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Últimas noticias del mundo: países latinoamericanos expresan su preocupación por Venezuela – lagranepoca

La Gran Época le presenta un resumen de las últimas noticias del mundo. En primer lugar, 12 países latinoamericanos, hicieron pública su preocupación por la crisis política y económica que está atravesando Venezuela e instaron al gobierno y a la oposición a entablar un diálogo. Por otro lado, un voraz incendio se desató en Manhattan y -aunque ya está extinguido- todavía se están tratando de determinar los motivos del mismo. La ONU exige investigar y repudia el atentado en la escuela siria en la que murieron al menos 22 niños y -por último- el 58% de los vertebrados del planeta desapareció en 42 años, según un reciente informe.

Países latinoamericanos expresaron preocupación por Venezuela

Gobiernos de 12 países latinoamericanos expresaron su preocupación por la “aguda polarización” política en Venezuela y exhortaron al gobierno de Nicolás Maduro y a la oposición a entablar un diálogo para resolver las diferencias.

Estos países son: Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay, en el marco de una reunión de cancilleres de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños y la Unión Europea (UE-Celac).

Los países firmantes observan “con preocupación la aguda polarización por la que atraviesa Venezuela y reiteran su llamado para que las partes tengan voluntad política y establezcan un diálogo constructivo”, señaló el comunicado difundido el mismo día en que miles de manifestantes salieron a protestar la suspensión del proceso revocatorio contra Maduro.

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Incendio en Manhattan deja un muerto y varios heridos

Un incendio durante la noche que arrasó un edificio residencial de cinco pisos en Manhattan dejó un muerto y 12 heridos entre vecinos y bomberos, informaron las autoridades este jueves. El siniestro se produjo en un edificio en el barrio Yorkville en Manhattan. Las llamas se propagaron rápidamente y -en determinado momento- se alzaron sobre el techo para lanzar brasas encendidas a inmuebles vecinos. Residentes del edificio corrieron a la calle en piyamas.

De acuerdo con AP, un vecino murió y cinco sufrieron heridas de diverso grado, dijo el departamento de bomberos de la ciudad. Siete bomberos sufrieron heridas menores.

Para la madrugada las llamas estaban extinguidas. El incendio obligó a cerrar varias calles al tránsito. Aún se desconoce cómo se inició el siniestro.

ONU exige investigar ataque a escuela siria y juzgar a los responsables

La ONU exigió hoy una investigación “inmediata e imparcial” del ataque que este miércoles mató a una veintena de niños en una escuela en la región siria de Idleb y subrayó que los responsables deben rendir cuentas.

“El secretario general (Ban Ki-moon) está indignado”, dijo su portavoz, Stéphane Dujarric, que llamó a investigar este y otros ataques contra civiles en Siria.

“Si estos horribles actos persisten pese a la indignación global es en buena parte porque sus autores, ya sea en los pasillos del poder o en reductos insurgentes, no temen a la Justicia. Hay que demostrarles que se equivocan”, añadió.

Según datos de Unicef, al menos 22 alumnos y 6 maestros fallecieron el miércoles en el ataque a una escuela en la localidad de Has, mientras que hoy el Observatorio Sirio de Derechos Humanos elevó la cifra a un total de 35.

Unicef apuntó a la aviación rusa como responsable de la agresión, algo que Moscú ha negado.

(Foto ilustrativa: Pablo Tosco/AFP/Getty Images)

El 58% de los vertebrados del planeta desapareció en 42 años, según un informe

La cantidad de mamíferos, peces, aves, anfibios y reptiles se redujo un 58% en el mundo entre 1970 y 2012 y el declive seguirá si los humanos no hacen nada para evitarlo, advierte el Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza (WWF por sus siglas en inglés) en su informe Planeta Vivo 2016.

“Si sigue la caída de la biodiversidad, el mundo natural que hoy conocemos se desmoronará en su conjunto”, advierte el director general del WWF Internacional, Marco Lambertini, en un balance del estado del planeta.

Según la ONG ambientalista, “el declive que padecen las poblaciones de especies salvajes es cada vez más preocupante”, y agrega: “Llegará en promedio a un 67% de aquí a 2020” si no se hace nada para revertir la tendencia.

“Estamos asistiendo a una regresión de la vida sobre el planeta, de la cual somos en parte responsables”, destaca Pascal Canfin, director general de WWF Francia. “Si desaparece lo vivo, desaparece el capital natural, destruimos nuestra capacidad para vivir en el planeta a largo plazo”, continúa. “La humanidad se está poniendo en peligro ella misma”, explica.

