Por César López, CNN en Español

Desde el 1 de abril, la FIFA abrió la última fase de venta de entradas para el Mundial 2026, o llamada de “última hora”.

Ahora, cuando faltan 50 días para la Copa del Mundo, sale a la venta un nuevo lote de boletos, anunció el máximo organismo del fútbol, en distintas categorías que estarán disponibles hasta la final del Mundial.

Esta disponibilidad de compra directa está sujeta al modelo de venta por orden de llegada o solicitud hasta agotar existencias, una situación que en los Mundiales suele ocurrir tan pronto como en los primeros minutos que se activa la oferta y este 2026 no ha sido la excepción.

Este miércoles 22 de abril a las 11:00 a.m. (hora de Miami) saldrá a la venta un lote de boletos de tres categorías, comunicó la FIFA, sin especificar el costo de las mismas.

Boletos para todos los 104 partidos de las categorías 1, 2 y 3, además de asientos preferenciales de primera fila, estarán disponibles.

Contrario a las fases de venta previas al sorteo del Mundial, o de la elección para seguir al equipo, esta etapa permitirá al usuario escoger la localidad o filtrar por la opción de “mejor asiento disponible”.

El método de compra será inmediato desde el momento en que el usuario ingrese al portal, marque su selección y concrete el pago.

Como la FIFA advierte, los usuarios podrán experimentar una larga espera virtual.

La FIFA, por primera vez para un Mundial, ha establecido un sistema de reventa oficial en su sitio y recomienda a los usuarios que consulten las ofertas que se pueden encontrar, aunque los precios de las entradas son excesivamente altos para partidos de alta demanda.

Además, está la opción de comprar paquetes o entradas para un solo partido directamente en el portal en la categoría de boletos preferenciales, llamada “Hospitality”, que comienzan en los US $1.400 y superan los US $10.000.

Por ejemplo, una entrada para la final en estas áreas se encuentra oficialmente en US $16.475. Los paquetes incluyen: bebidas, comida, acceso preferencial y zonas exclusivas en el estadio, además de entretenimiento y otras amenidades.

El organismo aseguró que hasta la fecha se han vendido más de 5 millones de entradas para esta edición del torneo y apuntan a superar el récord de asistencia de 3.5 millones establecido en el Mundial de 1994.

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By Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, CNN

(CNN) — Embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from the US House of Representatives Tuesday, staving off a high-stakes vote on whether she should be forced out of Congress.

The Florida Democrat’s decision to step down came just moments before the chamber’s bipartisan Ethics Committee was set to consider punishment against the congresswoman. The panel previously found her guilty of a slew of ethics violations, including accusations that she stole millions in pandemic relief funds and used it to bolster her 2021 campaign.

If Cherfilus-McCormick had not resigned, she would have almost certainly faced an expulsion vote later this week on the House floor. The ethics panel, which oversees members’ conduct, had six types of sanctions at its disposal Tuesday, including expulsion from the House – a punishment recommended just four times before, according to the committee.

In a statement posted to social media, the Florida Democrat maintained her innocence and denounced what she described as a “witch hunt” against her.

“I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on, and my good name to be tarnished. Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away,” she wrote.

Within moments of the ethics panel gaveling in to formally determine its recommended punishment, the House clerk read Cherfilus-McCormick’s resignation into the record.

“After careful reflection and prayer, I’ve concluded that it is in the best interest of my constituents and the institution that I step aside at this time,” she wrote.

House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest noted that given the congresswoman had stepped down, the committee had lost its jurisdiction and would no longer consider sanctions against her.

Guest and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier of California, the top Democrat on the committee, defended their years-long investigation into Cherfilus-McCormick but conceded the process took longer than many would have liked. “It is a very deliberate process,” Guest said.

Over the course of its investigation, the panel said it sent 30 requests for information, issued 59 subpoenas, conducted 28 witness interviews and reviewed over 33,000 pages of documents.

The lawmakers indicated they were open to changing House rules so that a member cannot resign as a way to end an ethics investigation, but they emphasized any reforms would be up to each party’s leadership.

Neither would say what punishment they would have recommended had Cherfilus-McCormick not resigned.

Last month, the committee found the congresswoman guilty on multiple counts of failing to comply with Federal Election Commission regulations and uphold the Code of Ethics for Government Service. It delivered the guilty verdict a day after Cherfilus-McCormick appeared for a rare public hearing to face the allegations she stole $5 million in federal disaster funds and used it to bolster her campaign for the House.

