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Luego de someterse a una importante intervención quirúrgica, el cantante de One Direction deberá descansar los próximos meses.

Niall Horan se lesionó su rodilla en diciembre por un problema que el 1D tenía desde hace años. Al parecer, por una desconocida causa, las rodillas de Niall tienen una alta tendencia a dislocarse.

El diario The Sun de Inglaterra publicó una foto del cantante en la que aparece caminando con ayuda de unas muletas por el aeropuerto de Heathrow, en Londres.

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One Direction inicia su gira el 25 de abril en Bogotá. Luego de varias presentaciones en Sudamérica, el quinteto viajará a Europa y Norteamérica. Serán 65 shows que terminarán el 5 de octubre en Miami.

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Casi 13 años después de protagonizar la mayor cesación de pagos de la historia económica reciente, Argentina se enfrenta a otro tipo de default, desconocido hasta ahora y de consecuencias dificilmente predecibles.

La situación no es comparable a la del default de 2001. Esta vez, la cesación de pagos se produce tras un largo litigio legal y por orden de un juez, no por una crisis económica que lo desencadenara, como en aquella ocasión.

De hecho, el ejecutivo argentino argumenta que, puesto que ya estuvo fuera de los mercados internacionales de crédito durante más de una década, caer en default no supondrá una hecatombe económica para el país.

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Lea también: Argentina entra en default

Pero lo cierto es que los analistas coinciden en que, si bien es difícil de pronosticar cuáles serán las consecuencias que sufrirá el país a corto y mediano plazo -precisamente porque se trata de un caso inédito de default-, Argentina tendrá que adaptarse a esta nueva realidad.

Pero ¿cómo? “Hay vida después del default… pero es una vida dura”, le dice a BBC Mundo Guillermo Nielsen, exsecretario de Finanzas de Argentina y jefe negociador de la reestructuracion de la deuda en 2005.

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Lea también: ¿Qué significa entrar en default selectivo?

“Hacen falta consensos políticos y mirar hacia adelante”, explica.

Estas son algunas opciones para Argentina:

1. Seguir negociando

Pese al fracaso de las conversaciones entre el ministro de Economía Axel Kicillof con los holdouts, Argentina todavía tiene opciones para salir rápido del default.

Si bien este miércoles el ministro de Economía de Argentina, Axel Kicillof, admitió que las conversaciones entre el ejecutivo y los holdouts o fondos buitres habían fracasado, Argentina todavía tiene algunas opciones para salir rápido del default.

Si Argentina logra navegar por el default hasta enero de 2015, ambas partes podrían llegar a un pacto que destrabara los problemas del gobierno para que el dinero llegue a los acreedores.

Una de ellas es lograr un acuerdo entre partes privadas que no comprometa los acuerdos que Argentina ya había hecho con otros tenedores de deuda -aquellos que sí se sumaron a las reestructuraciones de 2005 y 2010.

Por ejemplo, un grupo de bancos privados argentinos llegó a ofrecer US$250 millones a los fondos buitres como señal de buena voluntad del pago por parte de Argentina.

Medios locales llegaron a especular con la existencia de negociaciones para que los bancos pagaran el total del monto reclamado por los holdouts, que ronda los US$1.5000 millones, algo que no se pudo confirmar.

Incluso si no existen acuerdos entre privados, Argentina podría volver a negociar con los llamados “fondos buitre” a finales de año, cuando caduca la llamada clausula Rufo, una provisión de los contratos con los tenedores de deuda reestructurada que impiden ofrecer mejores precios a otros bonistas en futuras negociaciones.

Para el país puede ser menos costoso vivir bajo un default que tener que indemnizar a todos sus bonistas por violar la cláusula Rufo.

Si Argentina logra navegar por el default hasta enero de 2015, ambas partes podrían llegar a un pacto que destrabara los problemas del gobierno para que el dinero llegue a los acreedores.

2. Buscar financiamiento en otras partes

“Pudimos pagar la deuda sin necesidad de que nadie nos volviera a prestar nada, sin acceso al mercado de capitales”, dijo recientemente Cristina Fernández.

Bajo un default, el acceso del gobierno y de las compañías al crédito se limita y es necesario buscar el financiamiento en otros lados.

Es cierto que Argentina de hecho ya estaba fuera de los mercados internacionales.

“Pudimos pagar la deuda sin necesidad de que nadie nos volviera a prestar nada, sin acceso al mercado de capitales”, dijo recientemente Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

No ocurrirá nada comparable con la crisis de fin de siglo porque la situación es muy distinta. Podría abrirse entonces un nuevo canje, ya bajo legislación argentina, que contemple a todos los involucrados y siente las bases para un mercado local de capitales, como ya ocurrió en México, Colombia y Perú.

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“Quieren asustarnos a los argentinos diciendo que si no hacemos lo que quieren los fondos buitres, no van a ingresar capitales ni vamos a tener acceso al financiamiento. Y digo yo, desde el año 2003 a la fecha, ¿cuándo tuvimos acceso al financiamiento internacional?”, cuestionó la presidenta.

Sin embargo, como recuerda Guillermo Nielsen, “en el pasado, el precio internacional de las materias primas ayudó a Argentina” a pagar aquellas deudas incluso sin crédito externo.

Los valores récord de los “commodities” hicieron que no sólo Argentina se recuperara con rápidez de su crisis, sino que además el país viviera un boom agrícola que le ha permitido sortear vaivenes económicos en años recientes.

A falta de créditos había soja. Pero hoy los precios de las materias primas en todo el mundo están en caída y la economía argentina se encuentra en recesión.

¿Qué alternativas tiene entonces?

Como ejemplo podría servir el reciente acuerdo entre el Banco Central y el gobierno de China para que el país asiático refuerce las reservas argentinas con hasta US$11.000 millones. O los acuerdos estratégicos de inversión entre Argentina y Rusia.

Hay que tener en cuenta que las reservas de la nación sudamericana han caído en un 30% sólo en el último año, hasta situarse por debajo de los US$30.000, su nivel más bajo desde 2006.

Argentina no sólo necesita esas reservas para pagar sus deudas, también para financiar importaciones clave, como la energía.

“La financiación para inversiones privadas será un poco más difícil y onerosa para algunos, pero no para todos. El principal efecto será un incremento en el costo de los seguros para el comercio exterior”, escribió en el diario Página 12 el periodista Horacio Verbitsky.

“No ocurrirá nada comparable con la crisis de fin de siglo porque la situación es muy distinta. Podría abrirse entonces un nuevo canje, ya bajo legislación argentina, que contemple a todos los involucrados y siente las bases para un mercado local de capitales, como ya ocurrió en México, Colombia y Perú”, reza su artículo sobre las posibles consecuencias del default.

3. Frenar la incertidumbre

Analistas dicen que los efectos del default se sentirán en el segundo semestre del año.

Según el analista Luis Palma Cané, uno de los efectos que el default tendría a corto plazo sobre la economía argentina sería elevar el nivel de incertidumbre.

“Esto constituye el principal enemigo de la economía real y los mercados vía mayor deterioro del grado de confianza de los consumidores, inversores y empresarios”, argumenta el economista en el diario La Nación.

Coincide Guillermo Nielsen en que “la gente será muy prudente a la hora de consumir o decidir gastar porque tiene recuerdos del último default, el de 2001”.

“En los próximos meses quizás veamos menos dinero en las calles. La economía ya está en recesión y desafortunadamente eso se vería en el segundo semestre”, advierte.

