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EE. UU.: Niño de 7 años mata a balazos a otro de 5 años

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Un niño de 7 años baleó fatalmente a otro de 5 años en una vivienda en el este de Kentucky, dijo la policía el martes.

De acuerdo con la investigación inicial, el hecho se produjo de manera accidental el lunes por la noche en una vivienda en McKee, dijo la policía estatal en un comunicado.

Se intentó salvar la vida del niño herido, pero el forense del condado de Jackson lo declaró muerto en el lugar, dijo la policía, que no identificó a los niños.

En lo que va del año, se han registrado en Estados Unidos más de 150 casos en que niños balean de manera no intencional a otras personas, con un saldo de 58 muertos y 101 heridos, según el grupo Everytown for Gun Safety, que aboga por la seguridad en las armas.

Kentucky no impone penas a quienes dejan un arma desatendida y sin seguro, según el Centro de Derecho Giffords. El estado sí prohíbe entregar un arma de manera “intencional, consciente o imprudente” a un menor, salvo que este tenga permiso legal para poseer un arma.

Inicia proceso para retirar licencia a un abogado de Trump

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John Eastman, abogado del entonces presidente Donald Trump, en Washington el 16 de marzo de 2017. (Foto: AP/Susan Walsh)

Comenzó el martes en Los Ángeles el proceso para retirarle la licencia al abogado John Eastman, quien en 2020 elaboró una lista de maneras para mantener en el poder al entonces presidente Donald Trump.

Se preveía que Eastman pasara el día declarando ante el Colegio de Abogados de California en un proceso que podría desembocar en el retiro de su licencia. Enfrenta 11 cargos disciplinarios en su contra por elaborar una estrategia legal para hacer que Trump siga siendo presidente a pesar de haber perdido las elecciones.

Si el tribunal del Colegio de Abogados halla a Eastman culpable podría recomendar la suspensión o revocación de su licencia. La decisión final la tendrá la Corte Suprema de California.

Eastman declarará en su defensa el martes. El proceso, que se prevé durará ocho días, contará con declaraciones de testigos tales como Greg Jacob, exabogado del entonces vicepresidente Mike Pence, quien se opuso al plan de Eastman de hacer que Pence detuviera la certificación de la victoria electoral de Joe Biden.

Eastman era uno de los abogados de Trump durante las elecciones. En ese entonces escribió un memorándum diciendo que Pence podría mantener a Trump en el poder si revocaba los resultados electorales en una sesión conjunta del Congreso convocada para contar los votos electorales. Hay quienes consideran que eso equivaldría a un golpe de Estado.

Eastman violó el código de ética profesional de California al hacer declaraciones falsas y engañosas que constituyeron actos de “bajeza moral, deshonestidad y corrupción”, dice el acta de acusación. Añade que al hacerlo, Eastman “violó su deber al actuar a favor de un intento por usurpar la voluntad del pueblo estadounidense y contradecir los resultados de unas elecciones para el máximo cargo del país, lo que constituyó un ataque flagrante y sin precedentes contra nuestra democracia”.

El abogado de Eastman ha dicho que éste disputará “todos los aspectos” de la acusación.

El proceso “es parte de una campaña nacional por usar el proceso disciplinario en contra de los abogados que en las elecciones pasadas se opusieron a la administración actual. Los ciudadanos de ambos partidos deben estar consternados por esa politización de los colegios abogados nacionales”, declaró el abogado de Eastman, Randall A. Miller, cuando se revelaron las acusaciones en enero.

Eastman es miembro del Colegio de Abogados de California desde 1997, según el website de la entidad. Fue asistente del juez de la Corte Suprema Clarence Thomas y director fundador del Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, un bufete de abogados vinculado al Claremont Institute. Se postuló para fiscal general de California en 2010, llegando de segundo en la primaria republicana.

New study says high housing costs, low income push Californians into homelessness

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A homeless encampment is shaded by a tree in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness released Tuesday, June 20, 2023, by the University of California, San Francisco, aimed at capturing a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California. (Photo: AP/Rich Pedroncelli/File)

Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness.

The study released Tuesday by the University of California, San Francisco attempts to capture a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California, and what impeded their efforts at finding permanent housing. The representative survey of nearly 3,200 homeless people found that when they lost housing, their median household income was $960 a month, and for renters on leases it was $1,400 a month, of which on average half went to rent.

Homelessness is a national crisis, and all too pervasive in California, where an estimated 171,000 people — or 30% of all homeless people in the U.S. — are homeless. Political leaders are divided over how to address the crisis, with some, including Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, favoring tent encampment sweeps and a tough-love approach toward those with mental health and addiction issues.

A homeless woman moves her belongings after being approached by the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team’s Encampment Resolution Team in San Francisco, on Dec. 13, 2022. Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness released Tuesday, June 20, 2023, by the University of California, San Francisco, aimed at capturing a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California. (Photo: AP/Godofredo A. Vásquez/File)

It it not groundbreaking news that the state’s exorbitant housing costs are a major driver behind homelessness, but researchers at the UCSF’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative hope that the study will strengthen public support for policies that focus on offering housing and emergency rental assistance — rather than policies emphasizing punishment or stigma.

“People are homeless because their rent is too high. And their options are too few. And they have no cushion,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, initiative director and lead investigator. “And it really makes you wonder how different things would look if we could solve that underlying problem.”

Kushel’s team surveyed nearly 3,200 adults around California, and followed up to conduct in-depth interviews with 365 people, between October 2021 and November 2022.

A homeless man sleeps on a discarded mattress in Los Angeles, July 21, 2022. Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness released Tuesday, June 20, 2023, by the University of California, San Francisco, aimed at capturing a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California. (Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong/File)

The study found that Black people made up 26% of the homeless population in a state where they are only 6% of the general population. About 90% of participants were living in California when they became homeless. Half reported an inability to work due to age, health or disability. The median length of homelessness was a little under two years.

More than a third of adults surveyed met the criteria for chronic homelessness, meaning they had a disabling condition and were homeless for at least 1 year — or were homeless four times in the previous three years totaling more than 12 months.

