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*For President Biden, a Political Liability That May Not Go Away Soon*
The collapse of a plea deal and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden mean the president could face political fallout for months to come.
They thought it was over, that they could put it in the rearview mirror. All that Hunter Biden had to do was show up in a courtroom, answer a few questions, sign some paperwork and that would be it. Not that the Republicans would let it go, but any real danger would be past.
Except that it did not work out that way. The criminal investigation that President Biden’s advisers believed was all but done has instead been given new life with the collapse of the plea agreement and the appointment of a special counsel who now might bring the president’s son to trial.
What had been a painful but relatively contained political scandal that animated mainly partisans on the right could now extend for months just as the president is gearing up for his re-election campaign. This time, the questions about Hunter Biden’s conduct may be harder for the White House to dismiss as politically motivated. They may even break out of the conservative echo chamber to the general public, which has largely not paid much attention until now.
It remained unclear whether Hunter Biden faces criminal exposure beyond the tax and gun charges lodged against him by David C. Weiss, the prosecutor first appointed in 2018 to investigate him by President Donald J. Trump’s attorney general. It may be that Attorney General Merrick B. Garland’s decision to designate Mr. Weiss a special counsel with more independence to run the inquiry means that there is still more potential legal peril stemming from Hunter Biden’s business dealings with foreign firms.
Yet it may amount to less than meets the eye in the long run. Mr. Weiss’s announcement abandoning the plea agreement he originally reached with Hunter Biden on the tax and gun charges means he could take the case to trial in states other than Delaware, where he is U.S. attorney and has jurisdiction. Some analysts speculated that requesting special counsel status may be about empowering him to prosecute out of state.
“Friday’s announcement feels more like a technicality allowing Weiss to bring charges outside of Delaware now that the talks between sides have broken down,” said Anthony Coley, who until recently served as the Justice Department’s director of public affairs under Mr. Garland. “It will have limited practical impact.”
Even if so, a trial by a jury of Hunter Biden’s peers would be a spectacle that could prove distracting and embarrassing for the White House while providing more fodder to the president’s Republican critics. The president’s advisers were frustrated as a result and resigned to months of additional torment, even if they were not alarmed by the prospect of a wider investigation.
“After five years of probing Hunter’s dealings, it seems unlikely that Weiss will discover much that is new,” said David Axelrod, who was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. “On the other hand, anything that draws more attention to Hunter’s case and extends the story into the campaign year is certainly unwelcome news for the president’s team.”
*As Hunter Biden Saga Endures, Democrats Avert Eyes and Dismiss Worries*
After a setback for President Biden, Democrats pointed to Donald Trump’s indictments and suggested that swing voters would ultimately not care about the sins of a candidate’s son.
For President Biden and his party, the appointment of a special counsel on Friday in the investigation into Hunter Biden was hardly a welcome development. A blossoming criminal inquiry focused on the president’s son is a high-risk proposition that comes with the dangers of an election-year trial and investigations that could balloon beyond the tax and gun charges the younger Mr. Biden already faces.
Yet many Democrats were sanguine about a dark moment in a summer of cautiously bright news for their president. In interviews, more than a dozen Democratic officials, operatives and pollsters said Hunter Biden’s legal problems were less worrisome than their other concerns about the president: his age, his low approval ratings and Americans’ lack of confidence in an improving economy.
Part of their sense of calm stems from a version of the what-aboutism often adopted by Republicans since Donald J. Trump’s rise: Mr. Biden’s son is under investigation, Democrats say, but across the aisle, the G.O.P. front-runner has actually been criminally indicted — three times.
“I find it hard to imagine that anyone concerned about political corruption would turn to Donald Trump to address the problem of political corruption,” said Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which has been investigating Hunter Biden since Republicans took control of the chamber.
Democrats cited an array of reasons for whistling past the announcement that David C. Weiss, the Delaware prosecutor first appointed by the Trump administration in 2018 to investigate Hunter Biden, would be elevated to a special counsel. Mr. Weiss has examined both Mr. Biden’s business and personal life, including his foreign dealings, his drug use and his finances; a deal to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and accept a diversion program to dismiss an unlawful gun possession charge has fallen apart.
*A Timeline of Hunter Biden’s Life and Legal Troubles Mr. Biden, 53, has*
acknowledged a decades-long addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine. His foreign business dealings have led to questions about President Biden’s influence.
