Envían suministros a poblaciones aisladas por Helene mientras la cifra de muertos se acerca a 100

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30/09/2024

Esta imagen aérea tomada con dron muestra casas dañadas y un vehículo caído al agua tras la marejada ciclónica provocada por el huracán Helene, el sábado 28 de septiembre de 2024 en Madeira Beach, Florida. (Foto: Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times)

Las autoridades de Carolina del Norte prometieron llevar el lunes más agua y otros suministros a las zonas afectadas por las inundaciones, después de que el huracán Helene dejara un rastro de destrucción en el sureste de Estados Unidos y mientras la cifra de muertos por la tormenta se acercaba al centenar.

Al menos 91 personas murieron en varios estados. Un condado de Carolina del Norte donde se encuentra la ciudad de montaña de Asheville reportó 30 muertos.

El gobernador, Roy Cooper, predijo que la cifra subiría conforme rescatistas y otros trabajadores de emergencias llegaban a lugares aislados por carreteras bloqueadas, infraestructura dañada e inundaciones generalizadas.

Las autoridades enviaban por aire suministros a la aislada ciudad de Asheville. La gerente del condado Buncombe, Avril Pinder, prometió que el lunes llegarían agua y comida.

“Los escuchamos. Necesitamos alimentos y necesitamos agua”, declaró Pinder en una conferencia telefónica con la prensa el domingo. “Mi personal ha estado presentando todas las solicitudes de apoyo posibles al estado y hemos estado trabajando con todas las organizaciones que se han puesto en contacto. Lo que les prometo es que estamos muy cerca”.

Las autoridades advirtieron que la reconstrucción tras las amplias pérdidas en viviendas y propiedades sería larga y difícil. La tormenta trastocó la vida en todo el sureste del país. También se reportaron decesos en Florida, Georgia, Carolina del Sur y Virginia.

Cooper pidió a los residentes del oeste de Carolina del Norte que eviten los desplazamientos, tanto por su propia seguridad como para mantener los caminos despejados para el paso de vehículos de emergencia. Más de 50 equipos de búsqueda se distribuyeron por toda la región con el fin de localizar a personas varadas.

Un total de 41 personas fueron rescatadas durante un solo operativo al norte de Asheville. Otra misión se concentró en salvar a un solo niño. Las cuadrillas localizaron a las personas a través de llamadas al número de emergencias 911 y por mensajes en redes sociales, indicó el general adjunto de la Guardia Nacional de Carolina del Norte, Todd Hunt.

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, describió el impacto de la tormenta como «demoledor» y dijo que visitaría la zona esta semana siempre que eso no complicara la labor de rescates y recuperación.

En una breve conversación con periodistas, dijo que el gobierno proporcionaría a los estados “todo lo que tenemos” para ayudar con su respuesta a la tormenta.

El huracán Helene tocó tierra el jueves por la noche como una tormenta de categoría 4 en la región de Big Bend, en Florida, con vientos de 225 kilómetros por hora (140 millas por hora). Tras debilitarse, el meteoro atravesó Georgia y posteriormente llegó a las Carolinas y Tennessee, donde arrojó lluvias torrenciales que desbordaron ríos y arroyos y dejaron las presas al límite.

Se han registrado cientos de rescates acuáticos, incluido uno en el condado de Unicoi, en el este de Tennessee, donde decenas de pacientes y personal médico fueron evacuados en helicóptero de la azotea de un hospital el viernes.

Más de dos millones de clientes seguían sin luz el domingo por la noche. Carolina del Sur tenía la mayor parte de cortes de luz y el gobernador, Henry McMaster, pidió paciencia mientras los equipos lidiaban con los numerosos postes de luz derribados.

“Queremos que la población mantenga la calma. La ayuda va en camino, sólo tomará tiempo”, dijo McMaster a los reporteros reunidos afuera del aeropuerto en el condado de Aiken.

Sharpton and Central Park Five members get out the vote in battleground Pennsylvania

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30/09/2024

Pennsylvania — Organizers with the National Action Network put up banners for a Get Out the Vote event as the prepare to depart on a bus tour toward Philadelphia in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Friday, Sep. 27, 2024. (Photo: AP/Noreen Nasir)

A few dozen New Yorkers boarded a bus in Harlem on Friday with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and members of the group formerly known as the Central Park Five , bound for Philadelphia, where they toured the city hoping to energize the youth vote ahead of the 2024 election.

With less than 40 days until Election Day, the choice of a battleground state for a get-out-the-vote bus tour made sense: whichever presidential candidate wins Pennsylvania is likely to do so by a slim margin and with a lion’s share of the Black vote. But it was a strategic choice to recruit speakers who many first knew as Black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted in a case that former President Donald Trump supported so vociferously, Sharpton said.

“There are polls saying that some Black men are moving toward Trump,” he told The Associated Press on Friday. “I don’t know if that’s true or not. But Black men need to hear some Black men saying, ‘Let me tell you about the Trump I know.’”

The Trump that the Central Park Five knows is the one who took out a newspaper ad in New York City, in the aftermath of the 1989 attack on a white female jogger, calling for the teenagers’ execution. The case roiled racial tensions locally and later became a national symbol of racism in the judicial system.

