James Fields was sentenced on Friday to life in prison on federal hate crime charges. Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.
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James Fields was sentenced on Friday to life in prison on federal hate crime charges. Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.
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The man who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Va., killing one person and injuring 35 has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
A federal judge issued the sentence Friday for self-proclaimed neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr, 22, of the Toledo, Ohio area.
The judge’s punishment announced in a Charlottesville courtroom came after numerous survivors delivered emotional testimony about the psychological and physical toll the attack caused.
After the hearing, prosecutors described the 2017 attack as heinous.
“It was cold-blooded. It was motivated by deep-seated racial animus,” Thomas Cullen, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, told reporters. He said Fields’ lethal car plowing was calculated, calling it “a hate-inspired act of domestic terrorism.”
“Charlottesville is never going to be the same,” Cullen said. “It will be with this community, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and this country, for a long time.”
Survivors who testified included Rosia Parker, a longtime civil rights activist in Charlottesville. She told the court she watched the attack from just feet away.
“You could have done anything else but what you did,” Parker said, according to The Associated Press. “You deserve everything that you get.”
In legal filings presented to the judge on Friday, Fields’ lawyers said while he committed a “terrible crime,” they asked the judge to also consider Fields’ “traumatic childhood and his mental illness, wrote Fields’ federal public defender, Lisa Lorish.
Federal prosecutors had asked the judge for a life sentence for Fields, who is 22. A plea deal brokered in March took away the possibility of the death penalty, and federal prosecutors and Fields’ lawyers agreed that federal sentencing guidelines called for a life sentence. As part of the deal, Fields pleaded guilty to 29 of the 30 federal hate crimes he faced and is not eligible for parole.
Prosecutors had said Fields’ crimes were “so horrendous – and the maiming of innocents so severe – that they outweigh any factors the defendant may argue form a basis for leniency,” according to a sentencing document filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Kavanaugh before the Friday hearing.
Last week, Fields’ attorneys asked for something shorter than a life sentence, citing Fields’ age and history of mental illness.
Fields has already been convicted on separate, state charges for murdering 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of other people. The jury in that case recommended a life sentence plus 419 years and $480,000 in fines. Sentencing in that case is set for July 15.
Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said in April that she was satisfied with Fields’ federal guilty plea and was not intent on his getting the death penalty. “There’s no point in killing him. It would not bring back Heather,” she told reporters.
Fields was 20 when he drove his Dodge Challenger through the night from Ohio to attend Unite the Right, a white nationalist rally in August 2017. The weekend turned deadly when Fields accelerated his car into the group of protesters. Two Virginia State Police troopers investigating the day’s events also died when the helicopter they were in crashed.
Before he was sentenced on Friday, Fields’ lawyers wrote the court to say that he used Twitter in search of community and “quickly learned that provocative and hateful comments led to more exposure,” leading him to follow accounts white supremacist accounts, including Richard Spencer and Mike Peinovich.
Fields’ lawyers wrote that he found out about the Unite the Right rally through its organizers’ online recruiting campaign.
His attorneys claim he had no intention to commit a violent act, instead describing the attack as a “impulsive, angry and aggressive decision.”
President Trump said afterward that there was “blame on both sides” for the violence in the college town.
In this March 3, 2015, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early morning raids.
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In this March 3, 2015, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early morning raids.
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to expand fast-track deportation regulations for undocumented immigrants without the use of immigration courts.
The procedure, known as “expedited removal,” has previously been used to deport undocumented immigrants who cross into the U.S. by land without an immigration hearing or access to an attorney if they are arrested within 100 miles of the border within two weeks of their arrival. In July, the administration expanded the rule to include undocumented immigrants who couldn’t prove they had been in the U.S. continuously for two years or more, no matter where they were in the country.
In a 126-page report issued just before midnight on Friday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a preliminary injunction on the policy change. She stated that the administration did not follow the correct decision-making procedures, such as the formal notice-and-comment period required for major federal rule changes, and likely violated federal law in failing to do so. She said that “no good cause exists for the agency to have not complied with these mandates in this instance.”
Jackson, who is an Obama-era appointee, also said that the July notice by the Department of Homeland Security seemed “arbitrary and capricious.”
“Put in common parlance, if a policy decision that an agency makes is of sufficient consequence that it qualifies as an agency rule, then arbitrariness in deciding the contours of that rule — e.g., decision making by Ouija board or dart board, rock/paper/scissors, or even the Magic 8 Ball — simply will not do,” Jackson wrote. “There are well-established legal constraints on the manner in which an agency exercises its discretion to make discretionary policy decisions, and there are also legally established consequences if an agency does not adhere to these procedural requirements when it determines the policies that it imposes.”
The Department of Homeland Security had argued that the policy change would relieve overburdened immigration courts and “harmonize” existing regulations to apply equally to undocumented immigrants whether they arrive by land or sea.
