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Las 5 cosas que debes saber este 28 de julio

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La lucha por mantener el TPS. Los “burros bomberos” que ayudan a prevenir incendios forestales en España. ¿Cómo es la nueva voz de ChatGPT? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.

La polarización en América Latina, que en parte ha llevado a algunos escenarios muy reñidos, da mayor relevancia al voto extranjero, con especial impacto mediático, mientras varios países avanzan en normativas para facilitar y ampliar la participación de sus ciudadanos fuera del país.

Un mes después de que la Corte Suprema de Justicia de EE.UU. limitara la capacidad de los tribunales inferiores para bloquear que la administración Trump revoque protecciones temporales contra la deportación, nuevos esfuerzos para frenar los planes del Gobierno para miles de personas que huyen de la guerra y desastres naturales están cobrando fuerza en todo el país.

Prevenir los incendios se ha convertido en una cuestión de alta tecnología, con satélites drones y sistemas de inteligencia artificial. Pero a 130 kilómetros al sur de Barcelona, una solución ancestral pasta tranquilamente por la montaña. Es una rebaño de burros.

El mar Caspio se ha convertido en la última región en verse envuelta en el creciente conflicto entre Irán y sus adversarios, sobre todo porque es una arteria vital en la creciente relación entre Irán y Rusia.

Dos años después de las elecciones presidenciales que denunció como fraudulentas, la oposición venezolana se prepara para una nueva mesa de diálogo con el chavismo. Será una conversación que tendrá a una parte de la oposición sentada en la mesa y a otra, liderada por María Corina Machado, alejada del proceso, luego de dejar en claro que persisten diferencias entre los sectores que reclaman una transición con nuevos comicios.

¿Quién será el protagonista de la nueva versión de Ghost Rider de Marvel?

A. Ryan Reynolds

B. Ryan Phillippe

C. Jack Ryan

D. Ryan Gosling

⬇️ Conoce la respuesta más abajo.

¿Estás considerando tomar estatinas? Las nuevas directrices de EE.UU. sobre el colesterol podrían cambiar tu decisión

Cambios en las directrices de EE.UU. podrían elevar a 87,5 millones de personas el número total de estadounidenses aptos para recibir estatinas, medicamentos que reducen el colesterol. ¿Qué motivó esta importante ampliación?

Katy Perry, molesta por una publicación de la Casa Blanca que incluía su música

Katy Perry reaccionó con firmeza ante el uso de su éxito de 2010 “Firework” por parte de la Casa Blanca en un video publicado en X que mostraba imágenes desclasificadas de ataques contra Irán.

Trump pide a la Corte Suprema que le permita restringir el voto por correo

El presidente Donald Trump pidió el lunes a la Corte Suprema que permita a su Gobierno avanzar con la implementación de un amplio decreto dirigido al voto por correo que tribunales inferiores bloquearon en casi dos docenas de estados.

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Antes de asumir la presidencia de Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella dijo que una reestructuración del servicio exterior contempla la clausura de 14 sedes diplomáticas en el exterior, entre ellas las embajadas de Cuba, Nicaragua, Argelia y Haití.

“Deshagámonos de esas cosas del horario de verano”

—Lo dijo el presidente Donald Trump al renovar su impulso para poner fin al cambio de horario dos veces al año en Estados Unidos, instando al Senado a aprobar la legislación sobre el horario de verano.

Esta es la nueva voz de ChatGPT: ¿por qué suena tan real?

OpenAI lanzó GPT-Live-1, la primera versión de su nuevo modelo de voz generado por inteligencia artificial para ChatGPT. Entre sus novedades: puede escuchar y hablar al mismo tiempo, dejarte interrumpirlo, soltar palabras de afirmación y sonar mucho más humano, algo que los usuarios han percibido como sorprendente y, a la vez, incómodo. Así funciona.

👋 Nos vemos mañana.

🧠 La respuesta del quiz es: D. Ryan Gosling se unirá al Universo Cinematográfico de Marvel (MCU) en 2028, interpretando a Ghost Rider, el superhéroe demoníaco vestido de cuero que monta en motocicleta.

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Doctor convicted of attempted manslaughter of his wife wants a new trial, saying jurors may have been confused

