Las noticias falsas son un “problema” para Facebook, que insiste en que reducir su circulación y propagación en la red social constituye una “prioridad” para la compañía, pero niega que esta haya de jugar un papel editorial y determinar qué contenido informativo es o no verdadero.
“No somos árbitros de la verdad y sabemos que la gente no quiere que lo seamos, no es nuestro papel como plataforma tecnológica. Lo que sí estamos haciendo, y haremos, es reducir la propagación de contenido que confunda a la gente, ‘spam’ (correo no deseado) y ‘clickbait’ (titulares engañosos que favorecen el click fácil)”, explica la responsable de productos informativos de Facebook, Alex Hardiman.
La diseminación de noticias falsas en la red social -que cuenta con 2.000 millones de usuarios activos al mes-, y especialmente su criticada influencia en el resultado de las pasadas elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos, llevaron a Facebook a “invertir dinero” y “hacer esfuerzos” por frenar esta epidemia hace algunos meses.
El propio Mark Zuckerberg escribió en febrero una carta en la que reconocía que la red social aloja “información errónea y contenido incluso engañoso” y anunciaba entonces inversiones para ofrecer a los usuarios información veraz.
Aunque la compañía concede que la batalla contra la desinformación es una carrera de fondo, los resultados de su estrategia aún son limitados.
En estos últimos días, la red social acogió numerosas noticias falsas sobre el referéndum independentista ilegal en Cataluña del pasado 1 de octubre o sobre el tiroteo de Las Vegas, en el que un hombre mató a 59 personas.
“Hemos hecho progresos en los últimos meses tanto a la hora de cortar los incentivos económicos de quienes crean noticias falsas, ‘spam’ y ‘clickbait’ como en la construcción de productos que frenen su propagación y en ofrecer a la gente herramientas para detectarlo. Pero nos queda mucho por hacer”, añade la responsable de producto del News Feed (el muro de Facebook), Tessa Lyons-Laing.
Lyons-Laing asegura que la principal motivación de los creadores de noticias falsas es hacer dinero con su movimiento y que Facebook investiga “quiénes son y cuáles son sus tácticas” para reducir el tráfico de sus publicaciones.
Además de poner en marcha una campaña para ayudar a los usuarios a detectar información falsa, que promueve la autorregulación de la comunidad, tienen en cuenta determinadas señales a la hora de identificar contenidos no deseados.
Por ejemplo, el tiempo que un usuario dedica a leer algo antes de compartirlo o las cuentas que publican contenido de forma indiscriminada.
También han puesto en marcha una sección de artículos relacionados para ofrecer al lector más información, procedente de distintos medios, sobre un tema de actualidad y han empezado a ofrecer contexto de cuándo una fuente está verificada.
“No hay una solución mágica”, resalta Lyons-Laing, que presume de que la compañía está “comprometida con la integridad y autenticidad” en la plataforma.
Pero ambas ejecutivas eluden valorar cómo afectó la victoria de Donald Trump en la decisión de abordar este problema.
Aunque recalcan que Facebook quiere ofrecer la “mejor experiencia informativa”, insisten en negar el papel editorial de la red social: “Dejamos que sean los usuarios y las compañías periodísticas quienes decidan qué comparten y lo que ve la gente”.
Hardiman indica que Facebook ha debatido con 2.600 compañías y organizaciones periodísticas acerca del futuro del negocio informativo.
“Queremos escuchar y detectar cuáles son las oportunidades más urgentes para asegurarnos de que contribuimos a que la gente esté bien informada y de que ayudamos a la industria editorial a tener un futuro sostenible, tanto en Facebook como fuera”.
Y Hardiman adelantó que antes de que termine el año la red social permitirá a sus usuarios de Estados Unidos y Europa pagar las suscripciones a sus medios favoritos, y que ofrecerá mejores estadísticas a las empresas informativas para que gestionen de forma más eficiente sus audiencias.
“Sería arrogante pensar que Facebook puede definir por sí sola el futuro del periodismo”, zanja Hardiman.
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday used a controversial procedural tactic called the “nuclear option” to change the chamber’s rules to make it easier to confirm lower-level Trump nominees.
The effort, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, comes after Republicans failed to adopt a resolution to change the chamber’s rules so that non-Cabinet level executive and district court nominations would face only two hours of floor debate rather than 30 before a confirmation vote. That resolution received only 51 of the 60 votes required for adoption, along party lines.
The Senate’s action on Wednesday was expected to last well into the afternoon; the chamber first voted 51-48 largely along party lines to change its rules to slash debate time for sub-Cabinet level executive branch nominees, and GOP leadership planned to take the same action again later in the day for district court judges.
