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The Islamic State (IS) group may be linked to bomb blasts which killed 321 people and wounded 500 in Sri Lanka, the country’s prime minister has said.
Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government believed Sunday’s attacks could not have been carried out without links to terror groups abroad.
The first mass funeral was held on Tuesday as Sri Lanka marked an official day of mourning for the victims.
A state of emergency remains in effect to prevent further attacks.
Police have now detained 40 suspects in connection with the attack, all of whom were Sri Lankan nationals.
“This could not have been done just locally,” Mr Wickremesinghe said. “There had been training given and a coordination which we are not seeing earlier.”
The Islamic State (IS) group claimed the attack on Tuesday via its Amaq news outlet. Sri Lanka’s government had previously blamed the blasts on local Islamist group National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ).
Eight blasts were reported, including at three churches during Easter services.
Three hotels in the capital, Colombo – the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand – were also targeted.
An attack on a fourth hotel on Sunday was foiled, Mr Wickremesinghe said. He did not name the hotel. He also warned that further militants and explosives could still be “out there” following the attack.
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The death toll has risen to 321 with around 500 injured
Who could be behind the attacks?
IS said it had “targeted nationals of the crusader alliance [anti-IS US-led coalition] and Christians in Sri Lanka”.
It provided no evidence for the claim but shared an image on social media of eight men purported to be behind the attack.
The group’s last stronghold was declared “freed” by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 23 March.
Although the declaration marked the last territorial victory over the group’s caliphate, experts warn it does not mean the end of IS or its ideology.
Mr Wickremesinghe said that only Sri Lankan nationals had been arrested in connection with the attack so far, but that some of the attackers may have travelled abroad before the bombings.
”We, certainly the security apparatus, are of the view there are foreign links and some of the evidence points to that. So if the IS (Islamic State) claimed it, we will be following up on this claim,” he added.
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Authorities have declared a state of emergency
Earlier, the country’s defence minister Ruwan Wijewardene told parliament that NTJ was linked to another radical Islamist group he named as JMI,.
NTJ has no history of large-scale attacks but came to prominence last year when it was blamed for damaging Buddhist statues. The group has not said it carried out Sunday’s bombings.
Sunday’s attacks have highlighted rifts in Sri Lanka’s leadership, after it emerged that authorities were warned about an imminent threat from the NTJ jihadist group.
But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the cabinet were not informed, ministers said.
‘Targets in line with IS ideology’
Analysis by BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera
The Sri Lankan government has said locals from two known groups carried out the attack. But from the start – because of the scale and sophistication of it – they have also said they thought there was an external role.
In the past, IS has sometimes claimed attacks that it was not involved in or which it simply inspired. But the details from so-called Islamic State would seem to back up the government’s assessment.
The choice of targets is much more in line with IS ideology than with the traditional types of communal violence seen in Sri Lanka.
There are still questions – did the local men affiliate themselves to IS or receive direct support? Did they travel to Syria or to other countries? The Sri Lankan government has said it believes some of them had spent time abroad, but how significant was that to the plot?
Answering questions like these will be important not just for Sri Lanka but other countries as they try and understand whether other relatively small, locally focused groups could be capable of transforming a threat into violence on such a massive scale.
Who were the victims?
Most of those who died were Sri Lankan nationals, including scores of Christians attending Easter Sunday church services.
One of the first victims to be publicly identified was Sri Lankan celebrity chef Shantha Mayadunne and her daughter Nisanga Mayadunne, who had posted a picture of the family having breakfast in the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo shortly before the deadly blast.
Sri Lankan officials said 38 foreign nationals were among the dead, with another 14 unaccounted for. The death toll includes at least eight British citizens and at least 10 Indian nationals.
Media captionMonique Allen was killed in one of the Sri Lanka attacks
The mass funeral for about 30 victims took place at St Sebastian’s church in Negombo, north of Colombo, which was one of the places targeted in Sunday’s blasts. Another funeral service was scheduled for later on Tuesday.
A moment of silence was also observed at 08:30 on Tuesday, reflecting the time the first of six bombs detonated. Flags were lowered to half-mast and people, many of them in tears, bowed their heads in respect.
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A lengthy hand recount of ballots conducted as part of the Arizona GOP-led Senate’s review of Maricopa County’s 2020 ballots and election equipment affirmed the results certified nearly 10 months ago: President Joe Biden won Arizona.
That outcome appears in a draft copy of the report about the ballot review, which was obtained by CBS News Thursday night via a public records request with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.
According to the draft, Mr. Biden’s approximately 45,000-vote victory in the state’s most populous county even expanded by a few hundred votes.
The report surfaced less than 24 hours before the Arizona Senate is set to go over the report with the contractors, led by cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas, who were hired to conduct the review.
Republican Arizona Senate President Karen Fann has not responded to a request for comment. An audit spokeswoman noted that more of the report will be released Friday. A separate audit spokesman told KJZZ, which posted similar documents of the draft report, that “it’s not the final report, but it’s close.”
“This means the tabulation equipment counted the ballots as they were designed to do, and the results reflect the will of the voters,” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, said in a statement. “That should be the end of the story. Everything else is just noise.”
While the draft report raises concerns issues with the election administration, it asserts that votes were counted accurately.
“What has been found is both encouraging and alarming. On the positive side there were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots provided and the official canvass results for the County,” the draft report says.
Still, the authors criticized the county’s recordkeeping, cited issues with some of its election systems and proposed some reforms to the state’s election processes. The contractors who wrote the report chided Maricopa County for not fully cooperating with the process and said that this prevented “a complete audit.”
“Had Maricopa County chosen to cooperate with the audit, the majority of these obstacles would have easily been overcome,” the draft report says.
