Vctor de la Cruz Eizaguirre asumi el cargo de gobernador de Ayacucho desde el pasado 16 de junio, luego de la sentencia en primera instancia a cinco aos de pena privativa de la libertad contra Wilfredo Oscorima Nez.
Luego de la suspensión por 120 días en el cargo al gobernador regional, Wilfredo Oscorima Núñez, por el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE), el Consejo Regional elegirá al vicegobernador en los próximas días.
El presidente del ente legislativo del Gobierno Regional, Victor Pillaca, señaló que cuando el JNE notifique oficialmente se convocará a una sesión para elegir al vicegobernador, que según la Ley Orgánica de Gobiernos Regionales cualquiera de los 14 consejeros podría asumir tras la votación a mano alzada.
Como se informó, Víctor de la Cruz Eizaguirre, quien se desempeñaba como vicegobernador, asumió el cargo de gobernador luego de la sentencia en primera instancia a cinco años de pena privativa de la libertad contra Oscorima Núñez.
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FOX News correspondent Garrett Tenney has the latest from Chicago on ‘Special Report’
The Chicago Teachers Union has raised eyebrows with a bizarre music video artistically expressing members’ refusal to return to schools during the coronavirus pandemic unless it is “safe.”
Last weekend, thousands of Chicago educators voted against resuming in-person teaching as scheduled Monday, defying a district order for them to return to the classroom.
On Saturday, the CTU shared a music video meant to drive its message of safety for its educators.
“Six of our rank-and-file dance teachers come together to use their art form as a voice to express their desire to feel safe amidst [Chicago Public Schools’] teacher return policy. They stand in solidarity with all educators at risk, because no one should have to choose between life and livelihood,” CTU tweeted.
The video, titled “The Moment We’re Safe,” shows five teachers dancing in their living rooms, some accompanied by dance partners, while another performs outside.
“Make it make sense!” a narrator exclaims. “Safety is essential. Keep our students and teachers safe.”
“It’s our livelihood versus our lives … In this moment, be safe. Our children deserve to be safe. We want to feel safe … Safe return or no return,” the narrator continues.
The video has since gone viral and received plenty of mockery on Tuesday.
“Dear God,” National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker reacted.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced the country was immediately banning “military-style semi-automatic weapons” after last week’s attack that killed 50 people at two mosques.
Speaking to reporters, the prime minister said the weapons would be banned in addition to “all assault rifles,” among other firearms. Ardern said that legislation is currently being drafted and she expects the law to take effect by April 11.
“We will ban all high-capacity magazines. We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semiautomatic, or any other type of firearm, into a military-style semi-automatic weapon,” the prime minister said. “In short, every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country.”
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a press conference following the March 15 mosque shooting, in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Kyodo News via AP)
Ardern said the government is working on a large-scale buyback plan for citizens possessing the weapons affected by the ban. The plan will allow the guns to be surrendered to police and “eventually destroyed.” Once the buyback is complete, she said, owners would receive “fair and reasonable compensation,” but did not elaborate.
Those who still possess banned guns after a “reasonable period for returns” has passed will be found breaking the law, Ardern said. Penalties will include fines of up to $4,000 and/or three years in prison, with the draft legislation proposing stiffer measures.
Ardern also said she and the Cabinet would work through legal exemptions to the ban, such as for farmers needing to cull their herds but said any exemptions would be “tightly regulated.”
“We do have guns in New Zealand that are used for legitimate purposes by responsible owners every single day and that includes our rural community that manage pests, use for animal welfare and also for recreation,” Ardern said.
Ardern said she believes the vast majority of these owners will support the ban because it’s about “national interest” and “safety.”
The ban comes six days after a gunman opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch. The massacre left 50 people dead and dozens of others injured.
Ardern said the man suspected of the attack bought his weapons legally with a standard gun license and modified their capacity by using 30-round magazines, “essentially turning them into military-style semi-automatic weapons.”
The 28-year-old suspect bought the weapons “through a simple online purchase,” she said, and “took a significant number of lives using primarily two guns.”
Mourners arrive for a burial service of a victim from the March 15 mosque shootings at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand on Thursday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
The alleged shooter, whom Fox News is not naming, has been charged with one count of murder in the attacks, which became New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting in modern history. He is expected to face additional charges at his next court appearance April 5.
