Por Danya Gainor

La Comisión de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes, liderada por los republicanos, votó para citar a la secretaria de Justicia de Estados Unidos, Pam Bondi, para que declare sobre su papel en la divulgación de los archivos de Jeffrey Epstein como parte de la investigación de la comisión sobre el fallecido delincuente sexual convicto.

La representante republicana Nancy Mace propuso citar a la fiscal general y la moción fue aprobada 24-19, con apoyo bipartidista. Mace fue acompañada por los demócratas y sus colegas republicanos Tim Burchett, Michael Cloud, Lauren Boebert y Scott Perry.

CNN ha contactado al Departamento de Justicia para obtener comentarios.

Mace forzó la votación durante una audiencia que no tenía relación con Epstein en absoluto. Es el último movimiento en la amplia investigación del panel sobre Epstein y se produce después de que el Congreso aprobara una ley en 2025 que exige que el Departamento de Justicia publique todos sus archivos de investigación relacionados con Epstein.

La publicación de los archivos por parte del Departamento de Justicia hasta ahora ha provocado quejas de legisladores de ambos partidos, cuyos críticos afirman que creen que los archivos estaban excesivamente editados y exigen mayor transparencia.

Mientras tanto, la Comisión de Supervisión de la Cámara ha buscado el testimonio de varias figuras de alto perfil como parte de su investigación en curso.

El martes, la comisión anunció que el Secretario de Comercio, Howard Lutnick, había aceptado comparecer ante el panel en una fecha futura y que solicitó el testimonio voluntario de otros siete.

Antes de la votación del miércoles, el presidente de la comisión de supervisión, James Comer, dijo que había hablado con el jefe de gabinete de la fiscal general y que Bondi había ofrecido dar información a los miembros, unos pocos a la vez, sobre los archivos de Epstein del Departamento de Justicia.

Esta historia ha sido actualizada con información adicional.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) A framed photo in Ray Merpour's Santa Barbara Gas, Propane & Smog shop shows the former fighter pilot under the Shah of Iran next to his plane.

Other than that, you may not know his history of moving from Iran to California in January 1987, with a few stops in between.

Merpour said cousins have been calling to say they are okay but they are not able to say much else about the conflict.

"I do have relatives in a couple of different parts of Iran, I cannot call them but they call because the phone system is terrible and when ever they call me they just say they okay they don't say anything else about the war, I hear more about the war in the news than somebody calling me from Iran," said Merpour, "I hope the outcome will be something that is good for the Iranian people that is it."

He believes some people in the region want Iraq to be divided.

And he said history has not shown success.

"They attack Afghanistan and after 20 years they hand back to Taliban and Libya and I think Iran is next what is going to happen to Iran, I am afraid of internal war within tribes in Iran.

He hopes journalists will report on the school children killed and other things that may not get covered.

Merpour hopes for peace, but is not naive about the difficult path ahead.

A scholar who has taught students global studies for years had similar observations.

UCSB Global Studies Professor Emeritus Mark Juergensmeyer said via zoom that the Unites State and Israel have kicked a hornet's nest.

"There is no great love lost for Ayatollah, it is not like everybody, everybody even in Iran loved him the whole regime stunk to high heaven but once you get rid of them what are you going to put in their place and so yes this was Netanyahu idea and Trump went along with it and now here we are we. "

He compared what is happening now to the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

To his students and people interested he shared several things to pay attention to:

"Several things to watch for, any indication about how this is going to end because Trump has said repeatedly he doesn't want to get bogged down on another endless war. The only thing that would do that would be ground troops and occupation, so look for any suggestion that that is going to happen.If he says oh they are just temporary they are there to stay. Look for what is happening within Iran. I there going to be an uprising, there already was and they put it down with the same forces that put it down a couple of weeks ago are still there and they are going to put it down again," said Juergensmeyer, and the third thing to look for is breakaway groups the Kurds in the northwest and the Balochis in the southeast have already started mobilizing to take this moment of weakness from the Iranian government to break off and form their own regimes."

Your News Channel will have more on how the former fighter pilot and scholar are perceiving current events tonight on the news.

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By John Liu, CNN

Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — China set its lowest economic growth target in decades on Thursday, announcing it would aim for 4.5-5% expansion for 2026, as the world’s second-largest economy grapples with weak domestic demand and an uncertain global outlook.

The moderate projection follows three consecutive years of aiming for “around 5%” growth from 2023 to 2025, which the country achieved despite a slow recovery from stringent Covid-19 controls and US President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive last year.

Still, China’s broader growth trajectory has flattened, weighed down by a prolonged property crisis, declined investment, tepid consumption and deflation.

The only year in recent history when the government has been less ambitious was in 2020, when it passed on setting a numerical target because the economy was nearly paralyzed by the initial outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The figure for 2026 was released in a government work report on Thursday at the opening of the annual assembly of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress.

Over the week-long meeting ahead, nearly 2,900 delegates will approve China’s next “Five-Year Plan,” a policy blueprint aimed at guiding government priorities for the next few years to cement the country’s status as a global tech superpower.

The meeting comes weeks before Trump’s visit to Beijing, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to host him for a three-day summit covering trade, technology and Taiwan, among other issues.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Lina Robles

El Buró de Supervisores del Condado de Riverside aprobó la expansión de un préstamo de $3.4 millones de dolares para apoyar al Hospital de Blythe, que desde hace tiempo enfrenta dificultades después de declararse en bancarrota.

Con esto mantendrán abierto el departamento de urgencias.

Profesionales médicos del Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Riverside ya están trabajando en Blythe para servirle a los 20,000 residentes que ya no tendrán que recorrer más de 70 millas para servicios médicos de emergencia en el hospital de Indio.

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