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1) El dólar por primera vez supera los $3.300
La moneda estadounidense por primera vez en la historia del país rompió la barrera de los $3.300 y llegó a un precio máximo de $3.324. Aunque después se devolvió un poco y en el mercado cambiario terminó con una cotización promedio de $3.287, lo cierto es que estos niveles lanzan un campanazo de alerta sobre la economía colombiana, y es un mensaje negativo en momentos en que comienza la negociación del salario mínimo.
En un solo día el precio de la divisa subió más de $100 pesos.
2) El lío del ’madrugón’ de Falabella
Las últimas horas han sido una pesadilla para Falabella en las redes sociales. Desde Twitter y Facebook se publican fotografías donde se evidencia que los productos que se venden en esa cadena de retail fueron re-etiquetados con precios más altos justo cuando se anunciaban jornadas de promociones, como los ‘madrugones’.
Los usuarios han manifestado su descontento.
3) Arranca discusión del salario mínimo: centrales piden aumento del 10 %
Este lunes se dio inicio a los encuentros entre empresarios y trabajadores, representados por las centrales obreras, en los que buscarán -como cada año- ponerse de acuerdo para saber en cuánto se incrementará el salario mínimo para el 2016. Centrales piden aumento del 10 %.
La base para la negociación será el incremento de la inflación.
4) La oposición dice que logra mayoría cualificada
El portavoz de la oposición venezolana, Jesús Torrealba, dijo que la coalición Mesa de Unidad Democrática (MUD) logró una mayoría de dos tercios en la Asamblea Nacional en las elecciones legislativas del domingo. Eso podría allanar el camino para que la oposición pueda realizar grandes cambios legislativos.
Oposición habría ganado 112 escaños.
5) FARC confirman secuestro del soldado Jesús Rojas
En un corto comunicado la guerrilla de las FARC confirmó este lunes que tiene en su poder al soldado bachiller Jesús Rojas Delgado. La misiva divulgada en la página del proceso de paz de ese grupo insurgente confirma que el oficial adscrito a la compañía Santander, del batallón Juanambú con sede en Florencia (Caquetá), fue secuestrado por miembros de las FARC.
Hay diferentes versiones sobre el secuestro.
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Su trabajo es similar al de un malabarista.
Cada día Sean Spicer tiene que hacer equilibrios para mantener una relación llevadera con la prensa, al mismo tiempo que defiende las posiciones del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, quien tiene una abierta confrontación con los medios de ese país.
El nuevo portavoz de la Casa Blanca tuvo su primer cara a cara con los periodistas apenas unas pocas horas después de haber asumido el cargo, cuando intentó desmentir la información sobre la menor asistencia de público a la toma de posesión de Trump en comparación con la del presidente Barack Obama en 2009.
Spicer acusó a los medios de mentir de forma deliberada y de tomar fotografías desde un ángulo escogido para minimizar la magnitud del apoyo que los ciudadanos dieron a Trump ese día.
Desde ese primer encuentro con la prensa en la Casa Blanca, los choques de Spicer con los medios no han cesado, pero, de alguna manera, esta tensa relación parece haber sido mutuamente beneficiosa: los medios y la Casa Blanca han despertado el interés de la audiencia.
Cuando cada día pasado el mediodía, Spicer aparece en la sala de prensa de la Casa Blanca aumentan las cifras de audiencia de las cadenas de noticias que transmiten su comparecencia en vivo.
Las ruedas de prensa del portavoz gubernamental compiten en número de televidentes con programas que transmite la televisión estadounidense en horario estelar como “MasterChef Junior“, que suma unos 4 millones de televidentes, y con populares telenovelas como “Hospital General”.
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De acuerdo con los estudios más recientes, las comparecencias de Spicer transmitidas en directo por los principales canales de noticias han alcanzado a 4,3 millones de espectadores.
La audiencia de cadenas como CNN, Fox News o MSNBC crece 10% en promedio cada vez que el portavoz de la Casa Blanca aparece en pantalla para intentar explicar las últimas decisiones del gobierno de Trump, según datos de Nielsen, una empresa especializada en medición de audiencias de medios, obtenidos por BBC Mundo.
“Lo que ocurre es que hay mucho interés en las cosas que está haciendo el presidente Trump e, incluso, en las que no está haciendo”, dijo Donald Wright, profesor de Comunicación de la Universidad de Boston, en una entrevista con BBC Mundo.
“Desde que era candidato ha habido mucho interés en él, no sólo por parte de sus seguidores sino además de quienes no le apoyan que ven esto para saber cuál es su nueva jugada”, agregó.
Consultado sobre si cree que este nivel de interés en las actividades de la Casa Blanca puede mantenerse en el tiempo, el experto señaló que eso dependerá de varios factores, incluyendo cuánta cobertura están dispuestos a darle los medios de comunicación.
“En las escuelas de periodismo se dice que si un perro muerde a una persona no es noticia, pero si una persona muerde a un perro, entonces, es distinto y se cubre. Hay muchas situaciones en las que lo que hace Trump es tan distinto de lo que han hecho los presidentes anteriores que los medios le van a seguir dando cobertura”, vaticinó Wright.
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Pero, Spicer también se ha convertido en una suerte de celebridad.
Su consagración como figura mediática llegó hace poco, cuando la comediante Melissa McCarthy comenzó a parodiarle en el mítico programa de la televisión estadounidense Saturday Night Live (SNL).
A Spicer no parece haberle gustado mucho que le convirtieran en un personaje de SNL y, consultado por la prensa al respecto, dijo que SNL “solía ser divertido”, pero se había convertido en “infame”.
Pese a su disgusto, el personaje de McCarthy ha resultado ser inmensamente popular entre la audiencia de SNL. De hecho, el programa del pasado 11 de febrero, en el que McCarthy hizo su segunda parodia de Spicer tuvo los niveles de audiencia más altos de los últimos cinco años, según informó la web especializada The Hollywood Reporter.
“McCarthy no es divertida en su papel de Spicer por ser mujer. Es divertida como Spicer porque ella tiene una carrera representando personajes agresivos que con frecuencia están molestos sin ninguna razón“, escribió Anna North en una crítica del programa en The New York Times.
“Cuando ella levanta su podio para atacar a los reporteros, queda claro que nació para representar al portavoz de un gobierno que ya se ha definido por los estallidos de ira”, agregó.
Spicer es considerado como un aliado cercano del jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca, Reince Priebus, con quien trabajó en el Comité Nacional Republicano (RNC, por sus siglas en inglés).
Priebus era presidente del RNC, mientras Spicer era director de comunicaciones.
Durante la campaña para las elecciones primarias, Spicer sirvió de vínculo entre el partido y los precandidatos presidenciales.
