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Goldman Sachs on Trump’s threat of trade tariff on China – CNBC
Goldman Sachs on Trump’s threat of trade tariff on China – CNBC

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of increased tariffs on Chinese goods is an indication that U.S.-China trade negotiations “might have reached a sticking point,” Goldman Sachs said on Sunday.

The bank said in a note that chances of a successful deal are now lower, but suggested that an increase in tariffs could still be avoided — especially if the Chinese delegation still attends its meeting with U.S. negotiators this week.

Referring to Trump’s latest gambit, Goldman economists said: “This represents a shift from the optimistic statements from US officials over the last few weeks and suggests that the probability of a near-term agreement is at least slightly lower than it seemed to be recently.”

U.S. officials had claimed in recent weeks that trade talks were going well, and sources had told CNBC that a deal was possible by this Friday. But major sticking points were said to remain, such as intellectual property theft and a disagreement as to whether tariffs should remain in place as a way to ensure Beijing sticks to its commitments.

Trump said in a Sunday afternoon Twitter post that the current 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods will rise to 25% on Friday. He also threatened to impose 25% levies on an additional $325 billion of Chinese goods “shortly.”

Yet Goldman said it believes an agreement could still be reached, adding that it is still “slightly” more likely to happen than an increase in duties. It put the odds of a tariff escalation by the end of the week at 40% currently.

Investors will have a very clear signal to monitor, the bank added.

“The most important near-term indicator to watch will be whether the large delegation of Chinese officials comes to Washington on May 8, as scheduled. If they do, this would indicate that they believe a deal is still reasonably likely,” Goldman said.

If both sides end up meeting after all, the tariff rate would rise only if they are unable to reach an agreement by Thursday — before the hike takes effect on Friday, it added.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He had planned to bring a large delegation to Washington on Wednesday to hash out a trade deal. But two sources briefed on the talks told CNBC the Chinese side may back out of this week’s negotiations.

Goldman warned that could be a sign of an extended trade war: “If the upcoming visit is canceled, an agreement in the coming week would then seem very unlikely. In such a scenario an increase in the tariff rate to 25% would become the base case.”

The U.S. imports goods from China totaling $539.5 billion and the trade deficit stood at $419.2 billion in 2018, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. If Trump follows through with his threats, virtually all goods imported from China to the U.S. would face some sort of tariff.

But there is still hope yet, as Trump has the power to “walk the policy back through an executive order if negotiations progress favorably throughout the week,” Goldman said.

— CNBC’s Spencer Kimball contributed to this report.

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Qué es el caso Madre Mía y por qué Humala es el principal implicado – RPP Noticias
Qué es el caso Madre Mía y por qué Humala es el principal implicado – RPP Noticias

Humala reconoció este miércoles los audios investigados por Fiscalía, pero rechazó la versión de que estos lo impliquen con situaciones ilícitas. | Fuente: Flickr Congreso

Ollanta Humala desmintió el miércoles que sus más de 100 audios investigados en Fiscalía lo impliquen en la presunta compra de testigos en el caso Madre Mía. Sin embargo, el diario El Comercio publicó este jueves que Jorge Ávila sí se retractó por dinero sobre las acusaciones que en 1992 presentó contra el expresidente.

¿Qué es el caso Madre Mía, quién es Jorge Ávila y qué tiene Humala que ver con esto? RPP Noticias te lo explica.

La base militar. Todo se remonta a 1992. Ollanta Humala era capitán del Ejército y estaba destacado en Huánuco como jefe de la Unidad Contrasubversiva. Su labor era dirigir la base militar Madre Mía (San Martín) para la identificación y captura de terroristas. 

El 17 de junio de ese mismo año, sin embargo, un ciudadano lo denunció ante la Fiscalía de Tocache. Este denunciante era Jorge Ávila, quien entonces aseguraba que Humala había ordenado un ataque contra él y sus familiares tras confundirlos con integrantes de Sendero Luminoso. Según dijo en ese momento, fue secuestrado y torturado, pero logró escapar. Su hermana, Natividad Ávila Rivera, y su cuñado, Benigno Sulca Castro, desaparecieron. 

La investigación y el proceso quedaron truncos por las contradicciones de los testigos. | Fuente: AFP

Proceso trunco. Este testigo clave explicó, además, que el denunciado había dirigido estas acciones bajo el seudónimo de ‘Capitán Carlos’. El relato de Ávila fue atendido por el Poder Judicial, que abrió proceso en 2006 por los delitos de homicidio calificado, desaparición forzada y lesiones graves. 

No obstante, el caso no pasó más allá del análisis y nunca se abrió juicio oral. La Sala Penal Nacional decidió archivarlo en 2009, luego de que varios otros testigos se desdijeron. El propio Ávila también varió su alegato y limpió de responsabilidad a Humala. Con todo esto, en última instancia, la Sala Penal Transitoria de la Corte Suprema ordenó retirar del proceso al principal acusado.

El caso volvió a conocerse cuando Humala era candidato, pero la investigación se archivó nuevamente. | Fuente: Andina

Olvido y reapertura. Con testimonios contradictorios, la investigación se estancó y la Fiscalía optó por archivarla. Sin embargo, en enero de 2011, cuando Humala candidateaba por segunda vez a la presidencia, el caso fue abierto nuevamente. 

¿La razón? Se desempolvó otra denuncia hecha años atrás por Gustavo Pacheco, quien era candidato al Congreso por Solidaridad Nacional. Pero la nueva acusación por desaparición forzada no trascendió, pues la Fiscalía de Tocache aplicó la sentencia de la Corte Suprema que desestimaba la acusación contra Humala por inconsistente.

El diario El Comercio reveló este jueves que la víctima y testigo Jorge Ávila recibió 4,500 dólares para cambiar su versión. | Fuente: El Comercio

¿Quién es Amílcar? En su reciente entrevista con El Comercio, Ávila sostuvo que Amílcar Gómez Amasifuén fue el intermediario de los 4,500 dólares que recibió para dejar de acusar al expresidente ante los fiscales. Gómez, suboficial del Ejército, es conocido por su participación en el levantamiento de Locumba.

Esta asonada, realizada en Tacna en el año 2000 contra el régimen de Alberto Fujimori, fue dirigida por Humala y su hermano Antauro. De ahí su cercanía. No obstante, Gómez fue exculpado del soborno. La Sala Penal Liquidadora, que le imputaba haber pagado 4,000 dólares a Ávila, lo absolvió junto a su primo Robinson Gómez Reátegui en agosto de 2011, cuando Humala ya era presidente.

