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28- Por qué la visita de Netanyahu a Mar-a-Lago es el acto de apertura de la campaña de reelección del primer ministro israelí
Por qué la visita de Netanyahu a Mar-a-Lago es el acto de apertura de la campaña de reelección del primer ministro israelí
Análisis por Tal Shalev, CNN
Cuando el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, se reúna con el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, en Mar-a-Lago esta semana, el encuentro marcará algo más que una reunión diplomática.
Para Netanyahu, es el acto de apertura de su campaña de reelección de 2026, en la que el presidente de Estados Unidos está posicionado para desempeñar un papel protagónico.
Israel tiene programadas oficialmente elecciones para octubre de 2026, aunque ese calendario podría adelantarse. Dos amenazas inmediatas se ciernen sobre la coalición de Netanyahu: la crisis de reclutamiento ultraortodoxo y la fecha límite presupuestaria de marzo de 2026. Cualquiera de las dos podría desencadenar elecciones anticipadas.
El sexto Gobierno de Netanyahu —que abarca 18 años a lo largo de varios mandatos— ha soportado una agitación extraordinaria, desde la reforma judicial de 2023 que sacó a cientos de miles a las calles, pasando por el ataque de Hamas del 7 de octubre de 2023 que mató a más de 1.200 israelíes, hasta la guerra prolongada que siguió, dejando a Israel diplomáticamente aislado y profundamente dividido.
Sin embargo, Netanyahu ha resistido. Su coalición ha durado más que cualquier otro Gobierno israelí de los últimos seis años, dándole tiempo para restaurar la disuasión regional de Israel mientras evita una investigación sustancial sobre la toma de decisiones que precedió a la inédita falla de seguridad del 7 de octubre de 2023.
Encuestas de opinión recurrentes desde octubre de 2023 muestran que su coalición no alcanza la mayoría de 61 escaños en la Knesset necesaria para gobernar, situándose entre 49 y 54 escaños. Su estrategia de reelección parece depender de un cálculo simple: alejarse lo más posible del fracaso del 7 de octubre y contar con Trump para ayudar a reescribir esa narrativa en las urnas.
“El presidente de Estados Unidos será central —si no el protagonista— en la estrategia de reelección de Netanyahu”, dijo Nadav Shtrauchler, un estratega político que trabajó anteriormente para el primer ministro.
La alianza tiene precedentes. Durante los tumultuosos ciclos electorales de Israel en 2019-2020, el Likud empapeló las calles israelíes con carteles que mostraban a Donald Trump y Benjamin Netanyahu dándose la mano, con la leyenda “Netanyahu, en otra liga”. Trump realizó gestos simbólicos en momentos clave de la campaña: reconoció la soberanía israelí sobre los Altos del Golán en 2019, presentó un plan de paz palestino en 2020 y encabezó los Acuerdos de Abraham.
Más recientemente, Trump apoyó la campaña de indulto para Netanyahu, apelando públicamente al presidente de Israel, Isaac Herzog, durante un discurso en la Knesset en octubre para celebrar el alto el fuego en Gaza. “Oiga, tengo una idea, señor presidente: ¿por qué no le concede un indulto?”, preguntó Trump, desestimando los cargos de corrupción contra Netanyahu como asuntos triviales de “puros y champán”.
El episodio desató una campaña alineada con el Likud que culminó en la propia solicitud formal de clemencia de Netanyahu. En un video que acompañó su petición, Netanyahu hizo referencia al respaldo de Trump, afirmando que esto “permitiría a ambos líderes promover intereses vitales en un momento de oportunidad fugaz”.
Shtrauchler identifica ese discurso en la Knesset como “de facto el la
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- Zelensky and Trump to meet in Florida after weeks of intensive peace talks
Zelensky and Trump to meet in Florida after weeks of intensive peace talks
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives here Sunday as his frozen capital of Kyiv comes under assault by Russian missiles and drones, a deadly reminder from the war’s aggressor that its attacks would continue even amid accelerated peace talks.
The 1 p.m. ET Mar-a-Lago meeting between Zelensky and President Donald Trump, announced only two days beforehand, is intended to close gaps in the original 28-point peace plan that Trump first proposed last month and which Ukraine has since revised to 20 points. Intensive work has been underway by American envoys to finalize a proposal both Ukraine and Russia can agree on.
Trump, who has been in Palm Beach since December 20, will interrupt his holiday break for the discussion. The meeting was arranged after Zelensky held an hourlong phone call late last week with Steve Witkoff, Trump’s foreign envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law who is working to finalize the peace agreement.
Trump said earlier this month he didn’t think meetings with Zelensky or his European allies would be useful unless they were close to reaching a deal, a sign of the negotiations’ advanced stage. American officials have described significant progress in the peace efforts, with a US official saying earlier this month that 90% of the terms of the deal had been settled. Zelensky affirmed that figure Friday.
“It isn’t easy. No one is saying that it will be 100% right away, but nevertheless, we must bring the desired result closer with every such meeting, every such conversation,” he said.
The remaining 10% have proved difficult to resolve and include the thorny issue of land concessions that will be necessary to end the nearly four-year war. Russia has not backed off its maximalist demands, including that Ukraine surrender the entire eastern Donbas region.
Zelensky, however, is no longer ruling out concessions entirely, and says he would bring the peace plan up for a referendum if Russia agrees to a ceasefire. (Ukraine’s constitution requires any changes to the country’s borders to be approved in a referendum.)
The US side has offered “thought-provoking” ideas on how to resolve the impasse, one US official said, including the development of an “economic free zone” in the eastern part of Ukraine.
Also unresolved is the fate of the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest. Zelensky said Kyiv proposes the plant be operated by a joint enterprise between the US and Ukraine, with 50% of the electricity output going to Ukraine and the remainder allocated by the US.
Russia will not be represented at Sunday’s meeting, and it remains unclear whether Moscow is willing to agree to an immediate ceasefire that would allow a peace plan to take hold. Trump has frequently pointed to both Ukraine and Russia as obstacles to peace.
Speaking a day before the meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “if Kyiv is not willing to resolve the matter peacefully, Russia will accomplish all the aims of the special military operation by military means,” using a euphemism for the war in Ukraine, according to Russian state media service TASS.
Russia launched 519 drones and 40 missiles at Ukraine overnight into Saturday, according to Ukraine’s air force. Zelensky said Saturday morning that while Russian officials are engaging in talks to end fighting, the ongoing violence speaks for itself.
American officials are hopeful the meeti
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- The end of the line: New York City’s iconic MetroCard is about to go out of service
The end of the line: New York City’s iconic MetroCard is about to go out of service
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN
New York (CNN) — For more than three decades, lifelong New Yorkers and tourists visiting the Big Apple have shared the experience of a MetroCard swipe gone wrong. Swiping the transit card too fast or too slow, with the stripe facing the wrong side, or having insufficient fare all led to the subsequent, seemingly judgmental thud of the turnstile slamming into you.
“It’s embarrassing. You feel like you’re not an authentic New Yorker if you’re not swiping your MetroCard the right way,” said Mike Glenwick, 37, who has lived in the city most of his life and has been collecting limited-edition MetroCards since he was six.
Now the days of swiping the blue and yellow plastic cards are numbered. Come January 1, the Metropolitan Transit Authority will no longer sell MetroCards, and riders will be required to use OMNY, a contactless fare payment system. (Existing MetroCards will continue to be accepted at terminals, though MTA said their “final acceptance date will be announced at a later time.”)
Bidding farewell to the card has been a journey for New Yorkers and the MTA alike.
From tokens to cards
New York City subway’s iconic tokens were the default form of fare payment before the MetroCard was introduced. When tokens were initially rolled out in 1953, they were about the size of a dime and most had a hollowed-out Y between an engraved N and C, spelling out NYC.
Though clunky to carry around, they were easy to use: all transit passengers had to do was drop the tokens into a turnstile or farebox. For the MTA, it overcame the issue of being able to increase fares without having to redesign fare collection systems to accept various kinds of coins.
But in 1983 Richard Ravitch, then the commissioner of the MTA, began to envision a different fare payment system. Instead, he floated a magnetic stripe card with a stored value.
“His argument was that New York is a very modern cosmopolitan city and there are other modern cosmopolitan cities that are using this as their fare payment system,” said Jodi Shapiro, curator of the FAREwell MetroCard exhibit at the New York Transit Museum. But as his idea gained traction, it quickly became about more than just keeping up with other cities. At one point the MTA considered integrating MetroCards with pay phones so callers didn’t have to use coins (that didn’t end up happening, though).
The MTA initially thought the shift to MetroCards would “spell the death knell for fare evasion” since many riders were previously getting away with using various other kinds of coins and tokens, said Noah McClain, a sociology professor who has researched MetroCard technology and fare evasion trends. But that was hardly the case: “Fare evasion certainly endured, albeit often in different forms.”
One famous one, “swipers,” as they came to be known, sold bent MetroCards that allowed riders to fraudulently bypass turnstiles. Separately, a group of hackers was able to successfully reverse engineer many parts of the MetroCard.
But riders saw benefits, too. One of the biggest selling points for the MetroCard was that users could purchase different, more flexible fares. That included discounts for seniors, disabled people and students, as well as cards that offered unlimited rides throughout the month.
Cards also came with a massive perk that tokens didn’t: free transfers. One swipe of a MetroCard on a bus or subway meant riders didn’t have to pay again if they transferred to another bus or subway train.
A collector’s item
But just as New York subway tokens became icons of the city, so did the MetroCard. And that was by design.
“MetroCards were made to be collected,” Shapiro said. The year the MTA launched the MetroCard, 1994, was also when it released an inaugural limited edition card. Since then there have been around 400 co
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| 29- Starbucks doesn’t want to be on every street in New York and Los Angeles anymore
Starbucks doesn’t want to be on every street in New York and Los Angeles anymore
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN
New York (CNN) — Starbucks spent years trying to become an inescapable storefront on the streets of New York, Los Angeles and other big cities in America. Now that’s coming to an end.
Its expansion once seemed limitless. It was even a joke. In 1998, an Onion headline read “New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of Existing Starbucks.” A few years later, comedian Lewis Black riffed that he’d gone to the “end of the universe” in Houston, where he saw one Starbucks directly across the street from another.
But Starbucks is now struggling, and its strategy of saturating urban areas to draw coffee drinkers on their way to work in the morning has backfired amid competition, the rise of remote work and rising costs.
So CEO Brian Niccol, hired last year from Chipotle to revive Starbucks, no longer wants its stores to be right next to each other. Starbucks is closing roughly 400 stores nationwide that are concentrated in large metro areas as part of its $1 billion restructuring plan.
Starbucks closed 42 locations in New York, or 12% of its total in the city. It recently lost its top spot as the largest chain in Manhattan to Dunkin’, according to Center for an Urban Future, a New York City think tank that tracks chain openings and closings.
Starbucks also reportedly closed more than 20 locations in Los Angeles this year; 15 in Chicago; seven in San Francisco; six in Minneapolis; five in Baltimore; and dozens more in other cities.
Niccol is trying to reposition Starbucks again as a “third place” between home and work.
The chain reviewed its more than 18,000 stores in the United States and Canada, and “closed locations that were underperforming or unable to meet our brand standards,” a Starbucks spokesperson said in an email. The company plans to open stores and remodel others in 2026, including in major metros like New York and Los Angeles, “featuring refreshed designs and elevated experiences that reflect the Starbucks brand.”
Victim of its success
In many ways, Starbucks pioneered the business model that’s now responsible for its struggles.
Before Starbucks, people couldn’t fathom paying more than two bucks for a cup of coffee, let alone have any concept of a latte.
But now Starbucks is closing urban locations in part because it’s been swamped by competition from niche coffee shops, smaller chains such as Gregory’s and Joe’s Coffee, and a wave of smoothie, bubble tea and other beverage shops.
“Urban America has seen a dramatic increase in competitive coffee shop openings that eat away at the store’s volume,” said Arthur Rubinfeld, the mastermind of Starbucks’ real estate and design strategies alongside CEO Howard Schultz during the 1990s and again from 20
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- Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy?
Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy?
By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst
(CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority view and setting the direction of the law in America.
Yet the more he wins, the testier he gets.
His most obvious coup came with his 2022 opinion reversing abortion rights. This month’s decision siding with Republicans in the Texas redistricting fight offered a new reminder that Alito in 2024 seized the majority in claims of racial gerrymanders – after being on the losing side a few years earlier.
Still, even on the dominant side of the court, Alito is easily irritated. He lodged a separate, last-minute broadside against liberal dissenters in the Texas dispute over a map alleged to discriminate against Black and Latino voters.
Alito’s aggravation is regularly on display in the courtroom, too.
In a major campaign finance case this month, he reached back nearly 16 years to cite a case in which he voted to reverse precedent on the regulation of corporate money in elections: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. He was in the majority but still feels wronged.
Alito suddenly brought up “our much maligned, I think unfairly maligned, decision in Citizens United.” The decision struck down certain federal limits on corporate and labor union political spending as a violation of the First Amendment.
Alito’s reference to the case could not help but recall his televised reaction at the 2010 State of the Union address after then-President Barack Obama criticized, with some exaggeration, the opinion, saying it “reversed a century of law” and would open the “floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections.” Alito mouthed “not true” at the hyperbole, and the moment captured on camera went viral.
In the courtroom, even the little things can visibly irk Alito. He often grimaces and rolls his eyes. During a death-penalty dispute this month, Alito began offering a hypothetical example to the lawyer at the lectern. The lawyer responded, “may I just finish my sentence?” and then kept talking.
When Alito was able to resume, he laid bare his impatience, saying, “On that hypothetical, three or four sentences later ….”
Other justices laughed. They appear accustomed to his unguarded irritability.
This is the paradoxical byproduct of a justice who has become one of the most consequential members of the bench.
From the start of his high court tenure, 20 years ago this January, Alito made the difference as he succeeded centrist Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and began casting the decisive conservative vote in a series of cases. As the years wore on, Alito authored many closely fought decisions on abortion, voting rights and religion.
His views could shape decisions in pending cases this session on transgender rights, religious freedom and executive power.
In 2026, Alito will also likely be the most-watched justice for anyone wondering if President Donald Trump will soon get another vacancy to fill
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- Netanyahu brings a familiar message to Trump, who’s grown wary of Israeli actions
Netanyahu brings a familiar message to Trump, who’s grown wary of Israeli actions
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Repeatedly this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flown to the United States to praise President Donald Trump as Israel’s greatest champion — and to quietly press him on taking more aggressive action against Israel’s enemies.
On Monday, when Netanyahu meets Trump at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, the message will be similar: He is looking for a tougher approach to Hamas in Gaza, and is warning of new advancements in Iran’s ballistic missile program.
Yet the reception this time may be different. Trump, who promised he would act as a president of peace, has been wary of some Israeli actions in recent months, including strikes in Syria. He is mindful of American public sentiment, which hasn’t favored becoming mired in another Middle Eastern war.
A tenuous Gaza ceasefire that Trump proudly traveled to the region to finalize in October is being tested by continued deadly Israeli operations in the Palestinian enclave and a slow process to move to the second phase of the deal.
And despite many flashy demonstrations of friendship — including Trump’s extraordinary call for Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu amid corruption charges — the relationship between the men has, at moments, become strained over differences in how they view foreign policy in the region.
“I think both both of these guys don’t trust one another. I’m not even sure they like one another. But the reality is they need one another. Trump needs Netanyahu to avoid his much-touted 28-point-plan in Gaza from cratering. And Netanyahu desperately needs the president of the United States, in order to manage growing calls for his resignation,” said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“Mutual need creates a certain amount of dependency,” he said. “This may not be a great meeting, but it’s not going to crater.”
The Monday meeting at Mar-a-Lago marks the second day in a row Trump has hosted a foreign leader to discuss peace over his holiday vacation, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the estate Sunday.
More than two months after Trump traveled to Egypt to sign the Gaza peace agreement, crucial pieces of the deal remain undefined as Israel tightens its military grip on the battered enclave.
The second phase of the deal includes Hamas’ disarmament, the beginning of reconstruction, and the establishment of post-war governance. At the center of the new plan for administering Gaza is the creation of a “Board of Peace” to be led by Trump and other world leaders.
“It’ll be one of the most legendary boards ever. Everybody wants to be on it,” Trump said at the White House earlier this month.
The US is pushing to move quickly into the next phase, and wants to announce more specifics on the governance of Gaza and a new international stabilization force.
But Israel has been reluctant to further withdraw from Gaza without Hamas disarming. That has created tension with some White House advisers, who believe Netanyahu could be slow-walking the move to the next phase, according to people familiar with the matter.
“Israel has had no better friend in its history than President Trump,” White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement ahead of the meeting.
“We continue to work closely with our ally Israel to successful
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| 30- George y Amal Clooney obtienen la ciudadanía francesa tras las preocupaciones sobre criar a sus hijos en Hollywood
George y Amal Clooney obtienen la ciudadanía francesa tras las preocupaciones sobre criar a sus hijos en Hollywood
Por Jessie Yeung
El actor George Clooney y su familia obtuvieron la ciudadanía francesa, según muestran documentos oficiales del gobierno, después de que él expresara previamente su preocupación por criar a sus hijos en medio del brillo de Hollywood.
Un aviso en el boletín oficial que enumera todas las nuevas naturalizaciones francesas, publicado el sábado, incluye a Clooney, así como a su esposa, Amal Clooney, y a sus hijos gemelos, Alexander y Ella.
Clooney, quien también posee ciudadanía estadounidense, y Amal, una abogada humanitaria británico-libanesa, ya conocen bien su nuevo país adoptivo. Aunque también tienen casas en Inglaterra y cerca de la familia de él en Kentucky, su residencia principal es una granja en Francia, según declaró el actor al New York Times en febrero.
“Al crecer en Kentucky, lo único que quería era escapar de una granja, escapar de esa vida”, declaró Clooney al periódico. “Ahora me encuentro de nuevo en esa vida. Conduzco un tractor y todo eso. Es la mejor oportunidad para una vida normal”.
Hizo comentarios similares en una entrevista con Esquire en octubre.
“Me preocupaba criar a nuestros hijos en Los Ángeles, en la cultura de Hollywood”, dijo Clooney. “Sentía que nunca tendrían una oportunidad justa en la vida. En Francia, la fama les importa un bledo”, añadió.
“No quiero que anden por ahí preocupados por los paparazzi. No quiero que los comparen con los hijos famosos de otros”, dijo.
El actor y director ha expresado durante mucho tiempo sus preocupaciones sobre la privacidad de su familia y en 2021 escribió una carta abierta instando a los medios a mantener los rostros de sus hijos fuera de la prensa por su seguridad.
Francia cuenta con estrictas leyes de protección de la privacidad: es ilegal fotografiar a alguien en un lugar privado o revelar información personal como su domicilio o número de teléfono. También es ilegal publicar fotos de famosos en lugares públicos, a menos que su aparición esté relacionada con su posición como figuras públicas.
Cuando los paparazzi en Francia intentan fotografiar a celebridades durante su tiempo personal, fuera de sus apariciones en los medios, “el personal de seguridad o el asistente de la celebridad tomará una foto o un video de los paparazzi”, escribió el abogado litigante Chassen Palmer en un artículo de 2020 en el California Western International Law Journal.
“Posteriormente, la fotografía y/o el video se envían al abogado de la celebridad, y se informa a los medios de comunicación locales que la celebridad solicitará daños civiles si se publica la fotografía o el vídeo”, lo que “ha disuadido en gran medida de tomar fotografías de celebridades en público”, escribió.
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- Why did fashion make us so mad in 2025?
Why did fashion make us so mad in 2025?
By Rachel Tashjian, CNN
(CNN) — Fashion! A delight to the senses, a thing of beauty, a source of pleasure, pain and, in its determined ridiculousness, humor. But this year, fashion was more likely to inspire something else: pure, unadulterated rage.
Sydney Sweeney’s great jeans ad — or were they great genes?! — became a cultural firestorm so potent that President Donald Trump weighed in, praising the campaign on Truth Social as “the HOTTEST ad out there.” Months later, Sweeney is still offering explanations in interviews, and one can’t help but politicize her haircuts and clothing choices.
Dutch indie designer (and, in the months since, the head of Jean Paul Gaultier) Duran Lantink’s hilariously realistic top made of jiggling oversized breasts, worn by a male model at Paris Fashion Week in March, was so hotly debated that former Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly dedicated a segment of her podcast to dissecting the look.
“There are always going to be mentally deranged people in our society,” she said. “And then there will be equally cynical advantage takers, like the designers behind this whole thing. The only solution for the rest of us is to say no, call out the depravity, and register how gross we find it. That’s all we can do — or we’re going to lose everything to these people.”
Kelly may be provocative, but almost anyone discussing fashion in 2025 approached it with an attitude that everything is at stake. Seemingly innocuous moments of sartorial froth, like paparazzi shots of Ryan Murphy’s forthcoming “American Love Story” series on Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., led to multi-day debates, as TikTokkers attempted to lay claim to their ultimate authority on the late Bessette Kennedy’s precise style. Kylie Jenner fronting a Miu Miu campaign raised questions over whether the pop cerebral brand had dumbed itself down. And The Row, the understated American label helmed by publicity-shy sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, saw its ethos of quietude turn on itself when a longtime customer, influencer Neelam Ahooja, wrote a Substack post in late October “breaking up” with the label.
Even talking about fashion became a font for rage bait, when designer Edward Buchanan posted an Instagram plea during the Spring-Summer 2026 Paris Fashion Week shows, asking social media commenters to accord designers more respect: “I have read some really heinous comments about the work of many designers in these last few days….Please bring some intelligent criticism to the table otherwise it’s just a troll fest from the comfort of your homes.”
That spiraled into a heated debate over who gets to critique fashion shows at all — do you need to be an expert in the room, or is it just as valid to weigh in as an observer whose platform is social media, even if the stage is just a brand’s comment section?
Fashion is the cradle of trend making, so all this may not be surprising given that Oxford University Press’s word of the year was “rage bait”: content that is explicitly designed to incite outrage. Even if designers (or brands, editors, commentators or celebrities) are just trying to be cheeky or merely delivering what they believe their public wants, we can’t help but respond with sustained exasperation.
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- Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill
Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill
By Brianna Keilar, CNN
(CNN) — Back in 2017, when my husband was still in the Army, we learned he was unexpectedly deploying right as we were going to start trying to get pregnant. Military families get accustomed to this pattern: You plan and the United States Armed Forces makes you go back to the drawing board.
Inconveniently, he had pre-deployment work travel pop up while I was ovulating, which is how we found ourselves explaining to the staff at a local fertility clinic that we needed to freeze my husband’s sperm so I could do an intrauterine insemination while he was away.
It was incredibly stressful. It was like the clinic had never dealt with a couple in our situation. We didn’t have fertility issues that we were aware of, but I was 37 and it felt like we didn’t have a month to waste. One staff member tried to charge us for a full IVF cycle, at a cost of at least $10,000. Ultimately, after a negotiation, we were able to get the job done a la carte for several hundred dollars.
The IUI didn’t work. Maybe I do have fertility issues, I thought. I wasn’t exactly young for having children.
I remember thinking how I wished I hadn’t switched to my husband’s military insurance, TRICARE. It covered only fertility issues related to “a serious or severe illness or injury while on active duty.” My employer-provided insurance did, though it was more expensive but significantly cheaper than paying for IVF out of pocket.
I should note that having the choice of two insurance options is something many military spouses do not have. My husband was at the end of his military career, and his home base was stationary. The constant moves that usually define military life wreak havoc on a military spouse finding a job, let alone maintaining a career. Military spouses have an unemployment rate four to five times the national average. TRICARE is often their only choice for medical coverage.
More than eight years after my failed IUI, as federal employees have seen an expansion in their fertility benefits, TRICARE still doesn’t offer fertility coverage. A couple of weeks ago, it really looked like it would, which is why as we ring in 2026, I am thinking of the military families struggling to have a baby, for whom this new year will be off to a bitter start.
They were banking on a provision in the massive defense bill signed into law by President Donald Trump just before the holidays that would have given them the same kind of access to fertility coverage that other federal employees have.
The IVF language easily passed out of committees in the House and Senate. But as the bill was buffed and polished into a final version for both chambers to pass and send to Trump’s desk, the IVF provision was stripped from the measure just days before a vote.
It was devastating for military family members like Courtney Deady and her husband, a member of the Ohio Air National Guard, who have been trying to have a baby for a decade.
They’ve spent $100,000 on multiple attempts to conceive by intrauterine insemination and in vitro fertilization.
“It’s the mental health, it’s the travel,” Deady said. “There’s so many other things, such as cryopreservation” of embryos.
Deady has one embryo left for one last round of IVF.
She was counting on the fertility coverage in the defense bill. It seemed like it had a real shot. After all, Trump campaigned on making IVF more accessible, and this was the first National Defense Authorization Act he would sign after he reentered the White House.
Broken campaign promise
On the trail in 2024, Trump had pledged that “under
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| 31- US stocks are set for a third-straight year of stellar gains
US stocks are set for a third-straight year of stellar gains
By John Towfighi, CNN
New York (CNN) — The US stock market is about to achieve something so rare that it’s only happened five times since the 1940s: three consecutive years of double-digit gains.
The S&P 500 is set to rise 17% this year, after rising 23% in 2024 and 24% in 2023. That gain comes despite concerns about tariffs, geopolitical turmoil, nerves about a bubble and the longest government shutdown in history.
A three-peat of double-digit gains is relatively rare. The index has only experienced it five times before this year, with two occurrences ending in a four-peat and one — in the 1990s — ending in a five-peat, according to Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.
Stocks were boosted in 2025 by robust corporate earnings, enthusiasm about AI and optimism about interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.
“Equity markets are ending the year on a high note, with the S&P 500 on track for its third consecutive year of double-digit returns, driven by AI momentum and a resilient economy that has shrugged off fiscal and political headwinds,” Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Sandler, said in a note.
A year of extreme volatility
The S&P 500 entered the year on the heels of its strongest back-to-back yearly performance since the 1990s. As President Donald Trump prepared to take office, Wall Street was cautiously optimistic about the prospect of further gains.
Stocks tumbled in late January after Chinese tech upstart DeepSeek unveiled an AI chatbot that raised concerns Silicon Valley was pouring unnecessary amounts of money into AI companies. But markets reclaimed higher ground as investors doubled down on bets that US companies were poised to win a race for superior AI technology — a theme that has propelled markets higher this year despite nerves about a bubble.
Markets experienced a bout of historic volatility in the spring as Trump rolled out his so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs, levying import duties on nations across the globe and threatening to upend the global trading system.
But stocks rebounded sharply after Trump walked back his most severe tariff threats, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq in late June hit their first record highs since February. Stocks have largely coasted higher since, buoyed by strong corporate earnings and Fed rate cuts, which can make stocks relatively more appealing than bonds and support higher stock prices.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 13.7% this year. The blue-chip index entered the year trading around 43,000 points, tumbled below 37,000 points in April, and then rebounded as Trump delayed most of his tariffs. The Dow hit a fresh record high above 45,000 in August and then surpassed 46,000, 47,000 and 48,000 points in quick succession, sometimes hitting those milestones in just a few weeks.
AI has been the story of the year and, consequently, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has risen 21%, making it the best performer of the three major indexes each of the past three years. Tech and artificial intelligence stocks have powered US markets higher since October 2022, when OpenAI first debuted ChatGPT, marking
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- The Homes That Inspired Us in 2025
- Times Square has a dazzling new ball for the New Year’s Eve drop — and it’s the biggest yet
Times Square has a dazzling new ball for the New Year’s Eve drop — and it’s the biggest yet
By Jack Guy and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
(CNN) — It’s out with the old and in with the new in Times Square this year as the famous New Year’s Eve ball drop rings in 2026 with a dazzling new ball — the largest in the history of an event that started in 1907.
The Constellation Ball, as it has been named, is the ninth ball to usher in the new year at the famous Midtown Manhattan intersection. It measures 12.5 feet in diameter and weighs just over 12,000 pounds.
The ball features 5,280 circular Waterford crystals in three different sizes — 1.5-inch, 3-inch and 4-inch — as well as LED light pucks. The shape of the crystals is a departure from the triangular ones seen on previous balls since 1999.
“Each new crystal size features a unique design that celebrates the Ball’s spirit of eternal positivity,” reads a statement from the event’s organizers One Times Square.
Michael Phillips, president of Jamestown, the firm that owns and operates One Times Square, said the ball “is meant to represent interconnectedness, wholeness, and the cyclical nature of tradition, celebrating the eternal relationship between the past, present, and future.”
The ball drop is an integral part of New Year’s Eve celebrations for those who gather in Times Square, as well for people watching on television.
At 11:59 p.m. a dazzling ball glides slowly down a pole, while attendees — and millions of people tuning in from home — count down from 60. At the stroke of midnight, the crowd erupts into a cacophony of sound, often pulling their loved one in for a ceremonial kiss.
The Times Square ball first dropped in 1907, and it came into being thanks to Jacob Starr, a Ukranian immigrant and metalworker, and the former New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs. The latter had successfully drawn crowds to the newspaper’s skyscraper home in Times Square with pyrotechnics and fireworks to celebrate the forthcoming year, but city officials banned explosives from being used after just a few years of the festivities.
So Ochs commissioned Starr, who worked for sign-making firm Strauss Signs (later known as Artkraft Strauss, a company at which Starr served as president), to create a new visual display.
Over the past century, that display, and symbol of the New Year, has evolved from an iron and wood cage adorned with light bulbs to a dazzling technicolor crystal sphere.
The concept was based on time balls, nautical devices that had gained popularity in the 19th century. As time-telling became more precise, ship navigators needed a standardized way to set their chronometers. Each day, harbors and observatories would raise and lower a metal ball at the same time to allow sailors to synchronize their instruments.
Both Ochs and the New York Times’ chief electrician, Walter Palmer, have been credited with the idea, allegedly inspired by the downtown Western Union Building, which dropped a time ball each day at noon. But Starr’s granddaughter Tama Starr, who joined Artkraft Strauss in 1982 and now owns the business, said in a phone interview that she believes it was her grandfather who came up with the concept of the ball being lowered and lit up with the new year numerals at midnight.
“The idea was to … have it illuminated with the brand-new electricity that had just come up to the neighborhood,” said Tama, who for many years served as foreperson at the Times Square ball drop. “And it was lowered by hand … starting at one minute to midnight, and that was the way it was done for many years.”
“It was an adaptation of an old, useful thing,” she added. “It was instantly popular. People just loved it.”
Though Manhattan had been partially illuminated by electricity since the early 1880s, the US National Park Service (NPS) notes
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- Where to travel in 2026: The best places to visit
Where to travel in 2026: The best places to visit
CNN Travel Team
(CNN) — Whether you’re a full-time nomad or a once-a-year vacationer, every special travel memory begins with one essential question: where to?
This year, the team at CNN Travel hopes to answer not only the question of where, but also the question of why now? These destinations are special all the time, but there’s something new or significant happening in 2026 that you should know about.
The places to go in 2026 list includes a region that will experience a rare total solar eclipse, a city that has been crowned a capital of culture, a foodie haven that just scored a major global recognition, a beloved tourist island that is bouncing back from a brutal natural disaster, and more.
Adelaide, Australia
More accessible from the US than ever
“You go to move / You got to go / You go to be somebody.” Those lyrics come from a 1978 track from Cold Chisel, the Adelaide-formed band responsible for Australia’s unofficial national anthem. They act as a beacon, summoning travelers to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, in particular.
It may not have the star wattage of Sydney or the Great Barrier Reef, but Adelaide is like a microcosm of everything that makes Australia special: beaches, vineyards, wildlife and best-in-class food and drink.
Now, Americans can get there more easily with the first-ever direct flight from the US, a United route from San Francisco. Start at Adelaide Central Market to try some of South Australia’s finest cheeses, wines and produce, then make the best of the temperate weather at the city’s botanic gardens and by going on bushwalks and star tours led by members of the Aboriginal community.
Adelaide is also the gateway to the beautiful Barossa Valley wine country and to Kangaroo Island, which is welcoming visitors again after being devastated by bushfires in 2020. — Lilit Marcus
Algeria
Rewards for intrepid travelers
Spend your next vacation strolling past the novelty vape shops of some overcrowded European capital if you must. Or you could lose yourself in the sandy infinity of the Sahara, in a country whose intense and silent natural landscapes have been unseen by tourists for decades. Isolated since the 1960s, Algeria began opening up to international visitors in 2023 with new 30-day visas. There are direct flights to capital Algiers from several major European cities, plus Montreal.
Although Algeria hopes to become a major destination, it’s early days and adventurous travelers can still experience epic scenery all to themselves. There are the high-plateau sandstone moonscapes of Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, home to a veritable Louvre of prehistoric art. It’s best explored on a weeklong hiking trip, supported by a caravan of gear-hauling donkeys.
Yes, it’s remote and overnight camp facilities are a little rough, but that cell-phone-signal-free peace is its own five-star luxury nowadays. There’s wildlife to see — desert foxes, jackals and gazelles — and ancient Roman and Ottoman cities near the coast. But the main attraction is the vast, brooding and empty expanse of the Sahara, a sea of golden sand where mountainous dunes glow before sunset, giving way to dark skies alive with stars. — Barry Neild
Arusha, Tanzania
Paying homage to a late legend
At the foot of imposing volcanic Mount Meru lies the city of Arusha, in Tanzania, in the east of Africa. Not far from the wildlife-filled Serengeti National Park and close to base camp for Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha is often a gateway to other adventures. That’s despite there being plenty to enjoy in Arusha itself, includin
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| 1- 11 architecture projects set to shape the world in 2026
11 architecture projects set to shape the world in 2026
By Oscar Holland, CNN
(CNN) — For American architecture, 2025 may be remembered for the deaths of icons Frank Gehry, Robert A. M. Stern and Ricardo Scofidio, a mastermind of New York’s High Line. More likely, however, it will go down as a year dominated by Donald Trump — his preference for classicism and disdain for brutalism; his controversial demolition of the White House’s East Wing; his clashes with the designer of the ballroom replacing it; and his administration’s move to exclude architecture from its list of “professional” degrees.
Much of this has brought the presidency into direct conflict with the industry’s largest professional body, the American Institute of Architects (AIA). It perhaps came as no surprise that, amid the threat of national navel-gazing, the organization announced that it is awarding this year’s prestigious AIA Gold Medal to a non-American, Japan’s Shigeru Ban, for the first time this decade.
Globally, there has been lots to celebrate. China’s Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Prize, the “Nobel of architecture,” for his understated academic and cultural buildings. A social housing development in London and a humble concrete church in Spain’s Canary Islands meanwhile beat out flashier competition to win two of the profession’s other biggest prizes.
But 2026 may be shaped by bigger, blockbuster buildings. Among them are long-awaited museums, record-breaking skyscrapers and a soaring Catholic basilica almost 150 years in the making. Here are 11 of architecture projects — in the US and beyond — set to become the year’s most talked-about:
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Some 144 years after it broke ground, the world’s longest-running construction project is nearing completion. Well, in a sense.
Work on Sagrada Familia’s sculptures, decorative detailing and proposed main staircase will likely stretch into the 2030s. But this year should see the 564-foot-tall Tower of Jesus of Christ, the basilica’s 18th and final spire (the 17 shorter ones are dedicated to the 12 apostles, four Evangelists and the Virgin Mary), finished in time for the centenary of architect Antoni Gaudí’s death in June.
Gaudí only lived to see the first tower completed. The sheer complexity and decorative intricacy of his design, a surreal marriage of Gothic, Art Nouveau and nature-inspired forms, is partly behind the mind-boggling construction timeline. But funding shortfalls, bureaucratic hurdles and the Covid-19 pandemic all contributed, too.
Perhaps the greatest challenge was the destruction of Gaudí’s drawings and plaster models in 1936, when his workshop was set on fire amid the Spanish Civil War. Whether he would have approved of the church’s final form — which is the best estimation of his plans by subsequent generations of architects — will never be known. Though he probably wouldn’t have minded the wait. “My client is in no hurry,” Gaudí famously once said. He was, of course, referring to God.
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ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out
to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and
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* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Peak high tides are expected between 5 am
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* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to elevated
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* WHERE…Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, San Luis Obispo
County Beaches, Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches,
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast, Santa Barbara County
Southeastern Coast, Ventura County Beaches, Malibu Coast and
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* WHEN…Through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS…Pooling of sea water is possible around high tide at
beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal
ranges. Enhanced beach erosion is also possible. No
significant damage is expected. There is an increased risk of
ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out
to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and
capsize small boats nearshore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Peak high tides are expected between 7 am
and 8 am Friday, shifting to between 9 am and 10 am by Sunday.
There is a moderate chance for Coastal Flood Advisories and/or
High Surf Advisories to be issued for this weekend as another
storm system will likely generate strong winds accompanied by a
larger swell.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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| 3- Angelina Jolie visita el cruce de Rafah mientras los grupos de ayuda en Gaza enfrentan la suspensión israelí
Angelina Jolie visita el cruce de Rafah mientras los grupos de ayuda en Gaza enfrentan la suspensión israelí
Por Abeer Salman, CNN
Angelina Jolie, la actriz y ex enviada especial de la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, visitó el cruce de Rafah el viernes como parte de un viaje humanitario a Egipto, según un comunicado de los representantes de Jolie.
Su visita se produce mientras Israel anunció que suspenderá las operaciones de decenas de grupos de ayuda que trabajan en el enclave de Gaza.
“Hablé con agencias humanitarias que están trabajando arduamente para hacer todo lo posible por superar las restricciones y desafíos para entregar la ayuda necesaria a Gaza. Caminé por un gran almacén que estaba lleno de artículos a los que se les negó la entrada, la mayoría de ellos médicos”, dijo Jolie en un comunicado.
A principios de esta semana, Israel anunció que suspenderá las operaciones de organizaciones internacionales de ayuda que no renovaron su registro, lo que incluye exigir a las organizaciones que trabajan en Gaza que proporcionen datos personales de sus empleados.
Las agencias de ayuda han expresado repetidamente su preocupación por estos requisitos, citando la seguridad de sus empleados.
La medida de Israel se produce mientras 10 países advirtieron que la situación humanitaria en Gaza enfrenta un “deterioro renovado” y que las condiciones en el enclave “siguen siendo catastróficas”.
Israel dijo que sus normas de registro buscan evitar que Hamas explote la ayuda internacional, una afirmación que la ONU y los grupos de ayuda han rechazado. Una revisión del Gobierno de Estados Unidos a principios de este año no encontró pruebas de robo generalizado por parte de Hamas, afirmaciones que tanto Israel como el Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. han hecho.
Gaza, que yace en ruinas, está soportando un invierno riguroso, con fuertes lluvias y temperaturas en descenso que agravan unas condiciones de vida ya de por sí desesperadas.
Lluvias intensas y fuertes vientos han destruido las endebles y empapadas tiendas de campaña en las que muchos palestinos se ven obligados a sobrevivir, y al menos 20 personas han muerto por el colapso de casas y edificios mientras buscaban refugio de las severas condiciones climáticas, según la Oficina de Medios del Gobierno de Gaza (GMO), controlada por Hamas.
Durante su visita, Jolie se reunió con trabajadores humanitarios de la Media Luna Roja Egipcia y otras organizaciones locales para discutir cómo proporcionar ayuda adicional a Gaza.
“Lo que debe suceder está claro: el alto el fuego debe mantenerse, y el acceso debe ser sostenido, seguro y ampliado urgentemente para que la ayuda, el combustible y los suministros médicos críticos puedan moverse rápida y consistentemente, en el volumen requerido”, dijo Jolie en un comunicado.
“Los artículos de invierno y el equipo médico esencial deben trasladarse sin demora. Cada día de interrupción cuesta vidas”, continuó.
Jolie expresó su agradecimiento a los voluntarios que trabajan para brindar asistencia humanitaria.
Su oficina también informó que se está reuniendo con familias de refugiados palestinos y sudaneses en Egipto.
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- What the Noriega case can tell us about Maduro’s upcoming legal battle
What the Noriega case can tell us about Maduro’s upcoming legal battle
By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
(CNN) — Over three decades ago, the US government executed the shocking arrest of the leader of a foreign country: Panama’s Manuel Noriega. The dictator’s case may prove to be a guide for the prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges now involved in the case against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.
