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It was a white Thanksgiving in Southern California, as a “weather whiplash” storm dumped several inches of snow in some regions — and helped to extinguish a wildfire, according to a new report.

Up to 8 inches of snow fell in some parts of the Antelope Valley, at the western tip of the Mojave Desert, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Over the last two days, Lancaster has seen 4 to 5 inches of snow and 3 inches fell in nearby Palmdale, the paper reported.

Part of Interstate 5 was also closed amid heavy snow, according to the report.

The snow helped extinguish a blaze known as the Cave Fire in Santa Barbara County that had threatened homes earlier in the week, authorities told the outlet.

“This is just really unique. We’ve never had fire with active snowfall near the point of origin. It’s very unusual,” county fire department spokesman Mike Eliason told the outlet. “It was a very thankful moment. Thankful that no one got injured, no one lost their home. That the snow came over heavy rain. And I’m just thankful that everybody got home safe.”

The weather was a significant departure from conditions earlier this month, climatologist Bill Patzert noted.

“It was weather whiplash — an abrupt change from hot and dry to unusually frigid,” he told the outlet. “Like 0 to 60 in a Tesla.”

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Meanwhile, intense downpours have drenched other parts of Southern California.

The Los Angeles Basin saw half an inch to 1 ¼ inches of rain over a 12-hour period ending Thursday morning, the National Weather Service told the Times.

San Francisco — which, for the most part, has been dry for about eight months — saw about an inch of rain, along with pea-sized hail.

The snow brought a mixture of glee and dismay to Californians on Twitter.

“It’s actually snowing in California!!!” one person wrote. “It’s been so so long since we last had snow where I live! THIS IS AMAZING!!!! It’s SOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!”

“People are excited about snow in California,” another user shared. “THATS SCARY AS HELL. IT AINT SUPPOSED TO SNOW HERE GUYS.”

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2019/11/28/southern-california-gets-a-white-thanksgiving-with-several-inches-of-snow/

Pemex se endeuda para pagar pasivos. Contrató crédito por 15 mil millones de pesos para pagar al 85% de sus proveedores.

A la presunta hija de El Chapo ya le dio frío por andar hablando. Que no dijo nada contra el gobierno ni contra el Mayo, que la difaman. Reportero de The Guardian dice que la tiene grabada.

En Guadalajara se dan con todo en marcha contra Uber. Desde ayer esta empresa inició operaciones en Aguascalientes, Cuernavaca, Hermosillo, Mérida, Mexicali y San Luis Potosí. Polémica por el modelo de taxis en el país, que está en una encrucijada.

El empresario mexicano David Martínez Guzmán compra Telecom Argentina y Nextel de aquel país. No hace ruido ni se tienen fotos de él, pero ahí anda gastando.

Las historias de Eva Gonda Rivera y María Asunción Aramburuzabala, dos de las mujeres más ricas del país, y todo gracias a las cervezas en Alfa y en Modelo.

¿Qué harías si perdieras 27 mil 100 millones de dólares de tu fortuna? A Carlos Slim le pasó: bajó su negocio de telecom y lo bailaron con el tipo de cambio.

AMLO acusa censura luego de que ordenaran bajar spot de Morena; Tribunal Electoral asegura que son actos anticipados de campaña, él lo niega “¿cuál campaña?” (sí, ¿cuál campaña?)

Costos y beneficios de usar Periscope contra el #vecinogandalla. ¿Tú lo usarías? Nexos reflexiona sobre el tema.

Murió George Martin, el llamado “quinto Beatle”; fue el productor de casi todos los álbumes del cuarteto de Liverpool.

Checamos al día 74 veces nuestro correo electrónico; el año pasado se enviaron 205 billones de e-mails diarios. Esto es factor de estrés y baja productividad. ¿Cómo hacer para no depender de esta forma de comunicación?

Amazon lanza su servicio de tv en streaming con un programa de modas. Seguirá metiéndose en generación de contenidos.

HBO presentó avances de la sexta temporada de “Games of Thrones”. Los fans enloquecieron con ellos.

Source Article from http://www.publimetro.com.mx/noticias/noticias-de-hoy-la-informacion-mas-importante-del-dia-9-de-marzo-de-2016/mpci!6qMWfD8SFWZp6/

During the talks last week, the Taliban signaled their seriousness by appointing one of their most powerful officials from the original movement, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, as their chief peace negotiator.

Though American and Afghan officials said that Mr. Baradar was not directly involved in the marathon meetings last week, with some sessions lasting as long as eight hours, he was expected to take the lead in the talks to come. The senior American officials said new high-level talks would start in late February, but suggested that teams from both sides could start on technical details before then.

The interview with Mr. Khalilzad on Monday was the first time that the American government had directly confirmed some details of the agreement taking shape.

As the first step in the framework, Mr. Khalilzad said that the Taliban were firm about agreeing to keep Afghan territory from being used as a staging ground for terrorism by groups like Al Qaeda and other international terrorists, and had agreed to provide guarantees and an enforcement mechanism for that promise.

That had long been a primary demand by American officials, in an effort to keep Afghanistan from reverting back to being the kind of terrorist base it had been at the war’s start, in 2001 after Al Qaeda’s Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

The next set of contingencies laid out by the senior American official involved in the talks would see the United States agreeing to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan, but only in return for the Taliban’s entering talks with the Afghan government and agreeing to a lasting cease-fire.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/world/asia/taliban-peace-deal-afghanistan.html

El gobierno brasileño ordenó el miércoles desplegar tropas en Brasilia para defender los edificios públicos atacados durante una protesta masiva contra el presidente Michel Temer, acorralado por acusaciones de corrupción.

“En este momento ya hay tropas federales aquí, en el palacio de Itamaraty [sede de la cancillería], y ya están llegando tropas para asegurar la protección de los edificios ministeriales”, anunció el ministro de Defensa, Raul Jungmann.

