The Democratic-controlled Legislature raised the state gas tax and a range of fees last fall as a way to pay for road improvements and plug a hole in the state’s transportation budget. Republicans responded with a petition to repeal the increases, leading to a referendum that will land before voters just as the Iran war is causing the price of gas to skyrocket around the United States.

“It is a hell of a time to be raising gas taxes on people,” said Jeanine Holly, filling up her tank on a recent morning in Portland.

The gas tax repeal on the state’s May 19 primary ballot comes amid widespread disruptions in the oil industry from the war with Iran started by Israel and President Donald Trump. Discontent is high among U.S. consumers across the political spectrum, with the price of gas topping $4.50 a gallon nationally on Friday and averaging about 80 cents more per gallon in Oregon.

The referendum will give voters a chance to weigh in on a hot-button issue hitting them directly in the pocketbook at a time when prices remain elevated for everything from housing to groceries. Nationally, Democrats have focused on the affordability concerns similar to those that helped propel Trump to victory in 2024. Some of their candidates have even proposed ways to cut taxes as a way to promote their agenda and counter a traditional GOP strategy.

“It’s difficult to imagine a worse situation for ... a gas tax increase than right now in American politics,” said Chris Koski, professor of political science and environmental studies at Portland’s Reed College.

Republicans sense an opportunity

Republicans wasted no time in appealing to voters after the Legislature and Democratic governor signed off on the tax increase, which also included a higher payroll tax for transit projects and a boost in vehicle registration and title fees.

They needed 78,000 voter signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot. They quickly got 250,000.

“That is a remarkable number,” said Republican strategist Rebecca Tweed.

Republicans in Oregon have countered Democrats’ affordability messaging by portraying the tax and fee increases as further fueling the high cost of living.

“Do Oregonians want to pay more? The answer is no,” said GOP state Sen. Bruce Starr, who helped lead the referendum campaign. “Everything they’re looking at is expensive.”

Under the legislation, Oregon’s gas tax would rise from 40 cents to 46 cents a gallon. That would make it tied with Maryland for the eighth highest gas tax of any state when factoring in other state taxes and fees, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

At the Portland gas station, Michael Burch said he used to spend $70 to fill three-quarters of his pickup truck's tank, but now pays $80 for just over half a tank.

“I'm sick and tired of taxes,” the 76-year-old retiree said. “Gas is certainly dampening the spirits and the coffers of folks that aren't as well off.”

Hannah Coe, a 30-year-old student, said she was not sure how she would vote on the primary ballot referendum.

“I think I would be in favor of it if it was going to go to the things that it was saying it was going to go to, such as fixing our roads,” she said. “I also kind of feel like that’s just a grab at trying to get more money from the people who live here.”

Democrats blame the Iran war

Oregon Democrats spent much of last year fighting to pass a transportation funding bill to help raise money for services such as road paving and snow plowing. The debate came amid projections of declining gas tax revenue as more people adopt electric, hybrid and fuel-efficient cars.

They finally passed a narrower version of their plan during a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek.

She recently acknowledged the challenging timing of the referendum.

“Certainly, the conversation at the ballot this year ... is a tough sell right now, because I think everyone is feeling a pinch on their household budgets,” she told reporters.

But she and other Democrats said the root cause of the spike in gas prices is Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran. She suggested the federal government consider reducing the federal 18 cent-a-gallon gas tax if it wants to provide relief at the pump for Americans.

Some Oregonians are receptive to the Democrats’ reason for passing the legislation last year. Kurt Borneman, 68, said he would support the gas tax increase, even though he's now paying at least $10 more to fill up his tank.

“I realize that money’s tight and roads need to be improved,” he said at the Portland gas station. “I want less government, but I also want nice roads.”

Democratic state Rep. Paul Evans said his party lost the battle over how to frame the gas tax increase to the public. So far, there has been no organized effort from Democrats and their allies to oppose the ballot referendum.

“When anything is reduced to, ‘Do you want a tax or not?’ Most people are going to say no,” he said. “The messaging got away from us, and it became focused upon the price instead of the value.”

But Beijing’s deep economic ties to Iran, as well as trade tensions over tariff threats stretching back to Trump’s first term, could crimp the good feelings when Trump flies to Beijing this week — even though the Republican president has for years effusively praised Xi, making it clear he sees China’s leader as a competitor strong enough to warrant his respect and admiration.

Trump isn't fond of long plane rides or extended stretches away from the White House or his properties in Florida and New Jersey. He is expected to only spend parts of three days on the ground in China.

There will be plenty of pomp, but the grandeur is not expected to rival Trump's first visit to China in 2017, which Beijing dubbed a “state visit-plus.”

“Even before this whole conflagration with Iran, they weren’t going to go state visit-plus like last time, just because things are tense,” said Jonathan Czin, a former director for China at the National Security Council during the Biden administration.

Xi's ‘better understanding’ of Trump

On Trump's first-term trip, China rolled out the red carpet for his arrival, with a band playing military music and children waving flags and chanting “Welcome.”

Xi offered a tour of the Forbidden City. Trump and first lady Melania Trump even had a private dinner there. Trump was the first foreign leader since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949 to experience what was once reserved for emperors.

The following morning brought another welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People and featured a military parade. There also was a state banquet in Trump’s honor with video highlights from the Chinese leader’s previous visit to Florida and a clip of Trump’s granddaughter Arabella singing in Chinese.

Beijing does not offer this level of spectacle to most visiting foreign leaders. When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the Forbidden City in January, Xi did not attend and the site remained open to the public. Starmer had to contend with tourists.

Ali Wyne, senior U.S.-China research and advocacy adviser for the Washington nonprofit the Crisis Group, said the “Chinese delegation will likely do its utmost to ensure that Trump leaves Beijing believing that he has just concluded the most extraordinary state visit of his two presidencies.”

But, he said, the “pomp and circumstance would serve a different role now than they did when he first visited Beijing” because “Xi has a much better understanding of Trump, and the administration’s own national security strategy and national defense strategy recognize China as a near-peer.”

Expectations for what gets accomplished could be lower this time, said Czin, now a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He predicted that the Chinese may not offer major breakthroughs on trade or anything else because they are “working backward from our midterm elections” with the theory that the closer they get to Election Day “the more leverage they are going to have.”

The GOP is focused on retaining control of Congress, even as polling shows most Americans are unhappy with Trump’s economic policies and believe that the United States went too far in Iran. Still, the White House argues that Trump's previous firm hand with Beijing on tariffs — which the Supreme Court subsequently struck down — means the U.S. will remain in a strong position.

“President Trump cares about results, not symbols," White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said. “But even still, the president has a great relationship with President Xi, and the upcoming summit in Beijing will be both symbolically and substantively significant.”

Trump and Xi may see a lot of each other this year

Trump could meet with China's leader four times in eight months.

After his visit to Beijing, Trump plans to host Xi at the White House. Trump might also attend the November Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Shenzhen, China. And Xi could come to the Group of 20 summit the following month at Trump’s resort in Doral, Florida.

Czin noted that Xi also is not very fond of travel, meaning not all of the planned encounters may happen. He said China's leader also does not “do personal connections" like the kind Trump relishes, noting Xi led a Chinese military purge in January that included replacing officials with long-standing personal ties to his family.

Wyne, though, said Xi also “appreciates that he is unlikely to deal with another U.S. president who admires him as greatly and embraces as narrow a view of strategic competition.”

That means Xi may "attempt to pocket as many economic and security concessions from Trump as possible,” Wyne said.

Trump has long praised Xi

Trump told The Wall Street Journal's editorial board in 2024 that Xi “was actually a really good ... I don’t want to say ‘friend.’ I don’t want to act foolish. ‘He was my friend.’ But I got along with him great.”

Trump even suggested at the time that military force might not be required to ensure that Chinese troops do not encroach on Taiwan, simply because China’s leader "respects me,” despite Trump more recently discussing potentially selling arms to Taiwan.

Trump has continued to praise the bilateral relationship since returning to the White House, even after his Beijing visit, originally scheduled for March, was postponed due to the early stages of the Iran war.

He unsuccessfully prodded China to get involved in reopening the Strait of Hormuz after Iranian forces choked it off and disrupted global economies. But China did use its leverage as the largest purchaser of Iranian oil to encourage Iran to agree to what has been a fragile ceasefire.

Beijing has strong economic ties to Tehran, and the war could hurt its economy, which was already projected to grow more slowly. If China can help establish lasting peace, though, that might boost its standing in negotiations on trade issues with the Trump administration.

Trade issues a sticking point

During his 2017 visit, Trump announced $250 billion in nonbinding trade deals, some of which never materialized. A round of trade deals announced in 2020 and worth $200 billion mostly never came to fruition before Trump's first term ended.

More recently, Trump’s announcement last year of steep global tariffs prompted China to cut off purchases of U.S. soybeans and clamp down on exports of rare earth minerals needed by American factories.

Tensions have eased somewhat since the U.S. reached a trade truce last fall that has limited tariffs on both sides. The administration has continued to make reducing the U.S. trade deficit with China a priority, insisting it can do so while still working to encourage trade between the two countries.

“I expect great stability in the relationship," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. "But that doesn’t mean our trade deficit can’t continue dropping.”

Kelly, the White House spokeswoman, said Trump “doesn’t travel anywhere without bringing deliverables home to our country."

"Americans can expect the president to deliver more good deals for the United States while in China,” she said.

Spanish nationals were the first to leave the MV Hondius, which remains anchored off Tenerife, the largest island in the Spanish archipelago off the coast of West Africa. The ship arrived hours earlier.

None of the more than 140 people on the Hondius has shown symptoms of the virus, Spain’s health ministry, the World Health Organization and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said.

Those disembarking and personnel working at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife were wearing protective gear during the evacuation process, including face masks, hazmat suits and respirators.

“The entire operation is proceeding normally,” Spanish Health Minister Mónica García said.

Passengers and some crew members from more than 20 nationalities on board will be evacuated throughout Sunday into Monday.

After reaching Madrid, those evacuated on the first plane will be under quarantine, Spanish health authorities say. Only the 14 Spanish nationals on board will quarantine in the country.

Authorities have said the passengers and crew members disembarking will be checked for symptoms, have no contact with the local population and will only be taken off the ship once evacuation flights are ready to fly them to their destinations. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Spain’s health and interior ministers are supervising the operation in Tenerife.

Pope Leo XIV thanked the Canary Islands for allowing the arrival of the Hondius.

Hantavirus usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus, which can cause life-threatening illness.

Passengers and crew members disembarking are leaving behind their luggage, and are allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, a charger, and documentation.

Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to Rotterdam, Netherlands, where it will undergo disinfection, Spanish authorities said.

The expected sailing time to Rotterdam is around five days, the cruise company said.

Evacuation and quarantine plans

The U.S., the United Kingdom and the Netherlands will send planes to evacuate their citizens. Americans on board will be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.

Twenty-nine people will be on board the Dutch charter flight, including Dutch nationals and people of other nationalities, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said.

Five French passengers will be repatriated Sunday, and will be hospitalized for 72 hours for monitoring, after which they will quarantine at home for 45 days, France's Foreign Ministry said.

U.K. passengers and crew will be hospitalized for observation once they are flown home, British authorities say.

Australia is sending a plane, expected to arrive on Monday, to evacuate its nationals and those from nearby countries such as New Zealand, García said. Its plane will be the last to leave Tenerife, she said.

Norway has sent an ambulance plane to Tenerife with personnel trained to transport patients with high-risk infections, its Directorate for Civil Protection told public broadcaster NRK.

The ambulance plane is owned by the European Union, but operated by Norway.

Countries monitor suspected cases

British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote South Atlantic territory of Tristan da Cunha, where one of the 221 residents has a suspected case of hantavirus.

The patient was a passenger on the MV Hondius and disembarked last month.

The U.K. defense ministry says a team of six paratroopers and two medical clinicians jumped Saturday from a Royal Air Force transport plane, which also dropped oxygen and medical equipment.

Tristan da Cunha is Britain’s most remote inhabited overseas territory, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the nearest inhabited island, St. Helena. The group of volcanic islands has no airstrip and is usually accessible only by boat on a six-day voyage from Cape Town, South Africa.

Meanwhile, a Spanish woman in the southeastern province of Alicante suspected of being infected tested negative for hantavirus, Spanish health authorities said Saturday.

The woman was a passenger on the same flight as the Dutch woman who died in Johannesburg after traveling on the cruise ship.

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Suman Naishadham reported from Madrid. Angela Charlton in Paris, Jill Lawless in London, and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed to this report.

The UAE blamed Iran for the latest attack, the latest threat to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect.

There were no casualties reported, and no one immediately claimed responsibility.

Iran and its armed allied groups possess a large fleet of drones and have used them to carry out hundreds of strikes since the war began. The events marked the latest threats to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect.

The pause in fighting has faced difficulties, with Iran restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway key to the global flow of oil, and the U.S. imposing a blockade of Iranian ports.

Washington has been awaiting Iran’s response to a new proposal for a deal to end the war, reopen the strait to shipping and roll back Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated threats to resume full-scale bombing if Iran doesn’t accept an agreement to reopen the strait and roll back its nuclear program. Iran has mostly blocked the waterway since joint strikes on Feb. 28 by the U.S. and Israel launched the war, which has caused a global spike in fuel prices and rattled world markets.

One of the main sticking points in the negotiations is the fate of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has more than 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels.

In an interview with Iranian state media, a spokesman for the Iranian military said that forces were on “full readiness” to protect nuclear sites where the uranium is stored.

“We considered it possible that they might intend to steal it through infiltration operations or heliborne operations,” Brig. Gen. Akrami Nia told the IRNA news agency late Saturday. He didn’t offer further details.

The majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely still at its Isfahan nuclear complex, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi told The Associated Press last month.

The Isfahan facility was bombarded by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in the 12-day war last year, and faced less intense attacks in this year’s war.

Drone attacks target Gulf Arab nations

The UAE's Defense Ministry said Sunday it shot down two drones, blaming the attack on Iran.

In Kuwait, Defense Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al Otaibi said that hostile drones entered Kuwait’s airspace early Sunday, and that forces responded “in accordance with established procedures.” The ministry didn’t say where the drones originated from.

Meanwhile, Qatar’s defense ministry said that a drone targeted a commercial ship coming from Abu Dhabi into a southern port, setting a small fire that was extinguished. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said that the attack happened 23 nautical miles (43 kilometers) northeast of Qatar’s capital, Doha. It provided no details about the ship’s owner or origin, and there was no claim of responsibility.

There have been several attacks against ships in the Persian Gulf over the past week. On Friday, the U.S. struck two Iranian oil tankers after it said that the vessels were trying to breach its blockade of Iran’s ports.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy on Sunday reiterated its warning that any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels would be met with a “heavy assault” on one of the U.S. bases in the region and enemy ships.

Pakistan is continuing to mediate during the ceasefire. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Sunday that he received a call from his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, during which the two leaders discussed the evolving regional situation and reviewed ongoing peace efforts.

Sharif wrote on X that the countries shared "brotherly bonds" and said that he looked forward to an upcoming Qatari visit to Pakistan.

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Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

The 53-year-old father of four fears the strain will worsen if the war drags on, saying long hours waiting for fuel have sharply cut his income and made it increasingly difficult to support his family in Dhaka, the nation's capital, including a daughter at university and a son in college.

“My family was managing fairly well through ride-sharing," he said. “But after the fuel shortage began, I would buy fuel one day and run the bike for two days. As a result, I had to sit idle for one day, which reduced my income.”

The strain in Islam's household reflects a broader squeeze in Bangladesh, heavily dependent on imported fuel, where energy shortages have disrupted daily life, slowed industrial output and raised concerns about economic growth as global tensions push up costs and strain supplies.

Conditions have eased slightly in recent days, with shorter queues at fuel stations after the government increased supplies, but concerns persist across sectors.

Across Asia, governments are facing similar strains as the war-driven surge in energy prices rattles economies dependent on imported oil and gas.

The continent is exposed because it relies on imported fuel, much of it passing through the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint for about a fifth of global oil and natural gas trade.

Higher fuel costs are leading to inflation and squeezing household budgets, while industries from manufacturing to transport are facing rising operating costs and supply disruptions.

The Asian Development Bank in late April cut growth forecasts for developing Asia and the Pacific, warning that war-driven energy disruptions would slow economies and fuel inflation. It now expects growth of 4.7% in 2026, with inflation rising to 5.2% as oil prices climb and financial conditions tighten.

Many are hoping for a quick end to the conflict and a return to normal.

“If this situation continues, we will have to move back to our village and find some other way to earn a living,” Islam, the struggling father said. It is not possible to survive in Dhaka by doing ride-sharing under these conditions.”

Energy crunch weighs on Bangladesh’s economy

Rising energy prices are also expected to strain Bangladesh’s finances, with the government likely to spend an additional $1.07 billion on LNG subsidies in the April-June quarter alone if global prices remain high.

Bangladesh has sought supplies from its big neighbor India, which has responded positively as it has diversified sources, including Russia, of fuel.

Already, authorities have imposed austerity measures to manage the crisis as global lenders warn of slower growth in the nation of more than 170 million people. Gas and diesel shortages have triggered more frequent power cuts in industrial zones.

The government has also shut fertilizer factories to divert gas to power plants, restricted evening hours for shopping malls and introduced fuel rationing.

The World Bank said in April it expects growth in Bangladesh to slow to 3.9% in the fiscal year ending in June 2026, warning that a prolonged Middle East conflict could fuel inflation, widen the current account deficit and strain public finances through higher energy subsidies.

Jean Pesme, the World Bank’s division director for Bangladesh and Bhutan, said the economy already faced “pre-existing vulnerabilities and challenges, in particular on the economic and employment front.”

The rising costs now are “obviously making the fiscal situation more difficult.”

He also warned that authorities should be cautious in raising fuel prices, saying higher costs could hurt farmers and agriculture.

Bangladesh garment industry is hit as exports slow

The energy crunch is also driving up costs and threatening Bangladesh’s garment exports, the backbone of its economy, business leaders say.

Anwar-Ul Alam Chowdhury, president of the Bangladesh Chamber of Industries, said exports to Europe and the U.S. could face a significant setback. Shipments have fallen between 5% and 13% in recent months, he said. He worries that customers could lose confidence in Bangladesh’s ability to deliver and that competitor nations such as India, Vietnam and Cambodia could gain market share if the crisis persists.

Chowdhury said factory output has dropped by 30% to 40% for various reasons and that the situation has worsened since the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, while business costs have risen by about 35% to 40%.

Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest garment exporter after China, earns about $39 billion annually from the sector, which employs around 4 million workers, mostly women from rural areas.

Alvi Islam, director of Arrival Fashion Limited, said manufacturers are facing higher costs for petroleum-based materials such as sewing threads, poly bags — plastic bags used in packaging — and cartons, while spending more on diesel generators to cope with frequent power cuts.

His company, which exports products worth about $40 million annually, now runs generators at least four hours a day during production.

“For that reason, the cost of doing business for exporting garments has increased quite significantly in past one month,” he said.

Workers worry about livelihoods

Garment worker Mosammet Runa, 35, said she fears for her family’s future if the war continues.

“Millions of people like us depend on this industry. It is how we survive,” said Runa, who, along with her husband, earns about $400 a month to support their family of six.

She said a prolonged conflict could wipe out jobs and called for an end to the fighting.

“We are innocent people. The world should not make us victims," she said.

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AP journalist Al Emrun Garjon contributed to this report.

The Cote d’Azur spectacular will play host — starting on Tuesday — to some of the most anticipated movies of the year in a constant parade of red carpets and megawatt premieres. This year, Hollywood studios are mostly on the sidelines. But for more than 78 years, Cannes has been an unparalleled showcase, and sun-dappled circus, for some of the best in cinema.

Last year that included Oscar nominees like “Sentimental Value,” “The Secret Agent” and “It Was Just an Accident.” This year is just as likely to produce a crop of contenders. In recent years, movies like “Parasite” and “Anora” have launched at Cannes and gone on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.

Presiding over the jury deciding the Palme this year is South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook. At the opening ceremony Tuesday, Cannes will also bestow an honorary Palme d’Or on Peter Jackson. Later, Barbra Streisand will get one, too.

So there will be much to keep an eye on at this year’s Cannes, including “The White Lotus.” The HBO series has come to the Croisette — the Mediterranean city's famous promenade — to shoot its fourth season.

On the screen, these are some of the movies that should stir Cannes.

‘Hope’

Na Hong-jin isn’t as well known as some of his fellow Korean filmmakers, but he may be poised for a breakout moment this year. His latest is a long-gestating sci-fi thriller that Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux said “constantly changes genres.” The cast has both Korean and Hollywood stars, including Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Taylor Russell.

‘Paper Tiger’

Though not initially announced as part of the festival competition slate, James Gray’s latest Queens-set drama was subsequently added. And it instantly became one of the most anticipated and star-studded American films at the festival. Gray, the filmmaker of “Armageddon Time” and “The Immigrant,” tells a story about two brothers (Adam Driver, Miles Teller) who become mixed up with the Russian mafia. Scarlett Johansson co-stars.

'Fjord’

The Romanian director Cristian Mungiu is a heavyweight of European cinema because of films like the 2007 Palme d’Or winner “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” and 2022’s “R.M.N.” Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve star in his latest as a Romanian-Norwegian couple who move to the wife’s remote Norwegian hometown.

‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’

Jane Schoenbrun has quickly established themselves as a vital voice in contemporary American film with 2024’s “I Saw the TV Glow” and 2021’s “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.” Playing in the Un Certain Regard section, Schoenbrun’s new one stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson in a movie about the making of a slasher film.

‘Fatherland’

Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski is best known for a pair of black-and-white, powerfully succinct period dramas: “Ida” and “Cold War.” His latest makes it three. It stars Hanns Zischler as the German author Thomas Mann on a road trip following World War II. Accompanying him is his daughter, played by Sandra Hüller.

‘All of a Sudden’

The Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi makes his French-language debut. Hamaguchi’s 2021 opus “Drive My Car” made history as the first Japanese film nominated for best picture. His 2023 follow-up, “Evil Does Not Exist,” was also acclaimed. “All of a Sudden,” starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, is about a nursing home director and a terminally ill Japanese playwright.

‘Sheep in the Box’

Long revered for his delicate humanism, the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda will unveil his latest. Kore-eda has already won the Palme d’Or, for 2018’s “Shoplifters.” But his three decades of moviemaking have made him a never-to-be-missed filmmaker of exquisite tenderness. The sci-fi “Sheep in the Box” is about a couple, grieving the loss of their son, who adopt an infant humanoid robot.

‘The Man I Love’

Before Gray’s film entered the competition, Ira Sachs ’ “The Man I Love” was the sole American selection. Coming quickly on the heels of Sachs’ “Peter Hujar’s Day,” with Ben Whishaw, “The Man I Love”’ stars Rami Malek as a an actor with a life-threatening illness in 1980s New York, preparing for what could be his final performance.

‘The Unknown’

The French filmmaker Arthur Harari three years ago co-wrote the Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” with his partner, Justine Triet. In “The Unknown,” Harari directs and cowrites a film about a photographer who, after photographing a woman at a party and then following her, wakes up in her body. Starring Léa Seydoux.

‘Minotaur’

The Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has been behind some powerfully potent dramas, including 2014’s “Leviathan” and 2017’s “Loveless” — both of which were Oscar nominated. After a near-death experience during the pandemic, Zvyagintsev returns to Cannes with a business executive in crisis in rural Russia.

’John Lennon: The Last Interview’

Steven Soderbergh ’s documentary about John Lennon’s final interview, granted at the Dakota in New York just before he was killed, drew headlines after Soderbergh acknowledged using artificial intelligence to illustrate some of Lennon’s more philosophical musings. But the film, playing in Cannes as a special screening, promises to lend unparalleled intimacy with the great Beatle.

‘Bitter Christmas’

Pedro Almodovar is among the most regular filmmakers in Cannes. This festival, he'll debut “Bitter Christmas,” a multilayered melodrama about filmmaking, grief and aging. After making his English-language debut with “The Room Next Door,” starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, Almodovar is back in his native Spain with one of his most personal films yet.

Quinn Hughes followed Kaprizov's four-on-four score late in the first period with a four-on-three goal less than two minutes later. Ryan Hartman batted in a deflected power-play shot with 4:23 elapsed in the second period to prompt an early departure for Avalanche goalie Scott Wedgewood, who was replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood.

Nathan MacKinnon got the Avalanche on the board on a power play later in the second period before Brock Faber answered just 20 seconds later by deflecting a puck past Blackwood.

Matt Boldy added an empty-net goal and Jesper Wallstedt made 34 saves in his return to the net for the Wild after a 9-6 loss in the unhinged series opener prompted a start for Filip Gustavsson in Game 2.

The Avalanche will take a 2-1 lead into Game 4 in Minnesota on Monday, before the teams return to Colorado for Game 5 on Wednesday.

The Avalanche faced their first multigoal deficit of this postseason after they had 12 different players score over the first two games of this series, an NHL record.

Faber had two assists and has nine points in nine playoff games. Mats Zuccarello, who took the shot that Faber tipped past Blackwood, also had two assists and has 10 points in seven playoff games.

Wedgewood, who led the NHL in save percentage and goals against average during the regular season and had matched the franchise postseason record with six consecutive victories, made nine saves. Blackwood had 12.

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Seven bands with members who are attorneys in Broward County had 15 minutes to impress three judges.

The contest’s judges were actually Broward County Circuit Court judges, who volunteered to raise funds for homeless veterans.

For more information about how to donate, visit the Legal Aid Service of Broward County’s donation page.

A boat captain who identified as Leo said a boat exploded during startup, likely because of a gas leak, and it was the “scariest moment” of his life.

“When we looked back out, we saw three people flying off the boat and a puff of smoke,” said Patrick Lee, a witness who added he saw victims who were “very badly burned” in stretchers.

Anthony Torres said his wife, Adriana Rojas, who was among the 11 injured during a Mother’s Day weekend celebration, called him after the explosion.

“She was screaming, ‘Help me! Help me! I’m burned! The boat blew up! Help me! Help me!’”

More than 25 M-DFR units, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers, and the U.S. Coast Guard responded shortly before 12:50 p.m.

“Injuries were from burn injuries, some were traumatic injuries as well,” M-DFR Battalion Chief Juan Arias said.

Torres was at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where Rojas was hospitalized.

“She has got second-degree burns all throughout her legs, her buttocks, her chest, her left arm, and the left side of her body,” Torres said.

The cause of the explosion remained under investigation on Saturday afternoon, according to Melissa Brevik, a spokeswoman for the FWC.

“Preliminary information indicates a charter vessel carrying several passengers was in Biscayne Bay, near the Haulover Sandbar, when an explosion occurred on board,” Brevik wrote in a statement. “Passengers aboard the vessel were injured.”

Local 10 News Assignment Editors Sofia Mendez and Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

The shooting was at a shopping plaza along South State Road Seven, between Southwest Second Court and Aztec Boulevard.

Three to four people were involved in a fight before the shooting, according to Maj. Michael Druzbik, a spokesman for the Margate Police Department.

“Those involved sustained non-life-threatening injuries,” Druzbik wrote in a statement.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to remain anonymous.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Sofia Mendez contributed to this report.

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 23 points and nine assists for the Thunder, who coolly improved to 7-0 — both in these playoffs overall, and in their seven games this season against LeBron James and the Lakers. Oklahoma City is the NBA's sixth defending champion to start 7-0 in the following postseason after three wins over short-handed Los Angeles by a combined 59 points.

Game 3 was remarkably similar to Game 2 in many respects: The Lakers again had to fight desperately just to keep up with the champs into the third quarter, only for the Thunder to run away with their usual merciless efficiency when LA finally faltered. Chet Holmgren had 18 points and nine rebounds for Oklahoma City, which outscored the Lakers 33-20 in the third quarter and wasn't threatened at all down the stretch.

“I think (the first half) wasn't our best half, and in the locker room we just talked about it and knew that we had to adjust and be better,” said Mitchell, who continued his postseason emergence by scoring at least 14 points for the sixth consecutive game. “I think we did a great job coming out of the half.”

Game 4 is Monday night in Los Angeles.

James had 19 points, eight assists and six rebounds, while Austin Reaves had 17 points and nine assists. But both stars struggled from the field to a combined 12 for 32, and 21 points from Rui Hachimura weren't enough to keep LA in contention with the champs.

“We had moments in the first half that were really good for us,” James said. “In the third quarter, we didn't knock down shots, we didn't defend or get stops and allowed them to take us out of the game.”

Gilgeous-Alexander had his highest-scoring game of the series despite missing nine of his first 11 shots amid another concerted defensive effort by the Lakers on the NBA MVP, albeit with fewer double-teams than in the series' first two games.

“These obviously haven't been my best performances,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “But I think I've been able to help the team win, and that's most important. If the rest of the playoff run or the rest of my career looked like what it looked like the past few games, I'd be OK with it, because we won games.”

Luke Kennard added 18 points for the Lakers, who have lost five of their last six games since midway through the first round against Houston.

“They're an incredible basketball team,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said. “Third straight game we're right there after 2 1/2 quarters. We tried different lineups, different coverages. Still lost those minutes. Again, we've got to be better, but I'm not giving up on the series. We're going to go try to win on Monday. We're going to try to extend the series.”

