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Drying Friday, mild weekend

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Rain chances decrease Friday after receiving some brief and light rain showers across our region between Wednesday and Thursday, under a 10th of an inch.

Scattered clouds will linger Friday before better clearing over the weekend.

Temperatures will remain around 65 degrees this weekend.

Only modest warming is now expected for early next week into the high 60s.

Clouds will increase next Wednesday as a weak system passes through California, however, we are looking mostly dry from rain chances through the first week of February.

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Teachers Union States Santa Barbara Unified School District Refuses to Bargain for Student Schedule Equity

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Santa Barbara Teachers Association (SBTA), representing educators from Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) was refused the opportunity to bargain proposed changes to student schedules that would expand equitable access […]

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Exclusive: Pelosi privately blasts Democrats for vote to hold Clintons in contempt in Epstein probe

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By Annie Grayer, Eric Bradner, CNN

(CNN) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was disappointed after nearly half of the House Oversight Committee’s Democrats voted Wednesday to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. And on Thursday, she let them know it.

In a private meeting, Pelosi said she was upset that Democrats supported the contempt vote because the former president and former secretary of state were still negotiating with the committee over the terms of a possible future appearance, two sources in the room told CNN.

One of the sources in the room described Pelosi as “emphatic” and said of the former speaker’s remarks: “When she speaks, she means it. She knows her voice has power.”

The former speaker suggested no proceedings should move forward against the Clintons until after the Justice Department has released all of the Epstein investigative files.

And she rejected the argument that they should be treated the same as Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, two Trump allies and first-term administration officials who were held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. After being held in contempt, both were later prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to prison terms.

CNN has reached out to Pelosi’s office.

Pelosi’s frustration underscores the Democratic fracture after the Clintons failed to comply with a subpoena in the Epstein case. The Clintons had cast the effort to compel their separate appearances on Capitol Hill to answer questions under oath as unfair and legally unenforceable, and they framed their refusal as a principled stand for America.

“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences. For us, now is that time,” the Clintons wrote in a letter at the time of their refusal.

But as Republicans on the panel were quick to note, even Democrats had signed off on the subpoenas. And the Clintons’ strategy in dealing with demands that they testify about the late convicted sex offender has put them in a tough legal position, experts say, in addition to the political fallout it has created for them and their political party.

The Clintons are “in a very difficult position, because these cases are very straightforward. They’re pretty much, ‘Did you get a subpoena, and did you go testify?’” said former US Attorney John Fishwick, a Barack Obama appointee. “The courts are going to say that Congress has broad discretion on who they want to ask for a deposition.”

Fishwick pointed to Bannon and Navarro receiving jail sentences, and said the Clintons run the risk that judges would feel they need to be consistent.

David Rapallo, professor at Georgetown Law and the former House Oversight Committee Democratic staff director under the late Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, said that “as a legal matter, Congress clearly has the authority to issue subpoenas, including for depositions, and if witnesses refuse to comply with those subpoenas, they can be held in contempt.”

“Their perceived unfairness is not necessarily a legitimate basis to refuse to comply with a legal requirement, although it does appear the Clintons are being singled out when others, like the attorney general, have not produced information required by law,” he said.

CNN has reached out to representatives for Bill and Hillary Clinton for comment.

The Clintons have sought to negotiate over how they would participate in the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein probe. On January 16, the Clintons’ attorneys offered to make the former president available for an interview

El drama de David y Victoria Beckham: por qué su crisis familiar conecta con la generación que no teme romper lazos

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Por Lisa Respers France, CNN

Durante unas horas esta semana, pareció que el mundo y todos sus problemas se detuvieron con un solo tema dominando internet: Brooklyn Peltz Beckham.

La gente siguió cada detalle después de que el hijo mayor de David y Victoria Beckham publicara seis historias en Instagram acusando a sus famosos padres de filtrar historias sobre él a los medios, mostrar “relaciones no auténticas” en redes sociales e intentar arruinar su boda con su esposa, Nicola Peltz.

Peltz Beckham inició su declaración con una frase contundente: “No quiero reconciliarme con mi familia”.

Con eso, aunque él mismo no usó el término, Peltz Beckham se sumó al debate que sacude a la Generación Z y a sus padres de la Generación X y los boomers: cortar lazos, es decir, alejarse de familiares considerados demasiado tóxicos o incapaces de cambiar.

En conversaciones privadas y muy públicamente en TikTok, la idea de cortar lazos se debate desde todos los ángulos. Por un lado, quienes deciden romper vínculos, muchas veces celebrados por sus pares por priorizarse a sí mismos sobre la situación que llevó a la ruptura. Por el otro, los padres apartados por sus hijos, algunos expresando confusión y otros encontrando su propio espacio en redes para contar su versión.

Karl Pillemer, profesor de desarrollo humano en Cornell y autor del libro “Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them”, dijo a CNN que, aunque hay mayor conciencia sobre hijos adultos que cortan lazos, en parte gracias a las redes sociales, no hay datos concretos que demuestren un aumento.

En 2020, Pillemer dijo al Cornell Chronicle que “encontró que el 27 % de los estadounidenses mayores de 18 años habían cortado contacto con un familiar, la mayoría de los cuales reportó sentirse mal por esa ruptura”.

Lo que ahora observa es que los jóvenes, incluida la Gen Z, reciben más apoyo en las redes sociales cuando deciden romper con sus familias, incluso cuando sus padres luchan por entender el lenguaje que sus hijos usan para expresar por qué sucede esto, como “gaslighting” y “paternidad narcisista”.

“Por un lado, hay un estímulo en redes sociales que se ha vuelto más aceptable”, dijo Pillemer. “Dos, existe una especie de desconexión entre lo que algunos jóvenes parecen esperar de la relación padre-hijo y lo muy diferente que es del entendimiento que sus padres tenían de lo que estaban haciendo”.

Ya no es necesario, dijo, que los hijos adultos permanezcan conectados a su familia porque “la sangre es más espesa que el agua”, ya que la nueva generación siente “menos la obligación de quedarse en una relación que no les resulta satisfactoria, pase lo que pase”.

En el caso de los Beckham, el académico dijo que le recordaba a una conversación que tuvo en un episodio del podcast “Sibling Rivalry”, conducido por los hermanos famosos Kate Hudson y Oliver Hudson, sobre negociar relaciones familiares a través de las redes sociales.

“Yo diría que esta no es una buena forma de manejar distanciamientos”, dijo. “Se traza una línea increíblemente fuerte en la arena cuando se expone toda la relación. Y luego es muy difícil, porque esas cosas viven para siempre”.

Otra parte del atractivo del escándalo Beckham es el vistazo detrás de cámaras que ofrece a una poderosa familia de celebridades.

Desde el momento de amor a primera vista en que el futbolista David Beckham conoció a la entonces cantante de las Spice Girls, Victoria Adams, durante un partido de fútbol en 1997, la pareja parecía estar viviendo un cuento de hadas.

Su primogénito fue una parte integral de su historia de amor.

Nombrado así por el distrito de Nueva York, donde sus padres se enteraron de que lo esperaban, él fue el pajecito de cuatro meses en su boda de 1999 en el castillo de Luttrellstown en Dublín, Irlanda.

A medida que fue creciendo, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham parecía esforza

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