La calma duró poco tiempo en Japón ya que se registró nuevamente un sismo de 5,2 en Naime, Japón, este martes, a unos 100 kilómetros de Fukushima, según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en ingles). La profundidad del sismo fue de 12,7 kilómetros, según reportó CNN.
Este sismo ocurre horas después de que un terremoto de 6,9 golpeara la isla Honshu en Japón este martes en la mañana (hora local) creando olas de tsumani y al menos 3 heridos. Hasta el momento no se han emitido alertas de tsunami.
Trump dice que los medios fueron injustos y deshonestos
Presentadores, periodistas y ejecutivos de las grandes cadenas de televisión de Estados Unidos se reunieron en privado con el presidente electo Donald Trump en lo que su asesora de comunicaciones describió como una reunión “cordial, muy productiva”, pero también “franca y muy honesta”.
“Desde mi propia perspectiva, es grandioso “resetear” dijo la asesora en comunicaciones del magnate, Kellyanne Conway.
Pero si la intención de quienes asistieron fue la de mejorar relaciones con el nuevo gobierno, no parece que ese haya sido el resultado.
Aunque la reunión entre la prensa y el presidente electo en la Trump Tower fue a puerta cerrada y bajo la condición de no divulgar lo tratado, algunos medios —como las publicaciones Face to Face y Breitbart News— escribieron titulares como “Trump le da duro a la élite mediática” y “Trump se come a la prensa”.
Personas que estuvieron presentes en el encuentro y que fueron citadas por el Washington Post y el New York Times bajo condición de no divulgar sus nombres confirmaron que Trump dijo que la cobertura que le dieron los medios durante el proceso electoral fue “injusta” y “deshonesta”.
Tormenta Otto se convertiría en huracán el miércoles
La tormenta tropical Otto, que podría evolucionar a huracán categoría 1 el miércoles, se mantiene al norte de Panamá, sin afectar a México, informó el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN).
El fenómeno climático se ubicó a unos mil 328 kilómetros al sureste de Punta Herrero, Quintana Roo (México) y a 355 kilómetros al sureste de Isla San Andrés (Nicaragua).
De acuerdo con el pronóstico, aproximadamente al mediodía del miércoles se intensifique a huracán a unos mil 115 kilómetros al sureste de las costas de Quintana Roo y comience a debilitarse a partir del viernes.
Tormenta tropical Otto adquiere fuerza en el Caribe y también pronostican fuertes lluvias asociadas con la tormenta en Panamá y Costa Rica en el transcurso de la semana.
Venezuela: MUD rechazó que Maduro decida quién se mantiene en mesa de diálogo político
La Mesa de Unidad Democrática (MUD) rechazó este lunes que el presidente Nicolás Maduro pretenda decidir quién se mantiene en la mesa de diálogo político entre el gobierno y la oposición.
“Él (Maduro) no decide quién se para y quién se queda. El gobierno tiene una sola responsabilidad que es cumplir (los acuerdos), que es lo que no ha hecho hasta ahora”, manifestó el secretario ejecutivo de la MUD, Jesús Torrealba en su programa La Fuerza es la Unión.
“Usted se mantiene en el poder gracias a que impide que el pueblo vote. Usted en realidad no está presidiendo un país, está presidiendo una catástrofe”, agregó.
“Está incumpliendo de manera sistemática todo lo que se ha prometido frente a los mediadores. No ha cumplido en materia de derechos humanos, ni de presos políticos, ni en materia de gobernabilidad económica y convivencia social”, enfatizó el opositor.
La próxima reunión de la mesa de diálogo será el próximo 6 de diciembre, en la cual la oposición espera acordar la reactivación de un referéndum contra Maduro, el cual fue suspendido el mes pasado por órdenes de tribunales penales.
Trump presentó plan para sus primeros 100 días de gobierno
En un video de dos minutos y medio divulgado anoche, el presidente electo Donald Trump reveló el lunes parte de sus planes para los primeros 100 días en la Casa Blanca: entre varias medidas, anunció que retirará a Estados Unidos del Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico (TPP); eliminará regulaciones ambientales para impulsar la industria del carbón y gas natural y restringirá programas de visas a inmigrantes “que quitan el trabajo a estadounidenses”.
En un mensaje dirigido al pueblo estadounidense, el presidente electo señaló que “en la producción de acero, en la fabricación de autos, o en la cura de enfermedades, quiero que la futura generación de producción e innovación suceda aquí, en nuestra gran tierra, Estados Unidos, y sirva para crear bienestar y trabajo para los trabajadores estadounidenses”.
“Como parte de este plan, he pedido a mi equipo de transición que desarrolle una lista de acciones ejecutivas que podremos tomar desde el primer día para restaurar nuestras leyes y crear nuevos empleos”, agregó.
Asimismo adelantó que pretende, ya en el “primer día” de su gobierno el 20 de enero, iniciar los pasos para retirar al país del Acuerdo Trans Pacífico (TPP, en inglés) para concentrarse en acuerdos bilaterales.
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TULSA, Okla. – About a mile away from the arena where President Trump will hold a Saturday rally, the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke to a field filled with people on the campus of Oklahoma State University – Tulsa, near where the city’s infamous 1921 race massacre took place.
Sharpton, one of several speakers for this year’s Juneteenth celebration in Tulsa, said “they tell their children that Lincoln freed the slaves. The fact is the slaves freed Lincoln.” He also rejected claims that protesters for the Black Lives Matter movement were violent.
“We are not violent, we’re fighting violence,” he said to the crowd.
Sharpton said Juneteenth needed to be a federal holiday, because “it’s the first date this country stepped toward living up to the model that announced that all men were created equal.”
Several lawmakers have introduced legislation to make the day a holiday.
“The president said he was coming on June 19,” Sharpton said to boos from the audience, who were watching in the rain, and slammed the president for admitting he did not know about Juneteenth.
He said that Trump’s admission showed he was “not qualified” to represent the country as a head of state. Sharpton also called Trump “insensitive and isolated,” especially when “he was born and raised in New York, where two-thirds of New York is black and Latino.”
Earlier in the week, Trump claimed that “nobody had ever heard of” the June 19 holiday before the controversy surrounding his rally, which he originally scheduled to be on Juneteenth.
— Nicholas Wu, Courtney Subramanian, Savannah Behrmann
Pressed by reporter, Pence won’t say ‘Black lives matter’
Vice President Mike Pence refused to say Black lives matter when pressed on the issue Friday and instead responded to a question with “all lives matter.”
“Let me just say that what happened to George Floyd was a tragedy,” Pence told an ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, when asked if he would say that Black lives matter. “And in this nation, especially on Juneteenth, we celebrate the fact that from the founding of this nation we’ve cherished the ideal that all, all of us are created equal, and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. And so all lives matter in a very real sense.”
The reporter pressed Pence, “But I will note you did not say those words, ‘Black lives matter,’ and there is an important distinction. People are saying, of course all lives matter, but to say the words is an acknowledgement that Black lives also matter at a time in this country when it appears that there’s a segment of our society that doesn’t agree. So why will you not say those words?”
Pence responded, “Well, I don’t accept the fact that there’s a segment of American society that disagrees, in the preciousness and importance of every human life. And it’s one of the reasons why as we advance important reforms in law enforcement, as we look for ways to strengthen and improve our inner cities, that we’re not going to stop there.”
All lives matter is a saying often tied to criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, and is viewed as those associated with the Black Lives Matter movement as dismissing and detracting from the concerns of racial injustice.
– Savannah Behrmann
Tulsa mayor lifts curfew ahead of Trump’s rally
Tulsa officials have rescinded a curfew tied to President Donald Trump’s controversial rally scheduled there Saturday in an extraordinary reversal that came after Trump spoke with the city’s mayor.
But in another update Friday night, Tulsa officials announced a police zone downtown for Secret Service and police to eject “individuals that are only present to break the law and disrupt the rights of people assembling peacefully.”
“In lieu of the Executive Order, a secure zone has been established by the United States Secret Service in cooperation with the Tulsa Police Department and multiple law enforcement agencies,” the department posted.
The reversal came hours before Trump was set to touch down for the pivotal campaign event. The president tweeted on Friday,“I just spoke to the highly respected Mayor of Tulsa, G.T. Bynum, who informed me there will be no curfew tonight or tomorrow for our many supporters attending the #MAGA Rally. Enjoy yourselves – thank you to Mayor Bynum!”
The move represented a reversal by Bynum, a Republican, who hours earlier imposed a curfew to cover Friday and Saturday nights based on projections that 100,000 people could attend and concerns about civil unrest.
The timing of that curfew represented a challenge to Trump rally attendees, many of whom have been lined up for days at the BOK Center in anticipation of the rally.
