Una triste noticia dio a conocer la tarde de este sábado la esposa de Claudio Bravo, Carla Pardo.
Mediante su cuenta de Twitter, la mujer informó que una de sus perritas murió. “Te fuiste mi pequeña y tan poquito que faltaba para vernos. Me dejas destrozada mi Susy. Te llevaré siempre en mi corazón pequeña mía (sic)”, escribió.
La noticia de inmediato causó la reacción de sus seguidores que solidarizaron con su pérdida.
One person has been killed and 10 others wounded in a shooting in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, police say.
The gunman has been identified and is being actively looked for, they added.
The French Interior Ministry confirmed a “serious public security incident” in the city, and residents in the Neudorf area have been urged to stay indoors.
The shooting is said to have happened close to a Christmas market in one of the central squares, Place Kleber.
Security officials have cordoned off the area and trams have been stopped, according to reports.
The motive for the attack is unclear, but the Christmas market has been the object of Islamist threats in the past, Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
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Shots rang out near a Christmas market in Strasbourg
Eyewitness Peter Fritz told the BBC he heard gunfire and found a person who had been shot, lying on a bridge. He said he tried to resuscitate him but the man died.
Some unconfirmed reports said three people had died.
Local journalist Bruno Poussard wrote on Twitter that there had been a dozen shots fired on his street in the city centre – one or two to begin with, then in bursts.
Emmanuel Foulon, a press officer for the European Parliament, wrote that there was “panic” in the centre following the sound of gunfire and that police with guns were running through the streets.
Strasbourg deputy mayor Alain Fontanel tweeted: “Shooting in downtown Strasbourg. Thank you all for staying home while waiting for a clarification of the situation.”
A shopkeeper told BFM TV: “There were gun shots and people running everywhere. It lasted about 10 minutes.”
The European Parliament, which has a base in Strasbourg, was sealed off with no-one able to leave or enter the building.
British MEP Richard Corbett tweeted that he was in a restaurant in the city and the doors had been locked.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York State will adopt the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance on mask use for fully vaccinated people. The guidelines state that fully vaccinated people, defined as two or more weeks after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, no longer need to wear masks outdoors, except in certain crowded settings and venues. However, masks should still be worn indoors and should still be worn by people who are not fully vaccinated. This guidance reemphasizes the importance of getting vaccinated and closely adhering to public health guidance, particularly if you are not yet vaccinated. Fully vaccinated individuals with immunocompromising conditions should consult with their healthcare provider first.
“The CDC announced new guidance today saying that when Americans who are fully vaccinated are outside, biking, hiking, running, or in small gatherings, you don’t need to wear a mask. That is liberating, especially now that the weather is getting warmer,” Governor Cuomo said. “New York has adopted that guidance, so that’s going to go into effect in the State also and we want to thank CDC for that. This news underscores the fact that if you get vaccinated, more freedom is available to you, and I encourage all eligible New Yorkers who have not yet received the vaccine to make an appointment today.”
According to the new CDC guidance, fully vaccinated people can engage in more activities than unvaccinated people, which include:
Fully vaccinated workers no longer need to be restricted from work following an exposure as long as they are asymptomatic
Fully vaccinated residents of non-healthcare congregate settings no longer need to quarantine following a known exposure
Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing
Visit with unvaccinated people (including children) from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing
Participate in outdoor activities and recreation without a mask, except in certain crowded settings and venues
Resume domestic travel and refrain from testing before or after travel or self-quarantine after travel
Refrain from testing before leaving the United States for international travel (unless required by the destination) and refrain from self-quarantine after arriving back in the United States.
Refrain from testing following a known exposure, if asymptomatic, with some exceptions for specific settings
Refrain from quarantine following a known exposure if asymptomatic
Refrain from routine screening testing if asymptomatic and feasible (in nonhealthcare settings)
This modification will be noticed to the legislature but will take effect immediately using the exigency provisions of Ch. 71 of the laws of 2021, enacted earlier this year.
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Nelson Teich, left, and Jair Bolsonaro during his swearing-in ceremony less than a month ago
Brazil’s health minister has resigned after less than a month in the job following disagreements over the government’s handling of the country’s escalating coronavirus crisis.
Nelson Teich had criticised a decree issued by President Jair Bolsonaro allowing gyms and beauty parlours to reopen.
However, he gave no reason for his resignation at a press conference.