NBA scoring champion Luka Doncic missed his 14th consecutive game for the Lakers since straining his hamstring April 2 in Oklahoma City. He is not thought to be close to returning from an injury that often requires two months of recovery.

Except for Gilgeous-Alexander, the Thunder all began Game 3 in another shooting groove. Los Angeles still surged to a small halftime lead behind 16 points from Hachimura.

Oklahoma City erased that lead with a methodical surge out of halftime, going up by 13 in the third quarter.

Third-leading scorer Jalen Williams missed his fifth straight game for the Thunder with a strained hamstring.

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Mediante un comunicado a la comunidad internacional, la cancillería venezolana señaló que evaluaciones iniciales determinaron “riesgos severos” para ecosistemas como mangles, humedales y el equilibrio ambiental de la región.

El gobierno de Trinidad y Tobago no se ha pronunciado ni confirmado el supuesto derrame.

Tampoco Venezuela mencionó desde cuándo detectó hidrocarburos en sus aguas ni especificó la cantidad de crudo derramado.

El gobierno venezolano ha solicitado la información sobre el incidente y el plan de acción para la mitigación y contención del derrame, y exigió medidas de reparación de acuerdo con el derecho internacional ambiental, añadió el reporte oficial.

Venezuela y Trinidad —que en la década de 1990 firmaron el Tratado de Delimitación que establece los términos sobre la forma de explotación de cualquier yacimiento de hidrocarburos en ambos lados de la franja fronteriza— comparten el Golfo de Paria, un mar interior ubicado al extremo oeste de Venezuela y al sur de la isla Trinidad.

Trinidad y Tobago mantiene una importante actividad de exploración de petróleo y gas en tierra así como en aguas poco profundas, siendo uno de los mayores productores del Caribe, según información oficial del Ministerio de Energía trinitario.

Iranian state TV reported the warning a day after the United States struck two Iranian oil tankers, casting doubt on the month-old ceasefire that the U.S. has insisted is still in effect. The U.S. military said the tankers were trying to breach its blockade of Iran’s ports.

Meanwhile Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s regional headquarters, said it arrested dozens of people it alleged had links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Washington awaits Iran’s response to its latest proposal for a deal to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and roll back Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. And Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow’s proposal to take enriched uranium from Iran to help negotiate a settlement remains on the table.

Bahrain says arrests were linked to Guard funding attempt

Bahrain said it had arrested 41 people it said are part of a group affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard. The interior ministry said investigations confirmed they were in contact with the Guard and collected funds “with the aim of sending them to Iran” to support its “terrorist operations.”

The small Persian Gulf island is led by a Sunni Muslim monarchy but, like Iran, has a majority Shiite population. Rights groups have said the kingdom has used the war between Iran and the U.S., which bases its Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, as an excuse to crack down on dissent.

Iran issued a warning to Bahrain: “Siding with the U.S.-backed resolution will bring severe consequences. The Strait of Hormuz is a vital lifeline; do not risk closing it on yourselves FOREVER,” Ebrahim Azizi, head of the national security commission of Iran’s parliament, said on social media.

Iran has mostly blocked the critical waterway for global energy since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28, causing a global spike in fuel prices and rattling world markets.

The U.S. has imposed its own blockade of Iran’s ports. U.S. Central Command said on Saturday its forces had turned back 58 commercial ships and “disabled” four since the blockade began April 13.

Britain deploys warship to the Middle East

Britain’s defense ministry said it was deploying a warship to the Middle East to join a potential mission to protect commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz once hostilities end.

The ministry said the HMS Dragon will “preposition” in the region, ready to join a U.K.- and French-led security plan. France announced this week it was moving its aircraft carrier strike group into the Red Sea in preparation.

Britain and France have led meetings involving several dozen countries on a coalition to reestablish freedom of navigation in the strait. But they stress it won’t start until there is a sustainable ceasefire and the maritime industry is reassured ships can go through the strait safely.

Diplomacy continues ‘day and night’

U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated threats to resume full-scale bombing if Iran doesn’t accept an agreement to reopen the strait and roll back its nuclear program. On Friday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said the country was not paying attention to “deadlines,” according to state-run IRNA.

Diplomacy continues. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country has been in contact with the U.S. and Iran “day and night” in an effort to extend the ceasefire and reach a peace deal.

Russia’s foreign ministry said that it, as well as Saudi Arabia, was calling for diplomatic efforts to reach a “sustainable, long-term agreement” to end the war.

Separately, Putin told reporters in Moscow that taking enriched uranium from Iran to help negotiate a settlement would allow everyone to see “how much of it there is, and where it is located,” and “all of this would be placed under the control of the IAEA,” the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

Egyptian and Qatari top diplomats reiterated that diplomacy is the sole path to a solution, according to a readout of a phone call between the two foreign ministers.

Still publicly unseen and unheard since the war began is Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, fueling speculation about his status.

On Friday, a top Iranian official said Khamenei was in “complete health” and eventually would appear in public. Mazaher Hosseini, affiliated with the office of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war, made the comment at a pro-government gathering. Hosseini said Mojtaba, Khamenei’s son, had knee and back injuries in the war’s opening attacks but they’ve largely healed.

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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.

Fernandez, formerly of New York, co-founded the church in 1991 at the former Sunrise Musical Theater at 5555 NW 95th Ave.

It’s there, he hopes the community will come together to help as many former Spirit Airlines employees as possible.

“No one is exempt from these issues,” Fernandez told Local 10 News. “Some of us are just one day, one year, one month away from being unemployed.”

The church has been preparing to host “Opportunity Day,” a job fair and a complimentary lunch.

“I think our job is hopefully, at the end of the day, if not all of them, most of them can say, ‘Yes, I lost my job at Spirit Airlines, but it was an opportunity for me to find another job,’” Fernandez said.

The “Opportunity Day” is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 30. For more information or to join the effort, call the church at 954-742-7832.

LOCAL LAYOFFS

With more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020, the bankruptcy filings followed in 2024 and 2025, and the shutdown was on Saturday after a last-minute $500 million government bailout failed.

“We have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,” President Donald Trump said about Spirit Airlines employees nationwide on April 23 at the White House.

Spirit Airlines filed the layoff notices on Monday with the FloridaCommerce, the state’s lead agency for workforce, and reported laying off more than 4,850 employees in Florida.

That included more than 3,260 layoffs in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. There were 2,529 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 551 at the Spirit Support Center in Dania Beach, and 181 at Miami International Airport.

Related document: Notice of layoff (May 2-13)

Helpful link: Spirit Airlines restructuring page

Related stories

• ‘Forgotten’ former Spirit Airlines ramp agents in Broward ask public for help
• Commissioner: Family Success Centers ready to help ex-Spirit Airlines employees living in Broward
• Spirit Airlines reports over 4,850 job cuts in Florida
• While still wearing Spirit Airlines uniforms, job seekers start asking for help
• Jobless former Spirit Airlines employees march in Dania Beach
• Spirit Airlines asks guests not to go to the airport, or expect rebookings

Upcoming job fairs

Miramar is hosting a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 20 at the Miramar Cultural Center, at 2400 Civic Center Place. Admission and parking are free. For more information, visit the Evenbrite page.

The Port Everglades Career Fair & Expo is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 27 at the Broward County Convention Center at 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Admission and parking are free. Here is a list of the participating companies >

Resources

• Broward County has four Family Success Centers to help with housing and utilities.
• Department of Labor: Rapid response services includes guidance on COBRA continuation coverage
• American Airlines launches “Supporting Spirit” career page
• United Airlines launches program to prioritize former Spirit Airlines employees when hiring. Here is the career page >
• Southwest Airlines was recruiting on this page.
• JetBlue’s jobs page
• JetBlue announced an extension of the “jumpseat agreement for the next two weeks, subject to space availability and limited to cabin seating” for those who were stranded while working for Spirit Airlines, and also announced “preferential employment interviews.”
• Delta releases statement of help
• For more information about help from the Association of Flight Attendants, call 1-800-385-3920
• CareerSource Broward offers services such as job placement and career coaching at three centers at 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard, and 7550 Davie Road Extension in Hollywood.
• Employ Miami-Dade has services for job seekers.
• CareerOneStop has a database for job centers
• To file an unemployment benefits claim in Florida, call 1-800-204-2418 or visit this page.
• Find your local food bank, on this Feeding America page

A New Jersey native, Miller defeated Jared Gordon in a lightweight bout at UFC 328 with a rear naked choke at 3:29 of the first round and his family cheering him on from the Prudential Center. The 42-year-old Miller extended his record with 28 career wins in 47 fights under the UFC banner.

Miller also earned his 20th finish, second most in UFC history.

Wyatt Miller, 14, was diagnosed last year with rhadbomyosacroma, a rare type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells in soft tissue and is more common in childhood. Wyatt underwent two courses of chemotherapy and five weeks of proton radiation at Rutgers University Cancer Institute and was eventually given a clean bill of health.

“My son went through some really difficult times the last couple of months,” Miller said inside the octagon. “He ended up kicking the (heck) out of cancer. He’s all good today. He’s cancer free. One of the things I told him when he first got diagnosed was, Millers have been called a lot of names over the year, but fragile’s never been one of them. He fought his way through it.”

His son’s cancer scare kept him out of the cage for 13 months, an eternity for a fighter who made a habit of competing multiple times a year. Miller lost to Chase Hooper in his last fight at UFC 314 in April 2025.

Khamzat Chimaev puts his middleweight crown on the line against former champion Sean Strickland in the main event. Joshua Van defends his 125-pound championship against Tatsuro Taira in another title bout in UFC’s 11th stop in Newark, New Jersey.

The 24-year-old from Myanmar has won six straight fights and nine of 10 since he signed with UFC — no win bigger than his championship victory in December against Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 323.

UFC held its last major card before its June 14 show at the White House to fete President Donald Trump, a proud proponent of cage-match politics. The show is timed for Trump’s 80th birthday and as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary. Trump, who frequently attends major UFC events, was not expected Saturday night at the Prudential Center.

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Kerr has reached an agreement in principle on a two-year contract to continue coaching the Warriors, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations. Kerr still must sign his new deal, the person told The Associated Press on Saturday night, speaking on condition of anonymity because the contract must be finalized.

The Warriors missed the playoffs for the second time in three years, earning the 10th seed in the Western Conference and eventually losing at Phoenix in the play-in tournament.

Kerr's 12-year coaching run with the franchise has featured four championships and six NBA Finals appearances alongside Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, including five straight from 2015-19. Kerr shared an embrace with those two stars near the end of the loss in Phoenix, saying afterward he knew it could be their final time together.

He has a career record of 604-353 and a 104-48 playoff mark, with Golden State winning its last championship in 2022.

The Warriors were 37-45 this season while dealing with numerous injuries, including losing Jimmy Butler to a season-ending right knee injury in January and Curry's 27-game absence with a right knee injury of his own.

ESPN first reported Kerr's new contract.

Kerr, 60, got his first coaching job in 2014-15 and immediately guided Golden State to the franchise's first title in 40 years. The Warriors would then begin the next season with a record 24-0 start without him as assistant Luke Walton led the way as Kerr missed the initial 43 games as his team went on to a record 73 victories. Kerr took a leave of absence to recover from debilitating complications following two back surgeries, then missed time again in 2017 with Mike Brown filling in as Kerr underwent a procedure to deal with a spinal fluid leak.

Green had predicted on his podcast once the season ended that Kerr wouldn't return.

Throughout his coaching career, Kerr has used his platform to speak out against gun violence and social injustice among other prominent issues. He lost his father, Malcolm, president of the American University of Beirut, when he was murdered in Beirut when Kerr was 18 and a freshman at the University of Arizona.

In March 2018, Kerr took part in the Oakland March for Our Lives. Earlier that same month, he joined Democratic Congressmen Ro Khanna and Mike Thompson — then-chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force — and students from throughout the South Bay during a town hall at Newark Memorial High School to discuss gun violence in schools and cheered the efforts of youth nationwide.

Kerr has said it isn’t hard to do double duty as a basketball coach and a voice as a public figure for those who don’t have one.

“I think in some ways the balance is presented to us, given what’s happening around the country,” Kerr said. “I know that when I played, players and coaches were never — maybe not never — rarely asked about politics and voting.”

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Frederik Andersen made 15 saves for Carolina, which has not lost in eight playoff games.

Alex Bump and Tyson Foerster scored for the Flyers.

Taylor Hall and Jaccob Slavin assisted the winning goal. Blake's shot from the slot bounced off Dan Vladar's glove and over the goal line.

“Once I saw it go in, just excitement,” Blake said.

Vladar stopped 37 shots for Philadelphia.

Carolina will play the winner of Buffalo and Montreal in the Eastern Conference finals after the NHL’s first 8-0 start in the playoffs since 1985.

“Everyone is chipping in; everyone is doing their job,” Hall said.

Andersen has started every game in the postseason, winning them all.

“He's just playing lights out,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said.

The Hurricanes, who reached the Eastern Conference finals for the third time in four years, are looking for their first Stanley Cup since 2006. Carolina is the 24th team in league history to win eight or more consecutive games during a playoff run. Eighteen of them have won the Stanley Cup.

“For me, it's just fun to sit back there and watch it, to be honest,” Brind'Amour said.

Philadelphia scored just five goals over the four games. After an unlikely berth in the playoffs, fans saluted the home team when it was over with chants of, “Let's go, Flyers!”

“I can't ask for more,” Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said.

Bump scored 5:52 into the third period to tie the game at 2-2.

Stankoven’s seventh tally of the playoffs 4:13 into the third period gave Carolina a 2-1 lead after he finished a beautiful cross-ice pass from Hall with a one-timer from just outside of the crease. Philadelphia evened the score 1:39 later when Bump shot past Andersen’s glove side from the slot after a setup from Travis Konecny from behind the net.

Blake tied it at 1-1 with 7:25 remaining in the second when his wrist shot from along the boards caromed off Philadelphia defenseman Jamie Drysdale and past Vladar. It appeared as if Carolina went in front just 28 seconds later when Mark Jankowski beat Vladar, but the goal was overturned following a challenge by Tocchet when officials ruled that Carolina’s William Carrier interfered with Vladar.

The Flyers had a pair of good chances late in the period to take the lead but could not convert. The best opportunity came in the final seconds of the period when Christian Dvorak’s wrist shot from close range went off the post on Andersen’s glove side.

Carolina finished regulation with a 36-15 advantage in shots.

Russian winger Matvei Michkov was a healthy scratch for the Flyers. Michkov, 23, was the No. 7 overall pick in 2023 by Philadelphia and was heralded as an important piece for the rebuilding franchise’s future. But the right wing has struggled thus far in his first playoff experience, garnering one point while accumulating a minus-3 in eight games. It is the second time he has been a healthy scratch this postseason, following Game 5 against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round.

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He waited for the perfect moment to set up a daring outside move with 18 laps to go, then nudged his way past David Malukas through three sweeping turns on Indianapolis Motor Speedway's road course and sped away from the field to win the Indianapolis Grand Prix.

Now he's going to find out if it helps him in the Indianapolis 500.

The Danish driver snapped a 47-race winless streak, beating Malukas to the yard of bricks by 4.763 seconds for the second win of his career and first in nearly three years. It gives the Arrow McLaren team a boost of confidence heading into IndyCar's biggest race of the season.

“At the end of the day, I had nothing to lose,” Lundgaard said. “I had so much unfinished business here. For me, it wasn't that I wanted to win. I have enough second places in the past year and a half, I wanted to win and I was kind of willing to do whatever it took.”

Lundgaard drove like it, though he won't be celebrating long with the Indy 500 looming.

There's still a plenty to fine-tune before Tuesday's first practice session. Each of the 33 drivers will receive an extra boost of horsepower Friday, with four-lap qualifications set for next Saturday and Sunday. The race is May 24, Lundgaard's mother's birthday.

While success on Indy's 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course doesn't usually translate into success on the Brickyard's more famous 2.5-mile oval, Lundgaard thinks this win helped him turn the corner.

“I know I can beat anyone and I'm sure 95% of the field will say the same thing,” he said. “To finally get it, I think we've come close many, many times, and I think we've unlocked the door now and am pretty confident there will be many more.”

Four-time series champ Alex Palou knows exactly what it takes to pull off the May sweep.

The Spaniard won both Indy races last year and despite failing to join seven-time world champ Michael Schumacher as the only drivers in Brickyard history to win the same event four consecutive years, he still managed to extend his points lead over Kyle Kirkwood to 27 points. Schumacher won Formula 1's U.S. Grand Prix each year from 2003-06.

Palou finished fifth, more than 14 seconds behind Lundgaard, because of a poorly timed caution period that prevented him from cycling back up the leaderboard. He's won three of the first six races and finished second at Arlington, Texas.

A handful of other drivers also are looking forward to the 500 after strong results Saturday.

Malukas led a race-high 27 laps and remains third in the standings.

Third-place finisher Graham Rahal reached the podium for the second time in three races as he resumes the quest to join his father, Bobby, in the 500 winners club.

But the biggest moment came as Malukas and Lundgaard ran side by side through the middle of the road course, battling for the lead. The difference came down to a minor hiccup.

“We were having some moments, and I could see him trying to set up the undercut and we ended up having some little issue and he managed to stick it around the outside,” Malukas said. “I probably could have been a little bit more aggressive, but I thought it was fair racing and it was a proper move, a very good move.”

Lundgaard had shown signs he was about to make a move after finishing third at St. Petersburg, seventh at Arlington and second at Alabama. But now the question is whether he can keep it up on the oval when Palou tries to become the seventh driver to claim back-to-back 500 titles.

Palou has been almost untouchable since the start of last season, winning eight of 17 races with four runner-up finishes in 2025. He's continued to dominate this year.

But perhaps that's about to change.

Lundgaard is coming off a career-best seventh in last year's 500, his first with Arrow McLaren, after failing to crack the top 13 in his three previous starts on the oval, all with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The hopes for Arrow McLaren are soaring after Pato O'Ward, the Mexican who is Lundgaard's current teammate, qualified second for the grand prix.

“In many, many ways, I live to win races,” Lundgaard said. “I don't live to finish second. I don't live just to be in this race, and I think that's how I was always taught, growing up, that I don't just compete to compete. I compete to win.”

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Kamiya Richardson, who weighs about 162 pounds and is 5 feet 6 inches tall, was last seen wearing a black pullover hoodie and khaki pants on Friday at the 1000 block of Northeast 167 Street, according to FDLE.

Law enforcement asked anyone with information about Kamiya’s whereabouts to call 911, the Miami-Dade School Police Department at 305-995-2677, or the FDLE at 1-888-356-4774.

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Shannon Smith, the director of community engagement at Coca-Cola Florida, said the trophy tour exhibit also includes giveaways.

“For most, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Smith said.

The trophy and an interactive exhibit were on display on Saturday at Florida International University’s Pitbull Stadium, at 11310 SW 17 St., in University Park.

“To have the actual trophy 20 feet away from us right now, and everyone who experiences this activation gets the opportunity to take a photo with. It is absolutely fantastic, super exciting,” said Roger Clegg, FIU’s assistant vice president of business services.

The trophy will be on display from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets and more information, visit this page.

Hackett said she and about 265 hard-working ramp agents were part of the ground crew servicing aircraft, loading or unloading luggage or cargo, and guiding planes at the gate.

“It’s heartbreaking to hear some of these people, what they’re dealing with,” Hackett said. “You know, ‘I’ve got to pay my rent today.’”

Hackett is fundraising and was asking the public to contribute to the “Standing with Spirit Ramp Agents in Need” fund. She said the goal is to make sure every single one of them receives $500.

She said the group includes mothers, fathers, veterans, caregivers, and employees facing serious health concerns. Many of them have been living paycheck to paycheck.

“Health coverage stopped that day,” Hackett said. “Our dental, our vision, our medical. Any benefits that you had stopped immediately.”

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LOCAL LAYOFFS

With more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020, the bankruptcy filings followed in 2024 and 2025, and the shutdown was on Saturday after a last-minute $500 million government bailout failed.

“We have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,” President Donald Trump said about Spirit Airlines employees nationwide on April 23 at the White House.

Spirit Airlines filed the layoff notices on Monday with the FloridaCommerce, the state’s lead agency for workforce, and reported laying off more than 4,850 employees in Florida.

That included more than 3,260 layoffs in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. There were 2,529 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 551 at the Spirit Support Center in Dania Beach, and 181 at Miami International Airport.

Related document: Notice of layoff (May 2-13)

Helpful link: Spirit Airlines restructuring page

Related stories

• Commissioner: Family Success Centers ready to help ex-Spirit Airlines employees living in Broward
• Spirit Airlines reports over 4,850 job cuts in Florida
• While still wearing Spirit Airlines uniforms, job seekers start asking for help
• Jobless former Spirit Airlines employees march in Dania Beach
• Spirit Airlines asks guests not to go to the airport, or expect rebookings

Upcoming job fairs

Miramar is hosting a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 20 at the Miramar Cultural Center, at 2400 Civic Center Place. Admission and parking are free. For more information, visit the Evenbrite page.

The Port Everglades Career Fair & Expo is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 27 at the Broward County Convention Center at 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Admission and parking are free. Here is a list of the participating companies >

Resources

• Broward County has four Family Success Centers to help with housing and utilities.
• Department of Labor: Rapid response services includes guidance on COBRA continuation coverage
• American Airlines launches “Supporting Spirit” career page
• United Airlines launches program to prioritize former Spirit Airlines employees when hiring. Here is the career page >
• Southwest Airlines was recruiting on this page.
• JetBlue’s jobs page
• JetBlue announced an extension of the “jumpseat agreement for the next two weeks, subject to space availability and limited to cabin seating” for those who were stranded while working for Spirit Airlines, and also announced “preferential employment interviews.”
• Delta releases statement of help
• For more information about help from the Association of Flight Attendants, call 1-800-385-3920
• CareerSource Broward offers services such as job placement and career coaching at three centers at 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard, and 7550 Davie Road Extension in Hollywood.
• Employ Miami-Dade has services for job seekers.
• CareerOneStop has a database for job centers
• To file an unemployment benefits claim in Florida, call 1-800-204-2418 or visit this page.
• Find your local food bank, on this Feeding America page

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Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel responded to a power pole on fire at about 8:45 a.m. on Saturday at Southeast 12 Avenue and Las Olas Boulevard.

“Saturday is usually very busy for us,” said Andrea Sarracino, the owner of The Sarracino Salon. “Unfortunately, we had to cancel the whole day.”

The Florida Power & Light Company’s tracker map showed 34 customers affected at about 9 a.m.

Some had power restored by 3 p.m., and FPL was still working on the others.

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The cruise ship is scheduled to return to Port Canaveral on Monday.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said 102 passengers and 13 crew members became ill and have since been isolated.

The cruise line also confirmed it disinfected all areas of the ship and increased sanitizing procedures.

CDC officials say this is the fourth gastrointestinal illness outbreak reported on a cruise ship so far this year.

In March, authorities confirmed that more than 150 people fell ill on a Princess cruise ship that also departed from Port Everglades.

Familias, sobrevivientes y simpatizantes llenaron el evento de música, baile y espíritu comunitario, mientras compartían historias personales sobre cómo la epilepsia ha impactado sus vidas.

“Honestamente, no sabía mucho sobre la epilepsia hasta que mi hijo fue diagnosticado”, dijo Aleida Cardona, cuyo hijo Dominic fue diagnosticado antes de cumplir su primer año y ahora tiene 13 años.

Cardona dijo que la epilepsia afecta mucho más que las convulsiones.

“Es mucho más que solo convulsiones, va mucho más allá de eso”, dijo. “Estamos aquí para apoyar a todos los guerreros púrpura, a todas las familias. Solo para retribuir”.

Muchos asistentes dijeron que acudieron para honrar a seres queridos que viven con epilepsia o que murieron a causa del trastorno.

“Por mi tío Clayton, que murió con epilepsia”, dijo Lily, de 9 años.

“Y por mi hermano Roger, que tiene epilepsia”, agregó Enid, de 10 años.

La reportera de Local 10 News Saira Anwer también compartió su experiencia personal viviendo con epilepsia durante casi una década.

“Es muy especial ver a tantas personas reunirse. Florida es el estado con la mayor prevalencia de casos de epilepsia”, dijo. “Por eso esta misión aquí en Florida es aún más importante, simplemente para unir a las personas. Impacta a la gente de muchas maneras diferentes”.

Organizadores de Epilepsy Alliance Florida dijeron que el objetivo del evento es conectar a las familias con recursos y recordarles que no están solas.

“Es posible vivir una vida muy plena y maravillosa con el apoyo adecuado”, dijo Monica Rodriguez, de Epilepsy Alliance Florida. “Eso es lo que estamos aquí para hacer: ayudar a las personas a lograrlo”.

La organización también estuvo recaudando fondos durante el evento del sábado y dijo que está cerca de alcanzar su meta de recaudación de $200,000 USD. Haga clic aquí para conocer cómo puede contribuir.

Small rain chances are in the forecast for Saturday night, mainly in northern Broward County.

Get ready to sweat again on Mother’s Day.

We’ve got highs reaching the lower 90s once again. It’s all about the humidity that will make it feel close to the triple digits.

Plan for afternoon inland showers. Better rain chances are set to take over Monday and Tuesday as a front moves south, and expect slightly cooler highs to move in on Sunday afternoon.

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Families, survivors and supporters filled the event with music, dancing and community spirit, while sharing personal stories about how epilepsy has impacted their lives.

“Honestly, I didn’t know much about epilepsy until my son was diagnosed,” said Aleida Cardona, whose son Dominic was diagnosed before his first birthday and is now 13 years old.

Cardona said epilepsy affects far more than seizures.

“It’s a lot more than just seizures, it goes way beyond that,” she said. “We’re here to support all the purple warriors, all the families. Just to give back.”

Many attendees said they came to honor loved ones living with epilepsy or those who died from the disorder.

“For my uncle Clayton, that died with epilepsy,” 9-year-old Lily said.

“And for my brother Roger who has epilepsy,” 10-year-old Enid added.

Local 10 News reporter Saira Anwer also shared her personal experience living with epilepsy for nearly a decade.

“It’s so special to see so many people come out. Florida is the state with the highest prevalence of epilepsy cases,” she said. “So this mission here in Florida is even more important just to bring people together. It impacts people in so many different ways.”

Organizers with Epilepsy Alliance Florida said the goal of the event is to connect families with resources and remind them they are not alone.

“It is possible with the right support to live a very fulfilling, great life,” said Monica Rodriguez with Epilepsy Alliance Florida. “That’s what we’re here to do — help people get there.”

The organization was also raising money during Saturday’s event and said it is close to reaching its $200,000 fundraising goal. Click here to learn how you can contribute.

El avión, que cubría la ruta de Denver al Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles, “reportó haber golpeado a un peatón durante el despegue en DEN aproximadamente a las 11:19 p.m. del viernes”, según una publicación en la cuenta oficial del aeropuerto en X.

Un portavoz del aeropuerto indicó que la persona, que saltó una valla perimetral, murió. Señaló que la persona, que no ha sido identificada, fue impactada dos minutos después de ingresar al aeropuerto. No se cree que se trate de un empleado del aeropuerto.

“Nos estamos deteniendo en la pista”, le dijo el piloto a la torre de control, según el sitio ATC.com. “Acabamos de golpear a alguien. Tenemos un incendio en un motor”.

El piloto indicó al controlador de tránsito aéreo que tenían “231 almas” a bordo y que “un individuo estaba caminando por la pista”.

El controlador de tránsito aéreo respondió que “ya están saliendo los camiones”, antes que el piloto avisara a la torre que “tenemos humo en la aeronave. Vamos a evacuar en la pista”.

Frontier Airlines señaló en un comunicado que el vuelo 4345 fue el involucrado en la colisión y que “se reportó humo en la cabina y los pilotos abortaron el despegue”. No estaba claro si el humo estaba relacionado con el impacto con el peatón.

La aerolínea añadió que el avión transportaba a 224 pasajeros y siete miembros de la tripulación.

“Estamos investigando este incidente y recopilando más información en coordinación con el aeropuerto y otras autoridades de seguridad”, señaló la aerolínea.

Luego, los pasajeros fueron evacuados por los toboganes y el equipo de emergencia los trasladó en autobús a la terminal. El portavoz del aeropuerto dijo que 12 pasajeros sufrieron lesiones leves y cinco fueron llevados a hospitales locales.

Un pasajero, Jacob Athens, publicó un video que muestra a personas deslizándose con sus mochilas. También publicó fotos de lo que parecía ser un motor dañado.

“Cuando despegábamos, el motor del avión explotó. Había tanto humo que ni siquiera podíamos ver a 1 pie de distancia frente a nosotros”, dijo Athens en su página de Facebook, y agregó que los pasajeros tuvieron que esperar más de una hora en la pista y que “todavía no hay transporte ni ayuda con el frío”.

Otro video muestra a los pasajeros caminando tranquilamente por el pasillo del avión y usando el tobogán para evacuar. Se les pidió que se alejaran del avión.

El Aeropuerto de Denver informó que se notificó a la Junta Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte (NTSB, por sus siglas en inglés) y que la pista 17L, donde ocurrió el incidente, fue cerrada al tiempo que investigaba. La reabrió el sábado alrededor de las 11 de la mañana.

El secretario de Transporte, Sean Duffy, escribió en una publicación en X que la persona “violó la seguridad del aeropuerto en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Denver, escaló deliberadamente una valla perimetral y salió corriendo hacia una pista”.