And more than 34 years later, the group of men, now known as the Exonerated Five, see the former president as a convicted felon who passed through the same courthouse hallways when he was found guilty in a hush money trial in June.

Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated men, said Friday that using his voice to encourage voter participation lines up with lessons his mother taught him as a teenager. His message to voters in Philadelphia was part condemnation of Trump and part championing doing one’s civic duty.

“We have to fight like the lives of our children’s, children’s children depend on it,” said Salaam, who won a seat on the New York City Council last year. “Will we be allowed to somehow appreciate the American dream, or will we be plunged further into the American nightmare?»

An organizer with the National Action Network signs people in ahead of a Get Out the Vote bus tour toward Philadelphia in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Friday, Sep. 27, 2024. (Photo: AP/Noreen Nasir)

The jogger case was Trump’s first foray into tough-on-crime politics that preluded his full-throated populist political persona. Since then, dog whistles as well as overtly racist rhetoric have been fixtures of Trump’s public life.

But the Republican presidential nominee has been supportive of reforms that speak to flaws in the criminal legal system. As president, Trump signed a law eliminating harsh sentences for non-violent drug crimes that had filled the nation’s prisons and exacerbated racial disparities in incarceration. In 2018, he used his power to commute the sentences of people like Alice Marie Johnson, who served 21 years in federal prison on a drug trafficking conviction.

Salaam and the other wrongly convicted young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after evidence linked another person to the brutal beating and rape of the Central Park jogger. Trump in 2019 refused to apologize to the exonerated men, and again defended his position on the case during a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month.

Of the Exonerated Five — which includes Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — just Salaam and Wise boarded the bus to Philadelphia. With Sharpton and more than 50 supporters, Salaam and Wise engaged residents and students at Sharon Baptist Church, the University of Pennsylvania and the Community College of Philadelphia.

Wise said the message he was bringing to Philadelphians was simple: “Get out the vote, while we’re still here and while we’re still alive.”

Of the Exonerated Five, Wise spent the most time in prison before his conviction was overturned. He wants people to vote as a way of preventing any other young person from experiencing what h did.

“I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing this for little Korey who’s not here no more,” he said. “I’m representing him.”

The bus tour was sponsored by Sharpton’s National Action Network, a nonprofit civil rights group that does not endorse political candidates. But Sharpton and the exonerated men have been outspoken this election year, calling out Trump’s rhetoric around the Central Park jogger case, as well as his record on matters involving race.

In August, during the final night of Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Sharpton shared the stage with members of the Exonerated Five. From the stage, Salaam called out Trump’s failure to apologize for his harmful rhetoric in the Central Park jogger case.

Weeks later, during the debate, Harris evoked the exonerated men in her own critique of Trump’s decades-long history of stoking racial division. In the spin room after the debate, as Trump walked through speaking to journalists, Salaam flagged down the former president and confronted him.

Trump mistook him for a supporter, a moment that Salaam found bizarre. But he still walked away feeling proud, the councilman said.

“These moments of standing for yourself, of speaking for yourself, also speaks life into others,” Salaam told AP. “It gives others the opportunity to see, if he could stand up, I could stand up. If he could still be here, I could be here.”

Sharpton said Philadelphia was the first of other planned legs of his organization’s voter engagement tour. In the coming weeks, he said he would make appearances in the battleground states of Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina.

The effort’s success will be judged not just by the outcome of the election, but by the community’s turnout on Nov. 5, said Malcolm Byrd, National Action Network’s chief operating officer.

“This is not just a mobilization effort, just for us to go to say we did something,” he said. “We want to plant a fire in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. … We’re going with a spark, with the hope that by Election Day it’ll be an inferno of justice.”

Awareness of ‘Latinx’ increases among US Latinos, and ‘Latine’ emerges as an alternative

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30/09/2024

“Latino” and “Hispanic” have long been the most prominent terms used to describe people in the U.S. with roots in Latin America and Spain. But over the last several years, “Latinx” has become a de-facto gender neutral alternative to Latino and Hispanic, according to a new study by race and ethnicity researchers.

Despite the increased awareness of the term among Latinos — 47% have heard of it — only 4% or 1.9 million people use “Latinx” to describe themselves, an increase of 1 percent since 2019, according to the study by the Pew Research Center.

“’Latinx’ is more broadly known among U.S. Latinos today, but still few embrace it,” said Mark Lopez, Pew’s director of race and ethnicity research.

Of the Latinos who have heard the term, 36% view the usage of the term as a bad thing instead of a good thing, according to the study.

And with opinions mixed, about “Latinx,” a new term has emerged: “Latine” (pronounce LA TEE NEH). That term has gained popularity among people from Latin American countries and Spanish speakers who have pushed for the term to be used instead of “Latinx,” because in Spanish “e” can be used to better note gender neutrality, said Josh Guzmán, an associate professor of gender studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.

In the U.S., “Latinx” has more popularity than “Latine.” Only 18% of Hispanics have heard of the latter, according to the Pew study. Yet 75% of U.S. Latinos surveyed think the terms should not be used to describe the population, and 81% largely prefer “Hispanic” and “Latino.”

Guzmán said it is still important to respect those who do use either term.

“There is already so much difference within Latin communities that academics started debating whether there ever is going to be a term that will be adequate enough to cover all the different components to this identity,” Guzmán said.

