Por Andy Rose, CNN

La muerte de los manifestantes anti-ICE Renee Good y Alex Pretti provocaron indignación en Minneapolis, tanto por sus circunstancias como por la respuesta inmediata de los funcionarios federales que calificaron a ambos de “terroristas”.

La reacción política resultante bajó la temperatura de la administración Trump (incluso el propio presidente dijo: “Tal vez podríamos usar un toque un poco más suave”) junto con promesas vacilantes de las autoridades federales sobre la investigación de esos hechos.

Pero se avecina la pregunta de si los agentes de inmigración que apretaron el gatillo en ambos casos realmente infringieron la ley, una cuestión que se reducirá a cuestiones complejas, mucho más difíciles de definir que la indignación que provocó los llamados a la rendición de cuentas.

Cualquier caso penal o civil girará en torno a los estándares legales sobre el uso de la fuerza y ​​lo que tenían en mente esos agentes al apretar el gatillo.

“Cuando hablamos del uso de la fuerza, no aplicamos una sola regla”, declaró Seth Stoughton, profesor de justicia penal en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Carolina del Sur y expolicía. “Existen diversas reglas”.

Según una norma establecida por la Corte Suprema hace casi cuatro décadas, dispararle a un sospechoso, incluso si está desarmado, no viola la Constitución si el agente pensó razonablemente que las acciones del sospechoso presentaban “peligro inminente de muerte o lesiones físicas graves”.

“La ‘razonabilidad’ de un uso particular de la fuerza debe juzgarse desde la perspectiva de un agente razonable en el lugar de los hechos, en lugar de con la visión 20/20 que da el tiempo”, escribió el juez William Rehnquist en la decisión Graham v. Connor en 1989.

Para determinar cuánto peligro percibió el oficial en el momento de un tiroteo se necesitan pruebas, apunta Alex Reinert, director del Centro de Derechos y Justicia de la Facultad de Derecho Cardozo.

“Necesitarán todas las pruebas posibles sobre lo que sucedió en ese espacio y tiempo”, declaró Reinert a CNN. “Necesitarán videos, declaraciones de testigos presenciales, cualquier cosa que pueda ilustrar mejor la perspectiva del agente en ese momento”.

Si bien ese es el estándar que se consideraría en un caso civil, los investigadores locales también están investigando si se violó alguna ley estatal.

Inmediatamente después del tiroteo de Good, el director de la Oficina de Aprehensión Criminal de Minnesota indicó que quedarse sin ese tipo de información podría ser fatal para su propia investigación de Jonathan Ross, el funcionario de ICE que le disparó.

“El acceso completo a la evidencia, los testigos y la información es necesario para cumplir con el estándar de investigación que la ley de Minnesota y el público exigen; sin él, no podemos hacerlo”, señaló el superintendente de BCA, Drew Evans.

Pero en el momento de la muerte de Pretti –y con la ira pública aumentando– el tono de los funcionarios estatales se endureció y prometieron una investigación seria, cualesquiera que fueran los desafíos.

“El sistema de justicia de Minnesota tendrá la última palabra en este asunto”, declaró el gobernador Tim Walz el 24 de enero. “Debe tener la última palabra”.

Los investigadores y fiscales locales no han indicado qué cargos estatales podrían considerar en estos casos. El vicepresidente J.D.

By Tim Lister, CNN and Svitlana Vlasova

(CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the United States wants a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia by early summer, despite repeated rounds of talks failing to reach a breakthrough over the issues of territory and security guarantees.

“They say they want to get everything done by June,” Zelensky said in remarks published Saturday by the Presidency. “And they will do everything to end the war. They want a clear schedule of events.”

“If the Russians are really ready to end the war, then it is really important to set a deadline,” he added.

Zelensky said that Washington had proposed that Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet in the United States, probably in Miami, in a week’s time. “We have confirmed our participation.”

CNN has sought comment from the US government on Zelensky’s remarks.

The Kremlin has insisted that Kyiv gives up all of the Donbas region, about a quarter of which is still held by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine has refused to cede the territory.

Zelensky’s remarks came as Russia carried out another large-scale attack on Ukraine’s power infrastructure, with several regions targeted by hundreds of drones and missiles overnight.

