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El creador de contenido británico Stephen McCullagh fue detenido el 23 de marzo tras ser condenado como culpable por el asesinato de su pareja embarazada , Natalie McNally. El hombre agredió, estranguló y apuñaló a su novia en diciembre de 2022 y utilizó un directo ficticio de seis horas jugando a GTA Vice City como coartada. Sin embargo, los miembros del jurado dictaminaron el veredicto en dos horas. Como así informó la BBC , el juicio fue un proceso tan duro para los asistentes que el juez aseguró que ninguno de ellos volvería a formar parte de un jurado jamás . Por su parte, McCullagh cumplirá cadena perpetua aunque se negara en todo momento a asumir los cargos. Como así aseguró en el proceso judicial, el hombre aseguró que estaba retransmitiendo cómo jugaba en YouTube . Algo que distaba completamente de la realidad, pues lo cierto es que el asesinato fue premeditado. Para ello, el streamer se grabó durante seis horas jugando para, posteriormente, subirlo a la plataforma y poder librarse de los cargos. Durante los 44 días que duró el proceso de investigación, y los hasta ocho interrogatorios distintos, McCullagh negó en todo momento que fuera un falso directo. Y es que, para que pareciera completamente real, fingió cada movimiento e incluso aseguró que si no leía el chat en directo era porque tenía problemas técnicos. Para más inri, tituló el vídeo "Violent Night", (noche violenta en inglés). De acuerdo a las investigaciones, su idea era acudir a la casa de su pareja mientras el vídeo seguía en activo para asesinarla. Así, una vez conseguido su objetivo, regresó al hogar y fingió encontrar el cadáver al día siguiente. Para continuar con su farsa, él mismo fue quien llamó a la policía para advertir de lo ocurrido e intentó culpar a una expareja de McNally. Incluso llegó a pasar los primeros días después de su muerte junto a la familia de la mujer, aunque poco después borró el falso directo. Todo estaba premeditado, aunque con lo que el hombre no contó es que las cámaras de seguridad de la calle acabarían pillándole cerca de la casa de McNally poco después de su asesinato. Si bien se puso una peluca y un sombrero para proteger su identidad, en anteriores vídeos ya había aparecido con ellos, por lo que pudieron identificarle rápidamente. Así, finalmente, el próximo 15 de mayo se dará el veredicto final y comenzará su pena de cárcel en Inglaterra . En España, el número contra la violencia de género es el 016, y no deja registro telefónico. Además, también existe el portal de la Delegación del Gobierno contra la Violencia de Género , donde aparece todo tipo de información al respecto.

Fernando Alonso y Melissa Jiménez ya son padres de su primer hijo en común . Según BBC Sport, la periodista habría dado a luz hace unas horas. Se trata, además, del cuarto hijo para la Jiménez, los otros tres fruto de su relación con el futbolista Marc Bartra. La noticia del embarazo de la periodista se conocía en pasado 10 de diciembre . Según confirmaban fuentes cercanas a la pareja a ¡Hola! , la Melissa estaba embarazada de seis meses. "Están muy contentos y el bebé nacerá en marzo" , señalaban las fuentes citadas. Una feliz noticia que ponía la guinda a una historia de amor de la que nunca han querido hablar pero que está más que consolidada. El deportista, que este verano cumplirá 45 años, y la periodista, de 38, se conocen de los circuitos de la Fórmula 1 , donde él pilota y compite y ella informa. Su amor surgió al calor del asfalto en la primavera de 2023. Ocio en familia Antes de Melissa, el deportista tuvo varias relaciones, aunque sin hijos, entre las que destacan la cantante Raquel del Rosario, con la que se llegó a casar , la periodista Andrea Schlager o la presentadora Lara Álvarez. Por su parte, ella estuvo casada con el futbolista Marc Bartra , con el que tuvo tres hijos , que comparten su ocio también con el asturiano. Prueba de ello fueron las vacaciones del pasado verano . La 'familia', y ahí entran Gala, de 10 años, Abril, de 7 y Max, de 6, se embarcó en el impresionante yate que tiene él, en la Costa Azul. La revista Diez Minutos ofrecía un reportaje gráfico en el que se veía a la pareja (él con bigote) reírse y observar los juegos de los pequeños en el barco y en el agua.

Después de una boda exprés y secreta, Sofía Ellar y Fernando Muñoz están esperando su primer hijo , algo que la cantante asegura que quiere llevar sin bajarse de los escenarios. La artista comunicó la feliz noticia en una entrevista con ¡Hola! en la que no solo habló de lo agotada que está por el proceso, sino de cómo fue su historia de amor con el empresario . Según narró, él era amigo de su hermano mayor y solo habían hablado por redes sociales en 2023. Pero, en verano de 2025, en una fiesta que ella organizó, él estuvo y, aunque solo habló "un minuto" con ella, terminaron volviendo a quedar. " Tras despedirnos, pensé: 'Es ella '. Sentir eso a la primera y no tener dudas fue muy especial", declaró él y explicó que, al día siguiente, le dijo "que no iba a jugar a ser novios ni a perder el tiempo" y fueron a por todas. " Tuve claro desde el día uno que me quería casar con él . Vi en Fer una fuerza que no había visto en nadie y que me hizo sentir muy segura de cada paso que íbamos dando", afirmó la artista y, aunque sus allegados les decían a ambos "que las prisas no son buenas", se enfrentaron a estos miedos. Meses después, el 24 de diciembre de 2025, él le pidió matrimonio; y el mismo día 30 se casaron por lo civil, aunque dejan la ceremonia "religiosa para más adelante". Ahora, tres meses después de aquella boda exprés y secreta, están esperando su primer hijo. "La noticia llegó como una bendición. Si me paro a pensarlo, por mi profesión, no hubiera encontrado el momento para tomar tal decisión. Estamos encantados. ¡Ya no soy una ni somos dos… sino tres !", exclamó, muy feliz, Sofía Ellar. La cantante sostuvo que está "cansada" y las hormonas le están jugando "malas pasadas" : "Estás como fuera de ti, pero el bebé está bien, que es lo único que importa". Tras confirmar que aún no sabe el sexo del bebé, la artista reveló que seguirá adelante con su gira, ELLAR , que arranca el 17 de octubre en el teatro Lope de Vega de Madrid. "Para mí la felicidad y la clave del éxito es conseguir un equilibrio entre un mundo familiar, estable y con valores, y el laboral. Quiero ser una madre volcada, pero sin bajarme del escenario ".

Spain’s prime minister warned that Israel is using the same tactics in Lebanon as it did in Gaza.

Trump's envoys have sent a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran via Pakistan. But Tehran has its own conditions.

Riga said drone that entered its territory may be Ukrainian.

First responders inspect a destroyed car at the site of a residential building hit in an overnight strike during the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matin Hashemi) 2026-03-25T11:00:48Z WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe recent U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new AP-NORC poll. As the war launched by the U.S. and Israel continues in its fourth week, the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that while President Donald Trump’s approval rating is holding steady, the conflict could be swiftly turning into a major political liability for his Republican administration. While Trump is deploying more warships and troops to the Middle East, about 59% of Americans say U.S. military action in Iran has been excessive. Meanwhile, 45% are “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to afford gas in the next few months, up from 30% in an AP-NORC poll conducted shortly after Trump won reelection with promises that he would improve the economy and lower the cost of living. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); There is significant support for at least one of the president’s objectives , which is preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. About two-thirds of Americans say that should be an “extremely” or “very” important foreign policy goal for the U.S. However, they are just as likely to say it’s important to keep U.S. oil and gas prices from rising — a juxtaposition that could be difficult for the White House to manage. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r About 4 in 10 U.S. adults continue to approve of Trump’s performance as president, which is unchanged from last month. His approval on foreign policy, while slightly lower than his overall approval, also largely held steady. Trump has left unclear his next steps on Iran. Despite escalating threats, he’s also suggested diplomatic talks could resolve the fighting. Americans remain broadly apprehensive about Trump’s ability to make the right decisions on the use of military force outside the U.S., and they mostly oppose more aggressive steps, such as deploying ground forces. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Republicans and Democrats prioritize keeping gas prices low Keeping the price at the pump down is the rare goal that unites Americans in both major political parties. About three-quarters of Republicans and about two-thirds of Democrats say it’s highly important to prevent U.S. oil and gas prices from going up. However, concern about the current situation isn’t evenly felt. Only about 3 in 10 Republicans said they’re “extremely” or “very” worried about affording gas in the next few months, as opposed to about 6 in 10 Democrats. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r Trump’s focus on Iran’s nuclear program also appears more compelling to Republicans than to Democrats. About two-thirds of Americans say the U.S. should prioritize keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but about 8 in 10 Republicans say this is at least “very” important, compared with about half of Democrats. The war has exacerbated political debates over the role that Israel should play in U.S. foreign policy, especially since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a leading voice for attacking Iran. Only about 4 in 10 U.S. adults say preventing Iran from threatening Israel should be a high priority. Toppling Iran’s leaders is viewed as slightly less important. Only about 3 in 10 say it’s at least “very” important for the U.S. to replace Iran’s government with one that’s friendlier to U.S. interests. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Most Americans say US action has gone too far in Iran As Trump provides mixed messages on whether the Iran war will end soon, about 9 in 10 Democrats and about 6 in 10 independents say the Iran attacks have “gone too far.” Republicans are more divided. About half of Republicans say the U.S. military action has been “about right,” but relatively few want to see it go further. Only about 2 in 10 Republicans say the U.S. military action has not gone far enough, while about one-quarter say it’s gone too far. Recent AP-NORC polling has found that about 6 in 10 Americans say Trump has “gone too far” on a range of issues, including his approach to tariffs and presidential power. That number, which is broadly reflective of his overall approval, signals that while Trump’s actions in Iran are unpopular, it’s still comparable to other controversial moves he’s taken as president. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Further entrenching the U.S. in the war could change that, depending on what happens next. About 6 in 10 Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” oppose deploying U.S. troops on the ground to fight Iran, including about 8 in 10 Democrats and roughly half of Republicans. Just under half of Americans oppose airstrikes targeting Iranian leaders and airstrikes against military targets in Iran, while about 3 in 10 are in favor and about 3 in 10 don’t have an opinion. Many Americans distrust Trump on use of military force abroad About half of U.S. adults have “only a little” trust or “none at all” in Trump when it comes to making the right decisions about the use of military force outside the U.S., in line with an AP-NORC poll from February. About 34% of U.S. adults approve of the way Trump is handling foreign policy, similar to 36% in February. That measure has been consistent in recent months despite a cascade of actions, including confrontations over Greenland and an attack on Venezuela, that have generated controversy at home and abroad. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); It’s also very similar to Trump’s approval on Iran in the new poll, which found that 35% of Americans have a positive view of his handling of that issue. ___ The AP-NORC poll of 1,150 adults was conducted March 19-23 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 4 percentage points. LINLEY SANDERS Sanders is a polls and surveys reporter for The Associated Press. She develops and writes about polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and works on AP VoteCast. twitter

