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Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who pleaded guilty this week to misusing campaign donations, announced Friday that he will resign his congressional seat.

“Shortly after the Holidays I will resign from Congress,” he said in a statement. “It has been an honor to serve the people of California’s 50th District, and I greatly appreciate the trust they have put in me over these last 11 years.”

Hunter’s resignation marks a dramatic change in fortunes for the son of Rep. Duncan Hunter, the once-powerful Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee. The younger congressman, a Marine veteran of the war in Iraq, was an early and ardent supporter of President Trump’s. But his political fortunes began to sink after his indictment last year on charges that he and his wife, Margaret, used more than $250,000 in campaign funds for their personal use.

As NPR’s Jessica Taylor noted this week, Margaret Hunter agreed to a plea deal over the summer that required her to testify against the congressman. The indictment against the congressman alluded to several extramarital affairs he had. Hunter had initially planned to fight those charges, but this week he said he would reverse course and plead guilty.

He told KUSI, a TV station in San Diego, that he would plead guilty to charges of illegal use of campaign funds. “It’s important not to have a public trial for three reasons, and those three reasons are my kids,” he told KUSI.

On Thursday, the House Ethics Committee urged Hunter to stop voting on legislation to “preserve public confidence in the legislative process when a sitting Member of Congress has been convicted of a serious crime.” Hunter had voted on the House floor a day earlier.

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Seleccionado por jóvenes para los jóvenes, Aussie News Today compartirá historias de toda Australia y las retransmitirá directamente a las fuentes de noticias de millones de jóvenes y de viajeros potenciales de todo el mundo.












El director general de Tourism Australia, John O’Sullivan, dijo que la nueva campaña destacaría muchos de los destinos y experiencias únicas disponibles para los jóvenes viajeros y los turistas ne vacaciones con trabajo en Australia.












“Con Aussie News Today pretendemos poner una sonrisa en los rostros de los jóvenes al ofrecer historias de noticias divertidas, a veces irreverentes e inspiradoras, de la vida cotidiana allá abajo.












“Desde inmersiones en jaulas de cocodrilos y selfis con quokkas, hasta carreras de camellos y competiciones de lanzamiento de atún, bananas gigantes y enormes piñas, Australia es un continente singular con tantas grandes historias para compartir como buenas razones para visitarlo,” dijo el Sr. O’Sullivan.












Aussie News Today será una campaña dirigida a las redes sociales , que ha sido lanzada por tres jóvenes y carismáticos miembros de la selección de rugby de Australia, Nick Cummins (también conocido como “el tejón de la miel”), la presentadora  de televisión Teigan Nash y el anteriormente actor de Home and Away, Lincoln Lewis. Los tres viajarán y cubriran información desde lugares de todo el país.












Con dicha cobertura noticiosa,se recopilarán contenidos únicos australianos de todo el país y se compartirán internacionalmente a través de los canales de comunicación digitales y sociales de Tourism Australia, incluidos los perfiles dedicados de Aussie News Today en Facebook e Instagram y un centro de noticias en Australia.com.












La campaña tambien se creará contenido adicional para jóvenes como parte de una asociación de contenidos en primicia mundial con BuzzFeed, para lo que se enviará a ocho jóvenes viajeros de Europa a un viaje de tres meses por Australia para que informen de sus experiencias sobre la cultura, festivales, eventos, comida y vino locales.












Los jóvenes viajeros representan el 25 por ciento de todas las llegadas de visitants internacionales a Australia (2,1 millones) y el 46 por ciento del gasto de los visitantes (18.700 millones de dólares australianos).












El ministro de Comercio, Turismo e Inversión de Australia, el honorable parlamentario Steven Ciobo, reconocio que los jóvenes viajeros menores de 30 años son una parte muy importante del conjunto de visitantes a Australia.












“Muchas personas simplemente subestiman lo importante que es el mercado juvenil para el turismo australiano. Los jóvenes viajeros y los turistas en vacaciones con trabajo se quedan más tiempo, recorren el país ampliamente y, por último, gastan más que la mayoría de los otros segmentos de viajes.












“Esta campaña es una gran manera de compartir un poco de nuestra tierra de Allá Abajo con jóvenes viajeros de todo el mundo que buscan diversión, aventura y experiencias de viaje que cambian la vida”, dijo el ministro Ciobo.












Animamos a los australianos, a las empresas turísticas australianas y a los turistas que nos visitan a que envíen propuestas de noticias a través de #AussieNewsToday y a que visiten Australia.com para encontrar los mejores itinerarios y actualizaciones de Aussie News Today.












La campaña se centrará inicialmente en cuatro de los mercados juveniles más grandes de Australia: el Reino Unido, Francia, Alemania e Italia, antes de extenderse a otros mercados el próximo año.












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Tourism Australia es la agencia gubernamental australiana responsable de promover Australia en el mundo como destino para viajes de ocio y de negocios. La organización tiene como objetivo aumentar la demanda de las experiencias turísticas del destino mediante la promoción de sus características únicas, lo que persuadirá a las personas a visitarl.












 












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Even if the UFOs that hundreds of military pilots and thousands of everyday citizens have spotted are extraterrestrial in origin, they are likely far too complex for us to understand, UFO experts told Fox News in the wake of an inconclusive report released Friday by the Director of National Intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). 

The report, which was ordered by Congress last year, examined 144 reports of UAPs from U.S. government sources since 2004. 

Eighty of the reported incidents were observed with multiple sensors, including “radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation.”

In 18 of the incidents, “unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics” were observed, including the ability to “remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion.”

Despite the intriguing sightings, U.S. intelligence analysts could only explain one of the sightings, which was a large balloon deflating. 

EX-PENTAGON UFO EXPERT SAYS ‘STIGMA AND TABOO’ MAY HAVE LED TO UNDERREPORTING OF SIGHTINGS

Colonel John B. Alexander, who developed an interagency task force to explore UFOs while in the U.S. Army in the 1980s, said that if the phenomena are extraterrestrial, they are likely far beyond what humans are capable of understanding with our current faculties. 

“Whatever this is, it is more complex than we can possibly imagine,” Alexander told Fox News. “We’re not at the point of even asking the right questions, much less expecting simple answers.”

Military pilots have seen dozens of UFOs in recent years. 
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Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute who is doubtful that these UAPs are extraterrestrial, pointed out that aliens would nonetheless have technology that is incomprehensibly more advanced than what we’re accustomed to. 

“The universe is three times as old as the earth. There’s plenty of time for societies to arise that are not just a thousand years more advanced than we are, but they could be a billion years more advanced than we are,” Shostak told Fox News. 

“So if you ask yourself, ‘What could that kind of a society do?’ There are things they could do that we simply can’t conceive of.” 

Shostak bets that humans will have better luck looking to the stars to find aliens than scouring our own atmosphere. 

“We’re not looking for them a couple of miles up. We’re looking for them lightyears away,” Shostak said. “We look at star systems, other suns that are relatively nearby, that are either known to have planets and maybe planets like earth.” 