Like Maduro, Noriega was accused of participating in a large-scale operation to smuggle drugs into the United States. And Noriega was also captured in a military operation in his home country.
Noriega’s attorneys quickly launched an aggressive defense of the military leader, accusing President George H.W. Bush’s Justice Department of violating both international law and due process protections by invading Panama and arresting him abroad.
They also claimed that Noriega had immunity as a foreign head of state.
Maduro, who prosecutors say ran “state sponsored gangs” and facilitated drug trafficking in the Venezuela, will “likely raise a series of significant objections to the prosecution” like those Noriega attempted, Steve Vladeck, CNN legal analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, said in his “One First” newsletter.
The case will likely involve “novel constitutional and international law arguments” that may attract some high-profile top criminal defense attorneys, CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Saturday. “We’ve really seen very little like this.”
Noriega’s arguments were ultimately unsuccessful — he was tried and convicted in 1991 and given a 40-year prison sentence. (Following his sentence in 1992, a federal judge ruled the former dictator was a Read more
- Aspirina, tomografías y sueño: cinco preguntas planteadas por las nuevas revelaciones de Trump sobre su salud
Aspirina, tomografías y sueño: cinco preguntas planteadas por las nuevas revelaciones de Trump sobre su salud
Por Sarah Owermohle y Jacqueline Howard, CNN
El presidente Donald Trump quiere reducir los debates públicos sobre su salud.
El presidente de mayor edad en asumir el cargo ha sido acosado por preguntas sobre visitas recientes al médico, moretones en sus manos y si se ha quedado dormido durante eventos públicos.
Trump desestimó estas preocupaciones en una entrevista aparentemente improvisada con The Wall Street Journal esta semana, en la que atribuyó los moretones visibles a una alta dosis diaria de aspirina —más de lo que recomiendan sus médicos— y dijo que tiene mucha energía.
El presidente, quien durante años criticó la edad y la salud cognitiva del expresidente Joe Biden, publicó el viernes en Truth Social que había superado con éxito su “tercera prueba cognitiva consecutiva”.
Pero estas revelaciones han hecho poco para calmar el renovado escrutinio sobre su salud.
De hecho, aquí hay cinco preguntas que han surgido a raíz de sus más recientes revelaciones sobre su salud.
El médico encargado del cuidado de Trump y quien recientemente declaró que goza de una salud excepcional es el Dr. Sean Barbabella, un capitán de la Marina nombrado para el cargo en marzo. Barbabella se especializó en trauma de combate y atención de emergencias durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas. Ha defendido las recientes imágenes médicas avanzadas y el examen físico semestral de Trump este año como parte de exámenes y cuidados de rutina.
Es el más reciente de una serie de médicos personales que han elogiado la salud física y cognitiva de Trump.
Cuando Trump asumió su primer mandato, mantuvo al Dr. Ronny Jackson, quien había sido médico personal del presidente Barack Obama y llegó a ser uno de los asesores personales más cercanos de Trump después de una conferencia de prensa en la que elogió los “genes increíbles” del entonces presidente número 45.
Jackson dejó su cargo en la Casa Blanca en marzo de 2018 cuando Trump lo propuso para dirigir el Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos. Pero retiró su postulación un mes después en medio de acusaciones sobre su conducta profesional en la Casa Blanca. Actualmente es representante republicano por Texas.
A Jackson le siguió el Dr. Sean Conley, un médico de emergencias de la Marina que en 2019 dijo que Trump estaba “en muy buena salud” y que esperaba que el presidente “siguiera así durante el resto de su presidencia y más allá”.
Durante la pandemia de covid-19, Conley recetó hidroxicloroquina, un medicamento antipalúdico que ganó popularidad entre los conservadores como una terapia alternativa —aunque no comprobada— para prevenir la infección por el virus, como medida preventiva para Trump. En octubre de 2020, cuando Trump contrajo covid-19, Conley supervisó su tratamiento.
Los médicos de la Casa Blanca fueron precedidos por el Dr. Harold Bornstein, médico personal de Trump durante mucho tiempo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Durante su primera campaña presidencial, Bornstein proclamó en una efusiva carta que Trump “será el individuo más saludable jamás elegido” presidente.
Más tarde, Bornstein dijo que Trump le dictó esa carta por teléfono. Después de la elección, dijo que funcionarios de Trump allanaron su consultorio para obtener los registros médicos personales del presidente, una versión que fue disputada por funcionarios de la administración, quienes dijeron que se trató de una entrega ru
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Beach Hazards Statement issued January 4 at 1:23AM PST until January 5 at 10:00AM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to
elevated surf expected. Minor coastal flooding due to
abnormally high tides between 7.0 and 7.5 feet and gusty
southerly winds.
* WHERE…Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, Santa Barbara
County Southwestern Coast, Santa Barbara County Southeastern
Coast, Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.
* WHEN…Through Monday morning.
* IMPACTS…Pooling of sea water is possible around high tide at
beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal
ranges. Enhanced beach erosion is also possible. No
significant damage is expected. There is an increased risk of
ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out
to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and
capsize small boats nearshore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Peak high tides are expected between 8am
and 11 am. Surf is expected to build and peak during the
afternoon hours today.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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| 5- Venezolanos se enfrentan la incertidumbre ante planes de la administración Trump para su país. Esto es lo que hay que saber
Venezolanos se enfrentan la incertidumbre ante planes de la administración Trump para su país. Esto es lo que hay que saber
Por Piper HudspethBlackburn, CNN
Un envalentonado presidente Donald Trump declaró la noche del domingo que EE.UU. está “a cargo” de Venezuela después de detener al presidente Nicolás Maduro en una redada militar durante el fin de semana, mientras lanzaba severas advertencias a otros países de que podrían ser los próximos.
Maduro, quien fue arrastrado bajo custodia junto con su esposa, Cilia Flores, en una letal redada la madrugada del sábado, se presentará por primera vez ante el tribunal a las 12 p.m., en la ciudad de Nueva York, para enfrentar cargos de que él y sus asociados conspiraron con narcoterroristas para enviar miles de toneladas de cocaína a EE.UU.
Los comentarios más recientes de Trump llegan incluso cuando algunos en su administración, como el secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, sugerían que EE.UU. dependería más del apalancamiento y la coerción sobre Venezuela, en lugar de dirigirla directamente como Trump sugirió inicialmente durante una conferencia de prensa, el sábado por la mañana.
Mientras tanto, los venezolanos se resguardan mientras esperan más información sobre lo que la administración Trump tiene preparado para su país. El Gobierno de EE.UU. trabaja rápidamente para establecer un Gobierno interino complaciente, según funcionarios estadounidenses, priorizando la estabilidad administrativa y la reparación de la infraestructura petrolera del país por encima de una transición inmediata a la democracia.
En particular, los funcionarios estadounidenses se han enfocado en la vicepresidenta del país, Delcy Rodríguez, a quien los asesores de Trump identificaron semanas atrás como una alternativa viable, aunque no permanente, a Maduro. A pesar de los primeros ataques de Rodríguez a la administración por la captura de Maduro, funcionarios estadounidenses mantenían en privado el optimismo de que ella trabajaría con Estados Unidos.
Para la noche del domingo, Rodríguez adoptaba un tono más suave que antes, llamando a la “cooperación” con EE.UU.
Trump regresó a Washington a altas horas de la noche del domingo, donde los legisladores están divididos principalmente a lo largo de líneas partidistas en su reacción a la operación militar, de la cual el Congreso no fue notificado con anticipación.
Los demócratas en el Congreso han criticado a la administración por no buscar autorización en el Capitolio antes del ataque, mientras que los aliados de Trump en el Partido Republicano en su mayoría han elogiado la operación.
El presidente de la Comisión de Inteligencia del Senado, Tom Cotton, un republicano, dijo a CNN, en “State of the Union”, que unas nuevas elecciones “legítimas” que incluyan miembros de la oposición del país probablemente serán el próximo paso.
Aquí está lo que hay que saber:
La administración Trump golpeó varias partes de Caracas, la capital de Venezuela, en las primeras horas del sábado 3 de enero. Miembros de la élite de la Fuerza Delta, del Ejército de EE.UU., arrastraron a Maduro y Flores de su dormitorio y los llevaron volando al USS Iwo Jima, y luego a Nueva York, vía la bahía de Guantánamo.
La operación tomó meses de planificación y fue la culminación de una campaña de presión sobre Maduro que incluyó una masiva concentración naval de EE.UU. en el Caribe y un bloqueo de petroleros sancionados.
La campaña de presión de Trump sobre Maduro ha incluido ataques que destruyeron más de 30 embarcaciones en el mar Caribe y el océano Pacífico oriental en lo que EE.UU. ha descrito como una campaña antinarcóticos. El mes pasado, Trump ordenó un bloqueo de petroleros sancionados que llegaban y salían de Venezuela, y EE.UU. ha incautado múltiples embarcaciones desde ese anuncio.
Rubio rechazó el domingo las acusaciones de que la operación se llevó a cabo para dar a las compañías estadounidenses mejor acceso a las reservas petroleras de Venezuela, que son las mayores probadas en el mundo. A
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- Minnesota investigators say child care centers accused of fraud in viral video are operating normally. Here’s what comes next
Minnesota investigators say child care centers accused of fraud in viral video are operating normally. Here’s what comes next
By Zoe Sottile, CNN
(CNN) — It was the viral video seen ‘round the world.
The 43-minute video, posted to YouTube the day after Christmas by a 23-year-old conservative content creator, claimed with little evidence Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota were fraudulently taking funding meant to provide child care for low-income families. The video, boosted by Vice President JD Vance and tech billionaire Elon Musk, quickly racked up millions of views.
The impact was swift: DHS and the FBI ramped up their presence in the state, and federal funding for child care in the entire state was frozen.
But a week later, state officials said the child care centers accused of fraud in the video were all operating as expected when visited by investigators.
The state’s initial findings cast doubt on the claims of fraud articulated in the viral video. Still, investigations into alleged wrongdoing are ongoing. Minnesota officials have until January 9 to provide the Trump administration with information about providers and parents who receive federal funds for child care, according to a bulletin sent Friday by the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families to child care providers and shared with CNN.
The Trump administration’s demands are the latest step in a yearslong saga that started with investigations into theft of government funds in Minnesota under the Biden administration.
Here’s what we know about the investigations and what comes next as crucial funding for child care hangs in the balance for thousands of Minnesota families.
Funds frozen as Friday deadline looms
On December 30, Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill announced the agency was freezing all child care payments to Minnesota. The state typically receives about $185 million annually in federal child care funding, supporting care for 19,000 children.
“Funds will be released only when states prove they are being spent legitimately,” he added. He said he had demanded Gov. Tim Walz provide a “comprehensive audit” of the centers featured in the video.
The proof must be shared with the government by January 9, according to the email sent by state officials to child care providers. The email said HHS has requested specific details, including the total amount of Child Care and Development Fund payments received by five child care centers and administrative data – like names and social security numbers – for all recipients of federal money. The fund is the main source of federal support for child care and includes the Child Care Assistance Program, which Nick Shirley, the creator of the viral video, alleged was being exploited in Minnesota.
An HHS spokesperson confirmed the January 9 deadline to CNN.
Investigators with the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Famili
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- Beach Hazards Statement issued January 5 at 1:20AM PST until January 5 at 10:00AM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
Beach Hazards Statement issued January 5 at 1:20AM PST until January 5 at 10:00AM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to elevated
surf focused across west facing beached expected. Minor coastal
flooding due to abnormally high tides near 7 feet combined with
elevated surf.
* WHERE…Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, Santa Barbara
County Southwestern Coast, Santa Barbara County Southeastern
Coast, Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.
* WHEN…Until 10 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS…Pooling of sea water is possible around high tide at
beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal
ranges. Enhanced beach erosion is also possible. No
significant damage is expected. There is an increased risk of
ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out
to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and
capsize small boats nearshore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Peak high tides near 7 feet are expected
between 8am and 11am.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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- A divided Congress returns for high-stakes battles over health care, federal spending and Venezuela
A divided Congress returns for high-stakes battles over health care, federal spending and Venezuela
By Sarah Ferris, CNN
(CNN) — Congress was already set to return this week to a slew of bitter policy fights and the threat of another government shutdown at the end of the month.
Now, lawmakers must confront enormous questions of authority and oversight over the US military after President Donald Trump seized and deposed Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro without telling them.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will be forced to answer from some in their own party over whether to reassert the legislative branch’s role in war-making alongside critical votes on health care and government spending.
They face high stakes ahead of this fall’s midterms, as fury builds among GOP moderates whose political survival this November will determine the trajectory of Trump’s last two years in office.
In the House, Johnson is required to hold a floor vote on a Democratic proposal to resurrect those subsidies for three years, thanks to a rebellion from some of his own GOP centrists, who were irate over the expiration of tax credits that were going to millions of Americans. A Democratic leadership source said the bill has to come up this week under discharge petition rules.
Even if the House passes the bill to extend the credits, that doesn’t mean the Senate will do the same.
Senate centrists have been working on their own compromise bill for weeks, including during their winter recess. But their plans are a secret for now.
The Senate is set to vote on a measure to limit the president’s war powers in Venezuela. The vote had been in the works weeks before Maduro’s late-night capture and now becomes a major test of Republican loyalty to Trump after the operation.
Party leaders must also find a path to fund much of the federal government by month’s end. As lawmakers ended America’s longest-ever government shutdown in the fall, they punted most of the decisions on funding to January 30. That deadline is now fast approaching — but with very little of the progress that spending leaders had hoped to show by now.
And Democrats don’t appear to be in the mood for dealmaking.
“Nobody wants to compromise,” longtime Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri said just before leaving for the holidays, lamenting a broken system of governing in Washington that led to the Affordable Care Act subsidies lapse. “And democracy demands compromise.”
A vote on Trump’s war powers
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that he and Sens. Tim Kaine and Rand Paul intend to put their war powers resolution on the Senate floor this week in an attempt to rein in the president from further attacks in Venezuela without congressional approval.
Schumer accused Trump of launching an “endless war” — violating Trump’s own campaign promises just months earlier. And he said the White House had yet to reveal how long American troops would be in Venezuela and how much it will ultimately cost.
Kaine said that the Trump administration had not indicated in previous briefings and memos that the purpose of its operation in Venezuela was regime change.
He added that for Congress to intervene and prevent further military actions in Venezuela, lawmakers should pass his War Powers Resolution or include language in the defense appropriations bill prohibiting additional military action.
“Many Republicans said, ‘Oh, the president’s not going to do it. He tells us, this is a bluff. He tells us this is a negotiating tactic,’ etc.,” Kaine told reporters Sunday. “OK, now it’s happening, and anybody who was pretending otherwise cannot pretend anymore.”
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| 6- La incursión de Trump en Venezuela sume a Groenlandia y a la alianza militar occidental en la incertidumbre
La incursión de Trump en Venezuela sume a Groenlandia y a la alianza militar occidental en la incertidumbre
Análisis por Matthew Chance, Corresponsal jefe de asuntos globales de CNN
En medio de crecientes preocupaciones de que Groenlandia, un vasto territorio ártico gobernado por Dinamarca, todavía despierta la codicia de la administración Trump, la primera ministra del país nórdico ha decidido lanzar una dura advertencia a la Casa Blanca.
En declaraciones televisadas a nivel nacional, Mette Frederiksen recordó a los daneses que ya había “dejado muy claro cuál es la postura del Reino de Dinamarca y que Groenlandia ha dicho repetidamente que no quiere ser parte de Estados Unidos”.
Pero también advirtió sobre las consecuencias de una acción militar estadounidense para apoderarse de Groenlandia, algo que el presidente Donald Trump se ha negado rotundamente a descartar.
“En primer lugar, creo que hay que tomar en serio al presidente de Estados Unidos cuando dice que quiere Groenlandia”, declaró Frederiksen, reflejando una mayor ansiedad sobre las intenciones de Trump tras su extraordinaria acción militar en Venezuela.
“Pero también quiero dejar claro que si Estados Unidos decide atacar militarmente a otro país de la OTAN, todo se detiene, incluida la OTAN y, por tanto, la seguridad que se ha proporcionado desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial”, añadió.
Es una preocupación seria y ampliamente compartida entre los aliados de la OTAN que la cuestión de Groenlandia tiene el potencial no sólo de enfadar y humillar a un antiguo socio de Estados Unidos, sino también de fracturar la alianza militar occidental a medida que aumenta la presión de Washington.
Trump repitió el domingo que Estados Unidos necesita Groenlandia “desde el punto de vista de la seguridad nacional”.
“Necesitamos Groenlandia… Es un lugar estratégico en estos momentos. Groenlandia está repleta de barcos rusos y chinos”, declaró Trump a los periodistas a bordo del Air Force One. “Necesitamos Groenlandia desde el punto de vista de la seguridad nacional, y Dinamarca no va a poder hacerlo”.
El lunes por la noche, el subsecretario de la Casa Blanca, Stephen Miller, reiteró las afirmaciones de que “Groenlandia debería ser parte de Estados Unidos”, pero rechazó que fuera necesaria la fuerza militar para adquirirla.
“Nadie va a luchar militarmente contra Estados Unidos por el futuro de Groenlandia”, afirmó Miller en el programa “The Lead with Jake Tapper” de CNN.
Cuando se le preguntó si una intervención militar estaba descartada, Miller cuestionó en cambio el reclamo de Dinamarca sobre el territorio del Ártico.
Sus comentarios se produjeron después de que la esposa de Miller y aliada de Trump, Katie Miller, publicara en X una imagen del mapa de Groenlandia con la bandera estadounidense superpuesta y el la palabra: “PRONTO”.
Es el último recordatorio de una ambición reiteradamente declarada de la administración Trump que ha puesto nerviosos a los aliados europeos tradicionales de Washington, sobre todo a Dinamarca.
CNN visitó Groenlandia en octubre, cuando el ejército danés realizó una demostración de fuerza militar sin precedentes destinada oficialmente a disuadir lo que se dice son crecientes amenazas militares rusas y chinas.
Puede que Moscú esté estancado en la lucha en Ucrania en este momento, pero una vez que ese brutal conflicto finalmente termine, funcionarios militares daneses -según manifestaron a CNN- esperan plenamente que Rusia desvíe recursos y use su experiencia en combate para representar una amenaza mucho mayor en la región del Ártico.
China también ha i
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- 2,000 federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis in an escalated immigration push. Here’s what we know
2,000 federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis in an escalated immigration push. Here’s what we know
By Danya Gainor, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
(CNN) — Around 2,000 federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis as part of the Trump administration’s latest effort to crack down on immigration, two law enforcement officials told CNN, while the city and its officials are reeling from a welfare fraud scandal that’s reaching a fever pitch this week.
In the days since a conservative content creator raised allegations of fraud in a YouTube video – with little evidence – about Somali-run day care centers in Minneapolis, the Trump administration has frozen federal child care funds and unleashed more biting rhetoric against the Somali community, whom President Donald Trump has previously called “garbage.”
Now, the president is stepping up immigration enforcement. Federal agents have already been on the ground in Minneapolis, and both Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and US Border Patrol agents are deploying to Minnesota. US Customs and Border Protection Commander Gregory Bovino, whose controversial tactics have come under increased scrutiny in multiple cities, is also expected to deploy there.
Uncertainty is sweeping Minnesota’s largest city as the fraud allegations prompt shakeups in local leadership, and a new, ambiguous immigration enforcement effort intimidating Somali residents has emerged. Here’s what we know.
Deployment comes as Walz drops reelection bid
The mobilization of more agents to Minneapolis comes as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who has been staunchly opposed to Trump’s deployment of troops to US cities, dropped out of the race for reelection on Monday.
The welfare-fraud scandal in his state has intensified into a political flashpoint seized upon by Trump, and its deepening federal probe complicated Walz’s bid for an unprecedented third term. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but Republicans have sought to blame Walz and Democrats for the massive abuse of taxpayer dollars.
It was the recent criticism from the Trump administration and right-wing allies that Walz said contributed to his decision not to seek reelection.
“For the last several years, an organized group of criminals have sought to take advantage of this state’s generosity,” Walz said. “And even as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters, we now see an organized group of political actors seeking to take advantage of a crisis.”
Walz had been criticized for his administration’s oversight of the welfare programs. Several Democrats in the state privately cautioned Walz against seeking reelection as outrage intensified in Minnesota and beyond over the misuse of funds.
In his brief appearance on Monday, Walz said he welcomed the federal investigation. He said it was imperative Minnesotans had c
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- George Conway launches congressional bid with one goal: Taking on Trump
George Conway launches congressional bid with one goal: Taking on Trump
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, CNN
(CNN) — George Conway says he never expected to run for Congress. And if you’d asked, he says, “I would have laughed.”
But Conway, a former Republican once married to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, says his decision to run as a Democrat in New York is no laughing matter. One of President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics, the 62-year-old lawyer told CNN he has one goal: To take on the president.
“I have the skills that are needed right now, at this moment, at this unique time,” Conway said. “We have basically a criminal president, a convicted criminal, a man who is committing high crimes and misdemeanors in violation of his oath each and every day.”
It is not an accident that Conway is officially announcing his bid to run for Congress with this video on January 6, the fifth anniversary of the violent attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters.
But it’s unclear how a former Republican will fare in one of the bluest districts in the country. And Conway is joining a crowded field.
The Democratic primary is wide open, and the list of candidates to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th congressional district includes former President John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, who has a large social media following, as well as New York state Rep. Micah Lasher, who represents the West side of Manhattan, and New York state Rep. Alex Bores, whose district is on the East side of Manhattan.
War of the Roses
Conway’s congressional campaign is a long way from 2016 when he voted for Trump, and his then-wife, Kellyanne Conway, steered the 45th president to victory as his campaign manager.
“I was crying in joy for her,” said Conway. “I didn’t really realize how bad, how horrible this guy would be.”
At the time, Conway was a partner at Wachtell Lipton, a prominent law firm in New York, where he worked on commercial litigation.
When Trump won, the Conways moved to Washington, where Kellyanne became a senior White House advisor, and George was the administration’s pick to be head of the Civil Division at the Justice Department.
But privately, he started having reservations about Trump, and withdrew himself from consideration for the DOJ post in June 2017.
The next year, he went public attacking Trump and gained millions of followers on social media. He also left the Republican Party and co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and the Society for the Rule of Law.
“I was a Republican until 2018 when I realized it had become a personality cult, and it no longer stood for things that I had stood for for many years,” Conway said.
Along the way, he also spent more than $1.5 million attacking Trump with tv ads and billboards, as well as donating to Democratic candidates.
In response, Trump hit back on social media, making fun of Conway calling him “Mr. Kellyanne Conway” and “a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell.”
“He said much worse,” Conway added, noting, for instance, that Trump also called him “Moonface” in 2020, which Conway believes was mocking his Filipino heritage.
Conway ack
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- The political divide over January 6 is only deepening five years after the deadly US Capitol attack
The political divide over January 6 is only deepening five years after the deadly US Capitol attack
By Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen, CNN
(CNN) — Five years after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the fundamental facts of that day continue to fuel deep divisions that have created dueling political realities.
On Tuesday, members of the former January 6 select committee – whose final report concluded that President Donald Trump incited the violence at the Capitol that day – will convene a hearing to reexamine their findings.
As that hearing is underway, members of the far-right Proud Boys – including its former leader Enrique Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term for seditious conspiracy before getting pardoned by Trump last year – are expected to hold a march to the Capitol that they say will be “patriotic and peaceful.”
The day’s split-screen highlights how the January 6 attack has left a political schism in its wake. Many Democrats insist the day is a painful reminder of Trump’s past and ongoing threat to democracy and fair elections, while the president and most Republicans either ignore it or recast the day’s events and diminish the level of violence.
The lawmakers who dedicated 18 months of their careers to the comprehensive House investigation are grappling with how the truth about Trump’s role in January 6 can break through in this current political moment – where Trump continues to claim that he won the 2020 election and has taken significant steps to reward rioters and deflect blame for the attack.
“He has people who support him – they have a right to vote for whoever they want,” Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who served on the committee, told CNN. “I can’t change that reality. What I can do, is release the actual reality. And this is an occasion for us to reissue some of the documentation, especially the video documentation.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson has still not hung a plaque honoring the heroism of the Capitol Police officers who defended the complex on January 6, even though federal law required it to be installed by 2023. Instead, many Democrats have poster copies hanging outside their congressional offices.
The speaker’s office told CNN that the law authorizing the January 6 commemorative plaque “is not implementable,” but did not elaborate on what they view as the shortfalls of the statute in a statement.
“If Democrats are serious about commemorating the work of USCP officers, they are free to work with the appropriate committees of jurisdiction to develop a framework for proper vetting and consideration,” a spokesperson for the speaker said.
Trump isn’t expected to hold any official commemorations for the anniversary on Tuesday.
Some of the pardoned rioters and their supporters say their march, down the same streets some of them walked five years ago, will honor Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran and QAnon supporter who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer during the riot as she tried to breach an area near the House floor while lawmakers were evacuating.
“This will be my fourth year laying flowers,” said Suzzanne Monk, who wasn’t at the Capitol in January 2021 but is a leading advocate for the
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| 7- ¿Por qué Trump quiere tomar Groenlandia?
¿Por qué Trump quiere tomar Groenlandia?
Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN
La próxima conquista de Estados Unidos podría ser Trumpland.
El presidente Donald Trump busca nuevas adquisiciones para su proyecto de construcción del imperio del siglo XXI después de remover al jefe del “odioso” Gobierno de Venezuela.
Durante su primer mandato, los planes de Trump para Groenlandia fueron considerados una broma: simplemente otra fanfarronería descarada de un presidente al que le encanta escandalizar.
Incluso el año pasado, cuando Donald Trump Jr. voló a la enorme isla en el avión de su padre con una figura presidencial en la cabina y, más tarde, cuando el vicepresidente J. D. Vance se puso una parka para su propia visita relámpago, hubo un elemento de burla por la parte estadounidense.
Pero ya nadie se ríe.
Los líderes europeos, que el martes reafirmaron la soberanía de la isla y las reivindicaciones de Dinamarca sobre su territorio autónomo, se están tomando en serio las amenazas del presidente.
Esto no sorprende, ya que la administración, llena de arrogancia tras su victoria en Venezuela, ahora reclama todo el hemisferio occidental como dominio de Trump.
Y su principal asesor, Stephen Miller, advirtió el lunes en CNN que Estados Unidos no estaba siguiendo las “leyes de hierro” de un mundo gobernado por la fuerza, el poder y el dominio.
Pero el argumento público de Trump de que Estados Unidos debe poseer ese territorio helado para su propia seguridad nacional no cuadraba del todo, incluso antes de que el martes la Casa Blanca sacudiera a los nerviosos aliados de la OTAN al negarse a descartar el uso de la fuerza militar para obtenerlo.
El presidente tiene toda la razón al afirmar que Groenlandia es estratégicamente vital y lo es cada vez más.
Siempre ha sido una importante cabeza de puente en el Atlántico Medio.
En la Segunda Guerra Mundial, dio su nombre al temido corredor oceánico conocido como la Brecha Aérea de Groenlandia, fuera del alcance de los aviones basados en tierra, que los submarinos nazis convirtieron en un campo de exterminio para los convoyes mercantes aliados.
En cualquier nueva guerra importante, quien controle Groenlandia dominaría las vitales rutas marítimas del Atlántico.
Y una base estadounidense existente en el territorio ya desempeña un papel importante en los sistemas de detección de misiles de alerta temprana de Estados Unidos.
Ocho décadas después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Groenlandia se está convirtiendo en un foco de tensión, tanto literal como geopolíticamente, a medida que el deshielo abre nuevas rutas marítimas en el techo del mundo.
China y Rusia comprenden tan bien como Trump la importancia estratégica que esto podría tener.
Pero la falla en el argumento de Trump es que no hay nada que le impida reforzar Groenlandia si cree que la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos está en riesgo.
Después de todo, Groenlandia es un territorio semiautónomo de un miembro de la OTAN.
Sus vastos espacios vacíos podrían albergar fácilmente una nueva guarnición, bases y miles de militares.
A pesar de las bromas ofensivas de los líderes de la administración, que afirman que Dinamarca solo defiende la isla con trineos tirados por perros, Estados Unidos tiene un tratado con Copenhague que otorga un amplio margen de maniobra par
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- Wildfires in Palisades and Altadena upended life for many residents. A year later, the community’s strength keeps them going
Wildfires in Palisades and Altadena upended life for many residents. A year later, the community’s strength keeps them going
By Taylor Romine, CNN
Los Angeles (CNN) — Parched soil crunched under Jessica Rogers’ boots as she crossed the empty lot overlooking Palisades’ Stadium By the Sea. She sprayed her hose toward a cluster of leafy bushes growing at the base of a blackened tree.
The home that once stood on the plot of land was consumed in the deadly heat of the Palisades Fire, leaving only twisted metal and broken glass. But months of daily watering have helped Rogers step off a recurrent emotional seesaw onto solid ground as the roots hidden beneath the fire-ravaged soil have sprouted new life.
A year ago, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire wiped out entire neighborhoods of Los Angeles, forever changing the lives of Angelenos in and outside the fire zones. The fires rank as two of the three most destructive in California’s history, killing at least 31 people, decimating more than 16,000 structures and leaving thousands of residents to sift through the ruins.
Many residents of the fire zones discuss ever-present anger, frustration and exhaustion as they struggle to cope with how the fires have upended their lives. But they have also demonstrated an incredible resilience that shines brighter than their grief, and faith that their efforts towards rebuilding can help restore the communities they love.
“It’s hard for me not to be there,” said Rogers. “I go every day, no matter what, because it’s important to be there. It’s important to bring life into the community.”
Across the county in Altadena, Brandon Jay launched his own effort to restore life, founding an organization that helps fire-affected families replace instruments they lost in the destruction.
“The enormity of this is just crazy,” said Jay, who lost the majority of his family’s instruments when his Altadena house burned down. “I don’t think people quite understand if they’re not around here.”
As disorienting and difficult as his experience has been, his bond with the community has been a lifeline. “We all have this shared traumatic experience, and so there’s a little bit of connection there,” he said.
The last year has tested the resilience of two communities in Los Angeles, who despite their hardships are still showing up for their neighbors. But the scars remain.
Difficulties in recovery
Kim Ferrier rushed to escape with her family as the Palisades Fire inched ever closer to their home. The streets felt like “a ghost town.”
“We stayed till six o’clock, and there was nobody fighting. It was so helpless,” said the 25-year resident. The loneliness of the moment has stuck with her: “It’s the lack of response, being left out to dry, being helpless, being like every man for themselves in the United States of America.”
The feeling of isolation Ferrier experienced has carried through for many residents over the last year as they work through the day-to-day difficulties of getting back home.
Rogers, who serves as the executive director at the Palisades Long Term Recovery Group, points to a litany of hurdles she’s seen residents, especially the many who aren’t wealthy, have to navigate: insurance issues, costly permitting requirements, burdensome credit card debt.
Many people have been left “destitute, displaced and with no way of building back,” she said.
Rogers has also had a masterclass in the problems that materialize after a disaster. Shortly after the fire took her home and the rental property she managed, she discovered her insurance
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- Wildfires in Palisades and Altadena upended life for many residents. A year later, the community’s strength keeps them going
Wildfires in Palisades and Altadena upended life for many residents. A year later, the community’s strength keeps them going
KCAL, KCBS, ELIZABETH LAM, CNN
By Taylor Romine, CNN
Los Angeles (CNN) — Parched soil crunched under Jessica Rogers’ boots as she crossed the empty lot overlooking Palisades’ Stadium By the Sea. She sprayed her hose toward a cluster of leafy bushes growing at the base of a blackened tree.
The home that once stood on the plot of land was consumed in the deadly heat of the Palisades Fire, leaving only twisted metal and broken glass. But months of daily watering have helped Rogers step off a recurrent emotional seesaw onto solid ground as the roots hidden beneath the fire-ravaged soil have sprouted new life.
A year ago, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire wiped out entire neighborhoods of Los Angeles, forever changing the lives of Angelenos in and outside the fire zones. The fires rank as two of the three most destructive in California’s history, killing at least 31 people, decimating more than 16,000 structures and leaving thousands of residents to sift through the ruins.
Many residents of the fire zones discuss ever-present anger, frustration and exhaustion as they struggle to cope with how the fires have upended their lives. But they have also demonstrated an incredible resilience that shines brighter than their grief, and faith that their efforts towards rebuilding can help restore the communities they love.
“It’s hard for me not to be there,” said Rogers. “I go every day, no matter what, because it’s important to be there. It’s important to bring life into the community.”
Across the county in Altadena, Brandon Jay launched his own effort to restore life, founding an organization that helps fire-affected families replace instruments they lost in the destruction.
“The enormity of this is just crazy,” said Jay, who lost the majority of his family’s instruments when his Altadena house burned down. “I don’t think people quite understand if they’re not around here.”
As disorienting and difficult as his experience has been, his bond with the community has been a lifeline. “We all have this shared traumatic experience, and so there’s a little bit of connection there,” he said.
The last year has tested the resilience of two communities in Los Angeles, who despite their hardships are still showing up for their neighbors. But the scars remain.
Difficulties in recovery
Kim Ferrier rushed to escape with her family as the Palisades Fire inched ever closer to their home. The streets felt like “a ghost town.”
“We stayed till six o’clock, and there was nobody fighting. It was so helpless,” said the 25-year resident. The loneliness of the moment has stuck with her: “It’s the lack of response, being left out to dry, being helpless, being like every man for themselves in the United States of America.”
The feeling of isolation Ferrier experienced has carried through for many residents over the last year as they work through the day-to-day difficulties of getting back home.
Rogers, who serves as the executive director at the Palisades Long Term Recovery Group, points to a litany of hurdles she’s seen residents, especially the many who aren’t wealthy, have to navigate: insurance issues, costly permitting requireme
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- Mientras Venezuela se doblega bajo el Gobierno de Trump, Irán ve un paralelo incómodo
Mientras Venezuela se doblega bajo el Gobierno de Trump, Irán ve un paralelo incómodo
Por Mostafa Salem, CNN
Los focos de protesta que estallaron en todo Irán durante la última semana han intensificado la presión sobre un Gobierno disfuncional que lucha por gestionar una crisis económica en espiral.
Pero una dramática operación militar estadounidense a más de 11.000 kilómetros de distancia se cierne aún más sobre la República Islámica.
Irán amaneció el fin de semana con dramáticas escenas del desembarco de fuerzas estadounidenses en Caracas, la capital venezolana, para capturar al presidente Nicolás Maduro, aliado de Teherán, y trasladarlo a Estados Unidos en una descarada operación nocturna en la que el mandatario y su esposa fueron sacados a rastras de su dormitorio.
El lunes, Trump lanzó su segunda amenaza a Irán en menos de una semana, advirtiendo nuevamente que si las autoridades matan a los manifestantes, Estados Unidos respondería.
Los dirigentes iraníes, que ya enfrentan disturbios internos y múltiples crisis, ahora enfrentan la perspectiva de una renovada acción militar estadounidense después de que sus instalaciones nucleares fueran bombardeadas el verano pasado, una escalada impulsada por un envalentonado presidente estadounidense que también ha amenazado a otros adversarios a raíz del ataque a Venezuela.
“Si empiezan a matar gente como lo han hecho en el pasado, creo que van a recibir un golpe muy duro por parte de Estados Unidos”, advirtió Trump a bordo del Air Force One el lunes.
Las protestas estallaron en Irán la semana pasada cuando comerciantes descontentos salieron a las calles para manifestarse contra la caída de la moneda del país.
Al principio mayoritariamente pacíficas y localizadas, las manifestaciones se extendieron rápidamente a nivel nacional a medida que otros segmentos de la población se unían, lo que provocó disturbios en 88 ciudades de 27 de las 31 provincias de Irán, según informó la Agencia de Noticias de Activistas de Derechos Humanos (HRANA), un grupo activista con sede en Estados Unidos.
El régimen finalmente desplegó la fuerza paramilitar Basij para reprimir a cientos de manifestantes.
Tras nueve días de protestas, al menos 29 manifestantes han muerto y casi 1.200 han sido arrestados, de acuerdo con HRANA.
Las fuerzas de seguridad iraníes reprimieron las manifestaciones, incluso allanaron un hospital en Ilam el domingo, donde arrestaron a manifestantes heridos, una táctica habitual del aparato de seguridad.
Las duras advertencias de Trump han enfurecido a los líderes del país, quienes desde entonces han redoblado sus esfuerzos para reprimir las protestas.
Los dirigentes de la República Islámica han advertido durante mucho tiempo sobre un cambio de régimen instigado por Estados Unidos, diciendo tanto a sus partidarios como a su oposición que el objetivo final de las potencias occidentales es derrocarlo.
Para aumentar la presión estadounidense, el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, declaró su apoyo a los manifestantes iraníes, lo que probablemente incrementó la paranoia en Teherán.
Desde entonces, las autoridades iraníes han denunciado a algunos manifestantes como “alborotadores”, “mercenarios” y “agitadores con vínculos extranjeros”.
“Protestar es legítimo, pero protestar es diferente a un disturbio. Hablamos con los manifestantes. Los funcionarios deben hablar con los manifestantes. Pero no tiene sentido hablar con un alborotador”, declaró el líder supremo de Irán, el ayatolá Alí Jamenei, en X esta semana. “Hay que poner a los alborotadores en su lugar”.
Cuando Israel lanzó la guerra sorpresa contra Irán el verano pasado, la profundidad de su infiltración se hizo evidente cuando se reveló que agentes de inteligencia israelíes intr
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| 8 | 9- Royals edge DP in Thunderhut thriller
Royals edge DP in Thunderhut thriller
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - It was a classic crosstown rivalry game.
Lily Ruvalcaba snapped a tie game with putback bucket with just over one minute to play and teammate Janelle Capuno forced Carly Letendre into an off-balance heave in the final seconds as San Marcos held off Dos Pueblos.
The thrilling 55-53 win was the Royals first over their rival since the 2022-'23 season.
Both teams are now 3-2 in the Channel League.
Jada Ahmad led the Royals with 20 points hitting four 3-pointers.
(Ahmad scores to put Royals up by 4 with three minutes left. Entenza Design).
San Marcos also controlled the paint with Izzy Schow and Ruvalcaba each recording double-doubles.
Schow had 13 points and 15 rebounds while Ruvalcaba had 13 points with 10 rebounds as the Royals improved to 9-5 overall.
DP trailed 46-38 entering the fourth quarter but Kindah Ahmad-Reda brought the Chargers back with three 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter. She finished with 20 points.
Letendre is DP's all-time leading scorer but she was in foul trouble and was held to 12 points.
The senior guard did tie the game at 53 with a driving layup with just under 1:30 to play.
But the Royals size made the difference on the game-winning two points. Off a missed three-point attempt, Selena Valencia batted the ball and was grabbed by Ruvalcaba near the hoop and when she scored the students in the crowd erupted.
On the game's final play Capuno, who is terrific as rushing the quarterback for the Royals flag football team, fought through a pick, even falling down for a brief second, before hopping up to smother Letendre.
The Royals grabbed the rebound and celebrated a hard fought victory.
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- Gauchos get defensive as Jimenez earns 300th career win
Gauchos get defensive as Jimenez earns 300th career win
DAVIS, Calif. (KEYT) - UC Santa Barbara Women's Basketball took down UC Davis on its home turf tonight and will head back home with a 55-47 conference win under its belt.
The victory is Head Coach Renee Jimenez' 300th career win and 29th at UC Santa Barbara. With the triumph, the Gauchos overtake UC Davis in the Big West rankings and slide into third place, remaining just behind UC Irvine and UC San Diego.
FROM HEAD COACH RENEE JIMENEZ
"Davis is always a tough place to win, they are a good team and well coached, we knew this was going to be a grind it out type game. I'm proud of our guys for how they responded, especially on the glass and on the defensive end," Jimenez said. "We talked all week about rebounding, finishing possessions and playing with physicality, and the players took that personally. They were communicating and trusting each other. When we defend and rebound like that, it gives us a chance to be really good and win a lot of games. We stayed together, trusted the game plan, and made plays when it mattered."
