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While beaches, parks and trails in Ventura County are open to the public this weekend amid a spring heat wave, officials asked residents not to gather in groups or plan for extended stays.
Additionally, they asked people not to visit from Los Angeles County, where beaches remain closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“Please, please, please, do not drive from outside the area, particularly outside the county,” to visit Ventura County beaches, Oxnard Police Chief Scott Whitney said Friday. “I promise you, if you pack up your car and you think you’re going to spend a long day at the beach in our county, you’re going be disappointed because we’re going to turn you back.”
Whitney said that officers continue to educate residents on how to practice social distancing while outdoors, but have issued citations to people who are not complying with the county’s “stay well at home” order.
He said that beachgoers will not be allowed to visit for a long period of time and those who refuse to leave will be ticketed or arrested.
“It’s the last thing we want to do, but we have to ensure safety,” the chief said during the county’s coronavirus briefing.
As of Friday, the county had a total of 476 coronavirus cases and 16 deaths, according to Rigoberto Vargas, the county’s public health director.
He said the county and cities eased restrictions on the outdoors to allow residents to enjoy physical activity with their immediate family unit, but encouraged people to remain safe.
“Our numbers are looking good, and we want those numbers to continue to go down, and the only way we’re going to do that is to continue practicing social distancing,” Vargas said.
The three beaches managed by the county, as well as all beaches controlled by cities in the coastal area, have partially opened.
Amenities at local beaches and parks, including bathrooms, playgrounds, parking lots and campgrounds, remain closed to discourage long stays.
On Monday, the Ventura City Council voted to provide restricted access to parks, beaches, the promenade and pier, “in support of balancing residents’ physical and mental health while restricting non-essential activities,” officials said.
Residents are allowed to walk, hike, jog or bike as long as they don’t linger in any location and maintain a distance from others.
The Ventura Police Department may order an area closed for 24 hours if parks or beaches become overcrowded, according to the city.
After a third such closure, city beaches will be ordered closed until the end of the pandemic, Ventura Police Chief Darin Schindler said Friday.
“We do not want to have to do that, we’re hoping the public will police themselves,” he said.
Officials are aware that the warm temperatures and closure of neighboring beaches might draw crowds over the weekend, and said that there will be increased patrol by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office to ensure that guidelines are met.
“Not following these soft-closure guidelines may result in our County-managed beaches being shut down for the foreseeable future,” Mark Sandoval, director of the county’s harbor department, said.
Despite posted signs about limited access at one of the county beaches Sandoval visited Friday, rules are “flat out being ignored,” he said.
“I implore you, please, come out, enjoy the beaches, but enjoy the beaches in an active manner,” Sandoval said.
Shocking footage released on Sunday offers a new glimpse inside the deadly US Capitol riot, — following the invaders as they search for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers, sit in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat and rifle through lawmakers’ documents.
The nearly 13 edited minutes of footage were shot by war correspondent Luke Mogelson and published Sunday by The New Yorker, for which Mogelson is a contributing writer.
The video opens with scenes of hordes of pro-Trump rioters overpowering US Capitol Police and streaming into the seat of American democracy through doors and shattered windows.
“You’re outnumbered!” one rioter can be heard telling a small contingent of cops trying to hold the line inside a Capitol hallway. “There’s a f–king million of us out there, and we are listening to Trump, your boss!”
The contingent of rioters backed the overwhelmed cops down a hallway through the sheer size of their group and headed up a stairway, with one invader yelling in parting, “We love you guys! Take it easy!”
One group of dozens chanted, “Treason! Treason! Treason!” as they stalked the halls, the video shows.
“Knock knock!” one man taunted as the doors to the Senate gallery were slammed open, sending rioters streaming inside. “We’re here!”
Members of that group can be heard wondering about the whereabouts of Congressional lawmakers, who had been attempting to certify the results of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory when the riot broke out following a rally in which Trump encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell” against the process.
“Where the f–k are they?” one man yelled upon seeing the deserted Senate floor.
“Where the f–k is Nancy?” was another call.
As rioters clad in combat gear made their way onto the Senate floor, a debate broke out about the optics of the takeover.
A rioter sitting in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair.YouTube
The spat centered around one intruder taking a seat in the chair reserved for the president of the Senate, Pence — who was accused by Trump of not doing enough to fight the election results and was among those forced to evacuate when the riot hit.
“Hey, get out of that chair!” Larry Brock, a zip tie-carrying retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from Texas can be heard telling the unidentified man occupying Pence’s seat.
“No, this is our chair!” a third man yelled back.
“It’s not our chair,” countered Brock. “I love you guys, you’re brothers, but we can’t be disrespectful.”
A rioter challenged Brock further, invoking a conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump.
“They can steal an election, but we can’t sit in their chairs?” the man asked.
“No, we’re not putting up with that either!” insisted Brock. “Look, it’s a PR war. … We’re better than that.”
While the group bickered, others rifled through lawmakers’ desks, apparently in search of documents to back their claim that the election was rigged.
A handful of intruders stumbled upon papers detailing what one identified as Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s “objection to the Arizona” election results.
Rioters reading Sen. Ted Cruz’s notes.YouTube
The discovery left some confused over exactly what the papers purportedly showed.
“His objection! He was gonna sell us out all along!” fumed one man.
“Wait, no, that’s a good thing!” chimed in another huddled around the document.
One of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress, Cruz was among those who questioned the legitimacy of Biden’s win in Arizona, lodging an unsuccessful protest even in the hours after the riot.
Two others flipped through a binder, apparently also in search of evidence or otherwise incriminating material, the video shows.
“There’s gotta be something in here we can f–king use against these scumbags,” muttered one man, haphazardly leafing through pages.
“[Republican Missouri Sen. Josh] Hawley, Cruz. I think Cruz would want us to do this,” another man intoned. “I think we’re good.”
Above them in the gallery, “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley — done up in a horned helmet and red, white and blue face paint — chanted unintelligibly, rhythmically stomping his feet and the pole of an American flag.
Jake Angeli in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair inside of the chamber.YouTube
In a later segment, Chansley — also known as Jake Angeli — made his way down onto the Senate floor, closely followed by a lone cop, the video shows.
“You guys are f–king patriots,” said Angeli to the group. “Look at this guy. He’s covered in blood. God bless you.”
The man to whom Angeli was referring, splayed out on the floor with a small smear of blood on his t-shirt, said that he “got shot in the face with some kind of plastic bullet,” but declined an offer of medical help.
As Angeli ascended the dais and prepared to sit in Pence’s seat, the cop took his best shot at dispersing the crowd.
“Is there any chance I can get you guys to leave the Senate wing?” he asked.