A study published in The Astronomical Journal last year found that there are likely billions of Earth-like planets just in our galaxy. 

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Even if these UAPs aren’t proof of extraterrestrial life, Alexander agreed that aliens are out there, in some form or another. 

“Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The answer is yes, and that’s not speculation, that’s math,” Alexander said. “That’s just based on the number of Earth-like planets or inhabitable planets that are out there.” 

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/ufo-experts-say-were-looking-in-all-the-wrong-places

Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick, R., slammed Joe Biden’sNeanderthal thinking” comment on lifting COVID-19 restrictions on “The Faulkner Focus” on Thursday, calling the president a “hypocrite.”

Biden took a swipe at Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi Wednesday, accusing them of “Neanderthal thinking” following their decision to reverse coronavirus safety policies, including mask mandates.

“How dare him attack Texas for our policies when he is allowing the border to be overrun by people coming in here by the hundreds, by the thousands and testing positive and coming on a bus to your state wherever you happen to live in the United States of America,” Patrick said. “What a hypocrite.”

WHITE HOUSE ‘PROTECTING’ BIDEN BY NOT SCHEDULING PRESS CONFERENCES: KARL ROVE

More than 100 illegal immigrants released by the Border Patrol into Texas since January have tested positive for COVID-19 following their arrival, officials on the U.S.-Mexico border told Fox News. 

Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station, where they are being released by the Border Patrol. Rapid testing of the individuals began there on Jan. 25. 

He added Brownsville does not have the authority to prevent those who test positive from traveling elsewhere in the U.S. and is advising them to quarantine, follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, and socially distance. 

TEXAS GOV. ABBOTT ANNOUNCES PLAN TO FULLY REOPEN BUSINESSES, END STATE MASK MANDATE

Sources at the White House told Fox News on Wednesday it is aware of instances where individuals may continue to travel despite testing positive and being told to quarantine, yet the federal guidance remains for them to isolate.

“What I would call ‘Neanderthal thinking’ would be Governor [Gavin] Newsom in California telling his people not to come out of their cave for a year,” Patrick said.  “I would call ‘Neanderthal thinking’ the Democrat Governor [Andrew] Cuomo of New York sending patients with COVID to nursing homes where he covered up 12,000 people dying.”

He added, “I would call ‘Neanderthal thinking’ of allowing people to cross the border illegally with COVID.”

Patrick went on to say that Biden “didn’t look at the facts,” noting 15 other states don’t have a mask mandate. He added people were still encouraged to socially distance.

“We just joined that group,” he said. “We’re not telling people not to wear masks. We’re just removing a mandate.”

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A Biden spokesperson did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Fox News’ Caitlin McFall, Greg Norman, Peter Doocy and Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-bidens-neanderthal-covid-restrictions

The Biden administration’s immigration policies are not as compassionate and humane as they are claiming, former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan said on Tuesday.

“Look, it’s inhumane to put your children in the arms of criminal cartels,” Homan told “Fox & Friends,” referring to migrants making the dangerous journey to the southern border using human smugglers.

Homan recalled a heated exchange he had with Congress members during a House hearing, which was called to examine the Trump administration’s decision to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to defer deportation for medical treatment and other hardships.

“You and I talked about one of the times I testified. I lost my temper to the Congresswoman who said I didn’t care about dying children. I’ve held many dying children. I was in the back of a tractor-trailer with a five-year-old boy who suffocated to death in his father’s arms,” Homan said.

BIDEN DHS SECRETARY MAYORKAS CLAIMS THERE’S ‘NO’ CRISIS AT SOUTHERN BORDER

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday urged migrants thinking of coming to the United States to “wait” as the Biden administration rebuilds a “gutted” immigration system — as he claimed there is no crisis at the U.S. southern border.

When asked during a press briefing at the White House about whether there is a “crisis” at the border, amid a surge of unaccompanied child migrants, Mayorkas said “no.”

“The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock seven days a week to ensure that we do not have a crisis at the border—that we manage the challenge, as acute as the challenge is,” Mayorkas said, adding that the “challenge” is not just for the government, but for non-governmental organizations and border communities.

“All understand it is imperative,” he said. “Everyone understands what occurred before us and what we need to do now.”

He added: “And we are getting it done.”

Appearing in the White House briefing room, Mayorkas also took aim at the prior administration — and said the Department of Homeland Security is working to “replace the cruelty” of the Trump administration with “an orderly humane and safe immigration process.”

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“Don’t tell me this is compassion!” Homan responded to Mayorkas’ statement.

“Putting your children in the hands of criminal cartels is inhumane, is dangerous, and it’s just bad. So, I’ve seen it and I and I just I can’t believe that statement was even made.’

Homan urged Congress to secure the U.S. border and enforce the laws that they wrote and enacted which were signed by the president. Homan noted that “last year, Mexico received 40 billion dollars in remittances from illegal migrant workers in the United States,

“[The U.S.] sent money back to Mexico; 40 billion in a year of a pandemic,” Homan said.

“So, of course, the Mexican president wants to send more people here because he doesn’t have to take care of them. He doesn’t have to provide social services. … This is a win-win for Mexico, bad for the United States, bad for the American worker.”

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/homan-biden-dhs-mayorkas-trump-immigration-border-crisis

Two women who helped found the anti-harassment group Time’s Up during the height of the #MeToo Movement helped New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s office in drafting a letter that smeared one of his accusers and “impugned her credibility,” the state attorney general said in her bombshell report Tuesday.

Cuomo, a Democrat, is facing widespread calls to resign or be removed from office after state Attorney General Letitia James concluded her monthslong investigation Tuesday, saying he sexually harassed 11 women, including current and former state employees, from 2013 to 2020 in violation of state and federal law.

CUOMO UNDER INVESTIGATION: MORE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS EXPLORE CASES AGAINST NY GOVERNOR

In her 165-page report, James said Cuomo and a group of advisers drafted a letter in December 2020 in response to allegations by the governor’s first accuser, former aide Lindsey Boylan, who said he sexually harassed her and created a toxic work environment.

“The letter denied the legitimacy of Ms. Boylan’s allegations, impugned her credibility, and attacked her claims as politically motivated (including with theories about connections with supporters of President Trump and a politician with an alleged interest in running for Governor),” James said in her report.

Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, testified that the governor first drafted the letter by hand, though the governor denied having any memory of writing it and only said he participated in the drafting process. 

According to James, DeRosa testified that she had reservations about the letter and thought it would backfire, so Cuomo instructed her to seek further input from attorney Roberta Kaplan, who co-founded the Time’s Up legal defense fund with CEO Tina Tchen. Kaplan also serves as legal counsel for DeRosa. 

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“According to Ms. DeRosa, Ms. Kaplan read the letter to the head of the advocacy group Times Up [Tchen], and both of them allegedly suggested that, without the statements about Ms. Boylan’s interactions with male colleagues, the letter was fine,” James said in her report. 

“Ms. DeRosa reported back to the Governor that Ms. Kaplan and the head of Times Up thought the letter was okay with some changes, as did [Cuomo ally Steve] Cohen, but everyone else thought it was a bad idea.”