Agregó: “Nadie debería NUNCA entrar sin autorización en un aeropuerto”.

El incidente se produjo un día después que un empleado de Delta Air Lines fuera asesinado cuando trabajaba en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Orlando. En un comunicado, la aerolínea indicó que el empleado fue asesinado la noche del jueves sin proporcionar detalles del incidente ni el nombre del empleado.

“Estamos enfocados en brindar todo nuestro apoyo a la familia y en cuidar a nuestro equipo de Orlando durante este momento difícil”, manifestó la aerolínea. “Estamos trabajando con las autoridades locales mientras se pone en marcha una investigación completa para determinar qué ocurrió”.

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NASA has now released more than 12,000 of the star-filled photographs, making the collection available for the public to explore.

Among the highlights are images of Earth shining in its full brilliance, as well as views showing the planet peeking over the lunar surface.

Other photos bring the moon into closer focus, revealing detailed textures of its surface — including the region where the Artemis IV crew hopes to land in 2028.

The collection also includes a point-of-view image taken from inside the Orion spacecraft, showing what the four astronauts saw outside their window during the mission.

NASA officials described the image set as a first-of-its-kind look at deep space travel from the astronauts’ perspective.

Local 10 viewers can take a closer look at the photos by clicking here.

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Chewy was attempting to break a world record with the largest dog pool party.

The event was from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Chewy Bark Park, at 4500 Ponce De Leon Boulevard.

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Harden hit three big shots and Strus came up with the steal and go-ahead basket in the Cavaliers' 116-109 victory on Saturday to cut the Pistons' lead to 2-1.

“We know how important it is to get this first win to make it a series. So, really a team win where a lot of guys contributed tonight,” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said.

The Cavaliers will look to even the series when they host Game 4 on Monday night.

Donovan Mitchell led Cleveland with 35 points and 10 rebounds, while Harden finished with 19 points and Jarrett Allen scored 18.

There were 11 lead changes, with the final one occurring with 2:28 remaining when Strus jumped to snare Cade Cunningham's inbound pass to Daniss Jenkins near midcourt. Strus then drove past Cunningham and Jenkins to make a layup and give the Cavaliers a 106-104 advantage.

Atkinson called it the winning play of the game.

“That was a game changer right there. It gives us a lead, get a couple stops and a couple buckets and that’s the game,” Harden said.

Strus said it was about 3-4 seconds into the inbound play that he timed his jump and made the play.

“My job is to help win in any form or fashion,” said Strus, who finished with seven points, five rebounds and one steal. “Some nights it’s going to be shooting. Some nights it’s going to be defense. Some nights it’s going to be rebounds. The ball didn’t find me tonight, but I don’t care. As long as our team wins, I just want to make an impact and find a way to win.”

It was also the first of three straight turnovers by Cunningham, who had his second career postseason triple-double with 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, but also committed eight turnovers.

“I don’t want to say they were careless turnovers because I care about it a lot. They were just bad turnovers,” he said.

Harden, who drew plenty of criticism for turnovers in the clutch in the first two games, kept the Cavaliers in front with big shots. The 17-year veteran hit a 16-foot step-back jumper to extend the lead to 108-104. After a driving dunk by Cunningham, Harden made a floating 7-footer to put the lead back up to four.

Cunningham responded with a 3-pointer before Harden provided the decisive blow with 25 seconds remaining on a step-back 3-pointer while being guarded by Harris to make it 113-109.

Mitchell reached 2,000 career postseason points in his 73rd game, tied for third-fastest among active players and ninth in NBA history. He said Harden's performance showed why he wasn't worried after two tough games in Detroit.

“I think the biggest thing is just he’s always consistent. He’s not result based. I think the biggest thing is we’ve seen him thrive and for me and for the group just continue to be like, ‘Hey, we know who you are. Keep being yourself.’ We’ve seen him play at a very high level, so we have no doubt that he’s going to continue to be great,” Mitchell said. “Every game might not be that way for him, for me, for whoever. But it’s just how do you continue to stay even keel and find ways to impact the game.”

Tobias Harris added 21 points for Detroit, which had its five-game playoff win streak snapped.

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Chris Dirato, a spokesman for the show, said there were tens of thousands of spectators of all ages along Fort Lauderdale Beach.

The show’s headliner: The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

“We love coming to air shows, so we fly wherever there is an air show,” said Kevin Funk, who was visiting with his wife, Carrie Funk, from central Florida.

In the cockpit, the pilots performed precision stunts such as the diamond formation, with the planes flying just about 18 inches apart.

“Well, I’m a little speechless because it brings tears to my eyes,” said Laurie Rad as she watched the show.

John Velcofsky said he was also emotional.

“It’s heartwarming for me as an American, as a veteran, to have everyone come out and admire this and have a great time,” Velcofsky said.

Mark Welber said he was impressed.

“To celebrate America and technology while honoring our military and the sacrifices to get us where we are today,” Welber said.

Dirato said the show also includes the F-22 Raptor fighter jets, the F/A-18 Super Hornet with the Navy, and the Red Bull Air Force.

Dirato’s tips: Make sure you hydrate and use sun protection.

The show’s next performance is from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. The viewing area is on the beach at State Road A1A and Sunrise Boulevard. Admission starts at $35.

Useful links

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• Parking options
• Performers’ lineup

Chris Dirato, portavoz del espectáculo, dijo que hubo decenas de miles de espectadores de todas las edades a lo largo de la playa de Fort Lauderdale.

El principal atractivo del evento: los Thunderbirds de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos.

“Nos encanta asistir a los espectáculos aéreos, así que volamos a donde haya un espectáculo aéreo”, dijo Kevin Funk, quien asistía con su esposa, Carrie Funk, desde el centro de Florida.

En la cabina, los pilotos realizaron maniobras de precisión como la formación diamante, con los aviones volando a solo unas 18 pulgadas de distancia.

“Bueno, me he quedado un poco sin palabras porque me hace llorar”, dijo Laurie Rad mientras observaba el espectáculo.

John Velcofsky también dijo sentirse emocionado.

“Es conmovedor para mí como estadounidense, como veterano, que todos vengan a admirar esto y pasen un gran momento”, dijo Velcofsky.

Mark Welber dijo que quedó impresionado.

“Para celebrar a Estados Unidos y la tecnología mientras se honra a nuestro ejército y los sacrificios que nos han llevado a donde estamos hoy”, dijo Welber.

Dirato dijo que el espectáculo también incluye los cazas F-22 Raptor, el F/A-18 Super Hornet de la Marina y el Red Bull Air Force.

Dirato recomendó a los asistentes mantenerse hidratados y usar protección solar.

La próxima presentación del espectáculo es de 11:45 a.m. a 3 p.m. el domingo. El área de visualización está en la playa en State Road A1A y Sunrise Boulevard. La entrada comienza en $35 USD.

Enlaces útiles:

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El personal de Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue respondió a un poste de energía en llamas alrededor de las 8:45 a.m. del sábado en Southeast 12 Avenue y Las Olas Boulevard.

“El sábado normalmente es muy ocupado para nosotros”, dijo Andrea Sarracino, propietaria de The Sarracino Salon. “Desafortunadamente, tuvimos que cancelar todo el día”.

El mapa de apagones de Florida Power & Light Company mostró que había alrededor de 34 clientes afectados alrededor de las 9 a.m.

A algunos se les restableció la energía a las 3 p.m., y FPL todavía estaba trabajando en los demás.

Un capitán de embarcación identificado como Leo dijo que una embarcación explotó durante el encendido, probablemente debido a una fuga de gasolina, y que fue “el momento más aterrador” de su vida.

“Cuando miramos de vuelta hacia afuera, vimos a tres personas saliendo volando del bote y una nube de humo”, dijo Patrick Lee, un testigo que añadió que vio a víctimas que estaban “muy gravemente quemadas” en camillas.

Más de 25 unidades de M-DFR, agentes de la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) y la Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos respondieron poco antes de las 12:50 p.m.

“Las lesiones fueron por quemaduras, algunas también fueron lesiones traumáticas”, dijo el jefe de batallón de M-DFR Juan Arias.

La causa de la explosión seguía bajo investigación.

Esta es una historia en desarrollo.

Odyssey Sims also had 20 points for the Wings, and No. 1 draft pick Azzi Fudd scored three in 18 minutes.

Kelsey Mitchell, who also missed a chance to tie the game at the final buzzer, led Indiana with 30 points. Aliyah Boston had 23 points, and Clark finished with 20 points, seven assists, five rebounds and five turnovers.

Bueckers made 8 of 10 from the field and Sims made 8 of 11. Jessica Shepard had 13 points, nine assists and nine rebounds in her Wings debut.

Aziaha James had a four-point play when she was fouled on a made 3 with 9:09 left, putting the Wings ahead 84-82. They never trailed after the play.

Clark missed her 3-pointer with about seven seconds remaining and Mitchell's miss at the buzzer followed two missed free throws from Bueckers.

Dallas shot 59% from the field and 52% from 3-point range. Indiana shot 52% from the field and made 29% of its 3s.

Up next

Dallas: Hosts Atlanta on Tuesday.

Indiana: Visits Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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Shannon Smith, la directora de participación comunitaria de Coca-Cola Florida, dijo que la exhibición de la gira del trofeo también incluye obsequios.

“Para la mayoría, esta es una oportunidad única en la vida”, dijo Smith.

El trofeo y una exhibición interactiva estuvieron en exhibición en el Pitbull Stadium de la Florida International University, en 11310 SW 17 St., en University Park.

“Tener el trofeo real a 20 pies de nosotros en este momento, y que todos los que experimentan esta activación tengan la oportunidad de tomarse una foto con él. Es absolutamente fantástico, súper emocionante”

El trofeo estará en exhibición nuevamente de 11 a.m. a 8 p.m. el sábado y el domingo. Para más información, visite esta página.

Los tres ataques con drones al sur de Beirut marcaron otra escalada desde que entró en vigor el 17 de abril un alto el fuego entre Israel y el grupo armado Hezbollah. Ambas partes siguen con ataques diarios pese a la tregua.

La fuerza aérea israelí llevó a cabo un bombardeo el miércoles por la noche contra un suburbio del sur, en el que Israel afirmó que mató a un mando militar de Hezbollah. Fue el primer ataque cerca de la capital desde que se alcanzó el alto el fuego.

Dos de los ataques del sábado ocurrieron en la autopista que conecta Beirut con la ciudad portuaria sureña de Sidón, en los que varias personas resultaron heridas, mientras que el tercero se produjo en una carretera que conduce a la región libanesa de Chouf y mató a tres personas, informó la Agencia Nacional de Noticias, administrada por el Estado.

Un periodista de The Associated Press en el lugar vio un cadáver en la autopista, en la localidad de Saadiyat.

El Ministerio de Salud indicó que un bombardeo israelí contra la aldea sureña de Saksakiyeh mató al menos a siete personas, entre ellas un niño, e hirió a 15. El ministerio señaló que se trataba de un recuento inicial.

La agencia informó de ataques en el sur de Líbano, incluido uno contra la aldea de Bourj Rahhal que mató a tres personas y otro en Maifadoun que mató a una.

El Ministerio de Salud, por su parte, señaló que tres ataques israelíes con drones mataron a un hombre sirio que iba en motocicleta con su hija de 12 años en la ciudad de Nabatiyeh.

El ministerio explicó que, tras el ataque inicial, el hombre y su hija lograron alejarse del lugar, pero fueron atacados de nuevo por el dron, que mató al hombre al instante. La niña se desplazó entonces unos 100 metros (yardas) y fue alcanzada otra vez por el dron después de que ya había resultado herida. La niña murió más tarde en un hospital, informó la Agencia Nacional de Noticias.

En un comunicado, el Ministerio de Salud Pública denunció “este ataque bárbaro y la violencia deliberada contra civiles y niños en Líbano”, y añadió que el ataque forma parte de una serie en curso “de graves violaciones del Derecho Internacional Humanitario”.

El ejército israelí dijo que Hezbollah lanzó drones explosivos hacia Israel cerca de la frontera con Líbano y añadió que tres soldados resultaron heridos, uno de ellos de gravedad. Agregó que Hezbollah también lanzó drones dentro de Líbano, y que uno de ellos impactó contra un vehículo israelí sin causar víctimas.

Hezbollah se atribuyó varios ataques dentro de Líbano, además de haber lanzado un dron contra un puesto militar israelí en la localidad norteña de Misgav Am.

La guerra más reciente entre Israel y Hezbollah comenzó el 2 de marzo, cuando el grupo armado disparó cohetes hacia el norte de Israel, dos días después de que Estados Unidos e Israel iniciaron la guerra contra Irán, aliado de Hezbollah. Desde entonces, Israel ha llevado a cabo cientos de bombardeos e invadió por tierra el sur de Líbano, capturando decenas de localidades y aldeas a lo largo de la frontera.

Más tarde, Líbano e Israel llevaron a cabo sus primeras conversaciones directas en más de tres décadas. Ambos países están formalmente en guerra desde la fundación del Estado de Israel en 1948.

Está previsto que una nueva ronda de conversaciones se realice en Washington durante dos días a partir del jueves.

Un alto el fuego de 10 días declarado en Washington entró en vigor el 17 de abril. Posteriormente, el alto el fuego se amplió por tres semanas.

Por otra parte, en la capital siria, Damasco, el primer ministro libanés, Nawaf Salam, mantuvo conversaciones el sábado con el presidente interino de Siria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, en las que abordaron el fortalecimiento de las relaciones entre ambos vecinos y el impulso de la cooperación en materia de seguridad en medio de las guerras regionales.

Al hablar con periodistas antes de regresar a casa, Salam dijo que Líbano no volverá a ser utilizado para perjudicar a “nuestros hermanos árabes, y en primer lugar Siria”. Salam se refería de manera indirecta a la participación de Hezbollah en la guerra civil de Siria, que estalló en 2011, al respaldar el gobierno de la familia Assad, que duró cinco décadas y terminó en diciembre de 2024.

Grant drove an 0-2 pitch from Nebraska's Jordy Frahm deep to left-center field for a solo home run, giving UCLA a 2-0 lead in the third inning of the Big Ten Championship Game. The senior took the record she shared for one day in her 55th game. Arizona’s Laura Espinoza hit 37 home runs over 72 games in 1995.

The chance to write her name into the record books as one of the sport's best is what Grant wanted when she came to college.

“To be able to do that, it's just, it's surreal," Grant said of the home run record. “I'm just so grateful for the opportunity I was blessed with and just to follow the people that were before me it's just an honor.”

Grant had the ball in her backpack after Nebraska defeated UCLA 7-2 on Saturday to win the conference championship. She planned to give the ball to her grandmother.

Down 0-2, Grant was just hoping to put the ball in play anywhere she could against Frahm.

“The pitch was up, and I had a feeling it was out once I heard the crowd cheering,” Grant said of her home run. “I kind of usually just put my head down and run as hard as I can to first base, and then I think right when I touched first I knew.”

Grant said she let out a lot of energy rounding the bases celebrating all the way to the dugout with her teammates. She thinks they were focused on the milestone before refocusing on trying to win the game.

“It’s nice to be able to do it on a big stage,” UCLA coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said of Grant's record-setting home run.

Grant trailed Oklahoma’s Kendall Wells by one homer heading into conference tournament play. Wells did not homer in Oklahoma’s loss to Georgia on Thursday in the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Grant hit home runs in each of UCLA's three Big Ten Tournament games.

The race to see who ends up with the single-season home run record could last until the Women’s College World Series. Wells has 36 and Grant’s teammate, Jordan Woolery, has 33.

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The victims of the April 19 shooting in Shreveport included seven siblings who were shot by their father in an attack that also killed their cousin.

The service on Mother’s Day weekend at Summer Grove Baptist Church began with a long procession of mourners slowly filing past eight white caskets with large photos of the children next to them. Gold crowns and bouquets of white flowers were placed on top of the closed caskets. A choir behind the altar and individual singers performed throughout the service.

“In spite of how you may be feeling today, we still need to know that God is still good,” Bishop Bernard Kimble, senior pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church, said in opening remarks.

The funeral's pamphlet contained tributes to each of the children, who ranged in age from 3 to 11. Some of them had affectionate nicknames: 3-year-old Jayla Elkins was called “Jaybae”; Kayla Pugh, 6, was “K-Mae”; and Mar’Kaydon Pugh, 10, was “K-Bug.”

Six-year-old Khedarrion Snow had “a sweet and loving heart,” and “though his life on earth was short, his light was mighty,” according to the pamphlet. Layla Pugh, 7, was “bright, intelligent, bold, and full of love” and enjoyed making TikTok videos with her siblings and cousins.

Pastor and gospel singer Kim Burrell reminded family and community members trying to make sense of the shootings that “God is still on the throne.”

“To ask the question, 'Why is this fair, God? How could you, Lord?' He’s still God,” Burrell said. “The same God that healed you from the stuff that you don’t want to tell nobody about. But he is a God that doesn’t have to give us all the clues. Just know that he makes no mistakes.”

The children’s father, Shamar Elkins, used an assault-style weapon despite a 2019 felony firearms conviction. His wife, who was seeking a divorce, and another woman were wounded in the shooting that stretched across two houses in a Shreveport neighborhood.

Elkins died after fleeing and a police pursuit. It was not clear whether he was killed by officers who fired or from a self-inflicted gunshot, according to police.

An investigation remains ongoing into the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years.

During the service, other speakers included Shreveport Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor, who acknowledged that “there are no words sufficient to ease this pain,” while Councilman James Green implored audience members to collectively “take off our funeral face” because “this is a celebration” of the children's lives.

Indeed, churchgoers often stood clapping their hands in response to singers and speakers. The children's names were read or shown several times throughout the service, where Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux expressed the city's condolences.

“May we honor them by carrying forward the gentleness, joy and love they so freely shared,” Arceneaux said.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ordered U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff over the next week at the Capitol and state government buildings. A message read from Landry said the victims “were the light of their homes and the heart of their classrooms. They were full of promise and found joy in the simplest things, such as dancing, playing outside and sharing laughter with family and friends. Their futures were bright and held great promise.”

“It is incumbent upon us to honor the memory of those lost by standing together against such senseless violence.”

Among those in attendance was former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, whose political career was cut short by a 2011 assassination attempt.

“She just wanted to come and just let the family know that this pain is not just in Louisiana,” said U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Louisiana. “This pain is all across the nation.”

Buses were made available afterward to transport mourners to a graveside burial. At the conclusion of the church service, Kimble prayed for healing to begin.

“Help us as we move from this spot,” he said. “Because we know, oh God, grief is only temporary. And if we'll put our hands in your favor, you'll lead us through this.”

The Trackhouse Racing driver qualified first on the 2.45-mile road course, earning the fifth pole of his NASCAR Cup Series career in his 62nd start — the fastest to reach that mark in nearly 20 years ( Denny Hamlin needed 49 starts to capture his fifth pole in April 2007).

Seeking to defend a dominant win last August at Watkins Glen, van Gisbergen is expecting tire management will be a major factor in Sunday’s 100-lap race. During practice, lap times dropped by 4 to 5 seconds over the course of a run as drivers found extra speed in cool, damp conditions. After 42 Cup races in the summer at Watkins Glen, Sunday will mark the first held during the spring.

“I expected it to be faster, but the falloff was insane,” said van Gisbergen, who became the ninth Cup driver to qualify first on his birthday with his first pole since last July at Sonoma Raceway. “I didn’t expect it to be that extreme. It was kind of like Bristol when it’s cold, and the tires would fall apart. It was very interesting. It’ll be a good race to watch but probably a hard one to manage.”

The New Zealand native will be the favorite, having won five of the last six races on road or street courses in NASCAR’s premier series. Michael McDowell qualified a season-best second, nearly 0.3 seconds behind van Gisbergen’s No. 97 Chevrolet.

“I feel like SVG kicked my butt,” said McDowell, whose No. 71 Chevy has finished outside the top 20 in four consecutive races. “But I’m really proud of everybody at Spire Motorsports. It’s been a rough few weeks here. Tire falloff was incredible in practice, so we got a decent lap in there, but man, then you watch how fast SVG is.”

Austin Cindric qualified third, followed by Ross Chastain and Connor Zilisch, who are teammates of van Gisbergen at Trackhouse Racing. The team is off to a slow start with only a combined four top 10s this season.

“We’ve got some good cars here this weekend, and hopefully we can capitalize on that,” van Gisbergen said.

Coming off his second win of the season, Chase Elliott, who leads active drivers with seven road-course wins, qualified a career-worst 27th at Watkins Glen (site of his first Cup win in 2018).

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More than 20 foxhounds, a breed specifically trained to run alongside horses and hunters, took to the turf course Saturday to kick off the race day as fans cheer and take photos and videos.

The huntsman and his team, who are called whippers-in, has the sometimes difficult task of keeping the hounds on course, especially when they can get distracted by the tens of thousands of spectators in the infield and all their delicious tailgating food.

One hound loved the attention from the fans so much that she veered off course, said Charles Montgomery, a master and huntsman with the Mells Foxhounds, the hunting group that runs their pack in the steeplechase. “She had the best time. She loved going into the beer tents,” Montgomery said.

She loved it so much, she ran to the beer tent again the next year, so now she's not invited back to the race, Montgomery said.

The Iroquois Steeplechase is one of the premier American steeplechase races, with a total of $730,000 awarded in purses, on a grass turf course with hurdles that opened in 1941 as a Works Progress Administration project. The Nashville race was founded by members of the Hillsboro Hounds, another fox hunting club in the Nashville area.

Steeplechase racing and fox hunting are wedded together, said Stephen Heard, one of the trustees of the Iroquois Steeplechase and a member of the Mells Foxhounds group. The tradition came from the British Isles, where horses were raced from church steeple to church steeple and trained to jump obstacles like fences while hunting with dogs.

"Many of the horses that we use fox hunting are ex-steeplechase horses, Heard said.

With 25,000 spectators who are eating and drinking in tents and in the stands, the dogs need some time to adjust to the noise and smells.

“I took one dog last year and he heard the speakers and he said, ‘This is not for me,’” Charles Montgomery said.

“It's high pressure,” said Boo Montgomery, one of the whippers-in. When a child held out a fried chicken leg through the rails one time, it was a temptation no hound could resist. “You couldn't fault Brightly for stopping and having a snack,” she said, of one of the foxhounds.

Charles Montgomery said he usually will bring the veteran hunting hounds who can guide the younger ones along the course. On the morning of the race, the hounds bounded off their trailer, eager to sniff grass and chew on sticks and roll in the clover.

The hounds wear GPS-equipped collars whenever they hunt and when they come to the racetrack. That came in handy last year when a dog got spooked and took off into the wooded park nearby.

While the racetrack is not their normal working environment, the hounds seem to enjoy the challenge that comes with kicking off the horse races, Boo Montgomery said.

“It's a great exposure for hunting to get to see these hounds and the horses,” Boo Montgomery said. “It's nice to be able to show off.”

Los ataques del viernes sembraron dudas sobre el frágil alto el fuego, adoptado hace un mes, que Estados Unidos ha insistido en que sigue vigente. Washington espera una respuesta de Teherán a su última propuesta de acuerdo para poner fin a la guerra, reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz y revertir el controvertido programa nuclear iraní.

El ejército de Estados Unidos informó el viernes que sus fuerzas habían inutilizado dos petroleros iraníes que intentaban romper el bloqueo estadounidense de los puertos de Irán. Horas antes, el ejército indicó que frustró ataques contra tres buques de la Marina y atacó instalaciones militares iraníes en el estrecho.

Por su parte, el Ministerio del Interior de Baréin, una pequeña isla en el golfo Pérsico, reportó el sábado el arresto de 41 personas a las que acusa de formar parte de un grupo afiliado a la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní. Se están llevando a cabo investigaciones para tomar medidas adicionales contra cualquiera que esté vinculado al grupo, agregó sin ofrecer más detalles.

Baréin está gobernado por una monarquía suní pero, como ocurre con Irán, su población es mayoritariamente chií. Grupos de derechos humanos sostienen que el reino ha utilizado la guerra entre Irán y Estados Unidos —cuya Quinta Flota tiene su base allí— como pretexto para reprimir la disidencia interna.

EEUU dice que respondió a un ataque en el estrecho de Ormuz

Irán ha cerrado casi por completo la vía marítima, crucial para el comercio de petróleo y gas global, desde que Estados Unidos e Israel iniciaron la guerra el 28 de febrero, lo que causó un alza global de los precios del combustible y sacudió los mercados mundiales. Estados Unidos ha impuesto su propio bloqueo a los puertos de Irán.

El ejército estadounidense publicó un video de los dos petroleros iraníes en el que se veía como uno de sus cazas impactaba en sus chimeneas el viernes. A principios de semana, un avión militar de Estados Unidos destruyó el timón de un petrolero que, según el ejército, intentaba romper su bloqueo.

Durante la noche, un ataque estadounidense mató al menos a un marinero e hirió a otros 10 a bordo de un buque de carga que se incendió, informó una agencia de noticias afiliada al poder judicial iraní. No estaba claro si la embarcación era uno de los dos petroleros que Washington reconoció haber atacado.

Pese a los ataques, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha insistido en que el alto el fuego se mantiene. También ha reiterado las amenazas de reanudar los bombardeos a gran escala si la República Islámica no acepta un acuerdo para reabrir el estrecho y revertir su programa nuclear.

El viernes, el portavoz del Ministerio de Exteriores iraní, Esmail Baghaei, afirmó que el país no prestaba atención a los “plazos” y que Teherán continúa revisando una propuesta de la Casa Blanca relacionada con las negociaciones en curso, según la agencia noticiosa estatal IRNA.

Un alto funcionario iraní también declaró el viernes que el líder supremo del país, Moytabá Jamenei, gozaba de “plena salud” y que, en algún momento, aparecería en público.

Las declaraciones las hizo Mazaher Hosseini, vinculado a la oficina del anterior líder supremo de Irán, en una concentración progubernamental. Hosseini sostuvo que Moytabá había sufrido lesiones en una rodilla y en la espalda, pero que se habían curado ya en gran medida y ahora se encontraba bien.

Jamenei no ha sido visto en público desde que comenzó la guerra, y la ausencia continuada de imágenes, audios o videos verificados de él ha alimentado las especulaciones sobre su situación. Comentarios como los de Hosseini son vistos por algunos como intentos de contrarrestar las dudas de que quizá no esté vivo.

Llamados a la calma

A medida que aumentan las tensiones, se ha producido una oleada de actividad diplomática en todo el mundo.

El Ministerio de Exteriores de Rusia dijo el sábado que, igual que Arabia Saudí, pide que continúen los esfuerzos diplomáticos para alcanzar un “acuerdo sostenible y a largo plazo” que ponga fin a la guerra, según el propio ministerio ruso.

Los principales diplomáticos de Egipto y Qatar reiteraron también que la diplomacia es el único camino para encontrar una solución al conflicto, según el resumen de una llamada telefónica que mantuvieron el sábado el ministro de Exteriores egipcio, Badr Abdelatty, y su homólogo qatarí, el jeque Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

El primer ministro de Pakistán, Shehbaz Sharif, dijo que su país ha estado en contacto con Estados Unidos e Irán “día y noche” en un esfuerzo por extender el alto el fuego y alcanzar un acuerdo de paz.

Los Bravos anunciaron la muerte de Cox el sábado; pero no dieron detalles. Cox sufrió un derrame cerebral en 2019.

“Bobby fue el mejor mánager que jamás vistió un uniforme de los Bravos”, señaló el equipo en un comunicado. “Condujo a nuestro equipo a 14 títulos divisionales consecutivos, cinco banderines de la Liga Nacional y el inolvidable título de la Serie Mundial en 1995. Su legado como mánager de los Braves nunca será igualado”.

Cox asumió el mando de un equipo que estaba en el último lugar en junio de 1990 y llevó a los Bravos a pasar de al primer puesto en 1991 antes de perder la Serie Mundial ante los Mellizos de Minnesota en siete juegos. Ese fue el inicio de lo que sería un récord de 14 títulos divisionales consecutivos, una hazaña que ningún equipo profesional de ningún deporte había logrado.

Dirigió a los Bravos durante 25 años y condujo a Atlanta a su único título de la Serie Mundial en 1995, se retiró después de la temporada de 2010 y fue exaltado al Salón de la Fama en 2014.

En medio de un brote de hantavirus en el que hay varios estadounidenses afectados y acapara titulares en todo el mundo, la principal agencia de salud pública del gobierno de Estados Unidos, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés), ha estado inusualmente ausente, según varios expertos.

Para el presidente Donald Trump, “parece que tenemos las cosas bajo muy buen control”, como les dijo a los reporteros el viernes por la noche.

Para los expertos, la situación a bordo del crucero no se ha descontrolado porque, a diferencia del COVID-19 o el sarampión o la gripe, el hantavirus no se propaga con facilidad. Han sido los expertos sanitarios de otros países, no de Estados Unidos, quienes se han ocupado principalmente del brote durante la última semana.

“Los CDC ni siquiera están en el juego”, afirmó Lawrence Gostin, experto internacional en salud pública de la Universidad de Georgetown. “Nunca había visto eso”.

Las acciones de los CDC no se aceleraron sino hasta las últimas horas del viernes.

