undergo multiple surgeries and physical therapy to recover from. The witness said he still has no feeling in his right arm from the elbow to his thumb.

During cross-examination from Rittenhouse’s attorney Corey Chirafisi, Grosskreutz said that he initially told investigators that he lost his gun that night before he was shot and the fact that he was armed was not mentioned in a $10 million lawsuit he filed against the city and county of Kenosha over the shooting.

“The way this case turns out has an impact on your ability to collect your $10 million, right?” Chirafisi asked.

Grosskreutz responded, “That is correct.”

“When you were standing 3 to 5 feet from him with your arms up in the air, he never fired, right?” Chirafisi asked Grosskreutz, referring to Rittenhouse.

“Correct,” Grosskreutz responded.

“It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun, now your hands down pointed at him, that he fired, right?” Chirafisi asked.

“Correct,” Grosskreutz said.

Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/kyle-rittenhouse-homicide-trial-key-takeaways-day/story?id=81034238

President TrumpDonald John TrumpKobach ‘very concerned’ voter fraud may have happened in North Carolina Trump Jr. makes fun of Ocasio-Cortez by sharing meme that suggests socialists eat dogs Trump’s 2020 campaign will be headquartered at Trump Tower: report MORE on Friday unleashed a barrage of early-morning tweets aimed at Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE, blasting him as a conflicted and biased special prosecutor before Mueller is expected to file new documents in the Russia investigation. 

The president called the investigation “a total Witch Hunt” and also sought to undermine the credibility of his own deputy attorney general, Rod RosensteinRod Jay RosensteinFormer Attorney General William Barr is Trump’s leading contender for AG: report FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet Rosenstein jokes at DOJ conference: Tell Trump ‘his favorite deputy attorney general was here’ MORE, who had been overseeing the probe, by arguing he is “totally conflicted.”

“Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James ComeyJames Brien ComeyFBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet As a former federal prosecutor, I can’t help wondering: Did Manafort plead guilty, to spy for Trump? Top FBI official Bill Priestap to retire MORE are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest,” Trump tweeted, referring to the man he fired as FBI director. 

 

In a subsequent tweet, Trump asked whether “Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report.” 

He also argued that the Justice Department should investigate 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump praises ‘beautiful tribute’ for Bush Boston Globe pans Warren as ‘divisive figure’ ahead of potential 2020 run Feds received whistleblower evidence in 2017 alleging Clinton Foundation wrongdoing MORE, the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Foundation. 

“Will all of the substantial & many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report. Will the people that worked for the Clinton Foundation be listed at the top of the Report?” he wrote. 

 

The tweets come on what is expected to be a momentous day in Mueller’s long-running investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. 

His office is expected to submit new filings later in the day detailing the status of cases against former Trump campaign chairman Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortFox News legal analyst disputes Giuliani: Mueller isn’t on a ‘fishing expedition’ Justices seem reluctant to make changes to double jeopardy clause Trump says approval rating would be 75 percent without Mueller MORE and former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen, both of whom pleaded guilty. 

Trump’s tweets break a relatively brief period of silence on the Mueller probe during memorial services for former President George H.W. Bush.  

For the second time in recent weeks, the president turned his fire on Rosenstein. He asked if the No. 2 Justice Department official’s “scathing document written about Lyin’ James Comey” will be included in Mueller’s final report on the probe. 

Referring to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant signed by Rosenstein against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, Trump asked, “isn’t Rod therefore totally conflicted?”  

The debate over whether Rosenstein should recuse himself has long hung over the Russia probe, but the deputy attorney general said he has consulted with appropriate officials and that his position did not present a conflict. 

ActingMatthew G WhitakerFlake stands firm on sending a ‘message to the White House’ on Mueller Corsi finalizing criminal complaint against Mueller Trump retweets Pence parody account attacking Clinton MORE Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, a Trump loyalist, is now believed to be overseen the probe in the wake of former attorney general Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsFlake stands firm on sending a ‘message to the White House’ on Mueller Former Attorney General William Barr is Trump’s leading contender for AG: report Sessions says he has no plans to return to Senate MORE‘ ouster. 

The president last week retweeted a photoshopped image showing several Trump opponents in jail, including Rosenstein, suggesting they should be locked up for treason. 

