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Xi at Communist Party anniversary: China won’t accept ‘sanctimonious preaching’ from others – CNBC
Xi at Communist Party anniversary: China won’t accept ‘sanctimonious preaching’ from others – CNBC

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke Thursday about China’s firm resolve to stand up to foreign pressure while laying out national aspirations at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of China’s ruling Communist Party.

China will not accept “sanctimonious preaching from those who feel they have the right to lecture us,” Xi said, according to an official translation of his Mandarin-language remarks. He did not name a specific country, amid growing tensions with the U.S.

Xi said China would never allow any foreign force to bully it, and anyone attempting to do so would “find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion people.”

“A century ago China was declining and withering away in the eyes of the world,” he said. “Today, the image it presents to the world is one of a thriving nation, that is advancing with unstoppable momentum toward rejuvenation.”

Looking ahead, Xi talked of cooperating with “peace-loving countries,” building up the party and working for “national rejuvenation.” He also spoke generally of “strategic steps” toward the “second centenary goal.”

China’s two centenary goals are to “build a moderately prosperous society in all respects” by 2021 and “build a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.

Xi added that China needed to “promote high quality development” and build up national strength in science and technology.

He emphasized China’s need to modernize its military and train personnel to the level of “world-class standards” in order to ensure national security.

Xi’s speech lasted just over an hour, focusing mostly on a historical narrative of the successful role of the Communist Party in the country’s history since the 19th century. He did not mention controversial events such as the Cultural Revolution.

The length of Xi’s speech contrasted with his brief remarks — less than 10 minutes — at the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 2019. The celebration at that time featured extravagant floats from different parts of the country and a military parade, which authorities said earlier would not be the case at the party’s centenary.

On Thursday, Xi wore a traditional grey “Mao” suit, while nearly all leaders and dignitaries who joined him at the gate of the Forbidden City overlooking Tiananmen Square wore western suits and ties. State media said more than 70,000 people attended the celebration.

Most attendees did not appear to wear face masks or practice social distancing at the event, which had strict requirements such as vaccination for attending.

“The party and the Chinese people will keep moving confidently forward in broad strides along the path that we have chosen for ourselves,” Xi said. “We will make sure the destiny of China’s development and progress remains firmly in our own hands.”

“We must uphold the firm leadership of the party. China’s success hinges on the party,” Xi said, adding that “the party was chosen by history and the people.”

On the special administrative region of Hong Kong, Xi said China would “ensure social stability.” He spoke again of advancing toward “peaceful national reunification” with Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.

Xi officially became president in 2013 and also holds the highest political position of general secretary of the party’s central committee. He abolished term limits in 2018, effectively allowing him to remain president for life.

As of June 5, state media said there were 95.148 million members of the Chinese Communist Party, up 3.234 million from the end of 2019. More than 12 million, or about 13%, were age 30 and younger.

Becoming a member of the party is encouraged from an early age, although the process of joining is highly selective. Many senior positions, even in private businesses, often require party membership.

The official narrative recognizes July 1, 1921, as when the party was founded, although the exact date may have been slightly different. The gathering of delegates, including future leader Mao Zedong, came almost 30 years before the Chinese Communist Party fought Japan, then the Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) party, to become the ruling party of the People’s Republic of China.

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Estado Islámico: "El atentado en Londres fue por venganza" – RPP Noticias
Estado Islámico: "El atentado en Londres fue por venganza" – RPP Noticias

La primera ministra británica, Theresa May, calificó el atentado como terrible. | Fuente: Foto: AFP



El grupo yihadista Estado Islámico (EI) asumió la autoría del atentado de este sábado en Londres, en el que murieron siete personas, a través de su agencia de información Amaq y aseguró que fue por venganza.

En un breve comunicado difundido en Telegram y cuya veracidad no ha podido ser comprobada, la agencia de la organización terrorista apuntó que “una fuente de seguridad dijo a Amaq que un destacamento de combatientes del Estado Islámico llevó a cabo los ataques de Londres de ayer”.

Supuestas motivaciones. Junto a la nota de la agencia, la misma página empleada por el grupo, distribuyó un montaje fotográfico en el que aparece el puente de Londres y un hombre con un cuchillo ensangrentado y sobre el que se puede leer en inglés, francés y árabe: “Venganza. No hay compromisos… en la seguridad de los musulmanes”.

En septiembre de 2014, el entonces portavoz del EI Mohamed al Adnani llamó a sus seguidores a matar a los civiles de los países que participan en la coalición internacional que combaten al grupo terrorista en Irak y Siria.

Investigación. El ataque de la capital británica, que comenzó la noche del sábado a las 21.00 GMT dejó también 48 heridos, 21 de los cuales se encuentran en “estado crítico”.

Una furgoneta atropelló deliberadamente a viandantes en el puente de Londres para dirigirse después hacia el cercano mercado de Borough, donde tres hombres con cuchillos apuñalaron indiscriminadamente a los viandantes. Los tres terroristas que perpetraron el ataque fueron abatidos por agentes de la Policía. (EFE)

La policía británica ha detenido a 12 sospechosos y descarta lazos con ataques anteriores. | Fuente: Foto: EFE
Un nuevo atentado terrorista en el que perdieron la vida siete personas además de los tres atacantes que fueron abatidos por la policía, sacudió la noche la capital británica, inmersa como el resto del país en la campaña electoral. | Fuente: Foto: EFE

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The SAT will assign a new score that factors in where you live and the crime level in your neighborhood – CNN
The SAT will assign a new score that factors in where you live and the crime level in your neighborhood – CNN

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U.S. Says It Has ‘Limited’ Ability to Stop Raging Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Newsweek
U.S. Says It Has ‘Limited’ Ability to Stop Raging Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Newsweek

The United States called on Israel and Palestinians to de-escalate the explosive conflict ravaging infrastructure and incurring a mounting death toll on territory held by both sides.

“We call on all sides to exercise restraint, exercise calm,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters on Tuesday. “The United States will continue to remain engaged with senior Israeli officials and Palestinian leadership in the days and weeks ahead.”

But he warned there may be only so much Washington could do.