“This systematic obstruction is unfair to our duly elected president and, more importantly, it is disrespectful to the American people who deserve the government they elected,” McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Wednesday before the first vote. “We cannot set this new precedent that the Senate minorities will systematically keep an administration understaffed down to the least controversial nominees anytime they wish somebody else had won the election.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the floor vote, “I am sorry, so sorry, my Republican colleagues have gone along with Senator McConnell’s debasement of the Senate. To do this for such blatantly political ends is simply unworthy of this institution.”
McConnell’s move marks the third time in six years that the majority party employed the procedure to overcome minority opposition, allowing an action previously subject to a filibuster, and thus a 60-vote threshold, to pass with a simple 51-vote majority.
In 2013, Democrats used the move to eliminate the 60-vote threshold to confirm executive branch and non-Supreme Court judicial nominations under President Barack Obama. Republicans did the some to clear the way for Supreme Court nominations, confirming Neil Gorsuch to the high court in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh last year.
Democrats opposed Wednesday’s action, arguing it would reduce the role of debate in the Senate and diminish the minority party’s power, making its operations more like those of the House.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Tuesday called it a “short-sighted, partisan power grab” and “an erosion of the Senate’s” advise and consent role.
McConnell has made confirming judges nominated by President Donald Trump a priority during Trump’s first term. The rule change will also help Republicans confirm other Trump nominees who have yet to receive a full Senate vote.
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¿Qué pasó en Suecia?
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha tratado de explicar por qué se refirió a un incidente de seguridad en Suecia el viernes que no ocurrió.
Al hablarle a sus seguidores en un acto el sábado en Florida, EE.UU., Trump dijo: “Miren lo que está sucediendo en Alemania, miren lo que pasó anoche en Suecia, Suecia… es para no creérselo (…) Tienen problemas como nunca pensaron que fuera posible”.
Sin que se haya registrado ningún incidente en Suecia el viernes, ese país pidió una explicación a la administración estadounidense.
Trump tuiteó el domingo que se estaba refiriendo a un reportaje de televisión.
Dijo que se trataba de una emisión del canal estadounidense Fox News, pero no dijo cuándo lo vio. Puede haberse referido a un programa transmitido el viernes por la noche, que mostraba la situación de los refugiados y el crimen en Suecia.
Por separado, la portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, dijo que Trump había estado hablando de la creciente delincuencia y los recientes incidentes en general en la nación europea, sin referirse a un tema específico.
El exprimer ministro sueco Carl Bildt fue uno de los que se burló del comentario de Trump y se preguntó qué había estado “fumando” el mandatario.
Muchos usuarios de redes sociales también se sumaron las bromas con situaciones imaginarias en las que participaban instituciones suecas como el grupo pop Abba y la tienda de muebles Ikea.
El hashtag #lastnightinSweden (anoche en Suecia) se convirtió en tendencia en Twitter.
Otros usuarios también hicieron referencia a la “Masacre de Bowling Green”, un ataque inexistente citado por una de las principales asesoras del presidente Trump, Kellyanne Conway, a principios de este mes.
El domingo, una bibliotecaria estaba a cargo de la cuenta oficial de twitter de Suecia, @Sweden, que es administrada por un residente sueco diferente cada semana.
Y a ella le cayeron innumerables preguntas sobre las observaciones de Trump.
“Yo estaba sola y dije la verdad”, afirmó Emma a la BBC.
“Soy bibliotecaria escolar, así que revisé todos los principales periódicos de Suecia y los canales de radio y concluí que no era cierto”.
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Este domingo, Trump escribió un tuit para aclarar que su comentario respondía a un informe del canal de noticias estadounidense Fox News sobre Suecia.
El reportaje de Fox News examinaba los datos de violencia armada y violaciones en Suecia desde que abrió sus puertas a un gran número de solicitantes de asilo en 2013.
Fox News es conocido por estar entre los canales favoritos de televisión por cable de Donald Trump.
Las declaraciones iniciales del presidente Trump sobre Suecia ocurrieron el sábado en un acto en Florida, Estados Unidos.
“Mira lo que está pasando en Alemania, mira lo que pasó anoche en Suecia”, dijo.
“Miren lo que está sucediendo en Alemania, miren lo que pasó anoche en Suecia, Suecia… es para no creérselo (…) Tienen problemas como nunca pensaron que fuera posible. Miren lo que está sucediendo en Bruselas, mira lo que está sucediendo en todo el mundo. Echen un vistazo a Niza, a París”, dijo Trump.
