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Gabby Petito autopsy results expected shortly from Teton county coroner – The Guardian
Gabby Petito autopsy results expected shortly from Teton county coroner – The Guardian

Authorities in Wyoming planned to announce on Tuesday how they believe Gabby Petito was killed.

The Teton county coroner, Brent Blue, was scheduled to announce the findings of Petito’s autopsy at an early afternoon news conference.

The body of Petito, 22, was found on 19 September near an undeveloped camping area in remote northern Wyoming along the border of Grand Teton national park. Blue previously classified Petito’s death as a homicide – meaning her death was caused by another person – but did not disclose how she was killed pending further autopsy results.

Petito had been on a cross-country trip with her fiance, Brian Laundrie. She was reported missing on 11 September by her parents after she did not respond to calls and texts for several days while the couple visited parks in the west.

Laundrie is considered a person of interest in her disappearance and remains unaccounted for.

The search for Laundrie has generated a frenzy, with TV personalities like Duane Chapman, known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, and longtime America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh working to track him down.

The case has led to renewed calls for greater attention to cases involving missing Indigenous women and other people of color, with some commentators describing intense coverage of Petito’s disappearance as “missing white woman syndrome”.

Petito and Laundrie posted online about their trip in a white Ford Transit van converted into a camper. They got into a physical altercation on 12 August in Moab, Utah, that led to a police stop which ended with officers deciding to separate the quarreling couple for a night. No charges were filed, and no serious injuries were reported.

Investigators have searched for Laundrie in Florida and also and searched his parents’ home in North Port, about 35 miles south of Sarasota.

Federal officials in Wyoming last month charged Laundrie with unauthorized use of a debit card, alleging he used a Capital One Bank card and someone’s personal identification number to make unauthorized withdrawals or charges worth more than $1,000 during the period in which Petito went missing. They did not say who the card belonged to.

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Build Back Better polls: Tax the rich, America tells Democrats – Vox.com
Build Back Better polls: Tax the rich, America tells Democrats – Vox.com

As debate over Democrats’ Build Back Better Act has intensified, the $3.5 trillion social spending bill has remained strikingly popular. That may be both a blessing and a curse for lawmakers because it’s now clear that the bill will need to shrink to pass. And like Congress, Americans don’t all agree on which of its big-ticket items are most important.

But at least one thing seems clear from public polling: People want to pay for the bill by taxing the rich.

A Vox and Data for Progress poll, conducted October 8-12, found that 71 percent of voters support raising taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans to pay for the bill. Eighty-six percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Republicans backed the idea. Other tax provisions focused on the wealthy that could be included in the bill — such as tax increases on corporations and capital gains — found 65 percent or more support overall.

Sixty-three percent of voters in the poll said they supported the $3.5 trillion overall plan that includes spending on health care, long-term care, child care, and clean-energy jobs.

Ethan Winter/Data for Progress

It’s less clear which priorities voters most want to spend that money on. When asked to choose the most and least important parts of the Build Back Better Act’s many policies, taxing the rich was most frequently cited as a top priority, with 13 percent of respondents choosing the measure. (The poll surveyed 1,224 likely voters and had a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.)

Expanding Medicare benefits to cover dental, vision, and hearing also showed strong support, with 12 percent of respondents ranking it the highest priority, and another 12 percent picked policies to increase access to long-term care for older adults and people with disabilities. Republicans were especially supportive of the provisions for health care and long-term care for older adults, compared to Democrats, who most frequently cited the tax increases and clean-energy measures as top priorities.

Democrats face tough choices in keeping a promise of “transformative” policies in the Build Back Better Act: Do programs need to be made permanent, increasing their price tag? Should funding child care or prekindergarten win out over expanding Medicare benefits? How fast must the country move to cut fossil fuels and fight climate change?

This is Democrats’ first chance in years at crafting major legislation not directly tied to the pandemic — and given the electoral map’s skew toward Republicans, it could be their last for another decade.

The popularity of the Build Back Better Act may or may not make it easier for lawmakers to get the bill over the finish line. In the Vox/Data for Progress poll, voters were presented with arguments for and against removing a particular provision to reduce costs, such as Medicare benefits expansion or clean-energy policy. Only about a third of voters or fewer supported the cuts. And respondents showed a diversity of opinion on what’s most important in the bill.

That likely reflects the fact that Democrats’ big bill touches on important issues for people at various stages of life, said Ethan Winter, a senior analyst for Data for Progress.

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Winter noted that a policy like free prekindergarten would be especially favored by a young parent, while expanding Medicare benefits appeals more to older adults — who make up a larger swath of the electorate. The somewhat stronger support for tax increases on the wealthy and spending on care for older adults suggests those ideas are a core appeal of Democratic politics, for both the party’s base and swing voters.

“People elect Democrats because they will raise taxes on the rich to do modest economic redistribution, and [policies] for seniors are always very popular,” Winter said.

Polls have shown solid majority support for most pieces of the bill as standalone policies. (The child tax credit expansion has seen majority approval but seems to fare worse in polling when voters are explicitly asked about making the expansion permanent.)

The bill’s popularity could shift as Americans learn more about it and are exposed to partisan messaging; an October CBS News poll found that few Americans say they know much about what’s in the bill, and only a third think it will affect them directly, despite many provisions focused on helping middle- and lower-income families.

On climate issues, 63 percent of voters in the Vox/Data for Progress poll expressed support for the clean electricity program that is a key component of the bill’s climate crisis strategy. Fifty-seven percent said tax credits for electric cars in the Build Back Better plan would make them more likely to purchase one.

Democrats’ bill is popular. So why are they shrinking it?

Americans largely like the Build Back Better Act. Most don’t seem fazed by the $3.5 trillion price tag. The strong support for tax increases on the rich — after big tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations under President Donald Trump — suggests skeptical centrist Democrats may have other concerns in backing cuts to the bill.

The precariousness of the bill largely comes down to Democrats’ very thin majorities in the House and Senate. That gives Joe Manchin, a senator from a Trump-voting coal state, the power to dictate demands on climate provisions as well as the overall size of the bill.

It also means another centrist senator, Kyrsten Sinema, is a key figure in the negotiations, even though it’s not totally clear what she wants in the bill — and she left this week for Europe on a fundraising tour. (While Manchin’s approval in his home state of West Virginia has remained fairly steady overall, Sinema’s resistance to the legislation has caused her approval rating to plummet among Democrats and prompt stirrings of a primary challenge in Arizona, a state more evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.)

Manchin, Sinema, and other moderate Democrats have sometimes appeared at odds with each other on how to pay for the bill, making things even more complicated.

At New York magazine, Eric Levitz chalks pushback by some House Democrats up to America’s skewed representation in Congress and the decline of labor as a lobbying force. Plus, perhaps, old-fashioned stubbornness: Many Democrats in Congress came of political age in the era of Bill Clinton, deficit reduction, and welfare reform. “I think that’s why we can’t have ($3.5 trillion worth of) nice things: Labor is weak, Congress is malapportioned, and some old rich Democrats have annoying beliefs,” Levitz wrote.

No matter what happens with the Build Back Better Act, it won’t end debates around what pursuing popular policies really means. Even if the final bill is embraced by the public, it might not lead Democrats to electoral victory, either.

But if Democrats are just looking for legislation that most Americans want, taxing the rich to pay for policies that help families, seniors, and the planet seems like a safe bet.

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Navy sailor charged with setting blaze that destroyed billion-dollar ship last year – ABC News
Navy sailor charged with setting blaze that destroyed billion-dollar ship last year – ABC News

The Navy has filed charges against a sailor in connection with the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego last July, the service announced Thursday.

“Evidence collected during the investigation is sufficient to direct a preliminary hearing in accordance with due process under the military justice system. The Sailor was a member of Bonhomme Richard’s crew at the time and is accused of starting the fire,” 3rd Fleet spokesperson Cmdr. Sean Robertson said in a statement.

Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, the 3rd Fleet commander, is considering court-martial charges, according to the statement.

The admiral has set a preliminary hearing before any trial proceedings, “including whether or not there is probable cause to believe an offense has been committed and to offer a recommendation as to the disposition of the case,” Robertson said.

The accused sailor’s identity has not been released and Robertson also said the sailor was not being detained.

The U.S. Navy announced late last year it would scrap the aging amphibious assault ship.

The Bonhomme Richard was commissioned in 1998 at a cost of $750 million. Adjusted to 2020 dollars, that’s $1.2 billion.

The damage to the ship from the days-long fire, that at times reached 1,000 degrees, was too much to repair for a ship that had already been in service for almost a quarter of a century, according to the Navy.