Sus esfuerzos parecen haber rendido frutos.
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Más allá del cargo de portavoz, Spicer también ha sido designado temporalmente como director de comunicaciones de la Casa Blanca, un cargo que implica otras responsabilidades y que usualmente ocupa alguien distinto al portavoz.
Según la prensa estadounidense, la Casa Blanca ha tenido dificultades para hallar a alguien adecuado para esa otra tarea.
Que mientras tanto lo hayan puesto en manos de Spicer ha sido interpretado como una muestra de la confianza que el nuevo gobierno tiene en sus capacidades.
En todo caso, Spicer puede estar tranquilo, si su carrera política llega a descarrilar, ya puede contar con un plan b en el mundo de la televisión.
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Salvatore Giuffrida, the director of the hospital, Europe’s fourth largest, said he favored a vaccination requirement because it would also keep medical workers healthy and would strengthen defensive lines as a brutal third wave spreads through northern Italy.
“We cannot afford not having them on the job,” he said. “The objective is not to lose soldiers during a war in a nation that complains about not having health care workers.”
He estimated that 15 percent of his nursing staff, about 400 nurses, was unvaccinated. Simply removing those nurses from the wards, or redirecting them to switchboards as some have proposed, would be “a cure worse than the disease,” he said, because it would result in the reduction of 250 beds.
He and other directors said that Italy’s strict privacy laws kept the hospitals from knowing which doctors and nurses were unvaccinated.
Paolo Petralia, the director general of the Lavagna hospital in Chiavari, the site of another outbreak this month, said 90 percent of his doctors were vaccinated, along with about 80 percent of nurses and aides.
“They are protected by privacy laws,” he said, citing a recent pronouncement by Italy’s data protection authority that the vaccination status of health workers should be unknown. “But this right exists until it does not limit another person’s right,” Mr. Petralia said.
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Jake Patterson was sentenced in court at the Barron County Justice Center Friday afternoon.
A Judge sentenced Jake Patterson to two life sentences for the murders of James and Denise Closs, without the eligibility of parole and the maximum penalty of 40 years for the kidnapping of Jayme.
Twenty-one-year-old Jake Patterson pled guilty in March to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. He admitted to abducting Jayme after killing her parents, James and Denise Closs, in October.
Jayme was held captive in a remote cabin for 88 days before she escaped.
The Closs family share post-sentencing comments:
Court documents indicate that Patterson said he saw Closs getting on a school bus while working at the Saputo Cheese Factory south of Almena.
“The defendant stated when he saw [Closs], he knew that was the girl he was going to take,” the complaint said.
Patterson said he had never met Jayme through any social media sites and only learned her name and her parents names after the abduction and they got back to his house, according to the complaint.
Patterson told police he drove to the Closs’ home twice with the intent to kidnap Jayme, but cars in the driveway and lights on in the house scared him off, according to the complaint.
On the third attempt, he stole the license plates off a vehicle parked in the yard so his license plates wouldn’t be on his car, officials said. He also disconnected his dome light and trunk light so no one could see him or pull the trunk release cord from inside.
Patterson took his father’s 12-gauge shotgun because he researched it and determined it was one of the most heavily manufactured or owned shotguns and assumed it would be more difficult to trace, according to the complaint.
Patterson also told officials he wiped down the shotgun shells while wearing gloves and cleaned and wiped down the shotgun while wearing gloves so there were not fingerprints or DNA on either of them, according to the complaint. He said he did that to make sure there would be no fingerprints or DNA on the shotgun.
Patterson also said he shaved his face and head so he would not leave any DNA or hair at the house, officials said.
Investigators say the 21-year-old man broke into James and Denise Closs’ home near Barron, Wisconsin on Oct. 15 by blowing the front door open with a shotgun. Jayme’s parents were shot to death and the teenager vanished the same day.
Jayme told officials she was asleep the night of the attack, and when her dog started barking early in the morning she got up to see why, according to the release. Jayme said she noticed someone driving up their driveway and she went to wake her parents up.
Jayme said Patterson was dressed in black from head to toe, including a face mask, hat and gloves, according to the complaint. Patterson then taped Jayme’s hands and ankles together and he dragged her out to his car.
Patterson had Jayme take off all of her clothes when they got to the house and made a comment about not having any evidence, according to the complaint.
Patterson made Closs stay under his bed to hide the fact that she was there, according to the complaint. She said he stacked totes and laundry bins around the bed with weights stacked against them so she could not move them. He would also turn music on so she couldn’t hear anything else that was happening. Patterson made her stay under his bed for up to 12 hours at a time — including when his father would visit — with no food, water or bathroom breaks, according to the complaint.
Closs was able to move the boxes to escape the home last week.
Investigators say when Patterson was found driving the day Closs escaped, he told them he knew what the stop was about.
“I did it,” Patterson allegedly said.
Patterson said he determined he was going to take Closs that night and was going to kill anyone in the house because he couldn’t leave any eye witnesses behind, according to the release. Patterson said if he had been stopped by police that night, he most likely would have shot at them.
Patterson estimated he had been at the Closs home for only about four minutes total.
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Soldiers from the Venezuelan national guard have left their posts ahead of an opposition-led effort to bring aid into the country, Colombia’s migration agency said.
In a separate development, Venezuelan troops have fired tear gas at people looking to cross into Colombia to work.
Tensions have been rising over a row about the delivery of humanitarian aid.
President Nicolás Maduro said the border with Colombia is partly closed to stop aid being delivered.
But self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó has vowed that hundreds of thousands of volunteers will help bring in the aid deliveries, which include food and medicine, on Saturday.
The first delivery of aid has already entered Venezuela through Brazil, Mr Guaidó tweeted.
The delivery of aid to the stricken country has proven to be a key area of contention between the two men who see themselves as Venezuela’s leader.
Footage posted online shows the soldiers requesting help from the Colombian migration agency to cries of “freedom” and “put down your arms.”
Local media report people jumping the barricades to cross the border at the Venezuela-Colombia border, while opposition MPs have posted defiant messages on social media denouncing the use of force.
The BBC’s Orla Guerin, on the Colombia border, said Venezuelans were begging soldiers to be allowed to cross.
Pictures show protesters burning outposts and throwing rocks at soldiers and riot police in border areas.
Mr Guaidó was seen at the Tienditas bridge on the Colombian side of the border, where he was accompanied by the country’s president, Iván Duque.
Mr Guaidó told reporters that humanitarian aid was on its way to Venezuela, in a “peaceful manner.”
“Welcome to the right side of history”, he told soldiers who had abandoned their posts, adding that soldiers who joined them would be guaranteed “amnesty.”
