Daylight saving time is officially here and some people may have woken up this morning wondering if the time on the clock is the real time.
Each year, on the second Sunday in March, people in America turn their clocks forward one hour so that when it strikes 2 a.m., it reads 3 a.m. The purpose of the time change is to provide people with an extra hour of light, thereby reducing the need to use energy inside.
Most cellphones will change the time automatically, although iPhones have a setting that allows users to turn off the setting. Those who are unsure if their phone changed the time or not can open Settings, go to General and select Date & Time. If the toggle next to Set Automatically is green, the phone is displaying the correct time. If it isn’t, you may be an hour behind the rest of the people in your time zone.
Without knowing when someone is reading this article, it’s hard to say for certain what time it is in any given time zone. However, a good rule of thumb is, if you see an analog clock and it’s an hour behind your phone, trust your phone because analog clocks require a manual change. Worst case scenario, turn on your television, go to a news station and if you wait a few minutes, the time will likely broadcast on the bottom of the screen.
Now, things get a little bit complicated if you’re scheduling a phone call with a long-distance friend or family member who lives in Hawaii or most of Arizona. They’re two states that don’t participate in the clock change, so the time difference that existed on Saturday isn’t the same on Sunday.
For example, on Saturday at 2 p.m. in New York, it was 11 a.m. in Los Angeles, noon in Phoenix and 9 a.m. in Honolulu. On Sunday, when it’s 2 p.m. in New York, it will still be 11 a.m. in Los Angeles, but in Phoenix, instead of a clock reading noon, it will be 11 a.m., as well, and in Honolulu, it will be 8 a.m.
If potentially having the wrong time gives you anxiety, the best way to ensure you have the right time is to manually turn an analog clock forward one hour before you go to bed on Saturday.
Washington — The revelation late Tuesday that the Justice Department’s investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, now includes questions about the actions of former President Donald Trump and his allies has heightened speculation as to whether the former president could face legal trouble for his conduct related to the assault. And as federal prosecutors all the way up to Attorney General Merrick Garland are facing growing external pressure to prosecute Trump, the crucial question remains as to what federal crimes might be successfully brought and tried against the former president.
As part of its probe, the Justice Department has been examining a scheme to name fake slates of presidential electors for Trump in key battleground states he lost in the 2020 presidential election. The Justice Department has also been examining the actions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, when a mob of the former president’s supporters, many of them armed, breached the Capitol building to stop Congress from tallying state electoral votes and reaffirming President Biden’s victory.
Trump, Eastman, and Clark have not been charged with any crimes or accused of wrongdoing, and the news that questions are being asked about the former president’s conduct does not indicate Trump is the target of any federal probe. The former president maintains he did nothing wrong, and continues to claim, without evidence, that the election was rigged.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the America First Policy Institute’s America First Agenda Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
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The investigation from federal prosecutors is running alongside the wide-ranging examination of the events surrounding Jan. 6 from a House select committee, which concluded a tranche of eight public hearings last week, though more are expected.
Across the hearings, the House panel mapped out what it described as a multi-pronged campaign by Trump to remain in power, which included efforts to pressure Pence and state elections officials to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, and to push top Justice Department officials to challenge the election outcome, culminating with the mob of his supporters violently descending on the Capitol.
The former president’s plans ultimately failed, though, and Mr. Biden’s victory was reaffirmed by Congress in the early morning hours of Jan. 7.
Despite that failure, legal analysts and former prosecutors have honed in on two specific criminal charges that they say might pose a legal threat to the former president: obstruction of an official proceeding — the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to tally electoral votes — and conspiracy to defraud the United States. The charges, experts said, would focus on Trump’s alleged knowledge that the election was not stolen and his attempt to halt the peaceful transfer of power despite knowing he lost.
Randall Eliason, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said obstruction charges could stem from both the plan to name fake electors to cast their votes in Trump’s favor and the strategy hatched by Eastman for Pence to unilaterally reject electoral votes from key states during the Jan. 6 proceedings or send them back to the state legislatures.
Conspiracy to defraud the U.S., meanwhile, applies to corrupt efforts to obstruct a lawful government function: the certification of election results by Congress on Jan. 6.
“For any of the charges, it’s all going to be in the nature of a conspiracy charge,” Eliason, a law professor at George Washington University, told CBS News. The conspiracy charge requires a broader plan among co-defendants to commit a crime. “There’s the potential for senior people like Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows also to be implicated in the same case.”
Neither Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, nor Giuliani, his outside attorney, have been charged with any crime. The House Jan. 6 committee recommended Meadows be charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena, but the Justice Department declined to charge him.
The Justice Department could also pursue a charge of seditious conspiracy, Eliason said, though that would require prosecutors to show Trump conspired to use force “to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.” Members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, two far-right extremist groups, have been charged with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack.
Scott Fredericksen, a former federal prosecutor and independent counsel, said bringing charges like seditious conspiracy and inciting a riot against the former president would demand a “higher standard” of evidence for prosecutors, who would have to both indict Trump and attempt to successfully convict him at trial.