The president also took aim at top Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman, calling him a “horrible and vicious” prosecutor who “wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies.”

Updated at 9:12 a.m. 

Source Article from https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/420200-trump-launches-twitter-tirade-at-mueller-ahead-of-expected-manafort

President Trump speaks before signing the “Buy American, Hire American” executive order in April 2017 in Kenosha, Wis.

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President Trump is extending a freeze on new temporary work visas for tech and other highly skilled workers.

The extension means hundreds of thousands of foreigners looking to work in the United States will continue to have to wait until at least the end of March before having another chance to attain coveted visas to enter the country.

It is also another example of how the Trump administration is trying to box President-elect Joe Biden in on challenging policy matters.

Trump signed the original proclamation in June, citing the need to protect the U.S. labor force during the coronavirus pandemic. It affects workers in a wide variety of fields, including tech workers who want to enter the country on H-1B visas, seasonal workers in the tourism industry and certain au pairs on J-1 visas.

It was an extension of Trump’s earlier “Buy American, Hire American” executive order, which called for federal agencies to take stronger action to enforce immigration laws to protect U.S. workers.

The halt was set to expire Thursday, and there was a clash within the White House about what to do about the expiring moratorium.

It was aggressively opposed by business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Associations of Manufacturers, which filed lawsuits and argued it hurt U.S. economic interests.

But advocates who favored tighter immigration restrictions argued the ongoing needs created by the pandemic warranted an extension.

RJ Hauman, head of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said Americans should take note if Biden tries to lift the moratorium prematurely.

“While the unemployment rate has fallen, too many Americans are still looking for work and the economic impact outlook remains bleak,” he said. “If this proclamation was allowed to lapse, then companies could easily return to exploiting cheap foreign labor.”

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/952550071/president-trump-extends-freeze-on-many-worker-visas

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Investigacin de la Universidad de Pittsburgh sostiene que la grasa en los glteos de las madres sirve para construir el cerebro del beb.








Un estudio realizado por investigadores de la Universidad de Pittsburgh, en Estados Unidos, concluy que las mujeres con glteos grandes tienen hijos ms inteligentes.

Esa aseveracin se sustenta -de acuerdo a la investigacin- en que la grasa materna influye en el desarrollo del sistema nervioso de los bebs.

Segn explic el profesor Will Lassek, de la Universidad de Pitthsburg, la grasa acumulada en el trasero y los muslos de la mujer contienen “componentes esenciales” para el desarrollo del sistema nervioso de los bebs, los cuales se transmitiran mediante la lactancia.

La grasa en estas zonas es un almacn que sirve para construir el cerebro de un beb. Se necesitan muchas grasas para crear un sistema nervioso y las grasas en estas zonas estn enriquecidas con ADH (cido docosahexaenoico), un componente importante del cerebro humano”, seal en entrevista con Sunday Times.

Es as que las clulas de grasa son absorbidas por el feto, de ah se aprovechara la grasa corporal de la mujer, que supera la del hombre en casi 100 %.

El experto David Bainbridge, de la Universidad de Cambridge, respalda este estudio en su nuevo libro llamado Curvologa: orgenes y poder de la forma del cuerpo femenino.

Bainbridge seala que esta constitucin fsica de algunas fminas tambin ha influido en los mecanismos de atraccin para los hombres, quienes ven a las dueas de caderas ms curvas y nalgas grandes como las ms aptas para dar a luz a bebs sanos y ms inteligentes.

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Los Juegos Panamericanos se disputaron desde este fin de semana en la ciudad canadiense de Toronto y los más de 150 deportistas nacionales dejan todo en cada una de las pruebas para buscar la posibilidad de pelear por una medalla. Algunas disciplinas, como nado sincronizado, empezaron el jueves, pero el sábado y domingo se llevaron a cabo otras pruebas con buenos resultados.

PUEDES VER: Diego Elías, feliz por ser el abanderado de Perú

Nuestro abanderado, Diego Elías, estuvo en buena forma en su encuentro de squash ante el chileno Jaime Pinto y clasificó a los cuartos de final del torneo. Por su parte, en tenis, Bianca Botto derrotó por 3 sets a 0 a la ecuatoriana Charlotte Roemer y clasificó a la siguiente etapa donde enfrentará a la estadounidense Lauren Davis.

