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Wildfires in California and Montana exploded in size amid windy, hot conditions, forcing evacuation orders as they quickly encroached on neighborhoods.

In California’s Klamath national forest, the fast-moving McKinney fire, which started Friday, went from charring just over 1 sq mile (1 sq km) to scorching as much as 62 sq miles (160 sqkm) by Saturday in a largely rural area near the Oregon state line, according to fire officials.

The fire burned down at least a dozen residences and wildlife was seen fleeing the area to avoid the flames. At least 2,000 people were told to evacuate.

Meanwhile in Montana, the Elmo wildfire nearly tripled in size to more than 11 sq miles within a few miles of the town of Elmo. And roughly 200 miles to the south, Idaho residents remained under evacuation orders as the Moose fire in the Salmon-Challis national forest charred more than 67.5 sq miles in timbered land near the town of Salmon. It was 17% contained.

A significant build-up of vegetation was fueling the McKinney fire, said Tom Stokesberry, a spokesman with the US Forest Service for the region.

“It’s a very dangerous fire, the geography there is steep and rugged, and this particular area hasn’t burned in a while,“ he said.

“It’s continuing to grow with erratic winds and thunderstorms in the area and we’re in triple digit temperatures,“ said Caroline Quintanilla, a spokeswoman at Klamath National Forest.

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency Saturday as the fire intensified. The proclamation allows Newsom more flexibility to make emergency response and recovery effort decisions and access federal aid. It also allows “firefighting resources from other states to assist California crews in battling the fires”, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

With red flag warnings into effect for the region and lightning predicted over the next few days, resources from all over California were being brought in to help fight the region’s fires, said Stokesberry, the US Forest Service spokesman.

McKinney’s explosive growth forced crews to shift from trying to control the perimeter of the blaze to trying to protect homes and critical infrastructure like water tanks and power lines, and assist in evacuations in California’s northernmost county of Siskiyou.

Deputies and law enforcement were knocking on doors in the county seat of Yreka and the town of Fort Jones to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cell phone service.

Over 100 homes were ordered evacuated and authorities were warning people to be on high alert. Smoke from the fire caused the closure of portions of Highway 96.

The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the US Forest Service closed a 110-mile section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt Ashland Campground in southern Oregon.

Oregon state representative Dacia Grayber, who is a firefighter, was camping with her husband, who is also in the fire service, near the California state line when gale-force winds awoke them just after midnight.

The sky was glowing with strikes of lightening in the clouds, while ash was blowing at them, though they were in Oregon, about 10 miles (about 16 km) away. Intense heat from the fire had sent up a massive pyrocumulonimbus cloud, which can produce its own weather system including winds and thunderstorms, Grayber said.

“These were some of the worst winds I’ve ever been in and we’re used to big fires,” she said. “I thought it was going to rip the roof top tent off of our truck. We got the heck out of there.”

On their way out, they came across hikers on the Pacific Coast Trail fleeing to safety.

“The terrifying part for us was the wind velocity,” she said. “It went from a fairly cool breezy night to hot, dry hurricane-force winds.”

In western Montana, the wind-driven Elmo fire forced evacuations of homes and livestock as it raced across grass and timber, according to The National Interagency Fire Center, based in Idaho. The agency estimated it would take nearly a month to contain the blaze.

Smoke shut down a portion of Highway 28 between Hot Springs and Elmo because of the thick smoke, according to the Montana Department of Transportation.

Crews from several different agencies were fighting the fire on Saturday, including the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Fire Division. Six helicopters were making drops on the fire, aided by 22 engines on the ground.

In Idaho, more than 930 wildland firefighters and support staff were battling the Moose fire Saturday and protecting homes, energy infrastructure and the Highway 93 corridor, a major north-south route.

A red flag warning indicated that the weather could make things worse with the forecast calling for “dry thunderstorms,” with lightning, wind and no rain.

In Hawaii, fire crews and helicopters have been fighting flames Saturday evening on Maui near Paia Bay. The Maui county emergency management agency said roads have been closed and have advised residents and travelers to avoid the area. It is unclear how many acres have burned. A red flag warning is in effect Sunday.

Meanwhile, crews made significant progress in battling another major blaze in California that forced evacuations of thousands of people near Yosemite national park earlier this month. The Oak fire was 52% contained by Saturday, according to a Cal Fire incident update. But amid scorching temperatures the danger wasn’t entirely over, with structures and homes at risk until the blaze has been completely extinguished.

The fires come as scorching temperatures bake the Pacific north-west, the west remains parched in record drought, and severe storms sent flash floods surging across several states. In Kentucky, flash floods have claimed the lives of at least 25 people in what experts have called a 1-in-1,000 year rain event.

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Esta es la polémica foto donde El Chapo aparece sin esposas al ser recapturado.

Durante 6 meses el gobierno mexicano emprendió una cacería intensa para recapturar a Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo”.

Y cuando lo consigue, en la primera foto que se difunde aparece sin esposas.

