Luego de llorar y llorar día y noche, de llamar a su mamá cada día y de pensar que tocaba fondo, Brad Pitt va saliendo a la superficie. Estas últimas horas fueron de buenas noticias para el actor que se separó escandalosamente de Angelina Jolie: pudo visitar a sus seis hijos y se enteró de que no será procesado por las acusaciones de maltrato.
TMZ, medio que destapó la historia, se rectificó alegando que “pese a todo lo publicado, nunca hubo una investigación contra Pitt y que el caso no irá a ninguna parte. Maddox (de 15 años), su hijo, no sufrió lesiones”.
De a poco, las aguas se calman y la ex pareja ya toma decisiones adultas. Desde que la actriz le pidió el divorcio -el 19 de septiembre-, el actor no había conseguido reunirse con sus hijos. Sin embargo, según publica la revista People, consiguió verlos la semana pasada: “Brad ha pasado un tiempo maravilloso con ellos recientemente”, reveló una fuente. “Ama a sus hijos por encima de cualquier cosa en el mundo y ellos a él igual. Él va a hacer lo que sea por estar con ellos, ahora y siempre”.
Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh y los mellizos Knox y Vivienne saltaron de alegría al ver al rubio. Angelina y Brad llegaron a un acuerdo de forma voluntaria para establecer el régimen de visitas. Ella tendrá la custodia física de los niños, mientras que el actor puede visitarlos, en un principio bajo la supervisión de un terapeuta.
A Pitt la crisis matrimonial lo sensibilizó tanto que, según aseguran sus amigos, está listo para pedirle disculpas a su ex. La sorpresa es que busca pedirle perdón a Jennifer Aniston, y no a Angelina. ¿Por qué? Se sabe que la hizo sufrir, no fue sincero y terminó engañándola con Angelina en el set de la película “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”. Recapacitar le llevó años, pero ahora siente que es momento de reivindicarse.
SALEM, Ore. — Some Republican lawmakers returned to the Oregon Senate on Saturday, ending a walkout over a carbon-emissions bill they said would harm their rural constituents.
Nine of the 12 minority Republicans returned after Senate President Peter Courtney said the majority Democrats lacked the votes to pass the legislation aimed at countering climate change. The House had previously passed the bill, one of the centerpieces of Oregon’s 2019 legislative session, which is scheduled to end on Sunday.
Democrats have an 18 to 12 majority in the Senate but need at least 20 members — and therefore at least two Republicans — to vote on legislation.
Democrats had said the climate legislation was critical to make Oregon a leader in the fight against climate change and will ultimately create jobs and transform the economy. They made dozens of concessions to respond to concerns from conservatives and industry leaders, but they didn’t go as far as Republicans hoped.
The GOP senator walkout began June 20. Many left the state after Gov. Kate Brown ordered the state police to bring them to the Capitol.
“Our mission in walking out was to kill cap and trade,” Senate Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger told reporters Friday. “And that’s what we did.”
The bill, if passed, would have been the second in the nation to cap and trade pollution credits among companies. It aimed to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases by 2050 by capping carbon emissions and requiring businesses to buy or trade for an ever-dwindling pool of pollution “allowances.” California has a similar program.
Baertschiger said he received assurances from the Democratic Senate president and the governor that the climate bill won’t move forward this session. More than 100 bills remain to be addressed. Baertschiger said he’s confident the Senate can work through dozens of measures before the legislative session ends.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who chairs the committee in charge of funding decisions, said she felt “relief” that Republicans agreed to return to get through the rest of the legislative agenda, including added funding for critical services such as child welfare and public safety.
Steiner Hayward said a climate change bill will likely come up again in the future.
“Nobody’s giving up,” she said.
Brown could call a special session to handle outstanding bills.
Democrats have a supermajority in both the House and Senate, enabling them to pass bills — including ones to raise revenue — if they vote as a bloc. But if Republicans stay away, the Democrats lack a quorum to convene.
The Republicans wielded power disproportionate to their numbers this session. They walked out of the Senate last month to block a school funding tax package. They returned only after Brown brokered a deal in which Democrats dropped legislation on gun control and children’s vaccination requirements, upsetting backers of those measures and leaving gun-control proponents and those concerned about disease outbreaks feeling betrayed. The Senate, with a quorum established, passed the school funding measure.
In the House, Republicans in May forced a clerk in the Oregon Legislature to read aloud every word in nearly every piece of legislation, giving granular details about farm loans, motor vehicle taxes and other government minutiae as the minority party used the stalling tactic.
