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Con esperanza de cambio, decenas de tumaqueños recibieron resultados que dieron como ganador al candidato de Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia.

Julio César Rivera aseguró que comenzó una nueva era para los habitantes de Tumaco.

Aunque Juan Carlos Galindo, registrador nacional, dio un parte de tranquilidad en estas elecciones atípicas, algunos ciudadanos del barrio La Ciudadela denunciaron que sus votos iban a ser trasladados en un taxi.

Medidas de seguridad y presencia de la Policía en calles de Tumaco se mantienen para preservar el orden público.

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WASHINGTON — After meeting with the top Senate Republican negotiator on a Homeland Security spending bill, President Donald Trump said Thursday that it is “not an option” for Congress to fail to provide security on the U.S. border with Mexico.

“We’ll see what happens but I certainly hear they’re working on something, and both sides are moving along,” he told reporters at the White House after he met with Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., earlier in the day. “We need border security. We have to have it. It’s not an option.”

House and Senate negotiators from both parties are racing against a Monday deadline to hammer out a deal that funds the department and increases spending to control illegal immigration and the flow of contraband across the border.

Trump has insisted that he will build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico whether or not Congress grants him the $5.7 billion he has sought for the project, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that she will not sign off an any agreement that provides funding for it.

The president and leading lawmakers in both parties in Congress have voiced support for increasing spending for enhancements to technology for monitoring the border and for improvements to ports of entry to the United States. Trump has said he is considering tapping emergency powers and existing pots of money to build the wall if Congress doesn’t give him the cash he wants — a move that both sides see as likely to lead to a court fight.

If Congress and the president don’t strike an agreement on border security funding by Feb. 15 — and if they don’t pass a stopgap appropriations bill to buy more time — parts of the federal government will shut down for a second time in the last three months.

Trump ended a five-week government shutdown late last month when he announced that he would sign a short-term measure reopening closed federal agencies to give Congress time to negotiate a border-security agreement.

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What a difference a year made for Joseph Alcoff.

On Monday, the 37-year-old has a court date in connection with charges he’s facing in Philadelphia that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly being part of an Antifa mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic. Alcoff and two others charged in the attack have pleaded not guilty.

ANTIFA FIGURE CHARGED IN MARINE ATTACK

But while Democratic officials are distancing themselves from Alcoff now, until recently he was a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.

His endorsement apparently mattered when several congressional Democrats in February 2018 issued press releases with his quote backing their bill on regulating payday lenders.

As the payday campaign manager for the liberal group Americans for Financial Reform, Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic press conferences, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.

He was also pictured with now-House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Both committees oversee financial regulatory policies Alcoff was advocating.

Alcoff met with then CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other senior CFPB officials on April 2016, again in March 2017 and a third time in May 2017, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

During this time, he reportedly was an Antifa leader in Washington.

Alcoff’s former employer had little to say about the matter.

“As of December, Mr. Alcoff no longer works for AFR,” Carter Dougherty, spokesman for Americans for Financial Reform, told Fox News in an email.

Dougherty didn’t answer whether Alcoff had been fired or resigned. He also didn’t answer whether the organization was aware of Alcoff’s associations during his employment.

Alcoff was reportedly also an organizer for Smash Racism DC, the group responsible for gathering and shouting threats outside the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in November and for heckling Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife Heidi at a Washington restaurant in September. Reports have not said Alcoff was directly involved in either incident; only that he was associated with the group.

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Democrats are hardly eager to be associated with Alcoff now. Most spokespersons for Democratic members of Congress did not respond to inquiries from Fox News, or distanced themselves from Alcoff.

In one appearance, Alcoff dressed up as “Lenny the Loan Shark” at an event last March held outside the CFPB headquarters, which featured Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va.

“The congressman has never interacted with him nor has he taken any financial policy advice from him. Their names have appeared on the same piece of paper,” Beyer spokesman Aaron Fritschner told Fox News. “He appeared at the same press conference, but they didn’t speak to each other. This person was literally wearing a shark outfit.”

In the February 2018 press statement, House and Senate Democrats co-sponsoring the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act, which boosted regulation on payday lenders, issued versions of a press release, most including the Alcoff quote.

“The Consumer Bureau and Congress have in the past understood the way that payday lenders structure loans to catch Americans in a cycle of debt with exorbitant interest rates,” Alcoff said in the press releases. “It is unfortunate that some in Washington would rather open the loan shark gates than continue to think about sensible borrower protections. The SAFE Lending Act would put Washington back on track to stop the debt trap.”

In August, Alcoff was a guest on the House Democrats’ Joint Economic Committee podcast, criticizing the decline of the CFPB under the Trump administration.

“It’s been an incredible kind of erosion [Trump administration actions] recently, but these are really, really important basic functions [CFPB’s mission] that people across the country should be able to look to Washington and expect,” Alcoff said on the podcast.

In connection with the subsequent attack in Philadelphia, the two Hispanic Marines said the Antifa mob of about 10 or 12 attackers shouted racial slurs during the beating. Only three from the mob were identified and arrested. The attack happened at the same time as a right-wing rally in Philadelphia, which Antifa showed up to protest. The Marines who were assaulted said they were not even aware of the rally.