Brazil has recently surged past Germany and France in terms of its coronavirus caseload, becoming one of the world’s hotspots with more than 218,000 cases and a record 15,305 in the last 24 hours. The latest daily figures also showed 824 new deaths recorded, bringing the official death toll to 14,817.
Media captionThe BBC’s South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil
Why did the minister resign?
At his news conference, Mr Teich did not reveal why he had stepped down. He just thanked President Bolsonaro for giving him the chance to serve as a minister and praised healthcare workers.
But he has clashed with the president over several aspects of how the government has dealt with the spiralling epidemic.
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Mr Teich (right) clashed with the president over his handling of the crisis
He disagreed with the president’s desire to widely use chloroquine as a treatment. The drug has gained widespread attention although the World Health Organization (WHO) says there’s no definitive evidence it works.
Mr Teich also butted heads with the president over plans to open up the economy, saying last week that he was not consulted ahead of an order that paved the way for gyms, beauty salons and hairdressers to reopen.
He is second health minister to leave the post in under a month. Luiz Henrique Mandetta was fired in April after President Bolsonaro publicly criticised him for urging people to observe social distancing and stay indoors.
To lose one health minister was awkward, but to lose two in less than a month is not only embarrassing for Jair Bolsonaro but deeply worrying for Brazil.
The country has become the latest coronavirus hotspot and rather than politicians trying to tackle it together, the pandemic has turned political and the leader of the country is failing to provide direction for a population which really needs it.
Nelson Teich didn’t give any reasons for his departure, merely saying “life is full of decisions and I decided to leave” – but he didn’t see eye-to-eye with his boss on the use of chloroquine and his health ministry was excluded this week when Jair Bolsonaro decided to include beauty salons, hairdressers and gyms as essential services.
It appears the job of health minister to Jair Bolsonaro is a thankless task at the moment – but it’s a difficult job vacancy at the worst-possible time in Brazil.
A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC.
Listing the personal details of more than 3,000 individuals from the far western region of Xinjiang, it sets out in intricate detail the most intimate aspects of their daily lives.
The painstaking records – made up of 137 pages of columns and rows – include how often people pray, how they dress, whom they contact and how their family members behave.
China denies any wrongdoing, saying it is combating terrorism and religious extremism.
One of the world’s leading experts on China’s policies in Xinjiang, Dr Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, believes the latest leak is genuine.
“This remarkable document presents the strongest evidence I’ve seen to date that Beijing is actively persecuting and punishing normal practices of traditional religious beliefs,” he says.
One of the camps mentioned in it, the “Number Four Training Centre” has been identified by Dr Zenz as among those visited by the BBC as part of a tour organised by the Chinese authorities in May last year.
Media captionThe BBC previously visited one of the camps identified by scholars using the Karakax List
Much of the evidence uncovered by the BBC team appears to be corroborated by the new document, redacted for publication to protect the privacy of those included in it.
It contains details of the investigations into 311 main individuals, listing their backgrounds, religious habits, and relationships with many hundreds of relatives, neighbours and friends.
Verdicts written in a final column decide whether those already in internment should remain or be released, and whether some of those previously released need to return.
It allows a glimpse inside the minds of those making the decisions, he says, laying bare the “ideological and administrative micromechanics” of the camps.
Row 598 contains the case of a 38-year-old woman with the first name Helchem, sent to a re-education camp for one main reason: she was known to have worn a veil some years ago.
It is just one of a number of cases of arbitrary, retrospective punishment.
Others were interned simply for applying for a passport – proof that even the intention to travel abroad is now seen as a sign of radicalisation in Xinjiang.
In row 66, a 34-year-old man with the first name Memettohti was interned for precisely this reason, despite being described as posing “no practical risk”.
And then there’s the 28-year-old man Nurmemet in row 239, put into re-education for “clicking on a web-link and unintentionally landing on a foreign website”.
Again, his case notes describe no other issues with his behaviour.
The 311 main individuals listed are all from Karakax County, close to the city of Hotan in southern Xinjiang, an area where more than 90% of the population is Uighur.
Predominantly Muslim, the Uighurs are closer in appearance, language and culture to the peoples of Central Asia than to China’s majority ethnicity, the Han Chinese.
In recent decades the influx of millions of Han settlers into Xinjiang has led to rising ethnic tensions and a growing sense of economic exclusion among Uighurs.
Those grievances have sometimes found expression in sporadic outbreaks of violence, fuelling a cycle of increasingly harsh security responses from Beijing.
