In media news today, ‘The View’ gets mocked over a report the show is struggling to find a new Republican host, the Miami Beach mayor tells CNN that Gov. DeSantis has decided to ‘champion’ not taking the vaccine, and an MSNBC producer gets knocked for calling Chinese human rights abuses ‘alleged.’
During an interview with CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins, Brown University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish K. Jha was asked whether the administration was missing a “critical window” for COVID testing heading into the new year.
“You saw President Biden yesterday acknowledging, pretty bluntly, that they need to do better when it comes to testing because we are seeing this nationwide shortage of those rapid at-home tests. It’s very difficult to just walk into a store and get one. And what we’re hearing from officials like Dr. Fauci is that they believe they’re gonna have this solved by mid-January, in a few weeks. But, how critical is the window that we’re missing right now for testing?” asked Collins.
“Oh I think it’s incredibly critical, and I cannot believe this is where we are almost two years into the pandemic. Everybody saw it coming. We knew we needed more tests. I think the administration dropped the ball on this,” Jha responded.
Jha said that the Biden administration appeared to be primarily focused on vaccinations throughout the year while “not paying a lot of attention” to the importance of testing. He added that while a focus on vaccines is “terrific,” the decision to largely ignore the infrastructure for testing has been “really costly” this holiday season.
A few CNN correspondents have recently criticized the president for his handling of the pandemic.
CNN reporter Phil Mattingly questioned last week whether the administration’s inability to adequately prepare for the latest variant with testing should be considered a “failure.”
“No, it’s not,” Biden responded. “Because COVID is spreading so rapidly if you notice. It just happened almost overnight just in the last month. And so, it’s not a failure, but an alarm bell went off. I don’t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.”
Biden again admitted to a lack of foresight on rapid tests in a call with several U.S. governors on Monday, saying, “It is not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If I had – we – had known, we would have gone harder, quicker, if we could have.”
Fox News’ Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.
The revelations prompted Democrats to amplify their distrust of Barr over his disclosures about the Mueller report’s remarks on obstruction of justice while whetting the appetite for testimony from the special counsel that now appears likely in the House later this month.
“I hope that he is desirous of testifying so that he can, from his perspective, talk to the American people, and to the representatives of the American people, on what his views are,” Hoyer told reporters this week. “Clearly, this letter indicates that they are not being represented by Attorney General Barr.”
“This is a two-year effort, a little short of that, [and a] major investment,” Hoyer added. “And I think the American people are justified in hearing his view as to what he found and the interpretation he put on it.”
Other Democrats suggested Barr’s testimony cannot be trusted on its own.
The panel has reportedly been engaging directly with Mueller on a date for his testimony; a committee spokesman did not respond to a request for more information on those negotiations.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, told The Hill in an email Friday that he didn’t have “any information to provide at this time” with respect to negotiations surrounding Mueller’s potential testimony.
Ultimately, Mueller did not establish that members of Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, and he did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice.
Democrats would undoubtedly question Mueller on his interactions with Barr, particularly during the four-week period between the completion of his 22-month investigation and Barr’s public release of the report on April 18. They’re also likely to ask for his candid thoughts on Barr’s March 24 memo to Congress spelling out the report’s bottom-line conclusions.
Mueller’s team reached out to the Justice Department with concerns on March 25, and two days later the special counsel wrote to Barr saying the memo to Congress “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the investigation’s conclusions and created “public confusion” about the results.
Barr testified on Wednesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he spoke to Mueller by phone about the March 27 letter. The attorney general later described the correspondence as “snitty” and said it was “probably written by one of [Mueller’s] staff people.”
“I asked him if he was suggesting that the March 24 letter was inaccurate, and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate,” Barr said.
Mueller’s letter made no mention of press coverage, raising the odds that Democrats are likely to ask the special counsel about Barr’s characterization of that conversation.
Lawmakers would almost certainly press Mueller on why he did not come to a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, something that perplexed many in Washington, including Barr.
Democrats may also look to Mueller to elicit more information about his investigation and report, roughly 10 percent of which was redacted to conceal information related to ongoing probes, grand jury material, national security information and details that impact third parties.
Nadler has subpoenaed for the full report and underlying evidence. The Justice Department has refused to comply, describing the subpoena as “not legitimate oversight” and its requests as “overbroad and extraordinarily burdensome.”
Barr has instead allowed select members of Congress, including Nadler, to view a less redacted version in a secure room as long as they agree to keep those contents of the report confidential.
Graham had otherwise shut the door on hearing from Mueller.
“I’m not going to do any more. Enough already. It’s over,” Graham told reporters after Barr’s hours-long testimony on Wednesday.
Trump, when asked Friday whether Mueller should testify, deferred to the attorney general.
“I don’t know,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “That’s up to our attorney general, who I think has done a fantastic job.”
Barr has said that he would not object to Mueller testifying.
