Trout expects to return from the injury in plenty of time to play in the July 14 All-Star Game, but it will likely prevent the Los Angeles Angels center fielder from the home run competition the night before in Citizen’s Bank Park.

“They asked me when we were in Sacramento (last weekend), but I probably won’t do it,” Trout, 34, said before the Angels' game against the Athletics. “It would have been cool to do it, but the injury kind of threw things off.”

Trout, a three-time American League MVP and 11-time All-Star, has turned down numerous invitations to participate in the derby because he felt the high volume of maximum-effort swings the event requires would throw him off at the plate.

He always maintained that he would take part in the derby at least once before he retires, and this seemed to be the year to do it, with All-Star Game festivities in Citizens Bank Park about 45 miles north of his hometown of Millville, New Jersey.

Trout fueled more speculation that he would participate in the derby last weekend when he told USA Today that he was “considering” participating in the event.

But Trout, who was hitting .234 with 17 homers and 36 RBIs in 74 games when he was placed on the 10-day injured list on June 18, had a change of heart over the past week.

“When it came out that the All-Star Game was in Philly, I thought it definitely would have been cool to do,” said Trout, who ranks second behind Aaron Judge in All-Star voting for AL outfielders. “Then I hurt my leg, so I’m leaning toward not doing it.”

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James Dale, who filed a complaint in a New York City federal court Thursday, alleges that both sides have provided conflicting answers, while the Pentagon is refusing to release a copy of its agreement with the organization.

The Pentagon made a deal with Scouting America in February that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said would refocus the organization away from diversity initiatives and other “woke” policies. Hegseth threatened to cease the military's longtime support of the organization if it failed to comply in six months, which would be in late August.

Hegseth put heavy emphasis on Scouting America’s acceptance of transgender youth, saying the organization will require members to use their “biological sex at birth and not gender identity.”

But Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America, said then that the agreement did not change existing policies regarding transgender youth and that they are welcome.

“We have transgender people in our program and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” Scouting America President and CEO Roger Krone told The Associated Press in February.

In his complaint seeking the agreement, Dale states that both accounts “cannot be true, and the stakes are of profound public importance."

Hegseth had pledged in February to “vigorously review” the changes Scouting America has made, threatening to withdraw support.

“We hope that doesn’t happen, but it could,” Hegseth said at the time. “Ideally, I believe the Boy Scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men. Maybe someday.”

The scouts and the military have had longtime ties, including the military providing logistical support for the National Boy Scout Jamboree and scouts meeting on or near bases. The military also has maintained a strong relationship with the Eagle Scouts, whose members often enlist.

Dale had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in late March to get the memorandum of understanding between Scouting America and the Pentagon regarding the changes.

“The Department has invoked no exemption, produced no record, and missed every deadline,” his complaint stated. "Mr. Dale brings this action to enforce the public’s right to know, before the Department’s August deadline expires.

When asked for comment on Dale's lawsuit, the Pentagon said in a statement that it wouldn't comment on ongoing litigation and referred to the video Hegseth released in February that outlined the changes he said the organization was making. Scouting America did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Dale raised another question in his complaint about the government's ability to require the organization to accept or deny certain members.

In 1990, the Boy Scouts of America expelled Dale, then an Eagle Scout who had become an assistant scoutmaster, after discovering he was co-president of Rutgers University’s gay and lesbian organization. He sued in 1992, accusing the Boy Scouts of discrimination, and lost at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the organization could maintain membership and leadership criteria that excluded homosexuals.

“Here, if the Department’s account is true, the federal government has now obtained by contract what the Court once held it could not command by law,” Dales lawsuit states. “And if it is not, then the Department has misled the public about what Scouting America has agreed to do."

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Associated Press writer Jamie Stengle in Dallas contributed to this report.

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It was the bloody end to the brothers’ long-running feud. Leyva, 49, rode a scooter and arrived shortly after 12:20 p.m. on April 24, 2025, at Priced Rights Motors, Inc., a used car dealership that Rivero, 35, had inherited, records show.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Deputies Alfredo Perez and Dea Harris fired at Leyva shortly before 1 p.m. at 7321 SW 45 St., in a warehouse area at the Glenvar Heights neighborhood, just west of South Miami, records show.

“Leyva shot at the officers at least one time prior to either officer using deadly force,” Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Sara Imm wrote, according to the closing memo that Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle also signed.

Before the deputies responded with a ballistic shield, Armando Yadro told a 911 dispatcher that Leyva had shot him and he was pretending to be dead because he was in the business, records show.

Imm described how Leyva also “directed” a “perceived explosive,” a smoke bomb that appeared to be a grenade, before Perez “discharged his firearm,” according to the closing memo that Fernandez Rundle approved on Thursday, records show.

“It is reasonable to conclude that both Deputy Harris and Deputy Perez believed that the use of deadly force was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to themselves and/or the other two civilians, Imm wrote, according to the memo.

Videos showed children running for cover outside before deputies arrived. People hiding at nearby businesses heard the gunshots. A SWAT team arrived and evacuated the area, which included a warehouse with kids in a cheerleading practice.

The deputies weren’t injured, and neither were civilians in the area. Yadro, 35, suffered a wound to the clavicle and survived. Rivero was shot in the side of the head, and a doctor pronounced him dead at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital. Leyva was shot in the head.

“Doctors were not able to remove the projectile lodged in his brain,” the prosecutor wrote, according to the memo.

After suffering from “complications” from the gunshot wound he suffered when deputies fired, Leyva was hospitalized and died on Feb. 14, records show.

The MDSAO reported receiving the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s report on May 22.

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Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said Friday, two days after Messi's 39th birthday, that Messi will begin the game on the bench, but also indicated that he “will come in a little bit later.”

Scaloni didn't say when Messi might substitute into the match, or what his lineup would be against first-time World Cup participant Jordan.

Messi scored all five goals for Argentina in its first two games of this tournament. He had his first World Cup hat trick in a 3-0 win over Algeria to tie the career scoring record at 16 goals, and broke that mark by scoring both goals in a 2-0 win over Austria on Monday at the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys — where the group finale will be played.

Messi had been dealing with a minor hamstring injury with Inter Miami of Major League Soccer that slowed him in the lead-up to the World Cup.

While there have been no indications of any issues since, Argentina has a lot of games left if it is going to get to another World Cup final. The knockout round for La Albiceleste begins next Friday in South Florida, and that would be the first of five matches in 17 days if they make it to the final on July 19.

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Citizens digging through the rubble of their homes said they have seen few state rescue teams in the areas hit hardest by the devastating 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude quakes that struck late Wednesday, despite authorities projecting an image of a robust government response.

The lack of help compounded families’ desperation as the pressure to find buried survivors increased with each passing hour. The South American nation on Friday marked nearly two days since the disaster. Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours to be a crucial time frame to retrieve people alive, though that period can be extended if they have access to food and water.

On Friday night, Venezuelan authorities announced they would block off access to La Guaira, the epicenter of the destruction, as chaos and and traffic began to affect search efforts. Government officials said that those who wanted to enter would now have to seek official permits, but provided few details of who would be allowed to enter.

Meanwhile, a broad international aid effort accelerated, with dozens of rescue teams from around the globe arriving in Venezuela or due to arrive there soon.

“Each person saved is a miracle,” said Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the country’s National Assembly. “We are not going to hide absolutely anything about the magnitude of this tragedy.”

Anxious families wait to see if their relatives survived

Families across northern Venezuela searched in the ruins of buildings for relatives and whatever remained of their lives.

Nazareth Jimenez sobbed into the shoulder of a loved one as she watched neighbors try to cut through slabs of concrete with hammers and power tools in a building reduced to a mountain of debris. “My God, how are we going to get them out of there?” she murmured.

She was in the northern state of La Guaira, just north of the capital of Caracas, where some of the worst destruction unfolded. Jimenez was wracked with anxiety as she waited to see if her siblings, nephews, nieces and friends would emerge from the debris alive.

“We’re making a call for help to the government and countries across the world,” she said, pleading for machines that would be capable of moving collapsed structures. “There are still people alive in there.”

Government forces distributed food and water to survivors in La Guaira as acting President Delcy Rodríguez said her government was mounting a full response during these “critical hours for rescuing people alive.” She welcomed the arrival of rescuers and humanitarian aid from all over the world. She said La Guaira had been militarized and that more help was on the way, even as residents said it was just a fraction of the aid they needed.

The disaster poses a huge challenge for Rodríguez, the former vice president who took office in January after the capture and removal of then-President Nicolás Maduro by the United States. Venezuela has been facing economic disarray for more than a decade, and many people reject the legitimacy of the political movement Rodríguez represents.

The number of dead was expected to climb, and civilians reported tens of thousands of people missing on independent digital databases. The number of missing likely includes those who have been incommunicado due to the lack of cellphone signals in disaster zones. Some reports may be duplicates created when multiple loved ones are searching for the same person.

The number of injured climbed to more than 3,300 as of midday Friday, and authorities said they had rescued 243 people.

Quakes leave millions of people reeling

The International Organization for Migration said that up to 6.76 million people in Venezuela could be affected by the quakes, some 2 million of them in Caracas alone. Destruction was amplified by the one-two punch of the successive shallow quakes, experts said. Loyce Pace, the International Red Cross’ regional director for the Americas, said “people are still terrified to reenter what were their homes.”

Desperation started to sink in Friday as many families still had not found missing loved ones, continued to sleep on the street or grieved relatives killed in the disaster.

“I’ve been left alone in this life,” said Omar Reyes, who walked through the rubble where two of his children were buried. He said around 20 family members died in the disaster.

In the city of Maiquetía, people lined up outside convenience and grocery stores and pharmacies as the businesses served customers one by one behind closed doors. At one point, a woman in a crowd desperate to keep a package of diapers threw herself to the ground to protect the package with her body.

Traffic and throngs of motorcyclists at times also disrupted search efforts. Mexican soldiers and volunteers repeatedly had to ask for silence to try to hear signs of life under the ruble, but bikers — civilian and uniformed — often ignored the requests honking horns and revved their engines to the frustration of first responders.

In Catia La Mar, a community adjacent to the country’s main airport, throngs of people began to loot basic goods such as toilet paper and food from stores. Others swarmed a civilian pickup truck that was giving out loaves of bread and water, until a soldier intervened. People turned the parking lot of a pharmacy into makeshift shelter by setting up tarps, hammocks and tents.

A few miles away, Yuleidy Cadenas stood across the street from a collapsed public housing building watching fellow Venezuelans and recently arrived foreign and local emergency crews work on the rubble. She hoped her son, mother and brother would be pulled out alive.

She fled, barefoot, from a collapsing nearby building Wednesday and found her mother’s 12th-floor apartment tower had pancaked. Cadenas, 28, sobbed as she recalled that Friday was her son’s 12th birthday.

“I got on top of the rubble and told them to yell back, and nobody did, not my brother, nor my son or my mother,” Cadenas said. “I’m just here waiting for them.”

A few minutes later, a body was pulled from the rubble. It was not her mother’s.

International aid is on the way

Venezuela authorities said Friday that 861 international volunteers from Mexico, the U.S., El Salvador, Switzerland, Colombia and beyond were working in Venezuela. Many more from other countries were expected in the coming hours and days. The U.N. said 1,000 emergency responders in 25 search-and-rescue teams from across the globe were on their way.

Acting president Rodríguez said she spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday afternoon, and that they reaffirmed their commitment to sending rescue teams and aid equipment.

On the country’s main highway, caravans of state forces, emergency personnel, dump trucks and heavy machinery moved in the direction of the tragedy. A civilian pickup truck carrying thin mattresses had its windows marked with “Help from Trujillo.”

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Janetsky reported from Mexico City. Associated Press journalists Clara Preve in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Julie Watson in San Diego; Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Geir Moulson in Berlin; Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey; and Teresa Medrano in Madrid contributed to this report.

The company said Friday that the new entity will be called Exemplar Luxury Group, and with an improved balance sheet, including a nearly 75% debt reduction and $500 million in extra financing. Its CEO, Geoffroy van Raemdonck, said the New York-based company is ready for its next chapter after navigating several tumultuous years.

“Today is really a brand new day for the organization and a new day where these three iconic banners have the right funding, the right equity and a bright future ahead of them,” van Raemdonck told The Associated Press on Friday during a phone interview.

Van Raemdonck said that the new name signifies the company's focus on having an exemplary shopping experience — the best merchandise, and better personalized service with customers, with help from its sales associates and the treasure trove of data it has on its customers. The company employs more than 1,500 sales associates who have sold more than $1 million of goods each, he said.

Saks Global had filed for bankruptcy protection in January of this year, buffeted by rising competition and the massive debt it took on to buy its rival in the luxury sector, Neiman Marcus, in July 2024.

Before the bankruptcy, there were 33 Saks stores and 36 Neiman Marcus locations, according to the company, as well as its Bergdorf Goodman store on Fifth Avenue and roughly 70 Saks Off 5th discount stores.

Now, there are a total of 49 stores — 15 Saks Fifth Avenue stores, 33 Neiman Marcus stores and its Bergdorf Goodman store. The company shuttered most of its Saks Off Fifth discount stores, and it now has 12 outlets, the company said.

Exemplar Luxury Group said it has been teaming up with Pentwater Capital Management and Bracebridge Capital throughout its restructuring process. Both firms will have two representatives on the seven-person board. In addition, van Raemdonck as well as former Ulta Beauty CEO Dave Kimbell and Philippe Schaus, who most recently served as Global CEO of Moët Hennessy, will serve on the board, the company said.

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Brito, who was doing her part to push a flow of aid from South Florida to the disaster zone, couldn’t stop thinking about her uncle Roberto Brito and aunt Kairol Piñero, who vanished on Wednesday in La Guaira.

Brito, who had a flyer with pictures of them and Norelys Marrero, hopes they may still be alive and waiting for help under the rubble. Volunteers were searching, but they lacked machinery and tools.

“We are trying to find resources to help lift the concrete that collapsed on top of them,” said Brito at El Arepazo in Doral.

The Venezuelan restaurant, open 24 hours, seven days a week, at the Chevron gas station, at 10191 NW 58th St., was among the drop-off locations collecting aid to be delivered to the local nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission’s warehouse in Doral.

“I haven’t stopped crying since the earthquake,” said Susanna Taddei, a Venezuelan-American LGBTQ+ rights activist who was dropping off aid at El Arepazo.

Taddei said the civilians, who were trying to rescue survivors from the rubble, were in desperate need of equipment, tools, and parts such as grinding wheels to cut through metal.

Some used markers to write messages in Spanish on the cardboard boxes that were piling up with donations. One donor wrote, “Fuerza Venezuela,” or “Stay Strong, Venezuela,” and drew a few hearts.

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• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Dennis Michael Millwood, 55, of Miramar, was arrested Thursday following a weeks-long investigation conducted by UPS investigators and MDSO’s Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Squad.

The report states that UPS investigators began looking into a series of thefts involving packages whose contents disappeared while in transit through the company’s Hialeah distribution center at 6001 E. Eighth Ave.

Investigators reviewed surveillance video and alleged that Millwood routinely arrived before his scheduled shift and removed packages from the “Lakes Box Bottom Slide,” an area containing packages that were not assigned to his delivery route. Those packages were then loaded into his assigned UPS truck, investigators said.

Authorities said packages assigned to Millwood’s route were normally loaded from a different conveyor system, making his actions outside the scope of his job responsibilities.

Rolex reported missing

The investigation focused in part on a package containing a Rolex watch valued at approximately $55,000.

According to the report, surveillance video from June 9 showed Millwood loading the package into his truck. Tracking data later confirmed the package remained inside his vehicle, authorities said.

Millwood later told UPS the package had been mistakenly loaded onto his truck and transferred to another driver responsible for rerouting misdirected deliveries, according to detectives.

Detectives said the package ultimately reached its intended recipient, but investigators said the recipient discovered the Rolex watch was missing when the box was opened.

UPS investigators said “RFID” (Radio Frequency Identification) data confirmed the package had been inside Millwood’s truck before it was delivered.

Investigators also alleged that on Wednesday, Millwood selected four additional packages that were not assigned to his route. One of those packages was later found to have been opened and resealed, authorities said.

Sting operation leads to arrest

On Thursday, investigators conducted a controlled operation using two packages containing Samsung cellphones, GPS tracking devices and a hidden security dye pack designed to activate if the packages were opened without authorization, the arrest report stated.

According to the report, investigators watched live surveillance footage as Millwood loaded four packages from the same conveyor, including the two bait packages, into his UPS truck before beginning his delivery route.

Authorities followed Millwood and said he stopped near Northeast 132nd Terrace, where he allegedly opened one of the controlled packages.

Investigators said the security dye pack activated when the package was opened, covering Millwood’s hands in red dye.

An MDSO sergeant reported seeing Millwood frantically attempting to wash the dye off his hands using a towel, paper towels and water before continuing his route.

Detectives arrested Millwood a short time later while he was making another delivery near Northeast 127th Street, authorities said.

A search of the UPS truck uncovered the opened package, which investigators said had been resealed and placed back on a package rack. The Samsung phones and GPS tracker were recovered from another area inside the truck, according to the report.

Investigators said the two phones had a combined value of approximately $2,399.

Investigators say driver admitted opening packages

After being advised of his Miranda rights, Millwood initially denied opening or taking any packages, according to the report.

Investigators said that after being shown surveillance video, Millwood admitted to tampering with and opening one of the controlled packages.

When questioned about the missing Rolex, investigators said Millwood first denied taking the watch. He later allegedly told detectives he had given it to a friend named “Chris” after keeping it for about a week, the report stated.

According to the report, Millwood refused to identify the friend or provide any additional information, saying he did not want to get him into trouble. Investigators said he also offered to retrieve the watch if he were released.

The report states that when asked why he repeatedly selected packages that were not assigned to his route, Millwood responded that he “does that all the time.”

Millwood was arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Court records show he faces a charge of second-degree grand theft.

As of Friday afternoon, Millwood remained held at TGK on a $5,000 bond.

Local 10 News has reached out to UPS for comment and is awaiting a response.

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The fire rescue personnel with the Urban Search and Rescue, or USAR, and Florida Task Force 1, or FLTF1, which includes 80 specialists, will support search and rescue operations.

“We know that many people in our community have family, friends, and loved ones in Venezuela, which makes this mission especially meaningful to us,” a MDFR spokesperson wrote in a statement. “We deploy with a single purpose: to provide hope and assist those who have been affected during this difficult time.”

The FLTF1 “Type I” team also includes six canine teams and experts in 19 areas, including command and control, technical search, structural evaluation and stabilization, planning and technical information, advanced medical care, hazardous materials mitigation, tactical communications, logistics, safety, and technical rescue.

The highly trained teams have responded to disasters around the world, including hurricanes, explosions and major earthquakes. Members of Task Force 1 were among the rescuers who searched through rubble following the devastating Haiti earthquake in 2010.

At the Air Force Reserve base in Homestead, crews were loading pallets with water purification systems, generators and other equipment needed for the mission. The task forces are designed to be self-sufficient while operating in disaster zones.

The State Department had already deployed two urban search and rescue teams from Los Angeles and Fairfax, Virginia, that had worked together in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa.

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• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Samaritan’s Purse focuses on ‘emergency field hospital’
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
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• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
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Some civilians are also lining up to help.

Ramon Centeno, who was seen fleeing his Caracas apartment building on video, says it’s about solidarity.

“We are supporting each other, there is incredible solidarity, brother,” Centeno said.

The former political prisoner who spent four years in jail says he saw the face of death once again.

“In prison I saw the face of death, and in the earthquake I saw the face of death again,” he said.

Now he says he’s focused on collecting non-perishable supplies — scenes playing out around the world and at home.

Others, like Evelyn Batatino, are trying to figure out where to live. Her Caracas apartment was left with cracks, and she’s not sure if it’s safe.

“We are very scared,” Batatino said.

Some are now sleeping on the streets in tents, worried their buildings may be unsafe. Batatino says she needs to know another aftershock won’t come and affect the building.

“We need them to give us security, because the building is in very bad shape,” she said.

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• Food For The Poor packs disaster relief kits with ‘hopeful’ hand-written notes
• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Samaritan’s Purse focuses on ‘emergency field hospital’
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

Burbank police said they were called to a home around 5:30 a.m. after someone dialed 911 reporting a woman screaming.

When they arrived, they found 24-year-old Wade and a woman with lacerations on her face and body, police said.

The woman was not taken to a hospital after paramedics checked on her at the scene.

A handgun was also removed from the home following the arrest. Police issued an emergency protective order for the woman.

Wade played high school basketball at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California, where he received several scholarship offers — but he turned them down to go pro.

He played one year for the Salt Lake City Stars of the G League and spent a couple seasons overseas, playing in South Africa and Macau.

South Florida is home to the largest Haitian community in the U.S.

Community leaders, immigration advocates and Haitian families gathered in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood on Friday decrying the end to TPS for Haitians.

But TPS holder Farah Larrieux said she can’t allow herself to be sad.

“It takes courage and determination to fight evil,” she said.

Local 10 News reporter Christian De La Rosa asked, “You think that decision from the Supreme Court was evil?”

“Yes. It is evil,” Larrieux replied.

Many are also fearing the potential hit to the area’s economy.

TPS Haitians are known for working in industries like hospitality and long-term care for seniors.

“They are our working men and women,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a news conference on Friday. “They are our business owners. They create jobs. They are fueling our basic industries.”

According to some estimates, their economic impact in the US is $6 billion ― $1 billion in Miami.

“They can’t afford to lose their workforce, the hospitality industry, the agriculture industry, all these places,” ” business owner Dinah Escarment said. “Everyone who’s going to these hotels, when your room is not ready on time, when you don’t have someone to cater to you in the different restaurants in this different industries, trust me, you’re gonna feel it.”

Administration officials called the TPS ruling “a very straightforward legal issue.”

“The ‘T’ in TPS stands for temporary,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival said on Fox News.

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Overall tropical activity from the Gulf and Caribbean to the wider Atlantic is the lowest to-date in 12 years.

Of course, even though we’re already through about 16% of the hurricane season based on the calendar, historically 98% of tropical activity occurs after June.

And as we’ve discussed extensively in newsletters in previous seasons, early season activity (either high or low) isn’t a meaningful predictor for what could happen later in the season.

Only once we get into late July and August does activity to-date start to provide any meaningful clues about what the peak months of the season could hold.

Nevertheless, the paltry start to the Atlantic hurricane season is in line with what we would expect with a much earlier arriving and historically strong El Niño across the eastern Pacific.

The subtropical jet stream has been relentless through the tropical belt of the Atlantic this month — including into parts of the Gulf and Caribbean — and will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

Watching off the southeast to start July

As we detailed in Thursday’s newsletter, some of our forecast models – namely Google’s machine learning-based DeepMind hurricane model – are hinting at a small development window off the southeastern U.S. for the middle part of next week.

Odds remain low for now (10% or less), but best chances will come from next Tuesday to Thursday if anything tries to spin up.

The catalyst for what we’ll be watching next week will be a dying front draped over the warm waters off the southeast U.S.

Some models are hinting at a Mesoscale Convective System or MCS — a large cluster of thunderstorms — forming inland, diving off the coast, and getting tangled up on the frontal boundary, which could promote some development.

We won’t know the exact details for a few days, but regardless the odds are low enough that NHC hasn’t added it to its outlook just yet. Given lighter upper-level winds east of Florida along with near-record warmth in the waters for the time of year, it’s worth monitoring the trends.

Interestingly a similar setup (old front with an embedded MCS) is what spawned Hurricane Arthur in 2014, the last hurricane season to start as quietly as 2026.

Even the handful of models that do suggest development don’t point to significant development or a strong system, however, so for now it’s not anything to worry about.

In the meantime, enjoy the quiet weekend and quiet end to June.

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Police said Roxanabel Medina Leon, 31, would leave the boy alone with little to no food in their dirty apartment while she was at her boyfriend’s apartment.

Authorities said the boy told police that not only was he left alone with little food, “he shares his food with the family dog because there is no dog food available in the residence.”

According to the Doral Police Department, a building employee called officers to the building, the name and address of which are redacted from an arrest report, at around 3 a.m., after seeing the boy walking alone in the garage. According to the report, he told the boy to go back to his own apartment and remain there until police arrived.

According to the DPD report, that employee told investigators that the boy had come to the building’s lobby at around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday “and asked him if he had any food or water.”

Police said the employee gave Medina’s son popcorn, Biscoff cookies and water.

According to police, the boy told investigators that he “frequently goes to his mother’s boyfriend’s apartment to obtain food” and that he had gone to the front desk that morning because his mother hadn’t answered the door, saying “the only food available (in the apartment) was expired macaroni and cheese” which he didn’t eat “because he believed it would make him sick.”

He told police that he “often has to wake his mother” because his 4-month-old baby brother is crying and she doesn’t hear him. According to the report, he said he was in the parking garage trying to find his mother’s vehicle “in an effort to find her and obtain food because he was hungry.”

In the report, a Doral police officer described the conditions in the apartment:

“Upon entering the residence, I observed the apartment to be in disarray. The floors were sticky to the touch and there was a strong odor consistent with urine and feces throughout the residence. I proceeded to the juvenile victim’s bedroom, where I observed a mattress positioned directly on the floor without a bed frame. I then entered the bathroom adjacent to the juvenile victim’s bedroom and observed a dog cage containing two bowls. Both bowls were empty and did not contain food or water. While in the kitchen, I observed two knives on the countertop. The knives were unsecured and appeared readily accessible to the juvenile victim. I then entered the defendant’s bedroom, where I observed a baby bassinet. The bassinet appeared soiled and did not contain a clean fitted sheet or bedding.”

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Additionally, police said there was “little to no food” inside the unit.

According to the report, the boy told investigators that “there have been occasions when he became so hungry that he ate Gerber baby rice cereal mixed with water because there was no milk available in the apartment and added that the family dog had not eaten regular dog food for approximately three months.”

Authorities said they went to Medina’s boyfriend’s apartment and found her and the 4-month-old there.

According to the report, she claimed she cleaned the apartment “last Tuesday” and said her “son is constantly fed when she either cooks or orders food.”

“She stated that she left her dog food last night and doesn’t know why the dog was found with no food,” the report states.

Both of her children were checked out at the hospital, police said.

Police arrested Medina on two felony counts of child neglect and one misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

In court on Friday morning, Medina rolled her eyes as an interpreter spoke. She cried soon after.

As of Friday evening, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,500 bond.

Spotty showers cannot be ruled out for Miami-Dade and Broward counties late-Friday night into Saturday morning.

Otherwise, Saharan dust moves over the region, bringing hazy conditions through the weekend.

As east-southeast winds stir Saturday, temperatures will make a run for the low 90s -- it will feel like the triple digits. Afternoon showers and storms will tend to favor inland areas.

There may be some spotty showers or storms in the mix Sunday morning, especially early. Afternoon storms will tend to set-up inland and migrate westward. Temperatures are forecast to reach the low 90s with heat indices peaking over 100°F.

