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Trump says Senate hearing on DNI nominee is cancelled until US attorney replacement confirmed

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President Donald Trump declared in an early Wednesday morning Truth Social post that a scheduled Senate hearing on Jay Clayton’s nomination to serve as director of national intelligence would not move forward Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has a hearing on Clayton’s nomination for DNI scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
But the president said the hearing will not take place until Jamie McDonald has been confirmed to fill the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York post.
President Trump tied the move to an ongoing dispute over renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, claiming Democrats backed away from an agreement to support the surveillance authority after Republicans agreed to move away from Bill Pulte as acting DNI. The provision allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect communications of foreign targets located outside the U.S.
TRUMP PICKS JAMES MCDONALD TO LEAD POWERFUL SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AFTER JAY CLAYTON’S DEPARTURE
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a morning work meeting to «revive balanced, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth for the benefit of all» in the presence of the G7 countries, partner countries, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD, as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)
The president further said he would not support renewal of FISA authorities unless Congress also advances the SAVE AMERICA ACT, a voting-security measure backed by the administration.
Clayton’s hearing had been scheduled amid a broader debate over the future of U.S. intelligence leadership and the reauthorization of key surveillance authorities.
TRUMP NOMINATES JAY CLAYTON, FORMER SEC CHAIRMAN, CURRENT US ATTORNEY, AS INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR
«Regarding the approval of our Great Patriot, Jay Clayton, we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today, and will not be going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. Attorney. In the meantime, Bill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!» Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.
Pulte «will take over on June 19th,» the president declared in a post last week.
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Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), during the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«The Republicans agreed with Dumocrats to remove very fair, and talented, William Pulte, from serving as Acting DNI in return for getting FISA approved by the Dumocrats. However, the Republicans moved so fast with the hearings of the Great Jay Clayton, current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that Pulte would be gone before the Dumocrats would vote on FISA. Now, the Dumocrats are saying they will vote against FISA — So, the Republicans wound up having fulfilled their commitment, but Dumocrats broke the Deal,» Trump said in his post on Wednesday morning.
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William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), during a news conference at the Federal Housing Finance Association (FHFA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«In addition, the newly nominated U.S. Attorney, Jamie McDonald, must be confirmed and blue slipped. Because of the ridiculous views of Republicans on blue slipping (Dumocrats are often willing to nix it), I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan & Cromwell Partner, Jamie, approved, and I don’t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap,» he added.
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Octavio Paz, escritor mexicano: “Sin libertad la democracia es despotismo, sin democracia la libertad es quimera”

En un presente global marcado por la polarización extrema, el auge de los populismos de todo signo y el progresivo desmantelamiento de los contrapesos institucionales desde el propio corazón de las urnas, la voz de Octavio Paz suena con lucidez: “Sin libertad la democracia es despotismo, sin democracia la libertad es quimera”. Recorramos este axioma político y filosófico que encapsula la gran obsesión teórica de un escritor que pagó altos costos por negarse a comulgar con los dogmas de su tiempo.
Corría el 23 de abril de 1981. El Paraninfo de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares albergaba la entrega del Premio Miguel de Cervantes, el máximo galardón de las letras hispanas. Al subir al estrado, Octavio Paz no optó por el refugio seguro de la complacencia estética. En su discurso, partiendo de la etimología de la palabra “liberal” y de la figura del propio Miguel de Cervantes, desató una profunda reflexión sobre las tragedias políticas que asolaban a Occidente y, muy especialmente, a América Latina.
El contexto continental era asfixiante: la región se debatía entre el horror de las dictaduras militares de derecha —con el Cono Sur bajo el yugo de regímenes como el de Jorge Rafael Videla en Argentina o Augusto Pinochet en Chile— y la fosilización de los autoritarismos de izquierda. Si bien la frase resonó en las paredes de Alcalá de Henares, su genealogía conceptual remite de forma directa a la producción ensayística que el autor venía madurando desde los años 70.
Las actas de aquel discurso fueron publicadas de inmediato en revistas de la época, pero el pensamiento quedó inmortalizado en los volúmenes de ensayos políticos que marcaron su madurez, fundamentalmente en el libro El ogro filantrópico (1979) y, posteriormente, en las recopilaciones de Pasión crítica (1985). El ogro filantrópico es, sin lugar a dudas, un texto fundamental para entender la evolución ideológica del escritor. En esta obra, Octavio Paz desmenuza la naturaleza del Estado moderno.