Fredericksen believes the Justice Department should be examining the “whole concept” of the so-called “Big Lie,” the claim continually pushed by Trump that the election was stolen. Prosecutors, he said, “should be able to prove pretty clearly that Trump knew very well that he lost the election, this election was not stolen, and that was a complete fabrication,” which, according to Fredericksen, would make Trump’s claims and later attempts to prevent the transfer of power a potential aspect of a criminal conspiracy.
“It’s not just Jan. 6,” Fredericksen told CBS News, “Jan. 6 is, in some ways, the culmination.”
Testimony obtained by the committee sheds new light on the extent to which top White House and administration officials, as well as campaign advisers, told Trump his claims of widespread voter fraud were unfounded and encouraged him to accept his loss, though their warnings did little to deter Trump’s dogged efforts to thwart the transfer of power.
While Eliason said much of what has been revealed by the select committee in the course of its investigation thus far is potentially relevant to a case brought against Trump, “criminal charges have a much higher burden of proof.”
“It’s got to be as close to air-tight as it possibly can be, because it’s one thing to have testimony at a hearing that’s not being challenged, it’s quite another to have it at a trial where you’re subject to cross-examination and defense witnesses,” he said. “That would be a very different kind of animal. You have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before a unanimous jury of 12.”
Looming large over the potential for Trump to face charges is the unprecedented nature of such a case, as never before in U.S. history has a former president been prosecuted by the Justice Department, never-mind one who continues to tease another White House run.
A decision of whether to pursue criminal charges would be “the most consequential decision made by any attorney general,” Eliason said, and raises “weighty” issues to consider, including that such a move would involve an administration prosecuting the former president of the opposing party.
Fredericksen agreed: “The whole idea of politics pervades this entire case. It’s why I think the Department of Justice is extremely careful and reluctant to investigate, let alone charge, a former president. … It’s never been done before because it will be perceived by a good portion of the country as a political prosecution.”
“A prosecutor is going to stay away from charging any crime for which he uses some kind of political activity. A prosecutor is not going to touch that,” Fredericksen said, adding that the legal line between political acts and criminal acts is a complicated barrier for prosecutors. “On one hand, it could be political, but when it’s employed with the idea of overthrowing the government, then that’s criminal.”
To avoid the perception of politicization, prosecutors should proceed as they would in any other criminal case by interviewing witnesses, securing cooperation, and gathering as much evidence as possible, Fredericksen said.
“There is no special formula,” he added.
With each new revelation about the events surrounding Jan. 6, Garland has continued to come under scrutiny about future action by the Justice Department. In an interview with NBC News that aired Tuesday, Garland stressed, as he has before, that the Justice Department would “bring to justice everybody who was criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which is the fundamental element of our democracy.”
Still, Garland’s vow to hold all who broke the law, “at any level,” accountable has done little to assuage some congressional Democrats and critics of Trump, who are pushing for a case to be brought swiftly.
But Eliason said the probe is moving at a pace that should be expected given its “size and complexity” and noted that prosecutions stemming from Watergate and Enron spanned several years.
“Prosecutors are moving up the ladder higher and higher, closer and closer to the inner circle,” he said, referencing the recent appearance of Short before a grand jury. “We don’t know how that ends, that doesn’t mean charges will be found to be justified, it just means they’re doing what Garland has said, starting with the rioters and working your way up.”
The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington declined to comment.
Encerrados en una jaula en medio del tribunal, que sesionó en un cuartel de policía de El Cairo, el corresponsal australiano Peter Greste y el egipcio con pasaporte canadiense Mohamed Fahmy recibieron una pena de siete años de prisión, según el veredicto leído al final de la vista.
El egipcio Baher Mohamed fue sentenciado a diez años, siete por los mismos cargos que sus compañeros y otros tres porque llevaba encima una bala en el momento de la detención.
Los tres, que habían estado detenidos desde diciembre, afirman que fueron condenados sólo por hacer su trabajo, cubriendo las protestas posteriores al golpe de Estado del año pasado contra el presidente Mohamed Mursi, miembro de la Hermandad Musulmana.
El juicio es visto por muchos como un proceso con un fuerte componente político, parte de una disputa entre Egipto y Qatar, el emirato del Golfo Pérsico que es dueño de Al Jazira y al que El Cairo acusa de apoyar a la Hermandad, pese a que la emisora niega rotundamente cualquier sesgo favorable a la cofradía islamista.
En un juicio contra periodistas por cargos de terrorismo que no tiene precedentes, fiscales egipcios los acusaron de colaborar con la Hermanad, que fue prohibida y declarada grupo “terrorista”, y de haber fabricado imágenes para perjudicar la seguridad nacional.
