The 50-year-old Democrat in Centreville, Illinois, worries that President Donald Trump and other Republicans will try anything from intimidating voters to seizing ballots to hold onto power in November’s midterm elections — and, in the process, jeopardize the outcome.

“I don’t put anything past these people,” he said. “My trust level is at its all-time low.”

Registered voters who identify as Democrats have lost faith in America’s election results since the midterm elections four years ago, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Their confidence that votes will be counted accurately has dropped from 75% in 2022 to 55% this year.

The overwhelming majority of Democratic voters also say the president attempting to influence U.S. elections is a “major problem,” a view that's shared by independents but not most Republicans.

Meanwhile, Republican voters’ confidence in the results has risen slightly since 2022 — but they’re still less likely to say they have faith in the electoral process than Democrats.

The survey, conducted less than a month before Election Day, signals how opinion has changed since Trump returned to the White House last year and began a wide-ranging effort to expand federal authority over elections. Even though the Constitution gives states and Congress control over voting processes, Trump has tried to overhaul them through executive action and lawsuits, so far without success.

With the Nov. 3 elections approaching, the Republican president has signaled he wants federal prosecutors to be on the lookout for fraud, suggesting he may try legal challenges if the votes don't go his way.

Williams said that, despite his concerns, he still plans to vote in the midterms because it’s the only power he has in choosing his representation.

“If you take that away from America, you pretty much take away the foundation of this country,” he said.

Republicans have gained more faith in the process since Trump’s return

Democratic voters, who had largely trusted U.S. elections even after Trump falsely claimed he won the 2020 race and his supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol to champion that cause, have recently begun to doubt the upcoming results. But they still have more confidence than Republican and independent voters.

Slightly fewer than half of all U.S. voters have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the accuracy of the vote, down to 45% this year from 50% in 2022. Independents have remained steady with a lower level of trust, with 34% saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in both years.

Republicans, meanwhile, are growing more confident since Trump returned to power, even as they remain less confident than Democrats. About 38% of GOP voters have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the results this year, compared with 26% in 2022.

Some voters said their confidence levels related to escalating threats from Trump that he could get involved in the elections. Earlier this month, his administration filed a lawsuit against California officials claiming they didn’t adequately address alleged noncitizen voters on their rolls, and it warned that election workers who process ballots from noncitizens could face criminal investigation and prosecution.

His administration has said it has no plans to send the military or immigration agents to patrol polling places, although the head of the Department of Homeland Security said immigration officers could be sent there for targeted operations, such as making an arrest with a warrant. Trump critics have expressed fears over potential voter intimidation, with some pointing to a Department of Justice plan to deploy 1,000 monitors to voting locations.

Alan Curtis in Grove, Oklahoma, is among the Republican voters feeling better this year. The 67-year-old, who was suspicious of election fraud before the presidential election in 2024, sees Trump’s bully pulpit as a strong deterrent.

“I think the election officials will be running scared,” he said. “The people in other political parties are afraid of what Donald Trump might do.”

Curtis said he still believes that Democrats could try to cheat — an accusation made often by the president without providing evidence — but he expects Trump will step in with lawsuits or other interventions if he sees anything suspicious.

“He’s going to challenge anything where he sees things that look out of the ordinary,” Curtis said of Trump.

If there are legal challenges, few Americans have faith in the U.S. Supreme Court to decide them fairly. Just 17% of registered voters were “extremely" or "very” confident the court would handle a case related to the midterm elections in a fair and nonpartisan manner.

Democrats see presidential election interference as a big problem

While some Republicans view Trump getting involved as a positive, the poll shows the vast majority of Democrats feel the opposite.

About 9 in 10 Democratic voters believe that the president attempting to influence election outcomes is “a major problem,” compared with only about 2 in 10 Republican voters.

Brooklyn Johnson, a 26-year-old Democrat in Davis, California, said she dislikes Trump's dubious promise of $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans retain control of the House and the Senate in the midterms.

“The fact that he's been trying to bribe people, that's a little weird,” she said. “It doesn't seem legal."

Eugenio Mendez, an independent voter in Columbia, South Carolina, who leans toward Democrats, is so concerned about Trump interfering that it’s affecting his voting plan.

“I don’t trust that mailing my ballot will be counted,” said the 49-year-old Mendez.

He said he'll vote in person this year because he worries Trump could use his influence over the U.S. Postal Service to meddle with mail-in ballots. Trump signed an executive order this year directing changes at the Postal Service designed to restrict mail voting, but the Supreme Court did not allow the plan to move forward for the midterms.

Voters of different parties see distinct election problems

While Democrats worry about presidential interference, Republicans are more concerned about people voting when they are ineligible. About 7 in 10 Republican voters say this is a “major problem” in U.S. elections compared with just 25% of Democratic voters.

Majorities of voters from both parties also say foreign governments trying to influence election outcomes, artificial intelligence-generated election misinformation and states redrawing legislative districts to intentionally favor one party are “major problems."

Approaches to voting laws, which differ by state, are also a major dividing line between the parties. Republican voters overwhelmingly favor requiring voters to show ID when casting a ballot and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote, changes Trump tried unsuccessfully to pass through Congress.

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to favor allowing voters to register and cast a ballot the same day, as well as to support mailing a ballot to all registered voters, a practice Trump and other Republicans have criticized.

But while their support was not as strong as Republicans', a majority of Democratic voters also favor a voter ID requirement.

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Swenson reported from New York.

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The AP-NORC poll of 1,119 adults, including 925 registered voters, was conducted Oct. 8-12 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points, and the margin of error for registered voters is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.

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This year’s festival will feature two entertainment stages, DJs, live performances, dancing and costume contests.

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Thousands of costumed revelers take over Lincoln Road for an open-air Halloween celebration featuring creative costumes, dining and nightlife.

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The South Florida Fairgrounds transforms into a Halloween scream park with haunted houses, frightening characters and carnival rides.

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The deal comes at a time when President Donald Trump has taken actions meant to benefit Moscow.

Stephen Hubbard, of Michigan, was sentenced after a closed trial in 2024 to nearly seven years in prison. Prosecutors said he had signed a contract with the Ukrainian military after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, and that he fought alongside them until being captured two months later.

The U.S. government under the Biden administration designated Hubbard as wrongfully detained.

Witkoff thanked Putin for releasing Hubbard, telling him, “Because of you, he's going home to his family.” The Russian leader responded that Hubbard was at the St. Petersburg airport, Pulkovo, after the release.

Witkoff has tried without success to steer Russia and Ukraine toward a settlement to end a war that will hit the five-year mark in February. Trump foreshadowed a release earlier in the week, telling reporters at the White House: “I’ve been talking to President Putin about Mr. Hubbard. I’ve been talking to him at length. I’ve asked him to release him. Let’s see what happens.”

The release occurred at a dynamic moment in relations between the United States, Ukraine and Russia, with the Washington-Kyiv alliance being stretched by tensions over drone support as the Trump administration advances policies that aid Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He decided Friday, for instance, to waive sanctions on Russia in a bill that Congress overwhelmingly passed to support Ukraine. Named after late South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the legislation targeted the flow of financial resources fueling Russia’s war.

That reversal followed Trump’s announcement of a deal to import Russian diesel fuel in a long-shot effort to curb high gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next month.

Witkoff said in televised remarks at the start of the meeting that he hoped to discuss the resumption of the trilateral talks involving the U.S., Russia and Ukraine that would allow the technical teams to discuss the next steps toward a peace settlement.

Putin thanked Trump and Witkoff for their efforts to end the war.

The visit came a day after Witkoff met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some European leaders in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

Witkoff’s meetings suggested leaders are keen to bring new momentum to U.S.-led peace efforts, more than 4 ½ years after Russia’s army invaded. Efforts by the Trump administration since early last year to end the war have made no significant progress, and there was no suggestion of an imminent breakthrough.

Russia and Ukraine are still far apart in their terms for a settlement, as their armies remain locked on the battlefield and they pummel each other with daily long-range strikes.

However, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said late Tuesday that the Oslo meeting, which he attended, “made genuine progress.”

Witkoff sees ‘some degree of momentum’ in peace efforts

Witkoff and Putin met at St. Petersburg’s Constantine Palace, with Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov also at the table. Witkoff said Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner would join the discussion via a video link.

Witkoff said he would inform Putin about Tuesday’s talks in Oslo, which he described as “productive,” adding that “there is some degree of momentum.”

He thanked Putin for lifting Russia’s ban on diesel exports, which angered some U.S. lawmakers, adding that it would help reduce prices for U.S. farmers and truckers.

Putin said he was ready to discuss prospects for the restoration of U.S.-Russian economic ties, adding that he is also prepared to discuss the U.S.-led conflict with Iran. Moscow is ready to use its special relationship with Tehran to help bring peace, he said.

Putin was also due to meet Wednesday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who was in St. Petersburg meeting with other Russian top officials, the Kremlin said.

Russia has cultivated its ties with China, and the two countries last month vetoed a U.S. proposal for U.N. experts to keep monitoring sanctions on Iran.

Norway's prime minister sees a possible ‘new phase’ in talks

Witkoff planned to return to Oslo for more consultations after his trip to Russia, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said.

“I think we may have entered a phase now where the Russians are also looking for opportunities for diplomacy,” Støre told Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Wednesday morning.

Zelenskyy was still in Oslo on Wednesday, where he was visiting the country’s Parliament and meeting lawmakers.

Witkoff appeared to be making another attempt at overcoming hurdles that have kept a deal out of reach.

Zelenskyy said Tuesday that on the agenda were future security guarantees for Ukraine, the fate of occupied territories, postwar reconstruction, and the possibility of a ceasefire.

Trump said Oct. 11 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a ceasefire in attacks on energy infrastructure but Russia has kept hammering Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv has hit Russian oil refineries.

Ukrainian strikes set an oil export terminal and a depot ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war.

Trump presses Zelenskyy to compromise

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Moscow is willing to listen to new U.S. proposals about Ukraine but he doesn’t expect any “miracle” from Washington.

At the White House on Tuesday, Trump increased the pressure on Zelenskyy to come to an agreement with Russia as relations between the two men have soured again.

“We want Zelenskyy to make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. We’ve gotten absolutely nothing back except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss.”

If that doesn’t happen, “I think it’s going to be a very bad thing,” Trump said.

Amid fears that Washington was turning its back on Ukraine, Zelenskyy said Kyiv is once again receiving early warnings from its partners about incoming Russian missiles, after recent strikes that he said occurred without enough notice from allies.

The change happened after Zelenskyy spoke with his American counterparts, including a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Russian attacks kill 5 people and injure 25 others, Ukraine says

Overnight Russian attacks in Kyiv left three people dead and 12 injured, while 10 residential buildings were damaged, the city’s military administration said.

Energy facilities were targeted in Kyiv and three other cities in Russian attacks early Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said. Outside the eastern city of Kharkiv, two people died and 11 were wounded when drones exploded in a residential area, he said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces overnight struck a warehouse, an electrical substation and a bulk carrier at sea that was headed to the Ukrainian port of Odesa.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported Wednesday that its air defenses overnight intercepted 373 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions, as well as illegally annexed Crimea and the Black Sea.

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The 65-year-old independent politician is receiving treatment in a Melbourne hospital where she was flown by helicopter.

Phil Haines, her husband, gave the family’s first public comments on her condition since she was hit by a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV in her hometown of Wangaratta on Monday, speaking hours after a man accused of running her over made an initial appearance in court.

Husband says Haines has lost both her legs

Haines' husband said her left leg was amputated on Monday and her right leg was amputated on Wednesday after doctors abandoned hope of saving it.

“The good news in all this is that Helen is alive and she’s stable. That is the most important thing for our family,” the husband told reporters in Melbourne.

“We are grateful and thankful that at this stage, both her heart and her mind are in good shape,” he said.

He added that their 40th wedding anniversary will be in November.

Man accused of attack makes first appearance in court

Earlier Wednesday, Brendan Nugent, a 43-year-old man from nearby Tarrawingee, appeared in the Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court charged with intentionally causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and causing harm to a federal official.

Nugent didn’t apply for bail or enter a plea. He will remain in custody until his next court appearance in February. Police have yet to determine a motive.

Nugent's lawyer Chirag Patel told Magistrate Allison Vaughan that his client was suffering from potential mental health issues but had never been diagnosed with any mental health problem.

Patel said Nugent suffered from a neurological condition, idiopathic transverse myelitis, and a concussion. The lawyer did not explain how Nugent had been concussed.

The rare condition damages the spinal cord’s protective myelin sheath and disrupts nerve signals between the brain and body. This leads to rapid muscle weakness, sensory loss, pain, and bladder and bowel dysfunction, according to the Cleveland Clinic medical center.

Witnesses say the driver rammed his victim, pinning her against her own car before reversing and ramming her a second time.

Australia worries about balancing security with keeping politicians accessible

The well-regarded lawmaker's plight has shocked Australians, as political violence is uncommon in the country and politicians are highly accessible to the public. Most lawmakers are not accompanied by security details and go about their work and personal lives on their own.

Senior opposition lawmaker James Paterson on Wednesday called for a review of lawmakers’ personal security in response to the alleged crime.

“The reality is that Australian parliamentarians by global standards are uniquely accessible to the public and that’s a good thing,” Paterson told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

“But we … can’t have a situation where shocking attacks like this take place because that will fundamentally change our democracy forever if it becomes a serious risk to your life to be a member of parliament,” Paterson added.

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged lawmakers to continue to engage openly with the public despite worsening animosity within the community.

“We want to make sure that people can feel as much comfort as possible that everything’s being done to maximize security,” Albanese told News24.

“I think parliamentarians across the board are determined to make sure that we can continue to engage as we need to in this great democracy of ours,” Albanese added. “That interaction is really important in our democracy.”

Security agencies brief lawmakers on personal security

Lawmakers began online meetings with Australia’s security agencies on Wednesday to discuss their safety. Such briefings are a regular occurrence.

Albanese described the briefings as an “opportunity for people who feel anxious to be able to ask questions” of security agencies.

Australian Federal Police provide personal security only to those lawmakers who are assessed as higher risk, usually because they have attracted the attention of dangerous people. Prime ministers always have personal protection and immigration ministers often do because they anger people with visa decisions.

Paterson said providing police protection to all 226 federal lawmakers would not be practical. But he suggested increased security at electorate offices, such as Haines’ office where she was hit. Paterson said lawmakers were “most identifiable” at their offices. Coming and going could be a “risky moment.”

Federal Police Commissioner Kissy Barrett told reporters providing police protection to all parliamentarians would take an “incredible amount of resourcing.”

Police received 1,067 reports of threatening, harassing, nuisance and offensive communications against high officeholders including federal lawmakers and their office staff in the last fiscal year — a 12% increase on the previous year. Barrett said almost one suspect a week was charged over such threats.

Australia hasn’t recorded the political violence seen in other countries

Elsewhere in the world, authorities have warned of growing threats to lawmakers. The United States has seen a rise in political violence over the past decade.

That includes the 2022 hammer assault on the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, as well as another on the president at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April; and the assassinations in 2025 of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

In Britain, killings of politicians have also led to tighter security. Labour lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed in 2016 by a far-right extremist, while Conservative David Amess was stabbed in 2021 by an attacker inspired by the militant Islamic State group.

In July, the former British politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe was found beaten to death with a hammer at her home. A man has been charged with murder and terrorism-related offenses.

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Graham-McLay reported from Wellington, New Zealand.

Gas from the Jackdaw field east of Aberdeen, which was stalled by a court ruling in 2024, is expected to start flowing into Britain’s gas distribution network later this year. The government said it will reduce reliance on foreign energy threatened by conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine.

Authorities have yet to rule on the Rosebank project west of the Shetland Islands, which is expected to produce mainly crude oil.

Jackdaw and Rosebank have been the subject of intense debate in Britain and beyond, with U.S. President Donald Trump among those who have piled pressure on British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to approve them.

Supporters say Britain will continue to need oil and gas to power industry and heat homes during the transition, and it is better to use local sources than rely on foreign supplies.

The government said Jackdaw would make a “small but meaningful” contribution to the nation’s energy security, accounting for about 5% of U.K. gas production during the 11-year life of the project. But it acknowledged that the project wouldn’t eliminate Britain’s need for imported gas or reduce prices, which are set by international markets.

Environmental activists and some members of the ruling Labour Party argue that the projects are at odds with efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change.

They warn that approving the project would breach the United Kingdom’s national and international climate commitments and generate more carbon emissions while bringing little benefit to the public.

“The truth is that this decision will only support a tiny number of jobs, do nothing to lower prices, barely move the needle on growth, and undermine the U.K.’s climate leadership,” said Kate Norgrove, chief impact officer of the nonprofit WWF-UK.

While Jackdaw was approved by a previous Conservative-led government in 2022, that decision was stalled by legal challenges. The Court of Session in Edinburgh last year ruled that both Jackdaw and Rosebank had been unlawfully approved because the government had failed to consider the carbon emissions generated by burning gas from the projects when it assessed their environmental impact.

After further review, Energy Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh approved the project on Wednesday.

“This decision will support the country’s energy security with homegrown gas this winter and help minimize the U.K.’s use of imported higher emission fuels as we continue our transition to renewables and nuclear,” Fahnbulleh said in a statement.

Fahnbulleh said the government remains committed to eliminating net carbon emissions by 2050 and ending the approval of new oil and gas licenses.

Both Jackdaw and Rosebank are being developed by Adura, a joint venture of U.K.-based energy giant Shell and Norway’s Equinox.

Neil McCulloch, Adura’s chief executive, said the decision on Jackdaw was a matter of urgency because the project was ready to come on line this winter. Government officials have more time to rule on Rosebank because it won’t be ready to begin production until next year.

“We anticipate that the decision will be made positively, and we continue with development of the field,” he told the BBC.

Incluso si todos los países hacen lo que prometen para reducir las emisiones que atrapan el calor, la Tierra probablemente se calentará otros 1,2 grados Celsius (2,2 grados Fahrenheit) por encima de las temperaturas actuales, de acuerdo con la actualización de los cálculos climáticos del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente publicada el miércoles. Eso es alrededor de (0,1 grados Celsius) (dos décimas de grado Fahrenheit) más que las proyecciones del año pasado del mismo equipo científico.

“El resultado es peor de lo esperado el año pasado, como consecuencia de la retirada formal de Estados Unidos del Acuerdo de París y de estimaciones revisadas de las emisiones históricas”, señaló el reporte. El documento también responsabiliza a Estados Unidos por el aumento de emisiones del año pasado, al indicar que las otras 20 principales economías redujeron su contaminación por dióxido de carbono o, al menos, desaceleraron el crecimiento de cuánto dióxido de carbono se expulsó por la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas.

“En términos de magnitud, el aumento en Estados Unidos (equivalente a 133 megatoneladas de CO2) superó con creces el de todos los demás países y estuvo impulsado por una mayor demanda de electricidad y un repunte de la generación eléctrica a base de carbón”, indicó el informe. Los 124 países que incrementaron sus emisiones —sin contar los 63 que las redujeron, como la mayoría de las naciones europeas— añadieron 189 millones de toneladas de dióxido de carbono en 2025, y el 70% de ese aumento provino de Estados Unidos, según el informe.

Estados Unidos va “a toda máquina tratando de bloquear las energías renovables mientras promueve y subsidia activamente el carbón sucio —y su diplomacia intenta que otros países también den marcha atrás en la acción. Está mirando el fuego, negando que haya un fuego, y luego echándole más gasolina”, afirmó el científico climático australiano Bill Hare, director ejecutivo de Climate Analytics, que mide los planes de los países para combatir el cambio climático. No participó en el reporte de la ONU, pero, al igual que varios otros científicos externos, refrendó su base científica.

Superando con creces el objetivo climático de París

Los nuevos cálculos señalan que, si los países cumplen todo lo que prometen en los planes de lucha climática que presentaron ante las Naciones Unidas, para 2100 el planeta estará 2,6 ºC (4,7 ºF) más caliente que en tiempos preindustriales. Si el mundo continúa por su trayectoria actual —sin promesas nacionales— estará 2,8 ºC (5 ºF) más cálido que en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, lo mismo que la proyección del año pasado.

Ambas temperaturas superan ampliamente el objetivo de menos de 2 ºC (3,6 ºF) y, preferiblemente, 1,5 ºC (2,7 ºF) adoptado por el pacto climático de París de 2015. El mundo está ahora en alrededor de 1,4 ºC (2,5 ºF) por encima de los niveles preindustriales y, a principios de este año —y de nuevo en este informe— funcionarios de las Naciones Unidas admitieron que no hay manera de limitar el calentamiento al objetivo de 1,5 grados que habían asumido. En cambio, los funcionarios están depositando sus esperanzas en limitar el calentamiento a alrededor de 1,8 ºC (3,2 ºF) y luego, de algún modo, extraer suficiente dióxido de carbono del aire para bajar las temperaturas de nuevo a 1,5 grados.

El mundo se está quedando “peligrosamente lejos” incluso de esos objetivos, advirtió el secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, António Guterres, “pero tenemos las herramientas para cambiar de rumbo y retroceder al borde del abismo”.

Reducir drásticamente las emisiones globales de dióxido de carbono —en un 18% para 2030 y un 69% para 2040— “es la única manera de que podamos volver a una apariencia de una realidad que siga siendo en gran medida manejable sin impactos importantes y, por lo tanto, eso tiene todo el sentido”, expresó la directora ejecutiva del PNUMA, Inger Andersen.

“El mensaje del informe es claro”, comentó la científica climática Adelle Thomas, vicepresidenta de una evaluación científica de las Naciones Unidas sobre impactos climáticos. Ella no participó en este estudio. “Sabemos lo que hay que hacer. Tenemos las herramientas para hacerlo. Y el retraso sólo vuelve el desafío más peligroso y más costoso para todos”.

Una décima adicional de grado de peligro

La autora principal del informe, Anne Olhoff, directora del Centro Climático de Copenhague del PNUMA, dijo que el cambio de política de Estados Unidos probablemente añadirá una décima de grado Celsius (casi dos décimas de grado Fahrenheit) a las temperaturas globales para finales de siglo.

“Este reporte muestra que el retroceso de Estados Unidos no es solo una vergüenza política. Tiene consecuencias reales para el planeta y para millones de personas en todo el mundo”, afirmó Mohamed Adow, director de Power Shift Africa, una organización climática. “Una décima adicional de grado puede sonar insignificante, pero en términos climáticos es enorme. Significa olas de calor más peligrosas, inundaciones más destructivas, cosechas fallidas con mayor frecuencia y más vidas perdidas. Para las comunidades vulnerables en África, que ya viven en la primera línea de la crisis climática, cada fracción de grado importa. Estos no son números abstractos. Son vidas humanas”.

Hare dijo que esa décima adicional empuja a otros 140 millones de personas “a condiciones peligrosamente calurosas” y aumenta las probabilidades del colapso de la selva amazónica o de las capas de hielo en Groenlandia y la Antártida. También le costaría al mundo y recortaría alrededor de 1,2 billones de dólares de la economía global, indicó el científico climático Michael Mann, de la Universidad de Pensilvania.

Y el efecto de Estados Unidos probablemente sea incluso mayor que lo que calculan las Naciones Unidas porque, si el mayor contaminador climático histórico del mundo no hace mucho para combatir el calentamiento global, otras naciones también relajan sus esfuerzos, dijo Johan Rockstrom, director del Instituto de Investigación sobre Impactos Climáticos de Potsdam, en Alemania.

“El resto del mundo está agotado cuando se trata de contabilizar el daño que Estados Unidos está haciendo deliberadamente a aliados, estructuras multilaterales, cooperación económica, ayuda ante desastres”, sostuvo el científico climático australiano Malte Meinshausen. “El resto del mundo probablemente debería seguir enfocándose aún menos en Estados Unidos”.

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If all the countries do what they promise to reduce heat-trapping emissions, Earth will likely still warm another 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above current temperatures, according to Wednesday's update of climate calculations by the United Nations Environment Programme. That's about two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit (0.1 degrees Celsius) more than last year's projections by the same science team.

“This is a worse outcome than expected last year, as a result of the formal withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Agreement and revised estimates of historical emissions,” the report said. The report also blames the United States for increased emissions last year, saying all the other top 20 major economies reduced their carbon pollution or at least slowed the growth in how much carbon dioxide was spewed from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

“In terms of magnitude, the increase in the United States of America (133 megatons of CO2 equivalent) far exceeded that of all other countries and was driven by increased electricity demand and a rebound of coal power generation,” the report said. The 124 countries that increased emissions — not counting the 63 that decreased like most European nations — added 189 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2025, and 70% of that increase came from the U.S., according to the report.

The United States is going “hell-for-leather trying to block renewables while actively promoting and subsidizing dirty coal — and its diplomacy is trying to make other countries also pull back on action. It is looking at the fire, denying there is a fire, and then pouring more petrol on it,” said Australian climate scientist Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics that measures countries' climate fighting plans. He wasn't part of the U.N. report but like several other outside scientists said it was scientifically sound.

Shooting far past Paris climate goal

The new calculations say that if countries do all they promise in the climate fighting plans they submitted to the United Nations, by 2100 the globe will be 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than pre-industrial times. If the world continues on its current path — without national promises — it will be 2.8 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the last half of the 19th century, the same as last year's projection.

Both of those temperatures blow far past the goal of less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) adopted by the 2015 Paris climate pact. The world is now at about 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times and earlier this year — and again in this report — United Nations officials conceded that there is no way of limiting warming to the 1.5-degree goal that they had embraced. Instead, officials are pinning their hopes of limiting warming to about 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and then somehow pulling enough carbon dioxide out of the air to lower temperatures back down to 1.5 degrees.

The world is falling “dangerously short” of even those goals, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, “but we have the tools to change course and pull back from the brink.”

Drastically cutting global carbon emissions — by 18% by 2030 and 69% by 2040 — “is the only way that we can get back to a semblance of a reality that is still largely manageable without major impacts and therefore that makes every sense,” said UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.

“The report's message is clear,” said climate scientist Adelle Thomas, vice chair of a United Nations scientific assessment on climate impacts. She wasn't part of this study. “We know what needs to be done. We have the tools to do it. And delay only makes the challenge more dangerous and more expensive for all.”

An added tenth of a degree of danger

Report lead author Anne Olhoff, director of UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, said the U.S. policy change will likely add one-tenth of a degree Celsius (nearly two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) to global temperatures by the end of the century.

“This report shows that America’s retreat isn’t just a political embarrassment. It has real consequences for the planet and for millions of people around the world," said Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, a climate organization. “An extra tenth of a degree might sound insignificant, but in climate terms it is enormous. It means more dangerous heat waves, more destructive floods, more failed harvests and more lives lost. For vulnerable communities in Africa, already living on the front lines of the climate crisis, every fraction of a degree matters. These are not abstract numbers. They are human lives.”

Hare said that extra one-tenth of a degree pushes an additional 140 million people “into dangerously hot conditions” and increases the odds of the collapse of the Amazon rain forest or ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. It also would cost the world and shave about $1.2 trillion from the global economy, said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann.

And the U.S. effect is probably even bigger than what the United Nations calculates because if the world's largest historical climate polluter doesn't do much to fight global warming other nations ease off in their efforts too, said Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany.

“The rest of the world is exhausted when it comes to counting the damage that the U.S. is willingly doing to allies, multilateral structures, economic cooperation, disaster relief,” Australian climate scientist Malte Meinshausen said. “The rest of the world should probably continue to focus even less on the U.S.”

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In his first interview with a global news organization since taking office, Magyar, 45, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that efforts to recover assets that were allegedly misused under his predecessor were underway, but that the push for accountability must follow the rule of law that Orbán's government often flouted.

“The Hungarian people obviously want to see results in holding those responsible accountable, punishing them and recovering stolen property,” Magyar said from his central Budapest office.

During Orbán's rule, he said, Hungarians "experienced that this wonderful country, which was a high achiever when we joined the European Union in 2004, became one of the poorest and most corrupt member states in Europe.”

Magyar’s center-right, pro-European Tisza party defeated Orbán’s far-right Fidesz in April, ending 16 years of rule admired by the global nationalist right for its antagonistic approach to the EU and strong stance against immigration and the “liberal mainstream.”

Orbán’s self-described “illiberal democracy” dismantled checks and balances and enriched allied business figures, largely through awarding them lucrative EU-financed state contracts. Concerns over corruption and democratic backsliding prompted the bloc to begin withholding billions in funding to Hungary in 2021.

New government pursues asset recovery

Before the election, Magyar promised to bring those responsible for past abuses to justice and to recover public assets misused under Orbán. Recent polls show a large majority of voters expect him to fulfill that pledge.

Magyar's government established the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office, which holds investigative and prosecutorial powers to pursue cases of misused public funds. Magyar called the office a “superauthority” that can enlist police, prosecutors and the national tax authority “so that it doesn’t take years to uncover a complicated corruption case.”

Magyar has also applied to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which investigates crimes involving EU funds, reversing Orbán’s longstanding refusal to participate.

On Wednesday, Orbán-era Central Bank governor György Matolcsy was arrested on suspicion of fraud and other abuses, the highest-ranking official implicated in criminal proceedings so far. While several other former officials have also been detained on suspicion of corruption-related offenses, Magyar acknowledged there is pressure for quicker results.

“I feel the impatience,” he said. “But everyone must understand that we want to build a rule of law state, a democratic country, a country that complies with EU and fundamental rights, and that takes time.”

“I try to tell people that it’s not the first 10 minutes of mafia movies and crime films that are the most exciting, but the middle and the end,” he said.

Holding firm on migration

Rapid reforms targeting corruption and bolstering judicial independence helped secure the EU’s announcement in May that it would unlock 16.4 billion euros (around $18.4 billion) for Hungary that it had frozen under Orbán.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Budapest on Friday for the 70th anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution in another sign that the bumpy relationship with the EU is turning a corner.

But the rapprochement has not erased differences over migration.

Magyar said his administration would retain Orbán-era immigration and asylum policies, including escorting migrants who entered irregularly back across the southern border into Serbia. The fences with razor wire along the border, erected by Orbán in 2015 to keep out migrants and asylum seekers, will also stay in place.