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El sitio web sueco de Aftonbladet resumió las noticias del el día, que incluyeron:
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Suecia, con una población de 9,5 millones de habitantes, recibió a casi 200.000 refugiados y migrantes en los últimos años, más per cápita que cualquier otro país europeo.
El país observó un fuerte aumento de solicitudes de asilo en 2015 y más de 160.000 personas ingresaron ese año.
Con la afluencia de extranjeros, las tensiones también aumentaron con algunos ataques aislados contra inmigrantes, así como manifestaciones pro y antiinmigrantes.
El asesinato de una mujer de 22 años en enero de 2016 por un solicitante de asilo alojado en el centro donde ella trabajaba presionó aún más al gobierno para reevaluar su enfoque hacia los refugiados.
Hubo una caída en los números el año pasado después de que el país introdujo nuevos controles fronterizos incluyendo tiempos de regulación migratoria más largos, así como incentivos financieros para los migrantes que vuelvan voluntariamente a su país de origen.
No hubo ataques terroristas en Suecia desde que la política de puertas abiertas del país sobre la migración comenzó en 2013.
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Cutting off cash to illegitimate president Nicolas Maduro through an oil embargo was a good move by the Trump administration, and it brings us one step closer to ending the disastrous socialist regime of Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez.
Maduro’s power is almost entirely sustained by his oil sales. Without that revenue, Chavez’s ludicrous successor will struggle to pay off senior military officers he relies upon for protection. But this isn’t a sanctions action in the conventional sense. Because by granting interim president Juan Guaido access to the newly restricted oil revenue accounts, the U.S. is showing deference to the legitimate executive political authority in Caracas. Guaido was rightly recognized by the U.S. last week following mass street protests against Maduro’s illegitimate rule.
This sanctions decision, then, represents a calibrated step towards increasing pressure on Maduro in a way that attempts to peacefully drive him out of power. Importantly, the U.S. refused last week to recognize Maduro’s demand that we withdraw U.S. diplomats from Venezuela.
Keeping those diplomats there is treating Guiado with the respect the position deserves. Guaido wants those U.S. diplomats to remain in Caracas.
At present, there is no good justification for U.S. military action in Venezuela. But short of that, it is in U.S. and regional political interests, and Venezuelan moral interests to see Maduro leave power as soon as possible.
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Early Tuesday morning, three women filed separate lawsuits against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, whom federal prosecutors charged with sex trafficking just weeks before his suicide on August 10. Their allegations, which include sexual assault and coercion, closely mirror those lodged by prior accusers.
But one plaintiff, who remains anonymous, leveled a novel accusation: The wealthy financier, with the help of an unnamed attorney, forced her to enter a fraudulent marriage with another woman in his orbit.
The plaintiff, identified in legal filings as “Katlyn Doe,” described the second woman as a “a non-United States citizen and recruiter of females for Jeffrey Epstein” and said their marriage was designed to ensure the woman would continue to work for Epstein in the US as part of “a complex system of individuals … for the purpose of harming teenage girls through sexual exploitation, abuse and trafficking.”
But these aren’t the only allegations of a fraudulent marriage induced by Epstein: Business Insider has learned that at least two other women in Epstein’s entourage were married to each other, and a source familiar with the situation said they were directed to get married by the sex offender. As with Katlyn Doe’s accusations, one of these women was a noncitizen that Epstein may have wanted to maintain access to. The marriage has not been previously reported. The source said that Epstein orchestrated at least three such marriages.
The allegations could alter the trajectory of the Epstein investigation. Doe’s claims suggest, after all, that Epstein and his associates conducted an international human trafficking operation as recently as 2014 — six years after he pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of a minor, and more than a decade after the alleged crimes on which his federal charges were based.
The marriage identified by Business Insider took place in 2013. One woman was a U.S. citizen, the other was from Eastern Europe. While it’s unclear why exactly Epstein directed them to wed, a source with direct knowledge of the arrangement said both women were romantically involved with the multi-millionaire sex offender.
There are similarities between their marriage and the one described in Doe’s complaint. Beyond their participants’ connection to Epstein, both took place in 2013 and involved a citizen and a non-citizen. But other details, such as the age of the brides and the dates of their respective divorces, clearly show there were two different marriages, between two different pairs of women. What they all had in common was Epstein.
Business Insider is not naming the women because Epstein was accused of sex trafficking, and they may be victims. We are withholding significant details from this story in order to protect their identities. Both women are adults.
Both women, who have since divorced, have public links to Epstein, including published photographs of them either together with the secretive financier or entering or leaving his five-story mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Multiple sources who knew them said, and a review of public records showed, that they did not present themselves outwardly as spouses.