HOW IT HAPPENED
The opponents traded a couple of initial baskets before UC Davis got off to an early 11-5 lead. In response, Zoe Borter got to work and made three layups in a row to bring the Gauchos up to 11 themselves. The first period closed out at 13-13 and left both teams with the opportunity to grab the next lead.
The Gauchos immediately made six consecutive points to start the second, to which the Aggies replied with four of their own. Santa Barbara was already too far ahead, however, and they made ten more points to finish the half 29-24.
The third period saw the lowest scoring counts yet, with the Gauchos only making 11 and the Aggies only 10. Four of the five Gaucho buckets went in as layups while a shining three-pointer by Zoe Shaw served as the fifth. The Blue and Gold went into the final stage of the game ahead at 40-31.
The Gauchos did not falter in the fourth quarter, as they supplemented their score with 15 more points. Already ahead by six at 49-43, Santa Barbara secured six more points in the form of free throws. Davis' Megan Norris put in two more layups before the game was through, but it was not enough to overcome the Gaucho heading. Santa Barbara clinched the 55-47 point win.
Borter shot 17 points to lead the Gauchos in scoring for the sixth game this season and score double digits for the tenth game in a row. Júlia Puente-Valverde and Olivia Bradley had nearly identical category totals, with both forwards notching ten points and nine rebounds. Puente-Valverde led steals, however, with three while Bradley led assists with three.
Skylar Burke made a pair of driving layups and ran the engine of the Gaucho defense, nabbing eight defensive rebounds to led the squad in the stat.
The Gauchos struggled with three pointers more than usual, only sinking three of their attempts. However, their 10 free throws and superior field goal percentage carried them to the win over the Aggies.
UP NEXT
The Gauchos will be back in action on Jan. 15, when they wil host Cal State Bakersfield at 6:00
(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)
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| 10- Fears of an AI bubble were nowhere to be found at the world’s biggest tech show
Fears of an AI bubble were nowhere to be found at the world’s biggest tech show
By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN
Las Vegas, NV (CNN) — Robots took over the floor at the biggest technology show of the year: I watched a towering humanoid robot march forward, spin its head and wave at an excited crowd. Then I almost bumped into a four-legged doglike robot behind me.
They’re just a couple of the many robots I encountered this week designed for a range of purposes, from playing chess to performing spinal surgery. These are common occurrences on the Las Vegas Convention Center’s show floor during CES, which wrapped on Friday. Every January, companies from around the world gather to flaunt new technologies, products and services.
The show is just as much spectacle as it is substance; many of the most eye-catching wares either haven’t come to fruition (like flying cars) or are wildly expensive and impractical (think TVs that cost tens of thousands of dollars). But CES provides a glimpse into the bets being made by industry giants like Nvidia, Intel, Amazon and Samsung.
AI once again dominated the conference. Companies showed off everything from humanoid robots they claim will staff factories to refrigerators you can open with your voice to the next-generation chips that will power it all. CES, in some ways, turned the Strip into a bubble of its own, shielded from AI skepticism.
CNN asked a handful of tech executives at CES about an AI bubble and how it might impact their businesses. Some said their businesses aren’t relevant to the bubble concerns, while others expressed optimism about AI’s potential and said they are focused on building products that show it.
“We’re in the earliest stage of what’s possible. So when I hear we’re in a bubble, I’m like… This isn’t a fad,” said Panos Panay, Amazon’s devices and services chief. “It’s not going to pass.”
Growing concerns of an AI bubble
Tech companies poured more than $61 billion into data center investments in 2025, according to S&P Global, fueling concerns that investments may be far outpacing demand.
And investments are only expected to grow, with Goldman Sachs reporting that AI companies are estimated to invest more than $500 billion in capital expenditures this year. Julien Garran, researcher and partner for research firm MacroStrategy Partnership, said in a report last year that the AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.
Most of the concerns around an AI bubble have centered on investments in data centers built for AI tasks that are too power-hungry for devices like laptops and smartphones to handle alone. Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom and the company at the center of the bubble debate, announced at CES that the next version of its computing platform that powers those data centers is arriving in the second half of this year.
When asked about the AI bubble, executives from chipmakers Intel and Qualcomm pointed to their respective companies’ efforts to improve how computers process AI tasks locally rather than in the cloud.
Qualcomm, which makes chips for smartphones and other products, announced last year that it’s expanding into data centers. But that represents a very small part of its business.
“As far as we’re concerned, where we operate is not where the bubble conversation exists,” Akash Palkhiwala, Qualcomm’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer, told CNN.
Intel is focused on products that are important to its consumers,
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- Juez detiene recorte de fondos sociales y cuidado infantil que ordenó Trump contra cinco estados liderados por demócratas
Juez detiene recorte de fondos sociales y cuidado infantil que ordenó Trump contra cinco estados liderados por demócratas
Por Tami Luhby, CNN
Un juez federal suspendió temporalmente este viernes la congelación de US$ 10.000 millones en fondos de asistencia social y cuidado infantil por parte de la administración Trump en cinco estados liderados por demócratas a raíz de una amplia investigación sobre un presunto fraude en la financiación federal en Minnesota.
El juez Arun Subramanian, del Distrito Sur de Nueva York, accedió a la solicitud de los estados de una orden de restricción temporal que bloquea la congelación mientras el caso avanza.
Además, Subramanian, designado por Biden, exige a la administración que elimine cualquier restricción a la capacidad de los estados para obtener fondos de los programas afectados, que ofrecen cuidado infantil, capacitación laboral, asistencia financiera, prevención de la falta de vivienda y otros servicios a familias de bajos ingresos.
La coalición de estados —California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota y Nueva York— presentó una demanda el jueves por la noche solicitando al tribunal que suspenda la congelación de fondos.
Los estados argumentan que la medida es inconstitucional y viola las leyes y regulaciones que rigen los programas de ayuda federal.
También dicen que la acción de la administración es completamente política.
“Esta congelación ilegal de fondos tiene un solo objetivo: castigar a los estados demócratas que se oponen al presidente”, declaró el viernes a la prensa la fiscal general de Nueva York, Letitia James.
Varios estados ya no han podido acceder a fondos, lo que está causando incertidumbre y caos, afirmó Jessica Rannuci, abogada de la oficina del Fiscal General de Nueva York, que lidera la coalición.
“Estamos hablando de daños todos los días por una magnitud de cientos de millones de dólares”, señaló Rannuci durante una audiencia judicial el viernes.
Los estados afirman que la administración Trump no ha proporcionado ninguna justificación legítima para suspender los fondos. Además, en las cartas que recibieron, la administración no proporcionó ninguna prueba del posible fraude, por lo que afirma que la congelación es necesaria.
“Los demandados no tienen autoridad legal ni constitucional para hacerlo”, afirma la querella, refiriéndose al congelamiento. “Tampoco tienen justificación alguna para esta acción, más allá del deseo de castigar a los estados demandantes por su liderazgo político. Por lo tanto, la acción es claramente ilegal en múltiples aspectos”.
La coalición también sostiene que la demanda de la administración de que los estados entreguen casi todos los documentos de los programas afectados, así como años de datos, incluida información de identificación personal, dentro de 14 días es demasiado amplia y debería ser bloqueada.
Este caso representa el último de una serie de batallas judiciales entre los estados demócratas y la administración Trump.
Anteriormente, los estados han demandado a la administración por congelar otras fuentes de financiación federal, con resultados dispares.
Lo que está en juego ahora es la decisión que tomó el martes el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos de pausar la financiación a los estados, sugiriendo sin pruebas que el dinero se ha utilizado de forma fraudulenta.
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- El bloqueo de internet en Irán entra en su segundo día mientras continúan las protestas
El bloqueo de internet en Irán entra en su segundo día mientras continúan las protestas
Por Angus Watson, Laura Sharman y Aida Karimi, CNN
El bloqueo de Internet en todo Irán impuesto por las autoridades debido a las protestas antigubernamentales que agitan el país ha superado las 36 horas, según la organización de vigilancia NetBlocks.
El jueves, las autoridades cortaron las conexiones a Internet y telefónicas tras las manifestaciones masivas en la capital, Teherán.
Las protestas comenzaron el 28 de diciembre, impulsadas por la frustración ante el aumento de la inflación y la ira contra los gobernantes conservadores de Irán y el violento aparato de seguridad.
Reza Pahlavi, hijo del último sha de Irán, derrocado por la Revolución islámica de 1979, ha convocado una huelga de dos días en todo el país, que se ha visto sacudido por más de 10 días de protestas contra el Gobierno.
La figura opositora en el exilio apareció dirigiéndose a los manifestantes en un video publicado en X en el que pedía a “los trabajadores y empleados de sectores clave de la economía, especialmente el transporte, el petróleo y el gas, y la energía, que iniciaran una huelga nacional” a partir del sábado, comienzo de la semana laboral en Irán.
Su discurso en video en línea se produce durante un bloqueo de internet impuesto por el Gobierno en Irán, aplicado en medio de los continuos disturbios en todo el país.
“También les pido a todos ustedes… que salgan a las calles con banderas, imágenes y símbolos nacionales y reclamen los espacios públicos como propios”, dijo.
“El objetivo es prepararse para tomar los centros de las ciudades y mantenerlos”, añadió, afirmando que las protestas del viernes enviaron un poderoso mensaje a los líderes de Irán.
No está claro cuán popular es Pahlavi dentro de Irán.
Esta figura afincada en Estados Unidos solo tenía 16 años cuando la Revolución islámica puso fin al régimen de 40 años de su padre. Hijo mayor del sah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, era el primero en la línea de sucesión para heredar el imperio milenario y rico en petróleo.
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- 16 Michelin-approved food destinations for 2026
16 Michelin-approved food destinations for 2026
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN
(CNN) — In our round-up of travel stories this week: Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters in the Polish forest, Maryland’s “haunted” Baltimore Hotel, plus the best destinations where you can fill your belly in the year ahead.
Foodie travel for the year ahead
Some go where their heart leads them, but this year why not try following your stomach?
The Michelin guide, that titan of taste and tires, has revealed its list of top 16 foodie destinations for 2026 and it makes for appetizing reading.
The historic cities of Boston and Philadelphia are both Michelin picks, in the United States’ 250th anniversary year, as is the 100-year-old Route 66. Many of the diners and motels along the 2,448-mile long highway are being spruced up for the centenary.
The American South is a top pick, too; there are 159 Michelin-selected restaurants in destinations from Atlanta to North Carolina to Tennessee. Michelin also recommends an exploratory road trip in Florida, which is covered in a separate guide. Greater Fort Lauderdale, The Palm Beaches and St. Pete-Clearwater are part of the growing food scene in the Sunshine State.
Next month’s Winter Olympics has brought new infrastructure and ambitious alpine cuisine to Italy’s Dolomites, says Michelin, and the spotlight is also on Vancouver (and its excellent seafood), thanks to the FIFA World Cup this summer. Quebec’s French-influenced cooking also gets a nod; be sure to investigate Montreal’s bagel wars if you’re up that way.
Also in Italy, Venice and the Amalfi Coast are hardly under-the-radar destinations, but luxury Orient Express hotels and fancy new gourmet train routes are adding some extra seasoning.
Farther east, the Czech Republic, including the pretty UNESCO spa town of Karlovy Vary, is highlighted, as is the vibrant Polish city of Wroclaw and the 18 Michelin Guide restaurants to be found in the other-worldly landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey.
A newly launched Michelin Guide got Saudi Arabia a spot on the list and the “very affordable” Jiangsu Province is hailed as one of China’s “most refined” dining destinations, with a notable garden culture.
Finally, Manila and Cebu are the center of the Philippines’ buzzing dining scene; here’s CNN’s guide to the country’s best breakfast foods so you can start your day there right. (The full Michelin list is here).
Hitler’s hidden HQ in the forest
Deep in the forest of northeast Poland lies the Wolf’s Lair, the hidden military base where Adolf Hitler oversaw Germany’s invasion of Russia. It was also the site of Operation Valkyrie, one of the most famous failed assassination a
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| 11 | 12- An Ohio mother and her husband were found dead in their home. Now, her ex-husband is charged with murder. Here’s what we know
An Ohio mother and her husband were found dead in their home. Now, her ex-husband is charged with murder. Here’s what we know
By Amanda Musa, CNN
(CNN) — Years before Monique Tepe and her husband, Spencer, were gunned down in their Columbus, Ohio, home, the mother of two had a brief marriage to a doctor named Michael David McKee.
Now, nearly a decade after their divorce was finalized, McKee is in custody in Illinois after being arrested on two counts of murder in connection with the Tepes’ deaths, records show. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon, according to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office.
Monique, 39, and Spencer, 37 – whose loved ones say “shared a beautiful, strong and deeply happy relationship” – were memorialized Sunday during a joint celebration of life ceremony, according to an obituary.
Colleagues of Spencer, a respected dentist, had called 911 the morning of December 30 after he uncharacteristically didn’t show up to work.
The couple was found dead later that morning in the home where they lived with their two children, ages 4 and 1, just north of downtown Columbus. Police say the children were found in the home unharmed.
Here’s what we know about McKee and his marriage to Monique Tepe.
Who is Michael David McKee?
McKee, 39, is a physician and surgeon licensed in California and Illinois, according to medical licensing databases in those states.
Most recently, McKee was listed as a vascular surgeon at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois.
“OSF is cooperating with authorities who will provide any further information,” an OSF spokesperson said in a statement to CNN on Sunday.
McKee also held a medical license in Nevada, which expired in June 2025. Records show no disciplinary history in any of the states where he has practiced medicine.
In 2005, McKee began medical school at Ohio State University and interned at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center starting in 2014, records show.
In 2020, he completed his residency at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Later that year, he began a fellowship in vascular surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center, which he completed in 2022.
McKee’s marriage to Monique Tepe
Monique Tepe was 28 when she married McKee in August 2015, according to Franklin County, Ohio, court records, which do not indicate any major conflicts throughout the divorce proceedings.
The couple had no children. Their divorce was finalized about a month after it was filed by Tepe – who was using her maiden name of Sabaturski at the time – in June 2017, the court records show.
The couple was separated at the time of the filing, according to the records, with McKee living in Roanoke, Virginia, coinciding with his medical residency at Virginia Tech.
Why is McKee a suspect?
Questions about how the killings unfolded and what motivated the attack intensified last week when Columbus police released surveillance footage showing “a person of interest” walking in the alley near the couple’s home in the Weinland Park neighborhood.
The video was taken during the timeframe investigators believe the couple was killed, police said at the time. They did not explain why they were seeking information about that person.
Columbus police have not said whether McKee is believed to be the person shown in the video. CNN has reached out to authorities for more information.
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- Trump purga las acusaciones de “pato rengo” con fuerza bruta, represalias y un juego de dominación global
Trump purga las acusaciones de “pato rengo” con fuerza bruta, represalias y un juego de dominación global
Por Análisis de Stephen Collinson
Hasta ahí llegó el “pato rengo” en la Casa Blanca.
El presidente Donald Trump está redoblando sus esfuerzos en la retribución, la dominación global y el poder interno implacable
La primera semana completa de 2026 fue potencialmente definitoria para la segunda presidencia de Trump después de que el año terminara con predicciones de que su autoridad menguaba bajo la maldición de los comandantes en jefe con mandatos limitados.
Pero Trump nunca iba a quedarse de brazos cruzados viendo cómo su aura de hombre fuerte se erosionaba.
Trump derrocó al presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro y planea administrar personalmente las reservas petroleras del país en su afán por dominar el hemisferio occidental. Exigió la propiedad de Groenlandia en una posible nueva apropiación imperialista de tierras. El domingo, el gobierno prometió no dar marcha atrás en su purga contra los migrantes indocumentados, a pesar de la muerte de Renee Good, una mujer de Minneapolis, a manos de un agente del ICE.
La segunda semana del año comenzó con otro revuelo político el domingo, cuando el presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, reveló que la fiscalía federal había abierto una investigación sobre la renovación de la sede de la Reserva Federal. Powell acusó a la administración de perseguirlo por no ceder ante la presión de Trump para que se reduzcan drásticamente las tasas de interés.
Los funcionarios se negaron a dar detalles del caso, pero la afirmación de Powell de ser víctima de la instrumentalización del Departamento de Justicia se produce tras el uso del poder federal por parte de Trump para acusar a supuestos enemigos, incluido el exjefe del FBI James Comey, en casos que no siempre se han sostenido en los tribunales
La investigación de Powell enviará un mensaje inequívoco a su reemplazo, a quien se espera que Trump nomine este año: no ignore las demandas del presidente incluso si destruyen la independencia del banco central, que ha sido un pilar de la poderosa economía estadounidense.
Trump también se enfrenta a otra extraordinaria posible aventura en el extranjero. Sus asesores le han ofrecido opciones para imponer su línea roja con acciones militares contra Irán tras advertir que Estados Unidos “empezará a disparar” si el régimen reprime las crecientes protestas. A pesar de sus amenazas, cientos de manifestantes han sido asesinados.
El presidente también pasó el fin de semana amenazando a Cuba en redes sociales. Su administración espera que el control de Venezuela presione al régimen comunista, que ha desafiado a Estados Unidos durante 65 años, para que llegue a un acuerdo con Washington o se derrumbe políticamente.
En lo que va del año, Trump está indicando que su segundo año de regreso en la Casa Blanca acelerará una tendencia del primero: muéstrenle una restricción constitucional, una ley internacional o un statu quo, y su instinto es destruirlo.
El resultado es que millones
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- Japan dives into New Year with prayers and an icy plunge
Japan dives into New Year with prayers and an icy plunge
By Laura Sharman, Junko Ogura, CNN
(CNN) — Dozens of worshipers took a deep breath and a brave plunge into icy waters at a Tokyo shrine Sunday, keeping afloat a New Year tradition to purify the soul and pray for good health.
The cold endurance event, known as “Kanchu Misogi,” drew around 100 participants – mostly men clad in white loincloths and several women in white robes – to the Teppuzu Inari Shrine.
Percussion and flute music set the mood in the shrine’s courtyard where a knee-deep pool filled with chunks of ice awaited.
Clasping their hands in front of their chests, worshipers chanted “Haraedo-no-Okami,” referring to the Goddess of purification as they prayed for their sins to be cleansed.
They then jogged in the streets around the shrine and did warm-up exercises before taking the icy plunge.
Once in the pool, participants scooped water over themselves with a wooden bucket, shouting “ai” as they tried to steel their nerves while others cheered them on.
This is the 71st year the ritual is taking place at the shrine.
Purification is key to Japan’s ancient Shinto practice, believed to ward off evil spirits.
The indigenous religion, dating back centuries, centers on the belief that sacred spirits inhabit nature and all living things.
Japan is a constitutional monarchy led by 65-year-old Emperor Naruhito.
The country regards the emperor as the highest authority in Shinto although his powers are politically limited.
Originally intended as a purification rite for the local deity, the shrine now welcomes public participation by application.
Registration closed early this year due to overwhelming interest, organizers said.
Shinto New Year
Japan’s Shinto New Year, known as Shōgatsu, is celebrated on January 1 in line with the Gregorian calendar, rather than a lunar one.
The spiritual celebration combines ancient Shinto rituals with broader Japanese culture and runs until January 3.
Other traditions include “Hatsumode”, the first visit of the year to a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple, to pray for good fortune and health.
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- Suspect arrested after a fire destroys historic Mississippi synagogue once bombed by the KKK
Suspect arrested after a fire destroys historic Mississippi synagogue once bombed by the KKK
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(CNN) — A suspect has been arrested after a fire tore through a prominent Jackson, Mississippi, synagogue – the state’s largest Jewish house of worship – early Saturday, leaving the congregation forced to rebuild from the ashes once again.
Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the fire at Beth Israel Congregation, which remains under investigation, but it comes amid a wave of antisemitic attacks in recent years.
The suspect is expected to face arson charges, according to Charles Felton, chief of investigations for the Jackson Fire Department’s Arson Investigation Division.
This isn’t the first time the synagogue has burned. On September 18, 1967, Beth Israel’s temple was bombed by local Ku Klux Klan members, in part because of the congregation’s work in the civil rights movement, according to the synagogue’s website.
The suspect in Saturday’s fire, who has not been publicly identified, was found at a local hospital with non-life-threatening burn injuries and, once medically cleared, will be released into the custody of the FBI, which is also expected to file charges, Felton said.
The fire began around 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, according to the Jackson Fire Department. The building was closed and all doors were locked when fire units arrived, the department said.
“The Jackson Fire Department responded quickly, contained the blaze and extinguished the fire,” Jackson Mayor John Horhn said in a statement.
The FBI is working with local law enforcement officials on the investigation, the agency’s field office in Jackson told CNN.
Hate crimes are “the highest priority of the FBI’s civil rights program because of the devastating impact they have on families and communities,” according to the agency.
Founded in 1860, Beth Israel Congregation built the first synagogue in the state of Mississippi and has grown in recent decades to be the state’s largest congregation, according to its website.
The congregation intends to rebuild its “beloved institution,” said Zach Shemper, the congregation’s president.
“We are a resilient people. With the support from the community, we will rebuild. Beth Israel Congregation has been the Jewish spiritual home in Jackson, MS for over 160 years,” Shemper said in a statement to CNN.
The congregation is still assessing th
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| 13- What we know about the alleged arson at Mississippi’s largest and oldest synagogue
What we know about the alleged arson at Mississippi’s largest and oldest synagogue
By Zoe Sottile, CNN
(CNN) — It’s the oldest synagogue in Mississippi, a thriving religious center that has served Jackson’s small but vibrant Jewish community for more than half a century.
Now, the Beth Israel synagogue is indefinitely closed, its historic interiors blackened with ash, after authorities say a man set a fire in the building’s library in the early hours of Saturday morning. The FBI says the suspect confessed to attacking the historic synagogue “due to (the) building’s Jewish ties.”
This is the second time the synagogue, which serves a congregation first established in Jackson in 1860, has been attacked with fire, according to its website. In 1967, the building was bombed by members of the Klu Klux Klan, who also bombed the rabbi’s home just months later. The building is also home to the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, which supports Jewish communities in 13 southern states.
The 19-year-old suspect in Saturday’s attack was arrested at a hospital after his father called the FBI, saying his son confessed to him. Location data from a family tracking app helped corroborate his confession.
No one else is believed to have been inside the building and no injuries have been reported from the fire.
Who is the suspect?
Stephen Spencer Pittman has been charged with “arson of property used in interstate commerce or used in an activity affecting interstate commerce,” according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
Pittman’s father contacted the FBI Saturday and told the agency his son had confessed to setting the building on fire, says the complaint.
The suspect was found at a local hospital with non-life-threatening burn injuries, Charles Felton, chief of investigations for the Jackson Fire Department’s Arson Investigation Division said.
A public defender was appointed to represent the 19-year-old at his first court appearance Monday afternoon. He appeared in federal court via video call from his hospital bed, with both his hands visibly bandaged, according to The Associated Press.
He said he had graduated high school and attended three semesters of college, reports the AP.
Pittman was released to the custody of the US Marshals Service and is scheduled to appear in court again on January 20, court records show.
If Pittman is convicted, he could face anywhere between five and 20 years in prison, the Department of Justice said in a news release. He acted alone, according to the DOJ.
CNN has reached out to Pittman’s public defender for comment.
How did the fire unfold?
CCTV footage shows someone started a fire inside the synagogue early Saturday morning, according to the criminal complaint. The document includes an image showing a “hooded individual” seen “walking in the interior of the building pouring contents from what appeared to be a gas container.”
Pittman told authorities he first stopped at a gas station to buy the gas he used to set the blaze, according to the complaint. At the gas station, he took the license plate off his vehicle, he told authorities.
Once he was at the building, he used an axe to break one of the synagogue’s windows, poured gas inside, and used a torch lighter to start a fire.
The Jackson Fire Department responded to the fire shortly after 3 a.m., where they found flames billowing from the windows. They requested fire investigators, who classified the blaze as “incendiary” based on “fire patterns and video surveillance.”
Investigators determined the fire started in the synagogue’s library, which sustained extensive damage, and continued toward the s
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- What we know about the alleged arson at Mississippi’s largest and oldest synagogue
What we know about the alleged arson at Mississippi’s largest and oldest synagogue
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN
(CNN) — It’s the oldest synagogue in Mississippi, a thriving religious center that has served Jackson’s small but vibrant Jewish community for more than half a century.
Now, the Beth Israel synagogue is indefinitely closed, its historic interiors blackened with ash, after authorities say a man set a fire in the building’s library in the early hours of Saturday morning. The FBI says the suspect confessed to attacking the historic synagogue “due to (the) building’s Jewish ties.”
This is the second time the synagogue, which serves a congregation first established in Jackson in 1860, has been attacked with fire, according to its website. In 1967, the building was bombed by members of the Klu Klux Klan, who also bombed the rabbi’s home just months later. The building is also home to the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, which supports Jewish communities in 13 southern states.
The 19-year-old suspect in Saturday’s attack was arrested at a hospital after his father called the FBI, saying his son confessed to him. Location data from a family tracking app helped corroborate his confession.
No one else is believed to have been inside the building and no injuries have been reported from the fire.
Who is the suspect?
Stephen Spencer Pittman has been charged with “arson of property used in interstate commerce or used in an activity affecting interstate commerce,” according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
Pittman’s father contacted the FBI Saturday and told the agency his son had confessed to setting the building on fire, says the complaint.
The suspect was found at a local hospital with non-life-threatening burn injuries, Charles Felton, chief of investigations for the Jackson Fire Department’s Arson Investigation Division said.
A public defender was appointed to represent the 19-year-old at his first court appearance Monday afternoon. He appeared in federal court via video call from his hospital bed, with both his hands visibly bandaged, according to The Associated Press.
He said he had graduated high school and attended three semesters of college, reports the AP.
Pittman was released to the custody of the US Marshals Service and is scheduled to appear in court again on January 20, court records show.
If Pittman is convicted, he could face anywhere between five and 20 years in prison, the Department of Justice said in a news release. He acted alone, according to the DOJ.
CNN has reached out to Pittman’s public defender for comment.
How did the fire unfold?
CCTV footage shows someone started a fire inside the synagogue early Saturday morning, according to the criminal complaint. The document includes an image showing a “hooded individual” seen “walking in the interior of the building pouring contents from what appeared to be a gas container.”
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- The world’s most powerful passports for 2026
The world’s most powerful passports for 2026
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN
(CNN) — When it comes to traveling from country to country without restrictions and enjoying shorter lines at border control, there’s an elite tier of passports with more clout than others.
The top three passports, says the latest report by the Henley Passport Index, are Asian countries: Singapore at No.1 and Japan and South Korea tied at No.2.
Singaporeans enjoy visa-free access to 192 of the 227 countries and territories tracked by the index, which was created by the London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners, and uses exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association.
Japan and South Korea are just behind with visa-free access to 188 destinations.
Henley counts multiple countries with the same score as a single spot in its standings, so five European countries share the No.3 slot: Denmark, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. All have visa-free access to 186 countries and territories.
It’s an all-European placement at No.4 also, with the following countries all having a score of 185: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway.
Fifth place, with a score of 184, is held by Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates.
UAE climbs the ranks
The UAE is the country with the strongest performance in the 20-year history of the Henley Passport Index, adding 149 visa-free destinations since 2006 and climbing 57 places up the rankings. This, says the report, has been driven by the UAE’s “sustained diplomatic engagement and visa liberalization.”
At No.6 are Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Malta, New Zealand and Poland. Australia has held onto its position at No.7 in this quarterly update, alongside Latvia, Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom.
The UK is the country with the steepest year-on-year losses on the index, now having visa-free access to 182 destinations, eight fewer than it had 12 months ago.
Canada, Iceland and Lithuania are at No.8, with visa-free access to 181 destinations, while Malaysia is at No.9, with a score of 180.
The United States is back in the No.10 spot, with a score of 179, after briefly dropping out for the first time in late 2025. However, don’t pop the champagne just yet. The US is just behind the UK when it comes to year-on-year decline, having lost visa-free access to seven destinations in the past 12 months.
It’s also endured the third-largest ranking decline over the past two decades — after Venezuela and Vanuatu — falling six places from fourth to 10th.
Stability and credibility
“Passport power ultimately reflects political stability, diplomatic credibi
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- A suspect’s arrest in the killing of a Columbus, Ohio, couple leads to the next big question: What was the motive?
A suspect’s arrest in the killing of a Columbus, Ohio, couple leads to the next big question: What was the motive?
By Elise Hammond, CNN
(CNN) — The clock is ticking for the man accused of killing a couple in their Columbus, Ohio, home to be sent back to the Buckeye State to face charges.
Michael David McKee was arrested over the weekend in Illinois on two counts of murder in the deaths of Monique Tepe and her husband, Spencer. McKee — Monique’s ex-husband — waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday.
Now, authorities in Ohio have 30 days to bring him to the state so proceedings can begin, according to Joey Jackson, a criminal defense attorney and CNN legal analyst. McKee’s public defender indicated to the judge that his client intends to plead not guilty in Ohio.
Key details of the case are still unknown. Police have not publicly given a possible motive — and it could be a while before it is revealed, according to Jackson.
It is not a “legal imperative” for prosecutors or investigators to offer a motive, he said. The state only has to prove that McKee intended and accomplished the murders. Simply put, at the time of a trial, prosecutors “don’t have to establish why you did what you did — they just have to establish that you did it,” Jackson said.
In practice, however, when lawyers enter a courtroom and present their case in front of a jury, they are trying to tell a story, Jackson said.
“Most people want to know why a person might have acted that way,” he said. “So even though a motive is not an element of the crime, meaning you don’t have to prove it, generally prosecutors will suggest one.”
Monique Tepe and McKee married in August 2015. Their divorce was finalized less than two years later — in June 2017, court records show — about a month after it was filed by Tepe, who was using her maiden name of Sabaturski at the time.
They had no children together and court records do not indicate any major conflicts throughout the divorce proceedings. The Tepes’ murders came more than eight years after the divorce.
Once the case goes to discovery and investigators seek to uncover more information about McKee, including his social media, internet searches and what he said to other people, a motive might become apparent through the evidence, Jackson said.
However, Jackson said, police and other officials involved in the case are likely trying to ensure McKee’s right to a fair trial, and it’s possible they won’t publicly talk about a motive until then. Prosecutors want to limit the information they give the public for two reasons, he said: to limit the details provided to the defense, and to preserve the integrity of witnesses’ accounts.
Jackson said he’s “not surprised” that even if investigators do know the motive, “that they’re not telling us.”
McKee also has not been formally indicted. That can’t happen until he is in Ohio, Jackson said. Right now, just a criminal complaint has been issued, he said.
Colleagues of Spencer, a respected dentist, had called 911 the morning of December 30 after he uncharacteristically didn’t show up to work. The couple was found dead later that morning in the home where they lived with their two children, ages 4 and 1, just north of downtown Columbus. Police say the children were found in the home unharmed.
Murder charges upgraded
The charges against McKee in Ohio were upgraded by Monday morning to premeditated, aggravated murder, records show. The Columbus Division of Police told CNN in an email that was because “detectives believe they met the elements” for McKee to face the more serious offense, without saying exactly what those elements where.
Premeditated, aggravated murder
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| 14- El Pentágono enviará decenas de abogados militares a Minneapolis en medio de la represión migratoria
El Pentágono enviará decenas de abogados militares a Minneapolis en medio de la represión migratoria
Por Natasha Bertrand y Haley Britzky, CNN
El Pentágono está trabajando para enviar decenas de abogados militares a Minneapolis para ayudar en los procesos federales en medio de una ofensiva contra la inmigración ilegal allí, según dos funcionarios familiarizados con el asunto y una solicitud escrita que ha circulado dentro del Departamento de Defensa.
La solicitud enviada por correo electrónico, revisada por CNN, dice que el Secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, ha ordenado a los servicios militares que identifiquen a 40 oficiales del Cuerpo de abogados militares (JAG, por sus siglas en inglés), de los cuales 25 serán seleccionados para servir como fiscales adjuntos especiales de los Estados Unidos en Minneapolis.
“Lo ideal es tener experiencia significativa en procesamiento penal, litigios civiles, derecho administrativo, derecho de inmigración, litigios generales u otros campos relacionados”, dice la solicitud.
Se espera que alrededor de 1.000 agentes adicionales de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos se desplieguen pronto en Minneapolis, ya que las tensiones entre las fuerzas del orden federales y locales aumentaron después del tiroteo fatal a Renee Nicole Good, madre de tres hijos, en el que participó ICE, y que provocó protestas en todo el país.
Uno de los funcionarios y otra persona familiarizada con el Cuerpo de JAG declararon a CNN que 25 abogados militares es una cantidad enorme para una sola ciudad. Sin embargo, esto se está haciendo cada vez más en ciudades que la administración Trump tiene en la mira con mayores medidas federales contra la delincuencia y la inmigración.
El Pentágono no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios.
En agosto pasado, el Pentágono planeó enviar 20 abogados de las Fuerzas Armadas a Washington con el objetivo, según la fiscal federal de Washington, Jeanine Pirro, de “combatir y reducir la delincuencia en el distrito”. Y la semana pasada, el Pentágono envió 20 abogados militares a Memphis “para apoyar” una directiva de la Casa Blanca para “restaurar el orden” en la ciudad, según declaró la fiscal federal para el distrito oeste de Tennessee.
En septiembre, el Pentágono también autorizó que hasta 600 abogados militares actúen como jueces de inmigración temporales en todo el país, en fases de 150 a la vez según sea necesario, informó CNN.
Uno de los funcionarios dijo que el aumento de la asignación de JAG al Departamento de Justicia está quitando recursos valiosos al Departamento de Defensa.
“No tenemos suficientes abogados para cubrir las vacantes regulares en el Cuerpo de Abogados de la Armada porque muchos se están yendo”, dijo esta persona. “Esta continua demanda de abogados de la Armada está drenando recursos legales de las fuerzas”.
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- Convocan audiencia sobre la demanda contra la operación inmigratoria en las Ciudades Gemelas. Aquí están las últimas noticias
Convocan audiencia sobre la demanda contra la operación inmigratoria en las Ciudades Gemelas. Aquí están las últimas noticias
Por Elise Hammond y Hanna Park, CNN
Se espera que este miércoles se realice una audiencia sobre la demanda presentada por el estado de Minnesota y las Ciudades Gemelas, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, impugnando la operación de control de inmigración de la administración Trump, que la querella califica como “una invasión federal”.
La audiencia sigue a la renuncia de al menos media docena de fiscales federales en Minnesota en medio de la presión de la administración Trump sobre cómo llevar a cabo una investigación sobre el tiroteo mortal de una mujer por parte de un agente de ICE la semana pasada, indicó una fuente.
La muerte de Renee Good, ciudadana estadounidense y madre de tres hijos, desencadenó días de protestas en Minneapolis mientras la administración Trump ordenó el despliegue de alrededor de 1.000 agentes adicionales de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza en la región.
Aquí están los aspectos clave que debes saber:
- Demanda: la audiencia judicial de este miércoles trata sobre la demanda de Minnesota contra el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS), que busca una orden judicial para detener las operaciones de control migratorio. La demanda alega que la Operación Metro Surge no es una acción legítima de las fuerzas del orden y que las Ciudades Gemelas están siendo atacadas debido a las políticas de santuario que limitan la cooperación con el Gobierno federal durante las labores de control inmigratorio. En respuesta a la demanda, la subsecretaria del DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, afirmó que la Constitución estaba del lado de la administración y que el aumento de agentes federales era necesario porque los políticos de Illinois y Minnesota no estaban protegiendo a sus ciudadanos.
- Fiscales renuncian: los fiscales de carrera de alto rango que renunciaron, según se informa, se opusieron a la presión de la Casa Blanca para desviar la investigación sobre el tiroteo de Good del uso de la fuerza por parte del agente y enfocarla en Good, su viuda y otras personas vinculadas a las protestas inmigratorias. Entre los que dimitieron se encuentra Joseph Thompson, quien frecuentemente manejaba investigaciones con implicaciones políticas, incluyendo una sobre fraude a los servicios sociales. Lea más sobre quiénes eran algunos de los otros fiscales aquí.
- No hay investigación de derechos civiles: el subsecretario de Justicia adjunto Todd Blanche declaró que el Departamento no cree que existan pruebas que respalden una investigación penal de derechos civiles sobre las acciones del agente de ICE que disparó a Good. La fiscal del condado de Hennepin, Read more
- A Jim Crow-era civil rights law is central to the Trump Justice Department’s effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
A Jim Crow-era civil rights law is central to the Trump Justice Department’s effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
By Tierney Sneed, CNN
(CNN) — The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon a Jim Crow-era civil rights law passed to protect Black voters from disenfranchisement – a notable shift in how the administration is pressing its demands.
The Justice Department says it wants to use the registration records to “help” states “clean” their rolls by comparing it to other data sets held by the government, according to public comments from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the department’s civil rights division.
Voter advocates and election experts warn of the potential for sloppy purges that risk disenfranchising eligible voters instead. They have also raised concerns that the data will be shared with other agencies to be used for other purposes.
The Justice Department has been working with the Department of Homeland Security on plans to review state voter registration files for evidence of non-citizens on the rolls, according to a source familiar with Trump administration discussions.
States have provided the Justice Department with some of the information it has sought. Most state election officials, though, including some Republicans, have resisted turning over particularly sensitive fields of data – such as voters’ birth dates, social security numbers and driver’s license numbers – citing privacy protections.
The Trump administration is now suing 23 mostly Democratic-led states, as well the District of Columbia, for voter information in their registration files that those states’ have refused to produce.
As the pushback to the requests mounted, the department reworked its legal arguments for why it’s entitled to obtain the records. The pivot to the Civil Rights Act is just one example of several notable changes in the DOJ’s approach. The law was not mentioned when the Justice Department first began insisting that elections officials turn over their registration files.
Nearly all of the career experts in the Department’s voting section left or were pushed out in the early months of the second Trump administration. The quest for voter data has been carried out while the DOJ voting section has only a barebones staff and led mostly by attorneys hired in Trump’s second term. Some of those attorneys previously worked for right-wing groups that sued state and local election officials over their refusal to share certain voter roll data.
“You start seeing things that make it very clear, in the evolution of their arguments, that they had not thought this out in the way that any other Department of Justice would,” David Becker, a former DOJ attorney who now heads the Center for Election Innovation & Research, said.
The federal laws addressing voter registration that the department relied upon when it initially requested states’ voter files are no longer the focus of the litigation. The more recent lawsuits zero in on instead a records inspection provision of the 1960 Civil Rights Act, passed by Congress as election officials in the South were refusing to register Black Americans.
The law requires election officials to retain records related to voter applications and registration, and says that such records must be made available for inspection if the attorney general demands in writing to see them.
Dhillon touted in a recent podcast interview with Scott Atlas the CRA’s broadly-worded language.
“The Attorney General doesn’t have to show her homework as to what she is going to do with it, and I am her designee. So I get to ask for that information and they have to give it,” she said.
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- Illinois and Minnesota’s lawsuits against Trump’s immigration crackdown may have a tough road ahead of them in court
Illinois and Minnesota’s lawsuits against Trump’s immigration crackdown may have a tough road ahead of them in court
By Danya Gainor, CNN
(CNN) — Over the last several months, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul have seen a dramatic escalation in federal immigration enforcement along their chilly streets, with agents arresting thousands – including some US citizens – in neighborhoods, shopping centers, schools and at protests.
The surge is the result of the Trump administration’s commitment to cracking down on immigration, concentrated in Democratic-led cities, and follows weeks of growing tensions between the federal government and local Midwestern officials who have long implored for an end to the operations.
Illinois and Minnesota, joined by their city counterparts, are now separately pursuing legal action against the administration, filing lawsuits Monday in federal courts over immigration enforcement they call unlawful and unconstitutional.
A status conference for Minnesota’s complaint is set for Wednesday morning before US District Judge Katherine M. Menendez. A hearing has not yet been scheduled in Illinois.
But the road ahead for both suits appears dim, with their likelihood for success small, one expert says.
Elie Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor and CNN senior legal analyst, has closely followed the turmoil in Chicago and the Twin Cities. Here, he breaks down the lawsuits, their merits and what’s next in the courtrooms.
Some of the answers have been edited for length and clarity.
