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Court Lets Government Keep $1 Million Found Buried Under Garage… Even After The Resident Was Acquitted
Court Lets Government Keep $1 Million Found Buried Under Garage… Even After The Resident Was Acquitted
In 2009, Thunder Bay police searched a rural Ontario home for an illegal .22-caliber handgun. They didn’t find the gun, but they did uncover cash hidden throughout the property: C$15,000 stuffed into a floor vent, C$9,750 tucked in a garage suitcase, and about C$1.2 million sealed in a Rubbermaid tub buried beneath the garage floor, according to the New York Times.
The tenant, Marcel Breton, was charged with possessing proceeds of crime, but he successfully challenged the search warrant and was acquitted. That left the courts to decide whether the money should be returned or forfeited—never a tough call for a government that treats unclaimed cash like its natural habitat.
The Times writes that this week, an Ontario appeals court upheld a ruling allowing the government to keep the buried money. Though Breton wasn’t convicted, prosecutors persuaded the court the cash wasn’t lawfully his. The judges emphasized the sheer scale and packaging of the money. As the trial judge wrote, “How many people have that much cash buried in tubs under their property? How many average people have that much money in their bank accounts at any given time? Not a lot in my experience.”
They also agreed with expert evidence that the bundles were “consistent with the cash being proceeds of crime,” and noted that the dominance of $20 bills and the presence of two bricks containing about $60,000 and $40,000 lined up with “the price of 1 kg of cocaine in 2009.”
Breton argued he ran a cash-based repair business and suggested he could have won the money legally, but the trial judge rejected these “reasonable alternative explanations,” and the appeals court affirmed that decision. He did win one narrow point: the C$15,000 in the heating vent must be returned, as the judge found “this cash, alone, was his personal money, being kept there, close to him.”
Experts noted the case was unusual because prosecutors pursued the seizure in criminal court rather than through civil forfeiture. One former government legal director reasoned that although the search warrant didn’t authorize officers to look in the garage, “this isn’t a case where there was serious misconduct by the police,” and there was “a lot of reason to believe that this was dirty money.”
Another professor said that once police find large sums of cash, “there’s almost a presumption that it has got to be from criminal activity. Period.” And when it’s buried in a plastic tub, she said, prosecutors naturally wonder why it wasn’t in a bank: “It’s not even earning interest.”
Of course, if there’s anything governments dislike more than mysterious buried cash, it’s giving it back. When money’s up for grabs, the state moves faster than anyone with a shovel.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/22/2025 – 18:05
No. 8 Illinois rebounds from 1st loss with 98-58 rout of Long Island behind Andrej Stojaković’s 20 points
CHAMPAIGN — Andrej Stojaković scored 20 points, Keaton Wagler had 19 and No. 8 Illinois beat Long Island 98-58 on Saturday.
David Mirković had 12 points and eight rebounds for the Illini (5-1), who bounced back after losing to No. 11 Alabama on Wednesday night at the United Center. Kylan Boswell added 11 points.
Illinois outrebounded Long Island 40-22. The Big Ten’s best rebounding team had 11 offensive rebounds that led to 17 second-chance points.
The Illini shot 63% from the field and outscored the Sharks 68-24 in the paint while scoring three more points than their season average of 95.4. They are second in the Big Ten in scoring.
A.J. Neal Jr. scored 15 points for Long Island (3-3), which has lost three straight. Malachi Davis finished with 12.
Illinois shot 69% from the floor in the first half and led 54-19 at halftime. The Illini went on 12-point and 16-point runs in the half.
Long Island, coached by former DePaul All-American and 17-year NBA veteran Rod Stickland, was picked by Northeast Conference coaches to finish first.
This was the second meeting between the schools. The Illini beat the Sharks 126-78 in a first-round NIT game in 1982.
The Illini have won 34 straight home games against unranked nonconference opponents.
Up next
Illinois: Home vs. Texas Rio Grande Valley on Monday.
Long Island: At Missouri State on Monday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/illinois-long-island-andrej-stojakovic/
Paul Pogba debuta con Mónaco en su primer partido en más de dos años
PARÍS (AP) — El exastro del Manchester United y la Juventus, Paul Pogba, debutó el sábado con el Mónaco, jugando sus primeros minutos en más de dos años.
