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Who is Yevheniy Murayev, the man the U.K. says Russia wants to install in Ukraine? – NPR
Who is Yevheniy Murayev, the man the U.K. says Russia wants to install in Ukraine? – NPR

Georgian activists hold posters as they gather in support of Ukraine in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sunday, Jan. 23. The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration.

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Georgian activists hold posters as they gather in support of Ukraine in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sunday, Jan. 23. The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration.

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The Russian government is rejecting a British report alleging that it has a leader in mind for installation after a potential invasion of Ukraine.

In a highly unusual public statement posted Saturday titled “Kremlin plan to install pro-Russian leadership in Ukraine exposed,” the U.K.’s Foreign Secretary said her office has information indicating the Russian government was looking to install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv. The statement named Yevheniy Murayev as the top contender.

“The information being released today shines a light on the extent of Russian activity designed to subvert Ukraine, and is an insight into Kremlin thinking,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.

An undated handout photo provided by the Nashi (Ours) political party, showing party leader and former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Murayev has been friendly to Russian causes throughout his career

The 45-year-old Murayev has long established himself as a Ukrainian politician friendly to Russian causes. He spouts views generally in line with Russian positions, and was critical of the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine that led to the election of pro-Western leadership. When he speaks publicly, he generally speaks in Russian, as opposed to Ukrainian.

Running with the Opposition Block faction, a pro-Russian party, Murayev won a seat in the Ukrainian Parliament in 2014. He later formed the political party Nashi, one of several opposition parties that oppose Ukraine’s pro-Western parties. Murayev continued serving in parliament until 2019, when the Nashi party failed to meet the 5% threshold for continued representation.

In 2018, Murayev founded his own television network, Nash, a pro-Russian news channel in Ukraine. The network has given Murayev the ability to raise his profile within Ukraine. According to Reuters, recent polls placed him in the top 10 of prospective candidates in the 2024 presidential race, with 6.3% support among prospective candidates.

Murayev has been critical of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He has accused Zelenskyy of being controlled by the West, according to Reuters, and has parroted the Russian line that Ukraine might try to regain Russian-controlled territory by force.

“Zelenskyy is a hostage and he is being blackmailed by MI6, the CIA, anyone. Tomorrow they can force him to launch an offensive against the Donbass, which will lead to a full-scale war,” he said, referencing the region in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists have been battling the government since 2014.

He has dismissed the U.K.’s claims

Murayev dismissed claims that the Kremlin was interested in having him as a candidate. “The British Foreign Office seems confused,” Murayev told the Observer. “It isn’t very logical. I’m banned from Russia. Not only that but money from my father’s firm there has been confiscated.”

In a statement Sunday, the Russian Embassy to the U.K. said the claim demonstrated “an obvious deterioration of British expertise on Russia and Ukraine.” The embassy said Murayev “happens to be under Russian sanctions for being a threat to national security.” Murayev has been on Russia’s sanctions list since 2018.

London should “stop the stupid rhetorical provocations, quite dangerous in the current heated situation,” the embassy said.

On Saturday, Murayev posted a mocked up photo of himself as James Bond, promising more details would come shortly. A few hours later, he posted what seemed like a candidate statement, which sought to downplay the perception of Russian support.

“Ukraine needs new politicians whose policy will be based solely on the principles of national interests of Ukraine and the the Ukrainian people,” he wrote, according to a translation. “I appeal to everyone who is not indifferent to the fate of Ukraine — stop dividing us into varieties, pro-Russian and pro-Western ones.” He called Ukraine an “independent state” that “can and must decide our own fate.”

The U.K Foreign Minister also listed four other former Ukrainian politicians as those who have links with Russian intelligence services: Serhiy Arbuzov, Andriy Kluyev, Vladimir Sivkovich and Mykola Azarov.

“Some of these have contact with Russian intelligence officers currently involved in the planning for an attack on Ukraine,” the foreign secretary said.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2022/01/23/1075199404/yevheniy-murayev-russia-ukraine-british-foreign-office

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Donald Trump says he will not appear in Republican primary debates – Financial Times
Donald Trump says he will not appear in Republican primary debates – Financial Times
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Trump attends New York civil fraud trial as accounting expert testifies for defense – CNN
Trump attends New York civil fraud trial as accounting expert testifies for defense – CNN
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Representative Jeff Van Drew, Anti-Impeachment Democrat, Plans to Switch Parties – The New York Times
Representative Jeff Van Drew, Anti-Impeachment Democrat, Plans to Switch Parties – The New York Times

Mr. Van Drew may already have Democratic challenger. Brigid Harrison, a politics professor at Montclair State University, had been publicly signaling that she was considering a primary challenge to Mr. Van Drew. Already, she has met with many of the county Democratic leaders in the district, as well as Stephen M. Sweeney, the powerful State Senate president.

Now, she says an announcement about her candidacy as a Democrat is imminent.

“At the end of the day, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican or an independent, what you don’t like is a traitor,” Ms. Harrison said in an interview. “So now, in addition to prioritizing his political career over the direction of the country, Congressman Van Drew is also a traitor to his voters.”

Mr. Van Drew has long had a difficult relationship with many Democrats in his home state, based in part on his support for gun rights. But during his years in the state legislature, he was an important Democratic vote for the southern block of the state, so he was largely spared from intraparty threats.

Still, once he was elected to Congress, Mr. Van Drew began to stray more visibly from the state delegation. He skipped a delegation meeting in Washington with Gov. Philip D. Murphy, the lone lawmaker from New Jersey’s 13 Democratic representatives and senators to do so.