Replied the bloodied man on the floor, “We will. I’ve been making sure they ain’t disrespecting the place.”
Angeli, however, decided to make himself at home.
“I’m gonna take a sit in this chair because Mike Pence is a f–king traitor,” he said.
As the cop looked on, Angeli asked another rioter to use his phone to snap a photo of him seated in Pence’s chair.
Once Angeli had his photo, the cop took another crack.
“Now that you’ve done that, can I get you guys to walk out of this room, please?” he asked.
The group appeared to be complying, but not before Angeli scrawled a message on a sheet of paper before Pence’s seat: “It’s only a matter of time[,] justice is coming!”
In a later segment, however, Angeli and others were back on the dais, using a megaphone to shout a “prayer.”
The group prayer inside of the chamber.YouTube
“Thank you, heavenly father, for being the inspiration needed to these police officers to allow us into the building, to allow us to exercise our rights, to allow us to send a message to all the tyrants, the communists and the globalists,” said Angeli.
In the hall outside the Senate chamber, cops were doing what they could to direct rioters out of the building.
“We support you guys, OK?” one rioter could be heard telling an officer. “We know you’re doing your job.”
Back outside the Capitol, however, it was a different scene as another contingent of rioters clashed with cops attempting to restore order.
“F–k the blue! F–k the blue!” some in the mob chanted, the video shows, in an apparent reference to police.
Encerrados en una jaula en medio del tribunal, que sesionó en un cuartel de policía de El Cairo, el corresponsal australiano Peter Greste y el egipcio con pasaporte canadiense Mohamed Fahmy recibieron una pena de siete años de prisión, según el veredicto leído al final de la vista.
El egipcio Baher Mohamed fue sentenciado a diez años, siete por los mismos cargos que sus compañeros y otros tres porque llevaba encima una bala en el momento de la detención.
Los tres, que habían estado detenidos desde diciembre, afirman que fueron condenados sólo por hacer su trabajo, cubriendo las protestas posteriores al golpe de Estado del año pasado contra el presidente Mohamed Mursi, miembro de la Hermandad Musulmana.
El juicio es visto por muchos como un proceso con un fuerte componente político, parte de una disputa entre Egipto y Qatar, el emirato del Golfo Pérsico que es dueño de Al Jazira y al que El Cairo acusa de apoyar a la Hermandad, pese a que la emisora niega rotundamente cualquier sesgo favorable a la cofradía islamista.
En un juicio contra periodistas por cargos de terrorismo que no tiene precedentes, fiscales egipcios los acusaron de colaborar con la Hermanad, que fue prohibida y declarada grupo “terrorista”, y de haber fabricado imágenes para perjudicar la seguridad nacional.
Otros tres periodistas -dos británicos que trabajaban para Al Jazira y un freelance holandés que sólo se reunió una vez con Fahmy, fueron condenados en ausencia, junto a nueve personas más, a 10 años de cárcel. Además, el tribunal sentenció a tres estudiantes procesados en la misma causa a siete años de prisión y absolvió a otros dos, informó la agencia de noticias EFE.
El secretario de Estado norteamericano, que ayer se reunió en El Cairo con el nuevo presidente egipcio Abdel Fatah Al Sisi -el ex general que derrocó a Mursi y que ganó las últimas elecciones-, dijo que la sentencia viola la libertad de prensa y los principios básicos de toda democracia.
La Casa Blanca, posteriormente, emitió un comunicado pidiendo que el Gobierno egipcio “perdone a estos individuos o conmute sus sentencias para que puedan ser liberados inmediatamente” y además solicitó “clemencia” para todos los condenados por motivos políticos.
Además, Washington condenó “en los términos más fuertes posibles el veredicto que se produce en el marco de una serie de procesamientos judiciales y veredictos que son incompatibles con los preceptos básicos de los derechos humanos y de la democracia”.
Luego del golpe contra Mursi del 3 de julio pasado, las autoridades egipcias lanzaron una fuerte campaña contra la Hermandad que incluyó cientos de muertos en episodios de represión y cientos de dirigentes o miembros de la organización condenados a muerte en procesos sumarísimoso.
La semana pasada, una corte condenó a muerte a cerca de 200 islamistas, entre ellos, al líder máximo de la Hermandad, Mohamed Badia.
El secretario general de la ONU, Ban Ki-moon, criticó hoy las penas de cárcel impuestas a los periodistas de Al Jazira y las 183 de la semana pasada y aseguró que parecen no cumplir con los principios básicos de la Justicia, informó EFE.
“El secretario general subraya que la participación en protestas pacíficas o las críticas al Gobierno no deben ser base para la detención y acusación”, señaló el portavoz de Ban, Stéphane Dujarric, quien agregó que Ban cree que tales medidas “minarán las perspectivas de estabilidad a largo plazo” en Egipto.
También en repudio de las sentencias, los gobiernos del Reino Unido, Holanda y Australia llamaron de inmediato a sus embajadores para interiorizarse del caso.
Asimismo, el juicio despertó críticas de las organizaciones de derechos humanos y de grupos de periodistas, que convocaron a numerosas protestas para apoyar a los acusados y pedir su puesta en libertad.
El Comité para la Protección de los Periodistas sitúa a Egipto entre los diez estados con más reporteros detenidos y el tercer país más mortífero para los informadores en 2013.
Amnistía Internacional fue particularmente dura en su declaración. Los tres periodistas, detenidos en Egipto desde finales de 2013, son “prisioneros de conciencia”.
Uno de los abogados del caso de los periodistas, Shaaban Said, dijo que van apelar la sentencia de primera instancia, a la cual calificó de “dura y cruel”.
Al finalizar la sesión, estallaron en la sala consignas contra el gobierno recientemente electo.
Prominent Democrats defended Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) after Donald Trump tweeted a viral video featuring a recent speech given by Omar intercut with footage of 9/11.
Members of Omar’s 2018 Congressional class, including Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY),responded to the tweet by accusing the president both of spreading Islamophobia and of endangering Omar’s safety.
Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
Democratic presidential candidates including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, and Jay Inslee, all defended Omar.
The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It’s disgusting. It’s shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.
Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won’t back down to Trump’s racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.
After 9/11 we all said we were changed. That we were stronger and more united. That’s what “never forget” was about. Now, a president uses that dark day to incite his base against a member of Congress, as if for sport. As if we learned nothing that day about the workings of hate.
President Trump’s inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric towards Ilhan Omar is jeopardizing her safety. He is deliberately putting her and all Muslim Americans in harm’s way.
While some Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) were more measured in their criticism, and others like New York’s Rep. Max Rose used Trump’s tweet to reach across the aisle, there was no notable criticism of Omar’s comments.
