SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, Chumash elder and beloved community member, passed away at age 87, according to her family.

Ygnacio-De Soto, the Fiesta Grand Marshal of 2023, dedicated much of her life in Santa Barbara to providing information on the Barbañero Chumash.

This includes donations to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, a children's book on the Barbañero Chumash culture and a documentary called "6 Generations" on her family's history.

Ygnacio Soto's mother, Mary Yee, was the last first-language speaker of the Barbañero Chumash, eventually raising five children of her own.

A memorial will be set at the Old Mission on Feb. 10, starting at 9:00 a.m., leading into the afternoon for any community member who wishes to attend.

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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

(CNN) — With now just a month to go until Election Day, the Democratic primary for US Senate in Texas has become so fraught that a TikToker’s accusations have roiled the race and prompted a major endorsement in the backlash.

The incident started Sunday night when Morgan Thompson posted a video recounting what she says was a comment Texas state Rep. James Talarico made to her in a private conversation in January: that he called his onetime opponent, former US Rep. Colin Allred, a “mediocre Black man.”

Talarico’s campaign released a statement from the candidate on Monday calling Thompson’s claims “a mischaracterization of a private conversation,” going on to explain, “I described Congressman Allred’s method of campaigning as mediocre — but his life and service are not.” Thompson acknowledged that she didn’t have a recording and that they had previously agreed to treat their conversation as off the record.

But the accusation slammed Talarico’s campaign on Monday, sending aides into a flurry and prompting Allred — who dropped out of the Senate race when Rep. Jasmine Crockett decided to make a last-minute entry — to endorse her in the intense race, despite frustrations he had in December that she had chased him out of the race by getting in. It also renewed the questions about identity politics and electability that have riven the primary and the Democratic Party more broadly.

Thompson alleges that Talarico, who is White, said: “I signed up to run against a mediocre Black man, not a formidable, intelligent Black woman.”

Talarico, in his statement denying the exact wording as Thompson relayed it, said, “I understand how my critique of the Congressman’s campaign could be interpreted given this country’s painful legacy of racism, and I care deeply about the impact my words have on others.”

In an interview on Monday evening, Allred told CNN he felt the campaign’s statement is “an admission that he said what he said,” and expressed surprise that he hadn’t heard from Talarico directly.

“I responded not just on my behalf, but on behalf of Black candidates around the country that even if you run six points ahead of your presidential candidate, you’re still called ‘mediocre,’” Allred said, referring to his results in the 2024 Senate race as compared to Kamala Harris in the state. (Allred outperformed Harris by about five points.)

What Talarico is accused of saying

Thompson told CNN that she had been turned on to Talarico’s campaign by a friend last fall and preferred him over Allred. After attending an event of his in Dallas, she started using her social media following to boost him. Talarico’s staff reached out about her video from the rally, she said, and was soon feeding her information like fundraising numbers and clips from his “Jubilee” online debate to help.

“It was like a symbiotic kind of thing. I wasn’t paid by the campaign at all,” Thompson said, though, “I was in constant communication with the campaign.”

Thompson said the relationship started to break down after she got a fundraising text for Talarico, signed by the Democratic strategist James Carville, who has been urging Democrats to start moving away from identity politics. Thompson said she saw that as an implicit critique of Black women, and that when she raised her frustrations with the campaign, an aide offered her to have a conversation with Talarico — either on camera for her to post, or “off the record,” as what was meant to be a private conversati

Por Victoria Butenko y Mitchell McCluskey, CNN

Rusia atacó la capital de Ucrania, Kyiv, con misiles balísticos en la madrugada del martes, informaron las autoridades locales, tras una breve pausa en los ataques a las principales ciudades e infraestructuras acordada por Rusia y Estados Unidos. La nueva incursión de Rusia se produce en un momento en el que Ucrania enfrenta temperaturas invernales en picada.

El personal de CNN en Kyiv informó haber escuchado varias explosiones fuertes en la ciudad.

El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, acordó la semana pasada pausar los ataques a las principales ciudades e infraestructuras ucranianas hasta el domingo, tras una “petición personal” del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, según el Kremlin.

La pausa también se produjo después de las conversaciones trilaterales entre Rusia, Ucrania y Estados Unidos en Abu Dhabi, las primeras de este tipo desde la invasión de Moscú en febrero de 2022.

Numerosos edificios residenciales de varios pisos resultaron dañados, según informes, escribió Tymur Tkachenko, jefe de la administración militar de Kyiv, en Telegram.

Dnipro, en el este de Ucrania, también estaba siendo atacada por misiles balísticos, según la Fuerza Aérea de Ucrania.