Ardern’s announcement came as more of the dead were being buried. At least six funerals were held Thursday. Preparations were underway for a massive prayer service to be held Friday, with nearly 4,000 people expected to attend.
White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday urged Americans to make sure they receive their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccines, saying the second shot provides “dramatic” benefits.
Pfizer‘s and Moderna‘s Covid vaccines require two doses given three to four weeks apart. Both vaccines are about 95% effective against the virus, but that strong protection doesn’t kick in until two weeks after the second dose, officials say.
Fauci said Friday that about 8% of Americans who received one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna Covid vaccines have not returned for their second shot. But skipping the second dose could cause problems for those Americans, he said, because a single shot of the vaccine triggers a weaker immune response compared with two.
Fauci cited numerous scientific studies, including a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published Wednesday that found the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are 64% effective at preventing hospitalizations in the elderly after one shot, but 94% effective after two doses. The study evaluated 417 hospitalized adults across 14 states from January to March.
“If you’re having a two-dose regimen, make sure you’re getting that second dose,” he said during a White House briefing on the coronavirus pandemic.
Early on, officials and public health experts said they worried it would be difficult for some Americans, especially working-class people who cannot as easily take time off, to return for a second dose. Still, officials have said the uptake of second shots is better than expected.
On Friday, Fauci also urged health-care providers to make sure they quickly reschedule canceled visits for second shots.
Fauci’s remarks come as the U.S. is experiencing its first true slowdown in the rate of daily vaccinations after months of a steady climb. The country is averaging 2.6 million reported vaccinations per day over the past week, CDC data shows, down from a peak of 3.4 million reported shots per day on April 13.
His comments also come as the U.S. is tracking highly contagious new variants of the virus. Fauci has previously said two doses of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s Covid vaccines are better than one to protect against variants.
Earlier this month, Fauci offered advice for those who have reported being diagnosed with Covid after receiving their first vaccine shot and before receiving their second shot.
He said people who get infected with the coronavirus between Covid-19 vaccine shots can get their second dose after they’ve recovered from the illness and are no longer considered contagious.
President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Obamacare, a day after his administration asked a federal court to strike down the entire law. Speaking in the Oval Office, he said Republicans “will be the party of great health care.” (March 27) AP
Media captionThe BBC’s Will Grant describes the view of the devastation from above as “disturbing”
International leaders gathering at the G7 summit are reportedly nearing an agreement to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday a deal to provide “technical and financial help” was close.
Leaders from the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Canada continue their meeting in the seaside town of Biarritz on Monday.
It comes amid international tension over record fires burning in Brazil.
Critics have accused Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, of “green lighting” the Amazon’s destruction through anti-environmental rhetoric and a lack of action on deforestation violations.
The severity of the fires, and his government’s response, has prompted global outcry and protests.
President Macron last week described the fires as an “international crisis” and pushed for them to be prioritised at the G7 summit this weekend.
On Sunday he said the leaders are “all agreed on helping those countries which have been hit by the fires as fast as possible.
“Our teams are making contact with all the Amazon countries so we can finalise some very concrete commitments involving technical resources and funding.”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain would provide £10m to protect the Amazon rainforest.
What is Brazil doing?
On Friday, facing mounting pressure from abroad, President Bolsonaro authorised the military to help tackle the blazes.
The Defence Ministry has said that 44,000 troops are available to help in the effort and officials said on Sunday that military intervention has been authorised in seven states.
Warplanes have also been drafted in to dump water on the areas affected.
The president tweeted on Sunday that he had also accepted an offer of support from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Protests calling for intervention have continued in Brazil across the weekend
President Bolsonaro has previously been critical of the response of foreign governments and accused them of interfering in Brazil’s national sovereignty.
Announcing the military help in a television address on Friday, President Bolsonaro insisted forest fires “exist in the whole world” and said they “cannot serve as a pretext for possible international sanctions”.
On Saturday, EU Council president Donald Tusk admitted it was hard to imagine the bloc ratifying the long-awaited EU-Mercosur agreement – a landmark trade deal with South American nations – while Brazil was still failing to curb the blazes.
As criticism mounted again last week, Finland’s finance minister went as far as calling for the EU to consider banning Brazilian beef imports altogether.
They say more than 75,000 have been recorded in Brazil so far in 2019, most of them in the Amazon region.