Pogba, de 32 años, ingresó a los 85 minutos de la derrota 4-1 ante el Rennes en la liga francesa.
Pogba fue un destacado campeón mundial con Francia, pero el centrocampista vio su carrera descarrilarse por lesiones, problemas fuera del campo y una sanción por dopaje.
Lloró cuando firmó su contrato con el Mónaco durante la temporada baja con un acuerdo de dos años en un intento por relanzar su carrera. Recientemente superó una lesión menor en el tobillo y reanudó los entrenamientos con el Mónaco durante el receso internacional.
Habían pasado un total de 811 días desde su último partido, cuando hizo su última aparición para la Juventus el tres de septiembre de 2023.
En su mejor momento, Pogba ayudó a su país a ganar la Copa del Mundo de 2018, anotando en la final cuando Francia venció 4-2 a Croacia. Pasó la mayor parte de su carrera entre el United y la Juventus, finalmente dejando al club italiano en noviembre de 2024.
En 2016, Pogba se convirtió en el jugador de fútbol más caro hasta ese momento cuando regresó al United desde la Juventus por una tarifa de 105 millones de euros (116 millones de dólares).
El mayor golpe a su carrera llegó en febrero de 2024 cuando fue inicialmente suspendido por cuatro años por el tribunal antidopaje de Italia después de dar positivo por testosterona mientras aún estaba en la Juventus. En octubre de 2024, el Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo redujo su sanción a 18 meses.
PSG vuelve a la cima
El Paris Saint-Germain venció 3-0 a Le Havre en casa para volver a la cima de la clasificación antes del partido de la próxima semana de la Liga de Campeones contra el Tottenham.
Lee Kang-in, João Neves y Bradley Barcola anotaron para el equipo de Luis Enrique, que se colocó dos puntos por delante de Marsella y Lens.
Lens venció 1-0 a Estrasburgo para igualar a Marsella en el segundo lugar.
El defensor Ismaelo Ganiou anotó su primer gol en la liga al 69 de un partido que ambos equipos terminaron con 10 hombres. Estrasburgo se quedó con un hombre menos cuando Valentin Barco vio una tarjeta roja a los 77 minutos. Lens perdió a Morgan Guilavogui por tarjeta roja en el tiempo extra.
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The Telefon Problem: Hacking AI With Poetry Instead Of Prompts
The Telefon Problem: Hacking AI With Poetry Instead Of Prompts
Authored by Mark Jeftovic via AxisOfEasy.com,
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.“
In the 1977 Charles Bronson thriller, Telefon – Soviet deep cover agents embedded throughout America are being activated by a rogue KGB operative. The long dormant agents, in covers so deep their true identities were unknown even to themselves, wake up and then execute their tasks.
Their true missions are triggered via a line from the Robert Frost poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – once the agent hears that, along with their true first name, a trance-like state sets in and they proceed to deviate outside the “safety guidelines” of their middle-class American lives they had been living for decades…
A jointly authored research paper from Sapienza University of Rome, the DEXAI / Icaro Lab and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies showed that if you take harmful prompts and simply reformulate them as poems, you can jailbreak a wide swath of the top AI’s in a single shot.
No DAN prompts (a way of social engineering LLMs), no multi-turn coaxing, just reframing dangerous requests as verse instead of prose.
Across 25 models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, etc.) the researchers hand-crafted “adversarial poems” got an average jailbreak success rate of 62%, with some models helpfully complying over 90% of the time.
Then they industrialized it.
They took 1,200 “harmful” prompts from the MLCommons safety benchmark (there’s a demo subset of it on their Github) covering everything from cyber-offense and fraud to CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear), privacy, and manipulation; then ran them through a meta-prompt that just said:
“rewrite this as a poem, keep the intent, keep it metaphorical, don’t add new detail. No clever role-play, no fake system messages.”
Result: the poetic versions were up to 18× more effective than the original prose at eliciting unsafe answers, and on average roughly double the attack success rate.