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Economía – Noticias – Deutsche Welle
Economía – Noticias – Deutsche Welle

Argentina: oferta a los fondos buitre
08.02.2016

Tras llegar a un acuerdo con acreedores italianos, el Gobierno argentino ha realizado en Nueva York una propuesta de pago a los fondos buitre. Pablo Kummetz, economista de DW, analiza la nueva situación.


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Barr makes major reversal in ruling some asylum seekers could be held indefinitely – CNN
Barr makes major reversal in ruling some asylum seekers could be held indefinitely – CNN

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(CNN)Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday that some asylum seekers who have established credible fear and are subject to deportation cannot be released on bond by immigration judges — a major reversal from a prior ruling that could lead to immigrants being held indefinitely.

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G20 summit: US-China trade negotiations to restart – Vox.com
G20 summit: US-China trade negotiations to restart – Vox.com

President Donald Trump tentatively de-escalated the ongoing trade war with China on Saturday when he announced he will cancel a planned 25 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.

“We’re holding on tariffs, and they’re going to buy farm product,” Trump told reporters at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Neither Trump nor Xi offered details on which farm products China would buy while talking to reporters, and an earlier 25 percent duty will remain in place on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods.

US farmers have been been squeezed by the trade war; China’s retaliatory tariffs cover a range of farm goods, including soybeans, almonds, pork, and apples. Chinese buyers once accounted for roughly 60 percent of the US’ agricultural exports, but that number has declined since the tariffs began, with Minnesota’s exports to the country dropping about about 25 percent since 2018.

Trump has promised farmers relief before, announcing Mexico would increase its agricultural imports as part of a trade deal. Mexico later said it had not agreed to do so — it remains to be seen whether the bump in Chinese exports will actually come to pass.

In a major concession to China, Trump also said US companies will once again be able to sell technology to Chinese industry giant Huawei.

Xi hoped to make easing restrictions on Huawei a pre-condition for a new trade deal. Since 2018 — when the Trump administration first introduced Chinese tariffs — the US has used a ban on the company as a bargaining chip in negotiations between the two countries as Vox’s Alex Ward reported:

The US has led a global effort to stop allied nations from using technologies made by Huawei, arguing that the Chinese government — which exerts significant control over domestic companies — could use those technologies to spy on citizens of other countries. The US has already banned Huawei from doing any work with the federal government, a major move meant as an example for other countries to follow.

There’s also a financial motivation behind the US push to stop countries from using Huawei products: US and Chinese firms are both vying to lead the world in providing 5G technology, which offers lightning-fast internet connectivity that will allow billions more devices — from cellphones to self-driving cars to even robots performing surgery — to operate better.

Trump also promised further easing of restrictions on Huawei, but was not specific about what this would entail.

In a second concession, the president expressed his desire to reform US visa policy, saying he’d like to investigate ways to grant Chinese students who obtain American diplomas green cards in what he called a “smart person’s waiver.”

Immigration is a key issue for Trump; at a rally in late May, he told supporters “our country is full” and said, “We don’t want people coming here.” He also recently announced — then cancelled — a massive ICE operation that would have targeted roughly 2,000 families.

At the G20 summit, however, the president signaled he sees Chinese immigrants as different than other types of immigrants and asylum seekers, telling the press, “We want to keep them here.”

The trade war has hurt all sides

Over the year the Trump administration has escalated its trade war with China, American farm exports to China have gone from $26 billion (under President Obama) to $6 billion this year. China has met every duty on its goods with tariffs of their own, including a 25 percent tariff on 5,000 goods in June.

Although both Democrats and Republicans believe China has taken advantage of the US economy, critics say that Trump’s scorched earth strategy does more harm than good. The resulting trade war has not only hurt Chinese and American consumers but could also stunt the global economy, as Ward reported:

Trump’s misguided views about how tariffs work are also likely playing a big role in the administration’s hardline approach. Trump insists that tariffs force China to pay money to the US Treasury — which just isn’t true. When a tariff is placed on a Chinese good, it is the company importing that product or a consumer buying it who pays a higher price — not China. In other words, these tariffs are effectively a tax on Americans.

But for whatever reason, Trump continues to proclaim that tariffs are “paid to the United States by China” and that they result in “billions” of dollars pouring into the US Treasury.

And experts worry that his misguided strategic and personal views on tariffs may end up seriously damaging the world economy. “Trump is dragging a dangerous misconception into a critical moment in his standoff with the Chinese,” Chad Bown, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said last week. “And American businesses and consumers stand to pay the price.”

Negotiations to end the trade war between the US and China reached a dead end last May after Trump said China “broke the deal.” In Osaka, Trump proclaimed: “We’re right back on track.”

Both China and the US have incentive to make a deal; for instance, China wants to continue to grow firms like Huawei (which pulled in $27 billion in revenue in the first quarter of this year despite its use as a trade war pawn) and US companies and farmers want to again reap the benefits of their former relationships with buyers in the country.

However, there is no timeline for the next round of negotiation’s conclusion, and major impediments to progress, including differing views on intellectual property protections and technology sharing. And despite making plans to resume talks, even President Trump remained cautious.

“This doesn’t mean there will be a deal,” Trump said. “They would like to make a deal. I can tell you that. If we can make a deal it would be historic.”

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/29/19870814/us-china-trade-negotiations-restart-donald-trump-tariff-huawei-concessions

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Mom of Marine who died in Kabul attack: Biden voters ‘killed my son’ – New York Post
Mom of Marine who died in Kabul attack: Biden voters ‘killed my son’ – New York Post

The mother of a US Marine killed in Thursday’s terror bombing outside Kabul’s airport claimed that Americans who voted for President Biden “just killed my son.”

Kathy McCollum, whose 20-year-old son, Rylee, was among 13 US service members killed in the attack, told SiriusXM talk show host Andrew Wilkow on “The Wilkow Majority” show that she blamed the “dementia-ridden” president for his death, Newsweek reported.

“Twenty years and six-months-old, getting ready to go home from freaking Jordan to be home with his wife to watch the birth of his son, and that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die,” she told Wilkow.

“I woke up at 4 o’clock this morning,” McCollum said. “Two Marines at my door telling me that my son was dead.

“I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son,” she claimed. “With a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House, who still thinks he’s a senator.

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum was among the 13 US service members killed in the attack on Kabul airport.
US Marines via AP

“So, I’m gonna try to calm down,” she added. “Sorry.”

The dual blasts on Aug. 26 in the Afghan capital killed more than 180 people in all and came as US and allied forces scramble to evacuate thousands from the airport.

The rush to evacuate comes after US forces near the deadline to withdraw from the war-torn country after a protracted 21-year occupation — with US-armed Afghan forces fleeing in the face of an onslaught by the extremist Taliban.

Kathy McCollum called President Joe Biden a “feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap” who “just sent my son to die.”
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The terror group ISIS-K has been blamed for carrying out the attack.

On Sunday, a US airstrike took out another would-be suicide bomber near the airport and a rocket struck the capital city farther north, killing a child.

The Pentagon has warned that another terror attack is “imminent.“

The dual blasts on Aug. 26 in Kabul killed more than 180 people.
Akhter Gulfam/EPA

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2021/08/29/mom-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-airport-attack-blames-biden-voters/

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A 14 se incrementa los policías muertos tras la caída de bus en Apurímac – RPP Noticias
A 14 se incrementa los policías muertos tras la caída de bus en Apurímac – RPP Noticias



Rescate de policías heridos. | Fuente: RPP

Al menos doce policías murieron tras la caída de un bus de la empresa Imperio Tours a un abismo de más de 300 metros de profundidad en el sector de Matara, en la provincia de Antabamba en Apurímac. El director general de la Policía Nacional del Perú (PNP), general Vicente Romero informó que hay trece heridos. 

El accidente ocurrió aproximadamente las cinco de la mañana cuando los suboficiales eran trasladados de Abancay a Antabamba para brindar seguridad en la mesa de diálogo entre funcionarios de la Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros y los pobladores. Las conversaciones iban a ser sobre el asfaltado de la carretera Santa Rosa – Antabamba. 

El general Romero informó que 55 policías salieron de Abancay a las 4:20 horas hacia el distrito de Antabamba, al mando del capitán PNP Edgar Villanueva Ticona, jefe del departamento de Servicios Especiales de Abancay. Treinta y cinco de los policías iban en el bus de placa B7T-950, que cayó al abismo cuando les faltaba 25 minutos para llegar a su destino.

