Stephon Castle had 21 points and De'Aaron Fox added 16 points for San Antonio, which shot 50% from the field and 41% on 3-pointers. It was the highest-scoring playoff game for the Spurs since a series-clinching 145-105 win over Denver on May 4, 1983.

Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle, Jaden McDaniels and Terrence Shannon Jr. each scored 12 points for Minnesota.

Edwards came off the bench again as Minnesota continued to restrict his minutes in his second game back from a hyperextended left knee.

Games 3 and 4 are Friday and Sunday in Minneapolis.

With Wembanyama playing more aggressively on offense from the outset, the Spurs put the series-opening loss behind them quickly.

Minnesota's previous largest postseason defeat was by 30 points to the Los Angeles Lakers on April 29, 2003.

Only the margin of victory was in doubt Monday as both teams sent their starters to the bench with 10 minutes remaining and the Spurs leading 104-66.

After combining to score 21 points on 10-for-31 shooting in Game 1, Wembanyama and Fox combined to go 12 of 25 from the field Wednesday.

The All-Star duo scored the Spurs' first 11 points as they raced to a 29-point lead in the first half.

The Spurs missed their first three shots, but Wembanyama followed the third attempt by flying through the lane and throwing down a right-handed dunk to open the scoring.

Minnesota was held to 35 points in the first half. The Timberwolves shot 29.8% from the field before halftime and were 2 for 15 on 3-pointers as they fell behind by 25 points.

Spurs rookie Carter Bryant soared for a two-handed slam for his first points of the series and Wembanyama followed with a 3-pointer for a 43-26 lead midway through the second quarter.

Back-to-back slams by Dylan Harper and Castle were part of a 11-0 run that extended the advantage to 59-34.

San Antonio has not lost consecutive games since falling at Minnesota and Oklahoma City in mid-January.

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En un mitin nocturno junto a cientos de sus seguidores, el líder del partido Renovación Popular llamó “loca” a la candidata conservadora Keiko Fujimori, de Fuerza Popular, por permitir que “roben” las elecciones, y “Roberto Carlos” al nacionalista Roberto Sánchez, de Juntos por el Perú, del que dijo que tiene “un millón de amigos imaginarios" que le suman votos falsos en pueblos remotos de Perú.

López Aliaga alega que en Perú hubo “un fraude único en el mundo” en los comicios del 12 y 13 de abril, que habrían perjudicado su candidatura, pero no ha presentado pruebas de ello. Misiones de observadores electorales, incluida la de la Unión Europea y la organización peruana Transparencia, niegan esa posibilidad.

Sánchez y López Aliaga pugnan por su pase al balotaje del 7 de junio para disputar la presidencia con Fujimori, de acuerdo al lento conteo oficial electoral.

Según las autoridades electorales, tras contabilizarse el 98,4% de las actas de votación presidencial, Fujimori lideraba el miércoles el conteo de votos con 17,14%, seguida de Sánchez con 12,04% y López Aliaga con 11,89%.

El Tribunal Electoral condenó el viernes una protesta de simpatizantes de López Aliaga en la puerta de la casa del presidente del Tribunal, Roberto Burneo, en la que lo insultaban y pedían elecciones complementarias. Las autoridades han anunciado que no habrá dichas elecciones, una de las solicitudes de López Aliaga.

Las elecciones del 12 de abril se extendieron un día luego que más de 63.000 boletas electorales no llegaron a 211 mesas de votación en una zona de Lima, mientras que el 99,8% restante de casillas a nivel general sí abrieron. Los afectados de las 211 mesas pudieron sufragar el 13 de abril, según las autoridades.

López Aliaga advirtió que, si el 15 de mayo las autoridades “se atreven a proclamar" a los dos candidatos que disputarán la presidencia en una “segunda vuelta trucha (falsa) y corrupta”, realizará una gran marcha con sus simpatizantes de todo Perú. Antes ha indicado que, en caso de que no se anulen las elecciones, iniciará una "insurgencia".

El aspirante ultraconservador también le advirtió a Fujimori que perderá las elecciones por cuarta vez.

“Usted sabe bien que va a perder las elecciones... es la cuarta vez que va a perder”, manifestó, recordándole que fue derrotada en la segunda vuelta presidencial de los comicios de 2011, 2016 y 2021.

La misión electoral de la Unión Europea ha pedido evitar el uso de lenguaje violento en los comicios peruanos.

Fujimori dijo a periodistas desde la región amazónica de Loreto que está “en contra” de la solicitud de insurgencia de López Aliaga, quien la apoyó durante la segunda vuelta de 2021.

Member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh — who performs as Mo Chara — had been charged with a terror-related offense for displaying a flag of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, (which is banned in Britain as a terrorist organization) during a London concert in 2024. The case was eventually thrown out and the band used the experience of going to court, and the party that ensued in their support, as inspiration for some of the tracks on “Fenian.”

The record's title is also an act of defiance, reclaiming a word that has historically been used as derogatory term directed toward Irish people.

During the band’s various court appearances, fans lined the streets outside court to support the Belfast trio — singing, playing instruments and chanting “Free Mo Chara” — a refrain that's sampled on the band’s new track “Carnival.”

Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí discussed recording “Fenian,” the importance of their live shows and if they think they can get visas to tour the U.S., with The Associated Press recently.

The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

AP: How is this process different from writing your first record?

MO CHARA: We were writing the tracks as Dan Carey (producer) was creating the tracks so like the lyrics and the production was like kind of developing at the same time, same place, which I thought was interesting. It was a very organic feeling. It was the first time we’d ever done it like that.

MÓGLAÍ BAP: Obviously when we were in the studio we had, we were in the Magistrates’ Court during that period, during the seven weeks we had to leave the studio and go to the courts and then also had the Wembley Arena concert so it was quite a busy time.

Usually studio time for bands it’s quite (a lot of) down time but we were kind of going into the chaos of going to court — Mo Chara was obviously — but actually ended up not much of a hindrance. It kind of helped us and we used that in the song “Carnival,” we sampled the crowd outside the court case saying “Free Mo Chara.”

AP: How would you describe your live performances, it feels like a celebration with that kind of energy. Is that important to you?

DJ PRÓVAÍ: Because we have a reputation of being like a band that’s live shows are good, you know people already come with that kind of energy and they have that expectancy so whenever they’re in there they’re up here already. Even when the show’s starting it’s kind of sits here alrdy. (gesturing toward the ceiling)

MO CHARA: It’s almost like the hard work’s all been done before the show so people are coming in and they’re full of energy now. They’re giving us a show as well.

MÓGLAÍ BAP: I think the origins of that is like because we started off doing the music in Irish, a big part of our challenge was to connect with the audience and interact with them in a way that they can enjoy the music without understanding it. Just kind of bringing that energy on stage was a way for the crowd to actually enjoy it because most people don’t know what the (expletive) we’re saying.

AP: Do you think you’d be able to go to America? Is there a plan? Are you trying to get visas?

MO CHARA: See, the thing was we never actually got turned down for a visa, like there was a lot of miscommunications there and I think the media kind of ran with the story that they wanted. We were never turned down.

What happened was we were changing our promoters in America so what happens is you have to reapply for a new working visa and then obviously with the court case going on we didn’t apply for one. So now that the court case is over, I don’t see any reason why we won’t get our visa accepted. Obviously we’ve never been convicted of any crimes in any country in the world.

We just didn’t apply for it because we thought it was probably the wrong time to do it. So I think now with everything being over, there’s no reason why we won’t be back in America soon.

The Russian activist has lived under protection since 2022 because French officials believe Russia is trying to kill him.

In April 2025, a crew of Russian men staked out Osechkin's home and the surrounding area in southwestern France for several hours, taking videos and photos in suspected groundwork for an assassination, according to court documents seen by The Associated Press that are not public. Several years earlier, Osechkin said, a red dot — which he thought was a laser sight for a gun — appeared on his wall.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lithuanian officials disrupted a plot last year to kill a Lithuanian supporter of Ukraine and another against a Russian activist. Officials in Germany have similarly broken up two plots: one to target the head of a German weapons company supplying Ukraine, the other against a Ukrainian military official. Polish authorities arrested a man in 2024 in what they said was a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. And that same year, a Russian helicopter pilot who defected was killed in Spain — with Russian operatives the prime suspects.

While Russian officials have long been accused of silencing the country’s enemies abroad, three Western intelligence officials from different countries told AP that a campaign of targeted killings has ramped up since President Vladimir Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The officials said Russia's security services are now more brazen in their choice of targets, going after Russian activists and foreign supporters of Ukraine, in addition to the usual suspects like military defectors. All three officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

“This campaign is not by accident or chance," said one of them, a senior European intelligence official. "There is political authorization.”

The intelligence officials, a former senior British counterterrorism official and prosecutors in Lithuania see the campaign as connected to Russia's broader efforts to undermine European countries that support Ukraine, including 191 acts of sabotage, arson and other disruption linked to Russia by Western officials that the AP has mapped across Europe since the beginning of the war.

Many accused in that campaign are people who were recruited as cheap proxies for Russian intelligence operatives. Moscow is now using that model to target its perceived enemies abroad, according to the French court documents, officials and information from the Lithuanian prosecutor.

Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told AP he didn't see “any need” to comment. Russian officials have previously denied that Moscow is behind attempts to kill its opponents abroad.

The AP spoke to three of the people targeted: Osechkin; Lithuanian activist Valdas Bartkevičius; and Ruslan Gabbasov, who advocates for independence for the Russian region of Bashkortostan.

A trip to the seaside

Three of the four men detained by French police in the plot to kill Osechkin traveled to the beach resort of Biarritz, where Osechkin lives, in April 2025, court documents show. They surveilled his house “with a view to assassinating him and subsequently intimidating all political opponents of the Russian authorities living in France,” the documents said.

All four were born in Russia's Dagestan region. One has multiple criminal convictions while another said he had been arrested by Russia's domestic security service and fled the country to avoid being sent to Ukraine.

Osechkin founded a rights group for prisoners years ago and runs a project that exposes abuses in Russia's prison system, but he said the threats against him escalated after he began investigating alleged Russian abuses in Ukraine and helping Russian military defectors flee.

He moved to France in 2015 and was put under police protection seven years later when French officials received information that his life was in danger.

“If it weren’t for them, I probably would have been killed,” he said.

Targets say Moscow wins if they hide

Across the continent in Lithuania, Gabbasov, the activist from Bashkortostan, discovered an Apple AirTag tracker hidden on his car in February 2025. Police told him to leave the device and followed the people following him, he said.

A few weeks later, Gabbasov said he was attending celebrations marking Lithuania’s independence from the Soviet Union with his wife and 5-year-old son when officers called and told him not to return home.

The next day, he said officers told him: “Yesterday, a killer was detained near your house; he was waiting for you with a gun. ... He was ready to wait for you all night.”

Lithuanian authorities, he said, offered him the chance to completely “disappear” — change his name, move and stop his work.

He turned them down, saying many people from his mainly Muslim home region near Kazakhstan see him as a leader in the campaign for independence. The region is important to the Kremlin, Gabbasov said, because of its gold reserves and because large numbers of its men have been sent to fight in Ukraine.

“I can’t betray them all by simply disappearing, especially out of fear,” Gabbasov said, adding that would play into Moscow’s hands.

“What difference does it make to them?” Gabbasov asked, referring to Russia’s security services. “They could kill me ... or I could hide from everyone and stop engaging in political activity. That’s exactly what they want.”

A plot to put a bomb in a mailbox

The authorities in Lithuania made the same offer to Bartkevičius, after he said they discovered a plot to kill him with a bomb planted in his mailbox in March 2025.

But disappearing also wasn't an option for the activist who raises money for Ukraine and who gained notoriety for his anti-Russian acts, including urinating on a Russian war memorial.

That, he said, would be “social death."

Lithuanian prosecutors charged 13 people from at least seven countries with involvement in the two plots — among at least 20 people authorities have detained, charged or identified as involved in such plots in Europe over the past year.

The people involved in the Lithuanian cases were directly ordered by Russian military intelligence, prosecutors said, and some had connections to Russian organized crime and could be linked to other arson and espionage plots elsewhere in Europe.

Moscow's switch to relying on such proxies can be traced to a previous attempted assassination, Cmdr. Dominic Murphy told AP before he retired as head of the counterterrorism squad at Britain’s Metropolitan Police.

In 2018, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England — an attack the U.K. government accused Moscow of carrying out with military intelligence officers.

In response, Britain and other Western nations kicked out hundreds of Russian diplomats — and spies — making it harder for Russian officers to operate in Europe, Murphy, a lead investigator, said.

The fact that most of the plots made public by Western officials since 2022 have been foiled could indicate that it’s harder for Moscow to carry them out with proxies, as opposed to its own officers, one of the Western intelligence officials said.

Still, the attempted killings may serve additional purposes, they said, including scaring the Kremlin’s opponents into silence and wasting European law enforcement resources.

Pointing to the case of Maxim Kuzminov — the helicopter pilot who defected and was threatened with death by masked men in military fatigues on Russian state television — the official said it’s clear Russia’s security services can kill someone in Europe if they really want to.

For that reason, the European intelligence official said, targets will never be safe.

“Even if you thwart an operation once, you still need to be ready in case they strike again.”

The redistricting effort in Tennessee is one of several rapidly advancing plans in Southern states as Republicans try to leverage a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act.

The court ruled that Louisiana relied too heavily on race when creating a second Black-majority House district as it attempted to comply with the federal law. The high court's decision altered a decades-old understanding of the law, giving Republicans grounds to try to eliminate majority-Black districts that have elected Democrats.

Louisiana has postponed its congressional primary to give time for state lawmakers to craft a new House map. Legislation awaiting a final vote in Alabama also would upend the state’s congressional primaries if courts allow the state to change its U.S. House districts. In South Carolina, meanwhile, Republican lawmakers urged on by Trump have taken initial steps to add congressional redistricting to their agenda.

The states are the latest to join an already fierce national redistricting battle. Since Trump prodded Texas to redraw its U.S. House districts last year, eight states have adopted new congressional districts. From that, Republicans think they could gain as many as 13 seats while Democrats think they could gain up to 10. But some competitive races mean the parties may not get everything they sought in the November elections.

Tennessee Republicans act despite protests

Protesters in Tennessee repeatedly interrupted legislative hearings Wednesday on the redistricting plans, yet Republicans advanced them for a potential final vote in the full House and Senate.

The package of bills would repeal a state law prohibiting mid-decade redistricting and reopen a candidate qualifying window for new people to enter the primary and existing candidates to switch districts. The proposed House map would break up Tennessee’s lone Democratic-held district, centered on the majority-Black city of Memphis, creating a ripple effect of alterations to districts throughout the western and central parts of the state.

Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton said the proposed districts were drawn based on population and politics, not racial data.

Democrats and civil rights activists denounced the efforts.

The proposal “is Black vote dilution at an industrial scale,” said Sekou Franklin, a political science professor at Middle Tennessee State University who is part of the Tennessee branch of the NAACP.

Democrats noted that the state Supreme Court in April 2022 rejected a challenge to the current congressional map, finding it was too close to the election to make changes. This year, there’s even less time before the Aug. 6 primary, raising the potential of confusion for both candidates and voters, Democrats said.

Alabama presses for changes to primary

The Alabama House passed legislation Wednesday authorizing special congressional primaries as Republicans eye the possibility of getting a different congressional map in place for the November elections. The bill could receive a Senate vote by Friday.

Alabama is seeking to lift a federal court order that created a second House district with a near-majority of Black voters. That map led to the 2024 election of Rep. Shomari Figures, a Black Democrat. Republicans want instead to use a 2023 map drawn by state lawmakers that would give the GOP an opportunity to reclaim Figures’ district.

The legislation won approval on a party-line vote after four hours of fiery debate during which Black legislators recalled the state’s history. Democratic state Rep. Juandalynn Givan likened the legislation to poll taxes and counting jelly beans in a jar — a virtually impossible task that was used to suppress Black voters during the Jim Crow era.

“It is a calculated political maneuver born out of fear, a fear that is of Black people and most importantly Black political power,” Givan said.

Alabama’s primaries are May 19. If a court grants the state’s request, the legislation would ignore the results for congressional seats and direct the governor to schedule a new primary under the revised districts.

South Carolina may add redistricting to its agenda

The South Carolina Senate could take up a resolution Thursday giving lawmakers permission to return later, after their regular work ends, to redraw congressional districts that could eliminate the state’s only Democratic-held district. The proposal, which passed the House on Wednesday, needs a two-thirds vote in both chambers.

Republican House leaders said after the vote that they plan to introduce a new map Thursday and hold committee meetings on Friday. But during debate Wednesday, Republicans fended off specific questions from Democrats, including why they were willing to stop the June 9 U.S. House primary elections well after candidates filed and how much a rescheduled primary could cost.

Democratic Rep. Justin Bamberg said he felt sorry for Republicans who, he said, were giving up their principles to follow the whims of Trump.

“The president of the United States is a very powerful man. Wields a heavy, heavy thumb — Truth Social, X, Meta, Instagram. To be honest I don’t envy our Republican colleagues,” Bamberg said.

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Chandler reported from Montgomery, Alabama; Collins from Columbia, South Carolina; and Lieb from Jefferson City, Missouri. Associated Press reporter Kristin M. Hall contributed.

Two Miami friends say they have a plan to help rebuild it all in half the time -- from an unlikely place inspired by the South Beach nightclub scene.

“It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever worked on in my life,” said Fabio Galarce. “I’ve never done anything with so much momentum.”

The mission is ambitious.

“We are on a mission to save the Gulf oyster and localize oysters in the South Florida and Central Florida markets,” Galarce said.

High-end clubs, hotels and restaurants are all looking for quality oysters, and Galarce, a club promoter, teamed up with former professional baseball player Josh Wilkie to launch Everglades Oysters.

“So, Everglades Oysters is the southernmost tropical farm in the United States,” Galarce said. “We are the biggest off-bottom agriculture farm in the Gulf. And we are on a mission to save the Gulf oyster and localized oysters in the South Florida and Central Florida markets.”

The duo secured a 74-acre tract in the Ten Thousand Islands, where the Everglades meets the Gulf.

“We are the tropical oyster, the warm water oyster story is ours to tell,” Galarce said.

“Here we are growing oysters on the top water column in water that is brackish coming off of the Everglades,” Wilkie said.

Wilkie, a former major league pitcher, grew up around oysters in South Carolina before moving to South Florida as part of the tech industry. But the opportunity to farm oysters brought him back to his roots.

“We have an infinite amount of nutrients coming from the Everglades system, the filtration system, and then the organic matter that flows into here,” Wilkie said. “The water quality here is exceptional. It is of the temperature that the oysters thrive.”

Because of those conditions, the oysters grow six times faster than some northern farms and can grow year-round using a unique process.

“It’s called flip farm equipment,” Wilkie said. “It’s very cutting edge. It allows us to bring all the tumbling and all the processing of an oyster out here and handling out here and using the wave energy and natural energy of the ocean.”

The quality, quantity and local sourcing are already winning over chefs across the region.

“The overwhelming amount of chefs are supportive,” Galarce said. “We’re well on our way to over 100 restaurants that we work with in South Florida. Our goal is to have hundreds by the end of the year.”

Everglades Oysters supplies restaurants including Stubborn Seed on South Beach, but the company’s mission extends far beyond serving seafood.

“Fundamentally, the biggest benefit is keep the shells out of the trash because they don’t incinerate, they weigh a lot, they’re a big burden on the trash system,” Galarce said.

“We give the chefs buckets with lids and they collect the shells as they’re consuming them in the restaurant,” Galarce said. “When our driver comes the following week to do a delivery, they’ll pick up the consumed shells.”

The company collects empty oyster shells from restaurants and transports them to an avocado farm in Homestead, where they are dried in the sun for six months.

Keeping the shells out of landfills is one benefit, but the larger goal is restoring Florida’s oyster reefs.

“The big overarching goal is to save the Gulf oyster,” Galarce said. “Over 90% of the oyster reefs in the wild are functionally extinct.”

The recycled shells can help repopulate coastal oyster beds because oyster larvae are naturally attracted to empty shells.

“That oyster is filtering and sequestering nitrogen, carbon,” Galarce said. “50 gallons of water is being filtered by each oyster each day.”

The company’s early success is fueling plans for rapid expansion.

“This year, we plan on planting more than 2 million oysters,” Galarce said. “So by 2027, there’s gonna be an abundance of oysters from the Everglades in South Florida.”

For Wilkie, the work combines business with environmental impact.

“It’s a perfect mix of everything I love,” he said. “I love being outside. I love the water. We had this really cool mission to not only sell a great product but also do something environmentally impactful and meaningful and giving me a lot of purpose with what I’m doing.”

The founders say the farm’s success should not come as a surprise. Thousands of years ago, the Calusa tribe built its culture and islands around oysters and their shells, relying on the nutrient-rich waters flowing from the Everglades into the Gulf.

“I think it is a blessing in disguise,” Stroh said.

The surprise shutdown of the airline Saturday may have derailed the couple’s careers, but not their spirit.

“We’re gonna come up from this -- just a little stepping stone to get where we need to get,” Strausberg said.

That next step is a new passion project centered around pets.

“We do dog grooming, boarding, doggie daycare,” Stroh said.

The couple now runs Sunnyside Pups, using skills they said they learned while working in the airline industry.

“The compassion, empathy and patience above all and we use it every single day in our business and with the fur babies that we look after, so I’m very grateful for everything I learned from Spirit,” Strausberg said.

“Working at Spirit is kind of like the school of hard knocks in the service industry, so it’s definitely -- we’re polished in that regard,” Stroh added.

“This is plan A,” Stroh said. “A lot of flight attendants -- it’s hard to stay out of the industry. They go from one to the other. I don’t see that in our cards anytime soon.”

Roughly 5,000 other people across the state, most of them in South Florida, are now scrambling to find work.

A job fair planned Thursday at Miami International Airport in Concourse J could help some of those former Spirit employees.

“I wanted to retire here, I loved this job,” said flight attendant Dante Taylor.

But Taylor said he needed the health insurance from his job, which stopped in the middle of his treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma.

“What are we supposed to do?” Taylor said. “When coverage from Marketplace, even though it’s backdated, it’s not effective until June 1. We need coverage now.”

The fallout also includes Spirit’s new $250 million headquarters in Dania Beach.

Broward County’s mayor is now floating the idea of turning the vacant property into a new county administration building.

But no matter what happens with Spirit, the married couple said they are focused on flying high with their new dog grooming business.

“I applied to Delta and I was gonna move forward with the interview, but I decided I want to pursue this instead,” Strausberg said.

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Deputies responded shortly after 2:15 p.m. to the 1300 block of Northwest Third Avenue, according to Carey Codd, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

“On scene, deputies located a teenage male with a gunshot wound to the leg. Paramedics transported him to a nearby hospital for treatment of the injury which is not expected to be life-threatening,” Codd wrote in a statement.

Nearby, Blanche Ely High School, at 1201 NW 6 Ave., was dismissed at 2:40 p.m., according to Nadine Drew, a spokeswoman for Broward County Public Schools.

“The shooting suspect is still being sought,” Codd wrote. “The investigation revealed that the individuals involved in the incident are known to each other.”

Neighbors were left shaken.

“As a mother of a teenage daughter myself, it’s really sad that these type of things happen around here,” said Yvette Hernandez.

“When you have kids and you hear like a gunshot and you live around here, that makes you think like what are you gonna do?” said James Clairontus.

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

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Taylor, a flight attendant, had worked for Spirit Airlines for about seven years when he found out that his health insurance had expired, and he was jobless on Saturday.

“I wanted to retire here. I love this job ... It really felt like somebody stabbed me right here in my chest ... What are we supposed to do when coverage from Marketplace or COBRA ... is not effective until June 1. We need coverage now,” Taylor said.

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Joe Lopez joined Spirit Airlines in 2011. In an instant, he said he lost the seniority and benefits that took him years to build.

Lopez said that after he was laidoff he applied for unemployment benefits, and he has applied for other jobs to stay in the industry.

“I am so grateful that I still have some savings,” Lopez said.

Taylor wished they could have had more time to prepare.

“I want to know why not give us a better heads up,” Taylor said. “Why lead us on to the fact that we thought it was safe to continue working there.”

Rick Beasley, the executive director of CareerSource South Florida, is hoping to change lives on Thursday with a job fair.

“American Airlines has jumped in,” Beasley said, adding that the list of employers also includes Miami Dade College, Atlantis University, and Miami Dade County Public Schools.

It’s from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Miami International Airport’s South Terminal Auditorium’s Concourse J, third level. For more information, call 1-800-385-3920.

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@CareerSourceSFL is hosting a Specialized Job Fair at @iflymia from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. for displaced Spirit Airlines employees.

Additionally, Spirit employees in Florida affected by this layoff may call a dedicated help line at 1-800-385-3920 if they need help… pic.twitter.com/QkADARoOhr

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

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

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

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

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

Helpful link: Spirit Airlines restructuring page

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

Upcoming job fairs

CareerSource South Florida is hosting a job fair for former Spirit Airlines employees from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Miami International Airport’s South Terminal Auditorium’s Concourse J, third level. For more information, call 1-800-385-3920.

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

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

Resources

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

Exclusive video obtained by Local 10 News shows what police say happened inside a Liberty City apartment moments before officers arrived.

The video captures a barrage of gunfire echoing through the apartment unit for several seconds.

About 40 seconds into the recording, someone can be heard screaming. Moments later, a woman runs out of the apartment yelling down the hallway, “He shot them.”

Police identified the suspect as Antwan Carter. Investigators say Carter killed his girlfriend’s brothers, Jahiem and Gianni Pierre.

According to Miami police, surveillance video shows Carter running to a car to retrieve a gun after getting into an argument with the brothers that turned physical.

The sister told police her brothers came to protect her because of a previous domestic violence incident involving Carter.

A GoFundMe page has been created online to help the family with funeral expenses.

Police said video also shows Carter pacing back and forth outside the apartment, banging on the locked door and yelling, “I bet one of you won’t open up.”

According to the arrest report, the sister urged her brothers not to open the door, but Jahiem opened it anyway. Police say Carter immediately started shooting.

Gianni died first.

Jahiem, who was injured, ran to take cover with his sister, but investigators said he collapsed on top of her.

The report states that after the shooting, Carter sat at the edge of the bed and told his girlfriend, “You see what you made me do?” She responded, “I told you to leave.”

The woman then ran out of the apartment screaming, “He shot them.”

Police said when officers arrived, Carter confessed, telling them, “I’m the one. I have the firearm.”

He remains in jail facing murder charges.

Playing without the injured Joel Embiid, the 76ers put up a far better fight than in the Knicks' 137-98 romp in Game 1. The game featured 25 lead changes — the most in a playoff game in 11 years — and 14 ties. Neither team led by more than seven points.

“Most importantly it’s staying poised, staying composed,” Brunson said. “Just figuring out one just play at a time, one step at a time and not looking too far ahead.”

Those kinds of situations are made for Brunson, who made the tiebreaking basket with 5:06 remaining and added another jumper for a 103-99 advantage with 3:45 to play before Mikal Bridges' basket made it a six-point game.

“They started switching a little bit and he got to his spots and scored a bucket and that’s what he’s expected to do for us,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said of Brunson.

OG Anunoby added 24 points for New York, though he left late in the game, went to the locker room and didn't return to the bench. Brown said after the game he didn't have an update on the forward's status.

Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists for the Knicks, whose Game 1 victory made them the first team to win three straight postseason games by at least 25 points.

Tyrese Maxey scored 26 points for the 76ers, who face another big climb after falling behind 3-1 against Boston in the first round.

