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Incredible GoPro footage takes you inside the gunfire-heavy raid that ended drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s six months on the run.

The video, obtained from Mexican authorities, looks as if it’s from an action movie. The camera follows the armed men as they storm the house, unleash grenades and bullets, and search room to room.

The Friday raid was called “Operation Black Swan,” according to the Mexican show “Primero Noticias.” Authorities decided to launch the raid Thursday after they got a tip about where Guzman was sleeping, the show reported.

Seventeen elite unit Mexican Marines launched their assault on the house in the city of Los Mochis at 4:40 a.m., “Primero Noticias” said.

They were met by about one dozen well-armed guards inside who were prepared for a fight, the show said.

The Marines moved from room to room, clearing the house. Upstairs they found two men in one room and found two women on the floor of a bathroom. All were captured, “Primero Noticias” said.

After 15 minutes, the Marines controlled the entire house, according to “Primero Noticias.”

In the end, five guards were killed and two men and two women were detained. One of the women was the same cook Guzman had with him when he was detained a couple years ago, according to “Primero Noticias.”

Eventually the marines determined that the only bedroom on the first floor was Guzman’s and they began pounding on the walls and moving furniture, finding hidden doors, the show said.

His room had a king-sized bed, bags from fashionable clothing stores, bread and cookie wrappers, and medicine including injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and cough syrups, the show said. The two-story house had four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There were flat-screen TVs and Internet connection throughout the house, according to “Primero Noticias.”

The Marines eventually found a hidden passageway behind a mirror, with a handle hidden in the light fixture. The handle opened a secret door, leading down into the escape tunnel, the show explained.

The escape tunnel was fully lit and led to an access door for the city sewage system, “Primero Noticias” said, adding that Guzman had at least a 20-minute head start on the Marines.

The address where Guzman was captured had been monitored for a month, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez has said. According to Gomez, Guzman and his lieutenant escaped through that drainage system.

“Primero Noticias” said it obtained surveillance footage showing Guzman and his lieutenant emerging from the manhole cover, where they then stole two cars to flee, the show said.

Guzman was finally caught when he and the lieutenant were stopped on a highway by Mexican Federal Police, the show said.

Authorities took them to a motel to wait for reinforcement. The men were then taken to Los Mochis airport and transfered to Mexico City.

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Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016.

Guzman is now back in prison as his lawyers fight his extradition to the U.S.

The drug kingpin escaped from the Altiplano prison near Mexico City on July 11, launching an active manhunt. When guards realized that he was missing from his cell, they found a ventilated tunnel and exit had been constructed in the bathtub inside Guzman’s cell. The tunnel extended for about a mile underground and featured an adapted motorcycle on rails that officials believe was used to transport the tools used to create the tunnel, Monte Alejandro Rubido, the head of the Mexican national security commission, said in July.

Guzman had been sent there after he was arrested in February 2014. He spent more than 10 years on the run after escaping from a different prison in 2001. It’s unclear exactly how he had escaped, but he did receive help from prison guards who were prosecuted and convicted.

Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was once described by the U.S. Treasury as “the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.” The Sinaloa cartel allegedly uses elaborate tunnels for drug trafficking and has been estimated to be responsible for 25 percent of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. through Mexico.

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WASHINGTON—Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said he would oppose his party’s roughly $2 trillion education, healthcare and climate package, a decision that likely dooms the centerpiece of President Biden’s economic agenda as currently written.

“This is a ‘no’ on this legislation,” Mr. Manchin said on Fox News Sunday. “I have tried everything.”

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of 17 U.S. missionaries, including children, was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident.

The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.

“This is a special prayer alert,” the one-minute message said. “Pray that the gang members would come to repentance.”

The message says the mission’s field director is working with the U.S. Embassy, and that the field director’s family and one other unidentified man stayed at the ministry’s base while everyone else visited the orphanage.

No other details were immediately available.

A U.S. government spokesperson said they were aware of the reports on the kidnapping.

“The welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad is one of the highest priorities of the Department of State,” the spokesperson said, declining further comment.

Haiti is once again struggling with a spike in gang-related kidnappings that had diminished after President Jovenel Moïse was fatally shot at his private residence on July 7, and following a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck southwest Haiti in August and killed more than 2,200 people.

Gangs have demanded ransoms ranging from a couple hundred dollars to more than $1 million, according to authorities.