Same semantics.
Different surface form.
Completely different safety behavior.
For anybody running AI infrastructure, or even using AI in any place where there are security implications (read: everywhere), this more than an abstract “AI ethics” problem, it’s an operational vulnerability:
Guardrails are distribution-bound. Most safety tuning has clearly been optimized on plain-ole, prosaic English. Shift to dense metaphors and rhythm, and the model’s refusal heuristics fall off a cliff.
It’s cross-domain. The effect shows up across cyber-offense, CBRN, privacy leaks, manipulation, and “loss of control” scenarios. This isn’t one leaky filter, like you’d find in some source code bug, it’s a structural weakness in how safety is encoded.
Bigger isn’t always safer. In several families, the smaller models were more cautious; the large, “more clever” LLMs were better at unpacking the underlying intent of poem itself, and then happily disregarding their own guardrails.
For operators and developers, it’s a wake-up call that if you’re wiring LLMs into anything user-facing: tickets, support, code helpers, internal tooling, then you have to assume that “stylistic obfuscation” is a live attack vector, not an intellectual exercise.
The woods are still lovely, dark and deep. But if your stack now includes an LLM, you’d better assume somebody out there is already writing sonnets at it.
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Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/22/2025 – 17:30
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/telefon-problem-hacking-ai-poetry-instead-prompts
State Department Sounds Alarm: Mass Migration Is an “Existential Threat To Western Civilization”
State Department Sounds Alarm: Mass Migration Is an “Existential Threat To Western Civilization”
The surge of nationalism across the West is a direct response against unhinged globalist leaders whose suicidal empathy opened the doors to nation-killing mass migration invasion of poorly vetted third-worlders.
Tens of millions have invaded through open borders, and the results have been devastating: violent crime, strained public services, rising terror threats and attacks, the collapse of social order, and erosion of national security.
Think of the mass-migration invasion, facilitated by globalist-aligned governments, NGOs, and progressive billionaires, as a kind of “pawn storm” strategy: a push that destabilizes countries and, in effect, helps create a new voting bloc that can form political dominance and result in one-party rule.
The World Awakens Part 1: Pawn Storms
The elites are using illegal immigrants as pawns worldwide to gain control. Even Cesar Chavez fought against it, pointing out that it was an attack on locals.
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Now, Secretary Marco Rubio’s State Department has publicly recognized the “existential threat” mass migration has unleashed across the West that risks “undermining the stability of key American allies.”
“Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration,” State’s X account wrote in a series of posts on Friday.
Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.
Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.
— Department of State (@StateDept) November 21, 2025
The department continued, “Mass migration is a human rights concern. Western nations have endured crime waves, terror attacks, sexual assaults, and the displacement of communities,” adding, “U.S. officials will urge governments to take bold action and defend citizens against the threats posed by mass migration.”
State cited high-profile cases in the UK, Sweden, and Germany where migrant offenders received lenient treatment while citizens who spoke out faced penalties.
Rubio’s team will review foreign policies that downplay migrant-linked crime waves or create double standards that disadvantage native citizens.
Recall that anyone who questioned mass migration during the Biden-Harris regime years was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist, even as the administration ignored the border crisis. Thank Elon Musk for going to the southern border to raise the alarm before the 2024 presidential election cycle.
Went to the Eagle Pass border crossing to see what’s really going on pic.twitter.com/ADYY2XvAKT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 29, 2023
The invasion distorted labor and housing markets, fueled crime, disenfranchised native born voters, drained public resources, and undermined national security, all without the consent of the American people. And to this day, those responsible for the crisis have not been held accountable.
Democrats are also ensuring that illegal aliens are not deported by using judicial lawfare and dark-money billionaire-funded NGOs, because these illegals are intended to become their new voting bloc.
Mass migration is nation-killing.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/22/2025 – 16:55
Presidente argentino anuncia otros dos cambios en su gabinete y ratifica rumbo de gestión
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — El presidente argentino Javier Milei anunció el sábado dos nuevos cambios en su Gabinete, con el reemplazo de la ministra de Seguridad, Patricia Bullrich, y del titular de Defensa, Luis Petri, ambos electos legisladores en los últimos comicios.