La dupla de bádminton formada por Mario Cuba y Martín del Valle se llevaron la victoria, tras imponerse a la pareja conformada por los brasileños De Oliveira y Tjong. En el mismo deporte y modalidad, pero en damas las peruanas Macías y Nishimura ganaron a sus rivales de Jamaica, al igual que la formada por Zomoza-Winder, quienes se impusieron 2 a 0 a la dupla cubana.

Resultados hasta el momento:

08:00 hrs. Bádminton Dobles Femenino – Ronda de 16

Macías/Nishimura (Perú) 2-0 Williams/Winter (Jamaica)

08:15 hrs. Tiro – 10m pistola de aire masculino – clasificación

Eliminados Enrique Arnaez  (28°) y Marko Carrillo (11°)

(Solo clasifican los ocho primeros de 30)

09:10 hrs. Bádminton Dobles femenino – Ronda de 16

Zornoza-Winder (Perú) 2-0 Azcuy Pérez-Oropeza (Cuba)

09:45 hrs. Bádminton Dobles masculino – Ronda de 16

Cuba-Del Valle (Perú) 2-0 De Oliveira-Tjong (Brasil)

09:45 hrs. Gimnasia Artística Equipo femenino –  Clasificaciones – subdivisión 1  

Ariana Orrego (momentáneamente 5° con 51.100) y Mariana Chiarella

10:15 hrs. Tiro Equipo femenino – Clasificaciones – subdivisión 1

Mariana Quintanilla (11°) y Brianda Rivera (21°)

(Solo clasifican las ocho primeras de 24)

10:20 hrs. Bádminton Dobles masculino – ronda de 16

Corpancho-Guevara (Perú) 0-2 Artuso-Paiola (Brasil)

10:35 hrs. Carrera 1 (retrasado)

Vela Laser Radial Femenino – Paloma Schmidt

Vela Laser Estándar Masculino – Stefano Peschiera.

Vela Windsurf RSX Femenino – María Belén Bazo

Vela Sunfish Masculino – Jean Paul de Trazegnies

Vela J-24 Abierto Masculino – Jorge Castro, Luis Olcese, Joel Raffo, Christian Sas Baumann.

11:30 hrs. Bádminton Individual femenino Ronda de 16

Luz María Zornoza 1-2 Haramara Gaitán (México).

12:35 hrs. Carrera 2 (retrasado)

Vela Laser Radial Femenino – Paloma Schmidt

Vela Laser Estándar Masculino – Stefano Peschiera

Vela Windsurf RSX Femenino – María Belén Bazo

Vela Sunfish Masculino – Jean Paul de Trazegnies

Vela J-24 Abierto Masculino – Jorge Castro, Luis Olcese, Joel Raffo, Christian Sas Baumann.

12:45 hrs. Squash Individual Masculino – Cuartos de Final Partido 16

Diego Elías 3-0 Christopher Gordon (Estados Unidos)

El peruano venció al estadounidense y es semifinalista del torneo. Esta noche, a las 8.45 p.m., luchará por llegar a la final de la competencia. 

13:15 hrs. Bádminton Individual masculino – Ronda de 16

Mario Cuba 0-2 Andrew D’ Souza (Canadá)

14:05 hrs.(Carrera 3) Vela Windsurf Femenino

María Belén Bazo

14:25 hrs. Bádminton Individual femenino Ronda de 16

Daniela Macías 2-0 Alejandra Paiz Quan (Guatemala)  

14:30 hrs. Judo

Jesús Gavidia vs. Carlos Tondique (Cuba)

El cubano venció al peruano.

Para esta tarde se espera el debut de la selección Sub-22, que dirige Víctor ‘Chino’ Rivera. La figura más destacada del cuadro nacional es Víctor Cedrón, quien con su experiencia en Alianza Lima y César Vallejo busca sumar de a tres con el cuadro nacional.

Resto de la jornada:

15:30 hrs. Levantamiento de Pesas – Hombres 69 kg Grupo A

Junior Lahuanampa  y Óscar Terrones. Estos son los resultados de los peruanos.

15:35 hrs. Bádminton Dobles Mixtos Ronda de 16

Cuba-Winder vs. Reid-Williams (Jamaica). Peruanos ganaron a los centroamericanos. 