En la imagen, el capo se encuentra dentro de un auto, vestido con una sucia camiseta sin mangas.

Mantiene la mirada al frente, serio, con la mano izquierda bajo su barbilla. A un lado su jefe de seguridad, Orso Iván Gastélum, aparece sin camisa.

Lo que sorprende a muchos es que El Chapo no está esposado, como podría esperarse con uno de los delincuentes más buscados del mundo.

Los protocolos de operación en las fuerzas armadas y policías mexicanas señalan que deben adoptarse las medidas necesarias –con respeto a los derechos humanos- para impedir que escapen los detenidos.

Una de las estas acciones es mantenerlos esposados siempre y cuando las ataduras no les lastimen o impidan su movimiento por completo.

Si estas condiciones no se presentan, deben permanecer esposados el tiempo necesario para garantizar la seguridad del detenido y sus captores.

Pero esto no ocurrió con Guzmán Loera. ¿Por qué?

Nadie sabe…

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En la captura de El Chapo participaron marinos y policías federales.

Eso le preguntó BBC Mundo a la Secretaría de Marina (Semar), la Policía Federal y la Procuraduría (fiscalía) General de la República (PGR).

Son las corporaciones que participaron en la operación para recapturar a El Chapo.

Y la respuesta es: no se sabe por qué El Chapo aparece sin esposas.

Uno de los voceros consultados —quién prefirió mantenerse en el anonimato—, dice que la imagen se tomó cuando se trasladaba al detenido al motel Doux, en las afueras de Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

En ese sitio fue resguardado mientras los agentes que lo capturaron cuando trataba de escapar de la ciudad esperaban refuerzos.

Fue un momento tenso porque se detectó que sicarios del Cartel de Sinaloa pretendían rescatar a su jefe.

A los detenidos entonces los subieron a una patrulla que fue vigilada en todo momento por el cuerpo de élite de la Marina.

Al llegar al motel Guzmán Loera fue esposado ya dentro de una habitación.

En ese sitio se tomó la segunda imagen donde aparece al borde de una cama, con la foto de una mujer semidesnuda al fondo.

Hasta ahora no hay una explicación de por qué esperaron hasta entonces para esposarlo, sobre todo porque desde hace varios años los capos detenidos se trasladan con las manos atadas.

De hecho, así lo presentaron a Guzmán Loera en la segunda de sus capturas: esposado.

Nadie supo…

Pero esa es una parte de la historia.

La otra es el origen de la imagen de “El Chapo” dentro del vehículo que, oficialmente, ninguna de las corporaciones que participó en su captura reconocen como suya.

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Miles se enteraron de la recaptura de Guzmán Loera.

“La imagen no es nuestra, definitivamente”, le dice a BBC Mundo un vocero de la Marina que quiso que se mantuviera su identidad en secreto.

“Las únicas que mostramos fueron de un comunicado de prensa” que se difundió la mañana del viernes 8 de enero.

El representante de la Secretaría recomendó preguntar “en el Ministerio Público”, es decir, la PGR.

Pero tampoco en la Fiscalía reconocieron haber tomado estas imágenes.

Lo mismo con la Policía Federal. “La operación estuvo a cargo de la Marina, nosotros llegamos como apoyo”, fue la respuesta.

Uno de los consultados dijo que fueron periodistas de Los Mochis quienes tomaron la foto.

Pero difícilmente pudo ocurrir, le aseguran a BBC Mundo reporteros locales.

En las operaciones del Ejército y la Marina “no nos dejan siquiera acercarnos”, señalan.

La Semar dice que el origen de las fotos es “las redes sociales”.

Y ya investiga cómo llegaron a ese destino.

Todos se enteraron

Más allá de sus autores, las fotografías de Guzmán Loera se publicaron en muchos medios mexicanos al mediodía del viernes 8.

Para ese momento El Chapo aún permanecía en Los Mochis, y la ciudad seguía semiparalizada tras la operación militar.

A las 14:00 tiempo local en la televisión se difundió un video del momento en que El Chapo e Iván Gastélum abordan un avión Lear Jet que los llevó a Ciudad de México.

En las imágenes, El Chapo camina agachado con la cabeza cubierta con una tela blanca.

Y las manos esposadas.

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MIAMI – Hurricane Dorian stalled over the northern Bahamas on Monday, pounding the islands with heavy rains, storm surge and howling winds that could linger all day before the storm directs its rage toward the U.S. coast.

Dorian’s slow and powerful advance westward along the archipelago slowed to 1 mph while top sustained winds eased slightly to 155 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Dorian thus slipped from Category 5 to Category 4 – still a brutal storm.

“On this track, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island through much of today and tonight,” the hurricane center said in an 11 a.m. advisory.

Power and communications outages made damage assessment difficult. The few videos that have emerged from the Abaco Islands show destroyed homes, flooded roads and residents pleading for help and payers.