Otros tres periodistas -dos británicos que trabajaban para Al Jazira y un freelance holandés que sólo se reunió una vez con Fahmy, fueron condenados en ausencia, junto a nueve personas más, a 10 años de cárcel. Además, el tribunal sentenció a tres estudiantes procesados en la misma causa a siete años de prisión y absolvió a otros dos, informó la agencia de noticias EFE.
El secretario de Estado norteamericano, que ayer se reunió en El Cairo con el nuevo presidente egipcio Abdel Fatah Al Sisi -el ex general que derrocó a Mursi y que ganó las últimas elecciones-, dijo que la sentencia viola la libertad de prensa y los principios básicos de toda democracia.
La Casa Blanca, posteriormente, emitió un comunicado pidiendo que el Gobierno egipcio “perdone a estos individuos o conmute sus sentencias para que puedan ser liberados inmediatamente” y además solicitó “clemencia” para todos los condenados por motivos políticos.
Además, Washington condenó “en los términos más fuertes posibles el veredicto que se produce en el marco de una serie de procesamientos judiciales y veredictos que son incompatibles con los preceptos básicos de los derechos humanos y de la democracia”.
Luego del golpe contra Mursi del 3 de julio pasado, las autoridades egipcias lanzaron una fuerte campaña contra la Hermandad que incluyó cientos de muertos en episodios de represión y cientos de dirigentes o miembros de la organización condenados a muerte en procesos sumarísimoso.
La semana pasada, una corte condenó a muerte a cerca de 200 islamistas, entre ellos, al líder máximo de la Hermandad, Mohamed Badia.
El secretario general de la ONU, Ban Ki-moon, criticó hoy las penas de cárcel impuestas a los periodistas de Al Jazira y las 183 de la semana pasada y aseguró que parecen no cumplir con los principios básicos de la Justicia, informó EFE.
“El secretario general subraya que la participación en protestas pacíficas o las críticas al Gobierno no deben ser base para la detención y acusación”, señaló el portavoz de Ban, Stéphane Dujarric, quien agregó que Ban cree que tales medidas “minarán las perspectivas de estabilidad a largo plazo” en Egipto.
También en repudio de las sentencias, los gobiernos del Reino Unido, Holanda y Australia llamaron de inmediato a sus embajadores para interiorizarse del caso.
Asimismo, el juicio despertó críticas de las organizaciones de derechos humanos y de grupos de periodistas, que convocaron a numerosas protestas para apoyar a los acusados y pedir su puesta en libertad.
El Comité para la Protección de los Periodistas sitúa a Egipto entre los diez estados con más reporteros detenidos y el tercer país más mortífero para los informadores en 2013.
Amnistía Internacional fue particularmente dura en su declaración. Los tres periodistas, detenidos en Egipto desde finales de 2013, son “prisioneros de conciencia”.
Uno de los abogados del caso de los periodistas, Shaaban Said, dijo que van apelar la sentencia de primera instancia, a la cual calificó de “dura y cruel”.
Al finalizar la sesión, estallaron en la sala consignas contra el gobierno recientemente electo.
Prominent Democrats defended Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) after Donald Trump tweeted a viral video featuring a recent speech given by Omar intercut with footage of 9/11.
Members of Omar’s 2018 Congressional class, including Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY),responded to the tweet by accusing the president both of spreading Islamophobia and of endangering Omar’s safety.
Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
Democratic presidential candidates including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, and Jay Inslee, all defended Omar.
The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It’s disgusting. It’s shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.
Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won’t back down to Trump’s racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.
After 9/11 we all said we were changed. That we were stronger and more united. That’s what “never forget” was about. Now, a president uses that dark day to incite his base against a member of Congress, as if for sport. As if we learned nothing that day about the workings of hate.
President Trump’s inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric towards Ilhan Omar is jeopardizing her safety. He is deliberately putting her and all Muslim Americans in harm’s way.
While some Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) were more measured in their criticism, and others like New York’s Rep. Max Rose used Trump’s tweet to reach across the aisle, there was no notable criticism of Omar’s comments.
This marks a stark departure from February, when Democratic leaders condemned tweets Omar sent criticizing the influence of pro-Israel lobbyists. In a joint statement signed by Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD), Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC), and other top Democrats, party leaders rebuked “Congresswoman Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes,” calling her tweets “deeply offensive.”
The statement demanded Omar apologize. She did, after which the House passed a resolution that did not mention her by name, but that broadly denounced “the perpetuation of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the United States and around the world.”
Now Democrats are striking a different tone. Their defense of Omar is the latest step in an effort to defend the freshman Democrat from what is being increasingly described by liberals as an Islamophobic smear campaign. Omar is one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress, a fact some, such as Vox’s Nisha Chittal and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes have argued is central to the criticism.
Democrats also see this as an opportunity to attack Trump and to differentiate themselves and their party from the politics the president favors.
Omar’s words were taken out of context
The clip of Omar comes from a speech the Congresswoman gave in March to members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization.
In the speech, which was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, Omar stressed the importance of organizations like CAIR, and praised them for helping to protect Muslims from civil rights violations.
“Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” Omar said. “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explained, Omar’s words “some people did something” were quickly seized upon by members of the right “to paint [Omar] as an anti-American radical indifferent to those killed during the 9/11 attacks.”
The New York Post took the quote and placed it on its front page with an image of 9/11 on Thursday; conservative media personality Sean Hannity tweeted it to his followers. The cover, and online criticism of Omar about her supposed statement was followed by the appearance of the video the president tweeted.
Beauchamp called right’s outrage “part and parcel” of an “overall anti-Muslim campaign,” and added:
These attacks are straight-up attempts to turn her into the boogeyman of the GOP base’s Islamophobic nightmares, meant to gin up politically useful fear and anger by targeting one of the first-ever Muslim congresswomen. That this seems to have contributed to at least one death threat against her is demonstrably unimportant: The latest round of attacks came after the news of the threat maker’s arrest.
Political threats are becoming real threats for Omar
The president’s tweet marks the second time in recent weeks he has directly attacked Omar. Last Saturday he made disparaging remarks about the Congresswoman at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual convention, just hours after law enforcement officials charged one of his supporters for threatening to kill her.
That man, 55-year-old Patrick Carlineo Jr., allegedly called Omar’s office asked staffers, “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist,” before reportedly telling them, “I’ll put a bullet in her fucking skull.”
Law enforcement officials said Carlineo told them he “loves the president and that he hates radical Muslims in our government” after being apprehended.
While Carlineo was arrest after her speech, Omar addressed his stated beliefs in her CAIR address, in which she blamed Trump for escalating anti-Muslim sentiment.
“We have a leader … in the White House who publicly says Islam hates us, who fuels hate against Muslims, who thinks it is okay to speak about a faith and a whole community in a way that is dehumanizing, vilifying, and doesn’t understand … the consequences that his words might have,” Omar said. “Some people, like me, know that he understands the consequences.”
Shocking footage released on Sunday offers a new glimpse inside the deadly US Capitol riot, — following the invaders as they search for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers, sit in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat and rifle through lawmakers’ documents.
The nearly 13 edited minutes of footage were shot by war correspondent Luke Mogelson and published Sunday by The New Yorker, for which Mogelson is a contributing writer.
The video opens with scenes of hordes of pro-Trump rioters overpowering US Capitol Police and streaming into the seat of American democracy through doors and shattered windows.
“You’re outnumbered!” one rioter can be heard telling a small contingent of cops trying to hold the line inside a Capitol hallway. “There’s a f–king million of us out there, and we are listening to Trump, your boss!”
The contingent of rioters backed the overwhelmed cops down a hallway through the sheer size of their group and headed up a stairway, with one invader yelling in parting, “We love you guys! Take it easy!”
One group of dozens chanted, “Treason! Treason! Treason!” as they stalked the halls, the video shows.
“Knock knock!” one man taunted as the doors to the Senate gallery were slammed open, sending rioters streaming inside. “We’re here!”
Members of that group can be heard wondering about the whereabouts of Congressional lawmakers, who had been attempting to certify the results of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory when the riot broke out following a rally in which Trump encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell” against the process.
“Where the f–k are they?” one man yelled upon seeing the deserted Senate floor.
“Where the f–k is Nancy?” was another call.
As rioters clad in combat gear made their way onto the Senate floor, a debate broke out about the optics of the takeover.
A rioter sitting in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair.YouTube
The spat centered around one intruder taking a seat in the chair reserved for the president of the Senate, Pence — who was accused by Trump of not doing enough to fight the election results and was among those forced to evacuate when the riot hit.
“Hey, get out of that chair!” Larry Brock, a zip tie-carrying retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from Texas can be heard telling the unidentified man occupying Pence’s seat.
“No, this is our chair!” a third man yelled back.
“It’s not our chair,” countered Brock. “I love you guys, you’re brothers, but we can’t be disrespectful.”
A rioter challenged Brock further, invoking a conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump.
“They can steal an election, but we can’t sit in their chairs?” the man asked.
“No, we’re not putting up with that either!” insisted Brock. “Look, it’s a PR war. … We’re better than that.”
While the group bickered, others rifled through lawmakers’ desks, apparently in search of documents to back their claim that the election was rigged.
A handful of intruders stumbled upon papers detailing what one identified as Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s “objection to the Arizona” election results.
Rioters reading Sen. Ted Cruz’s notes.YouTube
The discovery left some confused over exactly what the papers purportedly showed.
“His objection! He was gonna sell us out all along!” fumed one man.
“Wait, no, that’s a good thing!” chimed in another huddled around the document.
One of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress, Cruz was among those who questioned the legitimacy of Biden’s win in Arizona, lodging an unsuccessful protest even in the hours after the riot.
Two others flipped through a binder, apparently also in search of evidence or otherwise incriminating material, the video shows.
