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  26. <title>Jurors in the hush money trial against Trump hear a recording of the decisive call for the purchase plan affair</title>
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  38. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="700" height="467" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02224822/KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Jurors in the hush money trial against Trump hear a recording of the decisive call for the purchase plan affair" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02224822/KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE.jpg 700w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02224822/KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" data-attachment-id="176041" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/jurors-in-the-hush-money-trial-against-trump-hear-a-recording-of-the-decisive-call-for-the-purchase-plan-affair/kojzqunj7fefzix67upmkrdcxe-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02224822/KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE.jpg" data-orig-size="700,467" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02224822/KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02224822/KOJZQUNJ7FEFZIX67UPMKRDCXE.jpg" /></div><p>NEW YORK &#8211; Jurors in Donald Trump&#039;s hush money trial heard a recording Thursday of him speaking to his then-lawyer and personal fixer about a plan to buy the silence of a Playboy model who had said she was having an affair with the former president had. A visibly upset Trump leaned forward at the [&#8230;]</p>
  39. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/jurors-in-the-hush-money-trial-against-trump-hear-a-recording-of-the-decisive-call-for-the-purchase-plan-affair-2/">Jurors in the hush money trial against Trump hear a recording of the decisive call for the purchase plan affair</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
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  41. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB"><strong>NEW YORK</strong> &#8211; Jurors in Donald Trump&#039;s hush money trial heard a recording Thursday of him speaking to his then-lawyer and personal fixer about a plan to buy the silence of a Playboy model who had said she was having an affair with the former president had.</p>
  42. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">A visibly upset Trump leaned forward at the defense table and jurors appeared captivated as prosecutors played the September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself informing his celebrity client, Karen, of the plan Buy McDougal&#039;s story of an extramarital relationship.</p>
  43. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Although the recording surfaced years ago, it is perhaps the most dazzling piece of evidence yet presented to jurors linking Trump to the hush-money payments that were at the center of his criminal trial in Manhattan.  It followed hours of testimony from a lawyer who negotiated the deal for McDougal&#039;s silence, admitting he was stunned that his undercover efforts may have contributed to Trump&#039;s White House victory.</p>
  44. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">&#8220;What did we do?&#8221;  Attorney Keith Davidson texted the then-editor of the National Enquirer, who had buried stories of sexual encounters to prevent them from coming to light in the final days of the bitterly contested presidential campaign.  “Oh my God,” came Dylan Howard’s response.</p>
  45. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">&#8220;There was a consensus that our efforts in some way&#8230;our activities may have in some way supported Donald Trump&#039;s presidential campaign,&#8221; Davidson told jurors, although he admitted under cross-examination that he dealt directly with Cohen and Cohen never had Trump.</p>
  46. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Davidson&#039;s testimony was intended to directly link the hush-money payments to Trump&#039;s presidential ambitions and bolster prosecutors&#039; argument that the case is about interference in the 2016 election, not just sex and money.  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has tried to make this connection, not only to secure a conviction but also to convince the public of the importance of the case, which may be the only one of four Trump indictments is on trial this year.</p>
  47. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">“It’s a kind of gallows humor.  “It was election night when the results came in,” Davidson explained.  &#8220;There was some surprise among broadcasters and others that Mr. Trump was leading in the polls, and there was a growing feeling that people were about to call the election.&#8221;</p>
  48. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Davidson is seen as an important building block in the charge that Trump and his allies planned to cover up unflattering stories in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.  He represented both McDougal and porn actor Stormy Daniels in negotiations that resulted in them acquiring rights to their claims of sexual encounters with Trump and those stories being suppressed, a tabloid practice known as &#8220;catch-and-kill.&#8221; is.</p>
  49. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Davidson is one of several key players who testified before Cohen, the prosecution&#039;s star witness, who paid Daniels $130,000 for her silence and also recorded himself, weeks before the election, telling Trump about a plan to seize McDougal&#039;s rights Purchasing story from National Enquirer so it would never come out.  The tabloid had previously bought McDougal&#039;s story to bury it in Trump&#039;s name.</p>
  50. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">At one point in the recording, Cohen revealed that he had spoken with the Trump Organization&#039;s then-chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, about &#8220;how to get the whole financing thing going.&#8221; To which Trump can be heard replying, &#8220;What are we supposed to accomplish?&#8221; ?&#8221; to pay for it?  Fifty-one?</p>
  51. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Trump can be heard suggesting the payment be made in cash, prompting Cohen to object by saying &#8220;no&#8221; several times.  Trump can then be heard saying &#8220;Check&#8221; before the recording cuts out.</p>
  52. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Trump&#039;s lawyers tried earlier in the day to mitigate the potential damage of Davidson&#039;s testimony by getting him to acknowledge that he never had any contact with Trump &#8211; only with Cohen.  In fact, Davidson said, he had never been in the same room as Trump until his testimony.</p>
  53. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">He also said that he was unfamiliar with the Trump Organization&#039;s record-keeping practices and that any impressions he had of Trump himself came from others.</p>
  54. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">“I have had no personal interactions with Donald Trump.  Either it came from my clients, Mr. Cohen, or some other source, but certainly not from him,” Davidson said.</p>
  55. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">The questioning by Trump&#039;s lawyer Emil Bove appeared to be aimed at portraying Trump as being left out of the negotiations and suggesting that Cohen was handling the hush-money matters alone.</p>
  56. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Bove also noted that Davidson had been involved in similar payments for clients unrelated to the president&#039;s policies and questioned him about previous instances in which he had asked for money to suppress embarrassing stories, including one about the wrestler Hulk Hogan.</p>
  57. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">When Davidson negotiated hush-money payments for McDougal and Daniels, he was &#8220;pretty good at getting straight to the point without committing extortion, right?&#8221; Bove asked</p>
  58. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">“I had familiarized myself with the law,” Davidson replied.</p>
  59. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Also on Thursday, jurors viewed a confidential agreement that required Daniels to keep quiet about her allegations that she had a tryst with the married Trump a decade earlier.  The agreement, dated less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, called for her to receive $130,000 in exchange for her silence.</p>
  60. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">The money was paid by Cohen, and the agreement referred to both Trump and Daniels by pseudonyms: David Dennison and Peggy Peterson.</p>
  61. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">&#8220;It is understood and agreed that the true name and identity of the person referred to in the Settlement Agreement as &#039;DAVID DENNISON&#039; is Donald Trump,&#8221; the document states, in which Trump&#039;s name is handwritten.</p>
  62. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">After the payment was made, Trump&#039;s company refunded Cohen the money and recorded the payments to him as legal fees, prosecutors said in charging the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records &#8211; a charge that carries up to four years in prison can be punished.</p>
  63. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Testifying on Thursday, Davidson also recalled that about a month after the 2016 election, Cohen railed against Trump in a phone conversation with him, complaining that he had been passed over for a job in the new administration and that Trump was giving him Daniels has not yet refunded the payment.</p>
  64. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">He also recalled Cohen telling him that he and Trump were &#8220;very upset&#8221; when the Wall Street Journal published an article that exposed a separate $150,000 National Enquirer agreement with McDougal that said She and Trump had an affair a few days before the election.</p>
  65. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">“He wanted to know who the source of the article was and why anyone would be the source of this type of article.  “He was very upset about the timing,” Davidson said of Cohen.  “He stated that his boss was very upset and threatened to sue Karen McDougal.”</p>
  66. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Trump pleaded not guilty and denied relationships with both women and any wrongdoing in the case.</p>