“On one side, you have the Proud Boys, a racist group of Nazi thugs. On the other side, you have anti-racist activists,” Alcoff’s lawyer Michael Coard told Philadelphia Magazine. “Unfortunately, in the mix, there were two Marines who were caught up in the whole thing as innocent bystanders.”

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Coard, an African American activist in Philadelphia, also told the magazine regarding the alleged slurs, “The question that I have for the D.A.’s office and the police is this: Does anybody think that I, Michael Coard, would represent a racist? … I would never represent a racist. In fact, if I believed that he was a racist, I would prosecute him myself.”

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/antifa-activist-facing-assault-charges-was-tied-to-democratic-policymakers

(CNN)It’s been 25 years since the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey riveted the nation, and now Boulder, Colorado, investigators say they have analyzed almost 1,000 DNA samples to find the killer.

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    Critics accused President Donald Trump of playing to anti-Semitic tropes during a speech Saturday in Florida at a conference sponsored by the Israeli-American Council, where he said many Jewish Americans do not “love Israel enough.” 

    “We strongly denounce these vile and bigoted remarks in which the president – once again – used anti-Semitic stereotypes to characterize Jews as driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel,” said Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, in a statement.

    Soifer’s group is currently running an ad that calls Trump the “biggest threat to American Jews,” and she said his comments Saturday “only reinforce” that belief. 

    In his address, Trump said the “Jewish State has never had a better friend in the White House” than himself, and he listed his acts since taking office, which he thought demonstrated that friendship. 

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    As he discussed his choice of David Friedman as the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Trump told the crowd in Hollywood, Florida, “We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more.”

    “We have to get them to love Israel more because you have people that are Jewish people, that are great people – they don’t love Israel enough. You know that.” 

    Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/08/jewish-groups-condemn-trump-remarks/4375229002/

    Congress is debating emergency humanitarian aid to care for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. The need is obvious. With virtually no barrier to stop them, thousands of migrants are crossing illegally into the United States every day. More than a million will come this year. U.S. law prevents border officials from quickly returning them. While they are being processed, some of the migrants, including children, are being kept temporarily in terrible conditions. American officials have an obligation to take care of them before those with no valid claim to be in the United States are returned to their home countries.

    Capitol Hill Democrats are reportedly torn about an emergency aid measure. On one hand, they want to care for the migrants. On the other hand, they fear approving aid would empower President Trump to carry out a plan to deport illegal immigrants whose cases have received full legal due process and who have been ordered deported. Such deportations used to be relatively uncontroversial but are now, apparently, unacceptable to some Democrats.

    This moment might be a time for introspection for those who have consistently downplayed the urgency of the situation on the border. Earlier this year, with the number of illegal crossings rising; with the nature of the crossers changing — more families and more children than in earlier years; with the testimony of border officials that they were unable to handle the situation — with all that happening, many Democrats and their supporters in the media forcefully denied that there was a crisis on the southern border. Here are a few — actually, more than a few — examples:

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the situation “a fake crisis at the border.”

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it “a crisis that does not exist.”

    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

    House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

    House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Eliot Engel called the situation “a fake crisis at the border.”

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

    Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said, “We don’t have a border crisis.”

    Rep. Lloyd Doggett called the situation “a phony border crisis.”

    Rep. Earl Blumenauer called it “a fake crisis at the border.”

    Rep. Sanford Bishop called it “a crisis that does not exist.”

    Reps. Jesus Garcia, Jose Serrano, Suzanne Bonamici, Donald Beyer, Pramila Jayapal, and Adriano Espaillat called it a “nonexistent border crisis.”

    Former congressman and current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, “There is no border crisis.”

    All are in public office and all have a say in determining policy. In the media, “Never Trump” Republicans, former Republicans, and other commentators have joined in.

    Former Rep. Joe Scarborough, now with MSNBC, called the situation “an imaginary border crisis.”

    Former Bush White House official Nicolle Wallace, also with MSNBC, said “There’s not a crisis.”

    Former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called the situation “a fake crisis.”

    GOP strategist Rick Wilson said, “There is no crisis on the border.”

    Former conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes said, “There is no crisis at the border.”

    The Washington Post’s Max Boot called the situation a “faux crisis.”

    The Post’s Jennifer Rubin said, “There is no crisis at the southern border.”

    The Post’s editorial board called it a “make-believe crisis.”

    And finally, lest anyone ignore the late-night Resistance, comedian Jimmy Kimmel called the situation “a fake border crisis.”

    Are 26 examples enough? There are plenty more, for those who care to look.

    The situation at the border is so terrible in part because those in power, and those cheering them on in the media, have steadfastly resisted commonsense measures to reduce the flow of illegal migrants — the large majority of whom do not have a valid claim of asylum — across the border. The resulting paralysis in border policy encourages more migrants to come, making the situation worse by the day.

    Perhaps some of those quoted above only want to deny the president a victory, no matter how sensible. Perhaps others are simply looking for a partisan advantage. Perhaps some sincerely believe in open, or virtually open, borders. It does not matter what their motives are. The crisis — yes, crisis — at the border worsens every day they do not act.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-what-now-for-those-who-denied-a-crisis-at-the-border

    Julio Guzmán, candidato a la presidencia por Todos por el Perú, está con un pie fuera de la contienda electoral, después de que el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones emitió un fallo que rechaza la apelación presentada por su agrupación política.