The series moves to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Friday and Game 4 on Sunday, where Embiid will find out if gets his wish for the arena to be filled with Sixers fans or if New Yorkers made their way in.

Embiid was ruled out with right hip and ankle injuries after waking up with soreness and being unable to go through the 76ers’ morning shootaround.

But the 76ers, who won Game 2 in Boston without him while he was still recovering from a late-season appendectomy, got 19 points each from Paul George and Kelly Oubre Jr. and 17 from VJ Edgecombe to nearly overcome their big man’s absence.

They were ahead for the final time at 99-96 after Oubre’s 3-pointer before Josh Hart — who had appeared to hurt his left hand or wrist in the third quarter and left the game — made a 3-pointer with 6:52 remaining.

“I thought we had maybe four wide-open shots in a row that didn’t go,” 76ers coach Nick Nurse said. “We just needed to keep the scoreboard moving and we played great offense. We just didn’t shot-make.”

The 25 lead changes were the most since the Spurs and Clippers combined for 31 on May 2, 2015.

Maxey managed only 13 points in Game 1 but was back to leaving defenders in the dust Wednesday, scoring 15 points in the second quarter and 19 in the first half.

The Knicks did a better job on him in the second half, led by Bridges, who also contributed 18 points.

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“I think, at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how things should be, as opposed to what the law provides,” he said. “I think they view us as purely political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do.”

His remarks to a conference of judges and lawyers from the 3rd U.S. Circuit in Pennsylvania came at a time of low public confidence in the court, and about a week after the court handed down a decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act.

The high court struck down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, finding it was an unconstitutional gerrymander based on race. The decision weakened the Civil Rights era law that has increased minority representation in Congress, and it opened the door for more redistricting across the country that could aid Republican efforts to control the House.

In recent years, the conservative majority court has also handed down landmark rulings overturning the constitutional right to abortion, expanding gun rights and ending affirmative action in higher education.

Roberts didn’t reference any specific decisions in his remarks, but said the court is “simply not part of the political process.”

Opinions, he said, are based on the Constitution — though he acknowledged disagreement with some outcomes. “One thing we have to do is make decisions that are unpopular,” he said.

Criticism, he said, should focus on rulings rather than personal attacks. He condemned the targeting of lower-court judges, a sentiment he’s repeated amid rising threats to the judiciary. “That’s not appropriate and it can lead to very serious problems,” he said.

High-profile criticism of judges in personal terms has come from Republican President Donald Trump, who also targeted Roberts and other justices who voted against him in the opinion that struck down tariffs the president levied under an emergency-powers law.

Josh Doan and Jordan Greenway also scored for Buffalo, which was making its first second-round appearance since 2007, and first overall in 15 years. Alex Lyon stopped 26 shots and improved to 4-1 since taking over the starting duties in Game 3 against Buffalo’s opening-round opponent Boston.

Nick Suzuki and Kirby Dach scored for Montreal, which appeared slow to find its legs three days after defeating Tampa Bay in Game 7 of its first-round series. Jakub Dobes finished with 12 saves, and allowed four goals after allowing a combined two in splitting Games 6 and 7 against the Lightning.

Montreal has yet to win consecutive playoff games this postseason, and was coming off a series in which all seven games were decided by one goal, including four in overtime.

Buffalo hosts Game 2 on Friday night, before the series shifts to Montreal on Sunday.

The Sabres were the more rested team, having had four days off since beating Boston 4-1 in Game 6 on Friday.

“I like the quick start we got off to. I know we can be a lot better," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said, noting he thought Buffalo looked disjointed at times. “There’s a couple situations in the game that we gave them a little bit of momentum.”

Doan opened the scoring 4:31 in by converting Zach Benson’s pass to cap a 2-on-1 after Montreal defenseman Lane Hutson fell and turned over the puck in front of his bench.

McLeod made it 2-0 by converting Benson’s pass through the crease on Buffalo’s second power-play opportunity 13:26 into the first period. Byram scored on the next opportunity by snapping in a shot from between the circles to put Buffalo up 4-1 midway through the second period.

Byram’s goal was his fourth, matching the Sabres’ franchise playoff record for defensemen, joining Mike Ramsey (1988), Jason Woolley and Alexei Zhitnik, who both scored four in 1999.

Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis was pleased with how much more room his players had to create with the puck after a tight-checking series against the Lightning. His only issue is the Canadiens need to take advantage of it.

"Now, what does that mean? I got to rewatch," St. Louis said.

“I have ideas, but I’m not going to put my stamp on those ideas right now. Even if I did, I wouldn't tell you," he added. "I’m confident that we can play any style. I’m confident that we could play the game that’s in front of us. And I’m confident that we can learn from this one and be better.

Buffalo converted 2 of 3 power-play chances, breathing new life into a unit that went 1 of 24 against Boston. The Sabres' 4.2% conversion rate was tied for 865th out of 897 teams that had 20 or more opportunities in a playoff series since 1978.

And Buffalo’s man-advantage woes carried over from the final seven regular-season games, during which the team went 0 for 22.

McLeod didn't mind hearing questions about the power play on Wednesday night.

“I mean, maybe keep asking, if we’re gonna keep scoring now,” he said with a laugh. “It’s a process of building it and getting your look. So I think, we got them tonight and it was going in.”

Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin limped off favoring his right leg with under three minutes left after blocking a shot by Jake Evans. Dahlin briefly went up the tunnel, before returning to the bench, but did not see any further ice time.

Ruff said he doesn't believe there's an issue after seeing Dahlin walking down the hallway.

Dach scored the game’s highlight goal, cutting Buffalo’s lead to 4-2 with 3:29 left in the second. Driving up the right wing, Dach’s centering pass was blocked by Lyon’s stick. The puck caromed back to Dach who, while falling, was able to lift the puck over the goalie’s glove.

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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index jumped 3,402 points to 62,915.87 as markets in Tokyo reopened following “Golden Week” holidays.

The Nikkei has gained about 18% in the past three months and nearly 73% in the past year, pushed higher by strong buying of tech shares that have benefited from the boom in artificial intelligence.

Elsewhere in Asia, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 1.3% to 26,559.86.

The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia was up 0.9% at 8,870.70.

In South Korea, the Kospi slipped 0.4% to 7,353.08 as traders sold to lock in profits after the benchmark jumped nearly 7% a day earlier to barrel past 7,000 for the first time.

Taiwan's Taiex surged 2.1%.

On Wednesday, markets rallied worldwide after President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz could be “OPEN TO ALL” if Iran accepts a reported agreement that the U.S. president did not detail.

Oil prices fell nearly 8% and the S&P 500 climbed 1.5% for its best day in nearly a month, setting a fresh record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.2%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 2%.

However, optimism was tempered by continuing tensions. The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker Wednesday as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war. The military said in a social media post that a fighter jet shot out the rudder of the tanker in the Gulf of Oman as the vessel tried to breach an American blockade of Iran’s ports.

Early Thursday in Asian trading, Brent crude oil rose 51 cents to $101.78 a barrel, while U.S. benchmark crude oil gained 55 cents to $95.63 a barrel.

Oil prices sank Wednesday, and stock markets rallied worldwide on hopes that the United States and Iran are nearing a deal to allow ships to deliver crude through the Strait of Hormuz.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, fell 7.8% to $101.27, down from more than $115 early this week.

The effective closure of the strait due to the war has caused big trouble for the global economy because the conflict has blocked oil tankers from using it to exit the Persian Gulf. A reopening could allow oil to flow freely again and remove pressure on inflation that’s driving prices up for all kinds of products worldwide.

The price of Brent crude fell below $97 a barrel but then pushed above $100 after Trump threatened to start bombing “at a much higher level and intensity” if Iran does not accept the agreement.

U.S. stocks remained resilient despite the war thanks partly to strong profit reports by big U.S. companies for the start of 2026.

Chipmaker AMD helped lead the market Wednesday with a surge of 18.6% after it joined the list of big-name companies topping expectations for both profit and revenue.

Super Micro Computer, rallied 24.5% after likewise delivering stronger earnings than analysts expected. Nvidia, the chip company that became the poster child of the AI boom, rose 5.7% and was the single strongest force lifting the S&P 500 because of its immense size.

CVS Health climbed 7.6% after delivering better results for the first quarter than analysts expected and raising its financial forecasts for the full year. The Walt Disney Co. gained 7.5% after saying its “Zootopia 2” movie helped draw people to its streaming business, parks and cruise ships.

Outside of earnings reports, companies with big fuel bills jumped on hopes that oil prices will continue to ease. That included gains of 6.8% for United Airlines, 6.8% for Carnival and 8.8% for Royal Caribbean.

In other dealings early Thursday, the U.S. dollar fell to 156.32 Japanese yen from 156.40 yen. The euro rose to $1.1756 from $1.1747.

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El embajador de Irán, Bahram Shahabeddin, y de Rusia, Dmitry Vérchenko, participaron el lunes en la toma de juramento del nuevo gobernador de la región central de Cochabamba, Leonardo Loza, cercano al expresidente izquierdista Evo Morales (2006-2019).

Aramayo en declaraciones a los corresponsales internacionales dijo que una vez que los diplomáticos retornen a La Paz desde Cochabamba serán convocados. “Les hemos mandado una nota verbal, hemos sacado un comunicado recordando cuáles son los mecanismos de comunicación diplomática”, indicó.

Shahabeddin dijo a los medios locales que le gustaría que “en el futuro Cochabamba sea la capital de Bolivia”, lo que causó malestar en Sucre, la capital de la nación andina.

Por su parte, la embajada de Rusia publicó una nota en X y Facebook contra un columnista boliviano que criticó en varios medios del país al presidente ruso Vladimir Putin.

Aramayo explicó que el tema de la capital de Bolivia es “muy delicado” y reiteró que se deben respetar los canales diplomáticos y no usar redes sociales. No se refirió directamente a la publicación de Rusia.

“Así como nosotros somos respetuosos de la política interna, demandamos que la Convención de Viena y otros mecanismos son los que tienen que utilizarse para expresar incluso quejas”, agregó.

Irán y Rusia fueron cercanos a los gobiernos de izquierda de Morales y Luis Arce (2020-2025).

El presidente centroderechista Rodrigo Paz asumió el 8 de noviembre y dio un giro en las relaciones diplomáticas acercándose a Estados Unidos.

Aramayo sostuvo que Bolivia busca sostener relaciones con los distintos países en base al respeto mutuo.

Blanche was in Phoenix to address the Border Security Expo, a yearly gathering that draws top immigration officials, local and state law enforcement officers and representatives from companies doing business with the federal government. Blanche's appearance at the gathering reflects the way immigration enforcement and border security have become priorities throughout the Trump administration.

Blanche, who has led the Justice Department since Pam Bondi was ousted last month, spoke to The Associated Press after his appearance at the conference. His comments were some of the most detailed on the changes to immigration courts since he took over the role.

“You take an oath and you’re not allowed to make decisions based upon what appear to be just sympathy or your whim,” Blanche said.

“If there’s judges that are just not applying the law in the way that it needs to be applied, delaying inappropriately, have backlogs that are just unacceptable, they’re the folks that we’re going to try to find somebody different to fill that spot.”

The second Trump administration has made mass deportations a central priority and has launched an all-of-government effort to reach its lofty goals. To do so, it has cracked down on migrants in American cities, scaled up detention facilities and increased hiring of immigration officers.

While the Department of Homeland Security is the Cabinet agency most directly responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, immigration courts, a key aspect of the immigration system, fall under the Justice Department.

Dozens of immigration judges have been removed from their jobs during Trump's second term, with critics saying they were targeted because they were approving too many asylum cases. The administration has also directed masked officers to handcuff migrants at closed asylum hearings and sent memos instructing judges to fall into line. Many migrants and their advocates say that immigration courts have increasingly become traps — they show up for routine hearings only to face arrest.

Unlike federal courts, where there are strict rules of procedure and judges have lifetime tenure, the Justice Department runs immigration courts and the attorney general can fire the judges with fewer restraints.

But critics take issue with how the administration is remaking the immigration courts.

“Unfortunately, the Trump Administration is systematically dismantling due process protections in U.S. immigration courts, prioritizing speed and enforcement over fairness, accuracy, and fundamental justice,” the American Immigration Lawyers Association wrote in a policy brief last fall.

Critics also say that a board within the courts system that determines how immigration judges can rule on cases has issued a number of decisions under the Trump administration that have narrowed the pathway to asylum through the courts. Blanche brushed away the criticism, saying the decisions were consistent with the law.

Blanche said there were problems with judges repeatedly delaying cases and other cases where judges weren't following the law “because of sympathy towards individuals.”

Flush with money from Congress last summer that empowered the department to hire more judges, the department is rapidly hiring new immigration court judges, sparking criticism that the judges do not meet standards.

“We have a very rigorous process to get people interviewed, approved and then trained up. And then we’ll watch them,” Blanche said, expressing confidence in the new hires.

Blanche also said the Justice Department has been prioritizing efforts to strip citizenship from people who the administration says have defrauded the system, a process known as “denaturalization” that between 1990-2017 was used in only about a dozen cases per year.

“That’s one of the tools that we are using aggressively that hasn’t been used as aggressively in the past,” Blanche said, without providing specific numbers.

So when Jess Rattle began seeing purse seine ships fishing the Indian Ocean under the flags of Mauritius, Tanzania and Oman, she wondered whether European corporations might be involved.

“We wanted to understand who really owned these vessels,” said Rattle, head of investigations at the London-based environmental charity Blue Marine Foundation. “Were they owned by the coastal states whose quota they were now using, or in fact, were they owned by the EU?”

A new report released Thursday by the Blue Marine Foundation and Kroll, a global investigations firm, and shared with The Associated Press in advance reveals the extent of the European fleet’s access to Indian Ocean tuna stocks, finding that European companies have taken a third of the tropical tuna catch at a time when yellowfin and bigeye tuna are under pressure and still rebounding from being severely overfished.

They have done so in part by registering their ships under the flags of the Seychelles, Mauritius, Kenya, Tanzania and Oman to gain access to a greater catch limit, Rattle’s team found. The practice has allowed the European-owned fleet to expand to more than 50 purse seine ships and supply vessels and increase its catch of tropical tuna despite the European Union’s commitments to cutting back.

The finding comes ahead of an annual meeting of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission in the Maldives, which brings together the EU and 28 countries with a stake in the tuna fishery.

While common in the fishing industry and not illegal, reflagging a vessel to a foreign country makes it difficult for observers and regulators to gauge the impact of European companies on the fishery. Parent company ownership is often obscured via layers of shell companies and foreign registries, which Rattle and the team at Kroll tracked down over the course of months.

“Europe’s opportunity to help stop overfishing is greater than first appears,” said Benedict Hamilton, a managing director at Kroll.

Though European companies have long fished under the Seychelles flag, Rattle said, their registering under the flags of Oman and Kenya is new. Europeche Tuna Group, which represents the European tuna industry, said in a statement that the industry’s relationship with coastal nations reflects its long-term investment in the region and strong local partnerships.

Spokesperson Anne-France Mattlet said the European industry benefits the economy of regional countries by paying taxes and fishing license fees, investing in local infrastructure, and unloading tuna and other fish in their ports and canneries.

Mattlet concurred with the report’s findings that Europeche has more than 50 purse seine and supply ships operating throughout the Indian Ocean, including with non-EU flags.

Maciej Berestecki, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said in a statement the reflagging of fishing vessels is a private business decision not influenced by public authorities, and that the EU does not defend or represent the interests of vessels flagged to other countries.

“The EU has done, and keeps doing, its utmost to promote and respect catch limits,” Berestecki said.

Despite Europe’s distance from the Indian Ocean, its fishing fleets have long played a dominant role there. Spanish and French tuna companies first introduced purse seine ships to the Indian Ocean in the 1980s, which allowed them to quickly increase their yearly catch. The ships get their name from their giant nets that encircle the tuna and close like a drawstring purse.

But the EU has occasionally butted heads with coastal nations that want a say over the fishing practices in the ocean at their doorstep.

Five years ago, with yellowfin tuna stocks in sharp decline, the Maldives accused the EU of not putting forth a serious proposal to lower tuna quotas at a contentious meeting of the tuna commission. In 2023, the EU objected to a proposal from Indonesia for a closure on purse seine fishing gear that passed with the support of 15 other countries.

In recent years, the tuna commission has put in place new management measures to rebuild the vulnerable yellowfin and bigeye tuna stocks, which are beginning to show signs of recovering. For instance, the EU agreed to reduce the yellowfin tuna catch for EU-flagged vessels by 21%.

Those new limits may be pushing European fishing companies to look to other countries’ quotas to maintain their catch, said Glen Holmes, senior officer with Pew Charitable Trusts.

Holmes and colleagues from Pew, Global Fishing Watch, and other environmental groups are advocating for greater ownership transparency among fishing fleets in the Indian Ocean.

Shipowners have long registered vessels under the flags of foreign countries, much to the dismay of transparency advocates, who say the practice limits oversight of those ships. Sanctioned oil tankers in the ‘ghost fleet’, for instance, frequently change their name and flags to conceal their ownership.

Certain flags have become known as ‘flags of convenience,’ offering companies low fees and lenient attitudes toward fishing or trade rules. Some countries may simply have fewer resources to enforce the laws of the sea.

A January report by the environmental group Oceana found European companies routinely register fishing vessels under the flags of foreign nations, including some countries the EU has accused of “turning a blind eye to illegal fishing activities.”

Oceana is calling on EU countries to begin collecting and publishing ownership data for their fishing fleet.

The change would help the EU better enforce its own laws, which prevent any European individual from benefiting financially from the practices of illegal fishing, said Vanya Vulperhorst, Oceana’s illegal fishing campaign director for Europe. And it would shed light on “the real EU fleet,” she said.

“What we found last year is that the real European fleet, if you add the non-EU flagged vessels, doubles,” Vulperhorst said.

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U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, ordered the release of the note after The New York Times asked him last week to unseal it and other documents in a case involving the former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. Federal prosecutors did not oppose the request.

Few people had known about the note until Tartaglione, a former police officer serving a life sentence for killing four people, mentioned it last year on writer Jessica Reed Kraus’ podcast.

Tartaglione claimed he discovered the note in a book after Epstein was found on the floor of their cell at a Manhattan federal jail on July 23, 2019, with a strip of bedsheet around the financier's neck. That was about three weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell in what authorities concluded was a suicide.

“They investigated me for month -- found nothing!!!” said the short note, which is hard to decipher in some places. “It is a treat to be able to choose” the “time to say goodbye," the note continues. “Watcha want me to do -- Bust out cryin!!”

“NO FUN,” the note concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

It is unclear who wrote the note Tartaglione claimed to have found. It wasn’t mentioned in the lengthy government reports examining the circumstances of Epstein’s death, nor did it surface in the Justice Department’s recent release of files on the late financier.

In a written ruling, Karas said he weighed the privacy interests of third parties, including Epstein, before ruling to release the note. He said existing case law suggests that privacy interests of a deceased person, such as Epstein, "are vastly reduced and disclosure of the deceased’s information is unlikely to ‘work a concrete harm.‘”

According to jail records, Epstein had friction marks and skin irritation on his neck from the suspected July 23 attempt. Jail officers said he was breathing heavily but responsive. One officer reported at the time that Epstein said he believed Tartaglione had tried to kill him, according to a memo included in the Justice Department’s files.

Jail officials placed Epstein on suicide watch for 31 hours after the incident before downgrading him to psychiatric observation — his status when he killed himself. According to jail records, he denied trying to harm himself, telling a jail psychologist that suicide was against his Jewish religion and that he was a “coward” who didn’t like pain.

A chronology included in the files states that Tartaglione told his lawyer about the note four days after the suspected July 23 attempt. The note was later submitted as evidence in Tartaglione’s criminal case and was placed under seal amid a dispute over his legal representation.

Both men were interviewed by jail personnel on July 31, 2019, according to jail records.

Epstein said he had never had any issues with Tartaglione, wasn't threatened by him and didn't “want to make up something that isn’t there.” Tartaglione said he didn't have any issues being Epstein’s cellmate, though he said they kept their conversations to a minimum. On July 23, he said, he thought Epstein was having a heart attack because his eyes were open and he appeared to be snoring.

Epstein and Tartaglione shared a cell for about two weeks, beginning soon after Epstein’s July 6, 2019, arrest and ending with the suspected suicide attempt. Both were awaiting trials — Epstein on sex trafficking charges and Tartaglione on charges that in 2016 he killed four men, including a man he tortured and strangled over stolen drug money.

Tartaglione, who had been an officer in the Hudson River Valley village of Briarcliff Manor, was convicted in 2023. He is currently incarcerated at a federal penitentiary in California and has petitioned President Donald Trump for a pardon.

Epstein was without a cellmate when he was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, on Aug. 10, 2019. Authorities have pointed to a series of missteps by jail personnel — including browsing the internet and sleeping when they should've been checking on Epstein — for allowing him to take his own life.

Officials said they found a handwritten note in Epstein’s cell at the time of his death, but that it didn't appear to be a suicide note. Rather, they said, it appeared to be a list of grievances about conditions at the jail, including about food, showers and the presence of bugs.

U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee's decision came after lawyers for the county had argued that the ballots and other election materials, as well as any electronic copies the Justice Department has made, should be returned because the seizure was improper and unconstitutional.

The Jan. 28 seizure by the FBI targeted the elections hub in Georgia’s most populous county, which is heavily Democratic and includes most of the city of Atlanta. Fulton County has been at the center of unfounded claims by President Donald Trump and his allies that widespread election fraud cost him the 2020 election.

The Justice Department has said it is investigating “irregularities that occurred during the 2020 presidential election in the County” and identified two laws that might have been violated. One requires election records to be maintained for 22 months, while the other prohibits procuring, casting or tabulating false, fictitious or fraudulent ballots.

Georgia’s votes in the 2020 presidential race were counted three times, including once by hand, and each count affirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s win.

Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts said he strongly disagrees with the judge's denial of the county's request to return the election records.

“We will continue, as always, to stand by our election workers and the voters of Fulton County,” he said in an emailed statement. “We intend to vigorously pursue all available legal options.”

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on the ruling Wednesday evening.

“The seizure in this case was certainly not perfect,” Boulee wrote in his 68-page ruling. But he went on to say that Fulton County did not establish that its rights were callously disregarded “either through the lack of probable cause, omissions in the Affidavit or by the manner of the execution of the seizure.”

The county also failed to show that it needs the documents or will be irreparably harmed if they are not returned, he wrote, noting this is particularly true because the Justice Department has given the county copies of the documents.

Months after the January seizure of ballots and other election materials, the Justice Department in April obtained a grand jury subpoena for the names and personal contact information of Fulton County employees and volunteers involved in the 2020 election. Fulton County filed a motion Monday to quash that subpoena, arguing that it is overly broad and meant to harass the president’s political opponents.

The Trump administration has also taken moves to obtain past election records from other critical swing states. The FBI used a subpoena in March to get records related to an audit of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County in Arizona. And in April, the Justice Department demanded that Michigan’s Wayne County turn over its 2024 election ballots.

The Justice Department is also fighting numerous states in court for access to voter data that includes sensitive personal information. Election officials, including some Republicans, have said handing over the information would violate state and federal privacy laws.

Democrats have raised concerns that the Trump administration is weaponizing federal law enforcement to pursue the president’s personal grievances and is planning ways to interfere in this year’s midterm elections. The administration has said it is looking into allegations of past problems and seeking to protect future elections.

During a March 27 hearing on Fulton County’s demand that the FBI return its ballots and other materials, lawyers for the county argued that the seizure was improper and unjustified and demonstrated “callous disregard” for the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. They suggested that the Trump administration decided to use a criminal search warrant to obtain the materials because it had grown tired of waiting for the outcome of the civil litigation the Justice Department had filed last year to obtain them.

Justice Department attorneys argued that they took the appropriate steps to get a warrant and then take the documents. They said it is not uncommon for parallel civil and criminal investigations to be going on at the same time.

The judge agreed that the affidavit was “defective in some respects” and that some of the statements included in it were “troubling.” But he noted that the FBI agent who wrote it also included “facts that both hurt and helped him.” He concluded that the document's shortcomings don't amount to callous disregard.

He also agreed that the government can pursue civil and criminal proceedings on the same matter and said the timeline of the investigation weighs against the county's theory that the Justice Department “created an ‘ongoing investigation’ to sidestep procedural hurdles” in civil cases.=

“No, I don't," Maye said. "I mean, he’s our head coach. I think he’s done a great job of talking to us and talking us through it. I’m just looking forward to getting back to work and getting ready.”

Maye spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday following the Truist Championship Pro-Am in Charlotte in which he was paired with PGA Tour pro Gary Woodland on the back nine at Quail Hollow.

Vrabel has found himself entangled in controversy after the New York Post posted pictures of him with longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini at an Arizona resort. Vrabel said on April 24 that he was taking accountability for his actions without addressing specifics about the published photos.

Vrabel missed the third day of the draft to attend counseling.

Vrabel said he had to have hard conversations with the people that he cared about the most, including his family, his team and members of the Patriots organization. He added that, "My previous actions don’t meet the standard that I hold myself to. They don’t.”

When asked if the issues are something the Patriots will need to put behind them before the season, Maye said, “I think that’ll take care of itself.”

“I know he’s got the right mindset and I know he’s a great human being,” Maye added. “I think he’s ... like I said, I love playing for him.”

Maye, the third overall pick in 2024 who grew up in nearby Huntersville, North Carolina, led the Patriots to an appearance in Super Bowl 60 in just his second season. He was runner-up to Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford for the AP NFL MVP award in 2025.

Maye also addressed former Patriots teammate Stefon Diggs' acquittal on charges that he assaulted his live-in personal chef.

The charges stemmed from a Dec. 2 incident at his Massachusetts home where Jamila Adams testified that Diggs slapped and choked her during an argument.

Diggs had pled not guilty to a felony strangulation charge and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before clearing Diggs of all charges. The acquittal in court clears a path for the four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver to return to the field, although he could still face discipline from the NFL.

“Well, you know, he’s always been a great teammate to me and I know he’ll do great things," Maye said. "I was fortunate enough to have a year with him, and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens to him. He’s a great player.”

And as for the shoulder injury that hampered him down the stretch last season, Maye said he's doing “great.”

“Nothing, nothing, no problems at all," said Maye, adding that he did not need surgery.

The Patriots will host a three-day rookie minicamp beginning Friday in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

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About 15 years after the murder of Bryan Pata, a 22-year-old defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes, Segovia moved to arrest Rashaun Jones, a former Miami Hurricanes cornerback.

Jones’s defense claimed that an outside firm found evidence that Segovia had an Instagram account linked to his phone number, email, and IP address, which he had used in violation of a court order.

On Monday, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda granted the defense’s emergency motion to prevent the deletion of the “balanceof_justice” Instagram account and its comments.

There is a hearing on Thursday. Jones has been awaiting a retrial after his trial for Pata’s murder in February ended with a hung jury.

Segovia, who is also a member of the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees, did not respond to Local 10 News requests for comment.

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At this time, there is an Internal Affairs investigation into this matter.

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The attack occurred as Iran and the U.S. are officially in a ceasefire and as the two countries seemed to be approaching an agreement to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached that includes opening the critical Strait of Hormuz.

Hours after he threatened to bomb Iran into submission, Trump said they want to make a deal and “we’ll see if we get there.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared before a House committee for a closed-door interview over his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. Lutnick has given contradictory statements about his relationship with Epstein but says he has done nothing wrong.

So far, lawmakers emerged from the private interview with vastly different assessments of Lutnick’s answers. The committee chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, said Lutnick had been “forthcoming” in describing limited interactions with Epstein.