16:35 hrs. Fútbol – Primera Ronda

Perú 1-2 Panamá

16:45 hrs. Bádminton Dobles Mixtos Ronda de 16

Corpancho-Zornoza  vs. Ng-Bruce (Canadá). Peruanos no pudieron contra el equipo canadiense. 

18:00 hrs. Levantamiento de Pesas Mujeres 58 kg Grupo A

Tessy Sandi. La peruana quedó tercera en esta primera prueba.

20:45 hrs. Squash individual masculino – Semifinales

Diego Elías (Perú) vs. Ganador del  Pezzota (Argentina) – Salazar (México)




 

Source Article from http://larepublica.pe/deportes/14806-juegos-panamericanos-2015-mira-los-resultados-de-los-atletas-peruanos-en-la-cita-de-toronto

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/

March 16 at 9:02 PM

Former vice president Joe Biden is expected to announce soon whether he will seek the White House in 2020. On Saturday night, he seemed — for a moment — to get ahead of himself.

“I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the United . . . anybody who would run,” Biden told Delaware Democrats at their party fundraising dinner.

The crowd at a ballroom at the Dover Downs casino complex began to cheer, as Biden laughed and crossed himself.

Biden, 76, has repeatedly pushed back possible announcement dates for what would be his third run for the presidency. He has tapped staffers who would be expected to lead a national campaign, leaving many of his political allies convinced he’ll run. But he has yet to make those plans official.

Saturday night’s state Democratic gala, which also celebrated a top-to-bottom Democratic sweep in the state’s midterm elections, repeatedly turned to Biden’s own plans.

Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) referred to him as “President Biden.” Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) told the crowd that he was “praying” for a president who “unites us and heals us,” referring to Biden. Sonia Schorr Sloan, an activist accepting an award at the dinner, said she had told Biden that she had “one campaign left” in her.

“Joe doesn’t just look like he’s back,” Delaware Gov. John Carney said. “He looks like he’s ready for a fight.”

The Delaware speech was Biden’s second political appearance of the week, after an address to the International Association of Fire Fighters that resembled a campaign rally, with “Run Joe Run” signs waving in the audience.

At both speeches, Biden described the Trump presidency as a dangerous sham.

“Trump turned his back on the very people he said he would help,” Biden said in Dover. He decried the president’s praise for Vladi­mir Putin and Kim Jong Un, noting that some foreign dictators had borrowed the president’s “fake news” rhetoric to crack down on opposition in their countries.

“If you asked me a few years ago whether our democracy could ever crumble, I would have laughed at you,” said Biden.

The former vice president offered a few hints of what a 2020 campaign could focus on, telling the crowd it was “gonna hear a lot” from him about a “new corporate ethic” focused on workers’ prosperity, and attacking the health-care cuts in the Trump administration’s proposed budget, released this week.

But Biden also continued his running argument with the Democratic Party’s “new left,” returning several times to the idea that politics had been broken by people who refuse to seek consensus. He referred to Delaware’s election tradition of “returns day,” where victorious and defeated candidates literally bury a hatchet together and ride in a parade, as an example of the way politics should be.

“We don’t demonize our opponents,” he said. “We don’t belittle them. We don’t treat the opposition as the enemy. We might even say a nice word about a Republican if they do something good.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-running–almost-joe-biden-gets-ahead-of-himself-in-saturday-speech-to-cheers-from-the-crowd/2019/03/16/afdb83ee-4847-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html

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Leonardo Boff fue sancionado por el Vaticano en 1985.

El permiso temporal concedido por el papa Francisco para que los sacerdotes perdonen a mujeres que hayan abortado supone “abrir una puerta” que “ya no se cierra” para la iglesia católica, afirmó el teólogo brasileño Leonardo Boff.

Uno de los principales referentes de la Teología de la Liberación, condenado al ostracismo en 1985 por el Vaticano por su libro “Iglesia, carisma y poder”, Boff expresó su entusiasmo con el actual pontífice durante una charla con BBC Mundo.

“El Papa está inaugurando otro tipo de Iglesia, adecuada a la globalización”, dijo el exsacerdote, quien contó que colaboró con la encíclica sobre ecología que Francisco divulgó este año.

