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According to the sheriff’s office, deputies received multiple calls Tuesday night that Hilton appeared to be harming himself with a knife during a TikTok livestream.

In the video, Hilton was heard saying things like, “This is what you all wanted” and “It will be interesting to see what happens after you die.”

“Mario, Mario! Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office! Step out of the house!” a deputy is heard in surveillance video yelling outside Hilton’s home in Westchester as they responded to the scene.

Deputies said they confirmed with family members that Hilton was alone inside and worked to safely de-escalate the situation. Authorities said he was transported to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital to be treated for his injuries and was then Baker Acted.

A heavy police presence remained outside Hilton’s home from Wednesday morning through the evening.

Hilton’s neighbor, Dr. Maria Granadillo, told Local 10 News that she’s sad and scared for him.

“Obviously, you have a little bit of fear because, you know, as a medical health professional, if someone can do that to themselves, they can do that to others,” she said. “So, of course, I was a little bit scared, and then I was mostly concerned about him and the kids because I know there’s three kids in there.”

“We had no idea at all. I mean, they’re quiet people,” another neighbor, Raisa Gonzalez said. “I heard recently that he became a Christian, so we would love to speak with him if he sees this.”

The incident comes after Hilton shared publicly that he had experienced a serious medical scare earlier this year that left him hospitalized with an ulcer and sepsis for several weeks. In June, he also announced that he had relocated from Las Vegas to Miami with his three children to live with his mother.

“I was in a bit of a spiral, because I was overwhelmed with our move to Miami and I didn’t do these things that I know are good for me,” Hilton said in the June video, titled I Fell Off The Wagon – In Every Sense! BUT.

In a statement, Hilton’s representative, Golden Artists Entertainment, said:

“We are aware of the concerning content circulating online involving our client, Perez Hilton. At this time, we have not been able to make direct contact with him, despite our ongoing efforts to reach him. Our primary concern is Perez’s health and well-being, as well as the well-being of his family. Until we have confirmed information, we will not speculate or comment further.”

Hilton’s family also released a statement on Wednesday, saying:

“We can confirm that Perez is receiving medical care, and our family’s focus right now is on his well-being.”

TikTok has since taken down Hilton’s social media account following the incident, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office is using the incident as an opportunity to remind the public that mental health resources are available for anyone experiencing a crisis and encouraged people to seek help if they or someone they know is struggling.

Hilton, a Cuban-American, rose to prominence through his celebrity gossip website before expanding into fashion and music coverage and becoming a familiar television personality.

No additional information about Hilton’s condition has been released.

If you or someone you know is facing a mental health crisis, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

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The group continues to call for “well below-average” hurricane activity across the Gulf, Caribbean, and wider Atlantic this year, with increasing confidence that a powerful El Niño in the waters of the eastern Pacific will significantly reduce overall storm activity across the Atlantic basin and lower the odds of a major hurricane hit on the U.S. and coastlines bordering the Caribbean.

CSU’s bottom-line numbers remain unchanged from its July forecast, predicting 9 named storms this season (including the two named storms that have already formed), four hurricanes, and one hurricane reaching Category 3, 4, or 5 strength. The 30-year average is 14 named storms, seven hurricanes, and three Category 3 or stronger hurricanes.

As we’ve covered in this newsletter, wind shear in the western Atlantic and Caribbean region has been running as high as we’ve ever observed in the satellite record (since 1979) and seasonal forecast models like the famed Euro ensemble are forecasting the highest wind shear on record for their hindcast period (since 1981) for September.

The hostile wind shear is being powered by the ongoing El Niño in the Pacific, which continues to outpace our strongest El Niños like 1997, even after adjusting for Wednesday’s warmer water temperatures due to global warming.

It’s a near certainty that this El Niño will be one of if not the strongest on record, even after accounting for climate change.

Though strong El Niño years like this one almost universally dampen hurricane activity in the Atlantic, it’s worth reiterating that it doesn’t reduce hurricanes altogether.

Strong and impactful hurricanes still happen, even during down years (see Joaquin in 2015 which sunk the American cargo ship El Faro, claiming the 33 lives of her crew, and tangentially led to catastrophic flooding in South Carolina), and even if the odds are reduced, lighter years activity-wise don’t give us a seasonal pass.

Nevertheless, this is about as encouraging of an outlook as we could ask for in August. Tropical Atlantic waters are tepid, especially compared to recent hurricane seasons and especially compared to the global tropics, which matters most in terms of sinking air dominating the basin and deterring storm growth.

AI models perk up for mid-August

Since last Thursday, we’ve touched on a disturbance the AI camp of models has been sniffing out over the main development region of the tropical Atlantic (between Africa and the Caribbean) for mid-month.

The signal has stayed relatively consistent since last week, but in recent model runs we’re noticing a subtle uptick in model interest.

The odds remain low (only around 10% of ensembles members show development) and we’re still a week away from any coherent disturbance we might begin tracking, but the persistence of models along with the subtle uptick means it’s something we’ll be checking back on.

Additionally, the traditional physics-based models and their ensembles, which have been largely quiet, have perked up some in recent runs.

As we’ve stressed before (and an evergreen statement for all potential disturbances more than a week out), this isn’t anything that we need to worry about, but we’ll keep you posted on the trends into next week.

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According to authorities, Samuel Lackey was found Sunday sleeping on board a JetBlue 2012 AirBus A320 that was at Jetscape Services in Fort Lauderdale for maintenance.

Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said the criminal’s actions were all caught on camera.

Deputies said it was easy for Lackey to get on to the plane because there were portable steps he could use, and maintenance was being done on the plane.

According to law enforcement, Lackey climbed a fence to gain access to the airplane and snuck onto the aircraft on Saturday night.

As a result, there was a service interruption as the plane was scheduled for a flight.

Deputies said the doors to the plane were locked and the aircraft was pushed back to a parking space, and that’s when the alleged snooze took place until 5:39 a.m. Sunday, when JetBlue employees arrived and gave Lackey a startling wake-up call.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Lackey was being held at the Broward Main Jail on charges of unarmed burglary of an occupied conveyance, criminal mischief over $1000 and interrupting or impairing critical infrastructure on a total bond of $10,000.

The message was clear: This is a a celebration of community, culture, music and art.

“The crowd was captivated,” Hill said.

“It was surreal,” Jean jumped in. “The love was felt. It was amazing.”

It was a tease of what's to come. On Friday, Hill will bring her Diaspora Calling! festival to the U.K. for the first time, marking 10 years since its inaugural edition in Brooklyn.

The event, hosted by Dave Chappelle and featuring performances by Erykah Badu, YG Marley, Zion Marley, Giggs, Fireboy DML and other artists, will be held at The National Bowl in nearby Milton Keynes. And its center: Hill and Jean, two-thirds of the Fugees, will perform their landmark album “The Score” in its entirety.

Below, Hill — joined briefly by Jean — discuss their festival, the 30th anniversary of “The Score” and the legacy of the late D'Angelo. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

AP: Why bring Diaspora Calling! to the UK?

HILL: We were given an opportunity by the promoters — the same promoters that do Reggae Land.

He gave me the venue. And I said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ We’re basically blessed to have the opportunity. And, you know, 'tis the season to bring people together in the name of growth, healing and pushing forward.

AP: The African diaspora is everywhere — are you hoping to do other international editions?

HILL: Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.

AP: How has the concept evolved since the first event in 2016?

HILL: First of all, it started when I did a show in Ghana. There was a gentleman who brought me out to Ghana. And as I was talking to him, I realized that our conversation was not just about the immediate subject matter. I knew that we made a connection for a reason. And I know myself and Wyclef have community over the years — even when we weren’t necessarily doing the Fugees thing anymore, we built community all over the diaspora. And now it’s the time to bring them together.

AP: The lineup is dynamic. How do you go about selecting artists?

HILL: We put a call out to the people that we know, love and respect. And I’ve gotten so much positivity — an abundance of responses, in terms of the creative community out here wanting to participate. So that’s huge.

AP: You and Wyclef Jean will perform all of “The Score” on Friday, in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Has your relationship to that album changed in that time?

HILL: Absolutely. Absolutely. That’s a timeless piece of work for us as well. Timeless. How do you feel about it, Wyclef?

JEAN: You hit it on the dot. You know, I remember when I was coming up, listening to like Bob Marley's “Exodus”; a lot of the early Dylan, Bob Dylan records; Pink Floyd's “The Wall”; The Police's “Synchronicity” and we got “The Score.” So that’s forever.

AP: It is interesting to hear that you have been transformed by it the way your listeners have.

HILL: I think what is powerful about the album was that, you know, I’m a big fan of what Wyclef does. And I think he’s appreciative of what I do. So, we engage with each other’s art. And every time we perform it, even though (it's) singing older lyrics, there’s a new energy, a new spirit. There's a timelessness. I almost feel like we’re reclaiming timelines, healing timelines, so to speak, every time we’re performing.

JEAN: A hundred percent. Every time I perform “The Score” now, I feel like it's the first time.

HILL: Yeah. It doesn't feel old.

AP: How does performing that at Diaspora Calling! differ from another kind of concert?

HILL: It's kind of the pinnacle of what the Fugees were all about. Our makeup is diaspora calls. I think we were a call to a particular unity, a particular kind of reflection and a particular kind of resistance to certain ideas that we knew better than. And we wanted to channel that outside and have other people feel what we were certain about, which is that there was being and resourcefulness and incredible brilliance throughout diaspora. And that division was not really an option.

AP: That is beautifully put. That spirit reminds me of your performance at the Grammys earlier this year, where you paid tribute to the late Roberta Flack and D'Angelo. We're approaching the one-year anniversary of D'Angelo's passing. How do you hope he continues to be remembered?

HILL: We lost another timeless soul who made timeless music. We obviously want to protect his family and just keep holding up that brilliance.

He was good — without question.

The 35-year-old Donald participated in a hosted workout with the Rams, according to the league's official transaction wire, which records such workouts with free agents before their possible signings to NFL rosters.

Donald has been working out at the Rams' Woodland Hills training complex and at home for several weeks in his attempt to return to NFL shape. While the Rams have emphasized their willingness to wait indefinitely for Donald to decide, coach Sean McVay has expressed cautious optimism in the past week about the prospect of lining up Donald and Myles Garrett together this season on a remarkable defensive line.

“If there’s an arrow, it’s trending upwards,” McVay said last Friday.

McVay indicated that the Rams didn't expect a decision until after they wrap up training camp at Loyola Marymount University this week. The Rams are planning to reconvene in Woodland Hills on Saturday for their first post-camp practice.

Donald retired somewhat abruptly in March 2024 following a decorated 10-year career spent entirely with the Rams. He won the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award three times along with eight All-Pro selections, 10 Pro Bowl selections and a Super Bowl championship ring.

Donald apparently began to entertain the idea of a comeback early last month after the Rams traded for Garrett, one of Donald's few contemporary peers. The 30-year-old Garrett won two of the last three Defensive Player of the Year awards in Cleveland, where he received five All-Pro nods and seven Pro Bowl selections, along with setting the NFL's single-season sacks record last year.

“If he’s here, I’m going to be excited to be his teammate, his partner in crime,” Garrett said last week. “I think we’re going to do great things.”

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Stephon L. Perry confessed to burglarizing the police officer’s assigned unmarked pickup truck before sunrise on July 22 in the West Little River neighborhood, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy’s arrest report.

“The victim’s vehicle had been unlocked, allowing him to gain entry without force,” Perry told the deputies, according to the arrest report.

The police officer told deputies that two guns — a “personally-owned Glock 48 handgun” and his police department-issued “Glock 17 handgun” — had been stolen, according to the report.

“A personally-owned 10-karat gold Cuban link bracelet, valued at approximately $3,000 ... had also been stolen from the front center console cup holder,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

Three shield external T7 hard drives vanished, including two from the FBI and one from the MPD, according to the deputy’s report.

Detectives used surveillance videos to track Perry, who was wearing a “distinctive afro hairstyle,” a dark-colored jacket, and blue shorts, to a house in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood, according to the report.

“While searching the kitchen area, I located a white styrofoam food container concealed inside the storage compartment beneath the oven,” a deputy wrote, adding that the container had the officer’s Glock and a Springfield Armory 9mm Hellcat, which had been reported stolen in another case.

After a pursuit that included a perimeter, Perry returned to his home in Liberty City, and a deputy arrested him shortly before 7:50 p.m. on Tuesday, near Northwest Eighth Avenue and 70th Street, according to the deputy’s report.

Detectives questioned Perry at the nearby Northside District Station, and he confessed to throwing away the backpack and the hard drives in a dumpster in Liberty City, and selling the bracelet and the MPD-issued Glock 17, according to the report.

A detective reported using a database to track the police officer’s stolen bracelet to the King Cash Pawn & Jewelry in West Little River, according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Perry shortly before 5:15 a.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Perry, who had been arrested for burglary twice earlier this year in Miami-Dade, faced nine charges in two new cases filed by prosecutors on Wednesday, according to Miami-Dade court records.

For the police vehicle burglary, Perry faced eight charges: Armed burglary, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, two counts of third-degree grand theft of a firearm, two counts of dealing in stolen property, third-degree grand theft while armed, and resisting arrest without violence.

For the stolen Springfield Armory Hellcat, Perry faced an additional charge of third-degree grand theft of a firearm, according to court records.

A judge denied him bond on the armed burglary charge. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Richard Hersch was set to preside over both cases.

Read the arrest report’s narrative:

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded shortly after 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday to the area of Southwest 157th Avenue and 160 Street, also known as Colonial Drive.

A marked Doral Police Department Ford Police Interceptor Utility patrol vehicle was parked on a gravel road between farms in Redland, near the Richmond West neighborhood.

“Detectives can confirm that there is no foul play suspected,” Detective Daniel D. Castillo, a spokesman for MDSO, wrote in a statement.

A group of motormen escorted a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue freightliner ambulance through the Richmond Heights-Redland area.

The convoy traveled northbound on the Florida Turnpike and the Palmetto Expressway, and eastbound on the Dolphin Expressway.

A large U.S. flag was flying from a fire truck’s elevated ladder over Northwest 10th Avenue, near 20th Street in Allapattah.

Dozens of police officers lined the path. Some were standing at attention to salute as the ambulance passed.

A U.S. flag was draped over the police officer’s body upon arrival at the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava released a statement on Wednesday evening reacting to the news of the officer’s death.

“Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the loss of a member of the City of Doral Police Department. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and every member of the Doral Police family during this incredibly difficult time,” Levine Cava wrote. “We stand with our law enforcement community.”

Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the loss of a member of the @Cityofdoral Police Department. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and every member of the Doral Police family during this incredibly difficult time. We stand with our law enforcement…

— Daniella Levine Cava (@MayorDaniella) August 5, 2026

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Stephon L. Perry confesó haber robado la camioneta sin distintivos oficiales asignada al oficial de Policía antes del amanecer del 22 de julio en el vecindario West Little River, según el informe de arresto de un agente de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO).

“El vehículo de la víctima estaba sin seguro, lo que le permitió ingresar sin usar la fuerza”, dijo Perry a los agentes, según el informe de arresto.

El oficial informó a los agentes que dos armas de fuego, una pistola Glock 48 de su propiedad y una pistola Glock 17 asignada por el Departamento de Policía, habían sido robadas, según el informe.

“Un brazalete cubano de oro de 10 quilates, de propiedad personal y valorado en aproximadamente $3,000 USD, también fue robado del portavasos de la consola central delantera”, escribió un agente, según el informe.

También desaparecieron tres discos duros externos Shield T7, incluidos dos pertenecientes al FBI y uno al Departamento de Policía de Miami (MPD), según el informe del agente.

Los detectives utilizaron videos de vigilancia para rastrear a Perry, quien vestía una chaqueta oscura, pantalones cortos azules y llevaba un “distintivo peinado afro”, hasta una vivienda en el vecindario Liberty City de Miami, según el informe.

“Mientras registraba el área de la cocina, encontré un recipiente blanco de espuma para alimentos oculto dentro del compartimiento de almacenamiento debajo del horno”, escribió un agente, y añadió que el recipiente contenía la Glock del oficial y una Springfield Armory Hellcat de 9 mm, que había sido reportada como robada en otro caso.

Tras una persecución que incluyó el establecimiento de un perímetro, Perry regresó a su vivienda en Liberty City y un agente lo arrestó poco antes de las 7:50 p.m. del martes, cerca de Northwest Eighth Avenue y 70th Street, según el informe.

Los detectives interrogaron a Perry en la cercana estación del Distrito Northside, donde confesó haber arrojado la mochila y los discos duros a un contenedor de basura en Liberty City, además de vender el brazalete y la Glock 17 asignada por el MPD, según el informe.

Un detective informó que utilizó una base de datos para rastrear el brazalete robado del oficial hasta King Cash Pawn & Jewelry, en West Little River, según el informe.

El Departamento de Correcciones de Miami-Dade ingresó a Perry en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight poco antes de las 5:15 a.m. del miércoles, según los registros de reclusos.

Perry, quien ya había sido arrestado dos veces este año por robo en Miami-Dade, enfrentaba nueve cargos en dos nuevos casos presentados por la fiscalía el miércoles, según los registros judiciales del condado Miami-Dade.

Por el robo de la camioneta policial, Perry enfrentaba ocho cargos: robo a mano armada, robo de un vehículo desocupado, dos cargos de hurto mayor de un arma de fuego en tercer grado, dos cargos de tráfico de propiedad robada, hurto mayor en tercer grado estando armado y resistencia al arresto sin violencia.

Por la Springfield Armory Hellcat robada, Perry enfrentaba un cargo adicional de hurto mayor de un arma de fuego en tercer grado, según los registros judiciales.

Un juez le negó el derecho a fianza por el cargo de robo a mano armada. El juez del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Richard Hersch, tenía previsto presidir ambos casos.

Lea la narrativa del informe de arresto:

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este informe.

Haitian-Bahamian Chef Wilkinson “Ken” Sejour said ICE agents detained the scooter rider steps away from his restaurant Chef Creole, at 200 NW 54th St., and his customers were staying away.

Sejour, whose celebrity guests include the late Anthony Bourdain, said the witness’s video recorded near the drive-thru area prompted false rumors that ICE had raided his restaurant.

“You are taking key people, and now you are giving people the impression that it’s not even safe to come to my business,” Sejour said about the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Sejour said the expiration of TPS work permits for Haitians hurt his workforce. His labor expenses had increased before the recent ICE detention nearby scared away customers.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 25 allowed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end Temporary Protected Status for about 300,000 Haitians on July 27.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has been supportive of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy and has expanded state-federal partnerships in Florida.

Sejour is among the entrepreneurs in South Florida who say the push for deportations has been having a chilling effect on their businesses. Sejour called for a strategic reassessment.

“Let’s take a little bit more time, let’s try to figure out how we can fix this without it hurting our economy as a whole,” Sejour said.

Los casos fueron confirmados por la Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios de México (Cofepris) que indicó en un comunicado que mantiene una vigilancia epidemiológica activa del Cyclospora cayetanensis y seguimiento de los 33 contagios detectados en diferentes estados.

El anuncio se da un día después de que las autoridades sanitarias del estado occidental de Jalisco informaran sobre dos contagios con el parásito que ocasiona evacuaciones intestinales frecuentes.

El parásito infecta los intestinos y se propaga a través de las heces. Los especialistas han identificado que las personas se infectan con el parásito al consumir frutas o verduras que estuvieron expuestas a agua de riego contaminada con heces.

El reporte de los casos mexicanos se da en medio de las investigaciones que se avanzan en Estados Unidos sobre el origen del brote que ha ocasionado más de 25.000 casos confirmados.

Inicialmente se identificó como una posible fuente del brote una lechuga proveniente de una fábrica de Taylor Farms en Guanajuato, en el centro de México, pero una investigación de Cofepris descartó la presencia del parásito en la planta mexicana.

Cofepris indicó que también se realizó una investigación en 16 hoteles del estado de Quintana Roo, en el Caribe mexicano, donde se tomaron muestras de frutas, verduras y agua para análisis especializados tras un reporte de las autoridades sanitarias del Reino Unido sobre viajeros que se habrían contagiado con cyclospora durante su estancia en la Riviera Maya.

El estudio de campo en Quintana Roo —una de las joyas del turismo mexicano que recibe anualmente decenas de miles de visitantes de todas partes del mundo— finalizó el 4 de agosto y actualmente los laboratorios realizan el procesamiento de las muestras recolectadas, refirió el comunicado.

A inicios de esta semana las autoridades sanitarias del estado de Michigan confirmaron el deceso de dos personas por el brote de ciclosporiasis, que se convirtieron en las dos primeras muertes confirmadas en Estados Unidos relacionadas con el parásito.

El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Michigan indicó que ambas personas tenían afecciones de salud subyacentes que podrían haberse visto afectadas por la enfermedad intestinal y la deshidratación.

Link, de 31 años y residente de Homestead, ha permanecido recluida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight del condado Miami-Dade desde 2022. En 2025 fue declarada culpable de matar a su pareja de muchos años, pero esa condena fue revocada posteriormente y ahora espera un nuevo juicio por asesinato.

Sin embargo, el presunto crimen no fue lo que acaparó los titulares internacionales. Lo que llamó la atención fue que logró quedar embarazada de otro recluso mientras estaba encarcelada en TGK. Ambos habían ideado un plan para pasar semen encapsulado a través de un conducto de ventilación.

Gupta, de 37 años y residente de Oklahoma City, permanece recluida en TGK desde julio de 2025. Está acusada de matar a su hija de 4 años y de simular que murió ahogada en una casa de alquiler vacacional en El Portal el mes anterior, mientras visitaba el sur de Florida desde Oklahoma. Enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado.

En enero, las autoridades informaron que Link atacó a Gupta, golpeándola múltiples veces en la cabeza y el rostro, además de halarle el cabello.

Gupta compareció el miércoles ante un tribunal de Miami después de que sus abogados presentaran una moción de emergencia para solicitar una orden de separación.

Sus abogados indicaron que Link había sido trasladada de la unidad de alojamiento que ambas compartían en TGK, pero que posteriormente fue regresada a esa misma unidad en junio.

En julio, Link se acercó a la puerta de la celda de Gupta y “comenzó a golpearla agresivamente y a gritar: “Te voy a matar””, según el documento judicial.

El 20 de julio ocurrió “otro incidente” entre ambas, según el documento judicial, y cuatro días después una asociada de Link atacó a Gupta.

Un funcionario del Departamento de Correccionales y Rehabilitación de Miami-Dade declaró que Link “está en el nivel inferior de la unidad” y “no puede salir de su celda al mismo tiempo que” Gupta.

“Esto es lo mejor que podemos hacer en este momento”, declaró el funcionario.

El miércoles, el juez no llegó a ordenar ninguna medida.

“El tribunal no tiene autoridad en este momento para conceder la solicitud de una orden de separación”, dijo el juez Zachary James. “Nuevamente recomendaría que el Departamento de Correcciones continúe atento a este asunto, como lo ha estado haciendo, para garantizar que permanezcan separadas”.

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Link, 31, of Homestead, has been in Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center since 2022. In 2025, she was convicted of killing her longtime partner ― but that was later overturned and she awaits a new murder trial.

Her alleged crime isn’t what made international headlines, though: Instead, it was the fact that she managed to get pregnant by a fellow inmate while locked up at TGK. The two had hatched a plan to pass encased semen through an air vent.

Gupta, 37, of Oklahoma City, has been locked up at TGK since July 2025. She’s accused of killing her 4-year-old daughter and staging her drowning at a vacation rental home in El Portal the month prior while visiting from the Sooner State. She faces a second-degree murder charge.

In January, authorities said Link attacked Gupta, punching her multiple times in the head and face and pulling her hair.

Gupta appeared in a Miami courtroom on Wednesday after her attorneys filed an emergency motion for separation order.

Her attorneys said Link had been moved from their shared TGK housing unit but was later returned to it in June.

In July, Link approached Gupta’s cell door and “began banging aggressively and yelling ‘I am going to kill you,’” according to the filing.

On July 20, there was “another incident” involving the two, according to the court filing, and four days later an associate of Link attacked Gupta.

A Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation official testified that Link “is on the bottom tier of the unit” and “is not allowed out of her cell at the same time as” Gupta.

“So this is the best we can do at this time,” the official testified.

On Wednesday, the judge stopped short of demanding any action.

“The court does not have the authority to grant the motion at this time for a keep separate order,” Judge Zachary James said. “I would again recommend that (the) corrections (department) stay on top of this issue, which they have been doing, to ensure that they are separated.”

Miller is facing a congressional ethics investigation related to domestic abuse allegations leveled against him by his ex-wife but is insisting he won't withdraw. “I’m not going anywhere,” he told CNN on Wednesday.

The second-term congressman's actions in a parade of public appearances — beginning with a livestream from his X account Sunday — are heightening concerns among Republicans, who have only until Monday to replace Miller on the November ballot if he were to change his mind and withdraw.

Some senior House Republican campaign strategists worry that Miller’s chances of reelection in the competitive Cleveland-area district have vanished in light of the renewed attention on the allegations and his attempts to defend himself, according to a source familiar with the strategists' thinking who requested anonymity to discuss internal party deliberations.

Messages left for Miller were not returned.

Miller said in a CNN interview earlier this week that he had spoken about his reelection prospects with President Donald Trump, who told him, “I don’t know if you’re going to be able to, you know, pull this one out."

Miller, a senior adviser to Trump during his first term, said he believes he retains strong support within his district and can raise the money needed for a winning campaign. Miller has so far raised about $2.1 million, compared to his opponent's $603,000, according to federal filings.

“There’s no chance that I’m removing myself from this race,” even if Trump were to ask him to step aside, Miller said in a Newsmax interview Tuesday evening.

He had previewed his decision to stay the course over the weekend when he went live on the social platform X and posted a huge cache of documents related to the divorce and custody cases involving him and his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno.

Democrats view the fresh scrutiny on the long-running custody battle and Miller's public attempts to defend himself as a potential opening to flip a seat as they seek to retake control of the U.S. House in this year's midterms.

Miller's Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker, capitalized on the controversy in a pitch to potential donors Wednesday. He accused Miller of “moral bankruptcy.”

“His own party won't stand behind him. His own family has said he's not fit to serve,” he said, referring to comments by Sen. Moreno, who said the congressman lacks “the basic standards of character required to hold elected office.”

To allow his party to name a replacement by a 4 p.m. Monday deadline, Miller would have to formally withdraw by sometime Saturday. That's to give enough time for the required 48-hour notice of a meeting of the Republican Party chairs from the four Ohio counties in his district who would name his replacement.

On Tuesday, the House Ethics Committee announced it had opened an investigation into whether he “may have engaged in domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use.” A group of Democratic lawmakers had also said they wanted an investigation into Miller's conduct. Earlier, Miller himself called for review by the House panel.

The committee's announcement came a day after it recommended another lawmaker be censured after finding he had engaged in inappropriate behavior with young female aides.