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    El politólogo Eduardo Dargent consideró que esta es una situación difícil. “Nos hemos metido en un entrampamiento pensando que con formalidades se pueden fortalecer los partidos. Sin embargo, el propósito de la ley no es anular candidaturas, sino generar cierta competencia y evitar trampas internas”, señaló.

    Julio Guzmán tendría un problema, mientras que los que están tranquilos son los que han sabido trampear. Hacer como si tuvieran todos los requisitos, a pesar de que sabemos que varios partidos no tienen, en realidad, democracia interna.

    Eduardo Dargent

    Para el docente de la PUCP, más allá del fallo del JNE, es necesaria una revisión general de la normativa vigente. “Retirar partidos por reglamento es algo que debe revisarse  y así poder dejar establecidas causas extremas. Sólo bajo esas causas extremas deberían poder retirarse las candidaturas. Estas reglamentaciones actuales sólo generan ‘simulacros’ del cumplimiento de la ley, lo que nos lleva a situaciones absurdas”, dijo.

    En esa misma dirección apunta el análisis del ex jefe de la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE), Fernando Tuesta. Para él, los organismos electorales estarían en una situación difícil.

    Guzmán es el típico outsider. Hay gente que vota por él que no lo ha visto nunca.

    Fernando Tuesta

    Para el sociólogo, la normativa actual se encuentra fuera de la realidad. “Exigen a los partidos cosas que ellos no pueden cumplir. De esta forma, los partidos entregan papeles que no se condicen con lo que se hace”, indicó.


    Si se va Guzmán, ¿A dónde se iría el voto?

    Dargent considera que, de salir Julio Guzmán, hay un elector que decide tarde su voto en campaña y que podría irse con Acción Popular. “En especial los jóvenes, algunos también podrían irse con Verónika Mendoza. El votante urbano, que está buscando algo nuevo, podría en definitiva irse hacia Alfredo Barnechea y, en menor medida, a PPK”, afirmó.

    Asimismo, de quedarse, Julio Guzmán se podría ver fortalecido. “De hecho, el antifujimorismo ayudaría a que crezca Guzmán en una segunda vuelta, eso ya lo han dicho las encuestas”, añadió. Según su perspectiva, candidatos como Julio Guzmán o Barnechea pueden posicionarse al centro del espectro político, lo que atraería el voto antifujimorista.

    Por otro lado, Tuesta comentó que la intención de voto no pasaría de un candidato a otro por cercanía ideológica o programática. “Yo creo que el electorado de Guzmán va a dispersarse porque no se trata de una agrupación con identidad fuerte, donde se daría que dicho liderazgo dirija los votos que lo apoyaron en razón de otro. En el Perú no suele haber endoso de votos”, señaló.

    Tuesta coincide en que Alfredo Barnechea podría recoger esos votos pues, a pesar de ser un político antiguo, se presenta como nuevo para la la gran mayoría de electores jóvenes:

    Asimismo, consideró que el voto de Guzmán es de centro y se podría inclinar hacia Verónika Mendoza. “También podría ir a PPK e incluso, yo diría, un sector a Keiko Fujimori“, refirió.

    Source Article from http://larepublica.pe/politica/741841-que-pasaria-si-sacan-de-carrera-julio-guzman

    Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe former President TrumpDonald TrumpSix people who guarded Roger Stone entered Capitol during attack: NYT Cassidy pens column explaining vote to convict Trump Puerto Rico governor: Congress ‘morally obligated’ to act on statehood vote MORE should have been convicted during his second Senate impeachment trial, an ABC News-Ipsos poll taken shortly after the trial ended shows.

    Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed in the new poll, which was conducted from Feb.13 to 14 and is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 547 adults, said Trump should have been convicted by the upper chamber on charges that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol last month.

    The Senate acquitted Trump on Saturday by a 57-43 vote. A conviction would have required two-thirds voting to convict, or 67 votes.

    The poll found that support for the conviction was starkly partisan. Almost 90 percent of respondents polled who identified as Democrats said they believe the former president should have been convicted, compared to 64 percent of those identifying as independents and 14 percent of those identifying as Republicans who said the same.

    A majority of respondents agreed that the evidence brought against the former president during the trial was strong. Most polled also said they believed that senators voted during the trial based on what party they belonged to. 

    Fifty-six percent of respondents in the new poll said they thought the evidence against Trump in the trial was strong, while 37 percent said they thought it was weak.

    A closer look at the respondents’ respective political parties also showed a clear partisan divide regarding the evidence. In the poll, most respondents identifying as Democrats said they believed the evidence in the trial was strong, compared to a minority of self-identified Republican respondents who said the same.

    Seventy-seven percent of those polled also said they believed partisan ties played a role in how senators voted. By comparison, just 23 percent of those polled said they thought senators cast their vote based on the facts presented. 

    The poll said respondents identifying as Republicans and Democrats believed in “nearly equal numbers” that “the senators voted based on politics.”

    The poll was conducted using KnowledgePanel, which Ipsos described as the “largest and most well-established online probability-based panel that is representative of the adult US population.”

    It was conducted in Spanish and English and the data was “weighted to adjust for gender by age, race/ethnicity, education, Census region, metropolitan status, household income, and party identification,” the market research company said.

