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By Dana O’Neil, CNN Miami (CNN) — Back in 2023, Jase Richardson sought a more rigorous athletic and academic high school program for his senior year. His younger brother, Jaxon, was attending a Team USA Under 16 training camp out, competing alongside Cameron and Cayden Boozer. They suggested their spot: Christopher Columbus High School. Together, they’d already led Columbus to one 7A state title. Selfishly, they knew Jase would help his team, but they also thought Columbus would help Jase. He did some quick Googling. He screwed up his nose at first when he saw that it was an all-boys school but did a little more searching anyway. He liked what he saw, so Jase and his family relocated from Las Vegas to Miami. On the first day of school, Jase sat down in his honors calculus class and introduced himself to the kid sitting next to him. Alberto Mendoza said hello. The two became friends, Alberto filling in Jase on what a great spot Columbus had been for him as well as his big brother, Fernando. And now a pause to recap the players involved. Jase Richardson, who spent just one year at Michigan State, was selected in the first round of the NBA draft by the Orlando Magic. Cayden Boozer averages 6.4 points and 3.2 assists for No. 6 Duke and is on more than a few NBA draft boards. His twin brother, Cam, leads the Blue Devils in scoring and rebounding and, come this June, will be a first-round pick and possibly the top overall player elected. And Alberto Mendoza is the backup quarterback for Indiana, which will play for the national championship against Miami on Monday. His big brother, Fernando won the Heisman and more than likely will be the top draft pick in the NFL draft. One high school, two sports, four draft picks in two years. And we’re only getting started. Denver Broncos All-Pro quarterback Brian Griese went to Columbus and so did Alonzo Highsmith, the third overall NFL pick in 1987. Baseball star Alex Rodriguez spent a year there and University of Miami football coach Mario Cristobal is an alum. “I think year in and year out, what you see come out of Columbus High School is not only elite talent but elite human beings that are driven, hungry, humble, and understand the importance of impacting others in a positive way,’’ said the Hurricanes head coach. He graduated from Columbus in 1988. So did his big brother, Lou. And Mendoza’s father, Fernando Sr. and Miami defensive back Bryce Fitzgerald and offensive lineman Ryan Rodriguez and backup quarterback Vinny Gonzalez. In an added twist, Mendoza’s father went to the school that is now trying to keep his son from winning a national title and played alongside Mario Cristobal. It’s an absurdity of riches that is hardly news to people who live in the city. “It’s been this way since the very beginning,’’ says John Lynskey, the school’s ambassador of alumni relations. “It becomes part of your DNA and I think that is passed on from generation to generation.’’ Started in 1958 by the Diocese of Miami and run since 1959 by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that was founded for education, Columbus was established as the secondary education continuation for kids at St. Theresa in nearby Coral Gables. That’s how the Cristobals ended up there. Lou needed a little structure, so his parents yanked him from public school and put him in St. Theresa. When he finished there, he naturally matriculated to Columbus and little brother Mario followed the same path. Mendoza didn’t immediately follow in his father’s footsteps. He first went to Miami Belen Jesuit but transferred to Columbus seeking, like Jase Richardson, the football competition. Alberto followed Fernando and just last week little brother, Max, learned he’d been accepted, too. “Columbus took a chance with me as a quarterback,’’ Mendoza said. “The development I got football-wise from Dave Dunn and all the other fantastic coaching and also the kind of tough personality coaching that I got from (the teachers) really helped me grow into…