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Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ trial to continue as planned in July – NPR

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From Cradle to Grave, Democrats Move to Expand Social Safety Net – The New York Times

In contrast, the new legislation would largely augment existing programs. Childcare support would come through the Community Development Block Grant to states, cities and counties. Universal pre-K would be secured through block grants and expanded funding to Head Start. Two years of higher education are supposed to become accessible through more generous Pell grants and other existing financial aid programs

But if it passes, Mr. Strain said the legislation could fundamentally change the relationship between the state and its citizens: “Its ambition is in its size.”

Most Americans traditionally have seen the federal government’s involvement in their finances once a year, at tax time, when they claim a child credit, get a write-off for the truck they may have bought for their business, or receive a check for an earned income credit, to name a few.

That would change profoundly if the social policy bill were enacted. The expanded child tax credit has begun to provide monthly checks of up to $300 per child to millions of families, but is slated to expire in 2022. Its extension for as long as a decade could make it a fixture of life that would be very difficult for future Congresses to take away. The same goes for the Child and Dependent Care Credit, which now offers up to $8,000 in child care expenses but also expires in a year.

And the federal government, not private employers, would pay most of the salaries of people qualifying for family and medical leave.

“If we get this passed, a decade from now, people are going to see many more touch points of government supporting them and their families,” Ms. Boushey said.

One major difference between the social economy that Mr. Biden and congressional Democrats hope to create and the welfare state in Europe is how it would be paid for. Most European countries ask their citizens broadly to fund their social welfare programs, largely through a value added tax, a sales tax levied at each stage of a consumer good’s production.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/politics/democrats-biden-social-safety-net.html

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Same firm, new house: Mexico leader’s conflict-of-interest storm grows – Reuters

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.”

(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)

Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126

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Biden mandates shots for foreign visitors, makes travel tougher for non-vaccinated – New York Post

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will lift long-running COVID-19 travel bans against residents of most European countries on Nov. 8 and implement a new vaccination-and-testing rule — while also making travel tougher for Americans who are unvaccinated.

Under the new policies, most travelers to the US must get tested for the virus within three days if they took one of the World Health Organization’s approved vaccines.

The new rules tighten restrictions on unvaccinated US citizens and permanent residents, who will have to get tested within one day of travel — versus three days currently.

The slow repeal of the nearly 20-month-old Europe travel ban outraged US allies who called it unscientific because most residents of the Schengen Zone, the UK and Ireland are vaccinated — whereas there are much lower vaccination rates in countries that never were banned.

Former President Donald Trump attempted to lift the ban before he left office, but President Biden’s team overrode that decision, which was set to take effect after Biden took office.

US officials said Monday that the new policy will have a number of carveouts, including for children under age 18, who must get tested three days before travel regardless of vaccination status.

The Biden administration will mandate that unvaccinated Americans get tested within one day of traveling to another country.

AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

About 50 countries that have less than 10 percent of their residents vaccinated will be exempted from the vaccination standards — meaning they will be able to get COVID-19 tested within three days of travel if they are unvaccinated.

“We fully are aware that the global distribution and availability of vaccines varies widely. And so there will be exemptions specifically for countries that have insufficient vaccines to have persons fully vaccinated,” an official said.

A different official clarified that unvaccinated people in countries with low vaccine coverage would not be permitted to enter the US as tourists.

“Even in the low-vaccine-availability countries, people will also need to have a compelling reason to come here … the tourist visa will not qualify for that,” she said.

The new policy will be enforced by airlines and there will be some other exceptions, including for people who had a serious reaction to a shot.

The WHO’s list of approved vaccines means that two Chinese-made shots with low efficacy — the Sinopharm and Sinovoc vaccines — will be allowed for travel.

Passengers check in for a Southwest Airlines flight at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida, on October 11, 2021.

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The WHO also recognizes the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine that’s widely used in Europe, in addition to the three approved vaccines in the US. The WHO doesn’t recognize Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.

New rules for land border crossings are under development, the officials said.

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2021/10/25/biden-mandates-covid-vaccine-for-foreign-visitors-restricts-unvaxxed/

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Trump acusa a los medios de "fabricar noticias" e "inventar fuentes" – Telemundo

Washington.- El presidente Donald Trump acusó hoy a los medios de comunicación de “fabricar” muchas de las noticias que publican sobre la Casa Blanca e “inventar” las fuentes anónimas en las que se basan.

