The Panthers became the first team in NHL history with natural hat tricks in three consecutive games, after Brady Tkachuk had them in wins over Columbus on Tuesday and Vancouver on Thursday. Florida also became only the third team in 30 years to have a hat trick — of any variety — in three consecutive games.

With four hat tricks already this season — all coming in the last three games — Florida has matched its total from the last three regular seasons combined. Niko Mikkola and Sam Reinhart also scored for the Panthers, and Matthew Tkachuk had three assists.

Freddy Gaudreau, Shane Wright and Ryker Evans had goals for Seattle, while Kaapo Kakko and Berkly Catton both had two-assist games.

Verhaeghe got his first two goals of the night 1:11 apart late in the first period, then struck again with 13:58 left in the second to push Florida’s lead to 4-1. Bennett opened the scoring for Florida just 1:05 into the game, and he added goals in both the second and third periods.

Former Panthers forward Mackie Samoskevich made his return to Florida, after joining the Kraken this offseason.

Samoskevich scored 27 goals in 156 games with Florida over the last three seasons, getting his name on the Stanley Cup after the Panthers won their second consecutive title in 2025. Florida traded him to Seattle in June for a pair of picks, one of which was used that same day to help complete the Panthers’ trade with Ottawa for Brady Tkachuk.

Samoskevich had three goals and an assist for the Kraken in their first seven games.

Up next

Kraken: Host Detroit on Tuesday.

Panthers: Visit Ottawa on Wednesday.

Cientos de bomberos trabajaron toda la noche en un incendio que ardía en las colinas que se extienden entre las ciudades costeras de San Juan Capistrano y San Clemente, en el condado de Orange. En una colina panorámica popular entre los excursionistas, solo quedaba una bandera estadounidense entre el terreno calcinado.

El incendio Norte, de rápida propagación, se inició el viernes en San Clemente en medio de los vientos cálidos y fuertes de Santa Ana que lo empujaron hacia San Juan Capistrano, lo que provocó la evacuación de unos 16.000 residentes.

Fue uno de los distintos incendios ocurridos en la región, azotada por ráfagas secas y cálidas conocidas como vientos de Santa Ana, que soplan desde el interior hacia la costa. Los vientos más fuertes golpearon la zona el viernes por la tarde. Pero se esperaba que las condiciones que incrementan el riesgo de incendio se mantuvieran hasta la noche del sábado, con un aviso de calor vigente hasta las 8 de la noche del sábado en la costa de los condados de Orange y San Diego, informó el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

El incendio abarcaba poco menos de 2 kilómetros cuadrados (una milla cuadrada) y estaba contenido en un 5% el sábado, cuando los bomberos aún rociaban agua sobre los escombros humeantes de una vivienda que se quemó.

El incendio ha dañado o destruido al menos seis viviendas, algunas de ellas en laderas con amplias vistas al océano, indicaron las autoridades.

Algunas órdenes de evacuación se levantaron el sábado, pero las autoridades señalaron que la gran mayoría seguía vigente e instaron a la gente a mantenerse alejada de la zona.

“Tenemos una línea de fuego activa, tenemos viento y hay un aviso de calor vigente, así que todavía existe un riesgo; por eso pedimos a todos que cooperen, sigan nuestras recomendaciones y se mantengan fuera de esas áreas”, señaló Greg Balta, portavoz de la Autoridad de Bomberos del Condado de Orange.

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The youngest shooting survivor, 7-year-old Saylor Graham, is a feisty, vibrant fighter with a sweet nature whose story inspired other children, said Matt Sampson, executive director of Sparrow Clubs, where she was a member. She has a genetic disorder, usually uses a wheelchair and is non-verbal, but “she doesn’t even need words to connect with people,” he said.

“She’s just an amazing spirit who just immediately draws people to her and you just feel inspired by Saylor when you meet her,” Sampson said. “And she's always wearing these iconic glasses, whether they’re pink or they’re red. She’s just such a cutie.”

Teacher Becky Drury, 54, is recovering in a Bend hospital with wounds to her arm and hand but hopes to go home soon, said Zack Hall, a family friend who is serving as her family's spokesperson.

Three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and a teacher were killed at the Silver Rail Elementary school in Bend, Oregon, Thursday when a former student there, 16-year-old Griffin J. John II, entered a special needs classroom and began firing with a shotgun.

One teacher was grappling with John for the weapon when the father of two students came in and shot him to death. They were credited with stopping the rampage and saving many people's lives.

While police continued to investigate John's motive, distraught parents, teachers and others gathered outside the school Saturday to leave flowers, pray and cry.

Savannah Patton, a mother who has a 1st and 4th grader at the school, sat on the grass Saturday across from a memorial of flowers, stuffed animals and balloons, and wiped tears from her eyes.

She told an Associated Press reporter that the teacher who died, Megan Lambert, 25, had been a substitute for her daughter’s class last year.

Patton said she has struggled to explain what happened to her daughter, who asked her, “Mommy, why would someone want to take a gun and kill us at school?” Patton said it was a question she didn’t know how to answer.

Physical challenges won't keep her from “living with joy”

For several years, Saylor worked with students from Bend High School through the Sparrow Clubs, a volunteer group whose mission is to empower “kids to help kids in medical need” through kindness and community service, according to their website.

In a video on the Sparrow Clubs page, Saylor introduces herself, saying she loves watching Bluey and being around other kids, especially her brother. She said that while she is challenged by physical and cognitive issues, she can communicate with her eyes and a computer tablet.

“I prove every day that I’m a fighter who doesn’t give up," she wrote in the video. "Living with CASK-related challenges is full of unknowns, which can be very hard and scary for my whole family,” she said, “But it doesn’t keep me from smiling, laughing and living with joy!”

Some of the high school students who worked with Saylor said helping her gave them hope that there is still humanity in this world.

After the shooting, she was taken to a hospital in Portland. A Go-Fund-Me for her family has raised almost $400,000.

“We will not let her name be forgotten”

Devon Johnson visited the memorial outside the school Saturday morning. Her husband teaches at Bend High School, and she is a volleyball coach at High Desert Middle School, so they are close with many of the staff at the elementary school.

“It's just hard to take in,” she said. “I'm so glad to see that Bend is rallying and just wrapping their arms around this community, but it's going to take a long time to get through this.”

Heidi Wood, the director of the Central Oregon Volleyball Club where Lambert coached, said in a social media post that she was “an amazing coach, ”an amazing teacher” and “an amazing person who would do anything” for her students.

“To the shooter, she would have given you the shirt off her back,” Wood said. “But you didn’t give her a chance.”

Wood said that Lambert wouldn’t take her volleyball coaching pay in her first year so the money could be used for scholarships for players who couldn’t afford to play instead.

“That was her, and that is her,” Wood said. “We will carry on her love, her passion and we will not let her name be forgotten.”

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The Crimson Tide (5-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) have lost consecutive regular-season games for the first time since 2007 after also losing to No. 1 Georgia last week.

Tennessee has won three of its last five games against Alabama following a run of 15 consecutive defeats. All three of those wins came at home.

The Volunteers (6-1, 3-1) relied on a stout defense and the steady play of quarterback George MacIntyre (197 passing yards) to win their third straight game. Alabama had just 201 yards of total offense, including 54 rushing, turned the ball over four times and converted on just 2 of 13 third-down attempts.

“Great win,” Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said. “Defense, suffocating, elite performance. Really proud of those guys.”

The Vols were determined to contain quarterback Keelon Russell and succeeded. He threw for 147 yards and scored the only touchdown on a 19-yard run. Alabama lost two fumbles, and Russell threw two interceptions.

“It's a tough environment,” Russell said. “I wouldn't say it was the environment that shook me. It was just a lack of a plan that I had. Just wasn't playing my game today.”

Bishop had 64 rushing yards at halftime and 95 in the second half.

“At halftime, I told him he was going to have a big second half,” Heupel said. “He just smiled.”

Bishop was a key part of a fourth-quarter drive that lasted 9 minutes, 32 seconds and ended in his 5-yard touchdown run.

"(Bishop) is a special back," Heupel said. “Smart, tough, physical, great vision.”

MacIntyre completed 21 of 31 passes for 197 yards.

“He did a good job getting rid of the football and escaping pressure,” Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer said. “The key was they were able to run the football.”

Tennessee led 12-10 at halftime after both offenses struggled. The teams combined for five turnovers and were 3 of 17 in third-down conversions.

The Crimson Tide generated just 93 yards of offense in the first half while coming up empty on all seven third-down tries. The Vols knocked on the door throughout the half but could only manage four field goals by Cooper Ranvier.

The Takeaway

Alabama: Receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams missed the game dealing with several injuries, including a concussion. The team captain’s presence on the field adds another dimension that the Tennessee defense didn’t have to deal with.

Tennessee: Though the quarterback position is still very much a work in progress, it was good enough to pull out the victory. The Vols’ running game, led by Bishop, continues to be the effective part of the offense. Tennessee will likely emerge in the top 10 of the AP Top 25 and is a legitimate contender for a College Football Playoff spot.

Up next

Alabama: The Crimson Tide will be at home against Texas A&M on Saturday.

Tennessee: The Vols will be on the road against South Carolina on Saturday.

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The reigning champion Red Raiders (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) broke a school record with their eighth consecutive regular-season conference victory since a 26-22 loss last year at Arizona State. Their 12th home win in a row is one short of the longest streak in school history set in 1942.

Texas Tech led for good on Roberts' 24-yard pick-6, the fourth time in three games a Red Raiders linebacker returned an interception for a touchdown. That came three plays after Williams' fumble at the Sun Devils 2 on the 13th play of the game's opening possession.

The Red Raiders scored on the last seven drives of the first half, with four TDs and three field goals by Stone Harrington (31, 42 and 37 yards) for a 43-10 halftime lead. They already had 404 of their 502 total yards by then.

“That was something that was totally different,” coach Joey McGuire said. “We’ve been really slow starting and playing great in the second half. I was really excited the way we started. It wasn’t that we did anything different. We just executed better and played at a really high level.”

Reed Harris had his Big 12-leading eighth TD catch for Arizona State (3-3, 1-2) on the first drive after halftime, on a 2-yard pass from backup Mikey Keene.

Will Hammond, the starter for Tech in last year's game at Arizona State when Behren Morton was injured, completed 18 of 26 passes for 232 yards with an 11-yard TD to Coy Eakin. Hammond also had a 9-yard TD run. Kenny Johnson had seven catches for 120 yards.

“Will grew today as a quarterback,” McGuire said. “He did some things today, extremely composed, that I haven’t seen. You’ve seen flashes. But I haven’t seen a half like that out of him.”

Williams had only 11 carries and his two TD runs covered 100 yards. His 62-yard sprint down the left sideline put the Red Raiders up 21-0 in the first quarter, and he later added a 38-yard score when he went through a gap on the left side, got by one defender and then spun past another.

Texas Tech was without Williams' backfield mate, Cameron Dickey, who has a high ankle sprain.

“Everybody needs a J'Koby Williams in their life,” McGuire said. “He's just one of those guys that just lights up the room. He knew he had a lot on his shoulders not having Cam Dickey.”

The takeaway

Arizona State: While the loser in this game each of the past two seasons went on to win the Big 12 title, this Sun Devils team is reeling in conference play. They lost 55-19 at home to Baylor two weeks ago when they gave up 564 yards.

Texas Tech: The Red Raiders are 18-2 since the start of the 2025 season, and 17 of those wins are by double-digits. They are 41-18 in coach Joey McGuire's five seasons with a 26-5 mark at home.

Sun Devils QB switch

Keene took over after halftime and completed 25 of 34 passes for 256 yards and two TDs. Kentucky transfer Cutter Boley was 5-of-10 passing in the first half with two interceptions and 124 yards — 74 of those on a TD to Raiden Vines-Bright.

“I'm going to assess all personnel after I watch the tape on all phases,” coach Kenny Dillingham said. “But I was very, very happy with how Mikey went in, and I was very, very happy with Mikey's leadership and command and his veteran presence in that group.”

Up next

Arizona State is home against Kansas State next Saturday.

Texas Tech travels to Cincinnati.

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According to the affidavit, the Broward Sheriff’s Office Threat Management Unit was notified on Aug. 21 of two social media postings on Facebook using the vanity name “elijahdmanley,” which investigators believe belongs to Manley.

Deputies said the posts contained threats of physical harm against two people. The reporting person provided screenshots of the messages to investigators.

One of the posts stated: “I’m talking to yall. I saw yall comments earlier. I’m already pissed off, do not piss me off more. I swear to God, take me to war over this black woman and I promise yall I will burn y’all mf castle to the ground and anyone else in my way,” according to the affidavit.

The affidavit states that the dispute appeared to stem from a disagreement over a political candidate and the parties’ differing positions on that candidate.

Investigators also documented additional Facebook messages allegedly posted by Manley, including one that stated, “This is the type of shii that will make me snap.”

Another message targeted people who did not support state Rep. Angie Nixon, according to the affidavit.

“Any of you that don’t support Angie Nixon, I promise you, I will make your life a living hell to the very end,” the message stated. “You better lineup behind the Democratic nominee like we always do.”

A separate post stated: “Every democrat needs to get behind the democratic nominee for Senate. Anybody not doing that, I promise you I’m going to cut your f---ing head off, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit states that investigators spoke with the victims, whose name were redacted from the document. One of the victims told deputies the comments had “placed her in fear.” She also said the Facebook account associated with “elijahdmanley” had previously been logged into at her home during fundraising activities, according to investigators.

Although the posts had been removed by the time investigators documented the case, authorities said the messages were made Aug. 20 between 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

At least two people provided statements to deputies expressing concern for their safety, according to the affidavit.

Jail records show Manley was arrested and faces two counts of intimidation for allegedly writing or sending threats to kill or injure someone.

Manley was among several candidates who ran in the summer 2026 Democratic primary for Florida’s 20th Congressional District. He did not win the nomination.

The Broward State Attorney’s Office previously told Local 10 News that a judge issued an order outlining Manley’s bond conditions. The conditions include pretrial release, a prohibition on possessing weapons or ammunition, no contact with the victims and a prohibition on posting to social media.

The State Attorney’s Office also said it would not handle the case because of a conflict of interest.

In a statement to Local 10, the office said it had asked Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office to assign the case to another state attorney’s office because the listed victims had participated in charitable drives organized by the Broward State Attorney’s Office over the years.

Records show Manley was released from the Broward County Main Jail on Saturday morning after posting his $40,000 bond.

Manley’s counsel released a statement on Saturday regarding the situation:

“Mr. Manley has surrendered to authorities and has been released on conditions of bail. He denies the allegations. These are all allegations. The social media post in question was a discussion about politics that all parties had mutually engaged in over the course of weeks. We are confident that a trier of fact will see there is no intent to carry out any act of violence. It is unfortunate that our political differences have led some to weaponizing the police instead of using dialogue.”

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It’s the second straight week the top team in the AP Top 25 lost to an unranked foe after then-No. 1 Texas fell to Oklahoma last Saturday. Auburn’s win meant the team ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 lost in consecutive weeks for the first time since October 1990, according to ESPN.

Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton led a long game-tying touchdown drive in the fourth quarter but lost a fumble with 58 seconds remaining and the Bulldogs driving for a potential go-ahead field goal.

Stockton, who also threw two interceptions, fumbled on a run from the Auburn 46. Safety Sylvester Smith-Reed recovered for the Tigers at the Auburn 44. A roughing-the-passer penalty on Georgia's Gabe Harris Jr. helped set up McPherson's game-winning kick. Auburn players swarmed the field.

“It’s pretty neat,” said Auburn first-year coach Alex Golesh. “I’m really proud of our guys. Really proud of them.

“We’re going to build Auburn back to where everybody wants it, one game at a time. Just hang with us.”

Brown ran for 115 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries and added a scoring pass.

Georgia (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) saw its streaks of nine straight wins over Auburn and 53 consecutive wins over unranked teams come to an end in a loss that also will end the Bulldogs’ short one-week stay atop the AP Top 25.

Auburn (4-2, 2-2) beat the Bulldogs on the ground, outrushing Georgia 192-113. Tailback Nate Frazier returned from a rib injury to start for Georgia but was ineffective, gaining only 19 yards on nine carries.

Georgia trailed 24-14 before rallying with a 42-yard field goal by Peyton Woodring. Stockton led a tying touchdown drive that began at the Georgia 6 and covered 94 yards in 13 plays, capped by his 4-yard pass to London Humphreys.

Stockton’s two interceptions doubled his previous season total through six games. The Bulldogs also were hurt by mistakes, including three personal foul penalties.

“We helped them,” said Georgia coach Kirby Smart. “We had three turnovers and critical penalties. ... We had some really, really untimely, uncharacteristic and undisciplined penalties.”

After Georgia took a 14-0 lead, Auburn scored the next 24 points.

Georgia looked dominant in the opening minutes, even after Stockton had to leave after hitting the field helmet-first on the first play of the game. Ryan Puglisi completed each of his three passes, including a 41-yarder to Craig Dandridge Jr., before Dwight Phillips’ 15-yard scoring run.

Stockton returned for the next possession and threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to tight end Lawson Luckie for the 14-0 lead.

Auburn responded with a physical run-first attack led by the 235-pound Brown, who was effective both on designed runs and when taking off after dropping back to pass.

Another streak ends

Top-ranked teams had won 93 consecutive home games against unranked teams since LSU lost to Arkansas 50-48 in two overtimes on Nov. 23, 2007.

Another TD pass for Neptune

Auburn's first touchdown came on a trick play. Brown pitched to wide receiver Christian Neptune, who launched a 28-yard touchdown pass to Keshaun Singleton. Georgia defensive backs Ja'Marley Riddle and Ellis Robinson IV collided in the end zone. Riddle was the fill-in starter for KJ Bolden, who wore a walking boot on his right foot and did not play.

It was Neptune's second completion — and second touchdown pass — of the season.

Brown completed 15 of 26 passes for 150 yards and one touchdown.

Stinger for Stockton

Smart said Stockton was cleared after being checked for a concussion following the opening drive but also was seen by trainers following a hit to his throwing shoulder.

“He had a stinger in his shoulder that numbs your shoulder,” Smart said. “That happens a lot in football.”

Stockton completed 22 of 34 passes for 272 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

The takeaway

Auburn: The Tigers, coming off an open week, scored the final 17 points of the first half in an impressive answer to giving up the first 14 points. Brown threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Chas Nimrod, but his lead role in the Tigers’ running attack was most valuable. Brown wore down the Georgia defense with his physical runs. Jeremiah Cobb also was effective, running for 61 yards, as the running back complement to Brown’s lead role.

Georgia: One week after a much-anticipated 20-17 win at No. 6 Alabama, the Bulldogs appeared to fade in the second quarter as their defense was on the field for 45 plays in the first half. The failure to maintain momentum after taking a 14-0 lead on its first two possessions was due to more than fatigue, however.

A personal foul on a late hit on Brown by freshman linebacker Khamari Brooks was the big play in Auburn’s tying touchdown drive. Stockton looked at intended receiver Humphreys too long on a pass that was intercepted by Anquon Fegans later in the first half.

Up Next

Auburn plays No. 22 Louisiana State, which beat No. 16 Mississippi State 31-0 on Saturday, at Auburn next Saturday.

Georgia has an off week before playing Florida, which upset No. 7 Texas 27-24 on Saturday, on Oct. 31 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

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Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night on a blaze burning on the hills that straddle the coastal cities of San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente, in Orange County. On a scenic hill popular with hikers, only an American flag remained among the scorched terrain.

The fast-moving Norte Fire sparked Friday in San Clemente amid hot, strong Santa Ana winds that drove it into San Juan Capistrano, prompting the evacuation of about 16,000 residents.

It was one of several fires in the region hit by dry, warm gusts known as Santa Anas, which blow from the interior and toward the coast. The strongest winds hit the area Friday afternoon. But conditions that increase the fire risk were expected to last through Saturday night, with a heat advisory in effect until 8 p.m. Saturday on the Orange County and San Diego County coast, the National Weather Service said.

The blaze was just under a square mile (2 square kilometers) and 5% contained Saturday, when firefighters were still dousing water on smoldering debris from a home that burned.

The fire has damaged or destroyed at least six homes — some of them hillside homes with sweeping ocean views, officials said.

Some evacuation orders were lifted Saturday, but authorities said the large majority remained in effect and urged people to stay away from the area.

“We do have an active fire line, we do have wind, and we have a heat advisory in effect so there is still a risk so, we please ask everybody to please cooperate and heed our advice and stay out of those areas,” said Greg Balta, a spokesperson with the Orange County Fire Authority.

Hurts will miss at least four games and it's uncertain when he will be cleared to resume playing.

Hurts was initially ruled out Thursday for the Eagles' upcoming game against Carolina. The Eagles said then that Hurts was injured when he took a cleat to his calf area on Oct. 4 against the Los Angeles Rams.

Hurts informed the medical staff of the injury after practice on Oct. 8. The Super Bowl 59 MVP was back at practice the next day before the team left for London to play Jacksonville.

“Out of an abundance of caution, an ultrasound was performed on Saturday (Oct. 10) following the team’s flight to London and walk-through,” the Eagles said in Thursday's statement. “The ultrasound revealed a superficial blood clot. Our medical staff and doctors in London reviewed the results and concluded that activity and mobility were important and that Jalen could safely play. Doctors recommended a follow-up ultrasound within 72 hours of the game and the return flight to Philadelphia.”

Tanner McKee, a fourth-year pro who was drafted in the sixth round in 2023, will replace Hurts. He'll make his third career start for the Eagles (2-3) against the Panthers (2-2) on Sunday. McKee started in Week 18 in 2024 and 2025 after Philadelphia had locked up a playoff berth.

Rookie Cole Payton, a fifth-round pick, will be the backup. The Eagles signed QB Joe Milton off the Cowboys' practice squad on Friday.

Hurts hadn't missed more than two games in a season since becoming the full-time starter in 2021. He's led the Eagles to five straight playoff appearances, three NFC East titles and two Super Bowl appearances, beating the Chiefs 40-22 two years ago.

Hurts is the latest starter sidelined for Philadelphia, which has played without star running back Saquon Barkley, No. 1 receiver DeVonta Smith and offensive linemen Lane Johnson, Cam Jurgens and Landon Dickerson. Johnson retired last week and Jurgens was traded to Baltimore a day later. Smith is expected to return Sunday, but Dickerson will miss the game.

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La alerta estaba programada para expirar alrededor de las 5:15 p.m.

También estaba vigente un aviso de inundaciones para sectores de Deerfield Beach, al norte de Pompano Beach, el cual estaba programado para expirar alrededor de las 6 p.m.

Se instó a los residentes a tener precaución en las carreteras, ya que las lluvias y tormentas podrían provocar acumulaciones significativas de agua.

Las estimaciones de lluvia basadas en el radar se acercaban a las 5 pulgadas en los alrededores de Parkland y a las 6.5 pulgadas en Deerfield Beach.

Se esperaba que las lluvias y tormentas continuaran durante la tarde y hasta la noche. La actividad de tormentas sobre los Everglades podría volver a desarrollarse hacia los vecindarios locales, manteniendo el riesgo de inundaciones.

Las lluvias estaban asociadas con un frente frío que se extendía sobre la mitad sur del estado. La profunda humedad tropical que se desplazaba por la región estaba alimentando las lluvias y tormentas, permitiendo que produjeran fuertes precipitaciones.

Se esperaba que las condiciones inestables continuaran hasta el domingo.

Local 10 continuará proporcionando actualizaciones sobre las condiciones meteorológicas en desarrollo.

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The warning was set to expire around 5:15 p.m.

A flood advisory was also in effect for portions of Deerfield Beach north of Pompano Beach, with that advisory set to expire around 6 p.m.

Residents were urged to use caution on the roadways as the showers and storms could lead to significant standing water.

Radar-estimated rainfall totals were approaching 5 inches around Parkland and 6.5 inches in Deerfield Beach.

Showers and storms were expected to continue through the evening and into the night. Storm activity over the Everglades could build back into local neighborhoods, keeping the potential for flooding in place.

The rainfall was associated with a cold front draped across the southern half of the state. Deep tropical moisture moving across the region was fueling the showers and storms, allowing them to produce heavy rainfall.

Unsettled conditions were expected to continue into Sunday.

Local 10 will continue to provide updates on the developing weather conditions.

Two losses later, the Longhorns' playoff hopes look shaky, their best player had to leave the game with an injury, and their most famous player, quarterback Arch Manning, is in such a funk that head coach Steve Sarkisian hinted that his job could be in jeopardy.

“Everything is going to be evaluated," Sarkisian said after Texas lost 27-24 to unranked Florida on Saturday.

Sarkisian was pressed whether that includes Manning, who has struggled to live up to the expectations surrounding his famous last name ever since he arrived on campus in 2023 as the nation's top recruit.

“Everything," Sarkisian said, "means everything.”

Texas (4-1, 1-2 Southeastern Conference) has lost consecutive regular-season games for the first time since a 5-7 finish in 2021. That was Sarkisian's first year at Texas. Since then, the Longhorns have been to the College Football Playoff twice, and been ranked No. 1 at some point in each of the last three seasons.

But this season now suddenly feels like it's hanging by a thread. After dropping a bitter loss to unranked arch rival Oklahoma, the Longhorns were throttled by the worst defense in the Southeastern Conference and gave up a two-score lead at home.

Texas started this season No. 5 and jumped to No. 1 when Manning led a 21-point fourth-quarter comeback against top-ranked Ohio State. Few wins get better than that one and propelled Texas to the top.

Manning and the Texas offense have struggled ever since. He has four games of 200 yards passing or less, and his pass protection has broken down over the last three. He was sacked five times by Florida and coughed up the game-clinching fumble before the Gators ran out the clock.

Manning was asked about Sarkisian's evaluation comment.

“Everyone is evaluated every week,” Manning said after the loss to Florida. “That's how it is at a school like this ... Everyone's got to get better and it starts with me.”

Sarkisian said the problems go deeper than Manning's play.

A stagnant run game looked like it could break out against Florida when Raleek Brown scampered 32 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter. It was Texas' longest scoring run of the season.

Texas averaged just 3.3 yards per run the rest of the game. A defense that was so good over the first five games couldn't get off the field against Florida and quarterback Tramell Jones Jr., who was making his first career start.

Jones led a methodical Florida rally from a 17-3 deficit. He threw two short touchdown passes in the rally and scrambled for the clinching first down at the end of the game.

Topping it off, Texas now has a big injury concern with All-American edge rusher Colin Simmons. He fell to the turf clutching his lower right leg in the fourth quarter and needed help getting to the sideline. He eventually went to the locker room on a golf cart.

Simmons set a school record with 5 1/2 sacks earlier this season against Tennessee, and had another one in the second half against Florida. He appeared to be injured while engaged with a blocker, twisting his leg.

Sarkisian said he did not yet know the extent of the injury.

Texas hosts No. 9 Mississippi next Saturday. The Longhorns likely need to avoid a third loss this season if they hope to make the playoff.

“Men only die when they give up, when they don’t believe any more," Texas defensive tackle Hero Kanu said. "We still believe.”

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“Several of the individuals rescued were suffering from severe injuries consistent with shark bites, and the Coast Guard provided life-saving first aid while en route (to) San Diego,” said the agency in a statement on Saturday.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy are searching the waters using multiple aircraft and boats, along with assistance from the Mexican Navy. An additional helicopter will be deployed later today, according to the Coast Guard.

The boat capsized in an area frequented by smugglers and did not happen in U.S. waters, according to the Coast Guard. Survivors told officials there were 27 people on board.

“We were able to help, and that’s why we launched our assets," said Petty Officer Charlie Valor on Saturday.

The region is popular with fishing and leisure boats, but fatal attempts to transport migrants from Mexico to the U.S. have occurred in the past.

The Mexican consulate in San Diego said all those rescued were Mexican nationals. The Coast Guard said Customs and Border Protection was investigating and interviewing the survivors, but the agency did not immediately respond to requests for updates.

If survivors were witnesses to a crime, they may be eligible for humanitarian parole and permitted to remain in the country for a limited period.

Rescuers were searching the area with helicopters, a fixed-wing plane, a cutter and a Navy combat ship on Saturday. The efforts remain ongoing.

Mayday call around 1 a.m.

A mayday call was transmitted from someone on the boat around 1 a.m. Friday, said Coast Guard Lt. Santiago Tamburini. A rescue helicopter reached the site about two hours later. It took about 90 minutes for the crew, which included a rescue swimmer, to pull the 16 people from the water, Tamburini said.

The boat went down about 140 miles (225 kilometers) west of Ensenada, Mexico. There have been several episodes where migrant vessels capsized en route to California in recent years.

In May of 2025, at least three people died when a boat flipped off the coast about 35 miles (56 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2023, eight people were killed in one of the deadliest maritime smuggling accidents off the U.S. coast, when two boats approached a San Diego beach in heavy fog and one capsized in the surf.

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Engelbert announced last month that she'd retire at the end of the calendar year.

“I met with the search firm and been getting updates periodically as they start to reach out to potential candidates,” Engelbert said before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday. “I had candidates that I submitted, a lot of us did, and a lot of people have called. So the good news is, there’s people who really want to take on this role, which I think is great.”

Engelbert described traits that would help her successor.

“It's like a multi-dimensional role. You have to have very thick skin,” Engelbert said. “So I say that’s one characteristic you have to have. And, you have to have confidence that we can continue this growth trajectory and confidence and building relationships with players and agents and the Board of Governors, the owners and the stakeholders. so it is a multi-dimensional role.”

Engelbert is the second-longest tenured WNBA president or commissioner, and she helped negotiate a lucrative collective bargaining agreement this past spring that resulted in the league’s first set of million-dollar player salaries.

That growth has been accompanied by a series of headline-grabbing distractions for the league under her leadership, especially in the past year. She had a strained relationship with the players during the contract negotiations, and the 2026 season has been dominated by controversies surrounding officiating and the transgender debate along with a large amounts of social media backlash against WNBA participants.

Engelbert didn't address any of those in her final state-of-the-league speech other than to say that the league needs to continue to support the players against the social media vitriol.