Earlier he had urged the military to allow aid trucks to enter, calling on Venezuelan soldiers to “put themselves on the side of the people“.
Three soldiers abandoned their post at this bridge by crossing into Colombia, while another did so at the Paula Santander International Bridge in Ureña, in south-west Venezuela.
A video posted on social media appears to show four soldiers publicly denouncing Mr Maduro and announcing their support for Guaidó.
“We are fathers and sons, we have had enough of so much uncertainty and injustice,” they say.
“We want to work!” people chanted as they faced riot police at the Ureña border bridge.
Activists there were joined by 300 members of the “Women in White” opposition group who marched in defiance of Mr Maduro’s attempts to close the border.
Meanwhile, a top ally of President Maduro has suggested the government would allow Venezuelans to accept aid “at their own risk”, but that no foreign soldiers would “set foot” inside Venezuela.
The president himself tweeted that “there will not be a war”, posting pictures of cheering crowds in Caracas. It is not clear when these photos were taken.
Earlier on Saturday, two people were killed by Venezuelan forces near the border with Brazil.
A military outpost near the Venezuela-Brazil border has been taken over by a militia loyal to President Maduro, according to VPI TV.
Guillermo Olmo, BBC Mundo, Ureña, Venezuela
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It’s been a difficult day here on the Venezuelan side.
We found locals getting angry because they found the border was closed – these people normally make a living across the border. Then it turned ugly in Ureña.
We witnessed protesters lunging to break one of the barriers but the National Guard started firing tear gas and pellets.
People were shouting at the National Guard asking them why, in their words, they were serving a dictator and not serving their own people.
We had to run away to avoid being hurt but there is still a lot of tension in the air, with a heavy military presence everywhere.
Humanitarian aid has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing standoff between Mr Maduro and Mr Guaidó.
Mr Guaidó, who is the leader of the country’s opposition-dominated National Assembly, last month declared himself the country’s interim leader.
He has since won the backing of dozens of nations, including the US. He has called the rule of President Nicolás Maduro constitutionally illegitimate, claiming that Mr Maduro’s re-election in 2018 was marred by voting irregularities.
Venezuela is in the grip of a political and economic crisis. The country’s inflation rate has seen prices soar, leaving many Venezuelans struggling to afford basic items such as food, toiletries and medicine.
Mr Guaidó insists that citizens badly need help, while Mr Maduro says allowing aid to enter is part of a ploy by the US to invade the country.
About 2.7 million people have fled the country since 2015.
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A 4-year-old with an underlying medical condition is the first child in New Jersey to die from complications related to the coronavirus, state officials announced Friday.
Gov. Phil Murphy said during his daily press briefing in Trenton the death is the state’s first COVID-19 fatality of someone under the age of 18.
“We’ve lost another blessed life,” Murphy said. “In this case, it’s unfathomable it’s a 4-year-old.”
State officials declined to reveal further information about the victim, including sex and residence. They also would not reveal which underlying medical condition the child had.
“In order to protect privacy of the child, will not release further details,” state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said.
The child was one of 162 new coronavirus-related deaths New Jersey officials announced Friday, bringing the statewide total to at 8,952 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the nine weeks since the outbreak began.
The news comes days after 15 New York City children were reported to have contracted Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory illness possibly associated to COVID-19. Health officials said Thursday that at least 12 New Jersey hospitals have treated children with the rare disease.
It is unknown whether the victim announced Friday had the disease.
“I think we’ve said all we’re gonna say about the blessed 4-year-old we’ve lost,” Murphy said when asked.
Children contracting the coronavirus at all is rare. Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data suggested last month that children represent only 2% of all U.S. and their symptoms tend to be milder than those found in adults. COVID-19 cases and as of its April 10 Morbidity and Mortality report — the CDC’s most recent discussion on the topic — it noted only three people under the age of 18 had died from complications from the virus in the U.S.
Prior to the child’s death, the age breakdown for New Jersey’s fatal coronavirus cases has been:
More than half of the victims with a known medical history have had an underlying condition, including at 58% with cardiovascular disease, according to the state’s COVID-19 tracking website.
New Jersey, a densely populated state of 9 million residents, has reported at least 135,454 total coronavirus since the outbreak began March 4. That includes another 1,985 positive tests that state officials announced Friday. Only New York has more total deaths and cases among American states.
Meanwhile, coronavirus-related hospitalizations in the Garden State continue to decrease from a peak in mid-April, from more than 8,000 to 4,764 as of 10 p.m. Thursday.
“The data from our hospitals continue to move in the right direction — down,” Murphy said during Friday’s briefing. “But we also cannot overstate enough that even while we are pleased with this progress, our hospital systems are dealing with far more patients than they would be otherwise in any other year, and the stress on our health care system, while certainly lessening, is still there. Only we have the power to push these numbers down further.”
The Garden State’s economy has also suffered during the outbreak, with more than 1 million residents having filed for unemployment since social distancing and business closings began in late March. Meanwhile, businesses has suffered untold revenue losses.
Despite pressure from some lawmakers, businesses, and residents, Murphy has said the state can’t rush reopening because that would risk cases, deaths, and hospitalizations rising again.
The governor has formed a commission to plot a strategy but has not given a definitive timeline. He has said the state must meet conditions for a broader reopening — including cases and hospitalizations dropping for 14 straight days, as well as officials expanding testing and installing contact tracing and isolations programs.
But Murphy has allowed parks and golf courses to reopen in New Jersey, with social-distancing restrictions. And with Memorial Day less than three weeks away, he said he may soon allow beaches to reopen, with similar guidelines.
Murphy also said he may allow nonessential construction and elective surgeries to resume, while also allowing some nonessential businesses to offer curbside service.
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Un hombre abrió fuego la noche del domingo (22:08 hora local, 05:08 GMT) contra los asistentes a un concierto al aire libre en Las Vegas, Nevada, lo que dejó al menos 58 muertos y más de 500 heridos.
El tiroteo es el más mortal en la historia reciente de Estados Unidos.
Las primeras investigaciones indican que un hombre identificado como Stephen Paddock, de 64 años, comenzó a disparar desde el piso 32 del hotel Mandalay Bay.
El hotel está casi enfrente de un espacio abierto en donde se llevaba a cabo un concierto de música country al que asistían unas 22.000 de personas.
Videos del momento en que inició el tiroteo mostraban a miles de personas tratando de huir en todas direcciones mientras se escuchan ráfagas de disparos.
Paddock se suicidó después de abrir fuego, según la policía.
El autodenominado Estado Islámico se reivindicó el atentado sin ofrecer pruebas: “El atacante de Las Vegas se convirtió al Islam hace unos meses”, dijo el grupo en un comunicado.