Autoridades de salud confirmaron el despliegue de un equipo a las Islas Canarias de España, adonde se prevé que el barco llegue a primera hora del domingo, hora local, para reunirse con los estadounidenses a bordo. Indicaron que un segundo equipo irá a la Base de la Fuerza Aérea Offutt, en Nebraska, como parte de un plan para evacuar a los pasajeros estadounidenses del barco a un centro de cuarentena de la Universidad de Nebraska para su evaluación y vigilancia. Además, los CDC emitieron su primera alerta sanitaria para médicos de Estados Unidos, advirtiéndoles sobre la posibilidad de casos importados.

En su primera sesión informativa, realizada el sábado por teléfono y solo para reporteros invitados, los funcionarios prometieron ser transparentes al actualizar al público, pero señalaron que los medios no podían citar a los oradores por su nombre, conforme a reglas establecidas por asesores del secretario de Salud, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. No respondieron directamente a una pregunta sobre si los pasajeros estadounidenses podrían salir del centro médico universitario cuando quisieran.

La función disminuida de los CDC en este brote es un indicador de que la agencia ya no es la fuerza en salud internacional ni el protector de la salud nacional que alguna vez fue, dijeron algunos expertos.

El brote de hantavirus es “un evento centinela” que indica “qué tan bien preparado está el país ante una amenaza de enfermedad. Y ahora mismo, lamento mucho decir que no estamos preparados”, dijo la doctora Jeanne Marrazzo, directora ejecutiva de la Sociedad de Enfermedades Infecciosas de Estados Unidos.

Cómo se desarrolló el brote

A principios del mes pasado, un hombre neerlandés de 70 años desarrolló una enfermedad febril en un crucero que viajaba de Argentina a la Antártida y a algunas islas del Atlántico Sur. Murió menos de una semana después. Más personas enfermaron, incluida la esposa del hombre y una mujer alemana, quienes también fallecieron.

El hantavirus se identificó por primera vez como causa de la enfermedad en uno de los casos el 2 de mayo. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) entró en acción y para el lunes ya lo calificaba como un brote. En el barco había alrededor de dos docenas de estadounidenses, entre ellos, unos siete que desembarcaron el mes pasado y 17 que permanecieron a bordo.

La OMS ocupa el escenario central

Durante décadas, los CDC se asociaron con la OMS en situaciones como esta. Los centros actuaban como un pilar de cualquier investigación internacional, aportando personal y experiencia para ayudar a desentrañar el misterio de un brote, desarrollar formas de controlarlo y comunicar al público lo que debía saber y cuánto debía preocuparse.

Acciones como esas fueron una de las principales razones por las que los CDC desarrollaron su reputación como la principal agencia de salud pública del mundo.

Pero esta vez, la OMS ha estado en el escenario central. Realizó la evaluación de riesgo en la que se indicó a la gente que el brote no representa una amenaza de pandemia.

“No creo que esto sea una amenaza enorme para Estados Unidos”, manifestó Jennifer Nuzzo, directora del Centro de Pandemias de la Universidad Brown. Pero la forma en que se ha desarrollado esta situación “solo muestra lo vacío e insustancial que están los CDC en este momento”, añadió.

Turbulencia bajo Trump

La situación actual se produce después de 16 tumultuosos meses durante los cuales el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump se retiró de la OMS, en ocasiones ha restringido la posibilidad de que científicos de los CDC hablen con homólogos internacionales y emprendió un plan para construir su propia red internacional de salud pública mediante acuerdos uno a uno con países individuales.

El gobierno ha despedido a miles de científicos y profesionales de salud pública de los CDC, incluidos miembros del programa de saneamiento de barcos de la agencia.

Mientras esto ocurría, Kennedy dijo que estaba trabajando para “restaurar el enfoque de los CDC en las enfermedades infecciosas, invertir en innovación y reconstruir la confianza mediante la integridad y la transparencia”.

A la espera de noticias de los CDC

Los CDC no han guardado completo silencio sobre el hantavirus.

La agencia emitió el miércoles un breve comunicado en el que señaló que el riesgo para el público estadounidense es “extremadamente bajo” y describió al gobierno de Estados Unidos como “el líder mundial en seguridad sanitaria global”.

“Eso no solo fue inútil, sino que en realidad provoca un daño, porque un principio central de las comunicaciones en salud pública es la humildad”, comentó Nuzzo.

El director interino de los CDC, el doctor Jay Bhattacharya, publicó un mensaje en redes sociales en el que indicó que la agencia aportaba su experiencia para coordinarse con otras agencias federales y autoridades internacionales. Autoridades de Arizona dijeron esta semana que se enteraron por los CDC de que uno de los estadounidenses que dejó el barco —una persona asintomática y que no se considera contagiosa— ya había regresado al estado. Funcionarios de la OMS dijeron que la agencia ha compartido información técnica.

Los centros también “monitorean el estado de salud y preparan apoyo médico para todos los pasajeros estadounidenses en el crucero”, escribió Bhattacharya.

Pero la mayoría de los funcionarios federales de salud se han mostrado herméticos y han rechazado solicitudes de entrevista.

Comparación con el COVID-19

En entrevistas realizadas esta semana, algunos expertos hicieron una comparación con un incidente ocurrido en 2020 que tuvo que ver con el Diamond Princess, un crucero anclado en Japón que se convirtió en el escenario de uno de los primeros grandes brotes de COVID-19 fuera de China.

Los CDC enviaron personal al puerto, ayudaron a evacuar a pasajeros estadounidenses, gestionaron cuarentenas, compartieron datos genéticos sobre el virus, coordinaron con la OMS y Japón, realizaron sesiones informativas públicas y publicaron rápidamente informes “que se convirtieron en los datos de referencia mundial sobre la transmisión del COVID en cruceros”, señaló el doctor Tom Frieden, exdirector de los CDC.

Algunos aspectos de la respuesta internacional al Diamond Princess fueron criticados, y no detuvo el brote ni frenó la propagación del COVID-19 por el mundo. Pero algunos expertos dicen que no fue por falta de esfuerzo de los CDC.

“Los CDC estaban encima del tema, muy visibles, muy activos en tratar de gestionarlo y contenerlo”, indicó Gostin, mientras que el trabajo de la agencia ahora está retrasado y atenuado.

En lugar de trabajar con casi todas las naciones del mundo a través de la OMS, el gobierno de Trump ha impulsado acuerdos sanitarios bilaterales con países individuales para el intercambio de información, el apoyo de salud pública y lo que describe como “la introducción de tecnologías estadounidenses innovadoras”. Actualmente hay alrededor de 30 acuerdos en vigor.

Eso no es suficiente, sostuvo Gostin. “No se puede cubrir una crisis sanitaria global haciendo acuerdos uno a uno con países aquí y allá”, afirmó.

The second and final rookie minicamp session Saturday lacked physicality by design. Harbaugh wants top-10 draft picks Arvell Reese and Francis "“Sisi” Mauigoa and the rest of the players involved to understand it's not a competitive camp but rather a chance to prepare for the next phase of offseason workouts.

“This is not a camp where you’re trying to go out there and make plays,” Harbaugh said. “There really are no plays to be made. It’s a rehearsal type of camp. ... We’re going to kind of do the dance, so to speak, of football. We’re not actually competing against one another.”

That comes later, when veterans are in the mix for organized team activities, mandatory minicamp and then training camp, which begins in late July at The Greenbrier in West Virginia. After 18 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, Harbaugh is bringing a deliberate approach to his new challenge, and the real tests are still far away.

“The true competition comes in the preseason games,” Harbaugh said. “That’s when you can say it’s the most competitive. I’d say it’s kind of a ramp up to that.”

Harbaugh brings gravitas because he has won the Super Bowl and coached Baltimore to the playoffs 12 times. He was in the postseason six other times as an assistant in Philadelphia.

With the Eagles, Harbaugh worked with defensive back Rod Hood, and the Giants drafted nephew Colton Hood, a cornerback out of Tennessee, in the second round. Rookie minicamp was Colton Hood's first opportunity to be on the field with Harbaugh.

“My uncle told me what to expect, and it was everything that I expected,” said Hood, whose interception ripping the ball out of tryout running back Miles Davis' hands was the highlight Saturday. “Just hard-nosed coach, old-school, but he loves his players. He wants them to be great, so it’s that tough love kind of thing.”

Giants have a kicking competition

Harbaugh comes from a special teams background, so it should be no surprise that he and the front office are spicing up the next few months with a kicking competition. Michigan's Dominic Zvada was signed as an undrafted free agent to compete for the job against holdover Ben Sauls and veteran addition Jason Sanders.

“We’ll kick field goals, I think, every other practice,” Harbaugh said. “We may be kicking them every practice because we’ve got three guys to kick, and we’ll just see how it shakes out.”

Zvada made 95.5% of his field-goal attempts in 2024, best in the nation, then just 68% last season. At 6-foot-3, Zvada is “big for a kicker,” Harbaugh said, with a strong leg to boot.

“More than anything just the consistency,” Harbaugh said. “He does a nice job of getting downfield through the kick, and because of that he tends to kick a straight ball consistently. If you do that, you probably have a chance.”

Arvell Reese impresses early

Reese still being available when the Giants were on the clock with the fifth pick was somewhat unexpected, and now they're beginning the process of what assistant general manager Brandon Brown called maximizing the Ohio State product's abilities.

They see him as a weak-side linebacker, not an edge rusher like many other teams, and the first impression of Reese at rookie minicamp was a strong one.

“Picks things up really quick,” Harbaugh said. “Very serious-minded, very diligent about the assignments. I don’t think he got one assignment wrong throughout the two days, which is great to see.”

Odell Beckham Jr. remains in limbo

A contract has not yet materialized since receiver Odell Beckham Jr. worked out for New York last month, and it might not at all. Harbaugh said he spoke to Beckham three or four times over the past week while the 33-year-old trains in Arizona and did not indicate anything was imminent.

“It’s got to be right for both parties,” Harbaugh said. "I’m pretty sure that he can make a team in the National Football League right now, but can he make a difference? It’s something he wants to do. Is his body going to hold up in the way he wants it to? And all those things are questions that need to get answered for anybody at that age.”

Beckham has not played in an NFL game since Dec. 8, 2024.

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Thitikul started with a three-shot lead and it was gone quickly after a bogey on the second hole and a fast start by Hannah Green.

But Thitikul kept her cool and kept marching along on a Mountain Ridge course softened by spells of rain, but still difficult enough with its contoured greens to present problems.

Thitikul got up-and-down for par with a nifty pitch on the 18th to finish at 10-under 216, two shots over Celine Boutier of France, who had a 67.

“It’s a new day and I don’t know what’s going to happen, but just going to let golf be golf and then let myself be committed to golf and then just go by the flow with it and then just give myself a lot of chances,” Thitikul said. “Another opportunity under my belt that I have in the final round again.”

Hye-Jin Choi had a 66 and was three shots behind.

Green was only the first of the contenders who got within one shot of Thitikul with a four-hole stretch on the front nine that she played in 4 under, including an eagle on the par-5 eighth. But no one could surge ahead.

Ruoning Yin of China was within one shot playing the par-4 15th when she got in trouble off the tee and had a full short iron into for her fourth shot. She hit that to 5 feet and looked as though she might escape with a bogey. But she shockingly three-putted for triple bogey.

Yin answered with a birdie on the par-3 16th with its accessible front pin and had to settle for a 68, leaving her in a tie for fourth at at 6-under 210 along with Green and Allisen Corpuz, who has not won since the U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach in 2023. Corpuz shot 68.

“Just my brain, not working on this hole,” Yin said. “When I three-putted on 15 I was like ... I don’t know what I was thinking. I wasn’t angry. I just felt like I still have so many birdie chances coming up. ... I think my game is in a great spot and I think I starting to figure it out this course a little bit.”

Green dropped two shots on the back, including a bogey on the 18th, and she finished when the rain was at its strongest.

“I’m going to have to do exactly what I did on the front nine — put myself in good positions off the tee as well as on the greens,” Green said. “I felt like on the back nine I had a couple of opportunities to make a birdie but it was a downhill putt, so you just can’t be aggressive.”

Boutier played bogey-free after her opening hole, including a string of three birdies over four holes on the back nine to get within one shot.

“I feel like you have to be pretty smart and kind of like almost patient about it, because sometimes you’re tempted to go for things but it’s not always the smartest choice,” Boutier said.

Thitikul, so precise most of the cloudy day, got up-and-down from in front of the green on the par-5 17th for a birdie that gave her a two-shot cushion, and she protected it with a bold play over the cross bunkers from the rough on the 18th, and a super pitch up the false front to save par.

She lost her No. 1 ranking two weeks ago when Thitikul missed the cut at The Chevron Championship in search of her first major, and Nelly Korda won The Chevron and the following week in Mexico. Korda is not playing this week.

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Chewy intentaba romper un récord mundial con la fiesta de piscina para perros más grande.

El evento se realizó de 10 a.m. a 1 p.m. en Chewy Bark Park, ubicado en el 4500 de Ponce De Leon Boulevard.

“Hoy despedimos con profundo dolor a Germán Vargas Lleras, nuestro líder natural, servidor público incansable y una de las voces más firmes y determinantes de la política colombiana”, lamentó Cambio Radical sin detallar la causa de su muerte.

Vargas nació el 19 de febrero de 1962 en Bogotá en el seno de una influyente familia. Su abuelo materno fue el expresidente liberal Carlos Lleras Restrepo, quien gobernó entre 1966 y 1970, y cuyos pasos Vargas quiso seguir con dos aspiraciones presidenciales que no resultaron exitosas.

En su prolífica vida política, fue el vicepresidente de Juan Manuel Santos en su segundo mandato entre 2014 y 2017, renunciando antes de que culminara su encargo para aspirar a la presidencia en 2018, en la que resultó vencedor el conservador Iván Duque.

En sus últimos años de vida enfrentó problemas de salud. En 2016, cuando era vicepresidente, fue sometido a radioterapias y a una operación de resección de un meningioma -un tumor en las meninges- que fue calificada por sus médicos de exitosa.

En días recientes, había preocupación por su salud luego de que el expresidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez le deseara pronta mejoría desde la red social X.

“En mala hora de la Patria muere Germán Vargas Lleras. Su partida ocurre en el momento que la democracia más necesitaba de su verticalidad”, escribió Uribe Vélez, con quien tuvieron cercanía política.

Conocido por sus ambiciosos proyectos de infraestructura y construcción de vivienda cuando fue en el gobierno de Santos también su ministro de Vivienda, se preciaba de conocer el Estado y ser buen ejecutor.

“Fue un coequipero excepcional, con un conocimiento profundo del país y una inmejorable capacidad de ejecución al servicio de Colombia”, aseguró Santos en sus condolencias en la red social X dirigidas a su familia.

Vargas deja una hija, Clemencia, fruto de su matrimonio con la bailarina María Beatriz Umaña, así como a su nieto, con quien publicó unas de las últimas fotografías en redes sociales este año.

Fue un duro crítico del actual gobierno de Gustavo Petro, primer presidente izquierdista en el país, a quien cuestionaba por sus aspiraciones para reformar la Constitución, que no han avanzado, así como de presuntamente utilizar su poder para apoyar en la actual carrera presidencial a su candidato de izquierda, Iván Cepeda.

Petro lamentó en X la muerte de Vargas, a quien reconoció como un opositor serio que lo cuestionó con argumentos. “Tanto en el Senado como en campaña se comportó como un gladiador. En general contradictor mío, lamento que su seriedad en el debate desaparezca”, indicó el mandatario.

Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates cheered this week when a Vatican working group released a report featuring the testimony of two gay, married Catholics who spoke openly about their sexuality, faith and how the Catholic Church’s negative teaching on homosexuality had hurt them.

Additionally, Leo made clear during a recent airborne news conference that he believed the church’s teachings on social justice, equality and freedom were far more important than its teaching on sexual morality, suggesting he doesn’t intend to prioritize the issue.

At that same news conference, though, Leo indicated he will go no further than Francis on the contentious matter of same-sex blessings. The Vatican has recently renewed its opposition to any local efforts to deviate from the Holy See stance.

For the Rev. James Martin, an American Jesuit who has spearheaded the church’s outreach to the LGBTQ+ community in the U.S., the developments signal strong continuity with Francis.

“If the Catholic Church has begun to listen to LGBTQ Catholics as part of its methodology, the church has already moved forward in a significant way,” he wrote recently.

But the signals have prompted criticism from conservatives, who have stressed official Catholic teaching — unchanged during even Francis’ pontificate — that says homosexual activity is “intrinsically disordered.”

A synod document featuring searing testimony

The Vatican working group report summarized the work of experts studying controversial topics that emerged after Francis’ yearslong reform effort. The report has no binding value and is merely a synthesis of deliberations. It’s not clear what, if anything, Leo will do with it.

The testimony of the gay men, contained in annexes published on the Vatican’s synod website, featured moving accounts of how one, from Portugal, came to terms with his homosexuality and married his husband. The man also recounted how he sometimes struggled with his faith because of insensitive remarks from a Catholic spiritual director and forced “conversion therapy,” the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations.

The other testimony, from an American, criticized the therapy he went through and counseling he received from a Catholic pastoral group, Courage, that seeks to help people with same-sex attraction live chastely.

“My sexuality isn’t a perversion, disorder, or cross; it’s a gift from God,” the person wrote.

Courage, in a statement Friday, decried the negative depiction of its work, saying it has never been involved in “reparative therapy.”

“Courage has suffered calumny and detraction before, but usually from secular outlets,” the group said. “It is a great sadness and an additional wound to our members to have this false and unjust depiction in a Vatican document.”

Martin said the publication marked the first time that an official Vatican report “has included such detailed stories from LGBTQ Catholics. As such, it marks a significant step forward in the church’s relationship with the LGBTQ community.”

Bishop Joseph Strickland, whom Francis removed as bishop of Tyler, Texas, said the report was “deeply alarming” and contradicted church teaching about sexuality, sin, marriage and morality. In a post on his personal website entitled “An Emergency in the Church,” Strickland said the church’s teaching on homosexuality didn’t come from prejudice but from God.

“To suggest that the sin does not consist in the same-sex relationship itself is not merely confusing language. It is a direct assault upon Catholic moral doctrine and upon the words of Scripture itself,” he wrote.

The German church guidelines

The issue of LGBTQ+ outreach is coming to a head in Germany, where Catholic bishops have issued guidelines for priests on performing same-sex blessings that seemingly go beyond what Francis’ Vatican decreed in 2023.

That year, the Vatican’s doctrine office issued a declaration, known by its Latin title “Fiducia Supplicans,” that allowed priests to offer spontaneous, nonliturgical blessings to same-sex couples, provided such blessings aren’t confused with the rites and rituals of a wedding. Church teaching holds that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and woman.

The declaration prompted an unprecedented, continentwide dissent from African bishops and other conservatives, prompting the Vatican to clarify that such blessings must be brief, “10 or 15 seconds,” and aren’t a blessing of the union per se but the people in it.

In April 2025, German bishops and an influential lay organization published guidelines on implementing the declaration.

While stressing the spontaneous, nonliturgical nature of the blessing, the guidelines say they are for the relationship as opposed to individuals, and provide criteria for a proper celebration. The guidelines say, for example, there should be appropriate liturgical readings, “care in the preparation” of the event, and that people invited should offer “acclamation, prayer and song.”

Leo revealed last month, while traveling home from Africa, that the Vatican had told the Germans that it doesn’t agree with their proposals. This week, the 2024 letter in which the Holy See articulated its position was put online.

The letter, signed by doctrine chief Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, said the guidelines’ reference to acclamation resembled that of marriage and “in this sense effectively legitimizes the status of these couples, contrary to what is stated” in the Vatican’s 2023 declaration.

Fernández’s letter complained that the German guidelines’ mention of the location, aesthetic and music in a blessing suggested a liturgical ceremony that “contradicts” what the Vatican had allowed.

The letter didn’t veto the German guidelines outright but offered Fernández’s “observations.”

LGBTQ+ advocates welcome Leo’s measured approach

Leo met Thursday with German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who — despite Fernández’s letter — recently recommended that priests in his archdiocese use the German guidelines as a basis for their pastoral care.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Wednesday that talk of sanctions against German priests who use the guidelines was “premature” and said dialogue with German bishops was ongoing.

The hope is “never to have to resort to sanctions, that problems can be resolved peacefully, as should be the case in the church,” Parolin said.

Martin said the Vatican had been clear that the Vatican’s 2023 declaration limited blessing of same-sex couples only under certain circumstances.

“But the synod has also made it clear that it is inviting the church to listen, in a new way, to the experiences of LGBTQ Catholics. So, to me, there is no contradiction,” he told The Associated Press. ”Both ‘Fiducia’ and the synod report are steps forward in the church’s ministry to LGBTQ people.”

Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, which advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics, praised Leo’s comments on church teaching about sexual morality.

Returning from Africa, Leo was asked about Marx’s adoption of the German guidelines and how he intended to preserve the unity of the church over the divisive issue of same-sex blessings.

“It is very important to understand that the unity or division of the Church should not revolve around sexual matters,” Leo said. “I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.”

DeBernardo said it was “good to hear from the pope that he is making a decisive turn away from the church’s obsession with sexual matters.”

He also welcomed Leo’s “measured” comments about the German same-sex guidelines.

“He did not condemn or even criticize German church leaders. He simply said there is disagreement, and that this is not a cause for disunity,” DeBernardo said. “Both the new moral emphasis on social issues instead of sexuality, and the fostering of a more collegial church are good news for LGBTQ+ Catholics.”

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Geir Moulson contributed from Berlin.

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In the midst of a hantavirus outbreak that involves Americans and is making headlines around the world, the U.S. government’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been uncharacteristically missing in action, according to a number of experts.

To President Donald Trump, “We seem to have things under very good control,” as he told reporters Friday evening.

To experts, the situation aboard a cruise ship has not spiraled because, unlike COVID-19 or measles or the flu, hantavirus does not spread easily. It has been health experts in other countries, not the United States, who have been dealing primarily with the outbreak in the past week.

“The CDC is not even a player,” said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. “I’ve never seen that before.”

Not until late Friday did CDC actions accelerate.

Health officials confirmed the deployment of a team to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the ship was expected to arrive early Sunday local time, to meet the Americans onboard. They said a second team will go to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska as part of a plan to evacuate American passengers from the ship to a University of Nebraska quarantine center for evaluation and monitoring. Also, the CDC issued its first health alert to U.S. doctors, advising them of the possibility of imported cases.

At their first briefing, held Saturday by telephone only for invited reporters, officials pledged to be transparent in updating the public but said the media could not cite the speakers by name under rules set by aides to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They did not directly answer a question about whether the American passengers could leave the university medical facility when they wanted.

The CDC’s diminished role in this outbreak is an indicator the agency is no longer the force in international health or the protector of domestic health that it once was, some experts said.

The hantavirus outbreak is “a sentinel event” that speaks to “how well the country is prepared for a disease threat. And right now, I’m very sorry to say that we are not prepared,” said Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, chief executive officer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

How the outbreak unfolded

Early last month, a 70-year-old Dutch man developed a feverish illness on a cruise ship traveling from Argentina to Antarctica and some islands in the South Atlantic. He died less than a week later. More people became sick, including the man’s wife and a German woman, who both died.

Hantavirus was first identified as a cause of sickness of one of the cases on May 2. The World Health Organization swung into action and by Monday was calling it an outbreak. About two dozen Americans were on the ship, including about seven who disembarked last month and 17 who remained on board.

It’s WHO taking center stage

For decades, the CDC partnered with the WHO in such situations. The CDC acted as a mainstay of any international investigation, providing staff and expertise to help unravel any outbreak mystery, develop ways to control it and communicate to the public what they should know and how they should worry.

Such actions were a large reason why the CDC developed a reputation as the world’s premier public health agency.

But this time, the WHO has been center stage. It made the risk assessment that has told people the outbreak is not a pandemic threat.

“I don’t think this is a giant threat to the United States,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center. But how this situation has played out “just shows how empty and vapid the CDC is right now,” she said.

Tumult under Trump

The current situation comes after 16 tumultuous months during which the Trump administration withdrew from the WHO, has restricted CDC scientists from talking to international counterparts at times and embarked on a plan to build its own international public health network through one-on-one agreements with individual countries.

The administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program.

As this was playing out, Kennedy said he was working to “restore the CDC’s focus on infectious disease, invest in innovation, and rebuild trust through integrity and transparency.”

Waiting to hear from the CDC

The CDC has not been completely silent on hantavirus.

The agency on Wednesday issued a short statement that said the risk to the American public is “extremely low,” and described the U.S. government as “the world’s leader in global health security.”

Said Nuzzo: “Not only was that not helpful, it actually does damage because a core principle of public health communications is humility.”

The CDC’s acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, posted a message on social media that the agency was lending its expertise in coordinating with other federal agencies and international authorities. Arizona officials this week said they learned from the CDC that one of the Americans who left the ship — a person with no symptoms and not considered contagious — had already returned to the state. WHO officials said the CDC has been sharing technical information.

The CDC also is “monitoring the health status and preparing medical support for all of the American passengers on the cruise,” Bhattacharya wrote.

But federal health officials have mostly been tight-lipped, declining interview requests. The first on-camera appearance by a CDC official came Saturday morning, when Bhattacharya appeared on a Fox News program and said, “My message to the American people is please don’t worry.” But he got some details wrong and overstated what was known about the outbreak.

He incorrectly said two passengers in their 80s had died after they had contracted the virus while bird-watching in Argentina. The travelers were a 70-year-old Dutch man and his 69-year-old wife and while Argentine health officials think it is possible they were infected during a bird-watching outing, it has not been established.

COVID-19 comparison

In interviews this week, some experts made a comparison with a 2020 incident involving the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship docked in Japan that became the setting of one of the first large COVID-19 outbreaks outside of China.

The CDC sent personnel to the port, helped evacuate American passengers, ran quarantines, shared genetic data on the virus, coordinated with the WHO and Japan, held public briefings and rapidly published reports “that became the world’s reference data on cruise ship COVID transmission,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director.

Some aspects of the international response to the Diamond Princess were criticized, and it did not halt the outbreak or stop COVID-19’s spread across the world. But some experts say it was not for the CDC’s lack of trying.

“The CDC was right on top of it, very visible, very active in trying to manage and contain it,” Gostin said, while the agency’s work now is delayed and subdued.

Instead of working with nearly all of the world’s nations through the WHO, the Trump administration has pursued bilateral health agreements with individual nations for information sharing, public health support, and what it describes as “the introduction of innovative American technologies.” Roughly 30 agreements are currently in place.

That’s not sufficient, Gostin said. “You can’t possibly cover a global health crisis by doing one-on-one deals with countries here and there,” he said.

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Hefty marks — even without winning a championship — for the New Jersey native trusted enough to get plugged into most of UFC’s milestone cards in its rise into a billion-dollar global sports behemoth.

“I’m not just out there just to win,” Miller said of his fight style. “I’m out there to win to make me happy; to make me excited with the way that happens.”

Miller’s joy was dimmed over the last year when his teenage son was diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer. He dropped the fight week schedule for hospital visits and threw his focus into his family — all while knowing he would indeed return to the cage again.

When Miller fights Jared Gordon in a lightweight bout on Saturday night at UFC 328 in Newark, New Jersey, he’ll mark more than his 47th career UFC fight and aim for his 28th career UFC victory.

He’ll celebrate fighting for the first time since his son beat cancer.

Wyatt Miller was diagnosed with rhadbomyosacroma, a rare type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells in soft tissue and is more common in childhood.

Miller said the cancer cells were tucked into his son’s left eye socket and sinus area and first popped up as a sign of trouble last July when Wyatt complained that it felt like he had something stuck in his eye. There was a noticeable lump that indeed proved cancerous.

The health issues were, naturally, scary for all involved, though the family was grateful the cancer did not spread and force Wyatt to face more dire circumstances.

“The vast majority of it came out when they did the biopsy,” Miller said. “It kind of just popped out on its own.”

Wyatt underwent two courses of chemotherapy and fives week of proton radiation at Rutgers University Cancer Institute that Miller said doctors told the family could have potential side effects later in life. Wyatt will need scans and MRIs about every three months for the next year or so, to make sure the cancer has not returned.

He’ll need scans and cancer check-ups for rhadbomyosacroma well into his 20s. The disease had some ill effects on Wyatt’s vision but doctors said the tumors didn’t seem to present behind the eyeball and get tangled up in the optic nerves, which could have led to permanent damaging effects with his vision.

“He’s just a stud,” Miller said with a smile. “He’s just an amazing young man.”

Miller, tied for second with most finishes and most submissions in UFC history, has made a nice financial life for himself in a sport where fighter pay lags well behind the eight-figure annual salaries found in the traditional stick-and-ball sports. Yet, because UFC fighters are classified as independent contractors, not employees, the company is not obligated to provide benefits such as health insurance or retirement plans.

So, it doesn’t.

Miller pays for his own health insurance plan for his family and admitted that — while, yes, he had a bit more of a financial cushion — the out-of-pocket bills and other expenses have piled up during Wyatt’s cancer battle.

“It is what it is, right? We are contractors and that’s the way it goes,” Miller said. “We acted quickly, and he got treatment quickly, and he needed it quickly. We were lucky it was just where it was because it tends to spread to the lungs.”

Miller expected his wife and their four children — including Wyatt — to attend his fight for one of the few times in his career.

His son’s cancer scare kept him out of the cage for 13 months, an eternity for a fighter who made a habit of competing multiple times a year. Miller lost to Chase Hooper at UFC 314 in April 2025 and admitted he missed “that push, the grind of it” of all those training camps in his life without a fight to train for.