“To continue to condemn those that are using behind a keyboard to spew vitriol and hate and racism and misogyny at our players continues to be unacceptable,” Engelbert said.

“We obviously have worked on the cyber side of that. We worked on the physical security side of that by putting more, physical security around our players and arenas outside of arenas as they travel and things like that, which, again, none of that existed a few years ago. So we’ve made those investments.”

The WNBA has grown at an exponential rate during Engelbert’s tenure as commissioner, with record TV ratings, strong attendance, a new long-term media rights deal and expansion to 18 teams by the end of the decade.

There were 51 telecasts this year with more than one million viewers, compared to 19 last season. More than 320 million hours of WNBA basketball were watched by fans around the world. A total of 3.8 million fans attended games during the regular season — the most in league history. More than 67% of the games were sold out.

Officials replay center

Engelbert said that the league, along with the NBA, completed a multi-million dollar renovation in New Jersey to the official replay center. It will be fully operational next season. The league is working to upgrade techonology and video infrastructure at arenas to help the process.

“As I said at All-Star, this represents one of the largest investments we've made in basketball operations,” said Engelbert, who first announced the new replay center at this year's All-Star Game.

On future of league internationally

Engelbert said that people in 240 countries and territories around the world watched the WNBA as viewership was up more than 200% on Amazon this past season.

“Turn those players into global superstars is on the horizon,” Engelbert said.

Her legacy

Engelbert was proud of all she's accomplished in her seven-year plus tenure as commissioner, but stopped short of wanting to discuss her own mark on the league.

“Someone else can write legacy in the history books will write that. But I’m just proud of the team we’ve built,” Engelbert said.

She's increased the amount of people in the league office which has helped the overall growth of the WNBA.

“It’s really about people and investment and I’d say, you know, the one thing I did, I think we had 12 people — and it’s not even about the number — we’re close to 100 now. It was the capabilities we built. So I’d say that’s what we did. You grow a business by hiring great people who have capabilities to take your weaknesses and turn them into strengths, to drive a business, to drive growth.”

Engelbert added a chief growth officer and chief marketing officer and gave them resources to succeed.

"Those two leaders in our organization today have 30 to 40 people working for them now. There was zero back then, so it’s really a great story of how you build a business that quite frankly, when I came in was struggling, financially struggling with digital. So we had no social, we had no digital.”

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Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell are still lurking, too.

But it remains to be seen if anyone can catch up to the steady excellence of Kyle Larson as the “Chase” heads to Phoenix Raceway on Sunday.

Larson, who is looking for his third championship overall, leads regular-season champion Hamlin by 49 points with four races remaining. His average finish of 2.83 is the best pace over the first six postseason races since the Chase was introduced in 2004 and he already has two postseason victories and two second-place finishes.

Now Larson heads to a track where he's had consistent success — even though he views Phoenix Raceway with more trepidation than one might expect. He won in Phoenix back in 2021, has 12 top-five finishes over 24 starts and finished third in the spring race.

Larson had a disappointing qualifying run on Saturday and will start 22nd. Ryan Blaney won the pole and Joey Logano was second to give Team Penske the front row.

“It's just not been a historically good track for us from start to finish,” Larson said. “We're able to finish well, but I think that has a lot to do with team execution. We've done that time and time again here. I feel like our average (speed) ranking, we're probably an eighth-to 13th-place car most times. We've had a couple decent ones, but we never come here and we're like the fastest.”

It's been a dominant run for the Hendrick Motorsports driver, reminiscent of Jimmie Johnson's peak in the 2000s. He finished sixth last week in Charlotte, which was his worst finish of the postseason.

Bell is currently in third place in the standings, 51 points behind Larson. Briscoe's two straight wins have pushed him into fourth place, 65 points back. Blaney (85 points back), Logano (92) and Tyler Reddick (114) are in spots five through seven.

Hamlin and Joe Gibbs Racing are still trying to regain the form that allowed him to dominate during the regular season. The No. 11 Toyota finished fifth last week in Charlotte, which was his second-best performance of the postseason.

“No desperation, but the gap needs to close, starting now,” Hamlin said. "I think that's probably pretty accurate with our position. Just to get back on our front foot. You've got to start with winning the day and then go from there.

“But ultimately, with the races winding down, we've got to start chopping into this.”

Logano, Blaney have had success at Phoenix

Logano and Blaney are among the drivers hoping that past success in the desert can help spark a rally.

Logano is a four-time winner at Phoenix Raceway while Blaney has won the past two races at the mile, tri-oval track. He can become the third driver to win three consecutive races in Phoenix, joining Kevin Harvick, who won four straight from 2013 to 2015 and Johnson, who won three in a row in 2007 and 2008.

Blaney said that past success doesn't predict the future and he's always trying to grow, even at a track where he's been so good.

“You're always having to get better — from a car side and a driver side,” Blaney said. “There's things you do poorly even if you win the race. At least I look at it like — ‘I could have done better here. I could have done a better job with my approach or my mindset.’”

Briscoe tries to stay hot

Briscoe's on a roll after wins in Las Vegas and Charlotte, but Phoenix hasn't been his best track in recent years.

He did get his first career win in Phoenix back in 2022, but has struggled lately at the track, with four straight finishes of 18th or worse, with an average of 30th place. Most of the problems have been related to blown tires, but Briscoe believes his Joe Gibbs Racing team has figured out some answers.

“I know that we've brought a different approach — at least that's the plan,” Briscoe said. “So we'll find out here in a little bit if that plan worked out.”

Late-race drama in the desert

Phoenix Raceway is known for its dogleg section that features a widely-used shortcut option, particularly during restarts and late-race situations.

That's produced several memorable finishes: Both of last year's races had a last-lap pass for the win and 11 races have ended in overtime, which is third most among all tracks behind Daytona and Talladega.

What’s up next?

After Phoenix, the Cup series heads to Talladega and Martinsville before the season finale Nov. 8 at Homestead-Miami.

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Sayin threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Jeremiah Smith on fourth-and-1 early in the fourth quarter before leaving, and the Buckeyes held on Saturday for a 19-15 victory over No. 5 Indiana when wide receiver Nick Marsh's left foot came down out of bounds on what would have been the go-ahead score for the Hoosiers with 1:02 to go.

The defending national champions had won 22 straight overall and 19 in a row at home, the two longest active streaks in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The Buckeyes (6-1, 4-0 Big Ten) also got a measure of revenge for last December's loss to the Hoosiers in the league's title game.

“I don’t have a ton of details, but it looks like Julian will be out several weeks,” said Buckeyes coach Ryan Day, who described the game as wild and hard to put into words. “When the ball was in the air (to Marsh), I started thinking about getting a 2-minute drill ready to go.”

Instead, the Buckeyes simply ran out the clock.

But the Hoosiers (6-1, 3-1 Big Ten) sure didn't go down easily.

After Smith's score gave the Buckeyes a 19-7 lead, Josh Hoover returned from a right arm injury, led the Hoosiers down the field and capped the 75-yard drive with a 19-yard TD pass to Marsh and a 2-point conversion pass to Turbo Richard to cut the deficit to 19-15 with 10:30 left.

Hoover got one last chance after Sayin's departure and quickly got the Hoosiers into position for a second straight fourth-quarter comeback. But as the wide open Marsh sprinted toward the front corner of the end zone for the catch, his left foot came down on the white paint. Marsh knew it, putting his hands on his helmet as the crowd roared and the stadium fireworks went off.

Marsh did not speak to reporters following the game.

Indiana coach Curt Cignetti suffered his first home loss in three seasons in the first top five game ever played at Memorial Stadium.

“That was our blitz check,” Cignetti said. “We had it, we just didn't make it happen. This one is a tough one to swallow.”

While the Buckeyes were relieved to hang on, they weren't celebrating long with Sayin hurting.

“We’ll regroup,” Day said, referring to who will lead the Buckeyes in Sayin’s absence. “This is bigger than one person. Obviously, you don’t want to see him get hurt. If Luke is in there, we may have to do things a little differently, but we’ve got a bye week to put our heads together and figure that out.”

While the game lived up to the hype, the quarterbacks did not.

Sayin was 15 of 29 for 235 yards with two interceptions for the second straight week before getting hurt. Hoover was 20 of 40 for 296 yards with one TD and one lost fumble, his first turnover of the year. Charlie Becker caught nine passes for 165 yards.

Smith also had an uncharacteristic day, catching only four passes for 68 yards.

“We remember what happened Dec. 6,” Smith said, referring to the Big Ten title game. “And we knew we had to come out here and win today.”

The Takeaway

Ohio State: It's unclear what will happen next for the Buckeyes. Freshman Luke Fahey finished the game but looked sped up, at times, in his first significant action. The Buckeyes still managed to snap a three-game losing streak against top 10 foes. Whether they'll move up in the AP Top 25 will depend on what voters think about the quarterback situation.

Indiana: The Hoosiers played uncharacteristically poorly Saturday. After losing no fumbles in 1,487 snaps since the 2025 season opener, they lost two early in the third quarter. They held Smith largely in check but still gave up the one score. They certainly will fall in the rankings, the question is how far.

A champions' ride

Cignetti drove the pace car in May's Indianapolis 500 and on Saturday five-time IndyCar champ Alex Palou returned the favor by replacing Hoosier the Bison in the pregame IndyCar drive.

That tradition began this season, and while Cignetti bemoaned the fact Indiana missed out on so many opportunities, the Hoosiers can take a message from the Spaniard's dominant six-season run. Palou didn't win every race this year as he defended his title.

“The sun comes up tomorrow and we've got to get ready for Michigan,” Cignetti said.

Up next

Ohio State: Has a well-timed bye week before visiting No. 19 Southern California on Oct. 31.

Indiana: Will try to win two straight over Michigan for the first time since 1958-59 when it heads to Ann Arbor next weekend.

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Trump, who spoke in the city of Highland Heights to boost Republican candidates including Ed Gallrein for the U.S. House, was riffing on his decision to change how the U.S. government refers to the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

“I don’t think I could have done this in my first term. This is a much more powerful term,” Trump said. “Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now, they kiss my ass."

“Well, I also changed the name of a lake in Canada to the Lake America," he continued, referring to Lake Ontario.

Trump's self-proclaimed power is set against voter frustration with how he's wielded it, with tariffs and the Iran war driving up prices and more Americans seeing the president looking out for his own interests and not those of the country.

With control of both chambers of Congress on the line, and with it the prospects of Democratic-led investigations of his administration should they win, Trump has put himself at the fore for voters, asking them to “pretend that I’m on the ballot.” But Republicans privately worry that growing disapproval of his administration is a liability.

Trump nominated one of his personal lawyers to serve as attorney general, ordered military strikes on accused drug smuggling boats, is trying to put his name on the Kennedy Center, and has enriched himself and his family while he's been in office.

While meandering through topics onstage in Kentucky, Trump touched on gas prices, saying that the war with Iran was going to end soon — an assertion he's made many times over the course of the nearly eight-month conflict — and that gas prices will drop to lower than previously. The crowd cheered.

Facing the electoral headwinds, Trump is working to paint a portentous picture of Democrats in the final weeks before the midterms. That includes the claim that if his opposing party wins, the U.S. will “have a depression,” and that the Democratic platform includes abolishing the U.S. Senate and U.S. Supreme Court.

Those are not on the Democratic Party's platform. But Trump is trying to lump them in with the Democratic Socialists of America, which have had a few candidates win in this year's primary elections.

Trump also rehashed his dubious promise that if Republicans win the House and the Senate then every adult American would get $5,000. That would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, while exacerbating the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit.

Trump added a new, seemingly conditional promise for Kentucky. That if Republicans win, he said, the Department of Defense would invest in revitalizing a drug manufacturing facility in the state.

The president pulled Gallrein on stage, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House district who beat Rep. Thomas Massie in the GOP primary. Massie had aggravated Trump by pushing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and opposing the Iran war, and the president responded by successfully backing Gallrein in the party's primary.

Massie, however, still has a following for standing on his staunchly conservative principles, even when it meant voting against his own party. When Trump lashed out at Massie as a “jerk” and “loser” and trumpeted Gallrein as a more loyal replacement, the crowd’s response was tepid, with about half the arena clapping at Trump’s barbs and other half silent.

The shooting happened around 12:20 p.m. at the station at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street, a short walk from several Broadway theaters and Carnegie Hall.

Police found an adult man with a gunshot wound to his chest. A police spokesperson said the shooting took place on the E train platform. The dispute involved two or three men.

Emergency crews responded and transported the victim to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

No arrests were immediately reported. Trains that normally stop at that station were bypassing the area as a police investigation took place.

Violent crime has been dropping steadily in New York City since a spike during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and deadly violence inside the subway system remains rare, despite the trains being used by millions of people each day.

Through mid-October, the city was on pace to have its lowest number of killings in decades, with reported homicides down 20% from the same point last year.

Florida (5-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) had risen as high as No. 8 after a 4-0 start under first-year coach Jon Sumrall before consecutive blowout losses, but delivered what could be a season-saving victory.

The Gators earned the program's first road win at a top-10 opponent since 2012. After the game, some Florida players did the “Gator Chomp” or flashed the upside down “hook'em horns” hand sign to their cheering fans as they left the field.

“We kept fighting. We didn’t do that the past couple of weeks, to be honest with you. When things got tough, we flinched the last couple weeks,” Sumrall said. "Our team grew today ... because we fought.”

The Florida defense, ranked last the Southeastern Conference, shut down quarterback Arch Manning and the Longhorns offense, holding Texas (4-2, 1-2) under 300 yards. They sacked Manning five times and the last one by Myles Graham forced a fumble on Texas' final possession.

Jones started in place of the injured Aaron Philo and after a slow start led a methodical Gators offense that rallied from a 17-3 deficit in the second quarter.

“I didn’t take it any bigger than it was," Jones said. “It feels great, but this is just the start. It’s not over.”

His first touchdown pass cut the Texas lead to 17-10 with 18 seconds left in second quarter. The second capped a 15-play drive that chewed up eight minutes of the third.

“We didn’t play good football today. Kind of bled out," Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said. "They controlled the ball in the second half and our inability to convert on short yardage.”

A 28-yard field goal by Patrick Durkin gave Florida its first lead before Baugh broke outside for an 11-yard touchdown.

Texas quickly answered on Manning's 9-yard touchdown pass to Cam Coleman. That score came after Manning avoided a sack on a fourth down and found Emmett Mosley V for 62 yards to set up the TD pass.

Texas led 17-3 in the second quarter after Ryan Niblett returned a punt 63 yards for a touchdown, the third of his career.

The Takeaway

Florida: The Gators had looked awful on defense the previous two games but the unit was excellent against Texas after the first two drives. They limited Texas' big play receivers and allowed only one first down on the Longhorns' first three drives of the second half as the Gators took the lead.

Texas: The Longhorns have lots of problems. Manning struggled for the fourth consecutive game. The defense, one of the best in the country, gave up scoring drives of 15 and 14 plays in the second half. And star edge rusher Colin Simmons left the game in the fourth with an apparent ankle injury.

“It’s not great right now,” Manning said. “Coming off two losses in a row, it stings.”

Up next

Florida plays at No. 1 Georgia on Oct. 31.

Texas hosts No. 9 Mississippi on Oct. 24.

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Según la declaración jurada, la Unidad de Gestión de Amenazas de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward fue notificada el 21 de agosto sobre dos publicaciones en Facebook realizadas desde una cuenta con el nombre de usuario “elijahdmanley”, que los investigadores creen que pertenece a Manley.

Los agentes indicaron que las publicaciones contenían amenazas de causar daño físico a dos personas. La persona que presentó la denuncia proporcionó a los investigadores capturas de pantalla de los mensajes.

Una de las publicaciones decía: “Les estoy hablando a ustedes. Vi sus comentarios anteriormente. Ya estoy bastante enojado, no me hagan enojar más. Lo juro por Dios, si me llevan a una guerra por esta mujer negra, les prometo que quemaré su maldito castillo hasta los cimientos y a cualquiera que se interponga en mi camino”, según la declaración jurada.

La declaración jurada señala que la disputa aparentemente surgió de un desacuerdo sobre un candidato político y las diferentes posturas de las partes respecto a ese candidato.

Los investigadores también documentaron mensajes adicionales de Facebook presuntamente publicados por Manley, incluido uno que decía: “Este es el tipo de cosas que harán que pierda el control”.

Otro mensaje estaba dirigido a personas que no apoyaban a la representante estatal Angie Nixon, según la declaración jurada.

“A cualquiera de ustedes que no apoye a Angie Nixon, les prometo que les haré la vida un verdadero infierno hasta el final”, decía el mensaje. “Más les vale ponerse detrás de la candidata demócrata, como siempre lo hacemos”.

Otra publicación decía: “Todos los demócratas deben apoyar a la candidata demócrata al Senado. Cualquiera que no lo haga, les prometo que le cortaré la maldita cabeza”, según la declaración jurada.

La declaración jurada indica que los investigadores hablaron con las víctimas, cuyos nombres fueron censurados en el documento. Una de las víctimas dijo a los agentes que los comentarios le habían “provocado temor”. También afirmó que anteriormente se había iniciado sesión en la cuenta de Facebook asociada con “elijahdmanley” desde su vivienda durante actividades de recaudación de fondos, según los investigadores.

Aunque las publicaciones habían sido eliminadas cuando los investigadores documentaron el caso, las autoridades indicaron que los mensajes fueron publicados el 20 de agosto, entre las 8 p.m. y las 9:30 p.m.

Al menos dos personas proporcionaron declaraciones a los agentes en las que expresaron preocupación por su seguridad, según la declaración jurada.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Manley fue arrestado y enfrenta dos cargos de intimidación por presuntamente escribir o enviar amenazas de muerte o de causar lesiones a alguien.

Manley estuvo entre varios candidatos que participaron en las elecciones primarias demócratas del verano de 2026 por el Distrito Congresional 20 de Florida. No consiguió la nominación.

La Fiscalía Estatal de Broward informó anteriormente a Local 10 News que un juez emitió una orden en la que estableció las condiciones de la fianza de Manley. Estas incluyen la libertad provisional antes del juicio, la prohibición de poseer armas o municiones, no tener contacto con las víctimas y la prohibición de publicar contenido en redes sociales.

La Fiscalía Estatal también indicó que no se encargará del caso debido a un conflicto de intereses.

En un comunicado enviado a Local 10, la fiscalía señaló que había solicitado a la oficina del gobernador Ron DeSantis que asignara el caso a otra fiscalía estatal, debido a que las víctimas mencionadas habían participado en campañas benéficas organizadas por la Fiscalía Estatal de Broward a lo largo de los años.

Los registros muestran que Manley fue liberado de la cárcel principal del condado Broward la mañana del sábado después de pagar una fianza de $40,000 USD.

Local 10 no ha podido encontrar ni verificar de manera independiente la publicación en redes sociales que Manley está acusado de escribir.

Manley fue uno de varios candidatos que participaron en las elecciones del verano de 2026 para convertirse en el candidato demócrata por el Distrito Congresional 20 de Florida. No ganó la contienda.

La Fiscalía Estatal de Broward informó a Local 10 que un juez emitió una orden el jueves en la que estableció las condiciones de la fianza de Manley. Estas incluyen la libertad provisional bajo condiciones estándar, la prohibición de poseer armas o municiones, no tener contacto con las víctimas y la prohibición de publicar contenido en redes sociales.

La fiscalía también confirmó que no se encargará del caso de Manley debido a un conflicto de intereses.

En un comunicado enviado a Local 10, la fiscalía indicó que solicitó a la oficina del gobernador que asignara el caso a otra fiscalía estatal, debido a que las víctimas mencionadas han participado en varias campañas benéficas organizadas por la Fiscalía Estatal de Broward a lo largo de los años.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Manley pagó una fianza de $40,000 USD. Hasta la mañana del sábado, permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward.

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Local 10 has not been able to find or independently verify the social media post Manley is accused of writing.

Manley was one of several candidates who ran in summer 2026 to become the Democratic nominee for Florida’s 20th Congressional District. He did not win the race.

The Broward State Attorney’s Office told Local 10 that a judge issued an order Thursday outlining Manley’s bond conditions. They include standard pretrial release, no possession of weapons or ammunition, no contact with the victims and a prohibition on posting to social media.

The office also confirmed it will not handle Manley’s case because of a conflict of interest.

In a statement to Local 10, the office said it requested that the governor’s office assign the case to another state attorney’s office because the listed victims have participated in several charitable drives organized by the Broward State Attorney’s Office over the years.

Records show Manley was released from jail on Saturday morning after posting his $40,000 bond.

They believe in each other to make the play in the biggest of moments.

Williams converted two free throws with 1:18 left to put Golden State ahead, two more with 4.1 seconds to go on the way to scoring 26 points while facing constant pressure from Atlanta's stingy defense, and the Valkyries held off the Dream 68-64 in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday.

“Even though we were down with a few minutes left I think we had the game right where we wanted it because it just came down to getting stops,” Williams said. “That's been our bread and butter all season. That's why we harp on it so much because we've built great defensive habits for these moments.”

It was the first loss all postseason for Atlanta, snapping a 10-game winning streak overall. And coach Karl Smesko was ready to get right back to work watching film to figure out what to do better in Game 2. The Dream are still yet to win a finals game, swept in each of their previous three trips.

“We were right there, right there, so that's why it hurts a little bit but it also motivates us,” he said. “We know what we're capable of doing so we'll have one day to get ourselves as ready as possible and then I think we'll play even better.”

Finding a way to slow down Williams — and all of her capable supporting cast — is going to be a challenge.

After a quiet first quarter, she scored 16 of her points in the second and no other Valkyries finished in double figures as they shot 32.1% and 7 of 33 from 3-point range.

“We always knew we were going to find a way somehow,” Williams said on the microphone postgame as fans chanted “Gabby! Gabby!”

Rhyne Howard missed a 3-point try with 1:09 left but Angel Reese made a steal moments later. Naz Hillmon also missed from deep. Kiah Stokes gave the Dream another chance she missed the first of two free throws with 23.8 seconds left. Then Allisha Gray couldn't knock down a 3 with 9 seconds left.

Williams converted two free throws with just over 4 seconds left to seal it.

Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is Monday night back at Chase Center, where the ear-piercing noise from a raucous “Ballhalla” crowd made for the exact hostile environment Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase requested from the home fans.

One of these two franchises will capture its first championship, and if the first game is any indication it’s going to be an all-out defensive fight.

Gray returned from injury to score 19 points, while Reese added 14 points and 12 rebounds. Jordin Canada contributed eight points, seven assists and five rebounds for the Dream, hitting a timely 13-foot jumper with 4:23 remaining.

Williams made a driving layup with 3:22 to play that pulled Golden State within 62-61. Canada banged awkwardly into Williams’ knee on a box out during her late free throws and the Valkyries star was being cared for by an athletic trainer on the bench in the waning moments.

“I'm OK, it was a long, physical game,” she said afterward.

Gray was in the starting lineup and had gone through a light practice Friday after missing the last two games of Atlanta’s sweep of the New York Liberty in the best-of-three semifinal series with an injured left ring finger — on her shooting hand.

Golden State guard Tiffany Hayes hit her face hard on the floor trying to make a steal in the closing minutes and was down with 2:38 remaining before walking off the court on her own to the locker room.

Nakase said “so far” her indication was Hayes would be good for Game 2, “so I'll know when the medical tells me.” She was undergoing her normal treatment.

The 37-year-old Hayes spent her first 10 WNBA seasons with Atlanta.

“It was a physical game, we understand, it's playoffs, that's just part of it. Tip's OK, I just gave her a little hug," Nakase said. “I'll tell you what, she's a fighter. I don't think there's someone more, maybe our whole team, but she wants this. And I can I say I'm going to put a little bit more energy tonight in film because I want to win this for Tip.”

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The officials also said Pakistani troops killed an unspecified number of Pakistani Taliban militants trying to cross into Pakistan from a remote area of eastern Afghanistan during the clashes.

The fighting lasted for hours along the border in Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to three Pakistani security officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

There was no immediate comment from Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated under repeated border clashes and Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan this year, deepening a longstanding dispute over militant activity.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in September that it had documented more than 1,100 civilian deaths and injuries from cross-border violence in Afghanistan this year.

Militant violence has surged in Pakistan in recent months, with much of it blamed on the Pakistani Taliban, who are formerly known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, which is separate from but closely allied with the Afghan Taliban. Pakistan says many TTP leaders and insurgents have found sanctuary in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power there in 2021, an allegation Kabul denies.

Pakistani authorities say more than 2,800 militant attacks since January have killed 3,000 people across Pakistan, mainly in the northwest and the southwestern province of Balochistan.

The hundreds of planned events were billed as nonpartisan, though they sought to build on nearly two years’ worth of No Kings marches and demonstrations by people upset with Trump’s presidency.

A band entertained what appeared to be a few hundred people in caps and coats at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Despite the chilly weather, many in the crowd danced to the tunes. “VOTE EARLY” and “HANDS OFF MY VOTE!” were among the many signs held aloft.

At an Atlanta rally, City Councilman Michael Julian Bond told the crowd to urge others to vote ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

“The Constitution gives you one power, right? That is the power to vote. Are you gonna use that power?” he said.

“You don't see Superman giving up his power,” Bond continued. “You don't see Black Panther giving up his power. You don't see Wonder Woman giving up her magic lasso. So why would you give up your right, your power, your obligation to vote? Be a super hero, use your power. Go to the polls and vote.”

Trump has long been suspicious of mail voting and has claimed without evidence that voting fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election.

His administration sued California election officials Thursday, asking a judge to bar the state from counting mail-in ballots for the midterm elections from people whom the federal government has identified as “likely” noncitizens until their immigration status can be confirmed.

On Friday the Justice Department warned that local officials who process and tabulate ballots submitted by suspected noncitizen voters are putting themselves at risk of criminal investigation and potential prosecution.

Earlier that day Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla of California, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Dick Durbin of Illinois wrote to Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding that the Justice Department commit to not seizing ballots or other election materials before the midterm elections are certified.

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Caitlin Pechin of the Humane Society joined Local 10’s “Adopt a Pet” segment to introduce the playful pair and discuss the shelter’s available pets. Maggie and Cowboy were among the animals transferred to the shelter as part of an effort to help a shelter in the Florida Panhandle affected by a hurricane. The Humane Society transferred more than 50 pets.

The shelter currently has cats and kittens of various ages, sizes and breeds available for adoption.

Pechin reminded prospective adopters that while kittens are playful and entertaining, adopting a cat is a long-term commitment. Cats can live more than 20 years and require proper care, training, enrichment and financial support.

Those interested in adopting can visit Humanebroward.com to complete a pre-adoption application and meet available pets. The shelter is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Pechin also encouraged people considering adopting a kitten to consider adopting two, as having a companion can help keep them entertained and ease their transition into a new home.

Caitlin Pechin, de la Sociedad Protectora de Animales, participó en el segmento “Adopt a Pet” de Local 10 para presentar a la juguetona pareja y hablar sobre las mascotas disponibles en el refugio. Maggie y Cowboy estuvieron entre los animales trasladados al refugio como parte de un esfuerzo para ayudar a un refugio del noroeste de Florida afectado por un huracán. La Sociedad Protectora de Animales trasladó a más de 50 mascotas.

El refugio cuenta actualmente con gatos y gatitos de diferentes edades, tamaños y razas disponibles para adopción.

Pechin recordó a las personas interesadas en adoptar que, aunque los gatitos son juguetones y entretenidos, adoptar un gato es un compromiso a largo plazo. Los gatos pueden vivir más de 20 años y requieren cuidados adecuados, entrenamiento, estimulación y apoyo económico.

Las personas interesadas en adoptar pueden visitar Humanebroward.com para completar una solicitud previa de adopción y conocer a las mascotas disponibles. El refugio está abierto los siete días de la semana, de 11 a.m. a 6 p.m.

Pechin también alentó a quienes estén considerando adoptar un gatito a que consideren adoptar dos, ya que tener un compañero puede ayudar a mantenerlos entretenidos y facilitar su adaptación a un nuevo hogar.

Steven Hamilton of Winter Garden was standing on the shore of Lake Apopka at Dr. Bradford Memorial Park, 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Orlando, when he was attacked around 5 p.m., the Winter Garden Police Department said.

The presence of other active alligators in the water complicated any chance of rescuing Hamilton, whose body was recovered about two hours later, Winter Garden Fire Chief Jose Gainza told FOX35.

Police Capt. Michael Mason said authorities were not alerted in advance that an alligator was near the lake's shore, possibly because it “has tons of alligators in it.” He said police launched a joint investigation with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, whose trappers captured and killed the alligator.

Mason reminded people to be aware of their surroundings and respect wildlife.

“Keep your distance,” he said. “It looks like it’s docile, it looks like your Florida emblem, but it can be dangerous.”

After a 31-year-old Oviedo woman, Brittany Clark, was killed by a 13-foot alligator near her home in June, Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Steube introduced a resolution calling for the Comptroller General and U.S. Department of the Interior to study the impacts of the American alligator's listing as “threatened due to similarity of appearance” on Florida's ability to remove nuisance alligators from residential and commercial waterways.

He said the species has been fully recovered since 1987 but remains protected to prevent trafficking and hunting of the similar-looking American crocodile.

Using Florida state data, the two 2026 deaths bring the total number of individuals killed by alligators since 1948 to 34. Among them were a 61-year-old woman tipped out of her canoe by an alligator in 2025 and an 85-year-old widow who was dragged out of her backyard by an alligator while walking her dog in 2023.

How do they keep doing it?

The Brewers play in Major League Baseball’s smallest market. They have a payroll in the bottom half of the majors. They typically trade away their big-name players a year before they reach free agency.

Yet they posted the best record in the majors for a second straight year, earned their eighth playoff berth in nine seasons and won a fourth straight NL Central title. It’s a stunning run for a franchise that had a 25-year playoff drought from 1983-2007.

The one knock against the Brewers was their lack of postseason success. Nobody can make that criticism anymore, now that they’re in the Fall Classic for the first time since 1982 — and second time ever — after sweeping the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers out of the playoffs.