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Man facing federal charges in fatal machete attack on Appalachian Trail – ABC News
Man facing federal charges in fatal machete attack on Appalachian Trail – ABC News

A Massachusetts man is facing a federal murder charge after authorities alleged he attacked a pair of hikers with a machete on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, killing one and severely injuring the other.

James L. Jordan, 30, of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, was arrested early Saturday following the deadly attack in Wythe County, Virginia, that a federal prosecutor described Sunday as “senseless and brutal.”

Jordan was arrested on the trail after two hikers contacted the Bland County Sheriff’s Office and reported “a man with a machete assaulting people,” according to the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office.

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James L. Jordan in a police booking photo.

A motive for the attack is under investigation by the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, division.

The Wythe County Sheriff’s Office said deputies quickly went to the Appalachian Trail and found two badly injured hikers, a man and a woman. The victim’s names were not immediately released and it was unclear which one had died.

Jordan was charged with one count of murder within the special maritime territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and one count of assault with the intent to murder within the special maritime territorial jurisdiction of the United States, authorities said.

The suspect is expected to appear in federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, on Monday, authorities said. It’s unclear if Jordan has retained an attorney.

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Layers of blue mountains on the Appalachian Trail.

“I commend local law enforcement in Wythe and Smyth Counties for mobilizing successful rescue and tactical operations in this remote region. Thanks to their efforts, the suspect was safely apprehended and the seriously wounded victim received critical medical care,” Thomas T. Cullen, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, said in a statement.

“We will continue to work with our state and local partners to bring the perpetrator of this senseless and brutal attack to justice,” Cullen added.

The slaying was the first murder on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,160-mile wilderness path that stretches from Maine to Georgia, since 2011 when hiker Scott Lilly, 30, of South Bend, Indiana, was slain and left in a shallow grave in Amherst County, Virginia. No one has been arrested in the homicide.

The most infamous murder on the Appalachian Trail occurred in May 1981 near Pearisburg, Virginia, when the bodies of two hikers, Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, both of Maine, were found in their sleeping bags. Mountford had been shot three times in the face, while Ramsay was stabbed repeatedly with a long nail, authorities said.

Randal Lee Smith was arrested in the double homicide. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.

The slayings became the subject of the 1984 book “Murder on the Appalachian Trail” by author Jess Carr.

Smith was paroled in 1996 after serving 15 years of a 30-year prison sentence.

Smith returned to the Appalachian Trail in May 2008 and was arrested for shooting and wounding two fishermen near where he killed Mountford and Ramsey, authorities said. He later died in prison.

ABC News’ Ben Stein contributed to this report.

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How to make your own face mask – CNN
How to make your own face mask – CNN

By Scottie Andrew, CNN
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Updated 4:53 AM ET, Sat April 4, 2020

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    CNN’s Harmeet Kaur and Tami Luhby contributed to this report.

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    President Biden Live Updates: Merrick Garland, Covid-19 and Stimulus – The New York Times
    President Biden Live Updates: Merrick Garland, Covid-19 and Stimulus – The New York Times
    Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Biden’s attorney general nominee, is expected to garner broad bipartisan support.Credit…Pool photo by Demetrius Freeman

    Judge Merrick B. Garland appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday to begin his confirmation process to become the attorney general.

    While Judge Garland is expected to garner broad bipartisan support to run the Justice Department, he is facing questions from Democrats and Republicans about how he will handle myriad politically charged matters that the department now faces: a federal tax fraud investigation into President Biden’s son, a special counsel’s inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation, and the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that has begun to edge closer to former President Donald J. Trump’s inner circle.

    He will also need to reinvigorate the department’s civil rights division as America undergoes a painful and destabilizing reckoning with systemic racism, the likes of which the nation has not seen in more than half a century. The Trump administration worked to curb civil rights protections for transgender people and minorities. It also barred policies intended to combat systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and other implicit biases, which Mr. Trump said did not exist.

    In his opening statement before the committee, Judge Garland, 68, vowed to tackle systemic inequality and to combat the resurgent domestic terrorist threat that was stunningly evident on Jan. 6 during the Capitol siege.

    He also told the committee that he will not let politics influence the department, which has undertaken a criminal inquiry into Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, and is looking into whether Obama-era officials erred in their decision to investigate Mr. Trump’s campaign in 2016.

    “The attorney general represents the public interest,” he said. “I do not plan to be interfered with by anyone.”

    But Judge Garland will likely also asked whether his Justice Department will open new investigations into Mr. Trump, his former administration officials and his inner circle. Some of those officials have been accused by government watchdogs of improper behavior and lying to investigators. It is unclear whether Mr. Trump or his associates will face scrutiny for any connections to the Capitol attack. Mr. Trump was acquitted of inciting insurrection by the Senate in his impeachment trial.

    Republicans may try to push Judge Garland to commit to politically charged investigations into Democrats, including Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, who misrepresented the number of coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes, or to appoint a special counsel to investigate Mr. Biden’s son. The Justice Department has asked David C. Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware, to continue to oversee the investigation into Hunter Biden.

    Last month Judge Garland said he would ensure “that there not be one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, one rule for friends, the other for foes.”

    After clerking for Justice William J. Brennan Jr., Judge Garland took a job at the Justice Department in 1989, as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington under President George H.W. Bush, where he prosecuted public corruption, drug trafficking and fraud cases.

    He was chosen by Jamie Gorelick, who was deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, to serve as her top deputy; in that role, he oversaw the investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing case and other major domestic terrorism cases. He was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1997 with overwhelming bipartisan support.

    Judge Garland is best known for being collateral damage in a political power play by Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and then the majority leader, who delayed his Supreme Court confirmation hearing for eight months so that a Republican president could fill the seat left empty by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016.

    Civil rights advocates, police unions, Democrats and Republicans have voiced support for Judge Garland’s nomination. A bipartisan group of more than 150 former Justice Department officials, including Democrats such as Eric H. Holder Jr. and Loretta Lynch, and Republicans like Alberto Gonzales, Michael B. Mukasey and Ken Starr, the independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation, signed a letter supporting him as well.

    Judge Garland’s confirmation team has methodically released batches of letters of support in the days leading up to the hearing. The first set of letters sought to demonstrate that he had broad support from both parties and from Justice Department alumni. The second was meant to show that both progressives and law enforcement groups believe that he will fairly consider their interests as he tackles domestic terrorism and hot-button civil rights issues that could negatively impact them.