In 2024, the European Court of Justice fined Hungary 200 million euros ($225 million) plus 1 million euros ($1.1 million) daily for failing to comply with a 2020 ruling on its asylum and removal practices.

Magyar said that since that ruling, “there is a completely new political environment" in the EU concerning immigration, and that Hungary had “already lost one billion euros because of this punishment, and I don’t think that’s right.”

He expects an agreement ending the fines by the end of the year, and linked the dispute to negotiations on the EU’s next seven-year budget, which requires unanimous approval from member states.

“I don’t believe that there can be a common EU budget until this problem is solved,” he said.

Rebuilding ties with Ukraine

Magyar has also sought to repair relations with neighboring Ukraine after Orbán repeatedly blocked aid to Kyiv and held up EU sanctions against Russia, all while maintaining cordial ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a turnabout from Orbán's hostile approach to Kyiv, Magyar's government has expressed solidarity with Ukraine and designated Russia a national security threat. But he has maintained Hungary's demand that Ukraine protect its ethnic Hungarian minority’s right to education in its mother tongue.

While Orbán's government had failed to secure such a change, Ukraine’s parliament last week expanded minority-language education rights alongside Ukrainian following weeks of bilateral consultations.

Magyar called the passage of the law “a chance to open a new chapter in Ukrainian-Hungarian relations," which he said for many years have been "very frosty.”

He welcomed other Ukrainian gestures, including acknowledging Soviet Ukraine’s responsibility for the deportation and torture of Hungarians between 1944 and 1946, which he said was “an important step toward reconciliation.”

Still, Magyar opposes accelerated EU membership for Ukraine — advocated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and numerous EU leaders — saying accession must be merit based and that he does not believe a country at war can join the bloc.

“It undermines the credibility of the European Union if you put some (prospective) member countries on a fast track,” he said.

Taxing wealth, raising benefits

At home, Magyar’s proposed 2027 budget combines tax cuts for lower earners with a new wealth tax, reflecting his criticism that Orbán’s economic policies divided Hungary into two groups: “Well-to-do, wealthy people, oligarchs and their circles, and then all the rest.”

The government expects an annual 1% tax on net wealth above 1 billion forints ($3.1 million) to affect about 15,000 people and raise 200 billion forints ($617 million), helping finance tax cuts for around 2 million lower earners. The rate would rise to 1.5% on wealth above 100 billion forints ($308 million).

The government also plans to double child allowances, whose basic rate is around $37 monthly for a one-child family and has been unchanged since 2008. It will also more than quadruple the monthly minimum pension from around $88 — which Magyar called “inhumane” — to around $370.

“That doesn’t make me a socialist. That doesn’t make me a leftist. This is called humanity. This is called social justice,” Magyar said.

Germany's DAX rose 0.5% to 25,423.64 and the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.5% to 7,880.90. Britain's FTSE 100 edged 0.1% higher, to 10,743.65.

U.S. futures were mixed, with the contract for the S&P 500 up 0.1%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%.

In Asian trading, the Kospi in Seoul gained 3.3% to 5,735.66.

South Korean AI company Elice, whose 32% drop Tuesday in its first day of trading spooked markets, rebounded on Wednesday, hitting the upward limit of 29.9%.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 0.9% to 64,621.24 after Japan reported that its exports jumped 16.7% in September from a year earlier, on strong sales of autos and computer-related components. Imports surged 18.9%, largely thanks to higher prices for oil due to the Iran war, nearly doubling Japan's trade deficit for the same month a year earlier.

“Robust AI demand should continue to support tech-related goods exports. However, non-AI capital goods and auto are likely to weaken amid high energy prices and borrowing costs, weighing on overall exports,” Oxford Economics said in a report.

Markets in Greater China were mostly lower, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng shedding 0.9% to 23,651.87, while the Shanghai Composite index fell 0.6% to 3,713.36. Taiwan's Taiex rose 1.3%.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 picked up 0.2% to 8,831.30.

On Tuesday, most U.S. stocks rose following strong profit reports from Equifax, Hasbro and other companies, while oil prices eased back after nearing their highest levels since the war with Iran began.

The S&P 500 added 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 1%, while more swings for stocks in the artificial intelligence industry sent the Nasdaq composite to a modest loss of less than 0.1%.

Big expectations for earnings growth have allowed the U.S. stock market to hit records recently despite worries about high inflation, higher interest rates and other challenges weighing on Wall Street.

Equifax rallied 11.3% for one of the market’s biggest gains after reporting a bigger profit for the summer than analysts expected, despite high mortgage rates slowing some parts of its business.

Hasbro climbed 11.2% after the toy company said its “Magic: The Gathering” game made more than $600 million in revenue during a quarter for the first time. 3M rose 5.8% after the company behind Ace bandages and Scotch-Brite sponges likewise reported a stronger-than-expected profit, even as shoppers broadly feel discouraged by high inflation.

General Motors sank 6.8% despite reporting a bigger profit than analysts expected. It also announced a program to send up to $20 billion to investors by buying back its stock.

The pressure is on companies to deliver bigger profits not only now, but also in the future. GM gave a forecast range for profit over the full year of 2026 whose midpoint fell short of analysts’ expectations.

AI stocks continued to swirl. Euphoria around the technology’s boom has given way to worries that high interest rates in the bond market will slow the borrowing that’s allowed companies to buy so many AI chips. Last week was the U.S. stock market’s worst since June because of weakness for AI-related companies.

Stocks also got a lift after the price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, erased an early gain. However, early Wednesday, Brent jumped 1.1% to $109.95 per barrel. On Tuesday, it rose to near $112, approaching its highest price since the war with Iran began in late February.

Brent’s price has been yo-yoing between $97 and $112 per barrel this month on uncertainty about when the energy industry will return to normal.

U.S. benchmark crude rose 1.2% early Wednesday, to $99.01 per barrel.

In other dealings, the U.S. dollar slipped to 158.15 Japanese yen from 158.17 yen. The euro fell to $1.1222 from $1.1239.

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AP Business Writers Stan Choe and Michelle Chapman contributed to this report.

San Antonio star Victor Wembanyama had 12 points but was 1 for 13 from the field. It was his fewest field goals since going 2 for 5 against Minnesota on May 10. Wembanyama's lone field goal came on an alley-oop pass from De’Aaron Fox as time expired in the third quarter. Wembanyama missed his first 12 shots, including having an alley-oop attempt blocked by 7-foot-3 rookie Aday Mara.

Jared McCain added 20 points on 6-for-8 shooting on 3-pointers as Oklahoma City led for all but the opening five minutes of the game.

The Spurs beat the Thunder 111-103 in Oklahoma City in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals on May 30 in their previous matchup.

Nearly five months apart did not cool this heated rivalry.

Three minutes into the second quarter Fox received a Flagrant Foul 1 for tossing Chet Holmgren to the court after they became entangled in the paint. The body slam led to a huge scrum with Wembanyama and Jaylin Williams having to be separated after pushing each other. Wembanyama, Williams, Jalen Williams and Kenrich Williams each received a technical for the dust up.

Oklahoma City went on a 9-0 run after the scuffle with Jalen and Kenrich Williams accounting for five points. Harrison Barnes' 3-pointer ended the run, but the Thunder responded by scoring 13 straight capped by Cason Wallace's 3-pointer for a 59-33 lead.

Oklahoma City outscored San Antonio 31-16 in the second quarter in taking a 65-44 lead at the half.

The Spurs opened the second half on a 23-9 run to pull within single digits after trailing by 26 in the first half.

Gilgeous-Alexander and McCain stepped up when San Antonio pulled close, combining for 25 points in the second half.

Up next

Thunder: Host Denver on Thursday night.

Spurs: Host Houston in Austin on Friday night.

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The Finance Ministry’s preliminary data showed that Japan’s exports for the April-September period grew 18.4% from the same period the previous year to 63.5 trillion yen, while imports soared to 66.3 trillion yen, up 20.4% year-over-year.

Both were record highs for Japan. The soaring price of oil affects a wide range of sectors, including plastic goods and shipping costs.

Resource-poor Japan imports virtually all its oil and has relied on access to the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East for its oil shipments. That’s now basically blocked, and Japan has had to pay more to get shipments from other routes.

Brent crude, the international standard, has soared from $70 a barrel in February to around $110 a barrel. Analysts say prices are unlikely to ease soon.

For the month of September, Japan’s trade deficit totaled 536.6 billion yen, marking the fifth month of deficits, down from 1.1 trillion yen in August.

Japan’s September imports grew 18.9% from the previous year, while exports rose 16.7%.

One sore point is the weakening yen, which drives up the cost of imports. The U.S. dollar is lately trading at 150-yen levels.

The central bank, which kept borrowing costs at below or near zero for years to help keep a shaky economy going, has been gradually raising interest rates, in part to prop up the yen.

Last month, the Bank of Japan raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year high. Its monetary policy board meets again next week. The bank has an inflation target of about 2%.

The Japanese government has repeatedly stressed it’s working closely with the Bank of Japan. The government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is promising a tax cut on food to 1% from 8% to help lower-income families cope with soaring prices. That bill is now being debated in Parliament.

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When the French fight high fuel taxes, they don yellow vests and march. When angry farmers want better pay, hundreds of them drive tractors down the Champs-Élysées. And when museum workers want better tourist management, they strike and shut down the Louvre.

Passionate public protest is as French as “La Marseillaise,” the 1792 anthem that enshrines the collective duty to fight tyranny in the country's national identity. But this month, the most violent demonstrations in years — and tough policing — have raised concern about riots overshadowing hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators marching against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.

On Saturday alone, at least 2,400 people were arrested after rioters in cities across France clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings, looted stores and engulfed a historic city hall in flames. More protests could be in store.

"How can French people do this to France?" outgoing President Emmanuel Macron asked on Sunday. Nothing justifies the destruction, he added. “We all feel anger and shame.”

But any student of French history would know that the nation's proud, loud and colorful protest culture has sometimes turned violent — starting with the beheadings of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the revolution that overthrew the monarchy in 1789.

A protest culture is born

Historians say the revolution was where the modern-day French tradition of civic engagement as a duty was born. The idea is that voting is not the only way to drive change; demonstration is considered a bedrock value, a way to make elites hear the populace and to defend freedoms. The moment a child becomes an activist is seen as a generations-old rite of passage. The right to protest is even constitutionally protected.

“It’s a way to build collective identity and political community,” said Magali Della Sudda, research director in political science at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Bordeaux.

France's post-revolution history is not a solid story of protests and reforms, but of cycles of popular uprisings, repression, mobilization and political concessions. The tradition has turned tragic; in 1871, government troops cracked down on the new “Paris Commune,” or municipal government, reportedly killing thousands.

In some ways, collective action won — as in 1968, when student demonstrations and a general strike forced the government to grant concessions like an increase in the minimum wage.

In more recent history, the “yellow vests” — “gilets jaunes” in French — demonstrated against a proposed fuel tax increase, and that broadened into protests over other issues like living costs and inequality. Some demonstrations in 2018 and 2019 featured burning cars, looting and confrontations with police. It's not uncommon for French violence on the fringes to mar otherwise peaceful marches.

Likewise, the student protests over the weekend expanded from education to other grievances — and featured dramatic scenes of looting and clashes with police. It’s not clear how many of those who were ransacking shops had turned out to join the day's protest, which drew tens of thousands, or were mere opportunists. Authorities have responded with nightly curfews; there were calls for more protests later in the week.

It happened during a political season, less than two weeks before the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 3 that will also amount to a referendum on President Donald Trump’s troubled second term in office. Trump and leading Republicans are trying to leverage the widespread riots in France by making unsubstantiated claims that the social unrest in Europe is caused by Muslim migrants.

Authorities and police have not linked immigrants to the rioting in France.

Police violence blamed for mistrust

Some of the forces driving protests for the last month are owed to more recent French tradition, according to political scientist Fabien Jobard, who has studied the history of protest and policing.

Since the 1990s, the country has seen recurring waves of what the French call “violences urbaines” and Americans would call riots, Jobard said. They are often sparked by police violence: nationwide unrest erupted in 2005 after two teenagers died while fleeing police, and again in 2023 after an officer fatally shot a 17-year-old during a traffic stop outside Paris.

“For young people from the suburbs, the riot is one of the traditional forms of collective expression,” he said.

Government critics and human rights campaigners have alleged that police tactics in the last month have been unnecessarily violent. Much of the criticism focuses on rubber-bullet launchers, known in France as LBDs, and stun grenades, which critics blame for serious injuries to protesters.

And Della Sudda noted that the nearly 8,000 arrests in the weeks leading up to Oct. 17 dwarf the few dozen detained during a 1998 protest of 500,000 students against teacher shortages and dilapidated schools.

The feeling of not being heard also is part of it, she says. Rather than listen to protesters and negotiate, Della Sudda noted, the government, for example, tried to appease “yellow vest” grievances through a digital platform, which translates to “the great national debate.” Anti-government protesters panned Macron’s plan.

“As a result," Della Sudda wrote, “mistrust is growing.”

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The Glacier Garden in Lucerne is showcasing artifacts like these in a new exhibit of relics that have emerged from Switzerland's vaunted glaciers over the years, with more expected to come as global warming accelerates the thaw.

The exhibit, whose title translates as “Treasury of Ice” from German, comes as Swiss glaciologists recently reported that Switzerland lost 5.5% of its total glacier volume this year, the second-biggest decline on record.

“The glaciers are disappearing very, very fast now and before that completely happens, we want to show to the people that this is a very important and interesting archive of what we will lose, unfortunately,” said Andreas Burri, director of the Glacier Garden, an open-air museum.

The exhibit features an array of relics — a cow skull, boots, a primitive sort of Swiss army knife, ski gear — as well as videos from Swiss glaciers, charts showing the level of thaw over the years, and a mockup of a glacier flow.

Some, Burri says, was just rubbish.

“It’s trash. People either lost it or threw it away. We don’t really know for sure,” he said. "But it does give an idea of the variety of things that are now being found as the glaciers melt away.”

The remnants from the ice are stacked on top of white boxes that are often used to collect and transport the items from the mountains into the lab, giving the exhibit a warehouse feel.

A cylinder of ice extracted from one glacier drips menacingly, a reminder of the thaw happening in nature, too.

It's not just hard items on display: Microparticles of pollen, greenhouse gases and radioactive material from nuclear tests in the mid-20th century turn up frozen in the ice — a testament to its role as an archaeological vault.

Traces of soot and charcoal from forest fires during an exceptional period of drought and heat in the mid-16th century, for example, are preserved in the ice, testifying to another bout of high temperatures nearly 500 years ago.

While no human remains are on show, the bodies of ill-fated mountaineers also have emerged over the years.

In August, the bodies of two missing Belgian hikers who had gone missing decades ago turned up near the Trift glacier south of Lucerne. In 2015, remains of two Japanese climbers who had gone missing in 1970 were found near the famed Matterhorn.

The show runs through Aug. 22.

“They hit me with affordability, and that’s the first time I ever heard the word used,” he complained in Nebraska earlier this month.

The White House leaves Vice President JD Vance to use a softer touch. Last month in Texas, he admitted “there are people out there who are frustrated by the pace of progress." And during a CBS News town hall on Saturday, Vance said, “I recognize that gas prices are too high right now" and "we’re working on it.”

Depending on which Republican is speaking, Americans are getting a different perspective on how bad things are with the economy. Trump says “the golden age of America is upon us.” Vance walks a tightrope to show that he knows voters are feeling an economic pinch while still selling them on Trump's agenda.

The disconnect comes as Americans’ confidence in the economy sank to the lowest level in more than a decade this month, the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate jumped this month to its highest level in nearly three years and the unemployment rate ticked up last month.

Recent economic data released this month shows that high gasoline prices are intensifying inflation and more expensive oil and gas have begun to push prices up in other parts of the economy.

While most of Trump's supporters don't hold him at fault, some acknowledge that the president's penchant for salesmanship may not hit the mark.

"I think he talks it up,” said Conda Little, a 76-year-old retiree who went to see Trump in Dalton, Georgia, on Friday. “I think Vance is more real.”

Little takes the president at his word that he will achieve a victory over Iran in a way that benefits U.S. consumers back home. But she said it’s impossible to deny the fallout from the conflict.

“Everybody’s real upset about the gas” and “groceries are out of sight,” she said. “It’s hard. It’s really hard,” she said, adding that, “I think that people need to hear the truth.”

‘We need to do more’

Trump is loath to acknowledge concerns. He told reporters earlier this month that he gives himself “an A+ on the government, on economics, on everything.” He has dismissed concerns about high costs, arguing that concerns about affordability are a “hoax.”

“We’re in the golden age of America. So our nation is doing better now than ever before,” he told a crowd in Kentucky on Saturday while campaigning for Republican candidates.

Trump has occasionally acknowledged that gas prices are high, but has called it “a small price to pay” for keeping the country and the world safe with the Iran war.

Trump’s discordant message with one of the top concerns voters are voicing ahead of the midterm elections has seemed heightened by his fixation on beautifying Washington and building a large ballroom at the White House.

During a visit this month to an economically struggling corner of Arizona, he regaled the crowd with the story about how he ended up with a luxury jet gifted by Qatar to use as Air Force One.

Vance, as he crisscrosses the country, is quick to say that the administration has more work to do.

To cast blame, the vice president often says that his administration’s Democratic predecessors put the country in such a deep hole that they need more time to climb out.

To show empathy, he often references his own experience growing up in a working-class family in a Rust Belt town. That's far different than Trump, who comes from a wealthy family, is a billionaire and even joked during his speeches on Friday and Saturday that if people have lunch at his Mar-a-Lago club, "for $5,000, you’ll get one hamburger and a small dessert.”

Vance, during a CBS News town hall that aired on Saturday, said: “I grew up in a working-class family. When gas prices were high, I know that it made my grandmother suffer, and I’m sure that you’re struggling with it in a variety of ways."

When asked by the moderator about the mixed message he and Trump are giving on the economy, Vance said Trump was speaking about new investments coming into the country, but said the changes take time.

“We need to do more, and we can certainly do better,” he acknowledged.

Many Trump supporters trust his pitch

Some voters said Trump’s rosy view on the economy turns them away, like Santiago Rodriguez, a 19-year-old Texas college student who will be voting for the first time this year.

Rodriguez, who attended a campaign rally last week for Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, said he would consider voting for a Republican but not while Trump is in charge because he doesn’t grasp the high cost of living for Americans.

“I think he’s out of touch, I think he’s never seen what a true day as a Texan or anybody in general who is in the working class,” Rodriguez said.

Trump's most loyal supporters aren’t interested in blaming high prices on anything the president has done.

Cindy Massengill, a 67-year-old who came to see Trump in Dalton, Georgia, said she felt he’s doing the best he can.

“I’m positive that he’s got done more than any other president after the mess we were left with Obama and Biden,” she said.

Mary Bunker, a 67-year-old Republican who attended Trump’s Monday rally near Wichita, Kansas, said she works multiple jobs, including as a waitress and DoorDash driver.

She feels the pressure of high gas prices, but she likes the tax breaks that Trump signed into law last year and she doesn’t fault the way he speaks about economic concerns.

“I think he’s a very good businessman,” Bunker said. “He’s been in business a long time, so I think he knows what he’s talking about.”

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Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Dalton, Georgia, Jesse Bedayn in San Marcos, Texas, and Nicholas Ingram in Park City, Kansas, contributed to this report.

“`I’m going to loop tobacco at the fair,’” the seventh grader told them. “And they’re, like, `What?’ They don’t have a clue.”

To be fair, most people don’t.

At 12, Sophie was the youngest contestant in the North Carolina State Fair’s annual tobacco stringing contest, which pays homage to a way of life that was already largely past when her parents were kids.

Traditionally, tobacco was harvested by hand, hung in a log barn and cured to a golden-brown with a wood fire that had to be stoked day and night. But before it could go into the barn, the green tobacco had to be strung on long wooden sticks.

What you called this practice depended on what part of the state you lived in. Because the fairgrounds are in the capital, Raleigh, they call it a stringing contest.

“Where I grew up, in the middle of the state, we call it stringing,” said Pat Short, superintendent of the fair’s Heritage Circle. “But down east, in the eastern part of the state, they call it looping tobacco.”

Today, North Carolina’s flue-cured tobacco crop is harvested mostly by machine and packed tightly into natural gas-heated metal bulk barns that look more like shipping containers.

It’s a different world from when 97-year-old Ruth Coats, the oldest contestant, worked her family’s tobacco near the Virginia border. Once the state’s largest cash crop, tobacco was the beating heart of many family farms. Tobacco “allotments” — the rights to grow it — were hereditary.

“It was good, hard work, but it made you much stronger,” she said with a giggle. “A lot of memories of my family and friends.”

Teams like The Tie Masters and Mule Stringers compete

Although North Carolina remains the nation’s No. 1 tobacco producer, the leaf has fallen to the state’s third most valuable cash crop, behind corn and soybeans. Growers produced more than 248 million pounds (112,490,907 kilograms) last year, valued at nearly $546 million, according to the U.S Department of Agriculture. Most tobacco ends up in smoking products.

“When we were growing up, if people had anywhere from 6 to 10 acres of tobacco, they could actually raise enough money to raise their family,” said Ken Jones, Sophie's grandfather. “But now, most of the guys contract (with tobacco companies) 400 to 600 acres (162 to 243 hectares) of tobacco at one time.”

On Friday, teams with names like The Tie Masters, the Mule Stringers and 89 & Twine battled it out in a white tent as temperatures reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius).

With a “ready set and go” from Short, a pair of “handers” gathered clumps of yellow-green leaves from a table and passed them to the stringer, who wrapped twine around the stems of the leaves, then the stick.

When they’d strung at least 36 bundles, they wrapped the twine around the stick’s end and tore it off.

The fastest teams can tie a stick in under a minute.

Three generations of one family vied for first place

Peggy Medlin remembers being so fast as a teenager that her boss let the other two loopers go.

“And I made $6 for looping 600 sticks,” the 89-year-old recalled with a grin.

But it’s not just about speed. Before presenting a stick to the judges, a worker gave each a couple of good shakes to make sure no leaves fell out.

“Because in the curing process, that would be a bad thing if it caused it to catch on fire,” explained Andrea Ashby, director of public affairs for the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

A dozen teams competed this year. Sophie was one of three generations of her family vying for the $250 first prize.

Sandy Jones grew up on a southeastern North Carolina farm and learned to loop from her mother. She taught her own daughter, Annie, when she was about 5, and her granddaughter when she was about the same age.

Jones’ squad, the defending champion Maple Hill Loopers, included her husband, Ken, and son-in-law Mike Sunday. Sophie, mom Annie and her great-aunt comprised The 3 Suckers — a play on the small side shoots that can stunt the growth of healthy leaves.

The Maple Hill Loopers were edged out by The Benson Nites, which finished with a time of just under one minute and four seconds.

The Suckers didn’t place, but that didn’t matter to Sophie.

“I think of it as tradition,” she said.

Short said the tobacco strung at the fair — which was grown at the nearby Oxford Tobacco Research Station — will be sold to a contractor and likely go into cigarettes. Sophie confessed to being a bit conflicted about tobacco, a plant that has killed untold humans, but is also showing promise in vaccine production and other pharmaceutical research.

“Every single year I go, I’m like, `Why do we do this? It’s, like, bad for people,’” she said. “But the leaves can also get used for, like, different things, not just smoking.”

And when she has kids of her own, she’s going to teach them how to loop.

“It makes my heart smile,” her grandmother said.

El llamado de la Oficina de la Relatoría Especial sobre Derechos Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales (REDESCA) —que forma parte de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH)— refleja una creciente preocupación por la manera en que las redes criminales hacen uso de la tecnología para coordinar operaciones, vigilar territorios y ampliar su alcance hacia zonas remotas.

La oficina instó a los gobiernos a endurecer controles sobre la transferencia y el uso de estas tecnologías, e hizo un llamado a las compañías para que evalúen si sus productos y servicios pueden desviarse hacia grupos criminales.

El pronunciamiento coincide con una conferencia de la ONU sobre delincuencia organizada transnacional en Viena, donde los gobiernos sopesan la posibilidad de iniciar negociaciones sobre un acuerdo dirigido a los delitos ambientales como la minería ilegal, la tala y el tráfico de vida silvestre. Más de una decena de representantes indígenas de países amazónicos asisten al encuentro del 19 al 23 de octubre, donde reclaman acciones internacionales más firme contra las redes criminales que amenazan sus bosques y comunidades.

La REDESCA señaló que el internet satelital, como el servicio de Starlink de Elon Musk, ha sido utilizado en operaciones de minería ilegal para coordinar logística, pagos y desplazamientos en zonas remotas que no cuentan con infraestructura tradicional de comunicaciones.

Los grupos armados y criminales también están utilizando drones para labores de vigilancia y control territorial en torno a áreas vinculadas con economías ilícitas, afirmó la oficina.

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, un grupo que rastrea actos de violencia política en todo el mundo, registró cerca de 670 incidentes que involucraron drones armados en toda América Latina desde 2018. Más del 72% de estos episodios ha ocurrido entre enero de 2025 y agosto de 2026, aseguró la organización en un informe publicado en agosto pasado.

Las cifras reflejan el aumento en el uso de drones armados en la región y no se limita a delitos ambientales.

La oficina también destacó el uso de redes sociales para comercializar mercurio —un metal tóxico utilizado en la minería ilegal de oro que puede contaminar ríos y arroyos y se puede acumular en los pescados que consumen las comunidades locales.

Fiscales documentaron 108 publicaciones en TikTok que anunciaban mercurio para la minería ilegal de oro y que acumularon más de 5,8 millones de visualizaciones, de acuerdo con REDESCA. En su respuesta a las consultas de The Associated Press, la oficina no identificó al país involucrado.

La REDESCA señaló que entre los casos documentados públicamente también se incluyen drones que volaron sobre comunidades indígenas en medio de disputas relacionadas con la tala ilegal, así como drones armados utilizados para intimidar a civiles indígenas. Advirtió, sin embargo, que la evidencia no siempre establece una conexión directa entre esos incidentes y actividades de protección ambiental.

La tecnología también ayuda a las comunidades a proteger los bosques

Las mismas tecnologías utilizadas por organizaciones delictivas también pueden ayudar a las comunidades indígenas a defender sus territorios.

Las imágenes satelitales, el mapeo por GPS y el uso de drones pueden detectar actividades de deforestación y minería ilegal, permitiéndole a las comunidades reunir evidencias de incursiones y, al mismo tiempo, reducir su exposición a grupos armados.

La REDESCA instó a los gobiernos a reforzar la supervisión de las transferencias de tecnología e investigar su uso ilícito, además de pedir que las empresas tecnológicas y de telecomunicaciones evalúen la posibilidad de que sus productos y servicios puedan ser desviados hacia organizaciones criminales.

La oficina también advirtió que el desarrollo y operación de tecnologías avanzadas conlleva costos ambientales, incluido el consumo de energía y agua, extracción de minerales y desechos electrónicos.

Subrayó que los gobiernos deben apoyar el monitoreo ambiental liderado por las comunidades sin eximir a las autoridades públicas de la responsabilidad de proteger los territorios.

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The moment led to a flurry of calls to Monroe County Supervisor of Elections Sherri Hodies.

Hodies said her office is looking into the incident.

Speaking to Local 10, she said they’re trying to figure out if what occurred was a traffic stop that happened to take place outside the polling place, or if this was intentional.

“I’m not happy about it,” said Hodies. “Frankly, I was stunned about it. It’s hard to take these phone calls from voters who are frightened. Their voices are shaking. What is going on?”

Local 10 News has reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection about the incident but have not heard back as of the time of this story’s publication.

“We need jurors to show up,” said Circuit Judge Keathan Frink. “This has been a problem consistently, where we have anywhere from 30 to 47 percent of jurors who are summoned [actually] appearing and showing up for jury duty.”

One juror, who asked not to be identified, said the jury room seemed empty when he reported for duty recently.

He said other jurors knew of people who pretended not to get the summons in the mail.

“People were talking about using that excuse - that the postal service was an excuse for saying they never got the summons,” he recalled.

Frink told Local 10’s Janine Stanwood that with so few reporting for duty, there’s a ripple effect.

“It makes it extremely difficult for judges and litigants to get their cases heard,” he said.

Criminal cases typically get priority, and so civil cases often suffer. Jurors who are there often will have to do extra duty, or they are not excused as often if they claim hardship since the juror pool is so small. There are certain predicaments, by statute, that can get a juror excused.

Frink said the Broward judicial system is now enforcing consequences.

“There are no consequences that jurors see and that are typically enforced - and so that’s one of the things that we’re doing, is trying to enforce the Florida statutes,” he said.

Earlier this month, Frink presided over the first hearing of its kind in nearly 15 years that summoned recent no-shows to explain their absence.

The irony: of the 100 people sent notices about this hearing, 27 responded, and just four showed up.

Several jurors said they were taking care of family members or claimed not to have received the notice in the mail.

Frink issued new court dates to three people and issued a fine to the fourth.

Local 10 was told the others who didn’t show up can expect to be served by the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Frink said he’d rather people come because they know it’s their civic duty.

“We’d love to have jurors who show up, who want to be here,” he said.

Police said it was that burglary, caught on camera Friday at 7tyone Restaurant & Coffee Bar at 1130 Normandy Drive, that led them to link it to another burglary two weeks prior ― and to suspect Kevin Reilley.

Investigators said a masked Reilley used a rock to break into the front glass door of 7tyone at around 1 a.m., went behind the counter and stole nearly $300 from the cash register.

In a news release, Officer Christopher Bess, a spokesperson for the Miami Beach Police Department, said detectives “quickly identified similarities between this incident and another commercial burglary that was actively being investigated in the area.”

That burglary happened on Oct. 2 at Big Joe Smash Burgers on North Beach.

Police said Reilley didn’t smash a window this time, but instead “forcibly removed a wall-mounted lockbox” at the storefront at 6987 Collins Ave., took the spare key and walked in, and took the whole cash register after an unsuccessful attempt to pry it open with a screwdriver.