Environmental activists have drawn links between President Bolsonaro’s attitudes towards the environment and the recent surge in the number of fires in the famous rainforest.
Media captionMembers of Brazil’s indigenous Mura tribe vow to defend their land
President Bolsonaro has been accused of emboldening miners and loggers who deliberately start fires to illegally deforest land. Earlier this month he accused Inpe of trying to undermine his government with data revealing sharp increases in deforestation levels.
Neighbouring Bolivia is also struggling to contain fires burning in its forests.
On Sunday President Evo Morales suspended his re-election campaign and said he was prepared to accept international help to tackle blazes in his country’s Chiquitania region.
Why is the Amazon important?
As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming. It spans a number of countries, but the majority of it falls within Brazil.
Media captionWhy the Amazon rainforest helps fight climate change
It is known as the “lungs of the world” for its role in absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
The rainforest is also home to about three million species of plants and animals and one million indigenous people.
Political leaders, celebrities and environmentalists are among those who have called for action to protect the Amazon.
Thousands of protesters have also taken to the streets across the world calling on governments to intervene.
On Sunday, Pope Francis also joined the call to protect the rainforest.
“We are all worried about the vast fires that have developed in the Amazon. Let us pray so that with the commitment of all, they can be put out soon. That lung of forests is vital for our planet,” he told thousands of people in St Peter’s Square.
Media captionWorldwide protests over Brazilian government inaction on Amazon fires
The Trump Organization requested and received at least 192 visas for foreign workers in 2018, according to Department of Labor data. That number appears to be the highest for the company going back to at least 2008 and likely much earlier, based on public records.
The nearly two decades’ worth of data were pulled together by the Democratic research group American Bridge and shared with TPM, which then reviewed the raw Labor Department information files.Those visas were almost entirely for the type of low-skilled foreign workers that Trump has claimed drive down American wages. Cooks, servers, housekeepers and farmworkers make up a large chunk of the Trump Organization’s requests, most of them making between $10 and $15 hourly.
“I know there’s considerable public support for it, but right now we’re targeting struggling families, failing businesses, health-care workers, and we don’t have a stimulus check to every single person, regardless of need,” Collins told reporters.
It also projects the wrong image to America’s enemies and allies, as a cascading series of leadership changes calls into question the stability of America’s sea service.
“There is never a good time for a crisis in leadership, but having it in the middle of a pandemic is a particularly awful time,” said Ray Mabus, who served as Navy secretary under former President Barack Obama.
Lawmakers, national security experts and Navy veterans alike disavowed Modly’s extraordinary remarks to the crew of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt on Sunday. Modly had just fired Capt. Brett Crozier for blasting an email to Navy personnel asking for aid as the carrier was forced to dock in Guam, coronavirus running rampant through the ship’s decks.
In a speech to the crew that was later leaked to the media, Modly called Crozier’s actions “naïve” and “stupid.” The decision to give the address, as well as the abrupt move to fire Crozier before uniformed Navy officials had completed an investigation into the incident, crossed a critical line, upsetting the delicate balance between civilian and military control of the service, former officials said.
“The final adjudication is with the chief of naval personnel,” said retired Vice Adm. John Miller, former commander of 5th Fleet, which oversees the Middle East. “Having Modly, who is senior to everyone in uniform in the Navy, be the relieving officer makes that whole review process more difficult.”
Others called for the speedy confirmation of a permanent replacement for the last Senate-confirmed Navy secretary, Richard Spencer. After Spencer was ousted in late November over his handling of Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher — President Donald Trump wanted the chief’s SEAL insignia restored after granting the sailor clemency — Trump nominated Kenneth Braithwaite, the former ambassador to Norway, for the job. Yet his nomination has languished in the Senate for several weeks.
After a break-neck chain of events that began when Crozier’s letter asking for help surfaced on March 31, followed by Modly’s firing, his speech to the crew and Tuesday’s departure, the Navy Department now finds itself under the temporary leadership of James McPherson, retired rear admiral who was confirmed to be the Army’s No. 2 a mere 15 days ago.
“The Department of the Navy needs to have a Senate-confirmed Secretary of the Navy — now,” said Michael Mulroy, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy until December and now works for ABC News.
After meeting with Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday morning, Modly sent a letter to his boss saying it was time to go.
“He resigned on his own accord, putting the Navy and Sailors above self so that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and the Navy as an institution, can move forward,” Esper said in a statement.