Democrats accused Lutnick of lying and evading their questions.

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Justice Department sues again over Colorado gun laws

The Trump administration has sued Colorado over a statewide ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines that the state adopted after a 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater.

The lawsuit followed one the Justice Department filed Tuesday against Denver and its police department that sought to strike down an assault weapons ban in place in the city since 1989.

In both cases the administration asserts that many firearms, including AR-15-style rifles, that have large-capacity magazines are common in the U.S. They are “ordinary semiautomatic rifles” used for lawful purposes, “including but not limited to self-defense,” attorneys for the Justice Department wrote.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has called guns with large-capacity magazines a major threat to public safety and said the state’s ban is reasonable.

Lutnick is departing Capitol Hill

The commerce secretary has left the room where he was being interviewed by the House Oversight Committee on his previous contacts with Jeffrey Epstein.

The interview lasted just over four hours, but that’s relatively short by the standards of the committee. Lawmakers have kept some interviewees for hours as they try to wear them down with relentless questions.

So far, lawmakers emerged from the private interview with vastly different assessments of Lutnick’s answers. The committee chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, said Lutnick had been “forthcoming” in describing limited interactions with Epstein.

Democrats accused Lutnick of lying and evading their questions.

Lutnick interview is not being recorded on video

The commerce secretary’s interview with lawmakers will be released via transcript, but not video. The committee has video recorded depositions for others, including former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state.

Democrats slammed that decision and said it allowed Lutnick to escape the same level of scrutiny that has been applied to others.

But the committee’s Republican chair. Rep. James Comer countered that it makes the committee’s investigation easier when subjects like Lutnick voluntarily sit down for an interview, rather than resist the committee’s requests and potential subpoenas.

“Nobody wants to be videoed. If you come in, you work with us, then you know, you might not have to be videoed,” he said.

Trump says deal with Iran is ‘very possible’

Hours after he threatened to bomb Iran into submission, Trump said they want to make a deal and “we’ll see if we get there.”

“We’ve had very good talks over the last 24 hours and it’s very possible that we’ll make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after he summoned them to see the UFC fighters he’d been meeting with.

“This is very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” the president said.

Israeli strikes kill five across Gaza, hospitals say

Five Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, including incidents near the so-called “Yellow Line,” a boundary dividing Israeli-controlled areas from the rest of the enclave, local health officials said.

One person was killed in Khan Younis when a strike hit a car, according to Nasser Hospital. In Gaza City, three people, including a 16-year-old, were killed earlier in the day when a strike hit an area where residents had been setting up tents, Al Ahli Hospital said. A fifth fatality was reported later in Gaza City after a strike hit a street about 200 meters from the Yellow Line, the same hospital added.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

At Al-Ahli hospital, relatives wept over bodies laid out on hospital beds, some clinging to each other in grief as they said their final goodbyes.

At the strike site in Khan Younis, smoke billowed as people ran in panic.

The deaths come amid a fragile ceasefire that has largely reduced heavy fighting but has not stopped near-daily Israeli fire. Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes and frequently fire on Palestinians near military- held zones, killing at least 837 Palestinians, including at least 226 children and 179 women, according to Gaza health officials.

Democrats accuse Lutnick of evading their questions about contact with Epstein

Democratic lawmakers who are questioning Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick behind closed doors emerged from the room saying that Lutnick is refusing to acknowledge that he made misleading statements in the past about his contacts with Jeffrey Epstein.

“He was evasive, nervous. He was dishonest,” said Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia. “He would not admit to lying, which he clearly did.”

The lawmakers said that the public should be able to observe Lutnick’s demeanor as he was answering questions, but the Republican-controlled committee is not video recording the interview.

The Republican committee chair, Rep. James Comer, said that the lack of video kept with the committee’s practice for voluntary interviews and that a transcription of the interview will be released later.

Iran’s foreign ministry says Tehran is still examining the latest US ceasefire proposal

The ministry’s spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told state media Wednesday that Iran had already “strongly rejected” proposals that the Axios news outlet reported the US had put forward for the agreement with Iran.

Axios had reported earlier that the deal included Iran agreeing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment.

Israel strikes Beirut suburbs for first time since ceasefire was announced

Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs Wednesday for the first time since a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group was announced on April 17.

Fighting has continued since then in southern Lebanon.

The last attacks in Beirut were before that, on April 8, when a series of massive Israeli strikes, including in central Beirut, killed more than 350 people.

A statement released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday’s strike, which came without warning, targeted a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force. Hezbollah did not immediately comment.

US military fires on Iranian-flagged oil tanker in Gulf of Oman

An American fighter jet shot out the rudder of an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the American military said in a social media post.

The attack occurred as Iran and the U.S. are officially in a ceasefire and as the two countries appear to be moving closer to an initial agreement to end the war. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to pressure Tehran with threats of a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached.

American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the ship it was violating the blockade, U.S. Central Command said in its post.

Trump says question is whether Iran can make a deal ‘that’s satisfactory to us’

The president insisted that Iranian officials want an agreement to end the war, suggesting as he did previously over social media that U.S. actions could ultimately force a settlement.

“We’re dealing with people that want to make a deal very much, and we’ll see whether or not they can make a deal that’s satisfactory to us,” Trump said at a Mother’s Day lunch at the White House.

The president added: “And if they don’t agree, they’ll end up agreeing shortly thereafter.”

Trump called the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz a “wall of steel,” as both countries jockey to use the stoppage in oil and natural gas shipments as a way to pressure the other side.

AP source: Office of Virginia Senate leader searched by FBI as part of corruption probe

The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said.

The search at Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas’s district office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state’s recent redistricting effort.

The FBI said only that it was conducting a court-authorized search warrant in Portsmouth. The person who confirmed the FBI’s search was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

A message seeking comment was left on a cellphone for Lucas.

Amid a national, state-by-state partisan redistricting fight, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment on April 21 authorizing new U.S. House districts. Backed by Democrats, the plan could help the party win up to four additional seats.

Lucas has been a vocal leader of the effort.

The state Supreme Court let the referendum proceed but has yet to rule whether the effort is legal. The court is considering an appeal of a lower court judge’s ruling that the amendment is invalid because lawmakers violated procedural requirements.

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UAE urges UN to take action against Iran if it keeps blocking shipping and attacking neighbors

Mohamed Abushahab, the United Arab Emirates’ U.N. ambassador, said the Security Council must “compel Iran’s compliance” with its March resolution demanding that Tehran stop attacking its Gulf neighbors and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

He told reporters Wednesday that Iran attacked the UAE on May 4 -- while a ceasefire is in place -- with 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and four drones which resulted in a fire on critical energy infrastructure in the Fujairah oil industry zone.

The United States and its Gulf allies including the UAE have circulated a new Security Council resolution threatening Iran with sanctions or other measures if it doesn’t stop attacks and open the critically important strait, where about 20% of the world’s crude oil had transited.

The proposed resolution was drafted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter which can be enforced militarily. A watered-down resolution aimed at opening the Strait of Hormuz, which was stripped of Chapter 7 language, was vetoed by Russia and China hours before Washington and Tehran announced a temporary ceasefire in early April.

The UAE’s Abushahab was asked whether he thought Russia and China would agree to the new draft under Chapter 7. “Not only is it possible, but it’s necessary,” he replied.

GOP chair of oversight panel says Lutnick was not ‘truthful’ about Epstein ties

Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters as he entered the closed-door interview that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had in the past not been “100% truthful” about whether he had ever visited Epstein’s infamous private island.

Lutnick said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home that disturbed Lutnick and his wife. But the release of case files on Epstein showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.

Under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick said he had visited Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012 for lunch.

AP-NORC poll: Many Americans have conflicting views on birthright citizenship

This poll comes as the Supreme Court weighs President Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship.

The AP-NORC poll finds about two-thirds of U.S. adults say automatic citizenship should be granted to all children born in the country. Most Democrats and independents back that view, but Republicans are more doubtful: just 44% support birthright citizenship.

The poll also shows that some people are conflicted, saying in general that they support birthright citizenship but also that they oppose it in some specific circumstances.

For instance, the poll found about three-quarters of U.S. adults say they support automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country legally on work visas, while only about half support it for those born to parents who are in the country illegally.

Trump’s commerce secretary arrives for interview in congressional Epstein investigation

Howard Lutnick is answering questions from House lawmakers today about his relationship with his former neighbor, Jeffrey Epstein.

The commerce secretary is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration, besides Trump himself, to appear in the Epstein case files.

Lutnick has said he barely knew Epstein and has welcomed the closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee, but his story on his interactions with Epstein has changed. He met with Epstein a couple times and exchanged emails with the financier, even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

French navy moving to support shipping through the strait

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential future mission as part of a French-British plan for the Strait of Hormuz, a senior French military spokesman told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The repositioning of the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle puts France’s only carrier closer to the Persian Gulf chokepoint where Iran has effectively halted commercial traffic since early March. The French effort is distinct from the U.S. “Project Freedom” mission launched Sunday and paused by Trump on Tuesday evening.

“Going south of Suez is new for us,” said Col. Guillaume Vernet, spokesman for the French armed forces chief of staff.

The wider Hormuz coalition — drawn up by France, Britain and more than 50 nations — will not begin operating until the threat to shipping eases and the maritime industry is reassured enough to use the strait, Vernet said, adding that any operation would also require the agreement of neighboring countries.

An attack damaged a French-operated cargo ship and injured its crew, company says

A cargo container ship operated by the CMA CGM Group was damaged when it came under attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, the French shipping company said Wednesday.

Multiple crew members were injured in the attack on the CMA CGM San Antonio, the company said without providing details. The injured crew were taken off the ship and are receiving medical treatment.

Trump is going to Beijing. Iran’s foreign minister got there ahead of him

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s visit comes ahead of Trump’s planned high-profile summit on May 14 and 15 with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first such trip by a U.S. president since Trump visited in 2017.

In a televised interview Wednesday with Iran’s state media from Beijing, Araghchi said his discussions with Chinese officials included the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions imposed on Tehran. And he said Iran has attained “an elevated international standing,” having proven its capabilities and strength.

China’s Foreign Ministry said after the meeting that it values Iran’s pledge not to pursue nuclear weapons while affirming its “legitimate right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had expressed hope on Tuesday Beijing would reiterate the need for Iran to release its chokehold on the strait, its main source of leverage, as Trump demands a major rollback of its disputed nuclear program.

Trump’s Indiana wins show his power over GOP with more primaries and redistricting debates ahead

Five months ago, Trump was stinging from a political defeat as Republican state senators defied him on redistricting in Indiana. Now he has proved he can still punish wayward party members after the slate of challengers he endorsed defeated almost every one of those lawmakers.

The results will likely bolster Trump’s confidence heading into upcoming Republican primaries where he wants more incumbents ousted, including Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

Indiana’s primary results also ratchet up pressure on Republican lawmakers in other states to move aggressively to redraw congressional district boundaries in time for the November elections.

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Shipper either loses millions or risks sanctions for paying Iranians for safe passage

Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is costing it around $60 million a week, in particular in costs for fuel and insurance, as it remains too risky to permit its ships to try getting through.

Insurance costs have shot up due to the risk of attack from Iranian drones and small boats. Alternate routes to safe harbors or overland are “limited in capacity and cannot completely replace the regular maritime routes through the region,” a company statement said.

The number of ships passing the strait has dwindled to a trickle. Iran has demanded that vessels go through a vetting process run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp that involves passing to the north near the Iranian cost, submitting information on crew and cargo, and in some cases paying. But paying the IRGC risks running afoul of sanctions from the US and the EU, which have designated it a terrorist organization.

Shipping industry and oil traders see no quick return to normal

Oil prices and shipping are unlikely to return to normal until it’s clear the risk of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have receded, cautions Kaho Yu, head of energy and resources resources at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.

“Even with diplomatic engagement continuing, energy markets are unlikely to return quickly to pre-crisis assumptions,” he said. “Refiners, shippers, and commodity traders will remain cautious until there is clearer evidence that Hormuz disruptions will not re-escalate.”

Despite the Iran-China meeting’s emphasis on de-escalation, “Hormuz remains the real metric that will be watched,” he added. “Tanker traffic and energy flows over the coming weeks and months are likely to matter more than diplomatic language in assessing whether Beijing can translate influence with Tehran into practical stability.”

Poll: Most believe the US is no longer a great place for immigrants

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say the United States is no longer a great place for immigrants, according to the AP-NORC poll.

Roughly 3 in 10 say the U.S. is a great place for immigrants, while about 1 in 10 say it never was. The belief that America is no longer great for immigrants is more common among Democrats and independents.

Nick Grivas, a 40-year-old Democrat from Massachusetts, said he worries that federal immigration policies could discourage new arrivals from investing in their communities, especially if they don’t believe they will be allowed to remain.

“You’re less willing to commit to the project if you don’t think that you’re gonna be able to stay,” he said.

White House says it believes an agreement with Iran is near

The White House believes it is nearing an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum to end the war, according to reporting by Axios.

There is not an agreement yet, but the provisions include a moratorium on Iranian uranium enrichment, a lifting of U.S. sanctions and the distribution of frozen Iranian funds and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz for ships.

The White House did not respond to questions about the possible agreement.

Trump threatens Iran with bombing if it doesn’t reopen Strait of Hormuz

Trump posted on social media that the war with Iran could soon end and oil and natural gas shipments could restart. But that all depends on Iran accepting a reported agreement that the U.S. president did not detail.

“If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before,” Trump said.

Trump said that it was “perhaps a big assumption” that Iran would agree to the terms being offered by the United States.

Heat indices will be hotter. Expect it to feel like the mid to upper 90s.With several days of feels like temperatures in the lower 90s, be sure to stay hydrated and take plenty of breaks from these hot temperatures. Days of extreme heat could impact anyone without proper cooling.

Ambos países participan en la XIII Comisión Mixta sobre Drogas y Temas Conexos en la región oriental de Santa Cruz, organizada después de la reunión que tuvo Paz con su colega de Brasil Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva hace dos meses en Brasilia.

En la cita están el director de Cooperación Internacional de la Policía Federal brasileña, Felipe Tavares Seixas, y el cónsul de Brasil en Santa Cruz, Carlos Leopoldo de Oliveira. Del lado de Bolivia acudió el ministro de Gobierno, Marco Antonio Oviedo, entre otros.

Oviedo dijo a medios de prensa bolivianos que en su país hay “un incremento de la violencia asociada al crimen organizado”.

En tanto, el canciller boliviano, Fernando Aramayo, señaló en conferencia de prensa con corresponsales internacionales que el 28 de mayo Oviedo y él mantendrán un encuentro con el canciller chileno, Francisco Pérez Mackenna, y el ministro del Interior chileno, Claudio Alvarado Andrade, para abordar el problema del crimen organizado tras la reunión mantenida en La Paz el mes pasado.

Aramayo señaló además que en esa cita del día 28 trabajarán conjuntamente en materia de seguridad "en compañía del Perú y Argentina”.

La llegada del conservador Paz al poder en noviembre pasado marcó un acercamiento a Estados Unidos y a países con los que los gobiernos de izquierda previos se habían mantenido alejados.

La nación andina sufre una ola de asesinatos. El pasado jueves un magistrado del Tribunal Agroambiental de Bolivia fue asesinado a tiros por presuntos sicarios en Santa Cruz, que registra los mayores índices de inseguridad ligada al crimen organizado.

Además se han producido asesinatos que las autoridades vinculan con ajustes de cuentas después de la captura en Bolivia del presunto narcotraficante uruguayo Sebastián Marset, quien fue extraditado a Estados Unidos.

Paz asistió en marzo a la reunión convocada en Florida por el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump —bautizada por la Casa Blanca como cumbre del “Escudo de las Américas”—, donde participaron varios mandatarios de Latinoamérica de signo conservador.

A diferencia de la postura contraria de los presidentes Luis Arce (2020-2025) y Evo Morales (2006-2019), Paz activó nuevamente el intercambio de información con la oficina antidrogas de Estados Unidos (DEA por sus siglas en inglés).

The undisputed star of the weekend? The F-22 Raptor.

Watching it defy the laws of physics, it’s easy to forget this isn’t science fiction. It’s the world’s premier fifth-generation stealth fighter -- one that requires a specially trained pilot to command its power.

There is only one demo pilot for the entire F-22 Raptor Demo Team: Capt. “LaZ” Letourneau.

They identified the suspect as Jimmy Altidor and said he was wanted for aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage.

According to MDSO, investigators from the agency’s Organized Crimes Bureau are seeking information leading to Altidor’s arrest.

The agency provided no details about what led to the charges.

Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. Authorities said tipsters may be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.

While serving in the military, Beckham turned to TrustedHousesitters.com to find someone to watch his home -- and Maverick -- during a short deployment.

That’s where he found Andy Jensen.

“I found Andy online. He had 12 good reviews. It seemed like a good pick at the time,” Beckham said.

Jensen, a South Florida man who wanted to experience Colorado, took the job. He flew to Aurora, and at first, everything seemed fine.

Beckham says Jensen sent updates, including photos of himself smiling with Maverick.

But in early April, while Beckham was overseas, both Maverick and Jensen disappeared. Beckham’s blue Subaru was also stolen.

Home surveillance video shows the two leaving the house on April 2.

Aurora police say the car was found in Denver about a month later -- with Maverick dead inside.

“Maverick suffered a lot in that car, and it looks like there may have been some external injuries,” Beckham said.

Now, Beckham wants answers -- where Jensen is, what happened, and why.

He says police are searching for him.

“The cell phone he did have, it appears to be offline. It’s not hitting cell towers since April 2. He has no credit cards, no debit cards. It appears he closed his bank account,” Beckham said.

We went to Jensen’s last listed address in Palmetto Bay.

Someone was home, but no one came to the door.

Police have not found Jensen and are asking for the public’s help in locating him. Officials say they are also working with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office as the search continues.

Coral Gables police officers took Timothy Kowalewski, 45, into custody on Feb. 16 near the 300 block of U.S. 1.

According to authorities, responding officers found Kowalewski still sitting in the driver’s seat after the crash.

He was driving students back to the school’s campus when police said Kowalewski struck a tree and then a car with the shuttle.

As students quickly exited the bus once it stopped, they could be heard on video asking Kowalewski if he was okay and whether he had anything to drink, noting the small of alcohol.

After being examined by medical personnel, Kowalewski told officers he did not remember the crash, according to an arrest form.

Officers at the scene said Kowalewski had red, watery eyes and slurred speech, but he refused to perform any field sobriety exercises or provide a breath sample, which led to his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence.

He was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and is facing charges of DUI, DUI causing property damage and refusal to submit to a breath test while driving with a suspended license.

Following the arrest, the University of Miami released a statement to Local 10 which read:

“The incident involving a University of Miami campus shuttle is under further investigation by the Coral Gables Police Department,” the statement read. “The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and the broader University community remains our top priority.”

Valdez was at first banned for six games by MLB, which cited him for intentionally throwing a pitch at Story, but the penalty was reduced in an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' association. He started serving the penalty during Wednesday night's series finale and barring rainouts will be eligible to pitch Wednesday at the New York Mets.

Detroit already is missing injured starting pitchers Tarik Skubal (elbow), Casey Mize (hamstring) and Justin Verlander (hip).

"Generally when you have an event like last night where there’s a disruption of play and there’s a guy kicked out of the game for what is deemed throwing at somebody, that doesn’t come for free,” Detroit manager A.J. Hinch said.

Hinch was suspended for one game for what MLB said was Valdez's intentional actions and was to serve the penalty Wednesday.

Valdez already allowed eight runs in the first three innings when Willson Contreras hit a 449-foot homer on the first pitch of the fourth. Contreras watched the flight of the ball from home plate before flipping his bat.

Two pitches later, Wilyer Abreu boosted the score to 10-2 when he homered into the right-field seats, a 109.1 mph drive. His next pitch was a 94.4 mph offering that hit Story between the numbers on his back. Valdez had not thrown a four-seam fastball since last Aug. 3 when he hit Boston's Ceddanne Rafaela under the left arm with a 95.5 pitch with a 3-1 count leading off the sixth inning. The Astros trailed the Red Sox 6-1.

When home plate umpire Adam Beck and Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler got between Story and the mound Tuesday, the Red Sox dugout emptied, followed by Detroit's bench and both bullpens. There was no physical contact and few harsh words.

Valdez denied hitting Story on purpose, saying the unfamiliar four-seam fastball got away from him.

Last season while pitching for Houston, Valdez denied intentionally hitting his catcher César Salazar in the chest with a pitch almost immediately after he gave up a grand slam in a loss to the New York Yankees. Two pitches after Trent Grisham’s slam in the Yankees’ 7-1 victory on Sept. 2, Valdez crossed up catcher César Salazar by throwing a 92.8 mph sinker to Anthony Volpe. Valdez and Salazar both said after the game the pitch that hit the catcher wasn’t on purpose.

Earlier in the season, Valdez expressed frustration about the defensive positioning on a play in the sixth inning that led to the only run he allowed in the Astros’ 2-1 loss to the Washington Nationals on July 28.

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“Shuttle launches were just kind of routine and the broadcast networks weren’t even covering them anymore,” says Knobel, who worked for CBS News in the 1990s and now teaches journalism at Fordham University. “CNN did. So when things went so tragically wrong, there they were on top of the story like no one else.”

That, says Knobel, who now teaches a class on TV’s biggest innovators, is just one example of why Turner was the biggest of them all — huge steps ahead of anyone else in his understanding of how news needed to be delivered.

Turner’s death Wednesday comes at a fraught time for cable news, which has struggled to retain viewership in an era of countless media choices and abundant streaming video. CNN has not been immune; changes in the media ecosystem, the company’s financial picture and multiple editorial resets over the years have left it a markedly different entity than the one Turner built.

But that misses an important point: He built it.

“We use the word giant sometimes to describe people that really aren’t giant," Knobel says. "Ted Turner truly is a giant. He invented around-the-clock news.”

Early on, Turner saw news as something global

Many in and around the news industry struggled Wednesday for big enough words to describe Turner’s impact on how we consume news. Longtime TV analyst Robert Thompson said the issue was hyperbole-proof.

“Death and hyperbole often go together,” said Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture. ”But there is no hyperbole here. I can think of very few other things in the 20th century that so dramatically changed American politics, journalism and civic engagement than the invention of 24-hour cable news.”

He does add a caveat: The real impact would not be truly felt until others started doing it. Which, of course, they did. But for a long time, and certainly well into the 90s, “CNN became almost generic for breaking news,” Thompson says,” like Kleenex for facial tissues and Xerox for photocopying.”

But it isn't just the 24-hour cycle that defines Turner’s legacy in news. A number of analysts cited, too, how he conceived of news as a global commodity.

Knobel recalls that when she was Moscow bureau chief for CBS beginning in the early 1990s, she would walk into the Kremlin and see CNN on televisions.

“That was the way in which they came to understand what the world was thinking about Russia,” Knobel says. The same was true in other seats of power across the world. “Global programming didn’t exist before Ted Turner came along and said, ‘Not only am I going to build a new channel for America, but there are a lot of people around the world that will probably want to watch this news channel.’”

All of this has become so ingrained by now that it’s hard to convey to younger people that it once didn't exist. Back in the ’70s when Turner — an insomniac — was first dreaming of 24/7 news, in many places you’d turn on your TV late at night and would see only static, a test pattern or an American flag until about 6 am.

Former CNN White House bureau chief Frank Sesno, now a media and public affairs professor at George Washington University, tells his students about the “Walter Cronkite era" — when news was delivered at an appointed time, by a voice from on high, in a 30-minute broadcast (which actually doubled the 15-minute broadcasts there once were.)

“I teach these young people and they have no idea who Ted Turner is,“ Sesno said. “I remind them this was, in fact, the world of Walter Cronkite. Ted Turner came in and and CNN was seen as an upstart, as something that wasn’t going to succeed.” Thus the derisive moniker “Chicken Noodle News,” which was echoing across the industry when Sesno joined the network in 1984 .

“When they hired me, I had zero television experience," he says.

But CNN wasn’t looking for star anchors at the time. The news was supposed to be the star. The stable of stars came later.

The first Gulf War was a turning point

For CNN, a moment of particular success came in October 1987, the year after the Challenger explosion, when 18-month-old Jessica McClure was rescued from a well in Texas after a two-day ordeal. CNN covered not only the outcome but the incremental developments — standard fare today but certainly not so then for TV.

Brooke Erin Duffy, an associate professor of communication at Cornell University, points to public appetite for that story as a key moment for CNN, which covered the “hours and hours of waiting” and allowed audiences to regularly tune in for updates.

But it was during the first Gulf War with Iraq when the entire foundation of news shifted. When other journalists left Baghdad, CNN stayed. With correspondents Bernard Shaw, John Holliman and Peter Arnett doing reports under siege from Baghdad's al-Rashid Hotel, the network changed war journalism forever.

A key factor was technology. CNN's news managers “went to Turner and said you know, there’s a war coming. We need some money to cover it, and Ted Turner said to them well what do you need?” Knobel said. ”What they did with that money is to bring in satellite phone technology that no one else had." It enabled CNN to continue to broadcast news when communications were knocked out.

“I’m someone who competed against CNN for many years working for CBS (and) I can say CNN always had a technological advantage over everybody else," she said, crediting Turner for giving his network the edge.

The 24/7 schedule of broadcasting continuous developments also vastly reshaped what it was like to actually work in the TV news industry. Journalist were increasingly expected to “be available 24/7 to satiate the public’s appetite for news," Duffy said.

After CNN found success, more and more outlets followed suit. The uptick in competition for around-the-clock content made time even more of a currency when it came to breaking news.

“I think one of the consequences is the race for eyeballs within the saturated media landscape,” Duffy said. “Time is the currency in news media.”

Los registros penitenciarios muestran que el sospechoso, Antwon Trinard Glenn, de 29 años, está encarcelado desde el 22 de enero por 29 cargos de fraude de identidad en un caso aparte.

Según los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, la presunta agresión sexual ocurrió el 5 de julio de 2025, mientras la víctima se hospedaba en la casa de su abuela en el suroeste de Miami-Dade, en la cuadra 11000 de Southwest 203rd Terrace.

La víctima declaró a los investigadores que se encontraba fuera de la casa cuando Glenn, que conducía un SUV blanco, se le acercó, la agarró del brazo y la obligó a subir al vehículo “en contra de su voluntad”, según consta en el informe.

Las autoridades indicaron que la víctima denunció haber sido violada dentro del SUV y posteriormente llevada a un apartamento cercano, donde continuó la agresión.

Los registros muestran que Glenn fue entrevistado el 26 de marzo en el Centro de Detención Metrowest en Doral, donde invocó su derecho a un abogado.

En el informe de detención de Glenn no se especificaba si la víctima lo conocía.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Glenn ya había enfrentado cargos, entre ellos el uso fraudulento de identificación y múltiples cargos relacionados con tarjetas de crédito o débito robadas.

Desde el miércoles, se enfrenta a cargos que incluyen agresión sexual a una menor y secuestro, y permanece detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro de Detención de Metrowest.

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Jail records show the suspect, Antwon Trinard Glenn, 29, has been jailed since Jan. 22 on 29 counts of identification fraud in a separate case.

According to deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the alleged sexual battery occurred on July 5, 2025, while the victim was staying at her grandmother’s home in southwest Miami-Dade in the 11000 block of Southwest 203rd Terrace.

The victim told investigators she was outside the home when Glenn, who was driving a white SUV approached her, grabbed her arm and forced her into the vehicle “against her will,” the report states.

Authorities said the victim reported that she was raped inside the SUV and later taken to a nearby apartment, where the assault continued.