“I have no objection to Bob Mueller personally testifying,” he told reporters at a news conference shortly before releasing the special counsel’s report last month.
Barr reiterated that point during his Senate testimony on Wednesday, adding that the White House was not exerting influence on his decision of whether and when to allow Mueller to testify.
White House deputy press secretary Steven Groves said Friday that he’s not aware of any discussions within the West Wing about potential Mueller testimony and that he hasn’t “heard anyone speak out in objection to it.”
He suggested the White House counsel would discuss the matter with Trump, who has made clear he has no intention of cooperating with House Democrats’ oversight and investigations.
Groves added that it was “premature” to debate the issue since no date had been set for a Mueller hearing.
“There are some questions that I would like to ask him,” Groves said. “I mean, he was given a task to either prosecute or decline prosecute, and instead what the American people got for their $30 million were 200 pages of on the one hand this and on the other hand that.
“The question is, does he want to go before Congress and explain his findings and explain his decisionmaking?” he added.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates is defending the World Health Organization, blasting President Donald Trump‘s decision to halt funding for the U.N. agency in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Microsoft co-founder and his wife, Melinda, voiced support for the WHO in separate Twitter posts early Wednesday, a day after Trump announced that he is halting U.S. funding while the administration reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs @WHO now more than ever,” Gates tweeted.
The White House defended Trump’s announcement.
“Any suggestion that the President is putting the health and safety of the American people or global health aid in jeopardy is false,” deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a statement. “The WHO’s response to COVID has been filled with one misstep after another, and President Trump is standing up for the American taxpayer to ensure we hold WHO accountable for their flawed actions.”
Gates has long focused on the health field within his work at the nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, though he often avoids diving into political issues. However, he has been speaking out on the coronavirus pandemic. In late March he said the United States missed its chance to avoid mandated shutdowns because it didn’t act fast enough on the pandemic.
Trump said Tuesday that his administration is suspending funding from the WHO as it investigates how the agency reacted to the coronavirus outbreak. Trump said the international health agency made mistakes that “caused so much death,” as the virus continues to spread.
It’s unclear exactly what mechanism Trump intends to use to withhold WHO funding, much of which is appropriated by Congress. The president typically does not have the authority to unilaterally redirect congressional funding.
The search resumed Monday for victims of a vicious tornado outbreak that ripped across the South on Sunday killing at least 23 people in Alabama.
“I’m still thanking God I’m among the living,” said John Jones, who has lived most of his life in Beauregard, the southern Alabama community that was devastated by a tornado.
The violent storms left debris strewn across southern Alabama and Georgia, the Florida Panhandle and into parts of South Carolina. More than 10,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity as of 8 a.m. Monday, according to poweroutage.us. That had dropped to less than 3,000 by 11:30 a.m.
“Much colder air is pushing into the South from the Midwest, and that will make conditions even worse for those without power into midweek,” weather.com meteorologist Christopher Dolce said. Parts of Alabama and Georgia will see low temperatures in the 20s and low 30s each morning Tuesday through Thursday.”
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office told local media that no fewer than 23 people were killed and more than 50 people were hurt when a tornado roared through Beauregard, a community of about 10,000 people some 60 miles east of Montgomery, shortly after 2 p.m. CST.
Sheriff Jay Jones said at a news conference Monday morning that the number of missing people was in double digits. He added, however, that some of those may be people who left the area and haven’t contacted family members.
“It’s extremely upsetting to me to see these people hurting like this and the families who have lost loved ones,” Jones said. “This is a very tight-knit community. These people are tough. They’re resilient people, and it’s knocked them down. But they’ll be back.”
“It hurts my heart to see this,” he said.
Jones said the devastation is shocking.
“It looks almost as if someone took a giant knife and just scraped the ground,” he said. “There are slabs where homes formerly stood, debris everywhere, trees snapped, whole forested areas where trees are snapped and lying on the ground.”
Kathy Carson, Lee County’s EMA director said, “This is the worst natural disaster that has ever occurred in Lee County.”
The East Alabama Medical Center in nearby Opelika, where many of the injured were taken, canceled elective surgeries so it could focus on the injured people, Dave Malkoff of The Weather Channel reported.
The National Weather Service said Monday that two tornadoes hit southern Lee County. The damage from one of them indicated it was an EF4 tornado with winds of 170 mph.
Sunday was the deadliest day for tornadoes in the United States since May 20, 2013.
A makeshift morgue was set up in a parking lot and medical examiners from other locations were coming to assist in identifying the victims.
Lee County coroner Bill Harris said three children are among the dead: a 6-year-old, a 9-year-old who died at the hospital and a 10-year-old, the New York Times reported.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she would extend the current state of emergency to provide state resources for areas damaged by the storms.
“Our hearts go out to those who lost their lives in the storms that hit Lee County today,” Ivey said in a tweet. “Praying for their families & everyone whose homes or businesses were affected.”