Miller is a New Jersey native and cut his teeth as a young pro in MMA cards in the state and has since seemingly fought on every East Coast card since his UFC debut in 2008. He first fought in Newark at UFC 111 in 2010 and has the distinction of being the only fighter to compete at UFC 100, UFC 200 and UFC 300.

He turns 43 in August, making UFC 400 seem like the ultimate long shot, even though he’s not quite ready to hang up his gloves.

Consider, when the 37-year-old Gordon made his UFC debut in 2017, Miller already had 26 fights on his resume under the company banner.

Miller credited his longevity in large part to good health and good fortune — he rattled off a list of fighters and coaches he knows who suffered freak injuries — to a career that may put his career fights record out of reach by the time he finally retires.

“I’ve always tried to train like a professional,” Miller said. “That’s really kind of it.”

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Cox died in Marietta, Georgia, according to the Atlanta Braves. He had a stroke in 2019 and heart issues that complicated his recovery.

“Bobby was the best manager to ever wear a Braves uniform. He led our team to 14 straight division titles, five National League pennants, and the unforgettable World Series title in 1995. His Braves managerial legacy will never be matched,” the Braves said in a statement.

Cox took over a last-place team in June 1990 and led the Braves to a worst-to-first finish in 1991, losing the World Series to the Minnesota Twins in seven games. That was the start of what was to become a record 14 consecutive division titles, a feat no professional team in any sport had accomplished.

He managed the Braves for 25 years and led Atlanta to its first World Series title in 1995, retired after the 2010 season and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014.

Cox ranks fourth all-time with 2,504 wins, fifth with 4,508 games, first with 15 division titles including a record 14 in a row, first with 16 playoff appearances and fourth with 67 playoff victories. Only Connie Mack, John McGraw and Tony La Russa had more regular-season wins than Cox.

“He was the first one to the park every day," Atlanta manager Walt Weiss said of Cox. "He’d have his spikes on at 12 o’clock. I never saw a manager wear spikes, but that was one of Bobby’s trademarks. He just loved the game. He loved the game, and he loved leading a group of men trying to win a championship.”

Cox also was first in being ejected from 158 regular-season games. Weiss, who called Cox instrumental in bringing him back to the Braves as a bench coach, was asked if he might get tossed in Cox's honor.

“It’s a different game now, you know, a very different era,” Weiss said. "Nobody can do it like Bobby, believe me.”

Cox's death came four days after that of fellow Atlanta icon Ted Turner, who as owner of Braves lured Cox back to the team in 1990.

The Braves retired Cox’s No. 6 jersey in 2011, when he joined the team’s Hall of Fame.

“RIP my second father,” Andruw Jones wrote on social media. The 10-time Gold Glove winner with Atlanta in July will become the sixth who played for Cox with the Braves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Cox spent 29 seasons as a major league manager, including four with Toronto. He managed 16 postseason teams. He brought an old-school approach to the dugout. He always wore spikes and stirrups, and his fatherly demeanor inspired loyalty from his players.

Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux said players around the league always wanted to know what it was like playing for Bobby Cox: “The first word that comes to mind is respect. He had that from players. When Bobby talked, we listened. We wanted to play for him.”

Cox was the first NL manager to win at least 100 games in a season five times. He was Manager of the Year four times and the only one to win in consecutive years (2004, 2005). He also had close ties with his successors, Fredi González and Brian Snitker.

He regularly attended games and spring training before a stroke in 2019 that affected his speech and movement. Cox recovered enough to visit the Braves later that season, watching a game from the press box level. His wife, Pam, said in 2020 that heart trouble slowed his recovery from the stroke.

His long marriage survived a 1995 confrontation in which he was accused of hitting his wife in the face. He was charged with simple battery and in custody for an hour. The following day, Bobby and Pam appeared at a news conference and each denied he hit her in the face.

Cox said the couple would seek counseling. The charge was eventually dropped.

Despite all his regular-season success, Cox won only the one World Series title in five tries. He led the Braves to Atlanta’s first major professional sports championship in 1995, beating the Cleveland Indians in six games to win the World Series. Cox said critics usually focused on the World Series losses instead.

The Braves lost in 1992 to Toronto in six games and in 1996 in six to the New York Yankees before being swept by the Yankees in 1999.

“It’s a game of breaks when you get down to a four-game, must-win series,” Cox said. “We’ve played well. We’re proud of what we’ve done. They always ask that, though. It is irritating, to be honest with you.”

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 21, 1941, Cox graduated from Selma High School in California in 1959 and attended nearby Reedley Junior College before signing with the Dodgers for a $40,000 bonus.

He spent seven years in the Dodgers’ farm system before being traded to the Braves’ organization, playing one year at Richmond (1967). He was traded to the Yankees for Bob Tillman and Dale Roberts and played third base for his only two seasons in the majors (1968-69) before bad knees forced him to retire at age 30.

Cox began the first of six years as a minor league manager in 1971. He returned to the majors in 1977 as a first base coach for the Yankees, who went on to win the World Series.

His first major league managerial job came with the Braves in 1978. The best season of his first stint in Atlanta was an 81-80 finish in 1980, and he went 266-323 in four seasons.

The Toronto Blue Jays hired Cox in 1982, and he led them to their first American League East championship in 1985, in his fourth and final year there. He was lured back to the Braves as general manager by Turner, their outrageous owner and visionary media mogul, in 1986.

As GM, his Atlanta teams never had a winning season. Cox did develop players key to the Braves’ success in the ’90s: Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Jeff Blauser, Mark Lemke, Dave Justice, Javy Lopez and Ron Gant. He also had two No. 1 draft picks who excelled, Steve Avery and Chipper Jones.

Cox returned as field manager on June 22, 1990, after Russ Nixon was fired.

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman played the first 12 seasons of his career with the Braves. He recalled Cox giving him 80 plate appearances in spring training when he was 19. Freeman has a jersey signed from Cox saying, “To Freddie, keep on hitting.”

“He lived a great life,” Freeman said. "Everyone loved him in baseball. Braves country loved him.”

Cox usually shied away from the limelight and was uncomfortable when talking about himself.

“Honestly, I’m just doing my job. I let everything else fall where it may,” he said.

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The street banners dotted the downtown landscape, the handmade signs were visible from any vantage point inside the sold out arena and, of course, Caitlin Clark jerseys and T-shirts remained a trendy favorite. And why not live it up as Clark's 10-month wait to play a meaningful game on her home court finally ended with the weekend's featured matchup between Clark and the Fever and Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings.

Yet even with the anticipation of seeing two of the league's most popular players and the last four No. 1 draft picks squaring off in Game 1, nobody was more excited to get started than Clark.

“I think there's a different juice inside your body when you're putting on your uniform and you're mentally locked in to go and play a basketball game,” she said before tipoff. “Like I was excited for my teammates last year, 100% I was their biggest fan. But it's not the same, it just isn't. I missed having the butterflies in my stomach before a game. Like I love that, and that means you're ready.”

The WNBA schedule makers certainly gave fans what they wanted following an offseason filled with collective bargaining agreement negotiations and uncertainty about this year's action.

By Friday night, it was all in the past. Two old rivals, the New York Liberty and Connecticut Sun, played the first game of the league’s 30th season with two potentially budding rivals, the Seattle Storm and Golden State Valkyries, capping the night in the third and final game. In between, fans got their first glimpse of the expansion Toronto Tempo against Washington.

That set up Saturday’s nationally televised matinee between Clark and Bueckers, and it didn't disappoint.

Clark scored 10 of her 20 points in the third quarter to help the Fever rally from a 60-51 halftime deficit, but she missed a logo 3-pointer that would have tied the score at 107 with 4.5 seconds left in the game. The former Iowa star finished 2 of 9 on 3s as the Wings held on for a 107-104 victory.

She also had seven assists, five rebounds and joined the 1,000-point club while Bueckers finished with 20 points despite missing two free throws with 1.6 seconds left. Azzi Fudd, this year's No. 1 draft pick, took only two shots in 18 minutes, making a 3 for the only points in her regular-season debut.

Clark also gave fans another injury scare. She briefly left the bench twice in the second half to have her back worked on but managed to finish the game, something she did not do in last week’s preseason game against Dallas after banging her kneecap hard on a fall.

“I feel good, started off a little slow I think just the anxiety of the first game,” she said. “Felt like I was literally just a couple of buckets away from putting together a really, really good game and getting a win.”

The result didn't temper the fanfare surrounding this game, though.

Clark and her teammates walked down the stairs and through the crowd to the court for player introductions with the loudest roar, naturally, reserved for Clark.

“I'm getting chills right now just thinking about where we are as a league," Fever coach Stephanie White said. “I mean this is what we dreamed about, right? From the time I was a rookie in this league to the time we won a championship in 2012 (with the Fever) when we were seeing sold out arenas only in championship games or in Finals games to becoming mainstream.”

While Clark played a big role in making sellouts the norm — in college and the WNBA — it's not just about Clark anymore.

Saturday's crowd included a small group in UConn jerseys, a nod to both Bueckers and Fudd, while another had a cutout of Bueckers on a sign saying she'd skipped her prom to attend the game. And there was a smattering of Bueckers fans dressed in Dallas jerseys, too.

“It's huge. I watched a lot of the games on YouTube TV las night so to be able to play on national television where a lot more people have access to it,” Bueckers said. “There's way more accessibility to it than when I was growing up watching the Minnesota Lynx. There wasn't as much national television coverage, you didn't see shows about it, you didn't so much on social media.”

But the addition of Bueckers, last year's WNBA Rookie of the Year, and the return of Clark, the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year, from a season-ending groin injury have the league poised for potentially its biggest season yet.

And the opening weekend fanfare had a little bit of everything — David Letterman and NBA All-Star Tyrese Haliburton sitting courtside, a moment to honor some of the pioneers from the Women's Professional Basketball League and Fever players walking through the crowd to the court during player introductions with the two biggest roars reserved for Clark and Bueckers.

“I think it's great for women's basketball more than anything,” Clark said referring to the four No. 1 picks — Fever center Aliyah Boston in 2023, herself in 2024, Bueckers last year and now Fudd. “And you know this might be the first time this has ever really happened in sports — having two No. 1 picks on both sides. I think it speaks to the young talent in this league, how excited fans are about them and how excited they are about these two teams having us match up in the first game of the season."

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La NASA ahora ha publicado más de 12,000 fotografías llenas de estrellas, poniendo la colección a disposición del público para su exploración.

Entre las imágenes destacadas se encuentran fotografías de la Tierra brillando en todo su esplendor, así como vistas que muestran al planeta asomándose sobre la superficie lunar.

Otras fotos muestran la Luna más de cerca, revelando texturas detalladas de su superficie, incluida la región donde la tripulación de Artemis IV espera aterrizar en 2028.

La colección también incluye una imagen en primera persona tomada desde el interior de la nave Orion, mostrando lo que los cuatro astronautas vieron fuera de su ventana durante la misión.

Funcionarios de la NASA describieron el conjunto de imágenes como una mirada sin precedentes a los viajes en el espacio profundo desde la perspectiva de los astronautas.

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Seeking to win back-to-back events, Young threatened the course record at Quail Hollow on Saturday before settling for an 8-under 63, leaving him two shots behind Alex Fitzpatrick at the Truist Championship.

Fitzpatrick was at 14-under 199 through 54 holes, one shot ahead of Norway's Kristoffer Reitan after each shot 64.

Young, who won last week’s Cadillac Championship at Doral by six strokes, needed to play the final two holes in 2 under to break Rory McIlroy’s course record of 10-under 61, set in 2015.

But his birdie putt on No. 17 stopped inches from the hole and his drive on the 18th settled in pine straw behind a tree, forcing him to punch out and leading to his only bogey of the day.

“I know (the record was) 10 under and I knew I was at nine,” Young said. “But that wasn’t my thought. I was just trying to hit it somewhere right of the hole on 17 and hit a couple good shots on 18. Unfortunately had one of my few bad swings of the day on 18.”

Before that, Young had sent his shot from a fairway bunker 238 yards away to within a few feet of the hole on No. 7 for eagle. He seized that momentum to birdie six of his next nine holes.

Matt Fitzpatrick was one of the favorites to win the Truist Championship — but it turns out little brother Alex is the one to watch this week.

Alex Fitzpatrick, who only earned his PGA Tour card two weeks ago when he teamed with his brother to win the win the Zurich Classic, rebounded from his only bogey of the day with a tee shot to 8 feet on the par-3 17th hole for birdie to reach 14 under.

Matt Fitzpatrick is a former U.S. Open champion who's currently ranked fourth in the world, and Alex said having his brother to lean on has been invaluable.

“I feel like he’s been and done everything that I want to do in the game — whether that’s Ryder Cup and win majors,” said Alex Fitzpatrick, who tied for ninth last week at Doral. “So having him being around and me being there for all of that, I felt like I got a really good sense of what it takes and what the atmosphere is like.”

Reitan, also a rookie, made some noise at the Masters before going 73-77 over the weekend to finish tied for 41st. He closed Saturday with four birdies over the final six holes to surge into second place.

“Just the opportunity to be near the leaderboard on a Sunday at a PGA Tour event, you know, rookie season — I’m just over the moon about that,” Reitan said.

Nicolai Hojgaard was four shots behind along with second-round leader Sungjae Im, who struggled down the stretch and shot 70.

Im skulled a bunker shot on the 15th hole, and the ball hit a grandstand and rolled back across the green before settling not far from where he began. It was one of two bogeys for the South Korean over the final four holes.

Justin Thomas, J.J. Spaun and Tommy Fleetwood were five shots back.

Rory McIlroy, the world's No. 2 player and four-time tournament champion, had a disastrous day, shooting 75 to fall out of contention.

Playing in his first event since winning his second Masters, McIlroy looked like he might make a charge up the leaderboard after bombing his drive down the middle on No. 1 and hitting his approach within a few feet for birdie.

But he didn't make another birdie until the 15th hole, with six bogeys in between on one of his favorite courses. He fell 13 shots off the pace.

Fitzpatrick could have a challenge holding the lead on Sunday.

Young has won three of his last 14 starts, including the Players Championship in March, to move to No. 3 in the world.

“I’m playing great,” Young said. “There is not a ton going on in my head, which is I think a very good thing. There is all kinds of stuff, but it’s nothing complicated. I’m thinking about shots and I’m thinking about my execution and that’s mainly where my head is at.”

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According to an incident report from the Hollywood Police Department, Sapp went to the department’s headquarters at 3250 Hollywood Blvd. around 10:45 a.m. on March 3.

While there, police said Sapp, 53, made an “unusual amount of requests,” preventing a female city employee from performing her duties.

Police said a Hollywood police lieutenant repeatedly told Sapp he could not record video inside an official police area, but Sapp allegedly refused and continued recording.

In a separate incident on April 22 around 11:15 a.m., a court filing obtained by Local 10 News states Sapp showed a detective a video connected to the March incident and insisted he had greeted the employee by saying hello.

However, the city employee later described Sapp in a statement as “rude, aggressive and intimidating.”

According to the report, Sapp also referenced “an ongoing court case” involving the employee and said she could potentially lose her job as a result.

Authorities said Sapp was later issued a notice to appear in court.

Court records show Sapp is facing with one count of interference with city employees in the performance of official duties.

Officials said the ordinance makes it unlawful to “obstruct, hinder, impede, delay and/or frustrate” city employees while carrying out official duties.

As part of the case, Sapp was also ordered to have no contact with victims or witnesses and remain at least 500 feet away from employees who work inside the building.

In a video posted to Instagram on April 20, Sapp defended his actions.

“I’m trying to do right and see what’s happening in my city hall where we pay a lot of money,” Sapp said.

Sapp also questioned whether he could speak with a city employee “at the door,” despite a sign outside the room stating: “Restricted access: Employees Only.”

In the same video, Sapp said he was “just trying to do right,” adding that he wanted “to see what was happening in my city hall where we pay a lot of money and they gave themselves a raise.”

Sapp also claimed that he was assaulted, threatened with arrest and thrown out of city hall in a place where he believed you can ask questions.

Sapp is scheduled to appear in court on June 10 for a hearing on the case.

Según un informe del incidente del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, Sapp acudió a la sede del departamento ubicada en el 3250 de Hollywood Blvd. alrededor de las 10:45 a.m. del 3 de marzo.

Mientras estaba allí, la Policía indicó que Sapp, de 53 años, realizó una “cantidad inusual de solicitudes”, impidiendo que una empleada municipal realizara sus funciones.

La Policía indicó que un teniente de la Policía de Hollywood le dijo repetidamente a Sapp que no podía grabar video dentro de un área oficial de la Policía, pero presuntamente Sapp se negó y continuó grabando.

En un incidente separado el 22 de abril alrededor de las 11:15 a.m., un documento judicial obtenido por Local 10 News establece que Sapp mostró a un detective un video relacionado con el incidente de marzo e insistió en que había saludado a la empleada diciendo hola.

Sin embargo, la empleada municipal posteriormente describió a Sapp en una declaración como “grosero, agresivo e intimidante”.

Según el informe, Sapp también hizo referencia a “un caso judicial en curso” relacionado con la empleada y dijo que ella podría perder su trabajo como resultado.

Las autoridades informaron que posteriormente a Sapp se le emitió una citación para comparecer ante el tribunal.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Sapp enfrenta un cargo de interferencia con empleados municipales en el desempeño de funciones oficiales.

Las autoridades indicaron que la ordenanza considera ilegal “obstruir, dificultar, impedir, retrasar y/o frustrar” a empleados municipales mientras realizan funciones oficiales.

Como parte del caso, también se ordenó a Sapp no tener contacto con víctimas o testigos y permanecer al menos a 500 pies de distancia de empleados que trabajan dentro del edificio.

En un video publicado en Instagram el 20 de abril, Sapp defendió sus acciones.

“Estoy tratando de hacer lo correcto y ver qué está pasando en mi ayuntamiento donde pagamos mucho dinero”, dijo Sapp.

Sapp también cuestionó si podía hablar con una empleada municipal “en la puerta”, a pesar de un letrero fuera de la sala que decía: “Acceso restringido: solo empleados”.

En el mismo video, Sapp dijo que “solo estaba tratando de hacer lo correcto”, agregando que quería “ver qué estaba pasando en mi ayuntamiento donde pagamos mucho dinero y ellos mismos se dieron un aumento”.

“En el video, Sapp también dijo que fue agredido, amenazado con arresto y expulsado del ayuntamiento en un lugar donde se pueden hacer preguntas”.

Sapp tiene previsto comparecer ante el tribunal el 10 de junio para una audiencia sobre el caso.

A free, digital textbook overseen by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center aims to be a high-caliber guide to help high school and college educators nationwide teach more effectively about AAPI experiences. “Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook” is the culmination of years of work by 100 contributors, from curriculum developers to illustrators.

“Our presence, our practices, our cultural rituals and things like that are not deemed as ‘American,’” Karen Umemoto, a co-editor and the Center’s director, told The AP exclusively before the $12 million project's official launch Saturday. “The actual putting together of this textbook also became our fight for inclusion and represents our right to be seen, our right to speak.”

The textbook covers a wide breadth of AAPI communities and their struggles, with more chapters to be added on a rolling basis. While May is AAPI Heritage Month, this platform is about keeping the spotlight on year-round.

“Young people are going to have so many different opportunities to see themselves and their communities represented in this core text. Now I can’t wait,” said Kelly Fong, a co-editor.

These scholars are well aware that with President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans working to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in education, it may be difficult to persuade some states and teachers to use the textbook at first. But that's not dampening their enthusiasm.

Working through anti-Asian and anti-immigrant sentiment

Academic freedom and editorial independence have been guiding principles since they first developed the idea for this textbook eight years ago. Then came the pandemic, and with it, a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Racial reckoning and fighting anti-Asian hate became part of the national conversation as they developed a prototype.

“COVID, I think, was really one of the things that shaped the textbook the way that it did,” Fong said. “We understood that it was about education as one of the ways to fight racism.”

The project felt like a “bridge” as a 2021 California law made ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, Fong added. By 2022, the Asian American Studies Center received federal and state funding for the textbook.

At a time when a large share of AAPI adults still worry about racial discrimination and now anti-immigrant rhetoric, Umemoto hopes learning stories about the challenges and achievements of individual immigrants will create some “historical empathy.”

Giving voice to underrepresented AAPI voices, including women

The textbook’s expansive scope goes well beyond the Japanese detention camps and Chinese laborers mentioned in standard textbooks. The editorial team whittled 150 ideas for chapter topics down to 50, with sections on the formation of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Asian Americans in the South, chapters related to Vietnamese, Hmong and Indigenous Hawaiians, and archival photos and embedded videos, including one on Filipino farmworkers narrated by rapper Ruby Ibarra.

“We were trying to be as inclusive as possible,” said Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, the Center's deputy director.

The book also gives space to individual female stories. You can read about Cornelia Delute, a Filipina supporter of the United Farm Workers, or Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl whose efforts to attend public school were approved by the California Supreme Court.

As the first woman of color and Asian American woman elected to Congress, Patsy Takemoto Mink opposed the Vietnam War and worked to prevent sex discrimination in education through Title IX. For her section, they found a political scientist who could contribute intimate knowledge — her daughter, Gwendolyn “Wendy” Mink.

“I’m just glad that the whole project exists,” Mink said, since her mother's generation is dwindling. “She was a fighter, she was principled, she offered hope to people who felt beaten down by defeats on struggles for justice. I hear it less because fewer people know about her deeply.”

Elevating AAPI history amid anti-DEI sentiment

The political landscape has shifted dramatically since the textbook was first proposed. Republicans now say DEI initiatives discriminate against white and Asian students in the college admissions process, a view shared by some Asian American advocates. The Trump administration has attempted to withhold funding from schools, including UCLA, for factoring race in admissions and for campus programs that support students based on their identities.

Some states have set up hotlines or websites to report any DEI practices at publicly-funded schools. And with critics likening ethnic studies to indoctrination, some schools are reluctant to support Asian American history in K-12 classrooms. Many teachers have been thrust onto “the front lines” of a cultural back-and-forth, Fong said.

“It's changed for the teachers who we were hoping would use the textbook. We have tried to figure out how to respond to best support them,” Fong said. “We don’t necessarily have an answer to that yet.”

While some states are focusing less on incorporating AAPI history now, the work continues in others -- often led by lobbying from large AAPI populations, said Tina Ellsworth, president of the National Council for the Social Studies.

Ellsworth, who has been a textbook reviewer, said textbooks have improved somewhat in terms of cultural relevancy and sensitivity to language. But she says this multimedia textbook “will come in very handy” as teachers seek additional materials on marginalized histories, particularly because it's free and attached to a reputable university.

“It’s just about letting people know that it’s out there,” Ellsworth said.

The textbook's authors are seeking another $5 million through private donations to expand it, market it and pay for cloud storage. New sections could involve Tongan Americans and Taiwanese Americans. “There are so many fascinating stories that have yet to be shared with the world,” Umemoto said.

That's why the two-time Gold Glove-winning catcher was not shocked when he learned from Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey after Friday night's game against Pittsburgh that he was being traded to the Cleveland Guardians.

The trade, in which the Giants received minor league left-hander Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson and the 29th pick in the 2026 amateur draft, was announced Saturday afternoon. Bailey took a cross-country flight from San Francisco to Cleveland and arrived before the Guardians faced the Minnesota Twins.

Bailey was listed as a pinch-hitter on the pregame lineup card. The game did not start on time due to a rain delay.

“A little bit surprised, but at the same time you can kind of see the writing on the wall a little bit there with my time,” Bailey said. “Just felt like I was losing opportunities, losing at-bats and obviously Jesús (Rodríguez) and Sus (Daniel Susac) had been playing really well. When you stop playing, you get a feel for what’s going on.”

Bailey has been regarded as one of the top defensive catchers in the game thanks in part to his elite pitch-framing skills since being called up in 2023. He leads the majors since 2023 with 69 catcher framing runs and 42 defensive runs saved over the past two-plus seasons.

But his hitting has been an issue and bottomed out this season. Bailey was batting .146 with one homer and five RBIs in 89 plate appearances. His .396 OPS ranked last among 286 players with at least 75 plate appearances this season.

Bailey had become expendable for the Giants with Susac and Rodríguez expected to handle most of the catching duties, with Eric Haase as another option. Those players have provided much more offense for the Giants, who enter the day last in the majors in scoring with 3.16 runs per game and tied with the New York Mets for the worst record in the National League.

“I think it’s more the confidence that we have in Jesús Rodríguez and Daniel Susac and just the strides that we feel like as an organization they’ve made defensively,” Posey said about the trade before Saturday's game against the Pirates.

Manager Tony Vitello pointed to Susac and Rodríguez's offense as another reason.

“You get competitive at-bats. You don’t always get the result you want but they’re both versatile. I mean, we could use either of those guys in a pinch-hit spot, a DH position and Jesús in particular, in different spots,” he said.

Besides acquiring Bailey, the Guardians made another surprising move by optioning Bo Naylor to Triple-A Columbus. Naylor has been the Guardians' regular catcher since 2023.

Cleveland general manager Chris Antonetti said before Saturday night's game against the Minnesota Twins that the organization has had interest in Bailey for a long time, but the right opportunity didn't happen until this past week.

“We didn’t set out necessarily to acquire catching, but this was an opportunity that we felt made sense because it, in our view, will help us win games and help us pursue our goal of winning a World Series,” Antonetti said. “About a week ago, we had some initial dialogue with the Giants and it seemed like for the first time there might be the opportunity to overlap."

Bailey, who turns 27 later this month, won Gold Gloves at catcher in 2024 and 2025. He is a career .224 hitter with a .611 OPS. He also becomes teammates with Austin Hedges, who is a close friend, and David Fry.

The Guardians entered the day with a 21-19 record and in first place in the AL Central.

“Kind of excited about a fresh start here. Super confident in my ability to hit. I know I’ve shown spurts of being a really good hitter and I’m confident that’s going to show up," Bailey said.

Manager Stephen Vogt, a former catcher, said bringing in a new backstop can be a learning curve for everyone involved, and that the first couple days will be a bit of a whirlwind.

“It's difficult. You’re coming overnight to a place that’s already rolling, 13 pitchers, other catchers game planning, how’s their stuff working that the teams aren’t always familiar that you’re playing," he said. "So it takes a lot of work and your first few days are very busy. It’s a lot of information, a lot of conversations, trying to get those relationships going.”

Naylor had a .237 batting average as a rookie in 2023 but has struggled offensively the past two-plus seasons. His .143 batting average this season is last in the majors among the 29 catchers with at least 90 plate appearances.

His .192 batting average since 2024 is next-to-last among catchers with at least 200 games played.

“That was probably my least favorite conversation I’ve had since getting this job (in 2024),” Vogt said of the conversation with Naylor about being sent down. “We still believe that Bo has a bright future with us, but any time you send somebody away from here, it’s the worst. But that one, especially.”

The 23-year-old Wilkinson pitched for Canada in the World Baseball Classic earlier this year. He has made six starts this season at Double-A Akron, going 1-2 with a 1.59 ERA with 36 strikeouts in 28 1/3 innings.

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Freelance reporter Kenzo Fukuda contributed to this story. Dubow reported from San Francisco and Reedy from Cleveland.

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The three drone strikes south of Beirut marked another escalation since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on April 17. Both Israel and Hezbollah have continued their daily attacks despite the truce.

On Wednesday night, Israel’s air force carried out an airstrike on a southern suburb in which Israel said it killed a senior Hezbollah military official. It was the first strike near the capital since the ceasefire was reached.

Two of the strikes on Saturday took place on the highway linking Beirut with the southern port city of Sidon in which several people were wounded, while the third happened on a road leading to Lebanon’s Chouf region killing three, the state-run National News Agency said.

An Associated Press journalist at the scene saw a dead body on the highway in the town of Saadiyat.

The Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Saksakiyeh killed at least seven, including a child, and wounded 15. The ministry said this was an initial count.

The agency reported strikes in southern Lebanon, including one on the village of Bourj Rahhal that killed three and another in Maifadoun that killed one.

The Health Ministry, meanwhile, said three Israeli drone strikes killed a Syrian man who was riding a motorcycle with his 12-year-old daughter in the city of Nabatiyeh.

The ministry said that after the initial strike, the man and his daughter managed to move away from the site only to be attacked again by the drone instantly killing the man. The girl then moved about 100 meters (yards) away and was hit again by the drone after she had been already wounded. The girl later died in a hospital, NNA said.

“The Ministry of Public Health denounces this barbaric targeting and the deliberate violence against civilians and children in Lebanon,” the ministry said in its statement added that the strike marks an ongoing series “of grave violations of International Humanitarian Law.”

The Israeli military said Hezbollah fired explosive drones into Israel near the border with Lebanon adding that three soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, in one of the attacks. It added that Hezbollah fired drones inside Lebanon as well in which one hit an Israeli vehicle without inflicting casualties.

Hezbollah claimed several attacks inside Lebanon as well as firing a drone at an Israeli military post in the northern town of Misgav Am.

The latest war between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel, two days after the United States and Israel launched a war on Hezbollah's main backer, Iran. Israel has since carried out hundreds of airstrikes and launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, capturing dozens of towns and villages along the border.

Later, Lebanon and Israel held their first direct talks in more than three decades. The two countries have formally been in a state of war since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

A new round of talks is scheduled to take place in Washington over two days starting Thursday.

A 10-day ceasefire declared in Washington went into effect on April 17. The ceasefire was later extended by three weeks.