Both were members of a coterie of attractive young women — many of them from Russia and Eastern Europe — who frequently accompanied Epstein and his friends to events and traveled widely on his fleet of private jets, according to a source familiar with the arrangement.
One of the women, an American, has introduced herself to people as a member Epstein’s household staff but was in fact a girlfriend, according to the source. A different source recalled that Epstein once purchased this woman a car valued at more than $50,000. She has been captured by a tabloid photographer while entering and exiting Epstein’s mansion.
According to public records, the American has lived in a 16-story condominium on East 66th St. in Manhattan since the mid-2000s. The same address turns up repeatedly in records concerning Epstein and his circle of associates, including his attorney and the coconspirators named in the infamous nonprosecution agreement that allowed Epstein to escape federal prosecution in 2008.
Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, owns most of the units in the building through his real-estate company. The building has been described in court records and published reports as a location where Jeffrey Epstein housed young women. (Mark Epstein has denied any knowledge of his brother’s activities.)
According to New York City marriage records, the American was granted a marriage license in October 2013 to another woman in Epstein’s orbit from Eastern Europe.
Like her ex-wife, the Eastern European has been photographed leaving and entering Epstein’s mansion by tabloid newspapers. A separate set of paparazzi photos taken by a news agency in New York shows her and Epstein walking down the street together.
She has a professional degree from a US university and a professional license. The address on her license is the same address used by one of Epstein’s companies.
In conversations with Business Insider, her professional-school classmates described her as an intensely private woman who rarely discussed her personal life with others. At the same time, her manner and appearance made her stand out in certain ways.
Three classmates described her as “Eastern European.” According to the professional school’s yearbook, she previously attended a college in Eastern Europe.
One former peer said she often wore expensive brand clothing that many graduate students would struggle to afford. In colder months, she donned a white fur-trimmed jacket that retails for around $900. One day, the same classmate said, she mentioned traveling back from Miami, without explaining why she was there or who she was with.
None of the classmates Business Insider contacted recalled any indication that she was married to a woman. However, most of them remembered hearing, through the campus grapevine, about her relationship with an older and much wealthier man. Three had hazy memories of seeing and discussing photos of her with the same man in a newspaper or on a website. Shown a photo of Epstein, one said it was the same man they had seen photographed with the classmate.
It’s unclear what came first: The rumors about her relationship with Epstein, or the photos her classmates saw in a newspaper or online. In any case, their recollections, combined with the photos, suggest she was involved with Epstein when she attended and graduated from the professional school.
The source familiar with the arrangement told Business Insider that the Eastern European is not a US citizen and that she came to the US originally on a student visa. Business Insider was not able to independently verify her citizenship status. But according to public records, she was first issued a Social Security number sometime between 2009 and 2011, when she would have been in her late teens and early 20s. Most natural-born US citizens are issued Social Security numbers at birth. As a full-time student from a foreign country, she would have been required to obtain a Social Security number if she wanted to earn income.
Court records show that the women were granted an uncontested petition for dissolution of marriage in June, seven months after the Miami Herald published its blockbuster investigation into Epstein’s crimes and weeks before his arrest by FBI agents in July.
Two sources who knew the American woman socially during the time public records indicate that she was married told Business Insider that she gave no outward indication of being in a committed relationship with a woman and that she dated men at the time. There is no public evidence that the women ever lived together; though public-record databases show that both are associated with the E. 66th St. building, they are linked to different units. Aside from their relationships to Epstein, the only public link between the two is a photo of the pair that the Eastern European posted to her Facebook account in 2015. The account has since been removed.
Neither woman responded to repeated phone calls, emails, and text messages seeking comment. An associate of one of the women agreed to pass a message to her; the associate declined to comment other than to say Epstein exercised some measure of control over the women.
“These were victims too,” the associate said before hanging up the phone. “They were psychologically manipulated.”
The source familiar with the arrangement said that FBI agents investigating Epstein were aware of the marriage and seeking to interview the two women.
Epstein had a long history of associating with young girls from Eastern Europe. He described his former girlfriend Nadia Marcinkova, who was accused by several of Epstein’s underage victims of participating in three-way sex acts with them, as a “Yugoslavian sex slave” that he had “purchased from her family” as a teenager, according to a 2006 police report. A former bookkeeper for MC2, the modeling agency in which Epstein was an investor, said in a 2010 deposition that Marcinkova was one of many young girls that MC2 brought to the US on model visas — paid for by Epstein — and housed in apartments on E. 66th St. Jean-Luc Brunel, MC2’s founder and a former friend of Epstein’s, has lived in an apartment in the building.
