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Los españoles desaprueban la ofensiva de Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán: el 73% de los ciudadanos no están de acuerdo con la situación y rechazan la intervención , que ya va camino de cumplir un mes, según una nueva encuesta de DYM para 20minutos . Por contra, un 12,6% de la gente la ve con buenos ojos. Esto llega en un momento en el que Donald Trump ha asegurado que la guerra "ya la ha ganado" Washington y que va camino del acuerdo con Teherán. "No llames acuerdo a tu derrota", le ha respondido en las últimas horas el régimen ayatolá, que añadido que no llegará a un pacto "ni ahora ni nunca". Estos datos van de la mano, además, de la posición del Gobierno español con el "no a la guerra", algo a lo que se han ido sumando poco a poco los países europeos, como se demostró en la última cumbre de líderes en Bruselas, donde todos apelaron a la desescalada y a una vía diplomática que conduzca, al menos, a un alto el fuego. A la vez, Washington habría enviado un plan de 15 puntos a Teherán para llegar a un acuerdo y el presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, ha pedido a los ayatolás que participen "de buena fe" en las negociaciones. Por partidos políticos, los votantes de Vox son los que más respaldan el movimiento de Estados Unidos (36,8%) . En el resto de formaciones los electores dan la espalda a la decisión de la Casa Blanca: la rechazan un 68,5% en el PP, un 82,7% en el PSOE y un 94,8% en el caso de los votantes de Sumar. Sin alardes, los electores de derecha y centroderecha son los que mejor valoran la ofensiva, pero solo con un cuarto de aprobación; en cambio, en la izquierda y en el centroizquierda el rechazo ronda en ambos casos el 90%. Los ataque sobre Irán son la segunda parte para muchos de lo que Donald Trump inició el pasado mes de enero con la operación sobre Venezuela y la captura de Nicolás Maduro, pero a ojos de los españoles la situación es diferente: el rechazo ahora mismo es mucho mayor al que hubo sobre los ataques sobre Caracas, censurados entonces por un 50,7% de la gente. Aquello lo respaldaron tres de cada diez ciudadanos, según otra encuesta de DYM . ¿Y por qué han atacado EEUU e Israel a Irán? En cuanto a los motivos, un 52,1% de los ciudadanos creen tiene mucho peso en la decisión el acceso al petróleo , algo que ven con bastante importancia un 26,8% de los españoles. Más de un 73% en total, por otro lado, consideran que la razón principal es la defensa de los intereses estratégicos de Washington y de Tel Aviv. Eso sí, algo más de un 50% aceptan el argumento de Trump de dejar a Irán sin arma nuclear, y solo un 30% ven como principal motivo de los ataques el derrocamiento del régimen autoritario. También se pregunta en la encuesta por el hecho de quién fue la persona que motivó la ofensiva o tomó la decisión. En ese caso, un 39,1% de los españoles señalan al propio Donald Trump . Mientras, un 22,1% consideran que el precursor fue el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, y un 31,1% apuntan a una decisión consensuada entre ambos. Aquí también se ven diferencias entre los partidos políticos. El presidente estadounidense habría sido el precursor para los votantes del PSOE (42,8%), de Vox (41,3%) y de Sumar (31,7%). Por otra parte, el 38,9% de los electores del PP consideran que el paso lo dieron de manera coordinada Estados Unidos e Israel a través de sus líderes. Si se mira el espacio político la mayoría en todas las esferas señala al inquilino de la Casa Blanca como quien apretó el botón rojo contra los ayatolás.

El 81% de los españoles muestra preocupación por la presencia de Donald Trump al frente de la Presidencia de los Estados Unidos , de acuerdo con los resultados de la última encuesta realizada por el Instituto DYM para 20minutos . Esta impresión ha aumentado notablemente en el último año y más especialmente desde el mes de enero, con las operaciones de Estados Unidos en Venezuela y en Irán, las amenazas arancelarias a Europa y los amagos de Trump respecto a Groenlandia. En enero de 2025, tan solo el 54,6% mostraba la inquietud que comparte hoy más del 80% de los españoles. No obstante, la sensación de intranquilidad que suscita el líder del gobierno de los EEUU no afecta a un 10,6% de la ciudadanía que afirma sentirse 'ni preocupada ni esperanzada' al respecto. Por otro lado, un 5,2% de los encuestados en el barómetro del Instituto DYM de este mes de marzo afirmaron estar "más bien" esperanzados o "muy" esperanzados por la presidencia del estadounidense. La preocupación suscitada por el mandatario es prácticamente idéntica entre los votantes del Partido Popular y el electorado del PSOE . El porcentaje que se declara inquieto ante las acciones del inquilino de la Casa Blanca asciende al 85,6% en el caso de los electores del Partido Socialista y se sitúa en el 85,7% entre los del PP. La preocupación por Trump es un sentir mayoritario también entre quienes escogieron la papeleta de Vox en las últimas elecciones generales. El 59,8% de los mismos lo ha expresado así en la encuesta, frente a un 12,7% que se siente esperanzado por el presidente estadounidense. Entre el electorado de Sumar, el 94,2% se suma a la incertidumbre despertada por el inquilino de la Casa Blanca. Tanto en el caso del PP, como en el del PSOE y el de Sumar, el porcentaje de votantes esperanzados por Donald Trump oscila entre el 4 y el 5%. Atendiendo al autoposicionamiento político de los encuestados, la inquietud por el comportamiento del Ejecutivo estadounidense afecta al 60% de quienes se consideran de derecha . El porcentaje asciende entre los ciudadanos de centro derecha (79,1%), los de centro (82,4%) y centro izquierda (95,1%). Entre quienes se reconocen de izquierda, el 89,1% admite que le suscita preocupación la presidencia de Trump. De nuevo, el líder del Gobierno de EE.UU apenas genera esperanza en la ciudadanía española, a excepción de quienes se dicen de derecha. En su caso, el 17,9% dice sentirse así. El rechazo que genera Trump entre los españoles ha crecido de manera continua desde que comenzó su segundo mandato, en enero de 2025. En aquel momento, el 54,6% de la población española sentía intranquilidad por el mandatario, y el 12,4% recibía al investido con esperanza. Si este segundo grupo se ha reducido a menos de la mitad, superando apenas el 5% de los españoles, cada vez son más quienes se muestran preocupados por las acciones del presidente estadounidense.

