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La NBA pospone el partido entre Grizzlies y Nuggets debido a la tormenta invernal
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, EE.UU. (AP) — El partido entre los Nuggets de Denver y los Grizzlies de Memphis fue pospuesto el domingo debido a la tormenta invernal masiva que se extiende por gran parte de Estados Unidos.
Los oficiales de la NBA anunciaron que el partido sería reprogramado debido al clima en el área de Memphis.
En otros encuentros, los Mavericks de Dallas no pudieron volar a Milwaukee el sábado por la noche para el encuentro del domingo a las 7 p.m. ET contra los Bucks. Hasta el domingo por la tarde, los Mavericks seguían en Dallas y planeaban llegar a Milwaukee a media tarde.
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Obama califica el último tiroteo en Minnesota como un “llamado de atención”; hace llamado a las autoridades federales
Obama califica el último tiroteo en Minnesota como un “llamado de atención”; hace llamado a las autoridades federales.
“Befuddled By The Insanity Swirling Around Me…”
“Befuddled By The Insanity Swirling Around Me…”
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
Fake It Until You Make It
“My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” — George Carlin
The government reported CPI of “only” 2.7% and the financial pundits and Trump toadies celebrated the “lowest inflation in 5 years”. This is after “surprisingly good” unemployment report where the country added 50,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%. Of course, they also revealed every month in 2025 had been revised downward. EVERY freaking month was a lie when originally reported. December will eventually be revised to a negative number, when no one is paying attention. The lie did its job of sending the stock market to new all-time highs, because they need to fake it until they make it.
It’s embarrassing living under the rule of a quasi-fascist corporate governmental bureaucracy built on a funeral pyre of lies, growing ever larger by the minute, anticipating a spark igniting a conflagration never before seen in history. The average “forgotten man” knows their cost of living increases are nowhere near 2.7%, as they pay 30% more for utilities, 20% more for a steak, 10% more for chicken, 20% more for car insurance, 10% more for homeowners insurance, 10% more for property taxes, 10% more for rent, 35% more for new and used cars since 2020, and the list goes on. The CPI is a LIE.
They massage the employment numbers so hard, the BLS bureaucrats must achieve a happy ending every month. It’s laughable when common folk give up looking for a job because there are none to be had, they are no longer counted as unemployed. If you believe there are only 7.5 million Americans unemployed out of the 275 million adult population, while 103 million are Not in the Labor Force, then you are a clueless non-critical thinking dupe who deserves to get it good and hard. The American empire has devolved into a dying lying replica of the degenerate Soviet empire described so well by Solzhenitsyn.
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If GDP is growing at 5%, unemployment is low, inflation is low, and stocks are hitting all-time highs, why would the Fed need to cut interest rates and begin another massive round of quantitative easing? It sure smells like the desperation exhibited in September 2019 when the repo market revealed major problems under the hood. This was followed by the plandemic, unleashing trillions into the grubby little hands of the banking cabal to enrich themselves while throwing a few crumbs to the plebs as they were locked in solitary confinement for 18 months.
The global financial system is choking on debt and the only solution central bankers, politicians, and their billionaire puppet masters have is to print trillions more fiat, while trying to create a Potemkin facade of normalcy and stability for the ignorant masses. Making up fake statistics, using the newly printed fiat to prop up financial markets, and having their legacy media propaganda outlets spew comforting lies has been their plan. But, it appears gold and silver are calling their bluff. They have lost control of their paper derivative price suppression mechanisms. Gold and silver do not go up 5% per day when all is well. The system is broken and the shit is going to hit the fan, soon.
There were a couple charts posted by the Kobeissi Report which I think explain why the average working stiff is mad as hell and getting close to not taking it anymore. The percentage of GDP which goes to workers in the form of compensation just reached an all-time low of 53.8%. It is clear from the chart, this has not been the century of the worker, but the century of bankers and corporations. From 1947 through 2000, workers received approximately 64% of GDP in compensation. It seems that giant sucking sound described by Ross Perot in 1992 was accurate, as millions of good paying jobs were outsourced to 3rd world shitholes, and now robots and AI are completing the task of gutting the middle class to benefit billionaires, bankers and politicians.