Conventional wisdom suggested this run of success would end for the Brewers after the departures of president of baseball operations David Stearns and manager Craig Counsell. Stearns stepped down after the 2022 season and left for the New York Mets a year later. Counsell left for the NL Central rival Chicago Cubs after Milwaukee’s 2023 playoff loss.

Instead, the Brewers promoted from within and got even better with Matt Arnold as president of baseball operations and Pat Murphy as manager.

Arnold, who also made it to the World Series while working in Tampa Bay’s front office in 2008, had served as Stearns’ right-hand man before taking over for him. He has utilized Milwaukee’s outstanding farm system by signing outfielders Jackson Chourio and Luis Lara, and shortstop Cooper Pratt to long-term deals before they had ever reached the major leagues. All three have played major roles this season.

Perhaps his best move was deciding on Murphy to take over as manager after Counsell’s departure. Murphy, who had been Counsell’s bench coach since 2016, was selected as NL manager of the year each of the last two seasons.

“He’s tremendous, I think, and well-rounded in a way where he has a great way about going about his business with the push-pull,” Arnold said. “He’s good at pushing when you need it and pulling back when you need it as well. He does a fantastic job.”

Here’s a chronological look at other major moves the Brewers have made over the last several years to produce a roster capable of winning their first World Series title.

Trading for Christian Yelich

Stearns’ greatest trade was acquiring Christian Yelich from the Miami Marlins in January 2018 for Lewis Brinson, Isan Díaz, Monte Harrison and Jordan Yamamoto. Yelich won the MVP in 2018, finished second in the voting in 2019 and signed a nine-year, $215 million contract in March 2020. He was named the first captain in Brewers history last month.

Brinson, Díaz and Harrison all hit below .200 in their major league careers. Yamamoto pitched in the majors from 2019-21 and posted a 6.05 ERA.

Drafting Garrett Mitchell

The Brewers selected Garrett Mitchell out of UCLA with the 20th overall pick in the 2020 draft. Mitchell, who has Type 1 diabetes, dealt with a multitude of injuries for much of his career but played 145 regular-season games this year and hit two homers in the NLCS.

Drafting Jacob Misiorowski

Jacob Misiorowski had committed to LSU when the Brewers selected the hard-throwing right-hander out of Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, in the second round of the 2022 draft. Misiorowski could have teamed up with 2025 Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes on a Tigers team that won the 2023 College World Series. He instead joined the Brewers and developed into this year’s Cy Young Award favorite.

Misiorowski isn't the only former Crowder College pitcher on Milwaukee's roster. Aaron Ashby, who has thrown 12 1/3 scoreless innings in the playoffs, also pitched for Crowder before the Brewers drafted him in the fourth round in 2018.

Trading away Josh Hader

The Brewers led the NL Central when they dealt star closer Josh Hader to San Diego at the 2022 trade deadline in exchange for pitchers Taylor Rogers, Robert Gasser and Dinelson Lamet as well as outfielder Esteury Ruiz. This seemed at the time like the biggest misstep of Stearns’ tenure, as the Brewers faded afterward and missed the playoffs.

But after Tommy John surgery in 2024 slowed his development, Gasser developed into a major weapon late this season. The left-hander has allowed one run in nine innings in the playoffs.

This deal also indirectly led to the next move on the list, which proved much more fruitful.

Trading for William Contreras

William Contreras was coming off an All-Star season when Atlanta dealt him to Milwaukee as part of a December 2022 three-team trade in which the Braves also acquired Sean Murphy from the Athletics. All the Brewers had to give up was Ruiz, who went to the Athletics. Contreras has made two All-Star teams with Milwaukee and finished fifth in the 2024 MVP voting. He’s hitting .367 with a 1.157 OPS in this postseason.

Also in this deal, the Brewers acquired Joel Payamps, who played a key bullpen role for a couple of years. Ruiz, who is now with Miami, has hit .234 with 111 steals in 306 career major league games.

Trading for Trevor Megill

After the Minnesota Twins designated Trevor Megill for assignment in April 2023, the Brewers acquired the reliever for Taylor Floyd, who hasn't appeared in a major league game. Megill has recorded 81 saves over the last three seasons and was an All-Star in 2025. He has pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings with four saves this postseason.

Trading for Jake Bauers

The Brewers acquired Jake Bauers from the New York Yankees for minor leaguers Jace Avina and Brian Sanchez in November 2023. Bauers returned to Milwaukee on a minor league deal in 2025 and is playing this season on a $2.7 million contract. Bauers broke through this year to post an .874 OPS in the regular season before getting named the NLCS MVP.

Avina and Sanchez haven’t yet reached the major leagues.

Trading away Corbin Burnes

Corbin Burnes had one year remaining until free agency when the Brewers sent the 2021 Cy Young Award winner to the Baltimore Orioles in February 2024 for infielder Joey Ortiz and pitcher DL Hall. Ortiz hit .270 with a .730 OPS in 134 games this season while alternating between third base and shortstop. Hall has pitched 5 1/3 innings of shutout relief in the postseason.

Trading for Andrew Vaughn

Andrew Vaughn had slumped so badly that he’d been sent to the minors before the Brewers acquired him from the White Sox in a June 2025 trade that sent pitcher Aaron Civale to Chicago. Vaughn has posted an .849 OPS in 168 games with the Brewers over the last two seasons.

Adding Kyle Harrison, Shane Drohan and David Hamilton

The Brewers traded third baseman Caleb Durbin and infielders Andruw Monasterio and Anthony Seigler to the Boston Red Sox in February after Durbin had finished third in the NL rookie of the year balloting last season. The Brewers acquired pitchers Kyle Harrison and Shane Drohan, and infielder David Hamilton in the deal. Harrison arguably was Milwaukee’s second-best starting pitcher before slumping late to finish 11-5 with a 4.20 ERA. Drohan was 7-5 with a 4.19 ERA. Hamilton stole 30 bases during the regular season and went 4 for 7 with a homer and three steals in the NLCS.

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Detectives say Maraisa Toussaint was last seen at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Friday near the 5100 block of Northeast Eighth Avenue. They say she has since been located.

Authorities have not said what led to her disappearance.

Ausar signed with the Heat on Thursday but did not play in any preseason games. During the Summer League, he appeared in three games and averaged 7.0 points, 4.7 rebounds and one steal per game.

Kelley joined the team on Oct. 8 and played in two preseason games, recording six points, two rebounds and one block.

Madsen, who also signed on Oct. 8, appeared in one preseason game and played a total of 7 minutes and 49 seconds.

Mbeng was claimed off waivers by Miami on Sept. 22. He played in three preseason games, finishing with 20 points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals.

Following these moves, the Heat’s roster now includes 14 players, along with three players on two-way contracts.

With the regular season approaching, both teams may be cautious with their starters’ playing time as they wrap up their final preseason preparations.

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At least four people have been killed and over 100 injured since the harvest began earlier this month, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Activists say Israeli authorities do little to stop attacks that involve weapons ranging from slingshots to guns. An attack on Friday seriously injured a Washington Post photographer and others.

In the attack in the Christian village of Taybeh on Saturday, settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. He linked the attack to Israel's “illegal settlement policy” and pledged to push for further European Union sanctions. “Impunity for violent settlers must end," he added.

Bernard Baudoux, a French mayor among those attacked, described it in a Facebook post. “Three vehicles arrived. Several masked individuals, armed with metal bars, got out and came toward us with extreme aggressiveness,” he wrote.

Baudoux said he put on his French tricolor sash. “That didn’t stop them. I was struck with metal bars and kicked before being thrown to the ground. We were finally able to get back to our vehicles.”

He said he was fine. He and others had traveled to Taybeh to formalize a twinning agreement between the village and his community, and then participated in the residents' olive harvest. Religious leaders in Taybeh also confirmed the attack.

Video shows masked men approaching a vehicle

Video shared by an activist at the scene, Amit Orfali, shows Baudoux leaning against a vehicle while sitting on the dusty ground. Other clips showed young masked men knocking insistently on a driver's side window and asking for IDs, while other masked men carrying sticks advanced in the distance.

Orfali said the masked men “threatened to kill us.”

The attacks came less than two weeks before closely contested elections that could end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s time in office. His government, the most nationalist and far-right in Israel’s history, faces domestic criticism over security failures and international criticism over the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Some of the government's senior officials are settlers themselves.

The French mayor was “violently assaulted by extremist settlers,” France's foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said on X, adding that Israeli authorities "must urgently put an end to this criminal violence and ensure the safety of civilians, as they are required to do under international law.”

“We are deeply outraged by this incident,” Poland’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Israel’s military in a statement confirmed the attack on the diplomats and called it a “severe act of violence,” but said the visit had not been coordinated with it and no soldiers were at the scene.

Israeli police said they had opened an investigation and vowed to work “until everyone who took part in these cases is brought to justice.” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on X condemned the "severe acts of violence by Israeli rioters,” adding that his ministry was in contact with ambassadors from the countries concerned.

Netanyahu warns against ‘premature conclusions’

But Netanyahu's office later issued a statement warning against “premature conclusions” in the incident and noted concerns about “a coordinated campaign to smear Israel."

Netanyahu's main rival in the elections, Gadi Eisenkot, said on X that “a handful of criminals is burning up the last shreds of legitimacy left to the state of Israel.”

Eisenkot called it “Jewish terror” — the same term the photographer for The Washington Post, Heidi Levine, used when speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday from her hospital bed.

“I've been covering this region for over 40 years, and I have never seen this country in such a state as it is today,” Levine said, adding that she was “shocked and insulted” that Netanyahu referred to the attack on her and others as an alleged one.

Netanyahu in the past has attributed the violence to a small number of troublemakers. But cars have been burned, trees damaged and people hurt in communities across the Palestinian territory, with some people calling this the most dangerous season yet.

The U.N. and much of the international community consider the settlements, many of them resembling developed suburbs, in the West Bank to be illegally occupied. Settlers have established hundreds of additional outposts without government authorization, while still enjoying protection from the Israeli military.

Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians want for a future state. The West Bank remains under Israeli military rule.

One of the latest criticisms has come from China, whose foreign minister, Wang Yi, told Israeli President Isaac Herzog this week that Israel should “stop and revoke the act of forcibly establishing settlements in the West Bank,” a spokesperson said on Friday.

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PSG also won, coming from behind with substitute Ousmane Dembélé missing a penalty before later scoring in a 3-1 victory at Strasbourg in the French league.

Under-fire Manchester City stayed perfect in the Premier League, while Bayern Munich hit six goals against visiting Leipzig in the Bundesliga.

The Yamal Show

Yamal scored arguably the day's finest goal across all the European leagues, but was later booked after clashing with a rival player, who was sent off.

The 19-year-old Ballon d’Or contender scored the opening goal when he eluded Facundo Bernal by rolling his foot over the ball just outside the penalty area, from where he sent it sailing inside the far post in the 10th minute. He justifiably looked very pleased with himself.

Valentín Gómez headed Betis’ reply, Rodri restored Barcelona’s lead, and Giovani Lo Celso had an equalizer before the break ruled out through VAR. Betis coach Manuel Pellegrini was booked for his protests.

After the break, Yamal set up Gabriel Jesus for Barça’s third goal, only for Abde Ezzalzouli to reply for Betis two minutes later, when Yamal and Bernal clashed off the ball.

It appeared Bernal pushed Yamal, who barged back into Bernal and the two tussled. Bernal moved his head toward Yamal, touching his forehead. Yamal immediately dropped to the ground and rolled on the field, clutching his forehead. Bernal was shown a red card, Yamal a yellow.

Eric Garcia got Barcelona’s fourth goal shortly afterward, before Dani Olmo completed the scoring late.

Barcelona has won every game, 11 so far, this season, including nine in La Liga. It next faces two-time defending champion PSG away in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Álex Baena scored in the 89th for Atlético Madrid to beat Espanyol 1-0 away and stretch his team's winning run to six games across all competitions. The result increased the pressure on Espanyol coach Manolo González after a fifth defeat from nine games for the club owned by American Alan Pace.

Valencia and Athletic Bilbao drew the late game 0-0.

PSG recovers to beat Strasbourg

PSG rallied against Strasbourg after United States midfielder Gio Reyna had broken the deadlock in the 17th with a low shot.

PSG coach Luis Enrique evidently had the upcoming clash with Barcelona in mind as he had Dembélé, Désiré Doué, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi on the bench.

They were all on the field by the time Dembélé fired the spot kick wide in the 72nd. But Ukraine defender Illya Zabarnyi finally equalized five minutes later, Dembélé popped up with what seemed the winner in the 85th, and Doué made sure in stoppage time.

Lille missed the chance to go top in a 1-1 draw at home against Brest, and Lens enjoyed a 3-1 win at Troyes.

Martínez injury concern, City wins again

Pedro Neto scored early and late in the second half to lead Chelsea to a 2-0 win at previously undefeated Everton in a Premier League match marred by a serious-looking head injury to Chelsea goalkeeper Emi Martínez.

Scandal-hit Man City maintained its perfect start with a 3-2 home win over Ipswich. City became only the third team to open a Premier League season with seven straight wins.

Liverpool rallied to win 2-1 at Brentford, and Johan Manzambi's brilliant week continued when he scored for Aston Villa in a 1-0 win at Newcastle. Manzambi celebrated his 21st birthday Wednesday by scoring on his Champions League debut.

Bayern bounces back in Germany

Harry Kane took his tally to 102 goals in 100 Bundesliga games as Bayern rebounded from an uncharacteristic 2-game winless run with a 6-1 rout of visiting Leipzig.

Luis Díaz scored a hat trick for the Bavarian powerhouse, which next faces Arsenal in the Champions League in Munich on Wednesday.

Borussia Dortmund was winning before the international break and has not won since after being held 0-0 at Union Berlin for its second straight Bundesliga draw. It comes after Wednesday’s Champions League loss at Bodø/Glimt.

Dortmund had greater concerns about Konstantinos Karetsas, however. The 18-year-old Greece winger went on as a substitute only to be helped off eight minutes later with what looked like a right ankle injury. There was no immediate update from the club.

Promoted Elversberg won 4-3 at home against Augsburg, Hamburger SV held on for a 1-0 win over Stuttgart, Mainz won at promoted Schalke 1-0 and Werder Bremen fought back to draw 2-2 against promoted Paderborn.

Napoli stunned by previously winless Venezia

Napoli slumped to another defeat with Akor Adams’ strike giving Venezia a 1-0 win for its first Serie A points of the season.

Kevin De Bruyne saw his penalty saved by Venezia goalkeeper Filip Stanković as Massimiliano Allegri’s team suffered its second straight loss — after its Champions League defeat to Villarreal — and a third loss from seven games in the Italian league.

It gave new Venezia coach Davide Nicola a winning start after replacing Giovanni Stroppa on Wednesday.

Inter Milan won 3-1 at Bologna and Roma rebounded from a Champions League loss with a 2-0 home win over Genoa.

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Another person linked to the first Ebola case also tested positive while in quarantine, bringing the total number of infections in Kenya to seven.

The ministry said the four new patients were in isolation and receiving care. The other two patients were in stable condition. The first patient died on Oct. 5, days after he arrived in Kenya from Congo, where an outbreak has killed at least 4,300 people since May, accounting for nearly half of all confirmed cases there.

The outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

Ebola is highly contagious and spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, including blood and vomit, or through contact with contaminated materials and surfaces, such as bedding and clothing.

About 130 people who had been in contact with the first patient, a 40-year-old Kenyan man, were identified, the ministry said. Of those, 128 were in quarantine and two were being traced, it said.

Kenya has strengthened screening and established an emergency hotline for anyone who suspects they may have been in contact with an Ebola patient or develops symptoms.

The Explorers, who entered the game at 7-1, seized control early behind quarterback Kai Moore, who connected with Tyler Bryant on a pass that gave the receiver room to run for a touchdown.

Columbus maintained its advantage against the Rockets (6-2), building a 25-point lead before severe weather brought the contest to an early end.

The game was called late in the third quarter because of weather, leaving Columbus with a 28-3 victory.

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Lawmakers from both parties blasted the executive order late Friday, the latest in a series of steps that the Republican president has taken drawing the United States closer to Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump recently announced a diesel deal with Putin to import Russian energy in a long-shot effort to curb high gas prices in the U.S. that are roiling the midterm elections on Nov. 3.

“I think it’s clear Russia is the aggressor, and we’ve got to do everything we can to put economic pressure on Russia,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said in an interview with The Associated Press. “So it’s not the first thing I would be doing.”

“Beyond irresponsible,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on social media, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that the sanctions that were supposed to take effect Sunday targeting Russia's economy could be revived.

“What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand?” Tillis said. “It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine.”

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said “Lindsey would be appalled,” referring to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who worked endlessly on the bill before he died this summer. The bill is known as the Lindsey Graham Russian Sanctions Act.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a statement that “by giving the Russian economy life support, Trump’s deal with the devil keeps getting dirtier.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Trump is “thumbing his nose” at Congress and “enabling Vladimir Putin to continue his war of aggression.” She urged her colleagues to take action to reverse course.

Next steps uncertain with Congress out until after Election Day

Trump's actions come as Ukraine is bracing for a stark winter confronting Russia's ongoing attacks on its energy infrastructure to heat homes and keep the lights on. Zelenskyy, who has endured a rocky relationship with Trump but stayed close to the U.S. lawmakers, urged supporters to speak out on behalf of the sanctions.

The next steps are highly uncertain with the House and Senate on recess until after Election Day. Trump had indicated he was waiving the sanctions indefinitely, citing national security concerns.

Later Saturday, Trump told reporters that they don’t know what his decision is yet regarding sanctions in Russia, despite the executive order he signed Friday night, citing a U.S national interest.

“We’ll figure it out, and you’ll figure it out. But it’s a very good decision, and it’s going to be a decision that’s good for the country, and I think good for the world,” Trump said at a fundraising dinner at his Florida estate.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, separately addressing reporters Saturday before departing for Central Asia, suggested Trump would take 60 days to review global and U.S. economic impacts from imposing proposed sanctions on Russia and other countries, in light of tariffs already in place. Pointing to high energy prices and the Iran war, “we need that period of time to sort of study all this and figure out what the right combination is," he said.

It is unlikely Congress would be in a position to take any action to challenge Trump’s moves until lawmakers return to Washington.

Skeptics in Congress warned Trump would not follow the law

It took almost a year for Graham to persuade Trump to agree to the Russian sanctions package. It was designed to impose steep tariffs on countries that import large amounts of Russian oil and energy products and was promoted as a way to halt the flow of funds fueling Putin's four-year war against Ukraine.

But even as Zelenskyy had watched from the visitor gallery as the Senate advanced the package after Graham's death, skeptics in Congress warned Trump would be unlikely to follow the bill once he had signed it into law a month ago.

Last week, a bipartisan group of senators urged the Trump administration to more quickly clamp down on Russia, particularly the “shadow fleet” of tankers that Moscow is using to transport oil and bypass America’s sanctions. The senators noted that the bulk of the new law's provisions were to be effective Sunday.

Instead, Trump soon announced the diesel deal with Putin, saying that Russia had agreed to supply tons of fuel to the U.S., where gas prices have skyrocketed in some areas and voters are saying affordability issues are a top concern.

Outraged lawmakers have pledged to stop the Trump-Putin deal.

New York Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee who had led opposition to the Graham bill — warning that Trump would flout the law — introduced legislation Friday that would block Trump's diesel deal with Putin. “At a time when the United States should be increasing pressure on the Kremlin, Donald Trump is cozying up to Putin and striking self-enriching deals instead of standing with Ukraine," Meeks said in a statement.

He called the deal “corrupt” and said it “goes against everything the United States stands for.”

On Saturday, he said that "Congress is not helpless" and must act.

Graham's legacy on the line

Graham's sister, Darline Graham of South Carolina, helped ensure Senate passage of the bill, once she was appointed by the state's governor to fill her brother's seat.

She is now running against Democrat Annie Andrews in a tight race. Trump is expected in the state next week to rally voters.

“Look, the president and I share the same goal, which is to end the war, to get gas and diesel prices down, and the sanctions bill is one of the tools he can use to do that,” Darline Graham said at a campaign stop Saturday.

“It’s up to him whether or not he chooses to use it. Personally, I would choose to keep the pressure on Russia,” she said, “because I don’t trust Putin and I don’t trust Russia.”

Like her brother, who often publicly parted ways with the president, Darline Graham said she and Trump can have their differences.

“I am proud of it to help get across the finish line. It meant a lot to Lindsey,” she said. “But you know, like Lindsey, he disagreed with the president sometimes they had that relationship where they could agree to disagree sometimes. And I think that just happens."

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Associated Press writers Theodora Tongas in Athens, Greece, Meg Kinnard in Mount Pleasant, S.C., and Kevin Freking and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.

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The teams enter the game heading in opposite directions. Miami is 5-0 and looking to keep its undefeated season intact, while Florida State is 3-3 and trying to get back on track.

But records don’t always mean much in this rivalry, and Miami quarterback Darian Mensah knows to expect a fight.

“No matter how high ranked one team is and the disparity between the teams, it’s always gonna be a dog fight, and we’ve prepared ourselves for that this week during practice,” he said. “We know it’s gonna be a war out there and I’m super excited to be a part of the rivalry.”

Mensah, a Duke transfer who is in his first season at Miami, will lead an offense that has been among the nation’s most productive through the first five games. The Hurricanes are averaging 49.6 points and 554.8 yards per game.

Florida State, meanwhile, is coming off a 44-20 loss at Louisville. The Seminoles will need to find a way to slow Miami’s offense while avoiding the mistakes that have contributed to their uneven start.

Key things to watch

1. Can Florida State slow down Darian Mensah?

Miami is averaging 49.6 points and 554.8 yards per game, ranking first nationally in scoring and total offense. Mensah has completed 84.2% of his passes and thrown 15 touchdowns without an interception.

2. Miami’s run defense against FSU’s rushing attack

Miami has allowed just 42.6 rushing yards per game, the fewest in the country. Florida State running back Ousmane Kromah has rushed for 565 yards this season, giving the Seminoles a potential way to challenge the Hurricanes.

3. Can Miami exploit Florida State’s struggling defense?

Florida State is allowing 410.2 yards per game, ranking 122nd nationally, while Miami averages 334.4 passing yards per game. That creates a significant matchup advantage for the Hurricanes’ passing attack.

4. Can FSU avoid another second-half collapse?

Florida State lost 44-20 to Louisville after taking a 14-0 first-quarter lead. The Seminoles will need to sustain their early momentum against Miami rather than let the game get away from them.

5. How will the weather the game?

Rain and thunderstorms are forecast in South Florida around game time. Wet conditions could affect ball security, passing accuracy and special teams, making turnovers and the ground game especially important.

Kickoff for FSU-Miami is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Los equipos llegan al partido en direcciones opuestas. Miami tiene un récord de 5-0 y busca mantener su temporada invicta, mientras que Florida State tiene un récord de 3-3 e intenta retomar el rumbo.

Sin embargo, los récords no siempre significan mucho en esta rivalidad, y el mariscal de campo de Miami, Darian Mensah, sabe que debe esperar una dura batalla.

“Sin importar qué tan alto esté clasificado un equipo y la diferencia entre ambos, siempre será una batalla intensa, y nos hemos preparado para eso durante los entrenamientos de esta semana”, afirmó. “Sabemos que será una guerra en el campo y estoy muy emocionado de formar parte de esta rivalidad”.

Mensah, quien llegó transferido de Duke y está en su primera temporada con Miami, liderará una ofensiva que ha estado entre las más productivas del país durante los primeros cinco partidos. Los Hurricanes promedian 49.6 puntos y 554.8 yardas por partido.

Mientras tanto, Florida State viene de una derrota de 44-20 ante Louisville. Los Seminoles tendrán que encontrar la manera de frenar la ofensiva de Miami y evitar los errores que han contribuido a su irregular comienzo de temporada.

Aspectos clave a seguir

1. ¿Podrá Florida State frenar a Darian Mensah?

Miami promedia 49.6 puntos y 554.8 yardas por partido, ocupando el primer lugar a nivel nacional en anotaciones y ofensiva total. Mensah ha completado el 84.2% de sus pases y ha lanzado 15 pases de touchdown sin ninguna intercepción.

2. La defensa terrestre de Miami frente al ataque terrestre de FSU

Miami ha permitido apenas 42.6 yardas terrestres por partido, la cifra más baja del país. El corredor de Florida State, Ousmane Kromah, ha acumulado 565 yardas terrestres esta temporada, lo que ofrece a los Seminoles una posible manera de desafiar a los Hurricanes.

3. ¿Podrá Miami aprovechar las dificultades defensivas de Florida State?

Florida State permite 410.2 yardas por partido, ubicándose en el puesto 122 a nivel nacional, mientras que Miami promedia 334.4 yardas por pase por partido. Esto representa una ventaja significativa para el ataque aéreo de los Hurricanes.

4. ¿Podrá FSU evitar otro desplome en la segunda mitad?

Florida State perdió 44-20 ante Louisville después de tomar una ventaja de 14-0 en el primer cuarto. Los Seminoles necesitarán mantener su impulso inicial contra Miami en lugar de permitir que el partido se les escape de las manos.

5. ¿Cómo afectará el clima al partido?

Se pronostican lluvias y tormentas eléctricas en el sur de Florida alrededor de la hora del partido. Las condiciones húmedas podrían afectar el control del balón, la precisión de los pases y los equipos especiales, haciendo que las pérdidas de balón y el juego terrestre sean especialmente importantes.

El inicio del partido entre FSU y Miami está programado para las 7 p.m.

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The race kicked off before sunrise, with participants of different ages and abilities running or walking toward the same goal: crossing the finish line.

Organizers said about 1,100 runners took part in the event, which offered participants a scenic route along Hollywood Beach.

For some, the race was also a family affair, with parents and children sharing the experience. Others traveled from out of state to participate, including runners visiting from North Carolina.

Rapper N.O.R.E. was among the familiar faces at the event.

Despite the challenging weather, the atmosphere remained upbeat, with runners celebrating their finishes and cheering on fellow participants.

For those who took part, the race was about more than speed or distance. It was an opportunity to challenge themselves, connect with the community and enjoy a shared experience along the beach.

With the heat and humidity making for a demanding morning, finishing strong was a victory in itself.

The next elite event in Hollywood is scheduled for Jan. 16.

La carrera comenzó antes del amanecer, con participantes de diferentes edades y capacidades corriendo o caminando hacia un mismo objetivo: cruzar la línea de meta.

Los organizadores indicaron que alrededor de 1,100 corredores participaron en el evento, que ofreció a los participantes una ruta panorámica a lo largo de Hollywood Beach.

Para algunos, la carrera también fue una actividad familiar, con padres e hijos compartiendo la experiencia. Otros viajaron desde fuera del estado para participar, incluidos corredores provenientes de Carolina del Norte.

El rapero N.O.R.E. estuvo entre las figuras conocidas que asistieron al evento.

A pesar de las difíciles condiciones climáticas, el ambiente se mantuvo animado, con corredores celebrando su llegada a la meta y alentando a los demás participantes.

Para quienes participaron, la carrera fue mucho más que velocidad o distancia. Fue una oportunidad para ponerse a prueba, conectarse con la comunidad y disfrutar de una experiencia compartida a lo largo de la playa.

Con el calor y la humedad haciendo de la mañana un desafío exigente, terminar con fuerza fue una victoria en sí misma.

El próximo evento de élite en Hollywood está programado para el 16 de enero.

Las manifestaciones forman parte de un movimiento que se opone a lo que los participantes describen como un abuso autoritario de poder por parte de la administración Trump y un deterioro de las normas democráticas.

La primera protesta nacional “No Kings” se realizó en junio de 2025, organizada por grupos como la Unión Estadounidense por las Libertades Civiles (ACLU) y la Liga de Mujeres Votantes. Las manifestaciones coincidieron con un desfile militar en Washington, D.C., realizado para conmemorar el cumpleaños del presidente Donald Trump.

Desde entonces, se han llevado a cabo otras dos protestas nacionales, dando continuidad a una serie de manifestaciones centradas en las preocupaciones sobre el poder presidencial y las instituciones democráticas.

Se espera que la protesta de hoy haga énfasis en las elecciones de medio término, con especial atención al acceso al voto y la participación electoral, mientras los votantes se preparan para acudir a las urnas.

Los organizadores y participantes están utilizando las manifestaciones para llamar la atención sobre las preocupaciones relacionadas con las elecciones y fomentar la participación pública en el proceso democrático.

Haga clic aquí para conocer más detalles sobre dónde y cuándo se realizan las protestas de este sábado.

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Dozens of demonstrators gathered along University Drive near Sample Road in Coral Springs for the protest, with a local grassroots group using the demonstration to encourage voter participation ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

The demonstration, organized by Joyful Resistance South Florida, drew people from across northwest Broward County and included at least one visitor from Jacksonville. Protesters held signs and gathered near City Hall to make their voices heard.

While previous “No Kings” demonstrations have largely focused on President Donald Trump and his policies, organizers said Saturday’s rally also emphasized the importance of voting.

“This rally is different because today we’re out here to make sure that our community knows that their vote is their voice and that’s something that is really important that they can do,” said Mary Kraljic, who is with Joyful Resistance.

Kraljic said the group wants residents to make a plan to vote, whether through early voting or by returning a mail-in ballot at a secure drop box.

“And remembering that November 3rd is not just election day, that’s your final deadline to vote. There’s no excuse not to,” she said.

Kraljic also encouraged residents to bring friends with them when they vote, emphasizing the importance of participation after what she described as low voter turnout in the primary.

Joyful Resistance is a local grassroots activism organization based in Coral Springs that supports surrounding communities. Kralick said the group has been active for nearly two years and works with other organizations involved in demonstrations across South Florida.

“We’ve built a lot of relationships, and we have a lot of fun out here,” Kraljic said. “That’s why we have ‘Joyful’ in our name.”

The nationwide “No Kings” protests have brought demonstrators together to oppose what participants describe as authoritarian overreach and threats to democratic norms.

In Coral Springs, Saturday’s gathering combined protest with a call to action, urging residents to use their voices at the ballot box.

Click here for a closer look on where and when Saturday’s protest is being held.

