ADVERTISEMENT The case of Verónica Abad, current vice president of Ecuador, symbolizes the growing judicialization of politics in Hispanic America. Faced with accusations, sanctions and maneuvers that appear to be orchestrated by the Executive, her situation exposes not only the challenges she faces as a public servant, but also the serious risks to Ecuadorian democracy. The administration of Daniel Noboa has demonstrated a disturbing inclination towards authoritarianism, employing tactics that undermine the foundations of a republican system. In this context, Abad has become the main target of a government that seeks to silence all internal opposition and consolidate its power.…
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Ben Affleck’s Christmas plans with Jennifer Garner come after spending Thanksgiving together.Article continues below advertisementBen Affleck Spends Christmas With His Ex-Wife, Jennifer…MEGABen Affleck is stepping into the new year with a fresh perspective and a positive mindset—and it’s all thanks to his ex. No, not that ex—we’re talking about Jennifer Garner!For Christmas, the actor and filmmaker spent quality time with his first ex-wife and their three children: Violet, Fin, and Samuel. According to an insider, Ben is feeling “good about himself” following their festive family celebration.“Now that Ben’s getting back to his old routine, he’s feeling good about himself,” the…
One tool was to strengthen overlapping minilateral alliances, such as AUKUS and the Quad. Others were newly created, such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). After the shock of the China-Solomon Islands security deal in May 2022, the Biden administration increased its diplomatic and economic engagement with Pacific Island countries. President Joe Biden twice hosted Pacific Island Forum (PIF) leaders at the White House for US-Pacific Summits in 2022 and 2023. The US also announced the US-Pacific Partnership Strategy, a roadmap for strengthening cooperation. Over the past four years, there have been an unusual number of high-level political…
A debate over what shape hardline immigration policies will take regarding high-skilled work visas has become the first major policy dispute among prominent supporters of United States President-elect Donald Trump – just weeks ahead of the Republican’s new presidential term. On one side are members of Trump’s so-called “Make America Great Again”, or MAGA movement, who have called for a crackdown on the high-skilled H-1B visas as part of the president-elect’s wider pledge to tighten migration and immigration. Trump’s campaign pledges particularly focused on the US-Mexico border, although he has floated other restrictions. In the other camp are prominent Trump…
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni has a big decision to make going into their Week 18 game against the New York Giants.He has to weigh the pros and cons of potentially resting running back Saquon Barkley before the playoffs, or letting him go out there against the New York Giants — his former team — to get the 101 yards he needs to break Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record. It is not an easy decision.Barkley said after Sunday’s 41-7 win over the Dallas Cowboys that even though he would love a chance at the record, he is good with whatever…
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“Entry number 123!” The resonant words of Larry Mellinger, a senior attorney at the U.S. Department of the Interior, were followed by murmurs from the assembled crowd. An official from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) moved slowly across the stage, holding up a seven-by-10-inch painting before each of five expert judges. Behind the judges, a screen displayed the same image writ large: a pair of bizarre yet beautiful ducks. With its bright orange bill, dense green feathers behind the nostril and round patch of silvery-white feathers surrounding the eye, the Spectacled Eider is unlikely to be confused with…
LGBTQ-inclusive books remained top targets of bans and “soft censorship” throughout 2024, but titles that centered queer characters and explored topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity continued to find fierce advocates in readers and booksellers.We asked NBC Out readers and booksellers across the country about their favorite lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer books of 2024. Here’s a selection of what we heard:‘Private Rites’ by Julia ArmfieldA version of King Lear that is queer and climate-dystopian, “this book is haunting and surreal,” said Kelsey Jagneaux, the events coordinator at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida.Macmillan Publishers“It delivers on…
In 2023, at least 20 civilian aircraft flying through the Middle East were misled by their onboard GPS units into flying near Iranian airspace without clearance—situations that could have provoked an international incident. These planes were victims of GPS spoofing, in which deceptive signals from the ground, disguised as trustworthy signals from GPS satellites in orbit, trick an aircraft’s instruments into reporting the aircraft’s location as somewhere that it isn’t. Spoofing is a more sophisticated tactic than GPS jamming, in which malicious signals overwhelm a targeted GPS receiver until it can no longer function. Long theorized, GPS spoofing attacks have…
This article is an on-site version of our The Week Ahead newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Sunday. Explore all of our newsletters hereHello and welcome to the working week. In these in-between days when the corporate, economic and political diaries are as empty as your advent calendar, it has become a tradition of this newsletter to take a long look forward to the year ahead. So buckle up.The headline act for 2025 is the FT’s man of the year for 2024, Donald Trump, as he returns to the White House after his inauguration…