“This is not how our democracy is supposed to work,” said Tara Hurst, executive director of the lobbying group Renew Oregon, which helped craft the climate proposal. “Continuing to capitulate to demands of a small minority, which has taken our Legislature hostage, will only lead to more of the same because there are no consequences.”
Rep. Rachel Prusak, a freshman Democrat from a Portland suburb, said she is “heartbroken over the state of our Legislature.”
Three other GOP senators complained privately in discussions with The Washington Post that the White House erred by releasing the transcript, arguing that it sets a precedent for future presidents about disclosure of calls with foreign leaders and could be seen as a concession to Democrats.
Publicly, two senators expressed serious concerns about the revelation, as cracks have begun to emerge with GOP lawmakers privately discussing Trump’s conduct and their party’s political standing.
“Republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons and say there’s no ‘there’ there when there’s obviously a lot that’s very troubling there,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) told reporters after reviewing the whistleblower’s complaint. “. . . Democrats ought not be using words like ‘impeach’ before they knew anything about the actual substance.”
Sasse, who opposed Trump’s 2016 candidacy, recently has spoken more favorably about Trump and earned the president’s endorsement in his reelection bid.
“It remains troubling in the extreme. It’s deeply troubling,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters Wednesday when asked about the transcript.
As Republican senators left a closed-door luncheon Wednesday, they were mostly supportive of the president and dismissive of the transcript, even as some lawmakers and their aides groused behind the scenes about the White House’s response.
There were scattered statements about whether Trump handled the call appropriately, but any sense of alarm was muted.
“As a general rule, transcripts of phone conversations between heads of state should not be released. In this case, an exception had to be made,” said Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), pointing out that some Senate Republicans had asked the president to release the document. He added that he was not troubled by its content.
“It’s a decision for the White House,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said when asked about the release, quickly calling out Democrats for “hating” Trump.
“It’s unprecedented that he’s released it and there are some ramifications for the office, but people were clamoring for all the information, and he’s giving it,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who attended a White House meeting Wednesday morning to review the rough transcript.
While many Republicans continue to dismiss Democrats’ impeachment efforts, the initial fault lines could foreshadow how Senate Republicans ultimately handle a trial, should the House impeach the president, according to several lawmakers and aides.
In the rough transcript of the July 25 call, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr to investigate the conduct of Biden and offered to meet with the foreign leader at the White House after he promised to conduct such an inquiry.
Those statements and others in the phone call between Trump and Zelensky were so concerning that the intelligence community inspector general thought them a possible violation of campaign finance law.
In late August, intelligence officials referred the matter to the Justice Department as a possible crime, but prosecutors concluded last week that the conduct was not criminal, according to senior Justice Department officials.
Trump has acknowledged publicly that he asked Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son, who served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that came under scrutiny by authorities there.
Trump has denied doing anything improper, but lawmakers have raised concerns about his directive to freeze nearly $400 million in military assistance for Ukraine in the days leading up the phone call with Zelensky.
Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) echoed other Republicans in arguing there was “no quid pro quo,” adding, “while the conversation reported in the memorandum relating to alleged Ukrainian corruption and Vice President Biden’s son was inappropriate, it does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.”
Three Senate GOP aides said Wednesday that their bosses were unhappy with the White House’s decision and the sense that Republican lawmakers were being forced into the difficult position of defending Trump while contending with what many Democrats see as a problematic transcript.
But other Senate Republicans, allied with Trump, were dismissive. “Wow. Impeachment over this?” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) tweeted. “What a nothing (non-quid pro quo) burger.”
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who like Graham faces reelection next year, said, “I’ve looked at the transcript; I don’t see anything there.”
One early divide among Senate Republicans is between the “Burr camp” and the “Johnson camp,” according to two senior GOP aides who were not authorized to speak publicly, referring to Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Burr’s faction of the Senate GOP has a darker, frustrated view of Trump’s handling of Ukraine, while Johnson has linked the Ukraine issue to his committee’s work into reviewing the launch of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails while serving as secretary of state.
During a closed-door Senate Republican lunch Tuesday, both Burr and Johnson underscored their own position in conversation with colleagues, who asked them whether their respective committees would launch investigations of Biden.
Burr said Wednesday said he had no interest in investigating the Biden-Ukraine angle.
“That’s not my lane, but I’m only focused on gathering the facts on this piece,” he said, referencing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Johnson said his committee has been conducting “information gathering and oversight” related to the 2016 campaign probe, which might now involve Hunter Biden.
“It just kind of morphs into that same cast of characters, what they were doing,” he said.
Others who have expressed concern about the whistleblower complaint and pushed for more disclosure include Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee who carries stature nationally in the party, even though he is still building relationships within the Senate, which he joined earlier this year.