Los españoles no quieren ver a la OTAN implicada en la guerra en Oriente Medio. Así se extrae de una nueva encuesta de DYM para 20minutos . Solo un 17,5% consideran que los países de la Alianza Atlántica deben participar en la intervención lanzada sobre Irán por parte de Estados Unidos y de Israel, frente un 66,6% que creen que la organización no debería formar parte de la ofensiva. Estos datos llegan después de que Donald Trump apuntase que la OTAN tendrá "un muy mal futuro" después de ver cómo los aliados no acompañaban a Washington en la operación. "No les necesitamos", dijo días después el inquilino de la Casa Blanca. Si se atiende a las diferencias entre partidos, los votantes de Vox son los que apoyan en mayor grado la participación de la OTAN (42,9%), pero siendo aun así mayoría los que están a favor de permanecer al margen (48%). El rechazo es bastante claro en el resto de formaciones: dan la espalda a la entrada de la Alianza en el conflicto un 63,8% de los electores del PP, un 75,5% en el PSOE y un 86,4% entre quienes votan a Sumar. Por espacios ideológicos el consenso es claro en contra de una participación activa de los aliados: más de un 78% de los electores de izquierda y centroizquierda lo rechaza, algo que pasa con en torno al 55% entre los votantes de derecha y de centroderecha. Diferente es la posición sobre si la OTAN tendría que participar o no en una misión para reabrir el Estrecho de Ormuz. Irán ha asegurado este martes que acepta las operaciones en la zona pero solo de los "países no hostiles". No obstante, un 27,9% de los españoles creen que la Alianza debería participar en el desbloqueo de la mano de Estados Unidos, pero un 50,1% rechazan esta posibilidad . Sobre esa reapertura, el propio Trump anunció que Irán ha hecho "un regalo muy grande", aunque sin dar más detalles. Aseguró que ese paso de Teherán, al mismo tiempo, es una muestra de que el régimen ayatolá ya ha cambiado, según sus palabras. Sí lo ven con buenos ojos los votantes del PP y de Vox, con un 45,8% y 50,6% respectivamente. En el otro lado están los electores del PSOE y de Sumar, que dan la espalda a esta posibilidad (63,3% y 77,2%). Los votantes de derecha, si se mira todo el arco ideológico, son los que más a favor se encuentran de esa misión conjunta (54,9%). La ofensiva sobre Irán, con todo, ha vuelto a por el foco en la forma de hacer las cosas que tiene EEUU bajo el mandato de Donald Trump y, según la encuesta de DYM , un 67,6% de los ciudadanos apuntan a que Washington ahora mismo no es un aliado fiable. Solo un 18,4% creen que sí. Solo los votantes de Vox respaldan la 'sociedad' con la Casa Blanca (52,4%) mientras que en el resto de partidos la posición es bien distinta: no se fían de Estados Unidos un 61,4% de los electores del PP, un 77,2% del PSOE y un 88,4% de Sumar.

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President Donald Trump listens to a reporter during the swearing in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) 2026-03-25T17:51:48Z WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing for a rescheduled summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15, the White House announced on Wednesday. Trump had been scheduled to travel to China later this month but previously announced he was delaying the trip so he could be in Washington to help steward the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran. The Republican president had announced a rescheduled trip even though the war in Iran continues and the U.S. is pressing Tehran to accept a ceasefire proposal. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, when asked if the new dates for the trip could suggest Trump believes the Iran war could end soon, offered an optimistic tone that the conflict could reach an endgame before Trump’s travels. “We’ve always estimated four to six weeks,” Leavitt responded. “So you could do the math on that.” 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 United States and Israel launched the attacks against Iran on Feb. 28. The China trip had been planned for months but began to unravel as Trump pressured Beijing and other world powers to use their military might to protect the Strait of Hormuz , a critical waterway for the flow of oil. The strait has been effectively closed as Iran targets energy infrastructure and traffic through it. Trump said last week while meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office that he would be going to China in five or six weeks’ time instead of at the end of the month. He said he would be “resetting” his visit with Xi. “We’re working with China — they were fine with it,” Trump said then. “I look forward to seeing President Xi. He looks forward to seeing me, I think.” Trump’s visit to China is seen as an opportunity to build on a fragile trade truce between the two superpowers, but it has become tangled in his effort to find an endgame to the war in Iran. Soon after pressing China and other nations to send warships to secure access to Middle Eastern oil, Trump indicated last week that his travel plans depended on Beijing’s response, though he added then that the U.S. didn’t need help from the allies that rebuffed his request. AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto

People enter the Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) 2026-03-25T17:23:39Z LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Two teenage boys who used artificial intelligence to create fake nude photos of their classmates were put on probation Wednesday and placed in the custody of their parents. The boys, who were 14 at the time, admitted earlier this month that they made 59 child sex abuse images. Prosecutors said they morphed photos of girls, many from Instagram, with virtual images of adults depicting nudity or sexual activity. Some of the victims were their classmates at Lancaster Country Day School, west of Philadelphia. Police said in court documents that a woman reported that her daughter said a fellow student had been “taking photographs of students and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to portray the female juvenile students as being nude.” Wednesday’s disposition hearing before Lancaster County Common Pleas Court Judge Leonard Brown III was the juvenile court version of a sentencing hearing. 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); }); Along with probation, the boys were given 60 hours of community service each. If they don’t have any additional legal problems, Brown said the case could expunged after two years. They were also ordered not to have contact with the victims and must pay an unspecified amount of restitution. As he imposed his sentence, Brown said he had not heard either boy apologize or take responsibility for their actions. If they were adults, he said, they probably would be headed for state prison. During the proceedings, the boys declined several opportunities to comment to the judge. Afterwards, one of the boys refused to comment outside court. “This has been a regrettable, long torturous process for everyone involved,” Heidi Freese, an attorney for one of the boys. “There were very interesting, underlying legal issues surrounding the charges in this case and those will be decided on a different day in a different case.” Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday has said the case “exemplifies the dark side of modern technology and social media.” 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 conduct involved a weaponization of technology to victimize unsuspecting children who had photos online. It goes without saying that the impact on the victims is nothing short of devastation,” Sunday said in a release earlier this month. The resolution of the Pennsylvania case comes days after three teenagers in Tennessee sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s Grok tools morphed their real photos into explicitly sexual images . The high school students are seeking class-action status to represent what the lawsuit says are thousands of people who were similarly victimized as minors. The scandal in Pennsylvania in 2024 led to a student protest, the departure of school leaders and criminal charges against the two teenagers. Nadeem Bezar, a Philadelphia lawyer who represents at least 10 of the victims, said Tuesday he expects to file a claim “against the school and anybody else we think has culpability in these deepfakes being created and disseminated.” He said he has not yet seen the photos but expects the legal process to determine “exactly when and where and how the school knew, how the boys created these images, what platforms they used to create these images and how they were disseminated.” 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); }); Bezar said the girls’ reactions have varied, and for some it was traumatizing. “You’re talking about teenage young women who are goal-driven, doing well in school, trying to do everything they can to just sort of fit in and find their way through life at that young age, where everything matters,” Bezar said. As AI has become accessible and powerful, lawmakers across the country have passed laws aimed at barring deepfakes. President Donald Trump signed the Take it Down Act last year, making it illegal to publish intimate images including deepfakes without consent, and requiring websites and social media sites to remove such material within 48 hours of being notified by a victim. Forty-six states now have laws addressing deepfakes, with legislation introduced in the remaining four -- Alaska, Missouri, New Mexico and Ohio -- according to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. ____ Associated Press writers Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed. MARK SCOLFORO Scolforo is an Associated Press reporter in the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. twitter mailto