“There’s gotta be something in here we can f–king use against these scumbags,” muttered one man, haphazardly leafing through pages.
“[Republican Missouri Sen. Josh] Hawley, Cruz. I think Cruz would want us to do this,” another man intoned. “I think we’re good.”
Above them in the gallery, “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley — done up in a horned helmet and red, white and blue face paint — chanted unintelligibly, rhythmically stomping his feet and the pole of an American flag.
Jake Angeli in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair inside of the chamber.YouTube
In a later segment, Chansley — also known as Jake Angeli — made his way down onto the Senate floor, closely followed by a lone cop, the video shows.
“You guys are f–king patriots,” said Angeli to the group. “Look at this guy. He’s covered in blood. God bless you.”
The man to whom Angeli was referring, splayed out on the floor with a small smear of blood on his t-shirt, said that he “got shot in the face with some kind of plastic bullet,” but declined an offer of medical help.
As Angeli ascended the dais and prepared to sit in Pence’s seat, the cop took his best shot at dispersing the crowd.
“Is there any chance I can get you guys to leave the Senate wing?” he asked.
Replied the bloodied man on the floor, “We will. I’ve been making sure they ain’t disrespecting the place.”
Angeli, however, decided to make himself at home.
“I’m gonna take a sit in this chair because Mike Pence is a f–king traitor,” he said.
As the cop looked on, Angeli asked another rioter to use his phone to snap a photo of him seated in Pence’s chair.
Once Angeli had his photo, the cop took another crack.
“Now that you’ve done that, can I get you guys to walk out of this room, please?” he asked.
The group appeared to be complying, but not before Angeli scrawled a message on a sheet of paper before Pence’s seat: “It’s only a matter of time[,] justice is coming!”
In a later segment, however, Angeli and others were back on the dais, using a megaphone to shout a “prayer.”
The group prayer inside of the chamber.YouTube
“Thank you, heavenly father, for being the inspiration needed to these police officers to allow us into the building, to allow us to exercise our rights, to allow us to send a message to all the tyrants, the communists and the globalists,” said Angeli.
In the hall outside the Senate chamber, cops were doing what they could to direct rioters out of the building.
“We support you guys, OK?” one rioter could be heard telling an officer. “We know you’re doing your job.”
Back outside the Capitol, however, it was a different scene as another contingent of rioters clashed with cops attempting to restore order.
“F–k the blue! F–k the blue!” some in the mob chanted, the video shows, in an apparent reference to police.
WILTON MANORS, Fla. – One person is dead and another hospitalized after a man driving a truck struck them on Saturday at the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors.
Newly obtained surveillance video shows a white pickup truck crashing into a fence and mowing down the plants at the Fort Lauderdale Garden Center on Northeast 4th Avenue near 16th Street.
Seconds earlier, off-camera, the same pickup truck plowed into a crowd of people at the LGBTQ parade in Wilton Manors.
“It was bad,” said Keith Witusik, a Mechanic at Fort Lauderdale Garden Center. “I was like, oh my God. I can’t believe this is happening.”
First responders within the crowd quickly aided the two men who were hit, performing CPR.
“Both males were transported to Broward Health Medical Center, where one was later pronounced deceased,” said Det. Ali Adamson with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. “The other male remains in Broward Health Medical Center and is expected to survive.”
Authorities have not named either of the victims yet.
Police took the driver of the white truck into custody.
The FBI is joining the investigation as detectives work to figure out whether the crash was a hate crime or just a horrible accident.
Eighty-one New Jersey public high schools rank in the nation’s top 10%, more than twice the number last year, according to figures released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. In 2020, 39 New Jersey schools had that distinction.
The rankings cover more than 17,800 schools, nearly every public high school in the country, and use graduation rates, college readiness, reading and math proficiency and performance, performance by underserved students, and curriculum breadth. The publication measures college readiness by participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.
Fifteen of the state’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) schools placed in the nation’s top 100 STEM schools, including the High Technology High School in Lincroft, second in the nation, and Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies in Edison, which ranked tenth among STEM schools.
Eight New Jersey high schools ranked in the nation’s top 100: Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies in Edison ranked 23; Union County Magnet High School in Scotch Plains ranked 49; Bergen County Academies in Hackensack ranked 61; High Technology High School in Lincroft ranked 65; Dr. Ronald E McNair High School in Jersey City ranked 68; Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health in Woodbridge ranked 69; Biotechnology High School in Freehold ranked 80; and Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro ranked 93.
You can search through more than 400 New Jersey high schools here.