This marks a stark departure from February, when Democratic leaders condemned tweets Omar sent criticizing the influence of pro-Israel lobbyists. In a joint statement signed by Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD), Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC), and other top Democrats, party leaders rebuked “Congresswoman Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes,” calling her tweets “deeply offensive.”
The statement demanded Omar apologize. She did, after which the House passed a resolution that did not mention her by name, but that broadly denounced “the perpetuation of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the United States and around the world.”
Now Democrats are striking a different tone. Their defense of Omar is the latest step in an effort to defend the freshman Democrat from what is being increasingly described by liberals as an Islamophobic smear campaign. Omar is one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress, a fact some, such as Vox’s Nisha Chittal and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes have argued is central to the criticism.
Democrats also see this as an opportunity to attack Trump and to differentiate themselves and their party from the politics the president favors.
Omar’s words were taken out of context
The clip of Omar comes from a speech the Congresswoman gave in March to members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization.
In the speech, which was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, Omar stressed the importance of organizations like CAIR, and praised them for helping to protect Muslims from civil rights violations.
“Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” Omar said. “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explained, Omar’s words “some people did something” were quickly seized upon by members of the right “to paint [Omar] as an anti-American radical indifferent to those killed during the 9/11 attacks.”
The New York Post took the quote and placed it on its front page with an image of 9/11 on Thursday; conservative media personality Sean Hannity tweeted it to his followers. The cover, and online criticism of Omar about her supposed statement was followed by the appearance of the video the president tweeted.
Beauchamp called right’s outrage “part and parcel” of an “overall anti-Muslim campaign,” and added:
These attacks are straight-up attempts to turn her into the boogeyman of the GOP base’s Islamophobic nightmares, meant to gin up politically useful fear and anger by targeting one of the first-ever Muslim congresswomen. That this seems to have contributed to at least one death threat against her is demonstrably unimportant: The latest round of attacks came after the news of the threat maker’s arrest.
Political threats are becoming real threats for Omar
The president’s tweet marks the second time in recent weeks he has directly attacked Omar. Last Saturday he made disparaging remarks about the Congresswoman at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual convention, just hours after law enforcement officials charged one of his supporters for threatening to kill her.
That man, 55-year-old Patrick Carlineo Jr., allegedly called Omar’s office asked staffers, “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist,” before reportedly telling them, “I’ll put a bullet in her fucking skull.”
Law enforcement officials said Carlineo told them he “loves the president and that he hates radical Muslims in our government” after being apprehended.
While Carlineo was arrest after her speech, Omar addressed his stated beliefs in her CAIR address, in which she blamed Trump for escalating anti-Muslim sentiment.
“We have a leader … in the White House who publicly says Islam hates us, who fuels hate against Muslims, who thinks it is okay to speak about a faith and a whole community in a way that is dehumanizing, vilifying, and doesn’t understand … the consequences that his words might have,” Omar said. “Some people, like me, know that he understands the consequences.”
With the Delta coronavirus variant on the rise, people are concerned that they are at risk even after becoming fully vaccinated. Some people hesitant to get vaccinated may be swayed if the Food and Drug Administration issues its first full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine — likely Pfizer’s — which Fauci hopes will happen this month.
“Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against Delta particularly in protecting you from severe disease,” Fauci said. “But if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you’re leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine.”
“So,” he added, “people who were unvaccinated should think about their own health, that of their family, but also the community responsibility to crush this virus before it becomes even worse.”
Fauci said that even though breakthrough cases among vaccinated people will occur because “no vaccine is 100 percent protective,” vaccinated people are protected “extremely well” from getting severe disease. The bad news is, if a vaccinated person does become infected, they can transmit Covid-19 to both unvaccinated and vaccinated people.
Fauci said he was “very concerned” about another surge in cases coming from the current Sturgis Motorcycle Rally taking place in South Dakota — an event expecting about 700,000 people. Last year, the rally led to a breakout of the virus.
“To me, it’s understandable that people want to do the kinds of things they want to do,” Fauci said. “They want their freedom to do that, but there comes a time when you’re dealing with the public health crisis that could involve you, your family and everyone else — that something supersedes that need to do exactly what you want to do.”
“Let’s get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on,” Fauci said.
“Something bad is going on,” he added. “We’ve got to realize that.”
The 2020 census officially starts in Toksook Bay, an Alaskan fishing village along the Bering Sea.
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Near the iced-over Bering Sea, parka-clad workers for the U.S. Census Bureau are gathering in a remote fishing village along the southwestern rim of Alaska to resume a U.S. tradition seen only once a decade — a count of every person living in the country.
After years of largely under-the-radar planning by the federal government and months of turmoil arising from the Trump administration’s failed push to add a citizenship question, the 2020 census officially begins Tuesday in Toksook Bay, Alaska — population 590, according to the 2010 head count.
The bureau’s director, Steven Dillingham, is expected to arrive by plane to attend a ceremony at the gymnasium of Nelson Island School, where community members are marking the day with traditional Yup’ik dancing and drumming.
A RavnAir pilot guides a flight to Toksook Bay, Alaska, which can be seen out the window.
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Census workers and their production crew arrive in Toksook Bay. The Census Bureau’s workers rely on bush planes, snow machines, or snowmobiles, and dog sleds to get to Alaskan villages to ask people their name, sex, age, race and other demographic information.
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For most households in the country — including those in the Lower 48, Hawaii and the U.S. territories, as well as Alaska’s major cities — the count is not set to roll out until March.
But since Alaska became a state in 1959, the Census Bureau has started tallying Alaska’s most remote residents in January, when the frozen ground makes it easier for the federal government’s door knockers to reach far-flung communities. To get around the country’s largest state by land area, the bureau’s workers rely on bush planes, snow machines, or snowmobiles,and dog sleds to get to villages to ask people their name, sex, age, race and other demographic information.
Since the 2000 census, the bureau has selected one village to be the site of the first counting, beginning with Unalakleet along the state’s central coast and then Noorvik in northern Alaska. This year, census workers are starting in the state’s southwest corner, in Toksook Bay, home to members of the Nunakauyarmiut Tribe. It was first thrust into the national spotlight after the Census Bureau announced it had selected the village in 2018.
Alexie Jimmie, 76, says his family was one of the first to settle in Toksook Bay in 1964.
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Alexie Jimmie, 76, says his family was one of the first to settle in Toksook Bay in 1964.
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“We’re all excited about it,” says Alexie Jimmie, 76, whose family was one of the first to settle in the village in 1964, when it was just a fishing camp. “I hope that people counting for the census will go to every house, every home so that everybody can be counted. That’s very important.”
The future of Toksook Bay, along with every other community in the U.S., will be shaped by the results of the census, which the federal government is expected to start releasing by the end of this year. The numbers are used to distribute congressional seats and Electoral College votes among the states, as well as an estimated $1.5 trillion a year in federal funding for public services.
