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Police are investigating a possible sighting of ‘person of interest’ Brian Laundrie after receiving a report that someone resembling the fiancé of missing van-lifer Gabby Petito was spotted in a wooded area 500 miles from his Florida home on Tuesday. 

Sam Bass told police that he spotted a man who bore a resemblance to Laundrie while he set up his deer camera in the wilderness in Baker, Florida in Okaloosa County early on Monday morning.

But the local sheriff’s office said that it followed up on the report and ‘no one – and nothing – of note was located.’ 

‘The OCSO did its due diligence in response to this report and is wrapping up an extensive search that took place in this area to include nearby farmlands,’ the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

‘No one – and nothing – of note was located. The individual referenced in the post below has no known ties to our area.’  

The photo image provided to police by Bass shows a man with a backpack as he is walking through the woods in the Florida Panhandle.

The man appears to have the same physical features as Laundrie, including a slim build and a bald head.

There does not appear to be any resemblance between the backpack worn by the man spotted on Monday and that worn by Laundrie when he and his fiancee were stopped by police in Utah on August 12.

The backpack worn by the unidentified man appears to be light-colored while Laundrie was seen wearing a dark-colored REI Co-op Stuff Travel Pack when he and Petito were stopped by police in Moab, Utah last month. 

Sam Bass told police that he spotted a man (above) who bore a resemblance to Brian Laundrie while he set up his deer camera in the wilderness in Baker, Florida early on Monday morning

The photo image provided to police by Bass shows a man with a backpack as he is walking through the woods. The man appears to have the same physical features as Laundrie, including a slim build and a bald head

There does not appear to be any resemblance between the backpack worn by the man spotted on Monday (left) and that worn by Laundrie when he and his fiancee were stopped by police in Utah on August 12 (right). The backpack worn by the unidentified man appears to be light-colored while Laundrie was seen wearing a dark-colored REI Co-op Stuff Travel Pack when he and Petito were stopped by police in Moab, Utah last month

Laundrie is being sought for questioning by federal and local authorities in the disappearance of Long Island van-lifer Gabby Petito (pictured)

‘I’m not saying this is the guy but whoever was on my trail camera this morning in Baker, Fl strongly fits the description of Brian Laundrie, authorites have been contacted but people in the North West Florida area be on the look out,’ Bass wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday

The alleged sighting took place some 500 miles from Laundrie’s North Port, Florida home. North Port Police on Tuesday resumed a search for Laundrie at the Carlton Reserve, a swampy region where he is last believed to have visited before his disappearance last week

‘I’m not saying this is the guy but whoever was on my trail camera this morning in Baker, Fl strongly fits the description of Brian Laundrie, authorities have been contacted but people in the North West Florida area be on the look out,’ Bass wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday. 

The OCSO released a statement on Tuesday which read: ‘Yes we wanted to let you know we are aware of this report and are actively checking it out.

‘There is no confirmation of this information. Obviously we will keep everyone in the loop if and when there is anything to report.’  

Gabby Petito, 22, is pictured with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, in a YouTube video made to document their ‘van life’ trip

Petito was last seen alive on August 24 leaving a hotel with Laundrie in Salt Lake City, Utah, during the couple’s cross-country campervan trip

The pair had been travelling on a cross-country trip together since July 2, when they left New York. Petito was reported missing on September 11

Multiple sightings of Laundrie have been reported in recent days but it is not clear if any have been confirmed. 

Multiple people have reported sightings of a man fitting Laundrie’s description in the Mobile, Alabama area, with many posting about their suspicions online.

The city is more than 600 miles northwest of his home in North Port, Florida

Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Captain Paul Burch told Fox 10 News he does not believe Laundrie had any connections to the area.

Rumors of Laundrie’s whereabouts have since flooded social media, with some speculating he may have been a body which was found in a dumpster outside of a Walmart in Mobile over the weekend.

But police on Monday said they have been investigating the reports, but none have turned up anything of substance.

The body in the dumpster, they said, belonged to an unidentified homeless man. 

Authorities renewed their search on Tuesday of a swampy preserve area near Laundrie’s home.

Police in North Port, Florida, said Tuesday morning that investigators have returned to the Carlton Reserve to look for Laundrie, 23.

Investigators searched the 24,000-acre Florida nature preserve over the weekend without success.

Florida police have deployed ATVs and drones to a snake and alligator-infested swampland as they resumed their search for van-life woman Gabby Petito’s boyfriend Brian Laundrie

Cops in ATVs were seen heading into the 25,000 acre Carlton Reserve in Florida to search for Laundrie on Tuesday 

Four ATVs were seen heading to the swampy area in this photo, as part of the huge search operation to try and find Laundrie 

North Port Police shared these images showing officers sending drones operated by remote controls up in the air 

They focused on the area after Laundrie’s parents told police he may have gone there. 

Florida police deployed ATVs and drones to the snake and alligator-infested swampland. 

Commander Joe Fussell said on the video: ‘The terrain is very difficult. Essentially 75 per cent of it is under water.

‘And other areas that are dry, we’re trying to clear. So we’re expecting to get wet by the end of the day and check the entire area for Brian Laundrie.’

He also revealed the searchers ‘have multiple drone operators that have been sent out in numerous teams.

‘We also have drones that operate as higher altitude that has more advanced technology to zoom in and to see areas that are difficult to access on foot or in wheeled vehicles as well.’  

The body believed to be that of Petito was discovered at a Wyoming national park on Sunday.

