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Ukraine’s United Nations ambassador shocked many today when he told members of the United Nations Security Council that Russia had abducted 121,000 Ukrainian children from his country since the start of its bloody invasion. The council met to hear of the impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on women and children.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine told council members that most of the children that he said were abducted by the Russians, were orphans and not those with parents and other relatives. He said the abductions were in flagrant violation of international law and conventions. He also claimed that Russia was reportedly drafting a bill that would “simplify and accelerate the procedures for the adoption of abducted Ukrainian children…”
Kyslytsya said the withdrawal of Russian troops from some areas has left a trail of “unimaginable suffering, with killings, unspeakable torture and sexual violence including rape and mutilation.”
He gave one example that he said was under investigation by Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office of a case where “a Russian soldier killed a local resident and then repeatedly raped his wife in their private house. The suspect’s identity has been established.” He called on the international community to investigate this and other crimes.
He emotionally concluded his speech by reading from a letter from a nine-year-old boy to his dead mother.
“Mama. This letter is my gift to you on the Women’s Day of 8th March… Thank you for the best 9 years of my life! Many thanks for my childhood! You are the best mama in the world. I will never forget you! I wish you good luck in the Heavens. I wish you to get to paradise. I will try to behave well to get to paradise too. Kiss you, your Tolya.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield the United States ambassador to the United Nations took aim at the Russian president: “When men like President Putin start wars, women and children get displaced. Women and children get hurt. Women and children get raped and abused. And women and children die,” she said.
FILE – Marianna Vishegirskaya stands outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)
Thomas-Greenfield spoke of the risks associated for women and children and minority groups during war and described how a deputy mayor from a town in Ukraine recently told reporters “that some girls are cutting their hair short, in hopes of avoiding rape by Russian troops.”
She noted the US is helping to fund projects to protect women and children in and around Ukraine.
The Security Council heard from Kateryna Cherepakha, President of La Strada-Ukraine, a human rights advocacy group for women. She told the council that her group had received reports of rapes committed against women and girls in towns that were occupied by Russian troops. She said Russian troops have used rape as a weapon of war.
She said in one case a victim was raped in front of her family. She also noted that they will never get a full picture of the total number of sexual crimes as many of those who were attacked are dead and won’t be able to report the crime perpetrated against them.
She noted that female prisoners of war have been “exposed to torture including sexual violence (and) undressed in front of male groups harassed and shamed.”
UNICEF’s emergency programs director, Manuel Fontaine, told the council that during his thirty-one years of working in the humanitarian arena that he had, “rarely seen so much damage caused in so little time.”
Fontaine said that of the estimated 3.2 million children said to have remained in their homes nearly half were likely at risk of not having enough food. He also noted that attacks on the water system and power outages have resulted in an estimated 1.4 million people without access to water and with another 4.6 million having limited access to water.
Ukrainian orphans are seen during a stopover in Warsaw as they are en route to the UK, in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, March 21, 2022. A UK-based group Dnipro Kids is helping the nearly 50 children get refugee in the UK until the Russia’s war against Ukraine is over. They were supposed to fly on Monday but got stuck in Warsaw due to a paperwork issue. (AP Photo/Pawel Kuczynski)
He quoted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OHCHR) on the rising number of dead and injured children: “As of yesterday, OHCHR has verified 142 children killed and 229 children injured. We know these numbers are likely much higher — and many of them were caused by crossfire or the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.”
Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy pushed back and accused the council’s western members of continuing to unleash an information war against his country.
He complained that no evidence had been given for all the accusations against his country, and questioned the allegations aimed at Russian soldiers for the massacre of civilians in Bucha, as well as last week’s bombing of a railway station and other places where Polyanskiy claimed fabrications had taken place.
He then claimed that “the staging of the so-called atrocities of the Russian army are being conducted by British film directors.”
The British representative fired back at his Russian colleague for his comments called such claims a lie.