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Florida and the U.S. East Coast remained a target. The storm will move “dangerously close” to the Florida east coast late Monday through Wednesday night, the center said. Dorian is forecast to turn toward the northwest, roaring parallel to Florida about 30 to 40 miles offshore, before continuing north along the East Coast deep into the week.

That gap remains right on the edge of delivering the worst of Dorian to the Florida coastline.

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President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency and was being briefed regularly about what he called a “monstrous” storm.

“I spoke with President Trump. He’s fully engaged in this,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Tuesday news conference. “He just reiterated that he’s going to provide any resources we need to weather Dorian.”

DeSantis said all coastal counties have issued evacuation orders, and 72 nursing homes have been evacuated. More than 4,000 members of the state National Guard have been called up, and power companies are prepared to dispatch 17,000 personnel to combat outages.

The hurricane center said wind gusts were in excess of 220 mph when the storm made landfall in the Bahamas on Sunday afternoon. The winds matched the a records set by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, which tore through the Florida Keys, killing more than 400 people in the days before hurricanes were given names.

“This is probably the saddest and worst day for me to address the Bahamian people,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said Sunday. “We are facing a hurricane that we have never seen in The Bahamas. Please pray for us.”

The only recorded storm that was more powerful was Hurricane Allen in 1980, with 190 mph winds, though it did not make landfall at that strength.

Dramatic video: Hurricane Dorian’s devastating force in the Abaco Islands, Bahamas

Dorian made landfall in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas around noon Sunday, then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbor on Great Abaco at 2 p.m.

The raging winds wrought destruction and terrified islanders who sought shelter in schools, churches and other facilities.

“It’s devastating,” said Joy Jibrilu, director general of the Bahamas’ Ministry of Tourism and Aviation. “There has been huge damage to property and infrastructure.”

Florida, Georgia, Carolina coasts

The storm was located about 110 east of West Palm Beach, Florida. According to a Monday advisory from the center, Florida’s east-central coast may see a “brief tornado” sometime Monday afternoon evening. 

After its brush with Florida, the hurricane is forecast to track near the Georgia and Carolina coasts late this week. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster ordered mandatory evacuation of his state’s entire coast effective Monday. The order covers about 830,000 people, and State troopers planned to make all lanes on major coastal highways one-way heading inland.

“We can’t make everybody happy, but we believe we can keep everyone alive,” McMaster said.

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A few hours later, Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, ordered mandatory evacuations for that state’s Atlantic coast, also starting at midday Monday.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper warned his state that it could see heavy rain, winds and floods later in the week.

“The time to prepare is now,” Coooper warned. “North Carolina must take this seriously.

Rodriguez and Bacon reported from McLean, Va. Contributing:  Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY; Michael Braun and Frank Gluck, Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press; Amber Roberson, Tallahassee Democrat; Dan DeLuca, Treasure Coast Newspapers; Associated Press

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at the scene where dozens of people were killed and some 150 injured in a stampede during the Lag BaOmer festival at Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at the scene where dozens of people were killed and some 150 injured in a stampede during the Lag BaOmer festival at Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday.

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JERUSALEM — At least 45 people were killed and some 150 more injured in a crush at a religious festival of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel, where tens of thousands of faithful had convened in one of the country’s largest events since the pandemic began.

The chaos at Mount Meron began early Friday at the festival of Lag BaOmer, which features bonfires and dancing around the Galilee tomb of a 2nd-century rabbi.

According to witnesses, at around 1 a.m. local time, in an area of the complex where the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community of Toldos Aharon was holding its celebration, participants were pushing through a slippery staircase. Suddenly, a row of people fell to the floor, piling atop of one other.

Witnesses said that people were asphyxiated or trampled in the tightly packed corridor. The stampede occurred in the men’s section of the gender-segregated festival, Reuters reported, quoting medics, who said that casualties included children.

Officials had limited the number of bonfires at the site this year in an attempt to control crowds because of COVID-19 concerns.

“There weren’t a lot of bonfires this year, and I believe that’s why everyone came all at once,” said a young survivor, identified as Avraham, speaking to Israeli Channel 12 television from his hospital bed.

Hezi Levi, the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Health, told NPR that he was concerned about a potential virus outbreak because of the large crowds.

“I expressed yesterday my concern of gathering together of hundreds of thousands of people who are coming to celebrate the Lag BaOmer, and we spoke about a scenario that might be very dangerous regarding corona,” Levi said. “We are not sure that everybody is vaccinated. We know children under 16 years old are not vaccinated. And it’s very dangerous to transfer the disease.”

Despite warnings from Israeli health officials, local media estimated the crowd at this year’s festival at around 100,000 people.

Another witness told Haaretz newspaper, “It happened in a split second; people just fell, trampling each other. It was a disaster.”

Rescue officials put the death toll at 45. Zaki Heller, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom rescue service, said 150 people had been hurt in the stampede, six of them were in critical condition.

Authorities struggled to identify the dead, asking families to bring medical records and photographs of their relatives to Israel’s central morgue.