Joanna Woods, 12, (left) and her cousin Mick Chakuchin, 10, go ice fishing in Toksook Bay.
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Joanna Woods, 12, (left) and her cousin Mick Chakuchin, 10, go ice fishing in Toksook Bay.
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Washington, D.C., politics, however, have often diverted the public’s attention away from the constitutionally mandated count. As the census officially launches in Alaska, lawmakers are regrouping Tuesday on Capitol Hill to resume the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. Last year, days before printers were scheduled to start producing census mailers, Trump announced he was looking into delaying the count for the first time in U.S. history after the Supreme Court ruled to keep the citizenship question he wanted off census forms.
Last week, the bureau confirmed that more than 120 million paper census questionnaires have been printed for the count.
Lizzie Chimiugak Nenguryarr’s family gathers to celebrate her 90th birthday at her home in Toksook Bay. She is expected to be the first person counted for the 2020 census.
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In Toksook Bay and some other rural parts of the country, however, they won’t be arriving in the mail. Instead, census workers are collecting people’s responses through in-person visits, beginning with the home of Lizzie Chimiugak Nenguryarr, an elder of Toksook Bay. Dillingham, the bureau’s director, is himself expected to interview Nenguryarr for the first enumeration of the 2020 census.
“It’s overwhelming for people to come in and say this is such a big honor,” Nenguryarr says in Yup’ik through interpretation by one of her daughters, Katie Schwartz Nuiyaaq. “This is just one in every day that comes rolling in.”
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On Sunday night, people gather and practice singing hymns for George Paul Miisaq’s funeral. Miisaq was living in Anchorage and his body was flown back to Toksook Bay to be buried.
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On Sunday night, people gather and practice singing hymns for George Paul Miisaq’s funeral. Miisaq was living in Anchorage and his body was flown back to Toksook Bay to be buried.
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Toksook Bay has seen a flurry of activity these past few days. The day before the count, classes ended early at Nelson Island School to allow mourners to pay their respects to a former resident, George Paul Miisaq, whose body was returned home to be buried in the village cemetery.
A day earlier, Nenguryarr, who is a locally renowned member of an Yup’ik dancing group, held an early celebration for what she considered to be at least her 90th birthday, based on a baptismal record.
“I want everybody to show love and compassion towards all human beings, young and old,” Nenguryarr said.
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Politicians just interrupted regularly scheduled programming to bring you a message they’ve been repeating ad nauseum for the last three weeks.
President Trump went first. Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, he read a watered-down stump speech from a teleprompter. Illegal immigrants and a flood of drugs are streaming across the border, the president said in so many words. The shutdown is the fault of Democrats, he continued, and the solution is some variation of a wall.
Notably lacking? Fireworks.
Trump was presidential in that Trump was unusually low key. He didn’t declare a national emergency, a move which would have thrown Congress and the courts into an immediate crisis. He just repeated the boilerplate language from his campaign.
Democrats offered their rebuttal next, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., standing cadaver-like behind a shared podium. They may haunt the dreams of any child who was unlucky enough to be awake during prime time, but aside from that they didn’t accomplish anything new.
Pelosi said the president was holding the country hostage. Schumer followed up arguing that the president was appealing to fear, not facts, and that Democrats and Republicans agree border security is necessary. They just disagree, Schumer posited, on how to do it.
Pundits promised that this would be a clash of the political titans, a rough-and-tumble exchange of fire worthy of the last two years of hysteria. It was instead a 20-minute dud with all the drama of a “Friends” rerun.
And believe it or not, that is a good thing.
Nothing bad happened tonight, because nothing dramatic went down and nothing changed. Governing from crisis leads to unforeseen outcomes and extra-constitutional actions. Instead, both sides laid out their battle lines after kicking a little dust in prime time.
CHICAGO (CBS) — A massive fire early Monday morning in the Albany Park neighborhood destroyed two businesses and an apartment building, injuring one person and leaving several others homeless.
Fire Department officials believe the fire started around 3:30 a.m. in a 3-story apartment building at 4337-39 N. Richmond St., and then spread to the neighboring building at the southeast corner of Richmond Street and Montrose Avenue – which housed Twisted Hippo Taproom and Eatery, and Ultimate Ninjas gym.
The fire burned for several hours as firefighters worked to contain the flames. Neighbors reported hearing explosions.
Firefighters have their work cut out for them this morning
Wind, cold and a roof truss on a larger building containing nitrogen / CO2 tanks have made this a tough fight, they say
Five hours after the fire started, firefighters were still pouring water on the building from above and below, calling it a “surround and drown” tactic, but crews had to be careful to stay away because of the danger.
“The building itself is a one-story truss roof. To us, it is the most dangerous type of building to fight. So precautions are taken, collapse zones are set up,” said Chicago Fire Department Deputy District Chief Thomas Carbonneau.
Several cars were left buried under rubble after part of the roof and a large section of the rear wall of the Twisted Hippo collapsed.
Late Monday afternoon, it was still not confirmed where the fire started. But the damage at the scene hours later showed just how fast the fire spread.
Five people were left without a home because of the fire at the apartment building, and what was left of the neighboring building that housed the two businesses will need to be torn down.
Marilee Rutherford, the owner of the Twisted Hippo Brewery, which is now in rubble, spoke earlier to CBS 2’s Marissa Parra as she watched her business continue to burn.
She said she was given the news by her husband, who was called by a community member overnight. When she arrived on the scene, her business engulfed in flames. She said the cause of the explosions might have been the CO2 and nitrogen tanks used for dispensing draft beer.
“We have CO2 and nitrogen tanks, just as a regular part of our business, and I’m certain that’s what the explosions were,” Rutherford said.
She said her focus is on the safety of her staff and the community.
“It’s hard to see everything you worked for go up in flames, but I’m just glad my staff and everyone is okay. That’s all I’m focused on,” Rutherford said.
With tears in her eyes Marilee Rutherford stands in front of the rubble from her brewery, Twisted Hippo
“It’s hard to see everything you worked for go up in flames, but I’m just glad my staff and everyone is okay. That’s all I’m focused on”@cbschicagopic.twitter.com/A1SgRPdHz5
The brewery opened in 2019, and Rutherford said the goal was to create a “light, bright, warm, and inviting space, with a little bit of something for everyone” in the community.
“I think we have done that, but we’ll just have to see how we move forward,” she said.
The destruction of Ultimate Ninjas is also a big loss for the community. It’s been around for years, and does a lot of work with children. They had camps scheduled for Monday, and were expecting 90 kids to show up, but now both the gym and Twisted Hippo are both a total loss.