En las últimas semanas y ante la aproximación del fin del plazo para sortear el default, el gobierno argentino ha intentado tranquilizar sobre sus efectos en el bolsillo de los trabajadores y los empresarios, con el fin de evitar una fuga de capitales o la paralización del consumo.

Uno de los principales focos de preocupación es el del empleo. En tiempos de incertidumbre económica, los empresarios podrían pensarlo dos veces antes de contratar a nuevos trabajadores o incluso plantearse reducir plantillas.

4. Incentivar el consumo interno

Compren una moto si es que puede, compren una plancha o un lavarropa si es que lo necesitan, porque estarán fortaleciendo el trabajo de los argentinos.

Cristina Fernández – Presidenta de Argentina

La presidenta hizo un llamado a aumentar la productividad de los trabajadores, uno de los puntos débiles de la economía argentina, para mejorar la competitividad de las empresas y poder garantizar los empleos.

“Necesitamos fortalecer más que nunca el mercado interno”, fue el mensaje de Cristina Fernández durante la inauguración de una fábrica de motos en Buenos Aires.

“Compren una moto si es que pueden, compren una plancha o un lavarropa si es que lo necesitan, porque estarán fortaleciendo el trabajo de los argentinos”, exclamó.

El gobierno argentino ha confiado en los últimos años en la demanda interna para poder mantener con vida su economía.

Es por eso que no se descarta que, con la llegada del default, el gobierno pueda potenciar programas ya existentes como Procrear (créditos para viviendas), Procreauto (para compra de automóviles) y Progresar (para jóvenes que quieren estudiar).

Sin embargo, algunos analistas advierten de las consecuencias que tendría el colocar más dinero en las calles de un país que ya de por sí sufre un severo problema de inflación.

5. Evitar nuevos litigios de bonistas

Analistas dicen cerca de US$30.000 millones de la deuda externa argentina (es decir, más de un tercio del total) podría ser “acelerada” si los bonistas así lo quisieran.

Aunque parezca irónico, el peor escenario de este default podría no llegar de los “fondos buitres”, sino de los tenedores de deuda que ya se habían sumado a las reestructuraciones.

Es posible que los demás acreedores deseen “acelerar” el cobro completo de sus bonos, en vez de esperar a que venzan en varios años.

Esto sería posible por las reglas de los dos canjes de deuda que Argentina realizó en 2005 y 2010, y que le permitió acordar con el 92,4% de sus bonistas.

En caso de una cesación de pagos, los tenedores de cualquiera de los bonos emitidos por Argentina bajo ley extranjera tienen derecho a pedir un inmediato adelantamiento de los pagos de sus papeles. Para ello, solo se requiere que el 25% de los bonistas esté de acuerdo con esa exigencia.

Según la consultora Elypsis, cerca de US$30.000 millones de la deuda externa argentina (es decir, más de un tercio del total) podría ser “acelerada” si los bonistas así lo quisieran.

Algunos analistas económicos en Argentina creen que en particular los tenedores de los bonos Par podrían pedir este adelantamiento, ya que estos papeles vienen exhibiendo una demanda sostenida, a diferencia de los otros bonos que han sufrido caídas en los últimos meses.

Este escenario sería el mayor golpe a las finanzas del país -con exigencias de pago que igualarían el total de sus reservas-, que podría ver cómo un litigio por US$1.500 millones de dólares acaba en una lucha por evitar a toda costa el pago de una deuda mucho más abultada.

Con información de Ignacio de los Reyes y Veronica Smink.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/07/140730_economia_argentina_default_msd.shtml

“NBC Nightly News” appeared to listen Thursday to the intense backlash it received for omitting key details of the events that led to the fatal police-involved shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.

On Wednesday, Media Research Center news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro called out NBC News for editing out a portion of a frantic 911 call in which a woman is heard saying: “It’s these grown girls over here trying to fight us, trying to stab us.”

Fondacaro also drew attention to the portion of the police bodycam footage shown by NBC, which he noted did not “show viewers the knife in the attacker’s hand just before the shots.”

However, during Thursday’s broadcast, the Peacock Network did include both elements, playing a lengthier audio clip of the 911 call that included the “stab” reference and a zoomed-in still image of the knife in Bryant’s hand as she was shot. 

‘NBC NIGHTLY NEWS’ UNDER FIRE FOR EDITING OUT KEY PART OF 911 CALL BEFORE MA’KHIA BRYANT SHOOTING

As Fondacaro noted, NBC News did not acknowledge the omissions in Wednesday’s report that drew fierce criticism. 

While the Wednesday report was slammed on social media, it did not hide the fact that Bryant had a knife.

‘THE VIEW’ PUSHES BACK AGAINST CNN’S DON LEMON OVER MA’KHIA BRYANT SHOOTING: HE’S ‘WRONG ABOUT THIS’

“A police officer shot and killed a 16-year-old Black girl in Columbus, Ohio saying she was threatening others with a knife,” NBC anchor Lester Holt began. 

Throughout the report, a graphic at the bottom of the screen read, “POLICE FATALLY SHOOT 16-YEAR-OLD BLACK GIRL HOLDING KNIFE” and a still image from the bodycam footage showed a knife on the ground.

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However, as Fondacaro pointed out, ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening News” both aired the portion of the 911 call that included the stabbing reference and both zoomed in on the bodycam footage, showing clearly that Bryant was holding a knife during the altercation. That comparison fueled the viral backlash against NBC.  

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Los simpatizantes del gobierno consideran el fallo del juez Griesa un ataque a la soberanía. Foto: Reuters

Después de 13 años de altibajos en su economía, los argentinos escucharon de nuevo una palabra temida: default (o cesación de pagos).

Este miércoles está por cumplirse el plazo para que Argentina pague a un grupo de tenedores de deuda estructurada, convirtiéndose en la segunda vez en el siglo XXI que el país se encamina a la suspensión de pagos, luego del masivo default de 2001, que fue el más grande en la historia.

A pesar de que medios locales todavía plantean la opción de un acuerdo entre bancos argentinos y holdouts, el fracaso de las negociaciones con el gobierno hicieron que el mediador designado por la Justicia estadounidense, Daniel Pollack, asegurara que “la Argentina entrará inminentemente en default”.

El default “no es una condición meramente técnica sino un evento real y doloroso que dañará a personas reales: estas incluyen ciudadanos argentinos, los bonistas que entraron al canje y lo houldouts”, aseguró el mediador.

Eso sí, esta vez será un default sui géneris, pues no sería un cese de pagos voluntario sino obligado por falta de alternativas para depositar su dinero, completamente distinto a lo ocurrido hace 13 años.

BBC Mundo le ofrece las claves del llamado “default selectivo” argentino, las opciones del gobierno para vivir con él y sus posibles implicaciones.

¿Por qué es un “default selectivo”?

Así lo calificó la agencia de medición de riesgo Standard and Poor’s (S&P), quien declaró este miércoles a Argentina en “default selectivo” luego de que venciera el plazo del país para pagar US$539 millones.

Esta cantidad corresponde a ese pago concreto previsto para un grupo de tenedores de deuda, que en realidad Argentina había transferido ya hace un mes, pero que nunca llegaron a manos de los bonistas.

¿La razón? Un fallo de la Justicia de Estados Unidos determinó que no puede pagar sus bonos reestructurados hasta que pague también unos US$1.500 millones a un grupo de fondos especulativos que demandaron al país por el valor total de sus papeles.