The accusations against Miller by Emily Moreno and by a former girlfriend, one-time White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, have been public for years but have drawn increased scrutiny in recent weeks. Emily Moreno has said Miller scalded, hit and threatened her while they were married, allegations Miller has denied.

Miller also said he had nothing to do with a recent broken collarbone on their 2-year-old daughter that led Emily Moreno to contact authorities.

The county’s eighth district encompasses a big portion of southern Miami-Dade, including Homestead and Palmetto Bay.

Incumbent Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins is running against nonprofit CEO Martha Vega Hero and former Palmetto Bay Vice Mayor John Dubois.

“The top three issues facing south Dade and District 8 are traffic and transportation and continuing to provide real traffic solutions for the residents of South Dade and District 8,” said Cohen Higgins. “Additionally, affordability is top of mind for a lot of our residents.”

Cohen Higgins, who is a trial lawyer by trade, says her experience looking at details makes her an effective leader, especially when it comes to the budget.

“I am constantly sounding that alarm on the dais,” said Cohen Higgins. “On behalf of my district and all of the residents of Miami-Dade County, I’m making sure that our tax dollars are being spent wisely, whether that’s scrutinizing contracts, (or answering the question of) why are we overpaying for properties.”

Hero believes government and organizations working together is key, as well as transparency in balancing a budget.

“I’m going to fight to protect that UDP. I’m going to fight to protect my agriculture, my agritourism people, the venues, affordability, job opportunity,” said Hero. “We need to work with ethics. If we have a budget, we have to give you priorities for our families. We need to open a community center.”

Dubois declined to participate in Local 10 News’ story, but pledged that he would if he makes it to a runoff.

Thursday will feature a sun/cloud mix with the possibility for “here/there” showers and storms, particularly during the morning and early afternoon for Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Near seasonable temperatures are forecast, lows in the upper 70s and highs around 90°F.

The three-time AL MVP was on the field at Yankee Stadium in baseball gear Wednesday afternoon, stretching, jogging and doing shuffle slides with a resistance band. He was given the green light to take a step forward in his recovery progression after undergoing his latest scan Tuesday.

Still, it will be a while before Judge is back in the lineup. He must first advance to taking swings, and neither he nor Yankees manager Aaron Boone offered a target date for the slugger's return.

Judge is on the 60-day injured list with a stress fracture of his right rib. He is hitting .248 with 17 homers and 38 RBIs but had just one homer in his last 18 games before going on the IL.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, a man identified as Michael Simpson, 51, of Miami Beach, turned off an 18-year-old diver’s air supply while the victim was in the water searching for lobsters.

It happened at approximately 7:04 a.m. on July 29, approximately a half mile east of Fisher Island.

Deputies said the incident began with a fight over a diving spot.

According to investigators, the victim was under the water when the owner of the boat he arrived with observed another boat approaching at a high rate of speed.

The boat owner told deputies that when the boat eventually stopped and anchored nearby, the captain, later identified as Simpson, started a verbal dispute, claiming that they were in his spot.

Deputies said at one point, Simpson became irate and threatened to turn off the breathing system that was supplying air to Hunter Cofer, the diver in the water. He then made good on his threat, jumping in the water and turning it off, authorities said.

The boat owner then immediately jumped into the water and pulled Cofer to the surface, according to MDSO.

After being brought to safety, Cofer was observed “gasping for air, appeared disoriented, and did not understand what had occurred,” an arrest form stated.

Deputies said Simpson fled the area after turning the machine off.

No injures were reported in the incident.

Detectives said Simpson voluntarily surrendered to authorities on Tuesday.

Simpson’s attorney, Howard Srebnick, said his client will plead not guilty and denied the allegations.

“He never touched the tank, and so this claim that he had something to do with the tank turning off is just false,” Srebnick said. “We have eyewitnesses that can confirm that Mr. Simpson never touched the tank.”

Cofer’s family told Local 10 News that he is studying to become a paramedic and is still processing what happened. He has not made a return to the water since the incident occurred.

Simpson posted a $10,000 bond but remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Wednesday afternoon.

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Maurice Timothy Dukes, 36, and his girlfriend, Sarahi Azucena Gonzalez, 22, are facing aggravated child abuse and child neglect charges.

Investigators said a doctor at Baptist Health Homestead Hospital told them that the boy, Dukes’ son, “was brought to the emergency department with various injuries” from the abuse, prompting police involvement. An arrest report doesn’t state who brought the boy there.

“The injuries appeared to be in various stages of healing and included the following: linear looped markings, abrasions and facial trauma with both of the victim’s eyes swollen and bruised,” the report states.

Police said Dukes, Gonzalez and the victim’s 12-year-old cousin, who’s set to face juvenile charges, inflicted the injuries.

The child’s aunt, Kiemaya Jackson, told Local 10 News through tears that the boy “had gashes, like he was whooped like a slave.”

“He had two big black eyes his eyes were really swollen,” Jackson said. “The baby had bruises wrapped around his body from his neck all the way down to his feet, from the inner thighs.”

Authorities said both Dukes and Gonzalez admitted to beating the boy and admitted to not seeking medical attention.

Jackson said the boy had been in Dukes’ care since his mother, her niece, died several months ago.

“Every time we tried to hug him, he would he would flex like he was nervous,” Jackson said. “Paramedics, Police, everybody cried. That baby went through a lot. He went through a lot.”

Gonzalez said she hit the child “with a belt and ‘chancleta’” because “no one would help her when she asked for help with caretaking,” according to the arrest report.

“I am hurt, because that is my nephew and if you were stressed I feel like you could’ve reached out for help,” Jackson said. “The damage that was done to my nephew, it really hurts. And we need answers to it.”

Police said Gonzalez additionally admitted that the boy’s cousin “struck the victim on the face multiple times after (he) bit him.”

Both adults were arrested while the 12-year-old was listed as being “at large” in the arrest report.

As of Wednesday, both adults were being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center: Dukes on a $6,000 bond and Gonzalez on a $4,000 bond.

While those surgeries were canceled, the cases made headlines several years ago, prompting a spike in people around the country revoking their organ donor registrations.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the nonprofit Network for Hope “a bad apple” and accused it of “persistent safety failures” in announcing the government was starting the process to decertify it.

Network for Hope is one of about 55 organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, that coordinate the recovery of organs from deceased donors and help match them to patients on the nation’s transplant list. In a statement, Network for Hope said it “strongly disagrees” with Kennedy’s decision and will appeal.

Among the allegations is that in 2021, Network for Hope’s predecessor organization pressured a local hospital to proceed with plans to withdraw life support and retrieve organs from a man despite signs that he was waking up from a drug overdose. The man survived and his sister joined Kennedy at a press briefing Wednesday, thanking him.

OPOs cannot declare if someone is dead — only a doctor at the hospital treating the person can do that. Only after that declaration can a donor agency assume responsibility for the deceased, looking for potential recipients and scheduling surgeons to come in to retrieve the organs. Most donations come from people declared brain-dead. But sometimes doctors say a patient has a nonsurvivable injury and the family decides to withdraw life support — and in certain circumstances, that also can allow for donation.

In its statement, Network for Hope said it complies with all federal organ policies. It said that over a year ago it implemented a “first-of-its-kind” new safeguard allowing anyone — including health professionals or family members — to call a pause in donation planning if there’s any concern the patient won’t be appropriate.

Kentucky recently passed a law mandating that pause and the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is working on new rules that also would require all the nation’s OPOs to implement it.

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, the vast majority seeking a kidney, and thousands will die waiting for a new organ. There were more than 49,000 transplants last year, a record despite a small drop in donations from the deceased — the first such dip in a decade.

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The contract to the Houston-based Burke Law Group comes as the Trump administration ramps up its mass deportation campaign across the country and after the administration last week let a key contract with a network of legal groups working with immigrant children around the country expire with no replacement. The providers have increasingly raised worries that vulnerable children won't have the experienced legal help they need at a time when the administration is intensifying efforts to remove people from the country.

Michael Lukens, who heads the Amica Center, called the idea that the administration had given the sole-source contract to the Texas firm “upsetting and shocking."

“It really does forebode a situation where children are going to get no meaningful due process, no meaningful day in court. We cannot have a random law firm entrusted to take care of children,” Lukens said.

The groups said the contract announced Tuesday only applies to the children currently held in government-run shelters and that the government would need to issue another contract covering services for migrant children who live outside the shelter system. Lukens said there are currently about 1,800 children living in shelters, and roughly 22,000 live outside with sponsors, such as family members.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the government agency responsible for caring for unaccompanied migrant children, did not respond to requests for comment.

The Trump administration announced late Tuesday that they were hiring the Houston-based Burke to provide legal services to unaccompanied children. The year-long contract starts August 15.

Only two of the 25 lawyers listed on the firm’s website on Wednesday morning claim relevant experience in immigration law in their biographies.

Many of the others at the firm are corporate lawyers with ties to conservative causes and to President Trump. The firm’s founder, Marcella Burke, served in Trump’s first administration as a lawyer in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior.

Others on its roster include Justin Shubow, the leading supporter of Trump’s efforts to require federal buildings to adhere to classical and traditional architectural styles, and a former Trump appointee to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. Prominent conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro is listed as a “senior counsel.”

The firm and its founder, Marcella Burke, didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.

The notice says Burke’s contract is a “single source cooperative agreement,” which means the administration picked the firm without a competitive bidding process. It did not offer a justification for bypassing standard bidding rules.

Migrant children alone are viewed as especially vulnerable because of their age and are usually entrusted to U.S. government care. There are various legal protections that apply to them once they’re in the U.S., including the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which requires the government to facilitate legal representation for children put into deportation proceedings.

That representation until recently was carried out by a network of nearly 100 legal aid providers across the country. The legal aid providers go into the shelters and provide know-your-rights trainings to children there and can directly represent them in court proceedings.

But last Friday marked the last day of that contract and, until late Tuesday, it wasn't clear if a new contract would be put in place and, if it was, who would do the work.

On top of the contract uncertainty, the legal aid providers say they've been struggling to get repaid for work they have already done since last November. The groups say the administration is asking for detailed information about their clients that they say they're not ethically able to provide.

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Nico Hoerner added three hits as Chicago won for the fourth time in five games. The Cubs also improved to 32-15 since June 11, strengthening their hold on the top spot in the NL wild-card standings.

Los Angeles was swept for the second straight series. The two-time defending World Series champions have dropped six in a row for the first time since a seven-game skid in July 2025.

Ohtani went deep twice for the NL West-leading Dodgers, and Max Muncy connected for a three-run homer in a five-run eighth inning. Mookie Betts had four hits after he batted just .167 (15 for 90) in his previous 25 games.

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was replaced in the fifth after a pitch hit the side of his right hand on a foul ball. X-rays were negative, and Freeman said he was OK.

Ohtani and Crow-Armstrong exchanged leadoff homers in the first, continuing what has become a two-man race for NL MVP.

Chicago added two more in the second on RBI doubles by Dansby Swanson and Crow-Armstrong off Eric Lauer (6-6). Crow-Armstrong made it 5-1 with a two-run shot in the fourth that went off the videoboard in right field, his 26th of the season.

Chicago left-hander Shota Imanaga (8-9) scattered eight hits while working five innings of one-run ball. He struck out six and walked none.

Los Angeles rallied in the eighth. Ohtani's two-run homer off Ryan Zeferjahn, his 26th, trimmed Chicago's lead to one. The Dodgers had a runner on second when Kiké Hernández struck out swinging, ending the inning.

Jacob Webb worked a perfect ninth for his sixth save.

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Dodgers: RHP Roki Sasaki (5-5, 4.64 ERA) starts Friday night in the opener of a series at Arizona.

Cubs: LHP David Peterson (6-7, 5.52 ERA) starts on Thursday against Toronto in the makeup of a June 21 rainout. RHP Dylan Cease (7-5, 2.41) takes the mound for the Blue Jays.

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El influencer César Gastélum fue asesinado la noche del martes en Culiacán, capital del estado de Sinaloa, indicaron las autoridades, las cuales dieron a entender que su muerte estaba relacionada a la violencia de los cárteles del narcotráfico, pero no responsabilizaron a algún grupo en particular.

Un video del ataque, el cual fue visto por The Associated Press, muestra a Gastélum riendo junto a otros dos hombres en el estacionamiento de un Kentucky Fried Chicken cuando aparecen otras dos personas que bajan de una motocicleta. Una de ellas saca un arma y le dispara a Gastélum antes de escapar del lugar.

El ataque se perpetró a pocas cuadras de la fiscalía local en plena hora pico.

El Gabinete de Seguridad de México y elementos de la fiscalía local aseguraron que la investigación sigue en curso y que, al parecer, Gastélum había publicado algunos videos en los que “hacía alusión a una facción de un grupo delictivo”.

La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, dijo el miércoles en su conferencia de prensa matutina que "tiene que detenerse a los autores materiales y, en todo caso, al autor intelectual, y conocer la razón de por qué se da este lamentable homicidio".

Gastélum tenía más de 650.000 seguidores en TikTok, e incluso más en Instagram y otras plataformas de redes sociales. Publicaba videos de comedia y contenido acompañado de música regional mexicana. En ocasiones se refería a sí mismo en sus videos como “bélico”, un término utilizado frecuentemente en las subculturas del país para insinuar una conexión con los cárteles.

En las cuentas de redes sociales de Gastélum se publicaron el miércoles mensajes de “descansa en paz”.

Sinaloa se ha visto devastado en los últimos años por la guerra entre dos facciones del Cártel de Sinaloa. En el punto más álgido de los enfrentamientos, aparecían cadáveres por toda la ciudad marcados con la firma de una facción o la otra.

Una de ellas, Los Chapitos, solía dejar una pizza o una caja de pizza sobre un cuerpo. La otra, Los Mayos, dejaba un sombrero, por lo que se volvió peligroso usar ese tipo de sombreros en la ciudad, ya que podía interpretarse como lealtad a uno de los grupos.

Gastélum fue grabado la noche del martes usando un sombrero blanco.

El miércoles se encendieron veladoras en el lugar donde fue asesinado. Fue la segunda vez en poco más de un año que un influencer fue abatido a tiros por hombres armados durante una transmisión en vivo.

La influencer de belleza Valeria Márquez, de 23 años, fue asesinada a balazos en mayo de 2025 mientras transmitía en vivo por TikTok desde un salón de belleza del estado occidental de Jalisco.

El asesinato de Gastélum se produjo en momentos en que el gobierno de México enfrenta cada vez más presión de Washington para tomar medidas enérgicas contra la violencia del crimen organizado.

También es parte de una tendencia más amplia de grupos criminales que atacan a influencers, especialmente en regiones como Sinaloa y Jalisco, dos regiones dominadas por el crimen organizado.

El analista de seguridad, David Saucedo, explicó que los influencers son asesinados o amenazados por una amplia variedad de motivos. En algunos caso podrían haber tenido vínculos con una facción criminal en una región en disputa, produciendo contenido para ellos en redes sociales o manteniendo relaciones sentimentales con integrantes de cárteles. En otros, los influencers lavan dinero para los cárteles o difunden información de manera similar a la de un periodista.

"A los carteles les interesa dictar la línea editorial dictar y controlar la línea editorial de las regiones en donde operan", explicó Saucedo. "Es por eso que varios influencers son atacados y amenazados con el objeto de convertirse en el canal de difusión de mensajes criminales".

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“Dillinger. I think it was Daniel,” Fuqua replied Tuesday afternoon outside Henry Ford High School on the city's northwest side. But Fuqua was much clearer about who didn't get his vote. “Not Shri, definitely not him.”

The candidate that Fuqua chose was state Rep. Donavan McKinney, and he defeated Shri Thanedar, an incumbent who was seeking his third consecutive term representing the 13th Congressional District.

McKinney's win almost assures that Detroit, a majority Black city, will have its first Black representative in Congress since 2022. He will face Republican Taras Nykoriak in the November general election in a district that votes overwhelming Democrat.

“This is a very diverse district, but it encompasses the Blackest major city in all of America,” McKinney told reporters Wednesday. “We cannot forget what Detroit means, not only to our city and our state, but to the world.”

McKinney is positioning himself as a candidate who can bridge divides between different communities.

“It’s not just about restoring Black leadership, this is about restoring the right leadership,” he said.

Fuqua said he voted for McKinney because Thanedar “has no idea what Black people have been dealing with.”

“He’s probably a good guy, but he has not had the Black experience,” Fuqua said.

Bernie Henderix, 58, has never voted for Thanedar and also cast his ballot Tuesday for McKinney who he's been “hearing some good things” about.

Henderix said having Black representation in Congress is important “but I want the best person I think is going to represent us the right way.”

Thanedar said on X that he congratulated McKinney and offered him “full cooperation and a smooth transition.”

Seen by some on Capitol Hill as a bit unconventional, Thanedar introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in April 2025 — years after Trump was twice impeached in the House during his first term only to acquitted by the U.S. Senate.

Thanedar started and sold a chemical-testing lab for $20 million. He spent millions on an unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial primary before being elected in 2020 to the state Legislature. The following year he announced plans to run for Congress, eyeing the 13th District that covers a good chunk of the Motor City.

Thanedar took the 2022 Democratic primary in a crowded field which split the vote. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American who previously represented the 13th district, shifted to the 12th after the state redrew its congressional map.

Before Thanedar and Tlaib won their races that year, Detroit had not been without a Black representative in Congress since before Charles Diggs Jr. took office in 1955. Diggs was joined in Congress in 1965 by Democrat John Conyers, who retained his congressional seat for more than 50 years.

Thanedar also would win the 2024 Democratic primary after an elections official ruled that a top challenger's name could not appear on the ballot because too few valid signatures had been submitted.

McKinney, who was endorsed by influential progressive U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and several Detroit-area state lawmakers, has argued that the city should once again have a Black representative in Congress.

In a campaign ad for the just concluded primary, McKinney said Thanedar “spent millions to buy a seat in Congress” and “has more in common with Donald Trump and Elon Musk than people like us,” while pointing to himself.

“Shri came down to Earth,” said Adolph Mongo, a Detroit-based political commentator and former political consultant. Mongo said Thanedar did little for Black people in Detroit during his four years in Congress.

“He didn't even have an agenda,” Mongo said.

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Según la oficina del sheriff, agentes recibieron múltiples llamadas el martes por la noche informando que Hilton aparentemente se estaba autolesionando durante una transmisión en vivo por TikTok.

“¡Mario, Mario! ¡Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade! ¡Sal de la casa!”, se escucha gritar a un agente en un video de vigilancia afuera de la casa de Hilton en el suroeste de Miami-Dade.

Los agentes informaron que acudieron a la vivienda, confirmaron con familiares que Hilton estaba solo en el interior y trabajaron para reducir la tensión de la situación de manera segura. Las autoridades indicaron que ahora está recibiendo la atención que necesita.

El incidente ocurre después de que Hilton compartiera públicamente que a principios de este año sufrió una grave emergencia médica que lo mantuvo hospitalizado durante varias semanas debido a una úlcera y sepsis. En junio, también anunció que se había mudado de Las Vegas a Miami junto con sus hijos.

En un comunicado, el representante de Hilton, Golden Artists Entertainment, dijo:

“Estamos al tanto del preocupante contenido que circula en internet relacionado con nuestro cliente, Pérez Hilton. En este momento, no hemos podido establecer contacto directo con él, a pesar de nuestros continuos esfuerzos por comunicarnos. Nuestra principal preocupación es la salud y el bienestar de Pérez, así como el bienestar de su familia. Hasta que contemos con información confirmada, no haremos especulaciones ni comentarios adicionales”.

La Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade está utilizando este incidente como una oportunidad para recordar al público que existen recursos de salud mental disponibles para cualquier persona que esté atravesando una crisis e instó a las personas a buscar ayuda si ellas o alguien que conocen está teniendo dificultades.

Hilton, cubano-estadounidense, alcanzó notoriedad a través de su sitio web de chismes de celebridades antes de ampliar su cobertura a la moda y la música y convertirse en una personalidad conocida de la televisión.

No se ha divulgado información adicional sobre el estado de salud de Hilton.

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Investigators said Matthew Holloway surrendered to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Monticello, Florida, on Sunday. They said he is expected to be extradited to Broward County in the coming days.

Holloway faces one count of first-degree murder and multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the May 8 shooting near the 7900 block of Southwest Seventh Court, according to BSO officials.

Deputies said they responded to reports of a shooting around 1 a.m. and found 19-year-old O’Mari Doe inside a 2020 Ford Mustang suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

They said he was airlifted to Broward Health North, where he later died. Authorities said 20-year-old Maurice Vorroto was found outside the vehicle with a gunshot wound. His injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Detectives said Doe, Vorroto and two other people were sitting inside the Mustang when five suspects arrived in a black Honda Accord. Witnesses told investigators the suspects got out armed with handguns and fired multiple shots into the Mustang before fleeing, according to deputies.

Deputies said a Fort Lauderdale police officer later spotted the Honda Accord, prompting a pursuit that ended after the suspects abandoned the vehicle near the 900 block of Southwest 13th Street in Fort Lauderdale.

Authorities said they previously arrested Aamir Dennard Adams, 19, Anthony Adams, 18, Amari Adams, 16, Romayne Smith, 17, in connection with the shooting. Detectives later identified Holloway as the fifth suspect.

Before Holloway’s arrest, Broward Sheriff’s Office had sought the public’s help locating him and offered a reward through Broward Crime Stoppers. With Holloway now in custody, all five suspects identified in the case have been apprehended.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Aamir Adams and Anthony Adams were being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

Los investigadores informaron que Matthew Holloway se entregó el domingo a la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Jefferson, en Monticello, Florida. Indicaron que se espera que sea extraditado al condado Broward en los próximos días.

Holloway enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en primer grado y múltiples cargos de intento de asesinato en primer grado en relación con la balacera del 8 de mayo cerca de la cuadra 7900 de Southwest Seventh Court, según funcionarios de la BSO.

Los agentes dijeron que respondieron a reportes de una balacera alrededor de la 1 a.m. y encontraron a O’Mari Doe, de 19 años, dentro de un Ford Mustang 2020 con múltiples heridas de bala.

Indicaron que fue trasladado en helicóptero a Broward Health North, donde posteriormente murió. Las autoridades dijeron que Maurice Vorroto, de 20 años, fue encontrado fuera del vehículo con una herida de bala. Sus lesiones no fueron consideradas de gravedad.

Los detectives dijeron que Doe, Vorroto y otras dos personas estaban sentados dentro del Mustang cuando cinco sospechosos llegaron en un Honda Accord negro. Testigos dijeron a los investigadores que los sospechosos bajaron del vehículo armados con pistolas y dispararon múltiples veces contra el Mustang antes de huir, según los agentes.

Los agentes indicaron que posteriormente un oficial de la Policía de Fort Lauderdale localizó el Honda Accord, lo que dio inicio a una persecución que terminó cuando los sospechosos abandonaron el vehículo cerca de la cuadra 900 de Southwest 13th Street, en Fort Lauderdale.

Las autoridades informaron que previamente arrestaron a Aamir Dennard Adams, de 19 años; Anthony Adams, de 18; Amari Adams, de 16; y Romayne Smith, de 17, en relación con la balacera. Posteriormente, los detectives identificaron a Holloway como el quinto sospechoso.

Antes del arresto de Holloway, la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward había solicitado la ayuda del público para localizarlo y ofrecía una recompensa a través de Broward Crime Stoppers. Con Holloway ya bajo custodia, los cinco sospechosos identificados en el caso han sido arrestados.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, Aamir Adams y Anthony Adams permanecían detenidos sin derecho a fianza en la cárcel principal del condado Broward.

Según las autoridades, Samuel Lackey fue encontrado el domingo durmiendo a bordo de un Airbus A320 modelo 2012 de JetBlue que se encontraba en Jetscape Services, en Fort Lauderdale, para recibir servicio de mantenimiento.

Funcionarios de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) dijeron que las acciones del acusado quedaron captadas por las cámaras de seguridad.

Los agentes indicaron que a Lackey le resultó fácil subir al avión porque había una escalera portátil que pudo utilizar y se estaban realizando trabajos de mantenimiento en la aeronave.

Según las autoridades, Lackey escaló una cerca para acceder al avión y se coló en la aeronave la noche del sábado.

Como resultado, hubo una interrupción del servicio, ya que el avión estaba programado para realizar un vuelo.

Los agentes dijeron que las puertas del avión fueron cerradas con llave y la aeronave fue remolcada de regreso a un espacio de estacionamiento, momento en el que el presunto sueño se prolongó hasta las 5:39 a.m. del domingo, cuando empleados de JetBlue llegaron y despertaron a Lackey.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, Lackey permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward acusado de robo a una propiedad ocupada sin portar armas, daños criminales por más de $1,000 USD e interrupción o afectación de infraestructura crítica, con una fianza total de $10,000 USD.

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Miami’s offense features several high-profile players, including new quarterback Darian Mensah, running back Mark Fletcher Jr. and Toney, all of whom were named to the Maxwell Award watch list, which honors college football’s most outstanding player.

But when Toney met with reporters Wednesday, his focus was on the challenge of facing Miami’s defense every day in practice.

“The entire DB (defensive back) room is great,” Toney said. “You got guys that, they’re in the process of mastering their craft, so I feel like we got the best DB room in the country. So just going up against those guys make it easy for us on Saturday.”

Miami’s defensive backfield is led by cornerbacks OJ Frederique and Omar Thornton, along with safety Bryce Fitzgerald, who was named to the Preseason All-ACC team.

Toney said competing against a talented defensive back group helps the Hurricanes’ offense improve before game day, a reflection of the team’s belief that strong competition in practice leads to better performances on Saturdays.

Head coach Mario Cristobal has emphasized building a balanced team, and the Hurricanes’ players believe the daily battles between the offense and defense are helping both units grow.

Toney, who has quickly emerged as one of college football’s rising young receivers, will be a key piece of Miami’s offense as the Hurricanes look to turn their talent into results this season.

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La ofensiva de Miami cuenta con varios jugadores destacados, incluidos el nuevo mariscal de campo Darian Mensah, el corredor Mark Fletcher Jr. y Toney, quienes fueron incluidos en la lista de vigilancia del Premio Maxwell, que reconoce al jugador más destacado del fútbol americano universitario.

Pero cuando Toney habló con los reporteros el miércoles, su atención estuvo centrada en el desafío de enfrentar todos los días en los entrenamientos a la defensa de Miami.

“Toda la sala de backs defensivos (DB) es excelente”, dijo Toney. “Tienes jugadores que están en el proceso de perfeccionar su juego, así que siento que tenemos la mejor sala de DB del país. Enfrentarlos hace que todo sea más fácil para nosotros los sábados”.

La secundaria defensiva de Miami está encabezada por los esquineros OJ Frederique y Omar Thornton, junto con el profundo Bryce Fitzgerald, quien fue incluido en el Equipo Pretemporada All-ACC.