In the state of La Guaira, there was destruction at Simón Bolívar International Airport, also known as “Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía,” CCS, or SVMI.

Jarrard arrived at Caracas on Thursday evening and met with Venezuelan Chief of Defense Gen. Gustavo González López on Friday.

The purpose of the meeting at the airport was “to conduct an assessment,” according to SOUTHCOM.

The primary runway, known as 10R or 18L, was closed due to cracks and won’t reopen until July, according to Venezuelan aviation authorities. Humanitarian aid flights were using the Rampa 4 terminal.

Jarrard is coordinating the U.S. military’s response, which includes moving response personnel, equipment, and humanitarian assistance, according to SOUTHCOM.

There was structural damage. Videos showed a ceiling collapsing inside the terminal. American Airlines had started flights to CCS on April 30, and the airline reported a suspension until at least July 3.

The U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III landed at the Base Aérea el Libertador, or BAEL, a Venezuelan military base in central Venezuela’s area of Maracay, on Friday with a 79-person, 6-dog heavy urban search-and-rescue team from Virginia.

Así está ahora mismo el aeropuerto internacional de Maiquetía.
Aeropuerto principal de Venezuela a una hora de Caracas
Desconozco quien lo grabó y agradezco su trabajo pic.twitter.com/JYpPdgqfbK

— David Iglesias (@DavidRIglesiasS) June 24, 2026

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• Starlink offers free service through July 25, but a kit is $470
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Samaritan’s Purse focuses on ‘emergency field hospital’
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

Alvarado declined his player option and is working with the NBA champions on a three-year deal, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the contract was not yet finalized. ESPN first reported the plan, saying Alvarado would make more than $14 million with the new deal.

The guard was acquired from New Orleans during the season and had a player option for $4.5 million for next season.

“I'm home,” Alvarado wrote on X, ending his post with a series of orange and blue hearts.

Alvarado indeed came home on Feb. 5 when the Knicks acquired the Brooklyn native who attended Christ the King High School. He was primarily a backup behind Jalen Brunson but was on the floor with the All-Star for most of the fourth quarter of the Knicks' 107-106 victory over San Antonio in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, when they made a record comeback from a 29-point deficit. Alvarado had eight points and three assists in the period.

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A three-judge panel from the California's 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously issued the decision.

“We are disappointed by today’s decision and respectfully disagree with the Court of Appeal’s conclusions regarding the fairness of Mr. Weinstein’s trial,” Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in an email. “At the same time, the court correctly recognized that his sentence cannot stand.”

The decision came a day after prosecutors in New York decided Weinstein would not face a fourth trial there, dropping the #MeToo-era case on Thursday after the accuser said she could not bear to testify again.

The former movie magnate still stands convicted of another sexual felony in New York, and he remains behind bars. But the New York rape charge had remained unresolved after an overturned conviction followed by two hung juries.

In California, Weinstein, 74, was convicted in December 2022 of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault against an Italian model and actor known during the trial as Jane Doe 1. Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The former movie magnate's lawyers argued in his appeal that in his Los Angeles County trial, the testimony of the head of a film festival was unfairly limited by Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench, and had been seeking a new trial.

In New York, Weinstein is awaiting a September sentencing on his still-standing assault conviction involving a different woman. Prosecutors are seeking a 20-year prison term. He would serve his California sentence only after that.

After the Los Angeles trial, Jane Doe 1 later came forward under her name, Evgeniya Chernyshova, when she sued Weinstein in civil court.

The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly as Chernyshova did. Her attorney also said she consented to being named.

Chernyshova testified that Weinstein arrived uninvited to her hotel room during the 2013 LA Italia Film Festival and assaulted her.

Weinstein’s defense argued that a judge wrongly prevented his trial lawyers from asking about Facebook messages between Chernyshova and festival head Pascal Vicedomini that would have shown they had a sexual relationship.

The questioning would have shown she perjured herself when she said she and Vicedomini were just friends and colleagues, Weinstein’s lawyers argued. And they said it would have bolstered their argument that she was not even in her room on the night of the alleged assault.

“The lower court all but gutted Mr. Weinstein’s defense,” attorney Jennifer Bonjean told the appeals judges at April 23 oral arguments.

David Glassman, who represented the state, said any affair was irrelevant. “It doesn’t apply to any contested issue in the case,” he said.

Before his sentencing, Weinstein told the judge that this was a “made-up story” from a woman he had never met.

The Los Angeles trial jury acquitted Weinstein of the sexual battery of a massage therapist and failed to reach verdicts on counts involving two other women.

“This is not the end of the appellate process,” Engelmayer said in his email Friday. “We intend to seek review in the California Supreme Court because we continue to believe significant legal errors affected the proceedings and warrant further review.”

Emails seeking comment from Chernyshova’s attorney and the Los Angeles prosecutors were not immediately answered.

Investigators said Don Janea Smith, 22, is charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence in connection with the death of 68-year-old Shelley Lewis.

During Smith’s first court appearance Friday, prosecutors requested a $100,000 bond.

“As to count one leaving the scene of a crash involving death, I would ask for a $100,000 bond, no driving, a passport surrender,” a prosecutor said in court.

According to Fort Lauderdale police, the crash happened at about 6:40 a.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Southeast 17th Street.

Investigators said Lewis was riding her bicycle in the eastbound lanes when she was struck by a dark-colored vehicle whose driver fled the scene.

They said Lewis was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where she died.

According to an arrest report, Smith abandoned the vehicle after the crash, then returned to remove items from it before leaving the area in an Uber. Police later located the Uber and took Smith into custody.

Family members, who declined an on-camera interview Friday, described Lewis as an avid bicyclist who stayed active and regularly enjoyed bicycling, tennis, golf, pickleball and ping-pong.

According to her niece, Veronica Haines, Lewis spent her career in education, serving as head of special education at Mirror Lake Elementary School in Plantation after previously working at Sawgrass Elementary School in Sunrise.

After retiring, Haines said, Lewis often pet-sat for family and friends.

Lewis lived near the bridge and frequently rode her bicycle over it to the beach while wearing a helmet, according to her family.

Haines said family was everything to her aunt.

The first dog is Dozer. His handler is Sgt. Ifante. He’s friendly — but when it’s time to work, he’ll work.

At the department’s K-9 training facility, 15 officer-and-dog teams wear badges and learn to trust each other without hesitation.

“They can detect explosives — our EOD dogs — we have narcotics dogs, we also have money dogs and gun dogs,” said Sgt. John Marin, training supervisor for the Miami PD K-9 unit.

It’s not all German Shepherds. The unit also works with Belgian Malinois and Dutch Shepherds.

Not every dog makes it. Not every officer does either.

Right now, the dogs are being deployed for World Cup security. Officer Andy Magliano is the newest member of the unit. The partnership doesn’t end when the day does — handlers and dogs are together 24/7.

“We have to instill trust in the canine,” Magliano said. “And we have to have the same amount of trust in the canine and us.”

Local 10 News reporter Jeff Derderian suited up in the 15-to-20-pound bite suit — something that’s apparently never been done on camera with Miami PD before. When the command was given, the dog locked on.

On average, a K-9 stays on the job for eight years before it retires. The handler gets first shot at the dog. And they’re not rewarded with steak — they’re rewarded with toys. That’s what they love most.

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Xavier Tyson is one of three boys charged in connection with the alleged attack, which police say occurred in June 2025 at The Green Haven Project at 1160 NW Second Ave. in the city’s Overtown neighborhood.

According to investigators with the Miami Police Department, 13-year-old Nelson Nunez was accused of raping the victim while Tyson, then 14, and 13-year-old Jusiah Jones held her down. Officers testified the girl had rocks placed in her mouth to keep her quiet during what police say was a 30-minute assault.

“She was begging for them to stop and then they put rocks in her mouth and said if you keep yelling we’ll put more rocks in your mouth,” MPD Detective Louis Joseph testified on Friday.

Police described the rocks as small, beige and pebble-like.

Tyson’s attorney called multiple witnesses in an effort to secure his release, including his aunt and legal guardian, who described him as respectful and non-violent.

“He would never do anything like that,” said Amadonne Gabriel, Tyson’s Aunt. “He’s a respectful child. Loving caring. I have other kids. He plays well. Not violent.”

The co-founder of the community garden, Jorge Palacios, also testified, saying Tyson had become a familiar and well-regarded presence at the program.

“He became a known face at the garden — the main child you would interact with,” Palacios said. “People would come looking for him.”

Miami-Dade Judge Richard Hersch was unconvinced, citing the severity of Tyson’s alleged role.

“Your client held the child down while his friends raped her,” he said. “I’m uncomfortable with the degree of culpability. He will remain detained.”

Tyson’s attorney pushed back on the ruling, arguing the inconsistencies in witness accounts were too significant to dismiss.

Xavier Tyson es uno de los tres jóvenes acusados ​​en relación con el presunto ataque, que según la policía ocurrió en junio de 2025 en The Green Haven Project, ubicado en 1160 NW Second Ave., en el barrio Overtown de la ciudad.

Según los investigadores del Departamento de Policía de Miami, Nelson Núñez, de 13 años, fue acusado de violar a la víctima mientras Tyson, de 14 años en ese entonces, y Jusiah Jones, de 13 años, la sujetaban. Los agentes testificaron que le pusieron piedras en la boca a la niña para que guardara silencio durante lo que la policía describe como una agresión de 30 minutos.

“Ella les suplicaba que pararan, y entonces le metieron piedras en la boca y le dijeron que si seguía gritando le meterían más piedras”, declaró el viernes el detective Louis Joseph del Departamento de Policía Metropolitana.

La policía describió las rocas como pequeñas, de color beige y parecidas a guijarros.

El abogado de Tyson llamó a declarar a varios testigos en un intento por conseguir su liberación, entre ellos su tía y su tutor legal, quienes lo describieron como una persona respetuosa y no violenta.

«Él jamás haría algo así», dijo Amadone Gabriel, tía de Tyson. «Es un niño respetuoso, cariñoso y atento. Tengo otros hijos. Juega bien. No es violento».

Jorge Palacios, cofundador del huerto comunitario, también testificó, afirmando que Tyson se había convertido en una presencia familiar y muy respetada en el programa.

“Se convirtió en un rostro conocido en el jardín; era el niño con el que más se interactuaba”, dijo Palacios. “La gente venía a buscarlo”.

El juez de Miami-Dade, Richard Hersch, no se mostró convencido, citando la gravedad del papel que se le atribuía a Tyson.

“Su cliente sujetó a la niña mientras sus amigos la violaban”, dijo. “Me preocupa el grado de culpabilidad. Permanecerá detenido”.

El abogado de Tyson rebatió el fallo, argumentando que las inconsistencias en las declaraciones de los testigos eran demasiado significativas como para desestimarlas.

Paigelynne Gonyea said the confrontation happened Tuesday while she was working at a polling place in Syracuse. Two officers gave Gonyea a written notice stating that she might be in violation of federal laws that prevent publicly posting personal information about federal officers, she said.

Gonyea said the warning stemmed from a post she made on social media in January in which she posted a picture of Jonathan Ross, an ICE officer who shot and killed Good in Minneapolis during anti-ICE demonstrations that month. In the post, Gonyea wrote: “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted.”

Gonyea's post — which she made after Ross had already been identified by the news media — is still up. She said she has no intention of taking it down.

“I plan on using this experience to defend and support our First Amendment right,” Gonyea said. “Our first amendment rights definitely need to be protected now more than ever.”

Homeland Security considered post ‘doxxing’

Gonyea “committed a federal crime by posting the address of an ICE law enforcement officer online” and “if you doxx our officers, we will investigate you, and you will be brought to justice," said Lauren Bis, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland security, in a statement.

Bis shared a different social media post from the same one of Gonyea's accounts in which she said Gonyea shared Ross's address. Part of the post was redacted.

“Doxxing federal law enforcement officers is a federal crime that puts their lives and their families in serious danger,” the statement said. “This danger is not hypothetical. Our law enforcement officers are on the frontlines arresting terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, and rapists.”

Fellow poll worker recorded encounter

Another worker at the polls Tuesday recorded the encounter on her phone. The video shows two uniformed people coming into the polling place and talking briefly with Gonyea, who refuses to sign a warning letter.

Gonyea later posted the letter on social media. The unsigned letter states that it's from ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, whose primary mission is investigating allegations of misconduct by ICE personnel and contractors.

The poll worker who shot the video, Sheilia Milledge, said workers were shaken by the incident. No voters were present at the time of the confrontation, Gonyea said.

“I felt like it was a scare tactic that they were using,” Milledge said.

Attorney General's Office is reviewing

A representative for the New York Attorney General's Office said the office is aware of the situation and is reviewing it, while a representative for the governor's office said the office had not heard of other similar incidents in the state.

The incident “did not disrupt voting and was not related to the election process,” said Kathleen McGrath, a spokesperson for the New York State Board of Elections. Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said he responded to the polling place shortly after the incident, spoke with poll workers, made sure voting wasn't disrupted and "connected Paige to resources."

Gonyea said she initially missed a call from officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE, who wanted to meet with her.

A DHS agent left a voicemail saying they were calling “in reference to a post that we believe you made on Instagram where you doxxed an ICE officer back in January,” according a recording of the message she shared on social media.

"We just wanted to talk to you about it. You’re not in any type of trouble,” the agent said, according to a recording provided by Gonyea.

Gonyea said she returned the call to ask the officers to come into the polling place because she felt it would be safer to meet with them inside.

Advocates consider encounter intimidating

It appears to be incidental that the federal officers served Gonyea with the warning while she was working at the polling place, but their presence could still be intimidating to voters and poll workers, said Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the voting rights and elections program at Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning public policy institute.

Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said if officers are giving residents "a formal complaint about their protected speech, we’re in trouble.”

Rep. John Mannion, a Democrat who represents the area in Congress, also sent a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin calling for the department to review the incident and “put a stop to any ICE activities that target protected speech."

“ICE should not be broadly targeting online speech or actively monitoring social media accounts without cause and without proper judicial protections,” Mannion's letter stated.

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Whittle reported from Portland, Maine. Associated Press writers Anthony Izaguirre in New York City and Rebecca Santana in Washington contributed to this report.

The extraordinary inquiry comes less than a week after The Associated Press reported that DEA agents repeatedly monitored — but did not seize — shipments of the synthetic opioid in a bid to build bigger criminal cases between 2023 and 2025.

Current and former DEA agents, including whistleblower David Howell, told AP the strategy amounted to a gamble with public safety and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public.

The fentanyl went unseized amid the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history and as the DEA led a public awareness campaign — “One Pill Can Kill" — emphasizing that even a few milligrams of the substance can be lethal.

The criminal investigation turns a debate over enforcement tactics into a question of whether federal agents crossed legal lines while pursuing larger trafficking organizations.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, said federal agents “are not above the law,” but they enjoy substantial legal protections when carrying out official duties.

Still, Torrez said he would start “demanding documents and information about the DEA's conduct, in New Mexico and nationally, to determine whether what occurred here reflects a broader pattern of reckless or unlawful behavior.”

“If those allegations are accurate, the consequences for New Mexicans were not abstract. They were fatal,” Torrez wrote in a letter to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who earlier this week called for the inquiry.

“New Mexico already ranks among the states hardest hit by fentanyl overdose deaths," he added, "and the families who have lost children, siblings and parents to this crisis deserve a full accounting of what the federal government knew, what it did and what it failed to do."

The DEA initially denied Howell's allegations in a statement to AP. But the agency later called upon the Justice Department's independent watchdog to conduct its own investigation.

“Should that review identify areas of improvement, the DEA will of course implement changes to better their practices,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “We welcome a partnership with Governor Lujan Grisham, as well as New Mexico state and local leaders, to fight the scourge of fentanyl and keep her constituents safe.”

A growing number of local and state leaders in New Mexico have expressed outrage in the wake of Howell's allegations. But those sentiments are not widely held by family members of overdose victims, said Paul E. Martin, founder of United Against Fentanyl, a nonprofit organization fighting the epidemic that represents 5,000 family members of victims.

“Law enforcement makes mistakes," Martin said. “But the DEA are the men and women putting their lives on the line. Their entire business is the removal of illegal and toxic drugs from our streets.”

The CFL said Friday it won’t allow the 22-year-old to sign with any of its teams or be placed on their negotiation lists.

Sorsby admitted to placing thousands of bets totaling nearly $90,000 over his collegiate career, including at least 40 on Indiana football while he was a freshman there in 2022, although none was on games in which he played for the Hoosiers that year.

After being ruled permanently ineligible by the NCAA, Sorsby attempted to join the NFL’s supplemental draft, but the league told him on Tuesday it wouldn’t hold one this year.

Instead, the NFL told Sorsby to focus on preparing for possible entry into the league via its regular draft in 2027, according to a letter from the league telling Sorsby of its decision that was obtained by The Associated Press.

The NFL hasn’t held a supplemental draft since 2023.

“Upholding the integrity of the league and ensuring fair competition are paramount to the CFL,” the CFL said in a statement. “The allegations involving Brendan Sorsby are serious and concerning.

“At this time, the CFL will not register a contract for him, and no team will be permitted to add him to its negotiation list.”

Sorsby had planned to work out for NFL teams on July 10. He was banished from competition by the NCAA for the gambling activity after transferring earlier this year from Cincinnati to Texas Tech.

After spending a month in a residential treatment program for a diagnosed addiction that led to thousands of bets, Sorsby sued the NCAA and gained a court-ordered reinstatement that prompted nationwide backlash toward Texas Tech. The controversy led Sorsby to try to play professional football instead.

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El gobierno y las fuerzas armadas venezolanas han dado la bienvenida a los equipos de rescate y a los esfuerzos de ayuda humanitaria procedentes de todo el mundo.

Aquí hay lugares en el sur de Florida que están aceptando donaciones para las labores de ayuda.

CONDADO DE BROWARD

Arroyo de coco:

Food For The Poor, ubicado en 6401 Lyons Road.

Se aceptan donaciones de lunes a viernes de 8:00 a 17:00 y los sábados de 8:00 a 12:00.

Se aceptan donaciones:

• Frutas: Melocotones en conserva, piña, mango, peras y variedades similares.

• Verduras: Tomates enlatados, zanahorias, patatas, judías verdes, espinacas y verduras mixtas.

• Proteínas: Pollo, pavo, ternera, pescado o carne deshidratada enlatados.

• Granos secos: arroz, frijoles, lentejas y guisantes

• Cereales: Trigo, harina de maíz, avena y pasta

• Frutos secos, semillas y mantequillas de frutos secos: mantequilla de cacahuete, mantequilla de almendras, mantequilla de semillas de girasol.

• Aceite vegetal: Aceite de cocina (vegetal, de canola o de girasol)

• Productos lácteos: Leche envasada o en polvo, alternativas fortificadas (de larga duración).

• Aperitivos listos para consumir: galletas nutritivas, barritas energéticas o aperitivos enriquecidos.

• Artículos de higiene personal, como jabón, desodorante y toallas pequeñas.

• Lonas

• Linternas solares

• Mantas

• Pañales para niños y adultos

• Productos de higiene femenina

• Libros de actividades y juegos para niños

Miramar:

Comisaría de Policía de Miramar, 11765 City Hall Promenade

Estación de bomberos 19, 6700 Miramar Parkway

Estación de bomberos 70, 9001 Miramar Parkway

Estación de bomberos 107, 11811 Miramar Parkway

Estación de bomberos 84, 14801 SW 27th St.

Estación de bomberos 100, 2800 SW 184th Ave.

Las donaciones necesarias incluyen alimentos no perecederos, agua, pilas, desinfectante de manos, botiquines de primeros auxilios profesionales, guantes, mascarillas, artículos para mascotas, mantas nuevas, lonas, bolsas de basura, etc.

(No se aceptan prendas de vestir, zapatos, ropa de cama ni artículos similares)

CONDADO DE MIAMI-DADE

Aquí está la lista de los lugares de entrega de ayuda que el recaudador de impuestos de Miami-Dade tiene abiertos de 8 a. m. a 5 p. m. de lunes a viernes y de 8 a. m. a 1 p. m. los sábados:

MIAMI BEACH: 100 16 St.

CORAL GABLES: 224 Avenida Menorca.

CENTRO DE MIAMI: 200 NW 2nd Ave.

KENDALL: 11735 SW 147 Ave.

MIAMI CENTRAL: 3721 NW 7th St.

MIAMI GARDENS: 18326 NW 7 Ave.

LADO NORTE: 7900 NW 27 Ave.

MIDWAY CROSSINGS: 7795 West Flagler St. #82c

CORAL REEF: 14652 SW 122 Ave.

CIUDAD DE FLORIDA: 1448 North Krome Ave.

JARDINES DE HIALEAH: 11093 NW 138 St.

Playa de Miami

Aquí está la lista de las ubicaciones de Miami Beach Fire Rescue que estarán abiertas de 8 am a 6 pm del 29 de junio al 2 de julio:

SOUTH BEACH: Estación de bomberos número 1 en 1051 Jefferson Ave.

BAYSHORE: Estación de bomberos 2 en 2300 Pine Tree Drive

MID BEACH: Estación de bomberos número 3 en 5303 Collins Ave.

NORTH BEACH: Estación de bomberos 4 en 6880 Indian Creek Drive

Doral:

• La sede de GEM está abierta de 9:00 a 16:00, de lunes a viernes, en 1850 NW 84th Ave.
• El vestíbulo de la Oficina del Supervisor de Elecciones del Condado de Miami-Dade está abierto de 8:00 a 17:00, de lunes a viernes, en 2700 NW 87th Ave.
• El centro comunitario Doral Legacy Park está abierto de 17:00 a 21:00 de lunes a viernes, y de 8:00 a 17:00 los sábados y domingos en 11400 NW 82 St.
• El Arepazo está abierto las 24 horas de lunes a domingo en 10191 NW 58th St.

Entre las donaciones necesarias se incluyen artículos de emergencia, como linternas, baterías de alta capacidad, cargadores solares para teléfonos y guantes de trabajo; y artículos para el cuidado del bebé, como pañales.

Más cobertura de HELPING VENEZUELA

• Food For The Poor incluye en sus kits de ayuda humanitaria notas escritas a mano con mensajes de esperanza.
• El Departamento de Estado despliega un equipo de búsqueda y rescate en Miami-Dade.
• El recaudador de impuestos de Miami-Dade abre 11 puntos de entrega.
• Doral abre 4 puntos de entrega de ayuda.
• Se abre un punto de entrega de ayuda en Homestead.
• Starlink ofrece servicio gratuito hasta el 25 de julio, pero un kit cuesta 470 dólares.
• International Medical Corps despliega personal y necesita donaciones.
• Save The Children solicita donaciones para su fondo de emergencia.
• Samaritan’s Purse se centra en los “hospitales de campaña de emergencia”.
• La Cruz Roja solicita donaciones para su Fondo de Emergencia para la Respuesta ante Desastres.
• La ONU solicita donaciones para un programa infantil que carece de fondos suficientes.
• World Vision solicita donaciones para su “fondo de ayuda en casos de desastre”.
• World Central Kitchen solicita donaciones para comidas frescas.
• United Way Miami lanza la ‘Operación Manos Amigas’.

She's only the second WNBA coach to enter the Hall of Fame, joining former Houston Comets coach Van Chancellor, who was inducted in 2001.

“(I appreciate) the magnitude of this recognition of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the great work that has gone into this institution,” Reeve said. “To walk around and see the history of how much has been done years before I could ever have this opportunity to coach. Grateful to the WNBA because I think there was some consideration given schedule wise.”

Reeve will be joined by WNBA greats Candace Parker and Elena Delle Donne in this year's class. Parker and Delle Donne also will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame later this year. Other inductees include ESPN broadcaster Doris Burke, Kirkwood Community College coach Kim Muhl, Spanish star Amaya Valdemoro, French great Isabelle Fijalkowski and Clemson's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, Barbara Kennedy-Dixon.

Parker and Delle Donne were shocked to learn that Reeve was only the second WNBA coach to be honored.

“When you look at Cheryl’s career and what she’s done and all the winning and all the Hall of Famers she’s coached and then you look at her and she’s not ancient, like, that’s rare,” Delle Donne said. “That’s just how good she is and how long she’s been winning and doing it at a young age. Cheryl’s phenomenal. She made life really hard when we were playing against her.”

Reeve has won four WNBA championships with the Minnesota Lynx, whom she has coached since 2010. She also led the U.S. women's Olympic team to an eighth consecutive gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games. Reeve has 378 victories and is one win behind Mike Thibault for the most all-time in WNBA history.

She has a chance to match Thibault on Sunday when the Lynx play the Dallas Wings.

Parker won three titles in the WNBA playing with three different teams: Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas. She is the only player in league history to win both the MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same season (2008).

She also won two titles while playing in college for Tennessee under Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt, plus two Olympic gold medals and a second WNBA MVP award (2013).

“I'm super humbled to be going in with Elena and with the other inductees in the 2026 class,” Parker said.

Delle Donne won two league MVP awards in 2015 and 2019, the second of which came when she led the Washington Mystics to their lone WNBA championship. Delle Donne became the first player in league history to shoot more than 50% from the field, 40% from behind the 3-point line and 90% from the foul line.

Burke has covered basketball for ESPN since 1991 and in 2024 became the first woman to call the NBA Finals as a TV analyst. She was also the lead voice for the network in women's college basketball for many years. Burke played college basketball at Providence, scoring 1,372 points.

Valdemoro starred for the Spanish national team while playing on the 2004 and 2008 Olympic teams. She also was a member of the Houston Comets, winning three WNBA titles with the organization.

Muhl won 1,108 games and nine national titles at Kirkwood Community College in New Jersey. He had 37 consecutive 20-win seasons before retiring this past April.

Fijalkowski was a five-time French League champion and two-time EuroLeague winner. She was the French national team's all-time leading scorer with 2,562 points in 204 games.

Kennedy-Dixon had 3,113 points and 1,252 rebounds for Clemson. She was one of just eight players to have at least 3,000 points and 1,000 rebounds since the NCAA began sponsoring women's sports. Kennedy-Dixon died in 2018.

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Miami Beach Fire Rescue personnel will receive the donations until July 2 and deliver the boxes to the Global Empowerment Mission’s warehouse in Doral.

MBFR personnel will not be accepting clothing or linens. They will be accepting new tarps, tents, bottled water, flashlights, sleeping bags, batteries, large trash bags, work gloves, canned goods with expiration dates of a year or more, solar-powered lights, hygiene products, solar power banks, baby diapers, and first aid kits.

Here is the list of the locations that will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through July 2:

SOUTH BEACH: Fire Station 1 at 1051 Jefferson Ave.

BAYSHORE: Fire Station 2 at 2300 Pine Tree Drive

MID BEACH: Fire Station 3 at 5303 Collins Ave.

