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Una disputa entre los abogados favoritos de Trump expone una amplia división de MAGA dentro del Gobierno

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Por Paula Reid, Hannah Rabinowitz y Evan Perez, CNN

La disputa entre dos de los fiscales favoritos del presidente Donald Trump llegó a su punto álgido a principios de año, cuando el fiscal general adjunto Todd Blanche, exabogado personal del presidente, destituyó al activista de MAGA, Ed Martin, de un puesto clave que investigaba a los enemigos políticos del presidente.

La decisión de dejar en el banquillo a Martin —quizás el funcionario más comprometido públicamente con la persecución de los adversarios políticos de Trump en los tribunales— ha revelado una división entre dos facciones dentro del Gobierno.

Un grupo celebra a Blanche por lo que considera un respeto a las salvaguardias del Estado de derecho. El otro cree que Martin es un mártir del movimiento MAGA y el único dispuesto a hacer lo que sea necesario para cumplir con las prioridades de Trump.

En las últimas semanas, los desacuerdos sobre la agresividad con la que los fiscales persiguen a los adversarios políticos de Trump se han agudizado, ya que el presidente ha dejado claro su descontento con el progreso del Departamento de Justicia en la presentación de procesos penales contra personas que, según él, lo atacaron injustamente en investigaciones que se remontan a 2016.

Durante la primera administración de Trump, las disputas entre funcionarios se desarrollaban regularmente en público y en redes sociales. Pero la actual secretaria general de la Casa Banca, Susie Wiles, se ha esforzado por moderar los desacuerdos y el drama público en su segundo mandato.

“Que estos asuntos se manifiesten públicamente no favorece la agenda del presidente”, declaró a CNN un aliado de Trump que los conoce a ambos. “Se puede comprender la frustración de que la oficina de Blanche sea el lugar donde todo se desmorona, porque todo avanza con mucha lentitud. Pero las estrategias de Ed, en última instancia, no ayudan a conseguir lo que el presidente quiere”.

Blanche y Martin llegaron a trabajar para Trump por caminos diferentes.

Blanche, exprofesor de un gran estudio de abogados en Nueva York, fundó un bufete homónimo en 2023 y representó a Trump en tres de sus cuatro casos penales. Se ganó la reputación de gestionar con destreza la política interna del mundo trumpista y cuando Trump regresó al cargo fue nombrado número dos del Departamento de Justicia.

Martin, expolítico de Missouri, obtuvo el reconocimiento de MAGA como organizador del movimiento “Stop the Steal” (Detengamos el robo), un firme defensor de las acusaciones infundadas de Trump sobre fraude electoral generalizado en las elecciones de 2020 y como abogado de los acusados de los disturbios del Capitolio del 6 de enero de 2021.

Al comienzo del segundo mandato de Trump, fue designado fiscal federal en la ciudad de Washington, y se puso a trabajar de inmediato en la implementación de la agenda de Trump, incluyendo la degradación de los fiscales superiores que trabajaron en casos relacionados con el 6 de enero y la promesa de proteger a los empleados del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE).

“Seamos claros: este cambio no es temporal”, escribió Martin sobre la degradación de los fiscales en un memorando obtenido en su momento por CNN.

Tras un mandato de 15 semanas marcado por una gestión caótica y publicaciones en redes sociales que incluían amenazas contra los críticos del presidente, no logró la confirmación.

Su nominación fue retirada en mayo de 2025 y Trump lo nombró entonces en dos nuevos puestos en el Departamento de Justicia, incluyendo el de director del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Armamentización y el de abogado de indultos, todos ellos bajo la cadena de mando de Blanche.

Se espera que Martin deje el Departamento de Justicia en las próximas semanas, según informó CNN anteriormente. Su destitución representó la culminación de una campaña de meses de Blanche para mantener a Martin operando dent

Judge grants continuance in the asylum case of Liam Conejo Ramos and his family

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By Alisha Ebrahimji, Meridith Edwards, Emma Tucker, CNN

(CNN) — Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family will have more time to make their case for asylum.

At a Friday court hearing for the family’s asylum case, a judge granted a continuance, which postpones the case to a later date, family attorney Danielle Molliver told CNN.

There is no indication when the next hearing is expected, said Molliver, who added, “We’re grateful for the outpouring from the community and we remain committed to the family and this community.”

Attorneys for the family had asked the court for more time to respond to the motion by the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the family is not slated for expedited removal and the motion is standard procedure.

“There is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws,” she said in a statement to CNN.

Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Liam’s school district, Columbia Heights Public Schools, said Friday’s ruling “provides additional time, and with that, continued uncertainty for a child and his family,” as she stressed the family is asking for privacy.

“Our concern remains centered on Liam and all children who deserve stability, safety and the opportunity to be in school without fear. We will continue to advocate for outcomes that prioritize children,” Stenvik said.

The 5‑year‑old and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were taken from their snowy suburban Minneapolis driveway last month to a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, sparking widespread outrage after images of a federal agent clutching the boy’s Spider‑Man backpack as he looked on beneath a cartoon bunny hat circulated.