On Monday, the FBI went to Laundrie’s parents’ home in North Port and removed several boxes and towed away a car neighbors said Laundrie’s mother typically used.

Police announced Tuesday its officers had returned to the ‘vast and unforgiving’ Carlton Reserve to continue the search

More than 50 searchers from at least eight law enforcement agencies led by the FBI are using huge swamp-busting amphibious vehicles, ATVs, bloodhounds, other K9s and drones

Laundrie and Petito had been living with his parents at the North Port home before the road trip on which she died.

ALABAMA COPS INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE LAUNDRIE SIGHTINGS 

Multiple people have reported sightings of a man fitting Brian Laundrie’s description in the Mobile, Alabama area 

Multiple people have reported sightings of a man fitting Laundrie’s description in the Mobile, Alabama area, with many posting about their suspicions online.

The city is more than 600 miles northwest of his home in North Port, Florida

Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Captain Paul Burch told FOX 10 News he does not believe Laundrie had any connections to the area.

Rumors of Laundrie’s whereabouts have since flooded social media, with some speculating he may have been a body which was found in a dumpster outside of a Walmart in Mobile over the weekend.

But police on Monday said they have been investigating the reports, but none have turned up anything of substance.

The body in the dumpster, they said, belonged to an unidentified homeless man.

The young couple had set out in July in a converted van to visit national parks in the West. 

They got into a fight along the way, and Laundrie was alone when he returned in the van to his parents’ home on September 1, police said.

In Wyoming, the FBI announced on Sunday that agents had discovered a body on the edge of Grand Teton National Park, which the couple had visited. 

No details on the cause of death were released. An autopsy was set for Tuesday.

‘Full forensic identification has not been completed to confirm 100% that we found Gabby, but her family has been notified,’ FBI agent Charles Jones said.

Laundrie has been named a person of interest in the case, but his whereabouts in recent days were unknown.

Petito’s father, Joseph, posted on social media an image of a broken heart above a picture of his daughter, with the message: ‘She touched the world.’ 

Petito was last seen alive August 24 leaving a motel in Salt Lake City in Utah with Laundrie during the cross-country campervan trip that she and Laundrie had set out on back in early July. 

She was then last heard from the next day when she called her mom.

Laundrie arrived back in North Port alone on September 1 in their van and Petito was reported missing September 11 by her family. 

Laundrie refused to cooperate with investigators or tell them when he had last seen his girlfriend and was named a person of interest in her disappearance last Wednesday – four days before a body was discovered.

Laundrie’s parents then made the stunning revelation Friday that he too had vanished and that they had not seen him since Tuesday – when he allegedly left their home with a backpack saying he was heading to the reserve. 

On Monday, a dramatic FBI raid was executed on the Laundrie family home and the 23-year-old’s silver Ford Mustang convertible was seized by authorities.   

Steven Berolino, an attorney for the family, told ABC7 the family went looking for Laundrie on Wednesday and found the Mustang, which had a police note on it demanding that the vehicle be removed from the area.

The family initially left the car there so Laundrie could drive it back, but they returned on Thursday to retrieve it, according to Bertolino.  

Gabby’s transit van was filmed by a Youtuber on August 27th at the Spread Creek campsite, and the remains were found not far from where the van was photographed

DailyMail.com exclusively found the location where Gabby’s transit van was filmed by a Youtuber on August 27th at the Spread Creek campsite

The undeveloped campground is popular with tourists though it has no water or trash service. Above, a sign points to the area

The memorial is placed near to where authorities found a body believed to belong to Gabby Petito, 22

A memorial of stones arranged in a cross pattern was spotted Monday evening at the Spread Creek Dispersed Campsite east of the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming

North Port Police Public Information Officer Josh Taylor said Tuesday morning search teams were up against the elements as they returned to the nature reserve to continue the ‘dangerous work’ to track down Laundrie.

Taylor said heavy rains the day before has left much of the swampland ‘waist-deep in water’.

‘Carlton Reserve is a vast and unforgiving location at times. It is currently waist-deep in water in many areas,’ he said. 

‘This is dangerous work for the search crews as they are wading through gator and snake infested swamps and flooded hiking and biking trails.’ 

As well as local police and the FBI, other agencies involved in the search include Florida Wildlife Commission, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, Sarasota Police Department and Venice Police Department.

The search began on Saturday, starting at the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park which is linked to the Carlton Reserve.  

But the focus has now switched to covering the area closer to the city of Venice, along with adjoining lands, said Taylor. 

It is not clear whether authorities have receive intel directing them to this part of the reserve. 

Sarasota County Sheriff’s Deputies and FBI Agents are seen at the Carlton Reserve Tuesday morning amid the search

The nature reserve is about five miles from the home in North Port that Laundrie shared with his parents and Petito

North Port Police Public Information Officer Josh Taylor said Tuesday morning search teams were up against the elements as they returned to the nature reserve to continue the ‘dangerous work’ to track down Laundrie

‘A weekend ground search and aerial search Monday of the 25,000-acre preserve has yet to yield any answers, but we must press on,’ said Taylor. 

North Port Police tweeted photos of searchers assembling for a briefing early Tuesday, announcing the efforts are: ‘By land. By air.’

Photos show teams driving buggies through dense foliage and police officers using remotes to operate drones going up into the air.

Dozens of law enforcement vehicles were also seen at the entrance to the nature reserve. 

The reserve is currently closed until further notice while the search is ongoing. 