NORTH BEACH: Fire Station 4 at 6880 Indian Creek Drive

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• State Department deploys Miami-Dade search-and-rescue team
• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• Starlink offers free service through July 25, but a kit is $470
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Samaritan’s Purse focuses on ‘emergency field hospital’
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

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The Venezuelan government and military have welcomed rescue crews and relief efforts from all over the world.

Here are locations in South Florida that are accepting donations for relief efforts.

BROWARD COUNTY

Coconut Creek:

Food For The Poor, located at 6401 Lyons Road.

Donations are being accepted weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

Donations being accepted:

• Fruits: Canned peaches, pineapple, mango, pears, and similar varieties

• Vegetables: Canned tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, green beans, spinach, and mixed vegetables

• Protein: Canned chicken, turkey, beef, fish, or dehydrated meat

• Dry Grains: Rice, beans, lentils, and peas

• Cereals: Wheat, cornmeal, oats, and pasta

• Nuts, Seeds, and Nut Butters: Peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter

• Vegetable Oil: Cooking oil (vegetable, canola, or sunflower)

• Milk Products: Boxed or powdered milk, fortified alternatives (shelf-stable)

• Ready-to-Eat Snacks: Nutritional biscuits, energy bars, or fortified snacks

• Hygiene supplies, such as soap, deodorant, and wash cloths

• Tarps

• Solar lanterns

• Blankets

• Diapers for children and adults

• Feminine hygiene products

• Children’s activity books and games

Miramar:

Miramar Police Headquarters, 11765 City Hall Promenade

Fire Station 19, 6700 Miramar Parkway

Fire Station 70, 9001 Miramar Parkway

Fire Station 107, 11811 Miramar Parkway

Fire Station 84, 14801 SW 27th St.

Fire Station 100, 2800 SW 184th Ave.

Donations needed include non-perishables, water, batteries, hand sanitizer, professional first-aid kits, gloves, masks, pet supplies, new blankets, tarps, trash bags, etc.

(Not accepting clothing, shoes, linens, or similar items)

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

Here is the list of the aid drop-off locations that the Miami-Dade tax collector has open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday:

MIAMI BEACH: 100 16 St.

CORAL GABLES: 224 Minorca Ave.

DOWNTOWN MIAMI: 200 NW 2nd Ave.

KENDALL: 11735 SW 147 Ave.

MIAMI CENTRAL: 3721 NW 7 St.

MIAMI GARDENS: 18326 NW 7 Ave.

NORTHSIDE: 7900 NW 27 Ave.

MIDWAY CROSSINGS: 7795 West Flagler St. #82c

CORAL REEF: 14652 SW 122 Ave.

FLORIDA CITY: 1448 North Krome Ave.

HIALEAH GARDENS: 11093 NW 138 St.

MIAMI BEACH

Here is the list of the Miami Beach Fire Rescue locations that will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from June 29 to July 2:

SOUTH BEACH: Fire Station 1 at 1051 Jefferson Ave.

BAYSHORE: Fire Station 2 at 2300 Pine Tree Drive

MID BEACH: Fire Station 3 at 5303 Collins Ave.

NORTH BEACH: Fire Station 4 at 6880 Indian Creek Drive

Doral:

• GEM headquarters is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday, at 1850 NW 84th Ave.
• Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Office lobby is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., from Monday to Friday, at 2700 NW 87th Ave.
• Doral Legacy Park Community Center is open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., from Monday to Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 11400 NW 82 St.
• El Arepazo is open 24 hours from Monday to Sunday at 10191 NW 58th St.

Donations that are needed include emergency gear, such as flashlights, heavy-duty batteries, solar phone chargers and work gloves; and baby care items, such as diapers.

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• Food For The Poor packs disaster relief kits with ‘hopeful’ hand-written notes
• State Department deploys Miami-Dade search-and-rescue team
• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• Starlink offers free service through July 25, but a kit is $470
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Samaritan’s Purse focuses on ‘emergency field hospital’
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

Francisco Quintero reservó los asientos de su pequeño y maltrecho automóvil para sus hijos, y el maletero es ahora el hogar de Paquito, su periquito verde y rojo, y de un puñado de tortugas mascota.

Quintero, músico, comentó que él y otros adultos de la familia buscan cada noche un lugar para dormir cerca del auto “hasta que nos den una respuesta de qué podrían hacer con nosotros”.

Los sismos de magnitud 7,2 y 7,5 que sacudieron Venezuela el miércoles por la noche con apenas 39 segundos de diferencia derribaron edificios en Caracas y más allá, con cientos de viviendas dañadas. Se espera que el número de muertos confirmados —ya de varios cientos— aumente a medida que continúan las frenéticas misiones de búsqueda y rescate.

Miles de venezolanos que quedaron de repente sin hogar se han volcado desde entonces a parques, plazas e incluso a los márgenes de autopistas bloqueadas, en busca de un lugar donde recostar la cabeza. La crisis más reciente en esta nación de unos 30 millones de habitantes llega tras décadas de dificultades económicas. Más de la mitad de la población vive en pobreza extrema y casi 8 millones ya necesitaban ayuda humanitaria antes que golpearan los sismos.

En Guaira —el estado más afectado, justo al norte de Caracas— las familias colocaron sábanas sobre un polvoriento campo de béisbol para marcar su espacio, con sus pertenencias metidas en bolsas de plástico. Otros buscaron refugio bajo palmeras. Entre ellos estaba Alexandra Martínez, de 35 años, y sus dos hijos.

“El apartamento está totalmente roto”, afirmó Martínez mientras se secaba las lágrimas. “Destruidas las paredes, la cocina, todo. Se abrió por la mitad”

Los venezolanos que viven a la intemperie se preguntan por cuánto tiempo

Escenas similares se repitieron en toda Caracas.

“No tenemos adónde vivir”, expresó Desiré Gil. “Esta es la única opción que tenemos por el momento”.

La mujer de 37 años, madre de cuatro hijos —incluida una que tiene seis meses de embarazo—, ahora vive con su familia sobre una pequeña plaza cubierta de césped.

Cerca de allí, la gente usaba mochilas como almohadas y abría coloridas sombrillas de playa para darse sombra cuando helicópteros zumbaban sobre sus cabezas.

La vivienda de Gil no se derrumbó, pero algunas partes se están desmoronando y ella se niega a regresar: “El temor que nosotros tenemos es que nos vaya a caer encima el edificio”.

Como muchos otros, espera a que la agencia de protección civil de Venezuela inspeccione los edificios agrietados y deteriorados y determine si todavía es seguro vivir en ellos.

Pero no está claro cuándo podrían comenzar esas inspecciones. El gobierno sigue concentrado en salvar vidas, con miles de personas que se cree están desaparecidas en la región norte de Venezuela, donde los sismos han matado al menos a 920 personas y han herido a más de 3.300.

Gil, que se gana la vida vendiendo mangos y otros productos, contó que su hija embarazada tuvo contracciones y fue al hospital el jueves, pero la rechazaron. Una parte de la sala de maternidad se había derrumbado, y el hospital ya estaba desbordado de pacientes enviados por otras instituciones.

El Ministerio de Educación indicó que algunos edificios escolares se usarían como refugios, pero no estaba claro cuántos. Por ahora, Gil señaló que ella y su familia vivirán sobre el montículo de césped hasta que el gobierno les dé una respuesta”.

Más de la mitad de Caracas se construyó bajo antiguo código de construcción

Expertos han dicho que no les sorprenden los edificios colapsados.

José Rangel, ingeniero civil y profesor universitario, señaló que más del 50% de Caracas se construyó antes de 1982, el año en que el gobierno aprobó un nuevo código de construcción para zonas sísmicas.

Rangel explicó que él y otros ingenieros estaban trabajando en planes de reforzamiento sísmico y priorizando la evaluación de escuelas, hospitales, puentes y otra infraestructura antes de que ocurrieran los terremotos.

Instó al gobierno a reconstruir con mayor solidez y a aplicar las recomendaciones existentes, y advirtió que podría tomar semanas evaluar los edificios y determinar si son seguros.

“Es un proceso que viene ahora”, resaltó Rangel. “Ahora mismo, lo más importante es el tema del rescate”.

Instó a ingenieros, arquitectos y otros a sumarse a los próximos esfuerzos de inspección.

“Hay que determinar las causas del colapso”, sostuvo. “Es la manera de aprender las lecciones después de un terremoto”.

Magaly Noguera y su familia están entre los venezolanos que esperan una inspección. Viven en un edificio alto que resultó dañado, y Noguera recordó cómo ella y su hijo, junto con la esposa de él y su hijo de 3 años, se abrazaron bajo el marco de la puerta de la cocina hasta que pudieron bajar corriendo a un lugar más seguro.

Ahora duermen afuera, cerca de un edificio gubernamental, rodeados de otras personas en la misma situación.

Al otro lado de la calle, un hombre cargaba un colchón sobre el hombro izquierdo al tiempo que su pareja llevaba varias almohadas bajo el brazo derecho. Entre ambos, acurrucado, iba un niño pequeño cuando caminaban hacia destino desconocido.

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

The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel is a setback for the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda and its repeated efforts to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit leaves intact, for now, a tighter standard set in 2024 on pollution from coal-fired power plants, factories and other industrial sources.

The EPA under President Donald Trump asked the appeals court last year to invalidate the Biden-era rule, arguing that the agency under previous leaders had exceeded its statutory authority and acted unreasonably by failing to consider costs to businesses affected by the rule.

The court denied the Trump administration's request, saying in a decision written by Senior Judge Douglas Ginsburg that the agency's arguments “lack merit."

The ruling leaves in place an annual ⁠limit of 9 micrograms of fine particle pollution — often called soot — per cubic meter of air, down from 12 micrograms established more than a decade ago. The EPA rule sets an air quality level that states and counties must achieve in the coming years to reduce particle pollution from power plants, vehicles, industrial sites and wildfires.

The EPA's bid to walk away from the Biden-era rule came in response to a lawsuit by 25 Republican-led states and a host of business groups that attempted to block the 2024 rule in court. A suit led by attorneys general from Kentucky and West Virginia argued the EPA rule would raise costs for manufacturers, utilities and families and could block new manufacturing plants.

The EPA under Biden had said the tighter limits would avoid more than 800,000 ‌cases ⁠of asthma symptoms, 2,000 hospital visits and 4,500 premature deaths.

An EPA spokeswoman said in November that the 2024 rule would cost “hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to American citizens" and ​was not based on ​a full ⁠review of available science.

The EPA said Friday it was reviewing the court decision.

Environmental groups hailed the ruling as a victory for public health and a rebuke of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

“Clean air is not a luxury. The 2024 soot standard is a critical advancement for public health, projected to save thousands of lives every year,'' said Patrice Simms, vice president of healthy communities at Earthjustice, an environmental law firm. “Lee Zeldin’s EPA must stop catering to polluters and must instead fulfill its mission to protect public health," Simms added.

The ⁠Natural Resources Defense Council, another environmental group, said the delay in implementing the 2024 rule has meant millions of Americans continue to breathe unhealthy levels of soot.

"The science has long been clear, and now the law is too. The EPA must stop stalling and deliver the clean air the Clean Air Act requires,'' said Vijay Limaye, a climate and health scientist for the NRDC.

The standard Starlink hardware kit costs about $470 in Venezuela, where there are only three authorized dealers: Daka, Multimax, and Soytechno. The residential plan starts at $55 monthly.

The satellite internet company operated by SpaceX announced that new customers in Venezuela’s impacted areas have to reach out to support after purchase to receive the free service through July 25.

Also, Venezuelan Starlink accounts are limited to one kit, and the subscription is restricted to a fixed residential service address.

The designated disaster zones qualify for free or heavily discounted disaster-recovery service credits. Interim President Delcy Rodríguez thanked Elon Musk and his Starlink team on Thursday.

“Every connection counts at a time like this,” Rodríguez said.

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• Food For The Poor packs disaster relief kits with ‘hopeful’ hand-written notes
• State Department deploys Miami-Dade search-and-rescue team
• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Samaritan’s Purse focuses on ‘emergency field hospital’
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

The giraffe was spotted about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) south of her enclosure during an aerial search in the Texas Hill Country, according to Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson. He said Gracie's owner, Vick Jones, contacted a veterinarian and began putting together a team to bring the giraffe safely back to the ranch.

“She’s in good shape,” Jones said. “She’s standing there, swishing her tail.”

Gracie, who is about 3 years old and weighs at least 1,200 pounds, was found within a half-mile of a pond and creek and had plenty of vegetation to feed on, said Jones, adding that she appeared to have been in that area for about a week.

Getting the 10-foot-tall giraffe home to the Cedar Hollow Ranch, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of San Antonio, was taking some work.

Veterinarians needed time to sedate Gracie and put a hood over her eyes, Jones said. From there, Gracie will be moved with an open-pasture trailer to a taller, enclosed trailer made for giraffes for the trip back to the ranch.

Parts of the remote area cannot be reached by car, which prompted the search by helicopter. While Real County's 2,700 residents were urged to keep an eye out for her, Gracie was found on private property where no one lives, Jones said.

“We didn't bother her,” Jones said of the sighting. “She's got water. She looked in really good shape.”

The Texas Hill Country has one of the largest concentrations of exotic captive animals in the U.S.

Johnson said this week he’s had reports of missing wildebeests, water buffalo, zebras and monkeys, though never a giraffe previously.

The area has a mild climate and rugged terrain — and plenty of vegetation for Gracie to eat. In Africa, giraffes thrive best in dry and semidry savannahs and grasslands.

Jones believes that Gracie, who arrived at the ranch in May, didn't mean to leave it. She had been wandering up to a rocky area to feed on trees growing out of the rock and had always come back to the ranch's giraffe enclosure.

Jones said Gracie wandered into the rocky area, fed, and came down on the wrong side of the gate. At that point, he said, it was easier for her to keep walking in the same direction than to try to go back.

The area wasn't fenced because giraffes had not been going there until Gracie did — and building a fence requires jackhammering through rock to put up the posts. But Jones said he plans to have a fence put up now, and Gracie will stay in the ranch's giraffe enclosure until it's ready.

Despite Gracie's size, she wouldn't have harmed a person who encountered her off the ranch, Jones said.

“If you move toward her, she's taking off,” he said.

“Me, personally, I don’t agree,” said Chambliss, who was coached by Kiffin last season. “I don’t think that what he said was truthful. ... The Oxford community is nothing but love and they care about their people no matter what they look like: brown, black, purple, yellow — you know what I mean?”

Kiffin, who is white, coached at Ole Miss from 2020 to 2025. He oversaw the Rebels' 11-1 regular season in 2025 but left for LSU before the College Football Playoff in a move that has since brought much scrutiny to college football’s recruiting calendar.

In May, Kiffin was featured in a Vanity Fair magazine article in which he described prospective Ole Miss recruits telling him: "Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.”

“That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana," Kiffin added in his comments to Vanity Fair.

Kiffin wanted to coach the Rebels in the CFP, but Ole Miss wouldn’t allow it because Kiffin also would have been simultaneously recruiting for LSU. Without Kiffin at the helm, Chambliss nonetheless led the Rebels into the national finals with a scintillating CFP quarterfinal performance against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

Chambliss, who is participating this weekend in the Manning Passing Academy as a counselor, said he still thinks highly of Kiffin, will always appreciate the opportunity Kiffin gave him at Ole Miss and does not harbor hard feelings about the way Kiffin left the program.

However, Chambliss sounded eager to point out that his experience in Oxford did not match Kiffin's comments to the magazine.

“The people in Mississippi and Oxford showed me nothing but love,” Chambless said of a visit he made before deciding to transfer to Ole Miss from Ferris State.

“One thing that I can really take away from my visit and the reason why I did commit to Ole Miss is I asked my family what they genuinely thought about the visit, what they thought about the people, if they trusted what they were actually saying, if they’re gonna be true to their word,” Chambliss added.

“They said, ‘I feel like this is the right place.' And my mom’s super religious, too, and she just had a good feeling,” Chambliss said. “We prayed on it, and that was the main thing. ... So, I felt like Oxford is home and it’s a great place.”

Kiffin will be back in Ole Miss' Vaught-Hemingway Stadium — but on the visitor's sideline — on Sept. 19 when LSU visits the Rebels. Pete Golding, who had been a defensive coordinator on Kiffin’s staff, took over at Ole Miss.

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Dembélé scored a first-half hat trick, including one off a feed from Mbappé, to help France beat Norway 4-1 at the World Cup on Friday.

Dembélé's goals came in the seventh, 20th and 32nd minutes. It was the first first-half hat trick at the World Cup since Russia forward Oleg Salenko scored three of his five goals in the opening 45 minutes against Cameroon at the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

“It is a unique moment,” Dembélé said. “But the most important was to finish first of the group in the group stage, and we are focused on the round of 32, which is the most important.”

France, which won the World Cup in 2018 and lost in the final four years ago, had already secured its place in the knockout round before Friday’s match. Norway was also assured of a spot in the round of 32 and ended up in second place in the group.

Désiré Doué scored France's final goal in second-half injury time.

Dembélé said changing their approach in the final group match was never a consideration. France has 10 goals through three games.

“We want to win all our matches, but we remain focused,” Dembélé said.

The fastest World Cup hat trick took only 7 minutes, 42 seconds. Hungary striker Laszlo Kiss, who had come on as a substitute, managed that feat late in the match against El Salvador at the 1982 World Cup in Spain.

The quickest World Cup hat trick from the start of the match occurred at the 1954 tournament in Switzerland when Austria striker Erich Probst scored his three goals in the opening 24 minutes against Czechoslovakia.

Dembélé, who won Ballon d’Or as Europe’s top player in 2025 and has now scored four goals at this year's World Cup, left the game in the 65th minute. He was replaced by Bradley Barcola.

Thelo Aasgaard got Norway on the scoreboard after Dembélé’s second goal, finding the back of the net only 14 seconds after the restart. But Dembélé added his third goal less than nine minutes later to push the lead back to two.

Dembélé increased his international goal total to eight while Mbappe now has 16 goals and four assists in 17 World Cup matches. He scored two goals in each of France’s wins over Senegal and Iraq.

Erling Haaland was among 10 regular starters absent from Norway’s starting lineup, presumably to rest. The wholesale changes included Egil Selvik starting in goal in place of Orjan Nyland.

Norway coach Ståle Solbakken said resting so many players was an easy decision for him.

“The break that we had from the last game to this game was the shortest of any team. ... So it's a no-brainer,” he said. “The fans around Norway and also in the arena would have like to see Erling. But that is not really the issue. We want to proceed as long as we can in the tournament.”

The Norwegians will next face Ivory Coast in the round of 32 on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas. France will play the same day against one of the eight best third-place finishers in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Mbappé nearly got France on the scoreboard only 21 seconds into the game. He sprinted up the right side and sent a hard shot that hit the crossbar beyond the outstretched arm of Selvik.

Dembélé was operating in space for his first goal when he took took a pass from Mbappé and blasted a right-footed shot across Selvik.

On the Paris Saint-Germain player’s second goal, Dembélé found space between three defenders at the top of the box and fired in a left-footer beyond Selvik’s diving save attempt.

Norway had a chance to close the gap back to one goal in the 49th when France defender Theo Hernandez was whistled for tripping Oscar Bobb in the box. But Jorgen Strand Larsen’s penalty shot toward the right corner was batted away by France goalkeeper Mike Maignan.

Before the game, French fans in attendance displayed a banner reading “AVEC TOI DIDIER” (With you Didier), acknowledging France coach Didier Deschamps' mother, Ginette Deschamps, who died this week. The coach missed the match against Norway on Friday because he was in France with family, leaving assistant Guy Stéphan in charge.

Stéphan said Deschamps would rejoin the team for its next training session on Saturday.

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According to Buttigieg, a Michigan State Police officer and a child protective services worker came to his home in Traverse City after they received an anonymous report alleging he posed a danger to his children. Authorities arranged forensic interviews for his twins and instructed him not to be alone with them until the interviews were complete.

Buttigieg described the 24-hour ordeal in a Substack post as "among the darkest hours of my life.”

Michigan State Police said in a statement to The Associated Press they received an “anonymous report” and that they and child protective services “responded and determined the report was false.”

Buttigieg said investigators told him the anonymous caller claimed he had confessed years earlier to violent crimes during a chance meeting in Alabama. Buttigieg said he had never been to the town where the meeting allegedly occurred.

He said police told him the allegation would not be referred to prosecutors and that they believed it to be politically motivated, while Child Protective Services found nothing to substantiate the report.

“I cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this," writes Buttigieg. “They are four years old. Four. They do not know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is.”

Buttigieg, who is widely viewed as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, has long been the target of anti-LGBTQ attacks.

In recent years, conservative activists and some Republican officials have opposed efforts to portray same-sex parents as ordinary families in schools and public life. June — widely recognized as Pride Month — is Strong Families Month in Alabama, intended to coincide with Father’s Day. Gov. Kay Ivey’s proclamation says fathers are “the head of the household” and “homes led by a father and mother provide children with the structure and discipline necessary to succeed throughout life.”

Buttigieg wrote that the incident occurred soon after he shared photos of his family online for Father’s Day.

Buttigieg drew criticism from some Republicans for taking paternity leave after he and his husband, Chasten, adopted their twins while he was serving in the Biden administration. Buttigieg also wrote that he has faced death threats during his career.

“But this is the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began,” he wrote.

Public officials from across the political spectrum have increasingly been targeted by swatting, which is the act of making a false call to emergency services to prompt a response at a particular address. The goal is to get authorities, particularly a SWAT team, to show up. Law enforcement agencies have warned that the incidents divert resources from other pressing tasks and pose risks to both law enforcement and the victims.

Buttigieg said the incident reflected a broader escalation in political attacks.

“Everyone knows politics is ugly these days,” he wrote. “It’s always been ugly, but now it feels more and more like bloodsport."

“Even so, this is different.”

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According to arrest reports, officers identified the suspects as Terrance Beron Sills, 22, Jayden Cereus, 18, both of Fort Lauderdale, and Kevin Peeples, 18, of Miami.

Police said officers were on patrol around 11:30 p.m. Thursday after receiving a be-on-the lookout alert for a gray Honda Accord that had been linked to multiple smash-and-grab burglaries in Pinecrest and repeatedly detected by automated license plate reader cameras throughout the village.

According to the reports, an officer spotted the vehicle near Southwest 122nd Street and Southwest 67th Avenue.

Investigators said the driver was wearing a black ski mask over the lower half of his face before pulling it down. They also confirmed that the driver, Cereus, turned off the car’s headlights and began reversing after noticing a marked police vehicle.

Officers said they stopped the Honda and detained all three occupants without incident.

According to the reports, officers found three automotive window punch tools, multiple pairs of gloves and black ski masks in plain view inside the car. Police said the tools are commonly used to quickly shatter vehicle windows during burglaries.

After being advised of their Miranda rights, the three suspects gave conflicting explanations about why they were in Pinecrest, according to the reports.

Police said Peeples told investigators the group was “staying at a hotel far from here,” and were looking for an Airbnb to rent in Pinecrest, but officers later contacted the homeowner at the address on his phone, who said they were not expecting anyone and did not know the suspects.

According to the reports, Sills, who told officers the Honda belonged to him, admitted the window punch tools were his but claimed he kept them in case he locked his keys inside the car.

Police said Sills also stated the group had driven from Fort Lauderdale “to look for cars” before refusing to answer additional questions.

Investigators said Cereus told officers the group had been driving around Pinecrest for about 30 minutes but also claimed the hotel where they were staying was about an hour away.

They said based on the car’s connection to previous burglaries, repeated license plate reader alerts, the items recovered from the car and the suspects’ conflicting statements, officers arrested all three men.

Police have not disclosed how many valuables or how much property was stolen in the burglaries linked to the thefts.

Jail records show Sills, Cereus and Peeples each face one count of possession of burglary tools and one count of loitering or prowling.

As of Friday, all three suspects are being held on a $5,100 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Según los informes de arresto, los sospechosos fueron identificados como Terrance Beron Sills, de 22 años; Jayden Cereus, de 18, ambos de Fort Lauderdale; y Kevin Peeples, de 18, de Miami.

La Policía indicó que los agentes patrullaban alrededor de las 11:30 p.m. del jueves después de recibir una alerta para localizar un Honda Accord gris que había sido vinculado a múltiples robos a vehículos tras romper sus ventanas en Pinecrest y que había sido detectado repetidamente por cámaras automatizadas de lectura de matrículas en toda la localidad.

Según los informes, un agente localizó el vehículo cerca de la calle 122 SW y la avenida 67 SW.

Los investigadores dijeron que el conductor llevaba una máscara negra de esquí cubriéndole la parte inferior del rostro antes de bajársela. También confirmaron que el conductor, Cereus, apagó las luces del vehículo y comenzó a retroceder después de notar una patrulla policial identificada.

Los agentes dijeron que detuvieron el Honda y arrestaron a los tres ocupantes sin incidentes.

Según los informes, los agentes encontraron a simple vista dentro del vehículo tres herramientas para romper ventanas de automóviles, varios pares de guantes y máscaras negras de esquí. La Policía indicó que estas herramientas son utilizadas comúnmente para romper rápidamente las ventanas de los vehículos durante los robos.

Después de ser informados de sus derechos Miranda, los tres sospechosos dieron explicaciones contradictorias sobre por qué estaban en Pinecrest, según los informes.

La Policía indicó que Peeples dijo a los investigadores que el grupo “se hospedaba en un hotel lejos de aquí” y que buscaban un Airbnb para alquilar en Pinecrest, pero posteriormente los agentes contactaron al propietario de la dirección que aparecía en su teléfono, quien dijo que no esperaba a nadie y que no conocía a los sospechosos.

Según los informes, Sills, quien dijo a los agentes que el Honda le pertenecía, admitió que las herramientas para romper ventanas eran suyas, pero afirmó que las llevaba por si dejaba las llaves dentro del vehículo.

La Policía indicó que Sills también declaró que el grupo había viajado desde Fort Lauderdale “para buscar vehículos” antes de negarse a responder más preguntas.

Los investigadores dijeron que Cereus informó a los agentes que el grupo había estado conduciendo por Pinecrest durante unos 30 minutos, pero también afirmó que el hotel donde se hospedaban estaba aproximadamente a una hora de distancia.

Indicaron que, con base en la vinculación del vehículo con robos anteriores, las repetidas alertas de los lectores de matrículas, los objetos recuperados del automóvil y las declaraciones contradictorias de los sospechosos, los agentes arrestaron a los tres hombres.

La Policía no ha revelado cuántos objetos de valor ni qué cantidad de bienes fueron robados en los casos vinculados.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Sills, Cereus y Peeples enfrentan cada uno un cargo de posesión de herramientas para robo y un cargo de merodear o deambular con fines delictivos.

Hasta el viernes, los tres sospechosos permanecían detenidos con una fianza de $5,100 USD cada uno en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso puede comunicarse con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

El personal de bomberos y rescate de Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) y de Florida Task Force 1 (FLTF1), que incluye a 80 especialistas, apoyará las operaciones de búsqueda y rescate.