  67. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Before testimony began, prosecutors asked for a $1,000 fine for each of four comments by Trump that they said violated a judge&#039;s order barring him from attacking witnesses, jurors and others closely related to stand by the case.  Such a penalty would be in addition to a $9,000 fine that Judge Juan M. Merchan imposed Tuesday in connection with nine separate violations he found.</p>
  68. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">Merchan did not immediately rule on the request for new sanctions, but indicated he was not particularly concerned about any of the four statements reported by prosecutors.</p>
  69. <p class="sc-dkzDqf dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 gLFytU itaLjB">The prospect of further punishment underscores the challenges Trump, the presidential candidate, faces as he adjusts to the role of a criminal defendant subject to strict court protocols that he does not control.  It also remains to be seen whether a rebuke from the court will prompt Trump to adjust his behavior as he believes portraying the case as politically motivated will benefit him on the campaign trail.</p>
  70. <p>Copyright 2024 The ƒ.  All rights reserved.  This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/jurors-in-the-hush-money-trial-against-trump-hear-a-recording-of-the-decisive-call-for-the-purchase-plan-affair-2/">Jurors in the hush money trial against Trump hear a recording of the decisive call for the purchase plan affair</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  76. <title>Hamas will be “kicked out” of Qatar if it rejects the deal</title>
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  79. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
  80. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  84. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1024" height="536" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Hamas will be “kicked out” of Qatar if it rejects the deal" decoding="async" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg 1024w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-300x157.jpeg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-800x419.jpeg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-768x402.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-attachment-id="176279" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/hamas-will-be-kicked-out-of-qatar-if-it-rejects-the-deal/telemmglpict000376170158_17148122977380_trans_nvbqzqnjv4bq688n9x0plg7wrhjlfno5m5oyjfu38imgc00b90oim4o-jpeg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg" data-orig-size="1024,536" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-300x157.jpeg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-800x419.jpeg" /></div><p>Hello and welcome to the Telegraph&#039;s live blog about the war in the Middle East. Follow us as we bring you the latest updates as Hamas and CIA officials prepare to meet with Egyptian mediators in Cairo today as ceasefire talks resume. First thing this morning: Hamas is “the only thing” standing in the way [&#8230;]</p>
  85. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/hamas-will-be-kicked-out-of-qatar-if-it-rejects-the-deal/">Hamas will be “kicked out” of Qatar if it rejects the deal</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
  86. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1024" height="536" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Hamas will be “kicked out” of Qatar if it rejects the deal" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg 1024w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-300x157.jpeg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-800x419.jpeg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-768x402.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-attachment-id="176279" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/hamas-will-be-kicked-out-of-qatar-if-it-rejects-the-deal/telemmglpict000376170158_17148122977380_trans_nvbqzqnjv4bq688n9x0plg7wrhjlfno5m5oyjfu38imgc00b90oim4o-jpeg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg" data-orig-size="1024,536" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o.jpeg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-300x157.jpeg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04085312/TELEMMGLPICT000376170158_17148122977380_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq688n9x0pLg7wrhjlfnO5m5oyjFu38iMGc00B90oIm4o-800x419.jpeg" /></div><p></p>
  87. <p>Hello and welcome to the Telegraph&#039;s live blog about the war in the Middle East.  Follow us as we bring you the latest updates as Hamas and CIA officials prepare to meet with Egyptian mediators in Cairo today as ceasefire talks resume.</p>
  88. <p>First thing this morning:</p>
  89. <p><strong>Hamas is “the only thing” standing in the way of a ceasefire agreement</strong></p>
  90. <p>Hamas is the only thing standing in the way of a ceasefire, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said overnight, as a delegation of Palestinian militants was due to arrive in Cairo this morning to resume talks.</p>
  91. <p>An agreement could reportedly be reached in the coming hours amid a flurry of diplomatic activity.</p>
  92. <p>&#8220;We&#039;re waiting to see whether they can actually accept a yes answer to the ceasefire and the release of hostages,&#8221; Blinken said late Friday at the McCain Institute&#039;s Sedona Forum in Arizona.  “In reality, at this moment, the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas.”</p>
  93. <p>“Acceptance of the ceasefire should be a given,” he added, but said the “ultimate decision-makers” were members of the group in Gaza with whom mediators had no direct contact.</p>
  94. <p>Hamas and CIA officials will meet with Egyptian mediators on Saturday as foreign negotiators await a response from Hamas to a recent proposal to stop fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners.</p>
  95. <p>Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 quoted an unnamed Hamas source as saying the group would soon announce acceptance of the first phase of the deal after the US promised that Israel would withdraw from Gaza after 124 days if all three phases of the agreement have been completed.  The alleged US guarantee was reportedly passed through Egyptian and Qatari intermediaries at a last-minute meeting last night, which was also reported by Saudi newspaper Al Sharq.</p>
  96. <p>Negotiations have reportedly stalled recently because Hamas has demanded that the Israeli army withdraw completely from Gaza at the end of what Israel said was only a temporary pause in fighting so that it could fight the remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah.</p>
  97. <p>The World Health Organization warned last night that it would be a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if Israel actually launched an offensive widely feared by the US and other allies in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/hamas-will-be-kicked-out-of-qatar-if-it-rejects-the-deal/">Hamas will be “kicked out” of Qatar if it rejects the deal</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  103. <title>Things about AI that experts won&#039;t tell you!</title>
  104. <link>https://shepherdgazette.com/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you/</link>
  106. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
  107. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 14:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
  108. <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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  111. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="900" height="500" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg 900w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-300x167.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-800x444.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-768x427.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" data-attachment-id="176275" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" data-orig-size="900,500" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-300x167.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-800x444.jpg" /></div><p>Discover these things in artificial intelligence that AI experts won&#039;t tell you Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an inseparable part of our lives; Experience the power of virtual assistants or self-driving vehicles traveling on the roads. Although experts typically point out the benefits of AI, they may not be as quick to mention the technology&#039;s [&#8230;]</p>
  112. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you/">Things about AI that experts won't tell you!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
  113. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="900" height="500" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg 900w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-300x167.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-800x444.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-768x427.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" data-attachment-id="176275" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" data-orig-size="900,500" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-300x167.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04084021/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you-800x444.jpg" /></div><p></p>
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  115. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-289081" src="https://www.analyticsinsight.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Things-about-AI-that-experts-wont-tell-you.jpg" alt="Things about AI that experts won&#039;t tell you" width="900" height="500" /></p>
  116. <h2><strong>Discover these things in artificial intelligence that AI experts won&#039;t tell you</strong></h2>
  117. <p><strong>Artificial intelligence</strong> (AI) has become an inseparable part of our lives;  Experience the power of <strong>virtual assistants</strong> or self-driving vehicles traveling on the roads.  Although experts typically point out the benefits of AI, they may not be as quick to mention the technology&#039;s problems.  In this post we will delve into the hidden secrets <strong>AI experts</strong> do not disclose voluntarily.</p>
  118. <h4><strong>1. AI is not infallible:</strong></h4>
  119. <p>Although artificial intelligence systems can make numbers many times more accurate, they are not error-free.  AI models learn from huge data sets and their performance depends closely on the amount and diversity of this data.  The distortion of the training data can be equally transferred to the AI ​​results, which can also imitate human errors.</p>
  120. <h4><strong>2. Privacy Concerns:</strong></h4>