Sin embargo, el Buró Federal de Investigaciones (FBI, por sus siglas en inglés), dijo que no había encontrado relación entre Paddock y organizaciones extremistas.
“Hasta este momento hemos determinado que no hay conexión con alguna organización terrorista internacional“, dijo a la prensa el agente Aaron Rouseel.
El alguacil Joe Lombardo dijo que la policía cree que se trata de un ataque del tipo “lobo solitario” y que no tenían información sobre los motivos de Paddock.
Una mujer que se pensaba estaba viajando con el sospechoso antes del ataque, Marilou Danley, ya fue localizada fuera de Estados Unidos y hasta ahora no se cree que haya tenido algún papel en el ataque.
Lombardo también añadió que Paddock utilizó documentos de identidad de Danley para registrarse en el hotel Mandalay Bay.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dijo en una mensaje pronunciado desde la Casa Blanca que el país vive “tristeza, shock y dolor” por el ataque en Las Vegas,
“Fue un acto de pura maldad. El FBI y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional están trabajando de cerca con las autoridades locales para ayudarlas en las investigaciones”, señaló el presidente.
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Trump anunció que las banderas de EE.UU. ondearán a media asta en recuerdo a las víctimas, y anunció que visitará Las Vegas el miércoles.
“Nuestra unidad no puede ser destruida por el mal. Nuestros lazos no pueden romperse con la violencia. Y aunque nos sentimos tan enojados por el asesinato sin sentido de nuestros conciudadanos, nuestro amor es el que nos define hoy y siempre”, dijo Trump.
El gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval, calificó el atentado como un “acto cobarde y despreciable”.
El tiroteo empezó a las 22:08 hora local (05:08 GMT), según un comunicado de la policía.
Paddock llegó de Mesquite, a unos 100 km al noreste de Las Vegas, a hospedarse en hotel desde el 28 de septiembre.
Videos en las redes sociales muestran a cientos de personas huyendo del lugar, y se pueden oír ráfagas de fuego de armas automáticas.
Los testigos afirman que escucharon cientos de tiros.
George French viajó a Las Vegas para el concierto y estaba cerca del escenario cuando escuchó los disparos: “Todo el mundo se agachó, menos yo, pero luego vi a la gente cayendo, así que me agaché también. Fuimos llevados a un lugar seguro”, relató a la BBC.
Mike Thompson, originario de Londres, dijo a la BBC que vio a la gente corriendo en pánico total.
“Un hombre tenía sangre por todos lados y fue entonces cuando supe que algo estaba muy mal”, explicó Thompson.
Hubo informes de otros incidentes en distintos sitios de la sección conocida como The Strip, una de las avenidas más emblemáticas de la ciudad donde están los grandes casinos y hoteles, pero la policía dijo que fueron falsos.
La policía de Mesquite registró la propiedad de Paddock y encontró varias armas. Las autoridades no tienen registros de que el hombre haya tenido conductas delictivas en esa localidad en el pasado.
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Las autoridades encontraron un “gran arsenal“, incluyendo 10 rifles, en la habitación del atacante, informó James Cook, enviado especial de la BBC a Las Vegas.
El hermano de Paddock, quien vive en Orlando, dijo a la cadena CNN que está “completamente atónito” por el tiroteo.
“No podemos entender lo que pasó… No es un hombre fanático de las armas en absoluto. El hecho de que tuviera ese tipo de armas…. ¿dónde diablos consiguió armas automáticas?”, dijo Eric Paddock.
“No tiene antecedentes militares ni nada por el estilo. Es sólo un tipo que vivía en una casa en Mesquite y viajaba a jugar en Las Vegas”, declaró.
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Varios hoteles en The Strip cercanos a la escena del tiroteo fueron cerrados y partes de la avenida principal de la ciudad fueron acordonada por la policía.
Se informó que muchas personas buscaron refugio en hoteles, restaurantes y en el Aeropuerto Internacional McCarran de Las Vegas.
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Algunos vuelos de la terminal internacional fueron cancelados cuando se conoció la noticia del incidente.
El festival de música country comenzó el viernes en varios hoteles de Las Vegas Strip.
El cantante Jason Aldean, quien fue retirado del escenario cuando comenzó el tiroteo, escribió en su cuenta de Instagram: “Esta noche fue más que horripilante“.
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Nevada tiene una de las leyes sobre armas más laxas de Estados Unidos.
Los usuarios pueden portar un arma y no tienen que estar registrados como propietarios de una.
El estado no prohíbe los rifles de asalto, que son armas de fuego automáticas o semiautomáticas, y no hay límites para comprar munición.
Las verificaciones de antecedentes se hacen cuando la gente compra armas, pero también se les permite venderlas de manera privada.
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Rare earth minerals are a common part of people’s lives — and their futures.
If you have a smartphone or computer, own a flat-screen TV, drive a hybrid car or use a myriad of other high-tech devices, you’ll no doubt come into contact with these elements — mined from the earth’s crust and supplied predominantly by China — countless times a day.
But they are also used in obscure but powerful ways that ensure some of the biggest companies in the world can keep churning out those products.
Now, rare earths have become a bargaining chip in the expanding trade war between China and the United States, which escalated after the Trump administration placed Huawei, the world’s largest supplier of telecommunications equipment, on a blacklist that imposed some restrictions on trading with American companies.
The importance of China’s rare earths to U.S. industries is one of many examples of how the two countries’ tech industries have grown intertwined over the years — and why the escalating tension has experts concerned about the long-term impact of an economic decoupling.
Rare earth minerals are a crucial component of products that cut across the U.S. economy, not only in the tech sector but in the energy industry as a catalyst for oil refineries and in wind turbines, and in the automobile industry for manufacturing electric vehicle motors.
Despite their name, rare earths aren’t all that rare. The U.S. Geological Survey describes them as a “relatively abundant group” of 17 chemical elements. What makes them unusual, however, is that they’re difficult to extract in high concentrations from the ground.
The elements’ names, which include cerium, promethium, scandium, might sound like something out of science fiction, but each one can be used for a variety of purposes — from making magnets, batteries and lights, to glass production and the cooling of nuclear rods.
The U.S. military also depends on rare earths for the construction of equipment used in satellites, lasers, jet engines, radar and sonar systems, and other sophisticated machinery.
It wasn’t always that way. From the 1960s to the ’80s, the U.S. was the global leader in rare earth mineral production based out of a mine in California, which later closed.
But China quickly gained ground in the ’90s, and is home to more than 30 percent of the world’s rare earth reserves. By 2017, China accounted for roughly 80 percent of the world’s rare earth production, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Other countries, including India, Brazil and Australia, share a smaller output.
