Por Federico Leiva, CNN en Español

Si con el nuevo formato se buscaba darle emoción a la UEFA Champions League, pues, enhorabuena, lo han conseguido. Restan apenas 90 minutos de juego de la primera etapa de competencia y apenas 6 equipos de los 36 participantes tienen confirmado su futuro en el torneo. Este miércoles llega la última jornada de la llamada Fase de Liga, donde todos los clubes jugarán a la misma hora, con un pronóstico extremadamente reservado.

Por segunda temporada consecutiva, la UEFA decidió implementar una Fase de Liga que reemplazó a la ahora extinta Fase de Grupos. Bajo este formato, los 36 equipos están en una misma tabla de posiciones, y tras ocho partidos (decididos por sorteo y basándose en los cuatro bombos en que fueron repartidos los clubes participantes), los ocho mejores ubicados acceden a los octavos de final del torneo.

Del mismo modo, los ocho peores del certamen quedan automáticamente eliminados, sin posibilidad de jugar otra competencia europea hasta el próximo año (a diferencia de lo que sucedía hasta 2024, cuando los terceros de cada grupo bajaban a la Europa League).

Los ocho lugares vacantes de octavos de final se los disputarán los equipos que finalicen entre el noveno y el vigesimocuarto lugar de la tabla, jugando una fase de playoff con partidos de ida y vuelta. Los ocho ganadores completarán los octavos, donde ya se repetirá la modalidad de siempre, con series de ida y vuelta hasta la gran final, a partido único.

Hay apenas dos equipos que ya tienen garantizada su participación entre los 16 mejores del torneo. Uno de ellos es el Arsenal de Inglaterra, el único que mantiene un paso perfecto, con siete triunfos en siete presentaciones. Los Gunners llegaron a semifinales en la campaña pasada y parece que este año van a por todo, ya que también son líderes de la Premier League.

El otro club clasificado es el Bayern Munich de Alemania, que ganó seis de los siete partidos que jugó. El restante fue derrota, precisamente ante el Arsenal. Los bávaros también dominan la Bundesliga, por lo que están redondeando una gran temporada.

Apenas cuatro conjuntos ya saben que este miércoles se despiden de la competencia.

El Kairat Almaty (36°) tuvo este año su debut en la máxima competencia de clubes de Europa, pero su sueño terminó de la peor manera, con apenas un punto de 21 posibles. Su último rival será el Arsenal en Londres, en un encuentro donde no hay nada por definir.

Sorpresivamente, el paso del Villarreal (35°) fue efímero en esta edición de la Champions League. A pesar de que en LaLiga marcha cuarto, en puesto de clasificación para la próxima Liga de Campeones, en Europa apenas sacó un empate y seis derrotas, sumando los mismos puntos que el debutante Kairat Almaty.

Los otros dos eliminados son el Slavia Praga (34°) de República Checa y el Eintracht Frankfurt (33°) de Alemania, un equipo del que se esperaba un poco más en la competencia. Con tres y cuatro unidades, respectivamente, su destino ya está sellado.

Hay exactamente 30 equipos con futuro incierto, que este miércoles saldrán al campo, ya sea jugándose la clasificación directa a los octavos o al menos una plaza en los playoffs previos.

El Real Madrid (3°) y el Liverpool (4°) tienen 15 puntos y grandes chances de meterse entre los 16 mejores, pero para estar seguros deberán ganar, ya que un empate los pone a tiro de casi una decena de equipos que podrían superarlos o igualarlos en cantidad de unidades. El Merengue tiene una visita riesgosa ante el Benfica (29°) de José Mourinho, que debe ganar y por buena diferencia para meterse en la ronda de playoffs. Los Reds, por su parte, recibirán al sorpresivo Qarabag FK (18°) de Azerbaiyán, que contra todo pronóstico está escapando a la eliminación, pero no está a salvo definitivamente.

A pesar de la crisis futbolística que lo está haciendo ver de reojo los puestos de descenso e

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 had previously seen people die in hospice settings and said she knew by looking at Pretti that he was not going to make it.