With the news that the Justice Department has named a special counsel to investigate a wide range of conduct by President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, his life is bound to come under even more intense scrutiny.
A father of four with a law degree from Yale, Mr. Biden, 53, has acknowledged a decades-long addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine, and his foreign business dealings have led to questions about President Biden’s influence.
Here’s a look at key dates in the life of the president’s son.
FEB. 4, 1970
Hunter Biden is born, the second child of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Hunter’s older brother, Beau, was born in 1969, and his sister, Naomi, was born in 1971.
Neilia Hunter Biden and Naomi Biden are killed in a car crash while shopping for a Christmas tree near their home in Wilmington, Del. Hunter Biden and Beau Biden are seriously injured in the crash but survive.
1992
Hunter Biden graduates from Georgetown University.
JULY 1993
Hunter Biden marries Kathleen Buhle. They met in their 20s while they were both in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Portland, Ore.
1996
Hunter Biden graduates from Yale Law School.
EARLY 2000S
The period when Hunter Biden says he began drinking heavily at dinner, at parties and after work at Oldaker, Biden & Belair, a law and lobbying firm, where he had been a partner since 2001.
SEPT. 12, 2008
Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announces that Hunter Biden, his running mate’s son, has quit working as a Washington lobbyist. Records showed Hunter Biden’s clients included an online gambling venture, biotechnology companies and colleges seeking earmarks.
2013
Hunter Biden and two other Americans join Chinese partners in establishing a Shanghai-based investment company known as BHR. The firm helped to finance an Australian coal-mining company controlled by a Chinese state-owned firm and assisted a subsidiary of a Chinese defense conglomerate in buying a Michigan auto parts maker.
2014
Hunter Biden is discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use. He had been commissioned as an ensign on May 7, 2013, and was assigned to a public affairs reserve unit in Norfolk, Va.
APRIL 2014
Hunter Biden joins the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that was under investigation for corruption as Joe Biden, then the vice president, was overseeing White House policy toward Ukraine. Hunter Biden made more than $800,000 in 2013 and more than $1.2 million in 2014.
Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware, dies of brain cancer at age 46. Hunter Biden has a relapse of alcohol addiction.
The first anniversary of Beau Biden’s death sends Hunter Biden into a spiral of depression that leads to crack cocaine use and addiction.
2017
Mr. Biden and Ms. Buhle finalize an acrimonious divorce after 24 years of marriage and three children.
MARCH 2017
The celebrity gossip site PageSix.com reports that Hunter Biden and Beau Biden’s widow, Hallie Biden, are in a romantic relationship.
AUGUST 2018
Lunden Roberts, who lives in Arkansas, gives birth to Navy Joan Roberts, a daughter of Hunter Biden. In his memoir, Mr. Biden wrote that he had “no recollection” of his encounter with Ms. Roberts and that he had engaged in “rampages” with women after his divorce.
OCT. 12, 2018
Hunter Biden buys a .38-caliber handgun at StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington. He asserts on a U.S. government form that he is not using drugs.
Hunter Biden leaves a damaged laptop with “alarming” and “embarrassing” content at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, according to the business owner, John Paul Mac Isaac. Mr. Mac Isaac says he copied the computer’s contents and told the F.B.I. about it.
MAY 2019
Hunter Biden marries Melissa Cohen in Los Angeles, six days after meeting, according to ABC News.
2019
DNA testing confirms that Hunter Biden is Navy Roberts’s father, and he is ordered to pay monthly child support beginning in 2020.
OCTOBER 2019
Hunter Biden announces plans to step down from the board of BHR as Joe Biden, campaigning for president, faces attacks over his son’s foreign business dealings.
OCT. 22, 2020
In the final weeks of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden falsely claims that “my son has not made money” in China and that “the only guy who made money from China is this guy,” referring to President Donald J. Trump.
DEC. 9, 2020
Hunter Biden discloses that he is under investigation by the Justice Department. The investigation, which began in late 2018, is led by the U.S. attorney in Delaware and is said by people familiar with the inquiry to have examined potential criminal violations of tax and money laundering laws.
JUNE 20, 2023
Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his 2017 and 2018 taxes on time and accepts terms that would allow him to avoid prosecution on a felony charge alleging that he falsely asserted that he was sober when he bought the handgun in 2018.
JUNE 2023
Ms. Roberts and Mr. Biden end a yearslong battle over child support that requires him to give Navy Roberts some of his paintings and to provide a monthly payment.