    — Katie Benner

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/22/us/joe-biden-news

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    Trump Suggests Executive Order on Drug Prices, With a Scope That Is Unclear – The New York Times
    Trump Suggests Executive Order on Drug Prices, With a Scope That Is Unclear – The New York Times

    The price index idea, which the pharmaceutical industry and many medical providers have vigorously opposed, is still under review from the Office of Management and Budget and may begin as a five-year pilot program next year. But it would apply to only a small subset of the drug market, and would not affect the prices paid for more typical prescription drugs that are sold at retail pharmacies. An executive order on drug prices would most likely have no force of law on its own, but could direct the Department of Health and Human Services to pursue or expand this approach.

    Outside of the doctor’s office or hospital, the federal government does not buy many medications itself. Under current law, Medicare’s main prescription drug program farms out its drug purchasing to private insurance companies, and is barred from negotiating with drugmakers directly. The federal government does buy drugs for some populations, including veterans and federal prisoners, but they represent only a small fraction of the nation’s drug market.

    “The frustration that the U.S. pays much higher prices for drugs has been a persistent theme of this administration,” said Peter Bach, the director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center for Health Policy and Outcomes, in an email. “We will have to see what is ordered to understand what could actually be implemented by executive order. The scope will have to be pretty limited in that the government itself does very little purchasing of drugs. It is all done through intermediaries that we pay for the service.”

    The Department of Health and Human Services published a white paper of possible drug pricing policies last year, and has begun rolling out regulations to help enact portions of it. Congress is also seriously considering a handful of measures related to drug pricing, some of which may become law this year.

    A bill introduced by Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, has not advanced to a committee hearing, but comes the closest to what the president described Friday. Mr. Scott’s bill would link a drug’s approval by the Food and Drug Administration to a requirement that the drug’s retail list price in the United States be no higher than the lowest price charged in Canada, France, Britain, Japan or Germany.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/upshot/trump-drug-prices-executive-order.html

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    Tara Reade Says Her Joe Biden Senate Complaint Does Not Contain Sexual Assault, Harassment Allegations – Newsweek
    Tara Reade Says Her Joe Biden Senate Complaint Does Not Contain Sexual Assault, Harassment Allegations – Newsweek

    Tara Reade, the ex-Senate staffer who alleged that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, acknowledged Friday in an Associated Press interview that she did not explicitly accuse the former vice president of sexual assault or harassment in a limited report she filed. Reade later characterized the AP story, which was published Saturday, as false in a tweet.

    Reade responded this week to additional transcripts and notes from interviews she did with the AP in 2019, in which she admitted to “chickening out” of filing an official complaint that actually alleged explicit sexual misconduct of any kind. The AP noted that Reade did not raise allegations of sexual assault against Biden until this year, when he became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

    Biden on Friday outright denied her claims again and called on the Senate and National Archives to produce any such complaint should it exist.

    Reade conceded to the AP Friday that even if any record of her official complaint does surface, it “would not corroborate her assault allegations because she chose not to detail them at the time.”

    “I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade earlier told the AP of her having filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office.

    The former staffer said she does not have a copy of the Senate report, and Biden has insisted he’s not aware that any complaint exists against him.

    “I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault,” Reade told the AP Friday, insisting that she did file an “intake form” at the Senate personnel office. She said the supposed documentation would include her contact information and general complaints against Biden, but nothing specifically about sexual assault or harassment.

    However, in a Saturday afternoon tweet, Reade later rebuked the AP’s story, saying flatly: “This is false.”

    Biden and his campaign have repeatedly denied Reade’s allegation that the then-Delaware senator put his hand up her skirt and penetrated her 27 years ago. The former vice president told MSNBC Friday “this never happened” and called on the Senate and the National Archives to release her complaint if one exists.

    Newsweek reached out Saturday to representatives of Biden as well as Reade for a comment on this story.

    Reade participated in several 2019 interviews in which she described “chickening out” of previously filing any official record of sexual assault against Biden. She cited “retaliation” as one factor behind her reluctance to do so.

    A recently uncovered Larry King Live segment from August 11, 1993 purported to show Reade’s mother telling CNN that her daughter did not make the accusations public at the time because “she chose not to out of respect for [Biden].”

    Reade was one of eight women who came forward last year alleging Biden subjected them to uncomfortable touching and shows of affection during his Senate tenure. But she did not go so far as to accuse him of sexual assault or harassment until this year.

    Speaking with Newsweek in March, Reade said her primary purpose in escalating the allegations was to push back against “powerful men.”

    The AP noted Friday that it declined to publish details of her 2019 interviews because reporters were unable to corroborate her accusations, citing several contradictions in her statements.

    Updated 4:24 PM ET, to include Reade’s tweet responding to the AP report.

    Tara Reade, the ex-Senate staffer who now alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, acknowledged Friday that she did not explicitly accuse Biden of sexual assault or harassment in previous filings and interviews prior to this year, only that she was made to feel “uncomfortable.”Sean Rayford / Stringer/Getty Images

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    Trump says ‘we’ll know over the next four weeks’ if a China trade deal happens – CNBC
    Trump says ‘we’ll know over the next four weeks’ if a China trade deal happens – CNBC

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    The U.S. and China moved closer to a trade deal during talks this week, but negotiators still need to hammer out some sticking points as they push for a final summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

    A Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Liu He met with U.S. officials Wednesday and Thursday as the two sides try to strike an agreement and end a potentially devastating trade conflict. While the Trump administration has shown optimism about inking a trade overhaul long sought by the president, negotiators still have some differences.

    Ahead of a Thursday meeting with Liu, Trump told reporters that “intellectual property and theft” and “certain tariffs” — two of the key topics in the talks — are some of the remaining sticking points.

    “If we have a deal, there will be a summit. I’d say we’ll know over the next four weeks,” the president said.

    The two sides were going line by line through deal text Thursday, with a break for a meeting between Trump and Liu, an administration official told CNBC. They will continue to work through the deal on Friday.

    The world’s two largest economies still disagree over whether the U.S. will use tariffs as an enforcement tool, the official acknowledged. Trump has previously said his administration’s tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods could stay in place even after the sides strike a deal. China has pushed for the removal of duties as part of an agreement.

    The U.S. and China had not set a date or place for a summit between Trump and Xi as of Thursday.

    The talks come as investors and businesses watch closely for developments that could ease tensions between the U.S. and its largest trading partner. The escalating series of tariffs imposed by both China and the U.S. has rattled financial markets and led to concerns about issues rippling throughout both economies.