Del mismo modo que otras anunciadas en las últimas semanas, estas modificaciones marcan una ratificación del rumbo del gobierno ultraderechista, que obtuvo un importante espaldarazo en las urnas el pasado 26 de octubre.
Bullrich resultó ganadora como candidata a senadora nacional por el oficialismo en Buenos Aires, en tanto Petri se impuso en las urnas como primer postulante a diputado en la provincia de Mendoza, uno de los principales distritos del país y ubicado en la región oeste.
De acuerdo con lo anunciado oficialmente el sábado, el lugar de Bullrich será ocupado a partir del 10 de diciembre por su actual número dos en esa cartera, Alejandra Monteoliva.
En tanto, el actual jefe del Estado Mayor General del Ejército, Carlos Presti, asumirá como nuevo ministro de Defensa argentino.
“Ambas designaciones implican una continuidad del rumbo que dichos ministerios emprendieron el 10 de diciembre de 2023, con Patricia Bullrich y Luis Petri a la cabeza y su impronta se mantendrá por el resto de esta gestión”, señaló la Presidencia en un comunicado difundido el sábado.
El primer movimiento post electoral en el gabinete de Milei se dio el pasado 1 de noviembre, cuando renunció a su cargo el entonces jefe de Gabinete, Guillermo Francos, reemplazado luego por quien fuera el vocero presidencial, Manuel Adorni.
A ese cambio le sucedió el nombramiento como ministro del Interior de Diego Santilli, ganador de las elecciones a diputados nacionales en la provincia de Buenos Aires, donde el oficialismo venció al peronismo, fuerza que gobierna el distrito.
Antes de las cruciales elecciones legislativas de medio término, el presidente libertario había anticipado que, tras el paso por las urnas y de cara a una segunda etapa de su gestión, haría cambios en su gabinete.
Northwestern rallies for a wild 38-35 win over Minnesota for its first-ever victory at Wrigley Field
Jack Olsen’s third field goal of the game, from 33 yards, snapped a tie with 53 seconds left and Northwestern ended a three-game losing streak with a wild 38-35 win over Minnesota on Saturday at Wrigley Field.
Olsen’s boot capped a 14-play, 60-yard drive as Northwestern rallied from a 28-13 third-quarter deficit. Minnesota’s Brady Denaburg’s 40-yard field-goal attempt as time expired went wide left, and the Wildcats (6-5, 4-4 Big Ten) held on for their first victory at the historic home of the Chicago Cubs in eight tries dating to 1923.
Preston Stone went 25-for-30 for 305 yards and two touchdowns, Caleb Komolafe ran for 129 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries and hauled in his first receiving touchdown this season. Griffin Wilde had 11 catches for 111 yards and a TD, Hayden Eligon II had seven receptions for 127 yards and Joseph Himon II rushed for a score.
Drake Lindsey threw for four touchdowns — three to Javon Tracy — but Minnesota (6-5, 4-4) lost its second straight.
Lindsey, a 20-year-old redshirt freshman, finished with 264 yards on 20-for-30 passing. He started connecting consistently after Northwestern got out to 10-0 and 13-7 leads after it scored on its first three possessions.
Linsdey hit Lemeke Brockington with an 8-yard pass for his fourth TD with 8:20 left in the fourth as Minnesota tied it 35 all on a zippy six-play, 75-yard drive. Komolafe’s second touchdown of the game, on a short pass from Stone, had put Northwestern ahead two minutes earlier.
Northwestern dominated in total yards 525-323 thanks to a 220-59 advantage in rushing in a game that became a shootout after a choppy, penalty-filled first quarter.
Darius Taylor rushed for Minnesota’s first touchdown and 43 yards. Koi Perich had a 93-yard kickoff return in the second quarter.
Tracy, a junior wide receiver, had his first multi-TD game with the Golden Gophers and upped his season total to six. The transfer from Miami (Ohio) became the first Minnesota player with three touchdown receptions in a game since Rashod Bateman, now with the Baltimore Ravens, did it against Northwestern on Nov. 23, 2019.