Por Reuters La primera ministra de Japón, Sanae Takaichi, dijo que convocará a elecciones nacionales para el 8 de febrero para buscar el respaldo de los votantes para un mayor gasto, recortes de impuestos y una nueva estrategia de seguridad que se espera acelere el desarrollo de la defensa de Japón. “Me juego mi futuro político como primera ministra en estas elecciones. Quiero que el público juzgue directamente si me confiará la gestión del país”, declaró Takaichi en rueda de prensa. Prometió suspender durante dos años un impuesto del 8 % al consumo de alimentos y dijo que sus planes de gasto crearían empleos, impulsarían el gasto de los hogares y aumentarían otros ingresos fiscales. La perspectiva de un recorte del impuesto al consumo, que reduciría los ingresos del Gobierno en 5 billones de yenes (US$ 32.000 millones) al año, según estimaciones del Gobierno, envió el rendimiento de los bonos gubernamentales de Japón a 10 años a un máximo de 27 años este lunes. La votación anticipada decidirá los 465 escaños de la cámara baja del parlamento y marcará la primera prueba electoral de Takaichi desde que se convirtió en la primera mujer primera ministra de Japón en octubre. Convocar elecciones anticipadas le permitiría aprovechar el fuerte apoyo público para reforzar su control sobre el gobernante Partido Liberal Democrático y apuntalar la frágil mayoría de su coalición. Las elecciones pondrán a prueba el apetito de los votantes por un mayor gasto en un momento en que el aumento del coste de la vida es la principal preocupación del público. Una encuesta publicada por la emisora ​​pública NHK la semana pasada reveló que el 45 % de los encuestados citó los precios como su principal preocupación, seguidos de la diplomacia y la seguridad nacional con un 16 %. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. The post La primera ministra de Japón, Sanae Takaichi, disolverá el parlamento el viernes y convocará elecciones nacionales appeared first on KRDO.

Por Simone McCarthy, CNN China registró su tasa de natalidad más baja de la historia en 2025, mientras su población se redujo por cuarto año consecutivo, profundizando un desafío demográfico que podría afectar a la segunda economía más grande del mundo durante décadas. La tasa cayó a 5,63 nacimientos por cada 1.000 personas en 2025, por debajo del mínimo de 6,39 por 1.000 de 2023, informó este lunes la Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas de China. La caída sugiere que el leve repunte de nacimientos en 2024 fue una excepción y no una reversión de la tendencia descendente constante desde 2016. La economía de China creció un 5 % en 2025, según informaron también las autoridades, en línea con el objetivo anual del Gobierno de “alrededor del 5 %”. La expansión anual fue impulsada por un auge de las exportaciones chinas que compensó las tensiones comerciales con Estados Unidos y el débil consumo interno. China acumuló un superávit comercial récord de US$ 1,2 billones el año pasado, a pesar de la guerra comercial intermitente del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, con la segunda economía más grande del mundo. Pero los datos también mostraron una desaceleración económica en el cuarto trimestre, con un crecimiento de solo el 4,5 % respecto al año anterior, el aumento trimestral más lento desde finales de 2022. Las autoridades destacaron la “notable estabilidad” de la economía, y el jefe de la oficina de estadísticas, Kang Yi, dijo que esto se logró a pesar de “una situación compleja y grave marcada por rápidos cambios en el entorno externo y crecientes desafíos internos”. “En 2025, la economía de China resistió la presión y mantuvo un progreso constante, logrando nuevos resultados en el desarrollo de alta calidad”, dijo Kang en una conferencia de prensa. A pesar del crecimiento económico anual en línea con los objetivos, las cifras de natalidad suponen un revés para los esfuerzos de Beijing por revertir el impacto de décadas de estricto control natal impuesto por el Estado bajo la ahora abandonada política del “hijo único” y convencer a más jóvenes de tener hijos. Con los 7,92 millones de bebés nacidos en China el año pasado superados por 11,31 millones de muertes, la población total disminuyó en 3,39 millones, según los datos. La población del país —aún la segunda más grande del mundo, detrás de la India— se sitúa en 1.400 millones para 2025. Los funcionarios consideran que los cambios demográficos de China representan un gran desafío, ya que la fuerza laboral del país se reduce y crece la población de adultos jubilados que cobran pensión. Años de estricto control poblacional bajo la política del “hijo único”, eliminada en 2016, han acelerado tendencias observadas en otros países como Japón y Corea del Sur, donde la caída de la natalidad se atribuye a mayores niveles educativos, cambios en la visión del matrimonio, rápida urbanización y el alto costo de criar hijos. El envejecimiento de la sociedad china se profundizó en 2025, con una población mayor de 60 años de 323 millones, lo que representa el 23 % de la población, un punto porcentual más que en 2024, según los datos. Según proyecciones de Naciones Unidas, la mitad de la población del país podría tener más