Fire and smoke raises above the city center following Russia's drone attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) 2026-03-25T08:44:09Z Russian air defenses downed 389 incoming Ukrainian drones, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday, in what was the largest reported overnight attack on Russian regions and Crimea since Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine more than four years ago. The drones were stopped over 13 Russian regions as well as the Crimean Peninsula , which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The attack underlined the growing capability of Ukraine’s domestically developed and manufactured long-range drones . It came a day after Russia fired almost 1,000 drones and 34 missiles at civilian areas of Ukraine in the space of 24 hours, extending its usual nighttime barrage into daylight hours in one of its biggest aerial attacks of the war. At least 6 people were killed and around 50 people were injured, Ukrainian authorities said. Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region north of Moscow, said 56 drones were shot down there, and a fire broke out in the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga as the result of Ukraine’s attack. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Ukrainian forces also carried out a missile strike on the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine overnight, damaging energy infrastructure, its Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Power, water and heating supplies were disrupted, he said. On Tuesday, Russia fired 948 drones of various types at Ukraine. ___ Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah Mullally poses for a photo after an 87-mile pilgrimage from London to Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, England, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) 2026-03-25T05:21:55Z LONDON (AP) — A former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40 will be installed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, publicly celebrating her election as the first woman to lead the Church of England. Although Sarah Mullally, 63, formally became the archbishop of Canterbury in January, Wednesday’s event marks the beginning of her public ministry as both the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The communion is an association of independent churches, including the Episcopal Church in the U.S., that together have more than 100 million members. “I intend to be a shepherd who enables everyone’s ministry and vocation to flourish, whatever our tradition,’’ Mullally said when named last year. “Today I give thanks for all the women and men … who have paved the way for this moment. And to all the women that have gone before me, thank you for your support and your inspiration.” freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); The ceremony will be attended by Prince William, Princess Catherine, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and representatives from many of the communion’s 42 member churches. Representatives from the Vatican and the Orthodox church will also attend. In a nod to Mullally’s historic appointment, the service is taking place on the Feast of the Annunciation, which marks the moment Mary was told she had been chosen to be the mother of Jesus. It is a day on which the church says it celebrates “one of the great women of the Bible and thinks about how we can respond to God’s call.” The celebration marks a major milestone for the Church of England, which traces its roots to the year 597, when the pope sent St. Augustine to Britain to convert the population to Christianity. He is now recognized as the first archbishop of Canterbury. The English church broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s, during the reign of King Henry VIII. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); The church ordained its first female priests in 1994 and its first female bishop in 2015. Mullally begins her tenure as archbishop at a difficult time for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. Her appointment may deepen rifts within the Anglican Communion, whose members are deeply divided over issues such as the role of women and the treatment of LGBTQ+ people. She will also have to confront concerns that the church has failed to stamp out the sexual abuse scandals that have dogged it and caused strife for more than a decade. Mullally replaces former Archbishop Justin Welby, who announced his resignation in November 2024, after he was criticized for failing to act decisively and tell police about allegations of physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at a church-affiliated summer camp. Born in Woking, southwest of London in 1962, Mullally attended local schools and worked as a nurse in Britain’s National Health Service until she was named chief nursing officer for England at the age of 37, the youngest person ever to hold the post. While still working in that job, she began training for the ministry. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); She was named a bishop in 2015, becoming the fourth woman in the Church of England to reach that rank. Three years later, she was named bishop of London, one of the most prominent positions in the church. But on Wednesday she will also remember her life before the church, securing her ceremonial cloak with a clasp decorated by the buckle from the belt she wore as a nurse. The service will also acknowledge the Anglican Communion’s worldwide reach, with Archbishop Albert Chama of Zambia offering a prayer in the Bemba language and Bishop Alba Sally Sue Hernández García of Mexico providing a Bible reading in Spanish. The Kyrie prayer will be sung in Urdu. George Gross, an expert on theology and the monarchy at King’s College London, said Mullally’s appointment instantly makes her one of the most recognized Christian figures in the world, alongside the pope. “I think it’s huge, absolutely massive,” he told The Associated Press. “But it matters because, as we’ve talked before, the stained glass ceiling is smashed. And that, in the world we’re in, when we talk of equality, (it’s) hard to have that if you have unattainable positions.”

Las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen cursos rápidos para aprender a hablar fluidamente en un idioma, pero ¿es la mejor forma de aprender? Una periodista de la BBC políglota se sumó a un experimento de punta.

Israel se arroga desde hace décadas el derecho a atacar preventivamente a los vecinos que, en su visión, suponen una amenaza, pese a las distintas resoluciones de Naciones Unidas que condenan este tipo de ofensivas.

Johan Trujillo se hizo viral en las redes sociales al transportar dos de las víctimas del siniestro con su motocicleta.

Former President Jair Bolsonaro was moved from his cell to hospital earlier this month with pneumonia.

Nations will vote on whether to designate the slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity".

Paul C Brunson pays an emotional tribute to his fellow TV relationship expert, who died on Tuesday.

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Geoffroy Reiser, cofondateur de Terreta Spain, explique : "ces 30 derniers jours, nous avons accompagné des clients du Koweït, du Qatar et de Dubaï à investir, ce qui est nouveau. On observe un report clair vers l’Europe."

Nathan Newby verhinderte 2023 durch heldenhaft anmutendes Einschreiten in Leeds einen Bombenanschlag auf eine Entbindungsstation. Nun erzählt er erstmals öffentlich davon.

Letzte Hoffnung Schwimmbagger: Joseph Schnitzler ist einer der vielen Helfer, die vor Timmendorfer Strand versuchen, einen gestrandeten Wal zu retten. Hier erzählt er, wie die Chancen stehen.

Mit Dominik Krause wird erstmals ein Grüner ins Münchner Rathaus einziehen. Hier spricht der künftige Oberbürgermeister über die Krise der Bundespartei, die Arbeit mit Markus Söder und Küsse in der Öffentlichkeit.

Aus Russland sind zwei Drohnen in den estnischen und lettischen Luftraum eingedrungen. In Estland wurde der Schornstein eines Kraftwerks getroffen. Ob es sich um russische oder ukrainische Drohnen handelte, ist unklar.

US-Präsident Trump erklärt Irans Raketenarsenal für weitgehend zerstört. Doch Teheran greift immer wieder an. Wie viele Raketen und Drohnen besitzt das Regime noch? Und wie schnell kann es sein Arsenal wieder auffüllen?

Die Fußballerinnen des VfL Wolfsburg zeigen im Viertelfinal-Hinspiel der Champions League gegen Olympique Lyon eine starke Leistung und schaffen eine Überraschung - obwohl mit Alexandra Popp ihre Topspielerin fehlt.

Nach dem Vergewaltigungsfall in einem Berliner Jugendclub fordert Psychologe Ahmad Mansour, über die Sozialisation und die kulturellen Hintergründe der Täter zu sprechen: „Es ist rassistisch, diese Menschen als Kuscheltiere zu betrachten.“

Unsere Drohne steigt über Vilnius auf – und verschwindet kurz darauf vom Radar. In Litauen ist Wachsamkeit Teil des Alltags. Eine Spurensuche vor Ort zeigt, wie sich das Land auf den Ernstfall vorbereitet. Und was Deutschland daraus lernen kann.

Luca Toni begeisterte als Stürmer beim FC Bayern. Doch dann wurde Louis van Gaal Trainer in München und alles wurde für den Italiener anders. Auch 16 Jahre nach seiner Zeit unter dem Niederländer lässt Toni kein gutes Haar an van Gaal.

A punto de cumplirse un mes de la guerra, la Administración de Donald Trump ha hecho llegar hasta Irán, a través de intermediarios paquistaníes, una propuesta de alto el fuego de 15 puntos que, según múltiples reportes, exigiría cambios de fondo en el programa nuclear, la capacidad armamentística y el papel en la región de la República Islámica. El contenido exacto de la propuesta no se ha hecho público . De acuerdo con el reporte de Canal 12, un medio televisivo israelí, el documento plantearía desmantelar la capacidad nuclear iraní y prohibir cualquier enriquecimiento de uranio dentro del país . Incluiría también la entrega al Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica de unos 450 kilos de uranio enriquecido al 60%, así como el cierre de instalaciones clave como Natanz, Isfahán y Fordow y un régimen de inspecciones sin restricciones. Washington exigiría, además, que el régimen iraní deje de apoyar, financiar y dirigir a milicias aliadas, y que abandone el uso de fuerzas proxy . El plan incorporaría también límites al programa de misiles y establecería que cualquier uso futuro sea exclusivamente defensivo. Por último, estipularía que el estrecho de Ormuz debe mantenerse abierto en todo momento. A cambio, Estados Unidos ofrecería el levantamiento total de sanciones internacionales , apoyo al desarrollo de un programa nuclear civil —incluida la central de Bushehr, la única planta nuclear operativa del país destinada a la producción de electricidad— y la retirada del mecanismo que permite reactivar sanciones de la ONU. Para bailar un TACO hacen falta dos: ¿funcionará esta vez con Irán la táctica favorita de Trump? Lucas Proto Teherán niega contactos tras la pausa anunciada, el crudo se dispara y las bolsas caen; el conflicto se estanca sin lograr objetivos iniciales, mientras Irán sostiene presión cerrando de facto Ormuz De confirmarse, la propuesta de Trump remite a la elaborada por su equipo negociador durante las conversaciones nucleares de 2025 . Aquel texto sirvió de base para los contactos de finales de mayo, que se rompieron poco después tras los bombardeos israelíes sobre instalaciones iraníes . Pakistán, además de hacer llegar el documento estadounidense a las autoridades iraníes, también ha ofrecido su territorio para acoger contactos entre ambos países, y varias fuentes diplomáticas citadas por AP apuntan a que Washington habría aceptado, en principio, participar. No hay, sin embargo, confirmación de que Irán esté dispuesto a sentarse a negociar. Esta misma mañana, Ebrahim Zolfaghari , portavoz del cuartel central Khatam al-Anbiya —estructura que coordina tanto al Ejército regular como a la Guardia Revolucionaria—, difundió un mensaje grabado en televisión en el que se burló de los intentos de Washington por abrir una salida diplomática. “No llamen acuerdo a su fracaso”, afirmó. “Nuestra primera y última palabra ha sido la misma desde el primer día, y seguirá siéndolo: alguien como nosotros nunca llegará a un acuerdo con alguien como ustedes”, agregó. Según reporta el Wall Street Journal , representantes iraníes han trasladado a la Administración Trump que el umbral para retomar negociaciones es ahora mucho más alto . Las exigencias del régimen incluirían el cierre de todas las bases estadounidenses en el Golfo y el pago de compensaciones por los ataques contra Irán. Teherán también plantearía un nuevo marco para el estrecho de Ormuz que le permitiría cobrar tasas a los buques en tránsito —en un modelo similar al del canal de Suez—, además de garantías de que las hostilidades no se reanudarán y el fin de los ataques israelíes contra Hezbolá. Independientemente de la respuesta iraní, la propuesta de Trump es una de varias señales de distensión que han empezado a emerger desde comienzos de semana. El lunes, el presidente anunció una pausa de cinco días en los ataques contra infraestructuras energéticas iraníes —que apenas 48 horas antes había amenazado con destruir si no se reabría el estrecho de Ormuz—. La decisión, según explicó, buscaba dar margen a posibles avances diplomáticos tras contactos que calificó de “productivos” . El martes, Trump aseguró que Irán ha hecho una “importante concesión” en materia energética a Estados Unidos. Aunque evitó dar detalles, lo presentó como una señal positiva en medio de los contactos. “ Nos dieron un regalo muy grande, de un valor enorme” , afirmó. Poco después, Teherán afirmó que los buques “no hostiles” podrán transitar con “paso seguro” por el estrecho de Ormuz siempre que no participen ni respalden acciones contra el país y cumplan las condiciones de seguridad establecidas por las autoridades iraníes. El bucle de la muerte en Irán: por qué veremos a un Teherán cada vez más radical Mónica Redondo Cada vez hay más dudas sobre si la campaña de Israel contra los altos mandos de la República Islámica dará lugar a la caída del régimen o, por el contrario, a un nuevo modelo capitaneado por militares y más radical Pero en paralelo a estos movimientos diplomáticos, Washington está reforzando su presencia militar en la región. El Pentágono ha ordenado el despliegue de unos 2.000 soldados adicionales en Oriente Medio, según afirmaron a The New York Times dos funcionarios del Departamento de Defensa. Se trata de tropas de la 82 División Aerotransportada, una unidad de intervención rápida capaz de desplegarse en cuestión de horas en escenarios de combate .

