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MADRID (AP) — Antoine Griezmann no tendrá un traspaso inminente a la MLS, según el director deportivo del Atlético de Madrid.

El exastro francés, de 34 años, había sido vinculado con un traspaso al Orlando City.

El director deportivo del Atlético, Mateu Alemany, manifestó el sábado que pasará esta temporada y dos años más con el equipo.

“Va a seguir con nosotros y nada más”, señaló Alemany antes de que Griezmann diera una asistencia para ayudar a vencer a la Real Sociedad 3-2 en La Liga.

Griezmann, de 34 años, es el máximo goleador histórico del Atlético. Ayudó a Francia a ganar el Mundial de 2018 antes de retirarse del fútbol internacional en 2024.

Este año ha perdido su papel protagónico con el equipo de Diego Simeone, ya que su entrenador administra sus minutos, pero aun así ha marcado 12 goles en esta campaña en todas las competiciones.

El Atlético jugará contra la Real Sociedad en la final de la Copa del Rey el 18 de abril. El Atlético también es tercero en la liga española y jugará contra el Tottenham en los octavos de final de la Liga de Campeones la próxima semana.

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MESA, Ariz. — Scott Kingery isn’t dwelling on the past.

Once one of the top-rated prospects in baseball with the Philadelphia Phillies, the 31-year-old infielder is in Chicago Cubs camp looking to reestablish himself in the majors. Kingery split time between Triple A and the Los Angeles Angels last season, getting his first taste of the majors in more than three years.

“As weird as it was for me to leave someplace that I’ve been for nine years, I think it helped me kind of get into a little bit of an uncomfortable spot where I had to just be like, all right, I’ve got something to prove to go out there and show these fresh eyes what I can do on a baseball field,” Kingery told the Tribune on Saturday.

Photos: An inside look at Chicago Cubs spring training

Kingery’s time in Philadelphia didn’t play out like either side envisioned when the then-top-40 prospect signed a six-year, $24 million contract extension in March 2018 before he had played an inning in the majors. After struggling his rookie season, Kingery bounced back in 2019 with 34 doubles, 19 home runs, a 101 OPS+ and 2.7 bWAR. It would be the best season of his big-league career. Struggles in the shortened 2020 season and limited action in 2021-22 (16 games and 19 total at-bats) ultimately would be his last with the Phillies.

“I feel like it was something different every year, to be honest,” Kingery said of the adversity. “I felt like there were some times where there was uncertainty for me, like, I wasn’t sure how the Phillies viewed me anymore or what their plan was for me. So in those moments, I feel like the only thing I could have done was put yourself in the best spot that you can to get called up. Maybe someone calls about a trade or something. Put yourself in a good situation.”

Kingery doesn’t have a great path to making the team out of spring training unless an injury pops up among Cubs starting infielders. But he understood that when he signed his minor-league deal with the organization in the offseason.

“It might not be right away, but if I can just go and put my best foot forward and play to my ability, I think I can put myself in a good spot,” Kingery said.

Manager Craig Counsell took note of how Kingery put up a career-best 2019 season with the Phillies at a young age.

“It’s a sign that it’s in there,” Counsell said. “Offensively he’s struggled a little bit here, but because of (that standout season) and his defensive versatility and value — and it’s a spot we’re a little light at, frankly — there’s an opportunity there. Probably not out of camp, but things happen.

“An important player from that perspective, so try to get him off to a good start offensively and see where we’re at.”

Justin Dean eager to carve out big-league role

Cubs outfielder Justin Dean participates in media day during spring training at Sloan Park on Feb. 17, 2026, in Mesa, Ariz. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Winning a World Series title in your first big-league season will be hard to top for Dean.

The outfielder, 29, earned a call-up in August with the Los Angeles Dodgers and was used largely as a defensive replacement, logging only two at-bats in 18 regular-season game appearances. But he showed the type of speed and defense in center field to also fill that role during the Dodgers’ postseason run. The Dodgers’ confidence in Dean carried into the playoffs — he appeared in 13 games, including three in the World Series. He was in center field at the end of Games 6 and 7 against the Toronto Blue Jays.

“To have it happen and to be there and get the outcome that we got, I’m super grateful and not satisfied, definitely one another, but I can say that I’ve seen the biggest stage, and I’m really happy about it,” Dean said. “It was dope to be a part of it — it was a movie, honestly, that’s how I describe. It felt like being a part of a movie. But I’m just trying to trust my instincts and trust the game, the thousands, millions of reps that I’ve taken over the course of this game and trusting the work that I put in, and trusting that I was ready to be in those situations.”

