Don Shula, the winningest coach in NFL history, died on Monday morning at the age of 90.
Over 33 seasons with the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins, Shula put together a Hall of Fame coaching career, racking up a 347-173-6 record and making him one of just two men to have attained 300 wins in the NFL, along with George Halas.
He won back-to-back Super Bowls with Miami, the first in 1972 as the culmination of the only perfect season (17-0) in league history.
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“Don Shula was the patriarch of the Miami Dolphins for 50 years,” the Dolphins said in a statement, expressing condolences to his wife, Mary Anne, and their children. “He brought the winning edge to our franchise and put the Dolphins and City of Miami in the national sports scene.”
In recent weeks, Shula, a restaurateur, teamed up with other former Dolphins to provide free meals to first responders in the coronavirus pandemic.
“Don Shula will always be remembered as one of the greatest coaches and contributors in the history of our game,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “He made an extraordinarily positive impact on so many lives. The winningest coach in NFL history and the only one to lead a team to a perfect season, Coach Shula lived an unparalleled football life. As a player, Hall of Fame coach, and long-time member and co-chair of the NFL Competition Committee, he was a remarkable teacher and mentor who for decades inspired excellence and exemplified integrity. His iconic legacy will endure through his family and continue to inspire generations to come.”
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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).
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John Bolton is the latest former US official to write about life in the Trump administration
The presidency of Donald Trump has already generated a long reading list, but the latest offering from former National Security Adviser John Bolton has attracted more attention than most, given the author’s high-ranking status and the nature of his claims.
His work – The Room Where It Happened – portrays a president ignorant of basic geopolitical facts and whose decisions were frequently driven by a desire for re-election.
Critics of Mr Trump have asked why Mr Bolton did not speak up during impeachment hearings, while the president himself has called his former top adviser on security matters “incompetent” and a “boring old fool”.
The White House is trying to stop the book’s release, but US media have obtained advance copies and have started publishing details from it. Here are some of the most eye-catching allegations.
1. Trump wanted help from China to win re-election…
In the book, Mr Bolton describes a meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a G20 meeting in Japan last year.
The US president “stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election [in 2020], alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Mr Bolton writes.
“He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.”
Agriculture is one of the major industries in the Midwest American states that helped propel Mr Trump to victory in the 2016 election.
2. … and said building internment camps was the ‘right thing to do’
China’s treatment of the Uighurs and other ethic minorities has brought international condemnation, with about a million people thought to have been detained in camps in the Xinjiang region.
On Wednesday President Trump authorised sanctions against Chinese officials involved in the mass incarceration, prompting an angry response from China.
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President Trump has praised Chinese President Xi Jinping while also being embroiled in a trade war with him
But in Mr Bolton’s book, when Mr Xi defended building the camps, the US president suggested he approved of China’s actions.
“According to our interpreter,” Mr Bolton wrote, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
3. Trump offered ‘personal favours to dictators’
The Chinese leader is not the only authoritarian Mr Bolton accuses the president of pandering to.
Mr Trump was willing to intervene in criminal investigations “to, in effect, give personal favours to dictators he liked,” Mr Bolton wrote.
According to the book Mr Trump offered help to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2018 in a US investigation into a Turkish company over potential violations of Iranian sanctions.
The US president is said to have agreed to “take care of things” and that the prosecutors involved were “Obama people”.
4. The Democrats should have gone further with impeachment efforts
In the book, Mr Bolton backs up Democrats’ allegations that President Trump wanted to withhold military aid to Ukraine to pressure its government into investigating his rival Joe Biden. The claim sparked impeachment efforts against Mr Trump.
However, Mr Bolton criticises the Democrats in his book, saying they committed “impeachment malpractice” by just focusing on Ukraine. He argues that if they had broadened the investigation more Americans would have been persuaded that President Trump had committed the “high crimes and misdemeanours” necessary to be removed from office.
Mr Bolton does not say if the new allegations he makes are impeachable offences.
He declined to testify in the process when it was in the House of Representatives late last year, then was blocked from appearing in the Senate by Republicans.
5. Trump suggested he wanted to serve more than two terms
More now on President Trump’s conversations with Xi Jinping. Mr Bolton says Mr Trump told China’s leader that Americans were keen for him to make the constitutional changes needed for him to serve more than two terms.
“One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him,” he wrote in an extract published by the Wall Street Journal.
“Xi said the US had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.”
6. Trump didn’t know the UK was a nuclear power…
Britain was the third country after the US and the Soviet Union to test an atomic device, in 1952. But that the UK is part of the small club of nuclear-armed states appears to have been news to President Trump.
