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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been able to maintain a healthy lead over President Donald Trump with about two months until the presidential election, according to multiple recent national polls.

While much can change in the coming weeks, more than 10 polls released in the last week show Biden with at least a 2 percentage point lead — and as much as a 10 percentage point lead — on his rival. Taken together, the surveys give the Democratic nominee an average national lead of 6.9 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics’s analysis. The results indicate that the former vice president’s dominance in the polls over the sitting president endures — despite Biden’s advantage narrowing from a 10 percentage point average lead in late June.

Biden performed the best in polls conducted by Quinnipiac (taken from August 28 to August 31) and CBS News/YouGov (taken from September 2 to 4): Both found he had a 10 percentage point lead over Trump, with 42 percent of likely voters saying they would vote for Trump and 52 percent saying they would vote for Biden. Polls taken in late August and early September from Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP, CNN/SSRS and Grinnell College found a lead of 8 points, while those from USA Today/Suffolk University and Reuters/Ipsos found Biden had a lead of 7 points. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll had him leading by 6 points.

Other polls taken during the same time period found Biden’s lead to be much smaller, however. A poll from Emerson College of more than 1,500 likely voters found Biden had only a 2 percentage point lead, for example — a result that, taking into account the poll’s with a 2.4 percent margin of error, would make Biden and Trump essentially tied.

In general, Trump’s popularity with voters appears to have risen slightly following the end of the Republican National Convention on August 28, but that post-convention bounce has not been significant enough to eat into Biden’s lead in any recent national poll.

Trump has an edge on the economy, Biden led on everything else

In a presidential election year marked by a seemingly neverending public health crisis, massive protests over racial injustice and police brutality, and ongoing financial instability due to coronavirus closures, voters indicated that safety and security will be top of mind as they head to the ballot boxes — regardless of who they see as having better solutions.

Voters in most of the polls indicated that they have greater trust in Trump’s ability to handle the economy, a rare bright spot for the president.

“Biden is the bring-us-together candidate, while Trump is Mr. fix-the-economy,” Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll director Mark Penn told The Hill. Their poll found 53 percent of Americans trust Trump over Biden to make the economy rebound.

But when it comes to most other issues, voters seemed to trust the former vice president.

Significantly more respondents to the Quinnipiac poll said Biden would do a better job handling racial inequality (58 to 36 percent) and the coronavirus (56 to 40 percent) than Trump would. And this spread is indicative of the results in many of the other recent polls.

From more pointed questions about safety to the reliability of a vaccine, foreign policy or health care, most of the surveys echo one another — voters trusted Biden more than Trump to handle a crisis.

“While the president has been pushing the issue of safety to the center of the presidential campaign, it raises the question: Who most has your back, the current administration, or the challengers?” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said. “As racial strife, a seemingly endless pandemic, and an economy on life support unnerve Americans, voters foresee a more reliable lifeline in the Biden Harris ticket.”

Two months from November, the polls can still swing

Of course, there are still two months until Election Day, and any number of unforeseen circumstances could lead to dramatic changes in polling.

In fact, at the same point in the 2016 election cycle, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was leading in national polls against Trump. Biden had an average 7 percentage point lead over the president when August came to a close, and Clinton had an average 4 point lead at the same time four years ago. Trump enjoyed closer polling margins with Clinton throughout the 2016 cycle, but she still outranked him for most of the year before the election.

Four years out, experts say one of things pollsters missed in 2016 was the need to correct for a bias toward college-educated voters, who are more likely to respond to polls and were less likely to vote for Trump. And as Li Zhou has explained for Vox, many polls in the 2016 election failed to capture voters who made up their minds at the last minute.

Recent polls suggest most voters have made up their minds who they want to vote for this year — the CBS News/YouGov poll found only 3 percent of voters are undecided — but that does not mean Biden will have a 7 point lead on Election Day. These polls simply show how voters were thinking about the race over the last few weeks, not how they will feel on November 3 — or even if they will vote at all.

Some experts have noted there’s evidence to show that when people think a candidate is extremely likely to win, they’re more apt to stay home on Election Day. And exactly how the pandemic will affect voting, beyond record requests for mail-in ballots, remains to be seen.

Uncertainties like these have Democrats warning their base not to get complacent, despite Biden maintaining a national lead. Whether they’re successful in driving turnout — and whether polling will reflect results — remains to be seen.


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Noticias Telemundo’s “Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” (Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community) Town Hall broadcast on Sunday, February 12 at 7PM/6 C, ranked # 1 in Spanish-language TV in primetime across all key demographics, averaging 1.57 million total viewers, 708,000 adults 18 to 49 and 325,000 adults 18 to 34, according to Nielsen. The news special moderated by Noticias Telemundo News Anchor José Díaz-Balart also positioned Telemundo as the #1 Spanish-language network during the entire primetime on Sunday, across all key demos.

“Noticias Telemundo is empowering millions of Latinos with reliable and TRANSPARENT information at a time of change,” said José Díaz-Balart. “Viewers trust us because they know our only commitment is to present the facts the way they are, with professionalism and a total commitment to our community.”

“Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community” also reached 1.6 million viewers on Facebook, generating 23,000 global actions on the social network.