Lea: El papa da permiso para perdonar durante el Año Santo a las mujeres que hayan abortado

Lo que sigue es un resumen del diálogo telefónico con este escritor de 76 años, que vive en una zona campestre del estado de Río de Janeiro.

¿Qué opina del permiso temporal que concedió el papa Francisco para que los sacerdotes puedan absolver del “pecado de aborto a quienes lo han practicado y que estén arrepentidos”?

Esta decisión está ligada directamente al concepto fundamental que el Papa tiene del evangelio como misericordia. Dios tiene un amor incondicional y su misericordia no tiene límites. Solamente un cristianismo doctrinario, apologético, yo diría casi machista y sin misericordia, es duro en eso.

Este Papa ha declarado claramente: yo no voy a dirigir la Iglesia por el poder sino por el amor y la misericordia. Esta decisión es absolutamente coherente con su mensaje.

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Boff es uno de los principales exponentes de la Teología de la Liberación.

Usted habla de una misericordia sin límites, pero el perdón se podrá conceder sólo durante el Año Santo (entre el 8 de diciembre próximo y el 20 de noviembre de 2016). Visto así no parece un cambio duradero…

Sí, pero esto es abrir una puerta. Y una vez abierta la puerta, ya no se cierra. Significa que él tiene cierta pedagogía, cierto sentido de proceso. No es un proceso que va a retroceder. Empezó ahora y el Año Santo es una ocasión muy oportuna, porque es el año de la misericordia y del perdón de todas las deudas. Se abre una puerta y esta será una actitud pastoral permanente en la Iglesia.

Lea también: Perdón de la Iglesia a las mujeres que abortaron: ¿cambio profundo o retoque estético?

¿Cree que esto anticipa un cambio doctrinario dentro de la Iglesia?

Creo que el Papa no va a discutir las doctrinas. Él dice siempre que la realidad está por encima de las doctrinas. Si la realidad dice que hoy hay muchos divorcios, el concepto de familia está cambiando cada vez más, y para él lo importante es que hay amor. Donde hay amor, sea en el primero o segundo matrimonio, ahí hay algo de Dios.

La Iglesia rechaza por ejemplo que aborte una niña de 10 años violada y embarazada, como ocurrió en Paraguay. ¿Cómo se coloca la realidad sobre las doctrinas ahí?

Creo que el Papa no iba a hacer eso; él iba a entender. El obispo local o la iglesia local pueden hacer eso porque hacen deducciones: no se puede cometer aborto porque importan las personas. Eso es abstracto.

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Según Boff, Francisco I está inaugurando un nuevo tipo de iglesia.

La pregunta es cuán reformista es el papa Francisco: algunos creen que está impulsando cambios de fondo y otros que son apenas actos cosméticos de alguien que en definitiva es el guardián de la doctrina católica…

El es guardián de la tradición de Jesús. Porque la doctrina católica es una invención de teólogos. Cada época elabora su teología. Pero hay valores que marcan una ruptura. Es decir: aquí empieza algo nuevo. Y este Papa vive de esa ruptura. No es populista, no es nada. Él vive su profunda convicción como hombre religioso. Ya lo vivía como cardenal en Argentina fuera del palacio, utilizando los medios comunes, el bus y el metro, iba solo a las villas miseria.

El papa también dijo que no era quién para juzgar a una persona gay, pero su Iglesia sigue condenando la práctica homosexual y oponiéndose al matrimonio gay. ¿Cómo ve eso?

El Papa en eso está innovando en la línea de la misericordia y la comprensión. Él dice: hay que hacer una revolución pastoral, el pastor tiene que tener olor de oveja, caminar junto con su pueblo. Y él entiende la condición humana, entonces no tiene nada de rigidez.

Y respecto a los abusos sexuales dentro de la Iglesia, ¿está haciendo todo lo que debe para atacar este problema grave?

Ahí el Papa es implacable, es tolerancia cero. Ese nuncio apostólico de Santo Domingo fue inmediatamente condenado. Un cardenal de Irlanda fue inmediatamente dimitido y enviado a un convento a hacer penitencia. Es rígido porque es pecar contra un inocente, abusar de quien no puede defenderse. Ese crimen tiene que ser juzgado por la justicia civil, y el Papa tiene claro eso. Un crimen no puede ser ocultado como fue en los dos pontificados anteriores.