Aunque no se han reportado ataques a instalaciones energéticas o grandes ciudades desde el pasado jueves, según las autoridades ucranianas, Rusia ha continuado atacando rutas logísticas e infraestructuras de transporte, con resultados mortales.

El Kremlin ha confirmado que la próxima ronda de conversaciones trilaterales entre Ucrania, Rusia y Estados Unidos, destinadas a poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania, tendrá lugar el miércoles y jueves en Abu Dhabi.

“En el frío glacial, los rusos decidieron lanzar otro ataque masivo sobre Kyiv”, escribió Tkachenko en Telegram tras los ataques de la madrugada del martes.

Rusia ha intensificado los ataques a la infraestructura energética de Ucrania, dejando a grandes zonas del país enfrentándose a los cortes y escasez de energía en pleno invierno. En la madrugada del martes, la temperatura en Kyiv era de -20 grados Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).

La mayor empresa energética privada de Ucrania, DTEK, está en “modo supervivencia”, dijo su director ejecutivo a CNN. Las próximas semanas serán críticas, mientras el país enfrenta temperaturas en picada y la “peor condición de nuestro sistema energético en la historia moderna”.

DTEK opera actualmente cinco plantas termoeléctricas en Ucrania, de las cuales dos están fuera de servicio y las otras tres funcionan a baja capacidad, dijo Maxim Timchenko a CNN el lunes en una entrevista desde Dnipro.

Dijo que la empresa está trabajando para reparar los daños de los repetidos ataques rusos, pero a menudo no es posible por las condiciones de frío extremo.

Su mayor esperanza en este momento es que el alto el fuego energético anunciado la semana pasada, que según él trajo un respiro de cinco días en los ataques a las plantas termoeléctricas de DTEK, se extienda en las conversaciones en Abu Dhabi esta semana.

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GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Goleta family is seeking support after their mother was found dead in the Santa Clara River near Saticoy on January 23.

Ventura County Sheriff's Office deputies received a call about a body in the Santa Clara River, where they later found and identified Kaylynn Herrera, a 30-year-old Goleta mother, according to the VC Star.

The VCSO air unit took Herrera's body to the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office where they later identified her, according to the VC Star.

Herrera's family now seeks financial support to cover funeral costs and further help of her children. A link to the family's GoFundMe page can be found here.

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By Annie Grayer, CNN

(CNN) — Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to appear for in-person depositions in Washington, DC, in the congressional Jeffrey Epstein probe, caving in hopes of avoiding a looming House contempt of Congress vote.

It was not immediately clear whether House Oversight Chairman James Comer would accept the eleventh-hour offer, scuttling a full House vote to hold the former president and former secretary of state in contempt for their repeated refusals to testify for months.

Still, the latest proposal, which has not been independently reviewed by CNN, shows the lengths to which the Clintons are willing to go to avoid the vote, which could ultimately carry legal consequences.

“They negotiated in good faith. You did not. They told you under oath what they know, but you don’t care. But the former President and former Secretary of State will be there. They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone,” Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña said in a defiant X post to Comer.

Comer said in a statement Monday evening that he still had questions on the offer.

“The Clintons’ counsel has said they agree to terms, but those terms lack clarity yet again and they have provided no dates for their depositions. The only reason they have said they agree to terms is because the House has moved forward with contempt,” he said. “I will clarify the terms they are agreeing to and then discuss next steps with my committee members.”

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, however, said he didn’t see a scenario where the panel’s chairman didn’t accept the offer. The Clintons, he told CNN, had “accepted every single term that has been laid out by Comer.”

“We’ve said from day one that we wanted Bill Clinton to testify in front of the Oversight Committee. We’ve been repeating that and we’ve been working obviously with their teams. And so, I’m glad they’re going to testify,” Rep. Robert Garcia said.

Just hours earlier, the Republican chairman, unsatisfied by conditions the Clintons’ legal team sought to place on their cooperation, appeared set to move forward with the contempt proceedings.

“It has been nearly six months since your clients first received the Committee’s subpoena, more than three months since the original date of their depositions, and nearly three weeks since they failed to appear for their depositions commensurate with the Committee’s lawful subpoenas,” Comer wrote at the time. “Your clients’ desire for special treatment is both frustrating and an affront to the American people’s desire for transparency.”

The House Rules Committee was setting the parameters for such a vote when the latest proposal was made.

The offer from the Clintons’ attorney came via email in the middle of a committee meeting as Comer was testifying about the contempt proceedings, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Later Monday evening, however, House Rules Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx announced that, given the developments, the panel would hold of