See the 25 top schools in the state, with their national rankings:
25. Montgomery High School, Skillman. National rank: 592
24. Mountain Lakes High School, Mountain Lakes. National rank: 577
23. Ridge High School, Basking Ridge. National rank: 515
22. Princeton High School, Princeton. National rank: 490
21. Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. National rank: 464
20. Chatham High School, Chatham. National rank: 458
19. Livingston High School, Livingston. National rank: 438
18. Millburn High School, Millburn. National rank: 418
17. Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and Science, Neptune. National rank: 377
16. Summit Senior High School, Summit. National rank: 363
The West Windsor Plainsboro High School South class of about 400 students held their Graduation at Cure Insurance Arena on 6-18-2021.Phil McAuliffe For The Times Of Trenton
15. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, West Windsor. National rank: 339
14. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro. National rank: 293
13. Elizabeth High School, Elizabeth. National rank: 262
12. Glen Ridge High School, Glen Ridge. National rank: 244
11. Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Highlands. National rank: 165
10. Academy for Allied Health Sciences, Scotch Plains. National rank: 146
9. Academy for Information Technology, Scotch Plains. National rank: 116
8. Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro. National rank: 93
7. Biotechnology High School, Freehold. National rank: 80
6. Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health, Woodbridge. National rank: 69
Real estate photo of the McNair Academic High School building, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
5. Dr. Ronald E McNair High School, Jersey City. National rank: 68
4. High Technology High School, Lincroft. National rank: 65
3. Bergen County Academies, Hackensack. National rank: 61
2. Union County Magnet High School, Scotch Plains. National rank: 49
1. Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, Edison. National rank: 23
Riley Yates contributed reporting.
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But in both cases, any relief was short-lived. Mr. Nixon ended up resigning weeks after getting home, and Mr. Clinton was impeached by the House only days after his return. The complaints about impeachment interfering with foreign policy rang loud then as well; Mr. Clinton was in the midst of bombing Iraq for defying international weapons inspectors even as the House took its vote.
There is no escape for Mr. Trump either, not in foreign cities, not in the Oval Office and not on the television he stares at upstairs in the White House for hours each day. His presidency is tethered to impeachment, his legislative agenda mostly on hold, his foreign policy overshadowed, his re-election on the line. He takes refuge in the boisterous and jampacked campaign rallies he holds and in the morning and evening lineups on Fox News.
While in London, Mr. Trump defiantly declared he would not watch the opening of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings because he would be too busy conducting affairs of state, even as he lashed out at Democrats as “deranged,” “sick,” “nuts,” “crazy” and, in one case, a “maniac.” But while his blue-and-white jet headed back to Washington, he (or aides operating his account in his name) nonetheless blitzed out a couple dozen tweets recirculating posts from Republican allies castigating the hearing as it progressed.
At the White House in his absence, the atmosphere was somewhat surreal. The televisions around the building were tuned to the various news networks, especially Fox News, as they broadcast the hearing, but the volume was usually muted and aides sought to go about their business.
The White House refused to participate in the hearing, arguing that the process has been rigged by partisan Democrats, but it did send a couple of aides to sit in the hearing room and monitor the proceedings.
The assumption there, as elsewhere, was that the hearing changed no minds and the course of the next few weeks is already set — the House will probably vote by the end of the year to impeach along party lines, and the Senate will then hold a trial in which the president will not be convicted, setting him up to litigate the case during his re-election campaign.
“While I wouldn’t say impeachment is a good thing for the president, it is a highly divisive and partisan issue breaking down on party lines,” Ms. Ferrier said. “It has not changed people’s minds on the president. His approval ratings are remarkably consistent, in particular with Republican voters, and he clearly relishes a fight.”
Politicians just interrupted regularly scheduled programming to bring you a message they’ve been repeating ad nauseum for the last three weeks.
President Trump went first. Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, he read a watered-down stump speech from a teleprompter. Illegal immigrants and a flood of drugs are streaming across the border, the president said in so many words. The shutdown is the fault of Democrats, he continued, and the solution is some variation of a wall.
Notably lacking? Fireworks.
Trump was presidential in that Trump was unusually low key. He didn’t declare a national emergency, a move which would have thrown Congress and the courts into an immediate crisis. He just repeated the boilerplate language from his campaign.
Democrats offered their rebuttal next, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., standing cadaver-like behind a shared podium. They may haunt the dreams of any child who was unlucky enough to be awake during prime time, but aside from that they didn’t accomplish anything new.
Pelosi said the president was holding the country hostage. Schumer followed up arguing that the president was appealing to fear, not facts, and that Democrats and Republicans agree border security is necessary. They just disagree, Schumer posited, on how to do it.
Pundits promised that this would be a clash of the political titans, a rough-and-tumble exchange of fire worthy of the last two years of hysteria. It was instead a 20-minute dud with all the drama of a “Friends” rerun.
And believe it or not, that is a good thing.
Nothing bad happened tonight, because nothing dramatic went down and nothing changed. Governing from crisis leads to unforeseen outcomes and extra-constitutional actions. Instead, both sides laid out their battle lines after kicking a little dust in prime time.
“The government did not use as a witness the woman who accused Prince Andrew, who accused me, accused many other people because the government didn’t believe she was telling the truth,” he said. “In fact she, Virginia Giuffre, was mentioned in the trial as somebody who brought young people to Epstein for him to abuse. And so this case does nothing at all to strengthen in any way the case against Prince Andrew.”