President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday, “FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A Plus treatment to the Great State of Alabama and the wonderful people who have been so devastated by the Tornadoes.” He added that Gov. Ivey is working closely with FEMA.
About 3:20 p.m. CST, the NWS issued a tornado emergency after a large and destructive tornado was confirmed near Smiths Station, also in Lee County.
Smiths Station Mayor Bubba Copeland told The Weather Channel that at least 12 houses were flattened.
“We have a lot of mobile homes turned upside down,” Copeland said.
No deaths or serious injuries were reported in Smiths Station.
Copeland said Lee County schools are canceled Monday because “several huge holes are on top of the (elementary) school.” Schools will also be closed again on Tuesday.
The storm also destroyed the Buck Wild Saloon, damaged a gas station and toppled a cell phone tower across U.S. 280.
Jonathan Clardy told the Associated Press he and his family hunkered down in their Beauregard trailer as the tornado ripped the roof off.
“All we could do is just hold on for life and pray. It’s a blessing from God that me and my young’uns are alive.”
Julie Morrison and her husband sought shelter in their bathtub as the storm lifted the house and tossed into nearby woods, AP reported.
“We knew we were flying because it picked the house up,” Morrison said. She credited their survival on the shower’s fiberglass enclosure and added that her son-in-law later dug them out.
The Lee County storm warnings were two of several tornado warnings issued for Alabama and Georgia on Sunday afternoon.
Reports said multiple homes were damaged in Dupree, Alabama, south of Dothan. Other reports said the airport and a fire station were damaged in Eufaula, Alabama.
Georgia
Some 30 miles north of Tallahassee, the town of Cairo and its 9,500 residents suffered a direct hit from a tornado. Shortly after, authorities reported widespread damage in the town, but no injuries or deaths were reported.
Speaking with Cairo Mayor Booker Gainor, Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeffrey Burlew tweeted that dozens of structures were damaged or destroyed and some residents were trapped in their homes after the storm struck the town Sunday night.
“It’s pretty bad,” Gainor told the Democrat. “We have a lot of trees down, debris and power lines. We have trees completely through houses. You would think a hurricane came after this, the way it looks.”
The National Weather Service on Monday confirmed that a tornado struck the town. A 102-mph wind gust was recorded on the tornado’s path, the NWS said.
Grady County EMA Director Richard Phillips told WCTV it appeared 500 to 1000 homes and businesses were affected by the tornado.
Several towns in Georgia reported damage earlier Sunday from several tornadoes that were confirmed on radar by the NWS.
In the town of Talbotton, located some 35 miles northeast of Columbus, several people were injured when a damaging storm rolled through the area, Talbot County Emergency Management Agency director Leigh Ann Erenheim told the Associated Press.
“The last check I had was between six and eight injuries,” Erenheim said in a phone interview with the AP. “From what I understand it was minor injuries, though one fellow did say his leg might be broken.”
The NWS said the Talbotton tornado has been given a preliminary rating of high-end EF2.
Social media was also sharing reports of damage in Perry, Georgia.
Peach County Sheriff Terry Deese said trees were down and some houses were damaged, the Macon Telegraph reported.
While following the storm, Peach County Sheriff’s Sgt. Shane Brooks told the Macon Telegraph he was nearly hit directly by the tornado as he drove down Duke Road in Byron.
“It was moving so fast I didn’t have time do anything but just sit there and hold on,” he told the Telegraph. “It was not something I would want to experience again.”
Crawford County Fire Chief Randall Pate said a tornado destroyed four homes. Pate also reported one injury: a woman whose ankle was broken when her home was damaged.
Following the storms, Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency for Talbot, Grady and Harris counties.
Florida
The NWS confirmed that an EF2 tornado struck the area of Baum in Leon County on Sunday.
The Leon County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that at least 10 homes in the community have substantial damage, and five of those were completely destroyed. At least two people were taken to a hospital.
The NWS also confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in the Jackson County town of Alford, about 70 miles northwest of Tallahassee.
Jackson County Emergency Management Director Rodney Andreasen told WCTV the tornado damaged three homes, including ripping the side off one of the houses.
The storm also caused a tree to crash into a home in Gadsden County where a family of four was. Two rooms were destroyed but no one was injured, WCTV reported.
A radar-confirmed tornado spread debris across Interstate 10 in Walton County, the AP reported. The eastbound lanes of the interstate had to be closed for cleanup.
South Carolina
Storms caused numerous reports of damage in and around Columbia Sunday night. The NWS said Monday that damage surveys indicated three tornadoes struck the Midlands area of the state.
The storm caused damage to a church in Lexington, South Carolina, and ripped a roof off a home and blew recreational vehicles onto their sides near Lexington. The damage was consistent with a tornado, the NWS said.
The front of the Red Bank Baptist Church in Lexington was damaged by the storm.