According to an arrest report, the cash drawer had about $800 inside.

“Through surveillance footage and follow-up investigative work, detectives positively identified Reilley as the suspect,” Bess wrote. “When taken into custody by the Miami Beach Police Department’s Priority Service Team (on Sunday morning), he was wearing shorts and boots and carrying a backpack consistent with those seen in the footage.”

Reilley, who is homeless, faces charges including burglary of an unoccupied structure while masked, possession of burglary tools and grand theft.

“Luckily, our detectives, our homeless resource officers and our priority service teams not only identified him but tracked him down,” Bess later told Local 10 News in an interview.

Bess noted that Reilley “also had previous convictions of thefts in local stores, such as Walgreens and other businesses.”

He did not appear in Miami-Dade jail records as of Tuesday afternoon.

Tyrese Maxey scored 28 points and Brown had 19 points, eight rebounds and six assists in his first game since being acquired from Boston. James began his NBA-record 24th season by finishing with 14 points, nine rebounds and six assists.

The 76ers got three 3-pointers from Anfernee Simons and two from fellow newcomer Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, as the reserves took advantage of the open looks they got when the Knicks were caught focusing too much on the bigger names.

Jalen Brunson scored 21 points but the NBA Finals MVP shot just 6 for 19 from the field.

Brunson told fans inside Madison Square Garden in a pregame ceremony when the Knicks raised their NBA championship banner and received their rings that: “The joy that this city had this summer, we would love to replicate that again.”

Maybe they can, but they will have to play a lot better than they did Tuesday in shooting 37% overall and 33.3% on 3s. Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

The Knicks dominated the 76ers in a second-round sweep, early on during their streak of 13 straight victories as part of a 16-3 finish with the highest point differential in NBA postseason history.

Philadelphia then went out and traded for Brown and signed James after the NBA’s career scoring leader decided to leave the Los Angeles Lakers, setting the 76ers up with the potential to be one of the best teams in the league.

They certainly didn’t have a smooth start but played better as the game went on. The Sixers closed the third quarter with an 11-0 run, capped by Brown’s second straight 3-pointer that came at the buzzer and gave Philadelphia an 83-76 lead.

Maxey’s three-point play early in the fourth made it 87-78. The Knicks cut it to 96-95 when Towns made a 3-pointer, but Joel Embiid answered with one and the Sixers stayed ahead.

Embiid finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and six assists.

Brunson, wearing gold sneakers for the occasion, couldn’t help the Knicks recover by hitting the type of big shots he did when they repeatedly came back to beat San Antonio in five games for their first championship since 1973.

The festive pregame party gave way to a first half filled with long stretches of fouls and missed shots, not leaving much reason for the cheers to continue. The Knicks went ahead by 10 with one good flurry but it was down to 58-54 at halftime.

Up next

76ers: Host Cleveland on Thursday night.

Knicks: Visit Boston on Friday night.

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Los votantes del estado de Amazonas acudirán el domingo a las urnas para elegir gobernador y al presidente del país en la segunda vuelta entre el actual mandatario Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva y el senador derechista Flávio Bolsonaro, hijo del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro.

Encuestas recientes dejan entrever una apretada contienda en la que Bolsonaro lleva ligera ventaja. Bolsonaro ganó la primera vuelta en Manaos, la capital estatal, mientras que Lula se impuso en municipios del interior, incluidos los del Valle del Javari. La deforestación se disparó un 60% durante el mandato de Bolsonaro, mientras que el gobierno de Lula anunció la semana pasada la tasa de deforestación más baja en la Amazonía de la que se tenga registro.

La mayoría de los habitantes de la Amazonía vive en zonas urbanas, pero miles residen en pequeñas aldeas ubicadas a varios días en barco de la ciudad más cercana, incluido el Valle del Javari, una de las regiones más remotas de la Amazonía y hogar de varias comunidades indígenas que viven en aislamiento. Se calcula que su población es de unas 6.300 personas, según datos oficiales.

Las normas electorales brasileñas garantizan el transporte para las comunidades indígenas remotas. En el Valle del Javari, algunas aldeas funcionan como centros de votación para comunidades cercanas. Pero algunos votantes viven a 895 kilómetros (556 millas) de sus centros de votación, lo que requiere viajes de tres a cinco días en barco.

“Por lo general ayudamos a las autoridades electorales a organizar la logística para que estos votantes puedan llegar a las urnas", señaló Eliesio Marubo, un abogado indígena de Univaja. "Este año fue muy diferente: las autoridades electorales no se comunicaron para organizar el transporte. Tuvimos una tasa de abstención muy alta en la primera vuelta”.

Así que la organización se comunicó directamente y presentó una solicitud el pasado 13 de octubre. El tribunal electoral del estado de Amazonas rechazó el pedido el martes, asegurando que no podía atender la solicitud con tan poca antelación debido a las enormes distancias y los bajos niveles de los ríos —lo cual exigiría embarcaciones más lentas—, por lo que sería imposible organizar el transporte a tiempo.

El juez también indicó que la región plantea desafíos logísticos únicos, a tal grado que se necesitan aeronaves militares para transportar máquinas de votación y personal electoral debido a las “barreras de acceso”.

“Satisfacer las necesidades de las comunidades del Valle del Javari depende por completo de un transporte fluvial complejo, el cual requiere de mucho tiempo durante la estación seca. Las autoridades públicas carecen de los recursos para hacerlo en el tiempo restante”, destacó el juez.

La unidad de derechos indígenas de la Defensoría Pública del estado de Amazonas señaló que también ha presentado solicitudes ante las autoridades después de que recibió reportes de líderes y organizaciones indígenas sobre las dificultades para llegar a los centros de votación para el balotaje.

Máquinas de votación recorren miles de kilómetros hasta comunidades indígenas

El acceso al voto ha sido un problema persistente en esta región.

Hasta 2012, los únicos centros de votación de la región se ubicaban en la ciudad de Atalaia do Norte. Ese año, un candidato a la alcaldía distribuyó gasolina a unas 1.200 personas indígenas del Territorio Indígena del Valle del Javari para que pudieran realizar el viaje de varios días para poder votar.

Sin embargo, el candidato no había proporcionado combustible suficiente para el viaje de regreso. Los viajeros quedaron varados durante varias semanas a la orilla del río y sin saneamiento adecuado, lo que provocó un brote de rotavirus. Cinco bebés kanamari perdieron la vida y unas 100 personas fueron hospitalizadas.

Eso cambió en 2014, cuando aldeas del territorio del Valle del Javari recibieron sus primeros centros de votación gracias a los esfuerzos de Bruno Pereira, un experto en asuntos indígenas que murió en 2022 mientras trabajaba junto al periodista británico Dom Phillips en el Valle del Javari.

Pereira encabezaba en ese momento la oficina local del organismo brasileño de asuntos indígenas y les proporcionó alimentos y agua, además de coordinar una cuarentena para evitar que el virus llegara a las poblaciones indígenas. En coordinación con líderes indígenas locales, elaboró posteriormente un plan para transportar máquinas de votación electrónica a aldeas remotas.

El tribunal electoral de Amazonas, el Tribunal Superior Electoral de Brasil y el organismo de asuntos indígenas no respondieron de momento a una solicitud de comentarios de The Associated Press.

Marubo, de Univaja, dijo que no sabía cuántos votantes indígenas se verían afectados, pero que siguen preocupados por no poder votar.

“La Constitución garantiza el derecho al voto y a postularse a un cargo. Ese derecho no se está garantizando, porque las autoridades son las responsables de organizar la logística para que todos puedan ejercerlo sin dificultad”, subrayó.

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In a speech two weeks before the pivotal midterm elections for control of Congress, the liberal-leaning justice sharply criticized how the majority’s rulings have affected the nation’s political environment.

“The court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effect of their rulings on how the political system works and has created a democracy that does not work as well as it should,” she said during a talk before students and professors at Catholic University's law school in Washington, D.C.

She blasted rulings that weakened the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance regulations while opening the door for more partisan gerrymandering. She dissented from those decisions.

“Over the last couple of years especially, both political parties have been engaged in a race to the bottom in terms of doing these partisan gerrymanders, … making what I think is unfortunately a too polarized country even more so,” she said. “The people of America look around and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare, and they're right.”

The court’s majority, for its part, said in a 2019 ruling that courts drawing voting districts for maximum advantage is a political dispute and federal courts can’t step in. Conservatives have separately ruled that key campaign finance regulations violate the freedom of speech. This year, the court further narrowed protections in the Voting Rights Act, which had helped increase minority representation.

That helped feed a redistricting frenzy touched off by President Donald Trump, who is trying to hold on to the Republicans' slim House majorities in the November election.

Still, Kagan said it's unfair to say the majority reflexively supports the president. She pointed to key areas where the court has pushed back against Trump, including tariffs, birthright citizenship and mail ballots.

FBI officials said David Sartin, 40, wore a “prosthetic ‘old man’ mask with gray facial hair” when he robbed two banks in the Tampa Bay area.

Agents said they found the mask and other evidence while serving a warrant at Sartin’s home and storage unit.

Agents said Sartin was previously convicted a decade ago of robbing banks in Texas while wearing Halloween masks and disguises.

He faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted in the stickups.

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U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate, took his campaign tour bus to La Carreta on Tuesday afternoon in Miami-Dade County.

U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez was among the Cuban American supporters who welcomed Donalds to the restaurant on Bird Road in the Westchester neighborhood.

“Florida will never be a home to socialism,” Donalds told dozens at the restaurant. “Not on my watch as your next governor.”

The crowd cheered. Donalds, who is running against Democrat David Jolly, also said his goal is to back law enforcement and make Florida more affordable.

“Some things also, we’ve got to do. We’ve got to make it more affordable,” Donalds said. “We’ve got to drive prices down for people. We want young children to be able to achieve a great dream in Florida. We want seniors to live out their golden years in Florida.”

As for Jolly, he voters to the Koinoinia Worship Center in Prembroke Park late Tuesday afternoon.

“We’re going to elect Democratic candidates up and down the ballot this year,” said Jolly. “I just happen to be a candidate for governor who happens to talk openly about my faith as well.”

Several hundred people packed into the church’s sanctuary to hear Jolly and a special guest, former President Bill Clinton.

“I’m tired of politicians picking fights when the voters have to pick and choose what to get off the shelf at the grocery store,” said Clinton.

President Donald Trump endorsed Donalds. Early voting started on Monday in Miami-Dade County ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 3rd.

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According to a 21-page arrest affidavit from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Brian Louis Sguros, 35, is accused of using his position as a police officer to gain access to information about a man whose body he helped discover in July 2022.

Investigators said Sguros subsequently took control of the man’s Lauderhill home, spent years making improvements and attempted to establish a financial interest in the property.

The investigation began after a dispute involving the home’s ownership led to allegations of identity theft and official misconduct.

Officer discovers man’s body during welfare check

According to the affidavit, Sguros and another Lauderhill police officer responded to a welfare check at 4551 NW 12th St. on July 11, 2022.

A neighbor had contacted authorities after becoming concerned that she had not seen the homeowner, Dennis Ionis West, for approximately two weeks.

Officers entered the home through an unlocked front door and discovered West’s body near the entrance.

An autopsy determined that West died of cardiovascular disease, and his death was ruled natural.

Investigators said body camera footage showed Sguros participating in the response, but there was no indication that he told the other officers he knew West.

However, records later showed Sguros identified himself as West’s friend when communicating with the medical examiner’s office.

He also offered to handle West’s funeral arrangements if relatives could not be located.

Investigators eventually determined that West had several surviving family members and legal heirs.

Police say officer took possession of home weeks after death

According to the affidavit, Sguros acknowledged in sworn court documents that he took possession of West’s property around Aug. 1, 2022, just weeks after the man’s death.

“I was wondering, Dennis had just passed away and how could he have gotten the house so quick,” West’s neighbor, Lethel Haye, said. “He was like taking out all the rotten boards and everything inside and putting it outside, and at one point, they were living in there.”

Sguros claimed he spent more than two years cleaning, securing and renovating the home, the affidavit stated.

In court filings, he said he invested at least $214,000 of his own money into the property and increased its value to approximately $500,000.

He maintained that his work was intended to protect the vacant home from squatters and criminal activity, authorities said.

Investigators said property records showed Sguros paid taxes on the home, which remained registered under West’s estate.

Records also showed he made a payment of more than $2,500 toward a utility account that remained in West’s name nearly two years after his death.

In February 2025, Sguros and another individual filed paperwork attempting to establish adverse possession of the property, the affidavit stated.

According to the affidavit, the filing itself did not grant them legal ownership.

Building permit allegedly used dead man’s identity

Investigators said they discovered an August 2024 building permit application for an $8,000 project to replace windows and exterior doors at West’s home.

The paperwork listed West as the property owner, included his driver’s license information and contained a signature purportedly belonging to him, authorities said.

The document also indicated that West had appeared before a notary in August 2024, more than two years after his death.

Investigators said the phone number listed for West on the application actually belonged to Sguros.

According to the affidavit, detectives interviewed an employee of Active Builders Inc., the company involved in the renovation project.

The employee told investigators that Sguros had provided documents needed for the building permit, including a copy of West’s driver’s license, authorities said.

According to the affidavit, the employee said he believed West was alive and owned the property because of the information Sguros provided.

Investigators also reviewed text messages between the employee and Sguros that contained images of the deceased man’s identification and building permit paperwork, authorities said.

According to the affidavit, the notary whose name appeared on the documents told investigators she did not recognize the paperwork and that the signature was not hers.

She also said the notary stamp appeared smaller than the one she used, detectives said.

Investigators examine police database searches

The affidavit also accuses Sguros of improperly accessing law enforcement databases to obtain information about West.

Investigators said records showed Sguros conducted seven searches using his Lauderhill Police Department-issued computer between July 2022 and January 2023.

Those searches involved West’s driver’s license information and vehicle registration records.

According to investigators, the database results included personal information such as West’s address, date of birth, Social Security number and vehicle details.

One search conducted in January 2023 specifically identified West as deceased, authorities said.

Property dispute leads to investigation

According to the affidavit, the case came to light after Equinox Realty Holdings became involved with the property.

The affidavit states that the company located West’s surviving heirs and acquired their ownership interests in the home.

A Broward County court subsequently recognized the heirs’ interests and the conveyances to Equinox.

Investigators said Sguros eventually surrendered the keys to the home but sought reimbursement for the improvements he claimed to have made.

In February 2026, he filed a civil lawsuit seeking an equitable lien against the property, citing the money he said he spent on renovations, records show.

The company’s attorney later filed a complaint with the Lauderhill Police Department, raising concerns about Sguros’ involvement with the property and his use of information obtained through his official duties.

The investigation eventually involved the Broward County Property Appraiser’s Deed Fraud Task Force and Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives.

Five criminal charges outlined in affidavit

According to the affidavit, investigators found probable cause to pursue five charges against Sguros:

• Official misconduct
• Criminal use of a deceased person’s identification information
• Criminal use of personal identification information
• Offense against a computer user
• Unlawful use of a two-way communications device

“We hold police officers in the highest regard because they take an oath to protect the public,” Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar said in a statement to Local 10 News. “This case is so troubling because this officer has been charged with using his position to defraud the public. I want to thank our BCPA Crimes Against Property Team and the Broward Sheriff’s Office for their detailed and thorough investigation.”

Sguros has since been placed on leave without pay.

Jurors recommended death by an 11-1 vote for the killing of Machado, while they unanimously voted 12-0 to recommend death for the killing of Julia. In the case involving Daniela, jurors voted 8-4 in favor of the death penalty.

Sierra, 42, confessed to killing Machado and her daughters on Nov. 10, 2012. He will face capital punishment for the killings.

During the sentencing phase of his trial, defense attorney Khurrum Wahid urged jurors to choose life in prison without the possibility of parole, asking them to weigh the brutality of the killings against the totality of Sierra’s life, including a traumatic childhood brain injury.

After weeks of testimony, jurors were tasked with deciding whether Sierra should receive the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Wahid acknowledged the severity of the crimes while urging jurors to set aside their feelings of anger, hatred and disgust, as they had pledged to do during jury selection.

“He admits that he did this monstrous act,” Wahid said.

He reminded jurors of their oath to consider the evidence and remain open to life as a possible punishment, even after hearing details of the killings.

“This is a very challenging set of facts,” Wahid said, asking jurors to remember that they had said they could remain fair and consider life despite the horrific circumstances.

“The choice here is a moral choice that is before you,” he added.

Wahid asked jurors to consider Sierra’s background, including a serious head injury he suffered in a car accident in 1996, when he was 12.

“Nobody chooses to have a skull fracture when they are 12 years old,” Wahid said.

During the trial, defense expert testimony addressed structural damage to Sierra’s brain and its potential effects on his behavior, personality and executive functioning. Wahid pointed to brain images presented during the proceedings as he argued that the injury marked a turning point in Sierra’s life.

“This is not a normal, healthy brain,” Wahid said. “An unhealthy brain has consequences.”

He also asked jurors to consider Sierra’s mother, a Cuban immigrant who raised two sons as a single mother while working two jobs. Wahid argued that she did her best to help her son but that the family did not recognize the need for the kind of intervention that might have addressed his behavioral changes.

Wahid also urged jurors to weigh those circumstances against the violence of the killings, emphasizing that they alone had heard all the evidence presented during the sentencing phase.

“You still can exercise your moral clarity and choose life,” he said. “You don’t have to justify that to anybody, you don’t have to justify that to anyone in this room, you don’t have to justify that to anyone out there, you are the only ones who heard all the evidence, you just have to justify it to yourself.”

The defense’s plea followed Monday’s closing argument from lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin, who urged jurors to recommend the death penalty, emphasizing the brutality of the killings and the evidence presented in court.

Rifkin described Sierra’s injuries to Machado as she recounted the killings and referred to the use of a yellow plastic Sedano’s bag to suffocate the victims.

“He carved up her arms,” Rifkin said. “He carved up her face. It was heinous, atrocious and cruel.”

The garment factory on the outskirts of Karachi was sweltering. The room was packed with sweating fellow workers and huge industrial equipment that radiated heat. The air felt thick with the humidity of this summer's monsoon.

Siddiqui, who The Associated Press is identifying only by surname because she fears retaliation by her employer, felt like she was suffocating. Concerned co-workers called over her supervisor.

“The supervisor said, ‘Just complete this work,’” Siddiqui, 28, told The Associated Press. “Suddenly darkness came before my eyes.”

Exhausted by the heat, she collapsed.

Extreme heat — intensified by climate change — is creating dangerous conditions for factory workers in Pakistan. From blue jeans to homeware, these factories produce goods for global companies that have pledged to protect workers’ safety. But experts and labor rights advocates say those promises remain unfulfilled, as temperatures rise and workers pay the price with their health and safety.

The AP interviewed more than a dozen workers in Karachi, all of whom described scorching workplaces, absent heat protocols and negative health effects, including fainting. They spoke on the condition that their identities be protected out of fear of retaliation by their employers. All but one said they lost wages when heat-related illness forced them to miss work. Ten of the workers made goods for global brands sold in the United States and Europe.

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Workers are exposed to scorching conditions inside factories

For workers like Siddiqui, extreme heat — temperatures at or above 32.2 C (90 F) combined with high humidity — isn't just a workplace hazard.

Living with her six children in a small room with no air conditioning on the outskirts of Karachi, temperatures routinely exceed 37.8 C (100 F) during heat waves.

Inside the garment factory where she stitches clothes for Spanish brands like Zara and Mango, it’s even hotter. Huge machines churn heat into the air. There are fans, but they're often broken or small. Windows are slitlike and set high, or even closed to deter theft, further trapping the heat, workers told AP.

"Smoke, heat, you face it," said a 34-year-old male factory worker.

Health issues and lost wages are common

Extreme heat is a silent killer: It can show few outward symptoms while causing severe internal damage and worsening conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and asthma. Studies have linked it to dehydration, heatstroke, organ failure and death.

“The longer you work in the heat, the less that you’re protected from it and the health risks rise,” said Andreas Flouris, the founder of FAME Lab, which researches heat's impact on health.

The number of people exposed to extreme heat is growing exponentially due to climate change. Heat stress is a leading cause of weather-related deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Studies by World Weather Attribution say that climate change has also drastically increased the frequency, intensity and risks of extreme heatwaves in Pakistan.

Workers interviewed by AP described temporary muscle paralysis, swollen limbs, blood pressure swings, breathing problems, blurred vision and exhaustion that peaked in the hottest months. One worker showed scaly skin rashes on her arms from routine chemical exposure, saying how the pain intensified during summer.

All said they'd seen co-workers faint from the heat. Several said they'd fainted themselves, some multiple times. Those who fainted were often only offered a short break or sugary drink before being told to resume work.

They said complaining to supervisors led to no changes.

Only one worker had paid sick leave. The rest told AP that missed hours — even from fainting on the job or from heat-related illnesses — meant slashed wages.

Siddiqui wept on the floor of her home as she described fainting and being sent to the hospital. Earning 15,000 Pakistani rupees ($54) a month, the hospital visit cost, which her employer refused to pay, left her unable to buy food for her children.

“Sometimes they eat one meal, sometimes they don’t eat a meal,” she said, adding that the younger children sometimes cry from hunger. “The older ones have gotten used to it.”

Solutions exist but are often absent

There are simple, scalable and economically feasible measures factories can take to protect their workers from extreme heat, including accurately measuring temperature and humidity inside workplaces, providing cold drinking water and allowing workers breaks, said Flouris.

Other solutions include installing barriers to block radiant heat from machinery, installing quality ventilation and cooling systems and painting rooftops white to deflect sunlight.

“We’re talking about some very simple strategies,” he said.

Factory workers told AP that almost none of these measures were taken in their workplaces.

Several workers said their factories’ metal roofs make the summer heat unbearable, yet they receive no extra water or breaks.

All the workers said there were no heat sensors installed. Only one worker said a ventilation system was installed at their workplace, but that it was only turned on when auditors visited the factory for inspection. The workers said water was provided by their employers, but that it was rarely cold and they weren't sure if it was clean.

“Sometimes it smells like dead rats," said the 34-year-old male worker.

Companies pledge protection but enforcement is scarce

Pakistan has national and provincial laws as well as constitutional protections meant to shield workers from such conditions, said Farhan Haider, a program manager at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research in Karachi.

Some companies supplied by the factories, including Inditex—Zara's parent company— and Mango have signed legally binding agreements to protect workers or have their own company safety pledges.

The most concrete is the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, which in 2025 announced it would treat heat as a workplace safety risk and develop heat stress protocols, which are under review but not yet in effect.

Representatives from the Pakistan Accord, a country-specific safety program that operates as an extension of the broader International Accord, did not reply to a request for interview or comment.

Brands have a responsibility to ensure their suppliers are held accountable for worker safety, including extreme heat, said Cara Schulte, a researcher at Climate Rights International who published a report in 2025 about worker conditions in Pakistan.

In an email to AP, a spokesperson from Inditex said the company is strengthening efforts to address heat stress in its supply chain through updated factory audits, guidance and training for suppliers and collaboration with industry initiatives. A spokesperson for Mango called worker health and safety a “non-negotiable priority,” citing their supplier code of conduct, which was “strengthened this year to explicitly address extreme temperatures and heat stress.”

A government spokesperson for Sindh province, where Karachi is located, acknowledged implementation remains an issue.

"The government is making efforts to enforce these regulations, but given the province’s vast size and the presence of numerous industrial zones, complaints are inevitable,” said Sadia Javed, who is also a member of the Provincial Assembly.

For workers like Siddiqui, complaints remain ignored as temperatures continue to rise.

"If you feel too unwell, (supervisors) say, ‘This is an everyday problem. Women cry and complain a lot, but the work still must be done,''' she said.

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Associated Press video journalist Muhammad Farooq, reporter Adil Jawad and freelance journalist Pernia Mubashir contributed to this story. AP reporter Anton L. Delgado contributed to this report from Bangkok.

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Day did not want to set a timeline for the junior’s return, but he left open the possibility that it could be for the rest of the season.

“We are putting together a plan for him not being available for the regular season and then also him not being available for the postseason," Day said. “So based on that, if he’s not able to return this fall, we’re putting a plan together for that as well.”

The third-ranked Buckeyes (6-1, 4-0 Big Ten) are on their bye week after rallying for a 19-15 victory over sixth-ranked Indiana. That gives Day, offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, and the rest of the coaching staff time to evaluate if Luke Fahey or Tavien St. Clair is the best option at quarterback going into a pivotal primetime test at No. 16 Southern California on Oct. 31.

Day said Fahey has had the edge the past couple of weeks. The freshman played 10 snaps against the Hoosiers and went 0 for 2. Fahey has played three games this season and is 9 of 13 for 203 yards, with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

St. Clair, a sophomore, has played two games and is 5 of 7 for 52 yards, with one touchdown and one interception.

“Luke has been ahead of Tavian, but now that there is a bye week these guys are going to get plenty of reps,” Day said. “We’re going to play the guy that gives us the best chance to win. Based on what we’ve seen in practice the last month, now we have to come up for air and come up with a plan. We’re going to need them to win a championship. It’s been done before, and it’s a challenge to them and the team to pick up the slack for losing Julian.”

Day can point to the 2014 national championship banner hanging inside the indoor practice field at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center to show Ohio State has done it. Braxton Miller suffered a right shoulder injury during the preseason and was replaced by J.T. Barrett, who then broke his right ankle against Michigan. Cardale Jones then took over and led the Buckeyes to three straight wins and their first title in the College Football Playoff era.

The last time an OSU quarterback started a game due to injury was in 2021, when Kyle McCord played in place of C.J. Stroud against Akron.

The stakes are much higher, though, for whoever steps in this time. After the road game at USC, the Buckeyes will host Oregon on Nov. 7, then play No. 24 Northwestern on Nov. 14, take a trip to Nebraska on Nov. 21, and finish the regular season against Michigan on Nov. 28.

Ohio State could also play in the Big Ten title game in Indianapolis on Dec. 5.

“If this wasn’t a bye week, we’d have to roll. We’re going to have to get it organized quickly,” Day said. “This is a challenge for both Luke and Tavian to step up in a big way. The plan when both those guys came here was to play, and here they are. A coach can say you’re one snap away until it is real. They have to perform at a high level.”

Smith said whoever goes under center, they will adapt the offensive scheme. Ohio State’s run game has been inconsistent, but it can take some of the pressure off. The receivers are led by Heisman Trophy favorite Jeremiah Smith,, and the Buckeyes have one of the nation’s more experienced offensive lines.

“You try to play to the strengths of the offense. You can have Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning and still need a run game,” Smith said. “With Luke, I like the way he prepares. For a guy who is young, he has a pro mindset. Tavian has a big arm and can extend plays. Both have strengths that you like.”

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Hasta ahora, la planificación de todo el cronograma de la visita del Santo Padre en Perú sigue su marcha, dijo el sacerdote y secretario general para la visita apostólica del Arzobispado de Lima, Juan Bytton.

“Lo que sí ha pedido Roma es el tema de planificación en el tema de salud", afirmó Bytton en una conferencia de prensa con periodistas internacionales. Añadió que un helicóptero militar peruano con equipos médicos acompañará al papa en su recorrido por las ciudades de Chiclayo, Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, Cusco y Pucallpa.

La primera gira de León por Sudamérica también incluye a Argentina y Uruguay.

El domingo, el Papa agradeció a miles de fieles en la plaza de San Pedro que rezaron por él luego que la semana pasada se le extirpó el lóbulo inferior del pulmón derecho en el primer gran episodio de salud de sus 17 meses de pontificado. La cirugía confirmó que tenía adenocarcinoma, el tipo más común de cáncer de pulmón.

León añadió que tras su operación reanudará “gradualmente” sus actividades "siempre con la ayuda de Dios y sus oraciones”.

Aún están en curso pruebas histológicas del tumor y de los ganglios linfáticos relacionados. Los resultados, junto con detalles de la composición molecular y genética del tumor, ayudarán a los médicos a determinar si el papa necesita tratamiento adicional. Las opciones incluyen quimioterapia, una combinación de quimioterapia e inmunoterapia, o terapia oral dirigida basada en las características genéticas del tumor.

Bytton añadió que en Perú se tiene una lista de hospitales preparados en cada ciudad que será visitada por León, también tienen un ascensor disponible que podría ser usado por el papa para subir o bajar por más de una decena de escalinatas que llevan desde la plaza mayor de Lima hasta la catedral de Lima.

Robert Prevost tiene programado su primer viaje por Sudamérica entre el 6 y 17 de noviembre donde visitará Uruguay, Argentina y Perú. En esa gira tendrá que realizar una docena de vuelos y trayectos en helicóptero a grandes altitudes, entre ellas a la ciudad peruana de Santa Cruz de Succhabamba a 2.035 metros de altitud. Las visitas del papa también incluyen Cusco, la capital del Imperio Inca, a 3.400 metros sobre el nivel del mar.

Prevost vivió unos 22 años en Perú hasta 2023 cuando fue llamado al Vaticano por Francisco para ejercer un cargo clave. Fue obispo de la diócesis de Chiclayo, una ciudad de la costa norte de Perú, a 700 kilómetros de Lima. Santa Cruz de Succhabamba es una ciudad que también se encuentra dentro de la diócesis de Chiclayo.

Pese a que los católicos en Perú han disminuido desde 98,5% en el censo de 1940 hasta 76% en el censo de 2017, la llegada de Prevost ha despertado interés. Se están construyendo estatuas y algunos negocios fabrican camisetas, dulces e incluso una cafetería ofrece el rostro del papa en sus tazas de capuchino.

En La Paz, a las afueras del Ministerio de Educación, los maestros marcharon y trataron de permanecer en las calles, pero fueron dispersados. A pedido del gobierno, el Legislativo amplió hace semanas un estado de excepción para evitar conflictos en medio de un creciente malestar social.

Según los maestros las políticas económicas como la eliminación del subsidio del diésel, el cambio flotante del dólar tras 15 años de estar fijo han incrementado los precios y están afectando al costo de vida de los bolivianos.