More recently, the New York Post quoted a visitor to Epstein’s mansion in 2016 saying that the home was filled with young women and that “half of them are from the former Soviet Union.” The newspaper linked Epstein to a Russian “procurer” named Peter Listerman, who has described himself as a “matchmaker” between wealthy clients and “gentle, romantic” women. Svetlana Pozhidaeva, a Russian former MC2 model whose women’s empowerment nonprofit was funded by Epstein, has also been photographed leaving his mansion and is linked to the E. 66th St. apartment building.
When the New York Times reporter James Stewart visited Epstein’s home in August 2018, he was greeted by “a young woman, her blond hair pulled back in a chignon, who greeted [him] with what sounded like an Eastern European accent.”
Entering into a marriage for the purposes of evading immigration laws is a crime — one that is commonly enforced in the context of sex-trafficking investigations. Last year, prosecutors in Minnesota convicted five people — and secured guilty pleas from 31 more — in a wide-ranging probe of a Thai sex-trafficking network that forced victims to enter into fraudulent marriages in order to gain residency. In May, the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team — an interagency task force with members of the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Labor — convicted a New Jersey woman on charges of forced labor and marriage fraud over her enslavement of a Sri Lankan woman. In 2012, prosecutors convicted three Belarusian nationals of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. It is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Epstein’s attorney Reid Weingarten did not return an email, sent before his client’s suicide, seeking comment. A message left with the FBI’s New York press office was not returned.
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Maryville, Tennessee (CNN)Kaitlin Hurley shook her head in quiet disbelief as the defense attorney made one last attempt to save her rapist from a lengthy sentence.
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Sen. Joe Manchin said that negotiations with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the $739 billion spending bill went on for months because of concerns that the legislation would further stoke already high inflation rates.
The moderate West Virginia Democrat, whose opposition to President Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better Act sunk the measure in December, said he started working with Schumer on the pared down package in the spring – part of a process that was occasionally interrupted by rising inflation rates.
“On this one here, we started in April and kept working, and working, and working and back and forth. And all of a sudden, inflation went from six, to 8.1, to 9.1 and I said, ‘Hey. Chuck, listen, we’d better wait and let’s see what’s coming in July, numbers coming in August before we do anything more,’” Manchin said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday.
“And that’s when Chuck got upset with me, and I understand that. And he says, ‘Oh, here we go again,’ and anything. I said, ‘No, Chuck.’ I said, ‘I’m just being very cautious. I’m not going to be responsible for inflaming the inflation rates. I’m just not going to do it,’” Manchin, a crucial swing vote in the 50-50 Senate said.
He said as tensions cooled, he and Schumer went back to the drawing board to scale it down even more.
“But the bottom line was we reduced it and scrubbed it clear down to 739. Nothing inflammatory in that piece of legislation,” Manchin said.
Manchin, who revealed that Biden was cut out of the talks on the spending measure, announced the agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act with Schumer last Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by .75% in an effort to cool inflation.
The following day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy contracted by 0.9% in the second quarter after falling 1.6% in the first quarter – meeting the criteria for a recession.
Democrats will try to pass the spending plan, which faces intense Republican opposition in the House and Senate, through reconciliation – a legislative tactic that will allow them to bypass the usual 60-vote threshold for approving legislation.
With Manchin on board, all eyes have turned to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) to see if she will cast the 50th vote – allowing Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie.
Sinema, who has opposed parts of Biden’s domestic agenda, has yet to comment on the legislation.
Asked whether Sinema will be a yes vote, Manchin called the Arizona lawmaker “a friend of mine” and said the provisions she sought are contained in the bill.
“She has a tremendous, tremendous input in this piece of legislation. These are things that everyone has worked on over the last eight months or more. And she basically insisted that there are no tax increases. We’ve done that. She was very, very adamant about that, and I support and I agree with her,” Manchin said.
“She was also very instrumental in making sure that we had drug prices that Medicare could compete on certain drugs to bring it down so that there wouldn’t be an impact on individuals, on Medicare across. She’s done all this,” he said. … “And I would like to think she would be favorable towards it, that I respect her decision. She’ll make her own decision based on the contents.”
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Sainthamaruthu, Sri Lanka (CNN)Ten civilians — including six children — are dead along with six suspected terrorists after a shootout between police and alleged militants late Friday in eastern Sri Lanka, authorities said.
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Airline stocks and shares of Boeing tumbled Tuesday afternoon after President Donald Trump called off talks with Democrats for a national stimulus package until after the election, closing the main avenue for carriers battered by the pandemic to receive more aid.
American Airlines, United Airlines and other U.S. carriers began furloughing more than 32,000 workers last week. Airlines had agreed to not cut any jobs until after Oct. 1 under the terms of $25 billion in federal payroll support passed in March.