Around 150 adults and children were at the church for Sunday night services when the storm hit, the State reports. Children sang “Jesus Loves Me” as they huddled with adults in a long hallway.
The Columbia Police Department tweeted a photo of a tree that had fallen on a house north of downtown. Trees also fell on cars downtown, the State reported.
The NWS confirmed that an EF1 tornado struck north of downtown. It also said
In Edgefield County, seven people were injured when the storm hit a gas station in Merriwether, north of Augusta, Georgia, WRDW reported. The NWS said the damage here was also consistent with a tornado.
Trees were knocked down in North Augusta, South Carolina, and Aiken, South Carolina.
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The headline findings by special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a political shot in the arm for President Trump and Republicans, they say — how long it lasts may depend on the full document.
Attorney General William Barr told Congress that Mueller’s office didn’t establish a conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election, nor did it establish — per Barr — that Trump obstructed justice.
Barr’s office is working now to redact grand jury testimony, foreign intelligence and other material from the full Mueller report before releasing it sometime this month.
Here are some of the big questions it may answer.
What did Trump know?
Trump’s campaign and business had many contacts with Russians from 2015 through the 2016 election — these are not in dispute and they were among the reasons for the investigation in the first place.
Mueller, in fact — according to Barr — confirmed that “Russian-affiliated individuals” made “multiple offers” to “assist the Trump campaign,” which comports with the versions of events given in court documents and according to other official sources that already are public.
Did the substance of any of these offers ever reach Trump or other members of his brain trust? If so, what did they do?
Micromanagement
People who worked for Trump have said nothing happened in his business or campaign without his involvement.
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That’s why, for example, former Trump aides have said they thought it likely he was at least aware that Donald Trump Jr. convened a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 at which a Russian delegation delivered a tip on Democrats.
Trump Jr. said it wasn’t what he expected and he didn’t pursue it any further, and authorities evidently did not conclude it broke the law.
No one faced criminal charges in connection with that meeting and the Justice Department says Mueller hasn’t recommended any more indictments beyond the ones that already have been unsealed.
And Trump has denied he was aware in 2016 of the Russian interference in the election and of the Trump Tower meeting specifically. Democratic opponents said they thought phone records might undermine that denial, but they didn’t.
If Mueller’s full report further bolsters the Trumps’ defenses, that will mean more good political news for the president and his family.
If Mueller’s report established that Trump did know what was happening and, while he didn’t conspire with Russia’s efforts, he also didn’t report them to authorities, that may take away some of the political momentum Trump and the GOP have built up so far from the Barr account of Mueller’s findings.
What did the feds establish about the dossier?
The unverified Russia dossier was not the origin of the Russia investigation, but it may be the most infamous piece of information about it. NPR has not detailed its claims because they are unverified.
The degree to which Mueller’s full report specifically addresses the material in the dossier could be one of its most important developments for the politics of the post-Mueller era.
If the full report torpedoes the dossier altogether, that will strengthen efforts like those by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who wants an investigation into how the FBI and Justice Department used it in the Russia investigation.
If Mueller substantiates some of the dossier’s contents, that could create problems for the White House short of the worst-case “collusion” allegation that evidently now is off the table.
Kompromat
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For example, one claim of the dossier was that powerful Russians may possess compromising material — or so-called kompromat — about Trump and that may have been why he took such sympathetic tone toward Moscow — for fear of it being revealed.
Democrats also continue to ask whether Trump may be beholden to Russia or compromised by people in it — and whether that might be true even if, per Barr’s letter, Trump’s 2016 campaign didn’t collude with the election interference.
Mueller’s findings about this could change the understanding of the Russia imbroglio yet again.
What did Trump ask, and of whom, involving the various investigations?
Alleged obstruction of justice was a potent threat to Trump because frustrating an investigation is illegal even when there was no underlying crime.
That was another reason why Trump and Republicans welcomed Barr’s letter about Mueller’s findings so warmly.
And it’s one reason why Democrats reacted so strongly to Barr’s characterization of Mueller’s findings, of which the attorney general wrote: “‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’ “
In short, Barr made it sound as though this came down to a judgment call. Barr and Rod Rosenstein, according to the attorney general, were the ones who concluded that Mueller’s findings were insufficient to establish that Trump had committed a crime.
So what were those findings?
A number of press reports suggested Trump asked people — intelligence agency leaders, Justice Department or law enforcement officials and White House officials — to take actions that critics called obstruction of justice.
Trump’s alleged actions included requests for investigators to ease up on him or friends, for people to be fired or removed — or for safe loyalists to be placed onto cases — and for people to give inaccurate information to Congress.
The code
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Were those reports accurate? And if so, how much of the assessment depends on the president’s exact words?
Former FBI Director James Comey, for example, told the Senate intelligence committee that Trump said “I hope you can let this go,” when alluding to the case of former national security adviser Mike Flynn. Trump, in this telling, did not say: I hereby order you to discontinue your investigation of Flynn.