  121. <p>Artificial intelligence systems must be supplied with huge amounts of data in order to work efficiently.  Even though the data presented is often anonymized, there are still issues related to privacy and data security.  Unintentionally, AI systems can violate privacy by revealing sensitive information, which in turn leads to a lack of anonymity.</p>
  122. <h4><strong>3. Job relocation:</strong></h4>
  123. <p>As <strong>automation</strong> One of the main themes of artificial intelligence is that many tasks that were originally done by humans will no longer be necessary.  AI can be a source of significant productivity and efficiency gains, but could also pose a threat to existing positions.  In some industries and professional fields, a higher level of automation is possible than one might imagine, and professionals do not necessarily and often overlook this aspect.</p>
  124. <h4><strong>4. Ethical considerations:</strong></h4>
  125. <p>AI raises a range of ethical questions, starting with concerns about bias and fairness and ending with a problem of AI in weapons systems.  Experts typically do not directly address these ethical issues unless they are mentioned in the development or deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.</p>
  126. <h4><strong>5. The Black Box Problem:</strong></h4>
  127. <p>Many AI systems have reached a level of complexity that results in even their creators not knowing what exact data sets the system is using to make such decisions.  The “black box” syndrome is the biggest question mark regarding trust in AI systems, as there may be cases where humans are unable to understand how and why a decision is made.</p>
  128. <h4><strong>6. Vulnerabilities:</strong></h4>
  129. <p>AI systems do not convey the feeling of their independence from security deficiencies.  But even more worrying is that AI can be a tool to access other systems that are virtually unprotected, making it a threat to malicious actors.  The limited amount of information experts can share about these security risks is undeniable;  However, they must be carefully considered when developing and deploying AI.</p>
  130. <h4><strong>7. The need for human supervision:</strong></h4>
  131. <p>AI machines can complete multiple tasks independently;  However, they must be subjected to manual human monitoring.  Human presence is essential when it comes to training and maintaining AI systems, intervening when an AI system has errors, or handling scenarios it was never taught.</p>
  132. <h4><strong>8. Environmental Impact:</strong></h4>
  133. <p>Training AI models requires a lot of CPU power, which can lead to an even greater environmental impact.  Although the carbon footprint of AI is usually a neglected factor, it is crucial to take it into account when developing and deploying AI technology as it is a key consideration.</p>
  134. <h4><strong>9. Potential for abuse:</strong></h4>
  135. <p>Al is endowed with ultimate power that can potentially be used for both positive and negative things.  The point is that sometimes experts who cite the beneficial applications of AI may not always have informed us that AI may be used for the wrong purposes.  People can be monitored and identified through AI, and AI can take advantage of deepfakes and misinformation, all of which can be harmful to individuals and society.</p>
  136. <h4><strong>10. The Limits of AI:10.  The limits of AI:</strong></h4>
  137. <p>Although AI has reached a higher level of advancement, it still has shortcomings.  AI systems excel at performing a given task, but encounter challenges with some.  Even experts may tend to overlook or undermine these flaws.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/things-about-ai-that-experts-wont-tell-you/">Things about AI that experts won't tell you!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  143. <title>New York&#039;s AI boom will add $320 billion to the economy</title>
  144. <link>https://shepherdgazette.com/new-yorks-ai-boom-will-add-320-billion-to-the-economy/</link>
  146. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
  147. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 14:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
  148. <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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  151. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="600" height="400" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04083330/new-york-ai.gif" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="New York&#039;s AI boom will add $320 billion to the economy" decoding="async" loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="176272" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/new-yorks-ai-boom-will-add-320-billion-to-the-economy/new-york-ai-gif/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04083330/new-york-ai.gif" data-orig-size="600,400" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="new-york-ai.gif" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04083330/new-york-ai-300x200.gif" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04083330/new-york-ai.gif" /></div><p>Lydia Moynihan metro From Lydia Moynihan Published May 4, 2024, 10:00 a.m. ET Artificial intelligence will create $320 billion in value in New York City over the next 15 years. Oleksandr – stock.adobe.com New York will experience a $320 billion artificial intelligence boom by 2038, thanks to homegrown talent. A new report from Accenture and [&#8230;]</p>
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  154. <p><h4 class="flag__text flag__text--name">Lydia Moynihan</h4>
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  159. <p id="author-byline" class="no-description byline">From <span>Lydia Moynihan</span></p>
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  161. <span>Published </span><br />
  162. <span>May 4, 2024, 10:00 a.m. ET</span>
  163. </p>
  164. <p> Artificial intelligence will create $320 billion in value in New York City over the next 15 years.<br />
  165. <span class="credit">Oleksandr – stock.adobe.com</span>
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  167. <p>New York will experience a $320 billion artificial intelligence boom by 2038, thanks to homegrown talent.</p>
  168. <p>A new report from Accenture and Tech:NYC reveals why NYC will benefit from the AI ​​economy &#8211; 90% of bosses say the city&#039;s talent pool is key to success. </p>
  169. <p>New York already has 40,000 AI experts in the city and is the second largest place to raise money for artificial intelligence companies. </p>
  170. <p>New York could see a $320 billion artificial intelligence boom, according to a new report.  The report found that there are already 40,000 employees in AI and that 90% of executives in the city are looking to hire more talent. <span class="credit">Getty Images</span></p>
  171. <p>The report, which used financial modeling and a survey of 500 executives to produce its findings, estimates that the number of AI professionals will increase significantly over the next three years as 90% of city executives look to hire more talent.</p>
  172. <p>And within 15 years, AI will be so widespread that two-thirds of New Yorkers&#039; working hours will be either automated or augmented by AI, which the report says will add billions to the economy. </p>
  173. <p>The study also highlights that the vast majority of New York City workers will experience job simplification rather than replacement. </p>
  174. <p>The study suggests that AI will also level the playing field for younger and out-of-touch workers, as employers look for skills rather than pedigree or experience. </p>
  175. <p>The Late Show, which Stephen Colbert is launching, uses artificial intelligence technology developed by New York-based Runway to simplify video production. <span class="credit">CBS via Getty Images</span></p>
  176. <p>Tech industry sources told the Post that they are already seeing AI transform the city.</p>
  177. <p>Unlike other cities like San Francisco, which focus almost exclusively on technology, New York has the opportunity to uniquely implement AI across multiple sectors.</p>
  178. <p>“NYC has traditional finance and media as well as advertising and fashion – every sector is focused on AI and how to implement it,” Julie Samuels, president of Tech:NYC. </p>
  179. <p>“That’s the NYC story.”</p>
  180. <p>In fact, New York is already home to 35 AI “unicorns” – a name for a new company valued at more than $1 billion. </p>
  181. <p>Alexis Page and Emily Ratajkowski celebrated the launch of Glossier nearly a decade ago.  The buoyant company now relies on a New York-based AI company to help it with its finances. <span class="credit">Neil Rasmus/BFA/Shutterstock</span></p>
  182. <p>And many New York-based AI companies are advanced enough to be widely used by regular workers.</p>
  183. <p>Ramp, valued at $7.6 billion, is used by companies like Glossier, Heyday and Seed for cost verification, simplifying their cost of doing business.</p>
  184. <p>Runway AI, valued at $1.5 billion, is used by shows like The Late Show on CBS to generate and edit videos, images and text &#8211; and could soon begin producing full-length films.</p>
  185. <p>And $4.1 billion Dataminr scours billions of websites, social media and news sites and filters those data points to inform individuals, media and first responders about what&#039;s happening in real time.</p>
  186. <p>“We believe NYC will be the next big technology hub for AI as it has a vibrant cultural and social scene where it is easy to meet people with incredible research labs and a large immigrant group of entrepreneurs starting companies,” Grace Isford, partner at New York-based venture firm Lux Capital told The Post.</p>
  187. <p>“It’s the best place to recruit candidates and acquire clients.”</p>
  188. <p>Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Facebook parent company META, leads NYU&#039;s CILVR Lab – short for Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics. <span class="credit">AP</span></p>
  189. <p>The key to attracting and retaining this new talent is for the city to invest in research and support start-ups and existing institutions, Samules said.</p>
  190. <p>“You need big companies in this space, startups, academic institutions driving research and schools teaching these things,” Samuels said. </p>
  191. <p>“It’s not a single piece, but the combination of all of these things that make the sector so dynamic in NYC.”</p>
  192. <p>New York also has AI research labs at Columbia and Cornell &#8211; and NYU&#039;s CILVR Lab, short for Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics, which is led by Facebook parent company Meta&#039;s chief scientist Yann LeCunn.</p>
  193. <p>Earlier this year, Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a plan to invest $400 million in AI research and investments to help New York become an AI hub. <span class="credit">Susan Watts/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul</span></p>
