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Por RONALD BLUM NUEVA YORK (AP) — Carlos Beltrán y Andruw Jones parecen estar en camino de ser elegidos al Salón de la Fama el martes cuando se anuncien los resultados de la votación de la Asociación de Escritores de Béisbol de América. Hasta la noche del lunes, el boricua Beltrán había sido seleccionado en el 89,2% de las 223 boletas reveladas anticipadamente y tabuladas en el rastreador de votos en línea de Ryan Thibodaux, un poco más de la mitad del total estimado presentado. Jones estaba en el 83%, al igual que Beltrán, muy por encima del 75% necesario para la inducción al santuario en Cooperstown, Nueva York. Haciendo su cuarta aparición en la boleta, Beltrán ha subido constantemente del 46,5% en 2023 al 57,1% el año siguiente y al 70,3% en 2025, cuando se quedó a 19 votos de distancia mientras Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia y Billy Wagner fueron elegidos. Jones está en la boleta por novena vez de un máximo de diez. Recibió solo el 7,3% en su primera aparición en 2018 —sus 31 boletas fueron apenas más de las 22 necesarias para seguir siendo elegible para futuras votaciones de la asociación. No alcanzó la mitad del total hasta recibir el 58,1% en 2023, luego aumentó al 61,6% y al 66,2%, quedando a 35 votos de distancia en 2025. Cualquiera que sea elegido sería inducido el 26 de julio junto con Jeff Kent, votado el mes pasado por el comité de la era contemporánea después de recibir un máximo del 46,5% de los votos de 2014 a 2023. Los miembros de la Asociación de Escritores con diez o más años consecutivos en la organización fueron elegibles para votar. El caso de Beltrán Nueve veces All-Star, Beltrán bateó .279 con 435 jonrones y 1.587 carreras impulsadas en 20 temporadas con Kansas City (1999-2004), Houston (2004, ’17), los Mets de Nueva York (2005-11), San Francisco (2011), San Luis (2012-13), los Yankees de Nueva York (2014-16) y Texas (2016). Fue el Novato del Año de la Liga Americana en 1999 y ganó tres Guantes de Oro, además de batear .307 en la postemporada con 16 jonrones y 42 carreras impulsadas en 65 juegos. Beltrán fue contratado como manager de los Mets el 1 de noviembre de 2019, luego despedido el 16 de enero sin haber dirigido un juego, tres días después de ser el único jugador de los Astros mencionado por nombre en un informe de las Grandes Ligas sobre el uso ilícito de electrónicos por parte del equipo para robar señales durante la carrera de Houston al campeonato de la Serie Mundial de 2017. “Todos hicimos lo que hicimos. Mirando hacia atrás hoy, estábamos equivocados”, dijo Beltrán en una transmisión de YES Network en 2022, después de ser contratado como analista. “Desearía haber hecho más preguntas sobre lo que estábamos haciendo. Desearía que la organización nos hubiera dicho, ‘Oye, hombre, lo que están haciendo, necesitamos detener esto'”. El caso de Jones Jones bateó .254 con 434 jonrones, 1.289 carreras impulsadas y 152 bases robadas en 17 temporadas con Atlanta (1996-2007), los Dodgers de Los Ángeles (2008), Texas (2009), los Medias Blancas de Chicago (2010) y los Yankees (2011-12). Terminó su carrera con los Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles de la Liga del Pacífico de Japón de 2013 a 2014. Su promedio de bateo sería el segundo más bajo para un jugador de posición votado al Salón de la Fama, justo por encima del .253 de Ray Schalk, un receptor defensivo superior, y justo por debajo del .256 de Harmon Killebrew, quien conectó 573 jonrones. Cinco veces All-Star, Jones ganó diez Guantes de Oro. En el primer juego de la Serie Mundial de 1996 en el Yankee Stadium, con 19 años y cinco meses, Jones se convirtió en el jugador más joven en conectar un jonrón en un juego del Clásico de Otoño, superando la antigua marca de Mickey Mantle por 18 meses. Al conectar contra Andy Pettitte en la segunda entrada y Brian Boehringer en la tercera de una paliza de 12-1, Jones se convirtió en el segundo jugador en conectar jonrones en sus dos primeros turnos de la Serie Mundial después de Gene Tenace en 1972. Parecen quedarse…