Tehran, Iran — Iran has begun using arrays of advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium in violation of its 2015 nuclear deal, a spokesman said Saturday, warning that Europe has little time left to offer new terms to save the accord.
The comments by Behrouz Kamalvandi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran signal a further cut into the one year experts estimate Tehran would need to have a enough material for building a nuclear weapon if it chose to pursue one. Iran maintains its program is peaceful.
Iran already has breached the stockpile and enrichment level limits set by the deal, while stressing it could quickly revert back to the terms of the accord if Europe finds a way for it to sell its crude oil abroad despite crushing U.S. sanctions. However, questions likely will grow in Europe over Iran’s intentions as satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday showed an once-detained oil tanker Tehran reportedly promised wouldn’t go to Syria was off its coast.
Tensions between Iran and the U.S. have risen in recent months, with mysterious attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran shooting down a U.S. military surveillance drone, and other incidents across the wider Middle East. Iran separately seized another ship and detained 12 Filipino crew members, state television reported Saturday.
“Our stockpile is quickly increasing,” Kamalvandi warned in a news conference. “We hope they will come to their senses.”
The accord saw Iran limits its enrichment of uranium in exchange for sanctions relief. Among the limitations was a requirement that Iran use only 5,060 first-generation IR-1 centrifuges. A centrifuge is a device that enriches uranium by rapidly spinning uranium hexafluoride gas.
Today, Iran has begun using an array of 20 IR-6 centrifuges and another 20 of IR-4 centrifuges, Kamalvandi said. An IR-6 can produce enriched uranium 10 times as fast as an IR-1, Iranian officials say, while an IR-4 produces five times as fast.
Iran already has increased its enrichment up to 4.5%, above the 3.67% allowed under the deal. Using advanced centrifuges means a shorter time would be needed to push up its enrichment.
Kamalvandi said Iran had the ability to go beyond 20% enrichment of uranium. Experts say 20% is just a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90% enrichment.
While Kamalvandi stressed that “the Islamic Republic is not after the bomb,” he warned that Iran was running out of ways to stay in the accord. “If Europeans want to make any decision, they should do it soon,” he said.
The impact of Trump’s sanctions inside Iran
Kamalvandi also said Iran would allow U.N. inspectors to continue to monitor sites in the country. A top official from the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency was expected to meet with Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday.
The IAEA said Saturday it was aware of Iran’s announcement and “agency inspectors are on the ground in Iran and they will report any relevant activities to IAEA headquarters in Vienna.”
Kamalvandi made the remarks in a news conference carried on live television. He spoke from a podium with advanced centrifuges standing next to him.
In Paris, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Iran’s announcement wasn’t a surprise.
“The Iranians are going to pursue what the Iranians have always intended to pursue,” Esper said at a news conference with his French counterpart, Florence Parly.
Meanwhile Saturday, satellite images showed a once-detained Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. appears to be off the coast of Syria, where Tehran reportedly promised the vessel would not go when authorities in Gibraltar agreed to release it several weeks ago. Iran later seized a British-flagged oil tanker which it still holds.
The tanker Adrian Darya-1, formerly known as the Grace-1, turned off its Automatic Identification System late Monday, leading to speculation it would be heading to Syria. Other Iranian oil tankers have similarly turned off their tracking beacons in the area, with analysts saying they believe crude oil ends up in Syria in support of embattled President Bashar Assad’s government.
Images obtained by The Associated Press early Saturday from Maxar Technologies appeared to show the vessel off Syria’s coast, some 2 nautical miles off shore under intermittent cloud cover.
Iranian and Syrian officials have not acknowledged the vessel’s presence there. There was no immediate report in Iranian state media about the ship, though authorities earlier said the 2.1 million barrels of crude oil onboard had been sold to an unnamed buyer.
The oil on board would be worth about $130 million on the global market, but it remains unclear who would buy the oil as they’d face the threat of U.S. sanctions. The new images matched a black-and-white image earlier tweeted by John Bolton, the U.S. national security adviser.
“Anyone who said the Adrian Darya-1 wasn’t headed to #Syria is in denial,” Bolton tweeted. “We can talk, but #Iran’s not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror!”
U.S. prosecutors in federal court allege the Adrian Darya’s owner is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Wednesday, the U.S. imposed new sanctions on an oil shipping network it alleged had ties to the Guard and offered up to $15 million for anyone with information that disrupts its paramilitary operations.
Brian Hook, the U.S. special envoy for Iran, also has reportedly emailed or texted captains of Iranian oil tankers, trying to scare them into not delivering their cargo.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration issued on Saturday a new warning to shippers about a potential threat off the coast of Yemen in the southern Red Sea.
“A maritime threat has been reported in the Red Sea in the vicinity of Yemen,” the warning read. “The nature of the event is potential increased hostilities that threaten maritime security.”
