Victorville Man Who Used Instagram to Pose as Teenage Football Player to Sexually Exploit Girls Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison

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A San Bernardino County man was sentenced to 540 months in federal prison for sexually exploiting two teenage girls he met on Instagram, including by posing as a teenage boy […]

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FAA slashes hiring target, saying it can keep the skies safe with fewer air traffic controllers than it thought

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By Aaron Cooper, CNN

(CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration needs fewer air traffic controllers than earlier estimates to be fully staffed, the agency announced Friday.

Under the 2026 – 2028 Workforce Plan, 12,563 Certified Professional Controllers will be required, down from the 14,633 the agency forecast it needed for those years in 2024.

“Modern staffing models and scheduling tools” will allow the 2,000 fewer controllers to keep the skies safe, the agency said in a news release.

“We can’t continue to operate the same way and expect better results,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said in the statement. “We’re changing how we hire, train and schedule our controller workforce – and providing them with the state-of-the-art tools they need to succeed,”

The new total is still well above the approximately 11,000 certified controllers employed right now across the county.

There are 4,000 trainees in the pipeline, though it can take up to two years to fully certify a newly hired controller. The numbers could still be challenging for the agency as not everyone completes training and controllers must retire when they reach the age of 56.

A shortage of controllers has plagued the FAA for years, leading to mandatory overtime for controllers and air travel delays as flights are slowed so the reduced staff working can handle them.

The FAA Workforce Plan published in 2024 noted the agency was about 4,000 controllers short of being fully staffed. That year 2.2 million hours of overtime cost taxpayers $200 million, according to a National Academies of Sciences report.

To manage flights with less staffing than previously forecast, the FAA will use “modern, automated scheduling tools” to reduce overtime, as well as “a data-driven controller-staffing model” to assess when controllers are available for operational duties, the plan says.
The hours of operation of some facilities will also be reviewed “to ensure controller deployment better matches periods of high traffic demand.”

In September, the Department of Transportation said it had met its hiring goals for the year, but after the government shutdown last fall resulted in controllers not getting paid for weeks, some quit to find more stable jobs.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy vowed to “supercharge” air traffic controller hiring earlier this year, announcing pay increases and a streamlined hiring process for controllers. He has also promised to build a “brand new air traffic control system” which will increase operational efficiency, redundancy and attract new controllers.

The FAA’s plan says it will need to recruit 2,200 “high-quality candidates” in 2026, and 2,300 in 2027 and 2,400 in 2028 to stay on track.

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Y un día, la inflación bajó en Argentina. ¿Le alcanza a Milei para soñar con su reelección presidencial?

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Por Emiliano Giménez, CNN en Español

El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, no descarta presentarse el año que viene en las elecciones que definirán si sigue en la Casa Rosada. Si bien no ha manifestado explícitamente que va a participar de esos comicios, cuando se le pregunta por su reelección argumenta que si su gobierno tiene buenos resultados, la gente lo va a respaldar. Una forma de postularse, sin hacerlo completamente.

Ese sigiloso deseo se enfrenta a varios desafíos que inclinarán la balanza electoral en 2027. La actividad económica es uno de ellos. Después de un par de meses de reanimación, febrero demostró que mover el aparato productivo argentino no termina de ser una tarea sencilla. Durante el segundo mes del año, la economía se contrajo un 2,6% con respecto a enero y un 2,1% interanual. Los sectores más demandantes de empleo siguen con signo negativo y la actividad se sostiene en rubros poco intensivos en materia de creación de trabajo. Construcción, industria y comercio, los tres pilares de la ocupación en Argentina, volvieron a caer, como lo hacen desde diciembre de 2023.

En consecuencia, la desocupación va en aumento y pone también en jaque el proyecto reeleccionista de Milei. El último dato oficial es del cuarto trimestre de 2025. En ese período, el porcentaje de desempleados creció casi un 1 % y afectó a más de un millón de personas.

Mientras se destruye empleo, también cierran empresas. En los primeros dos meses del año, bajaron sus persianas más de 2.000 compañías, de acuerdo con datos de la Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo.

Los salarios siguen perdiendo contra la inflación. Según el INDEC, experimentaron una suba del 2,4 % en febrero, por debajo del aumento del costo de vida en el mismo mes (2,9 %).