Romney’s willingness to pressure the White House has irritated Trump advisers, who cheered the president’s tweet this week about Romney’s 2012 defeat.
“I’d forgotten I’d lost, so I appreciate the reminder,” Romney joked to reporters.
But Romney’s willingness to speak out has “given cover” to Senate Republicans who also want to speak out, even if more mutedly, one Senate GOP aide said, because Romney is taking the lead in asking pointed questions about Trump and the administration.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said, “Biden is the one who threatened Ukraine’s aid, not Trump, and that has to be investigated.”
The tensions between Senate Republicans who view the whistleblower complaint strictly as an intelligence matter and those who see it as part of a political “witch hunt” of Trump by Democrats are almost certain to continue, lawmakers and aides said, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) having to navigate those dynamics and hold his members together amid the tumult.
McConnell faces reelection next year and is focused on keeping his Senate majority as the GOP defends 23 seats to the Democrats’ 12.
McConnell’s member-driven approach was evident early Tuesday, when several Senate Republicans said they were unsure if McConnell would oppose the call by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to have the whistleblower complaint sent to the intelligence committees.
“I really thought Mitch would knock it down, because Chuck was putting it up. He hates everything Chuck does,” one veteran Republican senator said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “But he didn’t. He let Chuck’s resolution get through with unanimous consent.”
When the senator inquired about McConnell’s decision, he was told McConnell was following the requests from his members to receive more information.
McConnell also saw up close at Tuesday’s lunch how many Senate Republicans, while publicly rallying around the president, are asking the White House to share more information. Even Trump allies asked White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland, who attended the Tuesday lunch, to give more documents to Congress, according to aides and lawmakers present.
McConnell’s public message has been sharply partisan and far more predictable, calling House Democrats’ impeachment moves an “impeachment parade in search of a rationale” and driven by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “far-left conference.”
But McConnell is not yet preparing for a Senate trial, with some of his longtime allies holding out hope that impeachment fades in the House. McConnell’s associates said this week that he has not begun internal planning for an impeachment trial, logistically or politically.
“Zero. None. No discussions of a trial. You prepare for the probable, not the improbable. I just can’t imagine a universe in which they end up doing that,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said. “Nancy Pelosi is simply too shrewd to let things get out of control.”
Added Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.): “I don’t know how they’d handle it. I’m labor, not management.”
Democrats are looking ahead but remain unsure of whether Senate Republican support for Trump would ever crumble.
“An impeachment trial would be challenging, but the Senate is more than capable of rising to the occasion, and I hope my Republican colleagues would be capable of breaking their silence and stepping forward,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said. “This is truly a time of reckoning.”
Seung Min Kim in New York and Paul Kane contributed to this report.
Federal officials charged financier Jeffrey Epstein with creating and maintaining a sex trafficking network. USA TODAY
Federal agents who searched the East Side Manhattan mansion of wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein turned up a “vast trove of lewd photographs” of young-looking girls, including hundreds of meticulously labeled nude pictures locked in a safe, according to federal court documents.
The description, laid out ina memo by prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, was aimed at convincing a federal judge that Epstein, who was arrested July 6 upon return from Paris on his private jet, should not be freed pending trial on charges of sex trafficking.
Agents used crowbars to force open the front door of the seven-story Upper East Side mansion.
The memo said the search turned up not only evidence supporting its sex trafficking allegations against Esptein but also “hundreds – and perhaps thousands – of sexually suggestive photographs of fully – or partially – nude females.”
While investigators were still reviewing the material, the memo said one of the girls, according to her attorney, “was underage at the time the relevant photographs were taken.”
It noted that other photographs were found in a locked safe that included CDs with handwritten labels including the descriptions ““Young [Name] + [Name],” “Misc nudes 1,” and “Girl pics nude.”
In calling for Epstein to remain in jail, the memo noted that he is a registered sex offender after a 2008 conviction in Florida and “is not reformed, he is not chastened, he is not repentant, rather he is a continuing danger to the community and an individual who faces devastating evidence supporting deeply serious charges.”
Epstein, 66, has pleaded not guilty to one federal count of sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking conspiracy for allegedly sexually exploiting minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, Florida, and other locations, according to the federal indictment.
In a report on the mansion, valued at more than $55 million, The New York Times noted that its artwork includes, on the second floor, a commissioned mural of a “photorealistic prison scene that included barbed wire, corrections officers and a guard station, with Mr. Epstein portrayed in the middle.”