The Town Hall answered viewers’ questions about the impact of President Trump’s immigration policy on the Hispanic community. The news special featured a panel of experts, including immigration lawyer and Telemundo contributor Alma Rosa Nieto; Telemundo conservative political analyst Ana Navarro; the Deputy Vice President of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Clarissa Martínez, and CHIRLA’s Executive Director, Angélica Salas. In addition, “El Poder en Ti”, Telemundo’s robust community initiative, launched an Internet site for Hispanics looking for information, tools and resources on immigration in parallel to the Town Hall.

“Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” is part of a series of Noticias Telemundo specials, including “Trump en la Casa Blanca,” produced the day after the elections, and “Trump y los Latinos,” which aired on Inauguration Day. All of these programs share an emphasis on allowing audiences to express their views and empower them by giving them access to trustworthy, rigorous and relevant information presented under Noticias Telemundo’s banner “Telling It Like It Is” (“Las Cosas Como Son” in Spanish).

Noticias Telemundo is the information unit of Telemundo Network and a leader provider in news serving the US Hispanics across all broadcast and digital platforms. Its award-winning television news broadcasts include the daily newscast “Noticias Telemundo,” the Sunday current affairs show “Enfoque con José Díaz-Balart” and the daily news and entertainment magazine “Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste.” The rapidly-growing “Noticias Telemundo Digital Team” provides continuous content to US Hispanics wherever they are, whenever they want it. Noticias Telemundo also produces award winning news specials, documentaries and news event such as political debates, forums and town halls.

Source: Nielsen L+SD IMP, 2/12/17. TEL #1 SLTV (vs UNI, UMA, AZA, ETV). Shareablee, 2/6/17-2/12/17.

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Spain now has the second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases behind the U.S., while China held a nationwide day of mourning as it gradually brings the disease under control. The United Nations said it will make a decision later in the month as to whether it will postpone September’s General Assembly meeting in New York. Roxana Saberi breaks down the virus’ global impact from the U.K., where the death toll has jumped to over 3,300.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that hospitalizations from COVID-19 grew 16% over the last two weeks as the state reported more than 46,000 new cases of the virus, marking significant increases as more Californians begin to return to a sense of normalcy.

The Democratic governor started easing his stay-at-home order roughly six weeks ago and has now allowed 54 of 58 counties in the state to open businesses again. Newsom also noted a modest uptick in the rate of positive cases — from 4.5% to 4.8% — in the last week. The number of patients in intensive care has also increased by 11% over two weeks, he said.

“Those that suggest we’re out of the woods, those that suggest this somehow is going to disappear, these numbers tell a very, very different and sobering story,” Newsom said.

The state has closely monitored hospitalizations and positivity rates as key metrics in determining the spread of the coronavirus in California. Newsom has repeatedly said that the state may need to reinstate some of the restrictions of the stay-at-home order if those metrics spike, but has so far declined to provide details on the level of increases that would serve as an impetus to do so.

The governor said he felt confident that the state will be able to respond to the virus in the weeks and months ahead.

“We’ve always walked into this with our eyes wide open. We’ve always prepared for a surge,” Newsom said. “We’re in that band, where I feel like we anticipated the likelihood as we’ve reopened, of the numbers increasing, and they have.”

When asked how worried he felt about the data, Newsom pointed to some of the economic effects of the shutdown, including the 5.7 million Californians seeking unemployment benefits, and said poverty and hunger also have “profound health impacts.”

“One has to be mindful of that as well,” Newsom said. “That’s why we’ve worked hard to safely reopen the economy. That’s why we’ve given the tools to the locals to make the decisions for themselves.”

Last week, Newsom required Californians to wear masks in most public settings. On Monday, he repeated a call for people to move about safely when in public.

“Wear your masks. Practice physical distancing. Continue the hygiene that is so foundational in terms of mitigating the spread of this virus,” Newsom said. “We’re not discussing yet the second wave because we still need to work through the first wave of this virus.”

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Cuando Juan Domingo Perón asumió como secretario de Trabajo y Previsión se entregó a generar un vínculo con la vieja guardia sindical. En ese entonces había cuatro centrales sindicales: La FORA (Federacón Obrera Regional Argentina) de tendencia anarquista, La USA (Unión Sindical Argentina), sindicalista, y además la CGT (Confederación General del Trabajo) dividida en dos facciones manejadas por los comunistas y los socialistas respectivamente. Pero el alcance de estas organizaciones era limitado. Solo el 20% de la clase obrera estaba sindicalizado. Una encuesta de 1937 reportó que en la Capital Federal el 60% de las familias obreras vivían hacinados en una sola habitación cada una.


Durante este período una serie de conquistas laborales largamente procuradas habían logrado materializarse gracias al apoyo y el impulso que desde el Estado el Coronel Perón estaba protagonizando. Esto llenó de estupor a los dirigentes sindicales: “Los dirigentes sindicales descubren que el logro de sus demandas largamente postergadas no tiene por qué esperar el advenimiento de un orden democrático. Visto desde los supuestos que hasta entonces habían animado la acción sindical, el descubrimiento no podía ser más embarazoso” Estas posturas explican el dificultoso acercamiento inicial de los líderes sindicales a Perón.


Sin embargo, las organizaciones patronales se pusieron en alerta. El 16 de junio de 1945 trecientas asociaciones de la Cámara de Comercio y la Unión Industrial dieron a conocer el “Manifiesto de las fuerzas vivas” en protesta por la política social oficial. Entre otros cuestionamientos al gobierno, lo que más les molestó fue “la agitación subversiva” en las empresas. Los empresarios pasaron abiertamente a la oposición y los dirigentes sindicales que intentaban con esmero transitar una posición intermedia y a la expectativa de no quedar del lado del bando perdedor, jugaron un oportunismo cada vez más insostenible. Una polarización creciente coloreó la política de ese entonces.