And since he has been publicly indicating he will not vote for impeachment, party leaders in New Jersey have intensified their opposition. Mr. Van Drew had reportedly sought a letter of support from Democratic county leaders to help prop him up after his impeachment vote, but was denied.

Instead, Mr. Suleiman, the powerful Atlantic County chairman, sent the stern letter to Mr. Van Drew.

“Atlantic County Democrats have a tough time as it is facing 100 years of ‘Boardwalk Empire;’ we cannot afford to have Democrats sit on their hands in a presidential year when we usually perform well,” he wrote in a letter first obtained by The New Jersey Globe.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/us/politics/jeff-van-drew-democrat-republican.html

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Google tiene malas noticias para el presidente Trump – CNET en … – CNET en Español
Google tiene malas noticias para el presidente Trump – CNET en … – CNET en Español

Trump en un acto de campaña en noviembre.


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La juramentación de Donald Trump como presidente de EE.UU. se realizará este 20 de enero y aunque para él y su equipo es un día especial, puede que más de la mitad del país esté más interesada en otro tema: las protestas en su contra.

Según un reporte de Mashable, más de la mitad del país está realizando búsquedas relacionadas con la frase “inauguration protests” (protestas durante la inauguración o la juramentación), mientras que las búsquedas relacionadas con “attend inauguration” (asistir a la inauguración), resultaron minoritarias, según los datos de Google Trends.

Aunque estas búsquedas pueden significar muchas cosas, lo cierto es que este es un nuevo indicador de la fuerte oposición con la que Trump asumirá el poder.

Los datos muestran que al menos en 31 estados se está googleando más sobre las protestas que sobre cómo asistir a la inauguración, que es una tendencia ligeramente más popular en 17 estados. El mapa deja claro además que algunos estados en donde ganó Trump también están interesados por las protestas.

Google Trends revela el interés por las protestas en contra de Trump.


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Según Mashable existen varias preguntas que se están haciendo a Google y que están relacionadas con la inauguración, entre ellas “¿Quién está boicoteando la inauguración?”, que está en el primer lugar. Es de resaltar que en el quinto lugar se encuentra una pregunta más preocupante: “¿Qué es una inauguración?

¿Qué es una inauguración? la quinta pregunta más importante relacionada con la juramentación de Trump.


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Google también muestra cuáles son los temas que hoy preocupan más a los estadounidenses. Mientras que en 2008 durante la campaña electoral, que finalmente ganó Barack Obama, la mayor preocupación era la recesión económica, el buscador muestra que en la actualidad lo es Rusia, seguido por la inmigración, Obamacare, el empleo e ISIS.

Trump, que ha estado promocionando las entradas de la inauguración a través de anuncios de Facebook, ya ha dicho que no dejará su cuenta de Twitter para decir lo que quiera cuando quiera, aunque también utilizará la oficial.

Donald Trump comenzará su mandato como uno de los presidentes con los niveles de aprobación más bajos de la historia, según múltiples encuestas.

Si quieres ver la toma de posesión del presidente número 45 de EE.UU., aquí te decimos cómo hacerlo.

Source Article from https://www.cnet.com/es/noticias/google-juramentacion-trump/

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Jobless claims, total unemployment level worse than expected – CNBC
Jobless claims, total unemployment level worse than expected – CNBC

The numbers came the day before the Labor Department releases its nonfarm payrolls report for May. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones are expecting a decline of 8.3 million and a 20.5% unemployment rate, more than double the highest previous level since the Great Depression.

As states begin to reopen after being almost completely shut down for the better part of three months, so have signs grown for an economic crisis likely to drive the unemployment rate to about 20% for May. More than 42.6 million Americans have filed jobless claims since the shutdown began in mid-March.

A day before the jobless claims report, ADP’s private payrolls report on Wednesday showed a decrease of 2.76 million positions in May. While that remains far higher than anything the U.S. economy saw in the pre-coronavirus era, it was well off Wall Street expectations of an 8.75 million decline.

That led Moody’s Analytics economist Mark Zandi to declare that “the Covid-19 recession is over.” Moody’s assists ADP in putting together the monthly private payrolls report. “That would make it the shortest recession in history,” Zandi said. “It will very likely be among the most severe.”

Some economists have been focusing more on the jobless claims number not adjusted for seasonal factors, which are less in play with the unusual nature of the coronavirus-related layoffs.

That number totaled 1.603 million, a plunge of 314,604 from the previous week.

At the state level, New York showed the most glaring change, falling 106,106 from a week ago, according to unadjusted numbers. Michigan declined by 23,539 and Texas saw a decrease of 20,896. Significant gains came from Florida (31,083) and California (27,199).

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/weekly-jobless-claims.html

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Trump teases 2024 run in CPAC remarks, as he looks to keep his grip on GOP – POLITICO
Trump teases 2024 run in CPAC remarks, as he looks to keep his grip on GOP – POLITICO

“Who knows?” Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla. “I may even decide to beat them for a third time.”

The speech served as formal notice of his continued dominance over the Republican Party — and a return to campaign form for the former president. The rapturous reception Trump received at the country’s most prominent annual conservative gathering signaled the totality of the Republican base’s embrace, as well as the peril facing less Trumpian elements of the party.

In the annual CPAC presidential straw poll released shortly before Trump spoke, 95 percent of conference attendees said the GOP should continue to embrace Trump’s issues and policy ideas, and 68 percent of attendees said Trump should run again in 2024.