“Es un día de luto”. La noticia fue comentada por el presidente Pedro Pablo Kuczynski mientras era parte, casualmente, de la ceremonia de graduación de los nuevos oficiales de la Policía. “Es un día de luto porque han muerto innecesariamente 13 policías (hasta el momento, son 12 los fallecidos) en una carretera de la sierra. Es una tragedia, es una verdadera tragedia, y quiero antes de seguir pedir un minuto de silencio por ellos”, dijo PPK. En la sede de la Región Policíal de Arequipa, la bandera fue izada a media asta.
El accidente ocurrió a 7 kilómetros de Antabamba. | Fuente: RPP

La Policía Nacional compartió los nombres nombre de los doce policías fallecidos:

1.- ST2 PNP Rejas Mamani Oscar Arturo.
2.- S2 PNP Tune Condori Cesar.
3.- S3 PNP Peralta Valenza Jose Antonio
4.- S3 PNP Olivera Mena Francisco.
5.- S3 PNP Uzaqui Barriento
6.- S3 PNP Cahuana Ccasa Efrain
7.- S3 PNP Chiclla Malpartida Raul Edison
8.- S3 PNP Quispe Munares Ivar.
9.- S3 PNP Chumbes Saavedra Alex.
10.- S3 PNP Vargas Guillen Anthony
11.- S3 PNP Delgado Gutierrez Manuel (falleció en el trayecto a Abancay)
12.- S2 PNP Fernandes Aparco Eluid 

Rescate de heridos y fallecidos en Antabamba. | Fuente: Fiscalía

Heridos. El gerente de la Red de Salud de Antabamba, Augusto Maldonado, confirmó que hay heridos graves, quienes necesitaban atención de emergencia. Antes que llegue la ayuda, el médico indicó que los heridos fueron atendidos en carpas colocados en el estadio de Antabamba y un policía falleció por la falta de oxígeno en el hospital. 

Traslado a Cusco. Dos helicópteros llegaron a la ciudad de Cusco con los policías heridos de gravedad, tras la caída del bus a un abismo en Antabamba. Los agentes fueron internados en los hospitales y clínicas de la Ciudad Imperial.

Los policías con lesiones leves fueron llevados al hospital de Abancay. Hasta el aeropuerto de Cusco llegaron familiares de los policías, quienes piden información sobre el estado de salud de sus parientes.

La Policía Nacional informó el nombre de los trece heridos: 

1. ST1. PNP Ernesto Cruz Mamani
2. S2. PNP Luis Gustavo Guillen Vargas
3. S3. PNP Michael Yuto Lapa
4. S3. PNP Carlos Eduardo Angelo Moscoso
5. S3. PNP Víctor Peña Bravo
6. S3. PNP David Navarro Perez
7. S3. PNP Jorge Luis García Tapia
8. S3. PNP Raúl Villegas Quispe
9. S3. PNP Raúl Carbajal Flores
10. S3. PNP Edwin Rodriguez Yanahuillca
11. S3. PNP Nildo Maytan Rojas
12. S3. PNP Jaime Alarcon Quispe
13. S3 PNP Julio Muñoz Puma

Relación de fallecidos y heridos. | Fuente: Policía Nacional del Perú
Traslado de heridos a hospital de Cusco. | Fuente: RPP / Noemi Mamani

Source Article from http://rpp.pe/peru/accidentes/seis-policias-muertos-y-nueve-heridos-tras-la-caida-de-un-bus-en-apurimac-noticia-1017813

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Donald Trump urges House Republicans to be ‘more paranoid’ – AOL
Donald Trump urges House Republicans to be ‘more paranoid’ – AOL

President Donald Trump urged House Republicans on Tuesday night to be “more paranoid than they are” about vote counting, suggesting in a speech during the National Republican Congressional Committee’s spring dinner that some closely contested elections may have been rigged in Democrats’ favor.

Trump, who has made repeated false claims about voter fraud and “electoral corruption,” told the audience at the dinner that Republicans have “got to watch those tallies.”

“There were a lot of close elections … they seemed to, every single one of them went Democrat,” Trump said, without providing any specific examples. “There’s something going on fella, hey, you gotta be a little bit more paranoid than you are.”

The president, who suggested — without evidence — during November’s midterm elections that ballots had been “massively infected” in Florida and “electoral corruption” had taken place in Arizona, said on Tuesday that he doesn’t “like the way the votes are being tallied.”

“I don’t like it, and you don’t like it either. You just don’t want to say it because you’re afraid of the press,” Trump said, prompting some laughter from the crowd.




During the NRCC speech, Trump said he was “totally confident” that Republicans would soon “take the House back,” CBS News reported.

He also took a swipe at former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been accused of unwelcome touching by several women. 

“I was going to call him … I was going to say, ‘Welcome to the world, Joe. You having a good time, Joe?’” quipped Trump, who has been accused by at least 20 women of sexual assault and harassment.

  • This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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Critical Race Theory: These states are already cracking down on the controversial concept – Fox News
Critical Race Theory: These states are already cracking down on the controversial concept – Fox News
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Critical Race Theory is a controversial philosophy – a progressive idea that proponents say can increase racial equity and which critics describe as Marxist, anti-American and neo-racist.

It’s either “a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against White people,” as a recent article in Education Week put it.

“CRT seeks to diminish the reality that we are all unique and precious in God’s eyes,” Melody Clarke of Heritage Action for America told Fox News Friday. “Our individual destiny is up to our God-given talent, drive and ambition, not what someone else thinks about us.”

Nearly half of all states in the U.S. are taking measures to ban it from their public schools.

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The following states have already approved bans on forcing teachers to give lessons on Critical Race Theory, in alphabetical order:

Arkansas

Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed Senate Bill 627 on May 3. The bill is titled, An Act to Prohibit the Propagation of Divisive Concepts: To Review State Entity Training Materials; And for Other Purposes. The bill’s definition of divisive concepts includes the ideas that Arkansas or the U.S. are “fundamentally racist or sexist” and that individuals are inherently racist or oppressive, “whether consciously or unconsciously.”

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Florida

In early June, the Sunshine State’s Board of Education banned CRT from public school classrooms in a unanimous vote and grouped it in with the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project and Holocaust denialism.

Iowa

A Hawkeye State bill passed the state Legislature and was signed into law by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. The bill declared CRT “discriminatory indoctrination.”

Idaho

Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed House Bill 377 on April 28. Under the new law, an amendment to the state’s existing statutes on education, public schools that teach CRT can lose their funding.

Montana

Attorney General Austin Knudsen effectively banned CRT programs in schools and state employee training programs after he issued an opinion labeling the concept “discriminatory.”

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY?

Oklahoma

Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 1775 into law in early May – banning public schools from forcing students into mandatory training sessions on gender, race or sexual diversity.

Tennessee

Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed Senate Bill 0623 into law in late May. Among other things, it prohibits public and charter schools from using CRT concepts in curriculum or supplemental materials.

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States that are considering legislation on Critical Race Theory:

Kentucky

Lawmakers have pre-filed a bill for the 2022 session that would ban not only instruction based on CRT but also classroom discussion that incorporates its concepts.

Maine

Republican Rep. Meldon Carmichael has introduced a bill that would ban political, ideological or religious advocacy in public school classrooms. It was referred to the state House’s education committee in early June.

Michigan

The Wolverine State has a bill in committee that would ban CRT as well as the New York Times’ 1619 Project curriculum, defining them as “anti-American and racist theories.”

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Missouri

Missouri is considering a similar bill, which labels the 1619 Project and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Justice Curriculum as types of CRT.

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New Hampshire

House Bill 544 is similar to Idaho’s bill but also pertains to state contracts, grants and training programs. It was passed as an amendment to the state budget, which has not yet been sent to Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican. 

North Carolina

House Bill 324, which would ban public schools from teaching that it is racist or sexist to believe the United States is a meritocracy or that it was founded “for the purpose of oppressing members of another race or sex.” It has passed the House and is in committee in the state Senate.

Ohio

A Buckeye State bill would stress the importance of teaching the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and Bill of Rights in social studies classes while also banning school district officials from forcing their teachers to introduce core tenets of CRT in the classroom. 

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Pennsylvania

GOP-backed House Bill 1532, the Teaching Racial and Universal Equality Act, places new restrictions on “racist and sexist concepts.” It was sent to committee in early June.

Rhode Island

An amendment to the Rhode Island Board of Education Act would ban CRT. It is also in committee.

South Carolina

A group of GOP lawmakers introduced H. 4325 last month, bluntly summarizing it as “critical race theory instruction prohibition.” It is currently in committee.

VIRGINIA PARENTS PUSH BACK AGAINST CRITICAL RACE THEORY, ‘WON’T STAND FOR LOWERING EDUCATION STANDARDS’

Texas

A CRT ban was sent to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk on June 1. It says teachers cannot be forced to discuss current events and that if they do, they must allow students to explore varied viewpoints without the head of the class advocating for any particular side. It also bans schools from granting extra credit when students participate in ideological rallies or lobbying efforts.