Ultimate Ninjas owner Jeff Piejak called it terrible timing for both businesses.
“That’s the sad part is we really brought a lot of life to this area, and it really needed it. You know, Albany Park really kind of needed something like this to come and fill the neighborhood full of kids,” Piejak said. “It’s not going to be easy to find a similar location, but yeah, we’ll be back.”
A massive fire breaks out inside a three story apartment building destroying two beloved neighborhood business- we’ll share how the community is already coming together to support them – on @cbschicagopic.twitter.com/ZPm45P4lvl
Fire Department officials said the fire was struck out around 8:30 a.m., but crews would remain on the scene for several hours to douse hotspots, and prevent the fire from flaring up again. The rest of the building that housed the brewery and gym also will need to be demolished. The neighboring apartment building also was gutted.
The massive fire also affected hundreds of neighbors, as ComEd had to cut off power to about 350 homes and businesses so firefighters could safely fight the fire. Power has since been restored for 228 ComEd customers, and ComEd is waiting for the green light from the Fire Department to restore power to the rest.
Paris Wadhwa said he has been without power and heat since around 4 a.m.
“I have a baby, and a little girl, we’re trying to them in the house, and making sure that they are warm,” he said. “The cooking gas is working, so that’s a good thing, but there’s no heat and no electricity. So we’re hoping that the power comes back on.”
Wadhwa said he was told power should be restored by 12:30 p.m., but he’s really hoping it will be back sooner.
Police said a 60-year-old man was taken to a local hospital for possible smoke inhalation. Several other residents of the apartment building were able to escape safely. The Red Cross is on the scene, assisting five people displaced by the fire.
VIDEO: “I woke up to the sound of explosions, it cracked my window”
Unreal damage here at Albany Park’s Twisted Hippo Brewery
A total collapse left cars buried in rubble after a fire on the block— neighbors say they saw it start in apartment bldg next door@cbschicagopic.twitter.com/kzuDa0XE0C
After three tornadoes tore through a huge swath of North Texas late Sunday, officials confirmed the best news: No one was killed or badly hurt.
But there was still plenty of heartache.
“Despite the fact that we didn’t lose any lives last night, I think we all know that we’ve suffered some significant property damage in our city,” Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said.
In some of the hardest-hit areas, homes and other buildings were devastated. Countless trees were destroyed, and thousands of people were still without power Monday evening.
National Weather Service crews were busy tracing the path of the strongest tornado, which cut a nearly 16-mile path from northwest Dallas into Richardson with winds up to 140 mph.
In Rowlett, a less-powerful tornado generated winds up to 100 mph. North of Wills Point in Van Zandt County, another tornado registered 80-mph winds.
The National Weather Service recorded damage from strong winds and hail across North Texas, including Fort Worth, Denton, Corsicana and Greenville. Reports of damage stretched as far as Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas.
Richardson and North Dallas sustained some of the heaviest damage, but Oncor’s accounting of outages reflected the storm’s wide path.
At midday, Oncor spokeswoman Kerri Dunn said 55,000 customers were still without power in the Dallas area. In the company’s entire service area, outages affected 95,000.
She said there was no definite timeline to restore power to everyone, and she cautioned that power structures in some areas need to be completely rebuilt.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins declared a local disaster to help get out-of-state resources to help with clean-up and repairs quickly. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster in 15 North Texas counties, including Dallas, Collin and Tarrant.
After reports overnight of natural-gas leaks, Atmos Energy officials said its technicians had responded to more than 200 calls in the Dallas area. Extra crews were working to investigate every emergency call, the company said.
As firefighters were conducting ongoing seraches of collapsed structures in the area, Dallas Fire-Rescue had its own emergency to respond to. Fire Station 41, on Royal Lane near the Dallas North Tollway, was destroyed by high winds. No firefighters were hurt.
Police, who were helping Dallas-Fire Rescue personnel to direct traffic in areas where signals weren’t working, urged people to remain indoors from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday through Thursday because of downed power lines and debris in neighborhoods.
Damaged homes near Walnut Hill and Marsh Lane are seen in aerial view of tornado damage on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
Widespread damage
Joanne Taylor told herself Monday would be the day. She’d get up early and go work out at the Planet Fitness at Walnut Hill and Marsh Lane.
“No more excuses,” she said. “Unless the gym isn’t there anymore.”
Monday morning, the northwest Dallas shopping center where the gym had been was a crumpled pile of steel and concrete.
Water poured out of the La Michoacana market from a broken line, pooling in the parking lot and rushing down the street.
The Planet Fitness was hidden behind a mass of rubble.
“It’s wild,” said Taylor, who had taken shelter in a closet when the tornado came through. “I didn’t realize I’d dodged a bullet until I walked into the neighborhood this morning.”
Behind the shopping complex, roofs were caved in and whole sides of apartment buildings were ripped off.
Angel Govea, 18, had been eating dinner with his family when their phones buzzed with the severe weather alert. About two minutes later, the wind picked up with a loud rumble. As the air pressure dropped, it felt like a mosquito bite in his ears, he said.
The tornado passed just south of his house, knocking down branches and toppling a huge live oak across the street into his front yard.
As he and his family began surveying the damage, they saw that their neighbors were missing roofs and walls.
“We’re feeling something,” Govea said, “but they feel it more.”
All morning, chainsaws buzzed as residents and work crews cleared fallen trees.
Two trees landed in Richard Espinosa’s front yard on Constance Street, near Walnut Hill and Marsh lanes. Another destroyed a fence behind his home.
He recalled how long it had taken to recover from Dallas’ bad storms in June, and with his curb already full by late morning, he knew his cleanup work wasn’t finished.
He doesn’t expect all the debris to be picked up soon, but for now he’s more worried about the essentials.
“No water, no gas, no light,” Espinosa said. “Can’t warm anything up to eat.”
Rachel Gutknecht, 28, looks at the damage in her bedroom where the roof collapsed on top of her bed on Oct. 21, 2019, a day after a tornado devastated homes on Rickshaw Drive in Preston Hollow.(Hayat Norimine)
Rachel Gutknecht, whose apartment was severely damaged by flooding on Rickshaw Drive, tried to salvage anything she could Monday as she and her brother prepared to move in with a friend.
The heavy rain had flooded through to the floor after parts of her ceiling and an HVAC unit collapsed.
She said the changing air pressure right before the tornado blew through caused a massive headache. Moments later, the windows in her bedroom shattered.
“I don’t get scared easily,”Gutknecht said. “I was scared.”
The Home Depot employees A.J. Kobena (center) raises the U.S. flag on the slightly bent flagpole outside the destroyed store on N. Central Expressway in Dallas, Monday, October 21, 2019. Jining him were fellow employees Jonathan Shields and Jordan Jasper. A tornado tore through the entire neighborhood knocking down trees and ripping roofs from homes. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
Parts of Lake Highlands sustained serious damage, including Texas Instruments’ south campus near Interstate 635 and Forest Lane.