Carriers’ executives and labor unions were pleading for more aid in Washington in recent weeks. The proposal won bipartisan support but remained stuck as Democrats in Congress and the Trump administration failed to reach a national coronavirus package that could have included more aid.
Airlines that started furloughing their workers said they would reverse course if more aid was approved.
American’s shares were down 4%, United’s fell by 2.6%. Shares of Southwest Airlines, which asked its unionized employees to take pay cuts in order to avoid furloughs through the end of next year, were down 2.5%. Delta Air Lines was down 2.4% in the last hour of the session.
Boeing shares, already down on the day after issuing a downbeat aircraft demand forecast, were trading close to 6% lower after Trump’s announcement pausing stimulus talks.
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En las noticias más leídas del primer día de junio, el servicio de transporte, Uber, reportó la mañana de este jueves pérdidas multimillonarias en el primer trimestre del año a pesar de que sus ingresos están aumentando. Recibió ingresos por 3,400 millones de dólares en el periodo. Para poder viajar a Estados Unidos, ahora será necesario enseñar tus distintas redes sociales a las autoridades. En la nueva película Wonder Woman, nuestra heroína titular deja Themyscira, su isla de mujeres empoderadas, para llegar a la sociedad acorsetada de Londres en la Primera Guerra Mundial.
La empresa de servicio de transporte Uber reportó este jueves pérdidas multimillonarias en los primeros tres meses del año a pesar de que sus ingresos están aumentando.
La empresa con sede en San Francisco avisó que sus pérdidas se redujeron a 708 millones de dólares, comparado con 991 millones en el período anterior.
Uber informó a The Associated Press que había recibido ingresos por 3,400 millones de dólares en ese período, un aumento de 18% con respecto a los primeros tres meses del año pasado.
Durante el primer cuatrimestre del año, el gobierno federal pagó 128,479 millones de pesos en los intereses que genera por endeudarse, lo que significó 37.4% más de lo que desembolsó en el mismo periodo del 2016. Este monto es el más alto que se haya registrado desde 1990, año desde donde se tiene registro y considerando sólo los primeros cuatro meses de cada año, de acuerdo con información de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP).
Lo anterior se debe, en gran medida, a los intereses que se generaron por la deuda externa, la cual se vio impactada por la volatilidad que se presentó en el tipo de cambio a inicios del año, expusieron expertos.
El Gobierno de Donald Trump actualizó el cuestionario para las personas de todo el mundo que soliciten una visa para entrar a Estados Unidos, e incluyó preguntas sobre perfiles en redes sociales durante los últimos cinco años e información biográfica que se remonta a unos 15 años.
Las nuevas preguntas, parte de un esfuerzo por endurecer la revisión de antecedentes de quienes quieran visitar Estados Unidos, fueron aprobadas el 23 de mayo por la Oficina de Administración y Presupuesto pese a las críticas de varios sectores.
Un cartón de Nerilicón.
En la nueva película de La Mujer Maravilla, nuestra heroína titular deja Themyscira, su isla de mujeres empoderadas, para llegar a la sociedad acorsetada de Londres en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Mientras sus acompañantes tratan de convencer a la guerrera de la tribu amazónica para que cambie su falda de cuero por el confuso bullicio de un mundo occidental dominado por hombres, Diana Prince tiene una pregunta natural: ¿cómo peleas con este atuendo?
La escena refleja el reto de la directora Patty Jenkins: en una industria siempre plagada de sexismo, se preguntó, ¿cómo puedo tener éxito como la primera mujer en dirigir una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto?
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“The desire of the overwhelming majority of the Democratic caucus is to try to get to yes,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders are increasingly optimistic they can get to a yes on the new North American trade pact after their latest sit-down with President Donald Trump’s trade chief.
Pelosi and House Democratic leaders reiterated that they want to support the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, but first need the administration to address a host of issues, including enforcement of the deal’s labor provisions.
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While they have been repeatedly stressing their worries about the new pact for months, lawmakers said they now feel that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is making a concerted effort to address their concerns.
“The desire of the overwhelming majority of the Democratic caucus is to try to get to yes,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told POLITICO.
“He understood the concerns … and that absent [a] resolution, it would be very difficult to get to yes on the agreement,” Jeffries added.
The White House has increased pressure on Congress to pass the deal before August recess. The president faces limited potential legislative victories in the coming months, and key constituents like farmers are getting hurt on other trade fights. Pelosi, for her part, has made clear she will not rush to put the deal to a vote until the necessary changes are made to get Democrats on board with the deal, and that could take a while.