“The effect of that change will be to enhance national security and public safety — while reducing government costs — by facilitating prompt immigration determinations,” DHS said in the July notice.
“We are past the breaking point and must take all appropriate action to enforce the law, along the U.S. borders and within the country’s interior,” said acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan when the new policy was announced. “This designation makes it clear that if you have no legal right to be here, we will remove you.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP sought the preliminary injunction.
“The court rejected the Trump administration’s illegal attempt to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the U.S. without any legal recourse,” ACLU attorney Anand Balakrishnan, who argued the case, said in a statement. “This ruling recognizes the irreparable harm of this policy.”
In a statement Saturday afternoon, a DOJ spokesman said:
“Congress expressly authorized the Secretary of Homeland Security to act with dispatch to remove from the country aliens who have no right to be here. The district court’s decision squarely conflicts with that express grant of authority and vastly exceeds the district court’s own authority. This ruling undermines the laws enacted by Congress and the Trump Administration’s careful efforts to implement those laws.”
The preliminary injunction blocks the expanded expedited removal policy from being applied until the court has finished litigation on the matter.
David Blanco.- El responsable de los Comités Locales de Abastecimiento y Producción Freddy Bernal, anunció que la instancia contará con un “jefe de calle” que tendrá como función un mayor acercamiento con las comunidades, “él o ella es quien tendrá relación directa con las familias, esa personas tocará la puerta de las vivienda” para saber si ese grupo familiar está recibiendo la bolsa o caja del Clap.
Informó que esta semana se estará instalando en la Vicepresidencia de la República una Sala de Control y Seguimiento, para constatar que las 6 millones de familias sean beneficiadas con los Clap “con esto sabremos si los alimentos llegan a las viviendas, porque puede ocurrir que tengamos los insumos pero no tengamos la capacidad de distribuirlos” por eso se implementa este mecanismo, dijo durante una entrevista realizada en el programa Dando Y Dando.
Agregó que actualmente hay 1500 inspectores presidenciales, “cuando se reciba una denuncia, se enviarán a la zona y ellos elegirán el 1% los Clap del lugar para verificar que la información que está siendo reflejada por el Estado Mayor Municipales y Estadales es correcta”.
Resaltó que “cada vez que hay un ciclo electoral en el país la producción de alimentos en la empresa Polar cae, en el caso del dólar se dispara, estos dos problemas causa un nivel de angustia en la población, por eso surgieron los Clap para enfrentar esa batalla”
Reiteró que en coordinación con el ministro de Comunicación e Información Ernesto Villegas, están trabajando para que el programa “La hora de los Clap” tenga un espacio en la televisión, en el horario de 7 a 9 de la noche.
Detenidos
Informó que en el estado Falcón, fueron detenidos todos los representantes del Estado Mayor de esa entidad por estar involucrados en actos de corrupción.
“Ya fueron detenidos y están a la orden de la fiscalía, tienen 45 días para defenderse”, apuntó.
De igual forma, comentó que en las próximas 72 horas se aplicará una orden de privativa de libertad contra un un funcionario de la gobernación por estafar a varias familias.
Customers in LaPlace, La., learn that a station has ran out of gas after waiting in line for more than an hour on Monday.
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Customers in LaPlace, La., learn that a station has ran out of gas after waiting in line for more than an hour on Monday.
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Although oil companies are still assessing the damage at the oil rigs, platforms and refineries that were struck by Hurricane Ida, signs point toward a limited impact on gasoline availability and prices.
AAA has warned of price volatility, and several analysts expect temporary price increases of several cents, but experts are not expecting a dramatic or prolonged disruption to the market.
“This is not Katrina,” says Richard Joswick, head of oil analytics at S&P Global Platts. After Hurricane Katrina made landfall — exactly 16 years earlier — gas prices immediately shot up by 45 cents and remained elevated for two months.
More than a million homes were left without power after Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday night as a powerful Category 4 storm. The storm had strengthened rapidly, a phenomenon that is increasingly common for tropical storms as a result of global warming.
Oil companies checking for damages; Exxon is resuming normal operations
As Hurricane Ida approached, oil companies rushed to evacuate personnel and shut down operations in the Gulf of Mexico, as is standard practice for an approaching major storm.
On Sunday, the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement reported that 95.65% of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico had been temporarily closed down, as well as 93.75% of natural gas production.
Those are eye-popping percentages. But the key question for oil markets is whether any of the infrastructure was damaged. If not, Gulf producers could restart drilling and pumping in a matter of days. However, if equipment was broken by the storms, they could remain offline much longer.
Companies are in the process of checking for damage. ExxonMobil reports that its Hoover platform was undamaged and is in the process of resuming normal operations. Shell has confirmed that three platforms that were in the storm’s path are “all intact and on location,” although the company doesn’t have an estimate for when production will resume. Other operators, including BP and Equinor, say it is too soon to provide an update.