In his resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, Modly thanked Esper and Trump for their “confidence” in him.
“More than anything, I owe every member of the Navy and Marine Corps team a lifetime of gratitude for the opportunity to serve for them, and with them, once again,” Modly wrote. “The men and women of the Department of the Navy deserve a continuity of civilian leadership befitting our great Republic, and the decisive naval force that secures our way of life.”
Modly was more loquacious in a memo to the force, in which he acknowledged that he “lost situational awareness” during his address to the Roosevelt’s crew.
“You are justified in being angry with me about that,” Modly wrote in the memo. “There is no excuse, but perhaps a glimpse of understanding, and hopefully empathy.”
“I am deeply sorry for some of the words and for how they spread across the media landscape like a wildfire,” Modly continued.
Later in the four-page memo, Modly urged sailors not to “ be afraid” to bring up issues of concern to their immediate superiors, but noted that “there is a proper, courteous and respectful way to do this.”
Just hours earlier, on Monday night, Modly apologized to the crew and its former captain,
“I want to apologize to the Navy for my recent comments to the crew of the TR,” Modly said in a statement. “Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naïve nor stupid. I think, and always believed him to be the opposite.”
Yet the mea culpa wasn’t enough. On Monday and continuing throughout the day Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers called on Modly to resign or be fired.
Mabus criticized Crozier’s remarks, noting in an interview that “the notion that a civilian leader would go on a warship and say these things about a captain who was obviously beloved and who had done this for his crew just defies imagination.”
Mabus blamed Trump for cultivating an environment in which “the only people who seem to thrive are people who either emulate or suck up to him.” He accused the president of politicizing the military and interfering with the military’s regular justice system.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will head to Philadelphia Saturday, for the third and final phase of his presidential campaign rollout — making his pitch to unite the country.
Biden will hold his first campaign rally in Eakin’s Oval near the famous “Rocky steps” of the Philadelphia Art Museum Saturday afternoon.
The rally, which was announced the same day Biden officially entered the race in April, will focus on his vision “for unifying America with respected leadership on the world stage — and dignified leadership at home,” according to a press release from the campaign.
The event is seen as an unofficial bookend to the campaign launch.
An excerpt of the speech released by the campaign Saturday morning previews Biden’s pitch on unity. Biden will argue that while some Democrats argue for using anger to chart a path toward victory against President Trump in 2020, Biden will provide “a different path” for members of all political parties, rather than the divisive leadership of the current president.
“Some say Democrats don’t want to hear about unity, that they are angry — and the angrier you are, the better. That’s what they are saying to have to do to win the Democratic nomination. Well, I don’t believe it. I believe Democrats want to unify this nation. That’s what we’ve always been about. Unity,” the excerpt says.
“If the American people want a president to add to our division, to lead with a clenched fist, closed hand and a hard heart, to demonize the opponents and spew hatred — they don’t need me. They already have a President who does just that. I am running to offer our country – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – a different path,” according to the excerpt.
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Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden pauses while speaking at a campaign stop in Manchester, New Hampshire, May 13, 2019.
The rally will be much larger than Biden’s previous events in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. A campaign official told ABC News that a crowd of 2,000 is expected at the event.
The campaign has placed a heavy focus on Philadelphia as the “birthplace of American democracy,” and the rally location was chosen for that reason.
“It was here that two of the most important documents in the world’s history were written,” another excerpt of Biden’s prepared remarks read.
“In 1776, the Declaration of Independence: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’ Those words formed the American creed. Equality. Equity. Fairness. America didn’t live up to that promise for most of its people, for people of color, for women. But we are born of the idea that every single person in this country — no matter where you start in life — there’s nothing that’s beyond your capacity if you work hard enough for it,” the excerpt read.
The campaign announced Thursday Philadelphia would also be home to their headquarters.
“Philadelphia is a thriving city and a testament to the American spirit, built by the ingenuity and tenacity of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Its storied history and celebrated diversity will serve as an inspiration for Team Biden, and is the ideal setting to continue our fight for the soul of this nation,” Biden’s campaign manager Greg Shultz said in a press release announcing the headquarters.
Both Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, were born in the key swing state that will be vital for any Democrat taking on Trump to win in 2020, and a Quinnipiac poll out this week indicates Biden has strong appeal among Democrats in the Keystone State. Biden took the top spot in the poll, with 39% of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania naming the former vice president as their preferred candidate.
