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La Policía Nacional ha abierto una investigación a raíz de la denuncia presentada por una maestra de una escuela de Educación Infantil de la localidad alicantina de Elda por la agresión sufrida presuntamente a manos de una madre de un alumno, que le dio un bofetón a la docente. Fuentes de Educación y de la investigación han señalado a EFE que la víctima, a la que una madre agredió con argumento de que ésta había pegado previamente a su hijo , pertenece a la escuela infantil Nuevo Almafrà y ya ha denunciado. Desde la Conselleria de Educación han recalcado que se ha activado el protocolo de agresiones en este centro , el Nuevo Almafrà de Elda, tras la denuncia. Este plan tiene dos partes: el registro y la comunicación de accidente laboral, que lleva incluida la solicitud de asistencia jurídica al profesor, recuerdan desde el departamento de Campanar. El Ayuntamiento condena lo ocurrido El Ayuntamiento de Elda, a través de la Concejalía de Educación, se suma a las direcciones de los colegios de Infantil, Primaria, Educación Especial y Escuelas Infantiles de la educación pública de la población en su condena a unos hechos que "atentan contra la convivencia y la seguridad en los centros educativos". El equipo de goboerno municipal subraya que los centros escolares "deben ser espacios de respeto mutuo y seguridad, pilares irrenunciables para el desarrollo de la labor docente y el aprendizaje del alumnado". En este sentido, la institución municipal rechaza "firmemente cualquier tipo de violencia , ya sea física o verbal, y se compromete a seguir trabajando codo con codo con la comunidad educativa para garantizar entornos escolares libres de agresiones". El gobierno local ha trasladado "todo el apoyo humano, emocional y profesional a la maestra agredida": "No está sola; cuenta con el respaldo total de este Ayuntamiento y de toda la ciudad de Elda ante una situación que bajo ningún concepto puede normalizarse ni justificarse", aseveran. "La importancia de proteger" a los profesores En la misma línea, remarcan que es "fundamental reflexionar como sociedad sobre la importancia de proteger y valorar la figura de nuestros docentes". "No se puede educar en el respeto si no se respeta a quien educa , y por ello se seguirá abogando por un sistema educativo basado en la tolerancia y la profesionalidad de quienes, día tras día, trabajan por el futuro de nuestros niños y niñas", obsevan. "Como ciudad reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de seguir apoyando a nuestros centros educativos y a sus profesionales, garantizando que Elda sea una ciudad donde la convivencia y el respeto mutuo sean las señas de identidad de nuestro sistema escolar", agregan. El Ayuntamiento de Elda reitera su disposición para ofrecer todo el acompañamiento necesario a la docente y al centro educativo, colaborando estrechamente con las autoridades correspondientes para que se tomen las medidas oportunas ante este lamentable incidente, reafirmando que el respeto a la comunidad educativa es una línea roja que no se debe cruzar.

Los sindicatos CCOO, UGT, Semaf y SF han dado luz verde a los llamados gráficos de línea, es decir, a los horarios y servicios que los maquinistas de Rodalies tienen que cumplir en toda la red, según han informado fuentes sindicales a la ACN. Con la aprobación de este documento, se da un primer paso para recuperar el servicio total en la R4 , que estaba paralizado por la falta de consenso en este ámbito. Así mismo, el acuerdo permitirá cumplir con los horarios de los trenes que circulaban por vía única por los túneles del Garraf, zona que actualmente está en obras. Además, el acuerdo también prevé que los nuevos horarios se implementen el próximo martes, pero Renfe todavía tiene que anunciar como quedará el servicio. Durante la votación, los sindicatos Alferro y CGT han votado en contra de los horarios y servicios que los maquinistas tienen que cumplir.

El lanzamiento de Artemis II tiene enganchado a medio mundo, ya que supone el regreso del ser humano a la Luna después de 50 años. El despegue desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy fue todo un éxito y hubo quienes pudieron verlo desde su propia casa. Ejemplo de ello es Anthony Fernandez, un joven que ha compartido en sus redes sociales varios vídeos en los que aparece presenciando este momento en directo, tanto en la televisión como en el jardín de su vivienda. En primer lugar, hizo un vídeo explicativo sobre la misión. " Se supone que desde donde estoy voy a poder verlo porque la estación está en esa dirección", apuntó en una de las secuencias, señalando con el dedo el punto exacto por donde sobrevolaría el cohete. Tras seguir por la televisión la cuenta atrás del despegue, Anthony salió al patio muy emocionado, pero no vio nada en el cielo. Segundos más tarde, uno de sus familiares distinguió el vehículo espacial y se escucharon gritos de júbilo y felicidad. "Esto es muy loco. No puede ser. Guau. Es increíble. Mira los aviones, van a chocar con él. La gente que va en ellos lo ven desde la ventanilla ", agregaban a la vez que presenciaban el histórico momento. Para verlo con mayor exactitud, Anthony incluso se hizo con unos prismáticos y enfocó con ellos a la nave. "Yo tenía seis años cuando la primera vez", apuntó la que parece ser su madre, refiriéndose a la única vez que el hombre ha llegado a pisar la Luna. "Un momento para la historia" , fue la frase que compartió en la publicación que subió a su perfil sobre lo sucedido. En la mañana de después, el joven compartió otro vídeo en el que quiso intentar expresar cómo se siente después de todo y agradecer a la gente que ha visto sus publicaciones al respecto: "Aquí ando, muchachos, en el patio donde ocurrió la magia, la historia, donde conseguí mi video más viral en Instagram. No sé cómo sentirme, me escribieron muchas personas". " Fue un momento mágico, no tengo palabras para describir lo que pasó ", concluyó. El lanzamiento de Artemis II desde un avión Así como Anthony Fernández vio el lanzamiento de Artemis II desde su jardín, otras personas lo presenciaron desde las alturas, ya que en ese mismo instante se encontraban viajando en un avión. Las redes se han llenado de vídeos en los que diferentes usuarios han compartido las secuencias exactas en las que vivieron el momento. "¡ Una vista genial de un pedacito de historia! ", comentó uno de ellos.

Al Jazeera's defence editor looks at how the US-Israeli attack on Iran has become a regional war

A military operation would pose chemical, logistical, and tactical hurdles, experts say.

Iranian state media released footage showing the launch of missiles plastered with messages mocking Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump walks from the Blue Room to speak about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool) 2026-04-02T15:27:10Z WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has privately discussed the possibility of firing Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. In those conversations, Trump has discussed his ongoing frustration with Bondi over her handing of the Jeffrey Epstein files and hurdles the Justice Department has encountered in investigations into Trump’s perceived enemies, the people said. The Republican president has mentioned other candidates but has raised Zeldin’s name as recently as this week, the people said. The people were not authorized to publicly discuss the private conversations and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity. No decision has been announced, and Trump has been known to change his mind on personnel decisions. 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); }); “Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job,” Trump said in a statement produced by the White House. 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NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) 2026-04-02T14:58:46Z CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s moonbound astronauts have reason to celebrate, and not just because their launch went so well . Their toilet is now working. The so-called lunar loo malfunctioned as soon as the Artemis II crew reached orbit Wednesday evening. Mission Control guided astronaut Christina Koch through some plumbing tricks and she finally got it going. The bad news is that it’s so cold inside the Orion capsule — 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celsius) — that the four astronauts are digging into suitcases for long-sleeved clothes. Mission Control is trying to warm things up. The three Americans and one Canadian are on track to bust out of orbit around Earth on Thursday night and zoom to the moon for a lunar fly-around. It will be Mission Control’s first translunar injection since Apollo’s swan song in 1972. Until then, the astronauts are savoring the views of Earth from tens of thousands of miles (kilometers) high. Koch told Mission Control that they can make out the entire coastlines of continents and even the South Pole, her old stomping ground. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); “It is just absolutely phenomenal,” radioed Koch, who spent a year at an Antarctic research station before joining NASA. The mission is due to end with a Pacific splashdown on April 10. 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That station potty barely saw any use and has been out of order for years. Known as the universal waste management system, the compact toilet uses air suction instead of water and gravity to remove waste, similar to earlier space toilets. It’s also designed to better accommodate female astronauts. 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); }); Koch and her crewmates had to resort to a bag and funnel system for urinating until she got the toilet working overnight. Any toilet — even a fitful one — is better than none if you ask any of the six surviving Apollo astronauts. 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Tina Peters, former Mesa County, Colo., clerk, listens during her trial, March 3, 2023, in Grand Junction, Colo. (Scott Crabtree/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, Pool, File) 2026-04-02T15:08:03Z DENVER (AP) — A Colorado appeals court ruled Thursday that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that attempted to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced. Tina Peters is serving a nine-year prison term after being convicted of state crimes for sneaking in an outside computer expert to make a copy of her county’s election computer system during a software update in 2021. A photo and video of confidential voting system passwords were later posted on social media and a conservative website. Judges on the Colorado Court of Appeals said that a judge should not have considered Peters’ continued promotion of election fraud conspiracies when he sentenced her in 2024. 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The Justice Department inserted itself into Peters’ bid to be released while her state appeal was considered. The federal Bureau of Prisons tried to get Peters moved to a federal prison. After both efforts failed, Trump announced a pardon for Peters, which was considered symbolic since Colorado says it doesn’t apply to her state convictions. 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); }); But in January, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said he was considering granting clemency for Peters, calling her sentence “unusual and harsh“ for a first-time, non-violent offender. Peters was convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one count each of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failure to comply with the requirements of the secretary of state. Peters’ lawyers didn’t deny that she used the security badge of a local man she pretended to hire to allow the an associate of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to make a copy of the Dominion Voting Systems election computer server during an annual software update in 2021. But they said she only wanted to preserve election data and find out whether any outside actor had accessed the system while ballots were being counted. They said she didn’t want the information made public. MATTHEW BROWN Brown is based in Billings, Montana. He covers breaking news, the environment, politics, energy, crime and more.