“The United States is doing what we can,” Price said, “knowing that…our ability in certain situations is going to be, in some cases, limited.”

Price emphasized that “Israel has the right to defend itself and to respond to rocket attacks” and “the Palestinian people also have the right to safety and security, just as Israelis do.”

While he referred to the rocket attacks by Palestinian movements Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as a form of “horrific terrorist attack,” he declined to respond to journalists’ questions on whether the U.S. considered Israeli airstrikes in Gaza to be acceptable.

The death toll, estimated by each side, is said to include 30 Palestinians, by the Gaza-based Ministry of Health, and two Israelis, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Scores more have been injured.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden‘s “support for Israel’s security—for its legitimate right to defend itself and its people—is fundamental and will never waiver.”

She also said that the U.S. leader was in talks with top officials from both sides of the deadly feud.

“[Biden] has directed his team to engage intensively with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, as well as leaders throughout the Middle East,” Psaki told reporters Tuesday. “His team is communicating a clear and consistent message in support of de-escalation, and that is our primary focus.”

The White House also later released a readout of a call between national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his Israeli counterpart Meir Ben Shabbat.

Sullivan “condemned the ongoing rocket attacks by Hamas and other terrorist groups, including against Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,” “conveyed the President’s unwavering support for Israel’s security and for its legitimate right to defend itself and its people, while protecting civilians,” and “also conveyed the United States’ encouragement of steps toward restoring a sustainable calm.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken also spoke with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi, later releasing a readout in which the top U.S. diplomat said he “expressed his concerns regarding rocket attacks on Israel and his condolences for the lives lost as a result.”

The two men “also discussed the violence in Jerusalem, in particular on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount and in Sheikh Jarrah,” a dispute seen as the catalyst for what has spiralled into some of the worst Israeli-Palestinian violence in years. Blinken “reiterated his call on all parties to deescalate tensions and bring a halt to the violence, which has claimed the lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, including children” and “emphasized the need for Israelis and Palestinians to be able to live in safety and security, as well as enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity, and democracy.”

Biden, for his part, has yet to issue any public remarks himself, and the two belligerents seemed set on intensifying the fight rather than cooling down.

One of the latest barrages by Hamas sent what it estimated to be 130 rockets toward the metropolitan city of Tel Aviv in response to an Israeli air raid that took down an entire apartment building. The IDF claimed the multi-story structure “housed military intelligence, research and development offices” belonging to Hamas.

This adds to some 630 rockets fired by the Palestinian fighters and over 100 airstrikes conducted by up to 80 Israeli aircraft, according to the latest IDF count provided to Newsweek.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a televised address warning that both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad would pay a “very heavy price for their belligerence” and that “their blood is on their own hands.” The conflict, he said, “will take time.”

Rockets sirens continue to sound regularly in Israel, especially in Ashkelon and areas close to the Gaza Strip. The IDF also continued to conduct aerial operations.

“Over the last several hours, the IDF has struck a number of significant terror targets and terror operatives across the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli armed forces said in a statement sent to Newsweek. “The strikes are continuing at this time.”

Rockets are launched from Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, in response to an Israeli air strike on a 12-story building in the city, towards the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on May 11.
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Israelis and Palestinians have been locked in an intractable conflict over territory since the end of the United Kingdom’s post-Ottoman Empire colonial mandate and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 on land also claimed by Palestinians. In the decades since, Israel has fought with both Palestinian groups as well as other Arab forces and nations backing Palestinian claims within Israel’s proclaimed borders, which have increasingly eroded Palestinian control through conflict and settlement over the years.

The latest unrest erupted as Israelis attempted to evict Palestinians living in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of the sacred city of Jerusalem, which both Israelis and Palestinians consider their capital. The situation escalated rapidly with an Israeli crackdown on massive Palestinian demonstrations and a storming of the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque, a move that Hamas said motivated its ongoing rocket assault.

“The reason for the demonstrations and the firing of the rocket is trying to deter the Israeli occupation and its settlers and extremist Knesset Members who insist on desecrating Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is the third holiest place for all Muslims around the world and the holiest site for us as the Palestinians,” a Hamas spokesperson recently told Newsweek. “In addition, to deter the Israeli authorities who have been working along with the settlers’ organizations to expel the Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah from their homes and replace them with settlers.”

The U.S. and Israel consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization. The group has received calls of support from Turkey and Iran, which has supplied the organization with weapons technology.

Arab countries, including the six with which Israel has diplomatic ties, have largely condemned Israel’s actions in regards to the Sheikh Jarrah dispute and the raid on Al-Aqsa. On Tuesday, the 22-nation Arab League condemned Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza as well.

Mayhem appeared to be extending elsewhere in Israel as well, as rival communities took to the streets. The mayor of the mixed city of Lod told The Times of Israel that there has been “a complete loss of control” around him, warning that “a civil war has erupted.”

The U.S. has played a key mediating role between Israelis and Palestinians in past decades, including in the 1993 Oslo Accords that set the stage for modern relations between Israel and Palestinian leadership represented today by Palestine National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The accords ultimately fell apart at the turn of the century, however, and efforts to establish peace were further stymied by a 2006 rift between Abbas’ leading Fatah party and Hamas, which saw widespread gains that ultimately helped to establish its control over Gaza.

The two Palestinian factions remain at odds to this day despite successive reconciliation attempts. Abbas announced late last month that he was postponing what would have been the first Palestinian elections in the nearly 15 years since the original falling out, fueling further tensions with Hamas.

U.S. relations with Palestinian leadership were severed during the administration of former President Donald Trump, who aligned himself closely with Israel by recognizing Jerusalem as the country’s capital and moving the U.S. embassy despite the Palestinian counterclaims to the contested city. Biden has sought to carefully balance rebuilding ties with the Palestinian side while also maintaining the alliance with Israel.

U.S. officials have also offered some security assurances to Israel as the Biden administration pursues ongoing talks in Vienna geared toward a potential reentry into a nuclear deal reached with Iran and other major world powers in 2015 but abandoned three years ago under Trump.