Ukranian servicemen search through rubble inside the Retroville shopping mall after a Russian attack in northwest of Kyiv on March 21, 2022. – At least six people were killed in the overnight bombing of a shopping center in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, an AFP journalist said, with rescuers combing the wreckage for other victims. The 10-storey building was hit by a powerful blast that pulverized vehicles in its car park and left a crater several meters (yards) wide. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Lord Tariq Ahmad, the British minister for the United Nations told the council that, “Sadly, we’ve once again heard Russia trying to deflect from the facts, the reality on the ground — muddy the waters — by what can only be described as quite extraordinary statements, and even lies. Yet, what is true, what is fact, is that Russian attacks on civilians and residential areas have been truly barbaric.”
The United Nations has so far met a dozen times on Ukraine since the eve of the Russian invasion and has failed to take any significant action to stop Russia’s aggression. Russia as a permanent member of the Security Council holds a veto and was forced to use it in February when the council demanded that Russia stop its invasion and withdraw its troops immediately.
After three tornadoes tore through a huge swath of North Texas late Sunday, officials confirmed the best news: No one was killed or badly hurt.
But there was still plenty of heartache.
“Despite the fact that we didn’t lose any lives last night, I think we all know that we’ve suffered some significant property damage in our city,” Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said.
In some of the hardest-hit areas, homes and other buildings were devastated. Countless trees were destroyed, and thousands of people were still without power Monday evening.
National Weather Service crews were busy tracing the path of the strongest tornado, which cut a nearly 16-mile path from northwest Dallas into Richardson with winds up to 140 mph.
In Rowlett, a less-powerful tornado generated winds up to 100 mph. North of Wills Point in Van Zandt County, another tornado registered 80-mph winds.
The National Weather Service recorded damage from strong winds and hail across North Texas, including Fort Worth, Denton, Corsicana and Greenville. Reports of damage stretched as far as Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas.
Richardson and North Dallas sustained some of the heaviest damage, but Oncor’s accounting of outages reflected the storm’s wide path.
At midday, Oncor spokeswoman Kerri Dunn said 55,000 customers were still without power in the Dallas area. In the company’s entire service area, outages affected 95,000.
She said there was no definite timeline to restore power to everyone, and she cautioned that power structures in some areas need to be completely rebuilt.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins declared a local disaster to help get out-of-state resources to help with clean-up and repairs quickly. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster in 15 North Texas counties, including Dallas, Collin and Tarrant.
After reports overnight of natural-gas leaks, Atmos Energy officials said its technicians had responded to more than 200 calls in the Dallas area. Extra crews were working to investigate every emergency call, the company said.
As firefighters were conducting ongoing seraches of collapsed structures in the area, Dallas Fire-Rescue had its own emergency to respond to. Fire Station 41, on Royal Lane near the Dallas North Tollway, was destroyed by high winds. No firefighters were hurt.
Police, who were helping Dallas-Fire Rescue personnel to direct traffic in areas where signals weren’t working, urged people to remain indoors from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday through Thursday because of downed power lines and debris in neighborhoods.
Damaged homes near Walnut Hill and Marsh Lane are seen in aerial view of tornado damage on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
Widespread damage
Joanne Taylor told herself Monday would be the day. She’d get up early and go work out at the Planet Fitness at Walnut Hill and Marsh Lane.
“No more excuses,” she said. “Unless the gym isn’t there anymore.”
Monday morning, the northwest Dallas shopping center where the gym had been was a crumpled pile of steel and concrete.
Water poured out of the La Michoacana market from a broken line, pooling in the parking lot and rushing down the street.
The Planet Fitness was hidden behind a mass of rubble.
“It’s wild,” said Taylor, who had taken shelter in a closet when the tornado came through. “I didn’t realize I’d dodged a bullet until I walked into the neighborhood this morning.”
Behind the shopping complex, roofs were caved in and whole sides of apartment buildings were ripped off.
Angel Govea, 18, had been eating dinner with his family when their phones buzzed with the severe weather alert. About two minutes later, the wind picked up with a loud rumble. As the air pressure dropped, it felt like a mosquito bite in his ears, he said.
The tornado passed just south of his house, knocking down branches and toppling a huge live oak across the street into his front yard.
As he and his family began surveying the damage, they saw that their neighbors were missing roofs and walls.
“We’re feeling something,” Govea said, “but they feel it more.”
All morning, chainsaws buzzed as residents and work crews cleared fallen trees.