With current U.S. GDP of $31 trillion, workers would be receiving over $3 trillion more in annual compensation if our overlords had not financialized the world and treated workers as nothing more than replaceable cogs in their finance machine. Corporate profit margins reached 10.9% in the 3rd quarter, the 2nd highest in history. Basically, the American worker has been screwed over for the sake of corporate profits. Now you know why the stock market is at record highs, while senior citizens living on a fixed income have to choose between paying the electric bill or filling their prescriptions. Show me Ross Perot was not wrong after analyzing this chart.
“We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It’s pretty simple: If you’re paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, … have no health care—that’s the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don’t care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south. When [Mexico’s] jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it’s leveled again. But in the meantime, you’ve wrecked the country with these kinds of deals.” – Ross Perot – 1992 Presidential Debate
If the economy is doing so well, as I’m scolded to acknowledge by a multitude of Trump lackeys in the government and his social media influencer acolytes, why are all consumer related measures showing extreme stress? Auto loan delinquencies have soared to Great Recession levels, with over 2 million autos repossessed in 2025. Student loan delinquencies at over 30% have reached a 21 year high. Mortgage delinquencies have been ticking up as home prices have flattened and the boom is turning into a bust. Why would consumer confidence be near covid lows and 35% lower than 2019 if the economy was really booming?
And, the most important debt to everyday Americans, credit card debt, is seeing delinquency rates surge to levels last seen in 2011. Household debt rocketed by $197 billion in the 3rd quarter, reaching an astronomical $18.6 trillion. Nothing like a record amount of debt, a weakening frozen jobs market, and now Trump’s 10% interest rate cap PR stunt to create a consumer debt crisis. It has already begun. US consumers now see a 15.3% chance of missing a minimum debt payment over the next 3 months, the highest since April 2020. This is also the 2nd-highest reading since the 2013 peak.
When you give workers a smaller and smaller slice of the pie for a quarter of a century, while doubling the cost of everything they need to live, and propagandizing these victims into a mass consumption mania, you’ve manipulated millions of Americans into inescapable debt servitude. And that is exactly what the ruling class wanted – hamsters running on a never ending wheel of debt. Of course, the highest delinquency risk, at 22.5%, was reported by households earning below $50,000, those doing all the hard work that keeps this country running. The sharpest increases were among respondents over the age of 60, seniors living on fixed incomes (declining due to lowering of interest rates) who can no longer make ends meet.
Things are falling apart. The country adds $5 billion to the national debt every day. The $200 trillion of unfunded welfare/pension liabilities are mathematically impossible to honor. Our “peace president” has kidnapped another world leader, about to bomb Iran for a second time, about to conquer Greenland, hijacks Russian oil tankers, appears to have been aware of the attempt to assassinate Putin with drones, threatens to bomb Mexico, Columbia,and any other country that irritates him, and saber rattles towards China regarding Taiwan.
Personally, I’m befuddled by the insanity swirling around me. I want no part in this shitshow, as what passes for leaders plunge the world towards WW3 and nuclear Armageddon. I can’t tell whether this international strife is being used to distract from the intractable imminent financial disaster awaiting the western world, or whether these psychopaths in suits are just following the orders of the globalist billionaires who are running the show and need chaos, strife, fear, and mass casualties to implement their New World Order.
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
― W.B. Yeats
The center cannot hold. We are ruled by the worst, and they passionately want to blow up the world. Welcome to 2026.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/25/2026 – 14:00
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/befuddled-insanity-swirling-around-me
Review: Music of the Baroque presents ‘Fathers & Sons,’ crowned by one of Chicago’s own musical sons
Fathers. We all rail against ours at some point.
The great composers were no exception. The contrapuntal richness we love in Johann Sebastian Bach’s music was abandoned by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, whose more streamlined style helped usher in the Classical era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold both absorbed C.P.E. Bach’s influence, but their rupture point was more emotional than aesthetic: Mozart wanted to try his luck in European capitals, while the busybody Leopold wanted his son to stay with him in Salzburg.
Braving Saturday’s extreme cold and snow flurries, Music of the Baroque and music director Dame Jane Glover explored both pairs of contrasting kinsmen in “Fathers & Sons,” a lively and musically rewarding program at the Harris Theater.
Headlining was flute soloist Demarre McGill — who, along with his brother, clarinetist Anthony McGill, grew up in city music programs like the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Merit School of Music. (Speaking of keeping it all in the family.) Both McGills now play at classical music’s highest level: Demarre as principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, Anthony as principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic.