Las movilizaciones opositoras pidieron “Todo el poder a la Corte Suprema de Justicia” y la renuncia de Perón.


El presiente Farrell estaba dispuesto a entregar al Coronel pero no quería que las FFAA se retiren del gobierno en forma humillante.

Perón, viéndose debilitado, antes que obligar a los sindicalistas a tomar partido recurriendo a la amenaza, prefirió prudentemente fortalecer los para entonces frágiles lazos que lo unían a sus aliados sindicales redoblando las concesiones desde la Secretaría de Trabajo; la más importante de ellas fue la promulgación de un nuevo estatuto sindical, que incorporó numerosas exigencias de los dirigentes obreros. Aprovechó cuanta oportunidad se le ofrecía para contraatacar y, por la radio oficial, ante las delegaciones obreras que concurrían a la Secretaría de Trabajo, se embarcó en una frenética campaña oratoria y, utilizando una retórica novedosa, proclamó el “fin de la dominación burguesa”, el inevitable advenimiento de la era de las masas y denunció, el “complot reaccionario”. El brillo de la actuación no alcanzó a disimular, sin embargo, que el suyo era, más que nunca, un combate solitario.


El 9 de octubre, finalmente las FFAA le soltaron la mano y debió dimitir. A partir de ese momento una serie de sucesos extraordinarios y muy significativos se sucedieron. Muchos dirigentes sindicales que comúnmente no se relacionaban entre sí decidieron juntarse ese fin de semana para discutir la situación y los pasos a seguir. Algunos se mostraron resignados, otros propusieron resistir y una mayoría dudó. Acordaron visitar a Perón en su residencia para expresarle su solidaridad y es allí donde deciden hacer un acto de despedida para que el Coronel les dedique una palabras. Solo 5 horas después cerca de 70.000 personas asistieron a ese acto. Y la nota más insólita es que se le permitió dirigir su mensaje por la Cadena Nacional de Radio.


El día 13 de octubre se supo que Perón fue detenido en la Isla Martín García, y para los trabajadores en las fábricas esa fue la señal inequívoca de que lo que se venía era una contraofensiva patronal. La efervescencia vino desde abajo y las dudas de la dirigencia ocasionaron que las bases y dirigentes intermedios los sobrepasaran ampliamente. Por primera vez se declaró una huelga general sin respetar los procedimientos habituales, a pura presión, para el 18 de octubre. Pero desde la mañana del 17 muchas fábricas comenzaron a ser paralizadas por sus trabajadores, no en forma espontánea, sino por medio de sus organizaciones de base y deciden el inusual camino de la movilización a Plaza de Mayo.


“Queremos a Perón” fue la consigna de todo el día, en su doble acepción de querer por filiación política y el querer de: liberenló y que venga a esta plaza. Recién a la medianoche se definió la jornada y Perón le habló a la multitud llamándolos “Trabajadores”.


Como todo liderazgo, como toda relación carismática, el peronismo nació desde una construcción social, Perón se convirtió en la vía elegida por los trabajadores argentinos para canalizar sus demandas y defender sus conquistas. Pero el movimiento trascendió largamente al líder. Perón fue el conductor por 29 años de los 70 que lleva de existencia. Una construcción social que se vuelve a refundar y revalidar cuando los sectores populares se expresan. 

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Cuba y Estados Unidos, enemistados durante más de medio siglo tras el triunfo de la Revolución castrista, inauguran hoy una nueva era con el restablecimiento de sus relaciones diplomáticas, rotas en 1961, y la reapertura de sus embajadas en La Habana y Washington.

Desde este lunes es formalmente efectiva esa restauración diplomática y con ello las hasta ahora secciones de intereses de ambos países se convierten en embajadas, lo que culmina la primera fase del histórico deshielo anunciado hace siete meses, el 17 de diciembre de 2014, por los presidentes Barack Obama y Raúl Castro.

Este mismo lunes, la bandera de Cuba volverá a ondear en su sede diplomática de Washington, con una ceremonia solemne que encabezará el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la isla, Bruno Rodríguez, que ha viajado a la capital estadounidense junto a una delegación de 30 representantes de diversos sectores de la sociedad cubana.

A la ceremonia de Washington asistirán más de 500 invitados, entre ellos congresistas y representantes del Gobierno de EE.UU. como la secretaria de Estado adjunta para Latinoamérica, Roberta Jacobson, así como personas, grupos e instituciones del país norteamericano que han defendido el acercamiento entre ambos países.

En la isla, los cubanos podrán seguir ese acto en directo a través de la televisión estatal, que ha preparado una cobertura especial para tal fin.

Finalizada la ceremonia, Bruno Rodríguez, primer jefe de la diplomacia cubana que viaja oficialmente a EEUU desde 1959, se reunirá a primera hora de la tarde en el Departamento de Estado con el titular de esa instancia, John Kerry.

En La Habana, Estados Unidos no realizará este lunes acto oficial alguno por la reapertura de su embajada ni izará su bandera por el momento.

Washington reserva esa ceremonia para la visita oficial a Cuba que cursará John Kerry este verano, si bien no se ha anunciado todavía la fecha concreta.