El dispositivo, de apenas unos centímetros de tamaño y alrededor de 15 kilos de peso, fue desarrollado por científicos e ingenieros de universidades públicas y empresas privadas del país sudamericano.

Institutos públicos y consultoras privadas coinciden en que tener un empleo registrado ya no es un reaseguro contra la pobreza en Argentina.

La gran obra de Da Vinci comenzó a deteriorarse muy poco después de acabada. Muchos trataron de salvarla sin éxito hasta que llegó la talentosa restauradora Pinin Brambilla.

The helmet and three golden bracelets were stolen in January 2025, but one bracelet is yet to be found.

The Artemis II crew are now hurtling around the Earth's orbit, carrying out final tests and checks before they head towards the Moon.

The suspect is in custody but his motive is unknown, the police say in a brief statement.

Selon un arrêté de la préfecture de l'Aisne, la teneur maximale en cadmium des eaux rejetées après traitement via la station d'épuration industrielle de la fonderie Le Creuset à Fresnoy-le-Grand été dépassée "7 fois de février 2025 à octobre 2025".

Ce jeudi 2 avril, dans sa chronique USA Today, John Plassard, associé, responsable de la stratégie d'investissement de Cité Gestion, s'est penché sur le discours décevant de Donald Trump sur le conflit au Moyen-Orient, l'impact de ce discours sur les bourses européennes et les prix du pétrole, l'inquiétude de la Banque mondiale face aux conséquences économiques de la guerre en Iran, les difficultés de KKR et Cliffwater avec les fonds privés, et le lancement de l'IPO de SpaceX .Cette chronique est à voir ou écouter du lundi au vendredi dans l'émission BFM Bourse présentée par Antoine Larigaudrie sur BFM Business.

Ce jeudi 2 avril, dans sa chronique USA Today, John Plassard, associé, responsable de la stratégie d'investissement de Cité Gestion, s'est penché sur le discours décevant de Donald Trump sur le conflit au Moyen-Orient, l'impact de ce discours sur les bourses européennes et les prix du pétrole, l'inquiétude de la Banque mondiale face aux conséquences économiques de la guerre en Iran, les difficultés de KKR et Cliffwater avec les fonds privés, et le lancement de l'IPO de SpaceX .Cette chronique est à voir ou écouter du lundi au vendredi dans l'émission BFM Bourse présentée par Antoine Larigaudrie sur BFM Business.

Zendaya und Robert Pattinson spielen in »Das Drama – alles auf Anfang« ein glückliches Paar. Bis eine einfache Frage wenige Tage vor der Hochzeit alles infrage stellt und ein Ringen um die Wahrheit beginnt.

Portugal verkauft knapp 45 Prozent der staatlichen Airline TAP und die Lufthansa ist interessiert. Lissabon könnte für den deutschen Konzern damit zum Drehkreuz für Südamerika werden. Doch es gibt noch einen weiteren Bieter.

Die hohen Spritpreise zwingen Deutschland in eine Tempolimit-Debatte. Das Finanzministerium konkretisiert die Pläne für eine Reform des Ehegattensplittings. Und Wladimir Putin hat Angst vor Pappfiguren. Das ist die Lage am Donnerstagabend.

Angesichts der Blockade der Straße von Hormus und gezielter iranischer Angriffe auf Raffinerien in den Golfstaaten wächst die Sorge um die Ölversorgung. Steht der Markt vor dem nächsten Preisschock?

Olympiasiegerin Caster Semenya sieht sich immer wieder Diskussionen um ihr Geschlecht ausgesetzt. Nun übt sie Kritik an einer neuen Regel, die Athletinnen mit Abweichungen in der Geschlechtsentwicklung benachteiligt.

Ostern steht vor der Tür und mit ihm bunte Eier, Schokoladenhasen und eine reiche Symbolik. Denn das Osterküken, der Osterhase und das lodernde Osterfeuer haben eine lange Tradition, die älter ist als das Christentum.

Die Regierung erwägt laut Medienberichten das Aus für die kostenlose Mitversicherung von Ehepartnern bei der Krankenversicherung. Sozialverbände und Opposition schlagen Alarm.

Die Bundeswehr hat nach den Vorwürfen von Sexismus, Extremismus und Betäubungsmittel-Verstößen gegen eine Fallschirmjäger-Einheit neue Zahlen zu personellen Konsequenzen vorgelegt. Auch organisatorisch soll gegensteuert werden.

Ein einzigartiges Bauwerk, jahrelanger Streit, nun ein klares Urteil: Die Eigentümerin der Hamburger Schilleroper muss das historische Stahltragwerk sichern. Die Stadt wertet das als Erfolg für den Denkmalschutz.

Hay preguntas existenciales que nos atenazan a todos y, como ocurre debido a la neblina que nos impide desentrañarlas (quizá ahora más que nunca), llevarlas al teatro no resulta tan sencillo. Fernanda Orazi (Buenos Aires, 1975) , actriz, directora y dramaturga -y con un par de Max a sus espaldas- lleva un tiempo cuestionándose sobre qué es esto del vivir, del estar por aquí y de la (verdadera) libertad de nuestras acciones (y, ya si nos ponemos, quién es el creador de todo esto). Lo mismo que hiciera Miguel de Unamuno hace más de un siglo. El vasco lo plasmó, entre otros textos, en la famosa novela (nivola) Niebla en 1914 (aunque la escribió en 1907); Orazi la ha cogido, la ha pasado por la batidora teatral y ha parido su Niebla, que es una adaptación y no lo es, y que comienza como un cohete organiquísimo , pero luego se espesa, se embadurna y cuesta la digestión. No es fácil lo que ha intentado Orazi y casi le sale. Y, por eso, tiene hallazgos, deslumbres. Se puede ver hasta el 12 de abril en Nave 10 del Matadero de Madrid (y quedan entradas). Unamuno creó al personaje de Augusto Pérez, niño bien que se desvive entre problemas de “amoríos” -muy bien pillado esto en la obra, “porque son amoríos, el amor es otra cosa”- existenciales y masculinos. Que esto último seguramente tampoco lo vio tan claro el vasco, pero Orazi sí. Son los ojos de 2026. La historia que se nos cuenta es la de un Pérez -fabuloso Juan Paños , ya hablaremos- que tras seguir a una mujer -muy bien Leticia Etala - hasta su portal “con los ojos imantados” por tal figura -también hoy se nos deja claro que esto bien no está- se declara perdidamente enamorado. Y ahí comenzarán sus cuitas sobre el amor (amoríos) porque por ahí se cuela Rosario (seductora y triste Carmen Angulo ), su planchadora, completamente enamorada de él (y él tampoco desaprovechará la situación aunque no lo esté, lo que lleva a que se deje traslucir cierta crítica a comportamientos masculinos, otra cosa que Unamuno tampoco vio); y los consejos de su amigo Víctor, su perro Orfeo y, finalmente, el creador, “el encargado”, el propio Unamuno -aunque aquí desaparecido de escena-, porque, quién al fin y al cabo ha llevado hasta allí a Augusto si no ha sido su creador. Y más allá: ¿quién ha llevado hasta allí a Unamuno? Está es la filosófica metaficción en la que incurre el escritor (un siglo antes de la manoseada autoficción actual). Una gran novela modernista; una obra de teatro… complicada. El pensamiento es difícil de llevar a la acción. Y, sin embargo, Orazi ha construido un artefacto que se inicia como un torpedo lleno de situaciones surrealistas, con muchísimo eco del teatro del absurdo (sí, por aquí resuenan Beckett y Ionesco , además de los cuadros de Magritte y Chirico con sus bombines: hay escenas que son prácticamente ese tipo de lienzos) con un humor afilado y agradable al mismo tiempo. Los cinco actores - Carmen Angulo, Javier Ballesteros, Leticia Etala , Juan Paños más la directora Orazi conforman la compañía Pílades, quienes ya pusieron en marcha las interesantes Electra y La Persistencia- aparecen en escena con un Paños que se convierte en el personaje de ficción Augusto en cuanto se pone unos zapatos y sin poderlo evitar sigue a Eugenia hasta su casa. Orazi ha construido un artefacto que se inicia como un torpedo de situaciones surrealistas y con muchísimo humor afilado, al hueso Más hallazgos: estupendo el perro Orfeo que interpreta Javier Ballesteros , magistral Paños como Augusto porque vemos al clown, al personaje ficticio al que le duele no poder desasirse de las cadenas que le impone su creador, al que la vida le lleva aquí y allá sin saber cómo (¿como a todos?). Es un hombre que parece un niño, que nos da pena (y que se queja por ello). Hay muchísima frescura en la dirección , rompiendo la cuarta, la quinta, la sexta pared. Orazi juega con todo el teatro -que está prácticamente limpio a excepción de una puerta, un diván, un árbol, y un paisaje móviles: no hace falta más- y eso le da muchísimo movimiento, sobre todo cuando parece que la obra, después de un gran inicio, se encalla en cierto bucle repetitivo. Ahí es cuando nos vamos un poco como espectadores. Demasiada filosofía. Vuelve a coger carrerilla hacia el final. Regresa ese humor del inicio y ese combate metafísico del personaje con el autor (aquí hay, obviamente, ecos de Pirandello ) en el que, por supuesto, el primero tiene todas las de perder (y, ojo, tampoco te enfrentes nunca con tu creador, nos dice la obra). Está bien traída la idea de enfrentarse a un telón, pero también es verdad que llegamos un tanto exhaustos de simbolismo. Juan Paños frente a un cielo a lo Magritte. (Geraldine Leloutre) La novela de Unamuno ha sido adaptada en varias ocasiones. Queda constancia de dos adaptaciones televisivas, una en 1965 interpretada por Agustín González y Fernando Guillén, contada a modo de fábula -más simplificada, más trama que símbolo- y que constaba de cinco capítulos de 25 minutos. Supongo que se trataba de acercar un clásico literario al gran público (y no salía mal, aunque sí que chirrían a día de hoy esas relaciones del pobre Augusto con las mujeres); en 1976, Fernando Méndez-Leite también lo adaptó en un telefilme con Gerardo Malla como Augusto, Mónica Randall como Eugenia, Miguel Rellán como Víctor y Luis Prendes como Unamuno. Aquí la figura del escritor era absolutamente fundamental: estaba más pegada al texto original. Orazi ha intentado hacer otra cosa muy distinta. Es una propuesta muchísimo más formal (y por ahí es por donde se pierde a veces) despojada de múltiples personajes (el propio Unamuno), pero muchísimo más fresca que las ya añejas adaptaciones televisivas. Orazi hace teatro de hoy con las preguntas de ayer, pero que siguen vigentes en la actualidad. Ya solo eso, como propuesta inteligente y por sumergirse en un filósofo como el vasco en los tiempos nebulosos que corren, es digno de aplauso (aunque no lo haya cuajado).