En una retahíla de tuits, Trump pareció reaccionar a las recientes noticias con fuentes anónimas que han relacionado a su yerno, Jared Kushner, con la investigación sobre la injerencia de Rusia en las últimas elecciones, y han asegurado que el mandatario se plantea grandes cambios en la Casa Blanca.

“Es mi opinión que muchas de las filtraciones que salen desde dentro de la Casa Blanca son mentiras fabricadas, inventadas por los medios de comunicación falsos”, escribió Trump en su cuenta de Twitter, con la etiqueta “#FakeNews”.

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“Cuando vean las palabras ‘según fuentes’ en los medios de comunicación falsos, y no mencionen nombres… es muy posible que esas fuentes no existan sino que sean inventadas por escritores de noticias falsas. ¡Las noticias falsas son el enemigo!”, añadió en otros dos tuits.

Desde que llegó al poder en enero pasado, Trump se ha mostrado frustrado por las filtraciones a la prensa que provienen de la Casa Blanca o de las agencias de inteligencia estadounidenses, y en febrero aseguró que había encargado una investigación de esos actos “criminales” y que los responsables pagarían “un gran precio”.

El mandatario, que acaba de regresar de una gira internacional en la que limitó su presencia en Twitter, podría estar irritado por las revelaciones acerca de Kushner, sobre el que el diario The Washington Post publicó el viernes un artículo citando “funcionarios estadounidenses que han tenido acceso a informes de inteligencia”.

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Tanto el Wall Street Journal este viernes como el Washington Post hoy informan, además, de que Trump se plantea hacer grandes cambios en la Casa Blanca, incluida la posibilidad de despedir o reducir el papel del portavoz del mandatario, Sean Spicer.

Esos cambios incluyen también, según las fuentes anónimas citadas por los periódicos, la creación de una “sala de guerra” para responder al constante murmullo mediático sobre la trama rusa y encauzar el mensaje oficial al respecto, e incluso la posibilidad de que un equipo de abogados revise los tuits de Trump.

En sus mensajes de hoy, el mandatario se refirió también a su gira de nueve días al extranjero, de la que dijo que “fue un gran éxito para Estados Unidos”, y aseguró que su “trabajo duro” en el viaje producirá “grandes resultados”.

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Además, volvió a destacar la “gran victoria” en el estado de Montana del candidato republicano Greg Gianforte, acusado de agredir a un periodista y quien este jueves se hizo con un escaño en la Cámara de Representantes en una elección especial.

“¿Se ha dado alguien cuenta de que la carrera por el escaño de Montana fue algo muy importante para los demócratas y los medios de comunicación falsos hasta que el republicano ganó? Su victoria se cubrió muy mal”, opinó Trump, quien no se ha pronunciado aún sobre el escándalo que ha generado la agresión de Gianforte a un periodista.

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House Democrats propose new tax hikes to pay for their $3.5 trillion bill: Here are the details – CNBC

Senate Democrats will also have their say in the tax proposals. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., has called for a corporate rate of 25%, lower than the one favored by House Democrats. He has also expressed concerns about the plan adding to budget deficits.

The party will need votes from every member of the Senate Democratic caucus and all but three House Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., aim to pass the legislation through the budget reconciliation process without Republican support.

The House tax plan would not go as far as President Joe Biden initially hoped. The president had called for a 28% corporate tax and a 39.6% capital gains rate.

Biden has promised not to raise taxes on anyone who make less than $400,000 per year.

The House proposal would take huge steps to reverse the 2017 Republican tax cuts. It would hike the corporate rate to 26.5%, after the GOP slashed it to 21% from 35%.

Democrats would also restore the top individual rate to 39.6% after Republicans cut it to 37%.

The GOP has opposed the Democratic plan in part because of proposed changes to the 2017 law. Republicans also would not reverse any of the cuts as part of the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Under the House Democratic plan, the top corporate rate would apply to income above $5 million. The first $400,000 in income would be taxed at an 18% rate.

A 21% rate would apply to corporate income between $400,000 and $5 million.

The plan would invest nearly $79 billion in IRS tax enforcement to increase revenue raised.

It would hike taxes on certain tobacco products. The proposal would also change or scale back certain deductions for high-income individuals and corporations to raise money.

The committee outline does not include a proposal to raise the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions set under the GOP law. A handful of Democrats from high-tax blue states such as New Jersey and New York have said they will oppose a reconciliation bill that does not raise the deduction limit.