James’ report said the letter was never made public after Cuomo’s team failed to convince anyone to sign it.

“Several people whom the Governor’s advisors asked to sign the letter were uncomfortable with what it said about Ms. Boylan” and some even said it amounted to victim-shaming and retaliation, the report said.

When speaking about the letter in his testimony, Cuomo compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, saying the former president would write a response to an article that infuriated him and then throw it out, and that “like Lincoln, the writing process was cathartic for him,” the report said.

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Time’s Up responded to the development about its founders in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

“Before any allegations were made against Governor Cuomo, in 2019, Time’s Up worked with his administration to pass the Time’s Up/NY Safety Agenda. In December 2020, Tina was asked to give her perspective on a public response to Ms. Boylan’s allegations,” a spokesperson said.

“Although Tina made no recommendations as to what he should do, she shared the stance Time’s Up has always taken in these matters,” the spokesperson continued. “She was clear that any response coming from the Governor’s office addressing the allegations would be insufficient and unacceptable if it did not acknowledge the experiences of the women who came forward, and that it should in no way shame or discredit the women.”

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/times-up-founders-cuomo-lindsey-boylan

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Mubarak Batambuze se convirtió un héroe en Uganda, y un personaje noticioso a nivel mundial, luego de matar al cocodrilo que había devorado a su esposa.

Un marido devastado que vengó la muerte de su esposa, una caprichosa millonaria enojada con sus vecinos, una jueza que se encontró con un viejo amigo de infancia en el lugar menos esperado…

Éste año estuvo lleno de pequeñas pero sorprendentes noticias generadas por individuos que nunca pensaron en llegar a las primeras planas.

Algunas conmovieron y otras sorprendieron.

Aquí te recordamos algunas de ellas.

El ugandés que se vengó del cocodrilo que lo dejó viudo

Ocurrió hace un año, en un poblado de Uganda.

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Armado con su nueva lanza, el viudo volvió al ataque.

Demeteriya Nabire había ido al lago Kyoga a por agua, al igual que otras mujeres de su aldea, cuando se encontró con un cocodrilo.

Sin tiempo para reaccionar, el reptil tiró de ella y la engulló.

“El cocodrilo se comió entera a mi mujer. No volvimos a ver nada de ella; ninguna ropa, ninguna parte de su cuerpo que pudiera identificar“, contó su esposo, Mubarak Batambuze.

“No sabía qué hacer. Era el fin de mi mundo. Estaba completamente perdido”, dijo.

Nabire estaba embarazada, así que Batambuze no sólo perdió a su esposa, sino también al bebé que iban a tener.

El hombre quedó devastado, pero no se cruzó de brazos, sino que fue a visitar al herrero local.

“Le expliqué que estaba luchando con una bestia que había matado a mi esposa y a mi bebé que aún no había nacido. Realmente quería vengarme, así que le pedí que me hiciera una lanza”.

Armado con ella, fue al lago, a esperar a la bestia. Y cuando por fin apareció, pudo vengar la muerte de su esposa.

“Soy un hombre deprimido que perdió a su esposa y el hijo que nunca nació”, reconoce el viudo.

“Pero la gente me lo sigue agradeciendo. Soy un héroe local“.

Los hombres que encontraron a su “doble” en un avión

¿Cuáles son las probabilidades?

Un hombre pelirrojo, de barba y bigotes y contextura mediana, se sienta en el mismo puesto del mismo vuelo asignado para otro hombre pelirrojo, de barba y bigotes y contextura mediana.

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Neil Thomas Douglas y su “doble” en el encuentro fortuito

Eran más que parecidos: cualquiera diría que eran gemelos.

La millonaria británica que se desquitó con sus vecinos

En abril, la fachada del exclusivo barrio londinense de Kensington amaneció pintada a rayas rojas y blancas.

“Parece la carpa de un circo”, se quejaron unos vecinos.

A otros les recordó un caramelo, o un colchón antiguo.

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Carpa de circo, un caramelo, un colchón antiguo, todo eso les recordó la casa a los vecinos.

Y la mayoría puso el grito en el cielo: “¡Es una aberración!”, dijeron, en una ciudad donde existen normas para garantizar la homogeneidad estilística de los barrios residenciales.

La propietaria, la millonaria Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, había conseguido lo que quería.

Era su revancha ante la oposición de sus vecinos a sus planes para remodelar su casa.

Según reportaron diferentes medios británicos, la mujer quería demolerla para construir una vivienda de cinco pisos con todos los lujos que fuera posible incluir, entre ellos, un sótano de dos niveles con una amplia piscina.

Pero los propietarios de las casas contiguas presentaron una queja formal ante las autoridades.

A Lisle-Mainwaring decidió comerse el plato frío de la venganza.

La jueza que reconoció a su amigo de infancia en el banquillo de los acusados

“Lamento verte aquí”, dijo la jueza Mindy Glazer al hombre sentado en el banquillo de un tribunal de Miami, Estados Unidos.

Aunque estaba vestido con el típico buzo naranja de los prisioneros en ese país, lo había reconocido.

Era Arthur Booth, un excompañero de clase de secundaria.

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Le fijó una fianza de US$43.000, y le deseó suerte para salir adelante.

“Siempre me pregunté qué había sido de tu vida”, le dijo.

“Yo solía jugar al fútbol con él, todos los niños, y mira lo que le ocurrió”, añadió, dirigiéndose a toda la sala.

Booth no pudo más que decir: “¡Oh, Dios mío!”.

Y llorar.

Definitivamente, le había ido peor que a ella.

Una patrulla de policía lo persiguió tras un asalto, lo arrestó y fue llevando ante la jueza.

Ésta le fijó una fianza de US$43.000 y le deseó suerte para salir adelante.

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Los jueces alegaron falta de pruebas. El ministro del Interior, Carlos Basombrío indicó que las capturas fueron correctamente justificadas y con suficiente documentación probatoria.

El ministro del Interior expresó su indignación en RPP TV. | Fuente: RPP

42 acusados de integrar las bandas criminales ‘Los Norteños y Guarayos’ y ‘Los Monos de Quepepampa’, involucrados en secuestros, extorsión, asaltos y sicariato, fueron liberados y afrontarán el proceso que les sigue en libertad. El ministro del Interior, Carlos Basombrío, expresó su indignación en RPP TV.

‘Norteños y Guarayos’. “Me encuentro muy molesto como la gran parte de ciudadanos que queremos las calles limpias de delincuentes. El mayor Mattos y 12 más han sido liberados bajo el argumento de que no hay pruebas. Quien conozca un poco estos temas pudo haber visto como el Ministerio Público interceptó las comunicaciones de este mayor con el jefe de una banda criminal para que pudiera facilitar que la Policía Nacional no estuviera y que puedan asaltar un Banco de la Nación en Puerto Maldonado… Va a enfrentar el juicio en libertad y el peligro de fuga es altísimo”.