The Times quotes R. Couri Hay, a public relations specialist who recently met with Epstein at his home, as saying, “(Epstein) said, ‘That’s me, and I had this painted because there is always the possibility that could be me again.’”
The home also includes such oddities as a hallway covered with artificial eyeballs originally made for wounded soldiers, a life-size female doll hanging from a chandelier, and a chess board with custom figures, many dressed suggestively and modeled after one of Epstein’s staffers, The Times reported.
Federal prosecutors said in the indictment that they were moving to seize the mansion as part of the proceedings against Epstein.
“Capitalism is an ideology of capital — the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit,” she said during an interview at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, according to Bloomberg News.
“To me, capitalism is irredeemable,” she added, arguing that capitalism’s goals come at a cost to people and the environment, Bloomberg reported.
The congresswoman, who has described herself as a democratic socialist, added during her interview that “we should be scared.”
“Just as there’s all this fearmongering that government is going to take over every corporation and government is going to take over every business or every form of production, we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez also said that the “emphasis in democratic socialism is on democracy” and expanding the rights of workers.
“It’s just as much a transformation about bringing democracy to the workplace so that we have a say and that we don’t check all of our rights at the door every time we cross the threshold into our workplace,” she said. “Because at the end of the day, as workers and as people in society, we’re the ones creating wealth.”
“We should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government.” @AOC explains why she is in favor of democratic socialism at #SXSW#tictocnewspic.twitter.com/1lSLYCyTew
CLEVELAND, OHIO- Luego de un primer día cargado de tensiones, la segunda jornada de la Convención Nacional Republicana comenzó y con él las votaciones de los estados que convertirían a Donald Trump en el candidato presidencial del partido.
El hijo del empresario, Donald Trump Junior, fue el quien anunció los 89 votos de Nueva York para su padre, con lo que logró oficialmente la nominación republicana.
En el largo proceso de votación, durante el cual cada delegación de estado expresó cómo depositava sus votos a viva voz, el estado de Michigan también se abstuvo de votar
Pero fue sólo una movida de teatro político para garantizar que los votos del estado garantizaran que Trump pasara los 1,237 delegados necesarios para obtener la nominación.
Pasadas las 5:30 PM, el jefe de la convención y presidente de la Cámara de Representantes del Congreso de EEUU, Paul Ryan, explicó al incio de la votación que los delegados votarían en”en orden alfabético” y “según las normas” del partido.
Esta esperada votación llega luego de que el lunes un grupo de delegados que aún rechaza a Trump como el candidato republicano protagonizaran, con gritos y abucheos en la apertura del evento, un intento de cambiar las reglas del partido para liberarse de su obligación de votar al magnate.
Representantes de algunas delegaciones asistentes a la convención que se realiza en el Quicken Loans Arena de Cleveland, Ohio, hicieron saber a Univision Noticias que no dejarán que la votación se realice sin que ellos expresen la inconformidad con el nominado y con la manera como el partido ha manejado sus quejas.
Kristie Brown, una de las delegadas de Colorado, estado que el lunes protagonizó la rebelión para intentar cambiar las reglas del partido para no tener que votar al magnate, dijo a Univision que varios integrantes de su delegación estaban planeando acciones para manifestarse aunque no confirmó si implicaba interrumpir o suspender completamente el procedimiento.
La mayoría silenciosa
El lunes un grupo de estados presentó una moción para modificar las reglas del evento y permitir que los delegados votaran según su conciencia y no como los fuerza las leyes de cada estado que representan.
Una posibilidad es que se vuelva a presentar la iniciativa y que la asamblea vuelva a caer en el caos que se vivió cuando los proTrump ahogaron a gritos a los que expresaban su descontento con el magnate
La mayoría de las delegaciones han expresado su disgusto con la manera como se llevó a cabo la propuesta y algunos culpan de intrasigencia por partes iguales a la presidencia de la convención y a los delegados rebeldes.
La sesión empezará a las 5.50 pm, hora del este de EEUU, con la apertura formal de la ceremonia y hacioa las 6:00 se realizará la votación a voz alzada para la postulación formal de Trump.
Te presentamos los temas sobre la coyuntura política del país
Por elsalvador.com31.oct.2016 | 18:10
El accidente de tránsito del nieto de Presidente, más las declaraciones del fiscal Douglas Meléndez sobre el caso Saca y la postura del edil capitalino, son tres de los temas coyunturales de la situación de la política del país.
Este lunes Meléndez brindo una conferencia de prensa para hablar sobre el proceso que enfrenta el expresidente Antonio Saca y sus exfuncionarios Julio Rank, César Funes y tres personas que aún trabajan en Presidentecia de la República.
