Por Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN Español

“The Boys”, la serie televisiva que satiriza a los superhéroes, concluyó este miércoles con la emisión del episodio final. La serie se transmitió durante cinco temporadas, pero su universo continuará a través de dos spinoffs confirmados, uno de los cuales, “The Boys: México”, tiene entre sus productores ejecutivos a Diego Luna y Gael García Bernal.

Publicado como un cómic en 2006 creado por Garth Ennis y Darick Robertson, “The Boys” es una parodia de los superhéroes, preguntándose cómo se comportarían unas personas con súperpoderes, cómo actuaría la corporación que financió los experimentos para darles estas habilidades, pero, sobre todo, ¿serían los superhéroes benévolos o abusarían de sus poderes? “The Boys” se centra precisamente en un grupo de personas comunes y corrientes que ha sufrido a manos de estos superhéroes, en especial a manos del psicópata Homelander, y deciden acabar con ellos por todas las vías posibles.

Su adaptación en serie se estrenó en 2019 y, a lo largo de cinco temporadas, enfrentó a “los muchachos”, liderados por el implacable Butcher (Karl Urban), contra Los 7 (equivalente a la Liga de la Justicia de DC Comics), comandados por Homelander (Antony Starr).

En 2023, Prime Video estrenó el primer spinoff de “The Boys” llamado “Gen V”, centrado en una universidad, fundada por la corporación Vought (creadora del compuesto V, que otorga superpoderes) para entrenar a jóvenes en el manejo de sus habilidades sobrehumanas. Su protagonista es Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), capaz de controlar la sangre de cualquier ser vivo, con lo que se convierte en uno de los superhéroes más poderosos de esta historia.

Lamentablemente, “Gen V” fue cancelada tras apenas dos temporadas, dejando inconclusa su historia, aunque algunos de sus personajes aparecieron en “The Boys”.

A continuación, referimos las claves de las otras series del universo “The Boys” que están en desarrollo.

Según el sitio web Internet Movie Database, el creador y guionista de “The Boys: México” es el mexicano Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, conocido por escribir las películas “Miss Bala” (2023) y “Blue Beetle”, basada en el superhéroe de origen latino de DC Comics. (DC Comics forma parte, al igual que CNN Español, de Warner Bros. Discovery).

“The Boys: México” fue anunciada en 2023. En una entrevista con Entertainment Weekly el pasado abril, el showrunner de “The Boys”, Eric Kripke, dijo que el guion del episodio piloto de la nueva serie fue presentado a Prime Video y que la reacción fue positiva, anque con algunas notas con observaciones por parte del estudio.

La novedad de esta serie es que cuenta como productores a Diego Luna (“Andor”) y Gael García Bernal (“Amores perros”), quienes han trabajado en conjuntos en películas como “Y tu mamá también” (2001), “Rudo y Cursi” (2008) y “Chicuarotes” (2019), entre otras.

Se ignoran los detalles de “The Boys: México”, así que cabe espera que esta serie no se estrenará antes de 2028. García Bernal dijo a Variety en 2023: “Estoy muy emocionado por lo que podemos hacer, porque podemos hacer algo muy interesante en América Latina”. Cabe esperar que la sátira de “The Boys” a la política estadounidense se traduzca en una crítica también a la política mexicana.

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By Samantha Delouya, CNN

(CNN) — A landmark housing affordability package moved one step closer to becoming law on Wednesday after winning bipartisan approval in the House of Representatives.

The measure is an amended version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which cleared the Senate in March.

The bill, which won approval in a sweeping vote of 396-13, aims to tackle the housing crisis from multiple angles: expanding loans to construct housing, pushing local governments to loosen permitting rules, expanding manufactured housing, and curbing Wall Street’s ownership of single-family homes.

Together, the House and Senate proposals signal that Washington is treating America’s housing affordability crisis with new urgency. If enacted, the measures would amount to one of the most sweeping federal housing efforts in decades.

But while the two bills share broad goals, they diverge in key areas. Most notably, the House version takes a softer approach to restricting institutional investors from buying single-family homes than the Senate proposal.

The two governing bodies will have to reconcile the differences before the law hits President Donald Trump’s desk.

Senate Banking Committee leaders, Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, will discuss the House bill with Republican and Democratic senators to get their view on the changes, a Senate aide told CNN on Wednesday.

Earlier this month, Trump expressed his support for the Senate’s bill in a social media post, writing that the measure “would ensure that homes are for people, not corporations.”

The institutional investor ban

This is the second version of the House bill to advance this year. An earlier draft stopped short of restricting large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

But the Senate’s proposal, introduced after an executive order from Trump, would ban investors and companies from buying single-family homes if they already own 350 or more. It would also target the fast-growing “build-to-rent” industry by requiring developers to sell those homes within seven years. Critics warned the measure could severely hamper new rental construction.

The House measure passed Wednesday keeps the Senate’s broader limits on institutional investors purchasing single-family homes, but eliminates the requirement that investors sell build-to-rent and renovate-to-rent properties.

Instead, House lawmakers opted for a lighter measure: creating a hotline for tenants living in properties owned by large institutional investors.