Last month, a deacon was killed in front of a church in the capital of Port-au-Prince and his wife kidnapped, one of dozens of people who have been abducted in recent months.

At least 328 kidnapping victims were reported to Haiti’s National Police in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a total of 234 for all of 2020, according to a report issued last month by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti known as BINUH.

Gangs have been accused of kidnapping schoolchildren, doctors, police officers, busloads of passengers and others as they grow more powerful. In April, one gang kidnapped five priests and two nuns, a move that prompted a protest similar to the one organized for this Monday to decry the lack of security in the impoverished country.

“Political turmoil, the surge in gang violence, deteriorating socioeconomic conditions – including food insecurity and malnutrition – all contribute to the worsening of the humanitarian situation,” BINUH said in its report. “An overstretched and under-resourced police force alone cannot address the security ills of Haiti.”

On Friday, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to extend the U.N. political mission in Haiti.

The kidnapping of the missionaries comes just days after high-level U.S. officials visited Haiti and promised more resources for Haiti’s National Police, including another $15 million to help reduce gang violence, which this year has displaced thousands of Haitians who now live in temporary shelters in increasingly unhygienic conditions.

Among those who met with Haiti’s police chief was Uzra Zeya, U.S. under secretary of state for civilian security, democracy, and human rights.

“Dismantling violent gangs is vital to Haitian stability and citizen security,” she recently tweeted.

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CNN’s ratings-challenged “Reliable Sources” claims to examine the top media stories on a weekly basis, but left-wing host Brian Stelter gave MSNBC a pass on Sunday and ignored the liberal network being banned from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. 

In a brief statement before the court Thursday, Judge Bruce Schroeder addressed an incident in which a person who identified himself as an employee for MSNBC allegedly followed a sealed bus with blocked out windows as it left the courthouse to transport jurors to an undisclosed location. The story made immediate headlines but wasn’t mentioned during Stelter’s program as the CNN host continued his tradition of downplaying or dismissing stories that would put liberal news organizations in a negative light. 

CNN’s Brian Stelter. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for CNN)
(Kevin Mazur)

The man spotted following the bus identified himself as James J. Morrison – and he told investigators he was instructed to follow the vehicle, Schroeder added. The judge said Morrison claimed to be working under the supervision of an MSNBC producer based in New York. As a result, MSNBC was banished from the remainder of the trial. 

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NBC News eventually admitted Morrison was employed by the network as a freelancer, but claimed he “never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations, and never photographed or intended to photograph them.”

A major news network being shunned from a polarizing trial as it dominates the national news cycle would seem perfect for a program that claims to cover the media industry, but Stelter has a long history of focusing only on content critical of conservatives or non-liberal news outlets. 

MSNBC was not mentioned once during the hour-long program, according to a search of transcripts via Grabien Media. 

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MSNBC was banned from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial by Judge Bruce Schroeder. (Photo by Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Instead, Stelter treated viewers to segments on conservative media coverage of the Rittenhouse trial, an interview with left-wing “1619 Project” author Nikole Hannah-Jones, a promotional interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl about his new book on Donald Trump, a diatribe about “news whiplash,” and complaining that CNN can’t air trials related to the January 6. Capitol riot because cameras aren’t allowed in Federal court. 

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Stelter has had a hard time attracting viewers during the Biden era and set 2021 ratings lows on back-to-back weeks heading into Sunday’s episode. “Reliable Sources averaged only 645,000 viewers on Nov. 7 for its smallest audience of the year. It only garnered 76,000 viewers among the key demographic of adults age 25-54 on Nov. 14, for its smallest audience in the advertiser-coveted category. 

Stelter also ignored Liberty Media chairman John Malone, who sits on the Discovery Communications Inc. board of directors, declaring he wants CNN to revert back to nonpartisan journalism following the completion of a merger that would put the liberal network under the Discovery umbrella. 

Brian Stelter has a long history of shielding his tiny audience from media stories that make his liberal peers look bad. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

Earlier this month, the Washington Post corrected and removed large chunks of its own reporting on the discredited Steele dossier but Stelter ignored it.

In October, he failed to acknowledge CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s viral interview with podcast giant Joe Rogan, who forced Gupta to admit CNN should not have characterized Rogan’s use of ivermectin as “horse dewormer” amid his recovery from COVID. His show previously ignored a sexual harassment allegation against CNN host Chris Cuomo, when veteran TV producer Shelley Ross said the “Cuomo Prime Time” namesake groped her when they worked together at ABC News. 

