El Pentágono fue evacuado en parte este jueves por un “incidente con materiales peligrosos”. Varias dotaciones de bomberos se hallaban desplegadas a final de la mañana (hora de Washington, seis más en la España peninsular) en la sede del Departamento de Defensa, en Arlington, a las afueras de Washington. Más o menos una hora después, la CNN informó que todo se había debido a una “falsa alarma”, debida a la lectura errónea de un sensor del aire defectuoso. Al rato, un portavoz confirmó que las autoridades actuaron con un exceso de precaución.

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El empresario y filántropo Bill Gates compareció este miércoles ante el Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes, en Washington, para testificar sobre su relación con el millonario pederasta, Jeffrey Epstein, de cuyos delitos, dijo a los congresistas, no tenía conocimiento. En un encuentro a puerta cerrada, también aseguró que Epstein intentó utilizar información sobre las “infidelidades matrimoniales” del fundador de Microsoft para presionarlo, según se desprende de su declaración inicial anterior al turno de preguntas, distribuida a los medios.

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The first time U.S. soccer legend Tab Ramos played on a team in the country he had just moved to from Uruguay, Argentina was the reigning champion of the 1978 World Cup and the boy was thrilled that the jersey he was given, the Harrison Rec kit, was orange “like the Dutch one.” Ten minutes in, the coach took him off the field: he was too good to compete with that group. He was 12 years old.

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The vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday to limit Donald Trump’s authority to continue his war in Iran will not bring that conflict to an end. But it does represent a symbolic setback for the U.S. president on an issue — the Middle East — that has become, both domestically and in foreign policy, the most painful stone in the shoe of his return to the White House. Meanwhile, the weeks go by and, with the peace deal with Tehran stalled, it seems clear that Washington has no idea how to extract itself from a quagmire of its own making.

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Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has put into practice that old maxim that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission — except that the president of the United States never apologizes. The order issued on Friday by a federal judge in Washington to remove the Republican’s name from the Kennedy Center (KC), the capital’s major center of music and opera that Trump renamed without permission, has left the cultural institution in a state of uncertainty after more than a year of political meddling from the White House.

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Rare is the day Washington residents do not wake up to a new jolt courtesy of U.S. President Donald Trump. And it is not only — though it is also — because of the war with Iran, his use of the press to poison public opinion, or his disrespectful posts on Truth Social. It is because of the unilateral renovations that Trump is undertaking in the U.S. capital, like a mayor with unlimited budget and power, like a Roman emperor or a king obsessed with a city.

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Let’s start with the proven facts: Disclosure Day is the most anticipated film of the summer. Its director and screenwriter, Steven Spielberg, revealed details about its plot this week on one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows: he says it tells the story of the theft by officials, “committed to the truth,” of all information held by the government “about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits,” and the system’s desperate attempts to prevent it being revealed.

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