One of the biggest proponents of the ballot review, GOP state Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted that she had spoken with Doug Logan, Cyber Ninjas CEO, and he noted that the leaked draft is “only a partial report” and said “tomorrow’s hearings will render findings of great consequence.”
I just talked to Doug Logan via phone. The leaked draft is simply a draft and is only a partial report. Tomorrow’s hearing will render findings of great consequence. Then he said “God is in control”. Please pray for our audit team tomorrow as they present their findings.
Sellers said in his statement, which was released before the draft report, “How could we cooperate with an inquiry that was led by people who have no idea how to run any election, let alone one in the second largest voting district in the United States?”
“The Board approved the election plan, we hired and supported our election experts, and they produced a well-run and accurate election in accordance with Arizona law,” he added.
Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who is running for governor, called the review a waste of resources.
“The Cyber Ninjas embarrassed Arizona for months, violated voters’ trust, refused transparency, and stuck AZ taxpayers with a multi-million dollar bill. What’d they find? Biden won,” Hobbs tweeted. “The so-called leaders who allowed and encouraged this need to be held accountable in 2022.”
House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to talk damage from the tropical depression and the debate on Capitol Hill on reforming police departments.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise on Monday blasted Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for “quietly embracing” the movement to defund the police while avoiding to take a clear position on the issue.
“You’re even seeing on the left the debate, where the mayor of New York City and the governor of New York are not [avoiding the issue]” the Louisiana Republican told “Fox & Friends.”
“Joe Biden is trying to play both ends of this and then hide out in his bunker and not directly address it, while yet trying to quietly embrace the defund movement.”
Scalise made the comments after a recent push to rein in law enforcement in the wake of the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
The calls to defund police departments come as uniformed law enforcement officers across the nation suffered injuries during George Floyd protests that turned violent in some cities, with officers being pelted with bricks and bottles.
A police officer in Las Vegas was shot in the head, while police in New York and New Jersey were injured by bricks and rocks. In Los Angeles, one officer suffered a fractured skull and officers in other cities suffered injuries in hit-and-run incidents.
Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer, Maria Bartiromo and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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(CNN)As a drunk Jennifer Hart drove her six adopted children in their family SUV, her wife, Sarah, sat in the passenger seat looking up different ways to end a life.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years.
The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a “positive, healing environment.” Newsom said Monday it’s an outgrowth of his opposition to what he believes is a deeply flawed system, one that “gets my blood boiling.”
“The prospect of your ending up on death row has more to do with your wealth and race than it does your guilt or innocence,” he said. “We talk about justice, we preach justice, but as a nation, we don’t practice it on death row.”
California, which last carried out an execution in 2006, is one of 28 states that maintain death rows, along with the U.S. government, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. While other states like Illinois have abolished executions, California is merging its condemned inmates into the general prison population with no expectation that any will face execution anytime in the near future.
“We are starting the process of closing death row to repurpose and transform the current housing units into something innovative and anchored in rehabilitation,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Vicky Waters told The Associated Press.
Oregon similarly transferred its much smaller condemned population to other inmate housing two years ago.
Newsom, a Democrat, imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019 and shut down the state’s execution chamber at San Quentin, north of San Francisco. Now his administration is turning on its head a 2016 voter-approved initiative intended to expedite executions by capitalizing on one provision that allowed inmates to be moved off death row.
“The underlying motive of the administration is to mainstream as many of these condemned murderers as possible,” said Michael Rushford, president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, which backed the initiative. “Our objective was to speed up the process.”
He added he doesn’t think victims are happy with the administration’s decision.
“They’re moving condemned murderers into facilities that are going to make their lives better and offer them more amenities, while the victims still mourn the death of their family member,” Rushford said.
Newsom said voters approved the move, though he doubts many understood the provision.
“When they affirmed the death penalty, they also affirmed a responsibility … to actually move that population on death row out and to get them working,” Newsom said.
Newsom is “pouring more salt on the wounds of the victims,” countered Crime Victims United of California president Nina Salarno. “He’s usurping the law.’”
Actor Mike Farrell, president of the group Death Penalty Focus, which opposes the death penalty, said he is thrilled with the idea but concerned by transfers he said could turn condemned inmates into “very ripe targets” for other prisoners.
“We’re talking about people who have been in a specific kind of isolation for decades,” living with the prospect of execution, Farrell said. “To simply move them without very serious consideration of their needs, their personal issues, their psychological state and their safety would be a hideous mistake.”
Corrections officials began a voluntary two-year pilot program in January 2020 that as of Friday had moved 116 of the state’s 673 condemned male inmates to one of seven other prisons that have maximum security facilities and are surrounded by lethal electrified fences.
They intend to submit permanent proposed regulations within weeks that would make the transfers mandatory and “allow for the repurposing of all death row housing units,” Waters said.
The ballot measure approved six years ago also required condemned inmates to participate in prison jobs, with 70% of the money going for restitution to their victims, and corrections officials said that’s their goal with the transfers. By the end of last year, more than $49,000 in restitution had been collected under the pilot program.
Newsom’s proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 seeks $1.5 million to find new uses for the vacant condemned housing.
It notes that death row and its supporting activities are in the same area as facilities used for rehabilitation programs for medium-security San Quentin inmates. The money would be used to hire a consultant to “develop options for (the) space focused on creating a positive, healing environment to provide increased rehabilitative, educational and health care opportunities.”
San Quentin’s never-used $853,000 execution chamber is in a separate area of the prison, and there are no plans to “repurpose” that area, Waters said.
California voters supported the death penalty in 2012 and 2016. An advisory panel to Newsom and lawmakers, the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, in November became the latest to recommend repealing the death penalty, calling it “beyond repair.”