Stelter has also glossed over the Washington Post’s major correction of its January report that accused Trump of urging Georgia election officials to “find the fraud,” the major MSNBC leadership shakeup, Toobin’s firing from The New Yorker following his Zoom call masturbation scandal, and the ousting of MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham after it was revealed he was moonlighting as a speechwriter for the Biden campaign.

In 2019, Stelter completely avoided the revelation that ABC News had spiked an investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.  

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Just before midnight local time, a buoy near Sand Point measured a rise in water level of about six inches. Another near Old Harbor on Kodiak Island measured just over eight inches.

A tsunami watch was also briefly issued for Hawaii and canceled a little over an hour later, Gov. David Ige said on Twitter.

In Kodiak, where the earthquake could be felt, tsunami sirens blared and people began moving to higher ground.

Perryville, Alaska, with a population of 113, is 57 miles northwest of the quake’s epicenter, the United States Geological Survey said. Anchorage, with a population of nearly 300,000, was about 500 miles north northeast.

Since 1990, there have been 17 earthquakes of 8.2 magnitude or higher, according to U.S.G.S. data.

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Full $1,400 payments are slated to go to those with adjusted gross incomes of up to $75,000 for individuals, $112,500 for heads of household and $150,000 for married couples filing jointly.

As with previous stimulus checks, the payments are reduced for those with income above those thresholds.

This time, however, the Senate has called to lower the income levels at which the payments get phased to zero.

Under those terms, the payments will be capped for individuals earning $80,000 in income, heads of household with $120,000 and married couples with $160,000.

Estimates indicate that change could make it so up to 12 million fewer adults may receive the stimulus money.

Another notable change is that dependents of all ages stand to be eligible for the payments. Previous checks have only includes those under 17.

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Este sábado en conferencia de prensa, el Ministerio de Salud Pública confirmó la existencia de un caso de dengue autóctono en Montevideo. El caso se presenta en una mujer que no viajó a ningún otro país. 

La muestra se analizó en el laboratorio del MSP y será enviada a uno del exterior. En las próximas horas el Ministerio comenzará a trabajar en la zona de Pocitos para controlar posibles criaderos. El ministro Jorge Basso aclaró: “Esta situación no nos encuentra desprevenidos. Podemos dar una respuesta integral”. 

El ministro Jorge Basso había dicho ayer dijo que Uruguay estaba “en un escenario” en el que “es altamente probable que en algún momento tengamos un caso autóctono” y que ésto podría ocurrir en los primeros seis meses de este año.

Explicó que hay un gran “número de viajeros” que en este verano se han trasladado a “zonas donde hay estos virus y muchas veces al ingreso al país vienen incubando la enfermedad, la desarrollan en el país, en ese momento el mosquito Aedes aegypti está en todo el territorio nacional, más concentrado en algunos departamentos que en otros, entonces la posibilidad de que ese vector pique a esa persona y a partir de ahí ese mosquito infectado pique a un ciudadano en el país, es altamente probable”.

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La Federación de Agencias de Noticias Árabes (FANA) anunció que renovará la retórica de los órganos informativos, a fin de garantizar el flujo de comunicación además de luchar contra la expansión terrorista en esa región. 

Así lo señaló el jeque kuwaití Mubarak Al Daij Al-Ibrahim Al Sabah, durante la 43° asamblea de la FANA. 

En ese sentido, el organismo de información árabe busca mayor cautela en su comunicación, en especial sobre hechos terroristas que ocurran en los países más afectados. 

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FANA convocó a sus miembros a beneficiarse de la denominada Estrategia Mediática Árabe para Combatir el Terrorismo, que ya fue aprobada por el Consejo de ministros de Información de esa comunidad de naciones, integrada por 22 estados, aunque Siria está suspendida desde 2011, destaca Prensa Latina. 

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En la misma, se trató el papel que juegan los medios digitales en la difusión de información precisa y confiable, tomando en cuenta que en la actualidad el sector de la prensa está más abierto. 

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En ese sentido, se habló de fortalecer y desarrollar la cooperación entre ese tipo de medios a fin de hacer florecer el futuro de la prensa árabe, mejorar sus estilos y mecanismos.

Asimismo, se refirió a la importancia de los jóvenes árabes, su potencialidad y las oportunidades que se deben brindar a los mismos.

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An Alabama woman who texted someone saying she might be in trouble around the time she disappeared last month was found dead in a shallow grave, police said.