Passengers wait in a security checkpoint line at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) 2026-03-25T16:39:30Z WASHINGTON (AP) — Air travelers are experiencing the highest wait times ever under the Transportation Security Administration, the agency’s acting head told Congress on Wednesday, as the latest offer to end a funding impasse and put restraints on President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda met fierce resistance. The TSA’s Ha Nguyen McNeill described the mounting hardships facing unpaid airport workers — piling up bills and eviction notices, even plasma donations to make ends meet — and warned that lawmakers must ensure “this never happens again.” “This is a dire situation,” she said. Yet on the 40th day of the standoff involving the Department of Homeland Security, there was no easy way out in sight. Neither Republican senators, who made the latest offer, nor Democrats, who are demanding more changes in immigration enforcement , appeared closer to a compromise. 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); }); Trump, who initially appeared to have given his nod to the deal, has declined to lend it his full support or put his political weight behind making sure it is approved. Top officials at agencies under the DHS umbrella spoke at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee about the potential risks of security lapses unless the partial government shutdown comes to an end. A deal teeters on collapse DHS has gone without routine funding since mid-February. Democrats are insisting on changes to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and mass deportation operations after the killings of two citizens in Minneapolis by federal officers during protests. The latest proposal would fund most of DHS except for the enforcement and removal operations of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement that have been central to the debate. The plan would cover other aspects of ICE as well as Customs and Border Protection. While the offer added some new restraints on immigration officers, including the use of body cameras, it excluded other policies that Democrats have demanded. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said they needed to see real changes. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York pressed for “bold” changes at ICE. 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); }); Republican leaders said Democrats are putting the country at risk. “They know this is crazy,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. But conservative Republicans also panned the proposal, demanding full funding for immigration operations and skeptical of the promise from GOP leaders that they would address Trump’s proof-of-citizenship voting bill in a subsequent legislative package. Airport lines grow as TSA workers endure hardships McNeill, the acting TSA administrator, told lawmakers that multiple airports are experiencing greater than 40% callout rates and more than 480 transportation security officers have now quit during the shutdown. She cited the growing financial strain on the TSA workforce. “Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood and plasma, and taking on second jobs to make ends meet, all while being expected to perform at the highest level when in uniform to protect the traveling public,” she said. McNeil also said TSA officers working at the nation’s airports have experienced a more than 500% increase in the frequency of assaults since the shutdown began. 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); }); “This is unacceptable and it will not be tolerated,” McNeill said. The top executive over Houston’s airport said security lines that have travelers waiting four hours or more could get longer if the political impasse was not soon settled. Lines that twist and turn across multiple floors at George Bush Intercontinental Airport have been the result of TSA only being able to staff one-third to one-half the usual number of checkpoint lines, said Jim Szczesniak, aviation director for Houston’s airport system. Trump’s decision to send ICE agents to the airports risks inflaming the situation, lawmakers have said. Video footage of federal officers detaining a crying woman at San Francisco International Airport drew outrage Monday from local officials, although it was unrelated to Trump’s order to deploy immigration officers. 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); }); FEMA also at risk FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund is “rapidly depleting,” Victoria Barton, a FEMA external affairs official, told lawmakers. FEMA is able to continue its disaster response and recovery work as long as that fund has money, and about 10,000 of its disaster workers continue being paid through it. ___ Associated Press writers Wyatte Grantham-Philips in New York, Russ Bynum in Houston and Gabriela Aoun Angueira in San Diego contributed to this report.

El expresidente de Venezuela pretende usar fondos de su país para retribuir a sus abogados, pero el gobierno de EE.UU. lo impide y un juez debe decidir.

Matt Brittin declaró que asume el más alto cargo de la BBC en "un momento de verdadero riesgo, pero también de gran oportunidad".

El veredicto podría tener consecuencias en los cientos de casos sobre adicción a las redes sociales actualmente en tribunales estadounidenses.

Trump says he is talking to "the right people" in Iran, but Tehran says no such negotiations are being held.

The US presenter says terrifying thoughts wake her at night as she imagines what happened.

The US congressman responded to a BBC Newsnight interview with a group of survivors of the late financier's abuse.

Ce mercredi 25 mars, Jérôme de Lavergnolle, PDG de la cristallerie Saint Louis, Sophie de Thoré, directrice de la Transformation, Stratégie et Business Développement chez Berger-Levrault, Jean-Luc Guénard, directeur général de LPR (La Palette Rouge), et Augustin Dumont, président de l'Escale Royale, étaient les invités, dans l'émission Pari ETI présentée par Patrice Bégay. Pari ETI est à voir ou écouter tous les mercredis et samedis sur BFM Business.

Ce mercredi 25 mars, Jérôme de Lavergnolle, PDG de la cristallerie Saint Louis, Sophie de Thoré, directrice de la Transformation, Stratégie et Business Développement chez Berger-Levrault, Jean-Luc Guénard, directeur général de LPR (La Palette Rouge), et Augustin Dumont, président de l'Escale Royale, étaient les invités, dans l'émission Pari ETI présentée par Patrice Bégay. Pari ETI est à voir ou écouter tous les mercredis et samedis sur BFM Business.

Mercredi 25 mars, François Sorel a reçu Patrick Chomet, ancien vice-président exécutif en charge de l'expérience mobile chez Samsung, Thomas Serval, PDG de Baracoda, Frédéric Simottel, journaliste BFM Business, et Yves Maitre, operating partner chez Jolt Capital, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, émission spéciale "Les 25 ans du smartphone". Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez-la en podcast.

Der achtjährige Fabian aus Güstrow wurde offenbar von der Ex-Freundin seines Vaters erstochen. Rekonstruktion eines erschütternden Kriminalfalls.

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Christoph Peters erzählt in seinem neuen Roman von einem Alkoholiker, der sich fürs Leben entscheidet. Mit intimer Kenntnis schildert er den Entzug mit seinen unschönen Details – und vermittelt dabei vor allem eines: Hoffnung.

Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz bringt das angeblich oft problematische Stadtbild in Deutschland erneut in einen Zusammenhang mit der hohen Anzahl von Migranten. Das empört viele - auch den Koalitionspartner SPD.