The energy data company Enverus says that in general, “early reports do not suggest that there has been severe long-lasting damage to oil infrastructure.” U.S. crude prices dipped slightly on Tuesday, indicating that markets are not worried about a lack of supply.
Refineries grappling with widespread power outages
In addition to the offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, a number of refineries along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast were affected by the storm. The Department of Energy reports that at least nine refineries have partially or fully cut production, with about 13% of U.S. refining capacity affected.
The storm’s most devastating winds passed just east of major refineries, but flooding damage remains a concern. And direct storm damage is not the only risk. Refineries also require electricity — and Hurricane Ida knocked out power for a large swath of Louisiana and Mississippi, with more than a million customers in the dark.
Damage assessments are still underway, and even if refineries make it through the storm unscathed, it’s not clear how long it will take to restore power to all the facilities. Some analysts are forecasting that it may take weeks, which could be a significant disruption to regional gasoline production.
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a waiver for Louisiana and Mississippi, allowing winter gasoline to be sold in the area to address concerns about fuel supply. (Normally, the EPA requires the use of less-volatile, slightly more expensive fuel in the summer, because otherwise hot weather would create more dangerous fumes from gas.)
Impact on prices expected to be modest; U.S. is now less reliant on oil from the Gulf
Despite the substantial disruption to oil production and refining, most analysts anticipate a relatively limited impact to the market as a whole.
That’s not the same as no impact: Gasoline prices have already risen by several cents a gallon, and storm-influenced price fluctuations could continue for a few weeks. And gas prices were high this summer to begin with. But it’s a far cry from the intense, prolonged disruption that Hurricane Katrina memorably caused.
There are a few reasons for that. U.S. oil markets have changed dramatically over the last 16 years. The U.S. is less reliant on crude production in the Gulf of Mexico than it used to be, thanks to the rise of shale oil produced in Texas and New Mexico. The U.S. also exports more refined fuel products out of the Gulf now and, in a pinch, can redirect those exports to meet domestic needs.
Joswick, with S&P Global Platts, also says that the lengthy outages after Katrina had an impact on companies. “The refiners learned their lesson,” he says. “They hardened their facilities. They raised critical equipment up off the ground so it wouldn’t flood, for example.”
However, he notes, if a second storm strikes the area while production is still recovering, the damage could be far worse.
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Giuliani met with multiple Ukrainian officials as he continued his effort to counter House Democrats’ impeachment probe and paint an investigation into the Bidens as a matter critical to the relationship between the two countries.
Giuliani has been a central figure in House Democrats’ investigation into Trump’s conduct. He is also reportedly the subject of an ongoing investigation in the Southern District of New York.
Photos posted on social media show Giuliani met during the week with a former Ukrainian diplomat who has propagated an unsubstantiated theory that Ukraine meddled to help Democrats in the 2016 election. He also huddled with a Ukrainian lawmaker who proposed a joint corruption investigation between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Giuliani tweeted Thursday that an investigation into Biden’s conduct has not been resolved and until it is will be a major obstacle to the US assisting Ukraine with its anti-corruption reforms.”
Trump has defended Giuliani in recent weeks when the former New York City mayor has come up in impeachment proceedings, hailing him as a great crime-fighter who cares about corruption.
But the president sought some distance when he denied late last month that he had directed Giuliani to go to Ukraine on his behalf.
A White House spokesman said Friday that, to his knowledge, Giuliani is still the president’s personal attorney, but it was unclear if Trump was aware of Giuliani’s latest activities in Ukraine.
“That’s a question between Rudy and the president,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said.
The New York Times first reported that Giuliani met in Budapest with former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko, who Democrats have accused of being part of a smear campaign to oust the former U.S. ambassador in Kyiv.
A crew from the conservative One America News Network (OAN) was also in tow to film Giuliani’s meetings as part of a counter-narrative to the impeachment hearings.
Giuliani could not be reached for comment, but his tweets posted throughout his trip gave a glimpse into his effort to dredge up damaging information about Trump’s political opponents.
“In reviewing my notes, it seems to me that a large-scale joint investigation into Ukraine and the US would uncover and recover billions stolen by crooks, from both countries, at the highest levels,” Giuliani tweeted Friday. “This would be the most effective way to bring our two countries together.”
The idea of a joint investigation appeared to stem from a meeting with Andriy Derkach, an independent Ukrainian lawmaker who previously served as a member of a pro-Russia party in parliament and as head of Ukrainian intelligence. He reportedly attended a KGB-affiliated high school in Moscow.
Derkach posted a photo of a meeting with Giuliani on Facebook. The two men can be seen holding a document up, and Derkach wrote that they discussed a joint commission to tackle corruption.
“Thank you @RudyGiuliani for your work and what you do for @realDonaldTrump, because we are fighting for the #TRUTH!” Telizhenko tweeted Friday with photos of himself and Giuliani. “You are a great friend of Ukraine and a Patriot of US. Hope to see you soon back in Kyiv.”