CNN: What are Illinois and Minnesota asking for from judges in their lawsuits?
Honig: Fundamentally, both of these states are asking federal judges to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement from enforcing immigration law in their states and cities. There are variations between them, but that’s the core ask. As a backup, both states ask the courts for some sort of ruling or declaration that some of the tactics ICE is using are unconstitutional.
CNN: What are the key differences between the lawsuits?
Honig: The main difference is that Illinois asks to block all ICE activity in the state, whereas Minnesota phrases its ask as seeking to stop this “surge” of officers. But pointing to the surge is legally irrelevant, because whether you’re talking about a group of ICE agents who are already there, or who were added after some point, the fundamental ask is still the same. You’re still asking a judge to block ICE from doing its job as it sees fit in your state.
CNN: What is the legal precedent for an ask like that?
Honig: None. There is no example, nor does either state cite an example in their papers, of a judge prohibiting a federal law enforcement agent from enforcing federal law in a given state. The reaction that we’ve heard from various Minnesota officials, including Attorney General Keith Ellison, when confronted with this lack of precedent and lack of case law, is essentially, “Well, this is really bad, though. Well, this is an invasion.”
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| 15- Wind Advisory issued January 15 at 12:39AM PST until January 16 at 2:00PM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
- Wind Advisory issued January 15 at 12:39AM PST until January 16 at 2:00PM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
- Funcionarios de Trump buscan contratistas de seguridad privada para salvaguardar activos petroleros en Venezuela
Funcionarios de Trump buscan contratistas de seguridad privada para salvaguardar activos petroleros en Venezuela
Por Isabelle Khurshudyan, Zachary Cohen y Kylie Atwood, CNN
La administración Trump se está preparando para utilizar contratistas militares privados para proteger los activos de petróleo y energía en Venezuela en lugar de desplegar tropas estadounidenses, según dos fuentes familiarizadas con los planes.
La iniciativa representa un beneficio potencial para las empresas de seguridad con experiencia en la región y vínculos con la administración.
Si bien el presidente Donald Trump no ha descartado una posible presencia militar estadounidense en Venezuela, fuentes cercanas al mandatario afirman que se muestra receloso de mantener tropas del Pentágono sobre el terreno durante un período prolongado.
Esto plantea un posible problema para la Casa Blanca tras la captura del presidente derrocado Nicolás Maduro por parte de Estados Unidos.
Mientras presiona a las grandes compañías petroleras para que reinviertan en la debilitada industria petrolera de Venezuela, la administración debe convencerlas de que puede brindarles el tipo de garantías que necesitarán para operar allí con seguridad, no solo durante meses, sino durante años.
Reanudar la producción petrolera del país será clave para la visión de Trump de una Venezuela pos-Maduro. Pero hacerlo requerirá un plan claro sobre cómo proteger los valiosos activos petroleros de los cárteles de otros actores hostiles en medio del vacío de poder creado por Trump al tomar el poder en la nación sudamericana.
Las conversaciones sobre cómo asegurar esos activos se encuentran en sus primeras etapas, según fuentes.
Aun así, varias empresas de seguridad privada ya compiten para involucrarse en la presencia estadounidense en Venezuela, informó otra ersona familiarizada con el asunto.
El interés es alto dado el potencial de ganancias. Durante la guerra de Iraq, Estados Unidos gastó unos US$ 138.000 millones en contratistas privados de seguridad, logística y reconstrucción.
La semana pasada, el Departamento de Defensa emitió una solicitud de información a los contratistas sobre su capacidad para apoyar posibles operaciones militares estadounidenses en Venezuela, de acuerdo con la fuente.
Los contratistas también están en contacto con la oficina de operaciones de construcción en el extranjero del Departamento de Estado para manifestar su interés en brindar seguridad en caso de que la embajada estadounidense en Venezuela reabra sus puertas.
El Pentágono se negó a hacer comentarios para esta historia.
Queda por ver qué empresas serán finalmente seleccionadas para esos puestos de seguridad, pero una fuente familiarizada con la situación señaló que varias ya están bien posicionadas.
Entre ellas, según la fuente, se encuentra Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, un grupo de veteranos de las fuerzas especiales estadounidenses que ayudó a la líder opositora y premio Nobel Read more
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| 16- Gauchos beat Bakersfield as they continue to stack wins
- Cal Poly falters in second half and lose at home by 20 to Hawai’i
Cal Poly falters in second half and lose at home by 20 to Hawai’i
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - Sophomore Hamad Mousa finished with a team leading 17 points Thursday evening, but the Cal Poly men’s basketball program was kept to its second lowest scoring output of the season during an 86-66 setback to Hawai’i inside Mott Athletics Center.
Guard Peter Bandelj added 11 points for Cal Poly (7-12, 3-4), which trailed Hawai’i (13-3, 5-1) at the break, 41-36, before the Rainbow Warriors opened the second half with a 13-4 run. Hawai’i, ranked ninth among 361 NCAA Division I programs in points allowed per game, failed to relinquish its double-digit advantage the remainder of the night.
Sophomore Cayden Ward (above) finished with 10 points and team best nine rebounds for Cal Poly.
Hawai’i opened Thursday’s matchup shooting 66.7 (12-for-18) percent from the floor, but carved out just a 31-28 lead after 15 minutes. The Mustangs, who twice cut their deficit to a single point down the first-half stretch, faced their five-point gap heading into the locker room following a buzzer-beating jumper from Hawai’i forward Gytis Nemeikša.
Into the second half, Bandelj knocked down a jumper three minutes into action to help Cal Poly close its deficit to 46-40. Hawai’i, however, scored on its next three possessions to pull away.
Cal Poly Noteworthy (versus Hawai’i)
Cal Poly kept three of the Big West’s top three scorers with Cayden Ward (15.0) ranked eighth and Peter Bandelj (14.8) in 10th.
Up Next: Cal Poly enjoys a week break before renewing its rivalry with UC Santa Barbara when visiting the Gauchos on Thursday, Jan. 22. Tip time from The Thunderdome is 6 p.m.
Hamad Mousa maintained his streak of double-digit scoring through all 18 appearances and retained the big West scoring lead at 21.6 points per game.
(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)
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- UCSB hangs on to win at CS Bakersfield to snap Big West skid
UCSB hangs on to win at CS Bakersfield to snap Big West skid
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KEYT) - Colin Smith scored a game-high 16 points to lead UCSB to a regular season 2-game sweep over Cal State Bakersfield 75-69.
The road win snaps a 3-game Big West losing streak as the Gauchos improve to 10-7 on the year and 3-3 in the Big West.
Zion Sensley came off the bench to score 13 points and grabbed a team-high 8 rebounds.
Miro Little added 12 points as UCSB outscored the Roadrunners 30-6 from the three-point line.
Sensley and Little each made 3 three-pointers as UCSB went 10-of-26 from beyond the arc.
The Gauchos led 38-29 at halftime and went up 64-49 with less then 7:30 left in the game.
But the Roadrunners cut the deficit 3 at 72-69 with :32 seconds left.
UCSB was able to hang on with two free throws from Smith and one by CJ Shaw.
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- Machado le entregó a Trump su Premio Nobel. A cambio, recibió una bolsa de regalos, pero ninguna promesa de apoyo
Machado le entregó a Trump su Premio Nobel. A cambio, recibió una bolsa de regalos, pero ninguna promesa de apoyo
Por Jessie Yeung, CNN
Cuando la líder opositora venezolana María Corina Machado entró a la Casa Blanca este jueves, llegó con el regalo que el presidente de EE.UU. Donald Trump ha codiciado durante mucho tiempo: un Premio Nobel de la Paz.
Machado, una férrea crítica del depuesto presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, ganó el premio el año pasado por su campaña a favor de una mayor democracia. Ahora dejaba la medalla en la Casa Blanca, con la esperanza de que el gesto le reportara algo mucho más valioso: el respaldo estadounidense en la lucha por liderar el futuro de Venezuela después de Maduro.
Pero, si ella pensaba que el regalo podría empujar al presidente a dar un respaldo más claro, parece que tendrá que esperar, al menos por ahora.
Más tarde fue fotografiada sosteniendo una bolsa de regalo con la marca Trump mientras salía de la Casa Blanca, con poca claridad sobre su futuro político.
Machado es una de las dos figuras que compiten por el liderazgo de la Venezuela pos-Maduro.
Trump ha designado a la exvicepresidenta de Maduro, Delcy Rodríguez, como presidenta encargada, a pesar de que fue miembro del régimen durante mucho tiempo.
Una foto publicada por la Casa Blanca muestra a Trump junto a Machado, sosteniendo una gran placa con marco dorado que parecía lista para colgar en la pared, que contiene la medalla y la dedicatoria: “Presentada como un símbolo personal de gratitud en nombre del pueblo venezolano en reconocimiento a la acción decisiva y basada en principios del presidente Trump para asegurar una Venezuela libre”.
“María me entregó su Premio Nobel de la Paz por el trabajo que he realizado. Un gesto maravilloso de respeto mutuo”, publicó Trump en Truth Social.
El Centro Nobel de la Paz, con sede en Oslo, reiteró rápidamente que las medallas no se pueden compartir ni transferir.
“Una medalla puede cambiar de dueño, pero el título de Premio Nobel de la Paz no”, afirmó el comité en el evento X.
Machado, por su parte, ofreció una visión optimista de su encuentro, calificándolo de “histórico” y “extraordinario”.
Agregó que la administración Trump comprendía la necesidad de reconstruir las instituciones y proteger los derechos humanos y la libertad de expresión, y de un “nuevo y genuino proceso electoral” para alentar a los venezolanos a regresar a su país.
También insistió en que Venezuela ya tiene un presidente electo: Edmundo González, el candidato de la oposición que Estados Unidos reconoció previamente después de las disputadas elecciones de 2024 en el país.
Las autoridades electorales designadas por el Gobierno habían declarado a Maduro como ganador, lo que le permitió aferrarse al poder hasta su abrupta captura por las fuerzas especiales estadounidenses.
Sin embargo, en ese momento, los líderes de la oposición, así como los organismos de control estadounidenses e internacionales, expresaron su preocupación por las acusaciones de juego sucio.
Pero a pesar del apoyo previo de Washington a Machado y González, Trump no se unió a la oposición tras la captura de Maduro. En cambio, brindó su apoyo a Rodríguez, una acción que sorprendió a muchos antimaduros.
A pesar del tono optimista de Machado, no está claro qué consiguió, si es que consiguió algo, más allá de una sesión de fotos y una bolsa de regalo oficial grabada con la firma de Trump.
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| 17- 911 transcripts, incident reports and videos show how an ICE agent shot a mother of 3 at ‘point blank range’
911 transcripts, incident reports and videos show how an ICE agent shot a mother of 3 at ‘point blank range’
By Zoe Sottile, Alisha Ebrahimji, Karina Tsui, CNN
(CNN) — Emergency call logs and reports detailing last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer reveal a greater sense of the organizational chaos and heightened emotion surrounding her final moments.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “just shot a lady,” one 911 caller said soon after the agent shot Good in her vehicle on January 7, according to emergency call transcripts CNN obtained from Minneapolis officials. “Point blank range in her car.”
With the help of eyewitnesses, some of whom recorded both the shooting and protests that followed, along with the newly released reports from officials, here’s a timeline of how the shooting unfolded:
‘I’m not mad at you’
The moments leading up to the shooting were captured by bystanders as well as Jonathan Ross, the 10-year ICE veteran who shot and killed Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. A senior Department of Homeland Security official told CNN Ross started filming the encounter – which came amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities – because Good and her wife were harassing officers.
The video shot by Ross starts with the ICE agent in front of Good’s burgundy SUV, which was stopped for a few minutes perpendicular to a snowy residential Minneapolis street, obstructing the flow of traffic. Ross did not say anything as he walked across the front of the car toward the driver’s side.
Good then addressed Ross, the video shows.
“That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you,” she says. Ross didn’t respond. The victim’s wife, Becca Good, said “show your face” to Ross, whose masked reflection is captured in the video. Becca Good held her cellphone up, seemingly recording Ross, and told him, “You wanna come at us? You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.”
She then tried to get back into the car, but the door was locked.
Another officer then told Good, the driver, to “get out of the f**king car.”
Renee Good was then seen reversing the car and glancing forward as she turned the steering wheel to the right. The car moved forward, Ross cried out, “whoa,” and three gunshots sounded. Good was shot shortly after 9:30 a.m. local time, according to a news release from the city government.
The video filmed by Ross captured audio of gunshots but doesn’t show the actual moment of the shooting, though other video from bystanders shows Ross was standing out of the vehicle’s path when he opened fire. He fired first into her windshield and then at close range through the open driver’s side window, videos show.
The end of Ross’s video shows the SUV as it barrels forward. Someone can be heard saying, “f**king bitch.”
‘She’s f**kin’ dead’
On multiple 911 calls, shocked bystanders described witnessing the same thing: an ICE officer shooting a woman multiple times through her windshield.
The first 911 call came in at 9:39 a.m., an incident re
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- Los estadounidenses pagan más que nunca por los automóviles. Los modelos baratos están desapareciendo
Los estadounidenses pagan más que nunca por los automóviles. Los modelos baratos están desapareciendo
Por Auzinea Bacon, CNN
En 2024, los compradores estadounidenses podían elegir entre tres autos con un precio inferior a US$ 20.000. Ahora, no hay ninguno.
Los datos sobre el costo de la compra de vehículos, publicados el lunes, muestran cuánto puede perjudicar a los clientes la pérdida de modelos más económicos: los compradores de autos nuevos pagaron US$ 50.326 en promedio en diciembre, un récord histórico, según estimaciones de Kelley Blue Book, una marca de Cox Automotive.
El sitio web de compra de autos Edmunds también reportó un precio promedio récord (aunque ligeramente inferior) de US$ 49.466.
Ambas estimaciones significan que muchos compradores están pagando mucho más de US$ 50.000 y continuarán haciéndolo en el futuro.
El alto costo promedio no se debe solo a los elevados precios de venta de los fabricantes ni a la demanda de modelos más grandes y caros por parte de los compradores. También responde, en parte, a la escasez de opciones económicas para los compradores de vehículos nuevos.
La víctima más reciente fue el Nissan Versa, que salió a la venta hace casi 20 años con un precio inicial de unos US$ 12.550. Nissan finalizó su producción en diciembre.
La falta de opciones económicas podría hacer que tener un auto sea inaccesible para muchas personas, otro ejemplo de la crisis de asequibilidad que ha afectado a los estadounidenses.
Y el contraste con el auge de las ventas de autos de lujo subraya la economía en forma de K que ha permitido a los ricos gastar libremente mientras que las personas de bajos ingresos enfrentan dificultades.
“A medida que reducimos la disponibilidad de estos vehículos básicos, se puede decir que prácticamente todos los automóviles nuevos con esas placas de concesionario en circulación son una ‘compra de lujo’”, declaró Ivan Drury, director de información de Edmunds.com.
La preocupación por la asequibilidad de los automóviles ha invadido el mercado desde la pandemia, cuando los precios aumentaron debido a las limitaciones de la cadena de suministro.
“(La pandemia) reestructuró fundamentalmente la dinámica de precios”, afirmó Erin Keating, analista ejecutiva de Cox Automotive, durante un seminario web de fin de año sobre el mercado automotriz el 17 de diciembre. Las cifras más altas son “ ahora la nueva base”, añadió.
El Nissan Versa 2025, cuyo precio en octubre era de aproximadamente US$ 18.000, fue el último modelo en caer por debajo de los US$ 20.000, según Ivan Drury, director de información de Edmunds.com.
El Mitsubishi Mirage, que se discontinuó en agosto de 2024, tenía un precio de alrededor de US$ 18.000. El Kia Forte, que Kia esencialmente reemplazó con el K4 más caro, salió del mercado después del anuncio del K4 en marzo de 2024.
Esos autos se fabricaron en gran parte en el extranjero, donde los salarios de los trabajadores del sector automotriz son más bajos.
Los aranceles del 25 % impuestos por el presidente Donald Trump a los autos y autopartes importados han elevado los costos para los fabricantes de automóviles, aunque muchas compañías han absorbido la mayor parte de los miles de millones en costos adicionales debido a la preocupación de que los consumidores rechazaran los aumentos de precios y retrasaran las compras, afirmó Drury.
Los costos arancelarios probablemente condenaron a la ruina a los modelos más económicos, que ya tenían márgenes de beneficio ajustados.
El auto nuevo más económico hoy en día es el Hyundai Venue 2026, que tiene un precio minorista sugerido por el fabricante de US$ 20.550, según Edmunds.
Es más probable que los autos asequibles como el Versa, que podrían no venderse en volúmenes rentables, sean eliminados de las gamas de los fabricantes, dejando otros modelos asequibles en el mercado, afirmó Drury.
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- Bishop Diego cruises past Cate for season-sweep in boys basketball
- San Marcos seniors get it done as they hand Dons first Channel League loss
San Marcos seniors get it done as they hand Dons first Channel League loss
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - In their last chance to beat the Dons, the seniors on the San Marcos High School boys basketball team finally got to celebrate when the final buzzer sounded.
Senior starters Koji Hefner, Brody Green and Lincoln Gengo led the way in a 63-52 win over Santa Barbara as the Dons lost for the first time in eight Channel League games this year.
It was the Royals first win over rival Santa Barbara since February 3, 2023.
Hefner led the way with 18 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists as the Royals improved to 6-2 in league.
(Koji Hefner played a complete game to lead the Royals to victory. Entenza Design).
Green added 16 points while Gengo tallied 14 points on the strength of four 3-pointers.
Santa Barbara jumped out to an early 9-2 lead and had a 15-12 advantage after the first quarter.
But Gengo and junior Aidan Conlan each hit a pair of three-pointers in the second quarter and San Marcos led 30-23 at halftime.
(Gengo made 3 first half three-pointers. (Entenza Design).
Dons junior Owen Horn pulled his team within a point at 33-32 with 3:30 left in the third quarter but the Royals responded with 3-pointers by Gengo, Hefner and Green.
(Brody Green had 4 assists and 4 rebounds to go along with his 16 points. Entenza Design).
San Marcos entered the fourth quarter with a 42-33 lead.
The Royals never gave up the lead in the fourth quarter and the student section poured onto the floor when the game finished to celebrate with the team.
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- Hogueras, bailes, mascotas: cómo los ucranianos se mantienen calientes durante el invierno más duro en años
Hogueras, bailes, mascotas: cómo los ucranianos se mantienen calientes durante el invierno más duro en años
Por Daria Tarasova-Markina, Svitlana Vlasova y Ivana Kottasová, CNN
Kateryna Skurydina se acuesta usando ropa interior térmica, dos suéteres y una bufanda. Se cubre con un edredón de plumas y dos mantas. Pero su arma secreta es su gato, Pushok.
“Tiene una temperatura corporal alta. Así que es como una bolsa de agua caliente”, le dijo a CNN.
La calefacción en el apartamento de Skurydina en Kyiv ha estado mayormente apagada desde que Rusia lanzó un ataque masivo contra la infraestructura energética de la ciudad el 8 de enero, dejando a cientos de miles de hogares, negocios y escuelas en la capital sin electricidad.
Las temperaturas han bajado hasta –19 grados Celsius (–2,2 grados Fahrenheit) esta semana, y las autoridades dicen que el momento de los ataques rusos —en medio de lo que el primer ministro del país calificó como el invierno más duro en 20 años— no es una coincidencia.
Como la mayoría de los ucranianos, Skurydina ya está acostumbrada a vivir con cortes de energía constantes. Tiene varios bancos de energía y dispositivos resistentes a los apagones. Su apartamento está lleno de velas artificiales alimentadas por USB, luces navideñas y linternas de camping.
El frío, sin embargo, es algo nuevo.
La temperatura dentro de su edificio ha llegado a estar tan baja como 10 grados Celsius (50 grados Fahrenheit) en los últimos días, ocho grados por debajo de la temperatura interior que la Organización Mundial de la Salud recomienda como saludable.
“Es muy difícil mentalmente. Ahora que he perdido la calefacción, me he dado cuenta de que en realidad no necesito tanto la electricidad. Cuando tienes calefacción pero no electricidad, todo está bien”, dijo, señalando su costumbre de recurrir al ejercicio para mejorar su ánimo durante los apagones.
“El deporte me mantiene en pie. Voy a un gimnasio que funciona con biocombustible. (Pero) ayer incluso cerraron el gimnasio porque no hay calefacción y hace mucho frío. No se puede ir a ningún lado”.
El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, declaró el miércoles el estado de emergencia para el sector energético del país, admitiendo que las consecuencias de los ataques rusos y las temperaturas extremadamente bajas eran muy graves.
El alcalde de Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, dijo que 300 edificios de varios pisos en la capital seguían sin calefacción hasta el jueves, una cifra menor a los 6.000 que se quedaron sin suministro de calor tras el ataque masivo de la semana anterior.
Aunque Kyiv ha sido la más afectada, se han reportado cortes de energía de emergencia en todo el país.
Funcionarios ucranianos dijeron el miércoles que un ataque ruso a gran escala en Kryvyi Rih, ciudad natal de Zelensky en el centro de Ucrania, dejó a decenas de miles de personas sin electricidad. También se reportaron grandes apagones en Dnipro, en el sureste de Ucrania. El jueves, los ataques dejaron sin energía a Zhytomyr, en el oeste, y a Járkiv, en el noreste, según el Ministerio de Energía de Ucrania.
Muchas escuelas han cerrado, incapaces de calentar las aulas a temperaturas seguras. Tiendas, cafeterías y restaurantes que normalmente podrían ofrecer algo de alivio a los residentes en busca de calor y suministro eléctrico también se han visto obligados a cerrar.
Ha hecho tanto frío esta semana que algunos generadores eléctricos diésel —vitales para mantener las luces encendidas cuando se corta el suministro de la red— han dejado de funcionar.
Las autoridades en Kyiv y en otras partes del país han estado operando cientos de “puntos de invencibilidad” donde la población local puede calentarse, cargar sus dispositivos y trabajar. Zelensky dijo el miércoles que se abrirán más de estos puntos.
Iryna Palandina, quien acudió a uno de los puntos de ayuda en Kyiv el jueves,
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- Prayer books, a Moses sculpture and a holy horn are among items damaged or lost after alleged arson at Mississippi synagogue
Prayer books, a Moses sculpture and a holy horn are among items damaged or lost after alleged arson at Mississippi synagogue
By Alisha Ebrahimji, Jason Carroll, CNN
Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — What was once a place of worship filled with precious objects packed with meaning now sits in heavy layers of dark soot, burdened by the pungent smell of smoke after someone set fire to Mississippi’s largest and oldest synagogue.
A 19-year-old suspect confessed just hours after last weekend’s blaze to attacking the historic temple “due to (the) building’s Jewish ties,” the FBI said. He faces federal and state charges and, if convicted, could serve up to 60 years in prison.
Now, the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson – founded before the Civil War and bombed in 1967 amid the Civil Rights Movement – is closed indefinitely as restoration and recovery begin inside its historical walls.
Part of that hard work includes finding important religious artifacts, some dating back decades, that were damaged or destroyed in the alleged arson and trying to revive them or to retire them respectfully.
Some holy texts relocated to safety
On the outside of the Beth Israel synagogue, which serves some 150 families, boards cover windows that stretch nearly from floor to ceiling, and soot stains concrete.
Inside, the fire’s wrath spared nothing, marking nearly every surface with smoke residue.
When Zach Shemper, the congregation’s president, arrived at the temple after the fire, he went straight to the sanctuary, where the Torahs – heavy scrolls of the Jewish holy books – were kept.
“First thing I did when I got here after the fire was remove our Torahs and wrapped them up and put them in my truck for safekeeping,” he said.
The holy texts were moved to a church, Shemper said, where they’ve been unrolled to air out from the smoke.
The Torahs will be stored until a master sofer – a highly skilled scribe qualified to repair Torahs – can evaluate and return them to kosher status, explained Sheila Hailey, the congregation’s executive director.
To be kosher, a Torah cannot have any damage and its letters must all be legible, Hailey said, adding it also must be on parchment sewn together and rolled onto wooden spindles.
Charred prayer books will get a funeral
The fire ignited in the synagogue’s library – where religious texts had filled wooden, built-in bookshelves highly susceptible to fire – and left extensive damage, Charles Felton, chief of investigations for the Jackson Fire Department’s arson division said.
It made the space nearly unrecognizable: those same shelves were left bare as charred, decades-old prayer book pages littered the soot-filled floor and shattered glass rested under a window the suspect broke to get in, according to the FBI’s criminal complaint.
Jewish custom calls for holy texts to get a respectful burial, rather than simply being tossed out. So, after the temple is remediated, the prayer books and what’s left of their pages will be collected, commemorated with a funeral and interred, Shemper said.
Along a library wall, an ornate cabinet with glass doors known in Judaism as an Ark held two Torahs that were almost completely incinerated, he showed CNN this week.
“As you can see by everything,” Shemper said, pausing, “it’s totally destroyed.”
The flames then moved toward the sanctuary, where congregants worshipped. Pews were left heavily soiled in black.
“I want to cry. I’m disgusted,” Shemper said as he surveyed the damage. “I’ve never had to deal with something like this. I’ve never even experienced the feelings that I’m feeling right now.”
An important object still isn’t found
The
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- Quiénes son Ser Duncan el Alto y Egg de “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” y cómo conecta con “Game of Thrones”
Quiénes son Ser Duncan el Alto y Egg de “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” y cómo conecta con “Game of Thrones”
Por Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN en Español
¿Una serie de “Game of Thrones” sin dragones? Cuesta imaginarlo, pero esa es la premisa de la nueva serie del universo fantástico creado por el escritor George R. R. Martin, “A Knight of Seven Kingdoms”, que se estrena este domingo en la plataforma HBO Max.
La historia se desarrolla 90 años antes de los acontecimientos vistos en “Game of Thrones” (2011-2019), en una época en la que no quedan dragones vivos en el continente de Westeros tras la guerra por el trono entre integrantes de la familia Targaryen, tal como se cuenta en la serie “House of the Dragon”.
La serie, titulada en Latinoamérica “El caballero de los siete reinos”, está basada en la novela corta “The Hedge Knight”, publicada en 1998 por George R. R. Martin. Esta obra forma parte de una serie de novelas cortas conocida como “Tales of Dunk and Egg”, que cuenta con otros dos títulos publicados: “The Sworn Sword” (2003) y “The Mystery Knight” (2010).
El plan de HBO Max es que cada temporada de la serie adapte un libro distinto de la saga “Tales of Dunk and Egg”, por lo que hay material para versionar dos novelas más. Y, según el sitio web Los siete reinos, especializado en la obra de George R. R. Martin, el autor tiene ideas para escribir 10 o 12 historias más de estos personajes.
La historia de la nueva serie se centra en un caballero errante llamado Ser Duncan el Alto (Peter Claffey) y su joven escudero apodado Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), quien recibe este mote por lucir sin pelo su cabeza, como si fuese un huevo. Cada temporada se enfocará en una nueva aventura de ambos personajes, quienes serán testigos de muchos acontecimientos importantes de la historia de Westeros.
Ser Duncan el Alto, también conocido como Dunk, es un caballero errante, lo que indica que no sirve a ningún señor de una gran familia en Westeros. Recorre el continente compitiendo en torneos y, si la suerte le sonríe, acepta trabajos al servicio de un príncipe. Vive su vida bajo el código de honor de la caballería.
Nacido en Pozo de pulgas, el barrio más grande y pobre de la ciudad de King’s Landing, Ser Duncan sirvió como escudero al caballero Ser Arlan de Pennytree, quien lo educó y lo juramentó como caballero a los 16 años. La serie muestra la evolución de Ser Duncan como caballero errante, su encuentro con quien sería su escudero, el joven Egg y su participación en el torno de Ashford.
Egg, tal es su apodo, es el joven escudero de Ser Duncan. En las novelas se le describe como “sabio para su edad, seguro de sí mismo y astuto”. Su identidad es un secreto que vale la pena dejar como misterio a los espectadores. George R. R. Martin ha dicho que desea escribir historias que abarquen la vida completa de Dunk y Egg.
Sin revelar spoilers de la trama, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” conecta con “Game of Thrones” al ofrecer antecedentes cruciales, explorando la historia de la Casa Targaryen 90 años antes de los acontecimientos vistos en la serie original.
La serie muestra a los antepasados de personajes protagonistas en “Game of Thrones”. Y, en especial, es probable que conozcamos a las versiones jóvenes de dos personajes importantes: el maestre Aemon, maestre
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| 19- President Trump says he can pull funding for sanctuary cities. Judges have repeatedly said otherwise
President Trump says he can pull funding for sanctuary cities. Judges have repeatedly said otherwise
By Andy Rose, CNN
(CNN) — It was billed as an address on economic successes, but President Donald Trump’s speech last Tuesday in Detroit also focused on economic punishment for communities that don’t help him with his immigration agenda.
“Starting February 1, we’re not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens, and it breeds fraud and crime,” Trump said.
Trump did not make clear exactly what he meant by the withholding of “payments” and whether that could include spending like Medicaid funds and education grants. When reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews last Tuesday asked Trump what funding he is threatening, he simply replied, “You’ll see.”
Trump’s threat is a broader version of one his administration has made many times already, attempting to cut funding to local governments it declared as “sanctuary jurisdictions,” but those efforts have been stopped repeatedly by judges.
It’s a battle with high stakes for local governments, who say their ability to respond to emergencies, improve infrastructure and protect children from abuse are among the programs imperiled by the threat to cut off funds.
“We’ve beaten the administration in court before — and we’re not afraid to keep doing so,” Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois posted on X last week.
As the president raises the stakes again, here is a look at the lengthy history of his financial threats to immigration opponents.
What is a sanctuary jurisdiction?
There is no federal legal definition for a city, state or county to have a sanctuary designation. When the Department of Justice created its own list in 2025, it said its definition includes places with policies “that obstruct or limit local law enforcement cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” restrict immigration agents from interviewing detainees in local jails and provide benefits to illegal immigrants.
That includes communities where law enforcement is prohibited from responding to a “detainer,” a request from immigration enforcement to keep a person who is already detained in a local jail for up to 48 additional hours so federal agents can take custody of the suspect.
The US Supreme Court has never weighed in directly on whether local agencies have to cooperate with a detainer. A federal appeals court ruled in 2014 that detainer requests were voluntary and law enforcement could be held liable for holding suspects at ICE request if that request turned out to be unfounded. But a different appeals court upheld a Texas law in 2018 requiring local authorities in that state to cooperate with ICE requests.
The creation of the sanctuary jurisdiction list proved to be controversial at first, even with many supporters of the president’s immigration policy. It initially included hundreds of cities and counties in 35 states and Washington, DC, including solid red states like Tennessee and Nort
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- Will the Supreme Court continue to protect the Federal Reserve from Donald Trump?
Will the Supreme Court continue to protect the Federal Reserve from Donald Trump?
By John Fritze, CNN
(CNN) — In the end, the Supreme Court’s blockbuster case on whether President Donald Trump may temporarily fire members of the Federal Reserve may come down to a single, 26-word sentence.
After repeatedly allowing Trump to remove leaders of other independent agencies, the conservative court seemed to draw a line around the central bank in a much-debated paragraph last spring, writing that the Fed — with its enormous sway over the economy — is shielded from political manipulation because it is “uniquely structured” with a “distinct historical tradition.”
The scope of that unusual exception will be put to the test Wednesday when the court hears oral arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a Fed governor Trump attempted to fire over the summer following allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence. (Cook has denied any wrongdoing.)
It is among the most important cases the court has heard on presidential power and the economy in years.
“What the court has in front of it is the question of how much this carveout really is a barrier to presidential control of the Fed,” said Lev Menand, a law professor at Columbia University who published a book on the central bank in 2022. “This case is about a lot more than Lisa Cook. We’re going to find out what’s the relationship between the central bank and the president.”
If Trump ultimately is successful in dismissing Cook, it would mark the first time a president has fired a Fed governor in the central bank’s 111-year history.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, raised the stakes further this month by opening a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. That fight isn’t before the Supreme Court, but it is likely to sit in the back of the justices’ minds.
Cook has warned that a decision for Trump would “eviscerate the independence” of the Fed and trigger “chaos and disruption” for US markets.
Because of that, she and her attorneys have relied heavily on those 26 words the court wrote about the Fed last year.
Trump is unlikely “to persuade the court to adopt his arguments,” Cook told the justices in a brief last year. “Especially after this court went out of its way to single out the Federal Reserve’s unique status and distinct history.”
Still on the job
For its part, the administration has focused on more technical points, asserting that Cook was entitled to no more review of the allegations than she received before Trump tried to remove her.
“That the Federal Reserve Board plays a uniquely important role in the American economy only heightens the government’s and the public’s interest in ensuring that an ethically compromised member does not continue wielding its vast powers,” the Department of Justice told the Supreme Court last fall.
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- La tasa de natalidad de China cae a un mínimo histórico mientras la economía alcanza su objetivo
La tasa de natalidad de China cae a un mínimo histórico mientras la economía alcanza su objetivo
Por Simone McCarthy, CNN
China registró su tasa de natalidad más baja de la historia en 2025, mientras su población se redujo por cuarto año consecutivo, profundizando un desafío demográfico que podría afectar a la segunda economía más grande del mundo durante décadas.
La tasa cayó a 5,63 nacimientos por cada 1.000 personas en 2025, por debajo del mínimo de 6,39 por 1.000 de 2023, informó este lunes la Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas de China. La caída sugiere que el leve repunte de nacimientos en 2024 fue una excepción y no una reversión de la tendencia descendente constante desde 2016.
La economía de China creció un 5 % en 2025, según informaron también las autoridades, en línea con el objetivo anual del Gobierno de “alrededor del 5 %”.
La expansión anual fue impulsada por un auge de las exportaciones chinas que compensó las tensiones comerciales con Estados Unidos y el débil consumo interno. China acumuló un superávit comercial récord de US$ 1,2 billones el año pasado, a pesar de la guerra comercial intermitente del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, con la segunda economía más grande del mundo.
Pero los datos también mostraron una desaceleración económica en el cuarto trimestre, con un crecimiento de solo el 4,5 % respecto al año anterior, el aumento trimestral más lento desde finales de 2022.
Las autoridades destacaron la “notable estabilidad” de la economía, y el jefe de la oficina de estadísticas, Kang Yi, dijo que esto se logró a pesar de “una situación compleja y grave marcada por rápidos cambios en el entorno externo y crecientes desafíos internos”.
“En 2025, la economía de China resistió la presión y mantuvo un progreso constante, logrando nuevos resultados en el desarrollo de alta calidad”, dijo Kang en una conferencia de prensa.
A pesar del crecimiento económico anual en línea con los objetivos, las cifras de natalidad suponen un revés para los esfuerzos de Beijing por revertir el impacto de décadas de estricto control natal impuesto por el Estado bajo la ahora abandonada política del “hijo único” y convencer a más jóvenes de tener hijos.
Con los 7,92 millones de bebés nacidos en China el año pasado superados por 11,31 millones de muertes, la población total disminuyó en 3,39 millones, según los datos. La población del país —aún la segunda más grande del mundo, detrás de la India— se sitúa en 1.400 millones para 2025.
Los funcionarios consideran que los cambios demográficos de China representan un gran desafío, ya que la fuerza laboral del país se reduce y crece la población de adultos jubilados que cobran pensión.
Años de estricto control poblacional bajo la política del “hijo único”, eliminada en 2016, han acelerado tendencias observadas en otros países como Japón y Corea del Sur, donde la caída de la natalidad se atribuye a mayores niveles educativos, cambios en la visión del matrimonio, rápida urbanización y el alto costo de criar hijos.
El envejecimiento de la sociedad china se profundizó en 2025, con una población mayor de 60 años de 323 millones, lo que representa el 23 % de la población, un punto porcentual más que en 2024, según los datos.
Según proyecciones de Naciones Unidas, la mitad de la población del país podría tener más de 60 años para 2100, una realidad con posibles implicaciones de gran alcanc
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- Republicans fear Trump’s agenda has stalled in Congress. Mike Johnson wants to change that
Republicans fear Trump’s agenda has stalled in Congress. Mike Johnson wants to change that
By Lauren Fox, Sarah Ferris, CNN
(CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson is actively working to unite his conference behind another Republican-only policy bill ahead of the midterms, with members clamoring for more wins and eager not waste what they fear could be the waning days of their majority.
Despite facing one of the smallest House margins in history, Johnson has outlined an extraordinarily aggressive legislative plan for 2026 that, if successful, Republicans believe could help preserve their fragile hold on the chamber next year — and potentially protect the speaker’s own political survival. And the Louisiana Republican is moving quickly, telling CNN he held a “productive” meeting last week with key chairmen and has spoken with Senate GOP Leader John Thune in recent days.
“We want to use all the tools that we have in the arsenal. And I’m very bullish, very optimistic. I think we can do something,” he said last week, discussing the prospect of Republicans passing a party-line package under a process known as reconciliation.
Johnson has instructed chairmen to come up with a menu of ideas they’d like to see in another GOP economic bill. But whether the bill is focused on health care, tax policy or further deficit reduction is still not clear. And it will be difficult for Johnson to start cobbling together a new bill when he is still constantly quelling internal fights about GOP priorities on the floor and begging members to show up for votes with no room to spare in their narrow margin. Last week alone, GOP leaders lost a floor vote they didn’t even realize was in trouble and were forced to pull several other measures from their agenda.
Johnson’s agenda 2.0 plan is a long-shot effort that comes with no shortage of potential downsides for him and for the party. Trying and failing — like Republicans did with their Obamacare repeal effort in 2017 ahead of Trump’s last midterm — could highlight GOP ineptitude just months before the election. And conservatives are already telegraphing they want to see significant cuts to a federal budget that moderates are struggling to defend on the campaign trail.
“You never know ‘til you try,” Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy said. “If you spend half your time in Congress and half your time running … that’s stupid.”
Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio is another fiscal hawk with big dreams of enacting across-government cuts in the style of the Department of Government Efficiency in the next bill. But he also offered a reality check: “We barely had the votes to defund NPR. I don’t know how aggressively we’ll be able to reform some of the things.”
Many Republicans agree that choosing not to use a legislative tool that allows them to pass conservative bills with just their own party’s votes would be a major waste in a GOP-controlled Congress. But that is where the agreement ends.
GOP lawmakers acknowledge it will be much more difficult to deliver another package after Congress passed Trump’s tax break, spending cuts and immigration bill last year. To start, there is no clear idea of what the bill would include. One major faction of House Republicans, known as the Republican Study Committee, is pushing for housing policies and an expansion of health care savings, which they say would also cut $1 trillion from the federal deficit. They even have a name: “Making the American Dream Affordable Again.”
“I think we have some really good proposals that leadership is looking at, that’s in line with what the president wants to do, some creative ideas,” the group’s chairman, Rep. August Pfluger of Texas, told CNN, saying the ide
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| 20- Investigación federal en curso después de que manifestantes anti-ICE interrumpieran un servicio religioso
Investigación federal en curso después de que manifestantes anti-ICE interrumpieran un servicio religioso
Por Hanna Park y Zoe Sottile, CNN
El Departamento de Justicia está investigando a los manifestantes que interrumpieron un servicio religioso cristiano en St. Paul, Minnesota, el domingo, mientras las tensiones en torno a la amplia represión migratoria de la administración Trump en las Ciudades Gemelas continúan aumentando.
La investigación del Departamento de Justicia se anunció horas después de que decenas de manifestantes entraran en la Iglesia Cities, coreando “¡Fuera ICE!”, y obligando a suspender el servicio. Los manifestantes dijeron que estaban allí para protestar contra uno de sus pastores, quien parece ser un alto funcionario del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE).
Al anunciar la investigación, el fiscal general adjunto Harmeet Dhillon dijo que los manifestantes estaban “profanando una casa de culto e interfiriendo con los fieles cristianos”.
Mientras tanto, la resistencia a la ofensiva migratoria del presidente Donald Trump en las Ciudades Gemelas continúa desarrollándose en las calles de Minneapolis y en los tribunales federales de Minnesota, donde tanto los manifestantes como los líderes estatales están desafiando la presencia de miles de oficiales federales y sus tácticas.