In Los Angeles in 2015, Sage Johnson’s mother was evicted from their apartment when she was unable to meet rent that had increased to $1,200. In disability pay, she received about $1,340 a month. She bounced around, from LA’s notorious Skid Row to various convalescent homes while her daughter lived at a shelter.

Later, Johnson, 28, was able to place her mother in a home, where she stayed for about two years. In 2018 though, her mother died from a debilitating stroke.

Johnson, who now has stable housing, wishes she could have done more.

“But in the end, she did have a bed. She was inside. She didn’t have any more strokes outside. And she was able to regenerate and rejuvenate and restore some of her life while in the convalescent home,” said Johnson, a co-chair for one of the study’s advisory boards.

Robert Mason, a 56-year-old homeless man, warms up a piece of doughnut over a bonfire he set to keep himself warm on Skid Row in Los Angeles, on Feb. 14, 2023. Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness released Tuesday, June 20, by the University of California, San Francisco, aimed at capturing a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California. (Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong/File)

Among study participants, substance abuse and issues with mental health were common and predated becoming homeless. Of those surveyed, 45% reported current, regular use of cocaine, amphetamines and opioids or heavy episodic drinking. Participants described how heavy substance use contributed to losing their homes, but also how methamphetamine usage allowed them to stay alert to protect themselves from assault or theft.

Nearly half of the adults surveyed were not on a lease in the six months prior to becoming homeless, and had likely moved in with family or friends, contributing to rent when they could. Nearly a quarter cited conflict among housemates, desire for more space or not wanting to impose any longer on family and friends as primary reasons they left.

On average, people surveyed who were not on leases received only one day of warning before needing to move out.

Among people on rental lease agreements, more than 20% cited income loss or reduction as the primary reason they lost housing. “So it wasn’t so much that their housing costs increased, it’s that they could no longer keep up with it,” said Kushel.

California ranks as the most unaffordable state when it comes to housing, according to an annual report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. A person earning an hourly minimum wage of $15.50 would have to work nearly 90 hours a week to afford the statewide average for a modest one-bedroom rental, which is nearly $1,800 a month, the coalition states.

People ride their bikes past a homeless encampment set up along the boardwalk in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 29, 2021. Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness released Tuesday, June 20, 2023, by the University of California, San Francisco, aimed at capturing a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California. (Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong/File)

The study was requested by Newsom’s administration, which has made addressing homelessness a priority, but the state did not fund it so didn’t play a role in analyzing data or interpreting the findings.

The report makes many recommendations, including deep expansion of rental assistance and pilot programs to facilitate shared housing for people seeking to get out of homelessness — and a rental stipend program for people living temporarily with family or friends.

Johnson said she hopes the public will find the report’s findings to be evidence that tax dollars are being put to good use in social safety net spending. She also hopes that people will support robust mental health and addiction treatment services along with affordable housing options.

“I don’t want to set anyone up for failure,” she said. “And I’m sure many of my peers can agree that folks need time to practice going back to, like, regular society life.”

Eviction filings are 50% higher than they were pre-pandemic in some cities as rents rise

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John Williams, left, walks leaves a rally calling for an end to the eviction moratorium before a special community and economic development committee by the Oakland City Council at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Some landlords have gone without rental income for more than three years after Oakland, California approved an eviction moratorium in March 2020. (Photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta.

Although sympathetic, the judge said state law required him to evict Williams and his 25-year-old daughter De’mai Williams in April because they owed $8,348 in unpaid rent and fees on their $940-a-month apartment.

They have been living in limbo ever since.

They moved into a dilapidated Atlanta hotel room with water dripping through the bathroom ceiling, broken furniture and no refrigerator or microwave. But at $275-a-week, it was all they could afford on Williams’ $900 monthly social security check and the $800 his daughter gets biweekly from a state agency as her father’s caretaker.

Maria Jackson, right, moves into a room at a home with the help of friend David Mcfarlan Monday, May 8, 2023, in Las Vegas. Jackson, a longtime massage therapist, lost her customers when the pandemic triggered a statewide shutdown in March 2020 and was evicted from her apartment earlier this year. (Photo: AP/John Locher)

“I really don’t want to be here by the time his birthday comes» in August, De’mai Williams said. «For his health, it’s just not right.”

The Williams family is among millions of tenants from New York state to Las Vegas who have been evicted or face imminent eviction.

After a lull during the pandemic, eviction filings by landlords have come roaring back, driven by rising rents and a long-running shortage of affordable housing. Most low-income tenants can no longer count on pandemic resources that had kept them housed, and many are finding it hard to recover because they haven’t found steady work or their wages haven’t kept pace with the rising cost of rent, food and other necessities.

Homelessness, as a result, is rising.

“Protections have ended, the federal moratorium is obviously over, and emergency rental assistance money has dried up in most places,” said Daniel Grubbs-Donovan, a research specialist at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

Dana Williams and his daughter De’mai Williams stand outside a low-cost hotel in Atlanta on May 18, 2023. The two have been looking for an affordable place to live ever since they were evicted from their two-bedroom apartment in April. (Photo: AP/R.J. Rico)

“Across the country, low-income renters are in an even worse situation than before the pandemic due to things like massive increases in rent during the pandemic, inflation and other pandemic-era related financial difficulties.”

Eviction filings are more than 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities, according to the Eviction Lab, which tracks filings in nearly three dozen cities and 10 states. Landlords file around 3.6 million eviction cases every year.

Among the hardest-hit are Houston, where rates were 56% higher in April and 50% higher in May. In Minneapolis/St. Paul, rates rose 106% in March, 55% in April and 63% in May. Nashville was 35% higher and Phoenix 33% higher in May; Rhode Island was up 32% in May.

The latest data mirrors trends that started last year, with the Eviction Lab finding nearly 970,000 evictions filed in locations it tracks — a 78.6% increase compared to 2021, when much of the country was following an eviction moratorium. By December, eviction filings were nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.