The body of Paighton Houston, 29, was discovered Friday behind a home in Hueytown, which is southwest of Birmingham, the district attorney said. Houston was from Trussville, which is just northeast of Birmingham.

No arrests have been announced, and a cause of death was not released.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Houston family as they begin the grieving process,” Trussville police said in a statement.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is handling the death investigation, Trussville police said, and sheriff’s Chief Deputy David Agee saidthat Houston’s death had not yet been determined to be a homicide, AL.com reported.

Paighton Lane Houston.via Facebook

Lynneice Washington, district attorney for Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District, said the body was intact and exhumed from a “shallow hole” in a muddy back yard area.

Washington said the body was wrapped up in a cloth, according to video of a briefing from NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham. The station reported that the home near where the body was found is vacant.

“Whenever you find the remains of a person, it’s always hard, because there are family members attached to those remains,” Washington said. “… The only thing we can do at this point is to try and give them justice.”

Houston’s whereabouts had been unknown since Dec. 20, officials have said.

She was last seen leaving a bar in Birmingham, the Tin Roof, with two men, and appeared to leave willingly, police have said.

Family members have said they received a text from Houston saying she didn’t know where she was and feared she was in trouble. After that text, calls to Houston’s phone went straight to voice mail, WVTM has reported, and her bank account had not been accessed.

“Right now, we have a lot more questions than answers,” Agee, the chief deputy, said, according to AL.com. “But we hope to have those answers real soon.”

Gov. Kate Ivey had offered a $5,000 reward for credible information in the case, which added to another $5,000 reward offered by Crime Stoppers.

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A witness at Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial testified Monday that he confronted a rifle-toting Rittenhouse with a gun of his own to try to stop the bloodshed, and thought he was going to die as he closed in on the young man. Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, ended up getting shot and seriously wounded in the arm by Rittenhouse.

Grosskreutz went into action that night after seeing Rittenhouse kill a man just feet away — the second person Rittenhouse fatally shot that night.

“I thought the defendant was an active shooter,” Grosskreutz said, recounting how he pulled out the pistol he had holstered.

Gaige Grosskreutz cries as he describes the moments where he was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse during the trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021.

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Asked what was going through his mind as he neared the 17-year-old Rittenhouse, he said, “That I was going to die.”

On cross-examination, defense attorney Corey Chirafisi sought to portray Grosskreutz as dishonest in his description of the moments right before he was shot, with Chirafisi asserting that Grosskreutz was chasing Rittenhouse with his gun out.
 
Grosskreutz said he was not chasing Rittenhouse.
 
Chirafisi also pointed to Grosskreutz’s lawsuit against the city of Kenosha, in which he alleges police enabled the violence by allowing an armed militia to have the run of the streets during the demonstration.
 
“If Mr. Rittenhouse is convicted, your chance of getting 10 million bucks is better, right?” Chirafisi said.  

Rittenhouse, now 18, is on trial on charges of killing two men and wounding Grosskreutz in the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest against racial injustice in the summer of 2020. The one-time police youth cadet from Antioch, Illinois was 17 when he went to Kenosha with an AR-style rifle and a medical kit in what he said was an effort to safeguard property from the demonstrations that broke out over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white Kenosha police officer.

Grosskreutz had a gun in has hand, with his arms raised, when Rittenhouse fired, shooting him in the bicep. A prosecutor asked Grosskreutz why he didn’t shoot Rittenhouse.

“Like I said, that’s not the kind of person that I am. That’s not why I was out there,” he said. “It’s not who I am. And definitely not somebody I would want to become.”

Earlier that night, Grosskreutz was recording on his cellphone for a livestream when he heard gunshots a few blocks away. He heard people yelling for a medic, and he began running toward the sound of the gunshots.

The video played in court showed Grosskreutz coming upon Rittenhouse as Rittenhouse was running away. He asked him what he was doing and if someone was shot. Rittenhouse said: “I’m going to the police. I didn’t do anything.” At the time, Grosskreutz testified, he he thought Rittenhouse said, “I’m working with the police.”

Grosskreutz ran along with Rittenhouse for a few seconds while trying to talk to him, but then turned to go help whoever might have been shot. But then Grosskreutz turned back toward Rittenhouse because he heard people saying that Rittenhouse had shot someone.

In the courtroom, Rittenhouse kept his eyes on Grosskreutz as he testified. When asked questions by prosecutors, Grosskreutz turned and looked straight at the jurors, who sat just feet away.