Es selectivo porque se refiere a este pago concreto, con vencimiento original del 30 de junio, y que estaba sujeto a un periodo de gracia de 30 días que expiraba al finalizar el miércoles.

Además, hay bonos argentinos pagables bajo ley de Estados Unidos, otros en Argentina, e incluso en diferentes monedas: pesos, dólares, yenes… En medio de esta complejidad de la deuda argentina aún no está claro todavía qué bonistas podrán recibir los pagos de Argentina y cuáles no, según la decisión del juez Thomas Griesa.

Pero como aclara la agencia de medición de riesgo Standard and Poor’s, podría revisar su clasificación si finalmente se anunciara una manera de efectuar los pagos.

¿Por qué, según Argentina, “no es un default”?

El gobierno argentino asegura que no existe ningún default, argumentando que no cabe cesación posible cuando el propio estado sigue pagando voluntariamente a sus deudores.

“No es default porque Argentina paga. El default de un país es la consecuencia de los problemas de un país, de solvencia, de divisa… no la causa. Que el juez impida cobrar es un problema que carga sobre las espaldas del juez, no relativo a la posición del país”, dijo este miércoles el ministro de Economía, Axel Kicillof.

“¿Quién creen en las agencias calificadoras todavía? ¿Quién cree que son todavía referís imparciales?”, dijo durante una conferencia de prensa en Nueva York.

El gobierno de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner insiste en que seguirá pagando sus deudas, y califica el término de “default selectivo” como un “eufemismo, una situación novedosa e insólita”.

Más allá de los fondos bloqueados por Griesa, existen otros acuerdos por los que Argentina podrá seguir pagando a otras instituciones, como la española Repsol -indemnizada por la nacionalización de YPF- o el Club de París -al que Argentina pagó US$650 millones apenas esta semana-.

¿Cómo llegó Argentina a esta situación?

La presidenta argentina, Cristina Fernández, dijo que su país quiere pagar y que el juez Griesa se lo impide.

Mientras que Argentina logró reestructurar el 93% de la deuda de cerca de US$100.000 millones que había entrado en cesación de pagos en 2001, aún debe negociar con el 7% que se rehusó a entrar en los canjes de deuda de 2005 y 2010, conocidos como “holdouts” o “fondos buitre” según el gobierno argentino.

Se trata de un grupo de fondos de inversión extranjeros que demandaron a Argentina ante la Justicia estadounidense y a los que el juez de Nueva York Thomas Griesa les dio la razón.

Son apenas un pequeño grupo, representan el 0,45% del total de acreedores, pero Argentina mantiene que si les paga el 100% del valor de sus bonos a estos demandantes, el resto de los holdouts exigirá lo mismo, algo que el país considera impagable.

El juez Griesa falló que Argentina debe pagar a todos sus acreedores en lugar de ser selectiva.

Es decir, impide al país seguir pagándole al 93% de los bonistas que sí aceptaron reestructurar sus bonos si no le paga también a los demandantes, por lo que Argentina ya había advertido que un fallo adverso generaría una nueva cesación de pagos o default técnico.

Aunque el gobierno intentó depositar el pago previsto a los tenedores de deuda reestructurada, el juez ordenó frenar esa transferencia, lo que en la práctica ya dejaba a Argentina en una cesación de pagos oficiosa.

¿Es esta crisis parecida a la de 2001?

Ni la situación económica ni el tipo de default se parecen a la crisis de 2001.

No. En primer lugar, las condiciones de partida son muy diferentes. Aunque Argentina ha vivido en los últimos años una desaceleración de su economía y se ha visto afectada por los altos índices de inflación, su economía es aún significativamente más robusta que hace 12 años y la deuda representa un porcentaje del Producto Interior Bruto mucho menor.

Pero es que además la naturaleza de este default sería muy distinta a la de aquella crisis.

“Este sería un defaul extraño, porque no se produce porque Argentina sea incapaz de pagar, como en 2001, sino por el fallo de la corte y las dificultades que introduce en el calendario de pagos de Argentina al resto de deudores”, le explica a BBC Mundo el economista Alan Cibils.

“El default de 2001 fue en aquel momento una buena decisión y acabó ayudando a Argentina a salir de la crisis, con varios años de crecimiento”, dice el profesor de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento.

Entre 2005 y 2010 Argentina logró reducir en más de un 60% el valor de su deuda. Ahora, para pagarle a los holdouts el total de lo que reclaman tendría que destinar más de dos tercios de sus reservas, según las estimaciones oficiales.

Qué tanto contribuiría un default a “desandar” el camino recorrido por Argentina nos lleva a la siguiente pregunta.

¿Cuáles son los efectos que podría tener este default en la economía?

El ministro de Economía argentino, Axel Kicillof, pidió el apoyo internacional contra los “fondos buitre”. Foto: AP

Según el gobierno, el aumento de la deuda podría conllevar un aumento del desempleo, una de las mayores preocupaciones de los argentinos en una economía en recesión. Es por eso que la presidenta dijo que no estaba dispuesta a firmar “cualquier cosa”.

Cristina Fernández ha hecho llamados a potenciar el consumo en el país para fortalecer la economía en época de turbulencias.

“Necesitamos fortalecer más que nunca el mercado interno. Compren una moto si es que puede, compren una plancha o un lavarropa si es que lo necesitan, porque estarán fortaleciendo el trabajo de los argentinos”, dijo recientemente Fernández de Kirchner.

Algunos analistas aseguran que además podría poner en riesgo inversiones extranjeras clave, como las del yacimiento de Vaca Muerta.

Algo que el ejecutivo niega: “Los acuerdos desde el punto de vista de las inversiones extranjeras directas se respetan claramente en virtud de los compromisos preexistentes”, según el jefe de gabinete, Jorge Capitanich.

En realidad, Argentina lleva ya más de una década excluida de los mercados internacionales de crédito. Es por eso que el país tendrá que seguir buscando otras fuentes de financiación alternativas.

Como lo fue, por ejemplo, el reciente acuerdo entre el Banco Central argentino y el gobierno chino para contar con un apoyo a las reservas de hasta US$11.000 millones.

“Mañana será otro día y el país seguirá andando”, dijo Kicillof para tranquilizar al país.

¿Afecta esta situación al resto de países?

Otros países en default podrían elegir otros mercados, no el de EE.UU., para reestructurar sus deudas. Foto: AFP

Sí. “Es uno de los aspectos clave de este fallo. Implica que cualquier país que esté contemplando un default debería ser muy cuidadoso con dónde decide reestructurar su deuda”, explica Cibils.

“Y Nueva York parece un lugar que deberían evitar, lo que tendrá un impacto en los mercados financieros de Estados Unidos”, añade.

Y es que, según el Fondo Monetario Internacional, al ofrecer a los holdouts un mecanismo para extraer la recuperación fuera de un canje de deuda voluntario, las decisiones incrementarían los riesgos de que los holdouts se multipliquen.

Por otro lado, “los acreedores, quienes de otra manera están inclinados a acordar una reestructuracion, podrían ser menos propensos a hacerlo” en futuras ocasiones y en otros países, según el FMI.

Es por eso que Argentina cuenta con el apoyo del FMI, pero también de numerosos gobiernos, del grupo del G77+China y de la Organización de Estados Americanos.

¿Todos pierden con esta situación?