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Irán sabe que tiene el tiempo y el momento de su parte . Tras el anuncio de la oferta de un 'Plan de 15 puntos' de Washington a Teherán, dando a entender que el presidente Donald Trump está buscando una salida con la que dar carpetazo a su guerra en Oriente Medio , el movimiento obvio es intentar hacer sudar a EEUU y presentar sus propias condiciones maximalistas. Puntos de partida para una posible negociación , pero sobre todo, el mensaje de fuerza que necesita Teherán tras una ofensiva en la que, militarmente, no para de sufrir. Y sin embargo, para consternación de Trump, Irán no puede ser dado por derrotado. "No llames a tu derrota un acuerdo", respondió Irán por boca de Ebrahim Zolfaghari, portavoz del cuartel central de las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes, el Jatam al Anbiya . Más allá del tono a bravuconada, habitual en las comunicaciones de la República Islámica, Teherán habría presentado ya sus propias exigencias, que incluirían el fin de los ataques y asesinatos a figuras importantes dentro de la estructura del régimen, compensaciones económicas por los daños ejercidos durante la guerra , garantías contra futuros conflictos, el desarrollo de su programa de misiles balísticos sin limitaciones, el cierre de todas las bases estadounidenses en el Golfo Pérsico y, por qué no, un alto el fuego entre Israel y Hezbolá en el Líbano (donde las fuerzas de Tel Aviv han iniciado una invasión terrestre con el objetivo declarado de convertir el sur del país "en Gaza" ) que incluya compensaciones económicas para el grupo chií. La gran mayoría de estas condiciones, reportadas por distintos medios , son absolutamente impensables tanto para EEUU como para Israel o incluso los estados del Golfo, por mucho de Donald Trump esté buscando (o no, si miramos el reciente despliegue de más tropas de asalto en la zona) una salida a la guerra . Son, también, un paso atrás a las condiciones que sabemos que parecían aceptadas en las negociaciones que saltaron por los aires el 28 de febrero, con el ataque que mató al ayatolá Ali Jamenei. Quizá por eso la más relevante es la última que aún queda por mencionar en la larga lista: el reconocimiento de la autoridad de Irán sobre el estrecho de Ormuz. "La situación en el estrecho de Ormuz no volverá a como era antes. Las reglas de tránsito han sido reajustadas, no hay un derecho de paso", resumió Jatam al Anbiya. Más allá de las condiciones maximalistas que pongan sobre la mesa en público, Irán tiene un objetivo estratégico: su supervivencia. Y para conseguirlo está abriendo un nuevo capítulo en el librito de siempre: ordenando un "nuevo régimen" en el estrecho de Ormuz. 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 Desde el inicio de la Operación Furia Épica, el miedo a un ataque iraní ha cerrado de facto el estrecho de Ormuz, al tránsito general de buques. Sin embargo, un pequeño reguero de barcos ha logrado cruzarlo. Desde el 2 de marzo hasta este lunes , 44 barcos, según portales de seguimiento marítimo, frente al centenar diario que lo transitaba antes de la crisis. Unos 3.200 buques están todavía atrapados en el Golfo, reacios a arriesgarse a transitar por el estrecho, de apenas 56 kilómetros de ancho. Según lo que se ha podido discernir gracias a fuentes de información abiertas , el perfil de los buques que han cruzado es una serie de cargueros chinos , un grupo de tanqueros gasísticos relacionados con India y, sobre todo, un buen puñado de petroleros "fantasma" ligados a la venta de crudo iraní, que sigue viento en popa en esta crisis. Pero este martes, Teherán dio una vuelta de tuerca más a su estrategia en el estrecho. Si hasta ahora le había bastado la amenaza de atacar (al menos 22 buques han sido atacados por Irán desde el inicio del conflicto) para bloquear el tráfico y crear la mayor disrupción posible de la economía internacional, el lunes anunciaba que los buques "no hostiles" podrían transitar con seguridad por el estrecho. El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Irán definió esos buques como aquellos que "ni participan ni apoyan actos de agresión contra Irán" o que pertenecen a Estados Unidos o Israel. "Hemos tomado las medidas necesarias y proporcionales para impedir que los agresores y sus partidarios exploten el estrecho de Ormuz para llevar a cabo operaciones hostiles contra Irán", afirmaba una carta oficial, enviada a la Organización Marítima Internacional (OMI). ¿Salvar al soldado Ryan o los cañones de Navarone? El Pentágono moviliza miles de marines y paracaidistas Jesús M. Pérez Triana Washington acelera un despliegue terrestre hacia Oriente Medio, con paracaidistas, marines y fuerzas especiales, tras vuelos masivos de C-17, para enfrentar el uso iraní del estrecho de Ormuz como palanca económica Un enfoque que permite el "paso selectivo de buques" para enviar "señales estratégicas", según lo describía la consultora de análisis Kpler. Hormuz traffic sends mixed signalsIran appears to be pursuing a calibrated strategy in the Strait of Hormuz, using selective vessel passage as strategic signalling rather than imposing full disruption. According to #MarineTraffic data, some activity may be resuming, with nine… pic.twitter.com/fKjlPhdHYx — MarineTraffic (@MarineTraffic) March 24, 2026 Dentro de esta propuesta, las autoridades de Teherán añadieron que planeaban obligar a todos los barcos que pasen por Ormuz a pagar un peaje . "Irán pasará de ser un país sancionado a una potencia consolidada en la región y en el mundo . Sancionaremos a esas potencias arrogantes que buscan la dominación", aseguró Mehr Mohammad Mokhber, miembro del Consejo de Conveniencia y asesor del líder supremo en asuntos económicos. Según varias fuentes consultadas por Bloomberg , se están solicitando pagos de hasta 2 millones de dólares por viaje de forma puntual, lo que en la práctica crea un peaje informal . Algunos buques han efectuado el pago, aunque el mecanismo no quedó claro de inmediato —incluida la moneda utilizada— y, al parecer, no se trata de una práctica sistemática, añadieron las fuentes. Pero, con las declaraciones de este miércoles, Teherán está intentando jugar a que se trate de un elemento permanente. Imponer impuestos de tránsito a los buques para rentabilizar su mayor control sobre esta ruta estratégica. Vender que tiene un control que, en realidad, no se puede aplicar a futuro. 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 "Si Estados Unidos se retira (y permite el control de Teherán sobre Ormuz ), dejaría que la República Islámica de Irán haga lo que mejor sabe hacer —mantener a todos como rehenes—, entonces la guerra será un fracaso rotundo para Estados Unidos y el presidente Trump", afirmaba Sanam Vakil, directora del programa para Oriente Medio y Norte de África del centro de estudios Chatham House, a The Wall Street Journal. "Esta situación no sería tolerable ni aceptable para los estados del Golfo , y no creo que lo fuera para muchos de sus clientes energéticos, ni siquiera para China, y mucho menos para India y Japón", añadía Robin Mills, director ejecutivo de la consultora Qamar Energy. Más allá de los elementos legales (a diferencia de otros pasos como Suez o Panamá, Ormuz no "pertenece" a Irán, sino que son aguas internacionales en cualquier caso, compartidas con sus vecinos del Golfo), lo cierto es que si se declara un alto el fuego, todo el control que Irán ejerce ahora mediante el miedo a un ataque desaparecería. ¿Qué sabemos del plan de 15 puntos para un alto al fuego propuesto por Trump a Irán? L. P. El documento exigiría cambios de fondo en el programa nuclear, la capacidad armamentística y el papel en la región de Irán a cambio de ciertas garantías de EEUU La principal característica del control iraní sobre el estrecho no reside en su capacidad para atacar buques. Todos los países del Golfo tienen esa capacidad, salvo que no la ejercen. Lo que está sucediendo ahora es que Irán, forzado por la guerra, utiliza su baza de generar las mayores represalias posibles contra el transporte marítimo comercial, a sabiendas de que esto intensificará el conflicto, pero porque es la única manera de ejercer cierta presión. Es decir, Irán solo puede determinar el nivel de tráfico en el estrecho en condiciones de guerra y debido a su resiliencia frente a los continuos bombardeos de EEUU e Israel. Y se trata de un equilibrio complicado para el propio Teherán. Puede mandar la "señal estratégica" de que abre un paso selectivo a aquellas naciones aliadas o independientes, pero al mismo tiempo tiene que seguir manteniendo cerrado el 'grifo' del crudo y gas mundial, ya que la disrupción económica general es la única baza que tiene para presionar a Estados Unidos para que cese su ofensiva. En un alto el fuego, Irán no podría controlar el estrecho como hace, por ejemplo, Egipto en el canal de Suez. No existirían los medios físicos, más allá del miedo de las aseguradoras y que sea el mundo el que acepte por su propio pie, ese acuerdo. Es decir: la diferencia clave entre disuasión y control . En este escenario, Irán propone ese "nuevo régimen" dentro de la larga lista de posiciones maximalistas para un acuerdo de alto el fuego. Uno que "formalice" su presunto derecho a inspeccionar y cobrar peajes a los buques . En este marco, Irán aplicaría una versión más amplia de lo que ya está sucediendo ahora, un pasaje selectivo a cambio de grandes sumas de dinero. "Los iraníes no están dispuestos a poner fin a la guerra porque han aprendido una lección importante : pueden causar mucho daño y trastornos con relativa facilidad y a bajo costo. Ahora quieren que el mundo entero aprenda también esa lección", apuntó Dina Esfandiary, analista especializada en Irán, a The Wall Street Journal. En el delicado equilibrio que es lo que realmente regula el estrecho entre el miedo y el control, no hay que perder de vista, sin embargo, el objetivo estratégico que mencionábamos más arriba de Irán. La supervivencia. Con este prisma, controlar el estrecho durante la guerra es una táctica, no el objetivo estratégico. Y su mejor baza en las negociaciones.

