A team of FBI agents and park rangers have carried out a major search of a wild campsite believed to have been used by missing YouTuber Gabby Petito.
Several dozen officers from the FBI, the US Forest Service, Teton County Sheriff’s office and other agencies, spent hours on Saturday searching for clues at the site at Spread Creek Road, about 20 miles north of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Rangers from the National Park Service blocked the public and the media from entering the site, while campers who had been using it were told to be gone by the time the search started.
“The #FBIDenver Field Office and its Wyoming Resident Agencies, in coordination with the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Teton County Sheriff’s Office & Jackson Police Department, have been conducting ground surveys at the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area,” the FBI said on Twitter.
It added: “While we cannot comment further as to the specifics of this investigation, we will provide updates and request additional assistance from the public when appropriate to do so.”
Grand Teton National Park is vast and dramatic, a full 480 square miles. On Saturday, officers carried out their search under a sky that rapidly shifted from sunshine to dark storms.
Officials have said very little about the search or what they may have found. The National Park Service said the operation was being led by the Denver office of the FBI. That office did not immediately respond to inquiries.
Yet, it appears the area, a so-called dispersal camping site which has no facilities appears to be considered for several reasons.
It is just a few miles from Jenny Lake, where a member of the public claims to have seen the white 2012 Ford Transit van that Ms Petito and her boyfriend were using for their cross-country trip, on 25 August.
It is possible that the couple may have stayed at the site. It has been widely reported that Ms Petito did tag numerous a number of potential campsites on an app called The Dyrt, among them this one.
It is also less than ten miles from where another visitor to the national park, Amanda Baker, said she and her boyfriend, gave a lift to Mr Laurie, who was hitch-hiking by himself on August 29.
In a series of TikTok videos, Ms Baker, 22, said they had picked him up the public showers at Colter Bay Village, where he told them he had been wild camping with his partner north on the Snake River.
“He approached us asking us for a ride because he needed to go to Jackson, [and] we were going to Jackson that night,” Ms Baker said.
“So I said ‘You know, hop in’, and he hopped in the back of my Jeep, we then proceeded to make small talk, but before he came in the car he offered to pay us like $200, to give him a ride, like 10 miles.
“So that was kind of weird. He then told us he’s been camping for multiple days without his fiancé, he did say he had a fiancé, and that she was working on their social media page back at their van.”
Ms Baker said she had provided her information to the police and the FBI, something officers at North Port Police Department in Florida confirmed.
As it was on Saturday, police in Florida were doing their own search, for Mr Laundrie, after it was revealed his family had said the had not seen him since Tuesday.
Grand Teton National Park is vast
The Associated Press said police searched a vast Florida wildlife reserve on the 23-year-old, named a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend. More than 50 North Port police officers, FBI agents and members of other law enforcement agencies searched the 24,000-acre Carlton Reserve in the Sarasota, Florida area of the Gulf Coast.
Police have repeatedly stressed they have no evidence a crime has been committed, and are treating Ms Petito’s case as that of a missing person.
In Wyoming, most people seemed to be aware of the story of Ms Petito’s disappearance, though views and opinions ranged as to what may have happened.
Ben Cole, who has been coming to the park for 30 years, was sitting close to the public showers at Colter Bay Village, from where Ms Baker said she and her boyfriend gave a ride to Mr Laundrie.
He said: “Out here, it’s a vast land.”
He said he thought something “fishy” had happened but was not sure what.
Craig Davies, who said he has been touring the country in a van for four years, was at a campsite close to the one the FBI had locked down.
‘They told us we had to get out,” he said. “We didn’t know why.”
La autonomía de la batería es de 6 años, en cambio la duración de emisión de la baliza subacuática (en caso de inmersión) son de 30 días para su localización. Ya es hora de fabricar cajas negras que duren mucho más tiempo. Por lo visto, 1 mes no va ser suficiente.