Mientras Estados Unidos se prepara para desplegar 3.000 soldados de élite de las tropas aerotransportadas (especializadas en asaltos) para apoyar sus operaciones contra Irán, en la Casa Blanca, Donald Trump anunciaba que los iraníes le habían ofrecido "un regalo" como muestra de buena fe en unas negociaciones que Teherán ha negado repetidamente que estén teniendo lugar. "Nos han dado un regalo, un muy gran regalo, que vale una gran cantidad de dinero . No os voy a decir qué era el regalo , pero era muy significativo (...) No, no os voy a decir, pero tenía que ver con el gas y el petróleo", elaboró Trump. Y concluyó: "Para mí, eso significa que estamos lidiando con la gente adecuada", en una aparente señal de apertura a negociar una salida a la guerra en Irán, incluso con los herederos del ayatolá Ali Jamenei . Poco después, medios israelíes y estadounidenses publicaron que Estados Unidos habría entregado a Irán, vía Pakistán, un "plan de 15 puntos" para acabar con la guerra. No ha trascendido de momento el contenido de dichos puntos. Las bolsas se recuperaron, el precio del barril de crudo bajó. Desde el inicio de la operación Furia Épica , Trump ha agitado — con diferentes variaciones— hasta en tres ocasiones posibles rampas de salida al conflicto. Con las consecuentes reacciones de los mercados, que desandaban las escaladas del día anterior. Así que anuncios como el de este martes pueden sorprender a algunos, pero nadie puede decir que sea un giro inédito. Y, quizá porque se detecta un patrón, tampoco se pueden lanzar las campanas al vuelo sobre el final de la guerra. El elefante dormido en la habitación: ¿qué pasaría si las monarquías del Golfo entran en la guerra? Celia Maza. Londres Durante semanas, pese a haber sido alcanzados repetidamente por misiles y drones iraníes, los Estados árabes han optado por la contención. La cuestión es qué ocurrirá si esa doctrina deja de ser suficiente La última vez fue este mismo lunes, cuando Donald Trump anunció una pausa de cinco días en los ataques contra las infraestructuras energéticas de Irán — justo cuando expiraba el ultimátum de 48 horas que había dado a Teherán para reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz —. El presidente de EEUU es, a estas alturas, de sobra conocido por su táctica de ejercer máxima presión , lanzar una amenaza de nivel existencial y, en el último momento, dar un giro de 180 grados y anunciar, con bombo y platillo, que el escenario más temido, finalmente, no se materializará. Una secuencia habitual en la que los líderes de medio mundo suspiran aliviados, las bolsas celebran con grandes alzas y Trump se anota el inexplicable punto de haber evitado el mismo apocalipsis que prometió desatar. Esta dinámica tiene, eso sí, un nombre extendido que al mandatario no le gusta lo más mínimo: TACO , acrónimo de " Trump always chickens out " ( Trump siempre se acobarda). Y los mercados han aprendido bien a identificar este patrón . Por eso, cuando el presidente anunció la pausa en Truth Social, la reacción fue inmediata: el precio del petróleo cayó con fuerza ante la expectativa de que el conflicto había iniciado, oficialmente, su fase de desescalada. El fenómeno fue análogo al pasado 9 de marzo, cuando Trump aseguró que la guerra estaba "prácticamente terminada" . En aquel entonces, se cumplían 10 días del conflicto y el magnate republicano aseguró que EEUU iba "muy por delante" del cronograma previsto originalmente de cuatro o cinco semanas de hostilidades. "No tienen armada, ni comunicaciones, ni fuerza aérea. Sus misiles están dispersos. Sus drones están siendo destruidos por todas partes, incluyendo su fabricación. No tienen nada", aseguró el mandatario, para concluir que la guerra "va a ser una excursión breve". En aquel momento, mientras Trump aseguraba que la guerra estaba "prácticamente terminada", también elucubraba en entrevistas televisivas sobre la idea de "tomar el control" del estrecho de Ormuz . Las bolsas subieron inmediatamente ante la perspectiva del fin de la guerra y el petróleo, que justo ese día asaltaba la cota psicológica de los 100 dólares, tocando incluso los 120 dólares por barril, cayó hasta los 90 dólares . Por qué no funciona tan fácil con Irán Sin embargo, esos paréntesis, todavía muy útiles y que demuestran que al ex showman todavía le funcionan los trucos, no suelen durar más de un día, o lo que tarda Teherán en negar, como este lunes, de forma tajante que exista cualquier tipo de negociación, directa o indirecta, con Washington , y evitando en todo momento validar, al menos públicamente, la idea de que se estuviera abriendo una vía de salida. El martes, el petróleo repuntaba con fuerza y las bolsas volvían a amanecer en rojo... Hasta el mensaje diario de Trump, en este caso, hablando de un valioso " regalo " iraní. Aunque no ha dado muchos más detalles, sí que ha confirmado por primera vez que el vicepresidente JD Vance , el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio, el enviado especial Steve Witkoff y el yerno Jared Kushner son quienes participan en esas negociaciones. No está claro, sin embargo, con quién negocian, ni el contenido de las mismas. Y es que la herramienta que Trump ha utilizado de forma recurrente en otros escenarios, como los aranceles contra sus aliados comerciales o el intento de adquirir Groenlandia, depende en gran medida de que la otra parte tenga incentivos para aceptar esa desescalada. Y en el caso de Irán, esos incentivos pueden ser, precisamente, los contrarios. El conflicto entra ya en su cuarta semana con un balance que se aleja de las expectativas iniciales de Washington y Tel Aviv . Los objetivos declarados en los primeros días de la campaña —lograr un cambio de régimen y desmantelar por completo su programa nuclear— están todavía lejos de cumplirse. A pesar de los ataques masivos, de la eliminación de altos cargos y de la destrucción de gran parte de la capacidad militar convencional iraní, el Gobierno de la República Islámica sigue funcionando, ha adaptado su estructura de mando y mantiene capacidad para sostener operaciones ofensivas. Trump quiere que pagues parte de la guerra en Irán, y está dispuesto a todo para conseguirlo Argemino Barro. Nueva York La guerra no va bien a Trump. Un día asegura que la guerra "se acaba ya" y luego amenaza con retirar las licencias a los medios de comunicación, asegurando que son fake news Lejos de colapsar, el régimen ha absorbido el impacto inicial y ha demostrado, además, que puede hacer pagar un alto precio a Estados Unidos , a sus vecinos del Golfo y, en última instancia, a la economía global mediante el cierre de facto del estrecho de Ormuz. La táctica iraní Esta presión sobre la mayor arteria energética global —y la expectativa de que se mantenga— es la mayor baza del Gobierno iraní para su propia supervivencia . Imponer un coste a la ofensiva de EEUU e Israel tan alto que se vuelva inasumible. Por supuesto que el régimen prefiere un fin de la guerra , pero hasta que lo tenga garantizado, cualquier gesto de distensión juega en su contra. En crisis anteriores en las que Trump se apartó del abismo en el último momento, su táctica tenía efectos positivos inmediatos para todas las partes. En la guerra con Irán, sin embargo, la relación es inversa. La estabilización de los mercados alivia la presión sobre Washington, pero roba a Irán su mayor carta. Es por eso que cuando Trump lanza estos mensajes para calmar a los mercados, al mismo tiempo fuerza a Irán a escalar: necesita que la disrupción sea global, para poder ejercer la suficiente presión . Todo esto siempre sobre la hipótesis de que los iraníes se fiaran lo suficiente del equipo negociador para abrirse a un proceso rápido y contundente para finalizar el conflicto en pocos días. Algo que no parece muy plausible, con la experiencia que Teherán ha ido extrayendo de negociaciones anteriores con EEUU. Tras el regreso de Trump a la Casa Blanca en 2025, las negociaciones sobre el programa nuclear iraní saltaron por los aires cuando Israel lanzó su ofensiva militar sobre el país , y tras diez días, EEUU se sumó a la campaña. En esta ocasión, las negociaciones estaban "avanzando" cuando Israel y EEUU mataron al ayatolá. "Para los responsables políticos iraníes, han quedado en evidencia dos dinámicas paralelas: Trump ha utilizado la diplomacia como un instrumento para engañarlos , pero se ha mostrado reacio a entrar en la guerra hasta tener la certeza de que la intervención implicaría riesgos mínimos", resume el medio Amwaj, en una pormenorizada reconstrucción de cómo falló la última ronda de negociaciones Irán-EEUU. En el artículo, incluyen una profética frase que el ministro de Exteriores iraní, Abbas Araghchi, habría espetado al equipo negociador estadounidense, compuesto por Kushner y Witkoff. "Pueden lanzar un ataque, y nosotros ejerceremos nuestro legítimo derecho a la defensa. Nadie saldrá ganando en ese escenario y, después, tendrán que regresar a esta misma mesa de negociación… y ni siquiera es seguro que entonces alguien quiera seguir negociando con ustedes" . ¿Y el tercero en discordia? El tercero en discordia, Israel , ha demostrado ya cierta confusión con los mensajes de estos dos últimos días sobre un proceso negociador al que no estaría invitado. "Yo abordaría esto [los anuncios de negociaciones] con cautela, con reservas. Es la madrugada del lunes en Estados Unidos, el inicio de la semana bursátil. Los mercados abrieron al alza, tal como se esperaba tras los informes del fin de semana sobre las negociaciones y la última declaración de Donald Trump. Dicho esto, no consideraría esta medida como un paso definitivo. Vimos un patrón similar la semana pasada. Los precios del petróleo también han bajado, lo que respalda el optimismo a corto plazo. Por ahora, parece que ha ganado unos días más, aproximadamente hasta la cuarta semana, hasta que lleguen los marines y completen su despliegue inicial y su fase de organización. Los iraníes ya lo están negando", aseveraba una fuente militar israelí a SkyNews. No hay, a fin de cuentas, nada que asegure a los ayatolás qu e Israel no continuaría con su guerra sobre Irán. Irán en el centro de una nueva estrategia: ¿guerra, presión o un "gran acuerdo"? Ryma Sheermohammadi* Estados Unidos e Israel intensifican su estrategia hacia Irán, buscando neutralizar su amenaza nuclear mediante presión y tácticas psicológicas, mientras la sociedad iraní enfrenta una creciente crisis interna Incluso si Trump no estuviera simplemente ganando tiempo y realmente buscara una salida del conflicto —algo complicado, entre otros factores, por la presión de Israel y de Arabia Saudí—, obtenerla sería una tarea políticamente envenenada. Por un lado, en pleno año electoral , el presidente no puede permitirse cualquier salida , sino una que pueda presentar como una victoria. Aunque claramente Trump considera que militarmente ha ganado la guerra, y es problema de la prensa no contarlo así , Estados Unidos todavía no ha alcanzado ninguno de los objetivos que justificarían dar por terminada la campaña, especialmente tras el elevado listón que el propio Trump fijó desde el inicio. Eso reduce considerablemente el margen político para cerrar el conflicto sin que se interprete por el público estadounidense como una derrota. Además, una retirada sin haber neutralizado de forma duradera la capacidad militar del régimen dejaría a los aliados regionales expuestos frente a un actor que habría aprendido la lección de que puede arrancar concesiones elevando la presión sobre el Golfo . Es cierto que el régimen iraní quedaría seriamente dañado a nivel material y económico, pero también reforzado en términos políticos y estratégicos: habría sobrevivido a una guerra abierta contra Estados Unidos e Israel y demostrado que, ante cualquier ataque futuro, puede doblegar al mundo mediante el cierre del estrecho.