The U.S. imported about $160 million worth of basic rare earth materials last year, mainly from China.
In 2010, Japan accused the Chinese government of purposefully halting its supply of rare earth minerals — seen as retaliation after Japan detained a Chinese fishing trawler captain who was found in waters under dispute by the two nations.
Japan counted on the rare earths for a number of uses, including the production of its hybrid cars, solar-panel glass and battery packs. Major manufacturers such as Toyota and Panasonic were disrupted by the blockade, according to reports.
The diplomatic dispute highlighted how much other countries have counted on China and how it remains a dominant and integral player in many industrial supply chains.
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For Florida, just a handful of miles may make a huge difference in Hurricane Dorian’s slow dance with the coast.
The National Hurricane Center forecasts Dorian to be 40 to 50 miles off the Florida coast on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west.
But that’s just one point that forecasters have to choose to place the monstrous storm that packed 185 mph winds on Sunday. It could be within 100 miles of that point, which is why the hurricane center uses — and emphasizes — a shaded cone of uncertainty.
And much of the Florida coast is inside that cone.
“This thing is perilously close to the state. I think we should all hope and pray for the best, but we have to prepare that this could have major impacts on the state of Florida,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “If you look at the National Hurricane Center’s current track, I think it ends up within 30 miles of the coast of Florida. Well guess what? You do just a touch of a bump one way or another, and you have a dramatic difference all of a sudden.”
Center Director Ken Graham is telling residents don’t bet on safety just because his office specific forecast track has the storm just a bit offshore.
“The cone is so important,” Graham said.
And making matters more touch-and-go is that with every new forecast, “we keep nudging (Dorian’s track) a little bit to the left,” which is closer to the Florida coast, he said.
Dorian is a powerful but small hurricane with hurricane-force winds Sunday only extending 29 miles to the west, but they are expecting to grow a bit. That makes forecasting the storm’s path along the coast — either just off the coast, skirting it or moving inland with a direct hit — delicate and difficult. Just a few miles west or east makes the difference between devastation and bad but not horrible damage, meteorologists said.
“Where it doesn’t directly hit, it’s not going to be a huge problem,” Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said.
With a big, sloppy hurricane — say 50% larger in size — all of Florida would be under a serious threat, but that’s not the case, said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy.
This is what makes this a nightmare for forecasters, McNoldy said.
It’s a combination of the small size, close-in track, like Matthew in 2016, and weak steering currents. That means just a smidge of a movement days ahead of time, while Dorian is in the Bahamas, can reverberate and mean a direct hit or not, said private meteorologist Ryan Maue.
That can happen just because of the timing of when Dorian’s eyewall collapses and is replaced, which happens normally in storms.
Adding to that problem is Dorian’s slow, almost snail-like pace. What initially looked like a Labor Day storm for the U.S. is now approaching Tuesday and Wednesday.
“People are getting impatient with this,” McNoldy said. Because the threat seems to keep sticking around, it could be a problem getting the right message across, he said.
Klotzbach said he thinks the U.S. East Coast will get “scraped,” but Dorian will stay just offshore, something Maue agrees with.
Maue warns, however, that two days of high waves and heavy storm surge — the hurricane center is predicting 4 to 7 feet from West Palm Beach north to Cocoa Beach area — could severely damage Florida’s beaches.
Residents along Florida’s coast are relieved that the forecast, for now, doesn’t have Dorian making landfall in Florida, but are still preparing for the worst.
Kevin Browning in Vero Beach has put up hurricane shutters, bought a generator and is stocked with supplies.
“I’m thanking God, now, that it’s turned a little bit towards the east, but that’s a forecast, and we never know. I’m just praying and trying to make sure that everybody’s safe. I feel for the Bahamas and I’m praying for them, and I thank God it’s not coming directly to us right now.”
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Associated Press writers Gerald Herbert in Vero Beach, Florida, and Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Florida, contributed.
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WASHINGTON – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Thursday to face a U.S. charge that he conspired to hack military computers after Ecuador’s government ended his seven years of self-imposed exile and expelled him from its London embassy.
Assange, 47, was arrested by authorities in the United Kingdom to be extradited to the United States.
In an indictment revealed Thursday morning, U.S. authorities alleged that Assange conspired with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to steal and publish huge troves of classified documents. Prosecutors said Assange at one point tried to help Manning crack a password to access military computers where the secret information was stored.
Over four months in 2010, Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of secret reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as State Department cables and information about detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Manning turned the records over to WikiLeaks, which passed them to journalists and published them on the internet.
Prosecutors said it was one of the most extensive leaks of classified secrets in U.S. history.
Assange is charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. The charge, delivered by a federal grand jury in March 2018 but kept secret until Thursday, carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Barry Pollack, a U.S. lawyer for Assange, criticized the arrest and said Assange would need medical treatment that had been denied for seven years.
“It is bitterly disappointing that a country would allow someone to whom it has extended citizenship and asylum to be arrested in its embassy,” Pollack said.” Once his health care needs have been addressed, the UK courts will need to resolve what appears to be an unprecedented effort by the United States seeking to extradite a foreign journalist to face criminal charges for publishing truthful information.”
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Assange had sheltered in Ecuador’s embassy since seeking asylum there in 2012. London’s Metropolitan Police moved in after Ecuador formally withdrew its asylum for Assange, an Australian native, and subsequently revoked his Ecuadorian citizenship. Plainclothes officers escorted him from the embassy on Thursday.
A British court ruled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty of breaching his bail conditions.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Assange’s arrest shows “no one is above the law.”
The arrest followed months of carefully orchestrated diplomatic maneuvering by the Ecuadorian government that had long soured on its relationship with Assange. In a videotaped statement, Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno said his country’s patience for his behavior “has reached its limit,” citing bizarre behavior inside the embassy and violating the country’s demand that he stop interfering in the affairs of other governments.
Moreno described it as a “sovereign decision” due to “repeated violations to international conventions and daily life.”
He was taken into custody on a 2012 warrant for jumping bail while facing extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations. The Swedish accusations have since been dropped but he was still wanted for the bail violation. The Justice Department said it was seeking his extradition to the United States.
The U.S. charges center on his interactions with Manning. Prosecutors said Assange encouraged her to leak classified secrets to the anti-secrecy group, and tried to help her crack a password to Defense Department computers that stored classified secrets. That would have allowed Manning to log on to the computer network with someone else’s username.
The indictment said investigators obtained messages between the two in which Manning provided Assange “part of a password” on March 8, 2010. Two days later, Assange asked for more information about the password, and indicated that he had been trying to crack the password but so far had not succeeded.