Under the state’s transfer program, condemned inmates moved to other prisons can be housed in solitary or disciplinary confinement if officials decide they cannot be safely housed with others, although they are supposed to be interspersed with other inmates. Inmates on death row are housed one to a cell, but the transferred inmates can be housed with others if it’s deemed safe.
“There have been no safety concerns, and no major disciplinary issues have occurred,” Waters said.
When it comes to jobs and other rehabilitation activities, condemned inmates outside death row are treated similarly to inmates serving sentences of life without parole. That includes a variety of jobs such as maintenance and administrative duties, according to prison officials.
The condemned inmates are counted more often and are constantly supervised during activities, officials said.
Before they are moved, they are “carefully screened to determine whether they can safely participate in the program,” according to the department. That includes things like each inmate’s security level, medical, psychiatric and other needs, their behavior, safety concerns and notoriety.
Female condemned inmates are housed at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. They can transfer to less restrictive housing within the same prison, and eight of the 21 have done so.
LEAGUE CITY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) – The hunt is on in Texas for a man who allegedly stabbed a restaurant manager several times after he was told to wear a mask inside a Jack in the Box restaurant.
According to the police in League City, James Schulz, 53, entered the restaurant on the evening of March 17 without a face mask. He was requested to wear one to be served or use the drive thru.
The customer “belligerently refused,” League City Police Chief Gary Ratliff said, and accused the restaurant staff of not wanting to serve him because he was homeless.
Police say Schulz then walked toward the door, and as the manager turned his back, he allegedly ran behind the manager, tackled him and stabbed him multiple times in the arm and upper torso with what appeared to be a pocketknife.
Several co-workers ran to the manager’s aid and Schulz fled the restaurant on a bicycle. The manager was taken to an area hospital with three stab wounds, was treated and released.
Police are still looking for Schulz, who has been described as a transient “bearded, white male” living in the area.
Ratliff said people should respect the mask policies of local businesses.
“All I would ask is that people respect the opinions and the policies of these businesses,” Ratliff said. “You can refuse to do business at those locations, or whatever it is you choose to do, but there’s no reason to resort to aggressive behavior like this.”
Manchin last week published an op-ed urging his party to slow down its work on the bill it aims to pass along party lines using the budget reconciliation process, which can evade a GOP filibuster but will need every Democratic vote in a 50-50 Senate. Given his concerns about debt and inflation, Manchin wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he “won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity.” Those comments followed a vow from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) that she would not support $3.5 trillion.
Schumer conceded on Wednesday that moderate Democratic senators like Manchin and Sinema don’t see eye-to-eye with progressives like Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Sanders sought as much as $6 trillion in spending and indicated on Wednesday he would not climb down any further: “That $3.5 trillion is already the result of a major, major compromise.”
Yet with Manchin and Sinema publicly resisting that figure and several other moderate Democrats not yet publicly committed to it, Schumer (D-N.Y.) is under pressure to concoct a compromise on a proposal that most in the party argue cannot be further slimmed. As envisioned now, the jobs and families plan will expand the safety net, take climate action, raise taxes on the wealthy and continue a child tax credit that’s been a linchpin of Democrats’ coronavirus stimulus bill. But those programs won’t last as long as Sanders and other liberals would like them to.
Republicans are reveling in Democrats internal debate, hoping their entreaties to Manchin and Sinema can pay off and narrow Democrats’ ultimate spending ambitions. At an event in Kentucky on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up how the GOP is viewing the two moderates who have veto power over the bill.
“I pray for them every night. I wish them well. We give them lots of love,” McConnell said.
But Schumer enjoys a close relationship with Manchin, and Democrats are not yet alarmed about their internal whip count after Schumer pushed through a $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid law as well as a $550 billion infrastructure bill with lockstep Democratic support. Describing Schumer’s approach, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said “he lets that messy process move forward with a real deadline, and he gets us to the end and he gets those votes from all of us.”
“We’re going to all come together to get something big done,” Schumer said Wednesday. “It’s our intention to have every part of the Biden plan in a big and robust way.”
Leaders at two dating app giants in Texas — Match Group and Bumble — have moved to set up funds to aid people affected by the state’s new abortion ban. Here, abortion-rights supporters march near the Texas state capitol in Austin earlier this year.
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Leaders at two dating app giants in Texas — Match Group and Bumble — have moved to set up funds to aid people affected by the state’s new abortion ban. Here, abortion-rights supporters march near the Texas state capitol in Austin earlier this year.
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The dating-app company Bumble has created a special fund to help people affected by Texas’ new abortion ban. The CEO of Match, which owns Tinder, is creating a similar fund. Both companies are based in Texas and are led by women.
“I’m not speaking about this as the CEO of a company,” Match Group CEO Shar Dubey said in a note sent to employees Thursday night. “I’m speaking about this personally, as a mother and a woman who has fervently cared about women’s rights, including the very fundamental right of choice over her body.”
“I immigrated to America from India over 25 years ago and I have to say, as a Texas resident, I am shocked that I now live in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world, including India,” Dubey added.
Match Group says its leader, not the company itself, is creating the fund, which would provide aid to any Match employees in Texas who are forced by the new abortion restriction to seek care outside the state. Dallas-based Match owns Tinder, Plenty of Fish and a dozen other apps.
Dubey’s message came the day after Bumble, which is based in Austin, said it was setting up a fund to support reproductive rights.
“Bumble has created a relief fund supporting the reproductive rights of women and people across the gender spectrum who seek abortions in Texas,” the company said as the state’s new abortion law took effect this week.
“We’ll keep fighting against regressive laws like” the one in Texas, the company said, noting that it was founded by women and is led by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd.
Match Group CEO Dubey also called the Texas law regressive — a “big step back in women’s rights,” she said, noting that it does not allow exceptions to the ban for victims of rape or incest.