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(CNN) — Along the steep Pali Puka trail last spring, the verdant beauty of Oahu spilled out to the Pacific Ocean from the scenic path where Gerhardt and Arielle Konig stood. On that high ridge, they fought for their lives – emotionally, then physically – each later would testify.A trip intended to celebrate Arielle’s birthday – and maybe salvage their troubled marriage – ended with the couple, who share two young children, on the ground attacking each other. He bashed her in the face with a rock. She bit him and squeezed his testicles.Who started the melee became the question at the heart of an attempted second-degree murder charge filed against Gerhardt Konig.Prosecutors said the defendant wanted to kill his spouse and tried to push her off the cliff. But after an emotional, 10-day trial a year later that saw husband, wife and one of Gerhardt Konig’s children from a prior marriage on the stand, the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge of attempted manslaughter.At Konig’s request, a judge on Friday heard arguments on whether a new jury should hear the case because of what two jurors in news interviews revealed soon after issuing the verdict that could send Konig to prison for up to 20 years, along with concern one juror may have communicated about the case outside the jury room during deliberations.“Jury irregularities call into serious question the integrity of this verdict,” defense attorney Thomas Otake wrote in an appeal filed in May.At Friday’s hearing, Judge Paul Wong said the court would question jurors about any outside communications during deliberations before deciding whether to grant a new trial. The court will revisit the matter on September 11.“The court must ascertain the extent of the influence,” Wong said.Whether defendant intended to kill is at issueFinding insufficient evidence to convict Konig of attempted murder, the jury found him guilty of attempted manslaughter, with his actions – even if extremely dangerous – motivated by “extreme mental or emotional disturbance.”Ruling out an attempted murder charge was a relief to Konig’s legal team and left open the possibility Konig could be sentenced to probation, with no jail time at all.“We are thankful that they did not convict him of attempted murder, which would have been life in prison,” Otake told reporters shortly after the verdict was announced.Still, the defense attorney immediately promised an appeal based on unspecified concerns about the judge’s rulings during the trial. When his motion dropped a month later, however, it wasn’t the judge Otake took issue with:The request for a new trial was based on what jurors said after the verdict.“Somebody was definitely hurt; it was a bodily injury to the head that could result in serious bodily injury,” foreperson Makalapua Atkins told CNN affiliate East Idaho News about jurors’ state of mind in deliberations.“The intent to kill is improbable to us based on the evidence presented,” Atkins said in an interview after the verdict with True Crime AZ, adding, “The only people who know what happened on that cliff are the two that were involved.”But under Hawaii law, Konig’s defense team has argued, even a conviction for attempted manslaughter would require the jury to find the defendant was trying to kill the victim – and the foreperson said they didn’t.“The jury did not unanimously believe that Dr. Konig had an intent to kill his wife,” Atkins confirmed in a sworn statement to the defense attorney accompanying his appeal. Prosecutors also asked Atkins to sit down with them for an interview, but she declined, their response to the request for appeal states. CNN could not reach Atkins for comment.Another juror, identified publicly only as Juror #3, also said he had not been convinced Gerhardt Konig intended to take Arielle’s life that day.“I don’t know if he was trying to kill his wife, personally,” he told Honolulu TV station KHON in an on-camera interview. “I do know that it was the capacity to kill his wife, personally. That how I felt about it.”If jurors didn’t understand what was required for conviction, Konig’s attorneys argued, it opens the door to a new trial.“Conduct that could result in death or has the capacity to kill may be reckless, but it is not necessarily intentional, and Hawaiʻi does not recognize attempted reckless manslaughter,” Konig’s defense attorneys said, with the emphasis, in a court filing.Did the jury understand the law?“The jurors’ public remarks raise a serious concern that the verdict may rest upon findings inconsistent with the convicted offense,” Konig’s defense attorneys said in a motion for a new trial.The judge’s instructions – 33 in all – were a lot to digest. They laid out a menu of five possible charges – from second-degree attempted murder to third-degree assault – explaining the order in which they had to be considered and steps to evaluating each.“If and only if you unanimously find that all the elements of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree have been proven by the prosecution beyond a reasonable doubt, and you unanimously find that the defendant was not acting in Self-Defense, then you must consider the affirmative defense of Extreme Mental or Emotional Disturbance,” one instruction states.In their response to Konig’s request for a new trial, prosecutors did not try to rebut the claim jurors were confused, instead saying it doesn’t matter. The “internal thought process” of the jury, even when revealed voluntarily by jurors, should not be reconsidered by the court after a verdict, prosecutor Joel Garner stated.“Jurors can change their mind, but what matters is whether the verdict was unanimous at the time it was rendered,” the prosecution wrote. “In this case it was, even according to the on-the-record statements of the foreperson – and therefore a later declaration disagreeing with the verdicts is not a sufficient basis to grant a motion for a new trial.”Juror may have revealed their discussions during deliberationKonig’s defense also raises another concern about the jury: that one member may have been communicating about the case to an outsider while deliberations were still underway.“I’ve been texting with one of the juror’s (sic) and they’re going for count 3 attempted manslaughter,” says a message posted to the live chat of trial coverage by the Law&Crime Network.The comment was first spotted by someone – whose name is redacted in the court filing – and emailed to prosecutors, who alerted the judge.“What caught my attention is that this commenter specifically predicted the verdict – that Konig would be convicted of attempted manslaughter – before it was announced,” the person wrote in the email.Whether it was legitimate or a hoax has not been proven, but Konig’s defense attorneys say the fact that it correctly foreshadowed the verdict should give it credibility.“Although the full scope of any such communication remains unknown, these circumstances raise substantial concerns regarding the jury’s exposure to outside influence or extraneous information during deliberations,” the defense team wrote.Prosecutors say even if the comment was authentic, it doesn’t require a new trial unless there is proof that “external influence” swayed the decision of the juror.“A juror disclosing where the jury stands is certainly problematic, but on its own it does not indicate that the other party influenced that juror in any way,” Garner said in their court filing.Could a new trial backfire?If Konig, who is in jail pending his sentencing, is granted a new trial, it could come with a big risk: He could face the attempted murder charge again after beating it in his first trial.Otake is trying to make sure that doesn’t happen.“The jury did not convict Dr. Konig of attempted murder in the second degree,” the defense lawyer wrote, arguing the conviction on the lesser charge amounts to an attempted murder acquittal since the jury could not convict Konig of both.“Any retrial must therefore be limited to offenses consistent with the jury’s verdict and the constitutional protections against double jeopardy,” Otake added.The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney in Honolulu has not said whether it would try to pursue an attempted murder conviction again if a retrial is ordered.Either way, the legal fight between Gerhardt and Arielle Konig will continue, as their divorce is still pending.“The marriage,” Arielle Konig wrote in her divorce petition, “is irretrievably broken.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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