It is for this reason that the Uighurs have become the target – along with Xinjiang’s other Muslim minorities, like the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz – of the campaign of internment.
The “Karakax List”, as Dr Zenz calls the document, encapsulates the way the Chinese state now views almost any expression of religious belief as a signal of disloyalty.
To root out that perceived disloyalty, he says, the state has had to find ways to penetrate deep into Uighur homes and hearts.
In early 2017, when the internment campaign began in earnest, groups of loyal Communist Party workers, known as “village-based work teams”, began to rake through Uighur society with a massive dragnet.
With each member assigned a number of households, they visited, befriended and took detailed notes about the “religious atmosphere” in the homes; for example, how many Korans they had or whether religious rites were observed.
The Karakax List appears to be the most substantial evidence of the way this detailed information gathering has been used to sweep people into the camps.
It reveals, for example, how China has used the concept of “guilt by association” to incriminate and detain whole extended family networks in Xinjiang.
For every main individual, the 11th column of the spreadsheet is used to record their family relationships and their social circle.
Alongside each relative or friend listed is a note of their own background; how often they pray, whether they’ve been interned, whether they’ve been abroad.
In fact, the title of the document makes clear that the main individuals listed all have a relative currently living overseas – a category long seen as a key indicator of potential disloyalty, leading to almost certain internment.
Rows 179, 315 and 345 contain a series of assessments for a 65-year-old man, Yusup.
His record shows two daughters who “wore veils and burkas in 2014 and 2015”, a son with Islamic political leanings and a family that displays “obvious anti-Han sentiment”.
His verdict is “continued training” – one of a number of examples of someone interned not just for their own actions and beliefs, but for those of their family.
The information collected by the village teams is also fed into Xinjiang’s big data system, called the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP).
The IJOP contains the region’s surveillance and policing records, culled from a vast network of cameras and the intrusive mobile spyware every citizen is forced to download.
The IJOP, Dr Zenz suggests, can in turn use its AI brain to cross-reference these layers of data and send “push notifications” to the village teams to investigate a particular individual.
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Adrian Zenz has analysed the leaked document
The man found “unintentionally landing on a foreign website” may well have been interned thanks to the IJOP.
In many cases though, there is little need for advanced technology, with the vast and vague catch-all term “untrustworthy” appearing multiple times in the document.
It is listed as the sole reason for the internment of a total of 88 individuals.
The concept, Dr Zenz argues, is proof that the system is designed not for those who have committed a crime, but for an entire demographic viewed as potentially suspicious.
China says Xinjiang has policies that “respect and ensure people’s freedom of religious belief”. It also insists that what it calls a “vocational training programme in Xinjiang” is “for the purposes of combating terrorism and religious extremism”, adding only people who have been convicted of crimes involving terrorism or religious extremism are being “educated” in these centres.
However, many of the cases in the Karakax List give multiple reasons for internment; various combinations of religion, passport, family, contacts overseas or simply being untrustworthy.
The most frequently listed is for violating China’s strict family planning laws.
In the eyes of the Chinese authorities it seems, having too many children is the clearest sign that Uighurs put their loyalty to culture and tradition above obedience to the secular state.
China has long defended its actions in Xinjiang as part of an urgent response to the threat of extremism and terrorism.
The Karakax List does contain some references to those kinds of crimes, with at least six entries for preparing, practicing or instigating terrorism and two cases of watching illegal videos.
But the broader focus of those compiling the document appears to be faith itself, with more than 100 entries describing the “religious atmosphere” at home.
The Karakax List has no stamps or other authenticating marks so, at face value, it is difficult to verify.
It is thought to have been passed out of Xinjiang sometime before late June last year, along with a number of other sensitive papers.
They ended up in the hands of an anonymous Uighur exile who passed all of them on, except for this one document.
Only after the first batch was published last year was the Karakax List then forwarded to his conduit, another Uighur living in Amsterdam, Asiye Abdulaheb.
She told the BBC that she is certain it is genuine.
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Asiye Abdulaheb decided to speak out, despite the danger
“Regardless of whether there are official stamps on the document or not, this is information about real, live people,” she says. “It is private information about people that wouldn’t be made public. So there is no way for the Chinese government to claim it is fake.”
Like all Uighurs living overseas, Ms Abdulaheb lost contact with her family in Xinjiang when the internment campaign began, and she’s been unable to contact them since.
But she says she had no choice but to release the document, passing it to a group of international media organisations, including the BBC.