Michelle Hailey reacts while listening to speakers during a rally to end the eviction moratorium outside City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Some landlords have gone without rental income for more than three years after Oakland, California approved an eviction moratorium in March 2020. (Photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

At the same time, rent prices nationwide are up about 5% from a year ago and 30.5% above 2019, according to the real estate company Zillow. There are few places for displaced tenants to go, with the National Low Income Housing Coalition estimating a 7.3 million shortfall of affordable units nationwide.

Many vulnerable tenants would have been evicted long ago if not for a safety net created during the pandemic.

The federal government, as well as many states and localities, issued moratoriums during the pandemic that put evictions on hold; most have now ended. There was also $46.5 billion in federal Emergency Rental Assistance that helped tenants pay rent and funded other tenant protections. Much of that has been spent or allocated, and calls for additional resources have failed to gain traction in Congress.

“The disturbing rise of evictions to pre-pandemic levels is an alarming reminder of the need for us to act — at every level of government — to keep folks safely housed,» said Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, urging Congress to pass a bill cracking down on illegal evictions, fund legal help for tenants and keep evictions off credit reports.

Seneca Scott, top left, yells as Pamela Haile, middle, holds up a sign with others during a Oakland City Council special community and economic development committee at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Some landlords have gone without rental income for more than three years after Oakland, California approved an eviction moratorium in March 2020. (Photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

Housing courts are again filling up and ensnaring the likes of 79-year-old Maria Jackson.

Jackson worked for nearly two decades building a loyal clientele as a massage therapist in Las Vegas, which has seen one of the country’s biggest jumps in eviction filings. That evaporated during the pandemic-triggered shutdown in March 2020. Her business fell apart; she sold her car and applied for food stamps.

She got behind on the $1,083 monthly rent on her one-bedroom apartment, and owing $12,489 in back rent was evicted in March. She moved in with a former client about an hour northeast of Las Vegas.

“Who could imagine this happening to someone who has worked all their life?” Jackson asked.

Last month she found a room in Las Vegas for $400 a month, paid for with her $1,241 monthly social security check. It’s not home, but “I’m one of the lucky ones,” she said.

“I could be in a tent or at a shelter right now.»

In upstate New York, evictions are rising after a moratorium lifted last year. Forty of the state’s 62 counties had higher eviction filings in 2022 than before the pandemic, including two where eviction filings more than doubled compared to 2019.

“How do we care for the folks who are evicted … when the capacity is not in place and ready to roll out in places that haven’t experienced a lot of eviction recently?” said Russell Weaver, whose Cornell University lab tracks evictions statewide.

Housing advocates had hoped the Democrat-controlled state Legislature would pass a bill requiring landlords to provide justification for evicting tenants and limit rent increases to 3% or 1.5 times inflation. But it was excluded from the state budget and lawmakers failed to pass it before the legislative session ended this month.

People take part in a Oakland City Council special community and economic development committee at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Earlier this year, small property landlords took to City Hall to demand an end to the eviction ban. They said they were going into debt or facing foreclosure while tenants with jobs skipped out on rent. (Photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

“Our state Legislature should have fought harder,” said Oscar Brewer, a tenant organizer facing eviction from the apartment he shares with his 6-year-old daughter in Rochester.

In Texas, evictions were kept down during the pandemic by federal assistance and the moratoriums. But as protections went away, housing prices skyrocketed in Austin, Dallas and elsewhere, leading to a record 270,000 eviction filings statewide in 2022.

Advocates were hoping the state Legislature might provide relief, directing some of the $32 billion budget surplus into rental assistance. But that hasn’t happened.

“It’s a huge mistake to miss our shot here,” said Ben Martin, a research director at nonprofit Texas Housers. “If we don’t address it, now, the crisis is going to get worse.”

Still, some pandemic protections are being made permanent, and having an impact on eviction rates. Nationwide, 200 measures have passed since January 2021, including legal representation for tenants, sealing eviction records and mediation to resolve cases before they reach court, said the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

These measures are credited with keeping eviction filings down in several cities, including New York City and Philadelphia — 41% below pre-pandemic levels in May for the former and 33% for the latter.

Chris Moore, middle, of the East Bay Rental Housing Association board, holds up signs with others during a Oakland City Council special community and economic development committee at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Some landlords have gone without rental income for more than three years after Oakland, California approved an eviction moratorium in March 2020. (Photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

A right-to-counsel program and the fact that housing courts aren’t prosecuting cases involving rent arears are among the factors keeping New York City filings down.

In Philadelphia, 70% of the more than 5,000 tenants and landlords who took part in the eviction diversion program resolved their cases. The city also set aside $30 million in assistance for those with less than $3,000 in arears, and started a right-to-counsel program, doubling representation rates for tenants.

The future is not so bright for Williams and his daughter, who remain stuck in their dimly-lit hotel room. Without even a microwave or nearby grocery stores, they rely on pizza deliveries and snacks from the hotel vending machine.

Williams used to love having his six grandchildren over for dinner at his old apartment, but those days are over for now.

“I just want to be able to host my grandchildren,” he said, pausing to cough heavily. “I just want to live somewhere where they can come and sit down and hang out with me.”

Educación y xenofobia, un desafío para la niñez migrante venezolana en Suramérica

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EFE
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La ONG Plan Internacional divulgó un estudio este lunes que destaca las barreras y desafíos que enfrenta la niñez venezolana migrante y refugiada en Suramérica para acceder a servicios de educación equitativos, inclusivos y de calidad, un problema que afecta por igual a las comunidades de acogida.

El informe «Barreras para el acceso, transición, finalización y aprendizaje de niñas, niños y adolescentes refugiados, migrantes y la comunidad de acogida en la región, desarrollado en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú» por Plan junto con el Grupo Regional de Educación (Grelac), encontró que el 35,9 % de los hogares consideran difícil matricular a los menores migrantes.

La encuesta realizada entre agosto y noviembre de 2022 incluyó como población objetivo a adultos cuidadores de niños, niñas y adolescentes migrantes provenientes de Venezuela y de la comunidad de acogida en edades escolares y autoridades educativas.

El estudio organiza los hallazgos por país y por los momentos de la trayectoria educativa, que van desde la matrícula de los Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes (NNA) hasta las amenazas u obstáculos que las familias consideran que tienen que sortear para terminar el proceso educativo.