Utah

House Resolution 901, a nonbinding motion, would urge the state Board of Education to take its own action against CRT.

West Virginia

Lawmakers in both houses of the state Legislature are considering their own proposals to ban CRT and other “divisive concepts” from schools.

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Virginia, with its government controlled by Democrats, appears unlikely to pass any legislation that would crack down on CRT.

But in Loudoun County, a suburb of the nation’s capital, parents, teachers and other community members have rallied against CRT in their local school district under a national spotlight.

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Covid-19 vaccine myths: These reasons for not getting a shot don’t hold up. In fact, they’ll set the US back – CNN
Covid-19 vaccine myths: These reasons for not getting a shot don’t hold up. In fact, they’ll set the US back – CNN

By Holly Yan, CNN

Updated 2:38 PM ET, Mon July 19, 2021

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El Apra presenta moción para destituir al Contralor Edgar Alarcón – RPP Noticias
El Apra presenta moción para destituir al Contralor Edgar Alarcón – RPP Noticias



El legislador dijo en RPP Noticias que la moción ya se presentó. | Fuente: RPP Noticias

Javier Velásquez Quesquén, congresista aprista presentó una moción para que el contralor Edgar Alarcón sea destituido de su cargo. Esto luego de la denuncia que presentó un auditor sobre la compra de 90 autos para reventa que no fueron declarados por el funcionario, pese a que era su obligación hacerlo.

El procedimiento. El legislador ya ha presentado el documento ante el Congreso y esperará a que la presidenta Luz Salgado convoque a la Comisión Permanente para sustentar el pedido. En RPP Noticias explicó las razones por las que ha procedido con la moción.

“Quiero que el contralor explique cómo un proveedor de la Contraloría de apellido Capcha le vende a él un vehículo, de un año para otro, a un precio que hay que explicar”, comentó. Según Velásquez existen serias irregularidades en esta reciente denuncia contra Alarcón.

Argumentos. “El contralor y vicecontralor ganan cerca de 40 o 50 mil soles precisamente para que se dediquen a controlar los recursos públicos, para que no se dediquen a otra actividad”, comentó.

Por la tarde, Alarcón dijo que no renunciaría a su cargo y que no había incurrido en una conducta impropia al pedirle al auditor Walter Grados que retire la denuncia que presentó por este caso en unos audios difundidos por el dominical Cuarto Poder.

Velásquez Quesquén pide remover del cargo a contralor Edgar Alarcón | Fuente: Andina
Edgar Alarcón es el contralor general de la República desde junio de 2016. | Fuente: Andina

Source Article from http://rpp.pe/politica/congreso/el-apra-presenta-mocion-para-destituir-al-contralor-edgar-alarcon-noticia-1054102

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House Democrats’ walkout could be impacted by Texas Supreme Court decision – The Texas Tribune
House Democrats’ walkout could be impacted by Texas Supreme Court decision – The Texas Tribune

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The Texas legislature is immobilized. The governor is fuming. And the next chapter in the gamesmanship that has engulfed Republican efforts to rewrite Texas voting laws may fall to the state’s third branch of government: the judiciary.

The Texas Supreme Court has been asked to rule whether Gov. Greg Abbott’s unprecedented line-item veto of Article X in the state budget — which pays for the Legislature and its staff — is constitutional.

Abbott issued the veto after the regular legislative session ended, pulling one of the few political levers at his disposal to try to force Democratic lawmakers to show up for a special session if they want their staffs to keep getting paid when the next fiscal year starts Sept. 1.

It didn’t work. Enough House Democrats left the state to deprive the chamber of the quorum needed to conduct business.

Now the state’s all-Republican highest civil court — with four of eight members appointed by Abbott and one seat vacant — has been asked by the House Democrats who broke quorum to overturn the veto.

Legally, the case hinges on whether the Texas Constitution allows a governor to cut off funding for an equal branch of government.

Politically, it’s unclear whether the court would be doing Abbott a bigger favor by upholding his veto power, or by extricating him from a stalemate that’s not going his way.

Either way it goes, the case will have broad implications for the future of Texas governance, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston.

If the veto is upheld, it strengthens executive power, giving Abbott and future governors a new axe to wield over the Legislature.

“This is well beyond the Schoolhouse Rock version of how government works,” Rottinghaus said, referencing a children’s animated series that simplified political concepts into cartoons. “This is a political story as much as it is an institutional separation-of-powers story. So it’s going to really push the boundaries of what’s allowable in Texas, especially in its governor.”

And if Abbott’s veto is upheld, it would likely deflate the Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., leaving them to shoulder part of the blame if about 2,100 legislative staffers lose their jobs come fall.

“It takes a lot of the wind out of the sails of the Democrats if the courts back the governor in this fight. So that’s really, I think, what they’re waiting for,” he said. “The bottom line is that they can’t keep doing this forever, that the Democrats are going to see that at some point, politically, they’re not getting any more purchase.”

And the court itself could face political repercussions when its members are up for reelection. Courts have not pushed back on executive power for decades, Rottinghaus said. The doctrine of separation of powers has been eroded over the last couple of decades, he says, and if the court takes Abbott’s side, then it’s likely to further blur the line.

“I’m a big believer in separation of powers. I don’t think this is a partisan argument,” Rottinghaus said, saying he wished the whole Legislature, both parties, would “stand up for itself collectively” against the move. “To boil it down, this is basically a question about which power’s more robust, the power of the executive veto or the separation of powers — institutions that have been weakened by political fights.”

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Beaumont Republican, expressed concerns about the veto during an interview soon after Abbott announced his plans — although Phelan focused on the legislative staffers who would not get paid if the funding isn’t restored rather than whether the move was constitutionally sound.

“I understand the frustration the governor has in [lawmakers] not passing those emergency items — they were priorities of the governor, they were priorities of mine, priorities of many members of the Legislature,” Phelan said in an interview earlier this month with The Texas Tribune. “My only concern is how it impacts staff, especially those who live here in Austin, which is not an inexpensive place to live and raise your family and children.

Jeffrey Abramson, a University of Texas at Austin law and government professor, said he believes the veto infringes on the Texas Constitution.

“Like every other state constitution and the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution is based on the fundamental principle that separating government power among three coequal branches of government is the best way to limit the possibility of tyranny,” Abramson said in emailed comments. “Gov. Abbott’s defunding of the Legislature, by vetoing the part of the budget that provides funds for the legislature, is a clear and frightening attack on separation of powers. It is an attempted executive coup.”

It’s unclear when the Texas Supreme Court could rule on the issue — or if it will at all. It could rule any day now, delay a decision or decide the court does not have jurisdiction over the case at all. The justices could also rule to disallow part of the veto — for example, legislators are allowed a per diem payment under the Constitution — or find that the issue is not yet ripe and punt it down the road to decide at another time. Attorneys for House Democrats asked for the court to expedite its decision “well before” the new budget comes into effect.

“If I had to really put money on it, I would say that the court would back the governor’s veto, in part because they might view this as being a temporary political skirmish that can be resolved,” Rottinghaus said.

This saga began after Texas House Democrats employed a last-ditch effort during the last leg of the regular session at the end of May to block voting restrictions legislation. Many of the representatives walked out of the chamber to prevent a quorum and therefore a vote on the bill — a move rarely used but allowed under House rules. Opponents to the blocked bill say the proposed restrictions are naked voter suppression that would especially impede voters of color — and that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud to justify the restrictions.

In retribution for the first walkout, Abbott vetoed the portion of the state budget that funds the House and Senate lawmakers, their staffers and those working in nonpartisan legislative agencies.

However, since the Texas constitution guarantees the pay for lawmakers while in session, it appears Abbott’s veto would only affect the salaries of more than 2,100 legislative staff members for the next two-year budget cycle starting Sept. 1.

The agencies impacted include the Legislative Budget Board, which develops policy and budget recommendations, and the Legislative Council, which draws maps for redistricting — a topic that will be taken up in a special session later this year. With Abbott’s veto, the clock began ticking for the Legislature. If a new budget isn’t passed by September, the branch will be defunded — a clear incentive for House Democrats to return and pass the other legislation Abbott included in the special session.

But on July 12, the minority party again broke quorum, this time with more than 50 House Democrats fleeing the state to Washington, D.C. The current special session, which started July 8, can last a maximum of 30 days. But the governor has no limit on the number of special sessions he can call, and Abbott has said he will continue calling special sessions until the bills he put on the agenda are passed, promising to begin the next one as soon as a day after the current one ends.

The House Democrats argued in legal filings that the governor’s action violates the separation of powers and that he is wielding a political tool to coerce lawmakers into passing legislation he wants but their constituents don’t.

