Por Tierney Sneed y Fredreka Schouten, CNN

El proyecto de ley para reformar las elecciones federales, que es una prioridad principal para el presidente Donald Trump, ya enfrentaba probabilidades casi imposibles en el Senado, pero la Casa Blanca está haciendo que la “Ley SAVE America” sea aún más difícil de aprobar al insistir en que los republicanos la carguen con disposiciones controvertidas adicionales.

No se espera que la versión que aprobó la Cámara el mes pasado, centrada en agregar nuevos y estrictos requisitos de identificación y prueba de ciudadanía para votar, obtenga la aprobación del Senado porque los republicanos carecen de los votos para eliminar el filibusterismo, que permite a la minoría demócrata bloquear el proyecto de ley.

Pero Trump ha redoblado la apuesta, ordenando a los republicanos que agreguen disposiciones que pondrían fin a la práctica generalizada del voto por correo sin excusas y que apunten a las políticas transgénero que han sido luchas culturales efectivas para el Partido Republicano, pero que no están relacionadas con el desarrollo de las elecciones.

Si la versión actual del proyecto de ley, o la versión idílica que Trump ahora busca, se convirtiera en ley, supondría una enorme disrupción para las elecciones intermedias de este año. (Con un borrador anterior de la “Ley SAVE America”, algunas disposiciones no habrían entrado en vigor hasta el año que viene, pero un cambio de última hora en la Cámara de Representantes hace que esos requisitos entren en vigor inmediatamente después de su promulgación).

Los expertos electorales afirman que los casos documentados de fraude electoral, especialmente el voto de personas sin ciudadanía, son extremadamente raros.

La base de datos de casos de fraude confirmados de la Fundación Heritage, de tendencia derechista , por ejemplo, muestra menos de 100 ejemplos de personas sin ciudadanía que emitieron su voto indebidamente entre 2000 y 2025.

Actualmente, los estados que por sí solos intentan implementar la exigencia de comprobante de ciudadanía para votar solo pueden hacerlo en las elecciones estatales y locales.

Por ello, quienes promueven la legislación federal afirman que es una solución muy necesaria para que los estados puedan aplicar dichos requisitos en todos los niveles de la papeleta.

Los críticos afirman que la legislación impone cargas innecesarias a los votantes, para ejercer su derecho al voto, al exigirles presentar documentos a los que millones de estadounidenses no tienen fácil acceso.

Prueba de ciudadanía

Para inscribirse para votar, las personas tendrían que presentar personalmente a los funcionarios electorales documentos que acrediten su ciudadanía, como un certificado de nacimiento, un pasaporte estadounidense o un certificado de naturalización.

En casos como el matrimonio, donde el nombre en el certificado de nacimiento no coincide con el nombre actual del votante, los solicitantes de registro electoral podrían presentar documentos adicionales que expliquen la discrepancia.

Más de 21 millones de votantes que de otra manera serían elegibles no tienen fácil acceso a esos documentos de ciudadanía, según una encuesta realizada por el Centro Brennan, un grupo de expertos de tendencia izquierdista que investiga cuestiones electorales, y otros grupos.

Los partidarios del proyecto de ley argumentan que una REAL ID, como las que se exigen en los aeropuertos, sería suficiente para cumplir con el requisito del documento de ciudadanía. Sin embargo, esto solo aplica a los pocos estados que emiten REAL ID que indican la ciudadanía de una persona.

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By Dana O’Neil, CNN

(CNN) — Steve Prohm lets out a deep exhale and Bryce Drew sighs an extended, “Oohhhh.’’ Josh Schertz kind of tsk-tsks, before muttering, “It’s a tough one.’’

Independent of one another, each has been asked the same question: “What does it feel like to be Travis Steele this week?”

They have all been Steele, or at least some iteration of him. The Miami (Ohio) coach should be sitting in the catbird seat. After surviving a dizzyingly chaotic regular-season finale at Ohio University that included two technical fouls and one flagrant on Miami, his RedHawks completed a perfect 31-0 regular season, the first to do so since Gonzaga in 2021 and only the eighth in the last 50 years.

Except this is Miami with that pesky attachment to its name – Ohio. Were this the Miami of U fame in Coral Gables, Florida, copious amounts of words would have been spewed about the team’s awesomeness and this week – conference tournament week – would be nothing more than a stop gap between the regular season and an inevitable bid to go dancing in the NCAA Tournament.