Los colegios electorales para las elecciones legislativas danesas cerraron este martes a las 20.00 hora local (19.00 GMT), en unos comicios anticipados en los que la izquierda ganaría las elecciones, aunque dependerá de los centristas , según los primeros sondeos. El bloque de izquierda de la primera ministra socialdemócrata, Mette Frederiksen , ganó este martes las elecciones legislativas danesas con el 47,1 % de los votos frente al 42,2 % de la derecha , según un sondeo a pie de urna de la televisión pública DR, que otorga el papel de árbitro al centrista Los Moderados , con el 8,2 %. El Partido Socialdemócrata fue el más votado, con el 19,2 %, el peor resultado en un siglo , por delante del Partido Socialista Popular , con el 11,4 %; la Alianza Liberal , con el 10,5 %, y el Partido Liberal , con el 9,3 %, las peores cifras en la historia de la fuerza política que tradicionalmente ha dominado el bloque de derecha . El sondeo de DR otorga a la izquierda 83 escaños por 78 de la derecha y 14 de Los Moderados , mientras que otra encuesta a pie de urna del canal semipúblico TV2 amplía la ventaja de la izquierda a seis puntos porcentuales (49 % frente a 43,1 %) y once escaños (86 contra 75) , aunque seguiría necesitando el apoyo de los centristas. Explosivos para destruir los aeródromos: así se preparó Dinamarca este enero para una invasión de Groenlandia A. Alamillos Lo que parecían unos ejercicios militares eran en realidad planes de preparación a una hipotética invasión: la idea era defenderse con fuego real para subir los costes de EEUU Los cuatro diputados, que se reparten a partes iguales entre los dos territorios autónomos de las Islas Feroe y Groenlandia , podrían ser también decisivos a la hora de decidir la mayoría . En el caso de Groenlandia , los colegios electorales no cierran hasta las 23.00 GMT y el resultado no se conocerá hasta el miércoles. Las cifras de los sondeos apuntan a un descenso de las tres fuerzas que gobernaron juntas la pasada legislatura -socialdemócratas, Partido Liberal y centristas -, una fórmula inédita en la política danesa a la que recurrió Frederiksen aludiendo a la difícil situación geopolítica, a pesar de que tenía mayoría con la izquierda , con cuyo apoyo había dirigido el país entre 2019 y 2022. Trump anuncia el envío de un "barco hospital" a Groenlandia Europa Press La primera ministra danesa, Mette Frederiksen, ha recordado a Trump que en Dinamarca, y también en Groenlandia, hay sanidad universal y gratuita sin depender de seguros ni del nivel de renta Los socialdemócratas retrocederían 8 puntos y perderían 16 diputados, según el sondeo de DR; el Partido Liberal de Troels Lund Poulsen, actual ministro de Defensa, perdería 4 puntos y 7 escaños, y dejaría de ser la fuerza más votada de la derecha, mientras que Los Moderados, del exprimer ministro liberal y ahora titular de Exteriores, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, caerían un punto y perderían dos escaños . En el bloque de izquierda , la fuerza política que más avanza sería el Partido Socialista Popular , más de tres puntos, confirmando el histórico triunfo logrado en las elecciones europeas de 2024 y el buen resultado en las municipales de hace cuatro meses, en las que arrebató a los socialdemócratas la alcaldía de Copenhague después de un siglo . En el bloque de derecha, el gran triunfador sería la Alianza Liberal , que se convertiría en primera fuerza del bloque, a pesar de las dudas sobre los efectos de la confesión en campaña de su líder, Alex Vanopslagh , de que había consumido cocaína en varias ocasiones al principio de su presidencia del partido . El ultraderechista Partido Popular Danés , fuerza precursora hace dos décadas de una línea dura en inmigración en Dinamarca y el resto de Escandinavia , recuperaría peso en la política danesa tras la debacle de 2022, triplicando sus votos hasta el 7,5 %. Hasta doce fuerzas políticas superarían la barrera mínima del 2 % para entrar en el Folketing (parlamento danés), el mismo número que en la actualidad.

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"Nobody knows who to talk to," President Donald Trump said Tuesday at the White House, describing what he portrayed as both chaos and opportunity inside Iran’s leadership. "But we're actually talking to the right people, and they want to make a deal so badly." His remarks come as the U.S. claims it is engaged in talks with a "top" Iranian figure, even as Tehran publicly denies negotiations are taking place. The question now is not just whether talks are happening, but whether anyone in Tehran has the authority to deliver. With U.S.-Israel strikes on senior Iranian leadership and growing internal fractures, Iran appears to be operating less like a centralized theocracy and more like a wartime system run by overlapping power centers, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at its core. Here’s who matters now. TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST ENVOY REVEALS WHAT LED TO BREAKDOWN IN IRAN TALKS BEFORE OPERATION EPIC FURY Across intelligence assessments and recent reporting, one conclusion is consistent: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has emerged as the dominant force in Iran’s political system . Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Washington, D.C., think tank, said the current moment is accelerating a long-standing trend. "No doubt both the 12-Day war and this current conflict have trimmed the commanding heights of the Islamic Republic's political and military leadership," he said. "But it has also expedited the trend lines inherent in Iranian politics, which is the dominance of the security forces and the ascendance of the IRGC." "Yes, there is more IRGC control over the state than ever before, but the state is weaker than ever before and more of a national security rump state than ever before," he said. "It shouldn't particularly preoccupy Washington, who is and isn't offering negotiations," Ben Taleblu added. "The preeminent preoccupation of Washington has to be working toward a military win at a political win, and that does not come by working with the IRGC, but actually beating them on the battlefield and supporting the forces most arrayed against them in Iran, which are the Iranian people." If the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the power in Iran, the Supreme National Security Council appears to be the mechanism through which that power is exercised. The Supreme National Security Council is Iran’s top forum for coordinating military and foreign policy, bringing together senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders and government officials under the authority of the supreme leader. It was established after the 1979 revolution and has played a central role in managing major crises, from nuclear negotiations to wartime operations. Iran appointed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, as secretary of the council, reinforcing its central role in coordinating military and political decisions, Reuters reported Tuesday. A Middle Eastern official source with knowledge of the system described the structure. "Right now, the power is in the hands of the IRGC," the source said. "The Supreme National Security Council makes the decisions, of course, with the backing of the majority of IRGC commanders." Formally, Iran’s system centers on Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei . But his actual grip on power remains uncertain. Khamenei inherited the position’s sweeping authority following his father’s death, but "lacks the automatic authority enjoyed by his father," the Middle Eastern official said. Moreover, he has not appeared publicly since taking power and only has issued written statements, raising questions about both his health and his ability to govern, after reportedly being injured in the initial Feb. 28 U.S.–Israeli strikes that killed his father and other senior Iranian leaders. Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, suggested his role may currently be limited: "For the time being, since Mojtaba has been injured , it seems he's a hologram and not holding power. However, if Mojtaba recovers, he will be involved in ruling Iran. He is not just a figurehead. But anyhow, for the time being, the control of Iran is in the hands of the revolutionary guards." WITH DOGS, DANCE AND UNCOVERED HAIR, IRANIANS DEFY 'UNHOLY ALLIANCE' OF SOCIALISTS, RADICALS: ‘HYPOCRITES!’ Trump’s statement that he is speaking to a "top person" has focused attention on one name in particular: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. The White House is quietly exploring Ghalibaf as a potential interlocutor and even a possible future leader, Axios reported. A former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and current parliament speaker, Ghalibaf represents a hybrid figure inside the system, bridging military credentials and political authority. He was one of the key security figures involved in the crackdown on student protests in July 1999 and has run for president four times since 2005. IRAN WAR, 11 DAYS IN: US CONTROLS SKIES, OIL SURGES AND THE REGION BRACES FOR WHAT’S NEXT Ghalibaf is expected to meet U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the capital of Pakistan as early as the end of the week. Ben Taleblu said: "Those who see the ascendants of someone like Ghalibaf, who is an IRGC veteran, having extended power outside his traditional civilian rule, have missed the decades of how personality, not profession, has been the driving force in Iranian politics for the past few decades. I would also say those who worry about the IRGC background of the Supreme National Security Council are all that in Iran today, may have missed the fact that the past few Supreme National Security Council Secretaries, Shamkhani, Larijani, Ahmadian, all also had IRGC backgrounds." At the same time, Ghalibaf has publicly denied engaging in talks with the United States, and no direct confirmation of negotiations has been provided by either side. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi remains one of the most visible figures internationally. If talks were to take place , Araghchi likely would be part of the Iranian delegation alongside Ghalibaf, Reuters reported. But analysts caution that his role is limited. He may act as a channel for communication, but does not set policy independently. Strategic decisions, particularly on war and negotiations, are still shaped by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the broader security establishment. Beyond the headline figures, a broader group of officials who continue to shape Iran’s direction can be identified. These include Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Ahmad Vahidi, Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, naval commander Alireza Tangsiri, Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, President Masoud Pezeshkian and senior clerical and political figures such as Saeed Jalili and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi . Each represents a different pillar of the system: military power, regional proxy operations, control of strategic waterways, internal repression and religious legitimacy. Together, they form what analysts describe as a fragmented but resilient governing network. Despite internal divisions, Iran’s leadership remains united on one core objective: survival of the regime. Kuperwasser described the split: "There are the more pragmatic elites, like Araghchi, Rouhani, and Zarif. There are also the hardliners who have usually held the upper hand … But they are united in one issue — that the regime should survive and stay in power." Iran’s U.N. mission did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