Even so, soloists with the sensitivity, color palette and élan McGill demonstrated in Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2 and C.P.E. Bach’s Flute Concerto in G are a rare breed in any echelon of classical music. He was a consummate soloist on Saturday, actively partnering with the orchestra and leading with wide-eared curiosity. His tone is his secret weapon — soft-daubed and lyrical, its edges melting into the air around it.
Both Mozart and C.P.E. Bach’s concertos are works of adaptation — Mozart’s from his oboe concerto, and C.P.E.’s from an organ concerto written around the same time. Mozart’s adaptation, made around the time he and his father were quarreling about all things Salzburg, suits the flute nicely. Bach’s bravura opus, less so: The solo line can usually be found somersaulting over the orchestra in arpeggios or squaring off against it in rowdy fisticuffs.
McGill adroitly met the latter challenge, his virtuoso performance of the G major concerto scratching the same itch that an encore might. But the way his tone ripens over time, or assumes sumptuous new shadings across his range, as it did in the Mozart? That needs space and time to savor, both of which were in short supply in the younger Bach’s busy, keyboard-like flute writing.
The second movement was a welcome exception, flute and orchestra trading off mournful descending lines. With McGill and the Music of the Baroque orchestra, these sounded like a reluctant parting of lovers, their points of overlap tenderly clinging to one another.
McGill’s captivating double-header served as a reminder that there may soon be an open seat at the Chicago Symphony, should principal flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson remain in the Berlin Philharmonic. This homegrown talent’s hat absolutely deserves to be tossed into that exclusive ring.
The Music of the Baroque orchestra already shares personnel overlap with the CSO, which was wrapping up a West Coast tour on Saturday. But even without a few core players — including concertmaster Gina DiBello — the instrumental unit sounded of one mind. They responded alertly in Leopold Mozart’s Symphony in F, with silky pianos and snappy unison rhythms. That finesse carried over into Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 4, with contoured strings and intricate double-reed quartets emerging against the ensemble in the early movements. (A special shout-out to bassoonist Galina Kiep, who heroically carried the dastardly bassoon part in the Bourrée movement.)
Music director Dame Jane Glover conducts Music of the Baroque and flute soloist Demarre McGill at the Harris Theater in Chicago on Jan. 24, 2026. (Elliot Mandel)
Watching Glover in this repertoire is a masterclass in gesture and phrasing. Leading batonless, the Mozart specialist and scholar proved just as sympathetic an interpreter of the elder Leopold’s symphony. She made a hearty meal out of the ten-minute diversion, bringing out the inner energy of the finale so that its repeated material was made new with each statement. In the accompanimental mode for Mozart and C.P.E. Bach’s concertos, Glover’s brushwork-like beats were elegance par excellence — just gently sweeping from her wrist or elbows, rather than beating through bars.
Her expansive tempo to the Overture saw some slight tempo disagreement. Once that cinched up within a matter of bars, Glover’s promenade pace offered profound interpretive rewards. Later easings in the strings, then an organic return to the top tempo, gave this suite a truly symphonic outlook, anticipating not Leopold Mozart’s morsels but the epic essays of future centuries. Glover’s perspicacious view of this repertoire alone is well worth braving any weather.
Hannah Edgar is a freelance critic.
“Fathers & Sons” repeats 7:30 p.m. Sunday at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, and Jan. 30-March 1 on demand online. In-person tickets $46-$119, on demand $18; more information at baroque.org
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/review-music-baroque/
“Mercy” supera a “Avatar: Fire & Ash” en taquilla durante fin de semana nevado en EEUU
Por JAKE COYLE
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Con una tormenta invernal cubriendo una gran parte del país, Hollywood tuvo su fin de semana más tranquilo del año en la taquilla. El thriller de ciencia ficción de Amazon MGM “Mercy” destronó a “Avatar: Fire and Ash” del puesto número uno con 11,2 millones de dólares en América del Norte, según estimaciones del estudio el domingo.
Cientos de cines se vieron obligados a cerrar debido a la tormenta, desde Texas hasta Maine. Más de 140 millones de estadounidenses estaban bajo advertencias de tormenta invernal, lo que disminuyó la asistencia al cine.