Kyle Rittenhouse and his defense team watch video of the shooting as Gaige Grosskreutz testifies about being shot in the right bicep during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha (Wisconsin) Circuit Court, Nov. 8, 2021.

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One juror nodded her head in agreement when the judge instructed the jury to disregard Grosskreutz’s referring to Rittenhouse’s fatal shooting of another protester as a “murder. ” 

Rittenhouse is charged as an adult with two counts of first degree homicide and one count of attempted homicide. He is als charged with recklessly endangering the safety of two other victims and possessing a weapon while under the age of 18.

Grosskreutz, who was trained as a paramedic, testified that he volunteered as a medic at protests in Milwaukee in the days after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. Grosskreutz said he attended around 75 protests before the night he was shot in August 2020, offering help to anyone needing medical attention.

Grosskreutz said he was wearing a hat that night that said “paramedic” and was carrying medical supplies, in addition to a loaded pistol. Grosskreutz said his permit to carry a concealed weapon had expired and he did not have a valid permit that night.

“I believe in the Second Amendment. I’m for people’s right to carry and bear arms,” he said, explaining why he was armed. “And that night was no different than any other day. It’s keys, phone, wallet, gun.”

He said he provided medical assistance to about 10 other people that night.

Rittenhouse is white, as are the three men he shot, but the case has  raised polarizing questions about racial justice, policing, vigilantism and the right to bear arms.

Prosecutors have portrayed Rittenhouse as the instigator of the bloodshed. Rittenhouse’s lawyer has argued that he acted in self-defense, suggesting among other things that Rittenhouse feared his weapon would be taken and used against him.

In the first week of Rittenhouse’s trial, witnesses testified that the first man shot and killed that night, Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, was “hyperaggressive” and “acting belligerently” that night.

Richie McGinniss, who was recording events on a cellphone that night for conservative website The Daily Caller, testified that Rosenbaum made a lunge for Rittenhouse’s gun.

“I think it was very clear to me that he was reaching specifically for the weapon,” McGinniss said.

Rosenbaum’s killing set in motion the bloodshed that followed moments later: Rittenhouse shot and killed Anthony Huber, a 26-year-old protester seen on bystander video hitting Rittenhouse with a skateboard. Rittenhouse then wounded Grosskreutz.

Grosskreutz has a tattoo on the arm where he was shot. It is the common medical image of a snake wrapped around a staff, and at the top it has a banner that says, “Do no harm” and at the bottom, a banner reading “Do know harm.”
 
Grosskreutz testified that he has difficulty lifting heavy objects with his right arm and has a loss of feeling extending from his bicep to his thumb.  

Last week, the judge presiding over the trial dismissed a juror who joked with a courtroom deputy about why police shot Blake. 

Prosecutors said the juror asked a courtroom deputy, “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times? Because they ran out of bullets,” saying the joke was in poor taste and showed racial bias.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify the charges against Rittenhouse.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) says it will “vigorously defend” the guidelines laid out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which seek to enforce vaccine requirements on all businesses with 100 employees or more by Jan. 4, 2022.

Following the Friday decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a stay on the OSHA order a DOJ spokesperson said the Biden administration would fight back.

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Merrick Garland, U.S. attorney general, during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Today the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two ransomware operators and a virtual currency exchange network that launder the proceeds of ransomware. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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“This decision is just the beginning of the process for review of this important OSHA standard,” a spokesperson told Fox News. “The Department will continue to vigorously defend the standard and looks forward to obtaining a definitive resolution following consolidation of all of the pending cases for further review.” 

Last week, the appeals court granted an emergency stay on the OSHA orders, blocking them from taking effect. 

The Biden administration countered the move and argued the court’s decision could “cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day.”

“With the reopening of workplaces and the emergence of the highly transmissible Delta variant, the threat to workers is ongoing and overwhelming,” lawyers representing the administration argued in court filings. 

WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: U.S. President Joe Biden pauses while giving remarks on the worsening crisis in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House August 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden cut his vacation in Camp David short to address the nation as the Taliban have seized control in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. is set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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But Judge Kurt Engelhardt said concern over economic uncertainty and opposition to a sweeping vaccine mandate meant the stay was in the public’s best interest.

“The public interest is also served by maintaining our constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions – even, or perhaps particularly, when those decisions frustrate government officials,” he wrote.