Relatives continued to search for their missing loved ones Friday morning, after buses evacuated crowds from the site overnight and cellphone service collapsed in the area. Israelis posted photos of their relatives, and the Israeli president’s office set up an emergency hotline to help families searching for missing relatives.

Families of those who died in the stampede are racing to bury the dead before sundown Friday, the start of the Jewish Sabbath when burials do not take place.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the site of an overnight stampede during an ultra-Orthodox religious gathering in the northern Israeli town of Meron, on Friday.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who briefly visited Mount Meron around midday Friday, called the tragedy “one of the worst disasters that has befallen the state of Israel.” He said Sunday would be a day of national mourning.

The death toll is similar to number of people killed in a 2010 forest fire, which is regarded as Israel’s deadliest civilian tragedy, according to The Associated Press.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Israel received an outpouring of condolences from Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and representatives of about a dozen other countries, including the Gulf Arab kingdom of Bahrain, which established diplomatic ties with Israel last year.

One act of kindness caught local media attention: Despite the Muslim fast for Ramadan, residents of a Palestinian Arab town in the area set up food and drink for Jewish participants evacuating the pilgrimage site.

NPR’s Scott Neuman contributed to this report.

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Detail of a scarf print from the Beyond Buckskin Boutique. Photo courtesy of shop.beyondbuckskin.com.
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Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.

The first collision takes place with the inaugural learning lab series, “Beyond Buckskin: Beyond Online” on March 1 followed by “Protection in All Directions: A Fashion & Resistance Awareness Event” on March 4. The latter will include discussions, multi-media discussions and a fashion show highlighting local Native American designers including Jared Yazzie of OxDX.

Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.

Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.

“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.

ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.

Jessica Metcalfe

Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?

Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.

Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.

You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.

Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?

A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.

I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.

We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.

Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?

A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.

Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?

A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.

A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.

Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.

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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló faces calls to resign after private chats leaked, revealing the men mocking women and victims of Hurricane Maria.
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Thousands of Puerto Ricans took to the streets Monday as Gov. Ricardo Rosselló clung to his job amid a deepening scandal involving vulgar text messages that have fueled intense emotions across the island.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters were expected, and they quickly overwhelmed the expressway into San Juan for what could be the largest rally yet, coming one day after Rosselló announced he would not seek re-election but refused to resign.

Rosselló’s boyish charm and dogged determination helped him survive controversies surrounding Hurricane Maria, which ripped the island apart in 2017, and a series of corruption scandals. “Chatgate,” however, is proving his most difficult hurdle.

Monday marked the 10th consecutive day of protests.

The issue involves the leak of more than 800 pages that include sometimes profanity-laced, misogynistic texts and online chats with male members of his administration.

Mario Negrón Portillo, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico’s school of public administration, told The Guardian that Rosselló had a reputation as a meek family man. The brutal language revealed in the texts rocked the island of more than 3 million people, he said.

“Everyone woke up one day and the governor was spouting vulgarities,” Negrón said. “There’s nothing worse for a politician than losing legitimacy. I think Ricardo Rosselló has lost legitimacy.”

The controversy began less than two weeks ago with the arrest of Rosselló associates on corruption charges. The next day, the texts began emerging, and a few days later Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism published 889 pages.

Rosselló ‘s targets included former New York City Council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.

Rosselló, upset that Mark-Viverito had challenged Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez’s support for statehood for Puerto Rico, called her a “whore.” And when a colleague texted that he was “salivating to shoot” the mayor, Rosselló responded that he would consider it a favor.

Rosselló and his associates made light of the suffering Maria imposed on many island residents and used vulgar language regarding a federal board overseeing the island’s finances. Even island musical star Ricky Martin was not spared, with a Rosselló associate using tasteless language to describe his homosexuality.

Rosselló apologized shortly after the information became public.

“I’m the governor of Puerto Rico, but I’m a human being who has his faults,” Rosselló said.

Apologies have failed to curb the crisis, and protests have been growing. Last week, a series of protests were led by unionized workers accompanied by horseback riders, and a caravan of thousands of motorcyclists. On Sunday, kayakers made their case from the waters.

“They mocked our dead, they mocked women, they mocked the LGBT community,” Martin said in a Twitter video. “They made fun of people with physical and mental disabilities, they made fun of obesity. It’s enough. This cannot be.”

Rosselló also has drawn ire on the mainland – “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was among protesters gatherer last week in New York. Puerto Rico’s non-voting member of Congress Jenniffer Gonzalez; Sen. Rick Scott of Florida; and New York Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have all demanded Rosselló step aside.

In Puerto Rico, organizers labeled the planned road shutdown “660,510 + 1,”- the number of people who voted for Rosselló plus one more to counter his claim that he will not resign because he was chosen by the people.

Mark-Viverito was among those protesting Monday in San Juan. 

“He must resign, that is the message today,” she told CNN. “This is not about me. This is an attack on all women and an attack on Puerto Rico in general.”

Contributing: Susan Miller; The Associated Press

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“The decision to designate these entities is not based on any content produced by these entities, nor does it place any restrictions on what the designated entities may publish in the United States. It simply recognizes them for what they are,” State spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.