Jasmine Odalys, host of the podcast “Hella Latin@,” said the term «Latinx “feels either more corporate, more politically correct and very American.”

Luis A. Torres stands for a portrait in front of the » Joy is the Fuel» mural by Cuban-American artist Alma Landeta at the SF LGBT Center on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in San Francisco. (Photo: AP/Juliana Yamada)

“I think it came from a community that wanted to feel acknowledged and seen,” Odalys said. “It turned, I think, into corporations maybe adopting it and making it so that it’s like a blanket term for our community. I think we’re almost like perpetuating the problem when we have one kind of quote-unquote inclusive term but then it’s not inclusive of everyone’s experiences.”

“Hispanic” was coined by the federal government for people descended from Spanish-speaking cultures. But for some it has a connotation of political conservatism and emphasizes a connection to Spain and its colonial past. It sometimes gets mistakenly interchanged with “Latino” or “Latinx.”

Latin Americans are not a monolith, and there are multiple identifiers that depend largely on personal preference. Mexican Americans who grew up during the 1960s Civil Rights era may identify as Chicano. Others may go by their family’s nation of origin, such as Colombian American or Salvadoran American. For some, Latino reflects their ties to Latin America.

In the early 1990s, with the rise of the Internet, the usage of the @ character with “Latin” started to become popular among Chicana feminists, according to Guzmán. The word “Latinx” can also be traced to Latino youth and queer culture in the ’90s, as a nod to people’s Indigenous roots.

Then in the early 2000s, “Latinx” started to gain popularity when queer communities in Latin America started to use the ‘x’ in various words such as “bexos” instead of “besos,” Spanish for “kisses,” Guzmán said.

Eventually usage of the letter “x” circulated to the United States, and it stuck.

In 2017, Elisabeth Rosario founded the “Latinx Collective,” a newsletter highlighting achievements within the community. Rosario said the choice of name was a conscious effort to be open and inclusive.

“Language is always going to evolve, and culture is always going to evolve, and the way that people think about their identity,” Rosario said. “I think we just have to be really aware about what makes people comfortable. And you are never going to make an entire group happy.”

Three years ago, Luis Torres founded the group “Queer Latinxs in Tech.” Torres said that in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives, there is strong emphasis on inclusivity, and he wanted to reflect that and respect people’s gender identity and pronouns.

Despite choosing “Latinxs” for the name of the group, Torres said he and his friends change which term they use if they are unsure of who is around and depending on what feels more comfortable. With friends he uses the “Latino” rather than “Latinx,” because that feels more natural to him.

“I think it is all about intention,” Torres said. “I think people who are trying to deliberately, with a good conscience, create a safe and inclusive environment, they use that word.”

Trump is pointing to new numbers on migrants with criminal pasts. Here’s what they show

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30/09/2024

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump dances at a campaign rally at Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. ( Photo: AP/Rebecca Droke)

Republicans are pointing to newly released immigration enforcement data to bolster their argument that the Biden administration is letting migrants who have committed serious crimes go free in the U.S. But the numbers have been misconstrued without key context.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement released data to Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales in response to a request he made for information about people under ICE supervision either convicted of crimes or facing criminal charges. Gonzales’ Texas district includes an 800-mile stretch bordering Mexico.

Gonzales posted the numbers online and they immediately became a flashpoint in the presidential campaign between former President Donald Trump , who has vowed to carry out mass deportations, and Vice President Kamala Harris. Immigration — and the Biden administration’s record on border security — has become a key issue in the election.

Here’s a look at the data and what it does or doesn’t show:

What are the numbers?

As of July 21, ICE said 662,556 people under its supervision were either convicted of crimes or face criminal charges. Nearly 15,000 were in its custody, but the vast majority — 647,572 — were not.

Included in the figures of people not detained by ICE were people found guilty of very serious crimes: 13,099 for homicide, 15,811 for sexual assault, 13,423 for weapons offenses and 2,663 for stolen vehicles. The single biggest category was for traffic-related offenses at 77,074, followed by assault at 62,231 and dangerous drugs at 56,533.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, later clarified that the numbers span decades and those not in its custody may be held by a state or local agency. For example, someone serving time in a state prison for murder could be counted as a criminal not in ICE’s custody. They are not being held by federal immigration authorities but they are detained — a distinction ICE didn’t make in its report to Gonzales.

Millions of people are on ICE’s “non-detained docket,” or people under the agency’s supervision who aren’t in its custody. Many are awaiting outcomes of their cases in immigration court, including some wearing monitoring devices. Others have been released after completing their prison sentences because their countries won’t take them back.

What do both sides say about the numbers?

Republicans pointed to the data as proof that the Biden administration is letting immigrants with criminal records into the country and isn’t doing enough to kick out those who commit crimes while they’re here.

“The truth is clear — illegal immigrants with a criminal record are coming into our country. The data released by ICE is beyond disturbing, and it should be a wake-up call for the Biden-Harris administration and cities across the country that hide behind sanctuary policies,” Gonzales said in a news release, referring to pledges by local officials to limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Trump, who has repeatedly portrayed immigrants as bringing lawlessness and crime to America, tweeted multiple screenshots of the data with the words: “13,000 CROSSED THE BORDER WITH MURDER CONVICTIONS.”