The renewed search follows the Laundrie’s home being busted by around 25 law enforcement officers Monday, the majority FBI agents wearing bulletproof vests and wielding drawn weapons.

Dailymail.com was up close to the action, just feet away as the FBI swooped on the single-story house – with shouts of ‘search warrant, search warrant’ clearly heard and the area declared a crime scene.

An FBI team in tactical gear – carrying a battering ram, a blast shield and with weapons drawn – lined up along the wall close to the front door. 

Seconds later other agents swiftly led Laundrie’s parents Christopher Laundrie, 62, and wife Roberta, 55, out of the home and into a waiting black Dodge Caravan minivan.

The FBI team outside then swarmed into the house, followed by other agents, some wielding rifles while other agents checked outside areas.

At one point, it appeared they might be looking for Laundrie. Five agents – one with a blast shield – surrounded a lid-topped storage before the lid was carefully lifted and an agent deliberately pointed his pistol down inside. 

After 10 minutes the Laundries were allowed back in their home, looking solemn and with their heads down. They were not handcuffed.

The couple’s camper van top, which was sat on stilts on their driveway, was also searched – before Laundrie’s Ford Mustang was towed away for forensic examination.

Agents spent five hours meticulously going through the property before leaving with boxes and boxes of evidence. 

Over in Wyoming, a makeshift memorial of white stones arranged in a cross was seen Monday evening in the spot where the human remains are thought to have been discovered at the weekend.  

The spot with the stone crosses is just east of Grand Teton National Park where law enforcement had been searching for Petito. It is not clear when the memorial was arranged.  

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Ferraz: provisional measure fails to observe agreements with other countries

São Paulo – Provisional Measure 627, from 2013, which alters the taxation regime for foreign subsidiaries of Brazilian enterprises, renders international agreements for preventing double taxation of investment void. So says the tax attorney Luiz Felipe Ferraz, who gave a lecture on the matter alongside his colleague Flávio Mifano at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce this Tuesday (15th), the same day the measure was passed by the Federal Senate. Both work for the law firm Mattos Filho, which specialises in business law.

“The provisional measure has rendered the agreements extinct,” said Ferraz. Although it does not openly revoke the treaties, in practice, the ruling “invalidates what Brazil had agreed upon with other countries.” The reason is that the measure allows the Federal Revenue to levy tax on profit by Brazilian companies with foreign subsidiaries even if the funds do not undergo nationalization.

The measure alters the tax mechanism, which is no longer levied on the profits remitted to the headquarters in Brazil or the earnings distributed to shareholders in the country, but rather is based on “equity equivalence.” As per this model, increased equity of the subsidiary represented by return on capital is deemed taxable. In other words, if the subsidiary is worth US$ 100 and had US$ 40 in profit, the Federal Revenue considers that equity has increased from US$ 100 to US$ 140, and the tax is levied on the difference, prior to any remittance or distribution of earnings.

Anti-double taxation agreements allow companies to pay income tax only in one of the countries it operates in, either that of the headquarters or that of the subsidiary. The situation remains the same, in practice, regarding countries with which Brazil sustains no treaties, but otherwise, the Brazilian Federal Revenue will be able to monitor equity gains in foreign countries and tax them, even if the company has already paid taxes in the country where the subsidiary is based.

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Mifano spoke on foreign investment in Brazil

 The provisional measure does not change how operations by foreign companies in Brazil or remittances by natural persons are treated, but the attorney believes it gets in the way of a relatively recent process of internationalization of Brazilian companies. “The measure pulls the rug from under Brazilian companies operating abroad, as concerns competitiveness. “The ‘Brazil cost’ [cost of doing business in Brazil] is now being exported,” he said. “It will lead to a deterioration of the scenario for Brazilian investment abroad,” he added.

Ferraz noted that the measure goes against the grain of other countries. European countries, for instance, do not levy tax on earnings obtained by their companies overseas, and the United States only charge whenever the profit is actually distributed, but not when the company reinvests the earnings.

The Arab Brazilian Chamber president, Marcelo Sallum, said he has recently attended events in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and noted that these countries boast a “rather fabourable scenario” as pertains to preventing double taxation of international businesses. “We are seeing the exact opposite take place here,” he said.

To the Arab Brazilian Chamber CEO, Michel Alaby, Brazil is “moving away from the route of emerging countries” with regard to foreign investment. “It is worrisome, because the government is only thinking in terms of tax collection, and failing to consider business internationalization,” he said. Ferraz believes the “true foundation” of the measure is indeed “collection-oriented.”

Few agreements

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Sallum (2nd from left to right): the country is going against the grain

Sallum added that Brazil sustains only 25 international agreements for prevention of double taxation. The country does not possess a tradition of seeking out treaties of this kind, but this is a very important issue for Arab countries, on the other hand, especially the Gulf ones, because they are heavy foreign investors, and are not interested in seeing their gains dwindle down as a result of tax payments.

“We can see that those countries are interested [in investing in Brazil], but the opportunities are passing us by. It is somewhat frustrating,” said Sallum.

The provisional measure had already been passed by the House of Representatives, and now is only pending approval from president Dilma Rousseff before it becomes a law.

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum

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Ahora la SIDE mandó una carta documento a NOTICIAS para frenar la publicación

Lo ordenó Parrilli luego de que la revista publicara la lista de los 138 espías K. Amenaza con iniciar “acciones penales”

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La ex SIDE volvió a amenzar a NOTICIAS con parar la salida de la revista e iniciar acciones legales. Esta vez recurrió a un método más formal. Cerca del mediodía un empleado del correo se presentó en el edificio donde funciona la redacción con una carta documento firmada por el área legales de la Secretaría de Inteligencia.

