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Two Taft resident taken into custody for burglarizing home in active evacuation zone

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Two Taft residents were arrested for burglary after breaking into a home under an evacuation order due to a nearby vegetation fire Thursday.

On May 21, around 8:18 a.m., dispatchers received a report of a burglary in progress at a home in the 2100 block of Schaeffer Road outside of Cuyama stated a press release from the Santa Barbra County Sheriff's Office.

The home is within an active evacuation order issued in response to the Foothill Fire which sparked earlier this week.

Deputies responded to the scene alongside the California Highway Patrol and determined that two people had entered an attached garage at the home without permission detailed the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

A search of the property revealed that the suspects has removed copper wiring used to power the property owner's well added the local law enforcement agency.

According to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, deputies searching the area located and detained a 34-year-old woman from Taft before later locating and arresting the second suspect, a 39-year-old man from Taft.

Both Taft residents were found to be in possession of burglary tools and narcotics paraphernalia and were transported to the Northern Branch Jail where they were booked on multiple charges related to theft explained the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

The local Sheriff's Office shared that deputies are maintaining an enhanced presence in evacuation areas during the fire response and will actively investigate any unauthorized activity in the restricted areas.

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Two Taft resident taken into custody for burglarizing home in active evacuation zone

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Two Taft residents were arrested for burglary after breaking into a home under an evacuation order due to a nearby vegetation fire Thursday.

On May 21, around 8:18 a.m., dispatchers received a report of a burglary in progress at a home in the 2100 block of Schaeffer Road outside of Cuyama stated a press release from the Santa Barbra County Sheriff's Office.

The home is within an active evacuation order issued in response to the Foothill Fire which sparked earlier this week.

Deputies responded to the scene alongside the California Highway Patrol and determined that two people had entered an attached garage at the home without permission detailed the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

A search of the property revealed that the suspects has removed copper wiring used to power the property owner's well added the local law enforcement agency.

According to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, deputies searching the area located and detained a 34-year-old woman from Taft before later locating and arresting the second suspect, a 39-year-old man from Taft.

Both Taft residents were found to be in possession of burglary tools and narcotics paraphernalia and were transported to the Northern Branch Jail where they were booked on multiple charges related to theft explained the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

The local Sheriff's Office shared that deputies are maintaining an enhanced presence in evacuation areas during the fire response and will actively investigate any unauthorized activity in the restricted areas.

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Del aliento a la agresión: la historia y la problemática de los cánticos de la afición de México en los estadios

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Por Marisol Jimenez, CNN en Español

En los estadios de fútbol en México algo está cambiando. Durante décadas, los cánticos han sido una de las expresiones más potentes de identidad colectiva. Hoy, entre gritos que reproducen discriminación y nuevas voces que intentan transformarlos, el canto en la tribuna se ha vuelto un campo de disputa cultural.

La tensión es evidente. Mientras el grito homófobo en partidos de la selección mexicana persiste —y ha derivado en sanciones y advertencias internacionales—, aficionadas mujeres y nuevas generaciones buscan resignificar qué significa alentar: sin insultos, con mensajes de inclusión y, a veces, con contenido político.

Cuando el estadio empieza a cantar, todo se modifica. No hay balón en juego, pero el partido ya se siente. Una voz se alza. Otras la siguen. En segundos, miles repiten lo mismo. La melodía es conocida. La letra ya no. Eso es un cántico de fútbol. En muchos sentidos, el corazón de la experiencia en las tribunas.

Ir al estadio no es solo ver un partido. Es pertenecer: a un equipo, a una ciudad, a una forma de vivir el fútbol. El canto lo hace visible. Define a los grupos, refuerza vínculos y traza fronteras con el rival. A diferencia de camisetas o banderas, exige coordinación y presencia. No existe en solitario.

El escritor Juan Villoro lo resume en su libro “Balón dividido”: “Los grandes momentos reclaman palabras”. Para él, el fútbol es también “un estupendo pretexto para el alarido”. Una experiencia corporal. Sin cantos, el estadio no solo pierde sonido. Pierde sentido.

Muchos cánticos nacen de melodías conocidas. Se toma una canción, se altera la letra y se repite hasta apropiársela. El sociólogo argentino Javier Bundio los llama “contrahechuras”, piezas recicladas que adquieren un nuevo significado.