The overnight attacks follow a recent lull in strikes on energy infrastructure by both sides, which was proposed by the US. Zelensky said Washington had proposed “that both sides once again support the US President’s energy de-escalation initiative. Ukraine has agreed, but Russia has not yet responded.”

Zelensky said the latest Russian strikes involved “more than 400 drones and around 40 missiles of various types. The main targets were the energy grid, generation facilities, and distribution substations.”

Many of the targeted sites were in central and western Ukraine, including the Lviv and Rivne regions, Zelensky said, but the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions had also been hit. Much of Ukraine faces temperatures well below freezing for the next few days.

Ukrainian energy minister Denys Shmyal said the Russians had attacked the backbone of the country’s energy grid, including high voltage 750 kV and 330 kV overhead lines and two thermal power plants.

Emergency blackouts had been implemented throughout Ukraine, Shmyhal said.

“Energy workers are ready to begin restoration as soon as the security situation allows.”

More than 600,000 subscribers throughout the Lviv region were without electricity on Saturday morning, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of Lviv region military administration.

Ukrainian power provider DTEK said the strikes on the thermal plants were the 10th massive attack on the company’s facilities since October. DTEK’s thermal power plants “have been attacked by the enemy more than 220 times” since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the company said.

“Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes,” Zelensky said.

“Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine. This requires missiles for Patriot, NASAMS, and other (air defense) systems. Every shipment helps us get through this winter.”

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— Ethan Hawke is in Santa Barbara, and it’s not his first rodeo.

“When I was doing my first movie, “The Explorers” I came up to Santa Barbara. Was the first time I've ever been here. And I saw, ‘The Breakfast Club.’ I remember the roof of my head came off. I loved it, so I'm happy to be back.” said Ethan Hawke, who received the American Riviera Award Friday for his significant long term contribution to American cinema.

At 55 years old, Hawke has quite the career to look back on.

He’s played the 90s heart throb, a reporter covering a murder trial, the villain, the hero, the tortured poet, and historical figures.
 
Most recently, his portrayal of songwriter Lorenz Hart in “Blue Moon” has earned him his first “Best Actor” Oscar nomination.
 
Hawke has starred in several renowned film franchises, so News Channel Reporter Mina Wahab asked him what movie he’d love to do a sequel for.

“What's funny is in general, I don't even like sequels because I like to do something new all the time. But if I had to do a sequel to something it would be for “The Lowdown,” which I’m gonna do next.

But Hawke has barely scratched the surface. There’s so much more he wants to do.

“I’d love to do a crazy, bald faced comedy in my life. I wanted to like Shakespeare's ’The Tempest’, I wanna do a new play. I want to do another movie with Richard Linklater. There's so many young people I’d love to work with. That’s the great thing about cinema. It's huge, expansive, and global,” said Hawke.

Hawke has a total of 5 Oscar nominations— 2 for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ in “Boyhood” and “Training Day,” 2 for ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ in “Before Midnight” and “Before Sunset, and his very first ‘Best Actor’ nomination for “Blue Moon.”
 
We’ll just have to wait and see if he’ll be walking away with the coveted Oscar in a few weeks.

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Por Billy Stockwell, CNN

La familia real de Noruega ha estado luchando contra escándalos en múltiples frentes esta semana, que han motivado a organizaciones benéficas a tomar ciertos pasos para cortar o revisar lazos con la princesa heredera por sus pasados vínculos con el fallecido delincuente sexual Jeffrey Epstein, mientras que otros críticos cuestionan su idoneidad para el papel de futura reina.

La primera polémica es la del hijo de 29 años de la princesa heredera Mette-Marit, Marius Borg Høiby, quien a principios de esta semana rompió a llorar durante su primer día de testimonios en un tribunal de Oslo por cuatro cargos de violación, que negó .

Høiby se encuentra fuera de la línea de sucesión, ya que nació antes de que su madre se casara con el príncipe heredero Haakon en 2001.

Haakon reafirmó el estatus de Høiby como plebeyo en una declaración poco común antes del juicio por violación que comienza el martes, en la que afirma que su hijastro “no es miembro de la Casa Real de Noruega y, por lo tanto, es autónomo”.

Pero sus esfuerzos por salvaguardar la reputación de la Corona se vieron ensombrecidos cuando estalló una segunda controversia, esta vez involucrando a su esposa y madre de Høiby, la futura reina del país.