Bumble’s tweet announcement of its fund has met with a mixed response. Some commenters asked the company to reconsider the move — but others said the company should move out of Texas altogether.
Rep. John Ratcliffe confirms his questions to former FBI general counsel James Baker uncovered the claims first reported by the New York Times; Catherine Herridge has the details.
The former top lawyer at the FBI has been under federal investigation for leaking to the media, a letter from House Republicans revealed Tuesday.
The letter from GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows cited the transcript of a congressional interview with former General Counsel James Baker and his lawyer last fall, where the probe conducted by seasoned U.S. Attorney John Durham was confirmed.
“You may or may not know, [Baker has] been the subject of a leak investigation … a criminal leak investigation that’s still active at the Justice Department,” lawyer Daniel Levin told lawmakers, as he pushed back on questions about his client’s conversations with reporters.
Jordan and Meadows’ letter was sent to Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, and requested additional information about the probe later this month.
“As we continue our oversight and investigative work, we felt it prudent to write to you seeking an update. Without being apprised of the contours of your leak investigation and Baker’s role, we run the risk of inadvertently interfering with your prosecutorial plans,” they wrote.
James A. Baker, former general counsel for the FBI, was revealed to be the subject of a leak probe. (Michigan Law)
The transcript of the closed-door interview and the letter do not include details explaining why the investigation is being led out of the Connecticut office. The status of the investigation is not publicly known.
But the disclosure marks the latest confirmation of a leak investigation involving FBI figures who have since left the bureau.
Last year, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw his leak case referred to the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. McCabe was fired for lying to federal investigators about his role in a media leak regarding the Clinton Foundation on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
The letter from the GOP lawmakers cited other concerns that arose as part of their own investigation when Republicans controlled the House:
“The Committees learned that in some instances, high-ranking DOJ and FBI officials, including the FBI General Counsel James Baker and DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, took the self-described ‘unusual’ step of inserting themselves into the evidentiary chain of custody.”
Documents reviewed by Fox News indicate that Ohr became the back-channel between Christopher Steele, author of the controversial and unverified anti-Trump “dossier,” and the FBI after he was fired by the bureau for lying about his contact with the media. According to a January 2018 memo by House Intelligence Committee Republicans on government surveillance practices, “Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations — an authorized disclosure of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, Mother Jones article.”
According to the DOJ website, Durham is a seasoned prosecutor who has been tapped by Republicans and Democrats to handle high-profile, national controversies.
Durham has held various positions in the District of Connecticut for 35 years, prosecuting organized and violent crime, as well as public corruption. From 2008 to 2012, he also served as the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he investigated the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes of senior Al Qaeda operatives and, prior to that, he reviewed alleged criminal wrongdoing by FBI personnel in Boston connected to the Whitey Bulger case.
Fox News is reaching out to FBI and Baker, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s office in Connecticut, for comment on the new letter.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw scenes of desperation and violence inside and outside of Kabul’s airport, has coincided with a drop in President Biden’s approval rating. Biden has fiercely defended the evacuation.
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The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw scenes of desperation and violence inside and outside of Kabul’s airport, has coincided with a drop in President Biden’s approval rating. Biden has fiercely defended the evacuation.
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Amid the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden’s approval rating slid to just 43% in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
That is down 6 percentage points from a survey conducted in July and is the lowest mark for Biden in the poll since taking office. The decline is principally due to independents — just 36% of them approve of the job he’s doing, a 10-point drop.
That a majority of independents now disapprove of his performance is bad news for Biden and Democrats. They’re a key swing group, one Biden won in 2020 but who now think he’s off track.
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Biden hopes his decision on the withdrawal looks better as time goes by, but for now, he has taken a political hit.
It took seven months, but this is now a polarizing presidency
Republicans have struggled to drum up the kind of animus toward Biden as they did for, say, Hillary Clinton. But now, seven months into his presidency, they seem to have found what to grind their teeth about, from cultural and economic issues to Afghanistan.
A whopping 41% of U.S. adults, including 82% of Republicans, now strongly disapprove of the job Biden is doing. That is similar to the unprecedented enmity shown toward President Donald Trump.
Afghanistan is seen as a failure all around, but refugees are welcome at this point
On Afghanistan, 61% disapprove of Biden’s handling of the withdrawal, including 71% of independents. A majority also disapproves of Biden’s handling of foreign policy in general.
Still, an overwhelming 71% think the war in Afghanistan was a failure, and while they disapprove of how Biden handled the exit, they’re split on what they think should have been done — 38% think the U.S. should have withdrawn but left some troops, 37% think it should have pulled out completely, and just 10% said no troops should be withdrawn.
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Only 29% of respondents think the U.S. has a duty to continue its involvement in the beleaguered nation; 61% think it needs to be up to Afghans to determine their future without U.S. involvement.
But they do seem to feel the U.S. has a duty to Afghan refugees and visa holders. Nearly three-quarters — 73% — say they support allowing refugees to come to the United States.
While that support seems to be broad, it has become a flashpoint and split Republicans; some are fighting for Afghans to be resettled while others, like Trump, are using nativist rhetoric in calling to keep them out of the country.
The survey reflects that as well — 49% of Republicans approve of refugees coming to the U.S., while 44% do not.
The U.S. has a long history of not being very welcoming to refugees. Gallup found:
In 2015, 60% were against accepting Syrian refugees.
In 1979, just a third were supportive of bringing in Vietnamese refugees after the war there.
In 1946, after World War II, just 16% supported accepting European refugees, including Jews — after the Holocaust.
The blame game
As for which president they blame for that failure, that mostly splits along partisan lines. Overall, the most — 36% — goes to former Republican President George W. Bush, who sent troops to Afghanistan in the first place. The Taliban were largely run out of power, but al-Qaida leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden remained on the lam.