Prosecutors said Assange also encouraged Manning to look for more classified information to disclose. On March 7, 2010, Manning and Assange discussed the Guantanamo records, according to the indictment. Manning told Assange the next day that “after this upload, that’s all I really have got left” the indictment said. Assange replied, “curious eyes never run dry in my experience,” the indictment said.
Separately, he has been under scrutiny for years for WikiLeaks’ role in publishing government secrets.
WikiLeaks, the transparency group that he founded, was also front and center of the 2016 presidential election for leaking emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee. During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly praised the organization, saying numerous times at rallies, “I love WikiLeaks.”
Federal prosecutors have said the emails were stolen by hackers working for Russia’s military intelligence service, which gave them to WikiLeaks as part of an effort to sway the presidential election in Trump’s favor. The charges revealed Thursday are unrelated to that effort.
Moreno, the Ecuadorian president, did not specifically confirm that Assange would be extradited to the United States, saying only that he “will not be extradited to a country where he could suffer torture or the death penalty. ” He said the British government confirmed that in writing.
In a list of grievances, Moreno said Assange had installed prohibited electronic equipment in the embassy, blocked security cameras and even “accessed the security files of our embassy without permission.” He said Assange also had “confronted and mistreated the diplomatic guards.”
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters Thursday that the arrest shows that “no one is above the law.”
“Julian Assange is no hero,” he said. Hunt said the operation came after “years of careful diplomacy” and praised Moreno for his “very courageous decision.”
“It’s not so much Julian Assange being held hostage in the Ecuadorian Embassy,” Hunt said, “it’s actually Julian Assange holding the Ecuadorian Embassy hostage in a situation that was absolutely intolerable for them.”
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Assange took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over rape allegations. Assange, an Australian national, chose to remain in the embassy out of fear that the United States would immediately seek his arrest and extradition over the leaking of classified documents to WikiLeaks by Manning.
Wikileaks said in a Thursday tweet that “Powerful actors, including CIA, are engaged in a sophisticated effort to dehumanize, delegitimize and imprison him.”
Assange, who was granted Ecuadorian citizenship last year in an apparent effort to designate him a diplomat and allow him to go to Russia, sued Ecuador for violating his rights as an Ecuadorian.
He pressed his case in local and international tribunals on human-rights ground, but both ruled against him.
In 2011, the leftist Ecuadorian government that initially offered asylum to Assange had been embroiled in a diplomatic row with the United States involving a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable. U.S. ambassador to Ecuador Heather Hodges was expelled after WikiLeaks leaked the document that alleged widespread corruption within the Ecuadorian police force, the BBC reported.
Assange first got a taste of tapping into unauthorized material when he became a hacker in 1987. Four years later he was convicted of hacking into the master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications corporation, The New Yorker reported.
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In 2006, Assange established WikiLeaks as a site for publishing classified information and within a decade had posted more than 10 million documents often embarrassing to governments.
While gaining the backing of some world figures, including leaders of Brazil and Ecuador, he gained international notoriety after publishing information in 2010, which was leaked by a self-described whistleblower inside the U.S. Army, Bradley Manning, a transgender woman who later became known as Chelsea Manning. Manning spent nearly 7 years in prison for leaking classified and sensitive military and diplomatic documents.
Contributing: William Cummings, USA TODAY; The Associated Press
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Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins reacts to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi withholding impeachment articles from Senate.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins weighed in Sunday on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continuing to withhold articles of impeachment against President Trump from the Senate, saying he thought “she had a bad Christmas carol, if you want to use the analogy of the last couple weeks.”
The Georgia Republican told “Sunday Morning Futures” that Pelosi “had a ghost of Christmas past, where she trashed all the rules to try and impeach this president and rush it before the end of the year.”
Collins continued, “She has a president sitting here now with a bad case, bad articles of impeachment that have no basis in reality to impeach the president and she’s looking at a future in which she has no legislative agenda.”
MCCONNELL CALLS PELOSI’S IMPEACHMENT DELAY ‘ABSURD,’ PREDICTS SHE’LL BACK DOWN ‘SOONER OR LATER’
He went on, “There’s nothing in the House for her to do because [Democrats] have wasted so much time and taxpayer dollars on impeaching this president that we’re sitting here literally waiting on her to send articles over to try and influence the Senate decision in which she has no control over.”
“That’s how sad we’ve become and how sad this speaker’s legacy is so far.”
Pelosi surprised many in Washington last month with her decision to withhold articles — which accused Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his dealings with Ukraine — as she sought to pressure the Senate to agree to certain terms for a trial. In an unusual news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., defended her decision while calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a “rogue leader.”
McConnell last month said Pelosi’s delay in sending articles of impeachment was an “absurd” position to take, saying the speaker “apparently believes she can tell us how to run the trial.”
“Let the American people understand something,” Collins told host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “The speaker got up there and gave this grand show of being solemn and it’s our duty and it’s our conscious vote, but yet the minute after she forced them into this impeachment vote on the weakest case in history, she went out and then basically turned it into a political document.”
He continued, “She took a sham vote for them to actually say impeachment was needed and then went out and said, ‘Well no, I’m going to hold this.’”
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Pelosi said last month she hoped the Senate would find a bipartisan agreement on how to conduct the trial. “We would hope that they can come to some conclusion like that, but in any event, we’re ready when we see what they have.”
Collins continued Sunday, “She pulled the curtain back, showed everybody that this is simply a political statement against this president to affect the 2020 election because they have nobody that can beat the president. The economy, everything is working.”
Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo contributed to this report.
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Abortion legislation in Georgia and Alabama ascended in the news cycle this week, with Georgia’s governor signing a “heartbeat bill” into law on Tuesday and Alabama’s Senate postponing until next week its vote on a near-total abortion ban.
The Georgia law will ban abortions after a doctor is able to detect “a fetal heartbeat in the womb,” usually at about six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. It was one of the nation’s most stringent proposals until the all-out ban introduced in Alabama.
Under the proposed Alabama bill, doctors would not be able to perform the procedure once a fetus is “in utero.” That version caught national attention because the bill that passed in the House allowed for a single exception, in cases involving a serious health risk “to the unborn child’s mother.” Cases of rape and incest were not exempt as they are in other states.
The abortion bills are not simple.
“In Georgia, you have to go down a rabbit hole and have to be a lawyer to understand what you’re reading,” said Bonyen Lee-Gilmore, director of Planned Parenthood state media campaigns.
Since Tuesday, fear has spread, confusing further reporting on the bills. Information has been misconstrued, criminal penalties have been misstated, and social media platforms have morphed into prime false-narrative territory.