Dean knows his glove and speed are his two best attributes, but he hopes to showcase through the rest of spring that he can handle the bat, too, and not solely be a defense-only player. Dean is in the mix for a bench spot out of camp, though he still has a minor-league option, which could set him up to open the year at Triple A and provide the Cubs outfield depth.

“I know that the business is the business, things can change at the drop of a hat,” Dean said. “So just trying to navigate all that and still trying to get my work in, plan to be playing here. Baseball is baseball regardless of whatever shirt I’m wearing.”

Injury updates

Jonathon Long’s left elbow sprain hasn’t been progressing as the Cubs hoped. Long suffered the injury Feb. 21 on a collision at first base as he attempted to catch a throw that pulled him into the basepath.

The Cubs plan to give Long through the weekend to see how his elbow feels, but if there continues to be little-to-no improvement, Long will likely undergo further testing. The 24-year-old had a potential path to forcing his way onto the roster in a bench role, which now feels unlikely given the injury sidelining him for the last two weeks.

Left-hander Jordan Wicks (forearm inflammation) has been playing catch and will be in that mode for “a while,” Counsell said this week. Counsell didn’t have a timeframe for when Wicks might throw off a mound.

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They sent the Rev. Jesse Jackson home Saturday the only way it could have been done: with Gospel music, testimony that often brought people to their feet and story after story about a man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of America’s most influential Civil Rights leaders.

The final service in Jackson’s honor, in a packed chapel at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, proved befitting of a human rights advocate who came to be known, simply, as the “country preacher.” Jackson earned that nickname in the years after leaving the Chicago Theological Seminary, while he marched from Selma to Montgomery and through streets in Chicago and far beyond.

Like any good country preacher, Jackson could move people to tears and move them to act. Speakers and performers at his funeral Saturday — a group that included his children, singer Stevie Wonder and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa — came to do both.

At times, it had the feel of a Sunday morning service at a Baptist church, the kind Jackson might have attended growing up in Greenville, S.C., in a country that did not welcome people who looked like him. During perhaps the most rousing eulogy of all on Saturday, Jackson’s second-oldest son, Jonathan, referenced his father’s journey from then to now, while a who’s-who of faith leaders, heads of state, dignitaries, power brokers and celebrities mourned before him.

“According to how things are supposed to work out in America,” said Jonathan Jackson, a Democratic Congressman representing Illinois’ 1st District, “Jesse Jackson was supposed to be a nobody.” And then he listed all the reasons why, from the poverty to the oppressive hand of Jim Crow, before Jonathan Jackson then referenced three of his father’s most famous words, ones that became something like a personal motto and defied everything that conspired to keep him down:

“I am somebody.”

“Look at what the Lord has done,” Jonathan Jackson said, referencing the hundreds of people who’d come to bid one final farewell. “Look at what the Lord has done,” he said again, referencing the lifetime of humanitarian work that defined his father’s legacy. He talked of the marches and protests, the freed hostages and the long fight to end apartheid in South Africa, as well as the battles that received far less publicity.

Jonathan Jackson’s voice rose while he spoke of American history and his father’s place in it.

“My father honored the words of the Declaration of Independence more than the men who signed it,” he said. “Jesse Jackson honored the ideals of the Constitution of America more than any of the 25 slave holders that signed and ratified it in their hypocrisy.”

He turned to his father’s casket in front of him and evoked the rallying cry — “run Jesse run” — that followed him when he twice ran for president in the 1980s. Only this time, Jonathan Jackson said, over and over again, the words growing louder:

“Rise Jesse, rise! Rise, Jesse, rise!”

The service Saturday represented the culmination of nine days of funerals and celebrations for Jackson, who died last month at age 84. The mourning began the moment his family announced his death on Feb. 17. On the first day of his public visitation, people lined up hours early to walk inside Rainbow PUSH and past Jackson’s casket at the front of the chapel.

Jackson founded the coalition in 1971, in the years after his role in the Civil Rights Movement propelled him into national politics and advocacy and made him a voice of the people — especially of Black people who’d long fought for equality and opportunity. While people gathered the morning of Feb. 26, the first day of his public visitation, some of Jackson’s most memorable speeches played on a loop.