Smoke billows from an Israeli airstrike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza, the city and coastal enclave in which the Palestinian Hamas movement is based, on May 11. Israel said the building was used by the group to house military operations, while Hamas said it was a residential structure.
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This is a developing news story. More information will be added as it becomes available.

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Judge appears exasperated at Roger Stone arguments against Mueller – CNN
Judge appears exasperated at Roger Stone arguments against Mueller – CNN

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Trump: Comey ‘thoroughly disgraced’ after DOJ watchdog report | TheHill – The Hill
Trump: Comey ‘thoroughly disgraced’ after DOJ watchdog report | TheHill – The Hill

President TrumpDonald John TrumpAdvocate calls for fundamental shift in criminal justice system Shame on Europe at the G-7 Senate GOP pledges to oppose any efforts to ‘pack’ Supreme Court MORE on Thursday said former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyTrump allies blast Comey on Twitter after watchdog report Comey on DOJ IG report: A ‘sorry we lied about you’ would be nice READ: Watchdog says Comey violated FBI policies in handling of memos MORE “should be ashamed of himself” after a Justice Department watchdog report faulted Comey for his handling of official memos about his interactions with Trump. 

“Perhaps never in the history of our Country has someone been more thoroughly disgraced and excoriated than James Comey in the just released Inspector General’s Report. He should be ashamed of himself!” Trump tweeted.

The Justice Department inspector general report released earlier Thursday said Comey violated FBI policies and his employment agreement with his handling of memos he wrote detailing his interactions with Trump before being fired as FBI director.

The watchdog passed its findings to the Justice Department without making a recommendation on whether Comey should be prosecuted, but Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrFBI examining broken cameras outside Epstein jail cell: report Trump allies blast Comey on Twitter after watchdog report DOJ watchdog says Comey violated FBI policies MORE declined to bring charges against Comey.

Trump’s decision to fire Comey in May 2017 as the bureau investigated Russian interference in the presidential election triggered questions about whether the president was trying to obstruct justice. Comey has said he provided one of his memos to a friend with the hope of triggering the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian meddling and any connection between Moscow’s effort and the Trump campaign.

His hope was realized weeks later when the Justice Department appointed Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE as special counsel.

The White House doubled down on Trump’s criticism of Comey on Thursday, saying Comey’s actions triggered a “politically motivated, two-year witch hunt,” referring to Mueller’s investigation.

“The Inspector General’s report shows Comey violated the most basic obligations of confidentiality that he owed to the United States Government and to the American people, ‘in order to achieve a personally desired outcome,’” White House press secretary Stephanie GrishamStephanie GrishamMSNBC’s O’Donnell retracts report alleging Trump banking ties to Russian oligarchs Overnight Energy: Greens scoff at Trump claim he’s an ‘environmentalist’ | Endangered animals get new protections globally | Fires, climate on centerstage at G-7 | BLM’s move west gets complicated Trump lawyer demands MSNBC retract report alleging banking ties to Russian oligarchs MORE said in a statement, quoting from the inspector general report.  

The inspector general faulted Comey for passing the memo, which was unclassified but determined to contain sensitive material about ongoing investigations, to his friend, Columbia University professor Daniel Richman, with the instructions to share its contents with a journalist.

The memo detailed a conversation between Comey and Trump during which the former FBI director says the president asked him to let go of the investigation into Michael Flynn, his onetime national security adviser. It was reported on by The New York Times in May 2017, after Comey’s ouster. 

The report notes that investigators did not find evidence that Comey leaked classified information from the memos to the press.

The inspector general also found that Comey passed four of the memos to his private lawyers in violation of bureau rules, and faulted him for not immediately alerting the bureau about the disclosure when he learned that it had determined one of the memos included classified material.

Comey has argued that the memos were personal recollections and not official records, something the inspector general refuted in the newly released report.

Comey was unapologetic on Twitter, noting that the investigation found no evidence that he or his attorneys shared classified information with the news media and accusing his critics of “defaming” him.

“I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a ‘sorry we lied about you’ would be nice,” Comey tweeted.

“And to all those who’ve spent two years talking about me ‘going to jail’ or being a ‘liar and a leaker’—ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president,” he wrote.

Comey and Trump have engaged in an extended war of words since the FBI chief’s ouster. In June 2017, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his interactions with the president and revealed that Trump had asked him to let go of the Flynn investigation.

“I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. And so I asked a friend of mine to do it,” Comey told the committee.

Trump has refuted Comey’s account and called him a liar, an assertion the White House repeated on Thursday. The president and his allies have attacked Comey and other top Justice Department officials over the Russia investigation, accusing agents of being motivated by bias against Trump in their decisions with respect to the probe.

Mueller concluded his two-year investigation earlier this year, without finding evidence to charge associates of Trump’s presidential campaign with conspiring with Russia. Mueller did not make a decision one way or another as to whether Trump obstructed the investigation. 

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Biden Administration Approves Willow Oil Project in Alaska, Officials Say – The New York Times
Biden Administration Approves Willow Oil Project in Alaska, Officials Say – The New York Times
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This horrific rape accusation against Donald Trump deserves to be considered carefully and seriously – Washington Examiner
This horrific rape accusation against Donald Trump deserves to be considered carefully and seriously – Washington Examiner

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is coming out with a new book, and in a bombshell excerpt appearing in New York magazine, she tells a horrific story that President Trump raped her in a department store in 1995 or 1996.

In the piece, she says that though she never went to the police, she told two friends about the incident at the time, and that they confirmed that to the magazine. The White House is saying that the story is false.

I have previously argued that while we shouldn’t reflexively believe all accusers, I do believe that sexual assault accusers deserve to be taken seriously. Ideally, the credibility of the accusations should be viewed independently of any partisan blinders. We should all consider this story carefully and avoid jumping to quick conclusions one way or another.

In the story, part of a book describing encounters with “hideous” men in her life, Carroll writes that Trump approached her in the upscale Fifth Avenue store Bergdorf Goodman, having recognized her from her advice show. After exchanging introductions, she agreed to help him search for a gift for a girl, which eventually led them to the lingerie section. According to the account, he coaxed her into the dressing room with an article of lingerie. That’s when the story becomes especially difficult to read:

The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand — for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other — and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.