Two trees landed in Richard Espinosa’s front yard on Constance Street, near Walnut Hill and Marsh lanes. Another destroyed a fence behind his home.
He recalled how long it had taken to recover from Dallas’ bad storms in June, and with his curb already full by late morning, he knew his cleanup work wasn’t finished.
He doesn’t expect all the debris to be picked up soon, but for now he’s more worried about the essentials.
“No water, no gas, no light,” Espinosa said. “Can’t warm anything up to eat.”
Rachel Gutknecht, 28, looks at the damage in her bedroom where the roof collapsed on top of her bed on Oct. 21, 2019, a day after a tornado devastated homes on Rickshaw Drive in Preston Hollow.(Hayat Norimine)
Rachel Gutknecht, whose apartment was severely damaged by flooding on Rickshaw Drive, tried to salvage anything she could Monday as she and her brother prepared to move in with a friend.
The heavy rain had flooded through to the floor after parts of her ceiling and an HVAC unit collapsed.
She said the changing air pressure right before the tornado blew through caused a massive headache. Moments later, the windows in her bedroom shattered.
“I don’t get scared easily,”Gutknecht said. “I was scared.”
The Home Depot employees A.J. Kobena (center) raises the U.S. flag on the slightly bent flagpole outside the destroyed store on N. Central Expressway in Dallas, Monday, October 21, 2019. Jining him were fellow employees Jonathan Shields and Jordan Jasper. A tornado tore through the entire neighborhood knocking down trees and ripping roofs from homes. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
Parts of Lake Highlands sustained serious damage, including Texas Instruments’ south campus near Interstate 635 and Forest Lane.
A company spokeswoman said the campus was closed because of broken windows, debris and water damage. No injuries were reported.
Damage also was widespread In Preston Hollow, where residents were loading salvaged belongings into their vehicles Monday.
At a house on Eppling Lane, a large tree had uprooted and toppled over in the front yard.
Volunteers were helping with cleanup and directing traffic through the neighborhood.
Heavy roof damage exposed the interior of one home, and a gaping hole appeared to have been blasted through the exterior wall of another home.
Damaged homes in a cul-de-sac on Stillmeadow Drive in Richardson are seen in aerial view of tornado damage on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Richardson, Texas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
In one badly damaged Richardson neighborhood, 71-year-old Gizaw Gedlu walked through his home Monday morning as the sun streamed in through large holes in the roof.
“It’s like a war zone, a disaster,” he said. “It’s gone. It’s unbelievable.”
He and his sister Mena hid in the bathroom as the storm tore through. Two bedrooms and the living room were ripped open, tossing his belongings and pink insulation across the floor.
But the kitchen and garage are just as he left them, he said.
Gedlu, who works as a security guard, said he has insurance, but he isn’t sure when someone will show up. He wants to place tarps on the roof in case it rains again and begin trying to salvage what he can.
His sister was making plans for them to stay in a hotel for the night.
“It’s gone. It’s destroyed,” she said. “Everything is gone.”
Tommy Edmonds, left, embraces his wife, Heidi Edmonds outside of their home, which was destroyed when a tornado hit the night before, on Westway Avenue in Garland, Texas, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Ryan Michalesko/The Dallas Morning News)(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
In Garland, police reported significant property damage but no serious injuries.
The most severe winds hit between Shiloh Road and Glenbrook Drive, as well as Miller Road and Avenue B, Garland police said. The effects included roof damage, fallen trees, debris, structure damage and downed power lines.
About 5,500 Garland Power and Light customers were without electricity as of 1 a.m. Monday, most in southwestern Garland. The storms took down several transmission lines, which disabled two power substations.
Authorities closed Shiloh Road between Forest Lane and Kingsley Road and warned motorists to be cautious because of malfunctioning traffic lights and downed power lines and other debris.
But officials said it was remarkable the city hadn’t sustained more damage in the tornado that generated winds up to 100 mph.
Rowlett police spokesman Lt. David Nabors said the winds affected only the city’s far northeast side where there are few homes.
One home near President George Bush Tollway and Hickox Road was destroyed and a barn on Larkin Lane also sustained damage, he said.
In Sachse, police said high winds damaged six homes along Eastview Drive, leaving four of them uninhabitable. No injuries were reported.
