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How and where is Donald Trump after the attack on him?

Former President Donald Trump, victim yesterday of a failed attack during a political rally in Butler (Pennsylvania), spent Sunday in detained at the Bedminister golf club, in New Jersey, of his property.

The accesses to the golf club in this wooded area of New Jersey have been closed this Sunday both north and south, and the different roads that lead to the facilities are protected by the security services, which only allow access to some vehicles, and are extreme security around the former president.

Journalists were forced to be located about 5 kilometers from the entrances, next to the Bedminster public library. Many of them have been stationed in the place for several hours with the only hope of seeing their entourage leave on the nearby road at some point in the day, although they could also leave by helicopter or even not leave until tomorrow.

Trump, who yesterday saw himself in apparent good shape only hours after the attack – he lowered the stairs of the plane on his own foot when he arrived at Newark airport -, has promised to be at the Republican Party convention tomorrow where his candidacy will be proclaimed and where he could appoint his vice president.

Taking advantage of the presence of journalists, a group of Trump fans defied the temperatures of this Sunday and mounted a small demonstration of support next to a road crossing, to which the neighbors of this rural place with little urbanization were joining.

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There were numerous vehicles that passed by them and repeatedly honked the horn to support them, or that took their thumbs out the window to encourage them. Many of them carried American flags in the wind or others with the slogan “Make America Great Again”.

One of the protesters, Nancy, 65, in a dress xerographed with a montage of photos of the former president, assures that God has marked everyone’s destiny and yesterday was not Trump’s time; about the attacker, she said that “everyone who hates Trump knows that only killing him can prevent his victory.”

On board his Harley Davidson came Miguel Madero, a Puerto Rican who works in construction and who left because he believes that only Trump “can save this country from socialism,” an idea that according to him all his clients share with whom he talks about politics.

All the participants in this small demonstration blamed the press for what happened yesterday, because according to them the “mainstream” (dominant) media have long been sowing a rhetoric of hatred against Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular that has led to this attempted assassination.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.

The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.

While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.

Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.

Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.