“Sabemos que muchas personas de nuestra comunidad tienen familiares, amigos y seres queridos en Venezuela, lo que hace que esta misión sea especialmente significativa para nosotros”, escribió un portavoz de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) en un comunicado. “Nos desplegamos con un solo propósito: brindar esperanza y ayudar a quienes se han visto afectados durante este difícil momento”.

El equipo FLTF1 de “Tipo I” también incluye seis equipos caninos y expertos en 19 áreas, entre ellas mando y control, búsqueda técnica, evaluación y estabilización estructural, planificación e información técnica, atención médica avanzada, mitigación de materiales peligrosos, comunicaciones tácticas, logística, seguridad y rescate técnico.

El Departamento de Estado ya había desplegado dos equipos urbanos de búsqueda y rescate desde Los Ángeles y Fairfax, Virginia.

Más cobertura de AYUDA A VENEZUELA

• Food For The Poor incluye en sus kits de ayuda humanitaria notas escritas a mano con mensajes de esperanza.
• El recaudador de impuestos de Miami-Dade abre 11 puntos de entrega.
• Doral abre 4 puntos de entrega de ayuda.
• Se abre un punto de entrega de ayuda en Homestead.
• International Medical Corps despliega personal y necesita donaciones.
• Save The Children solicita donaciones para su fondo de emergencia.
• Samaritan’s Purse se centra en los “hospitales de campaña de emergencia”.
• La Cruz Roja solicita donaciones para su Fondo de Emergencia para la Respuesta ante Desastres.
• La ONU solicita donaciones para un programa infantil que carece de fondos suficientes.
• World Vision solicita donaciones para su “fondo de ayuda en casos de desastre”.
• World Central Kitchen solicita donaciones para comidas frescas.
• United Way Miami lanza la ‘Operación Manos Amigas’.

Fue el sangriento desenlace de una larga disputa entre los hermanos. Leyva, de 49 años, llegó en un scooter poco después de las 12:20 p.m. del 24 de abril de 2025 a Priced Rights Motors, Inc., negocio que Rivero, de 35 años, había heredado, según muestran los registros.

Los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Alfredo Pérez y Dea Harris, dispararon contra Leyva poco antes de la 1 p.m. en el 7321 de la calle 45 SW, en el vecindario de Glenvar Heights, al oeste de South Miami, según muestran los registros.

“Leyva disparó contra los agentes al menos una vez antes de que cualquiera de ellos utilizara fuerza letal”, escribió la fiscal adjunta del estado de Miami-Dade, Sara Imm, según el memorando de cierre que también firmó la fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle.

Antes de que los agentes respondieran con un escudo balístico, Armando Yadro le dijo a un operador del 911 que Leyva le había disparado y que estaba fingiendo estar muerto porque se encontraba dentro del negocio, según muestran los registros.

Imm describió cómo Leyva también “dirigió” un “aparente explosivo”, una bomba de humo que parecía ser una granada, antes de que Pérez “disparara su arma de fuego”, según el memorando de cierre aprobado el jueves por Fernández Rundle, de acuerdo con los registros.

“Es razonable concluir que tanto el agente Harris como el agente Pérez creían que el uso de fuerza letal era necesario para evitar una muerte inminente o causar un gran daño corporal a ellos mismos y/o a los otros dos civiles”, escribió Imm, según el memorando.

Los videos mostraban a niños corriendo para ponerse a salvo en el exterior y a personas refugiándose en negocios cercanos. Un equipo SWAT llegó al lugar y evacuó el área, que incluía un almacén donde había niños en una práctica de porristas.

Yadro, de 35 años, sufrió una herida en la clavícula y sobrevivió. Rivero recibió un disparo en un costado de la cabeza, y un médico lo declaró muerto en el Hospital HCA Florida Kendall. Leyva recibió un disparo en la cabeza.

“Los médicos no pudieron extraer el proyectil alojado en su cerebro”, escribió la fiscal, según el memorando.

Tras sufrir “complicaciones” por la herida de bala, Leyva permaneció hospitalizado y murió el 14 de febrero, según muestran los registros.

La Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade (MSAO) informó que recibió el informe del Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) el 22 de mayo.

Lea el memorando de cierre

Scheffler had to settle for a 10-under 60 on the soft TPC River Highlands course, setting an early target atop the scoreboard on a day of extreme low scoring at the final signature event of the regular season.

“Going out yesterday in the afternoon, when the greens get firm out here and the wind starts to blow, it can get tricky pretty quickly,” Scheffler said. “Going out this morning, you definitely had a feeling the conditions were going to be easier, so you need to go out there and try and take advantage of it.”

Scheffler was at 16-under 124, two shots ahead of Viktor Hovland.

“At the end of the day, I was very focused on just my execution out there,” Scheffler said. “Who knows what the lead is going to be after today. I’ve put myself in position now this week. Go home, get some rest, and get ready for tomorrow.”

Playing three groups in front of Scheffler, Hovland needed to birdie the final two holes for a 59. He settled for a pair of pars and a 61, matching his career best on tour.

“Certainly it was more gettable today than it was even yesterday,” Hovland said.

Akshay Bhatia had a 62 to match first-round leader Eric Cole at 12 under.

“I know how this golf course can play,” Bhatia said. “You got to kind of keep making birdies and try and limit mistakes.”

Cole parred the final eight holes in a 65.

“Maybe just being tired or something and making some tired swings,” Cole said.

Matt Fitzpatrick, Bud Cauley and Ben Griffin were tied for fifth at 10 under, each shooting 66.

Scheffler shot 59 in his rookie season in 2020 in the second round of The Northern Trust at the TPC Boston, another rain-softened course that featured low scoring. Dustin Johnson was 11 under through 11 holes that day and had to settle for a 60.

“Some days they’re kind of hanging on the edge and not quite going in, and then other days they’re finding the bottom of the cup,” Scheffler said. “Today was a day definitely in which most of them were finding the bottom of the cup.”

Furyk shot his first sub-60 round in the second round of the 2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms outside Chicago, a 59 that included a bogey on his card. Three years later, he set the PGA Tour record at the Travelers Championship with a 58 in the final round.

Furyk did not win either tournament.

“It was like, `It would be cool to shoot 59, but somebody has already shot 58 here, so it’s not even the course record,’” Scheffler said.

Scheffler, who won the Travelers Championship two years ago, is coming off a tie for fourth in the U.S. Open when he played in the final round. His last victory was The American Express in the California desert, his first start of the year.

Scheffler bogeyed the par-4 second, leaving a wedge from the fairway well short and missing an 8-foot par try.

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After entering as a substitute for Germany, Undav scored three goals and set up two more, putting him just behind top-scoring superstars such as Argentina’s Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé of France and Vinicius Jr. of Brazil on the leaderboard.

Undav, who identifies as a Kurdish Yazidi, is the son of Yazidi refugees. His success is being celebrated by a small, insular community that has endured decades of oppression and violence, notably a 2014 onslaught in which thousands of Yazidis in Iraq’s Sinjar region were killed or abducted by militants from the Islamic State group who considered them to be heretics.

Responding to a question at a news conference Wednesday, the German-born Undav said he hoped his performance would inspire fans everywhere, especially within the Yazidi community.

“I always get the news from my parents how they view me, how they see me and it’s making me proud, you know, that we finally have somebody,” he said.

Undav has fans across Syria, Germany and Iraq

In the village of Khirbet al-Ghazal in northeastern Syria, a small group of Yazidis gathered Thursday night to watch the Germany-Ecuador match at the home of community leader Ismail Dalaf. Many residents are related to Undav’s mother, who is from a now-deserted nearby village whose residents left for economic reasons or fled during Syria’s long civil war that began in 2011.

Dalaf said Undav’s World Cup performance has made him “a symbol that shows Yazidis can reach a higher position and be seen with respect.”

“When people see a Yazidi entering the field, scoring goals and changing the result of matches, it changes public perception,” he said. “It tells the world that Yazidis have a role in the world.”

The Kurds are among the largest stateless ethnic groups in the world, with roughly 30 million living as minorities in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority mostly found in Syria, Iraq and Turkey. There are around 235,000 Yazidis living in Germany today, according to Irfan Ortac, chair of the Central Council of Yazidis in Germany. Many arrived after the 2014 onslaught.

“Until now, we have mostly been known as victims of violence,” Ortac said. “Whenever we spoke about Yazidis, we always had to talk about genocide, discrimination, and displacement. It makes us very proud and happy to be able to talk about something positive.”

In Iraq — home to the largest concentration of Yazidis in the world and the location of their most holy site, the Lalish temple — members of the community also have embraced Undav’s success.

“It makes me very happy to see a Yazidi bringing our name to the World Cup and playing in front of the whole world,” said Luqman Sleiman, spokesperson for the temple.

Diyar Bakir, 29, a Yazidi from Sinjar, hopes to travel to Germany one day to see Undav play.

His family “came from a place where his ethnicity and religion were not appreciated, yet he is now recognized and valued by a great team like Germany,” Bakir said. “He emerged from the womb of suffering, and we wish him every success.”

Undav has faced abuse for his heritage, but his popularity surges

At times, Undav has faced abuse over his heritage from spectators and on social media.

When his club team Stuttgart played in Turkey at Fenerbahce last year, German media reported the outbreak of obscene chants about his mother. Two Kurdish anti-discrimination groups said social media insults were part of a growing campaign of “racist and ethnically motivated hostility.”

Undav’s decision to represent Germany and not Turkey, as other eligible German-born players have done in the past, also resulted in some online hostility from Turkish fans. But now, his popularity is surging.

Düzen Tekkal, a German documentary filmmaker and author of Kurdish Yazidi heritage, is from northwestern Germany, like Undav. She is the co-founder of Scoring Girls(asterisk), a nonprofit offering free soccer classes for girls from diverse backgrounds.

“There definitely is a Deniz Undav effect and it’s very important,” she said, referencing children who can celebrate their heritage and feel they belong in Germany at a time when migration is often treated as a political problem.

“It is no coincidence that he plays with this lightness and freedom,” Tekkal added. “People are asking how come he’s so good under pressure or he can cope with so much pressure? Because he doesn’t know it any other way. That is the DNA, that is the resilience. ... That’s how he scores these goals because what is that pressure compared to being Kurdish or Yazidi?”

When Undav scored one of those goals, against Curacao, he broke into a Yazidi-inspired jig with his hands clasped behind his back. He was joined by Antonio Rüdiger, a Black German soccer star who has faced racist and anti-Muslim abuse during his career, in what Tekkal called “one of the highlights, no matter how this World Cup goes from here.”

“Dancing is a form of expressing resistance for us,” Tekkal emphasized. “We dance on the graves of our dead. Our mantra is that resistance is life. He’s dancing there for his forefathers who were oppressed.”

Mahmoud Kanabi, a Kurd from Irbil, moved to Berlin in 2020 and works in a Kurdish restaurant. Because of Undav, he purchased a Germany jersey.

“Unfortunately, for us Kurds, we don’t have a team because we don’t have a country,” he said. “Now, when a Kurdish player is in a team, we have to be fans of it. It doesn’t matter what team it is.”

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Her sound, anyway.

Speakers inside the interview room at the stadium started blaring some of Lipa’s songs for a few minutes in the middle of Martínez’s availability session. It wasn’t totally clear why — some wires got crossed, evidently, during a rehearsal happening inside the stadium — but nobody seemed to mind that it happened.

Martinez even swayed a little in his chair while workers tried to find a way to silence the music.

“Dua Lipa’s supporting Portugal, I believe,” he said.

Lipa — the three-time Grammy-winning, London-born, British Albanian singing powerhouse — is a huge soccer fan and has been at countless major events in recent years. And when Martinez was asked later in his news conference about the balance of his midfield play so far in the tournament, he couldn’t resist bringing the talk back to the music.

“Balance and Dua Lipa, those were the two main topics,” Martínez said.

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The space rock — 1997 NC1 — makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 million kilometers), according to the European Space Agency.

Discovered nearly three decades ago by an asteroid-tracking system in Hawaii, the asteroid is between 2,461 feet (0.75 kilometer) to 5,413 feet (1.65 kilometers) wide — roughly the size of two to four Empire State Buildings.

Skygazers with binoculars and small telescopes may be able to spot the asteroid as a small point of light passing harmlessly through the sky. It won't greet Earth from such a distance again until 2133, according to NASA.

The last time an asteroid similar in size passed safely by Earth from an even closer distance was in 2022, when a space rock called 1994 PC1 made its approach.

NASA, ESA and other space agencies track the paths of asteroids and other space junk so they can keep Earth safe from any possible collisions. Last year, astronomers tracked a smaller asteroid resembling a spinning hockey puck and said there's no chance of it hitting Earth or the moon.

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The assertion — challenging a longstanding concept in American law — comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft report of the Religious Liberty Commission, released Friday afternoon.

The advisory body was created by President Donald Trump last year and filled almost entirely by conservative Christians. The 224-page draft report — part policy document, part philosophical argument — echoes members' support for a stronger role for religion and religious expression in government, schools and the public square.

The report applauds recent Supreme Court decisions expanding rights to religious expression in public settings, such as creating opt-outs for religious objections to school lessons.

The report recommends eliminating the “ Johnson Amendment ” that forbids political activities by tax-exempt religious groups — a longstanding goal of Trump. It calls for compensating military service members who were discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccines.

It calls in general for allowing more religious expression in the public square, greater access to public money for faith-based agencies and broader exemptions for those claiming conscientious objections to policies ranging from vaccine mandates to pronoun usage to classroom lessons.

It recommends that federal agencies publish “Know Your Rights” posters for various settings and establish hotlines to receive complaints about religious liberty violations.

The draft report also calls for the creation of new honors — a Presidential Medal of Religious Liberty and First Freedom Hero Awards. And it calls for exhibits and markers at historic sites paying tribute to the role of religion in American history.

It calls for combatting antisemitism through various legal tools. It also recommends requiring any public official who says an employee engaged in improper religious expression to provide a written explanation.

At a news conference in the Oval Office, commissioners said witnesses who appeared at their hearings had suffered “persecution” at work and elsewhere.

The draft report is now available for public comment over the next 15 days. It is sure to draw opposition.

Some other groups defend the separation of church and state

Critics have said the commission has failed adequately to address issues like anti-Muslim efforts in some states and that, while its hearings spotlighted left-wing antisemitism, it gave less attention to similar right-wing movements.

Some groups, including the progressive Interfaith Alliance, have a pending lawsuit saying the commission lacks ideological diversity as required of federal advisory panels.

The Rev. Paul Raushenbush, president of Interfaith Alliance, said the report represents “a wishlist of divisive, unpopular ideas far-right religious groups have pushed for years,” such as expanding vouchers for religious schools and repealing the Johnson amendment.

At the same time, Raushenbush said in a statement, the commission “couldn’t bring itself to acknowledge the growing threat of Islamophobia” nor Trump’s own criticisms of Pope Leo XIV, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde, and other religious critics of “his administration’s inhumane policies.”

The report comes as conservative states such as Texas have worked to incorporate more religion into public spaces such as classrooms, including Bible lessons and Ten Commandments displays.

Trump, speaking to supporters at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering in Washington on Friday, touted the newly released report.

“We saved religion, it was going down,” he boasted.

Trump contended that the administration of his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, had carried out a “reign of persecution.”

While the commission report downplays the separation of church and state, the commission didn't go so far as to call it a “lie,” as the commission chairman, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, did in April.

But it largely took the stance that the idea is misapplied.

“To be clear, this does not involve or require advocating ‘theocracy’ or even the total elimination of any separation between church and state,” the report says. Rather, it calls for honoring a “tension between the relevant clauses of the First Amendment” that guarantee religious freedom but forbid any government-established church.

Still, Patrick pressed the issue at the news conference, saying the phrase separation of church and state was used to “batter and hammer people of faith” for decades.

Americans "cannot be attacked by that phrase any longer,” Patrick said.

Supreme Court rulings on church/state issues have evolved

The phrase, “a wall of separation between church and state” does not appear in the Constitution, but it’s embodied in Supreme Court precedent. Thomas Jefferson used that expression in a letter to Baptists, supporting them in opposing official churches in U.S. states, a practice that soon ended.

Twentieth-century decisions by the high court invoked the “separation” phrase to extend the First Amendment’s prohibition on federal church establishment to state and local governments, citing the 14th Amendment’s ban on states denying citizens’ rights.

That led to bans on official prayers and Ten Commandments displays in public schools. The Supreme Court in recent years has steered a different course, permitting such things as a public school coach's on-field prayers and a religious opt-out for parents objecting to a lesson on transgender issues.

The draft report contends that even Jefferson didn’t believe in completely banishing religion from public life, but rather in keeping church and state in a kind of balance.

“In reality, the church and state strengthen and support one another,” it says.

The report touts the value of religion to society in terms of providing humanitarian work, anchoring families and acting as “conscience” monitoring government.

“In many cases the law protects the religious expression of Americans, but government officials and employers often use fear tactics to silence individuals into believing that they don’t have the right to publicly express their faith,” it argues.

It argues — citing one of its own members, Catholic media figure Bishop Robert Barron — that notions of strict church-state separation can be traced to a “God is dead” ideology that originated in Europe and saw traditional religion as an opponent to individual autonomy.

“This way of thinking made its way … into the American culture and courtroom,” the report said.

Little recognition for non-religious Americans

The report, while touting the value of religion, appears to give little emphasis on the large population of Americans with no religious affiliation. A key argument of many atheists and secular humanists is that one can be “good without God” — that religion doesn't have a monopoly on virtue and can do harm as well as good.

The lawsuit challenging the commission alleges that commissioners have asserted that America is specifically a Judeo-Christian or Christian nation, showing a lack of ideological diversity.

The Republican administration is asking a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit.

This draft report comes two months after another entity created by Trump — the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias — issued its own report. It claimed that Christians faced discrimination under the Biden administration. Progressive critics said that the report amounted to advocacy rather than an investigation.

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The agreement does not include Hezbollah and prompted one of the group's officials in Lebanon to warn of civil war. The U.S. State Department said the framework establishes a process for dismantling Hezbollah and for Lebanon to regain territory that was taken by Israeli forces as they battled the militant group.

The U.S. will facilitate a newly created “Military Coordination Group for Lebanon” to implement the framework, the State Department said, while committing $100 million in humanitarian assistance.

“For Lebanon, this Framework provides a genuine pathway out of a long crisis,” the State Department said. “For Israel, it creates a verifiable path to removing the persistent threat on its northern border.”

Friday's agreement was signed in front of Rubio in Washington by Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, and Nada Hamadeh Moawad, the Lebanese ambassador to the United States.

Leiter said the final destination of the framework is peace between the two countries.

“Our language is we want to embrace Lebanon," he said. "Our language is we want to get in our car in Tel Aviv and take a drive up to Beirut, and we want Beirut to come down and take a drive to Tel Aviv. That’s where we’re going. That’s where we want to go.”

Leiter said that will depend on Hezbollah being disarmed and dismantled, which will allow Israel to withdraw and Lebanon to “regain its full sovereignty.”

“So it really depends on the Lebanese army,” Leiter said. “It depends on the support the Lebanese army gets from the U.S. And we think it’s going to be solid.”

Moawad said the framework “is a first step on the road to restoring Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity, securing a permanent and final cessation of hostilities, enabling our people to go back to their land and allowing all Lebanese to live in peace, security and prosperity.”

Hezbollah official says group won't give up weapons

The latest conflict began when Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel days after Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran on Feb. 28. Israel invaded Lebanon and has expanded its control.

More than 4,000 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli strikes since March. At least 37 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon or northern Israel during the fighting.

Lebanese officials have said that securing a withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon is a top priority for them in the negotiations, while Israeli officials have prioritized the disarmament of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

The talks between Israel and Lebanon were separate from the interim deal that was signed last week by the leaders of the U.S. and Iran to end the fighting in the Islamic Republic. That agreement set a 60-day period for negotiations on key issues, including the future of Tehran’s nuclear program amid concerns that Iran wants to use it for military purposes, a claim the country denies.

The Lebanese government had been wary of having Iran negotiate on its behalf, and Lebanon launched its own direct negotiations with Israel after the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war. Hezbollah was not part of the talks, which resulted in several ceasefire agreements that were never implemented on the ground.

Hezbollah is unlikely to agree to any plan that would include its disarmament throughout the country. The group has maintained that it is only required by previous agreements and U.N. resolutions to disarm in the area south of the Litani River, near Lebanon’s border with Israel.

Hassan Fadlallah, a member of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, reiterated the group’s stance on Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV that it rejects Lebanon’s direct negotiations with Israel and that it will not give up its weapons.

Fadlallah said Lebanese authorities “will not be able to enforce the agreement signed in Washington unless they go, with American support, to civil war.” He also called the agreement in Washington “an attempt to derail the Islamabad process,” referring to the U.S.-Iran negotiations.

Israel establishes 'pilot zones' for Lebanon

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in a statement that the agreement “aims to achieve an Israeli withdrawal from all Lebanese territory, restore state sovereignty over it, and facilitate the return of its citizens” and that under it Lebanon is obligated to “extend the authority of the Lebanese state, through its armed forces, over all its territory.”

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun had told a visiting British parliamentary delegation on Wednesday that a proposal for “pilot zones” where the Lebanese army is supposed to take exclusive control of the territory as Israeli troops will withdraw was “under discussion pending approval from the Israeli side.”

Israel’s direct negotiations with Lebanon include discussions about the redeployment of Israeli forces after southern Lebanon is cleared of Hezbollah infrastructure and Hezbollah has disarmed, said an Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video on Friday that the framework is a “great achievement” for Israel.

“The most important thing, first and foremost, is that Israel will remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon,” he said. “This is a major achievement, and we will maintain it as long as Hezbollah has not been disarmed and as long as it continues to pose a threat to the State of Israel.”

Netanyahu said that Israel is allowing the Lebanese army to begin preparing to take control of territory, while the Israeli military is establishing two pilot zones.

“A small part of it is within the expanded security zone that we secured over the past two weeks and which, the IDF has made absolutely clear, it does not need,” Netanyahu said. “In other words, we are maintaining the original security zone at all times, outside the range of anti-tank missiles."

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This story has been corrected to include Nada Hamadeh Moawad's full name. It's Nada Hamadeh Moawad, not Nada Hamadeh.

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Sewell reported from Beirut. Lidman reported from Tel Aviv. Associated Press writers Koral Saeed in Herzliya, Israel, and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed to this report.

She felt like she needed to prepare for death — in case she gets deported back to Haiti, a country she fled at 9 years old.

After the Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria, fear ricocheted through those communities across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people now face the prospect of deportation.

“I have been living with this internal fear, it’s like preparing for a funeral, just in case I die when going to another country,” said the nurse, who asked not to be identified for fear of being targeted for deportation.

She is among about 350,000 Haitians granted Temporary Protected Status, many of whom have legally lived and worked in the U.S. for decades and have children who are U.S. citizens. Thursday’s decision, which is expected to take effect July 27, also applied to around 6,000 Syrians. It could also open the door to the administration unwinding protections for 1.3 million people from 17 countries.

Temporary Protected Status allows people to live and work in the US

Congress created Temporary Protected Status in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries deemed dangerous, because of disasters, civil war or other violence or instability. It permits people to work legally in the U.S. but does not provide a path to citizenship. It can be renewed in increments of up to 18 months if the homeland security secretary deems conditions unsafe for return.

The Biden administration roughly doubled the number of people covered by TPS. The Trump administration ended those protections, insisting it was meant to be temporary, the countries are now safe and that President Joe Biden’s administration expanded the destination and poorly vetted its recipients.

TPS beneficiaries have, by definition, been living in limbo and their futures have been especially precarious under President Donald Trump, but the Supreme Court ruling delivered what could be a crushing blow to living and working legally in the United States.

Haitians in Ohio have been in the spotlight before

The Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, became a particular target of the administration during the 2024 campaign, when Trump spread fictional rumors that Haitians there were eating people’s cats and dogs. There is no evidence to support those claims.

Still, the community has been under intense pressure ever since, said Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield.

Thursday’s ruling added to the panic and chaos. People don’t know if they should withdraw all their money from the bank, Dorsainvil said. They don’t know if they can work, if their kids can go to school. Many are making preparations to leave their children who are U.S. citizens behind if they are sent away.

“As a Haitian, I always say that life has not been easy for us, nothing has been easy for us and this is another chapter in our life. And we’ve been in that type of situation since after the presidential campaign when they came up with that type of conspiracy theory of us eating cats and dogs,” he said. “We’ve been targeted. We’ve been in the spotlight for their political agenda.”

Dorsainvil said he’s focused on trying to keep people calm, telling them not to panic, not to feel hopeless or make desperate decisions that could further jeopardize them and their children.

Many TPS holders work in caregiving roles

On Thursday morning, a Haitian mother of a 17-month-old baby boy who lives in Florida woke up to the news.

“I was reading it and I just for a moment there I just felt like I couldn’t breathe, like as if something was just sitting on my chest, like my lungs couldn’t extend,” the 37-year-old said, her voice breaking.

She asked not to be identified for fears of being detained and deported.

“I did not expect this. It is so hard to accept. Maybe I am in denial but I think this can’t be real,” she said. “I had so much hope.”

She arrived in the U.S. in 1995 when she was 7 years old and graduated from high school here. But she could not go to college because she did not have legal status.

But in 2010 everything changed, when the U.S. granted Haitians protection after a catastrophic earthquake. The U.S. repeatedly extended that amid the gang violence that has consumed the country and displaced more than a million people.

The Florida woman applied, and she was able to go to school and become a nurse.

She was supposed to begin a new job in two weeks. Now she doesn’t know if she’s authorized to work.

TPS holders are overrepresented in caregiving roles, and the long-term care industry, like nursing homes and facilities for disabled people, industry groups said, could be hit particularly hard as fear and uncertainty ripples across America.

The nurse in Kentucky said she’s trying to focus on her work taking care of disabled people. But it’s hard to not think of the worst-case scenario, imagining being separated from her children, who are ages 13, 12, 8, and 2, and being sent to her home country that she left more than two decades ago. She reads in the news that there are gang wars, kidnappings, killings.

“I don’t want to go there. I am very Americanized,” she said. “It’s like someone saying, hey, do you want to go live in a horror movie? Like, you know, no, I don’t.”

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Aftoora-Orsagos reported from Springfield, Ohio, and Galofaro contributed from Louisville, Kentucky.

The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium will grant $350,000 to two dozen Southern community organizations working in thirteen states. The grants will fund organizations that address acute challenges facing underserved Black women and girls, like maternal health, gender-based violence prevention and educational support.

The funding and tour come at a moment when organizations focused on supporting underserved communities face funding crunches following the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

The administration has invoked civil rights laws traditionally understood to have protected the rights of marginalized communities to investigate or prosecute instances of “anti-white racism” and “illegal DEI” in companies, non-profits and government agencies.