“Of course I am worried about the safety of my relatives and friends,” she says. “But if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, then we will never prevent these crimes being committed.”
Almost 90% of the 311 main individuals in the Karakax List are shown as having already been released or as being due for release on completion of a full year in the camps.
But Dr Zenz points out that the re-education camps are just one part of a bigger system of internment, much of which remains hidden from the outside world.
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The outside of one of the camps in Xinjiang
More than two dozen individuals are listed as “recommended” for release into “industrial park employment” – career “advice” that they may have little choice but to obey. There are well documented concerns that China is now building a system of coerced labour as the next phase of its plan to align Uighur life with its own vision of a modern society.
In two cases, the re-education ends in the detainees being sent to “strike hard detention”, a reminder that the formal prison system has been cranked into overdrive in recent years.
Many of the family relationships listed in the document show long prison terms for parents or siblings, sometimes for entirely normal religious observances and practices.
One man’s father is shown to have been sentenced to five years for “having a double-coloured thick beard and organising a religious studies group”.
A neighbour is reported to have been given 15 years for “online contact with people overseas”, and another man’s younger brother given 10 years for “storing treasonable pictures on his phone”.
Whether or not China has closed its re-education camps in Xinjiang, Dr Zenz says the Karakax List tells us something important about the psychology of a system that prevails.
“It reveals the witch-hunt-like mindset that has been and continues to dominate social life in the region,” he said.
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El barco Jin Teng es uno de los 31 cargueros que están en la lista de embarcaciones sancionadas por la ONU.
Filipinas informó que retuvo un barco norcoreano en cumplimiento de las sanciones impuestas por las Naciones Unidas a ese país por su programa nuclear.
El portavoz de la vicepresidencia filipina, Manolo Quezon, indicó que su país “tiene que hacer su parte para que se cumplan las sanciones”.
La embarcación Jin Teng es uno de los 31 barcos operados por la empresa norcoreana Ocean Maritime Management, la cual está sometida a una serie de sanciones como el congelamiento de activos.
El Jin Teng, que transportaba nueces de palmera, atracó en la bahía de Súbic, ubicada en la costa oeste de la isla Luzón.
Las nuevas sanciones a Corea del Norte fueron impuestas después de que ese país llevara a cabo, en enero y febrero, una cuarta prueba nuclear y de que lanzara un cohete de largo alcance. Ambas acciones violaron las resoluciones de la ONU.
El 7 de febrero, Corea del Norte lanzó el cohete en claro desafío a las advertencias internacionales, y la respuesta del mundo fue contundente. El Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas declaró que el hecho era “profundamente deplorable” y que impondría nuevas sanciones a la nación asiática.
Entre dichas sanciones está la inspección obligatoria de cualquier barco de carga que vaya hacia Corea del Norte y proceda de ese país.
Bandera de Sierra Leona
De acuerdo con el gobierno de Filipinas, el Jin Teng será confiscado y la tripulación será deportada.
Problemas de seguridad fueron reportados durante una inspección que se realizó en el barco el viernes.
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El carguero transportaba nueces de palmera. Las autoridades no encontraron ninguna sustancia ni objeto ilegal.
Una segunda revisión se produjo el sábado, según informó el comandante Armand Balilo a la agencia de noticias AFP.
El funcionario también añadió que la tripulación de 21 personas tenía una actitud “muy colaboradora”.
Ocean Maritime Management entró en la lista negra del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU en 2014, después de que uno de sus barcos fuera detenido en julio de 2013 cerca del Canal de Panamá con armas cubanas que ocultaban en sacos de azúcar.
El año pasado fue acusada de cambiarle el nombre a sus barcos y de modificar las banderas que enarbolan los mismos para evitar el congelamiento de sus activos.
De hecho, en el momento de su detención el Jin Teng ondeaba la bandera de Sierra Leona.
Respuesta
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Las sanciones fueron aprobadas luego de que el país liderado por Kim Jong-un realizara ensayos nucleares y con misiles en enero y febrero.
El jueves en la madrugada, Corea del Norte lanzó seis misiles de corto alcance hacia el mar de su costa este.
La acción, que fue detectada por el ejército de Corea del Sur, se llevó a cabo horas después de que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU autorizara nuevas sanciones en contra de Pyongyang.
Según medios de Corea del Sur, los proyectiles ascendieron unos 150 km antes de caer al mar, y no parecían tener un objetivo específico.