Eric Adams got 51.1 percent of the vote after ranked-choice votes were tabulated. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
NEW YORK — Eric Adams barely held onto his lead in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after voters’ lower-ranked candidates were accounted for on Tuesday.
He now outpaces Kathryn Garcia by just 2.2 points with more than 120,000 absentee ballots left to count.
Those ballots will now decide the race, with Adams up by just 15,908 votes.
Garcia overtook Maya Wiley for the second place spot once the city’s Board of Elections tallied 11 rounds of ranked-choice voting Tuesday.
The system, being used for the first time, allowed voters to pick up to five candidates in order of preference. Once a candidate is knocked off, their votes are spread out to the remaining hopefuls. The absentee ballots will be factored into another tabulation next Tuesday before the board releases a final certification by July 12.
“Once all the votes are counted, I know everyone will support the Democratic nominee and that’s exactly what I intend to do,” Garcia said in a statement. “We look forward to the final results. Democracy is worth waiting for.”
Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, has now secured just over 51 percent of the vote,upfrom the 31.7 percent he received in first-place votes when New Yorkers hit the polls last Tuesday.
However, he released a statement Tuesday questioning the Board of Elections’ math. The vote total from the ranked-choice tabulation was more than 100,000 ballots higher than the unofficial tally on election night.
“We have asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the Ranked Choice Voting projection,” he said in a statement. “We remain confident that Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York because he put together a historic five-borough working class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city a safer, fairer, more affordable place.”
Adams has said multiple times he would accept the results of the election and support whomever emerged as the Democratic nominee.
“People ask all the time are you going to accept the outcome?” he said last week. “Darn right I am.”
Wiley, who finished in second place last week with 22.2 percent, fell to third before being eliminated in the rankings. She trailed Garcia by less than 1 point, however, meaning that the leaderboard could easily change once again when the paper ballots are opened. And with such tight margins, she did not concede.
“I said on election night, we must allow the democratic process to continue and count every vote so that New Yorkers have faith in our democracy and government,” she said in a statement. “And we must all support its results.”
Her voters appeared largely to support Garcia over Adams, delivering the former sanitation commissioner enough votes to come within striking distance of first place.
Fourth place went to Andrew Yang — who had campaigned with Garcia in the days before last week’s primary and urged his supporters to rank her second.
Tuesday’s results, however, showed Garcia was the prime beneficiary of Yang’s elimination, suggesting the duo’s alliance swayed Yang’s supporters.
When Yang was nixed in the tenth round, his votes boosted Garcia and Adams by roughly 6 points each. Wiley got just 3 points.
“If we don’t win but we help elect Kathryn Garcia, that’s a pretty good outcome,” Yang campaign co-manager Chris Coffey said of the candidate’s thinking when he joined the accord.
An Arizona tourist died and his wife was rescued Friday after their vehicle got two flat tires and they went missing in Death Valley National Park in California.
Alexander Lofgren, 32, and Emily Henkel, 27, were found on a steep ledge near Willow Creek in the desert park, but Lofgren was dead, according to a statement from the Inyo Creek Sheriff’s Office.
Henkel was flown to Lemoore Naval Air Station for treatment, and there was no immediate word on her condition.
The Tucson residents, described as experienced campers, failed to return Sunday from a camping trip and were reported missing Tuesday.
Authorities searched hotels and major tourist attractions along a highway and checked Lofgren’s back-country itinerary.
On Wednesday, park staff found the couple’s missing Subaru. According to the Sheriff’s Office, a note in the car stated: “Two flat tires, headed to Mormon Point, have three days’ worth of water.”
That proved to be “a crucial tip in directing search efforts,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
On Thursday, the couple was spotted from the air, but crews couldn’t hoist them up and weren’t able to reach them in the remote area until shortly after 11:30 a.m. Friday, authorities said.
The cause of Lofgren’s death is under investigation.
“This has been a tremendously difficult operation in a very unforgiving geographic area of Inyo County, I sincerely hope for healing and recovery for all involved,” Sheriff Jeff Hollowell said in the statement.
