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DONALD TRUMP | Trump tararea el himno de EE UU y se contonea al son de la música en un acto oficial

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EL PAÍS Twitter Google Plus 30 MAY 2017 - 19:12 CEST MÁS INFORMACIÓN El empujón de Trump al primer ministro de Montenegro Melania rechaza dar la mano a Trump a su llegada a Israel Donald Trump  ha vuelto a ser protagonista "indirecto" en un acto oficial de Estado al tararear el himno de Estados Unidos mientras se contoneaba al son de la música. Ocurrió ayer en el Cementerio Nacional de Arlington (Virginia) —ubicado en las proximidades de la Casa Blanca— en el transcurso de la celebración del Día de los Caídos, que se conmemora el último lunes de mayo en recuerdo a los soldados estadounidenses que murieron en combate. La grabación del momento, que pronto fue criticado en las redes sociales, se dio en la apertura de la ceremonia en la que se pudo observar cómo el presidente republicano comenzó a moverse con la mano en el pecho y a tararear el himno al poco de comenzar la canción. Algunos usuarios en Twitter especularon con la "

RELIGION | EDITORIAL DEL NCR: La influencia monetaria de los Caballeros (de Colon) distorsiona nuestra iglesia

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NCR Editorial Staff    |   May. 31, 2017 Pro-life advocates with the Indiana State Knights of Columbus carry a banner past the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 27 during the annual March for Life in Washington. (CNS/Leslie E. Kossoff) 29 Print email PDF EDITORIAL The Knights of Columbus have been a fixture in the American church for the past 135 years, the friendly uncle of the family who oversees the Friday fish fries, occasionally going off to secret ceremonies and, at a certain level of membership, breaking out odd costumes replete with cape, sword and plumed hat for special occasions that often involve members of the hierarchy. But as our recent examination of the organization's spending on the national and international levels shows, the Knights are far more than parish helpers and a ceremonial presence (See link below). The Knights of Columbus organization has moved well beyond its original mission of rescuing widows and children from penury and giving young Irish

POLITICA | Las noticias falsas provienen de la Casa Blanca

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The fake news is coming from inside the White House By  Philip Bump   May 29 at 7:30 AM Donald Trump attends a working lunch at the G-7 summit on May 26, 2017, in Taormina, Sicily. (AFP/Getty Images) To believe Donald Trump, you must believe two largely contradictory things. You must believe that there are a slew of leakers in the executive branch who are providing damning details to the press illegally, and who must be rooted out and punished. (See tweets  here ,  here ,  here ,  here  and  here .) You must also believe that the press makes up imaginary leakers simply to slowly and incrementally report false stories that are tangentially embarrassing to the president. The most recent examples of Trump making that case came on Sunday (“Whenever you see the words ‘sources say’ in the fake news media, and they don’t mention names,” he said  on Twitter , “it is very possible that those sources don’t exist but are made up by fake news writers. #FakeNews is the enemy!”), but he