Los maestros, que anunciaron un paro de actividades el próximo viernes, aseguran que en el tema de educación el gobierno de Paz busca una posible transferencia de la administración estatal de los institutos técnicos y tecnológicos a las gobernaciones.

“No vamos a permitir que se descentralice la educación”, dijo a los medios la representante del Magisterio Urbano de La Paz, Anaí Bozo, después que un grupo de sus compañeros fue dispersado por la policía.

El ministro de Educación, Eric Sanjinés, dijo a la televisora Red Uno que la medida estaría en una futura ley que no toca el escalafón del magisterio.

“Lo que estamos asegurando en el proyecto de ley es que los fondos que se transfieran, porque ahorita los institutos técnicos tienen un presupuesto, esos fondos que se van a transferir hacia las gobernaciones estén asegurados por ley para que las gobernaciones paguen los salarios de los maestros”, indicó el ministro a Red Uno.

Las marchas se registraron en al menos cinco regiones de nueve, entre ellas Potosí, Santa Cruz, La Paz, Beni y Cochabamba.

Los maestros fueron uno de los sectores importantes en las protestas registradas entre mayo y junio que paralizaron principalmente La Paz durante al menos 53 días con cortes de rutas para exigir la renuncia de Paz. Los bloqueos dejaron a la capital gubernamental sin alimentos, oxígeno medicinal y combustible.

The initiative by the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research plans to launch Thursday, establishing the first international forum for key players to try to tackle the issue.

Robin Geiss, head of the Geneva-based institute known as UNIDIR, warned at a U.N. press conference Tuesday that “the margin for human judgment is increasingly narrow, including in the nuclear domain.”

It’s difficult to assess how close the world is to machines possibly acting outside of human control, Geiss said, and that uncertainty “is the issue we’re trying to resolve here.”

One problem is that AI is increasingly creeping into so many areas — early warning systems, information gathering and reconnaissance, to name a few — “and it’s quite difficult to say at which point we’re actually really losing control,” he said.

For a long time, he said, there was widespread reluctance to deal with AI guardrails, but the proliferation of its capabilities and the potential impact have led to “a growing realization that we stand at a crossroad — that now is the time to act, including on military AI.”

Geiss said the U.N. recognizes that global competition to lead on AI poses serious obstacles.

“But concerns about AI’s impact are already transcending geopolitical blocs, and they’re prompting action from major powers,” he said, pointing to a proposal last month for the U.S. and China to set up an AI safety alert system for issues that could threaten national security.

The risks posed by AI were a major topic in speeches by leaders of many of the U.N.’s 193 member nations at their annual high-level meeting last month.

UNIDIR this summer established a Center of Excellence on AI, Peace and Security, the first permanent platform by the world body focused on those issues. Geiss said it received funding from all five major nuclear powers — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France.

On Thursday, UNIDIR will launch a new forum as part of the center to bring together “actors from every relevant sector and all over the world” to work on AI in military uses.

Geiss was vague on exactly what the initiative will do, but he said it will be part of other AI efforts being launched by the center this week. Another will focus on the role of industry and aims to develop “a framework for responsible industry behavior,” he said.

Decisions by companies on design and development “determine whether AI-enabled military capabilities are ultimately reliable, predictable and whether they can operate in line with international law,” Geiss said.

For that reason, he said, UNIDIR is developing a framework of responsible industry behavior that will “provide practical, voluntary guidelines" that follow international law and ensure human rights.

The U.N. agency will hold consultations this week with defense technology companies, software developers, subcontractors, investors and others that will work alongside governments, civil society, academia and experts, Geiss said.

UNIDIR also is launching an initiative focused on the risks of AI misuse by armed groups, he said, warning that such actors are already using the technology to support operational planning, execution and logistics.

“The urgent issue of AI in the military domain will certainly no longer be allowed to linger in the shadows,” Geiss said. “The time has come to pull our strengths and confront AI in the military head-on.”

Some babies can spend weeks, even months, in the hospital NICU, separated from their parents.

New parents Malena and James Brooks said their newest bundle of joy, Antonio, has called the neo-natal intensive care unit here at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital home for two months.

A special new camera system called Angel Eye is making the separation a little more bearable for his mommy and daddy.

“When we had Antonio at 25 weeks and I couldn’t hold him, so going home and being able to see him, it felt like he was a little bit with us,” said Malena Brooks.

Fellow new parents Brandy and Andrew Pidermann feel the same way.

Their son, mighty Miles as they call him, was just one pound and two ounces when he came into the world.

Being able to see their newborn anytime and anywhere has eased their stress and anxiety.

Cameras aren’t new in the NICU, but these high tech, password protected cameras provide a 24/7 connection.

“The cameras have the capabilities to see the babies in the dark, capabilities for the nurses to send little messages to update the parents on how the baby is doing, how the day went, just keep them informed of what’s happening when they can’t be here,” said Barbara Glassman with Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.

Miles has been in the NICU more 100 days, and his mother Brandy Pidermann says the live steaming has helped with bonding and even breast pumping.

“Going back to work was already a challenge because I want to be here as much as possible, so having the opportunity to see him when I’m out and about or home at night and pumping, it’s a way for us to still stay connected and it feels like he’s with me,” she said.

For the Brooks clan, spending video time with Antonio is a family affair, and his new siblings can’t wait to bring their brother home.

“It’s just been an answered prayer from God to be able to feel he’s a little with me, even when he’s really not,” said Brooks.

They’re four wins from the franchise’s first World Series title thanks to smart decisions by president of baseball operations Erik Neander, manager Kevin Cash and their scouting and coaching staffs.

The Rays face the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 1 on Friday night.

Only three players on Tampa Bay’s 26-man roster in the AL Championship Series were drafted by the team, and first baseman Jonathan Aranda was an international signing. Speedy outfielder Chandler Simpson and left-hander Ian Seymour were second-round picks, and shortstop Taylor Walls was a third-round selection.

Two-time All-Stars Junior Caminero and Yandy Díaz are among 16 players acquired in trades. Both came from Cleveland, in separate deals. Each hit a two-run homer to seal a 7-3 victory over the Guardians on Monday night that clinched the Rays’ third pennant.

Right-hander Nick Martinez heads the list of four players who were signed in free agency. Left-hander Cam Booser signed as a minor league free agent and righty Kevin Kelly was a Rule 5 pick.

The Rays opened the season with a payroll of $90.5 million that ranked 26th in the majors, proof that wise moves can be a path to winning instead of wild spending. The Brewers had MLB’s 19th-highest payroll as of Aug. 31.

“The World Series is about to be two exceptional baseball teams. It’s going to be a blast to watch,” Neander said Monday night during a clubhouse celebration. “They deserve it. I’m happy for our staff, unbelievable top to bottom. We all play our little part to help these guys do the heavy lifting. The most special group of guys you can imagine. You want it that much more for them and happy they’ve delivered to this point.”

Cash, a .183 career hitter as a backup catcher for nearly a decade, has managed the Rays since 2015 and has twice won the AL Manager of the Year award. He’s been a steady presence who embraces analytics and fosters strong relationships with his players through effective communication.

“We talk through — I’ll try to hit every scenario, and we’re certainly not going to get them all, but your gut instinct, your analytic information, blend them all together,” Cash said. “But you’d like to have a process to the decisions you’re making and feel good about the decisions you’re making. You really rely on your coaching staff in the game and before the game, whether it’s the coaching staff or talking with our group that I think does such a good job of providing so much quality information that we can kind of bounce off one another and feel good about the direction that we’re going into the game.”

Here’s a look at how the Rays were built:

Lineup

Caminero was acquired from Cleveland when he was 18 years old for reliever Tobias Myers in 2021. Caminero hit 45 homers last year and 42 this season. Myers never pitched for the Guardians and had a 5.53 ERA for the Mets in 2026.

Díaz came from Cleveland in 2018 in a three-way trade that included Seattle and has become the team’s non-traditional leadoff hitter. He won a batting title in 2023 and hit .293 with 22 homers and 85 RBIs this year.

Catcher Liam Hicks joined the Rays from Miami at the Aug. 3 trade deadline. He hit .284 with 18 homers and 82 RBIs between the two clubs in his second year in the majors.

Infielder Richie Palacios, who hit a two-run double in Game 6 against the Guardians, came from St. Louis in 2024. Outfielders Jonny DeLuca, Victor Mesa Jr. and Ryan Vilade also were acquired in trades, and Cedric Mullins was signed in free agency last offseason.

Starting rotation

Ace starter Drew Rasmussen was originally drafted by the Rays in the first round in 2017 but did not sign with them due to concerns following his first Tommy John surgery. He was selected by the Brewers in the sixth round in 2018, made his debut with them in 2020 and was eventually traded to Tampa Bay in 2021.

Freddy Peralta, the ALCS MVP, joined the Rays at the trade deadline this year after a rough first half with the Mets and turned things around in Tampa Bay. He was traded from Milwaukee to New York last offseason after winning 17 games.

Martinez signed a one-year, $13 million contract in free agency a few days before spring training opened. He won 15 games, had a 3.10 ERA and made his first All-Star team.

Right-hander Griffin Jax came from Minnesota at the 2025 trade deadline. He had a 3.53 ERA in 34 games, including 23 starts.

Bullpen

Bryan Baker had three career saves in four seasons when the Rays got him from Baltimore in a July 2025 trade. Pitching coach Kyle Snyder and his staff turned Baker into a dominant closer who had 41 saves in the regular season and has five more in seven scoreless appearances this postseason.

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Locklin, 38, is running after state redistricting eliminated an area of Collier County and added a section of western Broward County.

“We need to limit these high rises. You know, the starting condo price is $6 to $10 million, when we have a housing shortage,” Locklin, an attorney, said.

Locklin supports Bernie Sanders’s calls to tax billionaires. Diaz-Balart wants to ease government regulations and excess taxes.

“As a member of Congress, I have actually brought back billions of dollars ... for infrastructure, for Everglades, for law enforcement, to secure our schools, but also for housing,” Diaz-Balart said.

Locklin and Diaz-Balart also disagree on immigration. Locklin supports the renewal of Temporary Protected Status.

Deborah Hosey, also a candidate for the district, is running without a party affiliation.

Según una declaración jurada de arresto de 21 páginas de la Broward Sheriff’s Office, Brian Louis Sguros, de 35 años, está acusado de aprovechar su cargo de policía para acceder a información sobre un hombre cuyo cadáver ayudó a descubrir en julio de 2022.

Los investigadores afirman que Sguros luego tomó el control de la casa del hombre en Lauderhill, pasó años haciéndole mejoras e intentó establecer un interés económico sobre la propiedad.

La investigación comenzó después de que una disputa por la titularidad de la vivienda derivara en acusaciones de robo de identidad y conducta oficial indebida.

Policía descubre el cadáver durante un chequeo de bienestar

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, Sguros y otro policía de Lauderhill respondieron el 11 de julio de 2022 a un chequeo de bienestar en el 4551 NW 12th St.

Una vecina había llamado a las autoridades preocupada porque llevaba unas dos semanas sin ver al dueño de la casa, Dennis Ionis West.

Los agentes entraron por la puerta principal, que estaba sin seguro, y encontraron el cuerpo de West cerca de la entrada.

La autopsia determinó que West murió de una enfermedad cardiovascular, y su muerte se declaró natural.

Los investigadores indicaron que las imágenes de las cámaras corporales muestran a Sguros participando en la respuesta, pero nada indica que les dijera a los otros agentes que conocía a West.

Sin embargo, registros posteriores revelaron que Sguros se identificó como amigo de West al comunicarse con la oficina del médico forense.

También se ofreció a encargarse del funeral de West si no se localizaba a sus familiares.

Con el tiempo, los investigadores determinaron que West tenía varios familiares vivos y herederos legales.

Según la policía, el agente ocupó la casa semanas después de la muerte

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, Sguros reconoció en documentos judiciales presentados bajo juramento que tomó posesión de la propiedad de West alrededor del 1 de agosto de 2022, apenas unas semanas después de la muerte del hombre.

“Yo me preguntaba cómo era posible que, si Dennis acababa de morir, él consiguiera la casa tan rápido”, dijo Lethel Haye, vecina de West. “Estaba sacando todas las tablas podridas y todo lo de adentro y poniéndolo afuera, y en un momento hasta estaban viviendo ahí”.

Según la declaración jurada, Sguros aseguró haber pasado más de dos años limpiando, asegurando y renovando la casa.

En documentos judiciales, afirmó que invirtió al menos $214,000 de su propio dinero en la propiedad y que elevó su valor a unos $500,000.

Las autoridades indicaron que Sguros sostuvo que su trabajo tenía como fin proteger la casa vacía de invasores y actividades delictivas.

Según los investigadores, los registros de propiedad muestran que Sguros pagó los impuestos de la vivienda, que seguía registrada a nombre del patrimonio de West.

Los registros también muestran que hizo un pago de más de $2,500 a una cuenta de servicios públicos que seguía a nombre de West casi dos años después de su muerte.

En febrero de 2025, Sguros y otra persona presentaron documentos para intentar reclamar la propiedad por posesión adversa, según la declaración jurada.

De acuerdo con el documento, esa solicitud por sí sola no les otorgaba la propiedad legal de la casa.

Presuntamente usó la identidad del difunto para un permiso de construcción

Los investigadores dijeron haber descubierto una solicitud de permiso de construcción de agosto de 2024 para un proyecto de $8,000 destinado a reemplazar ventanas y puertas exteriores en la casa de West.

Según las autoridades, los documentos señalaban a West como dueño de la propiedad, incluían los datos de su licencia de conducir y contenían una firma supuestamente suya.

El documento también indicaba que West se había presentado ante una notaria en agosto de 2024, más de dos años después de su muerte.

Los investigadores afirmaron que el número de teléfono que aparecía a nombre de West en la solicitud era en realidad de Sguros.

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, los detectives entrevistaron a un empleado de Active Builders Inc., la empresa a cargo del proyecto de renovación.

Según las autoridades, el empleado les dijo que Sguros le entregó los documentos necesarios para el permiso, entre ellos una copia de la licencia de conducir de West.

El empleado aseguró que creía que West estaba vivo y era el dueño de la propiedad por la información que le dio Sguros, según la declaración jurada.

Los investigadores también revisaron mensajes de texto entre el empleado y Sguros que contenían imágenes de la identificación del difunto y de los documentos del permiso de construcción, informaron las autoridades.

Según la declaración jurada, la notaria cuyo nombre figuraba en los documentos les dijo a los investigadores que no reconocía esos papeles y que la firma no era suya.

Además, señaló que el sello notarial parecía más pequeño que el que ella usa, según los detectives.

Investigan búsquedas en bases de datos policiales

La declaración jurada también acusa a Sguros de acceder indebidamente a bases de datos policiales para obtener información sobre West.

Según los investigadores, los registros muestran que Sguros hizo siete búsquedas con la computadora asignada por el Lauderhill Police Department entre julio de 2022 y enero de 2023.

Esas búsquedas incluyeron los datos de la licencia de conducir de West y los registros de su vehículo.

De acuerdo con los investigadores, los resultados contenían información personal como la dirección de West, su fecha de nacimiento, su número de Seguro Social y los datos de su vehículo.

Una de las búsquedas, hecha en enero de 2023, identificaba específicamente a West como fallecido, indicaron las autoridades.

Una disputa por la propiedad desató la investigación

Según la declaración jurada, el caso salió a la luz después de que Equinox Realty Holdings se involucrara con la propiedad.

El documento indica que la empresa localizó a los herederos de West y adquirió sus derechos de propiedad sobre la casa.

Posteriormente, un tribunal del condado Broward reconoció los derechos de los herederos y las transferencias a Equinox.

Los investigadores indicaron que Sguros terminó entregando las llaves de la casa, pero pidió que le reembolsaran las mejoras que asegura haber hecho.

En febrero de 2026, presentó una demanda civil para obtener un gravamen equitativo sobre la propiedad, alegando el dinero que dice haber gastado en las renovaciones, según los registros.

El abogado de la empresa presentó luego una queja ante el Lauderhill Police Department, en la que expresó su preocupación por la participación de Sguros con la propiedad y por el uso de información obtenida en el ejercicio de sus funciones.

En la investigación terminaron participando el Deed Fraud Task Force de la Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office y detectives de la Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Cinco cargos penales detallados en la declaración jurada

Según la declaración jurada, los investigadores encontraron causa probable para presentar cinco cargos contra Sguros:

• Conducta oficial indebida
• Uso delictivo de la información de identificación de una persona fallecida
• Uso delictivo de información de identificación personal
• Delito contra un usuario de computadoras
• Uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación bidireccional

“Tenemos a los policías en la más alta estima porque juran proteger al público”, dijo el tasador de propiedades del condado Broward, Marty Kiar, en una declaración a Local 10 News. “Este caso es muy preocupante porque a este agente se le acusa de usar su cargo para defraudar al público. Quiero agradecer a nuestro BCPA Crimes Against Property Team y a la Broward Sheriff’s Office por su investigación minuciosa y detallada”.

El jurado recomendó la pena de muerte por 11 votos contra 1 por el asesinato de Machado, y por unanimidad, 12 a 0, por el de Julia. En el caso de Daniela, votó 8 a 4 a favor de la pena capital.

Sierra, de 42 años, confesó haber matado a Machado y a sus hijas el 10 de noviembre de 2012. Enfrentará la pena de muerte por esos asesinatos.

Durante la fase de sentencia del juicio, el abogado defensor Khurrum Wahid pidió al jurado que optara por la cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional, y que sopesara la brutalidad de los crímenes frente a la totalidad de la vida de Sierra, incluida una lesión cerebral traumática que sufrió de niño.

Tras semanas de testimonios, el jurado tenía que decidir si Sierra debía recibir la pena de muerte o la cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional.

Wahid reconoció la gravedad de los crímenes, pero instó a los miembros del jurado a dejar de lado sus sentimientos de ira, odio y repulsión, como se habían comprometido a hacer durante la selección del jurado.

“Él admite que cometió este acto monstruoso”, dijo Wahid.

Les recordó su juramento de considerar la evidencia y mantenerse abiertos a la cadena perpetua como posible castigo, incluso después de escuchar los detalles de los asesinatos.

“Estos son hechos muy difíciles”, dijo Wahid, al pedirles que recordaran que habían asegurado que podrían ser justos y considerar la cadena perpetua pese a las circunstancias tan horribles.

“La decisión que tienen ante ustedes es una decisión moral”, añadió.

Wahid pidió al jurado que tuviera en cuenta los antecedentes de Sierra, entre ellos una grave lesión en la cabeza que sufrió en un accidente de tránsito en 1996, cuando tenía 12 años.

“Nadie elige fracturarse el cráneo a los 12 años”, dijo Wahid.

Durante el juicio, peritos de la defensa testificaron sobre el daño estructural en el cerebro de Sierra y sus posibles efectos en su conducta, su personalidad y sus funciones ejecutivas. Wahid señaló las imágenes cerebrales presentadas durante el proceso para argumentar que la lesión marcó un antes y un después en la vida de Sierra.

“Este no es un cerebro normal y sano”, dijo Wahid. “Un cerebro enfermo tiene consecuencias”.

También pidió al jurado que pensara en la madre de Sierra, una inmigrante cubana que crió sola a dos hijos mientras trabajaba en dos empleos. Wahid argumentó que ella hizo todo lo posible por ayudar a su hijo, pero que la familia no se dio cuenta de que hacía falta el tipo de intervención que tal vez habría atendido sus cambios de conducta.

Wahid instó además al jurado a sopesar esas circunstancias frente a la violencia de los asesinatos, y subrayó que solo ellos habían escuchado toda la evidencia presentada durante la fase de sentencia.

“Todavía pueden ejercer su claridad moral y elegir la cadena perpetua”, dijo. “No tienen que justificárselo a nadie, ni a nadie en esta sala, ni a nadie allá afuera. Ustedes son los únicos que escucharon toda la evidencia; solo tienen que justificárselo a ustedes mismos”.

El alegato de la defensa llegó después del argumento final que presentó el lunes la fiscal principal, Abbe Rifkin, quien pidió al jurado recomendar la pena de muerte, haciendo énfasis en la brutalidad de los asesinatos y en la evidencia presentada en el tribunal.

Al relatar los asesinatos, Rifkin describió las heridas que Sierra le causó a Machado y mencionó el uso de una bolsa plástica amarilla de Sedano’s para asfixiar a las víctimas.

“Le destrozó los brazos a cuchilladas”, dijo Rifkin. “Le destrozó la cara. Fue abominable, atroz y cruel”.

Now that the Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982, fans who took that deal are eager to redeem those tickets they bought in 2015. That has led to some complications.

Brewers president of business operations Rick Schlesinger said Tuesday that several hundred fans had indicated they wanted to redeem their Timeless Tickets for a World Series game. Schlesinger acknowledged that “we subsequently erred in our internal communications on the logistics of fulfilling the requests.”

“While we were able to accommodate all with seats, we received feedback from some that they were unhappy with their seat locations,” Schlesinger said. “Clearly, even with extraordinary limitations on available seats, we did not live up to the spirit of the program, and we have been working through a resolution.”

Danny Fochesato of Milwaukee bought a Timeless Ticket on his 27th birthday, planning all along to redeem it whenever the Brewers reached the World Series.

The promotion enabled a Timeless Ticket holder to redeem that ticket and become eligible to buy three additional tickets to that game for the full retail price. The offer said the tickets “may be redeemed for the best available seat locations, subject to ticket availability at the time of redemption.”

“Back in 2015, that was a big selling point from the sales people about this,” Fochesato said. “They really touted, ‘Hey, this is going to be the best available seats. You’re getting the priority just behind season ticket holders. Anything the season ticket holders don’t have, you’ll have dibs at it for the World Series.’ That’s kind of the story they sold.”

That would have worked out fine when Fochesato tried redeeming his Timeless Ticket for a potential World Series game in 2018, when the Brewers reached the NL Championship Series.

Fochesato said he got four tickets in the 100 level behind home plate that he could have used if the Brewers had made the World Series that year, when they ended up losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the NLCS.

This time, he wasn’t as fortunate.

“We had a form, and it only had 400-level or standing-room options,” Fochesato said. “We couldn’t even know what game we had. We just had to put a preference of which ones we wanted, and then we had to submit the form and just sit and wait for them what we got. I immediately was like, ‘No, that's bogus.’”

Fochesato said he bargained his way to three 400-level seats for Saturday's Game 2 with the Tampa Bay Rays and one lower-level seat in the right-field corner for Friday's Game 1.

He said he was in line for the public sale of tickets and saw better seats were available than those that were offered to him under the Timeless Ticket program.

The Brewers are trying to make amends.

Schlesinger said any Timeless Ticket holder who applied for World Series tickets before the deadline will now get to keep those World Series tickets while also being able to retain their Timeless Ticket to redeem for another game in any future season.

“We regret our mistake and look forward to welcoming them to American Family Field for their World Series experience,” Schlesinger said.

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The incident happened on Oct. 11 around 9:40 p.m. near the intersection of Weaver Street and McLeod Avenue in Daytona Beach.

According to the Daytona Beach Police Department, the victim, whose father is globally known rapper and music executive Rick Ross, arrived to the DBPD headquarters the following day to report the assault.

The victim told officers that he was at the scene speaking with a woman when the suspect pulled up in a gray vehicle and got out yelling, “that’s what we doin’” which the victim believed was in reference to the suspect and the woman having previously dated, according to an arrest report.

Police have since identified the suspect as Don Roberts, 20, of Daytona Beach.

After getting out of the vehicle, police said Roberts approached the victim with a tan handgun in his right hand and after raising the gun and pointing it at the victim, he said, “I don’t care who your daddy is, I’ll kill you right here,” the report states.

Police said Roberts didn’t open fire, but instead struck the victim on the head with the gun, which prompted the victim to get into his car and leave the scene.

After reporting the incident to authorities, investigators said the victim was able to identify Roberts after being presented with a photo lineup.

Police did not say how or when they were able to locate Roberts and take him into custody.

Jail records show he is now facing felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Roberts was being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on no bond.

Ross made headlines earlier this month following an arrest in Miami-Dade County in connection to a domestic violence case.

After his release from jail, Ross told waiting media members that he was “totally innocent” of the accusations levied against him.

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The announcement coming just as early voters head to the polls.

On their ballot is Amendment 3, a proposed property tax measure.

Getting rid of property taxes would mean less money for services like the sheriff’s department.

Earlier this month, the Miami-Dade County Commission approved a $1.2 billion dollar budget, the largest in the agency’s history, but it’s a budget the sheriff says still isn’t enough.

The commission met on Tuesday, but commissioners and the county mayor declined to speak to Local 10 News about the cowboy hat expenditure.

Voters at the polling site just one floor below the commission chambers, however, had a lot to say.

“I believe that that purchase was really not worth it because $10,000 worth of hats for what?” said Miami-Dade resident Francisco Agusto.

According to MDSO, the total cost for the hats is actually $132,500 dollars.

“It’s not necessary,” said voter Odely Deloro. “I mean, we have all the things that we need to worry about that we should be spending the money on.”

“You see all these homeless people?” asked resident James Roberts. “You can do better than that. Cowboy hats, we’re not going to do a cowboy hat.”

The sheriff’s department responded to a Local 10 News information request, saying, “Each hat costs $132.50. The agency has purchased approximately 1,000 hats. Deputies are not required to wear the hats. They are issued exclusively to sworn deputies of all ranks.”

South Florida Police Benevolent Association President Steadman Stahl pointing out that Miami-Dade voters chose to have a sheriff’s department over a police department, and cowboy hats are part of the sheriff’s rebranding effort.

“A lot of sheriff’s offices already have the cowboy hats,” he said. “(The sheriff) saved the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County over $6 million by not switching the uniforms from brown to the traditional green and white.”

Stahl says the hats are more functional than the baseball caps deputies currently have.

“So the hats, we’ve gotten good reviews on them,” he said. “Again, it’s not mandatory. A lot of officers do enjoy wearing them and we’re seeing them out there now.”

La comisión le encargó al abogado del condado redactar una ordenanza que establezca la prohibición temporal.

La propuesta se aplicaría solo a las zonas no incorporadas del condado Broward, buena parte de las cuales se encuentra en los Everglades, ya que el condado no puede regular las decisiones de urbanización que toma cada ciudad.

“Tres cuartas partes del condado están en los Everglades. Esa es probablemente la parte más vulnerable”, dijo el comisionado Beam Furr.

El comisionado Lamar Fisher propuso la moratoria y afirmó que el condado necesita proteger a los vecindarios de los posibles efectos de los grandes centros de datos.

“Nuestro objetivo es asegurarnos de proteger a nuestros residentes”, dijo Fisher. “La historia ha demostrado que estos grandes centros de datos no lo hacen”.

Fisher también expresó su preocupación por la demanda de recursos locales que generan estas instalaciones y por las posibles consecuencias económicas para los residentes.

“Son centros que generan tanta demanda de electricidad, que absorben tanta agua, y uno también escucha... ¿eso afecta los costos de nuestras comunidades residenciales?”, preguntó.

Broward se suma a otros condados de Florida que toman medidas para regular la construcción de grandes centros de datos. El condado Palm Beach aprobó una prohibición de un año que estará vigente hasta septiembre de 2027.

Una ley estatal firmada por el gobernador Ron DeSantis en mayo preserva la autoridad de los gobiernos locales para regular la construcción de centros de datos.

El vicealcalde Robert McKinzie, quien representa zonas que podrían verse afectadas por la moratoria propuesta, dijo que tiene reservas sobre los centros de datos, pero advirtió que no se debe desalentar a las empresas tecnológicas más pequeñas que quieran invertir en las comunidades locales.

“Muchas veces, cuando se ofrece o se propone algo para el BMSD (Broward Municipal Services District), no hay gran cosa allí. Esta podría ser la oportunidad que salve a esa comunidad o que la impulse aún más”, dijo McKinzie.

Durante el periodo de comentarios del público, uno de los participantes pidió a los comisionados que las restricciones fueran permanentes y no temporales.

“Tenemos Amazon sin problema, y Google Gemini sin problema, sin necesidad de uno de estos”, dijo.

La moratoria aún no está en vigor. El abogado del condado debe redactar la ordenanza antes de que los comisionados puedan considerar su aprobación final.

Fisher espera que la medida regrese a la comisión para una votación final el próximo mes, aunque podría aplazarse hasta diciembre.

Según la policía, fue precisamente ese robo, captado por las cámaras el viernes en 7tyone Restaurant & Coffee Bar, en el 1130 Normandy Drive, el que les permitió relacionarlo con otro ocurrido dos semanas antes, y sospechar de Kevin Reilley.

Los investigadores indicaron que Reilley, con el rostro cubierto, rompió con una piedra la puerta de vidrio del frente de 7tyone alrededor de la 1 a.m., se metió detrás del mostrador y se robó casi $300 de la caja registradora.

En un comunicado de prensa, el agente Christopher Bess, portavoz del Miami Beach Police Department, dijo que los detectives “rápidamente identificaron similitudes entre este incidente y otro robo a un comercio que se estaba investigando activamente en la zona”.

Ese robo ocurrió el 2 de octubre en Big Joe Smash Burgers, en North Beach.

Según la policía, esta vez Reilley no rompió ninguna ventana, sino que “arrancó a la fuerza una caja de seguridad montada en la pared” del local, ubicado en el 6987 Collins Ave., sacó la llave de repuesto y entró. Tras intentar sin éxito abrir la caja registradora con un destornillador, se la llevó completa.

De acuerdo con un reporte de arresto, la gaveta de la caja tenía unos $800.

“Gracias a las imágenes de seguridad y al trabajo de investigación posterior, los detectives identificaron positivamente a Reilley como el sospechoso”, escribió Bess. “Cuando el Priority Service Team del Miami Beach Police Department lo detuvo (el domingo por la mañana), llevaba shorts y botas, y cargaba una mochila que coinciden con lo que se ve en las grabaciones”.

Reilley, quien no tiene hogar, enfrenta cargos que incluyen robo en una estructura desocupada con el rostro cubierto, posesión de herramientas para cometer robos y hurto mayor.