  194. <p>And the state itself is pushing to become an AI hub, with Gov. Kathy Hochul announcing a plan earlier this year to invest $400 million in AI research and investments.</p>
  195. <p>The program, called Empire AI, creates a consortium of seven universities that will invest in computer labs, research and student training.</p>
  196. <p>“Whoever dominates the AI ​​industry will dominate the next chapter of history, and we want New York to win the race for the future,” said Governor Hochul.</p>
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  206. <title>How top scientists think we&#8217;ll finally hear from aliens</title>
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  209. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
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  214. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="How top scientists think we&#039;ll finally hear from aliens" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278.jpg 1200w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278-300x169.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278-800x450.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" data-attachment-id="176269" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/how-top-scientists-think-well-finally-hear-from-aliens/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,675" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04082806/84312523-0-image-a-30_1714686009278-800x450.jpg" /></div><p>It seems that with every new piece of information we learn about the vastness of the universe, the likelihood of coming into contact with an intelligent alien life form decreases. But in recent years the consensus has changed among some top scientists, who now expect it to be possible in the next decade. Much of [&#8230;]</p>
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  217. <p class="mol-para-with-font">It seems that with every new piece of information we learn about the vastness of the universe, the likelihood of coming into contact with an intelligent alien life form decreases.</p>
  218. <p class="mol-para-with-font">But in recent years the consensus has changed among some top scientists, who now expect it to be possible in the next decade.</p>
  219. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Much of the optimism comes from NASA&#039;s upcoming mission to Jupiter&#039;s moon in 2030, which is believed to be a habitable marine world.</p>
  220. <p class="mol-para-with-font">However, other alien hunters believe that contact is established through signals traveling through the universe.</p>
  221. <p>    Scientists have spent their lives searching for life beyond our planet, but the leader is that humans will make contact with aliens in the next decade.  The idea largely comes from NASA&#039;s upcoming mission to Jupiter&#039;s moon in 2030 (pictured).</p>
  222. <p class="mol-para-with-font">That&#039;s because astronomers have been sending transmissions into space since the 1970s, with the first containing information about the chemicals of life and the structure of DNA, as well as Earth&#039;s position in our solar system. </p>
  223. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The SETI project has been searching for extraterrestrial life since the 1980s, and one of the group&#039;s leaders expects one of the signals will be a winner by 2036.</p>
  224. <p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-large"><span class="mol-style-bold">Intelligent aliens by 2036</span></span></p>
  225. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Seth Shostak, 80, has been the lead astronomer on the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project for nearly a quarter century and is betting on it<span> Humanity will hear about intelligent aliens by 2036.</span></p>
  226. <p class="mol-para-with-font"><span>Gambling is based on that </span><span>constant improvements in telescope technology and computer hardware.</span></p>
  227. <p class="mol-para-with-font">In a recent Reddit AMA, Shostak said: &#8220;The trend toward improving hardware &#8211; especially computers &#8211; has continued unabated.&#8221; &#8220;I&#039;m still betting on a signal by 2036.&#8221;</p>
  228. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The astronomer has also argued that recent research has shown that there may be billions of Earth-like worlds in the universe, suggesting that it is highly unlikely that Earth is the only one with life.</p>
  229. <p class="mol-para-with-font">“This could be the strongest argument for life in space.” Because if there is none, then what happened here on Earth is something truly extraordinary.  &#8220;The data doesn&#039;t rule that out, but it seems a little self-centered,&#8221; Shostak said.</p>
  230. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Not having found alien life yet hasn&#039;t stopped SETI from preparing for the moment.</p>
  231. <p>    Other alien hunters believe that communication will occur through signals traveling across the universe.  The reason for this is that astronomers have been sending signals into space since the 1970s</p>
  232. <p class="mol-para-with-font"> “There is a document.  In short, it&#039;s &#8220;check the signal to make sure it really is extraterrestrial,&#8221; Shostak said.</p>
  233. <p class="mol-para-with-font">“Then announce it to the world and consult internationally before submitting a response.”</p>
  234. <p>    Seth Shostak explained what will happen if we hear about aliens</p>
  235. <p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-large"><span class="mol-style-bold">An “answer” to NASA by 2029</span></span></p>
  236. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Signals sent by NASA&#039;s Deep Space Network (DSN) to the Pioneer 10 satellite, launched in 1972, may have already reached aliens &#8211; and we could get an answer before the end of this decade.</p>
  237. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Currently consisting of three radio dishes in Barstow, California, Madrid and Canberra, the DSN ensures that no spacecraft ever loses communications by sending powerful, targeted transmissions into space.</p>
  238. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Researchers discovered that a white dwarf star 27 light-years from Earth lies in the path of signals sent to Pioneer 10 by the DSN.</p>
  239. <p class="mol-para-with-font">If there is a planet around the white dwarf, we could get feedback as early as 2029 &#8211; although no planet has been discovered yet.</p>
  240. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Other transmissions sent by the DSN to other probes could be answered in the 2030s, researchers said. </p>
  241. <p>    Signals sent by NASA&#039;s Deep Space Network (DSN) to the Pioneer 10 satellite, launched in 1972, may have already reached aliens &#8211; and we could get an answer before the end of this decade</p>
  242. <p class="mol-para-with-font">In 2002, NASA sent radio wave transmissions to the Pioneer 10 probe in a routine protocol to send data and ensure communications were established.</p>
  243. <h3 class="mol-factbox-title">READ MORE: Monster gamma ray burst detected 310 miles above Earth </h3>
  244. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Scientists said the &#8220;brightest thing ever&#8221; (BOAT) managed to cause disturbances in Earth&#039;s ionosphere, about 500 kilometers above our heads. </p>
  245. <p class="mol-para-with-font">This signal also reached a star about 27 light-years away from our planet, as the transmission propagates when it comes into contact with an object.</p>
  246. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Researchers at the University of California (UC) hope that the signal was intercepted by aliens who sent a callback back to Earth.</p>
  247. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Pioneer 10&#039;s transmissions will hit 222 stars by 2313.</p>
  248. <p class="mol-para-with-font">“We can expect a return in 2029 at the earliest,” said the UC team.</p>
  249. <p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-large"><span class="mol-style-bold">Aliens could use human techniques</span></span></p>
  250. <p class="mol-para-with-font">When telescopes on Earth discover worlds outside our solar system, called exoplanets, astronomers look for &#8220;transient&#8221; planets moving in front of their sun.</p>
  251. <p class="mol-para-with-font">But aliens that have picked up radio signals from Earth could use the same technology to detect us, astronomers suspect.</p>
  252. <p class="mol-para-with-font">In fact, aliens orbiting 2,000 stars could detect Earth&#039;s &#8220;shadow&#8221; as we move in front of the sun, astronomers suspect.</p>
  253. <p class="mol-para-with-font">There are 1,715 star systems that Earth could have discovered in the last 5,000 years, and another 319 stars will be able to do so in the next 5,000 years.</p>
  254. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Astrophysicist Jackie Faherty of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City says these alien worlds will take “first place in the discovery of Earth as a transiting planet.”</p>
  255. <p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-large"><span class="mol-style-bold">“Detectable by the end of the decade”</span></span> </p>
  256. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Scientists had believed that Earth&#039;s radio signals had &#8220;become weaker&#8221; with the development of radio receivers beginning in the 1950s.</p>
  257. <p class="mol-para-with-font">However, a 2023 study by researchers at the University of Manchester suggested that the increasing number of satellites will make Earth &#8220;easily discoverable&#8221; in the near future &#8211; with the number of satellites expected to reach 100,000 by the end of the decade.</p>
  258. <p>    Aliens orbiting 2,000 stars could detect Earth&#039;s &#8220;shadow&#8221; as we move in front of the sun, astronomers suspect</p>
  259. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The team focused on radio signals that could be detectable from nearby stars, including Barnard&#039;s Star, just six light-years from Earth.</p>
  260. <p class="mol-para-with-font">Professor Mike Garrett, project team leader and director of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester, said: “I have heard the claim from many colleagues that Earth has become increasingly radio quiet in recent years &#8211; a claim that I have always represented.”</p>
  261. <p class="mol-para-with-font">“Although it is true that we have fewer powerful television and radio stations today, the spread of mobile communication systems worldwide is enormous.” </p>