El mayor Mattos era el jefe de Inteligencia del Grupo Terna en Madre de Dios. Fue capturado en Puno el 12 de octubre acusado de ser parte de una red criminal dedicada al secuestro, la extorsión, el asalto y el sicariato.

Monos de Quepepampa. “El otro caso ocurrió en Huaral. Ahí desbaratamos con todo tipo de documentación una banda de 29 ranqueados, entre ellos sicarios de esa zona. El juez decidió liberarlos a todos para que enfrenten el proceso en libertad porque así lo pidió la defensa. ¿Sabe cuál es el problema? 29 delincuentes de esas características no van a ir al proceso como angelitos. Lo que van a hacer es fugarse y además corre el riesgo la vida del fiscal, policía y testigos que han arriesgado su vida en una decisión de esta naturaleza”.

El 13 de octubre el mayor PNP Antonio Prieto fue capturado acusado de integrar la organización criminal ‘Los monos de Quepepampa’. Él fue intervenido junto a otras 27 personas que integraban la banda criminal de sicarios y traficantes.

Tres años atrás, el mayor Mattos fue ascendido por impedir un robo en un banco. En el 2016 fue detenido por integrar una banda que los cometía. | Fuente: Mininter
Los ‘Monos de Quepepampa’ fueron capturados en un megaoperativo en octubre. | Fuente: Mininter
El Ministerio hará una conferencia junto a la Fiscalía para hablar sobre las controvertidas liberaciones. | Fuente: Mininter


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Two elderly cruise ship passengers with coronavirus who were on Princess Cruises’ Diamond Princess have died, according to Japan’s health ministry, the Associated Press has confirmed.

A health ministry official confirmed that they had been previously hospitalized in serious condition and had existing chronic diseases. The official spoke anonymously, citing office protocol.

Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, which has built a map of coronavirus data including cases, fatalities and recoveries, also cites two deaths from the Diamond Princess, which brings the total death toll from the virus in Japan to three. Per the data, 621 cases of the virus had been identified among the 3,711 quarantined passengers and crew, making the ship the site of the most infections outside of China; one Diamond Princess passenger has recovered.

According to Japanese broadcast outlet, NHK, the two Japanese cruise passengers who died from the virus were an 87-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman. 

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/02/19/coronavirus-deaths-two-diamond-princess-passengers-die/4815851002/

Good news for Spanish marketers – Google News seems to live on in Spain, despite its apparent closure last week. Tom Williams has the details, plus more prime news stories from the world of SEO.

Franken-news: Google News Still Alive in Spain, Mostly

Last Tuesday, Google pulled its News service for Spanish users, after a tough new copyright law forced it to shut its doors or pay hefty levies to Spanish publishers.

Visitors to the Google News homepage in Spain were (and are) greeted with a pained message from Google lamenting the loss of the service:

Source: News.Google.es.

However, the service is apparently still being delivered to users in the form of ‘In the news’-style results in web search…

And through direct searches when users click on the ‘Noticias’ (News) link from Google.es:

Despite claims from Google that it would pull Spanish publishers from the service, some of these results come from well-known Spanish newspapers like El Mundo and El Periodico.

So what’s the deal? As Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land points out, the only obvious difference between the Spanish service and international News services is that users can no longer browse stories by topic.

As Sullivan asks:

Is this still ‘Google News’ living on or merely the highlighting of news stories relevant to a topical query? Google would probably argue the latter. However, we may start to see a debate about whether the new Spanish “anti-piracy” law would apply to these results as well.”

Indeed, it would seem that Spanish publishers are doing everything they can to wrestle some money out of Google, so it would be surprising if they let this one lie.

On Friday December 12, The Spain Report revealed that the Spanish newspaper association, AEDE, wants authorities to force Google to keep News open for users in Spain – thus forcing it to pay the copyright tax.

However, Google is staying steadfast in its response, at least for now. Greg Sterling reports that Google will still index news publisher content in its main search results, and in response to queries from Search Engine Land, the search giant confirmed its organic News snippets and News search will remain in Spain.

Freebase, Google’s Knowledge Graph Fact Repository, to Close

Freebase, the ambitious, open-source facts repository that helps feed Google’s Knowledge Graph, is to shut its doors in 2015.

Freebase was launched by Google in 2007 to store a treasure trove of facts in a structured data format – making it easy for its Knowledge Graph to retrieve and display information accurately in response to search queries.

A bit like Wikipedia then? Well, yes. But Wikipedia as written for machines, not people. The prose format of Wikipedia makes it difficult for search engines and other information providers to retrieve information accurately.

Wikidata, Wikipedia’s own structured data knowledge base, launched in 2012. And Freebase openly admits that Wikipedia’s platform would be more suited to achieving its aim of becoming “a comprehensive open database of common knowledge that anyone can use”.

So they’re making the switch. From Freebase’s Google+ post announcing the closure:

When we publicly launched Freebase back in 2007, we thought of it as a ‘Wikipedia for structured data.’ So it shouldn’t be surprising that we’ve been closely watching the Wikimedia Foundation’s project Wikidata since it launched about two years ago.”

“[…] They’re growing fast, have an active community, and are better-suited to lead an open collaborative knowledge base.”

Freebase plans to retire its website and APIs by June 30, 2015, and switch everything over to Wikidata.

What does this mean for SEO? Well, as Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land points out, the closure may make it more difficult for people to influence Knowledge Graph results. Or not.

We’ll have to wait and see.

Image Thumbnails in Google Mobile Search?

Google tests new search features all the time. Some of them are lucky enough to get rolled out for real, but many more go to the big search graveyard in the sky.

A recent test was spotted by a Search Engine Land reader – image thumbnails next to organic results in mobile search.

As Barry Schwartz points out in his Search Engine Land article, this is a bit of an odd one from Google. It seems strange to put bandwidth-heavy image thumbnails in mobile search, as speed is of the essence when searching on smartphone and tablets. It’s especially weird when you consider how much Google has been harping on about mobile user experience recently.

We have to agree with Schwartz when he writes “it would […] surprise me to see Google decide to release this more widely.”

Nest and Google Now Integration – a Bit 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Not really SEO news this, but we couldn’t resist the inevitable references to HAL 9000, the sentient computer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

As Search Engine Land reports, Google has launched integration between Google Now and the Nest intelligent thermostat, a property it acquired at the start of this year.

Users can now ask Nest to warm or cool their home based on their behaviour – for example, by cutting the heat when they leave for work, but ensuring their home is comfortably warm when they return.

Nest can also be controlled directly through voice search.

Is this more evidence of the Internet of Things becoming reality, or the dawn of the robot uprising? Probably the former, although we’d advise you not to upset your Nest…

Android on the Go: Google to Fit Cars With Android Technology 

The Telegraph reports that Google is planning to build its Android operating system directly into cars.

Sound familiar? The search giant has already developed Android Auto, which will allow drivers to stream music, use apps and access maps – but it requires a smartphone to be plugged in to a compatible vehicle.

Source: Wikipedia.

Android Auto will debut in vehicles next year. But Google’s next version, which will be integrated directly into the vehicle without requiring a smartphone, seems to be underway already.