The U.S. military has sent MQ-9 Reaper drones to Nigeria, a U.S. defense official reportedly told The Associated Press, as fears are growing of a renewed insurgency by the terrorist group Boko Haram. The drones were deployed after 200 U.S. troops arrived in Nigeria last month to provide training and intelligence. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is battling a complex security crisis, especially in the north of the country. A spokesperson for AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command, told the AP that U.S. troops "are working alongside their Nigerian counterparts to provide intelligence support, advisory assistance, and targeted training in support of the Nigerian Armed Forces." Among the most prominent Islamic militant groups active in Nigeria are Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, which is affiliated with the Islamic State and is known as Islamic State West Africa Province, or ISWAP. NIGERIA SUICIDE BOMBINGS KILL AT LEAST 23 PEOPLE, WOUND MORE THAN 100 There is also the ISIS-linked Lakurawa, as well as other "bandit" groups that specialize in kidnapping for ransom and illegal mining. The U.S. troops and the MQ-9 drones are based at Bauchi Airfield, a newly built airport in the northeast of the country, the spokesperson said to the AP. The number of drones deployed remains unclear. The deployment is part of a new security partnership agreed on after President Donald Trump sounded the alarm about Christians being slaughtered in Nigeria’s security crisis. The U.S. launched strikes against IS forces on Dec. 26 — the day after Christmas. Earlier this month, three suspected suicide bombings killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion quickly fell on Boko Haram, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce Sharia law. 100 US TROOPS LAND IN NIGERIA AS ISLAMIC MILITANTS THREATEN WEST AFRICA REGIONAL SECURITY MQ-9 drones cost around $30 million apiece and have separate models for land and sea. They can also be used to carry out airstrikes, but AFRICOM says they will only be used in Nigeria for intelligence-gathering and training. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says Boko Haram aims to "overthrow the current Nigerian Government and replace it with a regime based on Islamic law." "The U.S. State Department designated Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization in November 2013," it added. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

North Korean's Kim Jong Un pledged to solidify his nation's nuclear status while keeping a hard-line position regarding South Korea, which he referred to as the "most hostile" state, state media indicated Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. In a speech Monday to Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament, Kim accused the United States of global "state terrorism and aggression," in an apparent reference to the war in the Middle East, and said North Korea will play a more forceful role in a united front against Washington amid rising anti-American sentiment. The AP reported that the North Korean official indicated that the matter of whether opponents "choose confrontation or peaceful coexistence is up to them, and we are prepared to respond to any choice." KIM JONG UN APPEARS WITH TEENAGE DAUGHTER AT LIVE-FIRE ROCKET TEST IN NORTH KOREA "The dignity of the nation, its national interest and its ultimate victory can only be guaranteed by the strongest of power," Kim stated, according to the AP. "The government of our republic will continue to consolidate our absolutely irreversible status as a nuclear power and will aggressively wage a struggle against hostile forces to crush their (anti-North Korean) provocations and schemes." KIM JONG UN CALLS SOUTH KOREA ‘MOST HOSTILE ENEMY,’ SAYS NORTH COULD ‘COMPLETELY DESTROY’ IT The 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community states , "North Korea remains committed to expanding its strategic weapons programs, including missiles and nuclear warheads, and to solidifying its deterrent capability." TRUMP'S IRAN STRATEGY SHOWCASES ‘DOCTRINE OF UNPREDICTABILITY’ AMID STRIKE THREATS AND SUDDEN PAUSE The U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran more than three weeks ago in a bid to prevent the Islamic Republic from potentially joining the ranks of other nations that possess nuclear weapons . The Associated Press contributed to this report

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For much of last year, Trump administration officials insisted that no Americans were caught up in the government’s immigration dragnet.  ProPublica and many others repeatedly documented that is not true: Americans have even been kicked, dragged and detained for days by immigration agents. On Tuesday, House and Senate Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of the crackdown: the American children who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign.  The forum the lawmakers are holding is part of an ongoing congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica’s report last fall that more than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration agents for some amount of time. That included Americans who have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or simply prevented from leaving their location. As of last October, more than 20 of those citizens were children, ranging from toddlers to teens. A toddler, a preschooler and a 7-year-old — all citizens — were deported despite their documented parents claiming they wanted to keep the children in the U.S.  In response to questions, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “does NOT deport United States citizens or separate families,” American children held along with their families will be sharing their stories at Tuesday’s forum. That includes two families whose accounts were featured in ProPublica investigations. Eighteen-year-old Fernando Hernàndez Garcia is speaking on behalf of his 11-year-old sister. Both siblings are citizens .  Last year, the family was driving to Houston to get emergency treatment for the girl, who was recovering from brain cancer. Border Patrol agents ignored a hospital letter that the family had used previously to go through checkpoints. This time, agents held the family until they were deported the next day to Mexico. With few other options, the American children went with their parents — except for Hernàndez Garcia, who had not been detained and stayed to earn money and send medicine home. The family’s lawyers say they have not been able to access the care they need for their daughter in Mexico, and they have applied for humanitarian parole to return. Customs and Border Protection previously told ProPublica the family’s account was inaccurate but declined to provide specifics. Read More We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be. We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Also speaking is 16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan. As ProPublica detailed earlier this year, Bazan was tackled and choked by immigration agents who were chasing his undocumented father in Houston. Bystanders filmed the teen screaming that he was a minor and a U.S. citizen. After agents knelt on his neck and put him in a choke hold, then they handcuffed him. Bazan told ProPublica that when he was in a choke hold, “I felt like I was seeing the light.” He said he’s now speaking up — including on Capitol Hill — to help keep others from going through the same. “I don’t think nobody’s safe anymore.”  DHS said in its statement that Bazan elbowed an officer in the face as he was detained, which the teen denies. The agency’s spokesperson added that any allegations that agents assaulted Bazan “are FALSE.”  It’s unclear exactly how many American kids have been held. The government doesn’t disclose how many Americans are detained , even briefly, during immigration enforcement.  Former immigration officials told ProPublica that it used to be rare to encounter, let alone hold, American children for any amount of time. While the officials couldn’t recall a specific policy prohibiting it, they said past administrations just didn’t prioritize arresting families during immigration enforcement in the interior of the country. (A ProPublica investigation published Monday found that in his second term, President Donald Trump has deported mothers of U.S. children at four times the rate Biden did.)  In a report shared with ProPublica , the minority staff from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform compiled 128 cases of children — a mix of citizens and noncitizens — who were injured, left unattended or otherwise put at risk by enforcement operations conducted by Department of Homeland Security agents. The review found that citizen children caught up in immigration operations were also exposed to chemical agents , were placed in restraints or required medical attention, and some were held at gunpoint, were left unattended when agents detained their parents, or were present when agents smashed car windows or rammed their vehicles .  “The impact of all of these practices on children — the physical injuries but also the trauma — is really horrific,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told ProPublica.  SueHey Tello, 14, left, and her mother, Anabel Romero, 35, along with two other children in the family, were detained by federal agents in a raid at La Catedral Arena during a community horse racing event in Idaho. Sarahbeth Maney for ProPublica Several other citizen teens and mothers of U.S. citizens who were detained by immigration agents will be delivering testimony at the forum.  Anabel Romero, an Idaho mother, recalled how she was detained with three of her children during a multiagency raid at an Idaho racetrack. The stated target of the raid was illegal gambling, but it ended with more than 100 people in ICE custody. Officers pointed guns at Romero’s 14-year-old, SueHey Tello, and at her 8-year-old and 6-year-old. Tello said they dragged her from the truck and eventually zip-tied her, leaving bruises and marks . Asked about the raid and agents’ conduct, DHS said, “ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children.” (Romero and Tello do not know which agency’s officers zip-tied them.) Tello told ProPublica she was petrified and particularly worried for her younger siblings. “My little sister’s crying, my little brother’s scared,” Tello recalled. “I don’t know what to do. [I was] looking for any familiar face.” Romero noted that the Trump administration has often said its immigration dragnet is keeping kids safe by going after predators and criminals. “They say they’re doing this to protect children,” recalled Romero. “But they hurt my children.” The post How American Kids Have Been Collateral Damage in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown appeared first on ProPublica .