In a joint statement Monday, Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal, D-Mass., Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., signaled House Democrats will address the cap in a future version of the tax plan.

“We are committed to enacting a law that will include meaningful SALT relief that is so essential to our middle-class communities, and we are working daily toward that goal,” the representatives said. Suozzi and Pascrell are among the lawmakers who said they will only vote for a spending bill that raises the deduction limit.

Democrats plan to use the new revenue to fund expansions of child care, paid leave, pre-K education, community college, public health insurance plans, household tax credits and green energy incentives, among other investments.

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Local NAACP chapter calls for Pasquotank Co. Sheriff’s resignation, sheriff’s office ask for internal investigation – WAVY.com

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) — The family of Andrew Brown Jr. along with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II held a press briefing Saturday afternoon in Elizabeth City.

Rev. Barber is the president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Brown’s family was joined by civil rights attorney Harry Daniels and Pasquotank County NAACP chapter president Keith Rivers.

42-year-old Andrew Brown Jr. was shot and killed by law enforcement during the execution of a search warrant Wednesday in Elizabeth City.

Watch the full briefing below:

During the press conference, Rivers asked for the resignation of Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten for having not released the body camera footage of the incident.

Witnesses say Brown was shot as he was driving away.

On Friday, Sheriff Wooten told 10 On Your Side seven deputies are on administrative leave following the shooting.

Another three deputies have resigned since Wednesday, he added. One of them was nearing retirement. Those three deputies were not directly involved in the shooting.

The sheriff said the body camera video could be released within the next couple of days. The release of the body camera footage requires a court order, under North Carolina law.

City Council voted unanimously during the meeting to petition the Pasquotank County sheriff to release the body camera video. If the request is denied, the city attorney is directed to go to a superior court to request an order for release.

WAVY has also joined a media coalition to petition the court in Pasquotank to release the video.

During the press briefing Saturday, Sheriff Wooten and Chief Deputy Daniel Fogg released a recorded video on social media stating they have asked the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation whether releasing the video would interfere and undermine their investigation of the incident.

“Because we want transparency, we want the body camera footage made public,” said Wooten.

“Some people have falsely claimed that my office has the power to do so. That is not true. Only a judge can release the video.”

Once Sheriff Wooten said they have the confirmation from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, they would then file a motion in court “hopefully” Monday to have the footage released.

The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office have also asked the North Carolina Sheriff’s Association to appoint an outside sheriff’s office to conduct an internal affairs investigation of everyone involved in the incident. This in addition to the investigation from the FBI and the local district attorney’s office.

Chief Deputy Fogg said the focused of the internal review is to see if there needs to be disciplinary actions taken following the incident.

“We will fully cooperate with the work of the outside investigator.”

At the end of the video, Sheriff Wooten addressed community members saying he understands their frustration, however, Wooten said they are following a process that ensures fairness for everyone involved.

“We ask for your patience and your support as we work to do the right thing.”

Source Article from https://www.wavy.com/news/north-carolina/family-of-andrew-brown-jr-holds-press-briefing-in-elizabeth-city/

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At least 8 people were killed after Ida slammed the Northeast with flash flooding and tornadoes – CNN

(CNN)At least eight people were killed due to flooding as the Northeast was slammed by torrential rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, officials said Thursday.

CNN’s Shimone Prokupecz, Michael Guy, Mark Morales, Keith Allen, Rob Frehse, Dave Alsup, Mirna Alsharif, Alta Spells, Kiely Westhoff, Paul Murphy and Colin McCullough contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/weather/ida-northeast-flooding-thursday/index.html

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Buscan dos carros involucrados en terrible accidente de camarógrafo de Cable Noticias – Noticias Caracol

La víctima, a bordo de una moto, fue impactada primero por un bus y luego, según su esposa, una mula le pasó por encima. Conductores no lo auxiliaron.

“Está con oxígeno, no habla, todo lo que él me dice es por medio de escritos”, dijo Nidia Manotas, quien además pidió ayuda a quienes hayan visto el accidente para poder denunciar ante las autoridades.

Según la compañera del camarógrafo Franklin Capera de Cable Noticias, internado en el Hospital El Tunal, a su esposo tuvieron que amputarle la pierna izquierda y el pie derecho está comprometido.

Johan Avendaño, experto en políticas públicas de la Universidad Central, indicó que en estos casos la víctima debe recurrir al “Fosyga que daría un apoyo económico”. El SOAT, agregó, “también está en obligación” de ayudar a la persona herida.