En las declaraciones, Meléndez, dijo que hay $246 Mlls. que habrían sido desviados a cuentas de exfuncionarios; de ese total, $116 millones fueron cobrados en efectivo. “Los fondos que fueron sustraídos fueron a parar a las cuentas de las empresas del expresidente”.
Aunque Eugenio Chicas, secretario de comunicaciones de la presidencia evadiera los cuestionamientos de la prensa sobre el accidente de tránsito en el que está relacionado el nieto del presidente Salvador Sánchez Cerén; el funcionario al ser cuestionado sobre si el nieto del mandatario tenía derecho a gozar de un carro oficial, secretario respondió: “son procedimientos del Batallón Presidencial”.
El Fiscal General, Douglas Meléndez, informó en días pasados que la camioneta que provocó el percance estuvo hasta la medianoche del día anterior al hecho en el Paseo El Carmen, en Santa Tecla. El caso está en manos de la fiscalía.
“They have a great deal of courage and willingness to work,” Judy Hagen, the president of the American Belgian Malinois Club, said in an interview. “They’re very intelligent and they’re easily trained.”
Belgians, she said, can cost anywhere from $1,500 for a show dog puppy to over $30,000 for a fully-trained protection dog.
The identity of the dog has become the subject of rampant curiosity since Mr. Trump used glowing terms to describe the animal’s heroics on Sunday. In the same news conference, Mr. Trump used disparaging terms to describe Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death — “He died like a dog” — even as he praised the animal for pursuing the ISIS leader.
“Our ‘K-9,’ as they call it,” Mr. Trump said, “I call it a dog. A beautiful dog — a talented dog — was injured and brought back.”
Mr. Trump’s apparently complex relationship with dogs has become a matter of curiosity in recent years. Both critics and supporters have noted that he is among the few modern presidents who have not had a dog in the White House.
Earlier this year during a rally in El Paso, Mr. Trump mused that his associates had encouraged him to get a dog because it would be a political asset.
“You do love your dogs, don’t you?” Mr. Trump told the crowd. “I wouldn’t mind having one, honestly, but I don’t have any time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?”
El equipo de CHV Noticias volvió a sufrir un fail televisivo. Aunque esta vez, al parecer se trató de un error involuntario y no de una broma con el conductor, como sucedió con Ítalo Zúñiga.
En esta oportunidad el afectado fue el periodista Karim Butte, mientras se realizaba un despacho para el Festival de Viña del Mar. El conductor apareció sorpresivamente en pantalla haciendo un claro gesto de “ya no más”.
El momento fue captado ayer por la cuenta de twitter Televisivamente, y luego fue subido en alta definición por RataCl, quienes comentaron que “el equipo de CHV Noticias debe ser como trabajar en 31 minutos“. Mira:
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced defections from senior allies Thursday as a backlash built and opponents planned legal challenges to his decision to suspend Parliament to push his Brexit plans.
The resignation of Ruth Davidson, who had been touted as a future prime minister, along with another senior Conservative in the House of Lords, was a sign of rising worry within Johnson’s ranks that the move to suspend Parliament was sidelining Britain’s elected representatives during one of the biggest political crises in generations.
Elsewhere in Europe, policymakers were jolted by the move to suspend Parliament for five weeks, which some of them said brought Britain closer to a sudden, cliff-edge Brexit that analysts say could spark food and medicine shortages. Some diplomats said they were increasingly convinced Johnson is a brutally ruthless tactician who would stop at little in a risky gambit to force both Europe and his own rebellious lawmakers into a compromise.
The resignations came after protesters jammed streets in cities around the country, including in London, Edinburgh and Manchester. Outside of Parliament, demonstrators chanted “stop the coup!” A petition calling for the government to stop the suspension quickly surged past 1 million signatures. Johnson’s adversaries promised to appeal his move in the courts. Brexit opponents were strategizing about how to use their dwindling time in Parliament to halt the relentless move toward an uncontrolled break from Europe.
Johnson sparked a torrent of criticism with his decision to ask Queen Elizabeth II to suspend Parliament for five weeks, dramatically shortening the time lawmakers have to try to block a no-deal Brexit.
Johnson has said Britain will leave the European Union by Oct. 31 with or without a deal. The majority of lawmakers in the House of Commons are opposed to leaving the bloc without a transition deal to smooth the way.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said that when Parliament reconvenes after summer break Tuesday, he would move immediately to pass legislation to keep the chamber open and to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
“We will be back in Parliament on Tuesday to challenge Boris Johnson on what I think is a smash-and-grab raid against our democracy,” he told Sky News. “What we’re going to do is try to politically stop him on Tuesday with a parliamentary process in order to legislate to prevent a no-deal Brexit and also to try and prevent him shutting down parliament during this utterly crucial period.”
