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Trump to name Haitian gangs foreign terrorist organizations: report
The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, sources told the Associated Press.
A notification sent to congressional committees on April 23 says the administration will designate the Haitian gangs Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as foreign terrorist organizations, the AP reported, citing two people familiar with the message who spoke on condition of anonymity. A third source told the AP that the foreign relations committees in the House and Senate received the notification.
In February, the Department of Homeland Security canceled an extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) shielding about half a million Haitians from deportation.
The State Department formally designated eight Latin American organized crime groups as foreign terrorist organizations last month. They are Tren de Aragua (TdA) of Venezuela, Mara Salvatrucha – also known as MS-13 – of El Salvador, and the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel – also known as the «Zeta Killers,» the Gulf Cartel and Northeast Cartel of Mexico and the La Nueva Familia Michoacana and United Cartels, all of Mexico.
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President Donald Trump speaks on his first 100 days at Macomb County Community College Sports Expo Center, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The administration further categorized TdA as an invading force under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act as federal authorities ramp up efforts to deport its members.
Tens of thousands of Haitians came to the U.S. under a Biden-era program permitting people from four countries, including Haiti, to stay for two years provided they had a financial sponsor and bought their own plane ticket. The Trump administration terminated that program and is seeking to revoke the status of those admitted under the Biden administration.
Migration from Haiti was under scrutiny in 2024 as the Trump campaign drew attention to massive amounts of Haitian migration under the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV), when 30,000 migrants were allowed in each month. At that point, if eligible, they could not be removed after their parole expired due to TPS. It affected a number of towns, including Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
At a Michigan rally Tuesday celebrating his 100th day back in office, Trump championed the eight designations from last month, vowing his White House would continue deportations.
«We have also designated two bloodthirsty transnational gangs, MS-13 and Tren de Agua, TdA. They’ve been designated the highest level of terrorist and that lets us do a lot of things that you wouldn’t be able to do,» Trump said. «We’ve got to get them out of here before they kill more people. They’ve killed plenty. My administration has increased arrests of known and suspected terrorists by 655%. Is that okay? We tried to get it higher. We tried to get it higher. But the courts are giving us a hard time.»
Haitian army soldiers patrol during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
«Democrats have vowed mass invasion and mass migration. We are delivering mass deportation, and it’s happening very fast. And the worst of the worst are being sent to a no nonsense prison in El Salvador,» Trump said, referring to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT. «Under President Trump, America is a dumping ground for criminals no longer. They’re not even trying to come in. But while we’re fighting to protect Americans, the radical left Democrats who are so bad for this country are fighting to protect TdA.»
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Viv Ansanm, which means «Living Together,» is a powerful gang coalition that formed in September 2023 and is best known for launching a series of attacks starting in February 2024 across Port-au-Prince and beyond that shuttered Haiti’s main international airport for nearly three months, freed hundreds of inmates from the country’s two biggest prisons and eventually forced former Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign.
The coalition united more than a dozen gangs, including two of Haiti’s biggest ones: G-9 and G-Pèp, which were fierce rivals.
Gangs control at least 85% of Haiti’s capital, with Viv Ansanm attacking once peaceful communities in recent weeks in a bid to control even more territory.
Gran Grif, also known as the Savien gang, forms part of the Viv Ansanm coalition and is led by Luckson Elan, best known as «General Luckson.» It is the biggest gang operating in Haiti’s central Artibonite region with some 100 members.
It was blamed for an attack in the town of Pont-Sondé in October 2024 in which more than 70 people were killed in one of the biggest massacres in Haiti’s recent history.
A police officer patrols an intersection in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Gran Grif was also blamed for a recent attack in the Petite Riviere community in which several people were killed, including an 11-year-old child.
Gran Grif was formed after Prophane Victor, an ex-member of Haiti’s Parliament who represented the Petite Riviere community in Artibonite, began arming young men in the region, according to a U.N. report. Victor was arrested in January.
Canada sanctioned him in June 2023, as did the U.S. in September 2024, accusing him of supporting gangs «that have committed serious human rights abuse.»
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More than 5,600 people were killed across Haiti last year, with gang violence leaving more than 1 million homeless in the country of nearly 12 million people, according to the U.N.
Fox News’ Adam Shaw and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ faces Republican family feud as Senate reveals its final text
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Senate Republicans unveiled their long-awaited version of President Donald Trump’s «big, beautiful bill,» but its survival is not guaranteed.
Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., revealed the stitched-together text of the colossal bill late Firday night.
The final product from the upper chamber is the culmination of a roughly month-long sprint to take the House GOP’s version of the bill and mold and change it. The colossal package includes separate pieces and parts from 10 Senate committees. With the introduction of the bill, a simple procedural hurdle must be passed in order to begin the countdown to final passage.