Estas son las últimas noticias:
- El Departamento de Justicia investiga una protesta en una iglesia : El secretario de Justicia adjunto Todd Blanche declaró a Fox News el lunes que la División de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Justicia envió expertos a Minneapolis. La Fiscalía Federal, el FBI y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional participan en la investigación, añadió. Las autoridades han sugerido que Don Lemon, expresentador de CNN que ahora produce contenido independiente y estuvo presente en la protesta en la iglesia, podría enfrentar cargos, aunque Lemon declaró a CNN que estuvo presente en el evento como periodista.
- El Departamento de Justicia apela la decisión : El Departamento de Justicia está apelando la orden de un juez que limita la respuesta de los agentes federales a las protestas en Minnesota. La orden, emitida el viernes, prohíbe a los agentes arrestar o detener a manifestantes pacíficos, usar ciertas medidas de control de multitudes como gas pimienta contra ellos, y detener a conductores cuando no exista una sospecha razonable y articulada de que estén obstruyendo o interfiriendo por la fuerza con las operaciones federales. La secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, calificó la orden de “un poco ridícula”, afirmando que los agentes solo usan irritantes químicos “cuando hay violencia”.
- Investigación del FBI sobre el asesinato de Renee Good: El FBI abrió brevemente una investigación de derechos civiles sobre el agente de ICE que disparó fatalmente a Renee Good en Minneapolis antes de centrarse en si el agente fue agredido, según informaron dos fuentes a CNN. La atención se centra ahora en la conducta de Good y de quienes la rodeaban, incluida su viuda, indicaron. El abogado de la familia afirma que se necesita una investigación para averiguar qué sucedió.
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- Global stocks fall as US-Europe tensions flare over Greenland and tariff threats
Global stocks fall as US-Europe tensions flare over Greenland and tariff threats
By John Towfighi, CNN
London/New York (CNN) — Stocks in Europe fell Tuesday and US stocks were set to open lower as investors continued to digest President Donald Trump’s clash with European leaders over ownership of Greenland.
Trump on Sunday threatened a new 10% tariff on imports from eight European countries including Denmark, the United Kingdom and France, amid his demands that the United States should acquire the Danish territory.
Europe’s benchmark Stoxx 600 index — which tracks stocks across the region — was down 1% Tuesday morning. The Stoxx 600 on Monday fell 1.19% and posted its worst day since November.
Denmark’s OMX Copenhagen 20 — which tracks the 20 most actively traded shares on Copenhagen’s stock exchange — was down 0.1%. The OMX Copenhagen 20 on Monday fell 2.73% and posted its worst day since October.
US stock futures were also lower. Dow futures were down 765 points, or 1.5%. S&P 500 futures fell 1.7%. Futures tied to the Nasdaq 100 slid 2%.
In the bond market, US Treasury yields rose as investors sold bonds. US stock and bond markets were closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, so Tuesday will be US stock and bond traders’ first full day to react to the extraordinarily newsy weekend — and flaring trade tensions between the United States and Europe.
“The latest developments serve as a reminder that the US economy is not immune to the uncertainty generated by Trump’s policy shifts, while lingering concerns over Fed independence — amplified by the delayed nomination of a new chair and the ongoing probe into Jerome Powell — add another layer of caution around the US currency,” George Vessey, lead FX and macro strategist at Convera, said in a Monday note.
Trump’s tariff threat tests markets
Investors across the globe are trying to discern how tensions between the United States and Europe might develop.
“This is one of those be-ready-for-anything weeks as wildcards abound for both US and global markets — most of them POTUS-related,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, said in a Monday note.
While investors are on edge, stock market losses so far have been relatively contained compared to the turmoil spurred by Trump’s initial “Liberation Day” tariff announcement in April.
Investors are cautiously watching for a potential off-ramp, including waiting for the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s use of an emergency powers act to levy tariffs.
The Court is deliberating the legality of the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to implement tariffs. That to-be-determined ruling would have direct implications for Trump’s renewed threat of additional tariffs on imports from some European countries.
“Markets will trade risk-off, but bet that either the Supreme Court will take away Trump’s authority to impose tariffs in this manner, or Trump will deliver a TACO reversal anyway,” Krishna Guha, vice chairman at Evercore ISI, said in a Monday note, referring to the Wall Street acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out”.
But as tensions flare, uncertainty is rife.
“With the EU readying potential retaliation — including not just tariffs but also possible use of the ‘anti-coercion instrument’ that would be extremely punitive towards US companies doing business in Europe — investo
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- Supreme Court weighs Hawaii’s ‘default’ ban on guns on private property that’s open to the public
Supreme Court weighs Hawaii’s ‘default’ ban on guns on private property that’s open to the public
By Tierney Sneed, CNN
(CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over a Hawaii law that bars people from carrying guns onto private property without the explicit approval of the property owner, a measure intended to reduce guns in retail stores and other businesses open to the public.
The case is the latest gun rights dispute to reach the high court after its conservative majority adopted an expansive view of the Second Amendment in a blockbuster 2022 ruling that established that the Constitution protects the right to bear arms outside the home.
The current case, Wolford v. Lopez, concerns a law Hawaii, passed in the wake of the 2022 Supreme Court decision. It says that if a conceal carry license holder wants to bring their firearm on private property that is open to the public, they must get express consent from the property owner – such as verbally or with a sign.
Gun control groups have framed the dispute as a property rights case – rather than a Second Amendment dispute – arguing there is a longstanding tradition of property owners being able to set rules about what is carried onto their property. All the Hawaii law does, they say, is flip the “default” legal position from one in which people are presumptively permitted to carry guns into stores to one in which they are prohibited from doing so.
“Since our founding as a nation, private property rights have been foundational to American identity and embedded throughout our system of government and our Constitution,” said Douglas Letter, chief legal officer at the gun control group Brady.
Four other blue states – California, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland – have similar regulations, though the challengers contend that Hawaii’s is the most extreme. A trial court blocked the Hawaii statute, but an appeals court panel sided with Hawaii and the full US 9th Circuit of Appeals – over the vigorous dissent of several members – refused to rehear the case. The law, however, is still on hold for the Supreme Court appeal.
The challengers – individuals with conceal carry permits in Hawaii as well as a gun rights group – allege that Hawaii is openly defying the 2022 ruling known as Bruen, by going well beyond that ruling’s limits on where the government can ban firearms. They say it’s unconstitutional for Hawaii to make it the “default” rule that firearms are prohibited in privately owned public spaces, arguing that the consent requirement means that guns are presumptively banned in most public places. Such a law, they argue, would effectively make it impossible to carry a firearm in public.
The right to prohibit firearms “belongs to the property owner, not the State,” the gun owners said in court filings.
“Had Hawaii merely enacted a law that prohibited a knowing failure to obey a property owner’s decision to exclude arms, Petitioners would not have challenged it. Instead, Hawaii has made it a crime to carry arms even where the owner of property open to public is merely silent. That presumption tramples on the Second Amendment,” they told the court.
Hawaii counters that law does not touch on conduct covered by the Second Amendment, and even if it did, it says the law meets the requirements of the Bruen ruling for when gun regulations can be upheld.
The Bruen opinion, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas and joined by the court’s five other GOP appointees, says that a gun restriction regulating conduct covered by the Second Amendment is constitutional if it has some parallel in the types of firearm regulations that existed at the time of the Constitution’s framing.
“Both at the time of the Founding and in the Reconstruction Era, numerous state laws prohibited armed entry onto private property without the owner’s express content,” Hawaii Attorney Gen
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- Europa podría tener que adoptar los métodos agresivos de Trump para salvar a Groenlandia
Europa podría tener que adoptar los métodos agresivos de Trump para salvar a Groenlandia
Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN
Donald Trump pelea tan brutalmente como los luchadores de la UFC a quienes invitó a enfrentarse en el jardín sur de la Casa Blanca para celebrar el aniversario 250 de Estados Unidos.
Los aliados de Estados Unidos en la OTAN, expertos en una diplomacia gentil aunque a menudo dura, enfrentan por lo tanto un enorme desafío al oponerse a las demandas del presidente respecto a Groenlandia.
Derrotar a Trump es difícil.
Es una prueba que han reprobado dos candidatos presidenciales demócratas, más de una docena de aspirantes presidenciales republicanos, varios fiscales, innumerables enemigos empresariales y casi todos los legisladores que alguna vez han intentado enfrentarse a él.
Los adversarios pueden invocar reglas, leyes, la Constitución o la decencia común para intentar dominarlo. Pero Trump simplemente lucha de forma asimétrica, ignorando el comportamiento de la gente común.
Tal vez haya llegado el momento de que Europa adopte algunas de sus tácticas: encontrar formas, más allá de los protocolos diplomáticos normales, de perjudicar al desenfrenado presidente estadounidense.
Es imposible exagerar la alarma al otro lado del océano.
“Esta locura no debe escalar más de lo que ya lo ha hecho”, declaró Rasmus Jarlov, miembro del parlamento de Dinamarca, a Jim Sciutto de CNN en “The Source”.
“Nunca podemos ceder ante la exigencia de que simplemente entreguemos tierras y personas a las que Estados Unidos no tiene absolutamente ningún derecho”, señaló Jarlov, advirtiendo que las demandas de Trump significan que los daneses ya no reconocen a Estados Unidos.
“No eres tú. No es quién eres”, apuntó Jarlov.
Algunos europeos quieren contratacar con una guerra comercial. Otros quieren atacar a las industrias tecnológicas estadounidenses. Y algunos legisladores en Gran Bretaña y Alemania incluso han contemplado la opción nuclear: un boicot a la Copa Mundial de la FIFA de este verano, organizada en parte por Estados Unidos, en la que Trump claramente planea acaparar la atención.
En el enfrentamiento por Groenlandia, Trump ha puesto en juego la seguridad del mundo occidental y casi 80 años de historia común porque quiere cerrar el mayor acuerdo inmobiliario del mundo y sumar Groenlandia a Estados Unidos.
Este es un ejemplo clásico de su técnica de negociación sin concesiones. Trump a menudo parece dispuesto a disparar metafóricamente al rehén —en este caso, la OTAN— para conseguir lo que quiere.
Los demócratas aprendieron esta lección durante el cierre gubernamental del año pasado. Trump no se conmovió ante el intenso sufrimiento de los trabajadores federales privados de salario ni, cuando se agotaron los beneficios nutricionales para estadounidenses de bajos ingresos.
Los demócratas, operando en un mundo político convencional y reacios a seguir siendo cómplices de la miseria, no tuvieron más opción que poner fin al cierre antes de alcanzar sus objetivos.
El enorme riesgo para los miembros europeos de la OTAN es que el escenario de pesadilla sobre el cual advierten —el colapso de la alianza militar más exitosa del mundo— podría no parecer un precio demasiado alto para Trump, quien piensa que es una gran estafa.
Los líderes europeos que han puesto límites a Groenlandia tienen otro problema: ¿Cómo razonan con un presidente que vive en su realidad única?
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| 21- Where are they now? Netflix revisits Elizabeth Smart and key figures in her kidnapping case
Where are they now? Netflix revisits Elizabeth Smart and key figures in her kidnapping case
By Chris Boyette, CNN
(CNN) — “I’m not just that girl that was kidnapped. That happened to me, but I’m so much more,” Elizabeth Smart told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2013.
A new Netflix documentary premiering January 21 has renewed interest in one of the most closely followed kidnapping cases in American history. Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and rescued nine months later.
Now 38, she has spent more than two decades turning her trauma into action, becoming an outspoken activist for child safety and survivors of sexual abuse.
“Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” revisits her heartbreaking experience through interviews with Smart, family members and others, featuring never-before-seen material, according to the filmmakers.
In the two decades since her rescue, Smart has built a life centered on family and advocacy. She married Matthew Gilmour, a native of Scotland, in Hawaii in 2012. The couple met while doing missionary work in France and have three children: Chloe, James and Olivia.
Through the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which she founded in 2011, Smart advocates for victim support and abuse prevention. The organization offers empowerment programs like Smart Defense and Smart Talks to educate and support survivors of sexual assault and abduction. She has testified before Congress and played a key role in promoting legislation, including the AMBER Alert and Adam Walsh Act.
Smart launched the Smart Defense initiative after she said she was assaulted on a flight to Utah, expanding her mission to include practical self-defense education. She has authored two books: “My Story” in 2013 and “Where There’s Hope: Healing, Moving Forward and Never Giving Up” in 2018.
Not everyone in her family wanted to revisit the painful past for the documentary. “Some members of my family want to leave things in the past. And personally, that’s OK with me. I want to respect their wishes,” Smart told Netflix. But for her, sharing the story serves a purpose. “As time passed, I began speaking publicly about what happened, I just felt like it needs to serve a purpose. It needs to bring some good in the world,” she says in the documentary.
“I have good days, I have bad days, but I’ve developed a better relationship with myself,” she says in the documentary. “My inner voice has changed from ‘you should have done this,’ or ‘you could have done that,’ to ‘you’ll make it through this. You could finish this. You’re strong. Keep going. You can survive anything that comes your way.’”
The abduction that gripped the nation
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- Trump once again en route to Davos after ‘minor electrical issue’ forced Air Force One to turn back
Trump once again en route to Davos after ‘minor electrical issue’ forced Air Force One to turn back
By Lex Harvey, CNN
(CNN) — President Donald Trump is once again on his way to Davos, Switzerland, aboard a backup plane, after a technical issue forced Air Force One to return to Joint Base Andrews.
Air Force One was in the air Tuesday evening when it turned around due to a “minor electrical issue,” according to the White House, which said the decision was made out of an abundance of caution.
Open-source flight tracking data from ADS-B Exchange shows the plane making a turn over the Atlantic Ocean off the easternmost tip of Long Island, New York, over an hour into the flight.
The plane landed safely in Maryland just after 11 p.m. ET and Trump was wheels up in a new aircraft used as Air Force One roughly an hour later, en route to the World Economic Forum.
After the original aircraft landed, staffers scrambled to transfer luggage between the planes while crew quickly moved boxes of fruit, and wrapped sandwiches and beverages, according to pool reporters, a group of journalists who accompany the president during travels.
Air Force One, or AF1 on flight tracking websites, is the call sign for whatever plane the president is aboard, not the name of the aircraft itself.
This is the second time in recent months Trump has been forced to turn to a backup aircraft.
During a September visit to the United Kingdom, Trump and first lady Melania Trump safely boarded a support helicopter after the one they were traveling in experienced a hydraulic issue and was forced to land at a local airfield, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced at the time.
The Boeing 747 jets used as Air Force One have been in service for more than 35 years. Delays in replacing them have angered Trump and cost Boeing billions.
The next generation of jets, which were initially supposed to be delivered in 2022, are set to arrive in mid-2028. In December, the US Air Force awarded a $15.5 million modification to its existing contract with Boeing, bringing the face value of the contract to over $4.3 billion.
Meanwhile, the Air Force announced last month it would purchase two additional Boeing jets from the German carrier Lufthansa to support its future presidential airlift program, with delivery dates slated for this year.
There’s also a Qatari jet, which was gifted to Trump last year, that is undergoing modifications to be used as Air Force One, sparking legal, ethical and security concerns. The president has said that jet could be ready for use next month, despite deep skepticism from experts and former aviation officials.
Despite the age of the jets, technical issues like the one experienced Tuesday are exceedingly rare on Air Force One.
In 2006, a mechanical issue grounded Air Force One while President George W. Bush was in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, forcing the president to fly in a backup plane.
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- Jury clears former Uvalde police officer of child endangerment or abandonment charges
Jury clears former Uvalde police officer of child endangerment or abandonment charges
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By Eric Levenson, Matthew J. Friedman, Shimon Prokupecz, Rachel Clarke, Amanda Jackson, CNN
(CNN) — A jury has acquitted a former school district police officer of all charges based on accusations he failed to act during the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas – in only the second prosecution of its kind.
Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officer, was the first member of law enforcement to get to the school while the 18-year-old gunman was still outside. He was found not guilty Wednesday of 29 counts of child endangerment or abandonment in what was the first criminal case stemming from the tragedy.
The May 2022 shooting left 19 children and two teachers dead. Gonzales, who pleaded not guilty to all counts, did not testify in his own defense.
The prosecution in the case claimed Gonzales failed to “follow and attempt to follow his active shooter training” and did nothing to stop the gunman in the early moments of the shooting, despite having enough time and information.
The defense argued Gonzales did not see the gunman when he arrived at the school and worked to evacuate students from classrooms.
Hundreds of police rushed to the school to respond, but it took 77 minutes for them to confront and kill the shooter – a lengthy time period that has led to years of investigations and finger-pointing about the delay.
Gonzales declined to speak directly to the victims’ families in a news conference after the verdict.
“No, not right now,” he said when CNN asked if he wanted to say anything to them.
The criminal case against Gonzales raised difficult legal questions about the responsibilities of police officers and who can be held accountable for a mass shooting: It was the second case ever brought against a school police officer accused of failing to act during an active shooter situation.
In the first such case, a Florida jury acquitted the school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after his attorney had argued the officer couldn’t tell where gunfire was coming from.
Judge Sid Harle read the verdict in court after the jury deliberated for just over seven hours, before thanking the jury for their “close attention” and patience during the trial. Gonzales would have faced six months to two years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000 for each count if convicted.
“I know it was not easy for you,” Harle said to the jury after Gonzales was acquitted. “I know everybody was drafted, nobody volunteered.”
The Texas jury began deliberations Wednesday, three weeks into Gonzales’ trial.
Moments before the verdict was read, family members of the victims were seen shaking their legs nervously. When Gonzales was acquitted, bereaved family members silently sobbed while others were seen holding their faces and wiping tears.
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- One of the most extreme winter storms in years is set to deliver damaging ice and heavy snow to nearly half the US
One of the most extreme winter storms in years is set to deliver damaging ice and heavy snow to nearly half the US
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By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN
(CNN) — A major winter storm — among the most extreme and widespread in years — is set to lash more than two dozen states with damaging ice and heavy snow late this week.
It’s all being fed and worsened by a brutal blast of Arctic air that could set records during the typical coldest time of the year.
The storm will be so extensive, its snow, sleet and freezing rain could stretch more than 1,500 miles from the Plains across the South and into the Northeast. Major travel disruption on roads and at airports is a given across its entire footprint, and widespread and potentially long-lasting power outages are also possible, particularly from its ice storm in the South.
The extreme cold will worsen the storm and its impacts by causing snow and ice to accumulate faster on roads, making them harder to treat, and possibly leaving those that lose power shivering without heat for days.
Snow and ice will start to develop over the Central and Southern Plains on Friday as the storm begins to intensify and then expand on Saturday, stretching from Oklahoma and northern Texas to North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland by Saturday night. Snow and ice should continue through Sunday night in parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
However, the track of this storm and how it interacts with the blast of cold air is still somewhat uncertain and that will make a big difference when it comes to snow and ice totals in any one location. Those details are coming into better focus now, but changes are possible over the next couple of days.
Winter storm watches have been hoisted for nearly 125 million people across parts of 24 states ahead of the storm and more are likely in the next day or two.
Ice could knock out power to many
Damaging ice from freezing rain is the storm’s most serious threat.
Freezing rain causes ice to build up on surfaces, and its tremendous amount of added weight can bring down trees and power lines. The amount of ice in a worst-case scenario for this storm could cause many power outages, some that could be long-lasting. But power outages are likely even in the most likely scenario.
Portions of the South from northern and eastern Texas into the lower-Mississippi and Tennessee valleys, northern Georgia and parts of the Carolinas and Virginia are at greatest risk for significant icing and power outages based on the current forecast. This includes major cities such as Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Charlotte, Huntsville, Alabama, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Travel could be brought to a standstill across major cities even with smaller amounts of ice.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency Wednesday. “I encourage all North Carolinians to stay home and off the roads this weekend unless absolutely necessary so first responders can do their jobs safely and effectively,” the governor said in a news release. Crews across the state are out brining roads and bridges, but officials warned impacts will li
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| 23- Big second quarter leads UCSB to road win at rival Cal Poly
Big second quarter leads UCSB to road win at rival Cal Poly
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - The UC Santa Barbara Women's Basketball Team added another conference win to their register tonight, defeating Cal Poly on the road 61-51. They now stand 14-3 on the season and 6-2 in Big West play.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Gauchos took the first quarter to get their bearings, faltering after Zoe Shaw began the game's scoring with a head-on three-pointer. The Mustangs came out of the gate strong, threatening the Gauchos with intensity and ten points by Cal Poly scoring leader Dulci Vail. The Mustangs came away with the first quarter 16-15.
A bucket by Shaw began the Gauchos' second, kicking off a quarter that would prove to be insurmountable and game-defining for the Mustangs. The Gauchos administered a six-minute, 19-point run that went nearly interrupted, save for one basket by Cal Poly. Santa Barbara finished the half ahead by nearly 20 points at 38-22.
In the third, the Gauchos reached the twenty-point threshold two minutes in. Maddie Naro sank six straight points to make it 44-22 Gauchos. Their lead peaked at 47-24, but didn't hold for long. The 'Stangs slowly descended upon the Gauchos, making ten consecutive points and closing the half behind at 49-37.
The Gauchos had to hold their ground in the fourth, a feat they managed largely thanks to six-straight free throws in the final moments of the game. Mid-period, Cal Poly came within two baskets of the Gaucho lead at 55-51. Santa Barbara stalled effectively and pulled multiple fouls, leading to their last-chance scoring opportunity. Shaw put in four while Olivia Bradley had two.
Cal Poly actually outscored Santa Barbara in every quarter except the second, during which the Gauchos scored a blistering 17 greater points than the Mustangs.
Zoe Borter was back to holding the reins for the Gaucho offense and scored in double-digits for the fifth time this season. Her 24 points were the best of the game by ten.
Shaw also secured over a dozen points, sinking 13 from a 50% shooting performance. Olivia Bradley and Jessica Grant led in rebounds with six each, while Maddie Naro was back to dealing assists, making four. Grant had her most diverse statistical showing of the year, getting season-highs in steals (2), blocks (2), assists (3) offensive rebounds (2), and defensive rebounds (4).
UP NEXT
The Gauchos return to home play with a game against Long Beach State at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24 in The Thunderdome.
(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)
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- Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of long-standing slavery exhibit from historic park
Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of long-standing slavery exhibit from historic park
By Aleena Fayaz, Rashard Rose, CNN
(CNN) — The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city’s Independence National Historical Park.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court Thursday against the US Interior Department, Secretary Doug Burgum, the park service and its acting director Jessica Bowron, asks for a judge to issue a preliminary injunction to return the displays.
The exhibit, located at the President’s House Site where Presidents George Washington and John Adams lived, features displays honoring individuals enslaved by Washington and a historical timeline of American slavery.
Video from CNN-affiliate WPVI shows work crews dismantling large display panels at the site on Thursday afternoon.
“The interpretive displays relating to enslaved persons at President’s House are an integral part of the exhibit and removing them would be a material alteration to the exhibit,” attorneys for the city said in the filing.
The exhibit’s removal comes as the Trump administration continues its campaign to purge cultural institutions of materials that conflict with the president’s political directives.
In an executive order signed last March, President Donald Trump accused the Biden administration of advancing “corrosive ideology,” specifically citing Independence Park, and called upon the Interior secretary to remove content within the department’s jurisdiction that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
“Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” the order states. “This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”
In the lawsuit, attorneys for the city wrote, “Without notice to the City of Philadelphia, the National Park Service has removed artwork and informational displays at the President’s House site referencing slavery, presumably pursuant to the mandate in the Executive Order.”
“Defendants have provided no explanation at all for their removal of the historical, educational displays at the President’s House site, let alone a reasoned one,” the attorneys said.
CNN has reached out to the White House; the National Park Service; and Interior Department, which oversees NPS, for comment.
CNN has also reached out to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker.
City Council President Kenyatta Johnson slammed the removal, calling it “totally unacceptable.”
“Removing the exhibits is an effort to whitewash American history. History cannot be erased simply because it is uncomfortable,” he said in a statement.
Michael Coard, founding member of the advocacy group “Avenging the Ancestors Coalition” that helped installed the exhibit in 2010, in a social media post called the removal “outrageous and blatantly racist.”
The Trump administration has imposed the president’s views on other US cultural and historical institutions, purging materials focused on diversity.
Last year, the American Battle Monuments Commission, a small, little-known federal agency,
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- Prep scores from soccer, basketball and water polo
Prep scores from soccer, basketball and water polo
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -
High School Girls Basketball:
Ventura 69, Pacifica 21: Kai Staniland poured in 24 points for the Cougars who are 10-0 in the Channel League.
Dos Pueblos 60, Rio Mesa 49 (2OT): Carly Letendre scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for DP.
San Marcos 52, Oxnard 24: Lily Ruvalcaba had 18 points for the Royals.
Buena 49, Santa Barbara 18: Presley Bosch scored 10 points for Bulldogs.
High School Girls Soccer:
Buena 3, Dos Pueblos 2: Tatiana Padilla scored a goal and had 2 assists for the Bulldogs who lead Channel League at 7-0-4.
San Marcos 1, Rio Mesa 0: Zeina Matni scored for Royals.
Santa Barbara 3, Pacifica 1: Paloma Valenzuela, Sofia Lopez and Lanaya Solis scored goals for the Dons.
Oxnard 1, Ventura 0: Ashley Herrera scored the lone goal of the match.
Laguna Blanca 4, Santa Clara 0: Elle Harris scored 2 goals for the Owls.
Coastal Christian 2, Bishop Diego 1
Thacher 3, St. Bonaventure 2
Grace 3, Cate 1: Scarlett Angel had a hat trick for the Lancers.
High School Boys Soccer:
Pacifica 3, Santa Barbara 0: Francisco Hernandez scored two goals for the Tritons who lead the Channel League at 8-2.
San Marcos 3, Rio Mesa 1: Ricky Olivo scored two goals for the Royals.
Dos Pueblos 3, Buena 3: Owen Ribbens tallied two goals for DP.
Ventura 1, Oxnard 0: Steven Mayorga had the lone goal of the match.
High School Girls Water Polo:
San Marcos 9, Long Beach Wilson 8: Jade Pattison scored 4 goals as the Royals won on the first day of the Elite 8 Tournament in Newport Beach.
Dos Pueblos 19, Rio Mesa 7: 10 different Chargers scored goals led by MacKenzie Beard scoring her first three varsity goals.
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- ‘Mr. President, it’s now time’: Social conservatives beg Trump for abortion pill crackdown
‘Mr. President, it’s now time’: Social conservatives beg Trump for abortion pill crackdown
By Tierney Sneed, Sarah Owermohle, CNN
(CNN) — As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that would achieve a key goal of its allies in the anti-abortion movement by ending the availability of abortion pills by mail.
The lawsuit, brought by Louisiana against the President Donald Trump-appointed health officials, is one of several pressure points the anti-abortion movement is pressing to push the administration to limit access to medication abortion, which now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States.
“We’re at a point where, from a lot of the pro-life movement’s perspective, this is too important to play political games with,” Katie Glenn Daniel, the director of legal affairs for SBA Pro-Life America, told CNN. “They could pull these drugs out of the mail tomorrow. The justification is more than there.”
While Trump has erected some hurdles to abortion in his second term, his administration has not reversed regulatory rules that have allowed abortion pills to be sent by the mail. That policy, enacted under President Joe Biden, has made it possible for women within states that limit of ban abortion to obtain the two-step drug regimen used to terminate a pregnancy.
Trump health officials promised to look at the drug’s safety data, but they have been noncommittal about when that would happen, or if they would ultimately reverse the Biden-era changes.
“Where we are is that that the Trump administration has managed not to say anything,” said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at UC-Davis and author of several books about the anti-abortion movement. “It seems pretty clear politically that all the steps that Republicans and abortion opponents are taking aren’t really moving the administration.”
Anger within the anti-abortion community over the lack of action has reached a fever pitch and is manifesting in lawsuits, congressional hearings and calls for the firing of a top Trump appointee.
“We can simply fix this if we have the courage to do it,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and staunch Trump ally, said last week. “So, what all of us are telling the administration: ‘you’ve been a very pro-life president, Mr. President, it’s now time to deal with this issue.’”
The White House, which did not respond to CNN’s inquiry, is this week announcing new anti-abortion measures related to federal funding, including an expansion of a policy that bars foreign aid to groups that promote abortion. But SBA-List said that addressing abortion drugs was an “urgent” issue the administration must act on.
“If there are those that don’t care about the life issue, they should care about the politics of this,” said Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. “This is going to be a political problem for those who have sold out the pro-life movement.”
Ire directed at Trump health officials
At a Senate hearing last week that aired GOP grievances about how medication abortion was reaching states that had banned the procedure, Republicans made clear that they had lost patience with the administration.
“Republican members of this committee and many other senators expect an answer,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the chair of the committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. “At an absolute minimum, the previous in-person safeguards should be restored and that should be done immediately.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said in a September letter to Republican attorneys general that he had ordered drug regulators to “review the latest data” on mifepristone’s risks and safety. But Kennedy and agency spokespeople did not say when the review began or how long it would take.
Abortion advocates and mifepr
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| 24- Grief has become infrastructure in Minneapolis, a city mobilized by trauma
Grief has become infrastructure in Minneapolis, a city mobilized by trauma
By Alicia Wallace, CNN
Minneapolis (CNN) — During Januarys here, the days are dark and short, the ground is cold and hard, and the subzero air pierces and cuts.
Still, life moves forward.
Frozen lakes take center stage for popular festivals, sporting events and gatherings. A mother strolls to the local grocer with her kid and toboggan in tow. Friends gather outside a local taproom for a game of curling. Strangers lend a hand and a little muscle to push cars out of snowbanks. The daily shovel of the front walk allows for some “cold-enough-for-yas” with the neighbors.
But the small-town-like tranquility that runs deep through this city of neighborhoods has been shattered in recent weeks.
Thousands of armed and masked federal agents have been deployed to Minnesota, with Minneapolis serving as the epicenter of the largest immigration enforcement operation in US history.
Daily life has been upended at schools, hospitals, stores and restaurants and in neighborhoods where sidewalks were once well-trodden with runners, people walking their dogs, families taking daily strolls and children heading back home after getting dropped off by the bus. Days are pockmarked with flare-ups and altercations between federal agents and residents.
Neighborhood chat channels document how friends, coworkers and schoolchildren were here one day and gone the next.
The watershed moment occurred earlier this month, at 9:37 a.m. on a Wednesday, when resident Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
Once again, the eyes of the world were on Minneapolis, a city and metro area that has had more than its fair share of high-profile and tragic events in recent years – among them the murder of George Floyd at the knee of a city policeman, and the unrest that followed; the assassination of state Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was killed alongside her husband and dog; and the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and school that left two students dead and dozens injured.
Woven through the city are vestiges of that trauma and strife from years past and from days and weeks present. Yard signs, flags, murals, memorials, ribbons and graffiti silently speak volumes of what this city and region have faced, conveying the idea that life here doesn’t move on from grief but instead moves forward hand in hand with it and forever changed by it.
Some residents say those p
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- China’s top general under investigation in latest military purge
China’s top general under investigation in latest military purge
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Beijing (AP) — The Chinese military’s top general is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and law the Defense Ministry said Saturday.
Zhang Youxia, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, is the latest figure to fall in a long-running purge of military officials.
Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who also chairs the military commission. They are part of a broader anti-corruption drive that has punished more than 200,000 officials since Xi came to power in 2012.
Another member of the commission, Liu Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation by China’s ruling Communist Party, a Defense Ministry statement said. Liu is the chief of staff of the commission’s Joint Staff Department. The commission is the top military body in China.
The statement did not provide any details on the alleged wrongdoing.
Zhang, who is 75, joined the People’s Liberation Army in 1968 and is a general from its ground forces.
The Communist Party expelled the other vice chair of the commission, He Weidong, last October and replaced him with commission member Zhang Shengmin.
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- The horrors of conflict still haunt America’s largest World War II cemetery
The horrors of conflict still haunt America’s largest World War II cemetery
By Brad Lendon, CNN
Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, sacrifice and history of World War II.
Go to one and you can see the names and read the stories of those buried there, more than 17,000 troops, almost all of them lost in battle across the Pacific from 1941 to 1945.
Their headstones — 16,938 Latin crosses and 175 Stars of David — are arranged in neat rows in meticulously manicured grass across 152 acres in the Manila American Cemetery.
Go to the other and you’ll see just a single white cross, steps away from a hole in the ground leading to the dungeons of an old stone Spanish fort.
Its base bears an inscription: “This cross marks the final resting place of approximately 600 Filipinos and Americans who were victims of atrocities during the last days of February 1945.”
There are no individual stories here, but local lore says the spirits of those who perished in Fort Santiago’s dungeons remain and sometimes make themselves known to visitors.
Haunted and holy. These are the last vestiges of a global conflict in Manila.
Just steps from the gleaming skyscrapers of the Bonifacio Global City neighborhood in the Philippine capital, the Manila American Cemetery is an oasis of calm in one of the world’s most densely populated cities.
The noise of Manila’s notorious traffic goes silent just after I pass the gates of the burial ground. No hum of scooters, no roar of jeepney engines, no incessant honking of car horns. The soothing calm is broken only by the occasional jetliner taking off from Manila International Airport, three miles to the west, or a groundskeeper’s golf cart.
Rows upon rows of headstones — 17,111 in total — are laid out on the gentle slopes of a hilltop, the largest single burial ground for US World War II casualties.
The hilltop is capped with a circular memorial to those whose remains were never found after the war, 36,286 names chiseled into huge limestone tablets.
Some 3,000 of those headstones are of “unknown soldiers” — “A comrade in arms known but to God,” they read.
The rest identify those buried beneath them, some with histories of the fallen.
Private First Class Alfred Davenport is one of the first I see. Buried not far from the cemetery entrance, Davenport was a Black infantryman from Plymouth, North Carolina, who died from injuries sustained in Bougainville, Solomon Islands, in June 1944. He was 20 years old, his biography says.
Though Davenport served in a segregated unit for Black soldiers, “he and his comrades are buried side by side regardless of their rank, race, religion, gender and nationality,” the biography says.
Walking up the road up the hill from Davenport’s grave I come to the monument to the missing. In the US Navy section, I find five brothers from Iowa — George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert Sullivan — who all died after the light cruiser on which they served, the USS Juneau, sank in a Japanese torpedo attack during the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal, also in the Solomons.
Their deaths represent the largest loss to one family in US military history, according to the Naval Museum Development Foundation.
The Sullivans aren’t the only brothers memorialized at the cemetery. Buried beneath its grounds are the remains of 21 sets of brothers, all lying side by side.
Manila American Cemetery isn’t just a memorial ground. It can be an immersive history lesson, too.
On the walls of the circular memoria
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- Border Patrol chief promises Minnesota crackdown ‘won’t quit,’ even as protesting residents flood the streets
Border Patrol chief promises Minnesota crackdown ‘won’t quit,’ even as protesting residents flood the streets
By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN
(CNN) — Waves of Minneapolis residents filled frigid city blocks and packed the Timberwolves NBA arena Friday to demand ICE leave their neighborhoods, even as the immigration official orchestrating the crackdown promised detentions would not let up.
Protests touched virtually every corner of the city Friday. Storm-weathered Minnesotans endured subzero temperatures at a downtown march, airport protest, arena rally and saw an “economic blackout” in which businesses closed their doors to boycott ICE’s presence.
But Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino doubled down on the unrelenting detention effort, which has at times swept up legal residents, US citizens and even a preschooler. He vowed earlier Friday to continue the government’s search for “criminal aliens.”
“We’re going to take them off the streets wholesale,” Bovino said at a news conference. “It’s on. We won’t quit.”
Children and families are among those caught up in the mass deportation campaign. A 5-year-old boy was detained alongside his father in their driveway earlier this week, adding to the mounting list of controversial encounters over which federal and state officials are clashing.
Fallout continues over the ICE shooting of Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good, as two sources tell CNN an FBI agent originally tasked with an investigation into the encounter has resigned.
As tensions reach a fever pitch in Minnesota, Maine has found itself to be the latest state in the crackdown crosshairs. The Trump administration, continuing its penchant for meme-ready monikers, has dubbed the effort “Operation Catch of the Day” and announced more than 100 arrests this week.
Here’s the latest:
- FBI agent investigating fatal ICE shooting resigns: The FBI agent who was assigned to work with state investigators to look into the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Soon after the agent opened a civil rights investigation into the officer, she was ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an assault on the officer. It comes amid a much larger purge of seasoned FBI agents across several states, multiple sources familiar with the departures told CNN.
- 5-year-old remains in custody: There are dramatically conflicting accounts over what led up to the detention of preschooler Liam Conejo Ramos alongside his father. Amid concern for the boy’s welfare, Bovino, the Border Patrol official, said Friday his agents are “experts in dealing with children.” The child and his parent have been sent to a family detention facility in Texas. Liam is now the fourth child from his school district to be taken away by ICE in just the past two weeks, Columbia Heights Public Schools said.
- Feud over state detainees: DHS spokesper
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25- Trump’s stock market: Worst first year of a term since George W. Bush
Trump’s stock market: Worst first year of a term since George W. Bush
By John Towfighi, CNN
New York (CNN) — The stock market in President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House was the weakest of any president’s first year of a new term since 2005, when George W. Bush started his second term.
From Trump’s inauguration day to January 20, 2026, the S&P 500 rose 13.3% — healthy gains by any standard. But it was the worst start to a presidency in 20 years. In comparison, the S&P 500 gained 24.1% across the first year of Trump’s first term, according to CFRA Research.
Stocks climbed higher across the past year, extending a bull run driven by enthusiasm about artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, international stocks outperformed the United States in 2025 for the first time in years.
The stock market, of course, doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Trump’s second term came on the heels of the S&P 500’s first back-to-back annual gains of more than 20% since the 1990s. The bar for further gains was already set pretty high.
Still, this past year has been marked by policy whiplash from the Trump administration.
Stocks slid to the brink of a bear market in April amid tariff uncertainty before sharply rebounding as Trump backed off his most severe threats. The S&P clinched 39 record highs across the year. In comparison, the index clinched 62 record highs in 2017, the first year of Trump’s first term.
Trump appears to be aware of the stock market’s performance and views the market as a barometer for his success. On Wednesday, he said the recent stock market dip because of uncertainty about Greenland and tariffs was “peanuts” and the market would soon be “doubled.” He backed off his tariffs later in the day, which sent stocks on a rebound.
US stocks gained in 2025 amid enthusiasm about AI, optimism about Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, corporate earnings that remain robust and an economy that proved resilient. Trump in the summer also signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law. The stimulative impact of that policy could provide a further boost to markets this year.
“The front-end loading of this stimulus is a big reason why the stock market did well the first year of this term,” Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak + Co, said in an email.
“This is also why many investors are thinking that the president wants to ‘let the economy run hot’ through the midterm elections,” Maley said. “This does not mean that the second year will be as bullish for stocks as the first year, but there is little question that the administration wants to see a very strong stock market this year, especially in the 5-6 months leading into those midterm elections.”
Strong gains, historic volatility
The first year of Trump’s second term yielded solid gains and bouts of volatility. Wall Street’s fear gauge, the VIX, surged to historically high levels in the spring amid the turmoil surrounding Trump’s tariffs.
“The only truly exceptional thing was that the VIX went over 50 for the first time since the pandemic during the height of trade policy uncertainty,” Nick Colas, co-founder at DataTrek Research, said in an email.
Tim Thomas, chief investment officer at Badgley Phelps Wealth Managem
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- Lawyers for Renee Good’s family have experience taking on the government, but this time they face more hurdles
Lawyers for Renee Good’s family have experience taking on the government, but this time they face more hurdles
By Andy Rose, CNN
(CNN) — The body of Renee Good had not yet been turned over to her family when the Trump administration announced her fatal shooting by an ICE agent was in response to “an act of domestic terrorism.” Later, sources told CNN the Justice Department stopped investigating the agent and federal authorities refused to share information with local investigators.
Good’s family, including her partner, Becca, decided to get answers on their own. They hired the legal team connected to another case of deadly force by law enforcement in Minneapolis – the 2020 death of George Floyd under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin.
“The community is not receiving transparency about this case elsewhere, so our team will provide that to the country,” said the law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, the same lawyers who represented Floyd’s family in a civil lawsuit.