This new system, dubbed Android M, is functionally similar to Android Auto in that it will present apps on the car’s built-in screen. However, Android Auto simply ‘projects’ its app onto the car’s screen – Android M will be built-in to the car and thus will not require this smartphone link.

Is the future of SEO going to rely on optimisation for desktop, mobile and car? To be honest, that would drive us up the wall. (Sorry.)

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En las noticias más leídas del día, San Lázaro aprobó en lo general un dictamen de las comisiones de Salud y Justicia, con el que se autoriza el uso de la marihuana con fines médicos. Además, debido a sus aptitudes autodidactas, los modelos tradicionales de enseñanza financiera les atraen cada vez menos a las nuevas generaciones.

1. El muro de Trump ya se está colapsando, y no hay ni un ladrillo

Una de las más polémicas promesas de Donald Trump antes de ser presidente era construir un muro en la frontera de Estados Unidos con México.

A la fecha, el dichoso muro cada vez se va alejando más y más de la realidad, los demócratas lo odian. A los republicanos del estado fronterizo no les gusta. Los líderes republicanos del Congreso preferirían no seguir adelante con el proyecto. Podría haber un cierre evitable del gobierno sobre el muro.

Sin embargo, el director de presupuesto del presidente Donald Trump está presionando al Congreso estadounidense para que gaste 1,400 millones de dólares para comenzar a construir su muro a lo largo de la frontera sur entre Estados Unidos y México.

2. Diputados aprueban uso medicinal de la marihuana

El día de hoy, la Cámara de Diputados aprobó las reformas que permitirán el uso medicinal y científico de la mariguana.
El pleno de la Cámara aprobó el dictamen en lo general por 374 votos en favor; siete en contra y 11 abstenciones, en términos de la minuta aprobada por el Senado el 13 de diciembre del 2016.

En la sesión de pleno de la Cámara estuvo presente el señor Raúl Elizalde, padre de la niña Graciela Elizalde Benavides, que requería de un medicamento a base de cannabis para tratar el síndrome de Lennox-Gastaut que padece.

3. 100 días de Trump en la Casa Blanca

En esta infografía se muestra una encuesta de The Washington Post/ABC, la cual dice que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, se ha convertido en el gobernante estadounidense más impopular de la era moderna. Y aunque en la víspera del cumplimiento de esos 100 primeros días el presidente Trump defendió el cumplimiento de sus promesas de campaña, una mayoría de los estadounidenses consideran que ha logrado poco durante su mandato.

4. Inculcar el ahorro en nuevas generaciones requiere otros métodos

Los más pequeños y sobre todo los adolescentes se caracterizan principalmente por la preferencia en la inmediatez y el corto plazo, lo que complica que tengan buenos hábitos financieros, por lo que lo ideal para inculcar sanas prácticas en el manejo de su dinero es enseñar con el ejemplo y la práctica, concuerdan especialistas.

Seguro ya debes conocer a la Generación Z, los nacidos entre 1995 y el 2015, es curiosa, emprendedora, se enfoca en las nuevas tecnologías y, sobre todo cree en ellas, dejando a un lado lo tradicional, lo cual también incluye la forma de percibir el ahorro y cómo hacerlo”, refiere información de la firma de soluciones financieras Principal.

Si quieres conocer más afondo estos métodos para enseñar a tus hijos a ahorrar, entra en la nota completa.

5. 10% del sueldo

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House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., refuted NBC Peacock host Mehdi Hasan after he suggested the movement to defund the police didn’t hurt Democrats in 2020 House races.

In a Thursday appearance on “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” Clyburn blasted Hasan’s suggestions as “poppycock,” declared that defunding the police was a “nonstarter,” especially among Black voters, and described the movement as “a chokehold around the Democratic Party.” 

DEMOCRAT ERIC ADAMS CRITICIZES HIS PARTY FOR ‘DEMONIZING’ POLICE: ‘FEW HAVE EVER BEEN PART OF LAW ENFORCEMENT’

“You have been quite critical of the left of your party. The Democrats lost a net dozen House seats last November despite winning the White House. You’ve been very critical of the party’s progressive wing for ‘sloganeering,’ you say, with movements like ‘Medicare for all’ and ‘defund the police,'” Hasan said, before citing a study that he said showed swing voters paid little attention to Republican attacks on defunding the police. “So is the whole attention on defund the police really a deflection by the party leadership from your own failures? That’s what your critics on the left would say.” 

“That is absolutely poppycock. I know what I’m talking about. I’m out here with the voters every day. I did a town hall last night … and I can tell you defund the police is a nonstarter, even with Black people,” Clyburn said. “If you don’t think that’s true, then look at the results of what just happened in New York City’s election. So the proof is in the pudding. I know what I’m talking about.”

“I talk to people everyday, and defund the police is a chokehold around the Democratic Party,” he added. “If you’re going to categorize left and right, I’m on the left of my party. Nobody can call me anything but a progressive. I’ve been one all of my life … so come on!”

Hasan again questioned whether messaging on defunding the police actually hurt Democrats in the election, claiming that no House candidates in 2020 or Democratic mayoral candidates in New York City actually ran on defunding the police. Several far-left members of Congress do, however, support defunding and even dismantling municipal police departments, such as Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

“I’m not sure why you seem to think it’s such a big problem for your party,” he said. 

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“Ask Jaimie Harrison, who was running for the United States Senate here in South Carolina. Just ask him. Ask Abigail Spanberger up in Virginia why I said it. I said it because it’s real. It’s a real problem … This kind of sloganeering does no good,” Clyburn said, referencing former Democratic Senate candidate Jaimie Harrison’s loss in the South Carolina Senate election, as well as Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s, D-Va., narrow win in Virginia’s 7th congressional district. 

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrat-james-clyburn-refutes-nbc-host-downplaying-effects-police

Let’s start with a general premise on Capitol Hill: Members of Congress don’t like to be told what to do.

But lawmakers agree to a certain set of rules – on which Members themselves vote – for how the House and Senate operate. A lot of those rules deal with how lawmakers comport themselves, conduct themselves and respect the institution. Lawmakers may vote no or disagree with the rules.

But…

Them’s the rules.

Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution grants both the House and Senate the authority to establish their own rules. For a short period, or, practically indefinitely.

Lawmakers have periodically picked individual fights with U.S. Capitol Police, sworn to protect order at the Capitol.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., takes off her face mask to talk to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, about legislation to create an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol Complex. 
(AP)

The USCP generally grants great deference to lawmakers, especially when it pertains to “coming and going.” The cops may stop Congressional staff or journalists from moving around the Capitol at various times. But Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution includes the “Speech or Debate” Clause. That provision essentially inoculates lawmakers from “arrest” when they are conducting official Congressional business, such as voting. Or, more broadly, driving to the Capitol to vote. 

HOUSE FINES 4 MEMBERS FOR IGNORING MASK POLICY ON THE FLOOR, WARNS 7 OTHERS

This is why there was a brouhaha in March 2006 when former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., hit a U.S Capitol Police Officer as she tried to enter a House office building. The officer didn’t recognize the Congresswoman. But she didn’t stop for him. 