    Trump, who won the White House partly on his pledges to crack down on what he called Chinese trade abuses, seeks a victory that he can promote during his 2020 reelection bid.

    “If it’s not a great deal, we’re not doing it,” he told reporters at the White House earlier Thursday. “But it’s going very well.”

    The two sides are eyeing a series of agreements on different subjects tied together by one enforcement tool, the administration official said. The U.S. and China have not decided how much of the agreement to finish now and how much to leave for the potential meeting between Trump and Xi.

    The U.S. would give China until 2025 to follow through on commitments to purchase more goods from the U.S., the person added. But different products would be subject to separate timelines. Trump has long decried the trade deficit between the U.S. and China and pushed for Beijing to buy more American goods.

    Negotiators have not set a time frame for addressing structural issues, such as stopping intellectual property theft or forced technology transfers.

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    Byron York: In border fight, Democrats want ‘technological wall’ that won’t keep anybody out – Washington Examiner
    Byron York: In border fight, Democrats want ‘technological wall’ that won’t keep anybody out – Washington Examiner

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California says a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border would be “immoral.” Instead, she favors something she calls a “technological wall.” Another top House Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, calls it a “smart wall.”

    Instead of building an actual physical barrier of steel, concrete, or some other material, Pelosi, Clyburn, and other Democrats advocate employing an array of high-tech devices — drones, infrared sensors, surveillance cameras, and more — to keep track of activity at the border without physical impediments to discourage illegal crossings.

    “We cannot protect the border with concrete,” Clyburn said recently. “We can protect the border using the technology that is available to us to wall off intrusions.”

    The problem is, a smart wall would not actually wall off intrusions. Indeed, the main feature of a smart wall — in past debates, it was often referred to as a virtual fence — is that it will not stop anyone from crossing the border into the United States. It can detect illegal crossers and alert authorities to their presence. But it does nothing to keep them from entering the country.

    That is especially important given the nature of the migrants crossing the border illegally today. In the past, many were single adult men who could be caught and quickly returned to Mexico. But now, according to the Department of Homeland Security, about two-thirds of the crossers are families and unaccompanied children who, by U.S. law, cannot be quickly returned. Once in the United States, their asylum claims — the vast majority are ultimately judged without merit — take a long time to process. During that time, many simply disappear into the country.

    The point, for those illegal immigrants, is not to enter the United States without being detected. It is to enter, be caught, and begin the asylum process that will allow them to stay, one way or the other.

    A smart wall is no obstacle to such crossers. On the other hand, a physical barrier would be a big obstacle and, if placed in key areas of the border, would likely reduce illegal crossings significantly. That is precisely the kind of barrier that Pelosi, Clyburn, and other Democrats oppose.

    “The virtual fence does not actually block the entry of anyone like a real wall or fence does,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter controls on immigration. “The virtual fence only works if there are enough Border Patrol agents around to arrest the illegal crossers who are detected.”

    “Most importantly, this technology would not help in the case of caravan migrants pushing through the obsolete and aging barriers we have in many places,” Vaughan added. “And it does not help at all if the people who cross are detected only to be released after they state a fear of return, or because they brought a minor with them, or if they are unaccompanied minors led across by smugglers.”

    Given the nature of the illegal flow across the border, a virtual wall would be even less effective than it might have been in the past.

    Still, Democrats insist it is what is needed. Rep. Scott Peters, who delivered the recent Democratic weekly address, discussed his home city of San Diego and called for “sensors and radar … cameras mounted on drones … [and] state-of-the-art technologies to detect tunnels.”

    “That is what real border security looks like, and I can tell you that San Diegans want that border security,” Peters said. “But we do not want a wall.”

    Under Peters’ plan, the Department of Homeland Security would have to rely on technology at the border; if it wanted to build a physical barrier, it would have to get special congressional permission.

    Peters briefly acknowledged that San Diego has a border fence. What he did not tell listeners was that building that physical barrier saved the city from a crisis in the 1980s by dramatically reducing the flow of illegal immigrants. This is from a 2017 account in the San Diego Union-Tribune:

    While barbed wire had been strung between parts of Tijuana from San Ysidro in the 1950s, that barrier was easily foiled. In the 1980s, migrants overran the border and the Border Patrol, some dashing across Interstate 5. Thousands gathered nightly on a small slice of the border that Americans called “the soccer field” and Mexicans referred to as “La Canela.” There, men, women and children waited for nightfall before making their passage into El Norte.

    The breaking point came in 1986, when Border Patrol agents in the San Diego apprehended 629,656 people, slightly more than the population of Las Vegas.

    When agents attempted to stem the tide in San Ysidro, new routes were blazed in the rugged terrain to the east. “We would have caravans of cars,” said Donna Tisdale, who lives on a ranch in the East County hamlet of Boulevard. “They came at all hours of the day and night.”

    In 1989, construction began on a new layer of fencing in San Diego County. A line of surplus helicopter landing pads, turned on their side and welded together, marched 46 miles east, rising to heights of 6 feet to 10 feet. A secondary layer, 13 miles long and 15 feet to 18 feet high, came in 1996. Later, a third layer was added in heavily trafficked spots, including where the border meets the Pacific Ocean at San Diego’s Friendship Park.

    Large numbers of unauthorized immigrants continued to flow into the U.S., but they moved away from the coast, trying to slip around the fences.

    San Diego faced an intolerable situation in the 1980s. The border fence was a key part of the solution. Now, a congressman from San Diego is dead set against building a physical barrier to stop illegal crossings in other parts of the country the way it did in San Diego.

    Peters reflects his party’s leadership and their determination to stop the construction of any more barriers on the border. But Democrats from Pelosi down still want to appear strong on border security. Now, they are advocating sensors and drones and cameras that would watch an unfenced border — while doing nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-in-border-fight-democrats-want-technological-wall-that-wont-keep-anybody-out

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    Jackson, Mississippi, mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week, as residents endure lines for bottles – CNN
    Jackson, Mississippi, mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week, as residents endure lines for bottles – CNN

    (CNN)As Mississippi’s capital faces a third day without reliable water service Wednesday — pushing some residents to stand in long lines for bottled water and keeping schools and businesses closed — the mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week.