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At least 27 courts filed challenges in a move to block the Nov. 4 federal vaccine mandate.

President Biden first announced his intent to enforce vaccine requirements in September as the U.S. continued to see increasing coronavirus cases with the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.

In announcing his executive order the president said “our patience is wearing thin” in reference to the people who have refused to get the coronavirus vaccine. 

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual Covid-19 Summit on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Biden is calling for 70% of the world to be vaccinated by this time next year during the summit that’s intended to spur countries, businesses and organizations to set firm targets to defeat the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images 
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The U.S. has reported over 46.7 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began, with 757,000 deaths. 

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On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a 7-day rolling average of more than 73,000 new cases confirmed daily – a figure comparable to caseloads reported in February before the vaccine was widely available. 

Roughly 68% of Americans are fully vaccinated and data by the CDC has shown that those who are not vaccinated are 11 times more likely to die if they contract the virus.  

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Según el Art. 60 de la Ley Orgánica de Comunicación, los contenidos se identifican y clasifican en:
(I), informativos; (O), de opinión; (F), formativos/educativos/culturales; (E), entretenimiento; y (D), deportivos.

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Hurricane Patricia barreled toward southwestern Mexico Friday as a monster Category 5 storm, the strongest ever in the Western Hemisphere. Residents and tourists were hunkering down or trying to make last-minute escapes ahead of what forecasters called a “potentially catastrophic landfall.”

The storm was homing in on a Pacific coastline dotted with sleepy fishing villages and gleaming resorts, including the popular beach city of Puerto Vallarta and the port of Manzanillo. After hitting land, Patricia’s projected path would quickly take it over mountainous terrain that is prone to dangerous flash floods and landslides.

In Puerto Vallarta, residents reinforced homes with sandbags and shop windows with boards and tape, and hotels rolled up beachfront restaurants. The airport was closed to flights and all but deserted, but lines formed at a bus station by people anxious to buy tickets to Guadalajara and other inland destinations.

At a Red Cross shelter, some 90 people waited anxiously amid the heavy, humid air, including senior citizens in wheelchairs and young children snuggled between their parents on mattresses on the floor.

Carla Torres and her family sought refuge there in the afternoon, fearful of what Patricia might do to her home located just two blocks from a river in an area vulnerable to high winds.

“Here we are with those who can give us help,” Torres said.

Patricia formed suddenly Tuesday as a tropical storm and within 30 hours had strengthened to a record-beating Category 5 hurricane, catching many off guard with its rapid growth. By Friday it was the most powerful hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere, with maximum sustained winds of 190 mph (305 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Patricia’s power was comparable to that of Typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 7,300 dead or missing in the Philippines two years ago, according to the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization. More than 4 million people were displaced and over 1 million houses were destroyed or damaged in 44 provinces in the central Visayas region, a large cluster of islands.

By late afternoon, Patricia’s center was about 60 miles (95 kilometers) west of Manzanillo, and about 110 miles (175 kilometers) south-southeast of Cabo Corrientes. The Hurricane Center said Patricia was expected to remain an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 storm through landfall late afternoon or evening, before weakening over the inland mountains.

Mexican officials declared a state of emergency in dozens of municipalities in Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco states, and schools were closed. Many residents had already bought supplies ahead of Patricia’s arrival. Authorities opened hundreds of shelters, prepared to shut off electricity as a safety precaution and suspended tolls on the Guadalajara-Tepic highway to facilitate the flow of vehicles from the coast.

According to the 2010 census, there were more than 7.3 million inhabitants in Jalisco state and more than 255,000 in Puerto Vallarta municipality. There were more than 650,000 in Colima state, and more than 161,000 in Manzanillo.

Roberto Ramirez, director of Mexico’s National Water Commission, which includes the nation’s meteorological service, said Patricia’s winds would be powerful enough to lift automobiles, destroy homes that are not sturdily built with cement and steel, and drag anyone caught outside when the storm strikes.

He said Patricia was heading in the general direction of Playa Perula, a Pacific coast locale in Jalisco state, with Manzanillo the nearest and most at-risk city for the storm’s wrath.

One of the worst Pacific hurricanes to ever hit Mexico slammed into the same region, in Colima state, in October 1959, killing at least 1,500 people, according to Mexico’s National Center for Disaster Prevention.

Civil protection officials warned that past hurricanes have filled the streets of Puerto Vallarta with water, sand and flying projectiles, and those remaining were urged to move at least three blocks inland.