Rep. Don Young, R-Ark., did the same in July 2014. Authorities shut down the House wing of the Capitol one morning after maintenance workers inadvertently yanked asbestos out of the Capitol ceiling. Officers told Young that no one could enter the Capitol – including Members – until they evaluated if there was any danger. But Young barged past the officers and into the building.

“I don’t care if the building is closed,” said Young.

In short, you really can’t tell lawmakers to do anything. They will do what they’re going to do.

The pandemic and the Capitol riot triggered one of the most tumultuous periods in Congress since the Civil War. So, you can imagine the resistance among lawmakers during the early days of the pandemic when they were ordered to don masks. And now some House Republicans want the House to ditch masks as the pandemic eases.

GOPers blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for maintaining a mask mandate on the House floor.

“She craves power and she uses it to try to spank us into doing things,” complained Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., on Fox about the Speaker. “This is just a heavy-handed tactic.”

Norman was one of six lawmakers fined $500 for not wearing a mask on the floor. If a member fails to mask up, the House docks them again. $2,500 for a second offense.

In addition to Norman, the House also dinged Reps. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Brian Mast, R-Fla., with $500 fines. House officials tagged Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Chip Roy, R-Texas, Bob Good, R-Va., Mary Miller, R-Ill., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Marcy Kaptur, R-Ohio, with official warnings.

“They sent me my little envelope today saying, ‘Oh, here you go. Here you go. You’re fined. Here’s your fine,’” complained Mast on Fox. “(Democrats) don’t care. They just want the control. Whether it’s through science. Whether it’s through lying. Whether it’s through hurting you and your pocketbook and trying to get you to comply.”

Republicans may not embrace the House mask rule. But the full House voted to require masks on the floor. The same with a recent rule requiring members pass through metal detectors to enter the House chamber. Members voted on that provision, too. The House now fines members $5,000 if they don’t walk through metal detectors to reach the House floor. 

Of course, Democrats abhorred internal rules okayed by Republicans when they ran the show here. Multiple Republicans upbraided then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving after the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., led a 2016 sit-in on the floor to protest gun violence. Republicans were beside themselves that Democrats would actually sit on the carpet in the well of the House chamber to make their point. Some GOP members implored Irving and his aides to arrest Lewis and others – precisely the optic Democrats would love to have. 

Then House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., described the sit-in as “chaos” and worried it set a “very dangerous precedent.”

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In January 2017, the House approved a new set of rules for the 115th Congress. Included in the rules package were fines for members who may disrupt the House, such as with a sit-in. Lawmakers could also face sanctions if they broke House protocol by telecasting their own video stream from the floor or snapped pictures. Such was the rage during the sit-in. Members would first receive a warning. Then, face a $500 fine. Finally, the House would levy a $2,500 fine for additional infractions.

Democrats cried foul.

Sound familiar?

The difference is that Democrats imposed the mask rule since they are in the majority now and Republicans don’t like it. And Republicans imposed the sit-in rule when they ran the House and Democrats objected while in the minority.

Welcome to Congress. 

Capitol Attending Physician Dr. Brian Monahan clarified House mask guidance in a statement to the Congressional community last week. Monahan reiterated a House rule which requires members to mask up on the floor unless speaking.

According to Pelosi, it comes down to vaccinations.

“We have a responsibility to make sure that the House of Representatives’ chamber is not a Petri dish because of the selfishness of some not to be vaccinated,” said Pelosi. “What is this? The honor system? The honor system as to whether somebody’s been vaccinated? Do you want them breathing in your face on the strength of their honor?”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 13, 2021.
(AP)

The House blocked a resolution by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to lift the floor mask rule last week. McCarthy contends the House mandate is “contrary to the latest CDC guidance.”

“Apparently, COVID works differently in both chambers. Because in the Senate, you don’t wear a mask. In the House, you have to wear a mask. The only difference is the Speaker. She doesn’t want to abide by the CDC rules,” alleged McCarthy. 

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But Monahan says the policy “is entirely consistent with Centers for Disease Control prevailing mask guidance” and reviewed by CDC experts.

“The attending physician has said until everybody’s vaccinated, we wear masks,” said Pelosi.

This prompted some Republicans to question Monahan’s independence.

I would like to see an organizational chart who Dr. Monahan answers to,” said Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee. “It appears that his message just mimics whatever (Pelosi’s) message is.”

Monahan’s been the Attending Physician for both the House and Senate for 12 years, under both GOP and Democratic control of the House and Senate.

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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is vaccinated. He recently pressed CDC Director Rochelle Walensky at a Senate hearing as to whether he could stroll over from the Senate side of the Capitol to the House side – sans mask.

Walensky replied that mask policies are a “local” decision.

It’s said that all politics is local. And that’s the difference between House rules and Senate rules.

But, just like in cities and states, not everyone follows the rules.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/covid-mask-policy-highlights-partisan-divide-congressional-lawmakers

Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard, here in a snapshot Tuesday, has won praise from researchers for its accessibility and details.

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Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard, here in a snapshot Tuesday, has won praise from researchers for its accessibility and details.

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A scientist who created a dashboard for monitoring Florida’s rising number of COVID-19 cases said she’s been fired for refusing to manipulate the data.

Rebekah Jones was the manager of the Geographic Information System team at Florida’s Department of Health. She helped created a data portal that for months has provided easily accessible and detailed information on COVID-19 cases broken down by ZIP code. The Florida COVID-19 dashboard has been praised by researchers in the state and by Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator.

Last week, Jones notified public health researchers in an email that she’d been removed from the project. “As a word of caution,” she wrote, “I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it.”

Jones now says she’s been fired from the state Department of Health. In a statement to CBS12 News in West Palm Beach, Fla., Jones said her dismissal came after she refused to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.”

All of Florida entered the first phase of recovery this week when the two largest counties joined the rest of the state in opening restaurants, retail stores and barber shops.

At a news conference in Tallahassee, Gov. Ron DeSantis called Jones’ departure from the Health Department a “nonissue.” He said he’d seen an email she sent her supervisor saying she never intended to suggest the information on the dashboard might be less reliable going forward. DeSantis said he believes from the email that “she was tired and needed a break.”

In a statement later to The Miami Herald, DeSantis’ communications director, Helen Aguirre Ferré, said, “Rebekah Jones exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time with the department, including her unilateral decisions to modify the Department’s COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from the epidemiological team or her supervisors.

“The blatant disrespect for the professionals who were working around the clock to provide the important information for the COVID-19 website was harmful to the team. Accuracy and transparency are always indispensable, especially during an unprecedented public health emergency such as COVID-19. Having someone disruptive cannot be tolerated during this public pandemic, which led the department to determine that it was best to terminate her employment.”

Jones’ removal from the project and her subsequent dismissal have raised questions about the impartiality and transparency of Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard.

Ben Sawyer, director of LabX at the University of Central Florida, which is investigating how local health systems are coping with COVID-19 cases, said her ouster is “quite disturbing to me as a scientist and as a citizen.”