El objetivo de la SI apunta a frenar la salida de NOTICIAS. Sospechan que la próxima edición podría revelar más información de los 138 nuevos espías K que nombró el secretario de Inteligencia, Oscar Parrilli, con la supervisión del hijo presidencial Máximo Kirchner.

La carta documento tiene el mismo texto que la notificación que llegó el viernes 13 a la redacción de la revista y lleva la firma del director de Asuntos Jurídicos de la ex SIDE, José María Padilla. En el escrito amenazan a NOTICIAS con ir a los “tribunales federales competentes” en el caso de que la publicación no desista de seguir revelando información referida a los flamantes espías.

La decisión de ir contra la revista fue tomada por Parrilli, según se lee en la primera oración de la carta documento: “Dirijo la presente por indicación del señor Secretario de Inteligencia de la Presidencia de la Nación en relación a diversas publicaciones realizadas en los distintos medios pertenecientes a su editorial, por medio de los cuales, se insinúa, especula, y hasta se afirma con la posible designación de una o más personas para ocupar cargos en la Secretaría de Inteligencia”.

Para la SI, la publicación de ese listado estaría violando los artículos 16 y 17 de la ley de Inteligencia 25.520 que prevee que quienes accedan a información de inteligencia deban “guardar el más estricto secreto y confidencialidad”. La violación de este ley prevé penas de prisión de uno a seis años.

En el último párrafo, la ex SIDE intima a NOTICIAS a que se “abstenga de proseguir con este tipo de publicaciones y extreme los recaudos necesarios a efectos de evitar la configuración del tipo penal descripto”.


 




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Progressives may be getting most of the media attention, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seems committed to keeping this small yet vocal group within the House Democratic caucus in check.

In a recent New York Times interview, Pelosi indicated she believes that Democrats’ road to success in 2020 will be paved down the middle, and not the far-left lane of political ideology.

I believe Pelosi is right.

PELOSI: TRUMP NEEDS TO LOSE SO DECISIVELY IN 2020 THAT HE WON’T CHALLENGE THE RESULTS

Pelosi is a pragmatist, while still holding her firm onto her principles. She is clear in her criticism of President Trump and his administration.

Yet Pelosi stops short of giving in to the calls for impeachment. She knows impeachment is both a futile exercise and bad politics for many Democrats in competitive areas across the country.

The speaker has declined to support both the Green New Deal and “Medicare-for-all.” But she has presented more realistic policy alternatives that also aim to improve the environment and health care.

Yet Pelosi stops short of giving in to the calls for impeachment. She knows impeachment is both a futile exercise and bad politics for many Democrats in competitive areas across the country.

Pelosi’s leadership role was challenged twice by fellow Democrats who voiced concerns that the veteran lawmaker was too old, too out of touch and too much part of the coastal elite to lead House Democrats now.

At one point, I was part of that chorus of Democrats who raised concerns about Pelosi and advocated for a new generation to take over the reins.

But Pelosi has shown by her actions as speaker the second time around that she is one of the few Democrats skilled and savvy enough to take on President Trump. She understands that in order to hold onto the majority, House Democrats cannot be saddled by controversial votes that could alienate the electorate back home.

Pelosi’s approach is the right one to win both the House of Representatives and the White House. Democrats cannot win without bringing Trump supporters back into the fold.

It’s hard to convince a Trump voter to have an open mind if all that Democrats stand for is attacking or impeaching Trump. Independent voters are also key to any campaign’s success. Embracing far-left policies could also alienate this key voter block.

It is hard to tell if enough House members and candidates, or Democratic presidential hopefuls, will heed the sage advice Pelosi is giving. If they don’t, it could spell doom in 2020.

In her New York Times interview, Pelosi did not just say that Democrats need to “own the center-left” and the “mainstream” to win. She also said Democrats need to follow this formula to win big in the next election because she fears that President Trump will not accept the outcome if Democrats do not win decisively.

This is a striking statement, mostly because there are indications it is true. President Trump has a pattern of indicating that he is skeptical about election outcomes, especially if they are close.

In 2016, Trump remarkably said he would accept the results of the presidential election if he won. Over the last several years, Trump has made a variety of statements undermining the integrity of the electoral process and planting seeds about possible voter fraud in the minds of the American people.

For example, Trump tweeted about ballots supposedly being foraged in Florida after the gubernatorial and Senate races were too close to call.  Even before Election Day, the president was tweeting about the possibility of illegal voting occurring in the midterms.

So it’s no wonder that Pelosi was concerned that Trump would have challenged a Democratic House majority if it were achieved by a slim margin.

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I am both saddened and angered that our political system is so dysfunctional that the outcome of duly administered elections – the backbone of our representative democracy –  can be so easily undermined or dismissed that winning an election is not enough.

We’re now told you have to win big to prove you deserve to be there. I wonder what George W. Bush and Al Gore would think.

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São Paulo – Last year, the Brazilian photographer Gabriel Chaim saw up close some of the more than four million children that were affected by the internal conflicts in Syria, which started in March 2011. Seeing these children in their own countries and also in the refugee camps, Chaim reveals a bit of the daily lives of those who lost their homes, the right to go to school and have a normal childhood. Part of this work may be seen in the exhibit Zaatari – Children of the War, on show until February 07, in Belem, city in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pará.