Bajo el nombre de AGILE, la Comisión Europea ha presentado este miércoles un proyecto de 115 millones de euros para financiar el desarrollo y la salida a mercado de drones y otras tecnologías de defensa low cost para el año 2027, que cierra el actual presupuesto europeo. La idea del Ejecutivo comunitario es ayudar a trasladar a la industria de defensa europea las lecciones que se están obteniendo directamente del campo de batalla en Ucrania en su resistencia contra Ucrania: "El éxito en el campo de batalla depende de ciclos de innovación cortos ". Esa es la idea detrás de la estrategia de Bruselas . Canalizar fondos a proyectos que puedan rápidamente pasar de la fase de laboratorio al campo de batalla. "Este instrumento piloto tiene por objeto acelerar el desarrollo y las pruebas de innovaciones disruptivas en el ámbito de la defensa , así como su implantación en el mercado, como la inteligencia artificial, la tecnología cuántica o los drones, centrándose en el apoyo a las pequeñas y medianas empresas, incluidas las empresas emergentes y las empresas en fase de expansión", señaló el Ejecutivo comunitario. El dinero no es nuevo, sino que son reasignaciones de otros proyectos. La mayoría salen del Fondo Europeo de Defensa ( EDF ) y del Programa Europeo de la Industria de la Defensa ( EDIP ), que aportan 35 millones de euros cada uno. Unos 22,5 millones de euros salen del programa espacial de la UE , de las líneas de Galileo y de Copernicus , sistemas de observación de la Unión, y otros 22,5 millones de euros salen del Programa de Conectividad Segura . Un punto relevante es que la Comisión no obliga a las empresas que participen a estar basadas en territorio comunitario, pero sí les exige establecerse en la UE en un tiempo determinado, por lo que la idea es que el fondo ayude a atraer a compañías extracomunitarias . La idea es que este proyecto piloto permita aprender lecciones y aplicarlas al Fondo Europeo para la Competitividad (ECF), que la Comisión Europea ha propuesto para el próximo marco financiero plurianual (MFP), que cubrirá de los años 2028 al 2034. Andrius Kubilius , comisario de Defensa , explicó que lo que se está observando sobre el terreno es una " transformación de la dinámica del campo de batalla , donde el valor añadido de los pequeños actores resulta evidente". "Estos pueden aportar innovación, flexibilidad y soluciones rentables, además de nuevas ideas operativas. Por lo tanto, es fundamental que probemos, validemos e integremos rápidamente estas tecnologías en nuestras capacidades de defensa, garantizando que la industria de defensa europea pueda seguir el ritmo de la naturaleza rápidamente cambiante de la guerra moderna", aseguró el lituano. Bruselas presenta su plan para coordinar el gasto militar, pero deja claro que la OTAN está al mando Nacho Alarcón. Bruselas La Comisión Europea presenta una hoja de ruta militar al 2030 para disuadir agresiones. Coordinará 800,000 millones en gasto, con la OTAN al frente Bruselas quiere mirar más allá de las grandes compañías militares europeas, de la industria clásica, y poner el foco en aquello que los aliados europeos están observando sobre el campo de batalla: la importancia clave de responder de forma rápida a los avances tecnológicos relativamente baratos y veloces de los rivales. Una carrera tecnológica militar low-cost para la que, sin embargo, hay que tener músculo inicial. Y esto tiene enormes implicaciones. Los socios europeos están viendo cómo su material, o el de Estados Unidos, es enormemente caro y lento de producir y se gasta mucho en detener drones relativamente baratos y rápidos de sustituir. Se está viendo también en el Golfo: los drones iraníes, que cuestan unas pocas decenas de miles de euros, están siendo derribados por misiles de millones de euros. La Comisión propone que su proyecto piloto sea especialmente rápido , con un plazo de concesión de solo cuatro meses con el objetivo de que la tecnología desarrollada en el marco de AGILE llegue a los arsenales militares en el plazo de entre uno y tres años, apoyando entre 20 y 30 proyectos que podrán recibir una financiación del 100% en los ámbitos subvencionables. Está enfocado únicamente a pequeñas y medianas empresas, y la gran industria no es elegible para recibir ayudas. También permitirá cubrir gastos en los que las empresas hayan incurrido inmediatamente antes del cierre de la convocatoria, con el objetivo de que las compañías estén innovando ya antes de recibir los fondos. La idea es ayudar tanto al desarrollo de la tecnología como a su comercialización . Negociaciones en marcha Además de este nuevo programa, y de los ya mencionados EDIP y EDF, del que sale buena parte de los fondos que financian esta iniciativa, la UE tiene en marcha SAFE , un programa de créditos ventajosos de 150.000 millones de euros para que los Estados miembros financien su rearme . La mayoría de planes nacionales están aprobados, incluido el de Polonia , que se encuentra en el centro de una batalla política entre el Gobierno y la Presidencia de la República. Después de que el miércoles recibiera luz verde Francia y República Checa, ya tan solo queda Hungría por dar su visto bueno. Por otro lado, los colegisladores están negociando el " Ómnibus de Preparación Militar ", un paquete de simplificación que pretende acelerar permisos para proyectos de preparación militar , modificación de reglamentos para facilitar inversiones en este ámbito, y una directiva que busca facilitar transferencias intracomunitarias de productos de defensa y los procesos de contratación pública para asuntos militares y de seguridad. La presidencia chipriota del Consejo y los eurodiputados que están negociando el texto han hecho progresos, pero todavía harán falta algunas rondas más de negociación .