Ese viaje de Kerry a la isla será el primero de un secretario de Estado de EEUU a Cuba desde 1945, hace 70 años.

Con la reapertura de embajadas, los hasta ahora jefes de las respectivas secciones de intereses, José Ramón Cabañas (Cuba) y Jeffery DeLaurentis (EEUU), pasarán a ser encargados de negocios mientras ambos gobiernos nombran a sus respectivos embajadores.

La recuperación de los lazos diplomáticos entre Cuba y Estados Unidos abre ahora el camino hacia la normalización total de sus relaciones donde todavía persisten importantes diferencias y obstáculos, el más destacado el embargo de Washington contra la isla.

Raúl Castro y su gobierno han advertido en reiteradas ocasiones DE que no podrá haber relaciones totalmente normales mientras EEUU mantenga el bloqueo, cuyo fin depende del Congreso norteamericano, si bien la isla insta a Obama a que haga uso de sus facultades ejecutivas como presidente para desmantelarlo.

En ese camino hacia la normalización diplomática, La Habana también reclama a Washington que devuelva el territorio que “ilegalmente” ocupa la Base Naval de Guantánamo, en el oriente del país caribeño.

Otra de las demandas de la isla son el fin de las transmisiones radiales y televisivas “ilegales” hacia Cuba y el cese de los programas para promover la subversión y un cambio de régimen.

Otros asuntos pendientes en el diálogo bilateral son los derechos humanos, telecomunicaciones, así como los reclamos de compensación económica de ambas partes y la solicitud de Washington de extraditar a algunos fugitivos buscados por la Justicia estadounidense.

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(Reuters) – Worries about the U.S.-China trade war are running high during the current U.S. quarterly reporting season, with companies as diverse as Juniper Networks and O’Reilly Automotive bemoaning the consequences but saying they are finding ways to weather the storm.

Trade negotiations shift to Shanghai on Tuesday, with stock market investors sensitive to fallout from the year-long conflict and any signs that it could escalate.

Tariffs were mentioned in about a third of conference calls held by S&P 500 companies reporting their quarterly results through July 26, according to FactSet. The 71 firms flagging tariffs were up from the 50 companies discussing tariffs in the same time frame in the first-quarter season, but less than the 99 a year ago when tariffs were an emerging issue for U.S. corporations.

Many of those corporations outlined to investors their plans to minimize the impact of the trade war, which has added to uncertainty as they struggle with a sluggish global economy, including lackluster economies in Europe and Japan.

Parts supplier O’Reilly Automotive said in its conference call last week that it raised the prices of its products to make up for higher costs related to the tariffs.

Network gear maker Juniper Networks Inc on Thursday missed the mid-point of its margin guidance due to the tariffs, saying it expected pressure to continue, even as it manages its operating expenses to mitigate the damage.

Of S&P 500 components that have reported their second-quarter earnings, export-focused companies have beaten analysts’ expectations 77% of the time, while companies focused on the domestic economy have exceeded expectations just 66% of the time, according to an analysis by Credit Suisse.

That suggests that export-oriented companies are feeling the trade war less than investors expected, said Patrick Palfrey, an earnings analyst at Credit Suisse.

“Trade is an exacerbating factor, as opposed to the primary driver of the slowdown,” Palfrey said.

S&P 500 earnings are expected to have risen just 0.6% in the second quarter from a year ago, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. A big part of the slowdown reflects tough comparisons with a year ago, when the U.S. tax cut package led to a 24.9% jump in second-quarter earnings.

Roughly 76% of the 222 companies that have reported as of Monday morning have beaten analysts’ earnings expectations, in line with the recent trend.

Third-quarter earnings expectations have now turned negative, however, with earnings expected to decline 0.6% from a year ago, based on Refinitiv’s data.

Wall Street has reacted sharply over the past year to tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump, variously suggesting progress and setbacks in settling the trade dispute. Buoyed by expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, but also suggesting investors are becoming less sensitive to uncertainty around the trade war, the S&P 500 has surged 20% year to date and hit record highs last week.

Mattel’s stock has surged 16% since Thursday, when the toymaker’s quarterly results beat expectations, while it warned about the impact of an escalation of the trade war.

“We are being watchful of the potential tariff that may be implemented, and if implemented, would impact the entire toy industry. We have contingency plans in place and we’re working closely with the retailers to ensure that we are aligned on our approach to mitigate the tariffs,” Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz said on a conference call last week.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor index has surged 38% in 2019, even as trade tensions and U.S. restrictions on sales to Chinese telecom Huawei make it harder to predict when U.S. chipmakers will recover from a global, cyclical downturn.

Investors were surprised last week after Texas Instruments said that U.S.-China trade tensions were not hampering its ability to conduct business in China, while Intel said on Thursday that customers worried about potential tariffs on chips were preemptively buying processors.

“We really think the Q2 action was pulling from the second half into the first half,” Intel CFO George Davis told Reuters following the earnings report. “Depending on how the trade discussions go, there could be some additional activity there, but we’re not expecting at the same level, if at all, during the third quarter. We’re forecasting demand based on the signals we’re getting from our customers.”

China recently signaled it would allow Chinese firms to make some tariff-free purchases of U.S. farm goods, while Washington has encouraged companies to apply for waivers to a national security ban on sales to Huawei. But going into the talks, neither side has implemented the measures that were intended to show their goodwill.

Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch and Noel Randewich; Editing by Tom Brown

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Deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said it was disgraceful of Democrats to politicize the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton to score political points against President Trump, calling their actions  “disgusting.”

During an appearance on “Outnumbered Overtime” Tuesday, Gidley said the president is looking at every option on how to combat mass shootings and chastised Democrats for immediately trying to spin the tragedy into fuel for their own talking points.

“It is disgusting to watch so many on the left come before cameras within five hours of this tragedy and lie about this president and have pathetic comments about the state of this country, and where this president stands,” he said.

“The president stands with all these Americans who suffer through these tragedies and those who want to fix the problems we face. And these Democrats have played politics from the word go.”

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Host Melissa Francis asked if Trump’s rhetoric played any part in the recent carnage, and Gidley called such claims absurd, before highlighting a perceived double standard between Republicans and Democrats.

“That is absolutely ridiculous. We do not blame, nor do we even dream of blaming Elizabeth Warren for the shooter in Ohio who wanted to vote for her,” he replied.

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“The supporter of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who carried out a terrorist attack, trying to blow up a DHS, ICE Facility, using her language of concentration camps.

“The Bernie Sanders supporter who shot conservatives on a baseball field — and we don’t blame Barack Obama for the deaths of Dallas police officers. That is ridiculous.

“We wouldn’t dream of doing it, and you cannot apply that standard to us and ignore it on the Democrat side.”

Gidley also cited 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke and said people who share his rhetoric don’t want to make America safer, but are only interested in advancing their own political careers.

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“I think it’s pretty clear that the president came forth on Monday and was very deliberate in what he wanted to say to this country, where he wanted to go, offered solutions, and saying we have to unify to make this country safer,” he added.

“And you played a clip from Beto O’rourke, and I’ll tell you this — he doesn’t care about making this country safer. He cares about winning the Iowa caucus … It’s political in nature and you see that up and down the left side, and we reject it.”

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At least seven Minneapolis police officers have resigned amid the protests over police brutality and racial inequality, and more than half a dozen are in the process of leaving, department officials told the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Police Department (MDP) insiders told the newspaper that officers are feeling misunderstood and stuck in the middle of a state probe, protests, city leaders and the media after the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis police custody sparked nationwide protests. 

City spokesman Casper Hill confirmed to the newspaper that seven officers had left the department without providing demographic information. Police insiders said several officers in exit interviews pointed to a lack of support from police leadership and city officials as the demonstrations intensified. 

The newspaper also reported that another seven officers are in the process of filing separation paperwork and that several others had to be convinced to stay. The departures include patrol officers and detectives. 

The resignations come as the department is facing a state human rights investigation and calls for defunding and disbandment after former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes before Floyd died. Chauvin and three other officers present were fired from the department.

Henry Halvorson, deputy police chief, signaled in an email to supervisors obtained by the Star Tribune earlier this month that officers were walking off the job without filing paperwork. 

Police spokesman John Elder told the newspaper that the resignations would not affect the department’s ability to provide public safety services.

“There’s nothing that leads us to believe that at this point the numbers are so great that it’s going to be problematic,” Elder said. “People seek to leave employment for a myriad reasons — the MPD is no exception.”

There are 850 officers in the MPD, almost 40 less than the number authorized for 2020. A class of 29 recruits will graduate and start policing in the summer, Elder said.

But the department also faces potential layoffs due to the coronavirus, at least 75 officers being eligible to leave with retirement benefits as of Memorial Day and a 25-year low in applicants, according to the Star Tribune.

The departures reflect what happened in 2015 following protests over Jamar Clark’s killing by police. At the time, officers said they felt “they were left to deal with the occupation on their own,” according to a federal report. 

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— Solución de copia de seguridad y recuperación tras desastres diseñada según los comentarios de los administradores de TI

DRAPER, Utah, 2 de abril de 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Los administradores de TI que utilicen servidores Linux ahora tienen acceso a una solución de copia de seguridad y recuperación tras desastres de uno de los nombres de mayor confianza del sector y que hoy ha anunciado el lanzamiento de StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® SPX. La última incorporación a la galardonada solución StorageCraft Recovery-Ability permite que los usuarios de Linux puedan realizar copias de seguridad, proteger, migrar y, lo que es más importante, recuperar los servidores Linux virtuales y físicos de forma fiable.

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Las características de SPX, diseñadas a partir de los comentarios de socios de StorageCraft, permiten realizar copias de seguridad de nivel de sector de una forma rápida y eficiente de todo el sistema Linux, incluidos el sistema operativo, las aplicaciones, las configuraciones, los servicios y los datos. Además, si se produce un desastre, los administradores de TI pueden recuperar sus sistemas en cuestión de minutos, y así la empresa u organización podrá recuperar el acceso a sus sistemas y datos.

«Actualmente, los profesionales de TI confían en los productos de StorageCraft por sus necesidades de copias de seguridad y recuperación en más de un millón de sistemas», afirma Brandon Nordquist, Vicepresidente de administración de productos de StorageCraft. «Ahora, los usuarios de Linux pueden tener la misma tranquilidad teniendo la certeza de que pueden acceder a los sistemas y datos de suma importancia para las operaciones diarias de sus organizaciones».