Records show Glenn was interviewed on March 26 at the Metrowest Detention Center in Doral, where he invoked his right to counsel.

Glenn’s arrest report did not state if he was known to the victim.

Court records show Glenn previously faced charges including fraudulent use of identification and multiple counts involving stolen credit or debit cards.

As of Wednesday, he is now facing charges that include sexual battery of a minor and kidnapping. He remains held without bond at the Metrowest Detention Center.

Glenn is expected to face a judge Thursday for a hearing on whether he should be held in pretrial detention given the seriousness of the charges and the victim’s age.

El choque ocurrió en una vivienda en la cuadra 5800 de Southwest 62nd Terrace, en un área no incorporada entre South Miami y Coral Gables.

Los agentes dijeron que perseguían al sospechoso, cuyo vehículo era sospechoso, tras reportes de robos en el área.

Indicaron que el conductor resultó herido después del choque y fue trasladado al hospital.

Las autoridades dijeron que, aunque una llamada inicial sobre un robo en progreso en una vivienda resultó infundada, los detectives recuperaron artículos robados en un robo de vehículo cercano.

No se sabe si el conductor, que no ha sido identificado públicamente hasta la tarde del miércoles, enfrentará cargos.

Analistas señalaron el miércoles a The Associated Press que el principal desafío que se presenta una vez que Porras deje el cargo es recuperar la independencia y la credibilidad del Ministerio Público.

“Porras usó la fiscalía y el derecho penal para perseguir selectivamente a operadores de justicia, periodistas, defensores de derechos humanos. Ahora habrá que hacer justicia y recuperar esa confianza en la justicia”, reclamó el exfiscal anticorrupción Juan Francisco Sandoval, quien vive en el exilio luego de denunciar persecuciones orquestadas por la fiscalía a raíz de sus investigaciones anticorrupción.

Un abogado y exjuez es el reemplazante

El presidente guatemalteco Bernardo Arévalo designó el martes al abogado Gabriel Estuardo García Luna como nuevo fiscal general por un periodo de cuatro años en reemplazo de Porras, quien finalizará su gestión el 17 de mayo. La funcionaria había intentado postularse al cargo una tercera vez.

“El Ministerio Público recibe una nueva autoridad que no llega para servir a un presidente, al gobierno de turno, ni a intereses políticos particulares o espurios”, señaló Arévalo, quien se ha considerado también una víctima de las políticas de persecución de Porras.

Sandoval aseguró que el nuevo jefe de los fiscales deberá mostrar voluntad para revisar los polémicos casos de criminalización. “Debe revisarse caso por caso objetivamente para establecer los montajes que se armaron...espero que ningún fiscal, juez o ciudadano vuelva a enfrentar persecución por cumplir con su trabajo o ejercer sus derechos”.

García Luna, de 49 años, es además notario y doctor en derecho con 22 años de experiencia. Ha fungido como juez de paz de primera instancia y magistrado de sala de apelaciones.

Señalamientos contra Porras

Desde hace años varias instituciones vienen alertando sobre la criminalización ejercida por Porras contra colectivos y personas que investigan casos de corrupción, y son críticos de su gestión. Así lo hizo en mayo de 2025 la Relatora Especial sobre la Independencia de los magistrados y abogados de Naciones Unidas, Margaret Satterthwaite.

Stephen McFarland, quien ejerció como embajador de Estados Unidos en Guatemala entre 2008 y 2011, dijo que el nuevo fiscal general se va a enfrentar a “una institución bastante debilitada y desvirtuada”.

El embajador retirado destacó que será necesario averiguar y publicar qué pasó durante la gestión de Porras, "responder por las injusticias e identificar mecanismos para que no vuelva a pasar”.

La fiscalía a cargo de Porras implementó políticas como la de reservar el contenido de expedientes judiciales a los acusados para que no supieran de qué se les acusaba o las pruebas en su contra, muchas veces con el aval de jueces. Uno de los casos es el de los líderes indígenas Luis Pacheco y Héctor Chaclán, acusados de terrorismo por las protestas que lideraron en 2023 pidiendo la renuncia de la funcionaria. A un año de prisión, sus abogados no han tenido acceso a las pruebas en su contra.

La fiscal se ha defendido diciendo que bajo su cargo el Ministerio Público “se transformó” con mejoras continuas y que cumplió con todos los requisitos de idoneidad, capacidad y honorabilidad.

Cuando deje el puesto, Porras perderá su inmunidad y podrá ser investigada por la misma fiscalía si se presentan denuncias en su contra.

Algunas propuestas

Según Claudia Paz y Paz, exfiscal general de Guatemala que vive en el exilio, es primordial “identificar a las personas que forman parte de la estructura que favoreció la impunidad y criminalización, sobre todo los puestos más cercanos a la actual fiscal general porque van a seguir haciendo daño”.

Paz y Paz, que ha denunciado persecución por haber ordenado investigar casos de crímenes de lesa humanidad —tal como exigieron instancias internacionales de justicia—advirtió además que es necesario rescatar ciertas fiscalías desmanteladas, como la de derechos humanos que investigaba crímenes de guerra.

Los analistas coincidieron en que habrá que reactivar la cooperación perdida con otros países y revisar las unidades especiales dedicadas a la lucha contra el crimen internacional que, según dijeron, se usaron para la persecución selectiva.

Sandoval afirmó al respecto que “no hay ni un solo caso de investigación" contra estructuras del narcotráfico en Guatemala que haya derivado en su desarticulación.

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The warning comes after four endangered leatherback turtles were killed in recent boat strikes in the Palm Beach County intracoastal waterway.

From march through October, roughly 40,000 sea turtles come to palm beach county to nest.

But just as the season began, conservationists say four leather backs were killed by boat strikes.

“The loss of one of those individuals is a really great loss to the species as a whole,” said Dr. Heather Barron.

Barron says boat strikes can damage a turtle’s brain, spinal cord, limbs, and even internal organs.

“But one thing is certain,” she said. “They’re almost all pretty bad in terms of their impact on the animal. And the prognosis for the animal is often quite grave.”

And during nesting and breeding season those strikes can make an already vulnerable population even more fragile.

“If many of the sea turtles that would nest in this area are hit by boats and killed that will be fewer and fewer animals that will ever come back here,” said Barron.

Andy Dehart is a CEO of Lagerhead marine life center.

“We’re critically affecting these species that come here for this valuable time in their life,” said Dehart. “We’re a long way from where we used to be where turtles were caught in bycatch and turtles were caught for soup. This isn’t targeted injuries on turtles. It’s just an accident. But what we do hope is that people learn.”

With Memorial Day and the Fourth of July approaching, he says boaters play a key role in preventing these tragedies.

“It’s very preventable if people just monitor their speed,” said Dehart. “There’s no set speed limit. We’re not advocating for a set speed limit, but monitor, go safe in that first mile and a half from shore, put on polarized glasses, and if you can, have a spotter.”

A voluntary sea turtle protection zone remains in place until Oct. 31 and spans all 45 miles of Palm Beach County from shore to one mile out at sea.

La advertencia surge luego de que cuatro tortugas laúd en peligro de extinción murieran recientemente tras ser impactadas por embarcaciones en la vía intracostera del condado Palm Beach.

Desde marzo hasta octubre, aproximadamente 40,000 tortugas marinas llegan al condado Palm Beach para anidar.

Pero justo cuando comenzó la temporada, conservacionistas aseguran que cuatro tortugas laúd murieron tras ser impactadas por embarcaciones.

“La pérdida de uno de esos individuos es una gran pérdida para la especie en general”, dijo la doctora Heather Barron.

Barron señaló que los impactos de embarcaciones pueden dañar el cerebro, la médula espinal, las extremidades e incluso los órganos internos de una tortuga.

“Pero una cosa es segura”, dijo. “Casi todos son bastante graves en términos del impacto en el animal. Y el pronóstico para el animal suele ser bastante crítico”.

Y durante la temporada de anidación y apareamiento, esos impactos pueden hacer que una población ya vulnerable sea aún más frágil.

“Si muchas de las tortugas marinas que anidarían en esta área son impactadas por embarcaciones y mueren, habrá cada vez menos animales que regresen aquí”, dijo Barron.

Andy Dehart es director ejecutivo del Loggerhead Marine Life Center.

“Estamos afectando críticamente a estas especies que vienen aquí durante este momento tan valioso de sus vidas”, dijo Dehart. “Estamos muy lejos de los tiempos en que las tortugas quedaban atrapadas accidentalmente o eran capturadas para hacer sopa. Estas no son lesiones intencionales contra las tortugas. Simplemente son accidentes. Pero lo que esperamos es que la gente aprenda”.

Con el Día de los Caídos y el 4 de Julio acercándose, dijo que los navegantes desempeñan un papel clave para prevenir estas tragedias.

“Es muy prevenible si las personas simplemente controlan su velocidad”, dijo Dehart. “No hay un límite de velocidad establecido. No estamos abogando por un límite específico, pero sí por monitorear, navegar de forma segura durante la primera milla y media desde la costa, usar gafas polarizadas y, si es posible, tener un observador”.

Una zona voluntaria de protección de tortugas marinas permanecerá vigente hasta el 31 de octubre y abarca las 45 millas del condado Palm Beach desde la costa hasta una milla mar adentro.

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Police said Terrell Barry is the suspect who has been busted.

They also say he linked to 10 cases connected to a string of Facebook Marketplace robberies all following the same MO.

Local 10 News spoke to one of Barry’s alleged victims.

She said she traveled with her father to 15221 NE Sixth Avenue after a woman on the website had expressed interest in an iPhone 17 Pro Max

After arriving, she said she received a message from the suspect stating, “I have my boyfriend coming down.”

According to police, there are many victims out there who police said had MacBooks and iPhones stolen just like that.

The charges are piling up on Barry, who was arrested by police and placed behind bars.

Police officers always advise people to make these exchanges at a safe place like a police station, and this story shows just how dangerous these interactions could be.

La Policía informó que Terrell Barry es el sospechoso que fue arrestado.

También indicaron que está vinculado a 10 casos relacionados con una serie de robos en Facebook Marketplace, todos siguiendo el mismo modus operandi.

Local 10 News habló con una de las presuntas víctimas de Barry.

Ella dijo que viajó junto a su padre hasta el 15221 de la avenida NE Sixth luego de que una mujer en el sitio web expresó interés en un iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Tras llegar, dijo que recibió un mensaje del sospechoso que decía: “Tengo a mi novio bajando”.

Según la Policía, hay muchas víctimas a las que les robaron MacBooks y iPhones de la misma manera.

Los cargos siguen acumulándose contra Barry, quien fue arrestado por la Policía y encarcelado.

Los agentes siempre recomiendan a las personas realizar estos intercambios en un lugar seguro, como una estación de Policía, y esta historia demuestra cuán peligrosas pueden ser estas interacciones.

"El objetivo es proteger a la población de Brasil, dar prioridad al país y mantener un diálogo constructivo”, comentó Durigan a la emisora estatal EBC. “Las expectativas para el viaje son muy positivas”.

El encuentro en la Casa Blanca se produce luego de que el año pasado se viviera una crisis en las relaciones bilaterales, después de que Estados Unidos impusiera un arancel del 50% a los productos brasileños y vinculara la medida al enjuiciamiento del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro por su participación en un intento de golpe de Estado.

Lula defendió con firmeza la soberanía de Brasil y, más tarde, Trump flexibilizó los aranceles a Brasil con el fin de reducir los costos para los consumidores estadounidenses.

Trump y Lula comenzaron a recomponer la relación en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en septiembre, lo que fue seguido por su primera reunión privada en Malasia en octubre y luego por conversaciones telefónicas.

La forma en que el gobierno brasileño manejó el arancel del 50% seguramente aumentó el margen de maniobra del país frente al gobierno de Trump, señaló Ana Garcia, profesora de relaciones internacionales en la Universidad Federal Rural de Río de Janeiro.

“Es probable que el gobierno de Trump vea a Brasil como un socio al que hay que tomar en cierta medida en serio, pero seguirá presionándolo para que haga concesiones”, comentó Garcia.

Un punto de fricción entre ambos gobiernos es la presunta consideración del gobierno de Trump para designar como organizaciones terroristas extranjeras a las mayores facciones criminales de Brasil: el Comando Vermelho, o CV, y el Primer Comando de la Capital, o PCC.

Esas designaciones darían a Estados Unidos más poder “para actuar como un actor político o económico en Brasil”, afirmó Leonardo Paz Neves, profesor de relaciones internacionales en la Fundación Getulio Vargas, un centro de estudios y universidad. “Para Brasil es un asunto defensivo que no le sirve en absoluto a sus intereses”.

Un funcionario del gobierno brasileño, que habló bajo condición de anonimato porque no tiene permitido tratar el tema públicamente, indicó que ambas partes parecían comprometidas a profundizar la cooperación en la lucha contra el crimen organizado, en lugar de optar por acciones unilaterales.

Otro asunto clave que probablemente figure en la agenda de la reunión es el acceso a los yacimientos de tierras raras de Brasil. El país sudamericano tiene las segundas mayores reservas del mundo de tierras raras, que son minerales utilizados en una amplia gama de productos, incluidos teléfonos, vehículos eléctricos, paneles solares y motores para avión.

Durigan reiteró el miércoles la postura de Brasil de que el país no quiere ser simplemente un exportador de materias primas.

“Los países del norte global... están sedientos de esta materia prima”, indicó. Pero “aunque la inversión extranjera es bienvenida, queremos desarrollo industrial dentro de Brasil: crear empleos en asociación con nuestras universidades”.

El viaje a Estados Unidos ocurre en un escenario interno difícil para Lula, quien la semana pasada sufrió dos reveses en el Congreso. La Cámara de Diputados anuló su veto a una ley que busca reducir el tiempo de prisión de Bolsonaro, mientras que el Senado rechazó a su nominado para el Supremo Tribunal Federal, algo que no ocurría desde hace más de 100 años.

El mandatario brasileño, de 80 años, buscará un cuarto mandato no consecutivo en las elecciones de octubre. Las encuestas actualmente lo muestran en un empate técnico con el senador Flávio Bolsonaro, el hijo del exmandatario.

Lula partió hacia Washington D.C. a primera hora de la tarde del miércoles y se espera que llegue por la noche.

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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.

Agentes respondieron al área de Northwest Third Avenue y 14th Street, según Carey Codd, portavoz de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward.

Cerca del lugar, Blanche Ely High School, ubicada en 1201 NW 6 Ave., salió a las 2:40 p.m., según Nadine Drew, portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward.

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He famously owned the Atlanta Braves, leveraging his ownership of the TBS superstation to broadcast their games across the country, all while showcasing his outsized personality at a time when many owners stayed behind the scenes.

Turner, who died Wednesday, bought the struggling Braves in the 1970s, put the team on his then-tiny TV station and then sold the signal to cable systems nationwide.

“He effectively transformed the Braves into a team with a national reach and set the table for ways that local teams have now gained more of a national footprint,” said Travis Vogan, a sports media professor at the University of Iowa.

With a burgeoning fanbase that stretched far beyond the South, the Braves turned into a World Series mainstay during the 1990s, and Turner finally hoisted the Commissioner’s Trophy in 1995 before selling the franchise the next year.

In a statement Wednesday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred called Turner a “visionary whose impact on the media landscape transformed how fans experience sports.”

Turner also once owned the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers, and the rest of his sports interests were about as varied as could be — everything from professional wrestling to sailing to the Olympics.

He tried to make the 1964 Olympic sailing team, won a world sailing championship in 1971 off the coast of Long Island and skippered the winning entry in the 1977 America’s Cup — the most famous yachting competition in the world.

“There will never be a time in my life as good as this time,” he said when told he would skipper in the America’s Cup that year. “I can’t believe all this is really happening to me.”

A ‘swashbuckling’ owner

Turner always wanted to be part of the action and famously named himself owner-manager of the Braves in 1977. Atlanta had lost 16 straight, and Turner told manager Dave Bristol to take a few days off. Turner took over, and the Braves lost 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates to extend their losing streak.

“I wanted to see what it’s like down in the trenches,” Turner said that night.

Major League Baseball intervened and put a stop to Turner’s managerial career after that one game — just as they had forced Turner to stop putting “Channel” on the back of the jersey of pitcher Andy Messersmith, who wore No. 17.

But Turner continued to lean into his identity as “Captain Outrageous,” helping to set a model for “swashbuckling” modern-day owners who use their ownership to shape their public image, said Vogan, the Iowa professor.

Larger-than-life sports moguls like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, former Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer “have all emulated Turner by being these kinds of celebrity entrepreneurs that use sports to build their own identities and to build their own kind of brands in the popular imagination," Vogan said.

“Our good friend and former owner, Ted Turner, was one of a kind,” read a statement from the Braves on Wednesday.

A new international competition

Turner’s competitive drive wasn’t satisfied by owning teams, though.

He founded the Goodwill Games, born in large part out of his frustration with the U.S. boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and then the Soviets leading a boycott of the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. He brought the inaugural Goodwill Games to Moscow in 1986, with about 3,000 athletes from 79 countries taking part.

The Goodwill Games would be held five times in all, ending in 2001. There was also a Winter Goodwill Games, held only once — at Lake Placid, New York, in 2000.

“There’s nothing better for kids than sport,” Turner said at the opening ceremony of those Lake Placid Games.

Vogan said the Goodwill Games showcased Turner's “audacity,” even if it didn't work out.

“The fact that he was involved in an initiative like that says a lot about his ambitions and his role as a disruptive force in media,” Vogan said.

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Reynolds reported from Miami.

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The wreck happened at a home in the 5800 block of Southwest 62nd Terrace, in an unincorporated area between South Miami and Coral Gables.

Deputies said they were pursuing the suspect, whose vehicle was suspicious, after reported burglaries in the area.

They said the driver was injured after the crash and taken to the hospital.

Authorities said while an original call about a home burglary in progress was unfounded, detectives did recover items stolen in a nearby vehicle burglary.

It isn’t known if the driver, who wasn’t publicly identified as of Wednesday afternoon, will be charged.

The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump won’t have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals to the high court.

A Manhattan jury awarded Carroll the payout in January 2024. Another jury in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in 1996 and then defamed her after she published her account of it in 2019.

Trump has vehemently denied sexually abusing Carroll or ever knowing her and has repeatedly accused her of making accusations against him for political purposes or to promote her memoir.

In court papers filed with the 2nd Circuit, Smith told the appeals court that Carroll's lawyer does not oppose the request for a stay as long as Trump increases the bond posted after the verdict by $7.4 million to cover any post-judgment interest that would accrue during a possible Supreme Court review.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who represents Carroll, declined comment through a spokesperson.

Smith told the 2nd Circuit that Trump “will suffer irreparable harm” if he must pay Carroll now because she has said publicly that she plans to give the award away, meaning the president would not be able to recover the money if the high court reverses the verdict.

Smith said there was a “reasonable probability” that the Supreme Court will take up an appeal in part based on Trump's insistence that he has absolute immunity from a lawsuit stemming from statements he made while he was president.

In support of his request, Smith cited arguments in a dissent by three 2nd Circuit judges to a decision last week in which the appeals court refused to put the case before all of the court's active judges, leaving standing a three-judge panel's September decision upholding the verdict.

He wrote that there was “at least a fair prospect that the Supreme Court will reverse the Panel.”

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Miramar police took Riyadh Gabbara, 70, into custody on fraud and grand theft charges on Tuesday, stemming from allegations dating back to 2023.

He was already facing charges in a similar case in Pembroke Pines ― and that city’s police force had arrested him on a grand theft charge in November.

In the Miramar case, investigators said the Iraqi-born Gabbara, who owns a company called ME Global Oil Holding LLC, signed a contract with a victim to sell him jet fuel for $140 million.

The victim agreed to make a $200,000 deposit, according to an arrest report. But authorities said he never got the fuel and he never got his deposit back.

“No evidence was found showing any legitimate business activity,” the report states.

Meanwhile, in the Pembroke Pines case, authorities said a victim made a deal with Gabbara to buy crude palm oil in April 2022.

In a similar deal, authorities say the victim agreed to buy the product, made a deposit and never got the oil.

Pembroke Pines police said Gabbara had given the victim a $125,000 check that bounced because Gabbara’s account was almost running on empty: It only had $200.52.

Eventually, police said Gabbara wired the man only $5,000 and the victim lost a total of $82,100 from the fraud.

That case remains pending in the Broward court system.

After his latest arrest, records show Gabbara was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $50,000 bond as of Wednesday afternoon.

La Policía de Miramar arrestó el martes a Riyadh Gabbara, de 70 años, por cargos de fraude y robo mayor, derivados de acusaciones que se remontan a 2023.

Gabbara ya enfrentaba cargos en un caso similar en Pembroke Pines, donde la Policía de esa ciudad lo arrestó por un cargo de robo mayor en noviembre.

En el caso de Miramar, los investigadores indicaron que Gabbara, nacido en Irak y propietario de una empresa llamada ME Global Oil Holding LLC, firmó un contrato con una víctima para venderle combustible para aviones por $140 millones USD.

La víctima aceptó hacer un depósito de $200,000 USD, según un informe de arresto. Pero las autoridades dijeron que nunca recibió el combustible ni recuperó su depósito.

“No se encontró evidencia que demostrara alguna actividad comercial legítima”, indica el informe.

Mientras tanto, en el caso de Pembroke Pines, las autoridades informaron que una víctima hizo un acuerdo con Gabbara para comprar aceite de palma crudo en abril de 2022.

En un acuerdo similar, las autoridades dijeron que la víctima aceptó comprar el producto, hizo un depósito y nunca recibió el aceite.

La Policía de Pembroke Pines indicó que Gabbara le entregó a la víctima un cheque por $125,000 USD que fue rechazado porque la cuenta de Gabbara casi no tenía fondos: solo tenía $200.52 USD.

Eventualmente, la Policía indicó que Gabbara transfirió al hombre solo $5,000 USD y la víctima perdió un total de $82,100 USD debido al fraude.

Ese caso sigue pendiente en el sistema judicial de Broward.

Tras su arresto más reciente, los registros muestran que Gabbara permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal de Broward con una fianza de $50,000 USD hasta la tarde del miércoles.

“The goal is to protect Brazil’s population, prioritize the country and maintain constructive dialogue,” Durigan told state broadcaster EBC. “Expectations for the trip are very positive.”

The encounter at the White House follows a crisis in bilateral relations last year, after the Trump administration imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods and tied the measure to the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro for his involvement in a coup plot.

Lula sharply defended Brazil's sovereignty and Trump later loosened tariffs on Brazil as part of his effort to lower consumer costs for Americans.

Trump and Lula started mending fences at the United Nations General Assembly in September, which was followed by their first private meeting in Malaysia in October and subsequent phone conversations.

The Brazilian government’s handling of the 50% tariff likely raised the country's leverage with the Trump administration, said Ana Garcia, an international relations professor at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

“The Trump administration likely sees Brazil as a partner that must be taken somewhat seriously, but will continue to pressure it to make concessions,” Garcia said.

An ongoing point of contention between the two governments is the Trump administration's reported consideration of designating Brazil’s largest criminal factions — Red Command, or CV, and the First Capital Command, or PCC — foreign terrorist organizations.

The designations would give the U.S. more power “to act as a political or economic actor in Brazil,” said Leonardo Paz Neves, an international relations professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a think-tank and university. “It’s a defensive issue for Brazil that doesn’t serve Brazil’s interests at all.”

A Brazilian government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not allowed to discuss the matter publicly, said that both sides appeared to be committed to deepening cooperation on the fight against organized crime rather than opting for unilateral actions.

Another key item likely to be on the meeting’s agenda is access to Brazil’s rare earth deposits. The South American country has the world’s second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, used in a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, solar panels and jet engines.

Durigan on Wednesday again reiterated Brazil’s position that the nation does not want to be simply a raw material exporter.

“Countries in the global north ... are thirsty for this raw material.” Durigan said. But “while foreign investment is welcome, we want industrial development within Brazil: creating jobs in partnership with our universities.”

The trip to the U.S. is taking place in a difficult domestic scenario for Lula, who last week suffered two blows dealt by Congress. The lower house overrode his veto on a law seeking to reduce Bolsonaro’s time in prison, while the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court — a first in more than 100 years.

The 80-year-old leader will seek a fourth, nonconsecutive term in the October elections. Polls currently show him neck to neck with Bolsonaro’s Senator son, Flávio.

Lula departed for Washington D.C. early afternoon local time Wednesday, and is expected to arrive in the evening.

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“I went to Spain to do PRP,” the NBA scoring champion told reporters as the Lakers prepare to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals. “Everybody knows that it's one of the best countries to do that. Obviously, you know, we talked with the Lakers doctors, so everybody agreed for me to go there.”

Each injection required four days of rest in between, resulting in an extended stay in Spain, he said.

“I know and trust lots of people in Spain that I used to work with before,” he said. “I needed four days in between every shot. I did it four times, so that’s why I stayed longer.”

Doncic was injured during the third quarter of a loss to Oklahoma City. on April 2. The Lakers beat the Houston Rockets 4-2 in the first round of the playoffs, with 41-year-old LeBron James taking up much of the scoring slack.

The Lakers lost to the top-seeded Thunder 108-90 in Game 1 on Tuesday. If Doncic can't speed up his recovery timeline, he would miss the entire series and part of the conference finals, should the Lakers advance.

Doncic said he’s been running but has yet to reintroduce contact. He said it has been hard to watch his team while knowing he can't participate.

“It's very frustrating. I don't think people understand how frustrating it is,” he said. “All I want to do is play basketball, especially this time. It's the best time to play basketball. It's very frustrating to see what my team is doing. I'm very proud of them, but it's been very tough to watch.”

The six-time All-Star also understands that coming back too soon would put him at risk.

“It's a tough one for me. I've come back from injuries too soon before, and it wasn't the best result,” he said. “This is the first time I have a hamstring injury. It's not the same like other injuries. You have to be very careful. I'm doing everything to come back.”

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El polémico streamer e influencer, conocido por promover el “looksmaxxing”, enfrenta un nuevo cargo criminal, esta vez en el condado Miami-Dade.

El Miami New Times informa que los cargos contra el joven de 20 años, cuyo nombre real es Braden Eric Peters, están relacionados con un incidente en marzo en los Everglades en el que aparentemente disparó a un caimán muerto. La publicación informa que los fiscales presentaron los cargos “discretamente” el 29 de abril.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Peters, junto con otras dos personas, enfrenta un cargo menor por descarga ilegal de un arma de fuego tras el incidente del 26 de marzo en los Everglades y el área de manejo de vida silvestre Francis S. Taylor.

Peters terminó en la cárcel en un condado al norte más tarde ese mismo día por una razón no relacionada: la policía de Fort Lauderdale lo arrestó en conexión con una orden judicial de Florida central.

En ese caso, agentes del condado Osceola dijeron que él “instigó” una pelea entre su novia, Violet Marie Lentz, y una mujer de 19 años en un Airbnb cerca de Kissimmee.

Peters publicó la pelea del 2 de febrero en redes sociales “para explotar a las dos mujeres”, dijeron los agentes.

Lentz, de 24 años, también enfrentaba un cargo menor en relación con el incidente, dijeron las autoridades.

En abril, Peters —quien ha sido abierto sobre el uso de drogas como metanfetamina— fue hospitalizado en Miami tras una sobredosis.

En cuanto al caso de los Everglades, los registros muestran que Peters tiene previsto comparecer ante un juez de Miami-Dade el 20 de mayo.

Hill, de 32 años, compareció ante el tribunal vestido con una camisa blanca, sentado junto a sus abogados y manteniendo una expresión seria durante todo el proceso. Hall y su equipo legal estaban sentados al otro lado de la sala.