El autor ce centra particularmente en el Estado mexicano, encarnado en el régimen del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). A este sistema de poder lo define como una maquinaria gigantesca que, bajo la promesa de la beneficencia social y el progreso, devora las iniciativas individuales y adormece la capacidad crítica de la sociedad. La importancia de este libro radica en que desmitificó el romanticismo estatista de la izquierda de la época, consolidando un espacio de pensamiento liberal-democrático.
Esta frase no es una declaración aislada; resume de manera perfecta la biografía intelectual de Octavio Paz. En su juventud, el poeta había coqueteado con el antifascismo y las causas socialistas, llegando a viajar a la España de la Guerra Civil. Sin embargo, el descubrimiento de los crímenes del estalinismo y los horrores del Gulag provocaron en él una ruptura temprana y definitiva con los totalitarismos.
Su compromiso con la libertad no fue solo de tinta. En 1968, siendo embajador de México en la India, renunció a su cargo de manera fulminante tras la matanza de estudiantes en Tlatelolco perpetrada por el gobierno de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Paz entendía que el intelectual debe ser el fiscal del poder, nunca su cortesano. A través de la fundación de las revistas Plural y Vuelta, se convirtió en el faro de una corriente que exigía pluralidad en tiempos de monólogos ideológicos.
En definitiva, la máxima de Octavio Paz funciona hoy como un espejo incómodo para nuestro presente. Nos recuerda que la salud de una sociedad no se mide únicamente por la frecuencia con la que acude a las urnas, sino por la vigencia real de las libertades que se respiran al día siguiente de la votación. Una lección de 1981 que el siglo XXI haria bien en no olvidar.

Octavio Paz Lozano nació en la Ciudad de México el 31 de marzo de 1914, en pleno apogeo de la Revolución Mexicana, en el seno de una familia de fuerte tradición intelectual y política. Creció rodeado por la vasta biblioteca de su abuelo paterno, lo que despertó su temprana vocación por las letras, publicando sus primeros poemas en la adolescencia. A lo largo de su vida, combinó su brillante carrera literaria con la diplomacia, representando a su país en Francia, Japón y la India.
Fundador de revistas culturales clave como Plural y Vuelta, se convirtió en un faro del pensamiento crítico y el debate ideológico en Hispanoamérica, lo que le valió el Premio Miguel de Cervantes en 1981 y el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990. Su vasta y polifacética obra transitó con igual maestría la poesía experimental y el ensayo profundo. Entre sus títulos líricos más célebres destacan Libertad bajo palabra y el monumental poema Piedra de sol, estructurado bajo la cosmogonía azteca.
Como ensayista, transformó la comprensión de la identidad latinoamericana con El laberinto de la soledad, exploró la teoría poética en El arco y la lira y realizó una minuciosa biografía histórica en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe. Tras padecer un cáncer prolongado, el célebre escritor falleció el 19 de abril de 1998 en la misma ciudad que lo vio nacer, dejando un legado imperecedero como uno de los máximos referentes de la literatura universal del siglo XX.
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Deadly B-52 crash puts focus on engines, controllability as investigators hunt for answers