“We’ve seen this retrenchment in philanthropy, and people are not putting resources on the ground,” said Chanceé Lundy, Southern Black Girls’ executive director. “Organizations are struggling, and we want to make sure that people know that we see them. We value the work that we’re doing, and we want to be able to help fill some of the gaps that they are experiencing.”

The grants coincide with the organization’s summer “Joy and Justice” tour, which convenes community building activities, resource drives and festivals in nine cities. Most of the tour stops take place at schools and community centers in majority-Black neighborhoods. One rally will take place at the Virginia Capitol alongside agency leaders promoting diversity in the state's government.

Southern Black Girls has maintained funding from some major corporations and foundations, though Lundy described the efforts to maintain those relationships as “extremely difficult” for most groups in the current political climate, where supporting race and gender conscious organizations may prompt backlash from the federal government.

“We’re being punished for who we are,” said LaTosha Brown, a voting rights activist and co-founder of the organization.

President Donald Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman presidential nominee of a major party. About 9 in 10 Black women backed Harris for the presidency, according to a survey of voters by AP VoteCast. Brown said that Black women’s longstanding participation in liberal politics made them a “target” in the current political climate.

“We have always been anchored, particularly in the social justice movements of this country, and I don’t think that that’s any different now. I think in many ways it has been exacerbated, just given the environment,” said Brown.

Both Brown and Lundy noted that Black women have always faced discrimination and marginalization in the South despite being integral to the region's economy and culture. Lundy recalled stories of past generations of Black women who raised the children of white families that upheld Jim Crow policies that underfunded schools, restricted voting and enabled political violence against Black communities.

“You have to have a deep, deep sense of humanity to be able to do that,” said Lundy. She said that the tour was part of promoting Black women's place in the country's history and future as the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary. “We've kept our humanity intact through it all, and I think this moment requires that.”

Lundy said she hoped the tour and grants would enable Black girls to reach their full potential.

“You matter now in this moment,” Lundy said was her “joyful” message to young Black girls. “And you’re not a victim. You are actually the solution, that you are the antidote to what is happening right now.”

According to the Pembroke Pines Police Department, Humberto Exposito was making a delivery to Sedano’s supermarket in the 10300 block of Pines Boulevard Wednesday morning when he allegedly threw the dog, Nico, several feet from the back of a box truck.

Police said Exposito returned to the truck after completing the delivery while Nico remained on the ground and made no effort to help it.

They said Nico was left without food, water, shelter or protection.

Nico is now in the care of Broward County Animal Care, where it is receiving medical evaluation and treatment, according to investigators.

A BCAC spokesperson told Local 10 News that Nico arrived at their shelter malnourished, has matted hair and appears to have advanced hip dysplasia.

A staff member said Nico is “in poor condition, has cancer, is unable to walk, and isn’t doing well.”

Detectives later located Exposito, who they say was arrested and faces one count each of aggravated animal cruelty, abandonment of an animal and confinement of an animal without sufficient air exchange.

Police said the investigation remains ongoing.

Exposito appeared in a Broward County courtroom Friday, where a judge set his bond at $12,000 and prohibited him from possessing any animal.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Dennis Michael Millwood, de 55 años y residente de Miramar, fue arrestado el jueves tras una investigación de varias semanas realizada por investigadores de UPS y la Unidad de Delitos Organizados contra el Comercio Minorista (ORC) del MDSO.

El informe señala que los investigadores de UPS comenzaron a indagar una serie de robos de paquetes cuyo contenido desaparecía mientras estaban en tránsito por el centro de distribución de la empresa en Hialeah, ubicado en 6001 E. Eighth Ave.

Los investigadores revisaron videos de vigilancia y alegan que Millwood llegaba habitualmente antes del inicio de su turno y retiraba paquetes del “Lakes Box Bottom Slide”, un área donde se colocan paquetes que no estaban asignados a su ruta de entrega. Según los investigadores, esos paquetes eran cargados posteriormente en el camión de UPS asignado a Millwood.

Las autoridades dijeron que los paquetes correspondientes a la ruta de Millwood normalmente se cargaban desde un sistema de bandas transportadoras diferente, por lo que sus acciones estaban fuera del alcance de sus funciones laborales.

Rolex reportado como desaparecido

La investigación se centró, en parte, en un paquete que contenía un reloj Rolex valorado en aproximadamente $55,000 USD.

Según el informe, un video de vigilancia del 9 de junio mostró a Millwood cargando el paquete en su camión. Posteriormente, los datos de rastreo confirmaron que el paquete permaneció dentro del vehículo, informaron las autoridades.

Según los detectives, Millwood le dijo más tarde a UPS que el paquete había sido cargado por error en su camión y que lo transfirió a otro conductor encargado de redirigir entregas enviadas por equivocación.

Los detectives dijeron que el paquete finalmente llegó a su destinatario previsto, pero los investigadores indicaron que el destinatario descubrió que el reloj Rolex había desaparecido cuando abrió la caja.

Los investigadores de UPS dijeron que los datos de identificación por radiofrecuencia (RFID) confirmaron que el paquete había estado dentro del camión de Millwood antes de ser entregado.

Los investigadores también alegan que el miércoles Millwood seleccionó otros cuatro paquetes que no estaban asignados a su ruta. Las autoridades dijeron que posteriormente se descubrió que uno de esos paquetes había sido abierto y vuelto a sellar.

Operativo encubierto termina con un arresto

El jueves, los investigadores realizaron un operativo controlado utilizando dos paquetes que contenían teléfonos celulares Samsung, dispositivos de rastreo GPS y un paquete oculto con tinta de seguridad diseñado para activarse si los paquetes eran abiertos sin autorización, según el informe de arresto.

De acuerdo con el informe, los investigadores observaron en tiempo real las imágenes de vigilancia mientras Millwood cargaba cuatro paquetes de la misma banda transportadora, incluidos los dos paquetes señuelo, en su camión de UPS antes de comenzar su ruta de entregas.

Las autoridades siguieron a Millwood y dijeron que este se detuvo cerca de Northeast 132nd Terrace, donde presuntamente abrió uno de los paquetes controlados.

Los investigadores informaron que el paquete de tinta de seguridad se activó cuando el paquete fue abierto, cubriendo las manos de Millwood con tinta roja.

Un sargento del MDSO informó haber visto a Millwood intentando desesperadamente quitarse la tinta de las manos usando una toalla, toallas de papel y agua antes de continuar con su ruta.

Los detectives arrestaron a Millwood poco tiempo después mientras realizaba otra entrega cerca de Northeast 127th Street, informaron las autoridades.

Un registro del camión de UPS permitió encontrar el paquete abierto, que, según los investigadores, había sido vuelto a sellar y colocado nuevamente en un estante para paquetes. De acuerdo con el informe, los teléfonos Samsung y el dispositivo GPS fueron recuperados en otra parte del camión.

Los investigadores dijeron que los dos teléfonos tenían un valor combinado de aproximadamente $2,399 USD.

Investigadores dicen que el conductor admitió haber abierto paquetes

Después de ser informado de sus derechos Miranda, Millwood inicialmente negó haber abierto o tomado algún paquete, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que, después de mostrarle el video de vigilancia, Millwood admitió haber manipulado y abierto uno de los paquetes controlados.

Cuando fue interrogado sobre el Rolex desaparecido, los investigadores dijeron que Millwood primero negó haber tomado el reloj. Posteriormente, presuntamente les dijo a los detectives que se lo había entregado a un amigo llamado “Chris” después de conservarlo durante aproximadamente una semana, señala el informe.

Según el informe, Millwood se negó a identificar al amigo o proporcionar información adicional porque no quería meterlo en problemas. Los investigadores dijeron que también ofreció recuperar el reloj si era puesto en libertad.

El informe indica que, cuando le preguntaron por qué seleccionaba repetidamente paquetes que no estaban asignados a su ruta, Millwood respondió que “lo hace todo el tiempo”.

Millwood fue arrestado y trasladado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Los registros judiciales muestran que enfrenta un cargo de robo mayor en segundo grado.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Millwood permanecía detenido en el TGK con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

Local 10 News solicitó comentarios a UPS y está a la espera de una respuesta.

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The ceremony featured the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner, the Pledge of Allegiance, American flags and applause as the new citizens took the oath and officially joined the nation.

Among them was Fabiola Perez, who immigrated from Mexico with her son, Juan Pablo.

“I said this is the best city in the U.S. I said if I live in (the) U.S., I want to live in Miami,” Perez said.

Her son said he hopes to become a U.S. citizen next year and already has plans for his future.

“I really would love to live the American dream in the sense of getting into society, contributing and working,” a man named Juan Pablo said.

Coco Wachli Banks, originally from Kenya and now a high school French teacher in Miami, said becoming a citizen during the nation’s 250th anniversary made the moment even more meaningful.

“To commemorate the 250th anniversary of this country, I can’t explain it, but I’m filled with pride,” Banks said. “I’m going to be the proudest American when it happens.”

Martha Garcia, originally from the Dominican Republic, also became a U.S. citizen Friday. Garcia, a preschool teacher in North Miami, reflected on achieving a longtime goal.

“I’ve earned my goal here working as a teacher. It’s so exciting to help the development of children. They are definitely the future. I don’t know why they picked me, but when they told me, I said, ‘Why me?’ I don’t know what purpose he has with this opportunity for me. It’s so unique and I’m so thankful,” Garcia said.

Although they came from different parts of the world and have different backgrounds, the new citizens shared a common theme throughout the ceremony — gratitude for the opportunity to become Americans and optimism about pursuing the American dream.

La ceremonia incluyó la interpretación del himno nacional de Estados Unidos, el Juramento a la Bandera, banderas estadounidenses y aplausos mientras los nuevos ciudadanos prestaban juramento y se incorporaban oficialmente a la nación.

Entre ellos estaba Fabiola Pérez, quien inmigró desde México junto con su hijo, Juan Pablo.

“Me dije: esta es la mejor ciudad de Estados Unidos. Si voy a vivir en Estados Unidos, quiero vivir en Miami”, dijo Pérez.

Su hijo afirmó que espera convertirse en ciudadano estadounidense el próximo año y que ya tiene planes para su futuro.

“Realmente me encantaría vivir el sueño americano en el sentido de integrarme a la sociedad, contribuir y trabajar”, dijo Juan Pablo.

Coco Wachli Banks, originaria de Kenia y actualmente profesora de francés en una escuela secundaria de Miami, dijo que convertirse en ciudadana durante el 250.º aniversario del país hizo que el momento fuera aún más significativo.

“Conmemorar el 250.º aniversario de este país… no puedo explicarlo, pero me llena de orgullo”, dijo Banks. “Voy a ser la estadounidense más orgullosa cuando suceda”.

Martha García, originaria de República Dominicana, también se convirtió el viernes en ciudadana estadounidense. García, maestra de preescolar en North Miami, reflexionó sobre el logro de una meta de muchos años.

“He alcanzado mi meta aquí trabajando como maestra. Es muy emocionante ayudar al desarrollo de los niños. Ellos definitivamente son el futuro. No sé por qué me eligieron, pero cuando me lo dijeron pensé: “¿Por qué yo?”. No sé qué propósito tiene Dios con esta oportunidad para mí. Es algo muy especial y estoy muy agradecida”, dijo García.

Aunque llegaron de diferentes partes del mundo y tienen distintos antecedentes, los nuevos ciudadanos compartieron un sentimiento común durante toda la ceremonia: gratitud por la oportunidad de convertirse en estadounidenses y optimismo por alcanzar el sueño americano.

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According to an arrest report, officers responded around 3 a.m. to the Aura Apartments, located at 17071 W. Dixie Highway, after receiving a report of a burglary in progress.

The report states officers entered the building’s mailroom using a law enforcement access code and found Brandon Maurice Pritchett, 40, hiding behind a wall. Police said after repeatedly ordering him to come out, Pritchett exited the mailroom.

According to the report, Pritchett told officers he did not live at the complex but said a friend who lived there had allowed him to have a pair of shoes delivered to the building.

Officers said during a pat-down search of Pritchett, they found a flathead screwdriver in his pocket.

Police said Pritchett initially identified himself as “Robert J. Jones” after being detained.

They said while searching the mailroom, they also found a black BB gun with its orange tip painted black and equipped with a laser in an apparent effort to make it resemble a real gun.

The report states the BB gun was found on top of a black bag containing nine packages that did not belong to Pritchett, a makeshift smoking device, another screwdriver, a bank card belonging to another person and a white mask.

According to the report, officers also found four bank cards belonging to other people, a fake Georgia identification card and a forged check on Pritchett.

After being advised of his Miranda rights, Pritchett told officers he had followed an unknown female resident into the building to gain access to the mailroom, according to the report.

Jail records show Pritchett is facing multiple charges, including burglary of an unoccupied dwelling while masked, possession of burglary tools, possession of a weapon while committing an offense, possession of forged or counterfeit notes, possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful possession of four or fewer identification cards, and possession of a simulated driver’s license.

As of Friday afternoon, he was being held on a $17,500 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Según un informe de arresto, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 3 a.m. a los apartamentos Aura, ubicados en 17071 W. Dixie Highway, tras recibir un reporte de un allanamiento en curso.

El informe indica que los agentes ingresaron a la sala de correo del edificio utilizando un código de acceso para las fuerzas del orden y encontraron a Brandon Maurice Pritchett, de 40 años, escondido detrás de una pared. La Policía dijo que, después de ordenarle repetidamente que saliera, Pritchett salió de la sala de correo.

Según el informe, Pritchett les dijo a los agentes que no vivía en el complejo, pero aseguró que un amigo que sí reside allí le había permitido recibir un par de zapatos en el edificio.

Los agentes informaron que, durante un registro corporal, encontraron un destornillador de cabeza plana en uno de los bolsillos de Pritchett.

La Policía dijo que Pritchett inicialmente se identificó como “Robert J. Jones” después de ser detenido.

También indicaron que, mientras registraban la sala de correo, encontraron una pistola de balines negra con la punta naranja pintada de negro y equipada con un láser, aparentemente para hacerla parecer un arma de fuego real.

El informe señala que la pistola de balines fue encontrada sobre un bolso negro que contenía nueve paquetes que no pertenecían a Pritchett, un dispositivo improvisado para fumar, otro destornillador, una tarjeta bancaria perteneciente a otra persona y una máscara blanca.

Según el informe, los agentes también encontraron en poder de Pritchett cuatro tarjetas bancarias pertenecientes a otras personas, una identificación falsa del estado de Georgia y un cheque falsificado.

Después de ser informado de sus derechos Miranda, Pritchett les dijo a los agentes que siguió a una residente desconocida para ingresar al edificio y así obtener acceso a la sala de correo, según el informe.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Pritchett enfrenta múltiples cargos, entre ellos allanamiento de una vivienda desocupada mientras llevaba una máscara, posesión de herramientas de allanamiento, posesión de un arma durante la comisión de un delito, posesión de documentos falsificados o falsos, posesión de parafernalia de drogas, posesión ilegal de cuatro o menos tarjetas de identificación y posesión de una licencia de conducir simulada.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $17,500 USD.

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According to the Miami Police Department, the stabbing happened at around 11:50 p.m. on Sunday in the city’s Coral Gate neighborhood. Officers found the suspect, Leisnier Mauri Garcia, on Thursday and took him into custody.

An MPD arrest report states that the victim told investigators that she had been in a “generally good” relationship with Garcia since December, but “there were occasions” in which the 40-year-old “would become aggressive toward her.”

Authorities said while on the way to a restaurant, Garcia noticed that his girlfriend received a text message from the father of her child, sparking an argument which led the victim to tell Garcia that she wanted to break up.

Police said the two had gone to an Airbnb to collect their belongings. According to the report, Garcia said he needed to go back inside the Airbnb to retrieve a forgotten item.

Officers said when he got back in the vehicle, he “insisted on sitting in the rear passenger seat,” which the victim found “unusual,” because he normally sat up front.

According to police, the attack happened in the 3400 block of Southwest 16th Terrace, at the same address listed as Garcia’s home on the arrest report.

“Without warning, (Garcia) produced a knife from the rear seat and began stabbing her multiple times from behind,” the report states. “The victim stated she immediately opened the driver’s side door in an attempt to escape the attack. The victim exited the vehicle while pleading with (Garcia) to stop.”

According to the arrest report, the victim suffered the nearly three dozen stab wounds all over her upper body, including 10 on the neck.

Doctors treated her at Jackson Memorial Hospital, police said.

“The victim stated this was not the first incident of violence during their relationship,” the report states. “(She said) that during a previous breakup, which lasted approximately two months, (Garcia) attempted to assault her.”

Police said they found Garcia just before 2 p.m. on Thursday in the area of Northwest Fourth Terrace and 36th Court in the Little Havana neighborhood.

After being taken to JMH himself for “lacerations to his hands,” police said he declined to speak with investigators.

As of Friday afternoon, Garcia was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miami, el apuñalamiento ocurrió alrededor de las 11:50 p.m. del domingo en el vecindario Coral Gate de la ciudad. Los agentes localizaron al sospechoso, Leisnier Mauri García, el jueves y lo arrestaron.

Un informe de arresto del MPD señala que la víctima les dijo a los investigadores que había mantenido una relación “generalmente buena” con García desde diciembre, pero que “hubo ocasiones” en las que el hombre, de 40 años, “se volvía agresivo con ella”.

Las autoridades dijeron que, mientras iban camino a un restaurante, García notó que su novia recibió un mensaje de texto del padre de su hijo, lo que provocó una discusión que llevó a la víctima a decirle que quería terminar la relación.

La Policía indicó que ambos fueron a un Airbnb para recoger sus pertenencias. Según el informe, García dijo que necesitaba volver a entrar al Airbnb para recoger un objeto que había olvidado.

Los agentes dijeron que, cuando regresó al vehículo, “insistió en sentarse en el asiento trasero del lado del pasajero”, algo que la víctima consideró “inusual”, ya que normalmente se sentaba en el asiento delantero.

Según la Policía, el ataque ocurrió en la cuadra 3400 de Southwest 16th Terrace, la misma dirección que figura como el domicilio de García en el informe de arresto.

“Sin previo aviso, (García) sacó un cuchillo desde el asiento trasero y comenzó a apuñalarla repetidamente por la espalda”, señala el informe. “La víctima dijo que de inmediato abrió la puerta del lado del conductor en un intento por escapar del ataque. La víctima salió del vehículo mientras le suplicaba a (García) que se detuviera”.

Según el informe de arresto, la víctima sufrió casi tres docenas de heridas de arma blanca en la parte superior del cuerpo, incluidas 10 en el cuello.

La Policía informó que los médicos la atendieron en el Hospital Jackson Memorial.

“La víctima declaró que este no era el primer incidente de violencia durante la relación”, indica el informe. “(Ella dijo) que durante una ruptura anterior, que duró aproximadamente dos meses, (García) intentó agredirla”.

La Policía dijo que encontró a García poco antes de las 2 p.m. del jueves en el área de Northwest Fourth Terrace y 36th Court, en el vecindario de La Pequeña Habana.

Después de ser trasladado también al Hospital Jackson Memorial por “laceraciones en las manos”, la Policía indicó que se negó a hablar con los investigadores.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, García permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight y, según los registros de la cárcel de Miami-Dade, su fianza aún estaba pendiente de ser fijada.

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At a workshop on Friday morning in Broward County, volunteers said they were working to pack hundreds of “disaster relief kits” that included “hopeful” handwritten notes.

Cesar Guevara, the FFTP’s director of strategic partnerships, said the nonprofit had relationships with Venezuelan non-governmental organizations “that are going to be distributing our donations.”

“Venezuela was in a state of emergency prior to the crisis,” Guevara said. “The hospitals are collapsed. There are no medical supplies. People have to bring their own stuff when they have a medical emergency.”

Guevara said his team was preparing for a long-term effort with the community’s support and asked the public for cash donations to support it.

“We’re opening the channels for us to send containers,” Guevara said.

The organization was also accepting drop-off donations of nonperishable food and hygiene products at the warehouse at 6401 Lyons Road in Coconut Creek.

For more information about how to support the efforts and make a donation, visit this page.

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En un taller celebrado el viernes por la mañana en el condado de Broward, los voluntarios dijeron que estaban trabajando para empaquetar cientos de “kits de ayuda para desastres” que incluían notas manuscritas llenas de esperanza.

César Guevara, director de alianzas estratégicas de la FFTP, dijo que la organización sin fines de lucro tiene relaciones con organizaciones no gubernamentales venezolanas “que van a distribuir nuestras donaciones”.

“Venezuela ya se encontraba en estado de emergencia antes de la crisis”, declaró Guevara. “Los hospitales están colapsados. No hay suministros médicos. La gente tiene que llevar sus propios artículos cuando tiene una emergencia médica”.

Guevara afirmó que su equipo se estaba preparando para un esfuerzo a largo plazo con el apoyo de la comunidad y pidió al público donaciones en efectivo para respaldarlo.

“Estamos abriendo los canales para que podamos enviar contenedores”, dijo Guevara.

La organización también aceptaba donaciones de alimentos no perecederos y productos de higiene en el almacén ubicado en 6401 Lyons Road en Coconut Creek.

Para obtener más información sobre cómo apoyar estos esfuerzos y realizar una donación, visite esta página .

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OpenAI said its new AI product, called GPT-5.6 Sol, would only be available for now to a “small group of trusted partners” approved by the Trump administration.

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” OpenAI said in a statement. The company said it viewed the testing period as a temporary step on the “path to broader availability in the coming weeks.”

OpenAI's staggered release of a powerful new AI system follows actions the government took earlier this month against OpenAI rival Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot. Anthropic took offline two new AI models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, just days after unveiling them to comply with a Trump directive blocking their use by foreign nationals.

The White House said Friday it continues to collaborate with frontier AI labs on addressing the challenges of scaling the fast-growing technology.

Officials have grown increasingly concerned since Anthropic warned earlier this year that its Mythos model was adept at finding software flaws in a way that could be weaponized by malicious hackers and threaten critical computer networks around the world.

New, powerful AI models have drawn White House scrutiny

Trump earlier in June signed an executive order on AI oversight that established a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to 30 days before their public release. The order described participation by AI developers as voluntary but the framework has not yet been fully developed.

Some of Trump’s allies have laid blame on San Francisco-based Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei for the need for heightened government scrutiny.

“Dario came to Washington a few months ago, back in April, and basically said that he had created a cyber weapon called Mythos,” said investor David Sacks, who co-leads Trump’s council of technology and science advisers, on a recent podcast. “And he spiked the cortisol level, got everyone really worried. And there was some truth to it in terms of the sense that this model had advanced cyber capabilities.”

OpenAI, also based in San Francisco, said its new Sol model (pronounced ‘SOHL’ like the Spanish word for sun) “is better at helping people find and fix vulnerabilities” than it is at carrying out cyberattacks and does not cross the company’s own risk threshold. But it acknowledged there could be unforeseen risks especially if its model is combined with other tools.

“That uncertainty, along with the model’s broader step change in capabilities, is why we are pairing the model’s increased capabilities with stronger safeguards and a phased release,” the company said Friday.

OpenAI hasn't named any of the roughly 20 customers that have been approved to use the new model so far.

Critics warn that unpredictable government intervention can hold back US companies

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan, a Massachusetts Democrat and co-author of a bipartisan bill that would regulate AI, said in a statement that she is concerned “the Trump administration is deciding company by company who gets access to the newest AI model. No law. No process. No oversight. Just appointees in Washington deciding who’s in and who’s out.”

A broad group of technology experts has also criticized the government's actions that led Anthropic to shut down Fable, which the company had pitched as a safer version of Mythos. It's now been unavailable for two weeks.

“I just want to say that pretty much nobody in the cybersecurity industry believes that there’s any factual basis for this action,” Stanford University cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos said on a call with reporters earlier this week.

Stamos, the chief product officer at AI security company Corridor and a former chief security officer at Facebook parent Meta, said he reviewed an analysis of research on Fable by Anthropic's primary cloud computing backer, Amazon, and didn't find any risks that aren't present with other publicly available AI models, including those made in China.

"If the administration is honest about wanting the United States to beat China in this race, then this is about the dumbest thing they could possibly do,” Stamos said.

Oversight ramps up as the AI companies move toward IPOs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the model release Wednesday, part of a series of negotiations in recent weeks between AI industry executives and Trump officials.

Anthropic has also been part of those talks, but Amodei has had a more contentious relationship with the Trump administration. The Pentagon designated Anthropic as a national security risk for raising ethical and safety concerns about AI usage in war, and Trump himself ordered federal agencies to stop using Claude. Anthropic responded with a lawsuit that is still working its way through federal courts.

The government's heightened AI oversight adds another complication to exploratory moves by OpenAI as well as Anthropic to take their companies public on Wall Street, following SpaceX’s record-setting June 12 initial public offering.

Trump has floated the possibility of the U.S. government owning a stake in leading AI companies, describing a concept where “pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies.”

A court filing late Thursday says the plaintiff, Sam O'Hara, will drop his lawsuit's claims against the district and four Metropolitan Police Department officers within three business days of receiving the settlement payment. The filing doesn't specify a dollar amount for the deal between the district and O'Hara, who is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia.

In an email on Friday, an ACLU spokesperson referred to the settlement's financial terms as “a significant amount" that O’Hara "is pleased with” but said they aren't disclosing the dollar figure to protect his privacy. A spokesperson for D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb's office declined to comment on the settlement.

O'Hara's agreement with the district doesn't resolve his related claims against an Ohio National Guard member. Attorneys for the Guard member, Sgt. Devon Beck, has asked a judge to dismiss O’Hara’s claims against him.

“He was there because that was his assigned duty,” Beck’s lawyers wrote. “This was not an accidental encounter or a one-time disagreement on a public sidewalk.”

An earlier court filing, in February, said O'Hara had reached a settlement agreement “in principle” with the district. In response, a judge agreed to suspend the case while they negotiated terms.

“The government’s efforts to silence me ultimately backfired and brought more attention to the unjust deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.,” O’Hara said in a statement. “This settlement serves as a reminder that constitutional freedoms are worth defending, especially when those in power would prefer we stay quiet.”

O'Hara sued the district last October, claiming police officers violated his First Amendment rights to free speech and his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizures and excessive force.

The ominous orchestral music of “The Imperial March” from the Star Wars movies was the soundtrack for O'Hara's peaceful protests against President Donald Trump’s ongoing deployment of Guard members in Washington. Millions of TikTok users have viewed O’Hara’s videos of his interactions with troops, according to his lawsuit.

O’Hara, an artist who works in the hospitality industry, says he didn’t interfere with the Guard troops during their Sept. 11, 2025, encounter on a public street. One of the troops summoned Metropolitan Police Department officers, who stopped O’Hara and kept him handcuffed for 15 to 20 minutes before releasing him without charges, according to the lawsuit.