He also asserted that the numbers correspond to Biden and Harris’ time in office.

The data was being misinterpreted, Homeland Security said in a statement Sunday.

“The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this Administration,” the agency said. «It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners.”

The department also stressed what it has done to deport those without the right to stay in America, saying it had removed or returned more than 700,000 people in the past year, which it said was the highest number since 2010. Homeland Security said it had removed 180,000 people with criminal convictions since President Joe Biden took office.

What’s behind the figures?

The data isn’t only listing people who entered the country during the Biden administration but includes people going back decades who came during previous administrations, said Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which was the predecessor to ICE.

They’re accused or convicted of committing crimes in America as opposed to committing crimes in other countries and then entering the U.S., said Meissner, who is now director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute.

“This is not something that is a function of what the Biden administration did,” she said. “Certainly, this includes the Biden years, but this is an accumulation of many years, and certainly going back to at least 2010, 2011, 2012.”

A 2017 report by Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General says that as of August 2016, ICE had about 368,574 people on its non-detained docket who were convicted criminals. By June 2021, that number was up to 405,786.

Can’t ICE just deport criminals?

ICE has limited resources. The number of people it supervises has skyrocketed, while its staffing has not. As the agency noted in a 2023 end-of-year report, it often has to send staff to help at the border, taking them away from their normal duties.

The number of people ICE supervises but who aren’t in its custody has grown from 3.3 million a little before Biden took office to a little over 7 million last spring.

«The simple answer is that as a system, we haven’t devoted enough resources to the parts of the government that deal with monitoring and ultimately removing people who are deportable,» Meissner said.

ICE also has logistical and legal limits on who they can hold. Its budget allows the agency to hold 41,500 people at a time. John Sandweg, who was acting ICE director from 2013 to 2014 under then-President Barack Obama, said holding people accused or convicted of the most serious crimes is always the top priority.

But once someone has a final order of removal — meaning a court has found that they don’t have the right to stay in the country — they cannot be held in detention forever while ICE works out how to get them home. A 2001 Supreme Court ruling essentially prevented ICE from holding those people for more than six months if there is no reasonable chance to expect they can be sent back.

Not every country is willing to take back their citizens, Sandweg said.

He said he suspects that a large number of those convicted of homicide but not held by ICE are people who were ordered deported but the agency can’t remove them because their home country won’t take them back.

“It’s a very common scenario. Even amongst the countries that take people back, they can be very selective about who they take back,” he said.

The U.S. also could run into problems deporting people to countries with which it has tepid relations.

Homeland Security did not respond to questions about how many countries won’t take back their citizens. The 2017 watchdog report put the number at 23 countries, plus an additional 62 that were cooperative but where there were delays getting things like passports or travel documents.

Vance criticized an infrastructure law as a candidate then embraced it as a senator

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30/09/2024

As he campaigned for the Senate two years ago, JD Vance harshly criticized a bipartisan 2021 law to invest more than $1 trillion in America’s crumbling infrastructure, calling it a “huge mistake” shaped by Democrats who want to spend big taxpayer dollars on “really crazy stuff.”

That hasn’t stopped the first-term Ohio senator and Republican vice-presidential nominee from seeking more than $200 million in federal money made available through the law for projects across his state, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Vance is hardly alone among Republicans who have condemned spending enacted under Democratic President Joe Biden, only to later reap the benefit when government funds flow to popular projects back home. In this case, he also was criticizing the achievement of one of the bill’s authors — former Sen. Rob Portman, the Ohio Republican he succeeded.

“I believe you should campaign how you govern so that you are consistent in your message and voters know what they are going to get,” said Ohio state Sen. Matt Dolan, one of Vance’s 2022 Republican primary rivals, who was the only GOP candidate to support the bill.

Parker Magid, a spokesperson for Vance said, “Senators are elected by their constituents to fight for them in Washington, regardless of the party in charge. The fact is that this bill was a wish list of destructive Biden-Harris policy proposals and over 1,000 pages long, but as his constituents expect of him, Senator Vance successfully advocated for full and fair consideration of legitimate expenditures on Ohio projects by the federal government.”

To the man Vance defeated in the general election, former Democratic congressman Tim Ryan, Vance’s pivot “fits the general pattern of him being two-faced on just about everything.”

«Look at the Trump stuff,» Ryan said. “He was ‘America’s Hitler'» in Vance’s estimation, ”then when it didn’t benefit him anymore to have that view, he changed it.”

Trump had vowed to pass an infrastructure bill when he was president, but did not offer a plan, and “Infrastructure Week” became something of a punch line.

That changed after Biden became president. A bipartisan group of senators including Portman and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, then a Democrat, hashed out a roughly $1 trillion package that passed with 19 Republicans joining Democrats.

Vance criticized the bill as a boondoggle tainted by Democrats’ preoccupation with racial justice.

“I’m reading through this new infrastructure bill, and it includes all these ridiculous references to things called transportation equity, which is basically just importing critical race theory into our nation’s infrastructure programs,” Vance tweeted in August 2021. “It’s totally ridiculous and it’s obvious that Republicans have been had in supporting this bill.”