No. También hay quienes saldrían beneficiados si el país se ve nuevamente imposibilitado de pagarle a sus acreedores, incluso si esta vez la falta de pago se da como consecuencia de un fallo de la justicia de EE.UU. y no por decisión del gobierno, como ocurrió en 2001.

Los principales ganadores serán quienes posean seguros contra default (credit default swap o CDS, por sus siglas en inglés), que se activarán no bien la Asociación Internacional de Swaps y Derivados (ISDA, en inglés) confirme la situación de Argentina.

Se desconoce con exactitud quiénes y cuántos serán estos beneficiados, ya que los CDS son contratos entre privados.

Muchos en Argentina creen que los “fondos buitre” que demandaron al país poseen estos seguros, por lo que obtendrían una ganancia incluso si el gobierno de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner se niega a pagarles los cerca de US$1.500 millones que reclaman por sus bonos.

Pero lo cierto es que es imposible saberlo, debido a lo secreto de estas transacciones.

Con información de Verónica Smink e Ignacio de los Reyes

Source Article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/07/140730_argentina_default_selectivo_preguntas_kicillof_irm.shtml

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Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego after an explosion and fire last year at Naval Base San Diego. The U.S. Navy said Thursday that arson charges have been filed against a sailor.

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Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego after an explosion and fire last year at Naval Base San Diego. The U.S. Navy said Thursday that arson charges have been filed against a sailor.

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SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch’s worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory.

The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days. Left with extensive structural, electrical and mechanical damage, the ship was later scrapped. Estimates to replace it ran up to $4 billion.

The sailor was a member of the crew at the time, Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesperson, said in a statement. The sailor was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel, Robertson said. No name was released.

No other details were provided, and it was unclear what evidence was found or what the motive was.

The amphibious assault ships are among the few in the U.S. fleet that can act as a mini aircraft carrier.

The Bonhomme Richard had been nearing the end of a two-year upgrade estimated to cost $250 million when the fire broke out on July 12, 2020.

A sailor has been charged with arson in the explosion and fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego last year.

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A sailor has been charged with arson in the explosion and fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego last year.

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About 160 sailors and officers were on board when the flames sent up a huge plume of dark smoke from the 840-foot (256-meter) vessel, which had been docked at Naval Base San Diego while undergoing the upgrade.

The fire started in the ship’s lower storage area, where cardboard boxes, rags and other maintenance supplies were stored. But winds coming off the San Diego Bay whipped up the flames and the flames spread up the elevator shafts and exhaust stacks.

Then two explosions — one heard as far as 13 miles (21 kilometers) away — caused it to grow even bigger.

The fire sent acrid smoke billowing over San Diego, and officials had recommended people avoid exercising outdoors.

Firefighters attacked the flames inside the ship, while firefighting vessels with water cannons directed streams of seawater into the ship and helicopters made water drops.

More than 60 sailors and civilians were treated for minor injuries, heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2021/07/29/1022514854/sailor-charged-arson-uss-bonhomme-richard-navy-san-diego

Saying that he can’t run for reelection to Congress while at the same time waging a broader war for the future of the Republican Party, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois on Friday announced that he wouldn’t run for reelection next year.

The six-term conservative congressman and combat pilot veteran made headlines in January as the second-most high profile of the 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. He becomes the second of that group to not seek another two-year term in the House in the 2022 midterm elections, following Rep. Anthony Gonzales of Ohio.

As he fights to break the GOP from its current domination by the former president and works to back other anti-Trump Republicans, Kinzinger stressed in a video announcing his decision that it has “become increasingly obvious to me that in order to break the narrative, I cannot focus on both a reelection to Congress and a broader fight nationwide.”

WHO IS ADAM KINZINGER: THE CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSMAN TURNED ANTI-TRUMP GOP LEADER

“I want to make it clear, this isn’t the end of my political future but the beginning,” he also emphasized. “Let me be clear, my passion for this country has only grown. My desire to make a difference is bigger than it’s ever been.”

Kinzinger joined the Air Force after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, serving in both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s currently a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard. 

As a 32-year-old, he was elected to Congress in the Tea Party wave election of 2010, beating a Democratic incumbent by nearly 15 points in a north-central and northeastern Illinois district, thanks in part to Sarah Palin’s endorsement. Two years later, after redistricting, he took down 10-term GOP Rep. Don Manzullo in the primary before winning the general election.

In early January, Kinzinger joined nine other House Republicans to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the deadly attack on the Capitol by right-wing extremists and other Trump supporters bent on disrupting congressional certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. The storming of the Capitol occurred soon after Trump urged a large crowd of supporters he addressed at a rally near the White House to march to the Capitol and show strength in protesting the certification of the election.

Trump was impeached by the House a week later on one count of inciting an insurrection. The 10 Republicans joined all 222 Democrats in voting to impeach Trump, with 197 Republicans voting against impeachment. In February, after leaving the White House, Trump was acquitted in a Senate trial, with seven GOP senators joining all 50 Democrats in the chamber to vote to convict the former president.

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All 10 House Republicans instantly faced the wrath of Trump and his allies, who have worked to defeat the lawmakers as they run for reelection in the midterms. Trump’s endorsed primary challengers to a number of the 10, including the most well known of the bunch, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

“I stand in awe of the courage of the other nine members in the House who voted to impeach a president of their own party, knowing it could be detrimental to their political career,” Kinzinger said.

Trump, in a statement after Kinzinger’s announcement, wrote “2 down, 8 to go!”

In an apparent jab at the former president’s brand of divisive politics, Kinzinger lamented that “our political parties only survive by appealing to the most motivated and the most extreme elements within it. And the price tag to power has skyrocketed and fear and distrust has served as an effective strategy to meet that cost.”

And he argued that “dehumanizing each other has become the norm. We’ve taken it from social media to the streets. We’ve allowed leaders to reach power selling the false premise that strength comes from degrading others and dehumanizing those that look, act, think differently that we do. As a country, we’ve fallen for those lies and now we face a poisoned country.”

KINZINGER HAULS IN BIG BUCKS AFTER FACING TRUMP’S WRATH OVER IMPEACHMENT

Kinzinger, who along with Cheney are the only two Republicans on a Democratic- named special committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has seen his  stance against Trump dramatically boost his fundraising. And the Country First Leadership PAC, which he formed earlier this year to support other anti-Trump Republicans, is also hauling in big bucks.

The congressman said that “I know I’m not alone. There’s many Americans that are desperately searching for a better way. They want solutions, not more problems.”

“Now is the time for choosing,” he urged. “Now is the time to join our movement at Country First.”

Another likely factor in his decision to not seek another term in the House is redistricting.

With Illinois losing a congressional seat due to the 2020 Census and Democrats controlling the redistricting process in the blue state, according to maps awaiting the signature of the Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Kinzinger may have been dumped into the same district as Republican Rep. Darin LaHood. 

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That would have set up a potentially nasty intra-GOP showdown in northern Illinois. Kinzinger’s decision now likely clears the way for LaHood to secure reelection in a safe Republican House district.

And there’s speculation that Kinzinger may now mull a Republican gubernatorial challenge next year against Pritzker.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram, Jason Donner, and James Levinson contributed to this report

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-adam-kinzinger-not-running-reelection-illinois-republican

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/24/covid-news-nfl-mask-mandate-los-angeles-maryland/6398149002/

Responding to the Trump administration’s decision to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, Iran on Tuesday officially listed U.S. military personnel in the Middle East as terrorists.