Police spokesman Martin Cassidy said the homes were near Rowlett, where the most severe damage occurred on the border with Sachse.
He said it was likely the storm had passed over the Bush Turnpike from Sachse to Rowlett. It was unclear whether the damage in Sachse was from a tornado or strong winds.
High winds also blew through northern Ellis County, where officials said Midlothian was most heavily affected by the storms.
Northern Ellis Emergency Dispatch Manager Christine Thompson said officials hadn’t fully assessed the extent of damage in Midlothian.
Kasey Cheshier, executive director of the United Way of West Ellis County, said the storms hit hardest in north Midlothian and Red Oak but that he had not heard of any homes that were uninhabitable.
Businesses near U.S. Highway 67 at North Ninth Street had significant damage, he said.
Transportation
Dallas Area Rapid Transit crews began removing debris and trying to make repairs soon after the tornadoes hit Sunday night, spokesman Gordon Shattles said.
He said branches and wreckage from roofs landed on the overhead catenary lines that power the light-rail trains near the Walnut Hill/Denton station at the intersection of Harry Hines Boulevard and Walnut Hill Lane, close to where the storm hit hardest.
“Teams are out clearing those and trying to verify that those catenary lines are in good shape,” Shattles said.
On Monday morning, DART passengers using the Red and Orange lines, which run along Central Expressway, struggled to get from Plano and Richardson to downtown Dallas because of power outages. Service to downtown was available only from Park Lane Station.
Blue Line service between downtown Rowlett and Garland also was disrupted.
Shattles said the agency expected for service to resume normally on the Red, Orange and Blue lines by peak ridership times abut 5 p.m.
He added, however, that because of heavy damage in northwest Dallas, Green Line service may be a bit slower to fully restore, Shattles said.
“Our teams continue to work diligently to resume service. … [Bus shuttles] will be provided where needed,” Shattles said. “We’ll do our best to keep everyone informed.”
Orange and Red line passengers should expect delays and look for shuttle buses between Park Lane and Spring Valley stations due to issues from last night’s severe weather. Thank you for your patience.
Hundreds of insurance claims already had been filed by early Monday, said Mark Hanna, a spokesman for the Insurance Council of Texas.
Hanna said the only North Texas weather event from recent years that compares to Sunday night’s in scale occurred Dec. 26, 2015, when at least nine tornadoes tore through the area, killing 11 people.
That storm’s insured losses were estimated at $1.2 billion. The Dec. 26 tornado, with winds up to 180 mph, traveled 13 miles and had a maximum width of 550 yards, according to the National Weather Service.
As of Monday afternoon, the National Weather Service had not described the path or other details of the reported tornadoes, but it’s likely Sunday night’s traveled farther than the 2015 one did, Hanna said.
He said it will take at least a couple of days to assess all of the damage, project the number of claims and place a dollar loss on the storm.
State Farm spokesman Chris Pilcic warned residents to be wary of door-to-door solicitors who may try to take advantage of residents in the aftermath of the storm.
He also recommended that people save receipts for home repairs.
“Often in your homeowner’s insurance policy, you’ll have coverage for making temporary repairs,” Pilcic said. “Whether you go out and buy a tarp or plywood and do that work yourself or you hire someone to do it, make sure you save those receipts and take pictures of the temporary work you’ve done until you meet with your insurance company.”
Interabang Books in Preston Royal Shopping Center was one of dozens of businesses destroyed or damaged by Sunday night’s tornado.(Robert Wilonsky / Staff writer)
Restaurants and business closures
At least 11 restaurants and businesses in the Preston Road-Royal Lane area of Dallas were closed because of storm damage Monday morning.
Employees at Fish City Grill hunkered down inside a walk-in cooler as the storm ravaged the restaurant and nearby businesses around it, including Interabang Books and Central Market.
“It’s like a bomb went off,” said Bill Payne, Fish City Grill’s co-founder.
How to help or get help
Dallas’ mayor said the city did not need anyone to donate food, water or other items. People who want to help may donate money to Dallas’ emergency assistance fund here.
Anyone who needs shelter can go to the Bachman Recreation Center in northwest Dallas.