La Plataforma de Coordinación Interagencial para Refugiados y Migrantes (R4V), citada en el informe, detalla que los tres países latinoamericanos que más acogen población venezolana migrante son Colombia con 2,5 millones, seguido de Perú con 1,5 millones y Ecuador con 502.200 migrantes.

La investigación destaca que del total de hogares que atraviesan dificultades, el 79,5 % corresponde a hogares migrantes que citan como principal obstáculo los requisitos de documentación exigidos por los establecimientos educativos.

También reveló que el 26,4% de los hogares encuestados están de acuerdo en que es difícil para sus hijos continuar en la escuela.

Esta situación, según Plan, obedece a problemas económicos, dificultades para encontrar cupos escolares, obstáculos relacionados con los documentos migratorios y la falta de conocimiento sobre los sistemas educativos locales.

«En los países se deben construir sistemas y políticas educativas resistentes a las crisis que se basen en las experiencias y soluciones identificadas por la niñez y la juventud desplazada. Estos sistemas y políticas deben ser adaptables, flexibles e innovadoras y garantizar la protección de los derechos de las niñas», manifestó la directora de Plan Internacional para la Subregión de Sudamérica, Verónica Zambrano.

Esto permitirá, afirmó Zambrano, «ofrecer una educación inclusiva y de calidad para garantizar la continuidad de la educación en contextos de movilidad humana».

El informe señala por su parte que en el caso de las niñas y adolescentes migrantes y refugiadas, la violencia de género a la que están expuestas también tiene un efecto perjudicial en su educación, obligándolas a abandonar la escuela, faltar a clase o tener un bajo rendimiento debido a traumas físicos y emocionales.

Respecto a la permanencia, se tiene que 26,4% de las familias encuestadas están de acuerdo o totalmente de acuerdo en que es difícil continuar en el colegio en el país en el que viven.

Adicionalmente, 6,6% considera que al menos un NNA a su cargo se enfrenta a algún tipo de amenaza para culminar su proceso educativo.

En el caso de las niñas, el informe resalta que el embarazo adolescente y la falta de recursos son factores que las obligan a abandonar sus estudios.

Sobre la exclusión educativa, se identificó que está presente en todos los miembros de la comunidad educativa: 8,8% de las familias ha identificado rechazo por parte de docentes, 4,3% por parte de otros miembros de la comunidad educativa y 15,1% afirma que estos comportamientos suceden entre los mismos NNA.

En este punto el estudio señala que las brechas percibidas de acceso y permanencia en la educación permitió identificar que «un reto que permanece entre los tres países a pesar de los esfuerzos es la xenofobia (…) un reto que requiere de esfuerzos importantes a nivel central y apoyo de la cooperación internacional».

EE. UU. destinará ayuda millonaria a comunidades para combatir cambio climático

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VOA
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ARCHIVO - Casas frente al mar tapadas detrás de una montañas de arena reforzada como preparativos para enfrentar una tormenta en la playa de Long Beach, California, el 9 de septiembre de 2022.

El anuncio del presidente Joe Biden coincide con una ola de temperaturas extremas en el sureste del país, que espera una reforzada ola de calor e intensas lluvias en los próximos días.

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, anunciará una ayuda de unos 600 millones de dólares que ofrecerá a comunidades vulnerables las herramientas necesarias para combatir y prepararse ante los «crecientes impactos del cambio climático», informó este lunes la Casa Blanca.

Biden adelantará en la tarde de este lunes la presentación de lo que la administración llama Desafío Regional de Resiliencia Climática, con un compromiso de 575 millones de dólares, para asistir a comunidades costeras a adaptarse y enfrentar fenómenos como la subida del nivel del mar, inundaciones y el azote de tormentas.

La financiación de este programa y otras iniciativas se incluye dentro de un histórico paquete de leyes, aprobado por el Congreso de EE. UU. y firmado por el presidente en agosto pasado, que destinará unos 430 miles de millones de dólares para afrontar el reto del cambio climático.

El anuncio se realizará durante la visita del presidente a una comunidad costera en California que lucha por proteger su ecosistema e infraestructura frente a los embates de los cada más vez más serios fenómenos climáticos, indicó la Casa Blanca.

Como parte de esta inversión, California también recibirá 67,4 millones de los dólares, con la capacidad de solicitar financiamiento adicional, para modernizar su red eléctrica frente al clima extremo, desastres naturales e incendios forestales, y garantizar la confiabilidad del sector eléctrico del estado.

«La financiación apoyará soluciones innovadoras de adaptación y resiliencia costera, como la construcción de infraestructura natural, planificación y preparación para la reubicación dirigida por la comunidad», indicó la Administración.

Estos anuncios coinciden con una ola de calor que azota el sureste de EE. UU., donde las temperaturas alcanzaron más de 38 grados Celsius y se han desencadenado tormentas eléctricas que provocaron cortes del suministro eléctrico desde Oklahoma hasta Mississippi y provocaron vientos que generaron amenazas de incendios forestales en Arizona y Nuevo México.

Como parte de su «iniciativa verde», la Casa Blanca también anunció que a fines de año el presidente Biden acogerá una cumbre que reunirá a líderes estatales, locales, tribales y territoriales para discutir la gestión del impacto del cambio climático a través de sus experiencias.

More than 1 million people are dropped from Medicaid as states start a post-pandemic purge of rolls

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Gary Rush poses for a photo outside the Pennsylvania Capitol, June 7, 2023, in Harrisburg, Pa. Rush was demonstrating with the advocacy group Power to the People against the state removing people from Medicaid and says he's worried about losing his medical coverage under the program. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork.

Though the eligibility review is required by the federal government, President’s Joe Biden’s administration isn’t too pleased at how efficiently some other states are accomplishing the task.

“Pushing through things and rushing it will lead to eligible people — kids and families — losing coverage for some period of time,” Daniel Tsai, a top federal Medicaid official recently told reporters.

Already, about 1.5 million people have been removed from Medicaid in more than two dozen states that started the process in April or May, according to publicly available reports and data obtained by The Associated Press.