In a crowded field of potential presidential primary contenders, Trump ran miles ahead with 55 percent support, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, at 21 percent. Every other GOP politician polled registered in single digits.

Still, for all the current energy surrounding Trump, CPAC is also a reminder of how quickly fortunes can change. In 2016, it was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who won the CPAC straw poll, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — both of them ultimately vanquished by Trump. In 2013, the year after the last presidential election won by a Democrat, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the toast of CPAC, before seeing his own presidential ambitions fade.

For the former president, irrelevancy would be the ultimate defeat. So on Sunday, he brushed aside yet another American political tradition — that of former presidents avoiding partisan politics for a period of months immediately after leaving office — and took direct aim at his opponents, past and present.

Defeated in November and twice impeached, Trump’s list of targets was long. For roughly 90 minutes, the former president chastised “top establishment Republicans,” “RINO’s” and other Republicans who have criticized him.

Banned from Twitter, he said Big Tech companies “should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices.” And in a wide-ranging critique of Biden’s first month in office, he lit into the Democratic president for his handling of everything from the coronavirus vaccine distribution to immigration, education and protections for people who are transgender.

“None of us even imagined just how bad they would be and how far left they would go,” Trump said, calling the Biden administration “anti-jobs, anti-family, anti-borders, anti-energy, anti-women and anti-science.”

“In just one short month, we have gone from ‘America First’ to ‘America Last,’” he said.

His own accomplishments, Trump said, were superior both in terms of government and politics. Trump credited himself with his party’s down-ballot successes in November, despite many down-ballot Republicans over-performing him in their districts.

He predicted the Democratic Party would suffer “withering losses” in the midterm elections and that in four years, “A Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House.”

He added, “And I wonder who that will be?”

If Trump is teasing another run in 2024, however, he is far from over his last defeat. In an extended riff on the November election, he perpetuated the false claim — rejected by elections experts and administrators and by courts across the country — that the election was stolen.

When he said, “This election was rigged,” the crowd chanted, “You won!”

Trump’s comparison of his own presidency to Biden’s belied his successor’s relatively high public approval ratings — and Trump’s poor ones. But CPAC is an accommodating crowd.

“We love you! We love you!” the audience chanted at one point during his speech.

Even before Sunday, Trump loomed over the 2022 midterm elections and — whether he runs again or not — the presidential primary in 2024. He is preparing to stand up a super PAC. On Friday, he endorsed Max Miller, a former White House aide, in his campaign to unseat Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, one of 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment.

Trump’s aides had urged him before speaking Sunday to focus his ire on Biden and the Democratic Party, while limiting mentions of his disputes with Republican lawmakers who have criticized him. Instead, he blistered by name the Republicans who supported his second impeachment, including “grandstanders” like Sens. Mitt Romney and “Little Ben Sasse” and the “warmonger” Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

“Get rid of them all,” Trump said.

Still, Trump described the dispute within the Republican Party as a limited one: “The only division is between a handful of Washington, D.C. establishment political hacks and everybody else all over the country,” he said, adding, “I think we have tremendous unity.”

Trump also ruled out starting a third party, calling “fake news” an idea he had once floated himself.

But his rhetoric about the election — and about his Republican critics — appears likely to further the civil war between traditionalist Republicans and the more populist base. While establishment-minded Republicans recoiled at Trump’s sustained claims about voter fraud, CPAC devoted seven panels to “election integrity.” Asked in the straw poll to name the most important issue facing the country, 62 percent of CPAC attendees named election integrity, by far their highest-ranking concern.

“Donald Trump remains the leader of the populist wing of the party, which he grew into a dominant force in Republican primaries, although never a majority force in the country,” said Whit Ayres, the longtime Republican pollster. “But because Trump dominates the populist wing, the folks who are members of that wing are going to continue to promote whatever he wants to promote at the time. That means they’re still hanging on to this myth that the election was stolen.”

Banned from Twitter and relegated from the White House, the former president reveled in the praise lavished on him at CPAC.

Taking the stage at CPAC, he said, “Do you miss me yet?”

The audience erupted, at times chanting, “USA! USA!.”

It was a fitting finale to an event that included a gilded statue of Trump and a roster of Republicans all promoting him. Cruz, himself a potential 2024 presidential contender, said during the conference that “Donald J. Trump ain’t going anywhere.” And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed, “We cannot, we will not, go back to the days of the failed Republican establishment of yesteryear.”

The straw poll was in line with the sentiment of the broader Republican electorate, a majority of whom say they would pick Trump over any other Republican if the 2024 primary were held today. On Sunday, Rep. Jim Jordan said he hopes Trump runs again in 2024 and, “If he does, he will win.”

It’s unclear if Trump will launch a comeback bid. But either way, there’s utility in suggesting that he might.

“If he wants to be relevant from a policy perspective ongoing, it was smart to tease that he may be around and may run for president again,” said Sean Walsh, a Republican strategist who worked in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush White Houses.

In addition, Walsh said, “having that mystery there … allows him to raise money” more effectively for his political causes than if he was a former president with no prospect of making a return.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/28/trump-cpac-2024-biden-471869

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Robert Durst sentenced to life in prison for murdering his friend Susan Berman – The Guardian
Robert Durst sentenced to life in prison for murdering his friend Susan Berman – The Guardian

Robert Durst, the real estate heir suspected in a string of killings over nearly four decades, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his friend and confidante Susan Berman.