Democrats pointed to Bush and Trump, who negotiated the exit deal with the Taliban without the then-Afghan government at the table.
Republicans mostly blamed Biden and former President Barack Obama. Obama escalated involvement in Afghanistan after he felt Bush ignored it for the wrong war — in Iraq. Obama announced bin Laden had been killed in 2011, drew down U.S. troops significantly and vowed to withdraw all from Afghanistan, but never entirely did so.
Domestic terrorism is seen as the bigger threat
With the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks coming up this month, a plurality — 44% — thinks the country is less safe than it was before the attacks, while 30% say it’s safer and a quarter say about the same.
Politics is at play in this question as well, however. Two-thirds of Republicans said the U.S. is less safe.
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Overall, more believe domestic terrorism — 49% — is a greater threat than international terrorism — 41%.
Almost 7 in 10 Republicans said it was international terrorism, though, that was the bigger threat, while 7 in 10 Democrats said it was domestic terrorism.
Still, the overall number is a big shift from 2002 after 9/11 when by a 56%-to-30% margin in a CBS News poll, people said the opposite.
The survey of 1,241 adults was conducted Aug. 26 through Tuesday, via landline and mobile telephones. Survey questions were available in English and Spanish. The margin of error of the full sample was 3.8 percentage points. The margins of error for the subsets of Democrats, Republicans and independents were all larger.
Rabat – With over 40 companies in an area of 130,000 square meters, Technopolis is a space dedicated to high-technology foreign companies, in the fields of electronics, biotechnology, nanotechnology and other services, only a few minutes away from the Moroccan capital city center. Created in 2008, the park will undergo two expansion phases and is seeking new partners interested in setting shop, including Brazilian companies.
“We have two industrial zones. One of them is a free zone, open to companies that export at least 8% of their production. The other follows the normal legislation and is open to those interested in establishing themselves here,” explained Hnya Brick, Project and Development Director at Technopolis, to a group of Brazilian journalists who visited the place this Monday (27). The free area inside Technopolis is the most recent in the country, set up less than one year ago, and the first companies in this part of the park should be established by the end of 2014.
Brick notes that one of the main attracting factors for companies to come to Technopolis are the human resources from the universities located in the region. “We have partnerships with three universities, one private, the International University of Rabat, and two public, University of Souissi and University Mohammed V,” she emphasized. With the partnership, as well as technicians and engineers, the companies may also benefit from these institutions’ research and development laboratories.
Among the companies that have already established themselves at Technopolis are known names in Brazil, such as Nestlé, Dell, Accenture, HP, Bosch and BNP Paribas. The procedure for moving into Technopolis is quite flexible, and companies may customize their contracts with the park administration, choosing whether to purchase or rent the land, negotiate building construction and the duration period.
The Moroccan state-owned long-term investment fund manager, CDG (Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion), is responsible for the Technopolis construction costs. According to Brick, the companies at the park do not reveal their revenues, but information from the Technopolis website indicates that from it’s opening until 2015, the park is expected to contribute with over US$ 606 million to the Moroccan GDP.
The second phase of the expansion project includes the construction of another 13,000 square meters. Currently 8,000 people work at Technopolis.
Automotive systems
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Lear: sales expected to reach US$ 250 million this year
One of the firms to establish themselves at Technopolis is Lear Corporation, of automotive systems, particularly seating and electrical distribution, whose clients include the great German carmakers. The North American company opened their Moroccan plant at the Rabat park in 2011.
“In our first year revenues added up to US$ 20 million; in 2012, US$ 100 million; last year we reached US$ 150 million and we expect to sell US$ 250 million this year,” revealed Aissam Chaouki, the Rabat Factory Manager.
Chaouki says that 70% of the Moroccan production is sold to BMW. Other clients of the Arab branch include Volkswagen, Jaguar, Audi, Land Rover and Renault-Nissan.
“We chose Morocco because of the country’s economic development and political stability. From here we are able to supply the main carmakers in Europe,” he emphasized. In august last year, the company opened a second plant in the company, in the city of Kenitra.
An interesting fact about Lear in Morocco is that of the 700 employees working at the factory, over 90% are women. “They are more precise,” says the manager. Among the engineers, 15% are women.
Investment opportunities
With two main trade partners, France and Spain, Morocco wishes to diversify the country’s investment sources and aims to include countries like Brazil. Among the strategies the Arab country is employing to attract Brazilian attention is to promote business opportunities using the national press. The government is also seeking to approach Brazilian entrepreneurs, by organizing workshops and a business trip with Brazilian executives to Morocco, planned for this year.
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For Fihri, Africa is the future
“The message we are sending to Brazilians is that Africa is the future, it is a green field (to be developed), and we can help form partnerships between Brazilian and Moroccan companies,” stated Ahmed Fihri, General-Manager at the Moroccan Investment Development Agency (AMDI).
According to him, Morocco wishes to develop partnerships in sectors such as agribusiness, aerospace technology and renewable energy. “Morocco may be a platform to access other countries in the Middle East and North Africa,” said Fihri.
Driss Sekkat, Business Development Manager at the AMDI, noted the joint efforts of his agency with the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp). “The Chamber is doing an excellent job,” he stated, about the help offered by the entity in introducing the Brazilian market.
For the Brazilian ambassador in Rabat, Frederico Meyer, there are good business opportunities for Brazilians in Morocco. “Bombardier is here, and even so Royal Air Maroc purchased two Embraer 190 aircrafts,” he noted, referring to the Canadian and Brazilian jet companies. According to Meyer, Embraer’s representation in the fleet of the Moroccan company, which started direct flights between São Paulo and Casablanca at the end of 2013, may still increase.