There was Jackson at marches and rallies and protests, speaking and leading. There he was, talking with eloquent force in front of tens of thousands at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1972, delivering the “I Am Somebody” speech that became an anthem for those who most needed to hear his words.

“I may be poor … but I am … somebody! I may be on welfare … but I am … somebody!”

Several speakers referenced those words Saturday during Jackson’s funeral. They reinforced one of his core messages throughout the past six decades: that people — no matter their background or challenges, and regardless of race or their wealth, or lack thereof — are people. And throughout the past week and a half, thousands of people joined Jackson during what was almost like his final march.

After lying in repose for two days at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, where members of Jackson’s family formed a receiving line near his casket and hugged those who walked past, he returned to South Carolina, where he was born in Greenville in 1941. Jackson, afflicted with a stutter as a child, grew up in poverty and amid unenviable circumstances he often referenced in his speeches.

U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson comforts Jerome Morgan, who flew from Washington, D.C., to pay his respects on the first day of public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters on Feb. 26, 2026. “I only met him once, shook his hand. But I learned a lot from him, that you can be a part of the process,” Morgan said. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

He often spoke of not knowing his true last name; of having three last names in his childhood because he was adopted. During his memorable speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, where Jackson ended his second and final run for president, he shared the story of waiting to eat Thanksgiving leftovers his mom brought home after working in someone else’s kitchen.

“At 3 o’clock on Thanksgiving Day, we couldn’t eat turkey because Mama was preparing somebody else’s turkey at 3 o’clock,” he said. “We had to play football to entertain ourselves. And then around 6 o’clock she would get off the Alta Vista bus and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey — leftovers, the carcass, the cranberries — around 8 o’clock at night.

“I really do understand,” he said, of struggle — because he grew up struggling. His youngest child, Ashley, referenced that speech on Saturday and recalled the time, many years after Jackson delivered it in 1988, when he brought her to his childhood home to show her where he’d grown up.

“He wasn’t showing me a house,” she said. “He was teaching me something about beginnings.”

While Jackson lay in honor Monday at the South Carolina capitol in Columbia, mourners filled city blocks to wait their turn to view Jackson’s flag-draped casket on the statehouse floor. A horse-drawn carriage delivered his casket to the Capitol grounds, where members of Jackson’s family watched the procession from the statehouse steps.

The casket of the Rev. Jesse Jackson is carried by a caisson on the way to the South Carolina State House in Columbia on March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
Yusef Jackson, from left, Jackie Jackson, Santita Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Ashley Jackson watch the casket of their father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, as it’s carried by South Carolina state troopers outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia on March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

Columbia is about an hour away from Jackson’s hometown of Greenville, where, in the summer of 1960, he led sit-ins at a public library that was available only to white people. Jackson was to be remembered in a service in Washington, D.C., later in the week, but his family postponed it.

His journey from South Carolina and back to Chicago, then, mirrored the path he traveled in life. Jackson arrived in the city in 1964, then 23, to attend the Chicago Theological Seminary.

“He brought enormous pride to the people of this city, and this state,” Gov. JB Pritzker said Friday, during a public funeral service for Jackson at the House of Hope, the 10,000-seat Baptist church deep on the city’s South Side, off of 114th Street. “And though we shared him with the whole world, Rev. Jackson belonged to Chicago, and Chicago belonged to him.”

Among the thousands who attended the service Friday were former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, all of whom delivered eulogies. So did former Vice President Kamala Harris, who sat in the first row alongside the former presidents in a group that also included former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first lady Jill Biden. Obama, whose political rise began as a community organizer on the South Side, and who still owns his home in Kenwood, spoke for nearly 30 minutes.

“Jesse didn’t just speak to Black folks,” Obama said. “He spoke to white folks and Latinos and Asian Americans and the first Americans. He spoke to family farmers and environmentalists. He spoke to gay rights activists when nobody was talking to gay rights activists, and blue collar workers, and he gave them the same message — that they mattered.

“That their voices and their votes counted. He invited them to believe. He invited us to believe in our own power to change America for the better.”

Seated from left are former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former first lady Jill Biden and former President Joe Biden at the funeral service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at House of Hope in Chicago on March 6, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

Jackson’s family invited President Donald Trump to attend the Friday service but he did not. The president paid tribute to Jackson on social media following his death, describing Jackson as “a good man” who “could not stand” Obama.