“Por suerte, nuestros detectives, nuestros agentes de apoyo a personas sin hogar y nuestros equipos de servicio prioritario no solo lo identificaron, sino que lograron dar con él”, dijo después Bess a Local 10 News en una entrevista.

Bess señaló que Reilley “también tenía condenas previas por robos en tiendas locales, como Walgreens y otros negocios”.

Hasta la tarde del martes, no aparecía en los registros de la cárcel de Miami-Dade.

Según la policía de Miramar, Michael Polanco intentó secuestrar a la adolescente ese mismo día, más temprano, en una gasolinera Shell ubicada en el 2840 S. State Road 7.

De acuerdo con el reporte de arresto, un testigo vio a Polanco agarrar a la niña por el cuello e intentar llevársela caminando.

La policía indicó que, tras el incidente, Polanco huyó del negocio en dirección oeste.

“Mientras las unidades respondían, se recibió información de que un hombre que coincidía con la descripción estaba causando otro disturbio en la zona”, informó el departamento en un comunicado de prensa.

Según la policía, las unidades fueron redirigidas a ese lugar, donde localizaron a Polanco y lo detuvieron.

La víctima y un testigo identificaron a Polanco como el hombre que intentó raptar a la adolescente, confirmaron las autoridades.

Polanco fue arrestado y trasladado a la Broward County Main Jail, donde fue procesado por los cargos de agresión con lesiones corporales y secuestro con lesiones corporales o para aterrorizar a la víctima.

Hasta la mañana del martes, seguía tras las rejas y se esperaba que compareciera en una audiencia de fianza más tarde ese mismo día.

Según la policía, Polanco tiene un extenso historial delictivo que incluye robo, robo en propiedad ajena, agresión y exhibicionismo, entre otros delitos.

El congresista Carlos Gimenez estuvo entre los simpatizantes cubanoamericanos que recibieron a Donalds en el restaurante, ubicado en Bird Road, en el vecindario de Westchester.

“Florida nunca será un hogar para el socialismo”, les dijo Donalds a las decenas de personas reunidas en el restaurante. “No mientras yo sea su próximo gobernador”.

El público lo aplaudió. Donalds, quien se enfrenta al demócrata David Jolly, también dijo que su meta es respaldar a las fuerzas del orden y hacer que Florida sea más asequible.

“Hay otras cosas que también tenemos que hacer. Tenemos que hacer que la vida sea más asequible”, dijo Donalds. “Tenemos que bajar los precios para la gente. Queremos que los jóvenes puedan alcanzar un gran sueño en Florida. Queremos que nuestros adultos mayores vivan sus años dorados en Florida”.

El presidente Donald Trump respaldó a Donalds. La votación anticipada comenzó el lunes en el condado Miami-Dade, de cara a las elecciones de mitad de período del 3 de noviembre.

Wednesday will offer more of the same: tolerable humidity, sunshine, scattered clouds and a north-northeast breeze (winds sustained 10 to 15 mph, gusts to 20 mph). The rain chance will remain low as temperatures make a run for the mid-80s. That’s seasonable!

El anuncio llega justo cuando los votantes acuden a las urnas para la votación anticipada.

En la boleta aparece la Enmienda 3, una propuesta sobre los impuestos a la propiedad.

Eliminar los impuestos a la propiedad significaría menos dinero para servicios como el departamento del sheriff.

A principios de este mes, la Comisión del Condado Miami-Dade aprobó un presupuesto de $1,200 millones, el mayor en la historia de la agencia, aunque la sheriff asegura que aún no es suficiente.

La comisión se reunió el martes, pero los comisionados y la alcaldesa del condado se negaron a hablar con Local 10 News sobre el gasto en los sombreros.

En cambio, los votantes que acudieron al centro de votación ubicado apenas un piso más abajo del salón de la comisión tenían mucho que decir.

“Creo que esa compra no valió la pena, porque ¿$10,000 en sombreros para qué?”, dijo Francisco Agusto, residente de Miami-Dade.

Según el MDSO, el costo total de los sombreros es en realidad de $132,500.

“No hace falta”, dijo la votante Odely Deloro. “Tenemos un montón de cosas por las que preocuparnos, y en eso es en lo que deberíamos gastar el dinero”.

“¿Ven a toda esta gente sin hogar?”, preguntó el residente James Roberts. “Se puede hacer algo mejor. ¿Sombreros vaqueros? Eso no va”.

En respuesta a una solicitud de información de Local 10 News, el departamento del sheriff indicó: “Cada sombrero cuesta $132.50. La agencia compró aproximadamente 1,000 sombreros. Los agentes no están obligados a usarlos. Se entregan exclusivamente a agentes juramentados de todos los rangos”.

Steadman Stahl, presidente de la South Florida Police Benevolent Association, recordó que los votantes de Miami-Dade eligieron tener un departamento del sheriff en lugar de un departamento de policía, y que los sombreros vaqueros forman parte del cambio de imagen de la oficina del sheriff.

“Muchas oficinas del sheriff ya usan sombreros vaqueros”, dijo. “(La sheriff) les ahorró a los contribuyentes del condado Miami-Dade más de $6 millones al no cambiar los uniformes del marrón al tradicional verde y blanco”.

Stahl asegura que los sombreros son más funcionales que las gorras de béisbol que usan actualmente los agentes.

“Los sombreros han recibido buenas críticas”, dijo. “Repito, no son obligatorios. A muchos agentes les gusta usarlos y ya los estamos viendo en la calle”.

And just like that night four months ago, it felt as if fans would never stop cheering.

The Knicks celebrated their championship Tuesday with a banner night — two of them — before losing 106-100 to the Philadelphia 76ers in their season opener.

Wearing white uniforms with gold trim for the occasion — with gold sneakers as well for NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson — the Knicks received their championship rings from Hall of Famer Walt Frazier and then watched as the blue banner reading “2025-26 World Champions” rose to the rafters.

“Really special. Happy we got it out of the way and we can move on for now, but it was a really cool thing,” Brunson said after the game.

Outside of their preseason exhibition games, it was the first time the Knicks played at home since Game 4 of the NBA Finals, when Anunoby's tip-in with 1.2 seconds remaining capped off a record-setting comeback from a 29-point deficit. The highlight of the play during a montage that was shown on the overhead videoboard set off some of the loudest roars of the night.

Brunson began his remarks to fans Tuesday by referencing that game, thanking them for not leaving the arena early.

The Knicks finished off the San Antonio Spurs in the next game, setting off “Knicks in 5! Knicks in 5!” chants around New York that resumed Tuesday night.

Brunson told fans that the Knicks were seeking to turn the page after the team's first championship since 1973.

“But one thing I would like to say,” he added. “The joy that this city had this summer, we would love to replicate that again.”

Brunson had talked about trying to move on from last season since the Knicks arrived at training camp, but acknowledged Tuesday night the difficulty in doing that until after they'd had one last celebration.

“You have everyone praising guys, praising us about what we’ve done a couple months ago,” he said. “And it’s just human nature and it’s difficult, but just to hold each other accountable we've been trying to do that, just to make sure that we’re on the same page and trying to get better.

“Obviously we’re very thankful for what we did, but there’s still a lot left for us to prove.”

Before raising the title banner, the NBA champions hung one at Madison Square Garden to celebrate the NBA Cup title they won last season.

The Knicks broke with tradition last December when they became the first team to win the in-season tournament and then not commemorate it with a banner. They said at the time they were looking ahead to bigger things.

They ended up getting the biggest thing possible in the rematch with the Spurs. The Knicks also defeated San Antonio in the NBA Cup final.

The NBA Cup banner went up sometime after the Sixers held their morning shootaround at the arena. Coach Mike Brown said before the game it was a recognition of the Knicks' journey last season.

“There were a lot of, obviously, ups and downs throughout the course of the year, and our guys rallied and figured out a way to win the NBA Cup,” Brown said, “and then you go ahead and win the regular season final, or excuse me, the end of season final, and it’s just a recognition to not just to our guys, but to the fans out there.”

The two banners were the first hung at Madison Square Garden by the Knicks since they won the Atlantic Division title in 2012-13.

But things move quickly in New York. After struggling through their opener, the Knicks know there's work ahead to stay at the top.

“Like, we shouldn’t sit there and think that we’re champions, because we're not,” forward Josh Hart said. “Right now we’re 0-1. We're the worst team in the NBA, as of right now.”

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The move “severely harms the legitimate rights and interests” of Chinese businesses, the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement. “The nature of this act is egregious. China firms opposes this.”

The ministry also urged the U.S. to "correct its erroneous practice” and said Beijing would take “necessary measures,” without specifying them.

It came a day after the U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies connected to Linwei Ding, who founded Shanghai Zhisuan Technology. The department said he had touted his experience with Google and claimed his company could replicate the American tech giant’s super intelligence infrastructure technology.

The startup incubation program MiraclePlus, which was sanctioned along with Zhisuan, gave seed capital in exchange for an ownership stake in Zhisuan, the State Department said. The other three Chinese entities facing penalties are linked to MiraclePlus.

Zhisuan “has knowingly engaged in, or benefitted from, significant theft of trade secrets of United States persons, which occurred on or after January 5, 2023,” the State Department said.

Ding was charged in 2024 with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from Google while secretly working with two companies based in China. In January, he was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco of several counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

A judge later dismissed the economic espionage charges and sentenced him to 12 months in prison. The Justice Department is appealing the dismissal of the economic espionage charges.

China’s commerce ministry said its AI development is “the result of long-term cultivation in basic research, continuous innovation investment, and adherence to independent scientific and technological innovation and open cooperation.”

The country's achievements have “nothing to do with the so-called ‘stealing of trade secrets,’” the ministry said.

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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed to this report.

The NBA picked the matinee matchup to tip off the season and it delivered plenty of entertainment.

Paul George scored 38 points, the most by a Celtic in his debut. The nine-time All-Star, in his 17th season, showed he's still got it in his first game with Boston since it acquired him from Philadelphia in exchange for 2024 NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown.

Jayson Tatum, though, was off his game.

He missed 17 of 23 shots had 13 points and 11 assists. His lack of hustle on defense allowed Green to take his time for a fifth 3-pointer that gave the Pistons a 13-point lead with 3:33 left.

Tatum, a six-time All-Star, is set to play his first full season since tearing his Achilles tendon in May 2025.

Boston took its biggest lead early in the third quarter at 72-50 after George made three 3-pointers in less than a minute.

Detroit cut its deficit to six points after three quarters and surged ahead in the fourth. Green made a go-ahead 3, Duren added a three-point play and Robinson connected on a 3 to put the Pistons ahead 107-99 with 5:10 to go.

Jalen Duren had 22 points and nine rebounds, Duncan Robinson scored 21 points — making 5 of 9 3-pointers — and Ausar Thompson added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons.

Boston's Derrick White and Payton Pritchard scored 17 points apiece.

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Celtics: Host the New York Knicks on Friday.

Pistons: At Miami on Friday.

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According to Miramar police, Michael Polanco tried to kidnap the teen earlier in the day at a Shell gas station, located at 2840 S. State Road 7.

An arrest report states that a witness saw Polanco grabbing the girl by the neck and trying to walk away with her.

Police said Polanco fled west from the business after the incident.

“As units were responding, intel was given of a male matching the description in the area causing another disturbance,” the department said in a press release.

Police said units were then redirected to the area, where they located Polanco and detained him.

The victim and a witness identified Polanco as the man who tried to abduct the teen, authorities confirmed.

Polanco was then arrested and transported to the Broward County Main Jail, where he was booked on charges of battery causing bodily harm and kidnapping, inflicting bodily harm or terrorizing a victim.

“This is very disturbing. You have a child walking home, and suddenly, some guy is trying to grab her and pull her away,” said Miramar Police Department Chief Delrish Moss. “Now, she was very smart. She put up a fight, she made a ruckus, she ran to people for safety, and because of that, we were able to get not only a description, but we were able to catch him in rather quick fashion, just a few blocks away.”

Polanco appeared in Broward County bond court Tuesday, where he was ordered held without bond and prohibited from contacting the victim or any minors, returning to the incident location, or possessing firearms, weapons, or ammunition.

According to police, Polanco has a lengthy criminal history that involves various crimes, including robbery, burglary, battery and exposure of sexual organs, among others.

U.S. and Guatemalan prosecutors called Rigoberto Ramon Miranda Orozco's sentencing another step toward justice in one of the deadliest smuggling attempts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Miranda Orozco, 50, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to arranging travel and accommodations for two people who died and another who was seriously injured.

Nearly 20 people in the U.S. and Guatemala have been convicted since the discovery of the abandoned trailer full of bodies horrified communities accustomed to seeing their young people leave, trying to flee poverty or violence in Central America and Mexico.

“It was clear that they suffered tremendously in their last few hours on this earth,” U.S. Attorney Justin Simmons told reporters at a news conference following the sentencing.

People tried to ‘claw their way out’ of a trailer with no air conditioning

The trailer’s air conditioning malfunctioned and would not blow cool air to the people trapped inside during the sweltering, three-hour ride in June 2022 from the border city of Laredo to San Antonio, authorities said. Prosecutors have said migrants paid up to $15,000 each to be taken across the U.S. border.

When the abandoned trailer was opened on a remote San Antonio back road, 48 migrants were dead. Another 16 were taken to hospitals, where five more died.

Simmons said investigators found clothing passengers had shed to cool off and claw marks on the trailer’s walls.

“They were literally trying to claw their way out,” he said.

Twenty-one of those who died were from Guatemala, Simmons said.

Miranda Orozco’s attorney, Alfonso Cabanas Jr., called the sentence “very tough.” He said his client was in Guatemala at the time and had no control over the type of transportation the migrants would take to San Antonio nor did he know the air conditioning was malfunctioning.

Cabanas said he doesn’t think harsh punishments will “make a dent” in such operations.

“What we do need is comprehensive immigration reform,” Cabanas said.

Other defendants still await sentencing

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Miranda Orozco, who was arrested in Guatemala in 2024 and extradited to the U.S. the following year.

He pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to bring a migrant into the U.S. resulting in death, aiding and abetting bringing a migrant into the U.S. resulting in death, as well as aiding and abetting bringing a migrant into the U.S. resulting in serious bodily injury, prosecutors said.

Simmons said prosecutors in Guatemala were integral in securing convictions for Miranda Orozco and others. Simmons was joined by Guatemalan Attorney General Gabriel García Luna, who reflected on the suffering the migrants inside the tractor-trailer endured.

“They paid for a promise, and those who cashed in on that promise abandoned them to their fate,” García Luna said.

Last year, Felipe Orduna-Torres, described by prosecutors as the leader of the smuggling operations inside the U.S., was sentenced to life in prison in the U.S. Armando Gonzales-Ortega, his top assistant, was sentenced to 83 years.

Sentencing dates have been set for more people, including the truck’s driver.

The tragedy is the deadliest among those that have claimed thousands of lives in recent decades as people attempt to cross the U.S. border from Mexico. Ten migrants died in 2017 after they were trapped inside a truck parked at a Walmart in San Antonio.

In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of San Antonio.

___ This story has been updated to correct the name and age of the man sentenced Tuesday. He is Rigoberto Ramon Miranda Orozco, not Rigoberto Román Miranda-Orozco. And he is 50, not 39.

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The club said the 19-year-old Kindel had an unspecified issue shortly after the team's plane took off from the Salt Lake City airport on Tuesday.

The plane returned to the airport while Kindel was tended to on the flight by the team's medical staff. He was taken by ambulance to the University of Utah hospital.

The team said Kindel was conscious, alert and stable.

Kindel, in his second season with the Penguins after being selected with the 11th overall pick in the 2025 draft, has two goals and two assists in nine games. He played 18 minutes, 53 seconds in a 5-4 loss to Utah on Monday night.

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Paris police said the curfew in two designated zones — around Place de la République and the Les Halles shopping district — had restored “public peace” overnight and would remain in place “for as long as necessary.” The curfew zones leave out other areas hit on Saturday, including the Champs-Elysées and the area around the Saint-Lazare train station and parts of the Rue de Turbigo in central Paris, where protesters set up barricades and lit fires.

In Lyon, one of France’s largest cities, authorities also renewed a curfew in the city center from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., saying no disturbances had been recorded overnight.

Marseille, France’s second-largest city, imposed a curfew for unaccompanied minors starting Tuesday night. Lecornu said the targeted curfews “helped keep last night calm.”

Student unions and groups from the “ yellow vest ” movement, whose protests over fuel prices shook France in 2018 and 2019, have called for another day of protests Saturday.

Soldiers from Sentinelle, the anti-terrorism operation that has patrolled French cities since the 2015 Islamic State group attacks, will take over guarding sensitive sites to free up more police officers and gendarmes for crowd control, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told lawmakers Tuesday.

“The deployment (of police forces) for next Saturday will be massive,” Lecornu told the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, without giving figures.

Suspect held over Limoges city hall fire

Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the arson attack that charred the historic city hall in Limoges, in central France, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that the person was being held in police custody and may not have acted alone.

French media reported that the suspect was close to radical environmentalist movements and was on a watchlist of people considered potential threats to national security. Darmanin declined to comment on the suspect’s profile, but said far-left groups appeared to have organized to attack symbols of the state throughout France.

Footage of the 143-year-old building in flames, its bell tower collapsing, spread widely online over the weekend. U.S. Vice President JD Vance shared it on X, blaming the unrest on immigration and writing, “I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.” President Donald Trump, who also relayed the video, said migrants had “taken over France.”

French officials have instead blamed the violence on far-left groups and opportunistic looters. At least 2,400 people were arrested after rioters in cities across France on Saturday clashed with police, set cars on fire and stormed public buildings, during nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.

On Sunday evening, small groups set fire to trash bins, bicycles and other objects in the streets and looted businesses in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities.

In Paris on Monday night, a police helicopter circled over Place de la République overnight, a central point in the weekend clashes, sweeping the square with a searchlight to check that the curfew was being respected.

Early Tuesday morning, workers used a crane to remove a giant fluorescent yellow vest draped over the statue at the center of the square, then used pressure washers to blast graffiti off the monument.

Louise Belanger, a volunteer who came to help with the cleanup, said she still could not apprehend the level of violence. “Normally when you are 20 you should be optimistic, you should be starting to build something (...) If you are only anger and violence, what are you going to do? This is sad for everybody in society,” she said.

Courts promise ‘extremely firm’ response

Speaking in Lille, northern France, Darmanin said 149 people had been jailed nationwide as of Tuesday at noon. According to the Justice Ministry, of the roughly 2,400 people arrested since Saturday, more than 800 have been sent before prosecutors, most of whom were either put on trial immediately or ordered to appear at a later hearing.

In Paris alone, about 300 people have been sent before prosecutors following the Oct. 17 protests, the city prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Darmanin said he had asked prosecutors to appeal any sentence they considered too lenient. “People with no criminal record ending up in prison for property crimes is extremely rare, if not unheard of,” he said, arguing that the French justice system will be “extremely firm.”

In Lille, he said, three men aged 20 to 25 with no criminal record were each sentenced to 10 months in prison and jailed immediately for looting a video game store in the city’s old town.

The National Assembly is launching an inquiry into the Oct. 17 violence and the authorities’ policing strategy, its speaker, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said, with findings expected “by the end of the year.”

Protests continued Tuesday on a smaller scale. Some 400 people, mostly high school and university students, marched in the western city of Rennes, and about 750 in Lyon, under pouring rain.

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Sylvie Corbet and Oleg Cetinic, in Paris, contributed to this report.

The Gambia Reparations Commission said it received $2,573,414.10 from the sale of a mansion in Potomac, Maryland, owned by the former ruler of the tiny West African nation.

The U.S. Department of State had secured the forfeiture in 2022 after it filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that the property was bought with proceeds of corruption. The property, according to the Department of State, was purchased through a trust set up by his wife.

“The funds were deposited directly into the Reparations Fund account at the Central Bank of Gambia and shall only be utilized for the payment of reparations by the commission,” said the commission in a statement. The commission was set up in 2023 to compensate victims of abuse under Jammeh's rule.

Jammeh ruled the country for over two decades. His rule was marked by arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and summary executions, victims and rights groups have claimed. He was forced out in 2017 when he rejected the 2016 election results, prompting the threat of military intervention by the regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States.

“The repatriation (is) ... an important step toward reparations for victims and survivors," Sirra Ndow, Director of the Alliance of Victim-Led Organizations (AVLO), said.

The company, run by Elon Musk, posted a profit for the three months through September of $4.4 billion, or 35 cents per share, reversing a year-ago loss and easily topping Wall Street's expectations. Revenue soared to $14.6 billion, up 161%.

On a conference call with analysts, Musk suggested a merger with his electric car company Tesla might be in the works, something that has been rumored for months. He said both companies formed “special committees” of independent directors to discuss the issue, though he played down the chances of an imminent deal.

“Some people out there assume that a SpaceX and Tesla merger is a certainty,” he said. “I think that would be overstating it.”

The AI business became SpaceX's largest by revenue in the third quarter, although the Starlink satellite service remains the biggest profit generator.

“They beat across all metrics and the Starlink business looks to be accelerating,” said Dan Ives, an analyst at Yorkville Ives. “This is just what (Wall) Street wanted.”

The stock rose 7.5% in after-hours trading.

Musk also told analysts that for next month's launch of its Starship rocket, SpaceX will attempt to grab both the booster and ship with mechanical arms upon return to base, a key step toward demonstrating it can reuse the massive spacecraft.

“The only way that we can extend consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis is with a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle,” Musk said, calling the attempt, if successful, “a massive technology milestone.”

SpaceX hopes to get Starship on a regular launch pattern in preparation for NASA's upcoming lunar missions.

The company already has huge contracts with the federal government, and House Democrats have called for investigations into those contracts and Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk has spent $276 million since July in support of Republican candidates.

In a filing for its initial public offering in June, SpaceX warned that a change in control of Congress could have a “material and adverse impact on our growth and competitive position.”

Musk recently drew criticism from politicians in Washington after speeds for a military version of SpaceX's satellite communications service were slowed for Ukraine following President Donald Trump's deal to get more diesel oil from Russia amid a push to end the war. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that it was Musk who ordered the slowdown, impeding Ukraine’s use of drones along the front. SpaceX did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment on the Journal story.

Both Trump and Musk have denied responsibility for the slowdown.

As midterm elections near, Musk on Monday promised to give one share of SpaceX to “every kid in America” next year, though he provided no details on how the distribution would be carried out. With communities nationwide protesting the construction of large data centers and concerns about AI safety, AI companies are trying to build goodwill. Anthropic pledged to commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund.

SpaceX shares have been under pressure over concerns that the company was spending too much on major projects to compete with rivals such as Anthropic. The company said capital expenditures totaled $19.6 billion last quarter, nearly triple the figure from a year earlier, and it forecast spending would grow to $35 billion to $40 billion in the current quarter.

Shares of SpaceX closed Tuesday at $147.79, down from a peak near $201 after its IPO, which made Musk the world’s first trillionaire at the time. But the share prices for SpaceX and Tesla have since dropped, reducing his net worth to $925 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

Tesla reports third-quarter financial results Wednesday. Last week, Tesla unveiled a new Roadster sports car that in some versions may include thrusters allowing it to briefly fly using SpaceX technology — though experts say anything usable for drivers is a long shot.

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According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, 10 units responded to a fire near the 1200 block of Northwest 79th Street at approximately 3:21 a.m.

A man identified only as Roberto told Local 10 News that he was sleeping, and when he looked out his window, he saw the flames and firefighters at work.

When firefighters arrived, they found both the converted trailer and box truck fully engulfed in flames.

Crews quickly deployed hose lines and began battling the fire, officials said.

Authorities said firefighters were able to extinguish the flames and prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby vehicles, but everything beside the converted trailer was scorched.

After bringing the fire under control, crews applied specialized firefighting foam to reduce the chance of anything reigniting.

No injuries were reported.

A man who works in the junkyard said a battery that was charging exploded, however, the official cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The commission directed the county attorney to draft an ordinance establishing the temporary ban.

The proposal would apply only to unincorporated Broward County, much of which lies in the Everglades, because the county cannot regulate development decisions made by individual cities.

“It’s 3/4th of the county that’s out in the Everglades. That’s the part that is probably the most vulnerable,” said Commissioner Beam Furr.

Commissioner Lamar Fisher proposed the moratorium, saying the county needs to protect neighborhoods from the potential effects of large-scale data centers.

“Our goal is to be able to make sure we protect our residential folks,” Fisher said. “History has shown these large data centers don’t do that.”

Fisher also raised concerns about the facilities’ demands on local resources and the potential financial consequences for residents.

“Centers that create so much electricity, absorb so much water, and you’re hearing too that, does that affect the cost of our residential communities?” he asked.

Broward County joins other Florida counties taking steps to regulate large-scale data center development. Palm Beach County has enacted a one-year ban that runs through September 2027.

A state law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May preserves local governments’ authority to regulate data center development.

Vice Mayor Robert McKinzie, who represents areas that could be affected by the proposed moratorium, said he has concerns about data centers but cautioned against discouraging smaller technology companies from investing in local communities.

“Often times when something is offered or proposed to the BMSD (Broward Municipal Services District), there’s not very much there. This could be that opportunity that saves that community or sends it further,” McKinzie said.

During public comment, one speaker urged commissioners to make the restrictions permanent rather than temporary.

“We have Amazon just fine, and Google Gemini just fine without one of these,” the speaker said.

The moratorium is not yet in effect. The county attorney must draft the ordinance before commissioners can consider final approval.

Fisher expects the measure to return to the commission for a final vote next month, although it could be delayed until December.

Convencida de que su cuenta había sido comprometida, la víctima, del condado Jacksonville, en Carolina del Norte, hizo el 31 de julio de 2025 tres transferencias de $3,000 cada una a una cuenta de Wells Fargo a nombre de Benjamin Smalls, de acuerdo con un reporte policial.

Según el reporte, un video de seguridad muestra a Smalls usando una tarjeta de débito asociada a esa cuenta de Wells Fargo para comprar cinco money orders de $500 en el mostrador de servicio al cliente de un supermercado Publix en el condado Miami-Dade, ese mismo 31 de julio de 2025.

Los agentes arrestaron a Smalls a las 11:20 a.m. del lunes en su casa, ubicada en Northeast 24th Drive cerca de 41st Place, en las inmediaciones de la Homestead Air Reserve Base, y lo llevaron a la estación de policía para interrogarlo, según el reporte de arresto.

De acuerdo con el reporte del agente, Smalls dijo que “había abierto una cuenta en Wells Fargo con su propia información personal y que en ella se habían depositado $9,000”.

Según los registros de reclusos, Miami-Dade Corrections lo procesó poco después de las 2:05 p.m. del lunes en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, cerca de Doral.

Smalls enfrentaba tres cargos: hurto mayor en tercer grado, esquema organizado para defraudar y esquema para defraudar a una institución financiera. Su fianza se fijó en $7,500.

Carson Merlo, editor de la mesa de asignaciones de Local 10 News, contribuyó a este reporte.

El Miami Herald informó el lunes que los mensajes, que aparecieron en las historias de Instagram de Wilson, presuntamente incluían insultos racistas, lenguaje homofóbico, imágenes violentas de esclavitud y amenazas de violación y violencia contra Wilson y su familia.

Un portavoz de The Florida Bar confirmó que la cuenta de redes sociales vinculada a los mensajes pertenecía a McLendon, quien trabajaba como técnico informático para la organización. El Herald también informó que las cuentas de Instagram y LinkedIn de McLendon fueron eliminadas el lunes.

Según el Miami Herald, al menos 12 mensajes que Wilson aparentemente compartió en sus historias de Instagram contenían ataques racistas, entre ellos un insulto racial, la frase “ojalá mi bisabuelo le haya pegado bien duro al tuyo” y una referencia a Wilson como “maquinaria agrícola”.

En un comunicado enviado el martes a Local 10 News, un portavoz de The Florida Bar calificó los mensajes de “ética y moralmente reprobables” y dijo que violaban la política interna de la organización sobre el uso de redes sociales por parte de sus empleados.

“Mientras continúa la investigación interna, estamos comprometidos con hacer cumplir nuestras políticas y procedimientos, a la vez que garantizamos la protección de cualquier derecho al debido proceso”, indica en parte el comunicado.

Wilson llegó a Miami esta temporada procedente de Missouri, tras ser elegido el año pasado al segundo equipo All-SEC. Antes jugó en Georgia.

En esta temporada con los Hurricanes suma cuatro tacleadas y tres sacks.

Netflix said Tuesday it earned $3.66 billion, or 87 cents per share, for the July-September period. That's up 44% from $2.55 billion, or 59 cents per share, a year earlier.

Revenue rose 12% to $12.87 billion from $11.51 billion.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet predicted earnings of 82 cents per share on revenue of $12.87 billion.

“With Netflix under pressure to find alternative lines of revenue beyond subscriptions, it’s concerning that the company lowered its estimate for its ad business,” said Emarketer senior analyst Ross Benes. “Revamping content strategy is not enough to fix this challenge but it is a worthwhile start. Guidance is not as aggressive as investors have grown accustomed to.”

Last week, the Los Gatos, California-based company announced that it plans to lay off about 6% of its workforce, amounting to nearly 1,000 positions, as the company makes wider “organizational changes.” At the end of 2025, per regulatory filings, Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees worldwide. The most recent layoff announcement marks the biggest round of cuts that the company has rolled out in years.

Netflix also announced last week that Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria will be replaced by Peter Rice. Bajaria was with Netflix for nearly a decade. Rice will lead Netflix’s global content organization, overseeing scripted and unscripted series, film, live events and more across all regions. He takes over the post on Oct. 26.

While Netflix has benefited from membership sign-ups and price increases, the company is dealing with intense competition in the streaming sector from companies such as Amazon’s Prime Video and Disney+. There's also Skydance, after Paramount’s $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery put HBO Max and Paramount+ under the same roof. Netflix walked away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business in February.

The company is also competing for people's attention with YouTube and TikTok, where short videos are extremely popular.