Florida has dropped several hundred thousand people, by far the most among states. The drop rate also has been particularly high in other states. For people whose cases were decided in May, around half or more got dropped in Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia.

By its own count, Arkansas has dropped more than 140,000 people from Medicaid.

The eligibility redeterminations have created headaches for Jennifer Mojica, 28, who was told in April that she no longer qualified for Medicaid because Arkansas had incorrectly determined her income was above the limit.

She got that resolved, but was then told her 5-year-old son was being dropped from Medicaid because she had requested his cancellation — something that never happened, she said. Her son’s coverage has been restored, but now Mojica says she’s been told her husband no longer qualifies. The uncertainty has been frustrating, she said.

“It was like fixing one thing and then another problem came up, and they fixed it and then something else came up,” Mojica said.

Arkansas officials said they have tried to renew coverage automatically for as many people as possible and placed a special emphasis on reaching families with children. But a 2021 state law requires the post-pandemic eligibility redeterminations to be completed in six months, and the state will continue “to swiftly disenroll individuals who are no longer eligible,” the Department of Human Services said in statement.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has dismissed criticism of the state’s process.

“Those who do not qualify for Medicaid are taking resources from those who need them,” Sanders said on Twitter last month. “But the pandemic is over — and we are leading the way back to normalcy.”

More than 93 million people nationwide were enrolled in Medicaid as of the most recent available data in February — up nearly one-third from the pre-pandemic total in January 2020. The rolls swelled because federal law prohibited states from removing people from Medicaid during the health emergency in exchange for providing states with increased funding.

Now that eligibility reviews have resumed, states have begun plowing through a backlog of cases to determine whether people’s income or life circumstances have changed. States have a year to complete the process. But tracking down responses from everyone has proved difficult, because some people have moved, changed contact information or disregarded mailings about the renewal process.

Before dropping people from Medicaid, the Florida Department of Children and Families said it makes between five and 13 contact attempts, including texts, emails and phone calls. Yet the department said 152,600 people have been non-responsive.

Their coverage could be restored retroactively, if people submit information showing their eligibility up to 90 days after their deadline.

Unlike some states, Idaho continued to evaluate people’s Medicaid eligibility during the pandemic even though it didn’t remove anyone. When the enrollment freeze ended in April, Idaho started processing those cases — dropping nearly 67,000 of the 92,000 people whose cases have been decided so far.

“I think there’s still a lot of confusion among families on what’s happening,” said Hillarie Hagen, a health policy associate at the nonprofit Idaho Voices for Children.

She added, “We’re likely to see people showing up at a doctor’s office in the coming months not knowing they’ve lost Medicaid.”

Advocates fear that many households losing coverage may include children who are actually still eligible, because Medicaid covers children at higher income levels than their parents or guardians. A report last year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services forecast that children would be disproportionately impacted, with more than half of those disenrolled still actually eligible.

That’s difficult to confirm, however, because the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doesn’t require states to report a demographic breakdown of those dropped. In fact, CMS has yet to release any state-by-state data. The AP obtained data directly from states and from other groups that have been collecting it.

Medicaid recipients in numerous states have described the eligibility redetermination process as frustrating.

Julie Talamo, of Port Richey, Florida, said she called state officials every day for weeks, spending hours on hold, when she was trying to ensure her 19-year-old special-needs son, Thomas, was going to stay on Medicaid.

She knew her own coverage would end but was shocked to hear Thomas’ coverage would be whittled down to a different program that could force her family to pay $2,000 per month. Eventually, an activist put Talamo in contact with a senior state healthcare official who confirmed her son would stay on Medicaid.

“This system was designed to fail people,” Talamo said of the haphazard process.

Some states haven’t been able to complete all the eligibility determinations that are due each month. Pennsylvania reported more than 100,000 incomplete cases in both April and May. Tens of thousands of cases also remained incomplete in April or May in Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico and Ohio.

“If states are already behind in processing renewals, that’s going to snowball over time,» said Tricia Brooks, a research professor at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. «Once they get piles of stuff that haven’t been processed, I don’t see how they catch up easily.”

Among those still hanging in the balance is Gary Rush, 67, who said he was notified in April that he would lose Medicaid coverage. The Pittsburgh resident said he was told that his retirement accounts make him ineligible, even though he said he doesn’t draw from them. Rush appealed with the help of an advocacy group and, at a hearing this past week, was told he has until July to get rid of about $60,000 in savings.

Still, Rush said he doesn’t know what he will do if he loses coverage for his diabetes medication, which costs about $700 a month. Rush said he gets $1,100 a month from Social Security.

In Indiana, Samantha Richards, 35, said she has been on Medicaid her whole life and currently works two part-time jobs as a custodian. Richards recalled receiving a letter earlier this year indicating that the pandemic-era Medicaid protection was ending. She said a local advocacy group helped her navigate the renewal process. But she remains uneasy.

“Medicaid can be a little unpredictable,” Richards said. “There is still that concern that just out of nowhere, I will either get a letter saying that we have to reapply because we missed some paperwork, or I missed a deadline, or I’m going to show up at the doctor’s office or the pharmacy and they’re going to say, ‘Your insurance didn’t go through.’”

«Un hombre libre», la novela sobre el primer traductor al español del Nuevo Testamento

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Fotografía personal cedida donde aparece el escritor español Mario Escobar que rescata en la novela "Un hombre libre", que acaba de ser publicada en EEUU, la figura de su compatriota Francisco de Enzinas (1518-1552), el primer traductor del Nuevo Testamento al castellano, al que ve como un ejemplo de "tolerancia" para el mundo actual. EFE/Álbum M. Escobar

El escritor español Mario Escobar rescata en la novela «Un hombre libre», que acaba de ser publicada en EE. UU., la figura de su compatriota Francisco de Enzinas (1518-1552), el primer traductor del Nuevo Testamento al castellano, al que ve como un ejemplo de «tolerancia» para el mundo actual.