Trump, as his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told the House oversight committee, often speaks in a “code.” Mueller’s report may reveal how much the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute on obstruction depended on the substance of his actions and how much on his use of that “code.”
What were the extent of the active measures?
Two of the ways Russia interfered in the 2016 election have gotten most of the attention:
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How many other types of “active measures” did the Russians wield in service of their aim to sow chaos and, eventually, help support Trump? Are there any types of interference that haven’t been made public?
Mueller’s answers about the tools Russia used to interfere in the last presidential election will help Americans prepare to safeguard future elections.
What were the origins of the active measures?
The U.S. intelligence community assessed early on that Putin had ordered the influence campaign “to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.”
What more is known about when, precisely, Putin decided to launch it — and why? Who involved chose the techniques — and why?
Americans have learned a great deal from Mueller’s prosecutions about the operational workings of the Kremlin’s active measures effort — the movement of the troops in what amounted to a war of information.
What’s less clear, for now, were the actions of their generals.
Nuevamente la sangre de inocentes enluta al mundo con el ataque terrorista en Estambul, Turquía en donde fallecieron al menos 28 personas, esa noticias, destaca en el resumen de este martes en donde también seque en Honduras, un hombre asesinó a su propio padre.
En este resumen de noticias de este martes, te presentamos las que mayor impacto tuvieron en Honduras y el planeta entero:
Capturan a hombre que mató a su propio padre en Yoro
Un hondureño fue capturado después de golpear y matar a su padre con un palo en el caserío El Mogote de la aldea Ayapa del departamento de Yoro, Yoro. Elvin Gregorio Rodas Cálix (24) atacó, supuestamente en estado de ebriedad, a su padre Natalio Liborio Rodas Gutiérrez, de unos 65 años. El hecho ocurrió el sábado anterior y Rodas Cálix fue capturado por agentes de la Policía la noche de este lunes a eso de las 10:00 pm.
Según las primeras investigaciones de la Policía, entre padre e hijo existía una riña personal. Cálix será presentado ante el Ministerio Público por el delito de parricidio.
Ultiman a niño en cercanías del aeropuerto Ramón Villeda Morales
Con señales de haber sido estrangulado encontraron a un niño de doce años a la orilla del crique Chotepe, en el lugar conocido como Altos del Aeropuerto Ramón Villeda Morales. El cadáver del pequeño fue levantado por las autoridades forenses, fiscales y de la Dirección Policial de Investigaciones (DPI) a las 3:20 pm del domingo. Ingresaron el cuerpo a la morgue de la Dirección Regional de Medicina Forense como desconocido, ya que a la víctima no le hallaron ningún documento. En el informe forense preliminar se establece que el menor fue estrangulado.
Ayer llegaron a la morgue forense los familiares del ahora occiso, quienes manifestaron que el victimado es el menor Efraín Eduardo López, un niño especial porque tenía problemas de aprendizaje.
Culpable hombre acusado de matar a tres hermanitos
Un hombre fue declarado culpable este martes en San Pedro Sula por el asesinato de tres menores de edad, hecho ocurrido en el municipio de Santa Cruz de Yojoa, zona norte de Honduras. El condenado es Alejandro Hernández Hernández quien mató con arma blanca a los hermanos Miguel Ángel (15), Marleni Maribel(14) y Noel (12), todos de apellido Argueta Chacón.
Por cada delito de asesinato la pena sería de 20 a 30 años más los agravantes. La audiencia de individualización de la pena concreta se fijó para el 4 de agosto a las 09:00 de la mañana.
Desmantelan red de trata de personas que operaba en África, Sudamérica y Centroamérica
El Ministerio Público, a través de la Fiscalía Especial de la Niñez, la Agencia Técnica de Investigación Criminal (ATIC), con el apoyo de la Dirección Policial de Investigación (DPI) y la Unidad Transnacional de Investigación Criminal (UTIC), desarrollan la operación conjunta a nivel centroamericano “Mesoamérica” para desarticular una peligrosa banda dedicada al Tráfico Ilegal de Personas que operaba desde Brasil, toda Centroamérica, México y los Estados Unidos, es por eso que en Honduras se llevan a cabo allanamientos y ordenes de captura en varios puntos del país.
La operación simultánea entoda la región, desde muy temprano desplazó equipos especiales, luego de que se presentara Requerimiento Fiscal ante un Juez con Jurisdicción Nacional, quien de inmediato libró las ordenes de captura contra Elio Martin González González, Fredy Fernando Bueso Aceituno, Óscar Alfredo Flores Zavala, Luis Felipe Álvarez Velásquez alias “Pinino” (capturado en El Triunfo, Choluteca), José Luis Hernández (capturado en Choluteca) y Wilmer Francisco Cruz Padilla, todos ellos acusados por los delitos de Asociación Ilícita y Tráfico Ilícito de Personas en perjuicio de la Seguridad del Estado de Honduras.
