Por Federico Leiva, CNN en Español

Los Patriots de Nueva Inglatera volverán a jugar un Super Bowl después de siete años. El equipo de Massachusetts ganó un cerrado partido en Colorado que se definió por apenas tres puntos ante los Denver Broncos, para así coronarse campeón de la Conferencia Americana y obtener el boleto a la gran final del fútbol americano en Estados Unidos.

Hubo prácticamente dos partidos en uno: uno antes de la nevada y otro bajo la nieve. Sin embargo, tuvieron un denominador común: la superioridad de las defensas.

Ya en la previa se presagiaba un partido con pocos puntos. Por un lado, los Broncos no tenían a su quarterback titular, Bo Nix, quien sufrió una lesión en el juego divisional ante los Buffalo Bills. El traje de mariscal recayó en Jarret Stidham, precisamente un exjugador de los Patriots (y los Raiders de Las Vegas). Del otro lado estaba Nueva Inglaterra, que, si bien tenía intacto a su arsenal ofensivo, ya había mostrado problemas de funcionamiento ante los Houston Texans hace una semana.

El pronóstico no falló. Los dos equipos despejaron rápido su primera posesión, pero luego llegó la reacción a cargo de los locales. Un corto despeje de los Patriots le dio una buena línea de inicio a los Broncos, que con un pase excelente de Stidham para 55 yardas puso a los de Colorado a las puertas de la anotación. Esa llegó inmediatamente después, con otro pase del mariscal de campo para Sutton: 7-0 y alegría naranja y azul en las gradas.

Los de Nueva Inglaterra no pudieron responder de inmediato. Su ofensiva tuvo problemas toda la tarde para correr el balón, y su joven quarterback, Drake Maye, se mostró errático y falto de lectura ante una defensa que lo presionó una y otra vez. La desventaja de los Patriots pudo ser mayor de no ser por su defensa, que obligó a un intercambio de balón cuando Denver ya estaba en posición de, al menos, convertir otros tres puntos.

Pero cuando el ataque de los Patriots ya pedía a gritos el mediotiempo para hacer ajustes, llegó el regalo atrasado de Navidad. Stidham no supo qué hacer ante una presión y regaló el balón a 12 yardas de su propia zona de anotación. Los Patriots le sacaron jugo: un pase a Boutte, una corrida de Maye y partido 7-7.

El último resabio de ofensiva en el partido se dio en la primera jugada del tercer cuarto, con los Patriots avanzando 64 yardas y conformándose con un gol de campo que puso el partido 10-7 a su favor. A partir de allí, las condiciones climáticas se hicieron más evidentes a cada minuto, con mucha nieve en el terreno de juego y en el aire, lo que dificultaba cualquier pase, carrera y hasta los goles de campo. Ninguno pudo avanzar más que unas cuantas yardas y las emociones pasaron por cada tackle de las dos defensas que otra cosa. El marcador no se movió más y los Patriots lo celebraron.

Es, sin dudas, una resurrección notable la del equipo de Nueva Inglaterra, que el año pasado había sido uno de los peores de toda la NFL: 13 derrotas en 17 partidos y último lugar en su división. En realidad, para ser justos, los Patriots han naufragado desde el último año de Tom Brady en el equipo, y, sin él, no habían encontrado ni un solo momento para ilusionarse con dar pelea.

Pero este año llegó Mike Vrabel como entrenador en jefe, y con algunos ajustes excelentemente bien identificados en el equipo, los de Nueva Inglaterra se convirtieron en un equipo de 14 victorias, campeones de división y de conferencia. Ahora, van por el Super Bowl, donde podrían convertirse en la primera franquicia en ganar siete campeonatos.

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By Betsy Klein, Alayna Treene, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump and his top lieutenants are doubling down on their hardline immigration policies and rhetoric following the shooting of a US citizen by federal officers in Minneapolis — even as the incident has revealed cracks in the president’s coalition.

A phalanx of top Trump administration officials fanned out across Sunday morning news shows and social media to publicly defend the officers’ actions and the administration’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement tactics, all shifting blame to Democratic state and local officials. They say Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are not doing enough to support federal law enforcement and are ratcheting up tensions.

“Democrat run Sanctuary Cities and States are REFUSING to cooperate with ICE, and they are actually encouraging Leftwing Agitators to unlawfully obstruct their operations to arrest the Worst of the Worst People!” Trump wrote Sunday in a pair of lengthy social media posts, calling out Walz and Frey by name.

While Trump has both publicly and privately defended the Border Patrol agents who fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti, there has also been concern at the White House that his immigration messaging is getting lost amid the chaotic scenes in Minnesota, sources familiar with the conversations this weekend said.

‘What is the endgame?’

Some Republicans began to question publicly whether it was worth it for ICE to maintain such a heavy presence in a state where they’re not wanted by local leaders.