«Yo creo que lo que nos puede aportar es un poco de cordura en una época como la nuestra, en la que el radicalismo está otra vez tomando fuerza en todos los sentidos», dice Escobar en una entrevista telefónica con EFE.

De Enzinas, también conocido como Franciscus Dryander, fue un pionero en muchas cosas, dice el escritor sobre este hijo de una adinerada familia de comerciantes de lana de Burgos que se puso del lado de la Reforma protestante y vivió gran parte de su vida fuera de España, siempre perseguido por la Inquisición.

Su hermano menor, Diego de Enzinas, murió en la hoguera por sus ideas, pero a él lo mató la peste en Estrasburgo, después de haber vivido en varias ciudades de lo que hoy son Bélgica y Alemania y también en Inglaterra, a donde se trasladó huyendo de la Inquisición, y de haber viajado por otros países de Europa.

Fue en la Universidad de Lovaina donde entró en contacto con el protestantismo, al que se vinculó ya abiertamente a partir de 1541 se convirtió en el primer español matriculado en la universidad alemana de Wittenberg, la cuna de la Reforma.

EL PRIMER NUEVO TESTAMENTO Y EL PRIMER LIBRO DE MEMORIAS

Escobar dice que De Enzinas que fue pionero de muchas cosas, entre ellas escribir el primer libro de memorias, una autobiografía, escrito en español de la Historia, además de traducir el Nuevo Testamento del griego al castellano por primera vez.

«Francisco de Enzinas es una figura olvidada, tal vez por su heterodoxia, no solo por los religiosos», dice Escobar, cuyas novelas, como las dedicadas al nazismo, «Nos prometieron la gloria», «Canción de cuna en Auschwitz» o «Los niños de la estrella amarilla», se han publicado con éxito en EE. UU.

Escobar se declara un «artesano de los libros», porque para sus novelas suele inspirarse en historia reales de las que se enamora y se lanza a buscar cómo contarlas, dice a EFE.

En este caso se acercó a De Enzinas por su interesante vida y porque, como dice el título de la novela, fue un «hombre libre» en el sentido de que defendía «la libertad de conciencia, la que hace que una persona sea dueña de su destino».

«Era un hombre que lo tenía todo. Pertenecía a una de las familias más ricas de Castilla en ese momento, su padre era uno de los mayores empresarios de la lana con sucursales en varios sitios en los Países Bajos y otras partes de Europa y él lo deja todo para seguir su vocación», subraya.

Escobar destaca que vivió una época de mucha controversia y mucha violencia, la época de las guerras de religión que ensangrentaron Europa, en la que España representaba el catolicismo a ultranza.

«Que un español se hiciera protestante en un momento en el que religión y Estado estaban unidos significaba que no podía ser un buen español», dice.

Sin embargo, De Enzinas se consideraba un buen súbdito del emperador Carlos I de España y V de Alemania, al que llegó a pedirle en persona que aprobara su Nuevo Testamento (1543) para que pudiera leerlo todo el mundo porque pensaba que eso beneficiaba al Imperio.

En la novela, publicada por BH Publishing Group, se narra que el emperador le preguntó quién había escrito el Nuevo Testamento y, tras él responder «el Espíritu Santo», aprobó su publicación, aunque luego nunca se permitió que el libro circulara en España.

Escobar destaca que De Enzinas y otros reformistas fueron los que empezaron a hablar de libertad de conciencia, de tolerancia hacia las ideas de los otros y de respeto de los derechos de los demás, cuando «la mayoría pensaba que la violencia es legítima, que el súbdito tenía que estar sometido al poder político y no tenía derecho a opinar por sí mismo».

Cuando se le pide que analice el momento actual de la novela histórica en España señala que tuvo una gran pujanza hasta la crisis económica iniciada en 2008, cuando la novela policial cobró más peso, y ahora hay de nuevo un resurgir pero con obras más localistas, de personajes y hechos de una ciudad o una región.

Weekend mass shootings leave 6 people dead and dozens injured across the US

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Investigators look over the scene of an overnight mass shooting at a strip mall in Willowbrook, Ill., Sunday, June 18, 2023. (Photo: AP/Matt Marton)

Mass shootings and violence across the U.S. killed at least six people this weekend, including a Pennsylvania state trooper, and wounded dozens of people. Multiple people with guns fired shots at a holiday crowd in Illinois and bullets flew among teenagers partying in Missouri.

The shootings follow a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years that experts say accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. They happened in suburban Chicago, Washington state, central Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore.

“There’s no question there’s been a spike in violence,” said Daniel Nagin, a professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. “Some of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists.”

Researchers disagree over the cause of the increase. Theories include the possibility that violence is driven by the prevalence of guns in America, or by less aggressive police tactics or a decline in prosecutions for misdemeanor weapon offenses, Nagin said.

As of Sunday evening, none of the weekend events fit the definition of a mass killing, because fewer than four people died at each location. The figure does not include the shooter. However, the number of injured in most of the cases matches the widely accepted definition for mass shootings.

Here’s a look at the shootings this weekend:

WILLOWBROOK, ILLINOIS

At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday in a suburban Chicago parking lot where hundreds of people had gathered to celebrate Juneteenth, authorities said.

The DuPage County sheriff’s office described a “peaceful gathering” that suddenly turned violent as a number of people fired multiple shots into the crowd in Willowbrook, Illinois, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.

A motive for the attack wasn’t immediately known. Sheriff’s spokesman Robert Carroll said authorities were interviewing “persons of interest” in the shooting, the Daily Herald reported.

A witness, Markeshia Avery, said the celebration was meant to mark Juneteenth, Monday’s federal holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

“We just started hearing shooting, so we dropped down until they stopped,” Avery told WLS-TV.

The White House issued a statement calling the violence a tragedy and saying the president was thinking of those killed and injured. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said in a statement that he was monitoring the investigation.

“Gathering for a holiday gathering should be a joyful occasion, not a time where gunfire erupts and families are forced to run for safety,” Pritzker said.

WASHINGTON STATE

Two people were killed and two others were injured when a shooter began firing “randomly” into a crowd at a Washington state campground where many people were staying to attend a nearby music festival on Saturday night, police said.