Bynum said in a statement that he imposed the curfew Thursday at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, after consulting with the Secret Service and based on their intelligence. Bynum said the Secret Service asked the city Friday to lift the curfew.
“Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it,” Bynum said.
Trump’s rally is being closely watched by supporters and critics because it is his first event since a rally in North Carolina in March during the early weeks of the coronavirus. Local health officials in Oklahoma had recommended against holding the massive indoor event for fear it could spread the virus further.
After the curfew was announced, Trump supporters lined up outside the 19,000-seat BOK Center were forced to move as city officials began setting up concrete barriers to section the area ahead of expected crowds of thousands who plan to attend.
Kelli Butler, 43, drove with her husband Dan and 13-year-old son Friday morning from Stillwell, about an hour southeast of Tulsa. Butler, who arrived at about 8:30 A.M. local time, said some of the groups, hovered under tents and seated in camping chairs, were told to move behind the barriers but were told their place in line would be honored.
– John Fritze, Nicholas Wu, Courtney Subramanian, Savannah Behrmann
State Supreme Court denies challenge to rally
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Friday denied a request for a temporary injunction to block the BOK Center in Tulsa from hosting President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday.
The justices cited a lack of any mandatory language in the state’s reopening plan, which provides social distancing guidelines for entertainment venues.
Attorneys in Tulsa filed a lawsuit earlier this week on behalf of two businesses and two residents to stop ASM Global, which manages the 19,000-seat arena, from hosting the rally “to protect against a substantial, imminent and deadly risk to the community.”
They argued the rally should be prohibited because it would act as a “spreader” event for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Paul DeMuro, a lawyer who brought the case, said the goal was to enforce Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidlines.
“The only winner today is the virus. The virus won,” DeMuro said. “Our lawsuit didn’t fail. Our local leaders failed us.”
The petition cited a rise in documented cases of COVID-19 in Tulsa County, which have spiked in recent days. Oklahoma set a new state record for case increases in a single day on Thursday, confirming 450 new cases. The state added 352 new cases on Friday, giving it 802 new cases in two days.
“Despite this alarming uptick … ASM Global plans to host an event that will bring tens of thousands of people into an enclosed area in downtown Tulsa … without putting precautions in place to prevent the spread of the virus,” the petition stated.
“All credible, qualified medical experts, including the CDC, agree that this type of mass-gathering indoor event creates the greatest possible risk of community-wide viral transmission.”
The Trump campaign said it will check attendees temperature as they come in, provide hand sanitizer and issue masks but not require they be worn. Tickets to the rally come with a liability waiver that says the campaign or other parties associated with the event cannot be held liable for exposure to the coronavirus.
In addition, the BOK Center will provide personal protective gear to event staff, periodically clean and disinfect the arena during the rally, and install plexiglass partitions at all concessions stands.
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said earlier this week that people concerned about the spread of COVID-19 at the rally should stay home.
– Tim Willert, The Oklahoman
Trump campaign: Hope any protests are peaceful
A Trump campaign spokesman said Friday peaceful protests are common around the president’s rallies, but that officials hope the latest event in Tulsa on Saturday doesn’t become as violent as protests for racial justice in other cities.
Trump tweeted Friday that “protesters, anarchists, looters or lowlifes” won’t be treated like in New York, Seattle or Minneapolis, but that Tulsa will “be a much different scene!”
“Well, I think if they’re peaceful and if they’re agitating and getting into the violence and other things that will be a different story,” Lotter said. “But we normally have peaceful protests going on around our rallies. And we would hope that anybody that’s coming in from out of town would continue to honor that peaceful tradition in our country and not go to violence.”
Lotter also said the campaign is providing masks for attendees, but wouldn’t mandate they be worn because people are free to make their own decisions.
“Well, we’re making the masks available and we encourage anyone who wants to wear one to be able to do so,” Lotter said. “But we also understand that this is an individual choice. And that people have a right to make the decision for themselves whether they want to come to the rally, whether they want to come inside, whether they want to be outside and also if they want to wear a mask. This is a risk that people know and that they are free to make the decisions that best reflect their needs, their desires and their own personal health.”
–Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
Trump threatens Tulsa protesters on rally eve
President Donald Trump threatened to crack down on protesters expected to show up at his campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, the first such event since the coronavirus pandemic sidelined his campaign schedule.
“Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “It will be a much different scene!”
Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, said Trump was referring to “destructive” protesters, noting that buildings have been burned, looted, and vandalized during recent demonstrations against police brutality.
“These things are unacceptable,” she said. “And we will not see that in Oklahoma.”
The president’s tweet came hours after Tulsa mayor G. T. Bynum imposed a curfew, citing expected rally crowds of more than 100,000, planned protests and the civil unrest that has already erupted in the city and around the nation this month.
Trump drew widespread and bipartisan criticism for his last interaction with protesters, when U.S. Park Police and other law enforcement agencies used force to clear Lafayette Square near the White House so the president could pose with a Bible in front of the historic St. John’s Church.
The latest threat also drew fire.
William Kristol, former editor of The Weekly Standard, posted on Twitter that the constitutional right “of protesters are the same in Tulsa as elsewhere in the US. So are the 1A rights of Trump supporters. It’s up to OK and Tulsa authorities to follow the law and protect all citizens. But what Trump’s doing is inciting his followers to extra-legal action.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Trump of “threatening peaceful protesters standing up for justice.”
–John Fritze, USA TODAY
Police: Threats to Trump rally from social media
Concerns among Tulsa officials about the potential for violence outside Trump’s rally Saturday appeared to come from social media postings, according to Tulsa police.
Jeanne Pierce, a Tulsa Police Department spokesperson, told USA TODAY the city’s information on threats came from social media postings on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Craigslist. Pierce cited posts on Craigslist that urged people to come to Tulsa and make trouble or for people infected with COVID-19 to attend and expose others to the sometimes fatal illness. At least some of the posts have been confirmed fake.
They “don’t know if they’re hoaxes or they’re true but it’s a precautionary measure,” Pierce explained.
Asked about the mayor’s estimate of over 100,000 people at the rally, Pierce said the numbers were what the White House press office had told the city, factoring in the 19,1990-person capacity of the arena and the overflow capacity outside.
– Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY
Curfew imposed ahead of rally
The mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, imposed a curfew ahead of President Donald Trump’s campaign rally there, prompting officers to move out supporters who had been camping out in front of the arena.
Mayor G. T. Bynum announced the order Thursday evening, citing the expected crowds of more than 100,000, the planned protests and the civil unrest that has already erupted in the city and around the nation this month.
Bynum also said he’s received information from the Tulsa Police Department and other law enforcement agencies “that shows that individuals from organized groups who have been involved in destructive or violent behavior in other states are planning to travel to the City of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally.”
Bynum said the order is needed to protect health and safety and preserve lives and property.
The curfew of parts of the city’s downtown started at 10 p.m. Thursday and is in effect until 6 a.m. Saturday. It begins again at the conclusion of Trump’s rally and continues into Sunday morning.
“Big crowds and lines already forming in Tulsa,” Trump tweeted Friday morning, hours after the curfew went into effect.
He also issued this warning: “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!”
Trump supporters began lining up outside the BOK Center days in advance of the rally.
“Sacrificing a week of our lives is nothing for what Trump has done for us,” Robin Stites, who arrived on Monday to secure the No. 2 place in line, told the The Oklahoman earlier this week.
In a Facebook post Thursday evening, the Tulsa Police Department said anyone in violation of the mayor’s executive order will be asked to leave the area. Those who refuse may be cited or arrested.
In addition to the curfew, the order bans Molotov cocktails or other combustible devices.
“This is an unprecedented event for the City of Tulsa and has hundreds of moving parts,” the post said. “We are asking for everyone’s help in making this a safe event for all citizens.”
The Plaza District in the city had scheduled a half-dozen events during the weekend collectively called “Solidarity in the Plaza: Black Lives Matter,” to showcase Black artists, vendors, filmmakers and performers.
But the event that coincided with Juneteenth on Friday was expected to draw 10,000 people at a time when health officials have warned that any large gatherings could spread the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re crushed. We were so excited to do something that felt important and like a celebration and artistic. But we just have to put safety and public health first,” Selena Skorman, the Plaza District’s executive director, told The Oklahoman. “We are definitely going to reschedule.”
The number of state cases of COVID-19 rose by 450 on Thursday, in a surge beyond the 259 infections reported Wednesday.
“You can’t say Black Lives Matter and then put the lives of those who are most vulnerable to the disease at risk,” Chaya Fletcher, one of the Plaza District event organizers, said in a statement. “Black people have been disproportionately affected by COVID and it is our responsibility to not contribute to the increase in those numbers.”