Toney dijo que competir contra un grupo tan talentoso de backs defensivos ayuda a que la ofensiva de los Hurricanes mejore antes de cada partido, reflejando la creencia del equipo de que una fuerte competencia en los entrenamientos conduce a un mejor desempeño los sábados.

El entrenador en jefe Mario Cristobal ha enfatizado la construcción de un equipo equilibrado, y los jugadores de los Hurricanes creen que las batallas diarias entre la ofensiva y la defensa están ayudando a ambas unidades a crecer.

Toney, quien rápidamente se ha consolidado como uno de los jóvenes receptores con mayor proyección del fútbol americano universitario, será una pieza clave de la ofensiva de Miami mientras los Hurricanes buscan convertir su talento en resultados esta temporada.

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None of the three appear to know Wells, his family or the boating group, or be part of the investigation. The threats came amid rampant speculation and scrutiny of the investigation, deepened in part by uncertainty surrounding Wells' final hours, distrust of law enforcement and the state's long history of racist violence.

The teenager, who was Black, had traveled to the uninhabited island with a group of friends from high school, all of whom were white. He did not return with his friends to the mainland that evening. His body was found two days later off the island’s coast.

Authorities have not made any arrests or named any suspects. An independent autopsy commissioned by Wells’ family found the 18-year-old’s cause of death to be “undetermined” pending further investigation.

Attempts to reach the defendants for comment were unsuccessful. Phone numbers listed for some of the defendants in affidavits weren't active and a call to another number went unanswered. Emails sent to addresses listed in an affidavit for one of the defendants went unanswered. It is unclear if they have attorneys.

One of the defendants, Edward James Porter of Illinois, allegedly called an unnamed witness on July 31 and threatened to kill them and their family, according to an affidavit. Porter also allegedly told another person in Mississippi in a phone call that he would cut them up and put them “into a suitcase.” Porter was charged on July 31 in federal court for the Southern District of Mississippi for the threat.

Porter threatened two members of the family of Bart Edminston Jr., a 21-year-old who knew Wells and provided aid to the boat the group used on July Fourth, said family attorney Russell Latino. Latino said that one of the family members who Porter threatened is a witness in the investigation into Wells’ death.

An Ohio woman was also charged with allegedly placing bomb threats at the George County Chancery Clerk's Office and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office on July 23. The woman, Michelle Francine Edwards, allegedly called the clerk's office 21 times and said, “the clock is ticking,” according to an affidavit.

A California man, Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce, was charged on July 14 for allegedly sending a threatening Facebook message to a Jackson County Chancery Court judge with ties to the Wells investigation. According to an affidavit, a Facebook user believed to be Dumarce sent a message to the judge's account that constituted a “threat that a bomb would be mailed to the judge's office."

Judge Ashlee Cole posted a screenshot of Dumarce's threatening message on Facebook on July 9. Cole wrote in an earlier Facebook post that her son last saw Wells on July Fourth around 3 p.m. and decided to “stay on the island and return inland later with another group of friends.” Cole wrote that she deactivated her Facebook and that she fears for the safety of her children.

“No one in our family is trying in any way to impede with the investigation by law enforcement or to otherwise hamper the family and law enforcement’s quest for answers,” Cole wrote, adding that her son “cooperated fully” with the sheriff's investigation. ___ Kelety reported from Phoenix. Associated Press journalist Sophie Bates in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed.

Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 states this year, and investigators have continued to probe how many could be linked to a common contaminated source.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of states tied to the deadly outbreak had grown from nine to 15. Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina were added to a list that previously included Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Investigators initially narrowed in on lettuce served at Taco Bell. Federal officials subsequently said they are focused on Taylor Farms as the source of the lettuce in the outbreak, and the company has recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico.

There are several reasons cyclospora outbreaks can be hard to investigate and contain, said Dr. Juan Luis Marquez, medical director of the Washtenaw County and Livingston County health departments in Michigan.

It can take weeks between when someone is exposed to the parasite and when they come down with symptoms; it's harder to analyze the parasite in laboratories; and it's a lot of work to interview everyone who is sick and clearly identify common exposures, said Marquez, an adjunct public health professor at the University of Michigan.

Also, “there have been staffing cuts at all levels of public health — federal, local, state — so there are less resources and capacity generally available,” Marquez said in a statement.

Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC. Outbreaks tend to occur most often in the late spring and summer.

The heat-loving parasite infects the bowels and spreads through feces. The illness, called cyclosporiasis, is less common than foodborne illnesses caused by other germs, including salmonella and E. coli. Many cyclospora cases are never linked to a specific food or other source.

The worst year in the U.S. for infections was 2019, when about 4,700 illnesses were reported nationally. This year has far surpassed that. Michigan alone has reported more than 12,000 — including two deaths. Adding in the other states that have reported cases, the national total stands at over 25,000.

The FDA says it is tracking five separate ongoing cyclospora outbreaks. The 15-state outbreak is by far the largest. No products have been linked to the other outbreaks, including one that has sickened 115 people.

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Investigators said the robbery occurred at about 11:15 a.m. on July 30 at the Bank of America branch located at 8585 Coral Way.

They said the suspect entered the bank, implied he had a gun and demanded money before fleeing with an undisclosed amount of cash.

No injuries were reported.

The FBI said investigators believe the suspect has ties to Miami-Dade County and may be known in the area. Authorities warned the public not to approach the man if he is spotted and instead to contact law enforcement immediately.

Investigators said the suspect has a distinctive hairstyle that could help identify him. The back of his head is completely shaved, while the remaining hair is styled forward over the top of his head, according to FBI officials.

Authorities said the investigation is being conducted by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the FBI Miami Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force and the FBI.

Anyone with information about the robbery or the suspect is urged to call 1-800-225-5324 or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.

Now, he's back.

Four days after a U.S. District Court judge in Colorado ruled high school players from the 2022 graduating class could play their fifth college season, Daley returned to the practice field for the defending national champions. He'll be limited in early workouts, but coach Curt Cignetti remains hopeful it won't take one of the nation's most disruptive defensive linemen in 2025 long to get back to full speed.

“He looks pretty good. He’s on a modified program where he’ll dress out for practice, participate in some individual right now, no 11-on-11, and then get with the strength and conditioning staff, who will bring him along until they feel confident he’s ready to go,” Cignetti said Wednesday after the team's first summer practice. “I don’t think it’s going to be real, real long because he was training to be ready for next year in the (National Football) League, so it looks like he’s in pretty good shape.”

Daley's return solidifies what was already expected to be a deep, experienced, talented group of defensive linemen.

After transferring to Indiana, Daley became a key cog in the Hoosiers' historic title run. He recorded 5 1/2 sacks, forced two fumbles, knocked down a pass and led the Big Ten with 19 tackles for loss while earning honorable mention all-conference honors. He played three seasons at Kent State, starting all 24 games in his final two seasons with the Golden Flashes.

But the injury following the 13-10 victory over then No. 1 Ohio State forced Daley to sit out all three playoff games as Indiana became the first team since the 1890s to finish with a 16-0 record.

Daley's return marks the second straight year the Hoosiers may get a starter back thanks to a legal ruling.

Last August, a Texas judge initially granted an injunction that allowed safety Louis Moore to play in Indiana's first two games. In September, a second ruling in the waiver eligibility fight with the NCAA resulted in a ruling allowing Moore to play the rest of the season after he transferred back to Indiana, where he played two previous seasons, before going to Mississippi for one year.

Moore wound up on The Associated Press' All-American second team and signed as an undrafted rookie with the NFL's Miami Dolphins in May.

Daley also had pro aspirations but when he was not drafted in April, it opened the door for a possible return. That became a reality Friday, though the NCAA has filed its intention to appeal the decision.

For now, the Hoosiers plan to proceed the same way they did with Moore.

“If it works out for him long term, I think it’s a great thing because here’s a guy, you talk about helping people and opportunities, here’s a guy that played at Kent State and then came to us last fall,” Cignetti said. “It really took him three to four games before he started to get the hang of it, wasn’t playing a key role, then became the most dominant defensive lineman in the Big Ten, led the Big Ten with TFLs, suffers the injury, ends up not getting drafted and so on and so forth.”

The addition of an experienced contributor such as Daley, a Virginia native, could make the Hoosiers front seven even better.

Cignetti opened camp with a defensive line depth chart that included Tobi Osunsanmi and Chiddi Obiazor, who transferred from Kansas State; Josh Burnham, a transfer from Notre Dame and incumbent starters Tyrique Tucker and Mario Landino. Now they can add Daley, too.

The question is will Daley be ready for Indiana's season opener Sept. 5 against North Texas?

“I haven’t even thought of that,” Cignetti said. “I’m really focused on developing this team and getting up there and watching today’s tape and putting tomorrow’s practice schedule together and taking this team as far as we can in fall camp.”

Solid start

Cignetti also gave a brief update on what he saw from new quarterback Josh Hoover, the transfer from TCU who replaces Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 draft pick Fernando Mendoza.

Hoover has thrown for 9,629 yards in his career, the most of any returning FBS quarterback, but drew criticism because of his propensity for turnovers. But Cignetti gave Hoover good marks in the spring and again Wednesday.

“It appeared that he finished practice well,” Cignetti said. “I saw him make a few nice throws at the end. I saw (receiver Nick) Marsh make a couple plays too.”

Marsh transferred to Indiana from Michigan State this year.

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But the agreement is likely to be contingent on the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iran’s ports. The Trump administration has previously ruled out any deal that would cement Iran’s grip over the strait, which would amount to a major loss for the U.S. and a break with global norms.

Iran has insisted on some measure of control over the strait, saying it will not go back to being an open international waterway, as it was before the war.

The U.S., along with Israel, launched the war on Feb. 28, citing various goals including toppling Tehran’s government and ending its nuclear program. Those have not been achieved, and the conflict has devolved into a fight over the strait as Iran’s assertion of control and attacks on shipping have ground traffic to a near-halt.

Closure of the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas once passed, has driven up the price of fuel and basic goods, roiling the global economy. Trump is also under mounting pressure to end an unpopular war ahead of U.S. congressional elections.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, said that the agreement with Oman is in the “final stage” of drafting, and that a joint statement will be issued “if certain parties do not obstruct this process,” apparently referring to the U.S.

Regional officials tell AP negotiators have finalized a draft

Iranian and Omani negotiators have finalized the draft deal to reopen the strait and await final approval from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, two regional officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Khamenei is believed to have been wounded in the war’s opening strikes and has not been seen in public since then.

The officials, who were briefed on the negotiations, portrayed the potential deal as a temporary solution to the dispute over the strait. They said it is tied to an agreement reached between the U.S. and Iran in June that aimed at ending the fighting and reopening the waterway but ultimately collapsed.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks, said the potential deal will pave the way for the U.S. and Iran to resume negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Earlier, they had said the potential agreement would have ships enter the Persian Gulf through an Iranian-controlled route and exit through a route controlled by Oman. Service fees would be charged for providing security and preserving the maritime environment, the officials said.

The U.S. has said it is strongly opposed to any arrangement that would see Iran charge fees.

Trump said a deal to reopen the strait is close

Trump was asked on Tuesday evening by reporters about a report on the Axios news site that an announcement on the strait could be made on Wednesday.

“It could happen. Tomorrow or the next day,” Trump said. “A lot of progress has been made.”

Oil prices initially eased but later inched up. Brent crude, the international standard, was around $80 per barrel on Wednesday — still well below the levels it hit at the height of the conflict.

In recent days, Trump has alternately threatened massive strikes and voiced support for diplomatic efforts.

Attacks on regional shipping continue

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed Wednesday they had fired ballistic missiles toward a Saudi oil tanker on the Red Sea off the Saudi port of Yanbu, without providing evidence. There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.

A vessel sailing in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen reported a loud explosion that happened in close proximity, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said Wednesday, adding that the crew was safe. The Houthis claimed to have fired a ballistic missile at another Saudi oil tanker.

A recent escalation between the rebels and Saudi Arabia threatens to reignite Yemen’s civil war, which pitted the Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition supporting the country’s government.

In July, the Houthis announced they were closing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that leads to the Red Sea for Saudi-linked shipping. That puts additional pressure on international shipping since the Red Sea became a key alternative route for Saudi oil exports during the war.

Israel and Hezbollah’s ceasefire increasingly shaky

The shaky ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah grew more volatile Wednesday, as the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning to residents of the southern Lebanese village of Mansouri — the first such warning in weeks.

Later, the Israeli military said it had begun conducting “precise strikes” in southern Lebanon in response to what it described as “a blatant violation of the ceasefire” that had largely held since June 20.

The escalation came as Lebanese and Israeli negotiators met in Rome for a second day to discuss implementation of a deal under which Israeli forces are supposed to withdraw from areas they are occupying in southern Lebanon in exchange for Hezbollah’s disarmament.

A State Department official said the talks in Rome ended early “due to events on the ground” but could continue on Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the diplomacy, said the discussions “were extremely productive.”

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Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece, and Superville from Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Aamer Madhani, Fatima Hussein and Matthew Lee in Washington and Claire Galofaro in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed.

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This story has been corrected to show that the State Department official was referring to Israel-Lebanon talks ending early and not the talks over the Strait of Hormuz, and that the vessel reporting a loud explosion was in the Gulf of Aden, not the Red Sea.

Crow-Armstrong slugged two more homers for the Chicago Cubs in their series finale against the Los Angeles Dodgers, including a laser off the videoboard in right field. He also hit an RBI double to right in the second inning.

Of course, Ohtani started the game with his 25th homer. The Japanese slugger also hit a leadoff single in the fifth.

Ohtani won his second straight NL MVP award in 2025, smacking 55 homers and recording a 2.87 ERA in 14 starts on the mound for the Dodgers. He is 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA in 14 starts this year, but he hasn't been able to pitch since July 3 because of left knee soreness and a right biceps injury.

While Ohtani has been limited to designated hitter of late, Crow-Armstrong has become an offensive force while playing his usual stellar defense in center field. At the very least, the two-time All-Star has turned the NL MVP race into an intriguing competition.

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Officials reported Wednesday that firefighters had established containment lines around the perimeters of all three fires affecting Spokane and that they were focused on reinforcing those lines. Temperatures were expected to climb from the 80s the past two days into the upper 90s (36-37 degrees Celsius), with less humidity, late this week.

The fires — one of which authorities say was deliberately set by a man who was arrested and charged with arson — have destroyed about 850 buildings and forced the evacuation of around 67,000 people since they erupted last weekend. Damage assessment crews have yet to tally exactly how many houses have been lost or damaged. No deaths have been reported.

The other two fires were also started by people, though not necessarily deliberately, investigators have said. They remain under investigation. Those fires, the Autumn Lane and Fairview fires, started independently of the arson-caused Old Trails Fire, they said.

Unclear how long evacuations will last

Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels said during a Wednesday news conference that the evacuation zones will remain in place due to incoming weather and fire danger.

“We are not going to be downgrading these zones in any large way for many, many more days to come," he said. “If we let people back in and we don’t have a high degree of certainty the fire lines will hold, we will put people in danger.”

Many evacuees remained in a shelter set up in a Spokane convention center, at hotels or rentals, or at the homes of friends or relatives, with no idea of how soon they might go back — if they have a house to return to.

“We figured it would be a day or two, not four or five. It’s not the best situation,” said Debra Curran, who has been staying at the convention center since Saturday with her husband, who has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Their house survived, but her husband would need to be transported by ambulance, which officials won't do until the fire risk in their neighborhood drops.

Among those under evacuation orders are patients and staff from the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane. When the fire approached on Saturday, the staff moved 27 patients to local hospitals and temporary shelters, said Bret Bowers, a spokesperson for the center. The medical center was not burned in the fire but several staff lost their homes.

Adam Wilson, a communications officer at the Washington State Auditor's Office, fled Saturday with his wife and three children, ages 9, 14 and 16. They had moved into their Spokane home a little over a month earlier and were still unpacking, he said.

Since then, they've stayed at a hotel 90 minutes to the south and with his father in Idaho. This weekend, they'll move again, to a rental home in Spokane that their insurance is covering.

Their house is fine, Wilson said, despite flames that leveled an entire cul-de-sac just two blocks away, leaving only chimneys standing in some cases. The neighborhood remains under an evacuation order. Even if they could return, there's no power and no internet service, and no information about how soon either will be restored.

“What you really want to hear, nobody can tell you,” Wilson said. “It is oddly emotional and disorienting. We did not lose any property. From the outside it looks like a family trip — ‘Hey, kids, we’re going to go visit Papa for a week, pack your bags.' ... And yet you feel like something isn't right.”

Bad fire season strains resources

The fires were among dozens across the Western U.S. that have stretched the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them. In Washington, there are 16 uncontained wildfires burning more than 672 square miles (1,740 square km) and being fought by more than 7,000 fire personnel, said Thomas Kyle-Milward, a spokesperson for the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

“We’re looking down the barrel at one of the worst fire seasons in state history,” he said.

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington said Wednesday that senators had received a briefing from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Wildland Fire Service Director Brian Fennessy, who assured them that keeping firefighting assets, including ground crews and aircraft, in the Northwest is a priority.

“We are still at the highest risk in the nation and appreciate being the highest resourced,” Cantwell said in a written statement.

The man charged with starting the Old Trails Fire, Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, of Spokane, was expected to be arraigned Thursday. According to court documents, he was arrested after a resident reported him being in the area where the fire began. He denied having started it when questioned by deputies.

Authorities said they previously contacted him during two fire investigations last year, including one in a state park that prompted evacuation notices, though he wasn’t charged in either.

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This story has been corrected to show that the last name of the VA medical center spokesperson is Bowers, not Bower.

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Unos “18.000 estudiantes pueden quedar afectados, sin clases, si no logramos reparar esos centros educativos”, dijo el miércoles en una rueda de prensa el sacerdote jesuita José Gregorio Terán, director general de Fe y Alegría Venezuela, citado en un comunicado.

La jesuita es una de las órdenes religiosas más prominentes de la Iglesia católica y tiene presencia en más de un centenar de países. Fe y Alegría fue fundada en 1955 y dirige unos 1.500 centros educativos en Venezuela ubicados en barrios pobres y carentes de escuelas cercanas.

“Ninguna de nuestras escuelas se derrumbó, sin embargo, hemos tenido afectaciones en 73” y de ellas “hemos priorizado 31 espacios que tenemos que buscarle arreglo antes de octubre” cuando empieza el nuevo año escolar, acotó Terán.

Luego de las inspecciones técnicas realizadas el acceso fue “restringido” dado que esas edificaciones muestran “afectaciones moderadas o daños no estructurales que requieren reparaciones antes de normalizar su uso”, destacó.

Según el más reciente reporte oficial divulgado el lunes, al menos 6.125 fallecieron a causa de los terremotos de 7,2 y 7,5 de magnitud que sacudieron el norte de Venezuela el 24 de junio. La localización de cuerpos entre los escombros continúa a cuenta gotas.

La mayoría de las muertes ocurrieron en el estado costanero de La Guaira, la zona más afectada por los sismos y que está ubicada a unos 20 kilómetros al norte de Caracas.

El número de heridos, en tanto, se mantiene en 16.740 desde el 1 de julio e informes previos reportaron 17.900 ciudadanos sin vivienda por el colapso de 190 edificios.

Terán informó que Fe y Alegría apenas cuenta con fondos para reparar 14 de los 31 espacios con más daños, por lo que exhortó a los venezolanos y a la comunidad internacional a colaborar para recaudar el dinero requerido.

El comunicado recordó que en la escuela Simón Bolívar de ese movimiento, ubicada en la localidad costera de Caraballeda en el estado La Guaira, murieron 30 estudiantes.

En un acto de gobierno televisado el miércoles la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez señaló que tras la ejecución de más de 47.000 inspecciones a viviendas, infraestructuras y avenidas para evaluar los daños, 58% de las estructuras fueron certificadas como habitables, 23% quedaron temporalmente con acceso restringido y el 19% restante tienen la condición de no habitable.

She still couldn't completely avoid the latest off-court firestorm — her belief that trans women should not be competing in women's sports.

While Cunningham declined to directly address the issue that's created another circus-like environment for the WNBA's most visible team, the former Missouri star did talk about her pregame conversation with the league's winningest coach, Cheryl Reeve, and challenged media members to find better stories than just the latest controversy.

“There's just so much distraction," she said before practice, noting the ESPN interview that started the debate was filmed in February. “I think the WNBA media, all we ever do is cover everything except basketball. It's like, what are we doing? There's so much, like you can talk about other things. I think those are great stories. I think it shows fans, you know, who people are outside of the court. But I also think we've got to keep the main thing, the main thing.”

Avoiding the traps

Despite the continually swirling storms, nobody has played better basketball than the Fever.

Indiana is 9-3 since July 1, including a 5-2 record on two recent road trips. It beat defending league champ Las Vegas by 16 and 34 points during the first Western swing and can sweep the season series Thursday when the Aces make this season's only trip to Indianapolis. Las Vegas eliminated injury-depleted Indiana in last year's conference semifinals.

The Fever's five-game winning streak, which ended with Sunday's 108-100 loss at Minnesota, matched the fourth-longest in franchise history. Indiana will try to extend its league record for consecutive 100-point games to seven on Thursday.

Not enough?

Indiana's per game scoring average of 96.5 points is on pace to shatter the Phoenix Mercury's previous single-season league record of 93.9 points in 2010.

And as All-Star guards Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell and All-Star center Aliyah Boston produce career-best seasons. Cunningham thinks all three should be MVP candidates, even as she shoots 48.2% from the field and 45.2% on 3-pointers, both career bests amid all this new attention.

The key to their success is no secret — experience.

“My first six years (in the WNBA), I was with Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner and so that causes a lot of buzz on your team as well and so you just have to protect the locker room,” Cunningham said. “And then you come here and it was like 100 times more. So last year, you know, I think we had a lot of preparation for what distractions and outside forces could do to a locker room. So this year, we're used to it. We're tight in the locker room. We try to protect those walls like no other. We try to protect each other like no other.”

Challenging course

A year ago, the leaguewide focus was on a new collective bargaining agreement and whether Clark would play a key role in pushing for changes. But in Indiana, the central theme was the daily updates on Clark's soft-tissue injuries and others including Cunningham's season-ending right knee injury.

This year, a May sideline spat between Clark and coach Stephanie White raised questions about their relationship and led to speculation about White's potential firing. That was followed by Cunningham's 22-second pointing video that went viral and the still image of Alyssa Thomas hitting Clark in the throat with a fist. The latter led to questions about whether Clark was being targeted with overly aggressive contact. The U.S. Congress even sent a letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert about the incident.

Now it's the rallies — in support and opposition — to Cunnigham's position at recent games, which also led to the discussion between Reeve and Cunningham.

“She just came up and, you know I respect her for coming up in person because I think a lot of people behind the screens love that type of thing,” Cunningham said, gesturing as if she were typing a message. “She (Reeve) had stories about her point of view, and I had stories about my point of view, and we left with love and respect, and I think that's what it's all about."

Staying together

One potential benefit of Cunningham's sudden celebrity is that Clark can spend more time working behind the scenes on her craft.

But White believes the constant wave of storms also has steeled Indiana's locker room from the outside noise and forced players to focus more on winning games and playing better defense.

“Any time we have an opportunity to navigate challenges together, you know, it reveals I think the character of who you are, and I think our group continues to stay together, continues to pull together,” White said, one day before she was named the league's Coach of the Month for July. “When you have opportunities to be on the road for as long as we were last week, that also helps. I think we just have a really good group when it comes to really understanding one another and understanding the situation we're in.”

Even when the glare of the white-hot spotlight goes far deeper than basketball.

“I just think when you have this platform and everything you do is magnified by 10,000, you kind of get used to it,” Cunningham said. “So this team, everywhere we go, everywhere we play it's their Super Bowl. It's nothing new for us and when you join this team, it's something you have to expect and something you have to know going forward — like all eyes are on you 24-7.

”I want to get back to basketball,” she added. “It’s always been about basketball.”

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In an increasingly connected world, there's no shortage of hot takes and judgment. That is evident yet again in recent days in the wake of a new music video from singer Ariana Grande and the release last week of her new album, “Petal,” which reignited commentary about her thin appearance.

It also raised the question: Just because we can say anything, does that mean we should? Some saw yet more body-shaming being aimed, no surprise, at a woman in a society that constantly judges them; others said it was simply concern. Some called for respecting her privacy, while others said the influence of celebrities on young fans made it a valid topic.

Grande, 33, has faced attention and commentary throughout her career around her appearance, with the current focus being on the increasing visibility of her body’s bone structure, including her sternum and rib cage.

She has pushed back against discourse that she’s anything other than healthy, and repeatedly insisted that she doesn’t think commenting on people’s bodies is acceptable. Her representative told People magazine that she would be stepping back from public life after her current tour finishes due to the “endless, ongoing public scrutiny.”

Even in the video, a nearly seven-minute indictment of the harsh process of assessment and judgment that leads to fame and celebrity, Grande hits on the subject of being constantly sized up. “I don't need someone to save me,” she sings. “I'm not a victim.”

The way we talk in situations about body image matters because the impact can transcend a one-off comment or snap judgment about celebrities we’ll never meet, says Johanna Kandel, founder and CEO of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders.

“I would just check our intentions behind it,” Kandel said. “What is the purpose of it? ... What is the intent versus the impact of it?”

Judging famous women by appearances is nothing new

Aggressive scrutiny of people in the spotlight is nothing new, nor is the reality that women’s appearances are heavily judged — even though the past decade has brought concerted efforts to promote ideas of body acceptance at all sizes.

These days, effective weight loss-inducing medications — their use driven by celebrities — have joined the larger cultural conversation. They’re shifting the ground once again around ideas of thinness, beauty and health, with some concerned that a slew of images of noticeably skinnier famous faces could have a troubling impact on those struggling with body image issues or eating disorders.

Judgment and criticism on one side, coupled with calls to stop saying anything about Grande’s body on the other, can make nuanced conversations about beauty and health difficult, says Allison Butler, a senior lecturer in communication at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

“We limit both the complexity of the folks that we are directing our attention to, as well as our own complex understandings of ourselves,” said Butler, author of “The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture.”

Fundamentally, many experts say, it's no one's place to pass judgment on someone's body, celebrity or otherwise.

“With celebrities, I encourage people to resist the urge to speculate altogether. Public conversations about celebrity bodies often reinforce the idea that our bodies are open for public discussion, and that’s a message young people are listening to,” Rachel Goldman, a psychologist and clinical assistant professor at NYU's Grossman School of Medicine, said via email.

“We also have to remember that comments about someone’s appearance (whether they’re meant as compliments or criticisms) can reinforce the idea that our value is tied to how we look,” she said.

That doesn't mean ignoring the reality that people struggle with disordered eating in varied ways. Kandel references her own experience.

“When I was first approached about my eating disorder, it was (from) a place of concern, but it was like, ”You look like Skeletor,'" she said, and not “'Hey, what's going on? I'm really worried about you.'”

To Kandel, ignoring such issues is less effective than thinking hard about how we address them. “It can’t be a conversation that we evade,” she said, “but it’s more of bringing it to the curiosity and the compassion as opposed to the criticism.”