Grupos de jóvenes manifestantes encapuchados atacaron con piedras y palos varios ministerios a lo largo de la avenida que conduce al Congreso y consiguieron invadir una sala del Ministerio de Agricultura, donde prendieron fuego.

De su lado, la policía lanzaba gases lacrimógenos y bombas de ruido contra la multitud.

Reporteros de la AFP dieron parte de escenas de gran confusión e imágenes de la televisión GloboNews mostraban varios focos de incendio.

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Llamar al Ejército es “una medida extrema del gobierno Temer y la señal clara de que se perdió el control, con consecuencias muy malas para nuestra democracia y para las instituciones”, dijo André Cesar, analista político y socio de la consultora legislativa Hold en Brasilia.

Entre 35.000 personas y 100.000, según cifras de la Secretaría de Seguridad del Distrito Federal y de los organizadores, respondieron al llamado sindical para exigir el fin de los programas de austeridad y la salida de Temer, que batalla por su supervivencia política desde hace una semana.

Reporteros de la AFP dieron parte de escenas de gran confusión, varios focos de incendio y choques entre agentes y manifestantes.

“Me estoy yendo porque eso ya era una escena de guerra”, dijo a la AFP Fabio Ferreira, un funcionario del Ministerio de Planificación, reportando destrozos en el edificio donde trabaja.

Contra Temer y la austeridad.

Ríos humanos confluyeron hacia el Congreso, rodeado de vallas de seguridad, al grito unánime de “¡Fora Temer!”.

Los participantes pedían también elecciones “Directas ya” y el retiro de los proyectos de reforma de las jubilaciones y de flexibilización de la legislación laboral.

“Temer es un irresponsable. Hundió a Brasil en una crisis descomunal. No está en condiciones de permanecer en la presidencia”, dijo Wagner Freitas, presidente de la Central Única de Trabajadores (CUT), vinculada al Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) del los expresidentes Lula da Silva y Dilma Rousseff.

“Brasil se volvió imponderable (…) aquí todo el mundo está conspirando. Nadie más cree en la continuidad del gobierno”, dijo Paulo Pereira da Silva, más conocido como Paulinho da Força, líder de la central Força Sindical (FS), que fue aliado de Temer en los primeros meses de su gobierno.

Esta nueva crisis se produce apenas un año después de la destitución por el Congreso de Rousseff. Temer, su vicepresidente, la reemplazó, con la expectativa de completar el mandato hasta finales de 2018 y aplicar un programa de severos ajustes para sacar al país de la peor recesión de su historia.

Pero la economía tarda en despegar, la desocupación alcanza niveles récords y los escándalos de corrupción implican a sus principales ministros y gran parte de los aliados del impopular mandatario.

La gota que desbordó el vaso cayó la semana pasada, con la divulgación de una grabación hecha por uno de los dueños del gigante de la alimentación JBS, Joesley Batista, donde el mandatario aparentemente da aval al pago de un soborno a un exdiputado encarcelado.

El Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) abrió una investigación y la Fiscalía General acusa a Temer de obstrucción a la justicia, en una trama donde ve corrupción y organización criminal.

La izquierda, que denuncia un “golpe institucional”, ve en la súbita aceleración de la crisis una inmejorable oportunidad para cobrarse su revancha.

“Éste es el fin de gobierno golpista. El pueblo está en la calle para eso. No precisaban robar a Brasil”, dijo a la AFP Francisca Gomes, una portera de 59 años de Sao Paulo, sosteniendo con tres compañeras un ataúd de cartón negro con imágenes del presidente y cruces blancas con la inscripción “RIP Temer”.

“Clima de deliberación” en el Congreso.

En el Congreso se vivía también en un ambiente de efervescencia, ante las señales de rápida erosión de la base aliada de Temer.

“Hay un clima de deliberación, detrás de las cortinas, para articular la salida menos traumática posible para la crisis”, admitió el asesor de un parlamentario de la coalición oficialista, que pidió el anonimato.

Las manifestaciones contra Temer habían sido hasta ahora poco concurridas, pero todo indica que ahora se abrió un nuevo frente, el de la calle, junto al judicial y al político, en torno al jefe de Estado.

“Directas ya”

La Constitución brasileña determina que, en caso de vacío en la Presidencia durante la segunda mitad de un mandato, el Congreso debe elegir un nombre para completarlo. Las elecciones directas sólo podrían celebrarse en caso de que se hiciera una enmienda constitucional, pero hay una creciente demanda para encontrar un atajo que abra esa vía.

La búsqueda de otra salida se debe en gran medida al desprestigio del Congreso, donde decenas de legisladores están investigados por su implicación en la red de sobornos de Petrobras, revelada por la Operación Lava Jato.

Así lo cree Dorival Pereira, de 60 años, que viajó 18 horas desde Mato Grosso do Sul para manifestarse en Brasilia. “No hay otra salida que elecciones directas porque tanto el Ejecutivo como el Congreso se formó una cuadrilla para masacrar a los trabajadores y robar el país”, sostuvo este comerciante, vestido con una camiseta que reclamaba “Directas Ya”.

El escándalo estalló la semana pasada, cuando salió a la luz una grabación realizada por el empresario Joesley Batista, dueño del gigante cárnico JBS, en la que Temer parece avalar el pago de sobornos a un exdiputado preso por corrupción.

La fiscalía general acusa al presidente, de 76 años, de obstrucción a la justicia para impedir el avance de la operación “Lava Jato”, en una trama donde ve corrupción y organización criminal.

Contra las reformas de mercado

Las movilizaciones también apuntan a denunciar la reforma del sistema de jubilaciones y la flexibilización de la legislación laboral, tramitadas en el Congreso.