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s faithful fixer-turned-gleeful antagonist after he famously flipped, is now claiming he did so under duress. In a Substack post, Cohen claimed the Manhattan district attorney and the state attorney general forced his hand in their sweeping criminal and civil cases against the president, which ultimately branded Trump a convicted felon on the eve of his return to power and hamstrung his real estate company’s New York operations. During both the investigations and subsequent trials, Cohen now claims, he “felt pressured and coerced” to provide testimony that would secure Trump’s conviction. An analysis of Cohen’s statements over the years belies his claims. He often reflected enthusiasm about his cooperation in the Trump probes and concern with getting credit. “I brought the whole mishegas, the whole bulls–t to the surface,” he defiantly told the Daily News in June 2021. When District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money probe kicked into high gear in early 2023, a beaming Cohen was effusive, heaping praise on the prosecutors he now accuses of unprofessionalism. “The level of specificity to which they are unpacking the various issues is extraordinary, and they are really professional,” he told The News after a sitdown with prosecutors that March. “There’s so much that I would really like to spill and just tell you, but out of respect to the DA’s office, I’m gonna refrain from doing so.” After testifying before the grand jury on March 15, Cohen didn’t mince words. “Donald Trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds,” he said, standing beside his lawyer Lanny Davis, later adding he was “certain” he’d provided the most complete account yet of the hush money saga. Davis praised Cohen at the news conference, lauding him for taking responsibility. Reached for comment Monday, the high-profile defense attorney declined to comment on Cohen’s about-face. “I don’t represent Michael anymore,” Davis said. “He has his own world now, and I’ve definitely not talked to him for a long time.” Trump was indicted weeks after Cohen’s grand jury testimony on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, all of which he was convicted of in May 2024. Cohen described himself as the “key witness” at the trial in his new piece, though he really played a supporting role. Acknowledging his record of dishonesty, prosecutors called him at the very end to act as a tour guide of incontrovertible physical evidence. Cohen’s turnaround seems to have Trump convinced, at the very least. In what appears to be his first post in years about his former fixer without an insult, the president claimed vindication on his Truth Social site. “These horrible Radical Left people, doing everything possible to destroy our Country, should pay a big price for this! It was a SET UP from the beginning,” Trump wrote. Turning on Trump Trump’s right-hand man for a decade, Cohen parted with Trump after he was arrested by the feds two years into Trump’s first term. He first served as an executive vice president at the Trump Organization and later as Trump’s special counsel. At the 2024 hush money trial, he told jurors his job had been to handle for Trump “whatever concerned him, whatever he wanted.” Federal agents stormed his Manhattan residences and office in the spring of 2018, leading to his arrest and disbarment. That August, he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws by paying porn star Stormy Daniels to hide her claims of a tryst with Trump from voters and to an assortment of other crimes, what the late Federal Judge William Pauley described as a “veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent misconduct.” While he implicated Trump in his plea, Cohen refused to be forthcoming with the feds about other criminality he’d witnessed. Why now? By his own admission, Cohen’s metamorphosis to liberal resistance hero was lucrative. He made millions from two best-selling memoirs about his time working for Trump, became a cable TV fixture, and…

Por THE ASSOCIATED PRESS La Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York está trabajando en una plataforma digital que permitiría a los inversores comerciar con tokens digitales las 24 horas del día. La plataforma estaría separada de la propia Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York (NYSE) –que opera únicamente en días laborables– y permitiría la liquidación instantánea de transacciones, órdenes dimensionadas en montos en dólares y financiamiento basado en stablecoins (monedas digitales de valor estable), indicó el lunes Intercontinental Exchange, propietario de la NYSE. El modelo utiliza la tecnología blockchain que impulsa las criptomonedas para crear tokens digitales como sustitutos de cosas como acciones, bonos, bienes raíces o incluso la propiedad parcial de una