Jaguars president Mark Lamping said Saturday the team hopes to keep all of its 2028 home games in Jacksonville to coincide with the re-opening of its stadium following a $1.4 billion renovation.

The Jags were early adopters of the NFL's international push and began staging an annual game at Wembley in 2013, but the economic incentive to do so has been decreasing.

Jacksonville will play its 16th London game on Sunday when the team faces the Houston Texans at Wembley.

Lamping told Jacksonville reporters in London that the plan for the 2028 season is a full slate at its “stadium of the future."

“If there’s a natural year where you probably want to play every home game in Jacksonville, it would be the year you open a new stadium,” Lamping said.

Construction has already begun with EverBank Stadium at reduced capacity this season.

The Jags will move most of their home games to Orlando next season.

The team has the option of playing three home games in London next season, but Lamping said the likelihood of that is “remote." He said that option was designed more for if the team had chosen to play in Gainesville next year.

Jacksonville's games at Wembley are separate from the NFL-mandated international games. In that category, the Jaguars are set to play one game abroad next season. Lamping said he hopes that one will be in London but said there's no guarantee.

“The league tells us where that game is going to be played,” he said.

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Los detectives indicaron que Maraisa Toussaint fue vista por última vez aproximadamente a las 3:30 p.m. del viernes cerca de la cuadra 5100 de Northeast Eighth Avenue en Deerfield Beach. La última vez que fue vista vestía completamente de negro.

Toussaint mide aproximadamente 5 pies y 1 pulgada de estatura, pesa alrededor de 140 libras y tiene cabello negro y ojos marrones, según los investigadores.

Se solicita a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre su paradero que se comunique con el detective Chris Blankenship, de la Unidad de Personas Desaparecidas de la BSO, al 954-321-4268 o al número de la BSO para casos que no sean de emergencia, al 954-764-4357.

Jasmine Lashawn Green, de 34 años, residente de North Miami, y Shaqwanza Diseanice Stephens, de 35 años, residente de Miami, fueron arrestadas tras una investigación sobre un robo reportado en la tienda ubicada en 8942 State Road 84, según la policía de Davie.

La policía indicó que las mujeres ingresaron a la tienda poco después de las 9 p.m., seleccionaron artículos de Halloween y los ocultaron en varias bolsas verdes reutilizables de Publix, revestidas con papel de aluminio.

La policía informó que las mujeres salieron de la tienda sin pagar.

Un empleado de Spirit Halloween intentó detenerlas, pero las mujeres pasaron junto a él y huyeron en un Toyota Camry plateado, según el informe.

Posteriormente, los agentes detuvieron el vehículo y retuvieron a las mujeres cerca de la cuadra 4100 de Pine Island Road, informó la policía.

El informe de arresto describió las bolsas como “booster bags”, que están revestidas con papel de aluminio para interferir con los sistemas de seguridad de las tiendas y posiblemente evitar que las alarmas detecten mercancía robada.

Una revisión de los antecedentes mostró que Stephens tenía condenas previas por robo relacionadas con un caso de 2012 en Sweetwater y casos de 2017 y 2024 en Pembroke Pines, según el informe.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Green enfrenta 23 cargos por posesión de dispositivos para contrarrestar los sistemas de seguridad antirrobo de las tiendas, así como un cargo de hurto menor de mercancía valorada entre $100 y $750 USD y otro por violación de la libertad condicional.

Los registros muestran que Stephens enfrenta 24 cargos por posesión de dispositivos para contrarrestar los sistemas de seguridad antirrobo de las tiendas, cuatro cargos por violación de la libertad condicional y un cargo de hurto menor en segundo grado, por una tercera infracción o posterior.

Hasta el viernes, ambas mujeres permanecían detenidas en la cárcel principal del condado Broward, donde los montos de sus fianzas aún no habían sido establecidos.

Las autoridades informaron que trabajadores de construcción dañaron una tubería principal de gas que se extiende a lo largo de la autopista Turnpike.

Agentes de la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida cerraron la autopista Turnpike desde Hollywood Boulevard hasta Griffin Road.

Personal de los equipos de rescate de Hollywood acudió poco después de la 1:50 a.m. al área de North 62nd Avenue y Arthur Street.

El Departamento de Policía de Hollywood pidió a los conductores evitar la cuadra 6100 de Arthur Street. Los agentes de policía evacuaron el área circundante.

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Or Erling Haaland’s appetite for scoring goals.

Playing in front of fans waving inflatable bananas, City became only the third team to open a Premier League season with seven straight wins by beating Ipswich 3-2 at home on Saturday. Haaland netted twice to move to a competition-high eight goals for a campaign being played under a cloud of controversy.

It made it back-to-back victories in the league for City — either side of a 4-2 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League — since being found guilty of large-scale financial wrongdoing in the Premier League for nearly a decade. The seismic verdict threatens the club’s place in England’s lucrative top flight, though City continues to protest its innocence and has appealed.

City manager Enzo Maresca believes the saga has galvanized the squad and the defiance among the fanbase continued, with many supporters bringing along inflatable bananas — a throwback to an item that fans brought to games in the 1980s for fun amid tough times for the team — for Ipswich’s visit. They also jeered the Premier League anthem before kickoff.

“The fans, the club, the players — we are all together in this journey,” Maresca said of City's defiance in troubled times.

“Going down with the City,” was the chant by some home fans in the first half at Etihad Stadium as they watched their team extend their lead in the league to six points. Second-place Arsenal will visit Nottingham Forest on Sunday.

Hobbling Haaland

Haaland and second-half substitute Antoine Semenyo were seen hobbling off the field at the end of the game, which finished with Ipswich grabbing its second goal in stoppage time and piling on the pressure in the final minutes.

Maresca said Haaland, who had taken a blow to the foot late in the match, wasn't worried.

“We will see," Maresca said. "I asked him and he said he was OK, so hopefully it is nothing serious.”

Maresca added that Semenyo’s injury might be more serious.

Perfect seven

Maresca became the first manager to win his first seven Premier League games in charge of a team.

“I didn't expect to win seven out of seven," said Maresca, who replaced Pep Guardiola in the offseason, "but we are working well, working good.”

Chelsea (in 2005) and Liverpool (in 2019) are the other teams to win at least their first seven games of a Premier League season — and they both went on to win the title.

Liverpool rallies to beat Brentford but gets more injuries

Liverpool came from behind to win 2-1 at nine-man Brentford but lost two more players to injury in a busy stretch of fixtures.

Trailing to Keane Lewis-Potter's 44th-minute header, Liverpool found itself with a man advantage when Brentford midfielder Yehor Yarmoliuk was shown a red card in first-half stoppage time for aiming a head-butt at Jeremy Jacquet.

Liverpool took advantage, with Victor Munoz and Alexander Isak scoring after the break to consign Brentford to its first league defeat this season.

Vitaly Janelt became the second Brentford player sent off after getting a second yellow card in second-half stoppage time.

Isak has just returned from an injury sustained on international duty with Sweden but two players are back on the treatment table, with Dominik Szoboszlai and Jeremie Frimpong — a halftime substitute — forced off with injuries.

Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola said Szoboszlai’s problem was the reoccurrence of the hamstring injury he got while playing for Hungary in the recent international break.

Martinez head injury in Chelsea win

Pedro Neto scored early and late in the second half to lead Chelsea to a 2-0 win at Everton in a match marred by a serious-looking head injury to Chelsea goalkeeper Emi Martinez.

Neto slotted home the opening goal 44 seconds after the resumption and then added the second in the 90th minute after pouncing on the loose ball following a blocked free kick.

Chelsea handed Everton a first loss of the season after seven rounds, keeping a first clean sheet in nine months in the process.

Martinez was conscious and in the hospital, Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso said, after receiving 10 minutes of treatment on the field and then being carried off on a stretcher following a head-on-head collision with Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite at a free kick.

Manzambi thriving for Villa

Johan Manzambi could easily have joined Newcastle in the offseason. On Saturday, he grabbed the winner against the team for Aston Villa.

The 21-year-old Switzerland midfielder scored for the third time in four games to seal Villa’s 1-0 victory at St. James’ Park.

It would have been a painful sight for Newcastle, which reached an agreement with Freiburg to sign Manzambi after his impressive World Cup performances but not with the player himself. Now he’s thriving for Villa.

Fulham win eases pressure on Arbeloa

Fulham eased the pressure on manager Alvaro Arbeloa by beating Hull 1-0 for its first league win of the season.

Alex Iwobi scored the goal in the 33rd minute, helping Fulham climb off the bottom of the table — much to the relief of Arbeloa, the former Real Madrid coach who arrived in the offseason.

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El helicóptero Sky 10 sobrevoló la cuadra 2100 de Quail Roost Drive a las 9:45 a.m., mientras el cuerpo permanecía boca abajo en la piscina.

Al parecer, estaba atado a una cuerda larga.

Se colocó cinta de seguridad alrededor del área y personal de Bomberos y Rescate de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward fue visto en el lugar.

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La Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade informó que “no se presentarán cargos penales” contra el sargento Jose Cabrera, el sargento Javier Herbello ni el agente Dorian Acosta en relación con la balacera que dejó muertos a Evelyn Valdes, de 28 años, y Norman Lindo Jr., de 30 años, además de causar heridas al gerente del club nocturno, John Fortini.

La decisión se produce mientras la familia de Valdes continúa buscando respuestas sobre cómo recibió el disparo mortal mientras viajaba en el asiento trasero de un vehículo que abandonaba el área.

La madre de Valdes, Kristi Garcia, se reunió la semana pasada con la fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, para exigir la divulgación del informe de investigación del Departamento de Aplicación de la Ley de Florida, los videos de las cámaras corporales y las declaraciones de los testigos.

Garcia dijo que quería justicia para su hija y consecuencias para el agente cuya bala le causó la muerte.

Las autoridades informaron que la balacera ocurrió poco antes de las 3 a.m. del 14 de junio de 2025, cuando Cabrera y Herbello se encontraban frente a un restaurante cerca de un club nocturno de Wynwood. Indicaron que un guardia de seguridad privado se acercó a los sargentos para informarles sobre un robo que involucraba a dos personas acusadas de sustraer teléfonos celulares.

Los agentes acudieron al club nocturno para investigar y Cabrera solicitó unidades adicionales. Acosta y la agente Daniela Ruque respondieron al lugar.

Las autoridades indicaron que, mientras los agentes investigaban el presunto robo, se produjo un altercado separado cerca de la salida del club nocturno que involucraba a Lindo y otros tres hombres.

Señalaron que, durante el enfrentamiento, Lindo sacó un arma de fuego cuando Jake Hermelo, copropietario del club nocturno, intentó inmovilizarlo.

Herbello y Acosta desenfundaron sus armas de servicio y ordenaron a Lindo que soltara su arma, según el memorando. Lindo no obedeció y continuó avanzando con el arma, de acuerdo con la policía.

Las autoridades indicaron que Cabrera, Herbello y Acosta dispararon entonces sus armas, impactando a Lindo varias veces. Fue trasladado a un hospital, donde fue declarado muerto.

Señalaron que Valdes viajaba como pasajera en el asiento trasero de un vehículo que abandonaba el área en medio de un tráfico congestionado cuando fue alcanzada por una bala durante la balacera policial.

Los ocupantes del vehículo se dieron cuenta de que había recibido un disparo y se detuvieron aproximadamente a una cuadra del lugar. A las 3:06 a.m., una mujer informó a la policía que Valdes había sido alcanzada por una bala perdida, que todavía respiraba y que necesitaba asistencia inmediata, indicaron las autoridades.

Los equipos de rescate llegaron a las 3:22 a.m. y Valdes fue trasladada al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde fue declarada muerta, según los investigadores.

Las autoridades indicaron que Fortini, gerente del club nocturno, también fue alcanzado durante la balacera. Fue trasladado a un hospital, donde recibió tratamiento exitoso por una lesión en la mano, según el memorando.

La Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade informó que su revisión de los hechos, las pruebas y las leyes aplicables determinó que el uso de fuerza letal por parte de los agentes estaba legalmente justificado.

La familia de Valdes presentó una demanda civil federal contra la ciudad de Miami y la Policía de Miami, según el abogado de la familia, Ramon Rasco.

En una entrevista la semana pasada, Garcia describió a su hija como su mejor amiga y confidente, y afirmó que no merecía morir.

In the Detroit suburbs, some Jewish Democrats are confronting deeply personal questions about faith and identity as they weigh whether they can support their party’s nominee. Just miles away in Dearborn, Arab American leaders who backed President Donald Trump two years ago are growing increasingly alarmed by Republican rhetoric.

The concerns are rippling through communities already shaken by Israel’s war in Gaza that followed the attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Now they are central players in the bitter open-seat race between Republican Mike Rogers, a onetime congressman, and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who would be the country’s first Muslim senator if elected on Nov. 3.

Rogers has increasingly portrayed El-Sayed as an extremist and a threat to Jewish voters as the Republican tries to win over a traditionally Democratic constituency. Rogers laughed when a visiting Republican senator said El-Sayed slept in an Osama bin Laden jersey, and he agreed with a social media post calling El-Sayed a terrorist.

Emotions were already raw before the latest escalation.

In West Bloomfield, a synagogue recovering from an attack this year is only a half-hour drive from the “Wall of Tears” in downtown Dearborn memorializing children killed in Gaza.

The race has even divided close friends like Lori Goldman and Mimi Price-Miletic.

Goldman, a Jewish Democratic activist, described Rogers' message as "a fear campaign.”

“It’s spreading and it’s not spreading slowly," she said. "It’s spreading insidiously and widely and effectively.”

Price-Miletic, a member of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, sees things differently. She is not supporting El-Sayed and has not ruled out voting for Rogers.

“Lori Goldman is my best friend,” said Price-Miletic. “This summer I said we cannot discuss Abdul. I don’t want to hear his name. We’ve agreed to disagree and we don’t talk about it.”

“She adores him,” she added. “And I feel the exact opposite of her.”

Republicans look to win over Jewish voters

Central to Rogers’ strategy has been winning over Jewish voters after the fierce Democratic primary between El-Sayed and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in which Israel became a focal point.

Stevens, one of Israel's staunchest supporters in Congress, benefited from roughly $30 million in spending by groups affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.

Stevens represents much of Oakland County, just north of Detroit and home to a significant portion of Michigan’s Jewish population. Rogers has focused heavily on the area and is holding an event later in October with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that's billed as “Who Will Keep Us Safe? Rogers vs. El-Sayed in the Wake of October 7th and the Temple Israel Attack.”

Vance Patrick, chair of the Oakland County Republican Party, said Rogers was “definitely making some headway” among Jewish voters and that the community is “listening to the Republican Party this time."

Patrick added that Rogers has visited synagogues across the county, including Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, where a man rammed a truck loaded with fireworks and gasoline into the building and exchanged gunfire with a security guard in March.

The attacker, a naturalized citizen originally from Lebanon who lived in Dearborn Heights, had recently lost family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native country.

El-Sayed condemned the Temple Israel attack but drew criticism for saying “hurt people hurt people." He later apologized by saying "to anyone who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry."

Rogers and his allies have repeatedly invoked those comments, with Rogers claiming El-Sayed “can’t condemn terrorism in our own country because he’s so close to the people who are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Trump went further Wednesday, claiming El-Sayed was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

There is no evidence that El-Sayed has any affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, wrote on social media in 2012 that “my family has long been MB” and described a conversation with her mother about involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1970s.

El-Sayed, who was born in Michigan to Egyptian immigrant parents and was raised by his father, told NBC this week the social media posts are “hearsay.”

The Trump administration designated the Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations earlier this year.

Democrats face divisions over El-Sayed's candidacy

Democrats are still struggling to unite behind El-Sayed after the primary exposed deep disagreements over Israel.

Oakland County is one of Michigan’s largest and most politically consequential counties, with roughly 1.3 million residents. Once a Republican stronghold, it has shifted steadily toward Democrats over the past two decades.

But many of the country's top Democrats have kept an arm's length from El-Sayed.

State Sen. Jeremy Moss, who is Jewish and is running for a U.S. House seat encompassing much of Oakland County, has not endorsed El-Sayed. Stevens has endorsed El-Sayed, but has not campaigned with him.

Price-Miletic, who supported Stevens in the primary, said part of the reason she will not vote for El-Sayed is his past appearances with controversial streamer Hasan Piker, who has made comments described as antisemitic.

Goldman, the founder of grassroots organization Fems for Dems, said she believes much of the rhetoric spread about El-Sayed is not true and that Republicans “are preying upon the fears that are engendered in every Jewish person because past is prologue.”

Surrogates for El-Sayed, including local leaders and high-profile Democratic officials, have been holding house party events throughout the state to talk with undecided Jewish voters. Former U.S. Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan, who is Jewish and is supporting El-Sayed, has taken part in many of them.

“We don't take a hard sell approach at all,” Levin said. “It's more like a bunch of Jews coming together and saying, ‘OK, let’s all talk about our fears, our hopes, our anxieties.’”

There's a backlash in the nation's largest Arab American community

Dearborn, just south of Oakland County, has been a focal point for political divisions over Gaza. Many Arab American voters turned against Democrats in 2024 over President Joe Biden's support for Israel. Trump won the city of nearly 100,000 residents by 6 percentage points.

But the community has grown increasingly critical of Trump since he took office in January 2025. The rhetoric from Rogers and other Republicans about El-Sayed has added to those frustrations.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, a Democrat who did not endorse in the 2024 election, said Republicans' words about El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, another prominent Muslim politician, have been “very problematic.”

“You've seen Sen. Cruz and other U.S. senators bringing poster boards onto the Senate floor, basically trying to tie them to terrorist organizations or call them terrorists themselves, just because of their faith,” Hammoud said.

The criticism has also come from some of the Arab American leaders who were instrumental when Trump won the state two years ago.

“Any attack based on a person’s religion is not acceptable,” said Bishara Bahbah, who helped lead Trump’s outreach in Michigan in 2024. “Abdul El-Sayed was born and raised in the United States. He’s as American as they come.”

Bahbah, who renamed his group Arab Americans for Trump to Arab Americans for Peace early in Trump’s term, said the president’s rhetoric toward El-Sayed crossed a “red line."

“President Trump several times thanked the Arab American population for their support of his candidacy. I think the people around him should remember that,” Bahbah said. “Because elections are coming up.”

Martinez came out to meet a free kick into the area and had a head-on-head clash with Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite midway through the second half of the match at Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Martinez eventually was carried off the field on a stretcher after medical staff from both teams attended to him. He was seen moving his arms as he was being taken away and Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso said Martinez “left the stadium conscious.”

“Right now he is in the hospital doing precautionary tests,” Alonso said. “So let’s see.”

Branthwaite continued to play after a concussion test and finished the game.

The score was 1-0 to Chelsea at the time and the visitors went on to win 2-0.

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It's the crowds he says he’s seeing as he crosses the country campaigning for GOP candidates. The caliber of recruits and incumbents he calls workhorses, not show horses. And the nearly half a billion he has raised for House Republicans.

He also has faith.

“We run to win, and that’s biblical: You run to win," he told The Associated Press during a campaign stop in Maine.

“And I believe that we will.”

The speaker of the House is one of the most consequential elected officials in the United States, second in line of succession to the president. While Johnson quipped to Fox News recently that he may return to his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, to start a lawn care business if Republicans lose power on Nov. 3, he fully expects to buck an American midterm tradition that often sees the president’s party dumped in Congress.

It can be said that Johnson, who has drawn so close to President Donald Trump that he routinely fields 1 a.m. calls — they spoke the night before as Trump rallied in Alaska — walks on the sunny side of the street. That's despite voter frustration over high prices and the Iran war, and his own challenge of leading one of narrowest House majorities in modern times.

In his three years as speaker, Johnson has pushed past the doubters and naysayers, holding his thread-thin GOP majority together to deliver Trump's agenda. He notably led passage of the big tax breaks and social service cuts bill. Most days he does not have a single vote to spare.

“So many times everybody had written off, there was no way he was going to be able to pull off a particular vote,” said Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina, who joined the speaker on the campaign swing. “Yet he always seems to pull out the win in the end."

In the interview, Johnson did not speak brashly about expanding the House majority on Election Day, as he has in the past. But on track to visit more than 20 states and 40 congressional districts though November, he said the political mood reminds him of the 2024 election that swept Republicans to control of Congress and the White House.

“It’s not going to be a giant majority,” he said. “But I genuinely believe that we will have a working majority.”

Accidental speaker becomes emboldened by Trump

Johnson first fell into the speaker’s job almost by accident, a desperate choice by his GOP colleagues after a contingent of renegade Republicans ousted his predecessor, -then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in 2023.

Johnson had been a lower-level member of House leadership, but distinguished himself before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by organizing support for Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud in the election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

In the time since, Johnson has secured proximity to Trump's power. He joined Trump at a UFC fight in New York and once gifted the president a speaker’s gavel as Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law. It was a symbolic act, but one that critics saw as giving away the authority of a coequal branch of government.

More recently, Johnson abruptly sent lawmakers home early rather than face a vote forced by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as lawmakers tried to halt the Iran war, which has not been authorized by Congress.

Over coffee in Bangor, after rallying for House candidate Paul LePage, a former governor, Johnson brushed back criticism that Congress has eroded under his watch as Trump works to amass executive power.

“Absolute nonsense,” Johnson said.

“We did not yield Article One authority to the president,” referring to the powers spelled out in the Constitution. “We used our own,” he said, to muscle GOP priorities past Democratic opposition.

As House majority teeters, Trump's agenda is at risk

Johnson has focused the election on Democrats he portrays as “communists.” A handful of far-left liberals, backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, are on the ballot.

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House Democratic leader who is in line for the speaker's gavel if his party sweeps to power, is preparing a first-100 days agenda for when the new Congress convenes in January, if there is a change in control.

What the Republicans will do if they retain power is less defined.

“Lots of plans,” Johnson said, “along the same course of what we’ve been doing — less taxes, less regulation.”

Trump “wants to go big for his legacy,” he said. “We have big things on the horizon that we can do.”

The president has essentially purged the House GOP ranks of those perceived to be disloyal. Among them are Massie, who lost his primary, and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia retired early after breaking with Trump over release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Pressed how he would keep Republicans in line, Johnson said he is preparing to change the House rules if he returns as speaker.

"There’s going to be some changes that are going to make the machinery work smoother,” he said.

Praying for the speaker, and the country

Faith has often been strong among House leaders. Two former speakers, Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich are Catholics, as is John Boehner, who invited Pope Francis to address Congress.

Johnson, a former constitutional lawyer who was first elected alongside Trump in 2016, is expected to win his own reelection next month.

“My faith is a huge component of how I think and how I act and what I do,” said Johnson, who led a public prayer on the National Mall as part of the nation's 250th anniversary.

He is drinking lots of coffee these days, he said, cutting back on the Celsius, and still has 1,413 unread text messages, a slight dip from the frightful number reported a few months ago by The Wall Street Journal.

One text is from someone praying for him.

Johnson said he is grateful for the outpouring of prayers he receives, for him and the country.

“I pray for God’s will. And I believe God’s will is for us — and not the communists — to be in charge of America,” Johnson said.

“And it does say in the New Testament, you run the race to win,” he said, citing 1 Corinthians 9:24. “This is a biblical admonition. So we will.”

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Jasmine Lashawn Green, 34, of North Miami, and Shaqwanza Diseanice Stephens, 35, of Miami, were arrested following an investigation into a reported shoplifting incident at the store at 8942 State Road 84, according to Davie police.

Police said the women entered the store just after 9 p.m., selected Halloween merchandise and concealed the items in multiple green reusable Publix shopping bags lined with aluminum foil.

Police said the women left the store without paying.

A Spirit Halloween employee attempted to stop them, but they walked past the employee and fled in a silver Toyota Camry, according to the report.

Officers later stopped the vehicle and detained the women near the 4100 block of Pine Island Road, police said.

The arrest report described the bags as “booster bags,” which are lined with foil to interfere with store security systems and potentially prevent security alarms from detecting stolen merchandise.

A records check showed that Stephens had prior theft convictions stemming from a 2012 case in Sweetwater and 2017 and 2024 cases in Pembroke Pines, according to the report.

Jail records show Green is facing 23 counts of possessing an antishoplifting control-device countermeasure, as well as one count each of petit theft of merchandise valued between $100 and $750 and violation of probation.

Records show Stephens faces 24 counts of possessing an antishoplifting control-device countermeasure, four counts of violation of probation and one count of second-degree petit theft, third or subsequent offense.

As of Friday, both women were being held at the Broward County Main Jail, where their bond amounts were not immediately set.

It was another shock result against a Pacific island nation for the English, who were beaten by Samoa in the semifinals on home soil in 2022.

It was the first of third-ranked England's three group-stage games and immediately jeopardizes its progress to the semifinals, with games still to come against France and Papua New Guinea.

Tonga, which had never previously beaten England, is ranked No. 5 in the world and has other group games against Lebanon and Samoa.

Only two of those six teams advance to the last four.

The semifinals of the month-long World Cup are scheduled for Nov. 7 and 8, with the final at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on Nov. 15.

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President Donald Trump joined others Friday in praising a father of two girls who confronted a teenage gunman during the attack at Silver Rail Elementary School, which killed three students and a teacher. Kenda Freeman said her son, Kaylub Giamanco, intervened by firing his own weapon after the shooting began at his daughters’ school in the town of Bend.

“It’s a terrible thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and knew how to use it,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter who had a .40-caliber pistol legally stored in his vehicle, entered the school, heard shots and fired his gun after seeing a teacher fighting with the shooter, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said.

Cases like the Oregon intervention remain rare, according to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University.

The ALERRT center tracked what it calls “active attack” incidents where the perpetrator used firearms, blades or vehicles from 2000 to 2025.

Out of 634 cases studied, 374 ended before police arrived. Among those, 29 ended when armed civilians shot the attacker. In another 31 incidents, civilians subdued the attacker by some other method, such as wrestling them to the ground or removing the weapon.

“They recognize they may be the only way to stop it before law enforcement arrives,” said James Keith, a spokesperson for the center.

The heroic “good guy with a gun” who can stop an attack even before law enforcement can arrive has long been a rallying cry by gun rights advocates, arguing that armed citizens can act as a first line of self-defense and public protection. In some cases, the person who intervenes has had law enforcement or military training. Other times they are just people who reacted in a moment of chaos.

In some states, lawmakers have sought to put armed citizens in position to head off an attack as soon as possible in some public spaces.

Texas created a school marshal program in 2013 to allow trained teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms on campus. It expanded safety programs and requirements for armed security and personnel at schools after mass shootings at a high school near Houston in 2018, and at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in 2022.

Texas has some of the least restrictive gun control laws in the country, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The group rates Oregon among the strongest.

Some prominent examples of armed citizens who confronted gunmen to help stop mass shootings:

Twin Falls, Idaho, In-N-Out

A gunman killed three people and wounded seven more at an In-N-Out Burger on Aug. 3. Law enforcement authorities said the gunman may have killed more if not for an off-duty officer who was a customer at the restaurant, and an armed civilian who exchanged fire with the gunman.

Jordan Salinas said he didn’t hesitate to grab his gun and confront the gunman when he saw people fleeing the restaurant and heard gunfire. Under return fire, the gunman retreated and ultimately killed himself.

“He did not like it when bullets started flying both ways,” Salinas told the Idaho Statesman. “There’s a task that needs to be done, and we’re the ones who need to do it.”

White Settlement, Texas, church shooting

In December 2019, a man wearing a disguise and a trench coat pulled out a shotgun and killed two people during a Sunday service at West Freeway Church of Christ before he was killed by Jack Wilson, a 71-year-old firearms instructor who had also been a reserve sheriff’s deputy.

Wilson stayed calm as worshippers scrambled for cover.

“The only clear shot I had was his head because I still had people in the pews that were not all the way down as low as they could. That was my one shot,” Wilson said in 2019.

Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting

A gunman killed 26 people at a small-town church in 2017. Stephen Willeford, a former National Rifle Association instructor who lived across the street, grabbed his rifle and ran in his bare feet to open fire at the attacker, wounding him.

The gunman fled and Willeford flagged down a passing driver. The two men chased after the gunman, who eventually killed himself.

“I kept hearing the shots: pop, pop, pop” when the gunfire started at the church, Willeford said in 2017. “And I knew every one of those shots represented someone, that it was aimed at someone.”

City of Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz called the teacher’s actions “heroic” during a news conference and said she was not injured. He identified the attacker as 16-year-old Griffin J. John II and said all of the victims were shot in the same classroom.

John was once a special needs student at Silver Rail Elementary, authorities said, and he attacked a classroom with special needs students. He fired as many as 15 shots from a 12-gauge shotgun and had about 44 rounds remaining when he was killed, Krantz said.

“Everyone wants to know why, including us,” he said. “We may never get that full answer, but we want it.”

Investigators are trying to determine how the shooter obtained the pump-action shotgun, Krantz added.

A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press it was bought by his mother. The official spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.

The attacker’s mother, Shauntai Nickerson, told reporters outside her apartment near the school that if she could have done something to prevent the shooting, she would have.

“I miss my boy,” Nickerson said, sobbing and crying, according to The New York Times and CNN. “I’m so sorry, I wish I could have done something. I’m sorry for their loss.”

She declined to say how the 16-year-old obtained the pump-action shotgun and didn’t comment further when The Associated Press and other outlets knocked on her apartment door later.

In a 2020 interview with the local news station KTVZ, Nickerson identified the boy, then 10, as a participant in a special needs program run by the school district. It was called NEST, for Nurturing Empathy, Safety and Trust, and aimed at helping students experiencing intensive behavioral and social skill challenges. Nickerson said he struggled trying to learn from home during the pandemic.

Shooter killed minutes after first 911 call

The first 911 call came from the driver of a red pickup truck early Thursday afternoon who saw the boy throw his gun over a fence outside the school and then climb over it, Krantz said. The driver yelled at the boy, who fired at him, striking the truck three times. The driver was not injured.

A second driver, Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old man whose children attend Silver Rail, saw John shooting at the truck and heading toward the school, where he shot through locked doors to get inside. Giamanco pulled into the parking lot, grabbed his .40-caliber pistol and followed the attacker inside. He saw John wrestling with the teacher and shot him several times.