The Floyd case resulted in a $27 million payout by the city of Minneapolis, which the firm said was the largest pretrial settlement of a wrongful death civil rights case.
This month the attorneys sent letters to federal agencies connected to Good’s shooting, saying they “anticipate bringing legal action” over allegations including excessive force and negligence and demanding evidence be preserved. One of those letters was sent to the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fired the fatal shots January 7 in Minneapolis.
“We need to know based on the totality of circumstances – not only looking at the video, but also looking at the intent that was there, looking at reasonable police practices,” family attorney Antonio Romanucci told CNN’s Erin Burnett last week.
Taking on the city of Minneapolis in the George Floyd case was challenging, but Romanucci acknowledges this case – suing the United States government for the conduct of an immigration officer – is harder.
“Legal action against the federal government is even more complex,” Romanucci said.
Good’s family can’t immediately file a lawsuit against the administration
For most of the country’s history, suing the United States for harm caused by a government employee was impossible. Until 1946, most citizens seeking compensation for a negligent or wrongful act by a civil servant could get it only through a literal act of Congress, case by case.
“And Congress hated it because people who had these claims would just constantly contact their congressman to say, ‘How’s my claim going?’” said Paul Figley, professor emeritus at the American University Washington
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- 40 years ago, Nan Goldin’s searingly intimate photobook on love, sex and belonging radically shifted photography
40 years ago, Nan Goldin’s searingly intimate photobook on love, sex and belonging radically shifted photography
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
(CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo books ever made.
“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” published by Aperture in 1986, follows Goldin and her friends through darkened nightclubs, daylit bedrooms, and late-night car rides around New York’s East Village, unfurling over time and space to Chicago, London, Berlin and Mexico City. The searingly intimate body of work seems to place the viewer inside the scenes, as she and her friends find belonging and desire and heartbreak. Though the group is predominately queer and was deeply impacted by the AIDS crisis, Goldin has said that her work is often incorrectly misunderstood as being about marginalized people.
“We were never marginalized because we were the world,” she told the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2013. “We didn’t care what straight people thought of us. We had no time for them, they didn’t show up on our radar, so we weren’t marginalized from anything.”
This month in London, Gagosian is exhibiting all 126 prints from the book, its first full showing in the United Kingdom. But the “Ballad” extends beyond the book and has been shown in many formats; it actually includes several hundred images and has expanded over time.
Before the book was published, to experience the “Ballad” was fleeting, rare and often, emotionally intense. Goldin originally conceived of it as a slideshow timed to songs by The Velvet Underground and Dionne Warwick, played in nightclubs around New York, and eventually, in the Whitney Biennial in 1985. In this version of the work, the images flash: Friends on the sand at the beach, or splayed together in bed. Their gazes are bright, or disaffected, or longing. Cigarette smoke hangs in the air. Goldin’s best friend Cookie falls in love; she marries; she and her husband die.
“It is a work that I love because it occupies a space that is both photographic and time-based, but it also ends up functioning a bit like a piece of immersive cinema or installation art,” explained Katherine A. Bussard, the curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, which recently acquired a version of the slideshow. “The slideshow originally was really a live performance. So it was the artist standing there, dropping the slides in, DJing the soundtrack…for those who have seen it that way, they talk about the alive feeling of that experience.”
The book is its own form of intimacy, and has its own self-guided rhythm, Bussard pointed out. The Table of Contents takes the form of song titles to pair the music, if desired, and (unofficial) Spotify playlists have sprung up to assist.
Today, we expect art to be deeply personal to the artist, but Goldin was tapping into something novel as image-making shifted across the 1970s and ’80s, Bussard said. There was skepticism that “serious art could be made from one’s own lived experience” and that serious photography could be made in color. Styled like snapshots, the “Ballad” helped break both molds.
“There is a way in which the compositions, the subjects, even sometimes the blur of the camera conjures images that we’ve taken, or that our families took of us that that are the repository for our memories,” Bussard said. At the same time, she added, “people don’t make family albums about heartbreak. They didn’t pull out the Koda
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- 40 years ago, Nan Goldin’s searingly intimate photobook on love, sex and belonging radically shifted photography
40 years ago, Nan Goldin’s searingly intimate photobook on love, sex and belonging radically shifted photography
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
(CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo books ever made.
“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” published by Aperture in 1986, follows Goldin and her friends through darkened nightclubs, daylit bedrooms, and late-night car rides around New York’s East Village, unfurling over time and space to Chicago, London, Berlin and Mexico City. The searingly intimate body of work seems to place the viewer inside the scenes, as she and her friends find belonging and desire and heartbreak. Though the group is predominately queer and was deeply impacted by the AIDS crisis, Goldin has said that her work is often incorrectly misunderstood as being about marginalized people.
“We were never marginalized because we were the world,” she told the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2013. “We didn’t care what straight people thought of us. We had no time for them, they didn’t show up on our radar, so we weren’t marginalized from anything.”
This month in London, Gagosian is exhibiting all 126 prints from the book, its first full showing in the United Kingdom. But the “Ballad” extends beyond the book and has been shown in many formats; it actually includes several hundred images and has expanded over time.
Before the book was published, to experience the “Ballad” was fleeting, rare and often, emotionally intense. Goldin originally conceived of it as a slideshow timed to songs by The Velvet Underground and Dionne Warwick, played in nightclubs around New York, and eventually, in the Whitney Biennial in 1985. In this version of the work, the images flash: Friends on the sand at the beach, or splayed together in bed. Their gazes are bright, or disaffected, or longing. Cigarette smoke hangs in the air. Goldin’s best friend Cookie falls in love; she marries; she and her husband die.
“It is a work that I love because it occupies a space that is both photographic and time-based, but it also ends up functioning a bit like a piece of immersive cinema or installation art,” explained Katherine A. Bussard, the curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, which recently acquired a version of the slideshow. “The slideshow originally was really a live performance. So it was the artist standing there, dropping the slides in, DJing the soundtrack…for those who have seen it that way, they talk about the alive feeling of that experience.”
The book is its own form of intimacy, and has its own self-guided rhythm, Bussard pointed out. The Table of Contents takes the form of song titles to pair the music, if desired, and (unofficial) Spotify playlists have sprung up to assist.
Today, we expect art to be deeply personal to the artist, but Goldin was tapping into something novel as image-making shifted across the 1970s and ’80s, Bussard said. There was skepticism that “serious art could be made from one’s own lived experience” and that serious photography could be made in color. Styled like snapshots, the “Ballad” helped break both molds.
“There is a way in which the compositions, the subjects, even sometimes the blur of the camera conjures images that we’ve taken, or that our families took of us that that are the repository for our memories,” Bussard said. At the same time, she added, “people don’t make family albums about heartbreak. They didn’t pull out the Kodak camera to record moments of despair or longing or upset or death… so at the same time that the ‘Ballad’ is leaning into snapshots, it’s also changing them into something more expansive.”
Goldin herself has written on the potency of memory and the senses it invokes, calling memory “an invocation
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| 26- Delcy Rodríguez dice que ya tuvo “suficiente” de las órdenes de Estados Unidos
Delcy Rodríguez dice que ya tuvo “suficiente” de las órdenes de Estados Unidos
Por Laura Sharman, CNN
La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, dijo el domingo que ya tuvo “suficiente” de las órdenes de Washington, mientras trabaja para unir al país tras la captura de su exlíder Nicolás Maduro por parte de Estados Unidos.
Rodríguez ha estado caminando por la cuerda floja desde que recibió el respaldo de Estados Unidos para liderar el país de manera interina; equilibrando el mantener a los leales a Maduro en casa mientras intenta asegurar que la Casa Blanca esté satisfecha.
Ahora, casi un mes después de asumir su nuevo cargo, Rodríguez respondió a la presión de Estados Unidos, que incluye una serie de exigencias para que Venezuela reanude la producción de petróleo.
“Ya basta de las órdenes de Washington sobre los políticos en Venezuela”, dijo a un grupo de trabajadores petroleros en la ciudad de Puerto La Cruz, en un evento transmitido por el canal estatal Venezolana de Televisión.
“Que la política venezolana resuelva nuestras diferencias y nuestros conflictos internos. Esta República ha pagado un precio muy alto por tener que enfrentar las consecuencias del fascismo y el extremismo en nuestro país”.
La Casa Blanca ha mantenido una presión constante sobre Venezuela desde que Maduro y su esposa, Cilia Flores, fueron capturados en una redada a principios de enero y llevados a Estados Unidos, donde el exlíder enfrenta cargos.
Rodríguez, exvicepresidenta de Maduro, ha insistido en las últimas semanas en que Estados Unidos no gobierna Venezuela, pero, al mismo tiempo, no ha buscado la confrontación con Washington.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dijo que su país “iba a administrar” Venezuela inmediatamente después de la captura de Maduro, pero luego respaldó a Rodríguez como presidenta encargada del país.
CNN ha contactado a la Casa Blanca para obtener comentarios sobre la última declaración de Rodríguez.
Durante los últimos 25 años, la Venezuela socialista y rica en petróleo ha estado en constante confrontación con Estados Unidos. Pero tras la destitución de Maduro, Washington ahora busca asegurar una fuente estable de autoridad en Caracas.
Internamente, el país sigue dividido entre los leales a Maduro, la oposición de izquierda y los “chavistas no-maduristas”; es decir, partidarios del fallecido Hugo Chávez que rechazan a Maduro y lo acusan de traicionar los ideales socialistas del siglo XXI.
Días después de los ataques estadounidenses en Caracas a principios de enero, la administración Trump presentó una serie de exigencias que Venezuela debía aceptar, incluyendo cortar lazos con China, Irán, Rusia y Cuba, y acordar asociarse exclusivamente con Estados Unidos en la producción de petróleo, según dijeron en ese momento a CNN dos altos funcionarios de la Casa Blanca.
También se esperaba que Rodríguez diera prioridad a la administración Trump y a las empresas petroleras estadounidenses para futuras ventas de petróleo.
El principal motor económico de Venezuela es el petróleo. El país posee las mayores reservas mundiales de crudo extrapesado, una variedad que requiere un proceso de refinación más complejo y costoso, pero que también es compatible con las refinerías estadounidenses.
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- Private jet carrying 8 people crashes at Maine airport
Private jet carrying 8 people crashes at Maine airport
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By Pete Muntean, Zoe Sottile, Alexandra Skores, CNN
(CNN) — A private jet carrying eight people crashed on takeoff from Bangor, Maine, Sunday evening, according to the FAA.
The extent of their injuries was not known, a source briefed on the incident told CNN.
“First responders are still on the scene and are expected to be actively working the site for several more hours before any additional information is available,” the City of Bangor and Bangor International Airport said in a statement Sunday, without revealing the cause of the crash.
The airport told CNN emergency crews responded to an incident around 7:45 p.m. The FAA and NTSB will investigate the crash, according to a statement from the FAA, and the airport remained closed overnight Sunday.
The plane is a Bombardier Challenger 650 business jet and is registered to a limited liability corporation in Houston, according to federal records.
The crash comes amid a massive snowstorm making its way through the Northeast. Temperatures were well below freezing in Maine, with light snow causing very low visibility.
Minutes before the crash, controllers and pilots at Bangor Airport can be heard talking about low visibility and deicing, though it is not immediately clear who is talking to whom, according to audio obtained from LiveATC.net.
A controller clears the pilot for takeoff on Bangor’s Runway 33.
Nearly two minutes later, a controller loudly radios: “All traffic is stopped on the field! All traffic is stopped on the field!”
Moments later, another controller is heard saying, “Aircraft upside down. We have a passenger aircraft upside down.”
The airport is then closed, and emergency vehicles are allowed to drive on the airfield.
A controller later states they are aware of “three crew and possibly five passengers” on board.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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- Gun rights groups and legal experts question Trump administration’s stance on the Second Amendment after shooting
Gun rights groups and legal experts question Trump administration’s stance on the Second Amendment after shooting
By Devan Cole, Josh Campbell, CNN
(CNN) — Claims by Trump administration officials that the man fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis lacked a right to possess a firearm and that his killing was justified are being dismissed by legal experts and assailed by gun rights groups ordinarily aligned with the president.
The rhetoric from Trump law enforcement officials, including his FBI director and the top Border Patrol agent, goes against the decadeslong GOP effort to throttle gun control rules.
“They’ve stood up in court and tried to push back against state laws that regulate firearms — access, use, carry — so it’s pretty shocking to me to see them now use an example of a lawful gun owner as justification for force,” Megan Walsh, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who specializes in the Second Amendment, said of the Trump officials’ comments.
A federal immigration officer shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday after wrestling the lawful gun owner to the ground as he was recording agents with a phone. At least one officer can be heard shouting “he’s got a gun” as one officer appears to reach into Pretti’s waistband. An officer appears to step away holding Pretti’s weapon, and then a shot rings out about a second later, followed by at least nine more, videos reviewed by CNN show.
“We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct and impede law enforcement officers and, most especially, when you mean to do that beforehand,” Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday:
Bovino, who has been leading the administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, did not cite evidence on his claims that Pretti committed violence or interfered with agents or that the protest was a “riot.”
Minnesota has for years allowed the open and concealed carry of a handgun with a license issued after an applicant meets certain criteria, and state regulations do not restrict such individuals from having firearms at protests. The state’s laws are so permissive that licensed firearm owners are even allowed to bring guns into Minnesota’s Capitol building.
Yet FBI Director Kash Patel, one of several administration officials who rushed to defend the shooting, said on Fox News: “You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.”
“No one who wants to be peaceful shows up at a protest with a firearm that is loaded with two full magazines,” he added.
Walsh said she sees “no gray in this situation.”
“He was lawfully carrying a firearm, and that is not any license to kill someone,” Walsh said. “We have a Constitution that provides a Second Amendment individual right, and it is unlawful to kill a man for exercising his constitutional rights.”
Walsh noted that the Trump administration’s rhetoric toward Pretti is out of step with its opposition to state firearms regulations. Just last week, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to strike down a Hawaii law that bans people from carrying guns onto private property without the explicit approval of the property owner, arguing it trampled on Second Amendment rights.
Amy Sweasy, a
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- Otro tiroteo en Minnesota convierte la represión migratoria en un ajuste de cuentas nacional
Otro tiroteo en Minnesota convierte la represión migratoria en un ajuste de cuentas nacional
Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN
Otro tiroteo mortal en Minnesota a manos de agentes federales demuestra que la represión de Donald Trump ha ido mucho más allá de los inmigrantes indocumentados.
El despliegue de fuerzas federales en Minneapolis está poniendo a prueba entendimientos de larga data sobre los derechos constitucionales y la moderación, humanidad y rendición de cuentas que quienes gobiernan deben a los gobernados en una sociedad democrática.
Al insistir en que los detalles de dos muertes que millones de estadounidenses vieron en videos de teléfonos celulares no ocurrieron, altos funcionarios de la administración están fracturando la realidad e insinuando que su poder descarado puede ejercerse con impunidad.
Y al prejuzgar y distorsionar la tragedia en su desenlace inmediato, los funcionarios han perjudicado una investigación que ellos mismos llevarán a cabo sobre uno de los hechos más graves que pueden ocurrir en una república: que las fuerzas del orden del Gobierno maten a un ciudadano.
Se está gestando un momento de ajuste de cuentas nacional sobre los principios incrustados en los cimientos morales y legales de Estados Unidos, que este año serán ensalzados en las celebraciones del 250 aniversario de la Declaración de Independencia.
El tiroteo de Alex Pretti también tiene implicaciones políticas más prosaicas. Es el último incidente que plantea dudas sobre si Trump, con su aprobación disminuida en la mayoría de los temas, perdió el apoyo público apenas un año después de iniciar su segundo mandato. La respuesta intransigente de la administración es también otra señal de que podría estar dispuesta a desafiar las consecuencias políticas —incluso en un año de elecciones de medio término— en su carrera por cambiar irrevocablemente a Estados Unidos y al mundo.
Todo indicaba el domingo que la Casa Blanca no dará marcha atrás. Pero CNN informó sobre inquietud entre funcionarios del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional ante el enfoque agresivo y polarizador de la secretaria Kristi Noem. La exgobernadora de Dakota del Sur podría ser vulnerable si Trump decide cambiar de rumbo.
La tragedia del sábado también presentó a los demócratas un nuevo dilema: equilibrar las fuertes demandas de sus bases para intentar frenar el Gobierno autoritario de Trump, teniendo solo un poder limitado en Washington. El partido espera mantener la atención en la mayor debilidad actual del presidente: su negación de una crisis de asequibilidad que afecta a las familias trabajadoras.
En el pasado, los demócratas han tropezado cuando Trump los ha acusado de ser débiles en materia de crimen e inmigración y hostiles a las fuerzas del orden. Pero la presión política es tan intensa que algunos senadores demócratas prometen bloquear un proyecto de ley de financiamiento del DHS, lo que podría provocar un cierre parcial del Gobierno al final de la semana.
La muerte el sábado de Pretti, enfermero de cuidados intensivos y ciudadano estadounidense, apareció rápidamente en millones de teléfonos celulares con detalles horribles y gráficos. Una vez más, a menos de tres semanas del tiroteo mortal de Renee Good, fuerzas federales abatieron a un habitante de Minnesota y profundizaro
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| 27- SB Athletic Round Table hands out several awards at luncheon
SB Athletic Round Table hands out several awards at luncheon
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Five awards were handed out at the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon at Harry's while two awards were given out at the Northern Santa Barbara County Athletic Round Table gathering at Hancock College.
There was a double dose of Athlete of the Week Awards since there was no luncheon last week as school was out for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The two boys winners are Carpinteria High School soccer player Carlos Garcia and San Marcos basketball senior Koji Hefner.
Garcia scored three goals in two wins for the Warriors while Hefner stuffed the box score to lead the Royals to win over rival Santa Barbara. Hefner racked up 18 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 steals.
The two girls winners are from water polo. Reagan Mack had 45 blocks to lead Dos Pueblos to the Ocean View Tournament championship.
Harvard-bound senior Bethany King totaled 32 blocks to help San Marcos to a third place finish at the Newport Elite 8 Tournament. The Royals beat defending CIF-SS Open Division champion Oaks Christian.
Providence High School awarded junior Gavin Rutland the Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award.
Rutland plays both indoor and beach volleyball for the Patriots and carries a 4.26 GPA.
At Hancock College the girls Athlete of the Week honor goes to Valley Christian Academy basketball player Katelynn Mikkelson who scored a career-high 28 points with 12 rebounds in a win over Cabrillo.
The boys winner is Santa Maria basketball player Julius Medina who recorded a triple-double in a win over Morro Bay. He scored 16 points with 14 rebounds and 10 assists.
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- El gobierno de Trump deporta a iraníes por primera vez desde la brutal represión de las protestas
El gobierno de Trump deporta a iraníes por primera vez desde la brutal represión de las protestas
Por Jennifer Hansler
La administración Trump envió a una decena de iraníes de regreso en un vuelo de deportación el domingo, dijo a CNN una fuente familiarizada con el asunto.
Fue el primer vuelo de deportación conocido desde que estallaron las protestas antigubernamentales en Irán, en las que miles de personas han muerto. El presidente Donald Trump amenazó con represalias contra Irán si ejecuta a manifestantes, y aunque ha afirmado que su gobierno mantiene conversaciones con Teherán, no ha descartado la amenaza de una acción militar.
Según una fuente, 14 iraníes estaban a bordo del vuelo que salió el domingo.
CNN informó el viernes que se esperaba la deportación de decenas de iraníes el domingo. Sin embargo, parece que varios iraníes a quienes se les dijo que viajarían en el vuelo no lo hicieron debido a la exposición al sarampión.
Un funcionario de la Casa Blanca declaró que, si bien la administración no suele hacer comentarios sobre vuelos específicos para proteger la seguridad operativa, cualquier persona deportada tendría órdenes finales ejecutables, lo que significa que un juez federal ha ordenado su expulsión de Estados Unidos. La administración mantiene su compromiso de utilizar todas las opciones legales para llevar a cabo la mayor operación de deportación masiva de inmigrantes ilegales delincuentes de la historia.
CNN se comunicó con el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas y la Misión de Irán ante la ONU para solicitar comentarios.
Bekah Wolf, abogada de dos iraníes a quienes se les había dicho que estarían a bordo del vuelo, dijo que sus clientes habían sido puestos en cuarentena debido al virus altamente infeccioso y no estaban en el vuelo del domingo.
Sin embargo, es solo un alivio temporal para los dos hombres, que son homosexuales y enfrentan “una probabilidad extremadamente alta” de ser ejecutados si se ven obligados a regresar a Irán, dijo Wolf a CNN el viernes.
Tanto Wolf como la otra fuente afirmaron que es probable que haya futuros vuelos de deportación a Irán. El del domingo fue el tercer vuelo tras un inusual acuerdo entre Washington y Teherán, países que no mantienen relaciones diplomáticas.
Uno de los hombres, que habló con CNN el viernes, dijo que su mensaje para el presidente estadounidense fue: “Si te preocupas por la gente, por favor déjanos quedarnos”.
“No somos malos seres humanos. Amamos este país. Si pudiéramos vivir en él, lo amaríamos más que a nuestra patria, porque nuestra patria está capturada. Está arruinada. Está destruida por el gobierno de Irán”, dijo.
“Vinimos a este país buscando seguridad”, añadió. Pidió no ser identificado por temor a represalias.
Existe preocupación por la deportación de iraníes en medio de la continua represión del régimen. La Agencia de Noticias de Activistas de Derechos Humanos (HRANA), con sede en Estados Unidos, informó el domingo que al menos 5.520 manifestantes han muerto desde que comenzaron las manifestaciones antigubernamentales a finales de diciembre, incluidos 77 menores, y se están analizando otras 17.091 muertes. HRANA indicó que 41.283 personas han sido arrestadas.
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- Auction houses are rebranding as cultural destinations amid a topsy-turvy market
Auction houses are rebranding as cultural destinations amid a topsy-turvy market
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
New York (CNN) — At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, Bonhams will relocate its American headquarters next month. The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an opulent neoclassical rotunda in the historic Steinway Hall.
It’s a move that follows on the heels of Sotheby’s transformation of the Breuer Building, just one mile north, displaying coveted high-priced treasures in a space that has long functioned as a museum.
Both represent a push for auction houses to bring in the public, drawing them in with larger exhibitions, as well as their proximity to famed institutions such as Carnegie Hall or the many others that stretch up Museum Mile.
“It’s often said that auction houses are such a mystery behind doors, but we want to be approachable. People can just walk in,” said Lilly Chan, the managing director of Bonhams US, while showing the new space under construction. “We really want to make this space a cultural destination.”
Bonhams occupies what’s defined as the mid-range market, mostly offering lots priced between $50,000 to $1 million, while the top three — Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips — court sellers and buyers at the vertiginous top end. With the new headquarters, Chan explained, Bonhams hope to widen their base of collectors through their larger exhibition space and programming around how to start or improve a collection across art, jewelry, antiquities, wine and other collectibles.
“When you walk in, there will be diversity in what you’re going to see,” Chan said. “When new collectors come in, we say that jewelry or watches are the gateway drug to collecting.”
A widening wealth gap
In recent years, auction houses have expanded their categories as luxury goods and collectibles have helped buoy their sales. The art market, in whiplash fashion, experienced pupil-dilating highs just after the pandemic, a lethargic two-year slump, then a sudden multi-billion-dollar rebound in the fall. Entering 2026, the question remains: Are these the signals of a strong, recovering market? Or another extreme swing of the pendulum, guided by the ultrawealthy closing and opening their wallets?
According to a year-end market report by the firm ArtTactic, despite its rosy outlook, the data hints at the latter, as the reverse in fortunes was led by a renewed appetite for $10-million-plus trophy lots at Christie’s and Sotheby’s — most notably, a $236-million Klimt painting. But the momentum extended to the mid-market, too, with Bonhams seeing its strongest week of modern and contemporary art sales to date.
Time will tell if the streak continues, but long term, auction houses have a conundrum to solve. As prices push higher and the wealth gap widens, how many people will be able to afford to buy art?
“Art has become so much more expensive in the last 10 years,” said Saara Pritchard, a New York–based art advisor who previously worked at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. For contemporary art — a category that has faltered for three years after record highs — the artworks and artists who were previously considered the mid-market have rapidly changed, Pritchard explained; collectors who could nab a work from an important established artist can now barely afford works by emerging artists.
“Because art became so expensive so quickly in the contemporary category, it also skipped over a lot of collectors who could have bought really great things,” she said. She paints a picture of a narrowing market, where auction houses and blue-chip galleries chase the same handful of top-spenders, or “whales,” rather than deepening the pool beyond the ultrarich.
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- What to do if ICE shows up at your workplace
What to do if ICE shows up at your workplace
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN
(CNN) — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone to many workplaces over the past year, both at high-profile companies like Target and Hyundai as well as businesses that don’t grab headlines.
Workplace immigration enforcement operations are not new and have occurred under many presidential administrations, according to the American Council on Immigration. But these efforts have proliferated as “part of President Trump’s efforts to increase the detention and deportation of unauthorized noncitizens,” ACI notes.
The agency’s aggressive tactics this past year – especially when agents make their presence known in public areas in or near an employer, such as a parking lot – have had a chilling effect on businesses in areas where ICE has been operating.
Legal and HR experts are advising employers to prepare for any potential visitation involving ICE, not just a raid or conducting operations near a worksite. That might include, for instance, an audit of the I-9 employee eligibility verification forms that must be completed by employers and those they hire.
“Being prepared ahead of an audit or raid can greatly reduce anxiety, panic and risk,” said Maddie Grippin, assistant general counsel at HR outsourcing solutions firm Engage PEO, in a written reply to CNN.
That preparation shouldn’t be confined to higher-ups. It should involve all employees, including frontline workers, because they may be the first point of contact once ICE arrives, said Shanon Stevenson, a partner at labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips. The firm provides clients with a preparedness checklist for ICE audits and raids.
Give staff a point person to contact
Every workplace should designate an onsite manager to be an immigration point person, Stevenson said.
This person should ask to see any warrants from the ICE agents and email a copy to the employer’s immigration attorney. That attorney should quickly review the scope of access that the warrant allows. (See below.)
If ICE first approaches an employee who’s not the immigration point person, that employee should say they don’t have authority to grant them access and let them know they will get someone, Stevenson said. In all cases, she added: “Be respectful. Don’t argue with the agents.”
If there is a locked glass door between you and the agents before they’ve gained entry, you might ask them to hold up their warrant and take a picture, Stevenson recommended.
Understand what a warrant permits
ICE doesn’t need a warrant to access areas that are open to the public, such as lobbies and parking lots.
But to gain access to non-public parts of a workplace – such as employee break rooms, private offices or warehouse floors – ICE will need either: (a) the express consent of the employer; or (b) a judicial warrant, which will have the court’s name at the top and a judge’s signature at the bottom.
That judicial warrant is a court order, said Ian Macdonald, an attorney and partner in the labor and employment
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| 28- Justice Department expects to release its Epstein files soon, top officials say
Justice Department expects to release its Epstein files soon, top officials say
By Rashard Rose, CNN
(CNN) — Top Justice Department leaders said in a court filing Tuesday they expect to release the department’s Jeffrey Epstein-related files “in the near term.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton told two federal judges the department could not “provide a specific date” for when it would complete its review of the files.
The update comes as the Justice Department faces enormous pressure to release all of its files after Congress passed a law in November – with near-unanimous support – giving the department a December 19, 2025, deadline to do so. Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls, died by suicide in 2019.
The filing, a letter sent to Judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer in the Southern District of New York, is the latest update from the Justice Department as it continues to review and release materials.
The officials wrote in the letter that “the Department has reviewed millions of pages of materials” along with video and audio recordings and has made “substantial progress” in identifying documents and completing redactions to protect victims.
“The Department is not able to provide a specific date at this time and cautions that its ongoing processes, including its quality control checks and document management system preparations, may require additional efforts to ensure the protection of victim identifying information while complying with the broad demands of the Act,” the letter said.
The letter said DOJ efforts have included “manual review by hundreds of Department attorneys, agents and others” who have “dedicated days and weeks” to the effort. CNN previously reported on the department’s scramble to review documents, asking for career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the winter holidays to help redact the documents.
The files are made up of papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI’s main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI’s two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades. A July 2025 FBI memo said that the department had uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” during a review of the investigative materials.
The Justice Department earlier this month said it had released 12,285 documents — less than 1% — of its Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still in review.
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS between January 9-12 found that few Americans are satisfied with the amount of evidence released in the Epstein case, with most saying they believe the government is intentionally holding back information.
A two-thirds majority of Americans said the federal government is intentionally holding back some information about the Epstein case that should be released, while just 16% said the government is making an effort to release all information possible. The remainder said they haven’t heard enough about the case to say.
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- San Marcos and Dos Pueblos girls water polo advance to finals of Channel League Tournament
San Marcos and Dos Pueblos girls water polo advance to finals of Channel League Tournament
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San Marcos 17, Santa Barbara 4: USC-bound senior Charlotte Raisin and freshman Natalie Klan each scored five goals as San Marcos cruised to a 17-4 semifinal win at the Channel League Tournament.
The Royals led 6-0 after the first quarter and 10-0 at halftime.
Earlier in the day Santa Barbara beat Ventura 16-6 in a first-round game. Standout sophmore Jules Horton scored 8 goals for the Dons who will play Buena for third place on Wednesday at 3:10 p.m. at DP.
Dos Pueblos 20, Rio Mesa 2: Parker Bryant scored 4 goals to lead DP to a lopsided win over the Spartans. Juliet Writes, Cora Smith and Devon Fitzgibbons scored three goals apiece for the Chargers.
Dos Pueblos 14, Buena 10: Kyra Jones scored 4 goals while Talia Marshall added 3 goals to help the Bulldogs pull away in the fourth quarter. Reagan Mack had 12 saves for DP.
The league final is 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday at Dos Pueblos.
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- ‘We all have to be brave’: Meet the woman whose video of Alex Pretti’s killing contradicted the administration’s claims
‘We all have to be brave’: Meet the woman whose video of Alex Pretti’s killing contradicted the administration’s claims
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By Michael Williams, CNN
(CNN) — Stella Carlson was supposed to spend Saturday morning painting children’s faces at a church. It would have been a welcome contrast to the weekslong onslaught of federal immigration enforcement and protests that have overwhelmed her home in the Twin Cities.
Being an active participant in her community is important for Carlson, and she had spent the last three weeks learning about mutual aid and participating in grassroots efforts to warn her neighbors of impending federal immigration action. The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier this month proved to Carlson and other Minnesotans that the potential for danger as an observer was not abstract.
“I know every time I leave my vehicle or leave my house and I put that whistle around my neck, I know because of Renee Good, the risk,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper during an interview Tuesday. “I think we all knew after that happened, it is now at that point, and it could be any of us.”
But she had no way of knowing that she would soon watch a man die — or that her video of that fatal incident would serve as a crucial counter to the Trump administration’s initial efforts to paint Alex Pretti as a wannabe assassin or domestic terrorist.
On her way to work, and wearing a pink jacket that would become instantly recognizable from other videos of the incident, Carlson heard the sound of whistles that have become the ubiquitous warning of the arrival of immigration officers.
She drove down Nicollet Avenue and saw what she described as a brawl in the street. She thought of Good, who was also driving her car when she was fatally shot. This was when she first noticed Pretti directing traffic.
“It felt like somebody in my opinion, in my background, who was doing a risk assessment and found his place in this moment to be useful,” she said of Pretti.
Carlson got out of her car and began recording.
The video Carlson took showed that Pretti, who had a permit to carry a concealed pistol, never brandished his gun, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem first claimed he did (Carlson said she didn’t even know Pretti had been armed until after he was shot, and wouldn’t have gotten so close if she had known). Nor did he approach law enforcement with the intent to assassinate them, as Stephen Miller, the architect of the White House’s immigration policy, also claimed.
Instead, Carlson’s video showed that the 37-year-old ICU nurse who treated veterans spent his last moments trying to help a woman who had been knocked down.
The video also showed that Pretti’s handgun had been removed from its holster by an officer seconds before he was pinned down and shot multiple times, including in his back.
“I remember him arching his back and his head rolling back,” Carlson said. She
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- U.S. Women’s Soccer crushes Chile in front of sold out crowd at UCSB
U.S. Women’s Soccer crushes Chile in front of sold out crowd at UCSB
UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The United States Women's National Team put on quite a show at Harder Stadium with plenty of fireworks and even a much-talked about dance routine.
Croix Bethune, Jameese Joseph and Emily Sams all scored their first international goals and the United States went on to beat Chile 5-0 on Tuesday night in front of 14,797 fans at UCSB.
Emma Sears and Trinity Rodman also scored for the United States, which hasn’t conceded a goal in five matches.
Coach Emma Hayes went with a completely different starting lineup in the match at UC Santa Barbara than the one she used on Saturday for the team’s 6-0 victory over Paraguay in Carson, California. Players on the roster averaged 5.2 national team appearances, fewest for a lineup since 2001.
“I think in both games, the team, regardless of its inexperience as a collective, regardless of the connections that are there because they haven’t played together before, I think they showed an awful lot of maturity in the performance, and that’s all I can ask from them,” Hayes said. “They always do me proud. But I’m impressed by everybody’s approach.”
Bethune, who plays for the Washington Spirit, opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Chile goalkeeper Ryann Torrero came out to stop Bethune, who was rushing at the goal alone, but the strike got past her.
(Bethune fought through a challenge to score her first international goal. Entenza Design).
Joseph, who plays for the Chicago Stars, earned her first start for the United States and scored in the 26th minute.
(Emily Sams, serving as captain, scored in the 33rd minute to put the U.S. up 3-0 in the first half. Entenza Design).
The United States made it 4-0 just 28 seconds into the second half with a goal from Sears that went to the far post and into the upper corner. Rodman scored in her second straight match in the 68th minute, just five minutes after she came on.
(Crowd favorite Trinity Rodman scored and had a memorable dance celebration. Entenz
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| 29- A year after the tragic DCA midair collision, first responders and others are remembered by victims’ families as heroes
A year after the tragic DCA midair collision, first responders and others are remembered by victims’ families as heroes
By Alexandra Skores, CNN
(CNN) — Doug Lane had to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life last January.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission and an American Airlines flight landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport collided over the Potomac River, less than a mile from the runway.
Lane’s wife, Christine, and 16-year-old son, Spencer – an award-winning figure skater – were on board the commercial jet.
More than 400 miles away, Lane was with their younger son at home in Rhode Island.
“There’s no playbook that you ever learn about (this),” he said. “I have my wife and son potentially in the Potomac River. Am I supposed to immediately leave and go down there? Am I supposed to stay with my son? Am I supposed to bring him with me?” he thought as he struggled with the decision.
He ultimately decided to leave his son with family, while he and his sister traveled to face the devastation.
The crash – the deadliest US aviation accident in over 20 years – killed 67 people – 64 passengers and crew members on the jet and three soldiers on the helicopter.
A year’s worth of investigative meetings and hearings on Capitol Hill would follow.
Now a federal investigation has nearly concluded, and the National Transportation Safety Board has determined the close helicopter routes and the Army crew’s perception of the wrong plane to be the probable cause of the collision.
In the days following the collision, Lane and the other victims’ families felt tremendous sorrow and loss after suffering the unimaginable. Mixed within those unbearably difficult moments were the instances of kindness and generosity shown by the first responders and personnel on the scene who, families say, treated them and their loved ones with respect and compassion.
CNN sat down with some of the first responders and medical personnel who braved cold, dark waters to search for the 67 people and asked them to reflect on the work they did, all while preserving the dignity of the families.
‘A really thick smell of jet fuel’
DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly Sr. says he remembers that frigid, winter night vividly. He was coming back from dinner at 8:48 p.m., when he heard the radio call from the DC fire team. Less than 10 minutes later, at 8:57 p.m., his crew reported the stench of jet fuel. He said it only took a few minutes to confirm it was an American Airlines regional commercial aircraft that had crashed.
“I knew at that point we were really going to have a big event,” Donnelly said. That night, he had conversations with the DC police chief and DC city administrator, and even spoke to the White House Situation Room several times.
Timothy Ochsenschlager, a diver with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Harbor Patrol Unit, was among the first dive teams to be dispatched. He remembered the loud sounds of helicopters overhead, and multiple search boats along the surface of the dark water.
“There was a really thick smell of jet fuel,” Ochsenschlager said. “The water had kind of a rainbow sheen to it, and it was really calm. There weren’t any waves or anything. I remember, just the entire airport shoreline just looked like it was all red and blue emergency lights, there had to have been 100 ambulances, fire trucks, police cars and everything.”
Helicopters departed later in the evening, and it became, “eerily quiet,” Ochsenschlager said.
“There are no planes landing at the airport, so there was nothing in the sky,” he said. “There were no boats going really fast around us. Everybody who was working there was really calm, just doing their job. When one person would get tired, there was so
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- Channel League boys basketball: San Marcos wins 7th straight, Dons move closer to title
Channel League boys basketball: San Marcos wins 7th straight, Dons move closer to title
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -
San Marcos 61, Dos Pueblos 51: The Royals exploded for 29 points in the third quarter to take a 54-31 lead heading into the fourth quarter. The Chargers used a 14-0 run to make it close but San Marcos held them off for a seventh straight win. The Royals lost at DP earlier this month.
(San Marcos gets revenge on DP with a 10-point win. Entenza Design).
Brody Green and Koji Hefner scored 16 points apiece while Sergio Landeros added 15 points as the Royals improve to 10-2 in league.
(Sergio Landeros scored 8 of the Royals 12 first quarter points. Entenza Design).
Santa Barbara 76, Oxnard 58: Levi Oakes poured in a game-high 24 points to lead the Dons to a crucial road win. Santa Barbara leads the Channel League by one game over San Marcos with just two games left. The Dons are 11-1 in league and host Ventura on Friday.
Pacifica 59, Buena 54: Tommy Williams and Will Jones Jr. scored 19 points apiece for the Tritons.
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- Bomb cyclone to bring major winter storm to the Southeast. Northeast could see a glancing blow or a lot of snow
Bomb cyclone to bring major winter storm to the Southeast. Northeast could see a glancing blow or a lot of snow
By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman
(CNN) — A rapidly strengthening storm is expected to develop off the Southeast coast this weekend amid a deadly cold outbreak, bringing a high likelihood of snow and strong winds to parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia – just days after a historic winter storm blasted large parts of the East Coast.
Farther north along the Interstate-95 corridor, the forecast is less certain, with small shifts in the storm’s track potentially bringing a blockbuster blizzard or a breezy day with some light snow in major Northeast cities.
Models are increasingly aligned on a low-pressure system forming off the Carolinas early Saturday and intensifying rapidly into a bomb cyclone. How closely the storm hugs the coast as it moves north through the weekend will determine how much snow, if any, falls across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Southeast: heavy snow, punishing winds, coastal erosion likely
Forecast confidence is highest across parts of the Southeast, including the Carolinas and southern Virginia, where accumulating snow and strong winds will likely begin Saturday.
Models agree that the storm will track close enough to bring snow to this region even with modest shifts in its path. While exact snowfall totals are still being refined, the signal for accumulation is strong enough to raise concerns about hazardous travel, especially with cold air already firmly in place.
The highest snow totals are expected closer to the coast in North Carolina and Virginia, where cities like Raleigh, North Carolina, and Roanoke, Virginia, could receive between 6 and 12 inches of snow. Lighter totals are expected inland, and some models show flakes flying as far west as Atlanta, Knoxville and Roanoke.
Strong winds could further worsen conditions, leading to blowing snow and the potential for scattered power outages if heavier snow bands develop. Snow is expected to continue into Sunday as the storm intensifies offshore.
Mid-Atlantic and Northeast: close shave between a blizzard and a blustery day
Farther north into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, forecast confidence drops sharply, with the storm’s eventual track playing a critical role in determining impacts.
As of early Thursday, areas closer to the coast and farther north into New England appear to have the best chance of seeing accumulating snow. Even so, a shift of just 100 to 200 miles could dramatically change outcomes, particularly for cities along the Interstate-95 corridor.