For the current quarter, Netflix is forecasting revenue of $13.4 billion, slightly below analysts' expectations of $13.5 billion. New shows and movies coming this quarter include “East of Eden” and season four of “The Diplomat” as well as the sixth and final season of “Emily in Paris.”

Netflix also released “La Bola Negra,” a Spanish film about the interconnected lives of three gay men across a history that spans the early 20th century, the Spanish Civil War and the modern day. “La Bola Negra” — which cost $15 million to make — is expected to challenge “The Odyssey” for best picture. Netflix disclosed box office numbers for the movie, for the first time in its history. It made $313,391 over the weekend through Monday with a release in just four theaters.

Shares of Netflix fell $2.79, or 4.1%, to $65.90 in after-hours trading after the results came out.

As of Tuesday's close, Netflix's stock is down about 25% for the year to date. Analysts see several factors contributing to its difficulties.

“Investors are concerned about soft engagement trends, decelerating revenue growth, a slower margin expansion outlook, and most recently content executive leadership changes,” said John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds.

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The market was made available on Sept. 30 and was slated to close on Jan. 31. It had more than $450,000 in volume before it was taken off Polymarket's international platform. The company's U.S. exchange is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which bans trading related to “activity that is unlawful under Federal or State law.”

“Our primary goal at Polymarket is to bring objective, data-driven insight to the most important questions of our time,” a Polymarket spokesperson said Tuesday. “This market addressed whether the government would take action — a process that deserves scrutiny, particularly in a case of such serious concern. That said, we believe in the wisdom of crowds, have heard them loud and clear, and removed the market.”

Front Office Sports was the first to report on the contract.

Some outcry over the Polymarket contract has been aimed at its celebrity promoters. Philadelphia 76ers star LeBron James has an endorsement deal with Polymarket, and he recently appeared in a star-studded commercial that also included cameos by Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird and several celebrities.

Messages were left by the AP on Tuesday with representatives for James, Jeter, Manning and Bird.

Polymarket also has partnership agreements with the NHL, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the UFC and ATP Tour. Messages were left by the AP seeking comment from each organization.

A spokesman for Spike Lee, who also appeared in the Polymarket commercial with James, said the director had no comment. Messages also were left with representatives for actors Craig Robinson, John Leguizamo and Alexandra Daddario — who were also part of the commercial with James.

A woman identified in court documents by the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted or exploited her in October 2024 and that Cornell mishandled her complaints. All of those men have denied her allegations, saying either that their interactions were consensual or that they weren’t involved.

Online critics characterized the Polymarket contract as degrading and questioned why celebrity ambassadors would associate themselves with the company. An online petition launched by UltraViolet, a women-led national advocacy organization, singled out James, Manning, Daddario and model Emily Ratajkowski while calling on other famous endorsers to cut ties with the company.

A message was left seeking comment from a representative for Ratajkowski, who also appears in the celebrity-filled commercial with James.

Prediction markets provide an opportunity to trade on the result of future events. Sports account for a major portion of the volume generated by the array of typically yes-or-no question, depending on the platform.

When a U.S. Army sergeant was indicted earlier this year over bets on the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he was trading on Polymarket’s international platform. The Associated Press reported in April that 50 brand new accounts on Polymarket’s international platform placed substantial bets on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire in the hours, even minutes, before President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire on social media, raising concerns of insider trading.

Polymarket had an active market on its international platform on Tuesday that allowed customers to trade on whether Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff will be out by Oct. 31. It had more than $10,700 in volume.

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El incidente ocurrió el 11 de octubre alrededor de las 9:40 p.m., cerca de la intersección de Weaver Street y McLeod Avenue, en Daytona Beach.

Según el Daytona Beach Police Department, la víctima, cuyo padre es el rapero y ejecutivo musical de fama mundial Rick Ross, se presentó al día siguiente en la sede del DBPD para denunciar la agresión.

De acuerdo con el reporte de arresto, la víctima les dijo a los agentes que estaba en el lugar conversando con una mujer cuando el sospechoso llegó en un vehículo gris y se bajó gritando: “¿Así que en eso estamos?”. La víctima creyó que se refería a que el sospechoso y la mujer habían sido pareja.

La policía identificó al sospechoso como Don Roberts, de 20 años, residente de Daytona Beach.

Según la policía, tras bajarse del vehículo, Roberts se acercó a la víctima con una pistola color canela en la mano derecha, la levantó, le apuntó y le dijo: “No me importa quién sea tu papá, te mato aquí mismo”, indica el reporte.

La policía dijo que Roberts no disparó, sino que golpeó a la víctima en la cabeza con el arma, por lo que esta se subió a su carro y se fue del lugar.

Los investigadores indicaron que, tras denunciar el incidente, la víctima logró identificar a Roberts en una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfica.

La policía no informó cómo ni cuándo logró localizar y detener a Roberts.

Según los registros de la cárcel, enfrenta cargos graves de asalto agravado con arma mortal sin intención de matar y agresión agravada con arma mortal.

Hasta la tarde del martes, Roberts permanecía en la Volusia County Branch Jail sin derecho a fianza.

A principios de este mes, Ross acaparó titulares tras ser arrestado en el condado Miami-Dade en relación con un caso de violencia doméstica.

Al salir de la cárcel, Ross les dijo a los periodistas que lo esperaban que era “totalmente inocente” de las acusaciones en su contra.

The Republican governor said she was commuting Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life in prison without parole. Johnson was convicted of the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent.

“When presented with Mr. Johnson’s case, I had concerns there was not enough direct evidence to carry out the most serious punishment, death,” Ivey said in a statement. “My decision is not a determination of innocence, but a recognition that the circumstances of this case justify commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment, without possibility of parole.”

Ivey has overseen 27 executions during her time as governor. She has commuted the death sentences of three death row inmates.

Hardy was shot twice in the head while working off-duty security at a hotel. Johnson has maintained he was on the other side of town at the time of the shooting.

Ty Alper, one of Johnson’s attorneys, said they are grateful to Ivey for “diligently reviewing Toforest’s case and taking action to spare an innocent man from execution.” Alper said the fight to overturn the conviction will continue.

“Toforest Johnson is innocent. Now it is up to the courts to overturn his conviction and grant him a new trial. We will keep fighting until he is home with his family,” Alper said.

There has been a long-running legal effort to win a new trial in the case, which has garnered national attention and was the subject of a podcast. Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr, who was elected in 2018, has supported Johnson’s bid for a new trial. Carr wrote in a 2024 court filing that the “evidence in this case has unraveled over 20 years.”

Carr said in 2024 that credible alibi witnesses place Johnson elsewhere at the time of the crime. He said there are multiple reasons to doubt the key prosecution witness, a woman who “claimed she overheard Johnson confess to the murder on a three-way phone call on which she was eavesdropping.”

The key prosecution witness at Johnson's 1998 trial testified that, while eavesdropping on a phone call, she heard a man she believed was Johnson admitting to the crime. She was paid $5,000 in 2001 for her testimony, and Johnson’s lawyers argue that the state withheld evidence of monetary motivation for the testimony.

A number of former judges and prosecutors have joined those seeking a new trial for Johnson amid questions about his conviction. Former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, former Chief Justices Sonny Hornsby and Drayton Nabers and several former judges and prosecutors have submitted briefs or written editorials supporting a new trial.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall in an Oct. 16 letter had urged Ivey to reject the clemency request and “respect the jury's decision” and the decision of the courts reviewing the matter.

The Gellert Global Group, a third-generation family business that imports Canadian cheese, took its case to the U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York.

In August, Trump reached back to Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose the tariffs on Canada, prompting dollar-for-dollar retaliation from Ottawa and straining already-tense relations between the neighbors and longtime allies. The president last month escalated the conflict by announcing an outright ban on nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian products, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.

The president’s Section 338 tariff authority had never been used in a trade dispute, let alone tested in court.

"No president should have the power to pull a dormant statute off the shelf and use it to impose sweeping tariffs or import bans without the limits Congress required,” said Sara Albrecht, chair of the Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian advocacy group that is representing the Gellert firm and which successfully challenged previous Trump tariffs before the Supreme Court earlier this year.

The White House said the administration would vigorously defend Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports and considers Section 338 appropriate to counter what the administration considers Canadian discrimination against American dairy, alcohol and auto exports.

Since returning to the White House last year, Trump has sought to build a wall of protective tariffs — import taxes — around the U.S. economy. The centerpiece of the policy originally was his use of a 1977 law to declare America's longstanding trade deficits a national emergency, justifying double-digit tariffs on almost every country. But the Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February, and the Trump administration was forced to refund billions of dollars to the importers that paid them.

Trump has since looked for other legal authority to tax imports. In July, for example, he hit dozens of U.S. trading partners with tariffs of 10% to 12.5%, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced by forced labor. Those tariffs are also being challenged in court.

Then he invoked Section 338 to sanction Canada for allegedly discriminating against U.S. dairy, auto and alcoholic beverages.

As Section 338 sat on the books unused for decades, Congress passed new trade laws. Some of them ceded to the president tariff power, which the Constitution originally granted to Congress. But the new laws also limited the president’s authority to certain circumstances — including dealing with national security threats and foreign currency crises — and required the government to carry out investigations and meet other procedural requirements beforehand.

The Liberty Justice Center argues that the newer trade legislation superseded the president's Section 338 tariff authority and rendered it obsolete.

The astrophysicist plans to host his lecture about the ongoing search for habitable planets on March 15 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at 1700 Washington Ave.

Ticketmaster starts selling VIP packages at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, and the rest on Friday. Live Nation’s presale starts on Thursday for those who have the Live Nation All Access membership.

El caso es el ejemplo más reciente de la intervención de los tribunales para corregir desequilibrios en las plataformas que afectan a la política y a las elecciones.

La demanda fue impulsada por la campaña de Lula el 15 de octubre, cuando acusó a la empresa tecnológica propietaria de Instagram, Facebook y WhatsApp de usar algoritmos sesgados y restricciones de IA para favorecer a Bolsonaro. El lunes, cientos de personas protestaron frente a la oficina de la compañía en el área metropolitana de Sao Paulo.

Meta indicó que había “completado la implementación de medidas para cumplir la directiva del tribunal electoral”. Añadió que las restricciones ordenadas por el tribunal “no afectan a las publicaciones orgánicas”.

Bolsonaro obtuvo la mayor cantidad de votos en la primera vuelta de las elecciones el 4 de octubre, con 47% frente al 45% de Lula, y encuestas y analistas sugieren que será una contienda reñida hasta el último minuto.

Meta señaló que ha aplicado medidas integrales para garantizar el cumplimiento de las normas sobre publicidad electoral y salvaguardar la integridad del proceso democrático del país. También afirmó que implementó un sistema específico de revisión humana, en el que cualquier bloqueo o limitación automática aplicada a cuentas de anuncios de campaña presidencial debe someterse a una evaluación manual en un plazo de dos horas.

Meta insistió en que sus recientes incidentes operativos se deben a limitaciones técnicas y no a ninguna parcialidad. Volvió a negar cualquier acusación de sesgo político, manipulación o interferencia intencional en las elecciones de Brasil.

Tatiana Cochlar, portavoz del tribunal electoral de Brasil, confirmó que se recibió la respuesta de Meta y añadió que en las siguientes horas del martes se espera que representantes de la empresa y de los dos equipos de las campañas presidenciales se reúnan con un juez en Brasilia, la capital, para analizar la situación.

El caso en Brasil refleja precedentes en Europa, donde el aparato estatal también intervino. En Alemania, un fallo judicial de 2019 obligó a Facebook a restablecer una página política bloqueada para proteger la igualdad política. Cinco años después, Rumania anuló su elección presidencial después de que redes ocultas de bots en TikTok impulsaran a un candidato prorruso. Posteriormente, el país europeo aprobó leyes que exigen códigos de seguimiento en los mensajes políticos en redes sociales.

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

He did it in “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing,” a poem that later became a song and is now widely called the Black National Anthem. The original manuscript along with other papers by Johnson, who was Black, are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Johnson wrote “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing” in Jacksonville, Florida, as part of a celebration in 1900 for Abraham Lincoln's birthday. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, later composed the music. It first was performed by Black children in a Jacksonville school where James Weldon Johnson was principal.

The song was later adopted by the NAACP and sung at marches and other events during the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Singer Kim Weston performed it in 2001 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the first inauguration of President George W. Bush. It has become a standard in Black churches and in Black History Month programs across the United States.

Yollie Copeland, a licensed tour guide in Jacksonville and owner of Explore Jax Core, says part of the song's legacy is that after the initial performance, it was passed from generation to generation.

“Those same children and students (as adults) taught the song to their students," Copeland says. "James Weldon Johnson writes that he kind of forgot about the song. Decades later they were singing his song. He just couldn’t believe it caught.”

The song's lyrics tell of perseverance leading to freedom and “liberty” with Lincoln's 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves held in the Confederate states. Lyrics include “Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod felt in the days when hope unborn had died. Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed?”

That verse is followed by “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. Out from the gloomy past, ’til now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.”

Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister and public theologian at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, calls “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” an “American treasure."

“This is a song about my faith, our faith," she says. "The faith is in the God whose destination is liberation, the God whose purpose is to free people, all the people. So, I think America could find its hope in this song that is honest about trouble and honest about pain and honest about struggle.”

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The Miami Herald reported on Monday that messages, which appeared on Wilson’s Instagram stories, reportedly included racist slurs, homophobic language, violent slavery imagery and threats of rape and violence against Wilson and his family.

A Florida Bar spokesperson confirmed that the social media account implicated in the messages belonged to McLendon, who worked as a computer technician for the organization. The Herald also reported that McClendon’s Instagram and LinkedIn accounts were taken down Monday.

The Miami Herald reported that at least 12 messages apparently shared by Wilson on his Instagram Stories contained racist abuse, including a racial slur, the statement: “I hope my great grand daddy beat urs so hard,” and a reference to Wilson as “farming equipment.”

In a statement released to Local 10 News on Tuesday, a Florida Bar spokesperson called the messages “ethically and morally reprehensible” and said they violated its internal social media policy for employees.

“As the internal investigation continues, we are committed to enforcing our policies and procedures while making sure that any due process rights are protected,” the statement read, in part.

Wilson transferred to Miami from Missouri this season after earning second-team All-SEC honors last year. He previously played at Georgia.

He has four tackles and three sacks with the Hurricanes this season.

Angel Reese fully realized her team couldn’t afford to fall behind by two games to the Golden State Valkyries in the best-of-seven WNBA Finals as the series shifts to Atlanta, so she led the charge on both ends and grabbed back some momentum for the Dream as they evened the series at one game apiece Monday night.

“Even from going in the locker room, first person I made eye contact with was Angel and I’m like: ‘Oh, I like this look. I like this look,'” Smesko, Atlanta’s second-year coach, said with a chuckle. “She started off aggressive. One thing we try to do is just give her a couple more breaks during the game, so that she can just keep that intensity going throughout the entire game, and she was just fantastic. Just on both ends of the floor, just a superior performance.”

The Dream won Game 2 79-65 as Reese delivered 30 points and 16 rebounds and Rhyne Howard set a WNBA Finals single-game record with six steals. That smothering defense flustered the Valkyries into committing 19 turnovers that led to 24 points for Atlanta. Game 3 is Wednesday night.

Now that her team has finally won its first Finals game after an 0-10 showing, which spanned three previous berths, Reese understands the defense and grit it will take to slow down Gabby Williams and a Golden State team that takes the same kind of pride in its top-notch defense — and did all season long to earn the league's No. 2 seed in just the second year for the franchise.

Reese felt she had failed the Dream when the Vallkyries buckled down on her leading to a scoreless second half in a 68-64 Game 1 defeat Saturday. She made sure it went differently Monday.

“I was hungry. I wanted one and we let one slip away and you can’t do that, especially on the road,” Reese said. “This is a good environment and a good team. We all came together and we were pissed. We felt disappointed. We felt embarrassed, and we didn’t like the outcome of that last game.”

After Game 2, Golden State point guard Veronica Burton felt similar emotions given her team's season-high turnovers, noting: “It starts with me.”

“It’s controllable, it’s definitely controllable,” coach Natalie Nakase said afterward.

“Just credit to them their effort, their hustle, their fight. I thought they did an excellent job getting into those lanes and creating those turnovers.”

The 24-year-old Reese became the youngest player to have a 30-point, 15-rebound performance in a playoff game and one of just six players ever to accomplish the feat in the postseason — joining Jonquel Jones of Connecticut in 2019 and Breanna Stewart for Seattle in 2020 as the only others to do so on the Finals stage.

At every chance, Reese called for the ball.

“Just the energy that she brings for our team, we feed off of that,” said guard Jordin Canada, who contributed 13 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds. “So when she’s in that mode, we know we’ve got to give her the ball to some form of capacity, and try to give her as much space as she can to attack and do what she does best.”

The Dream will now be counting on their home crowd after dealing with the noise from Golden State's loyal, supportive “Ballhalla” fans. Games 3 and 4 were moved to State Farm Arena to accommodate more people — the Hawks' arena can host some 17,000 — than Atlanta's regular 3,500-seat Gateway Center Arena. Chase Center, meanwhile, has attracted sellout crowds of 18,064 for every Valkyries game since they started as an expansion franchise last year.

One of these teams will capture its first championship, and Reese wants to lead the way in the Dream taking the next big step to building something special for the long term.

“I think it's just the start,” she said. “Throughout the entire year we just continued to stick together and know who we are and we have the city behind us, we have the team, we have the coaches and everybody rally behind us so it feels really good. It's just the next step of who Atlanta is and who Atlanta is going to continue to be for the next couple years.”

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Executive VP of club business, international and league events Peter O’Reilly said officials are collaborating with Parisian and national authorities overseas, along with the U.S. State Department. League officials, including senior VP of security Cathy Lanier, have been on the ground in France, according to O'Reilly.

“There’s nothing more important from our standpoint than the teams’ security, the fans’ security — everybody involved with this game,” O’Reilly said at the league’s annual fall owners meeting. “Obviously being very vigilant in everything we do, in all of our planning on an hour-by-hour basis, working closely with the two teams.”

O’Reilly said there was never a point that the game was in danger of not being played at Stade de France, which is in the outskirts of Paris in Saint-Denis. He cited other sporting events ongoing in the city, including a Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona on Tuesday night.

The NFL has in the past moved games to avoid getting in the way of local response to an unforeseen event, and officials believe that is not an issue for the league's debut in France.

"We feel confident that we would not have any impact on the broader resources needed," O'Reilly said. “That’s always top of mind for us, and we feel confident that we wouldn’t be depleting resources in a negative way around this game.”

Rioters clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in France’s worst civil unrest in years as violence and looting swept through major cities.

About 2,400 people were arrested over the weekend, and authorities said thousands of businesses were damaged or looted. The rioting overshadowed demonstrations against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools in which hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully.

The Saints traveled directly to Paris after playing at the New York Giants and are practicing in the area this week. The Steelers are set to travel closer to kickoff.

International play questions

With the collective bargaining agreement allowing for up to 10 international games, O'Reilly said that number is being considered for next season. There are a record nine on the schedule this year.

Where those games take place is still being discussed.

“We like continuity, but we are looking at new regions, and Asia would be one of them,” O'Reilly said.

After so much talk leading up to and coming out of the game in Melbourne, Australia, about the Los Angeles Rams waiting until late to fly there — and lost 27-7 to San Francisco — the NFL does not appear close to dictating when teams must travel.

“That is the discretion of the club,” O'Reilly said. “As it stands today, you let the football decisions reside at the football level in terms of how they want to plan and prepare for a game coming in. That’s not something we’re ruling out, and there could be discussion on is there some standardization in the future. But right now, that’s the prerogative.”

49ers owner Jed York returns from his suspension

With his suspension over Tuesday, 49ers owner Jed York was in attendance for the fall meeting.

York was suspended for six games and fined $500,000 for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy after being arrested in a prostitution sting in Ohio in August. He pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors but was still punished by the league and stayed away from the 49ers during their 6-0 start.

York didn’t attend the owners’ meetings in Atlanta the week of his arrest.

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The network has been entangled in legal action with Trump’s administration ever since the president issued its reporters a sudden ban from White House grounds a month ago, along with those from MS NOW and Politico, calling their content “fake news.” Last week, a federal judge granted the news outlets their request for a preliminary injunction against the government ban as the case moves through the legal system.

But that only addresses part of the problem.

The White House has continued to bar CNN from taking its place in TV pool coverage of Trump’s travel on Air Force One. And so the network may need to take additional action, said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., an attorney for CNN, in a letter to Justice Department attorney Michael K. Velchik.

Media attorney says the spaces in question ‘belong to all Americans’

Boutrous noted in the letter late Monday that CNN has traditionally had “uninterrupted access to the Oval Office and Air Force One for 45 years. That is because those spaces belong not to any particular president or administration but to all Americans, and CNN and other members of the press serve as surrogates for the public when covering the White House.”

Now, though, the White House is engaging in “what appears to be a new unstated policy to interfere with CNN’s ability to fulfill its duties” as part ot the video pool. The pool consists of the five major U.S. networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox, who alternate assignments and share video.

Boutrous noted that in his most recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly had found the three media outlets were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the White House violated the First Amendment and due process with Trump’s ban, and thus were entitled to the relief they requested.

Still, though, the White House has selectively denied CNN access to cover the president’s travel on Air Force One — no fewer than four times to date, Boutrous wrote.

Such “efforts to retaliate and discriminate against CNN based on the content of its news coverage are mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful," the attorney wrote.

“If these actions persist, CNN will have no choice but to return to the court to defend its rights, and it is prepared to fight as long as is necessary to secure them."

The Justice Department did not respond to a query from The Associated Press seeking reaction to the letter, in which Boutrous gave the White House two days to respond.

The showdown began in September

The extraordinary showdown between Trump and CNN, whose personalities he has mocked publicly, began more than a month ago. Trump announced on Sept. 18 that he was barring the network’s reporters, along with those from MS NOW and Politico, from White House grounds. The next day, journalists found their passes had been deactivated.

It was a marked escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable, and a test of First Amendment protections in the United States.

Kelly first granted relief from the ban for two weeks, then granted the open-ended preliminary injunction last week.

And yet, the letter said, the network had been denied access to Air Force One in September for Trump’s visit to the U.N. General Assembly, for a football game in Knoxville, Tennessee, and for a trip to Texas and Oklahoma. This month, it was denied access to the plane for a trip to Georgia and Florida. In all cases, CNN was the scheduled pool network.

There has, however, been no explanation from the White House, Boutrous wrote. “In fact, the White House has not even directly stated to CNN that it is being excluded from the Oval Office or Air Force One."

A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Associated Press that the Eagles were not being disciplined for their actions with Hurts. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because conversations between the league and team were to remain private.

Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, offered a passionate defense of how the Eagles treated Hurts, following a statement from the league that said officials had been in contact with Philadelphia’s medical personnel and the Cleveland Clinic in London throughout the process.

“I have complete confidence in the Eagles’ medical staff and their handling of this situation, and I would characterize their work as very conservative, very patient-focused and appropriately guarded at every step,” Sills said at the league’s annual fall meeting. “I don’t think you can take that outcome and say there was something flawed about the process. Sometimes in medicine, we do all the right things and diseases progress and other things develop. ...

“In this case, everyone was incredibly conservative and incredibly vigilant and was very quick to make diagnoses of these conditions that might not have been diagnosed in a nonathlete.”

The NFL Players Association in a statement said it was told by the league that a review was not planned.

“Before conclusions are drawn about how this situation was handled, there must be a full investigation into what occurred,” the union said. “Determining the facts is essential to ensuring players receive the highest level of care and protection going forward.”

Hurts is on injured reserve and expected to miss the rest of the season after a blood clot in his left calf traveled to his lungs. The Eagles and agent Nicole Lynn said Monday that Hurts has deep vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary embolisms.

NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller took issue with “uninformed speculation” in reports Monday that Hurts went more than 30 hours without sleep last weekend before playing.

“Jalen Hurts returned to the hotel, slept for a period of time and went to the stadium,” Miller said, estimating that Hurts slept for around seven or eight hours. “Both talking to the Eagles’ staff and making sure from people on the ground, tracking the case, talking to the independent hospital and doctors involved that we have, I think, a complete understanding of the course of events.”

Sills said the league and the players' union study and track blood clots annually. He declined to go into specifics about Hurts' condition, citing patient privacy, and reiterated multiple times that treating a blood clot involves looking at multiple factors.

Dr. Caron Rockman, a vascular surgeon for roughly 30 years, said based on what she has read, there's no evidence the Eagles acted improperly while dealing with what she called not a textbook issue.

“It’s a judgment call,” said Rockman, who is currently a chair at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and did not treat Hurts. “I think it’s really a case-by-case basis. In my personal opinion, superficial vein thrombosis is not a (disqualification) to fly.”

Hurts' treatment moving forward involves blood thinners, and he will not be allowed to participate in any football activities until he is off them.

Hurts played in London against Jacksonville on Oct. 11, three days after informing medical staff of the injury after practice. He was initially diagnosed by specialists in London with a left calf superficial vein thrombosis.

“I think there was incredible vigilance, there was conservative care, state-of-the-art imaging that was done in London,” Sills said. “And, as far as the timing and the decision-making, I have great confidence in that and believe that everyone acted with an abundance of caution.”

Sills in his opening statement that lasted more than five minutes said all decisions are made with medicine over football.

“The notion that there are external factors or that any of our physicians would put a player in harm’s way — that’s nonsense,” Sills said.

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Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Beatrice Butchko Sanchez sided with George Morgan, the candidate who asked the court to disqualify Desulme for the way he paid his qualifying fees.

“The payment was made with a bank-certified check drawn from my campaign account rather than my campaign check,” Desulme wrote in a statement in reaction to the ruling.

Related story: Judge rules North Miami mayor ‘shall be disqualified as a candidate’

Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer.

After the judge’s ruling, Miami-Dade County released a “notice to North Miami voters” that the mayoral election was “an unopposed candidate race” and that a “vote cast in this race will not change the outcome as the remaining candidate is deemed by law to be elected.”

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The filing comes after Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Beatrice Butchko Sanchez ruled on Monday that Desulme wasn’t qualified for the Nov. 3rd election.

“Mayor Desulme is in the process of appealing that decision,” Attorney Benedict P. Kuehne, who represents Desulme, wrote, according to the counterclaim.

Desulme accused George Morgan, a mayoral candidate, of not paying the qualifying fee in full. Morgan asked the court to disqualify Desulme over the way he paid his qualifying fees,

“The payment was made with a bank-certified check drawn from my campaign account rather than my campaign check,” Desulme wrote in a statement in reaction to the ruling.

Related story: Judge rules North Miami mayor ‘shall be disqualified as a candidate’

Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer.

After the judge’s ruling, Miami-Dade County released a “notice to North Miami voters” that the mayoral election was “an unopposed candidate race” and that a “vote cast in this race will not change the outcome as the remaining candidate is deemed by law to be elected.”

Related story: North Miami mayor to appeal judge’s disqualification to run for re-election

The supervisor of elections sent the vote-bymail ballots, and early voting started on Monday.

“The cost, burden, and disruption of having voters cast ballots for an unqualified candidate deprives the North Miami citizens of their right to elect their office holders,” Kuehne wrote, according to Desulme’s counterclaim.

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The case is the latest example of courts intervening to fix platform imbalances impacting politics and elections.

The suit was triggered by Lula’s campaign on Oct. 15, when it accused the tech company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor Bolsonaro. On Monday, hundreds of people protested in front of the company’s office in metropolis Sao Paulo.

Meta said it had “completed the implementation of measures to comply with the directive from the electoral court.” It added the restrictions ordered by the court “do not affect organic posts.”

Bolsonaro won the most votes in the first round of the elections on Oct. 4, with 47% to Lula's 45%, with polls and analysts suggesting they will be in a tight race for victory until the last minute.

Meta said it has enforced comprehensive measures to enforce compliance with electoral advertisement regulations and safeguard the integrity of the nation’s democratic process. It also said it implemented a dedicated human review system, under which any automatic blocks or limitations placed on presidential campaign ad accounts must undergo manual evaluation within two hours.

Meta insisted its recent operational incidents come from technical limitations rather than any partiality. It once again denied any allegations of political bias, manipulation or intentional interference in Brazil's elections.

Tatiana Cochlar, a spokesperson for Brazil’s electoral court, confirmed Meta’s response was received and added that later Tuesday representatives of the company and the two presidential campaigns are expected to meet with a judge in capital Brasilia to discuss the situation.

The case in Brazil mirrors precedents in Europe where the state apparatus also intervened. In Germany, a 2019 court ruling forced Facebook to restore a blocked political page to protect political equality. Five years later, Romania annulled its presidential election after hidden TikTok bot networks boosted a pro-Russia candidate. The European nation later passed legislation mandating tracking codes on political social media messaging.

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Acton, who has made no secret of facing homelessness and sexual abuse as a child, had spent the day pushing back forcefully against the content of the video, whose origins were initially murky. In it, her birth mother Donna Arthur calls her “a liar” and insinuates she has mental health issues.

The ad began circulating overnight, just two weeks before Election Day. Acton, Ohio's former public health director, is in a tight race against Vivek Ramaswamy, a Trump-backed biotech billionaire and 2024 presidential candidate who has benefited from spending on his behalf that has exceeded $120 million.

The online ad, which first surfaced in a post by an Ohio political blogger, spread quickly across social media platforms. It did not include the “paid for” tag that is legally required to air on TV so viewers can know who produced and paid for it. D.J. Brynes, who blogs as “The Rooster,” told CNN he got the video from a voter who viewed it as part of a poll and recorded it.

Connie Luck, a spokesperson for Ramaswamy's campaign, said Acton's mother was not paid for the one-minute spot. She said the ad will air both online and on TV in the closing days of the campaign.

All day Tuesday, Acton condemned Ramaswamy for the ad, already suspecting her opponent was behind the attack.

“I won’t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is just something I’m complaining about, who today just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse," she told Spectrum News, a cable news outlet in Ohio.