Al menos 28 muertos en atentando terrorista en Estambul, Turquía
Al menos 28 personas murieron y 60 resultaron heridas el martes por la noche en un triple atentado suicida en el aeropuerto internacional de Estambul, anunció el gobernador de esta megalópolis turca. “Tres kamikazes llevaron a cabo el ataque. 28 personas fallecieron y 60 resultaron heridas”, indicó Vasip Sahin a periodistas. “Un terrorista comenzó a disparar con un Kalashnikov y luego se hizo estallar”, había explicado poco antes el ministro turco de Justicia, Bekir Bozdag, ante el Parlamento. El atentado no ha sido reivindicado por el momento.
Un canal de televisión difundió imágenes en las que se ve a un policía disparando a un atacante y éste, herido, cae al suelo y acciona sus explosivos.
Periodista María Celeste se salva de ataque terrorista
La periodista María Celeste Arraras estuvo a punto de vivir el ataque terrorista en el aeropuerto Atatürk, de Estambul, que ya deja al menos 28 muertos. María Celeste estaba de vacaciones con sus hijos en esa ciudad y este mismo martes salió hacia Miami.
Three historic black churches have burned down in a local Louisiana community, and authorities are neither ruling out arson nor that the three fires are related to one another.
“But just as we haven’t connected the three in St. Landry, we haven’t connected the one in Caddo,” said Ashley Rodrigue, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal, on Friday.
Local authorities in St. Landry Parish have been coordinating with the FBI over the fires, which took place over the last few weeks. State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning declined to get into specific details over the ongoing investigation at a press conference on Thursday, but did not rule out the possibility of arson or that the fires are a part of a larger plan to affect the community.
“There is clearly something happening in this community,” Browning said in the statement. “That is why it is imperative that the citizens of this community be part of our effort to figure out what it is.”
“If you’re going to turn to a house of God, turn to it for resurrection.”
St. Mary Baptist Church in the predominantly African American community of Port Barre was the first church fire, on March 26. Then exactly a week later, the Greater Union Baptist Church also caught fire, just 8 miles away from St. Mary. A third, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas, was burnt down Thursday, also in the parish, resulting in the wider investigation involving federal authorities.
Local pastors have been urging churchgoers to keep attending scheduled services, saying that these are the times when the community has to come together even stronger.
The Rev. Harry Richard of Greater Union Baptist Church told New Orleans News that no one in the community should panic or overreact without knowing the full facts.
“I don’t know who’s doing it or why they’re doing it, but I don’t want to be the one to inject race into it,” he said.
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Con el objetivo de tener información fiable y en tiempo real sobre la crisis en Venezuela, un grupo de profesionales desarrolla un proyecto a través de las redes sociales que ofrece noticias y datos objetivos sobre la situación en el país suramericano.
El sitio Venezuela Decoded busca recopilar la información presentada en Twitter en tiempo real agrupándola según las fuentes, ya sean del gobierno o de la oposición y separando la información en inglés y en español.
“Lo que empujó este proyecto es que hubo un aumento en la censura y la autocensura de los medios informativos en Venezuela desde las marchas de febrero”, explicó el miércoles en entrevista con Efe, Ana María Carrano, periodista, editora venezolana y actual miembro del prestigioso programa Knight Fellowships de la Universidad de Stanford.
Ante casos presentados como el bloqueo de la señal de la emisora colombiana Noticias 24 que se recibía en Venezuela o la detención del político opositor Leopoldo López, , varios periodistas venezolanos decidieron buscar una forma para presentar la información tanto de las fuentes oficiales como de la oposición para que los lectores pudieran formar sus propios criterios.
Igualmente, las fuertes restricciones a la importación de papel establecidas por el gobierno venezolano han llevado a varios medios impresos a cerrar y a otros a reducir sus páginas teniendo que autocensurarse para poder subsistir, según explicó Carrano.
Por ello, agregó, el objetivo del proyecto es “aprovechar el valor protagónico de la información que se encuentra en Twitter y tratar de darle un marco organizativo”.
Todavía en desarrollo y con nuevas funciones en proceso que serán agregadas en las próximas semanas, venezueladecoded.com ofrece a través de un “timeline” los hechos más importantes de cada día y organiza la información más confiable y preponderante que se publica en Twitter.
Para los filtros iniciales, se hizo una evaluación de quiénes eran los periodistas que estaban haciendo seguimiento de los procesos con más regularidad y más confiabilidad, tanto en sus propios mensajes como en la repetición de mensajes de otras fuentes, destacó la periodista venezolana.
Posiblemente para la próxima semana, la página añadirá un nuevo canal denominado “Quién es quién” donde se presentará a los principales protagonistas del conflicto político venezolano, tanto del gobierno como de la oposición y se les relacionará con información complementaria.