Large areas of war-torn Yemen are held by the country’s Houthi rebels, which are allied to Iran. Shipping in the Red Sea has been targeted previously by rebel attacks. On Wednesday, a warning went out after two small boats followed one ship in the region, but there’s been no other information about a new threat there.
Commander Joshua Frey, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said the Navy remained ready to maintain the safety of shippers in the region.
Separately Saturday, state TV said Iran seized a tugboat and its crew of 12 Filipinos near the Strait of Hormuz on suspicion of smuggling diesel fuel. The report did not elaborate. Frey said the U.S. Navy was aware of the report, but declined to comment further. In Manila, the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs said it was checking details of the reported.
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En las noticias más leídas del día, las autoridades cubanas le negaron la entrada a la isla al ex presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, cuando se dirigía a la entrega de un premio en honor al fallecido activista Oswaldo Payá. Enrique Peña Nieto afirmó que no hay marcha atrás en la liberación del mercado de gasolinas y en Estados Unidos 16 presidentes de empresas apoyan el impuesto fronterizo propuesto por Donald Trump.
1. No habrá marcha atrás en la liberación de gasolinas: Peña
El presidente, Enrique Peña Nieto afirmó que no hay marcha atrás en la liberación del mercado de gasolinas.
Según el mandatario, esta liberación traerá inversiones en infraestructura y construirá un escenario muy diferente, mejor. Las inversiones esperadas son alrededor de 16,000 millones de dólares. En una reunión con un grupo de comunicadores, se refirió a lo que pasará con el precio de la gasolina: “Tendremos un mecanismo de suavización que evitará fluctuaciones muy grandes de un día para otro”.
José Antonio Meade, secretario de Hacienda, ofreció detalles y aclaró que no habrá una banda de precios, porque no hay techo ni piso. En caso de que haya una tendencia de cambio fuerte en los precios, habrá un periodo de hasta 100 días para hacer la corrección en el precio.
No habrá marcha atrás en la liberación de gasolinas: Peña. Ver nota.
2. Cuba no le permite la entrada a Felipe Calderón
El día de hoy autoridades de Cuba le prohibieron la entrada a la isla al ex presidente de México, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, donde asistiría como invitado a la entrega de un premio en honor al fallecido activista Oswaldo Payá.
En su intento por viajar a Cuba, la aerolínea mexicana, Aeroméxico le comunicó al ex mandatario mexicano que la inmigración de Cuba le había emitido un comunicado en que le informaba que “el pasajero FCH no estaba autorizado para entrar a Cuba y solicitaba que no fuera documentado en vuelo AM451”. Calderón agradeció a la aerolínea sus atenciones.
El ex presidente chileno, Sebastián Piñera denunció también que el Gobierno cubano impidió a Mariana Aylwin viajar hacia la isla. “Un nuevo atropello a las libertades y derechos en Cuba. Mariana: todo nuestro apoyo”, sentenció el ex mandatario en su cuenta de Twitter.
Cuba no le permite la entrada a Felipe Calderón. Ver nota.
3. Al ahorrar busque proteger su dinero de la inflación
Cuando hablamos de ahorro, en la mayoría de los mexicanos persiste cierto escepticismo hacia los instrumentos formales, a tal grado, que sólo 15.1% de la población ahorra en este tipo de productos, mientras que 61.3% pierde dinero ya sea por ahorrar parcial o totalmente en instrumentos informales, de acuerdo con la Encuesta Nacional de Inclusión Financiera 2015.
Al guardar tu dinero en instrumentos informales, pierde poder adquisitivo debido al efecto de la inflación; dicho de otra manera: por el alza de precios, puedes comprar menos con tu dinero si éste no incrementa en la misma proporción.
Debido a esto, es recomendable ahorrar en instrumentos formales, pero no sólo eso, sino buscar productos de ahorro e inversión que generen rendimientos anuales equivalentes, al menos, a la inflación de cada año. Si quieres saber de qué forma lograr esto, entra a la nota completa.
Al ahorrar busque proteger su dinero de la inflación. Ver nota.
4. Unos 16 CEO de EU le dan el sí al impuesto fronterizo
Al menos 16 presidentes ejecutivos de empresas estadounidenses, entre las que destacan Boeing Co, Caterpillar Inc y General Electric Co, instaron al Congreso estadounidense a aprobar una amplia revisión del código tributario, incluyendo un polémico impuesto fronterizo.
Fue en una carta enviada a los líderes republicanos y demócratas del Congreso, en donde los ejecutivos dijeron que el impuesto fronterizo propuesto por los republicanos hará a los productos manufacturados en Estados Unidos más competitivos localmente y en el exterior, ya que los artículos importados enfrentarían en mismo nivel impositivo.
El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano Paul Ryan, propuso bajar el impuesto a las ganancias corporativas a 20% desde un 35%, aplicando un tributo de 20% sobre las importaciones y excluyendo los ingresos por exportaciones de las ganancias imponibles.
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