The meetings come as some Republican lawmakers have increasingly entertained the unfounded theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence committee concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
Giuliani’s trip came on the heels of a 300-page report from the House Intelligence Committee alleging that Trump made U.S. security aid and a White House meeting for Ukraine conditional on the country announcing investigations into Trump’s political rivals.
Government officials testified last month that it was Giuliani who was urging Ukraine to announce those investigations, and they alleged that the president’s personal attorney was conducting a shadow foreign policy outside of regular diplomatic channels.
Giuliani maintained that he was acting on behalf of his client and has insisted he will ultimately produce information that undercuts claims against Trump.
He was further drawn into the impeachment inquiry when the House Intelligence Committee obtained phone records that showed him in frequent contact with the White House on Aug. 8.
Giuliani and Trump have both downplayed the call records.
“You know, is that supposed to be a big deal?” Trump said when asked about the records during a NATO meeting. “I don’t think so. Rudy is a great gentleman, and they’re after him only because he’s done such a good job.”
But Trump’s allies have long been uneasy about Giuliani’s role, particularly given his propensity to make new revelations during television appearances.
Giuliani’s latest trip drew more skepticism from some in the GOP, even among Trump’s fiercest defenders.
Gaetz added that it would be “helpful” if the former mayor clarified the role he’s playing in Ukraine.
“But the Rudy Giuliani I know is the Rudy Giuliani who, like, fought the mob when it wasn’t a popular thing to do,” Gaetz said. “He’s someone who put his life on the line in 9/11, so if there’s anyone that ought to maybe get the benefit of the doubt, it would probably be Mayor Giuliani.”
La mañana de este domingo, usuarios de la red social Twitter reaccionaron ante el fallecimiento del alcalde del municipio Alberto Arvelo Torrealba de Barinas, Aníbal Chávez Frías.
El equipo de Últimas Noticias pudo conocer que Chávez se encontraba internado en el Hospital Militar de Caracas Dr. Carlos Arvelo. La madrugada de este domingo, a las 3:20 se realizó un traslado de la Clinica Varyná de Barinas, hasta la Clínica Santa Sofía en El Cafetal, pero por complicaciones, terminó siendo atendido en el Hospital Militar. El pasado viernes Chávez ingresó a la sala de cuidados intensivos de una clínica privada de la ciudad de Barinas, sin conocerse hasta ahora el motivo de su reclusión.
La vocera oficial, Secretaria General de Gobierno, Zenaida Gallardo, rechazó la semana pasada los “comentarios mal intencionados y cargados de deseos negativos” sin ofrecer mayor información sobre el padecimiento del burgomaestre y en su momento, se limitó a elevar una cadena de oraciones “por el pronto restablecimiento de la salud del camarada Aníbal Chávez”. El alcalde era hermano del fallecido presidente Hugo Chávez Frías
Según información extraoficial, Chávez tenía una infección estomacal causada por Salmonelosis bacteriana afectando importantes órganos. Su padre, Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, y hermanos se encuentran en la casa materna dando la noticia a Doña Elena.
Falleció Aníbal Chávez, Alcalde de Sabaneta de Barinas y hermano del Comandante Hugo Chávez. Nuestras condolencias. pic.twitter.com/1BvXKLURUT
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En las noticias más leídas del día, el IFT ordenó a América Móvil crear una nueva empresa que administre los postes, ductos, cables de cobre y de fibra de Telmex y Telnor para generar más competencia. Durante febrero los precios al consumidor registraron un crecimiento de 0.58%, así como una tasa de inflación anual de 4.86%, en el mismo periodo del 2016 presentaron un incremento de 0.44% mensual y de 2.87% anual.
1. ¿Podrá Slim sacarle provecho a la nueva regulación de Telmex?
Debido a las nuevas disposiciones del IFT, América Móvil deberá configurar una nueva empresa que administre la infraestructura de Telmex y Telnor para ponerla a disposición de esas mismas compañías y del resto de los competidores del mercado en igualdad de condiciones en el mediano plazo.
El objetivo de esto es generar un mayor equilibrio en la industria de las telecomunicaciones para que haya más competencia y deriva de los resultados que arrojó una revisión al funcionamiento de diez políticas regulatorias que pesan sobre la operación diaria de América Móvil y de sus filiales Telmex-Telcel desde el 7 de marzo del 2014.
¿Podrá Slim sacarle provecho a la nueva regulación de Telmex?. Ver nota.
2. “Vamos a generar valor para el Estado mexicano”
Competir como una empresa rentable en un nuevo mercado nacional, no como actor dominante, sino como un jugador más que incluso trabajará con sus rivales para generar valor, es el mayor reto de su historia al que se ha tenido que enfrentar la Comisión Federal de Electricidad, dijo a El Economista Jaime Hernández Martínez, director general de la estatal eléctrica.