Hugo Holland’s aggressive legal tactics made him one of Louisiana’s most renowned prosecutors and helped turn Caddo Parish, a majority Black community in the northwest corner of the state, into one of the nation’s leaders in death penalty convictions. His nearly 40-year career, though, has been marked by controversies. In at least two death penalty cases, Louisiana judges found that Holland withheld evidence. In a third, he secured the conviction of a Black 16-year-old, comparing the boy to a dog and telling the jury to “get rid of it”; prosecutors later admitted that Holland and his team had failed to turn over evidence. Defense attorneys have also accused him of racism, pointing, for example, to a capital murder case several years ago in which Holland emailed one of them to say he was going to spend Veterans Day in his pickup truck looking for “a Black guy or a Mex-can.” Holland called it a joke . Holland, 62, is now running for judge in the First Judicial District Court in Caddo Parish, and his nascent campaign appears to have substantial backing. He has raised more than $61,000 in less than two months, according to the first campaign finance report released in February — twice the amount many candidates running for the 1st Judicial Court spend in an entire campaign, said Jeffrey Sadow, an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Holland’s donors include an assistant district attorney with the Caddo Parish DA’s office, the district attorney of neighboring Bossier and Webster parishes, a former state judge, and members of major law firms throughout the area. Holland’s funding haul might prove to be so daunting that it scares off potential challengers, Sadow said, though candidates have until the end of July to enter the race. “It shows he’s got an awful lot of support and that he’s considered a quality candidate,” he said. In addition to his robust campaign fundraising, Holland has been able to bring on the head of the local Republican Party, Matthew Kay, as his campaign chair. (Kay also served as an elector for Donald Trump in 2024.) Holland declined multiple requests for comment about his candidacy and record as a prosecutor. Neither Kay nor nine of the 10 donors Verite News and ProPublica reached out to would respond or agree to speak about their support for Holland. Charles Jacobs, the city attorney for Bossier City and a former state judge who has known Holland for nearly 20 years, described him as a “very fair” prosecutor who sticks to the facts and the letter of the law. Jacobs donated $2,500 to Holland’s campaign, saying that his extensive trial experience will serve him well on the bench. “That guy cuts it right down the line — black or white, brown or yellow. He doesn’t care,” said Jacobs, dismissing defense attorneys’ allegations of racism. Civil rights leaders and defense attorneys say they believe Holland lacks regard for the rights of the mostly Black defendants he prosecuted, and that makes him uniquely unfit to serve on the bench. “He’s demonstrated that he is untrustworthy, unreserved in his aggression and without any judicial temperament,” said defense attorney Ben Cohen, who represented the 16-year-old in the death penalty case in which Holland withheld evidence. “He brings disrepute to the justice system in a way that undermines people’s faith in it.” He’s demonstrated that he is untrustworthy, unreserved in his aggression and without any judicial temperament. Ben Cohen, defense attorney As an assistant district attorney in Caddo Parish from 1991 to 2012, Holland displayed a portrait of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, in his office. Local and national coverage of Holland’s affinity for Forrest drew accusations of racism from Black residents and defense attorneys. Holland has insisted that he is not racist, claiming in interviews that he appreciated Forrest as a cavalry commander in the Civil War and not because he was a member of the Klan. In another controversy, Holland was forced to resign from the district attorney’s office in 2012 after the state inspector general found that he and a colleague had submitted “false information” to obtain a cache of fully automatic M-16 rifles through a federal program. Holland said a special investigations unit needed the weapons for protection because “we routinely participate in high-risk surveillance and arrests,” a claim local law enforcement agencies refuted, according to the inspector general. Holland and his colleague told the inspector general that if they had the opportunity, they would word the justification differently, citing situations in which the weapons would be useful in protecting district attorney employees who work in dangerous areas and advise local law enforcement. These scandals, however, did little to damage Holland’s career. After his resignation, he became a successful prosecutor-for-hire for more than a dozen district attorneys who lacked the staff or expertise to try high-profile murder cases on their own. In 2017, Holland was paid to lobby on behalf of the powerful Louisiana District Attorneys Association to stop a bill that would have eliminated the death penalty; the effort succeeded. Caddo Parish secured more death penalty convictions per capi­ta than any oth­er coun­ty in the United States between 2010 and 2014, according to the Death Penalty Information Center . Of the people sent to death row during that time period, 80% were Black, even though Black people made up just under half the parish population. (Nationally, Black people made up just over 40% of death row prisoners and 13% of the U.S. population at that time.) Caddo Parish has long been a center of racial injustice, known from the Reconstruction era through the Jim Crow period as Bloody Caddo for having among the highest numbers of lynchings of any county in the country. A 30-foot-tall Confederate monument outside the Caddo Parish courthouse in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2018. The parish removed the monument in 2022. Brent McDonald/The New York Times/Redux Theron Jackson, the pastor of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Shreveport, the largest city in the parish, fears that a Holland victory would be a “step back” toward those days of Bloody Caddo, when the failure of elected officials to “protect and serve everybody’s community resulted in the victimization of Black people.” Withholding Evidence The doubts surrounding Holland’s death row convictions have taken on even more urgency since the election of Jeff Landry, who upon being sworn in as governor in 2024 said he wanted to execute every prisoner on death row as quickly as possible. Of the at least 10 people Holland has sent to death row over four decades as prosecutor, one has been released, and two have had their sentences reduced to life in prison. Of the seven remaining on death row, at least two — Bobby Hampton and David Brown — are challenging their convictions after they discovered that Holland withheld evidence. In 1997, Holland secured a death sentence against Hampton for a murder that happened during a liquor store robbery in Shreveport. The Louisiana Supreme Court later found that Holland had withheld grand jury witness testimony that someone else fired the fatal shot. The court nonetheless ruled that the omitted testimony would not have changed the verdict because prosecutors did hand over a similar statement the witness had made to police. But a dissenting court opinion pointed out that the grand jury witness testimony, unlike the police statement, was given under oath and unambiguously identified another person as the shooter. Hampton remains on death row. Fourteen years later, a similar situation unfolded. The courts once again found that Holland failed to disclose evidence during his 2011 prosecution and conviction of Brown, one of five prisoners convicted of murdering a guard at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Holland did not reveal that another prisoner had told prosecutors about a jailhouse confession from one of the five, who said he and another inmate — not Brown — had decided to kill the guard. As a result, a state judge vacated Brown’s sentence in 2014, but the Louisiana Supreme Court reinstated it after ruling that the withheld evidence would not necessarily have changed the jury’s decision; the confession, they said, did not preclude Brown’s participation in the killing. Hampton and Brown maintain their innocence and are still challenging their convictions. Holland did not respond to requests for comment about the cases. Holland withheld evidence in a third death penalty case, involving Corey Williams, a 16-year-old convicted in the fatal shooting of a pizza delivery man in Shreveport. Williams’ 2000 death sentence was reduced to life without parole because the boy has a severe intellectual disability, according to court documents . As a child, Williams was hospitalized for “extreme lead poisoning” and was institutionalized multiple times for mental health reasons, according to court documents filed by his attorneys. Fifteen years after Williams’ conviction, his attorneys alerted the court that Holland had concealed a trove of evidence that they said proved his innocence: Witnesses on the night of the murder told police Williams was innocent, and detectives stated at the time that they believed several older men were responsible and trying to pin the blame on Williams, according to a court filing by Williams’ defense team. The actions by Holland’s team led dozens of former U.S. Department of Justice officials and federal prosecutors to file a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of efforts to overturn Williams’ conviction. A former Caddo Parish district attorney, who took office on an interim basis 15 years after Williams’ prosecution, acknowledged in 2015 court filings that Holland and his team had withheld evidence, but insisted that it did not prove Williams’ innocence and would not have changed the verdict. Before the U.S. Supreme Court could take up the issue, however, Williams’ team agreed to a deal with prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to manslaughter and obstruction of justice in return for his 2018 release from prison. Holland has said he did not withhold evidence and maintained that Williams is guilty. In other contexts, Holland questioned established law on the obligation to turn over evidence. Two years ago, a case came before the Louisiana Supreme Court to preserve a death sentence that defense attorneys claimed was secured after another prosecutor withheld key evidence. Arguing on behalf of the Rapides Parish district attorney, Holland expressed disdain for a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring prosecutors to turn over such evidence that could be considered favorable to defendants. “It’s a very poorly written opinion because it leaves far too much to conjecture by people on the bench,” Holland said. “It’s got judges second-guessing juries.” The state Supreme Court ultimately upheld the death sentence. Matilde Carbia, a defense attorney representing a death row inmate whom Holland helped convict, said Holland’s antipathy toward transparency makes his candidacy dangerous. “If that is the kind of perspective that he would bring to the judiciary, that would be wholesale damaging to criminal defendants across the board,” Carbia said. He was doing everything he could to attempt to intimidate me. Matilde Carbia, defense attorney Holland’s unprofessional behavior in and outside of the courtroom is also a grave concern, she said. During a 2018 postconviction hearing for a murder case, Carbia said Holland claimed he couldn’t hear when she was questioning a witness, so he began following Carbia around the courtroom as she spoke. “He’d come stand looming over my shoulder with his coattail pushed back so that you could see the firearm on his hip,” Carbia recalled in a recent interview. In another incident, Carbia said Holland displayed an AR-15 rifle on his desk when she entered his office to review some files. “He was doing everything he could to attempt to intimidate me,” she said. Holland did not respond to questions about these incidents. Verite News and ProPublica spoke with another attorney who witnessed the events and confirmed Carbia’s account. An Evolving Caddo Caddo Parish has changed since Holland last worked for the district attorney’s office, with Black voters now making up just over half of the parish population. With that increase has come more political influence. In 2011, parish leaders removed a Confederate flag that had flown in front of the courthouse for decades. Eleven years later, the parish removed a monument featuring four Confederate generals that also stood before the courthouse steps. The changes go beyond symbolic. Caddo voters elected the parish’s first Black district attorney in 2015 by a 10-point margin. Nine years later, voters elected the parish’s first Black sheriff by a similar edge. Holland, however, will not be facing voters parishwide. There are 14 open judicial seats in the parish, and candidates choose among three districts in which to run. Only one is majority Black, according to Sadow, the political science professor. Holland hasn’t announced where he would run, but running in a majority white, conservative district would increase his odds of winning, Sadow said; Holland’s prospects would also be boosted in one of the majority white districts by not having to run against an incumbent, who is retiring. Defense attorney Nick Trenticosta, who once faced off against Holland in a death penalty case, said he hopes voters will remember Holland’s ethical controversies and reject him as a relic of the past. “Caddo is not the same Caddo it was 30 years ago,” Trenticosta said. “The voters know who he is.” The post He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge. appeared first on ProPublica .