JULY 2023
Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, tells Congress behind closed doors that President Biden spoke to his son’s international business associates for more than a decade. According to Democrats, Mr. Archer said that the elder Mr. Biden was not party to any of his son’s business deals and that Hunter Biden had tried to sell the illusion that he was providing access to his father.
JULY 26, 2023
A federal judge in Delaware, Maryellen Noreika, puts on hold the proposed plea deal that would have settled Mr. Biden’s tax and gun charges, saying she did not want to be “a rubber stamp.”
JULY 28, 2023
President Biden publicly acknowledges Navy Roberts for the first time, saying that he and Jill Biden “only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
AUG. 11, 2023
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announces that David C. Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, has been elevated to special counsel status in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s conduct. Prosecutors file court papers indicating that the proposed plea deal in Mr. Biden’s gun and tax case has collapsed, making clear that they expect the case to go to trial.
*Trump and DeSantis Take On the Iowa State Fair, and Each Other*
The leading Republican presidential rivals will be circling each other at the event on Saturday, just months before the crucial Iowa caucuses.
Former President Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will arrive at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, a convergence of the two leading Republican presidential candidates that will highlight the busiest day of state politicking amid farm animals, corn dogs and oversize lemonades.
The fair is a throwback to an earlier era of politics more dominated by in-person interactions than cable news appearances, featuring a mix of speechifying and politicians flipping pork chops, and it is drawing most of the 2024 field.
Mr. Trump, who famously brought a helicopter to the fair in 2015 and gave children rides during his first primary campaign, is flying to Iowa for a single day of campaigning. In an effort to poke his leading rival, he is bringing along a host of prominent Florida Republicans who have endorsed him over Mr. DeSantis.
Mr. DeSantis, who replaced his campaign manager earlier in the week, is focused on turning around his political fortunes in Iowa. He has spent two full days campaigning in the state ahead of the fair and ticking off visits to more of Iowa’s 99 counties, all of which he has pledged to visit.
In fact, while recording a podcast in downtown Des Moines, Mr. DeSantis predicted on Thursday that he would complete that feat by October, a timeline that suggests a particularly aggressive next two months of events in the state.
On Friday, a number of lower-polling candidates fanned out across the fairgrounds, including former Vice President Mike Pence, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, Perry Johnson, Larry Elder and Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami, all seeking attention from potential Iowa caucusgoers.
“This is amazing — I feel like I’m at Disneyworld,” Mr. Suarez, who is likely to miss the first debate later this month, said in a chat with Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, who invited every candidate to a friendly Q. and A. session she is billing as “fair-side chats.”
Almost everyone accepted the invitation, with the notable exception of Mr. Trump. He has criticized Ms. Reynolds for her plans to stay neutral in the primary and tried to take credit for her election.
Mr. DeSantis has sought to take advantage of Mr. Trump’s comments about Ms. Reynolds, with his allies and advisers arguing that Mr. Trump has provided an opening by demeaning the popular Republican governor.
On Friday, Mr. DeSantis scored the formal endorsement of a prominent conservative radio host in the state, Steve Deace, who has been open about his hope that the party won’t nominate Mr. Trump again.
While Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Trump are not expected to cross paths on Saturday, it is not clear when they will next be in the same location. Mr. Trump has vacillated about attending the first debate of the primary — less than two weeks away — suggesting that he does not need to, given his polling lead. He has also said that he won’t sign the required loyalty pledge.
“You have to earn this nomination, and you have to show up,” Mr. DeSantis said on the “Ruthless” podcast on Thursday. “You have to debate. You’ve got to be willing to answer questions. You’ve got to be willing to defend your record, and you’ve got to articulate a vision for the future.”
*After the Shock and Grief, Hawaii Will Reinvent Itself Again*
The disaster that erased the beloved West Maui town of Lahaina this week comes with the bitter taste of bewilderment. Brush fires met high winds whipped by a far-off hurricane, and overnight a historic town was gone, a pile of smoke and ashes. A lush watercolor landscape is redrawn in gray and black. At least 55 people are dead, and many more are missing.
A hurricane just burned down a town. It’s all so weird and horrifying.
Living in Hawaii long enough gives you a familiarity with sudden catastrophes, the kind that can obliterate a community in a week, a day or an instant. To live in my home state or to love it from a distance is to know the continual threat of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes.