Posteriormente, el líder norcoreano Kim Jong-Un ordenó que las armas nucleares de su país debían estar “listas para ser usadas” en cualquier momento.
Estas son las principales sanciones aprobadas contra Corea del Norte:
1. Prohibiciones en exportaciones e importaciones
Por un lado, las sanciones disponen la prohibición de exportaciones de carbón, hierro y mineral de hierro, oro, titanio, vanadio y minerales de tierras raras.
También se prohíbe “la venta de combustibles de aviación, nafta y queroseno, con excepción de las aeronaves civiles de pasajeros fuera de Corea de Norte y en cantidades limitadas a las necesarias para el vuelo en cuestión”.
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Entre los 15 miembros del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU que votaron la sanción están España, Uruguay y Venezuela.
Este punto incluye el suministro de combustible para cohetes.
2. Controles y prohibiciones en medios de transporte
La resolución establece “la inspección de todos los cargamentos aéreos, marítimos o terrestres que salgan o estén en ruta a ese país para verificar que no haya materiales que pudieran utilizarse para su programa balístico”, detalló la ONU.
Antes sólo debían ser inspeccionados los cargamentos sospechosos de contener productos prohibidos.
3. Prohibiciones en armas y cooperaciones militares
Respecto a las cooperaciones militares y policiales, los programas de entrenamiento por fuera de las fronteras norcoreanas deben concluir, especialmente aquellos en África.
El texto instaura también un embargo total a la venta de armas ligeras. Desde 2006 Corea del Norte tiene restricciones en el suministro de armamento, pero ahora se amplía la prohibición.
4. Congelación de activos
Respecto a las sanciones financieras, “la resolución amplía su alcance mediante la imposición de una congelación de activos de todos los fondos y otros recursos económicos que pertenezcan o sean controlados por el gobierno de Corea del Norte o por el Partido de los Trabajadores de Corea, en caso de encontrarse asociado con su programa de misiles nucleares o balísticos o cualquier otra actividad prohibida”, informó la ONU.
En una resolución previa, las instituciones financieras sólo eran alentadas a tomar estas medidas.
Además, se agregan 13 personas a la lista de individuos que tienen prohibido viajar y a los que se impone también una congelación de activos.
After the racing stewards spent nearly 20 minutes looking at video, they decided the misstep was enough to disqualify Maximum Security and declare the runner-up, a 65-1 shot named Country House, the improbable victor.
It was not a popular decision. In fact, it was the brave one.
As officials studied video, the trainer of Country House, Bill Mott, was trackside and said on national television what horseplayers know, dread and curse on a regular basis.
“There was definitely a foul in the race,” Mott, a Hall of Famer, said. “If this was a maiden claimer on a weekday the winner would come down.”
He did, and Mott, a horseman revered among his peers for being “half-horse,” had his first Derby victory. The rider of Country House, Flavien Prat, also notched his first Derby score, an experience he was bemused by.
Maximum Security finished one and three-quarter lengths in front of Country House, and Country House finished three-quarters of a length in front of Code of Honor.
The man and a second man were taken into custody about 9:20 a.m. at an apartment complex at 1028 S. West Temple. Police later said on Twitter that only one person was taken into custody in the case.
The men were seen outside the apartment complex walking toward a police SWAT team with their hands over their heads and they were then put into handcuffs.
A press conference is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
Salt Lake police announced Thursday that the owner of a house in the Fairpark neighborhood, 31, is considered a “person of interest” in the disappearance of Lueck.
It was not immediately clear if one of the men is the homeowner.
SLCPD took one person into custody this morning regarding the MacKenzie Lueck case. We will be providing an update at 11:30 a.m at the Public Safety Building. #MacKenzieLueck
Police spent an active Wednesday evening working through the night collecting evidence at a home in Salt Lake City at 547 N. 1000 West.
Police were even seen digging holes in the backyard. The holes were being dug in or near an area where at least one neighbor said a fire may have been set.
Lueck, 23, was last seen early on the morning of June 17 when she flew into Salt Lake City International Airport after attending a family funeral in her hometown of El Segundo, California. Surveillance video at the airport recorded Lueck making her way to baggage claim, and then getting into a Lyft vehicle.
It’s hard to believe that the hole President Trump dug for himself could get deeper, but it has.
A record and widening majority of Americans disapprove of the job he’s doing when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic; he gets poor scores on race relations; he’s seen a suburban erosion despite efforts to win over suburban voters with fear; and all that has led to a worsened outlook for Trump against Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election.