She said Ramaswamy was accused of similar personal attacks during his run for the GOP presidential nomination: “This is a lifelong pattern with my opponent.”

Ramaswamy’s campaign initially issued a statement that did not address if he was responsible for the ad or knew who produced it. In the statement, Luck said Acton “has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of.”

In a statement released by Acton's campaign, her brother, Philip Stearns, said the two were removed from their mother Donna Arthur's custody as children after their stepfather, Arthur's husband, was indicted for raping Acton as a child. Acton has not seen Arthur, whose last known address was in Pennsylvania, since they were in a courtroom together in 1978.

Later Tuesday, the Acton campaign released a response ad featuring Stearns, who recalls his older sister taking “the worst” of the abuse they faced as children in order to protect him and disparages Ramaswamy and his allies for exploiting the situation.

According to police and court documents obtained by The Associated Press, Cledith Arthur was arrested and charged with the rape of his stepdaughter, then 12, in July 1978, after Acton's biological father reported his alleged conduct to authorities. The abuse allegedly happened from December 1976 to April 1978.

Cledith Arthur pleaded not guilty. He was indicted by a grand jury that September, but failed to show at a court hearing and remained a fugitive until at least 1981. He has since died.

High-profile Republicans who back Ramaswamy — including Donald Trump Jr. and influencer Laura Loomer — elevated the video in online posts.

But other Republicans joined Democrats in condemning the ad. Meghan McCain called it “dastardly” and Dan Hauser, a strategist for Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, said he deleted his retweet of the ad once he realized “the very serious accusations that caused their issues.”

The Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, Sherrod Brown, described the spot as “disgusting” and said everyone — including his opponent, Sen. Jon Husted — should be willing to condemn it. Husted's campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Acton's mother does not mention Ramaswamy's name in the ad, but she suggests that Acton has misrepresented her opponent and the time her family was homeless and living in a tent when she was a child — an experience Stearns corroborates.

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Associated Press writer Ali Swenson in New York contributed to this report.

A government decree calls for the deployment of an additional 500 soldiers to Milan through the end of the year, requiring parents to pay for damage caused by minors and making it easier to prosecute minors over 14.

In a video posted on social media, Premier Giorgia Meloni said the presence of so many young rioters was “painful and frightening.”

“Young people … came to the square to smash things, steal and film themselves doing it,” Meloni said. “This is a phenomenon that we must address seriously, also to prevent those images from becoming a model for others to imitate.”

The decree also creates a new criminal offense of violent participation in a demonstration, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 20,000 euros ($22,500). Penalties increase if offenders cover their faces or someone is injured.

Protesters will be responsible for paying for property damage, with parents liable for damage caused by minors, Meloni said.

The decree, which must be converted to law by parliament within 60 days, also automatically presumes that anyone over age 14 is capable of understanding their own actions, unless proven otherwise. That until now was up to a judge to determine.

Meloni also said the government would add new beds to detention facilities and judges to the juvenile justice system.

Police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse rioters, many with their faces covered, who clashed with police, looted stores and set property on fire in central Milan on Saturday. Looting and violence continued on Sunday, with authorities saying more than 100 police officers were injured over two days.

Milan police said 2,000 youths participated in the riots Saturday night, including a large presence of naturalized Italians born to foreign parents as well as foreign nationals. Of the roughly 50 people arrested over the weekend, more than 30 are minors.

The unrest coincided with nationwide demonstrations in neighboring France against rising living costs and in support of high school students’ grievances. French police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent protesters who joined the rallies.

The woman’s secondhand account of Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff’s remark, which the university disputes, comes as faculty prepare for a potential vote of no confidence in the Ivy League school’s leadership. The Associated Press on Tuesday obtained a letter she sent to faculty leaders last week. Her lawyer confirmed its authenticity.

The former student’s rape allegations, detailed in a lawsuit last month that identified her only as Jane Doe, have sparked campus protests, renewed scrutiny of Cornell’s disciplinary system and led to the reopening of a criminal investigation of the alleged October 2024 assault.

“The letter was sent for informational purposes only,” the woman's lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said. “Jane Doe thought it important that the Faculty Senate have this information as it deliberates and considers the resolutions or motions before it. Jane Doe would ask the Faculty Senate to give her letter whatever weight or credibility it deems appropriate.”

Dispute over president's remarks

In the letter, Jane Doe said her sorority president told her that Kotlikoff questioned why she waited until the following month to report being assaulted. The sorority leader, who spoke with Kotlikoff in November 2024, interpreted his remark as casting doubt on her story.

“President Kotlikoff’s initial response was along the lines of, ‘Why did she wait so long to report it?’ ” Jane Doe wrote in the letter. She said the conversation made her less confident that the administration could handle what happened with the sensitivity and fairness she expected.

Cornell’s dean of faculty, however, offered a different account of the conversation. In an email Tuesday to faculty senators and verified by the AP, professor Chris Schaffer said another official who was present for the conversation recalled Kotlikoff asking why bystanders had not reported the alleged assault sooner through the school’s anonymous tip line, especially because the allegations were already circulating on social media.

Schaffer said he waited to share Jane Doe’s letter with faculty senators until he could get another account of the conversation. He said he forwarded the letter to university lawyers, who passed it on to an independent team investigating Cornell’s response.

Schaffer said at a meeting last week that he was against the proposed no-confidence resolution, saying it identified no specific failures or fixes, but acknowledged faculty frustration. “The anger in our community is justified and I share it.”

Kotlikoff did not respond Tuesday to an email inquiry about Jane Doe’s letter. A statement from a university spokesperson also disputed her account of the conversation, saying Kotlikoff was asking about bystanders' actions rather than Jane Doe.

Faculty debate no-confidence resolution

Jane Doe’s letter, transmitted to the Faculty Senate through her lawyers and first reported by The New York Times, comes as Cornell faculty consider a resolution declaring no confidence in the university administration’s ability to address what some faculty members have described as an “ongoing crisis” of sexual assault on campus.

Faculty members began debating the resolution at a meeting last Wednesday, where Kotlikoff faced pointed questions about the school's response to sexual assault allegations and its oversight of fraternities. The Faculty Senate is expected to resume debate on Oct. 28 before holding an electronic vote.

In her letter, Jane Doe said she wanted faculty members to have information that might be relevant to their deliberations. She emphasized that she was not trying to tell them how to vote.

“My intention is not to prescribe how the Senate should interpret this account, but rather to provide information that its members may wish to consider or investigate further,” she wrote.

Noah Tamarkin, an anthropology professor and co-sponsor of the no-confidence resolution, said Tuesday he was still processing Jane Doe’s letter, but that it reinforced his belief that Cornell needs fundamental changes to rebuild trust.

“I continue to feel that the current administration hasn’t yet shown the capacity to do this,” Tamarkin wrote in a text message.

He said what stood out was Jane Doe’s account of how the conversation affected her and the apparent lack of a clear way for her to be heard or receive support.

“We need leadership that understands how much that matters," Tamarkin wrote.

Also Tuesday, the former Justice Department official leading Cornell’s independent investigation, Sally Yates, sent a letter to the university community outlining the scope of her review, which she said is expansive.

In addition to conducting a detailed examination of Cornell’s response to Jane Doe’s allegations, Yates wrote that her team is reviewing the university's sexual harassment and assault prevention and discipline practices, the role of campus police and other law enforcement agencies, the supervision of fraternities and sororities, and oversight by university leadership, including its board of trustees.

“We understand that some may be skeptical of our independence — I assure you that our independence is not a formality,” Yates wrote. The university, she said, has pledged complete autonomy and the resources “an independent review of this significance needs and deserves.”

“We will follow the facts wherever they lead with unwavering candor and principled judgment so that this community — and the public — can have confidence in the integrity of our findings," Yates, the former deputy attorney general, added.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Instacart was advertising jobs through the Permanent Labor Certification, or PERM, program. The program lets employers hire temporary visa holders and sponsor them for permanent resident status as long as they have also made a good-faith effort to hire U.S. workers.

The agencies said Instacart created a burden for U.S. workers by requiring that applications be physically mailed to the company for jobs that were listed as part of its PERM recruitment program. Instacart allows electronic applications for its standard job recruitment process.

San Francisco-based Instacart said Tuesday that its hiring practices complied with U.S. laws and regulations, but it agreed to the settlement in order to remain focused on its business.

“We’re proud to be a U.S.-based grocery technology platform, employing thousands of American workers and serving millions of customers, retailers, shoppers and brands,” the company said. “Hiring and investing in American workers across our U.S. business is our priority, and we actively promote every role across many channels to ensure qualified U.S. candidates are always first in line for opportunities.”

Instacart is the latest tech company to reach a settlement with the government over allegations that it favors foreign workers for certain jobs.

In 2023, Apple agreed to a $25 million settlement after federal regulators said its hiring practices discriminated against U.S. candidates for jobs that went to immigrant workers seeking permanent resident status in the country. Facebook agreed to pay $14 million in 2021 to settle claims about its hiring practices.

“Our record demonstrates that the Justice Department is holding companies who prefer workers with temporary employment visas accountable," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement. "We will not stop fighting for U.S. workers until there is a fair playing field.”

The settlement requires Instacart to establish a fund of up to $4 million to compensate job applicants and people who were allegedly deterred from applying to Instacart between December 2023 and February 2026.

Instacart will pay $1 million in civil penalties to the federal government. The company is also required to post jobs that are part of its PERM recruitment program on its public career website and accept electronic applications.

A screaming match in the hallways of the United Nations in New York City broke out Monday evening between the Cuban delegation, led by their Ambassador Ernesto Soberon, against U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz.

The U.S. had organized an event entitled “Cuba Libre: The Oppression Havana Hides.” This happened before the United Nations takes their annual vote on the U.S. Economic Embargo on Cuba.

In the last months Cuba has increased their propaganda against the U.S. in fear of a U.S. military action or after yesterday’s indictment and warrant for the arrest of Raul Castro, a military exercise to get Raul Castro and bring him back to the U.S. to stand trial.

Oct. 16: Electrical plant in Cuba catches fire and blows up

As experts have been saying for a long time, the current electrical plants in Cuba cannot be repaired -- they are too old.

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Yesterday afternoon, the electrical plant in Santa Cruz caught fire and part of it exploded, causing more blackouts in that region of Cuba.

The people that live around the eastern town of Guantanamo have not had electricity for 36 days.

It has been estimated by the electrical experts in the U.S. that a new electrical system in Cuba will cost $9 billion to $11 billion.

Oct. 14: Human rights violations continue in Cuba

According to the organization Cuba Decide, in the month of September, there were 911 human rights violations in Cuba that range from arrests for simply protesting in the streets to posting comments on social media criticizing the Cuban government. 75% arrested were men and 25% women.

For example, in the capital city of Havana, 413 people were arrested. In Camagüey, 121 people were detained and in Villa Clara, 62. There were 284 cases of threats reported that were allegedly made against Cubans by the government as well.

During the month of September, there were also 138 cases reported of human rights violations against individuals for practicing their religious freedoms.

Anything that can threaten the political control and power of the Cuban government will continue to be castigated in an attempt to maintain control of the population.

Cuban laws have two interpretations. One for those in power and one for the Cuban people.

Oct. 13: With or without a U.S. intervention, can Cuba survive?

The socio-economic conditions continue to worsen in Cuba and the Cuban government has no answers for improving them. Even with the 176 economic reforms they introduced months ago, they have been very slow to implement them.

The only answers the Cuban government has is to increase their propaganda of blaming the U.S. for all their problems, which the Cuban people on the island no longer believe.

Without foreign investment, it will be very difficult for them to survive. In addition, their infrastructure continues to collapse from their electrical plants, water system, food supply, and lack of safe buildings for people to live in.

As the midterm elections get closer in the U.S., I don’t see us taking any action against Cuba. Their only hope is that Raul Castro dies in the months to come and that someone within their inner circle of power becomes a true political reformer that can begin to transform their totalitarian system.

Oct. 8: Social Challenges Facing Cuba

In 2014, I wrote a book with that title.

Today, the social challenges facing Cuba are even greater.

When we speak of creating a democratic government in Cuba’s future, there are three variables that must be taken into consideration.

1) The history of the country

2) The culture of the country

3) The personal experiences of the population

That is why it’s very difficult to apply a transition of another country to Cuba or any other country that has lived under a totalitarian regime for so long.

Today, Cuba’s population is about 8.3 million. Many have left seeking a better future. Some factors that are often forgotten is the fact that about 60% of the island is Black or Mulato, while in exile, that percentage is about 5%. Today, Cuba has the lowest birth rate in all of Latin America and, at the same time, one of the oldest population in Latin America.

As we have seen from recent statistics, about 1 million Cubans left last year, seeking a better life. I suspect if and when there is a change in Cuba’s regime, the young generation will not stay on the island to help rebuild their country. They will go elsewhere, seeking better opportunities.

The last challenge is how to change people’s minds to support a democracy when it has been years, even before the Revolution of 1959, that there was a democracy in Cuba.

The ideology of the Cuban Revolution is gone. However, there is a lack of any clear ideology that Cubans believe in, which makes it more difficult when trying to develop a civil society in the future that can support a democratic government.

Oct. 6: Cuba prepares for possible U.S. intervention as talks stall

Cuba’s Chargé d’Affaires in Washington, D.C., Lianys Torres Rivera, gave an interview to Reuters and said that, given the lack of progress in conversations with the U.S., the Cuban military has begun preparations for a possible U.S. intervention.

Cuba fully understands that, if such an intervention were to come, it would not be an invasion as many expect, but rather an aerial drone and missile attack. According to military experts and sources at the Pentagon, such an attack could take less than forty-eight hours to neutralize Cuba’s military.

The U.S. military has also incorporated preparations and contingency plans to deal with Cuban drones if any were launched against the U.S. mainland. My own personal belief is that Cuba would first target the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, which is located very close to one of Cuba’s main military installations near Santiago de Cuba.

Oct. 5: Cuba will not negotiate regime change with U.S.

Over the weekend, Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, made it very clear that Cuba will not negotiate regime change with the U.S. In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Cuban government that if they don’t change their regime, the consequences would be worse.

This leaves the U.S. with limited options moving forward. 1) Wait until Raul Castro dies and see what happens. 2) Strengthen the opposition inside the island. 3)Take military action against the island nation.

None of these options lead to a clear and quick path to a quick change in their system of government. A military invasion of Cuba by the U.S. could lead to a prolonged stay on the island until some form of government can be established from within the island and with the support from the Cuban exile community. However, there are some in the exile opposition that consider themselves possible leaders in a free Cuba, which could further complicate things.

Lastly, the extended war with Iran and the mid-term election results in the U.S. could also complicate what the U.S. does with Cuba.

Oct. 2: Who is driving U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba?

In the last several months, we have witnessed Secretary of State Marco Rubio continuing to sanction top officials of the Cuban government and their organizations, trying to force them to change or come to the table and negotiate with the U.S.

On the other hand, we just learned that the White House authorized a sale of 3.2 million barrels of oil to Cuba supposedly going to Cuba’s private sector. Are you kidding?

When dealing with Venezuela and Cuba, Trump has clearly shown that making money is more important than regime change in these two countries.

Oct. 1: Robberies and delinquencies increase in Cuba

According to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (14yMedio), this past Monday a bank was robbed in Lawton, Cuba in the middle of a major power failure.

The robbers got away with the money that was to be paid the next day to people who had retired. At the same time, many solar panels that have been installed around Cuba to help with the growing electrical shortages are being stolen at night by robbers.

The Cuban government is concerned that as socio-economic conditions continue to get worse on the island nation, these practices will increase. So far, no one has been caught.

Believing that her account had been compromised, the victim in North Carolina’s Jacksonville County made three $3,000 transfers to a Wells Fargo account belonging to Benjamin Smalls on July 31, 2025, according to a police report.

Surveillance video shows Smalls using a debit card associated with the Wells Fargo account to buy five $500 money orders at a Publix Supermarket’s customer service desk on July 31, 2025, in Miami-Dade County, according to the police report.

Police officers arrested Smalls at 11:20 a.m. on Monday at his home along Northeast 24th Drive near 41st Place, near the Homestead Air Reserve Base, and took him to the police station for questioning, according to the arrest report.

Smalls said, “he had opened a Wells Fargo account using his own personal information, and that $9,000 had been deposited into the account,” according to the police officer’s arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Smalls shortly after 2:05 p.m. on Monday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Smalls faced three charges: Third-degree grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, and scheme to defraud a financial institution. His bond was $7,500.

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

Our rain chances start to change Thursday with a breeze picking up off the Atlantic. This will give us batches of rain swinging through at times. This will be on and off into the weekend. We will also be watching the potential for king tides this weekend into early next week to give us moderate coastal flooding.

Unlike in many areas of medicine, experts say there’s a lot of variation in the U.S. transplant system. Knowing there are differences and what to ask might help.

“I had to ask a lot of questions to figure out what it was that I could do to move the needle,” said Katherine Screws of Phoenix, who got a rare intestine transplant after she decided to get on the waiting list at more than one hospital to increase her chances.

It can be difficult to learn how to navigate that search, but there's publicly available information about which hospitals perform the most of each type of transplant, plus their waiting times and outcomes. Long used by experts analyzing the transplant system, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, or SRTR, database has new patient-friendly tools developed in the hopes that more would-be transplant recipients will use it.

“People are making these really high-stakes decisions without understanding the options,” said Dr. Allyson Hart of Minnesota’s Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, who helped design the tools.

Here are some things to know.

Different transplant centers have different criteria

There are about 100,000 people on the U.S. transplant list at any given time, the vast majority of whom need a kidney. With just over 49,000 transplants performed in the U.S last year, more people than ever are getting new organs. It’s mostly thanks to over a decade of increases in donations from the deceased, which are recovered by organ procurement organizations, or OPOs.

But more organs are needed to meet the demand, and different transplant hospitals have different criteria for who they'll accept on their waiting list.

Sometimes, “if a patient receives a ‘no’ at one place, they can go somewhere else and be successfully transplanted,” said Dr. Syed Ali Husain, a kidney specialist at NYU Langone Health.

Each transplant program's waiting list is linked to a national automated matching system. OPOs enter information about viable organs into that system, which generates lists of possible matches at multiple hospitals in order of priority. When the OPO offers an organ, the transplant team must quickly decide if it's a good choice for that patient or the offer moves to the hospital with the next-in-line candidate.

Some hospitals are more conservative than others about which organs they’ll accept, said Husain, who studies such differences.

One large study of kidney transplants found “there’s about a 16-fold variation in how quickly a patient will get transplanted at one center versus another,” he said. That's partly because some surgeons have more experience than others using kidneys with complex anatomy such as extra arteries, or those from older, sicker donors that still may be better than dialysis for the right patient.

How to find data about transplant centers

Typically, a doctor or other health worker points patients to the nearest hospital offering the kind of transplant they need. But the SRTR database allows people to compare transplant centers around the country in multiple ways.

Search for a particular organ and a list of the highest-to-lowest-volume centers pops up, with dials to show how they perform on such measures as getting a transplant faster, survival on the waiting list and the new organ's survival. Click on those of interest for more data.

For certain organs, there's a “personalized decision guide” to customize the search a little more with demographic and medical information that compares outcomes for patients similar to you. It may be important to know, for example, if hospitals you’re considering perform transplants for a lot of older adults or people with certain chronic illnesses, Hart said.

There's more data about kidneys, the most-transplanted organ, and a kidney decision aid also allows adding factors such as blood type and diabetes that play a particular role in those transplants. That tool shows the chances of getting a transplant in the first five years after joining the waiting list, or the alternatives — still waiting or having died or become too sick to get a transplant.

It's OK to quiz the transplant team

Like Screws, the Phoenix patient, some people choose to “double list” at a hospital closer to home and another higher-volume transplant program further away.

While not everyone is able to travel, the search tools can also help inform discussions with your chosen transplant program.

It's OK to come to a transplant program to say, “'Hey, there are other centers that do this faster. Help me understand why,'” Hart said. “Sometimes, that conversation is really enough to prompt maybe more aggressive offer acceptance than that center might otherwise do on their own.”

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The woman began showing symptoms on Oct. 7 and was admitted to a private hospital in Abuja on Oct. 11, where she was later diagnosed with Ebola. It is unclear when she arrived in Nigeria.

Health Minister Muhammad Pate said authorities had begun tracing 44 people identified as contacts of the patient. “We are doing everything possible to contain this case by tracing all the contacts the individual may have had,” he said.

Uganda had previously reported Ebola cases, but it later declared itself free of the virus.

Uganda's Ministry of Health said the patient had only transited through Uganda and that she is a Nigerian woman who had been on a business trip to Congo's eastern region. The Nigerian authorities have not disclosed her nationality.

“Travel through Uganda does not establish that infection occurred here. The location of exposure remains under investigation,” the ministry said in a statement. The ministry insisted Uganda has “no confirmed active Ebola cases."

Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the latest outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.

Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control, said on X that “we are facing an extremely serious threat,” with a fatality rate of nearly 50% of cases.

“This Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has already become the most geographically extensive in history, affecting several countries spread across three regions of Africa,” he said.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said two weeks ago it was stepping up surveillance following the detection of Ebola in Kenya and strengthening the country’s preparedness for a potential outbreak.

“These efforts have focused on early detection, isolation and referral, laboratory diagnosis, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, risk communication and protection of health care workers,” the agency said.

Nigeria established an Ebola task force in June following the outbreak in Congo in mid-May.

“We do not want a repeat of what happened during the last outbreak when a carrier entered the country, and everyone was scrambling to respond," Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, said when the task force was announced. “We have covered a lot of ground and established structures to address any potential threat.”

The spread of Ebola beyond Congo has heightened longstanding fears among health authorities about the rapid transmission of the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has infected more than 9,500 people and killed more than 4,600 people.

The latest outbreak is the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record and is on track to exceed the deadliest on record, West Africa’s regional outbreak between 2014 and 2016, which killed 11,000 people, WHO has said. Nigeria was one of the countries affected, recording 20 cases before the outbreak was declared over in the country after three months.

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Elliot Rohl was safely located Tuesday, according to Pembroke Pines police.

Authorities have not said what led to his disappearance.

Counter Terrorism Policing said the men, a 24-year-old British national and a 25-year-old dual U.K.-Iranian national, were arrested under the National Security Act.

One of the suspects was first arrested on Sept. 27, when the suspected plot against the U.S.-run base at RAF Fairford took place. The air base in western England has been used to bomb Iran during this year’s war.

The second suspect was first arrested on Oct. 1. Until Tuesday the men had been bailed pending more investigation.

Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swarmed the rural area. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans at the site, but no explosives.

British authorities have linked Tehran to the incident, which led the U.S. to pull its bombers from RAF Fairford. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the apparent plot was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, or IRGC.

Iran has denied involvement, although it has previously said that it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.

Five other men in their 20s were arrested earlier then released on bail pending further investigation. No one has yet been charged.

Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K., said detectives are looking at “many lines of enquiry involved in this hugely complex investigation.”

“This is very much a live investigation, and our evidence gathering continues, but at this time our position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement,” he said in a statement.

“Our investigators are continuing to examine what that level of involvement was and the ambition behind it," he added.

Last week the head of Britain's MI5 spy agency warned that both Iran and Russia were expanding their attacks against the U.K., and that the RAF base incident was not unique.

Ken McCallum, who leads the U.K.’s domestic security service, said Tehran is seeking to intensify its attacks in Britain beyond the traditional targets of Iranians opposed to the country’s Islamic authorities.

In all, more than 50 people have been arrested over Iran-linked plots in the past year, McCallum said.

Murphy celebrated Milwaukee’s NL Championship Series sweep by saying the Los Angeles Dodgers had Hall of Famers but his team had gamers. The theme wasn’t much different from pep talks he gave his college teams.

“It’s kind of déjà vu,” said Cory Mee, who played for Murphy at Notre Dame from 1989-92. “I’ve heard this before.”

Murphy won exactly 1,000 games during a college coaching career that included stops at Maryville (Tennessee) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (California) before longer stints at Notre Dame (1988-94) and Arizona State (1995-2009). He now is on baseball’s biggest stage as the Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series starting Friday.

He may have tempered his approach since making a cold call to then-Notre Dame athletic director Gene Corrigan and talking his way into the Fighting Irish coaching job at the age of 28.

But his knack for getting players to believe remains as strong as ever.

“Watching him with these Brewers, it struck me that he’s got a formula,” said Mike Moshier, who played for Notre Dame from 1986-89. “His algorithm is the same now as it was 40 years ago.”

That formula includes playing strong fundamentals, creating belief, outworking opponents, keeping everything fun and preparing for any obstacle.

“He does a really good job of explaining the expectation of how we’re going to respond, what toughness and discipline look like, to be able to respond to tough moments,” said Brett Wallace, who played for Murphy at Arizona State and again in the minor leagues and with the San Diego Padres.

The legend of the mud chart

There’s perhaps no greater example than the “mud chart” Murphy designed to help Notre Dame’s 1989 team earn an elusive NCAA Tournament berth.

Notre Dame was in a double-elimination Midwestern Collegiate Conference tournament seeking the league’s automatic NCAA bid. The Irish fell 16-15 to Detroit and dropped into the losers’ bracket, so their season would end unless they won five straight games.

Constant rain delays meant the last four of those games would take place in a span of 22 hours. One began at 1:30 a.m. and ended after 4 a.m.

Murphy designed a chart including a square for each of the 45 innings separating Notre Dame from its goal. Murphy figured the Irish needed to win or tie just about every inning. Whenever Notre Dame did that, he’d put a mud smudge in the corresponding square.

“It was posted in the dugout,” Mee said. “Every inning, he just stuck his hand in the dirt, put some water on it and put a thumbprint on it.”

Notre Dame won those five games to earn its first NCAA bid since 1970. Murphy went 318-116-1 at Notre Dame, which had been .500 or below each of the five years before his arrival.

“People would ask me after I was done playing baseball, who was the best manager I’d ever played for, expecting someone in the big leagues,” said Dan Peltier, a Notre Dame outfielder from 1987-89 who played three seasons in the majors. “I’d say right away it was Pat Murphy. I knew his style of managing would translate well into the big leagues as long as he had the right group of guys.”

Demanding his players' best efforts

Murphy is now a two-time NL manager of the year with a reputation for getting the best out of his players. This season, he has removed both three-time All-Star William Contreras and rookie Cooper Pratt from games because he didn’t believe they sufficiently hustled.

He took that to another level during his college years.

Former Notre Dame outfielder Mike Rotkis recalled a 28-10 loss at Western Michigan in Murphy’s debut season. When the Irish returned to campus, Murphy had them do sprints.

“It was like the scene in ‘Miracle,’“ Rotkis said, referring to the Kurt Russell movie about the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team. “I can’t go anymore, you’re trying to run as fast as you can and you’re barely walking, you can barely lift your leg. He’s like, ‘All right, that was an embarrassment. Don’t let it happen again,’ and walked out.”

Murphy made practices so intense that games didn’t seem as tough.

“He didn’t accept anything but the best from you,” former Notre Dame pitcher Chris Michalak said. “It wasn’t easy, but games were easy after practice. The games became fun.”

Earlier this postseason, Murphy noted a motivational ploy he attempted involving Craig Counsell, who played for Notre Dame from 1989-92 and later became Murphy’s boss as manager in Milwaukee.

Murphy believed Counsell was too shy and needed to emerge as a leader, so he told the infielder to shout “Mine!” while taking ground balls during workouts.

“There would be this shortstop out there yelling ‘Mine!’ for every ground ball, and people would be like, ‘What the hell was that?'" Murphy said. “But I was trying to bring it out of him, and he wanted to kill me.

“That was a mistake. He did just fine without yelling ‘Mine!' for ground balls.”

Murphy also pulled occasional pranks. Moshier remembers when the team stopped at a fast-food restaurant on a road trip and Murphy yelled for everyone to get back to the bus.

“The minute everyone got out of the restaurant, he sneaked in to get his order first,” Moshier said. “That’s classic Murph."

Murphy eventually left for Arizona State and went 629-284-1 with four College World Series appearances, including a runner-up finish in 1998.

His Arizona State tenure ended bitterly when he resigned amid an NCAA investigation. He entered the pro ranks and managed in San Diego’s farm system before going 42-54 as the Padres’ interim manager in 2015 following Bud Black’s dismissal.

When the Padres opted against keeping him beyond that season, Murphy became a bench coach for Counsell, Milwaukee’s manager at the time. Murphy got promoted when Counsell left for the Chicago Cubs after the 2023 season.

After working alongside Murphy for so long and now competing with him, Counsell understands why his college coach's approach has worked so well in the big leagues.

“It’s authentic," Counsell said last month before a Cubs-Brewers game. "That’s the No. 1 thing. It’s just who he is. That’s his authentic style. That’s how he’s coached. You’ve got to be yourself, and that’s what he’s doing.”

Carrying college lessons to their work lives

Many of Murphy’s former college players keep in touch with him. They notice how he has matured. Murphy turns 68 next month, and he survived a heart attack in 2020.

His style remains similar, but he’s smoothed his edges.

“He was terrifying (at Notre Dame) because he was unpredictable,” Moshier said. “You’d either get the funny, comic, sarcastic Murph, which was great. Or you’d get this really serious, really demanding, critical Murph. And you never knew which you were going to get, so he always kept you a little bit on edge.

“But I’ve seen him change over the years. Just interacting with him the last 10 years, I think his ego has been sort of softened a bit. He’s a bit more grateful for the opportunities that he’s had.”

Wallace has a unique perspective after playing for him in college, in Triple-A and again with the Padres.

“The way you lead a group of 16- to 21-year-olds is different from the way you lead a group of minor leaguers and a group of big leaguers,” Wallace said. “He learned along the way how to be authentic, how to be himself and how to communicate with a group of people. The biggest thing about Murphy is he’s genuine and really authentically himself.”

Wallace now works with college players as California’s hitting coach. Mee is an assistant coach at Mount St. Mary’s and Michalak is a longtime coach in the minors. All carry Murphy’s lessons into their own coaching.