La tensión en Brasilia se sintió el martes en la sesión de una comisión del Senado sobre la reforma laboral, que terminó en una trifulca generalizada, con gritos de “¡Fora Temer!” proferidos por legisladores del PT, la formación política del expresidente Lula da Silva (2003-2010).

La parálisis de las reformas preocupan en cambio a los mercados, que operan con prudencia desde la semana pasada, después de una primera reacción que el jueves hundió a la Bolsa y provocó una fuerte devaluación del real frente al dólar.

Source Article from http://www.elpais.com.uy/mundo/miles-trabajadores-exigen-renuncia-temer.html

Search and rescue teams work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building Wednesday in Surfside, Fla., where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed on Thursday.

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Search and rescue teams work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building Wednesday in Surfside, Fla., where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed on Thursday.

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In the face of lawsuits alleging the condo board’s negligence in the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., the condominium association has hired a crisis communications firm.

Levick, a PR firm based in Washington, D.C., that promises to “fix the impossible,” confirmed to NPR that it has been retained by the condo group. Levick’s director Maxwell Marcucci told NPR that his firm is assisting the board with a deluge of media inquiries.

Marcucci said that the board comprises volunteers who were also residents — one of whom, reports Business Insider, is among the missing.

“They’re not experts in the field,” Marucci said. “At no time were they warned of a risk of imminent collapse.”

In a statement emailed to NPR, Levick spokesperson Maria Stagliano said the firm would not comment on pending litigation.

A massive search and rescue effort is underway at the site of Thursday’s collapse, with the 18 people confirmed dead and 145 unaccounted for.

The board contended with the needed repairs for several years

Surviving residents of the condo have already filed three lawsuits against the association, alleging that it should have known about the building’s structural risks and should have acted sooner to fix those problems.

Engineers began raising alarm bells over the structural integrity of Champlain Towers South in a 2018 report. But in repeated calls pressuring the condo company to make changes to the property, town officials appeared to have pursued requirements that addressed largely superficial repairs.

Meanwhile, there was infighting among condo board members over the expense of building rehabilitation. In a letter obtained by NPR, and first published by The Wall Street Journal, Jean Wodnicki, the president of the board of directors, informed members in a memo before a meeting in April that the extent of the repair work needed had grown since the 2018 report.

She warned that the rehabilitation costs, including those addressing “accelerating” concrete deterioration and “extensive roof repairs had jumped from about $9 million to $15 million.

“For those who believe we are assessing too much, this shows that we are actually under-assessing a bit according to estimates,” Wodnicki wrote. “I acknowledge that we are talking about a huge project and a very large assessment. Your Board of Directors is working very hard to bring this project to fruition.”

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-miami-area-condo-collapse/2021/06/30/1011918032/champlain-towers-condo-board-hires-a-crisis-pr-firm-after-the-surfside-collapse

WASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary James Mattis unloaded on President Trump in an opinion piece, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and of trying to divide the American people as the nation reels from the death of George Floyd.

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try,” Mattis wrote in the op-ed published by The Atlantic on Wednesday.

“Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership,” he continued.

Mattis, a decorated Marine general who resigned as defense secretary in December 2018 in protest of Trump’s Syria policy, said he was horrified by the show of force outside the White House on Monday evening — calling it an abuse of power.

Mattis, whose nickname is “Mad Dog,” previously declined to speak out against Trump, saying he wanted to be silent while his former boss remained in office, making the stinging criticism all the more notable.

“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis wrote, announcing he supported the “wholesome and unifying” demands of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd across the nation this week.

“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” he continued.

“Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens — much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”

The decorated soldier called on Americans to reject Trump’s calls for cities to be “dominated” by the National Guard — a sentiment shared by current Defense Secretary Mark Esper who announced earlier Wednesday that he opposed the use of military to arrest protests and violence.

Mattis accused Trump of abusing the powers of his office after forces fired smoke canisters and pepper balls on protesters at Lafayette Park outside the White House on Monday evening.

“We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Wednesday that the order to clear protesters came from Attorney General William Barr, and not the president.

Mattis also went on to criticize Esper and other administration officials, writing, “We must reject any thinking of our cities as a ‘battlespace’ that our uniformed military is called upon to ‘dominate.’ At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors.

“Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict– a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.”

And he goes so far as to mention Nazi ideology in his rebuke of the president.

“Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was “Divide and Conquer.” Our American answer is “In Union there is Strength.”’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics,” Mattis wrote.

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/james-mattis-accuses-trump-of-abusing-his-powers-in-op-ed/


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En las noticias mé leídas del día, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump firmó un nuevo decreto migratorio que mantiene la prohibición de viajar a Estados Unidos por 90 días a ciudadanos de seis naciones, entre ellas rán, Libia, Siria, Somalia, Sudán y Yemen. El fundador del Infonavit, Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores, murió a los 81 años.

1. 5 puntos del nuevo decreto migratorio de Trump

El polémico presidente Donald Trump firmó el día de hoy un decreto revisado sobre una prohibición de viajes pero está vez dejó a Irak fuera de la lista de países cuyos ciudadanos no pueden ingresar a Estados Unidos, luego que su primer intento fuera bloqueado en los tribunales, dijeron funcionarios gubernamentales.

Este nuevo decreto mantendrá la prohibición de viaje a Estados Unidos por 90 días a ciudadanos de seis naciones de mayoría musulmana: Irán, Libia, Siria, Somalia, Sudán y Yemen.

2. Homex se hunde, defrauda a inversionistas

Después del fraude contable, detectado por la autoridad regulatoria estadounidense, por 3,300 millones de dólares de Homex, en el que colaboró la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, no sólo es otro duro golpe para la empresa, sino también para las emisoras del sector representadas en el mercado bursátil mexicano porque aumenta la desconfianza entre los inversionistas.