The suspect was shot in a confrontation with law enforcement officers and taken into custody, several hundred yards from the Beyond Wonderland electronic dance music festival.

A public alert advised people of an active shooter in the area and advised them to “run, hide or fight.»

The festival carried on until early Sunday morning, Grant County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kyle Foreman said. Organizers then posted a tweet saying Sunday’s concert was canceled.

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

One state trooper was killed and a second critically wounded just hours apart in central Pennsylvania on Saturday after a gunman attacked a state police barracks.

The suspect drove his truck into the parking lot of the Lewistown barracks about 11 a.m. Saturday and opened fire with a large-caliber rifle on marked patrol cars before fleeing, authorities said Sunday.

Lt. James Wagner, 45, was critically wounded when he was shot after encountering the suspect several miles away in Mifflintown. Later, Trooper Jacques Rougeau Jr., 29, was ambushed and killed by a gunshot through the windshield of his patrol car as he drove down a road in nearby Walker Township, authorities said.

The suspect was shot and killed after a fierce gunbattle, said Lt. Col. George Bivens, who went up in a helicopter to coordinate the search for the 38-year-old suspect.

“What I witnessed … was one of the most intense, unbelievable gunfights I have ever witnessed,” Bivens said, lauding troopers for launching an aggressive search despite facing a weapon that “would defeat any of the body armor that they had available to them.”

A motive was not immediately known.

ST. LOUIS

An early Sunday shooting in a downtown St. Louis office building killed a 17-year-old and wounded 10 other teenagers, the city’s police commissioner said.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Commissioner Robert Tracy identified the victim who was killed as 17-year-old Makao Moore. A spokesman said a minor who had a handgun was in police custody as a person of interest.

Teenagers were having a party in an office space when the shooting broke out around 1 a.m. Sunday.

The victims ranged from 15 to 19 years old and had injuries including multiple gunshot wounds. A 17-year-old girl was trampled as she fled, seriously injuring her spine, Tracy said.

Shell casings from AR-style rifles and other firearms were scattered on the ground.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

A shooting at a pool party at a Southern California home left eight people wounded, authorities said Saturday.

Authorities were dispatched shortly after midnight in Carson, California, south of Los Angeles, KABC-TV reported.

The victims range in age from 16 to 24, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. They were taken to hospitals and two were listed in critical condition, the statement said.

Authorities said they found another 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound when they responded to a call about a vehicle that crashed into a wall nearby.

BALTIMORE

Six people were injured in a Friday night shooting in Baltimore. All were expected to survive.

Officers heard gunshots in the north of the city just before 9 p.m. and found three men with numerous gunshot wounds. Medics took them to area hospitals for treatment.

Police later learned of three additional victims who walked into area hospitals with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

The wounded ranged in age from 17 to 26, Baltimore Police Department spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge said.

SAN FRANCISCO

Six people were injured after a “car-to-car” shooting in the streets of San Francisco on Sunday evening, police said.

Two victims sustained gunshot wounds, one with life-threatening injuries, in the moving shootout beginning shortly before 7 p.m., San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said at a news conference Sunday.

Suspects in two cars, a black SUV and a white sedan, “drove very recklessly and chased each other while engaged in gunfire” near the northern waterfront, Scott said. The area includes Fisherman’s Wharf, one of the city’s busiest tourist areas.

Three victims were injured by glass shards caused by “errant gunfire,” Scott said, with none of the injuries considered to be life-threatening.

Two girls, ages 10 and 16, were struck by one of the two vehicles while walking their bicycles across the street. The younger girl was injured and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while the older girl was not injured, Scott said.

“It appears that this was an isolated incident and these individuals were targeting each other. We don’t believe this was random at all,» he said.

Tiroteos del fin de semana dejan al menos 6 muertos y entre ellas un policía estatal de PA

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Investigadores analizan la escena de un tiroteo en un centro comercial, el domingo 18 de junio de 2023, en Willowbrook, Illinois. (AP Foto/Matt Marton)

Al menos seis personas —entre ellas un policía estatal de Pensilvania— fueron asesinadas y decenas más resultaron heridas durante una oleada de violencia y tiroteos en distintos puntos de Estados Unidos el fin de semana.

Las balaceras en los suburbios de Chicago, el estado de Washington, Pensilvania, San Luis, el sur de California y Baltimore ocurrieron después de un incremento en los asesinatos y demás incidentes violentos durante los últimos años, que según los expertos se aceleraron durante la pandemia de COVID-19.

“No hay duda de que ha habido un repunte en la violencia”, dijo Daniel Nagin, profesor de políticas públicas y estadística en la Universidad Carnegie Mellon. “Algunos de estos casos parecen ser simplemente disputas, a menudo entre adolescentes, y dichas disputas están siendo resueltas con armas de fuego, no con los puños”.

Los investigadores discrepan en cuanto a las causas del incremento. Las teorías incluyen la posibilidad de que la violencia esté siendo impulsada por la prevalencia de armas de fuego en el país, o tácticas policiales menos agresivas, o un declive en los procesos penales por delitos menores relacionados con armas de fuego, dijo Nagin.

Hasta el domingo por la tarde, ninguno de los incidentes del fin de semana encajaba con la definición de un tiroteo masivo, porque murieron menos de cuatro personas en cada una de las escenas del crimen. Sin embargo, la cifra de heridos en la mayoría de los casos sí coincide con la definición ampliamente aceptada de lo que es un tiroteo masivo.

A continuación presentamos un vistazo a las balaceras del fin de semana:

CENTRO DE PENSILVANIA

Un policía estatal murió y otro resultó gravemente herido con horas de diferencia en dos incidentes relacionados el sábado en el centro de Pensilvania después de que un hombre armado atacó un cuartel de la policía del estado.

El sospechoso condujo su camioneta al estacionamiento del cuartel Lewistown aproximadamente a las 11:00 de la mañana del sábado y disparó con un fusil de alto calibre a autos patrulla antes de huir, dijeron las autoridades el domingo.