  262. <p class="mol-para-with-font">“While each system individually represents a relatively small amount of radio power, the integrated spectrum of billions of these devices is significant.”</p>
  263. <p class="mol-para-with-font">“Current estimates are that we will have more than a hundred thousand satellites in low Earth orbit and beyond by the end of the decade.” Earth is already unusually bright in the radio part of the spectrum;  If this trend continues, we could be easily recognizable to any advanced civilization with the right technology.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/how-top-scientists-think-well-finally-hear-from-aliens/">How top scientists think we’ll finally hear from aliens</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  281. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1280" height="719" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Trump releases campaign ad praising UNC students for holding up the US flag during protests on campus" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg 1280w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-300x169.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-800x449.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-768x431.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" data-attachment-id="176266" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/trump-releases-campaign-ad-praising-unc-students-for-holding-up-the-us-flag-during-protests-on-campus/gettyimages-2150447573-e1714827800970-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,719" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-800x449.jpg" /></div><p>Former President Trump posted a campaign ad on his Truth Social website praising various counter-protesters on college campuses, including students who held up the U.S. flag. “As universities struggle to gain control of their students, they are restoring order at UNC Chapel Hill,” the video begins. The ad shows clips of pro-Palestinian students protesting across [&#8230;]</p>
  282. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/trump-releases-campaign-ad-praising-unc-students-for-holding-up-the-us-flag-during-protests-on-campus/">Trump releases campaign ad praising UNC students for holding up the US flag during protests on campus</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
  283. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1280" height="719" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Trump releases campaign ad praising UNC students for holding up the US flag during protests on campus" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg 1280w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-300x169.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-800x449.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-768x431.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" data-attachment-id="176266" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/trump-releases-campaign-ad-praising-unc-students-for-holding-up-the-us-flag-during-protests-on-campus/gettyimages-2150447573-e1714827800970-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg" data-orig-size="1280,719" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04081845/GettyImages-2150447573-e1714827800970-800x449.jpg" /></div><p></p>
  284. <p>Former President Trump posted a campaign ad on his Truth Social website praising various counter-protesters on college campuses, including students who held up the U.S. flag.</p>
  285. <p>“As universities struggle to gain control of their students, they are restoring order at UNC Chapel Hill,” the video begins.</p>
  286. <p>The ad shows clips of pro-Palestinian students protesting across the country.  Photos and videos are then shown of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students holding the American flag during the demonstration on their campus.</p>
  287. <p>Members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity were seen in viral posts holding an American flag while activists threw objects at them.  The incident occurred on Tuesday when pro-Palestinian supporters replaced the American flag with a Palestinian flag.</p>
  288. <p>The scene resonated with people across the country, and a GoFundMe was created to &#8220;make a fuss&#8221; about the fraternity.  Over $500,000 has been raised so far, including a $10,000 donation from billionaire investor Bill Ackman.</p>
  289. <p>The ad continued, splicing together news segments from Fox News and “Primetime with Jesse Watters” responding to the students demonstrating.</p>
  290. <p>The ad said the students “stayed strong” despite being “pelted with bottles and rocks.”  It called the UNC brothers the &#8220;most popular college students&#8221; and said they were &#8220;patriotic&#8221; for defending the American flag.</p>
  291. <p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre praised the group&#039;s actions.  She said all Americans have the right to peacefully protest, but it is not right to forcibly take down the American flag and replace it with another.  She said protecting the American flag was “admirable.”</p>
  292. <p>The UNC protest is one of many taking place on college campuses across the country.  Students are calling on their universities to divest from Israeli companies or companies that supply weapons to Israel in its war with Hamas.</p>
  293. <p>Although many protests were peaceful, an increasing number of demonstrations were met with counter-protesters supporting Israel.</p>
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  300. <title>40% of Latinas in the US prefer technology to jewelry for their day – •</title>
  301. <link>https://shepherdgazette.com/40-of-latinas-in-the-us-prefer-technology-to-jewelry-for-their-day/</link>
  303. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
  304. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 12:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  308. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="980" height="528" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Mother&#039;s Day: 40% of Latinas in the US prefer technology to jewelry for their day" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg 980w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-300x162.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-800x431.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-768x414.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px" data-attachment-id="176263" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/40-of-latinas-in-the-us-prefer-technology-to-jewelry-for-their-day/hywcdbjygza5fms5yrvhiuktmq-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg" data-orig-size="980,528" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-300x162.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-800x431.jpg" /></div><p>40% of Latina mothers in USA prefer phones cell phones o Smart Watches as a gift for Mother’s Day, double that of the rest of the Americans, while electronics (61%) already surpass jewelry (56%) or clothing (56%), according to a study carried out by Morning Consult. Only flowers (66%) remain the main gift that a [&#8230;]</p>
  309. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/40-of-latinas-in-the-us-prefer-technology-to-jewelry-for-their-day/">40% of Latinas in the US prefer technology to jewelry for their day – •</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
  310. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="980" height="528" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Mother&#039;s Day: 40% of Latinas in the US prefer technology to jewelry for their day" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg 980w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-300x162.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-800x431.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-768x414.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px" data-attachment-id="176263" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/40-of-latinas-in-the-us-prefer-technology-to-jewelry-for-their-day/hywcdbjygza5fms5yrvhiuktmq-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg" data-orig-size="980,528" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-300x162.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04064656/HYWCDBJYGZA5FMS5YRVHIUKTMQ-800x431.jpg" /></div><p></p>
  311. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">40% of Latina mothers in USA prefer phones cell phones o Smart Watches as a gift for Mother’s Day, double that of the rest of the Americans, while electronics (61%) already surpass jewelry (56%) or clothing (56%), according to a study carried out by Morning Consult.</p>
  312. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">Only flowers (66%) remain the main gift that a Latin mother expects from her loved ones this month of May, while 22% expect a cell phone, 18% want a smart watch (well above the average of the rest of mothers) and another 21% expect another type of electronic device, behavior that has led large telephone companies to launch promotions and offers for these dates among Latin consumers in the US.</p>
  313. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">The report by the American consulting firm for Verizon, published within the framework of the upcoming Mother’s Day celebration, states that three out of every four Latino adults (75%) communicate with their maternal figure at least once a week and More than half (52%) of Gen Z Latinos say they call their mother figures every day.</p>
  314. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">When comparing results between the Hispanic and American populations, the study points out that closeness with the mother figure is more accentuated in the Latin community, since among Americans only three out of five communicate with their mother figure at least once. a week, either in person or via video call.</p>
  315. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">For their part, the majority of mothers (56%) consider their phones to be iimportant for parenting and staying in touch.</p>
  316. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">Furthermore, they believe that the way they use their phone has changed since having or caring for children (55%), something that has led Verizon to launch new offers and discounts focused on Latin mothers with models such as the iPhone 15 or the Galaxy S24 +.</p>
  317. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">According to the survey, 43% of Latina mothers put off purchasing a new smartphone model (more than the rest of the groups), something that has led Verizon to take advantage of the importance of Mother’s Day in this community to promote discounts.</p>