La semana pasada la Comisión notificó que la desarrolladora mexicana de vivienda reportó la venta de 100,000 casas que no había construido, ni vendido, con la finalidad de inflar sus ingresos del 2010 al 2013, con esto la emisora sobrevaloró sus ingresos en 355% o en alrededor de 3,300 millones de dólares y aumentó el número de casas vendidas en aproximadamente 317 por ciento.

3. Murió Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores a los 81 años

El día de hoy falleció a los 81 años de edad, Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores, político priista, académico, economista y fundador del Infonavit, confirmó el director general del Infonavit, David Penchyna en Twitter.

Silva-Herzog fue director fundador del Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (INFONAVIT), profesor e investigador de la UNAM y el Colegio de México, maestro en economía por la Universidad de Yale, analista para el Banco de México (Banxico) y ex secretario de Hacienda durante el gobierno de José López Portillo.

4. En enero el pago de intereses por endeudamiento creció 54% anual

En enero de este año, el gobierno federal gastó más en el pago de intereses que genera por endeudarse, que en inversión física destinada al mantenimiento y a la creación de obra pública.

De acuerdo con datos de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, al costo financiero de la deuda se destinaron 54,079 millones de pesos, lo que significó 54% más respecto a enero del 2016.

Es el incremento más alto que se haya visto desde el 2009, como efecto de la crisis financiera, cuando se observó un aumento del costo financiero por 69.4%, en el primer mes.

5. ¿A qué aspiras en tu retiro?, una cuestión fundamental

Los resultados arrojados por la Encuesta Nacional sobre “¿Qué piensan los millennials mexicanos del ahorro para el retiro?”, elaborado por la Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar) se encontró que a pesar de que 88% de los encuestados dijo conocer qué es una administradora de fondos para el retiro (afore), ve el ahorro predominantemente como un mecanismo para enfrentar una emergencia o adquirir un bien inmueble y solamente uno de cada cinco lo ubica como un mecanismo para mejorar el retiro.

Ante esto, expertos reconocen la importancia de concientizar a esta generación sobre lo que significa el ahorro para el retiro, que conozcan productos financieros que les ayuden a enfrentar esta etapa de su vida y que piensen cómo les gustaría vivir en su vejez.

@davee_son

javier.cisneros@eleconomista.mx



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The Senate won’t even start Donald Trump‘s impeachment trial until Joe Biden is president unless all 100 senators agree to a hearing, outgoing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a memo.

Nancy Pelosi gave Trump an ultimatum to resign or face a rapid impeachment by the House of Representatives for inciting a mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as president-elect.

But even if the House succeeds in ramming through articles of impeachment in the 10 remaining days of Trump’s term, the Senate is in a pro-forma session in which it conducts no business.

According to McConnell’s memo, first reported on by The Washington Post, the pro-forma session will only be interrupted to conduct business if all 100 senators agree. Unless that happens, Senate proceedings will only begin an hour after Biden becomes president on January 20.

The new Senate will have 50 Republicans. Only one, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, has signaled she wants Trump to leave office. While others are likely to join her, a unanimous GOP vote that would effectively lead to Trump’s impeachment trial is virtually unthinkable.

“If the House agrees to articles of impeachment against President Trump before January 19, the Senate can receive a message announcing that the House has impeached the President while the Senate is in recess,” the memo reads.

“Senate Impeachment Rules requires that the Chief Justice [John Roberts] preside over the trial,” the memo continues. “Ordinarily, that invitation would issue on January 19. Whether the Chief Justice would actually preside over the trial after President Trump ceases to be President on January 20, however, is unclear.”

“The Senate trial would therefore begin after President Trump’s term has expired—either one hour after its expiration on January 20, or twenty-five hours after its expiration on January 21.”

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has circulated a memo about impeachment proceedings which suggest that the process won’t succeed in removing President Donald Trump from office. In this November 28, 2017 photo, McConnell talks with reporters following the weekly Senate Republican Policy Committee luncheon in the U.S. Capitol.
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In other words, the Senate wouldn’t even begin its impeachment proceedings until Biden was officially made president, making Trump’s removal from office via that route impossible.

However, in a Friday afternoon tweet, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that impeachment proceedings should still proceed.

“Some people ask: Why would you impeach and convict a president who has only a few days left in office? The answer: Precedent. It must be made clear that no president, now or in the future, can lead an insurrection against the U.S. government,” Sanders wrote.

On Friday, the White House issued a statement which said, “A politically motivated impeachment against a President with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country.”

Lawmakers accused Trump of inciting the riot by encouraging his supporters at a Stop the Steal rally to march to the Capitol building while Congress was in the act of certifying votes in the Electoral College and declaring President-elect Joe Biden the victor of November’s election. Five people died in the riot and rioters took electronic equipment, causing a possible breach in national security.

Newsweek contacted McConnell’s office for comment.

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Search and Rescue teams look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 29, in Surfside, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

Rescue teams are entering their seventh day searching the rubble of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida – still holding out hope they will find the 149 people unaccounted for.

The condo building, Champlain Towers South, partially collapsed in the middle of the night Thursday as many residents slept. Currently, 125 people have been accounted for and 12 have been confirmed dead.

US and international teams are looking for bedrooms buried under 13 to16 feet of concrete, Col. Golan Vach, commander of the Israeli National Rescue Unit said.

“There is still hope,” Vach told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “Until one week, I have a solid hope that we will find someone. After one week, it’s minor.”

Alarcon said he has no idea how long the rescue and recovery efforts will go on, especially seeing as the round-the-clock work has barely scratched the surface of removing the debris. But he said the crews were motivated by understanding the perspective of the families.

“What would I do? How hard are we going to work to save our family members if something like this were to happen?” he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I just want (the families) to know that we’re doing everything we can.”