One extract told of a 2018 meeting with then UK Prime Minister Theresa May in which an official referred to Britain as a nuclear power.
Mr Trump is said to have replied: “Oh, are you a nuclear power?”
The remark, Mr Bolton said, “was not intended as a joke”.
Mr Bolton says there were other gaps in President Trump’s knowledge.
Before a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki, he is said to have asked if Finland was “kind of a satellite of Russia”.
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President Trump met Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki
According to Mr Bolton, intelligence briefings were not “terribly useful” since during most of them “he spoke at greater length than the briefers, often on matters completely unrelated to the subjects at hand”.
8. He was very close to actually quitting Nato
President Trump has been a persistent critic of the Nato military bloc, calling on other members to boost their spending.
Despite this the US remains a member, but Mr Bolton says that at a 2018 Nato summit Mr Trump had decided to quit.
“We will walk out, and not defend those who have not [paid],” the president said, according to Mr Bolton.
9. Invading Venezuela would be ‘cool’
One of the major foreign policy headaches for the Trump administration has been Venezuela, with the US a staunch opponent of its President Nicolás Maduro.
In discussions on the matter, President Trump said it would be “cool” to invade Venezuela, and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States”.
Mr Bolton writes that in a May 2019 phone call Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled off a “brilliant display of Soviet-style propaganda” by likening Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, which “largely persuaded Trump”.
Mr Putin’s objective was to defend his ally President Maduro, Mr Bolton writes. In 2018, Mr Trump labelled the leftist Mr Maduro a dictator and imposed sanctions, but he clung to power.
In an interview with ABC News to be broadcast in full this Sunday, Mr Bolton says of Mr Trump: “I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle.”
10. Even allies ridiculed him
Mr Bolton’s book contains several examples of White House officials mocking President Trump.
He describes a dysfunctional White House, one in which meetings resembled “food fights” rather than considered efforts at policy-making.
When he arrived at the White House, the then chief of staff John Kelly warned him, “this is a bad place to work, as you will find out”.
Even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, considered a loyalist, is said to have written a note describing the president as “full of shit”.
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Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.
Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.
Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.
“Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.
ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.
Jessica Metcalfe
Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?
Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.
Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.
You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.
Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?
A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.
I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.
We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.
Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?
A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.
Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?
A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.
A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.
Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.
Há exatos 2 anos e 11 meses a Honda lançava no Brasil a terceira geração do Fit. O monovolume nipônico, que chegou ao país em 2003, vai completar em abril seu terceiro aniversário sem alterações visuais. Porém, como já se sabe, o ciclo de vida de cada geração contempla uma atualização de meia idade até a chegada da próxima geração.
Assim como o City, o Fit deve ser atualizado também para seguir até a quarta geração, esperada para 2019 no Japão. O modelo deve enfim receber o motor de três cilindros 1.0 i-VTEC Turbo Earth Dream de até 130 cv e quem sabe até uma caixa de dupla embreagem com sete ou mais marchas. Por ora, o compacto da Honda – aqui no Brasil – vai de 1.5 i-VTEC FlexOne com até 116 cv.
Nessas imagens, feitas por um leitor no interior do Brasil, o Honda Fit aparece levemente camuflado, ocultando naturalmente mais a parte dianteira. Uma atualização visual, pura e simples ou quem sabe uma versão Touring? Este último por conta do conjunto ótico de LED presente no carro flagrado.
No entanto, enxertos nos para-choques indicam mudanças muito além dos faróis que, por sinal, mantêm seu formato atual, mudando-se apenas a parte interna. No caso dos protetores, eles devem ganhar um aspecto bem diferente dos atuais, mas o que chama atenção é o traseiro, prolongado em relação ao Honda Fit presente no mercado.
Mas não para por aí. Repare na grade frontal com uma única barra, assim como visto no Novo Civic, tendo a parte inferior aberta e dotada de grelha diferente. Como se sabe desde o lançamento, o protetor é bem rente à tampa do bagageiro, inclusive também em seu derivado, o recém-chegado WR-V. Por dentro, alguns itens poderão ser atualizados, tais como padronagem e qualidade dos tecidos, cluster com grafismo diferenciado ou multimídia com GPS, por exemplo.