In the Syrian capital of Damascus, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held talks Saturday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in which they discussed strengthening relations between the two neighbors and boosting security cooperation amid regional wars.

Speaking to reporters before heading back home, Salam said that Lebanon will not be used again to harm “our Arab brothers, on top of them Syria.” Salam was indirectly referring to Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria’s civil that broke out in 2011 by backing the five-decade Assad family rule that ended in December 2024.

Los más jóvenes de la familia Osuna agarran la pelota de hule que pesa 3,2 kilos, siete veces más que una de fútbol, y empiezan a jugar. Solo la cadera puede tocarla: saltando si llega por el aire, tirándose al suelo si va rodando.

Mientras México se prepara para coorganizar la Copa Mundial de Fútbol, el país echa la vista atrás 3.400 años para recordar uno de los deportes de equipo más antiguos que se conocen, el juego de pelota o ulama, una práctica casi aniquilada durante la conquista, que sobrevivió en remotas zonas del noroeste mexicano para renacer a finales del siglo XX.

Ahora, tanto las autoridades como los jugadores quieren aprovechar la cita mundialista para reivindicar este juego autóctono y recordar al mundo que algunas de las pelotas más antiguas de la humanidad rodaron por estas tierras.

Quienes lo juegan saben que su atractivo turístico detonó su renacimiento pero muchos se preguntan si el exotismo es la imagen que quieren proyectar de una tradición que forma parte de su identidad.

“Hay que quitar al juego la idea de fósil vivo”, señala Emilie Carreón, investigadora de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y directora de un proyecto académico-deportivo para estudiarlo y practicarlo.

Para los Osuna es un deporte trasmitido por generaciones que no quieren perder. Por eso tras la muerte del jugador de ulama Aurelio Osuna, su viuda, María Herrera, de 53 años, continuó con su legado enseñando a sus nietos en su pequeño pueblo de Sinaloa, 1.000 kilómetros al noroeste de Ciudad de México.

“Esta semilla va a dar frutos algún día”, asegura.

Un ritual prehispánico

El libro sagrado maya, el Popol Vuh, cuenta que el mundo fue creado a partir de un juego de pelota, donde la luz y la oscuridad se enfrentaron para equilibrar la vida y la muerte y poner al universo en movimiento.

Antes que los mayas, lo practicaban los olmecas —la civilización conocida más antigua de Mesoamérica— y la recreación de ese choche de fuerzas contrarias fue común en varias culturas prehispánicas de esta región como demuestran las varias pelotas de hule milenarias encontradas en México y las cerca de 2.000 canchas halladas desde Nicaragua a Arizona, muchas flanqueadas por taludes o con aros en lo alto como las emblemáticas de Chichén Itzá.

El juego, representado en códices, relieves y esculturas, tenía muchas variantes y significados: rituales, ceremonias de fertilidad o de guerra, actos políticos, sacrificios.

Es cierto que algunos jugadores eran decapitados —posiblemente los perdedores—- pero Carlos Navarrete, arqueólogo y antropólogo guatemalteco, aclara que eso sólo ocurrió en algunos lugares y ciertos momentos. Esta práctica física muy exigente era sobre todo un evento lleno de emoción y apuestas.

El conquistador Hernán Cortés quedó tan impresionado por el espectáculo que le mostró el emperador azteca Moctezuma que regresó a España con jugadores y pelotas de hule para hacer una demostración ante la corte de Carlos V, escribió Carreón en una revista de antropología.

Sin embargo, los colonizadores acabaron prohibiendo el ulama y mandaron destruir sus canchas, posiblemente por considerarlas una forma de resistencia a la evangelización. “La pelota era el demonio vivo” para la Iglesia católica, agrega la académica.

El juego, practicándolo con la cadera, el antebrazo o un mazo, sobrevivió en la costa norte del Pacífico, zonas donde el proceso colonial fue liderado por los Jesuitas que permitieron el juego en festividades católicas, afirma Manuel Aguilar Moreno, profesor de Historia del Arte en la Universidad Estatal de California.

El primer día de las Olimpiadas de México 1968 miles de espectadores quedaron asombrados con una exhibición realizada por hombres fornidos, cuyos cuerpos se contorneaban de forma insospechada para mantener el ‘hule’ en movimiento el mayor tiempo posible. El evento detonó el interés por estudiar este juego y preservarlo.

El resurgir del ulama

Luis Aurelio Osuna, 30, el hijo mayor de Herrera, empezó a jugar ulama de cadera a la salida de la escuela, como décadas atrás hizo su padre, en un rancho donde no había nada más con que distraerse. Ahora, sus tres hijos también juegan.

Osuna y su madre enseñan a los niños primero a golpear la pelota y luego poco a poco las reglas, que incluyen un complicado sistema de marcador con puntos que se ganan y se pierden. Los equipos tienen hasta seis miembros.

Lo hacen por pasión, pero también por pragmatismo en un estado donde el crimen organizado siempre está latente. “Necesitamos encontrar la manera de que se entretengan en cosas buenas”, dice Osuna.

Los niños a veces participan en exhibiciones y partidos formales pero nada parecido a los de antes, que reunían a jugadores de muchos ranchos en festividades religiosas y podían alargarse durante días. Poco a poco se perdió el interés en el juego y, además, las pelotas eran cada vez más difíciles de conseguir.

En la década de 1980, el cineasta Roberto Rochín localizó en la sierra de Sinaloa al que quizás era el último fabricante de pelotas de hule. El artesano las elaboraba de forma similar a los olmecas, quienes descubrieron que mezclando la savia caliente del árbol de hule con una planta concreta lograban un material resistente, elástico y muy duradero. Esa civilización fabricó algunas de las pelotas más antiguas del mundo.

Sentimientos encontrados

En los años 90, personal de un resort del Caribe mexicano cruzó el país en busca de familias de Sinaloa que representaran el juego de pelota como reclamo turístico en la Rivera Maya donde ya nadie lo jugaba.

“Es puro espectáculo: se pintan, se ponen plumajes”, critica Herrera. Pero también reconoce lo importante que fue todo eso. “Ahí empezó a renacer”.

La práctica comenzó a extenderse por México con diferentes nombres y modalidades y a conocerse en el exterior. Osuna, con el equipo de familiares que formó su padre, llegó a “darle al hule” en un anfiteatro romano de Italia. Llamó tanto la atención, recuerda, que los contrataron para un anuncio de desodorantes.

A un mes del inicio del Mundial, se preparan exposiciones sobre el juego en Ciudad de México y Guadalajara y tanto autoridades como empresas han vuelto a explotar el exotismo de los jugadores en anuncios para ensalzar las raíces mexicanas de cara a la cita deportiva internacional, algo que ha vuelto a generar sentimientos encontrados.

“No somos monitos de circo”, dice Ángel Ortega, un jugador de Ciudad de México de 21 años, que participó en una grabación con futbolistas pero no pudo mostrar cómo se juega el ulama.

Ilse Sil, jugadora e integrante del proyecto de UNAM que dirige Carreón, cree que además de recuperar las normas y tradiciones de cómo se juega en cada región, se necesita redignificar a los jugadores y adaptar la práctica a los nuevos tiempos.

El apoyo institucional ayudará a preservar el ulama pero considera que las autoridades deben promoverlo en comunidades y escuelas para captar a más jóvenes, porque sigue siendo un deporte muy minoritario, con un estimado de unos 1.000 jugadores, principalmente en México y Guatemala.

En Los Llanitos, nietos de Herrera no paran de jugar. No les importa dónde —en la tierra, en una cancha, en el corredor de su casa—, pero siempre prefieren hacerlo con la “reliquia” familiar: una vieja pelota de hule hecha a mano de la forma tradicional en las montañas de Sinaloa. Los niños aseguran que amortigua mejor los golpes.

Kiki, de ocho años, es el más entusiasta. Lleva la mitad de su vida jugando y tiene claro su sueño: tener su propio equipo.

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They said Sunrise Fire Rescue and Lauderhill Fire Rescue crews responded to reports of a smell of smoke inside an apartment building near the 5900 block of Northwest 16th Place. When crews arrived, they found heavy fire coming from multiple windows on the second floor of the complex.

Firefighters then launched an “aggressive fire attack” and were able to keep the flames from spreading through the attic and the rest of the second floor, officials said.

They said occupants safely evacuated the building, and no injuries were reported among residents or fire rescue personnel.

Fire officials remained at the scene awaiting assistance from the State Fire Marshal’s Office, which authorities say will help investigate the cause of the fire.

Officials said two families were displaced due to the fire and that the Red Cross is assisting them with temporary support.

No other details about the fire were immediately released.

Indicaron que equipos de Sunrise Fire Rescue y Lauderhill Fire Rescue respondieron a reportes de olor a humo dentro de un edificio de apartamentos cerca de la cuadra 5900 de Northwest 16th Place. Cuando llegaron, encontraron un intenso incendio saliendo de múltiples ventanas en el segundo piso del complejo.

Los bomberos iniciaron entonces un “agresivo ataque contra el fuego” y lograron evitar que las llamas se propagaran por el ático y el resto del segundo piso, informaron las autoridades.

Indicaron que los ocupantes evacuaron el edificio de manera segura y no se reportaron heridos entre los residentes ni el personal de rescate.

Funcionarios de bomberos permanecían en la escena a la espera de asistencia de la Oficina del Jefe Estatal de Bomberos, que ayudará a investigar la causa del incendio, según las autoridades.

Las autoridades indicaron que dos familias fueron desplazadas debido al incendio y que la Cruz Roja les está brindando apoyo temporal.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles sobre el incendio.

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A new online survey suggests opinions are split when it comes to how mothers prefer to be celebrated. Among mothers ages 18 to 44, 42% say they prefer spending time with family, with many also placing greater value on homemade gifts rather than store-bought items.

Meanwhile, 53% of mothers surveyed say they still prefer traditional gifts such as flowers or quality time with loved ones.

But shoppers heading to the stores this year may feel the impact of rising prices, with inflation and gas costs potentially influencing how people celebrate.

In the end, some say it comes down to what matters most to each mom.

We want to know what you think — cash, flowers, margaritas, or quality time?

Let us know in the poll or comment section below.

Una nueva encuesta en línea sugiere que las opiniones están divididas cuando se trata de cómo las madres prefieren ser celebradas. Entre las madres de 18 a 44 años, el 42% dice que prefiere pasar tiempo con la familia, y muchas también valoran más los regalos hechos en casa que los comprados en tiendas.

Mientras tanto, el 53% de las madres encuestadas dijo que aún prefiere regalos tradicionales como flores o tiempo de calidad con sus seres queridos.

Pero los compradores que vayan a las tiendas este año podrían sentir el impacto del aumento de precios, ya que la inflación y los costos de la gasolina podrían influir en cómo las personas celebran.

Al final, algunos dicen que todo depende de lo que más valore cada madre.

Queremos saber qué piensa usted: ¿dinero en efectivo, flores, margaritas o tiempo de calidad?

Déjenos saber en la encuesta o en la sección de comentarios abajo.

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Daisy is described as a 40-pound “love bug” who is good with kids and other dogs based on her time in a foster home. Shelter staff say she is shy at first but has a gentle, affectionate personality that comes out as she gets more comfortable.

At the shelter, Daisy has been quiet and calm, often resting on her bed. She also does well in the car and may bark when excited. Staff note she is heartworm positive, but say she will be treated at no additional cost to the adopter.

HSBC officials are encouraging families to visit the shelter to meet available animals.

HSBC’s Cherie Wachter said Daisy would make a strong addition to a home, especially for families considering a pet as a Mother’s Day surprise, as long as the whole family is involved in the decision.

In addition to Daisy, the shelter also has several cats and a pair of guinea pigs available for adoption.

The guinea pigs, nicknamed “Baby Doll” and “Black Mask,” weigh about 2.2 pounds each—larger than average for their species. Staff jokingly described them as “big boned,” but said they are cuddly and do well in pairs, and they are hoping to place them in a home together.

The shelter is located at 2070 Griffin Road, one block west of Interstate 95. Adoption services open daily at 11 a.m.

Click here for more information if you would like to adopt a pet.

Daisy es descrita como una “amorosa” de 40 libras que se lleva bien con niños y otros perros, según su tiempo en un hogar temporal. El personal del refugio indicó que al principio es tímida, pero tiene una personalidad gentil y cariñosa que se manifiesta a medida que gana confianza.

En el refugio, Daisy ha estado tranquila y calmada, descansando con frecuencia en su cama. También se comporta bien en el automóvil y puede ladrar cuando se emociona. El personal señaló que es positiva a gusano del corazón, pero indicó que recibirá tratamiento sin costo adicional para el adoptante.

Funcionarios de la HSBC están alentando a las familias a visitar el refugio para conocer a los animales disponibles.

Cherie Wachter, de la HSBC, dijo que Daisy sería una gran incorporación para un hogar, especialmente para familias que consideran una mascota como sorpresa del Día de las Madres, siempre y cuando toda la familia participe en la decisión.

Además de Daisy, el refugio también tiene varios gatos y una pareja de conejillos de Indias disponibles para adopción.

Los conejillos de Indias, apodados “Baby Doll” y “Black Mask”, pesan aproximadamente 2.2 libras cada uno, más grandes de lo habitual para su especie. El personal bromeó describiéndolos como de “huesos grandes”, pero indicó que son cariñosos y se llevan bien en pareja, y esperan colocarlos juntos en un hogar.

El refugio está ubicado en el 2070 de Griffin Road, a una cuadra al oeste de la Interestatal 95. Los servicios de adopción abren todos los días a las 11 a.m.

Haga clic aquí para más información si desea adoptar una mascota.

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At least 12 countries and five states in the U.S. are reporting cases.

The outbreak was first reported aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic after it departed Argentina last month.

“This is not Covid,” Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Aileen Marty said.

Marty said the Andes virus does not spread easily because it has a long incubation period that can take weeks.

But she stressed the virus is very deadly.

“These viruses go to the cells that line capillaries in the lungs and they look normal but they act weird and they are leaky and they allow fluid from your blood to seep into the airways of your lungs and makes it almost impossible for people to breathe,” Marty said.

Marty said she is concerned about how prepared the U.S. is to respond if cases do spread.

“If we’re not careful we may see secondary cases,” Marty said.

“The United States doesn’t have a healthcare system. The states have a healthcare system,” she added.

“Some states will be more strict, some may not. Some states have enough funding to do all the necessary contact tracing, some may not,” Marty said.

In the meantime, infectious disease specialist at Memorial Regional Hospital Dr. Kenneth Poon said this is a good time to practice the basics.

“Good handwashing and hygiene -- there’s no need for widespread masking or anything,” Poon said.

When asked about people rethinking their travel plans, Marty said, “If they’re going to Argentina, they certainly should be rethinking their travel plans.”

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Police say Kimora Mosley left her Fort Lauderdale home in the 5600 block of Northeast 18th Avenue at approximately 11:15 p.m.

They said she has been found and is “unharmed and in good spirits.”

Investigators also said that no foul play is suspected at this time.

Al menos 12 países y cinco estados de Estados Unidos reportan casos.

El brote fue reportado por primera vez a bordo de un crucero en el Atlántico después de que salió de Argentina el mes pasado.

“Esto no es Covid”, dijo la experta en enfermedades infecciosas, la doctora Aileen Marty.

Marty indicó que el virus Andes no se propaga fácilmente porque tiene un largo período de incubación que puede tomar semanas.

Pero enfatizó que el virus es muy mortal.

“Estos virus atacan las células que recubren los capilares en los pulmones y se ven normales, pero actúan de manera extraña y presentan filtraciones, permitiendo que el líquido de la sangre se filtre hacia las vías respiratorias de los pulmones y hace casi imposible que las personas respiren”, dijo Marty.

Marty señaló que le preocupa qué tan preparado está Estados Unidos para responder si los casos continúan propagándose.

“Si no tenemos cuidado, podríamos ver casos secundarios”, dijo Marty.

“Estados Unidos no tiene un sistema de salud. Los estados tienen un sistema de salud”, agregó.

“Algunos estados serán más estrictos, otros quizás no. Algunos estados tienen suficiente financiamiento para hacer todo el rastreo de contactos necesario, otros quizás no”, dijo Marty.

Mientras tanto, el especialista en enfermedades infecciosas del Memorial Regional Hospital, doctor Kenneth Poon, dijo que este es un buen momento para practicar las medidas básicas.

“Buen lavado de manos e higiene — no hay necesidad de uso generalizado de mascarillas ni nada de eso”, dijo Poon.

Cuando se le preguntó sobre personas reconsiderando sus planes de viaje, Marty respondió: “Si van a Argentina, definitivamente deberían reconsiderar sus planes de viaje.”

El juicio comenzó el 8 de marzo dentro del Tribunal Federal Wilkie D. Ferguson y, tras más de dos meses de testimonios, los jurados declararon a los cuatro acusados culpables de la mayoría de los cargos.

Los fiscales afirman que los hombres ayudaron a planificar y apoyar la operación que condujo al asesinato de Moïse dentro de su residencia cerca de Puerto Príncipe el 7 de julio de 2021.

Antonio Intriago, propietario de una empresa de seguridad del sur de Florida, fue declarado culpable de casi todos los cargos en su contra, incluidos cargos de conspiración relacionados con el complot.

Sin embargo, los jurados lo declararon no culpable del séptimo cargo de la acusación, un cargo de conspiración para matar o secuestrar a una persona fuera de Estados Unidos.

Los otros acusados —incluidos Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Walter Veintemilla y James Solages— también fueron declarados culpables de múltiples cargos.

“Pensamos que el caso del gobierno era insuficiente, pero tenemos que respetar el sistema y el veredicto”, dijo David Howard, abogado de Pretel.

Varios miembros de la comunidad haitiano-estadounidense del sur de Florida también llenaron el tribunal durante el juicio y muchos dijeron estar encantados de que el jurado alcanzara un veredicto después de años esperando respuestas.

“Se hizo justicia”, dijo la observadora del juicio Marie Jose Sejour. “Nadie merecía morir.”

La Policía indicó que Kimora Mosley salió de su vivienda en la cuadra 5600 de Northeast 18th Avenue en Fort Lauderdale aproximadamente a las 11:15 p.m.

Según los investigadores, fue vista por última vez vistiendo una camiseta negra y pantalones cortos negros de bicicleta, y llevaba una camiseta colorida envuelta en el cabello.

Las autoridades describieron a Kimora como una niña afroamericana, de 4 pies y 10 pulgadas de estatura y aproximadamente 80 libras de peso.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe comunicarse de inmediato al 911 o con su departamento de Policía local.

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During his speech, DeSantis said time has proven that the Brigade 2506 fighters were on the right side of history.

“If Cuba was free, it would be an amazingly successful country,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis was there to sign the Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement bill into law, aiming to restrict influence from “foreign countries of concern.”

Related document: Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement (FIRE) Act

The law’s key provisions include bans on surrogacy or adoption contracts, penalties for officials accepting foreign benefits, and restrictions on lobbying and government contracting.

DeSantis said Cuba needs regime change.

“You can’t do business with criminals,” DeSantis said.

The law also applies to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Syria.

Also on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the sanctions against GAESA, or Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., a Cuban military business conglomerate, and Moa Nickel, a partnership between the Cuban state and Canadian company Sherritt International.

Rubio said GAESA “is taking anything that makes money in Cuba and illegally putting it into the pockets of a few regime insiders.”

Related story: Feds seek to strip U.S. citizenship of ex-ambassador who spied for Cuba

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Durante su discurso, DeSantis dijo que el tiempo ha demostrado que los combatientes de la Brigada 2506 estaban del lado correcto de la historia.

“Si Cuba fuera libre, sería un país increíblemente exitoso”, dijo DeSantis.

DeSantis estuvo allí para promulgar la ley de Restricción y Aplicación contra la Interferencia Extranjera, con el objetivo de restringir la influencia de “países extranjeros de preocupación”.

Documento relacionado: Ley de Restricción y Aplicación contra la Interferencia Extranjera (FIRE)

Las disposiciones clave de la ley incluyen prohibiciones sobre contratos de gestación subrogada o adopción, sanciones para funcionarios que acepten beneficios extranjeros y restricciones sobre cabildeo y contratación gubernamental.

DeSantis dijo que Cuba necesita un cambio de régimen.

“No se puede hacer negocios con criminales”, dijo DeSantis.

La ley también aplica a China, Rusia, Irán, Corea del Norte, Venezuela y Siria.

También el viernes, el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, se refirió a las sanciones contra GAESA, o Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., un conglomerado empresarial militar cubano, y Moa Nickel, una asociación entre el Estado cubano y la empresa canadiense Sherritt International.

Rubio dijo que GAESA “está tomando todo lo que genera dinero en Cuba y colocándolo ilegalmente en los bolsillos de unos pocos miembros del régimen”.

Historia relacionada: Autoridades federales buscan despojar de la ciudadanía estadounidense a ex embajador que espió para Cuba

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El crucero tiene previsto regresar a Port Everglades el lunes.

Funcionarios de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC) informaron que 102 pasajeros y 13 miembros de la tripulación se enfermaron y desde entonces han sido aislados.

La línea de cruceros también confirmó que desinfectó todas las áreas del barco y aumentó los procedimientos de sanitización.

Funcionarios de los CDC indicaron que este es el cuarto brote de enfermedad gastrointestinal reportado en un crucero en lo que va del año.

En marzo, más de 150 personas se enfermaron en un crucero de Princess que también salió de Port Everglades.

We have explored the mysteries of Machu Picchu and were awestruck in The Outback by the magical monoliths rising into the sky.

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“What an incredible privilege it has been to have Local 10 document these trips. I have these video scrapbooks of the greatest times of my life,” Magill said.

From an adventure into wild Florida to a journey to the bottom of the world in Antarctica, our Local 10 News Eco Hero Contest winners have learned countless conservation lessons, and we have documented every step.

All these great times were made possible thanks to Magill’s foundation. The Eco Hero Contest, an annual competition for South Florida high school students dedicated to environmental conservation, is his lasting legacy.

“What if I could take one kid and make that kid an ambassador for the other kids? We know kids aren’t always as open to listening to us as adults as they are to listening to their peers,” Magill said. “Let’s plant a seed that grows, take them to the Galapagos or Antartica or Australia, and they become ambassadors.”

Over the years, our Eco Hero team has tracked the elusive platypus in the Australian rainforest and encountered the deadly bushmaster snake in Peru.

We have gone swimming with Florida’s lumbering manatees, and cozied up with Canada’s majestic wolf dogs.

“The most impactful for me was Antarctica; it’s the end of the Earth,” Magill said. “I remember looking at it with no sign of humans. There is something so special about being in that sort of peace and tranquility.”

Since Magill announced his retirement as Zoo Miami’s communications director, life has been anything but peaceful. The accolades just keep rolling in.

“I never thought I would have Ron Magill Day on Miami Beach,” he said.

In his office, Magill kept a wall of TV history: Rows and rows of photos of reporters.

“These are the people who enabled me to do the job I do. These are storytellers,” Magill said.

Yes, he is retiring, but he is moving from one office to another, just 30 yards north, next door, really, to the Zoo Miami Foundation, where he will take on a new role as Goodwill Ambassador.

“That’s working on conservation, working on the conservation endowment, leading travel programs,” Magill said. “God knows, I love travel and being able to speak at schools.”

The Eco Hero winners had encouraging messages.

Bela Perdomo, who traveled with us to Antarctica, is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Florida State University. Her goal is to make space travel safe for humans.

“I wouldn’t be where I am today without the support of you and the rest of the crew, so thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy your future adventures,” Perdomo said in a message to Magill.

Justine Padron, who traveled with us to Canada, said the lessons she learned stuck.

“Thank you so much for everything you did to make my trip to Canada so amazing is something I will remember for the rest of my life,” Padron said in a message to Magill.

Sienna Robertson, who participated in the Wild Florida trip, also had a message for Magill: “All the memories and all the experiences from that trip have stuck with me and have encouraged me to pursue environmental conservation.”

Last year’s Eco Hero, Brielle Martinez, who is studying at the University of Central Florida, said conservation continues to be her passion.

“Becoming the Eco-Hero Down Under was one of the best experiences of my life, and I know that you will continue to make a lasting impact in our community and around the world,” Martinez said. “You are amazing.”

Magill is eager to continue to work with students. His next journey: The Pantanal in South America, the world’s largest tropical wetland and home to the highest density of jaguars globally.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how much money you have in your bank account, what kind of car or size of the house you live in, it’s that you make a difference in the life of a child,” Magill said.

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Hemos explorado los misterios de Machu Picchu y quedamos maravillados en The Outback con los mágicos monolitos que se elevan hacia el cielo.

“Qué privilegio tan increíble ha sido que Local 10 documentara estos viajes. Tengo estos álbumes de video de los mejores momentos de mi vida”, dijo Magill.

Desde una aventura en la naturaleza salvaje de Florida hasta un viaje al fin del mundo en la Antártida, los ganadores de nuestro concurso Eco Hero de Local 10 News han aprendido innumerables lecciones sobre conservación, y hemos documentado cada paso.

Todos estos grandes momentos fueron posibles gracias a la fundación de Magill. El concurso Eco Hero, una competencia anual para estudiantes de secundaria del sur de Florida dedicada a la conservación ambiental, es su legado duradero.

“¿Qué pasaría si pudiera tomar a un niño y convertirlo en embajador para los demás niños? Sabemos que los niños no siempre están tan abiertos a escucharnos como adultos como sí lo están a escuchar a sus compañeros”, dijo Magill. “Plantemos una semilla que crezca, llévenlos a Galápagos, Antártida o Australia, y se convierten en embajadores”.

A lo largo de los años, nuestro equipo Eco Hero ha rastreado al escurridizo ornitorrinco en la selva tropical australiana y se ha encontrado con la mortal serpiente bushmaster en Perú.

Hemos nadado con los enormes manatíes de Florida y convivido de cerca con los majestuosos perros lobo de Canadá.

“El más impactante para mí fue la Antártida; es el fin de la Tierra”, dijo Magill. “Recuerdo observarla sin señales de humanos. Hay algo muy especial en estar en ese tipo de paz y tranquilidad”.

Desde que Magill anunció su retiro como director de comunicaciones de Zoo Miami, la vida ha sido de todo menos tranquila. Los reconocimientos siguen llegando.

“Nunca pensé que tendría un Día de Ron Magill en Miami Beach”, dijo.

En su oficina, Magill mantenía una pared de historia televisiva: filas y filas de fotos de reporteros.

“Estas son las personas que me permitieron hacer el trabajo que hago. Estos son narradores de historias”, dijo Magill.

Sí, se está retirando, pero se mudará de una oficina a otra, apenas a unos 30 metros al norte, literalmente al lado, a la Fundación Zoo Miami, donde asumirá un nuevo rol como embajador de buena voluntad.

“Eso implica trabajar en conservación, en el fondo patrimonial de conservación, liderar programas de viajes”, dijo Magill. “Dios sabe que amo viajar y poder hablar en las escuelas”.

Los ganadores de Eco Hero tuvieron mensajes de aliento.

Bela Perdomo, quien viajó con nosotros a la Antártida, cursa un doctorado en ingeniería biomédica en Florida State University. Su meta es hacer que los viajes espaciales sean seguros para los humanos.

“No estaría donde estoy hoy sin el apoyo suyo y del resto del equipo, así que muchas gracias, y espero que disfrute sus futuras aventuras”, dijo Perdomo en un mensaje para Magill.

Justine Padron, quien viajó con nosotros a Canadá, dijo que las lecciones que aprendió permanecen con ella.

“Muchas gracias por todo lo que hizo para que mi viaje a Canadá fuera tan increíble, es algo que recordaré por el resto de mi vida”, dijo Padron en un mensaje para Magill.

Sienna Robertson, quien participó en el viaje Wild Florida, también tuvo un mensaje para Magill: “Todos los recuerdos y experiencias de ese viaje permanecen conmigo y me han motivado a seguir la conservación ambiental”.

La Eco Hero del año pasado, Brielle Martinez, quien estudia en University of Central Florida, dijo que la conservación sigue siendo su pasión.

“Convertirme en la Eco Hero Down Under fue una de las mejores experiencias de mi vida, y sé que continuará dejando un impacto duradero en nuestra comunidad y alrededor del mundo”, dijo Martinez. “Usted es increíble”.

Magill está ansioso por continuar trabajando con estudiantes. Su próximo viaje: El Pantanal en Sudamérica, el humedal tropical más grande del mundo y hogar de la mayor densidad de jaguares del planeta.

“Al final del día, no importa cuánto dinero tengas en tu cuenta bancaria, qué tipo de auto conduzcas o el tamaño de la casa en la que vivas, lo importante es marcar una diferencia en la vida de un niño”, dijo Magill.

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Cheers rang around Etihad Stadium after second half goals from Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush helped second-placed City close the gap on leader Arsenal to two points.

It was a different atmosphere at Anfield where Liverpool fans jeered as the defending champion dropped more points in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea.

Third-placed Manchester United drew at Sunderland 0-0 while there were wins for Champions League-chasing Bournemouth and Brighton.

City keeps title hopes alive

Another big goal from Doku settled City nerves and kept manager Pep Guardiola in contention for a seventh Premier League title.

“I love it. I love to be here again,” Guardiola said, adding he feels no tension in the heat of the title race.

A well-organized Brentford managed to frustrate City until Doku came up with a moment of magic on the hour — curling a right-footed shot into the far corner.