In February, the Trump administration placed five other outlets, including Xinhua News Agency, under restrictions as it also claimed they served as China’s state propaganda outlets disguised as news agencies. Weeks later, the White House imposed a cap on the number of Chinese citizens who could work in the U.S. for the five outlets.

The Chinese government has not yet responded to the new designations, but it is expected to retaliate again. In March, following the first State announcement, China revoked the press credentials and expelled three reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. It openly acknowledged the move was retaliatory, calling the Trump administration’s restrictions “expulsion in all but name.”

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President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron aired their differences on the sidelines of a NATO leaders’ summit in London.

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Sitting next to each other with cameras rolling on Tuesday, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron made their differences known on trade, Turkey, Russia, ISIS and the appropriate role for NATO.

Early on in the extended exchange between the leaders of two of the most significant powers in the NATO alliance, Trump expressed confidence that their personal connection could overcome policy disagreements.

“That’s usually the case with the two of us,” Trump said. “We get it worked out.”

But earlier in the day, when Macron was not sitting by his side, Trump had sharp words for the French president. Trump took umbrage with Macron’s recent assessment that the NATO alliance is experiencing “brain death.”

“That is a very, very, very nasty statement,” Trump said of Macron, who in an Economist interview last month questioned NATO’s strength “in light of the commitment of the United States.”

Trump repeatedly called NATO “obsolete” during his presidential campaign. The alliance was formed after World War II to create a bulwark against Soviet aggression. As president, Trump has badgered other countries in the 70-year-old alliance to boost their defense spending while complaining that the United States is carrying everyone else’s weight.

“Nobody needs NATO more than France,” Trump said during a lengthy question-and-answer session with reporters at the start of a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. “And, frankly, the one that benefits, really the least, is the United States. We benefit the least. We’re helping Europe. … And that’s why I think that when France makes a statement like they made about NATO, it’s a very dangerous statement for them to make.”

It was a shift in perspective for Trump, who has gone from constantly criticizing NATO and failing to explicitly endorse Article 5 — the mutual defense agreement — to now saying “NATO serves a great purpose” and taking credit for what he called improvements.

“NATO, which was really heading in the wrong direction three years ago, was heading down, if you look at a graph. It was to a point where I don’t think they could have gotten on much longer,” Trump said. “Now it’s actually very strong and getting stronger.”

Trump attributes this to countries stepping up and bulking up their defense budgets, “I think really at my behest.”

While meeting with Trump, Macron did not pull his punches. “But when you speak about NATO, it’s not just about money. We have to be respectful,” Macron said in one of several moments of pointed contrast.

Trump and Macron have had a generally good relationship, even as they disagree strongly on climate policy and the Iran nuclear agreement, among other things. Another item putting that relationship to the test is trade.

On the eve of the NATO gathering, the Trump administration proposed 100% tariffs on nearly $2.5 billion in French goods, cheese and wine. The tariffs would serve as retaliation for the French Digital Services Tax, which the U.S. trade representative says discriminates against U.S. tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.

“Emmanuel had an idea: Let’s tax those companies. Well, they’re American companies,” Trump said. “I’m not going to let people take advantage of American companies. Because if anyone’s going to take advantage of the American companies, it’s going to be us. It’s not going to be France.”

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President Trump holds a doctored chart as he talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, on Wednesday in Washington.

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President Trump holds a doctored chart as he talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, on Wednesday in Washington.

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The parent agency of the National Weather Service said late Friday that President Trump was correct when he claimed earlier this week that Hurricane Dorian had threatened the state of Alabama.

The surprise announcement in an unsigned statement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) essentially endorsed Trump’s Sunday tweet saying that Alabama will “most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”

After the president’s tweet, the National Weather Service, in Birmingham, Ala., responded with its own tweet, saying “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.”

The NOAA statement takes the National Weather Service to task, declaring “The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.”

The surprise statement on Friday has left meteorologists around the country baffled and upset.

“Some administrator, or someone at the top of NOAA, threw the National Weather Service under the bus,” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, told NPR.

“The part that really smells fishy is that this is five days after that tweet by Trump,” he added. “If the National Weather Service did issue a misleading or incorrect tweet, that would need to be amended or fixed in an hour or two.”

“I am very disappointed to see this statement come out from NOAA,” Oklahoma University meteorology professor Jason Furtado told The Associated Press. He said the controversy over the president’s tweets and the NOAA statement undermines public confidence in meteorologists.

Since his original tweet, Trump has re-visited the controversy almost every day this week, including displaying a doctored version of a map showing Hurricane Dorian’s projected path to include Alabama.

In fact, as NPR’s Brian Naylor reported, one National Hurricane Center map showed that Alabama could see tropical-force, not hurricane-class winds. Such winds range between 39-73 mph. That map also shows that there was only a 5 percent chance of such winds, below hurricane level, reaching Alabama.