Death Valley, in the Mojave Desert in eastern California, is one of the hottest and driest places in the world. It had highs in the 90s this week.
The rugged park has claimed several lives over the years. In January, an experienced climber who was descending a canyon plunged to his death when he was caught in a rockslide.
Questions are mounting in Afghanistan after two senior Taliban leaders — the group’s supreme leader and new deputy prime minister — have vanished from public view, sparking speculation one was killed in a shootout with rivals.
The Taliban on Tuesday denied that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was only named deputy prime minister last week, had been killed or injured in a clash.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen claimed Baradar had issued a voice message rejecting the claims.
“He says it is lies and totally baseless,” Shaheen tweeted.
The Taliban also released footage that supposedly showed Baradar at meetings in the city of Kandahar, but it was not immediately clear when the video was shot.
It follows days of rumors that Baradar’s supporters had clashed with those of Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the Haqqani network that has been blamed for suicide attacks throughout the war.
There were also reports he had been killed in a fight with another Taliban leader over how to divide the new government’s ministries, according to the Guardian.
The group’s supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, also hasn’t been seen in public since the Taliban seized control of Kabul a month ago,REUTERS
The speculation surrounding Baradar’s death also comes after rumors of internal rifts in the Taliban just one month after they seized control of the country.
The Taliban have repeatedly tried to deny reports of internal division without the group.
Baradar, the feared Taliban co-founder who was once nicknamed “Baradar the Butcher,” was widely thought to be the leader of the new Taliban government.
Taliban fighters of the Badri 313 military unit stand guard at the airport in Kabul.Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
Meanwhile, the group’s supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada hasn’t been seen in public since the Taliban seized control of Kabul a month ago.
A spokesperson denied rumors of his death, the Guardian reports.
The speculation may have been fueled by the Taliban’s own track record after they hid the death of the group’s founder, Mullah Omar, for two years.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen claimed Baradar had issued a voice message rejecting the claims of his death.Sergei Savostyanov/TASS/Getty Images
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was met with boos from protestors in his city last summer after saying he didn’t support abolishing the police.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was met with boos from protestors in his city last summer after saying he didn’t support abolishing the police.
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As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin awaits sentencing after his conviction on three counts of murder in the death of George Floyd, policymakers in Minneapolis are trying to figure out how to improve policing.
Concurrently, the Justice Department has launched an investigation into the city’s police department to address possible patterns of discrimination and excessive force.
“We very much welcome the investigation,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told All Things Considered on Wednesday. “I was on the phone with the DOJ earlier today, and I believe strongly that it’s an opportunity to continue working towards that deep change and accountability that we know that we need in the Minneapolis department.”
The MPD has been under scrutiny for the last year, but Black people’s grievances against the department go back decades. Now, the city council is mulling giving voters an option on the ballot this November to replace the police department outright with a new entity based around public health.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview Highlights
In your view has there been a pattern of unlawful, unconstitutional policing in Minneapolis?
We’ve certainly had issues in our Minneapolis Police Department, like many other police departments throughout our country. And now I feel like we’ve reached a point when people are pushing very clearly for change. We’re making sure that the precision of our actions right now match the precision of the harm that has been inflicted over quite some time. And let’s be clear, we’ve got a mandate right now for that change. These cycles of trauma and tragedy, they’re not going to interrupt themselves, so we need to act.
Let’s stay with the changes that you would like to see happen. What are your prioritizing?
There have been a litany of changes that have already taken place. There are also more changes that are underway and that need to happen. Our Black community continues to demand these changes of the highest order. And that’s everything from the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act at the federal level, that’s state law changes and we need safety beyond policing as well. Noting that not every single 911 one call needs response from an officer with a gun.
The Minneapolis City Council is working to give voters an option on the ballot to eliminate the police department. Now in past you have not supported moves like that. Where are you now?