“Royal Air Maroc announced last year it was planning to buy 10 to 15 airplanes. There are three competitors, the Russians, Canadians and Brazilians, and we are well set in the competition,” said Meyer.
*The journalist travelled at the invitation of the Moroccan Investment Development Agency (AMDI)
President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters in October that if he really wanted to overcome Joe Biden’s fundraising supremacy, he could call the heads of any major company and they would come to his aid.
“All I have to do is call up the head of every Wall Street firm, head of every major company, the head of every major energy company, ‘Do me a favor, send me $10 million for my campaign.’ Yes, sir,'” Trump told the crowd of supporters in Arizona in October.
However, new Federal Election Commission records, tracking fundraising from Oct. 15 to Nov. 23, show that wealthy GOP financiers largely did not help Trump in the final weeks of the bruising battle with Biden as he dropped in the polls or parachute in millions toward his current legal fight.
It’s the latest sign that many executives could be ready to work with President-elect Biden. In the case of the legal fight, some of the leading party donors had previously maxed out to the campaign and Republican National Committee, leaving Trump’s political team unable to turn to them for financial assistance.
The Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, his two joint fundraising committees and the president’s leadership committee, Save America, raised over $200 million since Election Day. Save America will likely be used to fund any political initiatives Trump is planning after he leaves the White House, including possibly running for president again in 2024.
Trump’s fraud pitch, while apparently not moving many business leaders, appears to be resonating with small-dollar donors, who may be convinced that their money is going expressly to the fraud fight, and likely provided much of the money raised in the period.
Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of private equity behemoth Blackstone, and a longtime Trump confidant, did not contribute to any pro-Trump groups in recent weeks, according to election filings. Instead, he gave $15 million in November to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
As CNBC reported, Schwarzman was one of the many Wall Street executives who walked away from helping Trump in the final stretch of the election. Schwarzman said in late November that, after supporting the president for the past four years, he’s now ready to move on to “help President-elect Biden and his team as they confront the significant challenges of rebuilding our post-Covid economy.”
Since Election Day on Nov. 3, the Trump campaign has initiated dozens of legal fights in states where Biden has been deemed the winner, including in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia. Trump and his allies have lost or withdrawn essentially every court case related to the election, failing to invalidate any votes for Biden.
Attorney General William Barr this week said that the Justice Department has found no evidence of widespread ballot fraud, much less any fraud that would overturn Biden’s projected victory. The campaign spent millions on legal fees linked to the “recount,” filings say, including $600,000 that went toward the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres. The firm was founded by longtime Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
But Reuters reported last month that large chunks of contributions are, in fact, not going toward efforts to overturn the election results and instead are going to Save America or the Republican National Committee. The fine print on the Trump election defense fund donation page says that “75% of each contribution [goes] first to Save America, up to $5,000,” suggesting that a majority of contributions to the legal matter actually go to Trump’s committee for other purposes.
“We enjoy unprecedented financial support from an ever-growing group of investors, large and small, because President Trump and Republicans continue to fight on the issues that a majority of Americans care about, most notably ensuring the integrity of our elections and defending the Republican majority in the Senate,” Cassie Smedile, RNC deputy communications director, said in a statement.
Representatives for the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump donor Dan Eberhart told CNBC that many Republican business leaders were not interested in investing in a candidate that had flailing public poll numbers in the final weeks of the election or his next moves in politics. By Election Day, a Real Clear Politics national polling average had Biden up by seven points.
“Only the crazies still believe,” Eberhart told CNBC when discussing who is still giving to Trump. “This is grassroots, true believers,” he added.
A former senior campaign official told CNBC on the condition of anonymity that big-money donors that hadn’t yet given to the cause had shied away by the end of the campaign because the president wasn’t taking part in certain in-person events because of the coronavirus pandemic and some executives wouldn’t attend if he wasn’t there. This person declined to be named in order to speak freely.
Some GOP megadonors had given big earlier in the election cycle toward Trump’s joint fundraising committees, which allow donors to write six-figure checks, or pro-Trump super PACs, which accept an unlimited amount of money from contributors. Most recently, many decided to spend millions on the battles being waged in both the Senate and House campaigns.
Of the top Republican big-money donors that, combined, gave over $500 million throughout the 2020 election cycle to Trump and other GOP campaigns, only a handful gave to entities supporting the commander-in-chief over the six-week period from mid-October to late November.
Those few Republican megadonors that did spend heavily for the president in the final weeks of the election include casino magnates Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, who contributed a combined $15 million to the pro-Trump PAC Preserve America. Bernard Marcus, a co-founder of Home Depot, gave a $5 million contribution to the same PAC. That PAC is currently not involved with the president’s legal battle, and records show that those big donations came in the final two weeks of October.
The new records show that Miriam Adelson recently gave $106,500 to the RNC, as did Marcus. The Adelsons finished the 2020 election cycle donating at least $200 million toward Republican efforts.
Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, the founders of shipping supply company Uline and longtime Trump supporters, also virtually disappeared in financially assisting the president, recording minimal contributions since mid-October. The couple, who recently tested positive for the coronavirus, had previously spent over $65 million on GOP-related causes this cycle.
Timothy Mellon, the chairman of Pan Am Systems, gave $5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund in November. Pro-Trump groups saw very little from him over that same period, after he gave millions to the president’s cause earlier in the campaign.
In September, Ike Perlmutter, chairman of Marvel Entertainment and a reputed outside advisor to Trump on the Department of Veterans Affairs, combined with his wife to give $21 million to America First Action. Since mid-October, records show no sign of the Perlmutters spending in the latter stages of the campaign to help Trump.