Toward the end of his eulogy, meanwhile, Obama contrasted much of Jackson’s legacy, and his appeals to unity and helping people believe that they matter, with a divisive time today, in which “it can be hard to hope.”

“Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all,” Obama said. “And everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength. We see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards every single day.

“We see that, and it’s hard to hope in those moments. So it may be tempting to get discouraged, to give in to cynicism. … Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope.”

Several speakers on Saturday echoed that messaging, while those closest to Jackson — his children — shared tender memories of their father. Jacqueline Jackson, namesake of her mother, recalled caring for her father in his final months and the gentle way he taught her to read and write. Jesse Jackson, Jr., a former Congressman who served time in federal prison for campaign fraud, recalled the time in his incarceration when “I had to ask my daddy if he was disappointed in me,” and how his father comforted him.

“He’s the one we turned to at our lowest hours,” he said, and there were many who could relate.

Jackson’s family described the service Saturday not as a funeral but as a homegoing. Stevie Wonder sang two of his songs — “They Won’t Go As I Go” and “As” — that served as bookends to a rendition of “We Shall Overcome” that inspired tears. Mr. T, a Chicago native who joined some of Jackson’s movements in the 1980s, arrived early wearing an American flag bandana.

Politicians sat next to preachers, who sat near family members and world leaders, and when the service ended, after four hours, a hearse sat outside, waiting. The procession moved up Drexel Street, west on 49th Street, and south on Cottage Grove Avenue to Oakwood Cemetery. It wove through the South Side streets, where in many ways Jackson got his start.

Several blocks away was the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, where Rev. Clay Evans ordained Jackson in 1968, in the months after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jackson founded Operation Breadbasket in that church, and then Rainbow PUSH not long after. And on Saturday, his procession passed its headquarters one final time, on his way home.

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Por MICHAEL BIESECKER, REBECCA BOONE y JACK BROOK

WASHINGTON (AP) — Videos publicados recientemente que muestran la muerte a tiros de un ciudadano de Estados Unidos a manos de un agente federal de inmigración en Texas el año pasado ponen en duda las afirmaciones del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de que un conductor embistió intencionalmente con su auto a un agente justo antes de ser abatido.

Los videos, entre los que están los de cámaras corporales de varios agentes, ofrecen el primer relato visual del tiroteo de Ruben Ray Martinez, de 23 años, durante un viaje a la playa el año pasado. Varias horas de grabación y otros registros de las fuerzas del orden se difundieron el viernes tras una solicitud de acceso a registros públicos presentada por The Associated Press y otros medios de comunicación.

La muerte de Martinez fue la primera de al menos seis fallecimientos por disparos de agentes federales desde que el presidente Donald Trump lanzó una ofensiva migratoria a nivel nacional en su segundo mandato, y es uno de varios casos en los que el video ha puesto en entredicho la narrativa inicial del gobierno.

La División de los Rangers del Departamento de Seguridad Pública de Texas cerró su investigación sobre el tiroteo del 15 de marzo de 2025 después de que un jurado investigador se negara la semana pasada a presentar cargos penales contra el agente especial supervisor del área de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional (HSI, por sus siglas en inglés) Jack Stevens, quien efectuó los disparos mortales, según registros difundidos por el Departamento de Seguridad Pública de Texas.

En una declaración escrita incluida en los archivos, Stevens sostuvo que disparó para proteger a sus compañeros agentes, a los policías y al público de lo que temía que fuera un posible atentado terrorista destinado a causar muchas víctimas. Un portavoz del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional dijo el mes pasado que el agente de HSI realizó disparos defensivos después de que el conductor “atropellara intencionalmente” a su compañero agente, “lo que hizo que quedara sobre el cofre del vehículo”.

Los videos de cámara corporal publicados recientemente, grabados desde detrás del auto de Martinez, no muestran con claridad que el vehículo golpee a un agente.

Otro video muestra a Joshua Orta, quien iba en el auto con Martinez, diciéndoles a los investigadores que su amigo no pretendía hacerles daño a los agentes federales, pero que “entró en pánico” porque temía ser arrestado por conducir en estado de ebriedad.

“No sabía qué hacer. O sea, definitivamente no quería ir a la cárcel”, comentó Orta. “Pero en cuanto a atropellar a un agente… él no haría eso”.

Portavoces del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional no respondieron a solicitudes de comentarios sobre los videos.

