By Donald Judd, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Democratic rival and possible 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom. But lately, he’s become fixated on saying the California governor cannot be president due to his “learning disability.”

Newsom has been open about his struggle with dyslexia.

“We have a low-IQ person, you know, because Gavin Newscum has admitted that he is a — that he has learning disabilities,” Trump, using a nickname he’s coined to refer to Newsom, told reporters in the Oval Office Monday. “Honestly, I’m all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president. I don’t want I think the president should not have learning disabilities, okay, and I know it’s highly controversial to say such a horrible thing.”

“Everything about him is dumb,” Trump later added. It’s at least the fourth time he’s made comments about Newsom having a “learning disability” in less than a week.

Trump and Newsom have sparred repeatedly through the years over a range of issues, including Trump’s move to deploy National Guard troops to Los Angeles to assist with federal immigration enforcement, Newsom’s handling of California wildfires, and more. But Trump’s comments mark a new point in an already acrimonious relationship.

Trump first referenced Newsom’s dyslexia during remarks from Kentucky last week, where he told an audience of supporters Newsom has “admitted he has mental problems,” before suggesting his dyslexia was disqualifying for a presidential run. Newsom’s press office quickly responded that “Grandpa’s talking about himself again” and encouraged him to “seek mental treatment.”

Since then, Trump has repeated the comments at least three times, including on social media, in an interview with Fox News radio, and again Monday during an executive action signing.

Newsom also responded to Trump’s social media post last week, firing back on X, “I spoke about my dyslexia. I know that’s hard for a brain-dead moron who bombs children and protects pedophiles to understand.”

In his memoir released last month, “Young Man in a Hurry,” Newsom writes he struggled academically during his childhood and was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia. In a February interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Newsom described his dyslexia as a “superpower.”

“It’s the greatest thing in hindsight to happen to me,” Newsom said. “I mean, I have the freedom of not having to be stuck on the written text, and the freedom of having to work harder, more reps behind the scenes. I’m doing — if you think you’re working hard, trust me, I’m two to three times.

“It’s turned out to be a blessing, and in politics, a huge blessing,” he added.

Trump has previously drawn criticism for mocking a reporter with a disability during his first presidential campaign in 2015.

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Por Michael Williams

Un hombre afgano que sirvió junto a las fuerzas especiales de Estados Unidos y huyó de su país natal después de que los talibanes tomaran el poder murió durante el fin de semana poco después de ser detenido por las autoridades migratorias, según su familia y un grupo de defensa.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal murió el sábado, menos de un día después de que fuera detenido por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) afuera de su apartamento en el área de Dallas. Su familia dijo que el padre de seis hijos, de 41 años, no tenía afecciones de salud conocidas y había estado solicitando asilo desde su llegada a Estados Unidos en agosto de 2021. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional dijo que su permiso humanitario de permanencia temporal (parole) expiró el pasado agosto.

El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) dijo en un comunicado que Paktyawal, quien fue arrestado durante una “operación de cumplimiento selectivo” y no informó ningún antecedente médico, se quejó de falta de aire y dolor en el pecho durante su examen de evaluación médica inicial en una oficina de campo de ICE en Dallas después de su arresto del viernes.

ICE contactó a paramédicos, quienes trasladaron a Paktyawal a un hospital de Dallas, dijo la portavoz del DHS Lauren Bis. El sábado, la lengua de Paktyawal estaba hinchada y recibió un goteo intravenoso. Su condición se deterioró la mañana del sábado y murió poco después de las 9 a.m., hora local, tras recibir RCP y otros esfuerzos de reanimación por parte de médicos, añadió Bis.

Un informe inicial del médico forense del condado de Dallas no consignó causa ni manera de muerte. La muerte de Paktyawal marca la 12.ª de un detenido bajo custodia de ICE este año.