Para que funcionen, explica, deben ser simples y reconocibles. Esa familiaridad permite que cualquiera pueda sumarse. Por eso, muchos provienen de la cultura popular y forman parte de una memoria colectiva compartida.

Pero no es solo una cuestión musical. Importa lo que se dice. Los cantos suelen moverse en tres ejes: celebrar la pertenencia, alentar al propio equipo o burlarse del rival. En ese proceso, la canción deja de ser individual y se vuelve colectiva: ya no tiene autor, pertenece a la hinchada.

Es, además, un fenómeno global. Hay registros en Argentina desde los años 40, pero hoy una melodía puede surgir en un estadio y aparecer después en otro país, incluso en otro continente. Los cánticos migran: pasan a la política, regresan al fútbol, cambian de forma.

Aun así, siguen una regla básica: deben reconocerse en la cultura local. En Argentina mezclan balada, cumbia o rock; en Brasil incorporan samba y batucadas que convierten la grada en una celebración constante; en Colombia integran cumbia o vallenato con tambores; en México suelen apoyarse en referencias como “Cielito Lindo”. La lógica es siempre la misma: tomar lo conocido y decir otra cosa.

El problema es que ese mismo lenguaje también puede reproducir violencia. En México, uno de los cánticos más sancionados y persistentes es el grito homófobo que se ha vuelto una (triste) marca de la afición. Su persistencia muestra hasta qué punto ciertos discursos se normalizan en el espacio deportivo.

Y no es solo simbólico. También tiene consecuencias concretas. En la final de la Liga de Naciones de la Concacaf en 2024, el partido entre México y Estados Unidos se detuvo dos veces por ese grito bajo el protocolo antidiscriminación. El riesgo de sanciones más severas, incluidos partidos suspendid

Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with mental disorders. The number has been growing

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By Kristen Rogers, CNN

(CNN) — Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, a new study has found.

The largest increases were in anxiety and depression, which were also the most common disorders in 2023. In third place was a residual category of personality disorders not accompanied by other mental or substance use disorders.

The study, published Thursday in the journal The Lancet, also revealed how trends concerning 12 mental disorders differed by age, sex, location and sociodemographic factors among 204 countries and territories — suggesting “that we are entering an even more concerning phase of worsening mental disorder burden globally,” the authors wrote in the study.

Dr. Damian Santomauro, first and lead study author, “was honestly shocked at the magnitude,” he said via email.

“There are many factors at play here, and it is difficult to tease them all apart,” added Santomauro, associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland in Australia. “Addressing these risk factors requires global collective leadership.”

The other mental disorders measured were bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anorexia, bulimia, dysthymia, conduct disorder and developmental intellectual disability from unknown causes. Dysthymia is a long-term but mild form of depression also known as persistent depressive disorder. Conduct disorder affects children and teens and involves a consistent pattern of disobedient and aggressive behaviors.

The researchers found increases in all 12 disorders, including an 158% rise in anxiety and an 131% uptick in depression compared with 1990. The least common disorders were anorexia, bulimia and schizophrenia — though those conditions aren’t rare, with roughly 4 million, 14 million and 26 million cases, respectively, in 2023. Most mental disorders were more common in females, but autism, conduct disorders, ADHD, personality disorders and inexplicable intellectual disability were actually more common in males.

The study also helps further illuminate how the Covid-19 pandemic may have influenced the rates of certain mental health conditions. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, rates of anxiety, depression and some other disorders were already increasing. But during and since the crisis, depression increased and hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic rates. Anxiety peaked and remained high through 2023, the research team found.

In the research, “issues like underreporting — a common problem with mental illness — are dealt with, but we really don’t know how accurate this is,” said Paul Bolton, senior scientist in the department of mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, via email.

However, the estimates “are the best we have” and “as close to the real figures in the world as we are likely to get,” added Bolton, who wasn’t involved in the study.

The research is an analysis of data from the 2023 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study, or GBD. Led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, the GBD study is the largest and mo

Muere Kyle Busch, campeón de la NASCAR Cup Series en dos ocasiones; tenía 41 años

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Por Jacob Lev, CNN

Kyle Busch, campeón de la NASCAR Cup Series en dos ocasiones, murió a la edad de 41 años, anunciaron su familia y su equipo el jueves.

Más temprano el jueves, su familia había dicho que Busch estaba hospitalizado con una enfermedad grave. La familia no especificó el tipo de enfermedad.

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