During a September 2021 interview with CBS News, Vance said that the “mistake that Republicans have recently made on bipartisanship is that we gave Democrats a huge win.”

“We do have infrastructure problems, but I don’t think this bill actually spends the money on the things that we need,” he said of the legislation, which Trump opposed.

Portman, who cited “partisan gridlock” as a reason he retired from the Senate, was unavailable for comment.

After taking office in January 2023, Vance appears to have warmed to the legislation his predecessor helped write — though not publicly.

In 10 letters addressed to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that were sent between 2023 and 2024, Vance requested more than $213 million made available through the law for Ohio projects, according to copies of his correspondence obtained by the AP. At least four of those projects were approved and are slated to get about $130 million, federal records show.

Toledo received nearly $20 million to revitalize a majority Black area that was isolated from the city’s downtown when Interstate 75 was built in the 1960s. Toledo officials described the planning decision behind the location of the freeway as “discriminatory” in their federal application for the funding.

“These once-thriving communities now suffer from some of the city’s highest rates of poverty, unemployment, and blight,» the application states. “Historically, this majority-Black area has been disproportionately impacted by harmful transportation policy decisions.” The application said those policies “caused displacement from which the area has never fully recovered.”

Vance had previously mocked a journalist who asked Buttigieg about bias that went into decades-old planning decisions. “Nothing in our country works,” he tweeted in November 2021. “And our reporters ask about the racism of our roads?”

As a senator he wrote that the project in Toledo had potentially “far-reaching” benefits, though he did include a disclaimer that he opposed “the Biden Administration’s emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion over outcomes of meaningful infrastructure improvements.»

In another instance, Vance sought $29 million for low or no emissions buses. Vance has repeatedly railed against Democratic efforts to reduce emissions. In a recent opinion article in The Wall Street Journal, he singled out Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration’s support for zero-emission efforts, arguing that they were “stifling investment in the coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants that Americans rely on.”

Dolan, Vance’s 2022 primary rival, said he’s glad the senator seems to have changed his mind about the bill.

“The talking points during a campaign sometimes don’t match the responsibility of governing,» Dolan said. “I think the two should be indistinguishable. That’s what it means to be a public servant.»

He said if lawmakers were to «reject those dollars for political reasons, Ohio would suffer.”

Eagles coach says team has to ‘make some changes’ after dismal start in loss to Bucs

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29/09/2024

TAMPA, Fla.— After Jalen Hurts and the Eagles fell behind by 24 points and didn’t cross midfield until the second quarter following a dismal start Sunday, coach Nick Sirianni said Philadelphia has to “make some changes.”

The Eagles were held without an offensive yard for more than a quarter of their 33-16 loss to Tampa Bay in the first matchup between the teams since the Buccaneers’ one-sided playoff win last season.

“We got to make some changes as far as what is going fundamentally,” Sirianni said.

Tampa Bay ended Philadelphia’s season for the second time in three years last January. Hurts is 1-4 against Tampa Bay, the lone victory coming in Week 3 of last season.

“I just have to play better,” Hurts said, “Production. Taking care of the ball. Just the efficiency.”

Tom Brady beat Hurts in the regular season and playoffs in 2021, and a 32-9 playoff loss to Baker Mayfield capped a stunning 2023 collapse that saw Philadelphia lose six of seven games after a 10-1 start.

The Eagles were coming off a 15-12 win at New Orleans. The Bucs, on the other hand, had a frustrating 26-7 home loss to Denver.

Most of the first half saw the Eagles completely misfire on offense, miss tackles, and block a Bucs’ defender into their punt returner that resulted in a muff which Tampa Bay recovered.

Philadelphia trailed 24-0 midway through the second quarter and had been outgained 254-0 over the stretch.

“No excuses for that,” Sirianni said. “We didn’t coach well enough. We didn’t play well enough.”

Tampa Bay ran 22 plays in Eagles territory before the Philadelphia offense crossed the 50-yard line in the second quarter.

Hurts threw a touchdown pass to Parris Campbell late in the second and added a one-yard TD run on the opening possession of the third to make it 24-14.

Down 30-16 late in the third, Hurts moved the Eagles to the Bucs 19 before linebacker Lavonte David sacked him, and forced a key fumble.

Hurts finished 18 of 30 for 150 yards and no interceptions. He was sacked six times

Saquon Barkley rushed for 94 yards on 10 carries. He had a 59-day dash on the Eagles’ first play in the second half.

The Eagles’ receiver corps remained short-handed with A.J. Brown’s missing his third consecutive game with a hamstring injury. DeVonta Smith suffered a concussion a week ago against New Orleans and was also out. Britain Covey was placed on injured reserve this week with a shoulder injury.

Pro Bowl tackle Lane Johnson sat out with a concussion.

“We got to get everybody healthy,” Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert said. “We got to get people out there. But we’ve got to make sure all locked in and focused on the details. We’ve got to focus on little things.”