“The law might have tolerated government conduct of this sort a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But in the here and now, the First Amendment bars government officials from shutting down peaceful protests,” the suit says.

Trump, a Republican, issued an executive order declaring a crime emergency in Washington last August. Within weeks, hundreds of Guard troops and federal agents were helping police patrol the city. The surge inflamed tensions with residents of the heavily Democratic district. Hundreds of Guard members remain deployed in the district nearly a year later, with no clear end in sight.

In a post on social media, Trump took aim at European countries that he said are discussing “imminent” implementation of taxes on American companies. The U.S. president has repeatedly sought to use tariffs as way to deter such taxes, but many countries are looking for revenues as their economies increasingly operate in digital realms that are dominated by American companies.

“Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America,” Trump wrote.

He added that the new tax would supersede any previously negotiated trade deals. Trump said the penalty would apply to any country that moves forward with such a tax, but he singled out European nations in his post.

The move could lead to a larger showdown that could increase prices and hinder economic growth, possibly setting off a larger trade war if the 27-member European Union was compelled to retaliate.

“Unilateral measures targeting such legitimate policies are unjustified. If pursued, the EU will respond swiftly and decisively to defend its rights and regulatory autonomy,” said Olof Gill, a spokesperson for the European Commission on Friday.

He defended taxation on technology companies as “non-discriminatory” and applied equally to “all large companies, regardless of their origin.”

Trump has repeatedly pushed against foreign efforts to tax or regulate American tech giants. Last year, he threatened new tariffs on any country that moved to do so. A post from last August said that digital taxes and regulation “are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology.”

The threat comes ahead of Trump's July 4 deadline for the European Union and the United States to start implementing a tariff deal that caps tariffs on most EU exports at 15%.

The European Union in May finalized a trade deal with the United States that caps most tariffs on EU exports at 15%. The deal followed months of debate within the EU after European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen tentatively struck the deal last year while visiting Trump’s golf course in Scotland.

Digital taxes were not part of the agreement and have remained a sticking point between the U.S. and the European bloc.

The U.S. government has previously conducted tariff investigations into digital services taxes under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. But it was unclear how Trump would carry out his threat and whether he would apply the tariffs broadly or initially target certain nations.

Britain, which is no longer part of the EU, has since 2020 levied a 2% digital services tax on revenues earned by search engines, social media sites and online marketplaces that “derive value” from U.K. users.

The British government said in a policy document at the time that corporate tax rules for digital businesses had “led to a misalignment between the place where profits are taxed and the place where value is created.”

The U.K. tax includes thresholds, so mainly large international companies will pay it. The tax was designed to “ensure the large multinational businesses in-scope make a fair contribution to supporting vital public services,” the document said.

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AP reporters Sam McNeil in Brussels and Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report.

“Es un gran paso y una respuesta que la comunidad universitaria del país estaba esperando”, dijo a The Associated Press Franco Bartolacci, rector de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

El fallo de la víspera obliga al gobierno a cumplir con dos artículos de la ley de financiamiento universitario que establecen actualizaciones salariales retroactivas a 2023 y un aumento de los fondos destinados a becas.

La norma fue aprobada por el Congreso en 2024 y ratificada en 2025 luego de que Milei la vetara. Pero el gobierno suspendió su aplicación mediante un decreto al sostener que no especifica de dónde provendrían los recursos para financiar las medidas que contempla.

“La comunidad universitaria del país ha hecho a lo largo de este tiempo un enorme esfuerzo para sostener todo en condiciones muy precarias”, afirmó Bartolacci.

Según representantes universitarios, las transferencias del gobierno a las universidades nacionales registraron una caída de 45,6% entre 2023 y 2026.

“Fue un camino largo y difícil”, escribió en X Emiliano Yacobitti, vicerrector de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. “Gracias a una sociedad que nunca renunció a la defensa de la universidad pública como principal motor de movilidad social y herramienta central para el desarrollo del país”.

La comunidad universitaria protagonizó varias movilizaciones masivas en distintos puntos del país desde 2024 para reclamar mayor financiamiento y denunciar el deterioro del sistema por la reducción de fondos aplicada por el gobierno de Milei como parte de su política de ajuste destinada a preservar el superávit fiscal.

En la práctica, el fallo de la Corte dejó firmes algunos aspectos acordados por el gobierno y sectores universitarios en junio que incluyeron un aumento salarial de en torno del 24% y un incremento de fondos para el funcionamiento de las casas de estudio.

Los representantes de las universidades no quisieron, sin embargo, desistir de su reclamo judicial para lograr el cumplimiento total de la ley, que contempla un incremento salarial mayor y una actualización de las becas para estudiantes que están congeladas.

Milei no se ha pronunciado sobre el fallo de la Corte.

La Policía dijo que Roxanabel Medina Leon, de 31 años, dejaba al niño solo con poca o ninguna comida en el sucio apartamento donde viven mientras ella estaba en el apartamento de su novio.

Las autoridades dijeron que el niño le contó a la Policía que no solo lo dejaban solo con muy poca comida, sino que “comparte su comida con el perro de la familia porque no hay alimento para perros disponible en la vivienda”.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Doral, un empleado del edificio, cuyo nombre y dirección fueron omitidos del informe de arresto, llamó a los agentes alrededor de las 3 a.m. después de ver al niño caminando solo por el estacionamiento. De acuerdo con el informe, el empleado le dijo al menor que regresara a su apartamento y permaneciera allí hasta que llegara la Policía.

Según el informe del DPD, ese empleado les dijo a los investigadores que el niño había acudido al vestíbulo del edificio alrededor de las 8:30 a.m. del miércoles “y le preguntó si tenía algo de comida o agua”.

La Policía informó que el empleado le dio al hijo de Medina palomitas de maíz, galletas Biscoff y agua.

Según la Policía, el niño les dijo a los investigadores que “con frecuencia va al apartamento del novio de su madre para conseguir comida” y que esa mañana había ido al área de recepción porque su madre no respondió la puerta, explicando que “la única comida disponible (en el apartamento) era macarrones con queso vencidos”, los cuales no comió “porque creía que le harían daño”.

También les dijo a los agentes que “con frecuencia tiene que despertar a su madre” porque su hermanito de cuatro meses está llorando y ella no lo escucha. Según el informe, el niño dijo que estaba en el estacionamiento buscando el vehículo de su madre “con el fin de encontrarla y conseguir comida porque tenía hambre”.

En el informe, un agente de la Policía de Doral describió las condiciones del apartamento:

“Al ingresar a la vivienda, observé que el apartamento estaba en completo desorden. Los pisos estaban pegajosos al tacto y había un fuerte olor compatible con orina y heces en toda la vivienda. Luego me dirigí a la habitación de la víctima menor de edad, donde observé un colchón colocado directamente sobre el piso, sin base de cama. Después entré al baño contiguo a la habitación del menor y observé una jaula para perro que contenía dos recipientes. Ambos estaban vacíos y no tenían comida ni agua. Mientras estaba en la cocina, observé dos cuchillos sobre el mostrador. Los cuchillos no estaban asegurados y parecían estar fácilmente al alcance del menor. Luego entré a la habitación de la acusada, donde observé un moisés para bebé. El moisés parecía estar sucio y no tenía una sábana ajustable limpia ni ropa de cama.”

Informe del DPD.

Además, la Policía informó que había “poca o ninguna comida” dentro de la vivienda.

Según el informe, el niño les dijo a los investigadores que “ha habido ocasiones en las que tuvo tanta hambre que comió cereal de arroz Gerber para bebés mezclado con agua porque no había leche disponible en el apartamento”, y agregó que el perro de la familia no había comido alimento para perros de forma regular durante aproximadamente tres meses.

Las autoridades dijeron que fueron al apartamento del novio de Medina y la encontraron allí junto con el bebé de cuatro meses.

Según el informe, Medina afirmó que limpió el apartamento “el martes pasado” y dijo que “su hijo siempre come cuando ella cocina o pide comida”.

“Ella manifestó que la noche anterior le había dejado comida al perro y que no sabe por qué el perro fue encontrado sin alimento”, señala el informe.

La Policía arrestó a Medina por dos cargos graves de negligencia infantil y un cargo menor de crueldad animal.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $5,500 USD.

Ten of the 12 jurors insisted Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is innocent. Judge Anne Hwang quickly set an Oct. 19 retrial date and ordered him jailed until then.

Rinderknecht has pleaded not guilty to starting one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, and feels encouraged that so many of the jurors “resoundingly found that the government’s case was not strong, and they did not have enough evidence to convict him,” defense attorney Steve Haney said.

But First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said they have strong evidence and will seek a guilty verdict in a new trial.

Prosecutors said Rinderknecht used a barbecue lighter on Jan. 1, 2025 to spark a blaze that burned undetected deep in root systems before flaring back up Jan. 7 and killing 12 people as it incinerated entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Malibu. Only 17 rebuilt homes in Pacific Palisades have been certified for occupancy since then.

Prosecutors never provided direct evidence that Rinderknecht started the earlier blaze. They showed jurors he was in the area when it began and presented a digital trail to indicate he was motivated by a desire to take revenge on society.

His defense said fireworks were the likely cause and that investigators had zeroed in too quickly on Rinderknecht without clear proof.

“This is a big victory, and it feels so unfair that, given the circumstances, the government maintains my son in jail,” said his father, Joel Rinderknecht.

The new trial will begin as voters decide whether to re-elect Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has faced criticism over the city's preparation and response. Meanwhile, the aftermath of the Palisades Fire and another wildfire that ravaged the community of Altadena continues to reshape the metropolitan area, with thousands of uprooted fire victims seeking insurance payouts and court judgments.

“The state and the city have tried for the past year and a half to distract from their own shortcomings in their own liability,” civil attorney Alexander Robertson said.

Digital records revealed Rinderknecht’s state of mind

The trial featured a trove of digital records and eight days of testimony from investigators, experts and witnesses.

Security camera recordings helped determine where the Jan. 1 fire is believed to have started: a mountainside spot off a trail in a neighborhood familiar to Rinderknecht. He dropped off his last Uber passenger in the same neighborhood, shortly before midnight, and later called 911 more than a dozen times. His phone’s geolocation data showed him at the clearing and walking down the trail as he reported the fire.

Jurors saw records from his phone, email, Uber, social media accounts and OpenAI. Thousands of comments showed he regularly consulted ChatGPT.

“Why am I so angry all the time?” he said in one exchange.

He vented over wealth inequality and global warming

Rinderknecht inquired about Luigi Mangione, who was charged with the murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, and on Reddit he searched “lets kill all the billionaires.”

He also vented about being rejected by a woman he contacted to see if she had New Year’s Eve plans, and sent her angry and vile messages from another phone.

Rinderknecht also recorded videos of firefighters battling the blaze, pausing to ask ChatGPT if someone would be responsible for a fire accidentally started by a cigarette. And he screen-recorded both the 911 calls and his ChatGPT prompt, which prosecutors said showed he was trying to mislead investigators.

On Jan. 6, a day before powerful Santa Ana winds rekindled smoldering roots into a conflagration, he recorded a selfie video saying he was having a mental breakdown.

Investigators interviewed him weeks after fire

Rinderknecht also spoke for roughly eight hours with a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent in late January, before he was a suspect.

ATF agent Matthew Beals drove with him to the site, so that Rinderknecht could identify his movements as the fire started — an account that conflicted with the place and time of his 911 calls, the agent testified.

Rinderknecht became “agitated” when asked for details and speculated that someone frustrated by inequality might hypothetically target the wealthy neighborhood, the agent said.

All such behavior is consistent with that of a “societal revenge motivated” arsonist, testified Kevin Kelm, an expert in arsonist behavior.

His defense suggested a rush to judgment

Haney said investigators never found any searches about arson, the best way to start a fire, or purchases of fire-starting materials. And while his DNA was found on a barbecue lighter in his car, they couldn’t prove a lighter sparked the blaze — only that it began with an “open flame,” he said.

Fireworks were the most likely cause that New Year’s Eve, the defense argued. One firefighter recalled hearing fireworks in the area shortly before and after midnight. And two residents and a security guard testified they either saw flashes of light or heard fireworks. Two saw a group of teenagers running down the trail afterward.

Former LA fire investigator Ed Nordskog accused the investigators of confirmation bias, noting that he often responded to dozens of fires on New Year’s Eve, most of them started by fireworks.

“They’re choosing to look at information in a very sinister way when they should be a little more open about it,” Nordskog said.

Defense witnesses also noted that the fire scene could have been compromised because access was not closed off until Jan. 14, nearly two weeks after the first blaze started.

“Can you convict a man based on a crime scene that was destroyed? Stripped of all evidence? Evidence that could’ve proved his innocence?” Haney asked jurors during closing arguments.

Juror explains why she voted against conviction

Juror No. 4, who identified herself as Syrena and wouldn’t share her last name, said she voted not-guilty.

“There’s just not enough proof,” she said. And even if he did start the Jan. 1 fire, she said he shouldn’t be considered responsible for the entire disaster given the negligence of other parties.

“Shouldn’t the firemen, shouldn’t they have known?” she said.

Rinderknecht’s attorney wanted to argue that the Los Angeles Fire Department had been negligent, but the judge ruled he couldn’t make that case in court.

Juror No. 4 said there wasn’t enough evidence to make her believe the prosecution’s assertion that Rinderknecht was alone in the area before it started.

As for his use of ChatGPT, she said he was “just being human” that she talks to ChatGPT frequently as well.

“It made me angry that they were putting his character down,” she said.

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Associated Press reporter Safiyah Riddle contributed to this report.

The nonprofit is working with the support of the U.S. State Department and through a long-term partnership with Caritas Venezuela, a nonprofit founded in 1997, to respond to La Guaira.

The team’s list of goals includes providing food assistance to children under 5 and pregnant and nursing women; prioritizing water, sanitation, and “hygiene support;” and distributing “voucher‑based" cash aid to families in need.

A spokesperson for Caritas released a statement in Spanish with the organization’s wish: “May peace and consolation from merciful love reach every Venezuelan family.”

Caracas Archbishop Raúl Biord Castillo also released a statement in Spanish.

“It is time to reach out to our neighbors, to take special care of our elderly, young people, and children, and to demonstrate that faith translates into fraternal love,” Castillo wrote. He also called for Venezuelans to “set aside differences and unite as one people.”

For more information about how to support CRF’s efforts, visit this page. For more information about how to support Caritas Venezuela, visit this page.

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Blyth died Wednesday of “natural causes” at her home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, according to her daughter, Eileen McNulty. Blyth's family was at her side.

One of the last surviving actors from the Hollywood studio system, Blyth appeared in youth movies as well as dramas such as "Another Part of the Forest," and her co-stars included Bing Crosby, Power, Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Blyth had stopped appearing in films by the end of the 1950s when she chose to spend more time with her children. But she would work in TV musicals and dramas and tour in concerts and musicals from "Show Boat" to "The Sound of Music."

She was acting and singing from an early age and her first big break came at 13 when she was cast as Paul Lukas's daughter in Lillian Hellman's anti-Nazi play, "Watch on the Rhine," which also starred Bette Davis. She stayed with the play for almost a year on Broadway and a year on the road.

When "Watch on the Rhine" appeared in Los Angeles, Universal Studio signed her to a term contract starting at $175 a week. A dark-haired actor with a melodic singing voice, she appeared with a young Donald O'Connor in low-budget musicals such as "Chip Off the Old Block" and "Bowery to Broadway." The loan-out to Warner Bros. for "Mildred Pierce" elevated Blyth's career and led to grown-up roles.

Good at being bad

Like "Double Indemnity," adapted for the screen by Billy Wilder in 1944, "Mildred Pierce" was a James M. Cain thriller about vengeance and calculation. Crawford won the 1945 Oscar as a waitress who rises to own a string of Los Angeles restaurants. Blyth was nominated in the supporting role as Mildred's spoiled daughter, Veda, who seduces her mother's second husband (Zachary Scott), then riddles him with bullets in a jealous rage.

Directed by Michael Curtiz of “Casablanca” fame, "Mildred Pierce" was a memorable piece of film noir that took place mostly at night. For Blyth it was a major change from the cheery musicals she had been known for. It was also a stretch for an actor who was the subject of magazine articles entitled "Incorruptible!", "Angelic Annie" and "Ann Blyth: Success Without an Enemy."

In 1946, Blyth broke her back in a toboggan accident, and it appeared her career might be over. She spent seven months in a body cast and another seven months in a wheelchair, relying on her Roman Catholic faith for courage.

"The busy, exciting world I had known faded away, and my life slowed down to little things," she later told The Associated Press. "But even here I found myself blessed, for a new sense of prayer began to unfold to me."

Once recovered, she appeared as the love interest for Sonny Tufts in "Swell Guy," Howard Duff in "Brute Force" and Mickey Rooney in a prizefight movie, "Killer McCoy." She displayed her dramatic skill as the young woman in love with a suspected wife-killer, Charles Boyer, in "A Woman's Vengeance."

Her strongest role after "Mildred Pierce" came with "Another Part of the Forest," Hellman's prequel to her stage and film drama "The Little Foxes." Blythe appeared as the young Regina Hubbard, created as an adult on Broadway by Tallulah Bankhead and in the film by Bette Davis.

Add a little music

Blyth's career made a turn in 1951 when she starred with Mario Lanza in "The Great Caruso." Her lilting soprano made an ideal match for his tenor, and they were cast in "The Student Prince." But the temperamental Lanza dropped out after recording his songs, and British actor Edmund Purdom acted his role and mouthed the songs. Blyth co-starred with Howard Keel in "Rose Marie" and "Kismet."

Her other films included "Top o' the Morning" with Crosby, "The World in His Arms" (Peck) and a reunion with O'Connor, "The Buster Keaton Story." Her last film was in 1957, “The Helen Morgan Story,” which co-starred Paul Newman.

Born in 1928 in Mount Kisco, New York, to an Irish mother and English valet father, she grew up in New York City. After the father left the family, Nan Blyth supported herself and two daughters by washing clothes and working in beauty parlors.

She had high hopes for daughter Ann's future as an actress, and at 5 the girl began appearing on a New York radio show. She continued as a radio performer and spent three years studying and performing with the San Carlo Opera Company.

After becoming a movie star, Blyth admitted of her early career: "I'd become blue and despondent when I failed to get a job, and my mother's encouraging words made me want to try again." Before the actress's breakout performance in "Mildred Pierce," her mother died of cancer.

In 1953, Blyth married Dr. James McNulty, brother of tenor-comedian Dennis Day. They had five children and remained married until McNulty’s death, in 2007. A few weeks before son Timothy was born in 1954, she made television history of a sort performing the song "Secret Love" at the Oscars — visibly pregnant as she sang, "Once I had a secret love ... and my secret love's no secret anymore."

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Thomas, a former Associated Press Hollywood correspondent who died in 2014, was the primary writer of this obituary.

A whistleblower who said she was fired without due process spoke to Local 10 News this week about what happened regarding City Manager Darvin Williams, who was previously fired by the city of Opa-locka for similar complaints.

Kerlyn McHenry said several staff members are working in fear.

She had served as interim director of Public Works for the city of North Miami Beach, where she was known as process-driven, methodical, and, according to a letter of recommendation, “innovative and results-driven” and “highly respected,” which is why she says she was stunned when she was suddenly demoted, then fired, after flagging a series of procurement and accounting concerns for Williams.

“It alluded to capital funds being misappropriated, which is not a true statement at all, and so once I forwarded that to the manager, of course within hours police officers as well as HR was at my door,” she said. “I was pretty scared. I didn’t think that it was warranted.”

Michael Pizzi is McHenry’s attorney who, on Monday, sent the city a notice of their intent to sue.

“A violation of the Florida Whistleblower Statute, abuse of power, and a variety of other violations of federal, state, and local statutes,” said Pizzi. “Right now, the city of North Miami Beach, Ms. McHenry, and other employees are really being terrorized by the new administration.”

Court records show Williams is named a defendant in other suits, including a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a former North Miami Beach employee who claims she was terminated without due process.

“It is a fear zone,” said McHenry. “Everyone’s afraid of Darwin Williams in the city of North Miami Beach.”

Williams hasn’t been with the city very long, formally installed in February.

Before that, he was with the city of Opa-locka.

In early-February, two days before he was formally sworn-in, Opa-locka’s Commissioner Natasha Ervin spoke in front of the North Miami Beach commission.

“After giving Darvin Williams a contract, everything went awry,” said Ervin. “Darvin terminated employees without due process. He even terminated one employee while he was away fulfilling his duty as an Army reservist. After firing Darvin Williams, it was discovered that he opened 17 bank accounts in the city’s name at a financial institution that we don’t do business with.”

In a memo dated on June 17, Williams told the mayor and city commission that in March, he assumed “additional responsibilities of interim chief financial officer.”

In May, Ervin filed a defamation suit against Williams, claiming he was falsely accused of a crime when she moved to hold him accountable. She is also represented by Pizzi.

“If the city of North Miami Beach commissioners had simply done a Google search, they would have known that this is what was going to happen,” said Pizzi.

Local 10 News reached out to Williams for comment but he had not replied as of the time of this story’s publication.

North Miami Beach Mayor Michael Joseph, who was the only “no” vote against hiring Williams, released a statement to Local 10 News. No other members of the city commission responded to Local 10’s request for comment.

“The city commission faces a decision to stop Mr. Williams’ disruptive management decisions or remain silent and complicit while we continue to loose good and qualified employees. I was the only No vote against Mr. Williams’ hiring as City Manager because he publicly stated that he did not meet the minimum qualifications for the position. Despite my strong objections, the City Commission decided to allow Mr. Williams to prove himself or prove that my objections were correct and that his previous employer was right to fire him.”

North Miami Beach Mayor Michael Joseph

MCHENRY NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE:

Claiming wrongful demotion and wrongful termination, the notice states: “Our client contends these actions were not isolated events but were part of a coordinated effort to remove her from employment in retaliation for her protected complaints and whistleblower activity while treating her differently than similarly situated male employees.”

FROM THE FEDERAL LAWSUIT:

“Plaintiff, Marline Monestime, brings this civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 to obtain legal recourse against the Defendants for the deprivation of her constitutionally protected property interest in her continued employment with the City of North Miami Beach without due process, in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

“WHEREFORE Plaintiff, Marline Monestime, demands the entry of a judgment in her favor and against Defendant, City of North Miami Beach, after trial by jury, declaring and determining that it violated her due process rights, reinstating her employment to the position she would have held, with all attendant wages and benefits, awarding her damages, lost past and future wages and employment-related benefits, mental anguish and emotional distress damages, awarding her attorney’s fees, costs, and all interest allowed by law, and such other relief as the Court deems just and proper.”

The Spanish-American humanitarian started his nonprofit to feed communities in times of crisis after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

WCK teams helped Venezuelans affected by Hurricane Beryl in 2024 and Hurricane Julia in 2022. On Thursday, WCK announced there was a team on its way.

For more information about how to make a financial donation to help the team in Venezuela, visit this page.

Related story: Aid starts to flow into El Arepazo in Doral

More ways to help

• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations

Fernandez, Miami-Dade County’s tax collector, announced that his office opened drop-off locations for donations that GEM is committed to delivering aid.

“People of Venezuela you are not alone,” Fernandez said at the warehouse.

GEM started operations at the warehouse after two 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes struck on Wednesday causing devastation in northern Venezuela.

Here is the list of the aid drop-off locations that open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday:

MIAMI BEACH: 100 16 St.

CORAL GABLES: 224 Minorca Ave.

DOWNTOWN MIAMI: 200 NW 2nd Ave.

KENDALL: 11735 SW 147 Ave.

MIAMI CENTRAL: 3721 NW 7 St.

MIAMI GARDENS: 18326 NW 7 Ave.

NORTHSIDE: 7900 NW 27 Ave.

MIDWAY CROSSINGS: 7795 West Flagler St. #82c

CORAL REEF: 14652 SW 122 Ave.

FLORIDA CITY: 1448 North Krome Ave.

HIALEAH GARDENS: 11093 NW 138 St.

For more information about the tax collector’s efforts, visit this page.

Related story: South Florida donation drop-off locations to help Venezuelans after earthquakes

More ways to help

• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals

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After the earthquakes on Wednesday, the healthcare-focused nonprofit organization announced that a team was working with partners on the ground.

The organization has experience with health, nutrition, mental health support, child protection, and water, sanitation, and hygiene programs in Venezuela.

For more information about their efforts and to make a donation, visit this page.

Related story: South Florida donation drop-off locations to help Venezuelans after earthquakes

More ways to help

• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

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The century-old nonprofit organization announced that “100% of the funds raised will be allocated to purchasing relief supplies and services through nonprofit organizations actively providing assistance on the ground.”

For more information about the nonprofit and experience in Miami-Dade County, visit this page.

Related story: South Florida donation drop-off locations to help Venezuelans after earthquakes

More ways to help

• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals

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The Christian nonprofit, working with the support of the U.S. State Department, plans to “airlift an Emergency Field Hospital, as well as shelter tarp, solar lights, blankets, and water filters.”

Franklin Graham, the nonprofit’s president, released a statement on Facebook: “Pray for rescue and recovery operations, first responders, and all who are injured or grieving lost loved ones.”

For more information about how to support the organization’s efforts, visit this page.

More ways to help

• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

Congo accused Rwanda of breaching international conventions on genocide, racial discrimination, discrimination against women and torture. It said civilians in the east have suffered massacres, extrajudicial killings, torture, sexual violence, forced displacement and ethnic and gender-based discrimination since the 1990s.

Mineral-rich eastern Congo has been battered by decades of conflict as government forces and allied militias fight more than 100 armed groups, the most potent of them the Rwandan-backed M23. Its fighters made major advances early last year, seizing Goma and other key cities as they quickly expanded their presence.

The U.N. has called the conflict in eastern Congo “one of the most protracted, complex, serious humanitarian crises on Earth.”

The violence goes back to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu fighters responsible for the killings fled across the border into eastern Congo. Rwanda has repeatedly sent troops or backed armed groups there in the years since, saying it was acting to neutralize Hutu fighters and protect its security. Congo and the U.S. government have accused Rwanda of using the rebels as a pretext to gain access to the region’s mineral wealth.

Congo named a string of Rwandan-backed rebel groups it blames for the violence over the years, including M23.

It asked the ICJ to declare Rwanda internationally responsible for the conflict, order it to halt its activities in Congo, demand guarantees they won’t be repeated, and award reparations to Congo and civilian victims.

The court said in a statement that Congo had filed an application instituting proceedings. It did not say whether it had determined if it has jurisdiction to hear the case.

Rwanda’s government did not immediately respond publicly to the filing of the case. It has consistently denied backing armed groups in Congo, though U.N. experts have said they found evidence that Rwandan troops have fought alongside and directed M23.