A company spokeswoman said the campus was closed because of broken windows, debris and water damage. No injuries were reported.
Damage also was widespread In Preston Hollow, where residents were loading salvaged belongings into their vehicles Monday.
At a house on Eppling Lane, a large tree had uprooted and toppled over in the front yard.
Volunteers were helping with cleanup and directing traffic through the neighborhood.
Heavy roof damage exposed the interior of one home, and a gaping hole appeared to have been blasted through the exterior wall of another home.
Damaged homes in a cul-de-sac on Stillmeadow Drive in Richardson are seen in aerial view of tornado damage on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Richardson, Texas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
In one badly damaged Richardson neighborhood, 71-year-old Gizaw Gedlu walked through his home Monday morning as the sun streamed in through large holes in the roof.
“It’s like a war zone, a disaster,” he said. “It’s gone. It’s unbelievable.”
He and his sister Mena hid in the bathroom as the storm tore through. Two bedrooms and the living room were ripped open, tossing his belongings and pink insulation across the floor.
But the kitchen and garage are just as he left them, he said.
Gedlu, who works as a security guard, said he has insurance, but he isn’t sure when someone will show up. He wants to place tarps on the roof in case it rains again and begin trying to salvage what he can.
His sister was making plans for them to stay in a hotel for the night.
“It’s gone. It’s destroyed,” she said. “Everything is gone.”
Tommy Edmonds, left, embraces his wife, Heidi Edmonds outside of their home, which was destroyed when a tornado hit the night before, on Westway Avenue in Garland, Texas, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2019. (Ryan Michalesko/The Dallas Morning News)(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
In Garland, police reported significant property damage but no serious injuries.
The most severe winds hit between Shiloh Road and Glenbrook Drive, as well as Miller Road and Avenue B, Garland police said. The effects included roof damage, fallen trees, debris, structure damage and downed power lines.
About 5,500 Garland Power and Light customers were without electricity as of 1 a.m. Monday, most in southwestern Garland. The storms took down several transmission lines, which disabled two power substations.
Authorities closed Shiloh Road between Forest Lane and Kingsley Road and warned motorists to be cautious because of malfunctioning traffic lights and downed power lines and other debris.
But officials said it was remarkable the city hadn’t sustained more damage in the tornado that generated winds up to 100 mph.
Rowlett police spokesman Lt. David Nabors said the winds affected only the city’s far northeast side where there are few homes.
One home near President George Bush Tollway and Hickox Road was destroyed and a barn on Larkin Lane also sustained damage, he said.
In Sachse, police said high winds damaged six homes along Eastview Drive, leaving four of them uninhabitable. No injuries were reported.
Police spokesman Martin Cassidy said the homes were near Rowlett, where the most severe damage occurred on the border with Sachse.
He said it was likely the storm had passed over the Bush Turnpike from Sachse to Rowlett. It was unclear whether the damage in Sachse was from a tornado or strong winds.
High winds also blew through northern Ellis County, where officials said Midlothian was most heavily affected by the storms.
Northern Ellis Emergency Dispatch Manager Christine Thompson said officials hadn’t fully assessed the extent of damage in Midlothian.
Kasey Cheshier, executive director of the United Way of West Ellis County, said the storms hit hardest in north Midlothian and Red Oak but that he had not heard of any homes that were uninhabitable.
Businesses near U.S. Highway 67 at North Ninth Street had significant damage, he said.
Transportation
Dallas Area Rapid Transit crews began removing debris and trying to make repairs soon after the tornadoes hit Sunday night, spokesman Gordon Shattles said.
He said branches and wreckage from roofs landed on the overhead catenary lines that power the light-rail trains near the Walnut Hill/Denton station at the intersection of Harry Hines Boulevard and Walnut Hill Lane, close to where the storm hit hardest.
“Teams are out clearing those and trying to verify that those catenary lines are in good shape,” Shattles said.
On Monday morning, DART passengers using the Red and Orange lines, which run along Central Expressway, struggled to get from Plano and Richardson to downtown Dallas because of power outages. Service to downtown was available only from Park Lane Station.
Blue Line service between downtown Rowlett and Garland also was disrupted.
Shattles said the agency expected for service to resume normally on the Red, Orange and Blue lines by peak ridership times abut 5 p.m.
He added, however, that because of heavy damage in northwest Dallas, Green Line service may be a bit slower to fully restore, Shattles said.
“Our teams continue to work diligently to resume service. … [Bus shuttles] will be provided where needed,” Shattles said. “We’ll do our best to keep everyone informed.”
Orange and Red line passengers should expect delays and look for shuttle buses between Park Lane and Spring Valley stations due to issues from last night’s severe weather. Thank you for your patience.
Hundreds of insurance claims already had been filed by early Monday, said Mark Hanna, a spokesman for the Insurance Council of Texas.
Hanna said the only North Texas weather event from recent years that compares to Sunday night’s in scale occurred Dec. 26, 2015, when at least nine tornadoes tore through the area, killing 11 people.
That storm’s insured losses were estimated at $1.2 billion. The Dec. 26 tornado, with winds up to 180 mph, traveled 13 miles and had a maximum width of 550 yards, according to the National Weather Service.
As of Monday afternoon, the National Weather Service had not described the path or other details of the reported tornadoes, but it’s likely Sunday night’s traveled farther than the 2015 one did, Hanna said.
He said it will take at least a couple of days to assess all of the damage, project the number of claims and place a dollar loss on the storm.
State Farm spokesman Chris Pilcic warned residents to be wary of door-to-door solicitors who may try to take advantage of residents in the aftermath of the storm.
He also recommended that people save receipts for home repairs.
“Often in your homeowner’s insurance policy, you’ll have coverage for making temporary repairs,” Pilcic said. “Whether you go out and buy a tarp or plywood and do that work yourself or you hire someone to do it, make sure you save those receipts and take pictures of the temporary work you’ve done until you meet with your insurance company.”
Interabang Books in Preston Royal Shopping Center was one of dozens of businesses destroyed or damaged by Sunday night’s tornado.(Robert Wilonsky / Staff writer)
Restaurants and business closures
At least 11 restaurants and businesses in the Preston Road-Royal Lane area of Dallas were closed because of storm damage Monday morning.
Employees at Fish City Grill hunkered down inside a walk-in cooler as the storm ravaged the restaurant and nearby businesses around it, including Interabang Books and Central Market.
“It’s like a bomb went off,” said Bill Payne, Fish City Grill’s co-founder.