“We need people to understand the magnitude of the hurricane,” Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio told Radio Formula. “It is a devastating hurricane, the biggest one ever registered.”

At the Red Cross shelter, Wendi Mozingo of Austin, Texas, and six family members sat on folding chairs after being ordered out of their beachfront vacation rental home by managers of the property. They brought a few changes of clothes and left everything else behind.

The family was supposed to depart Puerto Vallarta next Tuesday, but now, Mozingo said, “We’re leaving as soon as we can.”

Brian Bournival of Portland, Oregon, who traveled to Puerto Vallarta for a friend’s 40th birthday, decided to ride the storm out in his hotel because of heavy traffic on roads out of the city.

Bournival expressed confidence in the construction of his hotel a few blocks from the ocean, describing its foundations as “ginormous.” He and a dozen other guests were huddled in a common area with food, water and medical kits.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said tens of thousands of American citizens were believed to be vacationing or living in areas likely to be affected by the storm.

Meteorologists said Patricia’s small, 8-mile-wide eye wall would likely contract – a normal process that often weakens a storm slightly. But that may not be completely good news, because it would make the overall size of the storm slightly larger, said Jim Kossin, an atmospheric scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“It’s looking like a very bad disaster is shaping up,” said MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel.

Winds that restrain a storm were starting to pick up, so Patricia may weaken a bit to winds of about 175 mph at landfall – which would still be a top-of-the-chart hurricane, said Jeff Masters, a former hurricane hunter meteorologist.

Kossin called Patricia “a three-pronged hazard” that would likely wreak havoc with high winds, saltwater storm surge and inland freshwater flooding from heavy rains.

Three airports in Patricia’s path were shut down: Puerto Vallarta; Manzanillo in Colima state; and Tepic in Nayarit.

A hurricane warning was in effect for the Mexican coast from San Blas to Punta San Telmo, and a broader area was under hurricane watch, tropical storm warning or tropical storm watch.

Earlier, fire trucks and ambulances rolled through the streets, sirens blaring, as emergency workers warned people in both Spanish and English to evacuate.

For Jose Manuel Gonzalez Ochoa, that made up his mind. His family lives in their ground-floor chicken restaurant, Pollos Vallarta, and neighbors told them water was 5 feet deep in the street the last time a hurricane came through.

Gonzalez Ochoa said the family was heading to a town 30 minutes from the coast. “The whole government is telling us to leave. You have to obey,” he said.

Asked what preparations he would make for his business, he said he’d just close it up and see what’s left after the storm passes.

Patricia also threatens Texas with forecasters saying that even after the storm breaks, up its tropical moisture will likely feed heavy rains already soaking the state.

The U.S. National Weather Service said a flash flood watch would be in effect through Sunday morning for Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio.

A coastal flood warning was in effect through Friday night in Corpus Christi. Galveston was under a coastal flood advisory until Saturday night.

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AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Washington contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to reflect that the name of Ochoa’s restaurant is Pollos Vallarta.

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Al mediodía, la AFA emitió un comunicado en el que confirma que “en horas de esta madrugada el Señor Julio Humberto Grondona sufrió una ligera indisposición. Por precaución su familia decidió trasladarlo a un Sanatorio de esta Capital, donde en estos momentos lo están evaluando”. En los últimos años Grondona fue tratado tanto en el país como en Suiza, sede de la FIFA, por problemas intestinales.

La noticia se conoció en el día en que se esperaba que el director técnico de la selección argentina, Alejandro Sabella, confirmara su renuncia mediante una conferencia de prensa en el predio de la AFA en Ezeiza. Conferencia que fue suspendida tras el anuncio de la muerte de Grondona. “Queríamos que continuara en el cargo. Me da pena la salida de Sabella”, dijo ayer el presidente del máximo organismo del fútbol argentino.

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“We are prepared to move; we just need to make sure we have unanimity in our caucus and that’s what we are working on and we will start on that next week when we return,” Cardin told host Mike Emanuel.

The $1.7 trillion legislation included a wide range of policy items, including universal preschool, paid family leave, child nutrition assistance, and Medicare and Medicaid expansion. Clean energy measures were a significant part of the bill. The legislation would also make the current child tax credit permanent.

Emanuel asked Cardin if Democrats risked losing the support of progressives if they scaled the legislation back. The senator acknowledged that Democrats needed to find a “sweet spot” to get legislation through without losing votes from the Democratic caucus.