“Disparos, disparos”

Aunque medios locales informaron en su momento que en el tiroteo participó un policía, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional no reveló públicamente que sus agentes hubieran estado involucrados hasta después de que la AP y otros medios lo informaran el mes pasado.

Martinez había cumplido 23 años apenas unos días antes cuando él y Orta condujeron desde San Antonio, su ciudad natal, hasta South Padre Island, un popular destino de vacaciones de primavera. Bebieron con amigos y fumaron marihuana antes de volver a salir por la ciudad, les contó Orta a los investigadores.

Martinez conducía su sedán Ford azul cuando, poco después de la medianoche, se toparon con la escena en la que policías de South Padre dirigían el tráfico alrededor de una colisión de dos autos en una concurrida intersección. También estaban allí tres agentes del HSI de un grupo de trabajo de seguridad fronteriza marítima que había sido redirigido para realizar labores de control migratorio, según documentos.

En imágenes de cámara corporal captadas por dos policías de la isla, se ve el auto de Martinez acercándose lentamente a la intersección, aparentemente para seguir de frente mientras se les indicaba a los vehículos que giraran a la izquierda. El auto de Martinez reduce la velocidad hasta casi detenerse por completo ante peatones en el cruce. Una vez que los peatones se apartan, el auto avanza lentamente hacia la intersección antes de detenerse otra vez cuando los agentes del HSI se acercan, gritando instrucciones para que el conductor se detenga.

Uno de los agentes del HSI, identificado en documentos como el agente especial Hector Sosa, se coloca frente al auto. Stevens está del lado del conductor y estira la mano hacia la puerta.

“Bájenlo, bájenlo”, se escucha gritar a uno de los agentes.

El auto de Martinez comienza a avanzar lentamente y a girar a la izquierda, hacia donde circulaban otros vehículos. Stevens, del lado del conductor, mantiene el paso y parece inclinarse hacia la ventanilla abierta del conductor. Mientras los agentes le gritan a Martinez que se detenga, Stevens saca su arma y dispara rápidamente tres veces a través de la ventanilla antes de retroceder de inmediato.

“Disparos, disparos”, grita por radio uno de los policías que lleva cámara.

Todo el incidente ocurre en unos 15 segundos.

Los agentes sacan al conductor del auto

El Ford azul se detiene por completo rápidamente y varios agentes sacan a Martinez del vehículo y lo esposan. Orta también es sacado del asiento del pasajero y esposado.

Martinez permanece esposado y en el suelo, inmóvil, durante aproximadamente un minuto antes de que paramédicos que ya estaban en el lugar por el accidente de tránsito anterior comiencen a brindarle atención médica.

Un informe de autopsia muestra que los tres disparos efectuados por Stevens impactaron a Martinez; las balas atravesaron su brazo izquierdo antes de entrar en su torso y perforar su corazón, pulmones, hígado y otros órganos. El informe de autopsia también indicó que el nivel de alcohol en sangre de Martinez era de 0,12%, muy por encima del límite legal para conducir en Texas, que es de 0,08%.

En una declaración escrita de tres páginas entregada a los rangers de Texas casi dos meses después del tiroteo, Stevens afirmó que disparó su arma cuando Martinez “aceleró hacia adelante, golpeando al agente especial Sosa, quien terminó sobre el cofre del vehículo”. También señaló que por poco fue atropellado, al ser golpeado por el lado del conductor y “provocar que el espejo se desprendiera del vehículo”. Una foto de la escena mostraba el espejo dañado, pero aún en el auto.

Mientras disparaba, el agente indicó que tenía “muy presentes” hechos recientes nacionales e internacionales, incluido el caso de un hombre que había arrollado con una camioneta tipo pickup a una multitud que celebraba Año Nuevo en Nueva Orleans semanas antes.

“Los ojos del conductor estaban muy abiertos, el puño apretado sobre el volante, y miraba más allá de los agentes presentes mientras no acataba las órdenes verbales fuertes y repetidas de varios agentes del orden”, escribió Stevens. “Este es un comportamiento que he observado en mi capacitación y experiencia como un indicador previo a un ataque y una señal de falta de acatamiento, ya que el sospechoso mira en la dirección de su movimiento previsto y no es indicativo de obediencia. Esa trayectoria de movimiento, de no haberse mitigado, habría, usando el vehículo como arma, produciendo numerosas víctimas”.