La búsqueda de un acuerdo de gobernabilidad en Extremadura se ha convertido en un campo de minas . Si se esquivan todas se conseguirá llegar a la meta, pero es posible acabar con algunos rasguños por el camino. PP y Vox acumulan más de tres meses de tira y afloja, de desmentidos, de "filtraciones", de batalla sin cuartel . Por eso el encuentro al más alto nivel que se produjo este miércoles en Mérida se percibió, al fin, como un alto el fuego, quizá definitivo, para sacar a la región de la interinidad. Pese a la rumorología que circuló durante horas no hubo acuerdo , pero ambas partes abandonaron la reunión con buen sabor de boca. Las alarmas saltaron cuando la comparecencia de Sánchez a cuenta de las consecuencias de la guerra de Irán arrancó en el Congreso de los Diputados a las nueve de la mañana, y el secretario general del PP, Miguel Tellado , no estaba en el hemiciclo. La mano derecha de Alberto Núñez Feijóo había puesto rumbo a Mérida para intentar acelerar la negociación con Vox y cumplir de ese modo con la máxima que Génova se había marcado tras las elecciones en Castilla y León : desbloquear la investidura de María Guardiola, la más problemática, de forma inmediata . El encuentro se había cerrado el día anterior. Pero no sirvió para cambiar los planes de Bambú. La presencia de Tellado —y también de Marta Varela , jefa de gabinete de Feijóo— no calma las aguas en Vox. Más bien todo lo contrario. Pero en Génova mantienen que los dos interlocutores nacionales del PP no sólo continuarán sentados en mesa de Mérida, sino que el patrón se repetirá en Aragón y Castilla y León con encuentros similares al que se celebró este miércoles en la capital extremeña. El líder del PP decidió intervenir en la negociación a finales de febrero ante el riesgo a una repetición electoral que ya agitaba en público el propio Abascal, y cuyas consecuencias podían ser demoledoras especialmente para los intereses nacionales de Feijóo . La dirección nacional extendió su manto sobre Aragón y Castilla y León, aunque lo cierto es que todo el PP daba por hecho que la operación sólo se había activado para salvar a Guardiola , donde más difícil se veía una salida. Pero Génova ratifica que habrá una silla reservada para Miguel Tellado en el resto de territorios. Feijóo insiste en que la autonomía de sus líderes autonómicos no está en duda, y de hecho les dará vía libre para definir el reparto de consejerías en sus respectivos ejecutivos. Pero quiere monitorizar el pacto programático, consciente de que la factura que Vox ponga en las tres regiones en liza impactará en la trascendental carrera andaluza . PP y Vox avanzan en Extremadura pero descartan un acuerdo antes de Semana Santa: "Imposible" Ana Belén Ramos Tellado ha viajado hoy a Mérida para reunirse junto a Guardiola con Vox. Ambas partes admiten "avances" y se emplazan a nuevas reuniones en los próximos días. Bambú fija entre sus prioridades "el fin de Mercosur" Ni en Génova ni en Bambú creen que los acuerdos estén ahora en peligro. Hay predisposición en ambas cúpulas por desatascar pactos que, según el entorno de Abascal, serán "independientes" unos de otros . A Feijóo le interesa por la estabilidad de su poder territorial , y a Abascal para evitar que en Andalucía se les perciba como un actor de bloqueo que incentive el voto útil hacia la papeleta de Juanma Moreno tras el frenazo que experimentaron el pasado 15 de marzo . Pero la supervisión de Tellado genera incomodidad en un Vox que lleva días agitando la tesis de que la dirección del PP busca boicotear desde Madrid a sus propios presidentes autonómicos. En la cúpula del partido ultraconservador han llegado a personificar incluso en el secretario general del PP una supuesta operación para intentar desestabilizarles a nivel nacional a través de supuestas filtraciones mediáticas sobre polémicas relativas a las cuentas del partido o de alentar la rebelión de los críticos de Vox, liderados por Iván Espinosa de los Monteros . "Todas las señales apuntan a una misma dirección", ratifican en la cúpula de Vox. "Es una estrategia que coincide con los intereses de Feijóo, pero que va en contra de los intereses de Guardiola y de sus presidentes ", lanzan. Espinosa de los Monteros: "Hay que ver euro por euro el dinero de Vox en un congreso a puerta cerrada" Borja Negrete El exportavoz de Vox descarta por el momento fundar un partido: "Ya monté un partido, se llama Vox y lo vamos a intentar recuperar". Lamenta la deriva ideológica de la formación y el dominio férreo de la cúpula "Extremadura, Aragón y Castilla y León pueden llegar a buen puerto si Génova deja de poner zancadillas ", afirmó Abascal en una entrevista para ABC el pasado domingo. "El problema es cuando la dirección del PP se mete de cualquier manera en las conversaciones para hacer un relato político", afianzó. Este miércoles, el portavoz de Economía de Vox, José María Figaredo , que también asistió a la reunión prevista para abordar cuestiones programáticas como la "bajada masiva de impuestos", celebró la buena sintonía que ahora tienen con Guardiola, pero lanzó también un dardo velado a Génova por supuestas filtraciones. "Otros muchos están tratando de sabotear constantemente el acuerdo , otros muchos están tratando de verter mentiras, falsedades o medias verdades con respecto al acuerdo", apuntó. Feijóo ha dado orden a sus portavoces nacionales, incluyendo al propio Tellado, de no ir al choque con los de Abascal pese a las acusaciones que llueven del campo contrario. Óscar Fernández , portavoz de Vox en Extremadura, compareció ante los medios en el Patio de los Naranjos de la Asamblea de Extremadura acompañado de dos dirigentes nacionales, Figaredo y el portavoz de Vivienda, Carlos Hernández Quero . Abel Bautista , número dos de Guardiola, lo hizo en solitario. Sin Tellado y sin Varela, que siguió la reunión de forma telemática . El (alto) precio de la factura de Vox Como publicó El Confidencial, y pese a la impaciencia de Génova por cerrar un acuerdo cuanto antes, Vox no quería desenredar la madeja territorial antes de Semana Santa . Preferían esperar a la vuelta para acercar los pactos territoriales a la campaña en Andalucía y tratar de condicionar a Juanma Moreno , reacio a los pactos con la ultraderecha, con la factura programática conseguida en el resto de comunidades autónomas. Horas decisivas para PP y Vox: contactos permanentes pero sin acuerdo para Guardiola Ana Belén Ramos Las conversaciones han continuado el fin de semana bajo el máximo secretismo, pero los dos partidos minimizan las opciones de desbloquear Extremadura esta semana. El reparto de la Mesa de las Cortes será el primer termómetro de Azcón con Vox A diferencia del PP, que no quiso airear los puntos concretos que se habían abordado en la reunión, Vox sí desveló los "compromisos" políticos que exigirá a los populares en los tres territorios en los que dependen de sus votos. Sólo trazaron líneas generales, pero suficientes como para aventurar que el precio de la investidura no será bajo . Hay cuestiones, como las de garantizar la "seguridad en las calles" , "vivienda accesible" o "bajada masiva de impuestos" en las que hay una coincidencia plena, pero otros puntos generan fricciones , como reconoció públicamente Abel Bautista. Desde Vox fijan como principio imprescindible, por ejemplo, el "fin de Mercosur y del Pacto Verde", a sabiendas de que el Partido Popular es el principal promotor del tratado comercial en Europa . Esta exigencia levantó cierta polvareda en las filas populares, que se abstienen no obstante de valorar las condiciones planteadas por los de Abascal. En Bambú dan prioridad absoluta también al "fin del despilfarro de dinero público" —una de sus peticiones pasaba precisamente por la eliminación de asociaciones ligadas a Igualdad— el "fin de las políticas de sustitución demográfica" o situar a "la familia en el centro", que hace referencia, por ejemplo, a la derogación de la ley LGTBi . La incógnita es el encaje que dará el PP a estas exigencias y su efecto en la "madre de todas las batallas" de las elecciones andaluzas.