The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head of dark hair, wasn’t normally this fussy. But it was late that January night — around midnight — and she was still hungry. Her mom, Doris Flores, had tried nursing her to calm her down. It didn’t work. When she brought Briany to her breast, the milk wouldn’t come. Flores thought it had to do with the panic that set in after the officers arrested the baby’s father and told her she was next.  The baby also drank formula. The pastor and his wife, who’d never had children of their own, should take her bottles and the yellow cans of formula, too, and follow the instructions on the label. They should use distilled water, never from the tap. Briany drank 5 ounces at each feeding. She needed to eat every two to two-and-a-half hours. She was almost due for her next round of vaccinations. She was getting big enough for Size 3 diapers. What made her happiest was to be held in someone’s arms. The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland. If he and his wife, a fellow pastor at the church, didn’t take the girls in, they would have to go into foster care. “What else could we do?” he said. The Rev. Israel Vázquez and his wife, the Rev. Raysa Vázquez, assumed care in January for 4-month-old American citizen Briany after her parents were taken into immigration detention. Jennifer Ortiz for ProPublica The baby’s half-sister would be easier for the older couple to take care of. Eight-year-old Briana was quiet and humble. She preferred speaking in English rather than Spanish. Her favorite color was blue. Deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office helped load a baby stroller and bouncy swing into the couple’s car. Then the officers, employed by one of the hundreds of Florida agencies carrying out immigration enforcement for the Trump administration, handcuffed a sobbing Flores.  Incidents like this, involving the arrest and detention of immigrant parents with American citizen children, occurred twice as often after President Donald Trump returned to office, according to an analysis of a new nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement dataset shared exclusively with ProPublica. In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention. The data underlying this analysis was obtained by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights as part of an ongoing public records lawsuit . It covers the last three years of the Joe Biden administration and the Trump administration until mid-August 2025. Under Trump, Arrests of Immigrant Parents With U.S.-Born Children Surged ICE arrests of parents doubled in the first seven months of Trump’s second term compared with the Biden administration. Note: Arrest figures for both administrations represent an undercount due to data limitations. See our methodology for more details. Source: ProPublica analysis of ICE data obtained by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights. Chris Alcantara/ProPublica The differences between the fates of detained immigrant parents under the two presidents are stark, our analysis shows. The impact on mothers is particularly pronounced. Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did.  Immigration authorities are arresting more of these moms in the first place, but that doesn’t account for all of the surge in deportations . If arrested, they are seldom allowed to return home to their families anymore . About 30% of such arrests under Biden resulted in a deportation. Under Trump, almost 60% resulted in a deportation. Compared with the Biden administration, Trump officials are detaining many more parents with only minor criminal histories or none at all . Under Trump, more than half of the detained fathers of American citizen kids, and about three quarters of the mothers, had no criminal convictions in the United States except for traffic- or immigration-related offenses. Immigrant Mothers of U.S. Citizen Children Are Released Less Often During Trump’s Administration ProPublica compared what happened to U.S. citizen children’s mothers arrested during the same seven-month period — Jan. 20 through Aug. 20 — in 2024 (under Biden) and 2025 (under Trump), looking at over 1,000 cases. About a third of the arrests made during the Biden administration led to a deportation. Under Trump, that rate doubled. Note: Outcomes for arrests under Biden were measured as of October 15, 2024. Outcomes for arrests under Trump were measured on the same date in 2025. Arrest and outcome figures for both administrations represent an undercount due to data limitations. See our methodology for more details. Sources: ProPublica analysis of ICE data obtained by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights and the Deportation Data Project. Chris Alcantara/ProPublica While thousands of children who aren’t U.S. citizens are also caught up in the administration’s crackdown — some of them detained with their parents , others by themselves — families with mixed citizenship can be uniquely difficult to keep together. American-born kids like Briany can’t legally join their parents in immigrant detention. So some end up in the care of friends or strangers. Current and former officials from the Department of Homeland Security said such separations are not necessarily a violation of policy. Instead, guidelines on the way officers should exercise discretion have changed. Among the changes: A document once known as the Parental Interests Directive has been given a new name under Trump — the Detained Parents Directive . And its preamble, which once instructed agents to handle immigrant parents in a way that was “humane,” has been stripped of the word. John Sandweg, who oversaw ICE when the original directive was adopted under President Barack Obama, said, “Back then, we were operating from a lens that family unity is everything.” Tom Homan, then a top ICE official and now Trump’s border czar, introduced the directive to field offices around the country. If agents encountered parents, the directive would help them enforce immigration laws without “unnecessarily undermining their parental rights,” according to his August 2013 talking points, which were obtained by ProPublica. Now, Sandweg and the other former officials said, the second Trump administration has put aggressive enforcement goals like arresting 3,000 immigrants a day above concerns about the harms of hastily separating children from their parents.   ProPublica sent detailed questions about our findings to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE. DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in an emailed statement that the agency “cannot verify the veracity of the data” that ProPublica analyzed. (We validated the data, which the agency provided via Freedom of Information Act requests, and our approach with outside experts.) Bis also said in the statement, “ICE does not separate families.” Immigrant parents can choose to leave the country with their children or to designate someone to care for them, Bis said, which “is consistent with past administration’s policies.” The revised directive “simply standardizes the required forms.” She added that “under President Trump, ICE will not ignore the rule of law.” A White House spokesperson wrote in a statement that those in the country illegally “who wish to avoid the deportation process should self-deport.” U.S. citizen children board a van in early February before taking a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Guatemala, to be reunited with parents who were deported. Boyzell Hosey/ProPublica The unraveling of Flores’ family began with another kid’s alleged threat against 8-year-old Briana. According to a Jan. 15 police report, the girl’s school bus driver had contacted the Polk County Sheriff’s Office after Briana claimed a student at her elementary school, a boy with blond hair and blue eyes, had threatened to kill her. The sheriff’s office dispatched a deputy to the family’s mobile home, where she introduced herself to Flores and her fiance, Egdulio Velasquez, and asked to speak with Briana. The 8-year-old was “timid,” according to the police report, and initially denied any trouble with fellow students. The family said that the deputy questioned Briana alone outside the trailer. Eventually, the girl let on that her classmate had indeed been bothering her, poking her in the back and face with his fingers — but did not say the boy had threatened to kill her, according to the police report. The deputy went to the classmate’s house, and the boy told her it was Briana who had made the threats. He said she had pointed a broken pencil at him. The deputy filled out two threat assessment forms, one for the boy, one for the girl, noting that she hadn’t checked the boy’s home for firearms because his “father was uncooperative” but had searched Briana’s trailer. “I was unable to determine probable cause,” the deputy wrote in her report. She would have to drop the case. But her investigation had turned up something else: Flores and Velasquez were both immigrants from Honduras. A second sheriff’s deputy arrived at the trailer not long after and took their passports. According to police records, he then called an ICE hotline, a requirement stemming from Florida’s close cooperation with the agency. An operator told him that both parents had deportation orders: Velasquez from a DUI conviction and Flores from a missed asylum hearing. Flores said she had missed the hearing because of computer issues and was trying to appeal the ruling. She’d crossed the border into the United States and applied for asylum in 2023, after a man in Honduras had threatened to kill her. DHS’ Bis confirmed that Flores entered the country in 2023 and had a deportation order issued in May 2025.  Flores had met Velasquez, who is from the same rural Honduran province of Olancho, in the United States. Briana, his daughter from a previous relationship, was born in Honduras. The family built a life together in Lakeland, where he worked in a factory that built shipping pallets, and they became members of Vázquez’s church. A third squad car appeared outside the trailer. The officers arrested Velasquez first, keeping him handcuffed in the back of one of the cars for hours. But before they could arrest Flores, they needed to figure out what to do with the kids. “Don’t be like this,” Flores recalled saying to the officers as she held baby Briany. “My girl needs me.” She said they told her they were just doing their jobs. She said she prayed to God: “Lord, I’m putting everything in your hands.” According to Flores and Velasquez, one of the deputies took a liking to a family kitten and offered to take it home with him. Velasquez said he later saw the kitten clinging to the officer’s pants. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to specific questions about the incident, instead sending an emailed statement that outlined its state-mandated cooperation with federal immigration authorities .  It was close to 11 p.m. when an investigator from Florida’s child protective services finally arrived, the family said. She informed Flores that if she couldn’t find someone to take the children, the state would place them in the foster care system. So Flores called her pastor. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd recently began calling for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have committed no crimes and have strong community ties. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office wrote in the statement to ProPublica that deputies do not make any decisions on who to detain — they report suspects to ICE, and ICE makes the decision. But she noted they now make an effort to determine citizenship status. “Nothing has changed in how we deliver day-to-day law enforcement services in our community,” she wrote, “other than asking everyone with whom we interact their place of birth.” ProPublica’s reporting shows that the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children were arrested and detained in the first seven months of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. First image: Two volunteers place a 2-year-old American child in a car so he can be reunited with his mother, who is from Honduras and awaits deportation at the Dilley, Texas, family detention center. Second image: Two American children, left, talk on the phone with their father, who is detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida after being arrested on Christmas. First image: Christopher Lee for ProPublica. Second image: Michelle Bruzzese for ProPublica. Federal policy still says ICE officers should ask people they arrest if they are the parents or legal guardians of minors — and if they are, they should be allowed to make arrangements for the children’s care. The Trump administration’s July revision to this directive, the one that removed the word “humane” from the preamble, also added a new line. It specifies that the directive “in no way limits the ability of ICE personnel to make enforcement decisions on a case-by-case basis.” In practice, instances when parents are spared are becoming increasingly rare, said Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former ICE official who oversaw implementation of the directive at ICE during the Obama and first Trump administrations. “It may happen on a case-by-case basis because an officer in and of himself has humanity,” he said. ProPublica followed multiple families through their sudden separations — examining the moment itself and its aftermath — and found a wide variety of outcomes for the children.  Fernanda, a Florida restaurant worker, made an agonizing decision after the father of her children was arrested and deported: She would send their toddler son and 4-year-old daughter to Guatemala to live with him. She feared it was only a matter of time until immigration agents came knocking on her door. She didn’t want the children, both U.S. citizens, to be stranded. Fernanda asked to be identified by only her middle name because of her immigration status. The Guatemalan-Maya Center, a nonprofit, helped her take the kids to the Fort Lauderdale airport in early February, the little boy dressed in a Spider-Man outfit, the little girl in a CoComelon sweatshirt and pink hat, and put them on a plane. Griselda, a single mom originally from Honduras, had to leave her young daughters with their babysitter for four months. She said she was getting a ride to a housepainting job in Melbourne, Florida, when the car’s brakes failed and it crashed into a stop sign. Police officers showed up, she said, then called ICE.  A domestic abuse survivor who asked to be identified by only her first name, Griselda said she told the officers, then ICE, about her children, but she was sent out of state to be detained in Dilley, Texas, without them. Griselda was desperate to reunite with her 4-year-old, who was born in Mexico during her journey to the southwest border, and her 1-year-old, who is a U.S. citizen. She said she decided not to file an appeal after a judge denied her asylum claim and that an ICE agent and a social worker were dispatched to Florida to retrieve the girls. Then, she said, she and her daughters were escorted to the border to cross on foot into Mexico — where they knew no one and had no money.  A DHS spokesperson confirmed that the family was sent to Mexico together. A deported father holds his 4-year-old daughter at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City. Their mother, Fernanda, decided to send her two children, both U.S. citizens, to Guatemala to live with him after he was deported, fearing the same would happen to her. Daniele Volpe for ProPublica Mauricio Ayala, a 24-year-old engineer working at a firm in downtown Seattle, called 911 after immigration agents arrested his dad last April. “My father has been illegally detained,” he told the dispatcher nervously, stumbling over his words. “A bunch of masked men in unmarked vehicles pulled up and detained him.” (A DHS spokesperson wrote in a statement that “our officers verbally identify themselves” and wear badges and vests that display their agency name.) His dad, a roofer, had been swept up in one of the first large-scale workplace raids of the new Trump administration. It was the beginning of a role reversal for Ayala, his college-age sister and his brother, a high school senior. All citizens, they would be the ones supporting their parents. Their mom had been forced to leave the country after an immigration arrest over a decade ago, Ayala said, but officers didn’t arrest his dad at the time because there were young children in the home. His dad was found guilty of reckless driving in 2015 but had no other criminal convictions that we could find in the United States. But now, as the siblings entered adulthood, their dad would be deported, too. To cut costs and send money to his parents in Mexico, Ayala moved from his Seattle apartment back into the trailer his dad owned in a smaller city 90 minutes away. His sister did the same. Their little brother picked up part-time jobs. Maria Magdalena Callejas, her boyfriend and her 14-year-old son were detained in Texas while on a road trip last spring. She called a friend back home in California who she’d asked to watch her two younger children — both U.S. citizens — until her return. She begged the friend to take care of them for even longer. Callejas’ boyfriend was deported. She and her older son, Edwin, were held in family detention, where he said he was stressed because it felt like a prison. He said he lost 10 pounds in a week after he got sick. He was so despondent, his mother said, that she felt her only option was to allow them to be sent back to El Salvador, a country Edwin left when he was 5. (ICE has said conditions in its facilities are safe for families and that everyone is provided proper medical care.) Callejas said she agreed to return to El Salvador only because she understood that her 6-year-old and 4-year-old would be allowed to join her and their older brother.  The kids’ father had previously pleaded no contest to domestic battery and had a restraining order placed against him, which allowed brief supervised visitation.  (Attorneys for both parents said Callejas allowed him to spend time with the kids despite the order.) When he found out their mom had been deported, he opposed the children leaving the country and decided to fight for custody. Since Callejas’ deportation, the children have been with a caretaker, and a judge has allowed their father more time with them, according to lawyers for both parents. The result: a monthslong battle in a Los Angeles court — with Callejas attending hearings virtually from El Salvador. Israel and Raysa Vázquez check in at the passport agency in Miami, seeking an emergency infant passport for Briany. Jennifer Ortiz for ProPublica Back in Lakeland, Israel Vázquez takes no credit for feeding the baby that first night or the ones after. “That girl can drink milk!” he said. His wife, the Rev. Raysa Vázquez, woke up every couple of hours and tended to Briany, sitting with her in the brown recliner in the living room, rocking her back to sleep. They did not know how long the girls would be with them. They decided 8-year-old Briana should stay at the same elementary school, to keep her with her friends and teacher. They drove around 45 minutes round trip to the school every day. Meanwhile, the girls’ parents bounced among hold rooms, jails and detention centers. In detention, Flores said, she began to suffer a painful swelling, which she believed could have been mastitis brought on by her inability to nurse her baby. Her chest became hot to the touch, her whole body feverish. The fever lasted a week.  The couple wanted to do whatever they could to make the girls feel at home. But they also wanted to make sure the girls could be reunited with their parents. If Flores and Velasquez were going to be deported, the pastors wanted the girls to go with them. And to go with them, Briany would need a passport. The pastors would have to get both parents’ signatures while they were in detention.  Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang. It was an ICE deportation officer. He said Flores would be removed from the country soon and the window for getting her daughters on a plane with her was closing. He offered to help the Vázquezes get the parents’ signatures and said ICE would bring Flores to Tampa. The next day, they drove to a government office in Tampa to get Flores’ signature, where the girls were allowed to see and hug her. She let out a loud scream and started weeping at the sight of the children. In Mississippi, volunteers rushed to the detention center where Velasquez was being held and got his signature, too. The couple drove Briany to Miami a few days later and picked up her passport. Then they brought the girls to the Tampa airport. They met Flores at the terminal. She was clad in a sweatshirt and bleary from the early hour. Israel handed over the diaper bag he’d been carrying around and the baby’s bottles. Flores’ fiance would be deported a few weeks later on a separate flight to Honduras. Her eldest child, a son from a previous relationship who had to go live with his father after she was arrested, would remain in the U.S. So for now it was just Flores and the two girls. They posed for a photo, then said goodbye. Briany’s family is now back together and living in the town of San José in rural Honduras. Daniele Volpe for ProPublica The family now lives at Velasquez’s father’s house in the town of San José, deep in rural Honduras. The baby no longer breastfeeds. She hasn’t since the night deputies separated her from her mother. “I brought her to my breast,” Flores said, “but she doesn’t want it anymore.” Briany’s preferred formula costs too much for the family to afford. To keep the baby fed, they rely again on their church. A box of it recently arrived, enough to last several weeks, sent by the Vázquezes and their Lakeland congregation. Doris Flores with Briana and Briany at their new home in Honduras Daniele Volpe for ProPublica How We Measured Separations of Families with U.S. Citizen Children Ours is the most detailed accounting to date of the U.S. citizen children whose immigrant parents have been arrested, detained and in many cases deported. Underlying the analysis is a database of ICE I-213 records obtained by the University of Washington. Immigration agents fill out Form I-213 when they arrest someone alleging they are in the country without permission. Among other pieces of information, it records the citizenship and number of minor children of each arrestee. The data appears to contain arrests only by ICE and does not cover arrests by Customs and Border Protection. It covers late 2021 to mid-August 2025. We used this data to calculate the number of parents of U.S. citizen children arrested each day. To learn what happened to parents after they were arrested by ICE, including detention, final release from ICE custody in the United States or removal from the country, we combined the I-213 data with records from the Deportation Data Project , which covers late 2023 to mid-October 2025. The I-213 dataset contains about 17% fewer arrests by ICE in any given month than the Deportation Data Project’s arrest dataset.  We were able to combine these two datasets using fields common to both of them, including date of arrest, gender, age, nationality, location and method of arrest. We matched about 85% of the arrests in the I-213 data to a unique record in the ICE arrest and detention data. (An additional 7% had multiple possible matches, so we did not include them, and about 7% had no possible match. These rates were similar across presidential administrations.)  We used the overlapping 85% to make statements about the number of U.S. citizen children who had a parent arrested and detained by ICE since Trump returned to office and about the criminal status of their parents. We also used these combined records to compare how their mothers were treated differently by the Trump and Biden administrations. To calculate that more than 11,000 U.S. citizen children had a parent arrested and detained by ICE, we counted only children of fathers. We did this to avoid double-counting children in cases where both parents were detained, and fathers made up a large majority of the parents detained. We were limited to the first seven months of Trump’s second term, the time period covered in the I-213 data. If a father was arrested and detained more than once under Trump, we counted that father’s children only once. All other calculations were performed at the arrest level, meaning that in a very small number of instances, the same parent could be included more than once for each time they were arrested, detained, released or removed. The government cannot legally detain U.S. citizen children with their parents or deport them. According to immigration experts and current and former officials, the arrest and detention of parents of U.S. citizens often leads to a family separation, even if it’s brief.  We counted a parent as having been detained by ICE if they were booked into a facility for any length of time according to the Deportation Data Project’s detention records. In a very small minority of cases during the Trump administration, parents were released from ICE custody in less than a few days. This was more common under Biden. When we calculated the criminal history of parents arrested and detained by ICE, we relied on the criminal charges in these detention records. To calculate that Trump has deported mothers of U.S. citizen children at four times the rate that Biden did, we calculated the total number of mothers removed under each administration in the period covered by our data and divided by the number of days each president was in office during that period. We used the period from November 2023 through mid-August 2025 to minimize undercounting at the start and end of our detention dataset. We also compared equivalent seven-month periods in 2024 and 2025, which produced a similar result. For the purposes of our analysis, we counted a small number of detained mothers who agreed to leave the country voluntarily as having been deported. Validating Our Approach We verified our matches between the two data sources in several ways. First, there were three fields in the I-213 data that were in other parts of the Deportation Data Project data but not used as part of the linkage process: marital status, processing disposition and date of entry. For records we linked that contained values in those fields (some were empty in one or both datasets), we found that those data points matched more than 98% of the time. Next, we checked to make sure that there were no systematic differences in which ICE arrests appeared in the I-213 dataset compared to those contained in the Deportation Data Project records. We checked to make sure that women and men were equally represented, the different ICE field offices were equally represented, nationalities were equally represented, etc. We found no appreciable difference between the two datasets. We also compared records for which we found a match between the two datasets to records that had no match and found no strong patterns suggesting systematic differences between the two. ICE publishes the number of parents of U.S. citizens arrested on its detention management website and in reports to Congress. We compared our analysis against these numbers and found that for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, our data showed about 15% fewer such parents arrested by ICE than the official statistics noted. We do not know exactly why this is, although it is in line with how many fewer I-213 records we have than there are arrest records in the Deportation Data Project. We ran our findings and methodology by Phil Neff, a researcher at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights and Joseph Gunther, a mathematician who researches immigration-related datasets and former ICE officials. We also were able to link some of the data to leaked ICE flight manifests, which allowed us in some cases to find the full names — redacted in most of the other data — of some of the deported parents. In a handful of those cases, we found their phone numbers or those of family members, and we reached out to hear their stories. We conducted interviews in Spanish and English with close to two dozen detained or deported parents or their relatives or lawyers. We also spoke with nonprofits like the American Friends Service Committee and Each Step Home, which assist immigrant families — including Flores’ family — after they are separated. The parents we followed through the arrest process were originally from a range of mostly Latin American countries: Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Ecuador. They and their children had made lives in all corners of the United States, including California, Washington state, New York, Massachusetts and Florida. Most of the parents we interviewed were moms. The post Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids appeared first on ProPublica .