Shortly after her election in November, New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to “use every area of the law” to probe President Donald Trump, his family and associates, and his business.
As the chief legal officer in a state with that provides her with sweeping investigatory and prosecutorial powers, she can keep that promise.
With special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe now complete, others’ investigations, including the New York attorney general’s, are continuing.
James recently subpoenaed Trump’s banks, seeking information about the Trump Organization and the president’s finances. Though Trump has dismissed these efforts as “presidential harassment” and tweeted that James, a Democrat, “openly campaigned on a GET TRUMP agenda,” several former New York attorneys general and legal experts say the president could have plenty to fear.
“There’s broad power — there’s no question,” Oliver Koppell, a Democrat who served as New York attorney general in 1994, told NBC News of the substantial authority and tools the office has to investigate and prosecute businesses for fraud.
The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment.
New York law allows the attorney general to seek restitution and damages — and, in extreme cases, dissolution — if a business is found to have engaged in persistent fraud. There’s also the Martin Act, a 1921 statute designed to protect investors.
Past attorneys general have used the Martin Act, considered to be the U.S.’s toughest such state statute in this realm, to expand their powers in the financial crimes sector. The law empowers the attorney general to subpoena witnesses and documents for information pertaining to possible fraud.
“The Martin Act gives really broad powers,” said Dennis Vacco, a Republican who served as New York attorney general from 1995 to 1998. (Vacco declined to comment on whether Trump or associates have sought his legal counsel regarding this investigation.)
Vacco said the Martin Act is one of few in the nation that provides the attorney general with criminal investigative authority without having to first receive a referral from the governor or a state agency and he noted that a criminal prosecution often will start off as a civil investigation, which is what the Trump Organization is currently facing.
The statute “really does apply to almost any financial transaction in New York state,” he said.
Koppell said that it was former Democratic New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who served from 1999 to 2006, who wrote the modern playbook that James could follow. Spitzer “really kind of expanded the scope of attorney general work in the area of financial fraud,” Koppell said.
Spitzer, who later was elected governor only to resign amid a prostitution scandal in 2008, aggressively pursued white-collar crimes like securities fraud and used statutes such as the Martin Act to pursue prosecutions that had been typically left for federal authorities.
Spitzer’s investigation of American International Group and its then-CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, for example, may have parallels to James’ latest lines of inquiry into Trump’s businesses. The then-attorney general alleged that the insurance giant’s top executives engaged in fraudulent business practices. Those executives settled with the state in 2017, agreeing to forfeit about $10 million in performance bonuses, a fraction of what New York sought.
Through a spokesperson, Spitzer declined to comment to NBC News.
Could James dissolve the Trump Org?
It’s rare for the attorney general to seek the dissolution of a business, but it has happened. In 1994, the state closed down an education company that repeatedly failed to comply with student loan regulations.
In “People by Abrams v. Oliver School,” a New York appellate court affirmed the dissolution and said the power was typically used “as a remedy for persistent consumer fraud.”
The power has been described by the state Supreme Court as a “judgment of corporate death,” with the offending company’s transgressions needing to be so serious “as to harm or menace the public welfare” in order for it to be an appropriate remedy.
The public first became aware of James’ new inquiry into Trump and his business after she recently subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for records regarding some of Trump’s business dealings and his failed 2014 effort to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Like her office’s ongoing probe into the Trump Foundation, which led to the dissolution of the president’s charity, the latest inquiry into Trump’s business dealings is a civil investigation.
James opened the probe after Michael Cohen, the president’s former attorney, testified to Congress last month that Trump inflated the worth of his assets in financial statements that he provided to banks to secure loans. A source familiar with James’ investigation told NBC News the probe appears to be moving quickly.
It is not yet clear what the scope or focus of James’ new probe is, but former New York attorneys general told NBC News that she could use her office’s sweeping powers as part of an investigation into whether Trump had defrauded consumers, which is when those powers are typically used, or financial institutions.
“The DNA of the conduct is the same, whether it’s defrauding a financial institution or defrauding investors or consumers,” Vacco said, adding that he was not vouching for the basis of James’ investigation. “Because, at the end of the day, it’s still fraud.”
“In this instance, it’s a legitimate business (banks that loaned to Trump) that is being defrauded,” former New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, a Democrat who served from 1979 to 1993, told NBC News. “Decisions are being made against fraudulent information.”
“There’s a wide variety of roles and opportunities for enforcement of the law and protection for those who are being victimized by false representations, misleading statements, advertising information provided in the application process, whatever,” added Abrams, who said he went after businesses for fraud “virtually every day and every week.”
Jed Shugerman, a Fordham University law professor who advised Democrat Zephyr Teachout in her 2018 attorney general campaign, told NBC News that no matter what legal authority James is using to back her latest inquiry, she must be speedy. Shugerman said it would be unfortunate for the results of the probe to come to light close to the 2020 election, which could give critics of the investigation ammunition to attack it as partisan.
“Now we have this delicate balance of being able to move fast enough so that they can get evidence with civil subpoenas and civil process of discovery, but not so aggressively that they look to be moving politically with potentially abusing their power,” he said.
Nonetheless, the probe itself poses danger to Trump because of James’ broad powers, according to NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner.
Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, said if the documents James is seeking show that Trump misled banks about his assets, proving fraud “should be like shooting fish in a barrel for the New York AG.”
(CNN) – La sección de tendencias de Facebook recibirá una actualización que ayudaría a evitar que las noticias falsas proliferen en el sitio.
En lugar de publicar información en su sección de tendencias con base en cuántas personas están hablando de un artículo en particular, la red social anunció que ahora considerará como un factor la amplitud de la conversación.
Es decir, cuántos artículos de noticias han sido publicados sobre el tema, y el volumen de la conversación que los rodea.
La medida se produce en medio de críticas contra Facebook por compartir noticias falsas y propaganda en la plataforma. Millones de usuarios fueron expuestos y leyeron historias falsas sobre políticos en Facebook durante la temporada de elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos en 2016.
Además, los temas que se presentan a través de la sección ya no se basarán en los intereses del usuario. En cambio, los miembros de Facebook verán los mismos temas populares que todos los demás en su país como parte de un esfuerzo por mantener coherentes las noticias y sus ángulos.
Un portavoz de Facebook dijo a CNNTech que el objetivo de la compañía es evitar que las noticias imprecisas y el spam aparezcan en la sección generada por algoritmos. Este cambio en cómo se destacan las noticias, que considera diversas fuentes y conversaciones alrededor de un tema, es un paso más hacia la solución del problema.
Facebook también se asoció recientemente con organizaciones de verificación de hechos para señalar información falsa. Los artículos considerados falsos están etiquetados como tales en el sitio. La etiqueta dirá: “Disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers” (“Disputado por verificadores de hechos externos”).
Los temas de tendencia también incluirán titulares para que los usuarios puedan ver más sobre el artículo antes de hacer click.
In a period of a little over 24 hours this weekend, 24 people were shot in Chicago, including three children under 13 — and three of the adults shot died from their injuries, according to police.
Beginning at 4 a.m. Saturday through about 10 a.m. Sunday, Chicago police were investigating shooting cases that included the homicides and a mass shooting of six people outside an afternoon baby shower in West Englewood in which an 8-year-old boy was shot in the chest and back and a 10-year-old girl was struck in the shin.
Three people also were shot in East Garfield Park about 3:30 a.m. Sunday as they stood outside in the 3900 block of West Wilcox Street. A 34-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the right leg; a 26-year-old was taken to Norwegian American Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right foot; and a 33-year-old was taken to Rush University Medical Center for a gunshot wound to his left arm.
Two of the three homicide investigations were launched Sunday morning, according to police. About 8:30 a.m. officers were called to the 6700 block of South Normal Boulevard in Englewood and found a man, 52, with a gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Officer Michael Carroll said that shooting may have been the result of a domestic dispute; a person of interest was in police custody, he said.
About 6:10 a.m., officers in Woodlawn were called to a shooting in the 6600 block of South Maryland Avenue. A 32-year-old man had been shot multiple times in the back, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he later was pronounced dead. No arrests had been made in that case.
A teenager also was shot to death Saturday afternoon, about 4 p.m., in the 1700 block of West Steuben Street in Morgan Park, in an incident that also wounded a 22-year-old man. The medical examiner’s office later identified the slain man as Demonte Davis, 19.
Todd Kluber, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Sunday’s high temperature was expected to hit 66 degrees, the same high temperature recorded Saturday — which made it the warmest day of 2019.
“It’s safe to say this has been the warmest weekend so far this year,” Kluber said.