Moshier has established a leadership development company and says his years with Murphy help him in the workplace as far as valuing candor and knowing when to have tough conversations.

They’re watching their former coach with pride.

“He’s the most complex, interesting, talented guy I know — super complex guy,” Moshier said. “But you’d want to go to war with him.”

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In an interview with GQ magazine about grief and family, recorded in New York in late September and published on Tuesday, Harry was asked if he grieves his “complicated” relationship with his father and brother.

“Yes, of course,” he replied, adding that people often ask him about it because it's a “massively relatable issue for so many people.”

“Some people don’t want it to work out – I want it to work out," he said. “Of course I do ... with everything else that’s going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile — that’s the key point.”

Harry, his wife Meghan and their two children moved back to the U.K. in late August, six years after their decision to leave their roles as working royals and move to California widened a gulf in the royal family.

The couple's criticism in interviews included accusing an unspecified royal of racism and calling palace staff insensitive to Meghan’s mental health.

But Harry, who is fifth in the line to the throne, said last year he would like to reconcile with his family and spend more time with his father, who is being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer.

Asked if he thought he could repair the family rift, Harry told GQ: “Look, scars stick around forever," but letting go of the past is "something that I would encourage everybody to do.”

“For me, there’s enough drama in the world and enough drama in people’s lives than to continue with issues with family,” he added.

A spokesperson later said his “some people” comment was “absolutely not intended as a swipe at his brother or any other member of his family.”

Rwanda President Paul Kagame last week announced the 10-year deal for an African Grand Prix from the early 2030s, a milestone he said could serve as a catalyst for sports across Africa.

Besides South Africa, which has hosted World Cups in soccer, rugby and cricket — and the last F1 race on African soil in 1993 — the continent historically has been overlooked as a global sports destination.

That’s starting to change.

Rwanda last year hosted the road cycling world championships. In less than two weeks, Senegal will host the Youth Olympic Games — the first ever Olympic event in Africa. And in 2030 Morocco will co-host the men’s World Cup with Spain and Portugal.

“There are some really interesting things beginning to happen in African sport now,” said Simon Chadwick, a business management director at the African School of Economics. “Investors are showing an interest; governments are showing an interest. And what’s significant as well, I think, is that we’re actually beginning to get competition between African nations to be leaders.”

Tapping into the African market

Rwanda saw off competition from South Africa to land the F1 prize. Morocco and Nigeria were also reportedly interested.

The Grand Prix announcement made clear that F1 views Africa, with its population of more than 1.5 billion people, as an untapped market. F1 President Stefano Domenicali said there were more than 100 million F1 fans on the continent, “people who have waited a long time to see our sport return.”

Kagame said it was high time to integrate African markets with global sports franchises and competitions.

“For decades African athletes have been a pillar of the global sports economy, adding significant commercial value to top leagues, with the continent receiving almost nothing in return,” he said. “Partnerships like the one we are building help break the cycle because they serve as a catalyst for sports infrastructure development.”

Abi Ijasanmi, the CEO of African Sports Investor, called the F1 announcement “really significant” for Africa because it connects the continent to global sports and “combines things like sport and technology and tourism and investment. And the continent really needs the boost in all of those things.”

African countries considering bids to host major sporting events have been faced with one overriding criticism: That spending millions or even billions of dollars on a sports event is unwise considering the continent of mainly middle- and low-income nations has pressing concerns like a lack of housing, frail healthcare systems and widespread poverty.

Rwanda’s policy of committing money to sports to burnish its reputation comes right from the top, but it’s largely an outlier, and the majority of African nations may never have the money to host a big-time sports event. Even the government in South Africa, the biggest economy in Africa, has not made the financial guarantees to host an F1 race again, and has been mulling over the cost of a possible Olympics bid for nearly 20 years.

Learning from each other

U.S. professional sports have also started taking a greater interest in Africa. The NFL has opened an American football developmental camp in Ghana and the NBA in 2021 launched the Basketball Africa League together with FIBA, the international basketball federation. Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, has hosted five of the six finals so far.

The basketball league "made other countries sit up and appreciate what’s possible,” Ijasanmi said.

Similarly, other countries have been inspired by Morocco’s developments in soccer, by far the most popular sport in Africa, said Ijasanmi, who previously worked as chief operational officer of the Confederation of African Football.

Morocco hopes to host the 2030 World Cup final in a 115,000-capacity stadium under construction near Casablanca and has been lauded for its player development through its Mohamed VI Academy, an advanced training complex.

“It was really interesting and very positive to hear other presidents and federations sit talking about how they were going to be the next ones to do that,” Ijasanmi said. “So, it can be short-lived, but I think the more that it happens, the more it makes others look and say, ‘OK, well, this is really possible and look what it’s doing for the economy.'”

F1 announcement brings renewed human rights concerns

The F1 news wasn’t universally welcomed.

Human rights activists said it distracted from the rights abuses of Rwandan authorities.

Kagame has been accused of repressive methods to keep his grip on power, with opponents dying in prisons, independent media muzzled, and other abuses.

Amnesty International called the deal “a sportswashing prize” allowing Rwanda “to polish its image and deflect from its appalling human rights record.”

Neighboring Congo joined the criticism. Rwanda is accused by Congo, the United States and U.N. experts of backing the M23 rebels fighting in Congo.

Kagame denies the accusations of human rights abuses.

He has faced sportswashing criticism before because of Rwanda’s sponsorships of popular soccer teams like Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Atlético Madrid, as well as the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA.

Infrastructure remains a challenge for sports in Africa

Corruption and delivery of infrastructure are potential stumbling blocks for African sports projects.

Rwanda has not yet built the F1 circuit in Bugesera, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Kigali, and will be keen to avoid the infrastructure setbacks that have plagued many other sports events, including the Africa Cup of Nations, the continental soccer championship.

Every men’s Africa Cup since 2013 has been moved because of construction delays, security problems or public health issues in the original host countries. There are concerns the next edition in 2027 could be moved from co-hosts Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda due to infrastructure projects reportedly lagging behind.

“The instability in the global markets is kind of forcing some of those countries, they’re not able to advance or proceed as fast as they want,” said Maher Mezahi, a journalist and contributing editor at Africa Is a Country.

Morocco hosted the last men's Africa Cup and the last three editions of the women’s tournament. It has invested heavily in sports infrastructure and often hosts “home” games for other African nations whose stadiums don’t meet the same standards.

Egypt also hosts international matches for other African countries. It recently built a stadium with more than 90,000 seats as part of a sports complex known as Egypt International Olympic City east of Cairo.

However, pointing to Morocco, Mezahi said grassroots initiatives, rather than showcase stadiums, can be a more significant factor in developing sports in Africa.

“The reason why they’ve had success producing talent instead of just hosting events is because they built thousands of what they call ‘proximity pitches’ … artificial turf, small pitch, five-a-side, and it’s really open to the public. It’s really just take your ball and go and play,” Mezahi told The AP from Algiers.

An acid test for sports in Africa

It is too early to tell whether Rwanda’s F1 race will be a game changer for sports in Africa, but it was met with optimism far beyond Kigali.

South Africa Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie pointed to Rwanda as an inspiration and said there’s room for more than one grand prix on the continent, noting that a single European country like Italy has two.

All eyes are now on Rwanda to see how it follows up with the racetrack construction and other infrastructure needed to make the African Grand Prix a lasting success.

“In some ways the F1 grand prix is almost like an acid test,” Chadwick said. “Does Rwanda have what it takes? Or is it going to fall foul of what has beset African sport before?

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Executives at Anthropic and OpenAI have long argued the technology's arrival will bring many benefits for everyday people, and they've promised that will include a share of the profits. The companies are outlining a range of proposals for distributing AI fortunes, but so far they have not resolved key questions over how they would work, how transparent they will be, and who will determine beneficiaries.

On Sunday, Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity within the company, pending approval from stockholders. The stake could increase “as the company grows” in the future. The maker of AI assistant Claude said the fund “might explore” larger donations to traditional nonprofits or potentially distribute money to “specific populations.”

The San Francisco-based company shared little information about the types of organizations supported by the fund and the issues they will address. One area it will not support, Anthropic said, is lobbying and political giving.

Phil Buchanan, the president of The Center for Effective Philanthropy, said he welcomed Anthropic’s commitment — especially at a time when he said some billionaires are “diminishing the importance of philanthropy.” But he cautioned that Anthropic should avoid the “arrogance” of previous technology barons who assumed their professional expertise would translate to philanthropic wisdom.

Buchanan recommended the fund support highly effective, existing nonprofits but said it is “hard to talk about any of this because it’s all so abstract.”

“I guess I’m hopeful,” Buchanan said, “but I’m not going to get too excited until I see some evidence of what’s actually happening.”

Anthropic's pledge hinges on Wall Street plans

Anthropic, which was valued at close to $1 trillion earlier this year, is preparing for an initial public offering as soon as next month that is shaping up as one of the biggest ever.

Once a company is public, donations might be made through the selling of future shares, or potentially turning to cash dividends in the future, explained Jay R. Ritter, director of The IPO Initiative at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. The specifics on how charitable donations will be made through Anthropic’s fund are not clear yet.

Regardless, Ritter said the announcement now is helpful for potential investors to “know what they’re buying.”

Anthropic has already committed $200 million to study the economic effects of AI more broadly. Combined with Sunday’s announcement, Anthropic said roughly 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the “public good,” plus any additional percentage that could be added if the company’s valuation reaches certain milestones.

In announcing the benefit fund, Anthropic offered labor market impacts as one example of its philanthropic focus.

“AI may generate enormous economic value, but it could also cause instability for many workers,” Anthropic said in a blog post Sunday. It added the fund will have the “versatility” to pursue “bolder approaches” that might be necessary to offset that. The company said it would share more details about the fund's structure and governance in the coming months.

In a May interview with The Associated Press, Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said she expected the company’s success would generally lead to more philanthropic support for disease research and “ensuring that everyone around the world gets to share in the prosperity that we hope AI creates.”

The companies' pledges have met with skepticism from some critics.

“Anthropic is playing games here,” Gary Marcus, a longtime AI expert and professor emeritus at New York University, wrote on social media Sunday. “Trying to curry public favor while still holding control and resisting disclosure is annoying.”

AI companies are pursuing a range of pathways for charitable distributions

Anthropic and OpenAI are each structured as a public benefit corporation, a designation that requires the companies to pursue not just profit but a social good.

OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, promised to build out its grantmaking capacity earlier this year with a $1 billion commitment.

Separately, OpenAI in April proposed the creation of a “Public Wealth Fund” with a stake in “AI-driven economic growth” across companies more broadly. That fund could be invested in a handful of assets, OpenAI noted, with returns distributed directly to people regardless of whether or not they’re invested in financial markets. OpenAI is planning its own initial public offering next year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also has spoken to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about sharing equity in AI companies with the public.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has tended to eschew traditional philanthropy, pledged as recently as Monday to donate some shares of his own company.

During the personal computer boom, the likes of Michael Dell and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates started private foundations to manage their philanthropy. Today, Silicon Valley’s leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have turned instead to limited-liability companies, the option that Anthropic is pursuing for its public benefit fund.

The structure offers more control for its owners, experts say. An LLC is not bound by the same spending rules as a foundation, which is required to distribute at least 5% of the value of its endowment.

“They have a lot more flexibility and latitude in how to use the resources they put into the fund,” said Katherina Rosqueta, the founding executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy.

Brian Mittendorf, the chair in accounting at Ohio State University, said LLCs allow for activity outside “traditional philanthropy,” such as payouts to individuals that would not be possible through a 501(c)3 charity. But if they are not making traditional charitable gifts, that puts the companies in a “gray area” by raising the question of how the public is benefiting, he said.

LLC owners don’t reap the same tax benefits, either, according to Rosqueta and Mittendorf. Anthropic's pledge doesn't immediately trigger a tax write-off, and the company can only claim a deduction once the donated shares are moved to a public charity. There's also less transparency required of LLCs.

Overall, Anthropic's announcement amounts to a commitment to “yet-to-be-specified wider goals,” Mittendorf said. The move “reflects more of an intention to do things in the future rather than an act now,” Mittendorf said.

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AP Philanthropy editor Glenn Gamboa contributed from Cleveland and Grantham-Philips contributed from Chicago.

The health ministry said there was still no evidence of transmission beyond known contacts of the first patient.

Authorities have also identified 135 contacts linked to the nine patients, with 134 now in quarantine. The ministry said the list would continue to grow as more people who had come into contact with any of the nine patients were identified.

Kenya announced its first Ebola case on Oct. 6, involving a man who traveled from Congo via Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on Oct. 3. A relative drove him to a hospital, where he tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 5. He died the same day.

Four of his relatives and four health care workers have since tested positive.

Ebola is highly contagious and spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, including blood and vomit, or through contact with contaminated materials and surfaces, such as bedding and clothing. Congo is experiencing its deadliest outbreak, with at least 4,000 deaths since May.

Kenya’s Ministry of Health said Tuesday that the first group of contacts was expected to complete the 21-day quarantine period on Oct. 25. Those who had not developed symptoms would be allowed to return home.

The ministry appealed to communities to welcome them back, saying they “pose no risk of infection”.

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The 737 Max 10’s certification represents another milestone in Boeing’s efforts to restore its reputation and financial footing after years of safety, quality and production challenges. With production approved, the aircraft can now be sold to domestic and foreign carriers.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the certification followed “extensive safety reviews,” including thousands of hours of test flights, and called it a major win for American manufacturing.

“To think that it took us almost 10 years to get here. We all probably had a little less gray hair 10 years ago," Duffy said during a visit to Boeing's manufacturing plant Tuesday in Everett, Washington.

The Max 10 is an important piece of the company's effort to regain ground in the narrow-body market. For airlines, the larger plane offers a way to carry more passengers on a single flight, potentially lowering costs per seat. For travelers, it could eventually mean more seats on popular routes, though the impact on fares will depend on how airlines deploy the planes and how much competition they face.

Stephanie Pope, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said during Duffy's visit that the certification "clears the path to deliver an airplane that will set a new standard in commercial aviation." The Max 10 will typically seat 185-210 passengers, according to Boeing, compared with 175-195 on the Max 9 and 160-180 on the Max 8.

“Today is a very, very special day. It caps years of hard work and dedication by many," Pope said. "It marks another major milestone in our recovery, and it unlocks a key to our future growth.”

The company expects to begin deliveries in 2027.

The single-aisle jet was introduced at the Paris air show in 2017 to help Boeing compete with rival Airbus. But technical and regulatory hurdles repeatedly delayed certification.

Boeing’s struggles have been particularly acute since two deadly crashes involving the smaller Max 8 killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019 off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia. In 2024, a panel flew off of an Alaska Airlines Max 9 in midair, renewing scrutiny of Boeing’s manufacturing and safety practices.

The delays have held up a key part of Boeing's business. More than 30 customers worldwide have ordered 1,555 Max 10s that Boeing has yet to deliver, accounting for more than 30% of its total 737 Max backlog.

Major customers include United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Ryanair. Alaska Airlines joined that list in January, ordering 105 Max 10s, with options for 35 more.

The Max 10 is intended to compete with Airbus’s A321neo model family, which entered service in 2017. The largest A321neo can carry more passengers and fly farther without refueling than the Max 10.

Still, Boeing designed the Max 10 to carry more passengers while burning less fuel than older aircraft — a potentially attractive combination for airlines facing soaring jet fuel costs amid the U.S. war with Iran. Those rising costs have put added pressure on airlines to control expenses.

Certification means the FAA has determined that the Max 10’s design meets safety standards, following engineering reviews and flight testing. But Boeing must continue to show it can consistently build the aircraft to the approved design, and each plane must be cleared before it can fly passengers.

The Max 10’s certification completes the lineup of four 737 Max models. The FAA cleared the Max 7 for airline operations in August.

Pope on Tuesday described the certification of both the Max 7 and Max 10 in the same year as a sign of the company’s resilience.

In the wake of the fatal Max 8 crashes, the FAA overhauled how it certifies Boeing aircraft. But over the past 18 months, the agency has gradually eased some of its restrictions on the company, increasing the limit on how many planes Boeing can produce. In July, the FAA also said Boeing could once again issue airworthiness certificates for its 737 Max and 787 planes at the end of production, allowing the company to take back some responsibility for determining whether finished aircraft are ready to fly.

“I’m back at square one where I don’t know what’s going on with me,” the actor said on the latest edition of her podcast “MeSsy,” along with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who has been public about her own battle with MS.

Applegate first publicly announced in 2021 that she had been diagnosed with the disorder that causes the immune system to attack the cells in the central nervous system.

On Monday's podcast, Applegate revealed that despite the misdiagnosis, she still has “every symptom of someone with MS,” adding, “I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s office. I can’t walk from the car to the room.”

There is no single test for MS, and a diagnosis usually involves ruling out other causes. It can take years and seeing multiple doctors before one puts the clues together.

Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, a neurologist who specializes in multiple sclerosis and autoimmune neurological disorders at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said the most reputable studies put the MS misdiagnosis rate at 10%.

“We rely on the clinical symptoms, the history, the MRI, often spinal fluid, and then a series of tests to rule out potential mimics. And unfortunately, those tests are not universally codified,” he said.

Greenberg said Applegate’s experience has lessons for both medical providers and patients. For doctors, it’s a reminder to ensure a single diagnosis doesn’t lead to a system-wide bias toward that conclusion.

“If I put ‘multiple sclerosis’ as a diagnosis on an MRI, a radiologist is far less likely to say, ‘Well, this isn’t multiple sclerosis. You really should consider something else.' It can permeate the system,” he said.

“For patients and families, my general recommendation is whenever receiving a significant serious or chronic diagnosis, if feasible, there is never a harm in getting second opinions.”

Applegate said the news had put her in an odd place since she and Sigler have become prominent advocates for people with MS.

"It’s weird because I feel like I let everybody down,” she said. “It’s very unnerving, and it’s really confusing for me.”

Most autoimmune diseases, especially in adults, aren’t caused by a specific gene defect. Instead, a variety of genes that affect immune functions can make people susceptible. Scientists say it then takes an “environmental” trigger, such as an infection, smoking or pollutants, to set the disease in motion.

On the podcast and earlier this year while promoting her memoir, "You with the Sad Eyes,” the Emmy-winning Applegate has been candid about unpredictable symptoms that have forced her to use diapers and scoot down stairs on her butt.

“My life has in some ways shrunk to the size of my California king,” she writes in her book.

Solórzano Foppa murió la mañana del sábado de varios impactos de bala al ser atacado cuando estaba en un campo de futbol en la capital guatemalteca.

El abogado usaba sus redes sociales para hacer análisis personales sobre la corrupción, las pandillas y el narcotráfico y había señalado que instituciones y funcionarios podrían estar involucrados en esos delitos.

Con su madre Silvia Solórzano al frente, que llevaba claveles rojos en sus manos, el cuerpo del abogado fue llevado en un carro de bomberos, pues también era bombero, desde una funeraria local hasta la Plaza de la Constitución, frente al Palacio Nacional, para rendirle un homenaje.

Una ceremonia maya con flores, incienso, fuego y velas dio pie a que cientos de personas que acompañaron el cortejo fúnebre pidieran que se haga justicia y se esclarezca el crimen.

“Foppa no está muerto, él vive. Justicia”, gritaban las personas.

El presidente Bernardo Arévalo condenó el crimen y pidió a las autoridades de justicia una pronta investigación para dar con los responsables.

Por el crimen fueron detenidos dos hombres indígenas hermanos en una zona diferente a donde ocurrió el hecho. Éstos se identificaron como repartidores de comida y la policía dijo que les incautó un arma. Un día después la fiscalía pidió a un juez dejarlos en libertad porque no había evidencias para acusarlos. El presidente ordenó también investigar el procedimiento de la policía.

The Senate Majority PAC, aligned with Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, will spend $1.2 million on a new television advertisement to boost Scott Colom, a district attorney, in his campaign against Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. The ad, first disclosed to The Associated Press, is set to start Wednesday and run through Election Day.

“Senate Majority PAC has been watching this race closely, and it is clear Colom is running a competitive race that has put Hyde-Smith on her heels,” group spokesperson Lauren French said in a statement.

With just two weeks to go in the race, it's unclear what impact the ad will have in a matchup that's been set since Colom won a March primary. Still, it's a substantial investment in a race that's seen only about $8 million in total spending, with Colom outspending Hyde-Smith nearly $4.6 million to $3.2 million, according to AdImpact.

Jake Monssen, campaign manager for Hyde-Smith, noted that the spending was coming late in the race.

“Team Cindy is confident that voters will reject this radical agenda at the ballot box on November 3rd,” he said.

Democrats believe Hyde-Smith is vulnerable

Hyde-Smith, first appointed and then elected in 2018, is running for reelection in a state Republicans have long dominated. In the 2024 presidential race, Republican Donald Trump won Mississippi by nearly 23 percentage points over Democrat Kamala Harris, and a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate race in the state since 1982.

However, some Democrats believe Hyde-Smith is vulnerable, and she underperformed Trump by 6 percentage points in 2020, the year he lost his White House reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden.

The television ad touts Colom's time as district attorney, while labeling Hyde-Smith a “do-nothing” senator.

“A decade in power, Hyde-Smith hasn’t passed one piece of legislation, but she did vote to kick people off Medicaid,” a narrator says in the ad, which will run on television stations statewide alongside a digital campaign.

Harris and other high-profile Democrats have raced to campaign with Colom

Colom's campaign manager, Gerard Henderson, said that the contest against an incumbent senator is competitive because “thousands of Mississippians volunteered and chipped in.”

“We clearly have the resources and momentum to win,” Henderson said in a statement.

Colom has raised Democratic hopes in a year when electoral winds are at their backs. Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock was the latest high-profile Democrat to campaign with Colom last week, and Harris, who was Biden's vice president, is set to rally with Colom on Thursday.

Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and were expected to face a friendlier map this year with fewer seats to defend. But high costs and gas prices amid an unpopular war in Iran under a Republican president have made Democrats optimistic, with the Senate Majority PAC spending its final weeks investing in conservative territory. It's already announced spending in Kansas, where megachurch pastor and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.

Colom would be his state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the U.S. Civil War when the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were adopted.

Some Democrats have criticized national groups for not spending more in Southern states like Mississippi.

“I worry, to be very honest, that Democrats are missing a real opportunity to invest in a serious and sustained way in the South,” Warnock said Sunday on NBC’s ”Meet the Press."

The Gamecocks received 23 first-place votes from a 31-member national media panel Tuesday. UConn, Southern California, Duke and Michigan round out the top five.

It is the fifth time in the past seven years that Staley's team has been ranked No. 1 in the preseason.

“It's a gift and curse,” Staley said. “I tend to not look at the number, but our players do. They look at it and feel like there’s a sense of respect to being No. 1. They also know that it’s pressure-packed. With the type of nonconference schedule we have, we’re going to be challenged. If we stand there at No. 1 at the end of our nonconference season that’s something to be truly to be proud of.”

South Carolina will face five ranked teams in the first month of the season, including UConn, USC and Duke.

“It’s a doozy of a schedule, something we have to do for us to actually keep having the roster we have,” Staley said. “Some of them are NIL games, some of them are games we just got to play because they are super competitive and we want to test ourselves.”

UConn, which lost to South Carolina in the Final Four last season, garnered six first-place votes and has been ranked in the top 10 of every preseason poll since 1994.

This is the third consecutive year that South Carolina and UConn have been 1-2 in the preseason poll, though the Huskies were on top a year ago. The two play each other on Nov. 24 in Uncasville, Connecticut.

USC picked up the other two first-place ballots. Expectations are high for the Trojans, who have a healthy JuJu Watkins back after she missed last season while recovering from a torn ACL suffered in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The No. 3 ranking matches the one they had two years ago.

Duke has its highest ranking in the preseason poll since 2013 when the Blue Devils were second. Michigan has its best ranking ever in the preseason Top 25. The Wolverines were ranked in the top 10 for the final 18 weeks of the poll last season.

“They came to Michigan to do things that have never been done before,” Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said of her stellar junior class led by Olivia Olson and Syla Swords. “We're in the position we're in because they came here and made a difference.”

The first regular-season poll will be released Nov. 9.

The rest of the rankings

Texas, Louisville, Vanderbilt, LSU and Iowa round out the top 10. Defending national champion UCLA is next with North Carolina, Notre Dame, Kentucky and TCU following the Bruins.

Washington, Minnesota, Ohio State, Ole Miss and Maryland are 16-20 while the final five in the Top 25 were Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Illinois, West Virginia and N.C. State.

It is the first preseason ranking for No. 17 Minnesota since 2019. Coach Dawn Plitzuweit’s team is coming off its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2018 and first Sweet 16 appearance since 2005, but lost leading scorer Tori McKinney for the season with a knee injury suffered last week in practice.

Conference supremacy

The Big Ten has nine teams in the Top 25, the most ever for one conference in the preseason poll. The Southeastern Conference has seven, including four in the top 10. The Atlantic Coast Conference has five and the Big 12 three. The Big East has one.

“When I left the Big East we had eight or nine teams in the Top 25 as well and it was the best league in the country. I couldn't imagine I'd go to a place that would be even greater,” said Barnes Arico, who is in her 15th year at Michigan. “With expansion this conference got better and better. The knock has been that the Big Ten hasn't won a championship, but UCLA did that last year and now we have some of the best players in the country returning this year.”

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An initial call was made to authorities regarding a suspicious white power found in an envelope.

Wasserman Schultz’s office is located in Sunrise, east of the Sawgrass Expressway and south of Sunrise Boulevard.

According to Sunrise police, the envelope was safely secured and remains unopened, but the contents of the envelope are unknown.

There has been no word on whether the Democratic congresswoman was at her office on Monday.

The congresswoman did post about the incident on X, thanking Sunrise PD for responding quickly and ensuring the safety of her staff.

Today, like other Members, my district office received a suspicious letter. I’m thankful Sunrise Police and first responders acted swiftly to ensure my staff’s safety. Cowardly acts of intimidation like this will not work. They have no place in our politics and must be condemned. pic.twitter.com/w7cedz9VMw

— Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@RepDWStweets) October 19, 2026

This is not the first time her office has faced a potential threat.

Wasserman Schultz dealt with a mail-related alarm eight years ago when a suspicious package arrived at the same district headquarters site.

That incident prompted an evacuation and a response from the Sunrise PD Bomb Squad.

Wasserman Schultz also posted a full statement Monday, which can be read below:

“Today, like many other Members of Congress, my district office received a suspicious letter that was clearly designed to intimidate me and my staff. It will not work. Thankfully, Sunrise Police, local first responders, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Service acted swiftly to ensure the safety of my staff and the other public servants who work in the same building. While initial tests were negative for any hazardous material, law enforcement will do further analysis as they continue their larger investigation. 

“Sadly, this is not the first time my office has received threatening mail. Right before the 2018 election, improvised explosive devices were sent to prominent Democrats, media, and my office with the same terrorizing goal in mind. Such cowardly acts of coercion will not work and have absolutely no place in our politics. My hope is that all sides will condemn these weak, desperate attempts to bully their opponents. And to be clear, they will not deter me from fully representing my Broward County constituents.”

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Federal investigators are looking into several similar incidents of suspicious letters arriving at congressional offices in recent days, that all contained a white powdery substance.

On Friday, investigators in Central Florida raced to Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost’s office after a suspicious item was delivered there, and a second emergency call in the same area prompted a similar alarm at Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto’s office.

Officials in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Ohio are also trying to narrow down the source of the concerning mail sent to the offices of elected leaders.

Protesters blocked the loading and unloading of fresh food and other goods at supermarket distribution warehouses near Naples on Monday, Sky TG24 reported. The truckers are adding their voices to demonstrations that have spread across Europe as the war disrupts economies.

One supermarket in the city posted a note on empty shelves apologizing that “some products may be temporarily unavailable or available in a reduced range" due to the truckers' strike.

Shortages of fresh pasta, packaged cheeses and meats as well as produce have been reported in Sicily, partly due to stockpiling by shoppers. Partially empty supermarket shelves were also reported in the southern regions of Calabria and Puglia.

Transport Minister Matteo Salvini met Tuesday with national trucking associations to help the truckers cope, promising tax credits to offset soaring diesel prices and funds to modernize trucking fees.

Diesel prices are roughly a third higher than before the Iran war, despite government-backed efforts to curb pump prices. A temporary diesel tax discount expired earlier this month.

The president of the Unatras group of trucking associations, Paolo Uggè, said Salvini promised that payments would begin Wednesday and pledged legislation to address operating costs, the news agency LaPresse reported. Another meeting was set for next week.

During the peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning, it will be possible to see up to 20 meteors per hour in ideal viewing conditions, according to the American Meteor Society. Meteors are still visible for a few weeks before and after the peak.

The Orionids are viewable in the northern and southern hemispheres after midnight. While they get their name from the Orion constellation, they are visible across the night sky, according to NASA.

Orionids can be especially bright and fast, and can leave glowing trains that can last for several seconds. Here’s what to know about the Orionids and other meteor showers.

What is a meteor shower?

As the Earth orbits the sun, several times a year it passes through debris left by passing comets and the occasional asteroid. The source of the Orionids is debris from Halley’s comet, which passes near Earth every 75 years.

When these fast-moving space rocks enter Earth’s atmosphere, the debris encounters new resistance from the air and becomes very hot, eventually burning up.

Sometimes the surrounding air glows briefly, leaving behind a fiery tail — the end of a “shooting star.”

You don’t need special equipment to see the meteor showers that flash across the sky annually, but it will help to find a spot far enough from city lights and other light pollution.

How to view a meteor shower

The best time to watch a meteor shower is typically after midnight, or in the early predawn hours, when there's usually less interference from moonlight.

Competing sources of light — such as a bright moon or artificial glow from lights on the ground — are the main obstacles to a clear view of meteors. Cloudless nights when the moon wanes smallest provide optimal viewing opportunities.

Be patient: It can take several minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark.

When is the next meteor shower?

The next major meteor shower, the Southern Taurids, is expected to peak Nov. 5, when there will be just a crescent moon, making for favorable viewing conditions.

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