  318. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">Latina mothers are more likely to say they use their phones to take photos and stay in touch with family members and friends, as well as to contact family via video calls or in person, which is an opportunity for older mothers. telephone companies as it underlines the need to resort to fast data networks.</p>
  319. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">“At Verizon, we know that technology provides an important connection between mothers and their loved ones. That’s why we give families the ability to choose the technology and services that are most important to them,” said Robyn Parks, vice president of Local and Segment Marketing at Verizon.</p>
  320. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">Additionally, Hispanics in the United States (54%) also tend to pay more tribute to other mothers or maternal figures (such as sisters, grandmothers or aunts) on Mother’s Day than Americans in general (41%).</p>
  321. <p class="story-contents__font-paragraph ">The survey, powered by Verizon, was carried out between March 15 and April 1, 2024 and has national samples of 2,203 Americans, 1,100 Latinos in the United States and 846 American Latina mothers and caregivers.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/40-of-latinas-in-the-us-prefer-technology-to-jewelry-for-their-day/">40% of Latinas in the US prefer technology to jewelry for their day – •</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  327. <title>Opinion &#124;  The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism</title>
  328. <link>https://shepherdgazette.com/opinion-the-deep-tangled-roots-of-american-illiberalism/</link>
  330. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
  331. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 12:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
  332. <category><![CDATA[Top News]]></category>
  333. <category><![CDATA[Donald J Trump]]></category>
  334. <category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>
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  339. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1050" height="550" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Opinion |  The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg 1050w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-300x157.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-800x419.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-768x402.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px" data-attachment-id="176260" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/opinion-the-deep-tangled-roots-of-american-illiberalism/27hahn-facebookjumbo-v4-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg" data-orig-size="1050,550" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-300x157.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-800x419.jpg" /></div><p>Most worryingly, the Ku Klux Klan, fueled by anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism as well as anti-black racism, brazenly marched in cities large and small. The Klan developed into a mass movement and wielded significant political power; it was crucial to enforcing Prohibition, for example. As the organization disbanded in the late 1920s, many Klan members found [&#8230;]</p>
  340. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/opinion-the-deep-tangled-roots-of-american-illiberalism/">Opinion |  The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
  341. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1050" height="550" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Opinion |  The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg 1050w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-300x157.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-800x419.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-768x402.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px" data-attachment-id="176260" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/opinion-the-deep-tangled-roots-of-american-illiberalism/27hahn-facebookjumbo-v4-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg" data-orig-size="1050,550" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-300x157.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04061737/27hahn-facebookJumbo-v4-800x419.jpg" /></div><p></p>
  342. <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Most worryingly, the Ku Klux Klan, fueled by anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism as well as anti-black racism, brazenly marched in cities large and small.  The Klan developed into a mass movement and wielded significant political power;  it was crucial to enforcing Prohibition, for example.  As the organization disbanded in the late 1920s, many Klan members found their way to new fascist groups and the radical right in general.</p>
  343. <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Sidelined by the Great Depression and the New Deal, the illiberal right regained ground in the late 1930s and gained grassroots support in the 1950s through vehement anticommunism and opposition to the civil rights movement.  As early as 1964, Alabama Governor George Wallace, in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, began to hone a rhetoric of white resentment and racial animus that found traction in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, as well as in Barry Goldwater&#039;s campaign that year, but failed Wind in the sails of the John Birch Society and the Young Americans for Freedom.</p>
  344. <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Four years later, as a third-party candidate, Wallace mobilized enough support to win five states.  And in 1972, again as a Democrat, Wallace won primary victories in both the North and South before an assassination attempt forced him from the race.  Increasing backlash against school desegregation and feminism further fueled the right&#039;s fire and paved the way for the conservative rise of the 1980s.</p>
  345. <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In the early 1990s, neo-Nazi and Klansman David Duke had won a seat in the Louisiana legislature and nearly three-fifths of the white vote in the race for governor and senator.  Pat Buchanan, who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992, called for “America First,” fortifying the border (a “Buchanan fence”) and a culture war over the “soul” of America, while the National Rifle Association became a powerful force on the right and in the Republican Party.</p>
  346. <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">When Mr. Trump questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama as president, a project that quickly became known as “birtherism,” he used a racist Reconstruction-era phrase that rejected the legitimacy of Black political rights and power.  In doing so, Mr. Trump began to consolidate a coalition of aggrieved white voters.  They were prepared to push back against the country&#039;s growing cultural diversity — embodied by Mr. Obama — and the challenges they saw to the traditional hierarchies of family, gender and race.  They had a lot to build on.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/opinion-the-deep-tangled-roots-of-american-illiberalism/">Opinion |  The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  352. <title>The demographics of migration to the U.S. are rapidly shifting. What’s behind the change.</title>
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  355. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sammy Edwards]]></dc:creator>
  356. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 11:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  360. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="1500" height="1000" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="The demographics of migration to the U.S. are rapidly shifting. What’s behind the change." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd.jpg 1500w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd-300x200.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd-800x533.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" data-attachment-id="176257" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/the-demographics-of-migration-to-the-u-s-are-rapidly-shifting-whats-behind-the-change/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,1000" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/04055130/240426-southern-border-border-patrol-chinese-migrants-snip-57-ac-1155p-7c00fd-800x533.jpg" /></div><p>JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Shortly after dawn, in the desert east of San Diego, a group of migrants huddled around a campfire. They had come together on this desolate stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border from four different continents: Young men from India shared snacks with women from Nicaragua, while a man from Georgia stood [&#8230;]</p>
  361. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/the-demographics-of-migration-to-the-u-s-are-rapidly-shifting-whats-behind-the-change/">The demographics of migration to the U.S. are rapidly shifting. What’s behind the change.</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
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  363. <p class="endmarkEnabled">JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Shortly after dawn, in the desert east of San Diego, a group of migrants huddled around a campfire. They had come together on this desolate stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border from four different continents: Young men from India shared snacks with women from Nicaragua, while a man from Georgia stood next to a family from Brazil.</p>
  364. <p class="endmarkEnabled">A volunteer with a local humanitarian group hauled over a beverage cooler filled with papers: legal information printed in 22 different languages. As he handed them out — in Gujarati, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian — he said, “Welcome to the United States.”</p>
  365. <p class="endmarkEnabled">This is the new normal of migration to the southern border: What was once mostly a regional phenomenon has become truly global, with the share of migrants coming from the four closest countries dropping and the number from elsewhere around the world increasing.</p>
  366. <p class="endmarkEnabled">An NBC News analysis of<strong> </strong>newly released<strong> </strong>data from the Department of Homeland Security shows a fundamental shift. Before the pandemic, roughly 9 in 10 migrants crossing the border illegally (that is, between ports of entry) came from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the four countries closest to the border. Those countries no longer hold the majority: As of 2023, for the first time since the U.S. has collected such data, half of all migrants who cross the border now come from elsewhere globally.</p>