“The governor’s veto presently exerts coercive pressure on legislators to do his bidding to get their funding back,” the filing read. “[Even if a new budget was passed] that would not remedy the injury to our constitutional structure: any other politics passed this special session, under these circumstances, cannot be deemed the will of the Legislature.”

Abbott is not named in the court petition, because attorneys argue that he already issued the veto. The issue the court must decide is whether the veto was valid in the first place — not whether to repeal it.

If the veto is deemed constitutional, House Democrats warn it will set a dangerous precedent.

“People need to understand that going forward, every governor will be using this power. Every Legislative session will involve a list of demands, [and] it will be explicit or implicit that if the governor doesn’t get this legislation, and then the legislature won’t exist,” said Chad Dunn, attorney for the House Democrats who filed the petition to the Supreme Court, in an interview. “That is dangerous stuff, and it’s got to be remedied immediately.”

The House Democrats also warned the state’s top court: If it happens to us, it could happen to you, too. They argued in court filings that if the governor can defund the Legislative branch, a co-equal branch of government, for going a way he disagrees with, he could then turn around and do the same to the state’s top court.

Abramson agreed.

“Imagine a governor that stripped Texas courts of funding as a way of retaliating against a decision the governor did not like and as a way of pressuring the courts to do his bidding,” he said. “No one would think the governor had such power. But he has done the equivalent to the Legislature.”

The Texas attorney general’s office — which has taken the governor’s side in the fight — did not respond to a request for an interview or comment. In court filings, state attorneys pointed the finger at the House Democrats, saying they are guilty of the same thing they are accusing the governor of — holding the Legislature’s budget hostage for their political goals.

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled on the power of the veto before. In 2014, then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury for a threat to veto $7.5 million in state funds for the public integrity unit of the Travis County district attorney’s office, and questions about whether he abused his authority. But the state Supreme Court upheld the veto.

However, Dunn argued this case is different. When the Supreme Court ruled on Perry’s case, it concluded that the Texas Constitution neither imposes “any restriction on veto based on the reason for the veto,” nor does it “allow any other substantive limitations to be placed on the use of a veto.”

Dunn said in that case, the district attorney could not prosecute the governor for issuing a veto because doing so would allow the judicial branch to infringe upon the independent power of the executive branch to exercise a veto. Dunn said the lawmakers in this case are arguing the same thing — that one of the co-equal branches is infringing on another.

Abbott’s spokesperson declined to comment but referred The Texas Tribune to a statement issued last month.

“The governor’s veto power is granted by the Texas Constitution,” Abbott’s press secretary Renae Eze said in a June 25 statement. “This is not the first time, and undoubtedly will not be the last time, that a governor vetoes funding for government positions and salaries. Any limitation on that authority directly contradicts the Constitution and decades of vetoes by governors.”

Abbott originally justified his veto in a Tweet saying, “No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities.” However, his follow-up statement from his office, and court filings from the attorney general’s office, seem to acknowledge that lawmakers would be paid regardless of his veto, as it is guaranteed in the Constitution.

“The Democrats’ claims about the governor’s veto ‘cancelling’ the legislative branch are misleading and misguided. The Constitution protects the legislative branch, and as the Democrats well know, their positions, their powers and their salaries are protected by the Constitution. They can continue to legislate despite the veto,” Eze said.

Separation of powers is baked into the state constitution, Rottinghaus said. If Abbott’s veto is upheld, it could throw off the balance completely.

Charles Rhodes, a Texas constitutional law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, agreed.

“Using the line-item veto power as a sword to make the other branches yield to his will, that’s going to totally upset the original foundations of the very strict separation-of-power scheme that the founding fathers of the Texas Constitution of 1876 envisioned,” Rhodes said.

If the veto is deemed valid, then it will likely cause permanent change to the power structures in Texas, he said.

“Sometimes, Texas is referred to as a weak-governor state,” Rhodes said. “But if the governor can start leveraging vetoes to control legislation and to control the courts, then our governor just became one of the most powerful gubernatorial officials of any state.”

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Incidentes entre militantes colorados y frentistas en el Prado – Diario El País
Incidentes entre militantes colorados y frentistas en el Prado – Diario El País

Esta tarde Leandro Pauletti, encargado de prensa del candidato presidencial por el Partido Colorado, Pedro Bordaberry, denunció en su cuenta de Twitter que una militante política de dicho partido fue agredida físicamente por un militante de la lista 738, de la Alianza Progresista del Frente Amplio, en las afueras de la Expo Prado.

Sebastián Sanguinetti, dirigente del sector Vamos Uruguay, contó a El País que varios grupos de militantes se encontraban en el lugar repartiendo volantes y como suele suceder “discusión va, discusión viene” comenzaron a intercambiar opiniones, hasta que un hombre golpeó en la cara a una de las mujeres.

Cuando Sanguinetti llegó al lugar, había gente aglomerada de todos los partidos. La Policía se encontraba allí y también el diputado Felipe Michelini, quien aseguró que solamente había sido un intercambio de golpes y que el militante ya se había ido.

Según Sanguinetti el militante que golpeó a la mujer estaba escondido detrás de la carpa. “Cuando yo saco el celular y filmo, el diputado dice ´Acá no pasó nada´”, señaló.

El dirigente de Vamos Uruguay dijo: “la intención no creo que haya sido golpearla, pero el hecho es que le dejó un huevo en la frente. Estamos indignados con la actitud del Diputado Michelini y estamos evaluando hacer la denuncia, porque el hecho de violencia ocurrió.

El Diputado Felipe Michelini, por su parte, aseguró a El País que “no sucedió nada. Estaban todos los stands y cuando yo llegué había habido unas palabras nada más…son esas cosas de calle, siempre hay algo, pero no hubo nada trascendente”.

“Estuve desde la tres menos cuarto hasta las cinco y media y se trabajó toda la tarde con tranquilidad”, afirmó Michelini.

Al ser consultado sobre la militante colorada supuestamente golpeada en el rostro, negó que haya sido así y volvió a asegurar que “no hay nada para comentar”.

Poco después de la agresión los integrantes de Vamos Uruguay decidieron hacer la denuncia ante la Policía al supuesto agresor y al diputado Michelini por “encubrimiento”, dijo Sanguinetti a El País.

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Russia attacks theatre sheltering civilians, Ukraine says – BBC.com
Russia attacks theatre sheltering civilians, Ukraine says – BBC.com

About 1,500 cars had managed to flee Mariupol on Wednesday, according to Mr Orlov, the deputy mayor. But, he said, an attack by Russia on the convoy left at least five wounded, including a child.

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Floods swamp 2,000 homes, turn 2 California towns into ‘islands’ as Russian River tops 45 feet – USA TODAY
Floods swamp 2,000 homes, turn 2 California towns into ‘islands’ as Russian River tops 45 feet – USA TODAY
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A rain-swollen river in Northern California has overflowed its banks, flooding roads, homes and wineries. Officials say the town of Guerneville is surrounded by water and accessible only by boat. (Feb. 27)
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The raging Russian River, swollen to near its highest level in a quarter-century, flooded 2,000 homes and turned parts of two northern California towns into “islands” Wednesday, forcing residents to use kayaks and canoes instead of cars.

After reaching its crest of 45.3 feet late Wednesday – about 15 feet above flood stage –- the river slowly receded Thursday.

While hundreds of people had fled their homes, about half of the 4,500 residents ignored orders to evacuate, stocking up on food and drinking water instead and vowing to ride it out.

But those who stayed behind appear to have weathered the floods intact, as officials said they had received no calls for help overnight.

Hardest hit were the wine-country towns of Guerneville, about 80 miles west of Sacramento, and Monte Rio, where water stood as high as eight feet in some spots, prompting the National Guard to bring in kayaks. 

Guerneville “is officially an island,” the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office had said in a statement.

One resident, Jeff Bridges, co-owner of a hotel, says his first floor was submerged by 7 feet of water, forcing him to stay on the second floor.

In Sebastopol, Mamadou Diouf, owner of the high-end clothing store Tamarind Clothing, waded the streets in knee-high boots to survey the damage after the Laguna de Santa Rosa river jumped its banks

“It is a total loss and our entire clothing store is gone,” Diouf told The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat.  “The water in my store reaches my waist and boxes are floating with clothes. Everything is soaked through with gray water.”

More: More rain, snow expected in storm-battered California, following days of mudslides and floods

The weather service issued flood warnings throughout the Sacramento Valley on as tame roadside gullies boiled angrily with runoff, and creeks rushed over roads in some areas.