Chicago police typically see an increase in violence during summer months, in part because cold winter weather keeps more people indoors. There also tend to be more social gatherings in the summer, which in turn means people have increased occasion to drink alcohol, which can lead to additional arguments.
Police were reviewing statistics to determine whether the number of shootings between Saturday and Sunday morning represented a considerable increase in violence over previous weekends. Those numbers typically are compiled on Mondays.
Those injured in other shootings:
A 13-year-old boy wounded in the 1200 of West 73rd Street in Englewood, a 45-year-old man wounded in the 2000 block of West 68th Place, a 28-year-old man was wounded in the 5100 block of West Madison Street in South Austin, a 28-year-old man wounded in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street in South Austin, a 29-year-old man wounded in the 4100 of West Belmont Avenue in Kilbourn Park, a 30-year-old man wounded in the 400 block of East 103rd Street in Roosemoor, a 29-year-old man wounded in the 7900 block of South Halsted Street in Gresham, a 27-year-old man wounded in the first block of East 102nd Street in Roosemoor, a 20-year-old man and a 43-year-old man wounded in the 10300 of South Corliss Avenue in Roseland, a 39-year-old man wounded in the 200 block of North Long Avenue in South Austin.
“It’s become increasingly obvious to the people around the president that he won’t have the luxury of running on his record, not if he hopes to win,” said William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank. “His best shot is to tear Biden down to his own level.”
But the 77-year-old Biden has been surprisingly hard to caricature, in part because he has largely stayed in his Delaware home due to the coronavirus outbreak while Trump has struggled to respond to the twin crises of the pandemic and racial justice protests.
Biden similarly survived blistering attacks on his record from his rivals during the Democratic primaries. Senator Kamala Harris memorably lambasted Biden for his decades-old stance against busing to integrate public schools, while liberals derided his stated willingness to compromise with Republican senators — even ones who defended segregation — and his assurances to donors that nothing would fundamentally change if he were elected.
Now, Trump has half-heartedly begun painting Biden as a secret radical, one who wants to “defund the police” and dramatically raise taxes, or at least who will be manipulated into doing so. The move fits into Trump’s larger strategy of warning his mostly white base that civil rights protesters seek to “erase” their history and transform the country, and that Biden will facilitate that.
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“Joe is just — look, let’s face it, he’s been taken over by the radical left,” Trump said on Fox News on Thursday night. “I think they brainwashed him.”
In one of Trump’s campaign’s recent digital ads, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Senator Bernie Sanders silently leap out of the wooden cavity of a Trojan horse topped with the head of Biden, as ominous music plays in the background.
But Biden faced months of criticism from liberals for being too moderate in the Democratic race. Trump’s attacks face a credibility problem.
“They try to say he’s extreme. But of course Joe Biden has been ‘canceled’ every week for the last two years by people who think he’s too centrist,” said Sean McElwee, the founder of the liberal polling firm Data for Progress. “All the stuff that people really hated about Joe Biden in the primary, it’s ended up making it hard for Trump to attack him in the general.”
“It’s hard to say this man is this woke statue destroyer,” McElwee added, referring to Trump’s messaging around statues of Confederates and other historical figures that have been defaced or toppled in recent weeks.
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Biden’s own relative blandness as a political figure hurts Trump’s attempts to define him negatively, as he does not inspire strong feelings in a significant portion of the electorate. Just 22 percent of Americans say they dislike Biden “a lot” compared to 40 percent who dislike Trump “a lot,” according to a July Economist/YouGov poll.
That lack of venom can be seen at recent Trump events, where relatively few fans sport anti-Biden gear, unlike in 2016, when Hillary Clinton was skewered on pins and T-shirts and other paraphernalia, often in sexist terms.
“While I don’t want to say anyone is Teflon, Biden in some ways is unique because of his generic nature,” said Ian Russell, a Democratic strategist who used to run the House Democrats’ campaign arm. “The truth is they don’t have a ‘lock him up’ chant, they don’t have a ‘Crooked Hillary’ equivalent.”
In fact, even as Trump attacks him, Biden’s favorable rating has been on a modestly positive trajectory since the primary. Voters were split 44 percent to 44 percent in a July poll from Monmouth on whether they approved of Biden, up from his 42 percent favorable rating in June. Meanwhile, only 38 percent of voters have a favorable view of Trump in that poll, and his net favorable rating is 17 percentage points underwater.
Sam Nunberg, a Trump aide during the 2016 campaign, said he was concerned that the campaign had not, until relatively recently, blanketed the air with negative ads about Biden.
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“Wasting [money] on Facebook and whatever else they were doing as opposed to blasting Biden on national TV is one of the most consequential decisions of this cycle,” Nunberg said. “Biden should not be above water in favorability.”
Nunberg speculated that Trump just may not feel the same antipathy toward Biden as he has toward other rivals. He characterized a phone call in early April between the two men, which Trump called a “wonderful, warm conversation,” as a political mistake on the part of Trump’s team.
“Once you talk to him and flatter him a little, he doesn’t want to attack you,” Nunberg said.
Biden has also benefited from maintaining a relatively low profile, as coronavirus absorbed the country’s attention and also limited his ability to make public appearances for several months. Although Biden often criticizes Trump in speeches or at fund-raisers, he rarely gets into a protracted back-and-forth with the president.
In May and June, the Trump campaign attempted to make Biden’s low-key campaign an issue, mocking the former vice president’s decision to follow Delaware’s stay-at-home order, repeatedly taunting him as “Hidin’ Biden,” keeping a count of how many days he’d gone without holding a press conference, and challenging him to agree to more than the standard three presidential debates in the fall. The president also mocked Biden for wearing a mask, despite his own top health officials’ advice that masks help prevent the spread of coronavirus.
“Attacking Biden for doing what most Americans are doing is never going to be super effective,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist and former aide to Marco Rubio’s 2012 presidential run. “If anything, Biden’s message is that he may not be flashy but he’s responsible. Trump attacking him for putting responsibility ahead of politics only helps Biden’s image.”
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Trump has since deemphasized that line of attack, as Biden has begun appearing in public more regularly, including on Thursday with a speech at a metalworks plant in Pennsylvania and a visit to his hometown of Scranton.
Instead, the campaign is painting Biden as a tool of liberals or mocking his age and stamina. One of the Trump campaign’s negative TV ads features clips of Biden misspeaking, while a narrator says he’s 77 and “diminished,” and does not have the “stamina” to lead the country. (Trump is 74, and recently faced his own negative ads from the Lincoln Project SuperPAC mocking his shaky walk down a ramp.)
Although questions of stamina and strength can be potent, the focus on Biden’s could inadvertently lower the bar for his debate performance, as happened when Jimmy Carter’s campaign painted Ronald Reagan as old and out of touch in 1980.
“If the Trump campaign isn’t really careful, it will lower expectations about Biden’s debate performance to such an extent that if Biden shows up and doesn’t drool, he’ll win,” Galston said.
Another ad ties Biden to the “defund the police” movement that sprang from George Floyd’s killing, a policy the former vice president does not support. It features an imagined automated recording that plays after a citizen dials 911, in which a voice asks the person to leave a message to report a rape or murder, with a wait time of days.
On Friday, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and Trump reached back through the mists of time to bash Biden for “plagiarizing” Trump’s economic platform, a reference to Biden’s using unattributed lines from a British politician in a speech during his failed 1988 presidential campaign.
“He plagiarized from me but he can never pull it off,” Trump told reporters of Biden’s economic plan, which calls for buying American goods and investing in US jobs and infrastructure.
But Biden is not out of the woods yet. His favorability rating could change as more voters start paying attention to the race, and Trump’s attacks ramp up. The president also may become more inspired when Biden announces his vice presidential pick, who Biden has said will be a woman. From Clinton to Ocasio Cortez to Omar, Trump has often shown more enthusiasm skewering female politicians.
“I think it’s been pretty clear that Trump has a problem with strong women leaders, so he saves special venom for Hillary Clinton or Angela Merkel or Elizabeth Warren,” Russell said.
Aimee Allison, the founder of “She the People,” a political advocacy group for women of color, said Black women are used to the incoming fire from this administration and will be prepared for sexist or racist attacks if Biden picks a woman of color as his running mate. “Centering women of color is the key and we’re at this point where we shouldn’t be afraid of Trump’s attacks,” she said.
Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor and a surrogate for Biden, added that attacking a woman vice presidential candidate could backfire.
“I think if Trump goes and attacks our nominee for vice president who is a woman, he will do that at his peril,” he said. “He’s already in such bad shape with suburban women and independent women. It’d put another nail in the coffin.”
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Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.
Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.
Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.
“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.
ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.