A track that hugs the coast could bring a significant snowstorm with damaging winds and dangerous cold. A slightly farther offshore track would likely result in a glancing blow, delivering light snow or mainly windy conditions for cities such as Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City.
Boston has a better chance of seeing snow given its position farther east, closer to the storm’s likely path.
Coastal impacts: beach erosion, high surf, coastal flooding likely
Even in areas that miss out on snow, coastal impacts remain a serious concern along parts of the East Coast as the storm rapidly intensifies offshore.
According to NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center, “Wind gusts near hurricane-force will coincide with astronomical high tides, producing moderate to locally significant coastal flooding.”
Strong winds, high surf and beach erosion are possible from the Southeast coast into parts of the Northeast, particularly if the storm strengthens quickly while tracking closer to shore. Coastal flooding will depend on the storm’s strength, timing and pr
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- Bomb cyclone to bring major winter storm to the Southeast. Northeast could see a glancing blow or a lot of snow
Bomb cyclone to bring major winter storm to the Southeast. Northeast could see a glancing blow or a lot of snow
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By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman
(CNN) — A rapidly strengthening storm is expected to develop off the Southeast coast this weekend amid a deadly cold outbreak, bringing a high likelihood of snow and strong winds to parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia – just days after a historic winter storm blasted large parts of the East Coast.
Farther north along the Interstate-95 corridor, the forecast is less certain, with small shifts in the storm’s track potentially bringing a blockbuster blizzard or a breezy day with some light snow in major Northeast cities.
Models are increasingly aligned on a low-pressure system forming off the Carolinas early Saturday and intensifying rapidly into a bomb cyclone. How closely the storm hugs the coast as it moves north through the weekend will determine how much snow, if any, falls across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Southeast: heavy snow, punishing winds, coastal erosion likely
Forecast confidence is highest across parts of the Southeast, including the Carolinas and southern Virginia, where accumulating snow and strong winds will likely begin Saturday.
Models agree that the storm will track close enough to bring snow to this region even with modest shifts in its path. While exact snowfall totals are still being refined, the signal for accumulation is strong enough to raise concerns about hazardous travel, especially with cold air already firmly in place.
The highest snow totals are expected closer to the coast in North Carolina and Virginia, where cities like Raleigh, North Carolina, and Roanoke, Virginia, could receive between 6 and 12 inches of snow. Lighter totals are expected inland, and some models show flakes flying as far west as Atlanta, Knoxville and Roanoke.
Strong winds could further worsen conditions, leading to blowing snow and the potential for scattered power outages if heavier snow bands develop. Snow is expected to continue into Sunday as the storm intensifies offshore.
Mid-Atlantic and Northeast: close shave between a blizzard and a blustery day
Farther north into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, forecast confidence drops sharply, with the storm’s eventual track playing a critical role in determining impacts.
As of early Thursday, areas closer to the coast and farther north into New England appear to have the best chance of seeing accumulating snow. Even so, a shift of just 100 to 200 miles could dramatically change outcomes, particularly for cities along the Interstate-95 corridor.
A track that hugs the coast could bring a significant snowstorm with damaging winds and dangerous cold. A slightly farther offshore track would likely result in a glancing blow, delivering light snow or mainly windy conditions for cities such as Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City.
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| 30- They were asylum seekers and refugees in Minnesota. Still, ICE detained and flew them to Texas to face deportation
They were asylum seekers and refugees in Minnesota. Still, ICE detained and flew them to Texas to face deportation
By Ray Sanchez, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
(CNN) — Two days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota reportedly tackled a home caregiver from sub-Saharan Africa to the snowy pavement and took her away in a van, a close friend made the 1,400-mile journey to a controversial Texas detention facility where she’s being held.
“She was so surprised to see me,” said her friend, Justin, a 40-year-old home caregiver who asked his full name not be used for fear of retaliation. “She never believed that anybody knew where she was.”
She isn’t alone.
Dozens of asylum seekers like her, as well as refugees who passed a rigorous, years-long vetting process before being admitted to the United States, have been arrested in Minnesota in recent weeks, immigration lawyers and advocates say.
The immigrants are shackled and placed on flights to detention facilities in Texas, where they are forced to recount painful asylum claims with limited or no contact with family members or attorneys, lawyers and advocates say. Some, after days of interviews with officers, have been released in Texas without money, identification or phones. Others remain detained without information about why they’re being held.
“It really is a campaign of terror. It is designed to scare people,” said Laurie Ball Cooper, vice president for US legal programs at the International Refugee Assistance Project. “I know there have been many tales of disorganization. I’m not sure this is one.”
Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, acknowledged Thursday the immigration enforcement effort in Minnesota needed to be “fixed” and said his team was working on a drawdown plan while sharpening the focus of operations on undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
Deployed by the administration to Minneapolis to manage ICE operations in the wake of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, Homan said not “everything that’s been done here has been perfect” and that “certain improvements can and should be made.”
‘Arrest first, investigate later’
The refugees come from countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria, El Salvador, Venezuela and Russia, Ball Cooper said. They entered the US legally but cannot apply for permanent status until a year after they’ve been admitted to the country, as required under US law. Ball Cooper and other advocates have been in touch with some of those refugees, who they say have not been charged with crimes or immigration violations that would leave them open to removal proceedings.
“I am aware of cases where the person was arrested, detained in Minnesota and put on a plane (to Texas) in 90 minutes or less,” Ball Cooper told CNN, adding that attorneys and advocates in Minnesota and Texas have been left scrambling to connect with many of the refugees.
Late Wednesday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from arresting or detaining resettled refugees in Minnesota while a class-action lawsuit challenging the practice plays out. The judge also ordered the immediate release of all detained refugees in Minnesota, as well as the release of those taken out of the state within five days and gave the government 48 hours to provide a list of detained refugees.
A handful of refugees in the case are represented by the International Refugee Assistance Project and other legal and advocacy organizations. The suit and attorneys for the plaintiffs accuse federal officers of “hunting down” resettled refugees door-to-door and transferring them to facilities in Texas.
“It’s a fishing expedition,” Ball Cooper said of the administration’s targeting of refugees, including chi
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- Gauchos fall in final seconds to Big West leader UC San Diego
Gauchos fall in final seconds to Big West leader UC San Diego
UC SANTA BARBRA, Calif. (KEYT) - In the final moments of their Thursday evening game, the UC Santa Barbara Women's Basketball team fell 52-49 to the visiting UC San Diego Tritons. A strong defensive performance by the Gauchos was paired with a hesitant offensive effort that ultimately allowed the Tritons to overpower their hosts.
FROM HEAD COACH RENEE JIMENEZ
"I thought we were too conservative the entire game. They have to decide that in a game like this, especially when our defense is doing such great work for us, and we were just passing up shots. You're not going to get a better one than the one that's in front of you," Jimenez said.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Gauchos left the first behind by just one after a back-and-forth with their opponents. Olivia Bradley put the Gauchos on the board first with a layup, but San Diego went on to hold a slight lead for the majority of the quarter. The Blue and Gold bounced back with a free throw and three-pointer to finish the first 13-12, San Diego.
Santa Barbara surged in the second, this time finishing the quarter ahead by one themselves at 28-27. They spent the quarter sinking threes, making four in a row before polishing off their progress with two layups. The Gauchos reached a seven-point lead, but the Tritons came back by six before the half. San Diego then possessed the third quarter, outscoring the Gauchos 12-6, and left the third ahead at 39-34.
Jessica Grant got the Gauchos within reaching distance of the Tritons with a three-pointer at the start of the fourth. Then, facing a 41-37 deficit, freshman Chauncey Andersen turned on her jets and scored ten points in a row – single-handedly bringing the Gauchos to their own four-point lead.
The Tritons, however, would take over the remaining minutes and score nine more points to bag the win. The game was tied at 49-49 for the final stages of the quarter, but a last-second layup and free throw combination by Makayla Rose placed the Tritons ultimately ahead at 52-49.
Andersen had her best collegiate outing yet, getting her first double-double and leading the team in both rebounds and points at 13 and 17. She also shot 55%, going five for nine. Bradley also reached double digits, sinking 15 to bolster the Gaucho offense.
UP NEXT
The Gauchos visit Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 31 to wrap the month of January. They will tip off at 2:00 p.m. in TItan Gym.
(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)
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- Gauchos get defensive at UCSD for fifth straight win
Gauchos get defensive at UCSD for fifth straight win
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KEYT) - The UC Santa Barbara men's basketball team won their fifth straight game Thursday night, defeating UC San Diego for the first time since the 2022-23 season. The Gauchos did not allow any second-chance points and limited the Tritons to their lowest scoring output of the season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Both teams started cold, combining to go 3-for-10, and the Tritons narrowly led 4-2. Out of the first media timeout, the Gauchos scored on four straight possessions to take a 13-9 lead. The Gauchos got two three-pointers from CJ Shaw, one three from Colin Smith and an easy lay-in by Marvin McGhee IV.
The Gauchos kept extending their lead through the middle part of the half after back-to-back threes by Miro Little and Shaw put the Gauchos up 20-11. Momentarily, UC Santa Barbara led by double digits, but a basket by the Tritons cut it back to single digits.
The remainder of the period was back-and-forth, with the Gauchos taking a slight advantage late as they went into halftime with a 13-point lead, 35-22. The Gauchos forced the Tritons into tough shots throughout the first half as they made just nine field goals, shot 33.3 percent from the field, and 22.2 percent from beyond the arc. Santa Barbara also forced eight turnovers.
The second half started much like the first, with the teams shooting just a combined 21 percent from the field. The Tritons made two baskets and three free throw enroute to an 8-2 run that cut the UC Santa Barbara lead to seven.
Coming out of the first media timeout, the Gauchos went on a 7-0 run of their own to take a 14-point lead with just over 12 minutes remaining. After extending their lead to 14, the game would turn back-and-forth through the middle part of the half as the Gauchos hung on to their double-digit lead.
Down the stretch, the Gauchos took over. Zion Sensley hit a second-chance three-pointer before Little put the Gauchos up 17 at the three-minute mark after a pair of free throws. The Gauchos held on to the double-digit lead down the stretch
NOTABLES
The Gauchos held the Tritons to their lowest scoring output of the year, 48 points. Additionally, the Gauchos held UC San Diego to 36 percent from the field, the lowest shooting percentage they have allowed to an opponent this season.
The Gauchos' 17 forced turnovers are the second most they have forced this season and the most against a Division I team this season.
Four Gauchos scored in double figures, with Miro Little leading the way with 15.
The Gauchos' 23 points off turnovers marked the second most this season and the most against a Division I team.
Despite UC San Diego grabbing nine offensive rebounds, UC Santa Barbara did not allow any second-chance points.
UP NEXT
The Gauchos return to The Thunderdome on Saturday, Jan. 31, to host Cal State Fullerton at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+ with live stats available.
(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)
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| 31- This cute AI-generated schoolgirl is a growing far-right meme
This cute AI-generated schoolgirl is a growing far-right meme
By Issy Ronald, CNN
(CNN) — At first glance, Amelia, with her purple bob and pixie-girl looks, seems an unlikely candidate for the far right to adopt as an increasingly popular meme.
Yet, for the past few weeks, memes and AI-generated videos featuring this fictional British teenager have proliferated across social media, especially on X. In them, Amelia parrots right-wing, often racist, talking points, connecting her celebration of stereotypical British culture with anti-migrant and Islamophobic tropes.
She sips pints in pubs, reads “Harry Potter” and goes back in time to fight in some of Britain’s most famous battles. But she also dons an ICE uniform to violently deport migrants and embraces such extreme rhetoric that even British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has posted videos of her. It’s an unlikely life for a schoolgirl.
But Amelia has other characteristics that have made her “memeable” – namely, that she was originally created two years ago for a computer game as part of the British government’s anti-extremist Prevent program.
The game, called “Pathways: Navigating Gaming, the Internet & Extremism,” was developed by Shout Out UK (SOUK), a nonprofit attempting to improve public understanding of politics, as part of a learning package funded by the UK’s Home Office.
It aimed to educate young people about the dangers of online radicalization, requiring them to navigate six different scenarios using multiple-choice options. Users play as a cartoon character, “Charlie,” who joins a new school and makes friends with “Amelia,” who shares anti-migrant ideas and disinformation before attempting to recruit Charlie to join anti-migrant groups and protests.
The game was relatively simple, and it was picked apart online for the logical leaps it made in each of its scenarios, though it is “not supposed to be played in isolation,” as SOUK CEO Matteo Bergamini told CNN.
Instead, it was meant to be part of a “wider learning package that allows teachers to facilitate more nuanced discussions about what constitutes healthy and safe behaviors and what could be potentially unsafe and/or illegal,” he explained.
Amelia’s appearance was “not particularly significant,” Bergamini said, but experts say her being a White, purple-haired girl who espouses far-right ideas inadvertently created an avatar who could be coopted by the online right.
She “ticks a lot of boxes” for that group, which, in its specific, sarcastic, online tone, memes everything, said Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, an analyst at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue.
Her role in the game embodies the broad “stereotypes” many right-wingers have of the British government – namely that they perceive it to be “anti-White” and a “nanny state,” he told CNN.
And, importantly, she is a beautiful woman with the same views as them. “It’s striking how many of the edits are highly sexualized” at the same time as similar accounts “accuse migrants of being sexual predators and sexually deviant,” Venkataramakrishnan added.
When asked for comment, a Home Office spokesperson told CNN that its Prevent strategy “has diverted nearly 6,000 people away from violent ideologies, stopping terrorists and keeping our country safe.” The local council for whom the game was made hasn’t yet responded to CNN asking whether the game was still in use.
‘Degree of plausible deniability’
The meme first started spreading on January 9, after The Telegraph, a right-leaning British newspaper, ran an article titled “The Prevent video game that treats every teenager like a far-Right extremist.” Bergamini de
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- From a recalibration in Minnesota to an Epstein files release: Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic week
From a recalibration in Minnesota to an Epstein files release: Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic week
By Adam Cancryn, CNN
(CNN) — For a brief moment following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, President Donald Trump appeared to recalibrate.
Faced with mounting outrage over the second killing of a US citizen in an encounter with federal agents, Trump swiftly moved the head of his Minnesota immigration crackdown out of the state. He placed conciliatory calls to Democratic state leaders he’d previously mocked. And he pressed ahead with a series of economy-centric events.
It was a display of discipline encouraged by top aides and advisers, who were eager to change the subject. Trump even declined to take questions at a cabinet meeting and an Oval Office event — avoiding any chance that his freewheeling style could spark a new controversy.
Then in the wee hours of Friday morning, Trump took to Truth Social.
“Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down,” the president posted at 1:26 am ET, referring to new video of a clash between Pretti and federal agents several days before his killing. “It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control.”
The remarks, which threatened to reignite tensions in Minneapolis, came ahead of Trump’s announcement later that morning of his pick for Federal Reserve chair — a long-anticipated selection that Trump seemed eager to promote. But even that was soon overshadowed by the Justice Department’s arrest of journalist Don Lemon and then the release of millions more files related to Jeffrey Epstein. They included unverified tips about Trump, who has consistently denied wrongdoing.
That chaotic 12-hour span summed up an extraordinary week of whiplash within the Trump administration, as officials raced to stamp out one raging political fire just as two more cropped up elsewhere across the federal government.
It also underscored the deepening challenge facing Trump and Republicans in a midterm year meant to home in on the administration’s core accomplishments — only for that plan to be repeatedly derailed by the latest controversy, often driven by Trump himself.
“We go from a winning message to a losing message in an hour,” one Republican advising GOP campaigns said of the onslaught of news driven by the West Wing. “There’s a lot of balls in the air.”
In a statement, White House spokesman Kush Desai dismissed the focus on what he called “one contrived scandal after another.”
“Over the past year, the Trump administration has delivered one major victory after another, from swiftly securing the border to cooling inflation to signing new drug pricing deals,” he said, adding that Trump’s election gave him a “mandate to enforce our immigration law and end Joe Biden’s economic disaster.”
Yet the last several days represented the latest example of the difficulty facing the administration in driving its preferred narrative. Trump kicked off a January that aides had long telegraphed would mark a sharp pivot to domestic priorities by instead launching a surprise raid on Venezuela. He then spent several days locked in a war of words with European allies over his desire to own Greenland — an affair that overshadowed new domestic housing policy proposals the administration had spent weeks teasing.
Pretti’s killing and the subsequent rush by top Trump officials to label the ICU nurse a “terrorist” and an “as
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- These nets used to catch fish. Now they’re catching Russian drones
These nets used to catch fish. Now they’re catching Russian drones
By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko and Tim Lister, CNN
(CNN) — Nets once used to protect tulips in the Netherlands are getting a new lease of life – protecting Ukrainian soldiers and civilians from Russian drones.
So are discarded fishing nets and all sorts of mesh that can stop a drone from hitting its target. Across Europe, farmers and fishermen are collecting such items in an effort to save lives thousands of miles away.
Russia’s drones target the Ukrainian army’s supply routes and rear bases, often threatening to cut off units on the front lines. But they also strike hospitals and civilian traffic.
One area frequently subject to drone attacks is the southern city of Kherson, and what the Ukrainians call the “roads of life” that connect it with the outside world – routes that are protected from Russian attacks as far as possible.
“On average, the Russians launch about 2,500 UAVs on our communities every week. As a result of these attacks, 120 people have died in the Kherson region this year,” Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, deputy head of the Kherson Military Administration, told CNN in November.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said it verified that 2,514 civilians were killed and 12,142 injured in conflict-related violence in 2025, many of them far from the front lines.
Over the past year, a growing number of nets have been strung up. Hospital courtyards, generators and shopping streets in the city are now protected. On open roads, poles are used to provide a canopy of netting.
“Work is now underway to reinforce roads – dozens of kilometers of routes are already protected by nets,” Tolokonnikov said, explaining that a wide variety of nets have been tested for their durability.
“Thanks to a combination of measures and bold decisions, our military is now able to destroy 80-95% of the drones that the Russians launch at our communities.”
Tulips and tuna
The nets are being trucked across Europe by a variety of volunteer groups. One of the largest – Life Guardians – is run by Klaas Pot in the Netherlands. His team has sent more than 8,000 tons of nets to Ukraine, he says, about half the total received.
Pot began by collecting nets to be used as camouflage for Ukrainian soldiers.
“I knew that these nets had more potential, because they were already starting to use them for anti-drone purposes,” Pot told CNN.
“I know that, for instance, the road between Kherson and Mykolaiv is particularly dangerous and they have made a ‘road of life’ there,” he said, adding that at least part of it is protected by the nets his team have collected.
Tulip nets are made from warp-knitted polyethylene and are lightweight and durable. Normally, they cover bulbs in the ground and are mechanically lifted to streamline harvesting. They can thwart small FPV (first-person view) drones and quadcopters, which are used in their thousands on and beyond the front lines.
Fishing nets are stronger than the tulip nets, Pot said, and so are used more often to protect tanks and artillery. Now, he explained, they are also being used to defend Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure, which comes under Russian drone attack almost daily.
Other groups across Europe have joined in. Operation Change in Sweden collects nets that have gone unused by fishermen because of EU fishing quotas, sending some 400 tons of them to Ukraine to date. Norwegian Volunteer Aid has sent salmon-fishing nets that would normally be recycled after use. And in the United Kingdom, the group Read more
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- Gaza’s Rafah crossing partially reopens after nearly 2 years of closure
Gaza’s Rafah crossing partially reopens after nearly 2 years of closure
By Tal Shalev and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN
(CNN) — The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt began a trial phase on Sunday ahead of its planned reopening that will allow a limited number of Palestinians to leave the war-torn enclave and completing the first phase of the US-brokered ceasefire plan.
The crucial crossing, which has been largely closed since Israel seized it in May 2024, underwent a series of preparations from the European Union, Egypt, and other parties that will be involved in running the crossing, according to Israel’s Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
The crossing will only be open for the “limited passage of residents only,” COGAT made clear, but it did not give a date for how soon residents will be allowed to cross. Ali Shaath, the head of the Palestinian technocratic committee that is supposed to run Gaza, said on social media that the crossing will open in both directions on Monday.
An Israeli security official told CNN that 150 Palestinians a day will be allowed to leave Gaza, but only 50 will be allowed to enter.
The full reopening of the Rafah crossing was part of the first phase of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement that went into effect in mid-October. But Israel refused to open the crossing until the return of all of the living and deceased hostages. The final deceased hostage, Ran Givili, was returned to Israel last week.
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| 2- These young brothers sacrifice normal teenage life to be full-time ICE watchers in Minneapolis — and say they won’t regret it
These young brothers sacrifice normal teenage life to be full-time ICE watchers in Minneapolis — and say they won’t regret it
By Sophia Peyser, Danya Gainor, CNN
(CNN) — The teenagers’ names are Sam and Ben, but to the federal immigration agents they interact with daily, the two boys wielding cell phones and taking down plate numbers are a duo known as “the brothers.”
The 16- and 17-year-old Chicago siblings said they have earned an array of nicknames since becoming dedicated witnesses documenting the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz — the turbocharged immigration crackdown that swept through Windy City neighborhoods starting in September.
Now, the boys are trailing agents in Minneapolis, following the epicenter of immigration enforcement in the US as it’s shifted north to the Twin Cities. They are part of a ballooning wave of observers across the North Star State, where tensions have soared during encounters between thousands of federal agents and protesters — unwavering and furious — in the wake of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Sam and Ben Luhmann are trained ICE watchers, documenting federal immigration agents’ actions with cell phone video and quickly warning of agents’ locations with whistles and car horns. Their efforts are reflective of a growing movement across the country as thousands of parents, teachers, clergy members and community organizers have sought training on what they can legally do when they see an immigration arrest.
The Trump administration, however, has criticized bystanders recording immigration officials during enforcement operations. In July, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said “violence” against the agents includes “videotaping (ICE officers) where they’re at when they’re out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles.”
Critics of the immigration crackdown say observers are necessary, given what they describe as dangerous tactics by federal agents that put people at risk. Trump administration officials counter that they are taking necessary steps to keep Americans safe and said ICE officers are facing a significant increase in assaults. Federal officials also said officers are exercising restraint despite facing threats and attacks.
The brothers now couch surf between family members’ homes and Airbnbs, intent on documenting what some describe as the unprecedented aggressiveness of Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
“(Federal agents are) constantly pushing people and beating them up, kneeing them in the face when they’re down on the ground, or shoving their head into ice or pavement so that they’re scraped up,” Ben said.
The homeschooled boys spend their days in south Minneapolis following suspected federal vehicles in their silver 2018 Toyota Corolla, writing down license plate numbers and sending immigration agents’ locations in group chats with other observers.
When the agents stop, so do the brothers, jumping out into frigid temperatures to film
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- ‘Golden’ wins K-pop’s first Grammy. Is this a breakthrough moment?
‘Golden’ wins K-pop’s first Grammy. Is this a breakthrough moment?
By Gawon Bae, CNN
Seoul (CNN) — “We’re goin’ up, up, up, it’s our moment,” proclaim virtual girl band Huntr/x in their hit song “Golden.” And the lyrics couldn’t have been more apt as the song from Netflix megahit “Kpop Demon Hunters” made history on Sunday by claiming K-Pop’s first-ever Grammy.
“Golden” was already a global chart-dominating force, but taking home the Best Song Written for Visual Media award in Los Angeles is a milestone moment for K-pop – a genre that despite its growing influence on Western pop culture has long been considered niche.
“It does feel so miraculous in some ways. And destined in other ways … We’re just trying to process it all,” said Audrey Nuna, who lends her voice to a member of Huntr/x in the film.
The Grammy itself went to the songwriters of “Golden” EJAE, Park Hong Jun, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Seo Jeong Hoon and Mark Sonnenblick. And is the first win for any Korean songwriters, or producers.
Accepting the award, Seo Jeong Hoon, who goes by the name 24, paid tribute to his mentor Park Hong Jun – known as Teddy – who he called “the pioneer of K-pop.”
It was only in 2021 that a K-pop act first earned a Grammy nomination – that was superband BTS, who have been nominated five times but have never won.
This year, songs released by K-pop – or K-pop-adjacent – artists received nominations in five categories, though only “Golden” took away a prize.
In recent years the genre has gained huge global fandom as more groups – like Blackpink and Twice – broke into the US charts, went on world tours, and collaborated with big American artists.
And the genre’s influence was evident throughout Sunday’s Grammys broadcast. The awards kicked off with Blackpink’s Rose singing the chart-topping collaboration “APT” with Bruno Mars, as stars in the audience sang along.
Later, a multinational K-pop girl group KATSEYE grasped the stage with its “Gnarly” performance. Both were nominated for number of categories but were short of winning an award.
While the win for “Golden” is historic, K-pop fans questioned if the song really fits the genre.
“Not to say they didn’t deserve it (because they did). But I still don’t understand which part of Golden was Kpop. It was a 100% English song, in an English animation, for an English speaking audience. The only thing “K” about it were the singers,” one wrote on X after the award was announced.
Areum Jeong, assistant professor of Korean Studies at Arizona State University, told the Associated Press that songs like “APT” and KATSEYE’s “Gabriela” – also Grammys nominees – “seem less K-pop than other K-pop songs that could have been nominated over the years.”
She said the nominations strike her more as “a de-territorialized, hybrid idea of K-pop,” rather than a recognition of K-pop.
The number of K-pop nominations for Grammys in 2026 “tells you that K-pop is not considered as something niche anymore,” Mathieu Berbiguier, a visiting assistant professor in Korean Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, told Associated Press.
“Now, when we think about pop music in general, we also think of K-pop as part of it,” he said.
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By Gawon Bae, CNN
Seoul (CNN) — “We’re goin’ up, up, up, it’s our moment,” proclaim virtual girl band Huntr/x in their hit song “Golden.” And the lyrics couldn’t have been more apt as the song from Netflix megahit “Kpop Demon Hunters” made history on Sunday by claiming K-Pop’s first-ever Grammy.
“Golden” was already a global chart-dominating force, but taking home the Best Song Written for Visual Media award in Los Angeles is a milestone moment for K-pop – a genre that despite its growing influence on Western pop culture has long been considered niche.
“It does feel so miraculous in some ways. And destined in other ways … We’re just trying to process it all,” said Audrey Nuna, who lends her voice to a member of Huntr/x in the film.
The Grammy itself went to the songwriters of “Golden” EJAE, Park Hong Jun, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Seo Jeong Hoon and Mark Sonnenblick. And is the first win for any Korean songwriters, or producers.
Accepting the award, Seo Jeong Hoon, who goes by the name 24, paid tribute to his mentor Park Hong Jun – known as Teddy – who he called “the pioneer of K-pop.”
It was only in 2021 that a K-pop act first earned a Grammy nomination – that was superband BTS, who have been nominated five times but have never won.
This year, songs released by K-pop – or K-pop-adjacent – artists received nominations in five categories, though only “Golden” took away a prize.
In recent years the genre has gained huge global fandom as more groups – like Blackpink and Twice – broke into the US charts, went on world tours, and collaborated with big American artists.
And the genre’s influence was evident throughout Sunday’s Grammys broadcast. The awards kicked off with Blackpink’s Rose singing the chart-topping collaboration “APT” with Bruno Mars, as stars in the audience sang along.
Later, a multinational K-pop girl group KATSEYE grasped the stage with its “Gnarly” performance. Both were nominated for number of categories but were short of winning an award.
While the win for “Golden” is historic, K-pop fans questioned if the song really fits the genre.
“Not to say they didn’t deserve it (because they did). But I still don’t understand which part of Golden was Kpop. It was a 100% English song, in an English animation, for an English speaking audience. The only thing “K” about it were the singers,” one wrote on X after the award was announced.
Areum Jeong, assistant professor of Korean Studies at Arizona State University, told the Associated Press that songs like “APT” and KATSEYE’s “Gabriela” – also Grammys nominees – “seem less K-pop than other K-pop songs that could have been nominated over the years.”
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- A prosecutor’s 18-year-old child was there when Charlie Kirk was shot. Is that a conflict of interest?
A prosecutor’s 18-year-old child was there when Charlie Kirk was shot. Is that a conflict of interest?
By Andi Babineau, CNN
(CNN) — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man charged with the murder of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, will appear in a Provo, Utah, courtroom Tuesday as his attorneys resume their questioning of Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray, whose office is prosecuting the case.
This hearing is the second in the defense team’s bid to get the county attorney’s office tossed from the case, citing a conflict of interest.
Robinson’s defense is arguing because the 18-year-old child of one of the prosecutors was present when Kirk was killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in September, a conflict of interest exists. The defense says the entire office should be removed because “no effort was made to shield their prosecution of this case from his conflict,” according to the motion to disqualify filed in December.
The county attorney’s office has repeatedly denied having a conflict of interest because the 18-year-old, a student at UVU, “did not see Charlie get shot,” and “did not see anyone (in the crowd or elsewhere) with a gun,” court documents show.
The office contends the 18-year-old will not be called as a witness in the case because their knowledge of the incident, despite being present, “is based entirely on hearsay.”
Does the 18-year-old’s presence qualify as a conflict of interest? Here’s what legal experts say.
What constitutes a conflict of interest?
Robinson’s defense cited Utah’s Code of Judicial Administration in their filing, which states attorneys can’t be involved in cases with “a concurrent conflict of interest,” which may include “a personal interest of the lawyer.”
But conflict of interest arguments are rarely accepted by the courts, according to Paul Cassell, a criminal law professor with the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.
“There’s a presumption of good faith for prosecutors, and more broadly the government, and without some clear showing that there is reason to doubt the fairness of the proceedings, generally the proceedings will move forward,” Cassell said. “The chances of this prevailing based on other similar claims that have been presented are very, very low.”
Still, CNN Legal Analyst Joey Jackson says the court will weigh whether the parties “are making decisions predicated upon the merits, the facts, the law, and the circumstances only, and that there are no outside influences that are going to impact the judgments that are being made.”
The defense estimated some 3,000 people were present at the event in their filing and attached declarations from five witnesses, some of whom described the scene as “pure panic” and “chaotic” in their accounts, with one disclosing, “I thought I was about to die.”
The county attorney’s office, in its opposition to the disqualification motion, said comparing the defense’s witness statements to that of the prosecutor’s child shows “just how unnecessary (the child’s potential testimony) is in the case.”
“It’s ultimately going to turn on, how did the (adult child) witnessing that impact, impair, affect the decision, if at all,” Jackson said. “The issue before the court is whether an actual conflict – not a perceived conflict – has been presented and can be established based upon the chain of events.”
If the judge does agree there is a conflict of interest, Cassell said the response would more likely be “disqualifying a person who has been tainted by a particular conflict,” rather than an entire office.
To disqualify the full office would be a serious step, according to Cassell, because the Utah
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| 3- Alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson heads back to court to try and oust prosecutors from case
Alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson heads back to court to try and oust prosecutors from case
By Andi Babineau, Nick Watt, CNN
(CNN) — Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, will appear in a Utah courtroom Tuesday for another hearing addressing whether the prosecutor’s office has a conflict of interest and should be removed from the case.
Robinson’s defense argues they should, because the 18-year-old child of one of the prosecutors is a student at Utah Valley University and was in the crowd on September 10, 2025, when Kirk was killed.
The proceedings will be the second day of argument on the issue, picking up at the same place a January 16 hearing ended: with Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray testifying under oath about what his office knew about the child’s presence at the event as the shooting unfolded and in the following hours and days.
18-year-old did not see Kirk get shot, county attorney’s office says
Robinson’s team was made aware of the possible conflict via email on October 20, Gray said, a little over a month after Kirk was killed.
The issue was first addressed in court four days later during a sealed hearing, a transcript of which has since been released publicly with redactions.
The county attorney’s office has repeatedly denied having a conflict of interest because the student, referred to as “adult child (AC)” in court documents, “did not see Charlie get shot,” and “did not see anyone (in the crowd or elsewhere) with a gun.”
Gray testified in January he found out about the shooting from the student’s father, who is a member of the executive team at the county attorney’s office and one of the prosecutors assigned to the case.
Gray said the two were at an event together in Layton, Utah, when his colleague, “Prosecutor A,” showed Gray a text from his child saying, “CHARLIE GOT SHOT.”
Gray did not meet or speak to the prosecutor’s adult child at the university following the shooting because students had left the scene by the time they arrived, he said.
He testified as he understood it, “the child was not in that line of fire,” a detail Gray said is important because the charging documents allege when Kirk was killed, the shooter “placed others in grave risk of death.”
Three more witnesses expected to testify
Gray’s testimony on Tuesday is expected to last for about 40 more minutes before the next witness is called, Robinson’s attorney Richard Novak said at the end of the last hearing.
Before Judge Tony Graf makes a ruling, the court will hear from three more witnesses: the prosecutor in question, his adult child and Special Agent Cole Christensen with the investigations division at the county attorney’s office.
Christensen helped determine where the student was located in the crowd relative to the positions of both Kirk and the shooter.
Graf denied a defense request to close the entirety of the January hearing but said he would consider further requests on a witness-by-witness basis.
Based on available court documents and the attempts of both parties to protect the student’s identity, the courtroom will likely be closed to the public during their testimony.
Robinson has not yet entered pleas for the slew of charges he’s facing, including aggravated murder, felony use of a firearm, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, along with several victim targeting enhancements and an aggravating factor of having committed a violent offense in the presence of a child.
He won’t be arraigned until after his preliminary hearing, which has been scheduled to begin May 18 and is expected to last three days.
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- Don Lemon defends his reporting of anti-ICE protest in Minnesota during interview with Jimmy Kimmel
Don Lemon defends his reporting of anti-ICE protest in Minnesota during interview with Jimmy Kimmel
By Karina Tsui, Brian Stelter, CNN
(CNN) — Independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon defended his coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul, Minnesota, church, which resulted in his arrest last week, telling Jimmy Kimmel on Monday that as a journalist, he “went there to chronicle and document and record what was happening.”
“There is a difference between a protester and a journalist,” Lemon said on Kimmel’s late-night show in his first interview since he was released without bail last Friday.
Lemon and another independent journalist, Georgia Fort, were livestreaming as dozens of demonstrators interrupted a service at Cities Church on January 18, leading to tense confrontations. Protesters said one of the pastors is a top ICE official in the Twin Cities.
Federal prosecutors lumped the two journalists in with protesters and charged them with conspiring to violate someone’s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act, which prohibits the use of force or threats to intentionally interfere with someone expressing their First Amendment right to practice religion.
Trump administration officials had called for Lemon’s arrest in the days after the protest, prompting him to take precautionary measures and hire an attorney, he said.
“The attorney reached out to (prosecutors) and said basically, ‘I understand that you have an interest because your folks have been talking about it. So, if you are serious about this, then let’s do it the right way,” Lemon told Kimmel, describing his willingness to turn himself in.
But instead of being able to surrender voluntarily, Lemon said, at least a dozen federal agents were sent to arrest him in the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel, where he was staying while covering the Grammys.
Lemon said he was “jostled” near a hotel elevator and placed in handcuffs, adding it took a while for agents to identify themselves and present him with a warrant.
“I think my attorney tried to contact them once, maybe twice –– that I could just go in and it would have to be just the folks who were just working there that day. They wouldn’t have to have all these people following me around,” Lemon said.
“They want to embarrass you, they want to intimidate you, they want to instill fear,” Lemon told Kimmel.
Federal prosecutors have alleged Lemon and Fort participated in a “takeover-style attack” of the church and intimidated congregants. A federal prosecutor in court last week said Lemon told his audience the protest’s purpose was to make the experience traumatic and uncomfortable for the congregants.
Lemon was released from custody on Friday after appearing in federal court. Prosecutors requested a $100,000 bond, and argued Lemon needed conditions to ensure he wouldn’t feel emboldened to do something similar while awaiting trial.
His defense attorneys agreed he would have no contact with known witnesses, victims or co-defendants, and must get approval for any foreign travel – the judge approved a trip to Europe planned in June.
He is expected to be arraigned on Monday in Los Angeles.
First Amendment advocates and civil rights organizations have condemned the charges and argued the administration is trying to chill press freedom.
Hollywood support for Lemon
The choice of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for Lemon’s first post-arrest interview was no accident. The Trump administration’s targeting of Kimmel made news in September when ABC briefly suspended the show amid government pressure
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- Cuando Trump lanza amenazas electorales, es mejor creerle
Cuando Trump lanza amenazas electorales, es mejor creerle
Análisis por Stephen Collinson
Cuando parece que el presidente Donald Trump se está preparando para interferir en una elección, la historia reciente sugiere que hay que creerle.
Este lunes demostró una vez más que está obsesionado con las elecciones de medio término, dos días después de que una sorpresa demócrata en un distrito del Senado estatal confiablemente republicano en Texas ofreciera otra señal ominosa para su partido en noviembre.
“Los republicanos deberían decir: ‘Queremos tomar el control, deberíamos tomar el control de la votación, la votación en al menos 15 lugares’. Los republicanos deberían nacionalizar la votación”, dijo Trump. “Tenemos estados que son muy corruptos y están contando votos. Tenemos estados que gané, pero que muestran que no gané”.
La última amenaza del presidente a la integridad de las elecciones estadounidenses llegó en una entrevista con Dan Bongino, hasta hace poco subdirector del FBI, quien ahora ha recuperado su manto como el “padre del grupo” en su programa que promueve MAGA.
En esencia, el comentario de Trump fue absurdo, ya que la Constitución exige que los estados celebren elecciones. Este principio se ha defendido en múltiples ocasiones ante los tribunales, incluso en casos presentados por el presidente alegando falsamente fraude.
El Artículo I, Sección 4, de la Constitución es muy claro: “Las fechas, lugares y forma de celebrar las elecciones de senadores y representantes serán prescritos en cada estado por su Asamblea Legislativa; pero el Congreso podrá, en cualquier momento, mediante ley, dictar o modificar dichas normas, excepto en lo que respecta a los lugares de elección de senadores”.
No se menciona al presidente. Es deliberado.
David Becker, CEO del Centro de Innovación e Investigación Electoral, afirmó que Trump demuestra una “increíble falta de comprensión de las protecciones constitucionales que nuestros fundadores crearon con tanta sabiduría al fundar nuestra nación”. Añadió: “Cuando redactaron la Constitución, los fundadores estaban muy preocupados por la posibilidad de que un ejecutivo sin escrúpulos intentara tomar el poder manipulando la mecánica electoral”.
John Jones, ex juez del tribunal de distrito de Pensilvania, afirmó que la sugerencia de Trump era flagrantemente inconstitucional. “No lo digo como una falta de respeto, sino directamente. El presidente de Estados Unidos necesita leer la Constitución”, declaró Jones a Brianna Keilar de CNN el lunes. “Lo que propone es ilegal”.
La advertencia de Trump fue uno de sus esfuerzos más evidentes hasta la fecha para crear un discurso de sospecha en torno a las elecciones de noviembre, en caso de que el Partido Republicano tuviera un mal desempeño debido a su caída en las encuestas. Esta es una táctica habitual. Trump sentó las bases para sus falsas afirmaciones de que las elecciones fueron robadas en 2020, meses antes de que se emitieran los primeros votos en su derrota ante Joe Biden.
Ahora, mientras Trump palidece ante el escrutinio que enfrentaría si los demócratas recuperan la Cámara de Representantes, este proceso se ve más siniestro. La administración ha creado una infraestructura para cuestionar la legitimidad de las elecciones federales o para manipularlas antes de que se celebren. Es una fuente de lealtad incuestionable a Trump.
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- The key questions surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance
The key questions surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance
By Elise Hammond, CNN
(CNN) — Law enforcement believes Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her bed in Arizona, but they’ve been tight-lipped about what details lead them to that conclusion about the 84-year-old mother of “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie.
Guthrie was last seen at her home in the Catalina Foothills near Tucson Saturday night and police say time is of the essence to find her, especially since she is without crucial medication she takes daily.
When law enforcement arrived at the house Sunday, they found things that were “very concerning,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said, and that kicked off a criminal investigation.
Here are the key questions and what we know about the case.
What happened?
Guthrie was last seen Saturday when her family brought her home from dinner around 9:30 p.m., Nanos told CNN. They got her in the house and she went to bed, he said.
When she did not show up to church Sunday morning, a church member called her family, who went to her home around 11 a.m. to look for her, the sheriff said at a news conference Monday.
A family member called 911 around noon Sunday to report her missing, Nanos said, and homicide detectives were sent to the home.