It was a near-carbon copy of his late equalizer against Everton that salvaged a 3-3 draw for Guardiola's team on Monday.

That draw put the title race in Arsenal's hands, but victory against Brentford ensured the pressure remained on the Gunners to get a win at West Ham on Sunday.

“Come on you Irons!” Guardiola said at the end of his post-game news conference in reference to West Ham's nickname.

Haaland bundled the ball over the line in the 75th for City's second and his 50th of the season for his club and national team Norway.

Substitute Marmoush got the third in added time.

Jeers for Liverpool

The draw with Chelsea at Anfield saw Liverpool move a step closer to guaranteed Champions League qualification — fourth in the table with two rounds left — but another unconvincing performance sparked a frustrated reaction from the crowd.

There were boos at the final whistle to mark growing unrest from Liverpool supporters in a season that has seen the team tamely surrender the title despite spending around $570 million in the transfer market.

There has been speculation about the job of coach Arne Slot, who insists there will be improvements next term.

“This season they (fans) will have their opinion and it will not change, but if we can have the summer that we are planning to have I am 100% convinced we will be a different team next season," he said. "Different in terms of results, different in how things look."

Liverpool can make certain of a place in the Champions League with a victory at Aston Villa next Friday. But it could find itself in fifth place by the time that game kicks off.

Villa was fifth and would leapfrog Liverpool by beating relegated Burnley on Sunday. The top five automatically qualify for the Champions League and English clubs could get a sixth spot if Villa wins the Europa League and finishes outside the top four.

The draw allowed Chelsea to break its six-game losing streak. Enzo Fernandez's bouncing free kick went in before halftime to equalize after Ryan Gravenberch's early goal.

Liverpool twice went close to a winner in the second half when Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil van Dijk hit the woodwork.

Unlikely Champions League contenders

Bournemouth and Brighton were still pushing for Champions League qualification after both recorded wins.

Sixth-placed Bournemouth won at Fulham 1-0 in a game in which both teams were reduced to 10 men.

Brighton was seventh and beat last-placed Wolverhampton 3-0.

A goal after 35 seconds for Jamie Hinshelwood was the fastest Brighton has ever recorded in the Premier League, according to stats provider Opta.

Man U misses players

Without injured striker Benjamin Sesko and Brazil midfielder Casemiro, United failed to find a breakthrough at Sunderland.

United managed just one shot on target in a dour match that could have ended in a Sunderland win when Lutsharel Geertruida hit the post late on.

Championship playoffs

Middlesbrough and Southampton drew 0-0 in the first leg of their Championship playoff semifinal.

Buildup to the match was dominated by allegations Southampton spied on Boro's training. The English Football League charged Southampton with a breach of its rules after Boro complained there was “unauthorized filming on private property” ahead of the game.

After the first leg Boro coach Kim Hellberg let his feelings be known, saying “someone has made a decision to cheat.”

He said he was angry and disappointed “because it’s a big game and you try to get advantage in an ugly way ... unfair way.”

The second leg is at Southampton on Tuesday.

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At approximately 7:20 p.m., deputies said they responded to the 1100 block of South Military Trail after reports of a shooting.

They said two individuals who were known to the victim attempted to rob the person at gunpoint. During the encounter, one of the suspects fired a weapon at the victim, according to investigators.

Authorities said the victim managed to escape and was not injured.

Through investigative methods, deputies said they later located one of the suspects involved and took that individual into custody. The second suspect’s involvement and whereabouts weren’t immediately released.

Detectives with BSO’s Robbery and Crime Scene Units said they’re investigating the circumstances surrounding the attempted armed robbery and shooting.

The suspect in custody has not yet been identified.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Aproximadamente a las 7:20 p.m., agentes respondieron a la cuadra 1100 de South Military Trail tras reportes de una balacera.

Indicaron que dos individuos que conocían a la víctima intentaron robarle a punta de pistola. Durante el encuentro, uno de los sospechosos disparó un arma contra la víctima, según los investigadores.

Las autoridades informaron que la víctima logró escapar y no resultó herida.

Mediante métodos de investigación, los agentes indicaron que posteriormente localizaron a uno de los sospechosos involucrados y lo pusieron bajo custodia. La participación y el paradero del segundo sospechoso no fueron divulgados de inmediato.

Detectives de las unidades de Robos y Escena del Crimen de la BSO informaron que investigan las circunstancias que rodean el intento de robo a mano armada y la balacera.

El sospechoso bajo custodia aún no ha sido identificado.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso debe llamar a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

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Records show Leroy Wright, 46, is facing one count each of offenses against students by authority figures, unlawful sexual activity with a specific minor and a charge related to obscene materials involving a minor.

The school, located at 1751 NW 36th St. in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, lists Wright as a teacher on its website as of Saturday morning.

Wright, who was arrested on Friday, is scheduled to appear before a judge Saturday morning.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has been contacted for comment as investigators work to learn more about the circumstances leading to his arrest.

Local 10 has also requested his arrest report from local authorities.

As of Saturday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

The district reacted to the arrest with a statement on Saturday that read:

“Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is aware of the arrest of an employee from Miami Jackson Senior High School by the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department. The type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,” the statement read. “The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the District. At M-DCPS, the safety and well-being of all students remain our top priority.”

Los registros muestran que Leroy Wright, de 46 años, enfrenta un cargo de delitos contra estudiantes por parte de figuras de autoridad, un cargo de actividad sexual ilegal con un menor específico y un cargo relacionado con material obsceno que involucra a un menor.

La escuela, ubicada en el 1751 NW 36th St. en el vecindario de Allapattah en Miami, muestra a Wright como maestro en su sitio web hasta la mañana del sábado.

Wright, quien fue arrestado el viernes, tiene previsto comparecer ante un juez la mañana del sábado.

Las Escuelas Públicas del condado Miami-Dade fueron contactadas para comentarios mientras los investigadores trabajan para conocer más sobre las circunstancias que llevaron a su arresto.

Local 10 también solicitó su informe de arresto a las autoridades locales.

Hasta la mañana del sábado, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “pendiente por establecer”.

El distrito reaccionó al arresto con un comunicado el sábado que indicaba:

“Las Escuelas Públicas del condado Miami-Dade (M-DCPS) están al tanto del arresto de un empleado de Miami Jackson Senior High School por parte del Departamento de Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade. El tipo de conducta del que se acusa a este individuo no será tolerado, ya que va en contra de la conducta profesional que esperamos de todos los empleados”, indica el comunicado. “El Distrito ha iniciado procedimientos para terminar su empleo y garantizará que el individuo quede impedido de buscar empleo futuro en el Distrito. En M-DCPS, la seguridad y el bienestar de todos los estudiantes siguen siendo nuestra máxima prioridad.”

Another calls for court interventions by the Department of Justice on behalf of Amish parents fighting New York vaccine requirements and Catholic nuns challenging that state’s requirement that they accommodate hospice patients’ gender identities.

And the chair of the Religious Liberty Commission is calling for a federal hotline with this automated recording: “There is no separation of church and state.”

These are just some of the recommendations that members of the advisory panel formed by President Donald Trump last year want to see included in the commission’s final report.

That report is still in the works, but commissioners had an opportunity to describe their wish lists during their most recent meeting in April. There was little dissent as the commissioners, most drawn from Trump’s base of conservative Christian supporters, covered the items they want in the report.

Their ideas reflect the prevailing perspectives on the definition of religious liberty among many conservative Catholic and evangelical activists: increasing avenues for religious expression in public schools; expanding opportunities for faith-based organizations to receive public money; and allowing for religious-based exemptions in areas ranging from labor law to classroom lessons to healthcare mandates.

Such views have also been reflected in Supreme Court decisions issued in recent years by its conservative majority.

Commission criticized for narrow views

Critics of the commission say it embodies a one-sided perspective of Trump’s supporters and is threatening a well-established constitutional separation of church and state, despite the chair's claims.

A lawsuit by a progressive interreligious coalition argues that the commission fails to comply with federal law requiring advisory panels to feature diverse members and viewpoints.

The lawsuit echoes criticism that most commissioners are conservative Christian clerics and commentators; one is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. The coalition says members have asserted that America is specifically a Judeo-Christian or Christian nation and notes that most commission meetings took place at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, an institution with Christian leadership.

The Republican administration is asking a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit. The government is citing legal technicalities and contending the law does not define how a commission should be fairly balanced or whose viewpoints should be represented.

Another entity created by Trump — the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias — issued a report saying Christians faced discrimination under the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden in areas such as education, tax law and prosecution of anti-abortion protesters. Progressive groups said that report failed to document systemic discrimination, focused on causes favored by conservative Christians and amounted to advocacy rather than an investigation.

In a further interlocking of Trump-related initiatives, several members of the Religious Liberty Commission are scheduled to take part in a May 17 prayer event marking the country’s upcoming 250th birthday. Several also participated in a recent Bible-reading marathon staged largely at the Museum of the Bible.

Harmony and tension within the commission

The commission has mostly featured agreement among members, with one dramatic exception. One commissioner, Carrie Prejean Boller, was ousted in February after a contentious hearing on antisemitism.

Commission Chair Dan Patrick said Prejean Boller sought to “hijack” the hearing, in which she had sharp exchanges with witnesses about the definition of antisemitism and defended commentator Candace Owens, denying her record of antisemitic statements. Prejean Boller, a Catholic, contended she was wrongly ousted for expressing her beliefs.

In other hearings, witnesses described how they defied workplace regulations that they said conflicted with their conservative religious values on gender, abortion, COVID-19 vaccines and more. Some said they were prevented, at least temporarily, from displaying a religious symbol at work or trying to sing a Christian song at a school talent show.

At the hearing devoted to antisemitism, Jewish witnesses spoke of being harassed and threatened at campus pro-Palestinian protests against Israel. The commission has also heard from some Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and other witnesses.

Even so, critics said the commission mostly focused on conservative Christian and right-leaning political grievances.

The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president of the progressive Interfaith Alliance, one of the groups suing over the commission’s composition, said the panel’s omissions are as significant as what it focuses on.

He said the commission has failed adequately to address such issues as anti-Muslim efforts in Texas and elsewhere, and also the rise of antisemitism on the right, not just the left.

Separation of church and state debate

Raushenbush said he is especially worried about the commission chair's challenging the very notion of church-state separation.

Patrick, a Republican who is the Texas lieutenant governor, repeatedly denounced a concept that is embedded in Supreme Court precedent.

“We need to say there is no separation of church and state,” Patrick said at the April meeting. “That’s a lie.” He suggested printing “a million bumper stickers” to that effect.

No one at the commission meeting disagreed.

Trump made similar comments at a prayer event at the White House in 2025. “They say separation between church and state,” Trump said. “I said, all right, let’s forget about that for one time.”

While the phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear in the Constitution, 20th-century decisions by the Supreme Court cited Thomas Jefferson's description of the First Amendment as creating “a wall of separation between church and state." The court applied the First Amendment's prohibition of any church “establishment” to the states in addition to the federal government, citing the 14th Amendment's ban on states denying citizens’ rights.

Courts have since wrestled with how to balance freedom of religion and freedom from government-sponsored religion.

Concerns touch on schools, vaccines, workplaces and more

Patrick has advocated for prayer and Ten Commandments postings in public schools.

“I don’t have any malice towards anyone that doesn’t believe in any type of faith,” Patrick told fellow commissioners. “That’s fine. That’s what America is about. But these organizations that are pushed by some ideology and pushed by someone’s bank account who wants to remove God from our country? We need to push back.”

On other issues, various commissioners called for requiring schools and workplaces to post notices of the rights of religious expression and exemptions.

Some called for restoring full pay and pension benefits for military service members who were discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccines.

Bishop Robert Barron of the Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, called for enabling religious groups such as Catholic Charities to receive federal money without compromising on traditional church teachings about the family.

He also said Catholic immigrants in detention should have humane treatment and access to sacraments and that immigration agents should not disrupt worship services in enforcement actions. The administration last year eliminated a policy against immigration enforcement in sanctuaries, which other religious leaders said should not occur at any time.

Kelly Shackelford, president and chief executive officer of the legal organization First Liberty Institute, called for new requirements that governments pay all legal bills if they lose a religious liberty case. He said many individuals lack the money to challenge the government in court.

“That would be a huge shifting of power in favor of citizens,” he said.

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But as of Thursday, they will no longer cast the same ballot despite living across the street from each other.

That’s because Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature redrew the congressional district of Memphis, which has long enjoyed its own Democratic-leaning U.S. House seat. Now, the city is split into three Republican-leaning districts, its majority-Black population sliced up and bound to mostly white, rural and conservative communities along lines that branch away from Fowler and Wilson’s East Memphis neighborhood.

A line runs down the middle of the street, placing Fowler in the 8th Congressional District, which runs hundreds of miles to central Tennessee across a dozen counties. Wilson is zoned for the 9th District, which extends across most of the state’s southern border before curving up to encompass the largely white and affluent Nashville suburbs.

“I think it’s horrible,” said Fowler, who is white. “This isn’t just going to be bad for Black folks in Memphis, but poor whites in these new districts also aren’t going to get services. How are any of these congressmen going to serve all these different counties?”

Part of a national redistricting competition

The redraw was sparked by a ruling from the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court that may be a death knell for congressional representation of majority-Black Southern communities such as Memphis.

For 60 years, a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act required mapmakers to prove they were not discriminating against racial minorities in how they drew districts, often leading to political boundaries that allowed some minority communities to vote for their preferred representative rather than having their vote diluted by white majorities surrounding them.

The rule had the greatest effect in Southern states, where neighboring Black and white communities remain highly polarized in partisan politics.

On April 29, the justices severely weakened that requirement, ruling that the way courts had handled it improperly injected racial matters into redistricting in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Republicans across the South immediately leaped at the chance to redraw their maps before the November elections to eliminate as many Democratic-held, majority-minority congressional seats as possible.

Tennessee’s legislature was the first in a GOP-controlled state to finalize a new map. But it is one of several Southern states — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina among them — engaged in a broader partisan redistricting competition sweeping the country.

Republicans have long complained that the Voting Rights Act prevented them from doing to Democratic, majority-Black districts what Democrats in states they control do to conservative-leaning, white and rural areas — scatter their voters for partisan gain. That is what Tennessee Republicans did in their initial congressional map in 2021 to the state’s other large reservoir of Democrats in Nashville, where they did not have to step gingerly because that city is majority white.

“Tennessee is a conservative state and our congressional delegation should reflect that,” said Republican state Sen. John Stevens, who shepherded the bill for a new map that made all nine congressional districts solidly Republican.

A ‘central place’ in pursuit of racial justice

Wilson, the Memphis musician who is Black, was less distraught by the carving up of his neighborhood for partisan purposes. He saw the move as just another trial facing the city after a surge of federal agents sent by President Donald Trump to combat crime and amid narratives about Memphis' safety from neighboring suburbs and Republican state lawmakers.

“It’s a hustling community. We’re going to make ends meet for our families,” Wilson said. “The legacy of Memphis is music and our civil rights history,” he said, adding the two were intertwined. “Hard times mean you’re going to try and find your gift. That’s what we do here; music in Memphis is a way of life.”

The Memphis district predates the Voting Rights Act. For at least a century, well before Congress acted to protect minority voting rights, Tennessee has believed it made sense for its metropolis on the Mississippi River to have its own U.S. House district. But since that law was passed in 1965, anyone who tried to split up the district for partisan gain could be sued and have the maps thrown out. Now, legal experts say that is not much of a risk.

Nonetheless, Democrats and civil rights groups are suing to block the map. The symbolism is especially sharp as the city is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, built around the motel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. When the legislature passed the new maps, Democrats and protesters shouted “hands off Memphis!” and waved signs accusing Republicans of bringing back Jim Crow.

“Memphis is not just any city; it holds a central place in the national story of our quest for racial justice in this country and how, over time, we have increasingly achieved civil, voting, and economic rights for all Americans,” said Eric Holder, a former U.S. attorney general who chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. “Black citizens protested, marched and died there for the right to vote.”

Contentious relations with the rest of Tennessee

Memphis has faced dual stories in recent years. Billions of dollars in private investment and federal dollars have flooded into the area in recent years, but many local businesses still express concerns about a lagging regional economy.

Residents who spoke with The Associated Press expressed concerns about safety and public services but bristled at stereotypes about rampant crime. The twin stories are often on display in the river city, where pothole-filled streets run from empty storefronts to ornate mansion-filled neighborhoods and leafy college campuses only blocks away.

The city has long had a contentious relationship with the rest of the state, which voted for Trump in 2024 by a roughly 2-1 margin.

The conservative legislature in Nashville has clashed repeatedly with Memphis and accused its leaders of broad mismanagement. The legislature passed a law blocking many police overhaul efforts in Memphis that were put in place after the death of Tyre Nichols, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of city officers in 2023. It passed another measure seizing control of Memphis’ airport board and those of other cities across the state, and gave the state attorney general, also a Republican, the power to remove Memphis' elected district attorney.

“The state legislature is trying to take it over,” said U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, the white Democrat who still represents the city in Congress until the new lines kick in after the midterms. “And that’s absurd. It was all partially because it’s a majority Black city.”

Black Tennesseans deprived of fair representation, expert says

Thomas Goodman, a politics and law professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, notes that the new congressional districts may lead to greater friction over who receives attention — and funding — from lawmakers. Memphis residents will soon share districts with Republican towns with starkly different economies, geographies and demographics. Whoever holds those congressional seats will have an incentive to pay attention to those voters and not to Memphis’ population.

“It would not only deprive Black Tennesseans of proper representation,” Goodman said. “These changes also break up the city of Memphis as an entity into multiple districts, thereby removing a dedicated agent in government who knows the people, who understands their concerns and can speak for them and deliver on behalf of their interests and desires.”

Chris Wiley’s house sits in what was, before this week, a quiet street in Midtown Memphis dotted with duplexes, tidy lawns and sports fields. Now his neighborhood is carved apart at the intersection of three congressional districts. That is not surprising, he said, because “Tennessee is all about the dollar” rather than residents.

“Memphis is majority Black, so if you mess with that, what’s the point of even voting in Tennessee?” said Wiley, a 29-year-old sports stadium worker who is Black. “Whatever the congressional numbers, whatever that is, we don’t count on the scale as high, anyway.”

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Associated Press writer Nicholas Riccardi in Denver and AP videojournalist Sophie Bates contributed to this report.

A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults — and around half of those under 50 — get health information from social media or podcasts.

Researchers also looked at the social media profiles of 6,828 health and wellness influencers with at least 100,000 followers. Only about 4 in 10 list a background as a health professional. About one-third called themselves coaches, about 3 in 10 described themselves as entrepreneurs and about 1 in 10 cited their own life experience, like being a parent.

Despite the wide range of expertise, about half of people who get health and wellness information from influencers said the influencers help them better understand their own health, while about one-third said it hasn't made much difference. About 1 in 10 said it made them more confused.

Experts say a bit of skepticism is key to interacting with posts about fitness, mental health and personal health. Here are their tips on how to be a smarter consumer.

How to vet a health influencer's credentials

Experts said the biggest green flag is when an influencer's credentials are easy to find on their profile. Beware the fill-in-the-blank “coach” who can't prove their training.

Courtney Babilya, a certified medical exercise specialist and personal trainer who has more than 430,000 followers on Instagram, has seen this with maternity content: "Someone has a baby and suddenly they’re a pregnancy coach.”

“We have to be careful with people who have an experience in one thing and suddenly become a ‘coach’ on that,” she said.

Coach is a business model, not a sign of training. Babilya shares her own experience dealing with chronic illness online, but keeps it separate from her professional advice.

"You do have an obligation to make sure that you are not giving someone a false idea or spreading a message that isn’t going to be applicable to everyone," she said.

Don't fall for viral shock factor

If it brings up big emotions, pause. For people who can't access care or feel unheard by their doctors, an offbeat opinion could feel like a long-sought answer. The Pew survey found 53% of uninsured people got health information from social media, compared to 38% of those who were insured.

But people who are trying to share good medical information online are not trying to incite fear or surprise, said Dr. Fatima Daoud Yilmaz, an OB-GYN at Stony Brook Medicine in New York, whose popular “Feminine Aisle” video series rates drug store products.

Even if the person has expertise, ask yourself: Are they speaking outside the scope of their knowledge? Is what they're saying in line with scientific consensus?

“All opinions are not created equal when it comes to something such as health or medicine or science,” said Daoud.

Look out for exaggerated or definitive claims, especially in the first few seconds of the video when influencers are trying hard to grab your attention, added Babilya.

Ambivalent wording is a good sign, said Nedra Glover Tawwab, a practicing therapist and author. In her videos on boundaries and mental health, she couches with “maybe,” “sometimes,” “perhaps," rather than diagnosing her 1.8 million followers on Instagram.

If you feel like you've found a diagnosis online, that is your sign to seek out a professional, Tawwab said.

Follow the influencer money

People on social media are making money — for some, it is their livelihood.

“It doesn’t mean that all of the information that they put out is biased, but it should tell consumers of that information to take it with a grain of salt because they do have financial incentive to be pushing information like this,” Daoud said.

Babilya's platform is now a full-time job, and the way she helps support her family. Taking partnerships and brand deals was not an easy decision, but one that makes her work sustainable.

Babilya said she prioritizes being upfront with her audience and making sure her ads are transparently labeled.

Stop being a passive scroller

Experts also recommend pausing to check the video’s sources. Look for gold standard science. Some posts are not well fact-checked, Babilya warned, citing studies that have nothing to do with what the influencer says it does.

Use the same standard as when you’re vetting a purchase online. Look at the larger conversation around the advice as you would reading product reviews, Tawwab said.

Two-thirds of users said they just happen to come across the content rather than seeking it out, according to the Pew survey.

If you want to control your feed, it will take time and ongoing effort, said Ash Milton of the University of Minnesota, who studies how users navigate online mental health information.

“You have to work for it because the algorithm is designed to be passive consumption,” Milton said.

You can use “Hidden Words” on Instagram or “Not Interested” on TikTok to filter out certain content, though Milton notes TikTok might not know exactly what in the video you're not interested in. Use your own reaction as a barometer to limit content by asking yourself: Is the health information actually applicable and helpful to your life, or just relatable?

Find a doctor you trust

Confirm with a trusted health professional before acting on anything you see online.

Influencers can say anything while medical professionals are ethically and legally liable for your care, and “may face professional and personal consequences for the advice that they give you," Daoud said.

“Ultimately, talk to the medical provider who knows you,” she said.

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The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” according to a post on the airport’s official X account.

A spokesperson for the airport said the person, who jumped a perimeter fence, has died. They said the unidentified person was hit two minutes after entering the airport. The person is not believed to be an airport employee.

“We’re stopping on the runway,” the pilot tells the control tower according to the site ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.”

The pilot tells the air traffic controller they have “231 souls” on board and that an “individual was walking across the runway.”

The air traffic controller responds that they are “rolling the trucks now” before the pilot tells the tower they “have smoke in the aircraft. We are going to evacuate on the runway.”

Frontier Airlines said in a statement that flight 4345 was the one involved in the collision and that “smoke was reported in the cabin and the pilots aborted takeoff.” It was not clear whether the smoke was linked to the collision.

The airline said the plane was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members.

“We are investigating this incident and gathering more information in coordination with the airport and other safety authorities,” the airline said.

Passengers were evacuated via slides and the emergency crew bused them to the terminal. The airport spokesperson said 12 passengers suffered minor injuries and five were taken to hospitals.

One passenger, Jacob Athens, posted video showing people sliding down with their backpacks. He also posted photos of what looked like a damaged engine.

“As we were lifting off the engine of the plane exploded. There was so much smoke we couldn’t even see 1 ft in front of us,” Athens said on his Facebook page, adding that passengers had to wait for over a hour on the runway and “still no transport or help with the cold.”

Other video shows passengers calmly walking down the aisle of the plane and using the slide to evacuate. They were told to step away from the plane.

Denver Airport said the National Transportation Safety Board had been notified and that runway 17L, where the incident took place, was closed amid an investigation. It reopened Saturday around 11 a.m.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a post on X that the person “breached airport security at Denver Int’l Airport, deliberately scaled a perimeter fence, and ran out onto a runway.”

He added: “No one should EVER trespass on an airport.”

The incident came a day after a Delta Air Lines employee was killed while on the job at the Orlando International Airport. In a statement, the airline said the employee was killed Thursday night without providing details of the incident or the name of the employee.

“We are focused on extending our full support to family and taking care of our Orlando team during this difficult time,” the airline said. “We are working with local authorities as a full investigation gets underway to determine what occurred.”

But President Donald Trump might be interested in the role.

Shortly after the United States and Iran exchanged fire on Thursday, Trump made a quick jaunt to the National Mall to review the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that he ordered repainted a color he describes as “American flag blue.”

The project has been on his mind lately. During an hour-plus speech Monday to small-business owners, Trump spent about nine minutes talking about the paint job, detailing the granite floor and boasting that he whittled the renovation's cost to $1.9 million from what he said was an initial $350 million estimate.

Trump's next project might be East Potomac Park, home to an affordable, accessible public golf course with views of the Washington Monument.

The Republican president has talked of transforming it into a posh “U.S. Open-caliber course.” Signs were posted this week warning of a disruption and preservation advocates took the government to court as debris dumped there from the White House East Wing demolition tested positive for lead.

By late Friday, the nonprofit that operates the course said it would continue managing the space until the National Park Service begins a “historic restoration.”

Meanwhile, the White House told a planning agency that it would cost taxpayers at least $7.5 million to follow through on Trump's plan to paint the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.

And that was just this week in Washington's extreme makeover.

All the president's projects

Over the past year, Trump has bulldozed the East Wing to make way for a ballroom. His name was added to the facades of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center, which he plans to close for a two-year renovation. His face adorns a banner at the Department of Justice's headquarters, among others. He is pushing for a triumphal arch near Arlington Cemetery and has closed parks, including Lafayette Square across from the White House, for a rehab.

Trump is guaranteeing himself a lasting imprint on a city where he won just 6.5% of the vote in 2024. He is flexing extraordinary executive power and offering fresh insight into how he spends his time, perhaps a president's most valuable asset.

As the Washington projects unfolded this week, the ceasefire in Iran was at risk of unraveling, motor club AAA said the average price of a gallon of gas surpassed $4.50 and elections provided new evidence of Democratic enthusiasm heading into the November elections.

“It's not a zero-sum game but obviously all presidents have limited amounts of capital they can use and limited amounts of attention that they have to give,” said presidential historian Julian Zelizer of Princeton University. “And he's deciding, in a moment of war, a moment of economic instability, that this is a priority.”

Trump rejects such concerns.

Asked at the Reflecting Pool why he was focused on the project given the U.S. military action in Iran, he said, “Our country is about beauty, cleanliness, safety, great people. Not a filthy capital.”

Political considerations for Republicans

For Republicans defending slim congressional majorities, it is not so simple. Many would prefer to talk about policy accomplishments, including tax cuts, rather than multimillion-dollar Washington construction projects.

While few directly criticize Trump, there is an acknowledgment that the party needs to confront economic realities.

“A lot of Americans are very worried about the cost of living and we need to address it,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said recently.

A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted in late April found that 52% percent of Americans oppose Trump’s planned arch. That includes about 6 in 10 independents. Some 51% of Republicans favor it.

Americans oppose the ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, driven largely by Democrats and independents. About 2 in 10 Republicans oppose the project, according to the poll. The poll did not find a notable shift in support of the ballroom after a shooting at last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Trump has cited that incident in his push for a secure facility, something he did not mention when he initially ordered the demolition of the East Wing.

Trump is showing no sign of backing away from any of the projects. In a sign of the GOP's loyalty to him, Republican senators added $1 billion in White House security upgrades for the ballroom to an unrelated bill this week. Trump initially said taxpayer money would not be needed.

A dizzying pace of change in Washington

In a city where historic preservation is often sacred, the pace of change has been dizzying.

Rebecca Miller, the executive director of DC Preservation League, has spent 23 years at the organization, which sued to stop the golf course takeover and joined a coalition attempting to force the Kennedy Center to comply with preservation laws. She said her organization has worked with administrations of both parties and called the Trump moves “highly unusual.”

“One of the problems that we have right now is an administration that seems to think that it can just plow ahead without any input,” she said. “These assets are owned by the people of the United States. They're not anybody's personal portfolio.”

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said Trump is “laser-focused on lowering costs for working families, deporting illegal criminals, keeping our cities safe, beautifying our nation’s capital, and protecting our national security by ensuring Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon all at the same time.”

This is not the first time a White House has taken an interest in Washington's appearance.

During Lyndon Johnson's administration, first lady Lady Bird Johnson oversaw beautification efforts that included planting trees and flowers throughout the District of Columbia.

Her efforts were sometimes derided as distractions from other pressing issues, such as the Vietnam War. But she implemented them in coordination with local officials.

“Lady Bird Johnson was trying to bring out the natural beauty of Washington,” said Mark Updegrove, chairman of the LBJ Foundation and a presidential historian. “Donald Trump is trying to remake the nation's capital in his own image.”

Trump's assertion of power over Washington, including the continued deployment of National Guard troops, has animated the city's Democratic primary next month for key local offices, including mayor and delegate to Congress.

The first question at a forum for mayoral candidates this week focused on how to protect the Home Rule Act, the 1973 law that gave the city limited self-government. The candidates said they would stand up to Trump as needed, though one contender, Vincent Orange, noted that national Democrats had also failed the district.