A Los Angeles jury convicted Durst, 78, of first-degree murder last month for the 2000 killing. Prosecutors argued that Durst had shot Berman at point-blank range in her home to prevent her from telling police what she knew about the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s first wife, Kathie McCormack Durst. The verdict marked the first homicide conviction for Durst, who has been linked to the deaths of three people in three states.

Durst’s attorneys filed a motion seeking a new trial, claiming there was insufficient evidence to convict Durst, which the judge dismissed on Thursday at the start of the sentencing.

“The defendant’s testimony was profoundly incredible and incriminating,” said Judge Mark Windham, adding that there was “overwhelming evidence of guilt”.

Thursday’s sentence was expected as prosecutors did not seek the death penalty and the jury had also convicted Durst of the special circumstances of lying in wait and killing a witness, which carry mandatory life sentences.

Family and friends of Berman told the court how Durst had robbed them of an unforgettable and loyal friend who cared deeply for other people.

“It’s been a daily, soul-consuming and crushing experience,” Sareb Kaufman, Berman’s stepson, said of her murder.

Another relative said he had visited Berman’s grave to tell her that justice had been served and she could finally “rest easy”.

Before sentencing Durst, the judge said Berman was an “an extraordinary human being” and her death was a loss to the community.

The sentencing came six years after the documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst thrust the multimillionaire into the spotlight. The series chronicled Berman’s murder, as well as the disappearance of Durst’s wife and the 2001 death of a neighbor in Galveston, Texas, where Durst was hiding out while disguised as a deaf-mute woman. He was arrested on the eve of the airing of the last episode of the series, in which Durst appeared to confess to the killings, saying to himself, “What the hell did I do? … Killed them all, of course.”

In court, the 78-year-old appeared sick and far more frail than he did in the 2015 documentary. He struggles with hearing and used a wheelchair throughout the trial. At one point, after 38 hours of cross-examination, the judge urged the lead prosecutor to stop his questions. “At some point, there’s a limit,” the judge said.

Authorities have sought to put Durst behind bars for years for his role in crimes that officials believe date back to the disappearance and probable murder of McCormack.

“Everything starts with Kathie Durst’s disappearance and death at the hands of Mr Durst,” John Lewin, the deputy district attorney, said in his opening statement at the Berman trial.

McCormack’s body was never found, though she was declared dead in 2017. Durst was never an official suspect in the case, but prosecutors argued he was responsible for her death. The couple had been fighting before she disappeared, Durst admitted, and in the preceding weeks McCormack had gone to the hospital with injuries she said Durst had caused.

Prosecutors said Durst had killed Berman, his best friend, because she was prepared to tell police how she helped cover up the killing of McCormack. Berman had reportedly told friends she had provided him with a false alibi.

Prosecutors said on Thursday that they did not believe Berman had known she was covering up a murder, and that she had instead been trying to help her friend. Durst, they said, had probably told her what happened to McCormack was an accident.

Durst had previously faced a murder trial in Texas for the death of his neighbor Morris Black. While in Galveston, the heir tried to pass himself off as a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner, but Black didn’t buy the disguise and he was shot and dismembered, prosecutors said. Durst and his legal team argued he had killed Black in self-defense, and he was acquitted.

Prosecutors in New York are expected to pursue charges against Durst over his ex-wife’s death. The Westchester district attorney’s office has reopened the investigation into McCormack’s death but has not confirmed reports of its plan to seek an indictment against Durst.

McCormack’s family had hoped to speak at Thursday’s sentencing, a request that was denied as California law mandates that only Berman’s family is eligible to offer victim impact statements in court, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“It was never really a thought that they wouldn’t be allowed to give a victim impact statement,” Robert Abrams, the McCormacks’ family attorney, told the newspaper. “When somebody is the central focus of the criminal trial, you would expect it.”

Berman’s relatives pleaded with Durst to tell the McCormack family where he buried his first wife’s body.

“Any hope of any kind of redemption you can find is in letting them know where to find Kathie,” Kaufman said.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/robert-durst-sentencing-life-in-prison-susan-berman

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Illinois man, 59, fatally shot by neighbor while using leaf blower in his own yard, officials say – NBC News
Illinois man, 59, fatally shot by neighbor while using leaf blower in his own yard, officials say – NBC News
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Trump Vows U.S. ‘Locked and Loaded’ If Iran Was Behind Attacks – Bloomberg
Trump Vows U.S. ‘Locked and Loaded’ If Iran Was Behind Attacks – Bloomberg

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Omani delegation pays visit to Arab Chamber – Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)
Omani delegation pays visit to Arab Chamber – Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)

São Paulo – The Omani delegation that held the Brazil-Oman Economic Forum last Monday (12th) in São Paulo paid a visit to the offices of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce late this Tuesday afternoon (13th), and was welcomed by the organization’s president Marcelo Sallum and CEO Michel Alaby.

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Alaby (L), Al Jabri, Sallum & Al Jaradi: partnership

“The Sultanate of Oman is very well represented in Brazil, first by the ambassador [Khalid Al Jaradi], who is doing a magnificent job, and second by the Arab Chamber, which has carried out a strong commercial promotion work [for the country],” said Sallum.

The delegation comprises representatives from government agencies and state-owned companies and has travelled to Brazil looking to promote business opportunities in the sultanate. In addition to the forum, the Omanis attended separate meetings with Brazilian executives, paid a visit to the São Paulo Investment and Competitiveness Promotion Agency (Investe São Paulo) and will go the Port of Santos on Wednesday (14th).