              CNN’s Sara Smart, Nicquel Terry Ellis, Melissa Alonso, Amanda Musa, Pamela Brown, Caroll Alvarado, Amy Simonson and Betsy Klein contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/us/jackson-water-system-failing-wednesday/index.html

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      Roger Stone does not rule out cooperating with Mueller – CNN
      Roger Stone does not rule out cooperating with Mueller – CNN

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      Guerra a las noticias falsas – Semana.com
      Guerra a las noticias falsas – Semana.com





      El mundo se ha tomado en serio esto de las noticias falsas. Nadie quiere que con información intencionalmente torcida se gane una elección presidencial, se cambie el rumbo de una nación. Y las grandes compañías tecnológicas, que han estado en el ojo del huracán porque son ellas las que permitieron este engendro, realmente parece que quieren arreglar las cosas. Pero con 1.000 millones de sitios web, ¿se puede efectivamente poner fin a los engaños, el matoneo y la maledicencia en las redes sociales?

      Google puso en marcha un sistema de verificación de hechos en las noticias y búsquedas. Para ello logró la ayuda de International Fact-Checking Network, cuyos editores (humanos) ponen una etiqueta al final de la noticia cuando los datos han sido verificados. Lo malo: el mismo director de Google News, Richard Gingras, explica que esta información no estará disponible para cada resultado de búsqueda y puede haber páginas en las que distintos editores verificaron lo mismo y llegaron a conclusiones diferentes. Google no hace los chequeos, sino organizaciones independientes, de las que hay al menos 115 en todo el mundo dedicadas a la verificación de hechos, dos de ellas operando en Colombia (La Silla Vacía y Colombia Check). Facebook ha puesto en marcha un sistema de etiquetado similar, por ahora en 16 países, en alianza con First Draft, una organización especializada en el tema.

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      La Silla Vacía en particular trabaja en una iniciativa como esta, a la que bautizó el “detector de mentiras”, que chequea discursos y declaraciones ante los medios, de figuras públicas, y examina la veracidad de sus afirmaciones. El detector examinó la carta que Álvaro Urbe envió al Congreso de Estados Unidos y encontró que de las 27 afirmaciones que tiene la misiva solo 3 son ciertas, 6 son engañosas, 5 son falsas, 4 debatibles, 4 inchequeables, 3 son apresuradas y 2 exageradas, según una escala de verdad que aplican a cada información. No se puede acusar de ‘castro-chavista’ al detector de La Silla. También precisó que no es cierto, como cree la mayoría de la gente en las redes sociales, que Álvaro Uribe fue el autor de la controvertida Ley 100 que reformó el sistema de seguridad social en el país en 1993. En realidad, fue una iniciativa del gobierno de César Gaviria promovida por su ministro de Trabajo Luis Fernando Ramírez. El detector de mentiras acaba de ser extendido para que incluya las cadenas de información en WhatsApp, en donde circulan por estos días increíbles afirmaciones falsas sobre el proceso de paz.

      Google extendió su esfuerzo también a YouTube, mediante el programa Internet Citizens, una serie de conferencias en streaming dirigidas al público juvenil, para que aprenda a identificar la veracidad de los contenidos alojados en la más popular plataforma de video compartido del mundo. El video viral de un águila llevándose a un bebé en sus garras en un parque era un montaje que podía ser identificado fácilmente con el plugin Frame by Frame, disponible para los navegadores más populares.

      Tras la victoria de Donald Trump, el dedo acusador se digirió a Facebook porque fue principalmente allí en donde circuló la campaña de mentiras falsas que, se cree, ayudaron al triunfo republicano. Europa, que afronta un calendario electoral importante durante este año, reaccionó presionando a Facebook para solucionar el problema y evitar situaciones similares en las elecciones francesa, británica y alemana. No se sabe si las medidas tomadas por Facebook han sido efectivas, pero al menos en Francia la ultraderecha no logró el milagro digital que esperaba y que se sabe había planeado a la luz de la experiencia norteamericana.

      Puede leer: Noticias falsas con fines políticos

      Facebook eliminó la semana pasada miles de cuentas falsas que estaban orientadas hacia la próxima campaña en Reino Unido y publicó en algunos de los diarios más importantes (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, entre otros) instrucciones para ayudar a los lectores a detectar noticias falsas en la red.

      Después de que un criminal transmitió en vivo el asesinato de un anciano el pasado 17 de abril, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO de Facebook, anunció que contratará este año a más de 3.000 personas para monitorear el contenido indebido, quienes se sumarán a los 4.500 que ya trabajan en esta tarea. Está visto que los algoritmos no hacen bien su trabajo. Las plataformas de internet dejaron en manos de un software inteligente la identificación de contenido problemático, pero fallaron con demasiada frecuencia, como cuando censuraron una foto de la niña vietnamita huyendo de las bombas de napalm porque el algoritmo la identificó como “mujer desnuda”.

      El fundador de Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, anunció la inauguración de un proyecto para combatir las noticias falsas en internet: se llama Wikitribune y funcionará como un diario “neutral” que solo publicará información verificada profesionalmente por periodistas y editores y será financiado con el mismo modelo con el que se patrocina la popular enciclopedia en línea, las donaciones del público. Nada de publicidad ni interés político en medio para asegurar la idoneidad de la información. Suena quijotesco, pero así sonaba el proyecto Wikipedia cuando nació y debía enfrentar a las poderosas enciclopedias Británica y Encarta, a las cuales derrotó en la preferencia del público y en la credibilidad de sus contenidos.

      Le puede interesar: ¿Hasta dónde llegarán las mentiras en internet?

      El problema principal radica en que la identificación de noticias falsas requiere de un esfuerzo intelectual del internauta, algo para lo que precisamente él no está preparado. A la mayoría de las personas les gustan Twitter y Facebook porque les llegan mensajes muy condensados que en pocas palabras les dicen lo que ellos quieren escuchar. Un estudio reciente de la Universidad de Columbia encontró que el 59 por ciento de quienes comparten noticias en sus muros de Facebook ni siquiera las leyeron, solo las comparten porque les gustó el título. Y la estrategia inversa, la de equipos de editores dedicados a verificar la veracidad de la información, solo cubre una parte minúscula de las cataratas de contenidos que circulan en las redes sociales. Pero había que comenzar de alguna manera y en los primeros cinco meses del año ya corren numerosas estrategias para controlar el problema.n

      Cómo identificarlas: consejos para los lectores

      Aunque parezca fácil identificarlas, millones de personas creen en las noticias falsas, aun en las más inverosímiles, como las que circularon hace poco en las que se anunciaba que la tienda H&M regalaría 100.000 pesos a cada ciudadano, o que solo quedaban 500 cuentas gratuitas en WhatsApp, o que los pensionados perderán sus mesadas para dárselas a los guerrilleros de las Farc.