Jessica Metcalfe
Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?
Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.
Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.
You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.
Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?
A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.
I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.
We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.
Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?
A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.
Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?
A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.
A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.
Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.
A wildfire raging for a second day Saturday in central California’s Mariposa County outside Yosemite National Park has burned more than 9,500 acres and forced evacuations of rural communities, fire officials said. The fire still has 0% containment as of Saturday evening.
The fire began Friday in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near the small community of Midpines, roughly a 9-mile drive northeast of the county seat, the town of Mariposa, state fire officials said.
Flames tore through trees and sent thick smoke into the sky Friday, and in at least one rural area burned close to homes and parked vehicles, video from CNN affiliates KFSN and KGO showed.
“(Authorities) came by … and told us everybody’s got to go,” Wes Detamore, a resident of the Mariposa Pines area, told KFSN Friday.
Electricity service in the area stopped at about 4 p.m. Friday, “and the fire has been coming towards us faster and faster,” Detamore said.
The fire has destroyed at least 10 structures and damaged another five, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire, said Saturday. The blaze is threatening 2,000 other structures, Cal Fire said.
It had burned 6,555 acres by Saturday morning, Cal Fire said. Fire activity was extreme, and emergency personnel were working to evacuate people and protect buildings, the department said.
Eleven fire crews with more than 400 personnel, as well as 45 fire engines and four helicopters, have been assigned to fight the flames, Cal Fire said.
Nick Smith told CNN his parents’ home burned down as a result of the fire. His parents, Jane and Wes Smith, lived in their Mariposa home for 37 years, he said.
“It’s pretty sad to see the house that I grew up in and was raised in gone,” he said. “It hits hard.”
Smith told CNN that his father is a Mariposa sheriff and was working on the fire when his mother, Jane, had to evacuate. She had time to load their horses and get out of the area, according to Smith.
“They had just the clothes on their back and the shoes on their feet,” he added.
In the meantime, the couple is staying with friends and family. Smith created a verified GoFundMe to support his parents and help them overcome their loss.
“They lived in their home for over 37 years, and now have lost everything,” Smith wrote on the GoFundMe. “37 years of memories, generations of family treasures, and countless more sentimental things. Although these are materials, it is devastating to lose everything literally in the blink of an eye without notice.”
Evacuations have been ordered for certain areas in Mariposa County south and east of the fire, as shown in an online map. The evacuation zones did not include the town of Mariposa.
A Red Cross evacuation center has been established at an elementary school in Mariposa, Cal Fire said.
The blaze is a few dozen miles southwest of Yosemite National Park’s southern edges, though the park is closer when measured by a straight line.
The Oak Fire is the largest of California’s currently active wildfires of note, which numbered at least six Saturday morning, according to Cal Fire.
The second-largest, the Washburn Fire, has burned in and near southern Yosemite National Park for more than two weeks. It had burned more than 4,850 acres and was 79% contained by Saturday morning, according to InciWeb, a US clearinghouse for fire information.
Mr. Trump froze nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine shortly before a July 25 call with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Mr. Trump personally sought investigations into the Bidens and claims that Ukrainians had meddled in the 2016 election. In the call, Mr. Trump did not explicitly link the aid and the investigations.
Mr. Trump has denied a quid pro quo involving aid, and Mr. Zelensky has said he never felt pressured to pursue an investigation.
The meeting in Kiev in May occurred after Mr. Giuliani, with Mr. Parnas’s help, had planned a trip there to urge Mr. Zelensky to pursue the investigations. Mr. Giuliani canceled his trip at the last minute, claiming he was being “set up.”
Only three people were present at the meeting: Mr. Parnas, Mr. Fruman and Serhiy Shefir, a member of the inner circle of Mr. Zelensky, then the Ukrainian president-elect. The sit-down took place at an outdoor cafe in the days before Mr. Zelensky’s May 20 inauguration, according to a person familiar with the events. The men sipped coffee and spoke in Russian, which is widely spoken in Ukraine, the person said.
Mr. Parnas’s lawyer, Joseph A. Bondy, said the message to the Ukrainians was given at the direction of Mr. Giuliani, whom Mr. Parnas believed was acting under Mr. Trump’s instruction. Mr. Giuliani said he “never authorized such a conversation.”
A lawyer for Mr. Fruman, John M. Dowd, said his client told him the men were seeking only a meeting with Mr. Zelensky, the new president. “There was no mention of any terms, military aid or whatever they are talking about it — it’s false,” said Mr. Dowd, who represents Mr. Fruman along with the lawyer Todd Blanche.
In a statement on Friday, Mr. Shefir acknowledged meeting with Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman. But he said they had not raised the issue of military aid. Mr. Shefir said he briefed the incoming president on the meeting. Mr. Shefir was a business partner and longtime friend whom Mr. Zelensky appointed as his chief adviser on the first day of his presidency.
El año que termina fue testigo de múltiples acontecimientos que dejaron huella en la historia del 2015.
Nueve colombianos lograron el anhelado galardón en los Latin Grammy. Foto: Artistas
El recrudecimiento en los últimos años del conflicto sirio ha dejado más de 200.000 muertos y 4 millones de desplazados. Foto: AFP
El 2 de diciembre el presidente Juan Manuel Santos firmó en Europa la exención de la visa Schengen que le permite a los colombianos viajar a más de 20 países. Foto: AFP
Foto oficial de la VII Cumbre de jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de las Américas, que se realizó en Panamá del 9 al 11 de Abril. Foto: AFP.
Luz Marina Zuluaga, primera mujer Miss Universo de Colombia, falleció el 2 de diciembre en Manizales. Foto: MISS COLOMBIA UNIVERSE (Facebook)
El empresario y precandidato a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump tildó de “violadores, narcotraficantes y criminales” a los mexicanos que emigran a su país. Foto: AFP
El 6 de diciembre la oposición venezolana logró 99 curules en las elecciones parlamentarias después de 17 años del gobierno chavista. Foto: AFP
En el mes de agosto el presidente Nicolás Maduro ordenó deportar a más de 1.500 colombianos residentes en Venezuela. Foto: AFP
Polémica en ceremonia de coronación de Miss Universo. El presentador del evento dijo haberse equivocado al nombrar a Miss Colombia como ganadora y no a Miss Filipinas. Foto: AFP
En septiembre, la fotografía de Aylan Kurdi, un niño de tres años que murió tras naufragio, conmovió al mundo y visibilizó el drama de los refugiados sirios. Foto: AFP
En septiembre, el cuarto eclipse de Luna Roja ocurrió tras la alineación de los cuerpos celestes (Tierra, Sol y Luna). Foto AFP
El sorprendente fenómeno se podrá observar nuevamente en el año 2033. Foto: AFP
El 17 de septiembre un terremoto en Chile de 8.3 grados de magnitud sacudió la Costa Pacífica causando olas de gran tamaño. Foto: AFP
Durante su gira en América, el papa Francisco se refirió al proceso de paz en Colombia y ofreció su apoyo en La Habana. Foto: AFP
La Nasa anunció el 28 septiembre que halló “pruebas sólidas” de la existencia de agua líquida en Marte. Foto: Nasa/JPL/University of Arizona.
Medellín inauguró pista de BMX en honor a la campeona olímpica Mariana Pajón, escenario dispuesto para mundial de bicicross del 2016. Foto: @anivalgaviria
Medellín inauguró el Tranvía de Ayacucho el 15 octubre, en el que se espera movilizar 90.000 pasajeros diarios. Foto: Alcaldía Medellín
El 18 de octubre se presentó la caída de una avioneta encima de una panadería ubicada en la carrera 77 con calle 65, barrio Luján, localidad de Engativá. Foto: @BomberosBogota.
Fuerte explosión en el sector de Galerías, la vivienda donde se registró el hecho funcionaba como una fábrica donde se utilizaban químicos. Foto: Bomberos de Bogotá.
El 13 de noviembre en París, 127 personas perdieron la vida y otras 180 resultaron heridas tras el atentado terrorista a cargo del grupo Yihadista Estado Islámico. Foto: AFP
President Trump had been vocally considering shutting down the southern border until he scaled back slightly on Thursday, giving Mexico one year to decide whether or not they’ll comply with his demands. His White House team probably talked him back from the ledge, since it seems he’s the only one in his own administration willing to take such a drastic step.
Indeed, senior staffers and Department of Homeland Security officials view closing ports of entry, what Trump calls a border shutdown, as a method of “last resort.” It’s not often that Trump entirely turns his back on his administration’s 2 cents, but when he does, it’s generally over immigration. This isn’t the first threat of this nature from Trump, and surely it won’t be the last, because, as is evident by his recent backtrack, the president’s not actually serious about shutting down the border. He really just wants the immigration debate to be framed in his favor. He hopes this will all be seen as a dichotomy between his pro-American immigration policy and the Democrats’ anti-American one.