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Muchos en la iglesia católica se oponen tajantemente al aborto.

En marzo hubo una polémica en Chile porque el Vaticano defendió el nombramiento de un obispo acusado de encubrir abusos sexuales. Hay quienes señalan que en los hechos no se ven tantos cambios…

Todos los cambios necesitan procesos, no se hacen de la noche al día. Se hacen con prácticas nuevas y es un proceso pedagógico donde las mentes van madurando. Muchos se quedan atrás y otros que son muy conservadores serán cada vez más aislados.

El Papa está inaugurando otro tipo de Iglesia, adecuada a la globalización. No puede ser una iglesia occidental, porque Occidente es cada vez más un accidente en la historia y la iglesia no puede ser rehén de esa cultura occidental.

¿El Papa consultó sus escritos para preparar la encíclica que lanzó este año sobre ecología?

No es bueno hablar sobre esto. Pero tres veces fui solicitado a enviar materiales mediante el embajador argentino en la Santa Sede. Con gran alegría he constatado que muchas cosas fueron aprovechadas. Pero la encíclica es del Papa, no es mía. Lo nuevo de la encíclica es superar la visión de la ecología como ambientalismo. No es una encíclica verde, es una encíclica de la ecología integral, política, económica, espiritual, no solamente de la relación con la naturaleza. El Papa parte ya del nuevo paradigma.

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Boff está entusiasmando con el nuevo Papa.

¿Hay algún cambio con este Papa en la Iglesia respecto a la Teología de la Liberación?

La Teología de la Liberación tiene varias tendencias. En Argentina a raíz de la represión militar y la furia antimarxista no utilizaba ninguna categoria de clase, pero era la teología del pueblo oprimido y la cultura silenciada. Es lo mismo. Y Bergoglio nunca fue contra la Teología de la Liberación. Estuvo siempre del lado de los pobres que son oprimidos, a favor de la justicia social.

Pero usted mismo había criticado a Bergoglio como un exponente de conservadurismo de la Iglesia, alguien que apoyó al régimen militar argentino que cometió crímenes de lesa humanidad. ¿Quién cambió, él o usted?

No hay que olvidar que (en Argentina) la Iglesia católica es la iglesia oficial del Estado, entonces todos los obispos y sacerdotes tenían dificultad en oponerse al régimen. Y Bergoglio sufrió con eso. Pero no se puede decir que él sencillamente ha adherido a eso. Ha salvado a muchísimas personas, como jesuitas que envió a Brasil, Uruguay y otras partes. Pero la Iglesia como sigue hoy todavía es en gran parte conservadora, a excepción de algunos.

En 2005 usted no opinaba eso. Cuando el diario “Página/12” le preguntó sobre la candidatura del cardenal Bergoglio, dijo que debía ser descartada ad limine, porque “un papa no puede haber estado ligado a los militares como lo estuvo él”…

Pero eso es de 2005. Estamos en 2015. Hay 10 años de diferencia. No doy valor a eso. Estaba pensando que en el contexto global era difícil que viniera alguien de América Latina —en Chile era mucho peor, en Brasil menos— donde de alguna manera muchos habían colaborado con regímenes porque eran anticomunistas, por temor al comunismo, etcétera. Pero no era en el sentido de decir que Bergoglio estaba comprometido; pertenecía a una Iglesia que en su conjunto tiene mucho que pedir perdón al pueblo argentino por no haber sido suficientemente profética y denunciadora de los crímenes.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/09/150901_brasil_iglesia_leonardo_boff_entrevista_gl

UPDATE:

In an unprecedented move, Columbus police showed body camera footage of the shooting by a Columbus police officer of a 16-year-old girl just hours after the incident.

The video shows an officer approaching a driveway with a group of young people standing there. In the video, it appears that the 16-year-old, identified now as Ma’Khia Bryant, who was moments later shot by police pushes or swings at a person who falls to the ground.

Ma’Khia then appears to swing a knife at a girl who is on the hood of a car, and the officer fires his weapon what sounds like four times, striking the girl.

Columbus police stressed that the Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the investigation into the case, but the city wanted to release the body camera to give the public more information.

Source Article from https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/20/one-person-killed-officer-involved-shooting-east-side/7309088002/