      Las recomendaciones mínimas para identificar noticias falsas son:

      Lea la noticia completa antes de compartirla. Busque la misma noticia en medios con buena reputación y haga ‘triangulación’ para verificar si ya ha sido publicada. Desconfíe de titulares excesivamente impactantes o escandalosos. Bill Gates no está regalando la mitad de su fortuna a quienes compartan el mensaje con diez contactos. También de fotografías demasiado retocadas o videos claramente manipulados. Revise si la información cita fuentes reales y verificables. Revise la URL del sitio web que publica la noticia. Suelen ser parecidas, pero no iguales a las direcciones de medios reconocidos. Aplique ‘plugins’ de búsqueda reversa de imágenes, como RevEye y otros, que rastrean la foto original y su fuente.







      Source Article from http://www.semana.com/tecnologia/articulo/guerra-a-las-noticias-falsas/527214

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      Las 5 noticias del día: 23 de junio – El Economista
      Las 5 noticias del día: 23 de junio – El Economista

      Cerramos la semana con lo más importante en el plano nacional, de finanzas personales y de nuestros vecinos, Estados Unidos.
      ¿La vida después de la muerte? Sí y en cuanto a reclamo de Afores de un familiar fallecido, nuestra nota de finanzas personales te da una guía para que ese dinero generado vaya en beneficio de los familiares. Banxico subió de nuevo la tasa de interés referencial, ¿por qué es bueno y a la vez malo? te explicamos en la nota. Trump ya no es “anti-méxico”. Enrique Campos explica sobre los recientes comentarios del mandatario estadounidense que parecen tener un discurso menos violento hacia el muro, la migración y México. Estamos por terminar el mes y eso es un buen pretexto para que veas los 11 estrenos que Netflix tiene para ti, te aseguramos que no te arrepentirás de las recomendaciones de este verano. ¡A disfrutar el fin de semana!

      1. ¿Cómo recuperar de la afore los recursos de un familiar fallecido?

      Quizá los pasos más difíciles post fallecimiento de un familiar son todo proceso que tenga que ver con temas fiscales o laborales y entre estos está el reclamo de afore. Sí, así es, el dinero que generó tu ser querido puede ser adquirido por los familiares que este haya elegido como beneficiario como un seguro de vida, pero para este tipo de procesos es bueno saber ciertas reglas, ya que en caso de no estar designados los beneficiarios, la Junta de Conciliación y Arbitraje tiene ciertos criterios que a continuación podrás ver en la nota más leída del día. No pienses que el trámite será una odisea, en realidad con tener un orden en el papeleo que requieres para reclamar esto es posible obtener el dinero. Te decimos cuáles son los requisitos.

      ¿Cómo recuperar de la afore 
los recursos de un familiar fallecido?. Ver nota.

      2. Banxico sube tasa a 7%, con incremento de 25 puntos base

      Amanecimos con la noticia de que el Banco de México decidió subir de nuevo la tasa de interés referencial, llegando a un nivel de 7%. Es bueno destacar que esta alza es la séptima que decide hacer la Junta de Gobierno del Banxico. ¿Los motivos? Dar alivio a la presión cambiaria, así como dar un frente a la inflación que se pronostica el sector privado terminará el mes de junio en 5.90%. En términos de créditos, el panorama por el alza de tasas no pinta nada bien, ya que serán los créditos nominales e intereses de tarjetas de créditos donde los precios aumentarán, por lo que se recomienda a la población tener cuidado con estos productos financieros, así como ser “totaleros” a la hora de pagar lo comprado por el plástico.
      Si quieres conocer a fondo el tema de las tasas interbancarias, te invitamos a ver la video columna de Luis Miguel González, Director Editorial de El Economista.

      Banxico sube tasa a 7%, con incremento de 25 puntos base. Ver nota.

      3. Los 11 estrenos de Netflix en julio que no te puedes perder

      Llegó el verano, la temporada más cálida del año y Netflix sabe que es un muy buen pretexto para quedarse en casa a ver los 11 estrenos que la plataforma más grande de streaming en el mundo tiene que ofrecernos. Esta vez no tiene nada que quedarnos a deber, desde continuaciones de temporada de algunas producciones de “casa” como Bates Motel, hasta algunos hits hollywoodenses como Maléfica. La casa promete mucho este verano, que el calor y las buenas series y películas te acompañen en la temporada vacacional. ¿Qué esperas para comenzar este viernes de #NetflixAndChill?

      Los 11 estrenos de Netflix en julio que no te puedes perder. Ver nota.

      4. ¿Donald Trump se está suavizando con México?

      Enrique Campos Suárez aborda este viernes las recientes acciones de Trump y especialmente sobre Donald Trump, el que pareció el gran enemigo para muchos mexicanos por expresar su desprecio al país, pero…¿ha cambiado? Tal parece que la verborrea de Trump no parece tener un fin, pero lo que sí se ha notado en estos tiempos es que el discurso anti-México sí ha disminuido, algunos otros conflictos internacionales como con Corea del Norte o Rusia parecen quitar importancia al polémico muro, que ahora se pagará con energía solar, ya que Trump asegura que agregará paneles solares. ¿Dónde quedó el “México will pay for the wall”?, es importante destacar que las declaraciones sobre los inmigrantes también ha sido diferente. Campos asegura que a Trump aunque le cueste saber que las buenas relaciones cuestan, deben sobrellevarse por el bien de los vecinos, o sea México y Estados Unidos.

      ¿Donald Trump se está suavizando con México?. Ver nota.

      5. Entretelas

      Un cartón de Perujo.

      Entretelas . Ver nota.



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      Kamala Harris doubles down on call for Kavanaugh’s impeachment: The allegations are ‘credible’ – Fox News
      Kamala Harris doubles down on call for Kavanaugh’s impeachment: The allegations are ‘credible’ – Fox News
      Video

      Tucker: New York Times revives attacks on Brett Kavanaugh

      Left resurrects Kavanaugh smear campaign as 2020 Democrats demand his impeachment.

      Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., reiterated her call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following the criticized New York Times story that revived sexual misconduct allegations.

      Appearing on MSNBC Monday night, Harris referred to Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a “sham process,” claiming she wasn’t “given all of the information” at the time that was available.