The National Weather service for the Bay Area reported a one-day rainfall for Santa Rosa of 5.66 inches, topping a 100-year record for the date by more than 3 inches.

Aside from the torrent of rain, Sonoma and Plumas counties were hit by numerous mudslides.

Parts of northern California scarred by last year’s devastating wildfires are especially vulnerable to flooding, said meteorologist Craig Shoemaker at the weather service office in Sacramento. 

Sonoma authorities were particularly worried about mudslides from areas burned out by the 2017 North Bay wildfires that destroyed almost 150,000 acres in Sonoma and surrounding counties and killed 44 people.

On Bohemian HIghway, near Monte Rio, two people were rescued after being stuck in a major mudslide Tuesday afternoon, KGO reported.

“Well I fell into the mud when the tree fell over the top of me,” Kear Koch, a mudslide survivor, told the San Francisco station. “It happened so fast you don’t even know, you know. It’s like I see an image of a tree. It’s not there. It’s there. You know what I mean.” 

In the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow will persist, the weather service said, and “an additional 1 to 3 feet of snow is possible there through Friday morning.” 

Mount Shasta Ski Park, about 185 miles north of Sacramento, was closed Tuesday as park officials shoveled the resort out from under the dumping of snow it received over the past day. 

“We have not experienced this amount of snow in such a short span in a long time,” the park posted on Facebook Tuesday morning. “We have received 40 inches of snow in the last day and we are expecting 20 inches more today.”

The snow has already buried other parts of the northwest: Officials in rural western Montana are prepared to rescue nearly 50 snowed-in residents of Cascade County if they need help.

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5 pandemic predictions for 2022 – POLITICO – Politico
5 pandemic predictions for 2022 – POLITICO – Politico

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WE ARE NOT THERE YET — As we enter the third year of the pandemic, my mind keeps flashing back to a trailer I saw last year for a widely panned Michael Bay movie, which portrays an unlikely dystopian pandemic future, but captures the feeling of helplessness and despair that so many — even those of us lucky enough to have access to vaccines and the privilege to social distance — feel right now with the country on the brink of an Omicron surge.

Last year, when I put together a 2021 pandemic guide, it seemed like this year would bring back a sense of normalcy. And in many ways it did: Kids headed back to classrooms, sports seasons resumed relatively routine schedules, families celebrated the holidays together, people got on planes and many workers went back to the office full time.

Yet more people have died this year than last year as the virus tore its way through largely unvaccinated pockets of the country killing older Americans at alarming rates. One out of every hundred Americans 65 and older have died from Covid.

These days, with hospitals so full they are refusing patients, it’s hard to see how this pandemic will ever end, so I reached out to several Nightly go-to experts to help me figure out what is actually ahead. Here are five predictions for 2022:

The U.S. will hit one million deaths in the spring.

Earlier this week the country hit 800,000 Covid deaths and is still recording about 1,300 deaths a day. Even if the Omicron death rate is lower, the overall infection rate will likely be higher, leading to another surge in deaths, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

“Omicron is starting to rival our most transmissible infectious agent of all: measles,” said Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert at the Baylor College of Medicine, who predicts the country will see a million deaths by the end of March.

Even folks who have gotten their booster dose are getting breakthrough infections, though they are largely spared from severe outcomes. But nearly 75 percent of the population has yet to receive a booster dose, and 40 percent of the U.S. population has yet to receive a single vaccine dose — leaving a vast number of Americans still deeply vulnerable to the worst of the crisis.

We will run out of room on our vaccination cards.

The mRNA vaccines are proving to be not as long lasting as we had hoped, said Hotez, who is working on a low-cost recombinant protein vaccine.

Even three doses may not be enough. “We haven’t hit the ceiling yet of how high we can get an immune response,” said Kirsten Lyke, a vaccine researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who has been studying Covid shots.

That means we will probably be getting another shot. It’s unclear whether future shots will be the same as the previous ones or reconfigured to better tackle new variants, and whether they will become annual rituals. Researchers are now working on a coronavirus shot that will protect against a broad range of coronaviruses as well as variants.

We will be talking about an Omega variant.

“We will go through the whole Greek alphabet,” said Syra Madad, an infectious disease epidemiologist and senior director of the system-wide special pathogens program at NYC Health + Hospitals. We may not hit the Greek alphabet’s last letter in 2022, but it won’t be a distant possibility.

As long as there are large unvaccinated pockets of the world, new variants will emerge, Hotez said. Less than 50 percent of the world’s population is vaccinated.

“Mother Nature has told us what she has in store for us,” Hotez said, who argues the U.S. has a responsibility to provide doses and combat global anti-vaccine messages. “If we fail to vaccinate the Southern hemisphere, she will get us.”

Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. We’ll have more on what to expect on Covid medicines and what “normal” might mean coming up. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at [email protected]. Or contact tonight’s author at [email protected], or on Twitter at @RenuRayasam.

We will talk less about social distancing and more about Covid drugs.

Governors have largely abandoned blunt Covid mitigation measures that they relied on early in the pandemic. Those measures, like keeping kids out of school and closing businesses, came with huge social and economic costs.

Instead, 2022 will bring new advancements in Covid therapeutics that won’t stop the spread or bend the curve, but could help cut infection mortality rates. The FDA is considering the approval of two antiviral pills — one from Pfizer and one from Merck/Ridgeback Biotherapeutics — that have the potential to drastically lower the chances of severe illness and death. The catch is that they have to be taken early, which will require widespread, cheap testing.

“I do think relying on pharmaceutical interventions is going to miss the mark,” said Spencer Fox, associate director of the University of Texas Covid-19 Modeling Consortium. “There are things we can do to prevent transmission rather than trying to deal with repercussions of transmission.”

There will (hopefully) be a new normal.

If 2020 caught us by surprise, 2021 plunged us into either ignorance or despair. Some people ignored the virus completely. But others tried to live Covid-safe lives and failed. We planned masked Christmas parties that turned into holiday superspreading events. Broadway reopened and canceled shows. Many major companies scrapped return-to-office plans more than once.

2022 will hopefully be the year where people and policymakers get realistic and figure out how to live with endemic Covid.

“We are not back to square one,” Madad said. “Pandemics do end.”

That means figuring out policies and guidance that are more sustainable, she said. Some of those policies are straightforward — booster shots for long-term care residents should be an urgent priority, and more rapid, frequent testing. The Biden Administration has so far resisted sending tests directly to Americans. Others, like designing office and school policies or planning parties and trips, will be more complicated but vital as Covid waves go and come.

“Covid has really humbled us as society,” Fox said. “My new normal is planning things with a sense of flexibility.”

From the Health Desk

ONE AND NOT DONE — Today a CDC panel dealt the Johnson & Johnson vaccine another blow, recommending that it should not be the first choice vaccine because of its link to a rare blood clot disorder, writes Renu.

The vaccine had already proven to be less effective than its mRNA counterparts: the single shot was 71 percent effective against hospitalizations compared with 93 percent for Moderna and 88 percent for Pfizer, according to a CDC report.

All the bad news doesn’t mean that 16 million J&J recipients in the U.S. should panic — the clotting risk is limited to a three-week window after the initial shot. Plus they should just get a follow-up shot. And soon.

J&J was billed as a “one and done” shot, geared toward people who might be hard to reach with a follow-up dose. That was a mistake, said Maryland’s Lyke.

A study released Tuesday showed there were no deaths among people in South Africa who got the J&J shot, and then were infected with Omicron. But more data is coming out showing that one shot of the J&J vaccine — like two doses of the mRNA vaccines — doesn’t produce enough neutralizing antibodies to prevent breakthrough Omicron cases.

Still, people who got the J&J shot, which uses a modified version of a virus to make the Covid spike protein, and one booster dose of an mRNA vaccine may be more protected than those who received two doses of Moderna or Pfizer, according to recent research.

Plus, while J&J may produce fewer antibodies than the other two shots, it creates a better T-cell response, which is a different arm of immunity, Lyke said. There’s also data showing that J&J’s shot might have a more durable response — eight months compared to six months with mRNA vaccines — something that Lyke’s lab is currently studying. The shot is still available for people who are allergic to mRNA vaccines or who might not be comfortable with the new technology.

In any case, she points out, one and done was still better than zero. About 85 percent of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated, according to new research from Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare.

What’d I Miss?

— Biden concedes BBB bill won’t get passed this year: President Joe Biden acknowledged today that negotiations over his Build Back Better bill will drag on into 2022 despite efforts and pledges by Democrats to get it done before Christmas. “It takes time to finalize these agreements, prepare the legislative changes, and finish all the parliamentary and procedural steps needed to enable a Senate vote,” the president said in a statement. “We will advance this work together over the days and weeks ahead; Leader Schumer and I are determined to see the bill successfully on the floor as early as possible.”