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By Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, CNN

(CNN) — Embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from the US House of Representatives Tuesday, staving off a high-stakes vote on whether she should be forced out of Congress.

The Florida Democrat’s decision to step down came just moments before the chamber’s bipartisan Ethics Committee was set to consider punishment against the congresswoman. The panel previously found her guilty of a slew of ethics violations, including accusations that she stole millions in pandemic relief funds and used it to bolster her 2021 campaign.

If Cherfilus-McCormick had not resigned, she would have almost certainly faced an expulsion vote later this week on the House floor. The ethics panel, which oversees members’ conduct, had six types of sanctions at its disposal Tuesday, including expulsion from the House – a punishment recommended just four times before, according to the committee.

In a statement posted to social media, the Florida Democrat maintained her innocence and denounced what she described as a “witch hunt” against her.

“I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on, and my good name to be tarnished. Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away,” she wrote.

Within moments of the ethics panel gaveling in to formally determine its recommended punishment, the House clerk read Cherfilus-McCormick’s resignation into the record.

“After careful reflection and prayer, I’ve concluded that it is in the best interest of my constituents and the institution that I step aside at this time,” she wrote.

House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest noted that given the congresswoman had stepped down, the committee had lost its jurisdiction and would no longer consider sanctions against her.

Guest and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier of California, the top Democrat on the committee, defended their years-long investigation into Cherfilus-McCormick but conceded the process took longer than many would have liked. “It is a very deliberate process,” Guest said.

Over the course of its investigation, the panel said it sent 30 requests for information, issued 59 subpoenas, conducted 28 witness interviews and reviewed over 33,000 pages of documents.

The lawmakers indicated they were open to changing House rules so that a member cannot resign as a way to end an ethics investigation, but they emphasized any reforms would be up to each party’s leadership.

Neither would say what punishment they would have recommended had Cherfilus-McCormick not resigned.

Last month, the committee found the congresswoman guilty on multiple counts of failing to comply with Federal Election Commission regulations and uphold the Code of Ethics for Government Service. It delivered the guilty verdict a day after Cherfilus-McCormick appeared for a rare public hearing to face the allegations she stole $5 million in federal disaster funds and used it to bolster her campaign for the House.

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By Tierney Sneed, CNN

(CNN) — The Trump administration has been working for nearly a year on an effort to weed out noncitizens from voter rolls using a faulty data system while keeping those plans hidden from courts and Democratic election officials, internal Justice Department communications obtained by CNN show.

The White House was kept in the loop on the Justice Department’s progress, as it struggled to get cooperation from states in its sprawling requests for unredacted voter registration information, ultimately bringing lawsuits against 31 election chiefs. Only last month did the DOJ’s top voting lawyer acknowledge in the litigation that the department wanted to run the data through a citizenship verification system operated by the Department of Homeland Security.

Internal emails cited in a new lawsuit filed Tuesday by a voter advocacy group challenging President Donald Trump’s sprawling voter data-collection and review project shed new light on the effort.

In one November 2025 email, Eric Neff, the current leader of the DOJ voting section, advised that the department keep some election officials in the dark about what the administration was intending to do with unredacted state voter rolls, which contain private information about Americans.

“I believe our reply should always be: ‘We will use the data in a manner consistent with Federal law’ and say nothing more,” Neff wrote, discussing a letter from Democratic state officials that asked administration about plans to upload the data to DHS’ “unproven and potentially insecure citizenship-check system.”

In court filings and in formal correspondence with states about the data demands, the department had provided only vague explanations that it was assessing states’ compliance with two federal laws concerning voter registration.

Neff, in the November email exchange, referenced those laws and said that “none of them require to give the states information about what we are going to do with the data.”

“No judge will have authority to limit us beyond a promise of Federal law compliance,” he said.

Noncitizen voting is very rare and is prohibited in federal elections. But Trump is fixated on the idea, claiming without evidence that even the 2016 election that he won had been tainted by the millions of illegal ballots

State can already voluntarily use the program — known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement or (SAVE) — to review their voter lists, but those reviews have shown it can produce false positives that wrongly identify eligible voters as noncitizens.

Election officials of both parties have told CNN they’re worried the administration will use the audits to pressure states to conduct flawed purges that disenfranchise Americans, and that a state’s refusal to go along with those removals will be used as a pretext to cast doubt about November’s elections.

The Constitution tasks the states with the job of running elections, giving Congress some room to regulate voting, but assigning no unilateral authority on voting rules to the executive branch.

Trump nonetheless has said he wants to “nationalize” elections. His administration’s plans to do its own review for ineligible voters on state rolls — especially when coupled with