“Our visit has been a huge success,” said the head of the delegation, Yahya Said Abdullah Al Jabri, chairman of the Duqm Special Economic Zone Authority. He highlighted the participation of the Brazilian vice president Michel Temer in the forum, the meetings with Brazilian executives and the visit to Investe São Paulo, where they learned about investment opportunities in the state.

Alaby gave a presentation on economic relations between Brazil and Oman, and delegation members inquired which sectors the Arab Chamber believes hold the most promise for bilateral business.

Sallum cited infrastructure. “We took delegates from Brazilian infrastructure companies along with us, and they told me they were interested in following up with the visit,” he said, referring to the trip Michel Temer took to the sultanate in 2013, alongside businessmen. He also envisions partnership possibilities in ports. The Omani delegation includes executives from the Duqm, Sohar and Salalah ports.

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Group is looking to attract investment into Oman

Alaby added that infrastructure in Brazil yields “good profitability,” as do retail and the hotel industry. In his opinion, however, the best opportunities for Arabs, especially those from the Gulf, lie in agribusiness. “And that is also due to [the issue of] food security,” he asserted.

Delegation members also requested information about heavy industry companies that may be interested in doing business with Oman, and about fish farming experiences in Brazil. Fishing is an important activity in the sultanate, due to the length of its coastline and its maritime tradition.

Jabri said a Brazil-Oman Business Council should be established swiftly to conduct an in-depth evaluation of the outlook for mutual investment, and to foster bilateral trade. The council’s establishment has been entrusted to the Arab Chamber and the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He also suggested that more trade missions be carried out.

Ambassador Jaradi stated that the Arab Chamber is the embassy’s “number one” partner in Brazil, and thanked Sallum, Alaby and the employees who gave assistance through the forum and during the delegation’s visit. “I am certain that we will see the concrete results of this forum,” he said.

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum

Source Article from http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia/21863727/business-opportunities/omani-delegation-pays-visit-to-arab-chamber/

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First on CNN: Stephen Miller tells surrogates Trump hasn’t yet decided to shut down the border, says it depends on coming days – CNN
First on CNN: Stephen Miller tells surrogates Trump hasn’t yet decided to shut down the border, says it depends on coming days – CNN

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(CNN)White House senior adviser Stephen Miller indicated on Monday that President Donald Trump has not quite made the decision to shut down the border, saying it depends on how the week goes, according to notes from a conference call taken by a listener and obtained by CNN.

    CNN’s Eli Watkins, Pamela Brown and Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report.

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Talk Of ‘Preemptive’ Pardons By Trump Raises Questions: What Can He Do? – NPR
Talk Of ‘Preemptive’ Pardons By Trump Raises Questions: What Can He Do? – NPR

President Trump is being urged to preemptively pardon some of those closest to him, including son Donald Jr.

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President Trump is being urged to use his remaining time in office to grant preemptive pardons to people close to him, including family members and maybe even himself.

Sean Hannity, whose Fox News program is closely followed by Trump, said on his radio show this week that the president, “out the door, needs to pardon his whole family and himself because they want this witch hunt to go on in perpetuity, they’re so full of rage and insanity against the president.”

Hannity likely was referring to the prospect for a post-presidential prosecution of Trump, who faces serious potential legal issues once he is out of office and no longer enjoys the privilege of not being indicted by federal prosecutors.

President-elect Joe Biden has said he’d let professionals within the Justice Department assess whether a case is merited against Trump, and that decision — which would be unprecedented — is one of the toughest facing the department in the new administration.

A presidential preemptive pardon sounds unusual but it has been done before, most famously when President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, who resigned because of the Watergate scandal in 1973 but had not actually been charged with any crimes.

“A preemptive pardon is a presidential pardon granted before any formal legal process has begun,” American University professor Jeffrey Crouch tells NPR.

Read the text of Ford’s pardon of Nixon here.

In an email, Crouch, author of The Presidential Pardon Power, says “someone must have committed a federal offense, but as soon as that happens, the president can grant them clemency. He does not need to wait until the alleged offender is charged, stands trial, and so on.”

Continues Crouch: “These pardons are not common, but they do happen occasionally.”

Accordingly, Trump could “pardon his children, his aides, his supporters, and so on for federal offenses and be on firm legal ground,” Crouch says. “The really unclear scenario would be if he attempted to pardon himself.”

The man in the mirror

Trump has asserted he has the power to pardon himself but has said he didn’t need to use it because he hasn’t done anything wrong. Not only might his denial about any lawbreaking be complicated by events following his departure from office, the merits of a self-pardon are controversial and have never been tested in court.

And although the potential legal problems facing Trump are thought to be well understood, at least in principle, it’s not clear what if any criminal offenses Trump’s children might be charged with.

Donald Trump, Jr. was investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for his contacts with Russians during the 2016 Trump campaign but no charges were brought. Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and the president’s younger son Eric have been the subjects of allegations of various kinds, but none that so far have risen to the level of a potential prosecution.

Trump could also be considering a pardon for attorney Rudy Giuliani, according to one report.

How pardons work

Specialists point out that even if the public may not be aware of all the actions involving the prospective recipients of potential pardons, there’s an important distinction:

A president can protect someone from being prosecuted for something they’ve already done, even if it doesn’t come to the attention of prosecutors later — but not protect someone from being prosecuted for something they haven’t yet done, or from being prosecuted by state or local authorities.