Entre sus principales activos, el gobierno conserva aún los denominados superávit gemelos (fiscal y comercial), pero el frente fiscal también enciende alarmas. Como un perro que se muerde la cola, la caída de la actividad genera una menor recaudación de impuestos, lo que a su vez demanda políticas más contractivas para mantener el orden fiscal, pero estas son precisamente las que generan un ritmo más moderado de la expansión de la economía. Ese círculo vicioso tuvo otro capítulo en abril, cuando la recaudación impositiva subió un 27,2 % interanual, pero cayó en términos reales al compararla con la inflación del mismo lapso.

El gobierno encontró un alivio esta semana. Fueron diez meses consecutivos sin buenas noticias sobre la inflación. Es cierto que no subió durante todo ese tiempo, porque hubo empate en algunas comparaciones mensuales. Pero nunca había bajado. La última vez que lo había hecho fue en mayo de 2025. Es por eso que el dato de abril que difundió este jueves el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INDEC) rompe una racha negativa que se había convertido en un problema para el gobierno, por la incidencia del nivel de precios en el humor social, pero también porque la baja de la inflación es uno de los activos centrales de la gestión de Milei.

Durante el cuarto mes del año, el índiuce de precios subió un 2,6 %, fue el aumento más moderado desde noviembre de 2025 (2,5 %) y representa una contracción del 0,8 % con respecto a marzo (3,4 %).

El INDEC informó también que la variación interanual del índice de precios fue del 32,4 % en abril, algo más baja que en marzo (32,6 %), lo que refleja también la desaceleración de la inflación mensual.

La medición del primer cuatrimestre del año arrojó una inflación acumulada del orden del 12,3 %. Es decir que, durante los primeros cuatro meses del año, el costo de vida ya superó la previsión que hizo el gobierno para todo 2026. El presupuesto aprobado por el Congreso de Argentina estimaba una inflación del 10,1 % punta a punta.

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Election denier Tina Peters will get clemency after admitting she ‘made a mistake,’ Colorado’s Democratic governor says

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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, Marshall Cohen, CNN

(CNN) — Tina Peters, the Republican former election clerk imprisoned for crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will receive clemency from Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and soon be released from custody, Polis exclusively told CNN.

The decision followed a previously unreleased statement in Peters’ clemency application, obtained by CNN from Polis’ office, in which Peters acknowledged for the first time since her 2024 conviction that she “made a mistake” and “misled” Colorado election officials.

Polis said in an interview Friday that he was cutting Peters’ prison sentence in half, reducing it to 4.5 years. He said that meant she could be paroled within a month, based on the time she has already served behind bars and Colorado’s early-release rules.

A jury in conservative-leaning Mesa County convicted Peters in 2024 of conspiring with fellow election deniers to breach her county’s election systems in hopes of proving President Donald Trump’s baseless 2020 voter-fraud claims.

Trump has waged a long pressure campaign against Colorado over Peters’ incarceration. She is the last Trump ally still in prison for 2020 election-related crimes.

“I made a mistake four years ago,” Peters said in the statement released Friday. “I misled the secretary of state when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment. That was wrong. Going forward, I will make sure that my actions always follow the law.”

Polis said he agrees with a recent appeals court ruling which found that the trial judge improperly punished Peters for her protected speech about the 2020 election, telling CNN he’d like others to come to the same conclusion as the court. But he knows, especially among Democrats in his state and beyond, that’s going to be tough.

“I hope that Democrats don’t sacrifice our deeply held belief in free speech because of political expediency or disregard for what people are saying,” Polis said. “There should be no consideration of what we say, how unpopular it is, how inaccurate it is in sentencing or in criminal proceedings.”

CNN is reaching out to Peters’ team for comment.

Polis said he also heard from Trump privately in addition to the president’s public posts demanding Peters, 70, be released. He said that the president often gets facts wrong about Peters, her crime and his ability to pardon her for state-level offenses.

“He gets her age wrong. He gets what she did wrong. My focus was doing what’s right and then looking at the merits of the case,” Polis said.

He says Peters committed a crime, and he was personally disgusted with what Peters said about the 2020 election, “but we have to make sure our justice system is blind and fair.”

The history of Peters’ case

Witnesses testified at Peters’ trial that in 2021, she gave people affiliated with pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell unauthorized access to the election offices in Mesa County, where she was the clerk. Witnesses said they made copies of sensitive election data so they could audit the 2020 results.

Until the statement released Friday, Peters had denie

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