Sin embargo, el fin de semana no iba a ser uno de grandes éxitos. “Mercy”, un thriller de 60 millones de dólares protagonizado por Chris Pratt como un hombre en un futuro cercano siendo juzgado por un juez de IA, fue el principal estreno. Llegó con críticas desalentadoras (20% de aceptación en Rotten Tomatoes) y una recepción igualmente pobre (un “B-” en CinemaScore) por parte del público.
Pero eso fue suficiente para finalmente desbancar a la tercera entrega de la saga de Pandora de James Cameron de su posición de un mes en la cima de la taquilla. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” cayó al segundo lugar con 7 millones de dólares. Al tiempo que el lanzamiento de The Walt Disney Co. está comenzando a agotarse a nivel nacional, sigue siendo una gran atracción en el extranjero. Recaudó 28,1 millones de dólares internacionalmente en su sexta semana.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” no se acercará a las alturas de taquilla de las dos películas anteriores de “Avatar”. La original de 2009 recaudó 2.900 millones de dólares y la secuela de 2022, “The Way of Water”, alcanzó los 2.300 millones. “Fire and Ash” ha superado ahora los 1.000 millones de dólares internacionalmente, pero su recaudación nacional (378,5 millones) está muy por debajo del ritmo de las otras dos películas.
El “impulso del Oscar” que las películas solían recibir tras la nominación es en gran medida cosa del pasado. Las películas principales en las nominaciones del jueves —”Sinners” y “One Battle After Another”— hace tiempo que completaron sus periodos en las salas. Pero un puñado de nominados vio un buen negocio.
“Hamnet” de Chloé Zhao, nominada a ocho Oscar –incluyendo mejor película–, recaudó 2 millones de dólares en su primer fin de semana de estreno amplio. El drama de Shakespeare, protagonizado por Jessie Buckley y Paul Mescal, ha estado en los cines durante dos meses, aumentando constantemente su presencia en las salas. Ha alcanzado 17,6 millones de dólares a nivel nacional y 42,1 millones en todo el mundo.
“Marty Supreme” de Josh Safdie, nominada a nueve Oscar, ganó 3,5 millones de dólares en su sexta semana de estreno. El título de A24, protagonizado por Timothée Chalamet, cruzó esta semana los 100 millones de dólares a nivel mundial. Hasta ahora ha recaudado 86,2 millones a nivel nacional.
A continuación, la lista de las películas más taquilleras en los cines de Norteamérica, según Comscore:
1. “Mercy”, 11,2 millones de dólares.
2. “Avatar: Fire and Ash”, 7 millones de dólares.
3. “Zootopia 2”, 5,7 millones de dólares.
4. “The Housemaid”, 4,2 millones de dólares.
5. “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”, 3,6 millones de dólares.
6. “Marty Supreme”, 3,5 millones de dólares.
7. “Return to Silent Hill”, 2,7 millones de dólares.
8. “Hamnet”, 2 millones de dólares.
9. “Lord of the Rings”, 2 millones de dólares.
10. “Primate”, 1,7 millones de dólares. ___
Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Review: Martha Graham Dance Company makes a rare Chicago visit — with a timely finale
In 1936, American choreographer Martha Graham declined an opportunity to appear at the Olympic Games in Germany. It was a rare moment of political dissent; Graham, who had several Jewish dancers in her then-decade-old company, refused to participate in a spectacle rife with Nazi propaganda.
Instead, she made “Chronicle,” a three-part modern dance work responding to and resisting the rise of fascism in Europe.
“Chronicle” premiered in December 1936 in New York. And it closed the Martha Graham Dance Company’s 100th anniversary program, performed Saturday night at the Auditorium Theatre in the company’s first fully produced visit to Chicago in nearly two decades.
Overt political statements were few and far between for Graham. And that has remained the case for America’s oldest dance company since her death in 1991. “Chronicle” is, in some ways, a reflection of that constraint, bookending a gorgeous, abstract sketch on the destruction and displacement of war with a pair of spellbinding solos from Xin Ying, an extraordinary interlocutor of Graham’s technique and mesmerizing presence in the Martha Graham Dance Company for the past 15 years.
It seems no accident that the Graham company chose “Chronicle” as the program’s finale. Earlier this month, they joined a growing list of artists and groups who canceled appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where this centennial tour was due to stop in April. The venue, long considered a living monument to the late President John F. Kennedy, has undergone sweeping changes since President Trump took office a year ago.