“We want to see it as comprehensive as possible, but we need to make sure we have the votes to pass it, so that means it will be different than some of us would like to see,” he said.

Cardin said Democrats are open to potentially passing some parts of the bill as standalone items.

“That’s a strategy decision that’s being negotiated. We are open to a way to reach the finish line,” Cardin said.

Speaking on the same show, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) made it clear that he still opposed the overall package, but said he assumed there were things in the bill that he could support as standalone items, citing an initiative he had been working on with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).

“Surely there is something in there that I would be for, Sen. Stabenow and I have worked for years to try to see that we treat mental health like all other health. That’s a relatively small item in this bill. I think it’s in there, but that’s an item if we put on the floor by itself, Republicans and Democrats would vote for,” Blunt said.

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Just a few days before President Joe Biden marks his first 100 days in office, a trio of new polls from NBC, CBS, and the Washington Post and ABC show that Americans give Biden high marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, while his overall job approval rating remains positive.

But Biden also faces criticism from respondents over his handling of an influx of migrants arriving at the US’s southern border, and Sunday’s NBC News poll underscores the apparent durability of Republican voter fraud lies.

In all three polls, better than 60 percent of adults approved of Biden’s coronavirus response, and a comfortable majority were enthusiastic about his recent infrastructure proposal, which calls for $2 trillion in spending on everything from roads and bridges to green energy and high-speed broadband.

Americans were also much happier with Biden’s first 100 days than with former President Donald Trump’s early tenure in 2017. While Trump’s approval rating sat in the low 40s shortly after taking office, according to all three polls, over half of respondents approve of the job Biden has done in the first 100 days.

Young people are particularly upbeat. According to a Harvard Institute of Politics poll released Friday, 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said they were “hopeful about the future of America,” compared to just 31 percent in 2017.

In particular, the IOP poll found, young people of color feel far more positively about America now than in 2017.

Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic appears to have played a significant role in these positive numbers. Prior to taking office, Biden promised to administer 100 million vaccine doses within his first 100 days. He’s made good on that promise and then some: On Wednesday, his administration announced that 200 million vaccine doses have been administered in the US.

Biden will mark his 100th day in office this Thursday, one day after he is set to give his first joint address to Congress.

Biden also signed an overwhelmingly popular $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package into law last month, which included $1,400 checks for most Americans, and he has overseen falling Covid-19 case numbers and an economy that is beginning to bounce back.

In the NBC poll, a plurality of Americans — about 30 percent — said the coronavirus was the top issue facing the country, followed by “uniting the country” at 25 percent.

However, other issues are already shaping up to be a challenge for the Biden administration. According to all three polls, a majority of Americans disapprove of Biden’s early handling of immigration issues and the southern border.

The administration is currently confronting a substantial influx of unaccompanied children at the southern border, in some cases overwhelming Customs and Border Protection facilities.

However, as Vox’s Nicole Narea reported last month, the situation at the border isn’t exactly new — there have been surges of migrants at the border before, and “the current situation is not an aberration, but a recurring problem.”

The “big lie” isn’t going away

Though recent polls by and large paint a positive picture of Biden’s first 100 days in office, there’s at least one persistent burr. According to Sunday’s CBS/YouGov poll, just 68 percent of Americans believe that Biden was elected legitimately — and only a quarter of Trump voters say that.

Those numbers are almost identical to what a number of major polls found in January 2021, shortly before Biden took office. Then, according to a CNN-SSRS poll, 65 percent of Americans believed Biden’s win was legitimate, and 75 percent of Republicans either suspected that Biden did not win legitimately, or believed there was “solid evidence” he did not.

There is no such evidence — election officials of both parties, at both the state and federal levels, say the 2020 election was actually the most secure in history — but relatively static beliefs about Biden’s legitimacy suggest that the GOP’s “big lie,” an all-consuming voter fraud mythology with no basis in fact, isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

In fact, lawmakers in 47 states have introduced a staggering number of restrictive new voting bills to address a nonexistent “election integrity” problem, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, including a Georgia bill that has already been signed into law.

This mythology does translate into loyalty among Trump’s diehard base, according to NBC’s most recent poll. As of this month, 32 percent of Americans hold a somewhat or very positive view of the former president. But that represents a dip from January, when his favorability stood at about 40 percent. Meanwhile, Biden’s favorability has increased to 50 percent since taking office, up from 44 percent in January.

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