Según comentó a Efe Martín Quiroga, también miembro actual del Knight Fellowships y arquitecto de sistemas, otra nueva adición del sitio incluirá la posibilidad de “mantenerse al tanto de una historia”.
Shortly after Brian Laundrie returned home without Gabby Petito on 1 September, his family took a weekend camping trip, their neighbours in North Port, Florida, have said.
Charlene and William Guthrie said they saw the Laundries attaching a new camper to their pickup truck and go out of their house on the same weekend the police came looking for a lead in a missing persons case. The Guthries were unaware of Ms Petito’s disappearance at that time.
“I saw them doing some work. And then when they prepared for their trip, I saw them loading the camper,” Mr Guthrie said, according to Fox News.
Mr Guthrie, who saw them preparing the camper while he was doing some yard work, said he found it odd that the three went off on a camping trip in such a small vehicle.
The Laundries’ trip was reportedly around the time when the search for the now deceased Ms Petito intensified. The police were looking for her partner Brian Laundrie, who had gone with her on a nearly two-month-long road trip.
Mr Guthrie said he did not know that the camper he saw outside the Laundrie home belonged to Petito, and assumed that it was the younger man’s.
Mr Laundrie, who is not a suspect in the death of Petito but a “person of interest”, had returned alone from the trip in the Ford camper van owned by his fiancé.
Remains believed to belong to Petito were located in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming on 19 September. An autopsy confirmed that it was Ms Petito.
The search for Mr Laundrie, meanwhile, has intensified in Florida’s 25,000-acre Carlton Reserve, where he is suspected to have gone after returning home for a brief period. The police officials have roped in dive teams and boats to assist in the search.
The couple had left their Florida home in early July for a road trip spanning 2,328 miles and several national parks, before the two reportedly got into fights and had to be separated by the police officials in Utah.
Ms Petito’s family went on a frantic search for their daughter after they stopped receiving texts from her and the 22-year-old did not make it back home with Mr Laundrie. Ms Petito’s mother last spoke to her on 25 August.
“Today’s decision opens old wounds, further expands the principle of legal inequality, and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the Muslim minority,” the Central Council of Muslims said in a statement, adding that it would challenge the decision in court.
Popularmente se le llama temporal de Santa Rosa a la tormenta o lluvias fuertes que se desarrollan en el hemisferio sur entre 5 días antes y 5 días después del 30 de agosto, día de Santa Rosa de Lima, patrona de las América.
La leyenda cuenta que en 1615 una joven religiosa, llamada Rosa, de nombre original Isabel Flores de Oliva, impidió con sus rezos la llegada de piratas holandeses a Lima. Logró generar una tormenta y los piratas no llegaron. Así los creyentes se convencieron que Santa Rosa había ahuyentado a los piratas.
En Uruguay es tradición esperar que cerca del 25 de agosto, pocos días antes o pocos después, se desarrolle este fenómeno .”Santa Rosa no falla”, es la típica frase que se acostumbra decir aun en contra de todos los pronósticos meteorológicos.
Según estudios estadísticos, fueron apenas 16 las ocasiones (en 142 años de registros), en que se desarrolló un episodio que pueda clasificarse como temporal en estas fechas. Las lluvias que se aproximan esta semana podrían explicarse como el choque de los primeros vientos cálidos y temperaturas altas con los frentes fríos que permanecen del invierno.
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Trump continuing to be frustrated by immigration policy and stunted on replacing Obamacare, highlights in conservative analyst Jed Babbin’s poor grade. But as Democratic pollster John Zogby notes, the economy is still making jobs and the president is remaking the federal judiciary.
Jed Babbin Grade D
President Trump had a very rough political week beginning with his threat to close the Mexican border and ending with him walking it back. In between were a vote in the House to end our involvement in the war in Yemen, frustrations with the mess in Venezuela, and the latest setback on his old promise to repeal Obamacare.
Trump is justifiably frustrated by Mexico’s failure to help prevent endless streams of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. The tsunami of illegals now amounts to 100,000 per month, over a million per year. He’s also justified and frustrated by the Democrats’ dedication to open borders. But he apparently can’t do anything about that either. His threat to close the border was cheered by his base, but everyone else — ranging from liberals who feared an avocado shortage and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to industries that benefit most from trade with Mexico — was appalled. It was a lousy idea that Trump walked back before the week ended, saying that Mexico was doing better over the past couple of days.
At that point, Trump decided to give Mexico another year to deal with the flood of illegals and drugs smuggled into the U.S., threatening tariffs on cars made in Mexico. The whole exercise made him appear uncertain and very weak.