Gabriel Chaim

For the photographer, Syrian children have lost their innocence

 Chaim came to Syria with the help of the NGO Syrian Team for Progress and Prosperity, which helps children victims of the war. He had already covered conflicts in Egypt during the fall of president Mohammed Morsi, in July 2013, but says it was the first time he witnessed a war.

“You are in danger 24 hours a day. Every day you think something is going to happen and you are going to die. Fear is your worst enemy,” says Chaim, about his experience in Syria. The photographer stayed in the country from September to November of last year, following the rebels, but since the beginning of 2012 he has worked registering refugees in the Middle East.

“I didn’t go there to photograph the conflict,” he says about the days he spent in Aleppo. “I went there to photograph the hope that arises from the ruins. I wanted to register the story of people who lost everything,” he explains. Chaim says he would spend the day at the NGO headquarters, “a semi-bombed house”, according to him. “I searched for more factual news and the NGO tried to give me a minimum of safety.” To support himself, he sold his pictures to communication vehicles in Brazil and abroad.

Chaim started taking pictures of refugee camps in the Middle East in the beginning of 2012, for his project Kitchen4life. As well as a photographer, he is also a trained chef, and decided to unite his abilities. “I created Kitchen4life to show how the people living on society’s sidelines eat,” he tells. The focus of his project changed during his journey to Iran, where he met some refugees.

As of then, he started taking pictures in camps in other countries in the region, such as Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Turkey. The Zaatari camp, in Jordan, which houses 120,000 Syrians and after which his exhibit was named, was the most striking for Chaim, because of the friends he made there. Although his father is Lebanese, Chaim speaks little Arabic, but he made friends among the employees of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), who worked in the camp.

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Children in the Al Zaatari camp, in Jordan

 “Children in Syria live the moment. They know they are in danger, and are capable of explaining in details what is death,” states Chaim. “They have lost their innocence and have the responsibilities of adults. They fight for something many people give little thought to, which is freedom,” he says.

Before starting his project with refugees, Chaim, who is 32 years old and was born in the city of Oriximiná, also in the state of Pará, worked for one year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, taking pictures of luxury restaurants.

Chaim is to go back to Syria next month, to finish a documentary he is making about his work in the region. The exhibit currently in Belem has 25 images of Syrian refugees, both in their country as in refugee camps. After Belem, the exhibit will go to São Paulo and then Rio de Janeiro.

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Zaatari – Filhos da Guerra (Zaatari – Children of the War)
Until February 07
Venue: Gotazkaen Estudio
Rua Ó de Almeida, 755, Belém, Pará
Mondays to Fridays, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Free

*Translated by Silvia Lindsey

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La Policía británica está buscando a “tres hombres armados con cuchillas de 12 pulgadas” que luego de atropellar a varios peatones en el puente de Londres, bajaron del vehículo y caminaron en dirección a Borough High Street -donde se encuentra el Borough Market- apuñalando a algunas personas que encontraban por el camino, informó una testigo a la BBC.

Además se investigaba otro incidente ocurrido en la zona de Vauxhall, a varias cuadras del lugar. La Policía confirmó que se trata de un caso de apuñalamiento pero no está conectado con lo ocurrido en el puente de Londres ni en Borough Market, que es investigado como ataque terrorista.

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Sobre el ataque en el puente de Londres, un policía en el lugar informó a la BBC que hubo “más de una fatalidad”.

La Policía de la capital británica ha pedido a la gente que esté en las áreas de la ciudad afectadas que busque un lugar seguro. En su cuenta de Twitter, ha pedido a los ciudadanos que, en caso de no saber adónde ir, se esconda y silencie el celular.

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Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to appear before three congressional committees this week before he heads to jail to serve a sentence for tax evasion and lying to Congress. On Tuesday, Cohen will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. On Wednesday, he will go before the House Oversight Committee. And on Thursday, he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee.

It would be a great service if the Cohen appearances helped increase the store of public information on the Trump-Russia furor. But even though Cohen is a key figure in the matter — his name is mentioned 24 times in the so-called Trump dossier — the hearings appear designed to prevent the public from learning anything new about the Russia matter.

First, two of the three hearings will be held in secret; both the Senate and House Intelligence committees plan to question Cohen behind closed doors. Those are the hearings that will delve into Russia. The hearing that is public, before House Oversight, is specifically structured not to touch on the Russia matter.

There is good reason for all the questioning to be public. Cohen is not a government official and has no classified information to share. His 24 mentions in the dossier have been publicly available for two years. His conviction on lying to Congress — specifically, his falsehood about the timing of Trump Tower Moscow discussions — is also public. His own case is over and done with, and he will soon be behind bars.

Furthermore, Cohen has already answered questions from the House Intelligence Committee, and all members, Democrat and Republican, voted to make those answers public. “There’s no reason to prevent him from testifying publicly since he previously spoke to us in an unclassified setting, and the Democrats supported our motion in the last Congress to publish our interview transcripts,” said Intelligence Committee ranking Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, a former chairman of the committee. (The Cohen transcript has still not been publicly released; GOP lawmakers say the intelligence community is dragging its feet on a routine pre-release review.)

Some might argue that with the investigation of Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller not yet closed — although there are reports that is coming soon — Cohen should not speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. But the fact is, on Feb. 6, Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff announced a new Russia investigation that will, if carried through, recover much of the same ground as Mueller. That means what Cohen has to say about the Russia affair is now the subject of an ongoing House investigation — the Schiff investigation — and the House owes it to the public to conduct the probe in public.