Tras haber pasado de una tasa de 38 a 98.5% de electrificación nacional en 80 años, ahora viene el reto de volver a la empresa competitiva y generar valor al Estado mexicano en un entorno de creciente y vigorosa participación privada.
A principios de año, concluyó la división legal y funcional en 12 subsidiarias y filiales cuyos consejos de administración cuentan con un consejero independiente, han sesionado hasta tres veces en menos de un año y participan en los distintos mercados existentes, además de que cuentan con contratos bilaterales con terceros desde su conformación. Si quieres saber más de esta información entra a la nota completa.
“Vamos a generar valor para el Estado mexicano”. Ver nota.
3. En febrero la inflación subió hasta 4.86%: INEGI
En el mes de febrero, el Índice Nacional de Precios al Consumidor registró un crecimiento de 0.58%, así como una tasa de inflación anual de 4.86%, a diferencia de febrero del año pasado que presentó incremento de 0.44% mensual y de 2.87% anual, dio a conocer el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.
La inflación rebasó desde el mes de enero la cota alta del objetivo del Banxico, que elevó la tasa de referencia a su mayor nivel en ocho años para combatir presiones derivadas del incremento a los precios de las gasolinas y luego de una abrupta caída de la moneda tras la victoria electoral de Donald Trump.
En febrero la inflación subió hasta 4.86%: INEGI. Ver nota.
4. WikiLeaks revela burlas de la CIA hacia los antivirus
Esta vez WikiLeaks volvió a hacer de las suyas, está ocasión su blanco fue la CIA. Fueron filtrados documentos al parecer robados de la CIA que contienen comentarios burlones contra algunos de los programas antivirus más populares, lo que sugiere que la agencia estadounidense está al tanto de las debilidades de tales escudos cibernéticos.
El contenido publicado por WikiLeaks no es lo suficientemente sistemático para usarlo como referencia de cuál programa es más eficaz que otro, y la fecha incierta que tiene ese contenido indica que no es más que un vistazo momentáneo.
WikiLeaks revela burlas de la CIA hacia los antivirus. Ver nota.
Universidad de Chile no vive sus mejores días, considerando que en el torneo de Apertura se ubican en la duodécima ubicación con sólo 11 unidades, y que en Copa Chile tienen una compleja situación tras caer 2-0 ante Universidad Católica en la ida de Cuartos de Final.
Pero las malas noticias para los azules no paran allí, porque para el duelo de vuelta ante los de San Carlos de Apoquindo, el equipo que dirige Víctor Hugo Castañeda no podrá contar con quien es probablemente su principal figura.
Se trata de Johnny Herrera, quien ya se había perdido el primer duelo del pasado miércoles, pero ya quedó descartado para el cotejo de lunes, indica El Mercurio.
El golero aún mantiene molestias en su rodilla, situación que no lo dejó jugar de forma correcta en las últimas jornadas, por lo que se confirmó en el arco a Fernando de Paul.
Recordar que el cotejo de vuelta entre la U y la UC será el próximo lunes a contar de las 20:30 horas.
La complicada trama en que se tornó el caso por la muerte del fiscal Alberto Nisman, se suman curiosos hechos que son interpretados por variadas versiones. Uno de los últimos hitos en la causa que investiga el fallecimiento del funcionario judicial fue el hallazgo de una marca que simulaba un disparo de bala sobre una foto de Nisman en la revista NOTICIAS recibida en el domicilio de su exesposa, la jueza Sandra Arroyo Salgado. ¿Qué interpretó Página/12 sobre esto?
En su última edición impresa, el diario oficialista publicó un artículo llamado “Una extraña denuncia por amenazas” en el que refiere las distintas versiones que -el matutino entiende- se podrían interpretar sobre la denuncia de la expareja de Nisman.
“Hay dos versiones sobre la supuesta amenaza. La que aparentemente figura en la presentación –que se agregó a una causa ya existente– indica que la actual pareja de Arroyo Salgado retiró un ejemplar de la revista Noticias de un quiosco de San Isidro y que en el interior, en la nota referida a Nisman, había un redondel negro en la foto del fiscal como si fuera un disparo en la frente”, refirió en primer lugar Página/12.
Luego añadió una segunda interpretación de los hechos: “Otra versión señala que esa marca en la frente estaba en un ejemplar que se distribuyó desde el quiosco al domicilio de Arroyo Salgado y que quedó dentro de un diario”.
En cualquier caso, infiere el periódico, “la amenaza es de por sí extraña porque Arroyo Salgado no estaba en la Argentina y la idea era que seguiría en Europa por otra semana más, hasta el 23 de enero. O sea que el que amenazó parece que no sabía que la jueza estaba ausente. Y anoche todavía se verificaba si la marca podía provenir, no de una amenaza, sino de una mancha de la imprenta”.