The White House issued the following response to the account: “This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look bad.”

In the early going, skeptics of the story are questioning the timing, and dismissing it as a clear effort to boost book sales. Why didn’t she say anything at the time? Or why didn’t she raise the issue during the 2016 campaign, when it could have done more damage?

Carroll writes that she didn’t report the incident to the police at the time. She told two close friends, she said, and while one of them urged her to report it, the other said, “Tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you.” According to the article, “Two decades later, both still remember the incident clearly and confirmed their accounts to New York.”

As for why she didn’t come forward earlier, she wrote, “Receiving death threats, being driven from my home, being dismissed, being dragged through the mud, and joining the 15 women who’ve come forward with credible stories about how the man grabbed, badgered, belittled, mauled, molested, and assaulted them, only to see the man turn it around, deny, threaten, and attack them, never sounded like much fun. Also, I am a coward.”

It is worth remembering, in light of Carroll’s story, Trump’s statements in the notorious “Access Hollywood” tape: “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

We should hear more from Carroll in the coming days and weeks, and the friends who confirm her account should come forward as well. If there are a lot of inconsistencies, this would be another case of major media malpractice. But if more reporting bolsters her account, this should be significant concern to Republicans, and all Americans.

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Democratic Senator Gillibrand to launch 2020 White House bid – AOL
Democratic Senator Gillibrand to launch 2020 White House bid – AOL

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” that she would file paperwork on Tuesday night to explore a run for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 election.

Colbert, during the taping of an episode that will air on Tuesday night, asked Gillibrand, who has been taking the steps to begin a presidential campaign, if she had anything she would like to announce.

“Yes,” the lawmaker from New York said. “I’m filing an exploratory committee for president of the United States tonight.”

The formation of an exploratory committee will allow Gillibrand, 52, who is known for spearheading efforts to change how Congress handles allegations of sexual harassment and became a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement, to begin fundraising and organizing her campaign.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, speaks during the Women’s Convention in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. The Women’s Convention will bring together first time activists and movement leaders, rising political stars that reflect our nation’s changing demographics, and thousands of women for a weekend of workshops, strategy sessions, and inspiring forums. Photographer: Anthony Lanzilote/Bloomberg via Getty Images




“I’m going to run for president of the United States because as a young mom I’m going to fight for other people’s kids as hard as I would fight for my own,” Gillibrand said to applause.

She has hired several top political aides in recent weeks, fueling speculation her jump into the 2020 fray was imminent.

There is no dominant early front-runner in what is expected to be a crowded Democratic nominating race to take on President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee.

Texas Democrat Julian Castro, a former San Antonio mayor and top U.S. housing official, formally launched his White House bid on Saturday. Former U.S. Representative John Delaney has been running for more than a year. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts formed an exploratory committee last month and Representative Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she will run for president.

Some in the party believe an establishment figure who can appeal to centrist voters is the way to victory. Others argue a fresh face, and particularly a diverse one, is needed to energize the party’s increasingly left-leaning base.

Gillibrand was a member of the centrist and fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition while in the House of Representatives. Her positions became more liberal after she was appointed to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton in New York when Clinton became former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.

Gillibrand then won the seat in a special election and was re-elected to six-year terms in 2012 and 2018. She has attributed the ideology shift to representing a liberal state versus a more conservative district.

As a senator, Gillibrand was outspoken about rape in the military and campus sexual assault years before the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault first arose in 2017.

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In late 2017, as she pushed for a bill changing how Congress processes and settles sexual harassment allegations made by staffers, some prominent party leaders criticized her for being the first Democratic senator to urge the resignation of Senator Al Franken, who was accused of groping and kissing women without their consent.

During the same period, Gillibrand said Hillary Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, should have resigned from the White House after his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, which led to his impeachment by the House. Some criticized the senator for attacking the Clintons, who had supported her political career.

Gillibrand backs a Medicare-for-all bill championed by Democratic Party liberals. She was the first senator to call in June 2018 for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid controversy over Trump’s separation of families entering the country at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I believe healthcare should be a right and not a privilege,” Gillibrand told Colbert.

In a dig at Trump, Gillibrand said the first thing she would do if elected to the White House is “restore what’s been lost” like the “integrity and compassion of this country.”

“You have to start by restoring what’s been lost, restoring our leadership in the world, addressing things like global climate change and being that beacon of light and hope in the world,”Gillibrand said.

Trump and Gillibrand have sparred publicly in the past. In December 2017, the president targeted her with a sexually tinged tweet, calling her a “total flunky” who had “come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them).”

Gillibrand shot back immediately on Twitter.

“You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office,” she wrote.

(Reporting by Amanda Becker in Washington and Daniel Trotta in New York Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Jonathan Oatis and James Dalgleish)

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“Los espera la libertad y el amor, los vamos a hacer libres” – Página 12
“Los espera la libertad y el amor, los vamos a hacer libres” – Página 12

El secretario de Derechos Humanos de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Guido Carlotto, hijo de Estela y homónimo del nieto recuperado, el 114, había delantado que “por cuestiones legales lo único que puedo contar es que se trata de un músico y que se realizó el estudio de ADN voluntariamente”. El 25 de agosto de 1978 la Policía entregó a los Carlotto el cuerpo asesinado de Laura, quien fue secuestrada estando embarazada y según testigos pudo estar con su hijo Guido sólo cinco horas. Desde entonces Estela, junto con otras Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, encaró una larga búsqueda. “A pesar de todo, mi fe está enterita. Será porque no tengo rencor, no tengo sentimientos que me envenenan”, dijo hace algunos años. El 26 de junio de 2011, la propia Estela publicó en Página/12 A mi querido nieto Guido: “Hoy cumples 33 años. La edad de Cristo como decían, ‘decimos’, las viejas. Con esta inspiración pienso en los Herodes que ‘te mataron’ en el momento de nacer al borrar tu nombre, tu historia, tus padres. Laura (María), tu madre, estará llorando en este día tu crucifixión y desde una estrella esperará tu resurrección a la verdadera vida, con tu real identidad, recuperando tu libertad, rompiendo las rejas que te oprimen. Querido nieto, qué no daría para que te materialices en las mismas calles en las que te busco desde siempre. Qué no daría por darte este amor que me ahoga por tantos años de guardártelo. Espero ese día con la certeza de mis convicciones sabiendo que además de mi felicidad por el encuentro tus padres, Laura y Chiquito y tu abuelo Guido desde el cielo, nos apretarán en el abrazo que no nos separará jamás”.