Three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and teacher Megan Lambert, 25, were killed, police said. A 7-year-old child who was injured received lifesaving care at the scene and is now hospitalized, as is 54-year-old teacher Becky Drury, who her family said was shot in the arm and hand and was recovering from surgery.

There were no other children in the classroom, authorities said.

The youngest victim, Rhoam Summer, was a fearless climber and a fast runner who loved reading, his aunt Swan Sheridan said Friday.

“He never met a stuffie that he didn’t think needed to be rescued and cared for,” she said.

Man who stopped the shooter a father of 2 at the school

In a statement read to reporters Friday, Giamanco’s mother, Kenda Freeman, identified him as the person who shot the gunman. She said he is the father of two girls at the school.

“He is not seeking recognition, but instead wishes to express his gratitude to the first responders, school personnel and community for the outpouring of love and support,” Freeman said.

She said her family was asking for privacy “during this difficult time.”

Silver Rail Elementary has students in kindergarten through fifth grade, with about 450 enrolled last year.

Classes and all other activities were canceled Friday for schools across Bend, a mountain-ringed city of about 100,000 that has become a tourism and outdoor recreation hub in central Oregon.

The shooting was the 28th mass killing in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

Trump says the shooting could have been much worse

President Donald Trump on Friday praised the man who stopped the gunman, calling him a “great hero” who he said “took care of business.”

“It’s a terrible thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and knew how to use it,” Trump told reporters at the White House, adding the tragedy likely would have been much worse.

Memorials with flowers, balloons and stuffed animals popped up around the school, which sits in a densely packed neighborhood filled with newly built homes.

Brooke Olsen, whose daughter is a kindergartner at Silver Rail, said she was amazed that someone pursued the shooter.

“I think it’s miraculous that someone was there before law enforcement even arrived to stop further tragedy from happening,” Olsen said Friday, weeping at times. ”I’m feeling very grateful.”

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This story has been updated to correct the name of the teacher killed Thursday. She is Megan Lambert, not Meghan Lambert as police originally reported.

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Associated Press reporters Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker and Ben Finley in Washington; Jamie Stengle in Dallas; Ed White in Detroit; Philip Marcelo in New York; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.

But they are sharply divided along political, religious and often generational lines on the preferred outcome in a vote that’s perceived as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and held against the backdrop of the enduring trauma of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, which triggered the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s supporters, especially among Orthodox Jews, believe he’s protecting a country they love as central to their identity. Many liberal and younger Jewish Americans believe his policies have harmed Israel’s global standing, engendering widespread anger that threatens them in the U.S., too.

The moment is particularly fraught as antisemitism and antisemitic violence grow. Even harsh critics of Netanyahu’s actions, whether over Gaza or Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, argue that blame for attacks against Jews can’t solely be laid at his feet.

“A lot of American Jews are really torn. They want to shout from the rooftops, ‘Stop the pogroms in the West Bank,’ but also yell at everybody, ‘Stop with allegations of genocide and double standards against Israel,’” said Rabbi Dan Levin of Temple Beth El in Boca Raton, Florida.

Israel is important to Jewish Americans’ identity

Levin’s large Reform synagogue is one of many across the U.S. hosting educational programs this fall because congregants feel “deeply emotionally invested” in the Israeli elections, even if, as non-citizens, they can’t vote.

Under Israel’s complex, multiparty political system, the Oct. 27 election outcome is impossible to forecast. Polls suggest a tight race between a Netanyahu-led bloc and an alliance of rivals for control of the government.

Many Jewish Americans have Israeli friends and family. More broadly, support for Israel is a key component of the religious identity of many U.S. Jewish adults ages 45 and older, particularly those who identify as religiously Jewish, according to a recent AP-NORC poll.

The largest Jewish denomination in the United States is Reform, which emphasizes progressive values. Many Reform Jews see no contradiction between their liberalism and their Zionism — understood as the Jewish people’s aspiration “to live as a free people in our land,” said Rabbi Josh Weinberg of the Union for Reform Judaism, an umbrella group for more than 800 Reform synagogues in North America.

But they worry about the growing power of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel’s political and religious life, as well as settlement policies and the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, that they perceive as contrary to their values, Weinberg added.

“If Netanyahu wins, I worry very much about the young generation of American Jews who may continue to be, I’ll put it nicely, disenchanted, and who might just say ‘OK, that’s it. I’m giving up on Israel,’” he said.

Only about 4 in 10 religious Jewish adults under 45 in the United States say that supporting Israel is “extremely” or “very” important for their Jewish identity, prioritizing instead other forms of connection, like celebrating Jewish holidays, according to the AP-NORC poll.

Antisemitism is a key concern

In the same poll, a majority of Jewish adults said prejudice against Jewish people is an “extremely” or “very” serious problem in the United States today.

As the Israeli elections approach, many communities are worrying about their effects on antisemitism.

“Some American Jews believe a different style of prime minister, one more similar to earlier ones who constantly talked about the desire for peace, will change the way American Jews themselves are viewed,” said Jonathan Sarna, professor emeritus of American Jewish History at Brandeis University.

Even Netanyahu critics, however, don't believe antisemitic acts would stop if Israel changes its government, especially when outrage at his administration’s actions toward Palestinians is used to incite violence against all Jews regardless of nationality or political leanings.

“‘There is only one solution, intifada revolution’ — we hear that as a call to rise up and use violence against Jews,” Weinberg said of a popular protest chant referring to the violent Palestinian uprising. “So when someone says that in Ramallah, that’s one thing. When someone says that in Minneapolis, what exactly are they calling for? That seems pretty clearly to us antisemitic.”

But some think different Israeli policies would help stem the tide.

“Somebody who decides that they’re going to drive a car into a synagogue or attack Jews on the street, that is their responsibility. You can’t blame that on Israel’s actions,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah, a rabbinic human rights organization. “But … I think that it’s going to be a very scary time for Jews around the world if there’s another Netanyahu government and if it continues on its policy of expanding occupation, ethnic cleansing, and forever war.”

Stanley Weinstein, an Orthodox Jew from Florida, rejects much of the criticism of the Israeli military and policymaking, especially given the threats the state faces from militant groups like Hamas in Gaza as well as in other conflicts that keep simmering despite tenuous ceasefires, including in Lebanon and with Iran.

Weinstein sees Israel’s security as crucial, especially given the rise in anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric among left- and right-wing American political figures that he has observed even from his home in the diverse and vibrant Jewish community of Miami Beach.

“I am appalled as an American. I am appalled as a Jew. And I say, thank God there is an Israel,” he said.

Netanyahu, Trump and close elections with unity at stake

For Jewish Americans, Israel also looms large in the U.S. midterms — when voters decide who controls Congress for the next two years. The Nov. 3 elections come a week after Israelis go to their polls.

From New York City to Michigan and beyond, support for Palestinians, and withdrawal of U.S. aid to Israel, are rising issues among Democratic voters.

Both the Israeli and U.S. elections could affect the two countries' longstanding alliance. It has been particularly close — though not without recent strains, especially over the joint Iran war — under the Trump and Netanyahu administrations.

Even as some Israeli policies have become controversial in the United States, among American Jews there is still substantial support for the state of Israel, said Jason Isaacson, chief policy officer for the American Jewish Committee, a prominent advocacy group that strives to broadly represent Jews in the U.S. and abroad.

“There is strong support for the continuation of the U.S.-Israel relationship and for the necessity of Israel’s survival,” he said.

Regardless of their faith and politics, some Jewish Americans are most concerned about the prospect of further divisions driven by Israel's elections.

“This may be the most consequential election in modern Israeli history, because the nature of the current administration is so fraught with division that it’s ripping the people apart,” said Levin, the Reform rabbi in Boca Raton.

Weinstein, the Orthodox congregant in Miami Beach, believes Netanyahu has been doing “a terrific job.” But he shares the same worry for the future.

“The biggest issue in Israel today, which doesn’t exist, is unity. To me, that is what is at stake,” he said. “Is there a way to unify the country, unify the people?”

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Hay una alerta de huracán activa desde Manzanillo, en el estado de Colima, hasta Cabo Corrientes, en Jalisco. Los datos más recientes del centro de huracanes mostraron que el huracán de categoría 2 tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 155 kilómetros por hora (100 millas por hora) y se encontraba a unos 280 kilómetros (175 millas) al sur de Cabo Corrientes, en el estado de Jalisco, y a unos 160 kilómetros (100 millas) al sur-suroeste de Manzanillo, al trasladarse con rumbo al noroeste a 17 km/h (10 mph).

Por su parte, el tifón Champi se fortaleció hasta convertirse en un supertifón de categoría 4 en dirección a Guam.

El vórtice de Trudy se acercará a la costa mexicana el sábado y pasará cerca hasta el domingo. Tras la última alerta, el gobierno de México emitió una alerta de tormenta tropical para Las Islas Marías y suspendió una alerta similar para su costa al sur de Lázaro Cárdenas.

La Marina de México instó a la comunidad marítima y a los residentes en la costa a extremar las precauciones debido al fuerte oleaje, las intensas lluvias y el riesgo de aumento del caudal de los ríos, inundaciones y deslaves en zonas vulnerables.

Las autoridades de Colima señalaron que los riesgos seguían siendo bajos, pero advirtieron que las fuertes lluvias podrían causar daños debido a que el terreno ya estaba saturado por las sucesivas tormentas a lo largo de la costa del Pacífico.

Se prevé que Trudy deje el fin de semana entre 10 y 20 centímetros (de 4 a 8 pulgadas) de lluvia, con acumulados puntuales de alrededor de 38 centímetros (15 pulgadas).

También en el Pacífico, Champi se fortaleció hasta convertirse en un supertifón de categoría 4 con vientos sostenidos de 225 km/h (150 mph) al trasladarse hacia el oeste en dirección a Guam a 24 km/h (15 mph). A las 21:57 GMT se encontraba a unos 60 kilómetros (40 millas) al oeste-suroeste de Guam, de acuerdo con el Servicio Meteorológico de Estados Unidos.

Se pronosticó que la tormenta pasaría al sur de Guam a primera hora del domingo, hora local, y continuará intensificándose durante el día. Guam y Rota permanecían bajo una alerta de tifón, y Tinian y Saipán estaban bajo un aviso de tormenta tropical y vigilancia de tifón.

Los gobernadores de Guam y de las Islas Marianas del Norte solicitaron el viernes declaraciones de desastre de emergencia. La aprobación del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump autorizará apoyo y financiación federales para medidas de protección de emergencia.

Los aeropuertos, puertos y algunas instalaciones de salud en los territorios estaban cerrados. Era poco probable que los recursos llegaran a las islas durante tres a cinco días, según actualizaciones del sábado de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias.

Los territorios aún se están recuperando de los supertifones Sinlaku y Bavi, que golpearon en abril y julio, respectivamente.

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Drier air will settle in north of Alligator Alley tomorrow, but south of there, the rain threat will continue. Winds will strengthen, with gusts exceeding 30 mph Sunday and Monday. Boaters, beware! Small craft advisories will go into effect, and strong northeast winds will make the risk of rip currents dangerously high by tomorrow as well.

Drier air will spread across more of South Florida by early next week, with temperatures becoming more comfortable in the mid-80s. Strong winds will continue through Monday before diminishing to a breeze thereafter.

All remains quiet in the tropics, with no significant activity expected over the next seven days.

The White House decision has heightened fears that Ukraine could be left exposed to Moscow’s escalating attacks as winter approaches.

In a social media statement, Zelenskyy called Trump’s decision unfortunate but avoided directly criticizing the U.S. leader despite deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington in recent days.

“A decision was unfortunately made in America to completely disregard the Lindsey Graham Act, which was supposed to impose truly effective pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end,” Zelenskyy wrote. “This Act could have helped enormously – and still can! But it needs to actually work, and every voice in support of it matters.”

He separately thanked Democrats and Republicans who supported the legislation, saying that blocking it would encourage Russia to continue killing and that limiting Ukraine’s ability to retaliate would not bring peace.

“Nevertheless, we very much hope — and I personally hope — that the president of the United States of America will do everything possible to make (Russian President Vladimir) Putin stop the killing, stop the attacks on our energy infrastructure, and end this war,” he said.

Trump told reporters Saturday that they don’t know what his decision is yet regarding sanctions in Russia, despite the executive order he signed Friday night waiving sanctions, citing a U.S national interest.

“We’ll figure it out, and you’ll figure it out. But it’s a very good decision, and it’s going to be a decision that’s good for the country, and I think good for the world,” Trump said at a fundraising dinner at his Florida estate.

He then didn’t answer any follow up questions and the rest of the dinner was closed to the press.

Asked about contacts with Washington, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s lead negotiator, Rustem Umerov, had met Friday with U.S. presidential envoy Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.

Zelenskyy said the U.S. was working to arrange a three-way meeting involving him, Trump and Putin, potentially in the Middle East, Europe or the United States.

Overnight Russian attacks killed at least four people, including an ambulance driver, and wounded dozens, officials said.

Critics say Trump's decision helps Putin

Named after late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the legislation had sought to clamp down more quickly on the flow of financial resources fueling Russia's 4 1/2-year-old war against Ukraine. The bill had sought to sanction Russian officials, banks and a shadow fleet of tankers that keeps Russian energy moving.

Trump personally signed the legislation just last month and his move came just two days before a deadline set in the law itself for its implementation. Trump told Congress that the pause was in the national interest but gave no further details.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who co-drafted the bill, criticized Trump's move, saying the president was turning his back on “the majority of Americans, their representatives in both houses of Congress, and our European allies.”

“These waivers have nothing to do with our national security, and everything to do with sucking up to Vladimir Putin,” Blumenthal said.

Trump’s unexpected decision comes a week after he had agreed to purchase diesel from Russia to try to bring down global energy prices, despite that potentially hurting Ukraine. Republicans and Democrats alike say the purchase will help Russia execute its war against Ukraine — without making a difference to global fuel prices, which are elevated mostly due to Trump’s war on Iran.

Starlink restrictions were planned, Zelenskyy says

Zelenskyy said that Kyiv was investigating sudden speed restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starshield, the military-grade version of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service, which is the backbone of Ukraine’s drone operations and communication.

The restrictions, imposed without warning early Thursday, cut the internet data connection when a communication terminal moves faster than 160 kph (100 mph). The cap forced Ukrainian drones to fly slower than usual, making it easier for Russian weapons to target or evade them.

Zelenskyy said that there were no similar restrictions in European Union countries and that they apply only to Ukraine. “In other words, this is a planned operation,” he said.

It was unclear who was responsible. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said this week that the U.S. government owns and controls the system, with decisions about its use resting with the U.S. military and, ultimately, the president. The Pentagon has not answered questions from The Associated Press about the restrictions.

Trump told reporters Friday that he did not order restrictions on the system. He also doubted that the disruption came from Musk.

“Well, I don’t know if it was anybody, but it wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon,” Trump said. “And from what I understand, it’s the same as it’s always been.”

On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the White House was not behind the reduction in service to SpaceX’s Starlink.

“It wasn’t deliberate,” he told reporters before departing for Uzbekistan. “We had nothing to do with it.”

“The United States, nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down,” Rubio, who also serves as Trump’s national security adviser, added. “It sort of happened.”

Rubio, though, said Ukraine does not have access to the Pentagon-owned military-grade Starshield system.

“I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield. They do not have Star Shield now. They’ve asked for access to it in order to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia. They do not have access to it at this moment. Those are two different products," he said.

Kyiv reports a ‘massive’ energy strike

Moscow carried out a massive strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, targeting more than 15 sites across the country, Zelenskyy said.

“The sheer scale and unrelenting pace of Russia’s strikes, specifically against our energy sector, are unfortunately having severe consequences,” he said.

Ukraine’s air force said it intercepted all four of Russia's cruise missiles and most of the 332 attack drones it fired overnight.

Russia’s heavy bombardment of the power grid ahead of winter has been an annual feature of the war, aimed at wearing down Ukraine’s appetite for the fight by denying civilians heat and running water. Ukrainian officials have warned that Russia is stockpiling ballistic missiles for more attacks in the coming months.

Russian attacks killed three people in the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, Vadym Liakh, head of the city military administration, said Saturday. A Russian strike also killed an ambulance driver in Ukraine’s Kherson region, head of the local military administration Yaroslav Shanko said. The strike, which used guided bombs, wounded at least 33 others, he said.

Romania downs 2 drones over Black Sea

Romania’s Ministry of National Defense said Saturday that its pilots had shot down two drones over the country’s territorial waters in the Black Sea.

Two F-16s were scrambled at 5:43 p.m. local time after radar systems “detected a group of aerial targets moving southwest, approximately 120 kilometers east of Snake Island,” the ministry said.

The drones entered the NATO member’s airspace around 6 p.m. and were shot down minutes later.

“Both aerial targets were identified as drones and were shot down over Romania’s territorial waters,” the ministry said. It later identified the drones as jet-powered and from “Geran family,” which are types of drones Moscow has used in Ukraine.

The incident follows a spate of drone attacks on at least seven cargo vessels off the Black Sea coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria in October.

Scores of drones have crossed into Romanian airspace over the past two years, with officials attributing many of the incursions to Russia. Romania first shot down drones this year, marking its first such action since Moscow invaded neighboring Ukraine.

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Davies reported from Manchester, England. Associated Press writer Stephen McGrath contributed from Leamington Spa, England.

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A hurricane warning was in effect from Manzanillo in Colima state to Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco. The latest NHC data showed the Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 kph) and was about 175 miles (280 kilometers) south of Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco state and 100 miles (160 kilometers) south-southwest of Manzanillo, moving northwest at 10 mph (17 kph).

Meanwhile, Typhoon Champi strengthened into a Category 4 Super Typhoon as it moved toward Guam.

Trudy’s center was expected to approach the Mexican coast on Saturday and pass near it into Sunday. After the latest warning, Mexico's government issued a tropical storm warning for Las Islas Marias and discontinued a similar warning for its coast south of Lazaro Cardenas.

The Mexican navy urged mariners and coastal residents to exercise extreme caution because of high waves, heavy rain and the risk of rising rivers, flooding and landslides in vulnerable areas.

Colima authorities said the risks remained low, but warned that heavy rainfall could cause damage because the ground was already saturated by successive storms along the Pacific coast.

Trudy was expected to bring 4-8 inches (10-20 centimeters) of rain through the weekend, with isolated totals of around 15 inches (38 centimeters).

Also in the Pacific, Champi strengthened into a Category 4 Super Typhoon with 150 mph (225 kph) sustained winds as it moved west toward Guam at 15 mph (24 kph). At 21:57 GMT it was 40 miles (60 kilometers) west-southwest of Guam, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.

The storm was forecast to pass south of Guam early Sunday local time and continue intensifying through the day. Guam and Rota remained under a typhoon warning, while Tinian and Saipan were under a tropical storm warning and typhoon watch.

The governors of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands both requested emergency disaster declarations on Friday. Approval by U.S. President Donald Trump would authorize federal support and funding for emergency protective measures.

Airports, harbors and some health facilities in the territories were closed. Resources were unlikely to reach the islands for three to five days, according to Saturday updates from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The territories are still recovering from Super Typhoons Sinlaku and Bavi, which struck in April and July, respectively.

“The Holy Father has put his heart and soul into his recovery,” Dr. Stefano Margaritora told Vatican News, adding that he expected the pope to recover fully from surgery “in another 10 days or so.”

Leo, 71, is scheduled to make an ambitious Nov. 6-17 trip to Uruguay, Peru and Argentina, including a dozen flights and two helicopter rides to high altitudes.

“As for a long trip involving air travel in about three weeks, I would say there are no clinical reasons why it should not take place,” Margaritora said.

Leo had the lower lobe of his right lung removed on Tuesday in the first major health event of his 17-month pontificate. The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer. He left the hospital on Saturday, well ahead of the week-long hospital stay the Vatican had initially anticipated.

Pope says he feels ‘much better’

“I am much better, thank you,” the pope said when asked how he was as he was driven away in a black SUV.

Leo greeted patients inside the hospital accompanied by his surgeon, before waving to well-wishers outside who cried out “Holiness” as he walked to a waiting vehicle.

He paused when a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl presented him with a homemade papal doll that she said had helped her through successful cancer treatment. She had briefly met Leo at an audience in St. Peter’s Square last December—an encounter she told reporters “gave her the strength to overcome the illness.”

Since the surgery, Leo has shown signs of recovering well. He had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, held meetings with senior aides and celebrated Mass in a makeshift hospital chapel.

He will take on his first official duty on Sunday, delivering the traditional Angelus blessing to the faithful in St. Peter's Square. It comes exactly one week after the pontiff revealed to throngs in the square that the nodule had been found and would be surgically removed — an unusually candid revelation for the Vatican.

Further tests being carried out

Margaritora, the chief thoracic surgeon at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, also confirmed that the nodule was discovered by chance during routine abdominal examinations. It appeared as “a small spot” at the base of the lung, which extends down to the diaphragm, he said.

He added that if the spot had been higher up, “it certainly would not have been seen.”

The cancer was in its early stages, and the pope had “no respiratory symptoms, and felt perfectly well,” Margaritora said.

He described Tuesday’s procedure to remove the lobe as “routine” and “without complications,” but acknowledged that it “stirred deep feelings ... to operate on a pope, who for the first time – at least in modern history – is undergoing surgery for a malignant tumor.”

The Vatican did not disclose that the tumor was malignant until after Tuesday’s successful surgery. It later confirmed that the pope had undergone a biopsy before being admitted to Gemelli. Experts say the state-of-the-art Ion robotic bronchoscopy would have indicated whether the tumor was malignant and possibly whether cancer had spread to the lymph nodes.

Histological testing of the tumor and related lymph nodes was underway. The results, along with details of the tumor’s molecular and genetic makeup, will help doctors determine whether the pope needs additional treatment. Options include chemotherapy, a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, or targeted oral therapy based on the tumor’s genetic characteristics.

Margaritora said the pope’s recovery so far had required “very little assistance from us.”

“His determination to recover quickly has been effective in every respect. It was truly commendable,” the surgeon said.

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Nuñez said 110 marches drew about 550,000 people across the country. Organizers, including the CGT labor union and students' organizations, said about 800,000 demonstrators took to the streets.

Nuñez described troublemakers as “extremely violent, radical far-left groups” whom, he said, sought confrontations with police and targeted public buildings, including city halls and local government offices. He said those groups have been joined by offenders willing to loot shops. Most of those arrested are adults, he said.

Some incidents were still ongoing in central Paris on Saturday evening.

“There is no place for violence in our Republic,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a message on X. “Those who vandalized property, attacked government offices and businesses, and even looted our town halls will be prosecuted and punished.”

“We will stand united against those who sow chaos … and who prevent people from peacefully expressing their demands,” Macron added.

Fires and looting hit Paris and other cities

In Paris, police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks, paving stones and other objects at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city center.

Associated Press reporters saw thick black smoke rising from cars, bicycles and other vehicles, and trash bins on fire. A newspaper kiosk also burned, while several shops were looted. Several people have been injured in the clashes.

Many metro stations were closed Saturday at police request, including those around the Champs-Elysées and near the presidential palace, parliament and government offices.

Meanwhile, the majority of peaceful protesters joined a march that moved toward northwestern Paris. The crowd chanted France's national anthem and waved flags, and some people played trumpets and violins.

In Lyon, France’s third-largest city where about 20,000 protesters joined the march, a fire broke out inside a tourist office.

In the southern port city of Marseille, some shops and a municipal police station were damaged, while protesters briefly forced their way into the lobby of City Hall.

Nuñez also reported violence by masked groups against local government buildings in Bordeaux, break-in attempts at Lille and Calais city halls and at a police station in Brest. Violence also broke out in Rennes, Toulouse, Montpellier and Grenoble, among other cities.

In Limoges, a middle-sized town in central France, the City Hall was set on fire. Flames were still raging Saturday evening.

Living costs and school conditions fuel anger

Protesters across France responded to calls on social media to revive the “yellow vest” movement, which emerged in 2018 against social injustice. Demonstrators expressed widespread frustration and anger at the government as gasoline, energy and food prices have spiked in recent months.

Sonia Mabrouk, 40, said she came from a suburb west of Paris with her daughter, a high school student, to protest “everything that’s going wrong,” particularly the neglect of public services. Mabrouk, who took part in the yellow vest protests, criticized “policies that favor the rich and always hit the poorest people in their wallets.”

Many protesters could be seen wearing the fluorescent yellow vests that became a symbol of the 2018 rallies. “There’s a general sense of frustration and anger,” Mabrouk said, as she marched alongside peaceful demonstrators of all ages.

Student groups protesting since mid-September through school blockades have urged supporters to join them.

The CGT, one of France’s major labor unions, also backed the protests, calling for “higher wages and pensions, lower prices and the protection of public services that meet people’s needs.”

Far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who backed the high school students movement, also took part in the Paris protest Saturday.

Protester’s injury renews scrutiny of policing

Authorities opened an investigation after a young protester was badly injured Saturday and lost a hand in Saint-Etienne, Nuñez said. He declined to confirm French media reports the injury was caused by a police grenade explosion.

The incident comes as the police have drawn sharp scrutiny over their use of grenades and other riot-control weapons during recent demonstrations.

In the past weeks, France has seen thousands of arrests, hundreds of injuries and schools set on fire as the new school year descended into nationwide student protests that are influencing the country's presidential election campaign and drawing international attention.

Among protesters, particularly gruesome wounds suffered by some teenagers have been blamed on police riot-control weapons. Nuñez suspended the use of a type of police stun grenade against high school demonstrators after a 15-year-old lost a hand. But the suspension does not apply to other protests including those staged Saturday.

The fire broke out at Tuptup Resto and Resort at Inani in Cox’s Bazar district, a popular destination for domestic tourists, Syed Mohammad Morshed Hossain, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defense in the district, said. The resort is located near the Bay of Bengal.

The blaze erupted in the morning and quickly spread through the three-story wooden resort, he said.

“Some people had taken shelter in the washrooms to save their lives, but they died there. It was early in the morning, and the resort guests were asleep,” Saiful Islam, a volunteer, said. He said the victims included women and children.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire. Authorities ordered an investigation.

Meanwhile, an airstrike in Yemen killed three children and wounded others. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Saturday. Read our full coverage here.

Israeli police probe attack on diplomats in West Bank

Israeli police say they have opened an investigation into an alleged assault on diplomats in the occupied West Bank. Their statement cites footage circulating online that appears to show several diplomats being attacked in the village of Taybeh.

Public broadcaster Kan reported that the diplomats included representatives from France, Belgium and Poland. In a separate statement, Israel’s military said the visit had not been coordinated with it and no soldiers were at the scene.

Violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians has surged during the annual olive harvest. Activists say authorities do little to stop it. An attack on Friday seriously injured several people, including a Washington Post photographer.

“The Israel Police condemns violence of any kind and will work to complete these investigations until everyone who took part in these cases is brought to justice,” the police statement said.

Police said they had contacted Israel’s Foreign Ministry to help locate those who were attacked.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that he was “very disturbed” by footage of an attack on Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

“We’re very disturbed by those images and what we’re seeing,’ he said, adding that the Trump administration has asked the Israeli government to “crack down on that stuff.”

Airstrike kills 3 children in Yemen

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say airstrikes from Saudi Arabia killed three children in Yemen's southwestern province of Dhamar.

The Houthi-run health ministry said the strikes the day before hit houses in al-Ar village in Dawran Aness district, also wounding more than a dozen people.

The Houthis blamed Saudi Arabia for the strike, which comes amid heightened fighting between the group and the kingdom and its Yemeni allies. Saudi Arabia didn’t immediately comment.

The children are among 124 people the Houthis say have been killed in their territories since fighting resumed in September, according to the ministry.

Journalist beaten by West Bank settlers undergoes surgery

Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was undergoing surgery on her finger, which was nearly detached from her hand after she was beaten by settlers in the West Bank, her daughter said.

Ashley Milner told The Associated Press that Levine also has a broken rib and multiple broken vertebrae as well as lacerations.

Levine said the perpetrators — armed with bottles and slingshots — “were kicking me for like 10 minutes and I was trying to hold onto my cameras and my bag.”

She said her helmet and protective vest, marked “PRESS,” likely saved her from more serious injuries.

2 ships attacked in the Persian Gulf

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said two vessels transiting through the Persian Gulf off Saudi Arabia were struck Friday. One tanker was fired upon from a small boat with an RPG that damaged part of its rear, and the other was struck by an unknown projectile, it said.

The UKMTO monitor did not identify the vessels but said the crews were safe. No one claimed the strikes.

There has been an uptick in attacks since U.S. President Donald Trump late last month rejected a Tehran proposal to end the war and open the strait, though indirect negotiations have continued.

On Saturday, Iran’s state broadcaster cited the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as saying a supertanker carrying crude oil struck a naval mine and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz. It was unclear when the incident occurred.

Separately, a skiff carrying armed men opened fire on a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas in the Arabian Sea off Yemen, UKMTO reported. There were no reports of casualties. No group claimed responsibility.

Egypt pledges to defend Saudi Arabia

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said his government will implement “any measure” to defend its ally Saudi Arabia amid increasing attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.

Addressing King Salman and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, el-Sissi said his country would do what it takes to defend them. He said that if needed, he would convene parliament for an emergency session to authorize such measures.

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 4 people

Israeli strikes killed four people across Gaza, according to hospital officials.

One strike killed two people and wounded several others east of Gaza City, according to Shifa hospital. Another killed a 14-year-old boy in the central city of Deir al-Balah, according to al-Aqsa hospital, and the third killed one person in the southern city of Rafah, according to the Red Cross field hospital.

Israel's army said it struck Hamas and Islamic Jihad military operatives in those areas but did not immediately respond to the strike in Rafah.

The attacks came more than a year after a ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and Hamas, during which Israel continued to launch deadly strikes on the enclave.

Houthis release more than 150 prisoners in Yemen

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they released 159 war prisoners who were detained in the latest round of fighting. The prisoner release was coordinated with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Abdul-Qader el-Murtaza, a Houthi official in charge of prisoner exchange talks, told a news conference that the prisoners surrendered to the rebels on the country’s west coast.