But a lethal wildfire? That was new for Hawaii. And everything is changed.
We may not get a definitive verdict on whether Lahaina died for humanity’s environmental sins, but we know that climate change is making Hawaii hotter and drier and that invasive grasses have been allowed to run rampant. Drought on Maui turned the grass into ready fuel and heightened the risk of wildfires, and then a hurricane brushed by.
The planetary crisis is hardly Hawaii’s fault, but like other island areas in our rising oceans, it is unusually imperiled, and it has to do something. And when wildfires swept over Maui and the Big Island, it was a brutal reminder that Hawaii needs to be a serious climate leader, to nurture and spread the environmental consciousness that too many other states lack.
Hawaii will surely find ways to lower the risk of wildfires and get better at fighting them. Lahaina will rebuild, and residents will return. But climate resiliency is a far bigger challenge than adding fire trucks and subduing invasive grasses. It’s an expensive mess of problems across the state.
Will the communities on Oahu’s North Shore be able to retreat from the rising ocean before they are washed away? How will flower and fruit growers on Maui and the Big Island cope with extended drought? What happens if or when the coral reefs die, the native trees and forest birds are gone, weather patterns shift and the cooling trade winds disappear?
First, it must reverse its dependence on imported oil and coal. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hawaii uses almost seven times as much energy as it produces, and imported oil accounts for about four-fifths of its total energy consumption. In 2022 only about 29 percent of Hawaii’s total generation came from renewables, with 17 percent of its total electricity from solar power. Much of Oahu was still coal powered as recently as last September.
But Hawaii is also blessed with an almost ridiculously varied menu of clean or cleaner energy options. Besides sun, wind, waves, tides and geothermal energy, there are more arcane technologies like ocean thermal energy conversion and biofuel from algae. None are perfect, but some or all of them will be needed to contribute to Hawaii’s safer and saner future.
Lahaina may even, let’s hope, be reconceived. A place steeped in Hawaii’s past — it was once the seat of the Hawaiian kingdom — could also become a model for a future that is more sustainable and pono (Hawaiian for “just, righteous and balanced”).
*Bajan índices de pobreza en el Edomex*
También fueron a la baja los índices de pobreza moderada y pobreza extrema, según el CONEVAL
Los índices de pobreza, pobreza moderada y pobreza extrema del Estado de México bajaron de 2020 a 2022, de acuerdo con el Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL).
De acuerdo con el estudio «Medición Multidimensional de la Pobreza», en 2022 se registraron 7 millones 427.2 mil personas en situación de pobreza, representando el 42.9% del total de población que hay en la entidad mexiquense.
En 2020, el CONEVAL informó que había 8 millones 342.5 mil personas mexiquenses en situación de pobreza, es decir, cerca del 48.9% del total poblacional en ese año. Por lo que el índice de pobreza disminuyó en un 6% en los últimos dos años.
Respecto a la pobreza moderada, en la entidad mexiquense se reportaron 6 millones 394.8 mil personas en esta situación, representando el 36.9% del total poblacional en 2022.
Hace dos años, el 40.7% de la población mexiquense se encontraba en situación de pobreza moderada, cerca de 6 millones 940.6 mil personas. Por lo que el índice de pobreza moderada se redujo en un 3.8%.
Con lo que respecta a la población en pobreza extrema, el 6% de la población se encuentra en este estatus económico, cerca de un millón 032.4 mil personas.
Disminuyendo este índice en un 2.2% con respecto a 2020, cuando un un millón 401.9 mil personas (8.2% del total poblacional), se encontraban en pobreza extrema.
Cabe mencionar que el CONEVAL informó que hasta 2022 había 17 millones 322.8 mil de personas que habitan en el Estado de México.
Y en este estudio se presenta los resultados de la medición multidimensional de la pobreza a nivel nacional y por entidad federativa para 2022 con base en la Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH) 2022 del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
Carencias
El CONEVAL informó que el 16.3% del total poblacional del Estado de México en 2022 presenta rezago educativo. El 44.2%, alguna carencia por acceso a los servicios de salud, y el 52.1%, carencia por acceso a la seguridad social.
Con lo que respecta a las carencias por calidad y espacios de la vivienda, el 6.6% del total de mexiquenses lo carece, mientras que por acceso a los servicios básicos en la vivienda, solo el 9.5%.