Las gradas de Cornellà-El Prat supusieron un problema de animación durante el España-Egipto. Los cánticos de "musulmán el que no bote" dieron la vuelta al mundo y pasaron del terreno de juego al Congreso de los Diputados y a los despachos, donde la gran mayoría de políticos españoles salieron con celeridad a condenar los hechos. También lo hizo la Real Federación Española de Fútbol, con Luis de la Fuente y su presidente, Rafael Louzán, al mando tras el encuentro. El escándalo, en vistas del Mundial de 2030 junto a Marruecos y Portugal, superó cualquier frontera física. Todo ello mientras la disputa de la final del Mundial sigue en el aire, ya que el país magrebí hace fuerza por el Gran Estadio de Casablanca y España empuja por llevarla al Santiago Bernabéu. Asimismo, cabe recordar que la candidatura española no hubiese ganado sin los votos africanos trabajados por Marruecos. El conflicto en las gradas ha abierto una brecha institucional que la RFEF trabaja por suturar. Por otra parte, el RCDE Stadium acogió el España-Albania de 2022 con un éxito total, donde el seleccionador Luis Enrique aseguró que "nunca había vivido un partido en el que el ambiente fuera tan determinante . Es imposible que tardemos 18 años más en jugar en Barcelona. Me hubiera sabido mal no ofrecer la victoria a una afición que ha empujado como no recuerdo", afirmó. El dolor de Lamine Yamal el día en que una parte de Barcelona cantó "musulmán el que no bote" Albert Ortega. Barcelona El jugador del FC Barcelona se marchó muy afectado de Cornellà-El Prat y no formó parte de la vuelta de honor que protagonizaron los jugadores de la Selección Española en el campo. También se pitó el himno de Egipto ¿Pero qué sucedió este martes para que se produjeran cánticos islamófobos investigados ahora por los Mossos d'Esquadra? El Confidencial habla con el grupo Barcelona con la Selección, una asociación "sin ánimo de lucro, apolítica y apartidista, donde solo nos mueve la Selección española y sus deportistas" y que se encargó de coordinar la grada de animación en 2022, donde desplegó una pancarta enorme. Entonces no se registraron incidentes y, si bien es cierto que Albania cuenta con aproximadamente un 50% de musulmanes, el país europeo no es Egipto. "Nos prohibieron el micrófono" Solo cuatro años después de aquella fiesta, las crónicas ambientales del encuentro cambiaron por completo su tono positivo. Ahora se espera una multa a la Real Federación Española de Fútbol por parte de la FIFA . "Lo que vivimos en el estadio fue vergonzoso, asqueroso y deleznable ", explican desde Barcelona con la Selección, quienes se situaron en los sectores 109 y 110 y compraron entre 1.800 y 1.900 entradas compradas con un 40% de descuento en un canal exclusivo. El fondo del RCDE Stadium alcanza las 3.000 personas si se cuentan todos los sectores. Desde Barcelona con la Selección se desvinculan de los cánticos e insultos que brotaron desde ese sector. "Una hora antes del partido, la RFEF nos comunicó que no dispondríamos de megafonía y les advertimos de que podría haber problemas en la grada a la hora de coordinar los cánticos". NdP referente a los cánticos racistas en RCDE Stadium: Barcelona con la Selección se desvincula de todos loscánticos y reivindica una animación organizada y respetuosa https://t.co/vSio2Gozxk ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/9EkwQgFk5j — Barcelona con la Selección (@bcnconseleccion) April 1, 2026 " La RFEF nos desautorizó y la animación fue un desastre de principio a fin. A las 20:00, una hora antes del partido, ya estábamos dentro del campo. De la excelente coordinación en 2022, con Luis Rubiales de presidente en una situación política que era mucho peor que la actual, se pasó a lo del martes. Por entonces no hubo ningún problema y quisimos repetir lo mismo, nos dijeron que sin problema, pero luego no nos dejaron ". Sobre la prohibición de portar micrófono para coordinar a la grada de animación de Cornellà-El Prat, desde la RFEF responden que los micrófonos están prohibidos en los estadios de fútbol y que Barcelona con la Selección no tenía autorización para ello. " Teníamos los cánticos preparados y la fan zone funcionó perfectamente, con mucha gente desde poco después de las 17:00 de la tarde a pesar de ser un día laboral. Al no dejarnos tener el micrófono para coordinar al público, era mucho más difícil anular cualquier cántico indeseado y controlar la situación". También exponen que desde la RFEF no se les brindó ninguna explicación, se desmarcan del fracaso ambiental y afirman que fallaron los controles a la hora de vender entradas, sin los cribados necesarios en materia de seguridad. La RFEF defiende sus decisiones Según fuentes de la RFEF consultadas por este periódico, el organismo que rige el fútbol español defiende que activó todos los protocolos necesarios . La RFEF habló con los árbitros, con los miembros de la delegación egipcia y expuso en sus redes sociales y en los videomarcadores su rechazo a cualquier cántico xenófobo. En este sentido, miembros de la Federación aseguran que "no hubo ningún tipo de dejación de funciones". Eso sí, el partido nunca se llegó a interrumpir. Rafael Louzán, presidente de la RFEF, sobre los cánticos en el España - Egipto."Condenamos este tipo de actitudes". pic.twitter.com/jp3thN8ej4 — RFEF (@rfef) March 31, 2026 Del mismo modo, también sostienen que el cribado a la hora de vender entradas no le corresponde al grupo , sino al ticketing de la RFEF , igual que la seguridad. "Se atribuyen trabajos que no les corresponden", rematan. Si en 2022 la sintonía entre Barcelona con la Selección y la RFEF fue absoluta, con montaje de un equipo de megafonía y altavoces para animar, en 2026 el escenario ha cambiado por completo.