Entre las características de SPX se incluyen:

  • La capacidad de montar y restaurar un volumen, verificar una imagen de copia de seguridad o utilizar la tecnología StorageCraft VirtualBoot™ para arrancar cualquier imagen de copia de seguridad como una máquina virtual, todo directamente desde el explorador de la cadena de imágenes o la característica patentada de escala de tiempos de trabajos.
  • Un controlador de instantáneas integrado de StorageCraft para Linux que garantiza la creación de una copia de seguridad de buena calidad.
  • Opciones de programación personalizables que le ofrecen al usuario total flexibilidad para crear su propia programación de trabajos de copia de seguridad incremental y completa los días y a la hora que desee.
  • Una nueva interfaz de usuario que permite al usuario consultar fácilmente información detallada sobre sus trabajos de copia de seguridad de Linux.
  • Compatibilidad con Ubuntu 12.04, RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 y CentOS 6.

Puede consultar más información sobre SPX en www.storagecraft.com/es/SPX. Para obtener más información, también puede ponerse en contacto con el equipo de StoreCraft de Norteamérica en la dirección sales@storagecraft.com y con el equipo internacional en la dirección sales@storagecraft.eu

A lo largo de los años, los productos de StorageCraft han contado con el reconocimiento de analistas, socios y clientes finales por su velocidad y fiabilidad. En marzo, la empresa ha recibido su tercera valoración de 5 estrellas consecutiva en la Guía de programas para socios de CRN, directorio anual que incluye el listado definitivo de los proveedores de tecnología que ofrecen soluciones o productos a través del canal de TI. En enero, StorageCraft se hizo con el galardón Best Channel Vendor (Mejor proveedor de canal) en la categoría de continuidad del negocio y copia de seguridad y recuperación tras desastres de los lectores de la revista Business Solutions.

Acerca de StorageCraft Technology Corp.

En la familia de empresas de StorageCraft, fundada en 2003, desarrollamos soluciones avanzadas de copias de seguridad, recuperación tras desastres, migración de sistemas y protección de datos para servidores, equipos de escritorio y equipos portátiles. StorageCraft ofrece soluciones de software que reducen el tiempo de inactividad, mejoran la seguridad y la estabilidad de sistemas y datos y reducen el coste total de propiedad. Para obtener más información, visite www.storagecraft.com/es

StorageCraft y ShadowProtect son marcas comerciales de StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Otros nombres de empresas y de productos son o podrían ser marcas comerciales o marcas comerciales registradas de sus respectivos propietarios.

El boletín informativo y las últimas noticias de StorageCraft y del sector están disponibles en Recovery Zone (www.itrecoveryzone.com).

Información de contacto para los medios:
Brad Thomas
StorageCraft Technology Corporation
+1-801-871-2913
brad.thomas@storagecraft.com 

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But prosecutors, citing what they called Mr. Epstein’s “yearslong scheme to sexually abuse underage girls” and his fortune of at least $500 million, have argued that Mr. Epstein would pose a danger to the community and might flee the country if granted bond.

The government had also said Mr. Epstein might try to obstruct justice if he were given bail. Prosecutors said that last year he wired $350,000 to two people who were potential witnesses against him at a trial.

Mr. Epstein’s lawyers said on Monday that the payment could have been “an act of generosity” to Mr. Epstein’s associates, and that government lawyers were unable to prove otherwise.

Mr. Epstein, 66, who faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted on the charges, has been held since his July 6 arrest in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan, a highly secure jail that has housed accused terrorists, mobsters and, recently, the Mexican drug lord El Chapo.

In 2008, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to two state charges in Florida as part of a secret deal with federal prosecutors to satisfy a potential indictment on similar charges. He ended up serving a 13-month sentence in a local jail and avoided federal prosecution.

That deal was brokered by R. Alexander Acosta, a former United States attorney in Miami who resigned last week as President Trump’s Labor Secretary after public outrage over the Epstein agreement reached a fever pitch.

On Monday, defense lawyers for Mr. Epstein listed four additional Justice Department officials — two of whom now hold high-level government positions — who approved Mr. Epstein’s deal at the time.

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A collision between two Boston passenger trains Friday evening left at least 25 people with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. 

The Green Line trains crashed near Babcock Street around 6 p.m. ET, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) said in a statement. 

Miltch Pierre, who works at a nearby Blaze Pizza, told FOX 25 he felt the ground start shaking while he was making pizzas. 

“Everything started shaking over there and when I looked over, I was just a bunch of smoke. … I saw someone holding their neck. One girl had blood all over her face and her chin. Pretty gruesome.”

“One girl had blood all over her face and her chin. Pretty gruesome.”

— Miltch Pierre, Blaze Pizza

Green Line Service on the B Branch was temporarily suspended after the collision.

FIVE HURT IN PENNSYLVANIA TORNADOES AS SEVERE STORMS IMPACT EAST COAST

Four train operators from both trains were among those hurt, according to FOX 25 in Boston. The MBTA said passengers were assisted from the trains by emergency responders. 

“Our thoughts are with the riders and employees injured in this incident,” the agency wrote in an online post.

The MBTA continued: “The safety and well-being of our riders and employees is our chief priority. We take this matter extremely seriously and are actively investigating the incident to understand what occurred, and prevent it from happening again. We will provide updates as they become available.” 

The victims’ conditions were not updated.  

Both trains were traveling westbound when one train rear-ended the other, according to FOX 25. 

A collision between two Boston trains Friday evening left at least 25 people with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. 
(Boston Fire Department)

The cause remained under investigation.

