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En enero, el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, aún rechazaba rotundamente la idea de un alto al fuego temporal en Ucrania.Sin embargo, luego de un mes en el que el presidente Donald Trump dio un giro radical a la política exterior estadounidense y las fuerzas rusas avanzaron en un enfrentamiento clave, el Kremlin parece ahora al menos dispuesto a considerar la propuesta de un alto al fuego de 30 días presentada el martes por Ucrania y Estados Unidos.Dmitri Peskov, portavoz de Putin, declaró a la prensa el miércoles que el Kremlin estaba “estudiando detenidamente” el resultado de las conversaciones del…

Italian employees at the Aviano Air Base in northern Italy paused from flipping burgers, unloading trucks and restocking shelves recently to open an email from their bosses demanding that they list five key accomplishments from last week.The email was a by-now familiar demand from President Trump’s chief cost-cutter, Elon Musk, carrying with it the threat of termination if they did not respond. But on this occasion, it did not land with government employees in the United States, but rather in Italy, a country where workers’ rights are held sacrosanct.The result set the stage for a puzzling clash of cultures, with…

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, opted not to name a critic of Israel’s war in Gaza to a top post managing briefings for the president, after the proposed appointment upset some members of President Trump’s coalition, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at a Washington think tank who is skeptical of American intervention overseas, was undergoing a background check to become the deputy director for mission integration, the officials said. The post is a powerful job that oversees the compiling of the President’s Daily Brief, a compendium of intelligence assessments that goes to…

Lip-Bu Tan appointed chief executive officer of Intel CorporationCourtesy: IntelIntel said on Wednesday that it had appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, as the chipmaker attempts to recover from a tumultuous four-year run under Pat Gelsinger. The stock jumped 12% in extended trading.Tan was previously CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which makes software used by all the major chip designers, including Intel. He was an Intel board member but departed last year, citing other commitments.Tan replaces interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and MJ Holthaus, who took over in December when former Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger was ousted. Tan is also rejoining Intel’s…

Administrator Lee Zeldin says the Environmental Protection Agency will eliminate 31 protections against air and water pollution.The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States has announced the elimination of more than two dozen air and water protections. In a statement on social media, administrator Lee Zeldin said that the EPA would slash protections regulating areas such as tailpipe pollution, waterway protections and power plant emissions. “EPA is initiating 31 historic actions to Power the Great American Comeback in the greatest day of deregulation in American history!” Zeldin wrote. The move comes as President Donald Trump and…

Roomba vacuums by iRobot are displayed at a Best Buy store in San Rafael, California, on Jan. 19, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesShares of iRobot plunged more than 30% on Wednesday after it said there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to stay in business.The Roomba maker’s financial outlook has darkened since Amazon abandoned its planned $1.7 billion acquisition of the company in January 2024, citing regulatory scrutiny. Since then, iRobot has struggled to generate cash and pay off debts.Massachusetts-based iRobot has been restructuring since the Amazon deal plunged into uncertainty. The company has laid off 51% of its workforce…

Hundreds of people have rallied outside a New York City courtroom to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, whose arrest over the weekend sparked condemnation and fears of a crackdown on free speech in the United States. The demonstrators gathered on Wednesday outside Manhattan’s federal court for the first formal hearing in Khalil’s case, as he faces possible deportation for his activism. “Release Mahmoud Khalil now!” they chanted. During the brief hearing, Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem said his client had been allowed just one call with his legal team from the detention centre where he is being held…

The Department of Homeland Security says its immigrant detention centers are at capacity, housing about 47,600 individuals.Speaking to reporters Wednesday on background, DHS officials said they are working with the Marshals Service, Department of Defense and Federal Bureau of Prisons to increase bed space as they ask Congress for more funding.Arrested individuals are also being released from detention on a case-by-case basis using ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program based on medical or humanitarian concerns, they said.The senior DHS and ICE officials also provided new arrest data cataloging Trump’s first 50 days back in office. According to DHS data, from Jan.…

Then, two things happened. The wonkish central banker Mark Carney announced his candidacy for leadership of the liberals, to succeed Trudeau. And Trump started talking so incessantly about taking over Canada as a 51st state that his minions like Kristi Noem have used trips to the Canadian border to mock-insult our gentle neighbors to the north.Failing a war of conquest, it was clear, there would be a protracted trade war, absurdly premised on the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States, which has been falling for a year; Peter Navarro, a Trump adviser on trade, recently argued that…

Ucrania dijo que apoyaría la propuesta del gobierno de Donald Trump de un alto al fuego de 30 días con Rusia tras las conversaciones mantenidas en Arabia Saudita, al tiempo que Estados Unidos acordaba levantar de inmediato su pausa en el intercambio de inteligencia y la asistencia militar a Ucrania.El anuncio del martes dio un nuevo impulso a los esfuerzos para detener los combates. Estados Unidos y sus aliados dijeron que ahora correspondía a Rusia poner fin a la guerra.¿Qué ocurrió en Arabia Saudita?El secretario de Estado Marco Rubio y Michael Waltz, asesor de seguridad nacional estadounidense, se reunieron en…