      “Christine Blasey Ford, who literally had nothing to gain by coming forward… nothing to gain. She had a perfect life. And she looked at the fact that this guy was being nominated and said, ‘the American people had the right to know what I know,’ and she was treated like a criminal,” Harris said.

      The 2020 hopeful blasted the White House for limiting the scope of the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh and said the process that confirmed him “has created a crisis of confidence in that court.”

      TRUMP RIPS NEW YORK TIMES OVER KAVANAUGH PIECE, CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF ANYONE INVOLVED IN ‘SMEAR STORY’

      “So yes, I call for impeachment,” Harris told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “I believe that is the clearest way for us to get an investigation of these allegations and we should open an investigation of these allegations.”

      She added that “the American people and the system of justice” deserve a meaningful investigation and later suggested an “outside counsel.”

      CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

      Over the weekend, before The Times issued the major revision clarifying that the alleged accuser did not recall the alleged assault, Harris among other presidential candidates called for Kavanaugh’s impeachment.

      “I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached,” Harris wrote.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-doubles-down-on-call-for-kavanaughs-impeachment-the-allegations-are-credible

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      Exclusive: Secret Service ramped up security after intel of Iran plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting – CNN
      Exclusive: Secret Service ramped up security after intel of Iran plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting – CNN
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      No, Biden doesn’t need to ‘release’ his delegates as he withdraws from the race – NBC News
      No, Biden doesn’t need to ‘release’ his delegates as he withdraws from the race – NBC News
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      Hannah Kobayashi found safe, family says – BBC.com
      Hannah Kobayashi found safe, family says – BBC.com
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      Beijing carries out mass testing as coronavirus spreads in the Chinese capital – The Washington Post
      Beijing carries out mass testing as coronavirus spreads in the Chinese capital – The Washington Post

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/beijing-carries-out-mass-testing-as-coronavirus-spreads-in-the-chinese-capital/2020/06/15/b5d2d8a6-aefd-11ea-98b5-279a6479a1e4_story.html

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      Noticias de última hora: Los 5 puntos claves del diálogo entre Maduro y la oposición venezolana – lagranepoca
      Noticias de última hora: Los 5 puntos claves del diálogo entre Maduro y la oposición venezolana – lagranepoca

      Se extiende a este sábado diálogo entre oposición y gobierno venezolano

      Este viernes, después de casi cinco horas de diálogo, el gobierno y la oposición acordaron prolongar un día más las conversaciones para seguir deliberando sobre algunos asuntos que quedaron inconclusos, como la liberación de algunos presos políticos, y cerrar un comunicado conjunto que se dará a conocer este sábado, luego de un nuevo encuentro.

      La segunda reunión entre el Gobierno de Venezuela y la oposición traerá “avances muy importantes” para encauzar una salida a la crisis que vive el país, dijo el secretario general de Unasur, Ernesto Samper, según informó El País.

      Los principales referentes de la oposición, integrados en la Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), acudieron a la reunión de este viernes con la intención de no levantarse de la mesa si no conseguían resultados concretos. El hecho de que este sábado vuelvan a sentarse con el Gobierno hace pensar que, al menos, los avances logrados incluirán un compromiso de que habrá algún tipo de salida electoral el próximo año.

      Según un comunicado oficial divulgado este sábado, hay 5 puntos en los que se logró el consenso entre las partes:

      1. En el campo económico – social

      El Gobierno nacional y la MUD acordaron trabajar de manera conjunta para combatir toda forma de sabotaje, boicot o agresión a la economía venezolana. Decidieron priorizar en el corto plazo la adopción de medidas orientadas al abastecimiento de medicamentos y alimentos sobre la base de contribuir a promover su producción e importación. Promover el diseño y aplicación de políticas de cooperación entre los sectores público y privado para monitorear, fiscalizar y controlar los mecanismos de adquisición y distribución de insumos y mercancías.

      2. En el campo político

      Se acordó avanzar en la superación de la situación de desacato de la Asamblea Nacional dictada por el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia. En ese sentido se acordó instar a los poderes públicos competentes a actuar en la resolución de la situación del caso Amazonas en términos perentorios.

      En el mismo contexto, se asumió el acuerdo de trabajar conjuntamente, en el marco de lo establecido en la Constitución, para el nombramiento de los dos rectores del Consejo Nacional Electoral, que culminan su mandato en diciembre 2016.

      3. En el marco de la soberanía nacional y en resguardo de la integridad territorial

      Acordamos nuestra posición unánime de defensa de los derechos legítimos e inalienables de Venezuela sobre la Guayana Esequiba y de defensa del Acuerdo de Ginebra de 1966, instrumento jurídico vigente entre las partes que dirime esta controversia territorial.

      4. Se adoptó la Declaración Conjunta “Convivir en Paz”.

      5. Reforzar institucionalmente el Diálogo

      Se decidió incorporar a la Mesa a un Gobernador por cada una de las partes; invitar a representantes de los diferentes segmentos de la sociedad, y establecer una Comisión de Seguimiento para dar continuidad al proceso que será coordinada por el Expresidente José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, por los acompañantes, Jorge Rodríguez, por el Gobierno Bolivariano y Luis Aquiles Moreno, por la MUD.

      Trump y la inmigración ¿es posible construir el muro?

      Trump necesitaría la cooperación del congreso en su propuesta principal, esto es, en la construcción de un muro a lo largo de la frontera sur, con México.

      El mecanismo de seguridad de fronteras que el congreso podría apoyar podría no venir en la forma de ladrillos y argamasa descrito por Trump, pero podría tratarse de una reja de mayor extensión.

      Los expertos en inmigración dicen que Estados Unidos ha invertido miles de millones de dólares en trabajos recientes para cercar un tercio de la frontera.

      “Dependiendo de qué tipo de infraestructura desea, Trump probablemente ya cuenta con la autorización para hacerlo”, dijo Theresa Cardinal Brown, directora de política inmigratoria en el Centro Político Bipartidista. “El solo necesita que el congreso destine los fondos”.

      De igual manera, el congreso deberá aprobar los fondos para otra propuesta significativa de Trump: triplicar la cifra de agentes de ICE que se concentran en la deportación de inmigrantes que residen ilegalmente en el país.

      Brown señala que los costos de personal ya representan entre un 80 y un 90% de los presupuestos de ICE y de Protección de Fronteras y Aduanas (CBP), la agencia que, operativamente, resguarda las fronteras.

      La patrulla fronteriza, mientras tanto, ha enfrentado desafíos vinculados a mandatos impuestos por el congreso.