It can be difficult to talk to children about these issues

For parents talking with children, Goldman suggests shifting the conversation away from judging bodies to talking about the messages society is sending. Also crucial: reminding them that appearance isn't an indicator of health and well-being.

“Ultimately, we want young people to understand that their body is just one part of who they are. Their worth isn’t determined by their size or shape, and neither is anyone else’s,” she said.

That's what Jennifer Hill tries to do. The 56-year-old pediatric nurse from Broomall, Pennsylvania, says her 16-year-old daughter, a cheerleader and runner, hates when she gets comments on her body.

“I will talk to her and if someone has mentioned something to her, I’m like, ‘You know what? Everybody’s different, everybody’s born different, their bodies are created different,’” Hill said.

Though she says things have improved since her youth in the 1980s, when she recalls people being unafraid to offer the harshest comments, she still sees it as a struggle. Plus, she said, social media has added pressure. She also sees it in her work life, where she has worked with young people with emotional struggles or eating disorders. Her advice: Listen.

“You don’t want to come out and say, ‘You know, you’re really overweight,’” she said. “You have to tread lightly.”

It's about guiding them and their thinking, not just telling them what to do, Hill said. “Communication is key ... I think having open conversation and letting them do a lot of the talking and not so much you.”

As for Grande, she spoke to fans in recent days, making a statement from the stage Monday night that she read from her phone. She said she knows fans are worried that “negativity was ruining things” for her, but said the opposite is true.

“Multiple things can be true at the same time. Boundaries need to be set," she said. “Human beings can need a break sometimes. And also, this can be and will continue to be the greatest experience of my professional and creative life.”

Her fans — many of them young women — erupted in cheers.

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La demanda, presentada en un tribunal federal en Washington, D.C., sostiene que el Departamento de Justicia y Blanche pusieron trabas a la investigación penal del fiscal general de Nuevo México, Raúl Torrez, sobre Epstein y otras personas, al tomar medidas que “perjudican activamente a las víctimas y socavan el interés público”.

La demanda, que busca la intervención judicial para obligar al gobierno federal a entregar materiales pertinentes a los investigadores de Nuevo México, se presentó el mismo día en que el estado difundió los hallazgos preliminares de una pesquisa suya sobre Epstein y la finca.

Torrez y sus principales fiscales “han enfrentado una resistencia sostenida” al tipo de intercambio de información que en el pasado se había dado entre investigadores estatales y federales, según la demanda.

En un comunicado, el Departamento de Justicia indicó que no divulgó la información solicitada porque órdenes de tribunales federales prohíben revelar “información que identifique a las víctimas sin restricciones, y Nuevo México no ha aportado ninguna base legal para justificar divulgaciones tan amplias”.

Añadió que proteger la privacidad de las víctimas sigue siendo una prioridad máxima, aunque el Departamento de Justicia “sigue disponible para ayudar a la investigación de Nuevo México de conformidad con la ley y las órdenes judiciales vinculantes”.

La demanda afirma que el Departamento de Justicia y Blanche están ocultando información sobre Epstein y sus cómplices cuando Nuevo México es una de las pocas jurisdicciones que quizá aún pueda “brindar algún sentido de justicia a los sobrevivientes”.

En una videoconferencia con reporteros, Torrez dijo que su oficina ha hecho 10 solicitudes separadas de información y que han sido ignoradas o rechazadas.

“Hemos escuchado repetidamente que cooperarán y lo que nuestro equipo ha experimentado es todo menos cooperación”, declaró Torrez.

“Todd Blanche hoy, con un trazo de pluma, podría concedernos el acceso que afirmó”, agregó. “En cambio, han decidido bloquear, obstruir y, francamente, ocultar por la razón que sea”.

Epstein se quitó la vida en una cárcel federal de la ciudad de Nueva York en agosto de 2019, después de que se le negara la libertad bajo fianza por cargos de tráfico sexual presentados en su contra cuando fue arrestado un mes antes.

Su exnovia Ghislaine Maxwell cumple una condena de 20 años de prisión después de que en 2021 fue declarada culpable de cargos de tráfico sexual en un juicio en Manhattan, donde parte del testimonio de los testigos alegó que Epstein y Maxwell habían abusado sexualmente de mujeres en el terreno de Nuevo México.

Epstein compró la propiedad en Stanley, Nuevo México, una comunidad ganadera escasamente poblada a unos 48 kilómetros (30 millas) al sur de Santa Fe, en 1993 al exgobernador demócrata Bruce King, y construyó una mansión con una pista de aterrizaje privada y un helipuerto.

La propiedad fue vendida por el patrimonio de Epstein en 2023 a la familia de Don Huffines, un republicano que recientemente fue nombrado contralor estatal en Texas. En una publicación de febrero en redes sociales en X, Huffines dijo que la propiedad fue rebautizada como San Rafael Ranch, en honor a un santo asociado con la sanación, y que su familia construirá allí un retiro cristiano.

El Departamento de Justicia comenzó a divulgar en diciembre documentos relacionados con Epstein y Maxwell, de conformidad con la Ley de Transparencia de los Archivos de Epstein.

Rápidamente surgieron quejas por tachaduras deficientes y por la cantidad excesiva de materiales sellados, tanto de acusadores como de miembros del Congreso que lucharon por aprobar la ley de transparencia. Los registros que se publicaron —incluidas fotografías, transcripciones de entrevistas, registros de llamadas, expedientes judiciales y otros documentos— ya eran públicos o estaban fuertemente censurados, y muchos carecían del contexto necesario.

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Contribuyeron a esta nota los corresponsales Larry Neumeister en Nueva York y Jeffrey Collins en Columbia, Carolina del Sur.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

The club made the move following a nightmarish stretch in which the three-time All-Star could never seem to get on track.

The Pirates, who entered Wednesday 3 1/2 games behind Arizona for the third NL wild-card spot, promoted outfielder Ronny Simon from Triple-A Indianapolis to take Ozuna’s roster spot.

Pittsburgh signed Ozuna to a one-year deal worth $12 million in February, a rare free agency splurge for the budget-conscious club. The team hoped the right-handed Ozuna would help balance out a left-handed-heavy lineup.

Instead, Ozuna started slowly and never found the form that helped him hit 296 homers during previous stints with Miami, Atlanta and St. Louis.

Ozuna hit just .203 with eight home runs and 29 RBIs in 70 games with Pittsburgh and had seen his playing opportunities cut significantly in recent weeks thanks to the emergence of rookie Esmerlyn Valdez.

“Didn’t have a season that he would like,” manager Don Kelly said Wednesday in Milwaukee before the Pirates faced the Brewers. “Just got to a point where we felt like we needed to make a move and open up the DH spot to be able to rotate.”

Ozuna has a $10.5 million salary this year. He had a mutual option of $16 million in 2027 with a $1.5 million buyout.

The decision comes on the heels of a trade deadline in which Pittsburgh, seeking to end a decade-long playoff drought, fortified its leaky bullpen with a series of moves, including acquiring reliever Luke Weaver from the New York Mets.

Kelly and general manager Ben Cherington defended Ozuna repeatedly, with Cherington expressing confidence the underlying metrics showed Ozuna was close to turning it around and Kelly praising Ozuna’s influence on the club’s Latin American players. But with a chance to play meaningful baseball into September on the line, the team opted to move on.

“It’s a tough spot, and hate to go through it,” Kelly said.

Pittsburgh also activated left-handed reliever Evan Sisk off the injured list and optioned reliever Wilber Dotel to Triple-A Indianapolis on Wednesday.

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Schwartz was confirmed in a 51-44 vote. The 54-year-old becomes the 22nd leader of the Atlanta-based CDC, which is charged with protecting Americans from preventable health threats, and the agency's first confirmed director in nearly a year. Her resume includes medical and law degrees, a stint as deputy surgeon general, and a leadership position at the U.S. Coast Guard.

Schwartz's nomination appeared to be on shaky ground after a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last month. The chairman, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and others questioned whether she would be willing to stand up to Republican President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., if he ordered CDC to do something unsupported by science and good public health practice.

But weeks later, Cassidy said he had spoken with Schwartz after that hearing and with others who knew her, and said he had gained confidence in her.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials did not immediately respond to questions about when Schwartz will start the job or her salary.

The CDC has been in turmoil since Trump returned to office last year.

Largely due to layoffs and resignations, the agency has lost 3,000-plus employees, more than one-quarter of its workforce. Morale has plummeted as a succession of mostly temporary leaders has come and gone. The front office has been staffed by political appointees with little or no training in medicine or public health.

“Now, Dr. Schwartz needs to prove that her leadership will serve science and not the whims of politicians. CDC needs a Director who will protect public health workers, defend evidence-based guidance, and refuse any directive that would undermine public safety,” said the National Public Health Coalition, an organization of former and current CDC workers, in a statement Wednesday.

When Schwartz was nominated in April, public health experts were cautiously optimistic, citing her background. They also noted that Schwartz was the choice of Trump and not Kennedy, who is a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before he was tapped to oversee the CDC and other federal health agencies.

Schwartz was the third Trump nominee for CDC director in the past 18 months.

The first was a former Florida congressman, Dr. David Weldon. His Senate hearing in March 2025 was canceled an hour before it was to begin. Weldon said at the time that he had been told not enough senators were willing to vote for him.

The White House then moved on to Susan Monarez, who had been serving as the CDC’s acting director. Monarez was confirmed by the Senate, but ousted from the job in less than a month. Trump administration officials said she was not aligned with the president’s agenda, so they terminated her.

Since then, there have been a series of HHS officials as acting CDC directors.

“With all the turmoil of the past two years, the CDC desperately needs stability, experienced leadership and a steadfast commitment to science,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association, in a statement Wednesday.

The CDC position was one of several leadership vacancies among federal health agencies, including the U.S. surgeon general and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

After all, Poles not only had just signed Wright to his four-year, $116 million extension, but it was the Bears GM who picked Wright 10th in the 2023 NFL Draft after swapping the No. 9 pick with the Philadelphia Eagles, who took All-Pro defensive tackle Jalen Carter. Wright said his gratitude had more to do with the GM's time investment rather than the hefty contract.

“Poles really invests in us besides the financial investment,” Wright said. “He really invested in me, helping me get more one-on-one time with the coaches, one-on-one time more with the strength staff, one-on-one time more with (strength assistant) Mark (Philippi) in there doing core strength. He’s helping me set it up.”

Poles took a special interest in Wright, his initial Bears first-round draft pick, and talked to coaches about making extra time to develop someone he saw with huge potential. It worked out, with Wright becoming the NFL’s highest-paid right tackle ever just days before his 25th birthday.

“They have all that stuff they are handling, but he’s really invested in me, even from a long time ago, so I really appreciate that,” Wright said.

The second-team All-Pro tackle received the richest Bears contract ever based on average annual salary and signing bonus. ESPN cited the bonus money at $93 million, the most the Bears have ever awarded on a four-year deal.

“It’s just money,” Wright said. “It doesn’t get me into heaven.”

Wright credited others within the organization for making his success possible, in particular offensive coach Dan Roushar and coach Ben Johnson.

“After practice (Wednesday), Ben said something,” Wright said. “He said I owed Dan a loan or something, which I probably do. That guy has helped me a tremendous amount. So, big shout out to him as well.

“I think first, he’s consistent every day in what he does and what he says. He’s consistent in what he’s telling you. He’s honest and, you know, some coaches I’ve had in the past or some coaches in the league, they’re not very good teachers.”

As for Johnson, the scheme the Bears coach brought from Detroit when he took over in Chicago last year helped to free up Wright to put his blocking skills on display. The Bears went from 25th in the league in rushing to third last season and gave up just 24 sacks after allowing a league-worst 68 the season before.

“Ben has the scheme and I think Ben, he premieres you in plays,” Wright said. “The biggest thing, and I’ve said it before — when he first got here, like, he instilled the confidence into me that I was going to be a part of the offense. I’ve never had a coach really come up to me and be like, ‘We’re depending on you.’

“Obviously you do your job. But ‘We’re depending on you to complete this play, and this is pretty much your play.’ Obviously you’re not getting the ball. To see a coach come in, a coach like Ben Johnson, and he has that confidence in you already, it gives you a little bit of confidence in yourself."

The Bears have a few other contract extensions to address before next year, including defensive tackle Gervon Dexter and running back D'Andre Swift. However, the really big upcoming extension would be quarterback Caleb Williams, who becomes eligible after the 2026 season.

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The Bears have become more whole on both sides of the ball after a few early injury concerns. Starting linebacker T.J. Edwards was taken off the non-football injury list and practiced Wednesday for the first time, while backup running back Kyle Monangai has returned from a soft tissue injury and was involved in a full practice.

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La embajada no especificó en su alerta de seguridad cuál era esa amenaza, pero el gobernador Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla dijo en un vídeo difundido en sus redes que la paralización temporal de las inspecciones estadounidenses fue para salvaguardar la integridad de sus trabajadores después de recientes detenciones vinculadas a la extorsión.

Michoacán es el principal exportador de aguacates a Estados Unidos y también una región de alta actividad del crimen organizado. Ahí operan al menos cuatro cárteles declarados como organizaciones terroristas por la administración de Donald Trump y la mayoría de ellos, además de dedicarse a la producción o tráfico de drogas, se financian a través de extorsiones a todo tipo de sectores económicos, incluidos los aguacateros.

Según explicó a The Associated Press el secretario de Seguridad del estado, Antonio Cruz, una de las detenciones a las que se refirió el gobernador fue la de “El Poncho”, apodo de Alfonso Fernández Magallón, el líder del cártel local de una zona aguacatera en torno a la localidad de Los Reyes. El embajador de Estados Unidos, Ronald Johnson, celebró en redes su captura durante el fin de semana por la que su gobierno había ofrecido una recompensa de cinco millones de dólares.

En días previos, las fuerzas federales habían capturado también al líder de una célula del Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación en este estado.

Cruz dijo que su departamento no tenía conocimiento de ningún incidente directo vinculado a los inspectores pero, no obstante, se ordenó el despliegue de 300 efectivos en la zona de Los Reyes de forma preventiva.

El gobernador agregó que lo importante en estos momentos era “brindar las condiciones de seguridad para que estos trabajos se recuperen de manera normal” como ha ocurrido en el pasado.

El negocio millonario del “oro verde”

México suministra en torno del 80% de las importaciones estadounidenses de aguacate, conocido en la región como “oro verde”. Su cultivo genera en torno a 200.000 empleos sólo en Michoacán, donde esta industria es fundamental para sostener la economía del estado.

En 2025 México vendió a Estados Unidos aguacates por 3.653 millones de dólares y en el primer cuatrimestre de este año esas exportaciones aumentaron un 35% con respecto al mismo periodo del año anterior.

Como el país vecino también cultiva aguacates, el Departamento de Agricultura estadounidense envía a inspectores que vigilan las plantaciones y empacadoras en México para garantizar que el producto exportado no lleve plagas que puedan afectar a los agricultores estadounidenses.

Pero lo lucrativo del sector también es un atractivo para los grupos del crimen organizado que extorsionan a productores y empacadores de esta fruta influyendo en su precio.

Los inspectores de Estados Unidos se han visto involucrados a lo largo de los años en amenazas o incidentes que provocaron que su trabajo se viera paralizado temporalmente en distintos momentos.

El problema es que cada suspensión del procesado de los aguacates supone pérdidas para la industria y por eso la Asociación de Productores y Empacadores de Aguacates de México envió el miércoles a Ciudad de México a sus dirigentes para mantener encuentros con diversas autoridades y ayudar a solucionar la situación, según dijo en un comunicado.

En 2024 Estados Unidos anunció que dejaría las inspecciones de los cultivos en manos del gobierno mexicano despues de agresiones a sus inspectores, pero la vigilancia del aguacate continuó por parte de autoridades estadounidenses aunque no está claro si sus inspectores realizan el trabajo junto a funcionarios mexicanos o si Estados Unidos contrata directamente a mexicanos para esa verificación. La embajada estadounidense no respondió a una solicitud de aclaración sobre el tema.

El gobernador aseguró que las autoridades mexicanas ya trabajan en coordinación con el área de seguridad de la embajada para resolver “cualquier inquietud” de los estadounidenses por lo que confió en que las inspecciones se reanuden a la mayor brevedad.

But the nanny never worried the Massachusetts mother might be a danger to her children or to herself.

“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” Elaine Rossi told the jury on the seventh day of the trial in Plymouth. “She was concerned about their safety, and Callan eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.”

Clancy’s defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.

Prosecutors contend that she acted intentionally on Jan. 24, 2023, and should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged in age from 8 months to 5 years.

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Rossi was hired in September 2022, a few months after Callan was born. She was let go in December after Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, decided not to return to work. Rossi said she wasn’t told why Clancy chose to remain at home.

She testified Wednesday about her time with the family, describing Cora as a “girly-girl” who loved arts and crafts. Three-year-old Dawson was “full of energy, rambunctious, funny, silly.” Callan was the “sweetest, happiest baby.”

The defense sought to portray Clancy, 35, as a doting mother who acknowledged her mental health difficulties. Prosecutors likely hope the jury will see a mom who wasn't impaired by her mental health.

Rossi testified that she saw prescription medicine bottles in the house, and that Clancy "shared with me she had postpartum and couldn’t sleep,” and had taken to sleeping in the basement.

In her journals during that time, Clancy indicated she was struggling with anxiety and feeling overwhelmed by motherhood.

Both the prosecution and defense read excerpts from her diary to the jury Monday, where she catalogued an ever-shifting lineup of psychiatric prescriptions, as well as thoughts of suicide. Clancy remains paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from her home's second-story window on the night of the killings.

Clancy wrote about her struggles to get newborn Callan to sleep, and constant worries of his being sick. She also expressed concerns about going back to work, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.

“I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,” she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.

“I have crazy brain fog. I feel like I can’t make a plan,” she wrote in another, undated entry. “I live moment to moment waiting for the next nap time.”

Clancy’s lawyers don’t dispute that she killed the children. But in the criminal trial and a medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorneys say she had bipolar disorder that wasn’t fully diagnosed until after the killings. Her attorneys say her condition seemed to worsen on the psychiatric medications, some of them problematic for bipolar patients.

Several officials with the state police crime lab testified this week that Clancy had multiple prescription medications in her blood after the killings, including antipsychotics, antidepressants and benzodiazepines.

If convicted of murder, Lindsay Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

El Senado aprobó la noche del martes, por 27 votos a favor y 22 en contra, el único punto que todavía estaba pendiente del proyecto de Reconstrucción Nacional, considerado uno de los buques insignia del gobierno Kast y que implementará una serie de medidas para fomentar las inversiones, reducir los impuestos a grandes empresas y generar empleo.

Los parlamentarios llegaron a un consenso y dieron su visto bueno para la adopción de un mecanismo de compensación fiscal que tendrán los municipios debido a exención de impuestos para las personas mayores de 65 años que compren su primera vivienda.

La aprobación del texto final, que ahora deberá ser ratificado por el presidente, es el primer paso para poner en marcha “la reconstrucción material, la reconstrucción institucional, la certeza jurídica, la competitividad tributaria, la facilitación regulatoria, que le da curso a grandes proyectos de inversión que dan empleo”, afirmó Kast durante un evento con empresarios.

"Haciendo las cosas bien, cuidando el medio ambiente, se pueden lograr las dos cosas, que es un crecimiento sustentable en el tiempo”, agregó.

Esta es la mayor victoria legislativa en los primeros cinco meses de gobierno de Kast, el mandatario más conservador en la historia de Chile desde el fin de la dictadura militar en 1990. Desde que asumió el poder en marzo, Kast ha defendido una significativa reducción del tamaño del Estado y una mayor autonomía a la iniciativa privada.

En el corazón de la reforma aprobada figura la rebaja de los impuestos a las grandes empresas del 27% al 23%; la exención del Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) a las viviendas nuevas; las restricciones a nuevas instituciones de educación superior para ingresar a la gratuidad y el acceso de empresas privadas a indemnizaciones económicas en caso de paralizaciones de proyectos por cuestiones ambientales.

Tras el aval del Parlamento el texto final ahora deberá ser ratificado y promulgado por Kast, un proceso que aún podría extenderse por varias semanas. Ello porque el equipo económico del gobierno ya anunció que presentará al menos tres vetos al proyecto referentes a cambios incorporados por los legisladores al documento original.

De confirmarse las observaciones gubernamentales, el Congreso deberá volver a debatir dichas modificaciones y podrá aceptarlas, rechazarlas o insistir en el texto que ya había despachado.

El gobierno se opone a tres artículos del proyecto: el denominado derecho al olvido financiero, que busca limitar la consideración de ciertas deudas antiguas en las evaluaciones crediticias; la prohibición del anatocismo —el cobro de intereses sobre intereses— y las disposiciones destinadas a garantizar el pago a las pequeñas y medianas empresas en un plazo máximo de 30 días.

Asimismo, antes de que el proyecto se convierta en ley el Tribunal Constitucional debe pronunciarse sobre al menos tres recursos ingresados por la oposición, que acusó diversas "irregularidades" en el proyecto y busca impugnar algunos de sus aspectos tributarios y medioambientales.

Entre los puntos más controvertidos destacan la invariabilidad tributaria y las compensaciones económicas destinadas a empresas que tengan proyectos negados por preocupaciones ambientales.

The Commanders agreed with Diggs on a contract for this season, according to a person familiar with the agreement. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the deal had not been announced.

Diggs, a native of nearby Gaithersburg, Maryland, joins Washington for a 12th year in the league and reportedly can make up to $12 million. He spent last season with New England, making 99 catches for 1,123 yards and five touchdowns in 21 games, including the Patriots’ playoff run to the Super Bowl.

New England released him in March, and the 32-year-old went unsigned in free agency while facing strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with a dispute with his former private chef. Diggs was found not guilty in May, and the NFL said in June that he wouldn't face any discipline after a review determined there was not enough evidence to punish him under its personal conduct policy.

The Commanders had a hole at the position, and they are banking on Diggs filling it. The in-house options of Treylon Burks and Luke McCaffrey would have put Daniels in a tough spot and likely made No. 1 receiver McLaurin deal with plenty of double teams this coming season.

Signing Diggs could rule out going after Brandon Aiyuk, a friend of Daniels' who is still under contract with San Francisco. Aiyuk said on social media in June that he would join Washington immediately if the 49ers released him.

Aiyuk remains on the reserve/left squad list out West, while Diggs is now in an NFC East that features receivers CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens with Dallas, DeVonta Smith with Philadelphia and Malik Nabers with the New York Giants.

Diggs previously played for Minnesota, Buffalo and Houston during a career that included him being an All-Pro selection in 2020, when he led all players with 127 catches and 1,535 yards. Since making his debut in 2015 after the Vikings took him in the fifth round of the draft that year, Diggs has 1,025 catches for 12,523 yards and 79 TDs in the regular season and playoffs combined.

That included the “Minneapolis Miracle” catch for Minnesota in the divisional round in January 2018. With 10 seconds left, Diggs leapt and evaded a tackle to score a 61-yard touchdown and beat New Orleans 29-24.

Off the field, it has been a more tumultuous ride, including getting fined more than $200,000 by the Vikings during his final season with them in 2019 for unexcused practice absences. Diggs was traded to Buffalo in March 2020.

Diggs led the Bills in receiving four seasons in a row, but sideline outbursts and cryptic social media messages were also part of his tenure before being traded to Houston in April 2024. A torn ACL ended his time with the Texans, and skipping a voluntary offseason workout got him off to a bumpy start with the Patriots before he turned out to be a reliable option for QB Drake Maye.

Cut in part because he was owed $20.6 million, Diggs now is teaming up with Daniels, who was taken one spot ahead of Maye when they went Nos. 2 and 3 in the 2024 draft.

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Mohit Mohit, 21, of Jacksonville, was arrested Monday after detectives identified him as a participant in the scheme.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the investigation began last month after a 75-year-old Tamarac woman reported being defrauded of thousands of dollars by a person claiming to be a U.S. Marshal.

Authorities said the victim received a phone call from someone claiming to work with Walmart’s fraud department regarding a fraudulent $1,400 Apple laptop purchase made in her name.

They said after the woman denied making the purchase, she was “transferred to several individuals before ultimately speaking with a suspect who identified himself as U.S. Marshal Adam Peterson.”

Investigators said Mohit allegedly told the victim that her identity had been linked to an abandoned vehicle in Texas containing narcotics, cash and evidence of human trafficking.

They said Mohit also told the woman that a federal arrest warrant had been issued for her and that she could either hire an attorney for $100,000 or cooperate with a federal investigation to clear her name.

Investigators said the suspects used fake badge numbers, case numbers, phone numbers and names of fictitious government employees to make the scam appear legitimate.

They said the victim was then instructed to liquidate her financial assets and convert the money into gold, which the suspects claimed would be secured while the investigation was ongoing.

The victim followed the instructions, packaged the gold as directed and handed it over to a courier at a gas station after receiving a code from the suspects, according to deputies.

The victim later realized she had been scammed and lost family savings accumulated over about 33 years, investigators said.

Detectives identified Mohit as the person who allegedly conducted the exchanges. Authorities said two vehicles — a red Honda Accord and a gray Jeep SUV — were used in the scheme.

Investigators said they developed probable cause to arrest Mohit, describing him as an “active and willing participant in a large-scale nationwide organized fraud scheme.”

They said Mohit was arrested in Bradford County on a warrant out of Broward County.

Jail records show Mohit faces charges including scheme to defraud, grand theft of a person 65 or older, and unlawful use of a two-way communications device.

His bond amount has not been set at this time.

BSO is urging residents who believe they may have been targeted in a similar scam to contact Detective Steven Lees at 954-720-2225 or call the agency’s non-emergency number at 954-764-4357.

Authorities also reminded the public that law enforcement agencies will never call demanding money or requesting personal banking information.

They offered the following tips to help the public avoid similar scams:

• Never send money in response to an unexpected phone call, text message or email.
• Never provide personal, financial or banking information to unsolicited callers.
• Verify requests by contacting the organization directly through an official phone number or website.
• Report suspicious activity to local authorities.

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Celia Penichet Lopez, 41, is facing an aggravated battery charge. Miami police said the shooting happened at around 9:30 p.m. near her home in the 1100 block of Northwest 57th Street in the city’s Liberty City neighborhood.

Authorities said the victim and two witnesses met with a group of women to fight over the online dispute at Miller J. Dawkins Mini Park and then walked back to the victim’s home.

One witness said she believed that the group was being followed. A few minutes before the shooting, another witness “was called/texted by an unknown number to come outside the house to continue fighting,” according to police.

“Upon going outside, (the first witness) stated that they got into a verbal argument with the group that arrived,” an arrest report states. “A Black male wearing all black and a black mask from the offending group then began to reach into his waistband. (The witness) stated she believed the offender was about to brandish a firearm and she began to run.”

The witness then heard multiple shots being fired and “found the victim screaming,” having been shot in the leg, police said.