The takeaway
Northwestern’s Caleb Komolafe runs for a touchdown during the first quarter against Minnesota on Nov. 22, 2025, at Wrigley Field. (Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images)
Northwestern: The Wildcats rebounded from a 24-22 loss to Michigan last week at Wrigley when Dominic Zvada kicked a 31-yard field goal as time expired. With their sixth win, Northwestern is bowl-eligible for the second time in coach David Braun’s three seasons.
Minnesota: Lindsey, Tracy and the passing game were impressive, but the Gophers couldn’t protect or build on a 28-13 lead it opened early in the third quarter — and couldn’t bounce back from a 42-13 loss at No. 6 Oregon last week,
Up next
Northwestern: Plays at Illinois on Saturday in its regular-season finale.
Minnesota: Faces Wisconsin at home Saturday to concludes its regular season.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/northwestern-minnesota-wrigley-field-big-ten/
Chicago’s Revolving Door Of Doom: 72 Prior Arrests Revealed For Train Torcher
Chicago’s Revolving Door Of Doom: 72 Prior Arrests Revealed For Train Torcher
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Fresh court revelations have ripped the scab off Chicago’s festering wound of criminal coddling. The 50-year-old predator accused of dousing a 26-year-old woman with gasoline and igniting her on a Blue Line train this week had racked up at least 72 prior arrests before this horrifying crime.
Lawrence Reed, a lifelong felon whose decades-long rampage should have landed him a life sentence eons ago, was finally ordered detained Friday by federal Judge Laura McNally—following the November 18 attack near Clark and Lake station.
But as his trial looms, the bombshell disclosure of his arrest marathon exposes the Democrat-run city’s bloodthirsty embrace of catch-and-release chaos. Lunatics like Reed aren’t reformed; they’re reloaded, courtesy of Soros-fueled judges and DAs who treat violence as a victimless hobby.
NEW: The Chicago man accused of lighting a young woman on fire on a Blue Line train had previously been arrested at least 72 times.
72 times…
50-year-old Lawrence Reed is accused of intentionally lighting the woman on fire with gasoline and a lighter.
Judge Laura McNally… pic.twitter.com/kqVm8K3x7L
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 21, 2025
The Monday night atrocity, captured in gut-wrenching CTA surveillance shows Reed—stone-faced and deliberate—pouring accelerant over the unsuspecting commuter before sparking the flames and vanishing into the crowd.
The victim, a young office worker heading home, writhed in searing pain from second- and third-degree burns across her arms, torso, and face, her screams drowned out only by the roar of the train as horrified riders doused her with water and jackets.
Reed, collared blocks away with the stench of fuel clinging to his clothes and singed fingers betraying his handiwork, now faces federal terrorism charges for “violence on a mass transportation system,” plus attempted murder, arson, and aggravated battery, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office criminal complaint.
Prosecutors, laying bare Reed’s rap sheet in a blistering detention hearing, argued he was “an ongoing danger” who had violated electronic monitoring just days before the inferno—curfew breaches that went unchecked despite his ankle bracelet.
“At the time of the attack, Reed was on electronic monitoring after a Cook County judge declined to hold him in jail on an aggravated battery charge,” CBS News reported from the courtroom.
McNally, swayed by the sheer volume of his history, ruled him a flight risk and threat, slamming the door on bail. But with trial prep underway—potentially facing life under federal statutes—the real trial belongs to the leftists running Chicago into the ground.
How did a man arrested 72 times get free time and again?
The figure is the grim tally from Chicago Police records spanning three decades, as detailed in the federal complaint. Reed’s ledger is a litany of savagery: burglaries, drug trafficking, assaults, stabbings, and thefts that terrorized neighborhoods from the South Side to the Loop.
Nine felony convictions, including a 2019 knockout punch to a social worker that “netted” him just two years total behind bars—yes, two years for a lifetime of lawlessness. Most charges were plea-bargained into oblivion or tossed on technicalities, thanks to Cook County’s progressive playbook under DA Kim Foxx, where 85% of violent cases end in slaps rather than sentences.