I very much support a comprehensive strategy to public safety that includes the aspects that I just talked about, whether it’s a mental health co-responder approach or social workers or individuals that have experience working with those experiencing homelessness. That’s important and that doesn’t need to have response from an officer. The part where we diverge is twofold. One, I do not believe we should be defunding/abolishing the police department in a way that we would be significantly reducing the already very low number of officers that we have on a per capita basis in Minneapolis. And two, I don’t support a move that would have the head of public safety or the chief of police report to 14 individuals. I believe that that diminishes accountability and it clearly diminishes the ability to provide clear direction.
How are you thinking about helping your city heal?
Our city has gone through a barrage of trauma over this last year, in many respects culminating in the trial and the verdict that we just saw yesterday. This is a moment perhaps centuries in the making — a centuries in the making reckoning around racial justice. And also, I want to note that we don’t want to shortchange that moment in a way that we limit the conversations to simply aspects of policing. The conversation needs to be about economic inclusion. It needs to be about rights in housing. We need to be making clear moves towards racial equity in every shape and form, towards justice and to healing. And that can’t simply focus on policy reforms and policing itself. Of course, that’s part of it. But we need to go well beyond.
Karen Zamora, Elena Burnett and Courtney Dorning produced and edited the audio interview. Mano Sundaresan adapted it for Web.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was cheered Saturday by a crowd at the Delaware Democratic Party dinner where he said he has the “most progressive record of anybody running.” He quickly corrected himself and said, “anybody who would run” — and then added, “I didn’t mean it.”
Biden is one of the last high-profile holdouts in the race for the Democratic nomination after former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced Thursday that he was running for president. Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told CBS News podcast “The Takeout” recently that Biden is “95 percent” ready to run for president and an announcement should be coming “in the coming weeks.”
Some of the Democrats who have already jumped into the race have highlighted their progressive records, especially Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Biden has faced criticism from the left-wing of the Democratic party, especially after he called Vice President Mike Pence a “decent guy.” He acknowledged in his speech Saturday that he gets criticized by the “new left,” but he said “we don’t treat the opposition as the enemy.”
“We Democrats, we choose hope over fear, we choose unity over division, and we choose truth over lies,” Biden said. “Folks it’s still our century, we have to remember that.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the First State Democratic Dinner in Dover, Delaware, on Sat. March 16, 2019.
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Biden also repeatedly railed against President Trump for stoking division and anger.
“As Americans, we are much bigger than ourselves and this president snares at those values and thinks that we are weak, but he is wrong … it is these values that make our country strong and you can’t define any American by religion race or gender,” Biden said.
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Rafael Correa se refirió al video que causó polémica en su habitual programa de los sábados.
“Por hacerme mal”.
Así calificó el presidente ecuatoriano, Rafael Correa, a un video en el que afirma que mandará a detener a quien altere el orden público en Esmeraldas, una de las provincias golpeadas por el terremoto de magnitud 7,8 del 16 de abril.
Las imágenes del mandatario del jueves pasado circularon en redes sociales y medios de comunicación provocando reacciones de sorpresa, molestia e indignación, aunque también varios usuarios defendieron la actitud de Correa en medio de la crisis provocada por el terremoto.
El mandatario ecuatoriano, según informó Paúl Mena Erazo, colaborador de BBC Mundo en Ecuador, se refirió al incidente durante su programa habitual de los sábados.
“Por hacerme mal, hay un video dizque ordenando a los pobres damnificados que se callen o los detengo. Y cortan el video porque después la gente aplaude“, señaló Correa.
Manejo de conflictos
El jueves, Rafael Correa fue captado por cámaras y celulares mientras se dirigía a un grupo de víctimas del terremoto que lo rodeaba.
“Aquí nadie me pierde la calma, nadie grita o lo mando detenido. Sea joven viejo, hombre o mujer. Nadie me empieza a llorar o a quejarse”, afirmó de acuerdo a los videos.
“Hay que mantener un gran liderazgo”, expresó Correa este sábado y añadió que “en zonas de desastre, cuando la gente está en shock, nerviosa, se necesita poner mucha calma, guardar mucho la cabeza fría, mantener mucho el orden o las consecuencias pueden ser terribles”.
