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Vogue dedicates the October cover to Kamala Harris and is praised

Vogue magazine, one of the references of fashion and glamour, dedicates the digital cover of October to the vice president and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, to whom it also devotes two highly complimentary articles.

With photographs by the iconic Annie Leibovitz, this issue includes an exploded view entitled ‘How Kamala Harris dresses during campaign trips’, with a series of 49 images where Harris shows his entire wardrobe in which jacket suits dominate but also ‘jeans’, sneakers and gala dresses fit. None of the photos show an unfavorable profile.

The announcement that Vogue makes of its ‘special Kamala Harris’ on its Instagram account already indicates the tone of what the articles will be; thus, it says that Kamala intends to “do something unprecedented in American history: set up a campaign and win it in three months, as a black woman, against a former criminal leader (sic)”.

The main article, with more than 8,000 words, equivalent to more than a dozen pages on paper, collects numerous moments of Harris in privacy and informal interviews, and the author Nathan Heller has had access to her husband Doug Emhoff, childhood friends, one of her doctors and a multitude of people who have been by her side throughout her life.

The article, extremely flattering with Harris, underlines her qualities and her career from below – that idea of the American dream – and ends in fact with the words of her friend and ally Oprah Winfrey, who in a rally presented her like this: “In no other country on earth could History have been written like this: from being a daughter of immigrants, to MacDonalds worker, district attorney, wife, senator and vice president.”

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Marco Rubio warns Venezuela against military action against Guyana

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Venezuela on Thursday that a military attack on Guyana would be “a big mistake” and “a very bad day for them,” expressing his support for Georgetown in its territorial dispute with Caracas.

“It would be a very bad day for the Venezuelan regime if they attacked Guyana or ExxonMobil. It would be a very bad day, a very bad week for them, and it would not end well,” Rubio emphasized during a press conference in Georgetown alongside Guyanese President Irfaan Ali.

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Ecuador oil spill worsens as containment dam collapses

The collapse of a containment dam holding back part of the 25,000+ barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline rupture nearly two weeks ago has worsened the environmental crisis in northwestern Ecuador, contaminating rivers and Pacific beaches.

The Ecuadorian government attributed the March 13 pipeline rupture—which led to the spill of 25,116 barrels of crude—to an act of sabotage. The spill affected three rivers and disrupted water supplies for several communities, according to authorities.

On Tuesday, due to heavy rains that have been falling since January, a containment dam on the Caple River collapsed. The Caple connects to other waterways in Esmeraldas Province, a coastal region bordering Colombia, state-owned Petroecuador said in a statement on Wednesday.

Seven containment barriers were installed in the Viche River, where crews worked to remove oil-contaminated debris. Additional absorbent materials were deployed in Caple, Viche, and Esmeraldas Rivers, which flow into the Pacific Ocean.

Authorities are also working to protect a wildlife refuge home to more than 250 species, including otters, howler monkeys, armadillos, frigatebirds, and pelicans.

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“This has been a total disaster,” said Ronald Ruiz, a leader in the Cube community, where the dam was located. He explained that the harsh winter rains caused river levels to rise, bringing debris that broke the containment barriersthat were holding the accumulated oil for extraction.

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Federal court blocks Trump’s use of Enemy Alien Act for deportations

A federal appeals court upheld the block on former President Donald Trump’s use of the Enemy Alien Act on Wednesday, preventing him from using the law to expedite deportations of alleged members of the transnational criminal group Tren de Aragua.

With a 2-1 ruling, a panel from the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed previous decisions by two lower court judges, maintaining the legal standoff between the White House and the judiciary.

On March 14, Trump invoked the 1798 Enemy Alien Act, a law traditionally used during wartime, to deport hundreds of Venezuelans whom he accused of belonging to Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that originated in Venezuelan prisons.

The centuries-old law grants the president the power to detain, restrict, and expel foreign nationals from a country engaged in a “declared war” or an “invasion or predatory incursion” against the United States, following a public proclamation.