Underlining the reaction by meteorologists to the escalating debate over the president’s claims is the fear that weather forecasting itself is becoming politicized.

“Hurricanes have never been a left or a right object,” said McNoldy. “And I hope they don’t become one.”

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El niño fue condenado por haber participado en una protesta de la agrupación “Hermanos musulmanes” a principios de 2014.

Un tribunal militar egipcio ha cometido un error al condenar a un niño de 4 años a cadena perpetua por un asesinato la semana pasada, según reconoció este lunes el ejército de ese país.

El portavoz del ejército, coronel Mohammed Samir, dijo que el tribunal debería haber condenado a otro joven de 16 años, con un nombre similar en su lugar.

Ahmed Mansour Qurani Ali fue penado junto con otras 115 personas en relación a los disturbios protagonizados por la agrupación Hermanos Musulmanes en la provincia de Fayum, en 2014.

En una publicación en Facebook, Col Samir, abogado de Ahmed Mansour Qurani Sharara de 16 años, dijo que en su momento había presentado documentos que probaban que él era uno de los manifestantes.

Y también afirmó que él debería haber sido condenado y no Ahmed Mansour Qurani Ali, de 4 años.

No está claro lo que va a pasar ahora con el pequeño.

El abogado del niño dijo que su nombre había sido añadido a la lista de sospechosos por error y que los funcionarios del tribunal no habían entregado su certificado de nacimiento al juez para probar su edad en el momento de la infracción.

Por lo tanto, posteriormente el niño fue condenado por cuatro cargos de asesinato, otros ocho por intento de asesinato y actos de vandalismo en propiedad del gobierno.

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La ONU denunció que los juicios en Egipto están “plagados de irregularidades en el procedimiento”.

El sistema judicial de Egipto ha sido objeto de críticas repetidas desde que el ejército derrocó al presidente Mohamed Morsi en 2013, a raíz de las protestas masivas.

Desde entonces, más de 1.000 personas han muerto y 40.000 se creen que fue encarceladas en una amplia ofensiva contra la disidencia.

La mayoría de ellos eran partidarios de la agrupación Hermanos Musulmanes, pero activistas seculares también fueron procesados por infringir la ley contra la protesta.

En 2014, la ONU advirtió que Egipto cuenta con “un sistema judicial en el que las garantías de juicio justo internacionales parecen estar cada vez más pisoteadas” después de que más de 1.200 personas fueron condenadas a muerte en dos juicios en masa “plagado de irregularidades en el procedimiento”.

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Con ese contrato firme mi sentencia, firme algo que no tenía que firmar, pero el miedo paraliza, y en este momento me levanto para defender mi derecho como ciudadana y como artista de este país, amistosamente intenté hablar con el señor Omar Alonso para dar fin a este contrato y pudiera seguir trabajando tranquilos dentro de toda esta situación, el señor Omar Alonso me ha remitido hablar con sus abogados, evidentemente después de todo lo que ha ocurrido yo le informo a todos los productores y a toda Venezuela, le informo a todos el continente de Latino América, porque me han llamado hasta de Miami, Bogotá, Panamá para trabajar, pero resulta que esta persona ahora no vende mis espectáculos, me debe tener castigada, aclaro que en este preciso instante, yo Vanessa Senior sin violar ningún tipo de contrato seguiré regida dentro del contrato que firme para Onzza Producciones voy a cambiar las direcciones de contacto hacia mi persona para las contrataciones, yo luego apegada al contrato me encargaré de pagarle a la productora para la cual trabajo el precio correspondiente al espectáculo y su porcentaje que debidamente le corresponde,

Asimismo le aclaro a toda la gente de Barquisimeto, existía un flyer donde se estaba vendiendo Vanessadas Triple Hot junto con las figuras de Tonny Boom y Nani para el 17 de diciembre, esto estaba conversado y prácticamente cancelado y cerrado como trato desde hace más de 5 meses o 4, confidencialmente cuando comenzó mi problema con el señor Omar Alonso, cambiaron los planes repentinamente, y de repente salió una contratación para Tonny Boom y Dj Nany que se van a presentar en Panamá el 19 de diciembre pero el señor Omar Alonso decidió tramitar los pasajes de viaje para el día 17, dejando a mi pueblo de Barquisimeto en el aire con el Show, pero yo voy a estar ese día, el señor queriendo actuar de buena fe, hubiese podido comprar los pasajes para ese día señores, yo se los garantizo no les estoy hablando por maldad, les estoy diciendo la verdad.

Quiero pedirle a todo el colectivo que tanto apoyo que me han dado, no quiero bajo ningún concepto, quiero que se aboquen a reclamare nada ni a Djane Nany ni a Tonny Boom, ellos son simplemente empleados.

Ayer paso algo que nunca había pasado, el señor Alonso llamó a YeiLove, para contratar la escuela de sexo pero única y exclusivamente con Tonny Boom y Djane Nany para San Antonio de los Altos este mes.