En Pensilvania Trump intensifica el ataque contra Harris cuestionando su capacidad mental y sugiriendo que la procesen

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29/09/2024

Ante un grupo de simpatizantes en la ciudad de Erie, en el noroeste de Pensilvania, el republicano nuevamente usó la inmigración como su caballo de batalla para desacreditar a la candidata demócrata, que ha logrado rebasarlo en las encuestas, aunque por muy pocos puntos. Trump aseguró que Harris era responsable de una “invasión” en la frontera sur de EE.UU. y que “debería ser destituida y procesada por sus acciones”. Además usó el discurso para responder a la vicepresidenta, que el viernes pasado desde la fronteriza Douglas (Arizona) lo acusó de tener un liderazgo fracasado. «En los cuatro años que Donald Trump fue presidente, no hizo nada para arreglar nuestro sistema de inmigración roto”, subrayó la demócrata.

El candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump intensificó el domingo sus ataques personales contra su rival demócrata Kamala Harris, repitiendo un insulto según el cual ella es una “discapacitada mental”, al tiempo que dijo que debería ser “llevada a juicio político y procesada”.

El mitin de Trump en Erie, Pensilvania, abordó temas similares a un acto celebrado un día antes y que él mismo llamó un “discurso sombrío”. Le dijo a una multitud que lo vitoreaba que Harris era responsable de una “invasión” en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México, y que “debería ser sometida a juicio político y procesada por sus acciones”.

“El corrupto Joe Biden se convirtió en un discapacitado mental”, añadió. “Triste. Pero la mentirosa Kamala Harris, honestamente, creo que nació así. Hay algo mal en Kamala. Y no sé lo que es, pero definitivamente le falta algo. Y, ¿saben qué? Todo el mundo lo sabe”.

Cuando falta poco más de un mes para las elecciones, Trump está intensificando el uso de ataques personales y ofensivos, incluso cuando algunos republicanos dicen que sería mejor que se ciñera a hablar de asuntos importantes, quien también han criticando las polemicas compañias con las que están haciendo campaña.

Sus sugerencias de que se persiga a los enemigos políticos son especialmente notables por su alejamiento de lo establecido en las normas estadounidenses, en las que se supone que el sistema judicial está protegido de la influencia política. En las últimas semanas ha amenazado con procesar a Google por dar supuestamente prioridad a las “buenas historias” sobre Harris; al director ejecutivo de Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, y a cualquiera que él considere está “implicado en un comportamiento sin escrúpulos” relacionado con las próximas elecciones.

Trump amenaza desde hace tiempo con emprender acciones jurídicas contra sus adversarios, incluida su rival de 2016, Hillary Clinton, y el presidente Joe Biden. Este mes amenazó con encarcelar a quienes “estén implicados en un comportamiento sin escrúpulos” en estos comicios, entre ellos trabajadores electorales, abogados, agentes políticos, donantes y votantes, sembrando de nuevo la duda sobre la integridad de las elecciones, a pesar de que el fraude es muy poco frecuente.

Pero él mismo tiene muchos problemas jurídicos. En mayo fue declarado culpable de falsificación de documentos comerciales en un caso de soborno a cambio de silencio en Nueva York, y su sentencia está prevista para el 26 de noviembre. Hay otros tres casos pendientes contra él, incluido uno desestimado por un juez federal a raíz de una sentencia de la Corte Suprema que concede amplia inmunidad a los presidentes. El Departamento de Justicia ha presentado una apelación. Los demás casos están en suspenso.

Si gana las elecciones, podría indultarse a sí mismo u ordenarle al Departamento de Justicia el cierre de las investigaciones federales en su contra.

El domingo reconoció que podría perder en noviembre. “Si ella gana, no va a ser muy agradable para mí, pero no me importa”, afirmó.

El hecho de que se burle de la primera mujer negra y la primera persona de ascendencia sudasiática en encabezar la candidatura de uno de los dos partidos más importantes, calificándola de “estúpida”, “débil”, “tonta como una piedra” y “floja”, es también una señal de lo desagradable y personal que puede ser la recta final de la campaña.

El huracán Helene deja más de 60 muertos y desastres a su paso

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Redacción Impacto

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29/09/2024

El huracán Helene deja más de 60 muertos en EEUU y "gran desastre" en Carolina del Norte — EFE/EPA/BILLY BOWLING

El huracán Helene ya a cobrado la vida de más de 60 personas en cinco estados del sureste de Estados Unidos, entre ellos Carolina del Norte, donde este domingo el Gobierno autorizó una declaración de «gran desastre» para agilizar las tareas de asistencia.

El último recuento de víctimas las cifraba en 24 en Carolina del Sur; 17 en Georgia; 11 en Florida; 11 en Carolina del Norte y una en Virginia.

Helene entró el jueves por la noche como un huracán de categoría 4 en la costa sureste de Florida y se abrió paso hacia el norte, con lluvias torrenciales y vientos huracanados que han provocado escenas devastadoras en las que hoy se afanan los equipos de rescate y recuperación.

Carolina del Norte es uno de los estados peor parados, sobre todo en su flanco oeste: ejemplo de la catástrofe ha sido la localidad de Asheville, parcialmente sumergida, con sus casas destrozadas y calles llenas de escombros, según mostraban los medios locales.

El gobernador, Roy Cooper, explicó hoy en una rueda de prensa que las fuertes lluvias que cayeron en las montañas del estado provocaron deslizamientos que arrasaron carreteras, tumbaron postes de la luz y torres de telecomunicaciones a su paso hacia las zonas residenciales.