The Houthis overran the Red Sea coast last month, in a major setback to Yemen's internationally recognized government and its backer Saudi Arabia.

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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.

Motorists and airline passengers have borne the clearest consequences as the fighting disrupts Middle East oil shipments. Some companies have raised delivery charges or prices on selected products. Yet the higher cost of making and moving goods has not translated into across-the-board price increases at stores.

Shoppers may not be spared indefinitely, though. Many companies have absorbed at least part of their higher production and transportation costs. A September jump in wholesale prices suggests some businesses may eventually charge more if fuel prices stay elevated.

The chief economist at Moody's Analytics, Mark Zandi, estimated this week that the war has cost the average U.S. household the equivalent of almost $2,000, including $1,100 in higher energy prices, $540 in higher interest rates and $360 in military costs. The energy portion is growing by $50 a week at current fuel prices, Zandi said.

Here's a look at price changes since the war began and which goods and services could be most susceptible to increases in the months ahead:

Filling up fuel tanks is noticeably more expensive

BEFORE THE WAR: Regular gasoline averaged $2.98 a gallon nationwide and diesel $3.76 almost eight months ago, according to AAA. Gas peaked at $4.56 in May, below its 2022 record, while diesel reached a record $6.53 in September.

WHAT'S REACHED CONSUMERS: On Friday, the national average stood at $4.33 a gallon for gasoline, or 45% above its prewar level, and was up 68% for diesel at $6.33, AAA reported. Gas typically costs less in the fall, and this is the first October a gallon of regular gas has cost more than $4 on average, it said.

Expensive diesel is less apparent to most U.S. residents but contributes to overall inflation by raising the cost of moving goods.

WHAT COULD COME NEXT: Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains dangerous and constrained, prolonging uncertainty over oil supplies and fuel prices. The Energy Information Administration said this month that it expected winter heating costs to be 21% higher for the roughly 3% of households that rely on heating oil, most of them in the Northeast, assuming the weather is mild.

Higher airfares are hard to escape too

BEFORE THE WAR: Jet fuel averaged $99 a barrel worldwide before the war, doubled to $209 in April and climbed back to nearly $195 in September after a spring decline, according to the International Air Transport Association.

WHAT’S REACHED CONSUMERS: Airlines have raised ticket prices and fees, trimmed schedules and shelved plans to add flights. Airfares cost about 22% more in September than they did a year earlier, the consumer price index showed. Average domestic airfares rose from $405 in late 2025 to $445 in the April through June period of this year, excluding optional fees, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

WHAT COULD COME NEXT: Fuel price volatility makes it harder for airlines to plan and could discourage them from lowering fares even when fuel prices start to fall, analysts said. United Airlines pulled some December flights and warned of further possible cuts in 2027. Fewer available seats could mean less pressure to hold ticket prices down.

Higher fares have covered substantial portions of higher fuel costs for domestic airlines but not enough to prevent a squeeze on their third-quarter profits, according to consensus estimates.

Any growth in grocery prices pains Americans after multiple years of food inflation

BEFORE THE WAR: The U.S. Department of Agriculture initially expected grocery prices to rise 1.7% this year, below the historical annual average. USDA now expects a still comparatively modest 2.4% increase.

WHAT HAS REACHED CONSUMERS: Individual food prices can be volatile, and it’s not clear how much of this year's expected increase is due to the war and how much is due to other factors, including tariffs, unfavorable weather and higher labor costs.

Cornell University economics professor Chris Barrett said he was surprised grocery prices haven’t risen faster given higher costs for diesel, fertilizer and refrigeration. USDA revised its 2026 fertilizer cost estimates for major crops upward by 9% to 13% and fuel, lubricant and electricity estimates by 33% to 41%.

Barrett suspects retailers are absorbing some increases to avoid alienating fed-up customers after multiple years of food inflation. Grocery prices in September were about 22% higher than five years earlier.

WHAT COULD COME NEXT: Experts have warned that fresh produce and other frequently replenished perishables could respond quickly to higher transportation and refrigeration costs. Barrett sees “very little prospect" of a significant reduction in fuel prices that could ease the pressure on farmers and truckers.

A strengthening El Niño weather pattern could damage crops through drought, heat or flooding, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned. That could lift commodity prices, although ample inventories and good harvests elsewhere may limit the impact on groceries.

Rubber meets the road when it comes to shoe prices

BEFORE THE WAR: Nearly all shoes sold in the U.S. are imported, and roughly 70% of the materials in a synthetic shoe are petrochemical-based, according to Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America. The industry trade group opposed Trump administration tariffs last year.

WHAT HAS REACHED CONSUMERS: Footwear prices were 3.4% higher in September compared to 12 months earlier, according to the consumer price index. Men's shoes went up the most, by 4.5%.

WHAT COULD COME NEXT: While import costs are down from a year ago, the footwear trade group said oil prices, tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty are likely to keep retail shoe prices rising into 2027.

"Footwear companies are working hard to keep shoes affordable, but there is a limit to how much additional cost businesses can absorb before those pressures reach consumers,” FDRA President and CEO Matt Priest said.

Transportation costs add up throughout product supply chains

BEFORE THE WAR: The cost of moving goods and delivering packages was already increasing and depended on more than fuel.

WHAT HAS REACHED CONSUMERS: It's not clear. September producer-price data showed that transportation and warehousing of goods sold to businesses as inputs cost 10.2% more than a year earlier. Prices for truck and water freight services each rose 19.3%. The indexes measure what transportation providers charged but do not show how much of the increase appeared in retail prices.

Consumers have felt the higher costs most directly when sending packages. The U.S. Postal Service raised base prices 8% in April for Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, Ground Advantage and Parcel Select, citing increased transportation costs. UPS, FedEx and DHL also impose fuel surcharges on many shipments.

WHAT COULD COME NEXT: Shipping costs could remain elevated during the holiday season even if oil prices ease. Third-party provider AFS Logistics and financial services company TD Cowen project record parcel costs this quarter and the highest truckload rates since early 2022.

“We expect fuel to drive elevated transportation costs for the foreseeable future,” AFS Logistics CEO Andy Dyer said.

Although UPS and FedEx surcharges could decline if diesel and jet fuel prices fall, changes to carrier surcharge formulas, holiday fees and tight trucking capacity could keep total shipping bills elevated, AFS said.

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Grantham-Philips contributed from Chicago, Yamat from Las Vegas and Durbin from Detroit.

Recientemente el mandatario dijo que tiene un plan, bajo el cual se ofrecería liberación anticipada y condicional para personas encarceladas por colaborar con las pandillas, que hayan cometido delitos menores. Sostuvo que se beneficiaría aproximadamente al 50% de las personas detenidas y procesadas por supuestamente colaborar con estos grupos delictivos.

En conferencia de prensa, explicó que los casos que revisarán son 10.626 “colaboradores no habituales de pandillas”, pero dejó claro que “ningún pandillero va a salir libre nunca”.

Bukele reveló las cifras de las personas encarceladas en el sistema penitenciario del país. Dijo que hay 120.956 reos, de los cuales 96.457 están presos por formar parte de las pandillas o colaborar con estos grupos criminales.

Detalló que, de esos 96.457 detenidos vinculados a las pandillas, 42.125 son “homeboys” (nombre genérico con el que los pandilleros se refieren a los miembros de su pandilla), y que de este grupo 25.910 son “paros”, a los que definió como “no brincados” —que no han participado en el ritual de ingreso a la pandilla—, y 10.626 son colaboradores no habituales, o que lo hacían esporádicamente por distintas circunstancias.

Explicó que se revisarán los casos de estos 10.626 colaboradores no habituales. Dijo creer que, de este grupo, un 50% podrían entrar el programa Cero Ocio, en el que los reos hacen trabajos para la comunidad y reciben beneficios por cada día trabajado, con el fin de reducir el tiempo de sus sentencias.

El Salvador vive bajo un estado de excepción desde marzo de 2022. Posteriormente, en un solo día, las pandillas asesinaron a 62 personas, y después Bukele mandó a construir el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), una megacárcel de máxima seguridad, en la que están recluidos los pandilleros más peligrosos del país.

La prisión está ubicada en una zona rural, alejada de la población, y sin que los reclusos tengan comunicación con el mundo exterior.

Las pandillas operaban en el 90% del territorio, recaudaban casi 2.000 millones de dólares en extorsiones y asesinaban a los que no pagaban, según las autoridades.

El estado de excepción suspendió derechos fundamentales, incluido el de ser informado de los motivos de la detención y el de tener acceso a un abogado. Además, las fuerzas de seguridad pueden intervenir las telecomunicaciones sin necesidad de una orden judicial, y la detención sin audiencia se prolonga de 72 horas a 15 días.

Desde que la medida entró en vigor, las autoridades han reportado la captura de 93.162 personas acusadas de pertenecer o tener vínculos con las pandillas. Bukele ha dicho que 8.000 personas que eran inocentes han sido liberadas.

Sin embargo, organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos aseguran que han registrado más de 6.000 denuncias durante el régimen de excepción, y documentado la muerte de al menos 575 personas bajo custodia de las autoridades.

En 2015, El Salvador registró 6.656 asesinatos y una tasa de homicidios de 103 por cada 100.000 habitantes. Ese año fue uno de los más violentos en la historia de la nación y el más violento desde el fin de la guerra civil. En comparación, el país concluyó 2025 con apenas 82 homicidios, un mínimo histórico.

In Nebraska, Democratic candidate Chris Backemeyer says families are drowning. “And Mike Flood opened the gates. Flood voted six times for Trump's tariffs and the Iran war, flooding us with higher prices on groceries, gas, cars and medicine, costing us a thousand dollars more a year.”

And in Iowa, a group called Vote Vets Action Fund said Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson voted five times for the Iran war, “giving us record prices for gas and fertilizer.”

Those ads are but a few examples of how Democrats and aligned advocacy groups are using an unpopular war as they challenge Republicans, aiming to win back power in the House and Senate. It's the culmination of a strategy Democrats launched in the spring, when they began to repeatedly bring up war powers resolutions aimed at ending the conflict. The votes had little practical effect, but forced lawmakers to go on record and take a stand.

Now those votes are being highlighted in campaign ads across the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from AdImpact, which charts media spending.

In some cases, the Republicans targeted have never served in Congress before, so they couldn't possibly have voted on the various war powers resolutions. Even then, Democrats are portraying them as destined to be rubber stamps for President Donald Trump when it comes to the war.

Tying the war to the cost of living

The Associated Press analyzed data on broadcast and cable ads aired from Sept. 1 through Oct. 14 in the most competitive midterm races. The analysis focused on House and Senate races rated as either tossups or leaning Democratic or Republican by the Cook Political Report. A smaller number of streaming ads were also examined.

At least half of the 50 races featured Iran-related ads, most of which included household cost-of-living messages. All told, the ads aired on TV more than 43,000 times since Sept. 1, costing an estimated $42 million. The AP used both AdImpact’s own issue designations along with additional analysis of the ads’ language to identify them.

Of the 65 unique Iran-themed ads identified by the AP, 61 of them stressed household cost-of-living messages such as rising prices for fuel and other items.

The Republican playbook

Republicans are largely ignoring the Iran war in their ads. Their best strategy is to go after Democratic weaknesses so voters say “this guy is worse,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist.

“In the end, you're trying to get as many Republicans out to vote for you as possible and bring over some independents," Bonjean said. “And talking about the Iran war is really not a winning message because you're playing on the Democratic turf.”

The major themes addressed in the Republican advertising since Sept. 1 are taxes and crime, followed by issues tied to character, healthcare and immigration.

Some Republicans have sought to distance themselves from the Iran conflict outside the airwaves. In Michigan, Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has said the “war with Iran needs to end — and end quickly.” His opponent, Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, has run ads saying that a billion dollars a day is going to a war “we have no business fighting” and he was running to “invest our tax dollars here in Michigan.”

In Maine, Republican Sen. Susan Collins emphasized in a recent debate that she voted nine times to end the conflict, prompting Democratic challenger Troy Jackson to say she voted five times to “make it happen.”

In all, the Senate has voted 14 times on resolutions seeking to halt or restrict Trump's military action against Iran. The House has held six such votes since the conflict began in late February.

In the latest House vote, seven Republicans ended up siding with Democrats in voting to end the war. That includes four Republicans seeking reelection in highly competitive districts: Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn in Iowa. Barrett and Fitzpatrick had voted previously to remove U.S. troops from hostilities, but the yes votes were the first for Miller-Meeks and Nunn, reflecting the growing weariness with the war.

Where Iran ads are most prevalent

While the Iran war ads made up about 5% of the total TV spots aired across the competitive races, some contests leaned into the topic heavily. The highest concentration was in California’s 48th Congressional District in the San Diego area.

Roughly a third of the 12,000 aired ads touch on Iran. Democrats are seizing on a remark that Republican Jim Desmond made in the early days of the war, in which he said “no pain, no gain” as part of an interview on Real America's Voice. He also said in that interview he believed the higher prices were just “a spike” and would come down once the U.S. eliminated Iran's nuclear capability.

“No pain, no gain?" asks an ad from Democratic candidate Marni von Wilpert. “Tell that to a family filling up their gas tank.”

Desmond and the National Republican Congressional Committee responded with an ad that doesn't mention Iran but criticizes von Wilpert for raising taxes and fees when she was on the San Diego City Council. In contrast, the ad says Desmond fought to lower costs and supports suspending the gas tax.

Not far behind in Iran-related ads are Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, now held by Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans, and Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, an open seat. Roughly a quarter of the ads in those districts touch on Iran. Both are highly competitive races.

Meanwhile, some 4,000 Iran-themed ads have aired in Ohio, or about 4% of the total in one of the nation's most expensive contests. Nearly all were from Democrat Sherrod Brown's campaign and leaned heavily on pocketbook themes.

One desperate resident watched the front-line city slide further toward a humanitarian crisis as its trapped population dwindled to fewer than 2,000 people. She decided it was time to escape via what's been dubbed “the road of death.”

So the 40-year-old former hairdresser walked — for 20 kilometers (12 miles), along the partially mined road — fearing that “every step could have been my last," she said.

Once a city of about 24,000, Oleshky was captured by Moscow’s forces on the first day of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Its buildings were shelled and burned, and its infrastructure damaged. Further calamity struck in June 2023 when floodwaters inundated the city after the Kakhovka Dam collapsed from an explosion that an Associated Press investigation found was likely caused by the Russian military, killing hundreds of residents.

And now those still left in the battered city along Ukraine's southeastern front face death from hunger or disease as another harsh winter looms, with no agreement in sight for even a humanitarian evacuation.

“There is nothing left in Oleshky,” said the woman, who fled in August and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she feared for her security. “No food, no supplies, no medical care, no aid whatsoever.”

Both sides blame each other for the catastrophe. Russia says Ukraine deliberately blocks supplies and evacuations; Kyiv counters that Moscow is effectively holding civilians hostage.

Ukraine has appealed repeatedly for a local ceasefire to organize evacuations. Russia, which as the occupying power is obligated by international law to ensure civilians under its control have what they need to survive, has made no commitment.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Oleshky’s suffering at the hands of Russia on Oct. 12 at an international forum in Poland, saying the city had been “razed to the ground.”

Ukraine is "trying to help these people, but they are under occupation,” he said. “Unblock the city of Oleshky and bring our citizens back.”

In a phone call Friday with President Vladimir Putin, Pope Leo XIV urged a ceasefire to allow food and medicine deliveries to Oleshky and to safely evacuate civilians, the Vatican said. The Kremlin said Putin voiced support for the Vatican efforts to help protect the population and secure vital supplies, and voiced readiness to cooperate.

The morgue overflows with bodies

Remaining residents reportedly scrounge for food amid destroyed buildings, or try to grow vegetables in garden plots. Water is drawn from wells. Firewood is used for warmth. Bodies at the city morgue decompose with no electricity.

Another 100 bodies fill the basement of Oleshky's hospital, said Tetiana Hasanenko, the exiled head of the city's Ukrainian military administration.

The U.N. human rights office said the last regular food delivery by road was May 26. Oleshky's Russian-installed officials said this month they delivered 2 tons of aid, although they admitted it was hardly enough.

The U.N. office said Oleshky's hospital lacks medicine and basic supplies, drone attacks prevent ambulances from reaching patients, and it's unsafe to take them elsewhere.

“It is impossible to live in Oleshky, there is no life left there,” said another resident who fled to Russian-held Mariupol and spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his security.

Even the Russian soldiers have moved deeper into the occupied part of the Kherson region, farther from the Dnipro, according to the former hairdresser. The Moscow-appointed authorities seemed to have "given up on us a long time ago,” she said.

She considered herself lucky to have survived the journey from Oleshky to the village of Radensk, also occupied by Russia but farther from the front line and thus better off.

She said an acquaintance who tried to bring food into Oleshky was killed on the road when his car came under fire, adding that she saw a photo of him “covered in blood, with bread and chicken legs scattered around him.”

Hasanenko said the route from Oleshky to Radensk is known as “the road of death” because "corpses lie on this road and no one is taking them away." She cited an explosion this month that killed four people and left an 86-year-old man badly wounded.

Russian troops were driven out of the larger city of Kherson across the Dnipro in 2022 but mined the roads around Oleshky, said Lt. Yevhen Voronetskyi, a spokesman with Ukraine’s 34th Separate Marine Brigade. Kyiv's drones also remotely mined forest paths used by Russian troops, he said.

Some evacuees who make it to Radensk try to return to Oleshky with food “because they have children waiting at home, or immobile elderly parents," Hasanenko said, saying at least 35 children remain there.

An evacuee helps others still trapped

Ksenia Arkhipova, who fled Oleshky in 2022 and now helps others leave, said nearby occupied towns and villages in a zone along the Dnipro face similar dire conditions and mined roads.

It takes six to eight hours to walk or cycle from Oleshky to Radensk, she said, because evacuees might be older and weakened by hunger, or they have to wait out attacks or carry their bikes to avoid the mines.

Travel is only possible in dry weather, Arkhipova said, and "I'm terrified at the thought of the coming winter, when many people in Oleshky will be simply doomed."

Some of them don't want to leave their homes or risk a dangerous journey, Voronetskyi said.

An agreement on an evacuation remains elusive

Russia and Ukraine have discussed a possible temporary ceasefire and humanitarian corridor but reached no agreement, the U.N. human rights office said. “With winter approaching, the issue is urgent,” it said.

While communications with Moscow continue, "Russia has not provided clear, verifiable guarantees for conducting a humanitarian operation,” according to the office of Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets.

The mined roads make an evacuation impossible, and not all residents want to leave, according to the city's Russian-installed officials.

Vladimir Saldo, who was appointed by Moscow as governor of the occupied part of the Kherson region, promised earlier this month to help anyone who wants to leave the town. The former hairdresser told AP that residents have appealed to local authorities several times for a humanitarian corridor and submitted lists of those hoping to leave, but nothing came of it.

The International Committee of the Red Cross was ready to assist an evacuation but only if both countries agree and there are security guarantees for civilians, said ICRC spokesperson Sarah Davies.

The Ukrainian military says its drones deliver some aid

Voronetskyi, the Ukrainian lieutenant, said the food shortages in Oleshky have persisted for months and are getting “worse and worse.”

His brigade has flown drones capable of carrying at least 20 kilograms (44 pounds) each over the Dnipro into the city with food aid for at least a year, he said, adding that more than 7 tons were delivered since September.

The parcels contained canned food, ingredients for baking bread, along with buckwheat, rice, sugar and candy for children. along with hygiene kits and medicine, including insulin, he said.

But Voronetskyi cautioned that these supplies weren't meant to get people through the winter but to help them "gather their strength, pack their things ... and still try to leave Oleshky.”

Russia should “come in and take the people out,” he said. "No one will stop you.”

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Karmanau reported from Tallinn, Estonia, and Arhirova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.

The Polish pope, 84 at the time, was back at Gemelli hospital battling an acute respiratory infection, breathing problems and the worsening effects on his larynx of Parkinson’s disease, which had made speaking nearly impossible and breathing difficult.

Doctors performed a tracheotomy under anesthesia, an incision in John Paul’s windpipe, to help him breathe. And yet the next morning, his spokesman gave reporters a remarkably rosy, seemingly implausible update: John Paul had eaten his regular breakfast of coffee with milk, 10 cookies and a yoghurt.

“Something that would suffocate anyone,” church historian Alberto Melloni recalled Friday. “But it was normal then that they told lies about the pope. Those were the rules of the game.”

Two papacies and twenty years later, Pope Leo XIV has changed the rules of the game.

Not only did history’s first American pope announce himself that he had a lung nodule that required surgery – live on television during his Sunday noon blessing from the Apostolic Palace — but Leo's doctors have been providing the medical updates for his recovery, not the Vatican.

Every day since Leo’s surgery Tuesday, Leo’s personal physician Dr. Luigi Carbone and the head of thoracic surgery at Gemelli, Dr. Stefano Margaritora, have signed the medical bulletins updating the world on Leo’s recovery. The Vatican spokesman has provided information primarily involving non-medical details: The Mass Leo celebrated, the Vatican officials who visited.

The written medical updates are spare, but provide authoritative information with a degree of accountability and transparency that has long been anathema to the Vatican.

American-style good governance practices at play

Leo’s handling of his cancer is in many ways textbook American-style corporate good governance, applied to the Catholic Church, said Julie Rubio, a professor of Christian social ethics at the Jesuit school of theology at Santa Clara University.

“Even though it doesn’t seem all that revolutionary, ‘best practices’ of relying on experts, transparency, evaluation -- all those kinds of things are practices that are good for an institution,” she said.

She said Leo, the American math major pope, had already brought such best practices into his governing style at the Vatican, most visibly in the official rollout in May of his encyclical on artificial intelligence.

Rather than have a handful of prelates talk about the encyclical at a Vatican press conference, Leo himself presided over the presentation. To provide a spectrum of voices, perspective and experience, Leo had on the stage with him three cardinals, two lay female theologians – from Britain and Congo -- and the co-founder of AI developer Anthropic.

Rubio said the inclusive presentation was in keeping with the effort, begun by Pope Francis, to make the church less clerical and more reflective of the real world. It's a church that relies on lay expertise in the way that Leo relied on medical advice to have the nodule removed, she said.

“Those kinds of practices actually can be pretty transformative to a place,” she said. “Though obviously the transformation is a process.”

Francis governed alone and declined medical advice

The process began to some degree under the Francis pontificate, when the Argentine pope took the reins of the Vatican communications apparatus and gave dozens of sit-down interviews over the course of 12 years, often without informing his media handlers. That level of control precluded a Vatican media operation from spinning tall tales as occurred during John Paul's reign.

But when it came to his own health and governing style, Francis was opaque, stubborn and often shunned expert advice. His go-it-alone attitude, in everything from Vatican diplomacy to communications, extended to his view of doctors. He repeatedly refused medical advice, even as his already fragile respiratory health and mobility deteriorated.

Francis had strained ligaments in his right knee that made walking difficult. But he refused to operate on it, saying he didn’t like the effects of anesthesia. Eventually he was unable to walk and had to use a wheelchair. He similarly refused to go to the hospital as his pneumonia worsened toward the end of his life, even as he swelled with the effects of cortisone and other treatments.

Melloni recalled that Francis was very much a Jesuit, a militant-style religious order and its pope a “Rambo-style” fighter who governed alone. He was, Melloni said, “a man who takes care of himself, a man who if injured fights back, a man who always had to give this proof of military-style valor.”

Leo, on the other hand, is the perfect civilian patient: He listens to expert medical advice and follows it, like most people who get sick, Melloni said. Leo moved quickly to remove the nodule, considering other cases of cancer in his family, with his brother currently being treated for blood cancer, he said.

"He knows that this disease —as is obviously the case with all diseases of that sort — is unpredictable,” he said.

Other ways Leo is changing the Vatican

Leo is making his mark on governing, even from the hospital, and showing who is in charge in other ways, too.

Late Friday, the Vatican announced he had spoken by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and “expressed his deep concern about the grave humanitarian situation in the city of Oleshky, in the Kherson region, and called for a ceasefire to allow the delivery of food and medical assistance, and the voluntary and safe evacuation of the civilian population.”

The statement was significant, showing Leo was well enough to conduct official diplomatic business from the hospital, was keeping up with world events and was continuing to promote his message of peace as he recovers from surgery. The Kremlin readout of the call suggested progress had actually been made on the humanitarian front.

But the demonstration of Leo's leadership was significant also because it came as intrigue was consuming the Vatican over the fate of the secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The seasoned diplomat had said Leo's pontificate may have to be “adjusted” given his cancer diagnosis, a bold claim given all indications were that Leo was recovering well.

Parolin, who had been Francis' top deputy but remains in the job, was considered a leading contender in the conclave that elected Leo and was recently passed over as dean of the College of Cardinals.

Perhaps tellingly, he was not among the Vatican officials who visited Leo Friday.

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There was a playground and a broad grass field leading to an elementary school he once attended. Inside were hundreds of children, including a handful attending a special needs class — just like he had.

There was also a red truck. It was driven by the first of at least three people who would risk their own lives to try to stop him, according to accounts from police and school officials.

The driver yelled, and the boy started shooting. He hit the truck at least three times, but the driver wasn't hurt — he drove down the road and called 911.

Nearby was another driver, Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter. He saw the boy shooting at the red truck and heading toward the school, Silver Rail Elementary. Giamanco's children go there.

The boy walked along the school to a locked door. He blasted through its glass panes with the shotgun.

Giamanco drove into the parking lot. He had a gun too — a .40-caliber pistol legally stored in his vehicle.

In the classroom next to the broken door there were teachers and four children. Another teacher had taken a first-grader to the bathroom.

The boy entered a classroom next to the door. He pumped the shotgun and pulled the trigger. Over and over.

The teacher and the first-grader who had gone to the restroom heard the gunshots. They hid under a table in a nearby office.

Giamanco could hear the shooting too. He went toward it.

One of the teachers in the classroom threw a phone at the shooter. Then, police say, she tackled him.

Inside the school Giamanco saw a woman wrestling with the boy for control of the shotgun. He shot the boy several times, killing him.

The teacher who wrestled with the boy wasn't hurt. But three of the children in the classroom were killed. They were 5, 8 and 11 years old. Another was critically wounded.

One teacher in the classroom was killed: 25-year-old Megan Lambert. Her family said teaching was her dream job. Another teacher was shot in the arm and in the hand.

Linda Sanchez is the mother of the first-grade boy who hid under the table with his teacher. She got a robocall about the lockdown and heard ambulances and police cars rushing toward the school.

“My heart was just like pounding because he was in there,” Sanchez said.

The entire series of events spanned just a few minutes. Police arrived quickly, just before Giamanco shot the boy, Griffin John II. In the aftermath investigators found as many as 15 spent shell casings. The boy had about 44 more unused rounds.

At a news conference Friday, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz and others expressed their appreciation for those who did not stand by.

“I don’t think we can underestimate or underappreciate that courage,” Krantz said. “When someone is willing to risk their own life for others, we recognize that. The quick thinking to observe, to then park and follow someone into the school is incredible and undoubtedly saved people.

“If it came natural as a protective father, that’s terrific,” Krantz said.

“The teacher who’s willing to stand and fight for her children — incredible,” the chief added. “We all recognize that is true heroism. We don’t see that a lot in society.”

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Johnson reported from Seattle.

Liliana Arguinzonesa, owner of 7tyone Restaurant on Normandy Drive, said she was nervous to enter the business when she discovered the damage.

“I’m nervous to enter because I don’t know if the person is still inside,” Arguinzonesa said.

Surveillance video captured the burglary just before 1 a.m. Friday. The video shows a man wearing a hat, a towel covering his face and a backpack as he breaks through the restaurant’s door.

He then walks behind the counter, takes the cash register and leaves.

In addition to the stolen cash, Arguinzonesa now has to repair the damaged door.

“Today it’s me, but another day it can be another person, my neighbor, another business,” she said.

Arguinzonesa has filed a police report, and Miami Beach police confirmed they are investigating. No suspect information was immediately available.

The owner said the break-in has affected more than just her business.

“You just not take the money, you broke my dreams, you broke my peace,” she said.

Arguinzonesa hopes someone will help identify the person responsible. She is also calling on the city to improve security, saying the street is too dark at night.

“It’s like a call to action to the city, because right now the street is really dark at night. We need more security,” she said.

This leaves the door open for new candidates if none of the current candidates is able to win over the veto-wielding members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — in the race to succeed António Guterres, who has led the United Nations for almost 10 years.

As in five previous straw polls, the 15 council members voted to “encourage” or “discourage” the seven candidates or express “no opinion," but this secret poll was the first to use red ballots to distinguish votes from the five powers.

The three leading candidates — U.N. trade chief Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica, U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi of Argentina, and Guyana’s U.N. ambassador, Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett — all received two red “discourage” votes, according to two diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because the poll was private.

Grynspan, a former Costa Rican vice president, remained at the top of the polling with nine “encourage” votes.

While it was not known how each council member voted, numerous U.S. officials have made clear for the past several weeks that none of the candidates is ideal from the perspective of the Trump administration. It has focused on radical reform of the global body and the withdrawal, or planned withdrawal, of the United States from multiple U.N. agencies.

However, despite the administration’s differences with the U.N., its bureaucracy, and reservations about who the next secretary-general should be, the officials have not ruled out supporting one of the announced candidates.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the U.S. position was still being refined and would be made clear in the coming days.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz told reporters as he left the closed council meeting that the U.N. needs “strong, energetic leadership” that is going to take the 193-member world body back to its original focus on peace and security.

“This institution, after 80 years, has tried to become everything to everyone,” Waltz said. “We put it on a diet so to speak — we’re all a little better off after being on a diet — and (need to) get it focused on peace and security.”

By tradition, the job of secretary-general rotates by region, and this is Latin America’s turn. There also is pressure to pick a woman, who would become the first female leader of the U.N.

“We understand there is a desire for regional rotation,” Waltz said. “Of course, if the best candidate is a woman, we would welcome that — but we really just need the best candidate.”