Según una demanda de 15 páginas, Hall y Hill se conocieron en mayo de 2023 después de que él la invitó a pasar varios días en su casa de Southwest Ranches. La demanda alega que Hall participó en ejercicios de línea ofensiva junto a Hill y su entrenador durante la visita.

El documento afirma que las tensiones aumentaron después de que Hall presuntamente empujó a Hill hacia atrás durante uno de los ejercicios, lo que hizo reír a los presentes, incluidos miembros de la familia de Hill. La demanda también alega que Hill se sintió avergonzado y, poco después, embistió a Hall durante una jugada posterior, causándole una fractura en la pierna derecha.

Hall, de 36 años, fue sometida a una cirugía que incluyó “implantación de hardware metálico”, según la demanda, y ahora asiste semanalmente a terapia física. Ella alega que continúa experimentando dolor persistente y debilidad.

También afirmó que Hill no le brindó atención médica cuando ocurrió el incidente.

Ella busca hasta $50,000 USD en daños, alegando agresión, agresión física, imposición intencional de angustia emocional y negligencia.

El equipo legal de Hill negó haber actuado incorrectamente, argumentando en documentos judiciales que Hall fue negligente al participar en lo que describieron como ejercicios de fútbol americano extenuantes y potencialmente peligrosos.

La selección del jurado continúa. Se espera que el caso avance a juicio una vez que se conforme el panel.

Hill fue liberado de los Dolphins en febrero después de pasar cuatro temporadas con el equipo.

Lea la demanda en el documento a continuación.

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The controversial streamer and influencer, known for promoting “looksmaxxing,” is facing a new criminal charge, this time in Miami-Dade County.

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The Miami New Times reports the charges against the 20-year-old, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, come in connection with a March incident in the Everglades in which he appeared to shoot a dead alligator. The publication reports that prosecutors “quietly” filed the charges April 29.

Court records show Peters, along with two others, is facing a misdemeanor charge of unlawful discharge of a firearm after the March 26 incident at the Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area.

Peters would end up in jail one county to the north later that day for an unrelated reason: Fort Lauderdale police arrested him in connection with a warrant out of central Florida.

In that case, Osceola County deputies said he “instigated” a fight between his girlfriend, Violet Marie Lentz, and a 19-year-old woman at an Airbnb near Kissimmee.

Peters posted the Feb. 2 fight on social media “to exploit the two women,” deputies said.

Lentz, 24, was also facing a misdemeanor charge in connection with the incident, authorities said.

In April, Peters ― who has been open about using drugs like methamphetamine ― was reportedly hospitalized in Miami after an overdose.

As for the Everglades case, records show Peters is set to face a Miami-Dade judge on May 20.

In a statement to Local 10 News, Peters’ attorneys said in part that the streamer was “following the instructions of a licensed airboat guide.”

“He relied on that guidance,” the statement reads. “No animals or people were harmed. We are confident that once the full picture is understood, people will see this for what it is.”

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According to the Hallandale Beach Police Department, Jesus Robert was reported missing but has since reunited with his loved ones.

Authorities have not said what led to his whereabouts.

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Hill, 32, appeared in court dressed in a white shirt, seated with his attorneys and maintaining a serious expression throughout the proceedings. Hall and her legal team were seated across the courtroom.

According to a 15-page complaint, Hall and Hill met in May 2023 after Hill invited her to spend several days at his Southwest Ranches home. The lawsuit alleges Hall participated in offensive line drills alongside Hill and his trainer during the visit.

The filing claims tensions escalated after Hall allegedly pushed Hill backward during one of the drills, which made observers laugh, including members of Hill’s family. The suit also alleges that Hill became embarrassed and, shortly after, charged into Hall during a subsequent play, causing a fracture to her right leg.

Hall, 36, underwent surgery that included “metal hardware impantation,” according to the lawsuit, and now attends weekly physical therapy. She alleges she continues to experience persistent pain and weakness.

She also claimed that Hill failed to get her any medical attention when the incident occurred.

She is seeking up to $50,000 in damages, alleging assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.

Hill’s legal team has denied wrongdoing, arguing in court filings that Hall was negligent in participating in what they described as strenuous and potentially dangerous football drills.

Jury selection is ongoing. The case is expected to proceed to trial once a panel is seated.

Hill was released from the Dolphins in February after spending four seasons with the team.

Read the lawsuit in the document below.

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The San Francisco-based company said in March that it would offer extra compensation to U.S. and Canadian drivers as part of a temporary program to offset a sharp increase in gas prices due to the Iran war. The national average for a gallon of gas on Wednesday was $4.53, up 44% from a year ago, according to AAA.

DoorDash said demand for deliveries remained strong in the January-March period despite higher gas prices, with total orders rising 27% to 933 million. That fell short of Wall Street’s forecast of 954 million, according to analysts polled by FactSet. DoorDash said winter storms closed businesses and dampened demand in some locations.

Revenue also fell short of expectations. DoorDash said its revenue rose 33% to $4.0 billion, which was shy of the $4.15 billion analysts were forecasting.

The company said it's paying for gas price relief by adjusting investments in other areas. DoorDash said in November that it would be spending heavily on new products and services this year, including the addition of restaurant reservations in its app and robot deliveries.

“We did have to push out some investments ... in order to make room for this,” DoorDash Chief Financial Officer Ravi Inukonda said during a conference call with investors. “If we do decide to extend the program, our goal is to find offsets.”

DoorDash said its net income fell 5% to $184 million, or 42 cents per share, for the January-March period. That was partly due to a 30% increase in research and development costs compared to the same period last year.

Still, that beat analysts' forecast of a 36-cent per share profit, according to FactSet.

DoorDash's shares rose more than 11% in after hours trading Wednesday.

DoorDash's earnings report came a week after rival Uber announced a deal with Expedia Group that will let users make hotel reservations through the Uber app.

When asked if DoorDash plans to add a similar service, DoorDash Co-founder and CEO Tony Xu said the company still sees plenty of room to grow its core area of restaurant and retail delivery.

“We are a tiny fraction of what’s actually available and addressable, which in some sense means that there’s a large runway and opportunity for us to become even better in breed in terms of what it is that we can offer,” he said. “And if we can keep doing that, I think we’re going to be just fine.”

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach, Jesús Robert fue visto por última vez en el área de Southeast Third Avenue y Southeast Third Street. Las autoridades indicaron que podría necesitar asistencia.

Robert es descrito como una persona de 5 pies y 10 pulgadas de estatura y aproximadamente 280 libras de peso, con cabello marrón y ojos marrones, según los investigadores.

La Policía informó que fue visto por última vez vistiendo una camisa gris de manga corta, pantalones negros y tenis negros, y llevaba una mochila negra.

Cualquier persona que vea a Robert o tenga información sobre su paradero debe llamar al HBPD al 954-764-4357 o al 911.

Las pistas anónimas pueden enviarse a Broward County Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Seung Ho Han, 69, has also been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following Tuesday's shootings in the Koreatown neighborhood of Carrollton, police said.

Police said Han acknowledged he was the shooter in an interview with detectives and said he was angry at the people he shot because of financial disagreements over their business dealings. They declined to release the names of the victims and said they were still investigating the motive.

Carrollton, with about 130,000 people, is 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Dallas. More than 4,000 residents are of Korean descent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Han was being held Wednesday in Denton County Jail. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.

The first shooting happened just before 10 a.m. Tuesday at a shopping center, police said. When police arrived, they found four adults who had been shot, including a man who died. While they were investigating, another shooting was reported at an apartment complex roughly 4 miles (6 kilometers) away. Responding officers found a dead man inside one of the apartments.

Police said Wednesday that the three injured people were hospitalized in stable condition.

Investigators determined that Han carried out both of the shootings, police said. He was arrested at a nearby grocery store after a short chase on foot.

Jaylan A. Davis was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in the wake of Sunday night's shooting, which erupted after an apparent argument broke out amid a large crowd gathered at Arcadia Lake in the north Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, its police chief said.

Edmond Police Chief J.D. Younger announced the arrest at a news conference and said the initial charge against Davis was in the process of being upgraded to felony murder following the death of an 18-year-old woman who was shot. Police identified the woman as Avianna Smith-Gray.

Davis was being held in the Edmond jail on a $1 million bond. He was listed in jail records as an Oklahoma City resident.

There was no lawyer listed for Davis in court documents, and the Oklahoma County Public Defender’s Office said Davis would not be assigned an attorney until the upgraded charges have been filed.

Detectives believe the incident began with an argument between two women attending the gathering and escalated into an altercation between rival gang members, the police chief said. Younger also said police think there is at least one more suspect.

In addition to the 18-year-old woman killed, authorities said, others suffered gunshot and shrapnel wounds as dozens of shots were fired at the popular boating, fishing and swimming lake some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of downtown Oklahoma City.

Six of the victims are juveniles, some as young as 15, Younger said.

Davis turned himself in Wednesday morning after police produced an arrest warrant, the chief said.

“We’re trying to find justice for 23 people that were shot, one that’s deceased and even the people that were involved. I think it’s important not to demonize or separate the parties here,” Younger said.

He added that multiple people discharged weapons and that more than 80 rounds were fired.

The woman who died, Smith-Gray, was a high school senior who was looking forward to walking the stage at her upcoming graduation, her family said on a fundraising page for her funeral expenses. The family said she loved to dance, sing, do hair and much more. Her sisters described her as a loving, smart person who was good with kids and “so full of life.”

The party had been promoted across social media and drew a large crowd of mostly young adults from around the Oklahoma City area to a picnic pavilion beside the lake. The shooting occurred just as officers were responding to a noise complaint about the party, police said.

Authorities noted that organizers hadn't sought the necessary reservations for such an event.

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The emergency assistance through case management services at the center includes help with rent, mortgage, and utilities.

Related link: Online application

The centers are open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Northwest Center is at 10077 NW 29 St., in Coral Springs. For more information, call 954-357-5000.
• The North Center is at 2011 NW 3rd Ave., in Pompano Beach. For more information, call 954-357-5340.
• The South Center is at 4733 SW 18th St. in Hollywood. For more information, call 954-357-5650.
• The Central Center is at 900 NW 31st Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. For more information, call 954-357-5001.

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

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

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

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

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

Helpful link: Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page

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Upcoming job fairs

The Hospitality Industry Job Fair is from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday at the CareerSource Broward at 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard. Admission and parking are free.

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

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

Resources

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

Vantara solicitó a finales de abril al gobierno colombiano que reconsidere la aplicación de la eutanasia para 80 hipopótamos, como una forma de control de su población que se reproduce sin depredadores, y que permita su traslado al centro de rescate ubicado en Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Las autoridades calculan que en Colombia hay aproximadamente 200 hipopótamos descendientes de los cuatro individuos introducidos al país ilegalmente por el capo Pablo Escobar en la década de 1980 para su zoológico personal en Puerto Triunfo, un municipio en el noroeste del país.

La solicitud de Vantara se da en medio de un fuerte debate en Colombia sobre el manejo de los hipopótamos, luego de que el gobierno aprobara un protocolo para aplicar en los próximos meses la eutanasia, asegurando que las gestiones para llevarlos a zoológicos o santuarios animales no habían sido exitosas.

Algunos científicos que defienden la eutanasia han recibido amenazas por su posición, mientras que animalistas se oponen al “asesinato” y habitantes de Puerto Triunfo temen que sacrifiquen a los hipopótamos que atraen miles de turistas durante todo el año.

Tras el ofrecimiento de Vantara, el gobierno colombiano radicó una petición formal al gobierno de la India buscando saber si autorizan o no el traslado de hipopótamos al centro Vantara, asegurando que deben cumplir con la Convención sobre el Comercio Internacional de Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flora Silvestres (CITES).

El Ministerio de Ambiente indicó el miércoles en un comunicado que sostuvieron una reunión con Vantara en la que acordaron una visita a Colombia por parte de una delegación de expertos y veterinarios especializados en el manejo de hipopótamos, para evaluar sus condiciones, y trabajarán con las autoridades colombianas en la construcción de un plan de posible traslado.

La ministra Irene Vélez enfatizó que buscarán avanzar en las gestiones con Vantara sin suprimir la posibilidad de la eutanasia como medida de control de los hipopótamos, que se suma a la traslocación y al confinamiento.

“Vantara expresó su interés de apoyo integral al plan de manejo, el cual contempla dos protocolos: por un lado, la reducción de la especie a través de la eutanasia y, por otro lado, la reducción de la especie a través de su traslado. Estas medidas deberán implementarse de manera simultánea y complementaria”, aseguró Vélez en un video difundido a la prensa.

Los hipopótamos se han dispersado aproximadamente 43.000 kilómetros cuadrados, dado que la mayoría se mueven con libertad, especialmente por la cuenca del río Magdalena, uno de los principales afluentes del país.

El Ministerio de Ambiente calcula que, de no aplicarse medidas de control, para 2030 serán más de 500 hipopótamos, declarados como una especie invasora.

DeVaux and owners decided to skip the Preakness and set their sights on the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. DeVaux, who became the first woman to train a Derby winner, is from Saratoga Springs, which is hosting the Belmont for a third and final time this year.

“We are incredibly appreciative of the excitement and support surrounding the possibility of a Triple Crown run,” DeVaux said in a statement. “Golden gave us the race of a lifetime in the Kentucky Derby, and we believe the best decision for him moving forward is to give him a little more time following such a tremendous effort. His health, happiness and long-term future will always remain our top priority.”

Golden Tempo is the third Derby winner in the past five years not to be entered in the Preakness. For various reasons, it is the sixth time in eight years the Preakness will happen with no chance of a Triple Crown on the line. American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 are the only horses to sweep all three races over the past four decades.

The two-week turnaround from the Derby to the Preakness, which used to be commonplace, is considered a nonstarter for many trainers and owners given that most elite thoroughbreds now typically go a month or more between races. It has caused endless debate in horse racing circles about the spacing of the Triple Crown in modern times.

Maryland racing officials are considering moving the Preakness back from the third Saturday in May to the fourth to increase the chances of not just the winner but other horses from the Derby being considered for the second leg of the Triple Crown. None of the 18 who ran this year at Churchill Downs are heading to the Preakness, with Golden Tempo the only one considered.

The Preakness is taking place at Laurel Park between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this spring while its longtime home, Pimlico Race Course, is rebuilt as part of a massive construction project that included demolishing the debilitating old structure. Pimlico is set to become the site for year-round racing in Maryland beginning next year when the state takes control from 1/ST Racing, with Laurel becoming a training venue.

Golden Tempo won the Kentucky Derby as a 23-1 long shot in spectacular fashion, making a charge from the back of the pack down the stretch to the finish line a neck ahead of morning line favorite Renegade. DeVaux and co-owner Daisy Phipps Pulito said they would see how the colt came out of the race before making any decisions.

They followed the lead of trainer Bill Mott and Godolphin Racing, which last year chose to bypass the Preakness with Derby champion Sovereignty to give him extra rest for the Belmont. Sovereignty rewarded them by winning the Belmont and the Travers Stakes and is back racing as a 4-year-old.

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The finding escalates the Trump administration's ongoing standoff with UCLA, which has focused mostly on the main campus’s response to allegations of antisemitic harassment.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said in a written statement that its admission process is “based on merit” and that it is committed to complying with state and federal laws. It said it is reviewing the Justice Department findings.

Affirmative action in college admissions has been illegal since a 2023 Supreme Court ruling forbade it. The same ruling said colleges could continue to assess how applicants’ backgrounds might speak to broader characteristics, but Trump has accused colleges of using applicants’ personal statements and other proxies to consider race in admissions, which conservatives view as illegal discrimination.

In March, the Justice Department opened investigations into possible race-based discrimination in medical school admissions at Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego. The Trump administration previously targeted undergraduate admissions at selective colleges, demanding they collect data to show they are complying with the Supreme Court ruling.

A year-long investigation into UCLA by the Justice Department found its medical school discriminated against white and Asian American students by favoring Black and Hispanic applicants.

As part of its evidence, the department cited data showing admitted students who were Black or Hispanic had lower average grade-point averages and test scores in 2023 and 2024. Among Black students admitted in 2024, the average GPA was 3.72, for example, compared with 3.84 for Asian Americans and 3.83 for white students.

The department says that’s evidence the medical school was using non-academic factors to achieve diversity goals.

“As a result of these practices, highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were denied admission on the basis of their race,” said Harmeet Dhillon, head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, in a letter of findings.

The department also took issue with an application document inviting students to volunteer whether they are part of a marginalized group and, if so, to discuss its impact. The question was included in the application process in 2024 and 2025, the department said.

California voters ended affirmative action in college admissions in a 1997 ballot measure. In a brief filed in the Supreme Court case, the UC system said the change led to a precipitous drop in underrepresented minorities, especially at the system’s most selective campuses.

The brief said UC went on to implement “numerous and wideranging race-neutral measures designed to increase diversity of all sorts, including racial diversity.” Even so, the system said it had struggled to increase campus diversity.

The Trump administration finding sets the stage for a voluntary resolution to bring UCLA into compliance with the Justice Department’s legal interpretation or, if none can be reached, potential legal action. Penalties could include a loss of federal funding.

In March, a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they aren’t considering race in admissions.

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Tuesday started with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explaining how the U.S. military was protecting stranded ships so they could traverse the Strait of Hormuz. He insisted it was a defensive operation and the truce was still in place even though Iran had launched missiles and drones at U.S. forces, which sank Tehran’s small attack boats.

That afternoon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters at the White House that the military operation was “concluded” and that the U.S. achieved its objectives. But in almost the same breath, he said President Donald Trump was still seeking a “path of peace” that required Iran to agree to a deal to reopen the vital oil shipping corridor.

By Tuesday evening, Trump announced that the effort to protect ships was paused to see if an agreement could be reached. Then on Wednesday morning, he again warned that bombing would resume if Tehran didn't agree to U.S. terms.

The Trump administration’s shifting and often contradictory messaging throughout the Iran war has produced ever more confusion this week as the president and his aides presented a dizzying narrative over the U.S. strategy to unblock the Strait of Hormuz and wrap up the war that drastically changed over the course of mere hours.

Administration officials have been trying to walk a fine line between maintaining the ceasefire and reopening the strait, where 20% of the world’s oil normally flows. The economic fallout is growing as fuel prices rise, with Republicans facing increasing pressure to find solutions to higher costs ahead of the midterm congressional elections.

Aides are trying to sell Trump's strategies

The Trump administration has struggled with its messaging because the war wasn't well planned, said Elizabeth Dent, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

“Because it happened very quickly, it wasn’t sold to the American public in a way that I think was palatable,” said Dent, a former official in the State Department and Pentagon. “Now I think Trump is sort of doing everything he can to prevent a return of hostilities because he saw how unpopular the war was.”

Throughout the conflict, the president has shifted his priorities and his perspectives on victory. He's offered a murky definition of a ceasefire. And he's provided his own interpretation of a law that requires congressional approval for military operations after 60 days.

The confusion is fueled in part by Trump’s tendency to make off-the-cuff statements that essentially make policy, Dent said. Aides like Rubio and Hegseth must then explain Trump's statements.

The whirlwind 24 hours of decision-making by the Trump administration also reflects a realization that any alternative to an agreement “is going to range from unpalatable to outright ugly” at a moment of great political importance for the Republican president, said Ali Vaez, Iran director at the International Crisis Group.

“This is not an administration that operates based on a policy process. It operates based on impulse. And the president seems now both tired of this war and reluctant to continue investing his political capital into it,” Vaez said.

The administration's narrative whipsaws on the Strait of Hormuz effort

The last couple of days have been emblematic of how the Trump administration's statements can seem out of sync and hard to follow.

The president said Sunday that U.S. forces would safely guide hundreds of stranded commercial vessels out of the strait, which Iran has effectively closed by firing at ships off its coast.

On Tuesday, Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, said two American-flagged freighters transited the waterway to lead the effort, but Iran fired at U.S. ships and the military sank six Iranian small attack boats.

When asked about the fire from both sides, Hegseth said, “No, the ceasefire is not over.” Caine also said Iranian attacks did not reach the level of “restarting major combat operations.”

Rubio later insisted Trump's preference was diplomacy.

“Operation Epic Fury is concluded. We achieved the objectives of that operation,” he said, referring to the code name for the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. “What the president would prefer is a deal.”

A deal seemed closer at hand when Trump said Tuesday night on social media that he was halting the operation in the strait to see what would happen with negotiations.

One key ally, Saudi Arabia, had been skeptical of what turned out to be the short-lived plan by Trump to guide the stranded vessels out of the strait, according to a person familiar with the diplomatic conversations. The person, who was familiar with the conversations but who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the Saudis conveyed they didn’t see Trump’s plan as a feasible way to get the strait open and create confidence for vessel operators and insurers who are looking for a lasting solution to U.S.-Iranian standoff over the waterway.

The Saudi Embassy in Washington did not offer any immediate comment on the kingdom’s position on Trump’s effort, dubbed “Project Freedom.”

By Wednesday morning, Trump was threatening Iran once again.

“If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before,” he wrote on Truth Social.

The U.S. military said Wednesday that it shot at and disabled an Iranian oil tanker as it tried to breach the blockade of Iran’s shipping.

Seeking help from other countries in the strait

Another confusing element is the administration's efforts to persuade allies to deploy warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump has been lashing out at countries unwilling to do more, telling them to “go get your own oil” and saying it was not America’s job to secure the strait. But administration officials have begun actively soliciting help while toning down their language.

Rubio said the issue is not a lack of interest, but that many are unable to provide the necessary resources.

“A lot of countries would love to do something about it. But they don’t have a navy, right? Or they can’t get there in time,” he said.

After Trump's abrupt suspension of the initiative, two U.S. officials said the administration was still deciding whether, and how, to proceed with planning, following the State Department’s formal request for support from countries last week.

The officials, who spoke on Wednesday on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said Trump’s announcement had not been expected and that they had not been offered detailed guidance on whether to withdraw the requests for support.

U.S. allies like Britain and France have rejected on-again, off-again suggestions from Trump that they become militarily involved, but they have led the formation of a separate international maritime coalition to secure the strait — but only once the threat to shipping ends. France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential French-British mission in the strait.

The issue only has been more complicated by Trump’s trip to Beijing next week.

“Going to China while the strait remains closed is humiliating for President Trump and puts China in a position of strength vis-a-vis the United States, because President Trump would have to, as he has done recently, ask for China’s help to resolve a problem that didn’t exist before he launched a war,” Vaez said.

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Amiri reported from New York.

Just don't let that be confused with complacency.

The world's No. 2-ranked player said he feels “more motivated" than ever heading into a major stretch that includes the PGA Championship next week outside of Philadelphia and the U.S. Open next month at Shinnecock Hills. First up though is this week's Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, where McIlroy earned his first PGA Tour victory 16 years ago and has won four times.

“I'm excited for the road ahead,” the six-time major champion said Wednesday after his Pro-Am round.

It's been more than three weeks since McIlroy slipped on the green jacket for a second time after becoming just the fourth player in 90 years to go back-to-back at the Masters.

He described this year's post-Masters break from golf as “less hectic" than last year's whirlwind tour.

The 37-year-old McIlroy spent most of his time at his home in Jupiter, Florida, although he did visit New York with his wife Erica Stoll and attended a White House state dinner held for King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

But it's what he didn't do that has left him feeling refreshed.

He didn't travel back home to Northern Ireland to celebrate his Masters win like he did in 2025, largely because his parents were already in the United States to see it in person. They skipped last year's Masters so as not to jinx their son's chances of completing the career grand slam after years of disappointment.

He also didn't do the media rounds, electing for more “chill” time at home, allowing him to take his daughter Poppy to tennis lessons.

“I gave myself a good 10 days to enjoy myself and then thought I needed to get back on the range and start to practice and get ready for this stretch coming up,” McIlroy said.

The stretch begins Thursday with the tuneup at Quail Hollow, a place where McIlroy is adored by fans and often serenaded with the “Happy Birthday” song given the tournament often falls during his birthday.

He was 20 when he won his first PGA tournament here, earning him immediate popularity in Charlotte.

In some ways, he's become the city's adopted golfer.

He has won here four times on a course that sets up perfectly to complement his length off the tee, including a dominant seven-shot victory in 2015 in which he established a new tournament record at 21-under 267 after a third-round 61.

“I really feel like this tournament got my career going,” McIlroy said. “This is 16 years I’ve been coming here, so it’s been a fun place, I’ve had success. It’s somewhere I always love coming back to.”

He enters this week as the slight favorite to win (+600) over the red-hot Cameron Young (+850), who won last week at Doral.

McIlroy feels good about his chances despite the three-week layoff that included skipping the RBC Heritage and the Cadillac Championship.

He won the Truist Championship by five shots over Xander Schauffele the last time it was played at Quail Hollow in 2024, but surprisingly struggled here at the 2025 PGA Championship, finishing tied for 47th.

“Slightly different setup than the PGA last year, and slightly different conditions,” McIlroy said. “It’s been very dry here by all accounts, so the greens are very firm. The rough is down a little bit. Sort of more, probably more in keeping with what the golf course was like in 2024, when the tournament was last here. The course is great.”

McIlroy said returning to action after winning the Masters a second time feels much different than a year ago.

“I felt like winning the Grand Slam was going to be this life-changing thing and in some ways it was, but in other ways I had to remember like, ‘No, I still have a lot of my career left and I want to keep playing and keep competing,’” he said. “So this year I think winning was validation for all the work that I’ve put in over the last few years to get myself back to this place where I’m winning majors.”

Schauffele said it will be a tall task beating McIlroy this week and moving forward if he plays the way he did at Augusta National.

“His best club (driver) was his worst club, and he still won the tournament," Schauffele said. "That’s a little scary, obviously, if you’re competing against him.”

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La asistencia de emergencia que se ofrece a través de los servicios de gestión de casos en el centro incluye ayuda con el alquiler, la hipoteca y los servicios públicos.

Enlace relacionado : Solicitud en línea

Los centros están abiertos de 8:30 a 17:00.

• El Centro Noroeste está ubicado en 10077 NW 29 St., en Coral Springs. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5000.
• El Centro Norte está ubicado en 2011 NW 3rd Ave., en Pompano Beach. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5340.
• El Centro Sur está ubicado en 4733 SW 18th St., Hollywood. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5650.
• El Centro Central está ubicado en 900 NW 31st Ave., en Fort Lauderdale. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5001.

Con pérdidas superiores a los 2.500 millones de dólares desde 2020, las solicitudes de quiebra se presentaron en 2024 y 2025, y el cierre se produjo el sábado después de que fracasara un rescate gubernamental de última hora de 500 millones de dólares.

“Tenemos 18.000 personas que viven en este país que son personas estupendas y excelentes empleados”, dijo el presidente Donald Trump sobre los empleados de Spirit Airlines en todo el país el 23 de abril en la Casa Blanca.

Spirit Airlines presentó el lunes los avisos de despido ante FloridaCommerce , la principal agencia estatal encargada de la fuerza laboral, e informó del despido de más de 4.850 empleados en Florida.

Esto incluyó más de 3260 despidos en los condados de Broward y Miami-Dade. Hubo 2529 en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, 551 en el Centro de Apoyo de Spirit en Dania Beach y 181 en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Documento relacionado: Aviso de despido (del 2 al 13 de mayo)

Enlace útil : Spirit Airlines lanza una página de reestructuración.

Historias relacionadas

• Spirit Airlines informa de más de 4,850 despidos en Florida.
• Mientras aún visten los uniformes de Spirit Airlines, los solicitantes de empleo comienzan a pedir ayuda.
• Ex empleados desempleados de Spirit Airlines marchan en Dania Beach.
• Spirit Airlines pide a los pasajeros que no acudan al aeropuerto, o de lo contrario, no se realizarán cambios de reserva.