Y, por último, lanzan una “versión asombrosa”, tal como fue denominada en la nota. En ella, relacionan al juez Luis Rodríguez, a quien vinculan con la SIDE, con una maniobra para quedarse con la causa: “En corrillos judiciales se deslizaba anoche una versión asombrosa: que la movida podía derivar en que el juez Rodríguez intentara quedarse con la causa principal, la de la muerte de Nisman, argumentando que tiene relación con una amenaza que recibió en 2012, otra de 2013 y la de la revista Noticias”.
“Rodríguez tiene un antecedente llamativo. El caso fue largamente explicado por Horacio Verbitsky en una nota publicada en este diario (por Página/12) en junio de 2013. Estaba referida a una causa vinculada con irregularidades en el saneamiento del Riachuelo. El juez Juan Ramos Padilla ordenó escuchas que comprometían al subdirector de Asuntos Jurídicos de la Policía Federal, Marcelo Pecorelli. En las escuchas, el uniformado se manifestaba preocupado por la investigación de Ramos Padilla y se lo comentaba, en intimidad, al fiscal general Ricardo Sáenz, actual jefe de Fein. Este le decía que se quedara tranquilo, que la causa la iba a pedir Luis Rodríguez”, explicó.
Y consignó: “Eso fue lo que ocurrió: Rodríguez le pidió a Ramos Padilla que se inhibiera y le mandara el expediente y efectivamente se quedó con la causa en agosto de 2013. Las cosas después quedaron en la nada: todos fueron sobreseídos, con confirmación de Cámara. Ya en ese momento, Verbitsky vinculó a Rodríguez con Nisman y con los sectores que se mueven con financiamiento de la Secretaría de Inteligencia y que “aspiran a imponerle condiciones a la presidenta CFK”.
Much hay has been made that Chicago just elected its first black female mayor, and an openly gay one at that, but more notable is that they didn’t elect the worst option.
Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot stepped into a 14-person bloodbath of an election resulting from the vacuum left behind by outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel. She was a relative outsider, a tough-on-crime prosecutor who has never held elected office before. Though Lightfoot is as left a Democrat as the rest of the race, she came under fire for her role both as a prosecutor and as chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force.
In any other city, a politically savvy prosecutor beating the odds first by a slim plurality and then in a runoff wouldn’t be too notable. But this is Chicago, and the feat Lightfoot achieved isn’t just herculean; it’s promising.
In the first round, Lightfoot beat out multiple elected officials, including Bill Daley, the former Obama chief of staff and the son and brother of two previous Chicago mayors. Lightfoot then faced off Toni Preckwinkle, as much a member of the Chicago machine as one could be.
At the forefront of the mayoral runoff was the Jussie Smollett case. While no one expressed as much rage toward the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the alleged hate crime hoaxer as Emanuel, Lightfoot expressed real criticism of Kim Foxx’s move to drop the charges. Preckwinkle found herself in a bit of a bind, as Foxx was her own personal protege.
“It’s really important that the state’s attorney be allowed to provide a fuller explanation as time goes on,” Preckwinkle said of Foxx, who was also once her chief of staff.
Polling starkly divided as the election drew nearer, with Lightfoot’s lead increasing from 28 points at the end of February to 36 points just before Foxx dropped the Smollett case. (The polls were administered by different sources, but the divide is still notable.)
The election may not be a referendum on the Smollett case specifically, but it’s at least one of the Chicago machine as a whole. For all that progressives in the city like to brand themselves as, choosing Lightfoot over a union-backed career crony is actual change and progress.
Media captionA crowd gathered outside Amir Kabir university, calling for resignations and accusing officials of lying
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Iran’s capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials, calling them liars for having denied shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane.
Protests took place outside at least two universities, with tear gas reportedly fired.
US President Donald Trump tweeted support for the “inspiring” protests.
Iran on Saturday admitted downing the jet “unintentionally”, three days after the crash that killed 176 people.
Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, en route to Kyiv, was shot down on Wednesday near Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran shortly after take-off, and only hours after Iran had fired missiles at two air bases housing US forces in Iraq.
Those attacks were Iran’s response to the US killing of senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on 3 January.
Dozens of Iranians and Canadians, as well as nationals from Ukraine, the UK, Afghanistan and Sweden died on the plane.
What happened at the protests?
Students gathered outside at least two universities, Sharif and Amir Kabir, reports said, initially to pay respect to the victims. Protests turned angry in the evening.
The semi-official Fars news agency carried a rare report of the unrest, saying up to 1,000 people had chanted slogans against leaders and tore up pictures of Soleimani.
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Students had gathered outside Amir Kabir university to pay tribute to the victims
The students called for those responsible for the downing the plane, and those they said had covered up the action, to be prosecuted.
Chants included “commander-in-chief resign”, referring to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and “death to liars”.
Fars said police had “dispersed” the protesters, who were blocking roads. Social media footage appeared to show tear gas being fired.
Social media users also vented anger at the government’s actions.
One wrote on Twitter: “I will never forgive the authorities in my country, the people who were on the scene and lying.”