Police said after reviewing videos, it turned out that the victim had been caught in the crossfire: They said the clips showed the man taking the gun out and pointing it at the group, but putting it back, turning his back and walking away before Penichet, whose stepdaughter had been involved in the altercation, began firing at him.

They said the victim was shot after the man fired eight shots back at Penichet.

Authorities said she claimed that she only fired at the man when fired upon, but later admitted, after being shown surveillance video, that she opened fire first.

Police concluded: “After reviewing the surveillance footage and (Penichet’s) statement, it was determined that the male was not a threat and was actively removing himself from the area when the defendant decided to discharge her firearm at him. The male only returned fire after (Penichet) shot first.”

Penichet’s actions, they said, “initiated the chain of events that ultimately led to the victim’s injuries.”

Records show Penichet was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond following her arrest.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, Mohit Mohit, de 21 años y residente de Jacksonville, fue arrestado el lunes después de que los detectives lo identificaran como participante en el esquema.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, la investigación comenzó el mes pasado después de que una mujer de 75 años de Tamarac denunciara haber sido víctima de un fraude por miles de dólares por parte de una persona que afirmaba ser un alguacil federal de Estados Unidos.

Las autoridades informaron que la víctima recibió una llamada telefónica de alguien que afirmaba trabajar en el departamento de fraude de Walmart en relación con una compra fraudulenta de una computadora portátil Apple por $1,400 USD realizada a su nombre.

Indicaron que, después de que la mujer negara haber realizado la compra, fue “transferida a varias personas antes de hablar finalmente con un sospechoso que se identificó como el alguacil federal Adam Peterson”.

Los investigadores informaron que Mohit presuntamente le dijo a la víctima que su identidad había sido vinculada a un vehículo abandonado en Texas que contenía narcóticos, dinero en efectivo y evidencia de trata de personas.

También le dijo a la mujer que existía una orden federal de arresto en su contra y que podía contratar a un abogado por $100,000 USD o cooperar con una investigación federal para limpiar su nombre.

Los investigadores informaron que los sospechosos utilizaron números de placa falsos, números de caso falsos, números telefónicos y nombres de supuestos empleados del gobierno para hacer que el fraude pareciera legítimo.

Indicaron que luego se le ordenó a la víctima liquidar sus activos financieros y convertir el dinero en oro, el cual, según los sospechosos, sería resguardado mientras la investigación estuviera en curso.

Según los agentes, la víctima siguió las instrucciones, empacó el oro como se le indicó y lo entregó a un mensajero en una gasolinera después de recibir un código por parte de los sospechosos.

Los investigadores informaron que posteriormente la víctima se dio cuenta de que había sido estafada y perdió los ahorros familiares acumulados durante aproximadamente 33 años.

Los detectives identificaron a Mohit como la persona que presuntamente realizó los intercambios. Las autoridades informaron que en el esquema se utilizaron dos vehículos: un Honda Accord rojo y una SUV Jeep gris.

Los investigadores indicaron que desarrollaron causa probable para arrestar a Mohit, a quien describieron como un “participante activo y voluntario en un esquema organizado de fraude a gran escala a nivel nacional”.

Indicaron que Mohit fue arrestado en el condado Bradford mediante una orden de arresto emitida en el condado Broward.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Mohit enfrenta cargos que incluyen esquema para defraudar, hurto mayor contra una persona de 65 años o más y uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación bidireccional.

Hasta el momento no se le ha fijado una fianza.

La BSO insta a los residentes que crean haber sido blanco de un fraude similar a comunicarse con el detective Steven Lees al 954-720-2225 o llamar al número de no emergencias de la agencia al 954-764-4357.

Las autoridades también recordaron al público que las agencias del orden nunca llaman para exigir dinero ni solicitar información bancaria personal.

Ofrecieron los siguientes consejos para ayudar al público a evitar fraudes similares:

• Nunca envíe dinero en respuesta a una llamada telefónica, mensaje de texto o correo electrónico inesperado.
• Nunca proporcione información personal, financiera o bancaria a personas que lo contacten sin haberlo solicitado.
• Verifique cualquier solicitud comunicándose directamente con la organización a través de un número telefónico o sitio web oficial.
• Reporte cualquier actividad sospechosa a las autoridades locales.

Celia Penichet Lopez, de 41 años, enfrenta un cargo de agresión agravada. La Policía de Miami informó que la balacera ocurrió alrededor de las 9:30 p.m. cerca de su casa, en la cuadra 1100 de Northwest 57th Street, en el vecindario Liberty City.

Las autoridades informaron que la víctima y dos testigos se reunieron con un grupo de mujeres para pelear por la disputa en línea en el Miller J. Dawkins Mini Park y luego caminaron de regreso a la casa de la víctima.

Una testigo dijo que creía que el grupo estaba siendo seguido. Según la policía, pocos minutos antes de la balacera, otra testigo “recibió una llamada o mensaje de texto de un número desconocido para que saliera de la casa y continuara la pelea”.

“Al salir, (la primera testigo) dijo que comenzaron una discusión verbal con el grupo que había llegado”, señala el informe de arresto. “Un hombre afroamericano vestido completamente de negro y con una máscara negra, perteneciente al grupo contrario, comenzó a llevar la mano hacia la cintura. (La testigo) dijo que creyó que el individuo iba a sacar un arma de fuego y comenzó a correr”.

La testigo luego escuchó múltiples disparos y “encontró a la víctima gritando”, después de haber recibido un disparo en la pierna, informó la policía.

La policía indicó que, tras revisar los videos, determinó que la víctima quedó atrapada en el fuego cruzado. Según las autoridades, las imágenes muestran al hombre sacando un arma de fuego y apuntando hacia el grupo, pero luego guardándola, dándose la vuelta y alejándose antes de que Penichet, cuya hijastra había estado involucrada en el altercado, comenzara a dispararle.

Las autoridades informaron que la víctima recibió un disparo después de que el hombre respondiera con ocho disparos contra Penichet.

Las autoridades indicaron que Penichet afirmó que solo disparó contra el hombre después de que él le disparara, pero posteriormente admitió, tras ver el video de vigilancia, que ella abrió fuego primero.

La policía concluyó: “Después de revisar las imágenes de vigilancia y la declaración de (Penichet), se determinó que el hombre no representaba una amenaza y estaba alejándose activamente del área cuando la acusada decidió dispararle. El hombre solo respondió al fuego después de que (Penichet) disparó primero”.

Según la policía, las acciones de Penichet “iniciaron la cadena de acontecimientos que finalmente provocó las lesiones de la víctima”.

Los registros muestran que Penichet permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $5,000 USD tras su arresto.

Photos captured by The Associated Press on Wednesday show construction workers using a jackhammer on the helipad, which no longer carries the dark gray trim of a presidential seal that was visible last week. It was unclear why the seal was being removed.

The White House said it's continuing to make improvements as part of efforts to best match the needs of the building and its grounds. Trump has said the helipad is needed because new helicopters in the fleet used for Marine One are so powerful they rip out the South Lawn grass.

“For years, the White House has desperately needed a proper helipad on White House grounds that will allow the president to land safely and also protect the beautiful South Lawn grass from the fierce exhaust fumes of the incredible Marine One," White House spokesman Davis Ingle said on Wednesday. "Thanks to President Trump, the White House has never looked better, and it will only continue to get better under his leadership.”

The helipad is part of a long list of renovations that Trump has undertaken in his second term. His projects include a 90,000-square-foot (8,360-square-meter) ballroom; a Rose Garden paved over with stone; a new marbled interior in the Palm Room, a lobby-like room that leads out to the West Colonnade and Rose Garden; and an Oval Office that continues to add gilded decorations.

Trump described the helipad at length during an Oval Office appearance last month, saying it would be made of carved granite and calling it a “beautiful thing.” The president also said Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin, would be paying for the project, which he estimated would cost up to $6 million. Lockheed referred comment on the helipad construction to the White House.

The new helicopters used for Marine One are manufactured by Sikorsky and made their debut under then-President Joe Biden in 2024. But their use has been limited because their exhaust vents aim heat downward, posing a risk to the South Lawn grass.

Trump has said that using granite rather than concrete for the helipad was his suggestion. He has also noted that the landing pad could be used for other White House events, such as press conferences.

The removal of the seal was first reported by The Washington Post.

Welcome to the NFL preseason. If you want to see starters play, wait until next month when the games count in the standings. Or watch joint practices.

The exhibition schedule kicks off Thursday night with Beck and the Arizona Cardinals facing Pickett and the Carolina Panthers in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio.

The preseason is an opportunity for rookies, backups and players fighting for roster spots to get snaps and showcase what they can do. Most first-round picks won’t play much. Cardinals running back Jerimiyah Love (No. 3 pick) and Panthers tackle Monroe Freeling (No. 19) are sitting out the opener.

Beck, a third-round pick from Miami, will be under center for new Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur. Veteran Jacoby Brissett is Arizona’s starter and Gardner Minshew is the backup.

“I had no clue I was going to start,” Beck said. “Obviously, I thought I was going to play but I really didn’t have any expectations going into any of this. Obviously, our schedule is absolutely crazy right now, practice, meetings. But I’m looking forward to it.”

Beck, who led the Hurricanes to a national championship matchup against Indiana, said he won’t have any butterflies before the game.

“I think the last time I was nervous was maybe when I was 8 years old for our city championship in Pop Warner,” Beck said. “It’s a game at the end of the day. It’s an opportunity to go out there, have fun with your teammates and play the game that I love. It’s what I love doing.”

Pickett, a first-round pick by the Steelers in 2022 who led Pittsburgh to a 14-10 record in two seasons, has bounced around the league.

He spent the 2024 season with the Eagles before Philadelphia traded him to Cleveland last year. The Browns sent him to the Raiders during training camp and he started two games for Las Vegas. The Panthers signed Pickett to back up Bryce Young.

“Just want to go out there and operate a high level,” Pickett said. “All the hard work that we’re putting in practice you want to see come to life on game day and that’s everyone just doing their job and executing.”

Carolina won the NFC South last season with an 8-9 record. But the Panthers led the 12-win Rams in the final minute of their wild-card playoff game before NFL MVP Matthew Stafford threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Colby Parkinson with 38 seconds left for a 34-31 victory.

The Panthers have been getting after each other in practice, so coach Dave Canales is looking forward to seeing his team hit an opponent.

“Tempers are flaring a little bit and I just have to remind them none of that helps us. It throws us out of the rhythm of practice,” Canales said.

Practice is everything for coaches in training camp.

Fewer teams play their starters in preseason games so they have to get them ready for the regular season in practice. Joint practices — teams facing opponents ahead of their exhibition game — are a growing trend in the NFL.

A total of 28 teams have scheduled joint practices which begin next week.

The Rams have joint practices with the Cowboys and Saints coming up.

“That’ll be basically their preseason,” Los Angeles coach Sean McVay said. “We’ll get an opportunity to see a lot of the younger guys play in the preseason and those are great opportunities to play real football. When we put the pads on, it’s close, but you’re still not playing tackle football. And there are a couple spots. There are always important things that you want to be able to see unfold and be able to establish some depth if, God forbid, we have the inevitable injuries that do occur. But we’ll take it a day at a time and there’s so many things.”

The Detroit Lions are one of the four teams that won’t have any joint practices so some of their starters could see action in the preseason games.

“We have got to get these guys ready for a season,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said. “There’s a chance we play some of these guys in the preseason without the joint practices, and so I’m going to do what I think is best to prepare these guys for 17 weeks, but also understand that we have got to be smart about it and we can’t break them in training camp, and so the approach will stay the same, it will, and you have got to get ready, and you can’t let fear of injury scare you away from what you believe in.”

Several key players already have been hurt in practices over the past week. The Panthers lost second-year edge rusher Nic Scourton to a torn ACL on the first day of camp. They also saw wide receiver Chris Brazzell II go down with a torn LCL.

New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Bryan Bresee tore his ACL last week. Atlanta Falcons edge rusher Jalon Walker was carted off the field with a knee injury on Tuesday.

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed today that there are ongoing conversations between Havana and DC for the purpose of avoiding a military confrontation and trying to find solutions to the issues between both nations.

The Cuban government understands that they are running out of options and most likely will need to reach an agreement with the U.S. Will it include regime change?

Aug. 3 update: Rubio speaks about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the US

This past weekend, in an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio spoke about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the U.S.

Rubio went on to say that Cuban spies continue to infiltrate the U.S. government, financial institutions, organizations, and academic institutions. Rubio claimed that Cuba continues to be a national security threat to the U.S.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

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The buses may not be carrying students yet, but drivers are making sure they are ready for the first morning pickup — learning their routes, checking bus stops and preparing for the daily responsibility of getting children to school safely and on time.

For many students, the bus driver is the first school employee they see each day.

“We have to be super uplifting and upbeat because many kids are very sleepy and because they are the first person that they see from Broward Schools, it’s very important that we are nice to them,” said Susana Oyola, a Broward County school bus driver.

Drivers say safety begins before the bus leaves the yard.

“When we go to our bus, we make sure we walk around, inspect our bus, make sure that no scratches, no damage, maybe occur in the wrong summertime,” said bus driver Ricardo Laspome. “We walk around, make sure the tires are OK, and the windshield is clean, check our fuel and stuff like that.”

This school year, drivers will also have new technology assisting them on the road.

Automated cameras have been installed on school buses to identify drivers who illegally pass a stopped school bus with its stop arm extended — a violation that can put children in danger.

“That is so dangerous, and we try our best,” said bus driver Maria Clark. “A lot of times we’re making our stop to make sure that we give proper warning so that this doesn’t happen, but at times it happens, but it’s very dangerous.”

While students enjoy the final days of summer break, bus drivers are already putting in the work to prepare for the first day.

When the first bell rings, they say they’ll be ready to roll.

Aunque los autobuses todavía no transportan estudiantes, los conductores se están asegurando de estar listos para la primera recogida de la mañana, aprendiendo sus rutas, revisando las paradas y preparándose para la responsabilidad diaria de llevar a los niños a la escuela de manera segura y puntual.

Para muchos estudiantes, el conductor del autobús es el primer empleado escolar que ven cada día.

“Tenemos que ser muy positivos y alegres porque muchos niños tienen mucho sueño y, como somos la primera persona que ven de las Escuelas Públicas de Broward, es muy importante que seamos amables con ellos”, dijo Susana Oyola, conductora de autobús escolar del condado Broward.

Los conductores aseguran que la seguridad comienza antes de que el autobús salga del patio.

“Cuando vamos a nuestro autobús, nos aseguramos de darle la vuelta, inspeccionarlo, verificar que no tenga rayones ni daños que hayan podido ocurrir durante el verano. Revisamos las llantas, nos aseguramos de que el parabrisas esté limpio, verificamos el combustible y cosas así”, dijo el conductor Ricardo Laspome.

Este año escolar, los conductores también contarán con nueva tecnología para ayudarlos en la carretera.

Se han instalado cámaras automatizadas en los autobuses escolares para identificar a los conductores que ilegalmente rebasan un autobús escolar detenido con el brazo de alto extendido, una infracción que puede poner en peligro a los niños.

“Eso es muy peligroso y hacemos todo lo posible”, dijo la conductora Maria Clark. “Muchas veces hacemos nuestra parada asegurándonos de dar la advertencia adecuada para que esto no ocurra, pero a veces sucede, y es muy peligroso”.

Mientras los estudiantes disfrutan los últimos días de las vacaciones de verano, los conductores de autobuses ya están trabajando para prepararse para el primer día de clases.

Cuando suene el primer timbre, aseguran que estarán listos para salir.

Ana Linares pleaded guilty to a federal charge of falsely impersonating a federal officer or employee, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida announced on Monday.

In court filings, Linares, 45, “pretended” to be a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official “to obtain the unlawful dismissal of removal proceedings,” according to U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones.

“This was a brazen effort to corrupt lawful removal proceedings, and our Office will prosecute those who use fraud to undermine the integrity of our immigration system,” Reding Quiñones said in a statement.

In 2024, Linares signed four DHS motions as a “Legal Administrative Specialist, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement” seeking “to invoke prosecutorial discretion authority reserved by Department attorneys and employees,” according to prosecutors.

Linares faced a maximum sentence of three years in federal prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Homeland Security Investigations special agents worked on the case.

El senador e hijo del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro fue confirmado el mes pasado como candidato presidencial del Partido Liberal de su padre. Se enfrentará al presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, y ambos podrían ir a una segunda vuelta si ninguno obtiene la mayoría de los votos.

Pero, a diferencia de su padre, Bolsonaro hijo no cuenta con el apoyo de los partidos de centro de los que podría haber surgido un candidato vicepresidencial. Esa falta de respaldo ha agravado sus dificultades para elegir a un compañero de fórmula.

Alfredo Gaspar es miembro de la Cámara de Diputados desde 2023. Antes de eso, trabajó como fiscal y se desempeñó como secretario de Seguridad Pública del estado nororiental de Alagoas.

Gaspar "es alguien a quien he llegado a admirar, y todos aquí también han llegado a admirarlo, por su valentía, su honestidad y su trayectoria en seguridad pública”, declaró Flávio Bolsonaro.

En su discurso, Gaspar agradeció a Flávio Bolsonaro por confiar en él y se comprometió con su proyecto conjunto; se describió como una “persona sencilla, alguien del noreste, pero con una historia de vida marcada por muchísimo trabajo duro”.

Bolsonaro había intentado, pero no logró, convencer a la ministra de Agricultura Tereza Cristina, quien habría sido una compañera de fórmula de alto perfil. Históricamente, su movimiento político ha sufrido de escaso apoyo entre las mujeres.

El partido de Cristina tiene una fuerte presencia en el Congreso y fue clave para la presidencia de Jair Bolsonaro. No se esperaba que presentara un candidato presidencial y su distanciamiento del Bolsonaro más joven ha sido sorprendente.

Desde que anunció que su padre lo había elegido para postularse, Flávio Bolsonaro se ha topado con una serie de obstáculos.

El apoyo a su aspiración empezó a debilitarse en mayo, cuando admitió que solicitó millones de dólares al banquero encarcelado Daniel Vorcaro para financiar una película sobre su padre, una revelación que conmocionó a muchos aliados.

Luego, Bolsonaro visitó la Casa Blanca y el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos, alardeando de los vínculos de su familia con el presidente Donald Trump.

Sin embargo, muchos votantes, líderes empresariales y políticos ahora lo culpan por los nuevos aranceles impuestos por el gobierno de Trump a exportaciones brasileñas.

Bolsonaro enfrentó otro golpe en junio: su madrastra grabó un video para decir que él le había faltado al respeto. Desde entonces, se han reconciliado.

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La recompensa se incrementó desde una cifra de 5 millones de dólares. El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump ofreció un total de 100 millones de dólares en recompensas por diversos líderes del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), y restringió las visas de familiares y socios comerciales de integrantes del cártel.

Autoridades estadounidenses dijeron que las recompensas, junto con cargos recién revelados contra otros cinco líderes de alto rango, buscaban “incapacitar a la cúpula de la organización”, mientras Trump aumenta la presión sobre México y otras naciones latinoamericanas para que pongan en práctica su agenda de seguridad.

“Estas sofisticadas organizaciones usan la violencia y el miedo para mantener el control sobre la importación de narcóticos mortales en Estados Unidos, incluidos el fentanilo, la cocaína, la metanfetamina y otras drogas ilegales. Sus acciones propagan violencia y muerte en nuestras comunidades”, dijo a reporteros en Washington el secretario de Justicia interino Todd Blanche.

El CJNG figura entre los ocho cárteles mexicanos designados como organizaciones terroristas extranjeras. El grupo recibió un golpe en febrero, cuando el líder Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, fue abatido por el Ejército mexicano. Estados Unidos proporcionó inteligencia para la operación, que derivó en un estallido de violencia en el estado de Jalisco.

Según reportes, González, hijastro de Oseguera Cervantes y ciudadano con doble nacionalidad mexicana y estadounidense, tomó el control del cártel, que participa en distintas actividades, desde la producción de aguacate hasta el tráfico de drogas.

La medida del miércoles se produce pocas semanas después de que el gobierno de Trump sancionó a 50 personas y empresas vinculadas con el cártel, incluido González. Las sanciones congelaron activos y bloquearon transacciones financieras en Estados Unidos con los señalados.

El cártel es considerado el más grande de México, con presencia en 21 de sus 32 estados. Sus operaciones se han extendido a varios países, incluido Estados Unidos.

El gobierno de Trump ha incrementado la presión sobre el gobierno de la presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum para que endurezca el combate contra los cárteles, incluso con amenazas de emprender acciones militares contra esos grupos.

Entre los acusados en las imputaciones recién reveladas figuran el exyerno de Oseguera Cervantes, Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez, y Hugo Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytan, a quien las autoridades describieron como el ahijado del exlíder. Todos los acusados enfrentan cargos por tráfico de drogas y delitos relacionados con armas de fuego, dijeron las autoridades.

“Esta es una lucha contra el CJNG que apenas estamos comenzando, y no daremos marcha atrás”, dijo a reporteros Terrance Cole, jefe de la DEA, la agencia antidrogas estadounidense.

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La reportera de The Associated Press Alanna Durkin Richer contribuyó a este despacho desde Washington.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — a fierce defender and decades-long friend — openly refuted Trump’s claims of vandalism regarding one of his treasured construction projects in the nation's capital, admitting in court filings that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was due to shoddy workmanship.

The moment comes as the Republican president is struggling to convince Americans that they should believe what he is telling them about the economy, his agenda and his war on Iran before pivotal midterm elections in the fall — and reveals the inherent challenges for his team in delivering hard truths he does not want to hear. Trump has historically engaged in exaggeration, but this was a moment in which he wanted a U.S. citizen, Olympic canoeist David Hearn, to be indicted, tried and possibly imprisoned for the act of touching a chunk of sealant in the already damaged pool.

The White House said that Trump was not aware ahead of time that Pirro’s office would drop the charges.

Trump says he told Pirro he was “not happy” about her decision and that a video backed him up even though it is not clear from the footage shot at a distance that any property destruction occurred. “Well I just think she was totally wrong,” Trump told reporters Tuesday night. “And everybody saw the vandalism.”

By publicly rebuking Pirro, Trump sent a message to other administration officials that he is not to be contradicted, regardless of what the facts show.

“He just blows it up like a keg of dynamite — it’s a form of intimidating employees to be in group-think,” said Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian. “'If you work for me, you triple down.' Never disagree with the boss, even in a small fractional way.”

Some Republicans have blamed Trump's choices on ‘bad advice’ from staff

Trump has faced withering criticism for launching the war with Iran without fully laying out the rationale for the public or considering that country’s ability to withstand intense bombing. Trump snubbed a housing bill to address the affordability problems that voters say are their biggest concern, letting it become law without his signature.

Some Republican lawmakers have suggested that Trump is being sheltered from facts or chalk up his choices to poor staff work. During Trump’s second term, Republican senators including Ted Cruz of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have said Trump was receiving “bad advice,” a subtle critique of the president that shifts blame onto the aides who are supposed to be providing him with credible information.

The latest blow-up "reflects a president who is struggling to shape the narrative as his national approval ratings remain extremely low,” said Julian Zelizer, a political history professor at Princeton University. “The more controversy that he faces — over Iran, the Epstein files, inflation and more — the less control he has and the stronger the chances that he will be forced to confront reality.”

The president continues to dwell on the 2020 election that he falsely claims to have won. He likes to boast that America is booming with an unverifiable $19.2 trillion in investments from foreign countries, even as economic growth has been meager over the prior three months. He posted a Jesus-like picture of himself on social media and said after a backlash that he thought it depicted him as a medical doctor.

The White House did not respond to questions about how aides brief the president and whether officials feel comfortable providing information that could contradict his public statements.

Pirro had been faithful to Trump's wishes, until now

Until now, Pirro, a former judge in Westchester County, New York, and TV show host, has largely been faithful to Trump's wishes. Her office sent a subpoena in January to the Federal Reserve regarding the congressional testimony by the central bank's then-chair, Jerome Powell, about a $2.5 billion renovation of its headquarters.

Pirro defended her decision to threaten Powell, who said the threat of a criminal indictment was really a pretext to pressure the Fed into slashing its benchmark interest rates in accordance with Trump's wishes.

“This office makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less,” Pirro posted on X. “We agree with the chairman of the Federal Reserve that no one is above the law, and that is why we expect his full cooperation.”

Her actions temporarily slowed efforts in the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair. The Department of Justice dropped the investigation in April, roughly a month after a federal prosecutor said in a closed-door court hearing that the government had not found any evidence of a crime.

On the reflecting pool, Pirro pursued the investigation despite what defense lawyers say was abundant evidence from the outset that the damage at the pool was the result of preexisting problems that had nothing to do with Hearn. A new court filing from Hearn’s team disputes the department’s contention that it only recently learned its case was flawed and urges a judge to not only dismiss it but to foreclose the possibility of ever resurrecting it.

“From day one, the case against Mr. Hearn was motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support,” defense lawyers wrote. “Those political pressures have not dissipated in the mere four weeks since the government saw fit to obtain the indictment.”

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche declined to discuss internal Justice Department conversations related to the case.

He deflected on the question of whether or not he supported the decision, acknowledging on one hand that Trump has “every right to be extraordinarily frustrated with damage done to our national monuments in this city and elsewhere” while simultaneously praising Pirro for what he asserted was “an unprecedented effort” to improve safety in the nation’s capital.

“When you look at the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s body of work over the past year and a half and where we are in this city compared to where we were, they are doing a phenomenal job,” Blanche said. “Now does that mean that every case goes exactly the way that President Trump wants or I want or U.S. Attorney Pirro wants? Of course not, it doesn’t.”

Pirro blamed others for giving Trump bad advice

What makes the reflecting pool incident different was that the administration contradicted claims of property damage made repeatedly by the president.

On Friday, the government moved to dismiss the criminal case and said any damage to the pool was caused by the bungled work of the contractor and “the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has supported Trump’s claims that vandals damaged the pool. That suggests that the conflict around this issue could continue to simmer.

While Trump and many of his supporters are able to exist within their own information bubble, the administration had basically declared in court that the president was wrong. That was different from a judicial ruling or news report fact-checking him, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

“It’s difficult to discredit that by saying these are anti-Trump forces,” she said.

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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Darlene Superville in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., contributed to this report.

Tyre Hudson, quien conducía una Nissan Kicks plateada modelo 2020, “se acercó” al adolescente, que caminaba por la calle Northeast 137 y la Séptima Avenida, cerca de North Miami Middle School, según un informe policial.

Hudson, quien vive en el vecindario Little River de Miami, “le preguntó a la víctima si fumaba marihuana... y le ofreció llevarlo”, escribió un agente de la Policía de North Miami, según el informe de arresto.

El adolescente dijo a un agente que respondió afirmativamente a la pregunta sobre la marihuana y subió a la Nissan Kicks después de aceptar que lo llevaran, según el informe de arresto.