Instead, Schiff will keep Cohen’s answers under wraps.

Over at the Oversight Committee, the one that will be open, Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings has ruled the hearing will not be about Russia. “The scope of the Oversight Committee’s open public hearing will not include questions relating to the Intelligence Committee’s investigation of efforts by Russia and other foreign entities to influence the U.S. political process during and since the 2016 U.S. election,” Cummings wrote on Feb. 20. Also off the table, Cummings said, is “the counterintelligence threat arising from any links or coordination between U.S. persons and the Russian government, including any financial or other compromise or leverage foreign actors may possess over Donald Trump, his family, his business interests, or his associates.”

That’s pretty much the whole Russia story, and it won’t be told in Cummings’ hearing room. “The Cohen hearings are designed to keep the Russia collusion narrative alive by keeping key witness testimony hidden,” Oversight Committee Republican Rep. Mark Meadows told me in a text exchange.

What will the public Cohen hearings be about? After consulting with the Justice Department and with Schiff, Cummings released a list of topics that might be damaging or embarrassing to the president but would reveal little or nothing about the allegation that the Trump campaign and Russia conspired to fix the 2016 election. Among the approved topics: the Stormy Daniels payments; Trump’s compliance with campaign finance laws; Trump’s compliance with tax laws; Trump’s “business practices”; the Trump International Hotel in Washington; the “accuracy of the president’s public statements”; potential fraud by the Trump Foundation, and more.

Of course, Cummings is the chairman of the committee, and he can pick any topic he likes. And Congress can investigate the president’s business dealings as much as it chooses. But the combination of Cummings’ anything-but-Russia topic list and Schiff’s secrecy means that the public’s only chance to hear from Cohen will not touch the topic that has dominated the Trump presidency and American politics for more than two years.

The only people who might throw a wrench in the works are Oversight Committee Republicans. They are free to ignore Cummings’ directive and ask Russia-related questions. Cohen has long denied key dossier allegations, but what can he add today? What about the infamous Trump Tower meeting? The Trump Tower Moscow matter? Any other Russia issues?

“We’re going to ask whatever we want to ask,” said one committee Republican late Monday.

Cohen might not answer the questions, and the chairman might take Cohen’s side, but Republicans can at the least remind viewers that the Democrats who run the House, after talking Russia nonstop for two years, now don’t want to talk publicly about the subject, even with a star witness sitting in front of them.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-cohen-hearings-designed-to-keep-public-in-dark-about-russia

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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

A slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill — including progressives Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — on Monday proposed a 3% total annual tax on wealth exceeding $1 billion.

They also called for a lesser, 2% annual wealth tax on the net worth of households and trusts ranging from $50 million to $1 billion.

The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act aims at reining in a widening U.S. wealth gap, which has been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic.

“The ultra-rich and powerful have rigged the rules in their favor so much that the top 0.1% pay a lower effective tax rate than the bottom 99%, and billionaire wealth is 40% higher than before the Covid crisis began,” Warren said Monday in a statement.

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About 100,000 Americans — or, fewer than 1 in 1,000 families — would be subject to a wealth tax in 2023, according to Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists at the University of California, Berkeley.

The policy would raise at least $3 trillion over a decade, they found.

Warren called for the tax revenues to be invested in child care and early education, K-12 education and infrastructure.

Aside from Warren and Sanders, other co-sponsors of the legislation include: Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Edward Markey, D-Mass.; and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii. Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., are also co-sponsors.

The bill likely faces significant obstacles in the Senate, where Democrats hold the slimmest of majorities.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/01/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-propose-3percent-wealth-tax-on-billionaires.html

  • The first few months of 2019 have resulted in multiple vetoes by President Donald Trump, as Republicans buck leadership over frustrations with administration policy.
  • There have been several instances where the administration has been embarrassed over squabbles in the Senate.
  • With massive trade negotiations on the table, more fighting between Trump and the Senate are likely.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration has continued to be volatile and chaotic in 2019, which should come as no surprise taking the past several years into consideration.

But one development which only began in 2019 is a constant stream of embarrassments for the White House coming out of the Senate.

There have been a flurry of resolutions rebuking the president on signature policies carried over the finish line by Republicans joining a united minority of Democrats looking to resist the president at all costs. That has made headaches for the White House and could signal more trouble as the 2020 election cycle heats up, in which Senate Republicans have to defend 22 seats to keep their majority.

Read more:Republicans are furious over Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria

Right away in January when the new Congress began, lawmakers were in a bind. The longest partial government shutdown in United States history left senators on both sides of the political aisle fatigued. And the shutdown was entirely of Trump’s making, demanding Congress fund construction of his long-promised border wall, otherwise he would not sign anything to reopen the government.

But Trump’s stubbornness fell through when he signed a continuing resolution to reopen the government without a dime for additional border security. Congress then convened a bicameral conference committee to hash things out. Their conclusion was giving Trump a fraction of what he demanded for the border wall.

That prompted Trump to take action, declaring a national emergency to divert military funds for several billion dollars more to add physical barriers along the border. The move angered a large number of Republicans who cried out against former President Barack Obama’s use of executive power on immigration issues.