Meanwhile, Trump is on the verge of appeasing concerned Republicans with a deal that would lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
Democrats have demanded the Trump administration reopen the text of the deal to write in stronger language to enforce the deal’s labor and environment standards. They’ve also expressed the need to take out language they say would lock in high prescription drug prices. But administration officials have repeatedly shut down the idea of reopening the deal. Canada and Mexico have also vocally opposed revisiting the text.
Last week, Lighthizer told members of the House Progressive Caucus that their concerns could largely be addressed without changing language in the text, but it remains unclear if he could do that in a way that pleases Pelosi.
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said lawmakers “made a series of suggestions” in the 45-minute meeting on how to address the prevailing Democratic concerns. And Lighthizer is being more clear he wants to find solutions that please Democrats, aides said.
The meeting felt much more productive than previous meetings with Lighthizer, as the U.S. trade chief appeared to be engaging much more closely with lawmakers about how to address their concerns, Democratic aides in the room said.
However, Neal and other Democrats were quick to caution that the Trump administration still has not taken any actions or made any specific changes to address their concerns.
“We also think that there’s a ways to go,” Neal told reporters.
A Pelosi aide told POLITICO that Democrats will be planning more discussions with Lighthizer on “key questions about the USMCA proposal.”
Lighthizer did not “speak one way or the other about the mechanics of reopening the text,” Jeffries said, adding that a timeline for passage was not discussed.
It also remains an open question whether Lighthizer will be able to deliver on a deal that satisfies Democrats within the Trump administration’s target window. The final text of the agreement and implementing legislation still has not been submitted to Congress. The U.S. trade chief has previously told lawmakers that he would not send up the agreement until he has Pelosi’s blessing.
“We’re on a path,” said House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.). “We’re not on the end of the road.”
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Richard Strauss was employed as a doctor at Ohio State University from 1978 until he retired in 1998.
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For nearly two decades, a doctor at The Ohio State University sexually abused at least 177 male students, according to an exhaustive independent investigation commissioned by the university. Most of the doctor’s abuse happened under the auspices of providing the students with medical treatment.
Richard Strauss worked at OSU from September 1978 through March 1998, primarily as a doctor with the Athletic Department and the Student Health Center. The investigation found that university personnel became aware of Strauss’ abuse as early as 1979.
However, “despite the persistence, seriousness, and regularity of such complaints, no meaningful action was taken by the University to investigate such concerns until January 1996,” when they were first elevated to officials beyond Student Health or the Athletics Department, the report reads.
As a result, Strauss was suspended from working as a treating physician at OSU. The school eventually removed him from his departments, but it kept him on as a tenured faculty member. He voluntarily retired in 1998 with “emeritus” status from the university. Strauss took his own life in 2005.
“The findings are shocking and painful to comprehend,” current OSU President Michael Drake said in a message emailed to the OSU community.
“On behalf of the university, we offer our profound regret and sincere apologies to each person who endured Strauss’ abuse,” said Drake, who became the school’s president in 2014. “Our institution’s fundamental failure at the time to prevent this abuse was unacceptable — as were the inadequate efforts to thoroughly investigate complaints raised by students and staff members.”
Drake added that the university has started the process of revoking Strauss’ emeritus status and “will take additional action as appropriate.”
“Dreams were broken, relationships with loved ones were damaged, and the harm now carries over to our children as many of us have become so overprotective that it strains the relationship with our kids,” Kent Kilgore, a survivor of Strauss’ abuse, said in a statement to The Associated Press.
OSU said it launched the independent investigation last April, after a former student came forward with allegations of abuse and “indicated … that there may have been others who experienced sexual misconduct by Strauss.”
The investigation carried out by the law firm Perkins Coie was led by a former federal prosecutor and a former federal government ethics attorney. Both had experience in investigations involving male sexual abuse survivors.
They interviewed 520 people, among them the 177 men who said they had been abused by Strauss.
The report, which runs more than 230 pages, contains a litany of painful stories of abuse from former students who went to Strauss for medical care.
The instances of abuse often involved inappropriate touching of a students’ genitals during exams in ways that weren’t medically useful. A number of students said Strauss “would routinely touch their genitals at every visit, regardless of the medical ailment presented, including for a sore throat,” the report states.
The report also states that members of 15 university athletic teams were abused. Strauss most frequently targeted wrestlers — 48 of them, according to the report. And the abuse often became more explicit over multiple visits.
“We observed that, in many cases, a student’s most egregious experience of abuse did not occur during the student’s first encounter with Strauss; rather, the abuse escalated over time, in a series of examinations with the student,” the report states.