“Something that they told me about that scene made me believe that there’s more than just a missing person,” Nanos said about the decision to set in motion a criminal investigation. “We still hope she’s alive and we continue with those missions of search and rescue.”
Nanos said investigators believe she was abducted from her bed “but cannot speak as to why.” Officials do not know what time Guthrie was taken, Nanos added.
What have investigators found at the house?
Law enforcement is treating Guthrie’s house as a crime scene and has described the circumstances around her disappearance as suspicious, Nanos has said.
The case is “not dementia-related,” Nanos said at a Monday morning news conference, and Guthrie is “of great sound mind” and “sharp as a tack.” But she also has limited mobility and “couldn’t walk 50 yards,” the sheriff said, leading investigators to believe she was taken from the house.
“This isn’t somebody who wandered off,” Nanos said.
“We also have some things at that scene that indicate to us that she was removed from that scene against her will. I can’t go into all those details,” Nanos said, saying it’s to protect the integrity of the case.
He also declined to give information about whether it appears Guthrie was hurt during the incident.
Asked by CNN whether Guthrie could have been part of a kidnapping-for-ransom plot, given her daughter’s high profile, Nanos said that is not the direction investigators are taking, but “we’ll never rule it out.”
Investigators also do not believe it was a home invasion or robbery gone wrong, Nanos told MS NOW, adding they’re also not dismissing that possibility, either.
Right now, “time is very critical” in finding her, the sheriff said at the news conference. Guthrie takes daily medication that “could be fatal” for her to go without, he said. However, there is no indication there is a threat to the public, Nanos said.
Who’s involved in the investigation?
Local law enforcement is leading the investigation, and FBI agents from across Arizona are “fully engaged” and offering numerous technical resources to local authorities, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CNN. This includes assisting with analysis of data from cell phone towers near the Guthrie home.
A priority for investigators right now is downloading security footage from the house, he said. Private comp
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| 4- El ex príncipe Andrés se muda del Royal Lodge de Windsor, según entiende CNN
El ex príncipe Andrés se muda del Royal Lodge de Windsor, según entiende CNN
Por Max Foster
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, anteriormente conocido como el príncipe Andrés de Reino Unido, se mudó de su antigua casa en Windsor y ahora reside en Norfolk, Inglaterra, según ha sabido CNN.
En octubre, se le ordenó a Mountbatten-Windsor que abandonara el enorme Royal Lodge de 30 habitaciones en el corazón de la finca Windsor de la Corona, en las afueras de Londres, después de que su hermano, el rey Carlos III, lo expulsara de la monarquía debido al escándalo de Jeffrey Epstein.
Se esperaba que la medida se produjera después de la temporada navideña, pero se produce en medio de una renovada presión sobre Mountbatten-Windsor después de que apareció nuevamente en un conjunto recientemente publicado de documentos del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos relacionados con la investigación del delincuente sexual convicto fallecido.
Fuentes reales informaron a CNN el año pasado que Mountbatten-Windsor recibirá una casa en la finca privada del rey en Sandringham y que también recibirá ingresos de Carlos. La BBC, la cadena pública británica, informó que ahora se aloja en una propiedad temporal en Sandringham mientras se realizan reformas en su residencia permanente.
Se espera que Mountbatten-Windsor realice visitas ocasionales a Windsor en las próximas semanas mientras se completa una fase de transición, según entiende CNN.
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- Ryan Routh to be sentenced Wednesday for attempted assassination of Trump in 2024 at Florida golf course
Ryan Routh to be sentenced Wednesday for attempted assassination of Trump in 2024 at Florida golf course
By Holmes Lybrand, Randi Kaye, CNN
(CNN) — After plotting, stalking and lying in wait for the right moment to shoot and kill then-former President Donald Trump, the man who set up a sniper’s nest on the edge of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida and was thwarted by a Secret Service agent, will be sentenced Wednesday.
Ryan Routh was convicted of five counts in September after a disastrous attempt to represent himself at trial – where he was constantly reprimanded by the federal judge presiding, Aileen Cannon.
Cannon will be tasked with determining Routh’s sentence for the convicted charges, which include attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. Routh is expected to argue in court Wednesday against prosecutors’ attempts to add a terrorism enhancement to increase his sentence.
“He’s his own man, he doesn’t follow the advice that lawyers give him, but he’s well within his rights to say whatever is on his mind and whatever is on his chest,” Martin Roth, an attorney for Routh hired after his conviction, told CNN.
Roth said that his client’s comments Wednesday “will be unusual” and likely “will only be partially about the case.”
Prosecutors are asking Cannon to impose a life sentence.
“Routh’s crimes undeniably warrant a life sentence – he took steps over the course of months to assassinate a major Presidential candidate,” prosecutors said in a court filing last month. Routh “demonstrated the will to kill anybody in the way, and has since expressed neither regret nor remorse to his victims.”
During his trial, Routh was constantly shut down by Cannon after veering into off-topic areas or potential explanations for his actions, including drug use.
The failed plot
According to evidence presented at trial, Routh had been near the golf course and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in the weeks leading up to his thwarted assassination attempt. Burner phones used by Routh also showed searches for “Trump’s upcoming rallies” and “Palm Beach traffic cameras.”
In a letter quickly uncovered by investigators, Routh had written a confession of his attempt to assassinate Trump, writing on the first page: “I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”
There’s no indication Routh had the money to fund his offer.
Armed with an old, Soviet-styled rifle and protected by armored plates hanging over the fence, Routh set his sights on the sixth hole of Trump’s golf course on September 15, 2024, with the former president playing a round of golf one hole back, just minutes away.
A Secret Service agent, tasked with clearing the area ahead of Trump, spotted Routh’s partially obscured face and the barrel of a rifle sticking through the chain-linked fence bordering the course.
With the gun pointed at him, the agent fired several shots from his pistol before taking cover behind a tree and radioing in the threat.
Routh fled the scene but was spotted by a citizen, Tommy McGee, crossing the street, getting into a vehicle and driving away.
McGee, who testified at Routh’s trial, took down the license plate of the car and was later flown that same day to where local authorities located and stopped Routh to identify the would-be assassin.
During his cross-examination at trial, Routh told McGee, “You’re a good man. You’re my hero. You’re an American hero.”
Other evidence presented at trial showed Routh plotting his getaway, searching terms like “Directions to Miami airport” and “flights to Mexico.”
A unique trial and near-deadly end
Routh chose to represent himself early on in his case, including through public court filings before trial where he called Trump
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- Nuevos archivos profundizan un misterio crítico sobre quienes se juntaron con Jeffrey Epstein
Nuevos archivos profundizan un misterio crítico sobre quienes se juntaron con Jeffrey Epstein
Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN
“El pueblo estadounidense debe comprender que no es un delito festejar con el señor Epstein”.
Tal vez el vicesecretario de Justicia Todd Blanche tenga razón, dado el alto nivel de pruebas requerido para un procesamiento.
Pero su comentario del lunes en Fox News ignoró cruelmente a las víctimas de Jeffrey Epstein, que quedaron con un trauma de por vida después de ser traficadas dentro de su sórdida órbita.
Y no capta plenamente las implicaciones más amplias de una nueva montaña de revelaciones del Departamento de Justicia.
Varios millones de documentos revelan la selecta cúpula de la red social y empresarial global de Epstein. El financiero caído en desgracia era el guardián y el tejido conectivo de un círculo de élite abierto a quienes ostentaban riqueza, fama, poder e influencia.
Sus contactos a lo largo de los años incluyeron a un expresidente estadounidense y a uno en ejercicio; un príncipe, una princesa heredera, secretarios y ministros del gabinete; y titanes de los negocios, el entretenimiento, el derecho, la banca y la diplomacia. Escándalos similares que amenazan a dinastías reales y gobiernos están ahora causando estragos en Europa.
Los antiguos amigos, socios y compañeros de mesa de Epstein nos han gobernado y han construido una economía que los enriquece y margina a muchos de nosotros. Han aparecido en nuestras pantallas de televisión, han sido dueños de equipos deportivos o nos han vendido bienes de consumo. Han desarrollado sistemas operativos de software que impulsan la vida moderna y están imponiendo un futuro dominado por la inteligencia artificial.
Mientras la alta sociedad se divertía con Epstein en la época dorada, cuando el siglo XX dio paso al XXI, muchos estadounidenses que no pertenecían al club estaban muriendo en guerras extranjeras o luchando por mantenerse solventes durante los estragos de la Gran Recesión.
La máxima de F. Scott Fitzgerald de que “los muy ricos… son diferentes a ti y a mí” se ve confirmada por el extraordinario torbellino de eventos sociales, reuniones y conferencias que Epstein utilizaba para poblar su red. Era un círculo encantador de yates, almuerzos relajados, cenas y jets privados, y entusiastas compañeros de viaje.
“Tienes a algunas de las personas más ricas, líderes tecnológicos, líderes financieros, políticos, todos implicados de alguna manera, habiéndole enviado correos electrónicos, queriendo ir a la isla de Epstein, sabiendo que Epstein era un pedófilo”, dijo el representante demócrata Ro Khanna, quien ayudó a forzar la publicación de los archivos, al programa “Meet the Press” de NBC.
Muchas figuras prominentes, incluyendo al expresidente Bill Clinton y al presidente Donald Trump, han declarado haber cortado vínculos con Epstein años antes de que sus crímenes y presuntos delitos pendientes salieran a la luz, y afirman no saber nada al respecto. Ninguno de los dos ha sido acusado penalmente en relación con Epstein y las autoridades no han presentado pruebas de irregularidades.
Al mismo tiempo, sin embargo, las acusaciones presentadas contra Epstein y el juicio de su socia Ghislaine Maxwell pintaron un mundo de depravación; de decenas de niñas seducidas, explotadas y abusadas en sus casas de Manhattan y Palm Beach, Florida.
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- Melinda French Gates dice que su exesposo Bill Gates tiene preguntas que responder sobre sus vínculos con Epstein
Melinda French Gates dice que su exesposo Bill Gates tiene preguntas que responder sobre sus vínculos con Epstein
Por John Liu, CNN
Melinda French Gates dijo que se sintió llena de una “tristeza increíble” cuando la semana pasada se publicaron más documentos que detallan los vínculos de su exesposo y cofundador de Microsoft, Bill Gates, con el difunto delincuente sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein.
La filántropa, que se divorció de Gates en 2021, habló sobre su reacción ante la controversia, diciendo que estaba “feliz de estar lejos de todo ese lío”, en un video de adelanto de su participación en el podcast “Wild Card” de NPR.
“Cualesquiera que sean las preguntas que queden sobre eso —ni siquiera puedo empezar a saberlo todo— esas preguntas son para esas personas e incluso para mi exesposo. Ellos deben responder a esas cosas, no yo”, dijo. NPR informó que la entrevista completa se publicará este jueves.
La larga relación entre Bill Gates y Epstein está bien documentada, pero surgieron nuevas preguntas sobre sus tratos cuando el Departamento de Justicia publicó el viernes pasado más de 3 millones de páginas de archivos relacionados con la investigación sobre Epstein.
No está claro quién escribió lo que parecen ser borradores de mensajes de 2013 guardados en la cuenta de correo electrónico de Epstein. Pero parecen documentar, en un estilo de flujo de conciencia, sentimientos de traición dirigidos al cofundador de Microsoft. Los borradores mencionan discordias matrimoniales entre Gates y su entonces esposa Melinda. También se discuten acuerdos comerciales, la idea de que Gates tenía preocupaciones sobre una enfermedad de transmisión sexual y negocios fallidos.
Bill Gates no ha sido acusado de ningún delito relacionado con Epstein.
Un portavoz del magnate del software dijo a NPR que las afirmaciones son “absolutamente absurdas y completamente falsas. Lo único que demuestran estos documentos es la frustración de Epstein por no tener una relación continua con Gates y hasta dónde llegaría para atraparlo y difamarlo”.
French Gates dijo que leer los nuevos detalles le trajo recuerdos de “momentos muy, muy dolorosos en mi matrimonio”.
Le dijo al podcast que la situación en la que Epstein puso a las chicas es “más que desgarradora” e “inimaginable”.
“Puedo tomar mi propia tristeza y mirar a esas jóvenes y decir: Dios mío, ¿cómo les pudo pasar eso a esas chicas?”, dijo. “Al menos para mí, he podido seguir adelante con mi vida, y espero que haya algo de justicia para esas mujeres ahora adultas”.
En los últimos años, Gates ha expresado repetidamente su arrepentimiento por haber decidido pasar tiempo con Epstein. CNN se ha puesto en contacto con la Fundación Gates para obtener comentarios.
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| 5- San Marcos girls water polo wins overtime playoff thriller in CIF-SS Open Division
San Marcos girls water polo wins overtime playoff thriller in CIF-SS Open Division
ORANGE, Calif. (KEYT) - Buckle up, the CIF-Southern Section Open Division girls water polo playoffs are a thrill ride.
#5 seed San Marcos High School outlasted #4 Orange Lutheran 15-14 in overtime to begin postseason pool play in a game played at Santiago Canyon College.
USC-bound senior star Charlotte Raisin scored 6 goals for San Marcos who overcame an early 4-1 deficit to the home Lancers.
Sophomore Jade Pattison scored three first quarter goals as the Royals managed to tie the game at 6 in a high-scoring opening quarter.
The game was tied at 10 at the half and then the defenses settled in for the rest of the game.
San Marcos did not score in the third quarter and trailed 12-10 heading into the fourth quarter.
Raisin, sophomore McKenna Stuart and junior Shea Estabrook each scored in the fourth quarter for the Royals.
The defense came up with timely steals and Harvard-commit Bethany King totaled five blocks in the cage as the Royals allowed just one goal in that fourth quarter to send this game into overtime tied at 13.
Estabrook opened up the scoring in the first three-minute overtime session and Pattison followed with a beautiful outside shot that she floated over both her defender and the goalie for what proved to be the winning shot.
The Royals led 15-14 after the first overtime period and no one scored in the second three-minute overtime.
Charlotte Raisin sealed the game with a steal with less than 10 seconds left and the Royals ran out the clock and celebrated a huge road win to open up the playoffs.
The Royals continue pool play A on Saturday at #1 seed Mater Dei who beat Long Beach Wilson 13-5.
In pool play B, #2 Newport Harbor crushed Corona del Mar 18-4 and #3 Oaks Christian routed JSerra 13-3.
The top three teams in each pool advance to the next round with the winners of pool A and pool B moving directly into the semifinals.
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- El presidente de un importante bufete de abogados renuncia tras hacerse públicos los correos electrónicos de Epstein
El presidente de un importante bufete de abogados renuncia tras hacerse públicos los correos electrónicos de Epstein
Por Aleena Fayaz, CNN
Brad Karp, presidente de Paul Weiss, una de las firmas de abogados corporativos más importantes del país, renunció abruptamente a su cargo el miércoles después de que archivos recientemente publicados de Jeffrey Epstein revelaran sus intercambios de correo electrónico con el delincuente sexual convicto, aunque permanecerá en la firma.
“Dirigir Paul Weiss durante los últimos 18 años ha sido el honor de mi vida profesional. Los informes recientes han generado distracción y me han puesto en el punto de mira, algo que no beneficia a la firma”, declaró Karp el miércoles por la noche.
Karp fue nombrado presidente de Paul Weiss hace casi dos décadas y, según un comunicado de la firma a CNN, “continuará dedicándose exclusivamente al servicio al cliente”. Paul Weiss anunció que Scott Barshay asumió la presidencia.
Los correos electrónicos publicados por el Departamento de Justicia la semana pasada muestran que Karp y Epstein mantuvieron comunicaciones hasta 2019, el año en que murió Epstein.
El 22 de julio de 2015, Karp, en un correo electrónico, agradeció efusivamente a Epstein por haberlo recibido en una velada que calificó de “única en la vida”.
Karp escribió: “Jeffrey, no tengo palabras para agradecerte que me incluyeras en una velada inolvidable. Fue realmente única en todos los sentidos, aunque espero que me vuelvan a invitar. Eres un anfitrión extraordinario, ¡y tu hogar…! Gracias de nuevo. Nos vemos pronto. Brad”.
Epstein respondió: “Siempre eres bienvenido. Hay muchas noches con talentos únicos. Te invitaremos a menudo”.
El Wall Street Journal fue el primero en informar sobre la renuncia de Karp. Un portavoz de la firma, cuyo nombre completo es Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, declaró previamente al periódico: “El Sr. Karp nunca presenció ni participó en ninguna conducta indebida. Asistió a dos cenas grupales en la ciudad de Nueva York y mantuvo algunas interacciones sociales por correo electrónico, de las cuales se arrepiente”.
En junio de 2016, Karp le preguntó a Epstein si podía ayudar a su hijo a conseguir un trabajo en una próxima película de Woody Allen.
Karp escribió que a su hijo le encantaría trabajar, en cualquier puesto, con Woody en su próximo proyecto cinematográfico, si es posible. Desde luego, no necesita que le paguen y es un chico muy bueno y talentoso. Muchas gracias, Brad.
Epstein respondió: “Preguntaré, por supuesto. ¿Puede decirme qué papel le gustaría desempeñar? Sé poco de cine”.
Karp fue noticia en marzo pasado después de reunirse con el presidente Donald Trump y llegar a un acuerdo para que el presidente rescindiera su decreto que suspendía las autorizaciones de seguridad para los abogados y el personal del bufete de abogados.
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- Estados Unidos quiere expulsar a China de Latinoamérica. El Canal de Panamá es la última prueba
Estados Unidos quiere expulsar a China de Latinoamérica. El Canal de Panamá es la última prueba
Análisis por Simone McCarthy, CNN
China ha salido a la palestra después de que el Tribunal Supremo de Panamá dictaminara en contra del derecho de una empresa respaldada por Hong Kong a operar puertos clave en el Canal de Panamá y promete que el Gobierno del país caribeño “pagará un alto precio político y económico” si no cambia de postura.
Este tono amenazante es el último punto de inflexión en la saga en torno a los intereses chinos en la vía fluvial estratégica, por donde transita anualmente alrededor del 40 por ciento de todo el tráfico de contenedores de Estados Unidos, y que se ha convertido en un punto focal del objetivo de la administración Trump de expulsar a las potencias rivales del hemisferio occidental.
La multinacional CK Hutchison, con sede en Hong Kong, opera puertos en todo el mundo a través de su división Hutchison Ports y sus filiales. Estos incluyen dos terminales clave en el Canal de Panamá, una en cada extremo, una concesión que la Corte Suprema de ese país centroamericano declaró inconstitucional en un fallo a finales del mes pasado.
El fallo, “verdaderamente vergonzoso y patético”, “sucumbe a la hegemonía y actúa como cómplice del mal”, declaró la oficina de Beijing encargada de los asuntos de Hong Kong en una respuesta de 800 palabras a la decisión del tribunal. “China se opone firmemente al uso de la coerción económica y la intimidación hegemónica”.
La refutación, publicada el martes, es una clara señal de cuán intensamente se está centrando China en el caso y del esfuerzo más amplio de la Casa Blanca por erradicar su influencia en la región.
China ha desarrollado durante años profundas incursiones en América Latina y el Caribe, donde ahora mueve anualmente más de US$ medio billón en comercio, y sus empresas estatales y líderes nacionales se insertado en redes eléctricas, redes de telecomunicaciones y minas.
Ahora, mientras la administración del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, promete “negar a competidores no hemisféricos” el control de “activos estratégicamente vitales” en el hemisferio occidental y expulsar a las compañías extranjeras que construyen infraestructura allí, el Canal de Panamá se erige como la prueba más urgente de cómo se desarrollará la lucha de poder.
Beijing ha dicho que protegerá a las empresas chinas, y su última declaración destacó que “tiene suficientes medios, herramientas, fuerza y capacidad para mantener un orden económico y comercial internacional justo y equitativo”.
Pero el momento también crea un desafío estratégico para Beijing, que debe evaluar qué tan fuerte es el mensaje que quiere enviar a los socios que considera que apoyan a Estados Unidos, especialmente mientras busca estabilidad en sus propias relaciones con Estados Unidos antes de la visita prevista de Trump a finales de esta primavera.
Trump ya ha dañado las relaciones cuidadosamente cultivadas de Beijing con Panamá, aumentando la presión sobre el país por sus vínculos con China desde su primer día en el cargo.
Aprovechó su discurso inaugural para desmentir las falsas afirmaciones de que “China opera el Canal de Panamá” y prometió que Estados Unidos lo estaba “recuperando”.
Ese mismo día, Panamá inició una auditoría de las operaciones de Hutchison Ports en los dos puertos del canal, mientras que el presidente José Raúl Mulino negó las afirmaciones de Trump.
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| 6- Cal Poly can’t get late stop and lose a thriller to CSUN
Cal Poly can’t get late stop and lose a thriller to CSUN
SAN LUIS OBIPSO, Calif. (KEYT) - Guard Hamad Mousa (above) finished with 33 points – one shy of his career high – and the Cal Poly men’s basketball program nearly overturned a 16-point second half deficit versus CSUN Thursday evening before being edged, 97-96.
Guard Peter Bandelj added 20 points for Cal Poly (9-15, 5-7), which still faced a 91-81 disadvantage with five-and-a-half minutes to play before a three-pointer from sophomore Cayden Ward and layups from Bandelj and guard Guzman Vasilic dropped CSUN’s lead to three.
Limiting CSUN to two field goals in the final five minutes, Cal Poly eventually closed the gap to one following another Bandelj layup with 47 seconds remaining. CSUN missed its ensuing attempt and Bandelj rebounded only to be whistled for an offensive foul with 17 seconds to go.
CSUN’s baseline inbounds pass was mishandled, however, and Bandelj retrieved the steal before being fouled at the rim. He sank both free throw attempts but, at the other end, Matadors guard Josiah Davis produced his 12th and final assist to find a trailing Joshua O’Garro for the eventual game-winning layup with two seconds on the clock.
At the buzzer, a three-point attempt from Ward fell short.
Vasilic added 11 points for Cal Poly, which sank 17 three-pointers – one shy of its season high set at Cal State Fullerton (Dec. 4). CSUN, however, shot 51.9 (14-for-27) percent from the arc compared to Cal Poly’s 40.5 (17-for-42) percent mark.
Up 15-8 to begin Thursday’s matchup, Cal Poly missed five successive early three-point attempts as CSUN – sinking six of seven opportunities from the floor in a four-minute window – surged into a 22-17 lead with 11 minutes remaining in the opening half.
Behind 10 first-half three-pointers, CSUN led by as much as nine in the opening period before taking a 52-48 edge into the locker room.
The Matadors then surged out of the break with a 14-3 run to go up 66-51 with 17-and-a-half minutes to play.
Cal Poly Noteworthy (versus CSUN)
Up Next: Cal Poly visits UC Davis on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. The Mustangs captured this year’s season series opener at home, 84-78 (Jan. 10).
With Thursday’s setback, Cal Poly slipped to eighth place in the Big West standings, but sits just two games back of fourth place UC Davis (14-9, 7-5).
Still a double-digit scorer in all 23 appearances, Hamad Mousa increased his Big West scoring lead to 21.2 points per game.
Mousa’s seven three-pointers Thursday marked a career high and were two shy of Pe
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- Shorthanded Gauchos have 6-game win streak snapped by nemesis UC Davis
Shorthanded Gauchos have 6-game win streak snapped by nemesis UC Davis
DAVIS, Calif. (KEYT) - One streak ended and another continued and neither was positive for UCSB.
Missing two starters UCSB lost 85-75 at UC Davis as the Gauchos had their 6-game win streak snapped.
It's the sixth consecutive loss by UCSB to UC Davis.
Miro Little and Marvin McGhee IV did not play due to undisclosed injuries.
UCSB freshman CJ Shaw led the Gauchos with 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting from the field.
The Gauchos trailed 40-32 at the half but tied it up the game at 58 midway in the second half.
But Davis gradually pulled away behind Marcus Wilson who scored a game-high 24 points.
The shorthanded Gauchos had four players play 38 or more minutes with Aidan Mahaney logging all 40 minutes and scoring 15 points.
Colin Smith had 16 points in 38 minutes, Zion Sensley added 14 points in 38 minutes and Shaw also was on the court for 38 minutes.
UCSB drops to 8-4 in the Big West and 15-8 overall.
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- Entrenadores de famosos y aplicaciones de video: así serían los “Juegos Patriotas” de Trump
Entrenadores de famosos y aplicaciones de video: así serían los “Juegos Patriotas” de Trump
Por Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN
La administración Trump está planeando unir a competidores adolescentes con entrenadores famosos para el concurso atlético televisado “Patriot Games”, uno de los eventos que marcan las celebraciones por el 250 aniversario de Estados Unidos.
Un portavoz de Freedom 250, la organización sin fines de lucro que lidera las preparaciones del evento de la administración, proporcionó nuevos detalles a CNN después de que el presidente Donald Trump anunciara formalmente el evento en diciembre.
El portavoz no proporcionó los nombres de las celebridades que el grupo está reclutando para trabajar con los adolescentes participantes.
La competencia se llevará a cabo en otoño. Trump lo promocionó como “un evento atlético sin precedentes de cuatro días con los mejores atletas de preparatoria: un joven y una joven de cada estado y territorio”.
La capacidad atlética no será el único factor a considerar para la elegibilidad. Los posibles voluntarios deberán enviar una solicitud en video en línea respondiendo a una serie de preguntas para explicar por qué desean ser elegidos para representar a su estado, explicó el portavoz.
Los detalles sobre los tipos de eventos deportivos en las que competirán los participantes aún no se han hecho públicos.
Las solicitudes estarán abiertas para atletas de entre 14 y 17 años de los 50 estados, territorios y tribus de EE.UU., pero aquellos que cumplan 18 años antes del 31 de diciembre no serán elegibles, informó el portavoz.
La competencia ha generado comparaciones en las redes sociales con “Los juegos del hambre”, una serie de libros y franquicia cinematográfica distópica para adultos jóvenes en la que los niños son obligados a luchar hasta la muerte en estadios televisados.
Trump hizo una primera presentación preliminar de la competencia en julio, diciendo que sería televisada y dirigida por el Secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Los nuevos detalles surgen a medida que la administración avanza con sus planes para eventos nacionales.
El Poder Ejecutivo está impulsando esfuerzos para llevar a cabo las prioridades del aniversario del presidente, con agencias colaborando con Freedom 250 para ciertos eventos emblemáticos: Kennedy se asociará con Freedom 250 para organizar los Juegos Patriotas, y el Departamento de Agricultura ha adoptado la iniciativa presidencial de la Gran Feria Estatal Estadounidense, que invita a los estados a competir para que Trump elija su feria como la “más patriótica”.
Otras iniciativas para celebrar el 250 aniversario incluyen una pelea de la UFC en el jardín sur de la Casa Blanca el día del cumpleaños del presidente y la construcción de un arco de triunfo gigante frente al Monumento a Lincoln.
También está prevista una carrera de IndyCar en agosto cerca del National Mall.
El presidente firmó una orden la semana pasada que ordena a los departamentos del Interior y de Transporte colaborar con la oficina de la alcaldesa de Washington, Muriel Bowser, para actuar con rapidez y llevarla a cabo. Es posible que la iniciativa requiera la aprobación del Congreso.
Bowser, una demócrata, apoya la carrera y la promociona como un beneficio económico para la capital del país, que se ha visto afectada por despidos federales masivos.
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- Adam Sandler thrills fans, receives SBIFF Maltin Modern Master Award
Adam Sandler thrills fans, receives SBIFF Maltin Modern Master Award
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Fans have a connection with Adam Sandler forged over dozens of films over three decades like Happy Gilmore from 1996 and it's popular sequel released in 2025. Many of those fans lined up behind the barricades around the Arlington Theatre to see the star who came around to greet them on a night when he received the most prestigious honor handed out by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Known for comedies, Sandler showcased his dramatic chops in his most recent film Jay Kelly, alongside George Clooney.
"I love Clooney and I loved being on his team," Sandler said told NewsChannel 3-12 on the red carpet.
Two thousand people inside the Arlington Theatre were on Team Sandler as he received the Maltin Modern Master Award from SBIFF. He was greeted by a standing ovation from the sold out crowd before a discussion with film critic Leonard Maltin. Later in the evening, Duston Hoffman took the stage to talk about Sandler. They shared the screen in 2017 for The Meyerowitz Stories.
"We like to have fun, we like to get it done and make sure we're all proud," Sandler said about making movies.
Sandler's films have banked over three billion dollars at the box office worldwide. His production company has a huge deal to make movies for Netflix where his titles are are very popular for the streamer.
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Director Roger Durling called Sandler a masterful actor while emphasizing how hard it is to make people laugh like Sandler does.
"I've greatly admired this man for so long for all the laughs that he's provided to us." Durling said. "And I have met him a few times. He's the nicest. You saw him just now saying hello to everybody."
This wasn't the first sold out show Sandler has done in Santa Barbara. He performed two comedy/music shows at UC Santa Barbara in 1995 and 1997 at Campbell Hall. News Channel Anchor Scott Hennessee kept his ticket from the 1997 Sandler concert he went to while a student at UCSB, and showed it to Sandler during their interview on the red carpet.
"I remember that dude!" Sandler said.
Sandler recalled recording his now famous "The Chanukah Song" during his first show at UCSB to be on his comedy album.
"That's funny, man," Sandler said. "I really love it here, man. I love the school. I love the hang here. I've had nothing but good memories. When I was young here, and with my family here ... Tremendous place."
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| 7- The Epstein files are threatening to split Norway’s royal family in two
The Epstein files are threatening to split Norway’s royal family in two
By Billy Stockwell, CNN
(CNN) — Norway’s royal family were battling scandals on multiple fronts this week, with charities moving to cut or review ties to the Crown Princess for her past contact with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while others question her suitability to the role of future queen.
The first controversy is that of the 29-year-old son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Marius Borg Høiby, who earlier this week broke down in tears during his first day of testimony as he denied four counts of rape in an Oslo court.
Høiby sits outside the line of succession as he was born before his mother married Crown Prince Haakon in 2001.
Haakon reaffirmed Høiby’s status as a commoner in a rare statement ahead of the rape trial starting on Tuesday, saying his stepson was “not a member of the Royal House of Norway and is therefore autonomous.”
But his efforts to safeguard the Crown’s reputation were overshadowed when a second controversy erupted, this time implicating his wife and Høiby’s mother, the country’s future queen.
New Epstein files released by the US Justice Department show extensive correspondence between Mette-Marit and the late sex offender – something the princess has since expressed regret over – years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a minor.
On Friday, Norway’s royal house said Mette-Marit “strongly disavows Epstein’s abuse and criminal acts” and is sorry for “not having understood early enough what kind of person he was.”
“Some of the content of the messages between Epstein and me does not represent the person I want to be. I also apologize for the situation that I have put the Royal Family in, especially the King and Queen,” Mette-Marit said in a statement.
Challenges on multiple fronts
It has sparked an open public discussion in Norway about whether Mette-Marit should become queen, experts say.
“Confidence in the Crown Princess has fallen sharply,” said Tove Taalesen, a royal correspondent for news outlet Nettavisen. “A majority still backs the institution, but that support is weaker, and uncertainty is growing.”
The controversy raises uncomfortable questions about Mette-Marit’s position within the clan, particularly given the advanced age of King Harald V, who at 88, is Europe’s oldest monarch. Harald’s physical health has deteriorated in recent years, requiring Haakon to act as regent on occasion.
Mette-Marit is not facing an immediate end to her time as a working royal just yet, Taalesen cautioned, but she said one option would be for her to withdraw from royal duties citing health reasons, and leaving the crown prince to one day rule on his own.
Mette-Marit was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic, progressive lung disease with a poor prognosis, in 2018 and will likely need a lung transplant, according to the royal palace.
Other royal commentators agree. Kjetil Alstadheim, the political editor at Norway’s influential newspaper Aftenposten, said many Norwegians are disappointed by the revelations and have less confidence in the princess as a result.
“They question what her judgment will be like in the future,” Alstadheim told CNN.
Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen, a royal commentator for Norway’s broadcaster TV2, added: “We need to wait until the dust has settled to see how much it has really affected the monarchy.”
A modern monarchy
Mette-Marit became Crown Princess in 2001 after she married Haakon at Oslo cath
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- AIPAC allies picked a candidate to target in New Jersey. They may have boosted a stronger critic of Israel
AIPAC allies picked a candidate to target in New Jersey. They may have boosted a stronger critic of Israel
By Arit John, David Wright, CNN
(CNN) — During a forum last month, Analilia Mejia was the only person running in the Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 11th District who raised her hand when asked if she agreed with human rights groups that say Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza, a charge the Israeli government rejects.
Now, she may be on her way to Congress thanks in part to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s efforts in her race.
With votes still being counted, Mejia has a narrow lead over former Rep. Tom Malinowski after Thursday’s special election primary for the seat vacated by Gov. Mikie Sherrill. But the results appeared to be an embarrassing defeat for AIPAC, which helped fund a group that spent roughly $2 million on ads targeting Malinowski despite once supporting him.
“One of the great own goals in the history of American politics,” said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic think tank. “Unbelievably dumb.”
Malinowski is a moderate who expressed openness for conditioning aid to Israel as the national Democratic Party shows more skepticism about the Israeli government in the wake of its offensive following Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks.
Mejia, meanwhile, served as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ national political director during his 2020 presidential campaign. She was backed by Sanders as well as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. “They are a right-wing organization that undermines democracy.”
United Democracy Project, a super PAC aligned with AIPAC, sought in its ads to portray Malinowski as supportive of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pointing to a 2019 vote for a bipartisan spending bill that provided funding to the agency.
“I think voters see that attack as particularly outrageous and disqualifying for the group that is promoting it,” Malinowski told CNN this week.
Despite those efforts, the winner of Thursday’s primary will be either Malinowski or Mejia, based on current vote totals. Former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, who was endorsed by the Democratic Majority for Israel, is currently in a distant third place.
“UDP will be closely monitoring dozens of primary races, including the June NJ-11 primary, to help ensure pro-Israel candidates are elected to Congress,” Patrick Dorton, a spokesperson for the United Democracy Project, said Friday.
Mejia on Friday denounced AIPAC’s efforts against Malinowski.
“I was disgusted that they were going after Tom Malinowski, but I didn’t need to see the assault to know the practices that they employ, and to be against it,” she said.
The left has long bemoaned AIPAC’s influence in Democratic primaries, as the group has spent millions seeking to block progressives from Congress, or oust them in primaries. Former Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York lost primaries in 2024 to AIPAC-backed candidates.
“First and foremost, this election was a clear rejection of AIPAC by Democratic voters,” said Usamah Andrabi, a spokesperson for Justice Democrats, which backs progressive challengers and supported Bowman and Bush. “AIPA
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- Calls for accountability over feds’ deadly use of force in Minneapolis have not relented. Here’s why that’s complicated
Calls for accountability over feds’ deadly use of force in Minneapolis have not relented. Here’s why that’s complicated
By Andy Rose, CNN
(CNN) — The killings of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti prompted outrage in Minneapolis, both for their deaths and the immediate response of federal officials to call both terrorists.
The political backlash that resulted lowered the temperature from the Trump administration – with even the president himself saying, “Maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch” – along with seesawing promises from federal officials over how they would investigate the deaths.
But looming is the question of whether the federal immigration officers who pulled the triggers in both cases actually broke the law, a question that will come down to complicated issues that are much harder to define than the outrage that prompted calls for accountability. Any criminal or civil case will revolve around the legal standards around use of force and what was in those officers’ minds as they pulled the trigger.
“Whenever we’re talking about use of force, it’s not like there’s a single rule that we apply,” said Seth Stoughton, a criminal justice professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and former police officer. “There are a number of different rules.”
Courts must determine what an officer thought when pulling the trigger
Under a standard established by the Supreme Court nearly four decades ago, shooting a suspect – even one who is unarmed – does not violate the Constitution if the officer reasonably thought the actions of the suspect presented “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury.”
“The ‘reasonableness’ of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight,” Justice William Rehnquist wrote in the Graham v. Connor decision in 1989.
To figure out how much danger the officer perceived at the time of a shooting requires evidence, says Alex Reinert, director of the Center for Rights and Justice at the Cardozo School of Law.
“You’re going to need as much evidence as you can about what was happening in that space and time,” Reinert told CNN. “You’re going to need videos, any eyewitness statements, anything that could best illustrate the officer’s perspective in the moment.”
While that is the standard that would be considered in a civil case, local investigators are also looking into whether any state laws were violated.
In the immediate aftermath of Good’s shooting, the head of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said being cut off from that kind of information could be fatal to its own investigation of Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot her.
“Full access to evidence, witnesses and information is necessary to meet the investigative standard that Minnesota law and the public demands; without it, we cannot do so,” said BCA Superintendent Drew Evans.
But by the time of Pretti’s killing – and with public anger rising – the tone of state officials hardened, promising a serious inquiry, whatever the challenges.
“Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word on this,” Gov. Tim Walz said January 24. “It must have the last word.”
Local investigators and prosecutors have not said what state charges they might consider in these cases. Vice President JD Vance appeared to argue there could be no state prosecution of a federal agent.
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- How this generation of Olympic women erased the idea that motherhood is the end of a gold medal dream
How this generation of Olympic women erased the idea that motherhood is the end of a gold medal dream
By Dana O’Neil, CNN
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — The message Kendall Coyne Schofield posted on her social media was not terribly difficult to decipher.
A framed blackboard propped in front of Schofield’s two dogs, Penny and Blue, spelled out the message: “Baby Schofield Coming Summer 2023.” The dogs wore matching big sister bandanas in case something somehow got lost in translation.
Yet along with the congratulations to Schofield and her husband, Michael, came a rather puzzling rejoinder.
“A lot of people said, ‘Hey, congratulations on a great career,’” Coyne Schofield said at the Olympics media summit in October. “I was like, ‘Wait. I didn’t announce my retirement.’”
It is a uniquely female athlete’s quandary, the presumption that parenthood means the end of competition. Athletes-turned-dads return to their sport with a shrug, with nary a raised eyebrow about how they might juggle it all. Yet somehow – through the feminism movement to the “You’ve come a long way, baby” campaign to the birth and eventual seismic growth in women’s professional sports – sports-star moms, not unlike those in the working world, still face the same age-old questions.
This month, six American women will cart their baby gear along with their Team USA kits to Milan Cortina, pulling the double duty as mom and Olympian.
Coyne Schofield – a gold medalist, three-time Olympian and the mother of Drew – will captain the women’s hockey team. Kelly Curtis, mother to two-year-old Maeve, the first Black athlete to represent Team USA in skeleton, returns for her second Games. Elana Meyers Taylor, mother to Nico and Noah, is the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Games history and will go for her sixth Olympic medal in Cortina. Her teammate, Kaillie Humphries – mom of 15-month-old Aulden – is the first female bobsledder to defend her Olympic title and will vie for her fourth gold. Tabitha Peterson Lovick, is making her third Olympics in curling and her sister and teammate, Tara Peterson, will make her second Olympics run – with son Eddie, born in September 2024 – in tow.
None will say it is easy – on their bodies, their training and occasionally, their peace of mind – but impossible?
“I knew I could return to not only where I was but better,” Coyne Schofield said. “I wanted my son to know he wasn’t the reason I stopped playing hockey but the reason I continued to play hockey. And any hard day I might have, or source of inspiration I need, I can just look at him and it’s right in front of me.”
The sisterhood within motherhood
In 2019, Nike debuted an ad campaign, “Dream Crazier,” showcasing women athletes and their accomplishments, urging other women to show “what crazy can do.”
In response, track athlete Alysia Montaño crafted a video in conjunction with the New York Times, parodying Nike’s sponsor’s ad. Then under contract with the shoe company, the mother of two said in a voice over, “If you want to be an athlete and a mother, well that’s just crazy.”
She explained that the shoe company paused her sponsorship after she told its representative she was pregnant.
Montaño’s outspokenness – and her break with Nike – created a movement, #DreamMaternity. As women stepped into the spotlight to share their stories as well as their frustration that somehow motherhood and peak athletic success were mutually exclusive, action followed. The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, with outside pressure from several senators, created reforms to ensure women maintained their health insurance after getting pregnant.
And then ca
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