Entre lo divino y lo terreno se mueve el ojo-objetivo de Paolo Sorrentino ; entre lo pop y lo eterno , también. Con qué maestría se desenvuelve el cineasta italiano para bailar alrededor de un concepto como es el de la "Gracia", "la belleza de la duda" , acompañado de esos personajes que tan bien representan las flaquezas de lo humano, fauna histriónica fácilmente reconocible en esos mundillos en los que las apariencias lo sostienen todo, aunque sea con alfileres. Sorrentino, el italiano moderno que más y mejor ha relatado los males endémicos de la política italiana -y Vaticana-, absuelve esta vez a un político honesto, el presidente de la República de Italia Mariano De Santis ( Toni Servillo ), también conocido a sus espaldas con el apodo de Hormigón Armado, por su rumia lenta, pesada e implacable en la toma de decisiones. En la época del peor populismo, Sorrentino se inventa -qué pena- al hombre más íntegro desde el cine de Frank Capra . De Santis es un presidente ya de salida: en seis meses abandonará el Palazzo del Quirinale . Autor de uno de los manuales de derecho más complejos -el K3, lo llamaban los alumnos, puesto que es imposible de escalar-, De Santis debe firmar -o no- una última ley, la de la eutanasia , auspiciada por su hija y colaboradora Dorotea ( Anna Ferzetti ). La otra de sus tribulaciones pasa por descubrir quién fue el amante secreto de su mujer, recientemente fallecida, de la que sigue desesperadamente enamorado. Dos cuestiones que pasan por llegar a ese punto de discernimiento, a esa Grazia, que iluminará su camino. Tráiler de 'La Grazia' De Santis, que llegó a la presidencia batiendo a un político extremista, también debe decidir si le concede el indulto a una mujer que mató a su marido maltratador -es una forma de eutanasia, de liberarlo de su enfermedad", alega ella, y a un profesor de instituto, muy querido por sus alumnos, que acabó con la vida de su mujer, enferma de alzhéimer , a la que aún seguía enviando cartas de amor. ¡Qué bien posa Servillo! ¡Qué bien mira, qué bien constriñe su frente pensante, qué bien fuma! A él le seguimos en sus paseos reflexivos por las estancias marmóreas del Quirinale , rodeado de colaboradores fieles, pero también de personajes ambiciosos que intentan manipularlo para conseguir esta o aquella prebenda. Su figura es diminuta entre el arte milenario y el mobiliario regio: un hombre empequeñece ante la grandeza del Derecho , de la ley, de la Civilización con mayúscula. El presidente De Santis, aplaudido por su cámara. (Mubi) El actor fetiche de Sorrentino , que ganó la Copa Volpi en el pasado Festival de Venecia por su interpretación de De Santis, encarna esta vez al servidor público, también con mayúsculas: discreto, reflexivo y comprometido. Tanto, que lo acusan de cobardía, por sus cavilaciones elongadas. Servillo, que ha interpretado al excesivo Berlusconi en Silvio (y los otros) (2018) y al manierista Andreotti en Il Divo (2008), se aleja esta vez de las representaciones mafiosas a las que acostumbra la política italiana. Pictórica y barroca como un cuadro de Guido Reni , La Grazia es un film tan obsesivo como su protagonista , que vuelve a uno de los leitmotivs de Sorrentino: la idea del misterio, el éter del que nace todo lo bello y lo sagrado. Un tema que ya abordó Sorrentino, de una manera muy diferente, en The Young Pope (2016). También se agradece la ligereza de un director que, cuando parece que se va a dejar arrastrar por la pompa y la estetización videoclipera, no teme reírse de sí mismo y del boato : genial la secuencia de la recepción presidencial bajo la lluvia. Porque en toda esta fastuosidad hay mucho de absurdo. Otro momento de 'La Grazia', de Paolo Sorrentino. (Mubi) Siempre hay un detalle genial, una capa más, en cualquier composición de Sorrentino : ya sea ese guardia de palacio al fondo del pasillo, o ese secretario sonriente al que el director le regala un plano, aunque no abra la boca ni vayamos a verle nunca más. En ese tipo de recodos, Sorrentino se hace aún más grande. Porque, como buen mediterráneo verboso, la divagación no es sólo una cuestión de estilo, sino de impulso natural . Estos últimos seis meses de legislatura le sirven también a De Santis para reflexionar sobre su labor y sobre su vida pasada, dedicada enteramente a la presidencia, sin apenas una conversación personal con sus hijos, sin amigos -más allá que la crítica de arte tan verborreica como guardiana de los secretos Coco Valori ( Milvia Marigliano) , colega desde el pupitre- y que promete dejarle suspendido en un gran vacío existencial. Qué feliz regreso el de Sorrentino a la sátira , a una sátira más reflexiva y madura, como su protagonista, con un puntito de melancolía pero que no pierde el talento de encontrar la humanidad en nuestras pequeñas -y grandes- contradicciones. Y todo a ritmo del musicote electrónico más de moda: no podrán sacarse de la cabeza el Surf Rider de Il est Vilaine .

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La caída de Tiger Woods se cuenta a capítulos cada cual más doloroso. Horas después de anunciar que se retira temporalmente del golf para “buscar tratamiento” y cuidar su salud mental tras su último accidente de tráfico, el legendario campeón de 15 grandes, de 50 años, ha cerrado otra puerta: renuncia a ser capitán de la Ryder Cup en la edición del centenario de la competición, en Irlanda 2027. Seguir leyendo

La Autoridad italiana de Competencia (AGCM) ha impuesto una multa de 11,5 millones de euros a la entidad financiera Revolut por haber llevado a cabo supuestas prácticas comerciales desleales, entre ellas publicidad engañosa sobre sus servicios de inversión mediante mensajes que ocultaban los costes de las comisiones para el cliente. “Revolut ha difundido mensajes engañosos sobre los servicios de inversión que ofrece y ha utilizado prácticas agresivas y engañosas en la gestión de sus servicios bancarios” afirma el regulador. El grupo ha negado las acusaciones y ha comunicado que recurrirá las sanciones. Seguir leyendo

Las Fiscalías de Países Bajos y Rumania han anunciado este jueves la recuperación del yelmo de oro de Cotofenesti, así como de dos de los tres brazaletes que pertenecían al tesoro del antiguo reino de Dacia, que fueron robados en enero de 2025. Estaban entonces expuestos en el museo neerlandés Drents, de Assen, al este del país, y hay tres personas detenidas como sospechosas del asalto. La policía sigue buscando la tercera pulsera del conjunto. La situación causó gran indignación en Rumania porque las piezas se consideran patrimonio nacional irremplazable y habían sido prestadas para una exposición que debía contar con medidas adecuadas de seguridad. Seguir leyendo

Vor vier Jahren hat die Katalanin Carla Simón den Goldenen Bären der Berlinale gewonnen. Ihr neuer Film „Romería“ erzählt von der Suche einer jungen Frau nach den Spuren ihres an Aids gestorbenen Vaters.

Die Bundesregierung tauscht sich eng mit den USA aus, um Chaos nach dem Ende des Kriegs zu verhindern – und Trumps Wut auf die NATO zu dämpfen.

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The Islamic Republic of Iran is on track to exceed the record number of executions it carried out against opponents in 2025, with 657 executions in the first three months of the year, according to the Iran Human Rights Society. Hiding behind the war with the U.S. and Israel, critics say the regime appears desperate to eliminate opposition, particularly following anti-regime demonstrations that shook the nation's rulers and resulted in tens of thousands being murdered by the country's security forces and militias. In March, the regime was met with condemnations, including from President Donald Trump, over the execution of 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi. MOJTABA KHAMENEI REGIME EXECUTES CHAMPION WRESTLER AS IRAN INTENSIFIES BRUTAL CRACKDOWN DURING WAR On Iran's latest killing spree, a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "This latest barbaric act is more evidence of why the regime can never be allowed the advanced capabilities that we are destroying." The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mai Sato, said that since the start of the war at least six executions have taken place as of March 30 and noted on her X account that an additional two executions took place on March 31. Sato described the regime’s known victims as protesters, an accused spy for Israel, and individuals charged with "armed rebellion" against the regime. Sato said that "due to the internet blackout, it is unclear who else has been executed or are at risk of execution." She said, "What is clear is that the death penalty is being used as a tool for suppressing political opposition in wartime conditions." IRAN'S INTERNET BLACKOUT HIDING STRIKE DAMAGE AND SUPPRESSING DISSENT, ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAY The secretariat of the NCRI provided a written statement to Fox News Digital describing the recent executions of four members of the Iranian dissident organization People’s Mohahedin Organization of Iran (PMOE/MEK). The NCRI said members Mohammad Taghavi and Akbar Daneshvarkar were transferred from Ghezel Hesar prison on March 29 and executed the following morning. Four additional members of the group, Babak Alipour, Vahid Bani Amerian, Abolhassan Montazer and Pouya Ghobadi, were transferred as well. On March 31, the regime executed Alipour and Ghobadi. Ali Safavi, a member of the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called for "urgent action" to save the lives of Amerian and Montazer. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the NCRI, posted on X that the execution conducted on March 31 "reflects the clerical regime’s fear and desperation." She called on the United Nations and its member states to engage in "practical and effective measures, including the closure of embassies and the expulsion of the regime’s terrorist diplomats and agents." Before the Islamic Republic killed thousands of its own people during January protests, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that the Islamic Republic carried out "at least" 1,500 executions in 2025. According to the high commissioner, "the scale and pace of executions suggest a systematic use of capital punishment as a tool of State intimidation, with disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities and migrants." Amnesty International has raised similar concerns, and additionally noted that five "young protesters" now "face the imminent risk of execution," having been transferred from Ghezal Hesar "to an unidentified location" as of March 31.