Opposition lawmakers will have to move fast if they are to have a chance at success. Once Parliament is suspended, no later than Sept. 12, any legislation in the pipeline is typically killed off, and lawmakers would have to start again from scratch when Parliament resumes Oct. 14.
In Davidson’s careful resignation letter, the charismatic leader avoided linking her move directly to Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament, instead focusing on family issues. But she also mentioned the “conflict I have felt over Brexit,” and the British media quickly linked the departure to Johnson’s strategy, given the timing.
Davidson’s departure after eight years leading the Scottish wing of the party is a major blow for the Conservatives, whose fortunes she helped to turn around in an area of Britain where the Conservative Party was for decades a toxic brand.
Davidson’s resignation came shortly after that of George Young, a former cabinet minister who left his post as a government whip in the House of Lords.
The move “risks undermining the fundamental role of parliament at a critical time in our history, and reinforces the view that the Government may not have the confidence of the House for its Brexit policy, Young wrote.
On Thursday, David Lidington, the effective deputy prime minister in the previous administration of Theresa May — who remains a nominal ally of Johnson — said the suspension was “not a good way to do democracy” and “sets a very bad precedent for future governments.” He told the BBC that if the opposition Labour Party had done something similar, “some of my Tory colleagues who are cheering at the moment would be turning purple with rage.”
Johnson’s government insists they are not doing anything unusual and that it is normal for a new prime minister to suspend Parliament ahead of the queen’s speech presenting the country’s legislative agenda.
It generally does happen every year, but the length of the suspension — the longest since 1945 — and the timing have drawn widespread criticism.
Johnson’s allies — the ones who were not quitting — were quick to dismiss the concerns Thursday.
The British Parliament voted down the deal three times, mostly because of the so-called “backstop,” an insurance plan that would guarantee an open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland to prevent a return to violence there. Under the plan, the United Kingdom risks getting stuck inside the European Customs Union, limiting its ability to conduct independent trade deals.
In the rest of the European Union, some onlookers questioned whether the challenges to democracy and the rule of law that have enveloped countries such as Hungary and Poland have spread to Britain’s far more ancient political system.
“Boris Johnson is often compared to Donald Trump. He also isn’t far off from Machiavelli,” read one editorial in Le Figaro, a French newspaper.
European leaders were mostly quiet about the British drama, wary of being sucked into a domestic political dispute and already skeptical about the chances that Britain would manage to agree to a transition deal before it departed.
David Frost, Johnson’s new Brexit negotiator, was in Brussels on Wednesday to meet with senior E.U. officials, but he brought no new ideas about how to change those aspects of the transition deal that are most unpalatable in Britain, according to diplomats briefed on the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about the sensitive conversations.
E.U. Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier indicated Thursday that nothing had changed in E.U. calculations.
“The EU will continue to protect the interests of its citizens and companies, as well as the conditions for peace and stability on the island of Ireland. It is our duty & our responsibility,” he wrote on Twitter.
Bottoms, 51, who was elected mayor of Georgia’s capital in 2017, gained a national profile in the wake of last year’s unrest following the death of Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. She was praised for a forceful, personal appeal to protesters, including some whom had begun vandalizing property in Atlanta’s downtown. “This is not a protest … This is chaos. A protest has purpose.”
President Donald Trump is gearing up for a big announcement of his 2020 election campaign on Tuesday in Florida. But he’s warming up in the bullpen via Twitter to fire up his base in advance of the official announcement.
As news reports circulate that the President is honing in on potential Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren after knocking around Joe Biden, the Commander-in-Tweet is leaning on the strong economy in his messaging.
In a line reminiscent of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s prediction about the market’s direction in the wake of Trump’s 2016 victory (a prediction which ultimately proved totally wrong), the President noted that Democrats carry the same potential if they supplant him.
“The Trump Economy is setting records, and has a long way up to go…However, if anyone but me takes over in 2020 (I know the competition very well), there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!”
We’ll update as more rolls in today. The tweetstorm so far:
The Trump Economy is setting records, and has a long way up to go….However, if anyone but me takes over in 2020 (I know the competition very well), there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before! KEEP AMERICA GREAT
Despite the Greatest Presidential Harassment of all time by people that are very dishonest and want to destroy our Country, we are doing great in the Polls, even better than in 2016, and will be packed at the Tuesday Announcement Rally in Orlando, Florida. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
Sen. Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus and is in quarantine, he said Sunday.
“Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events,” read a message on the Kentucky Republican’s Twitter handle.
“He was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.”
He is the first US senator to test positive for the virus.
Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (D-Fla.) and Ben McAdams (D-Utah) said they tested positive last week.
A handful of other members of Congress have been in self-quarantine after being exposed to somebody who tested positive.
Paul said he “expects to be back in the Senate” following the quarantine and “will continue to work for the people of Kentucky at this difficult time.”
“Ten days ago, our D.C. office began operating remotely, hence virtually no staff has had contact with Senator Rand Paul,” he said in another posting.
One day after President Donald Trump‘s national security adviser, John Bolton, said North Korea‘s missile launches earlier this month violated a U.N. Security Council resolution, the president said Kim Jong Un’s launch of “small weapons” doesn’t bother him.
The president, who spent Sunday morning playing golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, went on to say he has confidence that Kim will “keep his promise” to not launch any missiles and thinks Kim’s recent insult against presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden — calling him a “low-IQ individual,” the same language Trump himself has used — is a “signal” to him. He also spelled Biden’s name incorrectly — as “Bidan” — in an initial tweet, before correcting it and resending.
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President Donald Trump walks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before playing a round of golf at Mobara Country Club, Sunday, May 26, 2019, in Chiba, Japan.
Trump tweeted, “North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?”
North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?
A Biden campaign aide responded after the tweet, saying, ““I would say the tweet speaks for itself, but it’s so unhinged and erratic that I’m not sure anyone could even say that with a straight face.”
The same aide said of the president’s tweet correcting the spelling of Biden’s name: “The spelling error was not the main problem with the first one.”
While Trump has tried to spin North Korea’s recent launch, both Bolton and Japan have accused North Korea of violating U.N. resolutions. Bolton’s comments were the first time a U.S. official said North Korea was in violation.
The Trump administration is trying to keep diplomatic doors open to North Korea, even though Bolton admitted the U.S. has not “heard much” from North Korea since the last summit in Hanoi fell apart. He said U.S. Special Envoy to North Korea Stephen Biegun has not received contact from his counterpart in Pyongyang.
Bolton also said he supports Japan’s efforts to sit down for negotiations with Kim. Abe still has not met with the North Korean leader.
Japanese officials said that during Trump’s four-day state visit, Abe will be introducing Trump to the families of Japanese abducted by North Koreans. Trump had a similar meeting during his last visit to Japan. The release of Japanese abductees is a top priority for Abe.
Despite the defense of Kim, the two foreign leaders appeared to be getting along great on the golf course Sunday. Abe tweeted a photo of the two smiling from the course talking about an “unwavering” alliance between the two countries in Japanese.
After the pair hit the links, Trump stated on Twitter the two world leaders have made “great progress” in the trade negotiations, but indicated he may wait until after July to announce any potential deal.
Great progress being made in our Trade Negotiations with Japan. Agriculture and beef heavily in play. Much will wait until after their July elections where I anticipate big numbers!
Trump himself tweeted about the round of golf — a pastime both leaders have bonded over — and his love for former South African great and nine-time major champion Gary Player.
ABC News’ Rachel Scott contributed to this report.
Facebook informó el martes que limitará la publicación de noticias engañosas en la página de “Inicio” de los usuarios, argumentando que la continua circulación de historias falsas son una molestia para los miembros de esta enorme red social.
“Hemos escuchado que la gente quiere ver menos historias engañosas y noticias falsas”, dijeron los ejecutivos de Facebook Erich Owens y Udi Weinsberg en un blog.
“Los engaños son una forma de ‘spam’ recurrente en la sección de ‘Noticias’ de Facebook, e incluyen fraudes, como por ejemplo ‘Haga clic aquí para ganar una provisión de café para un año’ o noticias deliberadamente falsas, como ‘Un hombre ve un dinosaurio durante un paseo en Utah'”.
Investigadores de Facebook afirmaron que los usuarios “a menudo comparten estos engaños y luego deciden borrarlos, cuando se dan cuenta de que ha sido estafados”.
En una actualización de las Noticias en Facebook, se limitará la propagación de ‘posts’ que han sido ya reportados como falsos y se agregarán mensajes que advertirán a los usuarios que esa noticia ya sido etiquetada como sospechosa.
La red social añadió además una opción que permite a los usuarios reportar noticias falsas.
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En las noticias más leídas del día, A pocos días del lanzamiento de Android Oreo, Google tuvo que retirar más de 500 apps de Play Store por contar con una “puerta trasera” secreta que permitía instalar spyware. Gran Bretaña enviará 90 autobuses de doble piso a la ciudad de México, tras suscribirse un contrato que la primera ministra británica, Theresa May. Elegir una carrera por su rentabilidad es mejor que por su popularidad.