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Esmeraldas es una de las regiones que se vio afectada por el terremoto del 16 de abril.
El mandatario reiteró que tiene conocimientos en manejo de situaciones de en zonas de desastre, incluso con cursos internacionales.
También habló de ser “realistas, eficientes, eficaces en esta crisis”.
Los informes más recientes señalan que el terremoto que golpeó Ecuador el 16 de abril provocó más de 600 muertes.
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
(CNN) – Hillary Clinton llamó a la proliferación de noticias falsas “una epidemia” hablando en público el jueves, en una de sus primeras apariciones desde que perdió las elecciones presidenciales.
Las noticias falsas, que expanden teorías de la conspiración y encuentran una gran caja de resonancia en internet, se volvieron prominentes en torno a la campaña electoral de 2016 y desde entonces millones han leído sobre el “Pizzagate”, una teoría falsa que decía que Hillary Clinton y su jefe de campaña John Podesta lideraban una red de abuso sexual de menores en una pizzería en el centro de Washington.
Clinton dijo que la propagación de noticias falsas, que “inundan las redes sociales”, es una tendencia que “puede tener consecuencias en el mundo real”.
Clinton no mencionó el “Pizzagate”, pero sus comentarios parecían hacer referencia directamente a la noticia falsa, que llevó a un hombre con un rifle de asalto a la Comet Ping Pong, la pizzería de Washington.
“No se trata de la política o de partidismo. Hay vidas en riesgo, la vida de la gente común que simplemente trata de hacer su trabajo, contribuir con sus comunidades”, dijo Clinton. “Es un peligro que debe ser abordado rápidamente.
Clinton también habló con el dueño de Comet Ping Pong, de acuerdo con uno de sus colaboradores. Una portavoz del propietario, James Alefantis, dijo sin embargo que no habló ni recibió contacto de Clinton.
Clinton respaldó “la legislación bipartidista” que busca dar al Congreso más poder para responder a la “propaganda extranjera”, una aparente referencia al papel de Rusia en la financiación de algunas de las noticias falsas, según dos estudios, con el objetivo de influir en la política estadounidense.
“Es imperativo que los líderes tanto en el sector privado como en el sector público protejan nuestra democracia y las vidas inocentes”, dijo Clinton.
Desde su derrota, Clinton se ha mantenido lejos de las luces públicas, pero a menudo se ha visto en los alrededores de su casa en Chappaqua, Nueva York.
En el jueves participó en un homenaje a Harry Reid, quien anunció su retiro tras casi 30 años en el Senado.
Clinton bromeó con que su discurso en homenaje a Reid “no era exactamente el discurso en el Capitolio que espera dar después de la elección”.
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Nabila fue encontrada desmayada a tres cuadras de su casa en la madrugada del sábado.
Primero fue golpeada hasta desmayarse. Luego le sacaron los ojos y abandonaron en la calle.
Así encontraron a Nabila Rifo en la madrugada del sábado, apenas a tres cuadras de su casa, en la comunidad de Coyhaique, en la región de Aysén, en el sur de Chile.
Y este miércoles, aquella localidad siguió en vivo por la radio la presentación de cargos contra Mauricio Ortega, expareja de Rifo y el único sospechoso del brutal ataque que tiene conmocionado a Chile.
Rifo es una mujer de 28 años y madre de cuatro niños, dos de ellos con Ortega.
La encontraron con el cráneo y los dientes fracturados.
La comunidad coyhaiquina reaccionó con espanto, indignación y dolor ante un caso que no tiene precedentes en la región.
Situación
Mientras Nabila Rifo era internada con ventilación mecánica en el Hospital Regional de Aysén, los vecinos se juntaron en las calles bajo los gritos de “respeto y justica” y prendieron velas por su recuperación.
Poco después, la noticia del brutal ataque contra Rifo conmocionó a todo el país provocando varias manifestaciones.