This is Congo’s third attempt to bring Rwanda before the ICJ, the United Nations’ highest court for disputes between states. Congolese authorities withdrew an earlier case in 2001, and the court dismissed a second in 2006 for lack of jurisdiction, finding Rwanda had not signed or had entered reservations to some of the treaties Congo cited, or that other conditions for a case weren’t met.

The new filing comes as separate, U.S.- and Qatar-mediated peace talks between Congo and Rwanda have struggled to produce a lasting deal.

On Thursday, the U.S. imposed sanctions on a Rwanda -based gold refinery, describing it as being part of “a network working in coordination” with M23 in eastern Congo. It said the sanctions against Gasabo Gold Refinery were in support of the U.S. and Qatari peace efforts.

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Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writer Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda contributed to this report.

Son algunas de las imágenes publicadas por familiares dentro de Venezuela y en el extranjero que buscan desesperadamente a sus seres queridos desaparecidos tras dos potentes sismos consecutivos el miércoles por la noche.

Cientos han muerto y miles han resultado heridos. Se espera que el número de víctimas aumente a causa de los sismos de magnitud 7,2 y 7,5, que dejaron daños generalizados y estuvieron entre los más fuertes que han azotado a Venezuela en más de un siglo.

Con las comunicaciones intermitentes, las redes sociales y los registros en línea se han convertido en una herramienta crucial para muchos venezolanos que buscan información y recursos más allá de las escasas estadísticas del gobierno. Un registro independiente en línea documentó 51.000 personas desaparecidas, y otro enumeró 24.000 personas cuyo paradero se desconoce, lo que refleja la falta de datos oficiales o de información sobre los desaparecidos.

Cuando algunos se apresuraban a buscar bajo los escombros de edificios derrumbados, otros crearon volantes digitales en WhatsApp, Facebook y X con los datos de sus familiares.

Búsqueda de familiares

Entre ellos estaba Vanesa Marcano, de 31 años, quien publicó fotos desde Madrid de su tío y su tía, que viven en el estado La Guaira, al norte de la capital, Caracas, que sufrió algunos de los peores daños y el número de víctimas más elevados.

Marcano publicó las imágenes con la esperanza de que simplemente no pudieran ser contactados debido a líneas de comunicación dañadas. La hija de su tío y su nieto de 7 años estaban de visita desde Estados Unidos y también están desaparecidos.

“Se siente impotencia e inseguridad”, afirmó Marcano por teléfono. “Yo ya sé que hay que mantener la calma y concentrarse en las acciones que puedas tomar, pero es que es muy fácil caer en la desesperación”.

Jhoyser Concalves, un venezolano de la ciudad costera norteña de Catia La Mar, hablaba con su pareja y la hija de ella apenas unos minutos antes del temblor. Fue lo último que supo de ambas.

Cuando el sismo se detuvo, Concalves salió corriendo de su casa hacia el edificio de apartamentos donde vivían, en el sexto piso. Sólo había escombros y gente intentando desesperadamente rescatar a vecinos de entre los restos.

Concalves publicó un volante que decía “DESAPARECIDAS” en X y Facebook en un intento desesperado por encontrarlas.

“Hoy estan sacando gente del edificio con vida. Entonces tengo la esperanza que todavia estan ahi con vida”, declaró.

ONU pide se restablezca acceso a redes sociales

La búsqueda se complicó por las restricciones del país a las redes sociales y a las plataformas de mensajería.

La misión de derechos humanos de la ONU en Venezuela emitió un comunicado el jueves en el que pidió al gobierno levantar las restricciones locales a las redes sociales y señaló que el acceso oportuno a información confiable puede salvar vidas.

Sitios como X y la aplicación de mensajería Signal fueron bloqueados en agosto de 2024 por el entonces presidente Nicolás Maduro en un intento de suprimir la comunicación entre quienes rechazaban su proclamación de victoria en las elecciones presidenciales. La exvicepresidenta Delcy Rodríguez se convirtió en presidenta encargada en enero luego que Estados Unidos capturara y sacara a Maduro del poder.

Poco después de la solicitud de la ONU el jueves, los venezolanos dentro del país pudieron acceder a X.

Búsqueda desde el extranjero

Fuera del país, esos sitios se han vuelto aún más importantes para muchos de los 8 millones de personas que han migrado de Venezuela en los últimos años y no pudieron verificar cómo estaban sus seres queridos.

El padre de Elibel Tovar, de 70 años, se mudó a Brasil hace más de 20 años, pero estaba en La Guaira por negocios. Félix Ramón Tovar Hernández planeaba viajar el viernes a Chile para su primer reencuentro con su hijo en más de una década. Pero Tovar, de 38 años, contó que no ha sabido nada de su padre.

“Siento impotencia porque no sé cómo esto le afecta, el shock, la decisiones, si está bien físicamente o básicamente vivo”, expresó Tovar, quien registró a su padre en el sitio web de personas desaparecidas.

“Estando en Chile es muy difícil acceder a información y todo lo que vemos se siente confuso”, comentó por WhatsApp.

En Madrid, Marcano dijo que intentaba mantener la calma por el bien de su hija de un año.

“Esperas a ver si alguien hace alguna recolecta, si puedes ayudar de alguna manera”, señaló Marcano. “Pero es que desde lejos es muy poco lo que puedes hacer”.

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Hughes reportó desde Río de Janeiro.

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

The 18-year-old McKenna is from Yukon’s capital of Whitehorse and has been a prolific scorer on both sides of the border, with his selection validating the projections of the left winger being his age group’s top prospect more than two years ago.

McKenna’s selection was announced by longtime Leafs fan and Canadian-born international pop icon Justin Bieber.

"I got no words right now," McKenna said. “This is nuts. Obviously I want to start by thanking my family. I love you guys. I wouldn’t be here without you guys.”

As in 2016, there was a large contingent of blue and white jersey-wearing Leafs fans, with a “Go Leafs, go!” chant erupting once Toronto was placed on the clock. Saying “the child in me is ecstatic,” Bieber joined NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on stage and, after a short pause, looked over to McKenna and declared him being a member of the Maple Leafs.

Bieber teed up a video welcome message from Leafs captain Auston Matthews, who was their No. 1 pick a decade ago, when the draft was also in Buffalo.

“I know how exciting this is for you and your family and what an incredible honor it is,” Matthews said. “We’re just as excited to have you join the Maple Leafs and cannot wait to get started. You’re coming to a franchise with an amazing history and base, and we’re all working to write the next great chapter together. And you’re going to be a very important part of that.”

The draft opened with Bettman getting booed — a draft-day tradition — as he took the stage, and was joined by Sabres forward Josh Doan and NFL Bills tackle Dion Dawkins.

Dawkins referred to Bettman as his “new dawg,” acknowledged both the Sabres and Maple Leafs fans in attendance in leading a cheer of “Let’s go, Buffalo.”

For Toronto, McKenna represents a major plank in the rebuilding process of a team suddenly in transition under new general manager John Chayka. Toronto finished last in the Atlantic Division last season and missed the playoffs for the first time since Matthews’ arrival.

The San Jose Sharks took Swedish winger Ivar Stenberg with the No. 2 pick. Vancouver picks third, Buffalo fourth and the New York Rangers fifth.

The top of the draft class is considered light on forwards and deep in defensemen.

McKenna is accustomed to the spotlight, splashing on the scene by combining for 79 goals and 244 points in 133 games with the WHL's Medicine Hat. He then made the jump to the NCAA last summer in a bid to challenge himself against older and more physical competition.

McKenna finished his freshman season with a flourish, scoring 32 points in his final 17 outings. His 51 points finished tied for fourth in the nation.

He became just the fifth NCAA player to go first, and third in six years, since Michigan defenseman Owen Power went No. 1 to Buffalo in 2021.

Though accustomed to the spotlight, McKenna now heads to a metropolis that is nearly 100 times larger than Whitehorse’s population of about 39,000. He became the fifth Yukon-born player to be selected in the draft, and the highest pick after Ottawa’s Dylan Cozens went No. 7 to Buffalo in 2019.

A day earlier, without revealing who he was picking, Chayka said the team’s staff was unanimous on their choice. Chayka even traveled to Whitehorse last month to spend time with McKenna and his family.

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Chicago traded Burakovsky to Ottawa on Friday for a 2027 sixth-round pick. The Blackhawks clear his $5.5 million salary cap hit off the books for next season, while the Senators get a 31-year-old winger who has twice won the Stanley Cup.

General manager Steve Staios said the Senators were happy to add a player of Burakovsky's pedigree because he “adds skill and playmaking ability to our forward group.” Dad Robert Burakovsky played 23 games with the club during its second NHL season in 1993-94, and Andre is joining his fifth organization after winning the Cup with Washington and Colorado and spending time in Seattle.

Staios was busy in the hours before adding Burakovsky, acquiring the rights to goaltender Samuel Ersson and re-signing another pending restricted free agent, defenseman Jordan Spence. Ottawa sent a 2027 fifth-rounder to rival Toronto for Ersson, whom the Maple Leafs got along with Emil Andrae in a cap space-clearing trade with Philadelphia for Joseph Woll and Simon Benoit.

Spence, 25, signed a four-year, $20 million contract. He was a big part of the team enduring injuries at the position and still making the playoffs, scoring a career-high seven goals and finishing with 31 points while skating an average of nearly 19 minutes over 73 games.

“Jordan was an excellent addition to our hockey club and proved to be a valuable asset on our blue line and stepped up when it counted last season,” Staios said. “We’re excited to have him as part of our core group.”

In other moves, the New York Rangers made their first move of a critical offseason Friday, trading forward Brett Berard to Montreal for defenseman William Trudeau.

Berard, who turns 24 in September, was once considered part of the Rangers' future core but instead gets a change of scenery with the Canadiens. Trudeau is roughly a month younger but has been in the minors and has not yet made his NHL debut, whereas Berard has played in 48 games with the Rangers and registered 10 points.

New York general manager Chris Drury is expected to make much bigger deals. Center Vincent Trocheck has been involved in trade talks going back to before the deadline in March.

Buffalo got defenseman Olen Zellweger, who also needs a new contract, from Anaheim for the 45th pick and forward prospect Anton Wahlberg. Zellweger, who turns 23 in September, replenishes depth for the Sabres after they traded Bowen Byram to Chicago earlier in the week.

The Islanders re-signed defenseman Tony DeAngelo to a two-year contract worth $9 million. He will count $4.5 million against the salary cap through the 2027-28 season.

DeAngelo, 30, is returning to the Islanders for a second full season after joining them upon returning to the NHL from a stint in the Russia-based KHL in January 2025.

Out West, Colorado re-signed defensemen Brent Burns and Brett Kulak, fresh off winning the Presidents' Trophy and losing in the conference final to Vegas.

Burns, 41 signed for next season, his 23rd in the league, at the veteran minimum of $850,000 and can make up to $3 million in incentives, according to a person familiar with the deal. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because financial terms were not disclosed.

Burns has skated in 1,007 consecutive regular-season games and is 58 away from passing Phil Kessel for the longest ironman streak in NHL history.

Kulak got a five-year contract from the Avalanche worth a reported $22.5 million. President of hockey operations and franchise great Joe Sakic is retooling the roster after reclaiming GM duties when Chris MacFarland left for Nashville.

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Maria Andreina Pernalete, a World Vision communications manager in Caracas, was homeless and sought refuge at a nearby convent.

“There have been many after shocks,” Pernalete said, according to the organization’s update.

Luis Colmenares, a World Vision communications specialist in Barquisimeto, reported witnessing injuries during a panicked evacuation.

On Friday, the organization reported having “over 200 staff and existing operational capacity” to respond.

The nonprofit is working with the support of the U.S. State Department.

For more information about how to make a financial donation to the organization’s fund, visit this page.

When a 'double double' crisis hits a country where systems have already broken down, you can expect that responding will be a challenge.

We're already in place in Venezuela, with over 200 staff and existing operational capacity to respond. Since 2019, we've reached over 2… pic.twitter.com/ChXXnON95R

— World Vision (@WorldVision) June 26, 2026

More ways to help

• Miami-Dade’s tax collector opens 11 drop-off locations
• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• International Medical Corps deploys staff, needs donations
• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• United Way Miami launches ‘Operation Helping Hands’

Indiana coach Stephanie White said Friday morning that Clark wouldn't play. Indiana doesn’t play again after Saturday until visiting the Las Vegas Aces on July 5.

“She's OK. She's going to be out on Saturday. She's doing all right,” White said. “Obviously, it's a good time as we have all week next week. Take this opportunity to get her treatment, get her healthy and get her back on the floor and see what happens.”

Clark only played in 13 games last season because of a variety of injuries. She’s missed one game this season because of her back. Clark is tied for fourth in the league with 21.2 points a game. She had 19 points in 20 minutes against Phoenix.

“Long-term health and wellness is the most important thing," White said. “I think we want her to be healthy physically, mentally, emotionally. When you've gone through injury and the traumatic aspect of injury that she had last year, it's ups and downs physically, mentally and emotionally. Making sure that she's 100% ready to go is the most important thing.”

Clark was also hit in the throat Wednesday by Phoenix's Alyssa Thomas. While no foul was called, the Mercury forward was suspended by the league for a game on Thursday for that play.

Clark is currently second in All-Star fan voting that was released Wednesday behind teammate Aliyah Boston. The All-Star Game is July 25 in Chicago.

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The South Florida teen is the first in his family to attend college, reaching a milestone made possible through years of faith, family support and personal sacrifice.

Now, thanks to the George Snow Scholarship Fund, the Monarch High School graduate will attend Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, where he plans to study ministerial theology with all four years of tuition covered.

“Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast,” Nelson said, reciting his favorite Bible verse from 1 Corinthians 13:4.

The scripture has become the foundation of his life.

“I know love is the most powerful force on this earth, so I try to go forth and show that every single day,” he said.

A family united by love

When Nelson was 10 years old, his family’s life changed dramatically after his father suffered a debilitating stroke.

His mother, Lucy Nelson, took on two jobs to support the family. His older brother, Leo, helped by driving him to and from school.

Nelson found his own way to contribute, stepping into the role of part-time caregiver for his father.

“It was just helping him to grow, to be more independent,” Nelson said.

Despite the added responsibilities at home, he excelled in every aspect of his life.

On the football field, Nelson helped lead Monarch High School to a district championship in 2025 as a left guard.

At church, he serves as a youth elder.

In the classroom, he graduated with a 4.0 GPA.

“My family pushed me a lot to do it, and I owe it to them,” Nelson said. “Look at where we are now.”

A life-changing opportunity

That journey caught the attention of the George Snow Scholarship Fund.

After reviewing his application, the organization awarded Nelson two scholarships that will cover the full cost of his college education.

“He has worked very hard through his high school career and filled out a great application for us,” said Tim Snow, president of the George Snow Scholarship Fund. “It was kind of a no-brainer for us to want to help him.”

In addition to paying for tuition, the scholarship program will provide Nelson with a new laptop, emergency financial assistance, clothing and dorm room essentials as he begins college.

The George Snow Scholarship Fund has helped approximately 4,600 students pursue higher education.

Looking ahead

While leaving home will be difficult for both Nelson and his family, they believe his future is bright.

“I am going to miss him, but God knows everything,” his mother said.

His father offered simple but powerful words of encouragement: “Hold on fast. Do not let go.”

Nelson says he plans to carry those words — along with another passage from his favorite chapter of scripture — into the next chapter of his life.

“Love never fails.”

As he prepares to leave South Florida for Alabama, Nelson is already focused on the future.

“Without a shadow of a doubt, I know I will be walking on that stage in four years,” he said. “I’m gunning. I’m coming for everything.”

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El joven del sur de Florida es el primero de su familia en asistir a la universidad, alcanzando un logro que fue posible gracias a años de fe, apoyo familiar y sacrificio personal.

Ahora, gracias al George Snow Scholarship Fund, el graduado de Monarch High School asistirá a Oakwood University, en Huntsville, Alabama, donde planea estudiar teología ministerial con los cuatro años de matrícula cubiertos.

“El amor es paciente, es bondadoso. El amor no tiene envidia, no es jactancioso”, dijo Nelson al recitar su versículo favorito de la Biblia, 1 Corintios 13:4.

Ese pasaje se ha convertido en la base de su vida.

“Sé que el amor es la fuerza más poderosa de esta tierra, así que trato de demostrarlo todos los días”, dijo.

Una familia unida por el amor

Cuando Nelson tenía 10 años, la vida de su familia cambió drásticamente después de que su padre sufriera un derrame cerebral que lo dejó con graves secuelas.

Su madre, Lucy Nelson, asumió dos trabajos para mantener a la familia. Su hermano mayor, Leo, lo ayudaba llevándolo y trayéndolo de la escuela.

Nelson encontró su propia manera de contribuir, asumiendo el papel de cuidador de medio tiempo de su padre.

“Era simplemente ayudarlo a progresar, a ser más independiente”, dijo Nelson.

A pesar de las responsabilidades adicionales en casa, sobresalió en todos los aspectos de su vida.

En el campo de fútbol americano, Nelson ayudó a llevar a Monarch High School al campeonato distrital en 2025 como guardia izquierdo.

En la iglesia, sirve como anciano del ministerio juvenil.

En el salón de clases, se graduó con un promedio académico perfecto de 4.0.

“Mi familia me impulsó mucho a lograrlo y se lo debo a ellos”, dijo Nelson. “Miren dónde estamos ahora”.

Una oportunidad que cambia la vida

Ese recorrido llamó la atención del George Snow Scholarship Fund.

Después de revisar su solicitud, la organización otorgó a Nelson dos becas que cubrirán el costo total de su educación universitaria.

“Ha trabajado muy duro durante toda la escuela secundaria y presentó una excelente solicitud”, dijo Tim Snow, presidente del George Snow Scholarship Fund. “Fue una decisión muy fácil para nosotros querer ayudarlo”.

Además de cubrir la matrícula, el programa de becas le proporcionará a Nelson una computadora portátil nueva, asistencia financiera de emergencia, ropa y artículos esenciales para su dormitorio al comenzar la universidad.

El George Snow Scholarship Fund ha ayudado a aproximadamente 4,600 estudiantes a continuar sus estudios universitarios.

Mirando hacia el futuro

Aunque dejar su hogar será difícil tanto para Nelson como para su familia, todos creen que su futuro es prometedor.

“Lo voy a extrañar, pero Dios lo sabe todo”, dijo su madre.

Su padre le ofreció unas palabras de aliento sencillas pero poderosas: “Mantente firme. No te rindas”.

Nelson dice que llevará esas palabras, junto con otro pasaje de su capítulo bíblico favorito, a la siguiente etapa de su vida.

“El amor nunca deja de ser”.

Mientras se prepara para dejar el sur de Florida para ir a Alabama, Nelson ya tiene la vista puesta en el futuro.

“Sin la menor duda, sé que estaré caminando por ese escenario dentro de cuatro años”, dijo. “Voy con todo. Voy por todo”.

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A misunderstanding led to a highly unusual exchange for the restrained and traditional atmosphere after the nation’s highest court took the bench Thursday to hand down their decisions. Those rulings included two major immigration wins for President Donald Trump.

After conservative Justice Samuel Alito finished his reading of the majority’s ruling limiting how people can seek asylum at the southern border, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke up to read from her biting dissent.

She traced the difficult journey many asylum seekers face and outlined a painful chapter in the country’s history: When the U.S. and other countries turned back a ship full of Jewish refugees attempting to flee persecution in Nazi Germany in 1939. About 250 of those passengers later died in the Holocaust.

Sotomayor, the first Latina justice, said the majority’s opinion would allow the Trump administration to block people from applying for asylum at the border, which would result in more deaths. The decision “regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh watched her intently as she spoke, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson looked straight ahead.

Majority opinions are always read from the bench and dissenters can speak up as well to underscore their objections, which typically happens in few cases every term. Additional rulings are expected on Monday.

Sotomayor’s spoken dissent, however, appeared to be a surprise for Alito. In a very rare move, he spoke off the cuff. He sounded surprised and frustrated, saying he would have added more detail to his summary if he'd known about plans to speak.

The confusion turned out to be a misunderstanding on Alito's part; Sotomayor's chambers had passed along word of her plan.

For the conservative majority, the case was about whether the law allows border officials can delay asylum seekers’ entry into the U.S. “until they can be processed in a safe and orderly way," not about the wisdom of the policy itself.

Out loud, Alito defended his opinion by noting that the policy at the center of the case had been used under both the Obama and Trump administrations. “I won’t add anything more to that,” he said.

The exchange comes during the court's busiest time of the year, as the justices prepare to release opinions next week on some of the biggest issues of the term, and Trump’s presidency so far. Those include his push to restrict birthright citizenship and expand the president’s power to fire board members at independent agencies.

Supreme Court justices have spoken publicly about their cordial working relationships and regular lunches as a group where they set aside cases to talk and share each other's company. And while there are ideological splits between the court's conservative majority and its liberal wing, they also decide many cases unanimously, including one this month about the Second Amendment rights of marijuana users.

Still, it isn’t the first time unusual tensions have surfaced this term. Sotomayor issued a rare public apology in April to another justice, Brett Kavanaugh, for what she termed “hurtful comments.” She had said during a law school talk that a colleague “probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour.”

In another public appearance in March, Kavanaugh and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sparred over the many emergency orders the court had issued allowing Trump to move ahead with key parts of his agenda.

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According to the Lauderhill Police Department, officers responded around 5 a.m. to the 2200 block of Northwest 58th Terrace, where they found a man suffering from lacerations.

Police said the victim was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

They said the victim was cut with an unknown object. The suspect fled before officers arrived and has not yet been identified, according to police.

Police said the victim and suspect know each other, and the incident appears to be isolated with no known threat to the public.

They said the LPD’s Criminal Investigations Division and Crime Scene Investigations Unit responded to process the scene.

A motive for the stabbing remains unclear at this time.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact Lauderhill police at 954-497-4700.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 5 a.m. a la cuadra 2200 de Northwest 58th Terrace, donde encontraron a un hombre con laceraciones.

La Policía informó que la víctima fue trasladada al Broward Health Medical Center con heridas que no se consideran de riesgo para su vida.

Indicaron que la víctima fue cortada con un objeto no identificado. El sospechoso huyó antes de que los agentes llegaran al lugar y aún no ha sido identificado, según la Policía.

La Policía dijo que la víctima y el sospechoso se conocen y que el incidente parece ser un hecho aislado, sin una amenaza conocida para el público.

También informaron que la División de Investigaciones Criminales y la Unidad de Investigación de la Escena del Crimen del Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill acudieron para procesar la escena.

Por el momento, se desconoce el motivo del apuñalamiento.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso debe comunicarse con la Policía de Lauderhill al 954-497-4700.

The National Weather Service issued a rare “Particularly Dangerous Situation” warning as dry, windy conditions provided fuel for more fires across the western U.S.

The Cottonwood Fire in a sparsely populated area of southern Utah started Monday. It ballooned to more than 112 square miles (290 square kilometers) by Friday, burning unchecked as strong winds grounded air support, forestry officials said. One of six large wildfires burning in Utah, it severely damaged the Eagle Point ski resort in Beaver County, forcing mandatory evacuations.

“We have the 35 miles-per-hour (56 km/h) sustained winds that they predicted, and we definitely have the 45 miles-per-hour (72 km/h) gusts,” said Alyssa Mason, a spokesperson assigned to the fire. “So there has been a great increase in the fire activity. We are seeing extreme fire behavior out there with some crown runs and definitely some spotting.”

The smoke has been pushing to the east and northeast, meaning air quality at popular vacation spots like Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks — located far south of the flames — hasn’t been significantly affected beyond some haze in the Bryce area. Still, visitors to Bryce have posted videos on social media showing the giant plume in the distance.

The smoke could be seen for hundreds of miles, all the way to Colorado, as authorities put roughly 1,300 residents in the towns of Marysvale, Junction and Circleville on notice that they should be prepared to leave if conditions worsen and the fire pushes further.

State forester Jamie Barnes had said Thursday that it's like nothing seen in recent memory. She said fires are spreading farther and faster “under conditions that defy historical expectations.”

Bruce Brown, 76, accompanied the sheriff on Thursday to find that his cabin and others in the area were gone. He found a burned out moonscape with power poles tipped over along the canyon.

Alyssa Olsen, 27, said her family’s cabin also burned. It was the last place they gathered for family photos with her grandmother before she died of cancer. Her brother was planning to get married there in two months.

“That stuff you can’t just build back,” Olsen said.

Fireworks will be limited in Utah through July 5

Gov. Spencer Cox set the temporary fireworks restrictions through July 5 as the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, saying “this year is different.”

The weather service in Salt Lake City, for the first time in the office's history, issued a “ Particularly Dangerous Situation ” warning for five Utah counties, including the area of the Cottonwood Fire. The rare alert was first used to warn of tornado conditions. A red flag warning also was issued for most of the state.

“Prepare now for rapid fire growth,” it said.

A similar “dangerous situation” warning had been issued for the 2025 Palisades Fire in Los Angeles. A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of sparking that fire. The jury said it couldn't agree on a verdict.

While the Cottonwood Fire's cause was unknown, Cox’s order noted that humans have been the cause of most fires in the state so far this year.

The governor’s order gives Barnes power to restrict or prohibit fireworks displays in Utah’s cities and towns, instead of leaving those decisions to the communities.

With extreme fire conditions persisting, Rocky Mountain Power issued a public safety power shut-off watch/warning for areas of central, southern and eastern Utah through the weekend.

Crews also were battling the Iron Fire southwest of Salt Lake City. The flames on Thursday forced the temporary evacuation of Eureka, population 1,000.

Wildfire danger prompts concern throughout the West

Red flag warnings, which mean conditions such as low humidity, warm temperatures and strong winds can create an extreme wildfire risk, were in effect Friday and stretched from Idaho to southern Arizona and New Mexico.

The warnings extended into Saturday, with forecasters predicting winds of 25 to 35 miles an hour (40 km/h to 56 km/h) and very low humidity levels. The worst conditions were expected from northern Arizona into central and southern Utah.

Much of Utah already is experiencing severe to extreme drought, while parts of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are experiencing severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Tim Brown, a research professor and director of the Western Regional Climate Center, said the potential for extreme fire behavior will remain as long as it's hot, dry and windy.

“I would not be surprised to see a lot of restrictions come out as we get closer to the July Fourth weekend,” he said. “People really need to be aware of their surroundings if they’re going to be out in the forested campground areas and grassland areas.”

Even in Florida, where there have been multiple brush fires, authorities are urging people to skip the personal fireworks and instead leave the pyrotechnics to professionals putting on carefully planned shows.

In Utah, federal land managers have closed public lands near the Cottonwood Fire as a precaution, and in New Mexico, forest officials closed campgrounds and trails near a wildfire burning in the Jemez Mountains.

Nationally, nearly 3 million acres have burned since the start of the year, pushing the U.S. ahead of the 10-year average. The National Interagency Fire Center said firefighters are making progress on containing fires from Alaska to Florida.