    “The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.8 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for results based on the entire sample of adults,” the company added. “The margin of sampling error takes into account the design effect, which was 1.34.”

    Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/538859-nearly-60-percent-say-trump-should-have-been-convicted-in-impeachment

    Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenKlobuchar releases names of bundlers Poll: Sanders takes lead in Iowa less than a month before vote Incumbency’s advantage could trump Democrats in 2020 MORE trounces his 2020 presidential primary competitors on support among black Democrats according to a national Washington Post-Ipsos poll released Saturday. 

    Forty-eight percent of black Democrats back the former vice president, outpacing his nearest competitor by 28 points. Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersHill.TV’s Saagar Enjeti: ‘Woke cultural left’ could complicate Sanders’s economic message Klobuchar releases names of bundlers On The Money: Economy adds 145K jobs, meeting expectations | Dow briefly surpasses 29,000 for first time | Poll finds majority back tax hike for richest Americans MORE (I-Vt.) comes in second with 20 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHill.TV’s Saagar Enjeti: ‘Woke cultural left’ could complicate Sanders’s economic message Klobuchar releases names of bundlers On The Money: Economy adds 145K jobs, meeting expectations | Dow briefly surpasses 29,000 for first time | Poll finds majority back tax hike for richest Americans MORE (D-Mass.) with 9 percent.

    Biden’s firewall among African American voters has helped him maintain his high levels of support in national and early state polls. 

    However, the poll also shows signs of strength for Sanders among younger black Democrats, with him leading Biden 42 percent to 30 percent among African Americans under the age of 35. The Vermont Independent has long banked on strong support from younger Democrats. Biden, however, leads Sanders by a 41-16 percent margin among black Democrats ages 35-49 and gets a whopping 68 percent support among those aged 65 and older. 

    The poll flashes warning signs for several other top- and middle-tier candidates who have thus far failed to gain traction among the crucial voting bloc.

    Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegKlobuchar releases names of bundlers Poll: Sanders takes lead in Iowa less than a month before vote Mandy Moore to join Buttigieg on campaign trail in Iowa MORE, who has posted strong showings in largely white Iowa and New Hampshire but polls far weaker in South Carolina, hits only 2 percent in the poll. Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharKlobuchar releases names of bundlers Poll: Sanders takes lead in Iowa less than a month before vote Impeachment trial weighs on 2020 Democrats MORE (D-Minn.) receives less than 1 percent support from black Democrats. 

    The poll is one of the most comprehensive to date of a demographic that typically plays an outsized role in determining the Democratic presidential nominee. Biden gets the support of 58 percent of black Democrats in the South, a region with disproportionately high numbers of African Americans that helped propel both Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaIncumbency’s advantage could trump Democrats in 2020 Trump points to stock market gains: ‘How are your 409K’s doing?’ The Memo: Trump claims Iran win while turning down heat MORE and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe blue-state exodus gains momentum The Hill’s Campaign Report: Deadline day for Dems to make January debate Graham, Paul rift deepens over Trump’s war powers MORE to the presidential nominations in 2008 and 2016. 

    African Americans surveyed by The Post pointed to Biden’s association with Obama and his perceived electability as the chief reasons for their support.

    Biden “is the candidate that can try to get this country back on track, because we are way out of control,” said Eula Woodberry, a retired school district budget analyst in Dallas. “He’s levelheaded. I think he’s experienced, and I think he will look at the big picture. . . . He’s the type of person who can serve as the nucleus to bring people back together.”

    “You know he was vice president under Obama. You know his experience. I trust him. I believe him. I think he’s the only person among the Democrats who can defeat Trump,” agreed Edward Phillips.

    The Post-Ipsos poll surveyed 1,088 non-Hispanic black adults from Jan. 2-8 and has a margin of error of 3.5 percent.

    Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/477829-biden-trounces-other-candidates-in-poll-of-black-democrats

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    Los reptiles fueron descubiertos en el lugar en 2015.

    La más grande de las dos, contando su larga y delgada cola, puede medir unos 60 centímetros.

    Pero su tamaño pequeño y aspecto inofensivo no le ha impedido a estas dos especies de lagartijas detener un multimillonario proyecto ferroviario en el sur de Alemania.

    Desde que fuera anunciado en 1994, este megaproyecto bautizado Stuttgart 21, que incluye la construcción de 56 km de vías nuevas para la red transeuropea de ferrocarril, ha estado plagado de demoras por sus elevados costos y por las disputas sobre su impacto ambiental.

    El problema ahora -que tiene la obra frenada desde hace 18 meses- son dos especies de lagartijas consideradas amenazadas en Europa y que fueron halladas en la ruta prevista entre Stuttgart y Ulm.

    Una de ellas es el lagarto ágil (lacerta agilis), una especie de reptil de color variable que pasa el invierno bajo tierra y duerme en agujeros.

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    Frente a la estación muchos han dejado mensajes expresando su desacuerdo con el proyecto.

    En el terreno por donde pasará el tren hallaron un grupo pequeño.

    Pero los individuos de la otra especie en cuestión, la llamada lagartija roquera (Podarcis muralis), se cuentan por miles

    Resolver los problemas cuando se presentan

    Según Deutsche Bahn, la principal compañía detrás del proyecto, el costo de reubicar a estos reptiles ronda los US$16 millones.