And while there has been much attention on the issue of bans on early-stage abortions, women who miscarry are not going to be sent to prison for life.
So, let’s correct the record.
Neither Alabama’s proposed ban nor Georgia’s abortion law is currently in effect.
The Georgia law is scheduled to become enforceable in 2020, though “everyone in America expects it will be challenged in court before then,” said Mary Ziegler, professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate.” “Courts may block it from being enforced even in 2020.”
The bill introduced in Alabama was tabled on Thursday; because it was not passed, there is nothing to enforce. Other states, including Mississippi and Ohio, recently passed “heartbeat” laws. Neither state’s law is currently in effect either.
[Graphic: Which states are blocking abortion — and which are enacting protections?]
State Rep. Terri Collins (R), who sponsored the hotly debated Alabama bill, reiterated during an interview on Friday with The Post that abortions are currently allowed in the state. The bill must pass through the Senate and then the governor must sign it. It will take an additional six months after that to go into effect.
Several states have signed abortion legislation into law, but any law that has moved through the courts has ultimately been blocked or struck down, Zeigler said. Iowa, North Dakota and Kentucky have seen related laws blocked.
“Women who are panicked should know they have time,” said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, and patients should not cancel their appointments.
Kolbi-Molinas was also confident that the ACLU would “be able to overturn these laws because they violate decades of Supreme Court laws.”
“We’ve been inundated with calls from patients who think abortions are already illegal,” said Staci Fox, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast. “They don’t understand that we’ll challenge this in court and it will likely be blocked.”
What worries her more, though, are the patients who aren’t calling. They need to know that “compassionate, nonjudgmental care is still legal.”
[Opinion: Republicans have stopped pretending on abortion]
Unlike other states — which have passed limited abortion bills such as bans on the types of abortion procedure and gestational age of the fetus — Alabama’s proposed bill is an all-out ban on abortion.
“This bill is very simple,” said Collins. “It’s not about birth control or the morning after the pill. It’s about not allowing abortion once the woman is pregnant. The entire bill was designed to overturn [Roe v. Wade] and allow states to decide what is best for them.”
However, the bill explicitly states that women are exempt from criminal and civil liability, a tenet that Alabama lawmakers have repeatedly reinforced.
“In my bill, women would not under any circumstances face jail time if they got an abortion,” Collins said. Instead, the law targets doctors, who can be prosecuted for performing an abortion, a felony punishable by up to 99 years imprisonment.
Carol Sanger, professor at Columbia Law School, said such penalties on doctors were “just another way to make women frightened” and create “more disincentives for physicians and residents to take up this practice.”
The Georgia law is more complex.
Like Alabama, it explicitly states that doctors who perform abortions will be prosecuted. It is clear about those penalties. The bill is more vague about the prosecution (or non-prosecution) of women.
On Tuesday, Slate published an article with a not-entirely-accurate headline: “Georgia just criminalized abortion. Women who terminate their pregnancies would receive life in prison.”
It suggested that under the Georgia law, women who terminate their pregnancies would be prosecuted and sentenced to either life in prison or death.
That is incorrect.
“The news headlines and social media headlines that speculate about the bills’ unintended consequences are – at the very least – not productive. At most, they’re harmful,” Planned Parenthood’s Staci Fox told The Post on Friday.
HB 481 could not be used to successfully prosecute women, she argued. But if a woman had a miscarriage, she could be pulled into an investigation looking at whether someone performed an illegal abortion on her.
“You don’t want a woman to be forced to prove how she lost her baby,” said Sanger.
Georgia’s law does not unequivocally say that women are exempt, but legal experts point to other areas of Georgia’s penal code which have specific defenses for women, including those who miscarry.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy and liberty was broad enough to encompass a woman’s choice to continue her pregnancy with consulting with her doctor.
“In addition to giving women the right to choose whether to terminate a pregnant, the court also said that right is not absolute and there are certain rules that govern how long that right lasts,” Sanger explained. To do that, it looks to trimesters and viability, ignoring that reason a woman chose to have an abortion.
The recent spate of abortion bills that try to ban abortion early into pregnancy focus on duration — some states picked 16 weeks, others (like Georgia) are down to six. Alabama took it one step further. Under the new legislation, the state has said all it requires is pregnancy.
“By making the fetus a person, it’s an end run around Roe,” she said. “Once you determine a fetus is a person, you can’t kill.”
For Collins, the Alabama state representative, the bill’s true purpose is to trigger litigation that would force the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade.
[At least 20 abortion cases are in the pipeline to the Supreme Court. Any one could gut Roe v. Wade.]
“My point on keeping an amendment about rape or incest out of this bill is that Roe v. Wade does not mention that issue and I want this bill to focus on the reasoning used in the Roe v. Wade decision, ‘Is the baby in the womb a person?’ Any amendment would contradict that point.”
Even in Alabama, it seems, there’s still a dispute over why a woman should be able to have an abortion.
“That’s what Roe is all about — no one should be able to decide why a woman should have an abortion,” Sanger said.
The Supreme Court decides which cases it wants to hear, and legal experts believe there are some things to suggest the court would not take one of the length-of-pregnancy ban cases.
The justices generally feel obligated to take cases in which lower courts disagree about the law or the court’s precedents. So far, no court has upheld one of the durational requirements, Sanger said.
The antiabortion legal and political community seems confident it has the votes to overrule Roe.
“They’re saying, ‘We dare you to take us to court because we think we’ll win,’” Collins said, but there are rules that govern when it’s appropriate for the Supreme Court to overturn a case.
Courts generally abide by a doctrine known as stare decisis, or respecting settled law. But the Supreme Court can revisit its precedents, which is what gives hope to abortion opponents.
Read more:
A sponsor of an Ohio abortion bill thinks you can reimplant ectopic pregnancies. You can’t.
Georgia governor signs ‘heartbeat bill,’ one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation
Alabama Senate delays vote on nation’s strictest abortion bill
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Republicans are bracing for a high-stakes impeachment fight as soon as next month as a trial in the Senate looks all but inevitable.
With House Democrats wading deeper into their ongoing impeachment inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocratic senator rips Trump’s ‘let them fight’ remarks: ‘Enough is enough’ Warren warns Facebook may help reelect Trump ‘and profit off of it’ Trump touts Turkey cease-fire: ‘Sometimes you have to let them fight’ MORE‘s interactions with Ukraine, GOP senators expect the House will ultimately pass articles of impeachment.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellOvernight Defense — Presented by Boeing — Pence says Turkey agrees to ceasefire | Senators vow to move forward with Turkey sanctions | Mulvaney walks back comments tying Ukraine aid to 2016 probe On The Money: Senate fails to override Trump veto over border emergency | Trump resort to host G-7 next year | Senators to push Turkey sanctions despite ceasefire | McConnell tees up funding votes McConnell tees up government funding votes amid stalemate MORE (R-Ky.) already confirmed the Senate would hold a trial if the House passes articles.