“Regardless of what you think about reopening Florida, you would like to know what’s going on,” Sawyer said. “This data is our ability to see what’s happening. I think there are enormous questions that arise when you don’t know if what you see [is] fair or accurate.”

Jones’ dismissal also drew immediate criticism from Democratic members of Congress, including Kathy Castor, who represents the Tampa area. Castor is asking the governor to provide immediate answers as to why Jones was fired.

“Amidst pressure to ‘reopen’ the state regardless of data and science,” Castor wrote, “transparency is vital to keeping our neighbors safe and ensuring that they have confidence that our government is reporting honestly.”

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/19/859119865/florida-ousts-top-covid-19-data-scientist

President Joe Biden highlighted his $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill’s $1,400 payments at a White House meeting Friday, while senators worked into Saturday to pass a bill after a 10-hour delay to resolve a dispute holding up passage.

Senate Republicans already had planned to delay a final vote on the bill as long as possible by offering dozens of amendments, but the Democrats were the ones who responsible for the first holdup as they sought to secure the support of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to extend unemployment insurance benefits.

Manchin finally agreed to support extending benefits of $300 a week through Sept. 6, down from $400 in the House-passed bill, and to forgive federal income taxes on up to $10,200 of unemployment insurance payments for those making less than $150,000.

“We have reached a compromise that enables the economy to rebound quickly while also protecting those receiving unemployment benefits from being hit with unexpected tax bill next year,” Manchin said in a statement after the deal was reached.

Biden quickly jumped on board.

“This agreement allows us to move forward on the urgently needed American Rescue Plan, with $1,400 relief checks, funding we need to finish the vaccine rollout, open our schools, help those suffering from the pandemic, and more,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.

The compromise cleared the way for voting on the stimulus package to resume, with passage on track to likely pass later on Saturday.

The Democrats spent hours trying to craft an alternative acceptable to Manchin, lest he provide the deciding vote on an amendment by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to reduce the $400 payments to $300 and cut them off in mid-July, while taxing all unemployment benefits.

While Manchin did cross party lines to support Portman’s proposal, allowing to pass by 50-49, the Democratic compromise would supersede it. New Jersey’s Democratic U.S. senators, Cory Booker and Robert Menendez, both voted no.

Republicans have continued to insist that higher unemployment benefits encourage employees to stay home. But studies by the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Institute, economist Ernie Tedeschi and Yale University all found that people would rather return to their jobs, a conclusion also supported by Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Before the stalemate began, the Senate rejected an amendment by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to restore the $15 federal minimum wage that Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough excised from the bill. The legislation is being considered under a procedure known as reconciliation, which allows passage by majority vote but limits what kind of provisions can be included in the legislation.

The amendment failed, 58-42. Booker and Menendez supported the wage hike.

“If any senator believes this is the last time they will cast a vote on whether or not to give a raise to 32 million Americans, they are sorely mistaken,” Sanders said after the vote. “We’re going to keep bringing it up, and we’re going to get it done because it is what the American people demand and need.”

Although Senate Democrats tried to ensure they had the support of all 50 of their lawmakers, Biden pitched the stimulus checks to a paratransit worker, Navy veteran and health center volunteer, who joined him around a table at the White House.

Speaking to reporters at the beginning of the meeting, Biden said the money would “make a big difference in terms of their lives.”

“It’s going to provide immediate relief for millions of people that are going to be able to use it in a very constructive way and also grow the economy in the process,” he said.

The legislation includes $1,400 payments to those making up to $75,000, eliminating them entirely for those making more than $80,000, and $2,800 payments to couples making up to $150,000, ending them for those making more than $160.000.

Those thresholds are less than the $100,000 and $200,000 cutoffs in the House-passed bill, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive research group, said the lower income limits would mean that 400,000 fewer New Jerseyans would get stimulus checks.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday in his floor speech that even with the lower income limits, “the vast majority of Americans will get the full $1,400 we have asked for,” with the legislation providing “direct checks to American workers and families struggling with the cost of groceries, medicine and the rent.”

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Also Friday, both supporters and opponents of the stimulus bill seized on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that 375,000 new jobs were created last month.

Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky praised “a jobs report that shattered expectations, nearly doubling the job growth experts had expected to see,” as he argued on the Senate floor against the stimulus bill.

But Psaki said that the economy was still down 9.5 million jobs since the start of the pandemic a year ago.

“This is a larger jobs hole than at any point in the Great Recession,” Psaki said at her daily press briefing. “At this month’s pace, it will take us more than two years to get to pre-pandemic employment levels, and will take even longer at the average pace over the last three months.”

Studies by S&P Global and the Brookings Institution said spending $1.9 trillion would return the economy later this year to what it was before the pandemic. And Moody’s Analytics said the plan would help create 7.5 million jobs this year and another 2.5 million next year.

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A veces o bastantes veces lo que es importante no es noticia. O los periodistas no nos damos cuenta de lo que es importante. Se reunieron aquí nada menos que 15 ministros y otros tantos delegados de Educación de América latina y del Caribe. Y tuvo tan poca difusión periodística que se podría sospechar que fue una reunión clandestina.

Nota al pie: no conviene esperar demasiado de las declaraciones de los organismos internacionales. Están llenas de buenas intenciones y vacías de definiciones concretas.

El documento final de este encuentro de miércoles y jueves no es una excepción. La riqueza hay que buscarla en otro lado: en las presentaciones de los ministros y las experiencias que sacaron y que sacan de las reformas encaradas en la región.

Otro dato que es una explicación: la consigna de la UNESCO, organizador de la reunión, es parecida a Consenso o Muerte. Acordar todo documento hasta en los puntos y comas aunque el resultado sea un documento insulso que por ser insulso no cambia nada.

Aún así no es fácil: algunos hacen de un párrafo y hasta de una palabra una cuestión de principios. Representantes de Cuba y de países del Caribe se perdieron en una discusión de tres horas sobre cómo había que definir la educación obligatoria. Era gente a la que no les preocupaba perder el avión.

Mientras acá el kirchnerismo nos encerraba en un discurso populista y en el fondo conservador del viejo orden escolar, muchos de nuestros vecinos avanzaban en cambios profundos buscando lo que es posible alcanzar: una escuela inclusiva y a la vez de calidad.

Gobiernos de izquierda como el de Correa en Ecuador o el de Rousseff en Brasil y corridos a la derecha como el de Uribe en Colombia o el de Ollanta en Perú. Todos bajo un denominador común: lograr que sin importar su origen social o étnico los chicos vayan a la escuela y crezcan en conocimientos sostenidamente. Eso es verdadera movilidad social. Algunos han conseguido acercarse más y otros acercarse menos. Pero todos decidieron abandonar las recetas obsoletas.

Y todos están recorriendoo caminos parecidos. Uno: incorporar la evaluación de cómo aprenden los chicos, una pieza clave para el trabajo en la escuela. Dos: entender que en la autononía de las escuelas hay otra batalla clave. Y tres: que lo mismo pasa con los maestros, su formación, su carrera profesional y sus salarios. Nada de esto puede ir solo ni quedar afuera de cualquier estrategia de cambio.