El adolescente denunció que Hudson lo llevó hasta North Miami Senior High School y le ofreció marihuana por un valor de 20 dólares si podía grabar un video de él en el baño para X, según informe.

Hudson “colocó su teléfono celular sobre el lavabo y grabó todo el incidente... luego tomó rápidamente su teléfono e intentó huir”, escribió un agente de la Policía de North Miami, según el informe.

El adolescente denunció que comenzó a golpear a Hudson y a defenderse después de que el abuso sexual fue grabado en video, según el informe policial.

“El testigo vio a la víctima peleando con el acusado mientras la víctima gritaba: “¡Este hombre acaba de intentar violarme!” “El testigo se acercó rápidamente y ayudó a la víctima a detener al acusado”, escribió un agente de policía, según el informe.

El presunto delito ocurrió en el parque Cagni, ubicado en el 13498 de la NE 8th Avenue, según Elmo Lugo, un portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Miami-Dade.

Los agentes arrestaron a Hudson a las 8:15 p.m. del lunes y confiscaron su teléfono celular con los videos, según el informe de arresto.

El Departamento Correccional de Miami-Dade ingresó a Hudson poco después de las 3:15 a.m. del martes en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según los registros de reclusos.

Hudson enfrenta cargos por actos lascivos o libidinosos contra una víctima de entre 12 y 16 años e intento de conducta lasciva o libidinosa contra un menor de 16 años. Su fianza fue fijada en 12,500 dólares.

Según los registros judiciales, la jueza del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Lody Jean, presidirá el caso.

El ministro de Defensa, Pedro Sánchez, detalló en la red social X que la policía “interceptó y neutralizó” de manera controlada un autobús acondicionado con explosivos en la vía Panamericana. La policía aclaró que el vehículo no tenía pasajeros.

El funcionario señaló que las primeras investigaciones apuntan como presunto responsable a la disidencia de la extinta guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) comandada por Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, alias “Iván Mordisco”, uno de los hombres más buscados del país.

La facción de “Iván Mordisco” es la más numerosa de las disidencias surgidas por quienes no se acogieron al acuerdo de paz firmado hace una década entre las FARC y el Estado.

Sánchez ofreció una recompensa de hasta 500 millones de pesos, aproximadamente 156.800 dólares, por la ubicación y captura de a quien sólo identificó como “Max Max”, quien forma parte de la facción de “Iván Mordisco” y estaría detrás de los explosivos encontrados.

La policía mostró imágenes de siete cilindros cargados con explosivos que estaban en el vehículo y su posterior detonación controlada. El comandante de la Policía Metropolitana de Cali, brigadier general Herbert Benavidez, indicó que el vehículo habría partido del departamento de Cauca y tenía como posible destino a Cali.

El vehículo fue encontrado en el marco del operativo de seguridad desplegado por la fuerza pública en el suroeste del país, especialmente en las zonas aledañas a Cali, de cara a la posesión presidencial a la que asistirán mandatarios de la región y delegaciones diplomáticas.

De la Espriella ha prometido arreciar los operativos militares contra los grupos armados ilegales, con los que cerrará las mesas de negociación de paz iniciadas por el presidente saliente Gustavo Petro.

Sánchez aseguró que la interceptación del vehículo indica que el dispositivo de seguridad “está funcionando para garantizar la tranquilidad de los colombianos y la seguridad de la posesión presidencial”.

Las medidas incluyen el despliegue de 11.000 uniformados, operaciones especiales, artillería, vigilancia, transporte y evacuaciones. También apoyo aéreo y la restricción para sobrevolar drones debido a que suelen ser usados por los ilegales para lanzar explosivos.

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Tyre Hudson, who was driving a silver 2020 Nissan Kick, “approached” the teen, who was walking along Northeast 137th Street at Seventh Avenue, near North Miami Middle School, according to a police report.

Hudson, who lives in Miami’s Little River neighborhood, “asked the victim if he smokes marijuana” and “offered the victim a ride,” a North Miami police officer wrote in an arrest report.

The teen told a police officer that he answered in the affirmative to the question about marijuana, and got in the Nissan Kick after accepting the ride offer, according to the arrest report.

The teen reported that Hudson drove him to North Miami Senior High School and offered him $20-worth of marijuana if he could record a video of him in the restroom for X, according to the report.

The teen reported that he walked into a public restroom with Hudson, according to the arrest report.

The arrest report states that the suspect had taken the victim to the “North Miami Senior High School rear area,” but a spokesman for Miami-Dade County Public Schools clarified that the incident actually occurred at Cagni Park, which is located next to the school.

Hudson “propped his cell phone on the sink and recorded the entire incident ... quickly grabbed his cellphone and attempted to flee,” a NM police officer wrote in the report.

The teen reported that he started to strike Hudson and defend himself after the sexual abuse was recorded on video, according to the police report.

“The witness saw the victim fighting with the defendant while the victim was screaming, ‘This man was just trying to rape me!’ The witness quickly approached and assisted the victim in detaining the defendant,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.

Police officers arrested Hudson at 8:15 p.m. on Monday, according to the police arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Hudson shortly after 3:15 a.m. on Tuesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Hudson faced charges of lewd or lascivious molestation involving a victim aged 12 to 16 and attempted lewd or lascivious conduct offense involving a minor under 16 years old. His bond was $12,500.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Lody Jean is set to preside over the case, according to court records.

The New England-based plaintiffs sued the Monterey Bay Aquarium for defamation after the aquarium's Seafood Watch conservation program placed American and Canadian lobster on its do-not-eat “red list” in 2022. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is deciding whether the lawsuit can go forward.

One of the appellate judges, Judge Seth Aframe, said during oral arguments on July 27 that it doesn't strike him as a defamation claim and that he finds the case troubling “from a First Amendment perspective.”

“The more you broaden the class of people that fall within this, the more it feels like everybody can sue,” Aframe said.

Seafood Watch placed lobster on its list of seafood to avoid because of the threat posed to rare whales, such as the North Atlantic right whale, by potential entanglement in fishing gear.

The lobster fishing industry, based mostly in Maine, has pushed back, saying the claim inaccurately portrays it as a threat to whales and constitutes defamation that has caused economic harm. It claims that the whales face greater threats from other fishing industries, including the Canadian snow crab fishery.

Conservation groups have long made the case that lobster and crab fisheries are both dangerous to the whales, and government agencies have acknowledged that entanglement in fishing gear is a critical threat to the giant animals.

The industry is sticking to that claim despite the judges' comments during oral arguments, Kevin Lipson, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said Wednesday.

“Monterey Bay Aquarium in their Seafood Watch report didn't disclose any of the countervailing evidence. In fact, they hid that evidence,” Lipson said.

Seafood Watch is one of the most cited sustainability reports about seafood, and many restaurants and stores use it to inform which products to carry. Some major retailers, including Whole Foods, announced they were pulling Gulf of Maine lobster after the red listing.

A representative for Monterey Bay Aquarium declined to comment Wednesday. During oral arguments, Amy Saharia, an attorney for the aquarium, said that Seafood Watch didn't single out any of the plaintiffs with a direct reference.

The case has lingered because of ongoing legal maneuvers. A lower level federal court ruled last year that the lawsuit could proceed after the aquarium had requested it be tossed.

Maine fishermen caught more than 78 million pounds (35 million kilograms) of lobster last year — a down year by the industry's recent standards. The crustaceans were worth more than $460 million at the docks and are a key piece of the economy and culture in the state.

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This story was corrected to reflect that oral arguments took place July 27, not July 26.

The lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., said the department and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stonewalled New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s criminal investigation into Epstein and others, taking steps that “actively harms victims and undermines the public interest.”

The lawsuit sought judicial intervention to force the federal government to turn over materials to New Mexico's investigators. It was filed the same day that the New Mexico House of Representatives released a report saying “those directly responsible for protecting New Mexicans relied on others to do their job,” including federal prosecutors in New York.

According to the Washington lawsuit, Torrez and his senior prosecutors “have faced sustained resistance” to the kind of information-sharing common between state and federal investigators.

Justice Department says it's following court orders to protect victims

In a statement, the Justice Department said it was not releasing some information the state requested because federal court orders ban disclosing “victim-identifying information carte blanche, and New Mexico has provided no lawful basis to justify such sweeping disclosures.”

It said protecting victim privacy remains a top priority, though the Justice Department "remains available to assist New Mexico’s investigation consistent with the law and binding court orders.”

The lawsuit said the Justice Department and Blanche were hiding information about Epstein and his co-conspirators when New Mexico is one of the few jurisdictions that may still be able to hold Epstein's associates accountable or “provide some sense of justice to survivors.”

In a video conference call with reporters, Torrez said his office has made 10 separate requests for key information and has been ignored or denied.

“We have heard repeatedly they will cooperate and what our team has experienced is anything but cooperation,” Torrez said.

State calls on Todd Blanche to fix things with ‘a stroke of the pen’

“Todd Blanche today with a stroke of a pen could grant us the access that he claimed,” Torrez said. “Instead they have decided to stonewall, to obstruct and to frankly conceal for whatever reason.”

Epstein took his own life in a federal jail in New York City in August 2019 after he was denied bail on sex trafficking charges lodged against him when he was arrested a month earlier.

His former girlfriend and close associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking charges at a trial in Manhattan, where some witness testimony alleged that Epstein and Maxwell had sexually abused women at the New Mexico ranch.

Meanwhile, the interim report by the New Mexico Survivors' Truth Commission, established in February by the New Mexico House of Representatives, in part blamed federal prosecutors in Manhattan for a dearth of information about Epstein's activities in New Mexico, saying they "never prioritized New Mexicans, focusing instead on Epstein’s misdeeds in New York, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Virgin Islands, while leaving Epstein’s offenses in New Mexico unexamined.”

Commission blames New York prosecutors but then cites their work

Later in the report, though, the commission cited evidence gathered by New York's federal prosecutors to describe women who described suffering sexual abuse from Epstein at his Zorro Ranch.

At Maxwell's trial, Annie Farmer, now a psychologist, testified she was 16 when she agreed to go to Epstein's New Mexico ranch, where Maxwell touched her breast during a massage and Epstein unexpectedly crawled into bed and pressed himself against her.

A spokesperson for New York federal prosecutors sent along the Justice Department statement on Epstein in response to a request for comment.

Coinciding with the release of the report, about 50 members of the media and the public gathered in a legislative hearing room at the New Mexico state capitol on Wednesday to hear about the commission’s preliminary findings.

Epstein accuser recounts abuse at commission meeting

Rachel Benavidez, the lone speaker in the “survivor testimony” portion of the meeting, alleged that Epstein sexually abused her at Zorro Ranch. Benavidez said Epstein’s connections with powerful people in the state allowed him to “roam free here in New Mexico unchecked” after he had been convicted of sex crimes elsewhere.

“We don’t need more paper files sitting as artifacts,” Benevidez said, urging the commission to question “co-conspirators” who helped Epstein evade accountability in the state.

She has said in interviews that she was brought to the ranch to work as a massage therapist beginning in the late 1990s. In her testimony Wednesday, Benavidez said Epstein had exploited “the one thing that meant everything to me at that time, my hard earned career.”

Epstein purchased his sprawling estate in Stanley, New Mexico, a sparsely populated ranching community about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Santa Fe, in 1993 from former Democratic Gov. Bruce King and built a hilltop mansion with a private airstrip and helipad.

Epstein's ranch has been renamed ‘San Rafael Ranch’

The property was sold by Epstein’s estate in 2023 to the family of Don Huffines, a Republican who was recently appointed state comptroller in Texas. In a February social media post on X, Huffines said the property has been renamed San Rafael Ranch after a saint associated with healing and that his family plans to operate a Christian retreat there.

In December, the Justice Department started releasing investigative records pertaining to Epstein and Maxwell in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Complaints quickly arose about shoddy redactions and too many sealed materials from accusers and members of Congress who fought to pass the transparency act. Records that were released, including photographs, interview transcripts, call logs, court records and other documents, were either already public or heavily blacked out, and many lacked necessary context.

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AP writer Larry Neumeister in New York and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.

En el caso de Eslovaquia, también fue la tercera vez este verano que las temperaturas alcanzaron un récord. El sur del país registró temperaturas por encima de los 40 grados Celsius (104 grados Fahrenheit) en la más reciente ola de calor, con un nuevo récord de 41,4 °C (106,5 °F) en la localidad de Kamenica nad Hronom, en el sur de Eslovaquia, informó el Instituto Meteorológico Eslovaco.

Los récords anteriores se establecieron en dos días —el 29 de junio y el 30 de junio—, con 41,0 °C (105,8 °F) en la localidad de Turna nad Bodvou, y 41,3 °C (106,3 °F) en Kamenica nad Hronom.

Eso superó el máximo de 2007, de 40,3 °C (104,5 °F), en la localidad de Hurbanovo.

La noche del martes al miércoles también fue la más calurosa registrada, con 28,4 grados Celsius (83 °F) en la localidad de Skalica, en el suroeste de Eslovaquia.

En Austria, el máximo histórico de 41,2 °C (106,1 °F) se alcanzó en Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, cerca de la frontera con Eslovaquia, superando el récord de 41,0 °C (105,8 °F) del día anterior, señaló el servicio meteorológico GeoSphere.

República Checa y Hungría también habían registrado sus máximos históricos a principios de este verano.

Este año, Europa se ha sofocado bajo un verano excepcionalmente caluroso y árido, con condiciones de yesca que han desatado incendios sin precedentes y han obligado a cientos de miles de personas a evacuar viviendas y sitios vacacionales.

El continente es el que más rápido se calienta en el mundo, con temperaturas que aumentan al doble de velocidad que el promedio global desde la década de 1980, según el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copernicus de la Unión Europea.

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Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, un hombre identificado como Michael Simpson, de 51 años, cerró el suministro de aire de un buzo menor de edad mientras la víctima estaba en el agua buscando langostas.

El hecho ocurrió aproximadamente a las 7:04 a.m. del 29 de julio, a cerca de media milla al este de Fisher Island.

Los agentes informaron que el incidente comenzó con una disputa por un lugar para bucear.

Según los investigadores, la víctima estaba bajo el agua cuando el propietario de la embarcación en la que había llegado observó que otra embarcación se acercaba a gran velocidad.

El propietario de la embarcación dijo a los agentes que, cuando la otra embarcación finalmente se detuvo y ancló cerca, el capitán, posteriormente identificado como Simpson, inició una discusión verbal alegando que ellos estaban en su lugar.

Los agentes informaron que, en un momento, Simpson se enfureció y amenazó con cerrar el sistema de respiración que suministraba aire al buzo que estaba en el agua. Luego cumplió su amenaza, se lanzó al agua y cerró el suministro, indicaron las autoridades.

Según la MDSO, el propietario de la embarcación se lanzó inmediatamente al agua y sacó a la víctima hasta la superficie.

Después de ser puesta a salvo, se observó que la víctima “jadeaba por aire, parecía desorientada y no entendía lo que había ocurrido”, señala el informe de arresto.

Los agentes informaron que Simpson huyó del lugar después de apagar el sistema.

No se reportaron personas heridas en el incidente.

Los detectives informaron que Simpson se entregó voluntariamente a las autoridades el martes.

Hasta la noche del martes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza registrada como “pendiente de ser fijada”.

Jeanine John Taele, 38, was due in court Wednesday on a federal weapons charge but the hearing was cancelled. He is being held at a downtown LA jail on state charges, according to booking records and not yet in federal custody, said a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office.

Taele was arrested Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, two days before Trump visited for a fundraising dinner.

Taele was first seen on the property Friday, walking throughout the course wearing an earpiece and taking photos and videos of federal agents' activities as they conducted a security assessment, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Taele drove away but then returned to the course Sunday. He approached federal agents and said he was employed by the State Department and was there for a security detail. Taele said he had a loaded weapon in his vehicle and was arrested after it was searched, according to federal officials. Authorities also found a 16-round magazine with ammunition in his pocket.

He already appeared in court on state weapons charges and a second-degree robbery charge for an unrelated incident.

Taele is charged federally with possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle that was found at this home, authorities said. The complaint alleges the firearm is an illegally modified AR-style rifle with a barrel that was cut down to 10 inches (25 centimeters) from 14 inches (35 centimeters).

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said a search of his pickup truck in the club parking lot turned up a loaded 9mm pistol, binoculars and a badge that read “security protection agent," according to federal prosecutors.

Law enforcement searched his home in the nearby city of Downey on Monday and found a rifle and other firearms, magazines and ammunition, body armor and notebooks with “concerning statements," federal authorities said. No details about the statements were released.

“Mr. Taele’s troubling behavior at the President’s public golf course merely days before the President was expected to arrive raised serious red flags for law enforcement,” Patrick Grandy, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said in a statement. “There is no room for error, particularly in light of previous attempts on President Trump’s life.”

In brief remarks about Taele's arrest to Fox News on Tuesday, Trump said “only consequential presidents” are targeted, “and I am definitely consequential," which he said brought him “a little solace.”

Taele was a corporal in the U.S. Marines who was deployed to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2010 and worked as a warehouse clerk, according to the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned numerous commendations, including an award for good conduct, during his service from 2008 to 2016.

State records show Taele is a licensed security guard, with his most recent license issued in February of this year and expiring in 2028. Records also show several cancelled or suspended permits to carry a firearm as a security guard. State officials did not immediately respond to a request for more details about those permits.

The Los Angeles County public defender's office, which is representing Taele in the state criminal case, did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday. Family members could not immediately be reached for comment.

Last year a jury found a man guilty of trying to assassinate Trump at the president’s Florida country club. And while a candidate in 2024, Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a shooter on a roof at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Maurice Timothy Dukes, de 36 años, y su novia, Sarahi Azucena Gonzalez, de 22, enfrentan cargos de abuso infantil agravado y negligencia infantil.

Los investigadores informaron que un médico del Baptist Health Homestead Hospital les dijo que el niño, hijo de Dukes, “fue llevado al departamento de emergencias con varias lesiones” producto del abuso, lo que motivó la intervención de la policía. El informe de arresto no indica quién llevó al menor al hospital.

“Las lesiones parecían encontrarse en distintas etapas de cicatrización e incluían las siguientes: marcas lineales en forma de lazo, abrasiones y trauma facial, con ambos ojos de la víctima hinchados y amoratados”, señala el informe.

La policía informó que Dukes, Gonzalez y el primo de 12 años de la víctima, quien enfrentará cargos como menor de edad, le causaron las lesiones.

Las autoridades indicaron que tanto Dukes como Gonzalez admitieron haber golpeado al niño y reconocieron que no buscaron atención médica para él.

Según el informe de arresto, Gonzalez dijo que golpeó al menor “con un cinturón y una “chancleta”” porque “nadie la ayudaba cuando pedía ayuda para cuidarlo”.

La policía informó además que Gonzalez admitió que el primo del niño “golpeó a la víctima varias veces en la cara después de que esta lo mordiera”.

Ambos adultos fueron arrestados, mientras que el menor de 12 años figuraba “prófugo” en el informe de arresto.

Hasta el miércoles, ambos adultos permanecían detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight: Dukes con una fianza de $6,000 USD y Gonzalez con una fianza de $4,000 USD.

Las disposiciones son el resultado de la adecuación a un importante paquete de 176 medidas aprobadas por la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular y el Partido Comunista de Cuba en junio para liberalizar la economía de la isla, durante décadas fuertemente centralizada y estatista.

Varias normas jurídicas que regulan las medidas anunciadas se publicaron en la Gaceta Oficial.

Los cambios se producen cuando Cuba enfrenta un cerco energético impuesto por el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump desde enero pasado presionando por un cambio político y económico a la isla. La medida empeoró la crisis económica que ya venía cursando Cuba desde comienzos de esta década, en parte por efecto de las sanciones aplicadas por el país norteamericano.

La semiparalización de todos los sectores estuvo acompañada de un desabastecimiento casi total de gasolina y petróleo para el transporte público y particular. Por ello muchos cubanos se volcaron a la compra de motos y triciclos eléctricos que se adueñaron rápidamente de las calles de La Habana.

“La actualización de la política para la transmisión de la propiedad de los vehículos de motor, remolques y semirremolques, así como su importación y comercialización, incorpora nuevas flexibilizaciones dirigidas a facilitar estos procesos en el país”, dijo el ministro de Transporte, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, en declaraciones a medios de prensa y publicadas por el periódico oficial Granma.

Entre las novedades se encuentra la cancelación de los límites a la compra de vehículos –eran seis en cinco años—y la autorización de la actividad de nuevas comercializadoras.

Igualmente se permite a las empresas privadas ensamblar y vender vehículos eléctricos, incluyendo triciclos y motocicletas, que se han vuelto particularmente populares.

A junio se habían importado unos 19.443 ciclomotores y motocicletas eléctricas, según informó el funcionario.

La importación de automóviles eléctricos adquiridos “junto a sus estaciones de carga con fuentes renovables de energía” tendrá una exención de pago de impuestos “como incentivo a la transformación de la matriz energética nacional”, explicó el funcionario.

También se reducirán las tasas para la compra en el extranjero de autobuses eléctricos, al tiempo que se favorecerá que se haga en partes para poder ensamblarlos en el país.

The reward was bumped up from $5 million. The Trump administration offered a total of $100 million in rewards for various leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, and restricted the visas of family members and business associates of cartel members.

U.S. officials said the rewards, along with newly unsealed charges against five other high-ranking leaders, were aimed at crippling the organization’s leadership while President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Mexico and other Latin American nations to carry out his security agenda.

“These sophisticated organizations use violence and fear to maintain control over the importation of deadly narcotics in the United States, including fentanyl, cocaine, meth, and other illegal drugs. Their actions spread violence and death to our communities,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters in Washington.

CJNG is among eight Mexican cartels designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The group was dealt a blow in February when leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho.” was killed by the Mexican military. The U.S. provided intelligence for the operation, which resulted in a burst in violence in the state of Jalisco.

González, Oseguera Cervantes’s stepson and a dual Mexican and U.S. citizen, is reported to have taken control of the cartel, which is involved in everything from avocado production to drug smuggling.

Wednesday's move comes a few weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against 50 people and companies linked with the cartel, including González. The sanctions froze assets and blocked U.S. financial transactions with those cited.

The cartel is considered the largest in Mexico, with a presence in 21 of its 32 states. Its operations have extended to several countries, including the United States.

Trump's administration has ramped up pressure on the government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to crack down more heavily on cartels, even threatening military action against the groups.

Among those charged in the newly unsealed indictments are Oseguera Cervantes’ former son-in-law, Julio ​Alberto Castillo Rodriguez, and Hugo ​Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytan, whom authorities described as the former leader’s godson. All of the defendants are charged with drug trafficking and firearms offenses, officials said.

"This is a fight against CJNG that we are just beginning, and we will not back down," Terrance Cole, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, told reporters.

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Associated Press reporter Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington contributed to this report.

The pup was one of hundreds of pets and wild animals rescued by volunteers this week during the blaze, which prompted multiple evacuations.

The fire — at one point burning on five fronts — torched dozens of homes and more than 100 square kilometers (39 square miles) of land. It was the latest scene of destruction during Europe’s searing summer, where massive fires — including in countries accustomed to cooler summers — have worried animal welfare groups.

In the town of Megara, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Athens, rescue organizer Elena Dede said the local volunteer effort saved more than 280 animals, mostly dogs, during scorching heat and high winds.

Sasa and others were housed on an indoor sports court inside a collapsible wire cage with a rubber ball to play with and a metal water bowl.

“There was so much heat and the fire was so aggressive. It was changing directions all the time,” Dede said.

Richard Parr, director of the U.K.-based Center for Wild Animal Welfare, described these animal rescue efforts by firefighters and local charities as “heroic” but argued that hotter summers are increasing the risk facing millions of animals.

“At the moment, all too often, it is ad hoc, and it falls on the shoulders of private individuals, small charities,” he said. “The scale of the challenges they’re facing in terms of the number of animals affected and the areas of fire is gigantic and completely out of step.”

The organization is campaigning for a dedicated European Union animal rescue service and funding to address the problem.

“There’s just a massive mismatch between the huge scale of this problem and the resources and the capacity that are available to respond to it,” Parr said.

He also urged governments to consider setting up “fire refuges” for animals, such as ponds and rock piles that could offer shelter.

In Greece, the blaze has left rescuers with a logistical headache: where to return displaced animals like Sasa. Dede said local authorities were helping match missing-animal notices with rescued animals and find temporary homes until the process was completed.

However, she said she was mindful that the dogs at the stadium were among the fortunate.

“It was really hard for every volunteer and every person involved to survive the smoke and the stress,” she said.

“I will never forget the animals that we knew were left behind. I’m just hoping they were saved and ran free."

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Petros Giannakouris in Megara, Greece contributed.

For Slovakia, it was also the third time this summer that temperatures reached a record high. The country's south recorded temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the latest heat wave, with a new record of 41.4 C (106.5 F) in the town of Kamenica nad Hronom in southern Slovakia, the Slovak Meteorological Institute said.

The previous records were set on two days — June 29 and June 30 — with 41.0 C (105.8 F) in the town of Turna nad Bodvou, and 41.3 C (106.3 F) in Kamenica nad Hronom.

That smashed a 2007 high of 40.3 C (104.5 F) in the town of Hurbanovo.

The night of Tuesday into Wednesday was also the hottest on record, with 28.4 degrees Celsius (83 F) in the town of Skalica in southwestern Slovakia.

In Austria, the all-time high of 41.2 C (106.1 F) was measured in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg near the border with Slovakia, beating a 41.0 C (105.8 F) record from the previous day, the GeoSphere meteorological service said.

The Czech Republic and Hungary had also recorded their all-time highs earlier this summer.

This year, Europe has been sweltering under an exceptionally hot and arid summer, with tinderbox conditions setting off unprecedented fires that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate homes and vacation spots.

The continent is the world’s fastest-warming, with temperatures increasing twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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Christopher Perez-Ponton, 33, of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was arrested Tuesday by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, according to investigators.

Perez-Ponton is facing charges stemming from an Aug. 3, 2025, robbery near Flagler Street and Miami Avenue, where investigators say a victim was shot in the ankle during a struggle over his Rolex watch and wallet.

According to an arrest report, the victim and a friend were walking toward the E11EVEN nightclub after leaving the victim’s home when a gray SUV stopped and occupants asked for directions. Deputies said after the victim gave directions, the pair continued walking.

The report states that as the victim and his friend approached 26 East Flagler Street, one of them heard footsteps and saw the same men from the vehicle running toward them.

Investigators said Perez-Ponton approached the victim while holding a gun, while Manuel Emilio Linarez Julia grabbed him, leading to a physical struggle.

“The victim noticed that Christopher Perez-Ponton had the gun pointed at his head, and he pulled it away,” the report states. “During the struggle, Christopher Perez-Ponton shot the victim in the left ankle.”

The report states Linarez Julia, 32, then took the victim’s Rolex watch and wallet during the confrontation.