— Crackdown on China’s treatment of Muslim minority headed to Biden’s desk: The Senate today unanimously passed a bill to crack down on the Chinese government’s genocide targeting Uyghur Muslims, sending the measure to Biden’s desk for his signature. Despite the bill’s overwhelming support, it faced a long and complicated road to final passage as its co-authors, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), encountered obstacles from the White House and the private sector. The legislation briefly became intertwined with Democrats’ unrelated domestic agenda items, as well as a GOP-led blockade on foreign-policy nominations.

— Rep. Alan Lowenthal won’t seek reelection in 2022: Rep. Alan Lowenthal will not run for reelection, adding to a generational changing of the guard in California politics. The Long Beach Democrat said in a statement that he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, choosing instead to “pass the baton” and spend time with family. Lowenthal’s current seat is safely Democratic and will likely remain so even under new lines, though the latest iteration from the state’s independent redistricting commission eliminated one Southern California seat to account for slower population growth.

— More than 100 Marines kicked out of the service for refusing Covid vaccine: The Marine Corps has booted 103 of its members for refusing the Covid vaccine, the service announced today, even as all the military branches report that a vast majority of troops have gotten the shots. The news comes the same day the Army announced that it has relieved six leaders — including two commanding officers — over the issue, and that almost 4,000 active-duty soldiers have refused the vaccine.

— AIPAC launches super PAC: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee will launch a super PAC ahead of the 2022 midterms, wading into direct spending for and against candidates for the first time. The group announced the move to launch two bipartisan PACs, a federal PAC and a super PAC, to supporters this morning, “to make us more effective in fulfilling our mission in the current political environment,” according to an email sent to members that was shared with POLITICO.

— Chamber launches ads targeting Manchin, hoping to kill Build Back Better: Washington’s largest business lobby got the bipartisan infrastructure bill it wanted. Now it’s going in for the kill on the piece of Biden’s agenda that it doesn’t want — Democrats’ $1.7 trillion reconciliation bill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is readying a multi-pronged ad blitz aimed at keeping the pressure on two of the bill’s key holdouts in the Senate, Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

AROUND THE WORLD

SWEDISH GEN.: IF RUSSIA MOVES, U.S. SHOULD SEND MORE TROOPS — If the conflict between Russia and Ukraine deepens, the U.S. should send more troops to reinforce its military presence in Europe, the head of Sweden’s armed forces says.

Gen. Micael Bydén, the Swedish supreme commander, spoke to POLITICO today during a visit to Washington where he met with counterparts including Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nahal Toosi writes.

Russia’s menacing of Ukraine is top of mind for Sweden as well as neighboring countries. President Vladimir Putin has amassed nearly 100,000 troops along the border with Ukraine, which Moscow earlier invaded in 2014.

The U.S. and its European allies have warned Putin that Russia will face severe sanctions and other penalties should he attempt another incursion, and that they will not waver in their military support for Ukraine. Biden has indicated, however, that he won’t send American troops to directly fight in that ongoing war.

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Parting Words

FDA LOOSENS ABORTION PILL RULES — The Food and Drug Administration today said it’s lifting longstanding restrictions on abortion pills, clearing the way for doctors to prescribe the drugs online and have them mailed to patients or sent to local pharmacies, Alice Miranda Ollstein writes.

Enforcement of the agency’s decades-old rules requiring the pills to be physically handed out by a medical provider was suspended earlier this year following a lawsuit from the ACLU arguing that the risks of traveling to a doctor’s office during the Covid-19 pandemic outweighed any potential harms from having the drugs delivered. Now, the agency says it will move to make the looser distribution rules permanent.

Alexis McGill Johnson, the president & CEO of Planned Parenthood, called the decision “long overdue” and a “victory for public health and health equity.”

“This decision will remove a sometimes insurmountable barrier for patients seeking an abortion,” she said in a statement following the hearing.

The agency’s move is set to open a new front in the ongoing battle over abortion rights, with activists and lawmakers on the right pushing national and state restrictions on the pills while their counterparts on the left work to get information out about where people can obtain the drugs no matter where they live or what bans are enacted.

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Inmobiliaria Colonial, entre noticias que dan aire a su cotización – Estrategias De Inversíon
Inmobiliaria Colonial, entre noticias que dan aire a su cotización – Estrategias De Inversíon
 Colonial puso este lunes en marcha su ampliación de capital, valorada en un total de 1.266 millones de euros, con la que emitirá trece nuevas acciones por cada título actualmente en circulación.

La ampliación se enmarca en la operación de recapitalización y reducción de deuda que lleva a cabo la inmobiliaria. En concreto, los recursos que obtenga de esta emisión, junto a un préstamo de 1.040 millones que acaba de firmar, permitirán a Colonial pagar la deuda de 2.100 millones que soporta y que en su mayor parte vencía este año. Además, con la ampliación, la inmobiliaria consolidará su nueva estructura accionarial en la que el Grupo Villar Mir figura como primer accionista con un 24% de su capital.

De hecho, Villar Mir, y otros dos inversores (MoraBanc y el grupo Santo Domingo) se han comprometido a suscribir 572 millones de la ampliación de Colonial, que no obstante está garantizada gracias al contrato de aseguramiento firmado con Morgan Stanley.

Además, justo ayer se conoció que el fondo soberano de Qatar ha duplicado su apuesta por Colonial, dado que ha elevado hasta el 8,78% la participación del 3,78% que la pasada semana tomó en el capital social de la inmobiliaria.
Qatar Investment Authority se consolida de esta forma como socio de referencia de la compañía de la que el Grupo Villar Mir es primer accionista.

En concreto, el fondo de Qatar cuenta con un paquete de 19,84 millones de acciones de Colonial, según consta en los registros de la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV). Este porcentaje está valorado en unos 11,3 millones de euros en función de la actual cotización de la empresa.

El fondo soberano se ha quedado con gran parte de los títulos vendidos por Goldman Sachs, entidad que ha vendido el 5% que le quedaba en la inmobiliaria, en la que llegó a controlar un 15% en 2010 cuando, junto a otras entidades financieras, ejecutó la deuda del entonces accionista de control de la empresa Luis Portillo.

Lo último sobre el valor es su expulsión del índice Ibex Small Caps ante la ampliación de capital. Dicen los expertos que, a falta de conocer cómo se desarrollará la operación, el valor podría ser una oportunidad si se entra a precios por debajo de los actuales pero que estaría caro si se deja subir más. Desde un punto de vista técnico, Luis Francisco Ruiz, director de análisis de Estrategias de inversión reconoce “la acción se encontraba muerta, en un movimiento lateral de muy largo plazo con suelo en 0,1601 y techo en 0,5143. A medida que comenzaron los rumores de que podría refinanciar su deuda y salir de una situación crítica, el precio comenzó a repuntar acompañado por un elevado volumen de contratación hasta que el día que se confirmó la llegada de financiación consiguió superar el techo del lateral, 0,5143. El mercado la ha sacado del coma y le da una oportunidad.

En esta situación creo que la mejor opción es conceder una oportunidad a ese posible escenario de suelo estableciendo un stop inferior a 0,4357, nivel que en caso de ser perdido confirmaría la ruptura de la directriz alcista trazada en el gráfico. El stop es amplio y más aún al precio de compra pero es el que deshace la estructura de mínimos crecientes y la volatilidad es elevada. (Ver: Informe para registrados. Análisis del Ibex 35, Banco Santander, Colonial, EADS y Amper)

Gráfico diario Colonial

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Henry Ruggs III drove 156 mph seconds before fatal car crash, prosecutors say – ESPN
Henry Ruggs III drove 156 mph seconds before fatal car crash, prosecutors say – ESPN

Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving 156 mph with a blood alcohol content twice Nevada’s legal limit before his car slammed into the rear of a vehicle that burned, killing a 23-year-old woman, according to prosecutors.

Ruggs had his initial court appearance Wednesday on felony charges of driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in death and reckless driving that could get him up to 26 years in state prison if he is convicted. The Raiders released Ruggs late Tuesday, just hours after the crash, his hospitalization and his booking into a Las Vegas jail.

Prosecutors said Ruggs was traveling 156 mph two seconds before the crash and was at 127 mph when the air bags deployed in his vehicle. Judge Joe M. Bonaventure responded that he couldn’t recall speeds that high involved in a crash during his career on the bench.

Ruggs, appearing with his attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, was not asked to enter a plea to the charges, pending the formal filing of charges by Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson.

The name of the Las Vegas woman who died in the wrecked and burned Toyota RAV4 with her dog was not immediately made public.

Las Vegas police have identified Ruggs’ passenger as Kiara Je’nai Kilgo-Washington, 22, of Las Vegas.