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    Un pequeño grupo de lagartos ágiles fue encontrado en el sitio por donde pasará la ruta del ferrocarril.

    Este incluye contratar a un equipo de expertos para atraparlos, transportarlos a su nuevo hábitat a unos 9 Km de allí y monitorear su proceso de adaptación.

    El costo de estos servicios por cada lagartija es de alrededor de US$3.000, afirmó la empresa.

    En opinión de los grupos conservacionistas, el elevado costo del operativo se debe a que el problema, identificado ya hace dos años, no se resolvió en su momento.

    “Si resuelves estos problemas cuando se suscitan, proteger a especies (como estas) no tiene por qué ser tan caro”, le dijo el director de la asociación para la protección de la naturaleza Nabu, Johannes Enssle, a medios alemanes.

    Si bien el proyecto de construcción, que también implica la destrucción de la estación original de Stuttgart, fue anunciado hace más de 20 años, las obras comenzaron recién en 2010.

    Cuando se informó al público de la obra, su costo estimado era de US$2.670 millones. Ahora, asciende a entre US$6.800 millones y US$10.800.

    Se espera que el nuevo complejo ferroviario comience a funcionar en 2021.

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    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Time Warner Cable News NY1 Noticias, New York City’s only 24-hour
    Spanish language local news network, announced it will commemorate the
    10-year anniversary of Pura Política, with a special documentary
    with highlights from the past decade of the longest-running local
    Spanish language political talk show in New York City, on Friday, June 5th
    at 6 p.m. and 11p.m.

    The documentary special will feature guests including, Congresswoman,
    Nydia Velazquez, State Senator, Adriano Espaillat, and City Council
    Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito,
    who will explore the highs and lows
    for Latinos during the past decade. The commemorative program will also
    include an exclusive sit-down interview with New York City Mayor Bill
    de Blasio
    where he is asked to name one Latino politician he
    believes would be a strong candidate for New York City Mayor in the near
    future.

    Pura Política first premiered as a weekly political talk show on
    June 3, 2005, with then Mayor Michael Bloomberg as its first guest.
    Bloomberg had just kicked off his re-election campaign with a
    Spanish-language commercial.

    “Since we aired our first program, Hispanic influence has grown
    tremendously and the Spanish language has become ubiquitous in city
    politics. Pura Política is a key platform for political leaders looking
    to engage Latinos and talk about their issues. We look forward to many
    more decades of great interviews and political analysis,” said program
    host, Juan Manuel Benitez.

    NY1 Noticias’ Pura Política’s 10th
    Anniversary Special
    will air Friday, June 5th at 6 p.m.
    and 11p.m. on channel 95 and channel 831 on Time Warner Cable in New
    York, and channel 194 on Cablevision in New York City.

    Time Warner Cable News (TWC News) provides in-depth local news
    programming exclusively for Time Warner Cable video customers. Time
    Warner Cable’s 17 news networks operate in Texas (Austin, San Antonio);
    New York (Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Hudson Valley, Central New York
    and the Southern Tier); North Carolina (Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro,
    Wilmington); Antelope Valley, CA, and the group’s flagship network NY1
    and Spanish language network TWC News NY1 Noticias in New York City. NY1
    Noticias is also available online at http://ny1noticias.com.
    Viewers can follow the news team on twitter @NY1Noticias or visit www.ny1noticias.com
    for the latest news coverage on NY1 Noticias including real-time
    updates.

    Time Warner Cable

    Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is among the largest providers of
    video, high-speed data and voice services in the United States,
    connecting 15 million customers to entertainment, information and each
    other. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers data, video and voice
    services to businesses of all sizes, cell tower backhaul services to
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    Incredible GoPro footage takes you inside the gunfire-heavy raid that ended drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s six months on the run.

    The video, obtained from Mexican authorities, looks as if it’s from an action movie. The camera follows the armed men as they storm the house, unleash grenades and bullets, and search room to room.

    The Friday raid was called “Operation Black Swan,” according to the Mexican show “Primero Noticias.” Authorities decided to launch the raid Thursday after they got a tip about where Guzman was sleeping, the show reported.

    Seventeen elite unit Mexican Marines launched their assault on the house in the city of Los Mochis at 4:40 a.m., “Primero Noticias” said.

    They were met by about one dozen well-armed guards inside who were prepared for a fight, the show said.

    The Marines moved from room to room, clearing the house. Upstairs they found two men in one room and found two women on the floor of a bathroom. All were captured, “Primero Noticias” said.

    After 15 minutes, the Marines controlled the entire house, according to “Primero Noticias.”

    In the end, five guards were killed and two men and two women were detained. One of the women was the same cook Guzman had with him when he was detained a couple years ago, according to “Primero Noticias.”

    Eventually the marines determined that the only bedroom on the first floor was Guzman’s and they began pounding on the walls and moving furniture, finding hidden doors, the show said.

    His room had a king-sized bed, bags from fashionable clothing stores, bread and cookie wrappers, and medicine including injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and cough syrups, the show said. The two-story house had four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There were flat-screen TVs and Internet connection throughout the house, according to “Primero Noticias.”