The best Trump can do — and is doing — is to end financial aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, which are the primary sources of illegal aliens coming in the current flood. It’s a satisfying move, but probably won’t do anything to slow the flow of illegal aliens coming across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The House voted on a resolution to end our involvement in the Saudi war against Yemeni rebels who are a proxy force of Iran. Our involvement was already limited, the aerial refueling of Saudi aircraft by American tanker aircraft having ended. The Senate passed the same resolution earlier. The resolution now heads to the White House, where Trump will exercise his veto power for the second time.
Trump wanted to set up the Obamacare repeal for another round of campaigning in 2020. His promise to repeal the law fell flat in his first two years and now McConnell has said there won’t be any votes on Obamacare repeal until after the 2020 election.
As if that weren’t enough, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about the buildup of Russian troops in Venezuela. Lavrov said that Russia wasn’t trying to establish another Syria in Venezuela. Which, of course, is precisely what Russia is trying to do with the help of Iran which also has troops there. Venezuela, like Syria, will become a strategic challenge unforeseen by the United States until it is too late to prevent. In Venezuela, Russia’s involvement (and Iran’s) is a violation of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, which prohibits foreign involvement in the Western Hemisphere.
Lavrov’s words taunted Trump, who has said that “all options” were on the table regarding removal of Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicholás Maduro. The last time a president enforced the Monroe Doctrine against Russian intervention in our hemisphere brought about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
John Zogby Grade C
President Trump is still in the White House and he is making policy. There is a possible new trace pact with China. And talks between the administrations of Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will continue. Slowly but surely the president is remaking the federal courts and unemployment stands at 3.8% after the economy added almost 200,000 new jobs in March.
Trump is still rallying and using his bully (!!!) pulpit to push for a fence on the southern border and is not afraid to alienate Mexico in the process. He also has ordered cutting tens of millions of dollars in aid to the Central American nations whose people are the major sources of entry at our border. Critics argue that such aid enables governments to provide aid and services to potential migrants in their home country.
Americans will write our own economic destiny. Never believe the pessimists: Pro-growth, pro-worker policies work.
And now the president is suggesting that he would like to appoint Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve. Will interest rates be lowered to just .0999%?
Jed Babbin is an Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin
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(CNN)The chief executive of the National Rifle Association told the group’s board he is being extorted and pressured to resign by the organization’s president, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Apple advises against storing the iPhone or iPad at temperatures below negative-4 degrees, and they shouldn’t be operated at temperatures lower than 32 degrees. There are similar recommendations for Samsung phones and other electronics. Lithium-ion batteries popular in cellphones are the most vulnerable component to cold. They can stop working in extreme cold but should be OK once you get back indoors. However, repeated exposure to subzero temperatures can cause problems.
Water expands when it freezes. And for canned liquids under pressure, that can mean explosion. The freeze temperature for Coca-Cola is 30 degrees, and the temperature for beer that’s 5 percent alcohol by volume is 27 degrees (higher-alcohol beers freeze at lower temperatures), as NJ.com reported.
Musical instruments
Things contract when they freeze, so this can cause some instruments to go out of tune. More seriously, “damage can be done when an instrument shrinks as a result of the cold air. If your instrument is made of real wood, the cold air can cause cracking, which is very expensive to repair. Sometimes they are broken beyond repair,” according to The Real School of Music. If an instrument is left in a freezing car for a long period, try to make it warm up gradually.
Eggs
Eggs shouldn’t be allowed to freeze in their shells; if that happens, throw away any cracked eggs. Keep the un-cracked ones frozen, and move them to the refrigerator before use. “These can be hard cooked successfully, but other uses may be limited. That’s because freezing causes the yolk to become thick and syrupy so it will not flow like an unfrozen yolk or blend very well with the egg white or other ingredients,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Canned foods
Letting a can of beans freeze allows for the water to freeze and expand in a similar way to beer and soda. The USDA advises that this can result in a broken seal, causing spoilage. If canned food freezes, allow it to thaw in a refrigerator. “If the product doesn’t look and/or smell normal, throw it out. DO NOT TASTE IT! If the seams have rusted or burst, throw the cans out immediately, wrapping the burst can in plastic and disposing the food where no one, including animals can get it,” according to the USDA.
Medication
If you’re visiting a pharmacy during the deep freeze, consider that some medications can be affected by low temperatures. “Drugs like insulin can lose their effectiveness if they freeze. The same goes for any so-called suspended medication that has to be shaken before use,” according to a report in The New York Times.
Loved ones
This should be obvious. But it’s worth noting that children and elderly people can be more susceptible to hypothermia at cold temperatures, with symptoms such as shivering, confusion and exhaustion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So even limited amounts of time in an unheated vehicle could be dangerous. The same goes for pets.
A low gas tank
Keeping a fuel tank more than half-full helps to prevent fuel lines from freezing. It’s also a good idea to check fluids, such as antifreeze. The cold can affect tire pressure. “A temperature change of just 10 degrees can cause a 10 percent reduction, or constriction, of air in tires. So tire pressure can be affected from day to night temperature,” according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
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