Bernadette Meyler, a professor at Stanford Law School, says the precedents in these cases go back to the earliest days of the Republic, when President Washington used his pardon powers to grant amnesty to some of the conspirators in the Whiskey Rebellion.

“The Supreme Court interpreted the pardon power to include amnesty in cases like United States v Klein,” she says. “So what Trump would probably do is something like Ford’s pardon of Nixon, which described a period of time and immunized Nixon against prosecution for activities undertaken during that time.”

But that wouldn’t be a lifetime Get Out Of Jail Free card.

Meyler, author of Theaters of Pardoning, notes that “such pardons could not cover future events.”

The Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney notes this: “It would be highly unusual” for a president to issue preemptive pardons.

But it also says “there have been a few cases where people who had not been charged with a crime were pardoned, including President Gerald Ford’s pardon of President Richard Nixon after Watergate, President Jimmy Carter’s pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers and President George H.W. Bush’s pardon of [onetime Defense Secretary] Caspar Weinberger. President Donald J. Trump pardoned Joseph Arpaio after he was charged and convicted, but prior to sentencing.”

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Britney Spears Can Choose Her Own Lawyer In Conservatorship Case, A Judge Has Ruled – NPR
Britney Spears Can Choose Her Own Lawyer In Conservatorship Case, A Judge Has Ruled – NPR

Protesters at a #FreeBritney Rally outside the Los Angeles Courthouse today. A judge has cleared the pop star to choose her own lawyer.

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Protesters at a #FreeBritney Rally outside the Los Angeles Courthouse today. A judge has cleared the pop star to choose her own lawyer.

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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has allowed Britney Spears to hire her own lawyer. Matthew S. Rosengart, a prominent Hollywood lawyer and former federal prosecutor, has been approved as Spears’ choice to take up the case.

Spears, who joined the hearing by phone, also told the Los Angeles court that she wants her father charged with conservatorship abuse.

After Spears’ blistering public comments about the conservatorship last month, various parties in Britney Spears’ orbit started making some legal moves: Bessemer Trust, the wealth management company that had signed on to be co-conservator of Spears’ estate, asked to resign. Her longtime court-appointed lawyer Samuel D. Ingham III also requested to resign, asking the court to appoint someone else in his place. Spears’ mother, Lynne Spears, as well as Jodi Montgomery, the conservator of her personal life, have also initiated different routes for Britney Spears to choose her own legal representation.

There are a lot of moving parts to the case. If you want to know more, here’s a quick rundown on who’s involved.

TMZ first reported last week that Spears had approached Rosengart, asking him to represent her.

Presumably, Rosengart will be the one to follow through on Britney’s wishes to end the conservatorship, and start the process of proving Britney Spears willing and able to care for herself.

Britney Spears supporters gathering outside a Los Angeles courthouse before her June 23rd testimony.

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Britney Spears supporters gathering outside a Los Angeles courthouse before her June 23rd testimony.

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#FreeBritney activists are keeping a close eye on the proceedings, and gathered outside the courtroom, like they did last month. Only this time the hearing was held in person (the last one was remote), and the judge restricted any recording after Spears’ testimony leaked online.

Disability rights activists have also been watching this case closely. Yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union teamed up with 25 disability rights organizations to file an amicus brief in support of Britney Spears choosing her own lawyer. In a statement, they called Spears’ probate conservatorship “a court-ordered legal status that strips people with disabilities of their civil liberties,” adding that the right to choose one’s own counsel is a key part of the Sixth Amendment.

Politicians have been paying attention too, with everyone from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, voicing their support for Britney Spears. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. spoke in front of #FreeBritney activists ahead of the hearing to show his support for the movement. “Britney’s been abused by the media, she’s been abused by her grifter father, and she’s been abused by the American justice system,” he said, while calling for a federal change to conservatorship laws.

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California storm: ‘Endless onslaught’ of severe weather forces thousands to flee their homes, 1 dead – NBC News
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Disney power broker at the heart of Anaheim ‘cabal’ – Los Angeles Times
Disney power broker at the heart of Anaheim ‘cabal’ – Los Angeles Times

An FBI affidavit made public last week identified an employee of an influential, unnamed company as being a key participant in a “cabal” steering Anaheim’s government.

The employee of the firm, called “Company A” in the affidavit that’s part of a federal public corruption probe, helped script a statement read by an elected official before the City Council voted to issue bonds and provided input on whom to invite to a covert retreat for community powerbrokers.

Company A is Disneyland Resort, according to a person familiar with the investigation, and the employee is Disneyland Resort Director of External Affairs Carrie Nocella.

Though neither the company nor Nocella have been accused of wrongdoing, their connection to the wide-ranging investigation that led to Harry Sidhu resigning as Anaheim mayor Monday underscores the immense influence the company wields in the city of 350,000 with a budget fueled by millions of visitors each year to the Disneyland Resort.

The wide-ranging investigation includes the sale of Angel Stadium and allegations of bribery involving Anaheim’s mayor.

The company has long played a dominant role in Anaheim politics. Some current and former council members, local activists and a past mayor say Disneyland Resort has parlayed its influence into lucrative tax breaks at the expense of city residents and bankrolled friendly politicians with generous campaign donations. Disney has pushed back against such criticism, arguing that the resort provides the city with an important economic engine and is a job creator.

But the court filing provides an unusually detailed look inside how the company works to shape events away from public view.

Councilman Jose Moreno said Disneyland’s influence over the city was obvious to anyone paying attention.

“That would be the worst kept secret in town,” he said.