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Biden’s corporate tax plan takes aim at income inequality – The Associated Press
Biden’s corporate tax plan takes aim at income inequality – The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, American presidents have taken aim at corporate America’s tax-avoidance schemes before — and mostly missed.

Now, President Joe Biden is training the government’s sights again on the loopholes, shelters and international havens that have long allowed multinational companies to dodge taxes in ways that ordinary households cannot.

The idea is twofold: First, to help pay for Biden’s trillions in proposed spending — for everything from roads and bridges and green energy to internet access, job training, preschool and sick leave. And second, to shift more of the federal tax load onto companies and narrow America’s vast income inequality. Affluent investors reap the biggest windfalls when after-tax corporate profits accelerate.

“The burden,” said Thornton Matheson, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, would “fall predominately on wealthier individuals.”

Biden, in effect, wants to swing the pendulum back. At one time — the early-to-mid-1950s — corporations accounted for 30% of federal tax collections. Last year, their share barely topped 7%.

As corporations have generated an ever-smaller share of federal tax revenue, the burden has fallen more heavily on individuals, through the income tax and the levies that pay for Social Security and Medicare.

The president wants to stop companies from stashing profits in countries with low tax rates. To do so, he’s proposed a 21% minimum tax on multinationals’ foreign earnings and is urging other countries to follow suit. His plan would also rescind what the administration sees as international loopholes in Trump’s 2017 tax legislation.

To strengthen its ability to root out tax cheating, the administration has proposed adding $80 billion to the IRS budget over a decade to bolster the agency’s underfunded enforcement team. As part of his effort to reduce America’s wealth gap, he’s also proposed raising the tax rate on long-term capital gains for Americans who earn over $1 million a year.

Many analysts see Biden’s corporate tax plan as a gamechanger — if Congress embraces it.

If adopted, the 21% minimum global tax “effectively spells the end of the tax haven as we have come to know it,” said Alexander Arnon, an analyst at the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model, a research organization associated with the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Wharton’s analysts estimate that a 21% minimum global tax and other international provisions of Biden’s tax plan would raise $987 billion from 2022 through 2031 — nearly half as much as Biden’s overall corporate tax plan would produce. Biden would collect an additional $892 billion from the centerpiece of his plan: an increase in the overall corporate tax rate to 28% from the 21% Trump slashed it to in 2017, the Penn Wharton analysis finds.

“It’s a terrific plan,” said Matthew Gardner, senior fellow at the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “We cannot have a sustainable corporate tax system until we solve this problem of companies shifting their intangible assets around. This plan should stop that dead.”

Republicans and business groups are already lining up in opposition. The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs, reported that 76% of the top executives it surveyed said the 21% minimum global tax would weaken their company’s competitiveness by making them pay more tax on global earnings than their international rivals do. Biden’s tax hikes, the roundtable warned, could also limit corporate investment and hiring.

The Chamber of Commerce’s chief policy officer, Neil Bradley, argued that the Biden plan would “slow the economic recovery and make the U.S. less competitive globally.”

In defense of Biden’s tax plan, his Treasury Department says it would target “excess″ corporate profits — unnaturally high earnings that can result from a company’s near-monopoly power. Such companies already have so much cash available for investment that higher taxes wouldn’t dissuade them from, say, building a plant or hiring more workers, Treasury and some academic economists contend.

In the end, many analysts say they think that any agreement on a higher corporate tax rate could settle on around 25% — less than Biden would like but higher than the current rate.

Governments have long been vexed by how hard it is to collect taxes from corporations that run operations in multiple countries. The goal sounds straightforward: “What they’re trying to do is tax where the economic activity takes place,” said Ronald Graziano, managing director of accounting and tax research at Credit Suisse.

But the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that governments lose up to $240 billion a year to companies that shift earnings among countries to lower their tax bills.

The Biden plan would strengthen provisions aimed at preventing companies from gaming the system — by, say, having their U.S. operations buy supplies from an affiliate in a tax haven, thereby creating a deductible expense in the higher-tax United States while putting profits in a low-tax jurisdiction.

Existing law also lumps all foreign earnings together, giving companies the ability to shift earnings and tax credits among countries to minimize their U.S. tax bill.

“Right now, it’s like a blender approach,” Gardner said. “Companies are allowed to throw all their foreign income into one big bucket in calculating this stuff. And that leaves room for a company that has a bunch of assets in a high tax-rate jurisdiction to throw stuff into the Caymans just for the hell of it.”

The Biden plan seeks to end that by assessing taxes on a country-by-country basis: If a company pays zero tax in a tax haven, its earnings in that country would be subject to the full 21% U.S. global minimum tax.

Overall, corporations would face a tax hike. Among big multinationals, Credit Suisse estimates, the effective tax rate — what companies actually pay — would rise from 14% to 18% for Apple, 17% to 22% for Microsoft, 16% to 22% for Google parent Alphabet and 12% to 17% for Facebook. Part of the higher tax burden would ultimately fall on wealthy individuals, who disproportionately own shares in corporate stock: New York University economist Edward Wolff has found that the richest 10% of Americans own about 85% of stock wealth.

The Biden administration is endorsing an OECD push to get countries to sign on to a minimum global tax like the one it’s proposing for U..S. companies. The idea is to stop countries from slashing corporate tax rates to outbid each other for multinational corporations — at the cost of losing revenue that could help finance public works projects and social spending.

For the United States, though, international cooperation is “not strictly necessary to make the Biden plan work,” Gardner said. “If we put this into place unilaterally and gave the IRS the tools it needs to enforce the laws — that’s all you need.”

As early as 1962, the Kennedy administration sought to collect more tax from multinationals. But history suggests that corporate giants — and their armies of accountants, tax lawyers and lobbyists — are endlessly creative at finding ways to keep earnings away from the IRS.