Como informó la AP el mes pasado, en una investigación interna del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) se indica que el agente golpeado por el auto fue atendido por una lesión de rodilla no especificada en un hospital cercano y dado de alta. Los videos publicados recientemente muestran al agente después del tiroteo arrestando a Orta y caminando sin ninguna lesión visible ni cojera.

“Ahí fue cuando entró en pánico y giró el volante”

Orta dijo que Martinez había estado bebiendo más temprano esa noche —varios tragos y una cerveza— y fumó marihuana cuando se acercó al punto de control de tráfico donde había ocurrido antes un accidente vehicular.

Un agente vio una bebida alcohólica abierta cerca de Martinez, pero le indicó al auto que siguiera avanzando y girara a la izquierda. En lugar de hacerlo, Martinez siguió de frente, hacia el accidente y hacia donde estaban los otros agentes.

“Ahí fue cuando entró en pánico y giró el volante, y no pisó a fondo el acelerador, pero avanzamos un poquito y supongo que ellos pensaron que estaba como tratando de atropellar al policía o algo así”, relató Orta.

Orta dijo que su auto se detuvo “por completo” al principio. Luego Martinez giró a la izquierda con el auto “apenas moviéndose”.

“Vi que el agente como que se subió al cofre. O sea, no lo golpeó, pero como que, ya sabes a qué me refiero, se le engancharon los pies”, explicó Orta. “Iba moviéndose despacio y empezaron a disparar”.

Orta murió el 21 de febrero en un accidente automovilístico en San Antonio.

Abogados que representan a la madre de Martinez, Rachel Reyes, dijeron en un comunicado que los videos publicados recientemente y otras pruebas mostraban que su auto apenas se movía cuando Stevens disparó a quemarropa.

“Este conjunto de pruebas no muestra ninguna justificación para la muerte de Ruben”, manifestaron los abogados Charles M. Stam y Alex Stamm. “Aun así, nuestra búsqueda de plena transparencia continuará hasta que tengamos todos los hechos. Nosotros, y el público, aún no hemos visto todas las pruebas que tiene el gobierno”.

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Boone informó desde Boise, Idaho, y Brook desde Nueva Orleans. Contribuyeron los periodistas de The Associated Press Jesse Bedayn en Denver, Jaun Lozano en Houston y John Hanna en Topeka, Kansas.

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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.

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Following years of delays, the date is finally set for the public opening of the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center on June 19, with tickets for the museum going on sale in May.

On the heels of his speech at funeral services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., former President Barack Obama on Saturday announced on social media plans for him and former First Lady Michelle Obama to host a dedication ceremony for the center on June 18.

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th.

We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to https://t.co/swMRHuB5Y4 to learn more. pic.twitter.com/8mcbWjs6cz

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 7, 2026

“When visitors look up at the Obama Presidential Center’s museum building, they’ll see three simple powerful words: You are America,” Obama said in a video shared on X, using the words from his speech during the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 2015, which are inscribed on the building’s exterior.

He also thanked Chicago and South Side residents.

“Thank you for raising Michelle, for welcoming me as one of your own and for lifting up our family every step of the way. Thank you for embracing this presidential center, not as something of mine, but as of yours,” Obama said.

Michelle Obama, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, shared on social media Saturday that “Chicago will always be home.”

“I’m not just a daughter from the South Side,” she said in a video shared on X, promoting the center. “But a mother from the South Side, a lawyer, an executive, an author from the South Side, I am a First Lady from the South Side of Chicago, and that is why this project is so incredibly important to me and my husband.”

The Obama Presidential Center on Feb. 25, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

Spanning 19-acres, the $850 million center in Jackson Park, which was first slated to open in 2021, then again in 2025 and now officially in summer of 2026, will feature a newly-minted main building and museum; a forum building that includes an auditorium, media suite and other programming rooms; a Chicago Public Library branch; and farther south, a 45,000-square-foot multipurpose athletic center.

The campus will also feature a playground and a landscaped park that connects with the Museum of Science and Industry.

Most of the amenities will be free and accessible to the public, except for the museum, which will sell tickets priced in line with other Chicago cultural institutions, the Obama Foundation said in a press statement on Saturday.

Embroiled in legal fights and delays, the Presidential Center has seen over a decade go by since the president chose Chicago as the center’s home in 2015.