In response to questions from The Times about its identification as Company A, Disney said in a statement that, “We have seen media reports of the complaint and no authorities have reached out to us about it.” Nocella, who deleted her Facebook and Instagram accounts last week, declined to comment.

Company A came to light in a 99-page affidavit by FBI Special Agent Brian Adkins in support of a criminal complaint accusing Todd Ament, the former head of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, of lying to a mortgage lender.

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The agent wrote that Ament and an unnamed political consultant “were the ring leaders of a small group of individuals who met in person to discuss strategy surrounding several matters within Anaheim — matters that were often pending, or soon to be pending, before the Anaheim City Council,” Adkins wrote.

The affidavit described Company A Employee — Nocella — as one of the group’s ringleaders “to some extent.”

In advance of a secretive gathering of Anaheim business leaders, consultants and politicians in December 2020, Adkins alleged Company A Employee provided input to Ament and the political consultant about who to invite.

Details about the consultant in the affidavit match Jeff Flint, chief executive and senior partner at FSB Public Affairs, who has represented Disneyland Resort. Flint, who announced last week that he was taking a leave of absence as CEO, denied doing anything wrong.

During a wiretapped phone call on Nov. 30, 2020, between the consultant and an Anaheim politician identified as Elected Official 1, the politician asked if two colleagues had been invited to the retreat.

“No, I talked about it with Todd [Ament] and [Company A Employee],” the political consultant said. “We felt like for this first one we’ll kinda keep things big picture and stick with um, with, um, [Elected Official 4] and [Elected Official 3]. … But, um, [Elected Official 2’s], you know, I think he’s on the team, but he’s just gonna take some management because he’s got competing pressures.”

The subject line for the email invitation to the gathering from Ament’s assistant read: “Retreat 12/2020.” The event was scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the JW Marriott in Anaheim with a “social hour to follow upon conclusion.”

Records from an FBI probe show how business interests run the Orange County city home to Disneyland and the Angels.

Anaheim City Councilmen Stephen Faessel and Trevor O’Neil along with City Manager Jim Vanderpool have publicly acknowledged attending the retreat.

“As I remember, the major focus of this meeting was on how to get our economy back open, our residents back to work, the distribution of essential products,” Faessel said. “This was exactly the kind of meeting you would have expected City leadership to have at that moment. Sadly, I’ve read with serious concern how this meeting has been depicted. Apparently others may have gone into this with a different perspective than I did.”

The intercepted phone calls detailed in the affidavit depicted the meeting as anything but ordinary, as organizers fixated on including trustworthy people — “family members only” and keeping “the family close” — while debating whether to invite a City Council member described as a possible “double agent.” Ament, at one point, called the group a “cabal.”

According to the affidavit, Nocella and Elected Official 1 were scheduled to attend the retreat.

Almost four months later, Adkins wrote, the political consultant drafted a script about issuing bonds — with input from Company A Employee and Ament — for Elected Official 1 to read at the City Council meeting on March 23, 2021. The item authorized up to $210 million in bonds to make up for pandemic-related revenue shortfalls.

Hours before the meeting, the political consultant texted the assistant for Elected Official 1: Company A “asked to delete reference to [Company A’s parking lot]. Will send to you.”

Sidhu, then mayor, was the only elected official who spoke extensively on that agenda item during the meeting before it passed. Reading from prepared remarks, he referenced Disney in glowing terms: “I believe Disney will continue to invest in Anaheim, strengthening our destination and ensuring Anaheim remains the long-term premier tourist attraction of the West Coast.”

But Company A Employee wasn’t impressed, texting the political consultant that the mayor “reads your script so poorly,” according to the affidavit.

“Lol,” the political consultant replied. “He doesn’t practice.”

Harry Sidhu said in a statement released by his lawyer that he did nothing wrong.

Sidhu was linked to the scandal in a separate affidavit in support of a search warrant by Adkins that became public last week. It alleged he gave Major League Baseball’s Angels confidential information on at least two occasions during the city’s negotiations with the team over the $320-million sale of Angel Stadium — and hoped to get a million-dollar campaign donation from the team. Sidhu denied wrongdoing. He has not been charged.

In a statement Monday announcing the resignation, Sidhu’s attorney, Paul Meyer, wrote: “A fair and thorough investigation will prove that [Sidhu] did not leak secret information in the hopes of a later campaign contribution.”

Disneyland Resort has long enjoyed the benefits of its relationship with Anaheim’s government.

City leaders agreed in 1996 to issue $510 million in bonds to finance, among other projects, construction of the $108-million Mickey & Friends parking structure. The resort keeps the parking revenue, and Anaheim will transfer ownership of the garage to Disney once the bonds and $1.1 billion in interest are paid off.

In 2015, the City Council approved shielding Disneyland from any potential tax on ticket sales for 45 years, a massive revenue stream that could have generated an estimated $1 billion or more in revenue for the city. Disneyland promised to build the park’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion — which opened in 2019 — and another major project in the future. City officials granted the company a $267-million tax rebate in 2016 for a luxury hotel.

Disneyland abandoned the hotel project in 2018 and asked the City Council to cancel its 45-year ticket sales tax protection. The resort did so as city voters were set to approve a measure requiring any resort business receiving subsidies to pay its workers a living wage.

At the same time, Disney has directed significant campaign funds to influence city politics. The company contributed $1.3 million in 2021 to the Support Our Anaheim Resort political action committee, a group composed of business owners, community leaders and residents, according to campaign finance filings for the non-election year.