Con mucha molestia les digo que este diciembre por culpa de la inmadurez yo no estoy teniendo ingresos en mi cuenta y también con esto quiero decir que el show de la Victoria no se me ha cancelado, y fue hace dos días y las exigencias es que el show se me cancele el mismo día,

Lo siento pero a Vanessa Senior no la calla nadie.

Sigo trabajando para Onzza Producciones pero está vez yo hago las contrataciones de mi espectáculo y yo le pago a la productora como debe ser, el contrato se vence el próximo 30 de abril, Hace poco estuve animando un show en Maracaibo y él me llamo para cobrarme el 20% de una animación que estaba haciendo gratis, hay que ver que la gente es un poco descarada.

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As the Supreme Court ruling hacked a new path through Britain’s system of government, brushing ancient royal powers to one side, from Buckingham Palace came – nothing.

This is precisely where the Queen does not want to be – right in the middle of a political and constitutional hurricane, with the Supreme Court redefining the relationship between judiciary, legislature, government and monarch.

When the Scottish Court of Session ruled that the prorogation was illegal – one of the cases that went to the Supreme Court last week – a Palace source said simply: “The Queen acts and acted on the advice of her ministers”.

And that line held right up until today. The Queen has very little, if any, discretion over the prorogation of Parliament.

There’s an argument that says the Queen might have turned down Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request, given that his legitimacy is arguably thinner than previous prime ministers.

That would have been running zig-zag through a constitutional minefield.

But what happened today was painful for the Palace.

It wasn’t just Mr Johnson’s request for a prorogation that was found by the Supreme Court to be unlawful, void and of no effect.

It was also the Order in Council, the legal mechanism that the Queen personally approves, that was found to be unlawful, void and of no effect. And, said the Supreme Court, it should be quashed.

More importantly, the Queen has been dragged by the PM’s unlawful prorogation into the place where for decades politicians have agreed she should never be – right into a domestic political argument.

Media captionThe Supreme Court declared “Parliament has not been prorogued”

Former Conservative prime minister Sir John Major commented after the judgement that “no prime minister must ever treat the monarch or Parliament in this way again”.

He chose his words – and the order of his words – carefully, and conservatively. First monarch, then Parliament. He understands the damage this has done to the position of the Queen.

The man who pretty much defined the modern role of the Queen, the Victorian Walter Bagehot, wrote of the monarchy: “Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.”

‘Blown apart’

The role has always worked in the shadows, the grey areas of the constitution, with an agreement going back decades amongst politicians that unwritten rules and conventions would be respected, and that nothing would be done to put the Queen into an embarrassing position, a position where she could be accused of having a political role.

Boris Johnson has blown that apart.

With the Supreme Court judgement a bright and critical light now illuminates the monarchy.

And the cry has gone up – even from the present system’s doughtiest defenders – for a written constitution, one where the powers of the different parts of the state and the different nations of the kingdom, are clearly explained and defined.

At which point, of course, some will ask – just what is the role in government, in the 21st Century, of a hereditary monarch?

Elizabeth came to the throne as the age of deference slipped away.

She has been a conservative monarch, content to play little more than a symbolic and ceremonial role. She understands that her position is dependent on her staying deep in the shadows of government.

But now daylight has flooded in. No wonder the Palace has decided to stay silent.

Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49811931

El audio de la controversia. | Fuente: Panorama/Panamericana Televisión.

Nuevos audios de la conversación entre el ministro de Economía, Alfredo Thorne y el contralor Edgar Alarcón fueron difundidos este domingo por el dominical Panorama, los que evidenciarían una supuesta presión del Gobierno días antes de que el informe de la adenda de Chinchero sea publicado.

“Ahora todo depende de usted: si pasa Chinchero, nos va bien; si se baja Chinchero, nos va pero mal”, dice Thorne a Alarcón en el audio. Además, en otro pasaje de la conversación, el titular de Economía también menciona al presidente, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

Conversación cuestionada. “Hoy traté de pasarle todas sus contribuciones y el presidente me las rechazó. Me dijo que tenía que hablar con usted. Dile que nos tiene que ayudar”, comenta Thorne en un encuentro que se dio en la sede del MEF y en presencia de ambos funcionarios, un secretario general y un jefe de asesores. 

El contralor Alarcón respondió: “Siempre la Contraloría está para ayudar, pero tiene que estar de la mano de la legalidad, ¿no?”, a lo que Thorne responde que “por supuesto. Entonces me dijo (el mandatario), bueno si el contralor te da su promesa, yo lo firmo”.

Más versiones. Lo que había pedido Alarcón es un monto de 13 millones de soles para mejorar el presupuesto de la institución. Ante este pedido Thorne responde: “De nuestro lado, lo que habíamos quedado era darle la mitad de eso (del monto). La mitad es lo que tenemos firmado”.

En otro momento, Thorne asegura que “el contrato está hecho a la medida de estos señores” y que, desde la campaña, tanto PPK como su equipo conocían de las deficiencias que tenía el contrato para la construcción del aeropuerto de Chinchero.