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President also held on to record from his first term so sensitive only six people had access, says letter from leading Democrat on House judiciary committee Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. The White House says Donald Trump “did nothing wrong”, amid reports that he showed off a classified map on a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club. Violence continued across much of the Middle East a day after Donald Trump said the US was in “very good” talks with Iran to end the war in the region soon. Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq on Tuesday, while Israeli and US warplanes continued to carry out strikes across Tehran and on other targets in the Islamic Republic. More here . Democrats managed to flip a seat in the Florida state house in the district that is home to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Emily Gregory, a Democrat, defeated Republican Jon Maples, who had an endorsement from the US president, in the special election in Florida’s 87th state house district. The Associated Press called the race on Tuesday evening, with Gregory, a public health expert and small business owner, leading by more than 2 percentage points. More here . Donald Trump on Tuesday swore in Markwayne Mullin as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), while Senate Republicans unveiled a compromise that would restart funding to most of the agency but appears to exclude reforms to immigration enforcement Democrats have demanded. More here . Donald Trump has described voting by mail as “cheating” at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, just days after casting a mail‑in ballot himself. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” the US president said on Monday, in remarks to a roundtable on his administration’s crime taskforce. More here . Workers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are reeling from the White House’s deployment of immigration law enforcement into airports as TSA workers enter their sixth week without pay as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown continues. More than 400 TSA workers have quit since the shutdown began in February, with major US airports reporting high call-out rates among workers, leading to longer security wait times. More here . The California governor, Gavin Newsom, backtracked on earlier remarks likening Israel to an “apartheid state” in a new interview with Politico published on Tuesday. In the interview, the Democrat, who is widely expected to launch a presidential bid in 2028, said that when he used the term three weeks ago, he meant it to apply to Israel’s future should it continue on its present trajectory. More here . Continue reading...

Ruling linked to takeover of Autonomy in 2011 comes two years after tech tycoon died in superyacht disaster The estate of the late British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been ordered to pay £920m to the technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) two years after he died in a superyacht disaster. The ruling by London’s high court said the estate was liable to pay the sum as compensation, costs and interest for the acquisition of Lynch’s firm Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard (HP), after a UK legal ruling in 2022 that he duped the US company into paying £8.2bn for the software firm . Continue reading...

The US is recklessly spreading economic havoc among global friends and foes while suffering little harm itself To shield ordinary Indians from the war in Iran, the government in Delhi redirected supplies of liquefied gas to Indian families, for which it is the main cooking fuel, limiting supplies to the plastics industry. The Nepalese government rationed gas and the Philippines trimmed the government workweek to four days. Bangladesh closed universities and rationed fuel. They have been hardest hit by Iran’s closure of the strait of Hormuz . Economies in Asia import over a third of the energy they consume, on average. Korea imports four-fifths; Japan nine-tenths; Thailand 55%. Most of this comes from the Gulf. About 80% of oil and oil products transiting through the strait in 2025 was destined for Asia, according to the International Energy Agency. But traffic through its waters has collapsed by 90% . Continue reading...