Unlike Graham herself in 1936, the company did not explicitly give a reason for the cancellation. Artistic director Janet Eilber was equally coy in her curtain speech at the Auditorium Saturday evening, letting the audience draw its own inferences between 1936 and Nazi Germany and the present-day United States. But here’s one parallel: History remembers the choice to decline and reject, often as saliently as other means of dissent. And in America, modern dance at its core is and has always been a rejection of the status quo.
Take the night’s opener, “Diversion of Angels,” Graham’s 1948 musings on various iterations of love. Or “Lamentation,” a 1930 sketch efforting toward pure, guttural emotion within the body. In these and, indeed, all her works, Graham routinely tapped the idiosyncratic, signature vocabulary of her making. Graham’s core principles of contract and release, spiral and breath, were born out of rebellion from the colonialist aesthetics of ballet. In her stead, Graham’s pupils, including Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham and Ohad Naharin, forged their own resistance to Graham’s stanch principles. And on and on.
A century later, the Graham technique’s eccentricities — cupped, flexed palms; copious single leg balances; bouncing bean buoyancy; adults performing cartwheels — make her dances wholly recognizable and perhaps a bit dated. That’s why Eilber has sought to expand her company’s repertory far beyond Graham, including a new addition by Hope Boykin sandwiched between Graham’s works for this tour.
Boykin, whose career on stage spanned two decades at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, clearly knew who she was working with in creating “En Masse,” exploiting a rare chance to serve up Graham’s vocabulary with a contemporary twist on dancers who obviously do it better than anyone else. She leaned so hard into Graham technique, in fact, that at first, it’s difficult to see 2026 in the work.
The air of mid-20th century antiquity is echoed in music by Leonard Bernstein, newly arranged by Christopher Rountree. Selections from Bernstein’s 1971 “Mass” (a work that premiered at the Kennedy Center) serve as a companion for an unearthed theme believed to have been composed for Martha Graham and never performed. Which is which is impossible to tell if you’re unfamiliar with “Mass,” but the dance and its accompaniment seem to portray a kind of time travel through its chunky sections, separated by blackouts. Throughout the piece, costume designer Karen Young gradually adds flowy separates in a spectrum of teals to the simple unitards worn at the beginning of the piece.
In that vein, Boykin prescribes increasingly jubilant, pedestrian passages — outside the Graham company’s comfort zone but easily in the pocket for these magnificent beings. Among the ideas carried through “En Masse’s” fits and starts necessitated by breaks in the music is a tension between the individual and the collective. Tensile bands bind one hand to the other, or one dancer to the other; breaking those bonds initially ignites a kind of collective freak out. As the dancers’ inherent dependence on each other changes from being literally tied together to moving as a group of individuals, “En Masse” begins to simmer — but never quite boils.
Lauren Warnecke is a freelance critic.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/review-martha-graham-dance/
Minneapolis Shooting Sets Stage For Government Shutdown Unless Republicans Cave On DHS
Minneapolis Shooting Sets Stage For Government Shutdown Unless Republicans Cave On DHS
With Congress already veering towards a shutdown this Friday after Senate Democrats vowed to oppose funding DHS in a six-bill spending package, yesterday’s killing of a 37-year-old Minneapolis man by federal agents all but cemented it – unless Republicans are willing to cave.
In a Saturday night statement, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Democrats won’t advance the bill as long as it includes DHS funding. The package requires Democratic support to clear a 60-vote hurdle.
“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included,” said Schumer, adding that he’s personally a ‘no.’
Following Saturday’s shooting, several Democratic senators who previously voted to advance government funding measures flipped, and now oppose the package unless DHS – and therefore funding for ICE and Border Patrol – is stripped.
Please note: @DHSgov org chart dated 2023 (link below) includes @uscoastguard @fema @TSA @CISAgov @SecretService etc.https://t.co/NooJ0vXutz pic.twitter.com/8s1iKTZjlO
— One American (@1silveramerican) January 25, 2026
“I am voting against any funding for DHS until and unless more controls are put in place to hold ICE accountable,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) in a Saturday statement on X. “I am voting against any funding for DHS until and unless more controls are put in place to hold ICE accountable.”
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) – who voted to end the shutdown in November – also announced on Saturday that they will oppose the DHS funding bill, Politico reports.
“I have the responsibility to hold the Trump Administration accountable when I see abuses of power — like we are seeing from ICE right now,” Rosen said on X. “That is why I’ll be voting against any government funding package that contains the bill that funds this agency, until we have guardrails in place to curtail these abuses of power and ensure more accountability and transparency.”