La respuesta. En conversación telefónica con Panorama, el ministro Thorne se mostró indignado por el audio propalado y acusó a Edgar Alarcón de haber grabado ilícitamente la conversación. “Quiero dejar en claro que en ningún momento presionamos al Contralor. En repetidas veces él me pregunta si el presupuesto está sujeto a Chinchero y yo le digo que no. Emitan los más de 60 minutos de conversación chuponeada por el contralor”, dijo.

Además, aseguró que en la conversación se tocaron distintos temas, sin embargo que la inclusión de PPK en la conversación tuvo que ver con que quería que el contralor se comprometa “al trabajo institucional entre el MEF y la Contraloría. En ningún momento se condicionaron los fondos de Contraloría al contrato de Chinchero”.

La conversación entre Thorne y Alarcón. | Fuente: Panorama
El ministro anunció que el consorcio Kuntur Wasi ya no construirá el aeropuerto de Chinchero. | Fuente: Andina

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NORTH PORT, Fla. (WFLA) — Law enforcement agencies swarmed the home of Brian Laundrie’s family on Monday as the fiancé of Gabby Petito, who was identified by police as a person of interest in her disappearance, remains missing.

WFLA’s Christine McLarty was outside the Laundrie family home in North Port Monday morning and reported seeing about 15 FBI and North Port police units swarm and tape off the home around 10 a.m. ET.

“The FBI is executing a court-authorized search warrant [Monday] at the Laundrie residence in North Port, FL relevant to the Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito investigation,” the FBI said in a statement. “No further details can be provided since this is an active and ongoing investigation.”

Agents were seen going inside the Laundrie’s house carrying suitcases and documents.

As WFLA’s Eagle 8 news helicopter flew over the scene, photojournalist Paul Lamison witnessed agents come out of the home to walk the perimeter of and photograph a shed in the backyard.

The law enforcement activity comes hours after North Port police said they were no longer searching Carlton Reserve for Brian Laundrie, who was reported missing by his family on Friday. According to police, family members last saw him leave home Tuesday wearing hiking gear.

“At this time, we currently believe we have exhausted all avenues in searching of the grounds there,” North Port police PIO Josh Taylor said in a statement. “Law enforcement agencies continue to search for Brian Laundrie.”

Laundrie is the fiancé of Gabby Petito, who disappeared during a cross-country trip the two went on together this summer. Police say Laundrie returned home to North Port alone on Sept. 1 and was later named a person of interest in the missing person case involving 22-year-old Petito.

body found in Wyoming on Sunday matches Petito’s description, according to FBI agents. However, a full forensic identification has not been completed to “confirm 100% that we found Gabby.”

This is a developing story, please check back for updates. You can also download the WFLA app for breaking news push alerts and sign up for breaking news email alerts.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James has condemned President Donald Trump for suggesting that federal assistance to states hard-hit by the coronavirus outbreak could be tied to whether or not they are willing to adjust their sanctuary policies.

Trump made the suggestion on Tuesday, expressing concerns over providing financial support to governments that he feels have managed their states poorly.

“We’re not looking to recover 25 years of bad management and give them the money that they lost,” Trump said at a White House news conference. “That’s unfair to other states.”

While the president said he was open to discussing the possibility with states, he said: “We’d want certain things also, including sanctuary-city adjustments.”

Criticizing sanctuary policies, which allow protections for undocumented immigrants, often including rules barring law enforcement from working with federal immigration enforcement, Trump said: “People are being protected that shouldn’t be protected. And a lot of bad things are happening with sanctuary cities.”

“If we’re going to do something for the states, I think we probably want something having to do with sanctuary cities,” Trump said.

With New York having some of the most prominent sanctuary policies, Attorney General Letitia James struck out at Trump for threatening to hold coronavirus aid “hostage.”

“President Trump’s threat to hold coronavirus funding hostage to cities and states across the country are the latest in his efforts to push a sinister political agenda that only aims to punish us all—citizens and non-citizens alike,” James said in a statement shared with Newsweek.

“This is just another attempt to again feed to his base and push the same partisan ideology we’ve seen for the last three years,” James said, noting Trump’s longstanding opposition to sanctuary policies.

“New York is proud of its status as a sanctuary state that welcomes and will fight to protect its immigrant residents—many of whom are fighting on the frontlines to battle the coronavirus,” James asserted.

“It is my sincerest hope that one day the president will wake up and realize the power of his words,” she said, adding: “Until that day comes we will be ready to take legal action.”

It is unclear what form of legal action New York would take if the White House were to try to negotiate changes to the state’s sanctuary policies in order for New York to receive aid from the federal government.

Newsweek has contacted James’ office, as well as the White House, for further comment.

The New York attorney general was not alone in admonishing the president’s threat, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also condemning his statements.

“We cannot allow the Trump administration to exploit a public health crisis to further their anti-immigrant agenda,” the ACLU said in a tweet following the president’s comments.

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