      Los republicanos en el congreso que comparten las posiciones duras de Trump en materia inmigratoria dicen que le dan la bienvenida a sus planes, aún cuando ciertamente representarán un altísimo costo en dinero.

      Artículo completo

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      Tren se descarrila con gas inflamable en Minnesota

      Equipos de emergencia evacuaron la ciudad de Ellendale, una pequeña comunidad en el sureste de Minnesota, tras el descarrilamiento de un tren que llevaba gas inflamable.

      El descarrilamiento implicó un tren de Union Pacific, que viajaba desde el sur de St. Paul a North Platte, Nebraska.

      La locomotora se salió fuera de las vías cerca de la ciudad de Ellendale, donde cuatro vagones resultaron involucrados en el descarrilamiento, uno de ellos transportaba gas licuado de petróleo el cual es altamente inflamable.

      Un portavoz de la empresa dijo que no hubo heridos. Los investigadores están determinando qué causó el descarrilamiento. A la escena del accidente llegó personal especializado de Union Pacific, al igual que el equipo de materiales peligrosos del cuerpo de bomberos de Ellendale.

      La ciudad evacuó a todos sus residentes a un lugar seguro. Todas las clases fueron canceladas en las escuelas debido al descarrilamiento.

      (Foto: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

      El presidente electo Donald Trump se encontró concentrado este viernes en la Torre Trump en Nueva York con su equipo de trabajo deliberando sobre quiénes serán las personas elegidas para integrar su gabinete.

      A través de un tuit, el magnate dijo que sería “un día muy ocupado”, pero no dio mayores detalles, sólo añadió que muy pronto tomaría decisiones muy importantes sobre las personas que trabajarán junto a él en el gobierno.

      Posteriormente, personas cercanas al equipo de transición de Donald Trump anunciaron que el vicepresidente Mike Pence fue elegido para dirigir el proceso de transición.

      De esta manera, el gobernador de Nueva Jersey, Chris Christie, quien lideró el proceso queda como vicepresidente del proceso, pero no se dieron mayores detalles si ocupará una posición específica.

      Se especula que los nombres de las personas más leales estarán en primera fila al momento de los nombramientos.

      (Foto: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

      Surocoreanos exigen dimisión de su presidenta

      Cientos de miles de surcoreanos tomaron este sábado el centro de Seúl en la mayor protesta de la historia democrática del país para exigir la renuncia de su presidenta, Park Geun-hye, acosada por un gran escándalo político de corrupción y tráfico de influencias.

      “Park Geun-hye dimisión” fue la frase más coreada por los manifestantes (220. 000 es el número según la Policía y un millón según los organizadores) y omnipresente en los carteles, globos y banderines desplegados en la plaza del Ayuntamiento y la avenida de Gwanghwamun de la capital surcoreana.

      La presidenta surcoreana, Park Geun-hye, advirtió sobre otra prueba nuclear de Corea del Norte. (Precidencia de Corea via Getty Images)

      La Gran Época le recomienda el siguiente artículo: Inversiones chinas amenazan el medio ambiente de América Latina

      Source Article from http://www.lagranepoca.com/ultimas-noticias/98557-noticias-ultima-hora-12-noviembre.html

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      Mitch McConnell won’t become Senate majority leader. What that means – Courier Journal
      Mitch McConnell won’t become Senate majority leader. What that means – Courier Journal
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      El desastroso año de Toshiba, el gigante de tecnología de Japón – BBC Mundo
      El desastroso año de Toshiba, el gigante de tecnología de Japón – BBC Mundo

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      La crisis del gigante japonés de tecnología Toshiba no se detiene y, tras el escándalo por inflar sus beneficios, la firma concluye 2015 anunciando pérdidas de US$4.500 millones y un recorte de casi 7.000 empleos.

      Fundada hace 140 años y pionera en la fabricación de computadores personales, la empresa señaló que los puestos se eliminarán en su división de productos electrónicos.

      Las noticias sobre su pronóstico de pérdidas hasta el año fiscal que concluye en marzo hicieron bajar sus acciones en casi un 10%.

      La reestructuración ocurre luego de que Toshiba reconociera en agosto que había exagerado sus beneficios desde 2008, coincidiendo con la crisis económica mundial.

      La suma se calculó en casi US$1.300 millones, aproximadamente el triple de lo que la empresa estimó inicialmente.

      El escándalo provocó la renuncia del presidente y director ejecutivo, Hisao Tanaka, llevando a Masashi Muromachi a asumir la dirección de la empresa.

      “Al poner en práctica este plan, nos gustaría recuperar la confianza de todos los accionistas y transformarnos en una empresa sólida”, dijo este lunes Muromachi al anunciar la reestructuración.

      Valor en en declive

      Fundada en 1875 y fabricante de la primera computadora portátil de consumo masivo y del primer reproductor DVD, Toshiba actualmente emplea a casi 200.000 personas.

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      Hisao Tanaka renunció como presidente y director ejecutivo de Toshiba, tras conocerese que la compañía había inflado sus beneficios durante seis años.

      Sus acciones perdieron casi 40% de su valor desde que las noticias sobre el encubrimiento sistemático de sus finanzas comenzaron a surgir en abril de este año.

      Sin embargo, algunos de sus problemas tienen que ver con el desastre de Fukushima en 2011 que afectó sus intereses en el sector de energía nuclear.

      El accidente desató un temor público a los reactores nucleares y disminuyó la perspectiva de que se construyeran más.

      La empresa todavía no ha calculado el impacto del desastre nuclear en sus cuentas.

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      Toshiba fue un pionero en la fabricación de computadoras personales.

      Los planes de reestructuración de Toshiba incluyen la venta de su planta de televisores en Indonesia y la suspensión de la venta de televisores en el exterior.

      El diario británico Financial Times destaca este lunes que la empresa está en conversaciones con Fujitsu para fusionar su negocio de computadoras portátiles.

      El periódico financiero añade que se trata de un camino similar al que han emprendido rivales como Hitachi, Panasonic y Sony.

      Esas empresas han disminuido su negocio en la fabricación de productos electrónicos de consumo para concentrarse en sectores más lucrativos como infraestructura, repuestos de automóviles y sensores de imagen.

      La crisis de Toshiba significó el peor escándalo corporativo de Japón desde que se descubrió que Olympus Corp había escondido pérdidas de US$1.700 millones a finales de 2011

      Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/12/151221_tecnologia_toshiba_perdidas_masivas_hr

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