It’s easy to see how empty Trump’s threat was: If he were to actually close the border, there would be dire economic consequences. It’s estimated there’s $1.5 billion worth of commerce occurring along the southern border every day. Meanwhile, from an immigration standpoint, nearly 500,000 people cross the border legally each day, and that’s just through Texas ports. With a border closure, shipments of vegetables and other goods would be halted, truck drivers blocked and stranded, and tourists denied passage of any kind. Trump loves to claim credit for the strong economy, but if he were to close the border, a plunge in stocks would most certainly follow.
It would punish a lot of innocent people, and Trump knows it. Following through on this threat as a political statement would have been extremely costly for Trump. But a claim like this one does force the Democrats who are running for president to reveal their stance on immigration, opening them up to attacks from Trump.
After all, President Trump’s 2016 campaign relied on the anxieties of middle America over immigrants taking jobs. He likely won’t stray from this strategy for the 2020 election, which is news to no one, including Democrats. But as Trump opponents elaborate on their positions in response to his pressure, the president is hoping they fall into his rhetorical trap by labeling themselves as open-border activists or “soft on crime” for their tolerance toward illegal immigration.
Trump recently unleashed a characteristic Twitter storm on the subject, prompting Democratic presidential hopefuls Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman from Texas, and Julián Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, to respond with their own sweeping immigration plans. For his part, Castro divulged that he wouldn’t consider an immigrant entering the U.S. without papers, no matter the circumstance, a federal crime. Trump will have a field day tearing down this proposal by attempting to rely on his “tough on crime” mentality, even though the electorate has steered away from this Reagan-era viewpoint.
O’Rourke is a native of El Paso, Texas, a city experiencing overcrowding due to customs and Border Patrol agents being reassigned to take care of unauthorized migrants. O’Rourke has highlighted Trump’s naive understanding on this matter by emphasizing that immigration policy is actually heavily tied to foreign policy, a reality Trump likes to avoid, evidenced by his recent call to cut off aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, which would only exacerbate the flow of immigrants toward our borders.
One other presidential hopeful, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., already tried to distance herself from Trump by passionately advocating for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, known as “Dreamers.” On April 3, she introduced a bill to Congress, perhaps intended to differentiate herself from primary opponent O’Rourke, that would allow “Dreamers” to work as staffers or interns in Congress.
The immigration debate will be the main focus of the 2020 election, which means Democrats must fine-tune their positions on immigration in order not to fall into Trump’s rhetorical trap. But we should all remember that Trump’s first two years of hard-line stances on immigration hasn’t actually alleviated the biggest source of conservative apprehension: the surge in migration. In fact, March 2019 saw the highest migrant rate since 2008.
Who knows, Trump could easily be provoked once again to follow through on his threat, even if his original intent was to force Democrats to show their cards. But if he does, he’s not going to do anything but hurt his chances at a 2020 victory — and the everyday Americans he claims to champion.
Natalie Dowzicky (@Nat_Dowzicky) is a researcher at a think tank in Washington, D.C., and a Young Voices contributor.
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For months now, election officials have cautioned that the winner of the presidential election may still be unknown when election night is over.
Rules in some states don’t allow election workers to begin the labor-intensive work of processing mail-in ballots until Election Day. And with a record number of voters casting their ballots by mail, the influx could delay final tallies for days.
In six particularly key states — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the margin of victory is expected to be slim, so it may be hard to know who won until their mail ballots are fully counted. It takes 270 electoral votes to secure the White House — these states account for 101 combined.
While election officials in the swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania are telling voters it may take a few days before results are tallied in full, officials in Arizona, Florida and North Carolina, where mail ballots can be processed far in advance, are expecting to have results more quickly. But if the contest is close in those states, a final count could take a long time as absentee ballots sent close to Election Day trickle in.
Here’s a closer look at what to expect:
Arizona
State law in Arizona allows election officials to count mail votes up to two weeks before Election Day, so most ballots received by this weekend will already be counted in advance. Those tallies can be released starting around 10 p.m. ET on election night, along with early vote results. Votes cast at polling places on Election Day will follow shortly afterward.
The pre-counted absentee ballots and in-person votes will make up the bulk of votes cast in Arizona, so it’s possible a winner there could be declared on election night.
Absentee ballots sent right before the election, however, may not be tallied until Thursday or Friday, so if the race is close, it could remain undecided late into next week.
In Arizona, as well as elsewhere where mail votes can be counted ahead of Election Day, early tallies may show a lead for Joe Biden. But the results could begin to swing back toward President Trump when in-person votes are factored in later in the evening. For good measure, that could all shift again as the last remaining mail ballots trickle in.
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Florida
Americans may know who won Florida before they go to bed on election night.
Unlike Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Florida allows counties to do processing work — like sorting and opening envelopes — weeks before Election Day. Also unlike other states, it doesn’t allow a grace period for receiving mail ballots after Election Day.
All early votes and mail ballots tabulated in advance are supposed to be released starting around 7:30 p.m. ET on election night, according to Mark Ard, communications director at the Florida Department of State.
“If the election is decisive enough, we should be able to call Florida on Election Night,” University of Florida political scientist Michael McDonald told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Like Arizona, those early and mail ballot votes that are tallied in advance and released first are expected to be more favorable to Biden, balanced out shortly after as polls close and in-person votes are counted.
However, it may take some counties longer to finish counting mail ballots that arrive just before and right on Election Day. If the election is close, it may take until Wednesday or Thursday, when those counties finish counting, to determine who won the Sunshine State.
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Michigan
“It could takeuntil Friday, Nov. 6 for all ballots to be counted,” the office of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wrote on Thursday. “Depending on how close the races are, this likely means that outcomes will not be determined on Tuesday.”
In Michigan, election officials in cities with more than 25,000 residents can start processing mail ballots on Monday at 10 a.m., sorting ballots and removing outer envelopes. They can’t be counted, though, until polls close.
Historically, the city of Detroit, an important Democratic stronghold, has been slow to tally election results. In a press conference on Thursday, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey said the city has hired thousands of additional poll workers to improve the process, but warned that the final results won’t be ready on Tuesday night and talked about the idea of “election week.”
“Time is not a real concern of ours,” Winfrey said. “We want to make sure that every voter and every ballot … has been properly processed, received and tabulated on Election Day.”
As in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Democrats in Michigan are expected to disproportionately cast their ballots by mail. If in-person tallies start to be released before mail ballots are totaled, it could show President Trump ahead at first, with his lead narrowing or disappearing as more mail ballots are counted.
North Carolina
North Carolina is another state where initial results should come quickly.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections estimates 80% of votes will be cast early or by mail and will be released once polls close at 7:30 p.m. ET.
“For the 20% or so of North Carolinians who vote on Election Day, we will be receiving those from the precinct and uploading those, as well,” executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections Karen Brinson-Bell said on Thursday. “So, if there are really close races, those Election Day votes will tremendously matter in the outcomes of these elections.”
Initial results may favor Democrats, who are more likely to vote by mail. An influx of Republican votes could pour in as Election Day votes are tallied.
North Carolina accepts mail ballots that arrive by Nov. 12 so long as they were postmarked by Election Day, a policy recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. So as in other states with generous mail ballot deadlines, those final ballots could matter if races are tight and leave the final result unclear for days past Election Day.
Pennsylvania
Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar has said that the “overwhelming majority” of ballots will be tallied by Friday, Nov. 6.
“We’re sure it will take more time than it used to,” Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday. “We probably won’t know results on election night.”
Pennsylvania election officials can accept mail ballots that arrive up to three days after the election, as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 3.
Many counties say they will begin processing ballots as soon as allowed, at 7 a.m. on Election Day, but a handful, like Cumberland County outside Harrisburg, say they won’t begin dealing with absentee ballots until Wednesday.
“We’re having a conversation with any county that says they’re waiting,” Boockvar said on Thursday. “I want every one of them starting on Election Day.”
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An election official gathers mail-in ballots being sorted in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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Erie County, which swung from Obama to Trump in 2016, will begin processing absentee ballots on Election Day, but will wait to count them until about 11 p.m., after in-person ballots are counted.
In Luzerne County, home to Wilkes-Barre, County Manager David Pedri told NPR the county is hoping to count a large portion of the mail ballots on Tuesday night, but won’t finish until Wednesday or Thursday. He said he has 40 people working from 7 a.m. until 9 or 10 p.m. processing and later counting ballots. Keeping them on the clock much longer can result in mistakes being made, said Pedri.