And many in the community are looking for ways they can help those impacted as well.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said that over $1.9 million has been raised to help those affected as of Tuesday, and some of those donations made to SupportSurfside.org have already been distributed to at least a dozen families in need and a handful of nonprofits.

The building’s tennis center has been transformed. Now, it functions as a respite for the first responders, and the walls are adorned with flowers and photos memorializing those who are unaccounted for and the 12 who have died.

Laura Hernandez, a babysitter, used to spend hours on that court with Graciela Cattarossi while her daughter, Stella, played with the children Henandez babysat, she told CNN affiliate WSVN. Both, along with Graciela’s parents and sister, have been reported missing.

“In September I’m going to go back with the kids, but Stella and Grace are not going to be there. It makes my heart break,” Hernandez told the station.

Those who survived the collapse have told harrowing stories of their escapes.

Iliana Monteagudo, 64, woke up in the middle of the night Thursday to a strange sound. Then, she saw a crack snaking down her wall.

Barefoot, she ran from her sixth floor unit down the stairs, hearing thunderous noises and climbing over several walls as she raced toward safety, according to CNN affiliate WPLG.

“I start going down, fast, and I hear crack, crack, crack,” she said. “I start to scream, ‘Come on God, I want to see my son, I want to see my grandson. Don’t let me die in this condition.'”

Once outside she called her son to say she was OK, but that the building behind her had collapsed.

“Three seconds separate me, the life to the death. Three seconds,” she told the station.

Sara Nir’s daughter had gone to take a shower and her son was keeping busy when Nir heard what sounded like construction noises around 1:10 a.m. She went to talk to the security guard about the noise in the night but was interrupted by a big boom and the garage collapsing.

She ran back to grab her family, she told CNN, and together they escaped. Two loud booming noises later and all they could see were white clouds from the dust.

Esther Gorfinkel, 88, was carried out of the building by neighbors as she headed slowly down the staircase.

When she told Albert Aguero, a man who carried her, that she lived a good 88 years and didn’t need to be rescued, he told her “No, you’re going to make it to your 89th birthday,” Aguero told CNN affiliate WPLG.

“I saw the sky. I knew I will be safe,” Gorfinkel said.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) said that “Iranian malign activity” required the “immediate sale” of weapons

US President Donald Trump is clearing the sale of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, citing Iranian threats to its arch rival.

Mr Trump invoked a rarely used aspect of federal law to push through the $8bn (£6bn) deal, which would ordinarily need to be approved by Congress.

He did so by declaring that ongoing tensions with Iran amounted to a national emergency.

The move has angered those who fear the weapons may be used against civilians.

Some Democrats have also accused the president of bypassing Congress because the sale of weapons, including precision-guided munitions and other forms of bombs, would have been strongly opposed on Capitol Hill.

Weapons will also reportedly be sold to the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified Congress of the administration’s decision to make the sale. In a letter, widely reported in US media, he said that “Iranian malign activity” required the “immediate sale” of weapons.

“[Iran’s] activity poses a fundamental threat to the stability of the Middle East and to American security at home and abroad,” he wrote.

He said the transfers “must occur as quickly as possible in order to deter further Iranian adventurism in the Gulf and throughout the Middle East”.

But the move quickly garnered opposition. Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, accused Mr Trump of “granting favours to authoritarian countries”.

“[He] has failed once again to prioritise our long term national security interests or stand up for human rights,” he said in a statement.

Media captionThe BBC’s Paul Adams looks at the recent developments behind the US-Iran tensions

Republican Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Senator Jim Risch, said he had been informed by the Trump administration that it planned to confirm “a number of arms sales”.

“I am reviewing and analysing the legal justification for this action,” he said.

News of the Trump administration’s decision came shortly after it announced it would bolster the US military presence in the Middle East. An additional 1,500 troops, as well as fighter jets and drones, will be deployed to the region in the near future.

Patrick Shanahan, the acting Defence Secretary, says the move was intended to counter “ongoing threats posed by Iranian forces, including the IRGC [Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps] and its proxies”.

Why are there tensions with Iran?

Tensions between the US and Iran began rising this month when Washington ended exemptions from sanctions for countries still buying from Iran. The decision was intended to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying the government its main source of revenue.

Mr Trump reinstated the sanctions last year after abandoning the landmark nuclear deal that Iran has signed with six nations – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.

Iran has now announced it it will suspend several commitments under the deal.

There has also been a spike in tensions in the Gulf more widely.

Four oil tankers were damaged in what the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said were sabotage attacks while drone attacks on two oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels – who are supported by Iran – forced the temporary closure of a pipeline.

Iran denied it was behind the incidents but Rear Admiral Michael Gilday, director of the US Joint Staff, has accused the IRGC of being directly responsible.

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Shares of aircraft-manufacturing company Boeing took a hit early this week, losing $26.6 billion in market value Monday and Tuesday, following a deadly crash of one of its 737 Max 8 airplanes in Ethiopia.

That model has since been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as by aviation regulators around the world.

Still, if you invested in Boeing 10 years ago, that decision would have paid off: According to CNBC calculations, a $1,000 investment in 2009 would be worth more than $14,000 as of March 15, 2019, a total return over 1,000 percent. In the same time frame, the S&P 500 was up 270 percent. So, your $1,000 would be worth just over $3,700, by comparison.

Any individual stock can over- or under-perform, however, and past returns do not predict future results. Boeing paused delivery of 737 Max planes after the Ethiopia crash, which came less than five months after another deadly crash in Indonesia involving the same model.

This left several major airlines, including United, American and Southwest scrambling to rebook passengers and reassign planes. Those companies said they would waive ticket-change fees and fare differences for those affected by the FAA’s grounding order.