Mas e o conjunto de LED, incluindo parte das lanternas traseiras? Atualmente o Honda Fit é vendido entre R$ 57,7 mil e R$ 78,9 mil. Provavelmente uma versão Touring com faróis de LED, LEDs diurnos, lanternas em LED, retrovisor eletrocrômico, seis airbags, sensor de chuva e sensor de estacionamento, elevaria seu preço para R$ 83.400, se a mesma diferença do HR-V EXL para o Touring fosse aplicada.
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.
LAFAYETTE — UPDATE: Five fatalities have been confirmed by officials. One person survived that crash according to the Lafayette Fire Department.
Six people were inside the plane when it crashed according to officials.
Three people on the ground were injured. Those injured were taken to the hospital.
Law enforcement is asking that everyone avoid the area of the crash at this time. —-
Officials previously confirmed there was at least one fatality. Federal investigators are en route to the scene. A news conference will take place once officials are on scene.
Eyewitnesses say the plane hit a power line while trying to make an emergency landing. The impact blew out the windows of the post office off of Verot School Rd.
Acadian Ambulance is reporting they transported two people to a local hospital.
All businesses and neighborhoods in the area are without power at this time.
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Walmart on Pinhook is closed and has been evacuated. The area around has been roped off by police.
Lafayette police confirm to KATC that a plane has crashed near the intersection of Feu Follet Road and Verot School Road. Viewer submitted video shows that the plane went down near the United States Post Office at that intersection. First responders are en route to the scene.
BREAKING… As Chicago police declare a significant shift in “the trajectory of the investigation” of the alleged attack on Jussie Smollett nearly three weeks ago, the attorneys for the Empire star has come out swinging tonight in his defense.
“As a victim of a hate crime who has cooperated with the police investigation, Jussie Smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with,” said defense lawyers Todd S. Pugh and Victor P. Henderson in a statement obtained by Deadline.
He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack,” the Chicago-based attorneys add of the supposed assault in the early hours of January 29. “Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying.” (READ THE FULL STATEMENT BELOW)
Earlier Saturday, a law enforcement official close to the Chicago PD probe told Deadline that “the new direction of the investigation is now based on the premise that Mr. Smollett was an active participant in the incident.” CNN also reported sources in the department telling the cable newser today that the actor, who plays the openly gay Jamal Lyon on the hit Fox drama, “paid two men to orchestrate the assault.”
This picks up on the release by authorities late last night of Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, who police previously described as “potential suspects.” With one of the brothers having appeared on Empire as an extra three seasons ago, the remarks by Smollett’s lawyers now claim that one of the duo was the actor’s “personal trainer” for a music video he was set to perform in.
Arrested on Wednesday, but never charged in what police once referred to a potential “hate crime,” Osundairo brothers have been confirmed by authorities as the two individuals who are seen in the photographs of someone around Smollett’s Chicago apartment that January 29 morning.
Amidst strongly denied rumors that the attack was staged because Smollett was being written off Empire, the siblings are also said to have been the ones to purchase from a local hardware shop the rope that was strung over the actor’s neck by his supposed assailants during the allegedly racist and homophobic fueled attack.
Later this evening Chicago PD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said “we can confirm that the information received from the individuals questioned by police earlier in the Empire case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation.” He went on to add “we’ve reached out to the Empire cast member’s attorney to request a follow-up interview.”
“Jussie and his attorneys anticipate being further updated by the Chicago Police Department on the status of the investigation and will continue to cooperate,” asserted the statement from Henderson and Pugh tonight in direct response to accusations of self staging of the attack and more interaction with the Windy City cops.
Sitting down with Good Morning Americaon February 14 in his first interview since whatever truly happened on January 29, Smollett bluntly said he thought the attack occurred because of his consistent slagging of Donald Trump. “I come really, really hard against 45,” the actor told GMA co-host Robin Roberts. “I come really, really hard against his administration, and I don’t hold my tongue.”
Well, be it Smollett, the Chicago PD, the lawyers, the Osundairo brothers or some as yet unknown party, the rising sentiment clearly is that someone’s not telling the whole story here. Or as Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Terry Crews put it so well on social media today:
After offering repeated support for Smollett the past three weeks, so far Empire broadcaster Fox has been silent the past 24 hours as the story seems to be snowballing out of control for all concerned.
READ THE FULL STATEMENT FROM JUSSIE SMOLLETT’S ATTORNEYS HERE:
As a victim of a hate crime who has cooperated with the police investigation, Jussie Smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with. He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack. Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying.
One of these purported suspects was Jussie’s personal trainer who he hired to ready him physically for a music video. It is impossible to believe that this person could have played a role in the crime against Jussie or would falsely claim Jussie’s complicity.