As a result, in the past month and a half, the latest NPR analysis of the Electoral College has several states shifting in Biden’s favor, and now has a 297-170 advantage over Trump with exactly three months to go until Election Day.
Here are our changes:
Colorado from Lean D to Likely D Florida from Toss Up to Lean D New Hampshire from Toss Up to Lean D Nevada from Toss Up to Lean D Pennsylvania from Toss Up to Lean D Georgia from Lean R to Toss up
(Read more about our methodology and see the previous map here.)
If all of the states leaning in Biden’s direction currently wind up going his way this fall, he would secure more than enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
With Trump at what seems to be his lowest point politically, it would make sense that, if the election were held today, Biden would have the advantage, but Biden’s advantage in November may not be as solid as the total electoral votes show in this map.
Consider, for example, if Biden were to lose Florida, his total would drop to 268 votes, two short of the majority needed.
The Trump campaign believes its strength is being understated in polls, and polls have shown that, even in places Biden is ahead, voters think Trump will do better than surveys currently show.
The Biden campaign also expects the race to tighten, especially if Trump is seen to be doing even marginally better in handling the coronavirus as the fall approaches.
But right now, in order for the president to win reelection, he is going to have to win all of the current toss ups and make inroads in places that are leaning Biden’s direction. That’s not unheard of. Trump did the same thing in 2016.
NPR’s latest analysis of the Electoral College map shows a continued shift in former Vice President Joe Biden’s favor over President Trump.
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Why we made these moves:
Colorado (9 electoral votes, Lean D to Likely D): This state has moved more sharply in Biden’s direction as the coronavirus has become full blown nationally. Biden’s polling advantage has increased 12 percentage points, giving him an average lead of 53% to 39%.
Florida (29, Toss Up to Lean D): This was the biggest and most difficult move to make given Florida’s history of being one of the closest states in recent presidential elections, as well as going against the Democratic wave in 2018 by electing a Republican governor and senator. But it’s just hard to ignore that Biden has gone from a 49% to 48% polling advantage in early February to 50% to 44%, with some reputable surveys showing Biden with a double-digit lead. This is one state we expect to snap back to toss up, but right now it’s leaning in Biden’s direction.
New Hampshire (4, Toss Up to Lean D): Even though this was the closest state in 2016 by raw votes, Hillary Clinton won it. Democrats have had success here up and down the ballot, and Biden now leads the state by 10 points on average. There hasn’t been much polling in New Hampshire, so we will continue to watch if it tightens, but the best example of movement came from the University of New Hampshire poll. In May, Biden was up narrowly, 46% to 44%. In mid-July, his lead ballooned to 53% to 40%.
Nevada (6, Toss Up to Lean D): While Nevada was close in 2016, Biden’s advantage has remained steady, Democrats have had a lot of success there in recent elections, and they have a battle-tested ground game.
Pennsylvania (20, Toss Up to Lean D): It’s a similar story to Florida in terms of polling. Biden had a narrow 48% to 45% lead in an average of the polls at the end of February. Now, Biden is ahead 50% to 43%. Being at 50% in so many places is significant. This also had been a traditionally Democratic state, Biden’s campaign is headquartered there, and he’s been campaigning there in person. Again, this is one that could move back to toss up, but for now, it’s leaning towards the Democratic candidate.
Georgia (16, Lean R to Toss Up): If you had to bet, this one probably still tips in Trump’s direction on Election Day, but for months the polls have been tight, tight, tight. Republicans have continued to win statewide office after statewide office, but the demographic trends continue to move in Democrats’ favor.
Other states and factors to watch:
Maine, 2nd Congressional District: Biden’s lead has expanded in Maine overall, but in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, where Trump won in 2016, a Colby poll had Biden ahead only 45% to 42%.
North Carolina: It also remains in the toss up category. Biden has a narrow polling advantage, but an NBC/Marist poll raised eyebrows last week when it showed Biden with a 7-point lead and over the 50% threshold: 51% to 44%. We’ll watch if that’s the beginning of a trend or an outlier.
Ohio: There’s an argument for putting Ohio in the toss up category, strictly based on the closeness of polling. But this is a state Trump should win based on demographic and voting trends. If Ohio is really close on election night, it likely means a sizable Biden victory overall. The Biden campaign started spending on TV ads in Ohio for the first time last week.
Iowa: This is another state Trump should win, but where his advantage has declined. The state’s demographics — being almost all white — still favor the president.