When that comes remains an open question. Senate Republicans left their daily lunch on Friday under the assumption that a vote could be teed up as early as noon on Saturday.
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President Donald Trump on June 18, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Fox News Digital that he had «strongly encouraged» Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to put the bill on the floor for a vote Saturday afternoon.
«If you’re unhappy with that, you’re welcome to fill out a hurt feelings report, and we will review it carefully later,» Kennedy said. «But in the meantime, it’s time to start voting.»
But Senate Republicans’ desire to impose their will on the package and make changes to already divisive policy tweaks in the House GOP’s offering could doom the bill and derail Thune’s ambitious timeline to get it on Trump’s desk by the July 4 deadline.
However, Thune has remained firm that lawmakers would stay on course and deliver the bill to Trump by Independence Day.
When asked if he had the vote to move the package forward, Thune said «we’ll find out tomorrow.»
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But it wasn’t just lawmakers who nearly derailed the bill. The Senate parliamentarian, the true final arbiter of the bill, ruled that numerous GOP-authored provisions did not pass muster with Senate rules.
Any item in the «big, beautiful bill» must comport with the Byrd Rule, which governs the budget reconciliation process and allows for a party in power to ram legislation through the Senate while skirting the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025, in Washington. (Getty Images)
That sent lawmakers back to the drawing board on a slew of policy tweaks, including the Senate’s changes to the Medicaid provider tax rate, cost-sharing for food benefits and others.
Republican leaders, the White House and disparate factions within the Senate and House GOP have been meeting to find middle ground on other pain points, like tweaking the caps on state and local tax (SALT) deductions.
While the controversial Medicaid provider tax rate change remained largely the same, a $25 billion rural hospital stabilization fund was included in the bill to help attract possible holdouts that have raised concerns that the rate change would shutter rural hospitals throughout the country.
On the SALT front, there appeared to be a breakthrough on Friday. A source told Fox News that the White House and House were on board with a new plan that would keep the $40,000 cap from the House’s bill and have it reduced back down to $10,000 after five years.
But Senate Republicans are the ones that must accept it at this stage. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., has acted as the mediator in those negotiations, and said that he was unsure if any of his colleagues «love it.»
«But I think, as I’ve said before, I want to make sure we have enough that people can vote for than to vote against,» he said.
Still, a laundry list of other pocket issues and concerns over just how deep spending cuts in the bill go have conservatives and moderates in the House GOP and Senate pounding their chests and vowing to vote against the bill.
Republican leaders remain adamant that they will finish the mammoth package and are gambling that some lawmakers standing against the bill will buckle under the pressure from the White House and the desire to leave Washington for a short break.
Once a motion to proceed is passed, which only requires a simple majority, then begins 20 hours of debate evenly divided between both sides of the aisle.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on April 1, 2025, in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Democratic lawmakers are expected to spend the entirety of their 10 allotted hours, while Republicans will likely clock in well below their limit. From there starts the «vote-a-rama» process, when lawmakers can submit a near-endless number of amendments to the bill. Democrats will likely try to extract as much pain as possible with messaging amendments that won’t actually pass but will add more and more time to the process.
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Once that is complete, lawmakers will move to a final vote. If successful, the «big, beautiful bill» will again make its way back to the House, where House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will again have to corral dissidents to support the legislation. It barely advanced last month, squeaking by on a one-vote margin.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hammered on the importance of passing Trump’s bill on time. He met with Senate Republicans during their closed-door lunch and spread the message that advancing the colossal tax package would go a long way to giving businesses more certainty in the wake of the president’s tariffs.
«We need certainty,» he said. «With so much uncertainty, and having the bill on the president’s desk by July 4 will give us great tax certainty, and I believe, accelerate the economy in the third quarter of the year.»
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Un hidrogel con cianobacterias podría ser una solución para combatir el cambio climático
Un material puede hacer que las paredes de un edificio ayuden a limpiar el aire que las rodea y a mitigar el problema del cambio climático. Eso no es magia: es el resultado de un avance científico real realizado en una universidad pública de Suiza.
Fue realizado por investigadores de ETH Zurich, la institución que fue fundada en 1855 y tuvo como alumnos al físico Albert Einstein y a otros 21 ganadores de Premios Nobel. Incluyeron cianobacterias dentro de un hidrogel, que es un polímero inerte, y obtuvieron un material vivo artificial.
El nuevo material es capaz de capturar dióxido de carbono (CO₂) de manera eficaz, mientras genera minerales que lo almacenan de forma estable. Los resultados fueron publicados en la revista Nature Communications.
Significa que, además de transformar el CO2 en biomasa a través de la fotosíntesis, las cianobacterias inducen la formación de minerales y así se consigue un almacenamiento mucho más duradero y seguro del carbono capturado en el propio material.