Dr. Gal Rosen is an Israeli paramedic who has saved lives under the threat of missile attacks. Racing from emergency to emergency, heart pounding, but calm under fire — "don't think, just act." He said he lost his mother when he was a child at the hands of a murderous terrorist. He saved lives as an army paramedic, but he continues to do it now as a civilian — defiantly choosing to live in Israel and work at Tel Aviv's Magen David Adom (MDA) while under threat and emergencies from multiple-front wars. He saves lives in the "dark" of war. He sees lives go, sometimes after making difficult split-second decisions. ARIZONA DEPUTIES SAVE CHOKING 2-WEEK-OLD BABY IN ROADSIDE RESCUE AFTER PARENTS' EMERGENCY CALL "We need to choose sometimes," he says, speaking to Fox News Digital during a rare moment off between emergencies. "And this is hard ." But, today, he is sharing a story of "light": a stark contrast from the stories he usually refuses to share with his family to spare them the horrifying realities of war — even if they live those themselves. Last Thursday, Rosen delivered a healthy baby boy into the world and, in sudden threat of a missile attack and blaring sirens, carried that son away from the mother in the ambulance as he and the father raced to reach a bomb shelter. This was his fifth emergency delivery of a newborn as a paramedic. It was his first under the threat of a missile attack and blaring sirens. "It was so surrealistic situation, in my opinion, never happened to me, something like this," he said, able to smile about the gravity of it all one week later, after finally finding sleep and time to reflect. "This is an amazing thing to share at home," Rosen said. "Most of my stories are not like this, most of our stories I share are really hard things for my family to hear. This is why, usually, I'm not sharing with my family stories from my work: 'Sorry, I'm not doing it.' "Car accidents or about the CPRs or about really difficult situations that I had to deal with." Just two days after bringing one life into the world, he saw five go. "I had, like last Saturday, five cases of death in the shift," he said. "I don't want to get home and tell about it in my family, right? But this story is amazing. UNSUNG HEROES OF 2025: FIRST RESPONDERS AND EVERYDAY AMERICANS WHO SAVED LIVES ACROSS US "I went to my grandma," he continued, "and said, 'You have to hear it.' "She was so proud of me and also my family and my father and my friends and my partner. Of course, this is a really nice story to tell to everyone. " The call came around 6:30 a.m. local Tel Aviv time on a Thursday morning: a woman was in labor, getting an assist on emergency delivery over the phone as if it was a movie. But this was real life, a new life and war. By the time the MDA paramedic team arrived, the baby was still inside and the husband was helping his wife through the final moments of delivery. Dr. Rosen stepped in for the last few minutes and helped safely deliver the boy. Then came the alert. Within moments, a warning sounded that a missile attack on Tel Aviv was expected in about 10 minutes. The paramedic suddenly had to balance the urgency of a wartime emergency with the delicate, critical first steps of childbirth. He quickly placed the newborn on the mother’s chest for skin-to-skin contact, a key step for bonding and early development. He had the father cut the umbilical cord and helped the mother nurse the baby for the first time. NYPD OFFICERS SAVE CHOKING 2-YEAR-OLD BOY, BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS "I tried to do something as close as possible to reality for them," he said, wanting to preserve the intimacy of a normal birth even though they were far from a hospital delivery room. With the help of the father and her team, he then moved the family into the building’s shelter. There, in the middle of blaring alarms and the sounds of missile interceptions overhead, relatives from the apartment building — a grandmother, an aunt and others — came downstairs and saw the baby for the first time. "It was the first time they met the baby, while there were alarms," he said. "Adrenaline" and former army paramedic instinct took over. "I put the helmet, I put the vest and everything, I took the baby, and we stopped by the side and I ran with the baby to a public shelter," he recalled. "So, me and the father, we're running together, I'm taking the baby with me, running to a shelter and just a random building and there was no shelter there. "'OK, this is not good.' We need to go out. "And we're going out. There is still alarms; I know that we have like maybe 20 seconds left, going to another building, and then we're getting into a public shelter. There is 50 people there in the shelter and they closed the door. We were still there standing in the shelter, so I gave the father the baby. "I didn't want the idea for the father also — you know, in the future — to think about the situation that a stranger held his baby while there is a missile attack. " In the shelter, with the postpartum mother still in the ambulance under the Iron Dome, the unmistakable sound of war came with a shock. "We also heard the interception with the Iron Dome," Rosen said. The sound, he said, was impossible to ignore: "a boom," followed by a shock wave you could feel. The air was vibrating. The grateful father and mother, identified by MDA as Nikola and Violet, said the experience was frightening but that the emergency team helped keep them calm. ICE AGENT SAVES LIFE OF 'UNRESPONSIVE' 1-YEAR-OLD BOY IN JFK AIRPORT AS PANIC ENSUES IN TSA SECURITY LINE "It wasn’t a simple experience," they wrote in a joint statement, preferring to keep privacy but permitting Dr. Rosen to share the war story out of praise and thankfulness. "The labor started at home, and just minutes after the MDA team delivered the baby, the siren caught us, and we went down to a shelter. The team functioned amazingly, calmed us, and treated us in the best possible way. This isn’t the ideal experience, but we’re happy everything ended safely, and we’re grateful to the team who helped us so much." In that cramped shelter of about 50 huddling Israelis, surrounded by strangers and the threat of falling missiles, the room broke into applause. People congratulated the father and shouted "Mazal tov." Mother was still in the ambulance with members of the MDA team, still at risk postpartum, as the Iron Dome was busting missiles overhead. " And after 10 minutes that we sat there, we went out, and we walked in the street with a baby, 30 minutes old, crossing the intersection together, going to the ambulance," Rosen said. "They put a helmet on her and a vest on the mother, and one of my teammates stayed with her, because she couldn't come to the shelter. It was too much time, too risky for her. "And, you know, in these moments, I didn't think so much. So I just act. "I realized that it would be better to protect the son; it would better to go to find a shelter. And we didn't think about the idea that maybe we'll be in alarms, because we were in the situation, we were at the moment, we're with the family, with the delivery, with everything, and you can't imagine something like this — even though it's Israel, and now we can actually imagine everything. "Still, it was really, really, really exciting — excitement and happiness – and a good thing because most of our days right now are dark ." Despite losing his mother to a murderous terrorist and living under the threat of multiple-front wars and shrieking Iron Dome sirens and missile attacks, Rosen would choose no other life. MISSILES ABOVE, NEWBORNS BELOW: ISRAELI HOSPITALS SHIFT CRITICAL CARE UNDERGROUND "My mother was murdered in a terror attack when I was a kid, when I was a child, and to choose to still be here with my family, to live here: This is our home and to choose, going to a different path, not hate. "I will save lives, and I will do my best to help other families going through these situations, and I will do my best to make sure there are no other families that will need to suffer from a loss. "So I think this is the mentality of Israelis in general. But still, see, this is one of the only places in the world that people are getting rescued by a flight to come back to Israel. "In a war," he deadpanned. But, with everything happening under the stress of war, Rosen kept the calm, precision and resolve of an army paramedic, knowing the best medicine for a baby born under stress is skin-to-skin and mother's milk. "I learned in med school, I learned these two things are the most important: Put the baby on the skin, give them the bond, help her to nurse ," he said. "It also can help the mother a lot when she nursing the baby. It's also helping with postpartum bleeding. And a lot of things. "So this situation, it's hard to do when we are in this missile attack." But all is well that ended well and — in the case of Nikola and Violet's newborn — began as well as could be under the circumstances. "I was so excited I couldn't sleep for — like the delivery. It was something like 17 hours into my shift," he recalled. "So I worked 16 hours. It was after 17 hours shift. "Now and after 17 hours shift, I went back home, I tried to sleep, I couldn't sleep, and then I had to go to another shift. So I was awake for at least 24 hours. " One week later, the adrenaline and excitement have not worn off. And the baby boy, mother, father and MDA paramedic team live on to tell an all-timer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday touted new momentum toward ending the country's war with Russia after a high-level call with President Donald Trump ’s envoys, pointing to progress on a U.S.-backed security deal. Zelenskyy announced in an X post that he and his officials had a "positive" conversation with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with talks centered around forging a "dignified peace." "We agreed to strengthen security guarantees, and I have already instructed our team to promptly update the documents so that the security guarantees for Ukraine are strong, the prospects for post-war reconstruction are real, and everything is doable," Zelenskyy wrote. WITKOFF AND KUSHNER SCHEDULED TO MEET PUTIN IN MOSCOW He emphasized Ukraine needs clear agreements so that its citizens understand exactly how international partners will respond to deter any renewed Russian aggression. "We need strong, shared positions, and Ukraine’s contribution to this strength is unquestionable," Zelenskyy wrote. "… I expect that the teams will work substantively in the coming days so that we can all feel progress. A trilateral format — a leaders’ format — all of this is necessary." TRUMP CONFIRMS HE INVITED PUTIN TO JOIN HIS BOARD OF PEACE: 'HE'S BEEN INVITED' In a subsequent video, Zelenskyy reported Russia launched a massive wave of more than 700 drones Wednesday, including "shaheds," targeting Ukraine's energy sites, food warehouses and residential buildings across multiple regions. Although Ukrainian forces intercepted roughly 90% of the incoming drones, Zelenskyy condemned the bombardment as Russia's direct response to Ukraine's proposal for an Easter ceasefire. He noted that a halt in fighting during the holidays was intended to be a signal that diplomacy could be successful. Beyond the U.S. and Europe, Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is working to secure long-term defense contracts with several Middle Eastern nations , including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and Turkey.