The center faced some delays in 2018 from a federal review process of the center’s impact on Jackson Park, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the project’s potential environmental effects. Any impacts highlighted in the review had to be cleared before construction was allowed to begin, the Tribune reported.

Residents and organizers also fretted about gentrification in neighboring Woodlawn and South Shore and pressed for housing protections since Obama announced Jackson Park as the site of his museum. As the Obama center promoted Airbnb, a short-term rental company with close ties to the Obama family, this heightened community concerns that the center would exacerbate housing shortages and raise rents.

Last year, a federal lawsuit was filed alleging one of the main firms involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center racially discriminated against one of the project’s African American-owned local subcontractors, leaving them $40 million in the red and at risk of bankruptcy, the Tribune reported.

And while Obama visited Chicago last December to check in on the center’s construction and surprised a South Side school with a visit, much of Chicago waited expectantly for the center to come to fruition.

The opening ceremony will be livestreamed on June 18, featuring performances from “global icons” and “prominent” leaders’ remarks, according to its website. Celebrations featuring live performances, food, art, and storytelling are open to the public and planned on June 20 and 21.

“This grand opening is just the beginning,” Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said in a release statement.

“The opening of the Obama Presidential Center will be a beacon of hope to the world and a place where we hope guests will be inspired to bring change home to their communities,” Jarrett said.

Hope is central to the presidential center’s message and is featured prominently on the foundation’s website.

“Hope is coming home,” Obama said in a video promoting the center’s opening. “And it wouldn’t have happened without all of you.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/07/obamas-announces-june-dedication-opening-of-jackson-park-presidential-center/ 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Desmond Bane anotó 30 puntos, Paolo Banchero sumó 25 unidades y 15 rebotes, y el Magic de Orlando ganó su tercer partido consecutivo al vencer el sábado 119-92 a los Timberwolves de Minnesota.

Jalen Suggs aportó 14 puntos y Tristan da Silva añadió 11 por el Magic, que pasó lidera ahora la División Sureste.

Anthony Edwards anotó 34 puntos, incluidos 13 de 14 desde la línea de tiros libres, pero Minnesota vio cortada su racha de cinco victorias seguidas.

Julius Randle anotó 14 puntos y capturó nueve rebotes, la mayor cifra del equipo, para los Timberwolves; Naz Reid añadió 13 unidades desde la banca y Rudy Gobert agregó 12.

Minnesota atinó apenas el 35,7% de sus disparos y registró su segunda menor cantidad de puntos de la temporada. Los titulares Donte DiVincenzo y Jaden McDaniels se combinaron para fallar sus 15 disparos.

Bane acertó 10 de 17 disparos de campo y encestó los 10 tiros libres para firmar su 11mo partido de la temporada con 30 puntos o más. Banchero convirtió 10 de 18 lanzamientos.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/07/banchero-y-bane-suman-55-puntos-magic-vence-a-timberwolves-por-119-92/ 

Venezuela’s Gas Potential Could Overshadow Its Famous Oil Reserves

Tyler Durden
Sat, 03/07/2026 – 18:15

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/venezuelas-gas-potential-could-overshadow-its-famous-oil-reserves 

Guaranteed income supporters celebrated a historic win last November when Cook County approved the first permanent county-level guaranteed income program in the nation. The Union for a Guaranteed Income (U4GI) held a public meeting Saturday at Chicago Hope Academy to move from securing the funding to helping shape the program itself.

“This event is about educating folks on what guaranteed income is, but also bringing them into the fight as we continue to try and win guaranteed income programs throughout the state of Illinois,” said Byron Hobbs, director of organizing for the economic freedom team at Community Change.

In its 2026 budget, Cook County set aside $7.5 million to extend the guaranteed income program beyond the pilot, making it one of the first local governments in the country to commit to ongoing funding. Officials are crafting updated rules around applications, eligibility and program design, with a final plan expected this year.

Cook County’s Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, which launched using $42 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding, gave 3,250 low- to moderate-income families $500 a month in no-strings-attached cash — meaning no work requirements or spending restrictions — for two years. More than 200,000 people put their names in when it launched. Payments began in December 2022 and continued through January 2025.

