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TSA encuentra balas de cañón robadas en el equipaje de un aeropuerto

By CNN

Los agentes de control de la Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte (TSA, por sus siglas en inglés) descubren todo tipo de artículos prohibidos en el equipaje, pero las balas de cañón robadas de un fuerte de la época de la Guerra Civil no son un hallazgo cotidiano.

El oficial principal de la TSA, Justin Dupree, estaba revisando equipaje facturado a principios de este mes en el Aeropuerto Internacional Gulf Shores de Alabama cuando vio los proyectiles en su máquina de rayos X.

“Mi primer pensamiento fue: no podía ver una mecha y necesitaba conseguir ayuda rápido”, se cita al oficial de la TSA en una actualización de la TSA. “No podía ver el objeto completo, pero me asusté pensando que podría ser un explosivo real”.

Había cinco balas de cañón pequeñas envueltas en toallas de papel, siendo la más grande del tamaño de un pomelo y la más pequeña de apenas alrededor de una pulgada de ancho, informó la agencia.

“Nunca había visto algo tan único”, dijo Dupree. “He visto granadas inertes y municiones de entrenamiento, pero nunca una situación tipo Indiana Jones de un artefacto robado”.

Las fuerzas del orden determinaron que las balas de cañón habían sido robadas del cercano Fuerte Morgan. Ha custodiado la bahía de Mobile desde que se completó en 1834 y desempeñó un papel importante en la Guerra Civil. El fuerte es ahora un museo operado por la Comisión Histórica de Alabama.

La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Baldwin y los expertos en bombas de la TSA confirmaron que las balas de cañón no contenían explosivos, pero aun así no podían volar en avión.

“Estoy muy orgullosa de la gran incautación”, dijo Tara Corse, quien está a cargo de la TSA en Alabama. “Incluso si son inertes y no están activas, los viajeros deben evitar llevar armas de cualquier tipo, incluidas réplicas, al aeropuerto. Pueden causar alertas de seguridad, retrasos en los vuelos y preocupaciones de seguridad”.

Un menor de otro estado había tomado las balas de cañón, dijo a CNN el capitán Nathan Lusk de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Baldwin. Los objetos históricos fueron devueltos al fuerte y el director de la instalación declinó seguir adelante con el procesamiento.

La sociedad histórica está llevando a cabo una investigación activa sobre lo ocurrido, dijo a CNN un portavoz.

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Republican senators release Fauci’s text messages discussing safety of Covid vaccine and pregnancy

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(CNN) — Two Republican senators have released the first batch of text messages retrieved from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former government phone as part of an investigation into his leadership and actions during the Covid-19 pandemic – including messages in which he discusses the possible risks and safety of the vaccine during pregnancy.Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky released the texts publicly online Monday, after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided Fauci’s iPhone to a Senate subcommittee investigating him.The phone contained more than 34,000 messages and 522 voicemails, said the senators in a news release. They published screenshots showing a fraction of these – 11 texts sent during Fauci’s tenure as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).In one exchange on January 25, 2021, Vivek Murthy, then a member of President Joe Biden’s Covid advisory board, asked about any potential risk to those who are pregnant, or whether Fauci knew of any “data or theoretical reason why vaccinating early vs late in pregnancy would be preferred.”Fauci responded that there was “no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred.”Then he added: “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”Dr. Rochelle Walensky, then-director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), replied, “Definitely a good point, esp after dose two.”In another exchange a day later, according to the screenshots released, Fauci said that any vaccine with limited data on pregnancy should be carefully considered. “One must weigh the potential risks against the benefits,” he wrote, pointing out that a Covid infection could be “especially” serious in pregnancy.Though pregnant individuals were not included in vaccine trials, more than 10,000 had been vaccinated since the government issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine – and “no issues have arisen,” he wrote in a text.CNN has reached out to Fauci, Murthy and Walensky for comment.The CDC formally recommended on August 11, 2021, that pregnant people receive the vaccine after analyzing data and finding no increased risks of miscarriage or other safety concerns related to the shot.The CDC also warned during the pandemic that pregnant people were more likely to get severely ill compared to those who were not pregnant, according to an archived page from the agency’s website.Studies have since shown that the vaccines were safe during pregnancy, and that serious adverse reactions are rare. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists still recommends, as of this spring, that individuals who are pregnant or will be pregnant during the fall or winter should receive annual Covid-19 vaccines.In a news release, Johnson and Paul said their staff were reviewing the rest of the information on Fauci’s phone, and would publicly release them “as soon as possible.” The texts released on Monday “could have an immediate impact of public health and the principle of informed consent,” they said.The news release also listed several further public statements made by Fauci and other health officials in the months following the text exchange, recommending pregnant people receive Covid-19 vaccines.Battles on the HillPaul, who chairs the full Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has long clashed with Fauci, who he subpoenaed in June to appear before Congress.He and other prominent Republicans accuse Fauci of covering up the origins of the pandemic, and of lying and misrepresenting data during the Covid-19 response – though they’ve yet to present clear evidence of such an alleged cover-up.Republican members of the Senate subcommittee voted last week to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times in a hearing, refusing to answer questions over concerns his responses would be used in an attempt to bring charges against him.Ahead of that hearing, the committee also released more than 1,100 pages of Fauci’s personal diary from 2019 to 2022.Neither HHS nor Paul’s committee alerted Fauci ahead of time that they had obtained his diary and that they planned to publish it in full, according to a person familiar with the matter.The diary entries narrated Fauci’s growing concerns about Covid-19, frustrations with the government response and conflicting relationships with both Trump and Biden administration officials.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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