The two candidates at the bottom of Friday's straw poll were women — Maria Fernanda Espinosa, a former General Assembly president and foreign minister of Ecuador, and Ivonne A-Baki, a former Ecuadorian ambassador. Two African contenders — former U.N. diplomat Olara Otunnu of Uganda and Senegal’s former president, Macky Sall — each received 10 “discourage” votes.

The next straw poll, with red ballots, will be held next week, the two diplomats said.

Waltz and Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia both left open the possibility of new candidates.

“We're going to get this done, I'm confident, before the end of the year,” Waltz said. “That is my wish, definitely,” Nebenzia said.

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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report from Washington

Trump personally signed the legislation just last month and his move came just two days before a deadline set in the law itself for its implementation. It drew shift condemnation from congressional Democrats.

Named after late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the legislation had sought to clamp down more quickly on the flow of financial resources fueling the war against Ukraine.

Trump's unexpected decision comes a week after he stunningly said the U.S. had agreed to purchase diesel from Russia to try to bring down global energy prices, despite that potentially hurting Ukraine in its war with Russia.

An AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll published Oct. 1 found that Americans disapprove of the president's handling of the Iran war and blame him for higher prices. Trump's approval ratings have sunk to near-historic lows and pressure is mounting as Republicans try to hold control of both chambers of Congress after midterm elections on Nov. 3.

Sanctions were seen as part of Graham's legacy

Graham, a close ally and friend of the president, had just returned from Ukraine when he unexpectedly died in July. He had advocated for stricter U.S. sanctions against Russia as a way of pressuring it to end its war in Ukraine.

His colleagues in Congress responded with bipartisan support after his death and Trump attached his signature to the legislation — then changed his mind Friday.

The package had been meant to starve Russian President Vladimir Putin of the resources Moscow needs to continue its war in Ukraine after invading its neighbor more than four years ago. The bill, also drafted by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., had sought to sanction Russian officials, banks and a shadow fleet of tankers that keeps Russian energy moving.

It also directed Trump to impose up to 100% tariffs on the top five importers of Russian oil or natural gas, with an exception for countries that import less than 15% of Russia’s natural gas exports and have taken significant steps to reduce those imports.

Blumenthal said in a statement that Trump was turning his back on "the majority of Americans, their representatives in both houses of Congress, and our European allies.”

“These waivers have nothing to do with our national security, and everything to do with sucking up to Vladimir Putin," Blumenthal said.

Democratic Virginia Rep. Don Beyer noted on social media shortly after the announcement of the sanctions being suspended that he and others had “warned" Trump might make such a move. The veteran congressman, who spoke out against the bill as it was debated, called on Congress to “fix this flawed law to stop Trump from capitulating to Putin and ensure that it truly supports Ukraine.”

The White House did not immediately explain how pausing the sanctions was in the national interest. The decision was posted on the White House website late in the evening, and the notification noted that the report explaining the decision had been submitted to Congress.

Still, it comes as Trump has increasingly lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blaming him for failing to make a deal with Putin to end the fighting.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, had remained mostly quiet since the passage of the bill with large majorities in the House and Senate following Graham’s sudden death — with lawmakers urged ahead by Zelenskyy.

Trump's action follows announced diesel deal with Putin

Under last week's agreement, Trump said Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.”

Trump’s striking a diesel deal with Putin has been pilloried by Republicans and Democrats alike who say it will help Russia execute its war against Ukraine -- without making a different to global fuel prices, which are elevated mostly due to Trump’s war on Iran.

The sanctions that Trump has now suspended, meanwhile, also had become a campaign centerpiece for Sen. Darline Graham, the late senator’s sister who was appointed to serve out the remaining months in his current term. She is now running to replace him in the Senate more permanently.

Darline Graham said in a statement after Trump signed the bill, “I wish Lindsey were here to celebrate this historic day." In a debate earlier this week with Democratic nominee Annie Andrews, Graham — who has Trump’s endorsement and is expected to campaign with him in South Carolina next week — said she had been “so proud” to help get the measure passed.

She acknowledged, however, that it was the president’s purview as to how he implemented it.

“It gives the president tools that he can use if he so chooses, to end the war through economic sanctions,” Graham said Sunday during a debate in Columbia. “So that’s up to him as to whether or not he wants to use it, or whether he wants to use something else, but I think the purpose of it is to bring down the gas prices and ultimately end the war. And when the war ends, gas prices will fall.”

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, lawyers for the Democrat from Minnesota described the investigation as a baseless effort to go after a longtime political target of Republican President Donald Trump, noting that the search was conducted just weeks before the midterm elections, in which Omar is on the ballot.

Omar's attorneys wrote that there is "no legitimate basis for any suggestion that she has violated any law concerning her citizenship status."

“This vindictive, retributive, and politically motivated criminal investigation into one of the President’s chief congressional critics violates Representative Omar’s constitutional rights and threatens the separation of powers," Omar's legal team wrote in the letter first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

A Justice Department spokesperson said the letter from Omar's defense team was “riddled with false allegations and inaccuracies.”

“Our attorneys and law enforcement partners complied with all court orders and legal obligations, as they always do,” department spokesperson Emily Covington wrote in a text message Friday evening.

Monday's search of Omar's Washington, D.C., home this week drew swift condemnation from Democrats, as the Justice Department has historically sought to avoid public investigative actions involving a candidate within 60 days of a primary or general election.

Federal authorities seized Omar's phone in the search and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, a person briefed on the probe told the AP this week.

The scope of the investigation into Omar is unclear, though Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has suggested that authorities were examining potential crimes related to her family’s immigration paperwork. Separately, Washington's U.S Attorney Jeanine Pirro has said “there are several investigations going on” related to Omar and her office is probing issues concerning the lawmaker’s financial disclosures.

In the letter, Omar's attorneys accused the Justice Department of violating longstanding agency policy designed to avoid potentially influencing an election. They also raised concerns about whether the department appropriately followed all of the specific instructions by the magistrate judge who approved the search.

In addition to the return of her property, Omar's attorneys are demanding that the Justice Department preserve any audio and video that was taken during the search, according to the letter.

Omar has repeatedly refuted allegations about her marriage and immigration status raised by conservative critics, even before she joined Congress.

According to her House biography, Omar has said she and her family fled Somalia’s civil war when she was 8: “The family spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States in 1990s. In 1997, she moved to Minneapolis with her family.” She became a lawfully naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, according to her lawyers.

Conservative online sites have alleged that Omar married a brother to commit immigration fraud. Omar has broadly denied the allegations as “disgusting lies” and called the insinuation “absurd and offensive.”

The search of her home came just days after Trump referred pejoratively to Omar at a rally in Tennessee as coming from a country of “crime and squalor” and suggested that Vice President JD Vance “and our people” were investigating her. Hours after the search, Trump told reporters he had “nothing to do” with it and it’s “really up to the DOJ.”

Major League Baseball was hoping there would be a three-hour window of dry weather to get the game in, but the showers never let up.

“It never cleared out the way they were hoping. It started to get later in the hour, and MLB and I think both clubs did everything they could to try to get it in,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “Made the most sense, like, at this point and this hour, with no guarantee that there wasn’t another band coming.”

The teams will resume their playoff series Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, with Game 5 also at Progressive Field on Sunday at 5 p.m., and Game 6, if necessary, on Monday at 8 p.m. in St. Petersburg, Florida.

“We knew how many days ago that today was going to be a challenge. Numerous weather calls, numerous back and forths, and ultimately MLB decided we needed to wait it out,” Guardians manager Stephen Vogt said. “Obviously it’s an important game, and we need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to play the games when they’re scheduled. But MLB ultimately decided to wait this one out.”

It is the first time an ALCS game has been postponed since 2019, when the New York Yankees were hosting the Houston Astros.

The Guardians have a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series after Petey Halpin’s two-run homer propelled them to a 3-2 victory in Game 3 on Thursday afternoon.

Both teams will stick with their scheduled Game 4 starters from Friday. Cleveland will go with a bullpen game, with Shawn Armstrong being the opener. Nick Martinez will pitch for Tampa Bay.

It will be Armstrong’s fifth appearance this postseason. The right-hander has allowed only one hit in 5 1/3 innings with five strikeouts.

Armstrong thought his season was done in late July when he strained a calf muscle, but he returned during the final week of the regular season.

Armstrong was drafted by Cleveland in the 18th round in 2011 and made his big league debut four years later. He was traded to Seattle in 2017 and spent time with four other organizations, including Tampa Bay, before signing with the Guardians this season.

“I think I said it to (Erik) Sabrowski, whenever we were standing in the outfield in Game 2 in Tampa — obviously I played here, I got drafted here, coming back here and being able to be in this situation is — words can’t describe it,” Armstrong said before Game 3 on Thursday.

Martinez started Game 3 of the Division Series against the New York Yankees. He went 3 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits with a walk and three strikeouts. The right-hander was 15-6 during the regular season and ranked sixth in the AL with a 3.10 ERA. He was third in the AL with 26 starts in which he allowed three runs or fewer.

“It’s just like my starts throughout the year; it’s going to be a dogfight going in, just to see how many outs I can get for this team. It’s important,” he said Thursday.

The teams might have to play the final four games of the series without a day off, culminating in a potential Game 7 on Tuesday. That could be welcome news for the Milwaukee Brewers, who have a week off before they open the World Series at home on Oct. 23 against the Cleveland-Tampa Bay winner.

Milwaukee is in the Fall Classic for the first time since 1982 after completing a four-game sweep of the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series on Thursday night.

“We’ve got four games in a row. We have an opportunity to win some games and move on. And that’s all we’re focused on,” Vogt said.

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The Chinese takeout container — at least, as it's commonly seen in the United States — is actually about as American as it gets, with its mix of ingenuity, immigrant cultures becoming homegrown staples, and the desire for convenience (also known as sitting at home in your PJs.)

The idea of what is essentially a paper bucket dates to 1894, when inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox was granted a patent for what he called “a new and useful improvement” for pails used to carry oysters. A single piece of material would be folded in such a way that it would have structural stability while also limiting the ways it could leak, and also incorporate a lid.

That's the container. What about the contents we assume are inside it?

Chinese immigrants started coming to the U.S. in the mid-1800s, taking part in the Gold Rush and working to help build the railroads. The communities they created, known as Chinatowns, rose up in places like San Francisco and later around the country. They included eating spots where the foundations of an Americanized style of Chinese food was laid.

After World War II, there was a “real profusion of Chinese restaurants, diversifying away from just chop suey and chow mein ... we see this explosion of interest and growth in Chinese food,” says Michelle King, professor of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Crucially, it was also the start of an association in the public mind of Chinese food with cheaper prices, availability and convenience, she said. And restaurant owners wanted to be considered accessible, for which takeout played a part, she said. “You need to take it home, you have a dinner party you want to cater for, we can do that for you, right?” King says.

At some point in the 1970s, at a packaging company then known as Fold-Pak, the pagoda design was added, sometimes along with words printed in a font used to stereotypically evoke an association with Chinese culture.

“It kind of becomes claimed as a Chinese American food eatery item, like the pizza box or something like that might be for Italian food,” King said.

These days, takeout cartons come in a variety of shapes, and the food landscape has expanded to include a range of cuisines that might show up in the former oyster pail.

Even so, it IS still an icon — quite literally. Check your emojis for “takeout.”

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The person told The Associated Press on Friday that the framework of the deal to expand starting next season had been reached but that many details and an official contract remained unfinished. The person requested anonymity because of the ongoing negotiations.

ESPN, quoting its own unnamed sources, said its average additional payment to the CFP for the six years of the expanded playoff — which would include 12 more games than under the current 12-team format — would be $345 million a year.

The current six-year deal that begins this year is worth $7.8 billion.

The parties have been discussing a format in which the Power Four conference champs and the highest-ranked team from the Group of Six earn automatic bids, with the other 19 teams being chosen by a selection committee.

The first two rounds of the expanded playoff would be held on campuses, with the top eight teams getting a first-round bye and hosting the next week.

The major bowls would continue to host the quarterfinals and semifinals, with the championship game staying in late January.

While some have worried that the expanded playoff would water down college football's regular season, Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti has argued that the bye week, home-field advantage and the quest to get into the top 24 would give a wider variety of teams something to play for in November.

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La demanda fue impulsada por la campaña de Lula, que dijo que la empresa propietaria de Instagram, Facebook y WhatsApp estaba utilizando algoritmos sesgados y restricciones de inteligencia artificial para favorecer a Bolsonaro. El caso en Brasil guarda similitudes con casos europeos en Rumania y Alemania, donde los tribunales intervinieron previamente para corregir desequilibrios en dichas plataformas.

Meta respondió que una serie de problemas recientes en la plataforma se debieron a fallas técnicas globales no relacionadas, medidas estrictas contra el fraude, y el cumplimiento regulatorio, más que una supresión específica. Insistió en que sus sistemas no distribuyen contenido en función de la ideología política, y subrayó que las normas se aplican por igual a todos los usuarios.

La empresa indicó que tuvo dos problemas técnicos globales previamente en octubre: uno de ellos congeló los conteos de visualizaciones en Instagram Reels en más de 100 países mientras que la distribución de contenido se mantuvo normal, y otra interrumpió brevemente durante un día la creación de anuncios a partir de publicaciones existentes de Instagram en una de sus herramientas.

Meta dice que cada incidente citado por la campaña de Lula es explicable

Al abordar las preocupaciones de la campaña de Lula sobre Meta AI, la compañía explicó que una laguna técnica —relacionada con el uso de nombres de pila genéricos, combinados con cifras electorales— impidió brevemente que algunos usuarios generaran imágenes del presidente, mientras que, durante un día más, sí permitió hacerlo en el caso de Flávio Bolsonaro.

Sin embargo, Meta no abordó por qué los canales de Bolsonaro en Instagram y WhatsApp recibieron recomendaciones algorítmicas, una práctica que el tribunal electoral de Brasil declaró ilegal.

“Los votantes brasileños merecen hechos, no una narrativa política construida con la combinación de problemas técnicos no relacionados. Meta seguirá haciendo cumplir sus normas, acatará la legislación electoral brasileña, corregirá los errores cuando ocurran, y garantizará condiciones equitativas para todos los que usan nuestros servicios”, declaró la compañía.

“Meta aplica las mismas normas a todos los candidatos, partidos y puntos de vista políticos en Brasil, tal como lo hace en elecciones en todo el mundo. No suprimimos contenido para perjudicar a ninguna parte, ni otorgamos trato preferencial a ninguna parte. Cada uno de los incidentes citados por la campaña de Lula tiene una explicación directa y documentada, según se describió arriba. Ninguno de ellos refleja sesgo político”, añadió.

Más temprano el viernes, el diario Folha de S. Paulo informó —citando comunicaciones internas filtradas— que empleados de Meta reconocieron que las cuentas de la campaña del mandatario en funciones sí fueron restringidas para impedirles impulsar ciertas publicaciones, pero ello se debió a fallas técnicas y limitaciones algorítmicas, aunque ingenieros de la empresa insistieron en que los problemas provinieron de fallos del sistema y errores automatizados.

El gobierno de Lula ha intentado regular a las grandes tecnológicas

Desde que asumió el cargo en 2023, Lula ha promulgado protecciones en línea para mujeres y menores, emitido decretos sobre la responsabilidad de las plataformas, y colaborado con el Supremo Tribunal Federal para responsabilizar a las empresas por contenido ilegal y desinformación. Desde el año pasado, plataformas como Google, Meta y TikTok tienen que monitorear y retirar discursos de odio, racismo e incitación a la violencia en Brasil.

Esa postura ha enturbiado las relaciones con el gobierno del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, y ha suscitado críticas de quienes temen que pueda amenazar la libertad de expresión. Meta señaló en el comunicado que seguirá defendiéndose ante la demanda.

Las acusaciones en Brasil se alinean con precedentes internacionales relativos a las plataformas tecnológicas y elecciones. En 2019, antes de los comicios al Parlamento Europeo, el Tribunal Constitucional de Alemania emitió un fallo histórico contra la censura por parte de las plataformas, al obligar a Facebook a restablecer la página bloqueada de un partido político, estableciendo que los gigantes tecnológicos deben respetar los principios constitucionales de igualdad política.

Cinco años después, Rumania enfrentó una manipulación algorítmica encubierta durante sus elecciones presidenciales de 2024, que fueron anuladas debido a una amplificación oculta en TikTok y redes de bots que favorecían al candidato prorruso Călin Georgescu. Posteriormente, Rumania promulgó legislación de emergencia que exige códigos de rastreo obligatorios en toda la mensajería política en redes sociales, lo que supone un cambio de paradigma hacia la transparencia estructural.

Un estudio halló que Meta permitió cientos de anuncios políticos irregulares

Sumándose a las dificultades que enfrenta Meta en Brasil, un estudio publicado esta semana por un grupo de investigación de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro reveló que la plataforma permitió al menos 1.613 anuncios políticos irregulares —que totalizaron 171 millones de visualizaciones y generaron aproximadamente 2 millones de reales (400.000 dólares) en ingresos entre julio y septiembre—, financiados principalmente desde Estados Unidos.

“En Brasil está prohibido que cualquier entidad distinta de un partido político, un candidato o una coalición compre publicidad electoral. Ninguna empresa debería poder comprar anuncios en Meta, ya sea desde Brasil o desde el extranjero, para promover una campaña electoral", expresó Marie Santini, profesora de comunicación que participó en el estudio. "No es la primera vez que Meta es negligente con la ley electoral, ni es el primer país. Es un comportamiento sistemático de la empresa”.

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James snared the ball and brought it home for a two-handed dunk that sent the 76ers' crowd of 19,746 fans — yes, a sellout in the final preseason game — into a frenzy.

Just wait until it counts.

James performed his famed chalk toss and was introduced to a roaring ovation on Friday night in his first preseason game for the 76ers in Philadelphia.

The 41-year-old James, who joined the 76ers this summer for his NBA-record 24th season, gave a sneak peek of the fun that could be ahead in his first season with the Sixers.

He scored eight points and had eight rebounds against the Boston Celtics, but it was the dunk off a pass from Maxey — a close friend whom James has credited with swaying his decision to sign with the Sixers — that made him a crowd favorite in Philadelphia.

“This is a connection that we have,” James said. “Some of the best things for us offensively is going to be to get up the floor.”

James got some nice air on the dunk. He's getting sky high in the helicopter he takes after practice from the Sixers' New Jersey practice facility to a helipad in New York. There have been a few times already when Sixers doing post-practice interviews have had their answers drowned out by the whirring overhead.

“I've done it before,” James said. “Just another way of transportation. That's all.”

Public address announcer Matt Cord offered a full-throated “At 6-9, from St. Vincent-St. Mary’s, No. 23, LeBron James! James!” for the intros. Joel Embiid still got the final introduction.

While nothing from Boston's 125-120 overtime victory will count toward James' career stats, Sixers fans had been waiting to catch a glimpse of him in his No. 23 jersey since he signed with the team in July. Scores of kids in Sixers jerseys crowded over the home team entrance canopy and screamed for James to stop for a picture or an autograph.

The arena ushers behind the Sixers' bench kept saying “Keep walking!” to the gaggle of fans and slow walkers who stopped to watch James in warmups. One constantly barked, “You can't stand here unless you've got a ticket!”

None of the stragglers had one.

James did welcome one boy and one girl to the bench with him after he finished shooting and posed for a quick photo.

The Sixers played all of their starters except for VJ Edgecombe. Jaylen Brown scored 20 points in his first game against the Celtics since the 2024 NBA Finals MVP was traded to the Sixers in the offseason.

“I played there for 10 years, so it will never be out of the way,” Brown said.

James sat out the Sixers' home preseason opener but played in a scrimmage that was open to the public and drew 10,000 fans.

He then made his preseason debut last week at Brooklyn. He had 10 points, five assists and four rebounds in the first half.

The Sixers play their season opener on Tuesday against New York at Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks will raise the banner to celebrate their NBA championship. Philadelphia's home opener is Thursday against Cleveland, followed by back-to-back games over the weekend.

James spent the last eight seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers before signing a two-year deal with the Sixers for the league minimum.

“We’re getting there,” James said. “We’re a couple of weeks in. We’re still working on our rhythm, working on our kinks. It’s not going to be perfect. Obviously, we’re just getting together, so it’s not going to be perfect. But we’ve got some things we can build on.”

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The long statement sought to push back against what it said were inaccurate and unsympathetic portrayals of Blair, 54, and the Delta flight from Los Angeles to New York on Sunday that led to her first arrest.

“Selma Blair experienced a medical emergency on the flight,” the statement said. “There was no attempt to open the door of the aircraft. Selma did not intend to harm anyone.”

A previous statement along with her lawyer's remarks in court had said briefly that a medical emergency was behind all that happened, but the new statement gave a more detailed defense.

Blair has multiple sclerosis, and without specifying she had done so, the statement said it is “outrageous” that anyone would suggest she doesn't.

“Her diagnosis has been public since 2018,” the statement said. “What Selma has been able to do physically in the years since is nothing short of a miracle. She still has bad days, and she lives with pain daily. Selma also has pseudobulbar affect, a neurological condition secondary to her MS, which bears directly on how a medical episode presents to people who do not know her.”

The statement added: “For the same reason, she travels with a service dog who doesn’t leave her side, and the authorities took her dog from her.”

The statement said she has been a relentless advocate for disability rights and the MS community.

Blair was accused of injuring two flight attendants on the plane bound for John F. Kennedy Airport, then kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there, according to a statement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

She pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of assault on state charges involving the officer and the nurse, and a judge issued a protective order for them. She is free on bail, and her next court date is in January.

The FBI also issued Blair a notice charging her with assault related to her actions aboard the aircraft, according to a federal law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

Authorities have released few details of what happened aboard the plane.

In air traffic communications, the Delta pilot asked the tower to have medical personnel waiting at the gate to treat bite marks and a bloody nose, but said ambulances were not necessary.

The Michigan-born Blair began acting in New York in her early 20s. Her major film roles have included 1999’s “Cruel Intentions,” 2001’s “Legally Blonde” and 2004’s “Hellboy.”

In 2016, Blair apologized for making statements she later regretted during a flight from Cancun to Los Angeles. She said she had mixed alcohol with medication, causing her to black out.

Friday's statement said the public version of the more recent events has “been built almost entirely on a police statement and a decade-old headline.”

“A handful of journalists have taken the time to report on Selma as a human being rather than a headline, and we are grateful to them,” the statement said. “But fair reporting has been the exception, and in the space left by our silence, speculation has hardened into something being treated as fact.”

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Trump has suggested the massive Eisenhower Executive Office Building be painted as part of his push to remake and beautify the nation’s capital. The plan, estimated to cost at least $7.5 million, has alarmed preservationists, architects, historians and others who argue that granite is not meant to be painted and that paint would trap moisture and degrade the stone.

Trump last year said the building's gray exterior is a “really bad color.”

The building's architect, Alfred B. Mullet, hand-selected the construction materials, which “are central to the building’s historic character and original design intent,” the environmental assessment concluded.

The EEOB and the Treasury building, a similarly massive and unpainted stone building on the other side of the White House, form a “visual hierarchy” at the seat of government, which has been in place for 125 years and would be disrupted by a paint job, the report said.

“The White House is by comparison much smaller in size and scale, but its placement at the center of the grounds and white color communicates its importance,” the report said.

The proposed white mineral silica paint is permeable enough that it would be unlikely to trap moisture and damage the stone, the report found. Preliminary tests suggested the paint could eventually be removed with minimal damage to the stone, but more testing is necessary, it said.

An alternative proposal to clean and restore the building while improving the exterior lighting would not affect its historic character, the report found.

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Records show Moody has more money in her campaign coffers overall. But in a surprise reported late Friday, Nixon raised more last quarter: $7.6 million versus Moody’s $5.8 million.

She held a campaign event in Weston on Friday alongside Rep. Byron Donalds, her party’s nominee for governor.

“I have dedicated my life to supporting and defending the Constitution,” she said.

Both have also been doing a lot of national media. Nixon told CNN, “We can absolutely win in Florida. We’ve been winning in Florida with very progressive proposals.”

She also said, “I am not just targeting Democrats. We are having conversations with Republicans, with Libertarians.”

Her campaign insists she has a good ground game, with volunteers scheduled to knock on doors from Wilton Manors to Key Largo.

Moody, who was appointed to the Senate last year, has been posting events on her campaign social media, including an event Thursday in Polk County.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, is set to stump for Nixon over the weekend.

It’s a high-stakes seat with two familiar faces locked in a race that’s expected to be one of the most expensive in the nation.

“The new district they drew has 50% of my old district in it, but obviously they drew these districts in the cover of night. They did it in two days,” incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Florida, said.

Moskowitz has represented the 23rd Congressional District for nearly four years, but it was reconfigured, so he had to pivot. In May, he announced he was running for District 25.

It was redrawn earlier this year and designed to elect more Republicans and fewer Democrats. It stretches from Palm Beach to Miami-Dade County and is Republican-leaning, but Moskowitz isn’t deterred by that.

“I’ve represented Palm Beach and Broward before. This new district has part of Dade County on it, on the coast,” he said. “I’ve never represented that area, but I did work in that area significantly during COVID, when I was the director of emergency management.”

Besides that role, in which he led the state’s early response to the pandemic and multiple hurricanes, Moskowitz also served in the Florida House of Representatives and on the Broward County Commission before he was elected to Congress in 2022.

He said he has more to do in Congress.

“We need to go back to Congress, and we need to focus on lowering the cost of health care,” Moskowitz said. “We can do that by returning the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were cut by the Republicans.”

Moskowitz said he wants to make life more affordable for Floridians, an issue that is front and center for many voters.

“We have the Ukraine war and the Iran war together driving up the cost of energy, driving up the cost of diesel,” he said. “When diesel goes up, goods across all categories increase, and so this is what we have to be laser-focused on.

“I’m focused on affordability, and my opponent doesn’t want to change anything. In fact, if you think everything is going great, vote for him, because that’s what he’s pitching.”

Moskowitz’s opponent, Scott Singer, served as the mayor of Boca Raton for eight years.

“I want to go to Washington as a fresh voice,” Singer said.

He won a crowded Republican primary and was endorsed by President Donald Trump last month.

“As mayor, I balanced the budget every year, lowered taxes, and we increased reserves,” Singer said. “That’s the new leadership. That’s the new thinking we need in D.C.”

Singer said that, if elected, he wants to reduce wasteful government spending and lower taxes.

“The easiest way to put more in people’s pockets is for the government to spend less,” he said. “That’s what I would focus on day one.”

He added, “You lower taxes, but you cut out the waste, fraud, and abuse that have hurt so many Americans, and it’s been a staggering amount of waste and fraud.”

Singer also wants to hold health insurers accountable.

“We, as the federal government, which is the biggest purchaser of Medicaid, Medicare services, and Social Security, need to hold the insurance companies accountable with transparency and pricing,” he said. “That way, you and I know what we get at the doctor. Those are the things I will fight for in Congress.”

The race is important because it will help determine which party controls the House.

It has also been a costly one: Between both candidates, they have raised more than $5 million and spent more than $3 million.

The lawsuit was triggered by Lula’s campaign, which claimed that the company owning Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp was using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor Bolsonaro. The suit in Brazil echoes related European cases in Romania and Germany, where courts previously intervened to correct platform imbalances.

Meta said in response that a series of recent platform issues stemmed from unrelated global technical glitches, strict anti-fraud measures, and regulatory compliance rather than targeted suppression. It insisted its systems do not distribute content based on political ideology and emphasized that rules are applied equally.

The company said it had two global technical disruptions earlier in October: one froze view counts on Instagram Reels across more than 100 countries while content distribution remained normal, and another briefly disrupted ad creation from existing Instagram posts in one of its tools for one day.

Meta says each incident cited by Lula campaign is explainable

Addressing the Lula campaign’s concerns regarding Meta AI, the company explained that a loophole involving generic first names combined with electoral numbers briefly prevented some users from generating images of the president, while still allowing them to do so for Flávio Bolsonaro for another day.

Meta did not, however, address why Bolsonaro’s Instagram and WhatsApp channels received algorithmic recommendations, a practice ruled illegal by Brazil’s electoral court.

“Brazilian voters deserve facts, not a political narrative constructed by combining unrelated technical issues. Meta will continue to enforce its rules, comply with Brazilian electoral legislation, correct errors when they occur, and ensure a level playing field for everyone who uses our services,” Meta said.

"Meta applies the same rules to all candidates, parties, and political viewpoints in Brazil, just as it does for elections worldwide. We do not suppress content to disadvantage any side, nor do we grant preferential treatment to any side. Each of the incidents cited by the Lula campaign has a direct and documented explanation, as described above. None of them reflect political bias,” it added.

Earlier on Friday, the daily Folha de S. Paulo reported, citing leaked internal communications, that Meta employees acknowledged the incumbent campaign’s accounts were indeed restricted from boosting certain posts due to technical glitches and algorithmic limitations, though company engineers insisted the issues came from system failures and automated errors.

Lula's administration has tried to regulate Big Tech companies

Since taking office in 2023, Lula has enacted online protections for women and minors, issued decrees on platform accountability, and partnered with the Supreme Court to hold companies liable for illegal content and misinformation. Platforms like Google, Meta and TikTok since last year have to monitor and remove hate speech, racism and incitement to violence in Brazil.

That stance has unsettled relations with the Trump administration and drawn criticism from those concerned it could threaten free speech. Meta said in the statement it will continue to defend itself against the lawsuit.

The allegations in Brazil align with international precedents regarding tech platforms and elections. In 2019, ahead of European Parliament elections, Germany ’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark decision against platform censorship by forcing Facebook to restore the blocked page of a political party, establishing that tech giants must abide by constitutional principles of political equality.

Five years later, Romania faced covert algorithmic manipulation during its 2024 presidential election, which was annulled due to hidden TikTok amplification and bot networks favoring pro-Russia candidate Călin Georgescu; Romania subsequently enacted emergency legislation requiring mandatory tracking codes on all political social media messaging, shifting the paradigm toward structural transparency.

Study found Meta allowed hundreds of irregular political ads

Adding to Meta’s challenges in Brazil, a study released this week by a research group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro revealed that the platform allowed at least 1,613 irregular political ads — totaling 171 million views and generating roughly 2 million reais ($400,000) in revenue between July and September — funded primarily from the United States.