The DHS bill passed the House Thursday 220-207, with only seven Democrats voting for it. But Republican House leaders merged it with five other bills funding the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services and State, among others, sending it to the Senate as one package.
More than half of the 47-member Democratic caucus has already vowed to oppose the package, many before Saturday’s shooting. And that number is growing as Democrats’ re-evaluate the legislation in the wake of the shooting and as they face pressure from House Democrats and their Senate colleagues, not to mention outside voices close to the party base. -Politico
Following the shooting, government shutdown odds surged on Polymarket, and are now at 76%.
Meanwhile, there’s this…
You can’t announce you are abolishing the Department of Education and then pressure conservatives to vote to fund it at the FULL Biden level WITH a Dem rider PREVENTING transfer of those funds. This is a game. https://t.co/lglQZjGwrB pic.twitter.com/8SofrNZdvq
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) January 23, 2026
Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/25/2026 – 13:25
Undav sella victoria 3-0 del Stuttgart sobre Gladbach en la Bundesliga
Por CIARÁN FAHEY
BERLÍN (AP) — Deniz Undav anotó y el Stuttgart se recuperó de su derrota ante la Roma en la Liga Europa al vencer el domingo 3-0 en la Bundesliga al Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Los visitantes sufrieron un revés temprano cuando Jamie Leweling concedió un penal en el minuto 11 al golpear el balón con su brazo. Pero Alexander Nübel detuvo el tiro de Haris Tabaković y la tarde de Gladbach no mejoró.
Leweling compensó su error anterior con el primer gol a los 30 minutos y el Stuttgart consiguió un merecido segundo gol al 68 cuando Joe Scally del Gladbach desvió el tiro de esquina de Chris Führich con la espalda.
Undav, quien había ingresado al campo al 60, selló la victoria al 74. Fue el undécimo gol esta temporada para el delantero alemán.
Hubo silbidos de los aficionados del Gladbach al final del partido tras la cuarta derrota de su equipo en seis encuentros.
El Stuttgart, que perdió 2-0 ante la Roma el jueves, se mantuvo cuarto en la Bundesliga en el último lugar de clasificación para la Liga de Campeones.
El Freiburg recibe más tarde al Colonia.
El líder de la liga, Bayern Múnich, perdió por primera vez esta temporada el sábado.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Acuerdo de seguridad de EEUU para Ucrania está “100% listo” para firmarse, dice Zelenskyy
Por The Associated Press
El presidente ucraniano Volodymyr Zelenskyy afirmó que un documento de garantías de seguridad de Estados Unidos para Ucrania está “100% listo” tras dos días de conversaciones que involucraron a representantes de Ucrania, Estados Unidos y Rusia.
Hablando con periodistas en Vilna durante una visita a Lituania, Zelenskyy expresó que Ucrania está esperando que sus socios establezcan una fecha para la firma, después de lo cual el documento se enviará al Congreso de Estados Unidos y al Parlamento ucraniano para su ratificación.
Zelenskyy también enfatizó el impulso de Ucrania para obtener la membresía en la Unión Europea para 2027, calificándolo como una “garantía de seguridad económica”.
El líder ucraniano describió las conversaciones en Abu Dabi, la capital de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, como probablemente el primer formato trilateral en “bastante tiempo” que incluyó no solo a diplomáticos, sino también a representantes militares de las tres partes. Las conversaciones, que comenzaron el viernes y continuaron el sábado, fueron las más recientes con el objetivo de poner fin a cuatro años de guerra con Rusia.
Zelenskyy reconoció diferencias fundamentales entre las posiciones ucranianas y rusas, reafirmando los problemas territoriales como un punto de fricción importante.
“Nuestra posición respecto a nuestro territorio —la integridad territorial de Ucrania— debe ser respetada”, manifestó.
El presidente ruso Vladímir Putin discutió un acuerdo sobre Ucrania con los enviados estadounidenses Steve Witkoff y Jared Kushner, durante conversaciones maratónicas el jueves por la noche. El Kremlin insistió en que para alcanzar un acuerdo de paz, Kiev debe retirar sus tropas de las áreas en el este que Rusia anexó ilegalmente pero que no ha capturado por completo.
Zelenskyy comentó que Estados Unidos está tratando de encontrar un compromiso, pero que “todas las partes deben estar listas para comprometerse”.