Iran’s hardliner faction intends for that response to deter the U.S. from continuing its pressure campaign against Iran. It wants the U.S. to fear attacks on its forces in the Middle East. But while it is likely that the IRGC will lash out in some fashion, their fury is really a function of fear, not confidence.

The Iranian hardliners know that Trump’s action will hamper the IRGC’s ability to earn foreign capital. That’s because foreign companies, and European ones in particular, will fear doing business in Iran lest they face new U.S. sanctions. Considering that the IRGC controls critical industries in the Iranian economy, such as the telecommunications and energy sectors, Trump’s listing is a big problem for the organization.

IRGC commanding officer Mohammad Ali Jafari proved as much Sunday when he warned that “If (the Americans) make such a stupid move, the U.S. Army and American security forces stationed in West Asia will lose their current status of ease and serenity.” Trying to placate the hardliners, the more-moderate foreign minister Javad Zarif called for the U.S. military’s Central Command to be listed as a terrorist organization. Pro-hardliner media have also hinted at Iranian terrorist reprisals, warning that Trump’s action will mean more chaos in the Middle East.

Nevertheless, it’s clear the hardliners feel increasingly encircled. This situation is unstable.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-iran-just-listed-us-military-personnel-as-terrorists

President Joe Biden on Thursday said his plan to fight Covid during the winter months will not include new lockdowns or an expansion of the administration’s current vaccination requirements.

“It doesn’t include shutdowns or lockdowns, but widespread vaccinations and boosters and testing a lot more,” Biden told reporters during an update.

“And while my existing federal vaccination requirements are being reviewed by the courts, this plan does not expand or add to those mandates — a plan that all Americans hopefully can rally around, and it should get bipartisan support, in my humble opinion,” the president said.

The administration hopes to increase the number of Americans who have received booster shots by expanding outreach. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will contact the more than 60 million people who are on Medicare, mostly seniors, to remind them to get an additional shot.

The White House plan, unveiled earlier Thursday, comes after at least two cases of the highly mutated omicron variant were detected in California and Minnesota this week. Health officials in the U.S. and around the world are concerned that the variant, which has some 50 mutations, could prove more transmissible and evade protection from vaccines to some degree.

Several European nations have reintroduced restrictions on public life to fight a wave of Covid infection. Austria has instituted a full lockdown, the Netherlands is forcing businesses such as restaurants to close early, and Germany is barring the unvaccinated from most businesses with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies and bakeries.

The White House is asking businesses with 100 or more employees to voluntarily move forward with the administration’s requirements to get their staff vaccinated or tested weekly by Jan. 4. A federal appellate court put the policy on hold pending review last month, citing constitutional concerns. The administration says it’s on firm legal ground and expects to win the case.

Biden said Thursday the administration’s goal is to keep schools open by launching hundreds of family vaccination clinics at community health centers and other locations around the country to make it easier for parents to immunize their kids.

“We want our children in school; we are going to take new steps to make sure it stays that way,” Biden said. “But, again, the best step is to vaccinate your children.”

The plan also includes an expansion of free at-home Covid testing. Americans with private insurance will be reimbursed for the tests, and the administration will distribute 50 million free tests to health centers and rural clinics for people who are uninsured or underserved, according to the president.

Biden said the administration doesn’t believe additional measures are needed at the moment but is developing contingency plans to develop new vaccines and boosters if they’re needed to fight omicron.

“My team is already working with officials at Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson to develop contingency plans for other vaccines or boosters,” Biden said. “And I’ll also direct the FDA and the CDC to use the fastest process available — without cutting corners, for safety — to get such vaccines reviewed and approved if needed.”

The U.S., starting next week, will also require inbound international travelers regardless of vaccination status to get tested 24 hours before their departure. The administration is also extending the mask mandate for domestic flights and public transit until March 18.

“We are in a better position than we were a year ago to fight Covid-19,” Biden said.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/02/covid-news-biden-says-no-lockdowns-wont-expand-vaccine-mandates-this-winter.html

April 30 at 7:32 PM

President Trump’s effort to reshape the Federal Reserve and accelerate economic growth hit a setback Tuesday as multiple Republican senators criticized or outright rejected the president’s plans to nominate political supporter Stephen Moore.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said she was “very unlikely” to vote for Moore. Several others raised big questions about his potential nomination, including Trump ally Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who called Moore a “problematic” nominee.

Ernst said she didn’t think Moore would be confirmed, adding that “several” senators agree with her on Moore’s unsuitability for one of the nation’s top positions steering the economy. A simple majority is needed to confirm Moore to the Fed board, but with Democrats controlling 47 Senate seats, he can lose precious few Republicans.

At least seven GOP senators have taken issue with Moore’s provocative past columns and statements that have come to light since his name began to circulate publicly as a potential Fed nominee in March.

Moore’s quickly declining chances of winning Senate approval show the risks of a president determined to reshape the government by whatever means.

Trump has grown increasingly angry with the Fed as he has complained that Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell, whom he picked, has raised interest rates too quickly. Trump says that those decisions have slowed the economy unnecessarily and he’s expressed to aides that could harm his reelection chances, according to current and former advisers who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Amid that frustration, Trump turned to Moore and another outspoken supporter, former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, to fill two open seats on the Fed’s board of governors, which sets interest rate policy. Trump indicated he supported the men, although he did not formally nominate either.

Cain’s candidacy was short-lived amid opposition from Senate Republicans concerned about his economic record and allegations of sexual harassment that had previously doomed his presidential bid.

White House officials say Trump is inclined to stick with Moore, even as some of his advisers increasingly question whether that’s the best path. The White House also signaled support for Cain until shortly before he dropped out.

“The president stands behind him,” Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said Tuesday of Moore. “He’s somebody that gets the economy and I guess we’ll continue to focus on that.”

Moore said Tuesday that he talked to the White House and they are “full steam ahead” on his nomination and that he is filling out papers for his background check. Moore said he wants to meet with senators about his record.

“If it’s about the economy and my record as an economist, I’ll probably get confirmed,” he said. “If it becomes about my writings from 25 years ago, I might not. That’s why I am trying to turn it back to the economy.”

The Fed is designed to be independent of politics, but Trump has broken with the precedent set by recent presidents by forcefully urging the Fed to cut rates and bring back “quantitative easing,” a policy of bond purchases used to stimulate economic growth that was adopted in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

Powell and the rest of the Fed leaders have been pushing to withdraw stimulus, given the economy’s strength, although the Fed recently decided to pause. The economy grew at a 3.2 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2019, according to data released Friday, continuing a strong run of recent years.

“Moore has been clear that his agenda at the Fed would be to further the president’s agenda,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton and a longtime Fed adviser. “It’s a dangerous precedent to politicize the Fed with the poison that has already affected our political system.”

Unlike most potential nominees for the Fed, Moore has been outspoken in defending his record in media interviews since his name was floated. He also has met with donors to praise Trump in recent weeks — even giving out charts that emphasize how well the economy has been performing under Trump.

“He had a PowerPoint presentation about how Trump was good and Democrats were bad,” said Dan Eberhart, a Trump donor who attended a FreedomWorks conference with Moore. “He was praising Trump’s economic policies extensively. He was being very vocal in his support of Trump.”

Eberhart and Swonk both said they were surprised that Moore was so vocal while under consideration for a position.

“Normally people stay quiet and try not to make mistakes, but he didn’t seem to be following that message,” Eberhart said.