Jussie and his attorneys anticipate being further updated by the Chicago Police Department on the status of the investigation and will continue to cooperate. At the present time, Jussie and his attorneys have no inclination to respond to “unnamed” sources inside of the investigation, but will continue discussions through official channels.
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El mandatario de Corea del Norte, Kim Jong Un, prometió que su país “demostrará su fortaleza a Estados Unidos” y nunca negociará sus programas armamentísticos, tras asistir al lanzamiento de prueba de su primer misil intercontinental. La cadena chilena Falabella puso en marcha un programa piloto de emisión de tarjetas de crédito en al menos siete tiendas Soriana, lo que marca su entrada al mercado mexicano, dijo su gerente general, Sandro Solari.
1. Kim Jong-un insulta y se niega a negociar con EU
El líder norcoreano, Kim Jong Un, prometió que su país “demostrará su fortaleza a Estados Unidos” y nunca negociará sus programas armamentísticos, tras asistir al lanzamiento de prueba de su primer misil intercontinental.
Su firme postura sugiere que el país podría estar preparando más ensayos, en los esfuerzos norcoreanos para perfeccionar un misil nuclear capaz de atacar en cualquier lugar de Estados Unidos.
El misil intercontinental probado el 4 de julio, capaz de transportar una bomba nuclear pesada, fue un “regalo” a los “bastardos estadounidenses” por el Día de la Independencia, dijo el líder norcoreano citado por la agencia KCNA.
Kim Jong-un insulta y se niega a negociar con EU. Ver nota.
2. Refinaremos sólo la gasolina que sea rentable: Pemex TRI
Pemex mantendrá el volumen de importación de gasolinas por arriba de los 500,000 barriles diarios en lo que resta del año, ya que como empresa productiva del Estado no se enfocará más en incrementar la producción local de combustibles, sino en que cada barril de petróleo que ingresa al sistema nacional de refinación otorgue rentabilidad tras su transformación.
Así lo explicó el director general de Pemex Transformación Industrial (TRI), Carlos Murrieta Cummings. Si bien el promedio de importación de gasolinas en los primeros cinco meses del año (de 503,000 barriles diarios) fue superior al del mismo lapso del año anterior, éste disminuyó en comparación con los últimos cinco meses del 2016, en que se alcanzaron los máximos históricos en este rubro, con compras promedio de más de 564,00 barriles por día.
Refinaremos sólo la gasolina que sea rentable: Pemex TRI. Ver nota.
3. Endeudamiento de estados registra monto histórico
En lo que va del año ya suman 21 entidades federativas las que contrajeron financiamientos y obligaciones inscritos en el Registro Público Único por 51,495.2 millones de pesos, que significó un aumento de 478.8% a tasa anual.
Este monto de deuda es el más elevado, para un mismo periodo, desde 1989, año hasta donde llega la información de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP).
Siendo deudor u obligado, los gobiernos estatales fueron los que solicitaron la mayor parte de los financiamientos, 42 de los 61 inscritos, por un total de 50,026.2 millones de pesos, mientras que las obligaciones contratadas por 19 municipios ascendieron a 1,469.1 millones.
Endeudamiento de estados registra monto histórico. Ver nota.
4. Tiendas Soriana ya expiden tarjetas de Falabella
La chilena, Falabella, puso en marcha un programa piloto de emisión de tarjetas de crédito en al menos siete tiendas Soriana, lo que marca su entrada al mercado mexicano.
El gerente general Corporativo de Grupo Falabella, Sandro Solari, resaltó que entrar a México se trata de una “tremenda oportunidad”, por la cantidad de habitantes que existen en el país y su nivel de bancarización.
Tiendas Soriana ya expiden tarjetas de Falabella. Ver nota.
As United States intelligence agencies continue their investigation into the source of the COVID-19 spread, the vice director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology spoke out Saturday to defend the Chinese government and his laboratory from allegations that the coronavirus originated in Wuhan.
Yuan Zhiming, who is also the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Branch, broke the lab’s silence after Trump administration sources last week said China and the World Health Organization (WHO) were being investigated for a potential coronavirus cover-up. China’s foreign ministry on Thursday told reporters the WHO found “no evidence” the outbreak started at the Wuhan laboratory, and Yuan blasted allegations of intentional misuse or creation as “malicious” and “impossible.”
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday that American intelligence indicates the coronavirus most likely spread naturally versus it being manufactured in the Chinese laboratory, which has ties to foreign government money including the U.S. and France. The Chinese government has done little to provide confidence in the veracity of its publicly revealed coronavirus case and death statistics, particularly after reports they silenced doctors, falsely blamed the U.S. military and botched their initial 2019 response.