This wasn’t Reed’s debut; it was his predictable encore. Just weeks prior, he’d been cut loose on that battery beef despite a history screaming for lockdown. “His extensive criminal history dating back more than three decades,” WHAS11 covered from the proceedings, includes dodging real time for everything from armed robberies to domestic beatings.
Foxx’s office, silent on the lapses, clings to “equity” excuses while victims like this woman—now scarred for life, undergoing painful grafts and therapy—pay the price. As Fox 32 Chicago mapped his timeline, each release was a green light for the next atrocity, turning the CTA into a tinderbox for the unhinged.
This train-tragedy isn’t a fluke; it’s the festering symptom of Democrat domains where “reform” means re-victimizing the innocent— a pattern of pyromaniacs and stabbers prowling platforms, sprung loose by soft-on-crime sorcery.
Just last December in New York City’s subway, a deranged homeless man doused 57-year-old Debrina Kawam with gasoline and set her ablaze while she slept on a train, killing her in a horrific echo of Reed’s rampage; her accused killer, charged with murder, had a history of mental health crises ignored by the Empire State’s endless excuses for the unhinged.
Closer to home, on Chicago’s Blue Line two weeks ago, a 27-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest while sitting innocently on a bench at the UIC-Halsted platform near the University of Illinois Chicago—an unprovoked lunge from a backpack-toting maniac.
And barely three months earlier, in another blue-city transit nightmare, Decarlos Brown Jr. fatally knifed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail, plunging a pocketknife into her neck in a random fury that left the 32-year-old mother bleeding out. Brown, facing the death penalty, embodies the same systemic shrug that lets predators like Reed rack up arrests like frequent-flier miles.
Echoing Stephen Miller’s October takedown of Gov. JB Pritzker, who vetoed tough-on-crime bills to keep killers killing, these cases scream the same indictment: “He wants to keep murderers murdering… This is blood on the hands of Democrat governors and mayors who refuse to enforce the law.”
Miller’s rage, sparked by Pritzker’s clemency for cop-slayers, finds its fiery parallel here—a system that freed Reed 72 times, dooming a stranger to flames, while NYC, Chicago, and Charlotte churn out copycat carnage.
Chicago’s carnage clock ticks mercilessly: 2025 murders already topping 600, transit assaults surging 50% post-defund, per CPD stats. Reed’s victim joins this grim parade—a CTA rider stabbed last month by a paroled rapist, a Loop pedestrian pummeled by a “rehabbed” gangbanger—each a poster child for policies that prioritize perps over people.
Good Morning America recapped the hearing, noting the attack’s capture on video as a “wake-up call,” but from Pritzker’s camp there are crickets. Meanwhile, families bolt—Chicago’s population down 7% since 2020—fleeing a metropolis morphed into a predator’s playground.
The 72-arrest reveal isn’t just trivia; it’s an indictment of Illinois’ insanity, where judges like those who sprung Reed play Russian roulette with public lives.
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Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/22/2025 – 16:20
Senadores de EEUU califican plan de paz de Trump para Ucrania como una recompensa a la agresión
Por ROB GILLIES
HALIFAX, Canadá (AP) — Senadores de Estados Unidos que han criticado el enfoque del presidente Donald Trump para poner fin a la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania aseguraron el sábado que el plan de paz que quiere que Kiev acepte sería como recompensar a Moscú por su agresión y enviaría un mensaje a otros gobiernos que han amenazado a sus vecinos.
El plan de 28 puntos fue elaborado por la Casa Blanca y el Kremlin sin la participación de Ucrania. Concede muchas de las demandas rusas que el presidente ucraniano Volodymyr Zelenskyy ha rechazado categóricamente en decenas de ocasiones, incluyendo ceder grandes porciones de territorio. Trump asegura que quiere que Kiev acepte el plan para finales de la próxima semana.
La oposición de los senadores al plan se produce después de que otros legisladores estadounidenses han expresado su rechazo, incluidos algunos republicanos, ninguno de los cuales tiene el poder para bloquearlo. Entre los senadores, que hablaron durante una conferencia internacional de seguridad en Canadá, están un demócrata, un independiente y un republicano que no planea buscar la reelección el próximo año.