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Feuer auf Kundentoilette im Einkaufszentrum Nordpark +++ Pfefferspray in Linienbus versprüht +++ A3 wird für Baustelle voll gesperrt +++ Liveblog zu Rhein-Main und Hessen

Der ländliche Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis ist keine gewaltfreie Idylle. Aus dem Kreis der drei sichersten Landkreise in Hessen ist er vorerst ausgeschieden. Allerdings gab es auch einen besonderen Fahndungserfolg.

The United States military reportedly launched airstrikes targeting the headquarters of Iraq's ​Iran-backed Shiite militia (PMF) and a residence belonging to its leader on ‌Tuesday, in an escalation of strikes against Tehran's prized militias. The latest strikes from the U.S. military follows a statement last week from Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said AH-64 helicopters "have been striking against Iranian-aligned militia groups to make sure that we suppress any threat in Iraq against U.S. forces or U.S. interests." In what appears to be an Iraqi threat against the U.S., Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement on Tuesday, "In light of the unjustified attacks and grave violations of Iraqi sovereignty, including the targeting of official security headquarters, the Council decided the following: To confront and respond to military attacks carried out by military aircraft and drones targeting the headquarters and formations of the Popular Mobilization Forces Commission and other formations of our armed forces, using available means, in accordance with the right to respond and self-defense." US WARNS IRAQ MUST ACT AGAINST IRAN-BACKED MILITIA ATTACKS ON AMERICAN ASSETS Sudani also said Iraq’s foreign ministry planned to summon the U.S. chargé d’affaires and separately the Iranian ambassador on Wednesday. The PMF is part of Sudani's government. An Iraqi Kurdish government official said to Fox News Digital, "So what the Iraqi government will now fight the Americans?" When asked about the Iraqi Kurdish government official’s comment, a spokesperson for Iraq’s embassy in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital, "Absolutely not. It is against elements that target them." According to the Times of Israel, a fresh airstrike on Wednesday hit the PMF in western Iraq. "Two missiles were fired from a fighter jet" at a base in Anbar province, a security official said. The Anbar base was also reportedly struck by U.S. forces on Tuesday. The Iraqi embassy spokesman said, responding to additional Fox News Digital press questions, that he lacked the current information to comment regarding the fast-moving developments in Iraq. The PMF has launched attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Israel and other American assets in the region, especially in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, following the U.S.-Israel joint attack on the Islamic Republic on Feb. 28. Over the years, the PMF has been accused of killing American military personnel in the Middle East. DEFIANT IRAN VOWS TO FIGHT 'UNTIL COMPLETE VICTORY,' DESPITE HEAVY MILITARY LOSSES PMF leader Falih al-Fayadh was not present when his residence was hit in the northern city of ​Mosul on Tuesday. At least 15 PMF terrorists were killed in other ⁠airstrikes that hit a headquarters of the group in Iraq's Euphrates valley ​province of Anbar, according to sources and a statement from the group. The Kurdish government official told Fox News Digital on Tuesday: "The militias are brazenly doing Iran’s bidding . They’ve attacked U.S. forces and diplomats, Iraq’s own intelligence services, French troops, and the KRG’s Peshmerga [Kurdish Regional Government]. Energy and civilian infrastructure haven’t been spared. This does not require analysis — these groups openly claim responsibility." The Kurdish official added: "So why does the Iraqi government continue to pay those it itself describes as terrorists and criminals? There are four principal groups: Harakat al-Nujaba, Kataeb Hezbollah, Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada and Asaib Ahl al-Haq. This government is unwilling to defend its own interests, let alone those of its partners. At this point, the distinction between the PMF and the state is increasingly hard to discern." Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior non-resident fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and an expert on the PMF, told Fox News Digital there was a "sense of delusion" during the Biden administration, which tried to differentiate between the PMF and six of its pro-Iran militia members that are U.S.-designated terrorist entities. She said the recent strikes clearly "show that the U.S. is tired of this inane distinction," Tsurkov said. She stressed the "entire PMF structure is a problem." Tsurkov, who was held hostage by the pro-Iranian regime, Kataib Hezbollah, for two and half years in Iraq, said, "The U.S. possesses immense leverage over Iraq. The U.S. can sanction certain ministries and certain directors generals." She added that the U.S. can also sanction Iraqi banks that transfer money to Iran. Tsurkov said the PMF are highly sensitive to U.S. strikes on their top leadership. The PMF movement is reeling from the devastating alleged U.S. airstrikes. The dead included its operations commander, Saad al-Baiji. The statement said ​U.S. forces had targeted a command headquarters in Anbar while personnel were on ​duty. The security sources said the strikes were hit during a meeting attended by senior commanders. TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST ENVOY REVEALS WHAT LED TO BREAKDOWN IN IRAN TALKS BEFORE OPERATION EPIC FURY A State Department official told Fox News Digital, "The United States strongly condemns the widespread attacks by Iran and Iran-backed militias against U.S. citizens and targets associated with the United States throughout Iraq, including U.S. diplomatic personnel and facilities." The official continued: "As Secretary Rubio has said, the Iraqi government must take all measures to safeguard U.S. diplomatic personnel and facilities and ensure militia groups cannot use Iraqi territory to threaten the United States, our Iraqi partners, or the region. Doing so is in Iraq’s interest. Continued attacks by Iran-backed militias undermine Iraq’s stability and risk drawing Iraq into a broader regional conflict." A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command referred Fox News Digital to the White House and to the Office of the Secretary of War for comment on the administration’s policy. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Pentagon for comment. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a security alert warning: "Iraq Iran-aligned terrorist militias have conducted widespread attacks on U.S. citizens and targets associated with the United States throughout Iraq, including the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR). U.S. citizens should leave Iraq now." Fox News Digital reached out to the Israel Defense Forces regarding Israel's role in the ongoing strikes against Iran-backed militias. Reuters contributed to this report.