Organizations including the North Texas Food Bank and the Salvation Army are among the organizations offering assistance.
Staff writers Hayat Norimine, Eva-Marie Ayala, Dom DiFurio, Sarah Blaskovich, Maria Halkias, Melissa Repko and Hannah Costley contributed to this report.
By Dakin Andone, CNN Photographs by John Nowak, CNN
Updated 2:01 PM ET, Sun January 20, 2019
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Atlanta (CNN)Tiffany Friesen is still getting used to her new address. Out of habit, she sometimes says she lives on Confederate Avenue, where she and her husband Atiba Mbiwan have been for years.
Twitter has said that tweets wishing for Donald Trump’s death in the wake of the president’s diagnosis with Covid-19 violate its policies and could result in suspension.
As Trump made his way to Walter Reed medical center for treatment on Friday, many people on Twitter, including his opponent Joe Biden, wished him a speedy recovery. However many others did the opposite, saying they hope he dies from the virus, which has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States under his leadership while he repeatedly downplayed the severity of the disease.
The social media platform confirmed in a tweet Friday that doing so violates Twitter’s “Abusive Behavior policy”, which prohibits tweets “wishing or hoping serious harm on a person or group of people”.
“Tweets that wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against anyone are not allowed and will need to be removed,” the company said in a tweet. A spokesman told the Guardian this policy has been in place since April and applies to all users, not just Trump.
The announcement came as a surprise to many Twitter users, especially people in marginalized communities who say they frequently experience abuse on the platform. Evan Greer said that as a trans woman and the primary spokesperson for the digital rights organization Fight For the Future, she receives death threats on a “weekly, sometimes daily basis”.
“The decision to suddenly enforce this policy underscores that centralizing content moderation decisions with Big Tech monopolies will always protect the powerful and silence the marginalized,” she said.
A spokesperson from the company told Motherboard it is suspending some users but will not act on every tweet.
“We’re prioritizing the removal of content when it has a clear call to action that could potentially cause real-world harm,” the spokesperson told the publication. In light of the rule refresher, some people are finding creative ways around it, tweeting censored versions of the sentiment.
Facebook’s rules differ slightly: users can express that they wish death upon someone as long as that person is a public figure and they are not tagged in the post. In other words, it’s OK to post that you want Trump to die as long as you do not expose Trump himself to “calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability”.
The 63-month sentence Chutkan imposed was the harshest yet handed down in the more than 700 Capitol riot prosecutions. Prosecutors had sought the lengthy jail term, which was nearly two years longer than the sentences handed down to Jacob Chansley — known as the QAnon Shaman — and Scott Fairlamb, who pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer.
Her remarks upon sentencing included a stirring defense of police officers, deputy U.S. marshals and members of Congress, who she said were the real patriots that day. She also lamented that the Jan. 6 rioters appeared to be treated more gently by police than they might’ve been if they were non-white.
The 90-minute long sentencing hearing was wrenching at times, as Palmer came to grips with the lengthy sentence he was facing. Through tears, he pleaded for leniency, with his children nearby in the courtroom. One of them, Robert Palmer Jr., also urged the judge for leniency.
But Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said her sentence needed to also factor in the grave threat to democracy posed by crimes like the one Palmer committed, particularly as evidence continues to emerge of threats to future elections.
“It has to be made clear that trying to violently overthrow the government, trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, meets absolutely certain punishment,” she said. “Not staying at home. Not watching Netflix.”
Palmer’s defense lawyer urged the judge when fashioning the sentence to take into account that the political leaders who helped stoke the unrest that led to the assault on the Capitol had not been punished.
Chutkan said she agreed with that observation, but emphasized it was not her role to decide who’s charged.
“I don’t have any influence over that. I have my opinions, but they are not relevant,” Chutkan replied. “You’re correct in that…No one who was encouraging everybody to take the Capitol has been charged as of yet.”
But she said any decisions to seek charges against those actors are not in her purview. “I don’t charge anybody,” Chutkan said.
Justice Department officials have said they are looking at anyone who may have committed a crime in connection with the events of Jan. 6, but there has been no sign of a concerted federal investigation into Trump or numerous allies whose fiery rhetoric and advocacy contributed to the violence.