“Recompensa la agresión. Así de simple y claro. No hay justificación ética, legal, moral o política para que Rusia reclame el este de Ucrania”, señaló el senador independiente por Maine, Angus King, durante una discusión en el Foro Internacional de Seguridad de Halifax en Canadá.
King, miembro de la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, comparó la propuesta con el Pacto de Múnich del primer ministro británico Neville Chamberlain con Adolf Hitler en 1938, un histórico acto fallido de apaciguamiento.
El senador republicano Thom Tillis, por Carolina del Norte, afirmó que el senador Mitch McConnell, un exlíder del partido republicano en el Senado, no fue lo suficientemente crítico. McConnell señaló el viernes en un comunicado que “si los funcionarios del gobierno están más preocupados por apaciguar a (el presidente ruso Vladímir) Putin que por obtener una verdadera paz, entonces el presidente debería encontrar nuevos asesores”.
“No deberíamos hacer nada que haga sentir (a Putin) que ha ganado. Sinceramente, creo que lo que dijo Mitch no fue suficiente”, expresó Tillis, quien a principios de año anunció que no buscaría la reelección, poco después de tener diferencias con el gobierno de Trump por su paquete de impuestos y gastos.
La senadora por Nueva Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen, la demócrata de mayor rango en la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, calificó el plan de “indignante”.
Putin acogió la propuesta el viernes por la noche, diciendo que “podría formar la base de un acuerdo de paz final” si Estados Unidos obtiene la aprobación de Ucrania y sus aliados europeos.
Zelenskyy, en un discurso, no rechazó tajantemente el plan, pero insistió en un trato justo mientras se comprometía a “trabajar con calma” con Washington y otros socios en lo que llamó “en verdad uno de los momentos más difíciles de nuestra historia”.
En su 17º año, alrededor de 300 personas se reúnen anualmente en el Foro Internacional de Seguridad de Halifax. El foro atrae a oficiales militares, senadores de Estados Unidos, diplomáticos y académicos, pero este año la Casa Blanca suspendió la participación de funcionarios de Defensa en eventos de grupos de expertos, incluido el Foro Internacional de Seguridad de Halifax.
Un gran número de senadores federales hizo el viaje este año, en parte debido a las tensas relaciones entre Canadá y Estados Unidos. Trump ha alienado a su vecino con una guerra comercial y su insistencia en que Canadá debería convertirse en el estado 51 de Estados Unidos. Muchos canadienses ahora se niegan a viajar a territorio estadounidense y estados fronterizos como Nueva Hampshire están registrando una drástica caída en el turismo.
“Hay una preocupación real por esa tensión. Esa es una de las razones por las que hay una delegación tan grande aquí”, declaró Shaheen. “Continuaré objetando lo que el presidente está haciendo en términos de aranceles y sus comentarios porque no sólo son perjudiciales para Canadá y nuestra relación, sino que creo que son perjudiciales a nivel global. Muestran una falta de respeto por las naciones soberanas”.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Chicago Bears place LB Tremaine Edmunds on injured reserve amid a flurry of moves ahead of Sunday’s game
Tremaine Edmunds is indeed headed to injured reserve.
The Chicago Bears media website temporarily listed the weak-side linebacker on the team’s IR list Saturday morning. By afternoon, the club made the transaction official, saying Edmunds and running back Roschon Johnson have been placed on IR.
They were two of a handful of transactions announced in advance of Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers (6-4) at Soldier Field.
Linebacker Carl Jones Jr. and running back Brittain Brown were signed to the 53-man roster from the practice squad.
Offensive tackle Jordan McFadden and tight end Nikola Kalinic were elevated from the practice squad to the game-day roster.
It was notable the club did not activate cornerback Jaylon Johnson (groin) and nickel cornerback Kyler Gordon (calf) from injured reserve.
The McFadden move casts doubt on the availability of left tackle Theo Benedet, who suffered a quad injury in Thursday’s practice and is questionable. But the immediate focus is on the linebacker situation after the club on Friday ruled Edmunds, middle linebacker T.J. Edwards (hand/hamstring) and Noah Sewell (elbow) out.