Con estos tres ingredientes se están cocinando las reformas. Cada cual las adapta a su realidad pero nadie piensa que se pueda alcanzar el santo grial de la educación sin mezclar correctamente los tres elementos.

En la Argentina perdimos mucho tiempo, 12 años para empezar a hablar. Convertimos nuestro sistema educativo en una vaca sagrada que si sigue como está terminará muriendo. Ahora da la impresión de que empezamos a transitar el camino más serio de las evaluaciones y de los cambios en la formación docente.

Empezado no quiere decir que estemos cerca del objetivo sino que nos falta para llegar al objetivo. Estamos fallando en un área en la que el mundo desarrollado sigue ampliando dramáticamente la brecha con nosotros.

Dentro de unas semanas estaremos cumpliendo el ritual de cada año: discutir la paritaria docente bajo la amenaza de un paro docente que impedirá el comienzo de las clases. Eso seguro que va a ser noticia.

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(CNN)Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam “cannot effectively govern” following the controversy over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page, a Virginia lawmaker who’s known him for more than a decade said Monday.

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Nicholas made landfall across the central Texas coast early Tuesday morning as a Category 1 hurricane.  

NICHOLAS DOWNGRADED TO TROPICAL STORM AFTER MAKING LANDFALL IN TEXAS AS CATEGORY 1 HURRICANE

The storm is forecast to weaken, but not move very much, bringing torrential rainfall to Texas and Louisiana.

Hurricane Nicholas makes landfall
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A high risk of excessive rainfall for southwest Louisiana is not good news for an area that was hit very hard by Hurricane Ida just two weeks ago.

Over a foot of rain – with isolated totals of up to 20 inches of rain – is possible.  

Rainfall around Louisiana
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HURRICANE OLAF HITS MEXICO’S LOS CABOS RESORTS AT CATEGORY 2

Meanwhile, a wide swath of 5-10 inches of rain will extend inland from far-East Texas across the central Gulf Coast.  

Flood Advisories in Texas
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Some tropical tornadoes, storm surge and gusty winds will also be dangerous especially east of the center of circulation. 

In other weather news, strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible from the Central Plains to the Northeast along a frontal boundary bringing the risk for hail, damaging winds, an isolated tornado and heavy rain. 

Severe weather threats from the Central Plains to the Northeast
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Temperatures remain above average for much of the U.S. 

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São Paulo – Businessmen and investors who were in Brazil during the World Cup this year, invited by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), will do business amounting to US$ 6 billion with Brazilian companies in the next twelve months. The project brought to Brazil, between June and July, 2,836 businessmen, investors and foreign opinion makers, from those 81 were Arabs. They engaged in matchmaking, got to know companies and watched the matches.

Press release

Guests saw World Cup matches

“The delight of the guests, including the Arabs, was very positive,” says the Relationship Marketing manager at Apex-Brasil, Jacy Braga. There were 104 participating countries, including 15 Arab nations.

The manager says that the majority of the participants came from nations which are already leading markets for Brazilian products, such as the United States, Latin American and European countries. “But the participation of new markets such as the Arabs was very important for the Apex-Brasil and for the Brazilian companies,” Braga told ANBA in an interview. The fact that Qatar will host the World Cup in 2022, according to him, helped bring together Brazilians and Arabs who attended the project.

The Arab importers invited by the Apex to visit Brazil represented 18 sectors: medical and dental equipment, personal hygiene products, toiletries and perfumery, ceramics and ceramic tiles, pharma chemicals, marble and granite, agricultural machines and equipment, foodstuff, shoe industry, chocolates and chocolate products, fruit and juices, non-ferrous metals, textiles, rubber industry, alcohol industry, dairy and dairy products, rice, defense and multi sector companies, segment which comprises the trading companies.

The World Cup project had the participation of 708 Brazilian companies from 18 estates and 837 separate business schedules were carried out – i.e. sets of appointments to be kept by the international visitors for the duration of the tournament – according to the Apex-Brasil. All of the 64 matches were watched by the foreigners invited by the organization. The best results came from housing and construction, machinery and equipment, foodstuff, beverages and agribusiness, health technology, and also fashion and services. From the Brazilian companies which participated in the program, 70% said sales increased and 30% entered in new markets.

The foreigners’ perception of Brazil and Brazilian production also improved. The Apex-Brasil enquired them before the trip and by the end of it about how they felt about the country. The answers “high” and “very high” increased from 83% to 90% on the question about the quality of the Brazilian products and services, from 65% to 81% about the creativity and innovation of the products and from 77% to 90% about the professionalism of Brazilian businessmen.

Braga also mentions that the project was focused on the business schedules and also on image building.

 *Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

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Néstor Arce

 

Un paso más en la modernización de la información ha dado el diario LA PRENSA con la primera transmisión en línea de Noticias LPTV, a través de su sitio web. El nuevo proyecto informativo mantiene al diario a la vanguardia digital del país.

 

Xochilt Gutiérrez, productora de Noticias LPTV, asegura que “en la internet está la nueva forma de hacer televisión y eso es lo que estamos haciendo junto con un grupo de jóvenes periodistas”, afirma la productora, que cuenta con vasta experiencia en el medio.

 

Noticias LPTV rompe con el modelo tradicional de ver noticias y ofrece nuevas alternativas a los usuarios de la red.

 

De acuerdo con Gutiérrez, los lectores de LA PRENSA tendrán la opción de ver el noticiero en www.laprensa.com.ni desde cualquier plataforma con acceso a internet, no exclusivamente frente a un televisor. Esto impulsa la proyección del país en materia de información, porque no solo las personas dentro de Nicaragua podrán informarse, sino que los residentes en el extranjero tendrán la oportunidad de enterarse de las noticias en otro formato, asegura Gutiérrez.

 

“Noticias LPTV es un proyecto innovador, que como toda profesional esperás sea un gran paso en tu carrera”, define Cindy Regidor, presentadora del noticiero. Regidor es una periodista joven con experiencia en prensa escrita y televisiva, que ahora forma parte de Noticias LPTV como la presentadora estelar del proyecto informativo de LA PRENSA.

 

NUEVA ALTERNATIVA

 

 

“Ahora nuestros anunciantes tendrán la oportunidad de apuntar hacia nuevos mercados y llegar más allá de sus objetivos, gracias a este proyecto de vanguardia que LA PRENSA ha desarrollado” asegura Ricardo Alvarado, gerente de mercadeo del Grupo Editorial LA PRENSA.

 

Noticias LPTV será transmitido en vivo a través del sitio web www.laprensa.com.ni, de lunes a viernes a las 4:30 de la tarde. Además, podrá seguir los comentarios de las noticias en las redes sociales usando la etiqueta #NoticiasLPTV en Twitter y Facebook, todas las emisiones serán grabadas y guardadas en tv.laprensa.com.ni para que usted pueda verlas, en caso de perderse la emisión en vivo.

 

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