How to help or get help
Dallas’ mayor said the city did not need anyone to donate food, water or other items. People who want to help may donate money to Dallas’ emergency assistance fund here.
Anyone who needs shelter can go to the Bachman Recreation Center in northwest Dallas.
Organizations including the North Texas Food Bank and the Salvation Army are among the organizations offering assistance.
Staff writers Hayat Norimine, Eva-Marie Ayala, Dom DiFurio, Sarah Blaskovich, Maria Halkias, Melissa Repko and Hannah Costley contributed to this report.
The late United States Representative John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time on Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights legend.
A crowd began gathering near the bridge that became a landmark in the fight for racial justice when Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten there 55 years ago on “Bloody Sunday,” a key event in the fight for voting rights for Black Americans.
A horse-drawn hearse retraced the route through Selma from Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where the 1965 march began.
As the wagon approached the bridge, members of the crowd shouted “Thank you, John Lewis!” and “Good trouble” – the phrase Lewis used to describe his tangles with white authorities during the civil rights movement.
Some crowd members sang the gospel song Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Jesus. Later, some onlookers sang the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome and similar tunes.
The hearse paused atop the bridge over the Alabama River as the cicadas sang in the summer heat.
On the south side of the bridge, where Lewis was beaten by Alabama state troopers in 1965, family members placed roses that the carriage rolled over, marking the spot where Lewis spilt his blood and suffered a severe head injury.
As a military honour guard lifted Lewis’s coffin from the wagon into an automobile hearse, state troopers saluted Lewis.
A native of Pike County, Alabama, Lewis became involved in the civil rights movement as a young man.
In 1965, he and other marchers, calling for equal rights for all voters regardless of race, were beaten in Selma as segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace ordered a crackdown.
The news coverage of the event help galvanise support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Amid current national anti-racism protests and a movement to abolish Confederate monuments and symbols, calls have grown to rename the bridge in honour of Lewis.
It is currently named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general and leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.
Week of memorials
Lewis’s body will later be brought to the Alabama Capitol in the afternoon to lie in repose.
A series of events began on Saturday in Lewis’s hometown of Troy, Alabama, to pay tribute to the late congressman and his legacy. He will lie in state at the US Capitol next week before his private funeral on Thursday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr once led.
Frank and Ellen Hill drove for more than four hours from Monroe, Louisiana, to watch the procession.
Frank Hill, 60, said he remembers, as an African American child, watching news footage of Lewis and other civil rights marchers being beaten by law enforcement officers.
“I had to come back and see John Lewis cross the bridge for the last time,” said Hill. It’s funny to see the state troopers here to honour and respect him rather than beat the crap out of him,” Hill told The Associated Press.
Lewis, 80, died on July 17, several months after he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.
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En las noticias más leídas del día, las autoridades cubanas le negaron la entrada a la isla al ex presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, cuando se dirigía a la entrega de un premio en honor al fallecido activista Oswaldo Payá. Enrique Peña Nieto afirmó que no hay marcha atrás en la liberación del mercado de gasolinas y en Estados Unidos 16 presidentes de empresas apoyan el impuesto fronterizo propuesto por Donald Trump.
1. No habrá marcha atrás en la liberación de gasolinas: Peña
El presidente, Enrique Peña Nieto afirmó que no hay marcha atrás en la liberación del mercado de gasolinas.
Según el mandatario, esta liberación traerá inversiones en infraestructura y construirá un escenario muy diferente, mejor. Las inversiones esperadas son alrededor de 16,000 millones de dólares. En una reunión con un grupo de comunicadores, se refirió a lo que pasará con el precio de la gasolina: “Tendremos un mecanismo de suavización que evitará fluctuaciones muy grandes de un día para otro”.
José Antonio Meade, secretario de Hacienda, ofreció detalles y aclaró que no habrá una banda de precios, porque no hay techo ni piso. En caso de que haya una tendencia de cambio fuerte en los precios, habrá un periodo de hasta 100 días para hacer la corrección en el precio.
No habrá marcha atrás en la liberación de gasolinas: Peña. Ver nota.
2. Cuba no le permite la entrada a Felipe Calderón
El día de hoy autoridades de Cuba le prohibieron la entrada a la isla al ex presidente de México, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, donde asistiría como invitado a la entrega de un premio en honor al fallecido activista Oswaldo Payá.
En su intento por viajar a Cuba, la aerolínea mexicana, Aeroméxico le comunicó al ex mandatario mexicano que la inmigración de Cuba le había emitido un comunicado en que le informaba que “el pasajero FCH no estaba autorizado para entrar a Cuba y solicitaba que no fuera documentado en vuelo AM451”. Calderón agradeció a la aerolínea sus atenciones.
El ex presidente chileno, Sebastián Piñera denunció también que el Gobierno cubano impidió a Mariana Aylwin viajar hacia la isla. “Un nuevo atropello a las libertades y derechos en Cuba. Mariana: todo nuestro apoyo”, sentenció el ex mandatario en su cuenta de Twitter.
Cuba no le permite la entrada a Felipe Calderón. Ver nota.
3. Al ahorrar busque proteger su dinero de la inflación
Cuando hablamos de ahorro, en la mayoría de los mexicanos persiste cierto escepticismo hacia los instrumentos formales, a tal grado, que sólo 15.1% de la población ahorra en este tipo de productos, mientras que 61.3% pierde dinero ya sea por ahorrar parcial o totalmente en instrumentos informales, de acuerdo con la Encuesta Nacional de Inclusión Financiera 2015.
Al guardar tu dinero en instrumentos informales, pierde poder adquisitivo debido al efecto de la inflación; dicho de otra manera: por el alza de precios, puedes comprar menos con tu dinero si éste no incrementa en la misma proporción.
Debido a esto, es recomendable ahorrar en instrumentos formales, pero no sólo eso, sino buscar productos de ahorro e inversión que generen rendimientos anuales equivalentes, al menos, a la inflación de cada año. Si quieres saber de qué forma lograr esto, entra a la nota completa.
Al ahorrar busque proteger su dinero de la inflación. Ver nota.
4. Unos 16 CEO de EU le dan el sí al impuesto fronterizo
Al menos 16 presidentes ejecutivos de empresas estadounidenses, entre las que destacan Boeing Co, Caterpillar Inc y General Electric Co, instaron al Congreso estadounidense a aprobar una amplia revisión del código tributario, incluyendo un polémico impuesto fronterizo.
Fue en una carta enviada a los líderes republicanos y demócratas del Congreso, en donde los ejecutivos dijeron que el impuesto fronterizo propuesto por los republicanos hará a los productos manufacturados en Estados Unidos más competitivos localmente y en el exterior, ya que los artículos importados enfrentarían en mismo nivel impositivo.