1. Elige una carrera por la rentabilidad, no por popularidad
A la hora de elegir la carrera que estudiaremos, la gran mayoría entramos en conflicto, pero ¿cuál es la mejor decisión cuando elegimos una?
Carreras como Química, Física, Estadística y Finanzas son las áreas educativas que suponen la mejor inversión en México, debido a su alto nivel de rendimiento y bajo riesgo, según el estudio Compara Carreras 2017 del Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (Imco).
Esto fue determinado mediante el índice de calidad de la inversión utilizado por el Instituto, que combina información de ingreso promedio y costo de la carrera con el riesgo de desempleo e informalidad. Si quieres saber cuáles fueron estas carreras, entra a la nota completa.
Elige una carrera por la rentabilidad, no por popularidad. Ver nota.
2. ¿Qué dicen los medios de EU y Canadá sobre la renegociación del TLCAN?
México, Estados Unidos y Canadá se reservaron buena parte de la información sobre la primera ronda de renegociación del TLCAN que concluyó el pasado domingo 20 de agosto y sólo hicieron público un pronunciamiento trilateral en el que indican que “los negociadores de cada país seguirán haciendo consultas en sus respectivos países y se reunirán de nuevo en México para una segunda ronda de negociación del 1 al 5 de septiembre.
La prensa de estos tres países ha expresado los defectos que encuentran en el acuerdo y los objetivos que persiguen con la renegociación. Medios de los tres países, como The Toronto Star, el diario con mayor circulación en Canadá, y USA Today han compilado las opiniones y afirmaciones de expertos y funcionarios vinculados a la renegociación del tratado comercial sobre los principales temas que preocupan a cada nación.
¿Qué dicen los medios de EU y Canadá sobre la renegociación del TLCAN?. Ver nota.
3. Theresa May se congratula por contrato con la CDMX
Serán 90 autobuses de doble piso los que mandará Gran Bretaña a la ciudad de México, tras suscribirse un contrato que la primera ministra británica, Theresa May, citó este miércoles como ejemplo de la capacidad comercial de su país tras el Brexit.
Los autobuses, íconos de las calles londinenses, fueron producidos en las fábricas Alexander Dennis Limited de Escocia y Guildford, en el oeste de Londres.
Theresa May se congratula por contrato con la CDMX. Ver nota.
4. Elon Musk presentó el nuevo traje espacial de SpaceX
Los cohetes lanzados por SpaceX en los últimos meses carecían de un elemento al que la filmografía y los viajes espaciales ya nos tenían acostumbrados: los astronautas. Parece que Elon Musk atendió esta carencia porque este miércoles publicó en su cuenta de Instagram la primera fotografía del nuevo traje espacial de SpaceX.
Hasta el momento, ninguno de los viajes realizados por los transbordadores espaciales de la compañía propiedad de Elon Musk ha sido tripulado. Los planes desvelados por el emprendedor acerca de establecer una colonia humana en Marte indicaban que en algún momento la compañía tendría que atender el problema de la indumentaria que vestirían los futuros tripulantes de sus naves espaciales reciclables.
Elon Musk presentó el nuevo traje espacial de SpaceX. Ver nota.
5. Google retira 500 apps que espían a millones de usuarios Android
A tan sólo unos días del lanzamiento de Android Oreo, el Sistema Operativo vuelve a ser noticia, pero no por algo positivo, ya que Google tuvo que retirar más de 500 apps de Play Store por contar con una “puerta trasera” secreta que permitía instalar spyware, y así espiar a los usuarios Android y robar sus datos.
Este código malicioso fue descubierto por la firma de seguridad informática Lookout, quienes notificaron a Google para que pudiera tomar acciones al respecto. Ahora, tras haber eliminado las aplicaciones maliciosas de la tienda virtual de la compañía, han decidido anunciar su hallazgo.
Google retira 500 apps que espían a millones de usuarios Android. Ver nota.
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Exclusivo: “Kinucha” Mitre rompe el silencio: La oveja negra de la familia.
Es la mayor de de los hermanos del director de La Nación. Cree que su hermano murió hace 11 años por temas familiares y “cosas de plata”. El peleado reparto de la herencia y un relato crudo de las feroces internas en la familia argentina más aristocráticas.
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El Moyano que faltaba: el hijastro excéntrico del camionero. Empresa sindical-familiar. Vida en Puerto Madero, novia modelo y autos de lujo.
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