The poll also found Biden beat Trump in a head-to-head in a match-up in the state, 53% to 42%.
Since announcing his presidential run on April 25, Biden has focused his message on why he decided to run — his view that the country is in a battle for the soul of America, and restoring the middle class as the backbone of the economy.
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Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a rally with members of a painters and construction union, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Henderson, Nev.
A campaign official tells ABC News that following the rally Saturday, the campaign will shift to a new phase — focusing on Biden’s policy proposals, and what he will do as president.
The rollouts will give “specifics of the policies that Vice President Biden has believed in and has fought for his entire career and will make the centerpiece of a Biden White House,” according to the official.
After Biden’s rally Saturday, the former vice president will travel to Tennessee, Florida and Texas in the coming weeks — three states Trump won in 2016. Biden’s full schedule for those trips has yet to be announced.
Since getting into the race, Biden has taken the top spot all polls of the Democratic field, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker.
Biden has maintained he will “not speak ill of a fellow Democrat,” but his frontrunner status has put a target on his back from his fellow Democrats. Biden has faced criticism from his opponents on issues from criminal justice reform, to climate change — a sign of what could come in the Democratic debates next month.
Democrats insist, despite little chance of a conviction.
Former President Donald Trump parted ways with five of his impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, Fox News has confirmed.
South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier and former federal prosecutors Greg Harris, Johnny Gasser and Josh Howard had left the defense team by Saturday, a source said, calling it a mutual decision.
The source said the lawyers left over a difference of opinion on the direction of the defense’s argument.
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South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier have left the defense team, a source said.
Trump was impeached earlier this month for “incitement of insurrection” over the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots.
South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier have left the defense team, a source said.
Trump was impeached earlier this month for “incitement of insurrection” over the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots.
New additions were expected to join in the week ahead.
Another anonymous source told the Associated Press Bowers and Barbier left because Trump wanted them to make election fraud allegations during the trial.
The upheaval injected fresh uncertainty into the makeup and strategy of Trump’s defense team as he prepared to face charges that he incited the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Trump was all but certain to be acquitted, however, because 45 out of 50 Republicans in the Senate voted earlier this month to dismiss the trial on a point of order brought forward by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
The remaining five Republicans voted with Democrats to end debate on Paul’s motion that argued Trump’s impeachment trial is unconstitutional because he’s no longer in office.
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While the senators said they have agreed on the thorny issue of how to pay for infrastructure, the funding methods could still divide lawmakers. Biden and Democrats have called to raise the corporate tax rate to offset investments, but Republicans have said they will not reverse their 2017 tax cuts. The White House wants to hike the corporate rate to at least 25% from the current 21%.
Earlier Thursday, Sen. Jon Tester — a Montana Democrat who has joined the negotiations — suggested the funding for the plan could come from multiple sources.
“Part of what I’m concerned about is that maybe what we’re projecting on the numbers, on the pay-fors, because they’re not taxes. They’re fees. They’re funds. They’re different vats of money out there, or pots of money out there, that we can draw out of,” he told MSNBC.
The White House has stayed in touch with the Senate negotiators as Biden targets an infrastructure bill as his second major legislative initiative. The president first put forward a $2.3 trillion plan, but scaled back his offer to $1.7 trillion during talks with Capito.
Biden has asked for at least $600 billion in new spending above the baseline already set by Congress, Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican involved in the talks, told reporters.
Although they control both chambers of Congress, Democrats face a complicated path toward passing an infrastructure plan. While they can approve a bill on their own in the evenly divided Senate through budget reconciliation, they have to keep all 50 members of their caucus on board.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has insisted he wants to pass a bill with support from both parties. He could hold up a Democratic proposal on his own. Manchin is part of the negotiating group.
The bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus released its own infrastructure plan this week. The proposal would cost $1.25 trillion, including $762 billion in new spending. The group did not say how it would pay for the investments.
Meanwhile, the House has moved forward with a five-year, $547 billion surface transportation funding bill that Democrats could use to pass major pieces of Biden’s infrastructure plan. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Thursday that Democrats aim to vote on the legislation as soon as the end of the month.
Biden’s initial plan called for a range of investments in clean energy, housing, schools and care for elderly and disabled Americans, all of which Republicans have called unrelated to infrastructure.
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