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Our reporting started, like much of our work, in a spreadsheet. As I parsed through federal court data, I noticed something odd: Within months of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, prosecutors began filing obscure charges related to trespassing on military property — so many, in fact, that more cases were filed in 2025 than in the prior decade. Nearly all of these charges originated from cases along the U.S. southern border, where last spring, the White House designated large swaths of land as national defense areas. Putting them under military authority allowed troops to play an unprecedented role in apprehending undocumented immigrants; federal soldiers are generally barred from enforcing the law on domestic soil. If you were caught in one of these zones, the government could also now prosecute you for breaking federal laws, including one enacted in 1909 to keep spies away from arsenals. In an investigation we published recently, my co-reporters Perla Trevizo, Abe Streep, Pratheek Rebala and I dug into what experts say is a major flaw afflicting these prosecutions that threatens to ensnare people for crimes they did not commit: Migrants didn’t know the land they were crossing now belonged to the armed forces. And many judges have ruled that you can’t be guilty of trespassing on military land if you had no idea you were on it. Since April of last year, we found, at least 4,700 immigrants already charged with entering the country illegally faced these military trespass charges; at least one had to wait in jail for more than a month to stand trial. Most of the charges didn’t stick. In fact, we found that in 60% of the resolved cases, the trespass charges were dropped or dismissed. Yet prosecutors kept filing them. Download the full data used in our analysis on our GitHub page. Military Trespass Cases Under Trump Administration Skyrocket Note: Counts are of unique cases in which charges were filed under 50:797 (“Penalty for violation of security regulations and orders”) and 18:1382 (“Entering military, naval, or Coast Guard property”). Source: Federal Justice Center’s Integrated Database. Agnel Philip/ProPublica As we visited courtrooms in West Texas and New Mexico and pored through case records, it became clear how hard it would be to prove that someone knowingly trespassed on military land. Some couldn’t read. At least one person didn’t speak English or Spanish. The small signs are spaced far apart and easy to miss, and many migrants were arrested far away from them. A Justice Department spokesperson said the prosecutions have deterred unauthorized border crossings and cartel activity. And prosecutors have argued in court that illegally crossing is enough to prove criminal intent for the military trespassing charges. Senior officials in the U.S. attorney’s offices handling trespass cases declined repeated interview requests. In November, Perla, Abe and I set out to report throughout southern New Mexico and West Texas to see for ourselves what information we could gather about where the zones were and how they were marked. Abe and I arranged a ride-along with Doña Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart, whose New Mexico agency shares jurisdiction with Border Patrol and the military in one of the zones.  A sergeant from her office drove us along a dirt road that parallels the border as she pointed out 12-by-18-inch red and white signs opposite the fence. She told us her office hadn’t received specific information about where the military zone boundaries were; all they had were the signs. Even in broad daylight, it was difficult to read the words on them unless we got within a few feet. Small signs like this are posted around the national defense areas, but their size and placement often make them difficult to see. Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune On another outing in New Mexico — this time with the photographer Paul Ratje — I went to a spot in Sunland Park where Ratje said he’d previously taken photos of the border fence. The 2-acre dirt lot sat less than a mile from residential neighborhoods and a popular Italian restaurant. From the lot, we could see more red and white signs along the nearby border road. While we were taking pictures, a pickup truck with a Border Patrol livery approached us. I was surprised to see that inside, instead of Border Patrol agents, there were two Army soldiers. The soldier in the passenger seat pointed to the signage along the border road and told us not to go past there. The border road was part of the defense area, he told us, though the lot we were standing in wasn’t. The next day, Perla and I returned to the same location. This time, a Border Patrol agent drove up. The lot was part of the defense area, he told us. When I pointed out that I had been given conflicting information the previous day, the agent said he was told by the military that people couldn’t be in this area. We left. (An Army spokesperson said that the base responsible for the defense area in New Mexico published a map in December; the lot was not included in it.) My interactions with Border Patrol and the military had so far only added to our confusion about these areas. Later that day, Perla and I drove south to a stretch of border fence along the Rio Grande near Tornillo, Texas. We saw a Border Patrol van near a gate in the fence. We thought we’d try to ask where the defense area was. Before we could do that, another Border Patrol van pulled up to us. Soldiers, including one with a rifle strapped across his shoulder, emerged from both vehicles. Another soldier told us he was “not at liberty to discuss” the national defense area’s exact location.  Read More The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law The response bewildered us. We asked him how we were supposed to know whether we were trespassing. He shrugged. (Spokespeople for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Defense did not directly answer questions about these interactions.) As we got back into our rental SUV, Perla and I wondered: If we, as reporters who investigate things for a living, couldn’t get a straight answer on where these military zones were, how did the government expect people crossing the border to do better?  In the four months between our reporting trip and the publication of our investigation on March 16, the government continued to file military trespassing charges in more than 1,300 cases. And it’s established new military zones, too, in Arizona, California and Texas. The post Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border appeared first on ProPublica .

The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist. Aaron Szabo, an assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, is listed in PDF metadata as the author of a January 2022 comment letter objecting to proposed controls on methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. The letter was submitted to the EPA by the American Exploration and Production Council, which represents some of the industry’s largest emitters of the planet-warming gas, including ConocoPhillips, Diversified Energy and Hilcorp. Szabo’s name does not appear in the document itself, but it can be found in information embedded by the software used to create the PDF file. Szabo was registered as a lobbyist for one of the AXPC’s lesser-known members, Ovintiv, when he drafted the arguments against the restrictions, which were finalized later in the Biden administration. He has also lobbied for other clients in the oil and chemicals sectors. While he did not hide that work during his confirmation last year as head of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, he described it in terms that avoided any mention of efforts to influence climate policy: “I learned how regulated entities comply with the federal government’s thousands of regulations and policies. I also saw firsthand that the people working in these companies want to ensure the environment is properly protected.” In his current role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, Szabo has been soliciting input and even specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules, according to internal emails, calendar entries and records of closed-door conversations reviewed by ProPublica. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., the ranking Democrat on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, pointed to Szabo’s previous lobbying as evidence that the EPA had effectively been captured by the oil and gas industry. “Now he can do Big Oil’s dirty work from inside the EPA,” Whitehouse told ProPublica in an email. As part of its plan to “unleash American energy,” the Trump administration has waged an unprecedented campaign against regulations on fossil fuels, the main cause of global warming. One of its biggest moves was to repeal the “endangerment finding” that classified greenhouse gases as pollutants — the basis for the EPA’s authority to limit emissions at all. Rather than throw out the methane rules entirely, however, Szabo’s office is working to revise them, emails and documents show. It has already delayed many of the compliance deadlines until next year. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a climate superpollutant, responsible for one-third of the rise in global temperatures since preindustrial times, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. When it escapes into the atmosphere without being burned for energy, it can trap 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide, research shows. The oil and gas business is the largest industrial source of U.S. methane emissions, in part because of leaks from poorly maintained equipment. If it is uneconomical to collect the gas for sale, companies sometimes intentionally release it in a process known as venting. To cut down on methane discharges, President Joe Biden’s EPA imposed much stricter controls on oil and gas operations, including requiring increased monitoring for leaks and equipment upgrades. According to agency estimates, the new rules would have lowered the industry’s methane emissions by nearly 80%. And, given that the gas breaks down relatively quickly, this would have been one of the fastest ways to reduce global warming. Industry groups pushed back. In the January 2022 letter that Szabo helped to draft, the AXPC used the word “burdensome” 10 times to describe the new requirements and pushed for more “flexibility” to allow for less expensive leak-detection methods and less frequent monitoring, among other requests. The group also cast doubt on the rules’ expected climate and health benefits, highlighting what it called “the importance of communicating the significant uncertainties within the estimates.” The AXPC’s chief executive, Anne Bradbury, added in a later statement that the rules risked “undercutting US production in the near and long-term — which will lead to increased energy costs and reduced energy security.” Do you have any information we should know about Trump’s EPA, oil industry lobbying or methane pollution? Alex Cuadros can be reached by email at alex.cuadros@propublica.org and on Signal at alexcuadros.63. The AXPC failed to persuade the Biden administration to change its approach. But it renewed its push after President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered federal agencies to “suspend, revise, or rescind” any “undue burden” on domestic energy production. Szabo, after two years as a fellow at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, joined the administration on Day 1 as an adviser to EPA chief Lee Zeldin. He immediately signaled that he planned to weaken the regulations he had argued against as a lobbyist. His staff met with AXPC representatives as early as Feb. 6, 2025, less than three weeks after Trump’s inauguration, to discuss its petition to “reconsider” the methane rules, according to emails and calendar entries obtained through public records requests and shared with ProPublica by Fieldnotes, a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry. His staff went on to meet with them at least twice more, and Szabo himself was listed as a required attendee for a meeting with Bradbury last July. The AXPC didn’t respond to emails from ProPublica seeking comment. According to records of closed-door conversations reviewed by ProPublica, other oil industry representatives have described their meetings with Szabo and his staff as highly favorable to their interests. “Mr. Szabo assured us that the EPA is focused on these [methane] rules and doing everything that can be done to limit the damage they will cause,” the leadership of a major trade group wrote to its members last year in an internal newsletter. Lee Fuller, of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, also spoke glowingly about his meeting with Szabo’s office on a conference call with industry representatives last year. “It was one of the more fascinating meetings that we’ve ever had, just because they were suddenly willing to talk to us,” he said. “And they’re also suddenly willing to talk about things that we’ve been trying to get them to do for years, and they’ve never even let it kind of come onto the radar screen.” The IPAA declined to answer specific questions from ProPublica but linked to a September 2025 letter in which the group publicly asked the EPA for exceptions to the methane rules. Szabo’s office has even invited oil industry groups to offer specific wording for the revised rules. “We had a call several weeks back re. pneumatics on temporary equipment,” Mike O’Connor of the American Petroleum Institute wrote to an EPA official, referring to devices that are a major source of methane emissions. “EPA had informally requested input on this topic and any suggested reg. text language. We are providing the attached draft document as informal input to EPA’s inquiry.” The draft called for a number of exemptions. The shift in priorities under Szabo can also be seen in communications from the EPA itself. In a June 2025 email reviewed by ProPublica, an agency official asked O’Connor to meet and discuss alternative leak-detection methods. Echoing the language in the AXPC comment that Szabo helped to draft, the official spoke of “the additional flexibility we would like to pursue.” “I think their agenda was, from what I could tell, to do what industry wanted,” one former EPA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential discussions, said of Szabo and other Trump appointees at the agency. “Since when is it a bad thing for public officials to ask the public what they think?” the EPA said in an emailed statement, referring to Szabo’s interactions with oil industry representatives. Szabo “fulfilled all his ethical obligations to the letter. He met with EPA career ethics staff when he started at EPA to ensure he is aware of and complies with federal ethics requirements.” Szabo’s affinities are hardly a secret. He is thanked by name in the EPA chapter of Project 2025, the deregulatory blueprint for the second Trump administration. As part of the nomination process for his appointment at the EPA, he also submitted ethics disclosures listing oil, natural gas and chemicals companies he had lobbied for. Still, at his confirmation hearing on March 5 last year, he repeatedly declined to elaborate on his role in Project 2025, beyond saying he provided “general advice and thoughts” on the Clean Air Act. The post The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules appeared first on ProPublica .

Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed — watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles and wheeling herself down the hallways of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit. Coulson had been admitted to Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January 2016, after Parkinson’s disease left her at risk of choking when she swallowed. That April, the facility’s operations were taken over by Skyline Healthcare, a New Jersey-based company that was buying up nursing homes across the country. Medical records for the retired cardiac nurse, then 71, were marked “NPO” — nothing by mouth. Then that September, a nursing assistant found Coulson unresponsive and hanging off the side of her bed, her skin ashy and her breathing shallow. She was taken to a hospital in a coma and died several days later. The chief cause of death was aspiration pneumonia, according to her death certificate. “The doctors said they found scrambled eggs in her lungs,” said her daughter Melissa Coulson. Coulson’s death and the circumstances surrounding it led her family to file a lawsuit against Skyline and its owner, the New Jersey businessman Joseph Schwartz, alleging that cost-cutting at Hillview left Coulson without the care she needed. It was one of several lawsuits tied to patient outcomes as Schwartz’s empire expanded and then unraveled, with much of the chain collapsing by 2018. Schwartz didn’t contest the case, and a judge in 2020 awarded nearly $19 million in damages. Coulson’s family has never been able to collect. Schwartz had by that time relinquished all of his property in Arkansas, so there was nothing left in the state for the family’s lawyer to try to seize, nor was there enough information about assets he may hold in other states. Coulson’s civil action was one of several efforts to hold Schwartz accountable for what happened at his nursing homes. In perhaps the most sweeping move, federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged Schwartz with orchestrating a $39 million payroll tax scheme connected to his nursing home empire. He pleaded guilty last April to failure to pay the IRS taxes withheld from employees and failing to file a financial report for his employees’ benefit plan. A federal judge sentenced him to three years in prison. But Schwartz served just three months. In November, President Donald Trump granted him a full pardon, negating his criminal conviction — part of a series of clemency decisions in the president’s second term that have benefited well-connected defendants, including political allies with access to the White House and individuals like Schwartz who had spent heavily on lobbyists . Often overshadowed in the attention around Trump’s decisions is the emotional and financial devastation left behind. Few clemency decisions illustrate that more clearly than the case of Schwartz, who paid himself millions of dollars from his nursing homes while diverting tens of millions owed to taxpayers and employees, and who has failed to satisfy at least three multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families. In the Coulson case, Schwartz later claimed he never received key filings and had mistaken the complaint for the same lawsuit first filed in 2017, which he believed his insurer had already handled before it was withdrawn and refiled. And he argued the company that took over Hillside and canceled insurance coverage — not him — was the proper defendant. He also said he was representing himself, in poor health and isolating because of COVID-19 risks. A judge denied his request to put the case on hold. Kevin Marino, a lawyer representing Schwartz and Skyline, said he and Schwartz had no comment. He did not respond to a follow-up email containing a detailed list of questions. Trump has granted clemency to several figures in major health care fraud cases. In 2020, he commuted the 20-year federal prison sentence of Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing home magnate convicted in a scheme that prosecutors said involved about $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. The White House cited allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, echoing claims from Esformes’ defense that prosecutors improperly invaded attorney-client privilege by reviewing documents seized in an FBI raid. Although appeals courts did not overturn the conviction based on this argument, Esformes had support from two former U.S. attorneys general. That same year, Trump commuted the sentence of Judith Negron, convicted in a $200 million Medicare fraud case . Trump’s clemency grant said the “ends of justice” did not require her to serve another two decades in prison. Lawyers for Esformes and Negron did not respond to requests for comment. Trump has also nominated nursing home owner Benjamin Landa as ambassador to Hungary. The nomination has remained in place even as a facility Landa co-owns faces a federal audit alleging there were more than $31 million in Medicare overpayments. Landa is suing the administration to block repayment. An attorney for Landa did not respond to a request for comment but has previously denied wrongdoing by his client, saying in a statement the issues identified in the audit occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic when nursing homes were in the midst of a crisis and that the company was committed to patient care. Schwartz’s case was highlighted by the far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer, who had previously worked with the lobbyists Schwartz hired to press his case in Washington. Loomer published a series of posts on X that falsely claimed that Schwartz was not responsible for the tax violations, that he had been unfairly blamed for the collapse of his nursing home chain and that he had paid back “every dime.” She also accused the judge in the case of antisemitism against Schwartz, who is Jewish, though she offered no evidence. She also said Schwartz was in “extremely poor health” and that prison would be a “death sentence,” though the judge found no evidence that Schwartz was unfit for prison. Versions of Loomer’s narrative surfaced in the White House’s explanation for the pardon. A White House official said in response to questions from ProPublica that Schwartz “relied on a third-party entity” to manage tax filings, that he paid restitution, that no funds were used for personal enrichment, that the sentence was exceptionally harmful to a 65-year-old man in deteriorating health and that it was “an example of over prosecution.” But those claims are contradicted by the court record and Schwartz’s own guilty plea, in which he acknowledged responsibility for the unpaid payroll taxes. While he repaid $5 million, that covered only a fraction of what he owed. Federal prosecutors said that under Schwartz’s plea agreement, the IRS could have pursued the remaining balance — an effort that now appears far less likely following the pardon. And his three-year sentence fell in the middle of the range recommended under federal sentencing guidelines. Asked about those statements and how they square with the court record, the White House did not respond. Schwartz’s faith also became part of the Trump administration’s public celebration of the decision. Alice Marie Johnson, who has advised the White House on clemency, wrote online that the pardon meant Schwartz could now join his family for Shabbat, and weeks later, he attended the White House Hanukkah party . Schwartz paid more than $1 million to lobbyists to press the White House, the Justice Department and Congress on his behalf — including on his efforts to secure a pardon — according to lobbying disclosure forms. The White House has insisted that paid lobbyists have no influence on pardons. Loomer said she was not paid for her advocacy. She said she heard about Schwartz’s case in a group chat with members of an orthodox Jewish outreach movement, who asked her to look into it. She also pointed to her influence within the Trump administration, citing several instances in which she publicly urged specific actions that the president ultimately took. She said Schwartz approached her at the Hanukkah party to thank her. Melissa Coulson said Trump’s pardon of Schwartz reinforced her belief that justice is not applied equally. “Apparently he’s got money somewhere,” Coulson said. Her lawyer hopes to find it. Melissa Coulson and her family filed a wrongful death case against Skyline Healthcare and Joseph Schwartz over the death of her mother, Doris Coulson, who died at Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Houston Cofield for ProPublica From the outside, Schwartz’s operation doesn’t look like a corporate empire. The headquarters of Skyline’s fast-growing nursing home network was a second-floor office above a pizza parlor in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. Schwartz entered the nursing home business in the late 2000s and formed Skyline to acquire and operate skilled nursing facilities, initially in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He sold a Florida-based insurance business in 2015 for $22 million, allowing him to rapidly expand Skyline. By 2017, Skyline and the related companies Schwartz controlled cared for approximately 15,000 residents in roughly 100 facilities in 11 states. In a 2017 deposition in a wrongful death suit in Philadelphia, Schwartz defended the care at his facilities as “superb” while distancing himself from day-to-day operations by saying he relied on facility-level administrators and nursing directors. The suit was settled without Schwartz admitting wrongdoing. In the deposition, Schwartz minimized reports of staffing shortages and unpaid bills as simple business “disagreements.” Asked about the facility’s one-star federal staffing ratings from 2010 to 2014 — the lowest possible score under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Five-Star system — Schwartz said he recalled having “a good star rating” and that his nursing homes had tried their hardest to provide as much staffing as possible, insisting that they were “very, very, very, very, very compliant” and that residents were “happy