Próximas ferias de empleo

La feria de empleo del sector de la hostelería se celebrará el miércoles de 10:00 a 12:00 en CareerSource Broward, ubicada en 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos.

Miramar organiza una feria de empleo el 20 de mayo, de 10:00 a 14:00, en el Centro Cultural de Miramar, ubicado en 2400 Civic Center Place. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos. Para más información, visite la página de Eventbrite .

La Feria y Exposición de Empleo de Port Everglades se llevará a cabo el 27 de mayo de 9:00 a 13:00 en el Centro de Convenciones del Condado de Broward, ubicado en 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos. Aquí encontrará una lista de las empresas participantes >

Recursos

• Departamento de Trabajo: Los servicios de respuesta rápida incluyen orientación sobre la cobertura de continuación de COBRA.
• American Airlines lanza la página de empleo “Supporting Spirit”.
• United Airlines lanza un programa para dar prioridad a los exempleados de Spirit Airlines en sus contrataciones. Aquí está la página de empleo >
• Southwest Airlines estaba reclutando en esta página .
• Página de empleos de JetBlue
• JetBlue anunció una extensión del “acuerdo de asientos auxiliares durante las próximas dos semanas, sujeto a la disponibilidad de espacio y limitado a los asientos de cabina” para aquellos que quedaron varados mientras trabajaban para Spirit Airlines, y también anunció “entrevistas de empleo preferenciales”.
• Delta publica un comunicado de ayuda
• Para obtener más información sobre la ayuda que ofrece la Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo , llame al 1-800-385-3920.
• CareerSource Broward ofrece servicios como colocación laboral y orientación profesional en tres centros ubicados en 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard y 7550 Davie Road Extension en Hollywood.
• Employ Miami-Dade ofrece servicios para quienes buscan empleo .
• CareerOneStop tiene una base de datos de centros de empleo.
• Para presentar una solicitud de beneficios por desempleo en Florida, llame al 1-800-204-2418 o visite esta página .
• Encuentra tu banco de alimentos local en esta página de Feeding America.

Her remains were never found and she was declared legally dead in 2002. Paul Flores was convicted in October 2022 and ultimately sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the search in the central coast town of Arroyo Grande is related to the ongoing investigation into Smart’s disappearance. Flores’ mother, Susan Flores, lives at the home, according to public records and reporting by a podcast that has closely followed the case.

“The Sheriff’s Office remains committed to bringing Kristin home to her family,” the sheriff's statement said. “No further information is available.”

The “Your Own Backyard” podcast, which helped investigators crack the case by bringing forward additional witnesses, first reported the search and said the home belongs to Flores' mother. Attempts to reach Susan Flores for comment were not immediately successful. The search was ongoing Wednesday afternoon.

Kristin Smart went missing from California Polytechnic State University in May 1996. Prosecutors alleged she was killed during an attempted rape and that the last person she was seen with was Flores, a fellow student.

Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, were arrested in 2021.

Prosecutors alleged Smart’s remains were buried on Ruben Flores’ property and later moved. He was acquitted of accessory charges. That property is different from the one searched on Wednesday.

Paul Flores was sentenced in March 2023 to prison, where he has been physically attacked at least twice.

In 2024, a judge ruled that Paul Flores must pay just over $350,000 to Smart's family for costs they incurred after her death.

The family has said it would forgo restitution if Flores would tell them where Kristin’s body was. Flores’ attorney, Harold Mesick, said in 2024 that the defense did not know where her remains are. Flores maintains his innocence.

The county district attorney’s office said it was helping the sheriff's office with the investigation.

“While those responsible for Kristin’s death — and those with knowledge of her whereabouts — could provide answers at any time, we remain firmly committed to using every lawful tool available to locate Kristin’s remains and to support her family until she is brought home,” District Attorney Dan Dow said in a statement.

La emergencia sanitaria a bordo del barco, anclado al otro lado del océano, ocurre mientras el país sudamericano registra un aumento de casos de hantavirus que muchos investigadores locales de salud pública atribuyen a los efectos, recientemente acelerados, del cambio climático. Argentina, desde donde partió el crucero hacia la Antártida, ha sido clasificada constantemente por la Organización Mundial de la Salud como el país con la mayor incidencia en América Latina de esta rara enfermedad transmitida por roedores.

El aumento en las temperaturas amplía el alcance del virus porque, en parte, a medida que sube el calor y cambian los ecosistemas, los roedores que portan el hantavirus pueden prosperar en más lugares, señalan expertos. Las personas suelen contraer el virus por exposición a excrementos, orina o saliva de roedores.

“El cambio climático entró a Argentina y al haberse tropicalizado Argentina trajo muchos problemas, como dengue, zika, chikunguña y fiebre amarilla. Ese cambio a lo mejor ha favorecido una mayor floración y una mayor cantidad de semillas que son el alimento de estos ratones”, señaló Hugo Pizzi, un destacado especialista argentino en enfermedades infecciosas. “Pero no hay ninguna duda de que, a medida que transcurre el tiempo, es como que se va diseminando cada vez más”.

El Ministerio de Salud argentino informó el martes que se registraron 101 infecciones por hantavirus desde junio de 2025, aproximadamente el doble de los casos contabilizados en el mismo período del año anterior.

Un hantavirus presente en Sudamérica, llamado virus de los Andes, puede causar una enfermedad pulmonar grave y a menudo mortal denominada síndrome pulmonar por hantavirus. La dolencia provocó la muerte en casi un tercio de los casos el último año, según el Ministerio de Salud argentino, por encima de una tasa de mortalidad promedio de 15 en los cinco años previos.

El hantavirus suele propagarse al inhalar excrementos de roedores contaminados y puede transmitirse de persona a persona, aunque eso es raro, según la OMS, cuyo principal experto en epidemias dijo que el riesgo para el público es bajo. La cepa de los Andes es el único hantavirus que se sabe que se transmite de humano a humano.

Las autoridades dijeron que pasajeros del barco MV Hondius dieron positivo al virus de los Andes. Argentina indicó el miércoles que estaba enviando material genético del virus de los Andes y equipos de prueba para ayudar a España, Senegal, Sudáfrica, Holanda y el Reino Unido a detectarlo.

Aún se investiga la causa de la infección

Las autoridades argentinas intentan precisar por qué partes del país viajaron los pasajeros infectados antes de embarcarse en el crucero de bandera holandesa en Ushuaia, una ciudad del sur de Argentina conocida como el fin del mundo. Una vez que conozcan los itinerarios, aseguran que rastrearán contactos, aislarán a los contactos con los que tuvieron una relación más estrecha, y realizarán un monitoreo activo para evitar una mayor propagación.

La OMS, la agencia de salud de la ONU, indicó que la primera muerte a bordo, un holandés de 70 años, ocurrió el 11 de abril. Su esposa, también holandesa y de 69 años, murió el 26 del mismo mes. La tercera pasajera, una mujer alemana, falleció el 2 de mayo.

El virus puede incubarse en un plazo de entre una y ocho semanas. Eso dificulta saber si los pasajeros lo contrajeron antes de salir de Argentina hacia la Antártida el 1 de abril; durante una parada programada en una remota isla del Atlántico Sur; o a bordo del barco.

En la provincia de Tierra del Fuego, donde el buque estuvo atracado durante semanas antes de partir, nunca se ha registrado un caso de hantavirus. Antes de embarcar, la pareja holandesa hizo turismo en Ushuaia y viajó a otros lugares de Argentina y Chile, señaló la OMS.

La principal hipótesis del gobierno argentino es que la pareja contrajo el virus durante una salida para observar aves en Ushuaia, según dos investigadores que hablaron a condición de guardar el anonimato porque no están autorizados a informar a la prensa mientras la investigación sigue en curso. Las autoridades también rastrean los pasos de los turistas holandeses por las laderas boscosas de la Patagonia, en el sur de Argentina, donde se concentran algunas infecciones.

Debido a que los síntomas iniciales se parecen a la fiebre y los escalofríos de una gripe, “un turista, tal vez, dijo no, ‘estoy resfriado’, no le dio importancia. O sea, tiene todos los condimentos para ser un virus muy peligroso”, señaló Raúl González Ittig, profesor de genética en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba e investigador del organismo científico estatal CONICET.

El cambio climático envía a los roedores a nuevas fronteras

En los últimos años Argentina sufrió una sequía histórica. Pero también tuvo episodios de lluvias inesperadamente intensas, parte de un patrón más amplio de clima extremo que los científicos atribuyen al cambio climático.

Parte de esta variabilidad ha creado condiciones que han permitido que el hantavirus prospere, según expertos. Los períodos secos obligan a los animales a salir de sus hábitats habituales en busca de alimento y agua. Las enormes cantidades de lluvia provocan crecimiento de vegetación, dispersando semillas que atraen a roedores que se alimentan de hojas.

“Entonces, cuando hay aumento de la precipitación, aumenta la disponibilidad de alimento. Y eso lleva a que aumentan las poblaciones de roedores. Y ahí si hay algún caso, hay algún roedor infectado, aumenta la posibilidad de que transmita el virus a otros roedores” y, a la larga, a los humanos, explicó Ittig.

Aunque los casos de hantavirus solían limitarse a los extremos australes de la Patagonia, ahora el 83% se encuentra en el extremo norte de Argentina, según el Ministerio de Salud.

Argentina emitió alertas previamente este año

El ministerio emitió una alerta en enero por varios brotes mortales de hantavirus, incluso en Buenos Aires, la provincia más poblada.

Los hospitales rurales están mal equipados, y los residentes no tenían idea de lo que les había golpeado.

Daisy Morinigo y David Delgado dijeron que al principio pensaron que su hijo de 14 años tenía gripe cuando le dio fiebre y dolores corporales. Los médicos que examinaron por primera vez a Rodrigo en el pueblo de San Andrés de Giles lo enviaron a casa con ibuprofeno y la indicación de descansar.

Pero la respiración del enérgico alumno de cuarto grado empeoró. El 1 de enero llevaron a Rodrigo de urgencia a cuidados intensivos. Murió apenas dos horas después de que una prueba de hantavirus diera positivo.

“No le desearía este dolor a nadie en el mundo”, expresó Delgado.

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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.

More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial, Jason Meade is once again awaiting a jury's verdict. The former Franklin County sheriff's deputy and Baptist pastor, who is white, is charged with murder and reckless homicide for shooting Goodson, who was Black, five times in the back as he tried to enter his grandmother’s house in December 2020.

Goodson's death, one of several involving Black people killed by white Ohio law enforcement officers over the previous decade, came at the end of a year in which mass protests swept the nation over the murder of George Floyd.

Goodson’s family in 2024 reached a $7 million civil settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county.

Meade’s defense team opted not to have him testify this time around. During his first trial in 2024, Meade testified that he pursued Goodson after he waved a gun as the two drove past one another, fearing his life and the lives of others were in danger. Meade said he eventually shot Goodson because he turned toward him with a gun.

“Jason had to decide, ladies and gentlemen, whether the gun he had already seen twice was going to be the gun that killed him,” defense attorney Mark Collins told jurors during closing arguments Wednesday. “He had no pause button. He had no crystal ball. And he had no duty to wait for the first shot. The law does not require perfection from our law enforcement officers. It requires reasonableness.”

He said the jury must acquit.

Special prosecutor Howard Tim Merkle, a lawyer for the state, asked jurors, "Who’s got a motive here to deceive?” He argued that the defense had failed to make its case that Meade was defending his life when he shot Goodson.

“So what evidence is there against the idea, the suggestion that Casey turned and pointed the gun?” Merkle asked. “We can start with he's got six shots in his back. They're not in his front." One of the six shots was in Goodson's side.

There is no bodycam video of the shooting, and prosecutors have repeatedly asserted that Meade is the only person who testified Goodson was holding a gun. His family and legal team have said he was holding a Subway sandwich bag in one hand and his keys in the other when he was fatally shot. They do not dispute that Goodson may have been carrying a gun but note that he had a license to carry a firearm.

Goodson’s weapon was found under his body on his grandmother’s kitchen floor with the safety mechanism engaged.

Stacey Price, the nonprofit’s executive director, reported that a portion of the clinic’s ceiling collapsed on Saturday afternoon due to termite damage.

“This moment highlights the realities of an aging facility and the importance of investing in modern, resilient infrastructure to support the lifesaving work that happens here every day,” Price wrote in a statement. “Plans for relocation for a new facility are in place, though still a few years from becoming a reality.”

The center, which holds more than 500 animals, closed portions of the clinic for assessment and repairs. For more information about how to help, visit this page.

Here is a list of other places to take injured animals:

• Pelican Harbor
• Sawgrass Nature Center
• Crow Clinic

Related link: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on injured and orphaned wildlife

Local 10 News Reporter Christina Vazquez contributed to this report.

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Prosecutors said those charged in two indictments, including “corporate attorneys and other financial professionals,” stole “and used confidential information on nearly 30 merger and acquisition deals from several of the nation’s premier law firms, including a firm headquartered in Massachusetts.”

Authorities said they arrested 19 of the defendants on Wednesday. Two are on the run in Russia and Israel, they said.

Federal prosecutors said attorneys Nicolo Nourafchan, 43, of Los Angeles, and Robert Yadgarov, 45, of Long Beach, New York, “recruited other attorneys and insiders to serve as sources of inside information” on major acquisitions and “paid their sources kickbacks consisting of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.”

Authorities said the two also provided information “to a network of traders and middlemen whom they also enlisted to join the scheme.”

According to a news release, one of the middlemen was from South Florida: Gavryel Silverstein, 43, of Hollywood.

Besides Silverstein, the following defendants from Broward and Miami-Dade counties are facing charges:

• Brian Fensterszaub, 45, of Hollywood
• Mark Fensterszaub, 47, of Hollywood
• Simon Fensterszaub, 50, of Fort Lauderdale
• Baruch Igal Hatanian, 39, of Fort Lauderdale
• Yisroel Horowitz, 50, of Hollywood
• Joseph Suskind, 39, of Sunny Isles Beach

Besides Nourafchan and Yadgarov, the other non-South Florida residents publicly identified as charged in the scheme are:

• Pedram Fejal, 39, of Brooklyn, New York
• Ilya Gavrilov, 56, of Russia
• God Izraelov, 46, of Israel
• David Makary, 35, of Covina, California
• Nowel Milik, 52, of Brea, California
• David Moradi, 35, of Brooklyn, New York
• Lorenzo Nourafchan, 38, of Los Angeles
• David Ostrov, 49, of Clifton, New Jersey
• Nicholas Rudela, 30, of Covina, California
• Yechiel Salzberg, 51, of Far Rockaway, New York
• Abe Shilian, 35, of Brooklyn, New York
• Stjepan Vinski, 30, of Glendora, California

“Charges against nine other defendants for securities fraud conspiracy were also unsealed” on Wednesday, prosecutors said.

Investigators said the conspirators “transferred proceeds and kickback payments in cash and through intermediaries and shell companies, in locations like Panama and Switzerland” and disguised them as “loans” or business transactions.

The suspects each face multiple federal charges, including securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and money laundering conspiracy, that could land them in federal prison for decades.

Read the indictments:

Los fiscales dijeron que los acusados en dos acusaciones formales, incluidos “abogados corporativos y otros profesionales financieros”, robaron y utilizaron “información confidencial sobre casi 30 acuerdos de fusiones y adquisiciones de varios de los principales bufetes de abogados del país, incluido uno con sede en Massachusetts”.

Las autoridades informaron que arrestaron a 19 de los acusados el miércoles. Dos están prófugos en Rusia e Israel, indicaron.

Los fiscales federales dijeron que los abogados Nicolo Nourafchan, de 43 años, de Los Ángeles, y Robert Yadgarov, de 45 años, de Long Beach, Nueva York, “reclutaron a otros abogados y personas internas para servir como fuentes de información privilegiada” sobre grandes adquisiciones y “pagaron a sus fuentes sobornos de hasta cientos de miles de dólares en efectivo”.

Las autoridades dijeron que ambos también proporcionaron información “a una red de operadores e intermediarios a quienes también reclutaron para unirse al esquema”.

Según un comunicado, uno de los intermediarios era del sur de Florida: Gavryel Silverstein, de 43 años, de Hollywood.

Además de Silverstein, los siguientes acusados de los condados Broward y Miami-Dade enfrentan cargos:

• Brian Fensterszaub, de 45 años, de Hollywood
• Mark Fensterszaub, de 47 años, de Hollywood
• Simon Fensterszaub, de 50 años, de Fort Lauderdale
• Baruch Igal Hatanian, de 39 años, de Fort Lauderdale
• Yisroel Horowitz, de 50 años, de Hollywood
• Joseph Suskind, de 39 años, de Sunny Isles Beach

Además de Nourafchan y Yadgarov, los otros acusados no residentes del sur de Florida identificados públicamente en el esquema son:

• Pedram Fejal, de 39 años, de Brooklyn, Nueva York
• Ilya Gavrilov, de 56 años, de Rusia
• God Izraelov, de 46 años, de Israel
• David Makary, de 35 años, de Covina, California
• Nowel Milik, de 52 años, de Brea, California
• David Moradi, de 35 años, de Brooklyn, Nueva York
• Lorenzo Nourafchan, de 38 años, de Los Ángeles
• David Ostrov, de 49 años, de Clifton, Nueva Jersey
• Nicholas Rudela, de 30 años, de Covina, California
• Yechiel Salzberg, de 51 años, de Far Rockaway, Nueva York
• Abe Shilian, de 35 años, de Brooklyn, Nueva York
• Stjepan Vinski, de 30 años, de Glendora, California

“Los cargos contra otros nueve acusados por conspiración para fraude de valores también fueron revelados” el miércoles, dijeron los fiscales.

Los investigadores dijeron que los conspiradores “transfirieron ganancias y pagos de sobornos en efectivo y a través de intermediarios y compañías ficticias, en lugares como Panamá y Suiza” y los disfrazaron como “préstamos” o transacciones comerciales.

Los sospechosos enfrentan múltiples cargos federales, incluidos fraude de valores, conspiración para cometer fraude de valores y conspiración para lavado de dinero, que podrían llevarlos a prisión federal durante décadas.

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The debate, broadcast on CNN, was one of their last chances to pitch themselves to voters and stand out from the pack in their primary election bids to succeed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who terms out in January. Mail voting is already underway, and voters have until June 2 to cast their ballots. The top-two vote getters will advance to the general election in November, regardless of party.

Though California hasn’t had a Republican governor in more than a decade, the specter hangs over the race as the field is still crowded with less than a month to go.

Candidates who took part in the debate include Democrats Xavier Becerra, a former health secretary for the Biden administration; Katie Porter, a former congresswoman; Tom Steyer, a billionaire climate activist; Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose; and Antonio Villaraigosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles; as well as Republicans Steve Hilton, a conservative commentator; and Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff.

Here's how they responded on some of the key issues:

Universal healthcare

The candidates sparred over whether they'd eliminate private health insurance in favor of a state-run system, an idea that has failed repeatedly in Sacramento.

Porter, who backs a government-run healthcare system, pressed Becerra on his stance since he's wavered on the issue recently.

“Do you support CalCare — California having its own state-run, single-payer system, yes or no?” Porter asked.

Becerra gave a vague answer.

“The most important thing about having a Medicare for All plan is that it includes everyone,” he said. “What we have to do is get to the point where we are covering everyone with something like Medicare for All.”

Mahan, who opposes a state-run system, later chimed in and said Becerra “was unable to clearly answer the most important question on healthcare.”

Becerra contested: “I did answer that question.”

Steyer joined Porter in saying he'd support it, while Bianco, Hilton, and Villaraigosa said it wasn't practical or would cost too much.

When the debate turned to healthcare access for immigrants, the candidates were divided.

Steyer, Porter and Becerra said they supported state-funded healthcare coverage for low-income immigrants without legal status, which Newsom passed then pared back. Bianco called the policy “ridiculous.”

Immigration

Other arguments about immigration fell largely along party lines.

The Democrats sharply rebuked the Trump administration's immigration raids.

Steyer said the state should prosecute federal agents and immigration enforcement leaders who racially profile or use violence against Californians. Mahan said business owners in San Jose have lost customers because many immigrants are afraid to leave their house.

But Bianco said he supported Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, saying agents were enforcing the law and working to deport people he referred to as “criminals” in the country illegally.

Hilton, who's from England, pointed out that he was the only immigrant on stage. The candidates shouldn't conflate legal and illegal immigration, he said.

“Although it is the federal government's responsibility to determine and implement immigration policy, I think it's important that all the laws are peacefully enforced,” Hilton said. “As governor, I would make sure that we work with the federal government to enforce our laws.”

President Donald Trump

The Democrats each emphasized they would fight Trump on immigration policy in particular.

Neither Hilton, whom Trump has endorsed, nor Bianco, invoked him much except to say that Democrats unfairly blame him for the state’s woes.

Becerra mentioned Trump the most, noting he sued the administration many times while serving as state attorney general from 2017 to 2021, when he was appointed health secretary under then-President Joe Biden.

“I’m going to repeat Donald Trump as often as I have because he’s the menace,” Becerra declared.

When Villaraigosa pressed Hilton to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Hilton refused to answer.

“Endlessly going on about Donald Trump doesn’t serve the needs of the struggling families and small businesses,” Hilton said.

Mahan sought to find middle ground. He said Becerra was wrong to blame high gas prices solely on Trump, but also noted that San Jose has sued the Trump administration over immigration policy. He said it was disqualifying for the Republican candidates to support Trump’s “cruel and ineffective policies.”

Porter, meanwhile, put it simply: “Donald Trump sucks.”

Gas tax and proposed billionaires tax

Steyer was the only candidate on stage to say he’d vote for a proposed billionaires tax expected to appear before voters in November. The one-time tax proposal aims to backfill funding cuts signed into law by Trump that reduced healthcare access for low-income people.

Porter also supports some increased taxes on California’s ultrawealthy but called the proposed tax a temporary fix to a long-term problem.

Meanwhile Mahan said he would suspend the gas tax because it unfairly burdens working families.

Hilton would make people's first $100,000 free of income tax.

Mahan and Steyer said they'd tax artificial intelligence companies and use the money to support workers, for example through workforce development training.

“The answer is to tax these companies, not to regulate them to the point that they simply go to other places,” Mahan said.

The FBI confiscated the Tennessee Republican's cellphone in August 2024 to examine issues with his campaign finance reporting, but it had agreed not to review material from it and his personal email account as he challenged the matter in court.

A judge had not yet ruled on Ogles' challenge when defense lawyers revealed in a court filing on Tuesday that the Justice Department had voluntarily agreed to “promptly” return his phone and destroy the information it had obtained from it and his Google email account.

The investigation, started under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, had remained open under President Donald Trump, a Republican, but had stalled while the government awaited the judge’s ruling on whether investigators could examine Ogles’ phone and emails. The Justice Department's criminal division last year, led at the time by acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti, had concluded the investigation should move forward even after local prosecutors in Tennessee withdrew from the case, a criminal division prosecutor wrote in an email last July urging the Tennessee attorneys to reconsider.

The move comes as the Justice Department is facing intense scrutiny over its pursuit of Trump’s perceived political enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat.

The Department of Justice didn't immediately respond to questions on Wednesday about its decision and whether it was formally closing the Ogles investigation. Ogles' lawyers told the court they were notified of the decision during discussions with the department's criminal division, now led by Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva.

Ogles called it a “complete win for the responsible exercise of prosecutorial discretion and respect for the Constitution’s Separation of Powers.” Ogles is still facing a House Ethics Committee investigation.

“From the day the FBI showed up, I said this investigation should never have happened and that the Biden DOJ had no right to rummage through a sitting congressman’s legislative communications," Ogles said in a statement. "Today the Justice Department has effectively acknowledged I was right."

At the time his phone was seized, Ogles said his understanding was that the FBI was investigating “mistakes" in his initial financial filings that had been “widely reported for months.”

Ogles reported making a $320,000 loan to his campaign committee in 2022. He later amended his filings to show that he only loaned his campaign $20,000, telling news outlets that he originally meant to “pledge” $320,000 but that pledge was mistakenly included in his campaign reports.

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On Wednesday, the Coral Gables-based nonprofit organization announced Attorney Rachael Curran filed a petition to initiate an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In a statement, Curran, who represents Miami Waterkeeper in the appeal, said the nonprofit was asking the court to ensure that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy, “meaningfully evaluates and mitigates, as required by law, the real risks” of extending operations at the Turkey Point facility from 2032 through 2053.

Rachel Silverstein, the chief executive officer of Miami Waterkeeper, highlights that the Turkey Point nuclear plant and its cooling canals, on the edge of Biscayne Bay, sit atop the Biscayne Aquifer, the primary source of drinking water for millions in South Florida.

“The NRC’s decision to allow this risky nuclear license extension to remain does not resolve the serious environmental risks posed by operating this facility for decades longer, like ongoing groundwater contamination into our drinking water supply, and operating into an era of climate risks like sea level rise, high temperatures, and stronger storms,” Silverstein said.

The Florida Power & Light Company reports that Turkey Point generates “enough power to supply the annual needs of more than 900,000 homes.“ It has been in operation since 1972.

For more information about Miami Waterkeepers’ efforts, visit this page.

Related document: The 96-page petition filed

Related link: County guide to ‘prepare for a nuclear power plant emergency’

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Local 10 News Reporter Christina Vazquez contributed to this report.

For the moment, that's just a formality based on results. The 41-year-old Vonn is still at least a year and a half — along with an ACL surgery — away from even thinking about returning to the World Cup circuit.

She may also retire. She's still sorting all of that out.

Vonn has already undergone eight surgeries since her crash in the women's downhill race on Feb. 8 at the Milan Cortina Games. She suffered a complex tibia fracture that nearly led to amputating her left leg. Vonn was competing in the race on a torn left ACL, which she injured in a crash leading into the Winter Olympics.

The nomination process is the first phase of making the U.S. Ski & Snowboard team. Those ski racers who accept the nomination, and meet the requirements, will be officially announced to the team in October. The opening World Cup races take place with a giant slalom in Söelden, Austria, in late October.

Other athletes who were nominated include Mikaela Shiffrin, the reigning World Cup overall champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist, along with Olympic downhill champion Breezy Johnson. On the men's side, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, who captured his second Olympic super-G silver medal in Italy, was selected.

Paula Moltzan and Jacqueline Wiles also earned a nomination to the A-team after combining to take an Olympic bronze in the women's team combined. Johnson and Shiffrin finished fourth in that event. Lauren Macuga is on the nomination list, too. She missed the Milan Cortina Games after tearing her ACL.

Vonn, a three-time Olympic medalist, came out of retirement in November 2024 after nearly six years away. She was feeling healthy and strong again following a partial titanium implant in her right knee.

She found her speed, too, winning two World Cup races during the 2025-26 season and recording three other podium finishes in five races. She was leading the World Cup downhill standings before her crash at the Olympics. She wound up fifth.

Vonn, who's won 84 World Cup races, has maintained she's not ready to decide her future. Instead, she's focused on healing. Vonn recently attended the Met Gala, using only a cane.

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Back in 1998, McGwire hit 70 homers to edge out Sosa's 66 as both players blew past Roger Maris’ single-season major league record of 61. The duel between the St. Louis Cardinals slugger and his Chicago Cubs counterpart helped rejuvenate baseball.

College softball has a similar home run race going on this year, providing an opportunity to boost an already rising sport.