Consideran que la innovación podría ofrecer una solución escalable y sostenible que elimina el CO₂ de la atmósfera al emplear procesos naturales.
El dióxido de carbono siempre ha estado presente en la atmósfera. Es parte natural del aire que se respira y del ciclo del carbono del planeta.
Pero su presencia aumentó por actividades humanas como la quema de combustibles fósiles (petróleo, gas, carbón) y la deforestación.
Este exceso de CO₂ atrapa calor en la atmósfera y eso condujo a que las temperaturas globales suban, los glaciares se derritan, los océanos se calienten, entre otros impactos.
El CO₂ no es “malo” en sí mismo: las plantas lo necesitan para hacer fotosíntesis. Pero en exceso desequilibra el sistema.
Científicos de todo el mundo buscan formas efectivas de capturar ese CO₂ para defender la salud del planeta.
La mayoría de los métodos conocidos hasta ahora son costosos, requieren mucha energía o no consiguen guardar el carbono durante mucho tiempo.
Algunos grupos han probado con técnicas químicas y otros con organismos vivos como plantas y algas.
Pero, hasta este avance, no se había combinado con éxito un material inerte y un organismo vivo que sigue activo dentro del hidrogel y tiene capacidad de almacenar carbono en formas estables.
El equipo de ETH Zurich decidió enfrentar el desafío de hacer algo muy diferente.
Para fabricar el nuevo material, el equipo usó un hidrogel, que es como una esponja blanda hecha con polímeros. Este gel deja pasar agua, luz y CO₂.
Dentro del hidrogel colocaron millones de cianobacterias, microorganismos que viven en la Tierra desde hace millones de años y pueden hacer fotosíntesis.
Las cianobacterias usan la luz solar para transformar el CO₂ del aire en alimento y oxígeno. También producen una reacción especial: su actividad provoca la formación de minerales sólidos, como la cal, que guarda el CO₂ por mucho tiempo dentro del gel.
El equipo utilizó impresión 3D para dar forma al material y optimizar la entrada de luz, agua y nutrientes. Así crearon piezas y bloques que funcionan bien para proyectos grandes.
Dalia Dranseike, quien fue primera autora del trabajo junto con Yifan Cui, explicó: “El material tiene estructuras que dejan pasar luz y distribuyen el líquido con nutrientes gracias a la capilaridad”.
El material logró resultados increíbles: en el laboratorio, pudo atrapar CO₂ de forma constante durante 400 días.
Cada gramo retuvo 26 miligramos de CO₂, y superó a otros métodos como el llamado “hormigón reciclado”. Los minerales que se forman en su interior vuelven el material más fuerte y resistente.
Las posibles aplicaciones van más allá de los experimentos. Los investigadores imaginan que el nuevo material se podría usar en edificios, fachadas y objetos urbanos para limpiar el aire y ayudar a combatir el cambio climático.
Después de los éxitos en el laboratorio, el equipo de ETH Zurich llevó su material a exposiciones internacionales de arquitectura. Andrea Shin Ling, arquitecta y miembro del equipo, fue clave en este paso.
En la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia montaron troncos de hasta tres metros de alto, formados por el material vivo que contiene cianobacterias. Cada tronco puede capturar 18 kilos de CO₂ por año, similar a lo que absorbe un pino adulto.
La arquitecta contó que el mayor desafío fue escalar el proceso, ya que fabricar piezas grandes es muy diferente al trabajo de laboratorio.
En tanto, en la Trienal de Milán, cubrieron tejas de madera con el hidrogel y las cianobacterias. Con el tiempo, formaron una “piel” verde sobre la madera, un signo claro de que las bacterias seguían vivas y activas capturando CO₂.
Observar el cambio de color y el trabajo de las cianobacterias resultó emocionante para el equipo.
En diálogo con Infobae, la doctora Graciela Salerno, investigadora superior del Conicet en cianobacterias y biotecnología, profesora emérita de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata y vicepresidente del Comité Ejecutivo de la Fundación para Investigaciones Biológicas Aplicadas (FIBA), comentó: “Se busca desde hace varias décadas en diferentes laboratorios, el desarrollo de métodos de secuestro de dióxido de carbono a través de materiales fotosintéticos”.
Tras leer el estudio publicado en Nature Communications, la doctora Salerno, quien no participó en la investigación, opinó que los investigadores de Suiza “le han dado una vuelta interesante y desarrollaron una innovación que combina el poder de las cianobacterias con ingeniería de materiales”.
Además, la científica expresó: “Si bien falta aún escalar la producción y evaluar su implementación práctica, el hidrogel podría ser una estrategia más para combatir al cambio climático. Por supuesto, también se necesita que se reduzcan las emisiones de gases de efecto de invernadero para no seguir agravando el problema”.
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