  367. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The greatest numbers have come from countries farther away in the Americas that have never before sent migrants to the border at this scale. In the 2019 fiscal year, for example, the number of Colombians apprehended illegally crossing the border was 400. In fiscal 2023, it exploded to 154,080 — a nearly four-hundred-fold increase.</p>
  368. <p class="endmarkEnabled">But they come, too, from countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and every region in Asia. There have been dramatic increases in the number of migrants from the world’s most populous countries: Between fiscal 2019 and 2023, the number of migrants from China and India grew more than elevenfold and fivefold, respectively. And some countries that previously sent negligible numbers of migrants to the U.S. border have seen staggering increases. In fiscal 2019, the total number of people from the northwest African nation of Mauritania apprehended at the border was 20. Four years later, that number was 15,260. For migrants from Turkey, the number went from 60 to 15,430. The list goes on: More than 50 nationalities saw apprehensions multiplied by a hundred or more.</p>
  369. <p>Read more</p>
  370. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Experts and U.S. government officials attribute this explosive growth in large part to the pandemic, which provoked mass migration around the world, adding serious challenges to an immigration system already beleaguered by a decade of severe backlogs. Another major factor is the massive expansion of transcontinental smuggling networks, itself fueled by widespread digital technology.</p>
  371. <p class="endmarkEnabled">These shifting migration flows account for a significant portion of the record-breaking numbers at the border that have dominated this year’s election cycle. They amount to a major reorganization of global migration patterns — and a paradigm shift for U.S. immigration policy and international relations.</p>
  372. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“Fundamentally, our system is not equipped to deal with migration as it exists now, not just this year and last year and the year before, but for years preceding us,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an interview with NBC News. “We have a system that was last modified in 1996. We’re in 2024 now. The world has changed.”</p>
  373. <h2 class=""><strong>A sophisticated Chinese snakehead network illustrates a new era in migration</strong></h2>
  374. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The landscape around Jacumba Hot Springs, a town of fewer than 600 people near the eastern edge of San Diego County, is rocky and mountainous. The steel border fence stops at several points where the ground rises into sharp, ragged inclines dotted with boulders, leaving spaces easy for migrants to squeeze through. Border authorities routinely block these gaps with razor wire only for smugglers to snip them open again.</p>
  375. <p><span class="ArticleCaption__text">An aerial view of the southern border, in Jacumba, Calif.</span><span class="ArticleCaption__rights">NBC News</span></p>
  376. <p class="endmarkEnabled">One afternoon in March, a group of about 30 migrants from China clambered through one such gap and into the United States. Among them was Wei Bin, a middle-aged man from the port city of Tianjin who traveled with his 14-year-old son. Wei said the economic damage wrought by the pandemic, coupled with China’s repressive zero-Covid policies, had led him to the conclusion that his home country offered no viable future for his son.</p>
  377. <p class="endmarkEnabled">So they took off for the United States. In an interview with NBC News, Wei described their 45-day journey: They flew first to Ecuador, one of the few countries in the Americas that accept visa-free travel from China, and from there they moved painstakingly north.</p>
  378. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The trip was arranged by Chinese smugglers known as snakeheads. Wei never saw his snakeheads, and he knew nothing about them — he communicated with them exclusively via WeChat and paid for everything online. The smugglers’ services cost him around $10,000 per person, and in return, he received precise instructions on where and how to meet with an interlocking series of local contacts, often members of pre-existing criminal smuggling networks based in each of the countries he traveled through. It was these smugglers — Ecuadorians, Colombians, Mexicans — who did the actual work of moving Wei and his son from one place to another.</p>
  379. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The journey was not easy. Somewhere in Colombia, the first snakehead stopped responding to Wei’s messages, scamming him out of thousands of dollars and leaving him stranded until he got the contact for a new snakehead from another Chinese migrant on the trail. And while Wei and his son were in a small boat circumventing a portion of the infamous Darien Gap — a dense stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama — they watched another boat full of migrants capsize.</p>
  380. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“I would not recommend anyone undertake the route that we just took,” Wei said. “It’s too perilous.”</p>
  381. <p><span class="ArticleCaption__text">Wei Bin Chinese, a migrant from China, describes coming to the U.S. with his son via smugglers known as snakeheads.</span><span class="ArticleCaption__rights">NBC News</span></p>
  382. <p class="endmarkEnabled">China offers one of the most illustrative examples of this new era of global migration. Between 2014 and 2022, the average number of Chinese citizens who crossed the southern border without papers in a given year was around 1,400. In 2023, that number grew to 24,050.</p>
  383. <p class="endmarkEnabled">This would not have been possible without transcontinental smuggling networks like the ones used by Wei and his son. Though these networks have existed in some form for decades, they have grown dramatically in scale and organization.</p>
  384. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“Different networks often specialize in specific nationalities,” said Adam Isacson, an expert on migration to the U.S.-Mexico border at the Washington Office on Latin America think tank. “So if you’re Somali, you arrive in Quito and join a group of Somalis that’s already underway. One smuggler hands you off to another, and the network of relationships goes all the way up to the U.S.-Mexico border.”</p>
  385. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The industry owes much of its growth to technology. The world’s migrants are now equipped with cheap smartphones that allow for frictionless communication and payments. Smugglers advertise widely on TikTok, WeChat, WhatsApp or whichever platform is popular in the country they’re targeting.</p>
  386. <p class="endmarkEnabled">NBC News obtained access to the WeChat profile of one Chinese snakehead who claims to have moved over 100 people to the U.S. in the last year. He regularly posts videos of migrants on the trail meant to entice new customers. The videos make the journey look easy: smiling men flashing a thumbs-up outside hotels in Mexico, families riding calmly on buses. In one video, a woman crosses the border into the U.S. and shouts, “We finally crossed!” in Mandarin as her small child shouts joyfully in the background.</p>
  387. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Experts and U.S. law enforcement officials describe these networks as loosely but intricately connected, comprising both illicit actors and legitimate businesses like travel agencies and bus lines. At certain key junctures, they are controlled by the most powerful criminal organizations in the Americas.</p>
  388. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The Colombian side of the Darien Gap, for example, was recently taken over by the Gulf Clan, a notoriously violent narco-paramilitary cartel widely thought to be the largest cocaine exporter in the world. As a result, the Darien jungle, once considered nearly impassable, is now a route for mass migration traversed by hundreds of thousands of people a year. The opening up of this stretch of jungle alone likely accounts for a substantial share of the rise in global arrivals at the border.</p>
  389. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“In 2021, the gateway to the Darien was just local Afro-Colombian and Indigenous people working as guides.” Isacson said. “By 2022, the Gulf Clan took over, and you suddenly had a clear route. They were advertising, there were people there ready to take your money, and it was all much more organized.”</p>
  390. <p class="endmarkEnabled">It was this vast, global network of interlocking smugglers that moved Wei and his son along their way to the U.S. They eventually made it to Tapachula, in southernmost Mexico, where they boarded a domestic flight to Tijuana. There, once again, they were in the hands of powerful criminal organizations: According to U.S. officials, the smuggling business on the south side of the U.S.-Mexico border is currently dominated by the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.</p>
  391. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Along with the larger group of about 30 Chinese migrants, Wei and his son spent the night in a run-down safehouse minutes from the border. “Conditions were very poor, and we only got the basics, like water and soup,” Wei said. “If we wanted anything more, we had to pay.”</p>
  392. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The next day, smugglers piled them into a three-row van, drove them to the border, pointed at the gap in the fence, and told them to walk across.</p>
  393. <h2 class=""><strong>An inflection point to overhaul an ill-equipped system</strong></h2>
  394. <p class="endmarkEnabled">In the last decade, there have been two paradigm shifts on the border, according to current and former U.S. immigration officials. The first began in 2014, with the arrival of unprecedented numbers of families and children from the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador).</p>
  395. <p class="endmarkEnabled">In a break from decades’ worth of migration coming almost entirely from Mexico, these migrants did not attempt to evade the Border Patrol. Instead, they willingly surrendered in order to apply for asylum — and they quickly overwhelmed a system designed for something else entirely.</p>
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  397. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“Our existing infrastructure, processes and personnel were no longer matching what was happening on the ground,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, director of immigration policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former longtime official with DHS and Customs and Border Protection.</p>