During the primary, Pedri says it took four days to count 40,000 mail ballots. They’ve since added an envelope opening machine that should speed the process, but this fall, Luzerne has sent out 70,000 mail ballots — a third of the electorate.
In Bucks County, outside Philadelphia, Commissioner Robert Harvie told NPR that officials will begin announcing batches of results from in-person and mail voting at 10 p.m. on election night. He says it’s hard to know how long it will take to finish because they don’t know how many absentee ballots will be returned still, but he’s confident they will be done “before Friday.”
If the 2020 election comes down to Pennsylvania, and the margin is tight, it is possible the election hangs in the balance for several days.
Wisconsin
“I believe that we will be able to know the results of the Wisconsin election, hopefully that night and maybe at the latest the very next day,” Gov. Tony Evers said earlier this month.
Wisconsin cannot begin the bulk of its processing work until Election Day, but most counties say they expect to finish counting before Wednesday morning.
Julietta Henry, the Milwaukee County elections director, said she expects the county will finish reporting absentee ballots between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Wednesday.
“If it takes longer than that, we just ask that you be patient because we want to make sure every vote is counted and is counted accurately,” she says. “We’ll be here ’til it’s done.”
State law says the count cannot be paused once it begins, so election workers may end up working through the night, though the elections commission has expressed some leniency on that front.
“There are certainly smaller cities and towns where the results will come in like normal,” said Reid Magney, public information officer for the Wisconsin Elections Commission. “But in some bigger cities, especially where they count absentee ballots at a central location instead of the polling place, we might not see all the results until the next morning.”
“I did mention it to him very strongly,” Trump told reporters when asked about the murder. “That was a bad event.”
“I asked him what was happening,” he added.
Trump’s comments came during a press conference at the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Japan. The president told reporters Friday that he was “extremely angry and very unhappy” about Khashoggi’s killing, but claimed that “nobody has directly pointed a finger” at bin Salman, CNN reported.
The CIA and a United Nations report implicated bin Salman in Khashoggi’s murder, accusing him of authorizing the killing.
Asked about the CIA’s determination that bin Salman ordered Khashoggi’s murder, Trump said he “cannot comment on intelligence.”
“We can declassify,” Trump said. “The truth is, I don’t want to talk about intelligence.”
Trump defended his relationships with world leaders broadly, saying of the Saudi Crown Prince, “I get along with Mohammed.”
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was critical of bin Salman and the Saudi government, was killed by Saudi operatives in October after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
While Riyadh initially claimed ignorance of the killing, the country’s attorney general later backtracked, acknowledging that Khashoggi was murdered and the killing was premeditated.
An independent investigation by a United Nations (UN) human rights expert recommended a probe into bin Salman in connection with the murder, citing “credible evidence” supporting Saudi Arabia’s responsibility for the “deliberate, premeditated execution” of Khashoggi.
Bin Salman has continued to deny any role in the killing.
While several lawmakers believe it is certain that bin Salman is behind Khashoggi’s murder, Trump has instead underscored the benefits of the U.S.’s relationship with the Saudi kingdom, praising the prince Friday as “a friend of mine.”
El periodista Douglas Sánchez se incorporará a Noticias Repretel el próximo lunes 7 de agosto como presentador habitual del noticiero del mediodía de canal 6, que se transmite de 12 m. a 1:30 p. m.
Sánchez regresará a la televisora de La Uruca a tres meses de su salida de Giros, programa al que renunció para atender sus otros compromisos laborales. En la revista matutina del 6 integró el equipo de presentadores durante un año y dos meses.
El regreso del periodista a Repretel fue confirmado en exclusiva a Viva por el presidente de la televisora, Fernando Contreras, el 14 de junio pasado; empero, en aquel momento aún no se concretaba la fecha de la reincorporación del comunicador.
Douglas Sánchez fue presentador de la revista ‘Giros’ durante año y dos meses. Salió del programa en abril pasado.
(Jorge Navarro.)
Fue hasta este martes 1°. de agosto que Gilberto Valencia, quien coordinó el ingreso de Sánchez a ese canal, dijo a Viva que el periodista iniciaría sus funciones como presentador el próximo lunes.
Respecto a su ingreso, Sánchez manifestó estar ilusionado, pues destaca el trabajo en equipo que hay en el noticiero, al que ahora aportará su dinámico estilo de presentar noticias, el mismo que implementó en el desaparecido Canal 9 y por el que se popularizó.
“Hay un elemento de Noticias Repretel que me gusta mucho, y lo digo con toda honestidad: veo toda una estrategia de cohesión, de trabajo en equipo y eso me emociona. El principal reto ahora es que la gente se acostumbre al consumo de una noticia contada de una forma distinta”, aseveró Sánchez, de 38 años.
El vecino de Tibás asegura que su particular forma de presentar noticias fue lo que llamó la atención de los directivos de Repretel para ficharlo. “Justamente me buscaron porque quieren que ese estilo prevalezca y, yo, feliz. Cuido muy bien aquella información que pueda agregar a la noticia. Es una fórmula que si la ven en Colombia, Argentina o Chile da gusto ver la forma en que los presentadores de noticias aportan al público información valiosa e interactúan con la audiencia”, agregó.
Douglas Sánchez opinó que este estilo es necesario ante el embate de las redes sociales, que urgen a los presentadores de televisión establecer empatía con el público para lograr mantener la credibilidad y favorables números de audiencia.
“Estamos en un mercado donde competimos con las redes sociales, de ahí la necesidad de que en la televisión se rompa con esa formalidad de presentar (noticias). Hay que acercarse a las audiencias con mayor ritmo, con presentadores que le lleven el hilo a la noticia, que estén informados y que le busque diferentes aristas a un mismo acontecimiento”, consideró.
El periodista mencionó que se integra a Noticias Repretel con un objetivo claro: ofrecerle más contexto a las informaciones que recibe el público del noticiero y sumarle detalle. “Si queremos convencer al público de que vamos hacia una propuesta diferente, la gente tiene que vernos cercanos e informados. Es un poco el estilo que quiero impregnar y es la herencia de mi paso por las noticias”, afirmó.
En relación con su pronto regreso a la pantalla y a la falta de tiempo que demandó con su renuncia a Giros –presentada el 17 de abril pasado– respondió: “En Giros estaba de 6:30 a. m. hasta las 10 a. m. y tenía gran parte del día ocupado. La mayoría de mis proyectos los realizo con equipos de India y Estados Unidos y no podía programar llamadas a ciertas horas. Aquí estamos hablando de un trabajo de hora y media, y me resulta más fácil acomodarme”.
Douglas Sánchez dio a conocer su particular estilo de presentar noticias en ‘Hoy’ el noticiero del extinto Canal 9. En la foto junto a la periodista Paula Brenes.
(Mariandrea García.)
También aclaró que su aparición en mayo en el programa de espectáculos de Teletica De boca en boca, fue en respuesta a una invitación de la exdirectora del espacio Gabriela Solano, y no representó un coqueteo con esa empresa.
“La invitación me la hizo Gabriela Solano y no fue en ese momento. Me buscaron casi inmediato a mi salida a Giros pero por respeto y porque no me gusta que un día me vean en un canal y al otro día en otro, pedí que me dieran chance, pero siempre se manejó como invitación. Con Teletica nunca ha habido un ofrecimiento donde me digan: ‘Mirá, te vamos a ofrecer esto’. Ha quedado mucho en el pasillo. Yo asumí un reto en concreto y una oportunidad concreta que Repretel puso sobre la mesa”, terminó el periodista.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mayor Greg Fischer announced Friday that Louisville Metro Police is initiating termination of Officer Brett Hankison, one of three LMPD officers to fire weapons on March 13 at Breonna Taylor’s apartment, killing her.
Hankison is accused by the department’s interim chief, Robert Schroeder, of “blindly” firing 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment, creating a substantial danger of death and serious injury.
“I find your conduct a shock to the conscience,” Schroeder wrote in a Friday letter to Hankison laying out the charges against him. “I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in this fashion.”
“The result of your action seriously impedes the Department’s goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible. I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department,” he added. “Your conduct demands your termination.”
Specifically, Hankison is accused of violating departmental policies on obedience to rules and regulations and use of deadly force. Schroeder, who wrote that he received the investigation on Tuesday evening, notes Hankison was previously disciplined for reckless conduct and was disciplined in early 2019.
Fischer, in a Friday news conference announcing the Hankison’s termination, declined further comment.
“Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that I would very much like to see changed, both the chief and I are precluded from talking about what brought us to this moment or even the timing of this decision,” Fischer said.
Attorneys representing Hankison in a civil lawsuit and the LMPD investigation looking into his conduct did not immediately respond to Courier Journal requests for comment on Friday.