Nuevos archivos de Epstein publicados por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos muestran una extensa correspondencia entre Mette-Marit y el fallecido delincuente sexual (algo que la princesa ha lamentado desde entonces) años después de que Epstein se declarara culpable de solicitar relaciones sexuales a una menor.

El viernes, la casa real de Noruega manifestó que Mette-Marit “rechaza firmemente los abusos y actos criminales de Epstein” y lamenta “no haber comprendido lo suficientemente temprano qué tipo de persona era”.

“Parte del contenido de los mensajes entre Epstein y yo no representa la persona que quiero ser. También me disculpo por la situación en la que he puesto a la familia real, especialmente al rey y a la reina”, declaró Mette-Marit en un comunicado.

Esto ha provocado un debate público abierto en Noruega sobre si Mette-Marit debería convertirse en reina, dicen los expertos.

“La confianza en la princesa heredera ha caído drásticamente”, declaró Tove Taalesen, corresponsal real del medio de comunicación Nettavisen. “La mayoría aún respalda a la institución, pero ese apoyo es menor y la incertidumbre crece”.

La controversia plantea preguntas incómodas sobre la posición de Mette-Marit dentro del clan, sobre todo dada la avanzada edad del rey Harald V, quien, a sus 88 años, es el monarca más longevo de Europa.

La salud física de Harald se ha deteriorado en los últimos años, lo que ha obligado a Haakon a ejercer de regente en ocasiones.

Taalesen advirtió que Mette-Marit aún no enfrenta un final inmediato de su período como miembro activo de la realeza, pero indicó que una opción sería retirarse de sus deberes reales alegando razones de salud y dejar que el príncipe heredero gobierne algún día por su cuenta.

A Mette-Marit le diagnosticaron en 2018 fibrosis pulmonar, una enfermedad pulmonar crónica y progresiva con un mal pronóstico, y probablemente necesitará un trasplante de pulmón, según el palacio real.

Otros comentaristas reales coinciden. Kjetil Alstadheim, editor político del influyente periódico noruego Aftenposten, afirmó que muchos noruegos están decepcionados por las revelaciones y, como resultado, tienen menos confianza en la princesa.

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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN

New York (CNN) — Ron Vachris does not fit the profile of a typical risk-taking executive.

Vachris started at Costco as a forklift driver in 1982 while he attended community college. He went on to manage Costco’s warehouses on the West Coast before he was tapped to lead the company’s real estate division in 2015.

“I was quite shocked” about being asked to run the real estate division, Vachris later said in a rare interview. “All my experience was in operations and running warehouses.”

In 2024, more than 40 years after Vachris started at Costco, he became the company’s third-ever CEO.

“I’m not the exception” among company leadership, he said. “We have a very humble group out there” that’s not focused on “recognition (or) being on a pedestal somewhere.”

But over the past year, Costco has taken a major risk by adopting visible public stances at odds with President Donald Trump’s agenda. That makes Costco one of the few big companies to defy the administration — and get away with it.

Costco rarely takes the lead on controversial political or social issues, and its actions have been measured. But the company’s positions have drawn attention during a period when many companies are self-censoring or changing their policies to fall in line with Trump.

While dozens of companies have dropped diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, Costco stood behind DEI. Costco’s decision won it business from progressive customers, and it did not suffer with conservatives.

Costco also sued the administration over tariff refunds, risking government backlash.

But Costco, so far, hasn’t faced blowback. The company is more inoculated than others to take these positions because of fierce customer and employee loyalty to the brand, analysts say.

Customers pay an annual membership fee to shop at Costco, and more than 90% renew each year. The company also has some of the lowest employee turnover rates in the retail industry, driven in part by offering wages above its competitors.

“You look at who’s running the company today – we all came up through the ranks” of Costco, Vachris said in an interview last year. “Retention is core to the company’s success.”

Costco, which does not have a media relations department and rarely speaks to the press, declined an interview request for Vachris.

“Costco’s got a really good bipartisan reputation. Everyone loves it. It’s cheap as hell and treats its workers well,” said Alison Taylor, a clinical associate professor of business and society at the NYU Stern business school. “They know the lane they’re in, and they have not really wavered.”

‘I am not prepared to change’

Costco’s decision to hold steady on DEI programs last year came as Target, Walmart, McDonald’s and other companies scaled back their diversity programs in response to opposition from the Trump administration.

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