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Associated Press reporter Sudhin Thanawala contributed to this story.

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This story has been corrected; the state forester's first name is spelled Jamie, not Jaime.

Miller, 48, was arrested June 6 in Fremont County, which borders Montana and Wyoming, and charged with possessing psilocybin mushrooms. He pleaded not guilty last week and said his friend who was with him had a small amount of drugs he didn't know about.

County Prosecutor Lindsey Blake said in a statement provided to The Associated Press on Friday that her office will be dismissing the drug possession and drug paraphernalia charges against Miller.

“Although the deputy had sufficient probable cause to arrest Mr. Miller at the beginning of June, we recently received information which resulted in our office determining it is in the interest of justice to dismiss Mr. Miller’s misdemeanor charges,” she said. "I will not be discussing the specifics of this recent information due to it being related to another active case.”

Blake did not provide details on the other active case. Online court records related to Miller's case list another man who was charged with the same crimes.

Miller's lawyer, Jeromy Stafford, did not immediately return phone and email messages Friday. He told media outlets earlier this week that Miller did not have any drugs on his person when he was arrested.

In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Miller said he was pulled over after accelerating to pass a vehicle on a highway. He said his friend had a small amount of cannabis and a cannabis pipe, which Miller said he didn't know about.

“We fully cooperated with the officer,” he said. "I am hopeful the misdemeanor charges will be dropped once the facts are reviewed.”

In a probable cause statement, Fremont County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Hurt wrote that he found Miller with a white dispensary bag containing 4.1 grams of the psychedelic mushrooms.

The 48-year-old Miller took a gambler’s approach to ski racing. His high-risk, high-reward style resulted in six Olympic medals, including gold in the super-combined at the 2010 Vancouver Games, and numerous crashes.

His last major race was at the 2015 world championships in Beaver Creek, Colorado, when a bad wipeout knocked him out of the super-G. He later underwent surgery to fix a torn right hamstring tendon caused when his ski sliced him. He said in late 2017 that he was retired for good.

Miller won 33 World Cup races and a pair of World Cup overall titles. He also captured four gold medals at world championships.

The operation saw dozens of Israeli commandos storm the Entebbe Airport where Palestinian and German militants — backed by Ugandan forces — had taken 106 passengers from a hijacked flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. It lasted less than an hour with limited casualties among the commandos and hostages, most of whom were either Israeli or Jewish, making it the stuff of lore given the difficulty and high-risk nature of the mission.

Israel released the files ahead of the raid's 50th anniversary on July 3, and as the nation still grapples with the aftermath of the hostage crisis that began when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The attack killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 others taken hostage to Gaza.

The files on the Entebbe raid build on earlier disclosures and what was already known about then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s ad hoc crisis team and show how officials weighed negotiating for the hostages’ release against attempting a long‑range operation that would require Israeli commandos to fly thousands of miles (kilometers) over multiple hostile states.

The team initially insisted there should be no negotiations with the hostage‑takers — the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and West Germany’s Revolutionäre Zellen. The groups, which hijacked the Air France flight from Tel Aviv when it stopped over in Athens, demanded the release of prisoners in multiple countries and warned they would start killing hostages if talks hadn’t delivered by their self‑imposed deadline.

But as the crisis dragged on over six days and pressure from the families of the hostages grew, Israeli leaders gradually became more open to talks, according to a summary of the files released by the Israel State Archives.

“The zero hour is approaching … We believe that a supreme effort must be made and break the ultimatum,” Rabin’s crisis team wrote in one memo, authorizing negotiations over some of the conditions.

Israel has historically negotiated with Palestinian militant groups to exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners and detainees even as critics warned the practice could encourage more kidnappings. Entebbe is often viewed as a moment when Israel pivoted -- choosing a risky military operation -- but Friday’s documents suggest otherwise. Behind the scenes, officials moved to force only once negotiations stalled and confidence in a potential operation grew.

According to the documents, Israel took a two-pronged approach. It pushed forward France-led negotiations with Ugandan President Idi Amin, while mocking up blueprints of the airport and preparing to send transport planes to Kenya and onto Uganda to raid the airport under the dark of night.

The commandos broke into the airport and saved all but three hostages killed in the crossfire. During the gunbattle, Israeli forces killed all of the hijackers and dozens of Ugandan soldiers. Only one commando — Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — was killed.

The operation was criticized by Amin and the Organization of African Unity — the African Union's predecessor organization — which saw the raid as a violation of Uganda’s sovereignty at a moment when it claimed to be negotiating for the hostages’ release.

For Israel, Entebbe was widely seen as a success just four years after all nine Israeli hostages were killed in a German-led rescue attempt at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Still, its leaders knew that military successes would not end conflict.

“Let us not deceive ourselves,” Rabin wrote in one of the memos released Friday. “It was an extraordinary operation and achievement. However, the problem is not over. Terrorism continues to operate. What other problems terrorism will pose to us and what lessons we must learn from this matter, it is too early to say. We have finished one battle, but the war continues.”

The pattern for the weekend will be overnight thunderstorms that last into the morning. The afternoons and early evenings will be drier. Expect similar heat on Friday.

Even before the two earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday, nearly 8 million people were already in need of aid, according to Tom Fletcher, the UN aid chief.

The earthquakes caused most of the destruction in Caracas, and in the states of La Guaira, Miranda, Aragua, Carabobo, and Falcón, according to the UN, which is working with the U.S. State Department and U.S. Southern Command.

For more information and to donate, visit this UN page.

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• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations

The 51-year-old Calvelli replaces Giorgio Furlani, who was fired by U.S. owner, RedBird Capital Partners, last month as it cleaned house after what it deemed “an unequivocal failure” of a season.

“The mandate is clear — we will play to win, instead of playing not to lose — in everything that AC Milan touches, but most importantly on the field,” RedBird managing partner Gerry Cardinale said in a statement.

“The entire organization at AC Milan will now benefit tremendously from his full time appointment and sense of urgency to bring a winning culture and results back to the club.”

Calvelli will continue to serve as CEO International at RedBird Development Group and Operating Partner at RedBird Capital Partners. A former professional tennis player, he was previously ATP CEO from 2020-25.

“Since joining RedBird last year, Massimo has distinguished himself as a leader and driver of organizational design that brings people together and establishes a culture of collaboration and professionalism,” Cardinale added.

“Our model at RedBird often requires our senior leadership to go “in house” in our most important investments to ensure best in class execution, especially in situations requiring change and innovation.”

Milan spent much of last season in the top two positions and fighting for the Serie A title. But a run of only two wins in its last eight matches dropped it to fifth on the last day of the campaign and saw it miss out on Champions League qualification.

That led to a number of dismissals, including coach Massimiliano Allegri. He was replaced by Rúben Amorim earlier this month.

“The opportunity to lead AC Milan as it navigates this critical moment in its football trajectory, as well as within the overall state of Italian football, is something I take very seriously and with a profound sense of urgency,” Calvelli said.

“The mandate from Gerry is to bring a culture of winning and results both on and off the field back to AC Milan … I’ve had a full year working collaboratively with the senior leadership of the club across all functions and have a hands-on sense of what needs to be fixed and innovated.”

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La actividad tropical general, desde el Golfo Pérsico y el Caribe hasta el Atlántico en general, es la más baja registrada en los últimos 12 años.

Por supuesto, aunque según el calendario ya hemos transcurrido aproximadamente el 16% de la temporada de huracanes, históricamente el 98% de la actividad tropical se produce después de junio.

Y como hemos comentado ampliamente en los boletines informativos de temporadas anteriores, la actividad al principio de la temporada (ya sea alta o baja) no es un indicador fiable de lo que podría ocurrir más adelante en la temporada.

Solo cuando lleguemos a finales de julio y agosto, la actividad registrada hasta la fecha comenzará a proporcionar pistas significativas sobre lo que podrían deparar los meses de mayor actividad de la temporada.

Sin embargo, el escaso inicio de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico concuerda con lo que cabría esperar de un fenómeno de El Niño mucho más temprano e históricamente fuerte en el Pacífico oriental.

La corriente en chorro subtropical ha sido implacable a través del cinturón tropical del Atlántico este mes, incluyendo partes del Golfo y el Caribe, y seguirá siéndolo en el futuro previsible.

Observando desde el sureste a principios de julio

Como detallamos en el boletín informativo del jueves , algunos de nuestros modelos de pronóstico, en concreto el modelo de huracanes DeepMind de Google, basado en el aprendizaje automático, sugieren una pequeña ventana de desarrollo frente a la costa sureste de Estados Unidos para mediados de la próxima semana.

Las probabilidades siguen siendo bajas por ahora (10% o menos), pero las mejores posibilidades se presentarán entre el próximo martes y el jueves si algo intenta reactivarse.

El detonante de lo que veremos la próxima semana será un frente que se desvanece sobre las cálidas aguas del sureste de Estados Unidos.

Algunos modelos sugieren que un Sistema Convectivo de Mesoescala (SCM, por sus siglas en inglés), un gran cúmulo de tormentas eléctricas, se formaría tierra adentro, se desplazaría hacia la costa y se enredaría en el límite frontal, lo que podría favorecer cierto desarrollo.

No conoceremos los detalles exactos hasta dentro de unos días, pero, en cualquier caso, la probabilidad es tan baja que el NHC aún no lo ha incluido en su pronóstico. Dado que los vientos en altura son más suaves al este de Florida y que las temperaturas del agua rondan el máximo histórico para esta época del año, conviene estar atentos a las tendencias.

Curiosamente, una configuración similar (un frente antiguo con un sistema convectivo de mesoescala incrustado) fue la que dio origen al huracán Arthur en 2014, la última temporada de huracanes que comenzó de forma tan tranquila como en 2026.

Sin embargo, incluso los pocos modelos que sugieren desarrollo no apuntan a un desarrollo significativo ni a un sistema sólido, así que por ahora no hay nada de qué preocuparse.

Mientras tanto, disfruten del tranquilo fin de semana y del tranquilo final de junio.

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The Miami-Dade resident joined the world’s Venezuelan diaspora in their struggle to communicate with loved ones after the tragedy.

“I didn’t hear from my sister for hours last night,” Alcantara said. “My niece was able to tell me that she spoke to her.”

Alcantara has been following the rising death toll as the search and rescue efforts continued. She is worried about the urgent needs of the survivors, so she dropped off donations at El Arepazo in Doral.

“We need food, medicines,” Alcanta said. “We need a lot; we need everything.”

Mayor Christi Fraga partnered with the local Global Empowerment Mission, a nonprofit founded in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

El Arepazo, one of four drop-off locations for donations that GEM plans to deliver to Venezuela, opens 24 hours, seven days a week, at 10191 NW 58th St.

The list of items needed included first aid kits; emergency gear such as flashlights, heavy-duty batteries, solar phone chargers, and work gloves; and baby care, such as diapers.

The need for aid rises amid an uncertain political transition under acting interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who has been cooperating with President Donald Trump after Nicolás Maduro’s capture.

“We are not going to give up. We are never going to give up, and we are going to be able to be free and rebuild,” Alcanta said. “We have to.”

Related story: Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations

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• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
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• Save The Children asks for emergency fund donations
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La residente de Miami-Dade se unió a la diáspora venezolana en todo el mundo en su esfuerzo por comunicarse con sus seres queridos tras la tragedia.

“No tuve noticias de mi hermana durante horas anoche”, dijo Alcántara. “Mi sobrina pudo decirme que habló con ella”.

Alcántara ha estado siguiendo el aumento en la cifra de personas fallecidas mientras continúan las labores de búsqueda y rescate. Le preocupan las necesidades urgentes de los sobrevivientes, por lo que llevó donaciones a El Arepazo, en Doral.

“Necesitamos alimentos, medicinas”, dijo Alcántara. “Necesitamos mucho; necesitamos de todo”.

La alcaldesa Christi Fraga se asoció con la organización local Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), una organización sin fines de lucro fundada en respuesta al terremoto de Haití de 2010.

El Arepazo, uno de los cuatro centros de recepción de donaciones que GEM planea enviar a Venezuela, está abierto las 24 horas, los siete días de la semana, en 10191 NW 58th St.

La lista de artículos necesarios incluye botiquines de primeros auxilios; equipos de emergencia como linternas, baterías de alta capacidad, cargadores solares para teléfonos y guantes de trabajo; y artículos para el cuidado de bebés, como pañales.

La necesidad de ayuda aumenta en medio de una incierta transición política bajo la presidencia interina de Delcy Rodríguez, quien ha estado cooperando con el presidente Donald Trump tras la captura de Nicolás Maduro.

“No nos vamos a rendir. Nunca nos vamos a rendir, y vamos a poder ser libres y reconstruir”, dijo Alcántara. “Tenemos que hacerlo”.

Historia relacionada: Doral abre cuatro centros de recepción de ayuda.

Más formas de ayudar

• Se abre un punto de entrega de ayuda en Homestead.
• World Central Kitchen solicita donaciones para comidas frescas.
• Save The Children solicita donaciones para su fondo de emergencia.
• La Cruz Roja solicita donaciones para su Fondo de Emergencia para la Respuesta ante Desastres.
• La ONU solicita donaciones para un programa infantil que carece de fondos suficientes.
• World Vision solicita donaciones para su “fondo de ayuda en casos de desastre”.

Cobertura relacionada

• Los dos terremotos que azotaron Venezuela se conocen como un “doblete”. Así es como ocurrieron.
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• Tras los terremotos de Venezuela, aquí están algunos de los más mortíferos de América Latina en el último siglo.
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• Dos fuertes terremotos consecutivos sacudieron Venezuela, causando daños generalizados.

The organization, which manages one of the largest humanitarian networks in the world, announced the activation of the Disaster Response Emergency Fund on Thursday.

The Venezuelan Red Cross, or “Cruz Roja Venezolana,” reported critical damage to the headquarters on Avenida Andrés Bello in Caracas.

The organization reported staff and volunteers, some of whom had suffered damage at their homes, were working at hospitals and polyclinics, distributing relief supplies and focusing on rescues and assessments.

For more information about how to make a financial donation to the fund, visit this page.

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Nuestros socorristas están desplegados en las zonas afectadas para apoyar las labores de respuesta tras los eventos sísmicos registrados en #Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/bMryuxKFe3

— Cruz Roja Venezolana (@CruzRojaVe) June 25, 2026

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• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations

ATF, the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws, told The Associated Press that it discontinued what it called a “pilot” program using a tool called Webloc after Rep. Michael Cloud, a Republican from Texas, and Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, expressed reservations about the agency's use of bulk commercial location data.

Webloc, which is made by a vendor called Penlink, sources data from consumer apps and advertising networks, which collect the location of mobile devices from consumers who download apps or browse the web. Such data is sometimes called “ad tech” and has been controversial in criminal law enforcement as it allows agencies to bypass warrant requirements to identify the mobile devices present in certain areas at specific times.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that police needed a warrant to obtain historic movement data from cellphone companies on a criminal suspect. But it has never addressed the growing practice of commercially acquired data.

Other users of Webloc include the U.S. military and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement but also local law enforcement agencies such as police in places like Elk Grove, Calif. and Durham, N.C. The technology has also expanded around the world, with the national police in El Salvador and Hungarian intelligence agencies as customers, according to a report from earlier this year from Citizen Lab, a group of researchers at the University of Toronto who investigate digital threats to civil society.

“A victory for Americans’ constitutional rights”

ATF said in a statement that it determined that the tool “does not meet our needs.” The agency said it is not using any other ad-tech-sourced services.

“ATF continually evaluates tools and techniques to enhance our investigations and ultimately reduce violent crime in American communities. We did conduct a pilot with Webloc to determine if it could improve our investigative capabilities,” an ATF spokesperson said in an email.

Wyden called ATF’s decision to abandon the software “a victory for Americans’ constitutional rights.”

“For years, I have warned that the government’s purchase of Americans’ location data from shady data brokers is an unacceptable end-run around the Fourth Amendment,” Wyden said in a statement. After Rep. Cloud and my staff informed the ATF about the legal and privacy quagmire surrounding adtech data, the agency did the right thing.”

Under questioning from Cloud, ATF Director Robert Cekada acknowledged in a congressional hearing in May that the agency had been buying geolocation data on American cell phones.

After the hearing, Wyden and Cloud’s office were briefed by ATF. In a joint press release, the two lawmakers said they learned ATF had conducted more than 300 warrantless searches using the tool — including more than 200 tied to active ATF cases.

In one instance involving suspected arson at a facility belonging to a U.S. defense contractor, both a prosecutor and a judge expressed concerns about the use of Webloc ad tech data, according to the two lawmakers. The agency “was ultimately forced to backtrack and obtain a traditional court order for bulk cellphone tower data” from cell carriers instead, Wyden and Cloud said in a release.

Webloc was originally made by an Israeli company called Cobwebs before it was bought and merged with a U.S. company called Penlink.

Penlink said in a statement that it is “proud to have a long-standing relationship with ATF that has enabled us to support its mission to protect America’s communities from violent crime involving the illegal use of firearms, explosives and arson.” The company added that it “looks forward to continuing our relationship in support of that mission.”

Practice continues in other government agencies

Other law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security continue to buy commercial geolocation data.

DHS issued a request for information to private industry in January asking about how commercially available advertising data might be used to assist in its deportation and law enforcement mission. And earlier this year, FBI director Kash Patel told the Senate: “We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us.”

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Wyden, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Republican Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of buying data without a judicial order.

The nonprofit expects children in northern Venezuela to need “urgent support” to access shelter, food, water, and healthcare.

The organization, which has been supporting programs in Venezuela since the 1980s, asked the public to help support the Children’s Emergency Fund.

For more information about how to make a financial donation to the fund, visit this page.

More ways to help

• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations

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Phil Ehr, a retired U.S. Navy commander who is running for congressional district 28, partnered with the local nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission to collect aid.

Ehr and his campaign team were welcoming donations at their office at 143 North Flagler Ave., near the Homestead City Hall.

The list of items needed included first aid kits; emergency gear such as flashlights, heavy-duty batteries, solar phone chargers, and work gloves; and baby care, such as diapers.

Ehr was also welcoming nonperishable foods, new sleeping bags, new inflatable mattresses, new backpacks, and new pillows.

Volunteers at the GEM warehouse were packing boxes of donations on Thursday afternoon to prepare deliveries.

For more information about how to make a financial donation to GEM, visit this page.

More ways to help

• Doral opens 4 aid drop-off locations
• Aid drop-off location opens in Homestead
• World Central Kitchen asks for donations for fresh meals
• Red Cross asks for Disaster Response Emergency Fund donations
• UN asks for donations for ‘underfunded’ program for kids
• World Vision asks for ‘disaster relief fund’ donations

Según la policía de Fort Lauderdale, el choque con fuga fue reportado alrededor de las 6:40 a.m. en la cuadra 2000 de Southeast 17th Street.

La policía dijo que la ciclista fue atropellada por un vehículo de color oscuro en los carriles en dirección este antes de que el conductor huyera de la escena.

La víctima fue trasladada al Broward Health Medical Center, donde murió, confirmaron las autoridades.

Investigadores de Homicidios de Tráfico se encuentran actualmente en la escena y los carriles en dirección este de Southeast 17th Street estarán cerrados durante la investigación, dijo la policía.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el choque o la identidad del conductor debe llamar a la policía de Fort Lauderdale o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477. Los llamantes pueden permanecer anónimos.

In a social media post, Flightradar24 posted the flight path of the plane, a Sunward SA 60L Aurora, which took off from an airport about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Beijing. It headed westward and ended just east of the East Third Ring Road shortly before 6 p.m. in local time. The flight data provider said the plane crashed into the CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, which rises more than 1,700 feet (528 meters), just east of a major ring road in a cluster of skyscrapers.

The 108-story CITIC tower, shaped like an ancient Chinese wine vessel, is one of the most recognizable skyscrapers in Beijing.

It wasn't immediately known what caused the crash in a city with strict airspace controls, including a recent ban on drones. Information on the pilot also was not immediately available. There was no immediate information on whether there were any on-ground casualties.

Chinese authorities have not issued a statement, nor has the crash been reported by state media. Social media posts about the crash have been scrubbed from China's walled-off internet, though footage has made its way outside of China's firewall and is circulating on overseas sites such as X.com.

Images and videos shared on social media appeared to show debris from a small aircraft near the skyscraper. While the images were consistent with the location, it was not possible to independently confirm their authenticity. One image of the wreckage shows a partial registration number of “B-12." The full registration number of the aircraft is B-12PP.

Photos by The Associated Press show what appears to be a hole in the glass facade on one side of the CITIC Tower.

A person working in the building told AP that an aircraft crashed into the skyscraper, and a fire alarm was triggered. The person spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Incidents such as crashes are considered sensitive by Chinese authorities.

A heavy police presence, as well as fire engines and ambulances were seen outside the building. Onlookers gathered to observe and take pictures, but police asked them to stop photographing and leave the area.

Last month, Beijing authorities enacted new curbs on its already tightly regulated airspace, effectively banning the sale and operation of consumer drones within the capital.

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Associated Press writers Didi Tang in Washington and Josh Funk in Omaha, Neb. contributed.

Bland, de 38 años, habló con Local 10 News dos días después de que un juez la declarara no culpable por razón de insanidad en el asesinato de su bebé y en el intento de asesinato de su esposo y su hija adolescente.

Los investigadores dijeron que el incidente ocurrió el 23 de agosto de 2021 en una vivienda cerca de Northwest 99th Street y 30th Avenue, en el condado Miami-Dade. Indicaron que Bland fue acusada de ahogar a su bebé mientras afirmaba que intentaba bautizar a todas las personas que estaban en la casa.

Las autoridades confirmaron que el esposo de Bland, de 38 años, y su hija de 16 años fueron apuñalados durante el incidente y sobrevivieron. Los detectives dijeron que también encontraron a Bland con heridas de arma blanca que determinaron que se las había provocado ella misma.

Indicaron que otros cuatro niños, todos menores de 11 años, estaban dentro de la vivienda en ese momento, pero no resultaron heridos.

“Esto nos quitó mucho como familia y esa es la tranquilidad que siento”, dijo. “Esto no me devuelve a mi hija. No detiene el dolor”.

La madre de seis hijos fue declarada no culpable por razón de insanidad después de que los investigadores dijeron que escuchaba voces que le decían que Jesús estaba regresando.

Cuando le preguntaron si recordaba haber estado en el baño con su hija o si recordaba el ahogamiento, Bland respondió:

“Recuerdo haber visto a mi hijo, mi único hijo varón. No podía hablar. Recuerdo mirarlo a los ojos y decirle solo con la mirada que corriera, porque no podía hablar. Y fue como si él lo hubiera entendido”, dijo. “Me miró a los ojos y salió corriendo. Porque yo no entendía qué me estaba pasando, por qué estaba ocurriendo esto. Algo tenía el control de mí”.

También le preguntaron a Bland sobre un video de la cámara corporal en el que se le escucha decir a los paramédicos: “Sálvense. Dios está regresando”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Bland también intentó quitarse la vida.

Su abogado, Larry Handfield, afirmó que Bland era una buena madre y una veterana de la Marina que sufría una psicosis inducida por COVID-19.

“Desde el primer día en que fui contratado para representar a Precious Bland, después de investigar, porque hay mucho que aún no sabemos sobre el COVID, este fue uno de los primeros casos en el país que llegó a juicio utilizando el COVID-19 como defensa en un caso de asesinato”, dijo.

“Ambos médicos concluyeron que esto fue consecuencia del COVID, en primer lugar, y, en segundo lugar, que el COVID provocó el trastorno mental”, agregó Handfield.

El caso de Bland podría ser una de las primeras defensas exitosas en el país basadas en una psicosis relacionada con el COVID.

La fiscalía argumentó que la psicosis no era real, pero eso no fue suficiente para convencer al juez.

Después del veredicto, Bland dijo que estaba agradecida y lista para reconstruir su vida.

“Dios es bueno. Esto no me devuelve a mi hija. Estoy agradecida”, dijo. “Amo a mis hijos. Solo quiero volver a encaminar mi vida, junto a mi esposo y mis hijos, y seguir adelante”.

Local 10 le preguntó a Bland sobre su futuro con su familia y si confía en sí misma para estar cerca de sus hijos.

“Absolutamente, sin ninguna duda, y estoy segura de que mi familia también está muy atenta ahora”, dijo. “No es algo que ellos vayan a tomar a la ligera”.

Bland dice que asiste a terapia varias veces al mes y que está trabajando para reunirse nuevamente con sus hijos y su esposo.

The events include school supply giveaways, food bank drives, neighborhood door knockings and organizer trainings.

“Everything costs too damn much under Donald Trump and the Republicans,” Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said in a statement.

Martin said party members planned “to reach, engage, register, and mobilize voters who will make the difference in races up and down the ballot.”

Two years ago, Democrats were the ones accused of being indifferent to Americans’ anger about rising prices. Now they're pointing the finger at Trump, who has downplayed the impact of lingering inflation.

He has described affordability concerns as a “hoax” and recently said, “I love the inflation” because he expects costs to drop as he tries to resolve his war with Iran.

About one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the economy, according to an AP-NORC poll from June. That’s down from the start of his second term, when 40% approved.

About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say the country’s economy is “poor,” according to an AP-NORC poll from June. That’s up from 65% in March, and underscores Americans’ ongoing unhappiness with the cost of living, which is being compounded by high gas prices due to the war in Iran.

Slightly more U.S. adults say the Democratic Party would do a better job than the Republican Party in handling inflation and the cost of living, according to a Marquette Law School/SSRS poll from May. Roughly one-third of U.S. adults — 35% — said the Democrats would do a better job, while 28% believe the Republicans would. Roughly one-third say the parties would be the same, or neither would be good.

This weekend's events vary by region.

In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Luján Grisham will convene a training for 150 potential campaign staffers. Nevada’s statewide campaigns will knock on doors in rural and working class neighborhoods. Others will call voters in swing districts with competitive U.S. House races to talk about the rising price of gas.

Some events are geared toward directly helping voters to persuade them that Democrats are concerned about affordability.

For instance, the local party in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, plans to collect and distribute school supplies to poor families. And canvassers will fan out to discuss affordability issues in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The Republican National Committee dismissed the weekend's events.

“Despite being millions of dollars in debt, the DNC is choosing to throw pitiful pep rallies to distract from the fact they created the inflation crisis," said Delanie Bomar, an RNC spokeswoman. "Meanwhile, Republicans are hard at work fixing the economic mess Joe Biden and the Democrats created.”

Democrats hope that the events will show that their time in the political wilderness has made it more serious and effective at tackling kitchen table issues. But some fear their agenda may not be heard by voters in an increasingly fractured media environment.

“One of Donald Trump’s greatest strengths is that he’s so loud,” said Brian Derrick, a Democratic strategist. He said that events like the weekend’s itinerary help Democrats focus on an “Achilles’ heel” issue for Trump, “which right now is his lack of interest in addressing everyday costs for people.”