    The Marines eventually found a hidden passageway behind a mirror, with a handle hidden in the light fixture. The handle opened a secret door, leading down into the escape tunnel, the show explained.

    The escape tunnel was fully lit and led to an access door for the city sewage system, “Primero Noticias” said, adding that Guzman had at least a 20-minute head start on the Marines.

    The address where Guzman was captured had been monitored for a month, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez has said. According to Gomez, Guzman and his lieutenant escaped through that drainage system.

    “Primero Noticias” said it obtained surveillance footage showing Guzman and his lieutenant emerging from the manhole cover, where they then stole two cars to flee, the show said.

    Guzman was finally caught when he and the lieutenant were stopped on a highway by Mexican Federal Police, the show said.

    Authorities took them to a motel to wait for reinforcement. The men were then taken to Los Mochis airport and transfered to Mexico City.

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    Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016.

    Guzman is now back in prison as his lawyers fight his extradition to the U.S.

    The drug kingpin escaped from the Altiplano prison near Mexico City on July 11, launching an active manhunt. When guards realized that he was missing from his cell, they found a ventilated tunnel and exit had been constructed in the bathtub inside Guzman’s cell. The tunnel extended for about a mile underground and featured an adapted motorcycle on rails that officials believe was used to transport the tools used to create the tunnel, Monte Alejandro Rubido, the head of the Mexican national security commission, said in July.

    Guzman had been sent there after he was arrested in February 2014. He spent more than 10 years on the run after escaping from a different prison in 2001. It’s unclear exactly how he had escaped, but he did receive help from prison guards who were prosecuted and convicted.

    Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was once described by the U.S. Treasury as “the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.” The Sinaloa cartel allegedly uses elaborate tunnels for drug trafficking and has been estimated to be responsible for 25 percent of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. through Mexico.

    Source Article from http://abcnews.go.com/International/inside-dramatic-raid-el-chapo/story?id=36216172

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    (CNN)Ty Cobb — no, not that Ty Cobb — isn’t a household name outside of Washington legal circles.

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      In the administrative skills category, Trump was ranked last among the 45 former presidents. He also fell in last in the category of moral authority, just below Buchanan — who is most widely known for his failure to prevent the Civil War. Trump fared better in the Public Persuasion category, in which he was ranked 32nd, and economic management, where he was 34th.

      Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley, who has advised C-SPAN on the survey since its first iteration, said one reason for Trump’s low ranking could be his 2021 impeachment, which made him the only U.S. president ever to be impeached twice.

      “This year, people compared which is worse: Watergate or the Trump impeachment?,” Brinkley said in a C-SPAN press release. “The word ‘impeachment’ probably cost Nixon a few spots downward this year, and maybe Clinton too.”

      Trump’s four years in office were also marked by the onset of Covid-19, his administration’s handling of which has been widely criticized, as well as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, for which Trump has been widely blamed. Trump still maintains the disproven claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

      In the overall survey, Abraham Lincoln was ranked first, as has been the case since the survey began. George Washington came in second and Franklin D. Roosevelt in third — the same former presidents comprising the top three in the list since 2000. The top nine rankings remained the same as they were in 2017, following Obama’s second term.

      In Obama’s climb to the top 10, his rating improved greatly in the relations with Congress category, where he jumped from 39th to 32nd. In the performed within context of times category, Obama also improved from 15th to 10th. The 44th president’s pursued equal justice for all rating remained his highest, with him sitting at third, just below Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson, for the second survey in a row.

      C-SPAN noted that the category with the most change in rankings over the last 20 years was pursued equal justice for all, with Woodrow Wilson’s category ranking dropping 17 points since the first survey to this year’s.

      “Despite the fact that we’ve become more aware of the historical implications of racial injustice in this country and we’re continuing to grapple with those issues, we still have slaveholding presidents at or near the top of the list,” Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford said in the press release. Washington, still the second president on the list, enslaved people during his term. “So even though we may be a bit more enlightened about race today, we are still discounting its significance when evaluating these presidents.”

      Obama’s move into the group of top 10 presidents in this year’s survey edged out Johnson, who fell to 11th place. Other presidents whose position dropped in this year’s survey include Gerald Ford (28th place) and Bill Clinton (19th place), while others, like Warren Harding (37th place) and Chester Arthur (30th place) moved their way up the list. Still, the rankings remained largely similar to the previous survey, taken in 2017.

      The largest jump since the 2000 survey to 2021 was claimed by Ulysses S. Grant, who served during Reconstruction. Grant was ranked No. 33 in the first survey, and now stands at No. 20.

      “Grant,” Brinkley said in the press release, “is having his Hamilton moment.”

      Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/trump-cspan-president-ranking-497184

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      Mick Mulvaney called the bid to see President Trump’s tax returns a “political stunt”

      One of US President Donald Trump’s top aides has said that opposition Democrats will “never” see his tax returns.

      White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the call for the records to be released was a “political stunt”.

      On Wednesday a Congressional tax committee submitted a request for six years of the president’s returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

      Unlike previous presidents, Mr Trump has refused to publish his tax details.

      During an interview on Fox News, Mr Mulvaney was asked if Congress would ever see the president’s tax returns.

      “No, never,” he replied. “Nor should they.”

      He added: “Democrats are demanding that the IRS turn over the documents. That is not going to happen, and they know it. This is a political stunt.”