obra de arte para ser comercializada como criptomoneda por prácticamente cualquier persona, en cualquier lugar y en cualquier momento. Las stablecoins, que son un tipo de criptomoneda que por lo general se compra y vende por un dólar, han ayudado a alimentar el apetito por convertir otros activos financieros en tokens. Suponiendo que cumpla con los requisitos regulatorios, la plataforma impulsaría un nuevo espacio de la NYSE que apoyaría el comercio de versiones en token de acciones, destacó la bolsa. El desarrollo de la plataforma es parte del intento de Intercontinental Exchange por ampliar sus capacidades de compensación de transacciones para manejar el comercio 24/7 de valores en tokens y, potencialmente, la integración de colaterales en tokens. Intercontinental Exchange afirmó que trabaja en conjunto con Citigroup, Bank of New York Mellon y otros prestamistas para apoyar los depósitos en tokens en las seis cámaras de compensación de la compañía alrededor del mundo. ___ Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

By BECKY BOHRER JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The aurora could be visible across Canada and much of the northern tier of U.S. states — and possibly further south — Monday night following a major disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field, a forecast shows. Related Articles Former fixer Michael Cohen says he was ‘coerced’ to flip on Trump NYSE working on a new platform for trading digital tokens around the clock 100 vehicles pile up in Michigan crash as snowstorm moves across the country Trump doubles down on Greenland 9/11 WTC Health Program workforce drops 25% under Sec. Kennedy as patient count rises: advocates The forecast, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, comes amid intense geomagnetic and solar radiation storms, said Shawn Dahl, service coordinator at the center. Geomagnetic storms that can lead to vivid northern lights also can interfere with satellite operations, GPS communications and other infrastructure, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Dahl said the current storm isn’t expected to become much weaker until sometime Tuesday. In November, solar storms brought vibrant auroras to parts of Europe including Hungary and the United Kingdom, and as far south in the United States as Kansas, Colorado and Texas. Northern lights illuminate the cloud cover over Rushmere St. Andrew, Ipswich, England, Monday Jan. 19, 2026. (Joe Pickover/PA via AP) Solar radiation storms can affect objects in space and certain types of communications systems, but Dahl said astronauts at the international space station currently are not at risk. The intensity of this storm has not been seen in more than two decades, he said.

The New York Stock Exchange is working on a digital platform that would enable investors to trade digital tokens around the clock. Related Articles The exuberance for all things AI Ticker: IMF upgrades outlook; Fed chair to attend SUPCO argument on Cook case Prince Harry returns to London court for battle against tabloids How to conduct your own portfolio makeover Inequality and unease are rising as elite Davos event opens with pro-business Trump set to attend The platform would be separate from the NYSE itself, which operates only on weekdays, and allow for instant settlement of transactions, orders sized in dollar amounts and stablecoin-based funding, NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange said Monday. Tokenization uses blockchain technology that powers cryptocurrencies to create digital tokens as stand-ins for things like stocks, bonds, real estate or even fractional ownership of a piece of art that can be traded like crypto by virtually anyone, anywhere at any time. Stablecoins, which are a type of cryptocurrency typically bought and sold for $1, have helped fuel the appetite to tokenize other financial assets. Assuming it meets regulatory scrutiny, the platform would power a new NYSE venue that would support trading of tokenized versions of company shares, the exchange said. The development of the platform is part of Intercontinental Exchange’s bid to broaden its transaction clearing capabilities to handle 24/7 trading of tokenized securities and, potentially, the integration of tokenized collateral. Intercontinental Exchange said it’s working with Citigroup, Bank of New York Mellon and other lenders to support tokenized deposits across the company’s six clearinghouses around the globe.