Unas 280 carreteras estatales están aún cerradas y eso dificulta los trabajos de emergencia, por lo que las autoridades están llevando recursos, comida y agua a las personas atrapadas por vía aérea; además hay unas 1.000 personas en refugios, dijo Cooper.

Los aeropuertos de Carolina del Norte, situados en Asheville y Charlotte, son los principales en EE.UU. hoy afectados por cancelaciones y retrasos, aunque continúan con la mayor parte de sus operaciones.

El gobernador consideró Helene «una de las peores tormentas en la historia moderna» del estado y anticipó más víctimas, pues hay numerosos reportes de personas desaparecidas.

Un panorama similar enfrentan en el condado de Unicoi, al este de Tennessee, donde las autoridades buscan a más de 70 personas desaparecidas, según informaron las autoridades en una rueda de prensa el domingo por la mañana.

Las penurias se están viendo acrecentadas por los apagones que mantienen sin energía a 2,4 millones de personas en los cinco estados del sureste más afectados, y otras 130.000 en los cinco vecinos del norte donde se debilitó el huracán.

Helene, que se degradó a ciclón postropical el viernes, ya no está siendo monitoreado por las autoridades meteorológicas, pero dejará hasta mañana fuertes lluvias en el sur de la cadena montañosa de los Apalaches.

La Agencia Federal para Gestión de Emergencias (FEMA) está coordinando a cientos de efectivos en las tareas de rescate y recuperación, y su administradora, Deanne Criswell, señaló hoy en X que algunas comunidades azotadas por Helene aún sufrían los estragos del huracán Idalia (2023).

Nola earns 14th victory as NL East champion Phillies beat the Nationals 6-3 in regular-season finale

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Associated Press

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29/09/2024

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Aaron Nola throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

WASHINGTON— Kyle Schwarber and Weston Wilson each drove in two runs, Aaron Nola earned his 14th victory and the NL East champion Philadelphia Phillies avoided a series sweep and closed out the regular season with a 6-3 win over the Washington Nationals on Sunday.

Philadelphia finished 95-67, the second-best record in the National League behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (98-64), and were five games better than last season. The Phillies’ victory total was the team’s highest since winning 102 games in 2011 — the last time they won the division.

The Phillies have a bye in the first round of the playoffs and will face either NL Central champion Milwaukee or the NL’s third wild card in a division series scheduled to start Saturday in Philadelphia.

“I was really happy with the way we finished,” Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said.

Luis García Jr. homered in the first inning for Washington, which went 71-91 for the second straight season.

“Nobody wants to go home at this time of year,” Washington manager Dave Martinez said. “You want to keep playing, but the effort was definitely there this year and they played hard. Our young guys got better and they are going to continue to get better. Good things to come.”

Nola (14-8) allowed three runs in five-plus innings and struck out seven. A day after teammate Zack Wheeler ended his regular season with 200 innings pitched, Nola came within two outs of matching the feat. The 31-year-old right-hander was lifted after giving up a leadoff triple to Dylan Crews in the sixth.

“It’s a goal every year to get to 200-plus,” Nola said. “It didn’t work out, but that’s all right. One of our goals was to win the division and we did that and finish the last game of the season off strong in a good way with a win.”

Phillies reliever José Ruiz loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth before striking out García and James Wood. Kody Clemens then hauled in Juan Yepez’s long fly to left, ending the game and sealing Ruiz’s first save in 264 career appearances.

The Phillies loaded the bases with no outs in the first against Jake Irvin before Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm had back-to-back RBI groundouts.

Philadelphia didn’t have another baserunner until the fifth, when it again loaded the bases. Schwarber poked a two-run single to left, and two batters later, Wilson ripped a two-run double to right to end Irvin’s outing.

Irvin (10-14), who passed teammate Patrick Corbin for the NL lead in losses, allowed six runs and struck out three in 4 1/3 innings.

García and Yepez had RBI singles in the fifth against Nola.

Philadelphia rested regulars Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto. Nick Castellanos became the first member of the Phillies to play in 162 games in a season since Freddy Galvis in 2017. Castellanos was lifted in the second inning.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Phillies: Thomson said RHP Carlos Estévez was unavailable because of illness. … OF Austin Hays (sore back) was out of the lineup for the second consecutive day. … OF Johan Rojas (illness) remained away from the team. … Philadelphia recalled INF Buddy Kennedy from the team’s spring training complex and optioned LHP Tyler Gilbert to the spring training complex.

ATTENDANCE BUMP

Washington’s season attendance was 1,967,302, a 5.4% increase over its 2023 total of 1,865,832.

UP NEXT

Phillies: Philadelphia will have an intrasquad scrimmage Wednesday before hosting the opener of the NLDS on Saturday against either Milwaukee or the NL’s third wild card.

Nationals: Open spring training games on Feb. 22 against Houston in West Palm Beach, Florida.

¿Cuándo y dónde es el debate vicepresidencial estadounidense entre Vance y Walz?

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VOA

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28/09/2024

El 1 de octubre tendrá lugar el primer encuentro cara a cara entre el demócrata Tim Walz y el republicano JD Vance. Es el único debate vicepresidencial programado antes de las elecciones presidenciales de noviembre en EE. UU. Aquí algunas claves sobre el encuentro.