Hoping to dismiss similar allegations, Yuan appeared on a Chinese state television network and said that U.S. politicians and “conspiracy theories” are mistakenly “connecting the dots,” because the Institute of Virology and the P4 laboratory, one of Asia’s most advanced, are both in the city of Wuhan.
“The director of the Galveston National Laboratory in the United States made it clear that our laboratory is just as well managed as labs in Europe and the U.S.,” Yuan said. “I think it is understandable for people to make that association. But it is a malicious move to purposefully mislead the people” to think that the virus escaped from [our Wuhan] labs.
“They have no evidence or logic to support their accusations. They are basing it completely on their own speculations,” Yuan added.
As the Washington Post had reported, diplomatic cables from 2018 revealed U.S. embassy officials were concerned that poor safety procedures at China’s Wuhan lab–which was testing coronavirus strains in bats–could potentially lead to outbreaks in the future. The Associated Press reported that more than 3,000 people were infected with COVID-19 during the crucial six days between when authorities knew about the outbreak and their official announcement, based on internal records obtained by the news wire.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, recently said at a news conference at the Pentagon: “It should be no surprise to you that we’ve taken a keen interest in that, and we’ve had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. And I would just say, at this point, it’s inconclusive. Although the weight of evidence seems to indicate ‘natural.’ But we don’t know for certain.”
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the U.S. is trying to determine whether the coronavirus emanated from the Wuhan lab before spreading throughout China in December 2019. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded that Beijing “needs to come clean” on the coronavirus source. A U.S. intelligence community official who spoke to Newsweek Friday said the U.S. government agencies have “not collectively agreed on any one theory” about COVID-19’s origin.
Hoping to dismiss such allegations Saturday, Yuan, the Wuhan branch virologist, appeared on a Chinese state television network saying the biosafety lab undergoes rigorous testing on par with Western labs as he dismissed virus spread speculation. Yuan said that U.S. politicians and “conspiracy theories” are mistakenly “connecting the dots” because the Institute of Virology and the P4 laboratory, one of Asia’s most advanced, are both in the city of Wuhan.
“The director of the Galveston National Laboratory in the United States made it clear that our laboratory is just as well managed as labs in Europe and the U.S.,” Yuan said. “I think it is understandable for people to make that association. But it is a malicious move to purposefully mislead the people” to think that the virus escaped from [our Wuhan] labs.
“They have no evidence or logic to support their accusations. They are basing it completely on their own speculations,” Yuan added.
Fox News quoted several anonymous sources last week within the Trump administration who said patient zero is thought to have worked at the Wuhan lab and contracted the virus from a bat. The report cited one U.S. source who said cooperation between the WHO and the communist Chinese government may be “the costliest government of all time” — something their foreign ministry denied flatly Thursday.
Trump announced this week he is considering halting U.S. funding to the WHO as an investigation into wrongdoing proceeds, before accusing the international organization of “severely mismanaging and covering up” the coronavirus origin. Yuan said Saturday that the Wuhan lab — or humans as a whole — don’t have the capability “or have the know-how to create such a virus.” The Wuhan lab vice director said he is hopeful that scientists around the globe can work with Chinese researchers to find the pathogen’s true trajectory.
“I have been in managing laboratory biosafety and scientific research projects for years, I know it is impossible,” Yuan continued. “But I also believe that so long as the pandemic continues, this kind of speculations and disharmony will not fade away. Scientists around the world are joining forces to publish in academic journals. I hope these conspiracy theories will not harm the cooperation of scientists and affect their fight against the pandemic.”
As United States intelligence agencies continue their investigation into the source of the COVID-19 spread, the vice director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology came forth Saturday to defend the Chinese government and his laboratory from allegations the coronavirus originated in Wuhan.HECTOR RETAMAL, JOHANNES EISELE / AFP/Getty Images
On July 6, 1973, 11-year-old Linda O’Keefe disappeared while walking home from summer school in the southern California beachside town of Corona del Mar.
To her family’s horror, her dead body was found the next day in a ditch, still wearing the dress her mother had made for her. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted.
On Tuesday, 45 years after Linda’s brutal murder, authorities arrested the man that DNA evidence from a genealogy site allegedly points to as her killer: James Alan Neal, 72, of Monument, Colorado, officials announced at a press conference Wednesday.