The bill’s passage was applauded in a joint statement by 11 national housing organizations, including the National Association of Home Builders and the Mortgage Bankers Association.

“The revised Act, like all compromise legislation, is not perfect. Nevertheless, it is one that our organizations support as it encompasses some of the most significant housing proposals in a generation,” the statement said.

“As the process moves forward, it will be vital that the final language safeguards millions of BTR homes and the individuals and families that are building their lives in them,” the statement said.

What is in the bill

The bill aims to expand the housing supply through streamlined environmental reviews, grants for local housing planning and office-to-

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) - The first-ever "Believe Big" award is going to Dos Pueblos High School students who have been growing food for over a year for campus meals and fellow students.

The DPHS Enviromental Club Healthy Salad Meals Program was originally funded by Dario Furlati of Ca' Dario Cucina Italiana and the Pilgrim Terrace Urban Farms.

Organizer and philanthropist Drew Wakefield is presenting a check for $2500. and urges other campuses to also grow their own food through campus gardens or the unique "tower gardens."

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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN

(CNN) — Too much screen use among kids and teens – including endless social media scrolling, nonstop texting and hours of video games – can be harmful, and it has become a public health concern in the United States, according to a surgeon general’s advisory released Wednesday.

Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services collaborated on the new advisory, as there is no confirmed surgeon general within the Trump administration.

The advisory warns that exposure to screens often begins before a child’s first birthday and increases with age.

By adolescence, children may spend more time on screens than they spend sleeping or attending school, the report said.

The advisory notes that the amount of time spent on screens reaches an average of four or more hours per day by the time a child becomes a teenager – and nearly half of adolescents admit that they lose track of the amount of time they spend on their phones.

Screen use can be associated with worse sleep, decreased functioning in school, less physical activity and weakened in-person relationships, according to the advisory.

Along with the warning on the harms of screen use, the new advisory includes a toolkit that offers recommendations on how to identify harmful behaviors around screens and how to limit screen time. For instance, it suggests that limits could be no screen time for children under 18 months old, less than one hour per day for children under 6 and two hours per day for ages 6 to 18.

Screen time warnings and recommended limits aren’t new. A policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges that the amount of screen time per child could vary based on each family, their needs and school nights versus weekends – but time limits might range from less than one hour per day for toddlers and preschoolers to about one to two hours per day or more for school-age children and teens, not including school-related media.

“While screen use can have some benefits, the evidence of a range of risks to children’s overall mental and physical health is mounting,” US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in the opening pages of the new advisory.

“Social media is only one aspect of this ongoing screen time problem. Behavior patterns involving gaming, online gambling, and other forms of virtual interaction are emerging. While this report uses ‘screen time’ as a widely understood shorthand, we want people to understand that we are referring to the entire digital ecosystem of apps, smartphones, tablets, chatbots, and other screen-associated devices and interfaces,” Kennedy said. “This Advisory is not only a warning, but also an invitation for all of us to enjoy a broader world, beyond the confines of screens.”

The advisory includes “calls to action” that provide recommendations for kids and teens, families, schools, healthcare professionals, policymakers and technology companies – including stronger parental tools, school-based phone restrictions and product design changes by technology companies.

Among these “calls to action,” the advisory recommends:

• Youth track their screen time, take breaks an

By Tami Luhby, CNN

(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. quietly removed the two top leaders of a key preventive services panel last week as he seeks to overhaul its membership.

The US Preventive Services Task Force determines what preventive care – such as mammograms and colonoscopies – Americans can receive at no cost. But it has not met for more than a year, and half of the 16 seats are unfilled.

The unusual move comes as the administration is seeking new members for the task force, and its leaders would typically be involved in the vetting process. Their removal has raised concerns of political interference as Kennedy seeks to wield more influence over HHS’s panels of independent medical experts.

Drs. John Wong of Tufts Medical Center and Esa Davis of the University of Maryland School of Medicine received letters from Kennedy that said the action stemmed from a review of current appointments to task force. Wong and Davis served as chair and vice chair, respectively.

“The Department is taking this step to help protect the Task Force and preserve confidence in the continuity and durability of its work,” said the letter, which has been viewed by CNN.

The leaders were removed “to avoid uncertainty that could jeopardize the validity of future Task Force actions,” according to the letter, which did not specify what the risks are.

The appointment of the task force members was an issue in a legal challenge at the US Supreme Court last year in a case that could have upended the panel’s more recent recommendations. The justices ruled 6-3 that Kennedy and his predecessor in the Biden administration had the ability to name the experts who sit on the panel.

Asked for comment, an HHS spokesperson referred to the letters.

The terminations undermine the transparent, rigorous and apolitical way the task force has operated since its establishment in 1984, said Dr. Aaron Carroll, CEO of the nonprofit AcademyHealth, a national organization for health services and policy researchers. The panel’s value stems from thorough and nonpartisan review of scientific evidence, not from any particular set of conclusions, he said.

“That, again, is not how you build trust and not how you build consistency and a belief the system is functioning as it should,” Carroll said.

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