      What have Democrats said?

      In response, Democrats said that the request by tax committee chairman Bill Neal was both legal and necessary.

      Dan Kildee, a Democrat and a tax committee member, told ABC: “This is a legitimate authority that the Congress has. This president, by the way, is the least transparent president we’ve had in half a century.”

      Every US presidential candidate since 1976 has released their tax returns, but there is no law requiring it.

      The Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives in mid-term elections last year, giving them the ability to launch investigations into Mr Trump’s administration and business affairs.

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      Unlike previous presidents, Mr Trump has not published his tax details

      It comes after one of Mr Trump’s lawyers said it was “harassment” to keep asking for his tax returns, and hinted at possible legal action in the future.

      “His request is a transparent effort by one political party to harass an official from the other party because they dislike his politics and speech,” attorney William Consovoy said of Mr Neal.

      He said the request was a “misguided attempt” to politicise tax laws and could also end up interfering with audits. He said the US Treasury should not comply with the demand.

      Mr Trump also added that he believed the law was “100% on my side”.

      Why hasn’t Trump released his tax returns?

      Mr Trump has in the past said that he is unable to release his tax returns because they were being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

      However the IRS has said that he could release the returns even if they are under audit.

      In February Mr Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen suggested during testimony to Congress that Mr Trump’s taxes were not under audit during the 2016 presidential campaign – when Mr Trump said they were.

      Mr Trump had not wanted to release the tax returns because the resulting scrutiny could have led to an audit and “he’ll ultimately have taxable consequences, penalties and so on”.

      Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47847022

      Bernie Sanders made waves as a presidential candidate in 2016 — with supporters backing the Vermont senator’s call for a “political revolution” and repeating the popular campaign phrase “Feel The Bern.”

      And though Hillary Clinton ultimately defeated him to become the Democratic party’s nominee, the 77-year-old is making quite a comeback.

      Sanders has already hauled in a whopping $18.2 million since launching his 2020 campaign in February, surpassing his 2016 numbers. He appears to be miles ahead of his competitors, making at least $6 million more than his closest fundraising opponent, California Sen. Kamala Harris, who has pulled in at least $12 million in donations.

      Sanders will join Fox News Channel for a Town Hall co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. ET in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

      WHO’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2020? GROWING FIELD OF CANDIDATES JOIN RACE FOR DEMOCRATIC NOD

      Name recognition has apparently worked in Sanders’ favor this time around.

      His name remains on the top of polls, typically behind former Vice President Joe Biden who has stayed silent about his 2020 plans thus far. In an early March Monmouth poll, Sanders sat just 3 percentage points behind Biden. Weeks later, in a Fox News poll, Democratic primary voters once again voted him as their second choice — with Biden at 31 percent and Sanders at 23 percent.

      Before Sanders discusses his political record, economic policies and ideas on stage during Fox News’ Town Hall next Monday, take a look at five fast facts to know about the self-described Democratic socialist.

      He’s the longest-serving Independent member of Congress in U.S. history

      Sanders has served as Vermont’s senator since 2007. Before that, he spent 16 years as a lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives. His combined years of service in the government makes him the longest-serving Independent member of Congress ever, according to his official bio.

      His political career kickstarted in 1981 when he was elected mayor of Burlington by just 10 votes. Sanders often points to his narrow mayoral victory as an example that every vote counts.

      “In 1981, I won my first election to become Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes. Please remember that every vote matters and you can make a real difference in shaping our nation’s future,” tweeted Sanders in October 2018 ahead of the midterm elections.

      He was mayor for roughly eight years before stepping down to gain a seat in the House in 1991.

      He was the first non-Christian candidate to win a presidential primary

      Though he didn’t publicly discuss this historic moment, many pointed out in 2016 that Sanders was the first non-Christian to win a presidential primary.

      Sanders, who is Jewish, has said in the past that his spiritual nature has encouraged him to seek office.

      “I believe that there is a connection between all living things and that my belief in God requires me to do all that I can to follow the ‘Golden Rule,’ to do unto others and as I would have them do unto me,” he once said, according to USA Today. “As a public servant, it requires me to do all that I can to ensure that every person lives with dignity and security.”

      He once worked as a carpenter, writer

      According to his Congressional biography, Sanders once worked as a carpenter and journalist before trying his hand at politics.

      After spending time in Israel, the Brooklyn native moved to Vermont, taking on various jobs including carpentry, filmmaking and freelance writing.

      “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t,” Denny Morrisseau, a Liberty Union member in the early 1970s, told Politico in 2015.

      He didn’t make a decent living off his writing either. He submitted articles to local newspapers including the Vermont Freeman and Vermont Life, among others, the publication states.

      He was first to propose “Medicare for All”

      The “Medicare for All” bill was first introduced in 2016 by Sanders, who said it would be another step toward achieving universal health care.

      “Medicare for All” is a single-payer health insurance plan that would require all U.S. residents to be covered with no copays and deductibles for medical services. The insurance industry would be regulated to play a minor role in the system.