“Just as there is no limit to the ingenuity of 12-year-old boys getting into trouble,” Gardner said, “there is no limit on the ingenuity of companies finding their way around these regulations.’’

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FDA said to be ready to endorse Pfizer and Moderna boosters at once – Politico
FDA said to be ready to endorse Pfizer and Moderna boosters at once – Politico

But after Moderna filed a similar request on Wednesday, officials began debating whether to speed that authorization along as well, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

The FDA declined to comment.

Moderna reported earlier this summer that its booster is 93 percent effective when given six months after the second dose, and the company has been in close touch with the FDA since then about an eventual authorization of its shot for all adults.

With Covid-19 cases up more than 20 percent in the U.S. over the past two weeks, some administration officials also argued that clearing the shot prior to Thanksgiving would allow all adults to quickly seek a booster no matter which vaccine they originally received.

The FDA is now expected to finalize authorization for both vaccines on Friday morning, ahead of an afternoon meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, according to the people with knowledge of the matter.

Still, it’s unclear how the CDC panel will react to the rapid authorization of Moderna’s booster shot. The outside advisers — who are charged with recommending who should receive the vaccines — were originally scheduled only to consider expanded eligibility for Pfizer’s booster. The FDA’s move could raise concerns among some advisers that they’re being asked to endorse the distribution of a second vaccine on a more accelerated timetable than they originally planned.

The CDC is not required to follow the panel’s advice on how vaccines should be rolled out, but it has traditionally followed its recommendations.

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Malas noticias para Trump: latinos y negros acuden en masa a votar en EEUU – 24Horas.cl (Comunicado de prensa) (Registro)
Malas noticias para Trump: latinos y negros acuden en masa a votar en EEUU – 24Horas.cl (Comunicado de prensa) (Registro)

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Los estadounidenses negros y de origen latino han acudido masivamente a las urnas en las elecciones presidenciales, una señal de alarma para el sueño de Donald Trump de llegar a la Casa Blanca.

El magnate neoyorquino de 70 años le dijo al electorado afroestadounidense que “no tiene nada que perder” con él y ha afirmado que los hispanos “aman” sus ideas. Pero un abrumador voto de esas minorías solo puede favorecer a su rival Hillary Clinton, según las encuestas.

Para algunos su voto fue tanto a favor de la demócrata como contra Trump.

“Creo que va a ser un Hitler del 2016”, dice a la AFP la activista demócrata Adriana Martínez, una venezolana nacionalizada hace dos años. Esta joven de 26 años compara el espumoso ascenso del magnate con el de Hugo Chávez, cuyas políticas populistas la empujaron junto a su madre a dejar su país natal hace 15 años.

Martínez, de 26 años, trabaja en Washington pero votó en Florida –muchos estados permiten el voto antes del día del escrutinio–. Este estado es vital en el rompecabezas de los comicios del martes y es donde los latinos ocupan el 18% del electorado.

En Florida (sureste), la participación en las urnas de los hispanos (565.000) habría duplicado a la de 2012 en la votación anticipada, según los análisis de politólogos y de una firma especializada que usa bases de datos sobre votantes, Catalist, citada por CNN.

 

En Nevada, números “excepcionales”

En Nevada, donde 17,2% de los votantes son hispanos, los medios locales reportaron largas filas de espera en los sectores latinos de Las Vegas, lo que el director de campaña de Clinton, Robby Mook, calificó el sábado de números “excepcionales”.

“Hay un efecto Trump en la orientación partidista: los latinos abrumadoramente están rechazando a Donald Trump y al partido Republicano, votando por el partido Demócrata en índices más altos”, y acudirán masivamente a las urnas, señaló a la AFP Adrián Pantoja, analista de Latino Decisions, refiriendo a sondeos.

Nunca tantos latinos –27,3 millones, cuatro millones más que en 2012; 12% del electorado nacional– han estado habilitados para votar en Estados Unidos, según el Pew Research Center (PRC).

Se espera que se decanten por Clinton, especialmente porque Trump ha acusado a los inmigrantes mexicanos indocumentados de violadores y narcotraficantes, y prometió construir un muro y expulsar a los 11 millones de personas que viven clandestinamente en Estados Unidos.

Según una encuesta de PRC divulgada el 11 de octubre, cerca de seis de cada diez latinos registrados para votar en el país (58%) están a favor de Clinton, mientras apenas el 19% apoya a Trump.

Y una elevada participación en estados como Florida podría catapultar una victoria de Clinton en una reñida lucha por la Casa Blanca que tiene al mundo en vilo.

Obama, el porrista

Junto a los hispanos, el voto de los negros fue fundamental en las dos victorias de Barack Obama.

Pero de hecho cuando el voto anticipado arrancó hace dos semanas en Estados Unidos, la participación del electorado afroestadounidense era baja.

No obstante eso cambió luego que Obama y la primera dama Michelle hicieran una seguidilla de llamados a los votantes negros a favor de Clinton, y la misma candidata se uniera en un mitin con las estrellas Beyoncé y Jay-Z.

“En los últimos días, hemos visto la participación de los negros explotar, con más afroamericanos votando temprano, en persona, que en 2012”, dijo a AFP Daniel Smith, un profesor de la Universidad de Florida que registra la participación electoral.

Un total de 777.000 negros ya votaron en Florida, dijo.

Pero el presidente del partido Republicano, Reince Priebus, rechazó toda proyección, señalando que “hay límites en lo que el voto anticipado dice”.

¿Se despertará el gigante?

Aunque los latinos son la primera minoría del país, su asistencia en las urnas ha sido históricamente baja.

Algunos se preguntan si ante el discurso antiinmigrante de Trump millones de latinos se habrán registrado a votar por primera vez o pagado el trámite de la ciudadanía.

Siete años después de nacionalizarse estadounidense, la guatemalteca Esperanza Cruz depositó su primer voto, parte por el apoyo a Clinton a los programas de ayuda a madres, parte por temor a las deportaciones de Trump.

“Tengo miedo. Yo ya soy ciudadana, pero las demás personas ¿a dónde van a ir?”, dijo a AFP.