  398. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The system was optimized to apprehend and quickly deport single adults from Mexico. It was badly ill-equipped to process families and children and move them through complex legal asylum proceedings. Immigration courts were soon bogged down in yearslong backlogs.</p>
  399. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The second paradigm shift is happening now. Beginning around 2018, there were spikes in the number of migrants from Cuba, then Haiti, then Venezuela. Then the pandemic happened: Economies cratered and borders closed, and when they reopened, it unleashed pent-up waves of migration across the globe. And that initial surge triggered by the pandemic is now sustained by the smuggling networks that greatly expanded to facilitate it.</p>
  400. <p class="endmarkEnabled">This has piled more weight onto an already buckling system. The U.S. only has the capacity to deport people quickly and in large numbers to Mexico and the Northern Triangle, according to a senior CBP official who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely. Deportations are expensive and logistically challenging — they require airplanes, personnel and time to arrange for travel documents, and so on — and there is no such infrastructure in place, the official said, to deport people en masse to Africa, Asia or even South America.</p>
  401. <p class="endmarkEnabled">The position of Mayorkas and the Biden administration is that these problems can only be meaningfully addressed by a congressional overhaul of the immigration system, such as the one proposed in February in a now defunct bipartisan Senate bill.</p>
  402. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“We cannot process these individuals through immigration enforcement proceedings very quickly — it actually takes sometimes more than seven years,” Mayorkas told NBC News. “The proposed bipartisan legislation would reduce that seven-plus-year waiting period to sometimes less than 90 days. That’s transformative.”</p>
  403. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Even with a reformed system, the U.S. would remain a single country confronting a phenomenon that directly involves a large share of the world.</p>
  404. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“To manage regional migration flows, you need to get the cooperation of a few countries,” Brown said. “To deal with hemispheric migration flows, you need about 20 countries. To deal with global migration flows — now you’re talking about hundreds of countries.”</p>
  405. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Those countries need persuading to do anything from restricting visas to physically interdicting migrants with armies and police forces. And many countries, especially those historically hostile to the U.S., are reluctant to be persuaded.</p>
  406. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Nicaragua, for example, allows visa-free travel from more than two dozen African countries and several from Asia as well; that makes it a major point of arrival in the Americas for migrants who then move north to the U.S.-Mexico border. And some geopolitical adversaries — notably China — do not routinely accept deportees from the U.S. Though Mayorkas told NBC News he is engaged in high-level talks with Chinese officials to change that, such an agreement would only partially fix a small part of a much bigger problem.</p>
  407. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“We’re at an inflection point,” Brown said. “We have to recognize that what’s happening at our border is a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere. This is not a U.S.-Mexico border problem. This is now a worldwide issue.”</p>
  408. <h2 class=""><strong>Crackdowns and Loopholes</strong></h2>
  409. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Shortly after Christmas, when border crossings once again hit record highs, Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an official state visit to Mexico City. In the weeks that followed, Mexico’s National Guard cracked down on migrant routes.</p>
  410. <p class="endmarkEnabled">This immediately and substantially reduced the number of people who managed to get across the border. But average daily crossings remain high compared to prior years, and in the Border Patrol’s San Diego sector, the drop was negligible.</p>
  411. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Sam Schultz, a humanitarian volunteer who lives near the border and delivers supplies to migrants every day, said smugglers now simply avoid the National Guard patrols and send migrants to more remote and rugged crossings.</p>
  412. <p class="endmarkEnabled">In the last few months, Schultz has learned a lot about how people the world over find their way to these isolated mountains.</p>
  413. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“They’re very aware of what they’re getting into and where they’re going,” he said. “This was never true before everybody had a phone in their pocket.”</p>
  414. <p class="endmarkEnabled">Schultz said crackdowns — whether by American or Mexican authorities — ultimately do little to deter migrants from attempting to cross into the U.S.</p>
  415. <p class="endmarkEnabled">“Any person on American soil — and it doesn’t matter how they got here — is allowed to start due process on an asylum case,” Schultz said. “Anyone. So as long as that is true, people are going to attempt to cross the border and get on American soil. Why would it ever be any other way?”</p>
  416. <p class="ArticleByline__byline">David Noriega is an NBC News correspondent based in Los Angeles.</p>
  417. <p class="ArticleByline__byline">Aarne Heikkila is a producer and digital journalist for NBC News. </p>
  418. <p class="ArticleByline__byline">Adiel Kaplan is a reporter with the NBC News Investigative Unit.</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/the-demographics-of-migration-to-the-u-s-are-rapidly-shifting-whats-behind-the-change/">The demographics of migration to the U.S. are rapidly shifting. What’s behind the change.</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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  432. <description><![CDATA[<div style="margin-bottom:20px;"><img width="2560" height="1707" src="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-scaled.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Journalists Track Opioid Settlement Cash and Fees for Telehealth Visits" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-300x200.jpg 300w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-800x533.jpg 800w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-768x512.jpg 768w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" data-attachment-id="107452" data-permalink="https://shepherdgazette.com/journalists-track-opioid-settlement-cash-and-fees-for-telehealth-visits/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;919039361464473&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly.jpg" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://shepherdgazette.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/15040637/2023_kffhealthnews-on-air_weekly-800x533.jpg" /></div><p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Samantha Young discussed Medicaid and climate change on KCBS Radio’s “On-Demand” podcast on April 29. Click here to hear Young on KCBS Read Young’s “AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change” KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed Medicaid unwinding on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health [&#8230;]</p>
  433. The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/journalists-delve-into-climate-change-medicaid-unwinding-and-the-gap-in-mortality-rates/">Journalists Delve Into Climate Change, Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ and the Gap in Mortality Rates</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></description>
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  435. <p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Samantha Young discussed Medicaid and climate change on KCBS Radio’s “On-Demand” podcast on April 29.</p>
  436. <ul>
  437. <li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs-radio-on-demand-011f4/episodes/oregon-to-send-air-conditioners-to-medicaid-patients-31fec">Click here to hear Young on KCBS</a></li>
  438. <li>Read Young’s “<a rel="nofollow" href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/oregon-medicaid-patients-climate-benefits/">AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change</a>”</li>
  439. </ul>
  440. <p>KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed Medicaid unwinding on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on April 26.</p>
  441. <ul>
  442. <li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wuga.org/show/wuga-health-desk/2024-04-26/the-georgia-health-report-medicaid-unwinding">Click here to hear Miller on “The Georgia Health Report”</a></li>
  443. <li>Read Phil Galewitz’ “<a rel="nofollow" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-unwinding-insurer-revenue/">Millions Were Booted From Medicaid. The Insurers That Run It Gained Medicaid Revenue Anyway.</a>”</li>
  444. </ul>
  445. <p>KFF Health News Nevada correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez discussed mortality rates in rural America on The Daily Yonder’s “The Yonder Report” on April 24.</p>
  446. <ul>
  447. <li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ANn1eCvK81ZARMJ5jrLPt">Click here to hear Rodriguez on “The Yonder Report”</a></li>
  448. <li>Read Rodriguez’ “<a rel="nofollow" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rural-urban-mortality-gap-widening/">City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access</a>” </li>
  449. </ul>
  450. <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.kff.org/about-us/">KFF</a>.</p>
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  453. <p>Journalists Delve Into Climate Change, Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ and the Gap in Mortality Rates  https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/journalists-delve-into-climate-change-medicaid-unwinding-and-the-gap-in-mortality-rates/</p>The post <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com/journalists-delve-into-climate-change-medicaid-unwinding-and-the-gap-in-mortality-rates/">Journalists Delve Into Climate Change, Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ and the Gap in Mortality Rates</a> first appeared on <a href="https://shepherdgazette.com">The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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