After more than a week at the Dilley center, the preschooler and his Ecuadorian father are back home in Minneapolis after a judge ordered them to be released, which ended their detention but left their future in the United States in limbo.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, the Texas Democrat who helped escort them back to Minnesota on Sunday, emphasized at a Friday news conference the father and son “don’t have a criminal record” and represent no threat to the community.

“They should leave Liam alone,” Castro told reporters, referring to the federal government.

“His family came in legally through the asylum process,” Castro said. “And when I left the Dilley detention center, one of the ICE officers explained to me that his father was on a one-year parole in place, so they should allow that to continue.”

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Meet the Brits who keep going to every Super Bowl city – and don’t care if they end up at the game

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Ian Potter and seven of his

By Hannah Keyser, CNN

San Francisco (CNN) — They call it “American football” because, well, “football is football,” says Ian Potter.

And by “football” he means “soccer,” a fact that is underscored by the raucous cheering that periodically punctuates the Mad Dog in the Fog, a Nottingham Forest bar located in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

Potter and seven of his, well, best mates are here at the Mad Dog to watch their hometown team lose to Leeds. But they’re here in San Francisco – more than 5,000 miles and about 14 hours of travel from home – because the Super Bowl is in town. And wherever the Super Bowl goes, so goes a group of Brits who don’t even have tickets to the big game.

It started in Miami in 2019. The group – that year totaling 23 friends – was in town for a “stag do” (British for bachelor party). They didn’t intend to overlap with the Super Bowl, but soon realized that the NFL brought a city-wide sense of celebration. And, come Super Bowl Sunday, a great excuse to drink. Not that they seem to need much of one.

“Just here for the booze and partying,” said Alex Bowles. And because it’s a chance to get the friend group together once a year.

For most of the group, Miami was their introduction to American football. They were shocked at how long an hour of gameplay can take and by the magnitude of cheers for that year’s halftime performer, Jennifer Lopez. And they had so much fun they decided to make it an annual tradition. Covid-19 nixed the trip a couple times but this year marks their fifth time going to the Super Bowl city and just soaking up the American atmosphere.

Some quick reviews of past locations: LA was great. Las Vegas was the worst because, instead of dive bars, it was all casinos and you could hardly feel the Super Bowl-ness over the intensity of Sin City. “No locals,” says Andy Albone. “Vegas is about Vegas,” Potter says.

And last year in New Orleans was the best – even though two of the guys got robbed that week.

Their experiences have made most of them into Kansas City Chiefs fans (and they agreed with this CNN reporter that Taylor Swift would make for a very fun halftime performance) – all except Adam Martin, who was already a San Francisco 49ers fan when this tradition started. His phone background is a picture of Brock Purdy and he’s been trying to teach the others the rules of American football. Or at least whether a particular play was good or bad for the team they’re rooting for.

“I’m still trying to understand it,” says Ian Taylor.

“There’s about 19,000 players,” says Josef Gaylor.

And it’s not just football, these trips have become a foray into the wider world of American sports. In Vegas, they went to an NHL game and on Monday, they’re going to a Golden State Warriors NBA game.

But they haven’t quite mastered the finer points of the American sports cultural landscape. Martin bought a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey to wear here in California, and quickly learned the locals in SF are not Dodgers fans.

He just has to save it for next year, when the Super Bowl is in Los Angeles. They’re already planning to be there.

“Minute we get back, I’ll book it,” Potter says.

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Why the Super Bowl is always so expensive

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By Julian Torres, CNN

(CNN) — The Super Bowl isn’t a regular football game – and its ticket prices reflect that.

With a limited supply and a voracious demand, the Super Bowl functions more like a luxury good, and the forces keeping it that way are unlikely to change anytime soon.

This year’s Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California is no exception. The cheapest seat available on TickPick, a secondary reseller, as of Friday afternoon was over $3,800, with the average ticket costing more than $6,200

Today the Super Bowl is the ultimate showcase of exclusivity – and you can expect it to stay that way. Two tickets to the first Super Bowl in 1967 would have cost a couple of tanks of gasoline today, or about $118.20 in inflation-adjusted dollars. Now, it’s comparable to trading in a 2019 Subaru Outback, according to an analysis by Edmunds.

Scarcity by design

For the regular fan, the Super Bowl can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that’s less about the game and more about the experience.

“For lots of folks, it doesn’t matter who’s in the game because the Super Bowl is not just a sports phenomenon; it’s a cultural phenomenon,” said Victor Matheson, a sports economist at College of the Holy Cross.

And with stadiums reaching their seating capacity limits, the first thing to give is the price.

“The number of actual seats the NFL can sell for a Super Bowl has basically stayed the same, which puts massive pressure on (the price),” Matheson said. “Stadiums simply can’t get any bigger.”

Tickets are hard to come by not just from the extraordinary demand but also because of how they’re distributed. The NFL has the legal authority to control where every single Super Bowl ticket goes. At Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, 99% of the tickets were already allocated before being offered to the public.