Sin embargo “no hay estadísticas suficientes” para dibujar una tendencia nacional, afirmó Pantoja de Latino Decisions.

Un estudio de mediados de octubre del diario USA Today observó 50 condados con las mayores poblaciones de hispanos en diez estados claves y encontró que el incremento de electores en 2016 solo reflejó el alza poblacional.

“Hay más hispanos cada año. ¿Hay una mayor tasa de incremento debido a Trump? No parece”, dijo a AFP Mark Hugo López, director de investigación sobre hispanos del PRC.

¿Desafiarán la historia y votarán más del estimado normal –unos 13 millones?

“Si son más de 15 millones sería inusual y un efecto Trump”, dijo López.

Revisa el despacho de la enviada especial de TVN desde Nueva York.

 

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What Is Turo? Here’s What To Know About Car Rental App Used In New Orleans Attack And Las Vegas Explosion. – Forbes
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Pence says CDC changing school reopening guidelines after Trump called them ‘tough and expensive’ – USA TODAY
Pence says CDC changing school reopening guidelines after Trump called them ‘tough and expensive’ – USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is revising its guidance on reopening schools after President Donald Trump tweeted his disagreement with them, Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday.

“The president said today we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough,” Pence said at a news conference at the U.S. Department of Education. “That’s the reason why, next week, CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools, five different documents that will be giving even more clarity on the guidance going forward.”

Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools” as the coronavirus pandemic continues.

“They are asking schools to do very impractical things,” Trump tweeted. “I will be meeting with them!!!”

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Maine shooting: Robert Card’s gun history emerges – latest updates – The Independent
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Gretchen Whitmer backs Joe Biden on alleged assault: ‘not every claim is equal’ – The Guardian
Gretchen Whitmer backs Joe Biden on alleged assault: ‘not every claim is equal’ – The Guardian

Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan has spoken out in support of Joe Biden, telling CNN that when it comes to accusations of sexual assault, “not every claim is equal”.

“We need to give people an opportunity to tell their story,” Whitmer said. “Then we have a duty to vet it.”

Tara Reade, a former congressional aide, alleges Biden assaulted her in a Senate corridor in 1993. Last month, she filed a complaint with police in Washington DC.

Biden, 79, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has denied the allegation and called for Reade’s original complaint to a congressional personnel office to be located.

He has also committed to naming a woman as his running mate for the campaign against Donald Trump. Whitmer is thought to be in the frame.

Pressed on CNN’s State of the Union over whether her support for Biden was hypocritical, given her view of allegations against the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Whitmer said “there is not a pattern” of sexual abuse allegations against Biden.

She then disputed anchor Jake Tapper’s framing of the question around her being a woman and a survivor of sexual assault.

“Just because you’re a survivor doesn’t mean that every claim is equal,” she argued. “It means we give them the ability to make their case. And then to make a judgment that is informed.”

Tapper said the question was asked because Whitmer was the only Democrat on his show.

On Saturday, Reade disputed an Associated Press report in which she is reported as having said that she had not explicitly referenced sexual harassment or assault in her original complaint.

“This is false,” Reade tweeted.

She maintains that she neither has a copy of the complaint nor remembers specific details of its content, telling NBC News she is “not sure” what wording she used.

Reade did not provide any information about what, if anything, in the AP report was false.

Skeptics have focused on other inconsistencies in her story, including evolving details of the alleged assault. Former colleagues have also disputed her claims to have reported the incident to them directly and to have been forced out of her job for speaking up.

Senior Democrats continue to rally round Biden. On Sunday the party chair, Tom Perez, dismissed calls for the Democratic National Committee to launch an investigation.

Biden is an “open book” who has been thoroughly vetted, the former labor secretary told ABC’s This Week, adding: “[The Obama administration] looked at the entire history of Joe Biden, his entire career. If Barack Obama had any indication that there was an issue, Barack Obama would not have had him as his vice-president.

“Barack Obama trusted Joe Biden. I trust Joe Biden. And those investigations have been done.”

Biden has refused to authorize the release of Senate documents stored at the University of Delaware, where some critics say a record of Reade’s complaint may be stored. In an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, Biden argued the files would not contain personnel records.

Some observers said Biden’s response was only fueling the fire Republicans are determined to turn his way. On Sunday Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, said Biden’s denials were not enough.

“We’ve seen him really be challenged for the first time in five weeks on allegations that many in the media have ignored, and finally, those are coming to light,” she told ABC.

McDaniel did not address allegations against Trump, who was memorably recorded bragging about grabbing women’s genitals without consent.

Trump denies claims of sexual misconduct and assault made by more than a dozen women. According to a report in the Daily Beast, he appears to doubt Reade’s claim.

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Senate Advances Infrastructure Bill but Lone Republican Eager to Slow Approval to a Crawl – Slate
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Macron arrives at the White House for first state visit of the Biden administration – CNN
Macron arrives at the White House for first state visit of the Biden administration – CNN
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Government shutdown, day 3: White House awaits Democratic reply to ‘counteroffer’ to $5B for border wall – USA TODAY
Government shutdown, day 3: White House awaits Democratic reply to ‘counteroffer’ to $5B for border wall – USA TODAY
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Senator Chuck Schumer lambasted President Donald Trump over his demand that American taxpayers pay for a border wall which has led to a partial government shutdown.
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WASHINGTON – As the partial government shutdown continues, the White House and congressional Republicans awaited a Democratic response to their “counteroffer” in negotiations over President Donald Trump’s demand for $5 billion for a southern border wall.

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that the offer fell between the $1.3 billion for border security that Democrats supported in legislation and the $5 billion for border-wall construction that Trump seeks.

But because the Senate won’t meet to debate until at least Thursday, Mulvaney said the shutdown could continue into the new Congress, which begins Jan. 3.

“I don’t think things are going to move very quickly,” Mulvaney told “Fox News Sunday.”

The White House provided what he called a counteroffer Saturday to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “The ball right now is in their corner,” Mulvaney said.

Spending talks continued amid a weekend of football and basketball games, with little outcry over the shutdown. But Mulvaney said because Monday and Tuesday are federal holidays, “Wednesday is really the first day that this kicks in.”