Other students reported that Strauss would frequently shower with teams, appearing to loiter and gawp at students as they were naked in locker rooms and making them uncomfortable.
A former soccer player told investigators that Strauss would sometimes run a single lap just as the team was finishing up practice. “The student noted that it was a commonly-held perception among the players that Strauss was exercising as a pretext to shower with the team, and the student-athletes would try to shower as quickly as possible,” the report reads.
Dozens of people who worked as coaches or athletic trainers told investigators that they had been aware of rumors and complaints against Strauss. The abuse was so widely known that it left some students with the idea that it was simply accepted by other university personnel.
“Many of the students felt that Strauss’ behavior was an ‘open secret,’ as it appeared to them that their coaches, trainers, and other team physicians were fully aware of Strauss’ activities, and yet few seemed inclined to do anything to stop it,” the report states. Students, it adds, said they had the impression the abuse was a form of hazing or a rite of passage.
The university took disciplinary action against Strauss only after a series of student complaints in the mid-1990s. Even after that, he opened an off-campus private men’s health clinic near the university — where he continued to abuse patients — and kept his title as a tenured faculty professor.
As Gabe Rosenberg and Adora Namigadde of member station WOSU reported:
“At least 50 students have filed lawsuits against Ohio State, arguing the university knew about and declined to act in response to complaints about Strauss. Their case is headed to mediation.
” ‘It’s what we’ve been saying—they’ve failed to act—investigate or act, and now we have validation,’ said Brian Garrett, one of the lead plaintiffs, in an interview Friday.
“The university has referred the report to Columbus Police, the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.”
The investigators and the university’s president thanked the survivors for coming forward to share their stories.
“This independent investigation was completed because of the strength and courage of survivors,” Drake said.
Read the investigative report here:
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Two GOP Senate chairmen are asking for the Treasury Department to hand over any documents related to Hunter Biden and a Ukrainian energy company amid an ongoing impeachment inquiry against President TrumpDonald John TrumpApple CEO Tim Cook promises to fight for DACA, user privacy DOJ urges Supreme Court to side with Trump in ongoing legal battle over tax returns Giuliani associate willing to inform Congress of meeting between Nunes and former Ukrainian official: report MORE.
In a letter dated Nov. 15, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyTrump says drug importation plan coming ‘soon’ The Hill’s Morning Report — Schiff: Clear evidence of a quid pro quo Trump steps up GOP charm offensive as impeachment looms MORE (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonGOP senator opposes quick dismissal of Trump articles of impeachment Graham requests State Department documents on Bidens, Ukraine House GOP wants Senate Republicans to do more on impeachment MORE (R-Wis.) asked for “suspicious activity reports” involving former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGiuliani associate willing to inform Congress of meeting between Nunes and former Ukrainian official: report Yang slams lack of speaking time during debate Biden on Bloomberg entering 2020 race: ‘I welcome the competition’ MORE‘s son, Reuters reported Friday.
The documents do not include findings about any illegal activity itself but are filed by financial institutions when money laundering or fraud is suspected. It is unknown if any such reports exist involving Hunter Biden, and the GOP letter did not include any evidence that Hunter Biden engaged in any activity that would be covered in such reports, according to Reuters.
Hunter Biden has denied any wrongdoing involving his work for the Ukrainian company, Burisma Holdings, which President Trump and his Republican allies have targeted. Trump has claimed without evidence that Joe Biden pushed for Ukraine to fire a prosecutor due to his son’s business interests, though both have denied such allegations.
The GOP senators said Burisma was paying Hunter Biden as much as $50,000 a month and that their committees were investigating “potentially improper actions by the Obama administration with respect to Burisma Holdings and Ukraine,” according to Reuters.
The two chairmen previously asked the State Department for documents related to Hunter Biden and Burisma. The lawmakers gave the Treasury Department a Dec. 5 deadline for the information requested on Friday.
The letter comes as House Democrats continue their impeachment inquiry into Trump over his dealings with Ukraine, with the probe centered on the president’s efforts to get the country to launch politically charged investigations, including a probe into the Bidens.
Democrats have blasted Trump over the efforts targeting Joe Biden, who is a top political rival and a front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
As the House held public hearings over the past two weeks to hear from current and former administration witnesses in the inquiry, GOP lawmakers have aimed to shift gears and focus instead on unsubstantiated allegations involving Hunter Biden in Ukraine.
Joe Biden’s campaign told Reuters that the request means “Trump is now counting on his Republican enablers in the Senate to bail him out.”
“Driven by fear of a mean tweet, they are falling in line, peddling the same disproven lies we’ve heard for months,” campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said.
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