Of those predetermined tickets, the NFL allotted 35% to the two teams that played in the Super Bowl to share and 5% to the team hosting the event. The other 29 NFL teams received a combined 35%, and the final 25% went to NFL-connected individuals and entities including corporations, broadcast networks, media outlets, sponsors and the Super Bowl host committee.

Players and team staff get first access to buy tickets; then many NFL teams give a share to their sponsors as a reward. Whatever is left trickles down to the public.

For fans, that means tickets available at face value are scarce. These remaining tickets are generally distributed through highly competitive NFL-sponsored lotteries, which can require being a season ticket holder to even enter.

Fans lucky enough to win those lotteries sometimes then resell their tickets for multiples of the original price.

CNN has reached out to the NFL for comment.

Why prices keep rising

Ticket scarcity pushes many buyers into the pricey secondary market, resulting in Super Bowl crowds wealthier than average Americans.

An economic impact report from Louisiana State University after last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans confirmed that nearly one in four attendees reported household incomes above $500,000, and the majority earned between $200,000 and $500,000.

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Qué es Sapo Concho: el pequeño animal detrás del mensaje más grande de Bad Bunny

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Por María Santana, CNN en Español

Cuando Bad Bunny lanzó su álbum ganador del Grammy “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOTos”, los fans esperaban otro disco cargado de perreo, coros pegajosos, nostalgia boricua y una mezcla de ritmos y géneros.

Pero lo que recibieron fue algo más profundo: una historia personal y emocional sobre la memoria, la pérdida y todo lo que desaparece cuando nadie está prestando atención.

¿Y en el centro de todo? Un pequeño sapo, gordito, medio gruñón, que termino robándose el show.

Se trata del personaje Sapo Concho, el inesperado símbolo en el corazón de uno de los proyectos más personales de Bad Bunny hasta ahora.

El sapo concho es una especie de sapo nativo y endémico de Puerto Rico: solo existe en la isla. Es pequeño, de piel rugosa, y tiene unas crestas sobre los ojos que le dan una expresión permanente de seriedad.

No debe confundirse con el famoso coquí, la rana cantante más conocida de Puerto Rico. El concho es un sapo con una vida mucho más tranquila y silenciosa.

Pero aquí viene la parte más importante: en la vida real, el sapo concho está en peligro de extinción.

Durante décadas, su hábitat se ha ido reduciendo por el desarrollo urbano, la contaminación, las especies invasoras y los efectos del clima extremo. Pasa la mayor parte de su vida bajo tierra y solo sale durante las temporadas de lluvia para reproducirse en charcos temporeros. Una sequía prolongada, agua contaminada o una temporada afectada significa que una población entera puede desaparecer.

Hoy, su supervivencia depende en gran parte del trabajo humano. Conservacionistas crían los sapos en ambientes controlados, liberan miles de renacuajos en zonas protegidas y monitorean constantemente la calidad del agua y las lluvias.

Es un trabajo lento, cuidadoso y poco visible. Un esfuerzo que rara vez ocupa titulares. De hecho, durante muchos años, casi nadie fuera del ámbito científico sabía que el sapo concho existía.

Eso cambió con la llegada de Bad Bunny. De pronto, millones de personas comenzaron a usar sudaderas con su imagen y a comprar peluches inspirados en el personaje.

En lugar de centrar su imagen en símbolos de lujo o marcas llamativas, el artista optó por destacar una especie vulnerable de su tierra. En los visuales del álbum y en el cortometraje, Sapo Concho —conocido simplemente como “Concho”— aparece como el compañero fiel de un hombre mayor que reflexiona sobre su pasado y sobre una isla que cambia.

No habla mucho ni busca atención. Es feliz con solo estar presente ya sea sentado en el jardín, tomando café, o quizá bailando suavemente. Y ese es precisamente el mensaje.

Para Bad Bunny, Concho no es solo un personaje simpático. Representa conciencia, reflexión y memoria. Representa todo lo que Puerto Rico sigue perdiendo: tierras, tradiciones, personas mayores, ecosistemas, comunidades, historia. Elementos que muchas veces desaparecen sin hacer ruido, hasta que un día se nota su ausencia.

Desde el lanzamiento del álbum, Sapo Concho se ha convertido en una presencia constante en el universo de Bad Bunny: en conciertos, videos, mercancía y redes sociales.

Los fans corean su nombre, repiten sus frases e imitan su voz suave, graciosa y claramente puertorriqueña, cargada de calidez y personalidad.

Gracias a eso, millones de personas han buscado información sobre Sapo Concho en internet. Han aprendido que es real, que está en peligro y que necesita protección. Eso no significa que las amenazas hayan desaparecido. El riesgo sigue presente. Pero Sapo Concho ya no es invisible. Ahora cuenta con una audiencia global atenta a su futuro y supervivencia.

Para los conservacionistas, esa atención es incalculable. Para las comunidades, representa fuerza. Para los puertorriqueños, es motivo de orgullo. Una especie que antes solo aparecía en publicaciones científicas ahora forma parte de la cult

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