and satisfied.” The collapse was swift. Skyline facilities failed to make payments for food and medical supplies, and cut hours for nursing home staff. At the same time, Schwartz began to siphon money from multiple sources — overbilling Medicaid and withholding millions of dollars in payroll taxes from workers’ paychecks but never sending the money to the IRS, he admitted later. What’s more, Schwartz paid himself $5 million as what one federal prosecutor described as a “ghost employee” at some of his facilities. As conditions in the homes deteriorated, health officials in at least six states from Nebraska to Massachusetts seized or transferred control of his facilities or relocated residents. In South Dakota, a vice president who oversaw 18 Schwartz-owned nursing homes began sending increasingly desperate emails to state health officials, according to court records. Debbie Menzenberg wrote in the emails that Schwartz’s son Louis, an executive officer for Skyline, had called her to say the state “has to do something — there is no money — he told me to discharge residents???” Then Menzenberg’s emails to the state became more urgent: “I need water paid at Bella Vista and Prairie Hills today or it will be SHUT OFF — Skyline is SILENT!!!” “Disconnect notice came today for Pierre May 8 electric.” “I NEED HELP!!!!!” “CEO’s are aware of stuff going on!!!” Neither Menzenberg nor Louis Schwartz could be reached for comment. Debbie Menzenberg, a vice president who oversaw 18 Schwartz-owned nursing homes in South Dakota, sent desperate emails to state health officials seeking help as Skyline collapsed. Obtained and highlighted by ProPublica A group of employees at Skyline nursing homes across the country later filed a lawsuit alleging that Skyline withheld more than $2 million in health insurance premiums from more than 1,000 workers’ paychecks but failed to provide coverage. That left some of his employees with denied health insurance claims and mounting medical bills. Schwartz has not defended himself against the claim, and a lawyer for the employees has asked a judge to award a $2.4 million default judgment. The case remains pending in federal court in New Jersey. One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, an activities director at a nursing home in Arkansas, said that she was left with more than $50,000 in medical bills after surgery on her back and neck. She said she couldn’t pay the bills and that the debt ultimately wrecked her credit. “They withheld over $1,000 from my paycheck for insurance premiums and did nothing with them except abscond with them,” said the employee, Margaret Gates. Under Schwartz’s ownership, residents suffered — and some died. In a lawsuit against Schwartz, Zelma Grissom’s family said the conditions at Hillview, the same facility where Doris Coulson was living, left residents without even basic care. The mother of six had entered the facility after brain surgery left her unable to move on her own and dependent on staff to turn her in bed. Grissom’s son, LeVester Ivy, said Hillview appeared chronically short-staffed. One day, Ivy said, a wound-care nurse called the family into his mother’s room and showed them a severe pressure sore that had developed after Grissom hadn’t been turned regularly. Surgeons had to cut away infected tissue, leaving a large open wound. After that, he said, her health spiraled. “She started getting infection after infection,” Ivy recalled. During one late-night ambulance transfer, he said, an emergency medical worker quietly told him how his mother had arrived. “She pulled me to the side and told me how dirty and nasty, how wet she was,” Ivy said. The family’s lawyers said she died of sepsis from the bedsores that Hillview caregivers allowed to become infected. A judge in February 2023 ordered Schwartz to pay Grissom’s family $15.7 million after neither Schwartz nor any representative challenged the family’s wrongful death claim. Schwartz later tried to overturn the ruling, claiming poor health, lack of notice and that he was merely an investor with no role in operations, but a judge rejected the effort. Ivy said the family sued Schwartz because “we wanted nobody else to go through the things we had to go through.” Schwartz has not paid the judgment, and the family’s lawyer said in an interview that he does not have enough information about Schwartz’s assets to try to recover the money. The suffering described in cases like Coulson’s and Grissom’s was not part of the tax case against Schwartz that landed him in prison. But it loomed over the proceedings when he appeared for sentencing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, last April. Schwartz had pleaded guilty to withholding $39 million in payroll taxes from his employees and failing to send the money to the IRS. The investigation never determined where the money went. Prosecutors said they were not able to establish that Schwartz had used the money on a lavish lifestyle. But they said they never completed a forensic accounting of his finances, which moved money through more than 200 bank accounts. They said they believed Schwartz still controlled more than $50 million in assets. Doris Coulson in an October 2014 photo with her Chihuahua, Paddy Cake. Coulon’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Skyline and Schwartz and a judge in 2020 awarded them nearly $19 million in damages. Courtesy of Melissa Coulson His attorneys argued that his actions were not an attempt at personal enrichment but the result of a businessman who expanded too quickly, fell behind on bills and then made a series of financial decisions — some of them admittedly criminal. But, they argued, he was simply trying to save his company. Schwartz apologized for his conduct and told U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton that he “always tried to live the right way” and set a good example. But he acknowledged that he’d failed to do so in this instance. Wigenton said she could not understand why prosecutors had agreed to a sentence of just a year and a day. Even years into the investigation, she noted, it remained unclear where much of the money had gone. And because so many of the letters submitted on Schwartz’s behalf described him as a brilliant businessman, Wigenton said the “number of layers and businesses and LLCs that were created” made it hard to see him as someone who had been fooled or confused. “Not a single asset is in your name,” she said. “Not one.” Wigenton said the case was not merely an abstract tax case, citing the collapse of Skyline’s nursing homes and the harm to patients. She said there was a need for deterrence in sentencing. The judge sentenced Schwartz to three years in prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $5 million — the amount he had paid himself as a ghost employee — which he did. The remaining taxes were not part of the criminal sentence because prosecutors said they were used to fund his collapsing business rather than for personal enrichment. They said the IRS could try to recover the rest through a civil case. Trump’s pardon wiped away Schwartz’s federal prison sentence — and likely any IRS effort to claw back the rest of the stolen taxes. But it did not affect a separate Arkansas state conviction for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion, in which Schwartz admitted submitting false and misleading information that inflated the Medicaid rates paid to his facilities in the state. A judge in Little Rock had sentenced Schwartz to one year in state prison, ordered to run at the same time as his federal term. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, who had announced Schwartz’s conviction as a signature achievement, made clear after Trump’s pardon that the state prosecution stood on its own. Schwartz, Griffin said at the time, owed the state of Arkansas nine months in prison and $1.8 million in restitution. A spokesman for Griffin said last week that, after making some payments — on schedule — Schwartz owed the state about $1.2 million, which must be fully repaid by April 2027. One of the lobbyists whom Schwartz hired, Joshua Nass, worked to try to reduce Schwartz’s sentence in Arkansas. Nass declined to comment. He was later charged with attempting to extort $500,000 from a client and his son. Although the victims are not identified in the case, the circumstances match those of Schwartz. Nass was released from federal custody after posting a $5 million bond. He has not yet responded to the charge. Prosecutors said in a court filing they were negotiating with Nass for a plea deal that could resolve the case without a trial. Schwartz reported to an Arkansas prison on Dec. 29, creating an opportunity for the lawyers representing families who had won judgments against him. At the height of Skyline’s expansion, the company controlled nearly 1 in 10 nursing home beds in the state. But by the time families won their cases, Schwartz had relinquished or sold his Arkansas facilities, leaving no clear assets for lawyers to pursue. Because Schwartz was in state custody again, lawyers could serve him with court papers and ask a judge to compel him to answer questions under oath about his finances — requiring him to disclose bank accounts, companies and other assets and to turn over financial records. Those proceedings are often the first step in tracing money and identifying property that might be used to satisfy a judgment. From there, attorneys could ask courts in other states to recognize and enforce the Arkansas judgments so they could pursue assets located elsewhere. John Landis, an attorney for Reddick Law, which represents the Coulson and Grissom families, said he and another attorney representing yet another client with a judgment against Schwartz, contacted the state prison system to set up depositions of Schwartz. But the window proved too brief. The Arkansas parole board released Schwartz after just three weeks. Before they could ask a single question, the chance to follow the money was gone. The post A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. appeared first on ProPublica .

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