“We will obviously get to the bottom of this,” MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said, according to NECN-TV in Boston. “This should not happen and we will find out why it happened and will ensure that it won’t happen again.” 

Poftak said speed could be a factor since the speed limit where the crash happened is 10 mph, according to FOX 25. It could also be operator error or a mechanical malfunction, he said. 

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“The only conclusion we can draw is obviously, at some point, they became too close together,” Poftak told NECN. “That’s a situation that should not happen.”

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A day after it was revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller issued a letter to Attorney General William Barr regarding his summary of Mueller’s investigation, CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin says it shows that Mueller believes Barr swayed the summary in President Trump’s favor.

The letter, which has since been made public, said that Barr’s two-page summary of the investigation “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.”

A Justice Department spokeswoman later told The Washington Post that Mueller and Barr also spoke over the phone regarding the summary, which was a “cordial and professional conversation” that “emphasized that nothing in the Attorney General’s March 24 letter was inaccurate or misleading.”

Toobin, however, believes the language used in Mueller’s letter illustrates something much different and illustrates Mueller’s frustration with Barr’s “deliberate distortion.”

MSNBC’S CHRIS MATTHEWS SLAMS BARR’S ‘SKULLDUGGERY,’ CLAIMS HE LIED ABOUT MUELLER REPORT’S FINDINGS

“That is a scathing, outraged letter,” Toobin said, just before Barr took the stand to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his summary. “Accusing the attorney general of completely distorting and lying to the public about what Mueller spent two years on.”

CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin calls Mueller’s letter to AG Barr “scathing, outraged” and says it was not a “polite letter among old friends.”
(CNN)

The letter went on to discuss the “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation” as a result of Barr’s summary, which Mueller said threatened to “undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigation.”

Toobin argued that Mueller’s language did not appear to be a “polite letter among old friends.”

AG WILLIAM BARR TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OVER MUELLER REPORT HANDLING — LIVE BLOG 

“That is an accusation of political interference in Mueller’s work,” he said. “That is not a routine letter in any sense of the word… let’s be clear about what Mueller is saying, that the fix was in and he is saying that Barr deliberately distorted his conclusions for the political gain of the president. That’s what that letter says in plain English,” he continued.

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The letter has renewed calls from Democrats for Barr to resign. Barr has defended his summary of the Mueller report during his hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and will do the same on Thursday with the House Judiciary Committee, provided it is not postponed or canceled due to an ongoing debate about whether the staff committee’s attorneys will pose questions to Barr.

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SAN GABRIEL, Calif. – A fire early Saturday destroyed the rooftop and most of the interior of a Catholic church in California that was undergoing renovation to mark its upcoming 250th anniversary celebration.

Fire alarms at the San Gabriel Mission rang around 4 a.m. When firefighters arrived, they saw smoke rising from the wooden rooftop in one corner of the historic structure, San Gabriel Fire Capt. Paul Negrete said.

Firefighters entered the church and tried to beat back the flames, but they had to retreat when roofing and other structural materials began to fall, Negrete said.

“We were trying to fight it from the inside. We weren’t able to because it became unsafe,” he said.

After evacuating the church, the crew was joined by up to 50 firefighters who tried to douse water on the 50-foot-high structure from ladder trucks, he said.

More:Notre Dame forecourt opens to public for first time since devastating fire

“The roof is completely gone,” the captain said. “The fire traversed the wood rapidly. The interior is pretty much destroyed up into the altar area.”

The cause of the fire was under investigation, Negrete said. He said the recent toppling of monuments to Junipero Serra, the founder of the California mission system who has long been a symbol of oppression among Indigenous activists, will be a factor in the investigation.

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The protesters included relatives of inmates who have not heard from them in days

Friends and relatives of inmates stuck in cells without power or heat at a prison in New York have held a protest against their detention conditions.

Protesters outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal facility in Brooklyn, chanted: “Where is the heat”?

Many inmates have not been able to contact the outside world for days, following a partial power failure.

Members of Congress who visited the prison on Saturday described the situation there as a “nightmare”.

How bad are the conditions?

“It is like living in a closet without lights,” said Representative Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat whose district includes the prison.

She said temperatures in some cells were as low as 49 F (9.5C).

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The Metropolitan Detention Center houses more than 1,600 inmates

Jerrold Nadler, another US House member for New York, condemned the authorities’ “total lack of urgency and concern”.

He told the crowd outside the prison – which houses more than 1,600 inmates – that power was unlikely to be restored until Monday.

The protesters carried signs reading “Shut it down”, “Torture at the MDC”, “United in outrage” and “Turn up the heat”.

One tweeted that the prisoners were banging windows as the demonstrators were gathering outside.

What are authorities saying?

Officials say the failure was the result of a fire that destroyed an electrical panel. The fire melted a switch designed to turn on a back-up generator.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said officials were “working to restore power as expeditiously as possible”, adding: “Inmates have hot water for showers and hot water in the sinks in the cell. Essential personal hygiene items and medical services continue to be provided.”

The bureau also said that the building had emergency lighting.

In a tweet late on Saturday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the federal authorities and said the city was providing blankets for the prisoners.

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Rep. John Ratcliffe listens as former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill last week.

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Rep. John Ratcliffe is President Trump’s choice to become the next top leader of the U.S. intelligence community.