“I knew he was gone because I watched it,” she said. “And then they come over to try to perform some type of medical aid by ripping his clothes open with scissors, and then maneuvering his

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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 had previously

Por Emma Tucker, CNN

Un hombre roció una sustancia desconocida hacia la representante de Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar, durante una asamblea pública, segundos después de que la congresista demócrata pidiera la destitución de la secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, y solicitara la abolición del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés).

Los asistentes a la reunión con funcionarios locales y estatales comenzaron a aplaudir tras sus declaraciones. En ese momento, el hombre se acercó al podio, le gritó y aparentemente roció una sustancia con una jeringa. No estaba claro qué era la sustancia ni si alcanzó a Omar, aunque un miembro del personal se escuchó por el micrófono diciendo que la habían rociado y que debía “ir a revisarse”.

El equipo de seguridad de Omar retiró al hombre del lugar y fue puesto bajo custodia policial, según equipos de CNN presentes. Tras hablar con el personal, Omar continuó con la asamblea pública. Se escuchó a la congresista decir: “Estos hijos de p**a no se saldrán con la suya”.

Después del incidente, Omar afirmó que iba a “seguir hablando” y añadió: “Por favor, no dejen que eso arruine el evento”.

“Aquí está la realidad que personas así no comprenden: somos fuertes en Minnesota y seguiremos siendo resilientes ante cualquier cosa que nos lancen”, continuó Omar. “Todos, cálmense, voy a terminar mis declaraciones”.

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By Sarah Ferris, Kristen Holmes, Manu Raju, CNN

(CNN) — Top Democrats in Congress are plunging into an impeachment fight with Kristi Noem, as even some moderate Republicans say they’ve lost faith in the embattled Department of Homeland Security chief – upping the pressure on the administration over what they see as a complete failure in Minnesota.

In a joint statement Tuesday, the top three House Democrats announced they would soon support a vote to impeach Noem — which they can trigger without any GOP support — unless Trump immediately moved to fire her following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.

And two moderate Republicans — Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the outspoken centrist of Alaska, and retiring Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina — told reporters Tuesday they wanted Noem out.

In an extraordinary step for House Democratic leaders, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his team issued a blunt statement threatening impeachment after weeks of trying to steer their members away from such talk, which they saw largely as a distraction given the GOP’s fierce loyalty to the president.

“Taxpayer dollars are being weaponized by the Trump administration to kill American citizens, brutalize communities and violently target law-abiding immigrant families. The country is disgusted by what the Department of Homeland Security has done,” they charged in the scathing statement that painted the pair of recent deaths in Minnesota as an immoral “killing spree.”

Leaders’ thinking changed Saturday night, when federal law enforcement officials fatally shot a second US citizen in Minneapolis in the same month. Democrats now sense a unique opening against Noem, with dozens of Republicans visibly uneasy about the White House’s recent ICE operations and some top chairmen hauling in Trump’s immigration enforcement officials for hearings in the coming weeks.

Even Senate Majority Leader John Thune described the weekend’s deadly shooting as “an “inflection point” on how ICE is being used and declined to say whether he personally had faith in Noem.

Inside the White House, multiple sources said that Noem’s job was not at risk, even though some administration officials were left deeply frustrated this weekend over how Noem — as well as top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino — handled the fallout from the fatal shooting.

Those frustrations reached the president. Trump spent several hours on Sunday and Monday watching the news coverage of the shooting and was personally unhappy by how his administration was coming across, one official said.

In the hours after the shooting, Noem was in constant touch with a number of White House officials, including Stephen Miller, and briefed them on the “defiant tone” she planned to take, sources told CNN. During that time, she was given guidance on how she should approach the shooting during her later press conference, including a set of talking points on Pretti “brandishing” a gun, sources told CNN.

Sources noted Noem was in lock step with the White House’s posture at the time. But as more videos emerged, the secretary’s rhetoric came under intense scrutiny, prompting Trump to distance himself from Noem and Miller as the administration sought to calm tensions in the state.

Trump told reporters that Pretti was not an “assassin,” a description Miller had used Saturday, and then later said he hadn’t heard rhetoric calling Pretti a “domestic terrorist,” a phrase Noem had used in her press con