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The B-52 bomber aircraft first entered service during the Eisenhower administration during the 1950s.
More than seven decades later, the Air Force is spending billions of dollars to transform the Cold War-era bomber with new engines, upgraded avionics and advanced radar systems designed to keep it flying into the 2050s.
That modernization effort was thrust into the spotlight Monday when a B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California during a test mission, killing all eight people aboard.
The crew included military personnel, government civilians and contractors supporting the flight test mission. Boeing later confirmed that two of its employees were among those on board.
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The crash marks the loss of one of just 76 B-52s remaining in the Air Force inventory. The nuclear-capable bomber remains a cornerstone of America’s strategic bomber force and is expected to serve alongside the Air Force’s next-generation B-21 Raider for decades to come.
The B-52 bomber aircraft first entered service during the Eisenhower administration during the 1950s. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
As investigators begin piecing together what happened, aviation attorney and Marine helicopter pilot veteran Justin Green said the fact that the aircraft went down moments after takeoff is likely to shape the early stages of the investigation.
«Aircraft controllability issue, some sort of engine failure, because they’re in a very critical moment of flight when you’re just taking off,» Green told Fox News Digital. «So I think that’s really gonna be the focus.»
Green, who serves as co-chair of the plaintiffs’ executive committee in litigation stemming from the 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia and is involved in litigation related to the January 2025 midair collision over the Potomac River, cautioned that investigators are still in the earliest stages of the probe.
«The key thing in investigations is you don’t make any assumptions,» Green said. «In the early days, you have to really just keep an open mind and really follow the facts where the facts lead you.»

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, Monday, officials said. (KTTV)
The aircraft was conducting a local test sortie supporting the Air Force’s radar modernization program when it crashed, according to the Air Force. Edwards Air Force Base serves as the Air Force’s premier flight-test center, where aircraft are routinely used to evaluate new technologies and modifications before they are fielded across the broader fleet.
The Air Force is currently pursuing one of the most ambitious modernization efforts in the B-52’s history.
The service plans to equip the bombers with new Rolls-Royce F130 engines, upgraded avionics and a modern active electronically scanned array radar intended to improve navigation, targeting and situational awareness while extending the aircraft’s operational lifespan well into the middle of the century.
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The timing of the crash has naturally drawn attention to those upgrades. But Green said the radar system itself is not an obvious explanation based on the limited facts available.
«I think it’s very unlikely,» Green said when asked whether the new radar system could have contributed to the crash. «A new radar system shouldn’t really affect the ability of the airplane to take off safely.»
While investigators are expected to examine every aspect of the aircraft and mission, Green said they are likely to focus heavily on factors that directly affect an aircraft’s ability to safely depart the runway and climb after takeoff.

American aircrews inspect a B-52 Stratofortress long-range bomber on the pan at RAF Fairford during Exercise Cobra Warrior 2025 in England. (Getty Images)
The B-52’s age is also expected to be part of the discussion. The bomber first entered service in the 1950s and remains one of the oldest aircraft in the U.S. military inventory. Yet Green said investigators may be more likely to focus on maintenance records, recently installed components and operational factors than on the aircraft’s original design.
«This is a very old airplane,» Green said. «A problem is not really gonna be a design problem. It’s gonna be more of a manufacturing if it’s a new part or a maintenance issue or a piloting issue.»
Investigators are expected to analyze physical evidence recovered from the crash site, along with maintenance records and any available flight data. According to Green, the wreckage itself will «tell the story,» and likely provide many of the answers investigators are seeking.
He added that flight data and cockpit recordings, if recovered, could prove critical in reconstructing the aircraft’s final moments.
The involvement of contractors and Boeing employees on the flight could also raise unique legal questions depending on what investigators ultimately determine caused the accident.
Military personnel generally cannot sue the federal government over injuries or deaths that occur in the course of military service because of the Feres doctrine, a longstanding legal precedent. Contractors are not subject to the same restriction, though potential claims could still face significant legal hurdles depending on the circumstances of the crash and the role of any companies involved.
«Unless the manufacturer does something really off, you know on its own that’s negligent, they may also have protection from any sort of liability,» Green said.
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For now, however, Green stressed that determining responsibility remains far down the list of priorities.
The Air Force has not publicly identified a cause of the crash. Investigators are expected to spend weeks and potentially months examining evidence before reaching any conclusions about what brought down one of the military’s most iconic aircraft.
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