Flight-booking site Kayak even introduced a new search feature that allows users to exclude specific plane models, according to co-founder and chief executive officer Steve Hafner.

CNBC: Boeing stock as of Mar. 15, 2019

Fortunately for Boeing, while shares plunged more than 10 percent early this week, they ticked back up by as much as 3 percent Friday. And the company announced plans to roll out a software fix in the next few weeks.

Though, Bank of America analyst Ronald Epstein said Thursday that the fix could take a lot longer: “Once Boeing identifies the issue … the most likely scenario is the company will take about 3-6 months to come up with and certify the fix,” he said in a note.

Hafner says he expects the 737 models to be grounded only a few months and that travelers will likely be booking flights on them again soon: “They’re out of service on a temporary basis,” he said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.” “In reality, airlines are still planning on flying those planes in the summer. People want security and comfort when they fly.”

In the meantime, Boeing said in a statement it will “continue to build 737 Max airplanes, while assessing how the situation, including potential capacity constraints, will impact our production system.”

If you’re looking to get into investing, expert investors like Warren Buffett and Mark Cuban suggest you start with index funds, which hold every stock in an index, offer low turnover rates, attendant fees and tax bills. They also fluctuate with the market to eliminate the risk of picking individual stocks.

Here’s a snapshot of how the markets look now.

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El ms reciente fenmeno del Nio de intensidad fuerte sufrido en Per se present en 1997 y 1998 con el saldo de medio milln de damnificados.








El Gobierno peruano prorrogó el estado de emergencia en 14 regiones del país por el peligro de lluvias en los próximos meses por el fenómeno climático de El Niño, según un decreto supremo publicado este miércoles en el diario oficial El Peruano.

La emergencia comprende las regiones norteñas de Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque, La Libertad, Cajamarca y Amazonas, las centrales de San Martín, Áncash, Lima y Junín, y las sureñas de Ica, Arequipa, Cuzco y Puno.

La prórroga se extiende por 60 días, a partir del 4 de setiembre, y permitirá a las autoridades ejecutar las acciones inmediatas y necesarias de reducción del “muy alto riesgo” existente y de la rehabilitación que corresponda.

Las coordinaciones técnicas y seguimiento están a cargo del Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil (Indeci), el Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego, la Autoridad Nacional del Agua (ANA) y demás instituciones públicas y privadas involucradas.

El pasado lunes, Defensa Civil organizó el primer simulacro de evacuación y atención de heridos en Tumbes, Piura y Lambayeque por el fenómeno del Niño, que se prevé que golpeará estas regiones a fines de año con intensas lluvias e inundaciones.

El más reciente fenómeno del Niño de intensidad fuerte sufrido en Perú se presentó en 1997 y 1998 con el saldo de medio millón de damnificados, pero se estima que el evento de este año pueda provocar más de un millón de afectados y pérdidas por unos 3.700 millones de dólares.

El presidente, Ollanta Humala, dijo, el lunes pasado, que el país cuenta con aviones de transporte de carga, un buque logístico con capacidad de carga de 11.000 toneladas, hospitales de campaña y módulos prefabricados de vivienda para poder enfrentar el fenómeno.

Asimismo, el gobernante explicó que se ha dispuesto el desplazamiento de 12 unidades de ingeniería militar a los puntos que se necesite para dar respaldo al colapso de carreteras y puentes por las probables inundaciones y deslizamientos.

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São Paulo – Exports from Brazil to Arab countries amounted to US$ 1.22 billion in July, up 15.6% from July 2013 according to figures supplied by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade and compiled by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. It was the second straight month of increase in sales to the region, following a five-month spell of decline.

The highlights among the leading target markets were the United Arab Emirates, at US$ 278 million in exports, up 25.5%; and Egypt, at US$ 238 million, up 84% from July 2013.

Regarding the Emirates, the Arab Chamber’s CEO Michel Alaby noted that the country keeps growing, with “more and more construction works underway,” and therefore needs to meet demand from local population and expatriates, who are the majority, as well as from tourists.

“Egypt, in turn, has a new government, and wants to at least keep its population assured that there are sufficient food supplies,” he said, adding that the country is the leading Arab importer of Brazilian products.

Alaby found the weaker exports to Saudi Arabia to be odd. The country imported the equivalent of US$ 209.6 million from the country, up only 4.2% from July last year. “Saudi Arabia is home to the Hajj, they receive over 2 million pilgrims, and they (the Saudis) stockpile food wildly [in order to meed this demand],” he said.

The Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy city of Islam, and will take place in early October this year. “I believe that this month (August) we will see an increase [in exports],” said Alaby, referring to the need to meet the demand from visitors.

The beef industry scenario, however, remains uncertain, the executive says. Arabs rank among the leading buyers of Brazilian poultry and beef, but China’s recent opening to Brazilian beef and the embargo placed by Russia on beef from the United States, European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway should drive up demand for Brazilian product and put pressure on prices.

Just to have an idea, before the embargo was announced, the Russians expanded from 30 to 90 the number of Brazilian meat plants certified to export to their market. The ban came as a response to the sanctions against Russia led by the US and the EU as Moscow gave support to Russian separatists who came into conflict with neighbouring Ukraine’s government.

In July, however, meat was not the leading Brazilian product in exports to the Arab world, sugar, iron ore and soy beans were.

Among the export destinations in the region, it is worth to point out the expressive increase in sales to Libya, Bahrain, Lebanon, Tunisia and Qatar last month.

The increase seen in July, however, was not enough to offset the decline of Arab exports year-to-date. In the first seven months of 2014, exports to the region grossed US$ 7.3 billion, down a little over 4% July-on-July.

Imports

On the other hand, Brazilian imports of Arab products amounted to US$ 887.3 million in July, down 44% July-on-July. Year-to-date, purchases amounted to US$ 6.44 billion, a decline of 11.5% when compared to the first seven months of 2013.