“In Brazil, it is prohibited for any entity other than a political party, a candidate, or a coalition to purchase electoral advertisements. No company should be able to buy ads on Meta, whether from within Brazil or abroad, to promote an electoral campaign," said communication professor Marie Santini, who was involved in the study. “It is not the first time that Meta is negligent with the electoral law, not the first country. It is a systematic behavior of the company.”

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Sky 10 was above the 2100 block of Quail Roost Drive at 9:45 a.m. as the body was still in the pool, facedown.

It appeared to be tied to a long rope, however authorities did not immediately confirm whether the rope was actually affixed to the body.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the scene at about 9 a.m. after receiving a report about a possible drowning.

A spokesperson for the agency said deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue medics responded to the scene and found the victim submerged in the pool.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Crime scene tape was placed around the pool area after the body was discovered.

BSO confirmed that homicide detectives and Crime Scene units responded to the home and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the victim’s death.

No other details were immediately released.

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The gathering brought together religious leaders representing churches across 11 Florida counties and voters seeking answers from Jolly, the Democratic candidate for governor, and Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez, who is running for attorney general.

Voters raised questions about issues affecting their communities, including support for senior citizens and veterans, diversity, equity and inclusion, rising home insurance costs, and public education policies and funding.

Jolly addressed concerns about racial divisions and disparities in education, the economy and health outcomes.

“We’re a state that has really pursued marginalization and division. The division between black and white America, when it comes to the economy, education, health outcomes, and I guess now what’s taught in our classrooms, is maybe greater than it’s ever been before. I think we built an agenda to address that, and I feel good about how our platform stands in contrast to my opponent,” Jolly said.

The event comes as both major parties focus on South Florida, where candidates are working to connect with voters ahead of the election.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds also made a stop in the region, visiting the Bay of Pigs Museum in Little Havana.

Speaking to an audience in the heart of Miami’s Cuban exile community, Donalds emphasized his opposition to communism and socialism, pledging to protect Florida from both ideologies.

“You have my support,” said Donalds. “We want Cuba to be free of communism, free of socialism, and I just want to be very clear, we are not going to tolerate communism here in Florida. We are not going to tolerate socialism in America.”

Jolly also addressed the issue, saying he denounces socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America organization.

Donalds was expected to continue speaking with supporters through a satellite Zoom call with attendees remaining from an earlier event. He was also scheduled to join U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody for a rally in Weston at 4 p.m.

Both candidates are expected to make additional appearances in South Florida as Election Day approaches.

Jolly told the crowd he plans to return to Broward County the night before the election for his final rally in Fort Lauderdale.

The letter Friday from a senior Justice Department official and obtained first by The Associated Press is the latest salvo in an ongoing tussle with heavily Democratic California, coming just a day after the Trump administration sued the state to prevent it from counting mail ballots from people the federal government has identified as “likely” noncitizens until their immigration status can be confirmed.

“The legal consequences for either facilitating or ignoring a federal crime are significant. Noncitizen voting in a federal election is a federal crime — and knowingly facilitating such conduct is equally unlawful,” warns the letter from Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department.

It adds: “If persons knowingly tabulate ballots cast by individuals identified by federal agencies as noncitizens, they risk becoming aiders and abettors to a federal crime.”

The letter is addressed to the Los Angeles County Counsel's office and also is copied to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan, effectively putting the entire state on notice.

In response to the letter, Logan said his office is focused on conducting a fair and secure election while noting that Election Day is a mere 18 days away.

“The U.S. Department of Justice has chosen to litigate their unverified assertions of voting eligibility. At this point, it is best for this to be addressed in court,” he said.

The other offices and the state attorney general did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

It is unclear how many individuals the Justice Department might look to try to investigate and charge, though any federal criminal cases in the Los Angeles area would be handled by the office of Bill Essayli, the region's top federal prosecutor and one of the Justice Department officials who filed the federal complaint Thursday against California.

Trump weighed in late Friday, sharing on Truth Social a link to a news story about the letter and adding: “They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!”

The Trump administration has made the pursuit of noncitizen voters a priority

Sent less than three weeks before the Nov. 3 election, the letter adds to simmering tensions over voter rolls between California and the Justice Department and reflects the Trump administration's aggressive hunt for noncitizen voters. It has made the issue a priority this year, including by demanding detailed voter information — including dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers — from the states.

The Justice Department has charged about 90 people for various types of election misconduct so far this year, including 50 who are alleged to have voted as noncitizens. There were more than 227 million registered voters in the United States during the 2024 presidential election.

In July, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent letters to California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, alleging that as many as 250,000 noncitizens were registered in those states. Election officials there were skeptical of the claim, including Weber, the California secretary of state.

That same month, the Republican administration claimed Nevada had 1,500 noncitizen voters on its voter rolls. But after the federal government identified them to the state, the number of actual registered noncitizens turned out to be zero.

That experience is backed up by research and investigations in various states, which make clear that voting by noncitizens is extremely rare.

The letter follows a Justice Department lawsuit

The Justice Department lawsuit was filed after California officials were given, and did not meet, a 48-hour deadline to review a password-protected thumb drive that contained a list of 20,000 names. The federal government says those are likely noncitizens who were sent ballots to participate in the Nov. 3 election, although the secretary of state said the administration has provided no evidence to support that claim. The state mails ballots to all registered voters.

Rick Hasen, a UCLA law professor, said the letter “ups the ante by threatening election officials with potential criminal prosecution.”

“It is deplorable that rather than work cooperatively and assist states in their election administration responsibilities, the federal government is making escalating threats and unreasonable demands beyond its power in the middle of an ongoing election,” he said.

Justin Levitt, a former deputy assistant attorney general who teaches at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, dismissed the idea that an attempted prosecution of an election official using the letter’s rationale would hold up.

“Courts haven’t been buying what DOJ has been selling, and nothing in this letter is calibrated to change course,” he said. “Fortunately, election officials — not just in Los Angeles, but across the country — are equipped to stand up to aggressive bullying. And the law is on their side.”

Over 23 million people are registered statewide, and a handful of competitive congressional races in other California districts could determine which party controls the U.S. House for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term.

The Trump administration's escalating threats against California come as Democratic lawmakers are urging the Justice Department to honor its longstanding policy of not interfering in U.S. elections.

Earlier Friday, Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Dick Durbin, D-Il., wrote to Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding that the Justice Department commit to not seizing ballots or other election materials before the midterm elections are certified.

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Associated Press writers Michael R. Blood in Los Angeles and Ali Swenson in New York contributed to this report.

The shelter closes its doors and transforms into a Halloween festival for the annual event.

“We close the shelter down and we transform it into a Halloween festival,” said Stephanie Campo, community events coordinator for the Humane Society of Broward County.

Campo said about 60 people prepaid to attend, with up to 200 more expected to come through the door.

“I’ve only worked here two years, but I know this festival has been going on for many, many years,” Campo said. “And last year we brought in over $5,000 that went back to the shelter animals, so it’s all for a good cause.”

One of the popular spots at the festival is the puppy play room, where visitors can spend time with the dogs.

Gomez, who hopes to get adopted this weekend, was having fun with the Local 10 camera and appeared to be a fan favorite.

Matthew Felder, who was visiting the shelter, said he loved Gomez and the other dogs.

“I really love Gomez and all the other amazing dogs,” Felder said. “If you see this on the news, come here. If you see this on the news, make sure to come here. There’s amazing dogs that want to see you that are wishing that you can be here right now.”

Campo said visitors who spot a dog they like can keep the animal’s name or kennel number and start the application process the next day.

“So if somebody catches your eye tonight, keep their name, maybe their kennel number, and you can start the application process and come in tomorrow,” Campo said.

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Florida Highway Patrol toopers closed the Turnpike from Hollywood Boulevard to Griffin Road after construction workers struck and damaged a main gas line with an excavator, officials said.

Hollywood Fire Rescue personnel responded to the area of North 62nd Avenue and Arthur Street. There was dirt and mud on the road.

Mary Rodriguez said she heard the machine and smelled the gas. She was evacuated from her home. There were cars and backyards covered with mud.

The Hollywood Police Department asked drivers to avoid the 6100 block of Arthur Street. Police officers evacuated the surrounding area.

After the repairs, FHP reopened the southbound lanes of the Turnpike at about 1:35 p.m., and evacuees were allowed to return to buildings shortly after. No one was injured.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

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Sunday will bring the possibility of rain at any time of the day, with bands of heavy rain moving in from the Atlantic. The biggest difference will be the strong wind gusts, which could reach 30-40 mph.

Rainfall totals are expected to range from 1-3 inches this weekend, but isolated areas that receive back-to-back, slow-moving storms could see 6 inches or more. Those are the areas where flooding is possible.

Stay updated with Local 10 as we fine-tune the details on the high-impact weather moving in.

Leslie Howard Roberts, 63, was sentenced in Miami federal court this month to three years and 10 months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He must also pay back nearly $2.6 million that he earned from the scheme.

Roberts, the owner of Miami Fine Art Gallery in Coconut Grove, was arrested in April 2025. According to court records, he fraudulently represented art as original pieces created by renowned artist Andy Warhol. Prosecutors said Roberts falsely claimed that he acquired the artwork directly from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and provided fake and fraudulent invoices.

“He exploited the trust that collectors place in art dealers and the authenticity of the works they purchase,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones said in a statement.

As part of the conspiracy, Carlos Rodriguez Melendez posed as an employee of a New York-based auction company and falsely authenticated artwork to conceal that it was forged, investigators said. Rodriguez Melendez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud last year and was sentenced to probation.

Another South Florida art dealer was sentenced in 2023 to two years and three months in federal prison for selling fake Warhols. Daniel Elie Bouaziz, who owned two galleries in Palm Beach County, had pleaded guilty to a single count of money laundering, while prosecutors agreed to drop 16 other counts related to fraud and embezzlement.

Warhol was an American visual artist and filmmaker most associated with the pop art movement of the 1960s.

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The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said “no criminal charges will be filed” against Sgt. Jose Cabrera, Sgt. Javier Herbello or Officer Dorian Acosta in connection with the shooting that killed Evelyn Valdes, 28, Norman Lindo Jr., 30, and injured nightclub manager John Fortini.

The decision comes as Valdes’ family continued to seek answers about how she was fatally shot while riding in the back seat of a vehicle leaving the area.

Valdes’ mother, Kristi Garcia, met with Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle last week to press for the release of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s investigative report, body-worn camera video and witness statements.

Garcia said she wanted justice for her daughter and consequences for the officer whose bullet killed her.

Authorities said the shooting unfolded shortly before 3 a.m. on June 14, 2025, when Cabrera and Herbello were standing outside a restaurant near a Wynwood nightclub. They said a private security guard approached the sergeants about a theft involving two people accused of stealing phones.

The officers went to the nightclub to investigate, and Cabrera requested additional units. Acosta and Officer Daniela Ruque responded to the scene.

Authorities said while the officers were investigating the alleged theft, a separate altercation broke out near the nightclub’s exit involving Lindo and three other men.

They said during the confrontation, Lindo armed himself with a gun when nightclub co-owner Jake Hermelo attempted to restrain him.

Herbello and Acosta drew their service weapons and ordered Lindo to drop his gun, the memo states. Lindo did not comply and continued moving forward with the gun, according to police.

Authorities said Cabrera, Herbello and Acosta then fired their weapons, striking Lindo several times. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

They said Valdes was a rear-seat passenger in a vehicle leaving the area amid congested traffic when she was struck by a bullet during the police shooting.

The vehicle’s occupants realized she had been shot and pulled over about a block from the scene. At 3:06 a.m., a woman told police that Valdes had been struck by a stray bullet, was still breathing and needed immediate assistance, authorities said.

Rescue crews arrived at 3:22 a.m., and Valdes was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to investigators.

Authorities said Fortini, the nightclub’s manager, was also struck during the shooting. He was transported to a hospital and successfully treated for an injury to his hand, the memo states.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said its review of the facts, evidence and applicable law found the officers’ use of deadly force legally justified.

Valdes’ family has filed a federal civil lawsuit against the city of Miami and Miami police, according to the family’s attorney, Ramon Rasco.

In an interview last week, Garcia described her daughter as her best friend and confidante and said she did not deserve to die.

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The Heat (3-1) enter the matchup after a solid preseason, picking up wins against the Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Pelicans and Brooklyn Nets, with a close loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in between.

Miami made major moves during the offseason, adding forwards Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis. The Heat also brought in forwards Klay Thompson Tim Hardaway Jr. to add more scoring, outside shooting and defense to the team.

The Orlando Magic will look to finish their preseason on a strong note in front of their home crowd. Orlando has shown promise during its exhibition schedule and is preparing for the start of the regular season.

The Magic will continue to lean on key players Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs and Desmond Bane, while veteran center Nikola Vucevic adds experience and depth to the frontcourt.

With the regular season approaching, both teams may be cautious with their starters’ playing time as they wrap up their final preseason preparations.

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The supervisor of elections planned to keep the early voting sites in Miami-Dade and Broward counties open through Nov. 1st, and in Monroe County through Oct. 31st from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day.

The Florida Supervisor of Elections’ mandatory early voting period is from Oct. 24 to Oct. 31st.

According to the Florida Division of Elections, voters who registered by Oct. 5th can cast their ballots if they present a Florida driver’s license or other identification with a photo and a signature, including a debit or credit card, a student ID, a retirement center ID, or a public assistance ID.

To verify registration and voting status, visit this Florida Department of State page or call 1-866-308-6739 for help from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., from Monday to Friday.

Here is a list of the 28 early voting sites in Miami-Dade announced by Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia:

1. Arcola Lakes Branch Library, 8240 NW 7th Ave.
2. Aventura International Mall Branch Library, 10315 NW 12th St.
3. Coral Gables Miami Lakes Community Center, 15151 NW 82nd Ave.
4. Doral Office of the Supervisor of Elections, 2700 NW 87th Ave.
5. Doral John F. Kennedy Library, 190 W 49th St.
6. Florida International University: Student Academic Success Center, 11200 SW 8th St.
7. Hialeah Rebeca Sosa Multipurpose Facility, 1700 SW 62nd Ave.
8. Homestead Community Center, 1601 N Krome Ave.
9. Miami Dade College Kendall Campus at The Fascell Conference Center, 11011 SW 104th St., Building K.
10. Miami Coral Gables Branch Library, 3443 Segovia St.
11. Miami Gardens Hispanic Branch Library, 1398 SW 1st St.,
12. Miami Lakes Coral Reef Branch Library, 9211 SW 152nd St.
13. Miami North Miami Public Library, 835 NE 132nd St.
14. Miami Shenandoah Branch Library, 2111 SW 19th St.
15. Miami Kendale Lakes Branch Library, 15205 SW 88th St.
16. Miami South Dade Government Center, 10710 SW 211th St., Lobby
17. Miami Kendall Branch Library, 9101 SW 97th Ave.
18. Miami Stephen P. Clark Government Center: Elections Branch Office, 111 NW 1st St., Lobby
19. Miami Lemon City Branch Library, 430 NE 61st St.
20. Miami West Kendall Regional Library, 10201 Hammocks Blvd.
21. Miami Beach City Hall, 1700 Convention Center Dr.
22. Miami Beach Westchester Regional Library, 9445 SW 24th St.
23. Naranja Branch Library, 14850 SW 280th St., Homestead
24. North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St.
25. North Miami Historic Garage, 3250 S Miami Ave.
26. North Shore Branch Library, 7501 Collins Ave., Miami Beach
27. Northeast Dade-Aventura Branch Library, 2930 Aventura Blvd.
28. West Miami Joseph Caleb Center Community Meeting Room, 5400 NW 22nd Ave., Building

Here is a list of the 40 early voting sites in Broward announced by Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott:

1. African-American Research Library, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd. (NW 6th St.)
2. Carver Ranches Branch Library, 4735 SW 18th St.
3. Coconut Creek SOE at Tamarac Branch Library, 8701 W. Commercial Blvd.
4. Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Library, 1 Park Ave. East
5. Dania Beach Hillsboro Community Center, 50 Hillsboro Technology Dr.
6. Davie/Cooper City Branch Library, 4600 SW 82 Ave., Davie
7. Deerfield Beach SOE at Northwest Regional Library, 3151 University Dr.
8. Fort Lauderdale Davie/Cooper City Branch Library, 4600 SW 82 Ave.
9. Fort Lauderdale Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 NE 6 St.
10. Ft. Lauderdale Branch Library/Art Serve, 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd.
11. Fort Lauderdale West Regional Library, 8601 W. Broward Blvd.
12. Herbert Sadkin Community Center, 1176 NW 42nd Way, Lauderhill
13. Hollywood Cooper City Pool & Tennis Center, 11600 Stonebridge Parkway
14. Hollywood Branch Library, 2600 Hollywood Blvd.
15. Hollywood Old Dillard Museum, 1009 NW Fourth St.
16. Island City Cultural Center of Wilton Manors, 600 Northeast 21st Court, Wilton Manors
17. Lauderhill SOE Headquarters, 4650 NW 21st Ave., Fort Lauderdale
18. Lauderhill Towne Centre Library, 6399 West Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderhill
19. Miramar SOE at South Regional Library/BC, 7300 Pines Blvd.
20. Nob Hill Soccer Club, 10200 Sunset Strip
21. North Lauderdale Saraniero Library, 6901 Kimberly Blvd.
22. North Regional Library/BC, 1100 Coconut Creek Blvd.
23. Old Dillard Museum, 1009 NW Fourth St., Fort Lauderdale
24. Parkland Weston Branch Library, 4205 Bonaventure Blvd.
25. Pembroke Pines Broward College - A. Hugh Adams Central Campus, 3501 Davie Road, Building 3, Room 117
26. Pine Trails Park Amphitheater, 10561 Trails End, Parkland
27. Plantation SOE at E Pat Larkins Community Center, 520 Martin Luther King Blvd.
28. Pompano Beach Supervisor of Elections (SOE) at Miramar Branch Library, 2050 Civic Center Place
29. Pompano Beach Island City Cultural Center of Wilton Manors, 600 Northeast 21st Court
30. Stirling Road Branch Library, 3151 Stirling Road
31. Sunrise SOE at Southwest Regional Library, 16835 Sheridan St., in Pembroke Pines
32. SOE Headquarters, 4650 NW 21st Ave., Fort Lauderdale
33. SOE at Northwest Regional Library, 3151 University Dr., Coral Springs
34. SOE at E Pat Larkins Community Center, 520 Martin Luther King Blvd., Pompano Beach
35. Tyrone Bryant Branch Library, 2230 NW 21st Ave., Fort Lauderdale
36. Weston Branch Library, 4205 Bonaventure Blvd., Weston
37. Weston Lauderhill Towne Centre Library, 6399 West Oakland Park Blvd.
38. West Park Hallandale Beach Cultural Community Center, 410 SE 3rd St., Hallandale Beach
39. West Regional Library, 8601 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation
40. Wilton Manors Pine Trails Park Amphitheater, 10561 Trails End

Here is a list of the five early voting sites in Monroe announced by Supervisor of Elections Sherri Hodies:

1. Monroe County Elections Office, 5200 College Road, Key West
2. Monroe County Elections Office Branch, 10015 Overseas Hwy. (MM 52.5)
3. Marathon Monroe County Elections Office Branch, Murray Nelson Government Center, 102050 Overseas Hwy. #137 (MM 102)
4. Key Largo Big Pine Key Community Park, 31009 Atlantis Dr., End of Sands Road (MM 31)
5. Big Pine Key Plantation Key Community Center (old courthouse): 88820 Overseas Hwy., Plantation Key

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En el condado Broward, la votación por correo comenzó el 24 de septiembre, y la votación anticipada en 40 centros comenzará el lunes, con un horario diario de 7 a.m. a 7 p.m., hasta el 1 de noviembre.

Tiawan McNeal, gerente de votación anticipada de la Oficina del Supervisor de Elecciones del condado Broward, dijo que el equipo ha estado buscando votantes no elegibles, entre los que también se incluyen personas condenadas por delitos graves y personas declaradas mentalmente incompetentes.

“He estado haciendo esto durante 40 años”, dijo Mary Hall, supervisora adjunta principal de Elecciones de Broward, quien tiene menos experiencia que McNeal.

Scott dijo que es “muy, muy raro” encontrar inmigrantes indocumentados en los registros electorales y que nunca ha visto un caso durante su gestión, que comenzó el 5 de enero de 2021.

“Lo que sí ocurre es que quizás residentes permanentes, personas que tienen una tarjeta de residencia, también se registraron para votar y hubo errores. A veces las personas piensan: “No estoy seguro de si tengo permitido votar o no, así que presentaré esta solicitud y la rechazarán si no tengo permitido votar””, dijo Scott.

Scott tampoco cree que las autoridades federales deban depurar los registros electorales del condado Broward.

“Hacemos un excelente trabajo en esto y debería manejarse a nivel local”, dijo Scott. “Se puede causar mucho daño, y lo que no queremos es que un ciudadano estadounidense sea eliminado de los registros electorales”.

Juan Garcia is under investigation after a Hialeah resident, identified in the report as Diener Beguria, alleged that Garcia viciously attacked him Sunday evening. The case was initially closed but was reopened after Local 10 News reported on the incident.

Garcia’s wife, Ingris Garcia, defended her husband and challenged the account of the alleged victim.

“I think it’s very off that they’re going off the other guy just because he has more bruises than he (Juan Garcia) does. He got hurt, too,” she said.

She said her husband is emotional because he believes the situation has changed after he was initially told he was the victim.

“He’s emotional because he feels that the system is now, you know, they told him one thing: ‘You are the victim,’ and now we have officers that want to talk to him,” said Omar Lopez, Juan Garcia’s attorney.

Lopez said his client disputes the allegations and is concerned that public attention surrounding the case could influence the investigation.

He said police have been visiting neighbors to gather information following Local 10’s coverage of the incident.

“Your reporting caused them to now go back to the neighborhood, and we’re aware that they’re going to every neighbor’s house and speaking to the neighbors,” Lopez added.

Lopez also disputed an allegation that Garcia repeatedly struck the other man with hammer-like punches.

“We don’t know. We disagree. There were no repetitive hammer punches. No,” he said.

According to the report, the confrontation involved the men’s dogs. Garcia told Local 10 that the dispute began when the other man told him to put his goldendoodle on a leash. Garcia’s side also alleged that the goldendoodle was injured in a fight with the other man’s dog.

“They’re exaggerating everything, literally, to their advantage,” Garcia’s wife said.

Lopez said he is waiting for the Hialeah Police Department to complete its investigation.

Police have asked to speak with Garcia again, according to the report, but that interview had not taken place at the time of this publishing.

A decision in the case was expected the following week.

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In Broward County, vote-by-mail started on Sept. 24, and early voting at 40 sites starts daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday to Nov. 1st.

Tiawan McNeal, the early voting manager for the Broward County SOE, said the team has been searching for ineligible voters, who also include felons and the mentally incompetent.

“I’ve been doing it for 40 years,” said Mary Hall, Broward’s chief deputy supervisor of elections, who has less experience than McNeal.

Scott said it is “very, very rare” to find undocumented migrants on the voter rolls, and he has never seen a case during his tenure, which started on Jan. 5, 2021.

“What does happen is perhaps permanent residents, people who have a green card that also registered to vote, and there were mistakes, and sometimes people think, ‘I’m not sure if I’m allowed to vote or not, so I’ll put in this application, and they’ll reject it if I’m not allowed to vote,’” Scott said.

Scott also doesn’t think that the feds should scrub the voter rolls for Broward County.

“We do a great job of this, and it should be handled at the local level,” Scott said. “You can do a lot of damage, and what we don’t want is to get a U.S. Citizen kicked off the voter rolls.”

Shohei Ohtani was dogged by injuries to his left knee and right biceps over the second half and into the playoffs that rendered him ineffective at the plate. The two-way superstar also didn't pitch after the All-Star break.

Whether Ohtani needs offseason surgery remains to be seen, although he acknowledged it's possible after Thursday's loss to the Brewers that completed Milwaukee's sweep of the NL Championship Series. If he does, would the recovery bleed into the start of next season?

A potential MLB lockout is looming with the current collective bargaining agreement set to expire on Dec. 1. Team owners have proposed a salary cap — something the sport has never had — and the players' union has adamantly rejected the idea.

A work stoppage would give Ohtani extra time to heal, although during such time the Dodgers would be cut off from communicating with any player, leaving Ohtani to rehab either from possible surgery or from his injuries on his own.

Communication between Ohtani and the team on his health during the season was “awesome,” Andrew Friedman, president of baseball operations, said last month, but he added: “The fully sharing exactly how he's feeling, maybe not so awesome.”

Ohtani said he plans to resume pitching next year, when he'll turn 33 in July. He's already had two Tommy John surgeries.

“What he’s doing is unprecedented, and it takes a real toll,” Friedman said. “And as you get older, I think us just being very dialed is going to be really important.”

Roster turnover is likely, even without big changes in MLB spending rules

The Dodgers had baseball's second-highest opening day payroll this year at $323.3 million, behind the New York Mets at $358.4 million. If a salary cap were to be imposed, the Dodgers' spending would be constrained when play resumes.

Some of the roster could look different next year, too, with nine players set to become free agents after the World Series, led by two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal, who is expected to command a huge deal.

The Dodgers acquired Skubal from Detroit just before the trade deadline in August. The left-hander was 5-2 with a 2.61 ERA and 70 strikeouts in 10 regular-season games for his new team. In the postseason, he was 1-1 with a 2.45 ERA and 14 Ks. Skubal didn't want to discuss his future Thursday, although he expressed enthusiasm for the organization, his teammates and the fans.

Other impending free agents are infielder Miguel Rojas, utility player Kiké Hernández, and relievers Kris Bubic, Brusdar Graterol, Eric Lauer, Evan Phillips, Blake Treinen and Alex Vesia.

As expected, Rojas announced his retirement Thursday, saying, “This is it, guys. That was my last game played.” He'll still be around, though, to work in a player development role.

Dodgers add a bit of youth with De Paula

The Dodgers got a glimpse of the future when they promoted Josue De Paula directly from Double-A to the majors in September. His energy and at-bats at designated hitter during Ohtani's stint on the injured list made an impression, and the 21-year-old was added to the postseason roster as a pinch-hitter.

The team will look to De Paula to further improve as an outfielder in 2027, although finding playing time for him will be challenging given the trio of veteran starters: Teoscar Hernández, Andy Pages and Kyle Tucker. De Paula is also blocked at DH by Ohtani.

“I think the experience he got being up here and watching what our guys do on a daily basis just helped connect some dots for him,” Friedman said. “And so, physically, he is capable of being a good corner outfielder, and we’re going to continue to tap into that.”

Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Ohtani, Tucker, Max Muncy and Will Smith will remain the Dodgers' veteran core. But some supporting players could be offloaded, like Kiké Hernández. Playing on a one-year deal, the 35-year-old was limited to 41 games while recovering from injuries and he didn't provide his usual postseason pop.

Manager Dave Roberts refused to blame an aging lineup for getting swept by the Brewers, whose 103 regular-season wins were three more than the Dodgers.

“We got beat,” he said. “There’s no because we’re too old or whatever. Every facet of the game, if you kind of unpack it, we were bested.”

There's drama off the field, too.

Owner Mark Walter was noticeably absent from the team's playoff games. He is facing multiple federal investigations into his business empire for possible financial improprieties involving insurance companies he controls. Walter has denied any wrongdoing. Since August, he sold his controlling interest in the Los Angeles Lakers and last month he unloaded his share in Chelsea of the Premier League.

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“Life has become so unaffordable here in South Florida under Republican policies,” Jeffries said.

The appearance highlights Democrats’ efforts to challenge Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, where Rodriguez and Salazar, both Cuban American former television anchors, are competing for voters in a race with national political implications.

Salazar, who is seeking to defend her seat, pushed back against criticism of the Republican economic record, arguing that voters should not return to Democratic leadership.

“Listen, I understand that the economy is not where you want it to be,” Salazar said. “All I am saying to you is four years ago, Biden created the word economy.”

She added, “Don’t tell me it is time to flip back. To flip back to what? To inflation? To Biden? No. Let’s continue the course that we are at. The Republicans are best at keeping the economy going for you.”

Jeffries’ decision to campaign alongside Rodriguez has elevated the profile of the contest, but Salazar rejected the suggestion that the Democratic visit signals a particularly strong opportunity for her opponent.

Asked whether Jeffries’ appearance, combined with polling, indicated Democrats believe the seat is within reach, Salazar said the visit had “nothing to do with the polling” and instead reflected the concerns of voters in the district.

Salazar also sought to tie Rodriguez to the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, saying he and Jeffries would be “dragged by the socialist radical left,” which she said was penetrating the party.

“I know what is my lane: freedom and free-market economy and no taxes,” Salazar said.

Rodriguez rejected the characterization, calling the accusations political rhetoric intended to distract from the incumbent’s record.

“That is just rhetoric,” Rodriguez said. “That is just an easy way not to defend the record of what is happening right now, to call someone a socialist or communism.”

Rodriguez said his family’s experience in Cuba shaped his views on communism. His parents came to the United States from Cuba, and he said his father’s family business was confiscated by the government.

“They went from being one day from being owners of a company to being employees of the state the next day,” Rodriguez said. “So, I am very well aware of what communism has done to our community.”

He added that he was “far from” being a socialist or communist and described himself as a product of capitalism, free enterprise and hard work.

In a statement, Rodriguez escalated his criticism of Salazar, accusing her of using allegations of socialism to distract from economic concerns facing constituents, including housing costs, gasoline prices, groceries and insurance.

“The only supporter of socialism in this race is my opponent, Maria Elvira Salazar,” Rodriguez said in the statement, referencing her past marriage to Arturo Cruz Jr., who served as Nicaragua’s ambassador under the government of Daniel Ortega.

“Salazar’s attempt to label Hakeem Jeffries and me as socialists is a lie and a desperate, dishonest smear,” Rodriguez said. “I reject socialism, unequivocally.”

With both candidates drawing on their Cuban American backgrounds and experience in television journalism, the contest also reflects the political importance of debates over socialism and economic policy among South Florida voters.