      BERNIE SANDERS, IN IOWA, PROMISES ‘MEDICARE FOR ALL’; SAYS TRUMP ‘EMBARASSES US EVERY SINGLE DAY’

      “[Sanders’] plan will cover the entire continuum of health care, from inpatient to outpatient care; preventive to emergency care; primary care to specialty care, including long-term and palliative care; vision, hearing and oral health care; mental health and substance abuse services; as well as prescription medications, medical equipment, supplies, diagnostics and treatments,” Sanders’ old campaign website explained. “Patients will be able to choose a health care provider without worrying about whether that provider is in-network and will be able to get the care they need without having to read any fine print or trying to figure out how they can afford the out-of-pocket costs.”

      The phrase “for all” doesn’t mean the plan would instantly give every American insurance. It would be slowly extended to citizens (from older to younger) over a period of four years, NPR reports.

      You can read more about the plan here.

      He’s had several failed campaigns

      His 2016 Democratic bid was perhaps his most notable campaign fail in recent history — but that’s not the only time Sanders has faced a political loss.

      He also had unsuccessful Independent runs for U.S. Senate in 1972 and 1974, according to his Congressional bio. And he lost the election for governor of Vermont in 1972, 1976 and 1986.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-fast-facts-5-things-to-know-about-the-vermont-senator

      El anuncio de la intervención de la Autoridad Federal de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual y de la Autoridad Federal de Tecnologías de la Información y las Telecomunicaciones fue anunciada por Aguad durante una conferencia de prensa en Casa de Gobierno, horas antes de que se ordenara un fuerte operativo policial en la sede de esos edificios para impedir que ingresen sus titulares desplazados por Macri.

      “Existe una rebeldía (de Sabbatella y Berner) para atenerse al nuevo régimen”, dijo el ministro a la hora de dar las razones por las cuales se desplazó por decreto a esos funcionarios y los acusó de “tomar decisiones que se contraponen y contradicen” con la propia Ley de Medios. “No podemos seguir de esta manera. Esta rebelión justifica la intervención porque no no estamos en un caos”.

      Aguad dijo, además, que otro de los motivos por los cuales se echó a Sabbatella es porque este “es un militante político que “llenó el país de seguidores” suyos, y confirmó que el interventor que ocupará su lugar es Agustín Garzón, militante del PRO y exlegislador porteño por esa fuerza liderada por el presidente Macri.

      “La Ley de Medios en este decreto de intervención no se toca, por ahora. Lo único que hicimos fue remover las autoridades”, dijo y consideró que “cada gobierno tiene derecho a nombrar sus funcionarios”.

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      Workers tend to patients at a drive-in center in Jericho, N.Y., that is offering COVID-19 testing.

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      Workers tend to patients at a drive-in center in Jericho, N.Y., that is offering COVID-19 testing.

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      President Trump announced Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “now is fully engaged at the highest levels” in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Trump says the agency is activated at level 1.

      FEMA is best known for coordinating responses with state and local governments to natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes. Responding to a pandemic is a different job for the agency.

      “This is a very different kind of work for FEMA,” Trump said, “but they will come through as they always do. We have tremendous people, tremendous talent in FEMA.”

      The agency is readying more than 50 teams to support states and territories across the country “as they activate their emergency operations centers and address the COVID-19 threat,” a FEMA spokesperson told NPR.

      The elevation in incident level is a step some experts see as long overdue. All of this “could have been done before,” Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security said. “We have a saying in emergency management … go big or stay home.”

      She says with Americans literally staying home, “The federal government now needs to go big.”

      Kayyem, now a professor at Harvard, says FEMA’s level 1 “sounds scary, but it’s actually quite good knowing the needs that we’re about to have.” By invoking level 1 status today, Kayyem says, Trump “basically pre-positioned us for what we know is coming, which is tremendous demands on our public safety and public health apparatus.”

      According to it’s website, FEMA defines Level 1 as an incident that “due to its severity, size, location, actual or potential impact on public health, welfare, and infrastructure, … requires an extreme amount of direct Federal assistance.”

      Vice President Pence announced that Trump will be hosting all the nation’s governors from a video conference at FEMA, “to ensure that they have a full connection to all of the activated regions for FEMA going forward.”

      While stockpiling generators and bottled water, as it does to prepare for natural disasters is likely not to be necessary this time, FEMA’s experience in purchasing large quantities of materials should prove helpful.

      James Kendra, director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, says under level 1, FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center “has gone to a 24/7 staffing status.” For the last few days it’s been at level 2, meaning a 12-hour status. Kendra adds that at the NRCC representatives of various agencies “gather to exchange information and keep overall track of the federal response and interactions with the states.”

      And while the Department of Health and Human Services remains the lead agency in the government’s response to the coronavirus, Daniel Kaniewski, the former number two official at FEMA, says that Wednesday’s announcement “shifts the operational center of gravity from HHS to FEMA,” since he says, “the departments and agencies will send staff to FEMA to coordinate operations.”

      “FEMA now leads federal coordination on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services,” a spokesperson said, “and the White House Task Force who are leading the whole-of-government response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.”

      And despite growing fears around the coronavirus pandemic, Kayyem rates the move Wednesday as “a good day,” in terms of how the administration is treating it’s response to coronavirus.

      She says it signals that the government and the White House “recognize and are anticipating the stresses on our public health and public safety communities at every locality and every state and are beginning to organize resources to support them.”

      Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817903726/federal-emergency-management-agency-steps-up-incident-level-as-coronavirus-needs