Trump routinely cites the growth and low unemployment the economy has been enjoying since he took office. If the economy keeps growing through July, which appears almost certain, this expansion will become the longest in U.S. history.

“Our Federal Reserve has incessantly lifted interest rates, even though inflation is very low, and instituted a very big dose of quantitative tightening. We have the potential to go up like a rocket if we did some lowering of rates, like one point, and some quantitative easing,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.

Trump has attacked Powell and told aides he regrets appointing him. He has offered near-constant criticism of Powell to lawmakers, supporters and almost anyone he comes in contact with.

“Politicians do think shorter term. They want to get reelected. The central bank needs to think long-term. Monetary policy takes a long time to have an effect,” said Frederic Mishkin, a former Fed governor appointed by President George W. Bush.

After Powell raised interest rates a full percentage point last year — to just shy of 2.5 percent — Trump decided he would nominate Moore, a longtime conservative commentator, and Cain, both of whom publicly said that interest rates need to come down.

While Republican senators didn’t say with full confidence Moore wouldn’t be confirmed, they sent strong signs that his nomination was imperiled.

“I think he’s probably down to the high water mark now of 50 or 51,” said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who declined to say how he would vote and said he wanted to review Moore’s record as a whole.

Trump is being egged on by his supporters, who say the president should pick officials at the Fed whom he trusts, not someone whose qualifications line up neatly with past central bank appointees, who are typically PhD economists or Wall Street bankers.

At a gathering with supporters in Florida recently, Trump said he needed to get some of his own people on the board, according to attendees.

Before September, Trump rarely talked about the Fed and ceded almost all decision-making over Fed personnel to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other economic advisers, but he has since wrested the process away. The Fed used to be in close contact with the White House on nominations, but that has stopped.

Trump has blamed Mnuchin at least six times in recent weeks for the selection of Powell, according to interviews with lawmakers, supporters and aides who have spoken to the president and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“You give him something bad and he never forgets,” said a Trump adviser who frequently speaks with him, describing his animus toward Mnuchin.

Two spots remain on the Fed’s seven-seat board of governors. Trump has appointed four of the current Fed governors.

Moore, 59, has a master’s degree in economics and has spent most of his career advocating for tax cuts as a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, a Wall Street Journal editorial board member and president of the Club for Growth.

Moore apologized over the weekend for past comments about women, but three other female Republican senators — Susan Collins (Maine), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Shelley Moore Capito (W. Va.) — expressed concerns. They cited his comments saying there could be societal problems if men were not the breadwinners in the family, denouncing coed student sports and saying female athletes do “inferior work” to men.

“It’s hard to look past some of those [comments],” Capito said.

Blackburn said she was troubled by what he said as recently as 2014, when he wrote a column questioning whether women outearning men would cause societal unrest.

“Of course his comments are something that are not good and you can guarantee — be guaranteed absolutely without fail — if I visit with him that would be a topic of discussion,” Blackburn said.

Collins, another GOP swing vote, said that she wasn’t just concerned about Moore’s comments on women but also whether he would maintain the Fed’s independence from politics.

“Obviously some of his past writings are of concern. I feel strongly about the independence of the Federal Reserve. I would also want to explore that issue with him,” said Collins.

Damian Paletta, Erica Werner and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-wants-to-remake-the-fed-but-moores-imperiled-nomination-shows-it-wont-be-easy/2019/04/30/c0bd1198-6b86-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html

Georgia voters cast their ballots in Chamblee for runoff elections in early January. Georgia’s Republican lawmakers have proposed a number of changes to cut down on voting options.

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Georgia voters cast their ballots in Chamblee for runoff elections in early January. Georgia’s Republican lawmakers have proposed a number of changes to cut down on voting options.

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Over objections from Democrats, Georgia House Republicans passed a sweeping elections bill that would enact more restrictions on absentee voting and cut back on weekend early voting hours favored by larger counties, among other changes.

House Bill 531, which passed 97-72 Monday, would also strip the secretary of state of his role as chair of the State Election Board, prevent county elections offices from receiving direct grant funding, shorten Georgia’s runoff election period and require counties to add more staff, equipment or polling places in large precincts with long voter lines.

The bill’s sponsor, GOP Rep. Barry Fleming, who chairs the House Special Committee on Election Integrity, said the 66-page measure “is designed to begin to bring back the confidence of our voters back into our election system” after Republicans lost confidence in the GOP-backed voting system following Democrats’ victories in the November presidential contest and both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate races.

One of the most controversial sections in the bill would mandate that all counties have the same early voting dates and times: three weeks of Monday-through-Friday voting, one mandatory Saturday and then one additional Saturday or Sunday during the first weekend.

“The bill sets more uniform voting times for advanced voting across the state and attempts to bring more uniformity to our state and less confusion,” Fleming said.

But Rep. Calvin Smyre, a Black Democrat from Columbus and the longest-serving member in the chamber, said Fleming’s logic was hypocritical and discriminatory against Black voters who use the second Sunday for “souls to the polls” events.

“It takes away the ability to have uniformity in every county,” he said. “For example, if a county chooses the first Sunday, the situation will be extremely confusing for county residents with voting closed on that Saturday. An avalanche of misinformation will follow regarding when voting happens on weekends. Confusion deters voting, which brings about voter suppression.”

Speaker pro tempore Jan Jones, a Milton Republican, spoke about sections of the bill that would restrict access to secure drop boxes by limiting the number of boxes and requiring them to be inside early voting sites and only available during in-person early voting.

“Drop boxes are the most inconvenient way to vote absentee,” she said. “Were we to eliminate drop boxes, which we are not, not a single absentee voter would be inconvenienced because every voter has a drop box called a mailbox.”

In addition to the drop boxes, Georgia voters can return absentee ballots in person to their county elections office or use the mail, both arguably more inconvenient than a secure 24/7 monitored drop box that minimizes human contact in a pandemic.

Rep. Bee Nguyen, a Democrat from Atlanta, said in a floor speech that Republican lawmakers were passing harmful legislation that helps continue a narrative that led to death threats for elected officials and elections workers and contributed to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January.

“We are legislating on lies … lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories that have gone unchecked by many members of this body, who stayed silent, who signed on to the Texas lawsuit or who encouraged sham hearings in our General Assembly,” she said. “Members of this body aided and abetted a deliberate misinformation campaign to sow seeds of doubt among Georgia voters with absolutely no facts or evidence.”

Minority Leader James Beverly said the bill does not reflect bipartisan efforts to handle election changes and said it “silences the voice of Georgians.”

“In the opening salvo: Line 8 restricts access, Line 15 limits my ability to vote, Line 21 limits my ability to vote, Line 25 limits my ability to vote, Line 30 restricts access, and it goes on and on for 66 pages,” he said. “I stand in opposition to this bill because Democrats weren’t involved in any meaningful conversation before 531 was haphazardly thrown together in committee and passed.”

The bill now heads to the Georgia Senate, which is considering its own omnibus measure that would end no-excuse absentee voting, among other changes.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2021/03/01/972631655/georgia-house-passes-elections-bill-that-would-limit-absentee-and-early-voting

Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN Sunday morning that Gov. Kay Ivey “has every right to be frustrated” by Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation COVID-19 vaccination rate. But he said more politicians and influential people need to call on Americans to get the shot.

Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he “share[s] Gov. Ivey’s anger” about unvaccinated people driving a surge in COVID cases in Alabama, Fauci, President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser, said he is “very frustrated” by the masses of Americans who have yet to get the vaccine.