Karen Ottoni, from left, senior communications manager for Community Change, Aurora Gonzalez, member leader with the Union for Guaranteed Income, Krystal Peters, an organizer for Workers Center for Racial Justice, and Taylar Tramil, of Workers Center for Racial Justice, discuss guaranteed income at a meeting in Hyde Park on March 6, 2026. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)

A survey released by Cook County in April 2025 found 75% of participants felt more financially secure with the monthly cash payments, 94% were able to use the money to manage financial emergencies or unexpected expenses and 73% believed the payments would continue to impact them after the program ended. The top reported uses of the funds were food, rent, utilities and transportation.

During Saturday’s meeting, organizers from Community Change, the Workers Center for Racial Justice and Equity and Transformation (e.a.t) shared these statistics and recipient stories to encourage eligible residents to engage with U4GI and provide input on how they would like the program to be structured.

Hobbs began the meeting by asking the audience if they had ever worried about paying their bills or struggled to make ends meet. With around 60 people in attendance, including residents from across Chicago, Cook County and some from neighboring states, almost everyone raised their hand.

Santresa Harris, 45, a recipient of the city pilot program, lost her job during the pandemic and struggled to find work. As a mother of four, she often prioritized her children’s well-being over her own, skipping meals and cutting daily necessities.

“I was struggling,” Harris said. “The extra income, it helped a lot. It was like a supportive safety net.”

She put the monthly payments toward food, hygiene products, transportation for herself and her children, everyday essentials and bills. Harris participated in the program for about a year. By the end, she had secured a new job as a house advocate for a domestic violence service provider.

“The program absolutely helped me secure the job,” Harris said. “It helped me with transportation, it helped me get clothing to be presentable, to keep the position.”

While regulations for the permanent program, including eligibility and payment amounts, have not been finalized, organizers hope the first round of payments will begin by late summer or early fall of 2026.

With the $7.5 million budget approved by the county, Hobbs estimated the program could support roughly 1,000 to 1,200 people if payments remain around $500 per month.

But he said this is only the first step.

“Our long-term vision, our North Star, is to win a statewide permanent guaranteed income program for 100,000 eligible Illinoisans,” Hobbs said.

Federal changes under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” include alterations to Medicaid and SNAP eligibility that could lead to significant losses in coverage and benefits for hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents.

“This economy has not worked for poor and low-income folks in the city of Chicago, across Illinois and across this country,” Hobbs said. “We see guaranteed income as a program to help lift folks up who are struggling, but also it’s no strings attached cash allows people to invest in themselves.”

While he emphasized that paying for necessities like bills and childcare is critical, allowing people to work toward their hopes and passions is another important factor.

To expand the program and build support, organizers encouraged attendees to spread the word and get involved.

“Guaranteed income is not something new; this is something that has been advocated for years, for decades, but it’s still something that the general public is not aware of as a potential solution for a lot of very common problems,” said Taylar Tramil, political director with the Workers Center for Racial Justice. “I think the core goal of this is to make sure that we raise awareness.”

Krystal Peters, a child care organizer with the WCRJ, a member of the Union for a Guaranteed Income and a former participant, shared her story with the crowd. Before receiving the payments, Peters said she had recently come out of homelessness and was juggling financial pressures while caring for both her daughter and her mother.

“I had the financial pressures that all of you are thinking about,” Peters said. “It was so much, it was a lot on my plate.”

Since the program selected participants through a lottery, she knew her chances were slim, but she made lists of how she would spend the money regardless.

When she was chosen, Peters said it changed her life.

“We all aspire to do and be and do better,” Peters said. “And so what that monthly money allowed me to do was to invest in myself and begin to become that person, that woman that I see in myself, that organizer that I see myself being.”

She has since dedicated herself to helping others facing the same challenges she once experienced and fighting for policies that benefit low-income families.

“We all want to say, ‘oh, I’m not political,’” Peters said. “But if you’re waking up, you’re paying tickets, you’re paying bills, you’re doing all these things, you are into politics. So why not take charge and be a part of those tables that directly impact you?”

While critics of the program argue that recipients are benefiting from taxpayer dollars without having to work, Tramil pushes back. “This does not replace a job,” Tramil said. “For many people, that $500 helped them pay rent, cover childcare, get to work. It actually enabled people to find and keep jobs, not replace them.”

As U4GI continues to advocate for self-determination and expand its outreach to community members, Tramil emphasized the power of collective action.

“Things happen when it’s a community effort,” Tramil said. “The more people we empower, the stronger the impact.”

Chicago Tribune’s A.D. Quig contributed.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/07/cook-county-guaranteed-income-program/