Laura Espinoza's single-season record of 37, set for Arizona way back in 1995, could fall in the coming days. Oklahoma's Kendall Wells leads the pack with 36. A pair of UCLA seniors also are in the mix — Megan Grant has 35 homers and Jordan Woolery has 33 as the teams head into their conference tournaments.

Grant said pitching speeds increased in recent years and the hitters have caught up. UCLA and Oklahoma both have 173 home runs, having already shattered Oklahoma’s single-season record of 161 set in 2021.

Woolery said the game evolves in cycles.

“I think it’s just kind of one of those years or like, probably the next few years where we’ll see a lot of offensive power,” she said. “Then maybe in four years, when this freshman class is seniors, we’ll some more dominant pitching and go back to those 1-0 games. I think it’s going to ebb and flow throughout time.”

The trio of sluggers aren’t the only ones hitting the long ball. Teams this season have exceeded last year's home run total across Division I softball with an entire month of action remaining. As of Monday, the national average of 0.80 home runs per game would top the record of 0.77 home runs per game set in 2015.

Wells, Grant and Woolery can add to their numbers this week. Oklahoma will play LSU or Georgia in its Southeastern Conference tournament opener on Thursday. UCLA will play Northwestern or Penn State on Thursday in its Big Ten Tournament opener.

Grant and Woolery may have more homers ahead, despite being seniors. Grant was selected fourth in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League draft on Monday (Portland Cascade), while Woolery was chosen sixth (Utah Talons).

Grant said she and Woolery don't compete against each other.

“Honestly, we know we help each other and we both want to win more than anything,” Grant said. “And so it’s just nice watching one of my best friends be able to achieve her dream.”

Woolery said her improvement has been gradual. She hit 23 homers last year and has 77 in her career.

“I feel like as I’ve gotten older and just better and more refined in my craft, I think I’ve realized I don’t need to work as hard to hit, maybe, borderline pitches,” she said. “So seeing the pitch more over the heart of the plate, I think makes it easier to get a little bit more power.”

Grant bats second in UCLA’s order and Woolery hits third, so Woolery takes advantage of Grant's ability to get on base. Espinoza’s record of 132 RBIs, also set in 1995, is also in jeopardy because Woolery has 106 heading into league tournament play.

What makes Wells’ production so shocking is that she was in high school last year. Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo set the career record of 122 home runs in 2022, and Wells is on pace to eventually catch her.

“To be able to put up those numbers is quite literally insane, but also to do it as a freshman — I mean I can’t give her enough kudos,” Grant said. “She is really changing the game as we speak, and it’s just been really awesome to hear about.”

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The 76ers were limited to 12 points in the fourth quarter and lost 108-102 to the New York Knicks to fall into a 2-0 deficit in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Embiid was ruled out about six hours before the game with a sprained right ankle and a sore right hip. Coach Nick Nurse said Embiid woke up with soreness and was treated during the 76ers' morning shootaround. The team's medical staff determined afterward that Embiid would be unable to play.

Andre Drummond started and Adem Bona backed him up. They combined for 15 rebounds but both were in foul trouble. Drummond took only two shots and Bona didn't take any.

That's nowhere near the kind of offense the 76ers can count on from Embiid, who has averaged 25.2 points in five games thus far.

“We feel like we should have won it,” 76ers guard VJ Edgecombe said. “It came down to shot-making at the end of the game. They were making shots, we weren’t.”

Embiid struggled through a short night in the Knicks' 137-98 romp in Game 1, scoring 14 points on 3-for-11 shooting in 25 minutes before the starters were benched with the game out of reach.

Embiid had been listed as probable to play in that game with a bruised right hip before being cleared, and the Knicks repeatedly took advantage of his lack of mobility to create open shots.

Embiid returned from a late-season appendectomy during Game 4 of Philadelphia's first-round series against Boston and helped the 76ers overcome a 3-1 deficit to win the series.

It's unclear whether the pain around Embiid's hip is replated to the appendectomy. He winced and grabbed his abdomen at one point in Game 1 after Knicks guard Mikal Bridges collided with him on a screen in the first half.

Embiid later said he felt the contact was unnecessary.

“Obviously based on what’s been going on, I guess I’ve got to protect it more,” Embiid said. “I don’t know if it was dirty or not, so I guess I’ve got to do a better job of protecting, especially that part.”

Tyrese Maxey bounced back from a passive performance in Game 1 with 26 points, while Paul George and Kelly Oubre Jr. each had 19. Edgecombe finished with 17, but Philadelphia was just 4 for 17 in the fourth quarter.

Embiid might have made a difference, though the Sixers are used to playing without him. It has been years since the former MVP has truly been healthy.

“I said this before, but coming back from that appendectomy so quick was not easy for him to do,” Nurse said. “He’s worked extremely hard to get back and he continues to want to play badly and I feel really bad for him, because he really wants to be out there and we want him out there.”

Perhaps Embiid will get a chance this weekend, with Games 3 and 4 in Philadelphia. Either way, the 76ers believe they can make another comeback.

“We definitely feel like we can pull ourselves out of this one,” Maxey said. “Kind of go home, get two.”

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The main reason drivers are paying more at the pump is because the war has stranded oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil normally passes. The price of crude oil, which is the main ingredient in gasoline, climbed for most of the past two months because Iran has effectively shut the waterway located off its coast.

In mid-April, U.S. gasoline prices fell daily for almost two weeks amid signs the conflict could be winding down.

“After the announcement of the initial ceasefire, there was kind of optimism that this really could be the beginning of the end of the conflict,” said Rob Smith, director of global fuel retail at S&P Global Energy. “And so crude prices came down correspondingly, gasoline spot prices followed, and so on and ... the retailers lowered prices as well.”

But gasoline prices reversed course and began increasing again as deepening hostilities over the strait between the U.S. and Iran kept oil supplies constrained.

“There’s a fundamental shortfall that will exist globally or fundamental struggle to meet that demand that will drive up price,” Smith said. “No matter what a government says or what any market person thinks, there is a true kind of upward pressure that’s being exerted on prices every day the Strait of Hormuz is constrained. And it is still severely constrained.”

Who sets gasoline prices

Gas station owners set prices at the pump, but a lot of factors go into what they decide to charge.

The main ingredient in gasoline cost is the price of a barrel of crude oil. In the U.S., oil prices represented about 51% of the price of a gallon of gasoline in 2025, according to the Energy Information Administration.

That means when crude oil prices rise, gasoline prices generally follow. Less oil on the market means higher prices for oil and gasoline.

Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the war triggered the largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets, according to the International Energy Agency, pushing oil prices as high as $112 a barrel in early April.

Oil prices fell below $100 a barrel Wednesday after the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving closer to an initial agreement to end the war. That could pull gasoline prices down as well, if the trend continues.

Bob Kleinberg, adjunct senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, compared the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. with the price for a barrel of WTI, the U.S. benchmark oil, over the past few weeks, and said their price changes generally matched up.

“Not much of a mystery here,” Kleinberg said. “It's not exactly proportional but the shape of the curves follows the same pattern, and really with very little delay.”

Federal and state taxes contributed about 17% of the oil price, refining costs and profits contributed 14% and distribution and marketing contributed 17%, the EIA said. In some states, such as California, higher taxes and refining costs push the price of gasoline well above the national average.

What caused renewed march in gasoline prices

One event that could have changed the trajectory of gasoline prices occurred in April, when the U.S. blocked Iranian ports to stop the country from exporting oil.

“Iran had been moving an unusually high amount of oil to global markets, so that was helping moderate prices," said Jim Krane, energy research fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute. "The Trump administration decides they’re going to punish Iran, and try to put more pressure on Iran by blocking their exports, so of course that does put pressure on Iran, but also puts pressure on global oil prices and forces them up. That was probably a big factor.”

What refineries and traders are willing to pay for oil swings wildly after news breaks about attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf or diplomacy talks stalling. “The oil market is exquisitely sensitive to what’s coming out of the White House,” Kleinberg said.

Back in early March, at the beginning of the Iran war, the price of gasoline jumped 48 cents in a week. The highest weekly jump was in March 2022, when the price jumped 60 cents in a week after Russia invaded Ukraine, AAA said.

No quick fix

No one can predict how high gasoline prices will climb. A gallon of regular in the U.S. costs more now than it did in early May of 2022, and back then, the price kept climbing through Memorial Day, AAA said.

The longer the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is hindered, the higher prices will go and the longer it will take to get back to normal, Smith said.

“Even if there was a true and lasting resolution of the conflict, both sides agree to play nice and truly do commit to keeping Hormuz open, it will still take months to get back to what it was pre-war, if not even longer,” Smith said. “There will still be within the industry a risk premium associated with going through that region. Not that it was ever a perfectly safe journey, but the past few months have shown that it’ll be hard to convince shippers and insurance companies that the risk level will be similar to what it was in February. It’ll be a long time before anyone can be convinced of that.”

Why U.S. oil production alone can’t solve the problem

The U.S. exports more oil than it imports, and oil is the main ingredient in gasoline. But oil is traded on a global market, so events happening in other parts of the world impact prices for everyone. Also, nearly 70% of U.S. refineries are set up to process heavy, sour crude, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), a trade association. And much of the oil produced in the U.S. is light, sweet crude, which was unlocked during the shale revolution.

As a result, just 60% of the oil processed in U.S. refineries comes from domestic oil fields, according to the AFPM. Retooling domestic refineries would cost billions of dollars, the group said, and would require shutting down those refineries temporarily, which generally raises gasoline prices.

The health emergency aboard the ship that's moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local public health researchers attribute to the recently accelerating effects of climate change. Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin America.

Higher temperatures expand the virus’ range because, in part, as it gets warmer and ecosystems change, rodents that carry the hantavirus can thrive in more places, experts say. People typically contract the virus from exposure to rodent droppings, urine or saliva.

“Argentina has become more tropical because of climate change, and that has brought disruptions, like dengue and yellow fever, but also new tropical plants that produce seeds for mice to proliferate,” said Hugo Pizzi, a prominent Argentine infectious disease specialist. “There is no doubt that as time goes by, the hantavirus is spreading more and more.”

The Argentine Health Ministry on Tuesday reported 101 hantavirus infections since June 2025, roughly double the caseload recorded over the same period the previous year.

A hantavirus found in South America, called the Andes virus, can cause a severe and often fatal lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The disease led to death in nearly a third of cases in the last year, Argentina’s Health Ministry said, up from an average mortality rate of 15 in the five years before that.

Hantavirus usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings and can spread person-to-person, though that is rare, according to the WHO, whose top epidemic expert said the risk to the public is low. The Andes strain is the only hantavirus known to spread from human to human.

Authorities said passengers on the MV Hondius ship tested positive for the Andes virus. Argentina on Wednesday said it was sending genetic material from the Andes virus and testing equipment to help Spain, Senegal, South Africa, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom detect it.

The cause of infection remains under investigation

Argentine officials say they’re trying to pin down where infected passengers traveled in the country before boarding the Dutch-flagged cruise liner in Ushuaia, a city in southern Argentina known as the end of the world. Once they know the itineraries, they plan to trace contacts, isolate close contacts and actively monitor to prevent further spread.

The U.N. health agency, or WHO, says that the first death on board, a 70-year-old Dutch man, happened on April 11. His 69-year-old wife, also Dutch, died on April 26. The third passenger, a German woman, died on May 2.

The virus can incubate for between one and eight weeks. That makes it hard to know whether the passengers contracted the virus before leaving Argentina for Antarctica on April 1; during a scheduled stop to a remote South Atlantic island; or aboard the ship.

The province of Tierra del Fuego, where the vessel docked for weeks before departing, has never seen a case of hantavirus. Before boarding, the Dutch couple went sightseeing in Ushuaia, and traveled elsewhere in Argentina and Chile, WHO said.

The Argentine government’s leading hypothesis is that the couple contracted the virus during a bird-watching outing in Ushuaia, according to two investigators who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, with the investigation ongoing. Authorities are also tracing the Dutch tourists' footsteps through the forested hillsides of Patagonia in southern Argentina where some infections are clustered.

Because early symptoms resemble the fever and chills of a flu, “tourists might think they just have a cold and not take it seriously. That makes it particularly dangerous,” Raul González Ittig, genetics professor at the National University of Córdoba and a researcher at state science body CONICET, said.

Climate change sends rodents to new frontiers

Argentina in recent years endured a historic drought. But it also had bouts of unexpectedly intense rainfall, part of a broader pattern of wild weather that scientists attribute to climate change.

Some of this variability has created conditions that have allowed hantavirus to flourish, experts say. Dry spells drive animals out of their usual habitats in search of food and water. Huge amounts of rain lead to vegetation growth, scattering seeds that attract leaf-munching rodents.

“When precipitation increases, food availability increases, rodent populations grow, and if there are infected rodents, the chance of transmission between rodents — and eventually to humans — also increases,” Ittig said.

Although hantavirus cases once were limited to the southern reaches of Patagonia, now 83% of cases are found in Argentina’s far north, according to the Health Ministry.

Argentina issued alerts early this year

The ministry issued an alert in January about several fatal outbreaks, including in the most populous province of Buenos Aires.

With rural hospitals underequipped, residents had no clue what hit them.

Daisy Morinigo and David Delgado said they initially thought their 14-year-old son had the flu when he came down with a fever and body aches. Doctors who first saw Rodrigo in the town of San Andrés de Giles sent him home with ibuprofen and orders to rest.

But the feisty fourth grader's breathing worsened. On Jan. 1, they rushed Rodrigo to intensive care. He died just two hours after a hantavirus test came back positive.

"I wouldn’t wish this pain on anyone in the world,” Delgado said.

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A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report states the incident happened at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, located at 11750 SW 40th St., on Tuesday night.

The report states that Michael Stevenson, 50, of Key Largo, backed into the victim’s vehicle “and when he approached him, (Stevenson) became irate and slapped him in the face.”

Authorities said Stevenson then picked up the victim’s phone from the ground and “launched” it at a fence. They said he then grabbed an expandable baton from his vehicle and launched it at the victim.

“The victim expressed he feared for his life and thought the weapon was a machete and ran towards to the hospital entrance to advise the on duty officer,” the report states.

Deputies said as they took Stevenson into custody, he kept trying to move his handcuffs to the front and was behaving “disorderly.”

According to the report, while being restrained, Stevenson said to a deputy, “I will f---ing kill you.”

Deputies said Stevenson also told them that he is in the Aryan Nation neo-Nazi gang. They said he had a service dog with him, which was handed over to Miami-Dade Animal Services.

Stevenson now faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, death threats to a law enforcement officer, battery and criminal mischief.

Records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $7,500 bond.

Un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade indica que el incidente ocurrió en el hospital HCA Florida Kendall, ubicado en 11750 SW 40th St., el martes por la noche.

El informe señala que Michael Stevenson, de 50 años, de Key Largo, retrocedió contra el vehículo de la víctima “y cuando este se le acercó, (Stevenson) se enfureció y le dio una bofetada en la cara”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Stevenson luego recogió el teléfono de la víctima del suelo y lo “lanzó” contra una cerca. Indicaron que después tomó un bastón extensible de su vehículo y lo arrojó contra la víctima.

“La víctima expresó que temió por su vida y pensó que el arma era un machete, y corrió hacia la entrada del hospital para avisar al agente de turno”, indica el informe.

Los agentes dijeron que mientras detenían a Stevenson, este intentaba mover las esposas hacia el frente y se comportaba de manera “desordenada”.

Según el informe, mientras era inmovilizado, Stevenson le dijo a un agente: “Te voy a matar”.

Los agentes dijeron que Stevenson también les dijo que pertenece a la pandilla neonazi Aryan Nation. Indicaron que tenía un perro de servicio con él, el cual fue entregado a Miami-Dade Animal Services.

Stevenson ahora enfrenta cargos de agresión agravada con arma mortal, amenazas de muerte a un agente del orden, agresión y daño criminal.

Los registros muestran que permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced “Project Freedom,” a way for the U.S. to “guide” ships to exit the strait. Two ships made the transit, but by Tuesday Trump abruptly paused the effort to allow time for a deal to end the war.

Meanwhile, the risks for ships and crew haven't faded. A cargo container ship operated by the CMA CGM Group was damaged when it came under attack while attempting to transit the strait, the French shipping company said Wednesday, and concerns about Iranian speedboats and drones are leading major ship owners and operators to say the strait remains too dangerous.

“Ultimately, it’s still going to come back to the primary issues of risk and safety," that shippers have to evaluate, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C. ”It seems as though we’re not anywhere near to returning to a free flow of traffic and navigation through the strait," he added.

Costs pile up as goods, oil and ship workers remain stranded

Before the Iran war, 100 to 135 vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz daily, according to research firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence, but that has slowed to a trickle as Iran has demanded that vessels go through a vetting process run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to receive safe passage. The process requires ships to follow a route near Iran’s coast, submit information on crew and cargo, and in at least some cases, pay a fee. Meanwhile, paying the IRGC risks running afoul of sanctions from the U.S. and the EU, which have designated it a terrorist organization.

Goods stranded in the strait include oil and oil products such as fertilizer, not to mention thousands of ship workers. Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday there are more than 1,550 vessels with about 22,500 mariners on them inside the Persian Gulf.

To pressure Iran, the U.S. Navy is blockading Iran's ports, enforcing the blockade outside the strait in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

Holland & Knight’s Pribyl said shippers and ship insurers are likely still assessing the scenario in the strait. Ships carry two main types of insurance: protection and indemnity, which covers property and third-party liabilities, and — during a conflict — war risk insurance that covers damage and losses due to war.

Insurance costs have shot up for vessels in the region due to the risk of attack, jumping from less than 1% of the value of goods on a ship to anywhere from 3% to 10% during the conflict, said Ed Anderson, a professor of supply chain and operations management for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. But even with insurance, most shippers have deemed the crossing too unsafe.

“Ferrying out a couple of ships has not really affected the shipping industry in any way whatsoever,” he said.

Companies weigh costs and risks

Hapag-Lloyd AG, one of the world’s largest container shipping companies, says the Hormuz situation is costing it $60 million a week, particularly in skyrocketing prices of fuel and insurance. It has a fleet of 301 ships, including four stranded in the Persian Gulf. The company has also had to suspend some of its transport services and find alternate routes either to safe harbors or over land. “These options are however limited in capacity and cannot completely replace the regular maritime routes through the region,” the company said in a statement.

The Maersk shipping company said its U.S.-flagged Alliance Fairfax vehicle carrier exited the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz “accompanied by U.S. military assets” on Monday. “The transit was completed without incident, and all crew members are safe and unharmed,” the company said in a statement.

A long return to normal

Oil prices and shipping are unlikely to return to normal until it’s clear the risk of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have receded, cautioned Kaho Yu, head of energy and resources at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.

“Even with diplomatic engagement continuing, energy markets are unlikely to return quickly to precrisis assumptions,” he said. “Refiners, shippers, and commodity traders will remain cautious until there is clearer evidence that Hormuz disruptions will not re-escalate.”

A meeting on Wednesday between Iranian and Chinese diplomats emphasized de-escalation. But “Hormuz remains the real metric that will be watched,” Yu added. “Tanker traffic and energy flows over the coming weeks and months are likely to matter more than diplomatic language in assessing whether Beijing can translate influence with Tehran into practical stability.”

If the ceasefire holds and ships gradually begin transiting the Strait of Hormuz again, shipping won't “snap back overnight,” warned Razat Gaurav, CEO of Kinaxis, a supply chain management company.

“Even when conditions improve, carriers, insurers, and shippers need confidence that stability will hold before capacity and routes fully normalize," he said. “Air cargo can recover relatively quickly, but ocean shipping typically takes weeks or months because of longer lead times and contractual constraints.”

He said shipments of certain categories like liquid natural gas and sulfur, where the Middle East is a major source of supply, are likely to move more quickly as backlogs clear, but “most shippers will remain cautious until stability proves durable,” he said.

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McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany.

El miércoles, la organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Coral Gables anunció que la abogada Rachael Curran presentó una petición para iniciar una apelación en el Tribunal de Apelaciones de Estados Unidos para el Circuito de D.C.

En un comunicado, Curran, quien representa a Miami Waterkeeper en la apelación, dijo que la organización solicita al tribunal que garantice que la Comisión Reguladora Nuclear, la agencia federal encargada de proteger la salud y la seguridad pública en relación con la energía nuclear, “evalúe y mitigue de manera significativa, como exige la ley, los riesgos reales” de extender las operaciones en la instalación de Turkey Point de 2032 a 2053.

Rachel Silverstein, directora ejecutiva de Miami Waterkeeper, destacó que la planta nuclear Turkey Point y sus canales de enfriamiento, en el borde de la Bahía de Biscayne, se encuentran sobre el acuífero Biscayne, la principal fuente de agua potable para millones en el sur de Florida.

“La decisión de la NRC de permitir que esta riesgosa extensión de la licencia nuclear se mantenga no resuelve los serios riesgos ambientales que plantea operar esta instalación por décadas adicionales, como la continua contaminación de aguas subterráneas en nuestro suministro de agua potable, y operar en una era de riesgos climáticos como el aumento del nivel del mar, altas temperaturas y tormentas más fuertes”, dijo Silverstein.

La Florida Power & Light Company informa que Turkey Point genera “suficiente energía para abastecer las necesidades anuales de más de 900,000 hogares”. Ha estado en operación desde 1972.

Para más información sobre los esfuerzos de Miami Waterkeeper, visite esta página.

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Esos residentes del desarrollo Plantation Trace, ubicado en la cuadra 700 de la avenida 132, están molestos porque dicen que el Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos no está haciendo nada al respecto.

Recientemente, bajo la cobertura de la noche, cámaras de seguridad captaron un auto retrocediendo hacia un espacio de estacionamiento junto a una fila de buzones. Segundos después, un par de sujetos con capucha emergieron.

Está claro que los delincuentes pudieron obtener acceso al buzón rápidamente antes de huir con correspondencia perteneciente a los residentes.

“Es un poco intrusivo”, dijo el residente Alex Ruane. “La primera vez nos robaron algo material, pero luego empezamos a escuchar sobre tarjetas de crédito a nombre de personas y documentos del IRS y cosas así. Es una sensación un poco aterradora”.

Ruane es uno de muchos residentes dentro del desarrollo que han sido víctimas de este delito, un ciclo que se ha repetido cinco veces en los últimos dos años.

“¿Cuál es la solución? No hay una, así que terminamos gastando fondos de la asociación de propietarios para instalar cámaras, lectores de placas, y así fue como captamos el auto la última vez que ocurrió”, dijo Ruane.

Carli Pierson es la abogada que representa a la Asociación de Propietarios de Plantation Trace.

“Esto está siendo perpetrado por una organización criminal”, dijo Pierson. “Se mueven rápidamente y claramente tienen acceso a algún tipo de llave maestra”.

Pierson ha ayudado a orientar a los propietarios sobre cómo reportar adecuadamente los robos a la policía y al Inspector Postal de Estados Unidos, pero todos los esfuerzos para frenar el delito hasta ahora han chocado con un obstáculo.

“No podemos cambiar las cerraduras de los buzones nosotros mismos porque eso es manipulación, lo cual es un delito federal, y el servicio postal no le dice a la comunidad cuándo va a cambiar las cerraduras, así que están ahí como un blanco fácil”, dijo Pierson.

Los residentes esperan que el video de este último robo ayude a llevar a los delincuentes ante la justicia.

“No quiero enviar cosas a mi casa”, dijo Ruane. “Si voy a comprar algo, ¿lo voy a enviar a otro lugar? ¿Lo voy a enviar al negocio de mi esposo o a la casa de mis padres donde no tenga que preocuparme de que lo roben?”

Un equipo de Local 10 News estaba afuera de Cube Motors, en Northwest 79th Street, entre la Tercera y la Cuarta Avenida, mientras agentes fueron vistos principalmente dentro de la reja del negocio.

Empleados de un gimnasio contiguo dijeron que los agentes llegaron alrededor de las 6:10 a.m. y anunciaron que eran del FBI, pero la presencia de las autoridades no afectó las clases en el gimnasio.

Los agentes fueron vistos rodeando algunos vehículos afuera de Cube Motors, tomando fotos del exterior de los vehículos, así como del interior de algunos de ellos.

Local 10 también vio a agentes interrogando al menos a dos hombres.

Ambos tuvieron esposas en algún momento, pero ya les fueron retiradas.

No está claro de qué trata la investigación.

El negocio abre diariamente a las 8 a.m., pero había personas en el lugar desde las 6 a.m. para ser interrogadas como parte de la investigación.

Ninguna vía en el área está siendo afectada por la investigación en este momento.

Un portavoz del FBI solo dijo a Local 10 News que el “FBI está llevando a cabo actividades de aplicación de la ley ordenadas por un tribunal en las cercanías de esa ubicación”, pero agregó que “no hay más información disponible en este momento.”

Los fiscales informaron al juez que están trabajando para procesar a Anthony Gonzalez Tovar como adulto. El juez decidió aplazar su liberación un mes más.

Los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Broward publicaron un video de vigilancia del ataque ocurrido el 8 de abril cerca de Golf Club Road.

Los detectives creen que Gonzalez Tovar se estaba masturbando en público y se estaba exhibiendo. El video muestra al atacante quitándose los zapatos antes de la emboscada.

La mujer estaba sentada en el césped cuando el atacante se le acercó por detrás. Ella se defendió hasta que él huyó.

Los agentes arrestaron a González Tovar el 17 de abril, y los servicios penitenciarios lo ingresaron en el Centro de Evaluación Juvenil.

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Prosecutors told the judge that they are working to charge Anthony Gonzalez Tovar as an adult. The judge decided to delay his release for another month.

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies released surveillance video of the attack on April 8 near Golf Club Road.

Detectives believe Gozalez Tovar had been masturbating in public and was exposing himself. The video shows the attacker taking off his shoes before the ambush.

The woman was sitting on the grass when the attacker approached her from behind. She fought back until he ran away.

Deputies arrested Gonzalez Tovar on April 17, and corrections booked him at the Juvenile Assessment Center.

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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies took Luis Fernando De Ra Ortiz, 50, of Key Largo, into custody on Tuesday.

According to deputies, they responded to Gilbert’s Resort and Marina located at 107900 Overseas Highway at around 3:30 p.m. after receiving reports of an drunken man with a small child.

Deputies said Ortiz was “causing a scene after the resort declined to service him additional alcoholic drinks” due to staff learning the 5-year-old in his care “was left at the resort beach and swim area, forcing resort employees to care for the child” for an extended period of time that was reported to be several hours.

Resort staff told authorities that when they located Ortiz, he became belligerent, threatening to harm employees with a gun while yelling at them, at one point grabbing one worker, according to MCSO.

Workers also told deputies that Ortiz took the child and boarded a docked boat, causing staff to fear for the safety of the child and others if Ortiz started driving the boat.

When responding deputies spoke with Ortiz, they said he admitted to being drunk while continuing to yell at resort staff and that he “refused to calm down, refused to place his hands behind his back, and resisted being placed into a patrol car.”

Jail records show Ortiz is facing several charges, including misdemeanors for disorderly intoxication in a public place while causing a disturbance, assault, resisting an officer without violence and battery, as well as a felony charge for child neglect without great bodily harm.

His bond information has not been released at this time.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Monroe detuvieron a Luis Fernando De Ra Ortiz, de 50 años, de Key Largo, el martes.

Según los agentes, respondieron a Gilbert’s Resort and Marina, ubicado en 107900 Overseas Highway, alrededor de las 3:30 p.m. tras recibir reportes de un hombre ebrio con un niño pequeño.

Los agentes dijeron que Ortiz estaba “causando una escena después de que el resort se negara a servirle más bebidas alcohólicas” debido a que el personal se enteró de que el menor de 5 años bajo su cuidado “fue dejado en la playa y el área de natación del resort, obligando a los empleados a cuidar del niño” durante un período prolongado que se reportó como varias horas.