The probe into whether leaders bear responsibility has largely been the province of the Jan. 6 select committee in the House, which has probed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and his actions as supporters stormed the Capitol.
Palmer made a brief statement, expressing remorse for his actions. In his remarks he mentioned that while he was in prison, he watched a video clip from MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” about his own case.
“I was horrified, absolutely devastated, to see myself on there,” he said. “I can tell you, my memory is just not what it should be sometimes. It just brought back what actually happened. Those officers were so brave just standing there, taking what the people were giving them … I’m just so ashamed I was part of that.”
Chutkan said that while the rioters cloaked themselves in claims of patriotism, they were not acting patriotically on Jan. 6.
Palmer’s trip to D.C., attendance at Trump’s rally and march to the Capitol itself were not punishable, she said. It was when he breached police lines and repeatedly attacked officers that he ran afoul of the law. Those police, she said, were the true heroes.
“They were the patriots that day, Mr. Palmer,” the judge said. “That day, U.S. Marshals ran from this courthouse to the Capitol. They put themselves in danger to protect the occupants of that Capitol….They are the patriots and some of them did not know if they were going to see their children again that night.”
“They deserve the thanks of this nation and didn’t deserve to have a fire extinguisher thrown at them. They didn’t deserve to be called names, to be spat on,” Chutkan added.
The judge said she was pleased to learn that, unlike many Jan. 6 defendants, Palmer recently agreed to be vaccinated for the coronavirus. However, she stressed that she wasn’t imposing sentences based on the political views or health views of defendants.
“I’m not punishing anyone for who they support — for the flying spaghetti monster or what your political beliefs are,” she said.
Chutkan, who has previously mused publicly about whether Jan. 6 defendants had been treated more leniently than typical D.C. defendants, said she’s not sure the usual criminal defendants in her court would have faced non-lethal munitions.
“I wonder Mr. Palmer whether some of the people that I see before me on a regular basis in this courtroom, charged with drug offenses and other offenses that are usually the subject of federal charges, if they had tried to storm the Capitol that day if they would have been met with rubber bullets, and I suspect not.”
Chutkan, noting Palmer’s mention of MSNBC, said she was pleased that Palmer was diversifying his intake of media but said it comes with a caveat.
“You tell me you’re watching MSNBC. I think a steady diet of any one of these cable shows is probably not a good idea for anybody,” the judge said.
Chutkan also suggested consumption of just one strain of media helped set in motion the events of the Capitol Riot and the consequences for people like Palmer.
“We might not have had Jan. 6, but people get very siloed and they listen to an echo chamber of information,” she said.
President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday that the daily coronavirus briefings were “not worth the time & effort” after his remarks on injecting disinfectant drew criticism earlier this week.
During his absence at yesterday’s White House coronavirus press conference, the commander-in-chief posted two tweets attacking the media for asking “hostile questions” at the daily briefings and spreading “fake news.”
Posting on Twitter last night, the president wrote: “What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately.
“They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!”
An hour later, the president railed against the “mainstream media” for a second time, writing: “I never said the pandemic was a Hoax! Who would say such a thing? I said that the Do Nothing Democrats, together with their Mainstream Media partners, are the Hoax.
“They have been called out & embarrassed on this, even admitting they were wrong, but continue to spread the lie!”
President Trump hinted that daily coronavirus press briefings could be cancelled two days after he appeared to raise the idea of treating coronavirus patients by injecting them with disinfectant.
“Then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside or almost a cleaning,” Trump said on Thursday. “It will be interesting to check that, so you’re going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me.”
He also appeared to suggest a form of treatment which involved hitting patients with “tremendous” ultraviolet light to combat COVID-19 infection.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump claimed that he was being sarcastic when he made the remarks on Thursday, and was “of course not” serious about injecting coronavirus patients with disinfectant.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also released an earlier statement claiming that the media had “irresponsibly” taken comments out of context.
“President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should consult with medical doctors regarding coronavirus treatment, a point that he emphasized again during yesterday’s briefing,” McEnany said. “Leave it to the media to irresponsibly take President Trump out of context and run with negative headlines.”