“If I were Trump, I would almost think about, ‘OK, if the mayor and the governor are going to put our Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in harm’s way and there’s a chance of losing more innocent lives or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide,’” James Comer, a Kentucky congressman and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.” Comer went on to criticize state and local leadership.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, expressed concerns about Trump’s goals.

“Americans are asking themselves: ‘What is the endgame? What is the solution?’ We believe in federalism and state rights. And nobody likes feds coming into their states. And so what’s the goal right now? Is it to deport every single non-US citizen? I don’t think that’s what Americans want,” Stitt told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”

Pressed by Bash on whether federal agents needed to pull out of Minnesota, Stitt said, “I think that the president has to answer that question. He is a dealmaker and he’s getting bad advice right now.”

Mounting concerns at DHS

Meanwhile at the Department of Homeland Security, there’s feeling among multiple officials that Secretary Kristi Noem is hurting the department — and putting all federal law enforcement further at risk of reputational harm. Noem has been among the officials publicly blaming Pretti, even as her department is leading the investigation into the incident.

“He came to that scene and impeded a law enforcement operation, which is against federal law. It’s a felony. When he did that, interacting with those agents, when they tried to get him to disengage, he became aggressive and resisted them,” she said on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing.”

Videos reviewed by CNN show that tensions escalated quickly in a Minneapolis neighborhood wher

By Alison Main, Aileen Graef, CNN

(CNN) — The chance of several government agencies shutting down this week is growing, as Senate Democrats fall in line behind a commitment to reject a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security after another deadly shooting by a federal officer in Minneapolis.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Saturday evening that Democrats won’t provide a key package the 60 votes it needs to advance if it includes the current DHS funding measure, which he called “woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement).” ICE and Customs and Border Protection are part of DHS.

If the Senate fails to pass the legislation by midnight on Friday, then parts of the federal government will shut down, including the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development.

Though Schumer had previously dodged the question of whether his caucus would draw a hard line against funding ICE, the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse, by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday prompted several Senate Democrats to voice their opposition.

In perhaps the clearest sign yet that the path to fully fund the government by the January 30 deadline is in trouble, many lawmakers who crossed party lines last fall to back a short-term plan to end the previous shutdown are now saying they won’t support this key appropriations bill without major changes.

“I hate shutdowns,” Sen. Angus King told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, but as his own home state of Maine experiences a surge of federal immigration officers, King said he “can’t vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances.”

The independent senator, who caucuses with the Democrats, suggested that Senate Majority Leader John Thune should try to keep the majority of the government open by separating measures to fund DHS from bills to fund other agencies, saying he believes lawmakers would pass those.

“Let’s have an honest negotiation. Put some guardrails on what’s going on, some accountability, and that would solve this problem,” King said. “We don’t have to have a shutdown.”

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat, echoed King’s sentiment against supporting the DHS funding bill in its current form, which she said offered “no accountability,” and also suggested passing legislation to keep other parts of the government open.

So far, Thune and other GOP leaders have expressed no interest in breaking out DHS funding into a separate vote.

Republicans, who hold a 53-seat majority, will need the support of a handful of Democrats to advance any funding bill. If GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky votes no, as he usually does on appropriations bills, at least eight Democrats will need to cross the aisle to keep all parts of the government open.

For now, GOP leaders can count out King and Cortez Masto, two of the three members of the Democratic caucus who consistently voted with most Republicans against a shutdown late last year.

Sen. John Fetterman, the third member of that group, has not said how he’ll vote on DHS funding, though he has made clear in the past he opposes shutdowns.

The Pennsylvania Democrat, who opposes rhetoric from the left wing of his party about “abolishing” ICE, wrote on X earlier this month that his

Por Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Tim Lister y Tal Shalev

Mohammad y Suleiman Al Zawaraa, dos primos de apenas 14 y 13 años, perdieron la vida tras ser alcanzados por fuego israelí mientras recolectaban leña en Gaza, según denunciaron sus familiares y confirmaron autoridades médicas.

El incidente ocurrió cuando los jóvenes intentaban conseguir madera para sus hogares. Mohammad, el mayor de los primos, y Suleiman, un año menor, fueron trasladados al hospital Al Shifa, según las autoridades sanitarias locales.

Los niños murieron durante la mañana del sábado. Un video mostró al padre desconsolado de uno de los niños sosteniendo su cuerpo en brazos.

Los dos jóvenes y sus familias viven en el norte de Gaza. Su tío, Salman Al Zawaraa, dijo a CNN que los niños eran cercanos.

“Estaban llenos de vida y alegría, querían ayudar a sus padres, así que salieron a recoger leña para cocinar y para calentar a la familia en este duro invierno”, dijo Al Zawaraa a CNN el domingo.

Las fuerzas israelíes confirmaron a CNN el domingo que “los soldados que operan en el norte de Gaza identificaron a varios terroristas que cruzaron la Línea Amarilla, colocaron un artefacto explosivo en la zona y se acercaron a los soldados, representando una amenaza inmediata para ellas”.