El personal del resort dijo a las autoridades que cuando localizaron a Ortiz, este se volvió agresivo, amenazando con dañar a los empleados con un arma mientras les gritaba, en un momento llegando a agarrar a un trabajador, según la MCSO.

Los empleados también dijeron a los agentes que Ortiz tomó al menor y abordó un bote atracado, lo que generó temor por la seguridad del niño y de otras personas si Ortiz comenzaba a conducir la embarcación.

Cuando los agentes que respondieron hablaron con Ortiz, dijeron que este admitió estar ebrio mientras continuaba gritando al personal del resort y que “se negó a calmarse, se negó a colocar sus manos detrás de la espalda y se resistió a ser colocado en una patrulla”.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Ortiz enfrenta varios cargos, incluidos delitos menores por intoxicación desordenada en un lugar público causando disturbio, agresión, resistirse a un agente sin violencia y agresión física, así como un cargo grave por negligencia infantil sin causar gran daño corporal.

La información sobre su fianza no ha sido divulgada hasta el momento.

Sky 10 estaba sobre la escena a las 11:24 a.m. mientras los bomberos trabajaban para contener el incendio que se desató en la cuadra 9600 de Northwest 79th Avenue.

Funcionarios de MDFR dijeron que la llamada inicial se recibió como un reporte de incendio de un vehículo desocupado. Cuando las unidades llegaron, encontraron humo saliendo de un almacén.

Las autoridades dijeron que el incendio ha sido extinguido y las unidades permanecen en el lugar para monitorear puntos calientes.

Funcionarios de MDFR informaron a Local 10 News en un correo electrónico que al menos una persona fue trasladada al hospital.

No se ha divulgado de inmediato más información sobre la víctima, la causa del incendio o posibles daños.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo. Vea Local 10 News o actualice la página para las últimas actualizaciones.

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Those residents of the Plantation Trace development, located along the 700 block of 132nd Avenue, are upset because they say the U.S. Postal Service isn’t doing anything about it.

Recently, under the cover of night, security cameras captured a car reversing into a parking space next to a row of mailboxes. Seconds later, a pair of hooded subjects emerged.

It’s clear the crooks were able to gain access to the mailbox quickly before getting away with mail belonging to the residents.

“It’s a little intrusive,” said resident Alex Ruane. “The first time we got something materialistic stolen, but then we started hearing credit cards coming up in people’s names and IRS papers and things like that. It’s a little bit of a scary feeling.”

Ruane is one of many residents inside the development who have fallen victim to this crime, a cycle that’s been repeated five times over the past two years.

“What’s the resolution? There isn’t one, so we ended up spending HOA funds to put up cameras, license plate readers, and that’s how we caught the car the last time it happened,” said Ruane.

Carli Pierson is the attorney representing the Plantation Trace Homeowners Association.

“This is being perpetrated by an organized criminal enterprise,” said Pierson. “They move quickly and they clearly have access to some kind of a master key.”

Pierson has helped to guide property owners on how to properly report the thefts with police and the U.S. Postal Inspector, but every effort to curb the crime so far has hit a wall.

“We can’t change the locks on the mailboxes ourselves because that’s tampering, which is a federal offense, and the postal service won’t tell the community when they’re gonna change the locks, so they’re just sitting there like a sitting duck,” Pierson said.

Residents are hoping the video of this latest heist will help bring the crooks to justice.

“I don’t wanna ship things to my house,” said Ruane. “If I’m gonna buy something, am I gonna send it somewhere else? Am I gonna send it to my husband’s business or my parents’ house where I don’t have to worry about it getting stolen?”

Turner died surrounded by his family, according to Turner Enterprises, the company that oversees his vast business interests.

Turner owned professional sports teams in Atlanta, defended the America’s Cup in yachting in 1977 and donated a stunning $1 billion to United Nations charities. He married three women — most famously actor Jane Fonda — and earned the nicknames “Captain Outrageous” and “The Mouth of the South.”

He once bragged: “If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”

He was slowed in later years by Lewy body dementia. Long out of the television business, he concentrated on philanthropy.

His garrulous personality sometimes overshadowed a risk-taking business acumen. By the time he sold his Turner Broadcasting System to Time Warner Inc. in 1996, Turner had turned his late father’s billboard company into a global conglomerate that included seven major cable networks, three professional sports teams and a pair of hit movie studios.

President Donald Trump, reacting to Turner's death, called him “one of the Greats of All Time.”

The creation of CNN

Turner’s signature achievement was creating the Cable News Network, the first 24-hour, all-news television network in 1980. In part, Turner’s own frustration with television news was the instigator. He often worked past 8 p.m., after the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts had already gone off the air.

He took a chance by starting the operation in the early days of cable television, living in an apartment above its Atlanta office.

CNN’s breakthrough moment came during the Gulf War with Iraq in 1991. Most television journalists had fled Baghdad but CNN stayed, capturing arresting images of a war’s outbreak.

Turner was promised a continued role in CNN after his company’s sale to Time Warner but was gradually pushed out, much to his regret.

“The mistake I made was losing control of the company," he later said.

Building TBS SuperStation

Robert Edward Turner III was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Cincinnati. When he was 9, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he grew up. After being expelled from Brown University, Turner came to Atlanta to work for his domineering father’s billboard company, Turner Advertising.

After his father’s 1963 suicide, Turner took over the company. In 1970, he bought an independent UHF station with a weak signal that didn’t even cover Atlanta.

On Dec. 17, 1976, he began transmitting the station to cable systems across the country via satellite. It became the TBS SuperStation.

TBS’ motley collection of old movies and sitcom reruns was augmented by Turner’s acquisition of baseball’s Atlanta Braves. Perennial doormats, the Braves slowly attracted fans nationwide through their superstation exposure.

In the 1980s, Turner went deeply into debt to buy MGM, a move again greeted with skepticism. But the acquisition gave his company a library of vintage movies that eventually were parlayed into the TNT and Turner Classic Movies networks.

He revealed his ambitions as a younger man: “I used to tell people I wanted to become the world’s greatest sailor, businessman and lover all at the same time.”

Acquiring sports teams and land

For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times. He was married to Fonda from 1991 to 2001. She tired of his philandering and divorced him, although they remained friends.

Perhaps Turner’s greatest love was for the land. He acquired millions of acres in ranches complete with roaming buffalo and was Nebraska’s largest private landholder. Researchers at Texas A&M University credited his donation of a few bulls in 2005 with helping increase the genetic diversity of the last herd of southern Plains bison.

He had a net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023 but had dropped off Forbes magazine’s ranking of the 400 richest Americans in 2021.

“See, my life is more an adventure than a quest to make money,” Turner once said.

Turner managed to insult many with his shoot-from-the-lip style. An atheist since his only sister died of lupus at age 17, he called Christians “losers” and “Jesus freaks,” later apologizing for both remarks.

Dedication to various causes

Turner, the father of five children, grabbed a leadership role in American philanthropy with his Sept. 18, 1997, pledge to give $1 billion to United Nations charities.

He promoted a range of humanitarian causes. Turner joined former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn to start the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to reducing the threat of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

As he poured millions into nonprofits on a global scale, Turner was also fond of spreading his wealth in small ways. He once gave $500 to a volunteer fire department that helped extinguish a blaze on one of his ranches.

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Bauder, a longtime media writer, retired from The Associated Press in 2026. Former Associated Press correspondent Ryan Nakashima contributed to this report.

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Sky 10 was over the scene at 11:24 a.m. as firefighters worked to contain the blaze that erupted in the 9600 block of Northwest 79th Avenue.

MDFR officials said the initial call came in as a report of an unoccupied vehicle fire. When crews arrived, they found smoke coming from a warehouse.

Authorities said the fire has been extinguished and units remain at the scene to monitor for hot spots.

MDFR officials told Local 10 News in an email that at least one person was transported to the hospital.

No further information about the victim, the cause of the fire, or possible damage was immediately released.

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A Local 10 News crew was outside Cube Motors -- a used car dealership and auto repair shop -- on Northwest 79^th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenue, as agents were seen mostly inside the business’ gate.

Employees at a gym next door said agents rolled in around 6:10 a.m. and announced they were with the FBI, but the law enforcement presence didn’t impact classes at the gym.

Agents were seen circling some vehicles outside Cube Motors, taking pictures of the vehicles and checking VIN numbers.

Some cars received an X on the windows and were eventually towed away, including a Nissan, BMW, Tesla and others.

Members of the Department of Homeland Security and the National Insurance Crime Bureau were also at the scene.

A K-9 was also spotted sniffing along the fence line.

Local 10 saw agents questioning at least two men.

Both had handcuffs on at one point, but they’ve since been removed.

It’s unclear what the investigation is about.

The business opens daily at 8 a.m., but people were there by 6 a.m. to be questioned as part of the investigation.

No roadways in the area are being impacted by the investigation at this time.

A spokesperson for the FBI would only tell Local 10 News that the “FBI is conducting court ordered law enforcement activity in the vicinity of that location,” but added that “no further information is available at this time.”

Judges praised Boruch's work, including such collections as “Bestiary Dark” and “The Anti-Grief” as affirmations of human genius amid the rise of AI. The prize is overseen by the nonprofit organization Poets & Writers.

“Marianne Boruch renders luminous the expanse and reach of human thought,” the prize citation, released Wednesday by Poets & Writers, reads in part. “In an age of simulated intelligence, Boruch sets to tremble the whole of our collective knowledge where the soul, as she suggests in several poems, is a vastness of wanting and boundless curiosity.”

Boruch, 75, is a resident of West Lafayette, Indiana, who taught for decades at Purdue University, where she founded the school's MFA creative writing program. Previous winners of the Jackson prize, established 20 years ago with a gift from the Liana Foundation, include former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo and the current laureate, Arthur Sze.

The document was released months after his administration published an updated national security strategy that called for the hemisphere to be the top U.S. focus.

“We will not let cartels, Jihadists, or the governments who support them plot against our citizens with impunity. Terrorists of any kind will not be allowed to find safe harbor here at home or attack us from abroad,” Trump wrote in the 16-page document.

Trump's administration has moved aggressively to reshape the region with the ouster of Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president, dozens of U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats operated by cartels and new pressure on the communist government of Cuba.

Sebastian Gorka, the White House counterterrorism czar who spearheaded the new strategy, said the shift in priorities acknowledges some simple math: Far more Americans have been killed by cartels pushing illicit drugs into U.S. communities than American service members lost in conflicts around the globe since World War II, he said.

“Whether it is strangling their illicit funds, whether it is tracking their drug boats, we will not permit them to kill Americans on a massive scale,” Gorka said in a telephone call with reporters to announce the strategy.

It is the latest example of the administration's efforts to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even while dealing with worldwide crises.

The Republican administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 191 people in total.

At the same time, Trump has sought to press regional leaders to work more closely with the U.S. to target cartels and take military action themselves against drug traffickers and transnational gangs that he says pose an “unacceptable threat” to the hemisphere’s national security.

According to Gorka and the report, the administration's other counterterrorism priorities include targeting and destroying Islamic military groups that have capabilities to execute operations against the United States; identifying and neutralizing violent secular political groups with ideology that is anti-American, radically pro-transgender or anarchist; and boosting efforts to prevent nonstate actors from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

Gorka said administration officials would meet with allies later this week to discuss how they can bolster their counterterrorism strategies.

“As the president made very clear, we will measure your seriousness as a partner and ally by how much you bring to the table,” he said. “So we expect more — from our partners in the Middle East, as well as elsewhere.”

Audiences have earned the right to be skeptical when something like “The Sheep Detectives” comes along — everyone involved was too. And yet this family-friendly “Knives Out” with a murder mystery at the center, a starry ensemble including Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and Nicholas Braun, as well as the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Regina Hall and Patrick Stewart as yes, talking sheep, has caught more than a few off guard for its quirky humor, its sincerity and its unexpected depth.

Chris O’Dowd, who voices Mopple, “the most patient sheep,” noted: “You don’t get a lot of projects that are from the director of ‘Minions’ and the writer of ‘Chernobyl.’ It’s an unusual combination.”

In the film, in theaters Friday, Jackman plays George, a kind, but isolated shepherd in the English countryside who reads his animals murder mysteries at night. Unbeknownst to him, not only do they understand the words, they debate the stories among themselves. So when George dies under mysterious circumstances, the flock take what they've learned to try to help the dimwitted local police officer (Braun) solve the case, language barriers and all.

“What we know from watching this movie now with audiences over and over and over is that people are repeatedly delighted and surprised at how much more there is going on here than just silly sheep doing something silly,” screenwriter Craig Mazin said. “There are some really beautiful moments and themes and things that parents can talk about with their kids … and, most importantly, it is legitimately a movie that is meant for everyone.”

Aiming high with ‘The Sheep Detectives’

The story of how “The Sheep Detectives” got made goes back almost 20 years, when veteran producer Lindsay Doran (“Sense and Sensibility”) told Mazin about Leonie Swann’s novel “Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story.” He was expecting something cute, goofy and silly, but found himself enchanted by how smart, moving and philosophical it was.

It would take nearly a decade to secure the rights, and almost another to get the thing made, and made well thanks to studio executive Courtenay Valenti who, Mazin said, rescued it from rotting on a pile of scripts. Along the way they would find themselves emboldened by the caliber of talent who wanted to be part of it as well.

“Everybody involved was all on the same page of aiming as high as we could and sticking to our guns when it came to quality,” Mazin said. “Phil Lord and Chris Miller came on as producers as well, and their entire career has been about taking things that other people might not make good and making them good.”

Molly Gordon, whose character becomes a primary suspect when she mysteriously shows up in town the night of the murder, had the same reservations as many.

“The script was sent to my agent, and he emailed me, like, ‘This is really profound’ and I was like ‘How could this be profound?’ Like, I just, like, the sheep movie?” Gordon said. “And then within 10 minutes of reading it, I was like, this is one of the best scripts I’ve ever read.”

The real audience test

Mazin’s own kids grew up while “The Sheep Detectives” was getting made. But he still invited his 21-year-old daughter to watch it with him and his wife a few months back. She’s proud of her dad for his career, but, he said, also wouldn’t hesitate to call something of his “mid.”

“When the film ended, they were both just sort of a sobbing, happy mess,” he said. “My daughter, who doesn’t cut me any slack at all, AT ALL … Was like, ‘That is such a good movie.’ I thought, ‘OK’ … if your kids are older, it still works.”

The movie is coming into a fairly healthy theatrical marketplace, where PG-rated movies are often outperforming PG-13 movies and where non-franchise movies with the right buzz have been finding their audience, including another Amazon MGM release, “Project Hail Mary.” Mazin, a veteran screenwriter who also co-hosts the popular “Scriptnotes” podcast, doesn't often hype his own projects like this. Usually he thinks they should speak for themselves.

“Nobody needs the guy who wrote something to say, no, it’s really good. This is the first time in my career that I’m like, but actually, no guys. I love this,” he said. “Seeing this movie is a purely positive experience.”

And it needs a little bit of hype. “The Sheep Detectives” is currently tracking for a muted box office debut, in the $10 million to $15 million range. But it’s also a movie that has been underestimated at nearly every step.

“Low expectations are, you know, sometimes a gift,” Mazin laughed.

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Associated Press Writer Lizzie Knight contributed from London.

One of the people said the investigation into Democratic Sen. L. Louise Lucas was opened during Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation.

While the probe apparently has spanned administrations of different political parties, Democrats viewed it against a backdrop of recent, politically charged inquiries during President Donald Trump’s tenure. Lucas, who has been a senator for 34 years, was a prominent voice in Virginia's recent redistricting effort, a Democrat-led initiative to counter Republican redrawing pushed by Trump.

“Today’s actions by federal agents are about far more than one state senator; they are about power and who is allowed to use it on behalf of the people,” Lucas said in an evening statement. “What we saw fits a clear pattern from this administration: when challenged, they try to intimidate and silence the voices of those who stand up to them.”

The FBI said only that it was conducting a court-authorized search in Portsmouth. Such searches require approval from a judge and for investigators to assert that they believe they have identified probable cause of a crime.

Besides the search at Lucas' office, which houses her disabilities services business and is her political base in Portsmouth, agents in FBI T-shirts also went into the nearby cannabis store, which she opened in 2021. Several entrances to the Cannabis Outlet's parking lot were blocked by unmarked vehicles with flashing blue lights, as was an entrance to the politician's office.

By evening, agents were carrying boxes and bags out of the shop's back door.

Lucas, a prominent backer of legalizing marijuana, has said the store sells legal hemp and CBD products. It has drawn scrutiny from local media amid allegations that some products were mislabeled.

Virginia has legalized pot possession, but retail sales of recreational marijuana remain illegal in the state.

A woman who identified herself as Lucas’ granddaughter, Nicole Bremby, came by after agents left to check on the Cannabis Outlet. She declined to discuss the raids.

“I’ve had better days,” she said. “It’s all good. Everyone is home.”

Virginia Democrats point to other recent prosecutions

State House Speaker Don Scott said he was deeply concerned by the FBI search.

“Right now, there is far more theatrics and speculation than actual information available to the public,” Scott, a Democrat, said in a statement, adding that more facts were needed “before anyone rushes to political conclusions.”

Gov. Abigail Spanberger declined to comment.

Other Virginia Democrats were quick to note that the search comes as the FBI and Justice Department have opened a spate of investigations into perceived adversaries of Trump.

Last week the Justice Department charged former FBI Director James Comey with making a threatening Instagram post against Trump, an accusation that Comey — who for nearly a decade has drawn the president’s ire — has denied. A court dismissed federal prosecutors' earlier case accusing Comey of lying to Congress.

A separate mortgage fraud case, also ultimately dismissed by a court, targeted Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a major civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and his business. Both she and Comey, a longtime Republican who split from the party in the past decade, denied the charges and said the prosecutions were vindictive.

Such cases “have undermined public confidence” in federal prosecutors in Virginia, Democratic state Attorney General Jay Jones said in a statement.

The FBI and Justice Department have also provoked concerns among Democrats about ongoing election-related investigations, including the seizure by agents of ballots and other information from Fulton County, Georgia.

Lucas has been a vocal leader of Virginia's redistricting effort, which voters approved last month. A sign urging people to “vote yes” to “stop the MAGA power grab” still hung Wednesday on a fence separating her office's parking lot from that of the cannabis shop.

Lucas played a leading role in Virginia redistricting

Amid a national, state-by-state partisan redistricting fight kicked off by Trump’s desire to aid his fellow Republicans, Virginia voters OK'd a Democrat-backed constitutional amendment authorizing new U.S. House districts. The plan could help the party win up to four additional seats.

“We are not going to let anyone tilt the system without a response,” Lucas said after the vote. Trump, meanwhile, denounced the results.

The state Supreme Court let the referendum proceed but has yet to rule on whether the effort is legal. The court is considering an appeal of a lower court judge’s ruling that the amendment is invalid because lawmakers violated procedural requirements.

Voting districts typically are redrawn once a decade, after each census. But Trump last year urged Texas Republicans to redraw House districts to give the GOP an edge in the midterms. California Democrats reciprocated, and redistricting efforts soon cascaded across states.

Lucas, 82, has been a figure in Virginia politics since the 1980s, when she became the first Black woman elected to a city council seat in her native Portsmouth. She now is the first woman and first African American to serve as the Senate’s president pro tempore.

Earlier in life she was the Norfolk Naval Shipyard's first female shipfitter, according to her biography in the state library. The job entails making, installing and repairing sometimes enormous metal assemblies for vessels.

In recent years she has been the CEO of a Portsmouth business that runs residences, day programs and transportation for intellectually disabled adults.

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However, the relief is not automatic or guaranteed, and most taxpayers need to file a claim for a refund or abatement of their tax liability by July 10 to get their money back.

The national taxpayer advocate, an independent watchdog of the IRS, is warning that the deadline to apply for relief is fast approaching after a federal court late last year ruled that taxpayers were not required to file their taxes on time during COVID-19.

The IRS had assessed more than 120 million penalties against tens of millions of taxpayers for filing late returns, failing to pay taxes or failing to make required estimated tax payments between January 2020 and July 11, 2023.

The case, called Kwong v. U.S., decided that COVID-19 emergency laws extended the deadline to file and that the IRS owes penalty payments to taxpayers. The case is still being litigated.

The taxpayer advocate calls the issue “widespread and not limited to a small or specialized group of taxpayers."

Ken Kies, assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, told The Associated Press that President Donald Trump's Republican administration believes that Kwong “was wrongly decided because it is a misreading of the plain language of the statute.”

“We will continue to defend the statutory language as written,” he said in a statement.

Still, as it currently stands, taxpayers should fill out a form to preserve their rights, said Alyssa Maloof Whatley, a director at Frost Law, a tax firm with locations across the U.S.

“Either it holds up or it doesn’t,” she noted of the ruling. ”So by preserving your claim, you’re actually preserving your right to that money.”

How to apply

People eligible for a potential refund or abatement are those who filed a tax return late between Jan. 20, 2020, and July 11, 2023; paid penalties for filing or paying late during that period; owed IRS penalties even if they have not paid them; or filed an international information return late.

In a series of blog posts on its website, the taxpayer advocate is sharing recommendations — including that people review their IRS tax account transcripts through their online account — to check penalty assessments from those periods.

Who's affected

“Many taxpayers affected by this issue have low and moderate incomes,” the taxpayer advocate said. “These taxpayers are less likely to have professional representation and to learn about complex legal developments like this one. As a result, they face a greater risk of missing the opportunity to claim refunds to which they may be entitled.”

Maloof Whatley said people will need to fill out Form 843, which can be found on the IRS website, and send it through snail mail.

According to the IRS, for people who received a penalty during the pandemic, the form must be mailed to the service center where they would be required to file a current year tax return.

Because of the impending July 10 deadline, “taxpayers should not delay reviewing their situation and considering potential claims for refund and abatement,” the taxpayer advocate said.

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Correa was injured Tuesday while taking swings in the batting cage before a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“I was hitting in the cage, normal day, feeling great,” he said. “I went through my whole routine, took a swing and just felt a pop. It just completely snapped on me and then I fell to the ground and couldn’t put weight on it.”

Correa was on crutches and in a walking boot Wednesday morning at the ballpark after seeing a foot specialist. He said he would seek some other opinions before scheduling the surgery.

Correa, 31, said the injury was a complete tear and his recovery is expected to take six to eight months.

“Tough, really tough,” he said. “Not what I was expecting, but now it’s time to deal with it, face it head on and and focus on the rehab.”

Correa has had ankle problems in the past. In 2023, he had huge free agent deals with the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets fall through over concerns with his right ankle that was operated on in 2014. He ended up remaining with the Minnesota Twins after the deals collapsed.

Correa has salaries of $31.5 million this season, $30.5 million in 2027 and $30 million in 2028. As part of the last July's trade, the Twins will pay the Astros $10 million each Dec. 15 from this year through 2028.

His latest injury is yet another blow to an Astros team that has dealt with scores of injuries this season, including an oblique injury to Yainer Diaz that landed the catcher on the injured list Tuesday.

Correa, who is back with the Astros after last summer’s blockbuster trade from the Twins, played third base for Houston last season with Jeremy Peña at shortstop. But Correa has been playing shortstop recently with Peña out with a hamstring injury.

Manager Joe Espada said this week that Peña is close to a return and could begin a rehabilitation assignment soon.

But it's still a huge blow to lose Correa, who is one of the leaders of the team.

“It’s a gut punch,” general manager Dana Brown said. “But it’s not the end of the world. We still have a very competitive team. Thank God we have the depth still in the infield particularly when Jeremy comes back. And so, the team is still built to win, no doubt about it."

Espada said the Astros will miss all that Correa brings to the team.

“It’s just really hard,” Espada said. “Talking to Carlos this morning it was really, really hard. What he means to this team, to this organization, personally to me as his manager, as a friend. I’ve known him for a very long time. It sucks, but we have to move on.”

The Astros had Isaac Paredes playing third base and Braden Shewmake at shortstop for the finale of a series against the Dodgers on Wednesday.

Correa is batting .279 with three home runs and 16 RBIs. The No. 1 pick in the 2012 amateur draft, Correa spent his first seven seasons with the Astros before signing with the Twins where he spent 3 1/2 seasons before last summer's trade.

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Higher-income households, meanwhile, ratcheted up their spending on gas while barely reducing their consumption, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Middle-income households fell in-between.

The gaps between how each group reacted were larger than in 2022, when a similar gas-price shock occurred after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the report found. Higher-income households cut back more on their gas consumption four years ago than in March, while poorer households likely benefited more from government stimulus programs in 2022. Wealthier households have seen significant increases in the value of their stock and real estate holdings since then as well.

The figures suggest the gas-price surge has worsened what many economists call the “K-shaped economy." The K-shape label refers to upper-income Americans continuing to do well while lower-income households fall behind. The disparate outcomes can help explain the generally gloomy attitude most Americans have toward the economy even as headline figures, such as the unemployment rate and economic growth, remain mostly solid.

“We find that households had very different experiences with gasoline spending,” researchers at the New York Fed wrote. “With the sharp increases in gasoline prices in March, a K-shaped pattern in gasoline consumption emerged—showing faster consumption growth for high income households relative to low-income households.”

The Iran war began Feb. 28, and by the end of March gas prices had risen about 25%, according to government consumer price data. Overall gas consumption, according to the New York Fed, fell 3% that month. As of Tuesday, gas prices have leapt 50% since the war began.

Poorer households, defined as those earning less than $40,000, cut their gas consumption by 7%, the report found, but still spent 12% more on gas in March. Higher-income households, defined as those earning $125,000 a year or above, lifted their spending on gas 19% in March, while reducing their overall consumption of gas just 1%. The report didn't specify the middle-income figures.

The figures suggest lower-income Americans have cut back on driving, perhaps by carpooling, taking public transportation, or combining errands into fewer trips, while richer Americans have had to make few, if any, changes.

The New York Fed report estimates that total spending at gas stations jumped 15% in March from the previous month. If sustained, that extra spending on gas will siphon money away from other areas, reducing overall inflation-adjusted spending and slowing the economy. So far, there are only limited signs that is happening. Americans do spend less on gas than in previous decades as cars have become more efficient.

Consumer spending, adjusted for price changes, ticked up 0.2% in March, slightly below February's 0.3% gain, the government said last week.

Still, there is evidence that for many lower-income people, the spike in gas prices is a big drag on their finances. A separate report from the Bank of America Institute, released last week, found that among the poorest one-third of households, one-tenth now spend 10% of their incomes on gas. The figure is far above the average for higher-income households, who spend just 2.7% of their incomes on gas.

Data from the Institute, which compiles reports from the anonymous accounts of its customers, also showed that more expensive gas has pulled some spending away from discretionary items, defined as those outside groceries, gas, and utilities. The annual growth in poorer households' discretionary spending slowed in March from February, while it rose for middle- and upper-income households.

Guido Reichstadter, a Florida-based activist, was seen coming down from one of the arches of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge where he had been camped since May 1. His presence caused periodic traffic jams as Washington police closed lanes and negotiated with him.

Reichstadter’s X account showed photos from atop one of the arches where he had pitched a tent. He announced on the site Tuesday that he would be coming down and expected to be arrested.

“I hope that this action has offered something to motivate and inspire you, and that it can serve as fuel for greater commitment and action in the cause of peace and in the fight for our future,” he wrote.

Washington police charged Reichstadter with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding, unlawful entry and failure to obey an officer.

He staged a similar protest atop the same bridge in 2022 against a Supreme Court decision.