"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.

Elle prévoit une croissance du produit intérieur brut (PIB) de 0,9% en 2026 ainsi qu'une inflation à 1,7%, après 0,9% en 2025.

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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 .

Sur les écrans en France, un conte qui nous vient de Colombie, La couleuvre noire du réalisateur français Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux. Tourné dans le désert de la Tatacoa, le film nous raconte l'histoire de ce territoire oublié, raviné par les vents du désert, et sa légende fondatrice, celle de la couleuvre noire, qui se transmet de génération en génération. Un récit de transmission sur une terre désolée et fascinante.

Les turbulences n'en finissent plus de secouer le parti d'opposition Les Démocrates à l'approche de l'élection présidentielle au Bénin. Après les séquences de démissions en cascade, puis la guerre de succession pour la direction du parti, voici venu le temps des ralliements surprenants d'ex-personnalités du parti en faveur d'autres candidats. Le fils de Boni Yayi, Chabi Yayi, ex-responsable des relations extérieures du parti, et Guy Mitokpè, voix reconnue de l'opposition, ont tous deux décidé d'apporter leur soutien à un candidat, Romuald Wadagni, dauphin désigné par le président Patrice Talon.

Depuis le début de la guerre, le 28 février, l’Iran est plongé dans un huis clos numérique. Cette coupure des communications vers l’extérieur et la limitation des contacts internes intensifient l’incertitude de la population qui ne peut ni s’informer de la réelle situation du pays, ni faire entendre sa voix.

A Hong Kong air-conditioner technician was critically injured after falling from a ladder in Tsuen Wan on Thursday morning. Police said they received a report at 9.18am that the man, who is in his sixties, had fallen while working at a building at 88 Yeung Uk Road. The man was unconscious as he was taken to Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, the force said. “As of 11.45am, the worker was admitted to the intensive care unit,” a police spokesman said. Fay Siu Sin-man, chief executive of the...

As the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, China’s top legislator, Zhao Leji, has told the Boao Forum for Asia – a high-level gathering of governments and business leaders – that power politics should be rejected in favour of economic development and conflicts should be resolved through negotiations. “The people of Asia, having endured the scourge of war and chaos, deeply understand the value of peace and stability,” said Zhao, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, China’s...

The Iran war has deflected global attention from Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbour Ukraine as Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II enters its fifth year and an emboldened Kremlin undertakes a spring offensive. The past week showed that neither side was easing up. Russia on Tuesday fired almost 1,000 drones and 34 missiles at Ukraine in one of the war’s biggest bombardments. The following day Ukraine launched almost 400 drones in the largest reported overnight attack on Russian...

Drei zugelassene Hersteller werden genauer unter die Lupe genommen. Der Vorstoß ist Teil der seit Jahren andauernden politischen Auseinandersetzung um Abtreibungsrechte.

Der Verteidigungsminister stellt einen Beitrag Deutschlands zur Absicherung einer Waffenruhe in Aussicht und bezeichnet den Konflikt als „Katastrophe für die Volkswirtschaften der Welt“.

Kann man die Rechtsextremen besiegen, indem man mit ihnen chattet? Markus Lanz kämpft im Dialog mit EVP-Chef Weber für Ehrlichkeit in der Politik – am Ende siegt der Pragmatismus.

Seit Beginn des Krieges im Iran warnen Ökonomen vor steigender Inflation. Hohe Kosten für Energie könnten die Preise auf breiter Front treiben, heißt es. An einigen Stellen ist das bereits sichtbar. Von Sebastian Schreiber. [ mehr ]

Falls es zu einer Waffenruhe kommt, könnte Deutschland nach den Worten von Verteidigungsminister Pistorius dazu seinen Beitrag leisten. US-Präsident Trump beharrt auf seiner Aussage, dass Verhandlungen mit Iran stattfinden - trotz Dementi aus Teheran. [ mehr ]

Jahrhundertelang wurden Afrikanerinnen und Afrikaner versklavt. Das sei das "schwerste Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit" gewesen, erklärt die UN-Generalversammlung. Nicht alle Länder stimmten für die Resolution.[ mehr ]

US president claims Iranian negotiators fear being killed by their own side; Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US and Iran ‘signalling a willingness to negotiate’ Iran rejects US ceasefire plan and submits its own amid push for talks Analysis: Trump pitches Iran peace plan but military buildups rarely veer to off-ramp An Iranian envoy has said South Korean ships can pass through the strait of Hormuz only after coordinating with Tehran , the Yonhap News Agency has reported. Such an agreement had to be reached in advance of the transit, said Saeed Khuzechi , the Iranian ambassador to South Korea, at a press conference in response to a question about guarantees for South Korean vessels to navigate the vital conduit for oil. Continue reading...

Homebuyers lose confidence amid higher rates and Iran war-linked price rises across the economy, buyers agent says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Surging numbers of homes are being passed in at auction as higher interest rates weigh on demand and the number of properties for sale hits highs not seen since 2021. The national auction clearance rate last week was just under 57%, the lowest this year, with Sydney’s at 55%, Cotality data shows. The remainder includes both houses that did not sell at auction and houses withdrawn before auction. Continue reading...

Watchdog issues formal guidance to trustees at top AI research institute after staff expressed concerns The board of the UK’s leading AI research institute has been reminded of its legal duties in areas such as financial oversight and managing organisational change by the charity watchdog after a whistleblower complaint . The Charity Commission has issued formal regulatory advice and guidance to trustees at the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) – the organisation’s board – after it was contacted by a group of staff with a list of concerns. Continue reading...