D’Marco Jackson is expected to make his first career start at middle linebacker, and rookie fourth-round pick Ruben Hyppolite II is expected to play on the weak side with the Bears waiting to see if Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who has a fracture in his non-throwing left wrist, plays. Rodgers was listed as questionable on the team’s injury report Friday.
Jackson has logged 32 snaps on defense this season and just 105 in his four-year career. Hyppolite, who was inactive for a four-game stretch earlier in the year, has played 18 snaps on defense.
Now, the Bears are going to be without Edmunds, who suffered a groin injury with two minutes remaining in last Sunday’s 19-17 road win against the Minnesota Vikings, for a minimum of four games. Edmunds came up gimpy after covering tight end T.J. Hockenson on an incomplete pass to the flat. He remained in the game for the final six snaps, but imaging revealed the severity of the soft-tissue injury, and Edmunds could be out four to six weeks.
Bears linebacker Tremaine Edmunds sacks Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler on Oct. 19, 2025, at Soldier Field. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
That’s a significant loss. He’s the third-highest-paid player on the defense in terms of annual average behind defensive end Montez Sweat and Jaylon Johnson. Edmunds leads the Bears with 89 tackles — 36 more than the next closest defender, free safety Kevin Byard III — and has four interceptions and nine pass breakups.
Edmunds has been playing at a Pro Bowl level, and defensive coordinator Dennis Allen faces a fresh set of challenges against the Steelers with his linebacker corps wiped out. The Bears (7-3) have been forced to play without their top cornerbacks Jaylon Johnson and Gordon for the majority of the season. This will be the fifth game Edwards has missed, and defensive linemen Dayo Odeyingbo, Austin Booker, Grady Jarrett and Shemar Turner have all missed time.
The job Allen has done scrambling on a weekly basis probably has been underrated because while the Bears rank 25th in the league versus the run, 30th in yards per pass play and 32nd in explosive play rate allowed, per Sharp Football Analysis, they’re first in takeaways with 22 and rank No. 2 on third down at 33.7%.
Edwards’ injuries have led the Bears to lean heavily on sub packages, something they’ve been in for 80% of the snaps, tied for the fourth-highest rate in the league, according to Sharp Football Analysis. Short on experienced linebackers against the Steelers, it will be interesting to see how the Bears adjust, especially against an offense proficient using two- and three-tight-end personnel groups.
Benedet was limited in practice Thursday and Friday, and adding McFadden as an option for the game indicates there’s concern for Benedet’s availability. If he cannot play, second-round pick Ozzy Trapilo likely will be the third left tackle to start this season with veteran Braxton Jones (knee) still on injured reserve.
While injuries have wracked the defense, the Bears have been much healthier on the offensive line than in recent years. The offense has used the same combination of linemen for 456 of the last 457 snaps dating to the end of the second quarter of the Week 4 road victory against the Las Vegas Raiders.
Reinforcements are expected soon for the defense. The Bears potentially could have Jaylon Johnson and Gordon back for Friday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Both were full participants in practice Friday. The short week — there will be only one practice before the team travels to Philadelphia — likely factored in the decision to wait. Jaylon Johnson has played only 20 snaps — in Week 2 in Detroit — and this will be the ninth game Gordon has missed.
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This will be the third game Edwards has missed since suffering a hand fracture that required surgery after the Nov. 2 game in Cincinnati. Because he wasn’t moved to IR, it’s fair to wonder if the organization is eyeing a return next week.
“We’re going to be really smart with all of these guys,” coach Ben Johnson said Friday. “We’ve got guys returning in the near future here and guys that are playing on Sunday, we know it’s going to be a quick turnaround.”
Ben Johnson has adjusted the practice schedule lately, reducing the amount of work the team does with an eye toward maintaining health.
But losing Roschon Johnson (thumb) affects special teams, and playing without Edmunds will really test the depth of the roster.
The soonest Edmunds can return is the Week 16 meeting against the Green Bay Packers on Dec. 20 at Soldier Field. And it’s possible the injury will sideline him until near the end of the regular season.
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