Even some of Trump’s friends who supported him in the past seem to be distancing themselves from the president’s future endeavors. Ronald Lauder, the heir of Estee Lauder Companies and a friend of Trump’s, donated $3.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund in October. The most recent records show that since the late stages of the election, he has not given anything to the president.
CNBC reported in August that Lauder has gone quiet on supporting Trump.
The rabbi who heroically survived the deadly shooting at Chabad of Poway on Saturday addressed members of the media and offered words of courage and inspiration. Speaking in front of Chabad of Poway on Sunday afternoon near San Diego, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said, “We need to battle darkness with light,” and thanked President Trump for giving him a personal phone call following the fatal shooting.
“I see a sight that is indescribable,” the rabbi recalled of running into the gunman. “Here is a young man with a rifle, pointing right at me. And I look at him. He has sunglasses on. I couldn’t see his eyes. I couldn’t see his soul. I froze.” Goldstein ended up losing a couple of fingers in the shooting, raising his bandaged hands to the camera throughout his press conference.
Police say the suspect, John Earnest, 19, opened fire on worshippers celebrating the last day of Passover at Chabad of Poway, leaving one woman dead and three others injured. The woman who was killed has been identified as Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, who friends said was shot while trying to protect the rabbi. She was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.
“For those of us who know Lori, she is a person of unconditional love,” Goldstein said. “I have known her for close to 25 years and she was a pioneer member of our congregation. She used to work for Wells Fargo … and she helped secure us the loan for [the synagogue]. She was the one who always went out of her way for those in need.”
“I walk into the lobby and I see Laurie laying on the floor unconscious,” the rabbi recounted. “And her dear husband, Dr. Howard Kay, who’s like a brother to me, is trying to resuscitate her and he faints, and he’s lying on the floor there next to his wife. And then their daughter Hannah comes out screaming, ‘Daddy, Mommy what’s going on?’ It’s the most heart wrenching sight I could have seen. I was frozen in time.”
Mourners and well wishers leave flowers at a make-shift memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway Synagogue on Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif., one day after a teenage gunman opened fire, killing one person and injuring three others including the rabbi as worshippers marked the final day of Passover, authorities said.
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The shooting occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning, when Earnest allegedly entered Chabad of Poway and opened fire on worshippers with what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said Saturday. After engaging in a firefight with an off-duty Border Patrol agent, Earnest fled the scene and later called police to turn himself in, Gore said.
“Miraculously, just miraculously, the gun jammed,” Goldstein said of Saturday’s attack. “After the shooter left, this terrorist left, I turn around to assess the situation … I said ‘I gotta do something’ — I got up on a chair, right there and I looked at our congregation and I said ‘We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall, we will not let anyone or anything take us down. Terrorism like this will not take us down. We just came from Passover at the savior table. We sang the song that God has protected us, that every generation they rise up against us but God will protect us. Yesterday this horrific terrible event that occurred here in my own interpretation, Laurie took the bullet for all of us, she died to protect all of us. She didn’t deserve to die.”
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein seen during a press conference Sun., April 28, 2019.
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Goldstein suggested that the United States possible take time to mandate moments of silence before each school day, so students can reflect on what makes life meaningful.
“How does a 19 year old have the audacity the sickness, the hatred to publicize such anti-Semitism in his manifesto?” the rabbi said Sunday night. “How does he come here to our house of worship and do what he did? Perhaps we need to go back a little earlier and think about what are we teaching our children? What are we educating our children? We need to perhaps think about reintroducing in our public school system a moment of silence where children can start the day pausing and thinking, ‘Why am I created? Why am I here? And what am I going to do?'”
“It could’ve been a much worse massacre … we need to battle darkness with light, no matter how dark the world is we need to think of a little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness,” Goldstein said. “A lot of light will push away a lot more. And the Rabbi would say we all need to teach everyone, we need to do random acts of kindness, we need to tilt the scale. There’s so much darkness now in the world but you and I have the ability to change.”
Rabbi Golstein said President Trump personally called him during his recovery period yesterday, offering support. Goldstein said he and the Mr. Trump spoke for over 10 minutes.
The mayor of the California city where a gunman opened fire at a synagogue Saturday called the shooting “an affront to humanity” that made him “sick to my stomach.”
“This is an affront to our community and an affront to humanity for this to happen,” Steve Vaus, the mayor of Poway, California, said in an interview Sunday on CBSN. “Hate has no place in any community, least of all a community like Poway.”
Memorial grows for California synagogue shooting victims
¿Qué es lo que Facebook debería mostrar en tu timeline cada vez que te conectas? Ésa es una pregunta difícil y probablemente no exista una sola respuesta correcta, sino más bien tantas como usuarios tiene la red, es decir, más de 1,600 millones de ellas.
Ése es el reto que enfrenta la red social más grande del mundo, uno que le obliga a cambiar constantemente el algoritmo que determina qué cosa debe ver cada usuario basándose en las preferencias de cada uno de ellos, como anunció hoy.
Un nuevo cambio en ese algoritmo rector aumentará la cantidad de publicaciones de tus amigos y menos de las páginas que sigues. Ésa podría ser una buena noticia para algunos, pero es mala para muchos otros, especialmente las empresas o marcas, que verán reducido su impacto.
Adam Mosseri, vicepresidente de producto de Facebook, explica en un artículo cómo la línea de tiempo está organizada de forma tal que la gente “pueda ver primero lo que le interesa y no se pierda cosas importantes de sus amigos. Sin esas clasificaciones la gente no se involucra y se va insatisfecha. Por eso una de nuestras tareas más importantes es lograr que esas clasificaciones funcionen”.