“I can totally understand the governor’s frustration. So I don’t have any problem with that; she has every right to be frustrated,” Fauci said on Tapper’s Sunday morning talk show, State of the Union. “But what I would really like to see is more and more of the leaders in those areas that are not vaccinated to get out and speak out to encourage people to get vaccinated.”

Fauci added that he “was very heartened” to see politicians like U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, both Republicans like Ivey, calling for people to get vaccinated. But he said more must be done to slow the spread of the Delta variant.

“We’ve gotta get more people who relate well to the individuals who are not getting vaccinated to get out there and encourage them to get vaccinated as well as the trusted messengers in the community,” Fauci told Tapper. “We’ve just gotta do better, Jake, because we have the tools to do this. This is an unnecessary predicament we’re putting ourselves in.”

As of Thursday, Alabama was the only state in the nation in which fewer than 40% of eligible residents were fully vaccinated against COVID, according to federal data. Meanwhile, the seven-day average for new cases in Alabama has increased by over 500% since July 4, and hospitalizations due to COVID have surged by over 300%.

Source Article from https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/fauci-says-gov-ivey-has-every-right-to-be-frustrated-by-alabamas-low-vaccination-rate.html

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The young woman killed in the mass shooting early Sunday morning at a St. Paul bar is being remembered as “bright, joyful and supportive.”

MORE: ‘Horrific’: Minnesota Officials React To Mass Shooting At St. Paul Bar

A person close to the victim has identified her as Marquisha Wiley, who was in her 20s. Wiley worked in animal care through Globe University, according to her LinkedIn page.

Marquisha Wiley (credit: CBS)

The shooting began just after midnight at the Seventh Street Truck Park, down the block from Xcel Energy Center. Fourteen other people were hurt in the shooting, and all are expected to survive.

WATCH: Full Police Press Conference On Shooting At St. Paul Bar

Police say three men are in custody, and are also being treated for injuries at local hospitals.

Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to call 651-266-5650.

MORE: ‘We Need Cops’: Republican Candidates For Governor Decry Defund The Police Movement After St. Paul Bar Shooting

Source Article from https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/10/10/st-paul-mass-shooting-marquisha-wiley/

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Se conoce que también han sido capturados dos sujetos más que podrían estar implicados en el asesinato al candidato distrital.








La Policía Nacional logró capturar a uno de los presuntos criminales del asesinado candidato del distrito San Martín de Pangoa (región Junín), Lider Villazana Flores.

Se conoce que en la persecución se detuvo a José Alberto Agurto Cotrina, quien trató de confundir a la policía pasándose de una moto lineal a otras dos camionetas rurales, sin embargo fue alcanzado en el sector río Alberto de Satipo.

Según información brindada por el jefe de la División Policial Vraem – Satipo, Roger Arista Cárdenas, habrían otros dos sujetos capturados, pero sus datos se mantienen en reserva mientras continúan las investigaciones.

De otro lado, en el distrito de Pangoa, los seguidores del líder político se movilizan exigiendo la presencia de la fiscal provincial para el traslado del cuerpo de Villazana Flores a la morgue ya que permanece en el hospital distrital.

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President Donald Trump’s planned prime-time address on immigration Tuesday night put the broadcast networks in a difficult — and familiar — position as they debated whether to carry the address live. But in the end, they agreed to the White House request and will air the speech.

The White House asked the broadcast networks to set aside at least eight minutes at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday for an Oval Office address in which Trump may declare a state of national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border.

As of early Monday evening, CBS, ABC, Fox and NBC had decided to air Trump’s address, according to sources familiar with the decisions who were not authorized to speak publicly. The major cable news channels — MSNBC, CNN and Fox News — are also planning to air the speech.

The decisions came after an afternoon of debate on social media about whether the networks should give Trump the requested airtime, and what precautions they should take about what he might say.

The four major networks have not had a consistent policy when it comes to airing presidential addresses on immigration. They aired President George W. Bush’s prime-time address on immigration in 2006, but did not air one by President Barack Obama in 2014.

The precedent set by not airing Obama’s addressed was seized upon by Democrats and liberal pundits who pointed to the decision as a rational for denying Trump airtime.

Jon Favreau, who worked under Obama as a speechwriter and now hosts an influential liberal politics podcast, noted the networks’ previous choice not to air Obama’s immigration speech.

“So this should be a relatively easy decision,” he tweeted.

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ROYAL PALM BEACH — In a Publix filled with lunchtime shoppers, a man Thursday walked into the produce section, fatally shot a woman and her young grandson, and then turned the gun on himself, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

The agency said late Thursday it would not identify either the woman or the toddler, who would have turned 2 years old this month. It said their family had invoked its rights under a 2018 amendment to the state constitution, modeled on California’s Marsy’s Law, that allows crime victims and their families to withhold their names from public reports.

The sheriff’s office said it would identify the gunman once it notifies his next of kin. It said that as of Thursday night, there was “no known motive or relationship between the gunman and his victims.” It cautioned that its detectives still were investigating.

What we know about Royal Palm Beach shopping plaza shooting

Officials said a gun was found near the body of the man and they believe his injuries were self-inflicted.

Deputies said the Publix, in The Crossroads shopping plaza at Royal Palm Beach and Okeechobee boulevards, would remained closed until Saturday.

Customers can collect the items they left behind between 9 a.m. and noon Friday in front of the store, the agency said. All items have been safely bagged and a sheriff’s deputy will distribute them.

‘I heard, ‘They’re shooting!’ A woman Publix worker said, ‘Run! Shooting!’

The murderous attack at the store sent panicked shoppers and workers scurrying for cover, witnesses said.

Juan Guardia said he was near the deli when chaos erupted.

“I heard, ‘They’re shooting!’ A woman Publix worker said, ‘Run! Shooting!’ ” Guardia recalled. “I was scared. It’s sad because everything happened fast. Everyone was running. Some employees were crying.”

At a news conference, sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera said detectives were interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance-camera video as they tried to determine what led to the shooting, which occurred at about 11:40 a.m.  

Onlookers outside the shopping plaza expressed shock at the deadly events that came on the heels of a series of mass shootings around the country and days before Saturday’s five-year anniversary of the deadly rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that left 50 dead. 

Store patrons saddened, shocked: ‘This is a friendly Publix’

“This is a friendly Publix. I can’t believe this crazy thing happened,” said Tracy Greene, a regular at the shopping center.

“I’ve been here for 20 years, and I can’t believe this is happening,” agreed Tracey Cohron, a Royal Palm Beach resident who often shops at the Publix. “I know so many people who work there. I’m scared to death to find out who even got shot.”

Had she left her home six minutes earlier, Cohron said, she might have been inside the store when gunfire erupted. “This is insane,” she said. “I can’t believe this is really happening in my neighborhood.”

Oahtee Moody, a Royal Palm Beach resident who lives across the street from the center, said the shooting was a tragic sign of the times.

“This is not a Publix problem. This is a people problem,” Moody said. “I was born and raised here, and I never would expect this to happen.” 

Publix officials at the chain’s headquarters in Lakeland said they were aware of the shooting, but referred questions to the sheriff’s office.

“Our thoughts are with those who are impacted by this tragedy,” a Publix spokesperson said in a statement. “We are cooperating with the local law enforcement.”