Republicans are already studying up on the rules as they prepare for what will be a high-profile, politically charged showdown even as Trump is widely expected to avoid being convicted and removed from office by the Senate, an act that would require the approval of two-thirds of the closely divided chamber.
Sen. John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) acknowledged that senators will have to deal with impeachment and said that he was looking to the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for guidance on the Senate’s rules.
“I have a copy ordered from CRS. CRS has updated its white paper on impeachment. Probably in great demand right now,” he said.
Sen. James LankfordJames Paul LankfordLawmakers toast Greta Van Susteren’s new show McConnell support for election security funds leaves Dems declaring victory Election security funds passed by Senate seen as welcome first step MORE (R-Okla.) added Republicans had discussed the “process.”
“For sure, all of us,” he added when asked if he was planning to brush up on rules as a likely trial grows closer.
Trump’s impeachment trial would be the third for a president in Senate history after Andrew Johnson and Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonWhat did the Founders most fear about impeachment? The Hill’s Morning Report – Tempers boil over at the White House Chelsea Clinton says she’s not considering a bid for New York House seat MORE — both of whom were found not guilty.
But most senators will be handling their first trial as members of the chamber.
Only fifteen senators were serving in the Senate during Clinton’s trial, including McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerTrump touts Turkey cease-fire: ‘Sometimes you have to let them fight’ Mattis responds to Trump criticism: ‘I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals’ Democrats vow to push for repeal of other Trump rules after loss on power plant rollback MORE (D-N.Y.).
“I think the process should be similar to what we had before,” said Sen. Richard ShelbyRichard Craig ShelbyMcConnell tees up government funding votes amid stalemate GOP warns Graham letter to Pelosi on impeachment could ‘backfire’ Senate eyes attempt to jump-start government funding bills MORE (R-Ala.), who was also in the Senate during the Clinton trial. “That’s a serious obligation because you’re thinking, ‘Well you’re really overturning an election.’ “
“I think people need to be focused and they need to do a right thing,” he added.
House Democrats are aggressively pursuing an inquiry into Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenWarren warns Facebook may help reelect Trump ‘and profit off of it’ Trump accuses Biden of ‘quid pro quo’ hours after Mulvaney remarks Testimony from GOP diplomat complicates Trump defense MORE, a potential top rival in 2020. The focus of the potential articles of impeachment, or how many there would be, remains unclear.
But the creeping inevitability that the Senate will have to act follows weeks of speculation that McConnell could find a loophole to let the Senate avoid an impeachment trial that would otherwise eat up precious floor time and put some of his 2020 incumbents under a fierce spotlight.
The GOP leader, however, shot down that possibility this week. Though McConnell positioned himself as a roadblock to Trump being removed from office in Facebook ads, he said this week that the Senate would fulfill its “constitutional responsibility.”
“Under the impeachment rules of the Senate, we’ll take the matter up … We intend to do our constitutional responsibility.”
McConnell — along with Judiciary Committee staff and Sen. Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamPelosi, Schumer hit ‘flailing’ Trump over ‘sham ceasefire’ deal Pompeo to meet Netanyahu as US alliances questioned Overnight Defense — Presented by Boeing — Pence says Turkey agrees to ceasefire | Senators vow to move forward with Turkey sanctions | Mulvaney walks back comments tying Ukraine aid to 2016 probe MORE (R-S.C.), who was a floor manager during the Clinton impeachment trial — briefed the Senate GOP caucus during a closed-door lunch about what to expect if a trial comes to the Senate.
“I think that was more of a kind of a 101 so that we weren’t all either not able to answer any questions or all answering them some different way,” Sen. Roy BluntRoy Dean BluntOvernight Defense — Presented by Boeing — Pence says Turkey agrees to ceasefire | Senators vow to move forward with Turkey sanctions | Mulvaney walks back comments tying Ukraine aid to 2016 probe On The Money: Senate fails to override Trump veto over border emergency | Trump resort to host G-7 next year | Senators to push Turkey sanctions despite ceasefire | McConnell tees up funding votes Senate fails to override Trump veto over emergency declaration MORE (R-Mo.) said about the caucus briefing.
Under the chamber’s impeachment rules, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the chamber and senators will convene every day but Sunday.
“Senators will not be allowed to speak, which will be good therapy for a number of them,” McConnell quipped to reporters after the closed-door caucus lunch.
McConnell wasn’t the only GOP senator making jokes. Asked what the atmosphere would be like in the Senate during the impeachment trial, Blunt joked, “I’m thinking about banning the reporters.”
But the particulars of the trial, including the length, remain up in the air.
“We just talked about the Senate rules. We’re going to have to have more meetings to talk about how we proceed,” Kennedy said about the GOP briefing.
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Consumir noticias es una métrica definitiva para entender el éxito de las marcas mediáticas dentro de una industria que crece y se mantiene definida por la demanda de sus contenidos a través de nuevos formatos y tras la adaptación a plataformas como dispositivos móviles.
En esta adaptación a nuevas plataformas se ha aprendido demasiado. Lo programas de televisión han logrado migrar gran parte de sus contenidos a canales de YouTube y multiplicar sus ingresos por publicidad, al monetizar sus videos digitales.
Un ejemplo de ello es Jimmy Fallon, quien es considerado como el segundo conductor de televisión con mejor opinión dentro del mercado de televisión en Estados Unidos y que su programa nocturno es el que registra mayor frecuenta de ser visto, de acuerdo a cifras de YouGov y The Economist.
Su canal en YouTube The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, cuenta con más de 13 millones 905 mil suscriptores.
Retomemos la tesis de esta nota que es el consumo de noticias en el mundo. Revisemos lo que pasa en México. Dentsu Aegis Network estimó en 2015 que la inversión en publicidad dentro de periódicos representó el seis por ciento del total de inversión a medios en esa fecha.
Del lado digital, comScore descubrió ese año que la información y noticias fue la séptima categoría online más popular en México.
Cifras trascendidas por el Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report colocan el interés por el consumo de noticias concentrado en digital, principalmente entre las personas de entre 18 y 24 años, mientras que la televisión y los medios impresos se colocaron como las principales fuentes de información entre las personas de más de 55 años.
Con este escenario de fondo, resulta interesante ver el interés que generan las noticias en los países, lo que determina el impacto que tienen las empresas de noticias dentro de estas economías en detrimento de la agenda de contenidos y los medios a disposición para lograr comunicarlos.
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