“The two times that we had an opportunity at statehood, it was the Democrats who let us down," he said, referring to failed congressional attempts to make the city a state with full rights of representation.

In an interview, Janeese Lewis George, a D.C. Council member and top candidate in the mayor's race, said city officials need to do a better job of making their case in Congress for statehood. She said Trump's impact on the city is broader than the renovations, as she referred to the troop deployments as a “federal occupation” and noted the fallout from immigration enforcement activity and cuts to the federal workforce.

“The people of our city are afraid,” she said. “It's the mayor's job to really let the nation know that D.C. has uniquely been left vulnerable.”

Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican who often supported the city's autonomy when he was a congressman, said the renovations offer an “opportunity to bring some money into the city and spruce up stuff that you wouldn't have had otherwise.”

“But this is tough,” he said. “This is not a city that is in love with the president."

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Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

The vessel is expected to arrive Sunday at the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, and passengers will be taken to a “completely isolated, cordoned-off area,” said the head of Spain’s emergency services, Virginia Barcones.

Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens from the cruise ship.

While three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are known to be infected with hantavirus, cruise operator Oceanwide Expeditions said Friday there were no people with symptoms of a possible infection on board the Dutch-flagged ship, the MV Hondius.

The World Health Organization considers the risk to the wider public from the outbreak as low.

On Friday, the WHO said a flight attendant on a plane briefly boarded by an infected cruise passenger has tested negative for hantavirus. Her possible infection had raised concerns about the virus’ potential transmissibility.

The flight attendant’s negative result should ease concerns among the public, said Christian Lindmeier, a WHO spokesman. “The risk remains absolutely low,” he said. “This is not a new COVID.”

Hantavirus is usually spread by the inhalation of contaminated rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

Health authorities across four continents were tracking down and monitoring more than two dozen passengers who disembarked the ship before the deadly outbreak was detected. They were also scrambling to trace others who may have come into contact with them.

Passengers on the ship worry about how people will treat them

In interviews with The Associated Press, two Spanish passengers — speaking on condition of anonymity because of fears they’ll be ostracized once on land — said that despite the outbreak, their days aboard have passed with relative tranquility. Some people are bird-watching, and others are gathering in common areas to read or attend talks, while wearing masks and social distancing. Both passengers told AP they’re worried about how they’ll be treated in Spain and once home.

“We’re scared by all the news that’s coming out, by how people are going to receive us, by how people see us,” one said. “We’re just normal people. We’ve heard that this is a millionaires’ cruise, and it’s the complete opposite of reality. And we’re scared by this.”

Officials sought to reassure the public in the Canary Islands about possible exposure to the virus among the general population.

Once the ship reaches Tenerife, passengers will be evacuated in small boats to buses only after their repatriation flights are ready to take them, Spanish officials said Friday. Passengers will be transported in isolated and guarded vehicles, officials said, adding that the parts of the airport they travel through will be cordoned off.

Countries scramble to track passengers who disembarked

On April 24, nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died on board, more than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing, Dutch officials and the ship’s operator said Thursday.

It wasn’t until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a ship passenger, the WHO said.

The KLM flight attendant who tested negative for the virus was working on a flight headed from Johannesburg to Amsterdam on April 25, and had later fallen ill.

The cruise passenger briefly aboard that flight — a Dutch woman whose husband died on the ship — was too ill to stay on the international flight to Europe and was taken off the plane in Johannesburg, where she died.

The Dutch public health service is undertaking contact tracing on passengers who had contact with the ill woman before she left the plane.

On Friday, U.K. health authorities said a third British national who had been a passenger on the ship is suspected of being infected with hantavirus. The U.K. Health Security Agency said the person is on the island of Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory in the south Atlantic where the ship stopped in April. There was no word on the condition of the person.

Spanish health officials said Friday a woman in the southeastern Spanish province of Alicante has symptoms consistent with ‌a hantavirus infection and is being tested.

She was a passenger on the same flight as the Dutch woman who died in Johannesburg after traveling on the cruise ship, Secretary of ⁠State for Health Javier Padilla told reporters.

Two other Britons who were on the ship have been confirmed to have the virus. One is hospitalized in the Netherlands and the other in South Africa.

Authorities in South Africa are working to trace contacts of any passengers who previously got off the ship. They have focused mainly on an April 25 flight from the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic to Johannesburg, the day after some passengers disembarked on the island.

Some state officials across the U.S. said they are monitoring a small number of residents who were on the ship and already went home, as well as people who may have come into contact with ship passengers. None has symptoms.

Health officials in the US detail plans for American passengers

The U.S. agreed to send a plane to repatriate about 17 Americans who are still on the ship. Those passengers will be quarantined at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine, the hospital said Friday. None have symptoms.

Doctors will determine how long the quarantine will last after assessing the passengers.

The dedicated biocontainment and quarantine unit in Omaha previously was used to treat Ebola patients and some of the first COVID-19 patients. Nebraska Medicine is one of a handful of hospitals in the U.S. with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases.

“We are prepared for situations exactly like this,” Dr. Michael Ash, CEO of Nebraska Medicine, said in a statement.

The British government said it will charter a plane to evacuate the nearly two dozen British nationals onboard.

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Associated Press writers Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, Stefanie Dazio in Berlin, David Biller in Rome and Molly Quell in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed to this report.

The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, with more than 140 passengers and crew on board, is headed to Spain's Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, and is expected to arrive at the island of Tenerife early Sunday.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain’s Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, arrived on the island Saturday to coordinate the disembarkation of passengers and some crew.

“I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word ‘outbreak’ and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment,” Tedros said in a statement to the people of Tenerife.

“But I need you to hear me clearly: This is not another COVID. The current public health risk from hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now,” Tedros added.

The WHO, Spanish authorities and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said nobody on the Hondius is currently showing symptoms of the virus.

Hantavirus can cause life-threatening illness. It usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.

Some Tenerife residents say they don't want the ship there

Some on Tenerife say they are worried. On board the cruise ship, some Spanish passengers have voiced concern about being stigmatized.

“I tell you, I don’t like this very much,” said 69-year-old resident Simon Vidal. “Anyone can say what they want. Why did they have to bring a boat from another country here? Why not anywhere else, why bring it to the Canary Islands?”

Others said they empathized with the boat's passengers, but were still concerned.

“The truth is that it is very worrying,” said 27-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Samantha Aguero. She added: “We feel a bit unsafe, we don’t feel as there are 100% security measures in place to welcome it. This is a virus after all and we have lived this during the pandemic. But we also need to have empathy.”

Passengers can take only limited belongings and will be isolated

Garcia said passengers and some crew would disembark in Tenerife “under maximum safety conditions.”

The ship will not dock but will remain at anchor, with people ferried off in small boats. Everyone disembarking will be checked for symptoms and won't be taken off the ship until a flight is already in Tenerife waiting for them, Garcia said during a news conference in Madrid. There are currently people of more than 20 different nationalities on board.

Authorities are aiming to complete the evacuation flights on Sunday and Monday, the director of the WHO's Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Management, Maria Van Kerkhove, said in a briefing Saturday.

Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens. Americans are to be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.

All Spanish passengers will be transferred to a medical facility and quarantined, Garcia said. Oceanwide has listed 13 Spanish passengers and one Spanish crew member on board.

Those disembarking will leave behind their luggage, Garcia said, and will be allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, charger and documentation.

Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to the Netherlands where it will undergo disinfection, the minister added.

A medical evacuation plane will be on standby

According to a letter sent by the Dutch foreign and health ministers to parliament late Friday, Spain has activated the EU civil protection mechanism for a medical evacuation plane equipped for infectious diseases to be on standby in case anyone on the ship becomes ill. That person would then be transported by air to the European mainland.

The Dutch government will work with Spanish authorities and the ship company to arrange repatriation of Dutch passengers and crew as soon as possible after arrival in Tenerife, subject to medical conditions and advice from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the letter said. Those without symptoms will go into home quarantine for six weeks and be monitored by local health services.

As the ship is Dutch-flagged, the Netherlands may also temporarily accommodate people of other nationalities and monitor them in quarantine, it said.

Countries scramble to track passengers who disembarked

Health authorities across four continents were tracking down and monitoring more than two dozen passengers who disembarked before the deadly outbreak was detected. They were also scrambling to trace others who may have come into contact with them.

On April 24, nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died on board, more than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing, Dutch officials and the ship’s operator have said.

It wasn’t until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a passenger.

Dutch public health authorities have been monitoring people who were on a flight that was briefly boarded by a Dutch ship passenger who later died and was confirmed to have hantavirus. Three people who were on the flight and had symptoms have all tested negative for hantavirus, Dutch National Institute for Public Health spokesperson Harald Wychgel told The Associated Press on Saturday.

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Becatoros reported from Sparta, Greece. Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Helena Alves in Tenerife contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of the name for Maria Van Kerkhove, from Kerkove in earlier versions of the story.

The slain hikers were among 20 who set out to ascend the 1,355-meter (4,445-foot) volcano in defiance of safety restrictions and became stranded when Dukono erupted early Friday, spewing a thick ash column that rose about 10 kilometers (6 miles) into the air.

The woman, identified by authorities only as Enjel and known as a local hiker, was located Saturday afternoon, about 50 meters (165 feet) from the rim of the main crater, said Iwan Ramdani, who heads local Search and Rescue Office. The location of the bodies of two Singaporean climbers remains unknown, and rescue teams are continuing operations amid high volcanic activity, he said.

“The rescue efforts went through a situation that required careful calculation and a well-planned evacuation strategy,” Ramdani said, “We took into account the potential escalation of volcanic activity as well as the safety of all personnel.”

Hours after the eruption, 17 climbers had been safely evacuated, including seven Singaporean nationals and two Indonesians who eventually joined the rescue operation and provided information on climbing routes of the victims before the eruption. Ten of those evacuated suffered minor burn injuries.

The search operation that involved more than 100 personnel supported by drones resumed early Saturday, focusing on a 700 square-meter (7,500 square-foot) area where clues were found during earlier searches, despite hazardous terrain and continuing eruptions, according to Ramdani.

He said rescuers were prioritizing safety because Dukono’s volcanic activity remains elevated.

“The main challenge in this search effort is that we are racing against ongoing eruptions,” Ramdani said in a video statement, “When the authorities declare conditions safe, we move closer to the crater area, but when an eruption occurs, we must immediately secure all search personnel from potential danger.”

Indonesia’s volcanology agency reported multiple eruptions from early Saturday through late morning, including ash columns rising as high as 3,000 meters (nearly 10,000 feet) above the crater. Lava bursts were also observed overnight from a monitoring post near the volcano.

Mount Dukono has been on the second-highest alert level status since 2008. Authorities enforced a four-kilometer (2.5-mile) exclusion zone around the active crater in December 2024.

Local authorities formally closed all hiking routes to Mount Dukono in April and reinforced the ban following Friday’s incident. The National Disaster Management Agency warned that entering restricted zones could result in legal sanctions.

The agency urged climbers and tour operators to comply with safety recommendations, noting that similar restrictions apply to dozens of other active volcanoes across the country currently at elevated alert levels.

Indonesia, an archipelago nation of more than 270 million people, sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and is home to more than 120 active volcanoes.

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According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened in the waters off Little Palm Island, which is just south of Ramrod Key.

Deputies said the 27-year-old woman, who authorities identifed as Jocelyn Brown, had a dive flag up as the boater sped by and hit her.

Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said occupants of the striking boat recovered Brown from the water and transported her to shore. They confirmed that Brown later died from her injuries.

Authorities have not yet said whether the boater will face charges.

They did confirm that the FWC is handling the investigation.

A front to our north this weekend will move closer by early next week, increasing the chance of scattered showers and storms from Monday through Wednesday. Highs in the lower 90s this weekend will eventually slip back into the mid- to upper 80s by the middle of next week.

“My players recognized their mistake, expressed their remorse and asked for forgiveness,” Arbeloa told reporters in Madrid on Saturday in his first public appearance since the fight.

“That is enough for me,” he said. “What I am not going to do is burn them on a pyre in a town square, because they don’t deserve that. It is time to turn the page."

The tussle by the two midfielders when Madrid practiced on Thursday ended with Valverde at the hospital to treat a head wound. Valverde said he had hit his head on a table, calling the incident “a meaningless fight.”

Madrid said both players apologized to one another the next day when they met with club officials investigating the incident. They also apologized to their teammates, coaching staff and fans.

The 15-time European champion, however, found the spat a serious enough breach of team discipline to slap the players with fines that bite even the bank account of a top soccer player.

Arbeloa said he was satisfied with how the club had handled the situation, while also adding that he had seen worse behavior in his playing career as a defender, which included Madrid, Liverpool, West Ham and Spain’s national team.

“I had a teammate that hit another with a golf club,” he said, without giving any more detail. “Situations like this have always happened, but I am not justifying them.”

During Arbeloa's playing days at Liverpool, teammates Craig Bellamy and John Arne Riise were involved in an incident in which Bellamy hit Riise with a golf club prior to a Champions League game at Barcelona in 2007.

Arbeloa’s harshest words were not for Valverde and Tchouaméni, but rather for whoever it was who told the media about the fight. It was first reported by Spanish sports daily Marca.

“That what happens in the changing room ends up being filtered (to the media) for me is a betrayal of Real Madrid,” he said. “These things must stay in the changing room.”

And now a trip to Camp Nou with everything to lose

Madrid is facing a second straight season without a major trophy, despite having France star Kylian Mbappé on the squad.

The 43-year-old Arbeloa has only been in charge since January when he was promoted from Madrid's reserve team to substitute the fired Xabi Alonso. It would be a major shock if he is not replaced after the season given the inconsistent play of his star-studded side.

Arbeloa now has the difficult task of rallying his players for a game at fierce rival Barcelona on Sunday. Only a win by Madrid can stop Barcelona from clinching a second straight La Liga title, and even then it would likely just delay a title celebration by Barcelona with the Catalan club 11 points ahead of Madrid with four games left.

“There is no doubt I have to take the responsibility for the fact that we have not risen to the challenge this season,” Arbeloa said. “It is clear that feelings of frustration and anger can push you into situations that you don’t desire. But now we must focus on (Sunday’s) game.”

Tchouaméni will be in Madrid's squad for the clasico, Arbeloa said, while Valverde is on medical leave recovering from his head injury.

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Magyar’s center-right Tisza party defeated Orbán’s nationalist-populist Fidesz in a stunning blow last month, gaining more votes and seats in parliament than any other party in Hungary’s post-Communist history.

The win, which gave Tisza a two-thirds parliamentary majority, will allow it to roll back many of the policies that gave Orbán a reputation among his critics as a far-right authoritarian.

In a speech to tens of thousands of supporters in a square outside the parliament building after being sworn in, the new prime minister told the crowd: “Today, every freedom-loving person in the world would like to be Hungarian a little.”

“You have taught the country and the world that it is the most ordinary, flesh-and-blood people that can defeat the most vicious tyranny,” Magyar said to roaring applause.

As Hungary's new leader, Magyar has vowed to restore democratic institutions and governmental checks and balances that were heavily eroded during Orbán's rule, and to clamp down on alleged corruption.

His administration is expected to transform political dynamics within the European Union, where the former prime minister had upended the bloc by frequently vetoing key decisions, most recently concerning support for neighboring Ukraine.

A parliament without Orbán

On Saturday, Magyar, a 45-year-old lawyer who founded Tisza in 2024, entered the sprawling neo-Gothic parliament building alongside 140 of his party representatives.

Tisza now controls 141 seats in Hungary's 199-seat parliament. Orbán’s Fidesz-KDNP coalition controls 52 seats, down from 135, while the far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) party holds six seats.

The 199 representatives took their oaths of office at around 11 a.m. Orbán was not among them for the first time since Hungary’s first post-Communist parliament was formed in 1990.

Magyar earlier called on Hungarians to attend an all-day “regime-change” celebration on Kossuth Square outside parliament to mark his inauguration and the end of the Orbán era. Many of those gathered waved Hungarian and EU flags and wore Tisza T-shirts.

In his speech, Magyar delivered a message of unity, and promised to help heal the deep social divisions he said Orbán's government had sown.

“Today is the fulfillment of the long journey that we have made together in recent years, the fulfillment of the common belief that Hungary is able to get back on its feet, is able to believe in itself and to once again be a common homeland for all Hungarians,” he said.

Hungary's new National Assembly has 54 women lawmakers, most from the Tisza party — more than a quarter of the total and the most in Hungary’s history.

One of them, Andrea Szepesi, an economist from Budapest, said it was “about time” that more women held seats in parliament. Under Orbán's rule, there were fewer women in government than in nearly all of the EU's other 26 nations.

“Finally, women are able to participate in this new, beautiful democratic system and the flourishing of the country,” Szepesi told The Associated Press.

Repairing relations with the EU

Magyar has promised to repair his country’s ties with the EU, which Orbán had pushed to a breaking point, and to restore Hungary’s place among Western democracies, whose standing had been called into question as Orbán drifted ever closer to Russia.

The EU flag was raised on the parliament building’s facade Saturday afternoon for the first time since Orbán’s government removed it in 2014.

Unlocking about 17 billion euros ($20 billion) of EU funds for Hungary frozen during Orbán’s time in office over rule-of-law and corruption concerns is also among the new prime minister’s top priorities. The money is sorely needed to help jump-start Hungary’s struggling economy, which has stagnated for the past four years.

Another attendee of the celebration, 27-year-old web designer Áron Farsang, said he expects the new Tisza government to restore Hungary's democratic institutions and to “lead us back toward the European Union.”

“I would also really like it if we could get rid of the Russian influence as soon as possible,” he said. “I’m thinking about energy dependency and their general political style.”

Accounting for the past

Many of the nearly 3.4 million Hungarians that voted for Tisza expect Magyar to hold Fidesz officials and their business allies accountable for the perceived misconduct of the outgoing administration.

In his speech to the National Assembly, he called on Fidesz-appointed heads of government institutions, including President Tamás Sulyok, to resign no later than May 31.

Magyar plans to form a National Asset Recovery and Protection Office, an authority tasked with investigating and seeking to recover public funds misused during Orbán’s tenure. He’s also vowed to suspend the news services of Hungary’s public broadcaster — widely seen as a mouthpiece of Orbán’s party — until objectivity can be restored.

In his speech to lawmakers, Magyar referenced his intentions to hold former officials accountable for past abuses, saying voters had “given us a mandate to open a new chapter in Hungary’s history.

Fresh cuts and bruises on those long arms after fighting for paint position and jockeying for rebounds all night with the Minnesota Timberwolves made clear Wembanyama had to put in plenty of work to compile 39 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks in a 115-108 victory in Game 3 on Friday that gave the Spurs a 2-1 lead in their second-round NBA playoff series.

“It's going to happen," Wembanyama said. “They're Wolves, after all.”

The Spurs stayed unbeaten on the road in this postseason with their first win in a truly close game, after four victories in the first round over the Portland Trail Blazers with margins between 12 and 21 points.

“They just continue showing growth,” coach Mitch Johnson said.

Starting with Wembanyama. The 22-year-old phenom from France in his first NBA postseason has played in only seven playoff games, but he has wasted no time writing quite a legacy.

The only other players in NBA history to hit the 35-point, 15-rebound, five-block thresholds in a playoff game? Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille O'Neal. And only Wembanyama has now done it while shooting better than 70% from the floor. The 7-foot-4 star was 13 for 18 — and 10 for 12 from the line.

“It’s good to be along with the big fellas,” said Wembanyama, who credited Olajuwon for teaching him a spin fadeaway he sank over his mentor Rudy Gobert during a 16-point fourth quarter.

He did that despite picking up his fifth foul with 6:18 left, sitting for only about a minute down the stretch while helping the Spurs pull away each time the Wolves were within one possession.

“Just staying calm, getting my senses back,” Wembanyama said. “Our coaches tell us what to do. They give us the recipe, so as long as we stay steady and we trust our process we’re going to be all right.”

Wembanyama set an NBA postseason record with 12 blocked shots in the series opener, but he lamented his lack of impact on offense after the 104-102 loss to the Wolves on Monday. He stormed out of the gate for Game 2 by immediately asserting his dominance on both ends of the floor that sparked the Spurs to a 133-95 victory on Wednesday, and the travel north did nothing to stem that.

With a pair of effortless slams off lobs to start, the first one done in reverse, Wembanyama scored the first seven points for the Spurs as they sailed to an 18-3 lead. But he was even more of a force on defense, lurking in the paint and frequently prompting the Wolves to alter their layups and floaters to avoid being swatted.

“He's a world-class defender. You’re always aware of him,” Wolves guard Ayo Dosunmu said. "Yeah, he’s a gift at that end of the court.”

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For the chicken:

boneless, skinless chicken breast, pounded lightly to slightly flatten the chicken

Za’atar, as needed to crust the chicken

kosher salt, to taste

freshly ground black pepper, to taste

olive oil, as needed to sear the chicken

For the salad:

romaine lettuce leaves, cut or torn into small pieces

pomegranate seeds

crumbled feta cheese

toasted sesame seeds

For the dressing:

2 oil-packed anchovy fillets, chopped

1 small garlic clove, chopped

juice from ½ a lemon, freshly squeezed

3 tablespoon tahini

2 teaspoons Dijon mustard

3 tablespoons grapeseed or sunflower oil

water, as needed

3 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan

kosher salt, to taste

freshly ground black pepper, to taste

To make the dressing:

Combine the anchovies, garlic clove, lemon juice, tahini, ¼ cup cool water and Dijon mustard in a small food processor. Puree until smooth. Drizzle in the olive oil with the food processor running. If the dressing becomes too thick, you can add in a little water, a tablespoon at a time and puree to thin the dressing. Stir in the parmesan cheese and season to taste and salt and pepper.

To make salad:

Generously coat the chicken breast filets with za’atar spice and season with salt and pepper. Heat a drizzle of olive in a sauté pan and cook the chicken on both sides until cooked through.

Dress the lettuce with as much of the Caesar dressing as desired. Toss with pomegranate seeds and feta cheese. Transfer the salad to your serving plate. Top with toasted sesame seeds and the za’atar chicken.

For the salad:

½ block firm tofu, drained, cut into 1-inch cubes

½ teaspoon onion powder

½ teaspoon garlic powder

kosher salt, to taste

olive oil, as needed to sear to sear the tofu

romaine lettuce leaves, cut or torn into small pieces

For garnish:

crunchy chickpeas, purchased, optional

vegan parmesan cheese, shaved thin with a peeler

For the dressing:

5½ ounces roasted salted cashews

4½ - 6 ounces water from soaking the cashews

2 heads roasted garlic (see note)

1 tablespoon red wine vinegar1 tablespoon soy sauce

1 teaspoon vegan Worcestershire

1 teaspoon nutritional yeast

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

juice from ½ a lemon, freshly squeezed

kosher salt, to taste

freshly ground black pepper, to taste

To make the dressing:

Soak the cashews overnight in cool water in the refrigerator. The next day, drain the water from the cashews, reserving the soaking liquid for the dressing.

Combine drained cashews, the roasted garlic, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, Worcestershire, nutritional yeast, Dijon mustard and lemon juice in a blender. Add a couple ounces of the soaking liquid and blend the dressing. Add more liquid as needed to achieve a creamy, smooth dressing that is your desired consistency. Taste for seasoning and adjust with salt and pepper as desired.

To make the salad:

Season the tofu with onion powder, garlic powder and salt to taste. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a sauté pan, a nonstick pan works best. Sear the seasoned tofu until golden brown.

Dress the lettuce with as much of the Caesar dressing as desired. Transfer lettuce to a serving dish. Top with the seared tofu, crunchy chickpeas and vegan parmesan, if using. Garnish with a few cracks of freshly ground black pepper.

For the roasted garlic:

To make oven-roasted garlic, slice off the top ¼-inch of a whole bulb to expose the cloves, drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt. Wrap it in aluminum foil and bake at 400˚F for 40–70 minutes until the cloves are golden brown and soft. Let cool enough to handle and then squeeze out the soft garlic cloves and reserve for the recipe. Discard the garlic skin.

For the salad:

8 ounces Skirt steak

kosher salt, to taste

freshly ground black pepper, to taste

olive oil, as needed to sear the steak

1 cup tiny broccoli florets

1 cup broccoli stalk, touch woody end trimmed and discarded, peeled and cut into thin strips

3 cups kale, leaves very finely diced

Pecorino cheese, finely grated

CHEAT Caesar salad dressing:

3 each anchovies

1 cup mayonnaise

1 tablespoon red wine vinegar

2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

2 cloves garlic, minced

juice from ½ a lemon, freshly squeezed

splash water, as needed

1 cup parmesan cheese, finely grated

kosher salt, to taste

freshly ground black pepper, to taste

To make the dressing:

Place the anchovies in a medium bowl and use a whisk to break them up as much as possible. Add in the mayonnaise, red wine vinegar, Worcestershire, Dijon mustard, minced garlic and lemon juice. Stir to combine. Add a splash of water if the dressing is too thick. Stir in the grated parmesan cheese. Season to taste as desired with salt and pepper.

To make the salad:

Season the steak with salt and pepper. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a sauté pan. Sear the skirt steak to your desired doneness. Allow to rest for a few minutes before slicing. Transfer the sliced steak to a plate.

While the steak cooks, mix the kale, broccoli florets and stalks with as much Caesar dressing as desired. Season the steak with salt and pepper. Top the seared steak with the dressed salad. Garnish the salad with a generous amount of grated pecorino cheese and a few cracks of black pepper.

The jury limited its action to countries under investigation by the International Criminal Court for human rights abuses, but some say the U.S. should have been included. British artist Anish Kapoor cited “the politics of hate and war and all that that’s been going on now for too long.”

Visitors to the Giardini and Arsenale venues will vote for the best national pavilion, from 100 participants, and best participant in the main curated show, “In Minor Keys,” in Eurovision style. The vote will be anonymous, and by email, the Biennale said Saturday. Winners will be announced closing day, Nov. 22.

Ahead of the opening, protesters objecting to Israel's participation clashed with police on Friday. Earlier in the week, feminist groups from Ukraine and Russia converged on the Russian Pavilion and Palestinians remembered artists killed in Gaza.

Some places to start:

Koyo Kouoh’s ‘In Minor Keys’

A towering red feathered sculpture with beaded embroidery greets visitors to the main curated show. Rooted in New Orleans Black Masking culture born from practices brought by enslaved Africans, the costume-like sculpture signals the show’s focus on minority perspectives.

The first African woman chosen to curate the main Biennale exhibition, the late Koyo Kouoh assembled 110 artists and artistic groups under a title meant to spotlight the overlooked, and five co-curators carried on her legacy after her death a year ago.

“She was someone who thought about making spaces for everyone to shine and we see it in her exhibition, we see it with ourselves,” said co-curator Marie Helene Pereira.

Britain's Lubaina Himid explores life as a newcomer

Lubaina Himid, a Turner Prize winner, explores what it is like to make a home in a new place in her exhibition titled “Predicting History: Testing Translation” for the British Pavilion, featuring brightly hued paintings of couples facing the dilemmas of newcomers.

In one, two architects are trying to decide where to build. “One of them is trying to decide, would we build a building here, that proves that we have contributed to the culture, and the other architect is saying ’No, no, no, no, no. Let’s build something that we can escape in tomorrow,” said Himid, who was born in Zanzibar and has spent more than 70 years in Great Britain.

The Vatican’s Mystic Garden

The Vatican is offering spiritual respite from the world’s turmoil in the Mystic Gardens of Discalced Carmelite order next to Venice’s main train station.

Participants walk among the vineyards and pass a pomegranate tree and beds of herbs, wearing headphones that pick up music by the 12th-Century abbess, mystic and composer, St. Hildegard of Bingen, reinterpreted by artists such as Brian Eno and Patti Smith.

“Music also helps us delve into ourselves and understand, to use a phrase by Hildegard, the symphony that God has placed in our lives,” said Rev. Ermanno Barucco, prior of the Carmelite order.

Austrian Pavilion uses effluent as an artistic medium

A naked woman hangs from a bell outside the Austrian Pavilion, a human clapper making the performance art by Florentina Holzinger one of the hottest appointments in the Giardini. Inside, a nude rider swirls around on a Jet Ski inside a tank — emblematic of Venice’s relegation as an over-touristed amusement park.

A naked woman breathes through a scuba mouthpiece in another huge tank filled with water that has been flushed from nearby toilets and filtered multiple times. The presentation is called “Seaworld Venice.”

Israel: a meditation on love and war

Inside Romanian-born artist Belu-Simion Fainaru's installation, water drips from suspended tubes into a pool, stopping in cycles for just 42 seconds, representing divine creative power in Jewish mysticism. Locks hung around the pavilion, like those placed by lovers on bridges around Europe, are engraved with the commandment “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” in Hebrew, and the hopeful exhortation: “This too shall pass.”

“I am against boycott, I’m for dialogue, and that’s a political statement,” said Fainaru, who called the jury's exclusion of Israel a form of discrimination.

Art as a daily practice in the Estonian Pavilion

Estonian artist Merike Estna will work throughout the Biennale on a huge wall painting inside a community center gymnasium that was once a church — the space's layered history mirroring her practice of spilling paint to build deeply textured surfaces over time. The act of daily painting represents the undervalued quotidian work of women.

Curator Natalia Sielewicz likened it to “the everyday feminism of sustaining life, of sustaining our planet.''