After Democrats crafted a resolution to terminate the national emergency declaration, Republicans joined in to rebuke the president. Vice President Mike Pence tried to broker a deal to stave off a Republican revolt and thoroughly embarrass Trump. The plan was to get Trump on board with a bill that would limit future use of emergency powers if they went along with this one. But Trump rejected that and the rebellion snowballed.

Trump ultimately vetoed the resolution, but not after witnessing more than half a dozen Republican senators vote for a resolution that tacitly accused him of abusing his authority.

The veto was the first of Trump’s presidency and came relatively early in his term. For context, Obama didn’t issue a single veto until the final year of his presidency.

Senate Republicans rebuked Trump after inaction on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Several days after the national emergency declaration fight that enveloped Capitol Hill and the White House, Trump found himself in the same spot having to push back on a bipartisan group of senators angry at his administration’s policies.

The Senate passed a resolution withdrawing US military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Part of this was due to genuine frustrations with how the Saudis have been handling the grueling war, but another was due to the Trump administration’s lax handling of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Read more:US senators furious with Saudi Arabia after classified briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel

Senators were furious over the Trump administration not properly briefing them on the circumstances of Khashoggi’s murder. Moreover, the administration continued its cozy relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, largely viewed as the architect behind the killing.

The resolution handily passed the Senate, with several Republicans joining all Democrats. Trump vetoed the resolution later in April, adding another to his record.

More fights are on the horizon

A big part of Trump’s agenda has been the crafting of his new North American trade agreement, the USMCA. His trade negotiations have also been a major point of contention among Republicans.

Republicans are traditionally staunch advocates of free trade policy, which Trump is not.

The Trump administration’s use of tariffs on various industries does more harm than good, Republicans say. And their deployment as a means of bringing other countries to the table is a serious political risk, as they could put Trump’s high economic approval in jeopardy.

The USMCA has already hit several roadblocks. Democrats are not on board with the plan, which one Republican senator characterized as essentially dead in the water.

“Obviously that ship has sailed and now we’re in a position where our Democratic colleagues are — I’m not a aware of a single elected Democrat member of Congress who’s endorsed this,” Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey told reporters in a February meeting. “Maybe you are but I’m not. I’m aware of many who have panned it.”

“So it’s not clear to me what the path forward is,” he added. “As I’ve warned the administration, there’s a lot of resistance from Democrats.”

Read more:Republicans and Democrats agree: Trump can’t just do what he wants with NAFTA

And if Trump tries to take things into his own hands regarding NAFTA, as he often threatens to do, he could be met with swift resistance from lawmakers in both parties.

Toomey said a unilateral withdrawal from NAFTA by the president would not only be illegal, but would plunge the US economy into chaos.

And Republicans already are not too fond of the USMCA. While US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been quietly meeting with lawmakers in the Capitol, little progress has been made.

“They don’t think they’re going to have enough votes on their side obviously to pass it. They don’t,” Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell told INSIDER. “Even if every Republican voted they still don’t have enough votes.”

While the rocky start to 2019 could get a whole lot worse, there are still many areas where Republicans enjoy Trump. Probably the largest are the administration’s economic successes, but further infighting and radical proposals could hurt those gains with an election around the corner.

Source Article from https://www.thisisinsider.com/trump-gop-republican-senate-increasingly-at-odds-2019-4

Source Article from http://noticias.univision.com/article/2041053/2014-07-29/mexico/noticias/un-fuerte-sismo-sacude-veracruz-mexico


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

On Thursday, the Senate gave President Trump a bipartisan slap on the wrist over his calls to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.

With bipartisan support, lawmakers approved an amendment to a broader Middle East policy bill that warned that “the precipitous withdrawal of United States forces from either country could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.”

The amendment, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., refrained from directly attacking the president by name but clearly targeted his isolationist foreign policy approach: “it is incumbent upon the United States to lead, to continue to maintain a global coalition against terror and to stand by our local partners.”

Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, McConnell further criticized Trump for his statements about defeating the Islamic State. He explained, “ISIS and al Qaeda have yet to be defeated, and American national security interests require continued commitment to our mission there.”

Those comments come after Trump declared that ISIS had been defeated and that he would be pulling troops from Syria and considering drawing down U.S. presence in Afghanistan.

Although Trump has walked back some of those comments and both acknowledged that ISIS remains a threat and slowed the timetable for troop withdrawals, the Senate vote signals continued concern about the president’s foreign policy missteps.

McConnell’s amendment, which does not have any enforcement bite, should be a warning for Trump: Even staunch Senate allies are wary of Trump’s potentially dangerous foreign policy moves. He should take those considerations to heart.

The United States, as clearly explained by intelligence leaders earlier this week, faces new and dynamic threats. To meet them, the president must base his policy positions off clear-eyed assessments and considerations of long-term impact. Senate leaders know this and, on Syria and Afghanistan, they did not see the leadership that they hoped for from Trump.

This time, the rebuke was a slap on the wrist. Next time, lawmakers might move to reclaim more power, signaling a much clearer break with the White House and further isolating the president from key allies on the Hill.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/senate-republicans-just-rebuked-trump-on-foreign-policy-he-should-listen

Autoridades estadounidenses detuvieron en Tucson, Arizona, a Roberto Romero López, ex secretario de Gobierno de Sonora durante la administración de Guillermo Padrés Elías, y a su esposa Mónica Robles Manzanedo.

Ambos se encontraban prófugos de la justicia y eran considerados como la “mano derecha” del ex mandatario estatal, quien está preso por haber incurrido en actos de corrupción.