Melahat Rafiei announced she has been a cooperating witness in the FBI investigation involving the Anaheim mayor and city power brokers.

In a profile on the University of the Pacific’s website in March, Nocella, who graduated from the McGeorge School of Law in 2002, recalled working at Disneyland Resort in high school and college long before assuming her current role.

“The best part about my job is being able to sit down with an elected official or a policymaker and share with them our position on certain issues and what we’re doing in their communities,” Nocella said. “That’s important to be successful.”

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-24/disney-power-broker-anaheim-cabal-fbi-records-shows

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Temporary channels to Port of Baltimore planned around Key Bridge collapse site – CBS Baltimore
Temporary channels to Port of Baltimore planned around Key Bridge collapse site – CBS Baltimore
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Chip stocks fall after Commerce Dept bars 5 more Chinese companies from buying US parts – CNBC
Chip stocks fall after Commerce Dept bars 5 more Chinese companies from buying US parts – CNBC

Traders this week bet on a Fed rate cut in record-setting numbers

Trading volume soared to 1,293,459 million contracts Wednesday, the same day the Federal Open Market Committee voted to keep rates unchanged.

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Worldwide coronavirus cases top 200,000, doubling in two weeks – CNBC
Worldwide coronavirus cases top 200,000, doubling in two weeks – CNBC

COVID-19 cases surpassed 200,000 worldwide on Wednesday as the new coronavirus continues to spread outside of China, the original epicenter of the outbreak.

The total number of cases now stands at 201,436 as of 7:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, according to data compiled by John Hopkins. The virus emerged in Wuhan, China in December. It has since spread to most countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization.

The virus has now killed more than 8,000 people around the world, according to JHU, but more than 82,000 people have recovered from the virus.

Almost half of all cases in the world are in China, but the virus, known as COVID-19, has quickly spread across borders. Last week, the WHO declared that Europe had become the new epicenter of the virus.

“More cases are now being reported [in Europe] every day than were reported in China at the height of its epidemic,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. 

Italy, where officials have implemented a nationwide lockdown, has reported more than 31,000 cases, according to JHU, and over 2,500 deaths. The virus has infected more than 16,000 people in Iran, JHU’s data shows, and over 13,000 in Spain.

On Jan. 20, four countries, China, Thailand, Japan and South Korea, had reported a total of 282 cases, most of which were in China, according to the WHO. The total number of infections across the world hovered around 100,000 on March 6, the WHO’s data shows. 

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U.S. Justice Ginsburg released from hospital after cancer surgery – AOL
U.S. Justice Ginsburg released from hospital after cancer surgery – AOL

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has been released from the hospital after undergoing cancer surgery, a court spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

“Justice Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is recuperating at home,” spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement.

The liberal justice underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Friday to remove two cancerous nodules in her left lung.

There was no evidence of any remaining disease after the removal of the two nodules, both of which were found to be cancerous, Arberg said on Friday, citing the thoracic surgeon, Dr. Valerie Rusch. No further treatment was planned, she said.

Ginsburg, one of the court’s nine justices, broke three ribs in a fall last month. The nodules were found as part of the tests the justice underwent after the fall, Arberg said.

As the oldest justice, Ginsburg is closely watched for any signs of deteriorating health. Ginsburg, appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993, also is the senior liberal member of the court, which has a 5-4 conservative majority.

If she were unable to continue serving, Republican President Donald Trump could replace her with a conservative, further shifting the court to the right. Trump already has put two conservatives on the court since becoming president in January 2017 and a potentially dominant 6-3 conservative majority would have major consequences for issues including abortion, the death penalty, voting rights, gay rights and religious liberty.

Ginsburg has recovered from previous medical issues. She was treated in 1999 for colon cancer and again in 2009 for pancreatic cancer but did not miss any argument sessions either time. In 2014, doctors placed a stent in her right coronary artery to improve blood flow after she reported discomfort following routine exercise. She was released from a hospital the next day.

The justices are scheduled to hear their next round of arguments on Jan. 7.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, stands in her chambers following an interview in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Ginsburg, 80, the oldest member of the Supreme Court and appointed to the court in 1993 by Democratic President Bill Clinton, has said on several occasions that she wants to match the longevity of Justice Louis Brandeis, who was 82 when he stepped down in 1939. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, looks out the window of her chambers following an interview in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Ginsburg, 80, the oldest member of the Supreme Court and appointed to the court in 1993 by Democratic President Bill Clinton, has said on several occasions that she wants to match the longevity of Justice Louis Brandeis, who was 82 when he stepped down in 1939. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 12: Members of the Supreme Court, (L-R) Chief Justice John Roberts and associate justices Anthony Kennendy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to deliver his State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol February 12, 2013 in Washington, DC. Facing a divided Congress, Obama focused his speech on new initiatives designed to stimulate the U.S. economy and said, ‘ItÕs not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth’. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON – SEPTEMBER 29: Members of the US Supreme Court pose for a group photograph at the Supreme Court building on September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. Front row (L-R): Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Back Row (L-R), Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)




In recent years she has become something of a cult figure for liberals and known by the nickname “Notorious RBG,” after the late rapper Notorious BIG.

A documentary film, “RBG,” was released earlier this year and a feature film about her life, “On the Basis of Sex,” made its debut in theaters this week.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Tim Ahmann and Bill Trott)

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Evacuation warnings issued as Santa Ana winds prompt fears of Bobcat Fire spread – KTLA 5
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