El demócrata Tim Walz y el republicano JD Vance se enfrentarán la próxima semana en el único debate vicepresidencial programado en Estados Unidos, una oportunidad para que cada uno de los candidatos refuerce el mensaje de su compañero de fórmula a los votantes apenas unas semanas antes de las elecciones del 5 de noviembre.

Aquí algunos detalles sobre el evento:

¿Cuándo y dónde es el debate?

El debate, de 90 minutos de duración y presentado por CBS News, tendrá lugar el 1 de octubre a las 9:00 pm hora del Este de EEUU (01.00 GMT del 2 de octubre) en Nueva York, bastión demócrata y antiguo hogar de Donald Trump, el candidato presidencial republicano que se enfrenta a la vicepresidenta demócrata Kamala Harris.

¿Quiénes son los moderadores?

El debate tendrá lugar en el CBS Broadcast Center y será moderado por Norah O’Donnell, presentadora de Evening News, de la CBS, y Margaret Brennan, moderadora de Face the Nation.

¿Cómo ver el debate?

El evento se emitirá en la cadena CBS y en directo en todas las plataformas en las que estén disponibles CBS News 24/7 y Paramount+. CBS dijo que también estará disponible para emisión simultánea.

El debate presidencial del 10 de septiembre entre Harris y Trump en ABC News atrajo a 67 millones de telespectadores.

¿Cuáles son las normas básicas?

No habrá público. Los candidatos permanecerán detrás de podios durante todo el debate. No se permitirá ningún tipo de notas en el escenario. CBS News se reserva el derecho de apagar los micrófonos de los candidatos.

¿Qué esperar de Walz?

Walz, gobernador de Minnesota, utilizará probablemente su reputación de «tipo normal» para intentar atraer a los votantes, incluidos algunos independientes, que consideran a Harris, exsenadora por California, demasiado liberal.

Walz, de 60 años, es un antiguo congresista que ganó las elecciones en un distrito de tendencia republicana antes de convertirse en gobernador.

Como gobernador, ha impulsado un programa progresista que incluye comidas gratuitas en las escuelas, recortes fiscales para la clase media y la ampliación de los permisos retribuidos para los trabajadores de Minnesota.

Es probable que Walz intente provocar a Vance, como hizo Harris con éxito en su debate con Trump. Walz ha cuestionado las credenciales del medio oeste de Vance y se ha burlado de sus memorias de 2016 «Hillbilly Elegy» por su descripción de la América rural.

«Como toda la gente normal con la que crecí en el corazón del país, JD estudió en Yale, tuvo su carrera financiada por multimillonarios de Silicon Valley y luego escribió un bestseller destrozando a esa comunidad», dijo Walz en su primer mitin como candidato a vicepresidente de Harris. «¡Vamos! Esa no es la América promedio».

Walz, que también fue profesor de instituto y entrenador de fútbol, ha tachado a Trump y a Vance de «espeluznantes y, sí, extraño», una crítica que se extendió ampliamente entre los demócratas.

El candidato demócrata a la vicepresidencia ha vinculado a Vance con un conjunto de propuestas políticas conservadoras conocidas como el Proyecto 2025, del que Trump ha intentado distanciarse.

¿Qué esperar de Vance?

Vance, senador estadounidense por Ohio, tendrá que esforzarse mucho para no estar a la defensiva durante todo el debate, si Walz emplea la estrategia de debate de Harris.

Vance, de 40 años, probablemente enfrentará preguntas sobre su retórica incendiaria y podría responder con su estilo combativo.

Ha sido criticado por referirse a Harris y otros demócratas en 2021 como un «grupo de señoras con gatos sin hijos» y, más recientemente, por difundir afirmaciones falsas de que los inmigrantes haitianos en la ciudad de Springfield, en Ohio, estaban comiendo mascotas.

También ha afirmado, sin pruebas, que el sospechoso del último intento de asesinato contra Trump actuó basándose en el lenguaje incendiario de los demócratas.

«La gran diferencia entre conservadores y liberales es que… nadie ha intentado matar a Kamala Harris en los últimos meses y ahora dos personas han intentado matar a Donald Trump en los últimos meses», dijo Vance en comentarios que provocaron rechazo de la Casa Blanca.

Durante la campaña electoral, Vance ha descrito a Walz y Harris como liberales radicales.

También ha cuestionado las descripciones de Walz de su historial militar y las luchas de su familia contra la infertilidad.

Vance, quien sirvió en la Infantería de Marina y fue oficial de asuntos públicos durante un período de seis meses en Irak, acusó a Walz de dejar la Guardia Nacional del Ejército para evitar ser enviado a Irak y de sugerir falsamente que sirvió en combate.

Walz, que sirvió en la Guardia durante 24 años, se retiró para postularse para el Congreso. Ha defendido su historial, pero la campaña de Harris ha reconocido que se equivocó en un video de 2018 en el que hacía referencia a «armas de guerra que llevé a la guerra». Walz nunca sirvió en una zona de combate.

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Aquí algunos detalles sobre el evento:

¿Cuándo y dónde es el debate?

¿Quiénes son los moderadores?

¿Cómo ver el debate?

¿Cuáles son las normas básicas?

¿Qué esperar de Walz?

¿Qué esperar de Vance?

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