Más de 800 casos como estos se han registrado en el año en Bogotá, siendo los más afectados los motociclistas y los peatones.

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Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia – NBC News

WASHINGTON — After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee.

But investigators disagree along party lines when it comes to the implications of a pattern of contacts they have documented between Trump associates and Russians — contacts that occurred before, during and after Russian intelligence operatives were seeking to help Donald Trump by leaking hacked Democratic emails and attacking his opponent, Hillary Clinton, on social media.

“If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia,” said Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in an interview with CBS News last week.

Burr was careful to note that more facts may yet be uncovered, but he also made clear that the investigation was nearing an end.

“We know we’re getting to the bottom of the barrel because there’re not new questions that we’re searching for answers to,” Burr said.

Democratic Senate investigators who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity did not dispute Burr’s characterizations, but said they lacked context.

“We were never going find a contract signed in blood saying, ‘Hey Vlad, we’re going to collude,'” one Democratic aide said.

The series of contacts between Trump’s associates, his campaign officials, his children and various Russians suggest a campaign willing to accept help from a foreign adversary, the Democrats say.

By many counts, Trump and his associates had more than 100 contacts with Russians before the January 2017 presidential inauguration.

“Donald Trump Jr. made clear in his messages that he was willing to accept help from the Russians,” one Democratic Senate investigator said. “Trump publicly urged the Russians to find Clinton’s missing emails.”

Those facts are beyond dispute. But they also have been known for some time — and have not seemed to change Trump’s political standing.

Democrats and other Trump opponents have long believed that special counsel Robert Mueller and Congressional investigators would unearth new and more explosive evidence of Trump campaign coordination with Russians. Mueller may yet do so, although Justice Department and Congressional sources say they believe that he, too, is close to wrapping up his investigation.

House Republicans announced last year they had found no evidence of collusion, but their report came under immediate criticism as a highly partisan product that excluded Democrats. Now in power, House Democrats recently announced an expanded probe that will go beyond the 2016 election to examine whether any foreign government has undue financial influence on Trump or his family. And New York federal prosecutors are pursuing their own criminal inquiry related to hush-money payments to women. The investigations into Donald Trump, therefore, are far from over.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has been conducting the sole bipartisan inquiry, led by Burr and ranking Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia. The committee has sifted through some 300,000 documents, investigators tell NBC News, including classified intelligence shedding light on how the Russians communicated about their covert operation to interfere in the 2016 election.

U.S. intelligence agencies assess that the operation began as an effort to sow chaos and morphed into a plan to help Trump win. It included the hacking and leaking of embarrassing Democratic emails and the use of bots, trolls and fake accounts on social media to boost Trump, criticize Democrat Hillary Clinton and exacerbate political differences.

Predictably, Burr’s comments led Trump to tweet that he had been fully vindicated, which is not the case.

“Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, just announced that after almost two years, more than two hundred interviews, and thousands of documents, they have found NO COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA!” Trump tweeted Sunday. “Is anybody really surprised by this?”

Democratic Senate investigators say it may take them six or seven months to write their final report once they are done with witness interviews. They say they have uncovered facts yet to be made public, and that they hope to make Americans more fully aware of the extent to which the Russians manipulated the U.S. presidential election with the help of some Trump officials, witting or unwitting.

Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, just announced that after almost two years, more than two hundred interviews, and thousands of documents, they have found NO COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA! Is anybody really surprised by this?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2019

The report, Democrats say, will not be good for Trump.

But they also made clear they haven’t found proof of their worst fear: That the president formed a corrupt pact with Russia to offer sanctions relief or other favorable treatment in return for Russian help in the election.

After it recently emerged in court documents that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared campaign polling data with a man the FBI says is linked to Russian intelligence, Warner called that the most persuasive evidence yet of coordination.

“This appears as the closest we’ve seen yet to real, live, actual collusion,” he said on CNN.

No evidence has emerged, however, linking the transfer of polling data to Trump. Also unclear in court documents is Manafort’s motive for sharing the information. Facing more than a decade in prison for bank and tax fraud, he has not been accused by Mueller of any crimes related to the 2016 election.

Burr, in the CBS interview, said the motivations behind the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russians were in some cases impossible to discern.

“There’s an awful lot of connections of all these people,” he said. “They may not be connections that are tied to 2016 elections in the United States, but just the sheer fact that they have a relationship — it may be business. It may be Russian intelligence. It may be they’re all on the payroll of Oleg Deripaska,” he added, referring to a Russian oligarch tied to Putin who had business dealings with Manafort.