The protests were, however, far smaller than the mass demonstrations across Iran in support of Soleimani after he was killed.
What has been the reaction?
President Trump tweeted in both English and Farsi, saying: “To the brave and suffering Iranian people: I have stood with you since the beginning of my presidency and my government will continue to stand with you.
“We are following your protests closely. Your courage is inspiring.”
The government of Iran must allow human rights groups to monitor and report facts from the ground on the ongoing protests by the Iranian people. There can not be another massacre of peaceful protesters, nor an internet shutdown. The world is watching.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted video of the protests in Iran, saying: “The voice of the Iranian people is clear. They are fed up with the regime’s lies, corruption, ineptitude, and brutality of the IRGC [Revolutionary Guards] under Khamenei’s kleptocracy. We stand with the Iranian people who deserve a better future.”
Media captionUkraine’s Oleksiy Danilov: “We already had enough to show…what really happened here”
Mr Macaire was detained at the demonstration outside Amir Kabir and was later released.
Mr Raab said Iran could “continue its march towards pariah status… or take steps to de-escalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards”.
How did the Iranian admission unfold?
For three days, Iran had denied reports its missiles had brought down the plane, with one spokesman accusing Western nations of “lying and engaging in psychological warfare”.
But on Saturday morning, a statement read on state TV accepted the plane had been shot down.
Brig-Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace commander, explained what happened.
He said a missile operator had acted independently and alone, mistaking the plane for a “cruise missile” as there had been reports that such missiles had been fired at Iran.
Media captionFootage shows missile strike on Ukrainian plane in Iran
“He had 10 seconds to decide. He could have decided to strike or not to strike and under such circumstances he took the wrong decision,” Gen Hajizadeh said.
“He was obliged to make contact and get verification. But apparently, his communications system had some disruptions.”
Gen Hajizadeh said the military would upgrade its systems to prevent such “mistakes” in the future.
He said he had “wished he was dead” after being told of the missile strike.
Gen Hajizadeh said he had informed the authorities about what had happened on Wednesday, raising questions about why Iran had denied involvement for so long.
Ayatollah Khamenei said there was “proof of human error”, while President Hassan Rouhani said Iran “deeply regrets this disastrous mistake”.
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif laid part of the blame on the US. “Human error at a time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to [this] disaster,” he said.
How have Canada and Ukraine reacted?
Both Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Mr Rouhani on Saturday.
Mr Trudeau said he was “outraged and furious” and had told Mr Rouhani that there must be a full investigation with “full clarity on how such a horrific tragedy could have occurred”.
Media captionTrudeau: “We need full clarity on how such a horrific tragedy could have occurred”
Mr Trudeau said: “Canada will not rest until we get the accountability, justice and closure the families deserve… they are hurt, angry and grieving and they want answers.”
Mr Zelensky, who has demanded compensation and an apology, said Mr Rouhani had assured him that “all persons involved in this air disaster will be brought to justice”.
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In the Canadian city of Edmonton, Pegah Salari is helping to organise a memorial service for the victims from the city on Sunday.
She says the latest admission by Iran means “now it’s more than grief”, first felt in the Iranian-Canadian community there.
“It’s anger, frustration,” she said.
Many on the plane were living there, including 10 people – faculty members, students, and alumni – from the University of Alberta.
Ms Salari is openly critical and distrustful of the Iranian government and is watching news of the protests in Iran with both trepidation and hope.
There are some in the Iranian diaspora in Canada who support the government in Tehran, which can cause tension, she said.
For the moment, that has been set aside, Ms Salari says.
“It’s not a political matter, it has nothing to do with economics. This for the first time is a human tragedy and all those lost lives has brought people closer and opened some eyes.”
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Cuatro aviones Tornado como el de la imagen partieron tras la votación del Parlamento de la base aérea Akrotiri en Chipre.
Reino Unido acaba de sumarse a los bombardeos al grupo autodenominado Estado Islámico (EI) en Siria.
El Parlamento britanico dio la autorización el miércoles por la noche y el Ministerio Defensa ya confirmó las primeras incursiones aéreas de las fuerzas británicas contra posiciones de EI.
Con ello, Londres se unió a las operaciones desde el aire de la coalición de más de 30 países liderada por Estados Unidos.
¿Pero qué países están bombardeando posiciones de EI en Siria?
Ataques en Siria
La coalición liderada por EE.UU. ha lanzado más de 2.700 ataques aéreos en Siria desde septiembre del año pasado.
De los ataques realizados por la coalición, la mayor parte corresponden a las fuerzas estadounidenses, tal como muestra el gráfico.
El 90% de las incursiones de noviembre las realizó EE.UU. y el 10% las hicieron entre Australia, Canadá, Francia y Turquía.
Así lo registra Airwars.org, un proyecto colaborativo y sin ánimo de lucro que monitorea la guerra contra EI.
Y el porcentaje es similar también en el resto de meses.