El teniente James Wagner, de 45 años, fue herido de gravedad tras toparse con el sospechoso a varios kilómetros de distancia en la localidad de Mifflintown. Posteriormente, el policía Jacques Rougeau Jr., de 29 años, fue emboscado y muerto por un balazo que perforó el parabrisas de su auto patrulla mientras conducía en el cercano municipio de Walker.

El sospechoso de 38 años fue muerto a tiros tras una intensa balacera, dijo el teniente coronel George Bivens, que usó un helicóptero para coordinar la búsqueda.

“Lo que vi… fue una de las balaceras más intensas e increíbles que haya visto”, declaró Bivens, elogiando a los policías por iniciar una enérgica búsqueda a pesar del hecho de que se enfrentaban a un arma que “perforaría cualquiera de los chalecos antibalas que tenían disponibles”.

Hasta el momento se desconocía el motivo.

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WILLOWBROOK, ILLINOIS

Una persona murió y al menos 22 resultaron heridas durante un tiroteo a primeras horas del domingo durante una fiesta en un estacionamiento de un suburbio de Chicago, donde cientos de personas se habían reunido para celebrar el Juneteenth, indicaron las autoridades.

El Departamento de Policía del condado DuPage se refirió a una “reunión pacífica” que de repente se tornó violenta en Willowbrook, a unos 32 kilómetros (20 millas) al suroeste de Chicago.

De momento se desconoce el motivo del ataque. Robert Carroll, portavoz policial, dijo que las autoridades estaban entrevistando a “personas de interés” en la balacera, reportó el Daily Herald.

Una testigo, Markeshia Avery, dijo que la celebración era para recordar el Juneteenth, el feriado federal del lunes que conmemora el día de 1865 en el que esclavos de Galveston, Texas, se enteraron que habían sido liberados, dos años después de la Proclamación de Emancipación.

“Empezamos a escuchar disparos, por lo que nos tiramos al suelo hasta que se detuvieron”, declaró Avery a la cadena WLS-TV.

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ESTADO DE WASHINGTON

Dos personas murieron y otras dos resultaron heridas cuando un hombre armado comenzó a disparar “aleatoriamente” hacia una multitud en un área de acampar en el estado de Washington, donde iban a pasar la noche para poder acudir a un festival de música cercano el sábado, dijo la policía.

El sospechoso resultó baleado durante un enfrentamiento con policías y fue detenido a varios cientos de metros de distancia del festival Beyond Wonderland, de música electrónica para bailar.

Un aviso público alertó a las personas que había un tirador activo en el área, y les recomendó “correr, esconderse o pelear”.

El festival continuó hasta primeras horas del domingo, según el portavoz del Departamento de Policía del condado Grant, Kyle Foreman. Los organizadores tuitearon posteriormente que el concierto del domingo fue cancelado.

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SAN LUIS

En un tiroteo en un edificio de oficinas del centro de San Luis murió un joven de 17 años y otros nueve adolescentes resultaron heridos el domingo en la madrugada, informó el comisionado de policía de la ciudad, Robert Tracy.

Tracy identificó a la víctima fallecida como Makao Moore. Un portavoz dijo que un menor de edad en posesión de un arma de fuego se encuentra detenido por considerársele persona de interés.

Los adolescentes celebraban una fiesta en un espacio de oficinas al momento en que se desató el tiroteo aproximadamente a la 1:00 de la mañana del domingo.

Las víctimas tienen entre 15 y 19 años y algunas recibieron varias heridas de bala. Una joven de 17 años sufrió una lesión grave en la espina dorsal luego de caer y ser pisoteada durante la estampida, añadió Tracy.

En el suelo se encontraron casquillos de fusiles tipo AR y otras armas de fuego.

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SUR DE CALIFORNIA

Un tiroteo en una fiesta con piscina en una residencia del sur de California dejó ocho heridos, informaron autoridades el sábado.

KABC-TV informó que las autoridades respondieron a un reporte poco después de la medianoche en Carson, California, al sur de Los Ángeles.

Las edades de las víctimas oscilan entre 16 y 24 años, indicó el Departamento de Policía del condado Los Ángeles en un comunicado. Fueron trasladadas a hospitales, dos de ellas en estado crítico, añadió.

Las autoridades encontraron a otro joven de 16 años con una herida de bala cuando respondieron a un reporte sobre un vehículo que chocó contra un muro a poca distancia del tiroteo inicial.

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BALTIMORE

Seis personas resultaron heridas el viernes en la noche en una balacera en Baltimore. Se anticipa que todas ellas sobrevivan.

Agentes escucharon disparos en el norte de la ciudad poco antes de las 9 de la noche y encontraron a tres hombres con varias heridas de bala. Los paramédicos los trasladaron a hospitales de la zona.

Posteriormente, la policía se enteró de otras tres víctimas que llegaron a pie a hospitales del área con heridas de bala que no ponían en riesgo sus vidas.

Los lesionados tienen entre 17 y 26 años, dijo Lindsey Eldridge, portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Baltimore.

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SAN FRANCISCO

Seis personas resultaron heridas después de un tiroteo de “coche a coche” en las calles de San Francisco el domingo por la noche, dijo la policía.

Dos víctimas sufrieron heridas de bala, una con lesiones potencialmente mortales, en el tiroteo en movimiento que comenzó poco antes de las 7:00 de la tarde, indicó el domingo el jefe de policía de San Francisco, Bill Scott, en una conferencia de prensa.

Los sospechosos en dos autos, una camioneta SUV negra y un sedán blanco, “condujeron de manera muy imprudente y se persiguieron mientras se disparaban” cerca de la costa norte, dijo Scott. El área incluye Fisherman’s Wharf, una de las zonas turísticas más concurridas de la ciudad.

Tres personas resultaron heridas por fragmentos de vidrio causados por “disparos errantes”, dijo Scott, y ninguna de las lesiones se consideró potencialmente mortal.

Dos menores, de 10 y 16 años, fueron atropelladas por uno de los dos vehículos cuando cruzaban la calle con sus bicicletas. La niña resultó herida y fue trasladada a un hospital con lesiones que no ponen en peligro su vida, mientras que la adolescente no resultó herida, dijo Scott.

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