Asimismo se informó que el 20.3% tiene carencia por acceso a la alimentación nutritiva y de calidad.
El 12.1% de la población registra un ingreso inferior a la línea de pobreza extrema por ingresos. Mientras que, el 52.9%, recibe un ingreso inferior a la línea de pobreza por ingresos.
En promedio, un mexiquense gana 5 mil 059.05 pesos al mes, por lo que, más de la mitad de la población total, está en alguna situación de pobreza.
A nivel nacional también bajan índices
Esta disminución en los índices de la pobreza, en los últimos dos años, también se vive a nivel nacional. En México en 2020 se registraba el 43.9% del total de su población en pobreza, en 2022, bajó al 36.3%.
35.4% de la población en México vivía en pobreza moderada en 2022. Ahora, solo el 29.3% de la población se encuentra en esa condición económica.
Con lo que respecta a la pobreza extrema, pasó del 8.5% al 7.1% a nivel nacional en los últimos dos años.
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LA MÚSICA O LA LETRA
¿Qué viene primero, la música o la letra?
R. Hay composiciones de ambos, aquí le comparto:
La música primero: muchos compositores comienzan con la música, ya sea con una melodía o una progresión de acordes. Una vez que tienen un marco básico, añaden letras. Este enfoque puede ser útil porque le da al compositor una estructura con la que trabajar y también puede ayudar a inspirar las letras.
Letras primero: algunos compositores comienzan con las letras, ya sea con un concepto o una historia. Una vez que tienen una idea básica, añaden música. Con este enfoque el compositor puede centrarse en el significado de la canción y también puede ayudarle a crear una conexión más personal y emocional con el oyente. Ambos juntos: algunos compositores encuentran que funcionan mejor cuando combinan los dos enfoques. Podrían comenzar con una melodía o una progresión de acordes y luego agregar letras a medida que avanzan. Este enfoque puede ser útil porque permite un proceso creativo más flexible y experimentar con diferentes ideas. Aquí hay algunos ejemplos de canciones que se escribieron con diferentes enfoques:
La música primero: Yesterday, de The Beatles, fue escrita por Paul McCartney después de que se despertara con la melodía en la cabeza. Luego añadió letras a la melodía.
Primero la letra: Imagine, de John Lennon, fue escrita después de que se le presentó el concepto de un mundo sin países ni posesiones. Luego añadió música a la letra.
Ambos juntos: Hallelujah, de Leonard Cohen, fue escrita durante un periodo de varios años. Cohen a menudo añadía una melodía o una línea de letras y luego la añadía con el tiempo.
RELIGIÓN Y POLÍTICA
¿Me puede explicar cómo se alinean los partidos políticos y las religiones en nuestro país?
R. El catolicismo y el Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN): históricamente, el PAN ha tenido una fuerte asociación con los valores católicos conservadores. El partido a menudo ha recibido el apoyo de grupos e individuos católicos que se alinean con sus posturas socialmente conservadoras en temas como el aborto y el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. Valores progresistas y seculares: institutos políticos como el Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) y Morena han sido vistos como más seculares y progresistas. Tienden a atraer a votantes que priorizan temas como la justicia social, los derechos humanos y el secularismo. Estos partidos a menudo tienen un enfoque más inclusivo de los problemas sociales en comparación con los partidos con fuertes afiliaciones religiosas.
Iglesias evangélicas y pentecostales: en los últimos años, las iglesias evangélicas y pentecostales han ganado influencia en la política mexicana. Aunque no están vinculadas a un partido específico, se sabe que estas iglesias tienen una agenda social conservadora y pueden influir en las opciones de voto de sus miembros.
LOS OJOS
¿Hace daño frotarse los ojos seguido y o fuertemente?
R. Frotarse los ojos puede proporcionar un alivio temporal al estimular la producción de lágrimas, pero también puede propagar contaminantes y bacterias, lo que aumenta el riesgo de infecciones oculares. El roce vigoroso puede elevar la presión ocular, dañando potencialmente a las personas con glaucoma y puede provocar abrasiones corneales. Además, el roce frecuente puede causar ojeras, hinchazón y arrugas alrededor de los ojos. Identificar y abordar la causa subyacente de la irritación ocular es esencial, y el uso de lágrimas artificiales o compresas frías como alternativas al frotamiento puede ayudar a prevenir el daño. Consulte a un oftalmólogo para problemas o molestias oculares persistentes.
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