Axios reported on Friday that Trump wanted to roll back the daily coronavirus press briefings, with sources telling the outlet that the president could stop appearing every day and spend less time at the podium. Politico reported on Saturday that the commander-in-chief’s advisers were worried about the impact daily briefings could have on his hopes of being reelected in November.
Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment and will update this article with any response.
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Maria Sharapova reconoció haber consumido como medicina una sutancia prohibida desde este año por la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje.
La tenista rusa Maria Sharapova, de 28 años y ex número 1 de la Asociación del Tenis Femenino (WTA, por sus siglas en inglés), comunicó este lunes que dio positivo por dopaje en el primer Grand Slam del año.
Sharapova dio positivo por el uso de meldonium, una sustancia que comentó toma desde 2006 y que sólo este año fue prohibida por la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje (AMA).
La tenista aseguró no haber revisado la lista actualizada que le mandó la AMA el pasado 22 de diciembre.
Como consecuencia, Sharapova ha sido provisionalmente suspendida a partir del 12 de marzo, a la espera de otras acciones que se puedan tomar en su contra.
En una rueda de prensa convocada la víspera y cuyo anuncio desató todo tipo de especulaciones, Sharapova reconoció que dio positivo por drogas en el Abierto de Australia.
“He decepcionado a mis aficionados”, dijo Sharapova.
La tenista detalló que fue informada del positivo en una carta que le envió la Federacón Internacional de Tenis hace unos días.
“Sé que muchos pensaron que anunciaría mi retiro pero no lo haría de esta manera en un hotel de Los Ángeles con esta alfombra bastante fea”.
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Maria Sharapova y Serena Williams se han enfrentado en 21 ocasiones, con 19 victorias para Williams y 2 para Sharapova.
Efectivamente, al conocerse la convocatoria de la rueda de prensa, muchos creyeron que Sharapova iba a anunciar su retiro del circuito profesional de tenis debido a las lesiones padecidas en los últimos años.
Hace cinco días, su equipo comunicó la baja de la tenista en el torneo de Indian Wells, California, que comienza esta semana.
Su último partido lo disputó contra Serena Williams en los cuartos de final del citado Abierto de Australia, donde perdió una vez más contra su eterna rival estadounidense.
Medicina ahora prohibida
La tenista señaló que tomaba meldonium por cuestiones de salud.
“Empecé a tomar esta sustancia en 2006. Tenía varios problemas de salud en aquel momento“, precisó durante la rueda de prensa celebrada en Los Ángeles, California.
“Enfermaba muy a menudo y tenía falta de magnesio, un historial familiar de diabetes y señales de que podía tener esta enfermedad. Esta fue una de las medicinas que me dieron, junto a otras”.
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Las lesiones no le han dado tregua a la tenista rusa Maia Sharapova.
Sin embargo, Sharapova no quiso eludir responsabilidades: “Más allá de los médicos y todo el equipo que me rodea, yo soy la responsable“.
Talento precoz
Maria Sharapova, conocida cariñosamente como Masha, nació en Rusia el 19 de abril de 1987 y actualmente tiene su residencia en Florida, Estados Unidos.
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Pese a tener su residencia en Florida, EE.UU., Sharapva representa a Rusia en las competiciones internacionales.
Debutó en el tenis profesional en 2001, con apenas 14 años, y pronto dejó ver su talento con la raqueta.
Es la número 7 de la clasificación de la WTA, pero llegó a ser número 1 en distintas ocasiones, en total durante 21 semanas.
Ganó cinco títulos individuales de Grand Slam: Wimbledon 2004, Abierto de Estados Unidos 2006, Abierto de Australia 2008 y el francés Roland Garros en 2012 y 2014. También se impuso en la Copa de Maestras de la WTA en 2004 y fue finalista en 2007 y 2012.
En total ha conseguido 33 títulos individuales de la WTA. Por otra parte, fue medallista de plata en la prueba individual de tenis en los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012.
Su victoria más emblemática fue la que obtuvo en junio de 2004, cuando logró su primer Grand Slam al imponerse a Serena Wiliams en Wimbledon por 6-1, 6-4.
Sólo tenía 17 años y se convirtió en la primera jugadora rusa en ganar el prestigioso campeonato británico.