The fall was driven by the decline in imports of oil and oil products.

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum and Rodrigo Mendonça

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A prominent Detroit pastor is calling the late Rep. Elijah Cummings “a great American hero” (Oct. 17)
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BALTIMORE — The city of Baltimore is mourning the loss of Rep. Elijah Cummings, who represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District until his death Thursday. He was 68.

Cummings died from complications of “longstanding health challenges” at 2:30 a.m. EDT at Gilchrist Hospice Care, his office said in a statement. Flowers had been placed in front of his downtown offices within hours and, at city hall, flags were flying at half staff.

“A fearless champion of justice who fought tirelessly for civil rights & equality for everyone, including his beloved Baltimore,” the NAACP said in a statement. “Our democracy is stronger because of him.”

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. Young lamented the loss of “a powerful voice and one of the strongest and most gifted crusaders for social justice,” in a statement Thursday.

“He was, simply put, a man of God who never forgot his duty to fight for the rights and dignity of the marginalized and often forgotten,” Young said of Cummings.

A small group of reporters gathered outside Cummings’ Baltimore home on a quiet tree-lined street in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue. The house bears a sign in the window that reads “Re-elect Cummings for Congress,” and a single bouquet of white flowers lay on its front steps. 

Some neighbors were peeking out of windows or sitting on their stoops, including Darrin Timpson, 23.

“It’s very sad for his family and the black community,” he said. “That’s one person that really has not let the city down.”

Timpson remembered the late congressman was the guest speaker at a football banquet he attended when he was 13 and said he was “distraught” when he learned of his death.

‘Don’t just come and criticize’: Elijah Cummings defends Baltimore in face of Trump’s insults

Cynthia Wilson, 54, said residents are left wondering who will be able to pick up where Cummings left off.

“We need somebody that’s strong and who will fight for Baltimore just like he did,” she said, sitting in the doorway of the home she’s lived in for 12 years. “He protected Baltimore, he loved Baltimore and he did everything he could to help Baltimore … He meant a lot to Baltimore and we was blessed to have him for as long as we did.”

Wilson said she respected Cummings for always defending Baltimore, including when President Donald Trump derided Cummings’ district as a “rodent-infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”

But she said it was seeing him march in the streets during the riots after Freddie Gray’s death in 2015 that “gave him king status.” A state of emergency was declared in the city when hundreds took to the streets after Gray, 25, died of injuries sustained during police transport.

“Nobody ever stood up like he did,” Wilson said. “He actually walked in the street while they (were) throwing trash cans and all that. And he just locked arms with people and kept going.”

One of those people was Bishop Walter Thomas, who has served as the pastor of New Psalmist Baptist Church since 1975. Thomas remembered forming a human chain with Cummings and another church member to walk down North Avenue as riots began on the night of Gray’s funeral.

“After we went out there that night, the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral, he was back on that street trying to bring calm,” Thomas said of Cummings. “He was out there every night calling folks to civility, calling folks to trust the process and I shall never forget that.”

Thomas said Cummings was his good friend for nearly 40 years and that he and his wife attended church nearly every Sunday, barring a legislative commitment.

As the son of sharecroppers who later became Pentecostal preachers, it was Cummings’ faith that drove him to serve, Thomas said. He said Cummings’ death has devastated the church.

“Everybody’s crushed,” Thomas said. “Here, he is more than just the United States congressman, he is brother Elijah Cummings.”

The pastor lamented the void left by Cummings’ death, but said his legacy will forever live.

“Just to call his name is to define a category in which he stands singular and alone,” Thomas said. “It’s like saying the name Michael Jordan. You don’t need to say any more, when you say the name Elijah Cummings, it will say it all.”

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The college admissions scam involving Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman shows how some rich families use a “side door” to game an already unfair education system.
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For a subset of the American public, the annual race to get into top-tier schools is marked by anxious teenagers, mountains of paperwork, and the occasional wealthy parent who makes a large donation to a university advancement office to influence an admission decision.

But the complexity of the largest-ever college admissions scandal laid out in a federal indictment and strengthened by a rogue consultant’s guilty plea in court Tuesday took everything a step higher, revealing bribed coaches, falsified athletic records and impersonator exam takers. 

Many experts weren’t surprised. They say the scandal was a natural next step in a world of college admissions that has long favored the rich at the expense of the poor.

Here’s how the system got so rigged:

Colleges want everything

“The system is vulnerable because the system is corrupt to begin with,” said Kevin Carey, vice president of education policy for New America, a left-leaning Washington, D.C. nonprofit think tank.

“Colleges want everything,” he said. “They want very smart students and also the children of famous celebrities and also money in their endowments and also really good (rowing) teams and you can’t have all that unless you corrupt the underlying principal of accepting kids based on merit.”

The newest weak point appears to be athletic coaches who accepted bribes to recommend unqualified students for positions on non-elite sports teams.

But Carey challenged the idea of whether that was so different from very rich parents buying a university building to get their children a second look, a move that’s become so common it fails to register as unfair with most of the American public.

Parents are desperate

College has become such a status symbol that even celebrity parents were allegedly willing to break the rules to get their child a slot in an elite school, according to the federal complaint.

“I don’t think we should be super surprised,” said Bari Norman, the co-founder and director of counseling at Expert Admissions, a Manhattan-based firm that helps teens around the world prepare for the exams and college applications that will determine the next four years of their lives.

“It speaks to the desperation of parents and just how high stakes college admissions have become,” Norman added. “And unfortunately, it speaks to a lot of the messages we’re sending to kids, which is the most concerning part of this story.”

Admittance rates are dropping at elite schools

More students are applying for college, but Ivy League schools are admitting a smaller share of students than ever before. Harvard University and Stanford University, for example, only admitted about 5 percent of applicants, according to a recent list of the nation’s 100 schools with the lowest acceptance rates by U.S. News.