To keep Grand Canyon National Park open for a week, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed an executive order to provide $64,000 that will keep the park and essential functions such as trash collection, restrooms and ranger services. Tracking of Santa’s sleigh on Christmas eve will continue, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. 

Trump postponed his end-of-the-year trip to Florida and most lawmakers have left the capital ahead of the Christmas holiday. He tweeted Sunday morning that a wall would help stop drugs, gangs and criminal elements from entering the country.

“This is what having a president who is nontraditional, who’s a different kind of president looks like,”  Mulvaney said. “He is not going to be an ordinary president, and that’s not what people wanted when they elected him.”  

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the outgoing chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told CNN’s “State of the Union”  the shutdown was “unnecessary” and “juvenile” because both parties want to work on immigration issues.

Corker noted that Democrats and Republicans supported legislation to provide $25 billion for border security while also dealing with young immigrants who arrived with parents who entered the country illegally. The legislation wasn’t ultimately approved. But in contrast, Corker said the shutdown fight is over much less.

“This is a made-up fight,” Corker said. “This is something that is unnecessary. It’s a spectacle. And, candidly, it’s juvenile.”

The shutdown takes place during an especially chaotic time in the Trump administration, including the resignation Thursday of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis after Trump announced withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, a plunging stock market and Trump attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

Schumer had blamed the shutdown on Trump’s “two-week temper tantrum” over border-wall funding and said the Senate has no interest “in swindling American taxpayers for an unnecessary, ineffective and wasteful policy.”

“President Trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple,” he said.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said senators would be told when a vote was scheduled and that “negotiations will continue” in the meantime. The Senate next plans to meet Thursday for debate. The House has instructed lawmakers no votes are expected until at least Thursday.

At the White House, Trump  huddled Saturday with his advisers and with a small group of GOP lawmakers to discuss border security but did not include any Democrats in the meeting. Among the Republicans who were invited were members of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus, which has urged Trump not to abandon the fight for border wall funding.

“This is not about the wall for Democrats. It’s not even about immigration for Democrats,” tweeted Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, who was invited to the meeting. “This is about denying (Trump) a win on a signature agenda item that he promised the American people.”

The latest shutdown is the third one this year – and the third of Trump’s presidency – and was triggered just after midnight Friday when the budget standoff caused funding to lapse for nine federal departments and several smaller agencies. A quarter of the government shut down, and some 800,000 government employees were forced to go on furlough or work without pay.

Agencies impacted include the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, Customs and Border Patrol and the IRS, as well as national parks and forests. In all, the nine departments affected are Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, State, Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development.

The White House said federal employees in those departments would be paid for days worked before the shutdown began. The pay period ended on Saturday, and those checks will go out on Dec. 28. Employees deemed “essential” and forced to work during the shutdown will be paid once federal funds start flowing again, the Trump administration said, although that would require congressional action.

Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes negotiations continue – primarily at the staff level – in an attempt to break the funding impasse and end the shutdown. The House has passed a bill that includes $5.7 billion in funding for border security, including a wall. But the proposal is stalled in the Senate and cannot pass without the support of Democrats.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted a border wall is needed to keep the country safe.

More: The government shutdown is here. How does it affect you?

More: A look at what public services will – and won’t – be interrupted during the government shutdown

More: Will NORAD’s Santa Tracker still monitor St. Nick’s journey even if there’s a government shutdown?

More: Government shutdown: History suggests stock market can weather storm

 

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/24/white-house-awaits-democratic-reply-counteroffer-during-shutdown/2402106002/

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US-Mexico border: Trump wishes military could be “rough” with immigrants – Vox.com
US-Mexico border: Trump wishes military could be “rough” with immigrants – Vox.com

President Donald Trump has mused about closing down the US-Mexico border entirely. He’s reportedly talked about restarting the family separation policy (which he denies). And now, Trump has added another line to his stop-immigration-at-all-costs rhetoric.

The president is saddened by the fact that the military can’t be more “rough” with migrants coming to America.

After telling reporters in Texas on Wednesday that he wants more troops at the US-Mexico border, the president added, “our military, don’t forget, can’t act like a military would act. Because if they got a little rough, everybody would go crazy.”

The reason? “They have all these horrible laws that the Democrats won’t change [and] they will not change them,” the president said, without explaining what laws he means, or how his political opponents thwarted him.

It’s easy to dismiss this as another off-the-cuff, tough-guy Trump comment. But one can’t lose sight that this is the commander in chief — the head of all American forces — saying he kind of wishes the military could have more freedom to hurt men, women, and children.

That, to put it mildly, is horrifying.

The military can’t do what Trump wishes it could. That’s a good thing.

It’s unclear what laws the president was referencing when he spoke to reporters, but we do know that there are laws in place to ensure a president doesn’t use the US troops the way Trump clearly wants to.

Here’s the big one: The US military is barred from using its capabilities directly to enforce US domestic laws — including immigration laws — unless Congress specifically authorizes it to do so. This stipulation, known as “posse comitatus,” is why US troops can only support US border agents, but not take direct action themselves.

When Trump sent 5,000 troops to the border last year, Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the head of military command overseeing North American operations, said the military will conduct all of its operations at the border “in adherence to posse comitatus.”

The reason this law exists, and the military follows it, is simple: The president shouldn’t use the military for his own personal reasons to “execute the law” at home.

The military is mainly designed to fight foreign adversaries — and unarmed families looking for a better life in the US don’t come close to counting as enemies. This is why military leaders are typically clear about how they would disobey an illegal order, even if it comes from the president.

And, of course, you don’t want a military that’s wiling to do just anything the president asks, otherwise it becomes his own personal, heavily armed, well-trained police force. That’s about as undemocratic and un-freedom-y as it gets.

After I sent the full Trump quote to the Pentagon, a spokesperson simply wrote back: “Border security is a critical element of our national security. DOD is committed to supporting CBP’s border security mission with the right capabilities at the right locations.”

That’s promising. Still, that doesn’t take away Trump’s own comments which were wrongheaded, cruel — and downright scary.

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/10/18305175/trump-border-immigration-military-texas

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