The final Senate report may not reach a conclusion on whether the contacts added up to collusion or coordination with Russia, Burr said.

Democrats told NBC News that’s a distinct possibility.

“What I’m telling you is that I’m going to present, as best we can, the facts to you and to the American people,” Burr told CBS. “And you’ll have to draw your own conclusion as to whether you think that, by whatever definition, that’s collusion.”

Ken Dilanian

Ken Dilanian is a national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536

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Joe Biden Called Cory Booker. But Apologize? It’s Not the Biden Way. – The New York Times

Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to criticize Mr. Biden, saying the value of his straight-talking persona outweighs his verbal missteps.

“I think that authenticity is the most important characteristic that candidates have to convey to the American people,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol. “Joe Biden is authentic. He has lived his life. He considers certain things a resource, that he has worked across the aisle, that’s what he was saying.”

Mr. Biden’s style cuts a sharp contrast with other 2020 Democratic candidates, who have offered a series of sorrys over everything from sexual harassment in their offices to policies they once embraced. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas has apologized for, among other things, characterizing his wife as his family’s primary child-rearer, launching his campaign on the cover of Vanity Fair, marrying into a wealthy family and fiction he wrote as a teenager. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apologized for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her decades-old claim of Native American ancestry. On Thursday, Marianne Williamson apologized for calling vaccine mandates “draconian” and “Orwellian.”

Harold Schaitberger, the head of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which has endorsed Mr. Biden, said Mr. Biden stressed that his actions are more important than his language.

“I understand this is a new generation,” Mr. Schaitberger said Thursday. “It’s not to me about, is your voice or language consistent with this new generation. To me it’s about, what have you done, what have you delivered, what do you stand for?”

That’s not enough for some civil rights advocates.

“It is authentic, but is that the type of authenticity we want? Donald Trump is authentic, too,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color Of Change, a civil rights group. “The question is can a 70-plus man listen and evolve.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/politics/biden-booker-apology.html

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Liberal pundits lose it over SCOTUS decision overturning Biden eviction moratorium: ‘Cruel, conscienceless’ – Fox News

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Liberal media members and pundits reacted angrily to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the federal moratorium on evictions, despite the Biden administration’s admitting weeks ago it had no legal standing to extend the moratorium.

The nation’s highest court voted Thursday in a 6-3 majority to overturn the moratorium, with the court’s three liberal-leaning justices dissenting.

The Biden administration previously admitted that it lacked the legal authority to extend the federal moratorium after it expired in July. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), however, issued a new moratorium that was set to expire in October.

SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S EVICTION MORATORIUM

Former President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, a regular at some liberal outlets, called for the court to be expanded to make the conservative-leaning members a “minority.” She described the six justices in favor of overturning the moratorium as “cruel” and “conscienceless.”

“This week alone, the Supreme Court has attacked Biden’s eviction moratorium while pushing for the reinstatement of Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy. At what point do Democrats wake up, smell the coffee, get spines <choose your metaphor> and rebalance this packed Supreme Court?” wrote left-wing MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, before adding that any action taken would require Congress and Democrats to have “spines.”

PSAKI DISMISSED CONCERNS OVER LEGALITY OF BIDEN’S RENEWED EVICTION MORATORIUM

Other critics from the media also took to Twitter to slam the decision, with some, including former Secretary of Labor and cable regular Robert Reich, joining the call to expand the court, and others expressing outrage over the court making the decision amid a pandemic.

DEMOCRATS ATTACK SUPREME COURT FOR BLOCKING BIDEN EVICTION MORATORIUM

Some critics lamented there was still unspent money for rental relief, while others predicted chaos as “millions” could be evicted. One critic even referred to the court as committing “another evil.”

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Smaller landlords had been hit hardest by the pandemic with as many as 58% having tenets behind on rent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Smaller landlords are owed more than half of all back rent.

Fox Business’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

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Huawei Executive Meng Wanzhou Is Set to Be Released – The New York Times

Ms. Meng, who appeared by videoconference for Friday’s hearing, pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.

The Canadian authorities arrested Ms. Meng, 49, the technology giant’s chief financial officer, in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport, at the request of the United States. Ms. Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and chief executive, Ren Zhengfei, instantly became one of the world’s most famous detainees.

In January 2019, the Justice Department indicted Ms. Meng and Huawei, the telecom company founded by her father, Ren Zhengfei. It accused the firm and its chief financial officer of a decade-long effort to steal trade secrets, obstruct a criminal investigation and evade economic sanctions on Iran.