de 60 años para 2100, una realidad con posibles implicaciones de gran alcance, no solo para la economía china sino también para sus ambiciones de rivalizar con Estados Unidos como potencia militar. El líder chino Xi Jinping ha invocado la necesidad de una “seguridad poblacional” y ha hecho del “desarrollo de una población de alta calidad” una prioridad nacional. También ha supervisado un impulso para automatizar y modernizar la potencia manufacturera del país, reemplazando mano de obra humana por robótica. El Gobierno central de China comenzó el año pasado a ofrecer bonificaciones anuales en efectivo a familias con hijos menores de tres años, modificó normas para agilizar el registro de matrimonios e inició un programa de preescolar público gratuito. Estas medidas se…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — In the end, the Supreme Court’s blockbuster case on whether President Donald Trump may temporarily fire members of the Federal Reserve may come down to a single, 26-word sentence. After repeatedly allowing Trump to remove leaders of other independent agencies, the conservative court seemed to draw a line around the central bank in a much-debated paragraph last spring, writing that the Fed — with its enormous sway over the economy — is shielded from political manipulation because it is “uniquely structured” with a “distinct historical tradition.” The scope of that unusual exception will be put to the test Wednesday when the court hears oral arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a Fed governor Trump attempted to fire over the summer following allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence. (Cook has denied any wrongdoing.) It is among the most important cases the court has heard on presidential power and the economy in years. “What the court has in front of it is the question of how much this carveout really is a barrier to presidential control of the Fed,” said Lev Menand, a law professor at Columbia University who published a book on the central bank in 2022. “This case is about a lot more than Lisa Cook. We’re going to find out what’s the relationship between the central bank and the president.” If Trump ultimately is successful in dismissing Cook, it would mark the first time a president has fired a Fed governor in the central bank’s 111-year history. The Trump administration, meanwhile, raised the stakes further this month by opening a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. That fight isn’t before the Supreme Court, but it is likely to sit in the back of the justices’ minds. Cook has warned that a decision for Trump would “eviscerate the independence” of the Fed and trigger “chaos and disruption” for US markets. Because of that, she and her attorneys have relied heavily on those 26 words the court wrote about the Fed last year. Trump is unlikely “to persuade the court to adopt his arguments,” Cook told the justices in a brief last year. “Especially after this court went out of its way to single out the Federal Reserve’s unique status and distinct history.” Still on the job For its part, the administration has focused on more technical points, asserting that Cook was entitled to no more review of the allegations than she received before Trump tried to remove her. “That the Federal Reserve Board plays a uniquely important role in the American economy only heightens the government’s and the public’s interest in ensuring that an ethically compromised member does not continue wielding its vast powers,” the Department of Justice told the Supreme Court last fall. Trump fired Cook in August after a member of his administration alleged she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence — a practice that can yield better loan terms. Other documents subsequently revealed that Cook sometimes declared the second property as a “vacation home.” Cook has called the charges “manufactured” and has noted that no court has yet reviewed them. Federal law gives the president the power to remove members of the Fed “for cause,” so one underlying question for the Supreme Court will be whether the allegations met the standard for that cause. Because firings at independent agencies are rare, the answer is not entirely clear. Following his return to the White House a year ago, Trump moved quickly to consolidate power within the executive branch. In that time, the Supreme Court has allowed the president to temporarily remove board members at the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board. But those lawsuits all involved a slightly different legal issue from the current Fed case. In those other disputes,…