Deputies said Edgar Perez-Ponton, who investigators identified as one of the suspects, allegedly chased after the victim’s companion as the robbery unfolded. As the suspects fled, Christopher Perez-Ponton allegedly grabbed the victim’s phone from the ground, according to the report.

Deputies said the victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center for treatment of the gunshot wound.

Investigators said surveillance video captured the robbery and showed the suspects following the victim before fleeing the area.

They said additional surveillance footage showed a gray Alfa Romeo SUV leaving west on Flagler Street, which detectives later linked to the vehicle through a license plate reader search.

According to the report, detectives later identified Edgar Perez-Ponton, 35, as the registered owner of the SUV. Investigators said they also obtained cellphone records that placed Perez-Ponton’s phone near the robbery scene at the time of the crime.

Authorities previously arrested Linarez Julia and Edgar Perez-Ponton in connection with the case. Deputies said the investigation also linked the suspects to a second Rolex robbery that happened the day before, on Aug. 2, 2025, near the E11EVEN nightclub.

In that case, investigators said the three suspects approached a victim after he left the club and stole his Rolex watch and cellphone while holding him at gunpoint.

The arrest report states investigators obtained text messages between Linarez Julia and a phone number belonging to Christopher Perez-Ponton that included photos of the two men together and a screenshot of a flight ticket showing Christopher Perez-Ponton traveled from San Juan to Miami on Aug. 1, 2025.

Jail records show all three men are facing charges of armed robbery and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm causing bodily harm.

As of Wednesday morning, Christopher Perez-Ponton and Edgar Perez-Ponton were being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, while Linarez Julia was being held without bond at the Metrowest Detention Center.

Según los investigadores, Christopher Perez-Ponton, de 33 años y residente de Carolina, Puerto Rico, fue arrestado el martes por la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Perez-Ponton enfrenta cargos relacionados con un robo ocurrido el 3 de agosto de 2025 cerca de Flagler Street y Miami Avenue, donde, según los investigadores, una víctima recibió un disparo en el tobillo durante un forcejeo por su reloj Rolex y su billetera.

Según el informe de arresto, la víctima y un amigo caminaban hacia el club nocturno E11EVEN después de salir de la casa de la víctima cuando una SUV gris se detuvo y sus ocupantes les pidieron direcciones. Los agentes informaron que, después de darles indicaciones, ambos continuaron caminando.

El informe señala que, cuando la víctima y su amigo se acercaban al 26 East Flagler Street, uno de ellos escuchó pasos y vio a los mismos hombres de la SUV corriendo hacia ellos.

Los investigadores informaron que Perez-Ponton se acercó a la víctima con un arma de fuego en la mano, mientras Manuel Emilio Linarez Julia la sujetaba, lo que provocó un forcejeo.

“La víctima notó que Christopher Perez-Ponton le apuntaba con el arma a la cabeza y logró apartarla”, señala el informe. “Durante el forcejeo, Christopher Perez-Ponton le disparó a la víctima en el tobillo izquierdo”.

El informe indica que Linarez Julia, de 32 años, aprovechó el enfrentamiento para quitarle a la víctima su reloj Rolex y su billetera.

Los agentes informaron que Edgar Perez-Ponton, identificado por los investigadores como otro de los sospechosos, presuntamente persiguió al acompañante de la víctima mientras ocurría el robo. Según el informe, cuando los sospechosos huían, Christopher Perez-Ponton presuntamente recogió del suelo el teléfono celular de la víctima.

Los agentes informaron que la víctima fue trasladada al Ryder Trauma Center del Hospital Jackson Memorial para recibir tratamiento por la herida de bala.

Los investigadores indicaron que videos de vigilancia captaron el robo y mostraron a los sospechosos siguiendo a la víctima antes de huir del lugar.

También informaron que otras imágenes de vigilancia mostraron una SUV Alfa Romeo gris desplazándose hacia el oeste por Flagler Street, vehículo que los detectives posteriormente vincularon al caso mediante una búsqueda con lectores de placas.

Según el informe, los detectives identificaron posteriormente a Edgar Perez-Ponton, de 35 años, como el propietario registrado de la SUV. Los investigadores también obtuvieron registros de telefonía celular que ubicaban el teléfono de Perez-Ponton cerca de la escena del robo al momento del crimen.

Las autoridades ya habían arrestado previamente a Linarez Julia y a Edgar Perez-Ponton en relación con este caso. Los agentes informaron que la investigación también vinculó a los sospechosos con un segundo robo de un reloj Rolex ocurrido el día anterior, el 2 de agosto de 2025, cerca del club nocturno E11EVEN.

En ese caso, los investigadores informaron que los tres sospechosos se acercaron a una víctima después de que saliera del club y, apuntándole con un arma de fuego, le robaron su reloj Rolex y su teléfono celular.

El informe de arresto señala que los investigadores obtuvieron mensajes de texto entre Linarez Julia y un número telefónico perteneciente a Christopher Perez-Ponton que incluían fotografías de ambos juntos y una captura de pantalla de un boleto de avión que mostraba que Christopher Perez-Ponton viajó de San Juan a Miami el 1 de agosto de 2025.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que los tres hombres enfrentan cargos de robo a mano armada y un cargo de agresión agravada con un arma de fuego que causó lesiones corporales.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Christopher Perez-Ponton y Edgar Perez-Ponton permanecían detenidos sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, mientras que Linarez Julia permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro de Detención Metrowest.

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The new options at Broward schools’ cafeterias include Jalapeño egg patties, a plant-based fiesta wrap with hummus, and seasoned Cajun fries. In Miami-Dade, the new dishes include sriracha honey chicken and all-beef meatballs.

“We are a very large district, and we have a lot of students, and all of them have different likes and dislikes, and we want to make sure that we are providing a wide variety,” said Elizabeth Seeley, a dietician for Broward County Public Schools.

Parents or guardians will need to complete an application so the district can determine their income eligibility for free or reduced-price lunches through June 30, 2027.

“Parents can still qualify for free, reduced-price meals,” said Kristina Ramirez, the BCPS program coordinator. “They just need to go online and complete the application.”

Only 121 public schools in Miami-Dade and 141 public schools in Broward will continue to offer free breakfast and lunch, as part of the federally assisted child nutrition programs.

“We had a surplus amount of money because of grants we received from COVID, and then we were able to have all of our students eat for free, but that surplus is now down. That was because that was the purpose of it. That’s what we did with our money,” Seeley said.

The 2026–27 academic year begins on Aug. 10 for students at Broward County Public Schools, on Aug. 11 for students at the Archdiocese of Miami Catholic Schools, and on Aug. 13 for students at Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

The application for free and/or reduced lunch for Miami-Dade public school students will open on Aug. 10.

The pricing for Miami-Dade schools that do not qualify for free meals is $2.50 for breakfast and $4.20 for lunch. The reduced price is 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch.

In Broward, lunch is $4 for elementary school students, $4.35 for middle school students, and $4.50 for high school students.

Here is how to apply:

• Miami-Dade County Public Schools application: mdcpsnutrition.net
• Broward County Public Schools application: myschoolapps.com

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El grupo sigue pidiendo una actividad de huracanes “muy por debajo del promedio” en el Golfo, el Caribe y el Atlántico en general este año, con una creciente confianza en que un poderoso fenómeno de El Niño en las aguas del Pacífico oriental reducirá significativamente la actividad general de tormentas en la cuenca del Atlántico y disminuirá las probabilidades de que un huracán importante azote los Estados Unidos y las costas que bordean el Caribe.

Las cifras finales de la CSU se mantienen sin cambios con respecto a su pronóstico de julio, prediciendo 9 tormentas con nombre esta temporada (incluidas las dos que ya se han formado), cuatro huracanes y un huracán que alcanzará la categoría 3, 4 o 5. El promedio de los últimos 30 años es de 14 tormentas con nombre, siete huracanes y tres huracanes de categoría 3 o superior.

Como ya hemos comentado en este boletín, la cizalladura del viento en la región del Atlántico occidental y el Caribe ha alcanzado niveles tan altos como nunca antes se habían observado en los registros satelitales (desde 1979), y los modelos de pronóstico estacional, como el famoso conjunto europeo, pronostican la mayor cizalladura del viento registrada para su período de retrospectiva (desde 1981) para septiembre.

La fuerte cizalladura del viento está siendo impulsada por el fenómeno de El Niño que se está produciendo en el Pacífico, el cual continúa superando a nuestros El Niño más intensos, como el de 1997, incluso después de ajustar las temperaturas del agua, más cálidas que las registradas el miércoles debido al calentamiento global.

Es casi seguro que este fenómeno de El Niño será uno de los más intensos registrados, si no el que más, incluso teniendo en cuenta el cambio climático.

Si bien los años con un fenómeno de El Niño intenso como este suelen reducir la actividad de huracanes en el Atlántico de forma casi universal, vale la pena reiterar que no los elimina por completo.

Los huracanes fuertes e impactantes siguen ocurriendo, incluso en años de baja actividad (véase Joaquín en 2015, que hundió el buque de carga estadounidense El Faro, cobrándose la vida de los 33 tripulantes, y que indirectamente provocó inundaciones catastróficas en Carolina del Sur), e incluso si las probabilidades se reducen, los años con menor actividad no nos eximen de responsabilidad estacional.

Sin embargo, este panorama es tan alentador como podríamos esperar en agosto. Las aguas del Atlántico tropical están templadas, especialmente en comparación con las últimas temporadas de huracanes y, sobre todo, en comparación con los trópicos globales, lo cual es crucial en cuanto a la presencia de aire descendente que domina la cuenca y frena el desarrollo de tormentas.

Los modelos de IA se animan a mediados de agosto.

Desde el jueves pasado, hemos estado hablando de una perturbación que el conjunto de modelos de inteligencia artificial ha estado detectando sobre la principal región de desarrollo del Atlántico tropical (entre África y el Caribe) para mediados de mes.

La señal se ha mantenido relativamente constante desde la semana pasada, pero en las últimas ejecuciones del modelo estamos observando un ligero aumento en el interés por el mismo.

Las probabilidades siguen siendo bajas (solo alrededor del 10% de los miembros de los conjuntos muestran desarrollo) y todavía estamos a una semana de cualquier perturbación coherente que podamos comenzar a rastrear, pero la persistencia de los modelos junto con el ligero repunte significa que es algo que volveremos a revisar.

Además, los modelos tradicionales basados ​​en la física y sus conjuntos, que en general se habían mantenido inactivos, han mostrado cierta actividad en las últimas ejecuciones.

Como ya hemos recalcado anteriormente (y es una afirmación que siempre se aplica a cualquier posible perturbación con más de una semana de antelación), no es algo que deba preocuparnos, pero les mantendremos informados sobre las tendencias la próxima semana.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade y personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron poco después de las 6:20 a.m. del miércoles al área de Southwest 157th Avenue y Southwest 160 Street, también conocida como Colonial Drive.

“Los detectives pueden confirmar que no se sospecha de un acto criminal”, escribió en un comunicado el detective Daniel D. Castillo, portavoz de la MDSO.

Un grupo de motociclistas escoltó una ambulancia Freightliner de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue a través del área de Richmond Heights-Redland.

El convoy se desplazó hacia el norte por la autopista Florida Turnpike y la autopista Palmetto Expressway, y hacia el este por la autopista Dolphin Expressway.

Una gran bandera de Estados Unidos ondeaba desde la escalera elevada de un camión de bomberos sobre Northwest 10th Avenue, cerca de Northwest 20th Street, en Allapattah.

Decenas de agentes de policía se alinearon a lo largo del recorrido. Algunos permanecían firmes para rendir saludo mientras pasaba la ambulancia.

Una bandera de Estados Unidos cubría el cuerpo del agente de policía al llegar a la Oficina del Médico Forense del condado Miami-Dade.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo. El editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este informe.

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Walker was carted off the field at training camp on Tuesday after going down following a pass-rush play. The injury was quickly feared to be an ACL tear, as the second-year pass rusher was unable to put any weight on his left leg.

The Falcons selected Walker with the No. 15 pick in the 2025 draft after an outstanding career at neighboring University of Georgia. He immediately bolstered the Falcons' pass rush, recording 36 tackles, 5.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery in a strong rookie campaign.

Walker's efforts helped bring the Falcons from the bottom of the sack leaderboard in 2024 to the second-most sacks (57) in the NFL this past season, behind only the Denver Broncos (68).

The future of the Falcons' pass rush this season is murky, as Walker's counterpart, James Pearce Jr., could be awaiting a suspension following an offseason arrest. Police referred to the Feb. 7 incident as a domestic dispute with WNBA player and ex-girlfriend Rickea Jackson.

Walker expressed his excitement about the upcoming season after the Falcons' first day of training camp. He said he stayed local during the offseason, splitting his training between the Falcons practice facility and the University of Georgia.

“I've been itching at the bit just to get back in the building and get on the grass,” Walker said. “Enjoyed the time off, but it's time to start to roll and get the ball moving.”

The Falcons will now turn to a group of edge rushers consisting of Samson Ebukam, Azeez Ojulari, Cameron Thomas, Bralen Trice and Keshawn Banks. DeAngelo Malone was placed on the reserve/PUP list on Tuesday.

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“Lamentamos, porque nosotros entendemos que hay otro camino para preservar las relaciones entre países”, manifestó el canciller argentino Pablo Quirno en una rueda de prensa.

Brasil dispuso el retiro de su embajador en Buenos Aires, Julio Bitelli, y que la representación diplomática quede bajo un encargado de negocios, en un hecho sin precedentes en la historia reciente. La decisión dada a conocer la víspera fue en respuesta a los agravios dirigidos por el liberal Milei al progresista mandatario brasileño, a quien tildó de “ladrón”, “presidiario” y “basura socialista”.

Quirno confirmó el miércoles que Brasil también solicitó el retiro del embajador argentino Daniel Raimondi de suelo brasileño.

En términos formales, reducir el vínculo a encargados de negocios es llevar la representación diplomática al mínimo antes de romper relaciones.

Punto de no retorno

Aún antes de llegar al poder en 2023, Milei había lanzado duras críticas contra Lula, a quien considera uno de los exponentes del populismo de izquierda que a su entender llevaron a la decadencia de Latinoamérica.

En las últimas décadas se había vuelto una tradición que los presidentes electos de ambas naciones visitaran primero al vecino país, en un gesto para reforzar la estratégica alianza comercial entre los dos gigantes de Sudamérica. Ni Milei ni Lula cumplieron con la costumbre.

La actual tensión diplomática se desató el 25 de julio cuando Milei concurrió a la convención partidaria del senador Flávio Bolsonaro —hijo del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro—, quien será el rival de Lula en las elecciones de octubre.

En aquella ocasión, Milei no solo agravió a Lula, sino que también acusó al juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal Alexandre de Moraes de ser una “basura”. De Moraes había rechazado una solicitud del presidente argentino para visitar al expresidente Bolsonaro (2019-2023), quien cumple bajo arresto domiciliario una condena de 27 años por un intento de golpe de Estado.

Lejos de bajar el tono, Milei redobló sus críticas hacia el presidente de Brasil en sucesivas entrevistas que brindó la última semana. Y resaltó que Lula no tuvo impedimento de visitar a la expresidenta argentina Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) el año pasado en su domicilio, donde cumple una condena a seis años de prisión por corrupción.

“No tenemos que perder de vista que las reacciones argentinas nunca fueron a nivel diplomático”, acotó Quirno sobre ese hecho.

No obstante, el canciller afirmó que “tenemos diferencias ideológicas profundas; la región está cambiando de dirección también ideológica. Nosotros lo celebramos y esperamos que eso también suceda en Brasil”.

El comercio por ahora al margen

Brasil es el principal socio comercial de la Argentina desde principios de la década de 1990. El intercambio comercial tuvo su punto récord en 2011, cuando rozó los 40.000 millones de dólares.

Vehículos, autopartes, insumos agrícolas, petróleo y derivados lideran el comercio entre ambos países, que en junio fue deficitario para Argentina en 241 millones de dólares.

“No creo que esto (la crisis diplomática) impacte demasiado en las relaciones comerciales entre los dos países”, opinó Marcelo Elizondo, director del comité de Economía Internacional del Consejo Argentino para las relaciones Internacionales (CARI).

“Están amparadas por instituciones muy sólidas, tratado Mercosur —bloque comercial que tiene como fundadores a Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay, y a Bolivia como miembro pleno desde hace dos años—, acuerdo bilateral para industria automotriz… esos acuerdos tienen garantías de vigencia. Incluso tienen previsto mecanismos de interrupción, pero ninguno incluye mala relación entre presidentes”, sostuvo.

El experto, no obstante, advirtió que el clima de tensión podría demorar potenciales inversiones, al menos hasta las elecciones presidenciales de octubre en Brasil.

Both the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday they were investigating what happened when a commercial jet took off just as Marine One left the White House for Andrews Air Force Base with the president aboard for the first leg of a West Coast trip.

The FAA decided after 67 people died on Jan. 29, 2025, when an airliner collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter that all takeoffs and landings at the Washington, D.C., airport would be halted anytime a helicopter passes by on a conflicting route. The airspace near the White House and Reagan is heavily congested with military and commercial aircraft.

The airplane that took off Tuesday was climbing above Marine One as the helicopter approached, so the two aircraft were not on a collision course.

The FAA said in a statement that a preliminary investigation showed “there was a momentary loss of separation after which the aircraft continued to move away from one another.”

“The air traffic controller was in contact with both the commercial pilot and Marine One pilot during the loss of separation,” the FAA said.

The White House emphasized that Trump was never in danger.

“Marine One flights are piloted by some of the best aviators in the world, and at no point was the President in harm’s way,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement.

The Marine Corps defended the actions of their helicopter pilots.

“There were no ‘close calls’ with the routine Marine One movement,” Marine Corps spokesperson Capt. Jacob Sugg said in an email. “Washington National Tower did not delay the helicopter crew, ask them to hold, or otherwise alter their flight profile.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported the incident.

Poor communication between the military and the civilian air traffic controllers at Reagan has been an issue in the past. It came out last spring after one of the hearings on the midair collision that a hotline connecting the Pentagon to the tower at Reagan hadn't been working for more than three years, and the FAA hadn't even realized it.

The FAA took steps to ensure that helicopters and airplanes would no longer share the same airspace around the airport shortly after the investigation into last year's collision began. The rules also require air traffic controllers to use radar — and not rely on pilots' eyes — to maintain separation and require all military aircraft to broadcast their locations.

The main group of family members of the victims of last year's crash questioned why the government hasn't done more to prevent collisions in the crowded airspace around Reagan in a post Wednesday on the social platform X. The family members have been urging Congress to reach a compromise and pass the package of aviation safety reforms that the NTSB recommended after the midair collision.

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Although no one observed the actual 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the debris plume resulting from the crash. Space tracking experts said it was inevitable that the leftover rocket segment plowed into the moon.

It’s the latest instance of lunar litter, a problem that many fear could worsen as the U.S. and China race to put astronauts on the moon. In 2022, a Chinese rocket unintentionally hit the moon following a lunar mission, and many more stray rocket pieces likely struck the moon in decades past without scientists' knowledge.

SpaceX's Julianna Scheiman said this week that the company is working with NASA to avoid future wrecks, stressing that this projected crash was not deliberate. A combination of solar activity and gravity accidentally put it on a collision course with the moon, she said.

Boston University's Carl Schmidt said he is “100% certain” that his team's observations revealed signs of the lunar crash. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope detected a stream of sodium and lithium stretching for miles (tens of kilometers) into space for at least five to 10 minutes following the impact, he added.

“We don’t have images of the impact" but there's telescope evidence, Schmidt said in an email.

Even before signs of the debris plume were spotted by the telescope in Chile, retired astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell noted that observations of the dead 4-ton upper stage on Tuesday night showed it heading straight for the moon. The anticipated crash site was a dusty, barren patch near Einstein Crater on the moon’s sunlit western limb — near the edge of the near and far sides, which is especially difficult to observe from Earth.

“There's no doubt in my mind" that the rocket “is now in teeny, little pieces scattered over the moon near Einstein Crater,” McDowell told The Associated Press.

“As a physicist, I know that what goes up must come down,” he added.

Stargazers knew it would be difficult, if not impossible, from the ground to see the plume of dust and rock ejected from the resulting crater, let alone the flash of light from the impact. Orbiting spacecraft had the best chance of witnessing anything — or at least observing the crater after the fact.

Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek was among those aiming his telescope at the moon at the appointed time, but he came up empty.

"We knew this would be a long shot,” Langbroek said.

Like McDowell, Langbroek said he had “no doubt” the rocket met its doom.

Visual confirmation, McDowell noted, will have to wait for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to fly over the crash scene and send back photos of the impact crater. The space agency doesn't expect that to happen until next week.

The Falcon rocket's upper stage — a fat cylinder more than 40 feet (12 meters) long — hoisted two private lunar landers from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 15, 2025. It ended up adrift after putting Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience on course for the moon. Resilience wrecked, but Blue Ghost aced its touchdown, becoming the first private spacecraft to do so.

The moon is the new go-to destination in space, with NASA envisioning a stampede of robotic craft over the next several years to form the foundation for a sustainable lunar base. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will provide the lunar landers for NASA's Artemis astronauts.

Musk's Starship is making steady progress in test flights from Texas. Bezos' Blue Moon lander has yet to launch. One or both landers will take part in next year's Artemis III, a docking rehearsal in orbit around Earth. A lunar touchdown by astronauts — the first since NASA's Apollo moonshots — could follow as soon as 2028.

“Things are going to get a lot busier near the moon,” McDowell said. “At that point an impact like this on the lunar surface plowing up huge amounts of dust going for hundreds of miles around is not going to be acceptable.”

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“So many of them came because this was a good opportunity for them to make some money, and this second bite at the apple is equity instead of cash,” O'Neil said at a news conference at Trump Bedminster, site of this week's LIV Golf New York event.

O'Neil was short on details, starting with the identity of the investor and how much money was involved. He said the lead investor “has signed a term sheet approved by our board, which will carry and fund LIV going forward.”

“It's very good news for all of us,” O'Neil said.

O'Neil said LIV is getting “strong interest” from more than a dozen other parties who would be minority investors as the league tries to survive.

“We don’t need them, but we have the opportunity to do it,” he said of other investors.

LIV Golf New York is the penultimate individual event in a season that has been marked by upheaval, particularly the stunning announcement in March that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia — the financial muscle of LIV since it began — is withdrawing funding after 2026.

One tournament in New Orleans already has been scrapped, and there are serious doubts the season-ending team event in Michigan on Aug. 27-30 will be played, particularly after reports the tournament has not even started preparing for it.

“We have not made any final formal decisions and hope to in the coming weeks,” O'Neil said.

LIV Golf, which launched in 2022, has spent more than $5 billion on the league. That includes some of the nine-figure bonuses to lure top players like Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Phil Mickelson.

Prize funds were $20 million, with an additional $5 million for the team component.

But it all began to fall apart earlier this year. Koepka was let out of his contract and returned to the PGA Tour, and Patrick Reed chose not to renew his deal. He is leading the European tour points list and will be eligible to return to the PGA Tour next year.

Lucas Herbert, who has won twice on LIV Golf this year, said Tuesday his management has been in touch with PGA Tour officials.

“If LIV were to go away and you’ve got nowhere to play, I think ultimately you need somewhere to play as a professional golfer. So we’re just doing due diligence,” Herbert said.

O’Neil met with team captains on Tuesday, and DeChambeau led a player-only meeting later in the afternoon, though none of the players shared details.

O'Neil said he expected to finalize terms with the lead investor in the next few weeks with the goal of getting it done in September. The plan for what is being referred to as “LIV Golf 2.0” is for 10 team events each year, five of them in the United States and five others around the world.

It also wants to stage events leading into the majors and having a schedule that allows its player to compete on other circuits. Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton already play on the European tour. The PGA Tour still has a one-year ban on anyone competing on LIV.

The $20 million prize money — now matched by the PGA Tour at its signature events — will have to be substantially less going forward. Even with a lead investor, questions remain whether the biggest names will stick around.

“I think we have enough support from enough players, and we have such an interesting format and global format, I think we’ll do quite well in getting the right stars for this game," O'Neil said.

Among speculation is whether LIV would file for bankruptcy as it sought a new structure.

“When you’re in a situation that is a bit fluid, where there’s a bit of uncertainty, where there’s some challenges and maybe some surprises here or there around the corner, we want to make sure that we are giving ourselves the best opportunity to do what’s best for this organization to carry forward,” O'Neil said. “We’ll consider the best options at that time. That’s not a decision we have to make, and we’ll continue to do what’s best.”

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Sin embargo la Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED) llamó a la población a mantener la precaución debido a que la Onda del Este, un sistema de baja presión que afecta con lluvias al país, puede provocar lahares.

“Material acumulado en la parte alta del volcán continúa generando colapsos y descenso de bloques incandescentes hacia las barrancas Ceniza y Seca (ubicadas en las faldas del volcán) lo que podría generar corrientes de densidad piroclástica (lodo, palos y piedras de gran tamaño descendiendo)”, dijeron en una nota informativa la CONRED y el Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología (INSIVUMEH).

La CONRED también confirmó que algunas personas que fueron evacuadas entre lunes y martes regresaron “de manera voluntaria” a sus viviendas. “Pero la actividad eruptiva continua y se recomienda seguir las indicaciones de las autoridades de realizar una evacuación preventiva”.

Unas 1.700 personas han sido evacuadas de por lo menos 18 comunidades ubicadas en las faldas del volcán debido a la erupción que comenzó el lunes. No se reportaron pérdida de vidas ni daños en viviendas.

Desde las estaciones de transmisión en vivo de la actividad del volcán se puede apreciar por momentos completamente despejado, con intervalos de lanzamiento de ceniza. La madrugada del martes el volcán arrojó lava que llegó hasta unos 300 metros de altura, provocando alertas rojas, la evacuación de cientos de personas, el cierre de una carretera y la suspensión de clases en los tres departamentos donde está ubicado.

El Volcán de Fuego, uno de los más activos de Guatemala, tiene una altura de 3.768 metros y es considerado un estratovolcán: un volcán alto y en forma de cono formado por capas de lava dura, ceniza y rocas. Está ubicado entre los departamentos de Escuintla, Chimaltenango y Sacatepéquez en la zona sur y centro del país.

Una erupción del volcán el 3 de junio de 2018 mató a cientos de personas y provocó la desaparición de una comunidad entera. Según autoridades, hasta 1,7 millones de personas resultaron afectadas por la erupción.

It's dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

Scientists originally took the images for a different reason: to fine-tune and test the limits of the telescope. But when they looked at the results, they realized they'd photographed the sun's bright outer shell at higher resolution than ever before.

What's more, they saw strange feathery patterns rippling across the surface.

“That reminds me of famous paintings, like the swirling skies in Van Gogh's Starry Night,” said solar physicist Ruizhu Chen with Stanford University, who was not involved with the new research.