The charges underscored efforts by the Trump administration to directly link Huawei with the Chinese government, after long suspecting that the company worked to advance Beijing’s economic and political ambitions and undermine American interests.

The release of Ms. Meng could play into the fate of two Canadians imprisoned in China

China detained the former diplomat Michael Kovrig and the businessman Michael Spavor, soon after Ms. Meng’s arrest, in what has been widely viewed in Canada as hostage diplomacy. China has denied they were connected. In August, a court in northeastern China, where Mr. Spavor has lived, sentenced him to 11 years in prison after declaring him guilty of spying.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/world/canada/huawei-meng-wanzhou.html

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Noticias que se pagan con tuits – CNNExpansión.com

WASHINGTON (EFE) — Twitter se había utilizado hasta hora para informar y ser informado, subir fotos y videos, comunicarse o conocer gente, pero para lo que aún no se había empleado es para pagar, algo que pretende hacer ahora el Chicago Sun Times.

El diario estadounidense anunció esta semana que probará un nuevo muro de pago en su versión digital en el que cobrará sus contenidos con unos innovadores métodos de retribución: la moneda virtual “bitcóin” y los tuits.

Este modelo, con el que ya se han atrevido pequeños medios digitales, ha sido bautizado como “muro de pago social”.

El Chicago Sun Times es el noveno diario por tiraje en el país y cabecera insignia del conglomerado Sun Times Media, que agrupa a varias publicaciones de Chicago y sus alrededores.

En colaboración con la Taproot Foundation, una organización sin ánimo de lucro que pone en contacto a profesionales que trabajan sin cobrar con colectivos que tampoco reciben retribución, el Sun Times lanzará su muro de pago experimental el 1 de febrero y la prueba durará 24 horas.

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Así, durante todo ese día, los lectores que accedan a la página web del periódico se encontrarán con un aviso que les pedirá hacer una donación (con “bitcoins”) a la Taproot Foundation o bien tuitear sobre las actividades de esta organización.

“De momento, esto es sólo un experimento para ver qué resultado le da al Sun Times esta novedosa e innovadora estrategia de monetización del contenido”, señaló a Efe el director de Estrategias de Colaboración de la Taproot Foundation, Emmet Mehan.

“Queremos probar nuevas tecnologías que creemos que engancharán a nuestros lectores”, aseguró el editor del Sun Times, Jim Kirk, quien destacó que el suyo es el primer gran periódico estadounidense en atreverse a ensayar este modelo.

Las empresas periodísticas tradicionales están inmersas en la búsqueda de un modelo de negocio que les permita publicar sus contenidos en Internet y ganar dinero, aunque de momento estas búsquedas se antojan infructuosas.

“La transición de un sistema de entrega física a uno completamente en línea es difícil porque acabas compitiendo contigo mismo”, explicó el investigador de medios digitales de la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de California en Berkeley, Jeremy Rue.

El modelo que parece imponerse entre los grandes periódicos es el del “muro de semipago”, en el que los internautas pueden consultar gratuitamente la portada principal, así como las de las secciones y un determinado número de artículos cada mes, y, si desean acceder a más, deben pagar una suscripción.

Pese a utilizar ya este modelo, tampoco el Chicago Sun Times ha escapado a las dificultades financieras que golpean al sector.

De hecho, en mayo del año pasado despidió a todos los fotógrafos de su plantilla como medida de ahorro y para potenciar los videos de su edición digital; además, decidió usar las imágenes captadas por sus redactores y por colaboradores “freelance”.

Ahora ha apostado por intentar cobrar por el acceso a sus noticias a través de “bitcoins” y difundiendo mensajes en Twitter, aunque el Sun Times no ha revelado aún qué cantidades serán necesarias para acceder a sus contenidos.

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En el experimento del 1 de febrero los beneficios se destinarán a la fundación Taproot y, en función de los resultados, el periódico decidirá si implanta o no este sistema.

“Sospecho que la versión de Twitter será probablemente más popular que la de ‘Bitcóin’. ‘Bitcoin’ aún tiene muchas barreras que superar antes de ser vista como una moneda fiable para ser usada por las personas de a pie”, pronosticó el investigador de la Universidad de California.

El valor de esta moneda virtual se ha disparado desde su nacimiento, en 2008, y, según Rue, si gana en popularidad, una prueba como esta puede ser más exitosa en el futuro.