Texas: This traditionally Republican state didn’t go as strongly for Trump in 2016 as it had for past Republicans, and current polling indicates a toss up. But Biden hasn’t gotten to 50% in a poll in the state yet. If he did, it would be a real eye-opener. On the ground, Republicans still retain an advantage in voter mobilization.
For more on our methodology, which is based on a mix of public surveys, conversations with the campaigns, historical voting and demographic trends, and our on-the-ground reporting, as well as detailed paths to election for both candidates, click here.
The 7-year-old migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody last week has been identified as Jakelin Caal Maquin, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
A CBP timeline showed she couldn’t access emergency medical care until roughly 90 minutes after she began showing symptoms.
According to CBP, agents first became aware of the girl’s symptoms during a bus ride to a Border Patrol station.
Emergency medical workers began providing care once the bus arrived, 90 minutes later, CBP said.
The 7-year-old migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody last week has been identified as Jakelin Caal Maquin. She couldn’t access emergency medical care until roughly 90 minutes after she began showing symptoms, according to a Customs and Border Protection timeline.
Jakelin died December 8, shortly after she and her father were apprehended while illegally crossing into a remote area of the desert in New Mexico as part of a group of 163 migrants.
According to CBP, Border Patrol agents first became aware of the girl’s symptoms during a bus ride to the Lordsburg Border Patrol station around 5 a.m. on December 7, when her father said she was sick and vomiting.
“At this time, the Agents notified the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station to prepare to receive the child and provide emergency medical care,” CBP’s timeline said. “Due to the remoteness of the area, meeting emergency medical personnel in Lordsburg was the best means to provide the child with emergency care.”
CBP said the bus arrived at the station just before 6:30 a.m., when Jakelin’s father said she wasn’t breathing.
“A Border Patrol Emergency Medical Technician began to provide medical care and revived the child twice. It was determined at this time that she had a temperature of 105.7 degrees,” CBP’s timeline said.
According to CBP, Jakelin was airlifted to a children’s hospital in El Paso, Texas, where she died less than 24 hours later.
The Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, drew backlash on Friday after appearing to blame Jakelin’s death on the family members who brought her across the US-Mexico border.
In an interview with “Fox & Friends” early Friday morning, Nielsen told the hosts that the girl’s death “is just a very sad example of the dangers of this journey” migrants take.
“This family chose to cross illegally,” she said. “What happened here was that they were about 90 miles away from where we could process them. They came in such a large crowd that it took our Border Patrol folks a couple of times to get them all.”
Cyrus Vance Jr., who has been Manhattan’s district attorney since 2010, said Friday that he will not seek reelection. Vance is seen in a photo taken Feb. 24, 2020.
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Cyrus Vance Jr., who has been Manhattan’s district attorney since 2010, said Friday that he will not seek reelection. Vance is seen in a photo taken Feb. 24, 2020.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said Friday that he will not seek reelection for a fourth term that would begin next January. He has been investigating former President Donald Trump’s finances, and the Supreme Court last month cleared the way for the prosecutor’s office to receive Trump’s tax returns and other financial records.
“Representing the People of New York during this pivotal era for our city and our justice system has been the privilege of a lifetime,” the 66-year-old Vance said.
He succeeded the late Robert Morgenthau, who held the DA’s post for 35 years. Vance said that when he took office in 2010, he “didn’t aspire to be District Attorney for decades like my predecessors. … I believed then – and I believe now – that change is a fundamentally good thing for any institution.”
Last month, Vance’s office received Trump’s tax returns following a years-long battle with the former president, after the Supreme Court paved the way for a New York grand jury to obtain and review the financial documents. Trump broke decades of precedent when he refused to release his tax returns during and after the 2016 presidential campaign after first pledging to do so.
The grand jury subpoena requested eight years of tax records and related documents as part of a probe into possible insurance or financial fraud by Trump or his business, as well as alleged hush-money payments made to two women who said they had affairs with Trump before he took office.
Trump denounced the case as “political persecution” and a “fishing expedition.”
Even as he prepares to step aside, Vance hinted at the continuing work in the investigation of Trump. “Our investigations and trials – from the high-profile to the ones that never make the newspaper – will proceed,” Vance wrote in a memo to prosecutors and staff.