Researchers saw ripples of instability on the sun's surface caused by bits of magnetized plasma moving past each other at different speeds — similar to waves that stir when a gust of wind blows over water. It's a well-known phenomenon that guides how fluids move.

This has been glimpsed on Earth and other planets like Jupiter and Saturn, but “it has not been observed ever at that level on the solar surface,” according to study co-author Friedrich Wöger with the National Solar Observatory.

The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Scientists are curious about the sun's inner workings to better track massive bursts of energy called coronal mass ejections that can hurl toward Earth. When they hit, they can trigger solar storms, potentially scrambling GPS communications and producing colorful auroras.

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Organizers for Film at Lincoln Center on Wednesday announced the 32 films selected for its prestigious main slate lineup, all of which will play at the festival running Sept. 25 to Oct. 12. Kicking off the festival will be Gray's “Paper Tiger,” a Queens-set crime drama starring Adam Driver and Miles Teller.

While few of the festival's selections will be making their world premiere in New York, one exception is Gilroy's “Behemoth!” starring Pedro Pascal as a cellist. The festival is making “Behemoth!” its centerpiece gala. Also making its world premiere is Ava DuVernay's “14th,” a documentary on the much-contested constitutional amendment and a kind of sequel to her “13th” documentary. DuVernay's latest will close the festival.

In between, the festival's principle lineup will feature many filmmakers who have previously brought films to the NYFF, including Pedro Almodovar (“Bitter Christmas”), Ryusuke Hamaguchi ( “All of a Sudden” ), Andrew Haigh (“A Long Winter”), Radu Jude (“The Diary of a Chambermaid”), Lee Chang-dong (“Possible Love”), Mike Leigh (“Tender Loving Care”), Pawel Pawlikowski ( “Fatherland” ) and Ira Sachs ( “The Man I Love” ).

Other selections include Chris Rock's “Misty Green,” which will first premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, William and David Greaves' acclaimed documentary “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” and Julia Loktev's “My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile,” the continuation of the Russian filmmaker's sprawling documentary of modern-day dissent in Russia.

“It’s hard to recall a prior main slate program in which the state of the world has been as urgently reflected in so many creative ways,” Dennis Lim, artistic director of the festival, said in a statement. “You could take any cross section of this lineup and come away with a vivid picture of what our present looks, sounds, and feels like. I’m deeply encouraged to be able to introduce New York audiences to works by so many fearless, imaginative directors whose artistry has been inspired by the shared realities of our world.”

On Tuesday, the festival announced that Takashi Yamazaki's “Godzilla Minus Zero,” his sequel to 2023's “Godzilla Minus One,” will make its world premiere at the NYFF on Sept. 26.

Según la policía, una balacera fue reportada alrededor de las 4:15 a.m. en la cuadra 500 de Southeast Ninth Court, a solo unas cuadras de Las Olas Boulevard.

La policía informó que los agentes llegaron al lugar y descubrieron que dos hombres, que se conocen entre sí, se involucraron en una pelea cuando uno apuñaló al otro.

Según la policía, la segunda persona fue mordida en algún momento durante el altercado.

Ambos hombres fueron trasladados por Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue al Broward Health Medical Center.

Un equipo de Local 10 News estuvo en la escena más tarde en la mañana, donde se observó a detectives de la escena del crimen inspeccionando el área en busca de pistas y tomando fotografías de posibles evidencias.

Al menos seis o siete marcadores de evidencia fueron colocados en el suelo, señalando diferentes puntos en el estacionamiento.

La policía no divulgó de inmediato las identidades de los hombres ni informó qué provocó la pelea, pero confirmó que se trató de un incidente aislado.

La Unidad de Delitos Violentos del Departamento de Policía de Fort Lauderdale continúa con la investigación.

It wasn’t Sanders juking half the defense on one of his dynamic touchdown runs. Instead, the Hall of Fame running back who inspired a generation of running backs with his sensational, elusive, shifty style was walking up and down the sideline handing out refreshments to his teammates.

“They were talking about how great of a player he was but they had a clip of him holding Gatorade cups and he’s walking down,” Barkley said on the AP’s “On Football” podcast. “He is going to his teammates and just the way that he carried himself. So I would say I have to give my flowers to him there.”

Barkley joined Sanders as one of nine players to rush for 2,000 yards in a season in 2024 when he was the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year and helped the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl.

Barkley demonstrated he’s a team-first player by sitting out the final regular-season game when he needed 101 yards to break Eric Dickerson’s record. Earlier in the season, he told coach Nick Sirianni to let other backs get some carries after he had already rushed for 176 yards against his former Giants teammates and needed 14 more in the fourth quarter to set a new career-high.

Barkley finished with an NFL-record 2,504 combined rushing yards in the regular season and playoffs.

He credits his parents, Alibay Barkley and Tonya Johnson, for instilling in him an unselfish mindset.

“Just how my parents raised me,” he said. “Everything, who I am a person, it stems from my family, my brothers and sisters, and the coaches that I had growing up. But I don’t think you should get flowers for being a great teammate. I don’t think anything that I’ve done or that I said is rare. At least it shouldn’t be rare. It should be the norm, and it is the norm. I might have just got caught on camera, or I might've had an article written about me, but there’s other stuff that I have done that’s behind the scenes, and I have multiple teammates that have done great things for me, too. And it’s a winning culture. You want to create that culture. If you want to win football games, you want to be competing for championships, that matters. And I bought into that at a very young age and I think that’s what, I guess you could say, separated me.”

Barkley’s first season in Philadelphia after playing his first six with the New York Giants couldn’t have been scripted any better. He followed up his All-Pro campaign with 1,140 yards rushing in 2025 behind a banged-up offensive line.

The Eagles won 11 games, captured their second straight division title but lost a wild-card game to San Francisco. An inconsistent offense cost offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo his job.

Championship parades are the new standard in Philadelphia.

Some athletes don’t want to play in a pressure-packed environment. Barkley loves it.

“I embrace it. I don’t think pressure is a real thing from the outside force,” Barkley said. “You have to hold yourself to a high standard. I know Philly holds us to a higher standard already, but I feel like the way I carry myself and how I train and the standard I hold myself, I fit right into the city and into this fan base. ... You want to win every year. That’s the goal.”

Barkley’s acrobatic backward hurdle over a Jaguars player during the 2024 season ended up being the Madden 2026 cover. It also inspired DIRECTV’s recent campaign featuring Barkley jumping through hoops, flipping over a utility cart and hopping onto a crossbar.

“Watching football shouldn’t feel like jumping through hoops. That’s why I have DIRECTV,” Barkley says in the television commercial.

Of course, he lauded the brand’s team spirit.

“The kind of culture that they have and the day I was able to spend with them, I was knocked away and I’m just thankful for the opportunity,” he said.

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According to police, a stabbing was reported at about 4:15 a.m. in the 500 block of Southeast Ninth Court, just a few blocks away from Las Olas Boulevard.

Police said officers arrived at the scene and discovered that two men, who are known to each other, got into a fight when one stabbed the other.

According to police, the second person was bitten at some point during the altercation.

Both men were transported by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue to Broward Health Medical Center.

A Local 10 News crew was at the scene later in the morning as crime scene detectives were spotted combing the area for clues and taking photos of possible evidence.

At least six or seven evidence markers were on the ground, marking different spots in the parking lot.

Police did not immediately release the men’s identities or say what led up to the fight, but confirmed that this was an isolated incident.

FLPD’s Violent Crimes Unit continues their investigation.

Here's a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Wednesday. Full coverage can be found here.

Israel tells residents to leave village in southern Lebanon

For the first time in weeks, Israel's military told residents of an area of Lebanon to evacuate. The military said the warning for the village of Mansouri was in response to what it described as “a blatant violation of the ceasefire” by the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.

The military later said it was conducting “precise strikes” in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said one person was killed and 12 wounded in an Israeli strike in the town of Tebnine.

The escalation came as Lebanese and Israeli negotiators met in Rome for a second day to discuss implementation of a deal under which Israeli forces are supposed to withdraw from areas they occupy in southern Lebanon in exchange for Hezbollah's disarmament.

A State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy, said the second day of talks ended early “due to events on the ground” but could continue on Thursday.

A shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has largely held since June 20. The fighting erupted two days after the Iran war began when Hezbollah fired at Israel.

— Matthew Lee in Washington

Iran and the US say a deal on the Strait of Hormuz is close

Iran said Wednesday it's in the “final stage” of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump said on Tuesday night that a deal could be announced this week. That could potentially reopen the critical waterway, ease pressure on the world economy and help bring an end to the war.

But the agreement is likely to be contingent on the United States lifting its blockade on Iran’s ports. The Trump administration has previously ruled out any deal that would cement Iran’s grip over the strait, which would amount to a major loss for the U.S. and a break with global norms.

Iran has insisted on some measure of control over the strait, saying it will not go back to being an open international waterway, as it was before the war.

Yemen's Houthis claim 2 attacks on Saudi oil tankers

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they fired ballistic missiles at two Saudi oil tankers, one in the Red Sea and the other further east, in the Gulf of Aden. They did not provide evidence and there was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.

A vessel sailing off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden reported a loud explosion nearby, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said, adding that the crew was safe.

In July, the Houthis announced a blockade of Saudi shipping, putting at risk another key world trade route running through the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.

Saudi Arabia has diverted millions of barrels of oil exports to the Red Sea since the Iran war choked off the Strait of Hormuz, on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.

The US lifts sanctions on 3 Iran-linked companies

The U.S. has lifted sanctions on three Iran-linked companies. A Treasury official said it came after an appeal and was not indicative of any shift in U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the sanctions.

One company is Fly Baghdad Airlines, sanctioned in January 2024 for allegedly providing assistance to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Sanctions also were lifted on Iraq Express and another Fly Baghdad-linked firm.

— Fatima Hussein in Washington

The move Tuesday closes the book on the Jan. 6 cases that were wiped out with Republican President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons and commutations last year, freeing from prison people convicted of violent of assaults on police and other crimes.

The Department of Justice in April acted to vacate the convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and others in the seditious conspiracy case who had their sentences commuted but did not receive pardons. It was a stunning reversal from the Democratic Biden administration, which hailed the guilty verdicts in one of the most serious cases stemming from the Capitol attack.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw the Oath Keepers' trials, criticized the department's move, writing in his ruling that the government "asks to absolve these Defendants of crimes against the United States itself." But Mehta wrote that he had no choice but to grant the administration's request.

“This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of Jan. 6. That book is now closed,” wrote Mehta, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama.

“Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle. The court cannot write a different ending,” he wrote.

Juries in the nation's capital convicted Oath Keepers leaders and members of another group, the Proud Boys, of orchestrating violent plots to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Trump’s 2020 election loss to Biden. Rhodes was released from prison in January 2025 after Trump commuted the 18-year sentence he received in the case.

Rhodes, who did not enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, has denied any wrongdoing and described himself at his 2023 sentencing as a “political prisoner.” James Lee Bright, an attorney who represented Rhodes at trial, wrote in a text message that he was “disappointed in the tenor" of Mehta's opinion, adding that it was “not necessary to inject his personal opinions in such a fashion.”

Trump has argued that the Jan. 6 defendants were treated unfairly by the justice system, saying the pardons were intended to end “a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people” and begin “a process of national reconciliation.”

More than 1,200 people across the United States were convicted of Jan. 6 crimes, including roughly 200 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement.

Most of the Jan. 6 defendants were granted “full, complete and unconditional” pardons, while Rhodes and other defendants in the seditious conspiracy cases only had their sentences commuted. Trump also ordered the attorney general to seek the dismissal of roughly 450 cases that were pending before judges stemming from the largest investigation in Justice Department history.

Los investigadores informaron que el robo ocurrió aproximadamente a las 11:15 a.m. del 30 de julio en la sucursal de Bank of America ubicada en 8585 Coral Way.

Indicaron que el sospechoso entró al banco, dio a entender que tenía un arma de fuego y exigió dinero antes de huir con una cantidad de efectivo que no fue revelada.

No se reportaron personas heridas.

El FBI informó que los investigadores creen que el sospechoso tiene vínculos con el condado Miami-Dade y podría ser conocido en el área. Las autoridades advirtieron al público que no se acerque al hombre si lo ve y, en su lugar, se comunique de inmediato con las autoridades.

Los investigadores informaron que el sospechoso tiene un peinado distintivo que podría ayudar a identificarlo. Según funcionarios del FBI, la parte posterior de su cabeza está completamente rapada, mientras que el resto del cabello está peinado hacia adelante sobre la parte superior de la cabeza.

Las autoridades informaron que la investigación está siendo realizada por la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el Grupo de Trabajo contra Fugitivos por Delitos Violentos del FBI en Miami y el FBI.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el robo o el sospechoso debe llamar al 1-800-225-5324 o enviar una pista en línea a través de tips.fbi.gov.

El primer objetivo es la honestidad y el medio es la poesía. Cada vez surgen más clubes en el sur de Florida para satisfacer la demanda.

“Tengo necesidad de poetas. Tengo necesidad de un lugar donde nos enfoquemos en la presencia más que en la actuación”, dijo Stella Amador, fundadora y curadora de Wild Bloom Society.

Las noches de micrófono abierto están atrayendo a más personas que se describen como “poetas secretos”, sacándolas del público y llevándolas al escenario. Así fue como Amador comenzó su camino, creando lo que ahora se ha convertido en una plataforma cultural en Fort Lauderdale.

Visite Wild Bloom Society en Instagram.

En Emily’s Garden Bistro & Wine Bar, personas desconocidas se reúnen cada mes para compartir unas palabras sinceras. Muchos se van con mucho más que aplausos: encuentran conexión y comunidad. Amador quiere ver crecer ese movimiento.

“Describo la poesía como un gorila de 800 libras sentado sobre tu pecho que necesita salir”, dijo. “Cuando la escribes en una página, ocurre una sensación de alivio, hay una liberación de la presión. Cuando la compartes con un amigo, hay otro nivel de liberación. Cuando subes al escenario, hay una liberación aún mayor”.

El grupo ha crecido de una pequeña reunión de residentes que se encontraban en la panadería de un amigo a una próspera comunidad creativa. Organizan eventos de poesía, talleres y encuentros artísticos, uniendo esfuerzos con otros grupos como Miami Poetry Club.

“Creo que en el primero tuvimos unas 18 personas”, dijo Amador. “En el segundo tuvimos un poco más de 20 y, en el tercero, tuvimos 40. Superamos la capacidad del lugar en apenas dos meses y él me dijo: “Oye, te aprecio mucho, pero tienes que irte””, comentó entre risas.

Amador dejó la vida corporativa para dedicarse por completo a la escritura, completar y publicar su libro. Recorrió los circuitos de poesía en todo el condado Miami-Dade, pero dice que quería crear algo en Broward enfocado, más que nada, en la presencia.

Visite Bloombystella.com.

Cada experiencia de Wild Bloom Society comienza con música en vivo, un poeta invitado y un micrófono abierto para que cualquiera pueda compartir.

Los participantes aseguran que cualquiera puede escribir poesía. Compartirla es la parte difícil.

“Un poema son solo palabras, pero creo que es el poeta quien le da personalidad. Es una forma de arte que es para todos. Muy subjetiva”, dijo el poeta Christian Rodriguez.

Para enviar una idea para What Connects Us, envíe un correo electrónico a whatconnectsus@wplg.com.

World soccer's governing body attempted to present a unified front amid the turbulence caused by Infantino's controversial plans, with calls for him to step down.

In a statement, FIFA said secretary general Mattias Grafström and members of the management board in attendance at the meeting had given their support to the embattled president.

Referring to the plans to sell profits in the World Cup through a commercial subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), the statement said “mistakes made were acknowledged” and that the “process should have been handled differently."

FIFA said a letter had been sent to FIFA Council and member associations apologizing for errors and committed to “ensure they do not happen again.”

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The first goal is honesty and the vessel is poetry. More clubs are popping up across South Florida to meet demand.

“I’m craving poets. I’m craving a place where we focus on presence rather than performance,” said Stella Amador, founder and curator of Wild Bloom Society.

Open mic nights are drawing more self-described “secret poets” out of the audience and onto the stage. It’s how Amador started her journey, creating what’s now become a cultural platform in Fort Lauderdale.

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At Emily’s Garden Bistro & Wine Bar, strangers gather each month to share a few honest words. Many often leave with much more than applause, they find connection and community. Amador wants to see that grow.

“I describe poetry like an 800-pound gorilla sitting on your chest and it needs to come out,” she said. “When you write it on the page, there’s a levity that happens, there’s a pressure release. When you share it with a friend, there’s another level of release. When you step on stage - there’s a bigger release.”

The group has grown from a small gathering of locals meeting at a friend’s bakery, into a thriving creative community. They host poetry events, workshops and artistic gatherings — joining forces with other groups like Miami Poetry Club.

“I think the first one we had about 18 people,” said Amador. “The second one we had a little bit over 20, and then on the third one we had 40. We outgrew the space within two months and he said, ‘Hey, I love you, but you gotta go,’” she laughed.

Amador left corporate life to pursue her writing fulltime, completing and publishing her book. She hit the poetry circuits across Miami-Dade County, but says she wanted something in Broward focused on presence more than anything.

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Every Wild Bloom Society experience starts with live music, a featured poet and a microphone for anyone to share.

Participants say anyone can write poetry. Sharing it is the difficult part.

“A poem is just words, but I think a poet is what gives it that personality. It is an art form that is for everyone. Very subjective,” said poet Christian Rodriguez.

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Beau’s mother, Aliette Trelles, said her son is making progress after suffering severe injuries in the attack.

“He’s doing well. He’s strong. He’s a fighter,” Trelles said. “He’s blowing people away with his ability to recover.”

Beau was staying with family and close friends at a home in Bimini Cove when, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force, he stepped outside shortly before 10:30 a.m. on July 28 to collect sand.

Trelles said Beau had a simple mission that morning.

“The night before we were catching hermit crabs, and his mission that morning was to get sand for the crabs,” she said.

Trelles said Beau was suddenly attacked by several large dogs but was able to run back inside.

“All he kept repeating was ‘dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs,’” she added. “He was speaking like he was going to die, speaking to God and saying, ‘I don’t wanna die this way.’ And me looking at him, holding him, inspecting all these wounds, going, ‘Is this the moment I lose my son?’”

The attack left Beau with severe injuries to his limbs, face and neck, including the loss of a portion of his scalp. His mother said the top portion of his head had to be treated with a special sealed wrap to help with healing.

“His entire crown of his head was removed,” Trelles said.

Beau was flown by the U.S. Coast Guard to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in Miami-Dade County for emergency treatment. His father, Michael Brattain, said Beau remained awake during the flight.

“He was awake the entire time. My goal was to keep him awake. ‘Beau, look at me, keep your eyes open,’” said Brattain.

Beau has undergone three surgeries so far, with his family expecting a long recovery involving additional procedures and therapy. Friends and family are raising money to help cover the cost of his care, which Trelles estimated could reach millions of dollars.

“Upwards of 2, 3, even $4 million, depending on reconstruction and therapy needs,” she said.

Beau’s parents are now sharing his story to raise awareness and encourage action to prevent similar attacks.

“An island that held so much joy and memory for me is a place I don’t want to go to again,” Trelles said. “I don’t want anyone to go back to (it) again until they get their stuff together.”

Local 10 is working to get more confirmed information directly from the Royal Bahamas Police Force. Media reports out of Bimini have indicated there were previous concerns about stray dogs in the area before the attack, and the owner of those dogs is reportedly cooperating with authorities.

Both of Beau’s parents have retained legal counsel as the investigation continues.

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The Metropolitan Police said early indications suggest it was a mental health-related incident and that scissors were recovered at the scene. Police said four men aged 34, 39, 42 and 52 were found with stab wounds and a 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and assault.

The injured were taken to a trauma center following the incident Wednesday afternoon on Endell Street. Two were discharged and two remained with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.

“While still at an early stage of the investigation, we would like to reassure the community that we currently believe this to be an isolated, mental health-related incident," Chief Superintendent Jason Stewart said.

A manager of a fish and chip shop near the scene said random people were stabbed.

“I didn’t see any scissors, but I heard it was with small scissors,” Arjan Gjorga said, adding that "the police responded immediately.”

Los bomberos fueron enviados a la cuadra 5900 de Funston Street después de recibir reportes de un incendio en el exterior.

Cuando los equipos llegaron, encontraron un incendio activo que afectaba un local del segundo piso en un edificio que alberga espacios comerciales, según funcionarios de Hollywood Fire Rescue.

Las autoridades informaron que el negocio estaba desocupado al momento del incendio y que no se reportaron personas heridas.

Florida Power & Light fue solicitada para responder a la escena, y un inspector de incendios de Hollywood Fire Rescue fue enviado para investigar.

La causa del incendio continúa bajo investigación.

El-Sayed will face Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, in November in a race that will help determine control of the Senate. His first challenge will be unifying Democratic factions after a bitter primary that offered divergent visions for a party desperate for a path back to power.

The margin was extraordinarily close. El-Sayed walked off the stage at his Tuesday night election party without declaring victory, and the race was not called until early Wednesday, after nearly all ballots statewide had been counted. At the time The Associated Press declared him the winner, El-Sayed led Stevens by 14,893 votes — just under 1 percentage point — out of more than 1.5 million ballots counted, the most in recent state history.

The political significance of the result, however, extends well beyond the slim margin.

“Abdul’s victory was, in my opinion, the most extraordinary victory that I can think of in modern American politics,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders Wednesday, a leader of the progressive movement who was an early supporter of El-Sayed’s candidacy.

El-Sayed, 41, has never held elected office and entered the race seven years after losing Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial primary by more than 20 percentage points. This time, running on an unapologetically progressive agenda, he overcame more than $60 million in outside spending and an opponent backed by many of Michigan’s top Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and outgoing Sen. Gary Peters, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

“In the words of Muhammad Ali, we shook up the world,” El-Sayed said early Wednesday, standing before The Spirit of Detroit, a landmark bronze statue in the city’s downtown.

El-Sayed went from political wilderness to progressive breakthrough

El-Sayed was joined on Wednesday by state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a former opponent in the Senate primary, and Curtis Hertel, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party. It was an initial step toward a unified front after a bitter primary, and it reflected El-Sayed’s extraordinary political trajectory in less than a decade.

After losing the 2018 Democratic primary for governor to Whitmer, El-Sayed retreated into the political wilderness. He started a podcast, wrote a book and became a regular presence on YouTube and television, slowly building a following while waiting for a political opening he did not know would come.

It arrived when Peters made the surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection, creating an open Senate seat in one of the country’s most competitive states.

El-Sayed launched his campaign in April 2025 with a staff of four. In his victory speech Wednesday, he recalled the small rooms that defined its early months.

“Back in April, I remember talking to a room of five people,” he said. “It was an opportunity for us to share a honest conversation about pain and about purpose. And I’ve been able to have 500 more of those discussions over the past 15 months.”

El-Sayed said he visited 110 cities and hosted more than 500 events. His volunteer network grew alongside the campaign, eventually reaching 12,000 people, according to his campaign.

Julie Brink, a 29-year-old volunteer from the Detroit area, said the campaign still felt like an “underdog” when she joined in February. From there, she said, it was “gaining momentum really consistently.”

“It was a lot of little things along the way,” Brink said.

The campaign also embraced a media strategy that reflected El-Sayed’s years outside elected office, aggressively pursuing attention across traditional outlets, podcasts and online platforms. Some appearances, including multiple interviews with controversial streamer Hasan Piker, drew swift backlash.

A turning point came when an opponent dropped out

On July 5, McMorrow ended her campaign, leaving a two-person race between El-Sayed and Stevens. Soon after, El-Sayed stood before door-knocking volunteers in a Grand Rapids park and declared that “we have a chance of winning this election.”

“More importantly, we have a chance at winning our politics,” El-Sayed said. “What we’re doing is building a movement of the many against the money.”

In the final days, El-Sayed leaned even further into the strategy that had helped build his campaign. He marched through downtown Detroit alongside social media influencers, then attended a private pool party with content creators, including Piker.

On Election Day, El-Sayed did three interviews with content creators at Detroit’s Eastern Market before doing three more with traditional news organizations, including The Associated Press and MS NOW.

Hours later, the campaign that had once struggled to fill small rooms packed Detroit’s Majestic Theatre for an election night party.

Progressives see a test of their movement

El-Sayed’s victory gave progressives something they have been seeking — evidence that their politics could prevail not just in deep-blue cities and congressional districts, but in a Democratic primary in one of the nation’s premier swing states.

“Abdul El-Sayed is now the tip of the spear for the theory that shake-up-the-system economic fighters can win in swing states,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, who campaigned alongside El-Sayed in the final days.

The November race against Rogers, Green added, is “put up or shut up time” for the movement.

El-Sayed campaigned on “Medicare for All,” ending military aid to Israel and campaign finance reform. He had support from progressive leaders including Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who framed the race as both a grassroots movement and a broader fight against the establishment and big-money spending.

Outside groups backing Stevens ultimately spent more than $60 million, including more than $30 million from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its affiliates.

“We took on a machine,” El-Sayed said Wednesday.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, another progressive leader who endorsed El-Sayed, said the victory “should be a wake-up call to the Washington Democratic establishment.”

The harder test comes in November

El-Sayed now has three months to prove the movement that carried him through the primary can win a general election. Failure could be a dramatic setback for progressives, who have insisted for years that their approach could be more successful in a political era defined by President Donald Trump.

The Senate Republican campaign arm has already reserved $45 million in Michigan advertising to support Rogers, a number likely to grow as Republicans make clear they prefer their chances against El-Sayed.

AIPAC, which spent more money on Michigan's primary than any other race, also signaled Wednesday that its involvement would not end, saying it would oppose El-Sayed and “his radical anti-Israel agenda” in November.

The narrowness of El-Sayed’s victory also complicates any sweeping conclusions about what the result says about the Democratic Party. Nearly half of Tuesday’s primary voters backed Stevens, who argued throughout the campaign that her more moderate approach and history of winning competitive races made her better positioned to defeat Rogers.

Stevens called El-Sayed early Wednesday to concede the race, with El-Sayed describing it as a “great conversation.” She pledged her support for him, and Michigan Democrats are expected to gather for a unity breakfast Thursday before a public rally Friday.

Hertel, the state Democratic chair, said the primary’s ideological fight was not itself a problem, arguing that voters — rather than party leaders — should determine their direction.

“I don’t think that having a robust discussion is a bad thing,” Hertel said Wednesday. “What I think is important is that we are united afterwards.”

“We will unite together, and we will win this race,” Hertel added, “because we have to.”

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Associated Press reporter Jacqueline GaNun contributed to this report in Detroit.

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Firefighters were dispatched to the 5900 block of Funston Street after receiving reports of an outside fire.

When crews arrived, they found a working fire involving a second-floor unit in a building that contains commercial spaces, according to Hollywood Fire Rescue officials.

Officials said the business was unoccupied at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported.

Florida Power & Light was requested to respond to the scene, and a Hollywood Fire Rescue fire inspector was dispatched to investigate.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.