“Sería una sorpresa si se convierte en un éxito financiero, a pesar de que estas cosas siempre son complicadas de predecir”, auguró.

Un fracaso del “muro de pago social” significaría que la búsqueda de un modelo de negocio sigue activa, pero un triunfo abriría una nueva oportunidad para las empresas periodísticas de rentabilizar sus noticias, aunque sea con tuits.

Source Article from http://www.cnnexpansion.com/negocios/2014/01/18/noticias-que-se-pagan-con-tuits

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Opinion | Take the Trump-Russia Quiz – New York Times

In our never-ending search for cheerful news, today we note that Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general says the Mueller probe is not a “witch hunt.”

On the downside, William Barr doesn’t seem to think the final Mueller report on Trump’s Russia ties should be made public. While the innate leakiness of Washington will overcome this problem, it’s still a bad attitude. We’ve been waiting so long for that report to actually come out, we’re in danger of forgetting everything Robert Mueller was supposed to investigate.

So let’s try to get back up to speed on all things Russia. Well, some. Pick the right answer:

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/16/opinion/collins-trump-russia-quiz.html

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demands answers as customers remain without power after Beryl – The Associated Press

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More American Troops Sustain Brain Injuries From Iran Missile Strike in Iraq – The New York Times

The Trump administration at first said there were no injuries from the attack on American troops but recanted a week later, noting that several had been evacuated for possible concussions.

Pentagon and military officials have pushed back on the notion that they withheld any information about the injuries, pointing out that the absence of visible wounds meant the Pentagon was not made aware until days later. They noted that the symptoms of concussions and traumatic brain injuries often take days or weeks to appear.

The ballistic missiles that hit the base in Iraq were launched by Iran in retaliation for the killing of a top Iranian general, Qassim Suleimani, by an American drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3.

To contend with the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles, which can travel more than a hundred miles and evade rudimentary defenses, the Pentagon is looking to move Patriot air defenses into Iraq.

But while both Mr. Esper and General Milley said they believe the weapons are necessary for American defenses, the Iraqi government is currently holding up the weapons’ deployment.

“That is one of the matters we have to work on and work through” with the Iraqi government, Mr. Esper said on Thursday.

There are roughly 5,000 American troops in Iraq.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/world/middleeast/iraq-iran-brain-injuries.html

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At Karen Read’s murder trial, prosecutors accuse her of drunken crash while defense alleges a vast police cover-up – CNN

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Biden ousts 18 Trump military academy board appointees, including Kellyanne Conway at the Air Force Academy – The Denver Post

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday removed 18 appointees named to U.S. military academy boards by Donald Trump in the final months of the Republican president’s term in office, according to the White House.

Cathy Russell, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, sent letters to 18 people named to the boards of visitors for the Air Force Academy, Military Academy and Naval Academy calling on them to resign by close of business on Wednesday or face termination.

Among those Biden ousted are some high-profile Trump administration officials, including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway (Air Force Academy), press secretary Sean Spicer (Naval Academy), national security adviser H.R. McMaster (Military Academy) and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought (Naval Academy).

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the former Trump officials were asked to resign or face firing. It was not immediately clear if any of those asked to tender their resignations did so before a 6 p.m. deadline set by the White House.

“I will let others evaluate whether they think Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer and others were qualified, or not political, to serve on these boards,” Psaki said. “But the president’s qualification requirements are not your party registration. They are whether you’re qualified to serve and whether you are aligned with the values of this administration.”

Several of those called on to resign pushed back. Conway jabbed at Biden and said, “I’m not resigning but you should.” She went on in a statement to call it a “disappointing but understandable” effort to distract from the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a rise in COVID-19 cases and a disappointing August jobs report.

Vought on Twitter posted the letter he received from Russell and responded: “No. It’s a three year term.”

Jonathan Hiler, a Navy academy alumnus who served as director of legislative affairs for Vice President Mike Pence, said he was “not resigning.”

“As an alum and former naval officer, I believe developing leaders capable of defending our country’s interests at sea — USNA’s mission — is not something that should be consumed by partisan politics. Apparently, President Biden feels differently. @WhiteHouse,” Hiler posted on Twitter.

Spicer, who works for the conservative news channel Newsmax, in his own social media posting criticized Biden for trying to terminate Trump appointees instead of “focusing on the stranded Americans left in #Afghanistan.”

Later on Newsmax, Spicer accused Psaki of minimizing his military service and that of other veterans appointed by Trump to the boards. He said he intended to take legal action against the decision.