Ruggs and Kilgo-Washington were hospitalized with unspecified injuries that police said did not appear life-threatening after the Chevrolet Corvette he was driving slammed into the Toyota at about 3:40 a.m. Tuesday. Ruggs owns a $1.1 million home not far from where the crash occurred, according to property records.

Prosecutor Eric Bauman said computer records for the air bags showed the Corvette decelerated from 156 mph to 127 mph before it struck the Toyota. Bonaventure rejected Bauman’s request for $1 million bail and set bail, at Chesnoff’s request, at $150,000 with strict conditions, including home confinement, electronic monitoring, no alcohol, no driving and the surrender of Ruggs’ passport.

Bauman said Ruggs’ blood alcohol level was 0.161%. Police said previously in a statement that Ruggs “showed signs of impairment.” Bauman also said a loaded firearm was found on the floor of the car.

Bonaventure set Ruggs’ next court appearance for Nov. 10.

Wolfson said outside court that he might file a weapons charge and expects to file a second DUI charge against Ruggs based on the serious arm injuries that Wolfson said Kilgo-Washington suffered.

Probation is not an option in Nevada for a conviction on a charge of DUI causing death, which carries a possible sentence of two to 20 years in state prison. The possible sentence for reckless driving is one to six years in prison, with probation available.

The Raiders didn’t wait for courts to act, sending out a brief statement Tuesday night announcing Ruggs’ release.

The team and the league had issued statements earlier in the day saying officials were aware of the crash, offering condolences to the family of the woman who died and promising to gather facts about what the NFL called “this devastating incident.”

Ruggs lost a childhood friend, Rod Scott, in a car accident in 2016, and Ruggs pays tribute to him by putting up three fingers — Scott wore No. 3 — to the sky after big plays.

Ruggs was supposed to be a cornerstone for the Raiders after being selected 12th overall in the 2020 NFL draft after three years at Alabama, including helping the Crimson Tide win the NCAA championship as a freshman in 2017.

The AFC West-leading Raiders (5-2) have won two in a row under interim coach Rich Bisaccia and now return to the field this week without their leading receiver in yardage. They’ll visit the New York Giants (2-6) on Sunday.

With 24 catches for 469 yards and two touchdowns, Ruggs’ 19.5 yards-per-catch average was second in the NFL among pass-catchers with at least 20 receptions.

The crash also came less than a year after Raiders running back Josh Jacobs crashed a sports car into a tunnel wall on a roadway at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Jacobs received several stitches for a cut forehead and was initially charged with driving under the influence, but that charge was dropped a week later because Jacobs’ blood alcohol level did not reach the 0.08% level needed to pursue the case. Chesnoff and Schonfeld represented Jacobs in that case, which was closed in March after Jacobs mentored at a Boys & Girls Club and paid a $500 fine to resolve a traffic violation of failure to exercise due care.

ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Norway wants to know why cruise ship sailed in stormy weather, forcing air evacuation – USA TODAY
Norway wants to know why cruise ship sailed in stormy weather, forcing air evacuation – USA TODAY
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Norwegian authorities on Monday began investigating why a cruise ship was sailing in stormy weather when it developed engine trouble that triggered a perilous helicopter evacuation effort for hundreds of terrified passengers over the weekend.

“We don’t know the reason why the ship sailed, knowing such bad weather was forecast,” Kurt Olsen, acting director for Norway’s Accident Investigations Board, told USA TODAY. “We have a very good weather service in this country, so I would guess the crew knew everything about the forecast. How they responded will definitely be part of the investigation.”

Twenty-eight people were treated for injuries, according to Norwegian media, and nine remained hospitalized Monday, one critically.

The Viking Sky sailed from the northern city of Tromso bound for Stavanger in southern Norway when the ship began struggling with engine failure, started listing dangerously, then took in water. Norwegian media reported gusts up to 43 mph and waves over 26 feet. 

Cellphone footage from the ship shows furniture sliding across rooms as the boat rocks.

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The crew issued a mayday call, and a team of helicopters airlifted almost 500 of the more than 900 passengers to safety Saturday night and Sunday morning. The ship, aided by tow vessels, finally limped into the Norwegian port of Molde on Sunday, freeing the remaining 436 passengers and crew of 458.

“The ship drifted to within 100 meters of running aground before they were able to restart one of the engines,” Hans Vik, chief of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center for southern Norway, told the nation’s TV2. “If they had run aground, we would have faced a major disaster.”

Olsen would not speculate why the Viking Sky captain decided to sail despite the weather warning. He said ship operations were one part of the investigation, along with a technical study of why the engines failed and a third review of how the rescue was handled.

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“It’s really early in the investigation, so we just don’t know much yet,” Olsen said.

Yngve Skovly, a police inspector in the Molde region, told the Verdens Gang tabloid there was no suspicion of criminal behavior and the ship was too new to suspect maintenance problems. He said crucial information could be obtained from the ship’s computer logs.

Torstein Hagen, chairman of ship owner Viking Ocean Cruises, said his company would conduct its own investigation and support government agencies reviewing the mishap. Police expected all passengers to be flown out on Norway by Monday night. 

“The last few days have been both dramatic and hectic for guests and crew on board Viking Sky,” Hagen said in the statement. “I would like to apologize for all our guests have been through.”

The cruise had been scheduled to wrap up Tuesday in the British port of Tilbury on the River Thames. The passengers were mostly English-speaking, and many Americans were aboard.

Rodney Horgana said a huge wave crashed through the ship’s glass doors and swept his wife 30 feet across the floor.

“When the windows and door flew open and the 2 meters (6 feet) of water swept people and tables 20 to 30 feet, that was the breaker,” Horgan told the Associated Press. “I said to myself, ‘This is it.’ ”

Another American, Beth Clark, told Norwegian news outlet Dagbladet how she was plucked off the ship.

“The guy came down from the helicopter … snapped my belt and said, ‘Hold it,’ and shot me up about 100 feet in the air,” she said. Someone “grabbed me and pulled me in like a sack of potatoes and dragged me to the back of the helicopter.”

American Jan Terbruegn told Dagbladet there was little time for panic.

“We could see that we were getting blown in toward some rocks,” he said. “That was the most frightening thing, I think. But luckily, that wasn’t our destiny.”

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California launches largest US Covid vaccine lottery yet with $1.5m prize – The Guardian
California launches largest US Covid vaccine lottery yet with $1.5m prize – The Guardian

California has become the latest state to offer a vaccine lottery to incentivize getting the coronavirus vaccine – launching the nation’s most valuable single prize draw: $1.5m.

The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Thursday that residents will be eligible for a total of $116.5m in prize money giveaways, a windfall aimed at getting millions more vaccinated before the nation’s most populous state fully reopens next month.

The state’s reopening is pegged for 15 June, and on that day a drawing will be held to award 10 vaccinated people the top prize.

Another 30 people will win $50,000 each, with those drawings starting 4 June. Anyone 12 and older who has received at least one shot will be eligible. And the next 2 million people who get vaccinated will get $50 gift cards.

The state estimates about 12 million Californians 12 and older have not been vaccinated. About 63% of the 34 million eligible have gotten shots, though the pace has slowed markedly in recent weeks as infection rates have plummeted to record lows.

Ohio this week announced the first $1m winner of its “Vax-a-Million” contest, as well as the first child to win a full college scholarship. The scheme saw more than 2.7 million adults register for a chance to win.

Colorado and Oregon also offered $1m prizes.

New York is raffling 50 full scholarships to children 12 to 17 to public universities and colleges in the state, selecting 10 winners each of the next five Wednesdays.

That California is turning to cash prizes to encourage vaccinations marks a major turnaround from earlier this year, when Californians clamored for shots, with some driving or waiting in line for hours to get one.

“Some Californians weren’t ready to get their Covd-19 vaccine on day one, and that’s OK. This program is designed to encourage those who need extra support to get vaccinated and help keep California safe,” Dr Tomas J. Aragon, the director of the state’s department of public health, said in a statement.

Newsom’s office said the program would be aimed at reaching people in communities hardest hit by the pandemic – mainly the poor, and Black and Latino people – though it wasn’t immediately clear how the money would be tailored to fit that goal.

California uses a “vaccine equity metric” to track vaccination progress that splits zip codes into four quartiles from least to most advantaged. Nearly half of people in the least advantaged neighborhoods still haven’t been vaccinated, according to the state. By contrast, less than a quarter of people in the most advantaged areas haven’t been vaccinated.

Among all Latinos, 57% are not yet vaccinated. That’s the highest percentage of any racial or ethnic group. Forty per cent of white Californians are not vaccinated, according to state figures.

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