La pareja de esposos era buscada por el Departamento de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos y por la Interpol desde febrero de 2016, en atención a una orden de aprehensión girada por un juez federal; además, contaban con ficha roja para ser detenidos y extraditados.

Se les acusa por el delito de tráfico de influencias en beneficio de sus empresas y en perjuicio de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Recursos Humanos, Pesca y Acuacultura. La Fiscalía Anticorrupción de Sonora también los acusa de enriquecimiento ilícito.

Trascendió que la detención de la pareja ocurrió cuando agentes de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP por sus siglas inglés) revisaron su estatus migratorio y notaron que tenían vencido su permiso para permanecer legalmente en Estados Unidos.

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Source Article from http://aristeguinoticias.com/2205/mexico/aprehenden-en-eu-a-ex-secretario-de-gobierno-de-padres/

El número total de visitas de videos en el canal de YouTube de la cadena RT ha superado los 4.000 millones. 

El número total de visitas de videos en el canal de YouTube de la cadena RT ha superado los 4.000 millones. De acuerdo con estos indicadores, RT retiene el liderazgo incondicional entre los canales de noticias internacionales, incluyendo a la CNN y la BBC.

Así RT es dos veces más visto que la CNN, casi tres veces más que Euronews y más de siete veces que los canales de noticias de la BBC.

“El futuro de los medios está ligado a Internet. Si llegas tarde a esta zona, no se pondrá al día. Desde el principio nos hemos centrado en el campo de las plataformas digitales, y es esta la clave de nuestro éxito”, dijo la editora en jefe de RT Margarita Simonián.

En el 2007, RT fue uno de los primeros canales de televisión rusos en comenzar a publicar su material en YouTube. En el 2011, los videos de RT han sido reconocidos como los videos de noticias más vistos de YouTube. Al año siguiente, el centro de investigación estadounidense The Pew ResearchCenter admitió que RT es el principal proveedor de contenido de noticias en YouTube. En el 2013 se convirtió en el primer canal de noticias en el mundo en alcanzar el nivel de 1.000 millones de visitas en YouTube.

En septiembre del 2016 RT ganó siete premios digitales europeos LovieAwards. Y en abril ganó el ‘Oscar de Internet’ en la votación internacional de espectadores Webby Awards, superando a la BBC, ABC, NBC y ‘The New York Times’.

Source Article from https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/222130-rt-batir-record-canales-noticias-youtube

Election officials in Georgia’s Fulton County told a local news outlet Sunday that a newly purchased Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashed that delayed the state’s third recount of the presidential election and technicians from the company “have been dispatched to resolve the issue.”

11Alive.com reported that the Georgia Secretary of State’s office is aware of the efforts to “resolve the problem.”

The report indicated that about 88% of the ballots in the state’s largest county have been counted and the recount will resume again on Monday. The deadline to complete the recount is Dec. 2.  

Joe Biden defeated President Trump by about 13,000 votes in the Peach State, but Trump and his legal team have challenged the results.

Trump has expressed frustration with state leaders over how both the election and vote count were handled and has been vocal in his criticism of top Republicans in the state.

Trump told Fox News on Sunday that Gov. Brian Kemp has done “absolutely nothing” to question the results and has also called Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger an “enemy of the people” for allowing what he called a “fraudulent system” to persist in the state.

Raffensperger certified the election result on Nov. 20, and Kemp signed off on it.

WSB-TV pointed to an op-ed that Raffensperger wrote last week where he said the election seemed as though it was “wildly successful” and “smooth.”

“This should be something for Georgians to celebrate, whether their favored presidential candidate won or lost. For those wondering, mine lost — my family voted for him, donated to him, and are now being thrown under the bus by him,” he wrote.

GEORGIA INVESTIGATES FLOODING THAT DELAYED VOTE COUNTING

The 11Alive report said the server that crashed was newly purchased but additional details were not immediately clear. Emails from Fox News to Dominion and Raffensperger were not immediately returned.

Trump and his supporters have insisted that he won the election and it is only due to widespread fraud that Biden was declared the winner. Trump’s critics say he clearly lost and has yet to provide evidence to suggest the contrary. 

Trump said in an interview Sunday that his Department of Justice has been “missing in action.” He also questioned the whereabouts of the FBI.

“You would think if you’re in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at. Where are they? I’ve not seen anything,” he said.

Last week, Michael Steel, a spokesman for Dominion denied claims that vote cast through the company’s systems were at risk of being altered. He said it is physically impossible to alter votes in the system.

DERSHOWITZ: TRUMP HAS ‘CONSTITUTIONAL PATHS’ TO PURSUE IN COURT CASES, WILL LIKELY COME UP SHORT

“Look, when a voter votes on a Dominion machine, they fill out a ballot on a touch screen. They are given a printed copy which they then give to a local election official for safekeeping. If any electronic interference had taken place, the tally reported electronically would not match the printed ballots. and in every case where we’ve looked at — in Georgia, all across the country — the printed ballot, the gold standard in election security, has matched the electronic tally,” he said.

Trump’s campaign launched several lawsuits challenging the voting systems and processes in a number of key battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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Sidney Powell, a high-powered lawyer who is investigating the election results, retweeted an order by Federal Judge Timothy C. Batten that orders the state to “maintain the status quo” of the voting machines in the state and ruled that these machines cannot be wiped or reset until further notice.

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer and the Associated Press contributed to this report

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dominion-server-crash-delays-recount-in-georgias-fulton-county-report