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Wimbledon 2004 fue el primer Grand Slam para Maria Sharapova, que tenía 17 años.
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La joven tenista rusa no podía creer que se había impuesto a la estadounidense Serena Williams.
Ese mismo año, Sharapova derrotó una vez más en una competición importante a la estadounidense Serena Williams: fue en la final de la Copa de Maestras de la WTA el 15 de noviembre de 2004.
Estas destacadas victorias ante la menor de las Williams son los únicos dos triunfos que conseguiría Sharapova frente a la estadounidense.
En la histírca rivalidad entre ambas, Williams se ha impuesto en 19 ocasiones.
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Sharapova derrotó a Williams en la final de la Copa de Maestras de la WTA en noviembre de 2004.
De no haber coincidido en el tiempo con Serena Williams, posiblemente Sharapova tendría más trofeos en su vitrina.
Grand Slam de carrera
En 2006, Sharapova ganó su segundo al derrotar en la final del Abierto de Estados Unidos por 6-4, 6-4 a la belga y entonces número 2 del mundo Justine Henin.
En 2008, ganó el primer Grand Slam del año tras vencer en la final del Abierto de Australia por 7-5, 6-3 a la serbia Ana Ivanovic.
En 2012, obtuvo el título de Roland Garros al vencer a la italiana Sara Errani por 6-3, 6-2.
Con esta victoria, Sharapova consiguió el llamado Grand Slam de Carrera, siendo junto a Serena Williams las únicas jugadoras en activo que lo han conseguido.
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Sharapova no disputa un partido oficial desde su derrota ante Willams en el Abierto de Australia.
En 2014, se adjudicó su segundo título de Roland Garros, y el quinto Grand Slam de su carrera al vencer en la definición a la rumana Simona Halep en tres sets por 6-4, 6-7, 6-4.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom provides an update on the COVID-19 response on June 30 at noon PT. He will discuss the state’s initiative to secure hotel and motel rooms to protect homeless individuals from COVID-19.
The suspect, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, faced a judge for the first time Thursday morning. He was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, one for each of the victims, which included Boulder Officer Eric Talley. He also faces a charge of attempted first-degree murder for attempting to kill Officer Richard Steidell, who also responded to the scene, a charging document says.
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Rain in recent days — a torrent in some areas, a few drops in others — had offered a small reprieve. But on Thursday, with temperatures soaring over 100 degrees in previously fire-stricken states like New South Wales, fire officials once again issued emergency warnings.
By midday, more than 80 fires were burning, some out of control, in the state’s south, including the Snowy Mountains, the Rural Fire Service said. “We’re in for a long afternoon and night,” it said.
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LOS ANGELES, July 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — KWHY-TV Noticias 22, the MundoFOX Los Angeles television network affiliate’s award-winning newscast, Noticias 22, “La voz de Tu Ciudad,” “The voice of your city”, scored as the fastest growing late Spanish language newscast in Nielsen’s recently completed July 2015 Sweeps for Los Angeles, the city with the largest Hispanic market in the nation.
“Our growth is a strong statement of relevance and support to our news team and editorial direction,” stated Palmira Perez, Noticias 22 MundoFOX News Anchor. “Noticias 22 continues to produce the most engaging, compelling news and information daily for our community, and as part of Meruelo Media, together we’re committed to journalistic excellence,” added Otto Padron, President of Meruelo Media.
KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX Los Angeles July 2015 Sweeps Highlights:
KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX at 10:00 p.m. posted significant “year-to-year” growth in average ratings among the key demographic Adults 18-49, up 35% from the July 2014 Sweeps.
All the other Spanish-language late local newscasts were down, including those on KRCA/Estrella (-22%), KVEA/Telemundo (-1%) and KMEX/Univision (-2%). (Based on Monday to Friday average ratings.)
Among Adults 25-54, ratings for KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX at 10:00 p.m. were up 34% from the July 2014 Sweeps, more than the late newscast on KMEX/Univision (+15%) and KVEA/Telemundo (+7%), with KRCA/Estrella falling 19%.
Source: Los Angeles NSI Ratings, July 2015
For more information on KWHY-TV Noticias 22 MundoFOX, please visit www.mundofox22.com.
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