Rusia no es parte de la coalición, pero también está bombardeando a los yihadistas.
Moscú inició su campaña en septiembre de este año, como respuesta a una petición de ayuda del presidente sirio Bashar al Asad, atrincherado en el poder a pesar de más de cuatro años de guerra civil.
Además les está lanzando misiles desde el mar Caspio.
El presidente ruso Vladimir Putin insiste que el objetivo de los ataques en EI, y el Ministerio de Defensa asegura que alcanzó posiciones del grupo en Homs, Hama, Lattakia e Idlib.
La coalición liderada por EE.UU. ha lanzado más de 5.400 ataques desde el aire contra posiciones de los yihadistas en territorio iraquí desde el 8 de agosto del año pasado.
Como en Siria, la mayor proporción de incursiones corresponden a las fuerzas estadounidenses.
Pero también han llevado a cabo bombardeos Reino Unido, Holanda, Francia, Canadá, Australia y Dinamarca.
Los yihadistas tienen su califato, una forma de Estado dirigido por un líder político y religioso de acuerdo con la ley islámica o sharia, entre Alepo, en Siria, y la provincia de Diyala en Irak.
Por lo tanto, EI controla amplias franjas de terreno allí, aunque un informe del Pentágono asegura que EE.UU. y los aliados han logrado arrebatarle entre un 25 y un 30% del territorio que tenía en el punto álgido de su expansión, en agosto de 2014.
An attack last week against former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke in his Connecticut prison cell reflects “the mentality out there … that people won’t rest until he is either given a life sentence or killed in prison,” his lead trial attorney said Thursday.
Daniel Herbert joined Van Dyke’s wife, Tiffany, in demanding to know why Van Dyke was transferred to an out-of-state federal prison and why he was placed in the general inmate population, where he was beaten in the face within days of his arrival.
“They put my husband in a setting to be harmed because of the fact that he was a white man who harmed a black gentleman in the line of duty,” Tiffany Van Dyke said at a news conference. “He is a police officer who was convicted for doing his job, and at the basic minimum they were supposed to keep him safe.”
Attorneys stressed the danger Van Dyke faces in custody — just days after prosecutors filed a legal petition before the state Supreme Court that, if successful, could significantly lengthen his sentence.
La plaga de las noticias falsas se ha extendido a sitios Web creados para verificar datos y… supuestamente evitar noticias falsas.
Según un reporte del New York Times, varios anuncios de noticias falsas aparecieron tan recientemente como la semana pasada en páginas de verificación de datos como Snopes y PolitiFact. Un anuncio, por ejemplo, decía que la Primera Dama, Melania Trump, se estaba yendo de la Casa Blanca, según el informe.
Los anuncios publicitarios falsos fueron servidos por el sistema AdWords de Google, que publica automáticamente anuncios en función de un público objetivo. Según el Times, los anuncios tenían atractivos titulares falsos, que una vez que la gente hacía clic, los llevaban a sitios que imitaban publicaciones legítimas como People o Vogue. “Las historias falsas comenzaron con titulares y grandes fotos de las celebridades en cuestión, pero después de unas pocas frases, pasaron a ser un anuncio de una crema para la piel”, explica el Times en su reporte.
No está claro cómo terminaron esas noticias falsas en Snopes y PolitiFact. Google no hizo comentarios sobre cómo se aprobaron esos anuncios.
“Como siempre, cuando encontramos prácticas publicitarias engañosas en nuestras plataformas, nos movemos rápidamente para actuar, incluida la suspensión de la cuenta del anunciante si es apropiado”, dijo Suzanne Blackburn, una portavoz de Google.
La propagación de noticias falsas ha provocado el desprecio público de compañías como Google, Facebook y Twitter, ya que los gigantes tecnológicos no pueden mantenerse al día con la propaganda viral. Google se ha comprometido a ayudar a detener la propagación de noticias falsas, pero los engaños todavía han encontrado una forma de colarse en el motor de búsqueda.
Aaron Sharockman, director ejecutivo de PolitiFact, dijo que estaban al tanto de los anuncios falsos en su sitio Web durante días y creía que el sistema publicitario de Google era la causa de ello.
“Los ingresos que brindan los anuncios son fundamentales para financiar un sitio Web como el nuestro, pero es igualmente importante que hagamos todo lo posible para asegurarnos de que los anuncios que aparecen en nuestro sitio no sean engañosos o intencionalmente engañosos”, dijo Sharockman en un comunicado. Añadió que su compañía está trabajando con Google para eliminar los anuncios.
Snopes no respondió a una solicitud para hacer comentarios.
McCready’s decision, first announced in an interview with Charlotte television station WSOC, comes as North Carolina is dealing with an unfolding scandal over absentee ballots. Election officials are trying to determine why many were never mailed in in certain counties that likely would have favored the Democrats in the election, and three people have told BuzzFeed News and WSOC that they were hired to collect such absentee votes, which would be a violation of state law.
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