Ha provocado un duelo generalizado en la unida comunidad de la diáspora afgana en Texas, donde muchos de los más de 190.000 afganos que huyeron a Estados Unidos después de que el Gobierno del país colapsara en agosto de 2021 se asentaron, dijo Rahmanullah Zazy, un líder de la comunidad afgana del área de Dallas que conocía a Paktyawal y a su familia.

“Dicen que llevaron con vida a nuestro miembro de la comunidad al centro de detención, y ahora estamos recibiendo el cuerpo sin vida”, dijo Zazy. “Queremos paz”.

El Gobierno de Biden evacuó a decenas de miles de afganos después de que el gobierno del país fuera tomado por los talibanes mientras Estados Unidos se retiraba, poniendo fin a dos décadas de guerra.

El esfuerzo tenía como objetivo proteger a los afganos cuyo trabajo junto a miembros del servicio estadounidense los hacía vulnerables a represalias del nuevo Gobierno talibán.

Tanto Zazy como un grupo que ha abogado por los refugiados afganos dijeron que Paktyawal sirvió junto a las fuerzas especiales de Estados Unidos a partir de alrededor de 2005.

El DHS dijo en su comunicado que, al ingresar a Estados Unidos, Paktyawal “no proporcionó ningún registro de su servicio militar”. Pero el grupo de defensa, AfghanEvac, proporcionó un certificado de servicio que indica que Paktyawal sirvió junto a un grupo de fuerzas especiales en el este de Afganistán, a lo largo de la frontera con Pakistán.

“No sabemos cómo murió”, dijo el presidente del grupo, Shawn VanDiver. “Solo sabemos que está muerto”.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con Fort Bragg, la base militar donde estaba asentado el grupo de fuerzas especiales, para confirmar el servicio de Paktyawal junto a los miembros del servicio estadounidense.

Después de que el presidente Donald Trump asumiera el cargo el año pasado, im

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By Patrick Oppmann, Michael Rios, CNN

Havana (CNN) — Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a total collapse across the entire island on Monday, the country’s power operator said, marking the latest nationwide blackout in recent years, and the first since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to the island of roughly 10 million people.

Efforts are underway to restore power across the country, the state-owned operator said, adding that no faults were detected in the electrical units operating at the time the grid collapsed.

Nationwide power outages have been reported frequently over the past few years. Cuban officials have previously attributed them to US economic sanctions, though critics have also faulted a lack of investment in the island’s ailing generation system.

Cuba heavily relies on oil for electricity generation. Washington’s effective blockade of fuel shipments has worsened the country’s energy crisis, causing intermittent power cuts, a rationing of medical supplies and a decrease in tourism, officials have said. Fuel prices have skyrocketed so much that gas can be as much as $9 a liter on the unofficial market, meaning it costs more than $300 to fill up a car’s gas tank, which is more than most Cubans earn in a year.

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

“Officials in the US (government) must be feeling very happy by the harm caused to every Cuban family,” Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said in response to Monday’s blackout.

Havana resident Dayana Machin told Reuters that the latest power outage doesn’t surprise her and that civilians should prepare themselves “with wood-burning stoves, with solar panels for those who could get them, with some water reserves for people who have water problems, with some gas reserves for those who have them.”

Musician Lazaro Caron said the blackout would affect his work, but acknowledged that “there’s nothing we can do but face it and keep moving forward, see what happens.”

On Saturday, residents of the central Cuban city of Morón took to the streets to protest problems with the electricity supply and access to food.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Friday that no oil had been delivered to the island in the last three months. He also said on Friday that Cuban officials have held talks with the United States to “identify the bilateral problems that need a solution.”

“The impact (of the blockade) is tremendous. It is most brutally manifested in these energy issues,” the president said. “This causes anguish among the population.”

In response to the energy crisis, the government has announced emergency measures including reduced school hours, postponing major sporting and cultural events and cutting transport services.

Many government-run hospitals have cut services, and lack of fuel and working dump trucks has caused trash to pile up across whole

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