As admittance rates have plunged, the stress placed on getting into them has gone up, Norman said.

 

The admissions process is not well-regulated

“The woman who cuts my hair is under far more state and federal regulation than my colleagues are,” said Arun Ponnusamy, the chief academic officer of Collegewise, a college consulting firm based in Irvine, Calif.

Ponnusamy said the college counseling industry has several professional associations that feature codes of ethics, but there’s nothing to stop someone from acting on his or her own.

As for oversight at universities, Ponnusamy said some colleges’ admissions and athletic offices are tightly coordinated. But other schools would not devote the time or resources to fact-check the athletic record of every student recommended for admission by a coach.

Rich kids get ahead at the expense of the poor

More students today are applying to college, but just 9 percent of low-income students complete their college degrees within six years, compared to 73 percent of upper-income students, said Eric Waldo, the executive director of Reach Higher, an effort designed to increase college opportunities for all students.

For centuries, Ivy League schools historically admitted only wealthy, white males. While admissions have broadened to include students of exceptional ability no matter their race or income, those students often feel out-of-place at the colleges that remain dominated by rich students.

Admissions scam: Rick Singer, architect of scam, peddled a ‘side door’ to college admissions

“There are loads of students of color on these campuses who are forced to walk around thinking, ‘I don’t belong here,’ and now it’s clear that you have white, privileged kids who definitely don’t belong there,” said Ponnusamy, from Collegewise.

Carey, from New America, said elite schools are new to the idea of full meritocracy.

“Now I think that fact is being thrown into stark relief,” he said.

Schools narrowly defined success. Parents responded. 

Todd Rose, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said the scandal is an outgrowth of what the American education system has narrowly defined as success for students: high grades, high scores on standardized tests, being a team leader, and getting into the best college.

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“The thing that bothers me is that it doesn’t matter how talented your kid is, and what they have to contribute to society, it’s how well you can play this game and how well you can take this test, which is already on a bell curve so 50 percent of people have to fail it.”

Rose said he’s working on survey research that shows that the majority of Americans actually desire a more nuanced picture of success.

Others played the game, he said, and cheated to get ahead.  

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Education coverage at USA TODAY is made possible in part by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation does not provide editorial input.

 

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden will wait to address a joint session of Congress until after Congress decides on the American Rescue Plan, his coronavirus relief package.

No date for the address has yet been scheduled, even though the president had suggested it would take place in February. Psaki, during Wednesday’s briefing, explained the delay.

BIDEN STILL HAS NOT YET SCHEDULED A DATE FOR HIS FIRST ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS

“When it became clear, which it should have been from the beginning, that the American Rescue Plan would take until about, hopefully, about mid-March to get passed and signed into law, we made a decision internally that we weren’t going to have the president propose his forward looking agenda beyond that,” Psaki said, noting that parts of Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda are “still being determined” and that there are still discussions ongoing “internally.”

Psaki maintained, though, that he would not deliver his address “until after that bill is signed, until after those checks are going out to Americans, until after that vaccine money is going out, and after the money is going out to schools.”

Psaki’s comments come after the president endorsed a plan from moderate Democrats to narrow income eligibility for the third round of stimulus checks in his nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, a Democratic source said Wednesday.

Under the latest proposal, Americans earning $75,000 or less would receive the fully promised $1,400 payment. But the checks would phase out faster for individuals at higher income levels than in the version passed Saturday by House Democrats, with individuals making $80,000 a year or more and couples making $160,000 a year, or higher, no longer qualifying for the money.

The House version of the bill would also send the $1,400 payments to individuals earning $75,000 or below each year, but the money would phase out slower, with the eligibility cut-off at $100,000 for individuals and $200,000 per year for couples.

That means individuals earning between $80,000 and $100,000, and couples earning between $160,000 and $200,000, are newly excluded from a partial check under the newest plan endorsed by the Biden administration.

Stimulus check eligibility emerged as a major point of contention between different ideological factions of the Democratic Party. The party can’t afford to lose the support of even a single Senate Democrat, as it needs all 50 members to pass the measure via simple majority with a procedural tool known as budget reconciliation.

BIDEN TIGHTENS $1400 STIMULUS CHECK INCOME LIMITS AMID PRESSURE FROM MODERATE DEMOCRATS

Lawmakers are racing to send the legislation to Biden’s desk before March 14, when more than 11 million Americans will lose their jobless aid when two key federal jobless aid programs created a year ago under the CARES Act — and extended in the $900 billion relief package that Congress passed in December — lapse.

Meanwhile, as for his first address to Congress, past presidents have traditionally given a speech to Congress during their first year in office, often in February. An address to a joint session of Congress is like a State of the Union, though it technically is not called that until the president’s second year in office.

Typically, new presidents deliver their addresses just weeks after the inauguration.

Former President George H.W. Bush delivered one of the earliest addresses to a joint session, taking place on Feb. 9, 1989. Former President Donald Trump delivered one of the latest — his address was on Feb. 28, 2017.

Former President Barack Obama delivered his address on Feb. 24, 2009; former President George W. Bush delivered his on Feb. 27, 2001; and former President Bill Clinton delivered his on Feb. 17.

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Presidents, during their first congressional address, tend to establish the tone of their new administration, with optimistic language to look ahead, and to set their legislative agenda as well as outline their positions on a range of policy issues.

Biden, since taking office, has signed dozens of executive orders, actions and directives, with Biden officials telling Fox News that the moves are “previews” of the agenda items the president will push in Congress. They have been focused on environmental regulations, the climate crisis, immigration policies, racial justice, health care and more.

FOX Business’ Megan Henney and Blake Burman contributed to this report. 

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