In the Ohio version of this tale, the RedHawks are at best a lightning rod, at worst an annoyance and at least slightly uncomfortable as they head to Cleveland for the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

Cinderella is a funny girl when her glass slippers are Nike issued. We are amused by her as a lead-up to the ball and love her if she earns a party-crashing admittance and then goes on to trash the place in the first weekend. But not everyone is so eager to hand our protagonist one of the coveted 37 extra tickets held in reserve.

For every person who believes that Miami deserves a bid to the NCAA Tournament regardless of what happens this week in Cleveland, there is a counterprogrammer who argues that the RedHawks’ weak schedule means they should be tossed for a power conference member.

The mid-major versus high major value is hardly new. The reason Prohm, Drew and Schertz can relate is because they all had their spin through this particular blender: Prohm twice while at Murray State, Drew while he was at Valparaiso and Schertz with Indiana State. The interesting twist on Miami’s case is their test balloon is being floated as the powers-that-be debate expanding the NCAA Tournament field.

In theory – theory – that should offer more opportunities for the future Miamis of Ohio.

But those who live in the real world of college athletics question if that will be the case.

“The system is not designed to be equitable,” Schertz told CNN Sports, who is now the head coach at Saint Louis. “And if you’re a Power 5 team, you don’t want it to be. Bids mean money and everyone wants more money. Expansion, if we go to say eight more, I think it means maybe one mid-major bid or two. The allure of the tournament is Cinderella, this team you never heard of suddenly winning games. It’s not the 13th team in the Big Ten playing the 14th team in SEC, but that’s what we’ll get.”

The pressure of perfection, even among mid-majors

The plight for the mid-major has never been easy.

Despite a phonebook of NCAA rules designed to create an even playing field, it never has been. With the advent of NIL and revenue sharing, not to mention a transfer portal that pickpockets good players, it’s even harder.

That Miami was able to build on a 25-win season a year ago, retain the better part of its roster and up its record to 31-0 is in and of itself worthy of something.

The question is if it’s worth an NCAA bid. S

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Los aliados de Irán en América Latina. Rusia asesora a Irán en tácticas con drones, dice fuente a CNN. ¿Qué ocurre en el estrecho de Ormuz? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.

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Analistas advierten de que matar capos del narcotráfico no desmantela el crimen organizado en América Latina. La fragmentación de grupos, su diversificación hacia nuevos negocios, la corrupción estatal y el control de cárceles y fronteras fortalecen redes criminales que se expanden y se adaptan.

Varios barcos fueron blanco de ataques el miércoles en el estrecho de Ormuz, la principal ruta para el envío de crudo desde países ricos en petróleo como Arabia Saudita y Kuwait al resto del mundo. El Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica informó que había atacado dos buques, uno con bandera de Tailandia y otro con bandera de Liberia.

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Irán está por cumplir dos semanas de guerra con Estados Unidos e Israel y, si se le ocurre recurrir a sus aliados en América Latina, muy probablemente no obtendrá más que expresiones de respaldo. Si bien desde principios de este siglo Irán mantuvo alianzas con algunos países de la región, esos lazos se han visto disminuidos este año.

Rusia está ayudando a Irán con tácticas avanzadas de drones empleadas en la guerra en Ucrania para atacar objetivos de Estados Unidos y de países del golfo en Medio Oriente, según un funcionario de inteligencia occidental.

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La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, sufrió el miércoles un revés en el Congreso, donde su iniciativa de reforma electoral fue rechazada por la Cámara de Diputados al no alcanzar la mayoría calificada que requieren los cambios a la Constitución. La iniciativa presidencial fue apoyada por los diputados del oficialista partido Morena, pero rechazada por sus dos aliados, los partidos del Trabajo y Verde Ecologista de México.

HENDERSON, Nevada. (KEYT) - UCSB is considered to be one of the top men's basketball programs in the Big West.

But over the past three seasons this has not been the case, far from it.

The Gauchos are just average.

Head coach Joe Pasternack and his Gauchos overpacked for their trip to the Big West Championships in Nevada, losing 79-73 to UC Davis in the first round of the conference tournament.