Mosseri dice además que el éxito de Facebook “se basa en ofrecerle a la gente las historias más relevantes para ellos. Si pudieras ver miles de historias todos los días y elegir las 10 más importantes para ti, ¿Cuáles serían? La respuesta debería ser tu News Feed. Es subjetiva, personal, y única. Y define el espíritu de lo que intentamos alcanzar”.
Por ello, profundiza el ejecutivo, la actividad de los amigos es prioritaria. Según un estudio realizado por la compañía, el News Feed debe cumplir con dos funciones básicas:
Informar, aunque el criterio sobre lo que es informativo o interesante puede variar de persona a persona. Puede ser una publicación sobre un hecho actual, una historia sobre tu celebridad favorita, una noticia local, o una receta. “Siempre estamos trabajando para comprender mejor qué resulta interesante e informativo para ti personalmente, para que esas historias aparezcan bien arriba en tu News Feed.”
Entretener, esto puede significar seguir a una celebridad o un deportista. Para otros se trata de ver videos en vivo y compartir fotos graciosas con sus amigos. “Trabajamos duro para comprender y predecir qué publicaciones de Facebook te resultarán entretenidas, para asegurarnos de que no te las pierdas.”
Mosseri añade: “Nuestro trabajo no es elegir qué historias debe leer el mundo, sino conectar gente e ideas, y juntar a las personas con las historias que les resultan más significativas. No favorecemos ciertos tipos de fuentes ni ideas. Nuestro objetivo es entregar las historias que, según hemos aprendido, le interesan más a un individuo. Hacemos esto no solo porque creemos que es lo correcto, sino también porque es bueno para nosotros. Cuando la gente ve contenidos que le interesan, es probable que pasen más tiempo en el News Feed y disfruten de la experiencia.”
El cambio en el algoritmo se da tras una ola de críticas a la red social, que señalaban una marcada tendencia a mostrar más noticias con un sesgo conservador, las cuales fueron negadas por la empresa.
No obstante, el ejecutivo recuerda que este nuevo cambio en la plataforma responde al hecho de que la red es una obra en proceso: “Consideramos que apenas el 1% de nuestro trabajo está terminado, y estamos dedicados a mejorar a medida que avanzamos.”
Eligio Rojas/David Rondón.- La Unidad Criminalística del Ministerio Público realizó la autopsia al cadáver de Juan Pablo Pernalete Llovera (20), quien murió el pasado miércoles al ser impactado presuntamente por un arma en Altamira (Mir), durante una protesta.
De manera preliminar concluyen que el muchacho presenta un tatuaje (herida) en la tetilla izquierda similar al que deja “una pistola de perno cautiva”, explicó una fuente judicial. Dicha arma se usa para el aturdimiento de animales; trabaja con aire a presión y a corta distancia, detalló.
El muchacho recibió el impacto a quemarropa. “Un golpe seco que no dejó una gran herida porque el arma usada no tiene bala; el perno salió y retornó”, acotó.
La Fiscalía envió un boletín a las 11:49 pm del miércoles, donde informó que conformaron un equipo técnico para “dar con la causa precisa que ocasionó la muerte del joven”. Agrega que ingresó a las 3 pm a un centro de salud “con un hematoma en el pectoral izquierdo”.
El alcalde de Chacao, Ramón Muchacho había informado que el joven había ingresado a Salud Chacao “a las 2:50 pm, sin signos vitales, proveniente de la manifestación”. Luego, informó que “un golpe en el pecho es la presunta causa de la muerte; sin embargo, será la autopsia la que determinará la causa”.
Ayer a las 11:15 am, Guillermo Tirado, subdirector de Protección de Derechos Fundamentales de Fiscalía y otros fiscales, realizaron un recorrido por la 2ª avenida Sur de Altamira.
“Aquí se oía plomo y plomo”, comentó un vecino. “Allí estaban prendiendo cosas”, dijo un señor cerca de la Torre Británica. “Los guardias estaban allá”, acotó una joven indicando el otro extremo de la cuadra.
Selva Perena Llovera,tía de Juan Pablo Pernalete, refirió que el muchacho estaba estudiando segundo semestre de Contaduría en la Universidad Metropolitana y que estaba becado por excelencia deportiva. “La única arma de mi sobrino era una pelota de baloncesto”, expresó. Señaló que era hijo único y que su madre estaba destrozada. “Estamos decepcionados del país”, concluyó.
The delta Covid variant is one of the most infectious respiratory diseases ever seen by scientists, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The variant is highly contagious, largely because people infected with the delta strain can carry up to 1,000 times more virus in their nasal passages than those infected with the original strain, according to new data.
“The delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters at a briefing Thursday. “It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of, and that I have seen in my 20 year career.”
The delta variant has spread quickly through the U.S., accounting for more than 83% of sequenced cases in the U.S. right now, up from 50% the week of July 3.
The seven-day average of new cases is up about 53% from last week, currently at 37,674 new cases per day. Hospitalizations are up 32% from last week at about 3,500 per day and deaths have also increased 19% in the same time frame to about 240 per day.
“This virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the next vulnerable person to infect,” Walensky said.
The virus is ripping through U.S. counties with low vaccination rates, while counties with high vaccination rates are seeing lower rates of new cases.
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Three states, Florida, Texas and Missouri, with low vaccination rates accounted for 40% of all new cases nationwide, White House Covid czar Jeff Zients said. Florida alone accounted for one in five of all new cases in the U.S. for the second week in a row.
In hospitals around the country, 97% of people admitted with Covid symptoms are unvaccinated, and 99.5% of al Covid deaths are also among the unvaccinated.
In the past week, the five states with the highest case counts had higher rates of people getting newly vaccinated compared to the national average.
“We are at yet another pivotal moment in this pandemic, with cases rising again and some hospitals reaching their capacity in some areas, we need to come together as one nation,” Walensky said.
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