El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano Paul Ryan, propuso bajar el impuesto a las ganancias corporativas a 20% desde un 35%, aplicando un tributo de 20% sobre las importaciones y excluyendo los ingresos por exportaciones de las ganancias imponibles.
Washington — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack can have access to requested White House records from the Trump administration held by the National Archives.
Late Tuesday, Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled against him, allowing the records transfer, set for November 12, to go forward. Attorneys for the former president have appealed Tuesday’s ruling to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The former president alleged in his lawsuit that his White House records are subject to a certain level of confidentiality. Mr. Trump has alleged they are protected under executive privilege, the idea that a sitting president’s private communications should be shielded from public scrutiny. He also argued the request by Congress was an invalid fishing expedition.
In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington.
Evan Vucci / AP
The committee says it needs the documents to further understand the events leading up to, during, and following the January 6 assault on the Capitol. Citing that reasoning, President Biden has already rejected his predecessor’s claim of executive privilege and permitted the National Archives to comply with the House committee’s request for the documents. As a result of Mr. Biden’s decision, Mr. Trump filed his lawsuit.
“At bottom,” Chutkan wrote in her ruling Tuesday, “this is a dispute between a former and incumbent President. And the Supreme Court has already made clear that in such circumstances, the incumbent’s view is accorded greater weight.”
Therefore, she reasoned, Mr. Biden’s decision to allow the release of the records take precedence.
“Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” she wrote about Mr. Trump.
Addressing the issue of presidential confidentiality, Chutkan wrote, “the Constitution does not expressly define a President’s right to confidential communications … the privilege is not absolute.” The former president’s claims of confidentiality in this case, she ruled, do not hold water.
And while the judge agreed that Congress’ request for the Trump White House documents “cast a wide net” in its breadth, she ultimately concluded, “the court will not second guess [the Committee’s request] by undertaking a document-by-document review that would require it to engage in a function reserved squarely for the Executive.” Mr. Biden had already made the decision.
Notably, Chutkan also identified many of the valid reasons the House Committee may need the archived records to prevent an attack like that of January 6 from happening again. Those reasons included “enacting amending criminal laws to deter and punish violent conduct targeted at the institutions of democracy … imposing structural reforms on executive branch agencies to prevent their abuse for antidemocratic ends … and reallocating resources and modifying processes for intelligence sharing by federal agencies charged with detecting, and interdicting, foreign and domestic threats to the security and integrity of our electoral processes.”
In her opinion, Chutkan, who has in her court many of the cases involving defendants accused of participating in the January 6 riot, described the event as an “unprecedented attempt to prevent the lawful transfer of power.” She added later that “for the first time since the election of 1860, the transfer of executive power was distinctly not peaceful.”
The “public interest,” she decided, weighed in favor of releasing the documents to the Committee charged with investigating the attack.
Since the former president filed his lawsuit, the National Archives has revealed that it identified more than 1,500 pages pertinent to the committee’s request. These include daily presidential diaries, the files of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, multiple binders belonging to then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, and White House talking points alleging voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The matter now heads to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ahead of the November 12 deadline for the document transfer.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the House select committee earlier this year to investigate the January 6 attack, when thousands of Trump supporters descended on the Capitol as Congress counted the electoral votes, a largely ceremonial final step affirming Mr. Biden’s victory. Lawmakers were sent fleeing amid the riot, which led to the deaths of five people and the arrests of hundreds more. Mr. Trump, who encouraged his supporters to “walk over” to the Capitol during the Stop the Steal rally, was impeached by the House one week later for inciting the riot but was later acquitted by the Senate.
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DUBAI, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Iran must deal decisively with protests which have swept the country after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday.
At least 41 people have been killed in the week-long unrest, state television said on Saturday. It said that toll was based on its own count and official figures were yet to be released. Protests have erupted in most of the country’s 31 provinces.
State media quoted Raisi on Saturday as saying Iran must “deal decisively with those who oppose the country’s security and tranquillity”.
Raisi was speaking by telephone to the family of a member of the Basij volunteer force killed while taking part in the crackdown on unrest in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
The president “stressed the necessity to distinguish between protest and disturbing public order and security, and called the events … a riot,” state media reported.
The protests broke out in northwestern Iran a week ago at the funeral of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died after falling into a coma following her detention in Tehran by morality police enforcing hijab rules on women’s dress.
Her death has reignited anger over issues including restrictions on personal freedoms in Iran, the strict dress codes for women, and an economy reeling from sanctions.
Women have played a prominent role in the protests, waving and burning their veils. Some have publicly cut their hair as furious crowds called for the fall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The protests are the largest to sweep the country since demonstrations over fuel prices in 2019, when Reuters reported 1,500 people were killed in a crackdown on protesters – the bloodiest confrontation in the Islamic Republic’s history.
On Friday, state-organised rallies took place in several Iranian cities to counter the anti-government protests, and the army promised to confront “the enemies” behind the unrest.
In neighbouring Iraq, dozens of Iraqi and Iranian Kurds rallied outside the United Nations compound in the northern city of Erbil on Saturday, carrying placards with Amini’s photograph and chanting “Death to the Dictator”, referring to Khamenei.
State television in Iran, which has accused armed exiled Iranian Kurdish dissidents of involvement in the unrest, said Iranian Revolutionary Guards had fired artillery on bases of Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
‘DEADLY RESPONSE’
At least three times this week, mobile Internet has been disrupted in Iran, the NetBlocks watchdog has reported. Activists say the move is intended to prevent video footage of the violence reaching the world.
On Saturday NetBlocks said Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Skype video calling app was now restricted, the latest such measure after platforms including Instagram, WhatsApp and LinkedIn were targeted.
In an effort to help sustain internet connection, the United States is making exceptions to its sanctions regime on Iran – a move which Tehran said on Saturday was in line with Washington’s hostile stance.
Rights group Amnesty International said protesters face a “spiralling deadly response from security forces” and called for an independent United Nations investigation.
On the night of Sept. 21, shootings by security forces left at least 19 people dead, including three children, it said.
“The rising death toll is an alarming indication of just how ruthless the authorities’ assault on human life has been under the darkness of the internet shutdown,” Amnesty said.
State television showed footage purporting to show calm had returned to many parts of the capital Tehran late on Friday.
“But in some western and northern areas of Tehran and certain provinces rioters destroyed public property,” it said, carrying footage of protesters setting fire to garbage bins and a car, marching, and throwing rocks.
The activist Twitter account 1500tasvir carried videos of protests near Tehran university on Saturday. Riot police were seen clashing with protesters and arresting some.
Videos posted on social media showed continued protests in Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan province, late on Saturday, despite a heavy police presence. Reuters could not verify the videos.
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