Indicaron que el incidente fue el mismo en el que murieron los menores. Pero una fuente militar afirmó que “no eran niños”, sin ofrecer pruebas.

El tío de los jóvenes insistió en que estaban muy lejos de la Línea Amarilla, “casi en la entrada del hospital Kamal Adwan. Lo que dicen las fuerzas de ocupación es una mentira; esos son niños inocentes a los que mataron a sangre fría”.

En partes de Gaza, la línea amarilla no está claramente delimitada ni señalizada.

No es la primera vez que Israel mata a menores en Gaza mientras salían a buscar leña.

Fadi y Jumaa Abu Assi ,de ocho y diez años, salieron a buscar leña para su padre discapacitado en noviembre. Murieron en un ataque con dron.

Las fuerzas israelíes reconocieron haber ejecutado ese ataque en un comunicado, llamando a los niños “dos sospechosos que cruzaron la línea amarilla, realizaron actividades sospechosas en el terreno y se acercaron a las tropas de las FDI que operaban en el sur de Gaza, representando una amenaza inmediata para ellas”.

El Ministerio de Salud palestino dijo el domingo que en las últimas 24 horas, tres personas habían muerto por acción militar israelí, elevando el total desde que entró en vigor el alto el fuego en octubre a 484.

Indicó que el número total de muertos en Gaza desde octubre de 2023 era de 71.657. El ministerio no distingue entre combatientes y civiles en sus datos.

El miércoles 21 de enero, al menos 11 palestinos fueron asesinados en una serie de ataques, según la Oficina de Derechos Humanos de la ONU en el Territorio Palestino Ocupado (OPT, por sus siglas en inglés).

Dijo que había “un patrón más amplio de violencia posterior al alto el fuego y los efectos perdurables de dos años de devastación”.

Entre los fallecidos había tres periodistas palestinos cerca del área de Netzarim, en el centro de Gaza, quienes estaban en una asignación para el Comité de Ayuda Egipcio (ERC).

La OPT dijo que la muerte de los tres hombres elevó a 292 el número de periodistas asesinados por ataques israelíes desde octubre de 2023.

“Todos los vehículos del Comité Egipcio tienen el logotipo del Comité Egipcio, a pesar de eso el vehículo fue atacado por aeronaves israelíes”, dijo a CNN el portavoz del comité, Mohamed Mansour. Dijo que los periodistas grabaron el sitio “como es habitual a diario”.

El Comité de Ayuda Egipcio es una organización humanitaria estatal que opera en Gaza con autorización israelí “para apoyar al pueblo palestino en medio d

By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — Top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have responded to the killing of Alex Pretti by the Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday with a torrent of claims that are either contradicted by video footage or unsupported by any evidence presented so far.

• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Pretti “attacked” officers, an assertion echoed by FBI Director Kash Patel, but no footage available as of Sunday afternoon shows Pretti committing any attack.
• Noem claimed Pretti was “brandishing” a gun, but no available footage shows Pretti even holding a weapon in his hand at the scene; a concealed gun appeared to be taken from his waistband area by a federal agent moments before he was shot.
• White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller referred to Pretti as “an assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents,” Vice President JD Vance reposted this claim, and Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino (and the Department of Homeland Security in a social media post) said it “looks like” Pretti “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” But nobody has shown any evidence that Pretti sought to kill anyone, let alone perpetrate a massacre.
• Patel suggested that Pretti broke the law by carrying a concealed gun at a protest, but the Minneapolis police chief said Pretti had a permit to carry the gun and was allowed to have it on him as he was protesting in a public place.

Pretti’s parents issued a statement on Saturday saying, “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.” And in television interviews on Sunday, the administration declined to repeat some of its most incendiary allegations from Saturday about Pretti, who was a registered nurse in an intensive care unit at a Veterans Affairs facility.

Here is a look at how the Trump team’s shifting rhetoric squares with what is known about Pretti and the circumstances around his death.

The administration claimed that Pretti ‘attacked’ officers. But videos don’t show Pretti committing any attack

Noem told reporters Saturday: “This individual impeded the law enforcement officers and attacked them,” repeating the phrase “attacked them” moments later for emphasis. When Patel was asked about the shooting in a Sunday interview on Fox News, he responded, “You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions.”

No video of the incident available as of Sunday afternoon showed Pretti attacking officers.

Various footage shows him directing traffic at the site of an immigration enforcement operation, yelling at a federal agent who was interacting with other bystanders to “not push them into the traffic,” holding up a cell phone appearing to record agents, and stepping in front of an agent to intervene as the agent shoved a woman to the ground; Pretti appeared to make momentary contact with the agent with his right arm and left hand.

The agent then sprayed him with a chemical irritant and dragged him to the ground; other officers joined in the confrontation as Pretti appeared to resist, and one agent appeared to strike him repeatedly as he was on the ground.

In a Sunday interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Bovino claimed