Los negociadores regresarán a Emiratos el 1 de febrero para la próxima ronda de conversaciones, según un funcionario estadounidense. Las recientes conversaciones abarcaron una amplia gama de asuntos militares y económicos e incluyeron la posibilidad de un alto el fuego antes de un acuerdo, dijo el funcionario. Aún no había un acuerdo sobre un marco final para la supervisión y operación de la Central Nuclear de Zaporiyia en Ucrania, que está ocupada por Rusia y es la más grande de Europa.
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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.
Estalla disputa en Partido Laborista británico tras bloqueo de alcalde popular de elecciones
Por PAN PYLAS
LONDRES (AP) — Un conflicto estalló el domingo dentro del gobernante Partido Laborista del Reino Unido luego que se impidiera al ambicioso alcalde de Manchester reingresar al Parlamento en una elección especial en la ciudad. Los detractores afirman que el primer ministro Keir Starmer no quería ver de regreso a un posible rival en la Cámara de los Comunes.
Andy Burnham, quien ha estado a cargo de la zona metropolitana de Manchester desde 2017, solicitó el sábado al comité de gobierno del Partido Laborista presentarse como candidato del partido en la elección para la circunscripción de Gorton y Denton, que se espera tenga lugar a finales de febrero.
Si termina ganando un escaño tradicionalmente seguro para los laboristas, tendrá que renunciar a su cargo de alcalde, lo que probablemente significará que habrá que realizar otra elección especial allí. El mandato de Burnham termina en mayo de 2028.
La decisión de bloquear a Burnham fue tomada por un grupo de 10 miembros del Comité Ejecutivo Nacional (NEC) del Partido Laborista, el organismo detrás de la maquinaria electoral del partido.
El Partido Laborista explicó que el NEC había decidido negar a Burnham el permiso para presentarse con el fin de evitar “una elección innecesaria” para el alcalde de Manchester, lo cual “tendrá un impacto sustancial y desproporcionado en los recursos de campaña del partido”.
Burnham aún no ha respondido a la decisión.
Se predice ampliamente que el Partido Laborista sufrirá una derrota en una serie de elecciones en mayo, el equivalente británico de las elecciones intermedias en Estados Unidos. Si las encuestas de opinión actuales son una guía, se espera que el Partido Laborista pierda el poder en Gales por primera vez desde que se creó la legislatura en 1999, quede muy lejos de recuperar el poder en Escocia y sea derrotado en las elecciones locales en Inglaterra.
Desde que se apuntó una victoria arrolladora en las elecciones generales de julio de 2024, el Partido Laborista ha visto caer sus índices de popularidad, en parte debido a una serie de errores de política, que han estado directamente vinculados a las decisiones de Starmer.
Otros partidos, incluidos el antiinmigración Reform U.K. y los Verdes, han sido los principales beneficiarios de la aparente caída de apoyo al Partido Laborista.
Las calificaciones en las encuestas del primer ministro son particularmente desastrosas en este momento y muchos dentro del partido piensan que podría enfrentar un desafío de liderazgo si las elecciones de mayo resultan ser tan malas como se predice.
Burnham, quien sirvió en los gobiernos laboristas en la década de 2000 bajo los primeros ministros Tony Blair y Gordon Brown, no ha ocultado su ambición de liderar el partido en algún momento en el futuro. Burnham, ampliamente conocido como el “Rey del Norte” en referencia al programa de fantasía televisivo “Juego de Tronos”, ha luchado dos veces antes por el liderazgo laborista y ha perdido.
Aunque Burnham insistió en que será un jugador de equipo en su solicitud el sábado, muchos aliados de Starmer parecen no estar convencidos dado que ha expresado varias opiniones que lo ponen en desacuerdo con el primer ministro, especialmente en política económica. En septiembre pasado, dijo que quería “lanzar un debate” sobre la dirección de la política y cómo derrotar a Reform.
El legislador laborista John Slinger indicó que la “decisión rápida y clara” significaba que el partido podría “superar la introspección dañina y el psicodrama de la última semana” y “unirse” detrás del candidato eventual.
Otros estaban horrorizados por la decisión.
La exministra del gabinete Louise Haigh señaló que era “increíblemente decepcionante” y pidió al NEC que “cambie de rumbo y tome la decisión correcta”.
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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.