Vance cited “landmark victories” in 2020, including the Supreme Court’s decision that presidents are not immune under the law in a case involving Trump’s pre-presidential financial records, as well as the conviction of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein for rape and sexual assault. (Vance faced criticism for declining to prosecute Weinstein years earlier.)
Vance also listed among his office’s memorable accomplishments the 2017 conviction in the long-unsolved murder case of 6-year-old Etan Patz. Vance wrote to his staff that “for each of us, there are cases that speak to us about why we do this work. For me, when I think back on all of the cases of our time together, I keep returning to Etan Patz and his family.”
The Federalist publisher questioned why mainstream media isn’t tracking COVID cases and deaths as closely under President Biden as they did under Trump.
Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, called out the double standard from mainstream media on President Biden‘s handling of the pandemic. On “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Domenech pointed to constant updates on COVID cases and deaths during Trump’s presidency but a seemingly normal portrayal of American life on mainstream media outlets during Biden’s time in office.
BEN DOMENECH: I wonder sometimes whether Joe Biden actually watches television, whether he sees how people are living or what’s going on. Because it’s such a bizarre situation to hear all of these orders and mandates and the like and then flip over to a college football game or to a basketball game and see all these people who are living life as close to normal as we’ve seen yet.
And to me, the real dynamic here too is a revelation about media hypocrisy. Under the previous administration, you had tickers going constantly on every newspaper and on every news channel, updating people on the level of deaths and suggesting that they were Donald Trump’s responsibility. Where are those today?
President Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again, just days after he recovered from his previous case of the virus, the White House physician said in a statement Saturday. He is not experiencing any symptoms but will self-isolate again.
In a tweet, the president said he is “still at work” but isolating “for the safety of everyone around me.” He will not go on his upcoming trips to Wilmington, Delaware, or Michigan, the White House said.
Folks, today I tested positive for COVID again.
This happens with a small minority of folks.
I’ve got no symptoms but I am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me.
I’m still at work, and will be back on the road soon.
Later Saturday afternoon, the president proved his point — sharing a photo of himself masked up and signing a document that will add individual assistance to the major disaster declaration he approved after Kentucky suffered deadly and damaging flooding. He also shared a video of himself at the White House with his dog, Commander.
I’m taking more action to help the families being displaced and lives lost due to the flooding in Kentucky.
Today, I added Individual Assistance to the Major Disaster declaration I approved to expedite support to flooding survivors. pic.twitter.com/6G1oXDDIFn
A photo was also posted to Mr. Biden’s Instagram account Saturday evening showing him using his phone to FaceTime with “families fighting to pass burn pits legislation.”
That is in reference to a bill, which failed to advance in the Senate this week, which would provide benefits to an estimated 3.5 million veterans exposed to toxic burns in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The president, who is vaccinated and double boosted, feels “quite well” and his physician, Col. Kevin O’Connor, said he will not begin any sort of treatment at this time.
Mr. Biden is experiencing what O’Connor called “‘rebound’ positivity,” which can happen to a small percentage of patients who are treated with the drug Paxlovid.
Mr. Biden was first diagnosed with COVID less than two weeks ago. The president, who is 79 years old, entered isolation and started taking Paxlovid, an antiviral treatment made by Pfizer, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement announcing his diagnosis. He experienced only mild symptoms.
After five days, Mr. Biden tested negative Tuesday evening, and ended his isolation period. He subsequently tested negative on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, his doctor said. However, an antigen test came back positive Saturday morning.
His positive test nine days ago was the first known time Mr. Biden has contracted the coronavirus.
Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for COVID on Friday, her spokesperson Kirsten Allen said. Meanwhile, first lady Dr. Jill Biden, who has been staying at the couple’s Delaware home since her husband first tested positive, also remains negative, according to communication director Elizabeth Alexander.
Back in May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of potential “COVID-19 rebound” after a five-day course of Paxlovid.
“If you take Paxlovid, you might get symptoms again,” CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told CBS News. “We haven’t yet seen anybody who has returned with symptoms needing to go to the hospital. So, generally, a milder course.”
After a patient recovers, a rebound has been reported to occur two to eight days later. Still, the CDC says the benefits of taking Paxlovid far outweigh the risks. Among unvaccinated people at high risk for severe disease, it reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly 90%, according to the CDC.
At the time, Pfizer said it was seeing a rebound rate of about 2%, but was continuing to monitor patients.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters on Monday that data “suggests that between 5 and 8% of people have rebound” after Paxlovid treatment.
Kathryn Watson and Jon LaPook contributed reporting.
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