Debido a la gravedad de su estado, el martes fue trasladada en avión hasta el principal hospital público de urgencia de Santiago, la capital de Chile.
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16 casos de femicidio se reportaron en Chile en lo que va de 2016.
Este miércoles, la presidenta chilena Michelle Bachelet visitó el centro de salud donde atienten a Rifo y se reunió con el equipo médico a su cargo.
La víctima del ataque no llegó a percatarse de la visita pues permanece inconsciente.
Rifo se encuentra fuera de riesgo vital y sedada, “profundamente dormida” dicen los médicos.
El equipo que la trata dice que será sometida a varias cirugías la próxima semana y que su rehabilitación tomará un largo tiempo.
Relato
En Coyhaique, a más de 1.500 kilómetros de distancia de Santiago, Ortega enfrentó a la justicia en una pequeña sala judicial repleta de medios de comunicación.
En un desgarrador relato, la fiscalía expuso los hechos previos al ataque, a partir del relato de una serie de testigos, incluyendo los hijos mayores de Rifo, que tienen 10 y 12 años.
El acusado y la víctima vivían en una casa y taller mecánico, junto a los dos hijos mayores de Rifo y dos niños que ambos tienen en común, de 2 y 4 años.
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20 intentos de femicidio se reportaron en lo que va de 2016.
La noche del viernes, el principal sospechoso y la víctima se reunieron con otras personas en el lugar.
Cerca de las 4 de la mañana, según la fiscalía, el acusado se encontraba “borracho” y en “descontrol”.
De acuerdo al mismo relato judicial, los niños lograron comunicarse por teléfono con una hermana de la víctima, relatando que su padrastro “destruía cosas en la casa” y trataba de golpear a su madre.
Una tía los sacó del hogar.
Poco después, Nabila Rifo fue encontrada en la calle por un adolescente que dio aviso a Carabineros.
En el hospital confirmaron que no tenía globos oculares y en poco tiempo el caso fue conocido en todo el país.
Al momento de su detención, el principal sospechoso se declaró inocente, sin embargo la fiscalía lo acusa por dos delitos: femicidio frustrado y mutilación.
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Los actos de repudio por lo sucedido con Rifo se replicaron en Santiago y también en la población de Coyhaique, donde sucedió el ataque.
Junto a la mujer agredida, se encontró la llave de un auto que podría haber sido utilizada para arrancarle los ojos, según la causa judicial.
La Red Chilena Contra la Violencia Hacia las Mujeres organizó vigilias desde el martes frente al centro de salud en el que se encuentra Rifo.
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En lo que va del año, en Chile se reportaron 16 femicidios, casos en los que mujeres han muerto a manos de parejas o exparejas.
Se cuentan, además, al menos, otros 20 intentos frustrados.
No es la primera vez que una mujer pierde los ojos en este tipo de crimen.
El año 2013, un hombre fue abatido por carabineros tras haber atacado a tres personas y haber arrancado los ojos de su expareja, una mujer de 33 años, en la ciudad chilena de Punta Arenas.
El periodista Fernando del Rincón de la cadena internacional de noticias CNN en Español, habría sido nombrado director de prensa de la Alcaldía de San Cristóbal y asesor del movimientos separatista del Táchira, informó a través de su cuenta twitter el gobernador del estado Táchira, José Vielma Mora.
Del Rincón es conocido por ser presentador de la cadena estadounidense de noticias CNN en español. En marzo de este año visitó Venezuela para cubrir los sucesos violentos promovidos por la ultraderecha venezolana. También regresó al país sudamericano para hacer la cobertura de las elecciones municipales de la Alcaldía de San Cristóbal, para elegir al sustituto del alcalde Daniel Ceballos, quien en marzo fue destituido y condenado a prisión por negarse a cumplir sus responsabilidad de mantener el orden público en su municipio.
El Presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, se refirió el pasado jueves a la “campaña que varios medios de comunicación internacionales como CNN en Español, NTN 24 y el Miami Herald “sobre un virus que en el estado Aragua (centro-norte) estaba matando a decenas de venezolanos”.
Los diferentes medios internacionales informaron sobre un “virus que no se sabia si era el ébola u otro tipo de fiebre, creando una campaña de guerra psicológica”, denunció el mandatario venezolano.
Maduro sostuvo que se “tomarían acciones legales contra estos medios que violan las leyes de nuestra patria”, y solicitó a la Fiscalía General de la República que los órganos de justicia actúen con la severidad que la ley permita”. “Sólo la justicia va a permitir que estos hechos no se repitan”.
Maduro se refirió a la puesta en marcha de acciones internacionales de carácter judicial contra el canal de televisión CNN, porque “no puede quedar impune una empresa que actúa desde Atlanta (Estados Unidos) contra el país”.
Por su parte la ministra de Comunicación e Información, Delcy Rodríguez, también en su cuenta de la red social informó que del Rincón “salió de CNN en español con un amplio prontuario de mentiras y difamaciones”.
Fernando del Rincón nuevo director de prensa de la alcaldía de San Cristóbal y asesor del movimiento separatista del Táchira.
Fernando del Rincón, ferviente militante de la violencia de género, sale de CNN en español con amplio prontuario de mentiras y difamaciones
Fox News host Chris Wallace discusses Biden’s comments on the use of horses at the border and the true cost of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion bill.
New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a group of 17 attorneys general across the country in writing a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the treatment of Haitian nationals attempting to illegally cross the southern border.
“I have seen the devastating and disturbing photos of border patrol officers on horseback using whips to corral Haitian refugees seeking asylum, and it’s clear that they have not been shown the humanity and concern they are owed,” James, a Democrat, said in a statement Friday.
“We are a nation built by immigrants, and we cannot be callous and cruel towards individuals fleeing natural disaster, political instability, extreme poverty, and violence in their home country,” James added. “I stand with my fellow attorneys general in urging the Biden Administration to end the mistreatment of Haitians at the border and demonstrate the morality and compassion that they deserve.”
Several prominent Democrats and liberal groups across the country have expressed outrage over photographs of horseback Border Patrol agents rounding up fleeing illegal immigrants from Haiti at the southern border and claimed that the agents were “whipping” the migrants.
“This is beyond repulsive,” MSNBC anchor Joy Reid tweeted in response to the viral images. “Are these images from 2021 or 1851??”
President Biden pledged that the agents responsible would “pay” for their actions, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that those involved were contributing to “systemic racism.”
Border Patrol officials and the photographer who took the picture have firmly rejected the characterization that agents were “whipping” the migrants.
“I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Paul Ratje, the man who took the controversial photos, said, explaining that the “whips” in question were actually the reins of the horse. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”
Brandon Judd, head of the National Border Patrol Council, also defended the agents.
“Nobody was struck by a rein. Not one person was struck by a rein. Not one person was run over by those horses,” Judd told Fox News. “They used the tactics they were trained to use, to do the job [Biden] sent them out to do — these are executive branch employees. He sent them out there to do the job, and now he’s criticizing them because his base wants them to.”
Fox News did not immediately receive a response after reaching out to the office of Attorney General James.
A camp of up to 15,000 illegal immigrants, many of them Haitian, had gathered under the Del Rio Bridge in Texas over the past couple weeks but have now been dispersed both back into Haiti and into the United States. An estimated two out of three migrants in the camp have been released into the United States with notices to self-report to ICE offices.
BERLIN—The Trump administration has told the German government it would limit intelligence sharing with Berlin if Huawei Technologies Co. is allowed to build Germany’s next-generation mobile-internet infrastructure.
In a letter to the country’s economics minister, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard A. Grenell wrote allowing the participation of Huawei or other Chinese equipment vendors in the 5G project would mean the U.S. won’t be able to maintain the same level of cooperation with German security agencies.
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