Carl Doughtery Jr. scored a game-high 24 points for the Aggies who built up a ten point lead with 8:15 left in the game and they were in control the rest of the way.

Freshman CJ Shaw scored a team-high 20 points for UCSB.

The Aggies completed a 3-game sweep over UCSB this year and have won 7 straight overall in the series that is ending as UC Davis leaves for the Mountain West Conference.

The Gauchos were just 5-of-26 from three-point distance against Davis, a fitting end to a season that certainly missed the mark. A preseason pick to finish in the top two in the league, the Gauchos were the #7 seed out of 8 teams in this tournament.

Coaches always want to be playing their best ball in March but Joe Pasternack saw his Gauchos lose six of their last seven games to finish this pedestrian season 18-14.

Injuries to Jason Fontenet II and Miro Little certainly affected this season but this not a one year slide back to the middle of the pack in the Big West.

Over the last three seasons in league, UCSB is 31-29 and 2-3 in the conference tournament.

The Gauchos fancy themselves as a top two program in the Big West but the recent league standings suggest otherwise.

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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN

Paris (CNN) — At the Paris fashion shows that wrapped this week, there were luxuriously plain black dresses and coats of the kind favored by Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, models strutting down runways with theatrical flourishes, and in some cases, no cellphones in sight. Gen-X icons, including actress Chloe Sevigny and supermodel Kristen McMenamy, walked the runway at Miu Miu — with a special appearance by star of the 1990s hit show “X-Files,” Gillian Anderson.

This is Paris Fashion Week circa 1998 — in 2026.

If brands spent the last few years plumbing the looks and vibes of the early 2000s — Miu Miu’s low-rise waistlines and Abercrombie’s prep and all that — ‘90s fever has now taken hold. Like much of social media and pop culture, fashion designers are enraptured with the style and culture of what’s been dubbed “The Last Great Decade.” — or at least the last one before smart phones and the internet took over our lives. Now we have “Love Story,” fictionalizing the star-crossed romance of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette and the fabulous office politics of Calvin Klein; Gwyneth Paltrow is back on screen in Oscar-nominated “Marty Supreme”; and women are still rehashing the escapades of Carrie Bradshaw and her “Sex and the City” posse.

Rather than simply feeding the ’90s beast with subdued tank tops and pencil skirts, though, designers this week seemed more eager to recreate the feeling of the decade on their runways. It was a time when what happened on the runway, not the celebrity and influencer frenzy outside, was the big news, and when fashion houses offered distinctive looks rather than competing to make the most viral version of the same kind of dresses and bags.

At Junya Watanabe, models walked with a sense of performance rarely seen today except in old videos of couture shows from the 1990s, wearing gowns assembled of athletic equipment and tacky leopard and faux fur fabrics of the kind idolized by Limited Too shoppers.

Other creative directors packed their show spaces, recalling a bygone frenzied atmosphere wheren attendees craned their necks and squeezed into standing room spaces not to get that perfect iPhone shot but because the ideas were so exhilerating. Pieter Mulier’s final outing as the designer of Alaïa (before he heads to Versace) crammed guests onto benches pitched so close to the clothes you could almost smell the calf hair on bottle green and fire engine red coats. Schiaparelli’s creative director Daniel Roseberry put his models up on a raised, glossy black runway platform — an affectation rarely seen in the 21st century — and sent his spotlights spinning to a Janet Jackson soundtrack. “I wanted to do a show,” Roseberry said backstage. “I wanted it to be evocative of an era of glamour that was not referencing couture.”

The muses of these two shows felt titillatingly out of reach, an arch if mischievous contrast to the many designers droning backstage about wanting to dress real women (and then giving them completely boring clothes). “She is that bitch who is living that life,” said Roseberry of his Schiaparelli customer. “She doesn’t want boring. She doesn’t want classic.”

Indeed, the 1990s were a time when women could expect more variety and risk from their designers, which may be why so many creative directors are pushing in this direction. Provocative Paris-based brand Matières Fécales throw back to the era when cutting a mean skirt suit could be a subversive act, a la Alexander McQueen or John Galliano, by painting models’ faces white and styling them with such gimmicks as a ball gag made of enormous pearls. And Jean Paul Gaultier, showing its second collection designed by