Ryan Nichols, the president of the River City Fraternal Order of Police chapter representing Louisville Metro Police officers, declined to comment at this time.
Sam Aguiar, a Louisville-based attorney for Taylor’s family, said Friday about Hankison’s firing: “It’s about damn time.”
Aguiar told The Courier Journal on Friday that Hankison should have been let go “from Day 1.”
“Maybe, finally, the mayor realized that sometimes you just need to do what the best thing is for the city, and since Day 1, the best thing to do for the city (has been) to take this dirty cop off the payroll and off the streets,” he said.
The document also alleges that Hankison “fired more than 20 shots, the majority of which were fired blindly from outside the home through windows which were covered by shades and blinds.”
Photos of Taylor’s apartment provided by Aguiar show the sliding glass patio door boarded up from the outside. But inside, shards of glass can be seen on the apartment’s carpeted floor, and bullet holes riddle the curtains.
Aguiar said that “following the initial flurry of gunshots, witnesses state that an officer (presumably Hankison) yelled ‘reload’ and then proceeded to fire more into Breonna’s home. Several of Hankison’s rounds went into an adjacent apartment in which a pregnant mother and 5-year-old son were located.”
“There are legitimate concerns regarding LMPD’s propensity to cover up incriminating evidence implicating criminal conduct of Hankison,” Aguiar said in the document.
All three officers were under internal investigation by Louisville Metro Police’s Public Integrity Unit. That investigation has been shared with the FBI and state attorney general, who are expected to conduct additional investigation.
Neither the FBI nor the Kentucky attorney general have announced any criminal charges.
Metro Councilman Brandon Coan, D-8th District, called Hankison’s firing “the first and most important employment decision (Fischer) could have made in this case and the aftermath.”
“Thank you, and be bold as to the many others remaining,” Coan wrote on Twitter.
Louisville FBI officials were at Taylor’s apartment on Friday morning executing a search warrant as part of their independent investigation and taking a “fresh look” at the evidence.
Spokesman Tim Beam said the FBI will investigate “all aspects” of Taylor’s death, including interviewing witnesses who have and haven’t already spoken to Louisville Metro Police. They’ll also examine all physical evidence and video evidence to better understand what transpired, he said.
“Today’s action is part of the process,” Beam said.
Hankison has faced allegations of planting drugs, sexual misconduct
A transfer log from Hankison’s personnel file shows he worked in LMPD’s 6th Division before joining the Narcotics Unit in 2016. Former Police Chief Steve Conrad said Hankison joined the department in 2003.
Hankison has collected more than $150,530 in overtime pay since 2015, according to city records.
Salary data shows he regularly collected thousands on top of his base salary while working for the department’s Narcotics Unit. The job switch only slightly bumped his salary, but boosted his overtime by more than $20,000 — a jump that made his 2016 overtime the 23rd highest in LMPD.
The following year, in 2017, he collected $48,046.30 in overtime, nearly doubling his salary of $58,593.60. That overtime payment was the department’s 12th highest.
Besides the recently surfaced sexual assault allegations, Hankison has also been investigated at least twice by LMPD’s Public Integrity Unit for accusations involving sexual misconduct. Both cases found no wrongdoing.
In 2015, a probation and parole officer told investigators that a parolee had informed her that Hankison told her he wanted to “date her.” In an initial interview, the parolee said he had “come on to her” and said a ticket could be taken care of if she had sex with him.
She later retracted those statements. An investigator, in recommending the case be closed, said no evidence was found, and it was clear she was being “deceptive.”
In 2008, Hankison was accused of receiving oral sex in exchange for not arresting a woman with an outstanding warrant, but the woman denied it occurred.
She said she wasn’t arrested because she gave information on a drug dealer.
It also says that Wilson and Hankison have had various interactions outside of the arrests, “including over a relationship with the same woman.”
This story will be updated.
Darcy Costello: 502-582-4834; dcostello@courier-journal.com; Twitter: @dctello. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: www.courier-journal.com/darcyc.
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Niamh Ni Dhomhnaill esperaba que su exnovio mostrara algún tipo de arrepentimiento.
Niamh Ní Dhomhnaill mantuvo una relación amorosa con Magnus Meyer Hustveit por casi un año.
Vivían juntos en un apartamento en Dublín, la capital de la República de Irlanda, pero algunas veces él se enfadaba y Niamh evitaba ir a casa.
Niamh no era consciente de que Hustveit la estaba atacando sexualmente y la violaba cuando dormía.
Niamh lo confrontó y él admitió que había estado abusando de ella entre tres y cuatro veces a la semana durante su relación.
Niamh renunció a su derecho al anonimato para hablar con Newsbeat, uno de los programas de radio de la BBC, sobre el abuso sexual que sufrió y que no le hacía despertar.
“Me desperté y no tenía los pantalones de mi piyama“, recuerda.
“Me di cuenta de que estaba empapada de algo que parecía ser semen”.
Esa fue la primera vez que Niamh se dio cuenta de que algo no estaba bien. Confrontó a Magnus y le preguntó si había tenido sexo con ella mientras ella dormía.
“Se mostró totalmente indiferente y solo dijo: ‘Sí, lo hice’“.
“Le dije que si estaba dormida no era capaz de dar consentimiento y me dijo: ‘Está bien, no lo haré otra vez'”.
Pero Magnus lo volvió a hacer.
La evidencia
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Organizaciones que atienden a mujeres que han sido víctimas de violaciones aseguran que es muy común que entre los perpetradores haya parejas y exparejas.
Para Niamh era raro lo que su pareja estaba haciendo y le preguntó qué era lo que estaba pasando.
“Me dijo: ‘He estado haciendo esto tres a cuatro veces a la semana desde que nos conocemos'”.
Eso fue hace casi 12 meses. Había todo desde besos, pasando por caricias hasta sexo con penetración.
Niamh abandonó a Magnus, originalmente de Noruega, y le envió un correo electrónico en el que le preguntaba más información sobre lo que le había pasado a ella.
“Sabía que no tenía sentido acudir a la policía irlandesa si no tenía ningún tipo de prueba“, explicó.
“Tenía que ser más inteligente”.
Esperaba que él accediera a reunirse para tomarse un té con ella y así poder grabar una confesión, pero eso no fue necesario.
Magnus admitió lo que hizo en un correo electrónico y Niamh lo reportó a la policía.
Juicio
Se celebró un juicio y Magnus se declaró culpable de uno de los cargos de violación y un cargo de asalto sexual.
Le dictaron una sentencia suspendida de siete años, lo que significa que no tuvo que ser encarcelado.
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Magnus fue procesado judicialmente.
El juez dijo que era “importante” tener en cuenta que Magnus había confesado y que sin una confesión un proceso judicial habría sido imposible.
“No hubo expresión alguna de remordimiento a lo largo del juicio y recuerdo haber pensado que era raro que no hubiese hecho el intento de decir que lo sentía”, Niamh dijo.
“Me llevó tiempo darme cuenta de lo que pasaba. Me culpo de la misma manera que me culpa la gente por internet. ¿Por qué me estoy cuestionando a mí misma? ¿Por qué estoy poniendo la responsabilidad de sus acciones sobre mí? Es algo que algunas veces me atormenta”.
“Me gustaría saber cómo responde a esto y lo que siente”.
Niamh dice que recuerda haber escuchado al juez decir: “siete años”, pero no recuerda haber oído: “totalmente suspendida”.
Fue su madre la que le tuvo que explicar que Magnus no iría a prisión.
Dice que siente frustración frente al sistema de justicia irlandés y que ahora está apelando.
Se cree que Magnus ha regresado a Oslo, en Noruega.
“Mi mayor preocupación es que la gente que oye esta historia no se atreva a reportar una violación o un asalto sexual”, Niamh dijo.
“Yo no creo que los abusadores abusen una sola vez. Y esto está evitando que pase”.
Conocidos
A muchas personas les puede costar entender cómo una persona puede dormir mientras es violada.
“Es muy difícil decir cuán común es una violación cuando la víctima está dormida, mayormente porque los asaltos sexuales son algo sobre lo que a las sobrevivientes les cuesta hablar”, le dijo a Newsbeat Katie Russell, vocera de la organización británica sin fines de lucro Rape Crises.
“Lo que sí sabemos es que es extremadamente común que una persona sea violada o agredida sexualmente por alguien que conoce”.
“Y muy frecuentemente el perpetrador es alguien en quien la víctima ha confiado e incluso ha amado, como una pareja, una expareja o un familiar“.
“Es muy raro para las mujeres o las chicas mentir sobre una agresión sexual”, dijo Russell.
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