Detectives from Newport Beach arrested Neal at 6:29 a.m. in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Newport Beach Police Chief Jon Lewis said at the press conference.
Neal is charged with murder, kidnapping during the commission of murder and lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under 14 in the beachside town of Corona del Mar, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.
Neal is being held in the El Paso County Jail in Colorado. He could be brought to California sometime this week if he waives extradition, Spitzer said.
It is unclear whether he has retained a lawyer who can speak on his behalf.
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Although Linda died almost half a century ago, her family, the community and members of law enforcement never stopped thinking of her or hoping her killer would be brought to justice, Spitzer said.
“People in the city of Newport Beach have been following this case for literally 45 years,” Spitzer said.
“Yet for 45 years the Newport Beach Police Department never gave up. The detectives dogged this case. The community made sure that justice would be secured,” he said.
Shortly after Linda’s murder, investigators recovered DNA evidence from her remains, Spitzer said.
The DNA sample from her dress was entered into the CODIS system in 2001 but came up empty, he said.
Detectives from the Newport Beach Police Department kept investigating.
Taking advantage of the latest in crime-solving techniques, in January, Spitzer said, “they received a pointer indication through genealogical DNA.”
Combining the “latest” in DNA technology with “old-fashioned” detective work led investigators to Neal, Lewis said.
Suspect Changed His Name After Linda’s Death
Neal currently lives in Colorado, but investigators were able to confirm that he lived in California in the 1970s, when Linda was murdered, Spitzer said.
“He had a connection to southern California, which has been corroborated,” he said.
After Linda’s death, Neal moved to Florida, where he changed his name to James Alan George Leyton, Spitzer said. Later he moved to Colorado, where he was living when he was arrested, he said.
On the day Linda disappeared, she was last seen talking to a stranger in a van, Lewis said.
“Linda never made it home that afternoon,” he said.
Her parents checked with friends and searched the neighborhood and the path she took home “to no avail,” Lewis said.
“Then her mother made that call that every parent dreads” and told police her daughter was missing, he said.
La carta de Carlos Zannini como compañero de boleta de Daniel Scioli implica, como gesto, la rendición incondicional del candidato presidencial. Comparada con la jugada K de haberle puesto a Gabriel Mariotto como vicegobernador bonaerense -desafío que Scioli esquivó con frialdad de motonauta-, esta jugada atornilla al núcleo kirchnerista a la Casa Rosada y, quizá más decisivo a futuro, al Senado y por consiguiente a la línea sucesoria constitucional. Hoy parece un chiste macabro el lapsus reciente de un integrante de Carta Abierta sobre la posibilidad soñada de que Scioli renuncie en algún momento a la presidencia y lo suceda Máximo Kirchner. La opción por Zannini es tan contundente como la hipotética candidatura de Máximo, pero más viable y realista, por la pericia política y administrativa desplegada por “El Chino” junto a Néstor y a Cristina, sumado al bajo perfil relativo que Zannini conserva ante el grueso de los votantes. Traducido: Máximo olía, para el gran público, mucho más a continuismo rabioso que el poco famoso Zannini, lo cual podría espantar menos a los votantes con simpatías K, pero con ciertos pruritos republicanos en relación con la alternancia en el poder y otros “berretines” cívicos caricaturizados por el oficialismo.
La elección de Zannini para que acompañe a Scioli podría sellar, de paso, la fantasía presidencial de Florencio Randazzo, ya que es poco probable que el Gobierno (especialmente Cristina) se encolumne durante la campaña contra una boleta ejecutiva integrada por el secretario de Legal y Técnica y mano derecha incuestionable de la Presidenta. Teniendo en cuenta, además, el peso específico que ha tomado Zannini en los últimos días como el lápiz de plata (el de oro es CFK, obvio) para confeccionar las listas de los distritos importantes de las votaciones nacionales, provinciales y municipales que quedan por delante, la movida puede dar una idea de el nivel de kirchnerismo en sangre que registrará la oferta electoral oficialista.
También es Zannini un indicio de lo que la familia Kirchner no está dispuesta a entregar junto con el bastón presidencial: el control férreo y a la vez sigiloso de un entramado de negocios público/privados que el posible vice conoce bien de cerca, familiarizado con las tramas legales involucradas en el reparto de la obra pública, en coordinación tensa y acaso insostenible a futuro con Julio De Vido, otro de los rostros de la vocación empresarial K.
Muerto Néstor y aún verde Máximo, Zannini es lo más parecido a “Kirchner por siempre” que Cristina podía conseguir en este año de falso “fin de ciclo”.
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