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NYC bus is left suspended in MID-AIR after plunging off an overpass and almost snapping in half – leaving at least seven injured

  • At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx
  • The incident took place at 11.10pm Thursday evening 
  • The driver was ‘unable to navigate the roadway and/or experienced brake failure’ near the Cross Bronx Expressway and University Avenue  
  • Police say there were seven to eight people on board, including the driver
  • All have been transported to hospitals suffering minor injuries
  • The bus is secure and officials were in the process of removing it after midnight 

At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx. 

The incident took place at 11.10pm Thursday evening when the bus driver was ‘unable to navigate the roadway and/or experienced brake failure’ and went off road, the New York Police Department said to DailyMail.com. 

The ‘accordion-style’ bus veered off the roadway near University Avenue by the exit for the Deegan Expressway, causing the bus to fall onto the Cross Bronx Expressway below. 

At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx

 The incident took place at 11.10pm Thursday evening when the bus driver was ‘unable to navigate the roadway and/or experienced brake failure’ and went off road, the New York Police Department said to DailyMail.com

 The bus has been secured and crews are in the process of removing it as of 12.30am Friday

The ‘accordion-style’ bus veered off the roadway near University Avenue by the exit for the Deegan Expressway, causing the bus to fall onto the Cross Bronx Expressway below

No other vehicles or people were injured in the accident. Cops pictured on the scene

There were seven to eight people, including the bus driver, on board and all suffered minor injuries and have been transported to area hospitals. 

No other vehicles or people were injured in the accident. 

Officials say they’re investigating the cause of the crash. 

There were seven to eight people, including the bus driver, on board and all suffered minor injuries and have been transported to area hospitals

An aerial view of the dangling bus above late Thursday evening

The bus has been secured and crews are in the process of removing it as of 12.30am Friday.  

Police have shut down the New Jersey-bound lanes of the Cross Bound Expressway.

This is a developing story. 

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scramble to update security systems and block scammers who already have siphoned billions of dollars from pandemic-related jobless programs.

The fraud is fleecing taxpayers, delaying legitimate payments and turning thousands of Americans into unwitting identity theft victims. Many states have failed to adequately safeguard their systems, and a review by The Associated Press finds that some will not even publicly acknowledge the extent of the problem.

The massive sham springs from prior identity theft from banks, credit rating agencies, health care systems and retailers. Fraud perpetrators, sometimes in China, Nigeria or Russia, buy stolen personal identifying information on the dark web and use it to flood state unemployment systems with bogus claims.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating unemployment fraud by “transnational criminal organizations, sophisticated domestic actors, and individuals across the United States,” said Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the department’s criminal division.

The Labor Department inspector general’s office estimates that more than $63 billion has been paid out improperly through fraud or errors — roughly 10% of the total amount paid under coronavirus pandemic-related unemployment programs since March.

“We’re all learning that there is an epidemic of fraud,” said U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House’s powerful Ways and Means Committee. Brady said the $63 billion estimate “is larger than the entire budget of the Department of Homeland Security.”

“These are frightening levels of fraud,” he said.

California has been the biggest target, with an estimated $11 billion in fraudulent payments and an additional $19 billion in suspect accounts. Colorado has paid out nearly as much to scammers — an estimated $6.5 billion — as it has to people who filed legitimate unemployment claims.

Other estimates, according to AP reporting across the states, range from several hundred thousand dollars in smaller states such as Alaska and Wyoming to hundreds of millions in more populous states such as Massachusetts and Ohio.

The nationwide fraud has fed on twin vulnerabilities: a flood of jobless benefit applications since the pandemic began that has overwhelmed state unemployment agencies and antiquated benefit systems that are easy prey for crafty and persistent criminals.

In Ohio, weekly first-time unemployment claims have ranged from 17,000 to more than 40,000 during the pandemic. But since late last month, those claims have topped more than 140,000 some weeks, with many of them believed to be fraudulent. The state has paid at least $330 million in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefit claims.

Trying to catch so many bogus claims delays payouts to Ohioans who are legitimately in need of help. In the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington, Cynthia Sbertoli was receiving $228 a week after she was laid off in March from her job with a nonprofit that runs high school student exchange programs.

Her benefits were put on hold in January after she informed the state that someone had tried to use her identity in a scam to claim benefits. She thought the problem was resolved but has yet to see a renewal of her benefit checks, which she and her husband use to help pay for a son’s vision and auditory therapy.

“It’s just not a good way to take care of people,” said Sbertoli, 49.

In Indiana, Kentucky and Maryland, officials have said that for certain weeks in the new year at least two-thirds of the claims they received were classified as suspicious due to problems verifying identities. It’s not the first brush with serious fraud for Maryland. In July, officials said they’d discovered a massive criminal enterprise that had stolen more than $500 million in unemployment benefits.

Among states that have been hardest hit are those participating in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program adopted by Congress last year. It has been a lifeline for out-of-work freelancers and gig workers who normally don’t qualify for unemployment insurance, but it’s also been a boon for criminals who use stolen identities to make claims. Nearly 800,000 of the 1.4 million claims Ohio has received through this program have been tagged for potential fraud.

Scams have been so widespread that the U.S. Department of Justice is setting aside money to hire more prosecutors. In New York alone, the Department of Labor says it has referred “hundreds of thousands of fraud cases” to federal prosecutors. The state says it has blocked $5.5 billion in fraudulent claims, while New Jersey says it’s prevented $2.5 billion from flowing into the hands of criminals.

Despite those efforts, a government watchdog agency says not enough states are taking the necessary steps to prevent fraud.

In its memo this past week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General said that by the end of last year, 22 of the 54 state and territorial workforce agencies were still not following its repeated recommendation to join a data exchange run by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.

That system is designed to check Social Security numbers used in claims to see if they are being used in multiple states, or are linked to dead people or other scam methods. The office said it had found $5.4 billion in fraudulent payments from March through October.

The biggest chunk of that, $3.5 billion, came through claims that used the same Social Security numbers in multiple states. One number was used on claims in 40 states. Twenty-nine of the states paid those claims, totaling more than $220,000.

“The Department needs to take immediate action and increase its efforts to ensure (states) implement effective controls to mitigate fraud in these high risk areas,” the inspector general warned Labor officials.

The people whose identities are used to claim improper benefits often don’t find out until they receive their tax statements.

Andrew Heidtke received a letter in September from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development notifying him that unemployment claims he never applied for were being processed.

“I had no idea what was happening,” said Heidtke, who works as an administrative assistant for an engineering lobbying organization. “I kind of just thought it was spam at first.”

Another victim was 99-year-old Harry Hollingsworth of Strongsville, Ohio. The retired elevator car factory worker received a form in late January showing he had received $3,156 in benefits. Hollingsworth died recently, and his son, Jim Hollingsworth, said the bogus claim created a big hassle.

“It looks like the state, they dropped the ball on this completely,” he said.

In its own survey of state governments, the AP found that many are not publicly disclosing the level of fraud. Some officials expressed concern that providing any information, no matter how general, could provide criminals an opening to exploit their systems further.

President Joe Biden’s administration is pledging to cut down on unemployment fraud even as it tries to extend benefits through September. As part of previous legislation, the administration is sending states $200 million to fight it.

That would be welcome in Virginia, where House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, a Republican, said the Legislature’s watchdog agency should investigate how the state allowed $40 million in bogus payments through prison inmate-related scams.

“How many desperate people, laid off through no fault of their own, could have been helped with that money?” he asked. “It’s maddening.”

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Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

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Associated Press writers Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville, Tennessee; Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia; Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin; and Casey Smith in Indianapolis contributed.

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