The Texas Republican thanked Trump on Twitter following the president’s earlier announcement, also on Twitter, that Ratcliffe was his nominee to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

Coats and Trump haven’t been sympatico from the beginning and the White House has been telling journalists for weeks that the president wanted somebody else.

If the transition isn’t a surprise, however, the choice of Ratcliffe might have been — and some key senators have yet to state one way or another how they feel about the nominee.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., didn’t mention Ratcliffe in a statement on Sunday that praised Coats but also emphasized what McConnell called the need for a president to get candid advice.

“The U.S. intelligence community works best when it is led by professionals who protect its work from political or analytical bias and who deliver unvarnished hard truths to political leaders in both the executive and legislative branches,” McConnell said. “Very often the news these briefings bring is unpleasant, but it is essential that we be confronted with the facts.”

One question raised by McConnell’s statement: Would Ratcliffe be so much of a loyalist that he would only tell Trump what he wanted to hear — and Congress and the public what Trump wanted them to hear? Or could he be the honest manager that the Senate majority leader says is needed?

Republicans control the Senate and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which would consider Ratcliffe’s nomination before the full body voted to confirm him.

That’s if Trump formally submits the congressman’s name.

In the past, Trump has sometimes said he intends to nominate someone for a post but never actually transmitted the name to the Senate.

That’s what happened, for example, when Trump nominated economics commentator Stephen Moore and former pizza magnate Herman Cain to the board of the Federal Reserve; ultimately senators were spared the need to actually assess or cast votes on them.

North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said in a statement Monday that he spoke with Ratcliffe over the weekend “to congratulate him” on the nomination.

Continued Burr: “When the White House submits its official nomination to the Senate intelligence committee, we will work to move it swiftly through regular order.”

Other members of the panel have so far been silent on Ratcliffe’s nomination.

Coats, a long-serving former member of Congress, was well known to many lawmakers and was confirmed in early 2017 by a vote of 85 to 12. At the same time, the Senate has considered and endorsed a close-call nominee of Trump’s before, in CIA Director Gina Haspel.

She was controversial because of her role in President George W. Bush’s terrorist interrogation program, but she also was a career officer with deep experience inside the agency.

Ratcliffe sits today on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence but had little intelligence or foreign affairs experience before that, as some commentators observed after Trump’s announcement.

Democrats faulted what they called Trump’s bid to fill an important role with what they called a flunky and another “television character.

Trump vs. the spooks

Trump, Coats and the leaders of the intelligence community have endured uncomfortable stretches for as long as Trump has been in office.

The spy bosses assessed that North Korea is unlikely to surrender its nuclear weapons, for example, even though Trump has made much of his personal rapport with its leader, Kim Jong Un.

The leaders of the intelligence and national defense establishment told Congress that Iran was abiding by its commitments to the nuclear deal, even though Trump sought to abrogate it and went ahead with withdrawing the United States.

And Coats and the other leaders of the intelligence community also continued their focus on foreign election interference in parallel with the investigation by former special counsel Robert Mueller into Russia’s attack on the 2016 election.

Trump goes back and forth as to what he accepts about foreign interference generally and specifically into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

Agency leaders reportedly have been told, however, not to mention it to Trump and keep their discussions of it “below his level.”

The news on Sunday about Coats’ departure and Ratcliffe’s nomination followed an earlier announcement by Coats that he was appointing a new election security czar within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and directing the other agencies within the intelligence community to do the same.

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A respected state pollster who correctly predicted Donald Trump‘s 2016 win in Florida has projected that the president will take the state again this year, and perhaps even by a wider margin

FOX 13 pollster Matt Towery went on air five days before Election Day in 2016 and predicted that Trump would win Florida. Trump did win Florida by 1.2 percentage points with a plurality of 49 percent of the popular vote over Hillary Clinton‘s 47.8 percent.

As Americans prepare to vote on November 3, Towery has predicted another close victory for Trump in Florida this year. “My final projection for Florida is Donald Trump will carry the state by at least a point, maybe a little better than he did last time—maybe even getting closer to two points,” he said, according to Fox 13.

Towery explained that his prediction relies on several factors: the similarity in polling compared to 2016, the president’s successes in Miami compared to 2016 and growing enthusiasm for his reelection campaign among Latino and African Americans in the state.

“I might add one of the reasons Trump is performing better than many expected in Florida is we’re seeing him do better with Hispanic Latino populations than we expected. That’s one,” Towery said. “The other is African American. In almost every state we polled, the African American vote is hitting at minimum 15%. I’ve never seen that in all the years I’ve polled.”

Towery also believes that Trump will take Iowa, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona. However, he declined to offer a prediction for the candidate that will take the electoral college and White House.

Political analysts have indicated a close race in Florida, a state that many have called a must-win to take the Oval Office. Trump appears to have the support of white men and rural voters, while Biden is expected to draw strong support among women and African Americans.

Biden is still leading Trump in most statewide polls. However, the margin has narrowed in recent weeks. On October 13, Trump trailed Biden by an average of 4.5 percentage points in the state, according to polling data maintained by FiveThirtyEight. That margin closed to 2.5 percentage points on the evening before November 3.

Florida’s two week early voting window closed on Sunday with roughly 8.97 ballots cast in the state. The figure was close to the 9.5 million overall ballots cast in 2016. Democrats accounted for 39 percent of the early votes, Republicans 38 percent and independents 21.5 percent.

Newsweek reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.

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